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Green week to educate campus Alyce Howell Staff Writer This week, UT students are learning ways to help make campus more environmentally friendly.

UT’s annual Make Orange Green week strives to make people more aware of green living through tours, activities and hands-on presentations.

The first program for Make Orange Green week was a tour of UT’s organic farm which researches and promotes organic crops.

The second program, held Tuesday, was a bike ride downtown to a local bike shop. This event promoted education in rules of the road and bike safety.

On the way back to campus, bikers stopped for ice cream.

Make Orange Green week will continue today with Alternative Commute which urges students and faculty to try more eco-friendly ways to get to and around campus like car pooling, biking, walking and taking the bus.

Also, as a part of the Alternative Commute, there will be free bike tune-ups at the Pedestrian Mall from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. UTPD will be there also doing free registrations and engravings for bikes.

The next program, Zero Waste, will be held Thursday at Morrill Hall during their dining hours. It is meant to educate the diners about food waste, teach about waste reduction by offering a different menu of foods that is easily compostable and getting diners to take only what they know that they will eat.

“We have a composting site on campus near the UT Medical Center,” Gordie Bennett, sustainability manager, said. “The university has started to compost some food waste there already, but they are incapable of doing all the food waste that is produced on campus. There are also foods that are very hard to compost, like meats.”

Friday there will be a special presentation held from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to celebrate the completion of UT’s Zero Energy House. Team Living Life, a group from various departments like art and architecture and engineering, will host the presentation in the Humanities Plaza, where the house is displayed.

This is also a celebration for Team Living Life earning the right to compete in the 2011 Solar Decathlon. They will be one of 20 teams to compete in this prestigious national competition in Washington.

Raven Cole, sophomore in biology, said programs like this have helped her become more aware of eco-friendly ways to live.

“I’ve started adjusting to a more green way of living,” she said.

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Recycling bins sit near the UC during the Make Orange Green week’s Zero Waste program. Students can learn about food waste and waste reduction on Thursday at Morrill Hall.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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Members of the UT’s Wind Ensemble put down their instruments for a clapping portion of their concert Thursday. The next concert is Oct. 21 and includes Wind Ensemble, Symphonic and Concert bands.

All Campus Events to hold Homecoming meetings All Campus Events will be holding meetings about this year’s Homecoming this week.

The Miss Homecoming 2010 interest meeting is on Sept. 28 from 6-7 p.m. in the UC room 226. At this time, information about nominations for Miss Homecoming and rules will be discussed.

The first Homecoming 2010 interest meeting will take place on Oct. 5 at 6:30 p.m. in the UC Shiloh Room. This meeting is open to all students and student groups.

The 2010 Homecoming packet was posted on Friday.

For more information, visit www.activities.utk.edu.

UT researcher links maternal genes to selfish behavior Francisco Úbeda, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UT, found that selfishness is linked to your mother. Úbeda, along with fellow evolutionary biologist Andy Gardner from Oxford University, examined the impact that genomic imprinting has on the carrier’s selfish or altruistic behavior.

Genomic imprinting is the phenomenon in which the expression of a gene depends upon the parent who passed on the gene.

Every person has a set of chromosomes from each parent but due to imprinting, a particular gene — either the one inherited via egg or sperm — is inactivated.

A report of their research is published in the journal “Evolution.” Úbeda and Gardner developed an evolutionary mathematical model that examined the consequences of ancestral women’s tendency to follow their mates and raise their children among people they are not related to.

They found this behavior spurs a conflict between mom and dad genes in a juvenile over how it should act in society.

The battle all has to do with relatedness.

If a child finds an apple, her paternal genes will tell the child to share it with other children in the village, since the other children are

likely to be relatives. Her maternal genes, will say “keep the apple for yourself.” This research applies to all societies where females migrate more than men or vice versa. It is this demographic inequality that makes it more likely that children who are helpful to others are related through their father’s genes, not their mother’s genes.

The findings reach beyond sharing apples. They can also be used to interpret neurological disorders. Recent research links mutations resulting in greater expression of paternally inherited genes or maternally inherited genes to psychiatric disorders such as autism or psychosis, respectively.

A mutation resulting in greater expression of paternally inherited genes will cause pathologies related to juveniles being less competitive for resources but a mutation resulting in greater expression of maternally inherited genes will cause pathologies related to juveniles being more competitive for resources. Úbeda noted the model’s assistance in better understanding the diseases gets the medical community that much closer to better treatments.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet to read at UT Claudia Emerson, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the current Poet Laureate of Virginia, will read from her work at Writers in the Library at 7 p.m. on Monday in Hodges Library.

Emerson’s four books, “Pharaoh, Pharaoh (1997),” “Pinion, An Elegy (2002),” “Late Wife (2005),” and “Figure Studies (2008),” were published as part of Louisiana State University Press’ signature series, “Southern Messenger Poets,” edited by Dave Smith. “Late Wife” won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Her poems have appeared in “Poetry,” “Prairie Schooner,” “Smartish Pace,” “The Southern Review,” “Shenandoah,” “TriQuarterly,” “Crazyhorse,” “New England Review” and other journals.

An advisory and contributing editor for “Shenandoah,” Emerson has been awarded individual artist’s fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts and was also a Witter Bynner Fellow through the Library of Congress.

She was awarded the 2008 Donald Justice Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Emerson is a professor of English and the Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. A reception will be held following the reading. Both are free and open to the public.

Emerson’s reading is sponsored by the Department of English and the UT Libraries.

For more information, visit http://www.lib.utk.edu/writersinthelibrary/.

College of Communication and Information to focus on diversity UT’s College of Communication and Information (CCI) will focus on making the college, its students and its faculty and staff more aware of issues of diversity and inclusiveness with a week-long series of lectures, films, discussion sessions and keynote presentations.

The series of events, “Diversity and Inclusion Week: Working Together to Build a Better World,” will be held Sept. 27 through Oct. 1 at various locations in the college and around the UT campus.

The keynote speakers are CNN news anchor Don Lemon and Juliana Oyegun, director of diversity and inclusion for The World Bank, Washington, D.C. The first ever CCI Diversity and Inclusion Week is promised to provide students, faculty and staff with diverse views about the current world we live in through guest speakers.

Participants will gain diversity skills and knowledge, learn about “best practices” from college leaders and experts both inside and outside the university, and dialog with each other about a variety of diversity and inclusion issues.

All events are free and open to the public. For the full list of activities, visit http://www.cci.utk.edu/diversityweek.

Study Abroad fair to expose students to opportunities The Study Abroad Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 29 in the UC ballroom. The fair will provide a onestop shop for students to learn about the study abroad process, study abroad programs and financial aid options offered through UT and the Programs Abroad Office.

Fair-goers can talk with other UT students who have studied abroad, as well as international students currently studying at UT. UT faculty leading summer and mini-term programs abroad also will be on hand to talk about their programs.

The Programs Abroad Office offers study abroad programs in 54 countries. Programs are available for the semester, the academic year and the summer. Mini-term options also are available. In addition, summer internship opportunities are offered in countries around the globe.

Representatives from UT advising centers will be at the fair to discuss how studying abroad fits into a four-year graduation plan.

The Ready for the World program will have a booth where students can learn about the university’s international and intercultural initiative, find ways to participate in Volunteers Rock the World and pick up some freebies.

The Programs Abroad Office will be closed the day of the fair.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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ENTERTAINMENT

Affleck returns to roots with ‘Town’ ‘Town’ fails to shine despite stars Will Abrams

Charlie Sterchi

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Almost 15 years ago, Ben Affleck co-wrote and starred in his first film located in the city of Boston.

With his latest film, “The Town,” it seems that things have gotten pretty grim in the old neighborhood.

Charlestown, from which the film receives its name, is a neighborhood in the Boston area which, according to the film, is home to the most bank robbers worldwide.

The film follows Doug MacRay (Affleck), his best friend Jim (Jeremy Renner) and their crew as the group pulls off a string of successful bank robberies and armored car jobs within the city of Boston.

Meanwhile, Affleck falls for a bank teller (Rebecca Hall) whom the group used as a hostage and an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) tracks down the criminals.

Although Affleck’s acting roles have often been ridiculed, he showed promise as a director with the critically-acclaimed 2007 drama, “Gone Baby Gone.”

With his latest project, the actor/director delves deeper into his hometown area, showing a similarly bleak atmosphere.

Affleck is certainly starting to get the hang of the director’s chair, but his second outing doesn’t make quite the statement that his first did. He does a fine job but the film just doesn’t leave the audience with all that unique of a feeling. There are several elements from related films such as “Heat” and “The Departed.”

One thing that can be said of Affleck concerning this film is that his acting has improved (perhaps just for a moment). His character is missing most of the wiseguy cracks and big grins that made him a heartthrob just under a decade ago in films like “Pearl Harbor.”

The film does a good job casting actors who are known but just shy of being household names. Hall, Renner and Hamm have been impressive in the last few years, but the film never really gives them a chance to grow.

Hamm seems almost miscast as the “good” guy (granted the part isn't all that well written,) and Hall is severely underused. Renner is given some time to shine near the end of the film, but it almost feels like too little too late.

One of the most important things for the film to get right is the romance angle between Affleck and Hall. The audience needs to believe that there is something there while also being held in suspense over Affleck’s dark secret. However, whether it be due to acting, directing or writing, the “chemistry” is somewhat forced.

An interesting casting choice for the film is Blake Lively as Jim’s sister, who is a young mother and drug addict. While it should be applauded for Lively to choose such different roles from her “Gossip Girl” persona, the entire cast of the film acts circles around her. She seems to think that a few extra layers of bad makeup is more important than actually hitting her lines with the right emotion.

While most of the principle actors in the film do well with their parts, the best acting comes from the film’s small characters like The Florist (Pete Postlethwaite) and Doug’s father (Chris Cooper).

Both are veteran actors who deliver compelling scenes with a very small amount of screen time.

“The Town” is less about bank robberies and tragic love stories and more about the neighborhood in which it takes place. Charlestown is a battlefield where lives are destroyed and men are slaves to the next big score.

The story may not be the most original, but audience members will walk away feeling like they took a little bit of Charlestown with them, for better or worse.

Director Ben Affleck’s “The Town” is a pretty bad movie. Actually, I’d say it’s the worst movie I’ve seen since the last Ben Affleck movie I saw. The film stars Affleck himself, “Mad Men’s” John Hamm, Rebecca Hall and Jeremy Renner. When these powers unite, they create one of the lamest bank robber movies the world has ever known.

“The Town” opens to a classic Ben Affleck monologue taped over the preliminary stages of a Charlestown, Boston bank robbery. Four men dressed in what appear to be Insane Clown Posse costumes proceed to take money, dispose of evidence and crack Victor Garber’s skull with the butt of an assault rifle. They also take the bank manager, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) as a hostage, only to release her soon after.

Ben Affleck’s character, Doug MacRay, later meets Keesey at the laundromat and for some reason asks her out (he isn’t wearing the ICP mask at the laundromat.)

Meanwhile, FBI agent Adam Frawley (John Hamm) feverishly investigates the bank robbery. He seems stumped at first, but for the sake of conflict, he eventually zeros in on MacRay’s tribe of robbers, who continue robbing banks and baseball stadiums throughout the film.

All the while, Affleck’s character proves to be as unlikable as any character he has ever played. His personal problems, which extend far beyond dating an oblivious victim of the opening robbery, remain largely unresolved unless you consider murder an effective way to solve your problems. I won’t expand, in case you still want to see this movie.

Although Ben Affleck is wildly bland and John Hamm is pitifully trite, there are a few good parts. Pete Postlethwaite plays Fergie, the sadistic Irish florist for whom MacRay is employed. He does a fantastic job in this movie, especially when he threatens to castrate Ben Affleck’s character. That part is incredible.

The robbery scenes, though there were few of them, • Photo courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes were also pretty satisfactory. It’s considerably more entertaining to see a guy running around with bags of money and automatic weapons if he is wearing a zombie nun costume. I admit that my heart raced at these moments.

The most entertaining character throughout the film is MacRay’s ex girlfriend, Krista Coughlin (Blake Lively). Coughlin is a lively alcoholic who dabbles extensively in cocaine and oxycontin. These addictions create problems when she attempts to drive her car or care for her two-year-old daughter.

Of course Affleck’s character wants nothing to do with her, since he has recently “gone clean.” This shunning of his past eventually comes back to haunt the robbers (again, I won’t expand), displaying the supposed inability of a Charlestown bank robber to start anew, so to speak.

The only real problem with “The Town” is that it is clouded by an ill-conceived love story in which sunny days are ironically fatal and oranges hold some inexplicit significance. Then again, that’s Ben Affleck’s trademark.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

OPINIONS

Editor’sNote

‘Daily Show’ credibility rising among youth Zac Ellis Editor-In-Chief The show itself has reached iconic status, a satirical take on the 24-hour news cycle surrounding everyday American life. The program is now relied on by hoards of America’s most impressionable youth as a source of news despite a studio audience and absurd pranks thrown into each half-hour episode.

And for whatever reason, people are starting to trust its credibility. Anyone think Comedy Central saw this coming?

I’m referring, of course, to “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” cable television’s own laugh-filled brand of news which airs every weeknight on Comedy Central. A 30-minute spin on politics, pop culture and media, “The Daily Show” leaves viewers in stitches in the wake of overzealous humor exhibited by Stewart, the show’s host.

In recent years — amid war, terrorism and economic downturn — the American television audience began steadily switching from Fox News and CNN to Comedy Central to trade headaches for humor in the form of Stewart’s lighthearted take on the nation’s top stories. An expanding audience reserved the program a prime seat in mainstream television culture, and more importantly, viewers started regarding “The Daily Show” as more than just a good laugh.

In the October 2010 issue of “Esquire” magazine, in a section entitled “Survey of American Men,” 24 percent of 20-year-old American males voted Stewart as the “most trustworthy news source” out of a list that included the likes of CNN’s Anderson Cooper, NBC’s Brian Williams and Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck. Stewart’s seemingly low percentage was nothing to balk at; Cooper, the winner among 20-year-old men, snagged a measly 28 percent of the vote.

The notion that a quarter of college-aged American males take stock in “The Daily Show’s” message is indicative of two things: either the inadequacies of today’s mainstream media have become too much for viewers to bear, or Stewart’s program has made a noticeable shift from entirely satirical to arguably credible.

The first episode of “The Daily Show” ran in 1996, with host Craig Kilborn rattling off the day’s latest headlines from the pop culture grid. When Stewart took the reins in 1999, the show built a more political foundation, poking fun at those on the left and right who provided material for Stewart’s rants. The more significant an event in the news cycle, the more jokes Stewart would make at its expense.

In 2005, “The Daily Show” sparked a spinoff program, “The Colbert Report,” starring a Stephen Colbert, a frequent contributor to Stewart’s show. Colbert and Stewart together roped in crops of young viewers, an audience content with the mixture of humor and headlines.

But “The Daily Show’s” rising credibility as a source worthy of news is intriguing. Stewart’s humorous diatribes pinpoint aspects of newsworthy situations other media outlets tend to overlook or even ignore. A lack of agenda or bias gives Comedy Central a leg up on other news monsters often regarded as too partial to either side. Viewers enjoy hearing all sides — the left, right and the middle — as the blunt of jokes that highlight not only the absurd aspects of American politics, but that provide enlightening commentary into the state of the nation’s political scene.

“The Daily Show’s” creators are on the record as saying the show intends no journalistic credibility. After all, the original intent of the program — which is to regular news media what a burlesque show is to Broadway plays — was to entertain. The agenda-free presentation has viewers — especially young viewers — not only laughing but learning.

If comedy can spark an appreciation of our nation’s issues into a young audience, I say more power to you, Mr. Stewart. Keep the laughs coming.

—Zac Ellis is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at rellis13@utk.edu.

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Demonstrators need to tone down protests “Off the Deep End” by

Derek Mullins In the four years I have been a student on this campus, I have come to understand that some things are just automatic. In the fall, the leaves change from vibrant green to assorted hues, campus is flooded with orangeclad football fans every Saturday there is a home game, and, at the beginning of the semester, there are freshmen wandering around looking like deer caught in headlights.

Similarly, winter and spring bring their own particular constants, but one thing is always assured: no matter what time of year it is, there is always some Christian group protesting, demonstrating or harassing students somewhere on campus.

Now, before I start tearing into these wastes of air and the gullible students that, in a twisted way, reinforce their sometimes overtly offensive behavior, a few things need to be made clear. Above all else, this is a public university, run by the state of Tennessee, which is subject to the laws of the federal, state and local governments.

Along that same line of logic, the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is more or less sacrosanct here, and it provides and calls for a free exchange of ideas between students, faculty and any visitors that may come across our campus. There is, however, nothing in the First Amendment that states that this exchange has to be done in anything resembling a civil manner, and that is ultimately where my issue with these groups comes into play.

Also, please do not get me wrong. I understand that not all of the Christian activists that invariably frequent our campus are of the same ilk. For every screaming, homophobic, misogynistic psychopath that scowls and screeches at passing students and professors, there is a kind, quiet old man who braves the chill of the morning weather along with the rest of his group to hand out copies of the New Testament at various locations around campus.

Though they may share the intent of “saving our souls,” they are not all hell-bent on doing it in the most obvious and conspicuous way possible, and I

understand the difference. Some are respectful and willing to accept a polite declination of the materials or conversation they offer. I have no issue with the peaceful missionaries who visit our campus. Instead, it is with the more fanatical demonstrators and the students who yelp back that I have problems.

Whether they are trying to shock and repulse us with the annual cross-speckled depiction of a wouldbe graveyard of aborted babies or, as one crackpot was recently seen doing, shouting derogatory language at passing female students and students who might appear to be homosexual through a portable amplifier, these knuckle-draggers come to campus at least once or twice a semester, if not more frequently. They either travel in packs or brave the glares of apathetic or offended students alone. The one characteristic that they share, however, is that they are all after the same things: arguments, responses, and, ultimately, attention.

When I was a freshman, there was an anti-gay marriage group that demonstrated in front of Hodges Library. They held placards that declared that “GOD HATES GAYS” and shouted their hateful sermons as loud as they possibly could until they would finally snare a passing student who was gullible enough to fall into their trap. This group stayed for a week, and many arguments were had to the point that the police even stood guard between the demonstrators and the amassing crowds of students, trying to make sure that no one was hurt and that no one infringed upon someone else’s First Amendment rights. What these students seemed to miss, however, was the fact that one of the protestors always had a camcorder rolling to capture the raspy sermons on sin and damnation and the altercations that invariably ensued in their aftermath.

The students who yell back now, just like the ones who yelled back then, all make the same mistake. By providing these radicals with the attention they crave, they’re fueling the fire and simply creating the motivation for these fundamentalists to return to campus once again. I would be willing to theorize that if the students and faculty of this university would simply ignore these lunatics, they would not return.

Look, folks, we cannot make these airheads go away by force. They have a First Amendment right to be here and they should retain it. Instead, let’s take a page out of their playbook and just turn the other cheek.

—Derek Mullins is a senior in political science. He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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Community is essential to our human existence.

We have a venerable tradition here in America discussing public policy in terms of individual rights, but we do not always talk about the “common good.”

Historically, the left in this country tend to discuss social issues such as the woman’s right to choose, a homosexual’s right to marry or a person’s right to do drugs because “it is their body,” without much consideration of how exercising those rights will affect the larger community. When discussing our society, culture and people we need to move away from such radical individualism and toward a consideration of what is better for us as a whole.

To start this argument, it is quintessential to know why community is important. Man is not made to be alone, to merely be an individual. For the secularists amongst us, this is because evolutionarily we developed to need others in our life for survival.

However, more importantly is that God determined us to be social creatures. This goes back to the first people in the Biblical creation myth of Adam and Eve. God saw that it is not good that man should be alone.

One must only read the Sacred Text concerning the Israelites to also see this is also true. The community is always held at fault for iniquities against God, but the community also offers sanctification. Then, one must merely go to the New Testament for a glance of the Act of the Apostles. The early Christians lived in community amongst believers, taking care of the poor in the group and living out their divine calling.

We should take a lesson from the Judeo-Christian text, socially and economically. The first question that one should ask concerning public policy is, “What is best for the community?” Socially this means a change from cultural relativism that assaults the body of the country and plagues us with ills like abortion that hurt the weakest members of society. Instead, we should ask what would help the community best in this issue, which I think would lead one to much better discourse on that topic and others like the nature of marriage.

Cultural conservatives like to attack the idea of gay

marriage as challenging the institution of marriage, but they often leave out the other challenges to the sacrament. Divorce, adultery, spousal abuse, pornography addictions, etc. also hurt the institution.

Our public policy liberalized divorce laws to make it easier to break down marriages and the nuclear families, especially among the poor. Community and family need to be at the forefront of these debates.

The debate of the common good and the community should extend into the economic and fiscal policies of the government. Several issues come to mind like the living wage, debt and social programs that fail to help poor families. Unlike most businessminded conservatives, I wholeheartedly support the living wage. It is not true capitalism when hard work is not rewarded with fair pay.

It also hurts the community as a whole when fathers and mothers must work at least one job each to support their children. It would greatly assist our nation if the next generation of Americans could benefit from the care, love and attention of being brought up by one of their parents rather than a nonfamilial caretaker. Does one not think family values should also extend to creating a stable atmosphere for the family?

In terms of debt, the government’s inability to reign in its spending hurts the community. Our generation, not to mention many generations to come, will have to pay for the debt accrued today rather than creating prosperity for the people. Finally, when looking at social programs, we need to understand that the government is not always the best entity to run them, yet in other cases, is far superior to private charity.

If we care about community, liberals should acknowledge the former and conservatives the latter.

Focusing on the community does not mean that we relegate individual rights to the foreground or stop discussing them. Yet, it seems that we can strike a balance between the needs and rights of the community with the needs and rights of the individual. Security and principles, liberty and order, privileges and rights do not need to battle constantly.

Just as the Israelites did, Americans can formulate a strategy to live within the confines of community’s necessities while living out a life of piety for their own ethics. So, remember that though your individual rights are important, it is equally important to consider the rights of your sister, brother, friend and community along with your own.

—Treston Wheat is a senior in political science and history. He can be reached at twheat@utk.edu.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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SPORTS

Lady Vols volleyball splits weekend decisions SEC rivals were tied 24 times out of the match’s total of 32. In the end, the Gators were able to hold a slight advantage in ball possession.

Staff Writer “This match was going to be about taking care of the ball a little bit better on their side of the court, The 18th-ranked Tennessee volleyball team which they did a little bit better than we did,” (6-1, 0-0 SEC) opened up conference play at Patrick said. home on Friday night against South Carolina Kayla Jeter had team highs of 19 kills and and went head-to-head with third-ranked 45 attacks in trying to bring the Orange and Florida on Sunday.

White back from a 2-0 match deficit.

“Overall, we made some great plays in South Carolina game three to come back when we were The Lady Vols got South Carolina’s best down,” Jeter said. “We pushed through and shot on Friday night but still managed to roll fought through that which was really good, over the Gamecocks in four sets, 3-1 (26-24, but we need to take this match and learn, 22-25, 25-15, 25-16). It was UT’s 300th home (and) prepare differently for the next match.” victory.

However, Gators junior Kelly Murphy Nikki Fowler’s 13-kill, 15-dig performance proved to be too much for the Lady Vols to gave the senior her fifth double-double on the handle as she led Florida with a triple-douseason and 43rd of her career. Her 15 scoops ble, including 19 kills, 14 digs and 25 assists. moved the Dallas native past Sonja Thomas In the third set, the Gators looked like they for third all-time on the 1,000-dig list (1,027). would pull away for the sweep on their SEC Fowler was relieved to see the team pull rivals, taking a 9-4 lead. It took an arm and a themselves together after the coach’s locker Kylann Scheidt leg, literally, during a 21-6 room talk following the second set. run to bring the Lady Vols back and take the “We needed to play harder and put more Rebecca Vaughan • The Daily Beacon set to keep them alive in the match. effort into it,” Fowler said. “I don’t think we Kayla Jeter jumps for an attack against South Carolina. Jeter had 19 kills and 45 The Orange and White’s newfound life in anticipated it going into four games, but I attacks against Florida this past weekend. the fourth set diminished after consecutive think we responded well.”

Murphy kills helped Florida break a 9-9 deadThe Lady Vols, boasting one of the conference’s top offenses, struggled on the attack throughout the Sunday afternoon, as UT lost in four sets, 3-1 (26-28, 23-25, lock. The Gators went on an 11-2 run and went on to close the match. entire opening set, trailing by as much as 11-7 before Jeter’s 25-19, 17-25).

It was the fourth largest crowd in Tennessee history.

UT goes back on the road next weekend face Georgia at 7 kill ignited an 8-2 run to give UT a 15-13 lead. Despite the The match was deadlocked in the first two sets, and the p.m. on Friday and then Auburn on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. CT. junior outside hitter’s team-best four kills, it took an entire Florida The 1,431 rally towels couldn’t bring the Lady Vols back against the third-ranked Florida women’s volleyball team on

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team effort, concluded by a dramatic block from Harrison, to clinch the opening set 26-24.

The Lady Gamecocks wouldn’t let up in the second set.

Instead, they came right back in the next set behind a fivekill, .833 effort from sophomore Olivia Ryder, paving the way for South Carolina’s lone set victory. The outside hitter finished with 10 kills while Juliette Thevenin had a team-high 11 kills.

South Carolina’s attack drew quite an interest from Lady Vols’ coach Rob Patrick.

“When you play a team like South Carolina, they’re good enough to beat you and give you problems,” Patrick said. “I didn’t think they could contain the level that they were playing at, but they were playing at a very high level.

“They have a great coaching staff, they had a great game plan and they executed it for a lot of the game. I was really happy with how we took their best shot and was able to sustain that and come back with ours.”

“I’ll take a 3-1 win and get outta here with that,” Patrick said.

The turning point of the match was in the third set, when freshman Kelsey Robinson's second of six kills energized the SEC’s leading offense, opening up what was only a 9-7 lead to a 16-9 gap. The UT freshman finished the third set with six kills and finished with 10 kills and eight digs.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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Staff Writer Tennessee’s men’s cross-country team went to the Commodore Classic ready for the challenge and with the help of senior Michael Spooner, the team returned victorious.

Spooner ran the 8,000-meter course in 25 minutes, 25.61 seconds and finished third in the midst of 142 other competitors. The senior from Springfield, Va. is a two-time All-SEC performer and has started the season off well.

“I thought he ran a great race,” men’s coach George Watts said. “He reacted really well and got in a really nice rhythm right away.”

Watts felt that Spooner started competitively and he was happy with Spooner’s first race of the season. If Spooner achieves All-SEC this year, Watts feels that he will be in rare company amidst his teammates and former UT competitors.

As a team, the Vols would like to qualify for the nationals, but if that doesn’t happen, Watts feels confident that Spooner has a chance to qualify as an individual, something he has never done. Thanks to less intense training over the summer, both Watts and Spooner feel that he will be less burnt out by the end of the season and more capable of achieving his goals for the season.

“The one thing Mike did differently this summer is that he didn’t run as many miles and as intensely as he has the previous two

summers,” Watts said. “The hope is that by doing that, he’ll be fresher by the end of the season and have a better shot at making it to the NCAAs as an individual.”

Due to his more relaxed training over the summer, Spooner is working harder as he leads workouts and Watts said this has helped his performance. He was also encouraged by his results on Saturday.

“I felt like for our first meet, I did really well,” Spooner said. “There are things I did differently this summer that I normally wouldn’t have done in summers past, and I was wondering how it would transition into racing and fortunately it transitioned well.”

The laid-back approach to hiss training this summer is all in hope of his performing better towards the end of the season.

He feels the change and believes it will work to improve his overall performance.

His goal for this season is clear.

“I’d like to continue to keep getting better and better every race,” he said. “I’d like to go through the year without having a negative race or a bad race.”

Part of this goal is going to be keeping his head up and not being bogged down by the recent difficulty of his workouts.

“I guess just not being discouraged is one thing that I’ve been really trying to focus on as the season’s been going on,” he said.

He is also pleased with the way the team as a whole is learning to relate and is positive about the future. He said the team is working to bond as a team and be closer File Photo • The Daily Beacon than they’ve ever been before and allow that to build for success for this year and Michael Spooner and two other cross-country team members race to the finish in years down the road.

He was ready for the season and proved a 2007 race. Spooner is a two-time All-SEC selection and finished a 8,000-meter it with his performance on Saturday. He course in 25 minutes, 25.61 seconds this past weekend in Nashville. also said that he has been running just as fast if not faster this season, but that it feels different this year internally and physically.

His plan for the season?

“Just staying mentally focused even through the harder workouts,” he said.

Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

Students Michele Miller, senior in pre-med, and Sarah Tapscott, senior in industrial engineering, pretend to be on their cell phones for the Jumbo Tron in Saturday’s football game against Florida.