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Mahogany Soul entertains with slam poetry ple spread of McCallister’s fruit and desserts, Wing Zone chicken with pre-packaged dipping sauces and fruit punch.

Most students filled their plates in a hurry, eager for the event to begin.

“The food was amazing” Lindsay Murphy, sophomore in pre-pharmacy, said.

The slam poetry aspect of the evening was hosted by Taria Person, senior in creative writing, who is also one of the three main organizers of the Mahogany Soul Café event. She went onstage between every individual perOn the fourth Tuesday of every month, the Office of formance, ensuring that every performer got his or her fair Multicultural Student Affairs partners up with a separate share of clapping. organization and creates a café, complete with slam poetry “Being able to be around this great art is the performances. most rewarding aspect of this,” Person said.

Opening night of this event, “The Mahogany Soul “People are able to speak up here about things Café,” was Tuesday evening. It was co-sponsored by they might not get to otherwise.” the Mu Iota chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha. Members of Indeed, the poetry slam was all about speakthis fraternity, wearing dress pants and ties, greeted ing up. Seventeen performers got onstage and attendees as they walked into the crowded corridor of expressed themselves, always in a very passionthe Multicultural Center and ushered them into a ate manner. The performers’ voices rose and fell small side door where the event was held. with the tone of the poems, usually accompanied “The best part of the evening was the live music by emphatic body language. A great deal of the because there are very few places you can see that poetry was originally composed, although some kind of art on campus,” Alexandria Lane, sophomore students sang songs written by others. Jonathan in political science, said.

Kinnard, senior in political science, said he was Some 70 chairs engulfed the middle of the room, very nervous when he sang “Don’t Change” by while three or four tables, simply decorated in black Musik. and white tablecloth, sat front and center to the “There are few chances to express your talent microphone. The microphone, where the main action in front of so many people,” Kinnard said. “You of the evening took place, sat on a stage and was surdon’t always have that ability.” rounded by black curtains, which only added to the Two of the main organizers of the Mahogany atmosphere. To the left side of the stage a small band, Soul Café, Justin Coleman, senior in pre-med, consisting of a saxophone, piano and cello, played and Biaunca King, senior in marketing, said the smooth jazz as people began filtering in. planning for this event begins at least three “My first thought was that it was really small, and weeks ahead of time. This means shortly they I didn’t think all of these people would fit,” Ty-Vonna will be prepping for the next Mahogany Soul Johnson, sophomore in psychology, said.

Café performance.

By the time all 160 guests had crowded into the The show begins with prepared performances Mahogany Soul Café, a member of the fraternity was but ends with a series of open-mic amateurs. on stage insisting that the gentlemen give up their Anyone who would like to try his or her hand at seats to the ladies. While the room was over-crowded, Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon ) performing, would like some good food or even it did nothing to diminish the relaxed atmosphere of the event, and the 30 or so men who were lining the Justin Coleman, senior in psychology, speaks at the Mahogany Soul just wants to appreciate a warm and accepting Café last year. The coffee house event, held in the Multicultural atmosphere is welcome to attend on Tuesday, edges of the room seemed to be a part of the poetry.

Sept. 27.

Along the back wall there was a delicious and sim- Center, features poetry, theatre, and the spoken word.

Alex Pierce

Staff Writer

UT avoids additional NCAA sanctions Matt Dixon Sports Editor Tennessee no longer has that NCAA cloud hanging over its head.

After more than a two-year investigation, the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions announced Wednesday its final ruling on violations involving UT’s football and men’s basketball programs under previous coaching staffs.

It was good news for the university and former football coach Lane Kiffin, but bad news for former men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl and three of his assistant coaches.

"We appreciate the opportunity to close this chapter with the Committee's announcement today, moving forward with no major violations in our football program and no additional penalties from the NCAA," interim athletic director Joan Cronan said in a statement. "The institution cooperated fully with the NCAA and we have a strong culture of compliance, and a bright future is on the horizon for Tennessee athletics."

The NCAA accepted the 20 selfimposed penalties, including a two-year probationary period, effective Aug. 24, 2011, already implemented by UT and the SEC. No additional sanctions were George Richardson • The Daily Beacon added to either program. There was the Bruce Pearl reasons with officials during a pre-season game against Oakland in possibility of scholarship reductions for 2010. Pearl received the brunt of sanctions handed down by the NCAA regarding both programs and even a post-season the actions of the University and it’s staff in both the basketball and football pro- ban for the men’s basketball program. grams.

UT said it will not appeal the NCAA’s decision.

"It is time for the University of Tennessee to put this behind us and look forward," UTK Chancellor Jimmy Cheek.

"The NCAA commented very positively about our cooperation. We have worked hard to make things right and that has been accepted by the Committee. We have great coaches and great student-athletes, and now it's time to go out there and compete."

Pearl was given a three-year showcause penalty for the unethical conduct and failure-to-monitor charges.

"Head coaches bear primary responsibility for monitoring all aspects of their programs and promoting an atmosphere for compliance,” the COI report stated. “It is also presumed that head coaches know or should know of violations in their programs, particularly when the violations occur over an extended period of time."

Three of his assistants--Tony Jones, Steve Forbes and Jason Shay--were all given a one-year show-cause penalty for failing to corporate and act with honesty and sportsmanship. The sanctions essentially ban the former UT coaches from coaching in the NCAA for the duration of their penalties.

Kiffin, who coached only one season at UT before leaving for Southern Cal, will not be penalized by the NCAA after the committee only charged him with committing 12 secondary violations, all involving recruiting.

Ghost tours allow customers to investigate Rob Davis Staff Writer Coldspots Paranormal Research does not offer a runof-the-mill ghost tour. It offers tourists a chance to lead a paranormal investigation, according to organizers.

There are 30 sites, or ground zeroes, around Knoxville, but each tour consists of visiting a few of the sites.

“I am a certified paranormal investigator and I love history,” J-Adam Smith, CEO and tour guide of Coldspots Paranormal Research, said. “I went to the East Tennessee history museum, and I learned a lot of interesting things about the local history. I wanted to show people the side of Knoxville they didn’t know existed.”

The locations are unique to Knoxville and give participants a different view of Knoxville history.

“Knoxville has a rich history, and I’m sure some bizarre stories to go along with it,” Philip Davis, senior in history, said. “This is a great way to get a unique look at history.”

On the investigation, guests are shown how to use equipment, such as EMF readers and cameras, to capture

orbs, changes in energy and apparitions.

In addition to having the equipment, Smith is a trained psychic and will do a psychic reading of the area.

Smith began doing tours a year and a half ago and is set to complete his 30th tour to date.

“Travis Cover just recently joined me as a history researcher and a tour guide. For the first year I did everything myself,” Smith said.

Each month the duo gives four to five tours, but that number is expected to increase significantly during the peak month.

“Our peak month is October,” Smith said. “October is the month where you see a lot of haunted things being set up. During the peak season, we would like to be able to do multiple tours in a night and take the quest to different sights so that each group has a different experience.”

Currently, one of the sponsors for the Coldspot is Sangria on Market Square, which is where the tours start.

“Before the tour, we usually have a meet-and-greet. We welcome them to the tour and explain that we are going on a quest, an investigation,” Smith said. “We go over the

place where we are going and teach them about the equipment, how to capture an orb and how to read the EMF detector. We start moving to each location, and I will give a story about it as best I can. We tell the investigators what happened, when it happened and who it was between.”

In addition to doing the tours, Smith hosts a radio show from his website www.knoxghost.com.

“We cover three things on our radio show: local history, international hauntings and tools of the trade for paranormal activity.”

Smith is currently looking for interns to help him with the radio show.

Positions for internships include someone to work audio engineering and writers for the show, as well as theater majors for tour guides.

In addition to the radio show, the website is also host to a discussion forum that can be found at www.knoxghost.freeforums.org.

“It’s fun,” Smith said. “It’s educational, we have a neat theme on our tour. You’re not just walking around and being told a story. It’s an investigation.”

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1939— “The Wizard of Oz” debuts On this day in 1939, “The Wizard of Oz,” which will become one of the best-loved movies in history, opens in theaters around the United States.

Based on the 1900 children’s novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,”

by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), the film starred Judy Garland as the young Kansas farm girl, Dorothy, who, after being knocked unconscious in a tornado, dreams about following a yellow brick road, alongside her dog Toto, to the Emerald City to meet the Wizard of Oz. Along the way, Dorothy encounters a cast of characters, including the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and the Wicked Witch of the West. Though the scenes in Kansas were shot in traditional black and white, Oz appears in vivid Technicolor, a relatively new film process at the time. Nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Picture category, “The Wizard of Oz” lost to the Civil War-era epic “Gone With the Wind.” “The Wizard of Oz” won a Best Song Oscar

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for “Over the Rainbow,” which became one of Garland’s signature hits.

Garland won a special award at that year’s Oscar ceremony for Best Juvenile Performer.

Filmed at MGM Studios in Culver City, California, “The Wizard of Oz” was a modest box-office success when it was first released, but its popularity continued to grow after it was televised for the first time in 1956. An estimated 45 million people watched that inaugural broadcast, and since then “The Wizard of Oz” has aired on TV countless times. Today, some of the film’s famous lines, including “There’s no place like home” and “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore” are well-known to several generations of moviegoers.

“The Wizard of Oz” spawned two sequels, “Journey Back to Oz” (1974), an animated film featuring the voice of Judy Garland’s daughter, Liza Minnelli, and “Return to Oz” (1985). A remake with an African American cast, “The Wiz,” starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, was released in 1978 with music arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones. “The Wizard of Oz” was one of the first 25 films to be put on the National Film Registry, which is reserved for culturally or historically significant movies.

—This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

Crime Log

Saturday, Aug. 20

Tuesday, Aug. 23 12:48 a.m. — Possible assault suspect from previous case spotted at the Commons apartments attempting to assault other bystanders. Officer dispatched and suspect arrested for evading arrest, resisting arrest and public intoxication.

Monday, Aug. 22 2:30 p.m. — Victim reported vandalism or burglary of a vehicle in the N8 parking lot on Lake Avenue.

3:44 a.m. — Officer sent to Gibbs Hall after an alleged assault. Two male victims sent to UT emergency room.

3:56 a.m. — Two male subjects made contact with an officer near Fraternity Park Drive advising that they had recently been accosted behind a gas station on Cumberland Avenue.

The victims declined medical treatment.

Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the University 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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Members of the Carson Newman athletics staff show support for Lady Vols’ head coach Pat Summitt on Tuesday, Aug. 23. Following Summitt’s announcement about her mental health, Vols fans from around the nation have shown an outpouring of support for the legendary coach.

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Rebels fight for control in Tripoli The Associated Press VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — The White House said Wednesday there was no evidence to indicate Moammar Gadhafi had left Libya, but a spokesman said it was clear his hold on power had slipped even as loyalists waged scattered battles across Tripoli.

Briefing reporters who accompanied President Barack Obama on his vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., deputy White House press secretary Josh Earnest also said officials are closely monitoring the status of Gadhafi’s weapons stockpiles amid concerns that his huge caches of arms could fall into the wrong hands.

At the Pentagon, Col. David Lapan said the U.S. is keeping an eye on Libya’s known chemical weapons storage sites and believes they are secure, but he would not elaborate.

With hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the U.S. role in Libya, even without troops on the ground, Earnest sought to emphasize that the U.S. has a tangible interest in standing with the Libyan people as they attempt a transition to democracy. He declined to give a timeline for U.S. involvement in the African nation.

“There are difficult days ahead, there are dif-

Jake Wheeler • The Daily Beacon

Tony Lam, freshman in microbiology, plays pool in the UC’s Down Under on Tuesday, Aug. 23. The Down Under is hosting a Poker night on Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. this fall, with highest earners winning prizes at the end of the semester.

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ficult months ahead, there are difficult years ahead,” Earnest said. “It’s not a safe place right now,” he added.

In Tripoli, the capital, pro-regime snipers cut off the road to the airport while other loyalist fighters launched repeated attacks on Gadhafi’s captured private compound. Opposition fighters claimed they had most of Tripoli under control, but a defiant Gadhafi vowed from hiding that he would fight on “until victory or martyrdom.”

Earnest said Obama was briefed Wednesday morning on the developments. He also said the U.S. was working to unfreeze $1.5 billion in assets of Gadhafi’s regime to help the opposition Transitional National Council.

Earnest said the U.S. remained in close contact with the rebels. “We are encouraged by the way they have conducted themselves so far,” he said.

The U.S., which led airstrikes against Gadhafi forces in March before handing off the mission lead to NATO, is also providing humanitarian aid.

Lapan said the U.S. dropped two bombs in Libya over the last 24 hours, including one from a Predator drone. He had no details on the targets.

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

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Somewhere... Hopefully Dunk-a-roos bring memories of childhood

Preston Peeden Managing Editor I made the trip on a hunch and a hope. I had no idea whether I was going to find what I was looking for, but I knew I had to try.

I walked through the sliding double doors, their advertisement-plastered facades obscuring the contents inside, and my pulse quickened as I turned left immediately to the far wall.

With each passing aisle, my hopes rose further.

I passed “Chips,” “Candy,” “Cookies” and finally I reached my destination, “Snacks.” I craned my neck past an old woman in front of me, trying to gracefully sidestep her as she hunched over her buggy, and then I saw it. I had found what I was looking for. Standing on the top shelf, between assorted General Mills snack foods, rested the treat I was seeking. I had finally rediscovered Dunk-a-roos.

For those unenlightened few, Dunk-a-roos are quite possibly the greatest snack food ever made.

There is nothing special about the simple formula of the snack package. It is simply cracker cookies and vanilla frosting. But the combination together creates a delicatessen far above the constraints of its garden variety ingredients list — which include such wholesome family favorite items like distilled monoglyceride, folic acid and Polysorbate 60 — as it ultimately results in a treat whose contents can best be described as fun, incredible and life-altering.

The reason for this diatribe describing en masse my quest for Dunk-a-roos is because of what these Betty Crocker sweets represent. For me, these little snack foods allow me to reminisce on a part of my life that I today seem too quick to forget, my childhood.

Ever since I can remember, I have been trying to grow up. When I first learned to ride a bike, I did not bask in the glow of my success, but rather dreamed of being able to drive. When I entered my first freshman orientation meeting for high school in 2004, I did not think about the new friends I was bound to make, but instead fantasized about graduating. Now at the age of 20, and

up until my Dunk-a-roos odyssey, I cared more about my future than the two years of college remaining in front of me. But now I find myself reexamining these priorities.

It is not that my goal of growing older is a unique aspect of mine; we all in some way want to be older. We want more responsibility, more perks and more freedom. But unfortunately, what we want the most is usually what we need the least.

Now that I have the responsibility, the perks and the freedom I had so long hoped for, I find myself no longer wanting them. When I was 15, all I could dream of was a car of my own, and an apartment away from my parents, but now at 20 I hope for the opposite. I do not want the car because I do not want to make the payments, and when it comes to my apartment — though I do love the freedom — I yearn for the days when my parents would keep everything clean and paid for.

When I think about growing up too fast, I am reminded of the advice the German lyrical poet Ranier Marie Rilke gave in a letter to a young man who was seeking his help. The young man had told Rilke that he wanted to skip forward in life to adulthood so that he could bypass the questions and problems of adolescence and fast-forward to the answers. To this, Rilke responded, “... have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answers.” In essence, Rilke tells the young man to just live life, to not worry about the future or the answers he wanted, but to enjoy his present and not fixate on the future.

It is in Rilke’s words that I find echoed my own dilemma. I was too obsessed with the future. I wanted to get to the finish line without even running the race. And it was my preoccupation that blinded me to some of the most important parts of my life. So in the end, all I can say is that we all need to find our own Dunk-a-roos, and in doing so recapture the questions of life before we live our way past the answers we need.

— Preston is a junior in history. He can be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

THE GREAT MASH-UP • Liz Newnam

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Athletes deserve just compensation C ommit tee o f I n f ra ct i o n s by

Gregory Bearringer There is a quote which I really would like to use from the movie “Reservoir Dogs,” which I think is particularly relevant to the current climate of college football. I will use a version of this quote at the end of this article, and I say version because I don’t want to make an editor edit out words I know they can’t let through. Before I get to that, let me explain my current bias.

I am a graduate student. I am classified as a “GA” and not a “TA” because I don’t do much teaching. But I know many TA’s and I know for a fact that they work very hard, they grade tons of papers, they explain things to people who often don’t understand them and who rarely care about them. Along with professors, their work is where the work of any college is done. It is in the teaching of students that one can see the most direct application of funding.

How does this relate to college athletics?

College football also provides great benefits to most universities that have them. They offer exposure, and with that comes funding both direct (from media contracts, ticket and concession sales, merchandise) and indirect (from a sort of civic pride formed around athletic programs). Of course, as a USA Today article from 2010 points out, many smaller universities’ athletic departments are forced to extract directly from the student body in the form of fees applied to their account. But, for the sake of argument, let us use Tennessee athletics, which makes plenty of money and even gives much of their excess back to the university.

At a university like ours, and like many others in the SEC or Big-10 or Pac-12, the athletic departments make what Randy Moss might call “straight cash, homie.” And, the argument goes, much of that money should go to the athletes who are on the field, pitch or court. Because, after all, they are the ones “making” the money ,which ignores the fact that many

universities make a lot of money even when they suck: see Notre Dame. And if we pay them a little more money, the players would not be forced to offer their memorabilia for tattoos, hookers, booze, drugs and thousands of dollars … because then the school would be funding more directly and that’s much better.

As many have pointed out, many college kids are presented with a certain lifestyle by creeps and are not going to turn it down. If they were paid stipends, they would want more. But a full athletic scholarship includes tuition, room and board. Sure, they could use a little more money since most of them can’t get a job.

But think about your standard TA/GA. We also can’t get another job. We are given roughly $1,000 a month for room and board. We have to buy books — often 20 or 30 a semester, many costing well over $50. We have to lead discussion groups, grade papers, do work in our department, read books for class, read for our field, read for our seminar papers and read for our own research. A thousand dollars a month is just enough to make us frustrated. Most of us are forced to take out loans every year to cover the difference.

If the academic arm made money like the athletic arm did, then I am positive there would be uproar about this, too. Instead, most students are overjoyed to receive even this meager funding because, well, that’s the way it is.

So yes, athletes at schools that make a profit in athletics (which isn’t all that many) should get more — but not outrageously more. It’s not like they are left cold and hungry. Athletes are stuck between opportunity and cost.

As Mr. Pink might say, “I’m very sorry the NCAA acts like they own a player’s memorabilia, that’s messed up. That ain’t my fault. It would seem to me that football players are one of the many groups the NCAA messes with on a regular basis. Look, if you ask me to sign something that says the NCAA shouldn’t do that, I’ll sign it, put it to a vote, I’ll vote for it, but what I won’t do is play ball. And as for this non-college BS I got two words for that: learn to apply for a student loan ’cause if you’re expecting me to help out with tats and hookers, you’re in for a big surprise.”

— Greg Bearringer is a graduate student in medieval studies. He can be reached at gbearrin@utk.edu.

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My home webpage is BBC World News. Any time I get online to either check my e-mail, my Facebook or want to play Sporcle, I am forced to look at world news. I am not complaining that this is a particularly bad experience or anything like that. In fact, I was the one who set up my home page as BBC, so in reality, if I hated it that much, I could change the homepage.

On a related note, “The Daily Show” is on its two-week summer hiatus. I assume that every year the show takes a two-week hiatus during the summer because Jon Stewart and other members of the crew need a break and may want to go on vacations with their families. I also assume that Stewart and his colleague, Stephen Colbert, do not understand the impact this twoweek hiatus has on myself and other college students around the United States. During these two weeks, I do not spend any time looking or reading any news on American politics and government. All the information I read about the United States is from a BBC perspective, and not every single facet of American government is covered on the website.

I vehemently believe that during these two weeks, I have the best perspective on American government. It is always interesting to read a perspective that is completely different from the one that we hear blasted at us every day.

Whether the news comes from Fox News, CSPAN, MSNBC or CNN, the American news system puts an “American” twist on domestic news. When I read BBC, there are times when the news is spun to make Americans look a specific way, but much of the time, BBC does a great job of highlighting new, interesting perspectives on the American system.

These two weeks can change my perspective on an entire event, but they are not the only

time in my life where perceptions can be flipflopped. My best friend was in Japan for an entire year last year. After the earthquake, he came home for a week to regroup and visit his family, reassuring everyone that he would and could return to Japan. I, for one, begged him not to go back. I had watched the news. I had listened to the radio. I had seen all the ads asking for donations. I really didn’t want my best friend to go back. He would then go on to explain the Japanese perspective on the situation. After his hour-long speech, my opinion completely changed. His simple enthusiasm for the way in which the Japanese people reached out to each other to help, donate and work toward a common goal inspired me to change my thoughts on the event.

This is one of the reasons I love anthropology.

Every year I look forward to whatever cultural anthropology class it is that I have signed up for. The reason behind my excitement about my major is not the fact that it is my major. Rather, it is the new perspective the class gives that makes cultural anthropology worthwhile. This semester, my class focuses on globalization and the consumer culture that has developed over the past 60 years. Even though only a week has passed since the class started, my mind has already begun to transform and see my life through a different lens.

It is always a great idea to take a step back from life, read a book that is out of the ordinary, or find news about your part of the world that is from another part. It is amazing how a new perspective can change the pattern of life or bring about answers to questions that seemed impossible. Even finding a pen pal, meeting a new foreign exchange student or traveling abroad can completely change the direction of the future. Perhaps this is how people of the world should begin to work with each other and find solutions to severe problems that are facing the entire human population. I like to think that is how our generation will begin to make a difference in the world we are just about to inherit.

— Brittany is a senior in anthropology. She can be reached at bvasque1@utk.edu.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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ARTS&CULTURE

Price: $5, 18+ Our Take: UT students bring frenetic energy and propulsive guitar attack into spastic jazz electro thromp. Eat it up.

What: Erick Baker with Brent Thompson Where: Bijou Theatre When: 8 p.m.

Price: $19.50 (SOLD OUT — $30-$50 from scalpers) Our Take: Tennessee son returns home after three years on the road with everyone from John Legend to Heart. Tickets have already flown the coop, so bring extra cash if you plan to procure admission in the less-than-legal fashion.

Thursday, Aug. 25 What: Jack’s Mannequin with Lady Danville Where: Bijou Theatre When: 7 p.m.

Price: $25 Our Take: Something Corporate singer Andrew McMahon’s side project has become a full-time gig, touring to promote its upcoming third album, “People and Things.”

What: Who’s Bad (Tribute to Michael Jackson) Where: The Valarium When: 8 p.m.

Price: $10 advance/ $12 door, 18+ Our Take: North Carolina ensemble offers all the glitz and gloves of the King of Pop’s ’80s solo heyday. Party starts at 8 p.m. and it don’t stop ’til you get enough.

Friday, Aug. 26 What: Johnny Astro and the Big Bang Where: Pilot Light When: 10 p.m.

TUTORING TESTPREP EXPERTS GRE/ GMAT/ LSAT For over 30 years, Michael K. Smith, Ph.D., and his teachers have helped UT students prepare for the GRE/ GMAT/ LSAT. Our programs offer individual tutoring, practice tests, and computer- adaptive strategies at a reasonable price. Programs can be designed around your schedule, weekdays, weeknights, or weekends.

Conveniently located at 308 South Peters Rd. Call (865)694-4108 for more information.

EMPLOYMENT Babysitter needed for 3 boys. TR afternoon. Transportation required. References required. $10/hr. Start ASAP. Call (865)604-8560.

Caregiver/ companion for adult female with Parkinsons disease in West Knoxville.

Flexible hours. (865)588-1010, leave message.

CHILD CARE. 3 kids: 3, 9 and 12. Near Northshore & Pellisippi Pkwy. 2 to 3 days/week, 2:30-6:30p. $10/hr. Driving and very active play incl sports.

Non-smoker, good driver, swimmer. Must have a car. Resume and refs reqd. LEAVE MSG at 406-2690.

Customer service at local financial services provider.

Very flexible hours. 20–30 hrs/week. $9/hr with no experience. Call Kevin at 865-679-6286 for more info.

Pride & Joy Children’s Academy 4418 Kingston Pike, (across from Western Plaza in the Sequoyah Hills area) has immediate part-time positions available working with school age children.

Hours Tues and Thur 12-6.

Previous experience with this age group preferred.

Please call Jenny @ 414-6072 or 524-7907 to set up an appointment.

EMPLOYMENT Customer Service Representative $12.00 per hour.

Serve customers by providing and answering questions about financial services. You will have the advantage of working with an experienced management team that will work to help you succeed. Professional but casual west Knoxville call center location, convenient to UT and West Town Mall. Full and part-time positions are available. We will make every effort to provide a convenient schedule.

Email: hr@vrgknoxville.com Fax: (865)330-9945.

EARLY EDUCATION MAJOR OR REVALANT EXPERIENCE Part-Time or Full-Time hours needed for West Knoxville family. Flexible hrs, some travel. Respond to Lucy (865)567-1428 or lucyschaad@gmail.com.

First Baptist Concord After School Care is looking for childcare workers, must be at least 18 years of age to work in a Christian childcare environment. 15- 20 hours per week. Apply online at or call fbconcord.org (865)671-5559.

G. Carlton Salon is looking for two part-time, energetic, people-loving salon coordinators to answer phones, book appointments, and help with other duties to keep the salon running smoothly. Call Mary Alice at 865-584-3432 or apply in person at 6718 Albunda Dr. STUDENT AUDITOR PT (20hr/week) Soph or Junior. Can work up to 40hr/week during summer if desired. Business/ Accounting Major a plus. Apply at Audit and Consulting Services, 149 Conference Center Bldg, or call 974-0887.

Receptionist to work on campus writing center (HSS 212). Must be Work Study eligible. Contact writingcenter@utk.edu

Saturday, Aug. 27 What: James McMurtry with Leticia Wolf Where: The Shed When: 8 p.m.

Price: $20 Our Take: The son of best-selling author Larry McMurtry, James McMurtry mixes roots, rock and down-home storytelling into an eclectic, infection blend with songs about long drives, enthusiasm for firearms and gambling at Native American casinos. Must see.

Sunday, Aug. 28 What: Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadow Cast auditions Where: Humanities & Social Sciences Building When: 8:30 p.m.

Our Take: Your chance to be front row in the thrills and chills of this annual tradition, courtesy of UT Film. Bring your fishnets and corsets, and hopefully some lip-synching skill, and see if you’ve got what it takes to be Frank, Riff Raff or any of the other TransTransylvanians.

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Global Research Consultants, LLC. is a boutique information brokerage serving a select group of multinational corporations with information to help drive their strategic business decisions through a targeted “crowdsourcing” methodology.

GRC will hire students on a contract basis, and is prepared to pay up to $1000.00 per contract assignment.

More about this opportunity: www.grcknows.com

Seeking enthusiastic and well-organized student to assist with office duties. Excel exp. required. Submit resumes to ajester@utk.edu.

Single apartment in lower level of home nearby. Furnished with lots of extras. $300. mcombs@utk.edu

ROCKY TOP HOME FOR RENT. 3BR/2BA HOME ON 7 ACRES. 10 MIN FROM CAMPUS. NEED ROOMMATES. COST TO EACH $275/MO PLUS UTILITIES SHARING. CALL JAY AFTER 7PM 865-235-9817 OR JOHN (703)938-5215 ANYTIME. HOME IS AT 1029 BROWN ROAD, KNOXVILLE.

Great North HIlls investment property for family with student. Only 12 minutes to UT. 3BR/1BA, h/w floors, new roof, large backyard. $84,900. Realty Executives Associates, 688-3232; Mike, 789-3902.

THE BIGGEST POSTER SALE. Biggest and best selection.

Choose from over 2000 different images. FINE ART, MUSIC, MOVIES, MODELS, HUMOR, ANIMALS, PERSONALITIES, LANDSCAPES, MOTIVATIONALS, PHOTOGRAPHY. MOST IMAGES ONLY $7, $8, AND $9. SEE US AT University Center Room 221 ON Wednesday Aug.17 thru Friday Aug 26th 2011. THE HOURS ARE 9AM-6PM. THIS SALE IS SPONSORED BY the University Center.

Gynecology office seeks student for PT clerical work Preferred Biology, English Chemistry or Pre-med Major. Monday through Saturday. 8am - 12noon. Email to knoxville_gyn@yahoo.com .

Hiring Nursery Workers.

St. John’s Episcopal Church Downtown for Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. References required. Contact: Paul Ruff 934-4820 or Patty Dunlap 525-7347.

Mature person wanted for full time warehouse position. Detail oriented for inventory. Able to repetitively lift 40 pounds. Apply in person at 6520 Baum Drive.

Knoxville, TN 37919.

Now hiring for after school childcare center in West Knoxville. A super fun job!

Call Robert 454-1091.

Opportunity for marketing internship. Must be self motivated with marketing knowledge. Submit resume to Yvonnca.taf@charter.net.

(865)675-3950.

PT positions for North Knoxville apartment complex. Ground/ maintenance .

10 - 20 hours per week.

Starting $9.00 hour. Call (865)688-5547 for information. Interviews by appointment only.

PT temporary MW or TR shifts available through end of semester at distribution center. Some Fridays available. 5 min to campus. $10/hr 8-4pm. Email availability to timw@alphaindustries.com

Seeking Matlab Programmer $10/hr, flexible hours. Averaging, spline-fitting, csv, etc.

Email DaggerSpawn@hotmail.com with background/ experience.

THE TOMATO HEAD MARYVILLE Hiring all positions Full and part-time. No experience necessary. Apply in person.

211 W. Broadway, Maryville, TN (865)981-1080 or online www.thetomatohead.com.

Veterinary Assistant- Animal Caretaker. PT and weekends.

Experience helpful but not necessary. $9.00/hr. Apply at Norwood Veterinary Hospital, 2828 Merchants Rd. between 3-5:30PM only.

West Knoxville Wine & Spirits store hiring part-time and full-time employees nights and weekends. Apply in person at 307 North Peters Rd or email resume to brent@mcscrooges.com

UNFURN APTS 1 and 2BR Apts. UT area and West Knox area. Call for appointment (865)522-5815.

West Knox newly remodeled townhouse for rent.

2BR 1.5BA asking $900/mo.

10min from campus. Call (865)256-8024.

HOUSE FOR RENT 2BR 2BA house. Includes living room, kitchen, CH/A, W/D, dishwasher, private parking, fenced yard. Walking distance to UT. 2018 Forest Ave. $800/mo. Available now. Also, 3BR house 1533 Forest Ave. Available now. $1200/mo 865-522-3325.

3BR, 2.5BA, W/D, very nice and close to campus. $350/mo. per person. Call 386-5081 or visit www.volhousing.com.

BEAUTIFUL ISLAND HOME PARK 6 min. UT. 4/5BR 3BA furnished LR, DR, den, sunporch, deck, grill. All appliances, W/D, hardwood, security. No pets. $1425/mo.

Available August.

Jim 363-1913.

CONDOS FOR SALE West off Gallaher View Rd. Private, quiet, sophisticated condo. One level, open, large, light rooms. 2BR/2BA, large closets, separate laundry room. 2 car garage. $149,900. Alfred A. Robinson Co. Call Sandy Robinson 865-414-9698.

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BEDS FOR LESS Student discounts, lay-away available. Twin size starting at $99.99, Full $129.99, Queen $159.99. Also carry Futons. Call (865)560-0242.

100+ vehicles $5,995 or less. Specializing in imports. www.DOUGJUSTUS.com Motorcycle For Sale 2000 Triumph Sprint RS. Mileage: 17,000. Tires in great condition. Battery brand new. $2,600 OBO-- Reasonable offers will be considered.

Contact Lee Ann 567-6032 or 689-5112.

MERCH. FOR SALE Look good at the game!

Handmade Orange & White hats, gloves, & scarves. Free Shipping! fangearsales.com

WANTED TO BUY

More towel space.-instantly.

Fits existing towel bar. Triple capacity! Looks great. No installation. Dormitories and homes. www.tripletowelholder.com 1-800-448-6935.

Call 974-4931 NOW!

Wanted to buy student undergraduate catalog year 2008-2009. Also, graduate catalog including M.A. and Ph.d degrees for 2008-2009.

Call 423-562-4732.

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South Knoxville/UT downtown area 2BR apts. $475.

Call about our special (865)573-1000.

ROOMMATES Female roommate wanted.

Grad student preferred.

New house in good subdivision. 3 min. from UT. $250/mo. Includes all utilities, cable TV, cable internet WiFi. Call after 5PM 566-3623.

Luxury Studio. 2BR 2BA. 1,200 sq ft. Stove, refrig, D/W, W/D. Owner/ agent. $695/mo (discounted rate).

207-2452.

CAMPUS 2 BLOCKS 3BR $945 2BR $675- $745.

1BR with bonus room $565.

Restored hardwood floors in Historic Ft. Sanders. No pets.

UTK-APTS.com (865)933-5204.

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LUXURY 1 BR CONDOS Security/ Elevator/ Pool 3 min. walk to Law School. $500R. $300SD. No app. fee.

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THESPORTSPAGE

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Janzen Jackson booted from football team Matt Dixon Sports Editor Janzen Jackson’s opportunity to play football for the University of Tennessee is now gone.

On Wednesday, UT announced the junior free safety had been dismissed from the team.

“Our program has devoted a tremendous amount of energy, resources, support and care in an effort to help Janzen manage his personal challenges,” coach Derek Dooley said in a statement. “I will always be there to help him as a person, but there comes a time when a player’s actions preclude him from the privilege of playing for the University of Tennessee football team.

“Although I’m disappointed with this outcome, we will never compromise the long-term organizational values and goals we maintain here at Tennessee.”

Jackson had battled off-the-field issues leading up to Wednesday’s news, most notably missing most of the team’s practices leading up to the 2010 Music City Bowl last December and withdrawing from school during the Spring Semester. He reenrolled for the second session of summer school.

After Tuesday’s morning practice,

Dooley said Jackson had “no margin of error.”

“I said when he came back that he’s not really back, and I still feel that way,” Dooley said. “He’s day-to-day in the program, and he has been. To his credit, he’s been working hard on the field and we hope he continues to maintain the right level off the field. But I’ve told you guys from the beginning, I’ve always operated as if he wasn’t here, and we’re going to continue to do that.”

And now, Jackson is no longer a member of the football team. Something he said was difficult for him to deal with while he was away from the team.

“It feels great to be back out here with my teammates and my friends, back playing the sport I love,” Jackson said Aug. 8 in his only media appearance after rejoining the team. “The toughest part was being away from this game, the game I love so much.

This is what I love to do in my spare time.

That’s the biggest thing that hurt me while I was gone. I did everything I possibly could to get back, and it paid off.”

Jackson started 22 games in his two-year George Richardson • The Daily Beacon UT career. His play last season earned him a spot on the SEC Coaches’ All-SEC Janzen Jackson fights for the ball against UNC at the Franklin American Mortgage Second Team. He finished his career as a Music City Bowl last season. Jackson was dismissed from the team on Wednesday Vol with 106 tackles and six interceptions. for reasons unspecified by the University.

Titans meet with Chris Johnson, no deal reached The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee general manager Mike Reinfeldt said Wednesday’s meeting with Chris Johnson was beneficial even though no deal was reached to end the running back’s holdout.

The GM expects to talk with the running back’s agent again in the “next day or so.”

Reinfeldt and Vin Marino, the Titans’ vice president of football administration, met Wednesday morning with Johnson and his agent Joel Segal. Reinfeldt said in a statement he felt it was important for them to meet face to face.

“I’m not sure there was any progress made, but I do think it was beneficial to meet. We were able to discuss several different elements of a potential contract, but there was no agreement on those topics,” Reinfeldt said. “I do expect to have another conversation with Joel in the next day or so to discuss things further.”

Neither Johnson nor his agent immediately responded to messages from The Associated Press.

The Titans and Johnson have been far apart on an extension, even though Tennessee officials have said they are ready to make the three-time Pro Bowler

the highest paid running back in NFL history. Segal was the first person Tennessee called when the lockout ended.

Johnson has said he will not report until he gets a new deal even with two years left on his contract and missed all of the Titans’ camp, which wrapped Monday.

He leads the NFL in yards rushing over the past three seasons and has said he wants at least $30 million in guaranteed money. Each time a free-agent has signed a high-priced contract since the end of the NFL lockout only seems to bolster his pay demands.

The Titans open the season Sept. 11 at Jacksonville. If the stalemate threatens to continue into the season, the Titans likely will need to add a veteran running back.

Javon Ringer has shown flashes backing up Johnson the past two seasons as a fifth-round pick in 2009, but the All-American out of Michigan State has only 59 carries for 287 yards and two touchdowns. He also missed the past week with a bruised hip.

Rookie Jamie Harper has looked very good this preseason, especially last weekend when he started at St. Louis. The fourth-round pick out of Clemson currently leads the team with 110 yards rushing on 19 carries with two touchdowns.