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Stonewall Tigers look to expand rainbow’s reach Stonewall Tigers, a registered student organization created for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at The University of Memphis, is planning to reach out to all students, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender, this semester.

“In the past, some people have said they believed that Stonewall only focuses on gay male students,” said Kelly Gilliom, Stonewall president and junior professional writing and anthropology major. “We want students to know our focus extends to everyone, including our straight-ally friends.”

Stonewall was originally created as a means for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students to unite and discuss problems they encounter in college regarding their sexual orientation, Gilliom said.

The organization’s endeavor to reach out to a more diverse group comes after a semester in which its membership decreased “dramatically,” said Sara Shughart, senior education major and secretary for Stonewall.

Stonewall Vice President Marjorie McAuliffe said she feels driven to reach out to everyone on campus.

“We want you to come who you are, as you are,” the undecided sophomore said. “We want to move in a positive direction where everyone feels invited to take part in Stonewall.”

Though she hopes Stonewall succeeds in changing its image, she said she’s trying to keep her expectations realistic.

“It is a great new initiative and a positive change for our group, but I’m waiting to see if changes will actually be made,” she said.

Shughart said she realizes that the group needs a diverse membership to continue and hopes anyone interested in the LGBT community will consider joining Stonewall.

One of Stonewall’s many “straight allies” includes their social events planner Jackie Cooper. Cooper, a freshman vocal performance major, came to The U of M with the hopes that a gay-straight alliance would be present.

“My best friend in high school was gay,” Cooper said. “He taught me that friendship can come from anyone.”

Cooper said she joined Stonewall with the intention of making new friends from different backgrounds.

“Everyone comes to Stonewall, and all races

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BY ROBERT MOORE News Reporter

Film director and senior communications major Sam Bahre is currently writing the script for his fourth feature film, “I Filmed Your Death.” Bahre says his movies offer weird horror with a slight comedic twist.

Terror from a typewriter

UM student writes, films independent horror flicks

BY CHRIS DANIELS News Reporter

While some University of Memphis students sit in class, take notes or text their buddies, senior Sam Bahre plots his next movie.

“In all my time, whether I’m at school or anything, I’m constantly writing,” the communications major said.

“I’m always coming up with ideas for movies I’m going to make.”

Throughout the school year, Bahre writes movies, and during summer break he travels to his home in Connecticut to film them. “(My movies) are sort of just weird horror movies, but they’re also kind of comedic, and they’re also very personal too,” he said. “I always like to put a lot of myself in them. It’s kind of my own thing, I guess. They’re all pretty violent and vulgar.”

Bahre and a group of close friends have been filming shorts and feature-length movies since Bahre was 10 years old, when he received his father’s video camera. As

of 2011, he has filmed three original features.

Since 2008, Bahre has helped host film festivals for himself and his friends at a local theater in Connecticut.

“The film festivals give you the feeling of everyone coming together to watch something,” he said, “as opposed to just putting it out on YouTube and hoping that somebody sees it.”

Bahre’s first feature, “Tales of Azbest Diabla,” premiered at the 2008 festival, and he’s currently working on his “biggest movie ever,” titled “I Filmed Your Death.”

He said he hopes to raise $20,000 to fund the project.

Bahre wrote a rough draft for “I Filmed Your Death” in high school but plans to rewrite the script on a typewriter. He will spend the rest of the year finishing smaller projects he’s been working on before focusing on the feature.

“In fall of 2012, I’m going to bring some people up to Connecticut and rent out a cabin and shoot the whole movie up there,” he said.

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Speech lab offers students opportunity to polish skills

BY CHELSEA BOOZER News Reporter In the past, students stumbling and stammering through speeches for oral communication class had to chase down an impermanent speech lab if they wanted help with oration.

The lab, staffed by graduate assistants and communication teachers, has been offered to students since the fall of 2009 when Brandon Chase Goldsmith, doctoral candidate in communication, started it in lieu of teaching one of the two oral communication classes required of every

graduate teaching assistant.

Now the lab has found a permanent home in room 222 of the Engineering Science Building from noon to 6 p.m.

Mondays through Thursdays this semester until April 27.

“I proposed that I start a speech lab in place of teaching a second session,” Goldsmith said. “Dr. (Michael) Leff, the chair of our department at the time, who passed away in February 2010, said that they had been talking about starting a lab for 15 years, and he told me to make it happen.”

Goldsmith said the location as well as

his availability provided inconsistency to the lab’s schedule at first. When he was available to work with students, he had to set up wherever there was room.

Student usage of the lab has continued to increase since its inception, and eventually, students who demonstrate proficiency in the course will be staffing it, said Melody Lehn, doctoral candidate in communication.

She also said the vision of the lab is to assuage all students’ public speaking fears.

“Ideally, students taking other courses on campus will be able to utilize the

speech lab in order to sharpen their presentation skills, receive feedback, learn how to organize ideas and practice,” Lehn said.

Goldsmith said this lab is different from others because, unlike other tutoring services where staff members may be moderately knowledgeable in several subjects, the speech lab is staffed with people who teach oral communication at The U of M. “It gives (students) a chance to practice their speeches before they have to do it in

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Homecoming

What a drag!

UM Greeks dress to impress

for lady-less beauty pageant

BY TIMBERLY MOORE News Reporter

The University of Memphis’ Student Government Association has planned an evening of feminine beauty, elegance and pageantry — minus any female contestants.

Tonight at 7 in the University Center Theatre, the men of Greek life will don their finest dresses and compete for the title of womanliest man in SGA’s Womanless Beauty Pageant.

Hunter Lang, SGA president, said the event, part of this week’s homecoming festivities, is all in good fun.

“IFC did it last year, and it was a big success, so we wanted to see if we could tag on to that,”

Lang said. view. Three faculty members will escort the contestants during K’La Harrington, vice presi- serve as judges for the pageant. the formal dress portion of the Edward Waugh, IFC presi- competition. dent for SGA and pageant coordinator, said the show will feature dent, said despite the pageant’s Waugh said that “five beautiful males dressed up even as women.” though did it last year, and it it has a comiTwo of the contestants will cal element, the was a big success, so we pageant is fueled be from Zeta Beta wanted to see if we could Tau fraternity, and by a charitable the other three purpose. tag on to that.”

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Harrington said everyone working the event volunteered, and SGA’s only expenses were programming fees, food for the public and prizes for the winners. She said the total cost was no more than $85.

“We didn’t spend a whole lot on this because it’s not about that,” Harrington said. “This is about charity and giving to Operation Broken Silence. It was hard work, teaching the guys how to dance, but it was for a good cause. I think anyone should be willing to do anything for a good cause.”

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Horror

by Casey Hilder

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Doctoral candidate Brandon Chase Goldsmith is the head of the newly opened speech lab, located in room 222 of the Engineering Sciences Building. Goldsmith says the new lab will provide students struggling in speech and oral communication classes a chance to sharpen their skills.

Speech

from page 1 class, and they get advice from people teaching the actual class,” he said.

Lehn said the lab provides students with feedback from people other than their instructor.

“They get another perspective from different instructors with

different styles,” she said.

Reginald Bell, doctoral candidate in communication who has worked with students at the lab in the past, said the main issue he’s worked on with students has been focus.

“They were lacking a common theme that was necessary to bring the speech together,” he said. “The speech lab gave (students the) opportunity to put

ideas out there and to formulate them.”

Cody Belew, junior accounting major, took oral communication last semester and said the lab is a good idea for some students.

“It probably would have put nerves down a little, but I was confident in my ability to stand and speak, so it wasn’t necessary for me,” he said.

For the last two years, Bahre has been joined by U of M students John Shaw and Andrew Gafford on summer-long film sessions in Connecticut.

Gafford, junior film and video production major, served as cinematographer for Bahre’s “Under These Hills.”

He said it was “eye-opening” and that he never been part of a movie quite like it.

“It was a really fun, friendly atmosphere, but we were all very serious about it,” he said.

Bahre is a “film geek” who loves the horror genre, Gafford said.

“He’s a really smart guy who knows exactly what kind of movies he loves and tries to make those kind of movies,” he said. “He’s a really good storyteller and is able to tell those stories through pictures.”

Bahre often works on his scripts in his room, located in an addition behind his parents’ house. Other than a retro typewriter, his room is outfitted with movie posters and novels by authors including Hunter S. Thompson and Stephen King.

He described making movies as free therapy.

“Most people, when they’re hanging out with friends, they’re just drinking or whatever, which we still do, but we’d also just be making movies the whole time as well,” he said. “All our free time is taken up with me writing scripts and us shooting them.”

Cult filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman is an actor in Bahre’s “Under These Hills,” and Bahre gained on-set training while working with local director Mike McCarthy.

Directors David Lynch and Kevin Smith have been two of his major influences, Bahre said. He added that “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Eraserhead” and “Cannibal Holocaust” are among his favorite films.

Bahre is currently enrolled in professor Steve Ross’s producing and directing class and said The U of M’s film program has been a positive force in his development as a filmmaker.

Ross called Bahre an “outstanding” student who has a lot of interesting comments.

“I think very highly of Sam, and he’s always just a joy to have around,” Ross said.

“He’s obviously someone who is totally committed to making films. I have a lot of faith in Sam.” After college, Bahre said directing is the only profession he could imagine pursuing.

“It’s interesting — I notice things about myself while I’m watching my movies,” he said.

“I don’t really hold anything back and write about very personal things that people would probably be upset about.”

After “I Filmed Your Death” is completed, Bahre wants to raise money for a Memphis showing. Some of his short films can be seen on YouTube, and Bahre plans to launch his website, Azbestfilms.com, when the editing process is complete so that horror seekers will be able to get their fill, he said.

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Obama-GOP spending fight begins with high-speed rail

BY STEVEN THOMMA McClatchy Newspapers In a preview of the epic budget fight that will kick off in earnest next week, the Obama administration on Monday proposed a $53 billion plan for highspeed rail, and Republicans who control the purse strings said not so fast.

The quick clash over a relatively small item in a budget expected to total about $3.8 trillion that President Barack Obama will propose next Monday underscored how tough it could be for Obama and the Congress to agree on federal spending.

Obama wants to increase spending on such things as education, energy, research and the nation’s infrastructure. He calls them “investments” to help U.S. businesses speed goods and

information, create jobs and to lead the world in the 21st work with speeds between 125 compete against foreign rivals. century,” said Vice President Joe mph and 250 mph; regional lines where speed would be But Republicans who control Biden. the House of Representatives Biden, a regular train rider increased to 90-125 mph; and say cutting such spending — when he was a senator com- lines with speeds as much as 90 mph that not increasing would link to it — is key to pproving more money is higher-speed improving the economy. And like giving Bernie Madoff another national or regional Republicans who won gov- chance at handling your portfolio.” lines.

Outside ernor’s offices — Rep. John Mica the Northeast Wisconsin C o r r i d o r, and Ohio in U.S. Representative, R-Fla. which serves November have rejected federal money muting to and from his home the densely populated region already allocated for rail proj- in Delaware to Washington, from Washington to Boston, traveled by train Tuesday to most of Amtrak’s trains travel ects in their states.

The first clash came over the Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station no faster than 79 mph.

Biden said the spending plan White House proposal to spend to pitch the benefits of the pro$8 billion in the coming fiscal posal to build high-speed rail would build on $10.5 billion year on high-speed trains, with lines or improve speed on exist- already allocated for rail projects — $8 billion from the 2009 $45 billion more coming over ing lines. the following five years.

He said the plan would focus stimulus law and $2.5 billion in “If we do not, you tell me on three types of rail projects: last year’s budget.

“These investments are how America is going to be able a national high-speed rail net-

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already paying economic dividends in places like Brunswick, Maine, where construction workers are laying track that will provide the first rail service since the 1940s from Brunswick to Portland to Boston,” he said.

But that money was approved when the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives.

Republicans who chair key committees signaled Tuesday that the new GOP-controlled House will be much more skeptical — if not hostile — to taxpayer-subsidized rail.

Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., the chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said the first $10.5 billion was poorly allocated, mostly to projects that aren’t what he considers truly high-speed.

“Rather than focusing on the Northeast Corridor, the most congested corridor in the nation and the only corridor owned by the federal government, the administration continues to squander limited taxpayer dollars on marginal projects,” Mica said.

Approving more money, he said, “is like giving Bernie Madoff another chance at handling your investment portfolio.”

Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., the chairman of the panel’s Railroad Subcommittee, complained that the Obama administration has ignored a requirement for competition on money-losing Amtrak routes. He also said that Obama has failed to show how he has allocated money so far.

“I have no problem with sound investments in alternative transportation projects,” he said. “But selecting routes behind closed doors runs counter to the administration’s pledges of transparency. I am concerned that without appropriate controls to ensure the most worthy projects are the ones that receive funding, highspeed rail funding could become another political grab bag for the president.”

Obama also is finding it tough to sell taxpayer-financed highspeed rail beyond Congress.

In Wisconsin, newly inaugurated Republican Gov. Scott Walker said he’ll refuse $810 million from the federal government for a rail link from Milwaukee to Madison. He said it would cost the state millions more to maintain it, money the state can’t afford.

That also jeopardizes hopes for a high-speed line from Chicago to Minneapolis-St. Paul that would run through Wisconsin.

In Ohio, new Republican Gov. John Kasich said no thanks to $400 million in federal money already in the pipeline toward a rail line linking Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.

Kasich said the state couldn’t afford its designated share.

The Obama administration has reallocated the cash from Ohio and Wisconsin to other states. The largest recipients are California and Florida, getting roughly $600 million and $300 million respectively for highspeed rail projects. Other states, such as Illinois and Washington, got lesser amounts.

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BY TRACY WILKINSON Los Angeles Times Halya Lagunesse thought she knew despair. Nearly seven years ago, the soldiers who had killed her husband gang-raped the Haitian woman and her daughter Joann, who was 17 at the time.

But that pain pales in comparison to the torment of learning last March that her 5-year-old granddaughter had been raped.

The attacker gave the child about 50 cents to go and buy rice. On her way back, he intercepted her and dragged her into a cemetery.

“How did that happen? How did that happen?” Lagunesse, 50, cried, wringing her hands.

“This situation does something to their minds and makes people sick,” she said. “Their hearts are bad.”

Hers is a tragedy of rape compounded: Her granddaughter, now 6, was conceived in the gang rape of her daughter.

Rape wasn’t even considered a serious criminal offense in Haiti until five years ago.

The women who pushed for the legislation making it so also built Haiti’s first shelter for abused women. Next they hoped to make fathers legally bound to acknowledge their children and pay some support.

Haitian women are the poorest and most disenfranchised in this poorest of nations in the hemisphere. And yet, through the work

of a spirited coterie of feminist activists, real strides were being made.

Until Jan. 12, 2010.

Haiti’s cataclysmic earthquake killed hundreds of thousands, left its capital in ruins and sent more than a million people into a life in crowded, squalid camps. It also devastated a strong and surprisingly successful women’s movement, which, a year later, struggles like the rest of the nation to recover, even as women are being subjected to horrific sexual violence.

So much has been lost.

Magalie Marcelin, the indefatigable activist with the gap-toothed smile who founded one of Haiti’s most important women’s advocacy organizations, Kay Fanm was crushed to death as she mentored an aspiring feminist.

Myriam Merlet, broad-faced, cheerily abrasive and endlessly effective, whether in her position at the Women’s Ministry she helped shape or lobbying for the rape law she helped enact was killed in her home under a ton of concrete.

And there were so many more, equally and less famous, midwives, nuns and professors, peasant leaders and government officials, all who worked for women. All gone.

“It was a very big loss,” activist Danielle Saint-Lot said. “We cried together. We are mourning together.”

The young men were watching Fania Simone. They had picked her. Picked her for rape.

They went to her tent and

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seemed to know she would be alone. Her mother had left for the countryside in search of food.

Three of them. They wore masks. They threw her to the dirt floor. They kicked her in the ribs and slapped her face.

“If you tell anyone,” one of her attackers threatened, “we will kill your brother or your sister.”

After the rape, Simone, 23, sought medical attention. Then an organization that helps rape victims, Kofaviv, took her under its wing and gave her psychological counseling.

But she still lives in the plastictarp tent, and her attackers lurk, murmuring their threats, watching her. “I feel very unsafe,” said the young woman, whose bright eyes widen as she tells her story. “I have nowhere else to go. I am tortured.”

Rape has long been a scourge in Haiti. It was used as a form of political repression in 1994 and in 2004, periods of upheaval when military dictators and their brutish gangs of enforcers seized power. Men who opposed the regime were abducted and killed, women raped. An entire generation of Haitians is filled with children of rape.

The earthquake generated new shockwaves of sexual violence.

Hundreds, maybe thousands — there is no comprehensive count — have been raped. Some of the assaults are crimes of opportunity, but increasingly they seem a calculated, predatory form of stalking and attacking.

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Rape is rampant in rubble of Haitian earthquake

Halya Lagunesse, 50, recounts the rape of her 5-year-old granddaughter last March. Lagunesse, too, was raped in 2004. Rape wasn’t even considered a serious criminal offense in Haiti until 5 years ago.

Only a few of an estimated 1,300 tent encampments that are spread through this shattered capital have

nighttime lighting or significant

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World

White House decries attacks on journalists in Cairo

BY JONATHAN S. LANDAY McClatchy Newspapers Attacks on news media covering the political upheaval in Cairo reached a crescendo on Thursday, as gangs of Egyptian government loyalists clubbed, stabbed and punched dozens of journalists and security forces and military police detained others for hours.

The Obama administration condemned the “systematic targeting” of journalists, and stopped just short of accusing the government of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of directing the onslaught.

“These do not seem to be random events,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.

“There appears to be an effort to disrupt the ability of journalists to cover today’s events.”

“We need to be clear that the world is watching the actions that are being taken right now in Egypt.

The actions of targeting journalists, that is unacceptable,” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.

“And those journalists, if they are being detained, should be released immediately.”

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton complained about the attacks in a telephone call to Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the State Department said.

Several press freedom groups accused the Mubarak regime of

orchestrating the attacks, which relinquish office. denly out of nowhere, someone began several days ago with the “It may well be this in anticipa- turned on the tap.” arrest of reporters for Al-Jazeera, tion of events tomorrow,” Crowley There were numerous accounts the Arab satellite news channel. said. “We are bracing for ... the real of Mubarak loyalists prowling the “The systematic and sustained prospect of a confrontation.” streets punching, kicking and stealattacks ... leave no doubt that a “One of the possible reasons is ing the equipment of the journalgovernment-orchestrated effort to that they don’t want eyes and ears ists they caught. The opposition target the media and suppress the in Tahrir Square,” Ashraf Khalil, charges that many of regime supnews is well under way,” said Joel a U.S.-born Egyptian freelance porters are plainclothes police.

Simon, the executive director of journalist who was punched and A number of journalists were the New York-based Committee to roughed up with three American injured Wednesday and Thursday, Protect Journalists. including a Greek Several interjournalist who national and rior to (Thursday), there had was reportedly Egyptian human stabbed with a rights activists been isolated incidents of journal- screwdriver. monitoring the turMany journalists being treated aggressively. moil were arrested ists were forced to But suddenly out of nowhere, in a raid by securihole up in hotels. ty forces on a legal Egyptian secusomeone turned on the tap.” center, accordrity forces and mil— Ashraf Khalil ing to Human itary police arrestFreelance journalist Rights Watch ed reporters and and Amnesty photographers.

International. and British colleagues, said in a The Washington Post said The surge in attacks came a day telephone interview from Cairo. that military police held its Cairo after the news media transmitted There’s no doubt, he continued, reporter, Leila Fadel, and a photogdramatic video, photographs and that the government was behind rapher, Linda Davidson, for hours accounts score of Mubarak loyal- most of the assaults on the news Thursday before releasing them. ists attacking anti-government pro- media.

But the newspaper’s longtime tests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the “The smoking gun that it is Egyptian translator and its driver center of the 10-day revolt against coordinated is just the sheer num- are still believed to be in custody, the Egyptian leader. ber of incidents that came out of it said.

The news media crackdown the blue,” said Khalil, who writes Fadel, a former McClatchy fueled fears that the regime was for the Times of London and the Newspapers foreign correspontrying to stifle coverage ahead of a U.S.-based Foreign Policy maga- dent, said she and Davidson fresh assault by Mubarak support- zine’s website. “Prior to today, weren’t mistreated but that their ers to prevent a massive gathering there had been isolated incidents driver was beaten. The two women called there for Friday, the oppo- of journalists being roughed up were handcuffed, blindfolded and sition’s deadline for Mubarak to or treated aggressively. But sud- interrogated about their activities

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and required to sign a statement summarizing what they had said, Fadel told Washington Post Foreign Editor Douglas Jehl by telephone after her release.

At one point, she said, their guards threatened to shoot members of the group if they talked.

The New York Times said two of its reporters were detained overnight and released on Thursday.

The Broadcasting Board of Governors, the U.S. agency that oversees U.S. civilian foreign broadcasting services, said unidentified individuals entered the bureau of its Arabic-language television network Alhurra “and threatened to kill Alhurra’s two on-air journalists ... if they didn’t leave the building. The bureau was immediately closed.”

“In addition, a pamphlet circulating currently throughout Cairo calls for government supporters to attack Alhurra and Al-Jazeera journalists,” it said.

Khalil said he thinks that the people who punched and jostled him and his colleagues while they were conducting interviews outside Tahrir Square were ordinary citizens “whose nerves were frayed from 10 days of their lives being disrupted.”

They may also have been incited by reports by state-run media and pro-government private outlets blaming “foreign media” for the turmoil, he said.

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International academic progress leaves U.S. in dust ANNE MICHAUD Newsday In these days of tiger-mother hysteria about raising children with academic backbone, President Barack Obama has weighed in with yet another cause for paranoia. The president dropped India and China into his State of the Union speech, just long enough to say they are educating their children earlier and longer.

Generally, school days are longer in Asian countries, and vacation breaks, though more frequent, are shorter — no more than five weeks in summer. Subjects are introduced earlier. South Korean parents, for example, insisted that President Lee Myung-bak recruit more English teachers, so that kids could begin language lessons in the first grade.

Research supports these measures as important to kids’ learning. Few educators would disagree that more time on task and shorter intervals away from the classroom are beneficial.

Obama’s clear implication is that if we want to keep up, to hold on to a place of prosperity in an increasingly competitive world, we should be considering these things.

Americans have one of the shortest school years on the planet. Our kids attend school for 180 days each year, while Germany and Japan average 230 days. In South Korea — where teachers are hailed as “nation builders” — school is in session for 225 days each year.

By the time American students reach eighth grade, they’ve spent roughly 400 fewer days in school. So there’s a lot of pressure on teachers to cover subjects in a shorter time, and in less depth.

Not coincidentally, perhaps, middle school is where American students begin to fall behind their global peers. By high school, among 30 developed nations, U.S. students rank 15th in reading, 21st in science, 25th in math and 24th in problem-solving.

People who study these trends, like Education Secretary Arne Duncan, believe that the United States has stood still while others have moved past us. In an October speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Duncan said, “Here in the United States, we simply flat-lined. We stagnated.

We lost our way, and others literally passed us by.”

So while people of my generation might say to ourselves, “We didn’t know much math, and we turned out OK,” we’d be missing the point. The rest of the world

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is changing. We need to prepare our children for a knowledge economy.

It’s not entirely bad for Americans that other countries are growing wealthier and better educated. Having a market for our products abroad is essential to our economic growth, and an educated world is a safer one.

But we don’t want to be left behind. Some U.S. schools have

been experimenting with more time in the classroom. Roughly 1,000 schools — including 800 charters and about 200 traditional district schools — have expanded their schedules by more than one to two hours a day, according to the National Center on Time and Learning.

KIPP Academy, one charter success story that started in the Bronx, requires parents to

sign a contract saying they will not pull kids out for a family vacation.

Expect to see more of this.

As Congress moves to reauthorize and rework No Child Left Behind, the Obama administration is pushing for flexibility for school districts to break from established norms.

In November, the New York State School Boards Association

advocated a longer school day and year “where it will serve students well.”

Midafternoon dismissal times and long summer breaks are impractical holdovers from an agrarian past — increasingly so, as more homes are led by single parents or two working parents. It’s time to dust off those problem-solving skills and put them back to work.

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World

The day Egypt’s fear dissolved: inside a national protest

BY JEFFREY FLEISHMAN AND AMRO HASSAN Los Angeles Times Police radios crackled with panic the day President Hosni Mubarak’s grip on the nation was shattered.

Reinforcements didn’t arrive.

Tear gas ran out. Arms grew weary from swinging batons.

And so it was with a rush and

a push on that last Friday in January that tens of thousands of protesters advanced and the momentum, like a tide pulled unexpectedly in another direction, changed.

The miscalculations and crossed signals of Jan. 28, a day that one police captain calls “Black Friday,” marked the unthinkable: Mubarak’s 30-year-long reviled police

state was overrun by Egyptians no longer intimidated by the sound of boots and the glare of shields.

It was a stunning scene that energized the protest movement and has left Mubarak facing daily demonstrations as international and domestic pressure intensifies for him to step down.

If police had held their lines that day, the outcome might

have been much different.

“The cops on the ground got spooked and it quickly turned to chaos,” said Ayman, a police captain who asked that his last name not be used because he is not authorized to speak to the media. “The Interior Ministry didn’t have a Plan B. They didn’t think it would get out of hand.

“The hate from protesters was raw. Word came down for police to disappear, to find any spot where they weren’t a target in their uniforms. They were left on their own.”

That was the day “Egyptians sprang back to life,” said Sahar Mougi, a protester in Tahrir.

“We had been dead for three decades. We rediscovered our confidence, our ability to change. Over the last seven days we’ve learned how to say no to injustice.”

The miscues began a few days earlier, when the April 6th youth movement called for a protest on Tuesday, a national holiday to honor police officers.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and other cities. Then, following two days of sporadic clashes between security forces and roving young men, the second protest was called Friday as police rushed to stem a gathering revolt.

Those days were crucial to the protest movement that had been organized through Facebook, text messages and word of mouth. Historically, demonstrations against the government were suppressed quickly. The tenor was different this time. Hours before morning prayers on Jan. 28, security forces cut off the Internet and cell phone networks. By then it was too late.

“The Interior Ministry knew days before how big the protests might get,” said another police captain, Ramy, who also would speak only on the condition that his last name not be used. “There was intelligence coming. Tunisia had just happened. But the political leadership played it down like it was going to be another small Egyptian protest. The police have been made the scapegoat.”

Even so, it was hard to know what would later unravel as dusk fell over the capital that day and protesters swelled into Tahrir Square while police retreated, confused, scared and adrift.

Ayman arrived at a command center near the presidential palace. Ramy was stationed at the Foreign Ministry. Both captains described the security forces’ inability to contain what was a largely peaceful demonstration punctuated by gangs throwing stones and fire bombs.

Ramy hunkered down with 35 other street cops and officers as a crowd of about 2,000, mostly teenagers and young men, many with faces hidden behind scarves, approached the Foreign Ministry from three directions. The police fired tear gas and the crowd, Ramy said, responded with Molotov cocktails and rocks.

“We retreated to the Foreign

Ministry for shelter,” he said.

“We ran out of tear gas and ammunition. We only had one gun that shot rubber bullets. The other police with me fled. I wasn’t in their unit. I didn’t know where to go. I was alone without any protection.

I walked for four hours. Police stations were being attacked across the city. It was a catastrophic picture.”

Police stations, said the captains, were targeted systematically. Files and computers were stolen to wipe out the records of criminals and political prisoners, including many from the Muslim Brotherhood.

The captains said the culprits could have been any of a number of police enemies: the Brotherhood, opposition groups or even members of the ruling party. Weapons were looted, leaving police, many of whom fled the stations, without backup firepower.

That became critical, they said, hours later when police trying to hold back protestors called for reinforcements that didn’t respond.

But what overwhelmed the police more than anything was 30 years of pent-up rage.

Security forces are despised for corruption, torture, false arrest and intimidation. The face of Mubarak’s repressive rule, they are a network of undercover agents, informants and street officers drafted from the provinces, who earn as little as $40 a month.

The rattled government made another tactical mistake last week when it dispatched hoodlums to assault peaceful demonstrators in Tahrir Square.

Such images pricked a restive Middle East. If the toppling of the Tunisia regime last month inspired Egyptians to rise up, then it is the Egyptians, who for decades had appeared complacent, who are now inspiring the masses in Jordan, Yemen and other countries to overthrow the once seemingly intractable icons of Arab power.

Eight days after Black Friday, anti-government protesters still hold Tahrir Square, repelling fading attacks by ruling party thugs wielding machetes and brandishing battered road signs. On Saturday, the army began tightening the perimeter of the square and limiting protesters from entering in efforts to establish order across downtown Cairo. Tahrir Square over the last week has had the feel of a medieval battleground, streaked with blood, littered with barricades and echoing, at times, with the sound of a man breaking rocks for ammunition with a sword.

The coming days will test allegiances within and without Mubarak’s inner circle.

The protest movement, while emboldened, is a force without a solidifying personality and lacking an agenda other then toppling Mubarak. Opposition leader and Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei has risen as a symbolic figure — or at least the one appearing most in the Arabic and Western news media.

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Monaghan reloads with 13 signees for 2011-’12 Despite loss of key players from last year’s squad, Tigers look for their fifth consecutive C-USA championship, sign 2010 Quebec Female Player of Year

BY JOHN MARTIN Sports Editor When University of Memphis women’s soccer coach Brooks Monaghan lost five players to graduation last season, he lost the nucleus of the winningest women’s soccer team in U of M history.

This offseason, he’s doing his best to create a new one.

While Monaghan has signed a total of 13 players in the 2011 recruiting class, The U of M has only officially announced five so far.

The five official signees are forward Kylie Davis, midfield-

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and religions are invited to come because we want to have a very diverse group,” she said.

Events this semester aim to unite LGBT and straight communities.

The group will hold a discussion about safe sex tonight at 8 in the University Center Bluff Room.

“We will discuss all of the different ways you have sex and how to make sure all of those practices are safe,“ McAuliffe said.

The program, which focuses on healthy sexual behavior for all students, will provide free condoms to participants and feature a speech from a Planned Parenthood representative.

Future Stonewall events include Ally Appreciation Night on Feb. 16, also in the Bluff Room.

Gilliom said Stonewall plans to use this opportunity to celebrate the allies who have contributed to the group by throwing them a party.

“Not only do we plan to focus on all LGBT students, but we also want to place an emphasis on our allies who are not in the LGBT community but whose help we need,” she said. “We wouldn’t be where we are if it wasn’t for our allies.”

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er/defender Alex Craig, midfielder Sarah Daane, goalkeeper McCall Gardner and defender Sam Watson.

The 2011-’12 signing class will be expected to fill the gaping void the seniors left for next season. Before they graduated, the upperclassmen led The U of M to four straight Conference USA championships.

Davis, who is from Quebec, Canada, was named the 2010 Quebec Female Player of the Year. She was also on the U17 Canadian team that claimed the 2010 CONCACAF Championship.

“Kylie is a player who is very

skillful with a great work rate,” Monaghan said. “She is a very technical player who reads the game extremely well. We expect her to contribute right away.”

Craig is also a Canada native and played for the U18 Alberta squad. She earned a silver medal in the Women’s Major League National Championship in 2010.

“She is not somebody who is overly flashy, but she gets the job done,” Monaghan said. “She is a big presence and good in the air. We believe Alex will come in here and give us depth in several key positions.”

Monaghan added that he would use Craig and Daane

largely in the same capacity and expects both players to contribute heavily. Daane hails from Phoenix and was an all-state midfielder at Northgate High.

Monaghan was very pleased with the coup of Gardner, who was a member of the 2007 U.S. Olympic Development Program Georgia state team.

Gardner will join The U of M’s roster below four seniors on the depth chart, but Monaghan said she will succeed if she works hard.

“McCall is a player we look at as our future,” he said. “As long as she brings the right mentality, she will have a very bright future

here.”

The most recent signee is Sam Watson, a defender out of Dallas.

Watson led Flower Mound High School to the semifinals in 2008 and was a captain on the club squad FC Dallas.

“Sam is a player we expect to come in and make an immediate impact,” Monaghan said. “She is very mature, and she is someone we think can be a great leader for us down the road. She has a ton of potential, and she is only going to make us that much better in the back.”

The U of M will officially announce the remaining eight signees in the next week.

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BY JOHN MARTIN Sports Editor If The University of Memphis men’s basketball team has learned anything this season, it’s that a few weeks can make a world of difference.

Junior forward Wesley Witherspoon underwent meniscus surgery for his knee Dec. 10 after U of M’s 81-68 loss to Kansas. He was supposed to be out five weeks.

Instead, he returned Dec. 23 in an 86-69 loss to then-No. 9 Georgetown. Three weeks later, following a 64-58 loss at Southern Methodist, Witherspoon was suspended for conduct detrimental to the team for two games.

He hasn’t played since Jan. 12 due to knee soreness.

Jan. 15, the Tigers (17-6, 5-3 Conference USA) trounced the Marshall Thundering Herd, 77-61, at FedExForum. U of M coach Josh Pastner experimented with the tandem of senior forward Will Coleman and freshman forward Tarik Black, who combined for 31 points and 20 rebounds.

Two weeks later, in Huntington, W. Va., the same duo that torched the Herd on Jan. 15 was rendered half-useless in a blowout loss, 85-70. Black finished with 14 points and five rebounds, but his senior counterpart played only 11 minutes.

Whereas Pastner was exploiting Marshall’s big men at

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Tonight, the Tigers, who sit at third place in C-USA, face the Central Florida squad they upended, 77-61, two weeks ago. In their Jan. 26 matchup at FedExForum, the Tigers limited UCF junior guard Marcus Jordan, the team’s leading scorer, to 13 points on 3-of-11 shooting.

They torched C-USA’s best scoring defense, which had only allowed 60 points per game, for 77 points. They forced 22 turnovers in one of their best defensive efforts of the season.

Freshman guard Will Barton, rather than throwing flashy nolook passes, stuck to his fundamentals and scored a game-high 17 points.

Against the Knights two weeks ago, the Tigers looked as if they had reached a new milestone.

But for the Tigers, whose season has unfolded in a series of up-and-down weeks, tonight’s matchup at UCF Arena in Orlando, Fla., is as much of an enigma as the team itself.

“Our backs are against the wall,” Pastner said. “We responded on Saturday (in a 62-58 win at Gonzaga), but can we put multiple games together? That’s going to be the challenge — can we have a stretch where we’re hot? I believe we can be on a hot streak.

I really believe it. But we’ve got to continue to do things.”

Tonight would be a good time for the Tigers to get on a roll.

They’re entering an eight-game stretch that includes rematches with UAB and Southern Miss and the lone bout against C-USAleading UTEP in El Paso.

A favorable record in the

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Tigers’ matchup with UCF carries air of uncertainty

University of Memphis freshman guard Will Barton had a game-high 17 points against Central Florida on Jan. 26. The Tigers’ rematch with the Knights tips off at 6 p.m. at UCF Arena in Orlando, Fla. home stretch would improve a seven-game losing streak the Tigers’ RPI — rated No. 46 and are dead last in the C-USA currently — and their at-large standings.

NCAA tournament berth chancWhile the Knights had an RPI es, which are currently shaky at as high as 15 earlier this season, best with losses to SMU in Dallas, Marshall in ur backs are Huntington and Tulsa at home. against the wall. We “The way for us responded on Saturday, to get an at-large (bid is that) we’ve but can we put multiple got to win games,” games together? That’s Pastner said. “It’s a bottom line. You going to be the chalwin, you put yourlenge — can we have a self in a chance to be in the NCAA stretch when we’re hot?” tournament. You don’t win, then — Josh Pastner you know who Coach you’ve got to blame? You’ve got to blame yourselves.”

UCF was ranked as high as it has since plummeted to No. 85 No. 18 earlier in the season, but in the country. the Tigers can hardly afford a “It helps that they’re fresh on slip-up against them tonight. our minds, I guess you could The Knights (14-7, 1-7) are on say,” Coleman said. “So me and Tarik won’t have to do too much fretting or worrying.”

While the Tigers’ minds may be fresh, their bodies are not.

Witherspoon is still out due to knee soreness. Junior guard Charles Carmouche returned to the lineup against Gonzaga on Feb. 5 after missing one game with a sore knee. Freshman guard Antonio Barton sprained his ankle last week against Tulsa.

The most important thing, freshman forward Tarik Black said, is that the players take care of themselves and play through the nagging injuries. Eight Tigers currently average 25 minutes or more per game.

“Lately, we’ve been short because we have a couple of people injured and out. That might have been a good thing for the fact that we won most of our games with them missing, and now they’re coming back fresh,” Black said. “It was (also) kind of a bad thing because now we have to work them back into the rotation. It’s just about keeping our bodies fresh because as young players, we’re starting to learn now how important that really is.”

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BY GREG KOT Chicago Tribune The news that the White Stripes broke up Wednesday really didn’t come as a shock to anyone. It had been four years since their last studio album and tour, but it still prompted an outpouring of social-media grief.

The Stripes, of course, are a duo consisting of Jack and Meg White, once a married couple who carried on long after their divorce to make some of the best music of the last decade. They had been together for 13 years, released six acclaimed studio albums and put on consistently galvanizing live shows.

The duo announced their break-up on the whitestripes. com Website, saying they would make no more new recordings and no longer perform live.

Fans hoping for a tipping-point motivation for the timing of this announcement were left hanging. There were no “artistic differences” or health problems, the duo wrote. “Mostly,” they said, they are breaking up now “to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band and have it stay that way.”

My Twitter response Wednesday to the announce-

ment was this: “Stinks White Stripes are gone, but love that they exited while on top, with no cash-in tour. Jack and Meg integrity meter trending upward.”

And make no mistake, the White Stripes could’ve cashed in. Had they announced a reunion or farewell tour for this summer in a concert industry starved for big-name acts, they would’ve been lavished with offers and played to the largest audiences of their career.

Instead, they simply walked away.

So is that going out “on top”? More than a few people questioned my assertion. A few wondered why the duo hadn’t just broken up years ago. They speculated about why the White Stripes let things drag on this long, before finally declaring the inevitable. Wouldn’t going out on top mean making a great album, following it with a triumphant tour, and then marching off into the sunset immediately afterward?

Indeed, nothing the duo did in the last few years suggested there was much of a future for the White Stripes. Meg White’s health issues had prompted the group to curtail what would be its final tour in 2007, and Jack White had occupied himself with

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other groups (the Raconteurs, the Dead Weather) and other projects (running his Third Man label out of Nashville and producing albums for the likes of Wanda Jackson) that strongly indicated the White Stripes were no longer a priority.

But Jack and Meg White never once treated the White Stripes as an afterthought. Each of their albums was strong, and their last studio release, “Icky Thump,” was among their best. The tour that followed made for riveting theater. The old show-biz adage is to leave the audience wanting more, and the White Stripes did just that. Most fans’ last memories of the White Stripes will be of a band in peak form.

It’s little wonder. The Stripes were meticulous about how they presented themselves and their music — from the redand-white color schemes of their clothes to the two-againstthe-world sound of the songs — even if it sometimes came across as loose, rough and spontaneous. And that careful approach survived through their breakup. Meg and Jack White never rushed into an artistic decision in their career, and they weren’t about to do it as they were ending their musical life together.

We’ll probably never know much more about why the band splintered outside of those few paragraphs on their Website.

They’ve always been extremely guarded in interviews about their relationship. But Jack White once described “tension” as one of the band’s guiding principles, and once you accept that, this announcement makes

sense.

In concert, the interaction between Jack White’s vocals and guitar and the way Meg White answered him on drums was as snappy, witty and cutting as the dialogue in a Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall movie. Play out the scene a little further, and anything from a kiss to a gun could be produced.

Meg White took a lot of heat for not being a particularly accomplished drummer, at least technically. But she was the perfect drum- Jack and Meg White give an impromptu mer for the White concert to fans on a bus in Winnipeg, Stripes, listening Manitoba, Canada. to and playing off The music offered a glimpse Jack White better than any other human being on of this relationship, but only the planet could have. The body a glimpse. In a rare private language, the glances between moment captured in “The White the two, were a theater all their Stripes: Under Great Northern own. That’s why the element I Lights” tour DVD released will miss most about the band last year, Jack White sits backis not the recordings, great as stage at a piano playing “White many of them are, but the live Moon,” a ghostly song of obsesperformances. The “tension” sion. Meg sits silently next to that Jack White spoke of was him, head bowed, mouthing real, and it could be revealed in some of the words. There is a a smile, a smirk, a flick of Jack’s glance from Jack, and then Meg hip or the way Meg came crash- begins to cry. The song ends, ing down on a cymbal with just but the tears do not, and the a little extra force to punctuate couple clings to one another, in no hurry to let go. one of Jack’s lyrics.

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police presence. Tents do not have doors or locks. People are jammed together in dehumanizing density without privacy.

Social networks and family unity have been destroyed by death and flight; children are often alone and unsupervised as their parents, if they have them, spend days searching for sustenance. The institutions of law and order, to the extent they ever had influence, have crumbled.

Young women are easy prey for uneducated, unemployed men who populate the camps, often stoned and with time on their hands. They see women and girls as fair game. Many women have denounced camp leaders, always male, for demanding sexual favors in return for tents, food and building materials.

Activists are now bracing for a jump in teen pregnancies and HIV and AIDS cases, whether from rape or unprotected sex, since clinics that dispensed birth control and advice were also destroyed. The United Nations estimates that Port-au-Prince needs at least 1,000 maternal-care clinics. There are 10.

“We started receiving reports of rapes from the very first day after the quake,” said Jocie Philistin, one of the women who run Kofaviv.

“At first we thought, this can’t be true! But it was.”

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