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5 teens die in Montana when pickup hits embankment HELENA, Mont. — A Montana coroner said five teenagers died immediately in an early morning crash when their pickup truck failed to negotiate a turn and slammed into an embankment. Lewis and Clark County Coroner Mickey Nelson said three males and two females died Sunday in what he describes as an “extreme high impact accident.” The Montana Highway Patrol said it’s unclear if seat belts were in use or if alcohol was a factor in the crash, which took place about 12 miles east of Helena at about 1:10 a.m. Authorities haven’t released the victims’ names. Bombs kill 5 at house tied to Iraq Sunni candidate BAGHDAD — Several bombs exploded Sunday near a house linked to a prominent Sunni figure who ran in this month’s parliamentary elections in Iraq, killing five people and wounding 26 others, a police official said. The attack adds to fears of postelection violence as the bitter election rivals enter what are expected to be drawn out talks on forming the next government that will rule Iraq as U.S. troops leave by the end of 2011. Sunday’s blasts took place in the town of Qaim, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) west of Baghdad and on the border with Syria, the police official said. The first bomb, planted at a house under construction, went off at 7 a.m. in a busy area of Qaim. As onlookers gathered, four more bombs hidden in trash littered around the site detonated, causing the casualties. The official said the house belongs to a brother of Sheik Murdhi Muhammad alMahalawi, a Sunni candidate who ran on the Iraqiya list led by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, the top vote-getter in the March 7 balloting. NYC to search again for Sept. 11 victim remains NEW YORK — New York City officials are planning to search through material excavated from around the World Trade Center site for any remains of Sept. 11 victims. The three-month endeavor is scheduled to start Friday at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. The material being searched was taken from the area around ground zero in the last two years. If there are any possible remains found, the material will undergo testing at the city medical examiner’s office. The search is expected to cost $1.4 million. — from The Associated Press

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While the Volunteers advanced further in the NCAA Men’s Tournament than any squad in UT’s history, Tennessee could not overcome the obstacle of Michigan State Sunday afternoon in St. Louis, Mo. The Volunteers end the season at 27-9 and among the nation’s final eight teams.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — After 37 games, the Tennessee basketball team’s season came down to 11.2 seconds and a pair of free throws in a 70-69 loss to Michigan State in the Elite Eight. A Scotty Hopsonmissed free throw and Spartan forward Raymar Morgan’s successful free throw conversion after a questionable foul call on J. P. Prince with 1.8 seconds remaining was the deciding factor. Prince said he simply wishes the game hadn’t been decided by the officials. “I don’t know if I got the benefit of the doubt today,” Prince said. “I just think at the end of the game you let the players win the game. That’s the only thing I always say, let us win the game.” Prince attempted to make officials see his side of the call but to no avail. “But it’s unfortunate that he called it,” he said. “I just wanted to make sure he saw the call clear, because with one second on the clock, I don’t know. Like I said, it was a physical game. For it to end like that with one second, that’s just one of the most painful things, because there was nothing the players can do about it.” Still, the Vols have plen-

ty to be proud of after accumulating the first ever trip to the Elite Eight and the second most victories in school history. Head coach Bruce Pearl said it’s hard to look past the sting of the loss to reflect on what the team accomplished. “It’s hard to reflect right now,” Pearl said. “It’s hard to reflect because I’ve (never) been here before as a head coach. This is my first loss in the Elite Eight.” Pearl said the outcome wasn’t what the Volunteers hoped to leave the Edward Jones Dome with. “I think we came to St. Louis expecting to win two games,” Pearl said. “And we played two really good teams, and we probably played well, I think, both nights.” While the loss was disappointing for the team, Pearl said the support of Big Orange faithful was a testament to the Volunteer spirit. “I’m proud when I looked into the stands and saw all that orange up there,” Pearl said. “This isn’t close to home either. These people got in the car and they drove and they got here. And they’re proud. And they stayed with us all season long through a lot of adversity, and I think they enjoyed this group tremendously.” See BASKETBALL on Page 10

Chancellor comments on rise of bias-based incidents at UT Anthony Elias Staff Writer Chancellor Jimmy Cheek issued a statement Friday afternoon in an effort to make students, faculty and staff aware of actions being taken toward the recently reported bias-based crimes. Six police reports posted on the UTPD Web site stated that in the last two months, six bias-based crimes regarding harassment, vandalism and derogatory racial slurs have been issued on campus. Four of the six incidents were derogatory racial and sexual slurs, all of which occurred in North Carrick and Hess Hall over the span of four days from Feb. 24 to Feb. 28. Cheek sent out a campus-wide e-mail on Friday morning asking staff, faculty and students for their assistance in making UT a more friendly atmosphere. In the e-mail, Cheek expressed his outrage toward the unprecedented rise in biased-based crimes and challenged the UT campus to help “make sure we are all welcoming to all and hostile to none.” “When I came here, diversity was one of the

critical things I listed in my strategic priorities for this university to have,” Cheek told reporters. “We want an environment that’s welcoming to everyone and not threatening to anyone, and so this does not fit that category.” Cheek recalled his speech at his investiture back in May 2009, stating the importance of making UT a more diverse university. “I want to emphasize my commitment to diversity on this campus,” Cheek said. “A rich, diverse culture enhances everything we do. I pledge to make this campus a welcoming place to everyone and hostile to no one.” The UTPD are currently investigating all six of the incidents and are taking appropriate action depending on what they find. Along with the district attorney, they will determine the punishment depending on the incidents’ circumstances. UTPD Captain Keith Lambert said the incidents “have been a surprise” and are depressing because “this is something that’s not typical” at UT.

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Many of the trees and flowers began to bloom last week on campus. The UT gardens, which contain various plants, trees, and flowers are free and open to the public and will be holding their Easter Eggstravaganza on Saturday from 10-2.

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Monday, March 29 — • 7 p.m. — As part of the Black Cultural Programming Committee’s Young Professional Speaker Series, Steve Perry, who was featured on CNN’s Black in America, speaks in the UC Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Tuesday, March 30 — • 3:30 until 5:30 p.m. — The International House presents “Turkish Cooking Demonstration” in the I-House Great Room. Attendees will learn how to cook Turkish food for the price of $2 for students and $5 for others. Hayley DeBusk • The Daily Beacon

• 4:30 p.m. untill 7 p.m. — The Women’s Studies Program screens the feature film “Iron Jawed Angels,” which stars Hilary Swank and chronicles the first efforts of Alice Paul to achieve women’s suffrage, in the Women’s Studies Suite on the third floor of the Jessie Harris Building. The movie is free and open to the public, and pizza will be provided. • 6:30 p.m. untill 8:30 p.m. — The International House Coffee House series presents “Breaking the Barriers: Experience Africa Hands On” in the I-House Great Room. The event features cultural activities of Nigeria, Ghana and Somalia, including hair braiding, headpiece tying, language and alphabets, drumming, dancing and games.

Thunderstorms and rain plagued Knoxville Sunday afternoon. While the incliment weather stayed around all day, much of the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon was finished before the storms hit.

THIS DAY IN • 1973 — Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam. In 1961, after two decades of indirect military aid, U.S. President John F. Kennedy sent the first large force of U.S. military personnel to Vietnam to bolster the ineffectual autocratic regime of South Vietnam against the communist North. Three years later, with the South Vietnamese government crumbling, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered limited bombing raids on North Vietnam, and Congress authorized the use of U.S. troops. By 1965, North Vietnamese offensives left President Johnson with two choices: escalate U.S. involvement or withdraw. Johnson ordered the former, and troop levels soon jumped to more than 300,000 as U.S. air forces commenced the largest bombing campaign in history. • 1951 — In one of the most sensational trials in American history, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. The husband and wife were later sentenced to death and were

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executed in 1953. The conviction of the Rosenbergs was the climax of a fast-paced series of events that were set in motion with the arrest of British physicist Klaus Fuchs in Great Britain in February 1950. British authorities, with assistance from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, gathered evidence that Fuchs, who worked on developing the atomic bomb both in England and the United States during World War II, had passed top-secret information to the Soviet Union. Fuchs almost immediately confessed his role and began a series of accusations. Fuchs confessed that American Harry Gold had served as a courier for the Soviet agents to whom Fuchs passed along his information. American authorities captured Gold, who thereupon pointed the finger at David Greenglass, a young man who worked at the laboratory where the atomic bomb had been developed. Gold claimed Greenglass was even more heavily involved in spying than Fuchs. Upon his arrest, Greenglass readily confessed and then accused his sister and brother-in-law, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, of being the spies who controlled the entire operation. Both Ethel and Julius had strong leftist leanings and had been heavily involved in labor and political issues in the United States during the late-1930s and 1940s. Julius was arrested in July and Ethel in August 1950. • 2009 — Rick Wagoner, the chairman and chief executive of troubled auto giant General Motors (GM), resigns at the request of the Obama administration.

During Wagoner’s more than eight years in the top job at GM, the company lost billions of dollars and in 2008 was surpassed by Japan-based Toyota as the world’s top-selling maker of cars and trucks, a title the American automaker had held since the early 1930s. G. Richard Wagoner Jr., who was born on Feb. 9, 1953, spent his entire career at GM. He went to work for the company after graduating from Harvard Business School in 1977, eventually becoming president of GM in 1998 then chief executive in 2000. As chief executive, Wagoner undertook some restructuring measures, including shrinking the size of the work force, shuttering plants, ditching the money-losing Oldsmobile brand and working to slash enormous healthcare costs for GM retirees. However, critics charged that GM was slow to innovate, and in recent years the company continued to focus on its small trucks and sport utility vehicles even as gas prices soared and consumer interest shifted to smaller, fuel-efficient cars and hybrids. In November 2008, Wagoner was sharply criticized by the public for flying to Washington, D.C., on a private corporate jet to ask Congress for a bailout loan. (The CEOs of Chrysler and Ford were also knocked for taking private planes to the congressional hearings.) Nevertheless, the following month, GM, which had been hard hit by the global economic crisis and slumping auto sales, received $13.4 billion in federal aid. — Courtesy of History.com

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Thunderstorms and rain plagued Knoxville Sunday afternoon. While the incliment weather stayed around all day, much of the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon was finished before the storms hit.

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Event promotes outdoor activities Lack of funding ends black bear study Alyce Howell Staff Writer It is the coming of spring, and with that there are an increasing number of events that are held outside in the presence of nature. One such event is the UT Wildflower Pilgrimage in Gatlinburg. The Wildflower Pilgrimage will be celebrating its 60-year anniversary in April. The program began in 1951. “It was such a success that graduates of the botany department would come back with their students to experience it,” Ken McFarland, lecturer in UT’s ecology and evolutionary biology department and chairperson of the Pilgrimage Organizing Committee, said. It combines a general interest in the environment with art and photography competitions and events that cover animals from salamanders to bears and especially wildflowers. Participants are taken on trails or “back country hikes” with knowledgeable guides who understand the surrounding tracks and vegetation. “It is like a living biology lab… everyone enjoys getting out and asking questions,” McFarland said. This is a five day educational event that may create an interest in nature for many who partake in the pilgrimage. “For example, a student who knew nothing of botany came to the programs and enjoyed himself so much that he became a botanist,” McFarland said. Many students feel this pilgrimage will help others get more involved with the outdoors. “People aren’t really connected with nature, and they don’t realize what’s growing in their own backyard,” Jennifer Crumley, junior in plant sciences, said. “Growing flowers and other plants can lift peoples’ spirits because it gives them something to look forward to, gets them out in the sun and is hard work that pays off.” The first pilgrimage, began by former UT

CIVILITY continued from Page 1 “We’ve dedicated a lot of extra man hours and a lot of extra resources to being able to investigate those cases and to see if we’re able to run down any leads of any suspects in those cases,” Lambert said. “We encourage people to come forward with

professors Fred Norris and Royal Shanks, was a small event with a hundred participants. Within 30 years, it grew to include more than a thousand participants from more than 30 states. Among the main attractions are the wildflowers, which are not only along the hikes, but will be displayed at the W.L. Mills Auditorium. Among the flowers, McFarland said that the Lady Slippers, which are pink or yellow (the rarer color), Showy Orchids, which are white with lavender petals, and Trillium, which are related to the lilies and of which several are only found in the park, are the crowd favorites. Another attraction at the Wildflower Pilgrimage will have Joe Wiegand as the 26th president at the Welcome Luncheon — A Theodore Roosevelt Salute on April 21 at 11:30 a.m. This program will not only be honoring Roosevelt, but also the Great Smoky Mountain National Park’s 76th anniversary. That night at 7:30 p.m., Joe Wiegand will be giving a Roosevelt show called “Do What You Can, With What You Have, Where You Are!” On April 22 at 7:30 p.m., Steven McNulty will give a talk about climate changes and the impacts in the southern Appalachians titled “Where have all the Wildflowers gone?” The next night at 6:00 p.m., there will be a cake cutting in celebration of the 60th anniversary and a photography award ceremony. At 7:30 p.m., Jan Simek, the University of Tennessee Interim President, will speak on prehistoric rock art. On-site registration in Gatlinburg begins April 20 at 5 p.m. and continues until Saturday morning in the Mills Conference Auditorium, but online registration is available now. The tickets are $40 per day or $75 per person for two or more days. Children under 12 years old are free with a registered adult. Tickets for students with a student I.D. are $10. For more information, visit the Wildflower Pilgrimage Web site at www.springwildflowerpilgrimage.org.

the information, hopefully to prevent this and provide for a more diverse community here.” Cheek said UTPD will be making similar incident reports available online on their Web site a t http://web.utk.edu/~utpo lice/. Cheek, likewise, encouraged students to come forward and give any information, even if

the information isn’t completely clear. “It’s important for us that everyone here is able to live in harmony with other people and to feel safe and comfortable and express their opinions,” Lambert s aid. “ That’s one of the staples of a great institution of higher education like the University of Tennessee.”

The Associated Press KNOXVILLE — For the first time in 42 years, students and faculty at the University of Tennessee won’t be heading to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park this year to monitor black bears. The long-running program to study the black bear population at the sprawling park is a victim of lack of funding. “As researchers, we understand the value of long-term monitoring, but on a year-to-year basis, the gains were relatively small for the park,” said Frank van Manen, adjunct professor with UT’s Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, and the project’s supervisor. “In this funding climate, it’s a challenge to keep these kinds of projects going.” Throughout most of its history, project researchers trapped and put radio collars on female black bears in the summer and returned in

the winter to track those bears to their dens to check for cubs. In recent years, trapping and collaring had been replaced by remote cameras and by the hightech, but more expensive, technique of using DNA obtained from hair samples. The UT study cost a minimum of about $15,000 a year but needed about $30,000 “to do it right,” van Manen told The Knoxville News Sentinel. For the last decade, most of the research funding has come from the university, the National Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, Friends of the Smokies, the Great Smoky Mountains Association and the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association. Today, thanks to maturing forest habitat and modern wildlife management, the park’s black bear population has increased from 300 years ago to an estimated 1,500 to 1,600. The study was pioneering on numerous fronts.

Experiments were conducted to determine which drugs worked best as tranquilizers. Students were the first in the eastern U.S. to track bears with radio collars. They examined the importance of hard and soft mast availability and how those food supplies affected annual cub production. One of their early discoveries was that the park’s black bears den in large trees — as opposed to rock crevasses — more often than biologists had expected. Kim Delozier, chief wildlife biologist as the Smokies, said the park will continue to monitor the black bear population annually using bait station surveys in the summer and mast surveys in the fall. “When it came to reproduction, mortality and movements, we knew next to nothing about black bears in the park,” Delozier said. “The UT study provided the baseline information we rely on today.”

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SGA elections point to disturbing future of politics I wish I could start this out with congratulating Fuse for winning a hard-paced election against Transform and emerging as victor because they had the best viewpoints; however, that was anything but the case. After talking with many people on campus, I have found that the consensus is that Fuse won the election because they were better organized to advertise themselves. Almost unanimously, everyone I talked to liked Transform’s policies better but didn’t necessarily vote for them because they didn’t have as much of a presence on campus and didn’t attract people by giving out enough stuff. I cannot lower myself enough to call what either party did, how people are convinced during this time to vote, a campaign. It seems that actual issues have taken a back seat to “how much free stuff can I get?” In fact, this is how I decided how to vote — who tried to bribe me the least. And I must say, it was close near the end, with how often I was offered grilled food. I ask the question: In the SGA elections, how many of you actually knew the issues and voting habits of the executive members of the parties? Now answer this question: How many of you knew where the stands that were handing out hamburgers were? What worries me is not that our tuition dollars are being wasted in an effort to put up the charade that students actually have a voice in what happens in administrative policy (though I could certainly go off on that), but that this trend will translate to real world politics. Imagine a world — and some say it has already happened — where people decide on how the country is run based on the amount of handouts each side gives and how much they spend on their campaigns, rather than because they agree with what the politician’s ideals and viewpoints on issues are. To rephrase my previous question: How many of you know the ideals and voting habits of our elected officials? How many of you vote for the candidate that you hear about more often or the one that offers the most free stuff? “The American republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote.

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Columnist makes erroneous claims about economy I’m not sure how Anna Parker feels comfortable making the claim that Greece is ranked above the U.S. in terms of income equality in her March 22 column. This assertion is patently false if the source is the very Gini Index ranking that she cites. Greece falls a full 53 places below the U.S. in terms of income equality (U.S. is No. 43; Greece is No. 96), so I fail to see the correlation between income inequality and economic stability that Parker wants to imply. If Parker cares to do a little research, I’m sure she’ll see that the U.S. debt as a percentage of GDP currently exceeds that of Great Britain and many of those dirty European socialist states she sneers at, with the real shame of that being that we don’t experience the benefits in terms of infrastructure, health care and education that many of those nations provide to their citizens. We pay more and get nothing for it. Furthermore, a large portion of the current spending has gone to propping up an economy reeling from the actions of private corporations left to do as they will as a result of the laissez faire economic policies instituted by and at the urging of Parker’s fellow conservatives. The current level of debt is certainly troubling, but not all spending is the same, which the columnist in question might understand if she chose do some reading on the subject and not rely upon the figures released by a single government entity. “One of the enlightened few”? She seems anything but. Patrick Riser Graduate student in German THE DAILY BACON • Blake Treadway

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One of my rules of politics is to avoid questioning anyone’s patriotism. When I see conservatives do it, it’s typically because their old and tired political instincts have failed, and so it’s just much easier to make personal attacks instead. But too often, as of late, I’ve been having a difficult time following my own rule. I can remember when Chicago lost the bid to host the Olympics, and right-wingers rejoiced. As a result of President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Republicans, the Taliban and Hamas were furious. While I don’t like questioning why people would behave this way at moments that should have elicited dejection and glee, respectively, what else am I to think? Now, a major American victory 100 years in the making is before us, and too many Republicans are acting like a batch of screaming monkeys. It was enough that over six months ago we heard blatant lies about “death panels” and “pulling the plug on Grandma” being thrown around. That was just the beginning. Democratic congressmen have been the victims of some of the most hateful language, such as “baby killer,” “faggot” and “nigger,” as were the cases for Bart Stupak, Barney Frank, Emanuel Cleaver and John Lewis. In addition, white powder, condoms, threats and vulgar messages were sent to Capitol Hill Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) after he stood in a crowd and slapped a picture of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. These are normally things reserved for the sort of hateful Tea Party/Glenn Beck crowd, the one that pretends they’re mad at President Obama for imaginary tax increases that never happened but are truly just venting their inner, deeper, positivist, nationalistic, anti-intellectual sentiments. They don’t really represent mainstream Americans or Republicans. What is of major concern, however, is the fact that too often we blindly assume that some of the most reprehensible and incendiary things only happen “somewhere else,” be it Washington D.C.

or in the middle of nowhere in some small rural town. Any of us here on campus who believed that were proven wrong when we received an email from the university’s chancellor indicating that our campus has seen an increase in “derogatory and racist language in our dormitories” and that bananas were thrown at visiting students and parents. This is getting simply ridiculous, and as much as we might pretend it isn’t the case, conservatives often enable this sort of behavior. How do I know? Because nobody seems to condemn it: In fact, Eric Cantor, who had to “one up” the Democrats, even lied about being the victim of someone shooting at his office. Even worse, Sarah Palin, the woman with more nerve than brains who thinks that she’ll be our next president, has used terms like “reload” and has published crosshairs on a map targeting Democrats. In short, everything that she and others have done — the lies, the scaring ignorant people into thinking the president is something he is not — have come back to bite the GOP. I’m not simply speaking about what will happen in November, but I am certain that anytime someone thinks of “Republican,” this sort of angered, hateful, sore loser mentality will be amongst the first thoughts. Does no one else see the elephant in the room? How long will we continue to watch the GOP behave this way and accept it as part of our political dialogue? Furthermore, how long will people who consider themselves “conservatives” turn a blind eye to the behavior of members of their political persuasion? The only way that this will end is when the normal-thinking conservatives who aren’t hateful people, but simply are convinced in their ideology, repudiate this kind of behavior. So I challenge those of you out there. If you’re a Republican politician, speak against them in a public forum. If you’re a right-wing religious leader, explain how this goes against anything Christ would have taught. If you’re a conservative columnist, write something for your next article criticizing their behavior. After all, they’re not making you guys look very good. — Sam Smith IV is a junior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at ssmit162@utk.edu.

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This is the second column of a two-part series regarding a letter to the editor (“Socialism reasonable solution for unjust capitalist system”), which was published in the March 17 issue of The Beacon. The letter criticized a column I wrote that asked students to consider current economic crises domestic and abroad. The letter’s author, Justin Tillson, praised EU membership countries as places of greater economic equality than the U.S. Last week I explained that much of the socialism that countries in the EU utilize is funded through public debt rather than existing shared wealth, which can lead to catastrophic consequences for a state’s economy. Tillson, however, also asserted the idea that EU membership countries such as Switzerland and Norway enjoy GDP per capitas that compare and, in the case of Norway, even rival the U.S. These EU countries are additionally able to provide welfare benefits that the United States does not. Tillson clearly means to argue against the idea that heavy taxation can lead to decreased wealth. Again Tillson does not look at all the data before drawing an erroneous conclusion. As stated in my previous column, Norway and Switzerland have much greater public debt to GDP ratios than the U.S., which means that they finance much of their socialism with public debt. However, Switzerland and Norway are also distinct from the U.S. in that they have substantially smaller populations than the U.S. How substantial you ask? According to the CIA World Factbook’s 2009 data, the U.S. comes in at 307, 212,123. Switzerland and Norway both maintain populations under eight million. These facts are very, very important: This means that the United State’s economy is

so amazing that it supports hundreds of millions of more people at an incredible standard of living! Switzerland also still maintains a smaller GDP per capita than the United States, and Norway’s gain over the United States is not very impressive considering it has under five million people and is known internationally as a haven for exceptionally wealthy Europeans. In addition to the enormous differences in population, Norway and Switzerland’s GDPs per capita are also outliers in the European Union. Norway’s GDP per capita is almost twice as much as the average nation’s GDP per capita in the EU. Countries with bigger populations such as the U.K. have a GDP per capita almost $10,000 dollars less than the U.S. These citizens in the U.K. not only make less money but then pay a larger percentage of their income to the government. U.S. citizens on the other hand make more money and pay less in taxes. I’m disappointed that Tillson is a senior in college and has made such major errors when formulating an argument in defense of the welfare state. Common misconceptions about the way our economy and government work together, however, remain rampant on college campuses, and Tillson is certainly not alone in his delusions concerning the merits of socialist states. Please, please take the opportunity to become better educated. Dumb policy initiatives kill. If you are a person remotely interested in bettering your world, in expanding economic opportunities to people at every level of society in every country, then my only plea is that, rather than subscribe to an ideology that sounds like it could be good (like socialism), take the time to learn about the way your world and its institutions really operate before you, well, write a letter to the editor that demonstrates how uninformed you really are. — Anna Parker is a senior in English literature. She can be reached at aparke23@utk.edu.

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Felony pot cases getting tossed out of court The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Police in a northern California town thought they had an open-and-shut case when they seized more than two pounds of marijuana from a couple’s home, even though doctors authorized the pair to use pot for medical purposes. San Francisco police thought the same with a father and son team they suspected of abusing the state’s medical marijuana law by allegedly operating an illegal trafficking operation. But both cases were tossed out along with many other marijuana possession cases in recent weeks because of a California Supreme Court ruling that has police, prosecutors and defense attorneys scrambling to make sense of a gray legal area: What is the maximum amount of cannabis a medical marijuana patient can possess? No one can say for sure how many dismissals and acquittals have been prompted by the ruling, but the numbers are stacking up since the Supreme Court on Jan. 21 tossed out Patrick Kelly’s marijuana possession conviction. The high court struck down a 7-year-old state law that imposed an 8-ounce limit on the amount of pot medical users of marijuana could possess. The court said patients are entitled to a “reasonable” amount of the drug to treat their ailments. Law enforcement officials said the ruling has made the murky legal landscape of marijuana policy in California even more challenging to enforce. Since California voters legalized medical marijuana in 1996, there has been tension between local law enforcement officials and federal authorities, who view marijuana as absolutely illegal. That tension is expected to become even more pronounced if the state’s voters approve a November ballot measure legalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana. “The way the law is now, it puts law enforcement between a rock and a hard place,” said Martin J. Mayer, a lawyer who represents California State Sheriff’s Association, California Police Chief’s Association and California Peace Officers’

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– Gerald Benito, Shasta County District Attorney on the confusion regarding Califonia’s marijuana policy Benito cited the Supreme Court ruling in dropping charges on March 5 against James Bradley Hall, who was arrested in October and charged with growing 40 marijuana plants. The next week, a San Francisco jury acquitted a father and son charged with growing three dozen plants. The lawyers for Thomas Chang, 62, and his son, Errol Chang, 30, based their defense on the Kelly case, arguing that the men needed that much pot to treat their medical conditions. In Vacaville, located between San Francisco and Sacramento, prosecutors in February dropped their two-year pursuit of Johanna and Joe Azevedo, a husband and wife charged with possessing about two pounds of marijuana. Both sides agreed to put the Azevedo case on hold until the Supreme

Court decided the Kelly case. “Fighting this pretty well drained what little money we had,” Johanna Azevedo said of her legal fight with Solano County prosecutors. “But it was a very happy day when the Kelly case was announced.” Still, not all defense attorneys and marijuana advocates are as content with the ruling as the Azevedos and others who had their criminal cases dropped. Some argue that clear-cut limits actually would shield medical marijuana patients from law enforcement officials who have a strict interpretation of what constitutes a “reasonable” amount. “I wish there was a bright line,” said Bruce Margolin, one of the nation’s most renowned marijuana defense attorneys. “It’s the only protection against arrest.” A closely-watched Sacramento case was expected to help clarify what a reasonable amount of medical marijuana is. But it further muddied the question. The jury acquitted Matthew Zugsberger of a felony possession charge but convicted him of a felony charge of marijuana transportation for trying to take three pounds of marijuana from the Sacramento airport to New Orleans in 2008. The jury, which deliberated for more than three days, also convicted Zugsberger of a misdemeanor possession charge. In the end, nothing was solved. “The jury was absolutely confused,” Grant Pegg, his attorney, said. “What is reasonable is an absolutely gray area.” Despite the confusion, there does not appear to be a political push to develop guidelines, which the Supreme Court said must be done by voters. Law enforcement lobbying arms, such as the California District Attorney Association, steer clear of most medical marijuana issues because of the wide variety of views of the law. “It is different than a lot of areas in criminal law where there is a consensus,” said W. Scott Thorpe, chief executive of the district attorney’s association. “There are varying approaches from county to county in the way law enforcement is dealing with medical marijuana laws.”

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Monday, March 29, 2010

ENTERTAINMENT

Community partakes in Red Bull chariot race Katie Freeman News Editor Red Bull energized Market Square Saturday evening with its Red Bull Chariot Race, the first of several 2010 chariot races being brought to college towns by the energy drink brand. UT students and restaurant staff from the Strip and Market Square were recruited to build their own chariots and loop the length of the square against competitors for the grand prize of Last Chariot Standing. Red Bull provided their drinks free to the crowd and emceed the race. Judges Andrew Moore, manager of Tin Roof Knoxville, T the R.O.P. from Hot 104.5 and UT SGA presidentelect Tommy Jervis, junior in finance, ranked teams based on most innovative chariot and enthusiastic racers for the secondplace Archimedes prize. Out of the 12 teams racing their homemade chariots, nine were comprised of UT students. Representatives from the SGA Fuse party and several UT fraternity chapters competed. The Daily Beacon spoke with two participants who declined to give their names, fraternity chapter or reasons for entering the race but did say they were pledges. Jervis said the chariot race provided a good outlet for friendly competition among UT organizations. “Something like (the race) improves involvement and gets everyone together,” Jervis said. “I think it’s geared toward college students because it’s fun, and college students are more willing to possibly embarrass themselves.” The Archimedes award for creativity was given to team Fuse and their Magic School Bus chariot. All teams created a theme for their chariot and dressed in costumes, such as the Dukes of Knoxville, who dressed in daisy dukes after the Dukes of Hazzard female lead. The Last Chariot Standing was awarded to an MTSU fraternity team, Leonidas of Kappa Sigma. The winning prize was tickets to a Nascar race in Charlotte, N.C., in May. In anticipation of their win, team Leonidas built a race car chariot. See RED BULL on Page 7

Hayley DeBusk • The Daily Beacon

Red Bull hosted Knoxville’s first Red Bull Chariot Race Saturday night in Market Square. Teams of three raced others in custom made chariots, having to be man-made and man-pulled.

Play tackles issues, creates laughs Chassidy Doane Staff Writer

Students do not need to miss the opportunity to see “Speech and Debate” running at the Clarance Brown Theatre now until April 3. “Speech and Debate” is one of the funniest plays put on at the Clarence Brown this year and keeps the audience laughing the entire time. The set is a school room, with two chairs and lockers, and there are only four actors in the play. In addition to very few props and a small cast, “Speech and Debate” is showing in the Lab Theatre of the Clarence Brown, which adds to the overall intimacy of the play and is

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an amazing experience for the audience to feel like they are really involved. The play opens up with an openly gay eighteen year old, Howie (Tyler Padgett, junior in theatre), at his computer chatting it up with men on the Internet. He agrees to meet the man from the chat room at a nearby park. He then finds out that the man he agreed to meet is his drama teacher, Mr. Healy. This scene really draws the audience in because they are able to see the words that Howie and the teacher are writing because they are projected on a screen in the background, making the audience feel included and embedded in the story. See CBT on Page 7

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The Red Bull Chariot Races was made up of many teams consisting of local students and businesses. The event was free to the public.

RED BULL continued from Page 6 “We had to represent our school and our fraternity,” Japo Savatphonh, MTSU junior in mechanical engineering, said. Savatphonh and fellow teammate Matthew Shields, MTSU junior in concrete management, said they built their winning chariot in one night and that the chariot’s main component was a wheelchair surrounded by the wood cart body. Leonidas teammate Price Turner, MTSU sophomore in concrete management, touted that the MTSU fraternity chapter

had beat UT chapters on their own turf. One UT student and his Super Mario Bros. Racing teammates advanced to the semifinals but were thwarted a win when their mechanics dolly race car flipped and Jacob De Kornfeld, sophomore in nursing, hit the concrete and chipped his front tooth. De Kornfeld said he would absolutely participate in the race again, despite the injury, but joked, “It would have been nice to get a consolation prize.” Moe’s representing Moe’s Southwestern Grill on the Strip won the third-place People’s Choice Award. Fuse and Moe’s were given cases of Red Bull.

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Then, the story unfolds to introduce Solomon (Kevin Bohleber, sophomore in theatre), a sixteen-year-old teenage journalist who is trying to uncover the town mayor’s obsession with young men and how Republicans are almost always involved in sex scandals, even branching out to include Mr. Healy, who Solomon believes has had relationships with young men. However, his idea is shot down by his journalism teacher (Amy Bubbard) because it’s too controversial. The audience then meets avid blogger and “punk/grunge” girl, Diwata (Tara Wells, junior in theatre). Diwata is doing a video blog while drinking beer and talking about how much she hates the drama teacher, Mr. Healy, for not casting her as leads in the school plays and for his overall unpleasant demeanor. These teenagers’ connections to their drama teacher brings them all together, and they ultimately form a “Speech and Debate,” despite Howie and Solomon’s hesitation. These teenagers grow up on screen as they deal with divisive issues like homosexuality and abortion.

However, even though there is a serious aspect to this play, it is overall extremely funny and ridiculous. From a scene of dancing to “Freedom” by George Michael in nothing but body stockings to a song from Puritan Mary Warren to a gay, teenage Abe Lincoln telling him to not come out of the closet to his parents, this play will keep the audience saying “That was awesome!” The cast is amazing, too. This play was acted out by all undergraduates, besides guest actor Amy Hubbard. Bohleber shines in this play, and it is certain that he has quite the career ahead of him. Wells (Diwata) is charming, witty, crazy and beautiful and puts on an amazing performance. Not to mention the hilariousness of Padgett, whose facial expressions and body language make his character who he is. UT students are loving this play already. “This play was very entertaining, and I thought the storyline of the play and how it was presented was very unique, and I would definitely recommend it to others,” Erin Simpson, sophomore in the Pre-Professional Program stated. “Speech and Debate” is guaranteed to give its audience an hour and a half of pure enjoyment.

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Monday, March 29, 2010

SPORTS

Lady Vols lose to Bears in NCAA tournament Summitt’s team ends season at Sweet Sixteen, fails to defeat revitalized Baylor Zac Ellis Assistant Sports Editor

• Photo courtesy of William Ewart, UT Media Relations

MEMPHIS — The Tennessee Lady Vols had already beaten Baylor once this season, a 74-65 victory in Knoxville on November 15. But a win over the Bears on Saturday would mean a trip to the Elite Eight for the Lady Vols. The only problem? “They’re a completely different team,” Lady Vol guard Angie Bjorklund said. Baylor’s 6-foot-8 Brittney Griner scored 27 points and blocked 10 shots as the No. 4 seed Lady Bears stunned topseeded Tennessee 77-62 in the 2010 NCAA Women’s Tournament Sweet Sixteen in Memphis on Saturday. Lady Vols’ coach Pat Summitt admitted her team never expected to end its season so early. “Obviously, we’re very, very disappointed,” Summitt said. “Our staff, our team; for me, I really feel for this team. They’ve invested; they’ve worked extremely hard … They played a great Baylor team.” Shekinna Stricklen tallied 18 points for Tennessee (32-3), while Bjorklund added 12 for UT. No other Lady Vol scored in double digits. Griner’s 27 led Baylor (26-9), with Morghan Medlock and Kelli Griffin chipping in 12 and 10, respectively. “I think anytime you have a 6-8 player, it’s going to be tough to shoot over,” Bjorklund said. “At the same time though, I thought when our post did have the ball, we did a great job. We just need to give them more touches.” Tennessee, vying for a return to the Final Four only one season after losing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, shared a tight game with Baylor for much of the contest. After trailing at halftime 30-28, a Kelley Cain hook shot gave the Lady Vols a 55-50 lead with just under eight minutes left in the game. That’s when Baylor turned up the intensity. The Lady Bears capped a 21-1 run on two Melissa Jones free throws with 1:21 remaining in the contest to build a commanding 71-56 lead they would not relinquish. “Either team could win; it was just a matter of who does the best job consistently,” Summitt said. “They by far were better on the defensive end.” Griner opened up her game in the second half for Baylor. Even with the 6-foot-6 Cain limited to only three first-half minutes because of foul trouble, Griner only scored nine points in the first period but hit 5-of-11 field goals and blocked six shots after intermission. “She was able to go and find her spot,” Summitt said of Griner. “We wanted to keep her off the block. If I had to say one thing sent us home today, it was our lack of commitment for defense.” Though Baylor was able to overwhelm the Lady Vols down the stretch, Stricklen said it was not a matter of UT’s conditioning. Instead, Stricklen said the early game plan to stop Griner fell to the wayside.

Sophomore point guard Shekinna Stricklen busts a trey from downtown against the Baylor Lady Bears Saturday afternoon in Memphis, Tenn. The Lady Vols would lose their Sweet 16 See LADY VOLS on Page 9 match-up 77-62. Stricklen led the Lady Vols with 18 points.

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• Photo courtesy of William Ewart, UT Media Relations

Lady Vols’ center Kelley Cain attempts a reverse layup against Baylor’s Brittney Griner at the Fed-Ex Forum Saturday afternoon. Griner led all scores with 27 points and posted a double-double the hard way, tallying 10 blocks.

LADY VOLS continued from Page 8 “I think mainly defense (was the problem),” Stricklen said. “I feel like us guards, we (weren’t) pressuring the ball enough. It was easy, throwing the ball into Griner. That’s a big thing that was missing in this whole game.” Bjorklund said the difference between Saturday’s Lady Bears and the Baylor team UT faced in November is night and day. “Any team from the beginning of the year to postseason, you just have to expect their

best,” Bjorklund said. “I thought that’s what Baylor gave us, was their best.” The Lady Vols look to return everyone from this year’s senior-less roster for next season. With next year’s roster expected to mirror this season’s team, Summitt was quick to turn the loss into a learning opportunity for her team. “Our staff’s disappointed, our players disappointed,” she said. “But with that disappointment, we will find accountability and move forward. Am I mad at my team? No. Am I disappointed in our defense? Yes.” “We’re still young,” she said. “And we’re going to learn from this.”

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Monday, March 29, 2010

Sophomore leads golf team to comeback Terrence Boone Staff Writer Heading into the final round of this past weekend’s Schenkel E-Z-Go Invitational in Statesboro, Ga., the Tennessee men’s golf team was in 13th place and needed to make a charge in the final round to close the gap. Luckily for the Vols, Garrick Porteous, sophmore in graphic design, helped lead the team’s final-round comeback, shooting a 6-under par round of 66 to guide UT into a tie for fifth with Ole Miss. Porteous noted that the team was able to forget about its round on Saturday and focus on the final day. “Coach (Jim Kelson) talked to us last night about a fresh start,” he said. “We’ve played some tough courses the last few weeks, but it’s spring now, and we all seemed to play well today. It’s probably one of the top rounds I’ve played — definitely my lowest. I just felt pretty comfortable out there.”

BASKETBALL continued from Page 1 The Vols started off the game on fire, making their first six attempts from three, and took a 41-39 lead into the locker room at the half. Chism led the way with 10 first-half points and finished with a team high 13. Three other Vols scored in double figures. Prince had 12, Brian Williams added

11 and Scotty Hopson finished with 10 points. The Spartans Durrell Summers led all scorers with 21 points for the contest. Michigan State’s Draymond Green made a basket as the first-half buzzer expired to cut the lead down to 41-39 and take momentum into the locker room. Pearl said he didn’t feel like the play was the deciding factor in the

Porteous, who came into Sunday’s final round in a tie for 60th, started his day on the back nine and was able to birdie five of those holes. He then went on to shoot 2under for the front nine to end his tournament at even par and come away with a 12th place finish in the event. Porteous mentioned one of the keys to his success was coming away with a solid score on his first hole of the day. “No. 10 is probably the toughest hole on the course; making par there was really good,” he said. “And then I birdied 16, 17 and 18, which was really good because that’s quite a tough finish.” Other notable finishes for the Vols were David Holmes, senior in logistics, who shot an even par 72 on the final day to finish in a tie for 20th, and Robin Wingardh, undecided junior, who recorded the same final-round score and wound up finishing in a tie for 32nd. Jay Vandeventer, undecided freshman, finished the tournament in a tie for 40th after a 1-under par 71, tied for his third best round game. “I didn’t,” Pearl said when asked. “It was a great momentum builder for Michigan State.” Despite the momentum, the Vols’ rebounding in the second half helped to create 50-45 lead with 15:45 remaining after Wayne Chism knocked down his third trey. From there, Michigan State went on a 14-1 run over a seven-and-a-halfminute span in which the Vols failed to make a field goal. Turnovers and defensive breakdowns marked the Tennessee second half. “We just made a couple of mistakes,” Chism said. “We really wasn’t doing what we were supposed to do. But at the time we just couldn’t make shots. Sometimes it happens that you — some team goes on

of the season. The trio, along with Porteous, allowed the Vols to claim low-round honors on Sunday at 7-under par for their best day since mid-October. The Vols managed their best round of 2010 despite wind and rainy conditions on the final day. With their strong conclusion, the team finished behind Alabama, Virginia, North Florida and event champion Auburn. Even with the effort displayed in the final round, Kelson saw the team’s performance as a sign of things to come. “We’ve got a good team this year, but we’ve just kind of been playing on some hard golf courses and struggled a little bit,” he said. “I think it was real good to break through and have that super round and end up with a good finish.” With the solid play of Porteous, Holmes, Wingardh and Vandeventer, UT will head into the Administaff ASU Invitational on April 3-4 in Augusta, Ga. Along with the tournament, each team will get to attend a Masters practice round as part of the conclusion of the tournament.

a nice run like they did. It was because they were capitalizing off our missed shots and some of our bad play.” The Vols rallied to tie the game at 69 on a made Scotty Hopson free throw with 11.2 seconds left, but he would miss the second, setting in motion the sequence of events that ended the Vols season and the careers of Bobby Maze, Chism and Prince. Pearl said he was proud of what they accomplished despite the loss. “I’m proud of my seniors and proud of our basketball program, the way they represented,” Pearl said. With the loss, the Vols 2009-10 season comes to a close, but not before they made program history by making the Elite Eight.

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Head coach Bruce Pearl acknowledges senior Wayne Chism during the SEC tournament. Chism and fellow seniors Bobby Maze and J.P. Prince played their last contests in Tennessee orange Sunday night.