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The Last Freedom
The debate over the proper relationship between church and state, a debate as old as the Republic, has in our time taken on fresh intensity. The flashpoints range from abortion to the role of the so-called religious Right in American politics, but among the most delicate issues involved are those concerning education, in particular public support for private and parochial schools.
As is usual when it comes to education, much of the battle lately has been taking place on the local level. Thus, in 1990, at the urging of black parents frustrated with the wretched quality of the schools, a law was passed in Wisconsin making taxpayer-funded scholarships available so that poor families in Milwaukee could send their children to schools of their choosing, be they public or private; but when in 1995 the law was amended to include parochial schools, the Wisconsin supreme court held that this violated federal and state constitutional standards for the separation of church and state, and put a temporary stop to the program just before the school year was to begin. In Cleveland, Ohio, the constitutionality of a similar program was upheld by a state trial court, but is now under appeal. Meanwhile, in New York City, a brouhaha has erupted over the offer of the Catholic Archdiocese to take 1,000 of the worst-performing students in the public-school system and educate them in Catholic schools. The chancellor of New York's Board of Education, Rudy Crew, declared that he would accept the offer only if the Archdiocese found private funds to pay for the program, and if the schools involved removed any signs, indications, or lessons marking them as religious.
As in Milwaukee and Cleveland, the subject under discussion in New York quickly changed from the ills of public education to the establishment clause of the First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion") and what it signifies. And that requires us to take a quick look back at history.
The idea of a religious establishment had a quite specific meaning in 18th-century Europe, where it referred to a single official church supported by public funds. This was a condition common in many countries in which ecclesiastic and state authority were still closely intermingled, and where membership in the established church was required to hold public office or to be eligible for other social privileges. But in colonial America, owing to the distinct origin of each settlement, religious establishment took on a more ambiguous, and a more diffuse, significance. In most of New England, each town selected its own minister—usually a Congregationalist—and supported him with local taxes; New York, although favoring Anglicanism, was slightly more pluralistic; Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey had no establishments at all; in the South, the Anglican establishment was replaced by a system of nonpreferential aid that taxed citizens to support the churches of their choice.
This pattern of diversity was carried over into the early decades of the Republic. By the time the First Congress adopted the Bill of Rights in 1789, every state except Connecticut had a constitutional provision protecting religious freedom, but only in a limited sense. Six states granted the right to theists only; all but two required religious tests for public office; in some, the franchise was conditioned upon membership in a Christian church, and a person could be criminally prosecuted for not observing the Sabbath. But more important for our purposes is the fact that in almost all states, education was deemed inseparable from religious instruction, and responsibility for providing both resided with the clergy.
As it happens, the establishment clause of the First Amendment applied to none of these arrangements, being designed merely to prevent the establishment of a national church. And in the meantime, the same Congress that drafted the Bill of Rights also voted to support chaplains in the military and in both of its own houses, and used these words in reenacting the Northwest Ordinance and providing for a system of schools: "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government . . . schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged."
It is a measure of the distance we have traversed from such elastic early understandings that today's conventional wisdom should be the one reflected in many of the arguments put forward in the court cases in Wisconsin and Ohio and in the position adopted so reflexively by the New York City schools chancellor—namely, that an impenetrable "wall of separation" (in Thomas Jefferson's metaphor) is needed to protect government and religion from each other, and that the First Amendment enshrines that principle in constitutional law. To be sure, there are some legal historians who argue that the First Amendment was never intended to prohibit government support to religion so long as it was not limited to a single established church. But theirs is decidedly a minority view. Most contemporary scholars favor an interpretation of the First Amendment that proscribes any direct aid to sectarian institutions,1 and over the last 50 years this interpretation has found its way into the reasoning of the Supreme Court.
The landmark opinion was written in 1947 by Justice Hugo Black, who in Everson v. Board of Education invoked the Jeffersonian metaphor of a wall of separation to extend the strictures of the establishment clause from the federal government to the states. That decision, in turn, gave rise to a number of subsequent judicial actions regulating the relationship between religion and education. But not until 1971, in Lemon v. Kurzman, did the Court take a giant step by promulgating a three-part test, the so-called Lemon test, forbidding any government action in this sphere that (1) had no secular purpose; (2) had a "primary effect" of advancing religion; or (3) fostered "excessive entanglement" between church and state.
Two years later, in Committee for Public Education v. Nyquist, the Court invalidated a New York law that had offered tuition allotments for the poor and tax relief to parents sending their children to private and parochial schools. Focusing on the second prong of the Lemon test, the Court noted that "insofar as such benefits render assistance to parents who send their children to sectarian schools, their purpose and inevitable effect are to aid and advance those religious institutions."
Here, and in a whole string of other cases in the 1970's, a pattern was set whereby the wholly secular purpose of improving educational opportunities for disadvantaged children became entangled in the Court's preoccupation with preventing any benefit, however incidental, to church-connected schools. Not surprisingly, the resulting decisions were tortured in their reasoning and confusing in their effect. Thus, loans of textbooks by public-school systems to nonpublic schools were approved on the grounds that they could be considered a financial benefit "to parents and children, not to the nonpublic schools"—though even so, the Court worried lest the textbooks become "instrumental in the teaching of religion." But while lending textbooks was approved, lending instructional materials and equipment was deemed to have "the unconstitutional effect of advancing religion because of the predominantly religious character of the schools benefiting from the act." Again, although it was permissible to provide bus transportation to parochial schools, the Court found that states were under no obligation to provide the same level of service to public- and parochial-school students; in addition, a bus ride to a park or a museum from a parochial school was declared to be in violation of the Constitution. And so forth.
The ultimate message conveyed by all this convoluted decision-making, routinely justified on grounds of protecting religious liberty, was that public money allocated for education belonged not to taxpayers and their children but to the public-school "system." By definition, families wanting to provide their children with an education reflecting their religious values stood outside that system and its aims, and were entitled to none of its benefits.
The economic disadvantage at which this put religious families was one thing, and perhaps could be regarded by them as a price that had to be paid. But something else has been going on in recent decades which, in the name of religious freedom, has amounted to a positive infringement on their freedom: namely, the transformation of the public schools into vehicles of a secularist orthodoxy which is not merely neutral on questions of religious faith and values but positively hostile.
Consider, for example, the predicament of religious parents in New York City who cannot afford a private religious education and whose children therefore end up in the public schools. Several years ago, such parents were confronted with a new sex-education program that involved the distribution of condoms. When the program was implemented, a number of Catholic and Jewish groups pleaded for "opt-out" alternatives, so that their children would not have to be subjected to teachings which actively violated the precepts of their respective religions. To this, the Board of Education turned a deaf ear: for parents offended by the program, the only "opt-out" provision was to leave the public-school system altogether and exercise their religious freedom at their own expense—or, to put it more accurately, to accept a significant financial penalty, imposed by the state, for holding their religious beliefs in the first place.
Although the program in question has since been revised, the militantly secularist ethos embodied in it remains an animating factor in public education throughout the country, protected by a whole line of Supreme Court decisions. Nor is this all: in a period in which, under the banner of multiculturalism, educators have gone to the ends of the earth to show "sensitivity" to minorities defined by race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, the line of tolerance has been peremptorily drawn at individuals whose identity is defined by faith.
Fortunately, however, that is not quite the whole story. Not only are local initiatives like the ones in Wisconsin, Ohio, and New York City becoming more common, whatever temporary setbacks they may encounter, but the Supreme Court itself has entered upon a reconsideration of its jurisprudence. I would trace the beginning of the change to 1983, when, in Meuller v. Allen, the Court upheld a Minnesota statute granting a tax deduction to families for expenses incurred for tuition, textbooks, and transportation. The relief was made available to all parents, regardless of whether their children attended public, private, or parochial schools.
This decision was notable not only because it validated benefits for parochial-school parents, but for two other reasons as well: it drew a distinction between direct and indirect aid to religious institutions (the former being prohibited, the latter permitted), and it endorsed the concept of parental choice. Writing for the majority, Justice William Rehnquist asserted that
aid to parochial schools [was being made] available only as a result of decisions of individual parents . . . [and] no "imprimatur of state approval". . . . can be deemed to have been conferred on any particular religion, or on religion generally.
While recognizing that most of the parents who had taken advantage of the program sent their children to Catholic schools, Rehnquist, who was about to become Chief Justice, deemed that it was time to relax the "primary-effect" prong of the Lemon test.
Continuing the line of Meuller, a unanimous Court ruled in 1986 that the First Amendment was not violated when a (blind) student used a public scholarship to attend a Bible college. In 1990, the Court held that public schools must allow student religious clubs to meet on campus under the same terms as other clubs; to do otherwise, the Court reasoned, would violate First Amendment freedom-of-association and free-exercise-of-religion rights (as well as the Fourteenth Amendment), and would demonstrate "not neutrality but hostility toward religion." In 1993, the Court upheld the right of a Catholic high-school student to receive the services of a sign-language interpreter at public expense. And in 1995 the Court rejected an attempt by the University of Virginia to exclude a student newspaper with a religious message from the services and benefits that were awarded to other student organizations on campus.
All in all, the First Amendment jurisprudence that has been evolving over the last fifteen years suggests a shift in balance, with the Court relaxing the strict approach to the Amendment's establishment clause that prevailed in the prior decade and relying more heavily on the clause immediately following it, the one which guarantees "free exercise." In the University of Virginia case, Justice Anthony Kennedy distinguished neatly between "government speech endorsing religion, which the establishment clause forbids, and private speech endorsing religion, which the free-exercise clause protects." In so doing, the Court has also begun to set standards that would permit the government to support school choice if three criteria are met:
- Public aid is given to an individual parent or student rather than to an institution.
- Any benefit accrued by an institution is the result of individual choices made by the parent or student.
- Aid is appropriated on a religiously neutral basis to those who attend private and parochial schools as well as to those who attend public schools.
Opponents of this trend say that it represents an aberration from the Court's by-now longstanding tradition of maintaining a wall of separation between church and state. In fact, however, the opposite is true: what is going on is more akin to a restoration. Everson notwithstanding, up until the early 1970's the Supreme Court was clearly accommodationist on this issue, and was especially sympathetic to the rights of parents wishing to determine the kind of schooling their children would have. As early as 1925, the Court supported parental prerogatives in the face of a compulsory-education law (itself motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment) that would have required all children in Oregon to attend public school. As the Court explained in Pierre v. Society of Sisters:
The child is not the mere creature of the state; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
Five years later, in Cochran v. Board of Education, upholding a Louisiana law that set aside tax funds to supply textbooks for children in public, private, and parochial schools, the Court enunciated a "child-benefit theory": although some of the participating students attended sectarian institutions, nevertheless "the schoolchildren and the state alone are the beneficiaries."
Even Everson is less clear-cut than strict separationists make it out to be. In addition to containing Justice Black's edict on the wall of separation, the decision supported the right of parochial-school children to receive transportation services at public expense. To be consistent with the establishment clause of the First Amendment, wrote the majority, the state of New Jersey could not "contribute tax funds to the support of an institution which teaches the tenets of faith of any church." But, on the other hand, the Court went on:
[O]ther language of the Amendment commands that New Jersey cannot hamper its citizens in the free exercise of their own religion. Consequently, it cannot exclude Catholics, Lutherans, Mohammedans, Baptists, Jews, Methodists, Nonbelievers, Presbyterians, or the members of any faith, because of their faith or lack of it, from receiving the benefits of public-welfare legislation.
Finally, in 1970, just one year prior to issuing the Lemon standard, the Court upheld tax exemptions for religious institutions and endorsed the principle of "benevolent neutrality" as opposed to total separation (Walz v. Tax Commission). Even the Lemon opinion itself contains language that should be discomfiting to any strict separationist:
Our prior holdings do not call for a total separation between church and state; total separation is not possible in an absolute sense. Some relationship between government and religious organizations is inevitable.
True, just as the prior history of Court jurisprudence is nowhere near so seamless as strict separationists like to argue, the Court's recent record is not totally consistent, either. The most notable exception to the new pattern of accommodation occurred in 1990, when the Court ruled, in Oregon Department of Human Resources v. Smith, that religious believers are not entitled to exemptions from generally applicable governmental requirements. But this decision, which seemed to fly in the face of a long line of cases dealing with religious minorities—from conscientious objectors in the military to Amish seeking exemptions from compulsory-education laws—elicited a response from other branches of government that was itself noteworthy. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed into law by President Clinton in 1993, prohibits the government from burdening a person's exercise of religion unless it can be demonstrated that the burden "is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest" and "is the least restrictive means of furthering" that interest. The federal courts are still trying to determine whether the Act amounts to an unconstitutional attempt by Congress to usurp judicial power and overturn Smith; however that question gets resolved, the Act itself affirms a growing sentiment in the nation that is already, as we have seen, exerting an influence on public policy.
Still, the direction of events is by no means certain. Last year, President Clinton signed a "Memorandum on Religion in Schools." Proclaiming that the First Amendment "does not convert schools into religion-free zones," he instructed the Secretary of Education and the Attorney General to develop guidelines on the appropriate role of religion in public-school districts. The memorandum was itself a response to a document drafted by an unusual coalition of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and civil-rights groups, and both the initial document and the executive memorandum may be seen as signs of accommodation to the new public mood. But both are inadequate at best.
For example, the consensus document declares the right of students in public schools to read their Bibles and pray in informal settings; at the same time, out of concern for students who choose not to pray, or who might be offended by prayer, it prohibits any form of official religious prayer. Elsewhere, it urges that school administrators be given substantial discretion to excuse students from lessons which, for religious reasons, are objectionable to them or their parents.
Note the difference between the two sets of injunctions. In the first instance, whether or not prayer is considered a normal part of the school day by a majority of the community, individual students are to be saved the embarrassment of non-participation in it by virtue of a general prohibition. By contrast, no such effort to avoid stigmatization is on display in the case of students who may not want to hear, for example, what the Board of Education thinks they should know about sex; at most, they are to be excused from a prescribed school activity and allowed to leave the room where it is taking place. Once again, the secularist "system" decides what is or is not legitimate, and once again religion is put on the defensive.
Of course, even under the best of circumstances, and with all the good will in the world, it would be extremely difficult to force the square peg of religion into the round hole of secularism—even a secularism more neutral than the current brand of government-enforced anti-religion. Christian groups, for example, have advocated the right to conduct prayer of some sort in public classrooms. But in addition to all the other valid objections that can be raised against this idea, it is highly improbable that any real prayer could be composed under such auspices that would not succeed in offending other religious minorities. What would result from the process of negotiation would inevitably be so devoid of spiritual meaning as hardly to merit being called a prayer.
To say this, however, is not to give up on the search for accommodation but to expose the need for a genuine accommodation. Our Bill of Rights, written to protect individuals from excessive governmental power, has from time to time been used in ways that tend unduly to impose that power on the truly religious among us, and to burden them in the exercise of their rights. For anyone who still adheres to the liberal tradition of tolerance, here is perhaps the last frontier of freedom.
If government-run schools are to remain secular, as no doubt they should, there is no good reason why the devoutly religious should not have alternatives—just as they do in other free nations, from Canada to Europe to Australia—that would permit them to educate their children in a setting that supports their values and convictions, under state-imposed educational standards but without taint, without encumbrance, and without financial penalty. This goal, which can be achieved without giving direct support to religious institutions, strikes a balance between the disestablishment of religion and its free exercise—the inextricably twinned aims of the First Amendment. It is sound public policy, it is fair, and it has even been upheld as constitutional by the United States Supreme Court.
1 See Leonard W. Levy, The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment (1994).


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- Publication date: 1 November 2007
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Terry Jones' Barbarians takes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, with no intentions of overthrowing Rome and plundering its Empire. This original and fascinating study does away with the propaganda and opens our eyes to who really established the civilized world. Delving deep into history, Terry Jones and Alan Ereira uncover the impressive cultural and technological achievements of the Celts, Goths, Persians and Vandals. In this paperback edition, Terry and Alan travel through 700 years of history on three continents, bringing wit, irreverence, passion and scholarship to transform our view of the legacy of the Roman Empire and the creation of the modern world.
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Terry Jones is best known as a member of Monty Python but he has also written four books on medieval England: Chaucer's Knight, the highly acclaimed Who Murdered Chaucer?, Crusades and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives, which accompanied a major television series he presented in 2004. He is the author of several children's books including Fairy Tales and Fantastic Stories, The Knight and the Squire and The Lady and the Squire. He has directed several feature films: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life, Personal Services, Erik the Viking and The Wind in the Willows. Terry presented the four-part television series Barbarians in 2006. Alan Ereira has worked as an award-winning producer and writer of history programmes on radio and television for over 40 years, and has collaborated with Terry for ten years on a number of historical films. His previous books include The People's England, The Invergordon Mutiny, The Heart of the World and (with Terry Jones) Crusades and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives.
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"This is a very easy and tasty recipe. My family loves it. Try serving it with a green salad and garlic bread if desired."
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1 pound
linguini pasta
1/4 cup
olive oil
1/4 cup
2 (6.5 ounce) cans
minced clams, drained with juice reserved
4 cloves
crushed garlic
2 tablespoons
chopped fresh parsley
salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoons
grated Parmesan cheese
My husband and I decided that this dish was good enough that it would not have been out of place if served at a solid Italian restaurant. I added a little white wine and lemon juice to the sauce (while it was simmering) to great effect. The lemon juice gave the sauce a little pizzazz. The overall effect was a sauce that had many distinct flavors without being overpowering. Next time I might add some more clams -- possibly whole clams. This quality pasta recipe promises to be a regular at our dinner table.
I can't say that we found this to be anything to brag about. I even added 1/4 cup red and 1/4 cup green chopped bell peppers and 1/4 cup of fresh, sliced mushrooms to the saute. Still, the result was nothing more than butter and noodles...with a couple of veggies and clams. I would certaintly not serve to company and doubt I will make again.
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Excellent. I doubled the sauce, used 2 cans of minced clams(reserving juice from both) and 1 can of small clams. Added a couple squirts of lemon. Garnished with real clams in shells and served with a good crusty bread. As good as any restaurants.
If 4 & 1/2 stars were an option, that is what I would rate this recipe. However after reading some of the past reviews, this is how I prepared the dish:
I used 1 tbls fresh parsley and 1 tbls fresh basil. I prepared the sauce as directed by using 1/2 of the butter suggested and adding some white wine and a little fresh squeezed lemon juice. I sauted some mushrooms on the side with the remaining half of butter and added some italian seasonings. Half way through the simmering process of the sauce, I added a dash of red pepper flakes (will add just a tad more the next time I make this) with the sauted mushrooms. I tossed all with a garlic and parsley flavored linguini cooked al dante. This was very, very good and very easy. I will make it again.
Nice recipe. I don't like it when people make big changes, but, I did make a few (trying to use up ingredients from another recipe). I reduced the olive oil to just a few tablespoons and used it to saute the garlic with a little added minced onion. I also added 1/2 cup each of white wine and heavy cream. The dish came out beautifully, but the sauce was even better the next two days for leftovers (became more creamy). Make sure to add the pasta to the sauce and blend before serving, don't pour the sauce over the noodles. Easy, inexpensive and a crowd pleaser!
If I could rate this more than 5 I would. My family loved this. Made as stated as far as ingredients but I did add an extra can of clams and I did use chopped clams. Since everyone fought over the clams, I will put in 4 cans next time. I also added six cloves of garlic (per our taste). I did have a little bit of noodles leftover but there was nothing else leftover. Served with asiago garlic bread and it was perfect for sopping up the sauce. Thanks so much Peg. Great meal and quick to make!
I enjoyed this recipe as a great starting point. My premise was that seafood tastes better with acid so I added half a lemon to the reduction. I also added some chili flakes, green onions, white wine, chicken stock and a little fresh oregano. I also reduced the sauce for at least 20 minutes since there was a lot more liquod and it came out awesome!
I have been making this for years, with the exception of adding butter. I use two cans of Whole clams (I love clams), minced clams just don't do it for me. I also add parsley, oregano, garlic salt and garlic powder. It is wonderful. Thanks Peg for sharing your recipe.....
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Serving Size: 1/5 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 5
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 624
Calories from Fat: 217
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A look at seat-belt violations in and around Spring Hill in wake of Marlon Brown tragedy
By Joe Crews
posted Jul 11, 2013 - 10:31:26am
Along with guns and billy clubs, officers of the law have another tool in their fight against crime: the seat-belt stop.
Since 2009, police have been free to stop motorists for no other reason than failure to wear a seat belt.
"A driver could be doing everything right, except for his seat belt, and we can stop him for that," Cmdr. Jason Sampsell of the Orange City Police Department said. "And stops can lead to other things. I've found guns or drugs after stopping a vehicle and talking with the driver."
In DeLand, two attempted seat-belt stops over the course of nine months triggered events that led to two deaths. One of the two was 17 years old.
Both individuals, instead of responding to officers' lights and sirens by stopping, fled in their vehicles. Both incidents happened in the predominantly African-American Spring Hill neighborhood of DeLand, and both men were black.
In May, a Volusia County sheriff's deputy tried to pull over 38-year-old Marlon Brown for not wearing a seat belt. Brown was killed shortly thereafter, struck by a DeLand police cruiser that was pursuing him.
What do the statistics on seat-belt violations reveal?
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Who started this whole mess Krystal?
It was a felon that did not want to go BACK to Jail named Marlon.
I do not like criminals of any race or gender Krystal and cannot make an exception because Marlon's people want to use their worn out race card.
You and your AA friends are just trying to milk this situation for sympathy, when you should try to LEARN from it.
What would the lesson be Krystal?
The lesson is.... Quit being a criminal, obey the laws and quit running from the cops like a RAT.
I am not a racist but I am a realist and I was listening to the 'POOR US' **** from the AA Community before you or Marlon were ever born.
There are some really great AA people I have worked with over the years, they are the kind of people that play straight and do not have to run from the cops all the time.
Marlon died because of the unintended consequences of Marlon's actions...too bad.. get over it.
Okay ....class. look up the word Racism in the dictionary and see what you come up with.
I am not angry, I am just weary of a race that is in love with it's own low lifes and criminals because of the color of their skin and does not reject them because of the content of their character.
Marlon got his wish , he will not be going back to jail...so rejoice....be happy in Spring Hill and quit your whining.
Good AA's are working ...no time for making excuses for their criminals and bums
Marlon Brown said he did not want to go back to prison...we got his wish.
Few people will miss Trayvon or Marlon...I won't for sure. Both of them and their parents and friends could march all they way to Africa and would do this country a favor
March.. baby March...keep going...see ya bye bye have a nice life in Africa, see how your race card plays in that **** hole.
You don't even know me and you attack me with anger, name calling and even question my religious beliefs AND IM THE IDIOT??
PLEASE HEAR/ READ ME WELL- No one has ever said marlon should have gotten out of the car and ran! HE SHOULD HAVE STOPPED! HOWEVER, officer Harris is not above the law because he served our country and he wears a badge!!! HE DISOBEYED his training for P&P for pursuits and placed a life in danger whether that life was of a "criminal" or a "preacher!" That part is irrelevant. I'll repeat since you only focused in on what you wanted to previously: on any job if you don't follow p&p is that not grounds for termination? (Please if you can set aside your anger and answer this question honestly) with that why are you so angry that officer Harris lost his job? Hopefully your anger is not stirred because he lost his job to a "male, BLACK criminal?" IJS! If we are going to have a discussion lets be open minded, honest and REAL! That's why I put my real name because I'm just that.
I'll just allow the events to come to tell Marlon's story! IT AIN'T OVER TILL GOD SAYS ITS OVER! JUSTICE for marlon will be served!
@ Krystal Brown
I shall quote you...To God be the glory to this.. Marlon was chosen to be a catalyst for change.
You are so full of bullsheet...Marlon was a low life idiot criminal and you are trying to spin God's will into the equation.
Who are YOU to speak for God's will...are YOU GOD'S agent on earth? Where is your proof.. YOU have none because you are another idiot.
Marlon's death was unfortunate, but part of his lifestyle. There was nothing tragic about this incident at all because Marlon dictated the fact that he is dead as an unintended consequence of his own actions.
Marlon ran like a rat...he should have stopped and faced the situation like a man.
Quit making excuses for the bad behavior of bad people.
Marlon was not a catalyst for change, he was just another street criminal POS.
If you want to do something positive urge the Spring Hill Community to take up a collection to fix the cop car and find that cop a better job.
There will be no statements forthcoming about a "rush to judgement", there will be no public (or even private for that matter) apologies. Officer Harris will be left hung out to dry by the very people who should have had his back throughout this whole ordeal, and he will have to fend for himself.
This is what happens when weak, cowardly men are put in positions of authority. Bill Ridgeway and Michael Pleus are both spineless, cowardly, worthless men, and don't deserve to hold a job taking out the trash at City Hall, let alone the positions of authority they have been given.
Why does the West Volusia Beacon call Marlon Browns death a tragedy? Nothing tragic about it at all.
It is an unfortunate event caused by Marlon's own actions. When ignorant criminals of any race do stupid things they often pay the price.
The press needs to quit being intimidated by the negative political players from the AA community. The real tragedy is the criminals victims not the criminals race card.
AA's do good things as well...lets hear about that. I know a lot of really good AA's...but those AA's do not amp up the fact that they are AA's they just act normal....because they are normal.
Sgt. Schultz
You should quite as soon as you can. It is very apparent that the police chief, city manager, or even citizens are not going to support you. You risk your life and well being for individuals and a community that will hang you out to dry when given the chance. As for Spring Hill, stay away from there. It has been made clear that you are not wanted there so stay away. For now, go to work and as your bosses tell you what they want done just simply keep your mouth shut and shake your head up and down and agreeing with what ever they say. Once in your police cars, go find a place to hide. Only respond to calls that you are ordered to respond to. Do the minimum amount of work possible. Do not be proactive. Proactive will get you in trouble. If for some reason someone runs from you, turn and go the other way. Do not volunteer for any thing extra, just do the minimum it takes to keep your job. Remember this, no Deland cop has ever been fired for being lazy. You are more likely to be fired for something that happens while you are actually working. DON'T WORK! Simple as that... Take care of you and your family and do not worry about anyone else. Let the police chief and city manager worry with the criminals.
Let's start stopping people for no headlights during rain or darkness. Turn signals, I have seen the police not use their turn signals. Burnt out lights. Brake lights on trailers . Most all trailers have some lights out.
Let's get to work police officers. Do their whole job. Not just the higher paying tickets.
Criminals are not smart enough to wear seatbelts...who cares if they get killed anyway?
When stupid people get killed why is that a problem? Charlie Darwin called that shot 100 years ago...DUH!!
Marlon Brown was a poster child for birth control and heavy duty steel belted all weather radial condoms.
And yes it leads to search of your personal vehicle if a probable cause is felt warranted.And that is almost a given.
Like i said Your safety is of no concern just your money.But who are we to complain? Just pay up and shut up.As the old saying goes.
Exceptions of course children.Restraint by belt seat or other items should be law for those that are under the age of six years.This i base upon school age and able to speak for themselves and understand parental instruction.Parents should be held responsible for their safety under child abuse laws if not complied with.Other than that we are grownups and are supposedly capable of making decisions as adults. And as such should have the right to wear or not wear. I think it was passed as law by the insurance companies lobbyist group in unison with state law makers looking to make money.
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But despite the exposure and the praise, Pranschke's profile on the local art scene is decidedly low. At age 31, he lives with his parents. He has never had a driver's license. Thanks to a kidney disorder, his constant companion since childhood, he wears a hearing aid. He admits he's not particularly happy with life right now — that he feels lost, yearning for something better but not sure what. Everything feels "unresolved," which is a word he uses frequently.
"Life in general can be a struggle," says Pranschke with a warm smile and folksy tone that belie his dead-seriousness. The demands of the night shift often prevent him from finishing projects, leading to shows that appear fragmented. When that occurs, "I have this feeling of defeat," he says. "There's so much I want to express, but I'm physically drained."
And yet it's that very dichotomy that brings Pranschke's art to life. Misgivings or no, he clocks in for the rental-car gig every night with hardhat-and-lunch pail grit. And that humble, workaday persistence bleeds into his subject matter. His current exhibit at the Sheldon, for example, depicts stoic young workers who aren't so much experiencing life as trudging through it, to the point of exhaustion. But all through the grind, they never abandon their core determination to grin and bear it.
Pranschke is rail thin, wispy-haired and a little gawky. He's also affable and quietly proud. And here at this working-class diner at 8:30 a.m. on a weekday, he fits in. Holding a forkful of pancakes and gazing out into nowhere, as he tends to do, Pranschke considers a theory: Maybe the overnight shift at the rent-a-car company doesn't restrict his art. Maybe it enhances it.
Inside the first-floor gallery of the Sheldon, the first image that catches the eye is a photograph of Peter Pranschke himself, shot on the day he arrived to install his current exhibit, titled The Lonely Rainbow. With his bicycle and custom-built "art cart" parked nearby, the youthful-looking artist poses eagerly for the camera, chin up, a large, puckish grin stretching between even-larger ears. He carries a beat-up backpack like a high schooler. "Life is good," reads his T-shirt.
Pranschke has reason to feel proud. Apart from his solo shows, he was featured in a two-person exhibition at Mad Art Gallery, and his work has been displayed at the Contemporary Art Museum.
"The thing I love about his work is that it's incredibly earnest, and that's hard to find elsewhere," says Bevin Early, who curated a Pranschke show at Snowflake, the Cherokee Street gallery she co-directs. "He's also one of the nicest people you've ever met," Early adds. "He's a gentle soul."
Pranschke attended University City High School and, after undergoing a kidney transplant at twenty, enrolled at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. After graduating in 2003 with a degree in painting, he got a job bagging groceries at a local Schnucks while he went about establishing himself as an artist. (At 26 he underwent a second transplant.) He still does all his sketching inside his childhood home, which he calls "a humble environment."
In a typcial Pranschke exhibit, the art is autobiographical and arranged in a narrative format that tells a personal story — from the dialysis clinic to the rental-car office — with a style informed by pop culture and children's drawings. At the Sheldon, for example, some characters have giant, Mr. Potato Head eyeballs and oversize heads attached to tiny torsos.
Though his main talent is drawing, Pranschke has experimented with other media. Hewing to no-frills, low-budget simplicity, he has created three-dimensional exhibitions using household items such as Ping-Pong balls, ChapStick and dental floss (materials often purchased from thrift stores or discovered at random).
But no matter the medium, the themes stay the same: humility, tragicomedy, survival. Beneath those big eyeballs and small, cartoonish bodies, there's a sense of human fragility, even melancholy, in Pranschke's characters. You notice the bags under the eyes, the worried expressions on the faces, the knots in the shoulders. Life can be thankless and uncertain.
"His characters come from the small daily rigors that confront us," says Jessica Baran, assistant director of White Flag Projects and a freelance visual-arts writer for RFT. "He celebrates what goes uncelebrated, chronicling it in a way that's very empathetic."
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NORFOLK, Va., May 18, 1998 Defense Secretary William Cohen highlighted racial desegregation in the military at the ROTC commissioning ceremony May 16 at Norfolk State University.
Fifty years ago, President Harry Truman issued an executive order banning racial segregation in the armed forces. Also in 1948, the Norfolk Division of Virginia State College established an ROTC program. That program continues to flourish today at this small, predominantly black university.
With 29 cadets receiving their new gold bars, the secretary said the school symbolizes the ideals Truman put forth in his executive order, as well as the quality of graduates the military seeks.
"There is no more fitting place to mark this historic anniversary than Norfolk," Cohen told the cadets, faculty, family members and friends assembled in the university auditorium.
On the stage with Cohen and his wife, Janet Langhart, were prominent African Americans from DoD's past and present, including Charity Adams-Early. In the closing days of World War II, then-Maj. Adams was the highest ranking African-American woman in England, where she commanded the all African-American female Army postal battalion.
"Few American women did so much to help our troops win that war," Cohen said of Adams' efforts to get morale-boosting mail to troops on the front lines of Europe.
Cohen recognized black heroes and trailblazers sharing the stage, including World War II aviators Howard Baugh, Lee Archer and Charles Bussey of the Tuskegee Airmen. Norman McDaniel, a former Vietnam POW and retired Air Force colonel, also attended.
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Then Cohen announced to a standing ovation that he would soon nominate Davis for honorary promotion to four-star rank. "Few deserve this honor more or have waited longer for it than Gen. Davis," he said.
Among the audience were black military leaders -- and heroes. "We have in one room a stunning array of talent that spans the tapestry of time," Cohen said. Among those present, said the secretary, "are ground breakers whose remarkable stories ... I want to share with you today; current military leaders who are confronting the security challenges of our time; and future officers, illuminated by all the potential and possibilities of tomorrow."
The secretary pointed out the achievements of Adm. Paul Reason, the first African American in naval history to achieve four-star rank. Sitting with the commander in chief of Atlantic Command were the other two African-American active duty four-stars: Gen. Johnnie Wilson, commander of the Army Materiel Command; and Gen. Lloyd "Fig" Newton, commander of the Air Training and Education Command.
"These leaders and these graduates prove that service of African Americans in our active, Guard and reserve forces is not a modern nicety -- it is a moral imperative and a military necessity," Cohen said. "In today's military, we cannot afford to waste the talents of a single individual."
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Pediatrician offices are busy this time of year now that many schools require kids get a physical before the first day of school.
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Be careful, though, regarding grunge. His single, "I Hate the '90s," (available on Mayor's superb soundtrack album) focuses on the nadir of the stinky flannel movement. "It's kind of a novelty tune," Rodney laughs. "It's a parody of the '90s. I hate tattoos on girls. I'm just yelling out all these weird things. Marcia Brady never had a tattoo!"
Rodney is complex. He chuckles knowingly over Kurt Cobain introducing a decade of braying pop misery, then rapidly admits to being the first major DJ to promote Nirvana's Bleach. This man, for whom the Monkees and the Sex Pistols, Starsailor and Coldplay, are all basically pals, started a trend -- and then countered it, boosting Brit-pop with the homemade cassettes of the then-unsigned Oasis. That's influence.
Harbored by Sonny & Cher in his tender teens, Rodney's the eternal pop prince. Legions of acts thank him for their big American breaks. And yet: no drugs (ever), no drink (doesn't like alcohol), no record (but countless records). This fellow simply loves sharing his uncanny gift.
In 1971, while working for Mercury Records, Rodney introduced America to David Bowie, who stayed in the home of Rodney's friend, the late Tom Ayres (Gene Vincent's producer). Bowie suggested that Rodney open a rock club in Hollywood, and in the boom of glam, with Ayres as partner, Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco exploded. On his current Reality tour, Bowie called Rodney onstage to lionize him.
And "Rodney on the ROQ" remains a vital force at LA's KROQ-FM, where he continues to break up-to-the-minute acts such as Franz Ferdinand and the Raveonettes.
Rodney's funny too. Mention the latest Dead Kennedys tour (sans Jello Biafra) and he declares, "That doesn't count!" Regarding contemporary cinema, he offers, "Too many things blowing up," and of his favorite film, Breakfast at Tiffany's, he swoons for Audrey Hepburn: "Oh, worship!" He's also happy to tweak Mayor's interviewees, including Ray Manzarek: "The Doors never played a show with the Beatles -- I don't know what Ray's talking about," he chuckles. "But they did play with John and Yoko. John didn't really want to see anybody, but he'd hang out with me."
Most impressive for a suburban kid who collected Ronettes and Beach Boys singles in and around his humble hometown of Mountain View, California (where the Beach Boys actually visited his house in 1965). "I'd take the train," he reminisces, "and go up to San Francisco, to Woolworth's -- that big, famous Woolworth's you always see in the postcards -- and that's where I got my Phil Spector's Greatest Hits album." That platter helped spin innumerable others, but how did Rodney become the subject of the second-highest selling documentary (after Bowling for Columbine) of all time? Budgeted at 1.5 million, sold at 1.5 million -- that's rare.
"It started with Chris Carter," Rodney reveals, name-checking his friend whose credits range from being Dramarama's lead singer to co-producing the fabulous The Naked Dutch Painter album by Stew of the Negro Problem. Years later, editor Julie Janata honed the twelve-hour cut to about two, and Rodney viewed his life filmed large. "It was pretty fair. I went to the screening with Nancy Sinatra, and she went along to make sure [director George Hickenlooper] did a good job, and she was kind of protecting me." He grins mischievously. "Having a Sinatra protect you -- that's pretty cool."
George Hickenlooper -- director of hapless-hero features including The Man From Elysian Fields and The Low Life, as well as documentaries -- dashes through a Santa Barbara cinema lobby and shouts, "Is the Q&A over yet?" In fact, he's early, and the packed house is still engrossed in Mayor.
George, a graduate of Saint Louis University High School, has worked in film since age twelve, when his playwright-cineaste father bought him a Super 8 camera. His mother worked energetically in theater. George's short movies played on TV in St. Louis as well as in Kansas City. He took a film class in Palo Alto, California, with best friend Kirk Wise, who later helmed Disney's lavish Atlantis: The Lost Empire. With hipster screenwriter and SLU High classmate James Gunn (of the Scooby Doo franchise), George formed a collective of St. Louis filmmakers called the Splicers. Then came a University of Southern California summer film program, film studies at Yale and the inevitable internship with Roger Corman in Los Angeles.
George knows the biz. His documentaries about Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich and especially Francis Ford Coppola have won him big kudos; likewise his book of interviews, Reel Conversations. Forthcoming are a thriller called Diary; a 9/11-themed drama called The Handyman; and a new doc, possibly co-directed with Barbara Trent (of the Oscar-winning The Panama Deception), about the political spectrum on U.S. campuses. Meanwhile, he's made the greatest -- and arguably most sensitive -- rock & roll movie of all time. While Rodney is a pop lover, George is a social scientist. The two complement each other wonderfully.
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CANNELTON—Cannelton hit eight three-point shots in the first half and beat Bethel Christian 85-72 in the first round of the Bulldog Invitational boys basketball tourney Friday.
The Bulldogs hit 3 of 5 three-point shots in the first quarter, with Ethan Herzog, Tyler Aud and Cody Lawalin each making one, to build a 22-14 lead.
Lawalin hit two in a row to start the second-quarter scoring—one from well beyond NBA three-point range—to increase the Bulldogs' lead to 14.
EVANSVILLE—Dylan Froehlich placed second in the 215-pound weight class to lead Tell City to ninth place in Mater Dei's 15-team wrest-ling tourney last Monday and Tuesday.
Mater Dei won the tourney with 201 points, 12 ahead of runner-up Louisville Trinity. Tell City scored 88, just half a point behind eighth-place Floyd Central.
Froehlich won his first three matches. He pinned Nick Crask of St. Xavier in 4:35 and Andrew Sharp of Floyd Central in 1:22 and won a 4-0 decision against Steven Underwood of Louisville Trinity.
A couple of decades ago some Indiana University basketball fans who knew I liked UNLV's team criticized my choice, saying that the Rebels and then coach Jerry Tarkanian were cheaters, the antithesis of then Indiana University Coach Bobby Knight's program.
They didn't know that Knight actually had great respect for Tarkanian and the intensity with which his teams played defense.
TELL CITY—Strong rebounding and improved defense carried Perry Central past Tell City 65-40 in the semifinals of the PSC Holiday Classic boys basketball tourney Saturday.
Perry Central will play Boonville for the championship of the eight-team tourney Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Tell City will face Tecumseh in the battle for third place at 5 p.m. All Tuesday games will be played at Tell City.
Perry Central Coach Matt Carter was not satisfied with his team's defense in Friday's first-round win over Corydon.
TELL CITY—Ian Hahus scored 19 points in the overtime periods as Perry Central beat Boonville 83-77 in triple overtime to win the eight-team PSC Holiday Classic basketball tourney Tuesday.
Hahus finished with a career-high 29 points on 8 of12 field-goal shooting, including 3 of 5 from three-point range, and 10 of 10 free throws.
He also grabbed a career-high 15 rebounds and had three assists.
Perry Central built a 12-0 lead in the first five minutes and seemed in control most of the game, never trailing until 3:08 left in regulation.
TELL CITY—Hurt by Adam Westerman and Robb Clifton earlier in the season, Tell City held them in check Tuesday.
But other Tecumseh players stepped up to hit key shots as the Braves beat the Marksmen 66-56 for third place in the eight-team PSC Holiday Classic boys basketball tourney Tuesday.
Westerman hit 7 of 8 from the field in the regular-season meeting against the Marksmen, including 5 of 6 from three-point range. And Clifton came off the bench to hit four key field goals in that game.
TELL CITY—Perry Central hit 67.6 percent from the field to beat North Harrison 68-56 in the first round of the PSC Holiday Classic boys basketball tourney Friday.
The Commodores also hit 17 of 19 free throws for 89.5 percent.
"Offensively that's probably our best game of the season, except for the turnovers (18)," said Perry Central Coach Matt Carter.
TELL CITY—Tell City hit 27 free throws to beat North Harrison 57-50 in the first round of the PSC Holiday Classic boys basketball tourney Friday.
Tell City actually went to the line for 44 free throws, as referees Michael Benham and Otis Broughton called 32 personal fouls and one technical foul (on a coach for saying Benham was "horrible") on North Harrison.
The Marksmen missed 16 foul shots, though, and had another attempt taken away by a lane violation.
When a Perry County business ceases operations, it affects our local economy in many ways.
Obviously the loss of jobs and taxes provided by the business hurts. But local sports leagues are also adversely affected by losing a sponsor and source of donations.
Take for example William Tell Woodcrafters/Swiss Plywood, which told its employees earlier this month it would probably close by Dec. 31.
LINCOLN CITY—Perry Central got off to a hot start from the field and played stifling defense on Tell City scoring leader Lauren Goffinet to beat the Marksmen 45-38 in the PSC girls holiday basketball tourney Monday.
Perry Central finished second in the four-team, round-robin tourney with a 2-1 record. Tell City was third at 1-2.
The Commodores played basically man-to-man defense but double- or triple-teamed Goffinet every time she got the ball. She entered the game with a 25.1-point scoring average but was held to 11 points.
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New York Times Editorial Calls for Canceling the Constitution
Having managed to reelect Obama despite his abysmal performance, the hard left "mainstream" media is beginning to feel free to take off the mask. Calls for jettisoning the Constitution that has held this country together for over two centuries are growing louder. From the alarmingly influential New York Times:
Our obsession with the Constitution has saddled us with a dysfunctional political system, kept us from debating the merits of divisive issues and inflamed our public discourse. Instead of arguing about what is to be done, we argue about what James Madison might have wanted done 225 years ago.
As someone who has taught constitutional law for almost 40 years, I am ashamed it took me so long to see how bizarre all this is. Imagine that after careful study a government official – say, the president or one of the party leaders in Congress – reaches a considered judgment that a particular course of action is best for the country. Suddenly, someone bursts into the room with new information: a group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves might have disagreed with this course of action. Is it even remotely rational that the official should change his or her mind because of this divination?
The Constitution should go in the garbage because it was produced by "white propertied men." This juvenile posturing passes for thought among the malicious fools who constitute the liberal intelligentsia.
They have crippled Christianity, reengineered our demographics, and corroded our character to the point that we tolerate being ruled by people who despise our country. When the Constitution topples, there will be nothing left of the foundations of America. The path will be clear for progressives to create another of their nightmare utopias, as they did under Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.
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For the last 22 months, our faith family has been endeavoring to restructure and realign ourselves with the mission of Jesus. Our orders are to "go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you" (The Great Commission).
Now that we have restructured our leadership team and reorganized our church to more closely resemble the New Testament church of the Bible, it is finally time for each of us to begin carrying out the mission of Jesus here in Frostburg, the surrounding areas, and throughout the world.
Some of you have already been doing this, working as forward scouts who go out and gather information and do short-term work in the field while the rest of the church prepares to launch the larger campaign. Well, the time has come for us to suit up and begin the incursion. As we line up in formation and begin to move forward into the community, here are a few brief reminders of the only way the mission will be successful:
1. Everyone must participate. Jesus has commanded ALL of us to go and make disciples. Notice, the authoritative word in the above sentence is "commanded." He has ordered all of us to go and make disciples and this is what we must do. In fact, whether or not we follow this order is actually a sign of whether or not we are a part of his army, the church. If we do not follow his orders, then we are not obeying our commander and we are evidently not a part of His army, the church. We might go to a church and do churchy things, but if we are not doing as our commander has ordered, then we are not his followers. It's that simple.
2. Everyone must make disciples. I know we like to think that this is why we pay the pastor, but the truth of the matter is that Jesus has commanded ALL of us to go and make disciples. For many of us, making disciples can be as scary as getting into the water for the first time when we are learning to swim. In fact, it can be downright terrifying. The great thing is…Jesus isn't just pushing us out of the boat into water that is over our head. He has actually given us a life-preserver and an instructor who is the Holy Spirit, and he is ALWAYS with us. We never have to worry about drowning or messing up. If we simply obey his command to make disciples, all we have to do is reach out to those around us and tell them about what Jesus has done for us. Then each week, we can simply share with them what we are learning from the Bible and what we learned on Sunday with our faith family. It really is that simple, but we ALL have to do it.
3. We must make disciples who make disciples. We've seen first hand what happens when people stop making disciples. The church stagnates and begins to shrink and become inwardly focused. We've seen it in our own church and we see it happening in the churches in our community (at least 4 churches have closed their doors for good in Allegany County this year). Someone in your life helped you come to know and trust Jesus. Then they helped you further by teaching you how to obey the commands of Jesus, especially the Great Commission (see above), and now it is your turn to do the same. The great commission starts with us going and making disciples and it ends with us teaching the new disciples to obey Jesus' commands of going and making disciples. It is a continual, reproducible action that we must begin doing now.
We say we love God and we want to see God glorified. If this is true, then this is how we do it, and it starts right here where we live, work, and play. It starts here and it starts now. Will you join us?
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DAVIDSON, N.C. --- Despite 29 points from Omar Wattad (Johnson City, Tenn.), the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's basketball team dropped a 73-59 decision at Davidson (12-12/6-7) Saturday afternoon. The Mocs are still ahead in the North Division of the Southern Conference with a 10-3 league mark, 14-11 overall.
Wattad hit 6-13 from three-point range, but his teammates struggled shooting 0-17. It was a difficult shooting day overall as the Mocs managed 34.5 percent from the field and 20.0 percent from beyond the arc.
J.P. Kuhlman and Nik Cochran scored 16 apiece for the Wildcats. Cochran came off the bench to hit four treys and add five rebounds and four assists.
Davidson led by one, 39-38, with 13:51 to play after Chris Early (Huntington, W. Va.) hit two free throws for the Mocs. The Wildcats took control of the game with a 12-1 run capped by a Jake Cohen layup.
Wattad quickly answered with a jumper of his own before another run put the game away. Nine unanswered points with a Cochran three as an exclamation point put the Wildcats up 19, 63-44, at 7:53. Chattanooga did not manage to get inside of 14 the rest of the way.
The difference in the physical game came on the boards. Davidson out-muscled the Mocs 50-38 on the glass. Cohen and Da'Mon Brooks had game-high honors with nine each. Five Wildcats recorded five or more boards. Early had six to lead Chattanooga.
The Mocs led for the majority of the first half. It was as high as six four different times. The last was 21-15 at 5:42 on two Taylor free throws. The two teams went into the break tied at 28-all.
Early and Jeremy Saffore (Nashville, Tenn.) provided highlight reel plays. Saffore's tip dunk over two Wildcats with 14:00 to go in the first was his best play of the season. Early's slam came off an excellent no-look pass from junior Ricky Taylor (Brownsville, Tenn.) at 7:29.
Chattanooga held Davidson to just 29.0 percent (9-31) shooting including 5-17 (29.4%) from three-point range in the first half. The Mocs were a bit cold as well shooting 38.5 percent (10-26) from the field due to a 2-12 (16.7%) performance from beyond the arc.
Tonight was the first of four straight on the road for UTC. Next up for the Mocs is Western Carolina on Thursday, February 10, at 7 p.m. Fans can access live audio and stats via Chattanooga All-Access on GoMocs.com. The game will also broadcast on the Mocs Sports Network on ESPN 105.1 FM in the Chattanooga area with the "Voice of the Mocs" Jim Reynolds.GoMocs.com is the official website of the Chattanooga Mocs. The Mocs can also be followed on their official Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ChattanoogaMocs, or on Twitter, www.twitter.com/GoMocs.