Scattered T-storms 60% chance of rain HIGH LOW Terry Tabors delivers triple threat as student, rapper, & podcast host PAGE 5 80 72 Friday, July 15, 2011 Issue 13 Vol. 117 http://utdailybeacon.com PUBLISHED SINCE 1906 THE EDITORIALLY INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE Tom Lewis shoots 65 at Royal St. George’s PAGE 6 Follow us: @DailyBeacon Jamie Cunningham Staff Writer Full-time UT students in the master’s business adminis- tration program will now participate in a program that gives students the chance to put their business skills to the test while helping out non-profits in East Tennessee. Innovation in Practice, which began as a pilot course in 2004, is now a requirement for all first-year MBA students. The program, co-led by faculty members Glenn Swift and Pat Richardson, gives students the chance to consult non-profit organizations in the area on real-world projects, such as acquiring new properties or increasing earned income. The program was created for UT’s MBA pro- gram as a means of giving students applied skills in business that will, in turn, give them an edge in the job market. “Nobody is going to hire students just for what they know,” Swift said. “They are going to hire them for what they can do.” The students are divided into teams of five and have a faculty mentor to give the students guid- ance and insight. Each team has its own non-prof- it organization, and the team is solely in charge of the direction of the project. While the program might work with social causes such as museums and literacy programs, Swift argued that non-profits still offer valuable practice in business consulting. “Non-profits have the same problems that for- profits have,” he said. Swift added that working with non-profit organizations is valuable to the organizations, the university and the East Tennessee area. “UT is a public land-grant university, so we should, and are, giving back to the area, and this program is a great outreach to the community,” he said. Joy Fisher, a lecturer at UT’s MBA entrepreneurship pro- gram working as a mentor for the Innovation in Practice proj- ect, agreed that Innovation in Practice compels MBA stu- dents to approach business problems from different perspec- tives. “The program is a problem-solving method that can be used not only in developing business skills but life skills as well,” she said. “It’s a process that takes you beyond your comfort level to look for new ideas to solve problems.” Raymond Stark, a retired executive of Honeywell Specialty Materials, was approached by co-founder Swift about the MBA program one day and thought it was an opportunity to help students get practice in real-world busi- ness. “When I retired, one of my objectives was to network in the local area and to give back after working 35 years in the industry,” he said. “I have worked with faculty members in the past by help- ing provide students access to business technologies. UT approached me to help provide these technologies to MBA students wanting to gain hands-on business experiences.” Stark argued that the Innovation in Practice program gives students a different learning environment that offers more hands-on learning. “It is not a lecture or a standard course with tests that you have to pass in order to pass the class. This is probably the only course they have that is not a traditional lecture environ- ment,” he said. “They are put in an environment with a coach and a real-world problem situation. These students want to get out in the real world and this program lets them practice that.” Fisher agreed, noting that some business lessons are learned beyond the classroom. “You can never really learn what business is like by study- ing it in a book,” she said. “This program gives students a hands-on experience that allows students to apply what they are learning in their textbooks and use it in a real-life envi- ronment.” While the program molds students’ business minds into critical thinking, Fisher added that the program gives stu- dents a competitive edge in the job market. “Innovation in Practice gives students more credibility in the business world,” he said. Stark said the process the students go through is a good example of a real con- sulting project. “Swift and Richardson identify the non- profit organizations and give the students the organization’s problem statement,” he said. “They have eight weeks to analyze the problem, prepare different solutions and finally make a recommendation and meet with the organization’s executives.” Fisher said, while students must make a recommendation to their non-profit organization, the point of the program is to develop their skills on coming up with recommendations, not necessarily what the recommendation is. “There are no black-and-white answers,” she said. “There are answers in this program, but they aren’t necessarily always right answers. This allows students to operate in a state of ambiguity, which is something they will encounter in real life.” Stark said the eight-week deadline offers students a glimpse into the time pressures of working in business. He believes that the program challenges stu- dents to realize the true potential of their business minds. “This program is a test of their own ability, and the feed- back they get from real-world clients is a great learning tool,” he said. The program might be beneficial to MBA students, but Fisher said non-profit organizations also prosper from the eight-week experience. “The client gets to hear fresh new ideas and solutions to their business problems,” she said. “When the students gain valuable skills and the client gets value out of the recommen- dation, the program is a success.” Kati Rook, junior in deaf education, rests in a hammock along the Pedestrian Mall on a sunny Tuesday, March 22. Joy Hill • The Daily Beacon Students in UT’s MBA program will work with local non-profit organizations to give students real world experience with the issues of operating businesses and to help give back to the community. George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Program to teach students ‘real-world’ skills MBA students learn to tackle business issues from multiple perspectives beyond classroom Rob Davis Staff Writer As the second week in July comes to a close, students taking summer classes are halfway finished with their second semester. Many students choose to take summer class- es during the mini May, June and July semes- ters. “This was the first summer that I had decid- ed to take classes,” Phillip Davis, senior in his- tory, said. “I realized that, to graduate on time, I would need to take four more classes this sum- mer to be able to finish up next spring.” Some students like summer class- es because they don’t last as long as classes during the Fall and Spring Semesters. “I personally liked the fact that my summer class only lasted a month,” Jake Dorris, junior in pre-med and Spanish, said. “It was nice to only have to worry about it for a month, but it was intense as well. Although you were in class every day, you had to do the work of a five- month semester in a fifth of the time.” An additional perk of summer courses is let- ting students focus on one class at a time if they choose. “Since there wasn’t a minimum number of hours to take, I only took one class, so I could direct my time to focusing on one class,” Dorris said. Students can take as little as three hours or as many as 12. “I had to take four classes so I could get caught up on my hours,” Davis said. “Even though 12 hours is a bare minimum during the regular school year, it’s a lot harder to complete four classes in one month.” The mini “May-mester” ran May 11 through June 1, the June session classes ran June 2 to July 6, and July session classes run July 7 and will end Aug. 9. One drawback to summer school is the amount students pay for classes. Since scholarships do not apply to summer school until the HOPE Scholarship becomes available next summer, the cost to students is much more than it would be during the regular semes- ter. “It cost me around $3,000 to take four classes during the June semester,” Davis said. “That cost is more than I paid for the 2010-2011 school year.” Another great advantage to sum- mer classes is the amount of free time students have. “I love having free time out of class,” Dorris said. “The hardest thing about having a summer class is paying attention for an hour-and-a- half straight.” First and second session classes run an hour-and-a-half every day, and the mini session ran three hours every day. “I had to take four classes this summer to graduate on time, but I’m really glad I did,” Davis said. “I got the classes out of the way with and still have a month or so left of my summer.” Students lounge outside the front of Ayres Hall on Tuesday, April 12. 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Full-time UT students in the master’s business adminis-tration program will now participate in a program that givesstudents the chance to put their business skills to the testwhile helping out non-profits in East Tennessee.
Innovation in Practice, which began as a pilot course in2004, is now a requirement for all first-year MBAstudents. The program, co-led by faculty membersGlenn Swift and Pat Richardson, gives studentsthe chance to consult non-profit organizations inthe area on real-world projects, such as acquiringnew properties or increasing earned income.
The program was created for UT’s MBA pro-gram as a means of giving students applied skillsin business that will, in turn, give them an edge inthe job market.
“Nobody is going to hire students just for whatthey know,” Swift said. “They are going to hirethem for what they can do.”
The students are divided into teams of five andhave a faculty mentor to give the students guid-ance and insight. Each team has its own non-prof-it organization, and the team is solely in charge ofthe direction of the project.
While the program might work with socialcauses such as museums and literacy programs,Swift argued that non-profits still offer valuablepractice in business consulting.
“Non-profits have the same problems that for-profits have,” he said.
Swift added that working with non-profitorganizations is valuable to the organizations, theuniversity and the East Tennessee area.
“UT is a public land-grant university, so weshould, and are, giving back to the area, and thisprogram is a great outreach to the community,” he said.
Joy Fisher, a lecturer at UT’s MBA entrepreneurship pro-gram working as a mentor for the Innovation in Practice proj-ect, agreed that Innovation in Practice compels MBA stu-dents to approach business problems from different perspec-tives.
“The program is a problem-solving method that can beused not only in developing business skills but life skills aswell,” she said. “It’s a process that takes you beyond yourcomfort level to look for new ideas to solve problems.”
Raymond Stark, a retired executive of HoneywellSpecialty Materials, was approached by co-founder Swift
about the MBA program one day and thought it was anopportunity to help students get practice in real-world busi-ness.
“When I retired, one of my objectives was to network inthe local area and to give back after working 35 years in theindustry,” he said.
“I have worked with faculty members in the past by help-ing provide students access to business technologies. UTapproached me to help provide these technologies to MBA
students wanting to gain hands-on business experiences.”Stark argued that the Innovation in Practice program
gives students a different learning environment that offersmore hands-on learning.
“It is not a lecture or a standard course with tests that youhave to pass in order to pass the class. This is probably theonly course they have that is not a traditional lecture environ-ment,” he said. “They are put in an environment with a coachand a real-world problem situation. These students want toget out in the real world and this program lets them practicethat.”
Fisher agreed, noting that some business lessons are
learned beyond the classroom.“You can never really learn what business is like by study-
ing it in a book,” she said. “This program gives students ahands-on experience that allows students to apply what theyare learning in their textbooks and use it in a real-life envi-ronment.”
While the program molds students’ business minds intocritical thinking, Fisher added that the program gives stu-dents a competitive edge in the job market.
“Innovation in Practice gives studentsmore credibility in the business world,” hesaid.
Stark said the process the students gothrough is a good example of a real con-sulting project.
“Swift and Richardson identify the non-profit organizations and give the studentsthe organization’s problem statement,” hesaid. “They have eight weeks to analyzethe problem, prepare different solutionsand finally make a recommendation andmeet with the organization’s executives.”
Fisher said, while students must makea recommendation to their non-profitorganization, the point of the program isto develop their skills on coming up withrecommendations, not necessarily whatthe recommendation is.
“There are no black-and-whiteanswers,” she said. “There are answers inthis program, but they aren’t necessarilyalways right answers. This allows studentsto operate in a state of ambiguity, which issomething they will encounter in real life.”
Stark said the eight-week deadlineoffers students a glimpse into the timepressures of working in business. Hebelieves that the program challenges stu-dents to realize the true potential of their
business minds.“This program is a test of their own ability, and the feed-
back they get from real-world clients is a great learning tool,”he said.
The program might be beneficial to MBA students, butFisher said non-profit organizations also prosper from theeight-week experience.
“The client gets to hear fresh new ideas and solutions totheir business problems,” she said. “When the students gainvaluable skills and the client gets value out of the recommen-dation, the program is a success.”
Kati Rook, junior in deaf education, rests in a hammock along the Pedestrian Mallon a sunny Tuesday, March 22.
Joy Hill • The Daily Beacon
Students in UT’s MBA program will work with local non-profit organizations togive students real world experience with the issues of operating businesses andto help give back to the community.
George Richardson • The Daily Beacon
Program to teach students ‘real-world’ skillsMBA students learn to tackle business issues from multiple perspectives beyond classroom
Rob DavisStaff Writer
As the second week in July comes to a close,students taking summer classes are halfwayfinished with their second semester.
Many students choose to take summer class-es during the mini May, June and July semes-ters.
“This was the first summer that I had decid-ed to take classes,” Phillip Davis, senior in his-tory, said. “I realized that, to graduate on time,I would need totake four moreclasses this sum-mer to be able tofinish up nextspring.”
Some studentslike summer class-es because theydon’t last as longas classes duringthe Fall andSpring Semesters.
“I personallyliked the fact thatmy summer classonly lasted amonth,” JakeDorris, junior inpre-med andSpanish, said. “Itwas nice to onlyhave to worryabout it for amonth, but it wasintense as well.Although youwere in classevery day, youhad to do thework of a five-month semesterin a fifth of thetime.”
An additional perk of summer courses is let-ting students focus on one class at a time ifthey choose.
“Since there wasn’t a minimum number ofhours to take, I only took one class, so I coulddirect my time to focusing on one class,”Dorris said.
Students can take as little as three hours or
as many as 12. “I had to take four classes so I could get
caught up on my hours,” Davis said. “Eventhough 12 hours is a bare minimum during theregular school year, it’s a lot harder to completefour classes in one month.”
The mini “May-mester” ran May 11 throughJune 1, the June session classes ran June 2 toJuly 6, and July session classes run July 7 andwill end Aug. 9.
One drawback to summer school is theamount students pay for classes.
Since scholarships do not apply to summerschool until theHOPE Scholarshipbecomes availablenext summer, thecost to students ismuch more than itwould be duringthe regular semes-ter.
“It cost mearound $3,000 totake four classesduring the Junesemester,” Davissaid. “That cost ismore than I paidfor the 2010-2011school year.”
Another greatadvantage to sum-mer classes is theamount of freetime students have.
“I love havingfree time out ofclass,” Dorris said.“The hardest thingabout having asummer class ispaying attentionfor an hour-and-a-half straight.”
First and secondsession classes run an hour-and-a-half everyday, and the mini session ran three hours everyday.
“I had to take four classes this summer tograduate on time, but I’m really glad I did,”Davis said. “I got the classes out of the waywith and still have a month or so left of mysummer.”
Students lounge outside the front of AyresHall on Tuesday, April 12. First session summerclasses came to a close last week with secondsession classes just swinging into gear at themidpoint of the summer.
Joy Hill • The Daily Beacon
Summer classes aid students diversely
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Carol and Reggie Hundley, season ticket holders for the upcoming football season, discuss seat locations with Julia Stump of UT Athletics during the Meet Your Seatsevent on Monday, July 11.
George Richardson • The Daily Beacon
1965 — Mariner 4 studies Martian surfaceThe unmanned spacecraft Mariner 4 passes over Mars at an altitude of 6,000 feet and sends back to
Earth the first close-up images of the red planet.Launched in November 1964, Mariner 4 carried a television camera and six other science instruments
to study Mars and interplanetary space within the solar system. Reaching Mars on July 14, 1965, the space-craft began sending back television images of the planet just after midnight on July 15. The pictures —nearly 22 in all — revealed a vast, barren wasteland of craters and rust-colored sand, dismissing 19th-cen-tury suspicions that an advanced civilization might exist on the planet. The canals that Americanastronomer Percival Lowell spied with his telescope in 1890 proved to be an optical illusion, but ancientnatural waterways of some kind did seem to be evident in some regions of the planet.
Once past Mars, Mariner 4 journeyed on to the far side of the sun before returning to the vicinity ofEarth in 1967. Nearly out of power by then, communication with the spacecraft was terminated inDecember 1967.
1888 — Volcano buries victims in fiery mudThe Bandai volcano erupts on the Japanese island of Honshu on this day in 1888, killing hundreds and
burying many nearby villages in ash.Honshu, the main island of the Japanese archipelago, is in an area of intense geological activity, where
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are relatively common. The Bandai volcano is a mountain in northernHonshu with a very steep slope. It had erupted four times in the 1,000 years prior to the 1888 eruption,but none of these had been particularly deadly.
At just after 7 a.m. on July 15, rumblings were heard from Bandai. Only 30 minutes after that, an explo-sion on the north side of the mountain caused powerful tremors. Fifteen minutes later, there was anotherexplosion and, in the next two hours, dozens followed. The explosive eruptions sent debris thousands offeet into the air. The resulting cloud of ash and steam was estimated at 21,000 feet wide.
The giant cloud sent a dangerous rain of burning mud down over the area. Several villages in the Bandaiarea were buried by a combination of the fiery mud and landslides caused by the tremors. At the Kawakamispa, 100-foot-deep debris covered the ground. Although 100 bodies were recovered there, many were neverfound.
—This Day in History courtesy of History.com
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Workers toss leftover materials off an overhang of the Min Kao ElectricalEngineering and Computer Science Building on Monday, March 21. Thanks in part toa $17.5 million gift from the Garmin CEO and Chairman, the largest single gift in UThistory, the Min Kao building is scheduled for completion in fall 2011.
George Richardson • The Daily Beacon
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Think you might dobetter than President Barack Obama and con-gressional leaders in picking and choosingwhat government spending to cut — or taxesto raise — to stave off a debt showdown thatcould wreck the economy? A new computergame gives you, too, the chance to play“Budget Hero.”
“Budget Hero 2.0” is an update of an orig-inal version that came out in 2008. It showsplayers just how difficult it might be to carryout their grand policy objectives — universalhealth care, extending the Bush tax cuts orending foreign aid — and still keep the gov-ernment from either becoming irrelevant, orgoing broke.
“Our timing turns out to be perfect,” saidformer Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., whoresigned this year to head the WoodrowWilson Center, a nonpartisan think tank thatdeveloped the game with American PublicMedia.
Harman said the game is a valuable teach-ing tool, particularly now as the presidentand Congress butt heads over the futurecourse of government. Players get insightsinto the “difficult choices involved in reduc-ing the deficit and raising the debt limit,” shesaid.
Among the first players to test their skillsat the unveiling this week of the new versionwere Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the topRepublican on the Senate Budget Committee,and Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo.
Udall said he had two kids in college and“I’ve been a real nag about video games,” butthat “the point of this game is to educate, toempower us.”
The new version, updated to reflect theincreasingly dire financial situation and suchnew factors as the House Republican budget'sapproach to Medicare, allows players to pickfrom some 100 policy cards as they try toearn “badges” that reflect their political lean-ings. Fiscal conservatives can try to earn a teaparty badge, defense hawks a national securi-ty badge or environmentalists a green badge.
The game starts in the year 2021, based onCongressional Budget Office numbers show-ing what happens to the government’s budgetif there is no change in current policy.Players, by using their policy cards, changethe course of history.
Before clicking on a policy, the player cancheck out the pros and cons. Raising theSocial Security eligibility age to 70 for thoseborn in 1973 or after would save $152 billionover 10 years but would also mean a 10 per-cent loss in benefits for those now in theirmid- to late 40s.
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AUSTIN, Texas —Republican presidential hope-ful Ron Paul is using his firstcampaign television ad to pro-mote his long-time oppositionto raising the federal debtlimit.
In the ad released Thursdayand set to run in early primarystates, the Texas congressmancriticizes both Republicansand Democrats for strikingdeals in the past and saysCongress should not compro-mise this time. Paul also notesthat he always has votedagainst raising the federallimit on borrowing.
“In the ’80s, they did it to(Ronald) Reagan, a debt ceil-ing compromise, Democratspromising spending cuts, butdelivering only tax hikes,” the
ad says. “The ’90s broughtmore compromises, more bro-ken promises and more newtaxes. ... Will our party’s lead-ers repeat the mistakes of thepast?”
President Barack Obamahas said that if a deal to raisethe debt ceiling is not passedby Aug. 2, the U.S. govern-ment could default on itsloans, creating a financial cri-sis. Paul and some conserva-tive Republican members ofCongress reject that conclu-sion and have insisted onspending cuts. Negotiationsare ongoing between Obamaand Republican leaders in theHouse and Senate over a com-promise that would ensure thedebt ceiling is increased.
The scope of federal spend-ing is an important issue toconservatives who make upthe Republican Party’s base,
and Paul is seeking to use thedebate raging in Washingtonon one of his signature issuesto gain ground in his presiden-tial campaign. He trails othercandidates in national andstate polls. A poll conductedfor The Des Moines Registerlast month showed Paul run-ning toward the back of thepack, with only 7 percent sup-port.
The ads are to begin airingon both broadcast and cablestations in Iowa and NewHampshire on Friday and areto run through next week,said Jesse Benton, aspokesman for the Paul cam-paign. Benton said the cam-paign is spending more than$100,000 in each state. It’s ahefty sum for this early in therace. Other candidates arerunning ads, but at muchlower levels.
CPU game lets users manage budget
Paul’s ad opposes raising debt limit
Today marks the last day of my childhood. Notonly am I turning 21 today, but today marks thelast big release of the Harry Potter series. Now Iknow for some of you this literally means nothing.For a lot of people, though, it is quite a big changein life. Never again will there be the joy andanticipation that comes with a new release. Wewill no longer be able to eagerly guess and ponderwhat will happen next in the Harry Potter saga.Questions will linger with no possibility ofanswers being found. For many of us, this marks adistinct change and turning point in ourrelationship with the series.
Harry Potter has been around me since I was10. I can remember my mom buying the firstbooks at TJ Maxx, her reading them, and thenpushing me to read them as well. I can rememberreading the first book and my Potter passionerupting. I devoured the next two books shortlyafter. From that point on, I never missed amidnight book release, and I have never missed amidnight showing of one of the movies. Last nightwas no different.
Whichever character you felt a kinship with asyou read the novels didn’t matter. You grew upwith them, explored the world through them andeventually learned their story by heart. You madefriends with Harry, Hermione, Ron, Neville, Lunaand Ginny. You cried when Sirius and/orDumbledore died, and cried some more when yourealized Snape’s true motives. The end of theseries brought about a final sadness, but you knewthat it wasn’t over quite yet.
The series garnered more followers as itbranched out to movies. It reached for the youngat heart who were not able to find the time to readthe stories. It spread to children who may havesimply been too young to read or understand thenovels. The movies made the series bigger thanever. Young, new Hollywood stars blossomed,
aged and matured with their characters, whileolder Hollywood stars brought Hogwarts alivethrough their portrayals of the professors.
I distinctly remember reading a column byAnna-Lise around two years ago. It addressed thequestion of what will happen when the series isover. She asked whether the loyal followers of theseries would pack their wands, robes and booksback into the trunk and slowly allow the series tofade into obscurity. She questioned the dedicationof a generation that had been “taught to read” onthe Harry Potter books. This is my response toher.
Anna, the end of the series is not a loss of anicon. The end of the series just marks the end ofanticipation, and that is all. As I grow up, I hope toshare my love of the series with my kids, niecesand nephews. I will always argue that Dumbledoreis greater than Gandalf and that Ron is better thanHarry. I will reread the books throughout my lifeas a reminder of the joy a simple book can bringme. The series is not an escape from reality, it isabout all the challenges life gives us. The one truthabout the series that I will never give up is all thelessons it taught me. Sure, I could have learned afew from reality, but isn’t the concept of universaltheme what makes a novel or story trulyresounding?
The worst feeling is not forcing myself to cometo the reality that it is all over. Rather, it is thesheer desire to give justice to a series that definedso many peoples’ childhood. It is the daunting taskof having to write down all the feelings andemotions that are encompassed in the whole seriesand the feelings shared by its followers at its end. Ithought that a quote from the series could properlyend this particular column. I realize now that thereis not just one quote that serves it justice. Idecided to end the whole journey summing up thevaluable lessons the series taught all of us.
Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, theimportance of friendship, finding inner strengthand doing what is right in the face of adversity. Letthis be the lasting impression of such a greatseries, the means with which it resonates its first,loyal followers and truly stands the test of time.
- Brittany Vasquez is a senior in anthropology.She can be reached at [email protected].
Even if you aren’t a fan, you probably know whoHarry Potter is.
For the past 14 years, the fruit of Rowling’s laborshas been available for purchase in written form;beginning in 2001 the wildly popular books havebeen released as equally popular movies.
But alas, most good things come to an end, andso:
In honor of this week’s opening of “Harry Potterand the Deathly Hallows, Part II,” I’d like to devotea little space to one of my favorite stories from J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world. If you’re practicallya Gryffindor yourself, you are undoubtedly familiarwith “The Tales of Beedle the Bard,” a collectionof children’s stories from the magical world inhiding. Though all five of them are fantastic, theone I like the best — behind the story of the threebrothers, of course — is “The Fountain of FairFortune.”
If you’ve read “The Tales,” I can guess what you’rethinking. Why in the world would I pick the lamestand cheesiest story of them all? And for those ofyou who haven’t read them, you’ll soon bewondering the same thing. The story goessomething like this: Three maidens and one braveknight find themselves venturing up an enchantedbluff together. They toil mightily in order to reacha magical fountain that reputedly grants whoeverbathes in the water a lifetime of good luck. In thecourse of their travels the three women find thattheir sorrows have already been relieved, and sothey insist that the brave Sir Luckless take a dipin the fountain, and everyone lives happily everafter. The story even ends with the words, “noneof them ever knew or suspected that the Fountain’swaters carried no enchantment at all.”
But what I really like about this story is the waythat Rowling pulls it off so effortlessly. Instead of
turning “The Fountain of Fair Fortune” into someoverbearing morality play, she follows up with purelighthearted commentary from everyone’s favoriteheadmaster. The next few pages of “The Tales” aredevoted to Dumbledore’s recollection of theinfamous Christmas pantomime gone terribly awry,and there’s not so much as a whiff of paternalism.He even manages to work in a jab at Lucius Malfoy,all the while ignoring skillfully the moral of the story.
It isn’t because the author is somehow blissfullyunaware of the story’s utter predictability. Thatsame predictability and the tact she showed inhandling it the way she did only goes to prove thatJ. K. Rowling is as thoughtful a children’s author aswe could ever wish for. It’s rare to find a book foryoung people with a lesson to teach that doesn’tsay it outright or scream it, over and over, in thehopes that some wayward child will get themessage.
Life is, unfortunately, much more nuanced thanthat, which is why subtle stories are so necessary.As painfully obvious as some lessons might seem,anyone that’s ever been alive knows that the hardestones to learn are the lessons that should have beenthe easiest to recognize and take to heart.
But we’ve been made soft. Instead of teachingour children to tease out the right and wrong in life,we simply say “This is good” and “That is bad” and“Don’t argue, it’s because I said so.” When a clear-cut moral is handed to us on a gleaming pumpkinpasty tray, there aren’t many hard decisions to make.
Rowling knows this, and her writing shows it.“The Fountain of Fair Fortune” isn’t in the businessof preaching; it’s just a sweet story about the meritof hard work, perseverance and faith. And just asyoung children need to be reminded often thatsometimes life just isn’t fair, all of us need thereinforcement of hearing that good and wonderfulthings can and do happen. Though the good timesvery rarely stand alone, the important thing is thatthey stand.
And friends, the last Harry Potter moviepromises to be a very good time indeed.
- Anna-Lise Burnett is a senior in global and Asianstudies. She can be reached at [email protected].
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THE GREAT MASH-UP • Liz Newnam
Despite an alleged recovery, America’s financial staterefuses to rebound. The job market’s sour, the deficitcontinues to soar and our last hope rests withWashington. Lucky us.
It seems gray skies are still on the horizon for thelimping American economy. The unemployment ratefor June is up again, rising for the fourth month in a row.With unemployment hovering around 9.2 percent,the fates don’t portend strong economic gains anytimesoon.
And the grim figures don’t end there. Length of theaverage work week fell last month, and hourly wageswere stagnant. Largely due to the abysmal situation ofstate and local governments, employment in the publicsector fell.
According to the “Economist,” painstakingly slowgrowth has its roots in everything from the Japanesetsunami disaster to oil prices. The journal does, however,seem optimistic about the coming months. Oil pricesseem to be letting up a bit, and Japan’s manufacturingsector seems to be on the rebound. Optimists claim thatrecovery will likely continue in fits and spurts, withinevitable periods of slack.
Commentators without such a rosy view of the worldclaim otherwise. In the nation’s past, periods of deeprecession followed by little growth have tended to signalthe dreaded double-dip. Given the expansive public andprivate debt held by Americans, any type of shock couldtip the nation over the edge.
In the past few years, Europe has been painfullylearning the lesson that Americans so desperately needto master. Greece has lived to fight another day, andItaly is still in the woods. EU nations have beenscrambling to curtail government’s piece of GDP. It lookslike the American government may be starting to catchon.
The Democrats, in a compromising spirit usuallyabsent in Washington, are offering to make some starkspending cuts, with a spending cut to revenue increaseratio of roughly 3-to-1. This may stem from PresidentObama’s desire to appear moderate heading into thenext presidential campaign, but regardless, the American
people might want to take the punt.For some mystifying reason, the Republicans are
refusing to budge on the budget issue. A few monthsback their ideal ratio for deficit correction was an 85-percent cut to a 15-percent revenue increase. TheDemocrats are currently offering an 83-percent cut witha 17-percent revenue increase, which seems workable.As a further nod to the right, the revenue increase wouldbe taken from closing tax code loopholes rather thanincreasing marginal rates.
Why the resistance, then? Republicans in the Houseare taking a hard line on any sort of tax revenue increase.David Brooks has already chastised the party for itsreluctance to bargain while the country hangs in thebalance. Its stalwart attitude may not be in the bestinterest of the economy long-term. With the sluggishgrowth to date, drastic spending cuts will be a hard blow.Some form of a revenue cushion is likely necessary tokeep the nation afloat.
This modern dilemma is at its heart classic: Rightnow the nation’s citizens need government spending.If they get it, future generations will be on even shakierground. What’s a legislator to do?
As the Beacon was going to press, negotiations onspending cuts and the debt ceiling had deteriorated evenfurther. After President Obama walked out ofnegotiations Wednesday, doubts surfaced as to whetherany type of deal will be reached. Republicans are nowthreatening to abandon discussion completely and forcethe president to raise the debt ceiling unilaterally.
The president will not take that blow sitting down.Already Obama has threatened to stop retirement checksfor the elderly, and it’s likely he won’t stop there. His aimis to stoke a fire under the American people, forcing theRepublican hand in raising tax revenues. The presidentwill force the GOP to play the hypocrite or takeresponsibility for a harsh government shutdown. Wellplayed.
Even if the president is able to achieve a debt ceilingraise without cutting government spending, he maywin the battle and lose the war. Cue Republican ads in2012 with catch phrases like “it’s the deficit, stupid” and“AA Obama.”
No matter which party triumphs in this chaotic dance,the ceiling will undoubtedly be raised. With Standardand Poor’s threatening a downgrade in the U.S. creditrating, something must be done. Compromise or no,the government can’t kick the crutch out from under acrippled economy.
-- Blair Kuykendall is a junior in the College ScholarsProgram. She can be reached at [email protected]
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ENTERTAINMENTFriday, July 15, 2011 The Daily Beacon • 5
Jake LaneEntertainment Editor
Trying to classify Terry Tabors, the man behind thepersona Swerve, is an exercise in folly.
From early singles like 2006’s “TheReturn” and his 2008 full-length debut“Anomaly,” one might assume he’s a manicfuture prophet with a dual mission to saveand destroy the world. In conversation,however, Tabors projects a cool, collectedand fully articulated sense of purpose andartistic aspiration.
A 2005 graduate of Knoxville West HighSchool and a senior double majoring inreligious studies and communications,Tabors began his musical career shortlyafter high school, recording a few tracks inthe years before recording “Anomaly” withUT alum Evan Kodra. Though his maininspiration for creating music isRadiohead, Tabors said hip-hop giants likeMF Doom, Ghostface Killah and Mos-Defhave influenced his perspective and deliv-ery of rap.
Only recently has Tabors entered thelive arena, debuting his own fusion of hip-hop lyricality and electronica euphoria.
“My set is a hip-hop/electronica set,which I call ‘hiptronic,’” Tabors explained.“It’s a mixture of rap and hip-hop lyrics,with some dubstep. I’m on lyrics and a Micro-KORG syn-thesizer, and the guy I’m doing this with, Clabe, producesthe beats.”
The first Swerve experience was at campus favoritethe Hill, the second on an island in Norris Lake at theaptly-titled ‘IslandFest.’ On Monday, July 18, Tabors and
Clabe, also known as Caleb Arnwine, 2009 alumnus inlogistics, will perform their third Hiptronic set at theRelix Variety Theater in North Knoxville with Dig Doug.
Tabors says the set will showcase songs from“Anomaly,” since “a lot of people haven’t heard it,” aswell as the upcoming sophomore LP, produced with
Arnwine.“We’re doing 24 songs non-stop, and I’m going to go
as hard as possible,” Tabors said. “If you want to see thebest in hidden talent around, I’m pretty confident webring it.”
One ace up Tabors’ sleeve is Swerve’s alter ego,Reaper, who he promised would make an appearance dur-ing Monday night’s show. Debuted in “The Return,” thevengeful opposite of Swerve’s upbeat space MC gave thattrack a grimy edge with boasts like rivals “feeling morebullet-time than ‘The Matrix.’” When listening to tracks
on “Anomaly,” one can heartraces of this trickster seekingrelease, yet the decidedlyoptimistic tone which is atrademark of the Swervesound ultimately wins out.
Though Swerve is in nameTabors’ musical alias,Arnwine’s role in performanceis key to getting the show offthe ground and the crowd onthe floor.
“It clicks a lot better withsomeone else behind thescreen,” Tabors said.
Between course studiesand his burgeoning hiptroniccareer, Tabors also hosts thepodcast “DashFiles” withChris Cruise. Commenting oneverything from Tron to TheDude, the duo, along with fre-quent guest Brad Castle, proj-ect a chilled-out, yet intellec-tual verve and fresh take onculture. Tabors and Cruise,
childhood friends, also maintain a Facebook for the pod-cast and an official website, where listeners can down-load episodes.
Swerve and Dig Doug will perform at the Relix VarietyTheater on Monday, July 18 at 11:30 p.m.
• Image courtesy of Swerve
Swerve delivers ‘hiptronic’ music experience
Friday, July 15, 20116 • The Daily Beacon THESPORTSPAGE
Staff Reports
The Tennessee women’s golfteam, led by twelfth-year headcoach Judi Pavon, hasannounced its 2011-12 sched-ule as the Lady Vols look tomake a fourth-straight appear-ance at the NCAAChampionships. Theseason scheduleincludes four fall tourna-ments and four springcontests before enteringpostseason play.
“This year we have areally competitiveschedule,” Pavon said.“We are going to have astrong team, so we haveput together a very chal-lenging schedule so wecan prepare ourselvesfor postseason throughthe regular season.”
The fall season willopen Sept. 11-13 with atrip to Charleston, S.C.for the Cougar Classicpresented by PigglyWiggly.
After competing inSouth Carolina, theLady Vols will not wasteany time jumping intorigorous competition asthey travel to NashvilleSeptember 23-25 for theFall Preview. The tour-nament, hosted byVanderbilt University,boasts a field comprisedof some of the most highly-tout-ed teams in the country.
“The Fall Preview over atVanderbilt will be a highlight ofthe fall,” Pavon said. “The top-12 finishers from nationals lastyear and the top-10 rankedteams in the country get invit-ed so we are excited to begoing to that. That will be areally strong field and a good
opportunity to see the golfcourse that the national cham-pionship will be on.”
The Lady Vols will travel toNorth Carolina to compete inthe UNC Tar Heel InvitationalOctober 7-9 before returninghome to play host to theMercedes-Benz SEC/Pac 12
Challenge. The Challenge,which will take place atHolston Hills Country Club,will wrap up the fall season.
Returning from a four-monthhiatus, the team is slated tobegin spring competition at theDarius Rucker IntercollegiateInvitational in Hilton Head,S.C. March 2-4. The followingweekend the Lady Vols will
travel to Baton Rouge, La.where they will face off in theLSU Classic.
The Big Orange is thenscheduled to make the trek toHawaii for the Maui SpringInvitational, taking placeMarch 26-27 at the KapaulaBay Course. “We haven’t been
(to Hawaii) in five orsix years so the play-ers are really lookingforward to that,”Pavon said. “Hawaiiput together a prettystrong field so therewill be two or threereally good teamsthere that we’ll face soit will be anotheropportunity for goodcompetition.”
The team will wrapup regular season playwith the BryanNational CollegiateInvitational hosted byUNC -GreensboroApril 6-8.
The 2011-12 cham-pionship seasonbegins in Fayetteville,Ark., where theRazorbacks will hostthe SECChampionship atBlessings Golf CourseApril 20-22.
The nation’s top 72teams will be invitedto participate inNCAA Regionalsfrom May 10-12. The
field will be divided into threeregional sites hosted by PennState, Ohio State and Colorado.
A top-eight finish at a region-al tournament will mark areturn trip to the state ofTennessee for the Lady Vols.The 2012 NCAAChampionships, hosted byVanderbilt, will be held May 22-25 in Nashville.
Staff Reports
Tennessee senior defensive lineman Malik Jackson and junior defensive back PrentissWaggner earned selections to the 2011 SEC Coaches Preseason All-SEC Team, adding tonumerous preseason honors for the upperclassman standouts. Jackson was named to the firstteam, while Waggner notched a spot on the third team.
The defensive duo has also been recognized on multiple preseason award watch lists.Waggner leads the team with his name on four watch lists (Chuck Bednarik Award, LottIMPACT Trophy, Bronko Nagurski Award and the Jim Thorpe Award), while Jackson has beennamed to three (Bronko Nagurski Award, Outland Trophy and Rotary Lombardi Award).
Jackson led the Vols’ defensive line with 48 tackles in 2010, including a team-high 11 tack-les for loss. The Northridge, Calif., native also ranked second on the UT squad with five sacksand third with four pass break-ups and five quarterback hurries.
Jackson’s production exploded after moving inside to defensive tackle at Georgia (Oct. 9).In the final eight games, the senior recorded 36 tackles, 10 tackles for loss, all five of his sacks,three QB hurries, four passes defended and an interception.
Waggner, who earned Associated Press second team All-SEC and Scout.com second teamAll-America honors in 2010, broke the UT season record for interceptions returned for touch-downs, taking an NCAA FBS-leading three to the end zone.
The Clinton, La., native tied for seventh in the FBS and first in the SEC with three recov-ered fumbles last season, while also tying for the team lead with five INTs. His eight total take-aways were the most by a Vol since Deon Grant picked off nine passes in 1999.
Additionally, Waggner recorded 57 tackles, to rank fifth on the squad, along with nine pass-es defended, which was second among the Vols.
Tennessee opens up fall practice Tuesday, Aug. 2.
Associated Press
SANDWICH, England (AP) — TomLewis shares a name with one of the BritishOpen’s greatest champions.
The kid sure lived up to it Thursday.Lewis, a 20-year-old amateur, shot a 5-
under 65 to share the lead after the openinground of golf ’s oldest major — a day thatwas even more special because he playedalongside the man he was named after: five-time Open champion Tom Watson.
“I was more nervous not to embarrassmyself in front of him,”Lewis said.
No worries there.Lewis pulled off someWatson-like shots atRoyal St. George’s, mak-ing four straight birdiescoming down the stretchbefore a par-saving tap-inat the 18th left him tiedwith Thomas Bjorn.
“He could be mygrandson,” quipped the61-year-old Watson, whoneeded seven morestrokes than his name-sake to get around thecourse. “I just had tosmile inside watchinghim play. I didn’t play particularly wellmyself, but I certainly was impressed by theway he played.”
Lewis’ late-afternoon charge was defi-nitely impressive, but it didn’t totally over-shadow an early morning round by Bjorn,who was playing at this course on theEnglish seaside for the first time since hismeltdown in the 2003 Open.
That Sunday, he threw away a two-strokelead in the final three holes — who can for-get him needing three swings just to escapethe bunker at No. 16? — and allowed BenCurtis to snatch away the claret jug withone of the sport’s most shocking upsets.
Two very different players.Two hugely compelling stories atop the
leaderboard.“I’m 40 years old,” Bjorn said, “and there
might just be a little bit more in me.”Long after the Dane had completed his
round — he was done by lunchtime — anEnglish phenom half his age surged up theboard by taking full advantage of the after-noon calm that had this place ripe for thetaking.
Lewis posted the lowest round ever foran amateur in the British Open, beating the66 posted by Frank Stranahan in 1950 andmatched by Tiger Woods (1996) and JustinRose (1998). The youngster also becamethe first amateur to lead a round at a major
since 1976, when Mike Reidwas up by three strokes head-ing to the second day of theU.S. Open.
“We certainly have a newyoung breed out here, don’twe?” Watson marveled. “Wehave a lot of young playersplaying very good golf.”
An older one didn’t do sobadly, either.
Bjorn has struggled sincethe death of his father twomonths ago, breakingdown in tears when askedwhat effect the loss had onhim.
“He meant a lot to me,”the golfer said. “He wouldhave been very proud of what
I did.”Bjorn certainly isn’t dwelling on what
happened eight years ago, the last time theOpen was held just up the road from thecliffs of Dover.
“A lot of people make a lot of thingsabout that, but the only way I can play golfis to concentrate on the shot in front ofme,” he said. “It never entered my mind.”
Bjorn had some good fortune at the 16ththis time. He thought his 9-iron was headedfor the bunker, but the ball took a fortunatebounce and rolled down toward the cup. Hemade the putt for his third birdie in a row.
“We all know what it’s like,” Bjorn said.“A bounce here or there, and then it goeseither wrong or right. Today, it went myway.”
Nathalie Mansson walks across thegreen during the Mercedes-Benz Classicon Sunday, Oct. 10. The Lady Vols golfsquad comes off a fourth-straight NCAAChampionship appearance lookingtoward the 2011-2012 season, whichfeatures stops in South Carolina,Louisiana and Hawaii.
Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon
Amateur leads major after one round
Lady Vols release golf scheduleTwo Vols on coaches All-SEC teamDefensive standouts Waggner, Jackson only UT players selected
