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Library offers stress solutions Justin Joo Staff Writer On April 30, UT Libraries will host “De-Stress for Success,” an event filled with multiple activities throughout the day to try to help calm students’ minds and nerves as they prepare for their final projects and exams.

Dean of Libraries Steven Smith said the event was a culmination of different events held throughout the years both at UT and other universities. It is a combination of those programs that Libraries Administration thought would be perfect for students.

“We know that during exams it can be a stressful time,” Smith said. “And if the library can reach out and help people recharge and relax a little bit … then that means not only better exam scores, but happier students and a more successful university.”

Part of the event will include an unused study room filled with different games, comics and sketch-pads for students to vent creatively.

The library will also provide what they call a “graffiti-walk.”

A popular event that originated to celebrate the National Day of Writing, students can write and draw on a long sheet of butcher paper to help rid themselves of stress creatively. There will also be an ice cream social from noon to 2 p.m.

In addition to the crafts, Hodges will also have massage therapists from the Knoxville Massage Therapy Center giving out free chair massages from 1 to 4 p.m. These sessions will be going from April 30 - May 4 and again on May 7.

This won’t be the first time that the center has offered its services at UT. They’ve had stations at the TRECS for a number of years and were at the library last semester.

Deryk Harvey, a licensed massage therapist and owner of the center, said that students have always been very enthusiastic about the massage sessions.

“People were lined up, and we were booked all day,” Harvey said. “A lot of times

students ask if we’re coming back the next day.”

The KMTC usually offer students chair massages, which are non-invasive massages that focuses on the neck, shoulders and back, which Harvey said are major areas for built-up tension because of stress, especially during finals.

“For sessions that are typically under 15 minutes, it’s more for rejuvenation,” Harvey explained. “It increases circulation, and it’s more of a pick-me-up thing than deep relaxation. It’s good for people with a lot of stress because it will target those areas where tension builds the most.”

Another event that will likely get students’ attention is a visit from the therapy dogs brought in by Human-Animal Bond in Tennessee (HABIT).

HABIT consists of volunteers, private-practice veterinarians and representatives from the UT College of Veterinary Medicine. They study the circumstances of the bond between humans and animals.

Karen Armsey, programming coordinator for HABIT, said that having dogs come in for an event dedicated to destressing students just made sense.

“You got students, you got exams, you got dogs,” Armsey said. “Life is happy.”

While this is the first time HABIT has brought the therapy dogs to UT, they’ve been to other places such as hospitals, nursing homes and other universities like ETSU. All of the therapy dogs are at least a year old, have been trained to be around large crowds of people and all belong to HABIT volunteers.

Armsey said there will be a variety of breeds present, ranging from Wheaten yorkies, golden retrievers and “good ol’ American mutts.”

Armsey said students tend to respond to the dogs in two ways.

“It’s always a cross between, ‘Oh I miss my dog so much,’” Armsey said, “to people who just point a hand or a finger saying, ‘Oh look a dog.’

“But then they’re usually Justin Joo • The Daily Beacon the ones who end up on the floor with a dog in their lap Students write on a massive piece of butcher paper to help vent during finals week on the Graffiti Walk in talking about all of their tribu- Hodges Library. Students will have opportunities to unwind at the library through the Graffiti Walk as well as free lations of the day.” massages, courtesy of the Knoxville Massage Therapy Center.

Haslam scholars set to graduate Victoria Wright Student Life Editor Though the program is still in its early stages, the Haslam Honors Program has molded a promising inaugural class.

Founded in 2008 with the hopes selecting prominent and talented freshmen and molding them through college careers into well-rounded students and people, the Haslam Honors Program will be graduating its first group of members this May. Steve Dandaneau, associate provost and director of the Chancellor’s Honors and Haslam Scholars Programs, believes that along with scholarly achievement, other specific qualities are found in the selected scholars.

“We have been fortunate to recruit students who combine rare scholarly ability with equally rare leadership potential,” Dandaneau said. “ What’s more, we've found students whose learning styles permit them to maximally benefit from learning within a relatively tight-knit and diverse community of scholars.

Haslam Scholars are obligated to undertake a specialized curricu-

lum, engage in in-depth research and professional internships, study abroad together, and in other ways contribute to one another's learning and to the advancement of the university community as a whole. There are probably more obligations than privileges.”

Each year, 15 students are selected from the Chancellor’s Honors Program to join the Haslam Scholars. Students are mentored by faculty and commit to a particiapte in a tedious curriculum of honors classes as well as independent research.

Among some of the requirements for the program, Haslam scholars are required to take 28 credit hours in total, including two one-credit-hour special seminars and programs in the first year as well as a minimum of four credit hours of honors coursework in the first year. Scholars must also present an honors thesis and participate in service-learning and executive-level internships.

All the hard work seems to pay off as many of the seniors have blooming futures after graduation.

See HASLAM on Page 3

Debate team places second Deborah Ince Staff Writer The Tennessee Speech and Debate Society of the University of Tennessee recently returned from competing in the IPDA national tournament in Huntsville, Texas on April 13-15. The team had a very strong showing at the competition, breaking four members into outrounds and claiming a second place national championship finish in the varsity division.

Due to their successes over the past semester, including state championships in debate sweep-

stakes and a third place overall finish in overall sweepstakes at February's Tennessee Intercollegiate Forensics Association State tournament, the team was invited to compete in the IPDA national tournament in Texas by host school Sam Houston State University.

“They called us and were like, ‘Listen, you guys are good. Come to our tournament,’” Spencer Hinton, undecided sophomore and vice president, said. “Usually with a national tournament there are a lot of qualification processes, but with this we just got all that waived for us.”

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Tyler Bray prepares to launch a pass during the shooting of a promotional video for recruiting outside of the Alumni Memorial Building on Wednesday.

1865 — Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth dies John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

Twenty-six-year-old Booth was one of the most famous actors in the country when he shot Lincoln during a performance at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., on the night of April 14.

Booth was a Maryland native and a strong supporter of the Confederacy. As the war entered its final stages, Booth hatched a conspiracy to kidnap the president. He enlisted the aid of several associates, but the opportunity never presented itself. After the surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, Booth changed the plan to a simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward. Only Lincoln was actually killed, however. Seward was stabbed by Lewis Paine but survived, while the man assigned to kill Johnson did not carry out his assignment.

After shooting Lincoln, Booth jumped to the stage below Lincoln’s box seat. He landed hard, breaking his leg, before escaping to a waiting horse behind the theater. Many in the audience recognized Booth, so the army was soon hot on his trail. Booth and his accomplice, David Herold, made their way across the Anacostia River and headed toward southern Maryland. The pair

stopped at Dr. Samuel Mudd’s home, and Mudd treated Booth’s leg. This earned Mudd a life sentence in prison when he was implicated as part of the conspiracy, but the sentence was later commuted. Booth found refuge for several days at the home of Thomas A. Jones, a Confederate agent, before securing a boat to row across the Potomac to Virginia.

After receiving aid from several Confederate sympathizers, Booth's luck finally ran out. The countryside was swarming with military units looking for Booth, although few shared information since there was a $20,000 reward. While staying at the farm of Richard Garrett, Federal troops arrived on their search but soon rode on. The unsuspecting Garrett allowed his suspicious guests to sleep in his barn, but he instructed his son to lock the barn from the outside to prevent the strangers from stealing his horses. A tip led the Union soldiers back to the Garrett farm, where they discovered Booth and Herold in the barn. Herold came out, but Booth refused. The building was set on fire to flush Booth, but he was shot while still inside. He lived for three hours before gazing at his hands, muttering “Useless, useless,” as he died.

1986 — Nuclear explosions at Chernobyl On this day in 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident to date occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near Kiev in Ukraine. The full toll from this disaster is still being tallied, but experts believe that thousands of people died and as many as 70,000 suffered severe poisoning. In addition, a large area of land may not be livable for as much as 150 years. The 18-mile radius around Chernobyl was home to almost 150,000 people who had to be permanently relocated.

The Soviet Union built the Chernobyl plant, which had four 1,000-megawatt reactors, in the town of Pripyat. At the time of the explosion, it was one of the largest and oldest nuclear power plants in the world. The explosion and subsequent meltdown of one reactor was a catastrophic event that directly affected hundreds of thousands of people. Still, the Soviet government kept its own people and the rest of the world in the dark about the accident until days later.

At first, the Soviet government only asked for advice on how to fight graphite fires and acknowledged the death of two people. It soon became apparent, however, that the Soviets were covering up a major accident and had ignored their responsibility to warn both their own people and surrounding nations. Two days after the explosion, Swedish authorities began measuring dangerously high levels of radioactivity in their atmosphere.

Years later, the full story was finally released. Workers at the plant were performing tests on the system. They shut off the emergency safety systems and the cooling system, against established regulations, in preparation for the tests. Even when warning signs of dangerous overheating began to appear, the workers failed to stop the test. Xenon gases built up and at 1:23 a.m. the first explosion rocked the reactor. A total of three explosions eventually blew the 1,000-ton steel top right off of the reactor.

— This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

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NEWS

DEBATE continued from Page 1 Nevertheless, the organization thrived in their first showing in the IPDA arena.

“I thought the team did wonderfully,” said newlyelected organization president Stephen Burke, senior in Spanish. “It’s the first time we’ve ever done this style of debate, and people were winning around 50 percent at the national tournament in a style they’ve never done before. That says a lot.”

Debating in all three divisions of competition — novice, varsity, and professional — only a couple of the team’s debaters were a win away from breaking into outrounds.

“I’m really proud of everyone,” TSDS judge Kasey Piarrot said. “We still broke five, and then we had one go all the way to varsity finals. That’s really good for our first ever IPDA. I mean the night before there were still people who didn't know the times and they didn't know that they needed a partner, so I think going in with that and the fact that the preparation we had being pretty minimal... I think we did fantastic.”

Team members Jacob Clabo and Matthew Smith broke into outrounds in the novice division, while former organization vice president Jordan Smith and former president Nathan Johnston advanced in the varsity division. Johnston ultimately competed in the national championship round where he took home a second place finish.

“I think I did pretty well,” said Smith of his first IPDA experience. “Of course there are always the ones that you lose that you think you should have won, but I think I did really well. I faced the num-

HASLAM continued from Page 1 Having always previously competed in NPDA parliamentary debate, a two-person versus two-person debate style, the team was placed in unfamiliar territory when competing at IPDA nationals, in which the debate format is one person versus one person.

Though the debaters enjoyed the longer thirty minute speech preparation time allotted for IPDA style, all members had to adjust to shorter speech times and to formulating arguments completely on their own Mark Wallace, senior in nuclear engineering in the Haslam Scholars program, plans to attend the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Wallace is also a research student at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He believes the program has made an impact on his personal growth.

“I certainly think the program has changed me,” Wallace said. “The Haslam Scholars curriculum has made me far more aware of the world outside my own academic disci-

ber one seed in the tournament after eight rounds and lost to him two to one, so not bad. I'm not disappointed at all.”

Team member Nichole Indelicato, undecided freshman, who competed in the novice division at the tournament, commented on the switch of debate style.

“I think that IPDA was a good learning experience because it helped me to think on my feet for myself, and it also helped me with speaking,” Indelicato said.

Due to its successes at the tournament, the team plans on competing in five to six IPDA tournaments next year, including another trip to IPDA nationals in the spring, in addition to at least four NPDA nationals.

“I mean I think we all did really well,” Smith said.

“I think almost all of us were really close to breaking. So that was really good. We were all really close to being right at that bump, which I mean that bump is gonna come from experience, so the fact that we don't any experience (in IPDA style) and are still there is pretty awesome in my opinion.”

Completely student-run and student-funded, the Tennessee Speech and Debate Society was also the only team to compete at nationals without a formalized coach. In fact, they are one of the few schools in the nation who do not have a coach and are still very successful in compeition.

Having done so well in a style of debate in which they had never before competed, the organization was able to gain even more national recognition and to add to their list of reasons why they are one of the most successful debate teams in the state of Tennessee.

“We seem to just want to argue with people,” Johnston said. “And we beat them.”

pline. Working with a body of talented, motivated students has also encouraged me to challenge myself and do my best work.”

Walker gained cultural experience during a trip the Haslam Scholars trip to China in May 2010. The students spent three weeks learning about the county’s politics, economics, and other topics in small seminars, held at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Aeron Glover, senior in industrial engineering in the Haslam Scholars program, said that though the program is highly selective, he remains humble about his experience.

“I do not view a Haslam Scholar as a student exclusive, or in any way superior to other students,” Glover said. “Rather, as Haslam Scholars our actions and motives are grounded on qualities like service, scholarship, leadership, and community and we focus on helping to cultivate these qualities at UT, and in our daily lives in general. We work together with students, faculty, and administrators at UT to help us all just have overall more enriching experiences.”

After graduation, Glover plans to work at Google. During his college career, the young entrepeneur, along with his business partner

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Students from the Tennessee Speech and Debate Society appear at the IPDA national tournament on April 14. UT performed well in its first showing at an IPDA event, giving the organization the confidence to focus on competing in five to six IPDA tournaments next year.

and student Kaliv Parker, junior in public administration, started the website HowstheLiving.com. The social networking site allows students to rate various housing options on campus. The business has won almost $60,000 in awards.

As Glover prepares for graduation, he offered advice for the incoming class of scholars.

“Don’t hesitate to seek support from fellow Haslam scholars in your class, and throughout the program,” Glover said. “Also get to know the program staff, they sincerely care for you personally, not just for academics.”

Dandaneau praised all of the scholars for their success.

“In my book, all the Haslam Scholars are successful,” he said. “I wouldn’t single anyone out, not the Torchbearers or major scholarship recipients or even those whose academic and professional success has garnered them various prestigious recognitions. In my view, they are equally exemplary, even if for a wide variety of achievements. That’s part of what makes it such a pleasure to work with Haslam Scholars: diversity is as vital to community as shared interests and values.”

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Somewhere... Hopefully Buzzwords shortcut understanding Preston Peeden Managing Editor We live in a world that we constantly try to simplify.

We try to find a way to get whatever needs to be accomplished done in the quickest way possible, which leads us to cut corners in nearly every aspect of life. We look for shortcuts when we travel, work, study and, most importantly, when we speak and think. This habit of trying to simplify our thoughts and communication has led to the creation of buzzwords.

I hate buzzwords. Not because I hate jargon, but because buzzwords have led to growing ignorance and misinformation in our society today.

Think about it for a second. How many times a day do you hear someone throw out a buzzword, especially one related to politics and economics? Just turn on Fox News, CNN or MSNBC and chances are good that you’ll hear some talking head ranting about either the “socialist policies of Obama” or the “hardcore extreme conservatism” from the right, which are both somehow simultaneously working against each other to undermine the fabric of American society. To make a point, these people will throw out words like “socialist,” “feminist,” “anarchist,” “communist” or a litany of others without truly knowing, understanding and giving considerations to what these terms fully mean. They turn them into pejorative words, using evil connotations and derogatory images in the hopes that no one watching will ever actually question the crap they are shoving upon them.

They reduce the meaning of ideologies to fit their own perspectives and opinions, and that trickles down to the people watching it, who now associate those words with the bad (and in many cases false) connotations they were given. This process has made it so that by now most people don’t even know what a socialist or a feminist really is; they just blindly assume that they’re bad.

This might seem like an overstatement, but just consider it for yourself. What’s the first image you have when you think of socialism? Odds are that the image isn’t a positive one. More than likely, some train of thought for most people reading this led them down the road from socialism, to French people and their constant striking, to communism, to Josef Stalin or Pol Pot, to

murder and eventually ending in the judgment that socialism is evil. This is of course an oversimplification, but for the most part, it’s an accurate one. We are trained from the very beginning to be distrustful of socialism; it is the enemy. This remnant of the Cold War mentality makes us brand socialism in its entirety as bad, while blindly ignoring the prevalence of socialist ideas in our own mixed economy. Without socialism, there would be no government-owned or subsidized entities, such as publically-owned airports, sporting arenas and even, in a way, this university, which is directly funded by the government. Additionally, without the socialist ideals of the New Deal, this region might still be powerless.

This misinformation exists in other buzzwords as well, a prime example being feminism. In a friend of mine’s 100+ person philosophy class, the teacher asked if any of them were feminists. Only one or two people reluctantly raised their hands, while the others remained silent in defiance of being labeled a feminist. But is there really anything wrong with being a feminist? If you’re someone who upholds the ideals of the Constitution (especially equality), then feminism should be an ideology we all embrace. To be a feminist simply means to strive for establishing and defending equal political, social and economic rights for women. Isn’t legal equality a fundamental building block of the American system?

Buzzwords serve little purpose. They don’t give accurate information, they don’t tell the whole story and they don’t further clear communication, so why do they still exist? The answer is simple: we’re lazy. A buzzword is a great cop-out for someone to win an argument. Why try to come up with an eloquently worded response when you can throw out a single word to silence your opponent? A single buzzword can lead to a thousand images and meanings to anyone who hears it; in short, it simplifies our response process.

For me, this entire diatribe is based on the fact that I don’t want to live in a simple world anymore, because simplifications hurt more than they help. My shortcut walking around today got me lost in the new construction, my shortcut in studying led to me to fail my last quiz and our shortcut buzzwords have led to a generation of people who have no idea what they’re talking about. Our simplified world has led to a world full of misunderstandings.

Buzzwords don’t simplify our world; they make it more complicated.

— Preston Peeden is a junior in history. He can be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu.

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Strong changes needed in politics Urb an La n d sca p e by

Lindsay Lee The American political system today is a joke.

Bipartisanism hardly exists, extremism reigns supreme, barely anything gets done, and there are very few politicians on the national scale who are actually trying to look out for the American people.

Have we always been this way? Of course our political system has been a two-sided game since basically the beginning, and vicious electoral commonplaces like attack ads have existed for a very long time. But these past few years, the polarization of our system seems to have gotten worse. Political experts on both sides often agree this is the case.

There are many different reasons for why we have become this way, but let’s start with history. In the 1950s, the country’s political parties were just about as similar as they had been in history. In these post-World War II years, the country was unified culturally by the pride in the victory of WWII but also by the fear of the Soviet Union. Of course there was still dissent, but at least among the majority of those who had the right to vote, there was agreement on a lot of issues.

In the 1960s, this unity and homogenous system shifted radically due to the Vietnam War and all the social movements of the time, including the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movement, and the sexual revolution. These new, radical threats to the way the system operated caused people to take sides. People on the left and right had very different ideas about what it meant to be patriotic.

Change continued through the 1970s and ’80s when the government began shifting economic policy away from Keynesian-style systems to supply-side, more government-distrusting ones. Add the ascent of the Internet and new forms of media communication in the 1990s and 2000s, and you’ve got yourself a gigantic disaster of polarized politics.

Partisan situations like this alienate your average potential voter, but they do great things for career politicians.

Being a politician has a lot of perks: power, fame,

money, etc. To maximize the perks while at the same time minimizing the actual work, the best choice is to rally the extremists. It takes a lot of effort to formulate a legitimate policy, engage in positive discourse with other lawmakers, and convince wide swathes of the moderate voting population that you are the logical choice.

Instead, attack the other side. Call them out for being moral deviants. Demand to take the country “back.”

Appeal to emotion, never to logic.

By spending all this insane money, flooding all the media with attacks on the other side, and pulling at people’s deepest, darkest prejudices and fears, politicians achieve a few things. They rally the extremists (who are in the minority) to vote and donate money by the millions, and they succeed in keeping moderates (the majority) alienated from the process. They reduce the work for themselves because they only have to target their message to the crazies.

This ridiculous sham of a political system keeps moderates from feeling engaged in the process, so they don’t vote. I’m sure you know at least one or two people who fall in this category.

So when both sides are guilty of this, and assuming both extremes really have the same number of people, what ultimately determines who wins an election?

Money.

It’s not a secret. The issue of money in politics has been more prevalent recently with the 2010 Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that dubbed corporations as equivalent to human beings under the law, and therefore can donate as much as they wish to political campaigns as such. In addition, now with these Super PACs, people can give gigantic, anonymous donations to a candidate without ever being held responsible.

If we ever want to fix our broken political system, we simply must remove the money. Overturn Citizens United, get rid of Super PACs, make large donations public, and maybe even cap the amount of money that can be spent on elections. Remove lobbyists’ power to become big donors. Only when the money from the few is removed from elections will politicians be forced to appeal to the many.

Politics is a job, but politicians must remember that they are civil servants; above all else, they are meant to serve us before themselves.

— Lindsay Lee is a sophomore in mathematics. She can be reached at llee26@utk.edu.

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As a graduate student in history, I had to take a class called “Introduction to Graduate Studies.”

At least, in my haphazard, caffeine-addled push toward the semester’s end, I sort of remember it having a name something like that. Anyway, the purposes of that class were manifold, but the idea is not only to introduce us to major theoretical schools, but also to introduce us to the idea of the professional expectations of the historian. While this includes more ancillary responsibilities like getting published and attending department events, the general duty of the historian is to familiarize himself with the scholarship on some area of history and then, using the original source materials, to contribute something novel to the field. It seems pretty straightforward, and, furthermore, it is a reasonable expectation for anyone who reads as much as we are supposed to.

Most historians would probably think that historical research should continue roughly like this for the foreseeable future, and there are very good reasons that this should be so. It is just about the only way in which new scholarship should be generated.

There is an increasing awareness among politicians that college costs are getting really out of hand. People in academia have been cognizant of this for a long time, but have no solid idea of how that will impact them since, well, it’s all about the money. The hope is, of course, that the economy rebounds and it becomes fashionable among the ultra-rich to subsidize academic research.

Barring a new class of benevolent elites, most people responsible for funding education are looking toward the government for at least some answers. Options include keeping the interest rates low on student loans, or even the not very realistic “bailout” for student loans. The idea of an incomebased repayment plan also has its appeal.

I think we should be aware of the real possibility that funding will face dramatic changes on both

ends. College will have to find a way to run more efficiently while also expecting the available funds to begin to recede; there is also the argument that the best solution might be to eliminate government assistance altogether. The effect will first be felt in the middle, as class sizes grow larger, and mediocre programs, departments and even whole schools are forced to shut down or severely reduce their rosters. At the other levels, minor departments and the classes they teach will probably start to disappear as schools attempt to graduate in three years rather than four.

I would argue that this is a real opportunity for history to take a leap forward before other departments. Like many people in this profession, I have no idea how this will work. Online classes are still incredibly new territory, and are liked a whole lot more by administrators than by professors. For now, they exist on the edge of being accepted wholesale.

No, I think that the opportunity lies not only with technology but also in the very content and assignments. Technology offers the possibility to reinforce class lessons while also allowing the wide dissemination of documents, pictures, videos and other media which can offer a new perspective and a whole new and more interesting source of information which students can interact with, as well as ask new questions and come up with better ways of assessing knowledge using these new formats.

Many of the issues facing colleges are more systemic than a few new class types can fix.

Changing pre-college education should be the first priority. Altering societal expectations of what college is and what it can do will probably be necessary if costs are really going to be significantly higher across higher education. The age of college as “the best years of your life” or even as a time of self discovery is probably in its twilight, and this position in people’s lives is what has kept college as it currently is for so long. Just be warned, when your children are heading to college, they will be facing a vastly different system than what you know now.

— Gregory Bearringer is a graduate student in medieval studies. He can be reached at gbearrin@utk.edu.

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Locals dispute proposed mosque U.S. that hit a swell of conservative opposition around the same time as the controversy over a plan to build a Muslim community center near New York’s ground zero.

Chancellor Robert Corlew has ruled against the plaintiffs on their claims related to the supposed threat posed by the mosque. The only issues to be argued at trial are supposed to relate to whether there was sufficient public notice for the meeting.

However, plaintiffs have sought to keep alive questions about the mosque’s legitimacy as a house of worship. In a hearing last week, plaintiffs’ attorney Thomas Smith asked the judge to consider the totality of the circumstances when deciding whether meeting notice was sufficient, including the supposed dangers raised by plaintiffs.

On Wednesday, Saleh Sbenaty, a mosque spokesman and a professor of engineering at Middle Tennessee State University, said there has been a mosque in Murfreesboro for over 30 years, but no one considered it a threat until this controversy erupted. Local Muslims want to build a new mosque because they have outgrown their current space in an office complex.

The Associated Press MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Opponents of a proposed mosque in Tennessee will get to make their case at trial on Wednesday in a lawsuit they have used as a platform to broadcast their wider opposition to the faith of Islam.

Plaintiffs want to void a May 2010 meeting of the Rutherford County Planning Commission in which it approved the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro’s site plan. They claim the public was not adequately notified ahead of time.

Voiding the meeting would rescind the approval, forcing mosque members to seek new approval in a climate made hostile by nearly two years of plaintiffs’ unsubstantiated claims that members have ties to terrorists.

Plaintiffs have also claimed that Islam is not a religion and doesn’t deserve First Amendment protections. That claim prompted the intervention of local U.S. Attorney Jerry Martin. His office filed a brief confirming that Islam is a recognized religion. Martin said at the time that to suggest otherwise was “quite simply ridiculous.”

The proposed mosque is one of a few Muslim projects in the

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Pat Summitt laughs during a press conference on April 19. Summitt was presented with the 2012 Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup last night for her professional conduct and leadership, both on and off the court.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

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Students from the UT Percussion Ensemble perform a xylophone quartet during their Spring Concert in the Alumni Memorial Building on April 19.

Memphis works to protect against floods The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A year after the historic Memphis flood, emergency officials are teaming up with federal agencies to create a network of river gauges and weather stations in surrounding Shelby County to better monitor the Mississippi River tributaries that overflowed, forcing hundreds from their homes.

Shelby County Office of Preparedness director Bob Nations told The Associated Press that the new gauges and stations will provide real-time information about water heights, river activity and rainfall along the Wolf and Loosahatchie rivers and the Nonconnah Creek — three Mississippi River tributaries that caused much of the flooding in the Memphis area in April 2011.

Nations said the system also will include cameras that will show the current state of the tributaries. County officials have been meeting with the National Weather Service, the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Geological Survey to get the

system up and running this year.

Nations said the system is a positive next step, helping county emergency officials and volunteers respond in the same safe, efficient manner that they did during last year’s flood.

“The focus is on, ‘What will we do next time, and how will we do it?’” Nations said Tuesday. “We try to keep that right in front of us.”

The flood of 2011 saw the Mississippi fall about a foot short of the record crest of 48.7 feet set in 1937. The National Weather Service recently set the official crest of the flood at 48.03 feet on the Memphis gauge, slightly higher than the initial estimate of 47.8 feet.

Flood waters from the Mississippi River engulfed farms in West Tennessee and eastern Arkansas. But most of the flooding in Memphis and surrounding Shelby County came from the tributaries, which wind their way from eastern Tennessee and north Mississippi toward the Mississippi River.

In all, about 2,000 homes and businesses were affected by flood waters in Shelby County, but no deaths were reported.

Almost $8 million was distributed to families that needed some sort of financial assistance from the federal government, Nations said.

Flood waters encroached on homes and businesses in lowlying areas, leading to evacuations of hundreds of mostly lowincome residents in neighborhoods in north Memphis, south Memphis and the suburb of Millington. Water reached the roofs of some homes and forced road closings.

The flood forced the World Barbecue Championship, held in mid-May, to move from its traditional location at a park that lies along the Mississippi. But tourist attractions such as Graceland, Elvis Presley’s longtime Memphis home, and Beale Street, the tourist drag known for blues music and barbecue, were not affected.

Damage control went into high gear after national TV news reporters stood in waist-high water as they reported on the flooding, making it appear that the situation was worse than it was. In all, only 20 percent of the county was affected by flooding, Nations said.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

ARTS&CULTURE

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In fiery crash, challenges of Nigeria exposed The Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria — Government corruption and deteriorating roads caused a fiery multiple car and truck crash in Nigeria that killed at least 18 people in 2010, a coroner said Wednesday, highlighting major challenges facing Africa’s most populous nation.

Police set up an illegal checkpoint August 2010 along a major expressway in Lagos, using tires to funnel traffic down to one lane as officers demanded bribes from motorists, witnesses said. The driver of a speeding truck carrying sugar for the nation’s largest industrial company tried to stop, but the vehicle’s bad brakes failed and the truck slammed into waiting traffic, witnesses and officials said.

Those details, long denied by authorities, came out Wednesday when a coroner investigating the deaths ruled against Nigeria’s federal police and the Dangote Group, owned by billionaire Aliko Dangote.

However, lawyers say this is merely a first step toward winning justice for victims of the crash in Africa’s most populous nation, where corruption and incompetence strangle government agencies responsible for protecting citizens.

“The culture of lying, misrepresenting facts and denying responsibility is something we see over and over again,” said Joseph Otteh, the executive director of Access to Justice, which took part in the inquest. “We have these deep problems in Nigeria, but the thing is we have a process to reach down to the truth.”

The coroner’s inquest focused on only one of the horrific multiple car crashes that happen almost daily in Nigeria, the third worst country for traffic fatalities behind China and India, the World Health Organization

has said. Drivers travel at high speed and overtake slower vehicles, leading to such head-on collisions.

Main cities are linked by pitted, two-lane roads crammed with passenger buses, trucks laden with goods and rickety private vehicles.

The Aug. 15, 2010, crash occurred along a major expressway in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city. A fire consumed the vehicles involved almost instantly, sending people fleeing.

Those trapped inside their cars burned alive, including a 1-year-old boy who wailed behind a wall of flames unable to free himself, witnesses said.

Even today, it remains unclear how many people died. Police and road safety officials say at least 18 died.

Others have said more than 40 were killed, as authorities took charred corpses to different mortuaries and didn’t keep proper records.

The police who mounted the illegal checkpoint fled during the inferno, with their superiors later denying any roadblock had been there. Firefighters responded late to the fire as well, as those who suffered burns arrived at hospitals barely running as doctors were on strike, records showed.

On Wednesday, Coroner T.A. Elias read aloud his findings, blaming police for erecting an illegal checkpoint and others for not properly putting warning signs along the highway.

However, he also blamed Dangote Group for allowing a truck with failing brakes and an improperly mounted tire to drive.

Elias ordered Dangote to turn over the truck’s driver to police for possible prosecution, and ordered the massive company to issue a public apology and “provide minimal compensation” to those affected by the crash.

“Without a brake failure or overspeeding from the driver, there would not have been any accident,” Elias said.

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UT mascot Smokey IX undergoes physical therapy in the UT Veterinary Hospital on Tuesday. Smokey, the 8year-old Bluetick Coonhound, undergoes balance and water treadmill therapy to combat the effects of old age on his knees.

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ARTS&CULTURE

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Friday, April 27 What: Twelfth Night, presented by Shakespeare Unauthorized When: 8 p.m.

Where: The fountain outside Clarence Brown Theatre How much: Free

Thursday, April 26 What: Twelfth Night, presented by Shakespeare Unauthorized When: 8 p.m.

Where: The fountain outside Clarence Brown Theatre How much: Free What: Bassnectar When: 7 p.m.

Where: Knoxville Civic Coliseum How much: $38 — $108 What: Official Bassnectar Afterparty with ill.Gates When: 11 p.m.

Where: The Ciderhouse How much: $8 advance / $15 door ($10 door w/ Bassnectar ticket)

What: Volapalooza When: 6 p.m.

Where: REC Sports Intramural Fields How much: $5 student / $20 public What: Super Smash Bros. MELEE & 64 Tourney @ THE YACHT CLUB When: 8 p.m.

Where: Fort Sanders Yacht Club How much: $5 What: ZoSo: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience When: 9 p.m.

Where: The Valarium How much: $10 advance / $12 door

Saturday, April 28 What: Fort Sanders Fest When: 2 p.m.

Where: Block of 12th and Forest How much: $5 on Pedestrian Walkway this week, $8 day of show What: WUTK presents Exam Jam V: Exam Jam Strikes Back When: 9 p.m.

Where: The Ciderhouse How much: $5 21+, $8 under 21

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What: Twelfth Night, presented

by Shakespeare Unauthorized When: 2 p.m.

Where: The fountain outside Clarence Brown Theatre How much: Free What: Super Smash Bros. MELEE & 64 Tourney @ THE YACHT CLUB When: 8 p.m.

Where: Fort Sanders Yacht Club How much: $5 What: Bike-In Movie: Shredder Orpheus When: 9 p.m.

Where: Marble City Brewing Company How much: Free

Sunday, April 29 What: Twelfth Night, presented

by Shakespeare Unauthorized When: 2 p.m.

Where: The fountain outside Clarence Brown Theatre How much: Free What: Wampus Cat, Hellbender, Across Tundras, Sprocket Gobbler When: 8 p.m.

Where: Longbranch Saloon How much: $5 What: Gomez: The Quinceanera Tour When: 8 p.m.

Where: Bijou Theatre How much: $19.50

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

SPORTS

Vitt defends Saints players in bounty drama The Associated Press METAIRIE, La. — Joe Vitt used his first public comments as the face of the Saints’ coaching staff to accept some blame for the bounty scandal that has plagued the club’s offseason. Then he sought to clear the names of his players.

“At no time did any of our players ever cross the white line with the intention of hurting another player,” the assistant head coach said Tuesday afternoon. “That being said, I’m serving a six-game suspension for the spoken word, not the clenched fist.”

Vitt said his problem was the words he used in his motivational speeches when he was trying to urge defenders to play with the type of hard-hitting toughness that reduces an opponent’s will to compete. He said he was “on board 100 percent” with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s player safety goals and would change the way he addresses his charges.

“Talking to players and the expectation that you have for players, it’s got to be different. I take full responsibility for that, and I’ve got to get better at it,” Vitt said.

Vitt is handling head coach Sean Payton’s duties while Payton serves a season-long suspension in connection with the NFL’s bounty investigation, which concluded that former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams offered improper cash bonuses for hits that hobbled targeted opponents.

Vitt said the Saints would look to rise above swirling offseason distractions and keep expectations for their on-field performance high as the club seeks a fourth straight playoff appearance.

“Understand one thing: We ain’t down. We are not down,” Vitt said. “We’ve got 41 wins over the last three years and we’ve got a great building full of players. We’ve got a great scouting staff. We’ve got a great administration. We’ve got a great owner. And we are looking forward to starting the season. Again, the excuses are out there for us not to perform. But we are all held accountable for our Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon jobs.

Robert Rasnick clears the bar during warm-up for the finals of pole vault during “Anything that happens outside this buildthe Sea Ray Relays on April 14. Rasnick finished fourth in the event, clearing a ing can never be an excuse for what’s taken height of 17 feet, 4.5 inches.

place inside the building,” Vitt added. “Our players are working hard. We’ve had a great first week. ... Our players are focused. Our coaches are focused. Our owner is focused.

Our building is focused. We owe it to our fans.

Our fans have always been there for us. Now we want the people of New Orleans, Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region to be proud of us.

We’re going to give them our best.”

Vitt said he had not spoken to Payton since his suspension began April 16, the longest he has gone in about a decade without speaking to a man he considers his close friend. Even as Vitt sought to maintain high expectations for the Saints, he did not diminish the sense of loss he and others around team headquarters have endured since their head coach cut off contact as ordered by the league.

“We’re going to miss his passion, his vision, his play-calling, his understanding,” Vitt said.

“You know, Sean is like a father figure to a lot of guys on this football team. And you don’t replace that. Listen, Sean Payton’s record speaks for itself. They’re Hall of Fame credentials for the first six years of a career. And this is what Sean does. And there’s not a day that goes by that we won’t miss him, and that we don’t miss him.”

The last thing Payton said before he left the building on his last day of work was simply, “Do you job,” Vitt recalled.

“Everybody in this organization will do their job,” Vitt said. “This is a roster that’s made up of character players that are accountable to one another.”

The Saints have endured a slew of bad publicity since the NFL released findings of its bounty investigation March 2. Along with Payton and Vitt’s punishment, general manager Mickey Loomis was suspended eight games. The club is still trying to sign star quarterback Drew Brees to an extension, and he has skipped the first week-and-a-half of voluntary workouts. And this week, an anonymously sourced ESPN report alleged that Loomis’ Superdome booth was wired to allow him to eavesdrop on opposing coaches’ radio communications. State and federal authorities have begun investigating whether any wiretapping laws were broken, but Vitt called the allegations “ludicrous” and “irresponsible.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

THESPORTSPAGE

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Austin Peay knocks off Vols David Cobb Staff Writer The Tennessee baseball team allowed 15 hits, seven walks and two errors en route to dropping an 8-4 decision at the hands of in-state foe Austin Peay on Wednesday.

“Tonight was very disappointing,” UT coach Dave Serrano said. “Nothing against Austin Peay — they’re leading their conference and they’re a good baseball team — but that was a game that we gave a lot of opportunities away.”

The Volunteers (22-19, 7-11 SEC) fell victim to four double plays, including rally silencers in the eighth and ninth innings.

A two-run blast to left field in the first inning by senior third baseman Chris Pierce and a run-scoring fielder’s choice in the second inning off the bat of freshman second baseman Will Maddox would be all the offense UT would generRebecca Vaughan • The Daily Beacon ate until a brief ninth inning push.

Conner Stevens throws a pitch to an Austin Peay batIt was Austin Peay’s (25-15) ninth ter during a game on Tuesday. inning, though, that sealed the game.

With a 5-3 advantage in the final frame, the Governors touched UT junior

reliever Nick Blount for three runs on five hits to extend their lead to 8-3.

UT sophomore Ethan Bennett drove home a run, advancing freshman Jared Allen to second with one out in the Vols’ half of the ninth, but the rally ceased when senior Zach Osborne grounded into a game-ending double play.

“The thing that I hope has not crept in,” Serrano said, “is the expectation of not getting it done. That can creep in and I’m starting to see that a little bit, and that’s what bothers me. We can’t accept losing and we’ve got to expect to win.

Right now we’re not expecting to win.”

The loss drops UT’s record to 2-4 against in-state teams this season. The Vols have dropped nine of their last 11 contests, including all three games in last weekend’s series against Mississippi State, which saw the Vols drop a pair of extra-inning games.

Freshman right fielder Jared Allen produced one of UT’s six hits and reached base safely three times on the night.

“We’re all competitive, that’s why we’re here,” Allen said. “We want to win.

Everybody’s frustrated right now, especially coming off this weekend and two tough losses and then coming out and getting beat. They’re a good team. Still

though, it’s just frustrating.”

Senior Josh Allman started on the mound for the Vols and allowed three runs in less than an inning of work.

Serrano went to his bullpen five times on the night.

The Vols’ first-year manager was frustrated with the ineffectiveness of his pitching staff.

“We’re doing everything opposite of what we believe in,” Serrano said. “And that’s what baffles me a little bit. We’re not executing, and we’re not throwing strikes. That’s very baffling for what our philosophy is.”

Freshman Connor Stevens worked 4.1 scoreless innings out of the bullpen for UT before yielding to sophomore Dalton Saberhagen, who was credited with the loss after giving up an unearned run in the sixth inning.

UT will look to snap a five-game SEC losing streak when it travels to Auburn this weekend for a three-game series.

“Maybe this team needs to hit rockbottom like I feel we are right now, and find a way to get back up to the top,” Serrano said. “We’ve got to find a way to get tougher, and I take full responsibility for that.”

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Zach Luther guns down a runner at first base during a game against Alabama on March 30.

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Will Maddox hits a home run during the third inning of a game against Alabama on March 30.

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