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Legislative internships offer valued experience Donesha Aldridge Staff Writer For students interested in Tennessee legislature, the Tennessee State Legislative Intern Program and the UT National Alumni Associate Legislative Internship Program both offer hands-on, in-depth experience with several perks.

David Folz, professor and Baker Faculty Associate in UT’s Department of Political Science, is the campus coordinator for both programs.

“Without exception, the students who have participated in the program have described it as the single most valuable experience of their time at UT,” he said.

Last spring semester, five UT students were selected to complete the internship: Daviesha Moore, public health graduate; RuthAnne Waldrop, undecided sophomore; Reid Witcher, junior in political science; Carey Smith, senior in political science; and Matthew Kothe, senior in arts and sciences.

Folz said the program is very beneficial to those who want to pursue a career in law or political science.

According to Folz, each intern receives a stipend of $1400 per month, totaling $7,000 for five months. Interns also receive an extra $350 for relocation and reimbursement for one round trip each month from Nashville to UT. “Many interns have described their time on Capitol Hill as the experience of a lifetime and would gladly do it again even if they did not receive academic credit or compensation,” Folz said.

Smith said her favorite aspect of the internship was having the opportunity to learn directly from Tennessee leaders.

“Working in Nashville provided a dynamic atmosphere for learning about state government and current issues,” Smith said. “This experience really went beyond making coffee and copies. Students had a real opportunity to do research, reports, constituent services and a variety of other meaningful tasks.”

Applicants for the Tennessee State Internship Program must be at least a junior for the spring semester with good academic standing of at least a 3.0 GPA. Students must also be eligible to vote and enrolled in degree programs of political science, public administration, law, history, social work, economics, sociology, journalism or another closely related field of study.

Those interested in applying for the UT National Alumni Internship Program can be enrolled in any degree program at UT, and no minimum GPA is required to apply.

Folz said students are expected to have general knowledge and familiarity with American government and have a desire to learn more about it.

“In many respects, UT interns serve as student ambassadors for the University of Tennessee on Capitol Hill and therefore should possess the character traits and work habits that reflect well on the university,” Folz said.

Folz said some of the main duties of the interns in the past have included attending weekly meetings, touring sites and facilities, such as the maximum-security prison and the State Capitol.

Folz said each student is assigned to a legislative office to work with members of the Knox County delegation.

Students can receive an application for the programs online at http://web.utk.edu/~polisci/legintern.html. All applications are due Oct. 8.

An interest meeting to learn more about the two internship programs will be on Sept. 17 at 3:30 p.m. in room 220 of the UC. For additional information contact David Folz at dfolz@utk.edu or 865-974-0802.

Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

The Tennessee State Legislative Intern Program allows students to obtain handson experience while working in Nashville. An interest meeting will be held on Sept.

17 at 3:30 p.m. in UC 220.

Pharmacy robberies continue to rise Associated Press

Ashley Bowen • The Daily Beacon

Beta Alpha Psi hosts Meet the Firms, an event that allowed students to network with accounting professionals. Maggie Bates, graduate student in Masters of Accountancy program, is seen talking to a representative from one of the firms.

Gun battle rocks Nigerian prison Associated Press BAUCHI, Nigeria— Gunmen launched a massive attack Tuesday night against a northern Nigerian prison holding suspected members of a radical Muslim sect, authorities said.

The attack on the federal prison near Bauchi appeared to be an effort to break into the facility, which is holding members of the Boko Haram sect, said Maigari Kana, a spokesman for the state governor. However, Kana said he did not know who was responsible for the attack, which had gunfire echoing through nearby pastures and hills in the rural state.

The Bauchi state police commissioner said police planned

to dispatch more officers to the area, but declined to comment further.

Adamu Abubakar, a Red Cross official, said heavy gunfire could be heard throughout the city.

“Definitely now, I’m not going anywhere,” Abubakar told The Associated Press by telephone. “The situation is not safe.”

Boko Haram — which means “Western education is sacrilege” in Hausa — has campaigned for the implementation of strict Shariah law. Nigeria, a nation of 150 million people, is divided between the Christiandominated south and the Muslim-held north. A dozen states across Nigeria’s north already have Shariah law in place, though the area remains

under the control of secular state governments.

Boko Haram sect members rioted and attacked police stations and private homes in July 2009, triggering a violent police crackdown. Many of those arrested in the wake of the attacks last year are being held in the Bauchi prison pending trial.

In recent months, rumors about the group rearming have spread throughout northern Nigeria. A video recording released in late June showed a Boko Haram leader calling for new violence as the one-year anniversary of their attack neared. Meanwhile, police believe motorcycle-riding members of the sect are killing policemen in the region.

GLENPOOL, Okla. — Less than a couple months after Nick Curtin opened a pharmacy in suburban Tulsa in 2008, the store was burglarized twice in one week. And just last year a masked man robbed him at gunpoint, making off with 1,800 pills.

Curtin admits it could easily happen again and there’s not much he can do to stop it.

“It’s one of those things; there's only so many things you can do,” he said.

Across the country, pharmacy robberies are on the rise, partly because of the increasing demand for prescription drugs, according to law enforcement officers and industry officials. Prescription painkillers rank second behind marijuana as the country’s most common illegal drug problem, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

There are no official numbers on how many pharmacies are robbed each year nationwide. The federal government does not track them and states vary in how they classify the crimes: some are logged as break-ins, others as drug thefts. But federal drug officials, drug companies, pharmacies, state authorities and local police departments nationwide all say they’ve noticed an increase in recent years.

“It’s not surprising that pharmacies have become the object of crime, given the popularity of prescription drugs,” said Barbara Carreno, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman.

“Communities must take this threat as seriously as the threat posed by street drugs like heroin and cocaine.”

Robbers hold up pharmacies in upscale neighborhoods and those full of blight. Stores sitting just off highways and nestled in towns small and large have also been hit. The most valuable pills are the heavy painkillers that on the street can go for up to $60 a tablet.

“It’s just unfortunate that people who have become addicted to drugs, they know where they can get a source of a reliable high,” Curtin said.

In Ohio, officials say the problem is mainly armed robbery of pharmacies. There were 32 in 2007 and that more than doubled to 68 in 2008, according to state records.

In Oklahoma, only one pharmacy reported an armed robbery in 2007, but that shot to 12 in 2008.

Last year, there were 19. Burglaries went from 31 in 2007 to 42 in 2008. In 2009, the tally was 51, according to the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control.

“There isn’t any doubt we’ve seen a spike in the past five years or so in pharmacy break-ins,” said Mark Woodward, spokesman for the bureau.

Missouri has also seen more drug thefts at pharmacies in the past few years, said Mike Boeger, administrator of the Missouri Bureau of Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs.

In 2007, the state received 518 drug theft reports; in 2008, it logged 606. Then in 2009, the number dipped to 490, but through August of this year, Missouri has received 360 reports, and Boeger said that would put the state back on track to have well over 500 by the year's end.

In many of those cases, the employees are the thieves, Boeger said. One girl stole more than 49,000 doses of the painkiller hydrocodone before getting caught.

“They’re stealing us blind every day,” Boeger said. “Hundreds of thousands of doses.”

One high-profile pharmacy case was in Oklahoma last year in which a pharmacist Jerome Ersland pulled a gun on two robbers. Ersland shot one, a 16-year-old boy, in the head, and chased the other away. He returned to the store and pumped five more bullets into the teenager, which the coroner said were the fatal shots. Ersland’s awaiting trial for first-degree murder and he says he acted in self-defense.

More common incidents are like the one in Missoula, Mont. where a woman demanded all the oxycontin and oxycodone in the store and made off with 1,900 pills worth about $35,000 on the street; or the teenager in Boynton Beach, Fla., who ordered six people to the ground at gunpoint and fled with more than 1,500 painkillers.

The increase of robberies has some employees locking up powerful narcotics like oxycodone in safes, installing security cameras and using trickery — one pharmacist in suburban Oklahoma City filled bottles labeled ‘hydrocodone’ with M&Ms — to thwart drug-seeking burglars.

“Pharmacies just typically haven’t had to deal with this,” says Rick Zenuch, director of law enforcement liaison and education at Purdue Pharma L.P. “I don’t think we want to get to the point where we see teller-style windows.”

Law enforcement officials say there’s not much they can do to prevent the robberies and they don't have the extra staffing to step up patrols of pharmacies.

Larger drugstore chains such as CVS and Walgreen Co. say they have programs in place to protect employees and customers. They wouldn’t elaborate, though Walgreen recently upgraded its surveillance system to digital to have clearer images.

Curtin, the pharmacist in suburban Tulsa, says he’s more jittery because he has been hit three times, but the looming threat isn’t enough to drive him out of town.

“I’m trained to help people,” he says. “I really can’t stop doing that.”

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This Day in Sept 8, 1974: Ford pardons Nixon In a controversial executive action, President Gerald Ford pardons his disgraced predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed or participated in while in office.

Ford later defended this action before the House Judiciary Committee, explaining that he wanted to end the national divisions created by the Watergate scandal.

The Watergate scandal erupted after it was revealed that Nixon and his aides had engaged in illegal activities during his reelection campaign-and then attempted to cover up evidence of wrongdoing.

With impeachment proceedings underway against him in

InSHORT

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

In a political scandal independent of the Nixon administration's wrongdoings in the Watergate affair, Agnew had been forced to resign in disgrace after he was charged with income tax evasion and political corruption.

Exactly one month after Nixon announced his resignation, Ford issued the former president a "full, free and absolute" pardon for any crimes he committed while in office.

The pardon was widely condemned at the time.

Decades later, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation presented its 2001 Profile in Courage Award to Gerald Ford for his 1974 pardon of Nixon. In pardoning Nixon, said the foundation, Ford placed his love of country ahead of his own political future and brought needed closure to the divisive Watergate affair.

Ford left politics after losing the 1976 presidential election to Democrat Jimmy Carter.

Ford died on Dec. 26, 2006, at the age of 93.

History Congress, Nixon bowed to public pressure and became the first American president to resign.

At noon on Aug. 9, Nixon officially ended his term, departing with his family in a helicopter from the White House lawn. Minutes later, Vice President Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States in the East Room of the White House.

After taking the oath of office, President Ford spoke to the nation in a television address, declaring, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."

Ford, the first president who came to the office through appointment rather than election, had replaced Spiro Agnew as vice president only eight months before.

Wade Rackley • The Daily Beacon Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

The UT Alumni Association and UTPD hand out hand sanitizer to students walking down the Pedestrian Mall on Sept. 1.

Fans form a sea of orange before the football game this past Saturday. The Vol Walk starts an hour 45 minutes before each home game with the Salute to the Hill taking place about 30 minutes later.

Wednesday, Septmber 8, 2009

NATION&WORLD

Workshop open for law school applicants UT will host a Law School Admission Workshop and Recruitment Fair for potential law school applicants today.

The workshop is free and no preregistration is necessary.

Scheduled activities include: * Admission Workshop. Panelists will discuss preparing for law school as an undergraduate, the law school admission process and the LSAT from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Shiloh Room of the UC. Karen Britton, director of admissions, financial aid and the Bettye B. Lewis Career Center at UT’s College of Law, will lead this session along with Catherine Anderson, assistant director of the College of Arts and Sciences advising services. * Q & A with Admissions Officers. Prospective students are invited to discuss the admissions process and seek advice from a panel of admissions officers from public and private law schools from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Shiloh Room. * Recruitment Fair. Admissions representatives

from law schools in the Southeast will meet with prospective students. Law schools invited include Alabama, Baylor, Charleston, Cumberland, Georgia, Georgia State, Indiana, Kentucky, Lincoln Memorial University, Louisiana State University, Memphis, Mercer, Mississippi College, Nashville School of Law, Richmond, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest and Washington & Lee. The Recruitment Fair will be held from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the College of Law Commons and Rotunda.

This program is sponsored by the UT College of Law, UT College of Arts and Sciences advising services, UT Career Services and the UT Phi Alpha Delta Pre-law Society.

For more information, call the UT College of Law Admissions Office at 865-974-4131.

UT receives Homeland Security grant for stadium cameras Officials from the Tennessee Department of Safety and the state and federal Department of Homeland Security will join officials from UT today to announce a $196,000 Department of Homeland Security grant for the purchase and installation of additional closed-circuit security cameras at Neyland Stadium.

UT anticipates the project installation to begin later this fall.

The grant is part of the DHS Buffer Zone Protection Program. This latest addition will bring the overall closed-circuit security monitor invest-

ment to more than $500,000, funded in large part by this and similar grant programs.

The grant will allow UT to continue to enhance safety and security for all visitors to Neyland Stadium and the UT campus.

UT, Pellissippi State partnering for culinary students Officials from UT and Pellissippi State Community College will cut a giant “ribbon-cake” today to celebrate the new partnership, which allows Pellissippi State culinary arts students to do their kitchen lab work at the UT Culinary Institute.

Those expected to attend include Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek; Bob Rider, dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences; John Antun, director of UT’s Culinary Institute; Pellissippi State Community College President Allen Edwards; and Tom Gaddis, coordinator of Pellissippi State’s hospitality program and a member of the UT Culinary Institute’s advisory board.

Through what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind partnership between a UT institution and a Tennessee Board of Regents institution, students in Pellissippi State’s new culinary arts program complete their classroom instruction at Pellissippi State’s Division Street Campus and also spend four hours per day, three days per week, honing their skills in the state-of-the-art laboratory kitchen at UT’s Culinary Institute.

There are 46 students enrolled, ranging in age from 16 to 56.

Gunman plotted to kill Obama, Clinton Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga.— A former soldier accused of demanding mental treatment as he took hostages at gunpoint at a Georgia Army hospital later told investigators he planned to kill President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed Tuesday.

Federal charges filed in U.S. District Court in Savannah identified the accused gunman as 29-year-old Robert Anthony Quinones. The Army says he took three hospital workers hostage early Monday in a two-hour standoff at Winn Army Community Hospital at Fort Stewart, 40 miles southwest of Savannah. Army officials say the gunman surrendered and no one was injured.

Federal prosecutors charged Quinones with kidnapping and assault with deadly weapons in connection with the hospital hostage standoff. He was also charged with making threats to kill Obama and Clinton.

Court documents say Quinones told FBI, Secret Service and Army investigators after his arrest that as part of his assassination plots he had studied Secret Service protocols, sniper techniques and ways to disguise

himself and conceal weapons.

Investigators said a search of the suspect's home turned up at least 15 guns, including high-powered rifles with scopes, as well as books and DVDs on Secret Service protocols, Israeli sniper techniques, Osama Bin Laden and Okalhoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

An affidavit by FBI and Secret Service agents who interviewed Quinones, filed in court, says the suspect was asked if he would kill Obama and Clinton given a chance.

“Yes. On a scale of one to 10 about being serious, I am a 10,” Quinones responded, according to the affidavit.

The court documents say Quinones was discharged from the Army in February and worked a civilian job at Fort Stewart. No other details about his military service or employment were immediately available.

He lived in Hinesville, a city neighboring the post. A phone number for him was disconnected. It was not immediately known if he had an attorney or where he was in custody.

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Phillips, a senior Fort Stewart commander, said the former soldier told hostages he needed help for mental problems “connected, I’m quite certain, to his past service.”

The suspect walked into the hospital’s emergency room at about 4 a.m. carrying two handguns, a semiautomatic rifle and a semiautomatic version of a submachine gun, Phillips said. He took a medic hostage and headed to the building’s behavioral treatment wing on the third floor.

An Army psychiatric nurse spotted the gunman and approached him to talk, Phillips said. That nurse was then taken hostage along with a behavioral health technician who refused to allow the gunman through a locked door to the patient area.

Phillips said the nurse, an Army major, was able to start calming the gunman down before Army investigators trained in hostage negotiations arrived and persuaded him to drop his weapons and surrender.

Because the suspect is a civilian and the standoff involved hostages on a federal installation, the FBI was called in to help with the investigation.

Fort Stewart, the largest Army post east of the Mississippi River, is home to the 3rd Infantry Division. Most of the division’s 19,000 soldiers are deployed to Iraq. It’s the 3rd Infantry’s fourth tour in Iraq since the war began in 2003.

Phillips said he’d seen nothing to indicate the former soldier had previously sought treatment at the Fort Stewart hospital.

The Daily Beacon • 3 Graduates will certify through the National Restaurant Association in nutrition, food production and sanitation. They can apply to the American Culinary Federation to become Certified Culinarians, the first step toward professional chef certification.

Students who complete Pellissippi State’s twoyear program will receive an associate’s degree with a major in business administration and concentration in culinary arts.

Orange and White Tour to inform families about UT Starting this week, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions will take its “Orange and White Tour” across the state to help prospective students and their parents learn more about UT. In addition, an open house for high school seniors and their families will be held on the UT campus on Oct. 16.

The Orange and White Tour stops, all from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., include: Pellissippi State Community College, Roane State Community College, Motlow State Community College, Southwest Tennessee Community College, Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences, Walters State Community College, Madison Academic High School, Nashville State Community College, Columbia State Community College, Columbia campus, Columbia State Community College, Franklin campus, Holiday Inn in Johnson City, and the UT Visitors Center.

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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

OPINIONS

Editor’s Note ‘Iron Vol’ awards set questionable precedent Last week, UT football coach Derek Dooley played a game. Not a football game of any sort; a game of eeny-meeny-miny-moe with the Knoxville media.

Prior to Wednesday’s “Mock Game” where the Vols walked through every aspect of a UT gameday — from marching the Vol Walk to reciting the Game Maxims — Dooley Editor-In-Chief shuffled his deck and chose wisely. With the help of UT media relations, Dooley selected six media members who were allowed to attend the scrimmage-like session. That’s six people out of any and all media hoping to cover the Vols.

Those six reporters — among them, Daily Beacon sports editor Matt Dixon — were the beneficiaries of preferential treatment, of covering a scrimmage-type walkthrough that would otherwise be closed to reporters.

The selections signified the first “Iron Vol of the Media” awards, a pat on the back to media members created

by Dooley to reward reporters who had exhibited an “always respectful” attitude covering fall camp.

On the surface, Dooley’s hand-picked harvest of media appears harmless, a measly reward for a few wellplaced pleases and thank-yous. But as a result, some outlets received access others did not.

So how fair was this?

In truth, Dooley is allowed to open or close whichever practices or scrimmages he wishes — and he’s done so this season, rendering scrimmages closed to media and forcing those covering the Vols to report based on UT-issued statistics. This closed-door policy resulted in a collective groan from the pool of media regularly covering Tennessee athletics.

But what gives Dooley the right to deem some media members worthy of exclusive access, while others are hung out to dry? Has Dooley grasped the coaching reins so tightly that power is becoming an unfortunate side effect even his Southern charm can’t overshadow?

Jeff Pearlman, a columnist on Sports Illustrated’s SI.com, touched on Dooley’s media A-list in a Sept. 3 column.

Pearlman wrote that big-time Division-I football coaches “often confuse themselves with God” and that Dooley’s Iron Vol of the Media awards could truly translate into two stipulations: “If you kiss my rear end, you’re OK,” Pearlman said of Dooley. “If you confront me, you’re out.”

Accusing Dooley of godly stature — trading his playbook for a pan flute on some distant cloud — is a bit far-fetched, but the coach’s reasoning begs to be questioned for this move. Was Dooley truly impressed by the six reporters’ respectful demeanor? Would those six be chosen again if UT sports information folks scribbled down a new gaggle of mild-mannered media? Was the list simply incentive for all media to behave nicely at UT practice, with hopes of someday reaching that glorious list?

It’s entirely possible that creating such a guest list was harmless, a simple reward for a job well done.

Media today receive a bad rap for those few reporters fixated with snagging the big story and trampling any ethics involved along the way, so those reporting with decency should be commended. But to alienate entire crops of media from certain levels of access appears questionable and unnecessary. One can’t help but wonder, if those same six media had gone for the jugular on a story — headlines that could potentially scar the football program — would they then be on Dooley’s “naughty” list?

More often than not, the argument surrounds a coach’s closed-door policy on certain team activities; the media are a no-go, but at least it’s fair across the board. But UT’s Iron Vol of the Media award poses a threat journalists fear more than no access at all: less access than the other guy.

In a world of competitive media, coaches shouldn’t be giving media members a leg-up on the side. Sure, the Daily Beacon benefited from Dooley’s selection, but exactly what precedent does this set? Would Dooley want SEC referees calling games based on which coaches were “always respectful?” My guess is no.

An equal playing field is advantageous to all parties. Let’s keep it fair, coach.

Zac Ellis

—Zac Ellis is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at rellis13@utk.edu.

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Amendments needed to check government “Immut abl y Right” by

Treston Wheat

Alexander Hamilton, arguably the most influential Founding Father, said, “Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.”

There are several problems today for which the Founders could not account, and they allowed for the Constitution to be amended for these problems. Here, I would like to elucidate three of the most important needed amendments to the Constitution, though this is not an exhaustive list.

The first is the need for a balanced-budget amendment. This would prevent the government from spending more money than it has. Why is this amendment necessary? When the government does not limit its power, the people have to limit it. America’s debt is increasing exponentially, and massive debt is the quickest way for a country to decline or fall into mass chaos.

One must only look at the Ottoman Empire or, more recently, Greece. With the balanced-budget amendment, the government would be checked so that, at the very least, debt will be drastically slowed down.

The Keynesians will reject this, because they argue that increased spending gets a country out of a recession, though they would have a hard time explaining why the Great Depression and the recent depression were not saved by increases in spending by the government.

The former was only saved when industry increased because of World War II. Of course, there would need to be an exception during a declaration of war. National security should never be subject to the political whims of an administration. Cuts in defense spending should not be used to balance a budget since military power is essential for maintaining America’s strength.

The second needed amendment is the Equal Rights Amendment, or ERA. Consistently throughout America's history, patriarchy reigned. Men put women down and prevented them from advancing.

England, Israel, Argentina, India and even Pakistan have all had female leaders. It is time for female equality

in this country.

The best argument against the ERA is that the Fourteenth Amendment already protects women of this country, because they are citizens, and they do not need their rights handed to them by old, white men. I fully respect that view, but it has not worked so far. Women are still only making about 75 cents to every dollar men make. Women make up only a small portion of corporate heads, and women only make up about 18 percent of members of Congress, while making up roughly half of the people in the country.

The glass ceiling still very much exists, and the amendment does not even address the chauvinistic discourses in American culture, like women jokes about how they should stay in the kitchen.

Certain implications do exist with this amendment.

If the government cannot discriminate based on sex, then women could possibly be drafted. Though I am actually a proponent of women in combat, some believe that women should not partake in that role, a consideration that needs discussion.

Third, the most important amendment that should pass as soon as possible is one that limits abortion as much as possible. Abortion exists as one of the greatest threats to civil rights because the right to life is the most important of all. I am not debating whether or not a fetus has a soul at conception, which is what I believe. Instead, I am asking those that oppose the murdering of children in the womb to stop messing around with the courts.

It is highly unlikely that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade or Casey v. Planned Parenthood, because those that believe it is a judicial issue are for abortion, and those that oppose abortion believe it is an issue for the legislature. Therefore, instead of trying to overturn it in the courts, people that believe in the right to life need to pass an amendment banning it.

There exist other issues where constitutional amendments are appropriate like flag burning, marriage and education. Civil issues within our society cannot always be changed through the courts or simply through an act of Congress. Sometimes the people need to limit the power of the government or promote civil rights like at America’s founding with the Bill of Rights or after the Civil War when the rights of the newly freed slaves became protected. Though the Constitution is sacred to many of us, certain changes must happen. It is the only way for America to have a more perfect union.

—Treston Wheat is a senior in political science and history. He can be reached at twheat@utk.edu.

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What qualifications are needed to become an administrator at a state university, specifically at the University of Tennessee? Do you need to have a bachelor’s in business? A master’s in education? Maybe even a law degree?

More and more, I am coming to the conclusion that the biggest prerequisite to run this joint is a doctorate in hypocrisy. Increasingly, the movers and shakers of the University of Tennessee are making decisions, which contradict stated intentions, in the name of budget cuts. In my mind, there is nothing more indicative of this situation than the current nature of “Ready for the World” program and its relation to the languages department.

Fear not, culture seekers and globetrotters, I am not going to launch into any long-winded diatribe or illconceived tirade about how the program is wasteful, useless or unneeded. Actually, I believe quite the opposite to be true. The Ready for the World program is, in many ways, a great way of educating students in East Tennessee about cultures and peoples they might not have otherwise been exposed to had they not participated in activities associated with this program.

Instead, my problem actually lies with the hypocrisy of the university promoting this program and its events ad nauseam, despite the fact that they are beginning to systematically cut funding to, and the classes of, the foreign languages department.

Not making sense? Let me give you a hypothetical to illustrate my point. Let’s say that the program sponsors an event that showcases the highlights of Chinese culture and tries to entice visitors to learn more or perhaps even seek opportunities to work, do business, teach or live in China. That is certainly admirable. What is not so admirable is cutting access to the No. 1 resource needed to attain such a goal, which is an education in the Chinese language.

One hundred- and 200-level classes for languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Portuguese may comparably be safe, but the upper-level classes in these less-popular languages are facing the chopping block. It makes little to no sense to promote the university as a major destination for those seeking to

establish careers in the business or, more specifically, international business sectors, when you are cutting back on the funding to, and course offerings for, these languages.

Consider this, if you would: China and Japan are, respectively, the second- and third-largest economies in the world behind the U.S. Brazil, a nation whose official language is Portuguese, is a growing economic power. Russia, similarly, is experiencing an economic rebirth as deposits of oil, metals and other natural resources are being discovered throughout the country.

If some of the most profitable business opportunities for prospective international business students lie in these nations, why would the university seek to cut back on the outlets to learn the native languages of these burgeoning commercial giants?

I can only imagine the reasoning administrators would give lies, as previously stated, in budgeting concerns, as well as a lack of popularity when compared to other languages such as French or Spanish. While both may seem to be understandable excuses on the surface, they are, in many ways, counterproductive.

If prospective students cannot major or minor in languages that open doors for them to work in booming markets, they will no doubt seek out other colleges and universities that do.

The chancellor has stated his intent to make UT a top-25 institution with a larger enrollment, more prestige and superior opportunities for many different career pursuits. None of those goals is attainable for UT, which is using its business facilities as a selling point, if practices such as these are allowed to continue.

As if the impact on prospective students was not high enough, the hit suffered by current students trying to major or minor in these languages is no doubt staggering. Because of some bureaucrat’s decision making, they are left searching for options because the classes necessary to complete their field of study are being tossed in order to keep less beneficial and more nonsensical programs and policies in place. Cost-benefit analysis, however, is a topic best suited for another time.

My point to the powers that be is this: Do not try to promote the wealth of opportunities available to current and future students seeking to educate themselves about other cultures or go into international business if you are going to axe the funding of the programs that facilitate such opportunities. It is hypocritical, counterproductive, and, in the end, downright stupid.

—Derek Mullins is a senior in political science. He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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US church to proceed with Quran burning Associated Press GAINESVILLE, Fla.— A Christian minister vowed Tuesday to go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Quran to protest the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks despite warnings from the White House and the top U.S. general in Afghanistan that doing so would endanger American troops overseas.

Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center said he understands the government's concerns, but plans to go forward with the burning this Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the attacks.

He left the door open to change his mind, saying he is still praying about his decision, which was condemned Tuesday by an interfaith coalition that met in Washington to respond to a spike in antiMuslim bigotry.

Gen. David Petraeus warned in an e-mail to The Associated Press that “images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan — and around the world — to inflame public opinion and incite violence.”

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley echoed that, calling the plan to burn copies of the Quran “un-American” and saying it does not represent the views of most people in the U.S. “While it may well be within someone's rights to take this action, we hope cooler heads will prevail,” Crowley said.

Jones told the AP in a phone interview that he is also concerned but wonders how many times the U.S. can back down.

“We think it's time to turn the tables, and instead of possibly blaming us for what could happen, we put the blame where it belongs — on the people who would do it,” he said. “And maybe instead of addressing us, we should address radical Islam and send a very clear warning that they are not to retaliate in any form.”

Jones, who runs the small, evangelical Christian church with an anti-Islam philosophy, says he has received more than 100 death threats and has started wearing a .40-caliber pistol strapped to his hip.

The threats started not long after the 58-year-old minister proclaimed in July that he would stage “International Burn a Quran Day.” Supporters have been mailing copies of the Islamic holy text to his Dove World Outreach Center to be incinerated in a bonfire that evening.

The fire department has denied Jones a required burn permit for Saturday, but he says he is going ahead with his event. He said lawyers have told him his right to burn the Quran is protected by the First Amendment whether he’s got permission from the city or not.

Muslims consider the Quran to be the word of God and insist it be treated with the utmost respect, along with any printed material containing its verses or the name of Allah or the Prophet Muhammad. Any intentional damage or show of disrespect to the Quran is deeply offensive.

The interfaith group of evangelical, Roman Catholic, Jewish and Muslim leaders meeting in Washington condemned Jones’ plan to burn the Quran as a violation of American values and the Bible. Among the participants was Cardinal Theodore Mccarrick, retired Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C.; Rabbi David Saperstein of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; and top officials from the Islamic Society of North America, the group that organized the gathering.

“This is not the America that we all have grown to love and care about,” said Rabbi Steve Gutow of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. “We have to stand up for our Muslim brothers and sisters and say, ‘This is not OK.’” In this progressive north Florida town of 125,000 anchored by the sprawling University of Florida campus, the lanky preacher with the bushy white mustache is mostly seen as a fringe character who doesn’t deserve the attention he's getting.

Still, at least two dozen Christian churches, Jewish temples and Muslim organizations in Gainesville have mobilized to plan inclusive events — some will read from the Quran at their own weekend services — to counter what Jones is doing. A student group is organizing a protest across the street from the church Saturday.

The Vatican newspaper on Tuesday published an article in which Catholic bishops, including Archbishop Lawrence John Saldanha of Lahore, Pakistan, criticized Jones’ plan.

“No one burns the Quran,” read the headline in Tuesday’s L’Osservatore Romano.

Jones, who has about 50 followers, gained some local notoriety last year when he posted signs in front of his small church proclaiming “Islam is of the Devil.” The church is independent of any denomination but follows the Pentecostal tradition, which teaches that the Holy Spirit can manifest itself in the modern day. Pentecostals often view themselves as engaged in spiritual warfare against satanic forces.

Jones’ Quran-burning scheme, after it caught fire on the Internet, brought rebukes from Muslim nations and an avalanche of media interview requests just as an emotional debate was taking shape over the proposed Islamic center near the Ground Zero site in New York.

The Quran, according to Jones, is “evil” because it espouses something other than the Christian biblical truth and incites radical, violent behavior among Muslims.

“It’s hard for people to believe, but we actually feel this is a message that we have been called to bring forth,” he said last week. “And because of that, we do not feel like we can back down.”

FBI agents have visited to talk about their concerns for Jones’ safety, as multiple Facebook pages with thousands of members have popped up hailing him as either a hero or a dangerous pariah.

His plan has drawn formal condemnation from the world’s pre-eminent Sunni Muslim institution of learning, Al-Azhar University in Egypt, whose Supreme Council accused the church of stirring up hate and discrimination and called on other American churches speak out against it. Last month, Indonesian Muslims demonstrated outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, threatening violence if Jones goes through with it.

Iran claims right to bar UN inspectors Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran— Iran’s nuclear chief said Tehran has the right to bar some U.N. inspectors from monitoring its disputed nuclear program, the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported.

Ali Akbar Salehi’s late Monday comments were apparently in response to a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, expressing alarm about Iran’s decision to bar some of its inspectors.

The report followed Iran’s recent decision to strip two inspectors of the right to monitor its nuclear activities after they reported what they

said were undeclared nuclear experiments.

ISNA also quoted Salehi as saying Iran asked the agency to replace the two and that it has accepted the replacements.

“This is our right as well as the right of other members of the agency to choose the inspectors,” Salehi said.

“Basically, all member nations select from a list provided by the agency.”

While all member states select inspectors from an official IAEA list, some western nations on the agency’s 35nation board argue that because Iran has banned more than 40 inspectors over the past four years, a case

could be made that Tehran is violating the agency’s socalled Safeguards Agreement.

The agreement is meant to ensure that the IAEA can monitor Iran’s nuclear program without impediments to make sure it is solely for peaceful purposes.

The West, led by the U.S., suspects that Iran’s nuclear program is geared toward making weapons. Iran denies the charge, saying the program is for peaceful purposes only.

Commenting on the latest IAEA report, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, said it showed that Iran is still enriching large amounts

of uranium, “and this is not good news.”

Salehi, also the Islamic Republic’s vice president, urged the Vienna-based atomic agency to steer a fair and neutral course, arguing that the IAEA’s credibility depended on that.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast echoed Salehi’s comments on Tuesday.

“We have the right to replace inspectors regarding their background and activities,” he said.

In a related development, six Arab nations across the Persian Gulf from Iran issued a statement Tuesday calling

on Iran to cooperate with the IAEA, saying they wanted Tehran to adhere to the principles of international law and help efforts to make the Middle East a region free of weapons of mass destruction.

The statement was issued by the Gulf Cooperation Council, a loose political and economic alliance that groups Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman.

The statement’s reference to a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction appeared to reflect fears by the six nations over Iran's possible development of nuclear weapons.

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Bush to publish memoirs this fall Associated Press

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WASHINGTON — Already in distinctive company as an American president, George W. Bush seeks to join an even more select group: president and top-selling author.

Since The New York Times began its weekly lists of best-sellers in 1942, only six of the 13 men who have served as the nation's chief executive have placed a book at the top spot for nonfiction, none while president.

Two of them, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Barack Obama, did it before they were in the Oval Office. Two others, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, did it after they had returned to private life. John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan also reached the height of the best-seller list, albeit posthumously.

Not that the other chief executives didn't try. Richard M. Nixon wrote 12 books, nearly all of them after he resigned as president. Harry Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald R. Ford and George H.W. Bush also turned author but never enjoyed the satisfaction that comes with a top seller.

George W. Bush’s book, “Decision Points,” is set for release this fall by Crown Publishers. It’s not an autobiography, Bush says, but an analysis of key moments in his life, from quitting drinking to invading Iraq.

Presidential memoirs bring prestige to their publishers and can draw healthy sales. Yet they are not known for their stylistic prose or for being particularly introspective. Self-serving to a fault, they tend to play down their authors’ flaws and failings.

“Memoirs are a running start on legacy spinning,” says Douglas Brinkley, a Rice University professor of history and author of the best-seller “The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America.”

Rather than providing unique insights, memoirs can seem more aimed at protecting a reputation and bolstering fundraising for the presidential library, Brinkley says. “When you start having memoir ginned out by committee,” he says, “it loses its intimacy and authenticity.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt was president when the Times best-seller list debuted. He and Kennedy died in office, turns of fate that robbed them of an opportunity to look back at their lives and administrations.

Kennedy, though, had already won readers and a Pulitzer Prize for “Profiles in Courage,” a 1956 collection of biographical sketches about politicians who took principled if unpopular stands. The book was a best-seller, and its paperback version had sold more than 2.8 million copies before Kennedy was shot on Nov. 22, 1963. Yet the book didn't lead all others until a month after his assassination. A commemorative edition was No. 1 for 12 weeks.

Four years before he was elected in 1952, Eisenhower wrote a critically acclaimed wartime memoir, “Crusade in Europe.” The book brought financial security to the career soldier. He sold all rights for $635,000, more than $6 million in today's dollars, to take advantage of a loophole to pay taxes at a 25 percent rate instead of 75 percent. The book was No. 1 for 11 weeks and eventually sold well over 1 million copies.

Upon publication in 1990 of his ghostwritten memoir, “An American Life,” Reagan joked, “One of these days I'm going to read it myself.” It rose only as far as No. 5. “The Reagan Diaries,” edited by Brinkley, led the list for two weeks in 2007, three years after the former president's death.

Carter wrote a wide-ranging biography and later published a detailed account of his childhood, “An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood.” It was atop the best-seller list for five weeks in 2001 and one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography.

A 2005 book by Carter, “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis,” was the best of sellers for four weeks.

The story of a poor Arkansas boy who grew up to be president — one dogged by titillating sex scandals — trumped a meditation on the joys of doing for others.

Clinton's massive autobiography, “My Life,” appeared in 2004 as a nearly 1,000-page hardcover — it spent six weeks at No. 1 — and later as a two-volume paperback. He scored another top seller, for one week in 2007, with “Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World.” It clocked in at a comparatively petite 240 pages.

Like Eisenhower and Kennedy, Obama wrote his best-seller, “The Audacity of Hope,” before he was president.

Appearing in 2006, two years before his election, it was No. 1 for 16 weeks.

Obama will surely join George W. Bush and other ex-presidents in writing about his administration. (Crown has signed Obama for a post-administration nonfiction book.) He's already revisited his childhood, writing “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” published in 1995, well before he held any elective office.

That memoir garnered scant notice until Obama became noticed himself. Reprinted in 2007, “Dreams from My Father” has since joined “The Audacity of Hope” as a best-seller. Together, Obama's two books account for 6.6 million copies in print.

‘Distance’ more than simple love flick Chassidy Doane Staff Writer Long-distance relationships have always been trying throughout time. People spend less time together, get caught up in everyday life and ultimately things end up falling apart.

Can people really make it work out when they are thousands of miles apart? Well, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long play two people trying to take a chance on love and not wanting it to fall apart just because they can't be together in the same city.

Barrymore plays a 31-year-old summer intern at a New York magazine, who is trying to get her life on track after a failed relationship where she put her career and school on hold to follow a boy. Long plays a guy living in New York City, who works at a record label and is horrible at keeping a relationship going because of his lack of commitment to women. However, when the two meet one night at a bar over an arcade game, the sparks fly and See The Distance on Page 7

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Duvall, Murray shine in ‘Get Low’ Jake Lane Entertainment Editor If you could hear the critical analysis of your life, that is, people’s idea of your character and the meaning your life had, while still living in the flesh, would you want to hear it?

In the new fact-based film “Get Low,” Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) lives in a selfimposed Coventry after a murky event in his youth, which burdens him with guilt and a need for forgiveness.

Long the subject of local folk lore and infamy, Bush employs local mortician Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) to throw a pre-death funeral party, where Bush not only can hear the many stories about him straight from the horse’s mouth, but also so he can set the stories straight.

Not surprisingly, the film is character driven and revolves around not only the staging of the great party and the opportunity for the public to tell Bush’s tale, but also the quest of Quinn’s industrious apprentice Buddy Robinson (Lucas Black) to learn the mystery of Bush’s life and hermetic existence.

With a stock of powerhouse performers, Duvall gives the greatest performance of the film and one of the finest in his long career. A frequent costume in his repertoire has been that of boisterous Southern men, which he amends here to include brooding and self-loathing.

Though Felix Bush could be a cousin to Gus McCrae and Colonel Bill Kilgore, his quiet fury and shame turn the often hilarious and light-hearted Duvall into a poignant, damaged man whose sole purpose for living is to atone.

Black’s performance also adds to a list

of fine performances (“Jarhead,” “Friday Night Lights”) and stands to forgive others (“The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift”). Robinson, more so than his boss, becomes endeared to Bush, not only as an employee but as a friend. Murray serves as both comedic relief and dramatic fodder, adding to his own resume another dramedy that caps his last decade or so of damaged-yet-lovable schmucks.

The story here, which takes names and some incidents from the real life party hosted by Felix “Bush” Breazeale in 1938, at times mires the film in sentimentality.

Bush toils under his guilt, but the cloying kid-glove treatment given to the history between him and Mattie Darrow (Sissy Spacek) fails as an attempt at down-home rustic romanticism and instead flops around like a suffocating fish. Only in the scene of the funeral party does the backstory truly find power and affect the viewer.

Anyone who has spent their life, or any time really, in the South can appreciate the authenticity the film offers in its characters, culture and setting. Never caricaturized with donkey-braying drawls or other unfortunately redneck-hillbilly stereotypes, the denizens of the film inhabit a world some 70 years past, but the only thing dated is the music (like the Ink Spots’ fantastic “If I Didn’t Care,” used for great effect).

With an outstanding cast and familiar setting, “Get Low” should not surprise any viewer who walks away with a milewide grin and a remarkable sense of whimsy.

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they enter a whirlwind six weeks of getting to know each other and realizing how much they care about one another.

When Barrymore has to leave the city to go back to Stanford and finish up her graduate work, the two are faced with a decision: end it continued from Page 6 now or try long distance. Inevitably, the two try to make it work despite being across the country from one another. The movie is a romantic comedy about trying to beat the odds and two screwed up people trying to make love work despite life throwing curveballs everywhere they look.

Barrymore shines in this film but not as the typical “sweet girl” who falls in love. She is cynical and bitter and knows that things usually don’t end the way you want them to, but this is what makes her so relatable and likeable. She is a refreshing actress to watch in a movie that stands out more than most of the romantic flicks released this year.

Long plays more of a serious character in this film than in films past; he is playing a more mature role, although his character Garrett very closely resembles the character he played from the 2009 film “He’s Just Not That Into You,” which also starred Barrymore.

Audiences can’t help but to laugh out loud at Long’s best friend in the movie, Dan, played by actor Charlie Day, who is also in the popular TV show “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.” He keeps things interesting and humorous as the scenes flash back and forth between Long in New York and Barrymore in California pining over one another and talking about how bad their lives are when they’re apart.

Everyone has a “Dan” in their group of friends which makes it even funnier. He is that guy who is absolutely ridiculous and hilarious, and one can’t help but love that guy. Moviegoers will fall in love with his character, and he definitely lightens up the mood of the film.

“Going the Distance” is a cute film about putting aside all preconceived notions of love and trying to make something that feels right work. It is optimistic, witty and charming, and audiences will leave the theater feeling hopeful.

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Kanye acknowledges regret, pain over Twitter Associated Press NEW YORK — Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his trophy grab from Taylor Swift last year — and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter.

West unleashed a torrent of emotions on his official Twitter account Saturday, acknowledging once again that he was wrong for jumping on stage, taking the trophy that Swift won at the MTV Video Music Awards and saying that it should have gone to Beyonce.

But the rapper-producer said that he has experienced enormous pain, been the subject of death wishes and suffered tremendous setback to his career.

“How deep is the scar ... I bled hard ... cancelled tour with the number one pop star in the world ... closed the doors of my clothing office,” he tweeted.

The multiplatinum, Grammy-winning superstar had been one of the decade's most successful and critically acclaimed stars, despite sometimes boorish behavior and meltdowns at other awards shows when things did not go his way.

However, when he upstaged Swift — the then-teenage darling of pop and country music worlds — the public had had enough. There was tremendous backlash against West — even President Barack Obama was caught calling him a “jackass.”

At the time, he went on Jay Leno's prime-time show to apologize and said he still had not recovered from his mother's untimely death two years prior. He said he would be taking time off from the public eye.

That time off came sooner than expected. He canceled a joint tour with Lady Gaga that fall, apparently due to low ticket sales. On Twitter, West talked about the backlash.

“I'm the guy who at one point could perform the Justin Timberlake on stage and everyone would be sooo happy that I was there,” he wrote.

After the incident, he said, “People tweeted that they wish I was dead ... No listen. They wanted me to die people. I carry that. I smile and take pictures through that.”

West said he's now “ready to get out of my own way. The ego is overdone.”

He also apologized to Swift again and said he has written a song for her that he hopes she will perform.

“If she won't take it then I will perform it for her,” he said.

West is working on a new album that is supposed to come out sometime this fall. A recent member of Twitter, West has been an active user, posting not only his feelings, but new songs and other updates. He has over 900,000 followers since he joined earlier this summer.

“Man I love Twitter ... I've always been at the mercy of the press but no more ... The media tried to demonize me,” he tweeted Saturday.

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APin Brief Associated Press Brooks & Dunn end 20-year career at Nashville show NASHVILLE— The first song Brooks & Dunn ever sang together has become their last.

The country music duo closed out a 20-year career at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Thursday night with their 1991 debut single, “Brand New Man,” during the encore.

The sold-out show was the final stop on their Last Rodeo Tour and doubled as a fundraiser for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Kix Brooks said early in the night, “This isn't a funeral. We did show up to party.”

They ran through many of their 23 No. 1 hits, including “Neon Moon,” “My Maria,” “Red Dirt Road” and “Boot Scootin’ Boogie.”

Reba McEntire made the only guest appearance, singing a few lines during “Cowgirls Don't Cry.” Both Brooks and Ronnie Dunn joked about the reasons for their split. Brooks blamed it on his crazy concert ideas, like picking old songs and hoping the crowd would help if he forgot the words. Dunn said he was jealous of the cowboy hats Brooks got to wear all these years. Dunn explained that it was the reason he got a tattoo of the word “Cowboy” on his right forearm.

Brooks acknowledged those in the audience who played a part in

the duo's success, including songwriters and people behind the scenes. In a nod to the fans, he said, “Most importantly, to the people who paid our rent for the last twenty years, all I can say is, ‘Thanks.’”

Walking off stage for the final time, Brooks gave Dunn a playful push.

The duo has sold more than 30 million albums and won more than 80 major industry awards.

Tribute album to Loretta Lynn set for Nov. release NASHVILLE— A tribute album to country music legend Loretta Lynn is set for release in November, 50 years after her debut single “I'm A Honky Tonk Girl.”

The album, titled “Coal Miner's Daughter,” features a host of musicians, including Lucinda Williams, The White Stripes, Alan Jackson, Sheryl Crow, Carrie Underwood and Lee Ann Womack.

Lynn, a native of Van Lear, Ky., said in a statement that she was pleased the musicians wanted to cover her songs.

The Tennessean reports that the album is due for a Nov. 9 release.

Hip-hop conference this weekend in Memphis MEMPHIS— Memphis hip-hop music is being promoted this weekend with a conference, expo and showcase.

The Hip-Hop Weekend and Expo at the Memphis Cook Convention Center and Southwest Community College was created

by Hosea “M Town” Mays, director of the social networking site Memphisrap.com.

The event will host close to 100 exhibitors, mostly from Memphis, such as the Memphis Music Foundation, the Memphis and Shelby County Music Commission, producers, managers, graphic designers and record labels.

Mays told the Memphis Daily News that too many hip-hop artists leave town because they feel there is little opportunity for them in the city.

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Boise State wows voters but remains third Associated Press More AP Top 25 voters are buying into Boise State as the No. 1 team in the country.

Boise State gained seven first-place votes and closed in on No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Ohio State as the top three teams in the first regular season Associated Press football poll held their spots from the preseason.

The Broncos remained third after a thrilling 33-30 victory against Virginia Tech on Monday night, receiving eight first-place votes and 1,399 points from the media panel, 13 points behind the Buckeyes.

Ohio State received four first-place votes and 1,412 points.

Alabama had 47 first-place votes, down seven from the preseason poll, and 1,484 points in the rankings released Tuesday.

TCU from the Mountain West Conference moved up two spots to No. 4, marking the first time since the Bowl Championship Series was implemented in 1998 that two teams from conferences without automatic BCS bids have been in the top five. Boise State is the defending Western Athletic Conference champion.

Texas remained No. 5 and received one first-place vote.

No. 8 Florida dropped four spots after a sloppy 34-12 victory against Miami (Ohio) and No. 10 Oklahoma fell three places after beating Utah State 31-24.

The rest of the top 10 is Nebraska at No. 6, followed by Oregon, which moved up four spots after beating New Mexico 72-0. Iowa is No. 9.

No. 13 Virginia Tech dropped three spots after Boise State scored a touchdown with 1:09 left to beat the Hokies at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. Falling out of the rankings after close opening losses were Pittsburgh and North Carolina. Moving in were No. 23 South

Carolina and No. 24 Stanford.

But the big story is Boise State, and the Broncos very well could be the talk of college football all season.

They entered Monday with their best preseason ranking and a legitimate chance to be national championship contenders — if they could beat the Hokies and then flawlessly navigate a schedule with no games more difficult than the first.

Boise State jumped to a 17-0 first-quarter lead, watched that lead evaporate, then needed a two-minute drill capped by a 13-yard touchdown pass from Kellen Moore to Austin Pettis to win its 15th straight game.

“This was no fluke,” said voter Brett McMurphy of AOL Fanhouse, who had Boise State No. 1 this week. “(The Broncos) outgained Virginia Tech and hung 33 on the Hokies. The last two teams to score more than 30 against (defensive coordinator) Bud Foster’s defense — Alabama in 2009 and LSU in 2007 — went on to win the national title.

“Will Boise? Who knows, but the Broncos deserve the top ranking for this week anyway.”

The Broncos have finished the last two regular seasons with perfect records, but neither time was it enough to earn them a spot in the national championship game. They were beaten out by teams from the so-called power conferences with BCS automatic bids, teams like Alabama from the Southeastern Conference and Ohio State from the Big Ten. This season could be different. Boise State doesn’t have to climb over scores of teams to get into position to contend for a spot in the BCS title game, spots determined in large part by the coaches’ poll and the Harris poll.

Boise State was third in the coaches’ poll this week, moving up two spots. The coaches also had Alabama first and Ohio State second. The Harris poll is not released until October.

“We’ve just got a long tough hard season, and the bull’s-eye will continue to grow, and it’s just going to be one game at a time,” coach Chris Petersen said.

Not hard enough to satisfy some people.

Boise State plays at Wyoming in two weeks and gets a visit from Oregon State, which opened its season by losing 30-21 to TCU, the week after. The Beavers from the Pac-10 look like the best team left on Boise State’s schedule, but the Broncos have lost one regular-season game on their blue turf home field since 2001. Toledo also visits Boise State.

As for the Broncos’ WAC competition, well, it’s been almost no competition for the Broncos the past decade. Boise State has won seven WAC titles and is 73-4 against conference opponents from 2000-09, a .948 winning percentage that is by far the best of any major college team.

Texas is second-best with an .841 percentage (69-13) in the Big 12 over that time.

Feeling it has outgrown the WAC, Boise State will be leaving the league after this season and joining the Mountain West.

The best teams the WAC can throw at Boise State this season are probably Nevada and Fresno State, though Hawaii and Utah State flashed potent offenses while losing their openers to ranked foes.

Fresno State comes to Boise on Nov. 19. The next week the Broncos have a road game at high-scoring Nevada that on paper seems to be their toughest remaining test.

They finish with Utah State at home on Dec. 4, the same day the SEC and Big 12 play its conference championship games.

If Boise State runs the table do they deserve a spot in the BCS championship game? Ahead of an unbeaten Big 12 or Big 10 champion? How about a one-loss SEC team?

Unless the Broncos take an unexpected stumble, the debate will rage all season.

Titans, ’Skins discussing Haynesworth Associated Press The Washington Redskins and the Tennessee Titans are in discussions about a trade of disgruntled defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth, people with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press.

The people spoke to the AP Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the talks are confidential.

Washington signed Haynesworth to a $100 million contract in 2009 as a free agent, and the tackle accepted a $21 million bonus in April. It’s been a nonstop battle of wills between Redskins coach Mike Shanahan and Haynesworth since then.

The Titans declined to comment, and the Redskins did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

ESPN first reported the teams were discussing a possible Haynesworth deal.

Shanahan was hired in January, and Haynesworth did not participate in the team’s offseason program while lobbying for a trade because he didn’t want to play nose tackle in the new 3-4 defense. Shanahan gave Haynesworth a chance to leave, but the tackle stayed and accepted the bonus in his contract.

Haynesworth skipped a mandatory minicamp and was fined. In training camp, Shanahan required Haynesworth to pass a conditioning test before practicing, which Haynesworth didn’t do until the 10th day of camp. The tackle seemed to be accepting his role in the 3-4 defense by the third preseason game.

Then Shanahan made Haynesworth play almost the entire game Thursday in the preseason finale against Arizona when the regular starters had the night off. Haynesworth played 49 of 55 snaps and was on the field in the final minutes.

His status for Sunday night’s opener against Dallas has been in question with Shanahan saying only that he will play the best players ready to play.

The Titans have missed Haynesworth’s presence in the middle of their line, slumping to 31 sacks without him helping collapse offensive lines. He managed only four sacks with the Redskins himself, a big dip from his 8.5 sacks in 2008 with Tennessee.

And the Titans know him well, having drafted Haynesworth in the first round in 2002. They used the franchise tag to keep Haynesworth in 2008 to help keep him focused, and the deal they eventually offered in 2009 was nowhere near what he got from Washington in the first hours of free agency.

The former University of Tennessee lineman has 28 career sacks and six forced fumbles in his first eight NFL seasons.

Freshman Megan Godfrey marches for the Salute to the Hill on Saturday’s opener.

The Pride of the Southland Band is one of America’s most recognized college marching bands.

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Volleyball team play inspirited by Harrison Anthony Elias

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Nikki Fowler gets the dig, volleys over to Emily Steinbeck, who volleys back to Fowler on the right side of the court. The senior outside hitter delivers a spike deep into the Virginia Tech defense and picks up the kill.

Leah Hinkey volleys to the left side of the court and Kayla Jeter, the junior outside hitter on the right side, is there to spike the ball to the opposite end, where she found a gap in the Lady Hokies defense and grabs a kill.

Fowler digs a Virginia Tech volley and sends the ball over to Steinbeck, who volleys over to the middle of the court.

DeeDee Harrison, a Nashville native, delivers a ball straight into the middle of the court, where she sees an enormous gap.

The Virginia Tech defense never sees it coming.

After delivering the kill, Harrison clinches her fists and celebrates an emotionally-charged point for her Lady Vol teammates.

To Lady Vols head coach Rob Patrick, as well as fans at Thompson-Boling Arena, Harrison's personality has brought excitement to everyone around her.

“DeeDee has a very outgoing personality,” Patrick said. “She’s very excitable. We like that about her.”

The Lady Vols 6-foot-3 middle blocker has been able to spread out the opponents, preventing them from not only creating opportunities, but also avoiding them.

In all six sweeps, UT has a .318 to .107 attack percentage on its opponents.

“She gives a lot more opportunities,” Jeter said.

“Last year we didn't have a middle hitter pres-

ence,” Patrick said. “DeeDee provides us with a heavy middle hitter presence and that opens up the court.”

For Harrison, it’s about more than just being another body, though.

“I’m just excited about playing and bringing presence and excitement,” Harrison said.

Harrison’s excitable personality includes off-thecourt hobbies such as deep-sea diving and wakeboarding.

Getting the UT middle blocker onto the court took time and patience. The sophomore didn’t play much leading up to this year; she redshirted her freshman season before playing in only 15 sets in 2009 but still racked up 13 kills.

This season, Harrison has been a full-time starter in the Lady Vols lineup and has done very little to disappoint.

Harrison kicked the year off with AllTournament honors at the Comcast Lady Vols Classic after averaging 8.6 kills and 2.3 blocks.

In the Lady Vols’ sweep of the 13th-ranked Florida State Seminoles, Harrison said it was energy and confidence that allowed the UT sophomore to pick up five kills and two blocks.

This allowed the Lady Vols’ offense to spread the floor and put together a 49-kill onslaught, 37 of those kills coming from four of her teammates, including Jeter, the outside hitter.

The Ohio University Tournament is on the Lady Vols’ schedule next, and with Northwestern, Ohio and Pittsburgh standing on the other side of the net, Patrick is confident that his young middle blocker is getting better just by being out on the court.

“The only thing she needed was actual playing File Photo • The Daily Beacon experience,” he said. “The more she plays, the betThe Lady Vols volleyball team is off to a 6-0 record this season. The team’s next ter she's going to become.” games are on Friday against Northwestern at 10 a.m. and Ohio at 7 p.m.

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What’s HAPPENING IN SPORTS

Sept. 8- Sept. 11

Friday —

Men’s Golf Carpet Capital Collegiate Dalton, Ga. All Day Women’s Volleyball Northwestern Athens, Ohio 10 a.m.

Women’s Volleyball Ohio Athens, Ohio 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer Arizona State Tempe, Ariz.

10 p.m.

Women’s Tennis SEC Coaches Tournament Auburn, Ala. All Day

Saturday — Football Oregon Knoxville 7 p.m.

Men’s Golf Carpet Capital Collegiate Dalton, Ga. All Day Women’s Volleyball Pittsburgh Athen’s Ohio 12 p.m.

Women’s Tennis SEC Coaches Tournament Auburn, Ala. All Day

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“They are a fast, fast football team.”

– UT football coach Derek Dooley on the speed of Oregon, Saturday’s visitor to Neyland Stadium

Wade Rackley • The Daily Beacon

The famous checkerboard pattern in the end zones of Shields-Watkins Field is painted the week before the home opener last Saturday. The field grass sits on 12 inches of sand, which allows for proper drainage.