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Texas-based indie rock group Dignan performs Thursday night at the Hi-Tone Cafe as part of the Fareveller Music Festival. The band is one of 36 performing at Young Avenue Deli, Newby’s, P&H Cafe and the Hi-Tone this weekend.

Former, current UM students organize indie music festival for Memphis BY Chris Shaw News Reporter When University of Memphis graduate Brandon Herrington decided to organize a three-night, four-venue, 36-band music festival, he had one word in mind — diversity. “I knew I wanted a lot of different types of music represented,” he said. “I’ve played in bands for the past 10 or 12 years and toured cities that had awesome indie music festivals, which is something

I think Memphis has always lacked.” The inaugural Fareveller Music Festival began Thursday night and runs through Saturday. Herrington said the lineup is so diverse — ranging from local hip-hop artist Cities Aviv to punk rockers Modern Convenience — he decided to schedule four or five bands of the same genre to play at the same location to make the festival more fan-friendly. He said he liked the idea of keeping genres together, rather than making them listen to music they don’t care for in order to

see the group they want. “At festivals like Memphis in May, they force you to walk all the way across the park to see the next band you want to see,” Herrington said. “Of course, they do this because they want you to buy beer and merchandise, but I don’t want people driving across the city all night long. Plus, I think people are going to be more excited to see four bands of the same style right in a row.”

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The fifth annual Canstruction competition, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, kicks off at 9 a.m. today in the lobby of the Engineering Administration Building. Started in 2006 by University of Memphis assistant professor Stephanie Ivey, the competition has donated over 50,000 pounds of food to the Memphis food bank. Though the main goal of the competition is to raise food for hungry Memphians, high school students who participate aren’t merely stacking cans on top of one another. Carol Dodge, an organizer of the event and chair of ASCE’s younger members’ faction, said she has seen can constructions of everything from the Scooby Doo Mystery Wagon to a giant King Kong — aptly named “King Can.” Students must follow strict guidelines when constructing their can creations, and materials like permanent adhesive are prohibited. Participants can win in the following categories: Best Meal, for which only cans of healthy food can be used; Jurors’ Favorite, for best use of labels; Structural Ingenuity; and Honorable Mention. The winners of the competition will compete internationally via the submission of photos to a panel of jurors that meets at the SDA/AIA National Convention every spring. The winning sculptures will be on display in the building until March 31.

BY Kyle LaCroix News Reporter Baseballs, bats, gloves, cleats and other items associated with America’s pastime cover the floor, desk and tables in Mary Anne Caldwell’s office. “It’s a little crazy how much baseball equipment is in here,” she said. Caldwell, instructor of sociology at The University of Memphis, is collecting baseball equipment for her church’s mission trip to Barahona province in the Dominican Republic. She has offered extra credit to students

who bring her their old equipment for more than a month and said her students’ generosity has gone beyond just receiving extra points. “I only offered extra credit on the first 10 items they brought, but some students have brought more than they need to for the extra credit,” Caldwell said. “Some people brought stuff from their attics or basements, some went to thrift stores and some even bought new things.” “The Dominican Republic has an obsession with baseball,”

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UM sociology instructor has balls to the wall for the Dominican Republic

A plethora of baseball accessories lines the walls of Mary Anne Caldwell’s office. The equipment was donated by students from Caldwell’s three classes in the sociology department.

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BY Roy Wenzl McClatchy Newspapers Scientists along Buttermilk Creek north of Austin, Texas, have found flint knife blades, chisels and other human artifacts lying in a soil layer nearly 16,000 years old — a discovery they say will rewrite a major chapter of ancient human history. For one thing, it is now the oldest and arguably most credible site of human occupation in North or South America; but there’s more. The discovery, by Texas A&M archaeologist Michael Waters and others, pushes back by 2,500 years the time when traditional science thought humans entered the New World from Siberia and founded the native peoples of North and South America. “This discovery ought to be like a baseball bat to the side of the head,” to past theories, Waters said. Other ancient sites in the Americas usually produce only handfuls of artifacts, in soils with ages that scientists argue about.

This site contained tools in layer after layer of soils stacked like layer cake, the youngest from modern times, the oldest layer containing 15,000 artifacts dated to 15,500 years ago. The discovery strengthens the case for two theories that traditional archaeologists laughed at not long ago — that the first Americans came earlier than 13,000 years ago, and that they didn’t walk over a land bridge into North America from Siberia, but came by skin boats at least 16,000 years ago (or long before) skirting along coastlines of the Aleutian Islands and then Alaska, Canada and America. Waters believes they came by boat, hunting seals beside Ice Age glaciers a few miles at a time, surviving Ice Age weather, bringing families and pet dogs. He thinks the first colonies in America sprouted tens of thousands of years ago along the Columbia River basin between Washington and Oregon, a region he said archaeologists should re-explore with renewed vigor. This story is important to all

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Rolfe Mandel, a geo-archaeologist from the University of Kansas, digs into “buried soil” on a cutbank near Kanarado, Kansas. Mandel was looking for signs of Paleo Indians in the area during the Ice Age. of us, he said; most Americans think Columbus should be taught in schools; but the first discovery

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entists have spent decades trying to get right, including with dig sites in Kansas. The first Americans, or Paleo Indians, were the first to explore the Rockies and Andes, the Mississippi, the Amazon. They were first to see giant elephants and bison roaming Ice Age Kansas. They dodged everything from giant Dire wolves, giant short-faced bears, saber-toothed cats and American lions. They took heroic risks — hunted elephants with spears, at arms’ length; taste-tested possibly lethal plants to find which were good as food or medicine; hunted with grannies and children not only coming along but driving herds into hunter ambushes. “One thought that deeply touches my sense of wonder is that they didn’t really have to migrate once they got here,” Waters said. “Everywhere they would go, they’d find a land empty of people, with huge amounts of resources. And yet they migrated all the way to the tip of South America, and the only explanation is the relentless human spirit of adventure. And they were bringing not only their wives and elderly but their pregnant wives and their babies.”

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Libya: Rebels with a cause, but little else

Rebel fighters who once vowed to seize Tripoli from Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi instead have retreated from their forward positions to defend their homes, saying their rebel council isn’t leading them, they don’t trust their military commanders and their army is divided. Days of interviews throughout Libya’s rebel-dominated eastern half provide a grim picture of the group whose side the United States and its coalition partners have taken in a fight whose goal, if unstated, is to drive Gadhafi from power after 42 years. The rebels hardly seem ready to take the lead. Rather than strive to win the war and take back cities lost to Gadhafi over the last 10 days, rebel fighters say they simply want to defend their homes, figure out who’s friend or foe, and regroup. Hopes of a new constitutional, democratic Libya that drove the rebellion a month ago appear moribund, dashed by the ease with which Gadhafi forces entered this city a week ago. Residents here openly acknowledge that Gadhafi loyalists would have taken the city had French aircraft not bombed loyalist tanks. This poses a major challenge to the U.S. and its Western allies, which have mounted airstrikes to cripple Gadhafi’s air force but are reluctant to send in ground troops in support of the rebels. NATO agreed Thursday night to take control over enforcement of the no-fly zone from the U.S. — which had been acting as the lead player — but even with the handover, a U.S. general is likely to remain in command, American officials said. The realization that they could have been so quickly overwhelmed has forced the rebels to confront the weaknesses of the council that claims to be their government and of the rebel fighting force itself. Perhaps most unnerving was the discovery that hundreds, if not thousands, of Gadhafi sympathizers were among them. During the loyalist attack, rebels here say, men in civilian clothes

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A noted political scientist said Thursday that Libyan tribal affiliations aren’t likely to play a divisive role in the post-Gadhafi era. He cited the example of the Wall of Martyrs in Benghazi, Libya, which includes pictures of Libyans from many different clans. came out of their Benghazi homes and attacked the city along with Gadhafi forces charging in from the south. Rebels said they sus-

pect other infiltrators have spied on them from the frontline. “We don’t have an army,” said Lt. Saleh Ibrahim, a former res-

taurateur who is now supposed to be a rebel commander. “We have been betrayed by infiltrators on the frontline. And when

Benghazi came under attack, our government fled to Egypt. We are not safe here. For me, at least I will defend my family.” In Egypt and Tunisia, where popular protests forced the resignation of longtime leaders, the military that assumed power had been a key part of the governing structure. That’s not true in Libya, where everything has hinged on Gadhafi for decades. Opponents inside the country were arrested or worse, and those who fled the country have never coalesced into a firm opposition group. The result is apparent in the east, where anti-Gadhafi forces lack organization and structure. Elder statesmen are now in charge of a movement that was initially driven by angry youth, and they’re still figuring out how to govern. They face not only international uncertainty about who they are, but domestic pressures as well. On the front lines in the city of Ajdabiya, the last major city

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from page 4 before Benghazi, the few remaining rebels are poorly armed, some with no more than knives, and without any leader. Most rebels that were there have returned to Benghazi to set up neighborhood watch groups, using the last of their remaining weapons. At the 7th of April Army base here, a major rebel army headquarters, Ibrahim, 57, says any appearance of organization is illusory. He said he’s too embarrassed to invite reporters inside because, he said, he doesn’t want the world to see “all the rubbish we have.” A tank leaving the base isn’t on its way to war, he said, but to pull a civilian car from a ravine. A rusted tank returning will be pillaged for parts. “All the tanks here are for show only. We don’t have ammunition. We don’t have weapons. We don’t have anything,” he said, the exasperation evidence in his voice.

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He openly distrusts the man who had, until Thursday, been charged with running the rebel army, Abdel Fatah Younes, Gadhafi’s former interior minister, who defected last month. Until then, he’d spent nearly five decades at Gadhafi’s side, including playing a key role in the 1969 revolution against King Idris, which brought the then 27-yearold Gadhafi to power. Ibrahim said the rebels should have prosecuted Younes for his crimes during the regime, not chosen him as their leader. He’s not the only person Ibrahim doesn’t trust. “Let’s be frank,” Ibrahim said, pointing to a soldier standing next to him. “This guy standing beside me could be a traitor. I don’t know. I don’t know him.” On Thursday, Younes was replaced and a new commander, Khalifa Huftur, was appointed, the third rebel army leader in less than a month. Younes, however, will stay on as Huftur’s chief of staff, according to Air Force Col. Ahmed Omar Bani, the rebels’ new military spokesman.

At a news conference, Bani conceded that there’s no army to defend Benghazi, much less march on Tripoli. He said the army would need “weeks” of training, though he also said he didn’t know who’d provide the training or the weapons. The greatest resource for tracking the enemy, he added later, is Google Earth. A drive through Benghazi’s port turns up no forces guarding it, and checkpoints on the main highways into the city are rare. The newly created rebel governing council pleads for more time. They said they’re former orthodontists, businessmen and professors, not politicians. But for those returning from the frontline, that only sounds like excuses. A council spokesman, Mustafa Geriani, says it’s unfair to expect more. “We are not talking about a country here. We are only 5 weeks old.” Added Eman Bugaighis, another rebel council spokesman: “I think Afghanistan has institutions better than ours. We don’t

have anything.” Among those who’ve left the frontlines to defend his home is 19-year-old Ayub al-Mehdu, who was part of the initial rebel push into Ajdabiya, Brega, Ras Lanouf and Bin Jawad, all communities since lost to Gadhafi forces. His job was to pick up the dead bodies, almost always stripped for weapons, he said. Along the way, he lost his best friend, also a rebel

fighter. The mild-mannered young man with the tiny frame returned to Benghazi three days ago, He says he’s planning to buy smuggled weapons near the Egyptian border. In the meantime, he and his friends stand outside the neighborhood and stop cars, particularly those from Tripoli, and search them for possible infiltrators. His reasons for leaving are pretty simple, he said. There’s an internal strife between Special Forces, many of whom are former military officers, and the rebels, a majority of whom had never fired a weapon until last month. The Special Forces feel the rebels are slowing them down; the rebels don’t trust the Special Forces and want to defend the movement they started. Both groups are ill equipped to confront Gadhafi’s better armed forces. The rebel council hasn’t done much for him, other than provide food to fighters, he said. “It’s useless,” he explained. His friend and fellow fighter, Mohammed Saleh Ojadee, 23, a mechanic shop owner turned rebel fighter, offers a more ominous prediction. He said he fears that the power vacuum, and the constant feeling of mistrust here, could spark a civil war, based on vengeance for acts of betrayal that happen during this uncertain period. “The continuous unrest that is happening in Benghazi has never happened before. We are not used to it. I am afraid people will lose hope living under that pressure and turn on one another,” Ojadee said. “We need a leader.”

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Budget protests also about fear of losing the American Dream BY Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers The bitter fight over union pay and benefits in states such as Ohio and Wisconsin is more than a clash over an annual budget. It’s a sign of a country wrestling with fundamental change as it leaves the familiar moorings of the 20th century and struggles to forge a new economic and political order. Working people have been watching their paychecks stagnate or shrink since the 1980s. Health care costs have been rising steadily. Jobs have been migrating overseas. The dream of upward mobility has slipped from many people’s grasp. The rules seem to be changing. Politicians from both major parties have responded with partisan solutions on party-line votes, unwilling or unable to forge consensus, leaving anxiety and bitterness

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Fareveller is being held in Midtown at the Hi-Tone Cafe, Young Avenue Deli and P&H Cafe, as well as in The U of M area at Newby’s. Though he put the Fareveller festival together almost singlehandedly, Herrington said he couldn’t have done it without the help of his younger brother, U of M sophomore Patrick Herrington. He said his brother played a huge role in advertising locally, as well as designing and screenprinting T-shirts with the Fareveller logo. “Any flier that you see on The University of Memphis campus is because of Patrick,” Herrington said. “He’s helped in more ways than you can imagine.” Patrick said working with his brother was “awesome because it came from the heart.” “We have music in our blood. We’ve appreciated music our whole lives — it’s like our calling,” he said. “A concert like this gives people in Memphis a chance to check out awesome bands they may not have heard otherwise.” Junior education major Matt Qualls will be performing at Fareveller with his band, While I Breathe I Hope. He said festivals like Fareveller give the audience the opportunity to interact and become a part of the band’s performance. “This isn’t like going to a show at Minglewood Hall, where there is a huge barrier between the audience and the band,” Qualls said. “I like playing and attending shows like these because the crowd becomes a part of everything that’s going on.” F a re v e l l e r continues tonight at the Hi-Tone, Newby’s and Young Avenue Deli. Individual ticket prices vary, and a three-day wristband for all performances can be purchased for $25 at any Fareveller event.

in their wake. They’ve borrowed trillions to pay for wars and health care benefits, bailed out Wall Street and auto companies, even as they cut taxes. Debt has skyrocketed. Amidst that shifting landscape, Americans have reacted at times with rage — in town hall meetings in 2009, outside the U.S. Capitol as Congress passed a health care law in 2010, and in state capitols in 2011, as governors and legislators push cuts in pay and benefits for teachers and other public workers. But there’s more to the angst than the day’s headlines. “What’s going on is something deeper within the electorate itself,” said John Kenneth White, a professor of politics at Catholic University in Washington. “People feel their rights are being taken away. People feel they’re losing the American Dream.” Consider the Ohio laborer who said during the 2008 presidential

campaign that he feared Barack Obama’s proposed tax increases on incomes beyond $250,000. Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher actually made far less than that — $40,000 in 2006, according to the Toledo Blade. But he said he wanted to buy a plumbing business and move up. That, Republicans said, was what the American dream was all about. Anyone could move up and make more, so everyone had a stake in keeping taxes low on the wealthy. It was that way, once. For decades after World War II, middle-class incomes rose rapidly, and the gap between rich and poor narrowed. “The United States witnessed a period of strong and sustained economic growth, creating a rising tide that lifted all boats and ushering in an era of unprecedented prosperity,” said a report from the Economic Mobility Project at the

Pew Charitable Trust. “In the last generation, however, an increasingly competitive global economy has caused the growth of median family income to slow notably.” By one measure, working Americans continue to do better. Eight out of 10 Americans make more in inflation-adjusted dollars than their parents did, Pew found. But they’re not upwardly mobile like their parents were in the 1950s and 1960s. Pew found that 42 percent of people in the bottom fifth of income now will stay there, unable to move up the ladder from one generation to the next. “If America really is a country where people have equality of opportunity, not outcome, we would expect to see more movement,” said Erin Currier, project manager at the Economic Mobility Project. “We would expect that people would not look so predictably like their parents.”

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In Memoriam

Five Elizabeth Taylor performances we’ll never forget BY susan KinG Los Angeles Times Elizabeth Taylor, who died Wednesday morning of congestive heart failure at the age of 79, grew up and matured as a woman and an actress before the eyes of worldwide audiences. One of the few actresses to win two Academy Awards, she gave memorable performances in countless movies over the decades. Here were five of her best:

”National Velvet”: Taylor was all of 11 when she played Velvet Brown in the 1944 Technicolor classic about a British farm girl who rides her horse “The Pie” in England’s Grand National Race. The velvet-eyed Taylor is charming and delightful in the film. She was also given the horse who played “The Pie.”  ”A Place in the Sun”: Taylor was 17 when she was loaned out from MGM to Paramount to star in George Stevens’ haunting 1951 version of Theodore Dreiser ’s “An American Tragedy.” She played Angela Vickers, a beautiful heiress who falls in love with the ill-fated George Eastman (Montgomery Clift). Their first screen kiss is still remarkably erotic.

”Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”: Taylor packed on the pounds and aging makeup to transform herself from one of the screen’s greatest beauties to the frumpy, foul-mouthed Martha in Mike Nichols’ 1966 version of Edward Albee’s play. She won her second Oscar for playing the vulgar wife of a college professor (Richard Burton). ”Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”: Despite the fact that she lost her third husband Mike Todd during the making of this top-notched 1958 adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play, Taylor turns in a fiery, romantic turn as Maggie the Cat who is frustrated with her former football star husband Brick (Paul Newman). Taylor earned a best actress Oscar nomination. ”Suddenly, Last Summer”: Taylor also earned an Oscar nomination for best actress, as did costar Katharine Hepburn, in this 1959 melodrama based on Williams’ one-act as a young woman who had witnessed the murder of her cousin Sebastian the summer before. The film also marked her last collaboration with Clift. “Suddenly” was directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, who would direct her four years later in the infamous “Cleopatra.”

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Assistant UM coach accepts new gig in Corpus Christi BY John marTin Sports Editor University of Memphis assistant coach Willis Wilson has accepted the head coaching job at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Wilson, 51, was U of M basketball coach Josh Pastner’s first official coaching hire in April 2009. Before coming to The U of M, he was the head coach at Rice for 17 years. The move comes as no surprise to Pastner, as Wilson had made it clear that he wanted to be a head coach again. He interviewed for an opening in Toledo last summer. Pastner and Wilson were not immediately available for comment.

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Tigers kick off C-usa play against Pirates BY Jasmine vann Sports Reporter The University of Memphis baseball team kicks off Conference USA play today at Clark- LeClair Stadium with a three-game series against the East Carolina Pirates. The first pitch of the series is scheduled for 5 p.m. Dan Langfield is set to lead the Tigers as starting pitcher Friday, while Ryan Holland and Clayton Gant will be the starters on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Today’s game is the 29th meeting in program history with the Pirates, who have topped the Tigers in 10 of their last 13 meetings. U of M has a 2-10 record in Greenville, N.C., with the team’s last win dating back to the 2005 season. Since then, the Tigers (118) have lost seven straight. The Pirates return all three of their best weekend starters from last season, and all hold a conference-leading ERA of at least 2.00.

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she added, gesturing to a large pile of baseball gloves on a table nearby. Caldwell said it’s exciting to see what her students bring in each class and said “it’s like Christmas Day” every time she walks in her office. Christine Lowe, human services senior, is one of Caldwell’s students. “I haven’t brought anything yet — I’ve been hoarding it at home,” Lowe saud. “I’m planning on bringing it Monday. I’m doing it because I know it’ll help the children. Also, I need the extra credit.” Caldwell’s church, Second Baptist, will send her and 34 others to the small Caribbean country this summer. Other than delivering the baseball-related gifts, participants will put in a water purification system for the area. “Many communities don’t have fresh water,” said the Rev. Kerry Smith of Second Baptist Church, who is helping organize the mission trip. “Many people spend a great percentage of their daily income to buy water, so we’re going to put a water purification system in one of the communities.” Smith said the group also plans to build an orphanage, volunteer at a medical center and — of course — play baseball. In addition to the baseball equipment being collected, the Pre-Dental Society is collecting toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss and other items in the lobby of Ellington Hall on Friday, April 1 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. “Some of my students are officers in the Pre-Dental Society, and they started doing this on their own,” Caldwell said. “We hear so much that is negative, (so) this kind of thing really shows that people have the care, generosity and willingness to go out of their comfort zone, and it’s been amazing.”

“This is a big challenge for our team,” coach Daron Schoenrock said. “Most of the time, veteran clubs handle it well, and that’s what I expect us to do.” The Tigers’ numbers have improved significantly since the 2010 season. Last season, they were 8-11 after their first 19 games. This season, they’ve flipped the record. The Tigers held a batting average of .304 in 2010. They’ve improved to .322 this season. From the mound, Memphis fares an ERA of 4.31, in comparison to last year’s 5.07. The Tigers won’t be a pushover for ECU this year. Chad Zurcher ranks eighth in program history with 194 career hits, and Drew Martinez, Adam McClain and Jacob Wilson have also improved at the plate. After the series with the Pirates concludes, the Tigers return home to face a doubleheader against Mississippi Valley State at 3:30 p.m. at FedExPark.

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