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Graduation to be rescheduled if Grizzlies continue in playoffs BY ERICA HORTON News Reporter Thanks to the Memphis Grizzlies, The University of Memphis might have to reschedule spring graduation at FedExForum, moving the ceremonies from May 7 to May 8. Since the FedExForum opened in 2004, U of M students have celebrated commencement in the stadium that also serves as home court for both the Grizzlies and the Tigers. The athletic department at The U of M holds a contract with the Forum stipulating that if a scheduling conflict involving the Grizzlies arises, the NBA team takes precedence over The University, assistant vice president of student affairs Stephanie Blaisdell said. “The odds of this happening were so small, it would be akin to us communicating our earthquake plan for commencement,” Blaisdell said. She said if the Grizzlies win against the San Antonio Spurs tonight, Friday or Sunday and advance to the second round of the NBA playoffs, commencement will be pushed to May 8, Mother’s Day, at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. If the Grizzlies lose all three games and the best-of-seven series, which they currently lead three games to

one, graduation ceremonies will take place as scheduled May 7 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. This is only the fourth time in the Grizzlies’ franchise history that they have made it to the playoffs and the first time the team has won playoffs in its existence. Before this year, they had never won a postseason game. Blaisdell said The University is exploring as many options as it can, and the administration was unprepared for the possible date change. “We are in the business of helping students celebrate the biggest day of their undergraduate career,” she said. by Johnny McPants “We plan carefully because we want this to be the best day possible for our students.” Blaisdell said The University will be graduating more students at one time this May than ever before, which made moving the ceremony to another site implausible. “You have to understand that were

graduating 2,280 students in May, and many students will bring a lot of guests,” she said. “And we don’t restrict guests. (The Forum) seats (roughly 18,000) people, and we will almost fill that stadium twice on graduation day.” Blaisdell said many students are concerned and have expressed that the one-day delay is a major inconvenience, but The University is doing its best to get the word out. Brandon Doggett, music education senior, said although he’s a Grizzlies fan, he would prefer if graduation were not moved unless it were pushed up a day early so he could “go ahead and get it over with.” “The only problem I have with it is when I think about others,” he said. “Other people have already planned and sent out invitations.” Doggett said though he is opposed to the change, there isn’t much that can be done

about the situation. Myiesha Griffin, senior broadcast major, called the change “unpleasing.” She said she doesn’t want to be selfish about the situation, but she has already printed invitations and made arrangements for guests. “My family has waited so long for this, and I’ve had invitations printed, and I have people coming from as far as South Bend, Indiana,” Griffin said. “They have lives too.” She said it makes no sense for people to have to alter their plans at the last minute. Senior psychology major Magellan Taylor said she was “very disappointed that the University would even consider changing graduation for an athletic event.” “This doesn’t just inconvenience the students but the thousands of people planning to attend as well,” she said. “It puts a bad taste in everyone’s mouth about The University of Memphis.” Erica Curp, senior education major, said she doesn’t really mind the potential change in the graduation schedule. “I know it affects a lot of other people that are coming in town that are leaving on Sunday,” she said. “But for (my circumstances), I really don’t care, as long as I graduate.”

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For some U of M students, it’s all eyes on FocusFest There won’t be a red carpet or paparazzi snapping photos of famous celebrities, but the love for film and its creation will be all the rage at Thursday’s studentrun film festival. FocusFest is a non-competitive annual film festival organized entirely by University of Memphis students. It began 15 years ago and showcases U of M’s burgeoning filmmakers, along with its veterans. Shelby Farrell, communication t’s projected graduate student director of for an audience and FocusFest ’11, said of the students’ FocusFest ’11 will display student peers and their films varying in subject matter — families.” short documen— David Appleby taries, westerns, student remakes Festival supervisor

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A scene from UM student Eric Huber’s “Notorious Jesse James,” a film featured in this year’s FocusFest of famous movie scenes and others. The festival will run Thursday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Malco Studio on the Square in Midtown and is free and open to the public. This year’s festival includes more than 20 short films, most of which are three to five minutes long. “I’ve been really impressed with the quality of films that have come through,” she said. “That shows the people in this department really know what they’re doing.” David Appleby, communication professor and

supervisor of the festival, said students tend to make films for class, and this festival gives them the experience of seeing their films on the big screen. “It’s projected for an audience of their peers and their families,” he said. “They get to find out what it feels like to get an audience response, which is what filmmaking is all about — communicating to an audience.” Farrell and the student committee set a deadline for

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Entertainment

SoundFuzion members collaborate with Al Kapone BY CHELSEA BOOZER News Reporter Involvement in The University of Memphis’ ensemble group Sound Fuzion has scored five students a spotlight in this year’s Beale Street Music Festival, sharing the same stage as artists Cee Lo Green and Sublime. Opening for the two groups is Memphis-based rapper Alphonzo Bailey, best known by stage name Al Kapone, and his band of five U of M students, each of whom are currently a part of or have performed with Sound Fuzion. Kapone’s band consists of lead guitarist Matt Uselton, senior finance major; bass player Will Hanlon, senior hospitality major; background vocalist

Taylor Pfohl, senior music business major; background vocalist Jessica Griffin, junior interdisciplinary studies major; and keyboardist Claude Hinds, senior jazz performance major. “Al is a great guy who really has a passion for the Memphis music scene and has always shown respect and gratitude toward the fans who follow him and have supported him throughout his career,” said Uselton, who has worked with Kapone for two-and-a-half years. “It’s been an honor and a privilege to work alongside such great musicians and amazing people. They really are a family to me.” By Uselton’s recommendation, Hanlon joined the group a year ago. The others will be linking up with Kapone for the

first time this year at Music Fest thanks to Uselton and Hanlon’s references. “They pitched me, and I was in. It was awesome,” Pfohl said. “This is my first year, and I hope to not make it my last.” Griffin, the only woman in Kapone’s group, will be playing at this year’s Music Fest for the first time as well. “I’m looking forward to the great experience, exposure, great networking — and, of course, the crowd — because I love to perform,” she said. Kapone is most famous for his involvement in the soundtrack to the film “Hustle & Flow,” for which he wrote the two main songs, “Whoop That Trick” and “Hustle & Flow (It Ain’t Over),” and performed another, “Get Crunk, Get Buck.”

Uselton, who has played guitar since he was 11 and in professional settings for the past eight years, credits his love for music to his father, who started his career playing on Beale Street in the R&B jazz band South Soul Rhythm Section, comprised of boys under age 18. “Music has always been my life,” Uselton said. “My dad played his vinyl records of Michael Jackson and ZZ Top when I was 4 years old, and I was hooked.” Uselton doesn’t just affiliate with Sound Fuzion and Kapone. For the past year, he has been teaching several forms of guitar, including electric, acoustic, bass and ukulele, to students at Dance Arts Inc. in Germantown. He said he is also working with Hanlon, Pfohl and two others

“creating all kinds of styles in the studio.” “At heart I am a blues guitarist,” Uselton said. “My biggest influences are local virtuosos like Eric Gales and Shawn Lane, but I take a lot of my style from guitar legends like Jimi Hendrix and Slash. My philosophy is that music is an extension of your soul, and being a great musician is not about how much theory you know or what kind of equipment you use. It all comes down to the story you tell through your music — the emotions people can feel when they listen to you.” Kapone and his band are scheduled to take the Memphis Area Teachers’ Credit Union stage Sunday night at 5:25, just after Ziggy Marley and before Cee Lo Green.

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The stressful lives of chimpanzees BY CHRIS ADAMS McClatchy Newspapers Donovan the chimp transformed from a friendly ape who “adapts well to peers” to one who beat his female cage-mate so aggressively they had to be separated. Lira became a “chronic hair plucker,” with large barren patches on her body. Bobby bit and mutilated his own arm, leaving permanent scars. He was so depressed that he slept sitting up, facing the wall of his cage. The debate about medical testing on chimpanzees often revolves around the physical impact on the chimps — week after week of liver biopsies or year after year of being infected with HIV or hepatitis. But an examination by McClatchy Newspapers of the chimp-research world found that, in addition to a physical toll, the testing life can have a significant impact on a chimp’s mental state. For the roughly 180 chimpanzees that live at the Alamogordo Primate Facility, on an Air Force base in New Mexico, the world of research looms large: For the past 10 years, they’ve been kept out of research; now the National Institutes of Health is trying to move them to a research facility in Texas, where they’d be used in studies on hepatitis and possibly other ailments. The science of chimp research is dicey. The United States is virtually alone in the world in pursuing it, and many scientists say the chimps’ value as a medical model is declining. Chimps are among humans’ closest genetic cousins, and given their range of emotions and their level of understanding, researchers themselves afford chimps special protections that other research animals don’t get, even monkeys. According to the National Research Council, the public “expects a high level of respect for the animals,” given the “special connection of chimpanzees to humans.” For the chimps, research can be lonely and debilitating; some end up with mental ailments including post-traumatic stress disorder or depression. Sometimes the symptoms will ease once the testing ends, but sometimes they stick with a chimp for life. “Chimpanzees depend on close physical contact. They love their comforts, and like to stretch out on a nice soft bed of grass. They make their own choices all the time,” famed chimp researcher Jane Goodall said. “None of these things can in any possible way be experienced by a laboratory chimp. I’ve been in quite a lot of medical research labs, and the truth is I wish I hadn’t, because they haunt me.” The researchers who handle the chimps disagree. They say the chimps are treated well and humanely, oversight panels ensure that only necessary research is performed on them, and they’re given space to move and play. John VandeBerg, who oversees the primate facility at the Texas

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when films would be accepted, then screened the films and selected which ones would be used and in what order they would be presented. This year will be the first time FocusFest has used BluRay discs, which Farrell said has caused some problems. “It’s been a lot of trial by error,” she said. The festival will be set up in two parts. The first will last 45 minutes. The second will follow a brief intermission and will last an hour. She said the festival will be “amazing and the best FocusFest ever.” Communication graduate student Eric Huber directed last year’s festival and submitted two shorts of his own this year: “Notorious Jesse James,” and “Horn Island.” He said he spent plenty of sleepless nights organizing last year’s

show, but in the end, it all came together. “There was quite a bit of relief,” he said. “Everything was done. It just all built up to that point — and then (came) summer.” Appleby said the community has been supportive of the festival, which has received donations from Huey’s Restaurant, Malco Theaters, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and others. “Malco certainly doesn’t have to give us a theater every year,” he said. “We’re very much appreciative.” Appleby said filmmaking is a lifestyle and that a lot of students have their own equipment and work outside the classroom. “The classes feed filmmaking,” he said. “If you’re not making films all the time, you’re not going to learn how to make films. The best students are the passionate ones who are going to be making films no matter what.”

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From backyard to the big time

Founded by UM students, Bristerfest music event moves on up from little shed near campus to Levitt Shell in Overton Park BY HANNAH C. OWENGA News Reporter Memphis in May isn’t the only event where Memphians can gorge themselves on barbecue, guzzle beer and boogie down. Jack Simon, junior communication and political science major, and Craig Ivey, former University of Memphis student, will be are moving their usual “shed parties,”held behind Ivey’s house on Brister Street, to the Levitt Shell on May 10 at 3 p.m., dubbing the event “Bristerfest.” The event is open to the public, and admission costs $6. Several local bands will perform, and beer and barbecue will be avail-

able. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to radio station WEVL. “This is Bristerfest productions’ first major event,” Simon said. Seven bands will be performing at the festival. Rock, funk, rap, country, blues, soul, Latin psychedelic and dub step are expected to perform at the event. Will Nichols, member of participating band Agori Tribe, said that “this event is a big thing.” Mathew Faulkner, sophomore engineer technology major and local artist, said that “constant, cool and new promotion is important to get a large audience to a concert.”

Simon has created a Facebook page and a website to help advertise the event and plans to advertise more during the Beale Street Music Festival. Black and white flyers are being handed out across campus. Essence London, sophomore political science major, said she has seen the flyers being passed around on campus. “He has taken on a lot of responsibility, and I hope it goes well,” London said. Simon said he has spoken to several businesses around The U of M area about sponsoring the event and providing supplies. The Memphis Music Foundation is also helping orga-

nize Bristerfest. Featured at Bristerfest will be the Delta Collective, which is a finalist for Memphis Music Foundation’s contest, Memphis Music Launch Showcase, to be held July 8. Briar Young, freshman film and video major, said he is a fan of Agori Tribe and is always looking for good music. “I am familiar with Agori, but I plan to listen to everyone,” Young said. “The Bristerfest house parties are really fun and chill.” For more information on Bristerfest, including a music lineup, visit the event’s website at bristerfest.roxer.com.

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from page 4 Biomedical Research Institute, said the chimps were treated compassionately and that life in the lab was good. If he were a chimp, McClatchy asked, where would VandeBerg himself rather live: Texas Biomedical or Chimp Haven, a forested sanctuary in Louisiana where some chimps go to retire? VandeBerg thought for a minute before answering: “You know, that’s an interesting question. I would rather be living here. ... Chimp Haven is a wonderful facility — a beautiful facility, has beautiful outdoor areas. ... So it’s a lovely facility. But what we have here is far better veterinary capacity.” He said the lab had vets on staff, full medical facilities and the ability to generate rapid test results. “We have medical capacity way beyond what Chimp Haven has, and if I were a chimpanzee I’d rather be here, where I could get the medical attention that I might need sometime in my life, especially as I got old.” The chimps, he said, even have televisions. They like to watch animal movies. The effort to understand the chimps’ minds has grown in the past decade. One chimp who helped illustrate the impact of research was Billy; his story was chronicled in the medical journal Developmental Psychology in 2009. Raised as an entertainer — working the birthday party circuit — Billy lived compatibly with humans and had a strong bond with his owners before he was given over to researchers at age 15. At a chimp lab in New York, he was caged alone, except when paired with Sue Ellen for breeding; he attacked her instead. For 14 years, he was used for research into hepatitis, HIV, measles and polio. During that time, he turned hostile, uncooperative, aggressive and depressive; he wouldn’t interact normally with other chimps. After one experimental procedure, he chewed his thumb off. Even when he left the lab for retirement at a sanctuary, Billy remained fearful and agitated. He screamed if the door to his cage was left open, and he couldn’t go to sleep until he himself had tested that the door was locked. Billy had an impressive memory and he interacted well with humans, even mimicking them at times, by spooning cream and sugar into his coffee, for example. One day, Billy became excited while he was watching television. He gestured wildly for the facility director to come look. On the TV screen: Goodall. Billy had met her years before. The director turned up the TV volume, and Billy sat to watch the program. Many of the animals in New Mexico saw the same kinds of changes in their personalities that Billy did. Their stories emerge from thousands of pages of medical records that an advocacy group, In Defense of Animals, unearthed after a lengthy legal fight with the NIH. The records were provided exclusively to McClatchy with no strings attached, for its own review.

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Night of Rain...

by Brian Wilson

Tornado sirens sent U of M students and Mid-Southerners looking for shelter Tuesday night as another round of severe weather hit the area. Parts of Shelby County were under a tornado warning for more than four hours as high winds, lightning and driving rain caused damage to trees and buildings and flooded portions of roads throughout Memphis. Multiple funnel clouds were spotted in Shelby County, but the only reported tornado touchdowns were in Arkansas and Mississippi. As of late Tuesday, more than 32,000 Memphis Light, Gas and Water customers were without power, but no injuries were reported.

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Opinion

Grizzlies, grandmas and graduates Time to suck it up for just one more day, future alumni, and root for the home team BY MIKE MUELLER Managing Editor If you were on the second floor of the Edward J. Meeman Journalism Building on Monday night between 8 and 9:30 p.m., you likely heard shouting, more than a few expletives, dozens of exaltations of “yes!” and a handful of thunderous high-fives. It was bedlam in The Helmsman newsroom — Editor-in-Chief Scott Carroll and I were watching the Grizzlies steamroll the Spurs to take a 3-1 series lead in the first round of the NBA playoffs. I have attended The University of Memphis for almost five years, and I’m scheduled to be graduated (finally!) on Saturday, May 7, at FedExForum. If the Griz win tonight, Friday or Sunday to take the best-of-seven series, they’ll play a home game May 7 at FedExForum. And, thanks to The U of M’s contractual obligations, that would move commencement to May 8 — Mother’s Day — effectively destroying my and many other families’ plans for that weekend. Uh-oh. That could cause major, grandma-upsetting problems. And it will, if the Grizzlies finish off this improbable, thrilling upset, which is more than likely — only eight teams in the NBA’s 64-year history have come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the

series. the Grizzlies win their first home all finally seem to get it. For those But, assuming the Griz take playoff game in franchise his- two-and-a-half hours, we all play care of business, believe me, fel- tory spilled out onto Beale Street. for the same team. We’re united, low class of ‘11ers, when I say Think about the thousands and and nothing else matters. this: Everything will be OK. thousands and thousands of dolHow can you not be happy for Yes, parties will have to be lars that were pumped into the Memphis? rescheduled and travel itinerar- Downtown area that night. If you aren’t, head down to ies altered, but everything will If the Grizzlies return for a Beale if the Grizzlies can pull be OK. game six Friday, the first night off another home victory. I think Because overall, this is a great of Music Fest, think about the you’ll change your mind. thing for Memphis. revenue that would bring to Now, before those of you who I am a sports fan and am proud- Downtown. disagree with me tear up the ly riding the Grizzlies bandwagOh, and if you’re looking for paper, throw it on the ground and on. I’ve lived in spit on it, hear Memphis for 10 me out. years, and being I know lots here are only two places in a fan of teams of us graduthis city where you can almost ates have family from my former hometown always find racial harmony — The coming in town of Washington, from far away, U of M and FedExForum. D.C., has been and changing less than glamortravel plans is ous. So I feel entitled to root for a a good time this weekend, that difficult, frustrating and often successful Memphis squad, and sounds like the place to be. expensive. I’m excited about doing so. It’s a rare occurrence when all I have 80-year-old grandparBut I know everyone doesn’t of Memphis gets behind the same ents driving in from Chicago and like sports. The good news is team. It happens when the Tigers another grandmother and two that you don’t have to in order to get on a roll, but it’s been a few aunts flying in from New York. enjoy this ride. years since they’ve put together Fortunately, they have a buffer Most of us, even if you’re not an extended stretch of success, day built into their plans, so the from here, have spent at least especially in the postseason. date change won’t affect their four years in Memphis during a Memphis is divided on so ability to applaud raucously and college career and have grown to many issues, be it the school holler my name as I walk across know this city. Most of us have consolidation debate or politics, the stage. probably grown to, in one way or and all too often, arguments boil However, the new date will another, like or — dare I say — down to matters of race. There prevent some member of somelove this city. Most of us want to are only two places in this city one’s family from being able to see it improve, and there’s plenty where you can almost always do the same. of room for improvement. find racial harmony — The U of And that sucks. For those peoAfter Saturday’s game three M and FedExForum. ple, I feel bad. win, the 18,119 fans who watched During basketball games, we No matter what anyone may

say, graduating from college is an awesome achievement, one that took four, five, six or more years to accomplish. But Skype is a wonderful, free invention. Maybe FedExForum can provide complimetary Wi-Fi access. Almost all of our cell phones can take video in high quality, if not in HD. And maybe, in light of the circumstances, The University can find a way to broadcast the ceremony over the Internet. It’s time to earn that paycheck, Shirley. For the graduation party planners, you can reschedule. Worstcase scenario: You’ll have a lot of leftovers, but trust me, dayold chicken wings taste great cold or reheated. Day-old cake is delicious. For family members still able to make the ceremony despite the change, they’ll be visiting a nicer, friendlier, more exciting Memphis. Remember when the Tigers went to the Final Four? Remember the buzz in the air, that atmosphere that united the city? If you’ve forgotten, no worries because it’s coming back, and the longer the Griz keep this up, the stronger that aura will become. So say it with me: “Go Grizzlies.” Class of 2011, we’ve been here roughly half a decade. What’s one more day?

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Simulated earthquake activities to emphasize disaster preparedness BY ROBERT MOORE News Reporter If all goes as planned, University of Memphis students will experience a major earthquake tomorrow that will affect millions and spread over several states in the central United States. Tomorrow, The U of M will recognize the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut by re-enacting events that follow a major earthquake. Almost 2 million people over 11 central and Midwestern states are scheduled to participate. U of M crisis management teams will conduct an earthquake scenario at 2 p.m. in The University’s emergency operation center. All U of M students are invited to participate in the drill. “We’re going to give students a realistic scenario of what would happen if an earthquake struck right now, at school,” said Shelby Slater, coordinator of emergency preparedness. At 10:15 a.m. Thursday, a simultaneous drop, cover and hold drill will be carried out by all of the participants of the ShakeOut. The U of M’s Barbara K. Lipman Early Childhood School will take part in the drill, which U.S. Congressman Steve Cohen is scheduled to attend. Lipman School Director Sandra Turner said she embraced the opportunity to educate her students on emergency preparedness after the March 11 earthquake in Northeast Japan. “We decided to focus on natural disaster efforts after all of the world’s recent earthquakes,” Turner said. “ShakeOut gave us the chance to educate our children on something that could occur during their lifetime.” Prior to the drill, each class in the school will conduct a scientific demonstration on what happens to the earth during a quake. The younger classes will build dirt towns on top of wax paper, then remove the paper from under the town, re-creating the effects the ground experiences during an earthquake. Some of the older students will build a neighborhood out of blocks on a blanket before shaking it up. “It’s hard to explain what an earthquake is to a child 2 to 5 years old,” Turner said. “Our lessons are supposed to give a basic understanding of what happens.” The goal of the multi-state

drill is to help government officials and school administrators along the New Madrid seismic zone become better prepared if a devastating earthquake were to occur. Local events are sponsored by the Memphis-based Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium. CUSEC was established in 1983 to reduce death and damages caused by earthquakes in the central United States. Gary Patterson, director for the U of M’s Center for Earthquake Research Information, has been working with CU-

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After today, you won’t be able to pick up a new issue of this paper until August. Sad, we know. To make up for future lost time, I give you my “Four for farewell” — four sports headlines, some local and some national, that I sincerely believe you’ll read this summer.

Memphis Grizzlies fall to Los Angeles Lakers in Western Conference Finals The eight-seeded Grizzlies are going to beat the one-seeded San Antonio Spurs. They’re currently up 3-1 in the series and just completed an 18-point beat down at FedExForum on Monday. They’ll advance and draw an Oklahoma City squad that’s tired after a long, backand-forth series with the Denver Nuggets, and they’ll win in five. After that, they’ll meet up with the team they tanked at the end of the season to avoid in the Los Angeles Lakers, and they’ll lose in six. The Grizzlies’ unlikely playoff run will be remembered as one of the most inspiring, unifying times in Memphis sports history. For this city, it’s some longoverdue postseason prosperity. Only The University of Memphis men’s basketball team’s 2008 Final Four run will mean more. Enjoy it.

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The Civil War, Freedom Rides and national memory The 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides is upon us, and it should be quite a contrast to the 150th anniversary of the Civil War that was observed earlier this month. The struggle to desegregate public facilities in the Jim Crow South would be hard to re-enact, though it would make for interesting street theater. Maybe someone could stage the Battle of Birmingham. Don’t recall that one? May 14, 1961: Hundreds of Klansmen surround a bus and proceed to beat a group of black and white Freedom Riders with lead pipes and baseball bats while Bull Connor’s police force look away. Of course, it wouldn’t be much of a re-enactment, since one side was unarmed and committed to nonviolence. But I conjure this absurd image for a reason. To many of us who care about America and its history, there is something just as bizarre about play-acting the epic battles of the Civil War without acknowledging why they had to be fought in the first place. Race is the one ingredient that’s indispensable to understanding America, yet it’s the one ingredient we’re always trying to take out. As recently as the 2009 “beer summit” — when President Barack Obama intervened in the dispute between a black Harvard professor and a white police officer — many in the media expressed wonder that we still had not moved “beyond race.” There was another time in America when the majority felt it was time to move “beyond race.” And that act of national forgetfulness is what connects the Civil War to the Freedom Rides. “Why was the war fought — was it about slavery or states’ rights?” asked Glenn McConnell, a South Carolina state senator, at a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the assault on Fort Sumter. McConnell continued, “What does the Confederate battle flag stand for? Is it a symbol of bigotry or a memorial to the valor of fallen soldiers? ... Many of the emotional issues still rage.” They rage, in part, because people who ought to know better keep alive the fiction that the Civil War was not fought over slavery. McConnell’s use of fair-andbalanced rhetoric reframed our nation’s darkest hour as just another battle of opinions, like everything on TV. And it worked. A widely reprinted Associated Press story about the war’s outbreak mentioned slavery precisely once — in the quote from McConnell. If the Civil War began with one side’s need to enslave AfricanAmericans, it ended only after the other side had enlisted nearly 200,000 black men equally determined to crush the institution. In “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in history last week, Eric Foner reminds us of the crucial role that race played as the war was prosecuted. The flood of black recruits not only bolstered the Union army, they also spurred a decisive shift in

Lincoln’s views. For most of his life, Lincoln held moderate positions on slavery, being opposed to the institution and to its immediate abolition. He supported an African colony for freed slaves. And he enjoyed a good “darkie” joke like any other ordinary American of his day. Foner details how Lincoln’s respect for black Americans grew measurably during the Civil War. By the end, he realized that these self-liberating men, through the blood they shed in battle, had earned emancipation and a place at the table of postwar reconciliation. But African-Americans were driven away from that table. Here is where national memory, and its revision, played an insidious part. In the decades following the war, white veterans on both sides began to hold parades and picnics together. Bonded by their shared life-and-death struggle, they increasingly chose to let bygones be bygones. This “reunion” movement was fueled by pro-Confederate groups eager to blot out the racial origins of the war. They aggressively pushed for what David Blight, in his book “Race and Reunion,” called “a segregated memory of the Civil War on Southern terms.” It was the country’s first culture war and the South won it. Their flag flies again. From segregated memories it was not a huge leap to segregated schools and segregated facilities. Jim Crow became a way of life that the South enforced and the North respected. It endured until another army rose up to wage a culture war of its own. That is the subject of “Freedom

Riders,” a powerful new documentary by Stanley Nelson that begins airing May 16 on PBS. In April 1961, a group organized by the Congress for Racial Equality integrated a bus heading south from St. Louis. They made it as far as Sikeston, Mo., before they were arrested. And that was in Missouri. CORE’s leaders knew that in Mississippi and Alabama, the activists would be treated worse. But something had to be done. John F. Kennedy may have owed his victory to the black vote, but his inaugural address ignored civil rights, even as the new president pledged to defend freedom “in all corners of the Earth.” To cure Kennedy’s — and the nation’s — forgetfulness, CORE planned a two-week tour from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans. Its volunteers made out wills as evidence that they knew the stakes. They took part in drills where toughs pretended to harass and beat them. (Re-enactments before the fact, you might say.) Genevieve Hughes, a white Freedom Rider, recalled that the training sessions felt like “makebelieve” — a sign of how little she and other white CORE volunteers knew about segregated society. Only after Birmingham — and Anniston, where a second group of Freedom Riders was attacked earlier in the day and its bus set ablaze — did Jim Crow become frighteningly real to everyone. And then the movement had the weapons it needed for victory: both the soaring rhetoric of Martin Luther King Jr. and the ugly media images giving his words urgency. I often find civil rights docu-

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mentaries deeply moving, and “Freedom Riders” was that way for me. I never get tired of watching young people embrace that dangerous cause so fearlessly, even joyously, and then prevail without weapons (well, other than the ones the National Guard were toting). But I also find race endlessly fascinating. It’s the barely visible thread that works its way through the entire American fabric, and I don’t always see it until someone points it out. Take “Treme,” the HBO drama about life in New Orleans after Katrina. Season 2 began Sunday night with the usual gumbo of story lines. But the stories that keep me riveted to this show are all about black New Orleanians: the junk hauler whose Federal Emergency Management Association contract

keeps a whole neighborhood alive; the perpetually broke musician scrapping for gigs; the teachers whose schools are taken over by well-intentioned outsiders. Everyone on “Treme,” white or black, has lost some control over his or her life since Katrina. For the African-Americans, though, that is compounded by a historic sense of powerlessness that I can only imagine. “Treme” creator David Simon is, to be sure, weaving fictions. But he does so with a journalist’s yen to tell people things they didn’t know before. For many of us, those things have to do with race. Which makes me wonder: When people look back at Katrina 50 years from now, whose memories will they recall? Whose stories will be passed on as reality?

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BY LUAINE LEE McClatchy-Tribune If you need somebody to hang sheetrock, plaster a wall, lay carpets, install sewer pipes or pour concrete, Joseph Lyle Taylor is your man. He’s done all those jobs and more. But Taylor gave up the luxury of those steady paychecks to become an actor. You can catch him as one of the wicked Bennett boys on FX’s modern-day Western, “Justified.” Taylor plays Doyle Bennett — “sort of the Johnny Cash of the Bennett clan,” is how Taylor describes him — “a little older, little smarter, a little cooler” than the rest. But if Taylor is willing to sweat in the hot sun of Santa Clarita, Calif., for a role, it’s because he knows what real work is. “My uncle had an excavation company so I’d go home in the summers and work in 114-degree heat digging ditches and laying water pipes and sewer pipes and roads and sidewalks,” he says over breakfast of a blueberry muffin and coffee in a hotel restaurant here. “I was good at all of them. I always tried to do the best I could at anything I did. My father instilled that in me. But the road crew was the hardest job I’ve ever done, seriously HARD. Concrete gets hot, and that’s how it solidifies. It sets up and you’re wearing these rubber boots and gloves to protect you from the concrete. It’s already 100 degrees and this concrete is getting very hot ... I got respect for the guys who do that for a living. I was 20, and it was hard.” His first viewing of a play in

high school sparked his interest in acting. “I’d never seen a play before, and it blew me away. I wasn’t dying to do it, I just loved to watch. It was, in my head, just the best thing I’d ever seen. It excited me on so many different levels.” A friend, who was taking drama class, urged Taylor to join him. “I said, ‘I play football, I can’t do that, I’m a linebacker.’ He said, ‘No, no, come try. It’s the easiest “A” you’ll ever make.’ “So I went in and it became difficult because it was a lot of work, but you had a lot of fun and a bunch of my friends were in it, and we had a really good time. But I wasn’t going to pursue it. I was from Vidor, Texas. I was going to get a job somewhere. That’s what the plan was. I needed to make money.” After a couple of small scholarships and further study, Taylor decided the urge to perform was too strong. “I wasn’t interested at the time in studies. I just wanted to do theater,” he says, removing his leather jacket in the stuffy room. So he transferred to the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, Calif., where he was able to study under professionals from the Abbey Theatre. From there he moved to New York to try out for the Neighborhood Playhouse. “I’d never even been to New York. I was enthralled. I landed in the middle of Manhattan and I was, like, ‘Whaaaaat! Look at this place.’ For years I’d walk around New York City and it would hit me that I lived in New York City — a

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kid from Vidor, Texas, population 11,000, walking the streets of Manhattan. I remember thinking the buildings can’t be much higher than the trees. But they were.” He finally landed a juicy part on “Law & Order.” “I was a dumb punk rocker who was falsely accused of killing this guy. It was so exciting. I thought I’d really made it. I was on NBC! But I don’t think I got another job for another year and I DIDN’T make it.” He filled that gap by working at a food warehouse. “I was loading foodstuffs on trucks Joseph Lyle Taylor plays Sheriff Doyle Bennett, part of the rule-bending and driving Bennett boys, in “Justified” on FX. to restaurants. That’s the worst-paying job I mended him for Lumet’s new up.’ I went to AA (Alcoholics ever had. I earned $7 an hour. TV series, “100 Centre Street.” Anonymous). What is difficult, “I was in the play ‘Sideman’ He won the role. you have to stop hanging out with Edie Falco, which won That proved life-changing with your drinking buddies. the Tony. So I got some heat off in several ways. He married For a year I was like, ‘I don’t that and did a couple indepen- his costar, Paula Devicq, and know what to do. I really don’t dent films. Then I was unem- established himself in the act- know what to do. What does ployed. My last unemploy- ing community. But the mar- one do if one doesn’t drink?’ ment check for $74.55 arrived riage failed, and his father died You end up doing other things. and I thought, ‘Well, this is at 53 from heart failure and a You get involved in other rough.’ Then I got a call from life of drinking and smoking. things, you have to, otherwise my agent who said, ‘(Director) Taylor was 29 and also a you’d be right back.” Sidney Lumet wants to see drinker. “It was hard. I went With “Justified” and the you.’” into some serious binge drink- movie “Seven Days in Utopia” Someone who’d caught ing for about a year and then due in August, Taylor ’s dryTaylor in “Sideman” recom- I finally said, ‘I can’t keep it wall days may be over.

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NBA Playoffs

BY PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press So is this how the San Antonio Spurs’ dynasty might end? Not with Tim Duncan hoisting a fifth NBA championship trophy — a scenario that seemed wholly realistic just a month ago — but with the top-seeded Spurs ousted in the first round by the eighthseeded Memphis Grizzlies, a franchise that previously never won a playoff game? “We put ourselves in this position,” Duncan said. “We gotta stay alive.” Duncan meant this series. But the stakes for him may go even further. Duncan, at the end what became a terrible 35th birthday, spoke softly after Memphis crushed the Spurs 104-86 on Monday in Game 4, putting San Antonio on the brink of becoming just the second No. 1 seed in NBA history to lose a best-of-seven series in the first round. Drafting the obituary of the Duncan era has been something of a spring tradition since 2008, a year after San Antonio won the last of its four championships. It remains premature to declare this the last run for the Spurs, whether or not Memphis finishes them off Wednesday. Yet these Spurs won 61 games. They secured homecourt advantage throughout the playoffs. They played quicker, became a little younger this season and kept their Big 3 mostly healthy for the first time in years. If it’s not the last run for the Spurs, at the very least, they seem on the verge of squandering a position Duncan may never see again. “We got a lot to lose,” Spurs guard Manu Ginobili said. “We had an unbelievable season. We were the No. 1 seed in the league for 65, 70 games, playing unbelievable.” None of that has mattered to Memphis. “They’re the better team. They won 61 games, and we won 46 games,” Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins said. “Their record all year long said they were the better team. As I’ve always said, it doesn’t matter who is this better team during the regular season. When you get to the playoffs, each series you have to be the better team.” Hollins walked his players through a 25-minute film session in Memphis before the team left for San Antonio. So good a mood was Hollins in, according to guard Tony

Allen, that the Grizzlies were bestowed with rare praise from their coach while re-watching their dismantling of the Spurs in the second half of Game 4. “That was a first,” Allen said. Hollins is hardly the only one in Memphis in high spirits: the city airport gave the team charter plane a water-cannon send-off before takeoff, before the Grizzlies

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from page 14 possibly return late Wednesday night with a spot in the Western Conference semifinals. “There’s not a media person standing around that would’ve gone and put his house and his paycheck on us being up 3-1,” Hollins said Tuesday. “But that’s why you play the games.” Dallas is the only No. 1 seed to fall in the first round since the series was expanded to the best-of-seven format. That was in 2007, when Golden State beat the Mavericks in six games after Dallas coasted through the regular season

with 67 wins. Only eight teams have rallied from a 3-1 deficit, Phoenix being the last in 2006. That same year, the Spurs nearly joined the list before losing Game 7 in overtime to Dallas, despite Duncan going for 41 points and 15 rebounds. Five years later Monday night, on his 35th birthday, Duncan had six points and seven rebounds. The Spurs this season diminished his role while putting together the second-best regular season in franchise history, making Duncan more of a complementary piece alongside Tony Parker and Ginobili. It’s all been a part of what

Spurs owner Peter Holt earlier this season called “going from the Tim Duncan era to the next era.” He said that March 4, and later that night, Holt sat courtside next to Texas Gov. Rick Perry as the Spurs crushed LeBron James and the Miami Heat by 30 points. That night, San Antonio improved to an NBA-best 51-11 — already more wins than the Grizzlies would get — and few teams looked as legitimate championship contenders as the Spurs. A lot’s changed in one month. But the Spurs don’t have time to change much now. “We’ll just go play,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.

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Griz snag Pacers’ McRoberts first-round pick for O.J. Mayo It’s great that O.J. Mayo is playing well in the playoffs. He’s been through a lot this season, from the thrashing courtesy of Tony Allen to being traded but then not being traded. That’s tough. But Mayo could average 22 points a game for the rest of the playoffs, and he’d still be the odd man out. His role has diminished. Plus, the

Grizzlies have recently taken on Rudy Gay’s max contract, Mike Conley’s $45 million deal and Zach Randolph’s $71 million re-up. After this season, Mayo will have a team option for $5.6 million. Marc Gasol, who has been far more productive for the Grizzlies, is up for a new deal, and the Grizzlies simply don’t have the resources to take care of everyone. Insert cheap Michael Heisley joke here. This summer, general manager Chris Wallace won’t have to worry about a pesky trade deadline. As originally planned, he’ll send Mayo to Indiana for Josh McRoberts and a first-rounder. And it’ll work out fine for all parties involved.

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You’ll certainly read this — since I’ll probably be the one writing it and all. Pastner’s 2012 recruiting class has a chance to be really, really special. Five-star forward Jarnell Stokes of Central High School here in Memphis lists The U of M in his top three. Pastner is also in with five-star forward Shaq Goodwin, as well as Perry Ellis, Tony Parker and Alex Poythress. There are countless options in this class for Pastner. He can’t get them all, of course, but by the time the dust subsides, I think Pastner will boast the ultimately No. 1 recruiting class come Spring 2012.

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