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Thursday, February 3, 2011

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Two University of Memphis professors and two graduate students conducting research in Egypt have been largely unreach-able since politically fueled pro-tests began in the country more than a week ago.

Art history associate professor Mariam Ayad, history assistant professor Suzanne Onstine and doctoral students Ginni Reckard and Liz Warkentin are research-ing tombs in Luxor, roughly 375 miles from Tahrir Square in Cairo, the epicenter of the protests.

The Egyptian government has at times blocked the use of

Internet and mobile phones in the country during the protests, min-imizing communication between The U of M’s Egyptologists and their families and friends.

Rachel Benkowski, art history graduate student, said she made contact with Ayad on Saturday.

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Taking his positive messages from the studio to the classroom, University of Memphis junior Chris Dansby spent his Wednesday speaking and freestyling in front of algebra classes at Craigmont High School.

“I told them that they are the future and that they have to strive hard to do their best, to take hold of their dreams and run with it,” said the recording technology major and local rapper.

In studio and on stage, Dansby, 20, is known as Preauxx (pro-nounced “pro”). Dansby spoke to students about the importance of getting a college education and staying focused. He also talked to them about pursuing a music career while getting an education at the same time.

He’s a PreauxxUM rapper takes message to Memphis high schoolsBY AAROn TURneRContributing Writer

Across the country, Egyptians are taking up arms to protect their neighborhoods, including children wielding bats and swords. In a poor section of the city of Suez, outsiders are questioned Monday.

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U of M junior Chris Dansby, also known as “Preauxx,” preaches hard work and positivity in his rap music.

A group of doctoral students from The University of Memphis’ counseling psychology program will spend today poring over baking soda and vinegar volca-noes, dancing raisins and potato lights.

Rosaire Daigle, Kandi Owens, Richelle McGhee and Christine Jehu will serve as volunteer judges today at Highland Oaks Elementary School’s science fair.

Daigle, a first-year doctoral student, said one of his pro-fessors contacted the students about judging the fair. He said he agreed to help out because he thought it would be a nice change of pace from the daily doctoral grind.

“The counseling psychology program is heavily involved in research,” he said. “Volunteering at the science fair is also a break from all of the research we have to do. It’s neat to watch young children get involved in science at such a young age.”

Also a first-year doctoral student, Owens said that she volunteered because it was a great opportunity for commu-nity service.

“It’s also a great opportunity to talk with kids about psychol-ogy,” she said. “A lot of people think that we practice voodoo, but most of the research we do in this program is mainly backed up by science.”

Psychology grad students volunteer at science fairBY MelIssA WRAYNews Reporter

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UM professors, students witnessing Egyptian turmoil

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The two only spoke for about six minutes, but during their conversation, Ayad said she was safe and sounded optimistic, Benkowski said.

“She was very calm and didn’t seem alarmed at all,” she said. “She said she had no intentions of leaving any time soon, unless something really bad happened, because both her mom and her dad live there.”

Onstine, Reckard and Warkentin shared Ayad’s out-look, telling peers in Memphis that they too are safe from the country’s political unrest and plan to stay and continue their research.

Saturday, Ayad was living with her family in Heliopolis, a suburb a few miles from Cairo. Benkowski, who worked with Ayad in Egypt from mid-Decem-ber to mid-January, reached Ayad on the family’s landline.

“What was happening in Tahrir Square is not necessarily affecting where she was,” Benkowski said. “But she said at that time there were vandals breaking into peo-ple’s houses and trying to steal things.”

Ayad told Benkowski her family’s neighbors were sending their stronger men and boys out to protect the houses in the area. Ayad described it as a type of neighborhood police force.

“She said they were gather-ing two-by-fours or knives or whatever was needed to protect their houses and houses around them,” she said.

Assistant history professor Kent Schull received a brief e-mail from Onstine on Wednesday morning letting him know that she, Reckard

and Warkentin were safe.“She’s planning to stay there,”

Schull said. “They opened the tomb yesterday that they’re working on, and (the military) is containing and monitoring the situation in Cairo, but there it is safe, and there are ways to get out of (Luxor) if necessary.”

Onstine told Schull in the e-mail that they would not try to leave unless they felt threatened. She explained that the chaos is happening so far away that they are not severely affected.

“She said, ‘Making panicky, hasty decisions to leave will only leave us stranded in Paris or Istanbul for days until we get a ticket home,’” Schull said. “She said, ‘I’d rather wait and trust my instincts as well as the interpreta-tions of the locals that things will get better in the next week.’”

Schull said Onstine and the stu-dents are proud of the Egyptians for fighting their government and are happy to watch what is going on — from a safe distance, of course.

Schull is also an adviser to Warkentin, whom he described as a good student who he’s come to know well during the last year.

“She’s most interested in ancient Egypt,” he said. “She’s outgoing, very smart, and she loves to participate in classes. She’s like most of us, in that as academics, we’re bookworms.”

Schull, who teaches a course in ancient Egypt history, said there were several events that could have led to this political uprising.

Three dictators have ruled the country since 1956, each promis-ing a better life for their citizens, he said.

The current president, Hosni Mubarak, has led the country for 30 years and has been grooming his son to become his successor.

Schull said the economy, health care and literacy rates are “terrible,” and the people want change.

Associate history professor Peter Brand has read Facebook comments and received a few e-mails from Onstein, Warkentin and Reckard over the past week. He said they were actually able to continue working on their archae-ological project Wednesday.

Protests in Luxor were minor,

according to the messages Brand received, but there were some kids “acting up,” and the trans-planted Memphians were cau-tious to leave sight of military security in the area. Not a lot of damage was being dealt at any tourist sites or hotels, Brand said.

“They said that a couple of buildings had been burned in Luxor,” Brand said. “One was an office of the Egyptian govern-ment’s political party, and the

other one was actually a local post office, for some reason.”

Because they must ration the pre-paid cards the use for tele-phone and Internet access, con-tacting the students and profes-sors is difficult, Brand said.

“We’re just hoping things settle down and there’s a peace-ful, happy resolution to all these problems,” Brand said. “We’re concerned about the people over there — not just our own people.”

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University of Memphis stu-dents planning on-campus events for their organizations have little choice when it comes to a food provider.

Due to the contractual agree-ment between The U of M and Aramark, the food service com-pany that provides dining ser-vices on University grounds, Tiger Dining is the only caterer allowed on campus.

“I think that it’s very unfor-tunate that we have these limi-tations,” Student Government Association President Hunter Lang said. “We should be able to branch outside of Aramark.”

The food budgets of some U of M groups can only accom-modate for items like pizza, the only approved option for organizations who want to go

around Aramark with little to no obstacles, Lang said.

“We should have more options, and it’s a shame that we don’t,” he said. “Aramark is not cheap. ... I wish there were a way we could get out of (the policy). Aramark has its pros and cons, but (the policy) is definitely a con.”

According to The University of Memphis Policy Manual, no off-campus caterer may deliver or serve food on campus to any orga-nized activity unless the group receives an approved exception.

The manual lists 11 guidelines that organizations must meet to qualify for an exception.

Two of those rules state that no food service equipment belonging to The University or the outside

company can be used and that food service space may not be used, unless otherwise approved by the Office of Administration and Business Services.

Another guideline states that even when donated food

is approved for on-campus use, including cuisine that Dining Services cannot provide, caterers and their staff not are allowed on the grounds.

The food vendor’s name may not be advertised in any campus medium, including packaging and food wrappings, the guide-line continues.

Students are only allowed to bring homemade, “potluck” dishes to meetings once a semes-ter, according to the policy.

Pizza is the only food the policy allows students to bring on campus multiple times.

The manual also contains a six-step procedure to apply for an exception. Included in the proce-dure is approval from a depart-mental head or vice president and the Office of Administrative and Business Services.

Meta Laabs, director of stu-dent affairs, said that one of the reasons Aramark has so much control is that students don’t have mandatory meal plans like other at other schools.

The committee involved in the contract approval process was chaired by the vice president for student affairs and campus services, Danny Armitage, and included three U of M students.

Lang said one of the stu-dents on the committee

was an SGA representative.“That is what (SGA representa-tives) are elected each year for,” he said. “But on the other hand, three students was not enough.”

Laabs said holding a campus-wide vote on the contract would

have been “diffi-cult” because the contract is “pretty technical.”

Aramark rep-r e s e n t a t i v e s at The U of M refused to sched-ule an interview, despite several

requests by The Daily Helmsman on multiple days.

Approximately two years ago, the food policy was revised to allow organizations exempt from the policy to patronize another caterer, with a clause that their expenses remain at or below $200. The University created the revision to give stu-dents a wallet-friendly alterna-tive to Tiger Dining, according to Peter Groenendyk, U of M director of residence life and dining services.

“I recognize that not every one person or group can afford everything they would like to have, which is why we created the $200 exception,” he said. “Without the financial commit-ment that Aramark has made to The University, we would not have a new Fresh Food Company; we would not have been able to have the food court in the new University Center or the new Tiger Den Food Court.”

Groenendyk said Aramark was chosen as The University’s exclu-sive food provider because they provided the “best overall deal for The University of Memphis.”

“Aramark invested $4.2 mil-lion in our facilities, and The University is guaranteed com-missions of approximately $12 million over the life of the con-tract,” he said. “This is invest-ment is more than $16 million.”

Aramark’s contract expires in

about eight years, Groenendyk said.

Despite the potential long-term rewards to U of M from the Aramark deal, some students said the present situation did not serve them well.

Trevelyan Easter, senior chemistry and Spanish double major and member of Alpha Phi Alpha, said the policy forced him to go around The University when planning events for his fraternity.

Easter said he has used per-sonal funds to keep the bill for some of his organization’s events under the required $200.

Both Easter and Fredrico Doss, junior psychology major and Up ‘Til Dawn Morale Captain, said that the policy is unfair to those planning large events that call for a larger selection of food.

“Think about how much food you can get for under $200 … that would be cool for small-er events but not large ones,” Doss said. “Sometimes we could save more if we went to another place. They (Tiger Dining) even charge you for water.”

The guidelines posted in the office of the vice president for student affairs state that “pric-ing of food is not a valid reason to request an exception approv-al. Aramark provides many ser-vices for our campus, and its prices cannot always be com-pared with other vendors.”

“We had to draw a line somewhere,” Laabs said. “Two-hundred dollars is what Aramark allowed us to do.”

In the policy manual, health is also a listed reason why off-cam-pus caterers are not allowed.

Easter said the policy puts stu-dents in an unfavorable position.

“Let’s say that something happens at the beginning of the semester, like Black Student Association has a prayer break-fast in February,” he said. “That has used up your one potluck for the semester, so that idea is totally out.”

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A graduate of Bolton High School, Dansby was asked to speak to the high school stu-dents by Teach For America representative Samantha Duran.

Duran said she heard Dansby at Aquarius Creative Studio in Midtown and thought he would be a good role model for high schoolers.

“I was originally there to watch another artist perform, but then I saw Preauxx per-forming and felt that his music had a positive message,” she said.

Duran said that Teach For America works with Memphis City Schools to help motivate students. Knowing that many students like hip-hop music, she said she felt Dansby would be a perfect speaker.

Dansby spoke to Algebra I classes throughout the school day, performing freestyle raps and offering motivational words.

“At first they were a little reluctant about who I was, but after I rapped for them, I really believe they took the message to heart,” he said.

Duran said she thought the students enjoyed Dansby and his message, and she plans to take him to other schools in the city.

Dansby is currently work-ing on a new mixtape, “Love Jones,” with a target release date of Feb. 23. “Love Jones” fol-lows “To Kill A Mockingbird,” the mixtape he released last spring.

Dansby often collaborates with other student musi-cians, including University of Memphis students Jocelyn Donald and Xavier Jones.

“Preauxx is a ‘backpack rapper’ because he can do a little of everything,” said jour-nalism major and songwriter Donald. “Everybody who knows Preauxx knows that he is humble and hardworking, and he is the type of role model kids need to see.”

Dansby and Jones work together in a group called the

Dynasty, comprised of other rappers, producers and DJs.

Dansby raps for Westham Records, a Memphis-based independent record label, and has recently gained recognition around Memphis.

Local website Live From Memphis featured him in its “60 Seconds” segment, a min-ute-long YouTube video that allows local musicians to tell viewers who they are, and he was mentioned in a January article about the Memphis music scene in the Memphis Flyer.

Preauxx’s music video “Going In For A Night,” direct-ed by U of M freshman Steven Simpson, has also increased his popularity. The video has garnered nearly 1,400 hits on YouTube.

Dansby’s music can be found online on several social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Reverbnation.com, simply by searching for “Preauxx.” He also maintains a personal blog, located at Mockingbirdmusic.tumblr.com.

“We should have more options, and it’s a shame that

we don’t. Aramark is not cheap. Aramark has its pros and cons,

but this is definitely a con.” — Hunter Lang

SGA President

RappERfrom page 1

Walk&Talk Who do you think will win the Super Bowl, and why?

“The Steelers. God told me so.”

— Kortyell Davis, Computer science freshman

“Packers — they have the best offense but also the

best defense.”

— Duval Calhoun, Mgmt. information systems

junior

“Pittsburgh Steelers. They’ve been winning for years! When was the last time Green Bay won?”

— Markeisha Pullen, English freshman

“Steelers — not only do they have the best defense, but

they have one of the absolute greatest quarterbacks.”

— Frank Trotter, Undecided junior

“Packers, definitely. They have their running game

together.”

— Leon Bussey, International business

sophomore

by Brian Wilson

live sportssites takenoffline inICe seizure

Days before the Super Bowl, government authorities in New York seized several streaming websites that they accused of ille-gally showing live and pay-per-view sports events.

Content on websites such as Rojadirecta.org, Channelsurfing.net and ATDHE.net was replaced by a note saying that the domain names were seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials through seizure warrants obtained by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

None of the three popular sites, which feature live sports and other programming, are hosted within the U.S. Ten sites total were seized Monday, including HQ-Streams.com, HQ-Streams.net, Firstrow.net, Ilemi.com, Iilemi.com, Iilemii.com and Rojadirecta.com.

The federal court order, unsealed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, alleged that ille-gal online distribution of copy-righted events results in millions in losses to sports leagues and broadcasters each year.

Piracy threatens “the leagues’ ability to sell game tickets and secure local television and radio carriage, and the value of adver-tising revenue generated by broadcast, radio and new media partners,” according to the affida-vit. “Sports fans are also victims, as the costs expended by sports leagues in an effort to address online piracy are passed on to fans when they purchase tickets or subscribe to sports networks.”

The seized sites streamed mate-rial from the NFL, NBA, National Hockey League, World Wrestling Entertainment and Ultimate Fighting Championship, authori-ties said.

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Unrest in egypt poses new foreign policy challenge for White house

When he came to power, Barack Obama inherited two wars, but the sudden upheaval in Egypt poses the biggest new foreign policy challenge of his presidency.

How effectively the adminis-tration manages the unfolding crisis in the Middle East will shape perceptions of Obama as a leader, abroad and at home. If events spiral out of control, Obama and his advisors will likely be criticized for failing to head off a potential disaster in a volatile part of the world.

Obama had hoped to keep his main focus on jobs and the American economy, long seen as keys to his chances for a second term, while winding down U.S. military involvement in Iraq and gaining the upper hand against global terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But the latest imag-es from northern Africa, playing out across the region and in the United States, presented a new challenge to Obama’s leadership and, ultimately, his standing with the public.

“Who knows where this is going? Should things not hold in Egypt, or should this catch fire in other Middle Eastern states, people really are going to watch how he handles the first major new foreign crisis on his watch,” said Ryan C. Crocker, former U.S. ambassador to sev-eral Middle Eastern countries and currently dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.

Diplomatic veterans like Crocker, and other outside ana-lysts, give Obama’s team gen-erally positive marks for han-dling an exceedingly complex problem. But critics are already making the case that Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton were slow to react. They say top admin-istration officials issued public statements overly supportive of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, even as his regime was encountering a growing surge of popular protest.

Obama met Saturday after-noon at the White House to review the latest developments, including Mubarak’s decision to name a top intelligence official as his vice president.

“It’s up to the Egyptian peo-ple to decide this,” White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley said in a brief interview. “We’re just watching the situation. It’s very fluid.’’

U.S. officials didn’t object to Mubarak’s government shuffle but made it clear they want far more change in the days ahead. The United States is looking for “managed change — adjust-ments over a fairly extended period of time that allows you to manage it in a fairly orderly way,” a senior administration official said.

While the administration is pressing for opposition groups and civil activists to be given more political influence “that doesn’t necessarily mean the governing coalition will be swept away, not at all,” the offi-cial said.

The official said it remains unclear where the Egyptian mili-tary is coming down in the con-test between Mubarak and the opposition.

For Obama and American interests around the globe, the stakes in the current crisis are potentially enormous.

“This is a big deal for President Obama,” said Martin Indyk, director of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution. “It requires very cool judgment to calibrate this in a way that does minimal damage to our interests.”

Obama’s decision to deliver remarks late Friday that were seen as supportive of the anti-Mubarak uprising “was the right thing to do. But it’s a very risky strategy, because the end result could be that an ally that we depended on to protect American interests and stabil-ity in this volatile region will be toppled, and that a very unsta-ble situation in Egypt will then spread across the region, and that can do great damage to our interests,” he said.

At the same time, “cling-ing to Mubarak, when it’s clear that he’s lost his legitimacy among the Egyptian people and ends up using force and a great deal of bloodshed to retain his power, could produce the very instability we’re trying to avoid,” said Indyk, who held top State Department posts in the Clinton administration and has served as an outside adviser to George S. Mitchell, Obama’s special envoy for Middle East peace.

From the start of his presiden-cy, Obama has sought to defuse anti-Americanism in the Muslim world and end talk of a “clash of civilizations.”

In his Cairo speech in 2009, he said the United States sup-ported the aspirations for great-er freedom of Arabs. Yet the administration has continued in many ways the policies of past U.S. governments, includ-

ing support for the region’s authoritarian regimes, and polls show the administration’s public support among Arabs has declined from the time of his inauguration.

Indeed, some Arab activ-ists say they preferred the more sharp-edged message of President George W. Bush, who pushed a “freedom agenda.”

Obama came under sharp criticism in June, 2009, for failing to more forcefully back Iranians who took to the street to protest a presidential election they believed was rigged. He later stepped up his public expressions of support for the demonstrators.

The fall of Egypt’s government could exacerbate pressures on some neighbors, potentially set-ting off a tsunami that reshapes the political and security balance throughout the greater Middle East.

The rise of a less friendly gov-ernment in Cairo could set off alarms in Jerusalem, and calls for the U.S. to increase its defense of its closest Middle East ally, Israel.

David Schenker, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said the U.S. strat-egy in the region was to offset Iran’s power with its influence in Egypt and Turkey.

“And now we don’t have Turkey anymore,” he said, refer-ring to Turkey’s increasing inde-pendence from the U.S.

President Barack Obama is briefed on the events in Egypt during a meeting with his national security team in the Situation Room of the White House on Saturday.

BY PAUl WesT AnD PAUl RIChTeRTribune Washington Bureau

Within minutes, the buoyant mood inside Tahrir Square turned into a fight for survival — and for Egypt’s future.

Like two medieval armies, screaming, enraged mobs — both hoisting Egyptian flags and pro-fessing love of country — clashed violently Wednesday with rocks, sticks and Molotov cocktails. Soldiers stood passively by as the pitched battle between supporters of President Hosni Mubarak and those seeking to oust him immedi-ately threatened one of the nation’s most treasured landmarks, the Egyptian Museum.

The periphery of the square took on the look of a city of zombies as stunned anti-government demon-strators poured out of the plaza with bandaged, blood-smeared faces.

One man, walking alone, had thick white gauze wrapped around his head and chin. He slumped his shoulders as he spoke.

“I couldn’t run away,” said the man, who wouldn’t give his name. “I acknowledged their right to say yes to Mubarak. They should acknowledge ours.”

Three deaths were reported at the square and hundreds of people

were injured, government offi-cials said. Gunshots occasionally cracked out, and it appeared that the military was exploding sound grenades in an attempt to get the combatants to retreat.

As the front line moved up and down the promenade and each side advanced and retreated, one or two combatants would invari-ably fall behind and be caught by the other side. When anti-govern-ment protesters captured one such Mubarak supporter, they dragged him off to side road and pummeled him. A woman beat him with a two-by-four. Finally, other anti-government protesters stepped in and dragged him to the military to protect his life.

In the heat of the rock-throwing volleys, one anti-Mubarak protest-er stood on an overturned contain-er, behind the front line, waving an Egyptian flag and refusing to stop as stones fell down upon him.

By dusk, pro-Mubarak protest-ers had positioned themselves on building rooftops, hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails on anti-gov-ernment protesters below. Not long after, anti-government protesters occupied their own rooftops, and hurled their own fire bombs at their foes.

Shortly before midnight, anti-Mubarak protesters had gained the momentum, circling around alley-ways to attack the pro-presidential

forces from the right flank. They dug up steel fence posts and other sheets of metal, which they used as shields against rocks and fire.

Then, they pounded on the metal sheeting in unison in a threatening din as they drove their foes toward the edge of the square. At one point, they appeared to be singing, their voices reverberating through the Cairo streets, punctu-ated by the sound of the gunfire.

The day of combat had begun peacefully enough, with the first mass rally of Mubarak supporters held in the posh shopping district of Mohandiseen.

At some point, however, the professed desire for a return to nor-malcy gave way to anger, taunts and violence.

Some loyalists marched toward Tahrir, crossing the Nile and gain-ing numbers on the way.

Those riding camels and hors-es were among the first to arrive inside the square. The sight of the camels took many anti-Mubarak protesters aback. When the riders turned whips and sticks on pedes-trians, panic swept the square. A few riders were pulled off their animals and beaten.

Shortly thereafter, thousands more pro-Mubarak demonstrators approached the square, walking without interruption through mili-tary checkpoints.

By 3 p.m., the two sides faced

off along on a promenade next the vaunted museum, hurling rocks and pieces of pavement stones..

It resembled an old-fashioned turf war. First the pro-Mubarak supporters, screaming in unison, rushed forward along a prome-nade, forcing their foe back with an avalanche of rocks. Then the anti-Mubarak picked up the same rocks and hurled them, forcing the Mubarak supporters to retreat.

Throughout the fighting, the small military contingent stationed at the square stood by watching. Tanks positioned 100 yards from fighting did not move. Even check-points to the area, which were manned by soldiers, were left open, allowing hundreds of additional pro-Mubarak supporters to flood into the already-volatile plaza.

At one point, the mobs moved within a few yards of each other, engaging in a brief brawl.

Finally the military positioned large green trucks in the middle of the road to create a buffer zone between the two sides. But two hours later, those trucks had been destroyed by rocks and fire, caused by the pro-Mubarak force’s Molotov cocktails.

“We’re not leaving,” said Omar Adli, a bearded anti-Mubarak pro-tester, who ran off to exchange punches with a pro-Mubarak foe. “We’ll sit under the tanks if the army tries to stop us.”

Turmoil inside Tahrir squareBY eDMUnD sAnDeRs, neD PARKeR AnD lAURA KInGTribune Washington Bureau

Above: Egypt, considered for decades a strong Middle East ally of the U.S. and Israel, is surrounded by states fraught with political upris-ings and instability. Not pictured on the other side of the Red Sea are Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Yemen, all sites of ongoing international and civil unrest. Just northwest of Libya lies Tunisia, which recently experienced a sudden regime change.

Right: Chaos has enveloped Egypt in the wake of massive pro-tests and widespread violence against the regime of President Hozni Mubarak. Although looting had diminished at the time of this Monday afternoon arrest, the violence resumed and intensi-fied Wednesday, and hundreds of Egyptians were injured.

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In one of the most dramatic signs ever documented of how shrinking Arctic sea ice impacts polar bears, researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska have tracked a female bear that swam nine days across the deep, frigid Beaufort Sea before reaching an ice floe 426 miles offshore.

The marathon swim came at a cost: With little food likely avail-able once she arrived, the bear lost 22 percent of her body weight and her year-old female cub, who set off on the journey but did not survive, the researchers said.

“Our activity data suggests that she swam constantly for nine days, without any rest. Which is pretty incredible,” said George M. Durner, a USGS zoologist and a lead author of the study published

in December in the journal Polar Biology.

“We have observed other l o n g - d i s t a n c e swimming events. I don’t believe any of them have been as long in time and distance as what we observed with her,” he said. “How often does this happen? We’re trying to get a handle on that.”

Polar bears spend much of their waking lives on the shifting Arctic sea ice floes. They survive mainly on the ringed seals that are also dependent on sea ice and swim in abundance in the relatively shal-low coastal waters of the conti-nental shelf.

But sea ice has been melting

dramatically in recent years, forc-ing polar bears during the fall open-water periods to either for-age from shore or swim longer distances in search of sea ice.

Bears that retreat to land usu-ally find little or no food there, and “typically ... spend the duration fasting while they await the re-formation of ice needed to access

and hunt seals,” according to a 2008 government study.

Conservation groups, the state of Alaska, the Alaska Oil and Gas Association and several other groups are locked in litigation in Washington, D.C.,

over polar bear protections and how much needs to be done to slow the pace of climate change to prevent further shrinking of their habitat.

In November, the Obama administration designated more than 187,000 square miles along the north coast of Alaska as “criti-cal habitat for the polar bear, but since the federal government con-siders the bears threatened, not

endangered, there are no provi-sions to take dramatic steps to halt further deaths in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

But U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ruled that the federal government erred in its presump-tive standard that bears must be in “imminent” danger of extinction before being considered endan-gered. The parties are due back in court on Feb. 23.

The difference between “threat-ened” and the more serious “endangered” status is crucial in this case. Attorneys for the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council argue that an endangered finding will require the govern-ment to impose new controls on greenhouse gases across the coun-try to protect the bears.

“They’re drowning and starv-ing now, and all the scientific studies show an incredibly high likelihood of extinction of two-thirds of the world’s polar bears in the next 40 years ... and that includes all the bears in Alaska,” said Kassie Siegel, who is argu-ing the case for the Center for Biological Diversity.

But Republican Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell, who is leading the charge against the Endangered Species Act protections, has said the critical-habitat designation will cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in lost economic devel-opment and tax revenue.

Plans to develop major stock-piles of offshore oil and gas resources in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas are potentially threatened by the polar bear pro-tection zones. Additional litigation is likely on the question of how much protection must be assured for polar bears before major new drilling can proceed.

Durner said it’s clear that polar bears are spending more time in open water, and possibly on land, looking for food. Researchers conducting aerial surveys of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas for the Minerals Management Service in 2005 found 10 polar bears swim-ming in open Arctic water, along with four bear carcasses floating in open water, apparently drowned.

“We speculate that mortalities due to offshore swimming dur-ing late-ice or mild-ice years may be an important and unaccounted source of natural mortality, given energetic demands placed on individual bears engaged in long-distance swimming,” that study said. “We further suggest that drowning-related deaths of polar bears may increase in the future if the observed trend of regression of pack ice and/or longer open-water periods continues.”

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Polar bear’s long swim illustrates ice meltBY KIM MURPhYLos Angeles Times “All the scientific studies

show an incredibly high likelihood of extinction of

two-thirds of the world’s polar bears in the next 40 years ...

and that includes all the bears in Alaska.”

— Kassie SiegelAttorney

After years of watching Muslims portrayed as terrorists in mainstream TV and movies, an advocacy group hopes to change that image by grooming a crop of aspiring Muslim screenwriters who can bring their stories — and perspective — to Hollywood.

The Muslim Public Affairs Council is hosting a series of work-shops taught by Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated veterans over the next month, an initiative that builds on the group’s outreach for a more representative picture of Muslim-Americans on the screen.

The workshops are the natu-ral evolution of MPAC’s efforts to lobby TV networks and movie studios from the outside, and they fit into a small, but growing, movement to get more Muslim-Americans behind the cameras.

MPAC dubbed its effort the Hollywood Bureau, while Unity Productions Foundation recently started a similar project called Muslims on Screen and Television. Other nonprofit arts foundations, such as the Levantine Cultural Center and Film Independent, have joined forces by planning net-working events for Muslim actors and training and mentoring young filmmakers.

“The idea is to really give Muslims an avenue to tell our sto-ries. It’s as simple as that. There’s a curiosity about Islam and a curios-ity about who Muslims are — and a lot of the fear that we’re seeing comes from only hearing one story or these constant negative sto-ries,” said Deana Nassar, MPAC’s Hollywood liaison.

At the council’s first screen-writing workshop last Saturday, three dozen attendees packed into a classroom in downtown Los Angeles to hear Emmy-winning comedy writer Ed Driscoll give tips of the trade, from knowing the audience to making a script outline.

The students reflected a diver-sity not often seen in Hollywood’s portrayal of Muslim-Americans, from a black woman who grew up in Mississippi to a stay-at-home mom to a defense attorney who dabbles in screenwriting on the side.

Khadijah Rashid, 33, said before class that her Hollywood experi-ence included working behind the scenes on everything from reality TV to the award-winning biopic “Ray.”

But Rashid said she had always felt her own story — growing up Muslim in the Deep South — was the tale she most wanted to tell. She recalled being teased as a child for her unusual last name and chok-ing down chunks of dry cheese for lunch when the school cafeteria served pork, a forbidden food in Islam.

“I don’t think it’s much drama, but it’s my own personal drama,” said Rashid, now a single mother living in Pasadena. “I definitely want to tell my story, but I need to learn how. If I get the tools, I’ll just pour it out.”

With any luck, Hollywood will listen. The industry has taken more interest in telling authentic Muslim stories in recent years, said Ahmos

Hassan, a Muslim-American talent manager who has been in the busi-ness for more than two decades.

“There’s a demand for Muslim stories, but whether it’s Muslim writers or not depends on the tal-ent they bring to the table,” Hassan, who owns Chariot Management, said during a break in the class. “They need to bring that to the industry ... and I think the industry is open to it now, more so than any time before.”

MPAC has had some success working with writers and produc-ers from the outside.

Its Hollywood Bureau was founded after Sept. 11, 2001, with a simple strategy: to make sure the portrayal of Islam on TV screens was accurate, even if it was negative. Since then, the organization has consulted on a parade of hit TV shows, including

“24,” ‘’Bones,” ‘’Lie to Me,” ‘’7th Heaven,” ‘’Saving Grace” and “Aliens in America.”

The group also has held meet-ings with top network executives from ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, and throws a Muslim-inspired ver-sion of a Hollywood awards show each year for productions, both mainstream and independent, that advance understanding of Islam. In 2009, winners included “Slumdog Millionaire” and “The Simpsons,” for an episode that featured Bart befriending a Muslim boy named Bashir.

The goal is not to spoon-feed Hollywood Muslim-friendly story lines, but to increase awareness of the diversity of American Muslims and to be a resource for writers and producers, Nassar said.

“There’s only a small, small number of people who are trying

to drive a negative agenda. Most of the time it’s innocent over-sight, and they’re very happy to get our take on what they’re doing, to get our feedback,” said Nassar, who also attended the workshop and is an entertain-ment lawyer by training.

That feedback has been an eye-opener and a challenge for some in the industry, where the Muslim-as-terrorist plot line has been an accepted story for years.

“When you’re sitting in the writer’s room, and you’ve got to come up with a plot line and you’ve got to come up with a bad guy, it’s really easy to pull that out and say, ‘OK, Muslim terror-ist,’” said T.S. Cook, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who will teach two of the four sessions. “It’s a lazy man’s way to villainy — and it’s pretty ingrained.”

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In the latest attempt to bol-ster the struggling University of Memphis football pro-gram, coach Larry Porter has announced the signing of 29 new Tigers.

The class, which boasts 17 Rivals.com three-star recruits, is ranked fourth in Conference USA and 67th in the country.

“As I look at this class, I think it settles our program,” Porter

said. “I really do. Because we have addressed all our needs.”

Porter ’s 2011 recruiting class is headlined by athlete Ryan Byrd from Louisiana and defensive tackle Terry Redden from Memphis.

Byrd, a 6-foot, 170-pound prospect, chose to commit to Memphis despite receiving offers from a number of Bowl Championship Series schools, such as Ole Miss, Kansas, Minnesota and Mississippi State. After initially excluding Memphis from his top three choices, Byrd eventually com-mitted to Porter’s program in November.

Redden, the fifth-ranked DT in the state of Tennessee, attend-ed Whitehaven High School in Memphis and chose to play at his hometown school, despite receiving offers from Arkansas State, Middle Tennessee State and Kansas.

In addition to Redden, the Tigers have signed three other Memphis natives, including Whitehaven linebacker Charles Harris, Mitchell High running back Artaves Gibson and defen-sive back Kevin Green from Wooddale High.

Memphis also signed 6-foot-3 wide receiver Tyriq Patrick from Philadelphia, Miss. After committing to the Tigers last summer, Patrick reopened his recruitment but recommitted to The U of M in January. Patrick had offers from UAB, Arkansas State and Louisiana-Monroe. He had also gained interest from Ole Miss and Mississippi State.

“This class serves as the foundation, in my opinion, that strengthens us as a program and really and truly propels us forward,” Porter said.

Porter added to The U of M’s quarterback crop with Dominique Harris from Southaven, Miss., and Taylor Reed from El Dorado, Ark. The Tigers now have six quarter-backs on the roster. Porter said he expects freshman quarter-back Ryan Williams, who start-ed several games last season, to return as the Tigers’ number one quarterback next season.

The Tigers added four wide receivers in the 2011 recruiting class, bringing the total number of receivers on the roster to 14.

Porter said the depth at vari-ous skill positions allows the players to gain experience in competing for their spots.

“The thing this class allows us to do at most positions is create a spirit of competition,” he said. “I’m very excited about (the class), and I’m excited about the style of talent we’re bringing — not just the talent level, not just the speed, not just the athleticism, but the charac-ter. Because as you well know, talent is not the end-all.”

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University of Memphis football coach Larry Porter is pleased with his first full recruiting class, he said. Porter and The U of M signed 29 total players in their 2011 class. Rivals.com ranks it fourth in Conference USA and 67th overall.

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Wang Bo, the manager of a Beijing cartoon company, had a daring idea for a video greeting card to mark the Year of the Rabbit, which begins Thursday.

He and his team produced a clip in which a world of rabbits suffers under authoritarian rulers (represented by tigers, the outgoing zodiac sign) who give them few rights and demand that they “build a harmonious forest.”

In less than four minutes, the rabbits watch their children die from bad milk, have their homes torn down, and weep as protesters are beaten.

The tale is a thin allegory — the events and slogans were based on real-life happenings in China, or graphic interpretations of them. Only the ending, in which the rab-bits stage a violent revolt, is pure imagination.

“There’s an old saying in Chinese that even rabbits will bite people when they get angry,” said Zeng Zhi, a 26-year-old designer at Wang’s firm with an easy laugh and slightly tussled hair, who helped with the background animation. “The meaning is very understand-able to Chinese netizens.”

But of China’s estimated 457 million Internet users, just a small portion saw the film during its few days of life on the Web. The clip was scrubbed from Chinese sites last week, or “harmonized,” in local parlance.

The disappearance of the bun-nies was a colorful reminder that despite China’s ballooning Internet usage, the wide expan-sion of freedom of political speech that many Westerners assumed would accompany the technol-ogy hasn’t yet arrived. Even as some observers credit online social media for helping organize recent protests against repressive regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, China’s authoritarian government continues to closely manage and suppress information in the larg-est Internet market in the world.

Expectations abroad that the

Internet could create significant political change in the Middle Kingdom were badly misplaced, said Guan Shijie, a professor in media studies at Peking University.

“Westerners emphasize free-dom but overlook responsibili-ties and obligations,” Guan said. “Westerners tend to think that ... there should be limitations on the government’s power, but in China it’s different.”

Officials in Beijing have so far kept up with the country’s rapid growth in Internet usage with a sophisticated and opaque sys-tem of give and take censorship, overseen by legions of watch-

ers thought to number in the tens of thousands.

For exam-ple, state newspapers have carried reports about the ongoing

d e m o n s t r a -tions in Egypt, but searches for the country on China’s version of Twitter are currently forbidden, presumably to discourage Chinese Internet users from drawing pub-lic comparisons between Cairo’s government and their own.

“The picture of new (Internet) opportunities has to be balanced against the picture of evolving controls,” said David Bandurski, the editor of the China Media Project website at the University of Hong Kong, which analyzes Chinese media.

On one hand, there’s no ques-tion that the Internet has brought average Chinese a greater flow of information — they can access news (as long as it’s not blocked), have wide-ranging conversations on the Web, and go so far as to air complaints about local governance and corruption issues.

On the other hand, any informa-

tion that seems to seriously question the nation’s political system or the legitimacy of its ruling Communist Party is quickly taken down.

“In individual cases it (the Internet) can make a difference, but that doesn’t mean there’s going to be systemic change,” said Jeremy Goldkorn, the editor of the Beijing-based Danwei.org website, which closely tracks Chinese media and Internet trends and has itself been blocked since July 2009.

In other words, Goldkorn said, “as long as the rule of the Party and social stability remain the top goal, it’s hard to see how things are going to change.”

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The University of Memphis rifle squad came away victori-ous at the Skyhawk Invitational tournament in Martin, Tenn., during the weekend of Jan. 28 with an aggregate score of 4,601.

The Tigers were led by fresh-man Dan Hermsmeier with a season-high smallbore score of 587. He recorded a perfect score of 200 in the prone posi-tion, as well as 193 kneeling and 194 standing.

Memphis recorded a tour-nament-high smallbore score of 2,275 through freshman Linn Larsen’s 571 (fifth over-all) mark and sophomore Kelly Audet’s 563 score. Juniors Jessica Phenis and Kaitlynn Lee also contributed, with 554 and 546 respectively.

“Everyone is getting better,” rifle coach Butch Woolbright said. “I’m pleased with the prog-ress that’s been made this year.”

Phenis’ career-high 589 in air rifle was enough to top Audet for the individual champion-ship with 585. Hermsmeier also placed in the top 10 for air rifle, finishing ninth overall with 579.

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The University of Memphis men’s basketball team just couldn’t deliver the knockout blow.

The Tigers (16-6, 5-3 Conference USA) let the Tulsa Golden Hurricane hang around just a bit too long in a 68-65 loss in front of 15,953 at FedExForum on Wednesday night.

Wednesday’s loss was the sec-

ond straight for The U of M, which hasn’t lost two in a row since 2004-’05, when it lost four straight at the end of the season. It was the Tigers’ second home Conference USA loss since 2006.

The Tigers, who held Tulsa to 34 percent shooting, took a 30-27 lead into halftime but were mostly undone by their 17 turnovers, the majority of which were unforced.

The U of M shot 40 percent overall from the field but was

only 20 percent from deep.“No disrespect to Tulsa, they

were good,” senior forward Will Coleman said. “But in my mind, honestly — just because I’m a senior, and this is my last go around — we shouldn’t have lost. They shouldn’t have beat us. We beat ourselves with turnovers and (not coming up with) the 50-50 balls. That absolutely killed us.”

With 17:34 left in the game, the Tigers led by eight, 35-27, after

freshman guard Chris Crawford found sophomore forward D.J. Stephens inside for an easy dunk. After the play, Tulsa coach Doug Wojcik, sensing the momentum had shifted the Tigers’ way, immediately called a timeout.

For the next 10 minutes, the Golden Hurricane responded with a game-deciding 24-12 run that gave them the lead, 51-49, after guard Scottie Haralson knocked down three free throws.

Coleman, who fouled out with 1:19 to play, finished with 11 points and 10 rebounds but struggled defensively with Tulsa senior cen-ter Steven Idlet, who led all scor-ers with 17 points. Idlet also had seven rebounds, four of which were offensive. The Tigers were outrebounded by a 41-38 margin.

Wednesday’s win for the Golden Hurricane was its first against the Tigers since officially becoming a member of C-USA.

“There are a lot of heroes in that locker room,” Wojcik said. “Steven Idlet turned his ankle yesterday in practice and played like a champ today.”

While the U of M struggled with Idlet, it did largely take C-USA leading scorer Justin Hurtt out of the game until late in the second half. Hurtt, who was guarded by Crawford, didn’t score a point until just over 17 minutes remained in the game.

“I thought Chris Crawford did a great job defensively on (Justin) Hurtt. He really played

well defensively. Toward the end, Hurtt made some shots, but over-all, Chris did a great job.”

Hurtt was held to 4-of-18 from the field but gave Tulsa the lead with 1:19 to play with two free throws. During the next offen-sive possession for the Golden Hurricane, Hurtt laid in a tough shot over freshman forward Tarik Black to go up three, 64-61, with under 35 seconds to play.

The Tigers answered with an ill-advised 3-pointer by Crawford that clanked off the side of the rim, despite the fact that there were more than 25 seconds left in the game.

“(That shot) will get magnified, and that’s not the reason (we lost),” U of M coach Josh Pastner said. “It’s the turnovers. I’m pound-ing my head on the wall because we’ve done every drill. We’ve run them; we’ve showed them every amount of tape you could show. It’s just one of those things where it’s frustrating because the turn-overs are not by presses. They’re just unforced errors.”

The Tigers had a chance to tie the game with five seconds left after freshman guard Antonio Barton stole an inbound pass, but his brother, Will, missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

“I’m not going to lie — this one hurts probably the most. Out of all the games this season, this one hit me the most,” Will said. “There were a couple of possessions I just wish I could have back.”

Tigers can’t withstand Golden HurricaneBY JOhn MARTInSports Editor

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