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Bob Edwards, former host on NationalPublic Radio, shared experiences fromhis career with faculty and students inthe UC auditorium Wednesday.
Ashley Shoemaker, senior in politicalscience, who provided questions todirect Edwards’ remarks, introducedhim.
“We are very grateful to have BobEdwards speak with us,” Shoemakersaid.
The address was given in a Q-and-Aformat, with Edwards seated and relaxednext to a coffee table on stage. Hisdemeanor was cool and collected butserious, as befits a man who has weath-ered all the major storms of the past sev-eral decades with his listeners at home.
Edwards first touched on his mentor-pupil relationship with Red Barber, theexperienced sports broadcaster fromCincinnati who would appear onEdwards’ show in its early years.
He greatly appreciated the many les-sons Barber was able to impart, learningthrough their interaction.
“I was used to scripted radio, but thiswas live,” Edwards said. “He taught meto be extemporaneous and broadcast onthe fly. This was very valuable for theevents that would come later. It was animportant lesson, and I learned that fromRed.”
Proceeding to expound on his experi-ences as a radio reporter, Edwardsshared his experiences on Sept. 11.
“The big thing for me that morningwas to avoid any kind of speculation, tosay only what we knew,” Edwards said.“That’s really the only operating thoughtI had for 9/11.”
With his experience, Edwards wasable to comment on his time spent withmany different types of people, frommany different walks of life.
“Politicians are defensive and havetheir ‘message of the day,’” he said.
“Musicians are different. When I talk tosomeone who is open and creative, it’svery refreshing. I like to ask them whatthey do and why they do it.”
Edwards identified his favorite musi-cian as Theresa Andersson. Her styleaims to create a one-woman show, as sheroams the country with a record player,drums, dulcimer, guitar and violin. Sheuses all of these instruments together,through the employ of loop pedals.
“She plays multiple instruments andwill record instruments over themselvesand harmonize with herself as well,”Edwards said. “She can then become asymphony all herself, barefoot, as she cre-ates her music with pedals on stage. It’snot your everyday creation.”
With the changing of the journalisticenvironment, so too have come changesfor Edwards and his reporting style.
“I did breaking news at NPR and hadto do seven hours a day of ‘MorningEdition,’” he said. “The program I donow is an interview program, and I cantalk to a person as long as I like. It’s sim-ply conversation, and there should be aplace for that.”
Edwards will be making the most ofhis visit to Knoxville, finding time togather some material for his program.
“While I’m here I intend to do a storyon workers at Oak Ridge in the 1980s,”Edwards said. “I may even sit down withPat Summitt.”
Edwards has done at least 30,000interviews over the course of his career.He described his most heated interviewwith James Watt, a Reagan staff member,who stormed out of his studio in anger.He shared many other anecdotes as well.
“My favorite interview was withFather Greg Boyle, who works in down-town Los Angeles, specifically withmembers of the Latino populationinvolved in lives of gang violence,” hesaid. “He has a great gift of narrative.The stories of the people he has helped,and the people who aren’t able to escapethe violence, are simply riveting.”
Edwards said he has a capable team
who helps him locate interesting personssuch as Boyle.
“I have a fantastic staff of young pro-ducers who know what I will do andwhat they want to do,” he said. “Theytell me what’s going on in music, and Ieducate them on the Iran-Contra Affair.”
Another of his favorite interviews waswith Johnny Cash, who had a specialimpact on Edwards.
“I spent so many years trying to getJohnny Cash,” Edwards said. “I knew Iwas going to call him the ‘Voice ofAmerica.’ I finally got him, just sixmonths before he died, and we had agreat time.”
He shared his stories from times ofwar and peace. Particularly interestingwere his thoughts on the McCarthyyears, with his belief that the public wasresponsible for preventing atrocities likethis from occurring.
Edwards reflected on the future ofjournalism and its altered role inAmerican culture.
“You have people in Washington whoremain in makeup all day, pundits,” hesaid. “There is less attention to fact. Ifsomething shows up on Twitter, broad-casters go on the air with it. It’s notchecked for accuracy.”
He brought up examples from hisexperience to justify this point.
“When Clinton was accused of hisaffairs, that’s when it began,” Edwardssaid. “Journalists reported rumors forthe first time. There is now less caretaken with information.”
Edwards also shared his view of hissignificant role in modern journalisticpractice.
“There is no civility,” he said. “Theseprograms are less about the mind thanspeaking from the gut. My program is alittle place of escape from that. It will allbe different in 10 years, because it’s alldifferent now than it was 10 years ago.We seem to be going back to our histori-cal roots, when political parties ran news-papers. Objectivity has ceased.”
He sees an extreme polarity in the
media, which is a substantial diversionfrom journalism of the past.
“Once that (bias) begins, it flourish-es,” Edwards said. “These outlets aregoing to multiply and increase. I don’tknow that I would want to stop that.There should be freedom of opinion.”
Edwards still asserts the importanceof the New York Times and theWashington Post in our society.
“We need successful big-time newspa-pers that can finance investigative report-ing,” he said. “This is our only way tokeep tabs on the activities of our politi-
cians.”Both “The Bob Edwards Show” and
“Bob Edwards Weekend,” broadcastedthrough Public Radio International, cur-rently feature Edwards. These programsare purely conversational, as Edwardsinteracts with prominent journalists,entertainers and a variety of interestingpersons.
Edwards is currently affiliated withSirius XM. Previously, he hostedNational Public Radio’s “MorningEdition,” where his following included13 million listeners on a weekly basis.
• Photo courtesy of Bob Edwards
Bob Edwards visited UT on Oct. 13 for a Q-and-A session. Heanswered questions about his experiences in public radio for theaudience.
Bob Edwards discusses venerable career
Kristian SmithStudent Life Editor
Since the devastating January earth-quake near Port-au-Prince, the need inHaiti has been of principle concern formany of the aid groups on campus.However, some UT students have beenworking to bring aid to Haiti even beforethe earthquake struck.
Give Haiti Hope, a new organizationat UT, is primarily composed of UT stu-dents that work with the Knoxville-basedHaiti Outreach program, founded in2008, to bring much-needed aid to vil-lages in Haiti.
Katie Riley, president of Give HaitiHope, said she has been working to helpHaiti for many years.
“I was in a Haiti club in high school. Ifelt like we really made a difference there,and I wanted to bring that goal to UT,”she said. “There were lots of clubs helpingAfrica (at UT) but none helping Haiti.”
Though Riley and other members ofthe group have been actively working toaid Haiti for years, she said the earth-quake brought awareness to the need.
“The earthquake made the UT commu-nity much more receptive to a club likethis,” she said.
The group holds many fundraisersthroughout the year, including a Fierceand Fancy Formal prom dress sale inFebruary and a medical benefit, but theirnew fundraiser is 21 for Haiti.
This fundraiser is being held in coordi-nation with Katie Erpenbach’s, vice presi-dent of Give Haiti Hope, 21st birthday.
“I wanted to do something I wouldremember for my 21st, because most peo-ple don’t remember their 21st birthdays,”Erpenbach said.
The fundraiser incorporates a “virtualbar” on the fundraiser’s website,www.21forhaiti.org, where people canbuy Erpenbach a virtual drink.
The group has also set up percentagesnights at bars and restaurants around
Knoxville throughout the month ofOctober.
Places like Three Spoons, Rita’s ItalianIce, Losers, Buffalo Wild Wings and TexasRoadhouse will host percentage nights forthe group this month. Visit the website forthe full calendar of percentage nights.
Erpenbach said all the money raised bythe fundraiser will go to help build anorphanage in Boucan Carre, Haiti. Shesaid they hope to raise $21,000.
As for the other fundraisers, Erpenbachsaid the money will go to the HaitiOutreach program to help support a vil-lage in Haiti.
“The outreach program is only about12 years old, and it started when SacredHeart Cathedral was paired with a parishin Haiti,” she said. “Sacred Heart sentdoctors and engineers for missions there,and they built up a hospital and an entirecommunity. The model they created isbeing turned into a model for the rest ofthe country.”
She said the group has built an elemen-tary school and is working to build a sec-ondary school and a dispensary. Also, theprogram is working to bring a water filtra-tion system and an agriculture program toanother village.
“That village is poorer than our villagehas ever been,” Erpenbach said.
Riley said that while the club has onlybeen officially approved since the begin-ning of this semester, the group of stu-dents has been working together for morethan a year.
“Three or four of us started reachingout and bringing others in,” she said.“Five of us consider ourselves founders.”
Riley said that is important for collegestudents to help Haiti.
“It’s our duty as privileged people tohelp those who don’t have as much,” shesaid. “College students don’t have a lot ofmoney, but we have 10 times more thananyone there could ever dream of having.”
Erpenbach also believes Haiti is verydeserving of help.
“We don’t realize how fortunate we are
to live where we do,” she said. “There arepeople in the U.S. who are poor and needhelp, but there is so much assistance here.You go to Haiti and their governmentdoes not give them anything. Aid groupsare the only way Haiti will improve.”
Besides fundraisers, the group also hasplans to take trips to Haiti over winterbreak and spring break.
Riley and Erpenbach have both takentrips to Haiti.
“Taking a trip to Haiti is amazing,”Erpenbach said. “They sometimes say itsmore helpful for the people who go on thetrip than the Haitians. It really makes youmore appreciative.”
Riley said even students who do notwant to go to Haiti should still join theclub.
“Some of our most active volunteershave never been (to Haiti) and have nointention of going,” she said. “Some peo-ple are more equipped and talented to dowork here.”
For those interested in helping Haiti orjoining Give Haiti Hope, the group willhost Healing Haiti: a Discussion onHuman Rights Before and After DisasterSaturday at 3:30 p.m. in the UC CrestRoom.
The speakers for the event are TatianaTherosme and Jordan Pyda. Therosmewas actually in Haiti during the January2010 earthquake and is working forPartners in Health as a psychologist.Pyda, a medical student, lived in ruralHaiti for two years. Therosme will besharing stories of the day the disasterstruck and how human rights relate tohealthcare for the poor, and Pyda will besharing stories of his time in Haiti andhow groups such as the Haiti OutreachProgram have truly made an impact onthe lives of people there.
Erpenbach said the event will be moreof a discussion than a lecture.
For more information about how to getinvolved with Give Haiti Hope send anemail to [email protected] or go their web-site, www.givehaitihope.org.
Campus initiative supports HaitiKyle Turner
News Editor
The first-ever PartnershipsInActionFair will be held this Sunday from 1p.m. to 5 p.m. in World’s Fair Park inan effort to end global poverty.
The Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. islaunching the PartnershipsInActionFair in Knoxville to raise support andawareness to the problems that persistthroughout the world.
The theme for this year’s Fair is“Our Environment: One People, OnePlanet,” raising awareness to the inter-connectivity of world communities.
“UT students are highly encouragedto come out and support the event, iffor nothing else than gaining a betterunderstanding of the needs of thedeveloping world,” Aneel Bhimani,graduate student in internationaldevelopment, said. “We are all broth-ers and sisters in the world communi-ty and need to be aware of others inthis increasingly shrinking world.”
Unlike other charitable events, thePartneshipsInAction Fair will donate100 percent of all funds raised directlyto projects supported through theorganization.
“Our commitment and mission is soclear and strong that, unlike otherorganizations that might spend fundson administrative costs, every centraised Sunday will go straight to theones who need it the most,” Bhimanisaid.
In the light of recent tragedies stem-ming from the flood in Pakistan, half ofthe money raised will go directly toAga Khan Development Network’sassistance to Pakistanis.
The event’s success this Sunday isextremely important to longevity ofPartnershipsInAction.
“The turnout and support that wereceive this weekend can really chart a
path for continued success and leaveKnoxville poised as a national leader inrelieving global poverty,” RahimManji, UT alumnus and organizer withthe event, said.
Other monies raised will be used tobuild wells, schools and hospitals inpoorer and developing countries.
“It is not always feasible for studentsgo out to the developing countries andphysically help, but there is so muchthey can do right from home,”Bhimani said. “We really want toencourage students to act locally tohelp globally.”
The event will be hosting variousgovernment officials, including themayor of Oak Ridge, and is expectedto have a turnout of around 2,000 peo-ple from Knoxville, Oak Ridge,Maryville, Lenoir City and variousother urban and suburban centers.
The PartnershipsInAction Fair willbe co-sponsored by national andregional companies, including Coca-Cola and Dunkin’ Doughnuts.
The event promises to offer food,games, raffles and entertainment forthose in attendance as well as abreadth of information on how one canmake a difference in their local com-munity.
“This is an excellent way for UT stu-dents to learn about advancing coun-tries and understand the role they canplay in a globalizing world,” Bhimanisaid.
The Aga Khan Foundation hasraised more than $36 million since1995 to alleviate poverty in Asia,Africa and much of the developingworld.
The success of the PartnershipWalk, launched in 1995 in LosAngeles, inspired the creation ofPartnershipsInAction, which hasexpanded into a nationwide initiative,includes programs and events fordiverse audiences, Manji said.
Fair encourages internationalawareness and student action
UT professor emeritus diesat 72
Susan Becker, UT professoremerita, died Oct. 10 followingan illness and cardiac surgery.
Becker graduated from BereaHigh School in 1956, from OhioUniversity in 1960 and from theUniversity of Pittsburgh in 1961.She did graduate work at JohnCarol University and at CaseWestern Reserve, where shereceived her Ph.D. in 1975.
She was awarded WoodrowWilson and Mellon fellowshipsand was a member of Phi BetaKappa.
From 1974 to 2000, shetaught women’s history, 19th-and 20th-century American his-tory and honors courses in theUT history department. She wasthe founder and director of theUT Honors Program and wasthe chairperson of the women’sstudies program from 1979-1981.
She also received the UTNational Alumni AssociationOutstanding Teacher Award in1974. In 1999, she was awardedthe Chancellor’s Citation forExtraordinary Service, as well as
the UT Distinguished ServiceAward for 25 years of service.
In 2003, she received theDistinguished Alumni Awardfrom Berea High School.
She is the author of “TheOrigins of the Equal RightsAmendment: AmericanFeminism Between the Wars”and co-author of “Discoveringthe American Past: A Look atthe Evidence.”
A celebration of Becker’s lifewill take place Oct. 31 at 2 p.m.in the UT Gardens at the ShadePavilion, followed by a recep-tion. Memorial donations maybe made to InterFaith HealthClinic.
UT professor shows themagic of chemistry
He’s a tie-dyed lab coat-wear-ing scientist who can create a liq-uid, bubbling rainbow inside aglass cylinder. He can demon-strate how Alka-Seltzer calms anupset stomach. He can trans-form bubbles into floating ballsof fire.
For the 20th year in a row, AlHazari, director of labs and lec-turer in chemistry at UT, will
dazzle crowds with his “Magicof Chemistry Show” at 7 p.m.,Tuesday, Oct. 19, in 555Dabney-Buehler Hall.
The one-hour show is free andopen to the public.
Part of National ChemistryWeek (NCW), the show is bothentertaining and educational.While Hazari conducts excitingand often explosive demonstra-tions, he unravels the mystery ofhow everyday items, such as dia-pers or cleaning supplies, work.
Throughout his career, Hazarihas been committed to educat-ing the public about the wondersand power of chemistry. Year-round, he can be found perform-ing chemistry outreach pro-grams in schools, museums,assisted-living centers and evenat the grocery store.
Hazari is the 2000 winner ofthe Helen M. Free Award forPublic Outreach from theAmerican Chemistry Society(ACS) and author of the book“Misconceptions in Chemistry,”which helps tackle many of themyths surrounding chemistry inour everyday lives.
THURSDAY OCT 21 Ghost Bird will be followed by talk/book signing by Lyn Bales, author of Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Quest for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1935–1941. Lyn will be joined by special guest, Nancy Tanner.
TUESDAY OCT 19 Tennessee Clean Water and Wild & Scenic Rivers present a series of outstanding environmental films.
Info: 974-3321 Tickets online at http://www.tcwn.org/filmfestival10
InSHORT Friday, October 15, 20102 • The Daily Beacon
See Beacon Bits on Page 5David Holland, senior in media arts, participates in “Toe-pography,” an art instillationnear the Humanities building on Oct. 14. Students were asked to paint with their feet.
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Friday, October 15, 2010 The Daily Beacon • 3ENTERTAINMENT
Brian ConlonStaff Writer
Variety and versatility are not what electronicmusic has exhibited in its relatively short career asa recognized genre. Instead, it is commonly regard-ed as a homogenous collection of music that residesalmost exclusively in nightclubs.
However, with the birth of the digital age camean explosion of DJs, remixes and music createdwithout the aid of traditional instrumentation. Withthe abundance of resources and programs online formaking and sharing music, the power to create andpopularize music has shifted from giant music cor-porations to the common individual. Indeed, justone person can create a sound as big as any orches-tra by clicking and dragging.
DJs like Girl Talk, Pretty Lights and Bassnectarinspire adoration among the college-age masses.
Asheville’s Halloween weekend Moogfest festi-val pays tribute to synthesizer pioneer RobertMoog by almost exclusively hosting artists who cre-ate electronic music or enhance their music withsynthesizers and other digital equipment, whichhas received a large amount of attention. In fact, theallotted number of weekend passes sold out in a lit-tle over a month, forcing the festival’s curators tochange many of the single-day passes into three-day passes, raising the prices by about 20 percent.
Diversity is inevitable with this proliferation ofelectronic media, and it has led to the betterment ofelectronic music as an established, innovative andrespectable genre. This diversity is not only amacro event, but it is also evident within individualartists. This can be seen in current Knoxville resi-dent Sean Bowie aka Teams. Bowie’s original influ-ences were The Blow/YACHT’s Jona Bechtolt andDntel/The Postal Service’s Jimmy Tamborello.
Teams’ music is also reminiscent of older artistsin the genre, most notably legendary French duoDaft Punk, but he adds his own unique touch andbends the formulas from his predecessors’ influ-ences. He does this by chopping, distorting and fad-
ing more traditional electronic music into his ownformula.
Similarly, Teams often employs old rhythm andblues samples in his music, creating a stark yet aptjuxtaposition between the ’70s soul and thenaughts’ digital orchestration.
Teams’ music at times can sound like the bassand womp of the dubstep subgenre but can thenevolve into the instrumentation similar toRadiohead circa “Kid A.” This dynamic music isintended to immerse the listener in enough soundthat they forget their worldly troubles. To do this,Teams employs various instruments in his record-ings, but most stage shows involve Bowie playingkeyboard and singing to prerecorded samples.
This variety is one of the most exciting thingsabout electronic, Teams’ in particular, in that onedoes not know what to expect when listening to anew track or attending a live performance. Thisbecomes especially true when more than one artistis involved. Such an event is occurring this Fridayat the Old City’s Pilot Light venue. Teams will joinFine Peduncle and Star Mountain for a show thatpromises to be exciting and innovative.
Teams seems to be an advocate of such cooper-ation, as he will soon release a 12-inch withStarslinger, dubbed “Teams vs. Star Slinger.” Thiscollaboration was actually a direct result of Bowie’spassion for R & B samples and of the digital age.
“I’ve always been a fan of cut-up soul and R & Bsamples,” Bowie said. “There is just this nostalgicvibe it gives off that that I just can’t get enough of. Inever really was that interested in making songs outof old soul/disco songs until I had this one track thatI didn’t know what to do with. I discovered this catfrom the UK who makes sample-based tracks underthe name ‘Star Slinger’ and sent him what I had. Hefinished it the next day, and we put it on the inter-web. The next week we got a deal to release a 12-inch record. Couldn’t have gone any better.”
Teams, Fine Peduncle and Star Mountain willperform at the Pilot Light Friday at 10 p.m. Thecost is $5. You must be 18 and older to attend.
Chris BrattaStaff Writer
A concentrated collection of seasonedKnoxville musicians and singer-songwritersdon’t often share the same stage, but at 9 p.m.today, Roger Smith, Tim Lee 3 and RB Morrisplan to plant the sounds of Knoxville into theLongbranch Saloon.
The musical differences presented by eachartist will allow the mixture of young and old,familiar and foreign audience members to inter-act with each other in the name of music.
Smith is set to open this show performing asa solo singer-songwriter. He describes his musicas “Blue Ridge-Appalachian-enlightened sci-ence-jazz-intellectual-blues-soul.” Smith’s expla-nation of his sound shows his ability to mix hismusical influences into one. Morris said thatSmith is an “extremely knowledgeable cat,” aswell as “an extraordinary artist and an incredi-ble song writer.”
“If you want to come check out his lyricalgyrations and music, it will be something that isaccomplished and is good or better than thestuff on the radio,” Smith said.
Smith’s presence in Knoxville’s music scenehas been missed by locals like Morris, butSmith himself admits his need to perform.
“I have been around a long time, but I’m stillbrand new,” Smith said. “I enjoyed playing buthad gotten away from it for a while — it is timeto get back into it. I will be doing a set, aboutan hour long, of original songs. It is representa-tive of a year of song writing, a current thing.”
Tim Lee, Susan Bauer Lee and MattHonkonen are set to take the stage followingSmith. Although each individual member of the
group has been performing for much longer,Tim Lee 3 has been providing rock ‘n’ roll musicfor only about four years. Lee describes rock ‘n’roll as “anything that can be distilled into threechords and a cloud of dust.”
“We are not post-anything,” Lee said. “Weare not anti-anything or alt-anything, we arerock ‘n’ roll.”
At this concert, Tim Lee 3 will offer the audi-ence its older tunes, as well as new music fromtheir unreleased album “Raucous Americanus.”
“I have been singing since birth and writingsince I could write,” Morris said.
Morris’ accomplishments as an artist havestretched far beyond the borders of Tennessee,as well as the borders of the U.Ss
Morris said that his music is “in theAmerican tradition, but it jumps around.” Hisnewest CD release, “Lies, Spies, and BurningEyes,” exhibits such a sound, but he also saidthat “there are spoken word pieces on it, and itis thematically wrapped up into poetry.”
At Friday’s event, Morris will attempt topaint a clear picture of his experiences throughhis music, prose and poetry.
“I produced what some call ‘the most ineffec-tual artwork in the culture,’ a book of poetry,”Morris said. “(Poetry) is not worth any money,so it isn’t easily exploited. In this work, I try toavoid poetic devices and trappings. I want to bepoint blank, simple and straightforward. Thereis not a play on sounds and words, and yet, thepoems didn’t have to be so heavy — they canmove from one to the other.”
This Friday’s event is a true collaboration ofKnoxville’s musicians and artists. Additionally,this concert will showcase a multitude of newand old work by all of the performers.
Teams to play at Old City’s Pilot Light Local artists to perform together
For decades, the face of American beer has beenthat of Clydesdale horses, silver bullet trains andbeer so light in calories and flavor that it couldbe mistaken for Dasani. But in the past five years,the trend has shifted. More Americans areexploring through beer. Microbreweries areopening in towns that otherwise would carry nosignificance in the beer world.
Last December, I sat with my two best friendsin a dark, wood-paneled room at Dieu du ciel! inMontreal. The temperature outside floated arounda brisk 8 degrees Fahrenheit. Inside, we kept warm.Dieu du ciel!, located in the Plateau region ofMontreal, is widely regarded as the best brewpubin the world (it holds the coveted No. 1 spot onratebeer.com).
At Dieu du ciel!, the 15-beer menu changes daily.The people do not.
Surrounded by regulars speaking QuebecFrench, we ordered beer after beer. Aphrodisiaqueand Peche Mortel (both stouts) are just a few ofthe house-brewed concoctions that one can find atthis locally owned and operated brewery.
As we sat enjoying our beer, we talked about allthings philosophical. But the one thing that wekept coming back to was our agreement that beeris — in the most basic form — a product oflocation and people.
As we talked about what beer means to culturesand countries, we realized that we were living outexactly the theory we were discussing. We werethree Americans with slightly above-average beerknowledge, sitting in a local brewery, drinking localbeer, surrounded by French-speaking locals. Thebeer we drank was undoubtedly a product of oursurroundings, and it tasted better because of it.
More so than any other food or beverage, beerhas the ability to connect its consumers with itsproducers. Every small detail of the brewingprocess is apparent in the finished product.
People have always associated the best beer inthe world with countries like Belgium, Germanyand the Netherlands — but in reality, some of the
best beer in the world is here in our backyard.Rarely are the words “southeast” and
“microbrewery” mentioned in the same sentence.While the craft beer scene in the United States hasexploded in the last five years, most of the not-so-micro “microbreweries” are located in thenortheastern and northwestern U.S.
So often, names like Dogfish Head, NewBelgium Brewing and Sierra Nevada get thrownaround as the choice craft breweries of aspiringbeer advocates. While the beers that thesebreweries produce are, indeed, much better thanthe beers that giants like Coors and Miller produce,they are not the beers we should be drinking inTennessee.
Here in the Southeast, we have some of the bestmicrobrews in the country. Yet, for some reason,we can’t get passed our fixation on Blue Moon andStella Artois.
Breweries like Yazoo Brewing out of Nashville,Good People Brewing out of Birmingham andTerrapin Brewing out of Athens, Ga., are just threeof the dozens of microbreweries in the Southeastthat are continually proving that Southerners knowa thing or two about beer.
If you don’t believe me when I say Southernersactually know beer, then visit The Back Room inFlat Rock, N.C., and order the Thomas CreekDockside Pilsner. If that doesn’t satisfy your tastes,then visit The J. Clyde in Birmingham, Ga., andorder the Good People Hitchhiker IPA. And ifthose still don’t convince you that beer in theSoutheast is under appreciated, then drive over toThe Brick Store Pub in Decatur, Ga., and order apint of Wild Heaven Invocation. It is sure to pleasethe palates of the most skeptical beer connoisseurs.
Having experienced how good beer can be whilein Montreal last year, I am quick to point out thatlocal beer enjoyed at a local bar or brewery is asgood as anything. While my pint of Peche Mortelat Dieu du ciel! will most likely stand atop mypinnacle of beerdom for the remainder of my life,I can safely say that a pint of Good PeopleHitchhiker IPA at The J. Clyde lies very closelybehind it in second place.
Great beer is all around us. It is our job to exploreour surroundings through the hoppy goodnessof beer.
Get out, drink up and always support your localbrewery.
—Jonathan Grayson is a senior in advertising.He can be reached at [email protected].
Friday, October 15, 20104 • The Daily Beacon OPINIONS
Columns of The Daily Beacon are reflections of the individual columnist, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or its editorial staff.
The adjective genki(na) in Japanese hasconnotations of health and energetic spirit androughly translates into English as “well.” When usedas part of a greeting, it is comparable to the Englishphrase “How are you?” but with perhaps a little moreemphasis on physical well-being. That this adjectiveshould be picked to title a whole series of languageinstruction textbooks strikes me as a little strange(first- and second-year Japanese language studentsuse this series, published by The Japan Times, forall four semesters of required study).
Could it be that the publishers have a wish thatall students who use these textbooks are and willcontinue to be in good health? Or could it be acontracted form of the common question “Are youwell?” that they wish to subtly convey to frazzledlearners? Maybe the choice of title was simply basedon the frequency of usage, but I would like to thinkthat a deeper meaning is being hinted at.
This is, of course, is only one small example ofthe difficulties in understanding the impliedmeanings of words and phrases. Most people(excluding those who deal with language and writingor advertising and marketing and things of thatnature on a daily basis) take for granted the fact thatthey can use language, picked from a set lexicon ofmeanings, that will be readily understood by anyonewith a comparable background in the language used.
Another example is the title of this publication.The Daily Beacon has not only some verystraightforward implications as a phrase (like, forinstance, that it is published daily) but also meaningsthat can be inferred through our experience with theEnglish language (a “beacon” that not only heraldsbut also implies truth and light). Needless to say, wehave to make some concessions; the Daily Beaconis not in actuality published daily, nor is the Beaconnecessarily the lamp of knowledge it sets out to be.
These understandings become even morecomplicated when we throw translation into the mix.My brief definition of genki doesn’t really get at the
entire heart of its meaning, but what is a poor writerto do? Without going into a (at the very least, brief)study of Japanese culture and language, there’s noreason for me to expect that those of you ill-acquainted with the systems that surround thequestion “ogenki desuka” would get the feeling inyour heart that people who are, do. It isn’t becauseonly the privileged are capable of standing; it issimply in the interest of time and interest.
We take shortcuts in our use of language, not onlybecause we expect our listeners/readers tounderstand what we mean, but also because it wouldbe simply imprudent to act as a dictionary. It makesfor stilted and jarring reading when, as language-crafters, we have to explore the minutiae ofetymology and vulgar usage. It would be like sittingdown to a novel only to find that someone hadreplaced the inner contents with an engineeringmanual.
The implied meanings in every language are partof what makes the systems so beautiful. Despite thefact that our vernacular is arguably slowlydegenerating (thank you, 1337 and roflcopter ... )there’s something satisfying about being able to readthrough passages and glean every nuance your braincan muster. We glorify our faculties by putting themthrough the paces — isn’t that the sort of exultationwe can take pride in?
This isn’t too pedantic, to revel in our language,because it isn’t about the amount of academiclearning required to understand. In fact, I think thatmore often it has to do with our experiential learningof words and meanings that makes these exercisespossible, and that it is the academic learning thatturns so many against the beauty of our nativetongues. Poll sixth graders who have to take weeklyvocabulary quizzes, and you’ll see what I mean. Itstarts young.
Perhaps, though, it is a necessary failing of oureducational system to reduce words to line-by-linedefinitions, dry as a desert and as useful as anequation (and by the way, that’s not a complimentto equations). One would hope that as the Englishlanguage and others continue to grow and evolve,we practitioners never lose the taste for experimentalcommunication that involves words and phrases richwith notions of depth.
—Anna-Lise Burnette is a junior in global andAsian studies. She can be reached [email protected].
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I often cite my Catholic upbringing in my columns, and this week will be no exception, unfortunately.This week’s topic is virginity, and more specifically, the societal, religious and psychological aspects of virginity.Everyone has different ideas and attitudes about the subject. For some, virginity is a treasured and sacred
part of you that isn’t limited to the physical: The first time, for some, must be special, romantic, intimate andsaved for one special person. For others, losing your virginity means going home with the waiter who servedyou chicken alfredo at Olive Garden.
Sex, in our culture, is often used as a marketing device or a commodity. Sex can be used as a way to sellyou toothpaste or as a way of determining whether or not you ever run for political office. As a culture, weboth over-idealize sexuality (candles burning, soft music playing, rose petals scattered everywhere, sunsetting over the ocean outside) and undermine its value (Craigslist Adult Services Section, R.I.P.). We as apeople are naturally diverse and have a variety of interests, values and beliefs. There isn’t a uniform answer towhat sex means to us, which is fine, but as a result of this we often walk away confused as to what the natureof the act truly means.
Which is what brings us back to the matter of virginity. In our culture, there often seems to be a doublestandard behind the first time.
Based on stereotypes that come up in movies, television, magazines, music and the like, it is somehowshameful for a man to save himself, as he must be a dominant, conquering male out to spread his seed andwoo every woman with his prowess.
For women, the expectation is quite the opposite. There is somehow something with a woman if she hasmultiple partners, and she is “easy” or a “slut.” Even having multiple partners is acceptable, to an extent, butshe had best not ever talk about it or mention it. If she “gets around” it had better be kept to the privacy of herbedroom.
So how did we arrive at this place, mentally speaking?In my memories of high school health class (an all-girls’ class, as the group was segregated based on sex),
we were shown video after video of after-school specials on girls who wished they had “waited” and were giventhe PowerPoint presentation about STDs and how contracting some meant that “you wouldn’t be able tohave children” or could leave you “sterile and unable to conceive,” and “this STD, if untreated, could damangethe baby.” So, in essence, my entire high school health class’ sexual education program was based on preparingfor a family and a life with one man, forever.
And you know what, that’s fine if you want to be with one man forever. I reveal nothing of my personal lifein this column for a reason. What actually ruffles my feathers, six years after I took the class, is that it wasexpected that a girl must maintain her sexual dignity and not give in to the boy in the backseat of the car.
Meanwhile, in a dualing vision, it is still expected for young men to lose their virginity and engage in bedhopping. “We act like there is something wrong with boys who aren’t constantly trying to sleep with girls, likethey are supposed to be animals, which is silly” explained my mother, about a young man we know who isintent on saving himself for marriage, in the car as we drove to Lexington over fall break.
So, I guess where I am going with all of this is, we need to lift our expectations of how young people shouldreally behave sexually. If a boy wants to be a virgin or a girl wants to sleep with 100 men, it is completely theirchoice, and we shouldn’t judge or make assumptions. We should instead liberate, educate and guide youngpeople to be the most healthy, vital versions of themselves.
With that being said, this column means nothing about you and your virginity. If you want your first timeto be on your wedding night, wrapped in the arms of the significant other you have saved yourself your entirelife for or prefer to ditch the v-card in a storage closet during a football game in the back of an SUV in the parkinglot of Sassy Ann’s, in a canoe on the lake, with a gymnast, in the empty shower at the gym, while you’rewaiting for the delivery person to bring dinner, on a couch in the empty office, in the bed of a pickup truck, ina field in a sleeping bag, or, laying on the pavement in a driveway, the choice is entirely yours.
Just be respectful of yourself, your partner, remember the four Cs of consent, communication, comfort andclarity and… in this case… public decency laws and the consideration of those around, as the previous examplesgiven were all real examples of stories I have heard. Meanwhile, your humble columnist must bid you adieu,as yesterday was her 21st birthday. To your sexual health and my liver!
—Brandi Panter is a junior in history and philosophy. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Following an embarrassing 41-14 loss at Georgiaon Oct. 9, the Tennessee football team returned tothe practice field this week during the team’s onlybye of the season.
Coach Derek Dooley wanted the week of practiceto be very physical and very competitive, whileworking on fundamentals and refusing to game planfor the team’s next opponent, one of the luxuriesthe bye week allows the Vols.
“(We had) two good days of work, got a lotaccomplished and got a little better as a team,” thefirst-year coach said after Wednesday’s practice. “Idon’t know how much, but we got a little better, andthat’s what our objective was. I think every playergot a little better in some fashion, and tomorrow(Thursday) we’ll turn our attention to our nextopponent and start working on them a little bit.”
One area the Vols were hoping to utilize duringthe two-week break was integrating more freshmeninto the playing rotation. During one drive in thefourth quarter against the Bulldogs, UT had as many as seventrue freshmen on the field on offense. Dooley refuted criticismthat getting younger players more playing time was preparingfor the future and not necessary about winning games thisyear.
“We are going to try and go out and win the next game,”Dooley said. “I’m not into this big-picture thinking that every-
body else is. We aren’t here to win the (SEC) championship,we are here to win the next game. We aren’t here to try and laythe foundation. We are here to win the next game.
“Now, we are laying a foundation by the values we areinstilling. That’s what we are doing, but our objective is to winthe next game. That’s what we are going to keep doing week-to-week and at the end of the year, we look back and see howwere we. That’s all you can do.”
Laying that foundation still includes the team’s seniors,many of whom have been through three head coaches duringtheir careers at UT. Defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox saidhe has the utmost respect for college athletes that can make itthrough a multi-year span and still come to practice every daytaking to coaching and wanting to get better.
“I don’t know what the class number, but if you look at theseniors who are here from that original class, the number’svery small I would assume,” Wilcox said of the team’s 2007recruiting class, which was ranked No. 3 in the nation byRivals.com. “It takes a special guy, even if there is no coachingturnover, to make it through and have success through thatfour- or five-year span. To go through what they’ve gonethrough, it’s kind of one of those deals, I’m definitelyimpressed by the way those guys have handled themselves, butwhen you meet them and see what type of kids they are, itdoesn’t surprise you. I have empathy but not sympathy forthem, and that’s how we treat them.”
Senior outside linebacker LaMarcus Thompson is one sen-ior on the team who has faced a that adversity. Thompson isglad the Vols get a bye week before playing Alabama, especial-ly after the former No. 1 team in the country suffered its firstloss in 19 games last Saturday at South Carolina.
“They are going to be very hungry coming off a loss,because a loss hurts,” Thompson said. “Especially when you’rea team that’s winning and winning, and all of a sudden, wow,you get hit with a loss. It kind of brings you back down toearth. They are going to come with it and come hard, becausethey are a good Alabama football team and of course they wantto get back to that winning streak.”
Had the Vols played this weekend, they would have likelybeen down three starters. Defensive tackles Montori Hughes(ankle), left tackle Dallas Thomas (ankle) and kicker DanielLincoln (quad) were all held out of practice this week and willbe reevaluated on Monday.
The Vols will play Alabama on Oct. 23 in Neyland Stadiumat 7 p.m. and will be televised on the ESPN network.
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In college football today, no posi-tion is as highly decorated, criticizedand publically critiqued more than thehead-coaching job. What has turnedinto a seven-digit business has quicklybecome more inflated than ever.
Coaches handle more issues within the program today than theirpredecessors, and the seemingly high risks of NCAA infractionsbecause of agents and infringements within the program keep themon their toes around the clock.
But beyond the daily grind, past all of the day-to-day business andamidst the press conferences and TV commercials, what sits in theback of the mind of every coach today is the pressure to win.
This seems simple and a given, until you grasp the fact that col-lege coaches these days are put on the hot seat faster than any othercoaching position in sports.
Take Mark Richt for example, a man with his britches on fire. Boasting the longest tenure of any coach in the SEC (currently in
his 10th season), the University of Georgia head coach has compiledsix 10-win seasons, a nine-win season and two eight-win seasons.Simply put, the man has done nothing but win and win often.
Any coach with a nine-year tenure like this would surely be des-tined for a library on campus named after him and long-term bene-fits in sight, right?
Very wrong. Since Matthew Stafford’s departure after the 2008season, Georgia’s offense has sputtered and often come up short inbig games, putting pressure on Richt. Knowshon Moreno left for theNFL in the same season, and the emerging face of the Bulldogs onthe field seemed to be that of young A.J. Green.
Recently, Green’s off-the-field troubles, which include selling agame-worn jersey for $1,000 to an individual deemed as a sportsagent, has dug the hole deeper for the coach in red and black. Afterstarting the season 1-0 with a redshirt freshman at quarterback, theBulldogs lost their next four games before dismantling a youngTennessee squad.
Sure, this type of record is not acceptable for any school with thetradition and success known in Athens, Ga., but what other wronghas this man done to the school? His team is coming off an eight-winseason and a Dec. 28, 2009, Independence Bowl victory over TexasA&M in 2009. What further helps his case is the quality of recruitinghe is bringing in, coming in at No. 7 in national recruiting rankingsfor the incoming 2011 class according to Scout.com.
What’s most important about a coach in college football is hisintegrity, track record and fatherly support of his team to do well inthe classroom, and according to college football analysts and fellowpeers, he is a class act and one of the best in the business.
So what’s driving this man out of his job so quickly? It’s the competitiveness of college football programs today in gen-
eral, and the money involved driving schools to mold and shape theirteams into perennial powerhouses, into dynasties.
Bobby Bowden was pushed out of Florida State for not continu-ing his winning dominance over a couple seasons, and the schoolmade a change. Phillip Fulmer was already aging and not recruitingthe marquee players Tennessee had once brought in to compete forthe SEC East crown, so Big Orange made a change.
Lane Kiffin, the next man in line and notorious traitor toKnoxville, took money and a high-profile job out at USC the nextyear. Through sanctions and infractions, his team can no longer beranked in the Coaches Poll and lost scholarships.
This competitiveness in college football today is driving coacheseverywhere to up their own game and have the best possible chancefor success to save their own rear end. Whether it be within theguidelines set by the NCAA or not, the fact remains that coachesmust win in this business in order keep their jobs.
From extra practice time to under-the-table recruiting phone calls,it is no secret too that they have to keep some sort of edge in orderto keep their program among the best.
What should hold true is the fact that the most important impacta coach has in a program is the one on their players’ lives, the samepromise they made to a recruit’s parents while sitting on a livingroom couch, going over the kid’s future. This fatherly influenceincludes the classroom, maturing off the field and growing intoupstanding student-athletes with a future that is very likely in some-thing other than sports.
Colin SkinnerAssistant Sports Editor
College coaches must win to keep jobsUT practices get physical in bye week
The Vols walk off the field after being defeated 41-14 against Georgiaon Oct. 9. This week coach Derek Dooley wanted to focus on fundamentals before game planning for the Alabama game on Oct.23.
Matt Dixon • The Daily Beacon
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