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Calif. politician apologizes for racist e-mail Associated Press IRVINE, Calif. — A Southern California GOP official who sent out an e-mail picturing President Barack Obama’s face on the body of a baby chimpanzee issued an apology late Monday after a weekend of criticism that ended with a strongly worded public rebuke from the local Republican Party chairman, who also called for an ethics investigation into the incident.

Marilyn Davenport, a 74-year-old Fullerton resident and elected member of the Orange County Republican Central Committee, sent an email Monday afternoon asking for forgiveness for her “unwise behavior,” just before the GOP committee met for its monthly summit at a hotel in Irvine, where the fallout from the incident was the hot topic.

The email sent on Friday by Davenport to a small group of GOP committee members shows an image posed like a family portrait, of chimpanzee parents and child, with Obama’s face superimposed on the young chimp. Text beneath the picture reads, “Now you know why no birth certificate.”

Some voters have maintained since the last presidential election that Obama is ineligible to hold the nation’s highest elected office because, they argue, he was actually born in Kenya, his father’s homeland.

Obama’s mother was an American citizen.

Hawaii officials have repeatedly confirmed Obama’s citizenship, and his Hawaiian birth certificate has been made public. Courts have rebuffed lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility.

“To my fellow Americans and to everyone else who has seen this email I forwarded and was offended by my action, I humbly apologize and ask for your forgiveness of my

unwise behavior. I say unwise because at the time I received and forwarded the email, I didn’t stop to think about the historic implications and other examples of how this could be offensive,” Davenport’s apology read.

“I am an imperfect Christian lady who tries her best to live a Christ-like honoring life. I would never do anything to intentionally harm or berate others regardless of ethnicity. Everyone who knows me knows that to be true.”

Davenport, who was not present at the meeting, represents the 72nd Assembly

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this committee. I do not know what was in the heart of Marilyn Davenport when she sent that email, only she does. I want to accept and do accept that Marilyn is not a racist,” Baugh said.

“The email is without question extremely racist. Depicting African-Americans as monkey is a longtime, well-known and particularly offensive slur because it denies them their basic humanity.”

The body’s ethics committee would investigate the incident, interview Davenport and make a report back to the executive commit-

To my fellow Americans and to everyone

else who has seen this email I forwarded and was offended by my action, I humbly apologize and

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ask for your forgiveness of my unwise behavior.

– Marylin Davenport, Orange County Republican Central Committee, on offensive email

District in Orange County on the committee, which is made up of volunteer officials elected for two-year terms. The group is tasked with fundraising, campaigning and debating policy for the Republican Party.

The county’s GOP chairman, Scott Baugh, told about 75 GOP members that despite Davenport’s “sincere apology,” he still condemned her actions and believed she should resign because her presence on the committee would remain controversial and provide a distraction.

“The eyes of the nation are focused on us tonight because of the actions of a member of

tee within a week, Baugh said.

The reputation of the Republican Party — the party of Abraham Lincoln that was founded in the midst of slavery and discrimination — was on the line, he said, and he asked party members to put themselves in the place of a black American opening the email.

“I hope for a fleeting moment you can capture the taste of what it feels like to be at the bigoted end of racism. Just reflect on that because that’s what many of them saw, that’s what many of them felt and that’s how many of them reacted,” he said.

A phone message left for Davenport

Monday evening was not immediately returned.

Tim Whitacre, a longtime conservative activist in Orange County and representative of the county’s 69th Assembly District, spoke in support of Davenport and said he had visited her on Monday afternoon.

He said the “petite grandmother originally from Kansas” who taught Bible study classes and had a heart condition was terrified by the outcry and had taken her phone off the hook after receiving angry calls. He asked committee members to forgive her and accept her apology — but said she didn’t intend to resign.

Davenport is next up for election in 2012 and can only be removed by a recall before then, committee members said.

“Who among us has done something, said something or sent something we didn’t regret later?” Whitacre said. “Let those among us who are without sin cast the first stone. This lady is sincere, I know her heart. This is her apology and I believe her, we need to believe her. She’s hunkered down at home, scared, afraid for her safety.”

Earlier Monday, the president of the California NAACP decried the email as racist and dismissed Davenport’s claims that it was intended as a harmless joke.

The White House didn’t immediately reply to an email seeking comment.

This is the second time in recent years that an Orange County political official has been in the news for Obama-themed emails.

In early 2009, Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose forwarded an email to a group of people from his personal account depicting a picture of the White House with a watermelon patch as its garden. Grose later resigned amid the backlash.

Texas ranchland blazed by wildfire Associated Press DALLAS — A Texas wildfire burning about 70 miles from the Dallas-Fort Worth area is more than twice as big as previous estimates, and firefighters will face difficult conditions Tuesday battling the blaze, officials said.

The fire at Possum Kingdom Lake about 70 miles west of Fort Worth has grown to nearly 150,000 acres from estimates a day earlier of about 63,000 acres, according to the Texas Forest Service.

The Possum Kingdom fire is the fifth of at least 100,000 acres around Texas reported in the past two weeks. Most of the state is in extreme drought, and wildfires in the past week alone have burned more than 1,000 square miles of parched Texas ranchland — an area that combined would be the size of Rhode Island.

The weather is expected to complicate matters in North Texas on Tuesday, with temperatures forecast in the mid-90s and wind gusts of up to 35 mph.

There is a chance of evening thunderstorms.

“Gusty winds, it’s going to make any fire suppression efforts problematic,” Webb said Tuesday. “The public just needs to be mindful that any use of outdoor fire should not be considered.”

More than 30 homes have been confirmed destroyed in the Possum Kingdom area, and the forest service says that number will grow.

Trooper Gary Rozzell of the Texas Department of Public Safety said heat from the flames of fires near Possum Kingdom on the Brazos River grew so intense Monday that cinders were sent high into the atmosphere. There, they became icy and fell to the ground in a process called “icecapping,” he said.

“They tell me it’s like a roof falling in,” he said.

The fires drove residents from their homes along the shore of the North Texas lake, with at least 18 homes and two churches burned. The flames reached a storage building containing fireworks on the reservoir’s western shore, lighting up the night but causing no injuries, Palo Pinto County Judge David Nicklas said.

In West Texas, rugged, hilly terrain north of San Angelo was complicating efforts to bring the Wildcat Fire in Coke County under control. However, firefighters gained ground on it Monday after using “burnouts” on Sunday to clear out fuel needed by the advancing flames, according to Texas Forest Service spokesman Oscar Mestas. He said some scattered rural areas were evacuated as a precaution, but no homes were reported destroyed by the 104,000-acre fire.

Two people who apparently wanted to see the fires from the air died when their single-engine biplane crashed near San Angelo, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said Monday.

Witnesses told investigators the two-seater took off from Mathis Field/San Angelo Municipal Airport on Sunday and that the two people on board, whose identities had not been released, indicated they wanted to go on a sightseeing trip over the wildfire, Lunsford said. The wreckage was found Monday east of San Angelo.

In Austin, some residents of a neighborhood in the southwestern corner of the capital city returned Monday to find charred ruins of their homes after a wildfire a day earlier.

The blaze destroyed 10 homes in the affected area and significantly damaged 10 others, and those numbers are likely to rise as fire officials continue searching the area, said Austin Fire Department spokesman Palmer Buck.

David and Kris Griffin returned home from out-of-town weekend trips on Monday to find that their house was one of at least 20 in their Austin neighborhood destroyed or nearly destroyed by a weekend wildfire.

Nearly all of their possessions went up in flames, and George, their cat of 11 years, was missing.

Making their loss even tougher to grasp, the homes on both sides of theirs survived relatively unscathed.

“All the other houses got saved except ours ... we’re just kind of speechless right now,” said Kris Griffin. She said finding the cat was their priority, Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon because their possessions were Jeannie Lutz, junior in graphic design, examines the merchandise at the annual UT Pottery Sale on replaceable.

Thursday, April 14. The sale raised money for the UT Potters, the university’s ceramic arts club.

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1980: Castro announces Mariel Boatlift On April 20, 1980, the Castro regime announces that all Cubans wishing to emigrate to the U.S. are free to board boats at the port of Mariel west of Havana, launching the Mariel Boatlift. The first of 125,000 Cuban refugees from Mariel reached Florida the next day.

The boatlift was precipitated by housing and job shortages caused by the ailing Cuban economy, leading to simmering internal tensions on the island. On April 1, Hector Sanyustiz and four others drove a bus through a fence at the Peruvian embassy and were granted political asylum. Cuban guards on the street opened fire. One guard was killed in the crossfire.

The Cuban government demanded the five be returned for trial for the guard’s death. But when the Peruvian government refused, Castro withdrew his guards from the embassy on Good Friday, April 4. By Easter Sunday, April 6, some 10,000 Cubans crowded into the lushly landscaped gardens at the embassy requesting asylum. Other embassies, including those of Spain and Costa Rica, agreed to take a small number of people. But suddenly, two weeks later, Castro proclaimed that the port of Mariel would be opened to anyone wishing to leave, as long as they had some-

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one to pick them up. Cuban exiles in the United States rushed to hire boats in Miami and Key West and rescue their relatives.

In all, 125,000 Cubans fled to U.S. shores in about 1,700 boats, creating large waves of people that overwhelmed the U.S. Coast guard. Cuban guards had packed boat after boat, without considering safety, making some of the overcrowded boats barely seaworthy. Twenty-seven migrants died, including 14 on an overloaded boat that capsized on May 17.

The boatlift also began to have negative political implications for U.S. President Jimmy Carter. When it was discovered that a number of the exiles had been released from Cuban jails and mental health facilities, many were placed in refugee camps while others were held in federal prisons to undergo deportation hearings. Of the 125,000 “Marielitos,” as the refugees came to be known, who landed in Florida, more than 1,700 were jailed and another 587 were detained until they could find sponsors.

The exodus was finally ended by mutual agreement between the U.S. and Cuban governments in October 1980.

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

Crime Log April 18 A UT staff member reported that she had received a harassing phone call around 8:14 a.m. in Room 309-Q of the Conference Center building on Henley Street. The complainant then stated that several threatening calls had been made to the room, and the caller is believed to be the son of one of the employees who works in an office in Suite 309.

A UT student reported that the hang tag had been stolen from her blue 2008 Chrysler PTC while it was parked in the G11 parking garage between 9:30 p.m. on April 1 and 4 p.m. on April 6.

—Crime Log is compiled by Robbie Hargett.

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Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the Universty of Tennessee Police Department.

All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

Willow Love, freshman in chemical engineering, advertises for the “bubble tea” on Pedestrian Mall on April 14. Bubble tea is a sweetly flavored tea that also includes tapioca balls.

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Ready for the World Café concludes semester with tropical flair The Ready for the World Café at UT will offer a tropical menu for its final week of the semester, April 18–21.

The menu for this final week at the café is tropical salad, yummy honey chicken, sweet and spicy spinach, sweet and sour meatballs, Caribbean casserole, seafood gumbo, and almond wild rice.

Diners will be able to enter a raffle for a football signed by the UT football team.

The café is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. each Monday through Thursday in the Hermitage Room on the third floor of the UC. Diners pay $11 for the all-you-can-eat buffet or $9 for a plate of food to carry out.

Aramark’s faculty/staff discount card can be used at the café.

The café is operated by students in the advanced food production and service management class, Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism (HRT) 445.

Students in HRT 445 take turns planning the menus, marketing the café, and working in the café. ARAMARK, UT’s provider of dining services, prepares the food.

This week’s café manager is Jake Storey.

Storey, of Titusville, Fla., is a senior in HRT. He has worked with the hospitality team at Thompson-Boling Arena and is a member of the UT football team. He hopes to go to culinary school to become a chef and own a restaurant.

UT to hold public meeting about campus master plan UT will host a public meeting for the community to review the draft master plan for the Knoxville and agricultural campuses. The meeting is set for 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday at the UT Visitors’ Center.

This community meeting is part of a series of meetings to get feedback on the draft plan. Once finalized, it will be a guide that helps the university pursue its overall goals and make decisions on land usage, placement of buildings and investments in

infrastructure.

This new (2011) draft plan is an update to a previous version created in 1994 and updated in 2001.

A key element to moving UT from a Top 50 public research university to the ranks of the Top 25 involves having the resources to improve and supplement campus facilities in order to support firstrate academic and research programs, along with student housing and services.

The planning process identified significant needs for academic space on the Knoxville and agricultural campuses. The Knoxville campus has the greatest deficiencies in general classroom, class lab and research space.

Among the goals are to define current and future facility needs, promote a sense of community, integrate instruction, research, student living, and student life, and create a pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly environment. Considerations of traffic, parking and related infrastructure are taken into account, along with how to promote sound environmental policies and development and building practices.

After the review and stakeholder meetings, a final report will be submitted to the UT Board of Trustees for their consideration at their June meeting. If approved, the final draft is submitted to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the State Building Commission for approval and finalization.

For more information about the master plan, visit http://www.utk.edu/masterplan/.

UT extension FCS experts train faith leaders in money matters In times of personal crisis, many people turn to their faith. The same sometimes happens when facing financial hardships.

Many people look to their places of worship for help. But sometimes spiritual leaders don’t believe they’re qualified to give advice about money.

To assist faith leaders in this area, UT Extension Family and Consumer Sciences experts will offer a two-day workshop titled “Responding to Financial Crisis — Tough Times, Tough Choices.” The event is presented in collaboration with the Coalition for the Integration of Faith & Finances.

The conference will include information where faith leaders can learn financial knowledge such as plans to reduce spending, manage credit and make lifestyle adjustments to new economic realities.

Participants will hear how to guide people through an accurate assessment of their situations, and the steps to take to make

sure things don’t get worse.

Featured speakers include Rev. Flora Williams, Professor Emeritus at Purdue University who is an ordained minister and registered financial consultant.

Williams is the author of 19 books on family economics, financial planning and counseling. Other speakers include Syble Solomon, creator of the program “Money Habitudes” and winner of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education Educator of the year.

The workshop will be May 2-3, 2011, at the Church Street United Methodist Church, located at 900 Henley Street in Knoxville. To register, contact Barbara Metzger with UT Extension at 865-9741364 or bmetzge1@utk.edu UT Extension operates in each of Tennessee’s 95 counties as the off-campus division of the UT Institute of Agriculture.

An educational and outreach organization funded by federal, state and local governments, UT Extension, in cooperation with Tennessee State University, brings research-based information about agriculture, family and consumer sciences, youth and community development to the people of Tennessee where they live and work.

UT partners with community and student growers to offer Farmers Market on Wednesdays beginning May 18 The UT Farmers Market will open Wednesday, May 18, and will continue through October every Wednesday from 47 p.m. Local produce, music, food, crafts and children’s activities will be featured each week at the UT Gardens off of Neyland Drive.

Some of the participating partners include Mountain Meadows Farm, Wild Hare Farm, Clear Springs Farm, La Villa Real Vegetable Farm, and Gregory’s Greenhouse, as well as the UT Harvest Market booth, where the produce is grown and sold by UT students interested in becoming growers. In addition to fresh produce, plants and vegetable transplants will be available to purchase.

The UT Culinary Institute will be offering cooking demonstrations and members of UT Extension and community organizations will be providing information on gardening, food preservation and food safety.

The UT Farmers Market is presented

by UT Organic and Crop Production and the UT Gardens. For more information and to keep up with new information, see Facebook “UT Farmers Market”. For information on being a participating vendor, see http://vegetables.tennessee.edu/ or contact Fiona McAnally at fmcanall@utk.edu or 865-806-1557.

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Plan targets prescription drug abuse Associated Press MIAMI — A new national strategy being unveiled Tuesday by the White House drug czar to combat prescription drug abuse aims to cut misuse of powerful painkillers like oxycodone by 15 percent within five years through education, steppedup law enforcement and pilltracking databases.

The effort will target pill mills that are dispensing thousands of painkillers, a growing drug abuse epidemic centered in Florida.

Under one part of the plan, more than 1 million doctors would be required to undergo training on proper prescription practices as a condition for their ability to prescribe the highly addictive drugs known as opioids.

“The key is that everyone realizes there is no magic answer to this,” Gil Kerlikowske, President Barack Obama’s national drug policy director, said in an interview with The Associated Press. “It’s a really complex problem.”

The first-ever comprehensive federal plan focuses on four main areas: education for prescribing physicians and the public, including a media campaign about the drugs’ dangers; pushing for tracking databases in all 50 states; better methods of throwing out unused or expired prescriptions; and more intense training and focus by law enforcement on illegal pill mill clinics.

Florida is the epicenter of the deadly rise in abuse of oxycodone and similar addictive painkillers, with doctors in the Sunshine State prescribing far more of the drugs than all other states combined, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

And Florida’s pill mills are the supplier of choice for much of the eastern U.S., causing a ripple effect of drug overdos-

es and addiction to the north — a phenomenon dubbed the “OxyContin Express.”

A recent report by Florida medical examiners found that in the first six months of 2010 — the most recent data available — 1,268 deaths in the state were caused by prescription drugs, or about seven fatalities a day during that span. Kentucky’s governor says 82 people die of overdoses each month in his state.

Renee Doyle, a Fort Lauderdale mother whose son Blayne was in an oxycodone haze when he was struck and killed by a car in 2009, said he was able to get 240 pills on each monthly visit to a local pain clinic by doing little more than asking for them. More than 850 pain clinics are currently registered in Florida, where doctors prescribe 85 percent of all such pills in the nation.

“I think people were just not paying attention and then greed took over,” she said. “They are legal drug dealers and they should be outlawed.”

Although the DEA and local police recently arrested more than 20 people, including five doctors, in a crackdown on South Florida pill mills, Kerlikowske said it’s not strictly a law enforcement issue.

“It’s a real collaboration.

It’s not just a prosecutor and DEA. It isn’t just the medical profession. It’s everybody,” he said.

Each part of the strategy has several goals. For example, on physician education, the plan calls for Congress to enact a law requiring a certain amount of training on responsible prescription practices of the most-abused drugs for medical practitioners who seek DEA registration to prescribe certain controlled substances. The Food and Drug Administration proposal would be the largest of its kind.

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Editor’sNote Validity of ‘student-athlete’still in question Zac Ellis Editor-in-Chief It’s no secret that some student-athletes on Tennessee’s campus are revered by fans with celebritylike status. Success on the field or court makes it difficult for a successful student-athlete to walk across campus unnoticed.

With fans, the unfortunate truth is that such athletic prowess often takes precedence over strong academics.

With the notable exception of those student-athletes who maintain spots as honor-roll recipients, big-time student-athletes are judged by fans more for touchdowns and 3-pointers than essays or exams.

Evidently fans aren’t the only ones who feel this way. Take UT defensive line coach Lance Thompson, for example.

Thompson, in his third season on UT’s football staff, harped last week on the importance of talent and effort in reference to his players’ time on the field.

Thompson correctly stated that a player’s year in school doesn’t necessarily correlate to playing time.

But it was what the coach said next that had media in attendance scratching their heads.

“This isn’t a YMCA camp,” Thompson said. “You’re here for a reason, and it’s not academics. You’re here to play football and get your degree.”

Um, what?

Stop the presses: Academics is not the reason these student-athletes are in school? They’re actually here to play football?

In truth, the surprising aspect of Thompson’s statement shouldn’t be the “realization” that some student-athletes might not have chosen UT because of academics. Instead, it’s surprising that Thompson — a coach with a young man’s future supposedly at the forefront of his decision making — would actually verbalize an already widely accepted, yet disappointing, principle.

The NCAA, the governing body of intercollegiate athletics in this country, is known for publicizing the fact that “student” comes before “athlete” in the term “student-athlete,” much in the same way that academics are meant to trump athletics on a university’s list of priorities. But it is no secret that this

notion is considered erroneous by many.

Television commercials for the NCAA tend to end with the phrase, “There are 380,000 NCAA studentathletes, and just about all of us will be going pro in something other than sports.” For most studentathletes, this sentiment is correct, as is the idea that academics is the most important aspect of their college experience.

But it’s those big-time programs with big-name recruits who generate gross revenue for athletic departments and universities that serve as outliers in this ad campaign. Five-star quarterbacks and oneand-done college basketball freshmen choose schools largely based on a program’s fast track to the professional ranks, while schools hardly shy away from prep stars likely to translate into ticket sales and television revenue.

These NCAA campaigns stress an importance to academics to which some universities choose not to adhere. Take Brigham Young University, for example.

BYU’s star basketball player during this past season, Jimmer Fredette, paced the Cougers to a successful year that was cut short with a Sweet 16 loss to Florida.

But Fredette’s popularity apparently became too much for BYU to handle on its campus.

In an era when many college basketball players focus more attention on NBA draft potential than academics, Fredette was actually asked not to attend class anymore — by BYU itself.

Citing the distraction caused by Fredette’s attendance in class, as well as the plethora of autograph requests that frequently occured, BYU decided Fredette should complete his remaining classes of the spring semester online. This instead of, say, asking students to refrain from soliciting autographs until after class.

It’s a disappointing truth that big-time college programs are flirting dangerously with the line between “amateur” and “professional” athletes. It’s unfortunate when a school literally tells a student not to attend class sessions anymore. And it’s sad when a football coach admits that his players aren’t at school for academics.

Most of this, people already know. The question is, when does the NCAA actually make things right?

When do schools truly begin to put “student” in front of “athlete?”

It’d be nice to hear a coach other than Pat Summitt say, “They didn’t play a great game last night, but how about the A on that test last week?”

—Zac Ellis is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at rellis3@utk.edu.

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High expectations set for 2011 movie season T he Pen Is Mightier by

Sean Mahoney Anyone who knows me well at all can tell you that I spend entirely too much time with movies. It seems like I find myself in a movie theater nearly every weekend, and more hours than I am willing to admit are spent checking the latest news and rumors surrounding upcoming film projects. My friends constantly poke fun at my ridiculous film trivia knowledge, and my girlfriend never forgets to remind me of how overly critical I can be when giving my opinion of a recent film. I can’t help it.

Everyone has his or her weakness, and this just happens to be one of mine. It’s my cross to bear.

Naturally, my favorite season is summer, because the best blockbusters all come out to see who can offer the best explosions or comedic laughs. Vince and Owen have wedding season, and I have movie season. Nearly every Friday showcases a new $100 million movie for our enjoyment, and this summer has the potential to be the best one ever. This year, we get four superhero movies and seven sequels to already beloved franchises.

May kicks off summer with some of the best.

First, we get Marvel’s next attempt to get you to love one of their characters not named Spider-Man. Hoping to have the success they had years ago with “Iron Man,” Marvel created a movie based on its god of lightning, entitled “Thor.” Some reviews have already lauded this as a solid movie with good acting and great special effects. Later, we get to go on another adventure with Jack Sparrow (sorry, Captain Jack Sparrow). “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Strainger Tides” brings back the ever-incredible Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa as well in the search of the Fountain of Youth.

Then the wolfpack is back. “Hangover 2” is next with yet another misadventure with Phil, Stu and Alan. This time, however, they are in Bangkok, and for some reason there is a monkey. Sign me up.

Rounding out the month is everybody’s favorite overweight ninja panda. “Kung Fu Panda 2” promises the same hilarity and tremendous

animation that made the first one so lovable.

(Honestly, I just want to hear him say “Ska-doosh” again.)

June starts off with “X-Men: First Class,” which tells the origins of Professor Xavier and Magneto during the Cold War Era. Basically, it looks like it will show how the X-Men got started and why Magneto hates life. Then, not to be outdone by Marvel, DC brings us one of its superheroes that few know about. “Green Lantern” stars Ryan Reynolds as a pilot turned cosmic hero, in what is being described as a mix between “Star Wars” and “Superman.”

Next, we get another one of Pixar’s complete works of art in “Cars 2.” While the first movie was not as highly reviewed as Pixar’s other films, it is actually one of my favorites. The sequel has Mater and Lightning venturing across the globe in a World Grand Prix and somehow Mater is mistaken for a secret agent. Sounds like a recipe for success to me.

Finally, movie season ends with a bang in July.

First comes the finale to the Transformers trilogy, called “Dark of the Moon.” After the poor taste that “Revenge of the Fallen” left in a lot of people’s mouths, hopefully the series will recover. Maybe now director Michael Bay will have more of what made the first one so fun and fewer racial stereotypes like the gold-teethed, illiterate twins that everyone loved so much.

Next, Harry and company are back to end one of the most successful movie franchises in history. If the “Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part 1” is any indication, “Part 2” will surely be an incredible end to what has been a fantastic ride. Last but certainly not least, Marvel finishes its triumvirate with “Captain America: First Avenger.” This film is set during World War II and tells the story of the first super soldier that becomes the future leader of the Avengers that “Iron Man 2” alluded to last summer.

With such an incredible lineup, it is easy to see why summer 2011 could go down in history as the greatest movie season ever. I really can’t remember a summer with so many promising titles to look forward to. While the overwhelming majority of you probably don’t take movies as seriously as I do, I think there really is something for everyone this year. Let the countdown to movie season begin (after you study for your finals, of course).

— Sean Mahoney is a senior in history. He can be reached at smahone1@utk.edu.

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I can’t believe the semester is about to end, because it feels like it just started. (Also, is it really April? I keep thinking it’s actually February. God, I really have no concept of time passing.) For many, including the underclassmen and the upperclassmen that aren’t graduating this semester, it’s a pretty overwhelming time, trying to make up work and collect notes for the days they missed, cramming every detail of everything from epistemology and anthropological significance of Lucy to studying thermodynamics (which is a course that is supposed to be ridiculously difficult at UT).

The rest of us are taking it easy, studying and taking notes, but devoting equal time to relax in order to refresh our minds. You can judge me for doing so, but hey, I’m graduating and have paid my dues to get those three sheets of paper that says that I’m minutely intelligent and that I cared enough to go to class. And here, I will share my tips for relaxing during this stressful time when our grades matter more than anything else right now.

1. Don’t kill yourself over your classes. Grades are important, but they don’t determine everything about your life, and, really, they are an infinitesimally small part of an individual’s makeup. I know that advice sounds insane now, but take it from me that there is life outside college ... I think.

2. Do not drink or indulge during this time before finals in order to make up for the partying and whatever you can’t do during finals week. It teaches discipline, and it keeps you focused on the end goal, whatever that may be for you. This lesson is especially applicable for underclassmen, those poor souls that usually don’t have that much self-control and are thoroughly optimistic about their testing abilities but will probably miss their tests. Amateurs.

3. Take whatever help you can get. I struggle with this one all the time, because I happen to be (however lazy I pretend to be) a type-A person who hates asking for help, because I would rather do everything and learn by myself. That way, everything can be perfect. But it helps a lot if you’ve missed class and your classmates can help you fill in the blanks or help you understand something that you were not able

to. Also, during this time, the library and Google can be your best friends. If only I could say that they weren’t mine all the time …

4. I cannot emphasize this enough: DO NOT SPEND TIME ON FACEBOOK OR WITH OTHER DISTRACTIONS. I don’t think Mark Zuckerburg knew exactly the negative impact of his brainchild on college students’ studying habits, but I strongly feel it’s something he should have looked into.

Then again, he did drop out of Harvard and followed the money trail. For those of us who are not that fortunate or intelligent, this is all we have, so don’t screw it up.

Now for the fun parts — well, more so than the studying without food, water and social interaction.

Here’s how I get through finals: 1.

I set up a mini-bowling alley in the corridor of my apartment.You can get bowling balls and pins in cheap packages at a retailer in order to play.

It sounds really cheesy and kind of stupid, but it’s a good way to wind down after a day of studying.

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Remember that Cosby show episode where Theo strapped a sponge to his butt and slid across his apartment floor, covering it in soap and water? I’ve been known to do the same, in the name of “cleaning.”

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Learn a new trade. Last year it was knitting. The year before I got pretty good with origami, especially dragons, which is all I really could make.

Sophomore year was “draw a comic that helps you study” year.

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I have a penchant for very trashy reality TV.This explains why I have copies of “Flavor of Love” strewn across my closet floor. If I’m feeling especially studious, I might watch a documentary related to what I’m studying on the History/Discovery channels. It’s rare, but it happens.

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I soul cook. There is a difference between soul food and soul cooking. Soul food is chitlins, greens, fried chicken, etc. Soul cooking is cooking because it makes you feel good and it gives you a release — from appetizers to desserts. I’ve been known to make too many brownies, chocolate chip cookies and red velvet cheesecake cupcakes. I have a sweet tooth problem.

Like I said, this is what I do to release stress, which will be mounting in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully you can find more creative and entertaining ways to get through the next few weeks and come out, if not maimed, then at least alive, in order to get to the summer!

— Yasha Sadagopan is a senior in economics. She can be reached at ysadagop@utk.edu.

ENTERTAINMENT

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Band uses game system for unique sounds Fashion designers-turned-musicians cite Japan, alternative bands as other major influences Brittney Dougherty Staff Writer Anamanaguchi uses live instruments as well as a hacked Nintendo Entertainment System as a synthesizer to create a unique sound.

The band is made of guitarists Ary Warnaar and Peter Berkman, bassist James DeVito and drummer Luke Silas. Berkman also works the NES, while Warnaar and Silas use Game Boys as synthesizers.

This style of music is called chiptune or 8-bit.

Silas says they don’t actually have to play the game consoles on stage.

“We have the whole techno song on a back-track and we’re basically just trying to keep up,” he said.

The four met while they were interns at their three favorite designers’ studios. Warnaar was at Prada, Berkman and Devito were at Armani and Silas was at Gucci. When they went out, people called them the Prada-Armani-Gucci boys. This mouthful of a name eventually meshed into Anamanaguchi.

“It just kind of ran together,” Silas said, “and when the band inevitably started, we thought, ‘What better name than our already distorted moniker?’”

Silas said the transition from fashion designers to musicians was a smooth one.

“I don’t think it’s very far off,” Silas said. “Music was always our second love, and it finally just kind of took the front seat, I suppose.”

The decision to include both live instruments and synthesizers in their music was also easy for them.

“The band started years ago when Pete was mak-

ing music by himself and with friends using NES programming,” Silas said. “It turned out that this was a really solid mix.”

Anamanaguchi has a wide range of influences.

Some of their sound comes from mid-’80s’ video games. Silas said a part of the sound is Japanese.

However, the band’s influences center more on classic pop and alternative bands, like Weezer and even the Beach Boys.

“It’s very meticulous songwriting,” he said.

Anamanaguchi composed the music for the video game “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game.” Silas said it was an exciting opportunity that just fell into the group’s laps.

“We were on tour in summer of 2009, and Pete picked up a copy of ‘Scott Pilgrim: Volume 1,’” Silas said. “The next morning at breakfast, Pete gets a call from Ubisoft asking if we wanted to work on the video game.”

The members have been on their national tour for weeks already, and it continues through early May. Silas said that after the tour, they are going to work hard on a new album until it’s finished.

The members said they enjoy Knoxville and are excited to return. Silas said the audience should expect to have a good time at the show.

“There’s a lot of loud, awesome goodness with strobe lights,” he said.

Anamanaguchi will play at the Cider House tonight with Peelander-Z. The doors open at 8 p.m., and tickets are $7 in advance and $10 at the door.

• Photo courtesy of Anamanaguchi

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SPORTS

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Lady Vol golfer earns medalist honors at SECs wanted to win so badly. She seethed for a year and came out determined to play well. She was terrific.”

Popson led the tournament from wire-to-wire, starting the first round by making four birdies on the front nine on Friday.

After carding the lowest first-round score in SEC Championship history, a 6-under 66, Popson stayed strong through a difficult

nine bogeys knocked the pair out of contention early.

That left Silva, who was even through 36 holes, to challenge Popson.

The junior Bulldog and Popson were in the same group, Lady Vol sophomore golfer Erica Popson fired a 2-under 70 making for an exciting individual battle on Sunday after Silva and held off a final day charge from the nation’s No. 1-ranked made her presence known with birdies on three of her first six player to capture medalist honors at the 2011 SEC holes.

Championship on Sunday at the Auburn Golf Club. “(Silva) played well all day,” Popson said. “I just kept A day before her 20th birthday, the Davenport, Fla., telling myself to give myself shots at birdies because native gave herself an early gift by becoming the second that is what’s going to win the tournament — being Lady Vol ever to win the SEC Championship. aggressive and shooting under par. I just tried to stay She held off the 2009 SEC Champion and the top focused on myself rather than worrying about what she NCAA Division I golfer in the Golfstat rankings, Marta was going to do.”

Silva of Georgia, and avenged her runner-up performPopson negated a bogey on No. 3, by birdying the ance from a year ago to win by one stroke with a 66-74par-5 No. 4 for the third consecutive day. She extended 70=210 (-6) total at the par-72, 6,354-yard Yarbrough her lead to two shots by putting her tee shot just eight Farms course. feet from the cup on the par-3 No. 8 hole, easily making “I came out of nowhere last year and I lost in a playthe putt to go into the turn 1-under-par for the day. off,” Popson said. “That hurt so bad. Last night that’s all The Lady Vol sophomore and Silva matched each I could think about. I knew it would hurt if I lost after other hole-for-hole on the back nine, as both birdied No. leading all week. My coaches told me to turn it around 12. However, Silva pulled within a stroke by sinking a and think about how good it will feel to win. That’s what 15-foot putt on the par-3 No. 17.

I kept thinking about today. I told myself to play to win Each put their tee shots in the middle of the fairway and to play like a champion.” on the par-4 No. 18, but Silva’s approach shot dropped As a team, the 11th-ranked Lady Vols placed sixth approximately 40 feet left of the cup on the edge of the with a 285-308-302=895 (+31) total. Tournament-host green, making for a near impossible birdie putt she Auburn won the team crown with an even-par 864 total. couldn’t convert. Popson put the ball 20 feet from the No. 3 Alabama was second (875), while No. 8 LSU Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon placed third (887), No. 12 Arkansas was fourth (892) Erica Popson drives a shot down the fairway during play at the cup on her second shot and calmly two-putted to claim the first SEC individual title by a Lady Vol since and South Carolina was fifth (893).

Mercedes-Benz Classic at Fox Den Country Club on Sunday, Oct. 10, Joining Popson in the lineup were junior All-American 2010. Popson was able to best the No. 1 player in the country, shooting Katharina Larsson won the honor in 1994.

“Today, I walked the last few holes with Erica and Nathalie Mansson (t17th), freshman Chessey Thomas a 2-under 70, to take home an individual SEC Championship as the she was awesome,” Pavon said. “She’s tough. Silva was (t36th), sophomore Sara Monberg (t42nd) and fresh- Lady Vols finished sixth at the Auburn Golf Club. charging, and she just kept doing what she needed to man Kaitlyn Rohrback (t42nd). do. She took care of business and kept her emotions “The first day we played great, but we couldn’t take care of and windy day two to take a one-stroke lead into the final day. under control.” business the last two days,” Lady Vol head coach Judi Pavon Arkansas’ Emily Tubert and Auburn’s Cydney Clanton came A year ago, Popson finished runner-up at the SEC said. “Erica was definitely the bright spot. She is a special playinto the final day one shot back of Popson, but mutliple frontChampionship in Tuscaloosa. After tying with Vanderbilt’s er. I’m really happy for her. She lost in a playoff last year and Marina Alex for first after 54 holes at 208, she finished second on the second hole of a playoff.

Sunday’s victory ties Popson for the most medalist honors in Lady Vol history with Mansson, Marci Turner and Violeta Retamoza. Dating back to the 2010 conference tournament, Popson has five first-place finishes (three wins, two ties) and seven top-10 finishes in 11 competitions.

She has placed first in three straight tournaments, winning the Bryan National by one stroke from March 25-27 and tying with Mansson before falling in a playoff at the Rebel Intercollegiate from April 1-3.

Mansson nabbed a top-20 finish at the SEC Championships for a third consecutive year with her 54-hole total of 72-7676=224 (+8).

Thomas wrapped up her first conference tournament with a 74-79-78=231 (+15) score, while her classmate Rohrback totaled 76-79-78=233 (+17). Monberg tallied 73-82-78=233 (+17) to match Rohrback.

The Lady Vols will be in action next at an NCAA Regional site from May 5-7, where a top-eight finish will propel the Big Orange to a third straight NCAA Championship. UT finds out on April 25 which site — Daytona Beach, Fla., Auburn, Wash., or Notre Dame, Ind. — it will be traveling to for the chance to compete for the national championship.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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Williams’ leadership nets SEC honors Staff Reports Sophomore Rhyne Williams was named SEC Player of the Week after leading the charge in the Vols’ 4-3 victory over fifth-ranked Georgia to secure a share of the SEC regular-season title.

Williams, a Knoxville native, was the lone Vol to win both his singles and doubles matches in what was Tennessee’s third road victory at Georgia in more than two decades but second win in Athens in the last two years.

Fourth-ranked Tennessee (20-3, 10-1 SEC) has now won back-to-back regular-season titles for the first time in program history and has nine total SEC crowns. The team starts SEC tournament competition Friday in Gainesville, Fla., as the top seed.

In the final weekend of the season, Williams was perfect on the Vols’ third match against a top10 opponent this year. In doubles, Williams teamed up with fellow sophomore Tennys Sandgren to defeat 49th-ranked Sadio Doumbia and Ignacio Taboada 8-5. Williams put the Vols up 3-2 in singles when he earned a 6-3, 6-3 victory over 29th-ranked Javier Garrapiz.

Williams, ranked fourth nationally in singles, finished the SEC season 9-2 in singles and 9-2 in

doubles while playing primarily at the No. 2 position. He ended the regular season on a four-match winning streak in both categories.

Monday’s honor was Williams’ first career SEC Player of the Week award, but he was named SEC Freshman of the Week twice last season on his way to becoming the SEC Freshman of the Year.

Senior John-Patrick Smith, who clinched Saturday’s team victory at Georgia on court 1, was named SEC Player of the Week twice this season, upping his career total to eight such awards. Senior Boris Conkic earned the honor for the first time in his career in February after going unbeaten at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships.

The SEC Tournament: The Vols practice in Knoxville for two days before departing Wednesday afternoon for Gainesville, Fla., to start their bid for a consecutive title at the SEC Championships. As the No. 1 seed, the Vols received a first-round bye and face either Mississippi or Vanderbilt in the quarterfinals on Friday at 6 p.m.

Last season, Tennessee became the first team in tournament history to grab the title after shutting out all three opponents by 4-0 scores. The Vols have won three SEC tournament titles in the following years: 1990, 2001 and 2010.

Local track stars earn USATF grants Staff Reports The USA Track & Field Foundation has presented Elite Athlete Development Grants to ten athletes, according to Foundation Executive Director Tom Jackovic and Chairman Bob Greifeld. Among that group is former Vol sprint standout Evander Wells, as well as Erica Moore, a post-collegiate athlete who trains locally.

“The USATF Foundation, through its elite grant program, recognizes the hard work of our Olympic hopefuls, and we are pleased to provide support to deserving athletes,” said USATF Foundation board member Antonio Manning.

“It’s about providing opportunities to compete.”

Athletes receiving $4,000 grants include firsttime recipients Joel Brown (110m hurdles), Consuella Moore (100m/200m), Erica Moore (800m), Trevell Quinley (long jump) and Wells (sprints).

A product of Stone Mountain, Ga., Wells competed at Tennessee from 2007 to 2010, earning nine All-America accolades during his time at Rocky Top. In his Big Orange career, Wells contributed points in SEC competition on 20 occasions and qualified for all eight NCAA Championship meets as a Vol. He ranks among the school’s top 10 in the 60m, 100m and 200m dashes and is the UT record-holder in the out-

door 300 meters.

Wells competed at the Sea Ray Relays in Knoxville over the weekend, continuing his Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon comeback from injury. He suffered a torn ACL in Dr. T.H. Breen entertains students during his lecture, “A Rumor that Almost Started 2010 while taking part in fall practice with the the Revolution Two Years Before the Declaration of Independence,” on April 14. Dr. Vol football team.

Moore, who competed collegiately at Indiana Breen’s presentation was a part of the 2011 Milton M. Klein Lecture series.

State in the 400m hurdles, among other events, is now residing in Knoxville and training in the 800 meters with UT Director of Track & Field J.J. Clark. She took second in the 800m at the USA Indoor Championships in 2:02.92.

The Foundation Elite Athlete Grant Program contributes to the pursuit of world-class performances by American post-collegiate track and field athletes. Athletes must meet minimum performance and financial need standards to be eligible and agree to participate in the Win With Integrity program.

The USATF Foundation provides a means to attract and guide funds to new and innovative track & field programs with an emphasis on providing opportunities for youth athletes, emerging elite athletes, distance training centers and anti-doping education. The Foundation depends upon donations from its Board of Directors and from generous fans of track & field.

For more information or to contribute to the USA Track & Field Foundation, visit www.usatffoundation.org.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Tennis duo finds success in contrasts “I first picked up a racket when I was 5,” Meredith said. “When I started playing, my parents realized I was pretty good at this. They Watching Tennessee doubles duo Jennifer thought I might have a chance and got me into Meredith and Kata Szekely, few would guess junior tournaments. I’m just a really competithat the two grew up thousands of miles apart. tive person, and it worked out well being out With play styles and personalities as different as there and playing matches.”

Having devoted so much of her life to the the number of miles lining the distance between Georgia and Hungary, the two have sport, Meredith wants to make tennis her professional occupation. With a coaching job lined found success over the year.

Hailing from Székesfehérvár, Hungary, up in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., for the summer, Szekely has come a long way from home to play she knows wants to coach, but she is not sure where yet. Both competitive college tennis and for the Lady Vols. the country club tennis appeal to her.

“I always wanted to “Maybe later come to the U.S., since in life, I’ll go into I was 12 years old,” college tennis the sophomore said. just because of “That was my goal the competitive with tennis. We had a a s p e c t , ” Hungarian girl on the Meredith said. team who graduated While in December. She was Meredith found the one who introherself playing duced me to coaches tennis because of Mike (Patrick) and her older brother, Sonia (Hahn-Patrick).

Szekely began After that everything playing when her went perfectly.” family vacationed Szekely and her sento Canada for the ior partner started summer. playing together this “When I was 7 year when teammate years old, I startMaria Sorbello fell ed,” Szekely said. sick. The two had “Actually, I startplayed only two ed in Canada. We matches together the were on a sumyear prior, losing both mer vacation of them handily. This there for a year, the duo has dominated the court with a Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon month, I don’t doubles record of 20-1. Jennifer Meredith and Kata Szekely battle know why but I The two work well against Georgia on Saturday, April 16. The really liked that colorful together because of duo helped the Lady Vols to a 5-2 win over shiny their different play the Bulldogs to wrap up UT’s regular sea- racket. I was begstyles, which function son. The Lady Vols will enter the SEC ging my parents well when combined. Women’s Tennis Tournament this weekend to buy me that racket, and they Meredith plays aggres- as a No. 2 seed. bought it for me.” sively, setting up at the A hotel, restaurant and tourism major, idealnet, using her quick reflexes to counter incoming shots and throw the opposition out of a ly Szekely wants to run her own small hotel rhythm. Szekely plays from the baseline in a back home in Europe, where she can be closer defensive position, allowing her to support to her family and closer to European food.

“It’s tough to be so far from home,” she said.

Meredith on the long shots.

“We’re both very different people,” Meredith, “My dream is to have my own hotel. I might a Marietta, Ga., native, said. “She’s the more start off as a tennis coach somewhere to save the calm and collected type of person, and I’m some money and then get into the hotel induslike the loud energetic type of person. We bal- try.”

Upon her arrival in the U.S., Szekely was surance each other out out there. I think we are just two polar opposites that have been balanc- prised at how encouraging and positive people from Tennessee are. She noticed that whenever ing out really well.”

Meredith grew up looking up to her older she was struggling with her tennis game, her brother, wanting to do whatever he did. When coaches always gave her positive criticism.

“Because of my country’s history, we tend to her brother started playing tennis, Meredith naturally followed his lead. It soon became be more negative,” Szekely said. “Here everyapparent that she possessed a superior talent one is so positive in how they support a commufor the sport, and her brother soon quit upon nity. We never do that at home, and I think it is something we should probably learn.” this realization.

Matthew McMurray Staff Writer

UT sprinter’s weekend ‘near perfect’ one, but three first-place relay finishes.

Wortham started strong in the shuttle Preston Peeden hurdle relay, as the grouping of Bianca Staff Writer Blair, Jená Murphy, Kristyn Sweeney and her finished first with a time of 58.63 secThe motto of the US Postal Service is onds. This was the first time the Lady Vols “rain, sleet or snow.” had won the Shuttle Hurdle relay since For the government agency, this simply 1994, and Clark put this improvement up means that through any conditions, the to the hard work of the group as a whole. mail will be delivered. This guarantee of “Coach Seagrave (women’s sprint performance, however, is a trait that can coach) put together a real nice sprint now be applied to junior Ellen Wortham, a group,” Clark said. “And lately, we’re all member of the UT track and field team. starting to see the result of the hard work.”

Over the weekend, Wortham fought What was surprising about the result of through mucky weather conditions for a the relay was not the victory, but rather near-perfect performance at the Sea Ray that up until a couple days before the race, Relays, held at Tom Black Track. the Lady Vols were not planning on runFrom Wortham’s first event, it was clear ning it. that the meet was going to be a special one.

“We didn’t really plan on doing it until She came out on Friday with a command- a little before,” Wortham said. “And for us ing victory in the 400-meter hurdles. She to come out and do well was really exciting ran through rainy weather and finished for us.” with a time of 57.48 Following seconds, besting this event, the nearest comWortham was petitor by more also a part of than two seconds. the winning “Winning the 4x100-meter 400 hurdles was and 4x400definitely the highmeter relays. point,” Wortham “My teamsaid. “I was defendmates all ran ing champion in well in the that, and it’s my r e l a y s , ” main event.”

Wo r t h a m File Photo• The Daily Beacon Wortham’s victosaid.

“And ry was not unex- Ellen Wortham clears the bar while practicing overall it was pected. She is unde- the high jump in the spring of 2009. This week- just a good feated in the event end, she finished the 400-meter hurdle in day for the this season and cur- 57.48 seconds. Her time ranks her No. 2 overall sprinters.” rently holds the No. in the NCAA and No. 7 overall in the world this Because of 2 overall time in the year. her accomNCAA, to go along plishments with the No. 7 overall time in the world throughout the meet, Wortham was awardthis year. Being so close to the top in her ed the Tony Wilson award for excellence in event is a driving force for Wortham. women’s track events. Despite these acco“It’s definitely motivating to be second, lades, though, Wortham does not feel like especially when the girl is only a hundredth she’s done enough yet. of a second in front of me,” Wortham said.

“I definitely want to come out as SEC “I just got to work hard every day and try champion, but I’m more focused on getting to get my form as perfect as it can get so my time down than I am with places,” that I can get there.”

Wortham said. “I know if I get my time This attitude of Wortham is not lost on down then everything else will fall into J.J. Clark, director of track & field for UT. place. I need to work on my form and my “Ellen is a competitor,” Clark said. “She race pattern … I just got to get that little bit matches up well when she has to compete, faster that I need.” and that’s a strong point for her. When For Clark, however, the improvements she’s there with that top person, she’ll be Wortham needs to make to get better are ready to match up with her and answer.” seemingly outweighed by some of the Following her 400 performance, things she has already done, as well as Wortham took fifth overall in the 100- what she has the ability to do. meter hurdles, but it was on the next, and “She offers a lot, not only in hurdles, but last, day of the competition that she also sprints and jumps,” Clark said. “She shined. can help us win championships. And you Wortham finished Saturday with not know, that’s why we recruited her.”