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PHOTO continued from Page 1 Heller believes that many people will be interested in the topic given the prevalence of photography in the everyday lives of people. “Everybody seems to be a photographer these days, everybody carries their cell phone camera with them, everybody posts pictures on Facebook and Instragram, so I would think that there would be a broad interest in topics that have to do with photography, whether it’s ‘How do I become a
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Robert Heller, professor in photojournalism, teaches a class outside in Circle Park on Mar. 27.
BOTB continued from Page 1 “We had four bands fight for the top spot by a really close margin,” Dugosh said. “The UC auditorium was sold out for the first time ever. We still have money to count. It includes ticket sales, T-shirt sales, donations and participation fees. We should end up (with) around $2500-2800.” A bigger venue, more performances and maybe even some music videos are all possible plans for the event in the future. “We definitely plan on doing this again due to how successful it was,” Dugosh said. The reception has been fantastic and we aim to
better photographer?’ or ‘Where did this all start?,’” he said. Heller’s enthusiasm for photojournalism shines through when he gives his lectures. “I’ll be talking about the first photograph ever made that still exists today ... imagine with that millions upon billions of photographs made every year ... can all trace their heritage back to that one photograph. ... I think it’s a fascinating story,” Heller said. Heller’s lecture will take place today from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in dining room C-D in the Thompson-Boling Arena. The Science Forum is free and open to all UT students, faculty, staff and the general public.
make the event bigger and better for next year.” Smith was also was pleased with “Battle of The Bands” and the reception that it received. “It was a great event with a better turnout than any of us could’ve expected,” Smith said. “The sororities showed a lot of support for JDRF and our fraternity. We were very pleased with the effort put forth in the performances on stage and heard a lot of good comments from the participants.” Dugosh said the best part of it all was selling out an auditorium for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation on World Diabetes Day. “Our chapter,” Dugosh said, “is extremely grateful for all of the sororities putting forth so much effort for a great cause.”
Canadian monk to lecture on Buddhist worldview, ideas Graham Gibson Staff Writer
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Robert Heller discusses his project on Holocaust survivors in 2007.
Vol graduate wins award Staff Report Former Vol and current New York Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey has been named the 2012 National League Cy Young Award winner, presented Wednesday by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. The first knuckleballer to ever win the Cy Young Award, Dickey finished the season with 20-6 record and 2.73 ERA, while leading the league in strikeouts (230), innings pitched (233.2), complete games (five), shutouts (three) and quality starts (27). His ERA was second in the league to only the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw (2.53), and he trailed only Gio Gonzalez of the Washington Nationals in wins (21). With fellow Nashville native and SEC product David Price (Vanderbilt) winning the AL Cy Young Award, there have now been four former SEC pitchers
to claim the honors. They join Arkansas’ Cliff Lee (AL - 2008) and Brandon Webb of Kentucky (NL - 2006) as Cy Young winners. Dickey, who was coached by current UT head coach Dave Serrano and assistant coach Bill Mosiello during his time as a Vol, joined Ben Cantwell (1933) and Tommy Bridges (1934-36) as the only Tennessee players to win 20 games in the Major Leagues. The third-oldest player in MLB history to record 20 wins in a season, Dickey is also the first knuckleball pitcher to hit the threshold since Joe Niekro went 20-11 in 1980 with the Houston Astros. Dickey is the first Mets pitcher with 20 wins since Frank Viola in 1990. Dickey, who was inducted into the Tennessee Baseball Hall of Fame in January, is the only threetime First Team AllAmerican in Tennessee baseball history earning the honors each year from 1994-96. He was also a two-
time first team All-SEC selection and an academic All-American following his junior year. In addition, he was a member of the bronze-medal winning 1996 USA Olympic Team in Atlanta. During his time at Rocky Top, Dickey wrote his name in the UT record book as the career leader in wins, appearances, games started, innings pitched and strikeouts. Dickey also holds the school single-season records for wins and innings pitched and ranks third for strikeouts. For more information about Tennessee baseball, follow @Vol_Baseball on Twitter or visit UTSports.com/baseball. You can also like the Vols on Facebook at www.facebook.com/volbaseball.
On Friday, Ajahn Punnadhammo, a Canadian monk, will give a lecture in the McClung Museum Auditorium at 2:30 p.m. Punnadhammo, the resident monk of a Canadian monastery, will deliver a lecture entitled, “The Buddhist Worldview and Its Relation to Practice,” in conjunction with the current exhibit in place in the McClung Museum, “Zen Buddhism and the Arts of Japan.” Buddhist practice refers to meditation and the various states of consciousness that can be achieved through such meditation. Punnadhammo is the resident bhikkhu of Arrow River Forest Hermitage of the Thai Forest Tradition, located in Northern Ontario, and is currently working on a book about Buddhist cosmology with an emphasis on the Buddhist worldview as present in the Pali Canon, the earliest Buddhist scripture. His lecture will discuss Buddhist art as well as the Buddhist ideas on impermanence, and will emphasize the Buddhist view of the realms of spiritual existence, from the blissful realms of divine beings to the woeful realms of hell beings. “I will briefly outline the early Buddhist concept of the universe as divided into hierarchically stacked realms, and then show how this view informs and underlies the Buddhist practices of ethics and meditation,” Punnadhammo said.
He also believes that his lecture will help build a better understanding of Buddhism and its beliefs. “In my view, Buddhist cosmology is a fascinating mythological structure that has been hitherto mostly ignored in the western world,” Punnadhammo said. “A familiarity with the mythical universe of early Buddhist would help to round out people’s understanding of Buddhism and illustrate many theoretical and practical aspects in a symbolic way.” Dr. Brian Carniello, professor in history at UT and organizer of the lecture, sees it as a way for students to better understand a different worldview. “As an instructor of world civilization for four years at (UT), I am excited about this opportunity for students to learn about a worldview that has been important to many people around the world and that can be an interesting comparison to other worldviews,” Carniello said. “This talk,” he said, “will relate to Buddhist practice in
the sense that developing a boundless mind means recollecting the full range of possibilities for happiness and unhappiness, many of which are beyond the experiences with which human beings are most commonly in contact, i.e. the experiences of the human and animal realms.” The Losel Shedrup Ling of Knoxville (LSLK), the UT Department of History and the McClung Museum are sponsoring the lecture, which will last approximately one hour and will be followed by a brief question and answer session with Punnadhammo. The event is free and open to the public. Attendees who plan on driving and parking at the event should request a twohour parking permit from the attendant at the entrance to Circle Park for the event. For those who may be interested, Punnadhammo and the LSLK will also be having a retreat that will be open to the public this weekend with an emphasis on meditation practices, the techniques of which can be useful to people of all faiths, beliefs and worldviews.