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Vol. 78 No. 071The

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Not all college students get speeding tickets for going 90 mph

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Do the Chumpty-Chump

Fear and unity

Campus CrimeTrezevant found guilty of Bradford murder, handed life prison sentence

Custodial workers weigh employment against activism

WorldCampus Economics

Egypt crisis may have far-reaching impact for United States in Middle East

Despite changes in the Egyptian government’s structure, protestors continue demonstra-tions in Cairo against President Hasni Mubarak’s administration Saturday. The Egyptian Army was present, though riot police were noticeably absent.

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University of Memphis custodian Patricia Donaldson wakes up at two a.m. Monday through Friday to arrive at work on time an hour later. She alone is responsible for cleaning the entire Edward J. Meeman Journalism building by 11 a.m.

Donaldson said when she started working at The U of M, there were three people clean-ing the three-floor building on Veterans Avenue. During the week she does all of the classrooms, offices and bath-rooms, by herself, for $8.25 an hour, only a quarter more than when she first began work for The University five years ago.

Donaldson and her coworker Emma Davis, also a custodial worker, said when they’ve discussed pay with their supervisors in the past, they’re told they should be grateful to have a job.

In 2009, they decided they were ready for a change. The ladies joined the United Campus Workers Union to speak out against their low pay and advocate a raise to the living wage in Memphis, $11.62 an hour according to the Workers Interfaith Network.

But not all campus workers are supportive of that effort, according to Donaldson and Davis. They said some will not speak out for fear they will lose their jobs.

“People will tell us what they need us to say, but don’t want to do it themselves,” said Davis. “They labeled me as a trouble maker because I stand up and speak out.”

Tom Smith, coordinator of The U of M United Campus Workers for two years, said of the 285 custodial workers on campus, only 30 percent are in the union. He said with 50 percent, the union could make a stronger statement to The U of M administration.

“I hope The University rec-ognizes (workers’) right to organize. They can’t be fired for organizing,” he said. “It would be a clear violation of their human rights, constitu-tional rights, and the law.”

Still, Smith said workers have told him that supervisors have made illegal comments to them, telling them that join-

ing the union could jeopardize their employment.

“It’s their human right to organize and that’s what we’re really here for,” he said. “People deserve to be paid for their hard work.”

In October 2010, United Campus Workers, Workers Interfaith Network and the Progressive Student Alliance held a public forum in the University Center about wages and changes to work-ers’ insurance policies.

At the forum, Smith said at $11.62 an hour someone could support a family, have a home, transportation and afford gro-ceries, but not pay off debt or start a savings or retirement fund.

Calvin Strong, director of custodial and landscape ser-vices at The U of M, said he has never heard about the United Campus Workers Union and that workers have not received a raise because it has not been included in the governor ’s budget for the past four years.

“I would like to have one,” he said. “But for now I’m grateful to have a job.”

He said a union on campus is not necessary.

“Usually a union is start-ed when problems among employees and management can’t be resolved,” he said. “There are no issues in the past or future that can’t be resolved that I am aware of.”

Strong went on to say that he is not aware of any reason that anyone could lose their job for joining an organization.

“That’s their own fear and trepidation,” he said.

Davis currently makes $9.25 an hour, a two-dollar increase from 2005 when she started working for The University. She said she used to work two jobs to make ends meet, but quit the second job so she could get some sleep.

“My body will only allow me to work one job. I was paying $550 a month in rent before I finally had to tell my landlord, ‘I’m not making that type of money,’” she said. “My landlord knocked $100 off when I explained the situ-ation, but I still have a light bill, a daughter in college and a son. If he needs more uni-forms, another pair of shoes, I have to let a bill double so he can get what he needs.”

BY Erica HortonNews Reporter

The U.S. faces its most pre-carious moment in the Middle East in years, with the dan-gers to U.S. interests grow-ing as a tense standoff drags on between tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s embattled regime, according to analysts and for-mer officials.

President Barack Obama and his aides are hoping for what they call an “orderly transition,” with a smooth exit for Mubarak and a handover of power to a transitional gov-ernment that organizes new,

fair elections.The massive protests

planned for Tuesday could in theory lead to this scenario for the most populous Arab country. The grimmer scenario is a lengthy crisis that debili-tates Egypt further and ends in a military coup, anarchy or general chaos.

“I think there’s a lot to be scared about ... more to be scared about than to be thrilled about,” said retired U.S. diplomat David Mack, now with the Middle East Institute. If things go badly, “you could have Somalia on the Mediterranean.”

“The longer the situation wends on, the more danger-

ous it becomes for American foreign policy,” said J. Scott Carpenter, who was a State Department official deal-ing with Muslim democracy issues under former President George W. Bush.

The State Department Monday sent former ambas-sador Frank Wisner to Cairo to urge Mubarak’s government to embrace political overhauls.

“At this point, we clearly recognize what happens in Egypt will have broad rami-fications” in the Middle East, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told McClatchy Newspapers. But what those

BY WarrEn F. StroBElMcClatchy Newspapers

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Victor Trezevant was convict-ed of murder Saturday in the 2007 on-campus shooting death of U of M football player Taylor Bradford.

A jury found Trezevant, 24, guilty of murder in the perpe-tration of an attempted robbery. Trezevant was automatically sen-tenced to life in prison.

Trezevant is the second of four men to be tried for Bradford’s murder. Devin Jefferson was con-victed last year on Mother’s Day

of the murder and was auto-matically sentenced to 51 years in state prison.

Daeshawn Tate and Courtney Washington, the two other men accused of the shooting, still await trial.

Bradford was shot in his right side while sitting in his car in front of Carpenter Complex on the night of Sept. 30, 2007, when the four former classmates at Treadwell High School attempt-ed to rob the 21-year-old line-man of the $7,400 he had won at Horseshoe Casino in Tunica.

Bradford, a business major,

attempted to speed away but lost consciousness heading south on Zach Curlin Street and crashed into a tree.

During the trial’s final day of testimony Friday, Trezevant’s defense tried to put the gun in Jefferson’s hands.

Trezevant’s defense attorney told a jury Friday that Devin Jefferson shot and killed U of M football player Taylor Bradford, and that Trezevant knew nothing of a plan to take Bradford’s life.

“Nobody knew Devin

BY MYiESHa GriFFinContributing Writer

see trial, page 5

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A group of University of Memphis students put a creative twist on a seemingly dull, dirty day of service this weekend.

Saturday morning, 12 U of M

and high-school students and a handyman from Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association worked together to board up an aban-doned house at 360 S. Camilla. But instead of hammering plain, old plywood over the broken glass, they painted the boards

to look like actual windows.Honor Student Council’s

Philanthropy Chair and senior biomedical engineering major, Thien-Chuong Phung, orga-nized and participated in the event. Phung has worked with MIFA previously, building wheelchair ramps and assisting with the renovations of homes. This is the first time he has boarded a house, he said.

“I enjoy doing these week-end projects because of the experience of observing oth-ers’ faces,” Phung said. “People are surprised because you’re a complete stranger to the neigh-borhood yet here you are hard at work on a Saturday.”

After years of neglect, the two-story house had several broken windows and some loose, rotted boards.

Phung said the last owners lived somewhere in California but were impossible to find.

U of M graduate and MIFA Handyman, Patrick Howie, said designing the boards to look like windows will keep the South Memphis neighborhood looking nicer.

“When people drive by, they won’t even be able to tell it’s abandoned,” Howie said. “And also since we are minimiz-ing damage, the house can be resold.”

The boards are installed tightly to prevent people from entering and committing illegal activities, Phung said.

MIFA’s overall vision is to unite the diverse community to address the problem of pov-erty. Boarding up abandoned homes is one of many projects the organization sponsors to improve the City of Memphis.

Howie said that with the help from the Urban Art Commission, the City of Memphis’ Division of Housing and Community Development and other grants, MIFA aspires to do similar projects through-out the entire Memphis area.

“If this project shows a decrease in break-ins, home repair costs and law enforce-ment calls, we hope to use this house as a model for all of the City of Memphis to use,” Howie said.

The students who spent their Saturday working on the house said they got more out of the job than a brush up on their paint-ing, climbing and hammering abilities. Sophomore nutrition major, Paige Lewis, said that the experience helped her with teambuilding skills.

“Everyone here has been a real pleasure and shared ideas openly,” Lewis said. “It makes me happy to get my hands

dirty. Memphis needs students to get more involved like this.”

Aaron Blackstone, a fresh-man economics and political science major, said that with his majors, planning is a signifi-cant factor. He said this proj-ect helped him think about the planning involved with infra-structure improvements.

“Our project demonstrated a key way to preserve property value and the neighborhood,” he said. “There’s a drastic dif-ference between seeing regu-lar plywood on windows and these painted boards. It gives a completely different feel.”

The U of M group consist-ed mostly members of The U of M Helen Hardin Honor’s Program, but others were also present.

The Helen Hardin Honor’s Program has recently partici-pated in other volunteer work around the city, including volunteering at the St. Jude Children’s Hospital marathon, participating in cleaning efforts at Shelby Farms and assisting with an event at the Children’s Museum of Memphis.

As far as future volunteer opportunities are concerned, the Helen Hardin Honor’s Program plans to gather students togeth-er to build wheelchair ramps sometime in February.

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University of Memphis sophomores Paige Lewis, nutrition major, and Katelyn Nichols, theatre performance major, gather at an abandoned Downtown Memphis house Saturday to paint and install artistic boards over the windows, keeping trouble out and the neighborhood looking nice.

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University of Memphis junior Becca Payne spends sev-eral weekends a year driving a 1989 Saab 900 decked out in pig — a pink paint job, bovine ear side mirrors, a washtub pig nose over the grill and a coiled wire pigtail on the back. Behind the wheel of her ride, she aver-ages roughly 90 mph.

Payne, a double major in music performance and foreign language, races ChumpCars, a vehicle valued at less than $500 made of scraps and built to survive races that are seven, 14 and 24 hours long.

She and her family formed a ChumpCar racing team two years ago, traveling across the country to drive their pig until it literally falls apart on the track.

Payne’s mother said

ChumpCar racing is a great family activity.

“We have a blast,” she said. “It’s an activity we can do together that’s not sitting in front of the TV.”

Their Sweede Lil’ Pigs Racing team consists of Payne’s father and team captain, Ken Payne, mother, Lorri Payne, sister, Becca Payne, grandfather, Nick Holland, and brother, Jackson Payne, who just received his driver’s permit this year.

The team name comes from the nickname of an old Saab 99 Payne’s parents had when they competed in rally races in the early 1990s. One of the heaviest cars in the league, they called it “Miss Piggy” or “The Swedish Pig,” an ode to the couple’s ancestry.

When they got a 1989 Saab 900 Turbo for ChumpCar Racing, the pig nickname resur-faced. When Payne followed her parents love of racing, Sweede Lil’ Pigs was born.

“The three Es stand for three generations of drivers,” said Payne.

The ChumpCar World Series, as described on its Facebook page, is “$500 crap-can endur-ance racing.”

“Winners are whoever has the most laps, the fastest laps, or whoever is still standing at the end of the race,” said Payne, whose team has competed in races of all three lengths.

This past weekend kicked off the ChumpCar World Series at Roebling Road Racetrack in Bloomingdale, Ga. with “January Junkfest!,” two 7-hour races, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. The first place prize was $750, second place $350, and third place $250. Each race stands alone with separate winners.

The Paynes’ pig-mobile broke down during the races last weekend. Payne said a bro-ken oil line, a flat tire and a gas leak that caused a fire during a pit stop spoiled their chances of winning.

But incidents like those hap-pen in ChumpCar racing, as echoed by Payne’s father Ken’s pre-race day strategy.

“To prepare for a race we mostly just make sure every-thing is working properly and keep our fingers crossed,” he said.

ChumpCars can reach speeds up to 120 MPH, but Payne said she usually keeps it between 90

and 95 MPH.“You should run fast enough

to be competitive but not fast enough to break the car,” said Payne’s father.

Sweede Lil’ Pigs Racing best finish so far is third place last year in a 14-hour race in Rockingham, N.C., quali-fying them for the first ever ChumpCar Race Championship to be held in Iowa later this year.

ChumpCar donates all its membership funds and gives event revenue to a local char-ity at every event. This year ChumpCar is assisting the Boys and Girls Club of America.

For each $20 donation pro-vided by a team they receive a bonus lap to add on to their race total with a cap of five bonus laps per race.

Payne used to volunteer in her hometown of Greenville, S.C., through the United Way volunteer organization Hands on Greenville or HOGS. Each year HOGS does a piggy bank auction to raise money for their non-profit volunteer organization.

“Local artists paint them and fill them with things like spa or travel packages,” said Payne.

Sweede Lil’ Pigs Racing donated a piggy bank with a “free chance to race” inside.

“We’ve been so blessed,” said Payne’s mother, Lorri. “It’s nice to get a chance to give back.”

The closest ChumpCar race to The University of Memphis will be “The Firecracker 24” Fourth of July weekend at the Superspeedway in Lebanon, Tenn. with food, live music, and 24 hours of ChumpCar racing.

Payne said she and her team plan on competing.

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We have seen that Jesus Christ plainly claimed to be God. He is either what He claimed to be or He is a blatant fraud or a lunatic. He cannot be regarded as a good man or as a great teacher if He is either a sadly deluded person or a conscious liar. We have also examined some of the Bibli-cal evidence that substantiates His claim to be God. He received worship, which only belongs to God. God the Father called Him “God.” Jesus called Himself the “I Am.” To look at some fur-ther evidence that His claim to be God is true, He had the ability to forgive sin, which only God can do, and proved to the skeptics that He had this ability, by working miracles. (Mark 2: 1-12). This doctrine of the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ is hated by Satan. On one occasion some people sought to kill Him because he “said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.” When He said, “Before Abraham was, I am,” some angry people took up stones to cast at Him. On another occasion some people again took up stones to kill Him because they said, “thou, being a man, makest thyself God.” This was and is an irrational and essentially insane hatred. A visceral hatred of the doctrine of the Deity of Christ is not an intellectual prob-lem; it is a spiritual problem. Next time we will look at the implications of denying or embracing the Godhood of Jesus Christ.

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A University of Memphis fra-ternity is raising money for can-cer research by turning on the radio and rolling to the beat.

Sigma Phi Epsilon will host Skate for a Cure from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. tonight at East End Skating Center on Mt. Moriah to ben-efit Up ‘til Dawn, the nation-wide fundraising organization that raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

“It’s a time for all us to hang out and unify for a cause as opposed to fighting each other,” Sigma Phi Epsilon president Sam Strantz said.

“I really love the music,” he added. “It’s kind of a throwback to Michael Jackson and Prince. You get to dance and skate and

that’s always a good time.”Skate for a Cure is an annu-

al event that’s in its 10th year. The fraternity chose skating as a fundraiser because “it’s simple, fun, and almost everyone enjoys doing it,” said Alvis Dowty, Sigma Phi Epsilon Vice President of Programming.

Though the night’s atmo-sphere is fun and lighthearted, Dowty said fundraising for Up ‘til Dawn is important.

“It means a lot because the money raised is going toward cancer patients at St. Jude and one day hopefully finding a cure,” said Dowty.

Tim Patrick, manager of East End Skating Center, said he’s is happy to hold the event at his venue, so much so that he gives Sigma Phi Epsilon a significant discount for the night.

“Normally we get about three times more than what we’re ask-ing for this,” he said. “We’re basically just covering the cost of our employees.”

“I think it’s pretty admirable of the college students to have that sense of community pride, that concern for people that need the services at St. Jude, to come and support something like that,” he added. “It’s a good thing.”

Strantz stressed that the night is not any kind of competition and is open to everyone, not just Greek members at The U of M. He said those involved with the event, which usually rais-es $2,500 to $3,000, are “really excited.”

Tickets are $7 at the door and $5 if purchased from a fraternity member today.

Fraternity helps St. Jude by skating on philanthropic iceBY JoSHua BoldEnNews Reporter

Jefferson had another plan orches-trated. Devin had another plan the entire time,” defense attorney William Massey said during his closing argument.

Trezevant did not take the stand in his defense.

Jennifer McCray, Bradford’s girlfriend at the time of the shoot-ing, testified that Jefferson made threats against Bradford two weeks prior in her apartment, a residence she shared with Jefferson’s girl-friend, Erica Bell.

McCray said that Jefferson came into her dorm room and told her “if he caught Bradford slipping, he would kill him.”

The prosecution, however, told the jury that Jefferson had to be held responsible for taking Bradford’s life.

“Victor is criminally respon-sible. He is responsible for Daeshawn Tate, Courtney Washington and Devin Jefferson,” said prosecutor Reggie Henderson on Friday. “Today is Victor’s day of accountability.”

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ramifications will be aren’t clear, he said, because “we don’t know the end of the story.”

Speaking privately, because of diplomatic sensitivities, a senior U.S. official acknowl-edged that Washington’s efforts to revive the stalled Arab-Israeli peace process could be hurt. “Some of the participants are probably going to be distracted for a bit,” he said.

The surprise Egyptian crisis comes atop a host of other devel-

opments that have challenged U.S. standing in the region. Iran has expanded its influence, and its proxy, Hezbollah, has chosen Lebanon’s next prime minister. Iraq teeters between stability and renewed violence.

But Egypt and its military have long been a major lever of U.S. influence in the Muslim Middle East. The country has been a key counterterrorism ally, quietly supported a tough position on Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program, and even assisted with U.S. military deployments to support the 2003 invasion of Iraq, despite

opposing the war itself.While a fundamentalist take-

over in Cairo seems unlikely, “there’s a possibility that what-ever new government emerges in Egypt will distance itself somewhat from the United States” and from Israel, said Michele Dunne, a senior associ-ate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Dunne was one of several academics who met with White House officials Monday morn-ing to discuss Egypt policy.

Obama finds himself in the painful position of trying to align the United States with

Egyptians’ demands for demo-cratic overhauls, while trying to encourage Mubarak to leave — without actually saying so.

“The history of the 20th century is littered with cases where we got out in front” of popular protests, said a senior U.S. diplomat, explaining the White House’s caution. “The Hungarian uprising is proba-bly the most notorious result,” said the diplomat, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly. The U.S. encouraged a 1956 anti-communist revolt in Hungary, but was powerless to stop the Soviet army from crushing it.

The “ideal scenario,” Dunne said, is one in which the U.S. assists the transition to democ-racy for both Tunisia — whose autocratic leader was ousted two weeks ago, sparking the latest unrest — and for Egypt.

Washington could also use the opportunity to pres-sure other allies in the region — such as Saudi Arabia and Jordan — to embrace the politi-cal overhauls they’ve resisted, she said.

Dunne said she and her col-leagues counseled White House advisers that “they don’t want to be out in front of events ... (but) they also should be very careful not to be saying

anything that suggests the United States is propping up Mubarak.”

A turning point in the crisis could come early Tuesday, with opposition leaders promising to bring 1 million people into the streets of Egypt’s cities.

While the upheaval in Egypt itself was a surprise, even after the ouster of longtime Tunisian leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, few experts expect other lead-ers across the Middle East to fall like dominoes.

And if the confrontation in Cairo devolves into chaos, strongman leaders in countries such as Algeria, Libya, Sudan and Syria are even less likely to embrace a political opening, said Mack, the former U.S. dip-lomat who served in Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon and elsewhere.

“I don’t think it’s a ‘Berlin Wall’ moment for the rest of the region, regardless of what hap-pens,” said Carpenter, refer-ring to the toppling of Eastern European governments follow-ing the 1989 opening of the Berlin Wall.

The region’s monarchies, such as those in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Morocco, may be in a stronger position than repub-lics such as Libya and Syria, whose legitimacy “rests on a more narrow basis,” he said.

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The University of Memphis Black Student Association will honor Judge Bernice Donald at an award ceremony in the Michael D. Rose Theatre tonight at 7 p.m.

A reception will follow the event and both are free and open to the public.

At the ceremony, Donald will be presented the Arthur S. Holmon Lifetime Achievement Award, which is given to those who show exceptional dedi-

cation to the Memphis com-munity.

Multicultural affairs coordi-nator Linda Hall said that of the five or six names submitted to the Black History Month Committee, they felt Donald had contributed the most to the Memphis community.

“The Black History Month Committee is made up of U of M faculty, staff, and stu-dents, and because she is an alum, that gave her a few extra points,” she said.

Donald received her bach-elor’s degree from The U of M in 1974 and in 1982 became the first black female judge to serve on the Shelby County General Sessions Court.

In 1988, she became the first female black bankruptcy judge in the nation when she was pro-moted to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

Hall said that she hopes people who attend the ceremo-ny learn that U of M alumni can do great things for their community.

“Regardless of your starting point, you can definitely make a change,” she said.

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Data from CORE Survey, February 2010, University of MemphisAn anonymous, on-line survey administered to randomly chosen U of M students.

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In the University of Memphis women’s basketball team’s annual Pink Zone game — in which the Tigers wear pink uniforms and fans are encour-aged to wear pink in order to raise breast cancer aware-ness — the Tigers defeated the University of Southern M i s s i s s i p p i Golden Eagles 78 -58 a t FedExForum in front of an announced crowd of 1,787 on Sunday afternoon.

Sunday’s game, which was broadcast on CBS College Sports and CSS, was the Tigers’ second televised game in two weeks. On Sunday, Jan. 23, the Tigers fell at Houston, 81-68.

“Our game plan was to get the ball into the paint, and I thought we just set-tled for jumper after jumper after jumper,” U of M coach Melissa McFerrin said. “I real-ly thought we got on our scor-ing spurt once we put Jasmine Lee and Nicole Dickson in the game, and they just started hitting shots. And that’s what they’re supposed to do.”

Dickson led all scorers with 20 points off the bench, includ-ing four three pointers, while Lee chipped in with 14 points and 10 rebounds.

The Tigers (16-6, 4-3 Conference USA) started the game on a tear, and had already

doubled up the Golden Eagles (9-12, 4-4) in scoring, 20-10, with 10:42 left in the first half. Dickson was electric in the first half, coming off the bench for 13 points, including three of her four three-point baskets. Behind Dickson, the Tigers turned a tie into an 8-point lead. The Tigers pushed their lead to 16, 42-26, by halftime.

After the break, The U of M increased the lead to 22 points, 50-28, over the shorthanded Golden Eagles, who dressed only nine players because five players were out due to vari-

ous season-ending injuries.A 10-2 Southern Miss run

from 10:16 until 7:04 pulled the Golden Eagles within 11, but 24 forced turnovers by the Tigers hindered the Golden Eagles’ chances of a complete comeback.

“I feel as though we’re just sharing the ball more and we definitely have more scor-ers this year,” said senior for-ward Taylor Mumphrey. “We are getting more comfortable with

one another and playing better team ball also.”

Senior guard Alex Winchell finished with a career-high 14 assists compared to just four turnovers. It was the first time a Tiger posted more than 10 assists in a game since LaToya Bullard did so against the Golden Eagles last season Feb. 12, 2010.

“I always tell my team that it is much easier to play and score points when you have multiple people putting up points,” McFerrin said. “When Brittany (Carter) is scoring, Nicole (Dickson) scoring, Alex (Winchell), Jasmine (Lee) and even Ramses (Lonlack), then we can put up 70-80 points.”

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University of Memphis coach Josh Pastner still hasn’t learned how to take a loss.

While Pastner was driving to the office yesterday morn-ing, he thought about last sea-son’s loss to the University of Houston, 66-65, in the second

round of the Conference USA tournament.

With that loss, so too went the Tigers’ hopes — which depend-ed on how far they advanced in the conference tournament — of clinching a berth in the NCAA tournament.

That was ten months ago. But it still makes Pastner cringe.

“It just made my stomach

sick,” Pastner said. “As my dad keeps telling me, ‘If you’re going to be a head coach, you’re going to have some losses. You’re going to have to learn to deal with it better.’ I’m try-ing to manage (that) externally; internally, I don’t do a good job with it. So, whether we lose by 15 or one, I don’t take it well. I just don’t like to lose. I want

us to win every single time we step on the floor.”

Saturday’s game against Marshall certainly didn’t help settle the second-year head coach’s stomach.

The Tigers (16-5, 5-2 Conference USA), who had seem-ingly reversed its fortunes on the road with two wins against the University of Southern Mississippi and UAB two weeks ago, were overpowered from tip-off and had their four-game win streak snapped, 85-70, by the same team they beat by 16 not even three weeks ago.

They led once — for 24 seconds — the entire game. If not for a late spurt, Saturday’s 15-point loss could’ve been much worse for The U of M.

“I just felt that we had taken steps forward, and I felt the Marshall game — we did not take a step forward,” Pastner said. “We stayed the same, and we didn’t move forward. That’s partly because, I felt, our mind-set was not the same.”

Earlier in the season, the Tigers were plagued by play-ground-style basketball; that is, opting to go 1-on-1 with a defender instead of making the extra pass.

The Tigers had seemingly gotten away from it, as they averaged 17 assists per game during their four-game win-ning streak.

In the 85-70 loss to Marshall Saturday, however, The U of M

reverted to that very philosophy and tallied only eight assists.

“Guys’ selfish tendencies came back,” said senior forward Will Coleman, who played only

11 minutes. “I’ll speak for me and (freshman forward Tarik) Black — we were upset.”

After the loss, Coleman said he and Black talked with the entire team to voice their dis-may about not getting enough touches.

“We all had a grown-up dis-cussion about it. There wasn’t any bickering or fighting. We all sat down like men and talk-ed,” he said.

The conversation, Black added, also centered around the Tigers electing to complain to each other instead of let-ting their play speak for itself.“We can’t complain and be chil-dren anymore,” he said. “We have to be grown men now. So all the ‘he held me down’ (com-plaints) go out the window. We just have to get the job done no matter what it takes.”

The U of M simply didn’t look like the team that had got-ten the job done at Southern Miss and UAB on Saturday against Marshall. They looked more like the team that lost by 20 at Tennessee. And they knew as much.

“It’s not even a feeling (that we regressed),” Black said. “It’s obvious. If you watch film, you can see it in every play that we had. We went back to the team that we were in December.”

The main challenge for the Tigers, more so than who gets enough touches, is looking forward and staying focused, whether it’s after a promising victory or a crushing loss.

Much like Pastner’s handling losses, maintaining concentra-tion is something the young Tigers are still learning how to do.

“We’re laying a foundation. We’re trying to build a beauti-ful home,” Pastner said. “You can’t start building with a roof and walls. You’ve got to have the foundation of the cement of the structure, and then piece by piece, you’ve got to make sure that thing is locked in and sealed so that you can weather any storm.”

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The Tigers weren’t smiling after Saturday’s loss at Marshall, 85-70. Senior forward Will Coleman (center) and freshman forward Tarik Black, who felt they didn’t get enough touches, aired their grievances after the game with the team.

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“We can’t complain and

be children any-more. We have

to be grown men now. So

all the ‘he held me down’ (com-plaints) go out

the window. We just have to get the job done no

matter what it takes.”

— Tarik BlackFreshman forward