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“I'm really not
expecting it to be
as bad. I guess it's
just because it
never is."

Patrick Gillin

“God, I hope my
family has a house
to go back to."

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Patrick. Gillin. an undeclared sophomore, is also from New Orleans. His
family IS planning on staying In the city to weather the storm.

Hurricane Katrina

Anna Lespinasse, a psychology sophomore, is from New Orleans. er
family decided to go to Georgia until Hurricane Katrina has finished.

Hurricane hits home

Louisiana natives on campus
hope for the best in storm

By Dariush Shafa
1N: KENTUCKY KERHEL

Whether their families are staying
or fleeing, UK students and faculty
members with family in New Orleans
and southern Louisiana are watching,
waiting and worrying.

“We had a tropical storm in the
summer with 80 miles per hour winds
and I thought that was had,“ said
Patrick Gillin, an undeclared sopho-
more from New Orleans. “Nothing
like this."

Gillin’s father, mother. sister and
grandparents are riding out the storm
at their home in New Orleans, which
sits about 10 feet above sea level.

“I’m just kind of scared about it.
just because they’re staying," he said.

“If they would have left. they
would have just been on the interstate
(when the hurricane hit) and that
would have been worst-case sce-

End may
be near

for SG
lawsuit

By Sean Rose
THE KENTUCKY KrRNrL

 

The five-month legal feud over
the Student Government presiden-
cy may come to a close by the end
of the week.

But former 80 presidential
candidate Becky Ellingsworth’s
lawsuit against the university over

the outcome of
the past 80 elec-
tion will not be re-
solved before
Wednesday. said
Fayette Circuit
Court Judge Gary
Payne.

Payne. who
resided over a
court hearing last
Friday. said he
would decide on a
permanent presi-
d e n t :
Ellingsworth.
who was instated
by the SG
Supreme Court.
or Will Nash. who
the University
Appeals Board
recommended af-

Elllngswortn ter overturning
the SG court’s de-
cision.

Payne may also decide Thurs-
day night that another hearing is
necessary to make a decision.

Ellingsworth’s attorney, Fred
Peters. accused the university of
favoring Will Nash for president
during the 40 minutes of fiery ar-
guments from both sides.

“She wanted him to win." Pe-
ters said in the hearing. accusing
Barbara Jones. the university's
general counsel, of favoring Nash

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nario." Gillin said. “They‘re just kind
of making a bunker in the middle of
the house. I'm just hoping everything
works out."

Other students have family that
have fled New Orleans, but are won-
dering what — if anything ~ they‘ll
have to go back to.

“I hope my family has a house to
go back to." said psychology sopho-
more Anna Lespinasse, also from New
Orleans. Her entire family except for
an aunt and uncle fled the city.

Evacuating was also very difficult.
Lespinasse said. It took her family
five hours to make it to Slidell, La..
about 30 miles away.

Hurricane Katrina was expected
to make landfall around daybreak to—
day. the strongest hurricane to hit
Louisiana since Hurricane Camille in
1969. Like Camille. Katrina is a Cate-
gory 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simp-
son scale, which means it has sus-
tained winds greater than 155 mph, a
storm surge of over 18 feet and will do
major damage to fixed structures and

' destroy mobile homes. Yesterday. Kat-

rina winds as high as 175 mph and the
storm surge was expected to be about
28 feet high.

Only three Category 5 hurricanes
have ever hit the United States. in-
cluding the Labor Day Hurricane of
1935. Camille in 1969. and Andrew in
1992. Hurricane Andrew. the most re-
cent Category 5 and most costly hurri-
cane on record, struck Miami-Dade
County. Fla., and did $26.5 billion in
damage

Further north in Baton Rouge, La..
Eric Engemann. who was a marketing
and promotions intern in the UK ath-
letics department for a year, is trying
to look on the bright side.

“It‘s not going to be a lot of fun.
but it could be a lot worse,” he said.

“There’s a lot of people who are
going to lose everything. This is going
to be a bad deal, and there‘s going to
be a lot of problems in the coming
days and weeks.“

Engemann wanted to head home
to New Roads. La. but because of peo-

See Hurricane on page 2

Students should get
used to using their
umbrellas and donning
ponchos or raincoats
while walking down
Rose Street or else-
where on campus this
week.

' The National Weather
Service forecast
includes a 50 percent
chance of rain today
and an 80 percent
chance tomorrow, with

, possible heavy rainfall

. and wind gusts up to 40

mph.

As of 8 pm yesterday,
about 1.3 inches of rain
had fallen on Lexington,
according to the weath-
er service's Web site.

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bears down
on Gulf Coast, South

By Christopher Lee
and Peter Whoriskey

lHE WASHINGTON P057

NEW ORLEANS .—
This could be the storm
that everyone feared.

Hurricane Katrina. one
of the strongest storms
ever to threaten the United
States, carved a path to
ward the Gulf Coast yes-
terday, packing 165~mph
winds and forcing the
evacuation of hundreds of
thousands of residents of
New Orleans and the re-
gion.

All lanes on interstate
highways in the New Or-
leans area were given over
to outbound traf-
fic, as people
made a last-ditch
attempt to es-
cape the massive
Category 5 hurri-
cane. Traffic was
b u m p e r - t o -
bumper as far
away as Jackson.
Miss.. more than
180 miles to the
north. Many peo-
ple who could
not get out of town lined
up outside the 70,000-seat
Superdome. hoping to take
refuge in the home of the
New Orleans Saints profes-
sional football club.

As a much weaker
storm, Katrina was re-
sponsible for nine deaths
in South Florida. Accord-
ing to David Miller of the
National Hurricane Cen-
ter. it was on track to make
landfall late Monday
morning in southeastern
Louisiana, a low-lying area
that experts say is espe-
cially ill-suited to with-
stand a direct hit from a
powerful storm. New Or-
leans is considered a disas-
ter waiting to happen ~ a
city mostly below sea level,
practically surrounded by
water, artificially kept dry

“This is the
worst-case
scenario for a
hurricane."

Lixion Avila

National Hurricane Center

by pumps and levees. and
rapidly losing its natural
storm protection.

If Katrina makes land-
fall as a Category 5 storm
A winds greater than 155
mph 7v it would be the
fourth in the United States
since records were kept.

“This is a very large
hurricane. a very powerful
hurricane.“ said Lixion
Avila. a forecaster with the
National Hurricane Cen-
ter. “Wherever you have
the eye of this system. you
are going to have a poten-
tially catastrophic disaster
there. This is the worst»
case scenario for a hurri-
cane."

The National
Weather Service
issued a hurri-
cane warning
from Morgan
City. La., to the
Alabama-Flori-
da border. cau-
tioning that the
storm could
march ashore
anywhere in
that region. Offi-
cials warned of
a “potentially catastrophic
and life-threatening" di-
rect strike to New Orleans.
Flooding could send water
as high as 28 feet above
normal tide levels. and as
much as 15 inches of rain
fall was expected in hard-
hit areas. the weather ser-
vice said.

New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin ordered manda-
tory evacuation of the
city‘s 485,000 residents. Of-
ficials acknowledged tens
of thousands of residents
and tourists would be un-
able to leave. With the air
port closed. the city orga-
nized buses to transport
those left behind to 10
emergency shelters and
encouraged people to bring

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UK scores needed funding for undergraduate excellence center

By Dariush Shafa
THE chrucxv KENNEL

UK is receiving $3 million in
donations that administrators say
will help the school put a stronger
emphasis on undergraduate edu—
cation.

Paul Chellgren, a UK trustee
for 11 years and
former executive
at Ashland lnc..
donated $1.5 mil-
lion to create the
Chellgren Center
for Undergradu-
ate Excellence.
Matching funds
from the state's
Kentucky Re-
search Challenge
Fund will also allow for an en-
dowed faculty chair and endowed
professorships.

Chellgren

“Sometimes I think under-
graduate (education) is not an
area a lot of thought goes into."
Chellgren said on the reason he
felt this donation would make a
difference. “We‘re trying to create
an institutional framework to
provide that degree of emphasis."

Phil Kraemer. associate
provost for undergraduate educa-
tion. said the reason for going
public on Friday was to speed up
the process of finding a home for
the Chellgren Center. which does
not have a decided location yet.

One thing the center will do is
help incoming students choose
their path. said UK President Lee
Todd.

“This will be a one-stop shop
to sit down with personnel to see
how best to take advantage of the
university's undergrad pro-
grams." Todd said.

“This is going to be a tremen-
dous recruiting advantage be-
cause it gives students a compre-
hensive view." Kraemer said.

When Todd came to UK. he
was concerned with the state's
mandate to be a Top 20 university
within 20 years and how it would
affect undergraduate programs.
he said. This center will help UK.
a research institution. put an em-
phasis on education at the same
time. he said.

“It‘s my hope this will firmly
show our commitment to under.
grad education." he said.
Chellgren said he wants the cen-
ter to encourage honors students
and students interested in post-
graduate programs.

“l‘m hoping one of the results
of this effort is to take our best
students and make them competi-
tive for grad programs." he said.

“I think we've got the inspiration
to put us in a unique position."

Dan Rowland. director of the
Gaines Center at UK. will be one
of the people involved in the
Chellgren Center.

“i think the big deal is the
Chellgren Center will put a spot-
light on all undergraduate educa-
tion at UK. It‘ll be kind of a
cheering section for undergradu-
ate education." he said. “l see
nothing but positive results from
this."

Chellgren said he's doing this
because he wants to help out.

“(lt’s) purely to support A. the
students. and B. the university."
he said.

“I want to give back. l‘m hon~
ored and pleased to do it."

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from working with him in
the past.

“There's no doubt about
that. And she clearly has a
problem with her student
government trying to be self-
governing." Peters said.

Peters said this fa-
voritism was the reason that
the University Appeals
Board overthrew the 80
Supreme Court’s decision to
disqualify Nash and instate
Ellingsworth as president.

Jones argued that the
university had every right to
overturn the court’s decision
and was fair to both parties
throughout the proceedings.
She also said the court over-
stepped its authority by pun-
ishing Nash too severely for
his campaign violation of
overspending his budget.

“She (Ellingsworth) was
merely the beneficiary of an

Hurricane

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ple fleeing from farther
south. he couldn‘t leave.

“The last time a hurri-
cane like this hit, Camille in
1969, people didn't take it se-
riously." said Edward Jen-
nings, a professor and direc-
tor of the Martin School.

“A lot of people had hur-
ricane parties on the gulf
coast and a lot of them died.
People didn't' think they
were going to be in the face

Katrina

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supplies and food for a
three- to five-day stay.

“This is a once-in-a-life-
time event." Nagin said at a
televised news conference.
“The city of New Orleans

 

improper remedy.” Jones
said.

86 presidential candidate
Will Nash and running mate
Michelle Bishop won the gen-
eral election by 171 student
votes on March 31. After
Nash was found guilty in 86
Supreme Court of over-
spending his campaign bud-
get, Ellingsworth and run-
ning mate Kyle Burns were
sworn in on April 18.

The University Appeals
Board recommended SC to
reinstate Nash and Bishop as
winners on May 18.
Ellingsworth filed a lawsuit
against the university on
June 7 with Fayette Circuit
Court. Nash and Bishop were
sworn in to the presidency
Aug. 12.

Ellingsworth declined to
comment until afler the hear-

ings.
Peters argued that if the
board found something

wrong. they should have sent
it back to the 86 Supreme
Court for a retrial and final
decision.

Payne raised question to
whether the university had

of death." Jennings said.

“If it‘s the worst case
storm. it would be devastat‘
ing to the city and everyone
who lives here."

One thing concerning
Lespinasse and Gillin is
what will happen afterward.

“There‘s not much of an
economy in New Orleans
other than tourism." Gillin
said. "That‘s pretty much all
the city has."

Lespinasse was doubtful
that the older buildings in
the French Quarter and oth
er historic areas of the city
would survive such extreme
weather. and she said she
doesn‘t know what will hap-

has never seen a hurricane
of this magnitude hit it di~
rectly. We are facing a
storm that most of us have
long feared."

Officials said Katrina
could easily surpass the dev-
astation caused in 1965 by
Hurricane Betsy. the most
punishing storm to hit
southeastern Louisiana.
That storm killed 75 and

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the authority to “step in" on
the matters of a self-govern-
ing student organization.

Peters said he felt
progress with the hearing.
“We pointed out the

weaknesses in their argu-
ment.” Peters said.

Jones also said she was
happy with how the hearing
went.

“I felt like it was a good
hearing." Jones said.

If Payne decides the hear-
ing on Thursday night is nec-
essary. both Jones and Peters
will be calling witnesses for
the hearing. Jones said she
would call six witnesses in-
cluding Victor Hazard, the
dean of students, and Pat
Terrell, vice president of Stu-
dent Affairs. Peters has three
witnesses listed including
Ellingsworth.

If there is no decision af-
ter the possible hearing on
Thursday. there will be a tri-
al to make the final decision.

“All the essential facts are
agreed." Jones said. “But if
it goes to trial we’re ready."

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pen afterward.

“It depends on the dam-
age and how much they‘re
willing to spend rebuilding."
she said.

Until there is more news,
Gillin and Lespinasse have
little else to do but wait.

“It’s going to be hard to
sleep tonight," Gillin said
last night.

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CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT

caused $7 billion in damage
in an era when southern
Louisiana was less populat—
ed and less exposed.

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen
Babineaux Blanco. who
joined Nagin at the news
conference, said. “There
doesn't seem to be any relief
in sight."

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Conference stresses community,
culture to UK healthcare students

By Shannon Mason
mt KENTUCKY mm

When a person from Ap-
palachia needs medical at-
tention. the whole family
typically shows up at the
hospital. On Friday. more
than 600 students from six
healthcare colleges at UK
found out why.

Stephanie Richards. the
Pike County extension agent
of fine arts. told the students
that Appalachian culture
values family, faith and land.
The presence of family mem-
bers makes the healing envi-
ronment feel more like
home, she said.

“There is
strength in
Richards said.

A Long and
Winding Road: An
Appalachian Mosa-

definitely
numbers.“

breakout sessions
at the Third Annu-
al Cultural Compe-
tence Conference
for Students: Re-
flections on Race.
Ethnicity and Cul-
ture Considera-
tions for Health
Professionals.

Five “breakout”
sessions intro-
duced healthcare
students to alterna-
tive ways to ap-
proach medicine
and ways to help treat those
of different cultural back-
grounds.

Mae Marie Quan. confer-
ence planning co-chair and
associate program director
for UK's Health Education
Training Center and Area
Health Education Center.
said UK was the only institu-
tion that offered a confer
ence of this kind to so many
of its students.

“This is the beginning of
a year long curriculum in
cultural competency,” Quan
said.

Students from different
levels in the colleges of med-

ture."

“We need to
ic was one of the learn to treat
patients in
ways that are
consistent
with medicine
and their cul-

Anshu Jain

third~year med student

icine. dentistry. pharmacy.
health services. public
health and nursing were re-
quired to attend the event.

Anshu Jain, a planning
committee member and
third~year medical student.
said he understands why an
event like this is needed for
students in health profes-
sions.

“A lot of times we try to
treat the disease instead of
the patient.“ Jain said. “This
helps us gain exposure that
different cultures see medi-
cine in different ways. We
need to learn to treat pa-
tients in ways that are con-
sistent with medicine and
their culture."

Yuliya Blackburn. a
third-year pharmacy stu-
dent. said the con-
ference served to
remind healthcare
students of the im-
portance of keep-
ing an open mind
to different med-
ical practices.

“It’s important
to stay open—mind-
ed to therapies al-
ternative to those
learned in school."
Blackburn said.

Dr. Jennifer
Joyce. professor in
the Family and
Community Medi-
cine department at
UK. said she hopes
to use the information pre-
sented throughout the year
in her work at UK.

“I hope to take the con-
cepts that are brought up
and carry them through
what I do as a faculty mem-
ber in the university." Joyce
said. “This event helps to
highlight respect and the
whole idea of honoring the
person you care for.“

The keynote speaker at
the event. Dr. Lori Arviso
Alvord. associate dean for
student affairs and multicul-
tural affairs at Dartmouth
University. spoke about
Navajo medicine and cu1~

ture. As a member of the
Navajo tribe. Alvord spoke
about Navajo perspectives on
health. illness and healing.

Joyce said the keynote
address was enlightening.

”(Alvord) brought to life
the different ways of think-
ing incorporated to create
better healing environ.
ments." Joyce said.

Sessions were on topics
like Appalachian culture.
previously mentioned. as
well as Changing Kentucky
Realities: Implications for
Health Care: Recognizing
and Integrating Diversity’s
Dimensions into
Patient/Provider Relation-
ships: (‘hallenges and Oppor-
tunities: Dimensions of
Healing: Complimentary and
Alternative Medicine; Creat-
ing Models to Address Dis-
parities: and Subconscious
Bias: How What We Don‘t
Know Can Hurt Patients.

Dr. Alexander Green. the
director of education and
outcomes for the Disparities
Strategies Center at Massa-
chusetts General Hospital
and assistant professor at
Harvard Medical School.
spoke about subconscious
bias.

"Sometimes we make de-
cisions without thinking
about how we make those de-
cisions and there is litera-
ture that shows there is a dif-
ference.“ Green said. “We
need to be aware of biases to
make better decisions."

Quan said planning for
the conference is almost a
year long process. starting in
October and culminating
with the final product in Au-
gust.

She said she has hopes to
"take the conference to a
higher level" in the future.

“We hope to eventually
make this an interuniversity
conference. to broadcast it
from here and take it to oth-
er colleges.“

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BAGHDAD. Iraq — Iraqi leaders
completed a draft of a permanent con-
stitution yesterday afier three months
of negotiations that lefi Sunni Arabs
still unsatisfied. setting up a potential-
ly divisive nationwide referendum on
thdocument to be held by Oct. 15.

Members of the committee that
convened in May to write the docu-
ment ended their official duties by
signing the draft and sending it to the
National Assembly, where it was read
aloud to members. Some Sunnis. who
had unsuccessfully sought the elimina-
tion of a clause allowing power to be
devolved from the central government
to autonomous regions. walked out
while the draft was read.

Committee members, most of them
drawn from the Shiite Muslim and
Kurdish coalition that controls Iraq's
government, and other Iraqi officials
then adjourned to President Jalal Tala-
bani’s home in Baghdad’s fortified
Green Zone for a sunvdrenched ceremo-
ny to mark the occasion.

“I want to congratulate our people
who struggled against dictatorship for
democracy and freedom." said Tala-
bani. flanked by dozens of colleagues.
“This constitution is a first of its kind.
written by representatives of impor-
tant Iraqi factions.“

 

Talabani said that to Muslims, only
the Quran, the Islamic holy book. is
perfect. adding that “we hope the peo-
ple will accept this constitution, but
we don't deny there are some dis-
putes.”

As the event concluded, several
people celebrated with high-pitched ul-
ulations. But some attendees were in
no mood for festivities.

“It was a nice show for the presi-
dent of the United States as he wakes
up now. but for us it was very bad.”
said Mishan Jabouri, one of four Sun-
ni Arab assembly members among the
dozens of lawmakers at the event.
None of the Sunnis expressed support
for the constitution.

Jabouri said he attended the cele—
bration after being pressured “from
parts of the government. They tried to
show even the Sunnis are here. But we
come here to cry, not to be happy. This
is their constitution. not ours.“

And so the battle lines were drawn
for the October referendum: The Shi-
ites and Kurds who dominated the
drafting process implored the public to
vote in favor of it. Minority Sunnis
condemned the document for. among
other things. allowing the creation of
federal regions that they fear could
split Iraq and warned that it could in-
flame the insurgency. The Sunnis
vowed to muster enough support to

vote it down.

Under terms of Iraq's interim con-
stitution, a draft of the permanent con-
stitution was supposed to have been
completed by Aug. 15. Lawmakers ini-
tially gave themselves an additional
week to work, submitted an incomplete
draft Aug. 22 and allowed three more
days to resolve outstanding differ
ences. Negotiations broke off after that
deadline and another was missed.

In the end, many of the disputes
the committee wrestled with from the
start remained unresolved. In addition
to the issue of federalism. Sunnis ob-
jected to a provision outlawing former
president Saddam Hussein‘s Baath
Party. which was made up largely of
Sunnis. and wanted language that
made clear Iraq was part of the Arab
world.

In recent days, Shiites and Kurds
made what they said was a final com-
promise offer. It retained the principle
of federalism and enshrined the
Kurds' long-held autonomy in the
north. but deferred decisions about
how and when new federal states could
be formed to the next legislature. It
also removed the ban on the Baath Par-
ty, while prohibiting the party’s “Sad-
damist“ branch and symbols.

The Sunnis submitted additional
demands Saturday. and negotiations
ended.

 

Ky. native George Clooney is believing in Las Vegas

By Jerry Hirsch
LOS moms nuts

LAS VEGAS —- In the film “Ocean's
Eleven.” George Clooney robbed a casi-
no. Now he's going to build one.

Clooney. nightclub owner Rande
Gerber and two Las Vegas real-estate
companies are expected to announce
plans today to construct a casino, bou-
tique hotel and sprawling condomini-
um project on Harmon Avenue. just
blocks from The Strip, in an area that
has become one of the town's hottest
development corners.

This won't be a resort for the tank
top. shorts and fanny-pack crowd that
plies the sidewalks of Las Vegas Boule—
vard to gape at the volcano, pirate ships
and lions that are used to lure visitors
to the Strip casinos. the actor said.

“We have this romantic notion of a
place where you put on a jacket or a
dress to go to dinner.” said Clooney. 44.

“We will have some sort of dress code
so that it will feel like you are walking
into a more formal Las Vegas of a dif-

ferent age or a classic Monte Carlo casi-

no.

Although Clooney will be working
with joint-venture partners Related Las
Vegas and Contra Properties. both ex-
perienced developers. he conceded that
he had no expertise in developing so-
phisticated hotels. But the actor noted
that over the years he had stayed in
some posh properties and that he
owned a villa on Lake Como in Italy.

“I may be the novice of this group."
Clooney said. “but I have a good idea of
what I like in Las Vegas. and it is all
about class."

The 300~room hotel will be the cen~
terpiece of a $3 billion, 25-acre project
just west of the Hard Rock Hotel &
Casino. The Spanish-themed Las Ram-
bIas development will take shape on a
section of Harmon Avenue that is

about to be transformed by massive in-
vestment in high-profile projects.

Whether the so-called Harmon Av-
enue Corridor east of Interstate 15 de-
velops into a full-fledged “Striplet” is a
matter of debate between Vegas
cognoscenti. But what is clear, said vet-
eran developer Steve Molasky. is that
the traditional Strip is bulging east and
west.

"Everything in this area is going to
turn over for development.“ said M0-
lasky. who is completing plans to build
a hotelcasino resort on Flamingo Road
that will back up to several of the Har-
mon Avenue projects.

The announcement of the Las Ram-
blas project, which will include the ho-
tel. 1.326 condo-hotel units and 2,764
residential condos when it is built out,
comes amid a boom in high-rise condo-
minium construction in Las Vegas. The
hotel will be built as part of one of the
condo towers.

 

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Tamme offensive focal pom

Senior tight end Jacob
Tamme has a knack for
things.

He has a knack for snag-
ging wild passes. He has a
knack for running crisp
routes. He
even has a
knack for
holding
p l a c e
kicks. And
this year
he may
have a
knack for
jumpstart
ing UK s
offense.

“I hope
I can be a
part of
turning things around in
general offensively.” Tamme
said after a recent morning
practice at the Nutter Train-
ing Center. “We want to get a
fresh start and go out and re-
ally move the ball and be able
to help our defense."

Tamme made the switch
from wide receiver to tight
end. and this season he may
not be offensive coordinator
Joker Phillips’ secret play —
his ace, his wild card — but
his first move. His first stab
at opposing defenses.

“I think everything in the
passing game starts inside,"
Phillips said.

Starting wi