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Engineers put their knowledge to use in Paulding County Staff Writer Besides working for the Paulding County Government in Georgia, Chuck Rann, Mike Jones and Blake Swafford all graduated from the University of Tennessee.

Before coming to the University of Tennessee, the three received their undergraduate degrees from Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Ga. “I knew of Blake at Southern Poly but did not meet Mike until we all met up in Knoxville,” Rann, community development director for Paulding County Board o f Commissioners, said. “Mike and Blake knew each other well d u r i n g Southern Poly.”

Although they attended the same college, the three came from different towns.

“Blake is the only one from P a u l d i n g County,” Jones, county administrator for P a u l d i n g County Board o f Commissioners, said. “I grew up in south Cobb County, a suburb of Atlanta, and (Rann) is from Chattanooga.”

Rann began pursuing his master’s in Civil Engineering at UT in 1995.

Jones and Swafford began their postgraduate careers in 1996 working towards master’s degrees in civil/environmental and civil engineering, respectively.

Jones was the first to begin working for Paulding County, starting shortly before graduation in 1997. “(Rann) worked for an engineering company in Chattanooga for a while and (Swafford) was also working for a private company,” Jones said.

In 2000, both Rann and Swafford accepted positions at Paulding County with Jones.

“He had mentioned to me about coming to Paulding for a couple of years and, in late 2000, Blake and I both ended up starting,” Rann said. “I was working in Chattanooga, but the position in Paulding, at that time senior engineer, was a good opportunity for me.”

After working for a few years with Paulding County, Rann and Jones opened their own engineering company called Edison Engineering Group.

Edison worked on projects in the fields of sanitary sewer

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collection and treatment, storm water management and water distribution.

Rann and Jones both returned to work for Paulding County in 2009.

“Currently I work as the executive director of Airport and Industrial Building Authority in Paulding County,” Swafford said. “Prior to this, I served as the director for the Department of Transportation.”

Projects that Swafford is working on include expansion of the Paulding County airport, a new local highway and the construction of a new production studio.

The Atlanta Film S t u d i o s Paulding County will be one of the first production facilities to be developed outside Atlanta’s city center and made available for t h i rd - p a r t y rentals.

Rann currently works as community development director and oversees three divisions: building and • Photo courtesy of Rob Davis permiting, development and planning and zoning.

Among many responsibilities, Rann makes sure that zoning and buildings are within county code.

Rann has also taught as an adjunct instructor at Southern Poly, teaching highway design and the construction measurement courses within the Civil Engineering Technology Department.

Jones is serving his second year as the county administrator.

“Basically, I oversee the day-to-day operations of Paulding County,” Jones said. “I help ensure that the policies voted on

by Board of Commissioners are implemented. One of my other functions is to manage the county’s budget, which is about $150 million.”

Jones’ position is an appointment by the Board of Commissioners.

Although the three are now well into their professional lives, they do not forget their years at the UT. “We try to make it up for homecoming each year,” Jones said. “We received a great education from Tennessee and it has served us very well in helping us get to where we are today.”

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Google to recruit ‘rock star students’ of any major Jamie Cunningham Staff Writer Google is well known for many things: its popular online services such as Gmail and YouTube, its quirky and creative Google logos for holidays and events and even its April Fool’s Day pranks. However, there’s something that UT students might not know: Google is recruiting right here on Rocky Top. Starting Sept. 9, Google will begin recruiting on the UT campus with help from UT students Kaliv Parker, junior in finance, and Aeron Glover, senior in industrial engineering.

Parker interned at Google in New York City during the summer and was asked by the U.S. tech giant to help recruit more UT students. Parker and fellow Vol and Google intern Aeron Glover founded HowsTheLiving.com, a small business website that allows users to rate and review their student housing.

“I met a recruiter at Google when I was at a conference in New York,” Glover said. “Kaliv, who is now an ambassador for Google, was asked to help the company recruit UT students and he asked me to help him out.”

Now they are working on promoting both Google and HowsTheLiving.com to UT students every Friday.

Though Google attracts applicants from around the world, Parker insists that there is a great resource of talent right here in Knoxville.

“My mission is to show Google that there is talent at schools outside of the Ivy League group, and a lot of great talent is right here at UT,” Parker said. “Knoxville has a lot to offer and we can make a big impact on companies like Google.”

Parker and Glover’s recruitment assistance will be a recent addition to UT, but Google is not new to campus.

Demian Caponi, campus and programs specialist at Google, explained that the tech company has been hiring UT graduates for a few years.

“We have been on campus at UT since 2007 and it’s been a great source of talent,” Caponi said. “UT graduates have joined a variety of teams at Google, including Consumer Operations, Media and Platforms, the Online Sales group and Finance. Many of these UT graduates have joined our Austin location, where they’ve been integral to the office’s success.”

While the two UT students are still planning events and ideas, they expect to be on campus to answer questions and give away free Google swag, food and drinks. They’ll also be telling students about HowsTheLiving.com.

“We are here to answer questions, give advice and prepare students for the interview process at Google,” Parker said.

Google may be a tech company, but Glover and Parker insist that you do not have to have a computer science or engineering major to get a job.

“There are so many functions students can fall into. I’m a finance major, but I’m working in sales. Google has a place for everybody, so I recommend all majors apply,” Parker said.

When the duo begins recruiting on campus, they will not be looking for anyone to fit a specific criteria.

“This is definitely about quality over quantity. We’re not looking for a number. We’re looking for interesting individuals,” Parker said. “I’m looking for rock star students.”

“We are looking for people who are really passionate about the things they do,” Glover said in agreement.

Course highlights leadership after graduation Jessica Vinge Staff Writer Every semester at UT, some courses remain, others discontinue and even fewer are added. This year, the Senior Leadership Capstone Course was introduced at UT for the first time. The course, taught by Sally Parish, assistant director of Student Orientation and Leadership Development, and Michelle Stauffer, director of Student Orientation and Leadership Development, is specifically designed to strengthen leadership skills for those graduating within the next year.

“The Senior Leadership Capstone course is a selective leadership class for graduating seniors,” Parish said.

“The class was created to provide an environment in which current student leaders can further examine their undergraduate leadership experiences while thinking critically about how those leadership experiences can be transferred to the post-collegiate setting.”

The main purpose of this course is to have the seniors constructively look at all the leadership experience they have had throughout their four years at UT and realize that everything they have done thus far is meaningful and worthwhile according to the instructors.

The senior students strive to be more prepared and knowledgeable about what to expect when assuming lead-

ership roles in the professional world after college.

There are several topics that are included in the Senior Leadership Capstone course, including casting and leading a vision, leading people of different generations, resume and interviewing seminar, as well as other skills needed for continued, successful leadership.

According to the course description, found at http://sold.utk.edu/slc, “This course is to facilitate learning opportunities and experiences, which will provide students with the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to assume leadership positions on campus, in the workforce and within the community.”

The course offered for sophomores and juniors called Emerging Leaders was the inspiration for the Senior Leadership Course. Former Emerging Leaders student and UT alumnus, Nick Averwater, is the person who first conceived the idea behind the course.

Averwater worked for hours developing the course objectives, curriculum and content. He is still attending UT, continuing his education in the MBA program.

Averwater was able to parlay his final project in the Emerging Leaders course to the student leadership program. His work was used for the creation of the Senior Leadership Capstone course.

The 15 students taking the course were selected based on an application and interview process.

“We are fortunate to have incredible students in the course who are eager not only to explore and develop their own leadership, but perhaps more importantly, to work diligently to ensure that they are leaving a stable and sustainable leadership environment on campus for the future leaders who will follow in their footsteps,” Parish said.

The course is intended to make an impact on the students’ college career and prepare them for what is ahead, whether it be graduate school or the workforce.

“I am a political science major, and I plan on attending law school in fall 2012,” senior Kara Gallagher said.

“While the class is directed towards all seniors in a variety of majors, I hope to gain knowledge in the difference between student leadership and professional management. I would like to learn how to transfer the leadership skills I have obtained at UT into a career in law and government.”

All seniors are encouraged to apply to take the course when applications are offered next. All students currently enrolled are seniors graduating in December 2011 or May 2012.

It is a great opportunity for the students of UT to have the chance to take this course and better understand what it takes to be a leader not only at UT but in the real world following college, Gallagher said.

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Nick Richmond, freshman in mechanical engineering, and Don Hendrick, senior in nuclear engineering, play at the chess table during the Student InVOLvement Fair and Diversity Festival on Thursday, Aug. 18.

1935 — FDR signs Neutrality Act On this day in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, or Senate Joint Resolution No. 173, which he calls an “expression of the desire ... to avoid any action which might involve (the U.S.) in war.” The signing came at a time when newly installed fascist governments in Europe were beginning to beat the drums of war.

In a public statement that day, Roosevelt said that the new law would require American vessels to obtain a license to carry arms, would restrict Americans from sailing on ships from hostile nations and would impose an embargo on the sale of arms to “belligerent” nations. Most observers understood “belligerent” to imply Germany under its new leader, Adolf Hitler, and Italy under Benito Mussolini. It also provided the strongest language yet warning other countries that the U.S. would increase its patrol of foreign submarines lurking in American waters. This was seen as a response to Hitler’s March 1935 announcement that Germany would no longer honor the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which prohibited Germany from rebuilding her military; he had then immediately stepped up the country’s submarine production.

Although the legislation stated that the U.S. intended to stay out of foreign wars, Roosevelt insisted that the country could not foresee future situations in which the U.S. might have to amend its neutral stance. Noting that “history is filled with unforeseeable situations that call for some flexibility of action,” Roosevelt contended that the law would not prevent the U.S. from cooperating with other “similarly minded Governments to promote peace.” In other words, he left plenty of room for America to change its mind regarding the sale of arms to friendly countries and gave it the right to exercise options to protect her own safety. This came to pass in March 1941, when the passing of the Lend-Lease Act increased America’s military exports to the British in order to help them fight off Hitler’s advance toward England.

1939 — Germany prepares for invasion of Poland At noon, despite threats of British and French intervention, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler signs an order to attack Poland, and German forces move to the frontier. That evening, Nazi S.S. troops wearing Polish uniforms staged a phony invasion of Germany, damaging several minor installations on the German side of the border. They also left behind a handful of dead German prisoners in Polish uniforms to serve as further evidence of the alleged Polish attack, which Nazi propagandists publicized as an unforgivable act of aggression.

At dawn the next morning, 58 German army divisions invaded Poland all across the 1,750-mile frontier. Hitler expected appeasement from Britain and France — the same nations that had given Czechoslovakia away to German conquest in 1938 with their signing of the Munich Pact. However, neither country would allow Hitler’s new violation of Europe’s borders, and Germany was presented with an ultimatum: Withdraw by September 3 or face war with the Western democracies.

At 11:15 a.m. on Sept. 3, a few minutes after the expiration of the British ultimatum, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appeared on national radio to announce solemnly that Britain was at war with Germany. Australia, New Zealand and India immediately followed suit. Later that afternoon, the French ultimatum expired, and at 5:00 p.m.

France declared war on Germany. The European phase of World War II began.

1965 — Ky refuses to negotiate with the Communists Premier Nguyen Cao Ky announces that South Vietnam would not negotiate with the Communists without guarantees that North Vietnamese troops would be withdrawn from the South. He also said that his government would institute major reforms to correct economic and social injustices. Also on this day: In the United States, President Johnson signs into law a bill making it illegal to destroy or mutilate a U.S. draft card, with penalties of up to five years and a $10,000 fine.

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

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Metal band displays talent, humor Donkeys, Batemans shine in Old City Liz Newnam Cartoonist When you grow up in a household where the word “stupid” is referred to as the “sword,” bands like Psychostick make you feel dirtier than last week’s unwashed sweatsocks.

During a couple of late-night study sessions in high school, I would sit at my desk in the basement, listening to songs like “Prozac Milkshake” and “Two Ton Paperweight” while taking out my frustration on my final papers.

In accordance with my upbringing, this review will hopefully leave my dear mother heart attack-free.

I was lucky enough to discover Psychostick in March 2007, when the band was releasing the first cuts of its recordings on PureVolume (back before it was acquired by Buzz Media in 2010). It had four free downloads at the time, including one by the name of “ABCDEath.” In short, it began with a simple xylophone tune, reminiscent of a childrens’ playtime CD — but then, without warning, swooped in the electric guitars and shouting “All right mother********/ We’re gonna go old school/ So put on your thinking caps and **** up!” Then, the singer proceeded to scream the alphabet into my headphones.

Since then, Psychostick has been touring the nation with bands like Three Days Grace and Smile Empty Soul, as well as releasing an album this year on Aug. 16 by the name of “Space Vampires vs. Zombie Dinosaurs in 3D.” This album continues to solidify the band’s status as a comedy-based heavy metal band. Its sound has a distinct mixture of System of a Down-inspired vocals and the festivity of Lemon Demon, earning the band a distinguished place in music libraries everywhere.

The Tempe, Ariz. natives have a true understanding of the meaning of heavy metal music.

In fact, they understand heavy metal in the way that the film “This is Spinal Tap” (1984) understands ’80s hair metal bands: well enough to the point of mockery. This is all too evident in their track “Intervention for a Good Mood,” a spoken-word track in which the rest of the band confronts one of its members about his optimism: “I’m not sure how to put this gently, so I’m just going to go ahead and say it. Your positive vibes and your attitude — your positive attitude — and your just being happy in general are just not good for metal.”

By pointing out that one of its band members is too happy, Psychostick pokes fun at the

bands that take the “tortured soul” far too seriously.

Psychostick seems far from the “tortured soul” type. In fact, I might venture to say that the members laugh all the way to the bank after recording most of their tracks. The first full-length song the listener encounters is the second track, “Welcome to the Show.” After a steady guitar thrashing and heavy drums, lead singer Josh “The J” Key begins “We are Psychostick!/ I like to yell into the microphone/ I like to say bad words.” Straight off the bat, they establish themselves as a comedy metal band, because no serious metal band would ever verbally convey to a crowd that it likes to swear.

Psychostick has a certain knack for picking out the smallest and most specific instances to take out its anger on. “Hate Times 8” is a list of the smallest daily annoyances, even stating: “I hate all of that … even what I’m saying right now!” Metal bands are known for having a bit of an edge to their music, but Psychostick, with its over-the-top declarations of hatred of small things, makes light of the situation.

Following in suit, “It’s Just a Movie, Stupid” goes through various Hollywood plug-andchug romantic comedy plots, punctuated with accusations that it is all bull-hockey. In addition, “Root of All Evil” is an extended ballad of hatred for dentist visits.

Just when you think Psychostick has absolutely no idea where heavy metal came from, and that the members are running around rampantly like oversexed adolescents on a sugar-high, they surprise the listener with a cover of Drowning Pool’s “Bodies (Let the Bodies Hit the Floor).” This seems uncharacteristic of the band, until the listener realizes that they have changed the lyrics from “Let the bodies hit the floor” to “I can only count to four” and proceed to sing about numbers.

Though it has been a pleasure to see this band grow and flourish into the unique “Guitar Hero” guitar and rubber chickenwielding comedy heavy metal band it is today, Psychostick has a certain novelty effect that is difficult to escape. While it may be nice to check out from the local library for the sheer disbelief that a heavy metal band would compose an entire song about a small, yippy dog, “Six Pounds of Terror,” after its three weeks are up, you will be glad to return it. Don’t worry, though. If you borrow it a second time, we won’t tell mom.

Patrik Svensson Staff Writer “Just for explorers.”

That is how Jason Boardman, owner of Pilot Light, would describe his underground music venue in Knoxville. The downtown venue, with 11 years of involvement in the local scene, has served as a “music train station,” as Boardman puts it.

While the majority of the bands playing Pilot Light are local, the venue has regular visits from bands from all over the nation.

On Monday night, California-based rock band The Donkeys, along with local act The Batemans, performed a sparkling show in the Old City.

The atmosphere at Pilot Light on Monday was similar to when Jiminy Cricket sings “When You Wish upon a Star” in the Disney classic and the characters slowly come forward to listen to his tender voice. Together with an acoustic guitar, a small drum set and a fiddle, The Batemans draw a bigger crowd as the songs are checked one by one off the setlist. The folk-inspired songs remind listeners of early works by ex-Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante as well as rising Winchester-born punk rocker Frank Turner.

“Don’t worry, it gets darker,” Tom

Bateman, lead singer of The Batemans, said.

The music crawls upon your skin and into your soul, where the intimacy and intensity gives you an almost claustrophobic feeling, but in a pleasant way.

The clock was ticking close to midnight as the long-awaited, long-traveled act from California entered the stage for a final tuning of their instruments. With the green light on, “West Coast Raga” hit the amplifiers with its mystical sounds from Jessie Gulati’s sitar.

Saving no energy, the band moved on to intense rock ‘n’ roll-breathing tracks, such as “Born with Stripes,” where the crowd went completely haywire.

A new track for this particular evening was “Dolphin Center,” which the band hadn’t played for a long time. During the performance, I felt a strong connection to the legendary Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Keyboardist Anthony Lukens clarified.

“We’ve had a lot of influences in our music, where Creedence is one of them,” Lukens said.

With a crowd hungry and screaming for more, The Donkeys rounded off the evening with the popular “Excelsior Lady” and “Downtown Jenny,” as well as a ravaging cover with Lukens, turning Pilot Light into a complete meltdown.

Social media invite causes uproar The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — An apartment complex near Colorado State University that used Facebook to advertise “the biggest pool party of the year” got more than it bargained for — at least 2,000 people, most of them college students, showed up.

It wasn’t long before the police followed.

Four people, including two CSU football players, were arrested at the Fort Collins apartment complex on Saturday. Ten people were taken to the hospital, most of them for overconsumption of alcohol or minor injuries.

“Some people came from as far away as Denver for this back-to-school party,” Fort Collins police Lt. Hal Dean said on Monday.

The party’s Facebook page had nearly 3,000 registered people. Dean said police estimated at least 2,000 people showed up at the complex about 65 miles north of Denver. Officers had to shut down surrounding streets while they cleared the complex.

The use of social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to spread word of everything from parties to freedom movements has increased exponentially in recent months. In some cases, the events have led to street trouble.

In Los Angeles in July, a simple tweet by DJ Kaskade telling his followers about a free block

party lured thousands of raucous ravers to the landmark Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

Things turned rowdy, with revelers hurling bottles at police and some jumping on a squad car.

In Fort Collins, firefighters and ambulance crews told police of the out-of-control party at the Ram’s Pointe apartment complex.

Dean said police weren’t monitoring the Facebook party site — something some police agencies have begun to do after social media was used by rioters in England to organize looting and by organizers of so-called flash mobs in several U.S. cities.

The apartment complex did not respond to telephone calls seeking comment on Monday.

Police said complex management could be cited under the city’s nuisance gathering ordinance.

Police said Monday that James Skelton, 21, was cited for third degree assault. The charges were related to a fight. Zachary Tiedgen, 21, was cited for disorderly conduct. Two others were charged.

Skelton is a linebacker and Tiedgen a defensive end on the CSU Rams football team, assistant athletic director Gary Ozello said. Head coach Steve Fairchild refused comment and said the incident is under investigation.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Ozello said the athletic department has a strict social media policy that warns players not to post Monica Cota and Amy Poland, sophomores in interior design, move a piece of wood anything to embarrass the team. for their class on Aug. 22.

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Editor’s Note Bernanke passes buck to Washington

Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief What’s wrong with the American economy?

There are several individuals who might venture a guess, most of whom gathered in Jackson Hole last week at the Federal Reserve’s annual retreat.

Discussions centered on slow job growth, a weak housing market and fears of another global recession. Ben Bernanke passed along his opinion on several issues outside the central bank’s jurisdiction, such as Europe’s debt crisis and the U.S. government’s deficit.

If anything, the Fed chair’s remarks simply passed on responsibility for America’s economic woes to Washington and Congress. Bernanke hinted that the Fed would keep it’s eye on the economy in the short run, but the burden of long-term economic improvement rested in the hands of policymakers.

The chairman’s approach disappointed the market at first, with investors previously hoping for another round of quantitative easing. Concerns about inflation are clearly weighing heavily on the FOMC. The Dow finished last Friday in the green despite any concrete promises from the Fed, possibly in response to hopes of tightened fiscal policy.

Despite some worries of slowing an already anemic economy, the Fed’s approach was likely the most prudent. Interest rates really can’t fall any lower, and an additional inflation tax down the road could be disastrous for America’s future.

Per usual, dismal housing numbers were blamed for hindering economic growth. Rebound in the housing market has historically served as a spring board to pull the economy out of recession, but this recovery is markedly distinct. Since collapse in the housing market was a fundamental part of the most recent recession, economists have little precedent to draw on in predicting the U.S.’s path to recovery.

In Wyoming, monetary leaders discussed possible

strategies to relieve pressure in the housing market.

One proposal by Glenn Hubbard of Columbia University’s business school would allow any homeowner currently on a government payment plan, even those upside down on their mortgages, to refinance. The plan could potentially affect 37 million homeowners.

Business leaders have indicated that interest rates are not the issue hindering investment, instead blaming conditions of general financial uncertainty.

For complex topics like the outlook of the American economy, it’s usually best to let the data speak for itself.

Take the recent survey of consumer confidence collected by the University of Michigan. Consumers reported feeling the least secure in spending since November 2008. The Conference Board, a private research firm, also came out with a low consumer confidence report this week. Numbers like those can make retailers cut back production in anticipation of docked demand.

On a more positive note, consumer spending was up 0.8 percent in July, though that gain was reported before the financial roller coaster that ensued during August.

Concerns in Jackson Hole weren’t limited to the American economy. In an increasingly integrated global financial system, one nation’s woes are quickly becoming pandemic.

In recent comments, IMF head Christine Lagarde took a similar stance to Bernanke on interest rates.

With fears of a second global slowdown, Lagarde stressed a need to keep monetary policy loose, believing that the risks of another recession are far greater than increased inflation. Lagarde’s remarks come in the wake of troubling weeks for the U.S. and the EU. The European Central Bank recently turned its attention to the purchase of both Italian and Spanish bonds.

For the last few days Wall Street has been relatively quiet, as investors await the announcement of new unemployment numbers on Friday. After an abysmal August, investors hope to start September on a better note.

— Blair Kuykendall is a junior in the College Scholars Program. She can be reached bkuykend@utk.edu.

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College should not be conveyer belt Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnette You know those action movies where the hero has to save the city by dismantling a large and powerful explosive before time runs out? The pressure builds as the hero pulls off the bomb’s casing only to find a twisted mass of wires. Sweat drips slowly down his forehead as he wonders out loud in an accented voice that’s smooth as silk, “Is it the red? The yellow?” A digital clock attached to the detonator counts backward from 27 seconds as the hero scrambles to make a decision. Finally, in a leap of extraordinary faith, he cuts the yellow wire. There’s a dramatic pause before the camera pans out to show the exhausted hero collapsed beside the now-harmless device. Later, he gets the girl.

A story like that one is probably familiar to most of you; maybe you’ve even imagined yourself as the ridiculously cool/smart/wealthy hero at some point in your life. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course. I even still occasionally daydream about being a villain, though it’s mainly for the glamour and the hope that I’ll turn out to be good in the end.

Unfortunately, though, real life isn’t like the movies. The reality we’re charged with offers up very few opportunities for advancement in the hero trade, and you can’t major in Hot Girl Rescuing and Ethics (at least not at this university). Instead, our career paths seem, by comparison, fairly straightforward. Boring, even. If you want to be an engineer, you major in engineering. If you want to be a lawyer, you do pre-law. If you want to be a public servant, you might major in political science.

If you want to be a secret agent, well … You can see how the well runs dry as the dreamers wake up.

Depressing though it might be once you realize it, often our aspirations (or our hidden, subconscious desires) are needlessly tied up in

romanticism. Which is great if you can swing it, but most real, living human beings don’t have the opportunity to live a life full of action, adventure and expensive threads — and this can lead to disillusionment, especially for young people just about to embark on their own journey towards a Utopian adulthood. It’s when suddenly a sheriff’s car doesn’t look quite as appealing as a Bentley. It’s when you realize that your computer doesn’t create holograms, and is, in fact, merely broken.

With so much importance placed on getting a job, finding a career or settling down, it is easy to see how we’ve gotten wrapped up in expectations of grandeur. Not only do we expect it, but we deeply feel the need of it. And while some of you may feel “locked in” at this point, let me remind you that we don’t live in a rigid, strictly exclusive caste system. You have the power to choose — at pretty much any point — that whatever you’re working toward isn’t a good fit and you can move on to something else. Academic advisers don’t tend to stress that to juniors and seniors, maybe, but of course it’s not like I don’t support achievement and completion myself. It all depends on what you hope to become.

And if you think that I’ve suddenly changed tunes, that’s because I have. Because as hopeless and ultimately unfulfilling a hazy fantasy life might be, the alternative is much more grim. At this point in your life there should be no resolution unless it is a resolve to do something great and worthwhile.

There’s not a quick path to becoming effortlessly suave (or rich, without working), but without the tugging motivation of the romantic life, with what do we justify the years spent getting a degree? I don’t think it’s too much to hope for a handful of you to be studying simply for learning’s sake, but I’m a realist now. I know we are all here because someone told us this was the place to be. Maybe one day we’ll find ourselves together on a runaway train. (Don’t worry. I’ll figure out how to stop it.)

— Anna-Lise Burnette is a senior in interdisciplinary studies. She can be reached at kburnet7@utk.edu.

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Modern self-described conservatives have several historical desiderata, some interesting ones including the decades-long obsession with recasting Orwell as a conservative (here they receive help from the more wounded erstwhile fellow-travelers of the Comintern) and vindicating both McCarthy and McCarthyism.

I say “self-described” deliberately, as I struggle to reconcile right libertarian philosophy with a love of political witch-hunting. Bonus points to those who manage to reconcile these items and Christianity, with a chocolate sundae to those who integrate all of the above including Orwell.

Hence the recent opinion column which decries modern ignorance of McCarthyism — a legitimate complaint — and disparages the unfair negative memories of his slightly flawed but generally understandable campaign to punish those with the Wrong Politics. One could stop there, as I take the latter as a whole to be absurd on its face. But for the sake of details, it is entirely fair to admit that Alger Hiss cannot be considered too-obviously innocent of espionage. And it turns out that Mrs. Moss was included on dated Communist Party rolls, was probably guilty of receiving copies of the party paper, the Daily Worker, and having Communist friends. One could put these likely facts into their historical context to investigate what they really mean — after all, what business would a black woman have being near socialists or a labor paper in a church during the 1940s or 1950s? — but let’s assume for simplicity’s sake that such damning evidence prima facie justifies the treatment she received and we should find a warm place in our hearts for McCarthy. After all, to assent to anything else would be to assent to the following proposition: “Just ask yourself,

would you want someone with ties, past or present, to Al-Qaeda handling sensitive information within the Pentagon?”

There were Soviet spies, ergo anyone anywhere near dissident groups or the labor movement — where contact with socialists and communists was hardly a rarity — should be assumed guilty until proven innocent. Perhaps not thrown into jail or summarily executed — because we’re conservatives, remember — but at least subjected to public shaming and firings and blacklists. One can never be too careful.

This is, after all, how free countries should fight to protect freedom. It’s how Wilson fought it before McCarthy during the Red Scare (if we fudge a few stray incarcerations and deportations). It’s how we’ve always protected ourselves from civil rights activists and labor unions. (Ignoring a few assassinations, fabricated trials and constant illegal surveillance.)

Annie Lee Moss was never even accused of being a spy. She did not have to be accused. She was a low-level clerk with access limited to encrypted messages, despite sensationalism to the contrary. (Our “adversarial press” at work.)

But you never know, she might have had the wrong thoughts. So we would do well to smile as we remember McCarthy, whose crime was only to have powerful enemies like Mrs. Moss and lack “finesse,” or else risk being accused of softness on both communism and terror.

Perhaps we could craft a three-hour chant in his honor and have everyone sing it in the square.

Participation would be voluntary — this is America, not Soviet Russia — though lack of participation might be understood as indicating sympathy for Al Qaeda, and you might have to endure an investigation and face a few committees and forgo privacy and be denounced in the press and lose some job options as a result.

If this sounds difficult, remember that we only have to do it to be safe from the Enemy. So when we no longer have an Enemy, we will be able to afford freedom of thought.

— Jesse Parrish is a senior in mathematics. He can be reached at jparris8@utk.edu.

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Pearl takes job in Knoxville The Associated Press KNOXVILLE (AP) — Former Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl has taken a job with a Knoxville-based wholesale grocery company as a vice president of marketcome play here for coach (Rob) Patrick.” ing.

After redshirting her first year on campus and seeing limited playPearl had also been considering an offer to coach the Patrick MacCoon ing time as a freshman, Harrison enjoyed a very successful sophomore Texas Legends of the NBA’s developmental league but Staff Writer campaign last year. In helping lead the team to a 25-7 record, the prosays in a statement released Tuesday that he feels Outgoing, talkative and competitive are the three words that jun- gram’s best mark since 2004, Robinson finished third on the team in Knoxville is home for him and his family. ior Lady Vols volleyball player DeeDee Harrison used to best describe kills with 240 (2.11/set) and second with 102 blocks (0.89/set).

He will begin working at H.T. Hackney on Thursday.

Harrison has continued to be a huge asset to the team, which swept herself. After getting to know the 6-foot-3 middle blocker better, one through the competition last weekend in The company is led by Chairman and CEO Bill Sansom, a would understand why she attribthe Comcast Lady Vol Classic to open up former University of Tennessee trustee. uted those characteristics to herself. the 2011 season. In UT’s three wins she Growing up in Nashville, Pearl was fired from Tennessee in March in the wake has 21 kills to go along with seven of a two-year NCAA investigation that culminated Harrison was one of 11 siblings and blocks. the daughter of NFL Pro Bowler Wednesday with a three-year show-cause penalty against “DeeDee is a huge physical presence and Vanderbilt alumnus Dennis the coach. for us on the court and opens up room Harrison, who played 10 seasons in for our hitters on the outside,” Patrick the league for four different teams. said. “She is an emotional player and can Not to mention, her brother David really pump up the team in the huddle or played four seasons in the NBA by one of her thunderous kills.” with the Indiana Pacers.

While her physical talents are not to “Growing up in a family as big as The Associated Press be taken lightly, there is something that mine you can’t have a small voice,” has impressed her coach just as much Harrison said. “With our family MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The University of Montana over the past few years. greatly involved in sports it made “She is much more consistent in all football team has a $500,000 guarantee for its game the atmosphere of everything you her emotions now and has really taken Saturday at Tennessee. do competitive.” care of business off and on the court,” Athletic director Jim O’Day tells The Missoulian the Harrison was the definition of Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon Patrick said. “She has done a fantastic school should clear about $350,000 after expenses, about competitive during her time at Hillsboro High School. She lettered DeeDee Harrison, junior middle blocker, celebrates job this year of being a mother-like figure the same amount as it would for a home game.

The Griz are sending 70 players, plus coaches and supall four years in volleyball, basketball after a play against Villanova on Aug. 27. In the first for our team. All the girls look up to her and respect her a lot and to be the cap- port staff to Knoxville, Tenn. The team leaves Friday and and softball. Her leadership skills three games, Harrison has 21 kills and seven blocks. tain on the team says a lot about her.” were also noticed, as she was a capreturns after Saturday’s game, which kicks off at 4 p.m.

Harrison’s hard work off the court has paid off in huge dividends, Mountain. tain for all three sports from her junior year on.

“Basketball was actually my first passion,” Harrison said. “It was- as the sports management major has been on the SEC Academic The Montana-Tennessee game is being shown on pay-pern’t until my junior year that I really picked up volleyball. What I like Honor Roll for the past two years. view television for $35 through Dish Network or $25 for a “She has put in time and uses the resources that the Thornton weekend pass to ESPN Game Plan. about volleyball is that it is really intense. Every ball means something Athletic Center provides for athletes to her full advantage,” Patrick during the game.”

The game is also being shown on ESPN3 for internet subBy the time Harrison finished her volleyball career at Hillsboro in said. scribers.

While she displays the leadership one would expect out of a senior 2007, she ranked 63rd on the PrepVolleyball.com Senior Aces list and was receiving major interest from several colleges. After considering player, Harrison still has two more years left to play volleyball at UT, her options, she finalized her decision to play college volleyball at UT, and she wants to win an SEC Championship both years.

“After my career here is done I want to be remembered as a strong, despite her family’s deep roots with Vanderbilt.

“When I visited Tennessee for the first time, I enjoyed the way competitive person who did whatever it takes to make a difference,” everyone treated me, and it definitely felt like a home away from Harrison said.

As far as future plans, she wants to one day be in administration in home,” she said. “I have had no regrets with the decision I made to a professional franchise.

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