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Arrested Development Nu’Keese Richardson Brad Merritt Sports Editor

Erin Exum Staff Writer The Tennessee football team will most likely be without starting safety Janzen Jackson, as well as Nu’Keese Richardson and Mike Edwards when they travel to Ole Miss this weekend after the three were arrested early Thursday morning on felony charges of armed robbery.

Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin said he wouldn’t speculate on the matter until they had completed an internal investigation.

“We don’t know exactly what happened because we don’t have all the information, so we don’t know exactly what happened,” Kiffin said Thursday after practice. “Unfortunately,

Janzen Jackson there was an incident. We made it 11 months and 11 days without an incident, so we’ll deal with it as all the information comes in.”

The three freshmen have been charged with allegedly brandishing a pellet gun at the Pilot gas station on Cumberland Avenue Thursday morning around 2 a.m. Reportedly, Richardson approached the driver of a 1998 Hyundai with a pellet gun in an attempt to rob him.

Shortly thereafter, Edwards approached the passenger with the same demands. A female accomplice that drove the getaway car, a 2010 model Toyota Prius was also involved. A plastic bag containing a green, leafy substance believed to be marijuana was found in the car as well. Each player faces three counts of attempted armed robbery.

Three UT students team up to form service organization Blair Kuykendall Staff Writer UT students have developed a new initiative called Inspire, a service organization driven to make a positive impact on elementary schools in the Knoxville community.

The new community service group will be designed to connect students with opportunities to mentor elementary students primarily in full-service schools in the surrounding community.

Full-service schools, as authorized by Elementary and Secondary Education Act, are concerned with the complete development of students, caring for their physical and mental health as well as their intellectual growth. These schools include a wide range of extended service for students including medical and dental care, nutritional care and counseling. Training for parent involvement in education is also offered.

Sarah Owen, undeclared sophomore, Britta Johnson, sophomore in the College Scholars Program, and Katy Tanner, junior in mathematics, have laid the groundwork for Inspire. The student team was motivated to start this organization after an honors seminar led by Bob Kronick, professor in educational psychology and counseling, based on service learning.

The class required volunteering in full-service schools, and through their experiences in these schools, the students discovered how valuable mentors could be in the lives of these children.

“Dr. Kronick has been an advocate for full-service schools in Knoxville for many years,” Owen said.

“After volunteering in one of these schools for the semester, each of us saw the need these students and schools had for mentors and after-school programs.”

Kronick and Gavin Luter, Baker Center coordinator, will sponsor the organization, offering a new way for UT students to invest in their community.

“Inspire represents what we hope is a movement that encourages other students to be involved in their community in college,” Luter said.

That certainly appears to be the motivation behind this effort.

“We found out when talking with our friends that there were many UT students who would love the opportunity to work in elementary schools,” Owen said.

“We personally enjoyed our time working with these children and were able to see many of them improve behaviorally over the course of the semester.”

See INSPIRE on Page 3

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Kiffin said Richardson and Edwards remained in prison during Thursday practice.

“Janzen has been released,” Kiffin said.

“We’ll deal with the three situations coming up.

Until we have all the information, I can’t comment any further.”

Both Richardson and Jackson are coming off a week in which they faced discipline from Kiffin, for missing a practice and for a violation of team rules.

Practice report Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin said Wednesday’s practice had “great energy” as the Vols continue to prepare to face Ole Miss on Saturday.

“I thought there was great energy today, better than yesterday,” Kiffin said.

“Yesterday just

seemed to be OK. They came out today, and we challenged them.”

Senior offensive guard Vladimir Richard has dealt with ongoing injuries throughout the season but seemed confident in UT’s chance’s against the Rebels come Saturday.

“I feel like they haven’t seen an offensive line like us,” Richard said. “So we just have to go out there and play our physical style of play and come out here and have a great game. It’s going to be a great defensive line coming against a great offensive line, and we’re just going to get after them.”

Kiffin also acknowledged the improving health of the team, as injuries have plagued the Vols in the past, he stressed that most of the team looked ready for

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UT head coach Lane Kiffin speaks to the media Thursday at Haslam Field regarding the arrests of Nu’Keese Richardson, Janzen Jackson and Mike Edwards.

Saturday. Offensive guard Jacques McClendon was “slower” at practice but will play, Kiffin said.

“We’ve lost a few guys for the season, so when we

say we’re healthy, we’re healthy with the guys we have out there,” Kiffin said. “I’m glad the way the guys have stepped up and really played together.”

SGA meeting talks attendance bill Kyle Turner Staff Writer A bylaw change to promote greater representation through enforcing the attendance of SGA senators or representatives from their constituencies was at the top of the SGA senate’s docket during the latest senate meeting.

Volunteer Hall Senator Ross Rowland, sophomore in exercise science, introduced a bill proposing the change that senators will only be allowed to miss four sessions.

Senators unable to attend will be allowed to send proxy senators in their place to ensure their constituency is represented.

“We have been elected to fully represent the students, and it is our duty to make it to the meetings and serve as the voice for our constituents,” Rowland said of the bill.

In her president’s report, Laura Nishida updated senators on the Big Orange Tix basketball ticketing system.

Nishida expressed her goal of making the ticketing process more efficient and fair for all students.

Currently, many students reserve tickets for games and do not follow through with attending the game requested. Attendance is low with 42 percent being the highest percentage of reserved ticketholders attending

any one game during the 2009 men’s basketball preseason matchups.

“We want students who want to be there to have the opportunity to attend,” Nishida said.

Nishida said she hopes to find a more efficient way to request tickets and encourages students not able to attend to cancel their request for the benefit of students who decide they want to attend closer to game time.

She also discussed a new student survey that can be expected early next week. The survey will cover, Nishida said, issues such as “meal plans, HOPE (Scholarship), biggest problems on campus (and) academic improvement suggestions.”

One issue highlighted in the survey will assess current student e-mail accounts and the possibility of the university outsourcing its e-mail services.

SGA members have currently met with representatives from Microsoft Live and are weighing options between different servers, including Gmail.

“We don’t want to make a decision that isn’t respectful to the students,” Nishida said.

She said SGA wants to know the number of students who use alternative e-mail accounts, information the survey should help them obtain.

See SGA on Page 3

Author discusses weight-loss plan Ellen Larson Staff Writer The creator of one of America’s most successful weight-loss programs, Gerard Musante, will give a lecture titled “It’s not The Biggest Loser: Residential Weight Loss at Structure House” at UT on Friday.

“Most weight-loss programs focus on what foods to eat or not to eat,” Nishan Kalupahana, graduate assistant and Ph.D. candidate in nutritional sciences, said. “Dr. Musante’s focus is on behavior modification, which leads to making healthier choices.”

Kalupahana said Musante’s program focuses on the individual’s relationship with food so that one can transform unhealthy behaviors into alternate healthier activities. He said while the main requirement of food is

for nutrition purposes, people eat for various other reasons such as for comfort, relaxation and as a substitute for other activities.

“I just eat when I am hungry, and if I haven’t eaten three meals one day, I will still eat something small,” Amy Carlson, sophomore in journalism and electronic media, said.

Structure House, the name of Musante’s weight-loss program is a residential weight-loss program, which means clients have to physically stay at the center for a few days to learn the tools for weight loss and maintenance, Kalupahana said.

According to a press release from the UT Obesity Research Center, Structure House is an internationally respected weight-control program in Durham, N.C., which has helped more than 30,000 people change their atti-

tudes, perceptions and lifestyles with diet, exercise and education.

Kalupahana said Musante began the program after trying to lose weight with various programs while being overweight in his adolescent years.

“During his professional training as a clinical psychologist, he began to understand his relationship with food, which led him to change his lifestyle, leading to sustained weight loss,” Kalupahana said.

Carlson described what she thought of diets based on changes in how people view food.

“I think diets based on changing how people think work to an extent, but they take longer to get results,” Carlson said.

See MUSANTE on Page 3

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• 12 p.m. until 1 p.m. — Dr. James Killeffer, M.D., head of the neurosurgery department at the UT Medical Center, speaks on “Minimally Invasive Back Surgery” in Thompson-Boling Arena dining rooms C-D.The lecture is free and open to the public.

• 12 p.m. until 2 p.m. — The International House hosts a Turkish cooking class in the Great Room for $2 for students and $5 for others.

Saturday, Nov. 14 —

• 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. — Earth Fare in Bearden collects and disposes of unused and expired medications in a safe and environmentally friendly manner.

Residents are invited to bring unused prescription and over-thecounter medications to the store, located at 140 N. Forest Park Blvd. (just off Kingston Pike); by doing so, one can ensure his or her medicine will stay out of the water supply. Additionally, participants can exchange mercury thermometers for digital ones.

• 10 p.m. until 2 a.m. — The CPC Campus Entertainment Board and Film Committee host this semester’s Vol Night Long.The event will include games, activities, food and inflatables, as well as a midnight showing of “Adventureland” in the University Center.

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Sarita Atiles and Waldo Solano, both instructors at Salsa Knox Dance Company, perform during the International House’s Latin American Culture night on Wednesday.

THE CRIME

THIS DAY IN HISTORY • 1940 — Walt Disney’s “Fantasia” opens. The unusual animated film had no plot — it was an ambitious, artistic attempt to marry music and animation in a new way. The film’s many animated sequences ranged from Mickey Mouse in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” to dancing hippos in “The Dance of the Hours.” The film attracted interest from serious film fans, boosting Disney’s reputation.

• 1982 — Near the end of a weeklong national salute to Americans who served in the Vietnam War, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington after a march to its site by thousands of veterans of the conflict. The long-awaited memorial was a simple V-shaped black-granite wall inscribed with the names of the 57,939 Americans who died in the conflict, arranged in order of death, not rank, as was common in other memorials.

— Courtesy of History.com

Tuesday, Nov. 10 • 8:17 a.m. — An officer was dispatched to Ayres Hall renovation site to meet with a complainant.

The man, an employee of Engert Plumbing and Heating Inc., reported that sometime after 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 9 and 6:45 a.m. on Nov. 10, someone forcibly entered Ayres Hall by cutting a padlock on the east-side entrance of the ground floor.

Several large metal tool lockers situated throughout the area had been broken into by damaging their locks. Power tools had been stolen in the process, all of which belong to Engert. Other lockers showed signs of unsuccessful entry. Other tools were left randomly laying around the area, and some of the workers’ personal tools were

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missing, as well. At the time of the report, employees were compiling lists of the missing items as well as calculating their value, which is initially estimated at over $1,000. Also a representative of Johnson and Galyon reported an identical break-in on the same site.

• 1:47 p.m. — A student came to UTPD to report a theft. An officer was dispatched to the lobby to take the report. The victim said his silver-and-red framed 26-inch Mongoose XR100 full-suspension bicycle had been stolen from a bicycle rack outside of the HPER building. The bike had been secured with a lock, which was broken and removed during the theft. The theft occurred between 7 p.m. on Nov. 7 and 6 p.m. Nov. 9.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Ready for the World Cafe preps final menu of semester The Ready for the World Café is finishing fall semester the week of Nov. 16 with a menu that includes Hungarian, Filipino, Russian, French, Italian and Cuban dishes.

The menu is chicken paprikash, a Hungarian dish of chicken cooked with onions and paprika; traditional adobo, a Filipino dish of pork in vinegar and soy sauce; chickpea stroganoff, a vegetarian twist on a traditional Russian dish; tilapia meunier, a French dish of fish in a sauce made of butter, wine, lemon juice and parsley; tiella, a southern Italian vegetable pie; yuca con mojo, a Cuban dish of cassava root in garlic citrus sauce; and cranberry fruit coleslaw.

The cafe is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday in the UC Hermitage Room. The buffet cost $11 and a carry-out plate is $9.

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“After seeing the benefits both us and the children received, we decided to begin this organization so that any UT student could work in these schools so that no full-service school would be in want of volunteers,” Owen said.

The program is flexible for student volunteers.

“Volunteers with Inspire will work in one of four Knoxville elementary schools or a preschool for a minimum of one hour each week,” Owen said. “The student can choose what time and what he or she will be doing.”

Students will have a measure of discretion in the work they will do.

“We hope to start after-school programs in any of the schools that are interested, and volunteers will be able to decide what programs the children will be doing,” Owen said. “During school hours, volunteers will serve as mentors and tutors depending on the need.”

The new organization will serve as another important connection between UT students and the Knoxville community, allowing students to focus on addressing needs off campus, Owen said.

“We hope to educate, enrich, and inspire students in Knoxville’s full-service schools,” Owen said.

Finally a bill was recommended that would establish the HOPE Scholarship for summer classes.

Senators Jovica Djurdjevic and Angela Sessoms proposed the bill as a show of SGA’s support for extending the HOPE. Though the bill itself has no binding expression, it is a way for students to express their concern for graduating on time to the legislators in Nashville.

“We want students to graduate on time, being more comfortable with their financial obligations,” Sarah Patterson, senate chairwoman and senior in English, said.

Although the fight for a summer extension of the HOPE Scholarship still has a way to go, ultimately to be decided by the Tennessee legislature, many SGA senators who supported passage of the bill felt it was a step in the right direction.

She said she thinks people view food differently: Some view it as an escape from their problems, some take it for granted and some consider food as a prized possession.

Musante’s first-hand experience in weight loss, coupled with his training in clinical psychology, led him to help others lose weight.

Health Magazine considers the weight-loss program successful. The publication scored it as one of the top 10 healthiest diets in America.

“It is very difficult to objectively state the success of any weight-loss program because almost all weight-loss programs claim that they are successful,” Kalupahana said.

Musante also has a book on his weight-loss program titled “The Structure House Weight Loss Plan.”

After Musante received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1971 from UT, he studied obesity as a psychologist at Duke University Medical Center. He continues to serve as a consulting professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences for Duke University Medical Center and the Duke University School of Medicine.

Musante will speak in the UC Crest Room at 2 p.m. on Friday.

SGA hosts International Week The SGA Diversity Affairs Committee will be hosting International Week Nov.16-19. Each day a different culture will be represented by campus organizations.

A kick off on the Pedestrian Walkway from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Latin American Day. “Salsa Abajo de la Luna” salsa lessons will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Panhellenic building. A Henna Tattoo workshop, music and dinner will be from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, India Day. Wednesday will celebrate Africa, with dancing, storytelling, African art and food at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Panhellenic. India Day and Africa Day events cost $3.

The week will conclude with Asian Day on Thursday with games and a presentation of the history of Asia from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Black Cultural Center.

Students learn about leadership on retreat Almost 200 students from UT will travel to the Clyde Austin 4-H Camp in Greenville, Tenn., on Friday for the university’s annual Student Leadership Summit.

The two-day conference will help student leaders enhance their leadership skills through interactions with UT staff, faculty and other students. The Student Leadership Summit is open to student leaders who have been nominated by UT Knoxville faculty and staff.

The Summit focuses on training students to be responsible and contributing leaders by incorporating opportunities for team building and interaction with other student leaders, faculty and senior administrative staff.

One summit event is Friday evening's Open Forum, which allows students to communicate directly with the chancellor and his senior administrative staff. The summit's keynote speaker, Mark Emkes, CEO and president of Bridgestone Americas Holding Inc., will share his experiences and insights regarding leadership.

The retreat also includes discussions on campus sustainability, diversity issues on campus and organizational goal setting. Students will have the opportunity to meet with those in similar positions in other organizations to discuss goals and plans for the remainder of the year.

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Third-annual Masquerade Ball to benefit mentoring program Katie Freeman

News Editor Students will turn out in their formal wear and face masks to support Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee at the 3rd annual Masquerade Ball Saturday night.

The masquerade dance, which is sponsored by the Chancellor’s Honors Program, Honors Events Committee and Honors Council, has raised money to benefit local children for three years.

“When we started choosing charities, we decided we really wanted to do something with children in Knoxville, in our local community because our other big charity event is Aid for Africa,” Kyle Hargrove, cochair of the Honors Events Committee and senior in sport management, said.

Proceeds from the event, amounting to $2,500 each year, went to local schools in 2008 and to Toys for Tots in 2007.

“We’ll be discussing the organization (Big Brothers Big Sisters) at the event and encouraging people to get involved with them,” Karl Herrmann, also committee co-chair and senior in economics, said.

DJ Jason Lovely will spin music for the event, and restaurants have donated food for attendees.

“We’ve got a lot of food

donations from various local business — tacos, chicken, pizza, chips and subs,” Herrmann said.

“We’ve really had a great outpouring; we’ve really appreciated what our local businesses do to support us.”

With help from local businesses and the Honors Program, the events committee anticipates that most of the money earned from tickets sales and $1 masquerade mask sales at the dance will go toward Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Hargrove and Herrmann believe that the Masquerade Ball has already become a tradition and that it will continue to be a major fundraising event each fall.

“We definitely see it becoming a tradition,” Herrmann said. “It’s a great opportunity to get all students at UT aware of the Honors Program and get students to come together for a good cause.”

Tickets for the ball can be purchased at the event for $10 and on the Pedestrian Mall Friday.

Co-sponsoring organizations include Golden Key International Honour Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, the Gamma Sigma Sigma service sorority and Alpha Delta Pi.

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Alumnus shares law-school application tips Editor’s Note: Michael Lumley is a former Daily Beacon columnist and an alumnus of the University of Tennessee. He is currently a 1L at the Harvard Law School. This is the second of a three-part series providing advice and perspective on the law school application process.

Last week I argued that as far as law school goes, “getting in” was less important than what you’re getting into, but presumably some of you disagreed and, over my strenuous objections, plan on applying anyway. To that end, this week’s topic will be the increasingly competitive admissions process.

So, getting in — what matters? LSAT, GPA and everything else — in that order. And in terms of “everything else,” what I really mean is your personal statement, letters of recommendation and then not much else. You may have been co-vice treasurer of the intramural chess team, but no one really cares, other than your mom and the IRS. (Did you file form 1080(b)(4)(iv) pursuant to the non-profit purchase of chess pieces?) By all means, demonstrate that you’re “involved” on campus, but don’t mistake “involvement” for a critical element of your application.

The LSAT is a four-hour glorified IQ test which measures your critical-thinking skills and mental endurance. Some people opt to take expensive LSAT prep courses, and for many, those are helpful. I didn’t.

My own opinion is that they’re helpful only to the extent that they force you to study. If you’ve got the selfdiscipline to work on your own, you can probably save a healthy chunk of money and wind up with just as good a score.

So how do you prepare? The LSAT is half critical thinking and half mental endurance. First, work on the critical thinking. Take a full-length diagnostic test between three and six months before you plan to take the exam. Find out which parts of the LSAT you’re good at, and figure out where you need work. Buy a review book, and spend the next few months focusing on learning the test-taking methods for the particular section(s) you’re having difficulty with. Don’t spend too much time studying on any given day, focus on regular, consistent, medium- to short-length sessions.

Three to four weeks before the exam, it’s time to start focusing on endurance. Start taking regular fulllength practice exams. Start at two per week, push towards three or four as you get closer to the exam. The goal is not to “learn” how to take the exam (although some of that will still happen naturally) but to train for the LSAT like a runner trains for a marathon. With hard work, you’ll be in good mental “shape” by exam time.

The next critical element of any law school application is your GPA. This part is simple — get good grades.

Your professors can probably give you better advice on this than I can. GPA is somewhat less important than your LSAT score (because GPAs vary widely based on the school, while the LSAT is purely objective), but even a 180 on the LSAT won’t get you where you want to go if you’re dragging around a 2.5 GPA. Writing the personal statement can be hard — trust me, I understand. I can remember reading “sample” personal statements which seemed that they were all written by interesting people with compelling backgrounds. By contrast, I was a white, upper-middle class kid whose most interesting adventure involved a children’s petting zoo and a 8th birthday party gone horribly, horribly wrong. But the personal statement is not as much about who you are and what you’ve done as it is about the way you think and how well you write.

Just pick the most unique thing you’ve done this week (which, hopefully, doesn’t involve cocaine, assault weapons or strippers) and demonstrate what it reveals about the way you think. Edit and rewrite the same statement 15 to 20 times over the course of about three months, and you’ll have a very solid statement, no matter what the “thing” you wrote about was.

A word on letters of recommendation — it’s obviously great if they can add significantly to your application in some way, but the most important thing to consider here is avoiding a landmine. Rec letters are only tiebreakers, unless you get a “bad” one — for example, one that’s only two lines long or, even worse, one that recommends that the school reject you. Apparently, this is something that does happen, and you should avoid it at all costs.

Obviously, there’s more that can be said on each of these topics, which is why there are hundreds of fulllength books on the application process. Don’t hesitate to take advantage of them. There are also very good Web sites (top-law-schools.com, lawschooldiscussion.com, lawschoolnumbers.com) with communities of fellow applicants, current law students and graduates that are great sources of information. I’ll be back next week to discuss how to decide where to apply and (ultimately) where you should go.

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Household decisions cause wage gap ANNAr ch y Wo r d by

Anna Parker After writing the Oct. 23 op-ed, “Stay-at-home moms lack job security,” I received many letters from women informing me of my mistaken conclusion. One self-proclaimed mother of two UT students wrote that she willingly left her job in Washington D.C. to raise these same children, fully aware of the risk she was taking. Had her husband left her, she wrote, she may have had to move into a small apartment. But, “so what?” she asked. She would never regret quitting her job to raise her children. In conclusion, she stated that only God gives us security.

This woman obviously has a marriage in which her spouse makes enough money to support her, and this marriage has additionally remained stable since she left her job. She could just admit to such luck, but that would be too fair and too easy. I wanted to respond with my own letter (but did not) in which I (1) express that if her husband did ever leave her, I hope she would be so lucky as to even maintain a small apartment for the remainder of her life and (2) congratulate her on the good fortune that God has chosen to smile upon her among all the other women whom he has apparently abandoned.

But I do have to applaud the fact that she assumes responsibility for her risky decision to leave her job.

In an Obama campaign speech given on June 23, 2008, in Albuquerque, N.M., the now-president lamented the current gap between the wages men and women earn in the workplace.

“I want my daughters to grow up in an America where they have opportunities that are even greater than their mother had, or their grandmothers, or their great grandmothers — an America where our daughters truly have the same opportunities as our sons,” Obama said.

Obama certainly is not the first politician to ever bring up the wage gap, a statistic provided by the Department of Labor which states women

currently earn 77 cents to every dollar a man earns.

While I do not debate the statistic itself, it is a number whose origins are often misconstrued by politicians to achieve other ends. These politicians suggest that the wage gap results from continued discrimination against women in the workplace.

However, economist Carrie Lukas, author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex and Feminism,” wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post titled “A Bargain at 77 cents to a Dollar” in April 2007, suggesting that women, like my reader mentioned above, just make different decisions as individuals than men do. Women often choose to take on many of the child-rearing responsibilities even when both parents remain employed full-time. Mom takes a day off when her child is sick. Mom leaves work early to pick up her child from school. Mom stays up with baby and is less productive at work the next day. Over time, “Mom does this” and “Mom does that” adds up to “no promotion” and “no pay raise.” Why would a company promote a woman who juggles priorities when it has another male employee who has a wife to take care of that “other” part of his life? At the end of the day, what we have are individual decisions resulting in individual consequences.

Critics contend that what we really need is government daycare and a whole host of other services that allow women to function better as parents and employees. What they’re really suggesting (along with yet another social entitlement program that American taxpayers, cannot, cannot sustain), is that American society continue to let men off the hook from child-rearing and other domestic contributions such as cooking and cleaning. Excellent idea, Obama. Let’s make sure Sasha and Malia can continue the great American tradition of marrying men who believe their responsibilities end after they exit the office.

When American women decide to force spouses to share domestic responsibilities, or just decide as individuals (as many men have) that domestic responsibilities come second to a career, we will see a narrowing of the wage gap. Looking to the workplace for a shift toward gender equality is dead wrong. This change has to start in the home.

Next week I’ll address the issue of the wage gap and its special relationship to the single mother.

— Anna Parker is a senior in English literature.

She can be reached at aparke23@utk.edu.

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I am always most amused by the very Republican idea that the American people are too stupid to pick their own leaders. Very recently, a few Republican senators have proposed a Constitutional amendment that would restrict the amount of time that any individual could serve in Congress to two terms in the Senate and three in the House of Representatives.

For a party so intent on claiming to do things precisely as the Founding Fathers would have wanted, I’ve never understood this. When our nation was established, no federal elected office was restricted by any term limit whatsoever. Why then do the Republicans feel this to be a problem now?

Firstly, we need to call this issue what it is: Restricting the people’s right to vote. One of the most important aspects of our democracy is that the people have the right to pick their leaders, whatever that choice may be. By telling a person he is no longer able to vote for someone simply because of how long that individual has served in Congress or any other arbitrary standard that they make up along the way, the Republicans are effectively taking the small steps needed to intrude into our voting booths and meddle with our election process.

But some may suggest that there is good reason to limit the terms of those in Congress. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), for example, has made the point that real change cannot happen with career politicians in office because they are bogged down by special interests. Often these sort of jabs are taken at Democrats since our members of Congress seem to stay in office longer. I find it incredibly audacious that any Washington Republican would have the nerve to talk about impediments to change, since they themselves are the largest impediments to change. Or complaining that Democrats are bogged down by special interests, since this seems to be an addiction for the Republicans.

Notwithstanding, DeMint said what he said, and he couldn’t be more wrong. In our history, many of our most skilled public servants have been those who have stayed in office long enough to understand the ways of doing business and had the ability to circumvent the incredibly slow legislative procedure. Men like John Dingell, Sam Rayburn, Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden, Scoop Jackson and a handful of others’ careers were considered great in large

part because of the amount of time they spent in Washington, not despite it.

Even some Republicans understand this concept.

Despite all the lamenting of Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd, we never heard much about Strom Thurmond, the South Carolina Republican with a very abominable personal history, who stayed in office for nearly 50 years.

My thoughts are that if you support a 12-year term limit in the Senate, why don’t you just go away after 12 years? Then I did some investigation. Of the 40 Republicans currently in the Senate, 18 are serving in at least their third term. The proposed amendment would ban this. Even more ironic is the fact that a sponsor for this proposed farce is Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (RTexas), who is currently serving in her third term. Her excuse is that because she has always supported term limits, it’s OK, and it would do the people of Texas a disservice for her to leave. Give me a break! This is an old fashioned case of do as I say, not as I do. By now I’ve become used to that with these people. In addition to the sheer hypocrisy we see here, there are more practical implications for not limiting the amount of time an individual can serve in Congress.

As President Bill Clinton once pointed out, term limits would diminish the influence of lots of smaller states as well as increase the power of unelected staff members and lobbyists who know their ways around Washington a bit too well. If the Republicans want to get serious about making some changes in the way things are done on Capitol Hill, they would find support for campaign finance reform. They could mandate that incumbents take their reelections more seriously and have to appear in public and in open debates with their opponents, so that their opponents would have the ability to call them and their record on the carpet.

At the end of the day, this resurgence of the discussion of term limits is a joke. It is a typical right-wing red herring designed to get voters focused on “something else,” the way they did with gay marriage in 2004 and tried to do with everything under the sun in 2008.

Anything that would restrict the people’s choice at the ballot box in this country is wrong and should be done away with, and we should start by repealing the 22nd Amendment, a meaningless law that says that a president can only serve for eight years. I and others believe that if the people are not happy, they and they alone should be able to decide the fate of their representatives. After all, we already have the best system for term limits in this country; they’re called elections.

— Sam Smith IV is a junior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at ssmit162@utk.edu.

Friday, November 13, 2009

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to restore birthplace Rising local band challenges genre Officials of blues musician for tourism Jake Lane Staff Writer Local band Dixieghost has had a busy season.

Following a westward diaspora of their respective members, the band reformed a few months ago and have begun to make a reputation around town following appearances on WDVX’s Blue Plate Special and numerous live shows.

With its variety of instrumentation (electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, piano, banjo) and upbeat rhythms, the band easily draws comparisons to bluegrass and country. Indeed, their sound does owe a bit to those two genres, but it also hoists the polished-pop banner.

“It’s kind of subconscious,” guitarist Jason Hanna said. “We lived out west, which is the home of indie music, and we came

back here playing that kind of thing.”

Drummer-pianist Cory Mollenhour added, “We didn’t decide. There’s little pieces of each. We might have a bluegrass rhythm, but the song isn’t really bluegrass.”

The band’s sound and image has surprised everyone from audiences to disc jockeys. Mollenhour related one such experience, where a DJ realized that what you see isn’t exactly the packaged goods.

“We were doing an interview for our CD, and the DJ expected us to rock out,” Mollenhour said. “He told us we were too laid back! I don’t really know what that means.”

The band’s self-titled debut was recently released on South Knox Records.

Fans of the band know that the Dixieghost live show is always a bit different from

what’s on the album.

“The Blue Plate show was probably our best because you’re playing for a small live audience and a larger audience on the radio,” Mollenhour said.

“But because you have that live audience, you don’t think of the thousands of people that could be hearing you.”

“We’ve found that when you’re playing for five people, there’s no energy,” he added.

In addition to releasing the band’s EP, the band has made several benefit appearances. Dixieghost played the Food Not Bombs benefit on Sept. 4 at the Birdhouse and helped organize a fundraiser called Operation Cavalry Hat to benefit a deployed Marine unit.

“There’s a thing called a cavalry hat that troops can buy,” Hanna said. “But the

military won’t pay for it, and it’s expensive. Our friend’s brother is in the Marines, and we decide to buy him one, so we set up a stage out in North Hills and p l a y e d . ” Building on the momentum gained in past few months, the band has dates coming up throughout the remainder of November and into December.

This Saturday Dixieghost will play on the Virginia side of Bristol at Java J’s.

The band will return to WDVX on Nov. 21 for another performance, this time on the “All Over the Road” show, which broadcasts Saturday night from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m. The following night, the band will appear at Pilot Light, opening for Wild Mountain Nation.

Dixieghost will play on 90.3 The Rock’s “Locals Only” Dec. 1 at 8 p.m.

The Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — The mystery surrounding bluesman Robert Johnson’s life and death feeds the lingering fascination with his work.

There’s the myth he sold his soul to the devil to create his haunting guitar intonations. There’s the dispute over where he died after his alleged poisoning by a jealous man in 1938. Three different markers claim to be the site of his demise.

His birthplace, however, has been verified. The seminal bluesman came into the world in 1911 in a well-crafted home built by his stepfather in the Mississippi town of Hazlehurst.

Now, 71 years after his death, local officials want to restore the home in hopes of drawing Johnson fans and their tourism dollars to Copiah County, about 100 miles from the Delta region that most bluesmen called home.

Johnson’s life and music have been the subject of multiple books. And producers are shopping a script in Hollywood about him penned by Jimmy White, the screenwriter for the Academy Award-winning film, “Ray.” “It’s amazing that after all these years, people still talk about Robert Johnson on the level that they do,” said the bluesman’s grandson, Steven Johnson.

Johnson’s influence can be heard in the works of numerous artists, from Muddy Waters to Eric Clapton, who covered 14 of the bluesman’s songs on his 2004 album, “Me and Mr. Johnson.”

The house is an important piece of Johnson’s legacy, said Grammy-winning pianist George Winston, who will headline a fundraiser for the restoration Monday at the Belhaven College Center for the Arts in Jackson.

“Everything with Robert is mysterious, but the more we can demystify, we can get down to the truth,” Winston said. “He was an inspired musician. He took a quantum leap.” The story goes that Johnson didn’t play all that well at first, then left town for awhile. When he returned, his music had undergone a transformation.

“He came back, and everybody couldn’t believe how well he played,” Winston said.

That’s likely what gave rise to the soul-selling rumor, a transaction purportedly taking place at the crossroads of U.S. 61 and U.S. 49 in the Mississippi Delta.

Johnson’s birthplace was verified in a letter from his half-sister years ago, said Janet Schriver, executive director of the Copiah County Office of Cultural Affairs.

The 1,500-square foot home now owned by the county has fallen into disrepair, but it still bears evidence of craftsmanship. Johnson’s stepfather, Charles Dodds, was a furniture maker and a prosperous landowner. The house had a double-parlor, a long front porch and a pump that allowed water to flow into the kitchen, a modern convenience unheard in most homes occupied by blacks in the early 20th century, Schriver said.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Meade Armstrong, junior in child and family studies, plays the violin in the music hall Tuesday evening.

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Friday, November 13, 2009

Newcomers look to crack rotation Goins, Hall, McBee to add size, shooting to Pearl’s roster in the nation and the ninthranked forward in the 2009 class. Goins was named to the Atlanta JournalConstitution’s 2008 Georgia Class 5A All-State Team as a first-team selection. As a senior in high school, he averaged 21 points per game and 10 rebounds per game.

Hall said his excitement about playing in the upcoming season is off the charts.

“On a scale of 1-10,” Hall said, “I’m at a cool 15.”

got family and friends that can come watch you play,” McBee said.

The freshman guard decided to walk-on at Tennessee after turning down scholarship offers from teams like Eastern Carolina University, Marshall, Santa Clara and Winthrop.

“It was hard to turn down full scholarships,” McBee said. “But I love Tennessee basketball, and that overwhelmed everything else.”

McBee Goins McBee Goins joins the comes to Vols from the Vols by n e a r b y way of Grainger transfer from County – Mount San H i g h Kenny Hall, Ja c i n t o on his excitement for playing in the upcoming season School in College in Rutledge, California, Tenn. In “A lot more high tempo and where he was named the better players.” his senior season, the Foothill Conference MVP. Rutledge native averaged 24 The San Diego, Calif., native Hall points and eight rebounds per averaged 17.2 points per Hall is in his freshman year game, while shooting 39.4 game, 4.9 assists and 2.0 after coming to Tennessee percent from the three-point steals in junior college. He from Stone Mountain, Ga., as line and 82.5 percent from the was also 32.7 percent from a Rivals.com four-star recruit. free-throw line. three-point range and boasted Hall was the No. 29 prospect “It’s a great thing when you

Different goals Each of the newcomers has certain goals and expectations they want to achieve in the coming year.

“My goals personally are to just get better every day,” Goins said. “I expect my role to be just a playmaker and a defensive stopper.”

Hall expects to be able to come in to get rebounds.

“My personal goals are to rebound offensively and defensively,” Hall said.

“Helping my team do whatever it is to advance us further into the season, getting us better as a whole.”

Travis Cabage Staff Writer For its 2009-2010 campaign, the Tennessee men’s basketball team will welcome three newcomers to Rocky Top. Skylar McBee, Kenny Hall and Melvin Goins will all look to contribute to the Vols this season, along with senior veterans like forward Tyler Smith, center Wayne Chism and guard J.P Prince.

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Before venturing to the junior college ranks, Goins played a season at Ball State University. At Ball State, Goins averaged eight points and three rebounds per game and was named to the 20072008 Mid-American Conference All-Freshman Team.

Goins said there are many differences between MAC teams and SEC teams.

“The tempo, the players, the style of play,” said Goins.

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Scott Martineau • The Daily Beacon

Scott Martineau • The Daily Beacon

UT freshman forward Kenny Hall soars through the air for a dunk in last week’s exhibition game against Lincoln Memorial.

“Whatever I can do to help this team win games,” McBee said. “Also to knock down threes.”

The Vols will begin their

season with exhibition games and a trip to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands to play in the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam.

Scott Martineau • The Daily Beacon

Freshman guard Skylar McBee attempts a three-point shot against Junior college transfer Melvin Goins shoots a free throw in the Vols’ exhibition game against Lincoln Memorial.

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Jenna Cross• The Daily Beacon

Quarterback Jonathan Crompton drags a Memphis tackler for extra yardage in the Vols’ victory over Memphis on Saturday night.

Kevin Huebschman Staff Writer The Tennessee Volunteers will try to earn their first road victory of the season when they travel to Oxford, Miss., Saturday to play the Ole Miss Rebels.

Although the Vols have lost both of their road games to Florida and Alabama, UT has managed to keep both games close, losing by 10 and two, respectively. Both teams are 2-3 in conference play and a win for the Vols would move them to .500 in the conference for the first time in Kiffin’s tenure.

Defensive end Chris Walker said the team enjoys playing on the road in the Southeastern Conference.

“I think it’s just that we like playing on the road in hostile environments,” the junior said. “I think our whole team thrives off stuff like that. I think that’s when we come out and play our best.”

Although Tennessee’s roster has endured injury problems, head coach Lane Kiffin said it is good to have several banged-up players, such as Walker, back in the starting lineup.

“It was big having Chris Walker back,” Kiffin said.

“Having him healthy for the most part and playing after sitting out the week before. He makes such a difference to us because he is so fast that you have to account for him.”

Tennessee’s defense has given up just one offensive touchdown in its last three SEC meetings, but the defense isn’t overlooking an offense led by quarterback Jevan Snead, who was voted second team All-SEC in the preseason. The Vols will also look to contain the versatile Dexter McCluster, who is second in the team in rushing and receiving.

“The problem with Dexter is he lines up everywhere,” Kiffin said. “I don’t know that I’ve seen a guy that can play running back and then go out and run all the receiver routes like he’s been out there forever. … If you give him any space, he is so fast that he can outrun almost anybody.”

Tennessee quarterback Jonathan Crompton is coming off a season-high, sixtouchdown performance against Memphis and will continue to look for the end zone against a Mississippi defense which is ranked 14th nationally in points allowed.

Running back Montario Hardesty, who has gained at least 100 total yards against every SEC team except Georgia, will line up against the 56th-ranked Rebel run defense, which recently lost defensive end Greg Hardy for the season.

Each team has been dominant in the fourth quarter this season, where Tennessee has been outscored only once and Mississippi has given up only six total points

throughout the year.

“I would probably say how they practice is a big part of that,” junior safety Eric Berry said about the Rebels’ fourth-quarter success. “They were under coach (Ed) Orgeron and coach (Aaron) Ausmus so it’s not a surprise that they are a good fourth-quarter team.”

The trip marks Orgeron’s first return to Oxford since being fired by Ole Miss as head coach in 2007. Kiffin acknowledged that Orgeron, who now serves as UT’s defensive line and assistant head coach, may be more motivated than usual.

“Well I’m sure (he will be); that’s natural for any of us,” Kiffin said. “I think if you’ve been fired, if you ever went back to the place that you were at, it’s going to be a big deal to you, especially when you brought so many great players there and worked so hard, as we all know he does, to try to build that place right.”

David Wells Staff Writer With Jonathan Crompton now leading the SEC in touchdown passes with 21, Crompton quickly became a target for Ole Miss’s defense in Saturday’s matchup between the Vols and Rebels. But for Ole Miss head coach Houston Nutt, the priority is getting after the Vols’ running game and stopping it quickly.

“We do not want to give up the explosive plays,” Nutt said. “We’ve got to stop the run.

They’ve keying in so well right now. We’ve got an outstanding opponent in Tennessee, both offensively and defensively.”

The Rebels will host the Volunteers on Saturday in Oxford for the first time since Nutt took over the head-coaching job from current UT defensive line coach Ed Orgeron before the 2008 season.

In their fifth SEC matchup of the year, the Rebels will seek to stop a Tennessee running game that has produced an average of 168 yards on the ground per game and tallied 14 touchdowns on the season.

So far, the Ole Miss defense has had success on defense, ranking third in the league in red zone defense, first in preventing third-down conversions, second in sacks, third in firstdown prevention and third in pass defense.

The Rebels will have to make up for the absence of defensive lineman Greg Hardy, who will be out for the game and for the season with a fractured left wrist. Hardy led the team with five sacks for 31 yards along with two pass breakups and four quarterback hurries.

So far, the Rebels have won only two SEC

contests and have fallen from No. 4 nationally in week three to currently unranked.

In its three losses, Ole Miss has scored an average of 11 points per game despite averaging 39.3 points on the season.

UT head coach Lane Kiffin said the Rebels’ speed will cause problems for the Vols.

“They are a very fast team, very physical up front on defense especially and obviously a great running back that lines up everywhere and a quarterback that can get really hot and throw the ball as well as anybody,” Kiffin said.

“So it’s going to be a tough matchup for us.”

Kiffin referred to senior Dexter McCluster, who is listed as a wide receiver but still averages 52.6 yards per game on the ground for Ole Miss.

McCluster is also third on the team in scoring, recording four touchdowns on the year. “(McCluster) is a really good playmaker,” linebacker Herman Lathers said. “He’s fast, and we’ve just got to prepare for him.”

Taking snaps for the Rebels is junior quarterback Jevan Snead, who held a spot on the Lindy’s Heisman Watch List and garnered second-team All-SEC honors in the preseason.

Nine games into the season, Snead has thrown 13 interceptions, which is the most in the SEC, along with 17 touchdown passes.

Nutt said that for this game, it’s not just about Snead stepping up but the whole team.

“The biggest improvement I want to see is focus from the entire team — paying attention to details and not going through the motions for one step,” he said at his Tuesday media day.

“I have seen our guys do that before where they are in a frenzy and play at a very high level.”

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Zac Ellis Assistant Sports Editor nderachievement is hardly the favorite word in a basketball coach’s vocabulary.

But for Bruce Pearl and Pat Summitt, there may not be a better description for the 2008-2009 basketball season.

The Vols and Lady Vols hung up their sneakers earlier than expected last season.

The Vols, on the heels of the winningest basketball season in Tennessee history, fell short in the SEC Championship game against Mississippi State before closing out the season with a last-second loss to Oklahoma State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Having snagged the nation’s No. 1 ranking in 2007, the Vols’ championship aspirations for 2008 never took shape.

“For the first time since I’ve been here, we didn’t overachieve,” Pearl said. “Or we didn’t achieve to the level I thought we were capable of achieving.”

For the Lady Vols, the lackluster season was even more glaring.

Head coach Pat Summitt’s squads are used to hanging decorated banners in Thompson-Boling Arena each and every year, and the 20072008 roster even garnered UT’s second-straight NCAA National Championship with the play of stars such as Candace Parker and Alexis Hornbuckle. After that squad’s entire starting lineup departed the halls of Rocky Top, young leaders took the reins but were unable to reach the heights Summitt demanded.

“I try to be realistic now,” Summitt said. “It was the youngest group we ever had, and while I think all of our players wanted to come in and hold the tradition high, they were not ready and there was really no way to fast-forward it.”

The common theme for each team last season was youth, as Pearl and Summitt each graduated talented upperclassmen from 2007-

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2008 who served as key components on both ends of the floor. With Parker, Hornbuckle, Nicky Anosike, Chris Lofton and JaJuan Smith all out the door, the Vols and Lady Vols turned to newcomers such as Scotty Hopson, Renaldo Woolridge, Alicia Manning and Glory Johnson to keep the Tennessee tradition alive with new blood on the court.

For the Lady Vols, it didn’t take long to realize winning in the SEC took more than just putting on a Tennessee jersey. The first-round loss to Ball State opened the eyes of the young roster.

“Last year, it was kind of like, ‘Alright, we’re at Tennessee, people just expect us to win, we expect to win,’” Lady Vol junior Angie Bjorklund said. “But we really realized it takes a lot of work to win. I thought after that loss (to Ball State), we got in the gym and started working, and we haven’t stopped since.”

Though the Vols’ program isn’t as storied as Summitt’s counterpart, last season played out in similar fashion for Pearl’s team. The 2007-2008 version of the Vols snagged the program’s first-ever No. 1 ranking after toppling top-ranked Memphis on the road. But the losses of Lofton and Smith dramatically shuffled the Vols’ on-court persona for last year’s campaign.

“We were young,” Vol senior J.P. Prince said. “It was our first time without Chris and JaJuan. We came off one of the greatest seasons in Tennessee basketball history. Expectations were high, but we had a young team.”

Tough schedules and inconsistent play from UT’s newcomers took a toll on the Vols’ and Lady Vols’ records last season. This year, it’s a different story.

“We are all back here,” Vol senior Wayne Chism said. “We’re looking at this season a little bit differently. Everybody’s working hard, and we’re going to keep it that way.”

The Vols return nearly Pearl’s entire rotation with the exception of sophomore Emmanuel Negedu, who has been sidelined indefinitely with a heart condition. Preseason All-SEC senior forward Tyler

Smith returns to Rocky Top after flirting with the NBA Draft, and Smith, Chism and Prince will form a trio of seniors Pearl will call on for leadership down the stretch. Freshmen Kenny Hall and Skylar McBee, along with junior college transfer Melvin Goins, will also look to crack Pearl’s rotation.

Pearl says for UT to enjoy success once again, the Vols will have to reintroduce a staple of Pearl’s early Tennessee teams: the press.

“I think in the big scheme of things, we’re going to take advantage of our depth, which we once again have,” Pearl said. “(And to have) the ability to beat everybody on our schedule that we’re ‘supposed’ to beat, and have a chance to beat some of the teams maybe we’re ‘not supposed’ to beat, we’ve got to get back in that form of play.”

Summitt’s crew lost only one senior in the departed Alex Fuller, so Bjorklund’s junior class could be the spark behind the Lady Vols’ fire. Guard Sydney Smallbone and post Vicki Baugh will help Bjorklund lead the Lady Vols’ first-ever team without a senior.

Sophomore guard/forward Shekinna Stricklen, who tallied 13.3 point per game last season, returns as a scoring threat for the Lady Vols. Summitt’s talented freshmen class of Faith Dupree, Taber Spani and Kamiko Williams could make noise on the court with the Lady Vols’ thin roster of upperclassmen.

“I can see a big difference with this team over last year,” Summitt said. “There’s a lot I like about this team. We are much more mature, serious and focused. I think we have learned valuable lessons, and we have invested at a different level as far as our training.”

The Vols and Lady Vols have tasted mediocrity in the SEC, and it’s a taste neither team wants again.

“I think the difference is just our attitude,” Bjorklund said. “We’re a lot more motivated. We have a lot more sense of urgency to get better.”

“It’s a different focus,” Vol center Brian Williams said. “We’ve got every piece that we need to go where we want to go. We’ve just got to put it on the court now.”

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Erin Exum Staff Writer Tennessee basketball forward Renaldo Woolridge has made a name for himself since arriving at UT last year. The self-proclaimed “lyricist” has been writing music since he was a kid, but only recently has he shown off his talent as “Swiperboy.”

“I made probably six or seven songs total when I was in high school,” Woolridge said. “So a calendar year ago, I only had six songs, and now I’m on YouTube.”

Woolridge did not just appear on YouTube; he was the 69th most-searched video on the site for the months of September and October for the “Eric Berry 4 Heisman” video. Woolridge wrote the rap, and once word got around campus, the music and film department approached him to do a video for the song.

“I had been making songs about a lot of players, my teammates in high school and players in the NBA,” Woolridge said. “I had heard a lot of people saying that ‘Eric Berry’ would be catchy, and I talked to the music and film department, and they said we should work together and do something. And they said they wanted to make a music video. So I’m thinking it’s going to be a little camcorder, and I walk in and they have so much professional stuff. It was cool.”

So how did the basketball star, ranked the 11th-best small forward in the 2008 class by Rivals.com, come up with his rapping name, Swiperboy? It came from his hometown of North Hollywood, Calif.

“Swiperboy is like a California, Los Angeles thing,” Woolridge said. “Basically it’s a teenager who does it all. You know, a basketball player, a ladies man, all around.

It’s catchy, so I kept it.”

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All rappers have detractors regardless of their success, and Woolridge is no different. Many feel Woolridge’s time would be better spent practicing basketball, but he said rap doesn’t take away from basketball.

“They have to take a second to understand,” he said. “On the outside looking in, I put myself in their shoes, and I can see that if you listen to all of the stuff that I have out that I’m spending too much time doing it, but I have a mobile studio. I use my own computer and a few mixing things, so I can record on the road. I can take it anywhere. It takes five minutes to mix it, and then I have a song. So it’s really not very much time.”

Woolridge’s teammates are very supportive of his other craft. He says while at first they did not take it seriously, now they respect him for it. Even head coach Bruce Pearl appreciates his rapping.

Woolridge wrote Pearl’s now infamous Volscar’s rap last year.

“He cracks us all up with it,” forward Steven Pearl said. “We’ll all be in the locker room dying laughing when he raps on the spot about a teammate. We’re all real supportive of him.”

As for the future of Swiperboy, Woolridge hopes to leave Tennessee with a legacy in basketball rather than in rapping.

He averaged 8.8 minutes and 2.6 points per game last year as a true freshman, playing in 32 of UT’s 34 games.

“I want to be known for my basketball skills. My plan is to hopefully get drafted and play in the NBA,” Woolridge said.

“But I want to be the first-ever NBA player to have his own record label and be rapping mainstream and I want to be a trendsetter for other athletes who feel like they have other talents.”

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Zac Ellis Assistant Sports Editor Angie Bjorklund knew what was coming.

After her Lady Vols fell to Ball State in the first round of the 2009 NCAA tournament, Bjorklund’s squad stood as the only Tennessee team to ever lose in the opening round of the tournament. As the leader of a team deemed unsuccessful by Tennessee standards, Bjorklund was ready for some intense work on the horizon.

“We went right into spring training,” Bjorklund said. “Which wasn’t quite punishment, but it felt like punishment for a while.”

The loss ended the Lady Vols’ season with a 22-11 record, capping UT’s worst year ever under head coach Pat Summitt. While Summitt’s disappointment translated to the practice floor, Bjorklund admits she and her teammates have plans for redemption.

“Obviously, it was a disappointing loss,” Bjorklund said. “All summer everyone had a different mindset going into the offseason.

It was going to take work to win and get the Lady Vols back on top.”

That work begins this season as Bjorklund will look to lead the Lady Vols back to the winning tradition the program has enjoyed during its eight national championships under Summitt’s watch.

The youth that often plagued last season’s Lady Vol squad is one year older, and Bjorklund says it’s more experienced.

“We only graduated (Alex Fuller), so it’s pretty much the same team but just a year older,” Bjorklund said. “A year more expe-

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rience under our belt. But I think the difference is just our attitude.”

Bjorklund’s attitude wasn’t about to let one bad season ruin her young career at Tennessee.

Growing up in Spokane, Wash., Bjorklund envisioned playing basketball on Rocky Top throughout her early basketball career, and she says Summitt was a key figure in keeping those hopes alive.

“Playing for coach Summitt has been my dream,” Bjorklund said.

“It’s always been my dream school.

When I took my (recruiting) visit, it just felt like home away from home.”

Recreating the feeling of “home” was important to Bjorklund, as Knoxville sat over 2,300 miles across the country from Spokane. Bjorklund is the first Lady Vol from the state of Washington, the distance took a toll on the young freshman.

“Freshman year, it did take some adjustment,” Bjorklund said.

“I’m really close to my family, and most of them live in Spokane, so at first I got a little homesick, but after a while I learned to really love it.”

Settled in Knoxville, Bjorklund enjoyed a successful freshman year, helping her Lady Vols to the 2008 NCAA National Championship. After a subpar sophomore campaign, Bjorklund wants to return the Lady Vols to prominence in her third season in Knoxville.

The 6-foot guard/forward served as the team’s second-leading scorer last season as only a sophomore. Bjorklund led UT in three-point accuracy by connecting on 40.8 percent from the perimeter last year, while tallying a career-high 29 points in a

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win over Old Dominion.

While unselfishness is often commended on the court, Summitt says Bjorklund needs to find more shots.

“Angie is a key to our perimeter game,” Summitt said.

“A lot of times, she tries to be a great teammate and distribute the ball. First and foremost, I want her hunting for shots, opening up our inside game and not being the assist leader.”

Bjorklund’s individual numbers saw a boost during the 2008-2009 campaign, but it’s her role as a leader for a young squad that she says will be important for the upcoming season. Bjorklund isn’t hesitant to share her goals for the year.

“Just stepping up more as a vocal leader, because I usually just lead by example,” Bjorklund said. “On the court, just to score, be more of a creator and an offensive threat.”

Bjorklund won’t be alone in leading the young Lady Vols, who begin the season without a senior for the first time ever. A talented junior class, including guard Sydney Smallbone and post Vicki Baugh, give UT necessary experience at the top of Katie Hogin • The Daily Beacon the roster.

“This team, especially our Angie Bjorklund, a junior forward, watches the Carsonjunior class, wants to do things Newman defense during their 124-34 win Nov. 5. Bjorklund contributed 21 points to the game and is looking to make the right way,” Summitt said. up for a disappointing season last year.

“They are invested in our system both offensively and defensively, need to step up,” Bjorklund have the chance to showcase and they are paying attention to said. “I think Sydney Smallbone improvement from last season. detail to get it right.” has done a great job, and Vicki And Bjorklund says fans won’t Early in fall practice, (Baugh) and Kelley (Cain) have have to look hard to notice.

Bjorklund is hardly disappointed done a great job being leaders.”

“Really, the whole team across with the effort she’s witnessed board, they’ve really With the Lady Vols’ regular the from her team. season opener against Baylor on improved,” Bjorklund said. “You “We have four juniors who all the docket for Nov. 15, UT will can just tell a difference.”

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Season Predictions will see plenty of minutes and provide the Vols with the outside punch they’ve been missing since the graduation of Chris Lofton.

forward in the country, and banging around with Wayne Chism and Brian Williams everyday in practice will develop this youngster into a contributor down the stretch.

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— regular season record: 22-7 (14-2) — SEC finish: First — NCAA tournament seed: One — NCAA tournament finish: National Championship game loss to UConn — MVP: Shekinna Stricklen- The talented sophomore’s transition to point guard is complete after earning Freshman of the Year honors from the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. This year, the onus falls on her to lead the Lady Vols back amongst the nation’s elite.

— Top Newcomer- Like all the Lady Vols signees, Spani arrived on campus with a multitude of accolades accumulated during her illustrious high school career in Lee Summit, Missouri. Spani, who ranks seven all-time for career points in the National High School Sports Record Book with 4,113 point, should take some of the scoring Burden off Angie Bjorklund and Shekinna Stricklen this season.

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Men —regular season record: 23-6 (13-3) —SEC finish: First — NCAA tournament seed: Two —NCAA tournament finish: Final Four Semifinals — MVP: Tyler Smith- This became the obvious choice when Smith announced he would return for his senior year. An off-season workout regiment the worked to improve his dribbling and shooting touch will take the athletic forward’s game to new heights as he leads the Vols to their first ever trip to the Final Four.

— Top newcomer: Skyler McBee- The walkon from McMinn county may not come in with fellow signee Kenny Hall’s lofty recruiting status, but he can flat out shoot. McBee

Men —regular season record: 21-8, (11-5) —SEC finish: Second —NCAA Tournament Seed: Three —NCAA Tournament finish: Elite Eight —MVP: Scotty Hopson- An improved shot will lead to an improved year for this strong sophomore. Hopson will spearhead UT’s outside shooting while also attacking the basket at a more frequent rate to become the offensive threat Bruce Pearl envisioned when he brought the McDonald’s All-American to Rocky Top. —Top newcomer: Kenny Hall- The loss of Emmanuel Negedu took a shot to the Vols’ post game, but the lengthy Hall will provide an extra spark down low for UT. The 6-8 forward came to Tennessee as the No. 9 power

Women —regular season record: 25-4 (14-2) —SEC finish: Second —NCAA tournament seed: Two —NCAA tournament finish: Elite Eight —MVP: Angie Bjorklund- In only her sophomore campaign, Bjorklund emerged as a key component to Pat Summitt’s offense last season. Summitt would like the sharpshooter to look for more shots and improve on last year’s 12.3 points per game. The junior will be the leader for this year’s Lady Vols, who have no seniors on the roster for the first time ever.

—Top Newcomer: Faith Dupree- Though center Kelley Cain will often plug up the middle for the Lady Vols, Dupree will serve as a productive post player off Summitt’s bench. Rebounding could be key for Dupree’s role at UT, but the 6-3 forward/center has shown abilities on offense, as she averaged 16.7 points per game as a senior at Knoxville’s Webb School.

Pearl wants more point-guard production Matt Dixon Staff Writer Since the departure of C.J. Watson after head coach Bruce Pearl’s inaugural season on Rocky Top, the Vols haven’t gotten AllSEC production from the point-guard position. Pearl is hopeful that this year’s team will get more consistent and effective play out of the floor general.

At the team’s media day, he noted that last season the point-guard play hurt the team’s performance, especially down the stretch in games.

“I didn’t trust my point guards enough to allow them to win or lose games,” Pearl said. “I didn’t put the ball in their hands very often in late-game situations.”

Last year, junior college transfer Bobby

Maze and Josh Tabb were the primary point guards. On Oct. 28, Tabb withdrew from UT to move closer to his ill mother, leaving Maze and junior college transfer Melvin Goins as Pearl’s only primary ball handlers.

Full offseason of work Maze, a 6-foot-3-inch senior from Suitland, Md., was the starter in 28 out of the team’s 34 games last season. He averaged 8.2 points and 3.2 assists per game after averaging 20.7 points and 6.8 assists per game for Hutchinson Community College, earning first-team NJCAA AllAmerican honors.

Pearl believes Maze didn’t connect well with the team last year because he didn’t enroll in school until the summer and had little time creating chemistry with his

around to all of the Vols’ offensive teammates.

“I think (Maze) is going to do really well weapons.

“I’m going to get everyone involved,” this year,” Pearl said. “I think we’re going to get stepped-up play at the point guard Goins said.

Defending the point guards in the SEC from Bobby because of all that he’s had an is a major opportunitask, but ty to do in P e a r l (a full) believes offseaGoins is up son.” for the chalA challenge. lenge for “I want Maze to stop After (our) oppospending nent from his freshgetting man seapoints,” son at Ball Goins said.

S t a t e , “I love playG o i n s i n g t r a n s defense.” ferred to Goins M o u n t – Head Coach Bruce Pearl, developed S a n speaking about his point his “pride” Jacinto guard play last season for defense College in back home California in San where he averaged 17.2 points and 4.9 assists per Diego, Calif., from his high school coach game last season. Pearl said the 5-foot-11- and his father, who was a junior college inch Goins is a better passer and defender defensive back in football.

Regardless of who is named the starting than Maze, but Goins underwent arthroscopic knee surgery on Oct. 6, which has point guard, Maze and Goins look to see given Maze the advantage over him for the significant playing time on the court this season. The Vols are looking to rebound starting spot. “(Goins) will still challenge (for the from last season’s disappointing first-round starting position),” Pearl said. “He is a exit from the NCAA Tournament, and Pearl ‘pass-first’ point guard (and) a terrific play- said the play of the point guard will go a maker. … He’s probably a little bit more cre- long way in determining how far the team ative for others in the half court (offense) will advance in March. than (Maze) is.”

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Vols looking to apply more pressure Ryan Howard

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Zac Ellis Assistant Sports Editor When Bruce Pearl became the head coach of the UT basketball team, Tennessee utilized the press as a trademark of the Pearl era. Last season, however, UT’s coach held back the pressure Vols fans were used to. This year, Pearl says fans won’t see a lack of pressure on opposing teams.

“You use pressure to create 50-50 balls,” Pearl said.

“Last year with three of four new guards, we didn’t.

That’s why we gave up on Scott Martineau • The Daily Beacon (playing as much pressure Junior guard, Melvin Goins, moves the ball down the defense). We’ll without court during the exhibition game against Lincoln question try to bring that Memorial Nov. 4. Goins transferred from Mount San back. I think our team understands that.”

Jacinto College to join the Vols this season.

In 2008, the defense often retreated after making baskets last season.

Pearl knows the tempo in 2008 was slower, but he envisions the 2009 season playing out a little bit differently.

“We didn’t feel we had either the experience or the quickness at guard to dictate tempo last year,” Pearl said. “Sometimes we were better playing a little slower, and that’s why we didn’t press as much. To have a chance to beat some of the teams on our schedule maybe we’re not supposed to beat, we’ve got to get back to that form of play.”

Senior point guard Bobby Maze enters his second season under Pearl.

While Maze will have one year of experience in Pearl’s system under his

Leadership roles wide open for youthful Lady Vol roster No seniors on Pat Summitt’s squad for first time ever; juniors looking to avoid repeat of disappointing year Matt Dixon Staff Writer Head coach Pat Summitt’s Lady Volunteers suffered the worst season last year in the coach’s Hall of Fame career, finishing 22-11 with a loss in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

The young roster featured seven freshmen who saw significant playing time and only one graduating senior, Alex Fuller. This year’s team has no seniors, but Summitt says she isn’t concerned. She is looking for the returning players to step up and take leadership roles.

“I see leadership across the board in our freshmen, sophomores and juniors this season,” Summitt said. “Leaders have a way of rising to the top, and several players already have made their voices heard.”

The voices from the junior class belong to shooting guards Angie Bjorklund and Sydney Smallbone and post player Vicki Baugh.

Summitt is pleased with the way the upperclassmen approached the offseason.

“This team, especially our junior class, wants to do things the right way,” Summitt said. “They are invested in our system both offensively and defensively, and they are paying attention to detail to get it right.”

Bjorklund was selected to the preseason first team All-SEC team after averaging 12.3 points per game last season. The Spokane Valley, Wash., native believes her experiences from last year will help translate to more wins this season.

“I have learned a lot about leadership from last year to this year,” Bjorklund said. “I am going to look at everything that I did or did not do last year. I think this year I need to be more of a vocal leader than I was last year.”

Bjorklund, along with Smallbone, have caught the coach’s eye in the offseason.

“Angie and Syd have both stepped up their leadership,” Summitt said. “I’m really pleased with Syd being so much more vocal.”

Baugh is coming off an ACL injury, but Summitt says she “outworks everyone around her.”

The sophomore class is led by Shekinna Stricklen. Tabbed as the Freshman of the Year last year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, Stricklen averaged 13.3 points, 5.9 rebounds and 3 assists per game last season.

Another player in her second season as a Lady Vol is 5-foot-2inch point guard Briana Bass. Summitt likes the way her floor general has become outspoken and ready to be a key contributor to the team.

“Bree has become a very vocal leader at point guard for us now,” said Summitt. “She worked hard in the offseason on every phase of

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Junior guard, Sydney Smallbone, drives towards the net during the game against Carson-Newman Nov. 5.

Smallbone has stepped up as one of the leaders of the team after being put out in the first round of the NCAA tournament last season. her game and knows she has to continue to set the example and not hesitate to have a strong voice for us on both ends of the floor.”

Summitt hopes last season’s growing pains will pay dividends this season when the Lady Vols face adversity in what she calls a “loaded” and “extremely challenging” schedule.

“I can see a big difference with this team over last year,” she said.

“There’s a lot I like about this team. We are much more mature, serious and focused. … (Last year) they were overwhelmed and didn’t quite understand what it took to be successful.”

belt, the Vols will also have junior college transfer Melvin Goins to add athleticism to the guard position. Pearl said this year’s point guards have used the offseason to their advantage.

“We had the ability to go a little farther than we did and accomplish a little bit more than we did,” Pearl said. “That feeling sort of carried us through into what this offseason is about.”

Senior guard J.P. Prince has seen from experience the effects Pearl’s defense can have on the opposing squads.

“It might not be until the last five minutes where the press makes the difference,” Prince said. “It’s fatigue and people keeping up with it. Most teams don’t play as many guys

and don’t run as much as we do. Getting to walk the ball that extra 10 to 20 feet makes a difference in the players’ energy.”

In 2008, Mississippi State defeated UT in the championship game of the SEC Tournament, 64-61.

The Vols also lost to Oklahoma State in the NCAA Tournament, 75-77.

Pearl said there are risks involved with a team’s fullcourt pressure, but the rewards, such as turnovers, are often worth the risk.

“If you’re going to blitz, you better get to the quarterback,” Pearl said. “You better have some lockdown coverage on the outside, or you’re going to get burned.

Pressing is blitzing. You’ve got to come up and make plays in those situations. I didn’t feel like we did it often enough.”

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