PM T-Storms 40% chance of rain HIGH LOW Pooh reminds viewers of a wonderful world PAGE 5 90 77 Friday, July 22, 2011 Issue 15 Vol. 117 http://utdailybeacon.com PUBLISHED SINCE 1906 THE EDITORIALLY INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE Dooley talks Vols at SEC Media Days PAGE 6 Follow us: @DailyBeacon Robby O’Daniel News and Student Life Editor Harl Tolbert, assistant technology transfer director at the University of Rochester Medical Center, said successful technology transfer — or the process of ensuring technological developments reach a wide range of people — can bol- ster a university’s reputa- tion. “At Rochester, we’ve been fortunate to have quite a few biomedical technologies, but we also have some engineer- ing technologies that have been big,” Tolbert said. “But as a university, if you can say that technology devel- oped at the University of Rochester prevents dozens of cases of deafness each year, that’s important to society. That’s important to anyone you make a pitch to that the university is impor- tant and relevant.” Tolbert is one of the final four candidates for the posi- tion of vice president of the multidisciplinary office at the UT Research Foundation. The other three candi- dates include Michael Dilling, technology transfer director at Baylor College of Medicine; Eugene Krentsel, assistant vice president at the State University of New York in Binghamton; and James Zanewicz, technology transfer director at the University of Louisville. All four candidates spoke at the Haslam Business Building this week on the promise and challenge of university technology trans- fer, with Tolbert speaking last on Wednesday after- noon. Tolbert said universities can leverage successes in technology transfer in many different ways. “You can use that in your fundraising efforts,” Tolbert said. “You can use that in your grant solicitations, alumni relationships. If you make an approach to the state for more funding, or if you have to justify your exis- tence to the state, being able to say that we have success commercializing technology — and it affects people’s lives — can go a very long way toward accomplishing that.” Another way, he said, that technology transfer is important to the university is that it enables better researcher-faculty recruit- ment. “Researchers who we hire at the University of Rochester, new faculty mem- bers, very often, they want to talk to the tech transfer office,” he said. “They want to know who are the people that will be managing my technologies, who will be reviewing my invention dis- closures, what have they done? Do they know what they’re doing? What can I expect if I work with your office?” And those interactions with the office beforehand can influence their decision to pick the university to join, he said. Tech transfer also pro- vides for the university fair- ly unrestricted revenue, he said, among other things. For researchers, while he said generation of personal income is “a plus,” the real fulfillment comes from prac- tical applications of research. “Any time they can point to a practical application of their research and how it improves a process or how it improves society, it makes another product faster, bet- ter, cheaper, I think that’s what academic researchers are really looking for when they engage in the technolo- gy transfer process,” he said. Plus it helps with gaining research funding, he said, because companies want to partner with a university and a researcher. “But one of the key fac- tors in that relationship is how will intellectual proper- ty be handled?” he said. “Because if a researcher is working with a company, chances are, they are work- ing on a more practical application on a piece of research than they would if they had an NSF (National Science Foundation) grant.” For industry, it’s simply more cost-effective for a company to license research from university researchers with experience working in the field, rather than hire a new team of researchers to embark on a new endeavor. It also reduces the time of product development, grants access to research resources and offers research flexibility for com- panies, he said. Tolbert’s presentation was not meant to critique UT’s past or present, he said. “I have been on campus for five or six hours now,” he said. “... So when I talk about what tech transfer can do or what tech transfer should do, in no way am I trying to say what the University of Tennessee should have done.” He described his current university, the University of Rochester, as providing him with a rich background with medical technologies. “If you’re not familiar with the University of Rochester, the way I describe it is we’re a very large academic medical staff, with a small liberal arts college attached,” he said. He said he knew the tech- nologies at Rochester and at UT would be different. “But we do have a histo- ry of success at tech trans- fer,” he said. “Normally we’re in the top 10 or top 15 in terms of licensing rev- enue, and that’s allowed us to try some things that are slightly different, to think out of box sometimes, and come up with some new strategies for tech transfer.” He affirmed his strength as a candidate by pointing out his experience at Rochester. “Maybe even if we don’t have varying strategies for tech transfer because I know it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach, we do have a very sound basis in technology transfer and commercialized technology, and I think those skills are applicable in any environment,” he said. Mary Ann Warwick Russell, UT Research Foundation staff attorney, said the final four candi- dates are strong. “We have some very well- qualified people,” she said. “So I think we’ll be able to make a good choice.” Jamie Cunningham Staff Writer While most students are enjoying the last weeks of their summer break, 12 UT students are volunteering in Uganda as part of the new Gulu Study and Service Abroad Program. The program, a branch of the Jazz for Justice Project, is running from July 8 to Aug. 12 and exposes students to a country affected by war and human rights abuses. The students will first tour Entebbe and Kampala, as well as the Ugandan Parliament. After meeting with faculty at Makerere University, the students will travel to Gulu. They will live in Gulu for a month while listening to speakers from human rights agencies and attending classes and lectures at Gulu University. Sally McMillan, vice provost for academic affairs, thinks the program in Uganda is a unique adventure for stu- dents to learn about an unfa- miliar culture with a group of peers. “I think it is a great exam- ple of a program that is designed to help make stu- dents ready for the world,” McMillan said. “Students are not only stepping outside of their own culture and experi- encing a different culture, but they are also traveling with a group and a professor who will really help them study and understand what they are doing.” Erika Johnson, senior in biochemistry cellular and molecular biology and aspir- ing to become a surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, came to learn about the pro- gram through a UT study abroad fair. “After meeting some of the wonderful people involved in the GSSAP and hearing more about peace-building in post- conflict Uganda and the unparalleled learning opportunities, I decided that GSSAP was something I wanted to be a part of,” Johnson said. While many students usually choose study abroad pro- grams in Europe, McMillan said there are valuable study abroad opportunities in places students might not initially consider. “There is great value in exploring other cultures no matter where they might be; however, European culture is somewhat similar to American culture, so the depth of understanding on cultural differences would be different than when you go to a place like Uganda,” McMillan said. While Uganda is considered a non-traditional program, McMillan said students will benefit from studying abroad, no matter the location. “We are very supportive of initiatives for non-traditional and traditional study abroad programs, and we encourage stu- dents to utilize any opportunity to broaden their horizons,” she said. Though Johnson had never been to Africa before, she knew that going to Uganda would be a tremendous opportunity to grow culturally aware. “I am striving to develop a more thorough understanding of the people, culture, conflict and needs — medically and oth- erwise — of Uganda and the surrounding areas, so that I am able to apply my awareness as a student, a person and eventu- ally a doctor,” Johnson said. The program is also pro- viding Johnson with a better understanding of Uganda and its conflicts. “The Lord’s Resistance Army and the stereotypical African conflicts are some- thing that I heard about in school but never fully under- stood, and the GSSAP offered an opportunity to speak with many insightful people about the grassroots sources and surrounding forces that have shaped the current environment,” she said. While the program has given Johnson new insight into the country, she said there is still much left to learn about Uganda and its people. “I have learned so much already about the culmina- tion of religious, social, polit- ical, economic and military forces that have shaped Uganda into the country it is today,” she said. “I can’t wait to learn more and hopefully be able to apply that learning in an effective and enduring manner.” Summer breaks usually consist of sleeping in and taking it easy, but not for these students, who get up early and learn about Uganda through a variety of lectures, discussions and events. “We typically wake up at 7:30 and eat a breakfast of juice, bananas, toast and eggs,” she said. “We then walk to Gulu University — about a 15-minute walk — and attend a morn- ing lecture. We will walk to a nearby restaurant for lunch, have discussions and either go to a cultural event or attend an addi- tional lecture. Once we transition into our internships, we will go to our internship instead of Gulu University.” Workers and equipment line the first floor hall of the Humanities Building on Monday, June 13. Construction on the building, which began at the end of the Spring Semester, has continued through the summer to be complet- ed for the return of students in the fall. George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Kampala, Uganda is seen under construction on Saturday, May 2. Twelve UT students traveled to Uganda to perform volunteer work as part of the Gulu Study and Service Abroad Program. • Photo courtesy of Drex Rockman See UGANDA on Page 3 Studying abroad in Uganda broadens cultural, historical horizons Students gain in atypical program Candidate says technology transfer benefits university in diverse ways
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Harl Tolbert, assistanttechnology transfer directorat the University ofRochester Medical Center,said successful technologytransfer — or the process ofensuring technologicaldevelopments reach a widerange of people — can bol-ster a university’s reputa-tion.
“At Rochester, we’ve beenfortunate to have quite a fewbiomedical technologies, butwe also have some engineer-ing technologies that havebeen big,” Tolbert said. “Butas a university, if you cansay that technology devel-oped at the University ofRochester prevents dozensof cases of deafness eachyear, that’s important tosociety. That’s important toanyone you make a pitch tothat the university is impor-tant and relevant.”
Tolbert is one of the finalfour candidates for the posi-tion of vice president of themultidisciplinary office atthe UT ResearchFoundation.
The other three candi-dates include MichaelDilling, technology transferdirector at Baylor College ofMedicine; Eugene Krentsel,assistant vice president atthe State University of NewYork in Binghamton; andJames Zanewicz, technologytransfer director at theUniversity of Louisville.
All four candidates spokeat the Haslam BusinessBuilding this week on thepromise and challenge ofuniversity technology trans-fer, with Tolbert speakinglast on Wednesday after-noon.
Tolbert said universitiescan leverage successes intechnology transfer in manydifferent ways.
“You can use that in yourfundraising efforts,” Tolbertsaid. “You can use that inyour grant solicitations,alumni relationships. If youmake an approach to thestate for more funding, or ifyou have to justify your exis-tence to the state, being ableto say that we have successcommercializing technology— and it affects people’slives — can go a very longway toward accomplishingthat.”
Another way, he said, thattechnology transfer isimportant to the universityis that it enables betterresearcher-faculty recruit-ment.
“Researchers who we hireat the University ofRochester, new faculty mem-bers, very often, they wantto talk to the tech transferoffice,” he said. “They wantto know who are the peoplethat will be managing mytechnologies, who will bereviewing my invention dis-closures, what have theydone? Do they know whatthey’re doing? What can Iexpect if I work with youroffice?”
And those interactionswith the office beforehandcan influence their decisionto pick the university tojoin, he said.
Tech transfer also pro-vides for the university fair-ly unrestricted revenue, hesaid, among other things.
For researchers, while hesaid generation of personalincome is “a plus,” the realfulfillment comes from prac-
tical applications ofresearch.
“Any time they can pointto a practical application oftheir research and how itimproves a process or how itimproves society, it makesanother product faster, bet-ter, cheaper, I think that’swhat academic researchersare really looking for whenthey engage in the technolo-gy transfer process,” hesaid.
Plus it helps with gainingresearch funding, he said,because companies want topartner with a universityand a researcher.
“But one of the key fac-tors in that relationship ishow will intellectual proper-ty be handled?” he said.“Because if a researcher isworking with a company,chances are, they are work-ing on a more practicalapplication on a piece ofresearch than they would ifthey had an NSF (NationalScience Foundation) grant.”
For industry, it’s simplymore cost-effective for acompany to license researchfrom university researcherswith experience working inthe field, rather than hire anew team of researchers toembark on a new endeavor.
It also reduces the time ofproduct development,grants access to researchresources and offersresearch flexibility for com-panies, he said.
Tolbert’s presentationwas not meant to critiqueUT’s past or present, hesaid.
“I have been on campusfor five or six hours now,” hesaid. “... So when I talkabout what tech transfer cando or what tech transfershould do, in no way am Itrying to say what theUniversity of Tennesseeshould have done.”
He described his currentuniversity, the University ofRochester, as providing himwith a rich background withmedical technologies.
“If you’re not familiarwith the University ofRochester, the way Idescribe it is we’re a verylarge academic medicalstaff, with a small liberalarts college attached,” hesaid.
He said he knew the tech-nologies at Rochester and atUT would be different.
“But we do have a histo-ry of success at tech trans-fer,” he said. “Normallywe’re in the top 10 or top 15in terms of licensing rev-enue, and that’s allowed usto try some things that areslightly different, to thinkout of box sometimes, andcome up with some newstrategies for tech transfer.”
He affirmed his strengthas a candidate by pointingout his experience atRochester.
“Maybe even if we don’thave varying strategies fortech transfer because I knowit’s not a one-size-fits-allapproach, we do have a verysound basis in technologytransfer and commercializedtechnology, and I thinkthose skills are applicable inany environment,” he said.
Mary Ann WarwickRussell, UT ResearchFoundation staff attorney,said the final four candi-dates are strong.
“We have some very well-qualified people,” she said.“So I think we’ll be able tomake a good choice.”
Jamie CunninghamStaff Writer
While most students are enjoying the last weeks of theirsummer break, 12 UT students are volunteering in Uganda aspart of the new Gulu Study and Service Abroad Program.
The program, a branch of the Jazz for Justice Project, isrunning from July 8 to Aug. 12 and exposes students to acountry affected by war and human rights abuses.
The students will first tour Entebbe and Kampala, as wellas the Ugandan Parliament. After meeting with faculty atMakerere University, the students will travel to Gulu. Theywill live in Gulu for a month while listening to speakers fromhuman rights agencies and attending classes and lectures atGulu University.
Sally McMillan, viceprovost for academic affairs,thinks the program in Ugandais a unique adventure for stu-dents to learn about an unfa-miliar culture with a group ofpeers.
“I think it is a great exam-ple of a program that isdesigned to help make stu-dents ready for the world,”McMillan said. “Students arenot only stepping outside oftheir own culture and experi-encing a different culture, butthey are also traveling with agroup and a professor whowill really help them studyand understand what they aredoing.”
Erika Johnson, senior inbiochemistry cellular andmolecular biology and aspir-ing to become a surgeon forDoctors Without Borders,came to learn about the pro-gram through a UT studyabroad fair.
“After meeting some of thewonderful people involved inthe GSSAP and hearing moreabout peace-building in post-conflict Uganda and theunparalleled learning opportunities, I decided that GSSAPwas something I wanted to be a part of,” Johnson said.
While many students usually choose study abroad pro-grams in Europe, McMillan said there are valuable studyabroad opportunities in places students might not initiallyconsider.
“There is great value in exploring other cultures no matterwhere they might be; however, European culture is somewhatsimilar to American culture, so the depth of understanding oncultural differences would be different than when you go to aplace like Uganda,” McMillan said.
While Uganda is considered a non-traditional program,
McMillan said students will benefit from studying abroad, nomatter the location.
“We are very supportive of initiatives for non-traditionaland traditional study abroad programs, and we encourage stu-dents to utilize any opportunity to broaden their horizons,”she said.
Though Johnson had never been to Africa before, she knewthat going to Uganda would be a tremendous opportunity togrow culturally aware.
“I am striving to develop a more thorough understandingof the people, culture, conflict and needs — medically and oth-erwise — of Uganda and the surrounding areas, so that I amable to apply my awareness as a student, a person and eventu-ally a doctor,” Johnson said.
The program is also pro-viding Johnson with a betterunderstanding of Ugandaand its conflicts.
“The Lord’s ResistanceArmy and the stereotypicalAfrican conflicts are some-thing that I heard about inschool but never fully under-stood, and the GSSAPoffered an opportunity tospeak with many insightfulpeople about the grassrootssources and surroundingforces that have shaped thecurrent environment,” shesaid.
While the program hasgiven Johnson new insightinto the country, she saidthere is still much left tolearn about Uganda and itspeople.
“I have learned so muchalready about the culmina-tion of religious, social, polit-ical, economic and militaryforces that have shapedUganda into the country it istoday,” she said. “I can’t waitto learn more and hopefullybe able to apply that learningin an effective and enduringmanner.”
Summer breaks usually consist of sleeping in and taking iteasy, but not for these students, who get up early and learnabout Uganda through a variety of lectures, discussions andevents.
“We typically wake up at 7:30 and eat a breakfast of juice,bananas, toast and eggs,” she said. “We then walk to GuluUniversity — about a 15-minute walk — and attend a morn-ing lecture. We will walk to a nearby restaurant for lunch, havediscussions and either go to a cultural event or attend an addi-tional lecture. Once we transition into our internships, we willgo to our internship instead of Gulu University.”
Workers and equipment line the first floor hall of the Humanities Building on Monday, June 13. Construction onthe building, which began at the end of the Spring Semester, has continued through the summer to be complet-ed for the return of students in the fall.
George Richardson • The Daily Beacon
Kampala, Uganda is seen under construction onSaturday, May 2. Twelve UT students traveled toUganda to perform volunteer work as part of the GuluStudy and Service Abroad Program.
• Photo courtesy of Drex Rockman
See UGANDA on Page 3
Studying abroad in Uganda broadens cultural, historical horizons
Students gain in atypical programCandidate says technology transferbenefits university in diverse ways
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Students walk to class under stormy skies on Tuesday, April 27. Storms threatened campus Monday, but things stayed fairly dry given the amount of storms in the area.George Richardson • The Daily Beacon
1987 — Gorbachev accepts ban on intermediate-range nuclear missilesIn a dramatic turnaround, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev indicates that he is willing to negoti-
ate a ban on intermediate-range nuclear missiles without conditions. Gorbachev’s decision paved theway for the groundbreaking Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with the United States.
Since coming to power in 1985, Gorbachev had made it clear that he sought a less contentiousrelationship with the United States. His American counterpart, President Ronald Reagan, was astaunch anticommunist and initially harbored deep suspicions about Gorbachev’s sincerity. Aftermeeting with Gorbachev in November 1985, however, Reagan came to believe that progress mightbe made on a number of issues, including arms control. In subsequent summit meetings, the twoleaders focused on the so-called intermediate-range nuclear missiles that both nations had massed inEurope and around the world. In late 1986, it appeared that the two nations were close to an agree-ment that would eliminate the weapons from Europe. Negotiations stumbled, however, whenGorbachev demanded that the elimination of the missiles be accompanied by U.S. abandonment ofits development of the strategic defense initiative (the “Star Wars” plan). The talks broke down whileReagan and Gorbachev traded accusations of bad faith. On July 22, 1987, Gorbachev dramaticallyannounced that he was ready to discuss the elimination of intermediate-range missiles on a world-wide basis, with no conditions. By dropping his objection to the strategic defense initiative (whichwas one of Reagan’s pet projects), Gorbachev cleared the way for negotiations, and he and Reagan
agreed to meet again.Gorbachev’s change of mind was the result of a number of factors. His own nation was suffering
from serious economic problems and Gorbachev desperately wanted to cut Russia’s military spend-ing. In addition, the growing “no-nukes” movement in Europe was interfering with his ability to con-duct diplomatic relations with France, Great Britain, and other western European nations. Finally,Gorbachev seemed to have a sincere personal trust in and friendship with Ronald Reagan, and thisfeeling was apparently reciprocal. In December 1987, during a summit in Washington, the two mensigned off on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which eliminated an entire class ofnuclear weapons.
1977 — Elvis Costello’s debut album, My Aim Is True, is releasedA suburban family man with an office job, Declan Patrick McManus was somewhat removed from
the revolution being staged in late-night clubs in 1977 London by punk-rock pioneers like The SexPistols, The Clash and The Damned. “All these bands were playing in the middle of the night,” helater recounted “so I couldn’t go. I was married with a son.” Unlike most of the other wage-earnershe rode the tube with, however, Declan McManus was about to become a star himself, though notunder his given name. After three years living in London and trying to balance his day job with hismusical ambitions, the man now known as Elvis Costello finally made his breakthrough with therelease of his debut album, “My Aim Is True,” on this day in 1977.
— This Day in History courtesy of history.com
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SPARKMAN, Ark. — The signs of decline are every-where in this tiny timber town. Most of the gas stationsare abandoned metal skeletons left to rust under theArkansas sun. Empty storefronts and vacant lots markthe graves of other long-gone businesses.
Sparkman has been dying for decades, losing morethan half of its population since 1950. It has virtually nojobs. And its lone school is on the brink of closing. Nowthe community is trying to save itself by tapping into theeconomic-development potential of its most preciousresource: its children.
Parents and teachers have launched a scholarship pro-gram that goes beyond offering money for college. It alsoaims to draw new families to town to keep the school sys-tem alive — and with it the once-thriving village 90 milessouthwest of Little Rock.
“We know there’s not much here to bring people intoour town,” said fourth-grade teacher Stephanie Harmon.“We just want to keep our school so that our town canstay.”
The idea is not entirely new. Other districts havewaged similar campaigns to stir interest in their schools.But Sparkman’s efforts and those of other Arkansastowns have taken the practice to a new level, with com-munities practically competing for each other’s childrenand the state revenue that comes with them.
When nearby Arkadelphia announced plans last fall tohelp its high school graduates pay for college, the newsreawakened fears in Sparkman that surrounding townswould steal students away, perhaps forcing the school toclose and dealing the town a final, fatal blow.
“We’ve already lost so many kids to other schools,”Harmon said. “This was going to be the straw that brokethe camel’s back.”
So Sparkman residents passed around the collectionplate and scraped together thousands of dollars to count-er Arkadelphia’s millions and launch scholarships of theirown.
With their first scholarship recipients preparing toleave for college, both communities are writing checks —and praying that the kids return with degrees, but notrequiring them to.
Arkadelphia, a growing town of 11,000, wants to usethe scholarships to attract even more people. Sparkmanwould settle for keeping its population stable at slightlyabove 400.
Prospects in Sparkman weren’t always so dim. Thetown boasted nearly 1,000 people in its heyday in 1950.You could buy clothes, a car or a ticket to watch aWestern at the movie theater. Sawmill jobs were as plen-tiful as the trees that fed the lumber industry.
Then more and more people abandoned rural life forlarger cities, leaving crumbled buildings behind like cica-da shells stuck on a screen door. Now the town has beenreduced to a sit-down restaurant, a small grocery store, ahandful of churches and the school.
Surrounded by forests, the town’s lone industry is stilltimber, and the air smells like Christmas year-round astrucks piled high with tree trunks rumble down two-lanehighways.
Of the 13 high school seniors who graduated fromSparkman this past spring, only eight pledged go to col-lege. Kathryne Bosley was one of them. She says herfather, who works at one of the three sawmills, wants herto get out.
“He doesn’t want me living like the rest of everybodyelse, living from day to day,” Bosley said. “He wants meto have something.”
So she plans to study nursing and then leave her home-town behind.
“Sparkman just ain’t the place,” Bosley said. “It’s bor-ing. There’s nothing to do. I’ve been here my whole entirelife, and I’m ready to get onto better things.”
Aside from gatherings at local churches, the school isone of the last sources of entertainment and communityspirit. Parents flock to basketball games to cheer on theirchildren and visit with neighbors. But the school is ashadow of its former self.
Dandelions and buttercups sprout across the footballfield, where cleats once shredded the earth. Boards coverthe windows of the press box and concession standbecause there aren’t enough students to form a team.
Inside the school, a poster of a fancy car reminds stu-dents, “In an average lifetime, a person with a collegedegree makes $1.1 million more than a person without adegree.”
There’s no guarantee that the new scholarship willease the school’s woes. So far, the program has raisedabout $53,000, barely enough to send a single student toa top-tier university for one year. But in Arkansas, themost expensive stateschool rings up at just over$7,000 per year in tuitionand fees, so school officialssuspect the fund will lastfor a few years.
To be eligible for someof those dollars, highschool seniors must earngood grades, qualify for thestate’s lottery-fundedscholarship and apply forfinancial aid. Sparkmanwill then pick up the rest of
the tab for tuition and fees, up to the cost of the mostexpensive public school in the state.
It’s not clear how long they’ll be able to dole out cashwithout help from some wealthy benefactor. Unanswered,too, is the question of whether the added money willchange attitudes toward higher education in Arkansas,where fewer than 19 percent of adults earn bachelor’sdegrees. Only West Virginia ranks lower, at 17 percent.
“The program doesn’t seem to be any kind of guaran-tee that the kids will come back,” said John Gaber, a pro-fessor of political science and public policy at theUniversity of Arkansas. “It’s a really good investment inthe people but not necessarily a great investment in thecommunity.”
Plus, scholarship programs carry the burden of notonly getting students to college, but getting them to fin-ish.
“I do think the community needs to be prepared forstudents going off to college and not succeeding there,”said Michelle Miller-Adams, who wrote a book about theKalamazoo Promise, a Michigan program that has paidout millions of dollars to help high school graduatesafford college.
That program’s been successful so far, attracting morestudents to the school district and inspiring other com-munities across the country to launch similar scholar-ships of their own. But it remains to be seen if a modeldesigned for a city can produce similar results for a mapdot like Sparkman.
Jennifer Daniell hopes it will. So, she enrolled herdaughters in school there and went back to work full-timeas a nurse in Arkadelphia. For her, the scholarship is away to finance her dream that they become doctors,lawyers, maybe politicians, before coming back toSparkman — a town without a hospital, courthouse orstatehouse.
“It would be great if some of these kids could go to col-lege and come up with entrepreneurial ideas to help thetown thrive,” she said. But “it will probably stay as is.”
These students are not only learningabout the culture and history of Ugandabut also lessons about disproving stereo-types. Johnson said getting to see Ugandaas not just a stereotype has made a pro-found impact on her life.
“In Uganda, stereotypes have beentaken too far, falling back on colonialstereotypes labeling the tall, athletic peo-ple as military, the shorter group of peo-ple as farmers, et cetera,” she said. “Theonly difference between the groups of peo-ple was whether they farmed or raised cat-tle.”
Johnson said American stereotypes ofAfrica is often distorted from reality.
“We think that Africans have no shoesor clothes, but they are selling hundredsof pairs of shoes in the markets and we arepassed on the streets by Ugandans betterdressed than we are,” she said. “Takingthe time to listen, ask questions and seekviable solutions is crucial if we are tomove forward and avoid conflict. Whilethe ‘developed world’ has excellent educa-tional opportunities, we are not as wise aswe often assume.”
The program gives students the oppor-tunity to learn about a foreign country,while at the same time, allowing them tolearn about themselves and their preju-dices.
“I have been learning a lot about differ-ing perceptions and how strong a role per-ceptions play in our beliefs, values andactions,” she said. “I am also learning alot about forgiveness. It is astonishinghow the survivors of the April 1995 andMay 2004 LRA massacres that sharedtheir stories just wanted truth and recon-ciliation, not revenge.”
The 12 students are gaining importantexperience as global citizens, andJohnson argued that this connection tothe world makes for better solutions toglobal issues.
“Everything is interconnected,” shesaid. “I feel that it is increasingly impor-tant to examine both local issues as wellas the overall system, to better gauge howto help the smaller problems in ways thatsupport the larger system as well, espe-cially over time.”
While the students will not finish theirprogram until August, McMillan saidtheir time in Uganda will stay with themlong after they come home.
“One ofthe bene-fits of thisprogram isthat stu-dents willbond whilethey aretraveling,”M c M i l l a ns a i d .“ W h e nthey comeback to theU n i t e dS t a t e s ,they willhave thiss h a r e dexperiencethat theycan sharewith others t u d e n t sabout allthe thingst h e ylearned inUganda.”
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I drive a 1991 Jeep Cherokee. El Jeepo, as Ihave fondly named him, has over 300,000 milesand, this year, he turned 20. About a month ago,the speedometer and the odometer stoppedworking. Two days ago, the air conditioner alsostopped working. In lieu of all these newestfailures, my dad informed me that I would begetting a new car in the next couple of months.Needless to say, I have spent a lot of time makinga list of cars I want to drive. This last week, I beganthe arduous task of going out to different dealers,seeing if they actually had the car I wanted todrive, push the salesman away whenever he gottoo clingy wanting to make a sale, and thensubsequently leaving the dealership to ventureto the next.
The whole ordeal is totally normal when buyinga car, but the car salesmen drive me insane. Notonly do they latch on to you the minute you walkonto the lot, but then they keep pushing andpushing trying to make the sale. I know that theywork off of commission and obviously, they needto make a sale if they want to make any money,but if you don’t have the car I am interested in, Ireally don’t want to spend more time on the lot.Then, there is always the male salesman whoseems taken aback whenever I know the slightestbit about cars. He reels back, thinks for a minuteto himself and answers with caution. It never failsthat I am subsequently asked how I learnedanything about cars. I always smile and tell themthat I love this one car show, “Top Gear,” and mybest girl friend knows quite a bit about cars as well.
If you ask me, men function on this idea thatso many women do not know about anything thatthey actually care about. Whether it is sports, carsor video games, men want to believe that they havesuperior knowledge about any and all “man-related” topics. So many guys who spend time withmy inner circle of girl friends spend half of their
time arguing with one of us about such a topic.Whether it is two of my friends who are videogame nerds, or it is my friend who loves cars, theyeach know quite a bit about what they are talkingabout. In my circle of girl friends, I am the sportsgirl. I love watching Sports Center, the NFL,NCAA basketball, tennis, golf, NBA, etc. I wouldnever go so far as to say that there is no otherperson in the world who knows more than I doabout sports, but, for the most part, I can hold myown in a sports conversation.
An interesting study was brought to myattention this week by a close friend in regardsto male-female relationships and interactions.Earlier this year, a study on gender behavior foundthat more American, adult men are interested incommitment and attachment than women. Morewomen responded that they would rather preservesome of their independence in a relationship. Ithink this ties in exactly with more womenknowing about “men’s spheres” of knowledge.
Whenever my friends get together, there isalways an argument on the topic of cars or sports.That argument is always spurred on by the girls.Knowing that I can talk with a man who lovessports on a level comparable to a man’s changesso much of my behavior. It sparks a moment ofindependence.
Women learning about a man’s sphere ofknowledge profoundly changes gender behavior.No longer does she have to hide behind hersignificant other’s brain. She can step onto aplatform of her own knowledge and stick up forher opinions. Independence is gained, but thatdoes not mean that all desire of attachment is gone.A woman functioning in a male-dominated worldjust opens up many possibilities in the realm ofgender and her relationship with her counterparts.That’s why I will never be able to stand thegawking car salesman. Yes, I know a bit about cars.Yes, I have questions that are related to the car andno, they are not solely related to the car’s interior.Yes, it’s a bit strange I know this, but get with it,sir. So many other women in the world know somuch more than I do about cars, and that’s justthe start of this evolution of knowledge.
--Brittany Vasquez is a senior in anthropology.She can be reached at [email protected].
It was more than three years ago when I firstwrote about my kinship with Hamlet, Prince ofDenmark. No blood relation actually existsbetween us (as Denmark’s not exactly the FarEast), but I remember poring through the pagesof my copy with a sense of real wonder. It waslater that I revealed to other people the strangefeeling that we were characters of the same sort,something that can’t be easily explainedconsidering that none of my uncles have yet tomurder my father. And at some even later point,I forgot what exactly it was that made me feel likeHamlet and I were caught up in some trans-dimensional romance together, brave soulssearching for fulfillment.
But after I finally finished up my last few newnovels, I cracked open a book I hadn’t reallytouched in years. It’s called “The NightstandReader,” and it’s a little hard-back with a shinyspine and a black ribbon marker that makes itall the more endearing when you see it in the lightof day. The book has lots of short stories andpoems by familiar names, but I was still surprisedto see an ultra-condensed version of “Hamlet”mixed in with the rest; the surprise was mainlydue to the fact that this particular “Hamlet” is aretelling while the rest of the volume is chieflyoriginal, but short.
Still, it was good enough to stir up all my oldmemories of sitting in bed with Shakespeare’swords spread out before me like the feast that theyare. Though the words “mortal coil” never appearin this abridged prose version, some of thosedesperate feelings came back as I read of Hamlet’sanguish. And when the traveling acting troupeentered the story, I recalled the moment whenHamlet and I felt as one, which is to say thatneither of us felt anything at all.
Part of me thinks that summer melancholy islike a summer cold: unexpected, sudden and moremiserable than the kind that descends like a cloudin winter. Reading something like “Hamlet,”though, has an almost soothing effect; it may bethat misery loves company, or it may be thatseeing someone else’s misfortunes make yourslook less depressing by comparison. As I read Irealized that most of the teen angst thatcharacterized the time when I first read “Hamlet”had dissolved, and reformed into somethingdifferent, though perhaps slightly less dramatic.
And so, though I may not be having the timeof my life at the moment, at least my lover hasn’tdrowned in the river — that I know of. I can saywith some confidence that I’m not about to beshipped off to Great Britain with a pair ofpantaloon-ed cronies, and I know for a fact thatI haven’t been run through with a poisoned sword,yet. I may not have a Horatio to tell my story forme, but I also don’t need one at this point. Thereare some things for which we can be easilygrateful.
But even though I was able to talk myself outof some of the bluer literary empathy, I’ve foundthat after all these years I still want to cling to theprince’s words. Full of passion, of love, a senseof justice, Hamlet inspires in me a twisted desireto prove myself in the face of horriblecircumstances. Fortunately my subconscious wishhas not been granted, and so my life remainsblessedly wonderful in more ways than I cancount.
There’s still a tug there, though, and it worriesme. It’s easy to be a hero when times are rough,and Hamlet proves that even royalty can pull itoff. But how to be a shining light in the face ofso much fortune? I don’t know if I have the bestanswer now, but I do know that the prince and Ihave lived with some of the same sentiments inour hearts. Maybe that’s enough to carry usthrough.
—Anna-Lise Burnett is a senior in global andAsian studies. She can be reached [email protected].
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THE GREAT MASH-UP • Liz Newnam
There are few things that can rival the humiliationof a custard pie to the face. Being summoned for a liveparliament inquiry into the integrity of your life’s workmight qualify. Survive the two, and you can swap warstories with Rupert Murdoch.
As far as healthy doses of humility go, Murdoch’slong fall from grace these past few weeks has beenparticularly brutal. News Corporation serves as the latestreminder of the severe consequences waiting forjournalists who abuse the faith of their readers.
Travesties in the News Corp. scandal seem to blossomdaily. “The News of the Worlds” closing only temporarilypacified British citizens, who have been pushed to thebrink and are now out for blood.
On Tuesday, Murdoch and his son James went infront of the British Parliament’s Culture, Entertainmentand Sports Committee. To put a fine point on things,it wasn’t pretty. The committee meeting had to betemporarily suspended when one Englishmanattempted to cover Murdoch in cream filling.
The questioning was led by committee chairmanJohn Whittingale, who had James Murdoch scramblingto run interference for his father. The two were pepperedwith questions regarding their competency, the integrityof their newspapers and their relationships withpoliticians.
James Murdoch apologized to the committee,regretting journalist infringement on various privatevoice-mail accounts. Rupert Murdoch looked ashen-faced as his son accepted the corporation’s fullresponsibility for multiple privacy breaches.
To save face, both men highlighted the massive sizeof their organization to justify their ignorance regardingits day-to-day operations, namely choices made bycertain employees. “News of the World,” the epicenterof the scandal, comprises only 1 percent of the mediagiant’s holdings.
James admitted the media conglomerate’s liability tothe victims, apologized “unreservedly,” and pointedto a compensation scheme set up to deal with victims’claims.
Even amidst the caustic waves emanating from theMPs, Rupert Murdoch refused to appear outgunned.If anything he gave off an air of manifest superiority,as if he were far too important to be questioned. Hisnonchalant demeanor left one to wonder whether eventsat “The News of the World” are an exception, or ratherthe rule.
When questioned as to whether it would be fittingfor him to resign, Rupert Murdoch quipped, “I feelthat people I trusted, I’m not saying who, I don’t knowwhat level, have let me down. I think they behaveddisgracefully and betrayed the company, and me. It’s forthem to pay.”
The mogul’s flippant attitude did little to settle therage building among the English. They will likely havea hard time accepting a plea of ignorance from thenotorious mogul and his well-coiffed son.
At this time police investigations into News Corp.are ongoing, and will likely continue for quite some time.
Both Murdochs emphasized their desire to restoretrust and move forward, but victims of privacy intrusionswill be less inclined to shrug this off. The question oneveryone’s mind is how far debauchery stretches intothe rest of his organization.
While the outlook this week was rather bleak,Murdoch’s empire will likely survive this onslaught. Hisiron will alone seems to indicate that, at least whilehe’s still breathing, he will “captain the larger ship.” Inthe hearts and minds of the British people, however, hisreputation is largely beyond repair. Patrons of “BSkyB,”“The Washington Post,” “Barron’s,” “The SundayTimes,” and countless other publications will forevertake pause in contemplation of the sources and credibilityof their news. The Murdoch name no longer shines asa hard-hitting bastion of media control. It rings moresinister now.
Several important lessons can be gleaned from theMurdoch mess. Chiefly, news publications have aresponsibility to deliver unabashed truth, removed frompolitical and bureaucratic influence. Additionally, anymedia outlet must be loyal primarily to its readership.Tactics risking a publication’s credibility border onsuicidal.
Wise news media both within the News Corp. empireand outside it should learn from the demise of theMurdochs. Readers vote with their feet, and, as in anygood democracy, new leaders can always be chosen.
--Blair Kuykendall is a junior in the College ScholarsProgram. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Seeking UT student to help with housecleaning, lawn-care, and babysitting. 5 min-utes from campus. 637-3600.
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Popular condos in the UT area within walking dis-tance to campus. Why pay rent when you can own? Lake Plaza, Franklin Station, St. Christopher, Renaissance, & Game Day. Michele Garren, Univer-sity Real Estate and Prop-erty Management, LLC (865)673-6600.www.ure-housing.com. Ask about investor units.
HOMES FOR SALEBearden/Forest Brook area, $159,000, private fenced yard, many updates, 3BR/2BA, available immed., Catherine Traver, Coldwell Banker Wallace & Wallace (865)256-3779.
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Warehouse garage sale. Sat-urday, July 23rd. 9am-3pm. Pool tables, foosball, bastketball shoot, apart-ment decor, beach, western, 70s party props, lattice, string lights, and picket fence. Corner 17th and Western, 1709 Western Ave. 37921.
Friday, July 22, 2011 The Daily Beacon • 5ENTERTAINMENT
Robby O’DanielNews and Student Life Editor
These days people need bang for theirbuck, especially when it comes to theirentertainment.
Nowadays it is downright foolish to buy anew movie on DVD, considering how quick-ly the price plummets and how easy it is tosnag a used copy at a place like Blockbusteror Ingles for half the price or less, justroughly six months or so after the DVDrelease.
And for those who just want to see amovie once, the proliferation of Redbox andBlockbuster Express machines at places likeWal-Mart and Walgreens have made $1 new-release rentals a standard.
Movie theater prices seem glaringlyexpensive in comparison to all this. A mati-nee will run a moviegoer about $7, and anight showing, God forbid, costs about $9.People have to get more and more selectivewhen choosing which movies to go to whenthey cost that much, and when the price tosee — and even own — said movie drops sodrastically by the time it is available on disc.
So how could anyone possibly give a goodreview to “Winnie the Pooh,” a movie barelyover an hour? And that includes a shortbefore the main feature.
Quite simply, “Pooh” is more fun thansome of those more blustery, cash-filled,droning summer movies of the year. Morepeople will end up having seen the fourth
installment of “Pirates” and “Thor,” but“Pooh,” despite having roughly half the run-ning time of those films, is the better bet.
Unfortunately, just to see “Pooh” is a lit-tle bit of an adventure. Despite being a newmovie about a beloved children’s character,released in the summer, UT student movielovers cannot see it at the Regal Riviera.
In fact, it is only available at three the-aters in Knoxville and others in Maryville,Oak Ridge and Sevierville.
“Pooh” is a strange case in general.Despite being technically a summer film,it manages to straddle the line betweenblockbuster that everyone has heard ofand indie movie that nobody hasheard of. It actually fallsmuch closer to the lattercategory. When invitingothers to join on TheGreat “Pooh” Watch of2011, three different people didnot even know it was coming out.
Of course, “Harry Potter andthe Deathly Hallows: Part 2” com-ing out to a record-setting $169-millionopening weekend has a lot to do with that.Debuting “Pooh” here was a pretty horribleidea, especially considering that bothmovies go after roughly the same demo-graphic.
With just a $30-million budget, “Pooh”opened in just sixth place with a little over a$7-million take. “Cars 2” in its fifth weekendmade more. That is amazing. Also for refer-ence, what movie in the top 12 films also has
a $30 million budget? Art film directorWoody Allen’s surprisingly well-performing“Midnight in Paris.” Big-budget blockbuster,“Pooh” isn’t.
But despite it being like finding Bigfootto a.) hear about “Pooh” and b.) actually seeit, the movie is worth the experience, evenon a Tuesday afternoon at 12:40 p.m. in atheater with a row of children in front of you.
Before the main feature, ashort called “The Ballad ofNessie” slowly dips the viewerinto the pool of classic Disneynostalgia.
Nessie loves playing hideand go seek with her rubberduck in the water, but whensomeone comes into townand vastly changes thearea, Nessie’s lifestyle isdrastically shook up.
The beginning of theshort feels a lot like “The Lorax,” down
to the rhyming Dr. Seuss-like narrator, butit soon goes in its own direction until Nessiefinds her water paradise once again. Theshort does not compare to most Pixar shortsbut still was good for what it was.
The actual “Pooh” feature provides apleasant dose of classic whimsical Pooh.Viewers get all the usual songs up front, suchas the “Pooh” theme and a short reprisal of“The Wonderful Thing about Tiggers.”
All the characters are delightfully stuck intheir own characters too much to truly inter-act with anyone else well.
Owl, voiced by the hilarious CraigFerguson, is the best example. His constantdiatribes, using difficult words often onlyfound on Scrabble boards, only betray hisinner need to feel like the smartest person inthe room — or Hundred Acre Wood, as it is.If Owl was really truly intelligent, he wouldunderstand quickly that Pooh is not under-standing at all. And this character flaw pro-vides much of the movie’s hilarity.
Tigger, as he so often does, also steals theshow. His infectious energy and hair-brainedscheme to turn Eeyore into a second Tigger,provide laughs when things get a little toostatic.
Despite being only a 69-minute overallmovie, the film does lag a bit in its final act.So much of the film revolves around Poohaching to eat some honey, and after 40 min-utes, that is still his main goal. It is an unfor-tunate reminder of how long he’s been com-plaining.
But much of the movie’s best jokes comefrom Pooh’s fixation on the golden goo.More than once, Pooh zones out as othercharacters talk, with his mind turning wordsinto “honey” or people into honey pots.
Though “Pooh” is a brief, predictableafternoon at the movies, it is still a strongfilm and worth watching.
An hour with this silly old bear is worthmore than two hours with the god of Asgardor Jack Sparrow, after all.
New “Pooh” still brings wonder to screen
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Matt DixonSports Editor
The annual SEC Media Days signifiesthe upcoming college football season isquickly approaching.
But before Tennessee coach DerekDooley could begin his second year withthe Volunteers, he wanted to dismiss anynotions that inexperience wouldbe a reason the team strugglesthis fall, noting around 70 percentof UT’s players this season will befreshmen and sophomores.
“What I felt like was importantwhen we turned the page fromlast year was we had to presentthis data to our football team andmake a decision from the begin-ning that we weren’t going toallow youth to be an excuse forfailure,” Dooley said Thursday.“And we’re not going to do that.”
After starting last season 2-6,the Vols rallied to win their lastfour regular-season games, earn-ing a bid to the Music City Bowlwhere they suffered a controver-sal overtime loss to NorthCarolina. Coupled with the factthat Dooley was the Vols’ thirddifferent head coach in three sea-sons, the sense of pride UTteams once had seemed to belost.
“I do believe that we lost our way a lit-tle bit in understanding what it means toplay for Tennessee and what ‘Power T’represents,” Dooley said. “So we havespent an inordinate amount of time edu-cating our team, talking to our youngplayers about what Tennessee stands forand what the standard is. There’s a highstandard of winning, there’s a high expec-
tation in how we represent the program.“(Former UT tight end) Jason Witten
was just in town the other day and hemade the comment that ‘Power T’ to himwas a symbol of excellence. I think thatsummed it up.”
The SEC has certainly been the symbolof excellence in college football in recentyears, claiming the past five BCS National
Champions, but Dooley said he can’t befocused on what the other teams in theleague are doing.
“What I can’t do is concern myself withwhere the other programs are,” he said.“We have to concern ourselves with wherewe are as a program, and each week try tofigure out a way to beat that team becausewe only have to be better than them onone day of the year.”
Senior tailback Tauren Poole, one ofonly 10 seniors on the team, understandshow tough the conference is, and knowspreparing for an SEC schedule extendsinto the off-season.
“This is a hard league to play in andwe’ve definitely got to be professionals asCoach Dooley reiterates every single day,”Poole said. “We’ve got to be prepared to
win. Winning doesn’t start inAugust, it starts in the summer.”
With so many new faces arriv-ing this summer, becoming a win-ning team has involved bumps inthe road, according to seniordefensive lineman Malik Jackson.
“It makes it really toughbecause a lot of the young guysdon’t know what to expect, sowe’ve got to get them going andget them in place,” Jackson, a pre-season coaches’ All-SEC firstteam member, said. “They’relearning as fast as they can. Theseniors and older guys are tryingto teach them. Until they get tothe first game they probably won’tknow how hard it is. But they’recoming along well.”
But even with the season’s kick-off a little over a month away,Dooley just wants the young Volsto focus on one day at a time.
“I think at the end of the day allI’ve ever asked this team, once we
turn the page, was to come to work everyday and try to make the program, theorganization, themselves better today thanit was yesterday.”
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Staff Reports
For the second year in a row the Tennesseefootball season will open under the lights atNeyland Stadium as the Vols will host Montanaat 6 p.m., on Sept. 3. The game will be televisedon a Pay-Per-View basis with details to come.
The SEC released the early-season televisionschedule on Wednesday with the start of SECMedia Days. The Vols will play on national TVin their second game of the season, taking onCincinnati on Sept. 10 at 3:30 p.m., on ESPN2.
In week three, the rivalry with Florida con-tinues as the Vols travel to Gainesville for a 3:30p.m. showdown on CBS.
The Montana game will mark the 31st timeTennessee has played its home opener at night,dating to the first time on Sept. 16, 1972. In thefirst-ever night game at Neyland Stadium, theNo. 7 Vols beat No. 6 Penn State, 28-21.
UT was won its last 10 home openers playedat night, dating to the 1995 opener, a 27-7 winover East Carolina on Sept. 2. Last season, theVols downed UT-Martin, 50-0 in the home open-er at night.
Information on pay-per-view ordering for theMontana game, as well as channel numbers, willbe announced at a later date.
To order season tickets or individual gametickets, visit UTTix.com.
Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)— Southeastern ConferenceCommissioner Mike Slive iswell aware of the recent criti-cism of the NCAA — com-plaints about prolonged investi-gations and rulings that leavecoaches and administratorsscratching their heads.
He thinks change is coming.“I have a sense that there are
several of us that feel likechange is important andaddressing these issues from anational perspective is impor-tant,” Slive told The AssociatedPress. “And I fully expect thatwe will do that, and I fullyexpect that the SEC will makeevery effort to contribute tothat discussion and hopefullythe appropriate action follow-ing those discussions.”
The influential commission-er of a league that has won thepast five national titles in foot-ball is more diplomat than mav-erick, but he also acknowledgesthere’s a “growing perceptionthat things aren’t exactly asthey ought to be in some ways.”
Slive wants to see quickerturnarounds for NCAA investi-gations, something that hasbeen an issue in his own league,and supports beefing up theannual value of scholarships. Hestops short of supporting pay-ing players.
The issue of lengthy investi-gations bubbled up at SECmeetings in June, whenTennessee coach Derek Dooleyand Auburn’s Gene Chizikreportedly peppered NCAAvice president of enforcementJulie Roe Lach with questionsabout the conclusion of investi-gations at their respectiveschools.
Tennessee is awaiting a rul-ing following a 22-month inves-tigation into the football andmen’s basketball programs.
Slive said he’s optimistic that“positive changes” will be madein enforcement and other areasunder NCAA President MarkEmmert.
“I think what everyone wants— and this wouldn’t necessari-ly be restricted to coaches — isthat when issues arise, that theybe handled in a timely way,”Slive said. “And that’s notalways easy when you’re deal-ing with a process that doesn’thave subpoena power andpower to compel answers tointerrogatories.”
As for paying athletes, Slivedoesn’t support essentially put-ting them on a university pay-roll, but thinks they should getthe full cost of an education.
“Each institution through itsfinancial aid office has a num-ber that is the full cost at theircampus,” Slive said. “I’m hop-ing and fully expect that thatnational discussion will takeplace and I for one hope that itwill be adopted.”
Other issues facing Slive andthe SEC include.
The SEC’s groundbreaking15-year, $2.25 billion TV dealwith ESPN — not to mention a$55 million-a-year pact withCBS — signed in 2008 hasbeen overtaken. The Pac-12’snew 12-year deal with Fox andESPN is worth about $3 billion,which might prompt a renegoti-ation for the SEC.
The talk of expansion hasdied down since last summer,when Oklahoma PresidentDavid Boren said the SECoffered his school and TexasA&M spots in the league. Slivedoesn’t dismiss the possibilityof future expansion but saidnothing is in the works.
He had previously said theSEC wouldn’t make such amove unless there was a “signif-icant shift in the conference par-adigm.”
The SEC also submitted pro-posals in June, in a letterobtained by AP, to relax someof the rules governing contactbetween coaches and recruits.That includes allowing coachesto text recruits and eliminatingthe rule against incidental con-tact by combining the recruit-ing periods for having contactwith prospects and evaluatingthem.
Derek Dooley laughs during the post-game pressconference after the Tennessee-Alabama footballgame on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. Dooley talked atthe SEC Media Day on Monday, offering histhoughts on the past season, fan response andupcoming opportunities.
