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Government shutdown has local impact Hanna Lustig News Editor

Emilee Lamb Assistant News Editor For the 18th time in American history, the U.S. federal government encountered a shutdown on Tuesday.

Prior to each new fiscal year, the House of Representatives, the Senate and the President must unite to appropriate and prioritize federal funding to government-owned agencies as well as set spending limits.

Passed by Congress and signed by the President, the budget requires majority agreement on proposed government spending in the coming year.

Alternatively, a “continuing resolution” may be passed, which maintains the same operational spending limits as the previous year.

But neither happened. The primarily-Democratic Senate and the heavily-Republican House of Representatives could not agree on the terms of a continuing resolution. The House added an initiative to the resolution that

would prevent the Affordable Care Act from taking effect for another year and repealed a tax on medical devices. The Senate could not condone this delay.

Eventually, time ran out.

As it became increasingly clear that no such compromises would be reached, the Office of Management and Budget asked federal agencies to form contingency plans in the event of a shutdown, splitting staff into “essential” and “non-essential” employees.

Both groups do not receive pay during the shutdown period,

but essential employees must continue to work.

Without a continuing resolution or a finalized budget, many departments of the federal government cannot receive the money they need to function and must close down until a budget emerges. The Affordable Care Act, however, draws from mandatory spending, meaning it takes effect this month despite the shutdown.

Kenneth Baker, a senior lecturer in the department of economics, said that vital civil services have ground to a halt.

“The National Institute of Health stops research on new drugs,” Baker said, “the Center for Disease Control and Prevention stops their flu program, the Department of Housing and Urban Development will cut down on housing assistance ... the Commodity Future Trading Commission, which oversees trillions of dollars of futures derivatives trading will shut down, the Department of Agriculture will cut off its support for the Women, Infants and Children program that helps some nine million low income

pregnant mothers buy food, and so on and so on.”

Some programs will continue to function: American embassies, air traffic control, emergency medical care, border patrol, federal prisons, law enforcement, emergency and disaster assistance. Others, such as immigration, parks and museums and regulatory agencies, will not.

Independently funded institutions, like the U.S. Postal Service and the Federal Reserve, will not be affected.

See SHUTDOWN on Page 3

Vice chancellor candidate No. 3 lobbies for position Bradi Musil Staff Writer

Zoe Yim • The Daily Beacon

A dancer twirls with a pot perched atop her head during the Mongolian Dance and Music performances at the UC on Sept. 30.

UT is coming close to the end of its search for a new vice chancellor of Student Life.

The third of four public forums took place Tuesday in the Ray Mears Room at Thompson-Boling Arena.

These public forums are presented by a running candidate for the vice chancellor of Student Life position and are attended by students and faculty of UT. Tuesday’s forum was hosted

by C. Renee Romano.

Romano is the current vice chancellor of Student Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has a doctorate in higher education from Iowa State University and a master’s degree in higher education and bachelor’s degree in art from Southern Illinois University.

“I’ve only gotten more excited about the possibility

of becoming the vice chancellor for Student Life here at the University of Tennessee,” Romano said. “I feel that all the pieces are in place to move student life forward in a way that really integrates into the mission of the university and really helps the University of Tennessee become a Top 25 institution.

“This institution knows where it’s going, and I would like to be a part of that.”

Vice chancellor of Student Life is a position described as being the student’s main advocate. Their responsibilities entail providing leadership from student judicial affairs and student publications to Greek life and student counseling.

Candidates center their presentations on one recurring theme; emphasizing why they are the best choice for the position.

See VC CANDIDATE on Page 3

‘Pure’ Mongolian culture infiltrates to UT Zoe Yim Contributor The Confucius Institute at UT invited students and Knoxville locals to listen to fiddle tunes and the bristling, resonant singing representative of Mongolian culture as students of the Art College of Inner Mongolia University performed in the UC Auditorium Monday, Sept. 30.

Last April, the Confucius Institute extended itself to UT students and the Knoxville community by providing courses in Chinese. Monday night’s

event furthered the institute’s initiative.

This is the IMU students’ first time performing at UT and is part of their 16-day visit to the U.S. Traditional Mongolian cultural performances commonly include a Mongolian fiddle, throat singing and bowl dancing.

Xiao Yan Sun, the academic administrator who is chaperoning the Mongolian performers, attributes the success of the group to an interesting source.

Many of the performers have won top accolades in the cat-

egories of music, dance and singing.

“Many grew up on horses,” Sun said. “Mongolia is known as a nation that grew up on horses’ backs. That’s why they do art well.”

This connection is carried into their art because of the way the nomadic Mongolians develop a close connection with the horse and learn the spirit of the animal, according to Sun. Morin khuur, the Mongolian fiddle, has two strings topped by a horsehead. Many believe the fiddle sounds like the human voice. The horsehead

tops all the fiddles and hints to the Mongolian dependency on horses not only as ways of transportation, but also as an integral part of their life.

Not only does the morin khuur center around horses, but embodies the same spirit as Mongol dance and throat singing. A horse headdress-capped dancer stomped and leaped briskly, shaking his shoulders. The singers performed a steady half-chant/half-song that recalled a mystic and ancient culture.

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Renee Romano, a candidate for the vice chancellor of Student Life position, explains her plan for improving student affairs Monday, Sept. 30, at the Ray Mears Room in Thompson-Boling Arena.

Lady Vol strikes balance with golf, cultural transition Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer The United States is often called the “land of opportunity,” and such is the case for one UT student-athlete in particular.

Born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Lucia Polo, a freshman on the Lady Vol golf team, decided

to move to the U.S. two years ago to continue her pursuit of one day playing on the LPGA Tour.

She thought the jump was necessary when considering the limitations that staying in her home country would place on her golf career.

“Playing back home was difficult,” Polo said. “There were only about five girls that played against

each other. We only had about six golf courses and they were all private so there weren’t many options like there are in America. The universities didn’t have any sports, so I decided to move here to improve my game and get better.”

From an early age, she knew golf was one of her true passions, especially when considering how important the sport is throughout

her family’s history.

“While growing up, me and my brothers would always play golf together and compete against one another,” Polo said. “It has always been a tradition in my family. My grandfather was a professional golfer and he has always been our role model.”

The remembrance of Hilario Polo serves as an inspiration for

her every time she takes to the links. All Polo has to do is look down at her grandfather’s initials on her golf ball to remain calm and play to the best of her potential.

“Before I was born my grandfather passed away from cancer,” she said. “I always put his initials on my golf ball so I always have him in mind. All the people back home would come to me and

ask me what my relationship was with him. It was great to hear the stories and to know how much people appreciated him.”

This season, Polo has been an asset for her team, especially in the Mercedes-Benz Classic that was held in Knoxville two weekends ago where the Lady Vols placed fourth overall.

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STUDENTS SPEAK OUT

Around Rock Rockyy Top

When the government shuts down, what do you say?

Craig Jones

Sophomore Global Studies and Political Science

“Republican representatives who were elected in heavily conservative districts are responding to strong opposition to healthcare reform in their districts, but doing so by shutting down the government seems counterproductive in my view. Essentially, polarization in Washington seems to have taken away the incentive for Congress to seek reasonable compromise and act in the country’s best interest.”

Thomas Carpenter Sophomore Classics “You can easily blame both sides in this case, but I think the GOP is more at fault than the Democrats. Whether you supported it or not, Congress passed Obamacare, President Obama signed it and the Supreme Court upheld it. It seems that the GOP is holding us hostage, not just by postponing our right to reformed health care, but by also shutting down the entire government.”

Stephanie Smith

Sophomore Psychology

“A friend whose husband is based at Fort Pendleton in California was talking about the government shutdown, and commented about how the base is pretty much entirely shut down … They were saying that the next thing to go is their healthcare, if I read her message correctly.

So, it’s kind of freaking people out in the military because their futures are uncertain.”

Olivia Oliasani

Sophomore Undecided

“The government needs an attitude check so they will actually work together and create a compromise instead of wasting all our time and tax dollars ...They should be thinking about the people.”

Jacob Clabo

Junior Finance and Public Administration

“I’m conservative so I really agree with the policy positions the House Republicans are taking, but I don’t necessarily agree with the method they’re using to achieve their policy goals.”

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Edward Hirsch, a nationally recognized and awarded poet, addresses the audience at Writers in the Library on Sept. 30. Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published eight books of poems, including “The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010),” which brings together 35 years of work. He has also written four prose books, including national bestseller “How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry” (1999). He also edits the series “The Writer’s World” (Trinity University Press).

THIS DAY IN

HISTORY

1985: Hollywood icon Rock Hudson dies Haiti. The island’s coastal villages were decimated by the winds. Most damaging, of AIDS though, was a 12-foot storm surge, which On this day in 1985, actor Rock Hudson, overwhelmed virtually all the homes and 59, becomes the first major U.S. celebrity to other buildings near the ocean. It is estidie of complications from AIDS. Hudson’s mated that 5,000 people died in the disasdeath raised public awareness of the epi- ter. The survivors were faced not only with demic, which until that time had been rebuilding their devastated nation, but with ignored by many in the mainstream as a the loss of nearly the entire coffee crop for the season, a huge economic blow. “gay plague.”

Hudson, born Leroy Harold Scherer 2006: Gunman kills five students at Jr., on November 17, 1925, in Winnetka, Illinois, was a Hollywood heartthrob whose Amish school career in movies and TV spanned nearly Charles Roberts enters the West Nickel three decades. With leading-man good looks, Hudson starred in numerous dra- Mines Amish School in Nickel Mines, mas and romantic comedies in the 1950s Pennsylvania, where he fatally shoots five and 60s, including Magnificent Obsession, female students and wounds five more Giant and Pillow Talk. In the 1970s, he before turning his gun on himself and comfound success on the small screen with such mitting suicide.

Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old series as McMillan and Wife. To protect his macho image, Hudson’s off-screen life as a milk truck driver from a nearby town, entered the one-room schoolhouse at gay man was kept secret from the public. around 10:30 a.m. armed with an arsenal of weapons, ammunition, tools and other 1963: Hurricane devastates Haiti items including toilet paper that indicated On this day in 1963, Hurricane Flora he planned for the possibility of a long crashes into Haiti, killing thousands of peo- standoff. He forced the 15 boys and several ple. This huge storm, which also killed large women with infants inside the school to numbers of people in Cuba and wreaked leave and made the 11 girls present line up havoc elsewhere in the Caribbean, was one against the blackboard. Police were contacted about the hostage situation at approxiof the most deadly hurricanes in history.

On September 30, Flora reached hur- mately 10:30 a.m. When they arrived at the ricane status just east of the Caribbean. schoolhouse a short time later, Roberts had It then quickly became a Category 2 hur- barricaded the school doors with boards ricane as it slammed into Trinidad and he had brought with him and tied up his Tobago. There, it triggered several deadly hostages. landslides before moving on to the island 1780: British spy executed in Arnold of Grenada. Flora took a terrible toll on the small island, killing 36 people and seriously affair injuring another 500.

During the American War for After moving over Grenada, Flora strengthened briefly to a Category 5 storm Independence, British Major John AndrÉ with 170-mile-per-hour winds. On October is hanged as a spy by U.S. military forces in 2, the hurricane, now a Category 4, struck Tappan, New York.

Ten days before, AndrÉ had been apprehended by three highwaymen sympathetic to the Patriot cause, and they turned him over to U.S. authorities after finding intelligence information hidden in his boot. The intelligence papers revealed that AndrÉ was returning from a secret meeting with U.S. General Benedict Arnold, who, as the commander of West Point, had offered to surrender the strategic Hudson River fort for a bribe of $20,000. With the plot uncovered, Arnold fled to the British warship Vulture and joined the British in their fight against his country. Benedict Arnold had been a hero of the Patriot cause, distinguishing himself in a number of battles, but henceforth his name became synonymous with the word “traitor” in American speech. He died in London in 1801.

1971: Rod Stewart earns his first No.1 hit with “Maggie May” If living well is the best revenge, then Rod Stewart has long since avenged the critical barbs he’s suffered through the years. Still active in his fifth decade as a recording star, he can point to nearly three dozen pop hits and nearly 40 million albums sold as proof that he’s done something very right.

Yet all of his commercial success wouldn’t silence those purists who believe that Rod Stewart wasted the greatest male voice in rock history by putting it to use in service of disco anthems and an endless string of generic adult-contemporary ballads.

Whatever one’s opinion about Stewart’s musical choices few could deny the pure perfection of his performance on one of the greatest rock songs of all time, “Maggie May,” which became Rod Stewart’s first #1 hit on this day in 1971.

This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

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CAMPUS NEWS SHUTDOWN continued from Page 1 Steven Thai, an employee in the Office of Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Energy, stated that due to the shutdown, facilities like Y-12 will suffer in the meantime.

“This lapse in appropriations has serious impacts on the Department’s ability to carry out its mission,” Thai said. “The Department will be able to operate for a short period of time after Sept. 30. However, if a resolution is not achieved in the near term, the Department will be forced to take further action to shutdown nonessential operations, resulting in employee and contractor furloughs.”

Terry Maddox, executive director of the Great Smoky Mountains Association, emphasized the farreaching effects of the shut down.

As the park’s oldest non-profit

partner, Maddox said he expects financial ruin.

“The month of October makes our budget work for the entire year,” Maddox said. “Today we will lose $40,000 in sales because the visitors centers are closed.”

Maddox expects surrounding communities will also sustain damage.

“It’s a blow for the region because our whole economy in the region is based around the national park, so it’s going to hurt all the businesses in our region,” he said. “And most of those are not government employees.

Those are people who are making a living off of being fortunate enough to be close to a national park.”

According to the Washington Post, there are currently 1.3 million “essential” federal workers and 1.4 million active-duty military members still working during this period of stagnation.

For these employees, retroactive

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compensation is possible, but not certain, meaning Congress may or may not choose to pay them once business resumes.

John Scheb, Ph.D. and head of the UT political science department, anticipates more than brief financial strain.

“I think it also negatively affects the general perception of Congress and of politicians,” Scheb said. “Ultimately, the shutdown feeds cynicism and further corrodes confidence and trust in government.”

The shutdown may capture headlines now, but Baker said he sees a much greater problem looming ahead.

“The U.S. is set to run out of money to pay interest on its past bills on the 17th of this month,” Baker said. “Most every economist agrees if we default on our payments, it could lead to potentially significant negative economic consequences.”

• Photo courtesy of Becky Massey

Volunteers erect a wall of the Sertoma Center as a part of WBIR’s Labor of Love project.

‘Labor of Love’ contributes to non-profit Bradi Musil Staff Writer A small gesture can hold great meaning.

As part of a tradition dating to 2011, WBIR-TV 10 has chosen to dedicate its yearly Labor of Love Project to the building of the Sertoma Center’s handicap accessible duplex.

For the past 55 years, the Sertoma Center, a non-profit organization, has been working to better the lives of adults with intellectual disabilities in the Knoxville area by providing job skills training, daily living skills, therapeutic restoration and aid in finding suitable jobs.

The Sertoma Center serves approximately 115 adults, including full time residents living at one of the 26 locations in Knoxville designed to house adults with intellectual disabilities. However, due to the growing size of the residential wait list, the Sertoma Center recently began plans to build their first duplex from the ground up.

“Also, over 50 percent of our members are over 50, when most of these people weren’t expected to live past their teens but because of the environment they’re living in, they’re living much longer,” said Becky Massey, executive director of the Sertoma Center. “So, we decided we needed to build an actual real handicapped accessible duplex, since half the time handicapped accessible building means there’s a bar in the bathroom.”

The center’s efforts to get the project started caught the attention of WBIR-TV 10.

“We heard that this duplex was to get them into more of a real life house and give them more freedom and independence that they couldn’t have otherwise, a home,” said Christy Moreno, news director of WBIRTV 10. “When I first went to the Sertoma Center to check it out, I thought it would be kind of sad or depressing, but when I went in there it was life changing ... I didn’t hesitate to say we would do anything we could to help raise awareness and build the duplex.”

WBIR teamed with the Homebuilders Association of Greater Knoxville and the Knoxville Association of Realtors to spearhead the Labor of Love project with the Sertoma Duplex.

Construction began the first week of August and will tentatively conclude on Nov. 12, with about 90 total days of construction.

“It’s come so far in such a short amount of time, and it just makes you feel great,” Moreno said. “It also makes me very proud to work here, that I’m in a station that takes on a project like this. It’s unheard of in other stations like this. You can leave work and feel good about what you’re doing.”

Massey agreed with Moreno’s positive affections toward the project.

“I think this is probably one of the most significant, best things to happen in our history,” Massey said. “I can’t say enough about WBIR and the folks there.

They have all just been amazing and just really will make a difference in a lot of people lives.”

the article read that the event was to take place “this Thursday at Yoga Fest.” Yoga Fest, hosted by the Safety and Environmental Education In the article titled “Students encouraged Center, is scheduled to take place today, to find peace at Yoga Fest” published in the Wednesday, Oct. 2. Check-ins for the event Tuesday, Oct. 1 edition of The Daily Beacon, begin at 2:30 p.m., with the event scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. on the Humanities Plaza lawn.

CORRECTION

POWER challenge amps up UT’s green efforts Jan Urbano Contributor This October, green is the new orange.

The Office of Sustainability officially kicked off the POWER challenge on Tuesday, Oct. 1.

Initiated in 2005, the program has become an annual campus tradition, pitting residence halls against one another in a bid to save the most coveted resources.

According to the Office of Sustainability’s website, “halls are scored according to their weekly water and electricity consumption, recycling totals and educational program activity.”

Scoring updates and competition tips will be posted on the office’s Facebook page.

The program itself is an acronym, representing “Programs Of Water, Energy and Recycling.” The residence halls with the highest point totals by the end of the month win “bragging rights, the ‘Mo Green’ trophy and a party with refreshments and entertainment,” according to the website.

To Elly Boehmer, coordinator for Sustainability Outreach, the campus-wide initiative represents a way for students to get involved and learn how to be more environmentally aware.

“I love the idea of this program,” Boehmer said. “It is

VC CANDIDATE continued from Page 1 Romano’s main points stressed how her ideas and programs will make UT a Top 25 ranked school.

“What stuck out to me is definitely trying to get the students on the Top 25 Initiative Board,” said Seth Watkins, sophomore in business and active member in Ignite and a past Welcome Week leader.

“As a student right now, we haven’t really heard anything at all.

“We know it exists and we know it’s there, but we don’t really have any information about how to go forward with it.”

Although the goal is to be Top 25, UT is currently ranked 47th among all public universities, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2013 rankings. Romano directed many of her points and plans with the sole purpose of helping UT reach that goal.

When Watkins inquired as to how Romano planned on keeping in touch with students, Romano stepped away from administrative jargon and captured the opportunity to speak about her students.

“At Hollins College, I was in the administration building and sometimes I would just need a student fix,” Romano said. “So, I would go to the

a great way to incorporate sustainability education into a fun, competitive event. It truly does make a difference both environmentally and economically, while at the same time fostering community building.

“Students gain valuable knowledge on the benefits of going green that will be of use to them long after they leave the res halls. UT is huge and uses a lot of resources so if all students here did their part to minimize their environmental impact, we could make a big difference.”

The resources saved by last year’s program included, according to the office’s website, “443,700 cubic feet of water — the equivalent of about five Olympic-sized swimming pools and increased recycling by seven tons.”

Energy conservation from dorm residences helped prevent 126 metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution, saving an environmental saving equal to 14,000 gallons of gasoline.

“Overall, residents helped UT avoid approximately $56,000 in water, waste water, electricity and trash disposal costs,” the website reads.

The POWER challenge has changed heavily since its inception in 2005, said Jay Price, recycling coordinator and former coordinator of the POWER challenge.

“I came up with the current structure and helped to make it what it is now,” Price said.

“The program used to last

4-6 months, but because of the duration of the program, it was difficult to sustain and wasn’t as successful, so we scale it back to a month.

“Now, though, it’s gotten much better. We’ve got much more feedback from residence assistants and hall directors on improving it, and integrating educational opportunities.”

The program does not solely stress saving resources, but also encourages creating educational environmental programs.

“Halls are allowed to earn extra points when their RAs put on programs or students decide they want to try their own green initiative,” said Logan Terheggen, sustainability intern and sophomore in chemical engineering. “One thing we are trying to get across this year is that the Office of Sustainability is here to help anyone with an idea in any way we can. This way, not only are we encouraging green practices, but students are being exposed and learning more about the environment around them.”

Though the program has already started, new ideas are in the works for the Office of Sustainability.

“It would be great to see the program expand,” Boehmer said. “I would love to see a Greek Life POWER Challenge as well as one amongst the other departments on campus.”

dining hall and just interact with students and come back feeling completely energized.

The irony is the more you go up on the levels of administration, the less contact you have with students ... I’ve carved out time for students ... When a student talks to me or emails me and wants to meet with me, I meet with them.

“Just last week a student emailed me and he wanted to talk about getting students more involved in homecoming. So, we met and came up with some ideas and implemented them. I think he was shocked that I actually followed through and implemented them. It’s something I really enjoy, interacting with students.”

Romano also said she makes it her responsibility to meet with student government, resident assistants, students in culture centers and other campus groups regularly.

She added that she will

attend as many campus events as possible in an attempt to be available and connected with her student body.

Although the search is coming to a close, the search for new vice chancellor of Student Life has been an ongoing process since the application and nomination deadline closed on Aug. 6.

UT’s goal is to have this positioned filled by January 2014.

The final candidate for vice chancellor of Student Life to visit UT is Vincent Carilli. His public forum will be held today at 2:30 p.m. in the Ray Mears Room at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Webcasts for all four public forum sessions will be posted and available for viewing on Oct. 3. Students attending or watching these forums are encouraged to submit their feedback via the online survey on the site by noon on Tuesday, Oct. 8.

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Re-web your notions of those spiders on the wall In Rare Forum by

Julie Mrozinski The spookiest month is here: white sheets hang from trees, skeleton bones abound and fake spider webs with giant spiders are strewn across bushes, trees and doorways.

Spiders are copious year-round though, producing screams that Halloween capitalizes on.

If you read the Daily Beacon’s lead story last Friday, you know that spiders are showing more prevalence in Knoxville this season due to the extra insect grub resulting from abundant rainfall.

I began noticing this increase when a spider made himself at home in a corner of my room. My instinct was to kill him, and I almost did. Almost.

But he was little and he didn’t want to kill me in my sleep, or bite me, or have anything to do with me, really.

I decided he would be my inspiration to re-string my negative view on spiders.

Despite popular belief, spiders are not insects but arachnids with more than 40,000 different species, ranking them seventh in organism diversity according to Spiders of India.

Webs, the artistically-crafted death traps spiders create, provide an ingenious, energy-efficient home.

Patterns of webs are believed to be innate in spiders, uniquely defining them into different species.

These masterpieces derive from spinneret glands in their abdomen, producing silk stronger than steel and more flexibility.

This silk catches prey, but can also be used to create underwater breathing bubbles, wrap eggs and hold sperm; younger spiders sometimes release a tiny thread and then ride the wind like dandelions.

Hunter Soltes, an undergraduate research assistant at UT, works with spiders in the lab. He thinks one of the coolest things about spiders is how unique all spiders are.

While testing their aggressiveness, Hunter said that some spiders would kill up to 30 crickets, but not eat one. Another spider, of the same species, would just kill one and eat it.

More diversity occurred when Hunter put male and female spiders together in attempts to watch procreation.

If things went well, the male spider would strike with a paralyzing potion, knocking the female out, before wrapping his sperm in his web and depositing it into her reproductive organ.

Things typically didn’t go as well though, with most of the females finding their male suitor inept and murdering him, sometimes devouring him.

Female spiders are typically larger than male spiders and this type of spider abuse is normative. Females don’t always kill or eat their children’s fathers, except in the case of the black widow – hence the name.

It is no wonder then, the ways in which spiders have been used symbolically through out time and culture.

To read about a spider in literature, or see one in your dream, allegorically represents a remarkable feminine figure or energy. They also have been called weavers of their own destiny, and are represented in highly creative scenarios. They typically take the form of patient or malice characters.

Greek mythology explains the origin of spiders as deriving from Arachne challenging the Goddess Athena to a weaving contest, thinking she had become greater than the gods. Although her rug was immaculate, Arachne imbedded morally corrupt material within her stitches. The story ends with Athena making Arachne a spider forever.

In Buddhism, Indra, a Hindu deity, has a spider net, which is used as a metaphor for the Buddhist concept of interpenetration, which holds that all phenomena are intimately connected.

In the children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” Charlotte writes in her web to save Wilbur, the pig, from impending doom, exuding creativity and re-weaving the destiny of two characters.

As Halloween approaches and you begin to see more plastic spiders, as well as the real ones, attempt to find their lives commendable and impressive, acknowledging their long cultural history. Maybe even take the spotting of a spider as an omen to create your own destiny or harness creativity.

Julie Mrozinski is a junior in English. She can be reached at jmrozins@utk.edu.

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Comments crucial to bridge gap between science, society Crossing Cues by

Melissa Lee On Tuesday, Sept. 24, Popular Science posted an online article in which they announced their plan to turn off their online comment section, effective immediately.

“Comments,” they claimed, “can be bad for science.”

They have a point. Take a look at any comments section just about anywhere, and you will find plenty of self-proclaimed experts spouting off poorly-supported “facts” — and that’s when they’re being nice about it. For every polite, thought-out discussion on the Internet, there are at least two that will make you seriously question the current state of humanity.

Turning off the comments section on a website “devoted to championing science,” however, is not the solution, because trolls on the Internet do not constitute the real problem.

Tuesday’s article went on to reference the “politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise,” “eroded ... popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics,” and “the cynical work of undermining bedrock scientific doctrine.” It also cited several scientific studies that purportedly

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literacy, after all, if not the scientifically literate?

Magazines like Popular Science and other media sources are not absolved of responsibility here, either. It’s no secret that the media is often sensationalist, and the intense specificity of most scientific research does not often lend itself to attracting readers’ views. Headlines, then, are routinely overblown, and an overstatement in science is a misstatement.

In turning off their comments section, Popular Science may be avoiding some immediate questioning of the science that they post and publicize, but they are contributing to the feedback loop of the everexpanding distance between the scientific community and the general public. Not only are they signaling their distrust in the interpretive capabilities of the reader, they are acting defensively — as if they have something to hide. And as one of the most read science magazines in the world, with more than 141 years of publishing history and more than 30 languages in 45 countries, the precedent that Popular Science is setting here is significant.

This is not the way that science should be.

At its best, science is produced in the interactions between scientists performing research for the benefit of society and a well-informed, scientifically-literate, willing public footing the bill. As one crucial component of this ideal slips further and further away from us, we ought to try to strengthen these interactions, not suppress them.

Melissa Lee is a senior in College Scholars.

She can be reached at mlee48@utk.edu.

Raging party exposes generational ignorance Dean’s List by

Katie Dean Earlier this month, at least 300 teenagers broke into a beautiful residence in Stephentown, N.Y., and threw a Labor Day rager that, by the looks of it, was not a party to be forgotten.

Not only was the house incredibly nice, but alcohol was abundant and the location was fairly isolated. Pictures from the party show broken windows, dozens of holes in the walls and an overall lack of respect for the residence.

Turns out, the Stephentown home actually belongs to former NFL football star, Brian Holloway.

Not only were these kids stupid enough to break into the vacation house of a well-known athlete, but they proceeded to post pictures of the party and tweet about it as the festivities continued. Holloway, who was in Florida at the time, was shown the live twitter feed by his son and quickly realized that he had more than 300 unwanted guests in his New York home.

Holloway immediately set up a website called helpmesave300.com, where you can view pictures from the party and read the

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demonstrate the ability of uncivil or even just “strongly worded” comments to polarize readers’ perceptions.

The problem is not the existence of comments that act to sway public opinion; the problem is that public opinion is so easily swayed.

At my last lab meeting here at the Brain Research Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, one doctor displayed the sensationalized headlines that accompanied the media reporting of the study he was presenting.

My professor pointed out these headlines as “very American.” One of the post-doctoral fellows commented that Americans must be very confused as to why diseases like Alzheimer’s still exist after scientists have reportedly found the key to the cures so many times.

There is a growing disconnect between the scientific community and the general public that it both serves and heavily depends on for resources. Public distrust in science is growing, and, in turn, scientists are increasingly discouraged as their words are taken less and less seriously and their funding becomes less and less certain. The obligation they feel to the public they research for becomes weaker, and scientific misconduct in the academic pressure to publish or perish becomes easier. With every case of such misconduct, of course, public distrust increases.

The sources of this distrust are manifold.

Popular Science is correct in their assertion that it is political. They are mistaken, however, in attributing this distrust to forces outside of scientist control. It is the scientist’s job to educate. Who else can teach scientific

tweets of the kids involved. On the website, Holloway discusses his love of Stephentown and the priceless memories made in that house, as well as his desire to reach these kids and truly show them that what they did was wrong. He talks about how saddening it is that kids die every year from alcohol-related accidents, and he clearly expresses his wish not to punish the kids, but to reach out to them and help them.

He even set up a catered picnic and invited the kids to come have lunch and help him clean up the mess, stating that he would not press charges if they came back to help.

He also asked that a statue that was taken the night of the party be returned, as it was of great importance to his family. The statue was a tribute to Holloway’s stillborn grandson.

Unfortunately, only four of the kids showed up to help Holloway. Even more saddening is the fact that after creating the website, Holloway received threats from some of the parents of the 300 saying they would sue him for defamation and hurting their children’s chances of getting into college.

All the time I hear people talking about how America is going to hell in a hand basket, or whining about what the federal government is doing or not doing. We certainly have a lot of problems facing us right now, but parents, like the ones who raised these kids, are truly one of the biggest problems with our society. This generation includes

future leaders and businessmen and women of our country, and they are being taught to take whatever they want and do whatever they want regardless of the consequences.

And if there are consequences, just sue the victim for defaming you.

As much as it pains me to sound like an old grandma on a soapbox, this situation truly speaks volumes about what we value as a society and our ability to accept responsibility for our actions. Brian Holloway is obviously one of the most kind-hearted, generous people alive today and he is being spat on for trying to do a fantastic thing. While anyone else would have immediately sought legal action against these kids, he actually tried to go to the root of the problem and teach them a valuable lesson.

Due to the lack of remorse from the Stephentown vandals, Holloway has now decided to pursue legal action. Four kids between 17 and 21 have been arrested, and the charges include felony, larceny and burglary, as well as alcohol charges and trespassing. The sheriff’s department has said that up to 100 kids could face charges.

This story is not about a group of kids who vandalized a football player’s house; it’s about a generation who enjoys drunken destruction devoid of consequence, and parents who refuse to enforce the consequence at all.

Katie Dean is a junior in political science.

She can be reached at xvd541@utk.edu.

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ARTS & CULTURE MONGOLIAN continued from Page 1 Tong Wang was enthusiastic about the performer’s recent eclectic collaboration with the University of Kentucky’s College of Fine Arts orchestra. “Mongolian traditional music hasn’t developed that much,� said Wang, an art professor from Inner Mongolia University. “It is very pure.�

Khoomei, the Mongolian art of throat singing was the feature act of the performance.

Throat singing occurs when the singer generates two or three tunes simultaneously by using larynx, teeth, tongue and palate.

Influenced by Mongolia’s

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spacious grasslands, throat singing developed because it was a way to express songs while projecting the singer’s voice to far distances.

This partnership explored the blend of orchestral concert music of both Inner Mongolian and American compositions.

Confucius Institute hopes that performances such as these will be encourage entry into the Chinese language, culture and art to students all over the country, as reported by University of Kentucky news. “I wish more people could have been here,â€? said Cameron Hensley, sophomore in internaZoe Yim • The Daily Beacon tional business. “Personally I’ve studied a lot of Chinese history, A performer plays the horse head fiddle, a classic but I’ve never heard much of it. Mongolian instrument, during an evening of Mongolian I will definitely think of it now.â€? Dance and Music at the UC Auditorium on Sept. 30.

Music videos adopt a unique turn in tech era

Jake Watkins Contributor MTV doesn’t play many videos nowadays.

This is a fact that has turned into pop culture’s favorite joke made by everyone from Stephen Colbert to Kanye West.

Whether MTV plays them or not, videos are still being made for new singles by artists all over the sound and visual spectrum.

Pop culture still has a place for the music video in its realm of interests.

Arcade Fire recently put out another obscure link on their website to an incredibly interactive music video for their newest single “Reflektor.� I will be the first to admit it’s probably one of the coolest things I have seen in a while.

The user connects a mobile device – cell phone or tablet – and links it in to the video. Your computer’s webcam then turns on and syncs with the device.

The result allows you to control the kaleidoscope effects of the video simply by moving your device. Albeit, waving your arm around during a track that is well over seven minutes is a bit tedious, but having my face pop up in a broken mirror within the video had me giggling like a child.

Then we have our newest viral music video. “Wrecking Ball�: a video flaunting a now-grown child star, mostly naked, shedding tears due to her achy breaky heart. Much like my family’s English Setter, Miley Cyrus inexplicably licks everything she can.

So, what we now have is a

UT Portuguese club to host picnic featuring rare brazilian delicacies Amanda Cleveland Contributor From freshman year onward, UT students are encouraged to embrace diversity and learn about other cultures. One way students will be able to do this is through a picnic celebrating Brazilian culture and language.

UT’s Portuguese language club, CLIP, is planning a Brazilian picnic at Tyson Park on Thursday night from 5 p.m. to sundown.

The picnic will have Brazilian delicacies and games, according to Caitlyn Bradford, president of CLIP. “We will be providing free homemade food for attendees, a Brazilian stew called caldo,� Bradford, a junior in international business, said. “We ask that students bring their own beverages. There will also be games to play, such as Frisbee and Peteca.�

Brigadeiro, a Brazilian dessert, will also be at the picnic. This will be made by the Brazilian program, “Science Without Borders,� said Portugese lecturer Wanessa Martin, who will also cook

for the picnic. “Hopefully, you will be able to join us for some caldo and some fun,� Martin said. “I am making two popular vegetable stews we have in Brazil in winter months.�

Desarae Goldby, board member of CLIP, said a professional grade Peteca will be available. “The Peteca game is the Brazilian variation of badminton, but played without rackets,� Goldby said.

Martin said there will be a capoeira presentation, which is a Brazilian martial art/fight dance.

The Brazilian picnic is open to anyone who is interested. Bradford said the event has been planned in a way that will present attendees with new things to do and see while still providing a comfortable atmosphere.

CLIP will hold future events, some of which include a tailgate, a cultural night where students can share poetry and songs and a soccer tournament. “Ideally, we will be able to celebrate Portuguese-speaking cultures while integrating our own American activities in

order to achieve a comfortable environment in which students can meet and make connections with one another,�

Bradford said.

The Portuguese club aims to bring attention to a language people are less familiar with than some other dominant world languages. “CLIP wants to encourage students to learn the Portuguese language,â€? Bradford said. “Many people forget that this language exists because it is assumed that Portugal is the only country that still speaks it. Portuguese is a language spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, East Timor, Macau, SĂŁo TomĂŠ and PrĂ­ncipe.â€?

Goldsby said this is what led CLIP to establish their mission statement. “Many people do not know that Portuguese is the official language of nine countries between the three continents of Africa, Europe and South America,�

Goldsby said. “It is in this spirit that we wrote CLIP’s mission statement: ‘to spread awareness of Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) cultures while engaging in community based activities.’�

video that employs intricate technology to create an experience larger than images on a screen or sound in your stereo co-existing with Hannah Montana, naked, riding a wrecking ball. “Reflektor� is only one of several groundbreaking videos that Arcade Fire has put out in their short time in public light.

The first single from 2010’s The Suburbs, “We Used to Wait,� had the viewer put in an address from his or her childhood home and used Google Earth to bring in satellite images of one’s neighborhood coexisting in the video.

This is by no means saying that Arcade Fire is the only band making good music videos. Its acknowledging that no one has taken a visual experience in the directions they have within the music video genre.

Finding an idea or concept that hasn’t already been done to death is one of the biggest challenges facing artists today. Teary and scantily clad music videos have been done before. Largescale destruction music videos have been done before. Lots of the actual video in Arcade Fire’s “Reflektor� is not that unique, so the group chose to change up the way you watch it.

Lets tally up the score, how many videos in the past two months have included a naked or close to it blonde on a white back drop licking things? Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,� Miley’s “Wrecking Ball� and “We Can’t Stop� and Lady Gaga’s “Applause.�

Now, how many videos employ your phone and webcam to allow you to toggle on screen effects in real time?

It’s obvious that technology is not going to plateau anytime soon. Why settle for the same videos that “killed the radio star� when there is something completely new and unique crashing into pop-culture like a wrecking ball?

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Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Sports Editor David Cobb

SPORTS WOMEN’S GOLF continued from Page 1 In just the second tournament of her college career, she finished tied for 19th overall at the Cherokee Country Club that played host to 17 different schools.

Her performance also placed third best on the team.

“I thought I played pretty consistent and I was pleased because I met my goal for the tournament,” she said.

While the transition to the Division I level of play has appeared almost seamless for Polo, who was a standout golfer in high school at New Garden Friends School (N.C.), the changeover to a new style of life has been a whirlwind for the 18-year-old.

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“The biggest transition for me was finishing high school here,” she said. “I came to the United States to live with my coach and his family. They really helped me with the language, the culture, and getting used to American life.

It was really helpful having them around.”

Another friend that she has been able to lean on is UT men’s golfer Juan Carlos Serrano Guevara, a freshman from Mexico City, Mexico.

“We spend a lot of time together and are lucky to be here for each other,” Serrano Guevara said.

“Having someone that shares the same culture and speaks the same language as you has definitely made us closer. We talk about golf together and help each other with what we can.”

Like the majority of her fel-

low freshmen, Polo said she has enjoyed going to Tennessee football games this fall, though it’s an aspect of the culture she is still adjusting to.

“I’m trying to get into football games even though I don’t understand them as well as I’d like to,” she said. “Everybody seems to be into them and it has been fun. I’ve liked getting to meet other people and supporting other Tennessee athletes.”

Polo will appear in one more tournament during the fall season for the Lady Vols when the team travels to Austin, Texas for the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational Oct. 13-15.

“From here on out it’s all about continuing to put in the work to play the best I possibly can,” Polo said. “It really is an honor to be a Volunteer.”

Sports analyst headlines QB club Joseph McCluney Staff Writer At a mix between a country club luncheon and a relaxed press conference on Monday, Tony Barnhart highlighted all 14 SEC football teams and spoke about the future of the conference.

A renowned sports journalist and broadcaster, Barnhart, otherwise known as “Mr. College Football” from CBS Sports and CBSSports.com, predicted the SEC champion will face off against either Clemson, Florida State, Oregon, Stanford or Ohio State in this year’s BCS National Championship Game.

His prediction came at a meeting of the Knoxville Quarterback Club at Calhoun’s on the River where he also spoke on the current state of affairs in the SEC, including the University of Tennessee football program.

Barnhart stated that though currently undermanned and facing one of the nation’s toughest schedules, Tennessee football is on the right track. “[Head coach Butch] Jones is gonna get to where you want to go,” Barnhart said.

Barnhart said it takes time for first-year coaches to adjust to SEC football.

“You’ve gotta get more skill players,” Barnhart said, speaking to a room full of Tennessee fans. “But [recruiting] is going well.”

One man in charge of developing skill players is current UT running backs coach, Robert Gillespie, who also spoke at the meeting.

Gillespie said there’s a certain amount of pride that goes along with being a running back in the SEC, and that Jones continuously talks about upholding that standard of excellence.

“Any running back that wants to be the best in the country can do it here,” Gillespie said.

Barnhart also spoke about Saturday’s opponent, Georgia.

“Georgia is pretty good ... as good as anyone you’re going to see offensively,” Barnhart said.

“Defense is where they’re vulnerable.”

Barnhart continued with the rest of the SEC East, stating that Kentucky is “woefully undermanned,” Florida and South Carolina are still in contention, and Missouri and Vanderbilt as teams to watch out for.

Moving on to the upper-tier of the SEC West, Barnhart said that even though Alabama has some issues this year, they still find a way to win games. Texas A&M

is a team that will need two losses from Alabama if they are to reach the SEC Championship in Atlanta, something Barnhart doesn’t see happening. Rounding out the top teams in the SEC West, LSU’s fate is in its own hands, Barnhart said.

On a larger national scale, Barnhart expects there to be increased discussion about rulemaking autonomy between conferences and the NCAA, with issues such as pay for student athletes being addressed in the next few years.

Title IX is one reason Barnhart said he doesn’t believe there is a pay-for-play system that is applicable to college sports at the moment. However, there are ways to circumvent the law, such as with “full cost of attendance scholarships.”

“There will be a change in the layout of the NCAA,” Barnhart said.

With the impending introduction of the SEC Network, universities may push towards nine conference games a season. This could put traditional rivalry games, such as Alabama-Tennessee and Georgia-Auburn, at risk. As a traditionalist, Barnhart hopes it doesn’t come to that.

Fans need to support UT

Troy Provost-Heron Assistant Sports Editor “I think everyone needs to understand, I think we do, but when you are building a culture, when you are building an environment, when you are working on changing habits, it takes time.”

The opening statement from head coach Butch Jones at his weekly Monday press conference expressed a sentiment that has gone unnoticed among everyone who witnessed the Vols scratch and claw to a victory against an inferior South Alabama team this past Saturday.

Say whatever you’d like, but the fact of the matter is it isn’t easy for any team – SEC, Sun Belt or any other conference – to perform at their best when learning on the fly.

That’s exactly what this UT football team is doing, and for whatever reason, Vol fans seem to have forgotten the most crucial aspect of this team: their youth.

Now, the current state of the program is nowhere near where it used to be 10 years ago, but it’s hard to argue that Jones isn’t the guy that will eventually lead the Vols back to the top.

Over the past couple of days, the talk of Knoxville has surrounded the man who was a major contributor in the fall of this once-storied program: the unemployed Lane Kiffin, who was fired on Sunday from his position as USC’s head coach.

But what’s done is done, and there is no need to continue to talk about the past.

The future, on the other hand, can’t be talked about enough.

As previously stated, Jones is going to do his part.

Recruiting and coaching-wise, he’s as good as it gets.

But coaches can only provide so much, and what currently holds the program back is the fan base.

Harsh, but true.

There is no excuse for fans exiting the stadium by the thousands when their “favorite team” is in a close game, and there definitely isn’t one for having what looked like 50,000 fans – in a stadium that has a capacity of 102,455 – showing their support as the Vols were attempting to forge a goal line stop to avoid overtime and possibly a loss.

What makes a good fan is their willingness to stick with their team through all the ups and downs, and Saturday proved that the Vols have a shortage of good fans.

Fans affects players on the field with their intensity and that same energy is the reason why recruits come to play for a school.

The truth is that fans are what separate the good programs from the great ones,

and right now the Vols are suffering from a lack of support.

Hopefully all of you fans can prove me wrong when Georgia comes to town this week, because the Vols are going to need all the help they can get.

Upset of the Week Two weeks ago: Purdue over Wisconsin This week: No. 25 Maryland over No. 8 Florida State, 48-42 Last Saturday said a lot about this Florida State football team.

The Seminoles have collectively bought into the “Famous” Jameis Winston hype and it showed when Boston College, a team that won two games last year, was able to jump on the Seminoles early.

Their post game press conference, where they admitted they overlooked the Golden Eagles, didn’t help either.

But this prediction has less to do with the Seminoles inflated ego and more to do with a talented Maryland team.

Offensively, the Terrapins are one of the best teams in the nation. Led by senior quarterback C.J. Brown, who has accounted for 13 touchdowns this season (seven passing, six rushing), Maryland has dominated every opponent they have faced all season, including a shutout against a West Virginia team that beat No. 11 Oklahoma State last week.

And if the ‘Noles don’t watch out, sophomore wide receiver Stefon Diggs is one of those players that can change a game with one play.