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Nu’Keese Richardson looks on as David Oku returns a kickoff against South Carolina in Saturday’s 31-13 win over the Gamecocks. on offense to take a two-touchdown lead.

“We went out there and played well and played well early,” linebacker Rico McCoy said. “That’s the most important thing.

We had the turnovers early in the game, which definitely energized the team.”

Vols quarterback Jonathan Crompton ran an efficient passing game completing 12-of-24 passes for 142 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. Senior tailback Montario Hardesty bounced back from a season-low 48 rushing yards against Alabama to tally 121 yards and two scores on the ground against the Gamecocks.

Though the Gamecocks outgained UT in total offense 365 yards to 341, Vols defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin’s defense kept South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier’s offense at bay throughout the night. Stephen Garcia’s 31-yard touchdown strike to Moe Brown in the third quarter was the first touchdown Tennessee’s defense allowed in 175 minutes of play, dating back to the Oct. 10 Auburn game.

Two field goals by the Gamecocks’ Spencer Lanning were South Carolina’s only other points of the contest.

“Our defense played unbelievable,” fullback Austin Johnson said, who tacked on the Vols’ first touchdown on a 38-yard reception from Crompton in the first quarter. “They’ve always given us the ball back and always given us more opportunities

to score. The game’s all about field position, and the defense always wins the field-position battle.”

Regardless of the scoreboard, the story of the night may have been Tennessee’s black jerseys. The Vols’ coaching staff denied rumors of black uniforms dating back to the offseason, and many players admitted the new-look jerseys gave the team and the fans a much-needed spark.

“It’s Halloween night; it was something different,” Johnson said. “It was really exciting to give us some motivation. It was cool to wear those tonight.”

UT athletic director Mike Hamilton said the surprise uniforms were a last-second decision.

“I was approached by two of the captains, Eric Berry and Montario Hardesty, on Wednesday to ask about doing this,” Hamilton said. “Didn’t know that we could pull it off because of the timing involved, but we had a local company that did and pulled it off in secret. We gave final approval to it (Friday) afternoon.”

Though Hamilton assured the black jerseys were a one-time event, Kiffin enjoyed the jolt the uniforms gave his team against the Gamecocks.

“It’s a players’ game, and our players had been begging for them for a while,” Kiffin said. “I think it gave us some energy. I think you saw that in the way they came out and played early.”

Week mixes school spirit, tradition

Former U.S. ambassador talks China’s future, impact on U.S.

Zac Ellis Assistant Sports Editor Tennessee welcomed South Carolina to town with a little trick and a little treat on Saturday night.

The treat was the Vols’ handling of the visiting Gamecocks at Neyland Stadium. The trick was Tennessee’s decision to wear Halloween costumes in front of the home crowd.

After emerging from the Neyland locker room donning surprise black jerseys, Tennessee used suffocating defense to fuel a quick start and take out South Carolina 31-13 on Halloween night.

UT head coach Lane Kiffin’s first victory at Tennessee over a ranked opponent came on the heels of controlled offense, as the Vols recorded zero turnovers to the Gamecocks’ four.

“The whole game was going to be about turnovers, and we talked about that at the start of the game when it started to rain,” Kiffin said. “So it was going to be about protecting the ball, and we pride ourselves on that.”

Tennessee (4-4, 2-3 SEC) shot out of the game energized on defense. The Vols’ Janzen Jackson forced a fumble from the Gamecocks (6-3, 3-3 SEC) at the 14:16 mark to give UT possession on the South Carolina 43-yard line. Four minutes into the game, Tennessee had used two fumble recoveries and six plays

Blair Kuykendall Staff Writer The university celebrates Homecoming this week with an array of activities leading up to the main event, the UT-Memphis game at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

This year’s theme is “Rock ‘n’ Roll the Tigers!” As UT takes on Memphis, there will be several different ways for students, faculty and alumni to come together and celebrate their UT ties.

“In recent years, the Homecoming theme has been in the same genre, due to the teams we have been scheduled to play,” said Caitlin Lindstrom, Homecoming 2009 co-director. “This year is exciting because we have been able to embrace a fresh theme.”

A parade, moving eastbound on Volunteer Boulevard and starting at the Rock, will usher in Homecoming’s main events on Friday. Bobby Osborne, who holds a special place in the hearts of UT affiliates for his role in the Osborne Brothers’ recording of “Rocky Top,” will direct the parade.

“The Homecoming Parade is one of our most exciting events because the floats are worked on for days and days by the organizations,” Lindstrom said.

“I am always thrilled to see the participants’ hard work pay off as the floats line up for the parade.”

Pre-parade events include “Anything

Goes,” a series of fun events and relays held on Fiji Island at Sunday. Also a basketball tournament will take place on Monday at 4 p.m. in HPER, as well as a soapbox derby on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in front of Stokely Athletic Center.

Competition will rage all week as student organizations of all types face off for the Madge Harrison Trophy. This coveted award will be presented to the organization in highest point standing at the end of the week. The award will be given during halftime of the game on Saturday.

“The main activities include banner competition, Smokey’s Howl and the Homecoming Parade,” Lindstrom said.

“Organizations submit painted banners to ACE (All Campus Events) early Friday morning. The banners are hung at Neyland Stadium for all football goers to see as they walk to the Homecoming game on Saturday.”

Smokey’s Howl will incorporate the various creative abilities of students

here on campus.

“Smokey’s Howl is a spirit-based competition that included cheers, chants, dancing and cheerleading moves judged by knowledgeable faculty and community members,” Lindstrom said.

Some new locations have been incorporated into the Homecoming festivities this year.

“We are so excited to have the pep rally and Smokey’s Howl Finals in Neyland Stadium this year immediately after the Homecoming Parade, from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. on Friday,” Kate Humphrey, interim program adviser of Student Activities, said. “Smokey’s Howl prelims will be in ThompsonBoling Arena on Tuesday from 7 to 10 p.m., but we are moving outside to arguably one of the most recognized places on campus for the finals.”

After the parade, the Pride of the Southland Marching Band will celebrate the 140-year duration of the program at the Knoxville Marriott, with a reception at 5:30 p.m.

Also on Friday, both the Homecoming Kickoff Show and the Knoxville Wine Down will occur at 7 p.m. The kickoff show is in the Knoxville Civic Auditorium and will feature a series of well-known comedians. The Knoxville Wine Down will be held at the SOBU Restaurant & Lounge.

Maria Lund Staff Writer Former U.S. Ambassador to China Clark Randt spoke at the Baker Center Friday about the future of China and its relationship with the United States.

Randt, who was the ambassador to China from 2001 to 2009, said China has more of an impact on the world than many people might think.

“China is on the rise; it will have an impact on everyone in this room, whether you’ve been there or not,” Randt said.

Randt said one of the biggest problems China is currently dealing with is its population size.

“China is, to tell the truth, consumed with the fact that they have 1.3 billion people,” he said.

“Any small problem they have, multiplied by 1.3 billion, is a big problem. They don’t want to have more people to govern.”

Randt also discussed the issue of China’s military, which has grown in the past several years.

“China is becoming more powerful,” he said. “They are seeing double-digit military growth. But they are not going to be a threat to us. Threat has two components: capacity and

intention. They have the capacity, and they are very technologically advanced with cyber warfare, and that can’t be dismissed,” he said. “But now that China is rich, they want a military that can protect their global and economic interests.”

China’s navy is one of the ways in which their military is growing, Randt said. Also aircraft carriers are one new addition that China will probably add to their arsenal.

“It’s not necessarily a bad thing,” he said. “It could be a source for good as well as bad, since China has been using their ships to help patrol the coast of Somalia for pirates,” he said.

Randt specified the economic changes that have come to China since his first visit there.

“My first visit to Beijing was in 1974,” he said. “The main streets there, you could’ve laid down in the middle of them: There were hardly any vehicles.

If I tried to practice my Chinese and go up to people on the street, their eyes would widen, and they would run from me, because that wasn’t their job.

They were in the middle of a cultural revolution.”

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• 5:15 p.m. until 7 p.m. — Undergraduate filmmakers in English 355 screen digital documentaries addressing the question, “What on earth?” and approaching environmental issues from local, national and international perspectives. Held in the Hodges Library Commons, the event is co-sponsored by the Rhetoric, Writing and Linguistics division of the Department of English and The Studio.

• 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. — The College of Social Work master’s program holds an information session about the program, career options, the admissions process and options for pursuing the degree. The event is held in the UT Visitors’ Center; a question-and-answer period follows the session with refreshments provided.

• 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. — Khalil Shikaki, founder and director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Social Research, speaks on “State Building in Palestine: New Leadership, Reconciliation with Hamas and the Future of Democracy” in the Baker Center Toyota Auditorium.

Wednesday, Nov. 4 — • 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. — The School of Art hosts its annual holiday pots and prints sale in the atrium of the Art and Architecture Building. Proceeds from the sale benefit the UT potters’ club, print club, visiting artists and scholarships in the School of Art.

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Students pose for polaroids with the Reese’s mascot outside of Reese Hall’s Haunted Asylum Friday night.

THE CRIME Saturday, Sept. 12 • 10:38 p.m. — Officer observed an unknown man on White Avenue in front of Strong Hall. He appeared to be intoxicated and was stumbling down the sidewalk. The officer attempted to make contact, but the man fled until he fell trying to negotiate a set of stairs. The officer pinned the man’s shoulders and arrested him on the spot.

Another member of UTPD arrived to assist the arresting officer. The detainee began verbally assaulting the officers and spat in one’s face. The arresting officer, after issuing several warnings, took the man down by way of an arm block to subdue him. He was placed in the patrol car and informed that he was arrested for assault, evading arrest, resisting arrest, public intoxication and criminal trespassing, the last stemming from a previous incident in 2004.

The photos on the front page, accompanying the story “Author speaks on moral decisions, free speech,” of the Oct. 29 issue of The Daily Beacon were misattributed. The photos were taken by Zach Reed, not Katie Hogin.

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While awaiting medical aid for abrasions sustained in his flight, the man remained hostile, banging his head on the dividing glass in the patrol car and attempting to kick out the rear windows with his feet.

After being warned to cease or be subdued, the man continued and was sprayed by the passenger officer in a “Z” pattern with pepper spray. He was finally treated and taken to the Knox County Intake Facility, where he began complaining of a foot injury. He revealed that, when incarcerated previously on Aug. 30, he had gotten into a fight and hurt his foot but was never treated. This was confirmed by an examination at the intake facility, and so the officer transported the detainee to UT Medical Center for further examination. A doctor confirmed the man had a sprained ankle and gave him supplies for home treatment. The man was then taken back to the intake facility and processed.

Also, in Oct. 29’s Beacon Bits, the contact e-mail for quiz bowl inquiries was said to be quizbowl@gmail.com. That was incorrect. The correct contact is utk.quizbowl@gmail.com.

The Daily Beacon regrets these errors.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY • 1983 — President Ronald Reagan signs a bill in the White House Rose Garden designating a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., to be observed on the third Monday of January. Martin Luther King Jr., was born in Atlanta in 1929, the son of a Baptist minister. He received a doctorate degree in theology and in 1955 organized the first major protest of the civil rights movement: the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Influenced by Mohandas Gandhi, he advocated nonviolent civil disobedience to racial segregation. The peaceful protests he led throughout the American South were often met with violence, but King and his followers persisted, and the movement gained momentum.

— Courtesy of History.com

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UT commemorates Agee’s anniversary Katharine Heriges Entertainment Editor Before Peyton Manning, the city of Knoxville had another favorite son.

He was many things: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, screenwriter, film critic and journalist. He was also a proud Southerner and a not-soproud alcoholic. He was writer James Agee, and this year marks the 100th anniversary of his birth.

To commemorate the occasion, the UT College of Arts and Sciences, the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound, the Knox County Public Library, the John C. Hodges Better English Fund and the HainesMorris Endowment have teamed to create the James Agee Centennial Celebration.

The event kicked off on Oct. 23 with the weekendlong James Agee Film Festival.

“One of the ways in which people get to know Agee is through his most public performances, and film is obviously one of them,” Michael Lofaro,

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professor of English and teacher of the English 482 class about Agee’s work, said. “Although, it’s not one of the ones that people know a lot about.”

Lofaro took part in organizing the Agee Celebration and has also edited a version of Agee’s autobiographical novel, “A Death in the Family,” based on Agee’s uncovered original manuscripts.

“He was a screenwriter,” Lofaro said. “That’s what he was moving towards in terms of his public career.”

Lofaro explained that there was a notable progression in Agee’s work towards film.

“If you start with ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’ (Agee’s 1941 novel) and his fascination with photography and Walker Evans, and then the next step he starts reviewing films after that’s published,” Lofaro said.

“He establishes the idea of film criticism as a literary art. And then moves to writing films.”

Part of the film festival involved a screening of “The Night of the Hunter,” the 1955 horror film that Agee wrote.

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Randt said the transition has grown exponentially since his first visit to the Far East.

“Today there is a Lamborghini dealership right around the corner from the Bentley dealership,” he said. “They have become one of the biggest consumers of luxury goods in the world. To say it’s come a long way is an understatement.”

Randt said the relationship between the U.S. and China is one of the most important in the world.

“It’s not surprising that we have differences,” he said. “We are dealing with different cultures, backgrounds and even values in areas such as human rights, religious freedom and the trade deficit. These are things we can manage, at least today, because we need to cooperate.”

Randt also emphasized the importance of intercultural relations with China and spoke about the number of Chinese students studying in the U.S. “In 1979, the U.S. gave 770 Chinese students visas to study in the U.S. Last year, it was over 77,000. We want to show that we understand and welcome Chinese students to the U.S.,” he said.

Howard Baker Jr., who travelled with Randt in Asia, said the Baker Center was fortunate to have Randt visit the university.

“Randt is my long-time friend and colleague, and he exposed me to many important things in that part of the world,” Baker said. “We are especially fortunate tonight to have him here.”

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Rising — Approval for non-traditional uniforms Wearing black jerseys in their Halloween matchup with South Carolina, the UT football team proved that it’s good to do something out of the ordinary every once in awhile. And, for the most part, UT fans agreed with the team’s choice to discard their traditional jerseys for one game in order to display their holiday spirit. According to a GoVolsXtra.com poll of over 5,000 respondents, 82 percent liked the black jerseys.

While the black jerseys were a nice seasonal touch, to wear special jerseys too often would take away from the mystique of this once-in-88 years appearance of black jerseys. (According to GoVolsXtra.com, the Vols wore black jerseys with white numbers in 1921.)

Rising — Explanations for Obama’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize In an Oct. 23 interview with the New York Times, Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, commented on the uproar over Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the committee’s reasoning for choosing him.

“Obama has reduced tensions in the world to a large extent — namely, the divide between the Muslim world and the Western world, which is very dangerous. What he did was to go to Cairo and reach out to the Muslims,” Jagland said. “There must be a starting point, and this was a very important starting point.”

Jagland’s rationale for giving Obama the award is largely theoretically based, as it seems to have been given to Obama on the basis of his outreach to formerly ignored countries and regions and the prospect of future peace-creating action.

Obama’s receipt of the prize, though, is not a backhanded rebuke of the Bush administration, as some suggested. Jagland said, “This prize is not against anybody.”

Falling — Obsession over vampires (we wish) With Halloween celebrations wrapping up, hopefully vampire lovers got their obsession out of their system for awhile. If we had it our way, we would exorcise this love of vampires completely, or at least the obsession over lame ones like those in “Twilight” and “True Blood.” The evolution of the vampire persona or more specifically its “Americaniz(ation),” as Tom Carson calls it in his Oct. 29 GQ pop culture blog, is to blame for their no-longer sinister portrayal.

“What’s done the most to transform the American variant, however, is the way vampires themselves — traditionally Hollywood’s favorite exaggeration of old-world cosmopolitans whose ways were not our ways — have gotten as Americanized as Arnold Schwarzenegger,” Carson wrote.

Speaking to American tendencies to mirror the entertainment industry’s ideals, Carson writes that “not coincidentally, they’ve also gone from representing our darkest fears to personifying attributes we envy.”

Perhaps devotees will realize the foolishness of these idealized monsters and this new nonviolent characterization will actually backfire as people pine for the traditional evil characterization of vampires as enemies. As vampires or vampire victims seemed to be the most common costumes at parties this weekend, it’s unlikely that this vampire-loving trend will end any time soon.

Especially with the premiere of the second “Twilight” movie on the horizon.

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Amber Harding I saw a man trying to give his young grandson a hug. The boy pulled away and crinkled his face.

“I can’t hug you,” he said. “That’s gay!”

I was appalled. I wondered, where is this kid learning this stuff? Who told him that hugging another man was automatically homosexual? Then, it hit me – we, as a society, teach boys this stuff all the time.

We glorify big, tough athletes. Boys grow up playing with G.I. Joe’s and run around like cowboys and Indians.

By themselves, there’s nothing wrong with sports.

There’s nothing wrong with army and Old West toys made for little boys. The problem arises, however, when they are never taught anything else.

Men don’t cry. Men don’t show emotion. Men should play sports and watch sports and stare at women. They should idolize football players who make lots of money and have lots of girlfriends. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this?

I recently read a book by Jeffrey Marx called “Season of Life.” It documents the 2001 season of a high school football team in Baltimore, Md. One of their assistant coaches is Joe Ehrmann, a former Pro Bowl defensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts.

In the late 1970s, in addition to playing football, Ehrmann liked to chase girls, drink and smoke pot. He even bought a mansion in Baltimore for the sole purpose of hosting team parties. When Ehrmann’s younger brother Billy, his best friend, died of cancer, however, all of his priorities changed. When his football career ended in 1985, Ehrmann became an ordained minister and founded an organization called Building Men for Others, which addresses societal challenges young men face. He carries out the message through his role as an assistant football coach at Gilman High School.

Ehrmann’s primary concern is that young men feel pressured to live up to a warped perception of what it means to be a man. He indicates three aspects of this false masculinity: athletic ability, sexual conquest and economic success. In this way, society defines men “from ball field to bedroom to billfold.”

Sports, sex and money make guys feel manly, but unless they place a higher value on love and connectivity,

they are left solitary and lonely. Ehrmann, therefore, provides two criteria for true masculinity: forming relationships and having a purpose bigger than oneself.

“Relationships always matter more than anything else; the content of a human being matters infinitely more than the wrapping.” This is the underlying message that the Gilman football team receives from its coaches. Ehrmann teaches them that they should measure their masculinity based on how successful they are as sons, brothers, friends and eventually as husbands and fathers.

The coaches at Gilman High School measure the greatness of an individual by the impact that he makes on others’ lives. In fact, Ehrmann calls empathy “the single greatest trait of humanity that separates us from other animals.” Therefore, he says, every man must decide whether he is a man built for himself or a man built for others. True masculinity entails breaking away from “me-me-me” thinking.

I wish that all high school coaches had the same philosophy as those at Gilman. These boys have a solid foundation from their teenage years as to what it means to be men. Unfortunately, however, we can’t expect all coaches to be like this.

Truthfully, I don’t know the solution to this problem.

“False masculinity,” as Ehrmann calls it, is so engrained in our society that it’s not easy to break free. We just have to make sure that we teach our own sons (or nephews and cousins) that they shouldn’t be afraid to make connections and build relationships with people. They don’t have to be emotionless robots.

No, I’m not a male, so I don’t fully understand the pressures that guys face to be masculine. I do, however, believe in being one’s own person. So many guys are afraid of looking “gay.” They can’t hug another man.

They can’t even show weakness. Who cares? If someone thinks that your showing emotion makes you “gay” (or even really cares for that matter), then they have issues of their own.

Being a great athlete or dating a beautiful woman does not, alone, make you a man. Play that game unselfishly with sportsmanship and to the best of your ability. Treat that woman with respect and love her for what’s on the inside as well.

From a female perspective, I see too many guys who hide behind fighting, chugging lots of beer and objectifying women. They think these things make them tough and manly.

My news for you: They don’t. Now go give someone a hug.

— Amber Harding is a junior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at ahardin8@utk.edu

Anti-abortion laws would prove unwise Unbo t tl ed Wa te r by

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The moral uncertainty of abortion arises from our inability to recognize that separateness in this world is fundamentally an illusion. Considering that all matter and energy on Earth is continually recycled through both life and inanimate substances, the view of objects and individuals as permanently distinct from one another is no more than a false, though often necessary, conception.

Because of this dilemma, our society is having trouble deciding when inanimate material becomes a life, and at which point this life should be given the rights of a human. What follows is my reluctant attempt to grapple with the uncertainty of the subject and yet somehow form a definite opinion.

To be coldly direct, I have decided to value the wellbeing of the mother over that of the fetus, even if it means terminating the fetus. I believe additional lives are not inherently a boon for our society. In fact, though I am strongly against abortion as birth control, surplus births could very well threaten extinction for an overpopulated species.

These are my moral verdicts. And this, it seems, is how all morality is decided — by the effect on society — unless you believe that morals come directly from God. But even then, please hear me out. As I was saying, morality is founded on evolutionary and social principles — what is best for society so that we can survive and prosper. When a new group enters a society, such as slaves into America, ethics have to be readjusted. The slaves succeeded in winning their rights only when American society started to see them as part of itself.

Fetuses are not and never will be part of society.

The reasons should be obvious, but since some have compared the denial of personhood for fetuses with genocidal rationale, I will explain my logic. Fetuses cannot demand their own rights, not because they don’t speak our language, are mute or are handicapped, but because they don’t want rights.

They have no will to live, meaning that they do not want to live or die. They don’t want anything. This is what separates them from all other historically oppressed groups and animals, and even babies who do have the desire to survive.

Since fetuses will never be part of society, we must place value first on the rights of the parents whose lives could be seriously impaired if the state forced them to carry the fetus through to birth.

But this argument has holes in it, obviously. At what point does a fetus develop a will to live and therefore the rights of a child? Do insects have a will to live? Should we kill them indiscriminately?

First of all, no one is saying we should kill fetuses indiscriminately. Abortion, I think, will always be discouraged by society unless necessary. But also, that’s the thing about morals. You make them up as you go along. Half of the country does not believe abortion is a crime, and to create a law claiming it is on par with murder, arming a police force to enforce this law and punishing those who don’t obey (seeing no moral obligation to) would be a serious mistake on our part. People would still have abortions, though at much greater risk to the mother, and the institutions of law enforcement would be working not for but against the people.

Again, one might argue that by the same token, separation of church and state is similarly tyrannical, but that is a case of minority protection. To say that anti-abortion laws are minority protection would be to compare a fetus to a developed adult with unpopular spiritual beliefs. It would also imply that fetuses are a minority — but we were all fetuses once, and so, in a way, we are all part of that category, reckoning with fetus rights based on our own experiences as a fetus, which, of course, we can’t remember because our brains could not create memories yet.

It may seem that I have consciously created a moral, but the morality was already there — I never could get myself to value a fetus’s life over the freedom of its parents. What I have done is to show that this moral is based on the same rationale as other morals, namely sentiments of obscure origin, but also what effect the issue has on society and the individuals who populate it.

This argument will obviously not satisfy those who believe abortion is strictly immoral. For them I offer my consolations (I know how it feels) and also some advice: If you change the morals of our society so that abortion becomes conflated with murder more or less unanimously, then legislation against abortion would be viable. Until then, abortion legislation would be an unwise use of the state’s power to enforce controversial ethics. To speak bluntly, I encourage the belief that it is God’s, not the state’s, task to enforce such morality.

— Amien Essif is a junior in English literature. He can be reached at aessif@utk.edu

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John Wranovics was the lecturer at this event.

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became interested in the connection between the two men when he came across a reference to Agee’s handwritten treatment of a film intended for Chaplin.

“It described the (iconic Chaplin character) Little Tramp as the sole survivor of an atomic attack on New York,” Wranovics said. “He felt the world needed to see this.”

Wranovics said that Agee was drawn to Chaplin, and to

film in general, from his early childhood.

“Agee lost his father when he was young, and one of the strongest memories of the time he spent with his dad and one of the things that they shared was enjoyment of Chaplin’s silent films,” Wranovics said.

The rest of the semester holds two more weekends in store for Agee fans and scholars.

“On the 14th and 15th of

lection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is coming down to give a presentation on Walker Evans’ collaboration with Agee on ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,’” he said.

Later in the afternoon on the 15th, “we move to the LMU Law School, or in Agee’s time, the deaf-anddumb asylum, and we’ll be talking about the connection between Agee and Lincoln,” Lofaro said. “Agee was a

November, we have another really interesting conjuncture of events,” Lofaro explained. “Dwight Garner, who was for 10 years the book review editor of the New York Times, is the authorized biographer of Agee. He’s coming down Saturday night and is going to give a talk at McClung Museum.”

“And then on Sunday, Jeff Rosenheim, who is the curator of the Walker Evans col-

great lover of Lincoln, as was Agee’s father. Not many people know it, but Agee wrote the first television miniseries of Lincoln.”

The last event, called “One Last Weekend with Jim,” takes place on Nov. 20 through Nov. 22 and will feature an Agee tribute concert, as well as a talk by Lofaro a part of the Pre-Game Faculty Showcase at the University Center before the the Vanderbilt game.

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Wednesday, Nov. 4 — Women’s Soccer Florida Orange Beach, Ala. 6 p.m.

Men’s Basketball Lincoln Memorial (Exhibition) Knoxville 7:30 p.m.

The Vols got a much-needed 31-13 victory over South Carolina Saturday. Here is a look at the numbers that made it happen.

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— Big middle finger to the “ Tennessee traditionalists.” For the first time since 1921, the Vols donned black jerseys. The record in the black jersey’s return is now 1-0, hardly the catastrophic event some of the “traditionalists” promised for such a blasphemous action. Not only did the Vols come out with a different level of intensity, but they also impressed recruits all over the nation — something vital for a program whose success hinges on the ability to be able to pull recruits out of rivals’ backyards. Those fans that want to whine about black jerseys can do what I tell them when they ask me to sit down during the game — for that you can just use your imagination.

Women’s Basketball Carson-Newman (Exhibition) Knoxville 7 p.m.

Women’s Tennis ITA Indoor Charlottesville, Va. All Day

Men’s Tennis ITA National Indoor Championships New Haven, Conn.

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Friday, Nov. 6 — Men’s Swimming South Carolina Knoxville 2 p.m.

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Hardesty rushed for 121 yards on just 23 carries and two touchdowns. That kind of production out of Hardesty not only makes life easier for quarterback Jonathan Crompton but also the Tennessee defense that stands rested and ready on the sideline while he chews up the clock.

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— First-half points for UT off three South Carolina turnovers. The Tennessee defense, led by hard-hitting freshman safety Janzen Jackson and linebacker Rico McCoy, essentially ended the game early by virtue of their turnovers. It is also noteworthy the efficiency the Vols’ offense displayed, capitalizing every time the Gamecocks put the ball on the ground. The three scores came on a pair of touchdown passes by Crompton and a ridiculous run

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The Vols’ top player has been absent as of late, but don’t assume that means he’s playing poorly. Each week, teams plan to keep Berry from beating them. If he lines up on the left, the opposition will go right. If he’s up in the box to stop the run, the defense will try to throw over him. They simply don’t want him getting Katie Hogin • The Daily Beacon his hands on the ball. Credit Head coach Lane Kiffin prepares to run through the Power T as the team dons the rest of the Vols’ defense their black and orange jerseys during Saturday’s game against South Carolina. for stepping up to the challenge. Spurrier felt like he could take advantage of Jackson’s inexperience, but The Vols have scored 93 points defense was all the way back in game. Even though South off 16 forced turnovers in eight the Auburn game on Oct. 3. Carolina won the battle of total Jackson had other ideas. He games, while surrendering 14 That includes games against yardage 365 to 341, the Vols had seven tackles, a forced turnovers of their own for a Georgia and second-ranked dominated the rushing game, fumble and a pass break-up in combined 33 points. Despite a Alabama. The middle line- holding South Carolina to 66 the game to go along with myriad of injuries, in particular backer led the way on defense net yards on the ground. numerous bone-jarring hits. at middle linebacker, the Vols’ with 10 tackles, two forced Montario Hardesty had one of Jackson has all the makings of defense continues to excel, fumbles and a pass deflection. the most special 15-yard runs I a standout at safety, and if forcing four turnovers in the McCoy continues to get better have seen out of a Tennessee team’s want to continue to game. Turnovers were the key each week he plays in Monte’s tailback since the departure of avoid Berry, Jackson is ready to victory Saturday, and the system. Some questioned the shifty Travis Stephens after and waiting.

Vols won that battle and subse- whether or not Kiffin’s coach- the 2001 season. In addition, quently the ballgame. ing system translated to the college game. Clearly they were mistaken. The Vols — min- entered the week ranked 10th utes Tennessee’s defense went in total defense and did nothwithout giving up a touch- ing on Saturday to hurt that down before Stephen Garcia ranking. ended the streak in the third quarter on a pass to Moe — Net rushing Brown. The last touchdown by an offense against the Vols’ yards for Tennessee in the

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