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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
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Technological play to portray futuristic rise in electronics
Film contest highlights Horror Festival Hollie Hughes Contributor Horror has come to Knoxville, at least for the weekend. The Knoxville Horror Film Festival will debut with the short creature comedy, “Grabbers” Oct. 25th at the Relix Variety Theatre. For the main event on Saturday, screenings of other ghoulish comedy films, such as “A Bad Milo” and “A Field in England” will follow at the Regal Downtown West cinema theater. Each feature is paired with short films. The festival will conclude Sunday, Oct. 27 at the Variety Theatre with the awards party and costume contest, where the winner of this year’s Grindhouse Grind-out will be announced. This year’s festival is previewed to be the biggest event since the KHFF started in 2009, with numerous contestants participating in the Grindhouse Grind-out – a contest where film-making teams are given six days and 66 minutes to produce a three-minute grindhousestyle film trailer. See HORROR FILM on Page 5
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UT custodians and volunteers assist in recycling and gathering litter left by tailgaters after Tennessee’s game against South Alabama on Sept. 28.
Clean sweep Students, workers power game day recycling effort Hayley Brundige Staff Writer On Sept. 7, at 12:21 p.m., 86,783 football fans gathered in Neyland Stadium to watch UT play Western Kentucky. Meanwhile, volunteers and workers were diligently cleaning up the 14.11 tons of recyclable waste that those football fans left in their wake. “People expect it will all be magically cleaned up by the next game,” Bob Caudill, director of facilities services, said. “When in reality, there’s a whole team of people who come out here every week.” Student workers, UT facilities services and landscape services employees and volunteers work together to clean up
the massive amounts of waste that accumulate each game day. Cleanup starts on Saturday morning as workers hand out blue recycling bags to tailgaters in hopes that fans will dispose of trash responsibly. “We attack the outside of the stadium 10 minutes after kickoff,” said Gordon Nelson, assistant director of facilities services. “The idea is to have the exterior of the stadium looking presentable by halftime.” Workers continue cleaning campus throughout the weekend. “On a good day, when it doesn’t rain, they can be finished by around one o’clock on Sunday afternoon,” Caudill said. But for some of the UT students who aid with the
cleanup, participating has its advantages. “It is extremely hard work, but it’s a very rewarding experience,” Joshua Ferrell, sophomore in computer science, said. “It’s really an enlightening experience to come out here and realize how big of an issue waste really is.” With more than 100 recycling containers in the stadium, 200 composting bins and 14 dumpsters located at the main tailgating areas, waste disposal sites are widespread on game days. In addition, UT Recycling has ordered 300 more recycling depositories that will arrive later this year.
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Tennessee kicker Michael Palardy drills the game-winning 19-yard field goal in the Volunteers’ 23-21 upset win over South Carolina at Neyland Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 19. used it to help turn around his tumultuous tenure. “Everyone was saying the same stuff in previous years and I took that criticism and I kind of ran with it,” Palardy said. “That kind of drove me to make myself better as a person and as a player.
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“I think I’ve really benefited from it and I appreciate every ounce of criticism that I’ve received over the past couple of years because that has kind of fueled me to be successful this year.” See PALARDY on Page 6
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‘Thick skin’ proves effective for Palardy With 3 seconds left and the Vols on the 2-yard line, the fate of snapping a 19-game and nearly four-year streak of not defeating a ranked opponent came down to the left foot of a kicker with newfound confidence. “Well, I was pacing up and down the sideline for quite a while, but I was pretty calm for the most part,” kicker Michael Palardy said. “I just kind of took it as, `I’ve done it before. It’s every kick that I’ve executed in practice or a game. I just need to execute it the way that my team wants me to,’ and it worked.” As he sprinted down the field following his game-winning 19-yard field goal to upset No. 11 South Carolina, Palardy’s career finally received it’s crowning moment. The former three-star recruit and second-ranked kicker in the nation after his tenure at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Coral Springs, Fla., came into his final season at UT having been an unreliable kicker – even being benched for walk-on kicker Derrick Brodus last year – with a career 69.6 percent clip on field goals. One of the many scapegoats for the frustrated Volunteer faithful over the past three years, Palardy accepted the criticism and
The Gizmo: a handheld device that acts as a phone, connects to the Internet and revolutionized communication. This device was nothing more than a futuristic idea at the time “Ctrl+Alt+Delete” was written more than 10 years ago by Anthony Clarvoe. The Clarence Brown Theatre will now bring this play to life in a time where this “gizmo” is a part of everyday technology. “Ctrl+Alt+Delete” is a satire on commercialism, greed and corporate ambition, according to director Terry Silver Alford. “It’s a very human story,” Alford said, professor of musical theater performance, introduction to theater and acting. “It’s about real people. How they function and utilize the business world is a very creative thing.” Terry Weber, who plays Gus Belmont, the capitalist investment banker of “Ctrl+Alt+Delete,” said since the play was written in a time
where a cell phone was simply used to make calls, it is timely for the generation the audience grew up in. “(This generation) will appreciate that while the play was being written, there was no assurance that a device like this would come in to existence,” said Weber, an associate professor of theatre, “and now here we are on the other side and it very much did happen.” For the actors in the play, it was a more personal experience as each actor grew up at the same time as the rise of the cell phone. “A lot of the technology we use in our play is the same cell phone my mom used years ago,” said Ethan Roeder, junior in College Scholars. “It’s like the ideas the people had were what we have now: the smart phones. But I never thought about anything more than being able to make a call. “It’s really cool to see how they had the idea so many years ago.”
2013 marks the launch of UT’s first “Lean In Circle” for women in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments. Based on the tenets of Sheryl Sandberg’s New York Times best-selling novel, “Lean In Circles” are virtual groups where women sharing common interests can unwind together. “Lean In” explores female empowerment and encourages women to support each other. The circle for EEC marks a new partnership between the Lean In organization and the Anita Borg Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of women in computing. Denise Koessler, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in computer science, has been attending the Anita Borg Institute’s Women in Computing Conferences since her freshman year. As a Lean In leader and brand ambassador, Koessler was personally contacted to make the already existing Systers group on UT’s campus a “Lean In Circle.” “A couple months ago they partnered with Lean In to start these circles where groups of 8-12 virtual circles meet up to support each other,” Koessler
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said. “Women can get together to support other women for a common goal and it can be anything – women in the army, women who like surfing, anything. Anita reached out to me and the UT group to be the first circle for the new Lean In and Anita Borg partnership to support women in technology.” Systers is a group of women on campus whose mission is to recruit, mentor and retain women in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. After the Industrial Advisory Board’s annual meeting drew attention to gender bias in the EECS department, Systers was born. With only 5.4 percent of the department being female, Koessler and her fellow female classmates felt compelled to address an unmet need. “Lean In is how Systers is virtually organized; it is our national affiliation,” Koessler said. “We finally had a place to call home ... that we all could go to and kick off our shoes in a totally relaxing, make-up free place to be yourself. “Not that we wear make-up to class anyways, but it’s a different environment when it’s so dominated towards the male gender, and this gave us a place to completely relax.” See ENGINEER on Page 2