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Revamped Torch Night welcomes freshmen Alyce Howell Staff Writer Torch Night, part of UT’s annual Welcome Week celebration, has evolved this year to allow more students to participate.

“SGA’s main event (during Welcome Week) is to help host Torch Night, which was completely reorganized and extremely successful this year,” said SGA President Tommy Jervis.

The first Torch Night was held on Oct. 9, 1925, because students were interested in creating more traditions to become a part of the lifestyle on campus. The old tradition held that the freshman class would present themselves to the seniors at Ayres Hall and take an oath of loyalty and pledge allegiance to the university.

Afterwards, a chosen senior representative passed the Torch of Preparation to a chosen freshman representative, signifying the inclusion of the freshman class into the student body.

Torch Night is still a strong tradition on campus, but this year it came a little earlier than usual. Instead of having Torch Night during

year, including Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summitt, who led a verse of “Rocky Top.” Chancellor Jimmy Cheek gave the keynote speech to the student body, and Susan Martin, provost and senior vice chancellor, announced the recipients of different scholarships.

Close to 3,200 students attended Torch Night and the Freshman Picnic that was held afterward.

Traci Leonard, vice chancellor of student affairs, said that though the date was different this year, Torch Night tradition has stayed the same.

“I believe that freshmen and others attending the ceremony realize the tradition and significance of the event as past attendees have,” she said. “The unchanging theme of welTara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon coming new students to Chancellor Jimmy Cheek addresses students at Torch Night in Thompson-Boling Arena earlier this week. Held campus and passing the as a part of Welcome Week, Torch Night serves to welcome students to a new year at UT. Torch of Preparation is as relevant in 2010 as it was in change came last year from main groups would be in help instill a greater sense of benefit of all students. This 1925, when Torch Night allowed them to come and began, and it gives incoming SGA members Mark Moore, attendance: IFC, Panhellenic pride into UT students.

“I’m happy to say that the participate in a special tradi- students a broad introducjunior in biological sciences, and Ignite Teams. This was tion to tradition, ceremony, and Avery Howard, SGA stu- definitely not encompassing attendance was at least three tion to start of the year.”

Many special guests community and celebration.” a great number of incoming times as large as years past,” dent services director.

Howard said. “We were able attended Torch Night this “We felt that, at the time students.” the first week of September, it was held Aug. 15 at Thompson-Boling Arena.

The proposal for the date

it was being held, it limited the number of students that came to the event,” Howard said. “In years past, three

Howard said that he believed the change would not only allow for greater attendance, but it would also

Fair to showcase student groups Representatives from the Student Government Association and the Student Orientation Leadership and Development will also be attending this year’s fair.

Avery Howard, student services director, said he appreciStudents will be able to meet with some of UT’s organizaates the InVOLvement Fair every year. tions at the InVOLvement Fair, held at the Pedestrian Mall “I enjoy this on Friday. aspect of student The fair begins at engagement on cam10 a.m. and lasts pus,” Howard said. until 2 p.m.

“Students can look The event is hostforward to receiving ed by the Office of information from difStudent Activities, ferent student which is involved in groups and offices coordinating several around campus.” events for Welcome The event is one Week at UT. of the most informaColin Spaulding, tive showings during graduate assistant to Welcome Week for the Office of Student different aspects of Activities, said that campus life, he said. the fair is one of the “Students should first chances for stuattend to learn more dents to see what about campus they want to become resources and ways affiliated with at UT. to get involved,” He added that it is Howard said. “This also a great place to is the perfect oppormeet new people on tunity to get started campus. at the beginning of “Participating in the year with differstudent organizaTia Patron • The Daily Beacon tions is one of the Students walk up Pedestrian Mall during class change for the first day of ent organizations. best ways to get fall semester on Wednesday. On Friday, the Mall will host the You can come and involved on campus InVOLvement Fair, a chance for students to meet campus organizations. see what interests you and how to get and to have a great involved.” year,” Spaulding said.

Student organizations that consider themselves a min“All students, both new and returning, should stop by the istry, such as Love United Gospel Choir, use the fair as a way InVOLvement Fair to see what UT has to offer.”

Spaulding said more than100 groups and organizations to encourage students spiritually.

Amber Ingram, vice president of Love United Gospel have registered to participate.

Choir, said this fair gives their choir an opportunity to meet “All types of organizations on campus will be represented, including campus ministries, sport clubs, SGA, the com- students as well as other organizational leaders.

“Our members enjoy reaching out to students to help othmittees that make up the Central Programming Council, acaers gain spiritual development,” Ingram said. “It’s very demic organizations and many, many other types,” he said.

About 75 student organizations participated in the fair important to maintain a balanced life as a college student as last year, Spaulding said, and it was even beneficial to well as spiritually. We help students to strive in a positive returning students at UT, not just the incoming freshman. direction.”

In the event of rain, the location will be moved from the The fair gives returning students a chance to join different Pedestrian Mall to the UC Ballroom. organizations and see something they might have missed from previous years.

Donesha Aldridge Staff Writer

to make this event more inclusive to all students. We are here as student leaders and administrators, for the

Hotline offers assistance to distressed staff Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor A new hotline for UT employees to call if they worry about themselves or others launched on Aug. 9.

Taking a cue from the university’s distressed student hotline, 974-HELP, the new employee hotline, 946-CARE, was created so staff members could get help for themselves or others in the community. “(It’s) just the idea that we thought we needed to do a better job to make sure our staff had adequate resources,” Mary Lucal, human resources employee relations counselor, said.

Lucal said the hotline spun out of a need that staff saw on campus.

“We had a number of what I would call critical incidents over the last couple of years that really highlighted in our minds the need for us to make sure we take time out to care for each other,” Lucal said. “... There were people really struggling with personal and work issues and could have a personal crisis that we might be able to offer them resources to assist with.”

She said the hotline is partially for those who don’t know where to go with their problems.

“A number of employees aren’t aware of what tools are available to assist them and don’t know where to turn,” Lucal said. “Part of the goal of this program is to say, ‘If you don’t know where to turn, call and we’ll do the best we can to assist you.’”

A number of events, like the shootings at Virginia Tech, as well as the current economic climate, have provided what Lucal calls flashpoints that create a context where the hotline is needed.

And those that have co-workers who have a change in demeanor, depression, a fixation on weapons, anger, paranoia or social isolation may call the hotline as well.

Two human resource employees, Lucal and Michael Herbstritt, are the primary receivers. They are backed up by a trained group of additional human resource employees.

Lucal stressed the importance of having trained workers staffing the hotline.

Lucal has received positive feedback to the hotline, and now the process of marketing it, including presenting it to the Faculty Senate, begins.

Linda Francisco, part of the backup staff answering the hotline from human resources, said she has not worked on a hotline before, but she’s confident in her abilities.

“We’ve been well trained,” she said. “We have lots of good resources that we can use. So even though I’ve not worked on one before, I feel that I’ve been given the tools to help people.”

Francisco said she loves the program.

“Every time I see one of the cards or something up talking about the UT CARES program, I’m just filled with pride that UT cares about its employees the way we do,” she said.

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

A bike lies stripped to the frame on a rack outside of HSS. This serves as a reminder to all to keep bikes secured to prevent theft.

This Day

in History

On this day in 1909, the first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, now the home of the world's most famous motor racing competition, the Indianapolis 500.

Built on 328 acres of farmland five miles northwest of Indianapolis, Indiana, the speedway was started by local businessmen as a testing facility for Indiana's growing automobile industry. The idea was that occasional races at the track would pit cars from different manufacturers against each other. After seeing what these cars could do, spectators would presumably head down to the showroom of their choice to get a closer look.

The rectangular two-and-a-half-mile track linked four turns, each exactly 440 yards from start to finish, by two long and two short straight sections. In that first five-mile race on Aug. 19, 1909, 12,000 spectators watched Austrian engineer Louis Schwitzer win with an average speed of 57.4 miles per hour. The track's surface of crushed rock and tar proved a disaster, breaking up in a number

of places and causing the deaths of two drivers, two mechanics and two spectators.

The surface was soon replaced with 3.2 million paving bricks, laid in a bed of sand and fixed with mortar. Dubbed "The Brickyard," the speedway reopened in December 1909. In 1911, low attendance led the track's owners to make a crucial decision: Instead of shorter races, they resolved to focus on a single, longer event each year, for a much larger prize. That May 30 marked the debut of the Indy 500-a grueling 500-mile race that was an immediate hit with audiences and drew press attention from all over the country. Driver Ray Haroun won the purse of $14,250, with an average speed of 74.59 mph and a total time of 6 hours and 42 minutes.

Since 1911, the Indianapolis 500 has been held every year, with the exception of 1917-18 and 1942-45, when the United States was involved in the two world wars. With an average crowd of 400,000, the Indy 500 is the best-attended event in U.S. sports. In 1936, asphalt was used for the first time to cover the rougher parts of the track, and by 1941 most of the track was paved. The last of the speedway's original bricks were covered in 1961, except for a three-foot line of bricks left exposed at the start-finish line as a nostalgic reminder of the track's history.

-This Day in History is courtesy of History.com

Thursday, August 19, 2010

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Protested Ground Zero mosque not first to be near 9/11 crash site The Associated Press

New staff for Student Affairs The Division of Student Affairs welcomes Jeff Cathey, Frank Cuevas and Melissa Shivers as new staff for the fall semester.

Cathey will serve as a new associate dean of students, Cuevas, executive director of University Housing, and Shivers, assistant vice chancellor for the Division of Student Affairs.

Cathey is no stranger to UTK, having worked in the office of student activities until accepting a job as associate dean of students at Colorado College in Colorado Springs in 2001.

Cuevas has moved on from his previous position as director for administrative services for University Housing at Florida State University to join UTK. Cuevas has recently obtained a doctorate in education from FSU and leaves behind a strong track record of achievement from faculty and students alike.

Shivers is joining the UT community from the University of Georgia where she previously served as director of the Department of Intercultural Affairs.

Shivers has shown dedication to her profession and is currently the president-elect for the Southern Association for College Student Affairs.

Faculty Wins Excellence Award UT’s Institute for Public Service has awarded its Faculty Excellence award to David Folz, professor of political science and public policy.

The honor is awarded each year to an outstanding faculty member who has worked with IPS or its agencies.

The award is given to a faculty member who has shown an outstanding dedication to public service and an incredible commitment to consulting or teaching.

Throughout his career, Folz has shown a dedication to training leaders for the future.

Folz champions opportunities and initiatives that give students real world experience and an opportunity to grow.

Information Tables “ASK ME!” information tables will be on various locations on campus to help meet student needs.

The tables will be available from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and will be fully prepared to help direct students to class buildings, as well as answer questions any student may have.

The “ASK ME!” tables are a part of UT’s Welcome Week for both new and returning students.

Casino Night As a part of UT’s Welcome Week, KnoxVegas Casino night will be held from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. in the University Center.

Students can expect blackjack, roulette and even a poker tournament complete with prizes.

All students are encouraged to attend and reminded that whatever happens at KnoxVegas night stays at KnoxVegas night.

Open House The LGBT and All Resource Center will host an open house tonight from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m..

The resource center is located in Melrose Hall F-03, beside Hodges library.

The resource center is dedicated to serving LGBT students and allies alike by making meaningful advacements in diversity and inclusion.

Also, the center is hosting a weekly “OUT to Lunch” on Fridays from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. where students can bring their meal and spend time with other students for an hour.

Live Leadershop The Student Office of Leadership Development is hosting LIVE! Leadershop at 6 p.m. in the UC, room 223-224.

Leadershop will help you isolate and develop personal styles of leadership.

The session will explore different styles of leadership and how they impact the daily lives of yourself and others.

WASHINGTON — Americans are debating bitterly the proposed building of a mosque near New York's Ground Zero, but for years Muslims have prayed quietly at the Pentagon, only 80 feet from where another hijacked jetliner struck.

Pentagon officials say that no one in the military or the families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has ever protested.

They describe the 100-seat chapel as a peaceful place where some 300 to 400 Pentagon employees come to pray each week. The chapel hosts separate weekly worship services for Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Mormons, Protestants, Catholics and Episcopalians.

The goal of the Pentagon chaplain office, which runs the chapel, is to “provide assistance and support for the religious, spiritual and morale needs of all service members and employees,” Army spokesman George Wright said.

A proposal to build an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero in New York has prompted angry protests by victims of the 2001 attacks, which were done in the name of Islam.

A majority of New Yorkers say they are opposed to the plan.

Last week, President Barack Obama inserted himself into the debate when he said Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in the U.S. Republicans assailed him as out of touch with mainstream America, and Obama later told reporters that he wasn't endorsing the specifics of the mosque plan.

In 2001, hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 flew into the west side of the Pentagon, plowing

through three of the building's five office “rings” and killing 184 people. As part of its massive renovation and to honor victims in the attack, the Pentagon opened the chapel in November 2002.

The chapel includes no religious symbols, except Catholic holy water at the door; religious accouterments are brought in for various worship services.

Wright said that Muslim employees can gather for a daily prayer service Monday through Thursday and attend a Friday worship service, run by an imam from a local mosque.

Two in-house Army chaplains run the chapel, neither of which are Muslim. Col. Daniel Minjares is associated with the Church of the Nazarene; his deputy, Lt. Col. Ken Williams, is Southern Baptist.

Wright said the chaplains provide religious services for their denomination but can provide services, such as grief and marital counseling, to employees of any faith.

Other faiths rely on local temples and churches to lead worship services.

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

OPINIONS

LettersEditor to the

Beacon should adhere to higher editing standards I admit to reading only one editorial in the July 30 Daily Beacon, so I can't speak to accuracy in general, but the article I did read contained several grammatical and homophonic errors. If it were a letter to the editor, I would have expected to see (sic), but apparently nobody proofread this before going to press. Spelling and grammar-check software tools are not yet comprehensive. I hope this was a fluke and will improve when things get in gear again this fall.

I believe high standards of accuracy will benefit the reputation of UT's official newspaper, in news articles and staff opinion columns alike.

Becky Henry, masters in music rhenry4@utk.edu

Tops &Bottoms

Rocky

Rising- Need for umbrellas on campus After a miserable summer with heat indexes reaching above 110 degrees and a consistent lack of rain ruining your lawn, a glorious occurrence has returned to Knoxville, along with a healthy portion of the student body-- rain.

Yeah, that’s right, rain; the wet stuff that comes from the sky that Luke Bryan cannot stop singing that annoying song about. With a forecast of 70 percent chances of thunderstorms all day and scattered thundershowers all weekend, those adorable rain booties you haven’t worn in months are finally gonna get to come out of the closet.

We at the Beacon could not be more enthused about the rain, as it will cool down campus, keep our cars clean, and the excess humidity will keep our hair full and luscious without much styling involved. Mostly, though, we look forward to speeding up whilst driving past those walking on the sidewalks and dousing them as they make their way past. We may not have any parking spots at UT, but commuting can still be fun.

Rising-Popularity of Derek Dooley’s hat It didn’t take much for UT fans to like Derek Dooley. For starters, he’s not Lane Kiffin. But one wouldn’t guess Dooley’s popularity would spark new fashion statements. Still, it appears Vol fans like a different aspect of the new Tennessee coach: his hat.

A Tilley Airflo Hat, that is. Wide-rimmed and perfect for strong sunny days, Dooley’s new headgear lends itself nicely to the coach’s first fall camp in Knoxville. Nevermind the fact that the hat closely mirrors those worn by Alabama coach Nick Saban (Dooley’s mentor). Vol fans are eating it up.

Longtime UT equipment manager Roger Frazier has reportedly fielded numerous calls from fans yearning to snag their own Dooley dome cover. But Dooley’s hat is a special edition; Frazier added a Power T patch for a distinctive Volunteer feel.

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New school year sparks cheer, not fear An A l ternate R o u te by

Leigh Dickey

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, welcome back to life at the University of Tennessee.

After what I’m sure was a grueling summer of sun and fun, you’re back on campus. Try to control your excitement. I’ve seen many of you drowning your sorrows on the Strip this past week, though, so I’m not too concerned about you finding a way to manage your grief. Remember, it’s not alcoholism until you graduate. (Appropriately, I had to pause after writing that to open a bottle of champagne for our first-day-ofsenior-year mimosas. If the rest of this column is a little disjointed, you can blame it, as the poet Jamie Foxx says, on the a-a-a-a-a-al-co-hol.)

Some of you, though, are freshmen, and I would do better to extend you an initial greeting than to welcome you back. As my roommates and I prepare for our fourth (and, God willing, final) year, you are staring at a map in bright-eyed and bushy-tailed confusion, wondering what the heck HBB and SSH stand for and why we can’t just use the buildings’ names (though I wonder the same thing every semester, don’t worry.)

I would like to say that, for my part, I don’t join in the popular hating of freshmen at the start of fall term.

My memory is not so short that I’ve forgotten the time when I, too, wandered around Knoxville like a lost puppy, dazed and confused (for so long it’s not true.)

I don’t sell elevator passes or permits to the pool on the roof, as was the custom in high school, and I (almost) always give the correct directions when someone asks me where a building is. Some of my friends complain that Knoxville is too crowded at the beginning of school, but I don’t mind.

I thoroughly enjoy having the town so congested it takes 15 minutes to drive from one end of the Strip to another. I like spending 20 minutes driving up the parking garages downtown, and then, upon realizing the garage is full, driving back down. And there is

nothing I would rather do than wait an hour for a table at Tomato Head on a weeknight.

Really. I promise. I’m not rushing any of you kids for a sorority (or a fraternity, for that matter), so what good would it do me to lie to you? (I say that with the utmost love for all my Greek friends. I am really looking forward to PDM next week, always a good time.)

My roommates and I are some of the few, the happy few, who will graduate this spring after four years of college. At this point we are supposed to have senioritis, with no desire in life stronger than blowing off school and drinking heavily, numbing the pain as the reality of our soon-to-be-future sets in.

A friend in her fifth and final year of architecture is so antsy and ready to be finished with school that I expect her at any minute to crack and run off with a bartender or join a circus. I’m not sure how my roommates feel, but at this point I’m feeling no such antsyness, because I am kind of (extraordinarily) nerdy. I am super excited about my schedule this semester and really looking forward to my classes.

My professors, though, don’t seem to share my excitement. I’ve been checking Blackboard about twice a day for the past week and a half and (as of Wednesday morning) have only one syllabus of five, while knowing of only one required text. I was more than ready to hit the ground running at the start of my senior year, but I suppose a crawl will have to do.

And on that note I will have to leave you, because I’ve procrastinated writing this, of course, so I’m about to be late to my first class of senior year. I’ll end with this: To all you young whippersnappers: welcome. It’s possible these could be the best or worst four (or five, or six) years of your life. But for most of you, college will simply be, as it has been so far for me, a few years in which you learn an extraordinary amount about both yourself and other people, in which you change more than you thought possible, and in which you make dear friends. And it will be nothing like you are expecting, which is a good thing. Good luck.

Until next week mis amigos. Enjoy your first week back!

Leigh is a senior in global studies and Latin. She can be reached at ldickey2@utk.edu.

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This is my first article, and as I sit here agonizing over what I'm supposed to write on a tight deadline (as always according to the laws of the Big Orange Universe), my head goes into automatic Yasha stress mode, slamming into the keyboard of my pretentiously hipster MacBook Pro. My hand drifts slowly to the six pack of Blue Moon on my right, (Yes, I'm of legal age and live off campus, which shows you exactly how long I've been in college, because I don't care that it's the night before school starts and I have a drink.) with my left hand vaguely sifting through a sheaf of lists: a list of things I need to do, my planner, things I need to write down in my planner, etc.

My foot feels mildly uncomfortable and I realize it's on top of my remote, which explains why the television is tuned to some oddity starring (insert well-known blonde, plastic, probably gold-digging celebrity) instead of Robot Chicken, the way it SHOULD be.

Right now, in this moment, I know three things: First, I have school tomorrow. Second, I need to be taking care of things that I am far from even bothering with. Third, somewhere in my room there are graduate school applications I was intending to work on, which are left to a vast, black and apathetic state.

Ugh. I give up on life, and I wish I were a freshman again.

HAH. Little did I know that I would turn from a cocksure, Type-A personality ready to take on the world with my brazen attitude and general lack of regard for others to … well, whatever I am now.

College has changed me from a boring, planning and predictable type to a person with the ability to gain a new appreciation for Japanese game shows, learn bits and pieces of German, take a life-changing class on leadership, participate in a political campaign and major in several different and completely unrelated things (Some of those include Facebook and just plain laziness.).

I learned that Ramen was my best friend, duct tape and calls to Mom fix almost anything and the tricks to maintaining my car when it breaks down 10 minutes

before work starts. Along the way I learned not to freak out when I made my first B, dated a string of losers who were absolute wastes of carbon and started to despair for the human race, all while realizing I couldn't control the universe when I missed class (accidentally, of course) because of oversleeping.

These days, I expect most people my age feel the same way I do: disillusioned, sarcastic towards school and humanity and less motivated than I should be. I expect almost everyone goes through his or her quarter-life crisis with college playing a major role in that crisis.

Most people question the kind of person they are, what they're doing with their life and where they’re going and have probably had enough of school for the rest of their life by the time they graduate. It's a select few who actually know themselves well enough to unfailingly pursue what they came to school to pursue, and while I admire their persistence, I question their adaptability to life.

Sometimes I think the point of college is not just to receive an education in order to raise one’s standard of living, but also to increase one’s awareness of how to deal with people and different situations. College is truly an inner kaleidoscope of yourself, your experiences and what you choose to make of it.

While this year is going to be hard for me with graduation, leaving behind people with whom I made and will make perfect memories and not knowing what the next step is in my life, I think change is good.

So, onward to greener pastures.

With that being said, here's a piece of advice: Freshmen, don't fret. You'll be fine ... just kidding, you're screwed. If you mess up your first year, you will fail horrifically at life and sew sandals for hitchhikers on the side of a highway. Your parents will probably kick you out and cut you off, but hey, at least you're alive!

Welcome to Big Orange Country! Seniors, including fifth-year seniors: I recommend slacking, South Park and scotch on the rocks with a twist.

In the words of Dylan Meggs, a former and far superior Daily Beacon columnist who answered my query of “Dylan, I have NOTHING to write about for tomorrow, and I'm freaking out. WHAT DO I DO?!!”, I say this: "Dear freshmen: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sincerely, Yasha."

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

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NATION&WORLD

Mexican mayor found dead three days after kidnapping Egyptians protest power outages The Associated Press

The Associated Press

MONTERREY, Mexico — The kidnapped mayor of a northern Mexican town was found dead Wednesday, extending a rash of deadly attacks on political figures in an area besieged by drug gang battles.

Santiago Mayor Edelmiro Cavazos' body was found near a waterfall outside his town, a popular weekend getaway for residents of the industrial city of Monterrey, said Nuevo Leon state attorney general Alejandro Garza y Garza.

Police have not determined a motive, but the assassination bore the hallmarks of drug cartels waging vicious turf battles in northeastern Mexico: Cavazos' hands were bound and his head was wrapped in tape.

Garza y Garza suggested it was a drug gang hit, saying Cavazos participated in state security meetings and was "showing his face in the fight against organized crime."

However, Cavazos had not made any dramatic security decisions since taking office in November 2009, said Jorge Santiago Flores, the local president of the mayor's National Action Party. He said it remains a mystery why anyone would want to kill Cavazos.

"He was a very kind person,” Flores said. “He was a man who worked a lot in the community and always helped those in need, donating medicine and helping people who asked.”

Cavazos, 38, was kidnapped from his home Sunday night by 15 armed men wearing uniforms from a defunct federal police force, a tactic frequently used by Mexico's drug gangs.

Garza y Garza said the gunmen arrived in seven vehicles with police patrol lights. When Cavazos and his security guard went to see what was going on, the assailants forced them into the cars.

The security guard was driven around for about 15 minutes and released unharmed by the side of a road, Garza y Garza said. The guard then reported the kidnapping to police.

President Felipe Calderon, who belongs to the National Action Party sent his interior secretary, Francisco Blake Mora, to Nuevo Leon for a security meeting with the state government.

Nuevo Leon Gov. Rodrigo Medina said he would press for more federal soldiers and police in the state.

The region has been besieged by drug gang fighting, including a new war between the Gulf cartel and its former ally, the Zetas gang of hit men.

Mexico's drug gang violence has surged since Calderon intensified the fight against traffickers in late 2006, deploying thousands of troops and federal police to root out cartels from their strongholds.

More than 28,000 people have since been killed in the country's drug war. The government says most are victims of cartel infighting. But assassinations of police, government officials and politicians have also increased.

In June, gunmen ambushed and killed the leading gubernatorial candidate for Tamaulipas state, which neighbors Nuevo Leon, a week before the elections. A mayoral candidate in Tamaulipas was killed in May. A total of 191 soldiers have been killed fighting drug gangs between December 2006 and Aug. 1, 2010, according to a list of names on a wall of a Defense Department anti-narcotics museum. Reporters saw the list Wednesday during a tour of the museum — the first time the government has made the number public.

Forty-three of the soldiers killed were officers.

Last week, the government said 2,076 police have been killed since December 2006.

CAIRO — Crowds of Egyptians angered by daily power outages at the height of a scorching summer blocked a major highway south of Cairo Wednesday with barricades of burning tires.

The electricity cuts affected Egyptians from the Nile Delta in the north to the ancient temple city of Luxor in the south during a month of daytime fasting for Muslims.

The outages also focused anger toward the government, which has already come under fire this year for inflation and shortages of cooking gas and bread.

It took authorities an hour to disperse the protesters, who had shut down a section of the main highway connecting Egypt's north and south in the oasis province of Fayoum, a security official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The electricity cuts began in early August and are especially punishing for Egyptian Muslims left without air conditioning while fasting during daylight hours for the holy month of Ramadan — including abstaining from water — as temperatures top 100 degrees.

The protesters said local authorities simply refused to help them.

“The officials told us, ‘Go do whatever you can,’” protester Mustafa Hassan was quoted as saying by the online edition of Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper.

President Hosni Mubarak's government, which is routinely accused of failing to provide basic services, said it is trying to boost the supply, including by increasing output at the Aswan High Dam's hydroelectric plant.

Mubarak, who often boasts in speeches that Egyptian power generation is a top accomplishment of his nearly three decades in power, met Wednesday with the oil and electricity minister to discuss the outages.

The government said it was not to blame, accusing the country's people of excessive electricity use and even chasing after shop owners to unplug lights and other Ramadan decorations that the electricity minister called wasteful.

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After N.Y. shooting, wife begged new husband to live The Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — Crouched on a sidewalk over her fallen husband, a woman whose firstanniversary party was shattered by gunfire pumped his chest in vain and begged him: "Don't die!

This is our anniversary; please don't die!"

A survivor of the shots that killed four people during the weekend gathering at a Buffalo restaurant provided The Associated Press on Monday with a matter-of-fact account of a carefree night of dancing, music and champagne that devolved into chaos and, ultimately, heartbreak.

Authorities sought the public's help in finding a suspect Monday, a day after they declared they had arrested the wrong man and dropped murder charges. The Buffalo News quoted anonymous sources as saying two rival street gangs may have been involved, but officials would not comment to the AP on the report.

One of the guests of honor, 30year-old Danyell Mackin, was among the two men and two

women killed after a crowd of guests began pouring out of the City Grill restaurant early Saturday. Four men were injured, among them Tillman Ward, 27.

"The party was real nice, everybody dancing," said Ward, who had been invited to the party by the man who was wrongly arrested. "It was a real good vibe."

Soon the lights dimmed, the music stopped and staff announced the party was over, with word filtering in that people outside were angry at being denied entry because "it was too packed," Ward said. Some 200 people crowded onto the sidewalk, some trying to quell a shoving match in the parking lot.

The first two bullets ripped into Ward from just a few feet away. One went clean through his shoulder, but the other snaked through his arm and crushed bones in his elbow.

Subsequent volleys of gunfire sent bystanders scurrying for cover, though Ward managed to remain standing even as his upper body went numb.

"I saw bodies falling all over, people landing on the ground,"

Ward said. "It ain't last no more than two minutes."

That's when he saw Tanisha Mackin over her husband, who had traveled with his wife from their home in Austin, Texas, to celebrate their year-old marriage with Buffalo-area friends and family. She was not injured.

Funeral arrangements are being made for the dead: Danyell Mackin; Tiffany Wilhite, 32; Shawntia McNeil, 27; and Willie McCaa, 26. Ward and two other survivors have been released from hospitals. Demario Vass, 30, remains in critical condition.

Ward's friend Keith Johnson, 25, was arrested within hours and charged with four counts of murder, but the charges were dismissed the next day. Police and city leaders said the real killer, who remains at large, appeared on surveillance tape, and they renewed their pleas Monday for witnesses to speak up.

Though authorities have not publicly drawn a connection to gangs, witnesses to gang violence are often reluctant to come forward out of fear of reprisal.

"There were hundreds of people outside the bar when this

incident took place," Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda said. "We need people to come forward and let us know what they've seen. ... We know there were people who were right there."

After Johnson's arrest, Derenda said, witnesses began calling to say they had the wrong man. But when investigators arrived to question the callers, "half of them disappeared," he said.

Mayor Byron Brown pleaded for the public's help in the City Grill shooting and three other unsolved weekend shootings, two of them fatal. Derenda declined to say whether investigators believe any were related.

Tommy Dates, 35, said he was at the bar area of the restaurant with his friends when he noticed a party had broken up. People started leaving the restaurant but rushed back inside minutes later.

"It was real quick. It was real chaotic," he said.

McCaa, among the dead, had been shot before in April 2008 while leaving a store. Ward, who said he attended community college for two years in hopes of

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The Haslam Business Building prepares to open its doors for the first day of class on Wednesday. The $46 million building features state-of-the-art technology throughout the 174,000-square-foot facility.

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The Humanities Amphitheatre clears due to an incoming afternoon storm. Students can look forward to a free concert featuring Matisyahu with opener Nathen Maxwelll and the Original Bunny Gang this Sunday at 8 p.m. at the amphitheatre.

Blagojevich guilty on one charge The Associated Press CHICAGO — They were close. After three weeks of respectful but increasingly tense deliberations, 11 jurors were ready to convict Rod Blagojevich of what prosecutors called a “political corruption crime spree” that would have sent yet another former Illinois governor to prison.

Not close enough. On vote after vote, the jury kept coming up one juror short — a lone holdout who wouldn't budge and would agree only that Blagojevich lied to the FBI. “The person just did not see the evidence that everyone else did,” said juror Stephen Wlodek.

The guilty verdict on the least serious of the 24 counts against him, and mistrial on all the rest, led Blagojevich to taunt prosecutors in the courthouse lobby. More than a year after federal prosecutors accused him of crimes that would make Abraham Lincoln “roll over in his grave,” the disgraced politician bragged about essentially fighting them to a draw.

“This fight is a lot bigger than just me and my family. This is a fight for the very freedoms that we as Americans enjoy,” said Blagojevich, who promised to appeal his conviction on the single count. “The right to be able to be innocent, the right to be able to do your job and to not be lied about.”

The morning after the verdict, the former governor emerged from his Chicago home in casual clothes, saying he was back on dad duty and was taking his youngest daughter to camp.

“We'll have more to say later,” Blagojevich said. “Right

now, we've got to get Annie to camp.”

The former governor's brother and co-defendant, Robert Blagojevich, said the jury's conclusion showed he's been “an innocent target of the federal government.” He could be retried on the four counts against him that ended in the mistrial.

“I feel strong. I feel confident. I don't feel in any way deterred. I've done nothing wrong,” he said. “I've got ultimate confidence in my acquittal.”

The outcome that left the Blagojevich brothers so pleased came as a disappointment to some jurors who spoke to The Associated Press. They said further deliberations would not have mattered — a second unanimous decision on a charge of attempted extortion evaporated shortly before the verdicts were to be read.

“I think in the end, based on what happened today, the people of the state just did not have justice served,” said Wlodek, 36, a human resources manager whose job in the jury room was playing the FBI wiretap tapes in which Blagojevich, often in the most profane language imaginable, discussed his alleged schemes.

Federal prosecutors — no doubt stung by the jury's inability to reach a decision on all but the single charge — were as emphatic as the former governor. When U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel said Tuesday he would give prosecutors time to decide whether to take Blagojevich to court again, prosecutor Reid Schar spoke up instantly: “It is absolutely our intention to retry this.”

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald later thanked the jury for its service but refused to comment on their decision, citing the need to prepare for

Blagojevich's second trial. Zagel set a hearing for Aug. 26 to decide manner and timing of the retrial, and a former federal prosecutor said the 11-1 split in favor of conviction on several counts bodes well for the government.

“At the end of the day, it signals very strongly they will get a conviction next time,” said Joel Levin, who helped win a conviction of former Illinois Gov. George Ryan in 2006. “It sounds like the case was lost in jury selection.”

It had been clear jurors were struggling with the case.

Last week, they told Zagel they had reached a unanimous decision on just two counts and had not even considered 11 others.

“I've been on juries before, I've never had it this tough,” said juror Cynthia Parker, 60, of Gurnee, Ill. Wlodek and other jurors disagreed on the exact number of counts in which the jury eventually voted 11-1 to convict.

But more than one said on at least some of the most serious counts, the overwhelming sentiment was Blagojevich was not just a politician blowing off steam in conversations recorded by the FBI in which he said the power to name a senator was “(expletive) golden” and that he wasn't going to give it up “for (expletive) nothing.”

“I had him guilty on all counts,” said James Matsumoto, 66, a Vietnam veteran and retired television station librarian who served as foreman.

Juror Erik Sarnello said the most sensational allegation — that Blagojevich tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama's Senate seat — was the one that most jurors agreed was true.

“For a lot of us, the Senate seat was the most obvious,” said Sarnello, a 21-year-old College of DuPage student from Itasca.

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Warpaint to play Pilot Light

• Photo courtesy of Warpaint

Jake Lane Entertainment Editor A frequent, if unfortunate, trend in music journalism in recent years, or perhaps a recurring trend in music writing that cannot fit into snug genres, involves tacking on “experimental” or the suffix “-wave.” This approach does nothing but detract from the meaningful usage of either term, much in the way that the ‘90’s “alternative” boom rendered that term normal and ineffectual in print.

Los Angeles’ Warpaint most often are dubbed with the “experimental” tag, but its sound begs more attention than that middle - of-the -road title. Formed in 2004, the band first materialized in its current form in the winter of 2007 to record its debut EP, 2008’s “Exquisite Corpse,” and spent the following year playing around LA, holding residencies at various clubs while crafting its sound and finalizing its current lineup.

“Exquisite Corpse,” produced by former Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante and featuring current Pepper Josh Klinghoffer and founding member/Hollywood actress Shannyn Sossamon on drums, displays a lush yet heavy sound, sometimes meandering in lulling vocal melodies and at others crushing the listener under almost-submerged, slow-phased guitars and throbbing bass.

The initial printing of the album shot the band to local fame after topping

EGYPT continued from Page 5 Blaming the people is “a way to justify government failure,” commentator Osama Heikal wrote in Al-Masry Al-Youm on Saturday.

“The government rhetoric lacked an apology to the people who are paying high electricity bills every month,” Heikal wrote. “It also lacked any recognition of the ministry failure to provide a basic service to the citizens.”

In parts of the Delta, power is out for

three hours a day, and cuts have hit Red Sea resort areas, the paper reported.

Local authorities in the Western Desert province of Wadi Gadid had to resort to diesel generators to power vital institutions like hospitals and water and sewage treatment stations.

In the large industrial area of Shubra el-Kheima on Cairo's outskirts, residents signed petitions calling for the minister of electricity to resign.

The head of the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company, Mohammed Awad, defended the cuts as necessary to protect the national grid and urged citizens to reduce electricity consumption, especially during peak evening hours.

Amoeba Music’s sales charts and was subsequently reprinted with international distribution by Manimal Vinyl.

Touring behind that record was the band’s first experience on the road, yet over the last year it has made several cross-country expeditions and garnered rave reviews at larger festivals like Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza.

“After School of Seven Bells last year we did sort of a perimeter tour of the country and did South By Southwest and other things, but this is our fourth tour now,” guitarist and singer Theresa Wayman said. “We’ve grown a lot in the last nine months.”

As the band prepares for the the release of its full-length debut, “The Fool,” it continues to tour nationally, recently with electro hip-hop duo Javelin.

Wayman said the shows were among the most fun the band has played, noting one such show at New York City ’s Whitney Museum as a highlight. On “The Fool,” Wayman said the band has stayed close to home but also significantly restyled its earlier “dreamy” style.

“Before, I think we had sort of a dreamy sound, but I’d say we’ve gotten rowdy,” Wayman said from a stop on the way to last night’s show in Chapel Hill, N.C. “Some of the songs we’ve been carrying around for a while and they’ve changed and evolved in the process with Stella (Mozgawa, the band’s drummer who joined last fall) added to the mix.”

Warpaint will play the Pilot Light tonight at 10 p.m. with Fecal Japan.

Attendance is $10 and over 18 only.

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Vols aim to change future schedule Toles foregoes MLB for UT baseball Associated Press Tennessee wants to eliminate a trip to North Carolina from its 2011 football schedule, even if it means paying a $750,000 buyout of a contract with the Tar Heels.

The two schools have a contract to play in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 2011 and in Knoxville in 2012, but Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton requested several months ago that the series be pushed back to future seasons.

Tennessee's tentative 2011 schedule has the Vols hosting Cincinnati before trips to Florida and North Carolina, home games against Georgia and LSU and a trip to Alabama.

“Going into the season having two BCS non-conference opponents is problematic when you're trying to rebuild a team,” Hamilton said. “This is not a change in our scheduling philosophy, however.”

Hamilton said he's been told by North Carolina officials that the Tar Heels won't be able to delay the series to future seasons, which led to talks of a buyout of the contract.

North Carolina senior associate athletic director Larry Gallo said the final outcome hasn't been decided, though, and the Tar Heels would prefer to play the series.

“The discussion obviously involves whether we're going to play, whether we're going to reschedule or whether we're going to not play at all,” Gallo said. “We understand their reasons and so forth; however, we have not come to any decision yet. I'm hopeful that will happen in the next few days.”

Tennessee is in rebuilding mode after two seasons of coaching turnovers, which prompted a number of players to leave the program. The Vols currently have 76 scholarship players, and coach Derek Dooley likely will need a few seasons to build the roster back to the maximum 85 scholarship positions allowed by the NCAA. Dooley said the decision was Hamilton's.

“He doesn't do anything without at least getting my thoughts on it,” he said. “He has a real good understanding of what's important to the fans and to the program, and I have a lot of trust in how he's managing the schedule. Obviously if I was in big disagreement with what he wanted to do I would express that.”

Hamilton said the cost of the buyout would be made up by scheduling an eighth home game next season against Buffalo on the Vols' Oct. 1 open date. Sept. 24, the date scheduled for the Tennessee-North Carolina matchup, would become their new open date.

Tennessee has already rescheduled one 2011 game after North Texas decided to open its season at home in its new stadium instead of on the road at Neyland Stadium.

The Vols scheduled Montana in its place.

Hamilton also turned down a chance for Tennessee to face Southern California and George Richardson • The Daily Beacon former coach Lane Kiffin in the 2011 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game because of concerns Sophomore pitcher Nick Blount winds up in a game last season. The Vols got big about the Vols' already difficult schedule. news from Andrew Toles, a fourth-round draft pick of the Florida Marlins, who decided to come to UT instead of entering the major leagues.

Smokey says, “Recycle your Beacon!”

Staff Reports Just one day before classes officially start, the Volunteer baseball program got some good news as Florida Marlins fourth-round pick Andrew Toles decided to put his professional career on hold in order to attend the University of Tennessee.

A speedy centerfielder, Toles arrives in Knoxville following a standout career at Sandy Creek High School in Tyrone, Ga. His father, Alvin Toles, was a hard-hitting linebacker at Tennessee (1981-84) before being drafted in the first round of the 1985 NFL draft by the New Orleans Saints.

“We are thrilled that Andrew has decided to come to UT,” Head Coach Todd Raleigh said.

“Obviously, he is extremely talented, or the Marlins would not have drafted him as high as they did.

It's not every day that you get to add a fourth-round pick to your program.

“We are really looking forward to getting him on the field to see exactly what he can do. He is a little bit of a work in progress, but he has all the tools that you look for. He is extremely fast, has lightning-quick hands at the plate and can throw the ball in the low 90s from the outfield. We are glad to have him in the fold and feel that his best days are definitely ahead of him.”

A 5-9, 180-pound left-handed hitting outfielder, Toles batted .510 with a pair of home runs and 25 stolen bases as a senior last year. That followed a terrific junior campaign in which he swiped 26 bases while hitting at a blistering .450 clip. Toles was the only pick from the top 10 rounds that the Marlins did not sign this year.

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starting, and when school starts, there are two distractions that come with it. One is an important one: school. The second one is human nature: girls.”

– UT football head coach Derek Dooley on the mindset of his team as classes begin.

Pat Summitt will be sad if you don’t recycle your Beacon.

Staff Report Tennessee senior Boris Conkic had not competed in a professional tournament in nearly two years, but he's found early success in his return to the ITF Futures circuit in Serbia.

Conkic has played two Futures tournaments this month on the clay courts in his hometown of Novi Sad, winning a doubles title at one event and playing through qualifying all the way to the semifinals in another.

His first stop was at the Gorenje Open, where he teamed up with fellow countryman Ivan Djurdjevic to knock off the top seed in the semifinals and clinch the doubles title, his first since 2007.

Last week, he played in the Meridiana Open and received a wildcard into the qualifying draw. His second round qualifying match against Marin Bradaric proved to be a real test of endurance as Conkic rallied down a set to defeat Bradaric 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) in a competition that lasted four hours, 55 minutes.

In his first match in the main draw, Conkic upset third-seeded Dusan Lajovic by a lopsided 6-2, 6-2 score. Lajovic was coming off a title championship at the Gorenje Open and was ranked No. 464 in the ATP world rankings.

Conkic played his way into the semifinals, where he lost to Aldin Setkic, the No. 1 seed and eventual champion.

Conkic is competing in ITF Futures tournaments throughout the fall semester and is working on building his ATP ranking. Prior to arriving at Tennessee as a freshman in 2007, he had been ranked as high as No. 574 in singles and No. 560 in doubles.

Conkic, who has been on the All-SEC team all three years of his college career, will rejoin the Vols in January. He is scheduled to graduate in May with a degree in sport management.

match in July before falling to third-seeded Adam El Mihdawy. Williams later reached the semifinals of the Futures tournament in Peoria, Ill. By all accounts, the summer was productive for Williams. He had an 8-3 record and climbed nearly 600 positions to a career-best No. 768 in the ATP Tour rankings.

Sandgren posted a 2-5 singles record in Futures events.

Davey Sandgren joins staff Coach Sam Winterbotham announced Davey Sandgren will be a student assistant with the Vols during the fall season. Sandgren, a two-time AllAmerica, finished his eligibility in May, following his second appearance with John-Patrick Smith in the NCAA Doubles Championship.

He is on track to graduate in December with a degree in aerospace engineering.

ITA Rankings countdown The ITA will release its national preseason singles and doubles rankings Sept. 3, and a few Vols should make that exclusive list. Tennessee finished the 2010 season with five players ranked in singles and three teams ranked in doubles.

Smith, now a senior, ended the spring season ranked second nationally in singles and third in doubles. He has been ranked in the top 10 in singles since Feb. 19, 2009.

In addition to Smith, three returning Vols who ended the season nationally ranked include Williams (No. 30), Conkic (No. 35) and Tennys Sandgren (No. 114). Matt Brewer, who graduated in May, ended his UT career ranked No. 117.

SEC Indoors return to UT Tennessee is still finalizing its schedule, but one tournament can be penciled into the 2011 spring calendar: the SEC Coaches Indoor Championships in Knoxville from Jan. 14-17.

The tournament is returning to Tennessee's home courts for the first time in 13 years and appropriately will serve as the inaugural event inside a newly renovated Goodfriend Tennis Center. When the Vols last hosted the SEC Indoors in 1998, Goodfriend was opening its doors for the first time.

In 2011, the tournament will showcase the facility's two brand-new courts.

Construction on Goodfriend Tennis Center began immediately after the Vols and Lady Vols hosted the first two rounds of NCAA Tennis Championships in May. The number of courts will be expanded from the original four to six, enough for full dual matches. New locker rooms, players' lounges and renovated coaches' offices are also part of this first phase of construction at the complex.

The Vols boast the previous two SEC Indoors champions: Conkic last season and Smith in 2009.

Summing up the summer A doubles title in Pittsburgh highlighted the professional summer tournament tour for sophomores Rhyne Williams and Tennys Sandgren.

Tennessee natives Williams and Sandgren were two of 13 college players selected to the USTA Summer Collegiate Team and played in several Futures events around the country, including stops in Rochester, N.Y.; Pittsburgh; Peoria, Ill.; and Joplin, Mo. Williams and Sandgren did not a play collegiate match together during the spring but had a successful run in doubles in Futures events, going 7-2 in three tournaments. They were semifinalists in Rochester and captured the Men's Futures of Pittsburgh championship a week later, which was the first pro doubles title for either player.

Williams almost nabbed the singles title at Pittsburgh as well. He won the tournament as a 16-year-old in 2007 and returned to the championship

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Sophomore Rhyne Williams smashes an overhead in a match last season. The Vols look to have another productive season following last year’s SEC title and a trip to the NCAA Championships.