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Women philanthropists to award grants Flora Theden Assistant Managing Editor The UT Alliance of Women Philanthropists is accepting applications for the 2010 academic year for its Giving Circle Grant Program, which awards anywhere from $5,000 to $25,000 annually. The Alliance of Women Philanthropists, founded in 1998, is made up of UT alumni from the entire UT system, as well as friends of the university, which are women who either live in the area or share a special affection for the school, Suzy Garner, director of development, said. Garner said the women in the alliance created the grant program to find a unique way to impact women at the university. The idea
of this program excited the women because they wanted to learn about things going on at UT which they never would have known about, Garner said. “These women just wanted to reward the hard work of students and faculty,” Garner said. Garner said the alliance pools together about $35,000 annually, and this year, which will be its third round of grants, the alliance has slightly under $50,000 to give for grants. The grant is available to students, faculty, staff, departmental units and student organizations. Recipients will have up to one year to use the funds and are not required to match any of the donation, which is a requirement for many federal and state grants, Garner said.
Individual grants are not given, but recipients could be a couple of groups on campus, like several different organizations collaborating on a project or two departments that are wanting to pursue a line of research, Garner said. Garner said the organization favors recipients that use the Giving Circle Grant, as well as other forms of grants and donations, to fund its research. Lori Calvert, director of alumni programs, said the organization is looking for grants that are innovative and interdisciplinary. The application for the grant is two pages, and Calvert said candidates with a clear, concise application and an unambiguous budget will have a better chance. Once applications are submitted, a com-
mittee made up of five women from the alliance make the final decision. “It all just depends on the types of applications received and what the different groups are trying to accomplish,” Garner said. Past Giving Circle Grant recipients include the UT-Chattanooga School of Nursing and the UT Institute of Agriculture’s Helping Hands Learning Garden. “We helped pay for a percussion group to travel to Mexico and also helped fund research for non-surgical pet contraception,” Garner said. “We keep an open mind about what we’re going to give the money for.” The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2009, and applications must be submitted electronically through the organization’s Web site, http://alliance.tennessee.edu.
Lecture to delve into new military history Blair Kuykendall Staff Writer
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Students dance the night away at the 3rd annual Masquerade Ball at Circle Park Saturday evening. Proceeds go to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of East Tennessee.
Weight-loss program creator examines overeating origins
Author looks at Army’s evolution Kyle Turner
Maria Lund Staff Writer Gerard Musante, founder of Structure House, a weight-loss retreat, spoke to faculty and students Friday about the importance of structured weight loss. Musante, who received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UT in 1971, said his experience at UT helped him when he was starting Structure House. “UT had everything, as far as I’m concerned, in the clinical program,” Musante said. “They had a very unique program when alternating between clinical and experimental psychology.” Structure House is a residential program designed to help people who feel like they have few options left when it comes to losing weight, Musante said. “We tried to create a home-like environment, something comfortable so that something could be accomplished,” Musante said. “In 1977, we founded Structure House. It was a different time. No one worked in this field, and I was counseled not to (start the program) by senior members of the program.” Musante said the idea behind his weight-loss program was to provide patients with a structured
way to look at eating. “Structure was important,” Musante said. “We had a powerful problem, and we needed a powerful solution. We began to look at structure as a way of solving the problem. Instead of telling people the dos and don’ts of what they should be doing, we offered a problem-solving strategy.” Looking at why people overeat is one of the aspects Musante studied when designing his program. “All of us engage in two types of eating: structured, which is done simply to nourish, and unstructured,” Musante said. “It’s like a gas tank: when you’re full, you don’t need to eat more. It’s the same with our bodies, so why do we eat all these other foods?” Musante’s research led him to the conclusion that there are several aspects to why people might overeat. “We began to see that it boiled down to three reasons — boredom, stress and relaxation,” Musante said. “So what we had to do was separate out between structured eating and unnecessary eating.” Musante explained that Structure House has several different goals when it comes to helping patients. See MUSANTE on Page 3
Staff Writer Professor and author Beth Bailey examined the key social and developmental issues in the vastly changing United States Army on Thursday. Bailey, professor of history at Temple University, spoke about her recent book, “America’s Army: Race, Gender, and Social Good in the Post-Cold War Military.” Bailey said that with the rise of the two world superpowers, the United States and the U.S.S.R., military budgets were justified but with the end of the Cold War, the U.S. military was put into uncertainty. “The current U.S. military is a product of the Cold War,” Bailey said. She said when the Soviet Union collapsed, the American government and military lost their “vision of a clear and present danger.” To promote its survival, the U.S. military never gave up its argument for its role of protecting the country but instead began to market itself in the 1990s as a group promoting social good. “(The U.S. military) promotes itself as contributing in times of peace and war and not just in terms of deterrence,” she said. For a time, the military began branding itself through ads as an organization that could take at-risk youth and offer a source of redemption, turning out productive and better members of society. Any and all promotions produced by the U.S. Army have the highest quality research to prove them successful. The Army has at its disposal an array of resources that produce advertisements that are poignant and effective. This is not to say that many might feel there have been certain misses in their advertising, but all promotions were continued with the best knowledge possible for the time.
Though the U.S. Army’s marketing messages and strategies have changed, they have always been consistent in the areas of thorough research and quality. “I came for a marketing class to observe how the military made advertisements,” Nathan Wade, junior in retail, hospitality and tourism management, said. “I think they did an effective job with the use of music, being able to stir emotions.” It was not until the mid-1980s that the military lost gender identity. No longer were ads aimed at unwed women to join and find a husband, but instead, the ads lost gender altogether. Evidence shown by Bailey included magazine advertisements of pictures where the gender of the soldiers repelling from a helicopter was purposely unrecognizable. The military also sought to change its message from a person serving in the military to the military serving for that person. The plethora of skills and knowledge to be gained from military service was highlighted thoroughly, especially in Congressional hearings about the state of the U.S. Army. It seems that the military has moved away from singling out genders and race and has developed the message of solidarity. “The Army claims to serve as an organization that embodies the American Dream and offers a sense of inclusion,” Bailey said. This message of inclusion and fulfilling the American Dream has been especially felt among the immigrant and first-generation communities. Bailey said the U.S. Army has changed throughout the years, being faced with new challenges but has remained vital to national security, morphing itself into a beacon of social good, beneficial to American success.
In honor of Charles W. Johnson, the founder of UT’s Center for the Study of War and Society, Robert M. Citino will deliver the lecture “Pride or Prejudice?: Military History and the Academy” Monday at the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium. Citino, a prominent military historian, is from the University of North Texas. He has authored eight books, the latest “The German Way of War” (2005) and “Death of the Wehrmacht” (2007). In addition, Citino was rated the “No. 1 professor in the U.S.” by the Web site http://www.ratemyprofessors.com, an online service designed to allow students to comment on and review the performance of their professors. He has also appeared on the History Channel. This lecture will honor both Johnson and the center he founded in 1984. “The UT Center for the Study of War and Society wanted a very special speaker to invite for this event on its 25th anniversary,” Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Lindsay Young Professor and director of the Center for the Study of War and Society, said. The lecture will provide attendees with a new perspective on the study of military history. “In this lecture, Dr. Citino will introduce the latest developments in the field of research of ‘new military history,’ which is the study of war and the military in a way that integrates cultural, social and political histories,” Liulevicius said. Citino’s address is designed to present a unique enrichment opportunity for UT students interested in studying history, or who are simply anxious to better understand current events. “A person’s political ideals often color their views about the military history profession and even whether it should be a program of study at universities,” Cynthia Tinker, project coordinator for the Center for the Study of War and Society, said. “This is in spite of the fact it’s popular with the public and a great number of students. We want this lecture to be thought-provoking. Military history is not just about strategy and tactics, guns and armor; it encompasses social, cultural, political and diplomatic areas.” Citino’s address will cover several different aspects of this subject area. See JOHNSON on Page 3