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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Grace” peace doves from the
school’s outdoor classroom.
Tiny tykes watched in awe as
the birds circled the sky above
the playground.
But Peace Day is more than just
an abstract concept flying high
above the children, who discussed
the importance of peace, explor-
ing foreign cultures through their
peers and parents.
While students Issabella and
Nick painted a mural with their
classmates, they talked about
what peace meant to them.
“Well, it is about love with
your family,” Isabella said.
“Peace is important because
we share stuff and give stuff
and share and give and love,”
Nick said.
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about what programs you want
to see on campus!
Supervising teacher Carol
Cordeau Young, whose students
are ages 2 and 3, said that while
peace can be an abstract notion
for the youngsters, the effect of
the day’s activities is palpable.
“They get a concept of what
the word means, of being peace-
ful, but also a strong concept of
how to go about being peaceful
with other human beings,” she
said. “It’s about the emergence
of empathy — when I see one of
my children go and put an arm
around another when Mom or
Dad leaves, it’s those little, ran-
dom acts of kindness, empathy,
friendship and understanding
that result.”
Both Turner and Young stressed
the event as an example of an
outstanding quality the school’s
pupils exhibit — kindness.
“One of the things the princi-
pal over at the Campus School
Open meeting
TODAY @ 2 p.m.
UC, Room 340-A
(at The U of M) said to me is that
they can always (distinguish)
Lipman School children because
they are so kind,” Young said.
At the school’s first official
Peace Day on Oct. 25, 2001, stu-
dents created a tablecloth of tiny
handprints that meshed togeth-
er to form an American flag,
an image that still hangs above
one of the school’s doorways,
Turner said.
“When (Hurricane) Katrina
hit, two of the little boys whose
handprints are on that table-
cloth called me up and said,
‘Miss Sandy, the kids down in
Louisiana need toys, and we
think it would be a peaceful
thing if we collected toys for the
children,’ and I said, ‘You bet-
cha,’” she recalled.
The boys, then fourth-graders,
worked with the Red Cross to
ship toys to children affected by
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real king is,” Brown said. “Various
dorms on campus would play
until 4 or 5 a.m., and it gets very
competitive.”
Brown said the pace of the tour-
nament will be up-tempo, with
quarters set to five minutes.
“Think fast and score fast,” he
said. “There is not a lot of time to
strategize, so strike fast and strike
hard.”
Brown said he expects the com-
petition to be tough and singled
out freshman philosophy major
Courtney Gray as the “biggest
competitor” in the field.
the tragedy. When they visited
the Lipman School, Turner said
they sought out their prints and
recalled the celebration fondly.
This year, students created
works of art in the same vein,
each age group exploring sym-
bols of peace in a different way.
In the Head Start class housed
at the school, children created a
multicolored footprint mural in
the shape of the peace sign.
The 2-year-olds, the youngest
class, put together a “peaceful
pumpkin puzzle,” each piece
of the giant jigsaw decorated
to represent the individual but
connecting to form a greater
unit. The Halloween theme car-
ried over to the 3-year-old class,
where the children created a
“web of friendship” by tossing a
skein of yarn around a circle and
telling their targets how they
could demonstrate friendship
“He rarely loses, even when
he plays with mediocre teams,”
Brown said.
Though this will be Gray’s first
Madden tournament, he said he’s
never been beaten in recreational
play and is confident his natural
talent will carry him to victory.
He said at this point in his virtual
career, he’s “just trying to see if (he)
can get beat.”
“My record is 17-0,” he said.
Gray, who has been gaming
since the age of 7, said his favorite
team is the Minnesota Vikings but
wouldn’t reveal if he will use them
in the tournament.
“I’m not saying which team I
plan on using,” he said. “It’s a
secret.”
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to one another, continuing the
process until all were woven
together in the web.
Erin Kaste, president of the
Parents Association of Lipman
School, has a 3-year-old daugh-
ter, Jordan, enrolled in the school,
and her son Alex graduated last
year. She said the experience has
been a wonderful way for her
children to learn about diverse
cultures and try new things they
wouldn’t encounter otherwise.
“I love seeing the parents come
in and read and tell stories to all
the children,” Kaste said. “The
multicultural aspect is really fas-
cinating. When they see their
friends eating something they’ve
never tried, they are actually
eager to find out about it.”
For preschool student Hayes,
the most important thing to be
learned from the whole experi-
ence is far simpler: “Peace out!”
Since the game was developed
in 1990, gamers have competed
in Madden tournaments from
casual gatherings in dorm rooms
or apartments to nationally tele-
vised affairs, like ESPN’s “Madden
Nation,” in which the winner takes
home $100,000.
“‘Madden’ and ‘Street Fighter,’
as far as gaming goes, are the
biggest tournaments in the U.S.,”
Brown said.
Though the action at Brown’s
tournament could get intense, he said
he expects good sportsmanship.
“I don’t think it will get too out
of hand,” Brown said. “Based on
the people we have so far, I don’t
think there will be any sore losers
in the bunch.”