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Anthropologist lectures on teen alcohol use Research provides information on teen drinking preferences, parental responsibility while the boys preferred beer. There was one beverage that Gusterson found was almost universally reviled among teens.

Staff Writer “The hatred high school students have for wine surprised me most about the lecture,” Nicole Thompson, a junior in anthropology, said.

On Aug. 23, a group of anthropology students and members of the interested public filed This dislike for wine was something Gusterson was unable to figure out himself. into a lecture series held on campus. The lecture, put on by the Anthropology Department, Gusterson also elaboratwas part of a series called “Anthropology in the Public ed upon the role of the parSphere,” which focuses on the work of modern anthroent in teen drinking. In his pologists. study, Gusterson found a “The course is required for anthropology students, variety of attitudes among but is absolutely open to the public,” Dr. Tricia Redeker the parents studied, rangHepner, the coordinator of the lecture series, said. ing from “Social Hosters” The subject of the lecture was based on a study over who permit teens to host alcohol in high school-aged teens, titled “Illicit parties in the family baseDrinking Among Teenagers.” Hugh Gusterson, an ment to tee-totaling paranthropologist at George Mason University and one of ents who searched their the two main researchers of the study, was the speaker children’s bags regularly at this event. looking for alcohol.

The research was conducted with both teens and Neither approach is partictheir parents, primarily through conversational interularly effective, Gusterson views. pointed out.

“It was important for the participants not to feel Overall, he discovered judged,” Gusterson said. that teens and parents are George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Gusterson explained how in the middle of his simply not talking to one research it became clear that there were four types of Professor Hugh Gusterson from George Mason University talks to a group of students in another about alcohol. a lecture entitled “Illicit Drinking Among Teenagers” on Tuesday, Aug. 23.

Gusterson teens at parties; abstainers, moderates, partiers and pointed out the causes that led underage drinkers to begin and offered paths that could “What he said rang true “losers.” Rather surprisingly, he concluded that the lead students away from such behavior. to me as a parent and as an moderates and partiers rarely if ever put down the ex-kid,” Boyce Driskell, an abstainers for not drinking; in fact he found they were often appreciated for their designatarchaeologist who attended the lecture for pleasure, said.

“I guess we’re lucky they’re ed driving skills. alive,” he added about his children.

“We find a sort of interdependence, if you like, between the three groups,” he said.

The entire lecture was smooth, detailed and full of humor. The room full of college stuThat interdependence is decidedly not found within the losers. “Losers” are classified dents was completely engrossed. After a brief question-and-answer-session, the anthropolas the kids at parties who get so drunk they often make scenes and embarrass themselves. ogy students filed slowly out of the large auditorium.

Even the most free-wheeling partiers tend to roll their eyes at the antics of the loser, As the room emptied, Hepner approached Gusterson and exclaimed, “Well, speaking of according to Gusterson. drinks, let’s go over to happy hour!”

Gusterson also discussed drink preferences among teenagers. According to the study, The visiting lecture series is held in the auditorium of McClung Museum every Tuesday vodka is by far the most popular drink among high school students, due to its powerful and Thursday between 3:40 and 4:55 p.m. buzz at a comparatively low cost. The high school girls also tended to sip on fruity drinks,

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Downtown jazz concert free, lively Steele Gamble Staff Writer Every Tuesday evening, the Vance Thompson Jazz group performs a free concert at Market Square.

The five-member group, led by UT jazz instructor Vance Thompson, creates a relaxed musical atmosphere that grabs the attention of Market Square patrons. Tamara Brown, local Knoxville musician and spouse of the group’s pianist Keith Brown, has been attending the event since it began in May. “We have been having great turnouts,” Brown said, “around 150 each night.”

UT students who recently moved to Knoxville have the opportunity to experience the local talent. The event, originally scheduled to run through Aug. 30, is now continuing until Sept. 20. Trumpet player Greg Tardy and saxophone player Vance Thompson will give a final performance on Tuesday, but the rhythm section will proceed with the possibility of a new horn player. The rhythm section is made up of Keith Brown on piano, Kenneth Brown on drums and Clint Mullican on bass.

Preston Shires, sophomore in studio music and jazz, was enjoying the show.

“It’s great,” Shires said. “All of the musicians are fantastic. (They’re) just really killing it.”

Improvisation is a big part of live jazz. The songs are rooted around a pre-written melody, which can be heard throughout the entire song.

During the melody, the musicians take turns performing a solo on their instrument. The crowd at the event seemed to enjoy the solos as they applauded in the middle of a song.

Knoxville is a big jazz town.

“It’s very important to support the arts,” Brown said. “Jazz is really the only art form that came from here.”

Well-known jazz musicians, such as Tardy and Thompson, teach at UT’s school of music. Talented professors attract students who want to take their skills out of the classroom and into the music industry.

As competitive as the industry is, young musicians have little option other than to get involved in the local music scene and try to make a name for themselves.

“There’s jazz all over Knoxville,” Mullican said. “It’s just, you’ve got to know where to find it.”

Thompson knows where to find it.

“The best place for consistency is Baker Peters,” Thompson said.

“They have jazz, I think, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. At least Wednesday and Thursday of every week.”

Another venue, The Square Room, has Jazz once a month.

“They have the first Wednesday of every month. From noon to 1 p.m.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Lily Schaeffer, junior in studio art drawing, Mallory Cowan, senior in studio art painting, and Emily Janowick, sen- there’s a jazz concert there,” Thompson said.

Thompson is also a member of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, which ior in studio art painting, paint trees outside the Art and Architecture Building for their class on Monday, Aug. 22. has concerts scheduled throughout the year.

For more information on the jazz scene, go to knoxjazz.org.

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Tony Smith, Kevin Guice, Anderson Olds, TJ Bell, Timothy Reed, Jonathan Kinnard, Josh Ray, and Charleston Strickland, brothers in the Mu Iota Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, arrive in Union Station in Washington, D.C. for the dedication of the MLK Memorial in honor of their brother on Thursday, Aug. 25.

1975 — Eamon de Valera dies Eamon de Valera, the most dominant Irish political figure of the 20th century, dies at the age of 92.

Eamon de Valera was born in New York City in 1882, the son of a Spanish father and Irish mother.

When his father died two years later, he was sent to live with his mother’s family in County Limerick, Ireland. He attended the Royal University in Dublin and became an important figure in the Irish-language revival movement.

In 1913, he joined the Irish Volunteers, a militant group that advocated Ireland’s independence from Britain, and in 1916 participated in the Easter Rising against the British in Dublin. He was the last Irish rebel leader to surrender and was saved from execution because of his American birth. Imprisoned, he was released in 1917 under a general amnesty and became president of the nationalist Sinn Fein Party. In May 1918, he was deported to England and imprisoned again, and in December Sinn Fein won an Irish national election, making him the unofficial leader of Ireland.

In February 1919, he escaped from jail and fled to the United States, where he raised funds for the Irish

Republican movement. When he returned to Ireland in 1920, Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) were engaged in a widespread and effective guerrilla campaign against British forces. In 1921, a truce was declared, and in 1922 Arthur Griffith and other former Sinn Fein leaders broke with de Valera and signed a treaty with Britain, which called for the partition of Ireland, with the south becoming autonomous and the six northern counties of the island remaining part of the United Kingdom. In the period of civil war that followed, de Valera supported the Republicans against the Irish Free State (the new government of the autonomous south) and was imprisoned by William Cosgrave’s Irish Free State ministry.

In 1924, he was released and two years later left Sinn Fein, which had become the unofficial political wing of the underground movement for northern independence. He formed Fianna Fail, and in 1932 the party gained control of the Dail Eireann (the Irish assembly), and de Valera became taoiseach, or Irish prime minister. For the next 16 years, de Valera pursued a policy of political separation from Great Britain, including the introduction of a new constitution in 1937, which declared Ireland a fully sovereign state.

During World War II, he maintained a policy of neutrality but repressed anti-British intrigues within the IRA. — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

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NEWS

Libya strives for government stability The Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — For 42 years, during the long rule of Moammar Gadhafi, the Libyan government barely even existed: state institutions had little power, the military was kept purposefully weak, tribal divisions were magnified.

Gadhafi was the Brother Leader, the Guide of the Revolution, the King of Kings of Africa. He had no need for an effective government.

Now, a motley assortment of rebels who have forced Gadhafi from power must move fast to create what modern Libya never had, from the rule of law to an inclusive political system. It’s a tall order, but the alternative could be similar to postSaddam Iraq.

“Don’t expect miracles. If you want miracles, look for them elsewhere,” a rebel spokesman, Mahmoud Shammam, warned Saturday.

“We don’t want to repeat the experience of Baghdad,” Mahmoud Jibril, deputy chairman of the rebels’ National Transitional Council, said after opposition fighters poured into Tripoli, heralding the end of Gadhafi’s regime, although the leader himself is still missing. “The whole world is looking at Libya. We must not sully the final page of the revolution.”

But the signals are far from clear, and the challenges to the rebels — a disparate group that includes former Gadhafi insiders, wealthy businessmen and semiautonomous militias — are enormous.

Authoritarian Arab rulers like Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak managed to prevent simmering tensions from boiling over during most of their long years in power, creating the appearance of stability while unwittingly sowing the seeds of future violence.

Saddam’s 2003 ouster after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, for example, unleashed a seismic wave of sectarian violence in which tens of thousands were killed. In Egypt, Mubarak’s Feb. 11 departure sparked a surge in crime, an explosion of labor unrest and the emergence of Muslim extremists as a powerful political force.

Libya faces many of the same challenges as those countries, and in some ways even more.

Because while Gadhafi seized power in a coup and held no formal title, he had fewer limits on power than any other Arab leader. Libyan society was, in effect, governed by his whims.

“A lot of good can be said about the (rebel) National Transitional Council, but no one knows whether this will be enough once it is in charge after the end of civil war,” said Dirk J. Vandewalle, a Libya expert at Dartmouth College in the United States.

He cited a range of potential fault lines, including regional tensions, tribal rivalries and the divide between opposition politicians who remained in Libya under Gadhafi and those who fled into exile.

Certainly, the rebels are trying. After sweeping into Tripoli, they formed a new, 24-member city council, announcing it with a declaration in an empty ballroom at a luxury hotel Thursday even as battles raged with pro-Gadhafi holdouts elsewhere in the city. Only a handful of members were able to attend, braving the bullets of pro-Gadhafi snipers perched on the rooftops of high-rise buildings.

In some neighborhoods, the rebels have also helped organize garbage collection — a major issue, with months of trash piled up on street corners — and many city residents, enjoying their new freedom, are pitching in.

While most shops remain closed, local councils are springing up across Tripoli. In the Souk alJumma neighborhood, a former police lieutenant, Shukri Dernawi, is organizing a local police force.

“We are starting from almost zero point in this situation,” said Shammam, the rebels’ spokesman.

Jibril, the rebel deputy chairman, outlined a roadmap for the country’s transition to democratic rule this week during a visit to Paris. He said a “national congress” would soon be formed to create a committee to draft a constitution.

Parliamentary elections will be held within four months after the document is written, and the speaker of the legislature will act as president until presidential elections are held.

Officials say an interim government should be operating in Tripoli within a month.

But a smooth transition to democracy could be undermined in many ways.

This country has never experienced democratic rule and it is by no means certain that a multiparty system would work in Libya, where much of life is guided by tribal loyalties.

Signs also have emerged that the rebels leadership is unable to ensure discipline among its fighters.

Arguments often erupt among rebels manning checkpoints across the city over whether to let motorists pass. When regime loyalists are detained, some of the captors slap or push them, while others try to restrain their more aggressive colleagues, especially when foreign journalists are present.

Associated Press reporters in Tripoli have seen rebels kicking and spitting on wounded Gadhafi loyalists as they were being taken to a hospital, though, in other cases, regime loyalists have been treated side by side with wounded rebel fighters.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has expressed concern about the treatment of detainees by both sides, but has given no specifics.

There also are fears that the spread of weapons could be used for revenge attacks or other crimes.

But Dernawi, the new local police chief, said he hasn’t had any reports of feuds being settled with gunfire despite the proliferation of arms in the streets.

Jibril, fearing a security vacuum, formed a security committee with all the main rebel factions represented. The new body will coordinate the city’s security with neighborhood committees across Tripoli.

Muslim militants within the rebel ranks also could try to dominate in areas where they wield influence, enforcing a strict interpretation of Islam that would sideline liberal-minded Libyans and alarm the West.

That threat became all the more clear when a close Gadhafi aide who changed sides to become the rebels’ chief military commander was murdered late last month. Abdel-Fattah Younis’ body was found dumped outside the eastern city of Benghazi, the rebels’ de facto capital, along with two of his aides. The rebel leadership has insisted the assassination was the work of the Gadhafi regime, but several witnesses say Younis was killed by fellow rebels.

The slaying, which was widely blamed on militants, has fueled concerns about unity and discipline within the rebel movement.

“There are rebel factions that are not controlled by the National Transitional Council and there have already been extrajudicial killings,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa program for Amnesty International. “The two biggest challenges ahead are security and the judiciary. Every law in Libya needs to be reformed.”

New Norris House opens With the cut of green ribbon, UT marked the opening of the New Norris House, a nationally recognized model for efficient and sustainable living.

The UT student-led team has worked for more than three years to bring the concept, first conceived in a classroom, to the modern and appealing 750-square-foot structure.

The original Norris houses, first built in 1933, are the centerpiece of the progressive, planned community. The affordable and efficient design is one of many innovations that stemmed from the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Norris Dam project.

More than 78 years later, many environmental and economic challenges make the need for affordable and sustainable housing even more vital to our nation, said Tricia Stuth, associate professor of architecture and project manager.

Last year, Clayton Homes worked with the team to design and manufacture a prefabricated base of the house. Many additional partners contributed their resources and knowledge.

The project is led by the UT College of Architecture and Design, and its primary participants are the UT Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, the College of Engineering, and the Department of Environmental Studies.

The house is now home to a UT couple: landscape architecture professor Ken McCown and information science graduate student Mary Leverance. For the next year, it is also a living laboratory to measure energy efficiency, natural light, air quality and the effectiveness of an innovative water infiltration and treatment system. The system relies on gardens to treat rainwater and greywater. The couple will provide feedback about what it is like to live in the home and blog about their experiences at http://www.thenewnorrishouse.com/blog.ht m.

The New Norris House will also be a source of education and information-sharing and will be used for tours and accreditation workshops for professionals and organizations, including the US Green Building Council.

Samuel Mortimer, a 2010 UT architecture graduate and now the project’s research associate, has invested many hours to ensure the house is a welcomed asset to the historic community.

Loy Johnson, a member of the Norris City Council, said the house is a welcome addition to the town’s rich history.

The New Norris House will seek LEEDplatinum certification from the United States Green Building Council, which will

The Daily Beacon • 3 make it just the seventh LEED-platinum home in Tennessee and the first LEED-platinum project for UT Knoxville.

In addition to the Town of Norris and the Clayton Homes Foundation, many philanthropic, business, and industry partners contributed, including the UT Alliance for Women Philanthropists, Johnson & Gaylon Inc. contractors, General Shale Brick, TVA and the EPA. Community members Jeff and Regina Merritt, who are active in renovating other historic Norris homes, helped facilitate the university’s acquisition of the home site.

The New Norris design won a top Environmental Protection Agency award in 2009. The National Council of Architectural Registration Board (NCARB) gave the project the 2011 Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and Education.

Joint Institute for Computational Sciences participates in ‘Kickoff’ A group of experts — including Director of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) Robert Harrison — gathered at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to speak with interested students, faculty, and staff about professional and educational opportunities in computational science and engineering. At the meeting, JICS members noted their interest in expanding the university’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science (IGMCS) program.

Currently, IGMCS is available as a minor, but there is a push to develop the program into a major area of study.

Harrison, also a professor of chemistry, discussed the partnership between Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and UT Knoxville that established JICS more than 20 years ago — a partnership that continues to bring together internationally recognized computational research and faculty members in fields such as physics, materials science, mathematics and molecular biology.

Graduate students majoring in applied math, a computer-related field, or a domain science can apply to pursue a minor in computer science. Fifteen departments within the university are a part of the IGMCS program. A student studying in a department outside the 15 IGMCS participating departments can still apply for the minor after consulting with Dongarra. IGMCS students have worked with organizations like MathWorks, Google and Nvidia to fulfill internship requirements.

The main facility managed by JICS is NICS, the National Institute for Computational Sciences, which facilitates 65 percent of all computational work done under funding from the National Science Foundation. Housed at ORNL, NICS enables research through three computers: Nautilus, a shared-memory machine for visualization and data analysis; Keeneland, a GPU-based hybrid machine jointly managed by the Georgia Institute of Technology, NICS, and ORNL; and Kraken, the world’s first academic supercomputer capable of one quadrillion calculations per second.

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OPINIONS

From the Frontline Conflicts imbedded in faith, science While there is certainly a lot of emphasis in college on acquiring knowledge, it seems to be without any emphasis on integrating that knowledge into a coherent and workable world view. We are all playing in our own little sandboxes, commonly called majors, mine being microbiology, yours perhaps being business or engineering.

I was reading an acquaintance’s Facebook profile, who mentioned something about the ungrounded theories that science is based upon.

He is not a science major, you see. I cannot help thinking that he is talking about things like evolution and climate change, and I am saddened that his education has, in effect, failed him. As I said, he is an extremely bright individual and he is going to do great things in this world, but his notion of ungrounded scientific theories is entirely false.

Personally, I write a lot online about politics and religion from a liberal perspective and I readily admit that all of my ideas may not be entirely based on accurate foundations. I tend to loathe the business world and therefore I probably know a lot less about it than I should. What business courses am I required to take? I took Economics 201 and that was it. Maybe my education is failing me too.

What the solutions even are is beyond me, other than that people have got to start taking ownership of their own education and they have got to realize that college is not supposed to be merely a training ground for the corporate world, a kind of high-cost trade school. We all need to start caring about educating ourselves and caring about learning and knowledge and seek it out wherever we can. Now, while you’re in college, is the time to explore all of your horizons.

Einstein said that curiosity has its own reason for existing, but how many of us have lost our curiosity? I see it every day. A lot of students are just here because they feel they have to be; they have no real desire to learn anything.

What are the dangers in all of this? Does it really matter if someone has accurate ideas about evolution or climate change? I think it does. What happens when we concede our right to the facts,

to our education, is that we then concede authority to others. We then have to rely on others for their opinions and for what we should think. If we don’t have the facts on evolution, then we are prone to listening to the likes of Kirk Cameron or Ray Comfort. What do these two guys really know about the vast knowledge base contained within modern evolutionary theory? Next to nothing. All of their information is gotten second-hand. They are not coming at this issue from an honest and heartfelt desire to know the facts. They have already presupposed their own “facts” and they are only looking for corroboration. That is not honest, and it’s definitely not science.

Another issue I see with the modern notion of a college education is that so much of our knowledge is compartmentalized. It’s how we are able to live an everyday existence. How else can a person claim on the one hand to believe that God had a direct hand involved in creation, while on the other hand knowing that chemically, it all could have arisen, and most probably did, by chance?

During the first day of my Biology 140 course the other day, we were asked a series of questions via clicker, one of which was whether we believed that evolution happens by complete chance or whether God had a hand in directing it. Over 60 percent of the class answered the latter. They know better, though. Don’t they? Even at this early stage in our science education, they know the facts of chemical evolution, yet because that knowledge is packed away into a different corner of their mind other than the one that contains their faith, they are able to hold both competing ideas in their heads at the same time.

Some might be inclined to call this insanity. It’s at the very least self-deceit.

Maybe, though, in the end, it’s all nothing more than a fool’s errand. Maybe we’re all just meant to drink beer and scratch ourselves. Maybe it all really is just about God, guns and country.

In that case, though, we don’t need an education, we just need Michelle Bachmann.

Brain Flatt is a senior in biological sciences.

He can be reached at bflatt@utk.edu.

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

THE GREAT MASH-UP • Liz Newnam

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Avoid loneliness by taking initiative D e ar Rea d e rs by

Aaron Moyer “Mr. Moyer!” I heard as I walked past the library.

I am neither a professor nor a person who deserves such an address, so I was thoroughly confused. It was a fellow student from one of my classes with whom I often share my textbook. We talked for a while and then parted ways at Hess Hall. I was forced to admit that I could not remember her name, of which she was polite enough to remind me. Names have forever been a weakness of mine and it always is embarrassing when I forget them. This encounter was thoroughly uneventful overall, but it sparked to life a few memories of my freshman year here at UT. My first semester here was rife with anxieties, depression and loneliness. I spent my first month here hidden away in my room playing video games and watching movies. I went to class but I was entirely too afraid to even approach anybody else and thus made no friends. I was disconnected and alone, my only real friend was my roommate. Through sheer luck, I managed to wander into the UC while there was an involvement fair of sorts occurring. I meekly wandered around looking at each group’s presentations, feeling entirely lost and out of place.

As I walked by the Film Committee’s booth, an overly excited member approached me and coerced me into filling out an application.

Amazingly enough, I was accepted into the committee and have found what is essentially my second family here on campus. I also gained the courage to go to the UT Medical Clinic and talk to a psychiatrist there. Unsurprisingly, it turns out I have a social anxiety disorder and became medicated for it. That was two years ago.

On a whim, I signed up to be a Welcome Leader in April of this year. It is a lot more chaotic than I expected it to be, but I am extraordinarily glad I am

doing it. My goal as a Welcome Leader is to ensure that none of the freshmen in my charge have anything close to a similar first semester as I did. My duties so far have been about what one would expect. I escorted freshmen around campus for the multitude of Welcome Week activities and answered questions about life on campus. I am most positive I was not the upstanding leader that I was expected to be, but I definitely was able to help the students get comfortable to life on campus. My work is far from over but I know that my group of freshman will not fall into the pit of depression and loneliness that I was trapped in my first year.

Life at college is what you make of it. You can choose to follow whatever path you wish, even if you might not remember much of it. I share my experiences not to boast, nor to preach, but simply to serve as an example of a sadly common path. A lot of freshmen become overwhelmed by the enormity of college life and become entangled in their own fears. Most of the classes that freshmen will take will have an enormous number of students, which will inevitably enforce this feeling of being alone. It is here where you, my dear readers, can change that.

You need to talk to your fellow classmates. If you are like me and do not remember their names then don’t be embarrassed and ask. Having a network of close friends is quite possibly the most important thing you can do on campus. I have had many personal problems, many unsurprisingly in the area of romance, that I would not have been able to get through without the support of my friends.

I realize my advice is not applicable to every reader, but I want it to be known. During my time at Welcome Week, I was able to talk to various freshmen and the most common fear was of being unable to make friends. I am sure some of you already have connections here or are part of a sorority or fraternity, and if so then I congratulate you. The advice I have given is redundant for you, but I want you to acknowledge this and try to help others avoid the pain of feeling alone. Those of you to whom this is applicable, please heed my words. You are not alone.

— Aaron is a junior in philosophy. He can be reached at amoyer3@utk.edu.

Buyer’s remorse plagues Democrats Off the Deep End by

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In the aftermath of the powerful storms that tore through the South in the spring of this year, I, like many, was left with a vehicle riddled with damage from large hail. My car had dents all over its body, had its windshield cracked in several places to the point of being beyond repair, and my sunroof was completely destroyed.

Not too long after the storm, I, like those who were fortunate enough to have an insurance policy to cover the damage, had to deal with an overloaded system of claims agents in call centers and wait on a visit from an adjuster. When the gentleman finally inspected my car, he delivered the news I had so dreaded after I had started hearing stories from those whose cars were comparable in age, price and damage to mine: My car was to be declared a total loss.

So, after a bit of negotiating with the insurance company over just what total I should receive for my dearly dented automobile, off I went, armed with a check and the intention of purchasing a replacement.

I looked all over East Tennessee, but I soon found that car lots only offered equally dented options at highly discounted prices. Not wanting to ditch one hail victim for another, I moved to the outlying states of North Carolina, South Carolina and even Virginia.

I kicked tires, researched options and compared prices. In the end, I settled on a newer version of the car I had.

I soon found, however, that it wasn’t all that I had envisioned. Its 6-cylinder engine did not get quite the gas mileage my 4-cylinder had, and its handling, though still sporty, could not match my old one in maneuverability. I found myself suffering from what every auto shopper dreads: buyer’s remorse.

I’ve got a confession to make, and it certainly won’t be popular with many of my friends over in the College Democrats or with my fellow liberals in the social sciences. I, Derek Mullins, have buyer’s remorse over President Barack Obama.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I am still glad I voted for him given the other offered option. I’m glad I

picked the sleek, sporty model over the dented-up rust-bucket whose wheels looked like they could fall off at any moment. In all honesty, I’ll probably choose him again over the other options being provided by the rival dealers, mostly because I’m afraid the models they’re currently suggesting might run off the road at any point. Still, I just thought I was going to get more.

I completely understand that President Obama has been dealt a tough hand. Indeed, fortune has not been kind to him. The economy has tanked and the mandate he received in 2008 unarguably went along with it.

I, for one, don’t believe you can fault the president for the economy, at least not completely. Sure, there are certain policy measures that they can enact or certain things they can do with the budget that make small alterations, but, for the most part, they have no control over the dramatic fluctuations that take place in a time of economic peril.

Along with his economic pragmatism, I can’t say that I don’t sympathize with his realistic attitude towards negotiating the debt deal. There was, of course, no reason to play a game of chicken with Republicans when default was on the horizon, and compromise probably saved the country from an even bigger upheaval.

What has made the ride in the proverbial Obamamobile so bumpy is what seems to be a lack of direction.

Even dating back to when he first took the oath of office, President Obama has never carried himself as the decisive, head-strong leader that he depicted himself to be in the course of the campaign. From the outset, he made speeches — not too dissimilar from the ones he makes now — that were not very assertive, generally straddled the fence and only occasionally moved towards the left, and he has never acted like a president with a mandate. Had Republicans not made a big deal about it in the lead up to the 2010 elections, you would have never known Democrats held the White House and both houses of Congress.

I absolutely understand the need for pragmatism and compromise in an executive. Without those qualities nothing would get done. Still, there is no defense for a president to act as timid and unsure as Barack Obama is now. It’s time to get back on the road.

— Derek is a senior in political science. He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

Monday, August 29, 2011

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Small town produces high enlistment The Associated Press SUPERIOR, Mont. (AP) — Longtime guidance counselor Dan Lucier studies hallwaymounted photos of past graduating classes at Superior High School, pointing to the teenagers who joined the military.

There are usually one or two in each class of about 30 students who graduate from the onestory wooden school in Superior, a town of 900 residents in the forested northern Rockies.

But the class of 2003 was the most striking for its military service, coming two years after the attacks of Sept. 11 and just months after the country went to war with Iraq. Three graduates of Superior High enlisted in the military, so many that the county briefly held the distinction of producing the highest number of Army recruits per capita in the nation.

One became a military doctor, one is a sergeant currently serving in Iraq, and the third became a bomb disposal expert who lost both arms when an explosive device she was trying to dismantle detonated. The three made their decisions to join the Army independently, but their experiences form a tiny, unique microcosm of young Americans who signed up for the military after 9/11.

Their service also demonstrates how the legacy of 9/11 rippled across the nation, from ground zero and into small towns like Superior thousands of miles away.

Dr. Tim Park, 26, a member of that class of 2003, said he joined the Army out of a sense of patriotism.

“When you hike up one of our community’s surrounding mountain trails, look out onto the grand vista below, and then go home to your warm, peaceful neighborhood sitting next to the lazily flowing Clark Fork, it’s hard not to fall in love with your country,” Park wrote in an e-mail from San Antonio, where he is a captain and surgery resident at Brooke Army Medical Center.

Ten years after Sept. 11, recruiting numbers are down, but Superior remains a patriotic place. Many homes fly the American flag. The bridge across the Clark Fork River was renamed the Mineral County Veterans Memorial Bridge after 9/11. The county courthouse contains a

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homemade display of photo portraits and news clippings about residents who have served or are serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The display includes photos of Park, plus former Superior High basketball star Mandi Metzger and Mary Dague, all members of that Class of 2003. Metzger is a staff sergeant, currently deployed in Iraq. Dague lost both arms to a roadside bomb and now lives in the suburbs of Seattle, where she is an inspirational figure to her friends.

Park said he was not surprised that Superior led the nation in recruiting. People raised in close-knit communities often see serving in the military as a noble job, he said.

“I was taught at an early age to not take anything for granted, and to especially appreciate the freedoms we enjoy in our country,” he said.

“I wouldn’t say that people are unusually patriotic in Mineral County. What I do think is true is that those of us from Mineral County have a heart-strings connection to our country.”

Park is hoping to become a trauma surgeon, so he can help wounded military members.

Metzger did not want to go to college, and enlisted shortly after graduation, her mother Diane said.

“I was surprised,” she said of her daughter’s career choice. “But once she got in, she took off.

It was exactly what she needed to do.”

She ended up going to college, after all, while in the military and has an associate’s degree in management, her mother said.

Diane Metzger admits she worries about her daughter’s safety in Iraq. Mandi Metzger works in food service, which includes delivering food to soldiers in the field, her mother said. Her daughter was looking for opportunity when she joined the Army, and now plans to make the military her career.

Tired of waiting tables in Superior, Dague enlisted in the Army. She rejected traditional female jobs and became a bomb disposal sergeant, part of a team that detonated or dismantled the war’s ubiquitous improvised explosive devices. On Nov. 4, 2007, a blasting cap she was Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon working on went off and blew off both of her Corey Hodge, undecided freshman, plays the djembe in the Humanities arms. That made her one of the few double Amphitheatre on Thursday, Aug. 25. The djembe is a traditional African hand drum amputees among female veterans. that offers a wide range of tones, from deep low bass to sharp high notes.

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Dental Armageddon : Part Two Olivia Cooper Staff Writer One Month Earlier A week after the announcement of a meteor on collision course with Earth, five people remained, and they were not questioned as to why they stayed. It was only a blot in the sky, but it felt like it was hanging directly above everyone’s head.

As Harriet pulled into the parking lot, she saw cars everywhere and people spilling out of the dentist office’s door, getting their names recorded on Natalie’s clipboard. Spencer burst through the door and ran to Harriet’s car. Harriet stood in awe of the crowd.

“Well,” she said, “today will be a busy one.”

“All in need of us,” Spencer told her and held her bags, “so you best hop to it!”

Mrs. Marshall was overcome with calls and paperwork. The few kids’ collective weeping and anxious people’s chatter filled the room with a loud drone. Harriet navigated her way through them, some with bloody lips, some with no teeth and some with mouths already filled with gauze. Spencer appeared in the doorway and motioned for Harriet to follow him down the hall to her usual exam room.

“I’ve got Natalie taking care of new arrivals, since Mrs. Marshall can barely get a chance to leave,” Spencer explained as he put Harriet’s bags in a cabinet. “Stacy has already seen about 10 people, and at around 12 p.m., I have the youth group from my church to fill in for Natalie, so we can be fully staffed. We are going to fix a lot of teeth today!”

Harriet paused. “I appreciate all of the work you’ve done to keep things in order. Everyone seems to have gone crazy. But where did all these people come from? I’ve never seen most of them around town even. I don’t want to step on your toes, but appointments come first. Make those priority.”

Spencer frowned, then smiled and left to tell Mrs. Marshall.

The day ran long and hours past closing time. It was only when Harriet demanded that they start to turn people away did the place eventually clear out. The waiting room was trashed.

Papers, wrappers, cans and plastic bottles were on the tables and floor. People either tore, stole or shoved the magazines under seat cushions. The bathroom had to be closed off midday, and even the break room had been ransacked in an effort to find a place for everyone.

Natalie and Harriet now sat in the waiting area, as Mrs. Marshall dutifully organized new patient files into piles on the floor. Natalie held an ice pack to her neck and stared at the ceiling.

“I never want to look down again,” she told Harriet, who nodded and adjusted her own ice on her forearm. All the scraping, drilling and extracting today had inflamed it.

In the break room, the three could hear Spencer leading a prayer with the youth group, thanking them for volunteering.

The teens marched out the door with their heads down.

Spencer walked in with his hands on his hips.

“Ready for another round tomorrow?” Spencer asked. “I got them to round us up some more.”

Harriet jerked out of her exhausted state and asked, “Did you get all those people in?”

Spencer smiled and nodded.

“You’re lying,” Natalie said from the couch.

“A Truth never lies,” he replied.

“Well I guess any business is good business,” Harriet said and sat back in the chair. “Today’s profits should be through the roof.”

Mrs. Marshall perked up and looked at Spencer, who shook his head with a smile and kneeled down beside Harriet.

“Today’s profits will last forever,” he told her, “because they are worth more than all the money in the world.”

“How much did we make?” Harriet asked. Spencer just smiled and took her hand.

Harriet turned to Mrs. Marshall, who looked on with her mouth open. “He told me he ran it by you,” Mrs. Marshall said.

“How much did we make?” Harriet demanded once more.

“We made everyone walk out of here with a peace of mind,” he explained.

“You were already in back when I got here,” Mrs. Marshall piped up. “He told me you said not to charge.”

Spencer crossed his arms and wore a smug smile. “In our final hours, we will be a beacon to those who need us and in the days to come,” he said.

Harriet crossed the room and slapped him across the face.

“Get out,” she said.

(To read part one, visit http://utdailybeacon.com/entertainment/2011/aug/22/dental-armageddon-part-one/) — Olivia Cooper is a senior in creative writing. She can be reached at ocooper@utk.edu.

Bahrain gives leniency to protestors The Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain will dismiss charges against some people detained during crackdowns against Shiiteled protests and allow compensation to prisoners abused by security forces, the Gulf nation’s king said Sunday in a nationally broadcast speech.

It came more than six months after his regime and launched sweeping crackdowns against demonstrators seeking greater rights.

In the speech, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa offered no clear concessions toward Bahrain’s majority Shiites, whose demands include easing the Sunni dynasty’s hold on power, setting policies and hand-picking government officials.

Bahrain’s Shiites make up about 70 percent of the island kingdom’s 525,000 citizens, and complain that they face widespread discrimination, such as being excluded from top political and security posts.

At least 32 people have been killed and hundreds arrested since protests began in February, inspired by other Arab uprisings.

“We would like to emphasize that we do not anticipate putting everyone on trial.

There are those who were charged with abusing us and senior officials in Bahrain, and we today announce that we forgive them,” said the king in a message for the last part of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

King Hamad also noted that Bahrain’s Supreme Court will oversee compensation payments for victims of abuses or for families of those killed during unrest, including security forces.

“There are those who were arrested, and investigations proved that they were the victims of individual behavior and were illtreated in custody,” the king said. “This is not tolerated by God and we do not condone it.”

“The last few months were painful for all of us, and even though we all live in the same country, some have forgotten about the inevitability of coexistence,” the king said.

He noted, however, that protest-related trials will continue.

Earlier Sunday, a special security court resumed the trial of 20 doctors and nurses accused of links to anti-government

protests. The court adjourned until Sept. 7, when it will begin hearing defense witnesses. The doctors and nurses are among more than 45 medical personnel facing charges from the protests.

Bahrain’s use of the security court, which includes military and civilian judges, has been strongly criticized by rights groups.

The king reiterated Bahrain’s pledge to move all “civil cases” into civilian courts.

It’s unclear how many will remain with the security court set up during months of martial law-style rule in the strategic island nation, which is home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.

In July, Bahrain’s leaders opened reconciliation talks, but the country’s main Shiite party walked out and has threatened to stage further protests.

The U.S. and Western allies have urged for political dialogue in Bahrain. Their appeals, however, have stopped short of putting serious pressure on Bahrain’s rulers, which might risk damaging one of the key military partnerships in the Gulf.

An independent fact-finding panel is investigating alleged rights abuses in Bahrain and is expected to release its findings Oct. 30.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Swedish subculture borrows ideas Patrik Svensson Staff Writer Every time I look back on my childhood, I get that feeling of comfort, safety and a bit of freedom. It’s warm like the summer breeze swirling around my pale legs when riding my bicycle home from school across the countryside of my hometown, Mariestad, Sweden. No worries and no problems. Most of it all passed me by without notice.

I’m just joking. I almost got you there, didn’t I? There were, though, some things that could distract me during my childhood on the Swedish countryside, which were, at that time, seemingly endless video game sessions in my boyish room upstairs, chasing abnormally high scores in “Street Fighter Alpha 2.” However, when the weekend was closing in, or the long-awaited vacations lured around the corner, my scores started to drop like cereal down into a bowl of milk. There were some odd things occurring from time to time.

“What in tarnation is that horrendous music playing downstairs in our living room? And who are these loud people that have occupied our front yard with their huge, shabby, roller-painted and worn out vehicles?” I would mumble to myself. I felt alienated, and that’s why I started to ask myself these questions. I was very young at the time, and quite a shy kid. I wasn’t the first one to raise my hand in school; nor did I dare, or feel obligated to, ask these people nosy questions even though I was at my home ground. So I kept pondering for myself.

Quietly, I walked down the stairs with a mere thought that it might have been wise to bring at least a hockey stick to defend myself. Anyway, I was halfway down the stairs, so it was the point of no return.

Hearing my father’s loud voice from the kitchen and my mother’s hysterical laughter made me feel a bit safe, and before my eyes appeared a crowd of noisy people wearing cowboy boots, jean jackets with cut-off sleeves together with majestic hair-do’s. Dave Edmunds’ hit “I Hear You Knocking” along with several re-runs of “Rocking All Over the World,” made famous by Status Quo, drenched my ears like the Nashville flood. The people who had occupied our front yard, porch, kitchen and living room were, and still are, part of a subculture that is concentrated primarily in Sweden, and throughout Scandinavia. They are referred to as “Raggare,” the Scandinavian subculture that makes my time here in the United States rather significant regarding its influence from the American “greaser” culture.

“Raggare” live by the rule of keeping things simple by not thinking or asking too many questions. They represent a part of the Swedish population that is fairly politically active and in many people’s eyes is considered a lowbrow group of hoodlums. From the ’50s onward, this subculture, like the “greaser” culture, was labeled a societal menace.

Besides the rebellion, noisy behavior and abnormal consumption of alcohol inside their own community, punks and hippies were their main targets of violence. Disorder and havoc was on the menu on a daily basis.

The connection between “greasers” and “raggare” becomes even more accurate as they both have a genuine passion for expressing their rebellious life philosophy through various aesthetics. American vehicles from the early ’50s and ’60s, which are their primary medium to express rebellion, serve the purpose of a Christmas tree on four wheels decorated with everything from provocative stickers, heavily perfumed “Little Trees” to beer kegs tied onto the rooftops.

“Raggare” are, in general, not specifically picky about their apparel compared to the John Travolta’s on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. While the majority dresses up in sweatpants, clogs and t-shirts with stains of beer, there are those who actually move this garbage of Swedish culture through the car wash and turn it into a piece of art; a reenactment of groundbreaking movies such as “American Graffiti” and “Grease.” They are still as rebellious as their ancestors but are more aware of their actions and are trying to reach public acceptance.

There is, on the other hand, one aspect of this rooted subculture in the Swedish society that makes me wonder: the usage of the rebel flag. “Why do they use this?” I often said to myself or close friends. They have absolutely nothing in common except that it relates to their — now so often repeated — rebellious lifestyle. I can guarantee that nine out of 10 “raggare” out on the street in my hometown have no clue whatsoever about what this flag stands for.

As a conclusion, this confused group of people has the American culture to thank for all these years since they finally have a way to communicate with each other. From the other side of Swedish society, thank you for the creation of a part-ridiculous menace.

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Zackery Milleson, freshman in biology, reads outside the University Center on Wednesday, Aug. 17.

Irene’s destructive forces leave flooding, death NEW YORK (AP) — Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power — but an unfazed New York and relief that it was nothing like the nightmare authorities feared.

Slowly, the East Coast surveyed the damage, up to $7 billion by one private estimate, and worried of danger still lurking: the possibility of rivers and streams swelling with rainwater and overflowing over the next few days.

“This is not over,” President Barack Obama said from the Rose Garden.

Meanwhile, the nation’s most populous region looked to a new week and the arduous process of getting back to normal.

New York lifted its evacuation order for 370,000 people and said it hoped to have its subway, shut down for the first time by a natural disaster, rolling again Monday, though maybe not in time for the morning commute. Philadelphia restarted its trains and buses.

“All in all,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, “we are in pretty good shape.”

At least 15 people died in the storm, most of them when trees crashed through roofs or onto cars.

The main New York power company, Consolidated Edison, didn’t have to go through with a plan to cut electricity to lower Manhattan to protect its equipment. Engineers had worried that salty sea-

water would damage the wiring.

And two pillars of the neighborhood came through the storm just fine: The New York Stock Exchange said it would be open for business on Monday, and the Sept. 11 memorial at the World Trade Center site didn’t lose a single tree.

The center of Irene passed over Central Park at midmorning with the storm packing 65 mph winds. By evening, with its giant figure-six shape brushing over New England and drifting east, it was down to 50 mph. It was expected to drift into Canada later Sunday or early Monday.

“Just another storm,” said Scott Beller, who was at a Lowe’s hardware store in the Long Island hamlet of Centereach, looking for a generator because his power was out.

The Northeast was spared the urban nightmare some had worried about — crippled infrastructure, stranded people and windows blown out of skyscrapers. Early assessments showed “it wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said.

Later in the day, the extent of the damage became clearer. Twenty homes on Long Island Sound in Connecticut were destroyed by churning surf. The torrential rain chased hundreds of people in upstate New York from their homes and washed out 137 miles of the state’s main highway.

Rivers roared in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. And in Rhode Island, which has a geography thick with bays, inlets and shoreline, authorities were worried about coastal flooding at evening high tide.

The entire Northeast has been drenched this summer with what has seemed like relentless rain, saturating the ground and raising the risk of flooding, even after the storm passes altogether.

The storm system knocked out power for 41⁄2 million people along the Eastern Seaboard. Power companies were picking through uprooted trees and reconnecting lines in the South and had restored electricity to hundreds of thousands of people by Sunday afternoon.

Under its first hurricane warning in a quarter-century, New York took extraordinary precautions.

There were sandbags on Wall Street, tarps over subway grates and plywood on storefront windows.

The subway stopped rolling. Broadway and baseball were canceled.

With the worst of the storm over, hurricane experts assessed the preparations and concluded that, far from hyping the danger, authorities had done the right thing by being cautious.

Max Mayfield, former director of the National Hurricane Center, called it a textbook case.

“They knew they had to get people out early,” he said. “I think absolutely lives were saved.”

Mayfield credited government officials — but also the meteorologists. Days before the storm ever touched American land, forecast models showed it passing more or less across New York City.

“I think the forecast itself was very good, and I think the preparations were also good,” said Keith Seitter, director of the American Meteorological Society. “If this exact same storm had happened without the preparations that everyone had taken, there would have been pretty severe consequences.”

Monday, August 29, 2011

SPORTS

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Keselowski contender for Sprint Cup field The Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Brad Keselowski was a long shot, at best, to race for the NASCAR championship this season.

Then he turned it up a notch and became a legitimate contender to make the 12-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field.

Now, he’s the hottest driver in NASCAR and is forcing everyone to consider him a serious threat to unseat five-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson.

Keselowski picked up his third win of the season — second since breaking his ankle in an Aug. 3 crash — and took a huge step toward making the Chase.

“I don’t know what more to say about Brad and the (Penske Racing) team,” said four-time champion Jeff Gordon. “They’re strong, and you put them in position at the end of the race, they’re going to pull off the wins. They’re, to me, as strong of a team out there right now.”

It’s an amazing turnaround for Keselowski and his No. 2 Penske Racing team.

He was ranked 21st in points four races ago, when his struggling team went to a test session to work on road course improvement. But Keselowski was in a nasty acci-

dent during that session that left him with a broken ankle.

It’s hardly slowed him.

Since the accident, Keselowski won at Pocono, finished second at Watkins Glen, third at Michigan and now has the Bristol victory.

Although he’s walked gingerly in the month since the crash, he hopped up and down in excitement as he climbed from his Dodge.

“An awesome car, an awesome team!” he yelled. “Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt won this race. It’s a race of champions. There are races that pay more, races that might have a little more prestige, but this is the coolest damn one of them all.”

But Keselowski regretted all the post-race celebratory jumps about an hour after the race.

“Stupid is as stupid does,” he said. “Last 100 laps I was certainly starting to feel it.

But you know, I don’t think anybody wants to hear me whine. Every once in a while I do and they tell me just to shut up anyway, and it hasn’t been very productive. It obviously has felt better. I wish I wouldn’t have jumped off the damned car.”

The win moved Keselowski up one more spot to 11th in the standings, and he’s jumped 10 spots over the last four races. He’s

currently in position to claim the first wild card spot, and could clinch his berth next week at Atlanta by virtue of his three wins.

What’s the secret of his turnaround?

“A team that just starts to click and believes in each other,” Keselowski said.

“We’ve just made good adjustments to our cars over the last few months. We made good adjustments to our car today and we find ourselves in Victory Lane. I can’t believe it, I really can’t.”

Other Chase hopefuls didn’t fare so well.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., Stewart and Clint Bowyer began the race ranked ninth, 10th and 11th, but because none has a victory, they could get bumped out of the Chase depending on how the wild cards develop.

Earnhardt wasn’t a factor Saturday night and finished 16th, Bowyer struggled the entire race and was 26th and Stewart had a miserable weekend — he qualified last in the 43car field, was quickly lapped and finished four laps down in 28th.

It was no better for Paul Menard, who could earn a wild card spot based on his victory at Indianapolis. But he struggled, ran into the back of Denny Hamlin as they tried to avoid an accident in front of them, and wound up 30th.

At the front of the field, Martin Truex Jr. finished second and Gordon was third

despite leading a race-high 206 laps. Fivetime defending NASCAR champion Johnson was fourth and was followed by Jamie McMurray and Kenseth, who led 110 laps.

Hamlin, clinging to one of the wild cards, rallied to finish seventh despite Menard running into the back of his car to cause serious damage. He jumped one spot in the standings to 13th and is currently holding the second wild card because of his one win this season.

“We did what we had to do,” Hamlin said.

“I wish I could race harder, but at this point we have to have solid finishes. If we just handle business the next couple weeks then we’ll be O.K.” Ryan Newman was eighth and was followed by Edwards and Marcos Ambrose.

Kyle Busch, who on Friday picked up his record 50th Nationwide Series victory and was looking for his third consecutive win at Bristol in the Cup race, finished 14th after bringing out the final caution of the race with 87 laps to go when a tire issue sent him into the wall.

The finish also cost him in the standings: Busch is now tied with Johnson for the Sprint Cup Series points lead.

“Kind of disappointing day,” Busch said.

“We just never could get the car to where it would feel like it had in the past.”

Britt avoids suspension for offseason arrests The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has told Kenny Britt and the Tennessee Titans that he will not punish the receiver for his arrests during the lockout.

League spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed to The Associated Press on Saturday night that the commissioner has decided not to impose discipline at this time.

“The commissioner restated his expectation that Britt will be responsible for his actions going forward and noted that future incidents will lead to appropriate discipline,” Aiello wrote in an e-mail.

Britt was the first player from Rutgers ever taken in the first round of the NFL draft in 2009, and he has had seven incidents involving police. Two arrests came during the lockout in his home state of New Jersey, with two arrest warrants in Tennessee for inaccurate information on his driver’s license application.

Goodell summoned Britt to New York for a meeting Tuesday, and Britt said a day later he felt it was a good session with a quick decision expected on whether he’d be punished. The receiver also said the commissioner warned Britt that he better not see him in his office again. The Titans hosted the Chicago Bears on Saturday night with Britt scratched as he recovers from a sore right hamstring and quad muscle, and Britt said after Tennessee’s 14-13 win that he was happy the situation was resolved.

“I hope I don’t get nobody’s nothing, no call or anything again in life unless it’s ‘Good job on the field,’” Britt said about the commissioner’s warning.

“There’s always a doubt in your mind that things might happen to you. But hey, I left it to the man upstairs and prayed about it, and it came out good on my behalf.”

Coach Mike Munchak said now the Titans can look forward to getting Britt back on the field hopefully Thursday night in the preseason finale at New Orleans.

“It’s nice to have that behind us and have it behind Kenny,” Munchak said. “We all know there can’t be anymore mishaps.”

Matt Hasselbeck said Britt is a great player he can’t wait to start working with on the field.

“One of my hopes is that he can get out there and start taking reps with the offense instead of taking reps with the scout team,” Hasselbeck said. “We didn’t have an offseason. We didn’t have OTAs. Now we haven’t really had a training camp together, so it would be great to get on the same page.”

Britt’s incidents involved outstanding traffic warrants, driving without a license, failing to pay bail promised for a friend, and a bar fight in which no charges were brought against Britt after a grand jury investigation.

But in April, Britt was arrested in his hometown of Bayonne, N.J., and charged with eluding an officer and hindering apprehension when police accused him of driving his Porsche 71 mph in a 50-mph zone before leaving the officer. Britt later was found walking on a side street away from his car. Charges were reduced to a misdemeanor and a fine.

A day after those charges were reduced, two plainclothes officers at a Hoboken car wash smelled marijuana and accused Britt of holding a rolled cigar they thought was the source. Britt was wrestled to the floor and handcuffed, and police believed a man with Britt may have disposed of the cigar.

Britt’s charges included resisting arrest, and he faces a Sept. 20 court date after pleading not guilty.

Asked about spending more time in Tennessee instead of New Jersey, Britt said his house is here now with his wife and daughter.

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Volleyball wins Lady Vol Classic ingly having lost their rhythm in the opening game, the Wildcats battled Tennessee to the end in the second game. In David Cobb fact, they led UT 24-23 and had a chance to even the match at Staff Writer one game apiece. However, the Lady Vols held firm and were able to take game two (27-25).

If a high school team played with as many freshmen and Villanova attempted to keep the pressure on in the third set sophomores as the Lady Vols volleyball squad did this weekbut the power of the UT front line was too much for the end, they would be considered a junior varsity team.

Wildcats to manage. Carly Sahagian and Shealyn Kolosky both UT took to the court for the first time this season with juncontributed eight kills for the Vols, but it was 6-foot-2 sophoior Leslie Cikra and senior Kelsey Mahoney both nursing more Kelsey Robinson who led the way with 13 kills, the last injuries, and senior leader Kayla Jeter lost for the season. They of which ended game three and gave were short on upperclassmen UT the victory (25-18, 27-25, 25-19). but not on confidence. Coach On the heels of this victory came a Rob Patrick was not particuthird match in just a little over 24 larly concerned about the hours for the Lady Vols. youth on his squad.

A crowd of 1,938, the second “I don’t necessarily look largest in UT volleyball history, was out there and see freshmen,” on hand to witness the Lady Vols he said. “I see good volleyclose out the weekend against the ball players.”

Maryland Terrapins. Despite an elecPatrick credited his undertric atmosphere inside Thompsonclassmen with being espeBoling Arena, UT was unable to cially knowledgable about record kills early against a stingy the game.

Maryland defense. When the teams “These girls came from headed to the locker rooms after the great club teams that were second set, UT trailed 2-0. well coached and provided “We were six individuals out there, beneficial experiences,” he we weren’t working together, we said. weren’t playing like we know how,” The UT coach accredited sophomore Carly Sahagian said of the these previous experiences team during the first two sets. for why his freshmen played As the two teams resumed play, so well in clutch situations the Lady Vols’ struggles continued as during the Comcast Lady Vol they fell behind 8-1. At this point, Classic this weekend. sophomore standout Kelsey Robinson One of these clutch situaintervened. tions came in the season “I told them, ‘We’ve got to get our Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon opener on Friday. The Lady (act) together,’” she said. “This is Carly Sahagian digs for a ball while coach Rob Patrick Vols found themselves in a shouts directions during a match against Villanova on embarrassing.” hole after dropping the first Saturday, Aug. 27. The Lady Vols opened the season Behind the leadership of set to Ohio, a team that with the Comcast Lady Vol Classic, going 3-0 against Robinson, Tennessee chipped away advanced to the second Ohio, Villanova and Maryland. at the Terrapins lead and survived round of the NCAA tournafour consecutive match points to tie the game at 24-24. The ment last year. However, Patrick’s squad remained poised and teams then traded points as the crowd voiced its pleasure in was able to notch a come-from-behind five-set victory over the the resiliency of the Lady Vols. Finally with a 28-27 lead, Bobcats (23-25, 25-13, 18-25, 25-17, 15-7).

Robinson earned a decisive kill by way of a dig from sophoIt was a quick turnaround on Saturday morning for the Lady more Ellen Mullins and a set from freshman Mary Pollmiller.

Vols as they prepared to take on Villanova, a squad coming off In the fourth game, Robinson led the Lady Vols, recording a season-opening victory over Maryland on Friday. eight kills and 10 digs while leading the team to a match-tying Initially, it appeared as though the match would be even, as 25-22 win. The fifth and final set was dominated by the Lady UT traded points with the Wildcats early in the first game.

Vols as they capped off another comeback victory with a When Patrick called a timeout midway through the opening match-ending kill by none other than Robinson. set, his team was clinging to a 13-12 advantage. The Lady Vols “We changed our system three days ago … When you concame out of the timeout hot, as sophomore Carly Sahagian sider that, I am pleased with where we’re at,” Patrick said. “We recorded a kill to spark a 5-0 run. From there Patrick’s team never would have won this match without the fans …We have didn’t look back as they took game one 25-18. the best fans in the country.”

In game two of the best-of-five match, the Villanova squad, The Lady Vols will travel to Champagne, Ill. this weekend coached by Josh Steinbach, showed resiliency. Despite seemto participate in the Illinois State Farm Classic.

Soccer upsets No. 18 Texas A&M Will Stokes Staff Writer After a strong 2-0 start to the still-fresh season, the Lady Vols soccer team kicked off the First Tennessee Lady Vol Classic against 15th-ranked UCLA on Friday night and played 18thranked Texas A&M on Sunday.

Freshman goalkeeper Julie Eckel played an important role in keeping her team in contention with the two topranked teams. She had a combined 10 saves and only gave up two goals.

The first strike of Friday’s game came from senior Chelsea Hatcher and was assisted by Kylie Bono in the 61st minute.

As the game went on, however, the UCLA offense could not be held down. They recorded two goals in the last 10 minutes of the game to win 2-1.

The game of the weekend, though, came Sunday morning when the Lady Vols went up against the Aggies.

The two senior leaders from Gainesville, Fla., Emily Dowd and Emily Shore, came into the contest looking to lead the Lady Vol attack, along with sophomore Caroline Brown (three goals in three games).

After hard work on defense, UT’s first real chance of the game came from sophomore Caroline Brown in the 23rd minute, after she dribbled through two defenders but was denied by A&M’s freshman goalkeeper Jordan Day. After an unsuccessful through-ball, Day sent a punt into their attacking half and the Aggies had their first shot at the goal, but Eckel made a sliding save to keep the game tied.

Soon after, A&M’s Kelly Monogue had a pair of post shots that denied them near the end of the first half.

In the 35th minute, Day tripped up Alexis Owens to give the Lady Vols a penalty kick. Brown converted, giving UT a 1-0 lead. It was her fourth goal in as many games.

Both the aggressive and fastpaced natures of the game continued through the second half as both teams reached double-

digit fouls (30 combined). The referee also became stricter as he produced four more yellow cards. Most of the offense came from the Aggies as they outshot the Lady Vols 15-8. The Lady Vols defense held strong second half, as they did not want to give up another late goal.

With one minute to go, Dowd intercepted a pass from the Aggies and nearly put the Lady Vols up 2-0. Nonetheless, Tennessee hung on and defeated Texas A&M to advance to 31 on the season.

“I feel the group of girls we have this year are the closest we have ever had since I have been here,” Dowd said as Brown shook her head in agreement. “With that said, we are able to play well together and we are in sync with what we want to do on the field. It should help us down the road.”

Injury Update With about 35 minutes left in the second half, senior defender Hannah Hut had to be carried off the field after a hard collision with an attacking Aggie. Her status post-game was indeterminable at that time.

Emerging Star Sophomore Caroline Brown has been a huge part of the Lady Vols’ success in the first four games of the season. She has scored four goals in as many games, two of which were game-winners. Before this weekend’s Lady Vol Classic, she had been named to both the SEC Offensive Player of the Week and C o l l e ge S o c c e r 3 6 0 . c o m ’s Primetime Performer of the Week. After playing mainly in the midfield last year, she now sticks to being a forward.

“I played lots of midfield last year, but throughout summer workouts and the first few games I enjoy playing forward now,” Brown said. When asked about the possibility of other teams planning to shut her down she responded with, “Well, we have three great forwards on this team and if the other team wants to single one of us out, we will let them do so because any one of us can get it done.”