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New legislation would allow UM faculty and staff guns on campus Proposed gun legislation in the Tennessee Senate has students and faculty at The University of Memphis, and on college campuses across the state, up in arms.

Bill 51, proposed by Tennessee State Sen. Stacey Campfield, whose district includes The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, would allow full-time faculty and staff at any postsecondary institution in Tennessee to carry concealed weapons on campus.

University of Memphis president Shirley Raines released a statement yesterday afternoon expressing her opposition to the Tennessee Senate Bill 51.

“We all support the right for individuals to protect themselves, however, at The University we must look out for the welfare of everyone,” she said. “And we believe our campus is safer because of the

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BY Erica Horton News Reporter

A bill recently introduced in the Tennessee State Senate would allow full-time faculty and staff members at The U of M to carry concealed weapons on campus, a possibility that concerns many students. current laws and want them left in place.”

Allegedly sparked by a University of Tennessee Knoxville student concerned by the actions of a fellow class-

mate, the bill, if passed, would go into effect July 1, 2011 and requires those wishing to carry a handgun to take an annual, eight-hour firearm training program.

It also requires participating faculty and staff on TN campuses to have a handgun carry permit and for their school to keep written record of who’s carrying the weapons.

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After 30 years of service in the United States Navy at home and overseas, Capt. John “Buz” Sorce bid farewell to his students and coworkers at a retirement ceremony Friday. But given the chance to trade places with one of his midshipmen, Sorce said he would do it all over again.

“You meet a lot of great people that share common values and have great work ethics,” Sorce said. “And you make outstanding friendships.”

As the 10th Commanding Officer of the Mid-South since 2009, Sorce has been in charge of the staff and about 50 naval students at The U of M and the University of Mississippi.

Lt. Derek Hopp, U of M assistant professor of naval science, described Sorce as energetic, enthusiastic and motivating.

“He’s just been a real inspiration through his enthusiasm for the Navy

and for leading naval officers and sailors,” Hopp said.

Sorce’s job at The U of M is to ensure ROTC students are ready for commissions and to serve as junior officers in the Navy and Marine core upon graduating. But before coming to The U of M, the Memphis native traveled far past the city’s borders during his naval career.

As a Surface Warfare Officer, Sorce served on several different vessels and commanded two — the cruiser USS Cowpens in Japan and the destroyer USS Hopper in Pearl Harbor, Haw. “I really enjoyed manning ships, taking them to sea, executing missions and visiting ports,” Sorce said. “I really liked the adventure.”

Later, he served as the Executive Assistant to the Commander in Millington, Tenn., and then Deputy of Surface Ships at the Pentagon before coming to The U of M. Sorce also served as an action officer in the psychological warfare branch

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BY Amber Crawford News Reporter

“The safety and security of our students, faculty and staff is one of our primary concerns, and I believe, along with

Capt. John “Buz” Sorce leaves behind a legacy of excellence at The U of M as he retires from the United States Navy. of the Joint Staff, where he did work for mostly Latin American operations and ensured forces were within policies, and served in the Navy Staff as the Surface Warfare Officer community manager where he tracked all facets of the jobs of over 5,000 people.

Sorce has received the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Meritorious Service

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University of Memphis audiology professor Robyn Cox has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health to research hearing aid use with the elderly.

Cox’s research will compare how effective basic and premium features in hearing aids are for older adults.

Cox is working with U of M graduate students Jani Johnson and Jingjing Xu on the five-year study.

The goal in the study is to find out when it is profitable for an individual to purchase expensive premium hearing aids and when a lesser form of the technology would be more beneficial for an individual to purchase, said Cox. “It is wonderful that the (National Institute of Health) has chosen to continue to support her pioneering research.

Her success serves as an inspiration to all our faculty,” Maurice Mendel, dean of the school of communication sciences and disorders, said in a email.

Cox has taught at The University since 1977 and has been recognized in the past by The American Academy of Audiology for her research.

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Opinion

BY Scott Carroll Editor-in-Chief

For a few weeks in April of 2007, I abandoned my usual seat in the middle of my classrooms at The University of Memphis for a chair closer to a door.

From my new seat, usually in the very back of the class, I studied the layout of the rooms and recalled similar design details of the buildings in which they were located.

Door in the far corner, stairwell past that on the right, double-doors about ten feet

from there, parking lot after that.

I wasn’t preparing for a quiz on interior design. I wasn’t imagining architectural remedies for aging buildings on campus.

I was planning an escape route.

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Fear, loathing and firearms Thirty-two people were gunned down at Virginia Tech the day before I moved to my new seat.

A crowd of students stood around a TV in the Tiger Den the day it happened, April 16, watching CNN in stunned silence as the body count kept rising.

Some cried. Some skipped classes to phone friends and loved ones.

And, like myself, they all began looking looking over their shoulders more frequently after April 16.

Whether allowing individuals to carry guns on college campuses could have prevented that tragedy, or eased the anxiety of millions of students following it, we’ll never know.

But it’s a question that U of M President Shirley Raines and the Tennessee Board of Regents have made clear they’re not willing to explore — and rightfully so.

The answer to controlling guns on college campuses, or any school campus, is not more guns.

Civil rights do, indeed, afford a person the right to defend themselves.

But in an educational set-

ting, a police officer, someone trained to use a firearm in high-stress situations, should respond to such incidents, should they occur — not my Biology II lab partner.

In the uneasy days following the shooting at Virginia Tech, as well as the murder of Taylor Bradford on this campus less than six months later, my hyper-awareness provided some relief.

But it’s a state of mind I’d prefer not to revisit.

Knowing my professor could just as easily retrieve a Glock from his desk drawer as a ballpoint pen would place me, and undoubtedly many others, in the same state of subdued paranoia.

William S. Burroughs, the author, said: “After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”

I agree with his sentiment.

And though history provides me countless examples to the contrary, I still have more faith that policemen and soldiers can hit their target.

Curious what other students have to say on the gun debate?

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Do you think that concealed guns should be allowed on campus?

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“I feel it can go both ways, but it’s still dangerous if you have someone on campus with a gun who’s unstable.”

“I don’t think anybody should be allowed on campus with a gun, especially after all the past shootings that have happened.”

“It’s terrible. It’s a bad idea.”

“It’s okay to own one — but not carry one at school, or any public place.”

“With all the different pressures associated with college, carrying a handgun would just add to all of the racial disputes that go on, especially in a city like Memphis.”

— Charles Jamison, Commercial aviation junior

— Rachel Minor, Counseling freshman

— Scott Wilson, Nonprofit development senior

— Jessica Ellison, Architecture freshman

— Collin Ring, Organizational leadership senior

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from page 1 Medal, Joint and Navy Commendation Medals and other various campaign and service decorations for his efforts, but he said his career offered him so much more than these honors and titles.

Brandon McAuley, sophomore criminal justice major and Navy ROTC midshipman, said Sorce’s contribution to The U of M program has not gone unnoticed.

“He’s set an example of what we’re trying to be,” McAuley said. “He’s guided us along the way, answered questions and motivated us to be the best we can.”

Sorce said he’ll miss watching students develop and grow, but is ready for retirement.

“I’m looking forward to trying something new,” Sorce said. “However, I don’t know what that’s going to be just yet.”

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law enforcement, that campuses will not become safer with more gun carriers,” said Raines’ statement.

Kaitlynn Lee, member of The U of M rifle team and junior international business major, said she thinks allowing concealed carry on campus for faculty is a great idea.

“It would make me feel safer if people who actually have a concealed carry permit were able to do something if someone went on a shooting rampage one day,” said Lee, who has been on a rifle team since high school. “You never know if something like this is going to happen. (Faculty and staff) would be able to protect a lot of people.”

Celeste Dixon, junior marketing major, thinks otherwise. She said the idea seems “ridiculous.”

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ty, staff or student, should be able to carry guns on campus because it could be a dangerous situation for anyone.

“If this is for protection from other people bringing guns on campus, then it seems like they’re trying to cure the symptoms of the disease (rather) than the disease itself,” she said.

Tatyana Dromova, junior nursing major, said she wouldn’t feel safe if professors were allowed to carry guns and that some educators might feel as if they have power over students. Dromova, who said she is studying psychiatric disorders right now, wondered if medical conditions would be taken into consideration.

“What if someone has a disorder and decides to get off their meds one day?” she said.

Dromova also said it wouldn’t be fair if faculty and staff were allowed to carry guns and students were not.

“But,” she said, “I would rather no one have handguns on campus.”

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BY Patrick Goldstein Los Angeles Times From the days of Sam Arkoff and Joseph E. Levine to the modern-day media gamesmanship of Harvey Weinstein and Michael Moore, the movie business has always been full of wily hucksters willing to use any outrageous stunt to get moviegoers to see their film.

Back in the 1950s, the B-movie producer William Castle released a cheesy horror film called “Macabre.” Patently awful, the film is remembered today only for Castle’s bravura marketing gimmickry. The producer took out a policy with Lloyd’s of London, insuring every ticket buyer for $1,000 in case they died of fright, displaying a huge reproduction of the insurance policy over every theater marquee. Castle had hears-

es parked outside the theaters with fake nurses on hand in the lobbies. The movie was a huge hit, with audiences showing up just to see if anyone dropped dead.

I’m only guessing here, but I have to believe that as a boy, Donald Trump caught a matinee presentation of “Macabre.”

After all, when it comes to showmanship, no one can hold a candle to the bombastic real estate tycoon who has been using an old Hollywood staple — controversy-based marketing — to bamboozle the media and put himself front and center in the GOP presidential race. According to a CNN poll released last week, Trump is now tied with Mike Huckabee atop the heap of GOP presidential aspirants, with 19 percent of likely Republican voters saying they would vote for him for

president.

Trump’s political ascendancy has been achieved by his singleminded focus on one hot-button issue — his incendiary claim that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States. As Trump famously said on “The View”: “I want him to show his birth certificate!”

I won’t waste any space here shaming the media for being so gullible — or so cynical — that it’s given Trump’s charges a de facto legitimacy by providing him with free air time everywhere to hurl his stink bombs. Nor will I attempt to rebut Trump’s charges, starting with that Obama has long ago produced a certification of live birth showing he was born in Hawaii. As Trump has undoubtedly figured out, the point isn’t whether he can prove his case.

The point is that by raising the

issue, he can generate a tsunami of publicity.

To anyone who spent time in Hollywood, this is an all-too-familiar strategy, especially in the hands of a modern-day Svengali like Weinstein. Dating to his first big hit, “The Crying Game,” Weinstein has shrewdly relied on controversy-based marketing, seeing it as a fountain of free publicity, allowing him to compete with larger studios with more lavish marketing resources. When Weinstein acquired “Priest,” a 1995 film about a Catholic priest who was persecuted by the church for being gay, Weinstein counted on blowback from the church to make the film a cause celebre — his initial plan, just to fan the flames,

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was to release the film on Good Friday.

As one of his lieutenants said at the time, fueling the fire “is the way he marketed movies. He saw controversy as an opportunity to create greater publicity and greater awareness.”

More recently, Weinstein has counted on ratings controversies with films like “The King’s Speech” and “Blue Valentine” to provide kindling wood for box-office success. So you might say that the Trump birther scam is right out of the Hollywood playbook. When the Wall Street Journal reported on the marketing campaign for Moore’s 2007 film “Sicko,” financed by Weinstein, the paper’s Merissa Marr wrote: “Mr. Moore’s formula is simple: Pick a divisive topic and goad opponents into a public debate.”

Of course, for Moore and Weinstein, the divisiveness was designed to sell movie tickets.

With Trump, it’s not so easy to figure out the end game. Trump insists that he’s gearing up for a presidential run. But most political observers agree that Trump, who has flirted with presidential bids in the past, has no intention of putting himself under the media microscope by officially declaring his candidacy, since it would inspire a raft of stories rehashing his messy financial deals and questioning his financial acumen. (The Smoking Gun has already released a damning look at his charitable contributions, dubbing him perhaps “the least charitable billionaire in the United States.”)

People in Hollywood are especially appalled by Trump’s malicious birther claims and not just because most of them are Democrats. Having seen so many cynical marketing ploys in their own jobs, they’re hip to Trump’s shuck ‘n’ jive. After all, narcissistic personalities are a dime a dozen in showbiz — and equally coddled by the media.

Mark Harris caught the Trump vibe perfectly in a recent New York magazine piece, writing that “he started talking and never stopped, venting his inflamed sense of entitlement to every radio show, Internet site and camera crew that was willing to serve as enabler, gawker, exploiter, concern troll or cheering section.” Except Harris was actually writing about Charlie Sheen.

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Deadly tornado outbreak among largest in U.S. history At the tree-lined entrance to the Stony Brook mobile home park in Raleigh, N.C., Maria Angelica Alvarez stood behind yellow police tape, clutching two bouquets of flowers and weeping on a friend’s shoulder.

Alvarez lost her three young sons in a three-day, 14-state maelstrom that killed at least 44 people and could prove to be one of the largest convulsions of tornado activity in U.S. history.

The boys, ages 6, 8 and 9, were killed inside a bedroom, crushed by a tree that demolished their trailer. Alvarez’s 6-month-old niece was hospitalized in critical condition, friends said.

“It’s a catastrophe — she lost everything,” said Consuelo Kwee, center director for Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh, as she tried to console Alvarez.

The vicious storm system has whipped up a reported 241 tornados since Thursday, according to state officials and AccuWeather. com. In all, more than 60 twisters touched down in eastern North Carolina, wreaking havoc among peanut farms and chicken houses of rural Bertie County, where 11 people died — as well as in Raleigh, the state’s capital and second-largest city.

At least 22 people were killed across North Carolina late Saturday, and another five in Virginia. Earlier, the storm system killed seven in Arkansas, seven in Alabama, two in Oklahoma and at least one in Mississippi.

By Sunday morning, the National Weather Service had declared that the severe thunderstorms were gone, but the respite could be short-lived.

Meteorologists said another storm system was likely to plague the central and southern Plains early this week and move east, possibly striking some of the same areas.

In Bertie County, N.C., a twister apparently ripped a course of destruction a half-mile wide and five to seven miles long as it moved northeast from the town of Askewville, said County Manager Zee Lamb.

“Where there were homes, there’s nothing underneath it now,” he said. “You’ve got trucks blown across the street. You just don’t realize how powerful these storms are until you experience them.”

Justin Dunlow of Askewville tried to shield his 3-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son as the double-wide mobile home where they had taken shelter was torn to shreds.

“I just started praying, and the wall fell on top of us, and that’s what kept us there,” he told the Associated Press. “I can replace the house, but I can’t replace my babies. And that’s what I thought about. I’m alive. My babies are alive.”

North Carolina Gov. Bev Purdue declared a state of emergency and suspended restrictions on work hours for truck drivers — to allow for the delivery of goods to affected areas — and for utility workers, because tens of thousands of customers remained without power.

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Brian Nelms holds his daughter, Brianna, as his wife, Amanda, searches through the debris of her grandfather’s home in Askewville, N.C., on Sunday after a severe storm passed through the area.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell also declared a state of emergency.

He planned to travel Monday to the southeastern county of Gloucester, where three people were killed Saturday and others were injured when a tornado touched down over a 12-mile path, lifting part of the roof off a middle school and destroying several homes.

Virginia officials said flash flooding killed two people in Waynesboro, in the Shenandoah Valley.

Back at the Stony Brook trailer park in Raleigh, residents — many Latino construction and restaurant workers — were barbequing or washing cars until moments before howling winds sent them dashing for cover.

Alvarez did not hear the tornado warnings issued by emergency authorities. Like many of the residents, she was not watching TV or listening to a radio, and she is not fluent in English, Kwee said.

Another resident, Daphne Flores, said she and her husband

hid under a bed in their trailer when the sky turned black and

fierce winds knocked over trees.

Their trailer was one of only a

handful that avoided damage, she said.

“There was no warning,” Flores said, her Spanish translated by a friend, Saby Mazariegos.

“Suddenly, people were screaming and crying, yelling out the names of family members.”

Flores said her husband, Roberto, cut a hole through the roof of Alvarez’s smashed trailer to reach her sons. The boys were dead. He covered their bodies with a shower curtain.

AccuWeather officials said it will take weeks to get an exact count of the tornados, but the event appeared to be the deadliest of its kind since 2008.

The abnormally extreme weather could be partially explained by warmer-than-usual waters in the Gulf of Mexico, which in turn supplied warm, moist air that significantly boosted the storm’s power, AccuWeather said. Southwesterly wind in the upper atmosphere and southerly to southeasterly wind in the lower atmosphere created twisting patterns and wind shear that made tornados more likely.

A Weekly Devotional For You “... Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren ... And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt....” (Gen. 37:2 ... 41:46) These two passages show us that Joseph went through a great trial of faith which lasted for thirteen long years. He was seventeen years of age when his brothers cruelly sold him into slavery. When he was thirty he became next to Pharaoh in power and authority.

In the meantime, he suffered severely. He was absent from his beloved father. He was a slave who had lost his freedom. He was falsely accused of attempted adultery and cast into prison. How did he behave himself while under these trials? He diligently worked at whatever job was placed before him. He did not murmur or complain. He did not become bitter or discouraged. After God had tried him and prepared him in the furnace of afflictions, He promoted Joseph to a position of great responsibility and honor. If you are under trial, take heart! Behave under your trial as Joseph did. Remember, in the providence of God every trial has an end!

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Health

BY lisa Black Chicago Tribune Paralyzed since age 3, Dan Crews hoped he would not live to see the day his money ran out.

Now, with his Antioch, Ill., house in foreclosure and a nursing agency threatening to sue, family members face the heart-wrenching prospect of moving the 27-year-old man into a nursing home.

As a quadriplegic, Crews cannot move his body from the neck down. He relies on a ventilator and needs around-the-clock care, which had been paid for through a trust fund established in 1992 after a $6 million personal injury settlement.

At the time, doctors believed that Crews would live no longer than 20 years. But he thrived under his family’s loving care in a custom-designed home, and has outlived his resources.

Family members fear that nursing home staff, no matter how well-intended, will not be able to provide adequate care. Crews, who can speak and eat, needs the mechanical respirator to breathe for him, pushing air through a tracheostomy tube into his lungs.

“He’s totally helpless,” said Cheryl Crews, 61, who lives with her son and serves as his main caregiver. “His arms don’t work.

His legs don’t work. You worry.

I won’t be able to watch over the people watching over him.”

Crews said that what he fears most is dying in a nursing home.

His financial troubles only exacerbate the lack of control he said he has over his life. Last year, he was so distraught that he called hospices, lawyers and media outlets to ask if anyone would help him end his life.

He does not have the physical ability to unplug his ventilator, and no one else has been willing to do it for him.

Disability advocates say that it is usually less expensive to provide medical care at home, rather than at a nursing facility. Crews, though, needs 24-hour supervision because of his dependence on a ventilator.

He has spent at least $300,000 annually on nursing care in past years, and still faces more than $300,000 in unpaid medical bills.

He must pay the state $500 per month in a ’m Medicaid spenddeath down program that will qualify him for nursing home care after he loses or sells his assets — his property.

With his trust fund empty, he said his only income comes from a $1,400 per month annuity.

“I thought I wouldn’t live to see this,” said Crews, who has stopped

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Dan and his parents, who are divorced, have struggled for years over financial and emotional issues, knowing this day could come.

“He has just lived longer than the experts expected,” said his father, Gerald Crews, 57, a financial consultant. “I truly believe it’s because of the expert care he’s received at home.”

Dan Crews barely remembers his life before the car accident on Oct. 26, 1986, when his mother lost control of her car on a rainy road north of Antioch and hit another vehicle. Crews, strapped into a child booster seat that was later deemed defective, suffered a spinal cord injury. He spent more than

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Dan Crews, 27, who has been a quadriplegic since he was 3 years old, sits in his home in Antioch, Ill. His home is in foreclosure.

paid, which was overseen by a bank until he turned 18, his father said.

In 1998, Dan spent more than $350,000 to build his home, outfitting it with an elevator, extrawide doorways, looking for an angel of modified bathor an angel of mercy.” rooms and an enclosed porch attached to his bedroom, with a — Dan Crews view of the outdoors.

Quadriplegic in foreclosure He still owes $190,000 on the house. Property taxes alone cost six months at Milwaukee-based more than $10,400 last year.

Froedtert Hospital.

“It’s very challenging,” said When Crews was 6, he was Gerald Crews, who is paying to awarded the personal injury settle- keep the house utilities on. ment from the booster seat’s nowHis father has spent hours trydefunct manufacturer. He received ing to get relief from CitiMortgage, about $4.2 million after lawyers were which in January refused to

approve a loan modification request for his son’s mortgage. He contacted a Freddie Mac counselor, who he said helped him reach an agreement to pay $600, or about half the monthly mortgage, until the family can sell the home.

But CitiMortgage officials never sent him the paperwork, as promised. Instead, Dan Crews was delivered a foreclosure notice in late March. His mother said she made the process server look her son in the eye before she signed for it.

“It just amazes me when you read about all the TARP (federal bail-out) money given to mortgage lenders,” Gerald Crews said.

“Here’s a young man on Medicaid who wants to stay in his home . . . and then they turn down a loan modification because he has too many liabilities. Well, duh.”

After being contacted by the Tribune, a Citigroup spokesman issued a statement saying he could not talk about the case due to privacy restrictions.

“We are continuing to work with this borrower to address his particular situation,” spokesman Mark Rodgers wrote in the emailed statement.

The father has spent the last few months visiting nursing homes.

Only 13 of 200 in the Chicago area are equipped to handle his son’s ventilator-dependent needs, according to the state.

“It’s very, very depressing,” he said. “I don’t have any answers.”

Realizing that money was running low last year, Dan Crews started talking about killing himself, and went on a hunger strike in June. He landed in the hospital four days into his fast, after two stressed-out nurses quit, fearing they would lose their license. His parents panicked and called for help.

He fought with Froedtert hospital officials, begging them to remove his ventilator, which they refused. He was referred to counselors and placed on antidepressants, but steadfastly maintained that he prefers death over life in a nursing home. Hospital officials released a statement last week that said it would be “inappropriate and irresponsible” to talk about his treatment.

In the meantime, Dan Crews prays for a miracle, but said he’s furious with God. “I’m looking for an angel of death or an angel of mercy,” he said.

He spends his days in bed or propped in a chair, using a stick

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Entertainment

Young acts supply most of star power at Coachella

By August Brown and Margaret Wappler Los Angeles Times

term loyalties of a generation that considers endless sensory stimulation a necessity.

In fact, Coachella’s been operating long enough now that it’s helped rear bands from buzz act to featured attraction. Arcade Fire expanded its fan base tremendously during its first two Coachella appearances, in 2005 and 2007. In February, the Montreal group shocked many Grammy watchers with an unexpected album of the year award — but for most who had caught the band on the Polo Grounds in years prior, such pomp was a forgone conclusion.

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As the U.K. folk-revival quartet Mumford & Sons, all of whom are in their early 20s, stared out on the 70,000 people or so gathered to watch their set at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on Saturday night, they couldn’t help but remark on how much had changed for them. “In 2008, I was a punter sneaking in here for Rage Against the Machine,” one of the Mumfords’ string players cracked in disbelief.

That a kid could go from

sneaking in the side gate to playing the main stage at nightfall in a span of three years says everything about this year’s iteration on the 12-year-old desert bacchanal, the first in recent memory to draw its star power mostly from artists who formed, grew careers and scaled to the peak of their profession within the 2000s.

And taken with this year’s new emphasis on keeping out gate crashers, easing transportation in and out of the grounds, and keeping those inside entranced with stages and light sculptures, the weekend felt like it was competing for the long-

Lovefoxxx, lead singer of CSS, is helped back on stage after surfing the crowd Sunday at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif.

“There is a communal feeling here, backstage and out front,” said singer PJ Harvey, who performed at Coachella for the first time Sunday night. “A combination of the two is needed, young and old. Everything informs each other. The great artist’s parcel gets handed down.”

Whatever you think of Kings of Leon’s blustery Tarzan rock, Arcade Fire’s gang-chorus earnestness or Kanye West’s ambitions for hip-hop and high-end furniture blogging, this much is undisputed about Coachella 2011: Roger Waters was nowhere in sight, nor was his flying pig.

There was no Paul McCartney set (well, save for Macca’s brief piggyback cameo with the dance producer Afrojack).

While sitting on the grass during British art rock band Foals’ electric set, Jazz Brice of Laguna Beach, Calif., underlined pages in a textbook for a paper due Monday. The Pepperdine University student described herself as a “Mumford & Sons enthusiast” who had already seen them four or five times this year.

“This year’s lineup is really strong,” said Brice, 22. “It always seemed a bit off to have Prince or Roger Waters. I mean, it’s cool, but this feels more generational.”

Other second-billed acts such as the Black Keys, Bright Eyes and the Strokes all caught their headwinds in the aughts too, and the hottest-tipped (but ultimately fraught) set of the undercard came from the Los Angeles teenage rap posse Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All.

But it wasn’t milk and honey for everyone. While many of the festival’s logistical problems had been eased (microchip-embedded wristbands discouraged wanton counterfeiting, and shuttle buses eased some of the infamous traffic snarls), an unexpected new one emerged as faulty video monitors and squelching feedback brutalized otherwise powerful sets from R&B experimentalist Erykah Badu and blues-adventurers the Black Keys.

But those problems didn’t take away from this year’s distinctly more relaxed energy.

A festival that can rely on a crop of young bands to do its heavy lifting is ensuring its own growth as much as it is paving the way for increased album sales or new discoveries.

Of course, the emphasis on youth and Internet-era fame can make some wonder about the big picture. Is Odd Future in this for life? Is Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire” our “Light My Fire”?

Maybe, maybe not.

Regardless, the weekend made an impression that’s bound to remain as the years pass.

“It’s its own utopia,” said 24-year-old Lauren Mosenthal of Boston, who came for the adventurous disco of Cut Copy and Crystal Castles and the tentrevivalist energy of Arcade Fire.

“The natural surroundings of the mountains and perfect weather, the constant visual stimulation from the art installations, the fashion and mind-blowing sets and lights make you forget about the outside world.”

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Economy

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Poll finds that Americans overwhelmingly support raising taxes on rich to fight debt BY steven thomma McClatchy Newspapers Alarmed by rising national debt and increasingly downbeat about their country’s course, Americans are clear about how they want to attack the government’s runway budget deficits: raise taxes on the wealthy and keep hands off of Medicare and Medicaid.

At the same time, they say that the government should not raise the legal debt ceiling, which the government must do soon to borrow more money, despite warnings that failing to do so would force the government into default, credit markets into turmoil and the economy into a tailspin.

Those are among the findings of a national McClatchy-Marist poll taking the country’s pulse just as President Barack Obama and Congress launch what could be a multi-year debate on the role of government and how to finance it.

Obama heads to northern Virginia on Tuesday and California on Wednesday to pitch his long-term budget proposals, as lawmakers from Congress are taking a spring recess, with most in their home districts.

On tackling the deficit, voters by a margin of 2-to-1 support raising taxes on incomes above $250,000, with 64 percent in favor and 33 percent opposed.

Independents supported higher taxes on the wealthy by 63-34 percent; Democrats by 83-15 per-

cent; and Republicans opposed by 43-54 percent.

Support for higher taxes rose by 5 percentage points after Obama called for that as one element of his deficit-reduction strategy last week. Opposition dropped by 6 points. The poll was conducted before and after the speech.

Americans clearly don’t want the government to cut Medicare, the government health program for the elderly, or Medicaid, the program for the poor. Republicans in the House of Representatives voted last week to drastically restructure and reduce those programs, while Obama calls for trimming their costs but leaving them essentially intact.

Voters oppose cuts to those programs by 80-18 percent. Even among conservatives, only 29 percent supported cuts, and 68 percent opposed them.

Public views are more mixed on cutting defense spending, with 44 percent supporting cuts and 54 percent opposed.

One dividing line is education: College graduates want to cut defense spending by 63-36 percent. Non-college graduates oppose cutting the Pentagon by 61-36 percent.

No matter how the government tackles its deficits and debt, Americans don’t want it to borrow any more. By 69-24 percent, voters oppose raising the legal ceiling for debt. That includes Democrats, who oppose it by 53-36 percent,

independents, who oppose it by 74-22 percent, and Republicans, who oppose it by 79-16 percent.

Other findings: — Only 44 percent of voters approve of Obama’s job performance, while 49 percent disapprove. That was down from 48 percent approval in January, and marked the 17th straight month that his approval has been below 50 percent; — Only 34 percent of voters approve, and 61 percent disapprove, of the way he’s handling the budget deficit, projected to total about $1.6 trillion this year; — Only 30 percent approve of the way Republicans in Congress are doing their job, while 63 percent disapprove.

Underlying it all, Americans are in a pessimistic mood. Fewer than one in three — 32 percent of registered voters — think the country’s headed in the right direction, while 63 percent think it’s headed in the wrong direction.

Among all adults, including non-voters, the tally is 31-64 percent, the poorest since November 2007 at the onset of the Great Recession.

“We’re going through a period of partisan bickering in Washington, lots of posturing and an economy that has not taken hold the way people want,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in New York, which conducted the poll.

Poll: How to fix the deficit?

A new McClatchy-Marist poll shows registered voters support raising taxes on the rich as a way to curb the federal budget deficit, but oppose other ideas to trim it.

• Increase taxes on incomes over $250,000?

Support

64%

Oppose

33% Unsure: 3%

• Cut Medicare and Medicaid?

Support

18%

Oppose

80%

Unsure: 2%

• Reduce military spending?

Support

44%

Oppose

54%

Unsure: 2%

• Raise the federal debt Support Oppose

24%

69%

Unsure: 7%

The country’s direction April 2011 Right direction

1,274 adults

31%

Wrong track Jan. 2011 Right direction Wrong track

64% 41% 47%

Unsure: April, 5%, Jan., 12% Source: McClatchy-Marist poll of 1,084 registered voters, April 10-14, 2011; margin of error:+/-3 percentage points Graphic: Judy Treible © 2011 MCT

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placed in his mouth to peck at a computer keyboard or the TV’s remote control. He changes channels frequently, preferring a Denver Broncos game, professional wrestling match or one of 500 videos lining the shelves.

One of the best moments of his life, he said, is when he graduated from Antioch High School in 2001 and received a standing ovation.

In January, he went on a national radio program and asked for someone to kill him.

“People would call in to the one show and tell him, ‘Just hang in there, there will be a cure,’“ said Frank Zera, a criminal justice professor at the College of Lake County. He has remained in touch with Crews after the young man enrolled in his classes while earning an associate’s degree.

“They have no clue how tough life is for this guy. He’s got to be turned every two hours. He can’t wash himself, can’t go to the bathroom,” Zera said. “He’s been an inspiration for me. I wish I could do more.”

Crews’ mother said she doesn’t want her son to die, but she supports his decisions.

Doctors today say he could live to be 40, she said.

“I can’t imagine what it is like to live 24 years, not being able to get up, not having any privacy,” said Cheryl Crews, who has a baby monitor in every room to be sure she hears the sound of her son’s ventilator.

“He may not want to live, but he would like to die a certain way.”

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Letters to the Editor

u of m students take aim at gun legislation email Dr. Raines,

To whom it may concern,

In response to your email regarding your position on Tennessee State Senate Bill 51 that would allow full-time faculty and staff members to carry a concealed weapon on campus, I respectfully and whole-heartedly disagree.

Your stated reasons for your opinion are that “The University of Memphis is one of the safest campuses across the south ... and I believe, along with law enforcement, that campuses will not become safer with more gun carriers.”

The same could have been said about Virginia Tech on April 15, 2007.

But the following day, one mentally-disturbed student would horrifically change that. And VT’s law enforcement was unable to do anything for the 32 people who lost their lives.

State Sen. Stacey Campfield is quoted in the Commercial Appeal as saying “a paper sign doesn’t stop a crazy person,” and he is undeniably correct. By stripping away a persons’ right to defend their life when they walk on your campus, you are not increasing their welfare and safety.

As a military veteran and concealed weapons permit holder, I have been trained in firearms safety, as would be required of all faculty and staff members in order to carry a weapon if Senate Bill 51 is passed.

Please, give us a fighting chance.

Aren’t there federal or state laws that prevent educational facilities that receive taxpayer funds from promoting political parties, candidates or political issues? Maybe that only pertains to high schools.

Had this email simply been to inform students of a website and to encourage them to offer opinions, it may be appropriate.

However, this email did not do that. It clearly promotes an issue that is most certainly political in nature.

I fully expect the president of our school to communicate with federal and state lawmakers on issues that would affect the school. She would not be fulfilling her job requirements if she did not.

In my opinion, the school-wide email system should not be used to share political messages unless the school is willing to allow me to send a faculty- and student-wide rebuttal to this mass email. I expect it will not be allowed.

That being the case, please send out a mass apology to the school for attempting to influence our political beliefs on this issue.

James Cheney Senior history major

Thank you, Christian Johnson 2nd year law student 2009 UofM alumnus

Where do you stand? Send us an email at dailyhelmsman@gmail.com and fire off your feelings about the proposed bill in the Tennessee Senate that would allow faculty and staff members at The U of M and other universities to carry concealed weapons on school grounds. Does it go too far or not far enough? Will it make you more likely to turn in papers on time? Let us know.

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Football

Tigers’ tennis team to face UCF in C-USA tournament’s first round

Tigers close spring practice with Blue-Gray game The University of Memphis football team closed its spring practice sessions with the annual Blue-Gray spring game that was held Saturday at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

The Tigers finished last year with a 1-11 record, but coach Larry Porter expects this year to be much different given the strong recruiting class.

“On the offensive side of the ball we started slowly, but picked it up towards the back end of the scrimmage and started scoring and executing well. I have mixed emotions right now,” Porter said.

“Overall, I thought the spirit of the day was good, the attitude was good, and I’m now looking forward to carrying this momentum on into the summer.”

The defense was expected to improve from last season, and they didn’t disappoint, Porter said.

The defense racked up 11 sacks on Tigers redshirt sophomore quarterbacks Andy Summerlin and Will Gilchrist and also recorded 17 tackles for loss.

“Defensively, we started strong but when we got to certain situations like on third down and in the redzone, we stumbled a bit,” Porter said.

Junior defensive lineman Dontari Poe, one of the leaders on

the front line, recorded two tackles, two sacks and a fumble recovery.

Poe was also named one of the game’s two MVP’s.

“It really feels great to know that I won the MVP,” Poe said.

“My fellow defensive lineman Frank Trotter won it last year and it became a goal of mine coming into the spring to win the award this year.”

The game’s other MVP was sophomore running back Jerrell Rhodes. The Hargrove Military Academy product rushed 20 times for 101 yards and three scores.

Redshirt freshman Brandon Hayes, Rhodes’ back-up, also had a productive day. He gained 131 yards on nine attempts with one score.

Dual threat WR/RB Billy Foster split time in the backfield as well as at receiver. Foster caught five balls for 42 yards, but looked a bit shaky in the running game with only nine yards on eight carries.

Summerlin and Gilchrist, who both are vying for the No.1 spot, split duties during the game.

Summerlin was 16-of-27 passing for 269 yards and three scores with one interception, while Gilchrist went 10-of-17 for 93 yards. Summerlin also connected on three touchdown strikes during the red zone portion of the scrimmage. He found redshirt freshman Reggie Travis on two of the scores from six and 25 yards out, and then

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U of M quarterback Andy Summerlin finished with 269 yards and three scores with one interception on 16-of-27 passing.

Summerlin is expected to be the starter for the Tigers in their opener against Mississippi State on Sept. 1. hit Marcus Rucker on a 25-yard touchdown.

“I still got a long ways to go and I’m going to just keep pushing,” Summerlin said. “I’m still a little

rusty, so I’m just looking forward to getting into the film room and learning the offense so I can know it like the back of my hand like all the great quarterbacks do.”

The University of Memphis men’s tennis team received the No. 5 seed in the Conference USA tournament and will face No. 4 seed UCF in the first round at the Case Tennis Center in Tulsa, Okla.

The Tigers won their last outing of the season, 4-1, against UAB last weekend.

Senior netter John Taylor picked up his 19th doubles win of the season along with Lee Nasemann.

Although the Tigers (15-9, 4-3 C-USA) are seeded lower than the Knights (9-14, 1-1), they actually own the better record and carry more momentum into the match, as the Knights have dropped three straight contests.

The Nasemann and Taylor duo, which compiled a 19-4 mark this season, will lead the way for the Tigers at the No. 3 slot. Joe Salisbury, Johnny Grimal, and Cedric de Zutter will be relied on in singles play.

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NBA Playoffs

Grizzlies stun no. 1 spurs for their first playoff win The Memphis Grizzlies own the first upset of the NBA playoffs, and they made history in the process.

Zach Randolph had 25 points and 14 rebounds, and Shane Battier hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 23.9 seconds left, and the eighth-seeded Grizzlies won the first playoff game in franchise history, 10198 over the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday.

Randolph, who scored nine in the fourth quarter and punished San Antonio under the basket, might have saved his hardest contact for a chest bump with Mike Conley after the final buzzer. The rest of the Grizzlies bench spilled onto the court, waving towels and leaping back into the locker room.

Memphis began the playoffs with the motto “Let’s Make History,” and it needed just one game to do it. Sixteen years after the franchise debuted in Vancouver, the Grizzlies finally savored their first playoff win in 13 tries.

The top-seeded Spurs didn’t stick around to watch Memphis celebrate. San Antonio had a chance to force overtime, but Richard Jefferson missed an open 3-pointer as time expired.

Tony Parker led the Spurs with 20 points, but they sorely missed All-Star Manu Ginobili, who continued to rest his sprained right elbow. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said Ginobili begged to play, and it’s a safe bet the All-Star won’t have to convince Popovich for Game 2 on Wednesday.

The Grizzlies spent the week insisting they didn’t tank their final two games to assure they’d get the Spurs. But the way Randolph and Marc Gasol bullied San Antonio in the frontcourt, Memphis showed that San Antonio isn’t such a bad matchup.

Gasol had 24 points and nine rebounds. Conley scored 15 points and had 10 assists, and O.J. Mayo had 13 points off the bench.

Tim Duncan had 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Spurs, who lost their sixth straight playoff series opener.

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But between the 33-year-old practicing a day earlier and his teammates convinced he would play, seeing Ginobili in lineup wouldn’t have been much of a stretch. Instead, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich played it safe.

“You know (darn) well he’s not happy with me. And you know (darn) well he wants to be on that court,” Popovich said before tip-off. “But I made my decision.”

Popovich wouldn’t speculate whether Ginobili might play in Game 2 on Wednesday.

The Spurs badly missed him. George Hill started in Ginobili’s place but went just 2 of 7 from the floor and finished with 15 points. The NBA’s top 3-point shooting team also suffered without Ginobili’s range and penetration to draw in perimeter defenders.

Shane Battier relishes his go-ahead 3-pointer with 23.9 seconds left, bringing his first playoff win in 13 tries in a Memphis uniform. The series continues in San Antonio at 7:30 p.m.

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