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Lipman School students Hayes and Cannon make a pact for peace while their classmates study the book “Let
There Be Peace on Earth.”
When doves fly
Lipman School at U of M
teaches tykes metaphors
for kindness and peace
BY AMY BARNETTE
Copy Editor
Israel and Palestine could take a lesson from the
mouths of babes: A group of preschoolers has accom-
plished what the warring nations could not.
Monday at the Barbara K. Lipman Early Childhood
School and Research Institute, 2- to 5-year-olds looked
for ways they could increase the peace. The school’s
ninth annual Peace Day Celebration, a tradition cement-
ed in 2001 after the Sept. 11 attacks, gave the young stu-
dents and their parents an opportunity to learn more
about world cultures and find common ground.
Sandy Turner, director of the Lipman School, said
the event strives to give children “developmental-
ly appropriate peace activities” and communicate
respectfully with one another.
“Lipman School has a long history of what we call
anti-bias curriculum, to be woven in with all the other
academics,” Turner said. “We’ve always had a multi-
cultural luncheon, and after 9/11, we decided the best
way to counteract that kind of terrorism and violence
was to stop everything and have one day where we
just study the whole notion of peace, to be peaceful
with each other and ourselves and send out good
wishes for peace on earth — that’s what the doves are
all about.”
The celebration began by releasing the “Wings of
see Peace, page 4
Tuesday,
October 26, 2010
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FAKED
Students scam for spirits
with illegal identification
BY MIKE MUELLER
News Reporter
In the fall of 2007, Jason Errion was
a 19-year-old University of Memphis
student from Collierville. That is, until
he entered any convenience or liquor
store, when he became a 23-year-old
organ donor from Columbia, S.C.
At least that’s what his fake ID said.
Generations of underage col-
lege and high school students have
assumed different names, ages and
faces at bars, clubs and convenience
stores, all in the name of alcohol and
having a good time.
Their methods of obtaining false
identification range from the primitive,
like cutting numbers out of a phone
book and pasting them on their driver’s
licenses, to the technologically savvy,
digitally altering an identification card
by Amy Barnette
with imaging software.
Others get their fakes through older
siblings and friends, who pass down
old or expired forms of ID.
Myiesha Griffin, senior broadcast
major, obtained her fake ID from a
cousin two years older than her when
she was 16. Griffin, now 21, said she
see Fake, page 3
UM gamers to
compete for
gridiron glory
BY CHRIS DANIELS
News Reporter
Trash will be talked, touchdowns will
be scored and dreams will be crushed.
Derrick “TD” Brown, senior educa-
tion major at The University of Memphis,
will host a Madden NFL 2011 tourna-
ment in the River Room on the second
floor of the University Center today at
6 p.m. Applications for the event will be
available on the first floor of the UC from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For $10, gamers can show off their
skills on the virtual gridiron as they com-
pete for bragging rights and a cash prize
in the single-elimination tournament.
Competitors will have the choice of
dueling on the XBOX 360 or PS3, with
matchups arranged in an AFC versus
NFC format.
by Amy Barnette
As of Monday evening, more than 90
guests had confirmed their attendance to
the event on Facebook, with 15 students
officially registered to compete.
“A lot of students around campus
In the Head Start class housed in the Lipman School, students have been saying they’re the best, so we
aim high for the goal of peace. The brightly colored mural just wanted to make it official who the
behind them, in the shape of the international symbol for
peace, is a composite created by the students’ footprints. see Madden, page 4