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Debate raises questions on faith’s origins Jasmine Jensen Staff Writer If a person was not raised to believe in one thing or another, would he still find something similar to believe in as he grows older? One might be raised to believe in one god and as one grows older he may start to question the beliefs that he once took for granted.

Dr. Justin L. Barrett and Dr. Gordon M. Burghardt touched on this issue in their talk, “Faith, Psychology, and the Origins of God,” presented in the UC auditorium.

“Various features of the mind — mental tools evolved to solve problems unrelated to religious gods — collaborate to produce natural receptivity to belief in one god,” Barrett said.

Barrett’s meaning is simple. From a very young age, people can tell the difference between an interactive object (people, animals, etc.), and one that is not, as well as between something that is moving compared to something that is not moving (water, ball, toy, etc.). Therefore people can find belief in something that does not physically exist and may exist solely to them, i.e. an imaginary friend, with whom one can interact, just as he or she would interact with a deity at an older age.

The notion of whether a person’s beliefs are truly psychological or were just drilled into him was discussed at the event. If someone was not raised to believe in any kind of god, would that person believe in one later in life?

Not every person believes in a god, but every person at one point in time will try to question the idea. Does the Christian god exist? Does any god exist? These were a few of

the various themes and questions discussed at the lecture.

Barrett took these ideas and placed them into juxtaposition with a figurehead of popular culture: Harry Potter.

Barrett quotes “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” in an attempt to help create a possible correlation for his listeners.

Barrett’s chosen quote comes from the scene in which Harry questions Albus Dumbledore about the state of reality by asking, “Is this real, or is it all happening inside my head?” To this Dumbledore replies, “Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

He uses this example as a way to explain that we believe what we believe because we are all individual thinkers and question individual things. Even though an idea of a god, any god, is instilled somewhere inside the brain, no matter how little or large that idea or belief is, it is an idea open to that individual’s interpretation. Barrett makes the point that the reality of one’s belief comes from the individual’s perception, as opposed to a global one.

This idea of individual faith rings true with many UT students, including John Ward, a junior in electrical engineering.

“I think individual faith comes from perception,” Ward said. “So I feel that one’s faith comes from one’s idea of faith.”

Barrett and Burghardt went on to discuss the deep-seeded relationship between science and religion.

• Image courtesy of thetarotroom.com Both Barrett and Burghardt made strong arguments on the matter of faith, psychology Dr. Justin Barrett spoke on the issue of faith in, “Faith, Psychology, and the Origins of and the origins of god, and hopefully fostered God.” Barrett and Dr. Gordon M. Burghardt explored the idea that people, independdebate about this controversial and critical ent of their upbringings, have a natural propensity to believe in a higher being. subject.

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Students in a fiction writing class take the opportunity of a nice day and hold class outside of the Humanities building on Tuesday, Sept. 16. The recent cooling is the first sign of fall, ushering in mild temperatures and the changing of the colors in nature.

Tomblin retains gubernatorial seat in W.Va. The Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin overcame weeks of Republican attack ads to win the West Virginia governor’s race Tuesday, successfully distancing himself from the Obama administration and the president’s health care plan.

Tomblin, who has been acting governor for the past year, will finish the final year of a term left vacant by Joe Manchin, a well-liked governor who stepped down after he won a U.S. Senate seat.

The race was fraught with negative ads from both sides and narrowed in the final weeks. The national parties spent millions of dollars on each campaign.

With 96 percent of precincts reporting, Tomblin had 50 percent of the vote compared with Republican Bill Maloney’s 47 percent, according to unofficial results.

Tomblin campaigned as the rightful heir to Manchin. He said together they helped shape policies that created pain-free balanced budgets and revenue surpluses at a time when other states continued to struggle during the recession.

“We tried to stay on message as much as possible,”

Tomblin told to The Associated Press before addressing his supporters Tuesday night. “We do have a stable budget and a stable economy in West Virginia. That’s what people are looking for.”

A veteran state lawmaker, Tomblin fended off questions about his mother’s greyhound breeding business and efforts to tie him to Obama. Republicans were upset Tomblin didn’t join a majority of other states who sued the administration over the health care plan.

Obama lost West Virginia in 2008 and remains wildly unpopular there, but Tomblin got a replay of last year’s U.S. Senate special election, when Manchin beat back efforts to tie him to Obama.

Democrats outnumber the GOP by nearly 2-to-1 in West Virginia, but they are considered more conservative than their national counterparts on both social and fiscal issues, supporting gun rights and cutting taxes.

Maloney called to congratulate Tomblin before conceding the race at a gathering of campaign backers in Morgantown, where he has been a drilling engineer and became a millionaire businessman. The political newcomer said he started the race with “zero name ID, zero traction and zero chance.”

“All along the way, the insiders were lined up against us, but that didn’t matter to me because I wasn’t running for them, I was running for you.”

The Obama ads featured images of the president floating on the screen with Tomblin. One spot asks: “What’s Gov. Tomblin doing about Obamacare? Absolutely nothing.”

Of at least 21 spots that aired, 15 were attack ads. The negative ads turned Dushyant Shekhawat against Maloney.

“He’s not fighting against Tomblin; he’s fighting against Obama. That I don’t like. He should concentrate his run against Tomblin,” said Shekhawat, a federal employee at the National Energy Technology Laboratory.

The link to the president resonated with Mark Gingerich, who voted for Maloney.

“I think it’s important right now to have a conservative Republican governor because the states are going to have to do something together to do away with Obamacare, the socialized medicine,” Gingerich said.

Tomblin, meanwhile, used ads to blame Maloney for sending jobs to Pennsylvania when the drilling firm he co-founded moved there. But the relocation came four years after Maloney sold his shares in the company.

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Jessica Covington, junior in special education, promotes a showing of “Super 8” by the CPC Film Committee on Wednesday, Sept. 14. The Film Committee will be having a free showing of “Pan’s Labyrinth” for UT students on Friday, with shows at 7:00 and 9:30 p.m., in the UC Auditorium.

12:16 p.m. — An individual not affiliated with the university found in G-7 parking garage. Upon inquiry, the officer found that the individual 1993 — Natchez Trace Parkway arches are complete Saturday, Oct. 1 had previously received a The last segment of the Natchez Trace Parkway’s Double 3:07 a.m. — Vehicle seen criminal trespass warning for Arch Bridge is put into place on October 6, 1993. The $11 miltraveling the wrong way down being in a different parking lion, 1,572-foot–long bridge carries the parkway over Route 96 White Avenue. The driver was area on campus. The suspect near Franklin, Tennessee. It was the first precast segmental stopped and an officer found was then placed under arrest. concrete arch bridge to be built in the United States. (These him to be driving under the bridges are more cost-efficient than traditional ones, because 1:55 p.m. — Male subject influence of alcohol. The susworkers at the bridge site simply need to assemble concrete pect was also driving with a issued citation for shoplifting pieces that have already been cast.) suspended license and refused a skincare product at The Natchez Trace Parkway is not just famous for its sleek, to be tested on his blood alco- Walgreen’s on the Strip. modern bridge; on the contrary, the road has been around and Subject also received a crimihol level. in use for thousands of years. It was a well-worn trail through nal trespass warning for both Choctaw and Chickasaw territory (along with a handful of pre3:46 a.m. — Officer flagged Walgreen’s and UT property. historic Native American mounds) that connected the southern down by an individual behind 8:10 p.m. — Officer observed Mississippi River with the salt licks of central Tennessee. a bar on the Strip. The officer a male subject kicking over Starting at the end of the 18th century, the Trace became the found a semi-conscious subprimary route north for the famous “Kaintucks,” farmers and ject that was bleeding from his traffic barrels. The suspect boatmen who floated produce, coal and livestock from the Ohio head. The subject was taken was placed under arrest for Valley down the Mississippi to markets in Natchez and New to the UT Medical Center for public intoxication and evadOrleans. Once they got there, they sold their boats for lumber ing arrest. further testing. and trudged back home. (The 500-mile trip from Natchez to Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the University Nashville took about 35 days on foot; on a horse, it only took of Tennessee Police Department. All persons arrested are presumed about 20 to 25 days.) In 1800, the Natchez Trace became a innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar national mail road. It became obsolete, however, once steamor identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

boats made it possible for people and goods to travel up the Mississippi River as well as down.

Since 1938, the National Park Service has been paving the Natchez Trace a little bit at a time, turning it into a scenic modern highway. At the Franklin crossing, engineers had to figure out how to elevate the bridge over Route 96 and the densely wooded valley below while preserving the natural beauty of the site. Engineer Eugene Figg settled on an open, double-arched bridge that supports its deck without spandrel columns, preserving most of the view across the valley. The first arch is symmetrical and has a span of 582 feet and a rise of 145 feet. (That is, the bridge is 145 feet above the highway beneath it.) The second arch, thanks to the elevated topography at the bridge’s southern end, is not symmetrical: It has a span of 462 feet and a rise of 102 feet. The arches are made of 122 hollow boxes, each precast nearby in Franklin. They were assembled in what engineers call “progressive cantilever,” with steel cables holding them together until each one was finished. The foundation and vertical piers were put together more traditionally: They were cast on-site as they were built.

The bridge officially opened on March 22, 1994 and the Natchez Trace Parkway was finally complete.

— This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

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What: First Friday Gallery open house When: most open around 6 p.m. - 3 a.m.

Where: Various (we recommend Fireproof, Flourescent and Emporium) Price: free Our take: A monthly opportunity to gaze at local art with friends and score free Franzia. The best part is that inevitable feeling, guaranteed at least once per month, to realize that you could actually produce something better than what is hanging in front of you.

Thursday, October 6 What: A Hawk and a Hacksaw with Dark Dark Dark and Pillars and Tongues When: 10 p.m.

Where: Pilot Light Price: $10 Our take: A night of East Bloc folk and darkside drone. Prepare to get sweaty.

What: The Bad Dudes with Hotshot Freight Train & The Young When: 8 p.m.

Where: The Ciderhouse Price: $5 / $3 surcharge for under 21 Our take: A chance for Knoxville native to get nostalgic and stay in the now. Former Java house band the Bad Dudes return with a new album, but promise their old hits (which due to editorial strictures cannot be printed here). Recommended accessories: whiskey, snakeskin boots and a melee weapon.

Friday, October 7 What: Dos Equis Comedy Series featuring Paula Poundstone When: 8 p.m.

Where: Bijou Theatre Price: $30 Our take: Says the Bijou: “Appearing on stage with a stool, a microphone, and a can of Diet Pepsi, Paula Poundstone is famous for her razor-sharp wit and spontaneity.”

Says the Beacon: “It’s live stand-up. That means there are no cuts to audience reactions or laugh tracks. Or commercials. Or a remote control.”

What: WDVX Presents: Darrell Scott with Rayland Baxter When: 8 p.m.

Where: The Square Room Price: $20 advance / $22 door Our take: Probably a bit pricey, but for the ambiance and quality of the show, The Square Room is always a good bet for an evening of fun.

Saturday, October 8 What: Warband with Fine Peduncle and the Sniff When: 10 p.m.

Where: Pilot Light Price: $10 / $15 Our take: Get your fill of local sex-funk loops and touring epic metal all in one spot. Get there early, for this price ye olde dive bar is likely to pack up quickly.

What: Kappa Sigma presents Project Pat When: 10 p.m.

Where: The Ciderhouse Price: $20 advance / $22 door Our take: Eleven years after “Sippin’ on Some Sizzurp,” Three 6 sideman Project Pat is still going strong on what he knows best: the freshest intoxicants and partying. It’s only natural that a fraternity is sponsoring the event.

Sunday, October 9 What: Avant-Garde electronic legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius (of Cluster / Harmonia) with Xambuca and Palatheda When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Fifth floor of the Woodruff Building, above Downtown Grill & Brewery Price: $10 Our take: Krautrock pioneer Roedelius for $10 is the deal of the weekend. Period.

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Somewhere... Hopefully Government policies raise questions Preston Peedon Managing Editor The Fast and the Furious is ruining America.

By this I don’t mean the Paul Walker/Vin Diesel street racing/high-speed chase robbery movie series, but instead the “Operation Fast and Furious,” a government sponsored series of stings run by the ATF in an attempt to curtail illegal gun tracking.

The operation’s general purpose was to permit “straw purchasers” access to guns supplied by the ATF. These straw purchasers would then funnel the weapons into Mexico, where the final destination would be Mexican criminal organizations. The ATF authorized and performed these stings in the hopes of building up a stronger case against the organized criminal cartels in Mexico. In total, from 2009 to 2010, the ATF funneled 2,000 weapons with full knowledge of where the weapons were going.

At first glance, this policy seems to have several redeeming features. While the program allowed for guns to be shipped to cartels (something that could have happened regardless of the U.S. government’s involvement), it ultimately would allow for more convictions of criminals, thus making the already drugwar torn Mexico a better place. Also, the guns used by the ATF were cataloged and easily tracked, making the perpetrators easier to identify. This would have been advantageous if the weapons were kept track of well.

Unfortunately though, none of these actions happened.

Instead, “Operation Fast and Furious” did not curtail the illegal gun running market, nor did it temper the violence that followed its participants. But rather, it helped feed the fire. Ultimately, this program knowingly sent weapons into the hands of criminals, who then used those weapons for less-than-reputable purposes. As of August 2011, 200 guns have been recovered at or linked to the scenes of violent crimes, including the murder of U.S. Border Patrol guard Brian Terry and the highprofile kidnapping of Mexican attorney Mario González Rodríguez. Of the 2,000 weapons sent, only 600 have been recovered, which means that 1,400 guns are still in circulation. Any crime that they are attached to is violence that has been sanctioned by the U.S. government.

When I first heard about the program, I couldn’t

help but think it was a joke. How could any organization attached to the U.S. government knowingly arm violent criminals? It seems obvious that there is a glaring flaw in this plan. How can they control the flow of guns, and what the guns are used for? But instead of thinking through the consequences of their actions, the ATF acted without a second thought. They were basically acting the same as parents who give candy to their child, telling them to share it with their siblings, and then act surprised when the kid decides to hoard what was given to him.

Currently, the program is under a joint investigation

by Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reforms Committee. Accusations against the program include: ordering agents to not arrest illegal gun buyers or to stop the process of moving the guns — which were essentially allowed “to walk” into the hands of criminals —, negligence in that senior officials in the ATF were weekly briefed on the operations of the program, and that any ATF agents who showed opposition to the program were told to “get with the program” and threatened with job retaliation. With the investigation still ongoing, no real charges or punishments have been doled out, but hopefully some will follow.

This program is reminiscent of the Iran-Contra debacle and the arming of the Mujahedeen in that the U.S. government willingly armed violence-based groups.

Many attached to these programs would leave their culpability at that; all they did was arm the people and what they did with the weapons was their own choice.

But instead, they are responsible for every single life lost, every crime committed, and every single person hurt.

Without these weapons, these crimes might not have happened.

While I find it hard to comprehend that the government doesn’t care at all for those that they govern, policies like these make me wonder if the government is even aware of what its policies do. If the ATF had even thought through “Operation Fast and Furious,” it would have seen the damage it would cause. But instead, they sent it through without a second thought, and now countless families and people have been hurt. In the end, that’s what we’re left with, a program that knowingly hurt people. And what is the top story on the news instead on FOXNews.com? Amanda Fox has returned to Seattle.

It might make a good movie. Possibly “The Fast and the Furious 6: Ignorant Gun Running”? At least it would be based on a true story.

— Preston Peeden is a junior in history. He can be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu.

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

THE GREAT MASH-UP • Liz Newnam

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True fans stick with their team C ommit tee o f I n f ra ct i o n s by

Gregory Bearringer My plan for this NFL season — what I am calling the “Interregnum,” because I do medieval history and I am allowed — was to pick another team to follow. I mean, I am still a Colts fan and I still would follow them and watch them as often as possible, but my real intention was to find a good team to, you know, root for. I have taken this strategy in the past; often in the playoffs, when a favorite team of mine didn’t make it, or back when I was a Nuggets fan when no one was proud to be a Nuggets fan. I also did this in the late ’90s when the Angels had really ugly uniforms and equally pleasing results on the field. It’s how I became a Maryland fan in 2002 even though I have never since rooted for the Terrapins.

That I became a Colts fan because of Peyton Manning and only because of Peyton Manning also mattered to me. In 1998-1999, I was all about Elway because I grew up in Denver and rooting for the Broncos is what one does in Denver. I like Manning because I had seen a few college games of his and I really liked his game. My fifth grade teacher confessed to us that she was a Brett Favre fan and would probably switch teams when he retired. I took a very similar mercenary strategy, based primarily on the fact that rooting for Bubby Brister is never a promising future, unless of course he enters competitive eating which would mean that his name would be excellent. I have a thing about never rooting for alliterative player names because they almost never work out. Brian Bosworth, Tim Tebow — QED. Terrible nicknames also doom a player. Chris Wells is a solid NFL running back. “Beanie” Wells is a chump.

Anyway, given that the source of my fandom was Peyton Manning, and given that it seems more and more likely that Manning is out for the whole season, I figured I would cruise easily into Buffalo Bills fandom. They have Ryan Fitzpatrick, who should change his name to “Hi! I went to Harvard.” They

have Fred Jackson, ruiner of fantasy football teams.

There is a whole lot to like about becoming a bandwagon Bills fan. They beat the Patriots, which is all a Colts fan really wants this year — “No Patriots Championships.”

Well, this was my plan. And I failed at it miserably.

You see, as a die-hard Colts fan I don’t just know Peyton. Actually, until he was injured, I marveled at Manning, but I didn’t think about him very much. I was more worried about the offensive line and Pierre Garcon’s hands and defensive tackles and other issues. Peyton Manning for the Colts was the given in any discussion about the Colts.

While watching Sunday night as Dwight Freeney pushed the Steelers’ left-tackle around and as Pat Angerer tackled everyone in the state of Pennsylvania and as Joe Addai hopped and pushed his way for five and six yards a carry and as Curtis Painter went from terrible to good to terrible, I realized that one cannot simply just be a “sports atheist” as Chuck Klosterman claims is possible.

Being a sports fan is about rooting for something and being happy when it succeeds and sad when it doesn’t. What Klosterman claims to do is really being a “sports whore” because it’s all of the rooting and none of the commitment, and at some point it would seem like there would be a player or a collection of players that you would want to root for and stick with even through failure and have a small family of memories but the fan base wouldn’t want you because you were tainted with your sports whoredom. If you are wondering, not only does that explain all the hipster Red Sox fans circa 2005 but also works as an analogy much, much better than I thought when I started typing.

Anyway, I am going to stick with the Colts’ players because I am a fan and a fan is what I am. When Manning retires, I will face the specter of finding a new team or player that I could love. But until that day comes, I am going to ride out this season and know more about the Colts’ roster than I should.

Because the secret to being a fan is this: When it comes down to it, winning means just as much as losing.

— Gregory Bearringer is a graduate student in medieval studies. He can be reached at gbearrin@utk.edu.

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Many of the debates that occur today cut across many borders, ethnicities and languages. When an event affects Europe or Asia, there is a good chance that the American media will broadcast the information morning, noon or night, or maybe all three if it is a really big deal. If they do broadcast it morning, noon and night, usually the event is pretty significant and whatever happened all the way on the other side of the world is going to affect the American people in some way.

One of the major topics that global politics likes to focus on is global warming. Now, see, I know that when some of my readers read that word, they cringed. The mere thought of something they believe to be founded on illogical science and cockand-bull data is simply repulsive. But, hear me out.

Throughout my time at the university, I have had a couple of classes on energy in the modern world.

One dealt primarily with the specific topic of energy in the modern world, and the other two were just globalization classes that also had aspects of analyzing the current use of energy in today’s world.

Energy and global warming are two topics that are vastly different, but inevitably connected. Often, in media and politics, people find a way to separate the two. If an energy crisis is occurring, there is no information provided describing the means with which we get energy or how it is harmful; it is just simply that, an energy crisis that must be solved as quickly as possible. I refrained from using the word “effectively” in that sentence for a very precise reason, though. While many of the solutions provided do come after lengthy research, the effects that occur afterward are rarely cataloged.

For example, many people feel good about themselves after they buy a new Prius because they are doing their part to save the planet, reduce gas consumption and decrease the amount of pollution their car gives off. There is, however, a problem with this feeling of “bettering the planet.” When

gas mileage increases, people feel the need to drive that car more often. When the car is driven even two times as much as the other, less efficient car, the whole idea of saving the planet is lost.

Compare this to the task of recycling. Recycling is good. I feel like most people could agree on this.

I try to do my part when on campus to never throw my Coke Zero can in the trash, but walk a little bit further to find a recycling bin. Even as I attempt to do my part though, there remains a problem with trash. Land fills are being filled at a precarious rate.

Trash is being shipped around the world to find a home in a third world country that receives money to accept the trash. The reality about recycling is that it remains ineffective as a solution when consumption continues to rise. Furthermore, it remains a problem when the actual act of recycling the product consumes more energy and resources than actually throwing the item away in the regular trash.

Global energy usage and global warming are sticky topics that are rarely covered in the news.

Even as the problems span world wide, only BandAid solutions are being developed to combat the effects of both. Band-Aid solutions like the Prius and recycling provide a means with which these problems are individualized. Many times, these fixes serve as a means for an individual to take responsibility for an issue that spans the past 60 years and the whole globe.

It is really hard to not become cynical after three years of information about these topics. It still irks me when people scoff at the idea of global warming or an energy crisis. We are coming to a point in our history as a species where the effects of our excessive lifestyles are ruining the biosphere and are perilously dangerous to ruining our own existence.

At a time like this, education and group organization are key. While recycling and owning a Prius are ways to individually do one’s part, it is time that humanity as a whole helps to reverse the degradation. The furthering of individualization in trivial matters is one thing. It is when an entire people allows the individualization of a global problem that the problem remains unfixed.

— Brittany Vasquez is a senior in anthropology.

She can be reached at bvasque1@utk.edu.

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Concert delivers music with European edge Brian Conlon Staff Writer The fall of the Iron Curtain led to many things: a reunited Germany, the end of the Cold War, democratization and economic liberalization of Eastern Europe. But the removal of this division between East and West, communism and capitalism also reopened the possibility for cultural exchange, providing the Western world with an influx of seemingly new art forms, which had previously been restricted by oppressive governments. This is not to say that Eastern European influences never touched Western music before 1989, rather that Knoxville, Tenn. would not have gotten the chance to simultaneously host three bands who incorporate that region into their sound.

Dark Dark Dark, a band whose name is one part self-parody, one part T.S. Eliot and another part open-ended, embraces the music from behind the former Iron Curtain.

“American folk is really great, but Eastern European folk is a whole other world of sexy and dramatic scales with that sort of different passion that is fun to explore,” Dark Dark Dark founder Marshall LaCount said about the band’s choice of using these styles.

Indeed, the band amalgamates this influence with a number of

These and other of the more uncommon instruments are also involved with the Dark Dark Dark’s touring mates. A Hawk and a Hacksaw has been creating similar although more upbeat and fastpaced songs with such instruments for almost 10 years. With accordionist Jeremy Barnes (former drummer of Neutral Milk Hotel) and violinist Heather Trost, the two founding members perform raucous and often unexpectedly diverse Balkan-inspired sets to their audiences.

One member of such a crowd was junior in journalism and electronic media Thomas McNair.

“I went to see Wilco, who are about as American as a band can get,” McNair said.

“When A Hawk and a Hacksaw opened for them, I was completely shocked. Pleased, but shocked.”

Although A Hawk and a Hacksaw is on one side of the energy spectrum and Pillars and Tongues is on the other, both bands join Dark Dark Dark in completing this well-devised lineup.

Pillars and Tongues, though not particularly as strong in Eastern European influence as the others, finds its connection through Mark Trecka’s deep crooning voice, which is often played against a minimalist and well-orchestrated drone of gothic trance. Indeed, the Chicago band’s music is perhaps darker than, yet just as beautiful as, that of Dark Dark Dark.

• Photo courtesy of blitzgigs.de A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Dark Dark Dark and Pillars and Tongues will perform at the Pilot Light inet becomes obvious upon listening. They create a far more inter- in Knoxville’s Old City on Thursday, Oct. 6 at 10 p.m. Admission is 18+ and $10. esting and innovative sound than the typical guitar-driven band. others, including New Orleans jazz and Americana. Altogether, the music forms an impressively gloomy yet exciting blend as Nona Marie Invie’s voice takes the forefront against a background of a diverse array of instruments. LaCount’s reasoning behind deciding to shelve the guitar and utilize the accordion, banjo, cello and clar-

Williams faces backlash for comment

Terminal raises prices, expectations The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento International Airport is scheduled to open a $1 billion terminal Thursday, replacing a structure that is four decades old with a building that is designed to be a striking entrance to California’s capital region.

The $6 million in public art includes a distinctive centerpiece that is certain to generate attention, a suspended-in-air, 56-footlong aluminum red hare leaping into a suitcase that dominates the glass-and-steel entryway.

“People will remember this airport,” said construction worker Monique Hawn.

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The new terminal, elevated people mover and concourse are designed to expand the airport’s capacity to 16 million passengers a year, a surge that had been expected in about a decade, county Airports Director G. Hardy Acree said.

Those expectations have been downsized with the recession. The economy contracted just before groundbreaking in 2008, and the annual passenger count fell by nearly 2 mil-

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The airport, the fifth busiest in California and 39th busiest in the nation, expects to return to its 2008 passenger peak in five years. Officials said it will not hit its expected capacity until sometime late in the next decade.

Passengers and airlines will pay for the new terminal’s construction costs over time.

BRISTOL, Conn. — ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.’s classic intro song from its broadcast of Monday night’s NFL game after the country singer famous for the line “Are you ready for some football?” used an analogy to Adolf Hitler in discussing President Barack Obama.

In an interview Monday morning on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” Williams said of Obama’s outing on the links with House Speaker John Boehner: “It’d be like Hitler playing golf

with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu.”

Asked to clarify, Williams said: “They’re the enemy,” adding that by “they” he meant Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

“While Hank Williams Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he is closely linked to our company through the open to ‘Monday Night Football,’” ESPN said in a statement. “We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight’s telecast.”

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NBA lockout creates doubt for season’s start The Associated Press NEW YORK — Commissioner David Stern floated it as an idea more than a firm proposal: a 50-50 revenue split.

Even so, the union’s reply was unequivocal.

“They said, ‘We can’t do it.’” according to Stern.

And with that, the remainder of the preseason was lost and the first two weeks of the regular season moved to the brink of cancellation.

The NBA shelved the rest of its exhibition schedule Tuesday and will wipe out the first two weeks of the regular season if there is no labor agreement by Monday.

“We were not able to make the progress that we hoped we could make and we were not able to continue the negotiations,” Stern said after nearly four hours of talks between owners and players ended without gaining ground on a new deal.

No further meetings are scheduled, making it even more likely the league will lose games to a work stoppage for the first time since 1998-99, when the season was reduced to 50 games.

Stern and Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said owners offered players a 50-50 split of basketball-related income. That’s below the 57 percent that players were guaranteed under the previous collective bargaining agreement, but more than the 47 percent union officials said was formally proposed to them.

The only numbers that matter now, however, are the millions that stand to be lost when arenas go dark.

“The damage will be enormous,” Silver said.

Players had offered to reduce their BRI guarantee to 53 percent, which they said would have given owners back more than $1 billion over six years. They say they won’t cut it further, at least for now.

And they insist the 50-50 concept wasn’t an even split, because it would have come after the league had already deducted $350 million off the top.

“Today was not the day for us to get this done,” players’ association president Derek Fisher said. “We were not able to get close enough to close the gap.”

With superstars like Kobe Bryant, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett standing behind him, union executive director Billy Hunter said the players’ proposal would have made up at least $200 million per season — a sizable chunk of the $300 million owners said they lost last season.

“Our guys have indicated a willingness to lose games,” Hunter said.

The sides are also still divided on the salary-cap structure.

Training camps were postponed and 43 preseason games scheduled for Oct. 9-15 were canceled on Sept. 24.

Both sides said they felt pressure to work toward a deal with deadlines looming before more cancellations would be necessary.

Stern said the owners had removed their demand for a hard salary cap, were no longer insisting on salary rollbacks, and would have given players the right to opt out of a 10-year agreement after seven years. But the money split was always going to be the biggest hurdle in these negotiations, with owners insistent on the ability to turn a profit after the league said 22 of its 30 teams lost money last season.

“We want to and have been willing to negotiate, but we find ourselves at a point today where we in some ways anticipated or expected to be, faced with a lockout that may jeopardize portions if not all of our season,” Fisher said.

After hardly budging off their original proposal for 1

1/2 years, owners finally increased their offer to players from 46 to 47 percent of BRI. It was then that the top negotiators discussed the 50-50 concept, and while Stern sounded disappointed that it didn’t work, Silver was more frustrated.

“I am not going to get a good night sleep,” he said.

“After this afternoon’s session, I would say I’m personally very disappointed. I thought that we should have continued negotiating today and I thought that there was potentially common ground on a 50-50 deal. I think it makes sense, it sounds like a partnership. There still would have been a lot of negotiating to do on the system elements, but I’m personally very disappointed.”

On what both sides stressed was an important day, the owners’ entire 11-man labor relations committee came to New York to meet with 11 players. They could still work something out before Monday’s deadline, but neither side sounded optimistic.

“Right now, we had our committees, we gave it a really good run, and it didn’t work,” Stern said.

Hunter said the union would hold regional meetings with its players, set up workout centers and help in other ways. And many players — including Bryant, who has been in talks with an Italian team — will have to decide if they want to explore playing overseas.

And without a deal, the battle could go to the courts.

Hunter said the union would have to consider decertification, and on Tuesday a federal court judge scheduled a hearing for Nov. 2 to hear arguments in the league’s lawsuit against the players seeking a declaration that the lockout doesn’t violate antitrust laws.

All things both sides hoped to avoid Tuesday.

“It wasn’t to be, and we don’t have any plans right now,” Stern said.

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The starting players on the Lady Vols soccer team stand at attention for the playing of the national anthem before a match against Coastal Carolina on Friday, Sept.

16. The Lady Vols return home, after a road win against Arkansas in Fayetteville, to face Ole Miss on Friday at 7:00 p.m.

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • 7

NBA lockout creates doubt for season’s start The Associated Press NEW YORK — Commissioner David Stern floated it as an idea more than a firm proposal: a 50-50 revenue split.

Even so, the union’s reply was unequivocal.

“They said, ‘We can’t do it.’” according to Stern.

And with that, the remainder of the preseason was lost and the first two weeks of the regular season moved to the brink of cancellation.

The NBA shelved the rest of its exhibition schedule Tuesday and will wipe out the first two weeks of the regular season if there is no labor agreement by Monday.

“We were not able to make the progress that we hoped we could make and we were not able to continue the negotiations,” Stern said after nearly four hours of talks between owners and players ended without gaining ground on a new deal.

No further meetings are scheduled, making it even more likely the league will lose games to a work stoppage for the first time since 1998-99, when the season was reduced to 50 games.

Stern and Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said owners offered players a 50-50 split of basketball-related income. That’s below the 57 percent that players were guaranteed under the previous collective bargaining agreement, but more than the 47 percent union officials said was formally proposed to them.

The only numbers that matter now, however, are the millions that stand to be lost when arenas go dark.

“The damage will be enormous,” Silver said.

Players had offered to reduce their BRI guarantee to 53 percent, which they said would have given owners back more than $1 billion over six years. They say they won’t cut it further, at least for now.

And they insist the 50-50 concept wasn’t an even split, because it would have come after the league had already deducted $350 million off the top.

“Today was not the day for us to get this done,” players’ association president Derek Fisher said. “We were not able to get close enough to close the gap.”

With superstars like Kobe Bryant, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett standing behind him, union executive director Billy Hunter said the players’ proposal would have made up at least $200 million per season — a sizable chunk of the $300 million owners said they lost last season.

“Our guys have indicated a willingness to lose games,” Hunter said.

The sides are also still divided on the salary-cap structure.

Training camps were postponed and 43 preseason games scheduled for Oct. 9-15 were canceled on Sept. 24.

Both sides said they felt pressure to work toward a deal with deadlines looming before more cancellations would be necessary.

Stern said the owners had removed their demand for a hard salary cap, were no longer insisting on salary rollbacks, and would have given players the right to opt out of a 10-year agreement after seven years. But the money split was always going to be the biggest hurdle in these negotiations, with owners insistent on the ability to turn a profit after the league said 22 of its 30 teams lost money last season.

“We want to and have been willing to negotiate, but we find ourselves at a point today where we in some ways anticipated or expected to be, faced with a lockout that may jeopardize portions if not all of our season,” Fisher said.

After hardly budging off their original proposal for 1

1/2 years, owners finally increased their offer to players from 46 to 47 percent of BRI. It was then that the top negotiators discussed the 50-50 concept, and while Stern sounded disappointed that it didn’t work, Silver was more frustrated.

“I am not going to get a good night sleep,” he said.

“After this afternoon’s session, I would say I’m personally very disappointed. I thought that we should have continued negotiating today and I thought that there was potentially common ground on a 50-50 deal. I think it makes sense, it sounds like a partnership. There still would have been a lot of negotiating to do on the system elements, but I’m personally very disappointed.”

On what both sides stressed was an important day, the owners’ entire 11-man labor relations committee came to New York to meet with 11 players. They could still work something out before Monday’s deadline, but neither side sounded optimistic.

“Right now, we had our committees, we gave it a really good run, and it didn’t work,” Stern said.

Hunter said the union would hold regional meetings with its players, set up workout centers and help in other ways. And many players — including Bryant, who has been in talks with an Italian team — will have to decide if they want to explore playing overseas.

And without a deal, the battle could go to the courts.

Hunter said the union would have to consider decertification, and on Tuesday a federal court judge scheduled a hearing for Nov. 2 to hear arguments in the league’s lawsuit against the players seeking a declaration that the lockout doesn’t violate antitrust laws.

All things both sides hoped to avoid Tuesday.

“It wasn’t to be, and we don’t have any plans right now,” Stern said.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

The starting players on the Lady Vols soccer team stand at attention for the playing of the national anthem before a match against Coastal Carolina on Friday, Sept.

16. The Lady Vols return home, after a road win against Arkansas in Fayetteville, to face Ole Miss on Friday at 7:00 p.m.

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8 • The Daily Beacon

Softball releases tough schedule Staff Reports Coming off the program’s eighth consecutive bid to NCAA Regionals and its ninth straight 40-plus win campaign, the latest version of the Tennessee Lady Vol softball squad and 11th-year co-head coaches Ralph and Karen Weekly begin preparations for a new season with the release of a daunting 2012 spring schedule.

During the challenging slate, Tennessee will face four of the eight participants in last year’s Women’s College World Series (defending national champion Arizona State, Alabama, Florida and California), six ‘11 NCAA Super Regional squads and 16 teams that received berths into last year’s NCAA Field of 64.

Eight of those programs finished the season rated in the final 2011 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Top 25 and five of them in the top 10. In all, UT will play nine games against last year’s final top 10 and at least 27 match-ups against squads that participated in the 2011 NCAA Tournament.

“I think this is the most challenging schedule we’ve had during our time at Tennessee,” Lady Vol Co-Head Coach Ralph Weekly said. “We open the season in Tempe, Ariz., at the Kajikawa Classic against five tournament teams, including the defending national champion Arizona State and WCWS participant California, and a tough UCSB team that we beat 2-0 last February. We go from there to Austin, Texas, to potentially play Texas twice and then to Clearwater, Fla., for the NFCA Leadoff Classic where more NCAA teams await. We’ve learned through the years from Lady Vol basketball coach Pat Summitt that to be the best, you have to play the best. Our final goal is always to prepare to be our best come time for the postseason.”

This year’s Big Orange softball squad returns 15 letterwinners, including seven that started at least 31 games in 2011, and also welcomes back all 49 pitching victories from the circle. UT bolsters that impressive depth with the addition of a sterling class of four high-profile newcomers.

In all, the Lady Vols return 74 percent of the total hits, 78 percent of the runs, 67 percent of the doubles, 75 percent of the triples, 68 percent of the home runs, 74 percent of the RBIs and 83 percent of the stolen bases from NCAA Division I’s top offense by batting average (.348) in 2011.

Highlighting the Lady Vol freshman class that was rated No. 2 in the nation for 2011 by ESPN RISE are Cheyanne Tarango (P/IF, Anaheim Hills, Calif.), Hannah Akamine (C/IF, Escondido, Calif.,), Haley Fagan (P/IF, Cornersville, Tenn.) and recent roster addition Hannah Trainer (IF, Brentwood, Tenn.).

As always, the early season tournament slate will see Tennessee travel coast-to-coast during February, before again hosting an early-March event at Sherri Parker Lee

Thursday, October 6, 2011

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Softball Stadium.

The Big Orange’s campaign kicks-off at the high profile Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz. During its stay over Feb. 9-12, UT is scheduled to face a daunting slate of six opponents, including the defending national champions and host school, Arizona State, 2011 WCWS participant California, 2011 NCAA Tournament teams Texas Tech, San Diego State and Western Michigan and a tough UCSB squad that played the Lady Vols close during a 2-0 defeat last February 24 at the Cathedral City Classic.

From there it’s off to Austin, Texas, for the Time Warner Invitational (Feb. 17-19) where Tennessee will play Illinois, Pittsburgh and home-standing Texas before starting seeded bracket play.

UT wraps up its early season travels with a return to the annual NFCA Leadoff Classic for the first time since 2008 at a new location in Clearwater, Fla. During its stay in “The Sunshine State,” the Big Orange will battle NCAA squads Georgia Tech and Illinois State as well as Winthrop, Hofstra and Massachusetts.

With the road trips out of the way it’s finally back to Knoxville to christen the home schedule on Feb. 29, with a doubleheader against Georgia Southern before hosting the annual Tennessee Classic for the fifth straight season.

During the home tournament at Lee Softball Stadium, UT will bring in NCAA Tournament teams Memphis and Louisville in addition to facing ETSU, Middle Tennessee, Murray State and for the second straight year, the Dutch National Team.

The rugged SEC slate finally gets underway over March 9-11 in Knoxville as 2011 WCWS National Finalist Florida comes to town for a three-game series.

Other league series to be contested at Lee Stadium in 2012 include Kentucky (March 30-April 1, three games), Georgia (April 4, doubleheader), LSU (April 13-15, three games) and Ole Miss (April 27-29, three games).

The Orange & White road schedule in conference action includes visits to Arkansas (March 16-18, three games), 2011 WCWS participant Alabama (March 21, doubleheader), Mississippi State (March 23-25, three games), Auburn (April 6-8, three games) and South Carolina (April 20-22, three games).

Two non-conference mid-week match-ups are on the docket during SEC play with Radford and Memphis visiting Knoxville on April 10 and April 17, respectively.

Once the regular-season concludes, the annual SEC Tournament will be contested over May 10-12 at a site still to be determined.

The NCAA Tournament schedule opens at campus sites over May 17-20 with NCAA Regionals and follows with the best-of-three NCAA Super Regionals from May 24-27. The annual Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, Okla., will be played from May 31-June 6 at the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.

Rogers plays down Georgia game The Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Da’Rick Rogers has gotten plenty of text messages and tweets from people taunting him about Tennessee’s meeting with Georgia. He swears he’s not letting them get to him, though.

The Calhoun, Ga., native had first committed to play for the Bulldogs but ended up signing with the Volunteers in February 2010 after Derek Dooley was hired as their coach.

“It’s just another SEC matchup. It’s just another game for us, another big game.

I just take the approach of any other game because plays have to be made and games have to be won — that’s how we’re going to treat it,” Rogers said.

“I’ve just got to keep it together, stay humble and get ready to play Saturday.”

The sophomore wide receiver said he’s excited for Tennessee (3-1, 0-1 Southeastern Conference) to face Georgia on Saturday, but it’s not because he wants to show the Bulldogs (3-2, 2-1) what they’re missing out by not having him as a teammate.

Instead he’s glad to get a chance to contribute after having just one catch for a loss of 3 yards in Tennessee’s 41-14 loss to Georgia last season.

“It leaves a sour taste in your mouth,” Rogers said.

“You work a lot harder to fix what you did wrong last year.

That’s all I’ve been doing — working hard so I can make the plays for my team that I didn’t make last year.”

Things have changed quite a bit since then. Three of the top four Vols receivers from last year’s Georgia game have graduated, and the incredibly accurate Tyler Bray has taken over at quarterback.

Rogers is now Bray’s top target and is coming off a

career game against Buffalo, a 180-yard, two-touchdown performance. He ranks second in the SEC with 442 yards receiving and 27 catches — which surpasses his statistics from last season — and his six touchdowns rank third in the nation and lead the conference.

Bulldogs coach Mark Richt saw that potential when he recruited Rogers.

“I think wherever Da’Rick decided to go play football he’d be playing, no doubt about that,” he said. “We think he’s a good player. We wanted him, we recruited him, we thought we had him for a while, then it changed. It happens in recruiting. It doesn’t happen a lot with us historically, but there were some things that made him feel like Tennessee was the best place for him, so that’s where he is and now we have to defend him.”

Though Bray has done a good job of throwing accurately to the receivers, Rogers has made plenty of impressive plays. Perhaps his most athletic move this season was a touchdown he caught against Cincinnati with one defender blocking his view, another defender wrapped around his waist and his helmet popping off in the process.

The 6-foot-3, 215-pound Rogers has expected to get that kind of focus from defenses more often since the Vols’ other talented receiver, Justin Hunter, tore his left ACL early in Tennessee’s Sept. 17 loss at Florida. It didn’t stop him from achieving his career high against the Bulls, though.

“I’ll be expecting maybe a double team or a safety over the top a little bit here and there, mixing it up, but we’ll see how it goes,” Rogers said.

Bray isn’t too worried about how the Bulldogs might treat Rogers. Even if they do give him problems, Bray said the rest of the offense will be there for him.