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Freshman found dead in Morrill Hall Calif. Assembly modifies law seeking to cure gays SACRAMENTO, Calif.

— California lawmakers have voted to modify a decades-old law that classifies gays as sexual deviants and calls for research on the causes of homosexuality.

Supporters say a change was long overdue in the law, which was written in 1950 in reaction to a series of sex crimes, including the molestation and murder of a 6-year-old girl in Los Angeles.

The law classifies gays as sexual deviants and requires the state to conduct research to find the causes of sex crimes against children. It also singles out gays as a group that should be studied, and calls for research into a cure for homosexuality.

The bill, approved 62-0 Monday by the state Assembly, changes that law by removing all references to homosexuals in the provision that calls for research.

The measure now goes to the state Senate.

Sudan leader re-elected despite war crimes charges KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan’s president won another term in office Monday with a comfortable majority in elections marred by boycotts and fraud allegations, becoming the first head-of-state to be re-elected while facing an international arrest warrant for war crimes.

Omar al-Bashir’s victory was widely expected after his most credible challengers pulled out of the race to protest alleged fraud.

It was unlikely to put to rest questions about his standing around the globe and among his opponents or ease Sudan’s isolation.

Al-Bashir cannot travel freely because he risks being arrested to face charges before the Haguebased International Criminal Court for war crimes committed in Sudan’s western Darfur region.

Homeless good Samaritan left to die on NYC street NEW YORK — Police are looking for a man and woman whose argument on a New York City street led to a good Samaritan’s death.

Hugh Alfredo Tale-Yax was found dead on a street in Queens on April 18. He had been stabbed to death.

Police say Tale-Yax was walking behind the couple and tried to intervene in their fight. Authorities say that the man stabbed him, and that he and the woman ran off in different directions.

— The Associated Press

BILBREY Katie Freeman News Editor

Kristian Smith Student Life Editor A UT freshman died Monday morning from “medical reasons,” authorities say.

Katherine Briana “Breezy” Bilbrey was found in her dorm room in Morrill Hall after police received a call around 9:42 a.m.

Darrell DeBusk, Knoxville Police Department spokesperson, said Breezy’s roommate sought help after she did not respond to her alarm clock.

DeBusk said her roommate called her resident assistant when she found Breezy unresponsive, and then the emergency call was placed.

He added there was no foul play involved, and the investigation is ongoing.

“An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death,” he said. “She did have a medical history.”

While nothing has been confirmed, a friend has recalled that Breezy had a history of epilepsy.

“I knew she had epilepsy, and she had an episode with me there, but it didn’t seem like it was that bad,” Brian Fink, freshman in computer science, and classmate of Breezy’s, said.

Fink said he met Breezy when he helped her move into her dorm. He said he had chemistry class with Breezy last semester, and they had done homework together.

“She was very optimistic and energetic,” he said. “She helped me open up a lot more in college. She helped me branch out.”

Fink said Breezy was a good friend.

“You could tell her almost anything,” he said. “She could keep a secret.”

Friend and classmate Kelsey McCowan, sophomore in biological sciences, said she knew something was wrong when Breezy didn’t show up for her Monday morning class.

“We had Spanish 123 together, and I went out in the hall and called and called and called,” McCowan said.

McCowan said she spoke often to Breezy — who she calls “Bri” — and they had a Spanish project due this week.

“I talked to her on Friday, and everything was fine,” she said. “She was going to work all weekend.”

McCowan described Breezy as a happy and loving person.

“She had the most contagious smile,” McCowan said. “I never saw her have a bad day. I don’t think there’s one person who could say something negative about Bri.” A freshman in chemical engineering and possibly changing her major to biological sciences, Breezy told McCowan she had plans to go to medical school and be a doctor.

Jury deliberating in Palin e-mail trial Robby O’Daniel

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Katherine Briana “Breezy” Bilbrey was found dead in her dorm room in Morrill Hall early Monday morning. Authorities say Bilbrey died due to previous medical reasons.

UT Institute of Agriculture to host weekly farmer’s markets

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The jury is deliberating on Tuesday in the trial of Tennessee college student David Kernell, on trial for hacking into former Gov. Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account and posting it on the web during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Much of the media attention on the trial was centered around two star witnesses — Palin, the 2008 running mate of Sen. John McCain, and Palin’s daughter, 19-year-old Bristol.

Palin, who entered the courthouse upbeat, chipper and smiling, testified on Friday that the ordeal caused “huge disruption” to the campaign, “creating distrust.”

“We spent days trying to correct the media,” Palin said.

Palin said that the media’s mentality was “where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” so media outlets were investigating the email and, according to Palin, assuming there was something that would derail the campaign.

After her testimony on Friday, she told a group of reporters outside the Howard H. Baker Jr. United States Courthouse that the trial was a “sad state of affairs,” “trying to teach somebody that it was wrong to do such a thing.”

“It’s not right,” Palin said. “It’s not legal. It’s not fair. It’s not decent.”

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Phone calls to Bristol Palin also worried about her daughter Bristol. In the screenshots of her e-mail box that appeared on the news, the second e-mail listed from the top — titled “LOOK AT TRIG!” and

• Photo Courtesy Associated Press

Former Gov. Sarah Palin was in Knoxville Friday to testify in the trial of her alleged hacker David Kernell. containing a picture of Palin’s youngest son eating her first whole food — was listed as from a cell phone number. That number belonged to Bristol, and she received several phone calls as a result.

Bristol, who had her mother listed as “Big Momma” in her cell-phone contacts, was 17 at the time of the incident and got her cell phone, a silver Blackberry Curve, through her boyfriend.

Bristol testified on

Wednesday that her phone number was unlisted, and she only gave it out to close family, friends, doctors and teachers.

She recognized her mother calling when her caller ID said “unknown number,” so when she started receiving calls in the middle of the night, she assumed they were her mother.

She said the calls were “buried in different tones of voice” and “different area codes.”

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Starting mid-May 2010, UT will host a farmer’s market on the Institute of Agriculture campus at the Gardens once a week.

All the produce that will be sold at the market is grown locally and produced by using organic and sustainable practices.

“We are excited to be offering this market to the university community,” Susan Hamilton, associate professor and director of the Department of Plant Sciences, said. Hamilton works directly with the UT Gardens.

The Harvest Market is working in harmony with the UT Organic and Sustainable Crop Production Program, which started a multi-disciplinary internship program for students at the Institute of Agriculture’s organic farm in order to foster interest in farming and farmland preservation. This internship was started last fall.

“This internship was just started this year,” Annette Wszelaki, vegetable crop specialist for the Institute of Agriculture, said.

“The idea was to select five students who want to become small farmers. During their internship, they are learning about all aspects of farming: not only the cultivation but also advertisement and marketing.”

Students selected for the internship deal with all aspects of vegetable farming. This includes business planning, as well as production and marketing. For the business and marketing aspects of the program, farm produce that was grown at the organic farm will be sold to the university community.

In addition to cultivating the vegetables, the students must come up with an advertising plan, as well as create a logo for the Harvest Market.

“All the proceeds will go back to the internship, as well as help to fund the workshops that are taught to the local community,” Wszelaki said.

In addition to having an internship, the Institute of Agriculture also hosts workshops for the local community. The topics for these workshops have the same idea behind them as does the internship: to educate people in becoming small farmers.

A survey was sent out to the university community in order to gauge enthusiasm and get ideas of when the market should be, as well as what should be offered at the market.

“We are still gathering information from the survey,” Wszelaki said. “Although we do not have all the information gathered, the feedback we have received is positive, and the community seems to be behind this idea.”

The proceeds earned from the market go to the funding of the internship, so that it may be offered to future students.

The event will start in mid-May and should continue until early September. Times of the market are yet to be announced but will be made public once all the information from the surveys has been gathered.

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April 27 - April 28, 2010 Tuesday, April 27 —

• 1:30 p.m. — The final open discussion for the VOL Vision strategic plan takes place in the UC Shiloh Room.

During this final open meeting, all faculty, staff and students are welcomed to join in the discussion.

• 3:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. — Professor Julia Douthwaite of the University of Notre Dame speaks on “Frankenstein and the Automaton, or What Fiction Can Tell Us About the History of Science and Industry in Revolutionary France” in the Mary Greer Room on the 2nd floor of Hodges Library.The talk is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, April 28 — • 3:35 p.m. until 4:35 p.m. — Greg Knese of the University of California, Irvine, speaks on “Pick interpolation and stable polynomials” in room 113 of Aconda Court.This analysis seminar is free and open to the public.

• 7 p.m. — Barbara Bodine, former ambassador to Yemen, who works on issues including U.S. bilateral and regional policy, strategic security issues, counterterrorism and governance and reform, speaks in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

The UT Rugby Football Club was selected as one of sixteen teams to play in the first nationally televised Rugby Sevens tournament. The games will air on NBC and will take place June 5 and 6.

THE CRIME Wednesday, April 21 • 1:36 p.m. — Officer took report at UTPD headquarters of repeated incidents of harassment. The victim said, while studying in the library during the evening of April 14, she left her table for a few minutes. She left her laptop and BlackBerry Curve in the open and did not notice the phone was stolen until she returned to Laurel Apartments. After reporting the phone missing, the victim was sent a new phone as a replacement. She missed a call from a man she did not recognize, who told her he purchased her phone on Craigslist and could not activate it as it was reported stolen. He asked the girl to report the phone found, which she refused to do as she had a new phone. The man called repeatedly and two hours later, the girl found he had added her as a friend on Facebook.

The victim was concerned that her old phone had a great deal of personal information in it and that the man would try and contact her. The suspect, who claimed to be a police officer, states on Facebook that he works for St. Mary’s Hospital.

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• 2:05 p.m. — Officer reported to an assault with a dangerous weapon at 2121 Stephenson Drive. The complainant reported the suspect was trying to kill him with a knife. On scene, the officer drew his sidearm and met a man with an appearance matching the suspect, who sat near a water fountain and attempted to wash pepper spray out of his eyes. The officer holstered his weapon and detained both men for questioning. The complainant said the altercation was derived from a prank gone wrong, after which the suspect exited his forklift and stated he would cut the complainant’s throat. He then re-boarded the vehicle and attempted to run the complainant down. The complainant threw a hammer at the suspect, but the forklift deflected it. He attempted then to notify his supervisers but could not and thus contacted law enforcement.

The suspect then returned with a six-foot length of steel pole and attempted to level it at the complainant, who sprayed him with pepper spray. The suspect was placed under arrest for assault, following a warrant signed by the complainant.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY • 1773 — The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and thus granting it a monopoly on the American tea trade. The low tax allowed the East India Company to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, and many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxation tyranny.

• 1994 — More than 22 million South Africans turn out to cast ballots in the country’s first multiracial parliamentary elections.

An overwhelming majority chose anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela to head a new coalition government that included his African National Congress Party, former President F.W. de Klerk’s National Party and Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s Inkatha Freedom Party. In May, Mandela was inaugurated as president, becoming South Africa’s first black head of state. In 1944, Mandela, a lawyer, joined the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest black political organization in South Africa, where he became a leader of Johannesburg’s youth wing of the ANC. In 1952, he became deputy national president of the ANC, advocating nonviolent resistance to apartheid — South Africa’s institutionalized system of white supremacy and racial segregation. However, after the massacre of peaceful black demonstrators at Sharpeville in 1960, Mandela helped organize a paramilitary branch of the ANC to engage in guerrilla warfare against the white minority government.

— Courtesy of History.com

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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Golf tournament set for next month The Seventh Annual Alex Haley Scholarship Celebrity Golf Tournament will take place May 17 at Gettysvue Polo, Golf & Country Club in West Knoxville.

The tournament, of which all proceeds will benefit scholarships for African-American students through the Haley Scholarships, is sponsored by the UT Millennium Focus Committee and the UT Office of Student Affairs.

Prominent entertainment figures, civic leaders and former Volunteer athletes have been invited to participate in this year’s tournament. For registration information, please contact Charles Houston at (865) 974-7449 or cahouston@utk.edu.

New training and mentorship program tailored to grad students The Office of Graduate Training and Mentorship has been created to help departments campuswide recruit and retain graduate students.

Part of the Graduate School, the office opened in February 2010 under the leadership of Ernest Brothers, assistant dean.

The office was developed in conjunction with the Program for Excellence and Equity in Research, a graduate training program that supports fellowships at UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in an effort to increase the number of accomplished, competitive and determined underrepresented minority students who pursue doctorates in the sciences and attain careers in biomedical research.

Brothers has degrees in chemistry, public policy and administration, and urban higher education, and he previously worked at the University of Georgia as the executive director of an office that worked to recruit, retain and graduate minority undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering and math areas.

A few of the notable Office of Graduate Training and Mentorship goals include assisting with coordination of recruitment and retention efforts; identifying and creating diversity resources and initiatives that strengthen faculty mentoring; collaborating with the Office of Research and faculty from various units across campus to coordinate training in grant development; and assisting with building faculty-student collaborative research teams and interdisciplinary projects.

For more information about the Office of Graduate Training and Mentorship, visit http://gradschool.utk.edu/ernest.shtml.

One call came from “a bunch of boys” saying they were at the Palins’ house in Wasilla, Alaska, and needed to be let in.

She also said she received “hundreds of text messages,” and phone calls kept coming until she handed over her phone to Secret Service eight or nine days after the initial incident.

Bristol said the situation was scary because she lived in “the middle of nowhere.”

In cross examination, defense attorney Wade Davies asked her if she said in an interview to two FBI agents that the calls were “derogatory and offensive” but she “did not feel threatened.” Bristol said she recalled saying the calls were “derogatory and offensive,” but she did not recall saying she “did not feel threatened.”

Sarah Palin said in testimony on Friday, “She (Bristol) was scared and didn’t know what she was supposed to do to stop (the calls).”

With Palin on the campaign trail, heading to Michigan, her and husband Todd were thousands of miles away from Bristol.

“I was greatly concerned about communication,” Palin said. “... It was some hours before Bristol was able to contact me.”

But that line of communication would be cut off when Secret Service advised the Palins to shut down communication lines, including Bristol’s cell phone.

4chan postings In his testimony, FBI agent and forensic examiner

Stephen McFall and defense attorneys went over postings that were made in a 4chan thread, involving the computer attributed to Kernell and other posters.

Early posts in response suggested disbelief: “Pics or it didn’t happen,” “OP (original poster) is a troll” and “Send emails to prove or GTFO.” A post cited as originating from Kernell’s IP address said, “This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are pics of her daughter, the preggo (pregnant) one. I don’t think I should post those, though.”

Another poster responded later, “At least give someone else the password, and let them ruin her life.”

McFall testified that three minutes later, the password was shared.

Yahoo e-mail creation Frank Bailey, a former Palin staffer, testified on Wednesday that he created the account and was told by Palin to do so and specifically use Yahoo as a service.

He created the gov.palin@yahoo.com e-mail address as Palin’s e-mail for personal use and linked it to her red Blackberry, the Blackberry she also used for personal use.

Bailey said in his testimony that he advised the Palins to stop using Yahoo accounts multiple times in the past.

After Bailey saw a New York Times article that mentioned Palin using mainstream media, it only intensified his ill feelings about using Yahoo.

“You have to get off Yahoo,” Bailey said he told Todd Palin.

“It is not secure.”

Sarah Palin said in her Friday testimony that she did not recall anyone ever telling her to not use Yahoo.

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Defendant in Palin hacking case won’t testify A former University of Tennessee student charged with hacking Sarah Palin’s e-mail chose to not take the witness stand in his defense, his lawyers said Monday before resting their case.

The attorney for 22-year-old David Kernell called just one witness, an FBI agent who testified that Kernell was deeply upset by the investigation.

Prosecutors began their closing arguments on the first day of the trial’s second week.

Defense attorney Wade Davies has said the e-mail intrusion was a prank by a college student who had no criminal intent.

Prosecutors contend Kernell was trying to derail Palin’s campaign when he accessed her personal e-mail account in September 2008 while she was the Republican candidate for vice president.

Davies declined to say Monday why Kernell decided not to testify after a lineup of government witnesses over four days, including Palin and her daughter. They talked about how the hacking intruded on and disrupted their own personal lives and invaded the privacy of other family members and close friends.

Two charged after five children found living in filth JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. — Authorities in Washington County have charged two people with child abuse and neglect after five children were found living in filth without running water and who could not read or write.

According to a police news release, 53-year-old Robert H. Simmons III and 37-year-old Mary E. Tittle are in jail on $50,000 bonds each and all five children were placed in foster care.

The sheriff’s office estimated the children, ranging between 7- and 13-years-old, had not bathed in more two weeks and that they had never attended school. One girl had an infection caused by a rat bite and was also in renal failure, but no medication or treatment was given for her condition.

Simmons and Tittle are scheduled for a court hearing Thursday.

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OPINIONS

Staff Column Jake Lane Entertainment Editor

Column critiques illogical, scare tactics When writing an editorial for publication, the somewhat dubious desire is to have feedback from the community on not only your accuracy and the thought put into the column, but in essence the reader’s agreement or disdain for your position.

I wrote about the July 12, 2007 attacks a few weeks ago, explicitly stating a desire to remain objective on the issues at hand and not to outwardly blame the military or government for the attacks, only their consequent sweeping of the video and conflict under the rug. In response I’ve heard everything from “Thank you for writing this” to “You are a terrible journalist and a liar.”

Fair enough.

In print, a few veterans have responded that I have no idea of the horrors of war and that the average citizens should never have to know such things, that such knowledge is their sacrifice and honorable distinction. I call malarkey. Sure, I don’t agree with our current occupation anymore than I’d agree with the Nazis invading Poland. But to be clear, given the proper conflict, i.e. one not promulgated by an energy crisis or a personal grudge, I would happily serve and give the final measure if it were for a cause that warranted such a sacrifice. But I would want the world to know about it, all the same.

The Nazi reference is not meant to indicate we’ve gone the way of national socialism (no matter what the Tea Party might say while they’re lacing the Kool-Aid), but rather to emphasize that at times in America’s history we’ve been legitimately crucial in thwarting a terrible threat to the security of the world.

Now I feel it would be prudent to give some constructive feedback to one of our own columnists, who felt so called (likely by his God, the one who would smite all Islamofascists) to call my critique of the situation “factually incorrect” and went on to personally attack a Beacon reader who supported my stance by calling him “craven” for “(undermining) our war against Islamofascists” and later denounced him as anti-American.

This particular columnist has made it his mission to document a fabricated crusade throughout the semester in portraying America as a Christian nation who is waging righteous war against an “Islamofascist” area of the world. First, the person should know he is quoting vehement atheist Christopher Hitchens in such a calculation and thus not defending his ultra-Catholic worldview in using such terminology. Second, we are not a Christian nation and most certainly not a Catholic nation but rather a ever-churning gumbo of every world religion, whose national identity is not reliant on any god but on the will of its people.

America is defined by the freedoms we espouse to the world in so much political rhetoric by claiming to be singular in its widespread allowances of faith, diversity of populace and ability to pursue a joyous life in almost any way we see fit (Dahmer and Madoff need not apply). And that’s all fine, but those freedoms were meant to dissuade the prejudices of those such as my colleague and instead encourage us to open ourselves to the experience allowed by multi-cultural co-existence.

But we are straying from the point at hand. I don’t mean to unleash some polemic against one isolated and incredibly confused individual. No, really, I just want to address the validity of a few statements made in the critical responses to my previous column.

The damning element in the video in question for me was the demeanor of the soldiers involved and their errors in judgment. Relative to the identification of an RPG through thermal imaging, which I was misquoted as calling a telephoto lens, I would say it could have been a camera tripod, whose “small point” would recede when the tripod was collapsed. The telephoto lens can be clearly identified prior to the initial sortie as Namir Noor-Eldeen looks around the corner of a building.

And finally, a reader’s letter to the editor in the April 26 issue of The Daily Beacon made an attempt to negate Waqas Ahmad’s opinion on grounds of ignorance and used such scare tactics as implying he should visit wounded soldiers and military cemeteries to appreciate the horrors of war and the sacrifice of military personnel. This dances a treacherous tango in the way of opinions, as we were first told by John Dunham that civilians should be spared such atrocities. So what’s it going to be, full disclosure or Eisenhowerian neutrality of opinion and naïveté toward the world?

Dear reader, you tell me.

COFFEY & INK • Kelsey Roy

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Parents should emphasize literacy to kids Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnette Following the publication of my column last week, two important men in my life asked me about the issue I raised, briefly and somewhat sarcastically, concerning reading to your children.

Probably most of you reading this column don’t even have a child. That’s OK. I don’t either. But just because I don’t have any little ones tugging on the hem of my clothes doesn’t mean I shouldn’t consider the possibility and maybe even start planning for the day that I do, whenever that happens to be.

So I decided once again to turn to my favorite “convenience” information resource: the Internet.

I figured it would be a good idea to start at the top, so I went to the United States government website and searched for children’s literacy. Lo and behold, there’s a National Institute for Literacy in this country. And with a little more digging, I found some relatively recent and sufficiently scary numbers from the National Center for Education: Approximately one-fifth of adults in America read at the lowest proficiency level.

An additional quarter of the adult population reads at only the next highest level.

The men and women who make up close to half of our country’s population can, at best, according to the study, locate intersections on a map and make “simple inferences” about a text. The study does account for new immigrants who have not yet mastered English, the elderly and those with visual or mental handicaps — which means that, even subtracting out those people who could not reasonably be expected to perform at a higher level, there is an astonishingly large percentage of Americans who just barely qualify as “literate.”

The qualifications for literacy are part of the problem. The categories the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) places adults into are Below Basic, Basic, Intermediate and Proficient (formerly “Advanced”). Before the re-naming of the Proficient category as such, it would be easy to assume that Basic is the minimum everyone should strive for, with only Mensa members

making an Advanced placement. However, this is simply not the case. In a country that claims nearly 100-percent literacy, how can we justify almost 100 million adults that can read and understand only the most limited of materials?

There are many excuses one could call out — such as the high proportion of minorities and impoverished unable to obtain a quality education or the standardized qualifications designed by some shadowy intellectual elite.

But the problem isn’t just that a few Washington-ites think real life should work out like “Dangerous Minds.” And despite what the No Child Left Behind Act could lead us to believe, it isn’t just our school systems either.

It starts at home. I was fortunate enough to have two parents who had the wherewithal to read to me every day from the time I was a toddler (and if any of you have been around any toddlers recently, I think you’ll understand what I’m implying when I say “wherewithal”). But it is just this sort of attitude that is so important in early childhood development. I realize, of course, that working-class Americans nowadays deal with outside pressures that can make it nearly impossible to spend quality time with their children, and I realize that, in many neighborhoods, the circumstances are such that learning, in an academic sense, couldn’t be more irrelevant.

However, I’m not writing to those people right now. I’m mainly writing to young, presumably motivated college students who are probably trying to plan out their lives and set up a good future. Many of you will eventually have kids of your own. That’s why, because I think the first step begins before you even have children, I am writing to you. Commit yourself now to encouraging your children to enjoy reading.

Remember what books you’ve liked growing up and place them on a mental shelf for future use.

Decide now what habits you want to form: playing alphabet games with road signs, making up stories and having the little ones illustrate, designating bedtime as reading time. It takes time but not more than you’ll have to give them anyway. Make the choice now to invest in their future, and one day they may even thank you for it. (Thanks, Mom. Thanks, Dad.) — Anna-Lise Burnette is a sophomore in global studies. She can be reached at kburnet7@utk.edu.

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Well, ladies and gentlemen, it’s that time again. Here we are at the end of another semester and another year. Four more days of classes! Woohoo!! Only Beale Street Music Fest, one study day, Cinco de Mayo and a week-and-a-half of exams stand between you and me and summer. This could be good news if you know what you’re doing this summer, or it could be bad news if you haven’t arranged your summer plans yet and/or are about to graduate and have no idea what you’ll be doing for the rest of your life. Good luck with that.

Can I risk a bit of nostalgia? (Odds are, most of you are half-delirious from procrastination-induced late night cramming as it is, so I’m going to take your semicomatose blank stare as a “yes” and continue.) This term has flown by. I blinked twice and finals were here. All of a sudden the conversations I have with myself that go, “Don’t worry, Leigh, you have three months to pull up your grade in (basically all of my classes), go ahead and spend an hour watching ‘Glee,’” aren’t going to work. Oh dear. I have a feeling that, for better or worse, time is only going to move more quickly as we get older.

Not to get too serious on you in the week preceding finals, but I wonder, is that positive or negative? Why is my perception of time changing as I age? (Besides the early on-set dementia, I mean.) I guess it’s because now I have more of a measure against which to compare my current experiences, if that makes sense. Like how, because I’m accustomed to driving five or six hours to get home, driving about three hours to Nashville (to see Ben Harper!) is a breeze: The semester moves so quickly because the time

is short in comparison to how long I’ve been alive. But I wonder if in gaining “quantity” in my life, so to speak, I’m losing “quality,” the capacity to wonder and to be surprised. I wanted to mention this because it’s said youth is wasted on the young, and I don’t want that to be true for any of us. Best not let life pass you by, I think. (In case you noticed, I’m trying to fit as many clichés as possible into this column. I felt like I didn’t use enough during the school year, so I’m trying to make up for lost time. Used another!)

There’s a “Gilmore Girls” episode calling my name (well, actually, my roommate is doing the calling: This isn’t Hogwarts; inanimate objects don’t speak in my apartment ... usually), so I’ll make this short.

Just survive this week and finals, and then you’re golden. Unless you’re graduating without a job. If that’s the case, let me say with Henry V (in the comfortable knowledge that I have four more years before I’ll have to look for a job), “Once more unto the breach, dear friends.” Good luck with, you know, life.

You’ll be fine: “I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips / Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot: / Follow your spirit, and upon this charge / Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!”

I always find Henry V inspiring, and I think quoting Shakespeare is quite the cliché.

Though I wouldn’t recommend actually charging anywhere crying “God for Harry, England, and Saint George.” But to each his or her own.

Congratulations to those of you who are graduating. It’s an impressive accomplishment, no matter how many “victory laps” it took you. I’d also like to give a special congratulations to my (crazy) friends Alex and Anne-Elise, who are graduating, marrying each other and moving to New Orleans very, very soon. Bonne chance mes amis. To everyone else, good luck with finals and have a wonderful summer.

God bless. And I’ll catch ya on the flip side.

— Leigh Dickey is a junior in global studies.

She can be reached at ldickey2@utk.edu.

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Calderon condemns new immigration law The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday condemned Arizona’s tough new immigration law as discriminatory and warned that relations with the U.S. border state will suffer.

The measure, which will make it a crime under state law to be an illegal immigrant, “opens the door to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement,” Calderon said.

Calderon said he had instructed the Foreign Relations Department to double its efforts to protect the rights of Mexicans living in the United States and seek help from lawyers and immigration experts.

“Nobody can sit around with their arms crossed in the face of decisions that so clearly affect our countrymen,” Calderon said in a speech at the Institute for Mexicans Abroad.

The Arizona law restored immigration to the forefront of U.S.-Mexico relations, which had largely been focused on deeper cooperation in the drug war.

The law, set to take effect in late July or August, will require police to question people about their immigration status if they suspect they are there illegally. Day laborers can be arrested for soliciting work if they are in the U.S. illegally, and police departments can be sued if they

don’t carry out the law.

The chief of the Organization of American States also criticized the legislation.

“We consider the bill clearly discriminatory against immigrants and especially against immigrants from Latin America,” Jose Miguel Insulza said during a visit to El Salvador.

Calderon said trade and political ties with Arizona will be “seriously affected,” although he announced no concrete measures.

Mexican politicians, church leaders and others have criticized Calderon for not taking a tougher stance against the law.

Some Mexican legislators have urged a trade boycott against Arizona, and several called the federal government’s response lukewarm.

“In Congress, we support any trade and transport boycott necessary to reverse this law,” said Oscar Martin Arce, a lawmaker from the president’s National Action Party.

Mexico is Arizona’s largest foreign market. The U.S. state sent $4.5 billion in exports to Mexico in 2009 — nearly a third of its total exports, according to the U.S. International Trade Administration.

Andres Ibarra, president of the chamber of commerce in Nogales, a Mexican

ted by illegal immigrants.

The law comes as relations between Mexico and the U.S. had been steadily warming.

Washington is a strong supporter of Calderon’s military-led offensive against drug cartels, providing training and equipment under the $1.3 billion Merida Initiative. The Obama administration has earned praise from Mexico for repeatedly acknowledging that U.S. drug consumption is a large part of the problem.

Two weeks ago, Michelle Obama chose Haiti and Mexico for her first solo trip abroad as U.S. first lady. She nurtured a friendship with Mexican first lady Margarita Zavala, a vocal advocate for thousands of Mexican children who immigrate alone to the U.S. in search of their parents and are often deported unaccompanied.

The cooperation in the drug war had largely overshadowed lingering tensions between the two countries over immigration.

The Calderon government expressed disappointment when U.S. lawmakers failed to agree in 2007 on an overhaul to the U.S. immigration system.

The Obama administration has promised to make immigration reform a priority, but the issue has taken a back seat amid the U.S. economic crisis.

city across the border from Nogales, Arizona, said he doubted the government would impose a formal trade boycott, saying it would hurt Mexico most.

Even so, he warned the immigration law would harm Arizona economically.

Ibarra said the U.S. state depends heavily on cheap labor from Mexican immigrants and any surge in deportations would make the state less competitive.

Arizona is home to an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants.

“It’s regrettable. I think this was a hasty decision that did not consider the consequences, not only for Mexicans and undocumented people from other countries but also for the Arizona economy,” Ibarra said. “Immigrants, as everyone knows, do the work that Americans don’t want to do.”

“This campaign is completely based on racism. It’s a xenophobic campaign,” he added.

Calderon said he would raise his concerns with President Barack Obama and U.S. lawmakers during a visit to Washington in May. Obama has called the Arizona law misguided and instructed the U.S. Justice Department to examine it to see if it’s legal.

Supporters of the law say it is necessary to protect Arizonans from a litany of crimes that they contend are commit-

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Film provides intriguing look at prison life

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Will Abrams Staff Writer Every once in a while it can be refreshing to look at films from across the American border to see what the rest of the world is up to. One such interesting film is the Oscar-nominated “A Prophet” from France.

The film follows the six-year prison sentence of Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) as he transforms from an innocent 19-year-old to a member of organized crime.

One of the more interesting aspects of the film’s storyline is the tension between rival groups within the setting of a French prison. The main gangs that are focused on are the Corsicans

and Arabs, but Italians peek their head in every now and then.

Like many films that focus on prison life, it is shocking to see the contrast between an average day in normal life and a day within a cell.

Throughout the film, the audience sees how the prison, as well as Malik’s associations with gangs, changes him inside out.

Drawing influence from films like “American History X” and “Scarface,” the film captures the danger of prison life and crime bosses like few other films can.

Making the situation even more intense is the excellent portrayal of Malik by Rahim. Being the central character, the film is by all means set upon his shoulders, and he keeps it up rather well.

When Malik is forced to kill one of his fellow inmates, the torment and fear that is displayed through the actor is haunting. This is important to remember throughout the film because, as the closing credits near, Malik is a very different kind of person.

Another good performance is given by Niels Arestrup who plays the leader of the Corsican gang and the man that gets Malik into organized crime in the first place. His character is one that may be calm and collected one moment, only to try and gouge out one’s eye in the next.

Director Jacques Audiard does a fantastic job in the director’s chair creating a film that feels realistic and is utterly captivating.

Action scenes seem to be all the rage with the shaky-cam technique, but with this film, it actually did its job of bringing the viewer into the film.

This is different from most other films where this technique causes audience members to for-

get that they are watching a film and create a new game of trying to make out the picture depicted on the screen. The main difference being that the operator only moves the camera naturally instead of just shaking it about as if he were trying to get the last of the ketchup out of the bottle.

Errors in the film are few and far between but one of the bigger annoyances is the film’s running time. At just over 150 minutes, audiences may be checking their watch more than once. The film is a drama focused on one man with very few action scenes (not that this should be “Transformers” or anything) and short conversations.

“A Prophet” is slow and dark at times, but it offers a view at the world of prison life that will discourage any would-be criminals from making poor choices.

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Funny ‘Losers’ tries too hard at times Will Abrams Staff Writer Since the success of “Spider-Man” and, more recently “The Dark Knight,” studio bosses have been scrambling to bring as many comic book heroes to life as possible.

Not only has this decision green-lit films for characters like Thor and Green Lantern but more unknown comic stories like “V for Vendetta.” Carrying on this tradition of lesserknown heroes, Vertigo Comics’ “The Losers” hit theaters over the weekend.

The story focuses on a special military unit, which gets betrayed by an intelligence operative only known as Max (Jason Patric) during an assignment in Bolivia. The team, consisting of five men (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, Chris Evans, Columbus Short and Oscar Jaenada) with different skill sets, decides to get some payback after a mysterious woman (Zoe Saldana) offers information on Max. When dealing with comics-turned-films, there are usually two different approaches that the film takes. There are the dark, complicated stories like Batman, then there are the more lighthearted affairs like with the “Fantastic Four” films. This film is more of the latter but without being as awful as those adaptations were.

It is important to know when first going into the film that it never takes itself too seriously.

There is a lot of humor coming from almost

every cast member, and the action is over-thetop to say the least.

Although most of this is taken in good stride, there is such a thing as trying to be a little too funny. There are a lot of genuine laughs in the film, but an out-of-place joke here and there hurts the film a little. Most of the jokes come from Evans who, as usual, plays the comic relief.

He may be good at it, but it will be interesting to see how he adapts to his newly acquired role as Captain America next year.

The best way to describe the film is an ‘80s action extravaganza of Schwarzenegger proportions for the shaky-cam generation. Unlike those films where the villain is chewing the scenery (see “Commando”), Max is actually a pretty unique character that delivers some clever lines.

Like any other action film that has both an attractive woman and an attractive man, there is the obligatory sex scene. It comes up so quickly in the film between two characters because apparently the filmmakers didn’t care about a crazy notion like scene-building. Then again, this is the same crew that has the film taking place on three continents (which are apparently within walking distance of each other).

Despite its superfluous humor and questionable camera techniques, “The Losers” really is a film that allows the audience to have fun. One only needs to check their brain at the door first.

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Thursday, Feb. 19 — The Cheeksters with Ryan Montbleau @ The Square Room 8 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 20 — Kevin Hyfantis and the Bishop’s Band with Aaron Burg @ Preservation Pub 10 p.m.

Perpetual Groove with Lotus and Orchard Lounge @ The Valarium 8 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 21 —

Tenderhooks with The Secret Lights and Matt Jones @ The Pilot Light 10 p.m.

Lucero with The Dexateens @ Barley’s Taproom 10p.m.

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Junior Kelly Grieve gets a hit earlier in a game earlier this season.

Grieve was able to get a hit in the seventh inning of the second game in this past Friday’s double header against No. 4 Florida.

Colin Skinner Staff Writer Quick, shocking, electrifying, energizing, exciting. Each of these can be used to effectively describe a lightning bolt, but more aptly, UT softball starting centerfielder Kelly Grieve.

Though only a junior, Grieve is 10th all-time at UT in batting average, hitting a solid .363 over the last two-and-a-half seasons. A native of Asheville, N.C. and

“She’s the true leader on the field. Everybody follows her leadership.”

— UT softball co-head coach Ralph Weekly on outfielder Kelly Grieve

a former player at Enka High School, Grieve brought to Knoxville an assortment of accolades, including the North Carolina 3A All-State Player of the YearWest in 2006 and a three-time all-conference selection during her high school career.

But when asked how her success is any different in high school than it has been in college, Grieve is the first to point out that coming to UT to play softball is a little bit different from the days

of high school diamonds in North Carolina.

“Oh man, it’s like night and day,” she said. “(College softball) is way more competitive. Every little thing counts. If you slide wrong, if you throw wrong, you know, one pitch could change the game. High school is not like that. You just kind of blow everybody out, and you kind of play for yourself … the competition is not that great; it’s more a lack of team effort. Here it’s more of a team effort. You’ve got to be perfect every game.”

Just how perfect has speedster Grieve been this season? In the game of softball, no consistent starter is perfect at the plate, but her numbers are nothing to mess with for an opposing pitcher.

Grieve, known as a “slap hitter” for the Vols and hitting near the top of the lineup each game, is hitting .367 this season with eight doubles, three triples, two home runs and 22 RBIs. If opposing coaches have not circled her name by now, they are in for a long day. On the basepaths this year, she has registered a whopping 20-of-23 in stolen base attempts. In the field, Grieve has scooped up a .953 fielding percentage this season and has been the vocal

leader in the outfield since opening day.

“She’s the true leader on the field,” co-head coach Ralph Weekly said.

“Everybody follows her leadership. She and (Tiffany) Huff together are the ones that are most instrumental. She is playing a great centerfield. She has some home runs in clutch situations. Just a really good player all around.”

When asked about her own leadership role, Grieve knows exactly what is expected of her and is a noticeable captain-like figure on the field for the Lady Vols.

“As a junior, you move into the leadership role,” she said. “We have a lot of freshmen, so you have to show them the way, show them how it’s done around here, the work ethic. I’m the oldest in the outfield, so it’s my responsibility to make sure the outfield is the way it needs to be, and they’re doing what they need to do.”

As for her decision to come to UT, it was no-brainer for the nominated 2010 Academic All-American.

“I’ve always wanted to come here,” she said. “It’s close to home, so everybody has always been saying ‘UT softball, UT softball.’ It’s a really respected program.”

Women’s tennis ousted by Florida at SECs Staff Reports

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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The Tennessee women’s tennis team (16-8, 8-3 SEC) fought hard but ultimately dropped a 4-1 decision to topseeded and third-ranked Florida on Sunday afternoon in the SEC Championship final.

After grinding out wins over Vanderbilt and Ole Miss on Friday and Saturday, UT just didn’t have enough left in the tank to defeat Florida.

“We played hard every day this week,” Tennessee cohead coach Mike Patrick said.

“We have to get some rest and take some time off before preparing for the NCAA Tournament.”

As they did in the first meeting of the season, the

Lady Vols pushed the Gators to the brink, forcing third sets in three singles matches and winning one in straight sets.

Florida started the afternoon by winning the doubles point thanks to wins at No. 2 and 3 doubles.

UT then evened the team score courtesy of a 6-4, 6-3 victory at No. 4 singles by Zsófia Zubor.

At third singles, Rosalía Alda lost a 6-2, 7-5 decision to 75th-ranked Marrit Boonstra, who would go on to claim tournament MVP honors.

No. 7-ranked Allie Will topped Maria Sorbello, 7-5, 62 at No. 2 singles to put the Gators within a win of clinching their 16th SEC Tournament championship in school history.

With Jennifer Meredith a late scratch from the singles lineup, Katie Lee played No. 5 and Kata Szekely stepped in at No. 6. Szekely’s match today was her first singles

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UT’s Zsófia Zubor returns a serve in a match earlier this season.

Zubor’s Lady Vols fell to top-seeded Florida in this weekend’s SEC Championship match in Athens, Ga. outing since April 9 against Florida.

She battled hard and pushed Caroline Hitimana to three sets, but ultimately UF emerged victorious, 6-1, 3-6,

6-3 to secure the crown.

Alda and Sorbello were both named to the AllTournament Team following the match.

First and fifth singles went

unfinished.

Tennessee will have a few weeks off before returning to action in the NCAA Tournament. The selection show is May 4 at 7 p.m.