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Scripps VP emphasizes salary negotiating Kristian Smith Student Life Editor

Judge removed from case of 11 Cleveland killings CLEVELAND — The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered a judge removed from the trial of a man suspected of killing 11 women whose remains were found around his home.

An order signed by acting Chief Justice Paul Pfeifer on Thursday said Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold must step down to avoid an appearance of bias or prejudice.

Attorneys for Anthony Sowell asked the court to remove Saffold. They claim Saffold made biased comments about him and a defense attorney in postings on a newspaper’s website.

The judge has denied posting the comments. Her daughter has claimed responsibility.

Saffold is the second judge off the case. The first judge stepped down in December after a newspaper published his e-mails.

Sowell has pleaded not guilty in the Cleveland killings.

For Tamara Franklin, senior vice president for affiliate strategy and business development for Scripps Networks, negotiating is like a game.

“It’s a chess game — move and countermove,” she said. “It’s exciting for me to try to outmaneuver the other folks.”

Franklin, along with other industry experts, shared this and other insights into negotiation with UT students Thursday at a Women in Cable Television event.

The event, titled “Her Place at the Table — Negotiating Skills for

Women,” examined the importance of negotiating skills for women in the workplace.

Franklin, who has 20 years of experience negotiating in the cable industry, said negotiation is a “core life skill” that everyone should master.

“Throughout the day, we negotiate dozens of times, but we don’t always think about it as negotiation,” she said. For students who are soon entering the workplace, negotiating skills will be critical.

Franklin said preparation is key to getting what you want in a negotiation.

“Prepare for the negotiation of salary and benefits as much as you do for the

original interview,” she said.

She said to network with friends at other companies to find out the normal salary ranges and benefits for any position. Franklin mentioned that while salary comparison websites are helpful, they do not always account for variances in different industries and could be wrong.

When entering the job market for the first time, salary and benefits are some of the first things recent graduates will have to negotiate.

“The trend now is that people ask you to put in a salary when you submit a resume,” Franklin said. “You want to be conservative at

this point because you want a callback.”

Franklin said that after this initial phase, prospective employees should always aim higher for salary but with limitations.

“Always go higher than you really want, because you will probably end up coming down, but you have to be credible,” she said. “If you are ridiculously high, you lose all credibility. This is where preparation and homework comes in.”

She advised students to not get fixated on salary in negotiations.

“Think of the whole benefits package,” she said. “If an employer says a salary is non-negotiable, you should push that a little, but you

can ask for other things like a company car or more vacation days to make up for a lower salary.”

Franklin said that in today’s economic environment, students should think about their best alternative to negotiate an agreement, what she calls a BATNA. “You have to ask yourself, ‘What is my alternative if I don’t negotiate?’,” she said.

Even though negotiation is important, Franklin said data suggests that women tend to be reluctant to negotiate.

“Women just don’t do it,” she said. “They say they know they should, but they just don’t.”

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Explosions kill 1, wound dozens in Bangkok BANGKOK — Soldiers and civilians hauled away bloodied victims after a series of grenade attacks Thursday in a new burst of violence in Thailand’s chaotic capital — the scene of a tense, weekslong standoff between anti-government protesters and security forces.

A Thai woman was killed and 75 other people wounded, according to the government’s Erawan emergency center.

Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said attackers shot five M-79 grenades from a nearby area where the anti-government Red Shirt protesters are encamped. But his brief statement televised live late Thursday night on all channels seemed to stop short of directly blaming the Red Shirts, and he urged people who had been demonstrating against them to leave the area for their own safety.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, whom the Red Shirts want to dissolve parliament and call elections, did not make a public appearance. The Red Shirts consist mainly of poor rural supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and prodemocracy activists who opposed the military coup that ousted him in 2006 after months of demonstrations by the Yellow Shirts.

Ex-Texas youth prison official guilty of abuse ODESSA, Texas— A former Texas youth prison administrator was found guilty Thursday of sexually abusing a teenage inmate more than five years ago in a case that ignited a statewide scandal over the treatment of young offenders.

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Orange and White tulips have been planted all over campus. Not only do they add festive school colors to the campus, but they are also in full bloom in time for Earth Day.

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The Chancellor’s Honors Program will host a dance party this Friday to raise money for those in need in Africa.

Aid for Africa is the fifth-annual event that raises money for Africare, one of the nation’s largest private donators to Africa. Africare helps address the needs of people in Africa: health and HIV/Aids, food security and agriculture, water resource development, emergency and humanitarian assistants, women’s empowerment, environmental management, literacy and vocational training, micro-enterprise development, governance and civil society development.

Not only will the event raise funds needed for Africare, it will also provide cultural enrichment. Each of the previous events did different things to highlight a foreign culture. For the fourth-annual cultural event, there was a formal dinner with a guest speaker from Ghana. For the fifth-annual event, however, things will be a little different.

At 8 p.m. Friday, an African dance workshop and a cultural performance by the Khuumba Drum Dance Ensemble will take place.

“Each year has provided a strong African cultural event, and with the Khuumba Drum Dance Ensemble, we are excited for what this

UT students will perform and compete in this year’s Carnicus, a lighthearted spoof of the popular MTV show “Jersey Shore,” this weekend.

This is the 81st year for Carnicus, a singing and drama competition among student groups presented by UT’s All Campus Events.

“A Fist Pumping Carnicus” will feature skits performed by 13 student organizations.

Carnicus begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday in the Cox Auditorium in the Alumni Memorial Building.

Participating organizations are Alpha Chi Omega and Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Tau Omega, Baptist Collegiate Ministry, Chi Omega, Delta Zeta and Zeta Tau Alpha, Kappa Delta and Kappa Sigma, and Phi Mu and Phi Sigma Kappa.

will have to offer,” Kevin Tolliver, senior in management and Honors Council president, said.

Tolliver said this event is open for not only those who want to donate to Africare or for those who know how to dance well, but for all of those who want to go and have some fun while learning something in the process.

“We hope that students from all over campus come to this rewarding event that will introduce you to a foreign culture and meet new people,” Tolliver said.

After the African dance workshop, an informal dance party will take place, with DJ Jason Lovely. Lovely’s dance mix will also have glow sticks and a lot of refreshments.

“Of course, it’s great to get together with people, and if you can have fun for a good cause, even better,” Jessica Barlow, junior in English, said.

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Skit themes include “Shrek,” “Hercules,” “Toy Story,” “The Bible: SNL Transition” and more.

Winners from the skit competition will be announced after the performances. Trophies are awarded for the first, second and third place skits, as well as for the best actress and best actor.

After Carnicus trophies have been presented, each organization’s score is combined with scores from other All Campus Events competitions throughout the academic year, including the Volunteer Challenge, Homecoming and All Sing.

The group with the largest overall score will be awarded the ACE Cup. Tickets can be purchased at the UT Central Ticket Office or through Tickets Unlimited at (865) 656-4444 and http://www.knoxvilletickets.c om.

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• 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. — The International House hosts the International Festival Spring 2010 at the UC Plaza. The festival is co-sponsored by the Center for International Education, CPC and Ready For the World and will feature international music, art, cuisine and dance performance, among other cultural displays.

• 12 p.m.. until 1 p.m. — Forbes Walker, associate professor of biosystems engineering and soil science, speaks on “Developing Conservation Agriculture Systems in Africa” in dining rooms C-D of Thompson-Boling Arena. The Science Forum is free and open to the public.

Sunday, April 25 — • 5 p.m.— The Brazilian Film Series concludes with a screening of “Unforgetable” with English subtitles in the Hodges Library Auditorium. The film is free and open to the public.

Monday, April 26 — • 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.— Jason Headrick, Ph.D. candidate in the department of small animal clinical sciences, speaks on “Biomechanics of the Canine Pelvic Limb: Description of Movement in Three Dimensions” in the Sequoyah Room in the Veterinary Medicine Building.

This Comparative and Experimental Medicine Seminar is free and open to the public.

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The trees in front of Neyland Stadium were in full bloom on Earth Day. Celebrated since 1970, Earth Day is about appreciation and awareness for the environment.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY • 1564 — According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon. It is impossible to be certain the exact day on which he was born, but church records show that he was baptized on April 26, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptizing a newborn. Shakespeare’s date of death is conclusively known, however: it was April 23, 1616. He was 52 years old and had retired to Stratford three years before.

Although few plays have been performed or analyzed as extensively as the 38 plays ascribed to William Shakespeare, there are few surviving details about the playwright’s life. This dearth of biographical information is due primarily to his station in life; he was not a noble, but the son of John Shakespeare, a leather trader and the town bailiff. The events of William Shakespeare’s early life can only be gleaned from official records, such as baptism and marriage records. He probably attended the grammar school in

Stratford, where he would have studied Latin and read classical literature. He did not go to university but at age 18 married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years his senior and pregnant at the time of the marriage. Their first daughter, Susanna, was born six months later, and in 1585 William and Anne had twins, Hamnet and Judith.

• 1967 — Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed when his parachute fails to deploy during his spacecraft’s landing. Komarov was testing the spacecraft Soyuz I in the midst of the “space race” between the United States and the Soviet Union. Earlier in 1967, the U.S. space program had experienced its own tragedy.

Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chafee, NASA astronauts in the Apollo program, were killed in a fire during tests on the ground.

— Courtesy of History.com

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Charitable UT club trains engineers Anthony Elias Staff Writer UT students are showing the world what it means to be a “volunteer.”

Volunteers Without Borders, formerly a student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, is an organization that partners with disadvantaged communities to help improve their life qualities through projects that are environmentally equitable and sustainable.

At the same time, VWB trains engineering students and professionals in responsibility internationally.

UT students travel the world to help improve the lives of those in less-developed countries, working on projects such as 4,000-gallon concrete water tanks or 3,000-foot mains with water taps.

Volunteers Without Borders became an independent organization after students shared a common sentiment, said student chapter president Jeremy Mefford, senior in engineering. “(We already had) a lot of the benefits that would come from being a part of Engineers Without Borders,” he said.

Forbes Walker, associate professor of biosystems engineering and soil science and one of four faculty advisers of VWB, said the student chapter became independent because Engineers Without Borders didn’t capture the spirit of UT’s particular group.

“Volunteers Without Borders was a more accurate name for the group,”

Miss. white supremacist’s death probed as homicide PEARL, Miss.— A white supremacist lawyer with a knack for publicity has been found dead in what Mississippi authorities are investigating as a homicide.

Rankin County Sheriff Ronnie Pennington said Richard Barrett’s body was found early Thursday after residents reported seeing smoke coming from his house near a suburb of Jackson, Miss. Pennington didn’t give further details.

Barrett attracted reporters to his 2008 rally in protest of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the Louisiana town of Jena, where six black teenagers were charged with beating a white classmate.

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Walker said.

Currently VWB has been building spring catchment and pipeline to storage tanks in La Fortuna, a small village in Guatemala.

Mefford said despite the change in environment and lifestyle, the “intelligent, level-headed students” didn’t show any signs of culture shock and were “mentally prepared for going down there,” making the trip, overall, a great experience.

“Most of the students on the trip don’t speak Spanish,” Mefford said. “I speak enough Spanish to get by, so I never felt like I was hopeless or lost.”

He said sometimes the villagers were skeptical of their construction projects.

“We were basically (trying to) protect a natural water spring from contamination so that the village could receive clean water, and a lot of the villagers were skeptical that it would work,” he said. “Once it did get working, the villagers were grateful.”

John Schwartz, another of the four faculty advisers of VWB, said he’s

ban on Confederate flags at University of Mississippi football games.

The 67-year-old Barrett had traveled the U.S. to promote anti-black and antiimmigrant views. He founded a supremacist group called the Nationalist Movement.

Last of 3 men sentenced in Tenn. mosque burning NASHVILLE— The last of three men who pleaded guilty to the 2008 firebombing of a Middle Tennessee mosque has been sentenced to six years in federal prison.

The Tennessean reported that during his sentencing on Thursday, Jonathan Edward Stone apologized for breaking into the Islamic Center of Columbia with two other men, painting racist phrases

enjoyed the experience of working with students who have been committed to their projects.

“The students are very dedicated with their goals to help others in this world,” Schwartz said. “We have a lot of fun, and I enjoy seeing students learn about other cultures and apply their education in a rewarding way helping others. The organization is not just engineers but students from all disciplines. They work well together.”

VWB projects require experience from many fields, Walker said.

“We have expanded from merely implementing engineering projects to encompass a holistic approach to community development,” he said. “We encourage participation from students from all disciplines.”

UT students are working on designs and coordinations of projects that VWB will operate on in the summer when the student organization returns to La Fortuna.

Schwartz said the independent organization has grown successfully and become more popular, but it’s the students who decide what VWB’s direction will be in the future.

“Students’ interest in the organization has grown over the years,” Schwartz said. “The organization is for the students. It’s up to them where they want to take the organization.”

More information on the La Fortuna Project, Volunteers Without Borders or any future projects can be found at http://www.lafortunaproject.org.

and swastikas on the walls and burning it to the ground.

Stone will get credit for two years for time he has already served. His co-defendants, Michael Corey Golden and Eric Ian Baker, were sentenced to 14 and 15 years respectively.

Prosecutors asked for a lighter sentence because Stone agreed to testify against Baker.

Frat inspired by Robert E. Lee bans Rebel uniforms BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— A college fraternity inspired

by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has banned members around the country from wearing Confederate uniforms to “Old South” parties and parades after years of complaints that the tradition

was racially insensitive.

The Virginia-based Kappa Alpha Order issued new rules to chapters earlier this year saying members aren’t allowed to wear Rebel uniforms to parties or during their parades, which are a staple on campuses across the South.

SALARY continued from Page 1 Franklin said she attributes this partially to women’s discomfort with the idea of negotiation.

She said many women think negotiation automatically means a conflict.

Franklin said negotiation doesn’t have to be adversarial.

“Business runs on negotiations,” she said. “It’s not personal or emotional but part of how business gets done.”

She said women tend to want a win-win situation for everyone in a negotiation, but she believes this isn’t always the best thing.

“I think women tend to come to a resolution more often than men, but because women want to feel good about the negotiation, the resolution is often not in our favor,” she said.

Although there are things (like preparation) that should be included in every negotiation, Franklin

said one thing should be different for everyone.

“You have to have your own style to be credible,” she said.

The event, which included panelists from Skirt Magazine, Jupiter Entertainment and UT’s MBA program, had close to 50 attendees.

Oana Harrison, one of the organizers of the event, said there was a good combination of both students and professionals and that the event was successful.

“Both the participants and the panelists were pleased (with the event),” she said. “They probably would have only wanted more time.”

Harrison said she chose panelists that had experience and diverse backgrounds.

She too had advice for students learning to negotiate.

“Always plan ahead and know what you want, so that you are prepared when you ask for something,” she said.

AFRICA continued from Page 1 The Aid for Africa event will take place on Friday at the World’s Fair Amphitheater. The African dance workshop will be from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. with the Khuumba Drum Dance Ensemble. The informal dance party will take place from 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. with DJ Jason Lovely.

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Texas boasts great athletes, significant contributions I am writing in response to Gabe Johnson’s April 16 column about the Texas textbook scandal.

As a native Texan, I take great offense to the fact that Johnson decided to bash the great state of Texas for most of his column. First he decided to show his ignorance by asking who really cared about Texas sports. If you are going to attack Texas, do not choose the arena of sports to make your claim. A list of famous Texan athletes include Josh Beckett, Lance Armstrong, Adrian Peterson, Sammy Baugh, Doak Walker, Matthew Stafford, Clayton Kershaw and Vince Young, the starting quarterback for the Tennessee Titans, among other great athletes. The Dallas Cowboys have five Super Bowl wins, while the Titans have none. Scoreboard. I would ask Johnson if he knew who cared about the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers, and then I would tell him that Nolan Ryan does. Nolan Ryan pitched for both and also threw seven no-hitters, the most in MLB history.

Johnson also wrote that the only good thing to come out of Texas is Dr. Pepper. I would direct his attention to the fact that the Six Flags amusement parks came from Texas and that the calculator that he uses for his math courses at UT comes from Texas Instruments, the company that invented the integrated circuit. Texas also has more Fortune 500 companies than any other state. Also, we didn’t, as Johnson wrote, “steal Davey Crockett.” He left when Tennesseans didn’t re-elect him to Congress. As for the textbook scandal, it is ridiculous to blame the people of Texas for what the state Board of Education does. It would be like blaming the people of Tennessee for all the Native Americans that Andrew Jackson had killed or relocated during his time as president.

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Many more than willing to trade ‘freedom’ for ‘slavery’ We Americans wonder why the world seems to be so angry at us. When I read Kel Thompson’s April 14 column, I began to understand. He paints the U.S. as a tortuous place where children are deprived of free expression and forced to go to school for 12 years. He complains about owning property, having the medical resources to save lives, having a job and government spending money on roads and schools.

I would guess that about four billion or more people here on Earth would love to trade places with Thompson. I’ve met people in Honduras, China, Bosnia, Turkey and Russia who would love to have been given the same “slavery” Thompson received as a child. They could come live here and enjoy free education, clean drinking water, respect of ownership rights, full-time employment and the protection of the world’s largest military. Thompson could wander the wilderness without a government, no national defense, no disease control, no opportunity for education, no middle-class upbringing and no newspaper in which to write to express himself freely. Seems like a win-win situation. People who suffer (not getting enough recess time in fourth grade doesn’t count) hear complaints like these from Americans, and it rubs them the wrong way. I don’t blame them. If a lottery winner complained about having to wait an extra week to get their multi-million dollar check, I wouldn’t show much sympathy.

I think Thompson’s column proves how ignorant and naive the world thinks we are. It is also an insult to people who would give anything to have just a few of the opportunities Thompson has “suffered” through. I challenge Thompson to follow his dreams. You don’t need a bachelor’s degree to be a nomad living in the wild. Free yourself of this terrible place and drop out of UT. There is sure to be a long line of people ready to take your place.

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I used to be too afraid to call and order pizza.

Don’t ask me why, but up until about my sophomore year of high school, I was extremely uncomfortable talking to people on the phone — namely, people I didn’t know.

My mom used to make all my appointments for me, and, of course, someone else had to order the pizza.

Well, I’m proud to say that I am well over the shyness that afflicted me as a child. But I’m noticing an entirely different trend toward shyness that tends to affect the adult crowd.

Technology and social media make it so easy for us to hide behind our written words instead of actually speaking to others. Sure, technology is great and I check my Facebook a million times a day like any good college student, but we seem to have gotten a little carried away.

We’re all guilty of it in some way or another. On many occasions, I have found myself e-mailing strangers because it’s so much less awkward than calling them on the phone — even though a phone call would be a lot faster and come with a guaranteed response.

I also text a lot — probably too much for my own good. And sometimes when I really need to tell someone something, I shoot him or her a text because I don’t want to deal with the inevitable long, uninteresting conversation that would evolve from a phone call. That makes me sound like an unfriendly grump, but you all know what I’m talking about.

How many of you have received one of those texts of about 400 characters that actually requires three text messages to fit everything in? In the time it took that person to type all that, he could have called you, gotten an answer and moved on with his day.

Instead, he’s now sitting by his phone waiting for you to type 400 characters back to him.

A pitfall I have seen from social media is that it eliminates confrontation. I’m not saying everyone should go around fighting and yelling at each other, but a little debate every now and then is perfectly healthy.

There’s something wrong when two friends or family members get mad at each other and instead of talking about it, give each other the silent treatment. Then, they write nasty things about the other person in their Facebook statuses so that the whole world can see it and comment on it. This kind of behavior is expected of a little kid who’s still developing social skills, but it’s unacceptable for grown adults. And although we probably aren’t proud of it, I think we can probably all think of a situation where we engaged in similar immature behavior.

Facebook and Twitter are fun. E-mail and texting are tremendously convenient. But let’s try not to forget the value of real, face-to-face communication. In a world where Tweeting celebrities and online dating are taking over, I think we are spending far too much time hiding behind our computer screens and cell phones.

What if marriage proposals started happening over Twitter? What if the U.S. Congress all sat in a big room and Facebook chatted each other over foreign policy. I think we need to calm down before we all forget how to talk to each other.

So let’s start now. If you have an issue that needs to be discussed with someone, discuss it. Don’t bypass a serious and necessary conversation with someone in order to vent about it to the entire Internet world. Nothing good will ever come from this kind of passiveaggressive behavior. It will only cause rifts and destroy relationships.

Give someone a call and say hello. If you want to ask out that cute girl in your math class, don’t Facebook her — go up and actually talk to her after class. I promise it will be so much more impressive.

You can order pizza online now. If that had been around when I was younger, I probably never would’ve learned to suck it up and pick up the phone.

— Amber Harding is a junior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at ahardin8@utk.edu.

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Wednesday I was sitting around enjoying a nice meal with some friends (by some, I mean many because I am very popular and well liked by all) and reading our glorious school paper (page four of course). On this day Kel Thompson wrote about George Washington never returning two books to the New York Library, and as a history major, quirky stories like this really peak my interest. I do not want to retell the story because frankly, you can look it up online.

One part in particular, however, really caught my eye: When signing for the books, instead of signing his name, Washington simply signed “President.” I think everyone at the table had the same reaction upon hearing this. (We read aloud because some of us are illiterate.) We all looked at each other and said, “He signed his name as President? What a badass!” I do not know why this shocked us so much. This country’s history is filled with badasses.

For example, in 1803, Chief John Marshall inducted himself into the Hall of Badasses by creating the notion of judicial review. Judicial review is basically the Supreme Court’s power to declare laws unconstitutional. Really, it is the only thing that gives the court leverage over Congress and the president. There is no direct language in the Constitution to establish this principle (only vague, easy-tomanipulate diction), yet this did not stop Marshall. So in a case dealing with federal appointments, Marshall gave the Supreme Court its most commanding power. The Supreme Court gave itself power. This, however, is not the only instance of an

American acting in this manner.

A few years later, James Monroe joined the club by issuing his famous doctrine, which bears his name. (I’ll let you guess as to what he called it.) This doctrine declared that any European foray into the Americas (North or South) would be considered an act of aggression against the United States.

This gave the U.S. complete power over the Western Hemisphere, in theory at least. In reality, the U.S. had no way to enforce this.

Our navy was a tiny fraction of the size of Britain’s or even France’s. Yet this did not stop Monroe from making this bold declaration. He gave the rest of the world a big middle finger and instead of challenging him, the Europeans listened. Wow, Monroe was awesome.

A more recent example of American badassery can be seen in Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In an interview on “60 Minutes,” Scalia was drilled with several questions on the constitutionality of torture.

After clever dancing and dodging of the questions, Scalia replied, “That’s my view, and it happens to be correct.” Wow. He is right. By being a Supreme Court justice, his opinion is technically the “correct” one because Marshall gave the court that power.

I was surprised he actually thought that, let alone said it. What a badass!

I am sure many of you will read this and think these are examples of Americans being pricks and nothing more. You people are likely correct; however, the boldness and bluntness these people showed demonstrates a key American value. After all, there is nothing more American than thinking solely about your country or yourself, while basically telling others your opinion is more valuable than theirs. America (much like super-Canadian Bret Hart) is the best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be.

— Gabe Johnson is a senior in history and political science. He can be reached at gjohns13@utk.edu.

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Police: Conn. man in feud placed fake orgy ad The Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut man who was feuding with his neighbor targeted her in an explicit online posting that invited strangers to a rowdy orgy with a bored soccer mom, police said.

Philip James Conran, 42, made his first court appearance Thursday but did not enter a plea to charges including reckless endangerment, harassment, criminal trespass and risk of injury to a minor.

The charges stem from an April 5 posting on Craigslist that said a West Hartford woman wanted to “please as many as I can before I go to work!” Detectives, Conran’s attorney and the woman targeted in the posting are not saying what prompted the feud between the longtime neighbors in the middle-class Hartford suburb.

West Hartford Police Chief James Strillacci said even veteran officers were surprised by the number of strangers who knocked on the woman’s door, called the house or drove by.

“We were saying to ourselves, ‘The economy must be worse than we think if all of these able-bodied men are able to

immediately drop everything and drive over to this neighborhood’” on a Monday morning, he said.

One man who showed up went to the wrong house, where he groped a teenage girl, police said. He has been charged with sexual assault and other counts. His attorney said his client has psychological issues and plans to plead not guilty.

Conran, an unemployed cook, has been free on $75,000 bond since his arrest. The married father was ordered Thursday to have no contact with his neighbor. He declined to comment after his court appearance.

His attorney, Michael Georgetti, said Conran has no criminal history and has been out of work since a major back operation in March. The arrest affidavit says he gave a written, sworn confession to police.

“Hopefully we’ll reach a resolution that’s fair not only to my client but fair also to other people involved in this incident,” Georgetti said.

The Craigslist ad, titled “Looking for lust,” was purported to be written by a married soccer mom hoping to fulfill her

over, Strillacci said. The woman sought help from police when the stranger showed up on her doorstep.

Several other fraudulent Craigslist postings have led to criminal charges around the nation, including a Casper, Wyo., case in which police said a woman was raped by a stranger who said he thought he was answering her Craigslist ad. Police said the woman’s ex-boyfriend pretended to be her in the ad, saying she wanted someone to fulfill her violent rape fantasy. The ex-boyfriend and the man who answered the ad were charged.

Susan MacTavish Best, a spokeswoman for Craigslist, said the company actively cooperates with police and that using the service for criminal purposes “inevitably leads to apprehension and prosecution.”

In 2008, the company agreed to tighten its adult-services advertisements.

Scrutiny of Craigslist increased significantly after prosecutors in Boston accused a former medical student with using the site to arrange a meeting with a masseuse and then allegedly killing her in a robbery.

fantasy of group sex and inviting strangers to “please come play.” It listed her street address.

Men started showing up at her door and in her neighborhood, prompting her brother-in-law to stand guard and write down visitors’ license plates, police said.

He also shooed away those bold enough to come to the door, including one who threatened to post her picture at soccer fields around town, authorities said.

By the time the posting was removed, more than a half-dozen people had parked nearby or come to her door, and others slowly drove by or circled the neighborhood, police said.

The woman declined to comment when contacted this week by The Associated Press.

Police linked the posting to Conran through Craigslist and his Internet provider, according to court records.

Investigators confiscated Conran’s computers and are examining them for potential links to other complaints, police said.

Last year, someone pretended to be the woman, then engaged in an explicit online chat with a stranger and invited the man

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Friday, April 23, 2010

Clarkson to sing despite controversy The Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia — Former “American Idol” winner Kelly Clarkson said she will perform in Indonesia despite growing protests Thursday from fans and anti-tobacco groups unhappy over a cigarette company’s sponsorship of her upcoming show.

Clarkson said in a posting on her blog that she was surprised to learn that billboards announcing her April 29 concert in Jakarta were prominently branded with the logo of the popular cigarette L.A. Lights.

“Unfortunately, my only option at this point was to cancel the show in order to stop the sponsorship,” she wrote. “I refuse to cancel on my fans.”

She added that she’s not a smoker and does not advocate it.

In a similar incident two years ago, Grammy winner Alicia Keys apologized to fans and denounced the sponsorship of her Indonesian concert by an affiliate of U.S. tobacco giant Philip Morris International. She went ahead with the show, but only after the cigarette logo was removed from her promotions.

Indonesia, a nation of 235 million people, is one of the final frontiers where tobacco companies are given virtual free rein when it comes to selling, advertising and promoting their products, practices long banned in the U.S. and many other countries. The Marlboro Man still rides high on huge billboards that cross four-lane highways.

Television commercials, sporting events, talent shows, even

traffic police station booths are plastered with cigarette logos beside sexy images of beautiful and adventure-seeking people.

Free samples are sometimes given out at events by young women dressed in matching short skirts.

Indonesia is one of the last holdouts in not signing on to the World Health Organization’s tobacco treaty. About 63 percent of all men light up, and a third of the country’s entire population smokes. A quarter of boys age 13 to 15 are already hooked, and it is not uncommon to see boys as young as 8 puffing away.

The smoking debate has flared recently after the country’s second-largest Islamic organization declared a fatwa, or religious ruling, banning smoking in the world’s most-populous Muslim country. Though not legally binding and often disregarded by followers, anti-smoking advocates have seized the opportunity to push for tougher restrictions.

L.A. Lights company Djarum has declined to comment on the Clarkson controversy, and promoter Java Musikindo said they would make a statement in the near future.

In recent days, Clarkson’s Facebook page has been flooded with fans begging her to reject the cigarette sponsorship, saying she is sending the wrong message to kids about smoking.

Anti-tobacco groups have blasted the singer for using her image to sell products that kill 200,000 Indonesians every year.

Clarkson fired back in her blog.

“I think the hardest part of situations like this is getting personally attacked for something I was completely unaware of and being used as some kind of political pawn,” she wrote.

NASHVILLE — The Nashville Sounds are celebrating the birthday of rock ‘n’ roll legend Roy Orbison by giving fans pairs of his trademark sunglasses.

His widow, Barbara Orbison, will also throw out the ceremonial first pitch during the Thursday night Triple-A baseball game between Nashville and the Oklahoma City RedHawks.

The first 1,000 fans will get a pair of sunglasses, and select fans will receive a limited edition Gibson guitar, a box set of his albums and a bottle of Pretty Woman perfume.

Friday would have been his 74th birthday.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, responsible for evergreen hits like “Oh, Pretty Woman,” “Only the Lonely” and “Crying,” won six Grammys and sold millions of CDs before dying of a heart attack in 1988 at age 52.

CANCUN, Mexico — A TV producer’s correspondence with his wife, who was found dead at a Mexican resort, indicated problems in their marriage, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Rodolfo Garcia Pliego, the assistant attorney general of the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo, said the mother and sisters of victim Monica Beresford-Redman showed him “a series of exchanges” between the woman and her husband, Bruce Beresford-Redman.

“Excuse me for not releasing the contents of the documents, which showed the state of the relationship,” he told reporters after meeting with the family. “It appears there were problems there.”

State prosecutors said Beresford-Redman, a former producer of “Survivor” and co-creator of the “Pimp My Ride” show, is a suspect in the slaying of his wife. Her body was discovered April 8 in a sewer at the Moon Palace Resort in Cancun two days after the producer said she had failed to return from a shopping trip.

Garcia Pliego said he has requested that the woman’s remains be turned over to her relatives, noting that the husband has not asked for the body. Forensics experts have been carrying out tests on the remains.

The woman’s sisters said the marriage was crumbling as a result of a long-term affair Beresford-Redman was having with another woman and that she had gone on the trip to Mexico in an attempt to save her marriage.

Beresford-Redman has not publicly commented on those reports. He has been barred from leaving Mexico until the death investigation is complete.

His wife’s body was found in a sewer at the Moon Palace Resort in Cancun on April 8, two days after Beresford-Redman said she failed to return from a shopping trip.

Friday, April 23, 2010

SPORTS

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Sprinter looking to close career on high note Terrence Boone Staff Writer Approaching the end of what has been a rewarding four years both athletically and academically, Tennessee senior sprinter Evander Wells is looking like a man on a mission.

Wells, who ranks in UT’s top 10 in the sprint races, seems to be running with a sense of urgency. Part of that can be attributed to Wells not performing as well as he would have liked at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Championships, where he was disqualified in the 200 meters.

Wells noted that that race allowed him to refocus in the outdoor season.

“That was really my spot in the final, and I didn’t get to make it,” he said. “So I have to come back outdoors and let people know that I’m still here.”

A native from Stone Mountain, Ga., Wells came out of the gate this outdoor season, recording the fastest time in the world this year in the 200 meters of 20.47 seconds. On his way to SEC Male Runner of the Week, Wells won both the 100- and 200-meter dashes while anchoring the 4x200m relay team at the Sea Ray Relays.

With the solid performance, UT Director of Track and Field J.J. Clark noted the hard work Wells put in.

“Evander was a slam dunk,” Clark said. “I just commend him for the effort he’s put in over the last few weeks. He’s a hard worker in the classroom, in the weight room and on the track. It’s starting to pay off, and I’m happy to see that.”

Coming out of Stone Mountain High School, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

named Wells the Athlete of the Year in the state of Georgia. USA Today even placed Wells with a distinct honor on the All-USA Boys’ High School Track Team. During his career at UT, Wells gained a fond appreciation of the orange and white, something that he noted was a glimpse of what he’ll take away from UT. “To actually come here and to see the entire tradition of all the sports programs, just all the orange and all the fan support and everything, that really was a big thing,” Wells said.

With eight All-America certificates to his name, as well as being an 18-time SEC scorer for the Vols and a member of an SEC Championship team, the accomplishments are numerous for Wells. As he takes to the track this weekend in Philadelphia, Pa., for the 116th-annual Penn Relays, he will compete in the 100-meter dash with some of the world’s

UT wins NCAA attendance award Staff Reports Knoxville, Tenn., and the University of Tennessee have been named the winner of the First/Second Round of the 2010 NCAA “Pack the House Host Challenge” for attendance during the 2010 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship.

Sacramento, Calif., was the NCAA Regional winner.

The post-season “Pack the House Host Challenge” is an extension of the successful regular season program that has been conducted since 2007. The two initiatives combined to draw more than 600,000 fans to women’s basketball games this season. The goal of the program was to help schools grow the game at a grassroots level with increased attendance and exposure of the championship experience for fans across the country.

The NCAA program included all 16 first- and second-round sites competing against each other from March 20-23, while the four regional sites competed from March 27-29.

Knoxville (first- and second-rounds) and Sacramento (regional round) won the competition based on having the highest percentage of seating capacity filled and the most tickets sold by Selection Monday, March 15. Both hosting institutions, the University of Tennessee and the University of the Pacific, will receive incentive awards, and the NCAA will provide a donation, in the name of each institution, to the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.

Knoxville posted an attendance of 20,944 fans for the firstand second-round games played at Thompson-Boling Arena on the UT campus. The percentage of capacity in Knoxville was 86 percent for both sessions with 89.8 percent of seats filled for the “Pack the House Host Challenge” day.

To help increase attendance, Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt was involved in a promotional video in which she encouraged fans and supporters of women’s basketball to support the games at their site. Tennessee also engaged fans

through radio broadcasts, which featured live appearances by Summitt and members of the Tennessee women’s basketball coaching staff during the months of February and March.

Tennessee also sent postcards to their basketball camp and ticket databases. Full page flyers and buck slips were distributed to fans who purchased regular-season tickets, while regional newspapers ran advertisements promoting the championship via trade-out agreements. In addition, promotional banners, billboard space, television ads and a dedicated website provided messaging that encouraged fans to support the championship event.

best sprinters, including notable Jamaican blur Usain Bolt. It was only three years ago at the Relays that Wells was congratulated

by U.S. Olympian Wallace Spearmon after his race, a moment he’ll never forget.

“That really meant a lot, so it’s just really nice to have those athletes there because they’re watching you, and you’re watching them,” he said. “It’s a good chance to learn.”

Wells, a 2-D art major, is looking to extend his season and go out on top. His last SEC Championship will be on his home track, and Wells is looking forward to having a lot of support from his family.

“A lot of people should be coming to here to watch this one,” he said. “It’s easy to run fast when you got people at the meet there watching you.”

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Friday, April 23, 2010

THESPORTSPAGE

Blount leads Diamond Vols over Raleigh’s alma mater Jason Hall Staff Writer

Hayley DeBusk • The Daily Beacon

The Diamond Vols scored 11 unanswered runs Wednesday night in the last five innings to defeat Western Carolina. The win was especially important for Coach Todd Raleigh, who used to coach Western Carolina.

Todd Raleigh played for Western Carolina from 19881991 and was coach of the Catamounts from 2000-2007.

So to say Wednesday’s matchup of his current Tennessee team and his alma mater was just another game would be as believable as a story about Eric Berry returning for his senior year.

But the Diamond Vols would not disappoint their coach, defeating Western Carolina 188. After the game, Raleigh spoke of what it felt like to play against his old team.

“It was certainly tough for me to come back here, because I’ve spent a lot of games in the other dugout, probably close to 1,000 as a coach and a player,” Raleigh said. “I wanted to win the game, obviously, because we take a lot of pride in the Tennessee program and wanted to come back here and show people what we’ve done.”

And win they did. The Vols’ offense came out swinging and didn’t stop, scoring in six of the nine innings played. However, Raleigh said a pitcher was the key to the Tennessee victory.

“We swung the bats well again, but the biggest thing for us was Nick Blount,” Raleigh said. “He was the difference in the game. We’ve been looking for a performance like that for a while, and he just did a phenomenal job. We can certainly build off this win. Our bullpen has been struggling a bit lately, so that made what Nick did even more impressive.

Sometimes it is like free-throw shooting, and you are able to gain some confidence and grab some momentum. Hopefully this will carry over to the rest of our staff this weekend.”

In four-and-two-thirds innings pitched, the freshman pitcher Blount only allowed one hit and zero earned runs, throwing 57 total pitches while facing 15 batters.

Blount came in with the perfect mindset for success.

“I just wanted to get us off on the right note,” Blount said.

“I didn’t want to think of how the bullpen struggled. I just wanted to throw strikes and get ahead in the count.”

Blount also noted the importance of getting a win for his coach.

“He didn’t say anything about it, but of course I knew the situation,” Blount said. “I wanted to go out there and get a win against his old team. I figured that would be pretty cool.”

Blount’s pitching seemed to be the turnaround for the Vols.

Starter Alan Walden and Rob Catapano were responsible for all eight runs scored on Wednesday. Blount, Josh Allman and Steve Crnkovich would follow, allowing zero runs apiece in a total of 6.2 innings pitched.

As the score indicated, the Vols’ bats came through when it counted most. In the last five innings of the game, UT scored 11 unanswered runs. Juniors Cody Hawn and Blake Forsythe both had outstanding performances. Forsythe went 3-for-5 with four RBIs. Hawn went 3-for-5 with five RBIs. Both hitters were also responsible for home runs, with Forsythe rounding the bases in the third inning and Hawn in the eighth.

There weren’t any other players on the Tennessee roster with as high expectations entering the 2010 season as Hawn and Forsythe. Hawn was a pre-season All-American, and Forsythe was an All-SEC catcher. The two have assumed roles as team leaders, and their production has been key to the Volunteers’ success.

The Vols open up a home series against SEC and in-state rival Vanderbilt on Friday at Lindsey Nelson Stadium at 7 p.m. UT continues the series at 7 p.m. on Saturday before the final game at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Vanderbilt enters the series with a 31-9 (8-7 SEC) record and currently sits third in the SEC East.