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According to a recent study, UT students in computerengineering and human resource management may havean easier time finding employment after graduation thanothers.

Research done by the Tennessee HigherEducation Commission and the UT Centerfor Business and Economic Research proj-ects that, during the years 2008 to 2018,there will be more job openings in thosefields than new graduates to fill those jobs.

For example, in computer programmingand information systems, there is an esti-mated shortage of almost 400 graduatesannually during 2008 to 2018.

David L. Wright, THEC chief policy offi-cer, said THEC supplied 10 years of histori-cal data on college graduates by program ordegree level to CBER. CBER then pairedthat data with data the TennesseeDepartment of Labor provided on growth inoccupations.

“We tried to pair up degree programswith occupations,” Wright said.

But some comparisons between degreesearned and occupations work better thanothers. Programs like nursing and physicaltherapy are more straight-forward, butdegrees in history or political science can lead to a widevariety of jobs.

Wright said history majors can become historians,museum curators, politicians or any number of profes-sions, making direct comparisons hard to come by.

“There are people who prepared for law by majoringin English or majoring in political science or majoring inhistory,” Wright said. “Some colleges may actually offer apre-law curriculum, but someone can become a lawyerwith any number of pre-graduate curriculum programs.”

So the organizations decided to engineer the studyusing career pathways and career clusters.

CBER Associate Director Matt Murray calls a careerpathway “the root that one takes to secure a particulardegree.”

“So, for example, a student that was interested in agraduate degree in nursing, that student may choose anassociate’s degree first, then a bachelor’s degree and then

pursue graduate study,” Murray said. “So that particularstudent may not actually use the associate’s degree as afree-standing degree and work accordingly.”

Meanwhile, career clusters are “a grouping of careersthat have considerable similarities in terms of skills andtraining and the occupations the individual might pur-sue,” Murray said.

According to the study, the largest under-suppliedcareer pathways are programming and software develop-ment, construction, environmental service systems,accounting, business financial management, human

resources and marketing.The most over-supplied career pathways are journal-

ism, administrative and information support, science andmathematics, therapeutic services, management andteaching, the study said.

“There is not a one-to-one relationship between a par-ticular degree and an occupation,” Murray said.

But Wright said that, due to clustering careers andgrouping degree programs, high-need profes-sions like nursing and teaching were down-played in the study.

With nursing, the study had to count certi-fied nursing assistants, which requires a certifi-cate and not a bachelor’s degree, in the classifi-cation of nursing jobs, skewing the number ofopenings in nursing as a profession. But takingthat variable out for a profession like nursingproves the opposite is true, he said.

“We do, in fact, have a nursing shortage,”he said.

Other studies cited within this one, Wrightsaid, affirm this claim.

With teaching, it’s all in the perspective.Wright said the study was done from a state-wide view, simply stating that teachers, state-wide, were needed.

But that does not mean that any new gradu-ate, looking to get a job in teaching, can getone anywhere in Tennessee. There could be alow demand in some cities in the state and ahigh demand in others, he said.

Murray called the study important because it helpsguide where the university should put its resources.

“Where do we need to focus our resources, our fund-ing, our faculty, in order to meet the degree demands ofcollege students in systems of higher education?” Murraysaid.

Wright called it especially important in light ofdeclining funding.

“Given the fact that we don’t have enough money todo everything we want to do,” Wright said, “how can wework smarter?”

Workers drive utility pipes into the ground at the future site of the UT Sorority Village on Thursday,June 2. The Sorority Village, which will have residential facilities for 13 of UT’s 17 sororities, is expect-ed to be open to it’s first residents for the Fall 2012 semester.

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Anthony EliasStaff Writer

The Henley Street Bridge maystill be long from finished, butanother bridge will fully operateby this fall.

UT Chancellor Jimmy G.Cheek and Pellissippi StateTechnical Community CollegePresident Allen Edwards signed aformal agreement this past weekto begin a bridge programbetween the institutions.

The UT-Pellissippi BridgeProgram will allow students to beenrolled at both UT andPellissippi.

Similar to ClemsonUniversity’s program but with a“newer idea,” said UT ViceProvost Sally McMillan, thosestudents who are among the topwait-listed at UT will get sentinvitational letters to start thisupcoming fall semester.

Advisers from both campuseswill be “paired up” with thoselisted in the initial bridge class,depending on the major, and pro-vide assistance for choosing cred-it courses for the second summersemester on UT campus beforecontinuing classes at Pellissippiin the fall.

One of the courses will be ageneral education class, while thesecond class will focus on thetransitional process fromPellissippi to UT, aimed to makethe switch from community col-lege to university life an easieradjustment before continuingclasses at Pellissippi for the falland spring semesters.

Pellissippi Assistant VicePresident Leigh Anne Touzeausaid the other classes are goingto be “basically what studentswould take in their freshman yearat UT.”

About 80 students have con-firmed their participation withthe UT-Pellissippi program,Touzeau said. All the students

are required to earn at least 24 to30 credit hours and a 2.5 grade-point average by the end of theirspring semester, making them eli-gible for the definite transfer toUT.

“It’s a good program,” Touzeausaid. “It’s going to give students agood head start at UT.”

The recently establishedbridge between the institutionscomes as a demonstration of howUT and Pellissippi are abiding bythe Complete College TennesseeAct of 2010, passed in January ofthat year, changing the statefunding formula from enrollmentto six-year graduation rates.

The 2010 act establishes notjust dual-admission but also dual-enrollment policies at two- andfour-year institutions, whileenrollment policies are also rec-ognized.

McMillan said the UT-Pellissippi bridge program“seemed like the program to meetthe legislative agreement” of the2010 act. She added, “this is apart of a possibility” for UT tobecome a top 25 school.

McMillan said bridge studentswould still have the same accessto financial aid assistance fromeach institution, but she said theHope Scholarship will not beavailable in the summer semester.

While attending Pellissippiclasses, students would seekfinancial aid from the communitycollege, then would receive assis-tance from UT after the transfer.

Though the bridge agreementis still relatively new to staff fromboth institutions, the educationalroute has already stirred upexcitement.

“This is the first time we’vedone this,” Pellissippi FinancialAid Supervisor Arlene Newcombsaid. “We’re truly excited.Anytime we can help a student inthe transition process from onecollege to another, we’re glad tohelp.”

University initiates Bridge program

Programs yield easier job search, survey saysComputer engineering and human resources fields will have more jobs than available workers

There are people who prepared for law

by majoring in English or majoring in

political science or majoring in history.Some

colleges may actually offer a pre-law curriculum,

but someone can become a lawyer with any

number of pre-graduate curriculum

programs.– David L. Wright, THEC chief policy officers,on degrees in relation to occupations

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InSHORT

Students pass by spring blooms outside of the Humanities Building on Thursday, April 7. Record heat swept through Knoxville this week, hitting as high as 95 degreeson Wednesday.

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1935 - Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, ends his MajorLeague playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs. The followingyear, Ruth, a larger-than-life figure whose name became synonymous with baseball, was one ofthe first five players inducted into the sport's hall of fame.

George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895, into a poor family in Baltimore. As a child,he was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a school run by Roman Catholic brothers,where he learned to play baseball and was a standout athlete. At 19, Ruth was signed by theBaltimore Orioles, then a Boston Red Sox minor league team. Ruth's fellow teammates and themedia began referring to him as team owner Jack Dunn's newest "babe," a nickname thatstuck. Ruth would later acquire other nicknames, including "The Sultan of Swat" and "TheBambino."

Ruth made his Major League debut as a left-handed pitcher with the Red Sox in July 1914and pitched 89 winning games for the team before 1920, when he was traded to the New YorkYankees. After Ruth left Boston, in what became known as "the curse of the Bambino," the RedSox didn't win another World Series until 2004. In New York, Ruth's primary position changedto outfielder and he led the Yankees to seven American League pennants and four World Seriesvictories. Ruth was a huge star in New York and attracted so many fans that the team was ableto open a new stadium in 1923, Yankee Stadium, dubbed "The House That Ruth Built."

The southpaw slugger's final season, in 1935, was with the Boston Braves. He had joinedthe Braves with the hope that he'd become the team's manager the next season. However, this

dream never came to pass for a disappointed Ruth, who had a reputation for excessive drink-ing, gambling and womanizing.

Many of the records Ruth set remained in place for decades. His career homerun recordstood until 1974, when it was broken by Hank Aaron. Ruth's record of 60 homeruns in a sin-gle season (1927) of 154 games wasn't bested until 1961, when Roger Maris knocked out 61homers in an extended season of 162 games. The Sultan of Swat's career slugging percentageof .690 remains the highest in Major League history.

Ruth died of throat cancer at age 53 on August 16, 1948, in New York City. His body lay instate at Yankee Stadium for two days and was visited by over 100,000 fans.

1962 - Ray Charles was one of the founding fathers of soul music—a style he helped createand popularize with a string of early 1950s hits on Atlantic Records like "I Got A Woman" and"What'd I Say." This fact is well known to almost anyone who has ever heard of the man theycalled "the Genius," but what is less well known—to younger fans especially—is the pivotalrole that Charles played in shaping the course of a seemingly very different genre of popularmusic. In the words of his good friend and sometime collaborator, Willie Nelson, speakingbefore Charles' death in 2004, Ray Charles the R&B legend "did more for country music thanany other living human being." The landmark album that earned Ray Charles that praise wasModern Sounds in Country and Western Music, which gave him his third #1 hit in "I Can'tStop Loving You," which topped the U.S. pop charts on this day in 1962

Executives at ABC Records—the label that wooed Ray Charles from Atlantic with one ofthe richest deals of the era—were adamantly opposed to the idea that Charles brought to themin 1962: to re-record some of the best country songs of the previous 20 years in new arrange-ments that suited his style. As Charles told Rolling Stone magazine a decade later, ABC exec-utives said, "You can't do no country-western things....You're gonna lose all your fans!" ButCharles recognized the quality of songs like "I Can't Stop Loving You" by Don Gibson and "YouDon't Know Me," by Eddy Arnold and Cindy Walker, and the fact that his version of both ofthose country songs landed in the Top 5 on both the pop and R&B charts was vindication ofCharles's long-held belief that "There's only two kinds of music as far as I'm concerned: goodand bad."

This all-embracing attitude toward music was one that Ray Charles developed during achildhood immersed in the sounds of jazz, blues, gospel and country. To him, the boundariesbetween those styles of music were made to be crossed, and he made a career out of doing justthat. Released over the initial objections of his record label and its distributors, ModernSounds in Country and Western Music went on to be the biggest-selling album of 1962, occu-pying the top spot on the Billboard album chart for 14 weeks. "I Can't Stop Loving You," heldthe #1 spot on the singles chart for five weeks beginning on this day in 1962, eventually becom-ing the biggest pop hit of Ray Charles's monumental career.

1977 - Raymond Carver quits drinking after being hospitalized four times in 1976.Carver, the son of an Oregon sawmill worker and a waitress, had recently established his

reputation as a powerful short story writer with his story collection Will You Please Be QuietPlease? (1976). Born in 1938, Carver grew up in Yakima, Washington. He married a year afterhigh school graduation and worked menial jobs to support himself and his family. A creativewriting class inspired him, and he went to study writing at Humboldt State College in Arcata,California. He later studied at the prestigious Iowa Writer's Workshop. In 1967, his first shortstory was published, and his first collection, Put Yourself in My Shoes, was published in 1974.

Carver and his wife divorced in 1982, and Carver began a relationship with poet TessGallagher that lasted until his death. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979 and two grantsfrom the National Endowment for the Arts. He taught writing at the University of Californiaat Santa Cruz, the Iowa Writer's Workshop, the University of Texas, and elsewhere until 1983,when he won an award granting him a $35,000-a-year salary for five years. He continued to winhonors and awards for his short story collections, including What We Talk About When WeTalk About Love (1981) and Where I'm Calling From (1988). He died of cancer on August 2,1988.

--- This Day In History is courtesy of history.com

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jim James is on a spiritual questof sorts, and you're invited to listen in.

The My Morning Jacket frontman sat in the prayerroom of a church in a quiet neighborhood of his home-town last month, talking about old records, religion, phi-losophy and his perpetual yearning for understanding.These things color the Kentucky quintet's much-anticipat-ed new album, "Circuital," and James says the recordreflects a search he's been on for some time.

"I just want to be peaceful," James said. "I just wantto find peace. I don't want to be questioning anymore.I don't want to be searching anymore."

Don't get James wrong. He understands he's livingthe life millions dream of as the head of an increasing-ly important and influential rock band. That part of hislife is great. James is looking for solace in other placesas well, however. He jokingly calls himself a recoveringCatholic and says he's given up on organized religion.He's now seeking comfort from other sources.

"There's so much stuff that you just don't need inyour brain that they hammered there so young andyou're trying to deal with it," James said. "I don't con-sider myself any faith. I just try to listen to all faithsand all ideas and sift out what I believe and what Idon't."

Increasingly James is finding answers in music.Long a rock 'n' roll fan, he started to grow uninterest-ed and turned to different forms of music to feed hisneed for new sounds. His discovery of soul music hasinfluenced his own music over the last five years. Moreimportant, it's opened his mind about the possibilitiesof life.

"I'll never forget hearing (Marvin Gaye's) 'What'sGoing On' for the first time and being like, 'Oh, mygod,'" James said. "All this rock music is beautiful andserves a purpose, but so much of it is about pain anddarkness. And when I hear 'What's Going On' or whenI hear some of Sam Cooke's religious work, I hear all themystery and passion that I loved about my rock music, butI also hear hope and praise and all this glory that I feellike I don't hear in all this sad stuff growing up, listeningto Nirvana. When I put on Nirvana now, it's like nailsshooting into my ears."

Like Gaye, Pastor T.L. Barrett also blew his mind, andhelped set the stage for the recording of "Circuital," MyMorning Jacket's first album since 2008's "Evil Urges,"comes out Tuesday. Barrett's little-known "Like a Ship ...(Without a Sail)" was a gospel funk masterpiece that allbut disappeared after a small pressing decades ago.Boutique label Numero Group reissued the album, whichBarrett recorded with his Chicago church's youth choir.

James decided he wanted to recreate the uncommonenergy and communal spirit of that album and other lostgospel records, and rented the church (the band asked itsname and exact location be withheld for privacy reasons).The church's large, echoing gymnasium was the perfectspace for the band to gather after a year-long hiatus.There was room for everyone to set up and face eachother, and they were able to strip away all the artificialseparation you find in a traditional studio.

"We're in a band. We play music live all the time, so I

wanted this album to showcase just us being a band, allplaying together and hopefully achieving that moment ofgood tape together," he said.

After a rather confined experience recording "EvilUrges" in a New York City studio, the "Circuital" sessionswere freewheeling and loose for the band, which alsoincludes bassist Tom "Two-Tone Tommy" Blankenship,drummer Patrick Hallahan and multi-instrumentalistsCarl Broemel and Bo Koster. James brought the lyrics andskeletons for songs and the band worked each over for afew days, at most, before recording them. They skippedthe usual step of rehearsing and making rough demos foreach song and went right to the tape recorder, keeping itloose as they tried to turn the sprawling church's gym,

soaring chapel and various gathering spaces into some-thing useful.

"There was an element of do-it-yourself with this one... because we just walked into a space that isn't a studioand had to make it sound good," Hallahan said. "We builta tent around my drum kit to reign in the cymbals becauseit's such a big, wide room. We had to dampen the wholefloor with acoustic absorb material. It was just like a bigproject that never ended."

Hallahan describes the group as "five compassionateand curious souls" and James' bandmates get where he'scoming from when he's translating his spiritual ques-tions into artistic expression. Each has had his ownjourney over the last half decade as My Morning Jackettoured relentlessly, earning the combination of criticaladoration and experimentation-indulging fan bases oftop rock acts like Radiohead and Wilco.

So James' ruminations resonated with his bandmatesas they laid down the tribal vibe of opening track"Victory Dance" or matched the beauty of James' soar-ing tenor on "Wonderful (The Way I Feel)." They nailedthe title track, which builds over a long crescendo tosome of the album's most heroic guitar work and inter-esting sonic moments, on just the second take.

Todd Haynes picked up on that connection on therecord when he first heard it. The "Far From Heaven"director is helming a live webcast of My MorningJacket's Tuesday concert at The Louisville PalaceTheater. Haynes met James when the singer stole ascene in his Bob Dylan film "I'm Not There" and has fol-lowed the band for some time.

He called "Circuital" a "powerful" album and notedhow different it is from My Morning Jacket's previoussound, which has evolved from lush alt-country to NeilYoung-style rock to something fairly unpredictable.

"When I really listened to 'Circuital' through the firsttime, I really noticed it as a through-line lyrically in thisrecord — this sense of a new beginning, of a new life, ofsort of turning the page on the past and having a kindof confidence. It's very optimistic," he said.

And why shouldn't they be? With one of the year'smost anticipated albums and tours, they've attained akind of long-term stability that's rare in the music world.It seems natural that should be reflected in their music.

Now the question is, will it help James find some ofthat peace he's looking for?

"There's things that I'm trying to figure out that Ihaven't figured out," James said. "I'm getting clues andstuff but I don't know why it's built into my brain thatway. My brain is just not satisfied. It has to questionsomething infinitely. And usually it questions somethingso much that it eventually kills it, and then I go some-where else, and then it questions that. So I'm trying finda way to stop that."

• Photo courtesy of Autumn DeWilde

Singer James leads band on ‘spiritual quest’

On May 30, 2011, the PBS website was hackedby a group named LulzSec. They posted a falsenews story reporting that Tupac Shakur was stillalive and living in New Zealand. This came as aresponse to a Frontline news story that had airedrecently about WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, andJulian Assange. The group felt that Frontline hadgiven not only a negative portrayal of the partiesinvolved, but also a biased interpretation of theevents.

A response such as the one enacted by LulzSecis not rare. With WikiLeaks continuing to releasepreviously classified cables and videos wilegarnering negative attention for the acts, manyhacker groups have come to the defense of theAussie and his website. Last December, Visa andMastercard websites were both hacked due to theiranti-WikiLeaks stance. Members of both cards hadinformation stolen and published, while bothwebsites suffered server crashes.

WikiLeaks, Manning, Assange, andvarious hacker groups are a fascinating counterculture to the world in which we currently live.All participants have not only shown the ease withwhich online security can be breached (even at thehighest level of the U.S. military), but also areshowing the world the new means of fighting back.On WikiLeaks main page, a request to donate byAssange dominates the headline: “Keep us strong.Help WikiLeaks keep governments open.”

The quote raises serious questions aboutthe ramifications of the acts carried out by thegroups. Has Bradley Manning really helped to makethe public more aware of the secretive nature of theU.S. government, or has he just helped the U.S.government realize its cyber security weaknessesso that it can be fixed? Are the hacker groups forcingcompanies to realize the value of WikiLeaks andtheir agenda, or are they just further isolating majorplayers in the world economy?

If there is one thing that is certain, it isthat all the actions keep media and public attentionfocused on the cause. This cyber-counter cultureis trading lives of anonymity for mass scrutiny andpublicity. While many hackers are known only bytheir group, these had previously only worked onthe fringes of society. WikiLeaks has given thesegroups a flag to rally behind and men to support.Assange makes it a point to never criticize orsupport the groups actions, but isn't this the sameas the world's response to the current uprisingsin the Middle East? To take a side is to condemnoneself. Assange is a master of publicity. WikiLeaksis using all the media to its favor.

I have spent hours upon hoursresearching the website, Assange, BradleyManning, and the various hacker groups involved.At times, I find myself vehemently standing besidethem and desiring the same outcomes that theydesire. These people are the new freedom fighters.At one time in history, people could turn their headsto the lies and deception carried out bygovernments. Even up to this point, it was easyto push aside these theories as conspiracies. Usingmedia outsources, this specific counter culture willnot stand for it. Assange is merely a man to rallybehind; those behind the scenes will provide thesupport and work. Assange will publicly push themedia to realize the truths WikiLeaks publishesand realize the problems and lies pushing societyforward.

WikiLeaks does not ruin hope forgovernment and for the people. Rather, it shouldinspire hope. It should drive not only the desireto know, but the desire for a more open future. Thecables and videos found on the website should pushhumanity for a more open dialogue between thoseelecting the people in charge, and those in charge.Isn't that the purpose of a democracy? The peoplerepresenting us should be responsible for theiractions and not allowed to hide behind a mask ofsecrecy. The irony of the situation will always bethat those who hide in their rooms, unlocking codesand spending hours in front of their computerstearing away at finding a truth will remainanonymous, but now, over their dead bodies, willthe truth be hidden away as they are.

— Brittany Vasquez is a senior in anthropology.She can be reached at [email protected].

To begin, I’d like to welcome everyone to whathopefully will be a great Summer term. This plasticoptimism will be the emotional high-point of this column,as everything else will likely be condemnatory orderogatory, so I can at least say this started on a goodnote.

While I generally try to keep my political opinionsto myself and those who share them, some of the recentlegislation which has been endorsed through our StateHouse has given me reason to pause and consider thelogical value of my silence.

At the end of Fall semester I wrote what was intendedto be my farewell statement for this newspaper, in whichI tried to convey that to be a truly viable publication, wemust cling to objectivity and veer away from punditryand slanted reporting. I still believe that, but I feel it’stime to call out the bad apples in legislature who wasteour tax money on frivolous legal issues.

On the state level, your national ties to political partiesor modes of ethical practice are somewhat meaningless.That is to say a state Republican does not reflect anational one, though certainly he may in views andpet issues. With the media circus which has followedthe seeming demise of the national GOP in the last threeyears, however, any foul-up only adds to the infamy ofthat particular group.

Our state senator and Knoxville representative, StaceyCampfield, exemplifies this phenomenon by pushingthrough bills which target groups without provocationand support his individual worldview, instead of thoseof his constituents. In doing so, Campfield not onlydisgraces himself and his party, but also the state ofTennessee (to which he moved from New York), whichwe certainly don’t need at this point.

Let’s take a look at some of Campfield’s warpedmorality-based bill issues for which he has shown greatsupport.

The easiest to point out and the issue which hasgarnered the greatest national attention is SB49, orthe “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Essentially Campfield believes

that any type of familial plan that does not focus onheterosexual union should be off limits in schools fromkindergarten to the eighth grade. His argument hasbeen that sexual morality and ethics should be subjectstaught by parents to their children, a paternalistic viewwhich strikes me as odd coming from a man who isunmarried and childless. The rub therein is that thisview countermines any kind of autonomy on the partof a legal minor, which teenagers have struggled to gainsince hair grease and motorcycle jackets were all therage. It also has the implication that ethics are passedon from generation to generation without change, andthat the ultimate moral authority to a child is their parentor caregiver, which is simply not true.

What Campfield does on paper by introducing amoratorium on a way of life he does not share is attemptto make that lifestyle invisible, and in doing so keepingchildren ignorant of a situation. His nuclear mindedreasoning precludes that the children of Tennessee havenever been exposed to, or even might be living in, ahomosexual or single parent domicile. As a child ofdivorce this was always my reality, and I take extremeoffense in any legislation which demeans a life whichdoesn’t fit one single person’s worldview asunmentionable. My parents would have probably killedeach other had they stayed married, and ultimatelymy life was happier with them apart.

Now for something completely different. There is alongtime practice when giving a prenatal ultrasound todisplay messages to the parents like “Hi Mommy! HiDaddy!” and the like. One of Campfield’s old battle axeissues has been to give death certificates in the case ofan abortion, further pushing the “life begins atconception” agenda and the Christian nuclear familyplan. And for those lucky few for whom that lifestyleactually works, salute. Otherwise, Campfield is barkingup a tree at people who offer no threat to him in anyproportion greater than the rest of the populace.

These are two issues, and I have ranted about andfailed to truly explicate why they are so ignorant. PerhapsI cannot touch the reason why Campfield’s rhetoric isso toxic because it is inherently flawed. That is a soft bitof logic, but I stand behind it as a disenfranchisedconstituent who must live with Campfield’s laws, andultimately as someone who will live in Tennessee muchlonger than Senator Campfield.

—Jake Lane is a senior in creative writing. He canbe reached at [email protected].

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THE GREAT MASHUP • Liz Newnam

Rising — Quality of Lady Gaga albumsYes, that’s right: Lady Gaga’s new album, “Born

This Way,” released May 23, is her best album todate.

Amazingly the worst song on the album is also itsthird single, “The Edge of Glory.” It is a phoned-inpower ballad, immensely forgettable and lyricallyempty.

But nearly every other song has that single-quality,especially the apathetic dance track, “Heavy MetalLover.” Also “Bloody Mary” essentially just soundslike Depeche Mode with Lady Gaga on vocals, andthat is awesome.

Rising — Reverence for our role model, “MachoMan” Randy Savage

“Macho Man” Randy Savage, former worldchampion in both WWF and WCW, passed away onMay 20.

Savage, known for his bombastic interviews andexciting flights of fancy in the ring, was perhaps mostknown among wrestling fans for his bout with Ricky“The Dragon” Steamboat at WrestleMania III in1987. Savage lost the encounter with Steamboat, butit was a match that launched several wrestling careers.Though all the attention was on Hulk Hogan’slegendary encounter with Andre the Giant in themain event, Savage and Steamboat ended up stealingthe show.

What made Savage stand out most was his over-the-top interview style that managed to maintain asmall shred of believability while also being incrediblyfun to watch. Savage oozed energy and made fanswant to watch his upcoming matches.

For non-fans, Savage was, perhaps, most famousfor serving as the spokesman of Slim Jim. Hiscatchphrase, “Snap into a Slim Jim! Ohh yeah!!”became synonymous with the brand, as he praisedthe virtues of the tasty beef jerky snack.

For this college generation, in particular, Savagemight also be known for guest turns on CartoonNetwork animated programs in the late 1990s. Heappeared in the “Dial M for Monkey” segment of“Dexter’s Laboratory” and also played Space Ghost’sgrandfather on “Space Ghost Coast to Coast.”

He even toyed with a rap career, releasing an album

called “Be a Man” in the early 2000s. The titular songwas clearly aimed at Hulk Hogan, during one of theirreal-life feuds.

Even in death, Savage has managed to do theimpossible. World Wrestling Entertainmentproduced a Savage tribute video, with a Coldplaysong as the main soundtrack. And due to it being anextremely moving tribute about an amazing wrestler,we now like a Coldplay song.

That’s amazing. But then again, Savage could dojust about anything. Will he be missed? Oh, yeah.

Rising — DC Comics’ promotional tricksIt was announced this week that DC Comics is

taking a few radical approaches to winning the comicswar with Marvel.

Firstly, DC has decided to start releasing its comicsthe same day digitally as in print, beginning Aug. 31.

The idea is fundamentally a good one, consideringthe move the world is making from print to digital.But any self-respecting comics fan would rather havea dusty, old print copy. A digital version would haveto be significantly cheap, like, say, 99 cents an issuefor titles that are normally $2.99, to even meritconsideration. This is clearly a move aimed moretoward casual comics fans, ones that perhaps mightbe made from the plethora of comics movies comingout this summer.

More stupidly, DC has decided to relaunch all oftheir titles — that’s right, every single one — witha new No. 1 issue. Why? Because apparently peoplewill just assume that every comic has a new jumping-on point now that the numbering is new.

If followed through within the long-term, this isa dumb idea. It stupidly throws away institutions likethe numbering of classic Superman and Batmancomics “Action Comics” and “Detective Comics.”These titles have been going with their originalnumbering since the 1930s. Why would you throwthat away on a stunt?

But it probably will not even be followed through.Comics are constantly renumbered in the industry.People should start making bets as to how long itlasts, and anyone betting on longer than two yearshas a lot of faith in DC Comics’ long-term editorialdecision making.

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DESTIN, Fla. — The hottest topic at theSoutheastern Conference's annual meetingshas nothing to do with national championshipsor NCAA violations.

It has to do with what league CommissionerMike Slive calls "fundamental fairness" torecruits.

His coaches agree.Two years after the trendsetting conference

limited its schools to signing 28 high schoolprospects, the league is considering droppingthe number to 25. All 12 coaches voted againstthe proposal Wednesday, saying it could hin-der their ability to fill rosters with talent.

"I'm very comfortable with where it is atright now," Auburn coach Gene Chizik said."For us to turn around a year later and want tochange again. ... I have my doubts about ushaving given it enough time to figure out if it'sbroke or not. I'm comfortable with where it'sat."

Oversigninghas become acontroversialissue in theSEC. Criticssay it has ledschools to"grayshirt"s o m ep ro s p e c t s ,making themdelay theirenro l lmentuntil Januaryb e c a u s ethere is noroom on ther o s t e r .University ofF l o r i d aP r e s i d e n tB e r n i eM a c h e ncalled thetactic "morally reprehensible."

Slive has taken a softer tone, saying hewants a more equitable relationship for bothschools and recruits.

"We'll make some changes," he said.The proposed legislation could be passed

later this week."When you read what the commissioner has

said, there probably will be a change,"Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino said. "The peo-ple that criticize oversigning, I'm not sure theyunderstand why you do it and what it's allabout and how you manage your roster andhow you get to (the scholarship limit of) 85."

Even though Petrino expects the proposalto pass, he doesn't believe it will be totally wel-comed.

"I don't know if there will be acceptance toit," Petrino said. "It's all how you manage yourroster. I've always been one that oversigns,knowing that out of these six guys, three ofthem are going to get eligible and three are

going to a junior college and then have achance to come play for us.

"It almost always plays out right. Most ofthe time, it's a situation where, prior to schoolin the fall, I've been able to put one or twowalk-ons on scholarship."

Alabama coach Nick Saban blamed themedia for the proposed change, hinting thatreporters gave too much attention to two LSUrecruits who were denied admission last fall.Offensive lineman Elliott Porter transferred toKentucky, but is now back in Baton Rouge as awalk-on.

"What's your problem with 28?" Saban saidin a testy interview session Wednesday. "Y'allare creating a bad problem for everybodybecause you're going to mess up the kids get-ting opportunities by doing what you're doing.You think you're helping them, but you're real-ly going to hurt them.

"You took one case where somebody didn'tget the right opportunity, but you need to take

the otherh u n d r e dcases thatsomebodygot anopportuni-ty becauseof it to befair."

Milesdefendedthe over-s i g n i n gp r o c e s s ,s a y i n gthey helpc o m b a tt y p i c a lat t r i t i o nstemmingfrom last-m i n u t ed e f e c -tions, inel-i g i b l ep l a y e rs ,h e a l t h

issues, academic casualties and behavior prob-lems.

"All these things have to be managed withsome variances, some ability for the coach tofit guys into spots and timeframes," Milessaid. "I have a difficult time defending theimmorality of you're going to be able to go toschool for free, you're just going to have towait three months to do it.

"I have four children. Give me a grayshirtfor any of the four, I'll take it right now and bethe happiest guy going."

Mississippi coach Houston Nutt has beenoversigning classes for years, even when hewas at Arkansas. He signed 37 recruits at OleMiss in 2009, a move that raised eyebrowsaround the conference and the country.

He said the proposal would make coachesless likely to take chances on prospects whohave borderline grades and test scores andmay not gain entrance to a university.

Home losses to Milwaukee, Presbyterian and

Appalachian State gives you an idea how disap-

pointing Tennessee's 2011 baseball season was.The Diamond Vols closed out the year with a

dramatic, walk-off win over Auburn on May 21 tofinish 25-29 (7-23 SEC).

But as the record indicates, that season-end-ing 4-3 victory was one of just a few highlights onthe year.

The low point might have been the three-game sweep at the hands of in-state rivalVanderbilt. The Commodores defeated UT by acombined score of 39-5 in the weekend seriesfrom April 29 through May 1.

The result?Coach Todd Raleigh was fired on May 23.The unsurprising move came after four lack-

luster seasons for the program under Raleigh,who was hired in 2007 to replace longtime coachRod Delmonico.

During his tenure, Raleigh's Vols had an over-all record of 108-113, including 42-78 in SECplay.

UT never made it to Hoover, Ala., the site ofthe SEC Tournament, under Raleigh, which fea-tures the league's top eight teams each year.

The lack of success under Raleigh begs thequestion: What caused the program-whichreached Omaha, Neb. and the College WorldSeries, the pinnacle in college baseball-just sixyears ago in 2005 under Delmonico, to fall to onethat has finished among the bottom four teams inits league in each of the past four seasons?

Raleigh took over a program facing scholar-ship reductions due to scores in previous yearsbelow 925 in the NCAA's Academic ProgressRate (APR), which measures student-athletes’progress towards graduation.

Not having the full allotment of scholarshipswas a hindrance, especially in a sport like base-ball where scholarships are often divided amongplayers.

But, nevertheless, the program under Raleighhit rock bottom.

Given recent upgrades to Lindsey NelsonStadium-which include a new team locker roomand a plaza along the right field line-the Vols playin a top-of-the-line college stadium.

The resources UT provides the baseball pro-gram-and all sports on campus for that matter-should allow the school's athletic teams to com-

pete for championships.The baseball team hasn't come close to com-

peting for any kind of championship sinceRaleigh's arrival, leading to his termination.

The search for Raleigh's replacement is cur-rently ongoing.

With the NCAA Tournament beginning thisweekend, some potential candidates are stillcoaching their respective teams.

It's been widely reported that the top twonames on UT's wish list are Cal State Fullertoncoach Dave Serrano and South Carolina associ-ate head coach Chad Holbrook.

Serrano was an assistant coach at UT from1995-96, and the head coach for three seasons atUC Irvine. He is currently in his fourth season asskipper of the Titans, who will host a regionalthis weekend in the NCAA Tournament.

Holbrook is in his third season with theGamecocks, and also serves as the team's recruit-ing coordinator. He previously spent 15 yearswith North Carolina's baseball program beforeheading south to Columbia, S.C. in 2008. He hasno experience as a head coach, but is regarded asone of the top assistants in college baseball.

A wildcard candidate is former Vol ChrisBurke. Burke is the best player in UT baseballhistory not named Todd Helton. A middleinfielder from 99-01, he was a three-time All-American before being the 10th overall selectionin the 2001 MLB Draft by the Houston Astros.He spent parts of six seasons in the MajorLeagues. Burke has little coaching experience,but has been campaigning for the job recently.He spent the past season working withLouisville’s baseball program as a graduate assis-tant.

Hiring Serrano or Holbrook would be a safemove, and either would most likely rebuild theprogram into one that makes the SEC and NCAAtournaments more years than not.

But hiring Burke-though extremely risky-would seemingly interject life into a programseemingly on life support.

Given baseball is, at best, the fourth sport atUT, in terms of importance and popularity-behind football and men's and women's basket-ball-taking a chance on a “UT guy” might beworth it. (Can the program get any worse?)

Regardless of whom is the next baseballcoach, the challenge he'll face in rebuilding theprogram is the same: get UT back to Hoover-andpossibly Omaha-consistently.

But that starts by beating the likes ofMilwaukee, Presbyterian and Appalachian State.

-Matt Dixon is a senior in journalism and elec-tronic media. He can be reached [email protected] and followed on Twitter at@MattDixon3.

A line of players prepare for sprints during the first day ofspring practice on Tuesday, March 22. SEC Media Day, thisweek, had journalists and coaches of various programsdiscussing issues of the conference, centering mainly onthe issue of “oversigning.”

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Former Tennessee head coach JohnnyMajors once said of Bud Ford, “He never hasan opinion. He won’t get to the point.”

Of course, Majors burst out laughing afteruttering those words because they couldn’thave been further from the truth whendescribing Ford, the longtime UT MediaRelations Director who announced his retire-ment this week effective at the end ofDecember.

A Knoxville native and 45-year veteran ofhis profession, Ford always let it be knownthat he stood for integrity, passion and tradi-tion when it came to his beloved University ofTennessee. And he displayed those traitsevery day to head coaches, student assistants,media representatives and fans alike.

“Bud Ford loves Tennessee with a passionthat shows through in the way he does hisjob,” UT legend Phillip Fulmer said. “He wasalways helpful to me as a player, assistant, andespecially as the head coach. Whatever the sit-uation, you could be sure he always was pro-tective of the integrity, tradition and imagethat makes Tennessee football special.”

Ford, 66, is moving into the position ofAthletics Department Historian beginningJan. 1, 2012, and plans to keep serving as amentor to those in the UT family.

“The history of Tennessee athletics hasalways intrigued me.” Ford said. “During mywhole career, I have constantly gathered his-torical facts and figures to preserve this ongo-ing picture in my mind of what UT athleticswas. I’ve certainly enjoyed the opportunity towork with a lot of great athletes, studentworkers and employees through these manyyears.”

Included in that group is quarterbackPeyton Manning, who from 1994-97 becamean iconic figure in the Volunteer State.

“Bud is simply the best in the business,”said Manning, who leaned on Ford for adviceduring his celebrated UT career. “I will alwaysbe indebted to Bud Ford, and I am honored tocall him my friend.”

SSiixx FFoooottbbaallll CCooaacchheessFord, who was hired straight out of college

in June 1966 by athletics director Bob

Woodruff, also worked under Doug Dickeyand Mike Hamilton. He advised and support-ed six UT football head coaches -- Dickey, BillBattle, Majors, Fulmer, Lane Kiffin and DerekDooley.

Majors leaned on the combination of Fordand Haywood Harris for 17 years, and theTennessee bond was strong between coachand his sports informationdirectors from the start.

“Bud Ford is one of themost valuable people to anathletics department I haveever known,” Majors said.“I’ve worked with somemighty good people, andBud Ford is as good as theycome. You just can’t beathim.

“He is honest and loyalto the highest degree andhas great integrity. He isextremely efficient andknowledgeable about hisprofession, and has beeninvaluable to me and toanyone else who worked with him at theUniversity of Tennessee. He also was invalu-able to the many sportscasters, writers andmedia around the country.”

Majors appreciated Ford’s frankness whenit mattered most, but wasn’t afraid to jokearound with his publicity man after the crisishad passed.

“Bud is one of the most straightforwardpeople I have ever known, and I’ve often kid-ded him by saying, ‘Bud, why don’t you everget to the point? Why don’t you just say it likeit is?’ He will give you the answer he believesin and he will shoot straight from the hip asmuch as anybody I’ve ever known.

“You never had to read between the lines ofwhat he said because he was very plain-spo-ken.”

Ford was promoted to his current positionof Associate Athletics Director for MediaRelations in April 2000. Before that, Fordserved as primary men’s basketball contactfrom 1966-85, during the Ray Mears and DonDeVoe eras. He spent 13 years as UT’s SportsInformation Director, and then was promoted

to Assistant AD for Sports Information.Those positions were just rewards for the

work Ford began when he was named theschool’s first full-time Assistant SID underCoSIDA Hall of Fame member Harris.

CCoommbbiinneedd 6611 YYeeaarrss“I was privileged to work under one of the

most respected men in the sports informationfield,” Ford said of Harris,who died last June at the ageof 80 and with whom Fordteamed for 35 years. “I alsowas part of a time in colle-giate sports history that willmost likely never occuragain.

“Since 1950, the job ofthe sports information direc-tor promoting men’s sportshas been held by a graduateof the University ofTennessee. Lindsey Nelson,1950; Gus Manning, 1951-60; and Haywood Harris,1961-2000 -- if you add inthe 11 years I have been

privileged to serve in that position, that is atotal of 61 years at one school by alumni whototally dedicated themselves to their universi-ty in every way,” Ford said.

Ford himself was inducted into the CoSIDAHall of Fame in 2001 and later received theprestigious Arch Ward Award in 2006 for out-standing contributions to the field of sportsinformation.

“For more than four decades, Bud Ford asmuch as anyone has embodied the spirit of theTennessee Vols -- loyal student and staff mem-ber, man of integrity, gracious host, andsports information professional whose dailydecisions were always based on what hebelieved was in the best interest of his almamater,” said Georgia’s Claude Felton, Ford’slongtime associate and friend in the SECmedia relations field.

Ford and women’s media relations directorDebby Jennings, who in 2002 became UT’sthird member of the CoSIDA Hall of Fame,helped build the Tennessee brand and workedwith an expanded staff of full-time and stu-dent employees.

“Just like the Orange and White checker-board in Neyland Stadium, Bud Ford has beenwoven into the fabric of the University ofTennessee athletics department his entirelife,” Jennings said. “For more than 40 years,he has had an amazing lifelong impact on UTathletics in ways that can never be quantified.

“Bud is a Tennessee man through andthrough and a walking encyclopedia of UTsports. During his career in sports informa-tion, he will tell you he always put the successof the Vol student-athlete first and foremost.”

Also a member of the Tennessee SportsWriters Association Hall of Fame andKnoxville Sports Hall of Fame, Ford in 2005was made an honorary member of the UTLettermen’s T-Club for his faithful service tothe athletics department.

“Derek Dooley may have coined the termVol for Life, but Bud Ford exemplifies it,” saidHamilton, who took over as UT men’s AD in2003. “No one has been more loyal to theiralma mater or fought harder for it than BudFord. His wealth of knowledge and institution-al culture have been invaluable, and we lookforward to him continuing to lead us in thatarea in his new role as historian.”

RReeoorrggaanniizziinngg AAllll RReeccoorrddssFord’s primary duty will be to reorganize all

existing records of athletics competition in allsports in preparation for moving them into thearchive storage area of the media relationsoffice in the new Football Training Center. Healso hopes to compile, edit and produce an all-time sports records book for the UT athleticsdepartment.

“For the last 45 years, I have seen it as myduty to make sure history was chronicled andproperly catalogued in a way that it can beuseful for many years,” he said.

In addition, Ford will serve as the contactfor historical questions regarding teams,coaches and student-athletes, and be availableto answer inquiries and correspondencereceived by the athletics department.

“The job is ever-changing, and that pres-ents new challenges,” Ford said. “Even thoughI have grown older with each passing sportsseason, the athletes I work with still remainthe same age, 18-21. They keep you on yourtoes and forever young in your thinking.”

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Ford to reorganize competition records