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Another Lady Vols three-peat David Cobb Staff Writer Sunday’s SEC Women’s Tournament ended with Tennessee senior forward Glory Johnson fighting for a loose ball on the Bridgestone Arena floor.

A few moments later she and fellow senior Shekinna Stricklen paraded around the court as SEC Champions for a third consecutive year.

The Lady Vols (24-8, 12-4 SEC) upended LSU 70-58 for their third win in three days as UT captured its 16th conference tournament title in front of a predominantly orange crowd of 12,441, an SEC women’s Championship Game record.

The Lady Vols were led by Johnson’s 20-point, 11rebound effort.

Her three-game average of 19.3 points and 10 rebounds was good enough to her earn her the tournament MVP honor.

“I keep saying every game that I don’t think she can take it to another level,” UT associate head coach Holly Warlick said.

Luckily for the Lady Vols, she did.

Unlike last year’s 90-65 Championship Game thrashing of Kentucky, this title came with a struggle.

LSU’s (22-10, 10-6) coach is former UT player and assistant Nikki Caldwell.

She was a part of the Lady Vols’ 1991 national championship squad and coached under UT head coach Pat Summitt from 2002-08.

“Nikki has done a great job,” Warlick said. “She prides herself and her team on defense and rebounding.

“She’s just an example of the success of people who have played and coached for Pat Summitt.”

The Tigers entered Sunday’s matchup holding conference opponents to a league-best 35 percent shooting.

The Tigers held UT to 42.3 percent shooting but were unable to corral Johnson inside.

A pair of Johnson free throws with 3:22 remaining in the first half capped a 9-0 Lady Vols’ run that put UT ahead 31-23.

LSU never regained the lead.

See Lady Vols on Page 7

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Glory Johnson and Shakinna Stricklen celebrate during a game against Ohio State on Saturday, March 26, 2011.

Johnson and Stricklen helped the lead the Lady Vols to their 16th SEC Championship Title with a win over the LSU Tigers, 70-58.

MCAT to add new test sections in 2015 Victoria Wright Student Life Editor

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Dave Kirkendol, creator of the Rico Stache Bash, enjoys the competition at Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria on Saturday. The seventh annual event raised money to benefit the Small Animal Oncology Department at UT.

As if getting in medical school wasn’t hard enough.

The Medical College Admissions Test is extending the five and a half hour test to seven hours, creating the largest revision to the test since 1991. The changes, which will take effect in 2015, will create additions to the behavioral social sciences and advanced science concepts in biochemistry and critical thinking sections on the test. In addition to the changes, the writing section of the test is being removed.

Kaplan Test Prep’s director of pre-heath programs, Dr. Jeff Koetje, said changes to the test were implemented in order to align the test material with the current state of medical education and ultimately better prepare students for med school.

“A lot has changed in medicine and the sciences in the last 20 years,” Koetje said. “In basic sciences and especially in molecular biology there have been a lot of advances in the in-treatment programs and the way it applies directly to patients.”

Koetje explains that in addition to these advances, the relationship between doctors and patients has shifted, causing doctors to adopt a more holistic approach in patient care.

“There’s been a shift in culture of medicine in holistic approach to patient care,” Koetje said. “In the past, doctors have been criticized. There’s a real commitment on the part of physicians in cultural values and people who have language issues and different social economic backgrounds.”

Koetje said doctors are often faced with critical decisions on continuing medical treatment with patients who cannot afford care or do not have health insurance. Since the addition to the behavioral science portion will test students on this new holistic approach in medicine, Koetje said pre-med students should expect to take more social science classes to be better prepared for the test.

“It’s not something you necessarily gain overnight,” Koetje said. “It has to be trained.”

In a survey conducted by Kaplan in January, about 95 percent of students described their current pre-med education as intense. Koetje said students might find it difficult to fit in the extra course work needed to prepare for the new MCAT, but taking the right classes is vital.

Alex Galvin, senior in chemistry, has already taken the test, and she said students should talk to their advisers to prepare for the test changes.

“I would say just talk to the professional advisers and do your research before you take the exam,” Galvin said.

“Make sure you do really well in your classes before you start and really focus on the big knowledge before taking the exam.”

Galvin plans to retake the MCAT in late March and is studying four to six hours a week. She said the hardest aspect of the MCAT is not the test-taking itself, but rather the anxiety of the impact the results have on a student’s future.

“I think the hardest part is kind of getting over the impact that it has on your chances on getting into school,” Galvin said. “Really it’s one of the biggest things to consider. You really have to get past that to even think about what is on the exam.”

According to Kaplan research, 43 percent of students who applied were accepted into med school across the country. Koetje said that despite the tedious changes in the test, he doesn’t expect pre-med students to change their academic courses.

“Pre-med students are a tenacious bunch, especially the ones who wanted to be doctors since they were five,” Koetje said. “This is not going to deter someone who has had the goal for a long time. It’s going to make it more important to manage the undergrad experience and really take full advantage of study opportunities.”

For information about MCAT changes, including updates and study tips, students can visit Kaplan’s website www.kaptest.com/mcat.

Charity event centers on mustaches Caroline Reinwald Staff Writer The seventh annual Rico Stache Bash, a mustache and beard competition to raise money for the Small Animal Oncology Department at the University of Tennessee, took place Saturday night at Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria. People from all over Knoxville with minor to extreme facial hair variations came to participate in the charity event and have a few drinks while doing so.

The Rico Stache Bash is a charity event created by Dave Kirkendol, who lost his dog, Rico, to cancer seven years ago. Kirkendol took Rico to the UT Oncology Clinic.

“(He wanted to) give back to (The UT Oncology Clinic) by starting the Rico Stache Bash where people can grow beards and mustaches and come out to have a few drinks and a good time,” Jeremy Walker, the MC for the event, said.

Some of the categories in the competition include Best Beard, Welcome to Puberty, Creepiest, Most Likely to Cause an Investigation, Best Female Mustache and Best Overall Mustache.

“My favorite category is Welcome to Puberty because those are the funniest,” Walker said.

“There’s peach fuzz, there’s barely noticeable … we just have a big ol’ time with it.”

Kirkendol said that the death of his dog almost eight years ago was extremely difficult for him.

“(His death) wrecked me pretty hard and I never saw that coming,” Kirkendol said.

Only five people run the Stache Bash, but as Kirkendol puts it, in the end, the production always works out really well.

The event had door prizes and a silent auction, where people could bid for prizes such as Dollywood tickets, a Gatlinburg vacation getaway, autographed snowboards, patio chairs, Food City gift cards and more. The goal was to raise $8,000.

This year, judges were there to help decide the winners. Kirkendol said each year the Rico Stache Bash gets bigger and bigger.

“People bring their families here now,” Kirkendol said. “Next year we will have a kids area. Every year there is something new.”

Trey Epperson, owner of The Corner BP, com-

peted in the Stache Bash by shaving his beard into a spectacular-looking mustache.

“There is a lot of strong competition this year,” Epperson said.

Some of the winners this year included twotime champion, Cowboy, for Best Place to Hide a Criminal, Trey Epperson for Best Mustache, Missy Bell for Best Female Mustache, and Cyler Newman for Best Overall.

Kirkendol said that this year has been his favorite thus far and that it has come together like he never would have imagined.

“Everybody here has lost a pet,” Kirkendol said.

“Everyone here is here for a good cause.”

For more information on the Rico Stache Bash and how to donate, visit http://ricostachebash.weebly.com/.

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Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

A cutout of head coach Cuonzo Martin’s head peers over students’ papers during pre-game activities at a basketball game against Vanderbilt on Saturday.

1770 — The Boston Massacre On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. The protesters, who called themselves Patriots, were protesting the occupation of their city by British troops, who were sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by a British parliament that lacked American representation.

British Captain Thomas Preston, the commanding officer at the Customs House, ordered his men to fix their bayonets and join the guard outside the building. The colonists responded by throwing snowballs and other objects at the British regulars, and Private Hugh Montgomery was hit, leading him to discharge his rifle at the crowd. The other soldiers began firing a moment later, and when the smoke cleared, five colonists were dead or dying — Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr, Samuel Gray,

Samuel Maverick, and James Caldwell — and three more were injured. Although it is unclear whether Crispus Attucks, an African American, was the first to fall as is commonly believed, the deaths of the five men are regarded by some historians as the first fatalities in the American Revolutionary War. The British soldiers were put on trial, and patriots John Adams and Josiah Quincy agreed to defend the soldiers in a show of support of the colonial justice system. When the trial ended in December 1770, two British soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter and had their thumbs branded with an “M” for murder as punishment.

The Sons of Liberty, a Patriot group formed in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act, advertised the “Boston Massacre” as a battle for American liberty and just cause for the removal of British troops from Boston. Patriot Paul Revere made a provocative engraving of the incident, depicting the British

soldiers lining up like an organized army to suppress an idealized representation of the colonist uprising. Copies of the engraving were distributed throughout the colonies and helped reinforce negative American sentiments about British rule.

In April 1775, the American Revolution began when British troops from Boston skirmished with American militiamen at the battles of Lexington and Concord. The British troops were under orders to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington and to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord. Neither missions were accomplished because of Paul Revere and William Dawes, who rode ahead of the British, warning Adams and Hancock and rousing the Patriot minutemen. Eleven months later, in March 1776, British forces had to evacuate Boston following American General George Washington’s successful placement of fortifications and cannons on Dorchester Heights. This bloodless liberation of Boston brought an end to the hated eight-year British occupation of the city. For the victory, General Washington, commander of the Continental Army, was presented with the first medal ever awarded by the Continental Congress.

It would be more than five years before the Revolutionary War came to an end with British General Charles Cornwallis’ surrender to Washington at Yorktown, Virginia.

1966 — Jet breaks up near Mt. Fuji On this day in 1966, a jet breaks apart in mid-air and plummets into Japan’s Mount Fuji. All 124 people on board the aircraft were killed. The plane’s pilot apparently flew close to the mountain in order to give the passengers a better view of it, and severe turbulence literally blew the plane apart.

The British Overseas Airways Corporation had a perfect flying record in the 1960s when their Boeing 707 left London on March 1 for an aroundthe-world trip. By March 5, the plane was in Tokyo at the Haneda Airport; its next stop was Hong Kong. On the runway prior to taking off, the passengers of Flight 911 could see the scraps of a deadly crash that had taken place only a month earlier.

On February 4, an All Nippon Airways 727 had crashed at Haneda, killing 133 people.

Captain Bernard Dobson took the 707 into the air with no problem and then veered a few miles off course to give the passengers a better view of the famed Japanese landmark, Mount Fuji. As the jet approached the mountain, it was caught up in violent turbulence caused by tremendous wind gusts.

The rear control surfaces of the plane were torn off and Captain Dobson lost control of the aircraft. As it plunged toward the base of Mount Fuji, the plane literally broke apart. There were no survivors.

Bodies were recovered over a wide area.

— This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

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New voting rules create controversy The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — State election officials say the small number of Tennesseans who didn’t have proper identification during early voting indicates people are adjusting to a new law that requires them to have a photo ID to vote, but others say the real test will be the general election in November.

Tennessee’s 12-day early voting period ended last Tuesday. During that time, Election Coordinator Mark Goins said there were more than 200,000 voters, and only 46 showed up without a photo ID. “That is such a small number for a brand new policy,” Goins said. “So far, the implementation of this law has gone smoothly.”

However, Vanderbilt University political science professor

Program gives inmates options The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Inmates at a Middle Tennessee prison are being awarded college credits under a new program at Nashville State Community College.

Teacher Julie Doochin started the nonprofit Tennessee Higher Education Initiative this year and directs the program that received a $123,000 federal workforce development grant to help young offenders, The Tennessean reported.

Through the program, 23 inmates at Charles Bass Correctional Complex in Nashville are considered community college students. Two college instructors come to the prison two nights a week to teach English composition

and ethics philosophy.

Students will earn 18 college credits toward an associate’s degree by the third semester of the program.

Doochin said her idea was inspired by a 60 Minutes episode about prisoners in New York taking college classes.

“Something gave me chills, and I wrote it down,” said Doochin. “These guys are worse if they come out and fester. Research shows this is the number one thing to stop that revolving door — it’s higher education for credit.”

Only select inmates can participate in the program.

The offenders have to pass a college readiness exam, they must have nonviolent offenses and their release dates can’t be more than seven years away.

Bruce Oppenheimer said the early voters are a “bad sample of the general electorate” because they don’t accurately reflect voters that tend to vote in the general election, such as the poor and minorities.

“How many Latinos and African Americans do you think are voting in the Republican presidential primary in Tennessee (on Tuesday)?” he asked. “How many poor people? The groups who are voting in the Republican primary ... are not the people who are expected to be particularly disenfranchised by the new voter ID law.”

The measure has stirred much debate, with critics saying the requirements to comply with the law are excessive and confusing, and could actually deter people from voting.

Mary Mancini, executive director of Tennessee Citizen Action, is among those leading an effort to repeal the law.

“The reason why we’re against this is because it is taking away Tennessean’s right to vote, and then making them have

a very specific government-issued ID to get it back,” she said.

“And if you don’t have one of those, then you’re disenfranchised.”

Dick Williams, chairman of Common Cause Tennessee, said if repealing the measure is not an option, then “we’d like to at least see them delay it until after this year’s election.”

But supporters of the Republican-backed law say it doesn’t need to be repealed and is necessary to prevent fraud at the ballot box.

“It’s about voter integrity,” Secretary of State Tre Hargett said. “I wish people would focus more on helping people get the information they need to vote ... instead of trying to scare people out of voting.”

Most forms of state or federally issued identification are acceptable at the polls. About 15,000 people have received government IDs for voting since the law was approved last year.

South ravaged by storms The Associated Press EAST BERNSTADT, Ky. — The stories from tornado survivors across the South and Midwest were remarkable: schoolchildren took cover under desks, people hunkered down in a church basement or hid out in a bank vault. One family even piled on top of one another for protection.

One of the most remarkable survivors was a toddler found alone in a field near her Indiana home. Her four immediate family members were among at least 37 people killed by tornadoes that scarred communities scattered across hundreds of miles of the nation’s midsection from Alabama to Indiana.

In Kentucky farming country, people remembered friends and family members who were killed in the most powerful storms to hit the eastern part of the state in nearly a quartercentury. Tracy Pitman said she was at home with her husband and 4-year-old grandson when a tornado with winds of up to 130 mph hit.

“I grabbed my baby and I said, ‘Baby, lay down’ and I got on top of him and my husband got on top of me and it was already happening, just flipping us over and over and over,” said Pitman, of East Bernstadt, Ky., a small town 70 miles south of Lexington.

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Jacob Smith, senior in biosystems engineering, John Underhill, junior in sociology, and Natasha Tinsley, junior in animal science, enjoy cupcakes at the Beta Theta Pi Cook-off Tournament on Saturday.

As the accounts were passed around, emergency officials trudged with search dogs past knocked-down cellphone towers and ruined homes looking for survivors in rural Kentucky and Indiana, marking searched roads and homes with orange paint. President Barack Obama offered federal assistance.

The worst damage appeared centered in some hard-hit small towns of southern Indiana and eastern Kentucky’s Appalachian foothills. No building was left untouched and few were recognizable in West Liberty, Ky., about 90 miles from Lexington, where two white police cruisers were picked up and tossed into City Hall.

“We stood in the parking lot and watched it coming,” said David Ison, who raced into a bank vault with nine others to seek safety. “By the time it hit, it was like a whiteout.”

The spate of storms was the second in little more than 48 hours, after an earlier round killed 13 people in the Midwest and South. They were the latest in a string of severe-weather episodes that have ravaged the heartland in the past year.

Friday’s violent storms touched down in at least a dozen states, killing 20 people in Kentucky, 12 in Indiana, three in Ohio, and one each in Alabama and Georgia. Indiana police had earlier reported a higher number of deaths but lowered it by two in a revision on Sunday.

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OPINIONS

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Real issue not brand, but method David Cobb, I want to applaud you for sharing your opinion. Congratulations for still believing that the administration makes decisions with students in mind! I was dispelled of this notion

by October of my freshman year, so your optimism is refreshing.

Although I find your youthful innocence heartwarming, I also find flaws with many arguments you have articulated. Here are a few: “It only costs you and your parents around $3.50.”

Well, thank you so much for informing us that the administration’s folly is only going to cost us $3.50. I think I speak for everyone when I say that this completely changes my opinion of “Big Orange, Big Ideas.” At first, I was confused. I thought I would have to pay $85,000, but now that I know it will cost only three Washingtons and a few Roosevelts, I’m cool with it.

Except I’m not. Students aren’t angry with “Big Orange, Big Ideas” because it costs $85,000. We’re mad because nobody asked us if that is where we wanted $85,000 to go. Some proponents of “BOBI” argue that students were interviewed about font sizes and color schemes. If this is true, then that means the administration already hired Lipman Hearne and was formulating the university’s marketing change without student consent.

Though I appreciate the administration asking students which orange says “serious, but with a touch of fun!” if someone had requested I pay a dollar to supplement the gathering of this data, I would have laughed in their face and fed the parking meter I’m forced to use instead.

“Lipman Hearne’s clients include Harvard, Cornell, Brown, Northwestern, Ohio State, North Carolina and the University of Chicago, just to name a few. So they’re good enough for some of the most prestigious universities in the country, but not … for us?”

Lipman Hearne’s performance is not at the center of this debate. By all means, their booklet and sign are well put together and professional.

Their subtle advertising methods (such as the “What’s the big idea?” flyers wedged in the napkin dispensers in Einstein’s) catch the eye, and the slogan is, I admit, catchy. So no, nobody has said Lipman Hearne isn’t good enough. The student body isn’t up in arms because ohmygod we wanted Comic Sans font and they didn’t deliver! We’re

up in arms because of the condescending way the administration chose to execute the “branding” of the university and its students. See above paragraph for further clarification.

“By the way, if you don’t believe that UT’s tuition rates are relatively low, then go see how much it costs to attend any of the above schools.”

Harvard, Brown and Cornell are private institutions of higher learning. We are a public school, which means we receive (rapidly shrinking) funds from the state to cover some of the costs necessary to run this place. Private schools do not receive state funds to offset operational costs, therefore they must rely more on student tuition and fees. Those who can afford private universities will (and should!) continue to go there, but those who can’t will have to fall back on cheaper state schools, like UT. So, yes, UT’s tuition is “relatively” low, but comparing public school tuition to private school tuition is ill-informed and unwise.

The recession hit states hard, and I understand raising tuition to cover the cost that state funds are no longer able to cover. However, I do not condone raising tuition to pay for a frivolous and unnecessary rebranding during tough economic times.

“While $75,000 is a lot of money to you and I, it’s just a drop in the bucket when compared to the costs of a music building, a better University Center and a better UT.” Great point, except the administration didn’t spend $75,000 on a new music building or UC. Although it isn’t much, investing that money in a few light fixtures or a new cash register at Chickfil-A will do more for student quality of life and UT’s image than a giant banner and booklet that nobody reads.

The furor behind “Big Orange, Big Ideas” isn’t because of money or the slogan itself. Students aren’t griping about it just because. We are upset because student interests are becoming more and more marginalized, and we will not sit idly by and watch our collective voice dwindle. If “Not World’s End” is the best slogan we can come up with, then maybe it’s time for a change.

Zana Operta Class of 2013 Political Science zoperta@utk.edu

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THE Great Mash Up• Liz Newnam

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Personal experience meets policy Off the Deep End by

Derek Mullins If you are a somewhat politically opinionated individual like me, you have probably experienced a particularly troublesome phenomenon at least once in the time you have been participating in political discourse. The phenomenon to which I refer is the one where you adamantly stand up for a particular side of an issue or policy despite the fact that there is at least one prominent example of why such a policy should not be enacted in your life. That example could be a friend, a former classmate, your landlord, a neighbor or even a family member. For me, it’s often the last category that gives me trouble.

I come from a large family. My mother has seven surviving siblings out of the nine other children that my maternal grandparents had. All but three of the aforementioned 10 children had multiple kids, meaning I have more than my fair share of cousins.

Many of those cousins have had children of their own, so holidays, birthdays and other annual family gatherings are never dull.

One of the downsides of being in a large family is the fact that it is wrought with addiction. The sad truth is that the majority of my family has either had struggles with substance abuse at various points in their lives or continue to struggle with the rigors of addiction. The best summation that I can utilize is that my family is the best example of the theory that addiction is genetic. Such a possibility has quite a lot to do with why I do not indulge in drugs or alcohol despite my usual defense of an individual’s right to partake in many of these substances.

It is because of this pervasive problem with addiction in the various branches of my family tree that I run into problems when discussing a reoccurring proposition regarding welfare benefits that is once again getting play inside many legislatures.

Many have suggested that the United States should move to implement a system that would require anyone who would potentially receive welfare, WIC, Medicaid, unemployment and many other forms of government assistance to undergo drug tests. The

idea behind such a proposal, of course, is a question of why hard-working taxpayers should have to bankroll the livelihoods of drug addicts who would rather waste their days getting high instead of utilizing the lines of assistance they have been given to try to find a path to get back on their feet and off of the government dole. On the surface, it is quite sensible that people would take this stance. After all, it would seem rather wasteful to continue sending checks to people who were more or less burning these charitable funds on their respective habits. This proposal truly has good (and somewhat selfish) intentions, but, as the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I cannot help but fundamentally disagree with such proposals despite the fact that this is a stance which is seemingly hypocritical when even a summary analysis shows that a select number of my family fits the bill of the useless junkie/drunk who is mooching off of government charity instead of contributing anything but DUI fines to society. My disapproval, however, comes not from a desire for my family members and the other small percentage of assistance recipients who abuse the funds they are given to continue to throw away my hard-earned funds on drugs or alcohol. Instead, it comes from my support for a fundamental right to privacy.

The United States Constitution ideally guarantees all individuals — young and old, rich and poor, drunk and sober — the right to privacy. Excluding a few specific substances, the government cannot constitutionally limit what you can put into your body.

Sure, the government arrests people all the time for drugs, but it’s for possession, not consumption. They no more have the right to tell addicts that they cannot receive funds than to tell obese individuals that they cannot receive food stamps because they weigh too much.

I am not trying to tell you that welfare programs do not need to be reformed in this country. They do.

Instead, I suggest we should divert our attention to making sure that people are not exchanging things such as food stamps and WIC benefits for drugs, which is becoming much more commonplace these days.

Sometimes you have to stand up for something even when the most readily available evidence says you should take the opposing stance.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science.

He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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On Friday, severe thunderstorms tore through Tennessee. Many sought shelter from the onslaught of rain, hail and lightning, plus the threat of tornadoes. As most people took shelter in the nearest basement, those with class during the warning trudged through the downpour.

The first wave of storms rolled into East Tennessee in the middle of classes at the University of Tennessee. A UT Alert for a tornado was issued at 12:30 p.m. and lasted until an “all clear” was given at 1 p.m. One would think that a severe thunderstorm and a tornado warning would be enough to cancel class.

While no death or injury resulted from the decision to go on with class despite the obvious warning signs, the likelihood that someone could have been hurt en route to class is unacceptable.

If the Friday storms taught us anything, it is that more preemptive action is needed in situations such as this. More needs to be done than simply sending an e-mail to students informing them that a tornado warning has been issued.

County schools in the Nashville area were dismissed early so that students could seek shelter from the storm. If high schools were able to gain early insight that a severe storm was approaching and take immediate action to protect their students, why can’t a large university such as ours take similar action?

Making this problem look even worse for the university is the increased difficulty that these schools face when dismissing students.

Most of the children in the public school system are not old enough to drive yet. These students are unable to simply get in their car and go home. A coordinated effort is required to make

sure they all get to where they need to go.

College is set up on a class-by-class schedule, unlike the full school day schedule utilized by elementary, middle and high schools.

Therefore, if our college administrators were to become aware of a threatening storm approaching and cancel class, many would be able to simply remain safely at their residence.

If the students were already out on campus, it would be easy to walk home, drive home or seek shelter in one of the many university buildings.

Yet even when all signs point toward putting the safety of students ahead of an hour’s worth of education, our school administrators did nothing.

Let me also make it clear that I am not arguing this point in an effort to get out of class just for the sake of not wanting to go to class.

While I dislike going to class on Friday as much as anyone, that is beside the point. This call for action is about human safety, not human laziness. I do not have a problem walking to class on any given day; I enjoy the extra physical activity that the walk to and from class provides. This has been especially true with the great weather we have been having recently.

However, I also do not have a problem putting that physical activity aside when the walk to and from class includes heavy rain, lightning and a tornado warning.

The storm that battered campus last year and left many with heavily damaged vehicles or other property should have been a wakeup call for all Knoxville residents. One would think that a storm like that would really open up the eyes of those in charge of canceling classes.

The tornado warning for the campus area was only in effect from 12:30-1 p.m. This means that the only classes that would have been affected by cancellation due to the warning would be the 12:20 p.m. classes. That is a sacrifice our university needs to be willing to make in order to ensure the safety of students.

— Ashton Smith is a sophomore in communications. He can be reached at ssmit192@utk.edu.

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Fiction: Identical, Part 6 Romney takes WA state

by Olivia Cooper Marla and John sat in their living room which was comprised mainly of thrift store finds that even the hipsters would reject. John rocked gently in his recliner that had small tufts of foam spilling from the armrest and smiled to himself. On the television ran stock footage of his twin brother, Craig, in his glory days as a superhero. Saving children, buses of people, the town, the space time continuum and even a box of puppies were among the highlights and Marla, John’s pregnant wife, sat on the floor inches away from the set. John knew of Marla’s infatuation for Craig, but didn’t have much else going for him except his wife and unborn child. The news had come out that Craig was losing his supernatural abilities, which was a vast selection, and the one who leaked the information now asked his wife to move aside so he could get a better view.

“I can’t believe this is happening,” Marla whimpered as she struggled to sit on the couch that was only partially wrapped in plastic.

“He never saw it coming, I can tell you that much,” John told her. “It takes years to keep thoughts hidden from people like him, he never had a clue.”

Marla tore a tissue into pieces and gathered them in her lap to tear the pieces apart. Each one fell slowly like feathers on a chick.

“This won’t end well, John Samson. Your brother is at a disadvantage. Everyone will see this,” she told him and grabbed another tissue.

“Can the theatrics, you think he has real enemies? They’re just his fanboys, never posed a real risk,” John scoffed.

“We are now receiving reports that a third person is in the home not on the house staff,” the reporter announced as she clutched the earpiece that connected her to a frantic newsroom.

“Sources report that it looks as if the Dauphin of Death has broken into the home and the authorities are now planning an escape route for Mr. and Mrs. Perfect.”

“Do you see?” Marla yelled as she dove for the set once more, trying in vain to get closer to Craig.

“They’ve heard!”

“He’s the weirdest one of them all in that getup.

He declared bankruptcy last year anyway,” John

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explained. “I doubt he has so much as a sharp stick to—” shots rang out over the set and interrupted John. His blood turned cold and his sweat soon followed. His lungs expelled all the air he had taken in and had trouble bringing more back in.

The reporter had one hand over her head and the other held the microphone. She had taken cover behind the news van as well as a few other spectators.

“If you are just now joining us, we are outside of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Perfect where the Dauphin of Death has the couple hostage and four shots have been fired. It is unclear if anyone was hurt,” she dutifully recalled.

Marla was on her knees before the television, her face became pale.

“You just killed him. That was it,” she told him and slowly turned around. Her hands had begun to shake. “He’s probably dead now and you killed him, your own brother. The only man I have ever loved, and you did it.”

John shook his head as Marla began to pound on the ground with her fists then ran them through her hair, then hit the ground even more.

John couldn’t stay and watch her, couldn’t let his brother die. He just wanted to humiliate him, not kill him. He had been jealous for years, but he just saw this as an opportunity to put them back as equals. No, they were never equal, just to show Craig how it was to be him; vulnerable, inferior and bitter to be denied something that his twin brother had since birth. This would be his last chance.

John dragged Marla to the sofa so she would at least have something to prop her back up against.

“Do you hate me even more?” Marla sobbed.

He looked her in the eyes and wiped away some tears.

“You’ve been good,” he told her then snatched his keys off the table and was out the door before she could respond. Marla hiccupped and let out another wail as she rubbed her face where John’s hand was. She touched her protruding stomach and gasped at a pain that shot through her abdomen. The baby was coming.

She yelled for John, but he was long gone.

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Rick Santorum, in search of his first wins since Feb. 7, urged Ohio Republicans not to heed those who cast Romney as the inevitable nominee. He said the race was far from over, even as he was locked in a tight race in Washington state for second place with Paul.

“We need someone who can go out and make the case, not with the most money, but with the best ideas, the best vision, the best track record,” Santorum said in Bowling Green, Ohio. “Go out and make this election about big things.”

The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A Washington state victory in hand, Mitt Romney is looking ahead to Tuesday’s 10-state bonanza that features contests from Alaska to Ohio to Massachusetts, millions in campaign spending and the largest single day of voting yet in the Republicans’ topsy-turvy primary race.

The former Massachusetts governor won Saturday night’s low-turnout caucuses, adding another win to his tally and gaining momentum in his drive to the Republican nomination. Leading in delegates to the national convention, Romney looked to defend his frontrunner standing even while rivals Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul sought to keep their candidacies afloat.

“The voters of Washington have sent a signal that they do not want a Washington insider in the White House. They want a conserva-

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PRIMARIES continued from Page 5 On Sunday, Santorum said in a televised interview that hardline conservatives could dominate the race if their support wasn’t split between himself and Newt Gingrich.

Santorum told “Fox News Sunday” that he and Gingrich were sharing the “anti-Romney vote,” but that the race will “narrow over time” and allow him to pick up more steam.

He spoke before campaigning in Tennessee and Oklahoma, two states that could turn around his struggling, rag-tag campaign. He is far outpaced in organization and it's not clear he even has paid staff on the ground in the upcoming states.

Still, he was optimistic: “We’ve done amazingly well for a campaign that didn’t have a lot of resources,” he said.

Meanwhile, Gingrich blitzed the Sunday talk shows, appearing on four national morning programs but planned no campaign events with actual voters, reflecting his strategy of using media appearances to offset his advertising and organizational disadvantages.

Gingrich, leading in the polls in his home state of Georgia, is looking for his first victory since his lone win in South Carolina on Jan. 21.

Gingrich called Georgia, his home state, “vital to the campaign” and said that despite a lot of money spent against him, “I think we’re going to win decisively.”

He acknowledged that a loss by any major candidate on his home turf would make it “very hard” for the campaign “to continue to move forward.”

ARTS&CULTURE But, he told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the race has had so many candidates surge to the top and then fall back and “I think we’re coming back for a third time.”

Gingrich also said that in the end, he has no doubt that those candidates who fall short of the nomination will unite behind the eventual nominee, despite the often tough rhetoric the contenders are throwing at each other during the campaign.

Gingrich said “people shouldn’t be at all confused about that” and that the GOP's goal is to deny President Barack Obama a second term.

Gingrich agreed that he’s running neck-inneck with Santorum.

“I think the margin between Santorum and me has closed very dramatically in the last 10 days. And that’s part of this competition is to get back to a position to be able to compete head-to-head with Romney,” Gingrich said during an evening appearance in Bolwing Green, Ohio.

That dynamic — Romney versus a conservative alternative — has dominated the race to this point, as candidates have risen as Romney’s chief rival and then collapsed under a barrage of spending and negative attacks.

Santorum seemed to have settled into that role, but his scrappy campaign was set to be tested on its largest stage yet. The former senator from Pennsylvania lacks the infrastructure of his rivals and is being badly outspent.

But, perhaps a sign that money alone wouldn’t determine the nominee, Santorum and Romney were in a close race in Ohio, seen as the crown jewel of Super Tuesday. Romney and Santorum maneuvered for their next showdown in that big industrial state.

Monday, March 5, 2012

Shooting creates chaos The Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. — Police made one arrest and were looking for two other suspects after a shootout amid a large crowd outside an Arizona nightclub left more than a dozen people wounded and set off a chaotic scene as the injured screamed for help and hundreds tried to flee.

The number of people confirmed wounded in the shooting late Friday in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe rose to 14 after a person went to a hospital Saturday with a gunshot wound to the foot, police spokesman Lt. Mike Horn said.

None of the wounded had life-threatening injuries. Twelve of them had relatively minor injuries, some driving themselves to hospitals, while two were seriously hurt.

“People were running in all different directions, and some people were trying to force their way into the bar to get away,” Horn said. “It was incredibly chaotic, and understandably so. Again, we’re just fortunate that no one was killed.”

The man in custody is one of three who opened fire at one another after they began arguing as a crowd of at least 250 people lined up outside The Clubhouse Music Venue for a hip-hop show late Friday, Horn said. He was in a car that a patrol officer stopped just after the shooting.

Horn said all three men are believed to be affiliated with Phoenix-area gangs. He asked for the public’s help in identifying the two still at large.

Witness Paul Butler was among the crowd waiting to get into the club to hear Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hussle perform. Butler told KTVK-TV that he heard a series of pops as the gunfire erupted.

“And you see everybody running, couple more shots, everybody running,” Butler said. “It was pure chaos.”

Police had only a vague description of suspects wearing dark clothing who ran away from the club on East Broadway Road, about 7 miles east of downtown Phoenix.

Hussle never took the stage for the midnight show but tweeted after the shooting: “Az .... y’all gotta be cool man. This ... ain’t rite.”

A phone call and email to his publicist weren’t immediately returned.

Four hours after the shooting, the parking lot was virtually empty with only police activity apparent. All entrances to the lot were cordoned off with tape, and squad cars were posted around the area.

The website for the business — located in a strip mall within two miles of Arizona State University’s main campus in Tempe — says it’s been in operation for six years hosting music shows nightly for all age groups.

Horn said the one suspect in custody was being held on 13 counts of aggravated assault and one count of assisting a criminal street gang.

There have been problems at the club in the past, Horn said, including a 2007 fatal shooting that remains unsolved. Police worked with the club owner then after learning he was turning over his business to promoters for events, believing the owner was absolving himself of responsibility for anything that happened, Horn said. Police followed up with the owner about a year and a half ago, to make sure he was providing adequate security.

That may not have been in place late Friday, Horn said. Some witnesses told police that some people in line refused to be searched for weapons.

Horn urged anyone who can help identify the two men being sought to call Tempe police or the local “silent witness” telephone line at 480-WITNESS.

Country star looks to return to television The Associated Press

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A piece of artwork holding clay pots lies broken on the ground outside McClung Museum after a series of heavy storms blew through campus on Friday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — More than 20 years after a plane crash killed seven members of her band and her tour manager, Reba McEntire can still clearly see the hotel room she was in when she got the news.

The emotion comes flooding back when she revisits that tragic day in 1991 on “Oprah’s Master Class” on the OWN network Sunday night. It’s a rare break in composure from the queen of country music.

“I don’t guess it ever quits hurting,” she says on the show, recalling how she tearfully followed husband-manager Narvel Blackstock room to room as he called people to let them know. “It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened in my life.”

From that tragedy, she learned to make each day count and not to put anything off until tomorrow. However, McEntire said after the crash, she built up a wall so she would not get close to anybody, and it took time for her to open up to members of her touring family again. She accepted support from industry friends like Dolly Parton, who helped her put a new band together, and she took solace in her strong work ethic.

“I had a huge organization, and I needed to continue working, because that’s their paycheck also,” she told The Associated Press in a phone interview from just outside Dublin on Thursday. “I had to take care of the people who are still here. So it wasn’t a thing where I could quit. I had to go on with my life, my career for them, for my family, for my sanity.”

Hard work is a defining theme in McEntire’s life, and it has served her “tremendously” throughout her career. It’s

something she learned early on from her father, Clark, when she was put to work as a kid on the family’s ranch in Oklahoma.

“If you do that in any job, if you can take direction, if you’re coachable, and you give it all, you’re going to be successful,” she said on the phone.

McEntire is now a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and has sold more than 55 million albums worldwide.

She also runs a successful fashion and merchandise line.

In 2001, she performed in the Broadway revival of “Annie Get Your Gun” and she starred in the hit TV show “Reba” for six seasons before it was taken off the air.

“I didn’t want to leave the sitcom business in the first place. Our show was canceled in December of 2006, not by our choice by any shape, form or fashion,” she said. “We had a lot more stories to tell, and we were having a blast.”

This year, McEntire is going back to television. ABC has picked up a pilot for the show “Malibu Country.” McEntire plays a woman who divorces her rock-star husband and moves her three kids from Nashville to Malibu to resurrect her singing career.

“I thought it was very true to life,” she said. “Kind of like ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ once again, because it was very similar to Narvel, Shelby (their son) and myself moving to L.A. in 2001 to do the ‘Reba’ show.’

So I really got a kick out of it.”

As much as she's accomplished, McEntire believes she still has a lot to learn.

“No matter how old you are or what you’ve been doing in life, you can always learn either a better way of doing things or just a better way of treating people,” she said.

Monday, March 5, 2012

LADY VOLS continued from Page 1 The Tigers cut the UT advantage to 46-44 with 12:52 to play, but Stricklen scored the game’s next seven points to put the Lady Vols ahead once again.

Stricklen’s second half spree was customary during UT’s three-game run through the tournament.

In Friday’s 68-57 quarterfinal victory over Vanderbilt, she scored all 18 of her points in the second half.

In Saturday’s 74-58 semifinal victory over South Carolina, she scored all 16 of her points in the second half.

Sunday, she scored 14 of her 16 points in the second frame.

Stricklen’s 3-point basket with 58 seconds left buried any thoughts of an LSU comeback, putting the Lady Vols ahead 65-56.

“I think I’m just thinking too much starting the first half,” Stricklen said with a smile. “I think I always start the game tense. I over-think because I want to come out strong. I’m just over-thinking and over-doing it and it takes me awhile to relax. Once I relax, I get it going in the second half.”

After a few desperate possessions after Stricklen’s

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SPORTS trey, Johnson was on the floor scrambling for possession when the buzzer sounded.

The tournament MVP’s presence on the court as the horn sounded came as no surprise to Warlick.

“That’s just her nature,” Warlick said. “She’s competitive and I absolutely love that about Glory. She’s a competitor and it’s in her spirit, in her DNA, and it’s what makes Glory’s game special.”

The Lady Vols’ five seniors started each game of the tournament. After starting together for the first time this season in a 75-59 Senior Day victory over Florida, the combination is 4-0.

“I try to remind the rest of the seniors that every day we get on the floor it might be our last,” Johnson said.

“We never know when our last game is going to be. We always emphasize playing as hard as you can whenever you step on the floor. That’s huge for us, especially now that we’re seniors.”

The Lady Vols have now won 16 of the 32 conference tournaments.

Summitt has coached all of them.

“It’s one thing doing it for ourselves, our families, our fans, and for God,” Johnson said. “But Pat has been through so much. We want to let her know that we’re willing to work for her and go to bat for her.

“To see her cut down that net is amazing.”

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Vicky Baugh drives between Arkansas defenders during a game on Thursday, Feb. 23. Baugh combined with fellow seniors Johnson and Stricklen for 46 of the Lady Vols’ 70 points for their third straight SEC title.

NFL takes bounty search further The Associated Press

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Brynn Boren reaches for a low shot during a match against Florida on Friday. The Lady Vols dropped that match against the Gators but rebounded on Sunday, winning 4-3 over South Carolina.

NEW YORK — The NFL’s investigation that found the New Orleans Saints paid bounties to players for knocking opponents out of games is far from over.

League spokesman Greg Aiello said in an email to The Associated Press on Sunday the NFL will be “addressing the issues raised as part of our responsibility to protect player safety and the integrity of the game.”

Those issues could include previous seasons, too.

Several players around the league have said the Saints and defensive coordinator Gregg Williams weren’t the only ones with such a system. Former Redskins safety Matt Bowen said Williams had a similar bounty scheme when he was in Washington.

Aiello said the league would not comment on other reports. He added that the NFL will look at “any relevant info regarding rules being broken,” saying that is “standard procedure.”

Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh insisted Sunday his team had no bounty program.

“I don’t take part in those things and nor do my teammates and nor my coaches.

We don’t allow that,” said Suh, who was suspended for two games this season for stomping on an opponent and has been fined frequently by the NFL for rough play.

“For me, personally, and I know my teammates, we don’t want to put anybody out,” he added. “Especially me, I would never want anybody to target me to take me out, so why would I do it against somebody else.”

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‘Physical’ Vols top ’Dores, finish second in SEC Matt Dixon Sports Editor Cuonzo Martin tweeted on Friday that he would make fans who didn’t wear orange to Saturday’s game between Tennessee and Vanderbilt run sprints.

The threat paid off.

The Volunteers (18-13, 10-6 SEC) brought their “hard hats” and physically dominated the Commodores (21-10, 10-6) in a 68-61 victory in front of a rowdy Thompson-Boling Arena capacity crowd of 22,172.

“That’s what our guys appreciate and that’s what they need,” Martin said. “That gets you over the hump. You have an atmosphere like that, you’ve got a chance to be special as a team.

It means so much to our program from a recruiting standpoint and to the players’ psyche. It was great. A lot of credit to our fans for stepping up and representing like Tennessee knows how.”

The win ensured UT a first-round bye in this week’s SEC Men’s Tournament, and the Vols finished in second place in the conference standings after Kentucky’s victory over Florida on Sunday. UT has won eight of its last nine games, and the late-season surge has given the Vols the opportunity to play their way into the NCAA Tournament after struggling early in the season.

“We’re not the same team that lost at the beginning of the season compared to now,” sophomore guard Trae Golden said. “To say we’ve made such a considerable growth in such a small period of time, I just think the sky’s the limit.”

Cameron Tatum, after being honored before the game along with Renaldo Woolridge and Tyler Summitt, made the most of his Senior Day. The fifth-year senior guard, who’s battled injuries and inconsistent play for much of his UT career, led the Vols with 18 points, his sec-

NFL continued from Page 7 All payouts for specific performances in a game, including interceptions or causing fumbles, are against NFL rules. The NFL also warns teams against such practices before each season.

The NFL said the findings were corroborated by multiple, independent sources, and the pool amounts peaked in 2009, the year the Saints won the Super Bowl.

“The payments here are particularly troubling because they involved not just payments for ‘per-

ond highest scoring total of the season.

“I had chills throughout the whole game,” Tatum said. “I knew it was going to be a great day for us. It was absolutely awesome. I could not script it any better.”

Golden chipped in 17 points, marking the ninth consecutive game he’s scored at least 10 points.

“I’ve said it before — any time Trae Golden plays to a high level, not necessarily how many points he scores, but when he is in the game mentally, we’re tough to beat,” Martin said.

Big men Jeronne Maymon (12) and Jarnell Stokes (11) each scored in double figures for the Vols. Stokes also had career-highs in rebounds (14) and blocks (5).

“I just played my role and boxed out,” Stokes said. “I think I did a great job of boxing out, getting rebounds and doing stuff that does not show up on the stat sheet. I was surprised I got five blocks.”

UT took a 30-29 lead into the locker room after a back-and-forth first half. Vandy’s Jeffery Taylor, the SEC’s second-leading scorer behind teammate John Jenkins, was held scoreless in the first half, and finished with 10 points.

Jenkins scored 18, but it came on 5-of-15 shooting, including just 3-of-10 from 3-point range.

“Their perimeter guys were light years better than ours today,” VU coach Kevin Stallings said.

Tatum scored six points during an 11-0 Vols’ run to give UT a 43-36 lead early in the second period. Vandy trailed by as many as nine points in the second half, but battled back to trail 5653 with just over four minutes remaining. But the Vols would make their free throws down the stretch (20-of-25 in the second half), and avenge the 65-47 loss to Vandy in Nashville on Jan. 24.

UT will play Friday at 7:30 p.m. against the winner of Ole Miss and Auburn, who play in the SEC Tournament’s opening round on Thursday. formance,’ but also for injuring opposing players,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday in a statement. “The bounty rule promotes two key elements of NFL football: player safety and competitive integrity.”

The league said 22 to 27 defensive players were involved in the program and it was administered

by Williams, with the knowledge of coach Sean Payton.

“It was a terrible mistake,” Williams said. “And we knew it was wrong while we were doing it.”

No punishments have been handed out, but they could include suspension, fines and loss of draft picks.

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Trae Golden celebrates after a win over Vanderbilt on Saturday. The men’s basketball team closed out the regular season with a Senior Day victory over the Commodores, 68-61, to secure a No. 2 seed in the SEC Tournament.

Lady Vols tennis beats USC Staff Reports The Tennessee Lady Vol tennis team used a third-set tiebreaker victory from Kata Szekely and a straight-set clincher from Caitlyn Williams to overcome a 3-2 deficit and defeat South Carolina, 4-3, Sunday at the Goodfriend Tennis Center.

Much the opposite from Friday’s match when Florida won on all three doubles courts, Tennessee swept the doubles point on each court for the third time this season.

In the effort, two Lady Vols moved up to ninth on different lists. Senior Natalie Pluskota is now tied with Agnes Wiski for ninth all-time in career doubles wins with 95, while freshman Sarah Toti is tied for ninth with Felicia Abrams in wins by a UT freshman with 24.

Pluskota, who returned from injury to the doubles lineup Friday, teamed with Williams for UT’s first doubles victory of the day. The ninth-ranked duo nationally

defeated Dominika Kanakova and Anya Morgina, 8-2, for their sixth win by at least four points.

Less than two minutes later, Joanna Henderson and Kata Szekely reeled in the doubles point, marking the 13th time in 14 matches that the Lady Vols have done so.

Henderson and Szekely used an 8-3 advantage, winning the last four games over Josefin Andersson and Katerina Popova to move to 9-2 on the season and provide their fourth doubles-point clincher in 2012.

Boren and Toti, who led 7-3 at the time, appeared to be in position to start a new winning streak. Josefin Andersson and Katerina Popova closed the gap to 7-5, before winning their SEC-best 13th contest of the season, 8-5.

With a dominating performance over No. 34 Morgina, Boren helped give the Lady Vols a 2-0 lead via a 6-1, 6-1 win.

From there, South Carolina took advantage of its experience in the bottom half of the lineup to quickly take a 3-2 lead.