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Vols mow down Rebels in Homecoming rout contending quarterback Cameron Newton.

As much success as the offense had against the Rebels, the defense was equally impressive.

The Vols forced five Ole Miss turnovers, including four interceptions.

“I’ll say it every week, the key is the turnovers,” Dooley said. “It always is. Anytime we’re plus-five in the turnovers, you’re probably going to win the game.”

and got it into the end zone.”

Masoli finished just 7-of-18 for 80 yards and three interceptions.

“When you get that many, and especially to score on them Tennessee ended a four-game losing streak last week in on takeaways that’s really hard for a team to come back from dominating fashion against in-state rival Memphis. that,” middle linebacker Nick Reveiz said of the intercepThe Volunteers (4-6, 1-5 SEC) earned their first SEC win tions. “I think it’s really deflating so when you have things Saturday in dominating fashion once again. like that happen, obviously, to have score off turnovers, it’s UT raced out to a 21-0 first quarter lead and capitalized big.” on Mississippi (4-6, 1-5 SEC) turnovers to The Rebels found success in their rundefeat the Rebels 52-14 in front of a crowd of ning game, which entered the contest as 96,044 in Neyland Stadium on Homecoming the second-best in the SEC, averaging more weekend. than 220 yards on the ground per game, in “It was just a phenomenal effort by our the second quarter. players,” coach Derek Dooley said. “I’m realOle Miss running back Brandon Bolden ly proud of them (and) how they’ve come ran for 113 yards and both Rebels’ touchout these past two weeks. The preparation downs. all week has been great. We were focused.

The Vols played well on offense and We had our best week of practice. It just defense but struggled on special teams, showed. despite the return of senior kicker Daniel “They’re gaining a little confidence, I feel Lincoln. Lincoln had missed the previous like. They played aggressively. They played five games with a groin injury. fast. It was just a phenomenal team win.”

“It was a real struggle,” Dooley said.

There was little doubt in the game’s out“Our specialists struggled. Then of course, come early on. it was the same old deal since the first day After forcing a Rebels punt on the game’s I took the job with punt returning. We got opening possession, true freshman wide to a point where I didn’t even put one receiver Justin Hunter caught a tipped pass (player) back there. It was the only way we and took it 80 yards for a touchdown on the were going to lose the game: Go fumble a Vols’ first offensive play. punt.

“It wasn’t intended for me, but I saw all “I know that’s kind of ridiculous for a the defenders coming my way for the ball,” Hunter said. “I am just thankful that it came Andy Rowe • The Daily Beacon major college football team, but that’s to me.”

Anthony Anderson intercepts an Ole Miss pass over Melvin Harris on Saturday, Nov. where we are. I don’t have one guy that I Hunter added another touchdown recep- 13. The Volunteer defense snagged four interceptions on the day, running back two have confidence in.”

Sophomore free safety Janzen Jackson tion in the second quarter and finished with for touchdowns in a 52-14 win over Ole Miss. muffed two punts, injuring his left ankle on 114 receiving yards on three catches and two Freshman cornerback Eric Gordon picked off a Jeremiah the second punt and leaving the game. touchdowns.

Even with back-to-back blowout wins to put the Vols in True freshman quarterback Tyler Bray was 18-of-34 for Masoli pass and returned it 46 yards for a UT touchdown to give the Vols a 21-0 lead late in the first quarter. It was position to make a bowl game, senior wide receiver Gerald 323 yards and three touchdowns in his first home start.

Bray and the passing game was clicking in the first half, Gordon’s first career interception. He would later leave the Jones said he believed the team has the same mindset it did during its four-game losing streak in October. despite struggles in the Vols’ ground attack. UT had just game in the second half after sustaining a concussion.

Trailing 31-14 early in the third quarter, Masoli was inter“I think everybody’s still the same, everybody is positive, seven net rushing yards at the half.

The 272 passing yards in the game’s first 30 minutes cepted by cornerback Prentiss Waggner, who returned the you know,” Jones said. “I don’t think we have changed as far as our mentality when we were losing, and now that we are opened up lanes for running back Tauren Poole in the sec- interception 10 yards for another UT touchdown.

The touchdown was Waggner’s third interception winning, you know, we’re still going to be happy with this ond half.

Poole rushed for 107 yards on just 12 carries and has returned for a score this year, setting a UT single-season win, and we’re going to celebrate for 24 hours and get over it, and then it’s off to Vanderbilt, and that’s how we’ve touchdown runs of 36 and 35 yards, both in the second half. record.

“It’s a big honor,” Waggner said of the record. “I think it’s always been all year, and that’s what we’re going to continue It was Poole’s sixth 100-yard rushing performance this year, tied for the most in the SEC with Auburn’s Heisman Trophy- all because of the grace of God that I got that interception to do and try to continue to get better.”

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Douglas Scott shares battle tales In an attempt to enforce government dictates, Custer and his 7th Calvary rushed into conflict with the Indians before taking time to Douglas Scott presented his lecture, strategize. Custer and his men were complete“Bullets & Bones: Men with Custer,” as one ly obliterated in a pronounced Indian victory. facet of the Department of Anthropology’s Today, the quiet battlefield serves as a gold mine of historical evidence for researchers Visiting Lecture Series.

Graciela Cabana, professor in the anthro- like Scott. He uses the remains of the battle to pology department, gave Scott a warm intro- discover more of its history.

“Lead bullets are diagnostic artifacts,” duction and was delighted that he was able to Scott said. “We were able to determine the come and speak to the group.

“Professor Scott is a battlefield archaeolo- warriors had 47 different types of firearms gist,” Cabana said. “He has done a great deal available to them in the battle. They were of research on battlefield archaeology and con- armed with other sharp and blunt force type tinued his work in the National Park Service, weapons as well: clubs, lances, etc.”

The different casings are essential in aiding spending 25 years working at Little Big researchers to recreate the dynamics of the Horn.” battle.

While Scott’s special“We can plot out where ty is indeed the Battle guns were on the field and of Little Big Horn, he how they moved around, has done work in modbased on gun emissions,” ern day battlefield excaScott said. vation as well.

The geology of the battle“He has worked for field is essential as well, since the Department of it reveals the potential capaJustice on battlefields bilities of the insurgents posiaround the world, tioned on the field. Studies namely in Iraq, as a have also been undertaken consultant for the govwith skeletal remains from the ernment,” Cabana said. battlefield.

Scott is enthusiastic “One can detect sharp-force about his work, believtrauma, hacking of bones and ing archaeology and other blunt-force traumas that anthropology can be occur on the battlefield, and at collectively used to Little Big Horn, these traumas unlock the past. can all be found in individual “There are ways to – Douglas Scott, archaeologist, sets of remains,” Scott said. pick historical events on unraveling historical battles Cultural ideologies explain apart using physical this use of terrible force. evidence through Cheyenne Indians commonly marked foes archaeological techniques,” Scott said.

Scott has devoted much of his life to unrav- with extreme mutilation so that their coneling the battle of Little Big Horn. The his- quered enemies would enter the afterlife in a toric battle was the culmination of a conflict deformed state.

From the remains of the fallen warriors, the between the U.S. government and the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, where General Custer archaeologists have worked to ascertain identities. Since hundreds of men fell at Little Big famously made his “last stand.”

The gruesome battle stemmed from an Horn, this is an important part of historical inability of the U.S. government to control discovery.

“From 1856 to 1890, there are approxiactivity of the Indians’ populations indigenous mately 1,000 American soldiers killed in to the Black Hills region.

“Many of the reservation Indians went into Indian conflicts,” Scott said. “Over one quarthe hunting grounds to rejoin their leader, ter of those casualties took place at the Battle Sitting Bull,” Scott said. “The government of Little Big Horn.”

Scott is the adjunct professor of anthropolcharged them to return to the reservation, but ogy at the University of Nebraska. they did not.”

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Matthew Keany pins a bow on Madison Cox during the Turkey Tailgate at Fiji Island before the Vols’ Homecoming game against Ole Miss on Saturday, Nov. 13. Students enjoyed food and drinks while listening to live music as part of the Phi Gamma Delta Homecoming tailgate event.

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Bright colors illuminate Ayres Hall on Thursday, Nov. 11. Ayres Hall and James A. Haslam II Business Building were lit to show off UT’s recently renovated and brandnew facilities to alumni on campus for Homecoming.

Crime Nov. 7

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A UTPD officer responded to the triggering of a fire alarm in Humes Hall around 4:20 a.m. No further information was stated in the report, except that Knoxville Fire Department reset the alarm.

A UT staff member reported that his bag was stolen from the first level of the G3 parking garage sometime between 5:10 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The victim reported that the value of the bag and its contents was around $520.

Nov. 9 A UT student reported that she received harassing phone calls from 11:43 p.m. on Nov. 8 to 1:35 p.m. on Nov. 9. The female suspect is another UT student.

A UT student reported that his wallet was stolen from the northwest corner of the second floor Commons area of Hodges Library around noon.

A UT student was fined for altering a UT parking permit hang tag in his black 1998 Mercury Mountaineer. Parking Services noticed that the tag appeared to have been copied and glued to another permit tag. The vehicle, parked on the second level of the G12 parking garage, was towed

by Dan’s Wrecker Service to the UTPD impound lot, where it was discovered that the keys had been left in the ignition.

A student reported that his student ID was stolen from the North Commons area of Hodges Library between 3:30 a.m. and 4 a.m. on Nov. 7.

A student reported that her student ID was stolen from the intramural fields between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Nov. 9.

A student reported that her student ID was stolen from the first floor of Hodges Library between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Oct. 22.

— Compiled by Robbie Hargett Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the Universty of Tennessee Police Department.

All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

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Pamela Clouser McCann, Tasha Fairfield, Nicholas Carnes, Eduardo Moncada and Tiffany Davenport are visiting UT in hopes of being chosen as the next public policy professor by UT. The five candidates are delivering lectures to students, as well as meeting with faculty to describe their research and what they can bring to the political science department. can be studied across the different agencies, in health and environ“If there is a Republican president, Republicans in Congress will Blair Kuykendall mental safety as well.

States are often interacting in bargaining with try to keep authority centralized, contrary to the common theory Copy Editor the agencies more than Congress.” that Republicans seek to devolve power back to the states,” McCann States, given their congressional representation, are involved in said.

Faculty and students interested in political science have been Overall McCann presented a collection of interesting statistics to extended a unique opportunity to hear a variety of well-qualified lec- the domestic legislative policy constructs that are created out of tenmodel her theorem. She received a congenial response from faculty, turers in their field, thanks to the Department of Political Science’s sion between federal and state control.

“When states are given more authority, statutes are tailored to who offered many insightful queries surrounding her research. quest to hire a new public policy professor.

Many additional engaging lectures are anticipated to ensue in the “The political science department is in the process of searching state populations, creating discrepancies on the national level,” coming weeks. for a new member of our faculty in the area of public policy,” Jana McCann said.

States are given more or less authority in national legislation by Each of the candidates visiting campus will deliver a presentation Morgan, assistant professor in political science, said. “Over the next three weeks, we will interview five different job candidates on cam- active or inactive representatives and senators. Different policies are to political science faculty and enthusiasts as part of their interview pus. They will be meeting with faculty and delivering presentations sometimes designated to be more efficiently handled at the central process. This presents a great opportunity on campus to experience level, while some policies are believed to be better handled by the several fascinating lectures by the upcoming intellectual players in about their research.” the field of political science.

Pam Clouser McCann joined students and faculty in the Baker states individually.

“My theory states that when Republicans are in power, if most of Tasha Fairfield, who received her Ph.D. from Berkeley, already visCenter to discuss federal policy design dilemmas. This topic comthe states are Democratic, the positioned Republicans will hold ited campus and led a discussion on the “Elites, Power, and Taxes in prises a part of her current dissertation project.

“It is my pleasure to welcome Pam to campus,” John Scheb II, pro- power on the central level,” McCann said. “Conversely, if Latin America” on Nov. 8.

Various lectures will continue to take place through Nov. 22. fessor in political science, said. “She is currently finishing her doctor- Republicans are in power in the states, federally positioned Republicans will try to turn power over to state governments. The Today, ]Nicholas Carnes, a doctoral candidate at Princeton, will ate at the University of Michigan.” present a lecture entitled “Class and Representation: U.S. McCann takes a non-traditional approach to her dissertation, same techniques are practiced by the Democrats as well.”

When McCann talked to politicians working on health care, she Legislators’ Social Backgrounds and Economic Policy Choices” at 3 questioning the validity of the political science theorem that conventionally expresses that Republicans consistently devolve federal discovered states were often viewed as a delegation option. p.m. in the Baker Center.

Legislators functioning in the intergovernmental context are forced Eduardo Moncada, a doctoral candidate at Brown University, will power. present a speech entitled “Politics, Buisness and Violence: Urban “This may be a conventional theorem since Republicans over time to think about how much power they would like the states to hold.

McCann asked what motivation legislators hold, specifically when Security in Colombia (1988-2008).” The speech will take place have argued against a strong central government, but I don’t believe evaluating their choices as to whether they should increase or Thursday at 2 p.m. in McClung Tower 1210. it holds true always,” McCann said. decreased centralize authority.

Also, Tiffany Davenport, a doctoral candidate at Yale, will present Personal experience helped McCann craft her hypotheses.

“Outcomes are a combination of state choices and national choic- her speech entitled “Behavior Consequences of U.S. Government “I often worked with federal agencies, dealing with the implementation of decisions made by Congress,” McCann said. “I noted the es,” McCann said. “Congress is a variable in this equation, depend- Policies: The Effect of a Son’s Risk of Conscription on the Political Participation of his Parents” on Monday, Nov. 22 at 3 p.m. in the amount of power and authority the states have in relation to these ing on the amount of control it devolves to the states themselves.”

This determination, in her opinion, depends upon the party in Baker Center. agencies, such as the Department of Education. Bureaucratic control control of the executive and legislative branches. few trivia questions about recycling. Students who answer correctly will receive “I Recycle” t-shirts from UT Recycling.

Hot chocolate and cookies will be available at the event.

America Recycles Day is dedicated to educating the public about the need to recycle.

Another campus event celebrating America Recycles Day is a litter clean-up in Fort Sanders.

The kickoff of the name design contest for UT’s new recycling truck will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Johnson-Ward Pedestrian Mall.

Holiday Express at UT Gardens Votes needed in accounting competition Team Titans, a group of students from the Department of Accounting and Information Management at UT, needs votes.

Team Titans is one of 10 teams to make the semifinals in the highly competitive 2010 American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Accounting Competition. This is the first year for the competition.

Team Titans consists of team captain, Camille Crumpton, accounting major, and team members Daniel Aycock, accounting and international business major, R.J. Lusk, logistics major, and Johannah Reed, environmental studies major.

Based on the public’s votes and AICPA judges’ scores, three finalists will be selected to travel to New York City this January to present their proposals to the AICPA board of directors. First- and second-place teams win $10,000 and $5,000, respectively. A total of 64 teams submitted proposals nationwide.

Public voting begins today and continues through Friday. Log onto http://www.thiswaytocpa.com/vote to view each semi-finalist’s proposal and vote for the team of your choice.

The competition required each team to pose as the director of finance for Umstead Hotel & Spa, a North Carolina luxury hotel, and submit a proposal suggesting three hotel sustainability initiatives.

The initiatives could not compromise a guest’s five-star experience.

America Recycles Day launches competition America Recycles Day will kick off the contest for students to create a name design that will be displayed on the campus’s new recycling truck.

The winning truck name design should serve as a symbol to help increase the visibility of environmental sustainability at the university. Entries for the contest are due by Dec. 20.

At today’s event, students are encouraged to check out the truck, get design ideas and answer a

Holiday Express returns to the UT Gardens this holiday season, featuring 12 garden-scale model trains, thousands of lights and a miniature landscape with more than 100 buildings decorated for the season.

This popular holiday exhibit, located on the Friendship Plaza at the entrance to the UT Gardens off Neyland Drive, runs Nov. 24 through Jan. 2, and has proven to be a wonderful family tradition.

New to this year’s Holiday Express at the UT Gardens is a bridge that will enable visitors to walk through the display and get a unique and up-close look at the miniature landscape and all the detail that makes the display such an amazing experience.

This year’s event features trains running simultaneously on a quarter-mile track, with some of the g-scale trains running on “green power” with the help of a solar array provided by Sustainable Future, LLC. Visitors will marvel at the elaborate landscape, which includes replicas of existing East Tennessee architecture.

The event opens Thanksgiving weekend from 12-8 p.m. Nov. 24-27, and 12-6 p.m. Nov.28.

Thereafter, Holiday Express will be open 12-8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 12-6 p.m. on Sundays Dec. 4, 2010, through Jan. 2, 2011. Holiday Express will also be open Christmas Eve and Christmas Day from 12-6 p.m.

On select Sundays, families can participate in a variety of holiday activities. Families can explore the Holiday Express and the Gardens together with a scavenger hunt, make a few special holiday crafts and visit with Santa Claus.

These activities are available on Sunday, Dec. 5, and Sunday, Dec. 19, from noon to 6 p.m.

Activities are free with Holiday Express admission.

Mark Fuhrman has partnered with the UT Institute of Agriculture and the Gardens for the third year to bring his wonderland to a larger audience during this special time of the year. Fuhrman customizes each train car and building by hand with a passion and care that has resulted in one of the largest train collections in East Tennessee.

Cost is $5 per person; children 4 and under are admitted free.

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Falling — Rebel Black Bears in Knoxville In Tennessee’s next step toward that ever-important, six-game, bowl-eligibility mark, the Vols crushed the Ole Miss Rebels 52-14 on Saturday in the kind of home contest that should be featured on Homecoming weekend. Freshman Tyler Bray once again showed poise in the pocket, throwing three touchdown passes in the rout.

Though the Vols were slightly favored heading into this match-up, the question that resonated through Neyland Stadium was this: Where did this come from? Surely not many UT fans predicted Tennessee to score more points Saturday (52) than it did against UT-Martin (50). Either way, a win’s a win, and a victory of such a blowout nature against a historical (albiet weak) SEC opponent is enough to send the Black Bears back into the woods.

Next up is Vanderbilt. Oh, sweet Vandy. Even during the worst of seasons, a visiting Tennessee team almost always leaves Nashville smiling. But this is where a letdown, however unlikely, could be catastrophic, a fact coach Derek Dooley is undoubtedly aware of.

Falling — Hacking into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account It took a while, but the former UT student who hacked into former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account nearly two years ago finally received his comeuppance.

David Kernell, 22, was sentenced Friday to one year and a day in a halfway house, avoiding an 18month prison term suggested by prosecutors, as four potential felony convictions were dropped to one.

Kernell, the son of Memphis Democratic state legislator Mike Kernell, now attends Pellissippi State Community College and admitted he was “ashamed and guilty” of what he did.

Rising — Old men having scandals 2010 seems to have become the year of the Old Man Scandal.

First, we had former vice president, environmental activist, Academy Award-winner, renowned ManBearPig hunter and overall pompous blowhard Al Gore announce that he was seeking a divorce from his wife, Tipper, after 40 years of apparent wedding bliss and awkward face-sucking at Democratic Conventions.

This wasn’t that big of a deal, considering that famous people are constantly getting divorced, except for the fact that Al Gore allegedly tried to have an affair with a massage therapist in a hotel room.

Sandra Bullock’s now-ex husband Jesse James, a tattooed old man who likes to do dangerous things, found himself in an Old Man Scandal after his mistress, gross porn star and general gag-inducing human Michelle “Bombshell” McGee went public with the sordid details of their icky affair. James, now holding the dubious title of “That old guy who cheated on Sandra Bullock” is now living out a shameful, obscure existence.

Moving on to other old men who can’t seem to stay out of trouble this year, Mel Gibson once again found himself in a scandal of tape-recorder proportions.

Gibson, who separated from his wife, Robin, after it was revealed that he had an affair with an aspiring Russian pop star and had subsequently fathered a love child, has shacked up with said pop princess to seemingly live a life of odd bliss. Wrong.

After Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva separated this summer, a seemingly endless stream of recorded voicemails from Gibson, of varyingly racist and sexist caliber, were leaked. Gibson, in the voicemails, sounds deranged and and violent. Grigorieva also said that Gibson was physically abusive, to both her and the baby, and that she feared for her life.

In our final chapter of Old Man Scandals, everyone’s favorite old guy who refuses to admit he is old, Brett Favre, found himself in a blush-worthy scandal after his awkward voicemails and even more embarrassing “sext messages” of decidedly giggle-worthy proportions were leaked to the public by a former Jets worker, who is accusing him of sexual harassment.

So, what can we do, Old Famous Men? We at the Beacon have a few suggestions for you on how to prevent these gaffes and public relations nightmares.

For starters, stop using technology. Clearly voicemails and text messages can be saved, and they can come back to haunt you. Also, maybe look into not cheating on your spouses. You’re married, to begin with, and mistresses love selling stories to tabloids (see: famous man who plays Old Man sport, Tiger Woods). If you must do both of these things, at least invest in a quality publicist to deflect any type of blame or guilt for the situation.

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Progressives should limit consumption S pecial Co lu m n by

Amien Essif This is a non-consumerist manifesto, but it is not aimed at the conspicuous consumer or the recreational shopper, nor is it meant to rehabilitate the average Amazon.com addict — unless this person sees himor herself as a progressive, as part of the resistance against the Machine, also known as the Establishment; the military industrial complex; the neo-liberal, heartless and anti-cooperative, unsustainable global system; the invisible hand squeezing the life out of the world.

First of all, consumption of most commodities and services in our society directly funds corporate control.

It is depressing but worth thinking about the fact that the money lobbyists used to intimidate Obama into dropping the public option from health care reform was our money. They didn’t manufacture it. They received it from us.

Of course, the health care industry, as a provider of human necessities, exerts a very illegitimate kind of power over consumers, and in this case, we need collective action to combat the corruption.

But not all corporate power is so easily exposed. CocaCola and Marlboro do not offer a necessary product, yet they are two of the largest corporations in the world and are therefore major players in the corporate imperial takeover of the world. The type of people who use phrases like “corporate imperial takeover” should understand that we are fighting a system of oppressive economics rather than some anti-union clause in a corporate charter. And since it’s a system, it cannot be fought piecemeal. We can march against Taco Bell or write letters against SE Johnson, but as long as we buy their stuff, what do they care? If profit is a corporation’s only concern, it is also the only way to communicate with them.

In addition to supporting a corrupt economic system, consumerism is itself a corrupt system. There is no “good consumerism,” in the sense that any increase of consumption is a step in an unsustainable direction. The United States represents 5 percent of the world’s population but consumes 30 percent of its resources.

Consuming “green” commodities is still consumption, still unsustainable and still an integrated part of the system we believe we are fighting.

Consumerism, which relates satisfaction with the consumption of goods and services through the market economy, is also downright unhumanitarian. It orients our pleasure around goods and devalues pure human interaction. The enormous beer industry is fully aware that college students (likely the most progressive demographic in our country) can hardly enjoy themselves without making a purchase.

Also, when we consume corporate products, we cannot help but consume their ideology as well. There is a capitalist message encoded into every logo emblazoned on name-brand clothing and electronic gadgets and in the lyrics of pop songs. Although we may believe we are capable of filtering this message out and listening to songs because they’re catchy or buying clothes because they look good, there is much evidence to the contrary.

The fact is resistance is futile if we shape our lifestyle according to a system we believe we are working against.

No, it is more than futile — it is counterproductive.

Resistance on our part, as long as we continue to buy their stuff, works against us, because it relieves the pressure that builds up in the oppressive system. Our hypocrisy comes across as insincerity, and thus we make our resistance illegitimate. We look like ingrates who don’t understand that if our country were to turn away from capitalism and toward socialism and stewardship of the environment, our cell phones wouldn’t work so fast, Facebook might shrink, gas prices would go up, Miller Highlife might disappear from the shelves, Nike might stop making our favorite-color kicks, Burger King might stop offering a vegetarian option, and worst of all, Google might shrink its assistance to the people’s revolution.

We are not without hope, though. The Do-It-Yourself movement, growing rapidly on the West Coast, is a real alternative to capitalism. Young and progressive people are learning to recycle materials, garden and reduce their consumption in order to live outside a system that can’t function without us as consumers. We really can reverse the damage of anti-human capitalism, but first we’ve got to stop buying their stuff.

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

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I considered myself up to date on the scientific specifics behind climate change before I attended a climate change ethics lecture here at UT a few weeks ago — it’s such a ridiculously new concept, I almost feel the need to erroneously put “climate change ethics” in quotations.

It was a nice refresher on the theory of climate change, but it also emphasized the specific rate of future temperature trends and the time frames that could be expected — things I was blissfully unaware of. Things are going to start happening in the next 60 years.

However knowledgeable Allen Thompson, the man speaking on behalf of climate ethics, was about the science behind climate change, he was not a climate scientist; he was a philosophy professor. Unsurprisingly, climate ethics was a nice marriage between science and philosophy, empirical data and epistemology.

Building off the rather alarming presented data, Thompson made an argument about the virtue of adaptability. It built perfectly upon my own understanding of the world, that Earth has not always been the way we experience it, that the 200,000 years of human evolution have been lived in very favorable conditions for our species’ progress; we owe every bit of our progress in technology, civilization, language — merely the complexity of our brains that has allowed us to begin comprehending and exploring existence — to the climate that has made up our physical reality ... consistent conditions we never knew had the weakness to be taken for granted. A reality of the balance of natural systems that, for economic, political and social motivations, people continue to resist.

We as a species adapted under very specific environmental conditions: Our climate had as much to do with our anatomy and physiology as the nature of the beasts and predators that hunted and competed with us. We may have set a new precedent for survival in a world that has thus far rewarded efficiency of form and the adaption to very specific ecosystems.

Migrating from Africa, we, a single species, adapted to every environment on the planet with the very furs and skins of the beasts that were bound to the land they adapted to, because our minds enabled us to overcome the barriers that restrict every other creature. But our success was still dependent on the rules of climate, the minimum and maximum temperatures that determined the plants, animals and natural resources

that enabled us to thrive. The deadly irony is that the fragile, serendipitous conditions that have determined our very forms and existence are being subverted by the technology they enabled us to create.

Thompson’s argument is that it is a virtuous thing to, as a species, meet the supreme challenge of our time.

Seeing, as many do, that human civilization experiences gradual moral evolution, climate change is our clarion call, our next big step. Adaptability, being our finest and most defining attribute, is the criteria for our species’ moral evolution. What better way to judge the worth of our species than by how gracefully and effectively we overcome this inevitable, damning challenge?

He outlined what he identified as the two main perspectives of adaptability and progress: a weak and a strong. The weak perspective was, basically, our current status quo, notably, the idea that natural capital, natural resources from the earth, is largely interchangeable with artificial capital: currency, technology and every other kind of capital that cannot be translated back into natural resources.

Natural capital, in all of its forms, is merely a commodity, and as long as our net sum of capital keeps growing every year, with the assumption that the natural and nonrenewable is indistinguishable from all other capital, we're making progress as a nation, as a species.

Moreover, total economic growth alone is the proper pace at which adaptation to challenges like climate change may occur; money will be spent on climate change as it starts affecting world economies.

Remember in “Star Wars” how the planet of Coruscant was just one unending, smelly city? They probably had this perspective.

The strong perspective makes a distinction between natural capital and other types. Progress, moral and otherwise, mandates the consistent preservation of a certain percentage of our planet’s natural resources along with thinking outside economic growth. It doesn’t speak well of our ability to adapt when we leave the planet in a continuously deteriorating state to subsequent generations. It’s selfish and immoral. We should act now.

The presentation was stirring and educational, going deeply into the consequences of a topic that cannot be talked about enough, but the disconnect with his very grounded ideas and the actual political and social reality surrounding them was frustrating.

When the floor opened up for questions, a gentleman, moved by the presentation, asked Thompson why our nation had not mobilized to educate people more about climate change. Thompson said that was outside his area of expertise. Oh, philosophy.

—Wiley Robinson is an undecided sophomore. He can be reached at rrobin23@utk.edu.

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Thus came the show, which at the time of this writing is available on Newgrounds, Albino Black Sheep and YouTube and has amassed more than 89,000 views between the first two Entertainment Editor episodes. Hicks said a possible DVD release is in Once upon a time, two graduates of the planning, but such a release depends on the sucUniversity of Colorado decided to make a per- cess on the next few episodes of the show.

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Episode Two came out last weak and accounts skull are but a few of the entrail-covered means of for nearly half of the total views tabulated in this bringing outlaws to justice. story.

From the looks of things, viewers are flockHicks said the show, rooted in the creators’ ing to the videos and have mostly positive collective love of South Park and likewise violent responses.

As Goremaster battles a familiar comic animation, has been long in the works.

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Monday, November 15, 2010

Vols dominate inside to beat UTC Poole, Vols confident in November from a knee injury and scored four points in five minutes late in the game. Williams was Sports Editor scoreless but did grab eight rebounds.

Fields came close to notching a double-douThe Tennessee men’s basketball team began ble with eight points and 10 rebounds. the regular season in the win column.

“I thought John Fields was really effective,” The Vols (1-0) defeated Chattanooga 82-62 Pearl said. “His energy was terrific. He made Friday in front of a Thompson-Boling Arena some good plays.” crowd of 20,613.

Another Vol who was effective on the night The season opener came on the heels of a 79-64 exhibition loss to Division-II was senior point guard Melvin Goins. Goins had 13 points, five rebounds and three assists.

Indianapolis last Monday.

“I thought Melvin Goins had a terrific game “We made progress, but we’ve got a long d e f e n s i v e l y, ” way to go,” UT Pearl said. “He coach Bruce was a real factor Pearl said. out there. He Freshman really picked us Tobias Harris up. He shot it led the way for well and played the Vols with extremely well.”

18 points on 7Preseason of-11 shooting.

All-SEC First “Tobias is Team selection special,” Pearl Scotty Hopson said.

“He’s added 13 points super solid … but was just 5He’s just a very of-14 shooting efficient playfrom the field, er.” including 1-of-6 Harris from behind the scored seven arc. straight points “Teams are early in the going to go at game to give him,” Pearl said the Vols a 10-3 of the junior. lead.

“Scotty is a dif“I thought ference maker. that was big for He can do me and for a things out there team standon the floor that point,” Harris nobody else can said. “It kind of do.

Without set the tone of Scotty, it’s us just coming going to be very out here and difficult to beat Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon really handling the best teams on business and, Tobias Harris drives the ball up court against our schedule.” you know, guys Chattanooga in the Vols’ home opener of the Junior guard on the team 2010-11 season on Friday, Nov. 12. Harris led the Cameron Tatum got hype, real Vols in points and minutes with 18 and 26, said the team hype, so that respectively, in his first collegiate game. came out with also got me much more enthusiasm against the Mocs than hype.”

Harris played the most minutes of any Vol it did just four days earlier against on the night, with 26 minutes, and impressed Indianapolis.

“Focus and energy,” Tatum said when asked coaches enough in his first career start to what changed leading up to the game. become more involved offensively.

“I don’t want him to be more assertive, “Everybody came out with the mindset of a because I don’t want him to force things,” business-like mentality, and we just executed Pearl said. “I thought he made some really on both ends of the floor in both halves.”

The Vols will return to the court next week good decisions. We probably need to put it in as hosts of the first two rounds of the Dick’s his hands a little more so we can spread it Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-off. around.”

Matt Dixon

UT went on a 17-0 run midway through the first half to extend its lead to 4018. The Vols led 45-26 at the half.

Tennessee outscored UTC 36-8 in the paint, but Pearl said he is expecting to get better production offensively from his big men down low.

“We need to do a good job of scoring at the five position,” Pearl said. “Between Kenny (Hall), John (Fields) and Brian (Williams), we need to find someone to throw the ball to inside and get a basket in a situation that’s not an offensive rebound or a real easy (basket). So I’m going to challenge those guys to do that.”

Hall was still recovering

Volunteer squad can see the difference in the team after what was a winless October.

Managing Editor “Confidence has a lot to do with it,” Poole With two wins consecutive wins, against said.

“We played aggressively, very fast,” UT Memphis last week and Ole Miss on Saturday, coach Derek Dooley said. “I felt like we were the Vols have plenty to be confident about as they see a tumultuous season come to a close readily prepared, we stayed focused.”

Dooley said the team is coming off its best this month.

Tauren Poole, who has 208 rushing yards two weeks of practice, a claim to which lineand three touchdowns over those two games, backer Nick Reveiz agreed.

“We’ve had our best two weeks of practice, is well on his way to helping the Vols accomplish what Nick Reveiz referred to as “No- and it shows,” Reveiz said. “You can see it in our confidence on the field.”

Loss November.”

Reveiz said that Coming off a secthe consistent ond straight week of momentum throughrushing for more than out the game also 100 yards, after tallyhelped the Vols ing for 101 against remain consistent Memphis, a game in throughout what which he rushed for have been rough more individually third quarters this than the entire opposseason. ing team’s offense, “We kept building Poole has had plenty on that momentum,” to celebrate about.

Reveiz said. “We Even so, after the came out after halfgame, he felt the need time ignoring the to address a postscore on the board touchdown celebraand acting like the tion of his. score was 0-0.”

“I would just like to Reveiz said the start off by apologizteam is just aiming ing to Ole Miss for for a good end to the celebrating,” Poole Matt Garner • The Daily Beacon season. said, referring to his “You know, fourth-quarter touch- Fans celebrate after a UT touchdown against Ole Miss at Neyland Stadium on October was down, which came Reveiz with the game Saturday, Nov. 13. The Vols’ Homecoming rough,” win over Ole Miss marked their first SEC said. “We’re trying already well in hand. victory this season and their first win at to have a ‘No-Loss “I wasn’t trying to home since Sept. 25 over UAB.) November.’

We showboat.” don’t want any lossPoole didn’t take off until the third quarter against Ole Miss, es this month. We just want a good end to the even though the Vols led the Rebels 31-14 at season, to come out one week at a time and halftime. Given Tennessee’s struggles play a consistently good game.”

Looking back to last season when the throughout the season in the third quarter, Poole said the team was aiming for a more Volunteers were hammered 42-17 in Oxford, Miss., Reveiz said revenge was not the driving consistent moment.

“We got everything adjusted,” Poole said of force behind Saturday’s blowout.

“We weren’t looking for revenge,” Reveiz the Volunteer offense. “I had to stick with it said.

“They made mistakes and we capitalized and stay the pace of the game.”

Poole exploded in the third quarter, going on them.”

When asked about the season so far, espe36 yards for his first touchdown of the game and giving the Vols a 45-14 edge, and did so cially the sudden advances the Volunteers again during the fourth, taking another hand- have made, Dooley said progress is the operaoff 35 yards for another Volunteer touchdown tive word for now.

“Progress,” Dooley said of his team’s with 8:46 remaining.

Having back-to-back weeks of wins with strides. “We’ve come pretty far, but we’ve still huge margins, Poole and the rest of the got a ways to go.”

Brandi Panter