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Vol. 79 No. 36 Tuesday, November 1, 2011 DAILY H ELMSM AN The Independent Student Newspaper of The University of Memphis www.dailyhelmsman.com Tigers eager to compete — even without a concrete starting lineup see page 12 Anticipation builds for men’s hoops Memphis resident Jade Stowater and University of Memphis student Alexandra Pusateri embrace on Saturday after returning from Nashville to the Occupy Memphis site located in the Civic Center Plaza in Downtown Memphis. by Christopher Whitten Tipping point UM student among 29 protesters arrested at Occupy Nashville demonstration over the weekend Nashville joined a host of other cities on Friday as the site of an Occupy Wall Street pro- test where demonstrators have been arrested. Three Memphians were among more than two-dozen protesters taken into cus- tody by police and state troopers during the demonstration. University of Memphis student Alexandra Pusateri, Southwest Te n n e s s e e Community College student Elizabeth Drake and Memphis resident Jade Stowater, all mem- bers of Occupy Memphis, drove to Nashville Thursday night to support the movement. “I got the call around 8 o’clock from Occupy Nashville’s Twitter. They said they needed bodies down there because they were going to be evicted at 12:01 a.m.,” Pusateri said. Nashville protesters had previously asked for police assistance after isolated incidents of theft and an assault. Governor Bill Haslam instead issued a state ordinance on Thursday closing the State of Tennessee Legislative Plaza, War Memorial Courtyard and Capitol grounds areas in Nashville from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The new policy requires demonstrators to apply for permits to use the grounds by pay- ing a daily use fee of $65. They must also show proof of a $1 million liability insurance policy, a realistically unattainable amount, some pro- testers said. The permit also restricts demon- strations to from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Information on the new curfew was posted in the affected areas at about 1 p.m. on Thursday. State spokeswoman Lola Potter said the policy wouldn’t be enforced until Friday. State troopers moved in 14 hours later, arriving at the Legislative Plaza at about 3 a.m. Drake said that while Pusateri and Stowater were being arrested, officers told her that she was not allowed back past a barricade they had set up. She said she continued to ask officers questions until one told her she had five seconds to decide whether she was going to leave or go to jail. The protesters sat down and locked arms as the troopers moved in, reciting the Declaration of Independence and chanting, “The whole world is watching,” as their hands were bound behind their backs with zip ties. Sanitation crews were sent to the plaza to remove demonstrators’ belongings after they were removed from the grounds. While Stowater went limp to make the offi- cers work harder during his arrest, Pusateri stood up, put her hands behind her back and said, “I am not resisting arrest and I don’t have any weapons,” as she walked with the officers to the bus. Nashville Night Court Magistrate Tom Nelson refused to jail the 29 men and women BY CHRISTOPHER WHITTEN News Reporter see Arrests, page 4 University of Memphis police are investigating an armed rob- bery on Saturday night where two students had their possessions sto- len by an unidentified man. The students were on Norriswood and Patterson at 12:30 a.m. when a man wearing one dia- mond earring, a blue pullover shirt and gray or tan pants approached them with a black revolver and demanded money and their pos- sessions, police reported. The suspect is further described as an African American male, about 5-foot-10, between 18 and 23 years old with a medium afro. Bruce Harber, director of police services, said that no one was in custody late Monday. Harber said he hopes students will exercise good judgment when going out at night and be aware of their surroundings. “Students should contact us if they see anything suspicious and be careful at night,” he said. “We’re fully staffed now and they should use Tiger Escort.” Anyone with details about the incident is encouraged to con- tact U of M Police Services at 678-HELP. BY ERICA HORTON News Reporter Two students robbed in off-campus incident Bringing the funk Tonight, U of M students are invited to join the Prophets of Funk for an evening of “irre- ducible essential pulse, life force, hyperventilatin’ groove.” David Dorfman Dance will perform in the Rose Theatre Entertainment Lobby today at 7:30 p.m., with an informance held at 6 p.m. and a reception to follow. The event is free and open to the public. “An informance is another level of context and insight into a theatrical performance,” said Aram Goudsouzian, associate professor and interim director of the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities. Prophets of Funk is a con- temporary musical performance group with dance and lyrics developed from the sounds of Sly and The Family Stone. Dorfman and his company of dancers have practiced with 12 U of M dancers, who were selected through auditions. The U of M dancers will perform in “A Little Prelude” before the Prophets of Funk take the stage. “For dance students, this has been a look into the world of professional dance,” said Moira Logan, associate dean of the col- lege of communications and fine arts. “They are dancing in the same concert with the same cos- tumes, and they get to experi- ence a little bit of what life is like as a professional.” Junior dance education major Andrea Fincher has been dancing for most of her life. She said the program has been a wonderful learning experience. “This type of dance is different in that the dance is about being free and off-balance,” she said. Brittney Taylor, senior dance education major, shared her sentiment. “Everyone is relatable, which helps with the comfort level,” Taylor said. “ It’s also nice to have a teacher come from out of the box and expand our knowledge.” Dorfman, director and cre- ater of the company, is hop- ing to connect the movement of the 1960s and 70s with activism now. He also plays a part in the performance as manager of the band, with eight dancers, ages 25-35, representing generations with period costumes. “We are trying to bring music to a new group of fans,” Dorfman said. “There are ties to the history of Sly and The Family Stone, but it is not a biographical piece.” Dorfman said he believes in audience participation in his performances. “There will be singing and dancing from the past and pres- ent that will make you want to dance,” he said. “It is like a nos- talgic history lesson.” BY TRACEY HARLOW News Reporter “One person or one city isn’t going to accomplish much. 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Page 1: The Daily Helmsman

Vol. 79 No. 36

Tuesday, November 1, 2011Daily

HelmsmanThe

Independent Student Newspaper of The University of Memphis www.dailyhelmsman.com

Tigers eager to compete — even without a concrete starting lineup

see page 12

Anticipation builds for men’s hoops

Memphis resident Jade Stowater and University of Memphis student Alexandra Pusateri embrace on Saturday after returning from Nashville to the Occupy Memphis site located in the Civic Center Plaza in Downtown Memphis.

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Tipping pointUM student among 29 protesters arrested at Occupy Nashville demonstration over the weekend

Nashville joined a host of other cities on Friday as the site of an Occupy Wall Street pro-test where demonstrators have been arrested.

Three Memphians were among more than two-dozen protesters taken into cus-tody by police and state troopers during the demonstration.

University of Memphis student Alexandra Pusateri, Southwest T e n n e s s e e Community College student Elizabeth Drake and Memphis resident Jade Stowater, all mem-bers of Occupy Memphis, drove to Nashville Thursday night to support the movement.

“I got the call around 8 o’clock from Occupy Nashville’s Twitter. They said they needed bodies down there because they were going to be evicted at 12:01 a.m.,” Pusateri said.

Nashville protesters had previously asked for police assistance after isolated incidents of theft and an assault. Governor Bill Haslam instead issued a state ordinance on Thursday closing the State of Tennessee Legislative Plaza, War Memorial Courtyard and Capitol grounds areas in Nashville from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

The new policy requires demonstrators to apply for permits to use the grounds by pay-ing a daily use fee of $65. They must also show proof of a $1 million liability insurance policy, a realistically unattainable amount, some pro-

testers said. The permit also restricts demon-strations to from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Information on the new curfew was posted in the affected areas at about 1 p.m. on Thursday. State spokeswoman Lola Potter said the policy wouldn’t be enforced until Friday.

State troopers moved in 14 hours later, arriving at the Legislative Plaza at about 3 a.m.

Drake said that while Pusateri and Stowater were being arrested, officers told her that she was not allowed back past a barricade they had set up. She said she continued to ask officers questions until one told her she had five seconds to decide whether she was going to leave or go to jail.

The protesters sat down and locked arms as the troopers moved in, reciting the

Declaration of Independence and chanting, “The whole world is watching,” as their hands were bound behind their backs with zip ties.

Sanitation crews were sent to the plaza to remove demonstrators’ belongings after they were removed from the grounds.

While Stowater went limp to make the offi-cers work harder during his arrest, Pusateri stood up, put her hands behind her back and said, “I am not resisting arrest and I don’t have any weapons,” as she walked with the officers to the bus.

Nashville Night Court Magistrate Tom Nelson refused to jail the 29 men and women

BY CHRISTOPHER WHITTENNews Reporter

see Arrests, page 4

University of Memphis police are investigating an armed rob-bery on Saturday night where two students had their possessions sto-len by an unidentified man.

The students were on Norriswood and Patterson at 12:30 a.m. when a man wearing one dia-mond earring, a blue pullover shirt and gray or tan pants approached them with a black revolver and demanded money and their pos-sessions, police reported.

The suspect is further described as an African American male,

about 5-foot-10, between 18 and 23 years old with a medium afro.

Bruce Harber, director of police services, said that no one was in custody late Monday.

Harber said he hopes students will exercise good judgment when going out at night and be aware of their surroundings.

“Students should contact us if they see anything suspicious and be careful at night,” he said. “We’re fully staffed now and they should use Tiger Escort.”

Anyone with details about the incident is encouraged to con-tact U of M Police Services at 678-HELP.

BY ERICA HORTONNews Reporter

Two students robbed in off-campus incident

Bringing the funk

Tonight, U of M students are invited to join the Prophets of Funk for an evening of “irre-ducible essential pulse, life force, hyperventilatin’ groove.”

David Dorfman Dance will perform in the Rose Theatre Entertainment Lobby today at 7:30 p.m., with an informance held at 6 p.m. and a reception to follow. The event is free and open to the public.

“An informance is another level of context and insight into a theatrical performance,” said Aram Goudsouzian, associate professor and interim director of the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities.

Prophets of Funk is a con-temporary musical performance group with dance and lyrics developed from the sounds of Sly and The Family Stone.

Dorfman and his company of dancers have practiced with 12 U of M dancers, who were selected through auditions. The U of M dancers will perform in “A Little Prelude” before the Prophets of Funk take the stage.

“For dance students, this has been a look into the world of professional dance,” said Moira Logan, associate dean of the col-lege of communications and fine arts. “They are dancing in the same concert with the same cos-tumes, and they get to experi-

ence a little bit of what life is like as a professional.”

Junior dance education major Andrea Fincher has been dancing for most of her life. She said the program has been a wonderful learning experience.

“This type of dance is different in that the dance is about being free and off-balance,” she said.

Brittney Taylor, senior dance education major, shared her sentiment.

“Everyone is relatable, which helps with the comfort level,” Taylor said. “ It’s also nice to have a teacher come from out of the box and expand our knowledge.”

Dorfman, director and cre-ater of the company, is hop-ing to connect the movement of the 1960s and 70s with activism now.

He also plays a part in the performance as manager of the band, with eight dancers, ages 25-35, representing generations with period costumes.

“We are trying to bring music to a new group of fans,” Dorfman said. “There are ties to the history of Sly and The Family Stone, but it is not a biographical piece.”

Dorfman said he believes in audience participation in his performances.

“There will be singing and dancing from the past and pres-ent that will make you want to dance,” he said. “It is like a nos-talgic history lesson.”

BY TRACEY HARLOWNews Reporter

“One person or one city isn’t going to

accomplish much. But in many cities, that’s when you will begin to see a

difference.” — James Raines

Literature graduate

Rose Theatre to host New England company’s free performance based on music of Sly and The Family Stone

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Across1 Altar constellation4 Picked locks?8 Where to see Goyas13 Translating computer program15 Had pizza delivered, say16 Rikishi’s contest18 Vice __19 DFW airport home20 Lei presenter22 Bit for the dog bowl23 Tapped-out character24 Popping up all over25 Plaintive wind, perhaps26 First-year law student28 City known as the political capital of Africa30 Battlefield display32 King’s problem in “The King’s Speech”33 Polo Grounds #434 Place to see bull horns35 Reorganize, and then some39 Thrill43 Pacific Northwest cedar monuments45 NYC neighborhood46 Make __ dash47 Scandinavian saint48 Rascal49 Like Gen. McChrystal50 Quite soon52 Bearded beast53 What a case may go to55 The three in this grid are a hint to the starts of 16-, 28- and 43-Across58 Gravy no-no59 Billie Holiday’s real first name60 El primer mes61 Houston MLBer62 “Just kidding!”

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With free admission and discounts to local attractions and restaurants, most students are quick to wield the power of their student identification, but a new law requiring photo identification at the polls next year cuts that power short.

Effective Jan. 1, 2012, all Tennessee voters are required to have a photo ID if they expect to cast a ballot. The cur-rent law requires voters only to show proof of signature.

Acceptable forms of photo ID include a Tennessee driver’s license, a valid photo ID issued by the state of Tennessee or any other state in the United States, a valid United States passport, an employee photo ID card issued by Tennessee or any state in the United States or a military photo ID card.

However, student identifica-tion is not included in the list, despite the required photo of the student on an ID card by

most colleges. Senator Bill Ketron, who

sponsored the law, said it was passed to prevent voter fraud, and student IDs were excluded as an acceptable form of iden-tification because they are easy to manipulate.

“Well, between the public and the private universities, we felt there probably was not enough control on the issuance of those IDs as there would be in the state,” he said. “In the bill, you can even have an expired driver’s license or passport to vote. There are 14 or 15 articles you could use with a photo.”

There are also students who attend college who are under-age and illegal immigrants, Ketron said.

The genesis of the bill was in 2007 when Ophelia Ford ran for senate and, after winning the seat by 13 votes, was accused of voter fraud.

“There were dead people who voted in that election,” Ketron said. “The Republican

senate chose not to seat her until an investigation could be conducted as to the valid-ity of those accusations. In the meantime, she sued the Senate Republican Caucus in federal court. It all comes down to the 13 in Ophelia Ford’s case. All it takes is one person to disen-franchise my own vote.”

Currently, 14 states require a photo ID to vote, accord-ing to research by the National Congress of State legislatures.

Some of those states, Ketron said, saw an upturn in the amount of voters after a voter-photo ID law was passed.

To promote and inform peo-ple about the law, there will be town hall meetings today in all 95 counties in Tennessee at various times and locations.

In Memphis, the meeting will take place at 6 p.m. in the Shelby County Commission Chambers in the Vasco A. Smith Building at 160 North Main Street.

Steven Mulroy, U of M law professor and voter rights

advocate, said the fact that a gun ID will work, but a student ID will not for voting purposes is unfair and that the new law will suppress voter turnout among the elderly, poor, minor-ities and the disabled.

“It’s a solution in search of a problem.” Mulroy said. “These groups are less able than oth-ers to navigate the system and physically transport to where they need to go to for this to work. They won’t be able to go and get the ID.”

More frequent than not, tam-pering with votes is an “inside job,” as opposed to someone showing up and impersonating a voter, Mulroy said.

Mark Goins, coordinator of elections for Tennessee, said in earlier drafts of the law, student IDs were acceptable for voting.

“There was some discussion on the house side and retired law enforcement agents on that committee (who) said they saw some (student IDs) that had been faked before,” Goins said. “They believe it’s easy to fake them, and potentially folks that are not state citizens could come get an ID and fake it.”

People who do not have a photo ID but need one can get one for free for voting purpos-es at any Tenn. driving center,

BY ERICA HORTONNews Reporter

Student IDs deemed unacceptable as voter ID under new Tennessee law

Politics

see Voter ID, page 11

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Keeping with an announce-ment last Wednesday that he would carry parts of Tennessee’s budget hearings outside the capitol for the first time in state history, Governor Bill Haslam will hold a budget hearing at The University of Memphis on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 1:30 p.m. at the FedEx Institute of Technology.

Haslam and Finance and Administration Commissioner Mark Emkes will preside.

“This is an opportunity for Tennesseans to learn more about the state budget and our agen-cies,” Haslam said. “It is impor-tant to engage our citizens in the process of setting priorities and planning for the future. We will continue to approach the budget in a fiscally disciplined way to do more with less while focusing on quality customer service for Tennessee taxpayers.”

Under for-mer Governor Phil Bredesen, the annual hearings were opened to the public in 2008 via live stream-ing online at

TN.gov. Emkes said the state faces

challenges in this year’s bud-get. The state anticipates $300 million in new revenue but $500 million in additional costs, including TennCare inflation and pension fund costs, as well as the absence of a $150 million “rainy day fund” that the state no longer has, adding up to a $360 million shortfall.

Emkes said he thinks it is a great idea to hold the budget hearings outside of Nashville and he welcomes ideas from citi-zens of Memphis and Knoxville.

“Anytime you have that inter-change of ideas, we all benefit from that,” he said.

BY CHRISTOPHER WHITTENNews Reporter

For first time, Tenn. budget hearings to take place outside of state capitol

Politics

Haslam

Friday morning. He said the state had a right to change its rules but didn’t give the protesters the opportu-nity to com-ply. Instead p r o t e s t e r s were issued misdemeanor citations for trespassing.

P u s a t e r i said her expe-rience in jail was a typical one. The women were taken to the same facility as the men.

“We had no concept of time, as is typical in jail,” said Pusateri. “The guys pretty much talked and slept. But we (women) tried to keep our spirits up. We did yoga and sang ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ in its entirety.”

The success of the Occupy movement is measure by the joint efforts of the demonstra-tors in each city, said U of M literature graduate student James Raines.

“One person or one city isn’t going to accomplish much. But in many cities, that’s when you will begin to see a difference,” he said. “If you piss off L.A., New York is going to respond. London is going to respond. Paris is going to respond.”

According to Raines, Occupy Memphis protest-ers did not expect a situation similar to Nashville. Police, protesters and the homeless have all jointly contributed to the production of their camp. Local police officers have given support to the movement.

In Memphis, police officers pull up and open their trunks to the protesters. They have personally donated tents, blan-kets and food for the move-ment, according to Raines.

Tristan Tran, sophomore logistics major and mod-erator for Occupy Memphis’ Livestream.com site, said that Occupy Memphis had funds set aside to post bond for their media team, which includes Pusateri and Drake.

Nashville protesters were arrested again on Saturday morning, though Magistrate Nelson again refused to jail protesters, telling state troop-ers that he could “find no authority anywhere for any-one to authorize a curfew any-where on Legislative Plaza.”

In accordance with his statement, all demonstrators were released, and marched back to the Legislative Plaza. No more arrests have been made in Nashville, though the Tennessee Highway Patrol did surround the plaza again on Sunday night.

Police forces in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Oakland and San Diego have been sent in to arrest protesters who refused to leave in each city. While the arrests in many cities have been

r e l a t i v e l y peaceful, like in Nashville, Detroit and O a k l a n d police used rubber bul-lets and tear gas to control d e m o n s t r a -tors.

S c o t t Olsen, an

Iraq war veteran and Occupy Oakland protester, suffered a fractured skull after being hit in the head by a “non-lethal projectile” last Wednesday. His status has been upgraded from critical condition to fair.

†he brain injuries he sus-tained have hindered his abil-ity to speak. Reports from Olsen’s doctors indicate that his functionality is expected to return with time.

Pusateri and the other pro-testers arrested in Nashville on Friday are scheduled for arraignment on Nov. 18.

Photo Cutline Memphis resident Jade

Stowater and University of Memphis student Alexandra Pusateri embrace on Saturday after returning to the Occupy Memphis site located in the Civic Center Plaza in Downtown Memphis.

“I got the call around 8 o’clock from Occupy Nashville’s Twitter. They said they needed more bod-

ies down there because they were going to be evicted at 12:01 a.m.”

— Alexandra PusateriUM student

Arrestsfrom page 1

Sessions, including those to be held in Memphis and Knoxville, will be open to public

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CLUB HOCKEY SUPPORTS MEMPHIS BASKETBALLBest Wishes to Coach Pastner, Coach McFerrin,

and the Men’s & Women’s Tiger Basketball Teams For Great Success This Season.

GO TIGERS!

www.memphistigershockey.com

Occupy movement is largely secular

Occupy Wall Street Protests

On a bright and raucous after-noon outside Los Angeles City Hall, Cornel West was revving up a crowd at Occupy L.A. As he often does, the prominent philosopher and activist peppered his speech with religious phrases, at one point calling for recognition of “our pro-phetic Mormon brothers and sis-ters,” as well as Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and “black Baptists like myself.”

The crowd gamely applauded. But the biggest roars came when West called out “the progressive agnostic and atheistic brothers and sisters” — a response that seemed to illuminate the largely secular underpinnings of the Occupy Wall Street movement and a challenge now facing the religious left.

There have been flashes of religious activism, even deeply religious moments, in the protest movement that has spread across the country this past month. Some have suggested that the Occupy camps themselves have some hall-marks of a religious movement, with their all-embracing idealism,

daily rituals, focus on something larger than the self.

But as the recent incident involving West suggests, the move-ment also has served to point out not just the gulf between haves and have-nots in modern America, but between the religious right and not-so-religious left.

Through much of American his-tory, religious forces have been at the forefront of progressive social movements, tugging at the nation’s conscience to end slavery, fight poverty and injustice, extend civil rights to African-Americans and end the war in Vietnam.

For more than 30 years, though, the energy in faith-based politi-cal activism has been mainly on the right, as conservative evan-gelicals and others have coalesced around opposition to abortion and to same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, more liberal religious denomina-tions have experienced a loss of membership and what some see as the lack of a coherent social message.

“The problem is — and this is true of the religious left in more general terms — it’s so disorga-nized right now,” said Laura

Olson, a political science professor at Clemson University who studies religious involvement in politics. “They have a difficult time articu-lating a message that’s as clear and bounded and digestible as what the religious right offers.”

Said Randall Balmer, a Columbia University professor who writes widely about evangelical conser-vatives: “I think part of it is the whole drift of the culture toward a more conservative direction. But I also think the religious left has lost its voice, has lost its nerve, is no longer articulating the principles in

the New Testament.”Some left-leaning religious

groups see a golden opportunity in the Occupy movement, whose cen-tral message of greater economic equality resonates deeply among faith-based progressives.

“Our tradition and our scrip-tures are so clear that we’re sup-posed to take care of the poor, the widow, the orphan. ... I think that is a rallying cry for faith com-munities that will unite us even when we have disagreements over other social issues,” said Jennifer Butler, executive director of Faith

in Public Life, a progressive multi-faith organization.

So far, though, Occupy is a pre-dominantly secular undertaking.

“Where are the mainline Protestants? Where are the Quakers?” wondered John Green, director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron in Ohio and a longtime scholar of religion and politics. Although individuals from those groups are participat-ing in the Occupy protests, “there’s been relatively little denomination-al involvement,” Green said.

Dozens of LAOccupy tents fill out the southside of City Hall as nightfalls over downtown Los Angeles on Oct. 21.

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Suicide bombing in Kabul kills as many as 13 Americans

As many as 13 Americans were killed Saturday when a suicide bomber struck their armored mil-itary bus in Kabul, in the single deadliest attack on U.S. citizens in the Afghan capital since the war began a decade ago.

A U.S. official said the prelimi-nary death toll was believed to be 13 U.S. citizens: five service members and eight civilian con-tractors. But, the official said, a Canadian and at least one British national could also be among the dead. The full extent of the casualties was unclear, he said, because the massive explosion had made identifying the dead difficult.

The Afghan Interior Ministry said at least three Afghan civil-ians and one policeman were also killed in the blast.

The bombing represents a pro-paganda coup for the Taliban, which claimed responsibility in text messages to news organiza-tions, saying it had packed a four-wheel-drive vehicle with at least 700 pounds of explosives.

Deadly attacks are relatively rare in Kabul, which has better security than the southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan. In recent months, however, with the U.S.-led coalition announc-

ing plans to turn security over to Afghan forces by 2014, the Taliban has stepped up assaults in a bid to bolster its political grip after the pullout.

Saturday’s carnage came a month and a half after insur-gents launched a brazen 20-hour assault on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, killing more than a dozen people. That attack was wide-ly viewed as an attempt by the Taliban to send a message that no place in the coun-try was secure or out of its reach.

According to the United Nations, violence across Afghanistan is at its worst since the war started in 2001, despite the presence of 130,000 foreign troops.

The NATO coalition insists that the number of insurgent attacks is declining, but its data don’t include lethal attacks against civilians or those mount-ed against Afghan security forces operating without international help.

The Kabul car bombing took place Saturday near the American University on Darulaman Road, among the capital’s busiest, which runs past parliament and the decaying Darulaman Palace — or “abode of peace.”

A North Atlantic Treaty

Organization spokesman said the troops and contractors were traveling in a type of military bus known as a Rhino, named for its heavy armor. The identities of those killed in the attack were not disclosed pending notifica-tion of kin.

It was the largest single-day U.S. loss in Afghanistan since

a helicopter was shot down in Wardak province in August, kill-ing 30 U.S. troops, including 17 Navy SEALs, along with eight Afghan troops.

In preparation for the trans-fer of responsibility to Afghans, coalition training of Afghan police and army personnel has expanded. Darulaman Road is part of a route often taken by trainers traveling in buses and other vehicles between Kabul’s military training center and heavily fortified NATO bases in downtown Kabul.

Buses, even when heav-ily armored, are relatively soft targets and generally travel in convoys. But Kabul’s crowded streets and chaotic traffic make it difficult to keep a perimeter

around convoys, and suicide car bombers will often try to insert themselves between convoy vehicles for maximum damage.

Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry condemned the suicide attack in a statement, and extend-ed its condolences to victims’ families.

In another deadly incident, the coalition reported in a statement that an attacker wearing an Afghan mili-tary uniform opened fire on NATO troops

in southern Afghanistan, kill-ing at least two, before others returned fire and killed him.

Other reports suggested that a third NATO soldier, an Australian, died a short while later in the incident in southern Uruzgan province. An Afghan interpreter was also reportedly killed.

Analysts said attacks against foreign troops by those wearing Afghan uniforms offer several advantages from the insurgents’ perspective, whether carried out by soldiers “turned” by the Taliban, or by insurgents who make, buy or steal uniforms and ID cards for their attacks.

These allow attackers to get

inside a base or otherwise much closer to foreign forces than other-wise possible. They increase dis-trust between Afghan and foreign forces, causing Western troops to be suspicious and even dismis-sive of Afghan soldiers at a time when the number of combined counterinsurgency operations are growing as 2014 approaches.

In a third incident in eastern Afghanistan, guards fired on a female suicide bomber wearing a burka as she tried to enter a gov-ernment building, prompting her to detonate her explosives.

She was the only fatality in the incident, which occurred near a branch of the National Directorate of Security, the coun-try’s spy agency, according to Abdul Sabor Allayar, Kunar province’s deputy police chief. Two agency employees and two civilians were wounded.

On other fronts, the coalition said Saturday that its troops and Afghan security forces had cap-tured two leaders of the mili-tant Haqqani network in a joint operation in Paktika province along the Pakistani-Afghan bor-der Friday.

One leader had provided insurgent fighters with funding, weapons, supplies and havens, the coalition said, and the other coordinated attacks against Afghan forces.

BY HASHMAT BAKTASH AND MARK MAGNIERLos Angeles Times

In a brazen early morning attack, a Taliban suicide bomber on Monday crashed a truck filled with explosives into a checkpoint outside a Kandahar neighbor-hood that houses a major U.S. aid group and other international agencies, killing three Afghans, including a police officer, provin-cial officials said.

Gen. Abdul Razzaq, the police chief of Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city and a long-time Taliban hotbed, initially was reported to be among the dead, but the Kandahar media office dismissed the reports.

“Gen. Abdul Razzaq is alive and he is leading the clearing operation now,” the office said in a statement.

Four others, including two police officers and a Nepalese national, were wounded in the attack, which came four days after Taliban fighters opened fire on a military base used by Americans in Kandahar, kill-ing an Afghan interpreter and wounding eight others, including five NATO soldiers.

A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef, claimed responsibil-ity for the attack and said the intended target was a guesthouse used by International Relief and Development, a leading U.S. government contractor for aid projects. The neighborhood also houses the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for

Refugees and the offices of other international agencies.

Several Taliban fighters wear-ing suicide vests and armed with AK-47 rifles later entered an ani-mal clinic and started shooting at police, said Faisal Khan, the head of the Kandahar media office. Afghan security forces responded by sealing off the area, essentially trapping the insurgents inside the

clinic, and exchanging fire with them, Khan said. Six hours later, the fighting continued.

Despite the general belief that violence ebbs in Afghanistan as winter’s cold weather approach-es, the Taliban recently have stepped up attacks nationwide targeting foreign and Afghan government facilities and representatives.

BY HABIB ZOHORIMcClatchy Newspapers

It was the largest single-day U.S. loss in Afghanistan since a helicopter was shot down in

Wardak province in August.

Taliban strikes again, 3 killed

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Graduate students will pay more for loans taken out next July, and recent graduates will lose rebates for on-time repay-ment under a law Congress passed this summer to keep the federal deficit in check while protecting Pell Grants for low-income students.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the changes will save the government $21.6 billion—meaning students would pay that much more or borrow less—over the next 10 years.

Another change that a key Senate committee voted to include in the 2012 federal budget would “save” an additional $6.1 billion by getting rid of a grace period

subsidy for undergraduate loans.The elimination of repayment

rebates and loan subsidies for graduate students was included in the bipartisan deal reached in July known as the Budget Control Act, the law that set 10-year spending caps while raising the federal debt ceiling.

Financial aid departments at colleges and universities are now starting to notify graduate stu-dents that Stafford loans they take out next summer will no longer include a subsidy that keeps inter-est from accruing while they are in school.

“This was one of the few fed-eral subsidies provided to gradu-ate students,” said Haley Chitty, communications director for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. “It is

a pretty significant blow.”Under the new law, students

seeking advanced degrees will start owing interest immediately on loans issued after July 1, though they will have the option of defer-ring payments until they finish school.

“They can defer it but it adds to what they owe, and we always encourage students to pay as they go so in the end it’s not so expen-sive,” said Ivon Nunez, financial aid director at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.

Exactly how much the subsidy is worth depends on how much a student borrows and how many years he or she is in school.

Nunez said a student borrowing the federal maximum of $65,000 could end up owing an extra $200 a month over 10 years.

Chitty said an analysis by NASFAA found that a medical or dental student taking out the maxi-mum subsidized loan of $8,500 a year for four years got a $4,624 subsidy while in school.

Even if it’s a much smaller amount, however, students are worried about the impact.

“Students can barely make it now,” said Jacqueline Velastegui of Kearny, who’s seeking an advanced degree in industrial engineering at NJIT. “We don’t live. We survive.”

Evan Toth is working full time as a teacher at the Community School in Teaneck while pursuing his master’s degree in English at Rutgers University in Newark. He said he’s borrowed nearly all of the roughly $20,000 in tuition and fees, and “it was really helpful” not to have to pay interest while studying.

“I looked at that as being a great benefit,” Toth said. “An extra $1,500, or whatever it would end up being, would be a great finan-cial burden.”

He expects to finish his course-

work next semester, so the change in the law won’t hit him. But he said that in the future, it will hurt “the self-driven student who lacks independent wealth.”

“This is exactly the kind of stu-dent that our country must encour-age to stay in the classroom,” Toth said.

Congress also voted to end sub-sidies, starting with loans issued next July, that reward graduates who pay back their loans on time.

Under the program that is end-ing, borrowers who signed up for automatic debit repayment got a bonus equal to half the loan origi-nation fee they paid, said Vincent Tunstall, financial aid director at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Borrowers could keep the rebate if they made their first 12 payments on time.

From the $21.6 billion the two changes to loans are expected to save, Congress applied $4.6 billion to deficit relief and $17 billion to the Pell Grant program, which benefits lower-income students.

BY HERB JACKSONMCT

Federal changes on student loans stirring anxiety

The University of Memphis community is lifting its voice today and pushing for change at “Speak Out for Dignity and Living Wages.”

U of M workers, students and activists will meet in room 220 of Brister Hall at 6 p.m. People will share their experiences about the pursuit of living wages and speak out against poverty-level pay.

The event is organized by the Memphis Progressive Student Alliance, Workers Interfaith Network and

United Campus Workers Union and is free and open to the public.

“This is an opportunity for folks whose voices are often overlooked to share with the campus community the work that they do every day and the conditions they work under,” said Tom Smith, UCW organizer. “We hope it can raise awareness in light of (Governor Bill Haslam’s) budget hearing the following day.”

Since the Living Wage Campaign began last fall, the Tennessee Board of Regents presented a flat dollar mini-

mum raise for employees. “It was the first raise

since 2007. No one got less than $750,” Smith said. “Additionally, this past week, employees with two or more years service at The U of M got a one-time bonus, $1,000 before taxes.”

Still, there are U of M employees who make less than $18,000 a year, and stu-dents should be concerned, Smith said.

“It’s students’ money,” he said. “Some parts of The University’s operating budget comes from student tuition and fees.”

BY ERICA HORTONNews Reporter

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Herman Cain refutes sexual harassment allegations

Suddenly beset by allegations of sexual harassment, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Monday labeled the accu-sations a “witch hunt” and insisted that they were “totally false.”

“In all my over 40 years of busi-ness experience, I have never sexu-ally harassed anyone,” Cain said during a speech at the National Press Club in Washington.

The story of the allegations surfaced Sunday night in Politico, a Capitol Hill newspaper, and underscored the topsy-turvy nature of the campaign.

Just the day before, a new poll in Iowa, site of the first Republican caucus on Jan. 3, put the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO atop the presidential field with 23 percent of the vote. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney followed at 22 percent.

But the latest story threatened to possibly slow Cain’s momen-tum. According to Politico, in the 1990s, while Cain was chief executive officer of the National Restaurant Association, two women accused him of sexually aggressive behavior.

Politico said that the women left the association after reach-ing financial settlements with the group. The association, a trade group for the restaurant industry, has refused to discuss the issue.

After several early, arms-length attempts by Cain and his cam-paign to respond to the allega-tions, he confronted the issue head-on Monday, first in a morn-ing television interview on Fox News Channel, and then at the press club.

“While at the restaurant asso-ciation, I was accused of sexual harassment,” Cain said at the press club. “Falsely accused, I

might add. ...And when the charg-es were brought, as the leader of the organization, I recused myself and allowed my general counsel and my human resources officer to deal with the situation. It was concluded after a thorough inves-tigation that it had no basis.”

Cain said that he “unaware” of any settlement with the women.

“I hope it wasn’t for much, because I didn’t do anything,” he said.

Cain’s vault to the top tier of the GOP primary pack and his staying power has been a surprise.

Romney has been a con-stant. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Texas Gov. Rick Perry both have had brief moments in the sun, only to fall back, and Cain seemed likely to follow in their footsteps.

But in trumpeting his business background and lack of political experience, his message has reso-nated, particularly among conser-vatives and tea party followers fed up with Washington gridlock.

Greg Mueller, a Republican strategist who’s close to the par-ty’s conservative wing, said that the sexual harassment allegations should not be a big problem for Cain, as long as there’s no more to the story.

“I think he knocked it down pretty forcefully,” Mueller said. “He dealt with it in a way that people come to expect: upfront, genuinely and impassioned.”

Indeed, despite the personal nature of the allegations, Cain maintained the upbeat, straight-talking persona at his press club appearance that has helped to fuel his success so far.

He opened with a story about talking to one of the veteran wait-ers at the club, who told the White House hopeful that he had served eight presidents.

“Which means I would be

number nine,” Cain said smiling, as the audience laughed on cue in the clear reference to his “9-9-9” tax plan. “Now some things you might call coincidental. I call it a good sign.”

He ended his appearance with, on request, a few a cappella bars of a gospel song.

In between, Cain repeated the familiar simple, plainspoken solutions that pepper his stump speeches and debate appearances.

A president doesn’t need a rich resume in foreign policy “if you know how to make sure you know you’re working on the right problems,” he said. “When I went to Godfather’s Pizza in 1986, the company was supposed to go bankrupt. I had never made a pizza, but I learned. The way we renewed Godfather’s Pizza is the same approach I would use to renew America. ...Ask the right questions.”

Cain laid the blame for the eco-nomic mess not on Wall Street, but largely on the government. Too much interference with business, he said.

And while Romney, who used to head a private investment firm, put together a 59-point econom-ic plan, Cain’s 9-9-9 plan would reduce the federal tax burden to just three levies — business trans-actions, personal income taxes and a federal sales tax.

Cain argues that his plan would raise the same amount of revenue as the current system but would be fairer and would help create jobs. Several analyses of his plan, however, have said that it actually would raise taxes on the poor and reduce taxes on the wealthy.

When asked how, as president, he could convince a fractious Congress to adopt any of his ideas, Cain said, “It’s called the power of the people. By keeping solutions understandable, they will put pressure on so Congress supports that legislation.”

Maybe. Recent events have shown how difficult it is to corral a

majority of 535 lawmakers behind an idea. But Cain’s more pressing concern right now is whether the sexual harassment allegations will create an air pocket that slows his upward trajectory and undercuts his growing support.

Early on, the Cain campaign blamed the story on the “Beltway media.” Assuming his denials hold up, Mueller said that Cain might see an upside.

“With conservatives, you have an immense distrust of the estab-lishment in Washington and what they would call the liberal media,” he said. “It could be a backlash potentially in his favor.”

BY DAVID GOLDSTEINNews Reporter

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 31.

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Those who want the free ID need proof of citizen-ship, which can be a birth certificate or naturalization papers, and two proofs of

residency. “For students staying in

a dorm with no mail, the dean of students or resident adviser can certify (via letter) that they actually live in the dorm,” Goins said. “There is no expiration on the photo ID. It’s supposed to be used for voting purposes only, but there may be some private establishments that accept them. I doubt it.”

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With three school-age daughters, Rob Lindgren, a stay-at-home dad whose wife is a Sacramento State University professor, is sure that all his kids will attend college someday.

But how to pay for it? That’s not quite so clear.

A decade ago, the couple opened an investment account for their old-est daughter, Bonnie, who’s now 15, but it got beat up by the stock market’s slump in 2000-01. They still have the account, but “when things went south, it was pretty discouraging.”

The Lindgrens are now moti-vated to get going again. “Tuition and fees are rapidly increasing, loan rates are increasing. ... We need to set aside some money to address those future costs,” said Lindgren.

That’s what officials at California’s ScholarShare program like to hear. As the state’s official 529 college savings plan, a ScholarShare investment account offers tax-free savings, as long as the money is spent on higher education costs.

Run by the California Treasurer’s Office, ScholarShare is one of 117 state-sponsored 529 plans nationwide.

“It’s like a 401(k) for college sav-ings,” said Brian Aguilar, a staff analyst in the California Treasurer’s Office, who recently discussed 529s with families at the downtown Sacramento Public Library.

“There’s no tax on the interest earned, so you could have a sizable pot of money when your child is

ready to go to college,” he noted.In most cases, you don’t have to

be a resident to purchase that state’s plan. And it doesn’t matter where you live or where your student goes to college. You can live in California, have a 529 plan in Colorado and apply it to your kid’s college in Connecticut.

You don’t have to be a parent or grandparent, either. You can open a 529 for a friend’s child or a niece or nephew, or even for yourself.

You choose the type of invest-ments for your contributions. Some, for instance, are “age-based” funds based on how many years until your child turns 18 and starts col-lege. In younger years, the funds are more heavily weighted in stocks. They shift to more conservative investments as a child nears col-lege age.

Accounts are managed by invest-ment funds like Fidelity, Schwab, TIAA-CREF and Vanguard. As with any investment, there are no guar-anteed rates of return. According to Morningstar.com, the five-year returns for 529 plans averaged 3.3 percent.

California’s ScholarShare pro-gram wants to boost participation beyond its current 277,000 account holders. To that end, it recently announced several changes. As of Nov. 7, it’s switching fund manag-ers from Fidelity to TIAA-CREF, part of a routine five-year contract evaluation. All existing accounts will be seamlessly transferred, says ScholarShare, which anticipates more investment options, a big-ger marketing budget and larger

returns under its new manager.California also is dropping its sec-

ond, but considerably smaller, 529 plan, which was sold only through brokers and financial advisers.

John Chan, a retired Sacramento County employee, opened separate 529 plans several years ago for each of his four grandchildren, now ages 8 to 16. He and his wife were moti-vated by the escalating cost of col-lege tuition.

“If we can help our grandchil-

dren bypass having to take out (col-lege loans), it’ll be so much easier for them — and their parents,” said Chan.

In the past decade, tuition and fees at four-year public universi-ties increased by an average of 5.6 percent a year, according to College Board statistics.

Financial planners say 529s can be a terrific tool for college savings. Cynthia Meyers, a certified financial planner in Sacramento, says the key

is selecting a plan “with a good vari-ety of diversified investment choices ... and one with consistently low expense ratios.”

Under ScholarShare’s new TIAA-CREF manager, fees are projected to range between 0.18 and 0.62 per-cent, considerably lower than now.

And 529 plans have some advan-tages over other types of college sav-ings vehicles, Meyers said. Unlike

Finance

Parents daunted by college costs have saving options

see sAVIngs, page 12

BY CLAUDIA BUCKMcClatchy Newspapers

Susanne Lindgren, left, works on homework with her daughter Ruby, 12, center, in the fam-ily’s living room on Oct. 4 in Sacramento, Calif. A decade ago, the couple opened an invest-ment account for their oldest daughter, Bonnie, top right, but it got beat up by the stock market’s slump in 2000-01. The Lindgrens are finally motivated to get going again.

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With just one more day until their first exhibi-tion game and two weeks until the official start of the season, The University of Memphis Tigers basketball team is echoing the same sentiment they have all preseason – practice makes per-fect, but the Tigers are ready to suit up against another team.

At practice on Monday, many players and head coach Josh Pastner said that come Wednesday, it’ll be nice to play someone else in any type of game, albeit an exhibition.

“We’re excited about the game Wednesday; it’s been a long road getting here,” said sophomore forward Tarik Black. “Last year, we came in during the summer and then start-ed the season. But this year, we’ve been here through the whole year – the summer and Memphis Madness – and now the season is finally about to start.”

The team should be much improved from last season. They come into Wednesday’s exhibition against LeMoyne-Owen College ranked No. 9 in the ESPN/USA Today Poll and No.11 in the AP Poll. With a year of maturity, the team feels they are better prepared to take on tough competition without having chemistry setbacks like last year.

“We’ve got to be focused from day one,” said sophomore point guard Antonio Barton. “Last year, it took too long for us to click, and we can’t wait that long because, like coach says, every team is good. So we have to take it seriously starting with the exhibition game.”

The Tigers will again have a deep team, but a starting five and substitution pattern have yet to be determined by Pastner and his staff. Players know that they’re name can be called at any minute, but when they’ll hear their name is the question.

Pastner insists that it’s too early to tell who will be starting, but says he will try to better manage the different lineups he will juggle in his third season as head coach.

“I haven’t decided yet (on starters), but we’re getting close,” he said. “We literally have eight starters. We don’t have a starting five – maybe a starting eight or starting nine. I want to make it easy for everybody here. I will try to keep the same starters the best I can.”

Having a choice of playing eight or nine play-ers may be a challenge for some teams, but this Tigers squad doesn’t mind who starts and who comes off the bench.

“I can’t speak for everybody, but it really doesn’t matter to me who starts because we’re so loaded,” said sophomore guard Chris Crawford. “That’s why in practice, everyone’s competing against each other – it’s so competitive.”

“I can’t speak for everybody, but it really doesn’t matter to

me who starts because we’re so loaded.”

— Chris CrawfordSophomore guard

BY ADAM DOUGLASSports EditorsAVIngs

from page 11a Uniform Gift to Minors (UGMA) account, where a child has access to the money at age 18 or 21, a 529 stays in the account holder’s name and control. And if your child doesn’t attend college and you want to take the money back, the penalties and taxes apply only to the earnings, not the full amount withdrawn.

Because 529s are held in a par-ent’s or adult’s name, not the stu-dent’s, they also have less impact on financial aid eligibility, according to FinAid.org, the nonprofit clearing-house on college savings. On federal financial aid forms, a parent’s asset, such as a 529, is assessed at a far lower rate than those in a child’s name. That gives 529s an advantage over other types of college savings, including UGMAs.

You can compare 529 plans at websites such as SavingForCollege.com and Morningstar.com.

Another option for some fami-lies is the Private College 529 Plan. Launched in 2003, it’s a prepaid tuition plan for parents who antici-pate their son or daughter might be interested in — and accepted to — a private college or university.

The only 529 of its kind in the country, it locks in today’s private-college tuition rates for up to 30 years. The rates are guaranteed by the 270 participating colleges, which range from small faith-based, wom-en’s and historically black colleges to large powerhouses like MIT.

“We’re not for everyone, and we know it,” said Nancy Farmer, presi-dent of the St. Louis-based Private College 529 Plan. It’s for “solid, middle-class families who may not qualify for financial aid but want the security of saving for a private college education.”

Currently, the plan has about 6,500 families and holds more than $200 million in combined assets.

What if your kid doesn’t get accepted or doesn’t even apply to a private college? You have sev-eral options: change the plan’s ben-eficiary to another family member (including yourself), roll it into a state-sponsored 529 plan or request a refund. But note: A refund will trig-ger tax consequences, just as with-drawals from a regular 529 plan, if not used for college expenses.

In addition to a 529, some parents reap substantial savings by having their student attend a local com-munity college for two years, then transfer to a four-year university.

That’s what Sacramento high school teacher Mirna Jope and her husband, a federal employee, did with their four teens, now ages 19 to 25.

“We have a good income, but there’s no reason to pay full cost for a four-year degree when you can get the same education at commu-nity college,” said Jope. “Why pay $15,000 a year when you could pay $1,500?”

The two oldest Jope kids enrolled at the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of California-Los Angeles after attend-ing community college. The two youngest are attending American River College with plans to transfer to either California State University-Sacramento or an East Coast college.

Each had a ScholarShare account, set up several years ago by their grandparents.

Jope, an Encina High School teacher, said her kids’ 529 savings accounts have helped cover tuition, books and housing costs. “It’s the gift that keeps on giving.”

READY TONO. 9 TIGERS

POUNCEEven without a definitive starting lineup, Coach Pastner and 2011-2012 Tigers eagerly await starting the season

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Students, faculty and staff performed in a flash mob routine to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” in the UC on Monday in celebration of Halloween.

Golden Knights carve up Tigers 41-0In what was supposed to be

a game where The University of Memphis would use a previous win as a stepping-stone toward improvement, the Tigers foot-ball team (2-7, 1-4 in Conference USA) was manhandled on

Saturday afternoon by C-USA foe Central Florida, 41-0.

Sophomore dual-threat quar-terback Jeff Godfrey led the Golden Knights.

“I thought (Godfrey) got off to a good, strong start,’’ said Tigers head coach Larry Porter. ‘‘He was the difference in the first half in what they were doing.

He gave them the energy to play well.’’

Godfrey completed 14-of-17 passes for 200 yards and a touch-down, and rushed for 97 yards and another score through nearly three quarters before UCF head coach George O’Leary decide to give him the rest of the game off.

“He can beat you with his legs

and he can beat you with his arm,’’ said defensive end Frank Trotter. ‘‘You’ve got to find a way to contain him or he’s going to take control of the game.”

The struggling Tigers offense gained just six first downs, 134 yards of total offense and 33 yards rushing with 21 carries.

The defense didn’t put forth

their best effort, either, surren-dering 505 yards of total offense to UCF, allowing their opponent to score 40 or more points for the fourth time in nine games.

It was the 11th time in 20 games in Porter’s tenure as coach.

“(UCF) played exception-ally well,’’ Porter said. ‘‘I felt we gave up too much, too early — third downs and big plays. Offensively, we didn’t show up the whole day.’’

Freshman Taylor Reed com-pleted 9-of-20 passes for 97 yards and was sacked three times. Sophomore Andy Summerlin, who went 1-of-5 for four yards, replaced Reed in the fourth quarter. Senior Tanner Rehrer extended his receiving streak to 13 games with a 21-yard catch from Reed in the first quarter. He was later injured and did not return. Redshirt junior Curtis Johnson led the Tigers in receiv-ing with three catches for 48 yards.

Junior linebacker Kenyata Johnson led the Tigers defense with eight tackles, with Trotter chipping in with two tackles for a loss and one sack.

Though they were beaten badly on the scoreboard, Johnson said the Tigers still felt they were prepared for UCF.

“They didn’t do anything spe-cial. We just didn’t do what we were supposed to do, and they picked us up real well and made us earn everything we had,’’ he said.

BY ADAM DOUGLASSports Editor

Football

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At first glance, the vast Mojave Desert seems barren: mile after mile of dust, sand and scrubby creosote bush under a blistering sun. But the huge des-ert, which spans an area larger than West Virginia, is becom-ing speckled with gigantic solar power plants that are creating hundreds of construction jobs and, when complete, will gen-erate electricity for millions of homes.

California’s Solar Gold Rush is under way, fueled by billions of dollars of federal stimulus funding and a new state law that requires utilities to buy a third of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020. While the collapse of Fremont, Calif., solar manufac-turer Solyndra Inc. has dominated the news in recent weeks because it received a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, several other solar com-panies that got loan guarantees appear to be thriving.

The project furthest along is BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, which has been under construction for one full year and is currently being built on federal land near the California-Nevada border with the help of a $1.6 billion loan guarantee. BrightSource, which is based in Oakland, uses mirrors to con-centrate the sun and turn tur-bines that generate electricity. When complete in 2013, Ivanpah will be the largest solar thermal power plant in the world, gen-erating enough electricity for 140,000 homes.

Currently, more than 800 con-struction workers are on the

sprawling 3,600-acre site. The steel shell of a massive tower that eventually will be taller than coastal redwood trees is rising from the dust near a park-ing lot filled with cars, trucks and construction vehicles. Most of the workers arrive before dawn to beat the searing late-afternoon heat, and engineering managers pore over plans in air-conditioned trailers.

Ivanpah is one of nine solar thermal power plants approved by the California Energy Commission last year. In addi-tion, scores of other solar projects are in the pipeline. In August, the federal Bureau of Land Management was processing applications for 17 solar power plants in California’s deserts.

Solar currently accounts for less than 1 percent of the state’s

electricity, most of which comes from natural gas, two nuclear power plants and hydropow-er. But advocates — including California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat — want solar to play a key role in the state’s energy future, in part because each proj-ect generates hundreds of con-struction jobs. Brown hopes to add 20,000 megawatts of renew-able generation — about one-

third of the state’s current power needs — to California’s electric grid by the end of the decade.

“We use a lot of energy in California, and we have aspi-rations to electrify our vehicle fleet, our ports and to develop high-speed rail,” Commissioner Karen Douglas of the California Energy Commission said. “We need significant amounts of util-ity-scale renewable electricity.”

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Construction site of phase one of power tower No. 1, as workers lay down underground conduit piping at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS), Ivanpah is a 370-megawatt (gross) solar thermal power facility developed by BrightSource Energy located on 3,600 acres of U.S. BLM managed land in southeastern California, in the Mojave.

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Coming into the season, there were high expectations for the four-time defending Conference-USA champion University of Memphis wom-en’s soccer team.

And after defeating the University of Alabama-Birmingham Blazers 2-0 on Thursday, the Lady Tigers (18-0-1, 10-0-1 C-USA) exceeded them all, capping off an unde-feated regular season.

“I think what the kids have done is an amazing feat,” said head coach Brooks Monaghan. “There are not many teams out there in any sport who are able to accomplish what this group

of girls did, so I’m extremely proud of them.”

The Lady Tigers found themselves in a battle with the Blazers entering halftime with the score tied at 0-0. However,

they surged out in the sec-ond half with two goals by freshman forward-midfielder Kaitlyn Atkins.

Atkins’ first goal came in the 46th minute after she received

a pass from freshman forward-midfielder Kylie Davis. Atkins received credit for the goal after the Blazers’ goalkeeper missed on the clear.

Atkins then struck again in the 47th minute. After strik-ing the crossbar, her shot took a lucky bounce straight down and into the goal for a 2-0 lead and the eventual win. Sophomore midfielder-forward Christabel Oduro got her fourth assist of the season on the play.

“The coaches got us really amped up to come out and win,” Atkins said. “We wanted to come out and didn’t want to go into overtime, or tie, or anything like that and show that we are as good as everyone says we are.”

The win was the 18th of the season, a program record. Senior goalkeeper Elise Kuhar-Pitters notched her 13th shut-out of the season, also a pro-gram record.

The Lady Tigers are the top seed in this week’s C-USA tour-nament, which is being hosted by Memphis at the Mike Rose Soccer Complex. The U of M faces the eighth seeded Tulsa Golden Hurricanes (10-7-1, 4-5-2 C-USA) Wednesday night at 8 p.m.

The winner of that game will face the winner of a match between fourth seeded University of Central Florida and fifth seeded East Carolina.

“It’s a new season,” Monaghan said. “We look at this coming up as a new mini season, obviously with the con-ference tournament then the NCAA tournament. You just want to keep improving from game to game and we have to refocus now and get ready for Wednesday.”

“I think what the kids have done is an amazing feat. There are not many teams out there in any

sport who are able to accomplish what this group of girls did, so I’m extremely proud of them.”

— Brooks MonaghanHead women’s soccer coach

Freshman forward-midfielder Kaitlyn Atkins dribbles the ball toward a scoring lane during last week’s game against UAB.

BY BRYAN HEATERSports Reporter

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Do Americans really possess an unwavering belief in freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly and petition as guaranteed by the

First Amendment to the United States Constitution?

Should these tenets of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness be protectedand safeguarded without fail if we are truly to live in a free society?

How have events in Greater Memphis, past and present, impacted these rights?

These and other issues will be explored.

First Amendment ConferenceMEMPHIS AND THE FIVE FREEDOMS:A HISTORY OF MUSIC, MINISTRY & THE MOVEMENT

THURSDAY, NOV. 3 • UNIVERSITY CENTER BALLROOM

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

9:15 a.m. Conference Opening & Welcome

9:30 a.m. “The Freedom To Speak Through Music” Speaker: Al Bell, former owner – Stax Records & Winner 2011 Grammy Trustees Award FOLLOWED BY Q&A SESSION ON THE IMPACT OF MEMPHIS MUSIC ON FREE SPEECH & POP CULTURE

11a.m. Inaugural Norm Brewer First Amendment Lecture Speaker: Hank Klibanoff, James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism – Emory University & Pulitzer Prize- winning author of “The Race Beat”

1 p.m. “Religious Freedom: What Does It Really Mean?” How religion and religious freedom have impacted the culture and fabric of Memphis from the Civil Rights Movement to today’s hot-button issues. A Panel Discussion with Rabbi Hank Klibanoff, James M. Cox Jr.; Steve Mulroy, Shelby County Commissioner and Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law professor; Rashad Sharif, Imam of the Masjid Al-Mu’minun in South Memphis; Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles, Monumental Baptist Church; and moderated by David Waters, faith columnist for The Commercial Appeal.

3 p.m. The State of Freedom of the Press Exploring a variety of issues surrounding the First Amendment right to a free press from the history of media in Memphis to the age of social networking. Included will be an examination of the legal and social implications present in today’s 24-hour, nonstop media environment. A Panel Discussion with Dr. Charles Crawford, U of M professor of history and noted Memphis historian; Wendi C. Thomas, metro columnist for The Commercial Appeal; Craig Leake, U of M associate professor of communication & award-winning documentary writer, producer & director; Scott Carroll, editor-in-chief of The Daily Helmsman; and moderated by Dr. Thomas Hrach, U of M assistant professor of journalism.

5 p.m. Reception, University Center First Floor

6 p.m. “Freedom Sings®” University Center Theatre Entertaining, irreverent and inspiring multimedia experience of video, narration and live music performed by an all-star cast of musicians of songs that have been banned or censored or have sounded the call for social change – this program invites the audience to experience the First Amendment in a new way.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

National sponsors of college campus First Amendment initiatives are the McCormick Foundation, American Society of News Editors, the First Amendment Center, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Gannett Foundation and the Newseum. Local sponsors of “Memphis and the Five Freedoms” are the University of Memphis Department of Journalism, U of M Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists, WREG-TV, and James Gilliland, Attorney.

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