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Thursday, April 12, 2012

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Shooting inspires campus rally Steele Gamble Staff Writer The controversial shooting of 17-year-old black teen Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. has been receiving national attention as many Americans consider the investigation of his death to be an act of racial injustice.

A group of concerned students from various organizations has put together a march at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday in front of the Black Cultural Center in honor of Martin’s death.

Akoma-Cosby Onwuzuruigbo, senior in jazz studies, said that he is looking for change.

“It’s also a march that highlights the cycle of racial injustice currently in our legal system,” Onwuzuruigbo said. “I feel like it’s definitely an issue that we need to cover and an issue that we need to really take seriously.”

Onwuzuruigbo encourages everyone, regardless of racial background, who agrees that this is an act of injustice, to wear a hoodie, make a sign and participate in the march.

“This is not a black issue at all,” Onwuzuruigbo said. “This is a people issue, and the better that we stand together, the more diversity that we have at the march on Thursday, the better the statement that we’re going to make.”

Harlin Miller, sophomore in history, said

that he wants to make people at UT more aware of injustices such as the Martin case.

“Akoma received an e-mail from a fraternity saying ‘if you want to make a difference, join Congress,’” Miller said. “Just a real curt and smart remark, and those types of comments show that there’s a lack of sympathy on this campus towards issues facing minorities, and we want to bring that to attention.”

Miller continued to say that this lack of sympathy refers to individuals and not the school as a whole.

“I feel that UT is doing a great job of promoting comfort amongst its minorities,” Miller said.

Onwuzuruigbo said that the national attention surrounding this case is bringing light to an issue that has been present in our country for years.

“We don’t know how many Trayvon Martin cases there have been,” Onwuzuruigbo said.

“This is just one that got highlighted and brought to our attention.”

Some believe that the Martin case would not be receiving national attention if it were not for the history of racism in the U.S. and white Americans feeling obligated to take a stand on racially sensitive issues.

Onwuzuruigbo said he wants justice, and he does not care about the reasoning behind the attention.

See TRAYVON RALLY on Page 3

• Photo courtesy of Trayvon Martin

Trayvon Martin appears in a self portrait in this undated photo. Martin was shot and killed during a confrontation with George Zimmerman of Feb. 26, reportedly dressed similarly as in this photo.

I-House features Indian culture Victoria Wright Student Life Editor About 30 students gathered in the I-House Great Room on Tuesday night for the Indian Coffee House event to experience the art of henna and to sample a traditional Indian cutlet.

The henna, or mehandi, is made from a flowering plant and creates a reddish-brown hue once applied to the skin. Henna can be used to create elaborate designs anywhere on the skin, but traditionally, Indian brides are painted on their arms and legs before their wedding.

“No Indian wedding is complete without henna,” Deepika Nambiar, first-year graduate student in biochemical, cellular and molecular biology, said. “(Painting henna) can go for a very long time and the design is really different.”

Nambiar tediously painted designs of floral and paisley shapes for willing participants.

Though the henna tradition is shared throughout India, Nambiar said that many other aspects, such as language and food, differ throughout the Indian states. “(It’s important for students) just to know that there is diversity in Indian culture,” Nambiar said. “Each different Indian state has its own culture, so you can imagine the amount of differences.”

Brides can receive a more Arabic-influenced design, which uses flowers, or the more widely recognized Indian designs, which use paisley, some floral designs and occasionally pictures of an elephant with a raised trunk.

Men traditionally do not receive henna designs; however, the bride’s name is occasionally written somewhere on the body.

For Russian native Diana Robke, henna wasn’t foreign at all.

“In Russia, we use it a lot because it’s a natural way to color your hair,” Robke, senior in global studies, said. “The color turns out to be a very bright and rich color.”

Henna is used for hair coloring in India as well.

Students also experienced a cooking demonstration led by Kanwarjit Pahwa, graduate student in counseling psychology.

Pahwa made a vegetable cutlet with traditional Indian chutney.

The cutlet, which is made with assorted vegetables, potatoes, masala and chili powder, was fairly simple to cook.

Volunteers helped Pahwa form the ingredients into small patties, which were later shallow fried. The chutney, made from cilantro, coconut, ginger and other spices, was used as a cooking agent for the spicy cutlets.

“It was a little too spicy for me,” Megan Pointer, undecided sophomore, said with a chuckle.

Spicy food is traditional in Indian cuisine, and many of the spices used hold certain health benefits.

“All the spices have some kind of nutrient,” Pahwa said.

“These are like natural herbs, which we usually don’t take in any other form, and they give a lot of good flavor to the food.”

The cutlet is usually used as an hors d’oeuvre for small parties or as a light snack for cozy days indoors.

“Anything fried or shallow fried is used during the rainy season or when there’s cold weather,” Pawha said.

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Taylor Vittatoe, junior in music education, plays the xylophone in Melrose Hall on Feb. 28.

Lecture focuses on environmental injustice Justin Joo Staff Writer Earth Month continued Wednesday with the third part of its Brown Bag Series featuring a 30-minute lecture on environmental justice.

The guest speaker was Sara Malley, a doctoral student at UT in the sociology program, who also teaches classes on social justice and social change. Malley said her lecture would not only focus on environmental justice but also injustice.

“We’re all impacted by environmental hazards in some way, shape or form,” Malley said. “However, research has shown that the largest groups affected are people in lower-income populations or minority populations. They are disproportionately affected by these hazards.”

The focus of Malley’s lecture was examining several case studies in which various companies and organizations harmed the environments in these types of communities.

The first case she noted was the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y. In the 1950s, the Niagara Falls School Board purchased land from Hooker Chemical.

Hooker Chemical clearly stated that they had disposed of 21,000 tons of toxic waste in the area and signed an agreement absolving them from liability. The school board purchased the land anyway, and Love Canal was soon built.

Malley said that suspicions among the townspeople arose when they started noticing the toxic chemicals coming from the ground brought on by heavy rainfall and an alarming increase in birth defects.

She also discussed a case she investigated herself, where the Marsh Folk Elementary School in Raleigh County, W.Va. was less than 300 yards away from a coal loading silo and processing plant. Behind the coal silo and plant was a dam holding back 2.8 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge.

After a private donation and lobbying were made, the people of Raleigh County are getting a new, relocated elementary school.

Malley believes that a big reason that companies commonly place factories and waste dump sites near lowerincome communities is because there is less chance of local backlash.

“Having these things in a community will lower property value, so you’re not going to see this in an upper class or even upper-middle class community,” Malley said. “A lot of times (companies) are not even going to attempt (to construct hazard sites in upper class communities).

They’ll go to the place of least resistance.”

Likewise, there is little chance of repercussion for any hazardous activity.

Malley said that in case studies and her own experience, she’s seen companies and local governments dismiss studies and data showing that the environment and its residents are being harmed. In cases where a company is penalized, Malley said the penalty is little more than “a slap on the wrist or a fine for $100.”

But as a whole, Malley said Tennessee is doing well combating environmental injustice, noting the many organizations protesting mountaintop removal.

As far as improving the fight against environmental injustice, Malley said the biggest thing people could do is help other communities in their fights even if the environmental hazards won’t affect their own homes.

“People don’t want this in their backyard, of course,” Malley said, “but it shouldn’t be someone else’s backyard.”

Malley’s presentation was part of the Earth Month Brown Bag Series, which runs from April 9-13. Each lecture is 30 minutes long and is in the UC Room 226. The series and Earth Month are both sponsored by the Office of Sustainability.

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The City of Knoxville was scheduled to begin paving operations on several streets in the Fort Sanders neighborhood Wednesday. It is anticipated this work will take approximately two to three weeks to complete. The streets that will be affected are Bridge, 18th, Forest, 14th, Grand, Highland, Laurel, 19th, 16th, 12th and White. The city will be towing cars in these areas, so take care to monitor your vehicle and any postings of upcoming work on specific streets.

Dialogues of Galileo Galilei be prohibited, and We condemn thee to the prison of this Holy Office during Our will and pleasure; and as a salutary penance We enjoin on thee that for the space of three years thou shalt recite once a week the Seven Penitential Psalms.”

1633 — Galileo is convicted of heresy On this day in 1633, chief inquisitor Father Vincenzo Maculano da Firenzuola, appointed by Pope Urban VIII, begins the inquisition of physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church. Standard practice demanded that the accused be imprisoned and secluded during the trial.

This was the second time that Galileo was in the hot seat for refusing to accept Church orthodoxy that the Earth was the immovable center of the universe: In 1616, he had been forbidden from holding or defending his beliefs. In the 1633 interrogation, Galileo denied that he “held” belief in the Copernican view but continued to write about the issue and evidence as a means of “discussion” rather than belief. The Church had decided the idea that the Sun moved around the Earth was an absolute fact of scripture that could not be disputed, despite the fact that scientists had known for centuries that the Earth was not the center of the universe.

This time, Galileo’s technical argument didn't win the day. On June 22, 1633, the Church handed down the following order: “We pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo... have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy, that is, of having believed and held the doctrine (which is false and contrary to the Holy and Divine Scriptures) that the sun is the center of the world, and that it does not move from east to west, and that the earth does move, and is not the center of the world.”

Along with the order came the following penalty: “We order that by a public edict the book of

1861 — The Civil War begins The bloodiest four years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Bay. During the next 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars launched more than 4,000 rounds at the poorly supplied fort. On April 13, U.S. Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort.

Two days later, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to quell the Southern “insurrection.”

As early as 1858, the ongoing conflict between North and South over the issue of slavery had led Southern leadership to discuss a unified separation from the United States. By 1860, the majority of the slave states were publicly threatening secession if the Republicans, the anti-slavery party, won the presidency. Following Republican Abraham Lincoln’s victory over the divided Democratic Party in November 1860, South Carolina immediately initiated secession proceedings. On December 20, the South Carolina legislature passed the “Ordinance of Secession,” which declared that “the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.” After the declaration, South Carolina set about seizing forts, arsenals, and other strategic locations within the state. Within six weeks, five more Southern states — Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana — had followed South Carolina’s lead.

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

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TRAYVON RALLY continued from Page 1 “Whether it’s because the white man feels that it’s their burden to do it, that’s cool,” Onwuzuruigbo said. “As a black man, I feel that it’s my burden to take care of my people, and not just my people, because we’re all people. My people doesn’t mean black people, it means all people.

It’s my duty to take care of my people and keep uplifting us to make sure that we’re continuing to grow.”

Onwuzuruigbo hopes that people hold the legal system accountable for following proper protocol when it comes to situations such as the Martin case.

“We should never let anything slide,” Onwuzuruigbo said. “We

EARTH MONTH continued from Page 1 Courtney Washburn, sustainability outreach coordinator, said each lecture covers a very different topic within the subject of sustainable environments. Even the lecturers come from many different backgrounds.

“We have a diverse array of topics,” Washburn said. “We knew we wanted to have a

NEWS should always be militant about how we deal with every issue, and it should be uniform.”

The march will be followed by a forum on Tuesday where students will clear up any misconceptions on the case by going over the facts in detail. They will then have an opportunity to state their opinions on controversial topics relating to the case. Onwuzuruigbo said he is looking forward to the forum.

“I love to hear the people that feel differently and why they feel differently,” Onwuzuruigbo said. “Maybe that will affect the way I feel.

Whether we agree or not, we can always just agree to share our opinions and listen to each other. At the end of the day, we’re going to come out enlightened.” variety to reach as many people as possible. We have speakers who are students, grad students and professors all with some background in sustainability.”

Thursday’s lecture will feature Grace Loy and a discussion on “Alternative Fuel Use in East Tennessee.” Friday’s lecture will feature John Nolt and “Non-anthropeocentric Environmental Ethics.”

Those attending are encouraged to bring a lunch.

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New defensive coordinator Sal Sunseri sets up a drill at practice on March 26. Sunseri is implementing a 3-4 scheme on the defensive side of the ball.

WWII veteran honored The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Stooped after 91 years of living, Wilbur “Bill” Hoffman still managed to stand tall as medals honoring his bravery during World War II were pinned on his chest in a ceremony on Tuesday.

Hoffman, then 20, was with the U.S. Army Rangers when they climbed the cliffs at Normandy on D-Day in 1944 and was wounded during the fighting.

But while recovering in a military hospital and feeling at the time that others had given so much more, Hoffman refused to accept a Purple Heart.

He has now been presented with that medal, along with a Bronze Star for valor and a coveted Ranger Tab during an event at Veterans Plaza in Overton Park.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., who spoke of Hoffman’s valor last month on the Senate floor and has seen the cliffs of Normandy, described on Tuesday the Ranger’s mission: a 100foot climb to Pointe du Hoc, the top of the cliffs, while under fire.

“A lot of them didn’t succeed, but enough did for it to be a successful mission. And there was not a more daring, courageous effort than that of the boys of the Pointe du Hoc,” Alexander said.

However, Hoffman turned down the medal that was offered to him.

“There’s guys next to me with no arms, no legs. I was just wounded,” he said.

Hoffman, now one of three surviving Rangers who climbed that day, did tell his seven children about his D-Day mission.

His son, David Hoffman, contacted Alexander’s office and began the process of securing his father’s Purple Heart. After reviewing Hoffman’s service records, Army officials felt he deserved the other awards as well.

The process took about a year, David Hoffman said.

“I told him that I really wanted to do something for him and I sent the letter to the senator,” David Hoffman said.

They got back with him, “jostled some paperwork” and communicated back and forth with the Army, he said.

“Everyone’s been spectacular in this whole process,” David Hoffman said.

His father didn’t expect all the attention.

“This is what happens, 12 motorcycles and a SWAT team,” Bill Hoffman said. “I said put it in a box and mail it to me.”

Among those present were retired and active duty military personnel, Shelby County Sheriff's Office motorcycle officers, other members of local law enforcement and a group of World War II re-enactors from St. Louis.

“I appreciate every bit of it,” Hoffman said.

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Somewhere... Hopefully Apathy looms as threat to everyone Preston Peeden Managing Editor Last week, I spent around 800 words rambling about what I thought my greatest fear was. I decided that what I feared the most is my possible inability at making an impact in the world. Personally, I’m afraid that I will come and go on this earth without ever having left a trace.

When I wrote that piece, I felt content with what I had thought. I am afraid of just passing through; I don’t want to be a name that’s forgotten in about the same time it takes to say. While this is a justifiable fear in my own eyes, I realize that there was a problem with what I had written. My dread of being forgettable was a fear I had of myself, and because of that, I can control it. With that in mind, I tried to think of something outside of my control that I was afraid of. And the answer came to me in the form of one word: apathy.

We live in an apathetic world. Today in our country, where for most the question of our own survival has all but been removed from our worries, we spend our days lamenting upon and pondering issues solely of selfinterest. The problems of people in Syria, Libya, Myanmar or even Pakistan are of little to no concern of many; these countries are out of sight and therefore out of mind. Their sufferings are condensed into headlines and two-minute news pieces sandwiched between celebrity divorce gossip and commercials for fast food chains. Even when a story gets picked up and brought to the attention of the American public, the cameras only stay for as long as the viewer’s interest (which rarely, or ever, actually remain glued for the entire process).

I don’t mean to proselytize or chastise, but rather, I am just trying to inform on something I feel that we are all guilty of. When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, I watched on TV from my sofa for weeks as people struggled to survive one of America’s most destructive natural disasters in recent memory. But after a week or so, my attention ebbed to something else. I stopped caring, and instead turned the channel. For me, the suffering of those people existed only in the time I allotted myself to view it. When I stopped watching, I stopped caring and by extension I forgot about them.

It’s not a bad thing to be apathetic, or even to simply lose interest. With the advent of the 24-hour news cycle, we are all constantly bombarded with images and stories of atrocities and disasters canvassing the entire globe. Our compassion is constantly being pulled here and there to the next victim that it is hard to try to focus and truly care about people in need.

While it may be natural to slowly become dulled and apathetic, it doesn’t mean that it is right. When people display apathy, they allow things to pass that shouldn’t.

Corrupt politicians, hypocrisy, atrocities and even more can pass by the eyes of many and be given no second thought.

Edmund Burke once said, “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Simply put, through apathy, we allow pain and suffering to happen when it shouldn’t.

Burke’s assertion has been applied to some of the greatest atrocities in human history. In his studies of the Holocaust, historian Sir Ian Kershaw lamented that “The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.” In his eyes, millions died not just because of the evils of Nazi Germany, but also because good people, ordinary people, throughout the world failed to do anything to stop it. Hitler’s antipathy for Jewish people was no secret, nor did he hide this aggressive and violent stance in many of his policies, but no one tried to do anything until it was too late. As early as 1938, discussion was held at the Évian Conference in France to try to figure out what to do with Jewish refugees fleeing the bellicose German government. Every nation in attendance (including England, France and the U.S.) knew what these people were fleeing, but only one nation offered nearly unlimited safe-harbor, and that was the Dominican Republic.

I am afraid of apathy. Apathy serves no purpose in our lives other than to make us numb to things we shouldn’t be numb to. Be it something as monumental as genocide, or as small as a politician not backing up a campaign promise, apathy allows for these wrongs to exist.

Defeating apathy isn’t going to cure all the world’s ills. By caring more, we can’t forge world peace or even end global hunger, but we can try and we can care. We can all end apathy in our lives, and if we all try to, then that would be a world that almost no one could be afraid of.

— Preston Peeden is a junior in history. He can be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu.

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SCOTUS broadens search authority Urb an La n d sca p e by

Lindsay Lee The paranoia brought on by 9/11 still has not dissipated, and it is once again threatening our constitutional rights.

On April 2, the Supreme Court ruled that strip-searches are reasonable and legal to perform on people suspected of the most minor offenses such as traffic violations.

Albert Florence, a man from New Jersey, was pulled over six years ago. The officer ran Florence’s identification and found a bench warrant for an outstanding traffic fine.

Florence had already paid the fine and had a letter that proved it, but still the officer handcuffed and arrested the man.

Upon being admitted to prison, Florence was subjected to a strip and visual body-cavity search. He was held at that prison for six days before he was transferred to a separate correctional facility where he was subjected to yet another strip search. The next day, Florence was freed after they discovered that the whole thing was, indeed, the result of a clerical error.

Florence sued, citing the violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure.

The Supreme Court sided 5-4 against Florence. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, citing the need to keep jails and prisons safe from weapons and other contraband. But this ruling even applies to people who are just under arrest — that is, before they are even entered into the prison system.

Justice Kennedy also noted that strip-search laws like these could have prevented the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and saved the 9/11 Flight 93 victims who perished when their plane crashed in Pennsylvania.

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was arrested for a traffic violation prior to his attack, and the Flight 93 hijacker got a speeding ticket two days before 9/11.

But what would a strip search have done to save all those victims? I’m not sure bomb supplies would be able to fit in the average man’s rectum.

The four liberal judges who disagreed with the majority said that they could not justify such a policy “that would

subject those arrested for minor offenses to serious invasions of their privacy.” They also noted that only one in 64,000 strip-searches of non-violent offenders results in the discovery of some sort of contraband.

The Fourth Amendment is supposed to protect us against unreasonable searches and seizures. But I guess this only sort of applies to searches of people’s cars and houses; their bodies are fair game.

One of the most disturbing parts of this whole thing is the repeated use of the word “detainee” in the entire Supreme Court opinion. These are United States citizens under arrest for offenses, no matter how minor, and they’re being “detained”? Ever since 9/11 this word has been used to describe those who are held without any rights as they are questioned. It has been used to describe potential terrorists and potential enemies to the State.

The Oxford American Dictionary defines a “detainee” as “a person held in custody, especially for political reasons.” These people are certainly being held in custody, but there definitely is not a just, rational political reason to hold and strip someone for a traffic violation.

But there are definitely unjust political reasons to stripsearch every arrested individual. This ruling is part of a greater movement in America that stifles the voice of the dissenter and tries to humiliate anyone who steps out of line. Recently, Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act that affirms the executive branch’s power to indefinitely detain anyone suspected of being a danger to the nation, including American citizens. Obama also recently signed the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, which basically allows the executive branch to make protesting illegal wherever it chooses so long as they place some secret service people in the general area.

I’d stab myself in the leg before I’d vote for any candidate other than Obama in the upcoming election, but where are all the conservatives bemoaning this escalating, unchecked power of the federal government? Where are all the Republicans waving the Constitution and expounding the value of our personal liberties? All of these acts and rulings go too far, but no one seems to care when the ones who suffer are those who are against the government, whether by act or by word.

Frankly I have never been so uneasy about the future of this nation. When the government is legally allowed to arrest you for basically nothing, take off all your clothes, look in all your cavities, and humiliate you, what’s next?

— Lindsay Lee is a sophomore in mathematics. She can be reached at llee26@utk.edu.

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If you’ve been following college football recently, you’ve probably noticed that Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino made a pretty terrible decision to hire Jessica Dorrell — a former volleyball player and, we now know, someone with whom Petrino had entered into an illicit relationship — then get on a motorcycle with Dorrell (who looks dumb herself, considering she was apparently engaged) without a helmet and crashed into a guardrail. Safe to say that the $18 million buy-out clause in his contract was null and void.

Some random fall guy is getting fired after editing a tape to make George Zimmerman look like a racist and possibly endangering his life and certainly influencing public opinion of him. That would all be bad enough if there weren’t a murder investigation going on.

Of course, I can say that Zimmerman was probably endangered because Spike Lee chose to skip over the whole “let’s wait and see what happens in a trial” thing those courts seem to make a fuss about and tweeted out what he thought was Zimmerman’s address. It turned out to be a random address and no one to my knowledge was hurt in the end, but Lee came off a bit too rash and had to issue a public apology.

Unfortunately, none of those events are really all too surprising. In any company with a public face there are bound to be pretty dumb mistakes made all the time. Not all of them are on the level of stupidity that these four have entered into, but many of them are. A more harmless but still pretty bad offense, for example, was the ESPN editor who used “Chink in the Armor” in a headline about Jeremy Lin (Lin, to his credit, ended up having lunch with the editor-at-fault and the story died a relatively quiet death). Given the sheer number of celebrities, semi-celebrities, pseudo-celebrities, and people in New Jersey who have a reality show, there are going to be random tweets from them that aren’t the most intelligent messages to send.

What is interesting to me is that some of these people weren’t fired because they were particularly bad. There are probably at least a dozen people who could be implicated between the two cases — I find it hard to believe that no one at Arkansas knew anything about Petrino and Dorrell’s relationship, just as I also find it hard to believe that the far more sinister producer at NBC was the only set of eyes and ears that saw the obvious editing job done which removed context from what is essentially evidence in a murder investigation.

No, their punishment is entirely derived from the company they worked for. They were given a bit of authority and responsibility over the image of a company and then wrecked it. Their punishment is that their authority is stripped from them. There will be no “justice” in the strict legal sense, largely because the victims, in the company’s eyes, were themselves. Of course, you will probably be thinking, “Well, Zimmerman and the random house that could have been attacked” are the victims, and you would be right. It is doubtful that Zimmerman will take solace in the recompense of complete strangers if he is convicted by a biased group of peers. I can hear you saying it again: “Well, he might deserve incarceration for what he’s done.” And you might be right. But to pretend that anyone was fired on his account is to be fooled

by NBC hook, line, and sinker.

Petrino, of course, being already fired but also incredibly rich, will still feel the effects of this for quite some time. After dealing with a jilted wife and family, and after sitting in the penalty box of public opinion, there is a great chance he will get into coaching again. Eventually, people will forget about Jessica Dorrell, but that will take time. One has to wonder, though, about the real victims of this stupidity. Dorrell’s fiancé, Zimmerman’s family, the NBC producer’s family and kids if he has any, and even the random couple that was threatened all will probably deal with these events longer than Petrino and Lee. One thing is for certain: If you are going to say something insensitive and stupid, then you better be rich and famous.

— Gregory Bearringer is a graduate student in medieval studies. He can be reached at gbearrin@utk.edu.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

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Zimmerman charged with 2nd-degree murder Tensions have risen in recent days in Sanford. Someone shot up an unoccupied police car Tuesday as it sat outside the neighborhood where Martin was killed. And a demonstration by college students closed the town’s police station Monday.

Six weeks ago, Martin was returning to the home of his father’s fiancee from a convenience store when Zimmerman started following him.

Zimmerman told police dispatchers he looked suspicious. At some point, the two got into a fight and Zimmerman used his gun.

Zimmerman told police Martin attacked him after he had given up chasing the teenager and was returning to his truck. He told detectives that Martin knocked him to the ground and began slamming his head on the sidewalk.

Zimmerman’s father said that Martin threatened to kill his son and that Zimmerman suffered a broken nose.

A video taken about 40 minutes after the shooting as Zimmerman arrived at the Sanford police station showed him walking unassisted without difficulty. There were no plainly visible bandages or blood on his clothing, but Zimmerman may have had a small wound on the back of his head.

Civil rights groups and others have held rallies around the country, saying the shooting was unjustified. Many of the protesters wore the same type of hooded sweat shirt that Martin had on that day, suggesting his appearance and race had something to do with his killing.

President Barack Obama injected himself into the debate, urging Americans to “do some soul-searching.”

“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” Obama said March 23.

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Chancellor Bill Snyder gives out a hug at his retirement reception on Dec. 3, 1999.

Snyder, who gave over 35 years of service to the university, including seven years as chancellor, was known to many as the “students’ chancellor” because of his involvement in the student community and a focus on improving students’ experiences at UT.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The neighborhood watch volunteer who shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was arrested and charged with seconddegree murder Wednesday after months of mounting tensions and protests across the country.

George Zimmerman, 28, could get up to life in prison if convicted in the slaying of the unarmed black teenager.

Special prosecutor Angela Corey announced the charges but would not discuss how she arrived at them or disclose other details of her investigation, saying: “That’s why we try cases in court.”

Second-degree murder is typically brought in cases when there is a fight or other confrontation that results in death and but does involve a premeditated plan to kill.

Corey would not disclose Zimmerman’s whereabouts for his safety but said that he will be in court within 24 hours.

Corey said the decision to bring charges was based on the facts and the law, declaring: “We do not prosecute by public pressure or by petition.”

One of the biggest hurdles to Zimmerman’s arrest over the past month was Florida’s “stand your ground” law, which gives people wide leeway to use deadly force without having to retreat in the face of danger. The lack of an arrest had sparked outrage and rallies for justice in the Orlando suburb and across the country.

The case has drawn the interest of the highest levels of the Obama administration, with the Justice Department's civil rights division opening its own investigation.

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ARTS&CULTURE

Thursday, April 12, 2012

What: Headphone Disco: The Silent Party When: 8 p.m.

Where: Presidential Courtyard How much: free (degradation to self-esteem may vary) Our take: The Office of Student Activities brings you a night of complete aural disconnection from your fellow students while being crammed into close corners. Suffer their body odor without the ability to complain!

Because nothing says solidarity like silence.

Saturday, April 14 Thursday, April 12 What: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store presents Josh Turner When: 8 p.m.

Where: Tennessee Theatre How much: $39.50 - $57 Our take: This South Carolina native made his big break a decade ago on the Grand Ole Opry, and has since sold more than four million albums. Sponsored by yer favorite chain of “old tyme” restaurants which features oversized checkers and tin-types of grannies with whiskers.

What: Clarence Brown Theatre presents “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Clarence Brown Lab Theatre How much: $5 UT student, $12 non-UT student, $15 adult Our take: A mysterious phone call leads to a soul-searching journey and challenges the growing gulf between people in the technocratic now.

What: Dopapod & Deep Fried 5 When: 9 p.m.

Where: The Ciderhouse How much: $8 advance / $10 door Our take: It’s like those three-column lists back in the nineties you used to make a band name: “funktronic dance party.” For $10 at the door, I hope you get free beer.

Friday, April 13 What: Clarence Brown Theatre presents “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Clarence Brown Lab Theatre How much: $5 UT student, $12 non-UT student, $15 adult

What: Warren Haynes Band When: 8 p.m.

Where: Bijou Theatre How much: $26.50 advance / $29.50 day of show Our take: Jam band elder statesman and guitar legend Warren Haynes steps out on his own, spotlighting his signature dirty blues and gravely growl for the first time in 18 years.

What: Fresh Beat Band - SOLD OUT When: 5 p.m.

Where: Tennessee Theatre How much: $29 - $39 Our take: Preschool Nickelodeon band from eponymous TV show plays the most prestigious venue in town. READ: they will be cleaning sticky out of the red velvet for months. It’s like Yo Gabba Gabba without the psychedelia or, you know, celebrities.

What: Taboo When: 9 p.m.

Where: The Valarium Our take: Google “eschatology,” check images.

Sunday, April 15 What: Ghostland Observatory with Magmablood When: 9 p.m.

Where: The Valarium How much: $20 advance / $22 Our take: That electronic band everyone loves at that venue everyone hates.

What: Clarence Brown Theatre presents “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” When:2 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

Where: Clarence Brown Lab Theatre How much: $5 UT student, $12 non-UT student, $15 adult

Thursday, April 12, 2012

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Chongqing suffers riots The Associated Press BEIJING — Order was being restored Wednesday after thousands of people clashed with police in a district of Chongqing that is struggling economically, a local official said.

The incident began at the same time late Tuesday when state media announced the purge of Bo Xilai, former party chief of the mega-industrial city, from the party’s ruling circle, and the arrest of his wife, Gu Kailai, who is suspected of involvement in a murder case.

The Chongqing official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there was no connection between the two events.

The official said Wansheng district, where the clashes happened, is running out of mining resources and trying to modernize its economy.

But its economic problems become more pro-

nounced after it was merged into neighboring Qijiang county earlier this year, said the official, who like many Chinese officials did not want to give his name.

The official said after the merger “the economy in Wansheng was affected and residents have become upset.” The merged region has more than 1 million people.

One witness from Wansheng, Liu Wei, said businesses and schools were closed Wednesday in the area. Liu said Wansheng residents were unhappy because some benefits, such as pensions and some teacher salaries, were reduced after the merger.

On Wednesday, the Chongqing government posted a statement on its website saying the city would safeguard pensions and medical benefits for Wansheng residents. It also said Wansheng would enjoy the same favorable policies as it did before the merger.

A banner in one photo read: “I want to eat.

Return Wansheng district to me.”

First lady supports veterans The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama has been everywhere from a West Point mess hall to a NASCAR speedway in the past year to drum up support for military families through her “joining forces” campaign.

On Wednesday, she marked the program’s one-year anniversary by taking stock of what’s been done and challenging Americans to do even more.

At a chilly ceremony on the White House lawn, Mrs. Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon Obama praised businesses, Members of the UT rowing team carry their boat down to the water at the Oak churches, schools and other Ridge Invitation on March 17. The Lady Vols will travel to Belleville, Mich., to face off organizations for working to against Michigan on Saturday.

Penalized clinics sue Texas The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Eight Planned Parenthood organizations sued Texas on Wednesday for excluding them from participating in a program that provides contraception and check-ups to women, saying the new rule violates their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and association.

The groups, none of which provide abortions, contend in the federal lawsuit that a new state law banning organizations affiliated with abortion providers from participating in the Women’s Health Program has nothing to do with providing medical care and is simply intended to silence individuals or groups who support abortion rights. Texas law already requires that groups receiving federal or state funding be legally and financially separate from clinics that perform abortions.

“The government cannot condition your participation in the health services on giving up your free speech,” said Pete Shenkken, the plaintiffs’ attorney, citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

The federal government has also cut funding to Texas over the issue, saying it violated federal law.

It says the state law passed by conservative Republicans and signed by Gov. Rick Perry last year denies women the right to choose their health care providers.

The Department of Health and Human Services, which enforces the rule, issued a statement saying

it believes the state was within its rights to pass the new law. Last month, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott sued the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for cutting off funding for the Women’s Health program because of the new affiliate rule.

“Federal law gives states the right and responsibility to establish criteria for Medicaid providers, so we’re on firm legal ground,” the statement said.

“We’ll continue to work with the Attorney General's Office to fully enforce state law and continue federal funding for the Women's Health Program.”

Republican lawmakers made it clear during last year’s legislative session that their aim was to shut down as many Planned Parenthood groups as possible. The new law says that a health care provider that shares a name, common ownership or a franchise agreement with any organization that provides elective abortions will be excluded from the program, regardless of whether the provider meets all medical standards.

The Planned Parenthood groups have asked the federal court in Austin to block the state from enforcing the law before April 30, when the clinics would lose funding.

Patricio Gonzalez, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Hidalgo County, said his organization currently cares for 6,500 women and would have to shut down two or three of its four clinics if the rule is enforced. South Texas is home to some of the poorest women in the nation.

hire more veterans and provide other services to military families but added, “we are not here to pat ourselves on the back.”

“There is so much more to do,” she said. “It’s a time for us to redouble our efforts.”

Paul Rieckhoff, executive director and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, attended the White House event, and said afterward that while the first lady’s campaign has been a welcome effort, many veterans of the two conflicts still aren’t feeling its impact.

He credited the first lady for bringing new attention to the needs of military families and veterans, but said much more

needs to be done to make sure promised jobs actually are delivered and to address the rising suicide rate among veterans, an issue he said the White House has shied away from.

“Mowing lawns for military families is great, but we’ve also got a spiking suicide rate,” he said.

Reichoff said the White House would have to carefully navigate how to push the program in an election year without allowing it to become bogged down by partisanship.

The first lady also will talk up the program Wednesday night on Stephen Colbert’s TV show, “The Colbert Report.”

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Reds rally past Cardinals, 4-3 The Associated Press CINCINNATI — Joey Votto snapped out of a slump, and so did the Cincinnati Reds.

Votto tied a career best with four hits and scored the goahead run on pinch-hitter Chris Heisey’s ninth-inning single, capping a comeback from a three-run deficit and leading the Reds over the St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 Wednesday.

The Reds avoided a threegame sweep by the defending World Series champions, who won just one of six games in Cincinnati last season. The Reds went 3-3 on their opening homestand and headed off for an 11-day, 10-game trip.

“I don’t think salvage is a fair word,” said Votto, who entered with a .188 average.

“We’re just trying to find some momentum. It would’ve been pretty frustrating to go on the road if we hadn’t won this game. The Cardinals played

well. They’ve got a good team.

They won the World Series.

We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us, and they’re certainly in the way.”

Votto doubled off Marc Rzepczynski (0-1) leading off the ninth for the 10th four-hit game of his career. Ryan Ludwick was intentionally walked, Jay Bruce struck out, Fernando Salas relieved and Heisey lined a single to left.

“There was no doubt, right off the bat,” Heisey said. “It was a good feeling to get the barrel of the bat on it.”

Heisey’s hit was Cincinnati’s 14th. The Reds came in batting .201, and manager Dusty Baker said he was confident his offense would pick up.

“You just don’t know when they’re going to start hitting the ball,” Baker said. “It was sure nice to see them come around today. That was a big win for us to end the homestand well and not get too far behind. I know it’s early, but you don’t want to get too far behind.”

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A student returns a shot during a game of beach volleyball on the intramural fields in the fall quarter of 1978.

Skip Frierson, a junior in history at the time, said of intramurals, “The competition is exhilarating and a good way to release some tension, and I’ve got a lot of tension to release.”

Defense, Sentimore adjusting to 3-4 scheme The Associated Press KNOXVILLE — Darrington Sentimore already knows what it’s like competing in the Southeastern Conference.

The defensive end also has experience playing in a 3-4 defense, which Tennessee is installing this spring under new coordinator Sal Sunseri.

Sentimore also knows Sunseri, who coached the linebackers at Alabama the last three seasons, from his own two years at Alabama.

“It’s not a lot different. It’s pretty much the same stuff,” Sentimore said of the 3-4 scheme.

“Coach Sal is a lot harder than he was at Alabama though.

“I know a lot of guys are going to be able to make plays in the 3-4. In this type of defense Coach Sal is running, he disciplines his guys well.

I know we’re going to win a championship over here with him as our defensive coordinator.”

Sentimore, from Norco, La., transferred to Tennessee after playing at Gulf Coast Community College in Mississippi last year after transferring from Alabama. He spent two seasons with the Crimson Tide, redshirting in 2009 and playing in 11 games in 2010 as a reserve defensive lineman. He had nine tackles, four quarterback hurries and forced a fumble.

The 6-foot-3 lineman says he grew up a lot in Mississippi. Now a junior, he’s looking to become

a leader for the Volunteers, something he didn’t do at Alabama.

“I had to get back in the SEC,” Sentimore said.

“It was very important for me to get back in the SEC. There is great talent here. A lot of good things go on in the SEC.” With the Vols more than halfway through spring practice, Tennessee coaches are looking for more consistency from Sentimore, but coach Derek Dooley said Sentimore has been “good” so far.

“When he’s ready to go, he can make some plays, push the pocket and do some things,” Sunseri said. “He’s knows some of the things we're doing. He still has to learn some more.

Darrington has bought in and he’s doing the right things.”

Sentimore arrived at Tennessee in January weighing around 265 pounds but is around 300 pounds now. He hopes to play at that weight this fall.

“Stamina is going to be an issue with him,” Doolely said. “Like most d-linemen, big, heavy guys, when they go a lot of snaps getting tired.”

First-year defensive line coach John Palermo said Sentimore has shown good physical ability in practice, an emphasis by Tennessee coaches on both sides of the ball this spring. Sentimore said he learned a lot playing behind veterans at Alabama, specifically current NFL players Marcell Dareus and Brandon Deaderick.

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Vols basketball signs Georgia guard Moore Staff Reports Tennessee basketball coach Cuonzo Martin announced Wednesday that Armani Moore, a versatile guard from Kennesaw, Ga., has signed a National Letter of Intent to attend the University of Tennessee and play for the Volunteers beginning with the 2012-13 season.

Moore plans to enroll at UT for summer classes.

A 6-foot-5 prospect who can play all three positions along the perimeter, Moore will graduate from Mt. Paran Christian School where he is coached by Scott Varner. Moore led the Eagles to a 24-6 record and the second round of the Class A state playoffs as a senior this past season. He was selected as a firstteam All-State honoree by the Georgia Sports Writers Association after averaging 22 points, 9.3 rebounds, 3.9 blocks and 2.6 steals per game.

Varner said that Moore shot close to 40 percent from 3-point range during his final prep season and that he believes Moore is the first student-athlete from MPCS to receive a

Division I basketball scholarship. The school opened in 1976.

“Armani is another high-character young man whose versatility will make him an asset to our team,” Martin said. “He played every position in high school, so he has the tools to do whatever it takes to help his team be successful. He’ll be a great addition our program.”

Moore said his faith and his relationship with Martin were keys to him choosing UT. “I chose Tennessee because I truly believe that is the place God wants me to be,” Moore said. “And I like that coach Martin is a firm and bold coach. I’m confident he can help me take my game to the next level.”

Moore attended Swainsboro High School as a freshman, sophomore and junior before transferring to Mt. Paran Christian.

He joins fellow UT signing crop members D’Montre Edwards and Derek Reese, each of whom signed with the Vols last November.

Moore’s enrollment will give Tennessee four players from the state of Georgia, as he joins Trae Golden (Powder Springs), Kenny Hall (Stone Mountain) and Jordan McRae (Midway).

Petrino fired at Arkansas The Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Bobby Petrino talked time and again about winning a national championship at Arkansas. From the day he was hired in 2007, Petrino never wavered in that goal or belief.

Petrino won’t have that chance now, felled by scandal, and he blamed no one but himself for being fired.

“The simplest response I have is: I’m sorry,” he said. “These two words seem very inadequate. But that is my heart.”

Athletic director Jeff Long dumped Petrino on Tuesday and laid out a stunning laundry list of misdeeds against the man he hired away from the Atlanta Falcons four years ago.

He ripped Petrino for hiring his mistress and for intentionally misleading him about the secret relationship that was laid bare following their April 1 motorcycle ride together that ended in a crash. He said Petrino missed multiple chances over the past 10 days to come clean about an affair that had crossed the line from infidelity into workplace favoritism.

“He made the decision, a conscious decision, to mislead the public on Tuesday, and in doing so negatively and adversely affected the reputation of the University of Arkansas and our football program,” Long said, choking up as he discussed telling players that their coach was gone. “In short, coach Petrino engaged in a pattern of misleading and manipulative behavior designed to deceive me and members of the athletic staff, both before and after the motorcycle accident.”

The 51-year-old Petrino, a married father of four, maintained an inappropriate relationship

with 25-year-old Jessica Dorrell for a “significant” amount of time and at one point gave her $20,000, Long said.

Long would not disclose details of the payment, or when the money changed hands, but said both parties confirmed the “gift.” Kevin Trainor, a spokesman for Long, said the money came from Petrino, not university funds.

Petrino issued a lengthy apology and said he was focused on trying to make amends to his family.

“All I have been able to think about is the number of people I’ve let down by making selfish decisions,” he said. “I chose to engage in an improper relationship. I also made several poor decisions following the end of that relationship and in the aftermath of the accident.

I accept full responsibility for what has happened.”

Dorrell, a former Razorbacks volleyball player, worked for the Razorbacks Foundation before she was hired by Petrino on March 28, four days before the accident on a rural road 20 miles outside Fayetteville. Long said she was one of three finalists out of 159 applicants and got the job after an unusually short time frame.

Petrino never disclosed his conflict of interest in hiring Dorrell or the payment and she clearly had an unfair advantage over the other candidates, Long said.

“Coach Petrino abused his authority when over the past few weeks he made a staff decision and personal choices that benefited himself and jeopardized the integrity of the football program,” Long said.

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A student prepares to drop the people’s elbow in a friendly sumo wrestling match during a change of field at a UT baseball game against Mississippi Valley State on March 27.

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THESPORTSPAGE

Academics important to Johnson Ben Daniel Staff Writer Knoxville native and UT star Glory Johnson was the 21st Lady Vol named to the women’s basketball Coaches Association All-America team, which was not a surprise, as she averaged career highs in almost every stat column.

The award, along with the 141 games played, 1,643 points and 1,218 rebounds in her career, may give some idea of how great of an athlete Johnson is, but there are few awards that can express how good of a person and scholar she has been while in Knoxville.

“I would not call myself a superstar, but I had a really great run during my four years at UT,” Johnson said. “Even though we didn’t make it to the Final Four, our senior class won back-to-back SEC titles and I think that is a great accomplishment in itself.”

After the SEC Tournament Championship win over LSU, Johnson added another double-double (37 total) to her career and was named tournament MVP. “Glory is as hard of a playing player that I’ve been around in 30 years,” assistant coach Dean Lockwood said. “I’ve been around some really great competitors, male or female. Glory Johnson plays as hard and as fiercely competitive as any player that I’ve had the honor of coaching. We’re so proud of her for that.”

Johnson was also named to the Capital One Academic All-America First Team for her success in the classroom. She graduated cum laude early in interdisciplinary programs/global studies and was seeking a master’s in communication studies in her final year.

“My mom and dad were always really strict about achieving academic success when I was younger,” Johnson said. “I wanted to utilize my time here at UT so I set a goal for myself to never

take less than 15 hours every spring and fall, and 12 hours over the summer.”

Mental toughness is what Johnson described as the key to her success. She explained that keeping your mind right even through hardships is essential, and there were certainly hardships for her.

Prior to the beginning of this season, head coach Pat Summitt announced that she had been diagnosed with early-onset dementia.

“It was worse than enduring any personal injury, because there is no cure,” Johnson said. “Pat has been a mother figure in my life ever since I stepped on campus. Once we heard it, we were devastated, but there was no time for a ‘pity party’ like coach would say. She didn’t want us to feel bad for her because she was going to fight it. We know how strong she is so we trusted her, supported her and just loved her more for continuing to work with us.”

Johnson received many awards this season, including SEC Defensive Player of the Year, AllSEC Defensive Team, SEC All-Tournament Team and MVP and WBCA All-America District Team, among others, and it appears that her future will only add to the list.

“I plan on playing in the WNBA and overseas in the offseason until I can’t physically play anymore or am ready to settle down and start a family,” Johnson said. “I would love to work for ESPN one day, but those are just my hopes and dreams. I would love to coach but would only accept an assistant coaching position because I have seen how hard it is for head coaches every day and all the pressure put on them.”

Johnson wanted all of her fans to know a few things.

“I just want to thank (my fans) for supporting us through the good times and the bad,” Johnson said. “I want them to know I played every game as hard as I could play to keep them coming to more and more games. Lady Vol fans are amazing, and overall, the best fans in the nation.”

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Glory Johnson looks beyond a defender before a shot during a game against Arkansas on Feb. 23. Johnson excelled not only on the court during her four years at UT, but also in the classroom, where she was named a member of the Academic All-American First Team.

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Petrino finishes his tenure at Arkansas with a 34-17 record in four seasons, leading the Razorbacks to a No. 5 final ranking last season and a Cotton Bowl win over Kansas State. With quarterback Tyler Wilson, running back Knile Davis and others coming back, there is talk of Arkansas challenging the two powerhouses in the SEC West, national champion Alabama and national runner-up LSU. And maybe the Hogs will. But they won't do it with Petrino.

The beginning of the end came on April 1, which Petrino at first described as a Sunday spent with his wife at an area lake.

Instead, he and Dorrell went for an evening ride and skidded off the road in an accident left him with

four broken ribs, a cracked vertebra in his neck and numerous abrasions on his face. The avid motorcycle rider said the sun and wind caused him to lose control on the two-lane highway about 20 miles southeast of Fayetteville.

What he failed to mention, both at a news conference two days later and to Long for two more days, was the presence of Dorrell other than a vague reference to ''a lady'' who had flagged down a passing motorist.

That changed when the state police released the accident report. Petrino, tipped off by the state trooper who usually provides security for him during the season, informed Long 20 minutes before the report was released, and he admitted to what he called a previous inappropriate relationship with Dorrell.

Long placed Petrino on paid leave that night, say-

ing he was disappointed and promising to review the coach's conduct.

As the review continued, state police released audio of the 911 call reporting Petrino's accident.

It revealed Petrino didn't want to call police following the crash, and a subsequent police report showed he asked if he was required to give the name of the passenger during the accident.

That wasn't true and the broken trust, along with questions about Dorrell's hiring to be the school's student-athlete development coordinator, proved to be too much for Petrino to overcome. ''Our expectations of character and integrity in our employees can be no less than what we expect of our students,'' Long said. ''No single individual is bigger than the team, the Razorback football program of the University of Arkansas.''