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Taking University of Memphis courses from a computer rather than a

classroom may take less mobile effort, but is significantly more costly.

Online courses are about $20 more than on-campus courses. Comparing a course load of 15 credit hours, stu-

dents taking only online courses pay nearly $1,500 more each semester than on-campus students. The comparison amount increases significantly with each added online hour.

Online students have access to perks including free admission to University of Memphis sports games, though they don’t pay the fee on-campus students pay to fund those incentives.

According to Jeannie Smith, assis-tant vice president for finance, the increased tuition is due to a $100-$102 per hour fee started in 2008 and is tagged onto online courses. It funds the “infrastructure, development and delivery of these courses,” she said.

Professor Thomas Hrach teaches online classes in The U of M journal-ism department. He said the courses take a great amount of effort from professors because all work has to be completed prior to the start of school.

“From an instructor ’s point of view, there is more time spent prior to the start of class but less time after the class starts. An instructor ’s time is worth something, but whether it is worth a $100 more I can’t say,” Hrach said.

Data shows that last semester 1,870 students solely took online courses and 3,985 enrolled in both online and on-campus courses.

The 15,236 other students who took no online classes paid an $82.50 pro-gram service fee per hour instead of the online fee. This program fee is a combination of a debt service fee, gen-eral access fee, facility fee and student activity fee, mandatory of all students who enroll in any campus courses.

The difference is the program ser-vice fee cuts off at six credit hours, but online students continue to pay $100-102 for every hour after six, even up to 18.

Dan Lattimore, vice provost for extended programs, said the decision was made before his employment at The U of M, and he isn’t sure why there isn’t a cut-off for online courses.

He pointed out that at six credit hours, on-campus tuition is actually $23 higher than online tuition. A fee chart on The U of M’s website shows this is the only case where tuition on-campus is more than that online.

Reaping the benefits of the webWeb-only students pay a premium for convenience but receive perks not available to traditional studentsBY CHELSEA BOOZERNews Reporter

Students of The University of Memphis’ Helen Hardin Honors Program have been prodding in a murky lake and pulling out thousands of pounds of trash, which they then recycle.

The cleanup of McKeller Lake in Southwest Memphis started as a spring break service project and continued into the summer and fall.

To date, volunteers from The U of M, Christian Brothers University, Memphis City Beautiful and other commu-nity allies have collected more than 2.5 tons of recyclable materi-als from the lake.

“Most of the storm water in Memphis goes down the drain, then flows into Nonconnah Creek and ultimately ends up in McKeller Lake,” said assistant director of the honors program Colton Cockrum. “Therefore, the majority of what we pick up comes from Memphians and over 90 percent of it is recyclable.”

In July, student efforts netted 2,240 pounds of recyclable material from the lake. Colton said the Sept. 10 cleanup yielded even more.

Thien-Chuong Phung, graduate bio-

medical engineering student, helped with the project and said that the lake hasn’t always been an eyesore to the community.

“It is a real eye opener to see what a mess McKellar Lake is and an even bigger surprise to learn about its histo-ry, such as how it used to be a major vacation spot in Memphis,” he said. “People would go out on their boats and ski or swim. Beauty pageants used to be hosted

down there, and even Elvis made an appearance or two.”

Kenny Park, philanthropy chair of the Honors Student

Council, said he found both plastic and glass bottles, old toys, Styrofoam, light bulbs

and tires junking up the lake.“Most would think picking

up trash is nasty, but it isn’t in most cases. Nothing is ever oozing

or spilling and its fun to find things you don’t expect,” Park said.

Park, sophomore computer engineering and mathematics double major, said he and his friends started collecting the unex-pected material they’ve found, including a glass Gatorade bottle and a coyote’s skull.

Students and community members plan to work together again Oct. 1 and Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. to clean up the lake. Any individual or group can volun-teer by emailing Cockrum at [email protected].

Honors students get down and dirty at McKeller LakeBY CHELSEA BOOZERNews Reporter

As the Oct. 6 Memphis municipal election draws nearer, more than 10 University of Memphis students are being given the opportunity to assist a city council candidate as he vies for one of the nine open council seats.

Lee Harris, associate professor at The U of M Law School, hired University students to fill intern positions for his current campaign for Memphis City Council. Harris is running to fill the vacated Dsitrict 7 seat of Barbara Swearengen Ware, who resigned in June.

This summer, Harris hung fliers at different locations around cam-pus asking for anyone interested in interning for a Memphis City Council campaign to apply.

The decision to use U of M stu-dents was the obvious path to take, Harris said.

“I am surrounded by students all day,” he said. “There is a lot of tal-ent on this campus. I thought this would be a good experience for stu-dents interested in politics, and an

opportunity for me to use some of these very talented students for my campaign.”

Jonathan Toles graduated from The U of M this summer with a degree in history and began interning for Harris just before finishing his final classes. The experience of working for a political campaign changed his outlook on the future, Toles said.

While he is still interested in attending law school, Toles said working for Harris made him more aware of local politics. He is now considering the possibility of a career in politics, he said.

“Interning for Mr. Harris has been an eye-opening experience for me,” Toles said. “Not only have I had the opportunity to coordinate events, but I’ve had the chance to sit in on meet-ings. It has definitely changed my outlook on the future, and politics is now a real possibility for me.”

Dan Buchanan, senior anthropol-ogy major, also interns for Harris’ campaign. Buchanan said the intern-ship appealed to him because he wants to study people.

“This has been such a great expe-rience,” he said. “My goal was to gain insight to a political campaign, because my interests revolve around public policy. I consider myself a social scientist, and this provided me with a great ethnographic study.”

Terry Spicer, campaign manager for Harris, was eager to welcome U of M students like Toles to the campaign efforts.

“The interns have been a great

Election timemeans jobs forsome studentsBY ROBERT MOORENews Reporter

see ElEction, page 6

Despite lacking in-class, face-to-face interactions with teachers and peers, online students pay more to take classes from the comforts of home. see onlinE, page 12

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University of Memphis for-eign language students can ditch their flash cards this week and attend the fifth annual Tournées Festival, a subtitled French film series.

The series is hosted by the department of foreign lan-guages and Literatures and the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities.

Free and open to the public, it begins tonight in the University Center at 7 p.m. with the film “Des Hommes Et Des Diuex,” or “Of Gods and Men.”

The opening film is about seven Christian monks who helped locals with food and med-icine in 1996 Algeria until they were threatened by the coun-try’s military. The men voted to stay in the country and continue to help the people, despite the threat.

The film won Grands Pris at the Cannes Film Festival, the highest honor possible at the annual event.

Denis Grélé, associate profes-sor in the department of for-eign languages and one of the key organizers of the festival, said that of the five films being shown during the festival, he

is the most excited about “Des Hommes Et Des Diuex.”

“We wanted to take a movie that was linked to reli-gion, showing that even if the French are seen as atheists today, religion is still a big part of French life,” he said.

G r é l é said the overall purpose of the Tournées Festival is to bring French culture to Memphis, and

that the five movies were select-ed to show French culture over a span of 50 years.

“The idea was to create an image of what it is to be French through movies,” he said.

Other films in the series include “Un Prophète,” or “A Prophet,” which will be shown

on Oct. 4. The film is about a 19-year-old criminal who does the bid-dings of a crime boss. “Deux de la Vague,” or “Two in the Wave,” will be shown on Oct. 5. The feature is a documenta-

ry about the French directors François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.

“Potiche,” which will be shown on Oct. 6, is about a woman who helps her husband and his umbrella factory dur-ing labor unrest in the 1970s. The final film, playing Oct. 11, is “L’Illusioniste,” or “The Illusionist,” an animated film about a magician upstaged by his rabbit.

Each film will start at 7 p.m. in The UC on its designated day.

The festival is supported through a $1,800 grant from the French government’s Ministry of Culture and a $1,600 grant from the University of Memphis, Grélé said.

Ralph Albanese, chair of the department of foreign languages and French professor, said one of the reasons students should come to the festival is to hear modern French spoken in natu-ral conversation.

He said that students need to hear up-to-date language and slang expressions, which they don’t usually get in language books or in an academic setting.

“They learn a lot about French culture, history and rela-tionships,” Albanese said. “So much comes out with dealing with French identity in the mov-ies. Film is a way of learning culture just like learning the language.”

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“The idea was to create an image of what it is to be French

through movies.” — Denis Grélé

Associate professor of foreign languages,festival organizer

A scene from “Des Hommes Et Des Diuex,” one of several films featured in the Tournées Festival, a subtitled French film series.


For urban fantasy novel-ists Melissa Marr and Jennifer Lynn Barnes, there is no right or wrong way to become an author.

On Monday, Marr and Barnes held a question and answer ses-sion in the University Center Poplar room for University of Memphis students interested in becoming writers.

“It was great to see people passionate about their work,” said Erica Chambers, a junior communications major who attended with her children’s lit-

erature class. According to Marr, becoming

an author was not always at the forefront of her to-do list. Marr taught at the university level in literature and gender studies, and even bartended, before she sat down and wrote her first young-adult novel, “Wicked Lovely,” which became a New York Times best-selling series.

“There is no clear, distinct way to do this. You don’t have to know anyone in this business to write,” Marr said. “At no point are you going to be as good or as bad as your critics say you are.”

Barnes wrote her first novel

her senior year of high school. She called it her “practice book.” Then, she wrote “Golden” the summer after her freshman year at the age of 19. A sequel titled “Platinum” was later published.

“I match everyday concepts and fantastical ones, until I find two that fit together,” Barnes said.

Barnes graduated from Yale University with a degree in cog-nitive science and is currently working on her Ph.D.

“If you love something - and I love both writing and science a lot - you find time for it when-ever you can. Many of my books have been written finding a hour

or two in the evening when I can write, even if it means sleeping an hour or two less,” Barnes said.

Neither Marr nor Barnes ever took a creative writing class.

They first met six years ago in an online writing communi-ty. They are currently on a six city, 10-day tour with 18 authors called The Smart Chicks Kick It Tour. The tour began last September.

“Several strong, female pro-tagonist authors came together wanting to organize and fund their own author tour,” Marr said.

The tour is for the readers and the authors to meet each other and interact. Memphis was selected as the launch site for the tour because of the fund-ing the city received from local publication Justine Magazine, a “national lifestyle magazine for teen girls.” Several of the authors have novels that are included in Justine’s online book club.

The tour includes school vis-its, morning television appear-ances and press conferences. The tour officially begins at Hutchison School today at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

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Female fantasy writers host Q&A in UCBY TRACEY HARLOWNews Reporter

The red rocks of Sedona drew Steph Houser from Bloomsburg, Pa., to the Verde Valley in Arizona. Then a tip from a friend, a bro-chure and a little curiosity led her to a winery.

Glass of white wine in hand, she strolled the grounds of Alcantara Vineyards, accompanied by her husband and mother-in-law.

“We were actually surprised to find vines here,” said Houser, sipping from her glass. “I like the wine — not too sweet, not too dry.”

The Verde Valley has for long been a tourist destination, luring visitors like Houser to Sedona, parks featuring ancient American Indian dwellings, the ghost town of Jerome and other attractions. But only recently has wine become a draw in its own right.

The wine industry in the

region that includes Cottonwood, Sedona, Camp Verde, Jerome and surrounding towns has burgeoned in the last six years. Alcantara is among several dozen vineyards and wineries in Arizona, most of them in the north.

Winemakers here know the area might never rival Napa Valley, but they intend to estab-lish it as a des-tination for wine lovers.

With a match-ing $15,000 grant from the Arizona Office of Tourism, the C o t t o n w o o d Chamber of Commerce started a Verde Valley Wine Trail campaign in 2009 to promote wineries and vineyards, including a brochure guiding tourists to the locations.

“We use the wine trail as a hook, but through that we mar-

ket the whole area,” said Lana Tolleson, the chamber’s president and CEO.

The organization also recently launched Painted Barrels, a pub-lic art promotion that encourages visitors to seek out 40 painted wine barrels featured at different businesses in region.

These efforts are already pay-ing off.

Wine was one of the few local industries that grew during this recession, with at least 258,000 peo-ple visiting Verde Valley wineries last year, according to a Northern Arizona University survey.

Wine tourists, averaging 46 years old and $88,000 in annual income, spent about $70 on wine

per party directly from Arizona wineries, the survey found.

“With those two demograph-ics, there’s a lot of strength in the market,” said Thomas Combrink, the survey’s leader and a senior research specialist with NAU’s

W.A. Franke College of Business. “They’re young and will continue to have that spending power for some years.”

Of the $23 million spent direct-ly at Arizona wineries last year, $18 million was in the Verde Valley, and with a multiplier effect the industry injected $38 million to Arizona’s economy, the NAU survey found.

The Verde Valley’s success as a wine-growing region is attrib-uted to its terroir, a French term describing favorable characteris-tics such as the area’s altitude and its soil, which is both volcanic and rich in limestone.

Alcantara Vineyards owner Barbara Predmor spent three

years looking for her terroir.

“This is a per-fect little micro-climate,” she said. “While it’s hot, the grapes are producing sugar, and then they’re allowed to rest during the night.”

The vines take five to seven years to mature but can stay in production up to 100 years.

Tom Pitts, president of the Verde Valley Wine Consortium, said since 2006, when Arizona liberalized its alcohol laws, the

area has attracted experienced wine growers who have invested in developing quality wines and distinctive varieties.

“The true wine connoisseur is not just looking for the same thing; they’re looking for some-thing special,” he said.

Pitts, who also owns a restau-rant in Jerome, said local wines have improved the quality of dining in the area and helped revitalize Jerome and Old Town Cottonwood with wine stores and tasting rooms.

“It’s become a mecca for food and wine-tasting,” Pitts said. “Without the wine, it wouldn’t have happened.”

Tolleson, with Cottonwood Chamber of Commerce, said the wine industry is an economic driv-er for the Verde Valley, employ-ing 124 people directly and many more in related businesses.

The Wine Consortium and the Cottonwood Chamber of Commerce have partnered with Yavapai College to start Arizona’s first certified viticulture program.

“We see it as not just a tourism component but an economic com-ponent,” Tolleson said.

For Arizonans, Tolleson hopes this wine region will be an escape.

“During the summer, Flagstaff is just a natural place for people to go to, so we’re just trying to make people aware that we’re here and we’re not as far away,” she said.

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The next Napa?Arizona’s Verde Valley aligning itself with the right players to become amecca for wine afi cionados far and wideBY ELVINA NAWAGUNA-CLEMENTEMcClatchy Newspapers

“The true wine connoisseur is not just looking for the same

thing. They’re looking for something special.”

— Tom PittsPresident, Verde Valley

Wine Consortium


Michele Bachmann’s presi-dential hopes have lately taken a nosedive.

The Minnesota congress-woman finished dead last Saturday in the Florida Republican straw poll — six weeks after leading the field in Iowa’s straw poll. And even when Bachmann does score some points, she sometimes has a tendency to overreach.

She attacked Texas Gov. Rick Perry for his decision to require young girls to take a vaccine to protect against human papil-lomavirus, but she was roundly criticized when she later sug-gested that the vaccine contrib-uted to mental retardation, for which there is no evidence.

Her poll numbers remain in single digits, and her former campaign manager has been lobbing critiques of her stum-bling performance from the sidelines.

Despite all that, the Republican presidential race remains in flux, and the results of Florida’s straw poll could serve as a check on viewing anything or anyone in the race as a sure thing.

It was not just that busi-nessman Herman Cain, who gets about 5.5 percent support in recent national polls — 2 points below Bachmann — won the Florida GOP exercise. It was that he drew more votes than Perry, the front-runner, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whom Perry dis-placed, combined.

“It shows how closely peo-ple are paying attention, and how little they are listening to

the media’s opinion, which I think is a very powerful shift,” said Mark Meckler, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, one of the larger organizations in the movement. “It should have been won by Romney or Perry. To see Cain win it, and deci-sively, was an extraordinary turn of events.”

Indeed, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, one of the Republican hopefuls, told an Iowa gun show audience on Sunday: “People are tired being told that these are the only two candidates (Perry and Romney) that you get to choose from.”

Given the state of play, is Bachmann’s political descent an irreversible free fall from the high of her Iowa straw poll victory last month?

Or, with the first real votes to be cast in just over four months, is it more a statement about the persistent fluidity of — and possibly dissatisfaction with — the Republican presi-dential field?

“For these candidates, the support is a mile wide and an inch thick,” said Republican s t r a t e g i s t Greg Mueller. “Romney vot-ers might be Romney vot-ers today, but might be Perry voters tomor-row. Perry voters might be Perry vot-ers today and Bachmann vot-ers tomorrow.”

That’s Bachmann’s hope. A tea party favorite, Bachmann needs to win the Iowa caucuses early next year, or come close,

to remain in the race. Even with

forays to Florida and other key early states, Iowa is where her campaign intends to focus.

“In Iowa, it’s a situation

where you just meet with people and answer their questions,” said Trudy Caviness, the longtime chairman of the Wapello County R e p u b l i c a n Party in south-eastern Iowa. “She needs to get out and see the people and answer their questions.”

The state’s faith-based conservative Republican electorate plays to her strength.

But it’s fertile ground for

Perry’s evangelical politics as well. Preceded by a media-fueled will-he-or-won’t-he campaign, Perry announced his candidacy the same weekend that Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll, stepping all over her moment.

It’s been an up-and-down path for her ever since.

“I love her,” said Meg Shannon, a retired lawyer and tea party supporter from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. “She rocks the base. But she’s going to be viewed as a little too conser-vative. She frightens a lot of people.”

Bachmann’s campaign could

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Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann addresses supporters at a campaign stop at the Orange County Fair and Event Center in Costa Mesa, Calif. on Sept. 16.

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Bachmann’s campaign seen as struggling, but the GOP ticket remains a volatile oneBY DAVID GOLDSTEIN AND STEVEN THOMMAMcClatchy Newspapers

“You’ve got to be so careful. You’ve got to realize that any-

thing you say could be put up in a billboard. Maybe that’s more

disciplined than what she, at this point, is trained to be.”

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asset to our campaign,” Spicer said. “Interns in general are necessary for campaigns. Even the White House has interns. We hope that our particular campaign has given students the opportunity to give back to their community and to learn

more about local politics.”Regardless of the outcome

of the election, Harris said that he looks forward to working with U of M students again.

“I have been very impressed with the interns we used for the campaign,” he said. “If I run for an office in the future, the first place I would turn to for help would be The U of M.”

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It was three days before Wilco was scheduled to leave Chicago to start its tour, and the band was running through songs on its newest album, “The Whole Love.” Next up was “One Sunday Morning,” a 12-minute cut that is at once the most traditional tune on the album and its most subtle, with slight melodic tweaks and instrumental adornments throughout.

The rehearsal, however, was momentarily delayed. Glenn Kotche, the band’s percussion-ist, was missing an instrument. Could someone, Kotche shout-ed, bring him his “chicken pad-dle”? The toy-turned-instru-ment is exactly as its name implies — a small paddle, adorned with wooden chick-ens. Shake it, and the chick-ens peck, although Kotche has modified it so the beaks hit a metal finger cymbal.

“I’m sure it’s the first time someone brought a chicken paddle onstage,” Kotche said. “I can take credit for that.”

Among the ranks of Wilco’s accomplishments in its 17 years of musical adventurous-ness it is, admittedly, minor, but one that reflects the play-ful camaraderie that went into making “The Whole Love,” due out Tuesday.

Wilco has never been shy about flirting with the unex-pected, but not since 2001’s breakthrough “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” has the band so free-ly utilized the studio, and never has the band sound-ed this consistently upbeat. Whether in the digitally enhanced explosiveness of “Art of Almost,” the garage rock recklessness of “Standing O” or the orchestral psyche-delics of “Capitol City,” “The Whole Love” is the sound of a veteran band rejuvenated. It’s an album that seems directly aimed at silencing those who would dare write off Wilco’s continued move into adult-hood as that despicable thing: “dad rock.”

“This is a band that has chemistry, and that’s inexpli-cable,” Jeff Tweedy said dur-ing a break in the band’s loft-space kitchen. “This is a band that has a certain amount of maturity, not just age-wise, but experience-wise, in terms of how many records every-one has made and been a part of. This band couldn’t exist

without having not settled for unsatisfying and ungratifying or dysfunctional situations before. Like relationships, I think a lot of bands go many, many years past where it is working in a functional way. We never had to do that.”

In fact, the band believes it is entering its most productive period as a recording unit. “We can make a dozen different records if you stuck us in the studio tomorrow and gave us one week,” Kotche said. “We can make straight-up noise. We can make straight-up pop. We can make a folk record. There’s so much we have that we haven’t even touched upon.”

Credit consistency — “The Whole Love” marks the first time Wilco has recorded three albums with the same line-up — or attribute it to new-found freedom. Like veterans Radiohead and Weezer before them, Wilco is going indepen-dent. “The Whole Love” is the inaugural release on the band’s own dBpm Records, which has partnered with Anti-, an off-shoot of punk label Epitaph, for marketing and distribution.

It’s a jump that seemed inevitable. Wilco capitalized on the digital-era confusion of the music business early, and the success of “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” has become the stuff of industry legend. It was to be the third Wilco album released by the Warner Music Group’s Reprise Records, but the label rejected it. The album found its audience after the band gave it away free online, and ultimate-ly, “Yankee” was released by Nonesuch, a label also owned by Warner. Wilco continued to work with Nonesuch through 2009’s “Wilco (The Album).”

Still, the band has always mixed up its approach in the studio. For 2007’s “Sky Blue Sky,” the band recorded it live in its Chicago space with lim-ited overdubs. Last time out on “Wilco (The Album),” Kotche said, “Jeff had a lot of it down. Like, ‘Here’s the chords, and here’s the lyrics.’”

“On this one,” Kotche con-tinued, “Jeff was very clear: ‘Any ideas get explored.’ ... It was more similar to the way ‘Yankee’ was made, with just layers of stuff. I felt a lot more freedom to just mess around.”

Co-producer/multi-instru-mentalist Pat Sansone said: “I wanted to make a really good headphone record. I felt like we’re the kind of band that could do that.”

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Head coach Brooks Monaghan and his Lady Tigers squad knew they would be tested last weekend when they opened conference play on

the road against the Houston Cougars and Rice Owls. But as has been the story all year, the No. 9 women’s soccer team in he nation stayed poised and gutted out two hard-fought victories.

The Lady Tigers opened conference play with a 2-1 win over the Cougars last Friday in Houston. Senior goalkeeper Elise Kuhar-Pitters made five second-half saves to help pre-serve the victory.

“They had a lot of really good chances,” Kuhar-Pitters said. “Unfortunately, I gave up a silly goal, but after that I really tried to focus and keep my head in the game because I gave up one goal and wasn’t going to give up another.”

Freshman forward-midfield-er Kylie Davis opened struck first for the Lady Tigers with a goal in the 11th minute. Sophomore midfielder-forward Christabel Oduro crossed the ball to an open Davis after drib-bling the ball up the field for the score.

The Lady Tigers added to the lead in the 27th minute when junior forward Taylor Isenhower netted her third goal of the season. After subbing in, Isenhower wasted no time slic-ing through the Cougar defense and sent the ball into the back of the net.

The Cougars would score in the 53rd minute after a miscue by Kuhar-Pitters, who dropped the ball to punt it away. Houston’s Jessica Zavalza capi-talized, getting a foot on the ball for the Cougars’ lone goal.

On Sunday against the Rice Owls, the Lady Tigers had all they could handle, grinding out a 1-0 victory.

The lone score of the match came in the 66th minute when Oduro scored her team-leading fifth goal of the season. Senior forward Melissa Smith picked up her third assist of the season when she found Oduro at the top of the keeper’s box. Oduro proceeded to kick the ball in and gave the Lady Tigers the only goal they would need.

“I just try to finish 100 per-cent of the shots I take,” Oduro said. “If I work hard in practice, then my margin for error in a game will be lower, so that’s a good thing.”

The victories added to the program’s record winning streak of 10 games.

“It feels awesome,” Kuhar-Pitters said. “We are mak-ing history here and I hope it doesn’t stop.”

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But there is speculation that her third-quarter haul could disappoint, with Perry and Romney far surpassing her total.

“She has to some extent got-ten lost in the Romney-Perry matchup,” Meckler said. “But she clearly has a record to attract to tea partyers and con-servative supporters. It doesn’t mean she is ultimately the per-son tea partyers will support for president.”

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Thousands of Egyptian women fought in the 18-day uprising that unseated longtime President Hosni Mubarak. They hurled stones at pro-regime attackers, delivered meals to hun-gry protesters, and drew global attention to the struggle through their blogs and Twitter accounts.

At least 15 women died in the uprising, according to official fig-ures. Hundreds were wounded.

And still, complain promi-nent Egyptian feminists, women are being sidelined from post-Mubarak politics: their names ignored for government posts, and their divorce and custody rights threatened by a powerful new Islamist lobby.

Egyptian activists shrugged off the announcement over the weekend that Saudi women, who cannot drive and require a male guardian for even mundane busi-ness, finally won the right to vote and run as candidates in local elections. Egyptian women have been voting, in mostly rigged elections, since 1956.

But the revolution that ended Mubarak’s 30-year dictatorship has done little for women’s rights in the Arab world’s most popu-lous country. With parliamentary elections just two months away,

the outlook for women candi-dates is so dismal that Egyptian women activists are shelving dreams of leadership and pro-gressive new laws because they fear they’ll be too busy guard-ing their few hard-won gains of recent years.

“We won’t waste our time finding women, training women, to run a campaign. They won’t

win,” said Nehad Abu el-Komsan, head of the nonprofit Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights. “We’re using these two months just to strengthen groups that support women’s rights.”

Another obstacle for activists is that because Mubarak’s widely despised wife, Suzanne, projected herself as a champion of Egyptian women, women’s rights are stig-

matized as belonging to the old regime, or, worse, imposed by the West.

Nonprofit groups that once relied on U.S. or other foreign aid said their funding has dried up, partly because of political pres-sure against accepting American money, and partly because of new layers of bureaucracy in applying for such grants.

“Since the revolution was against the system, and Suzanne was the wife of the head of the system, women’s rights were seen as part of a corrupt regime,” said Hoda Badran, head of the Cairo-based nonprofit Alliance for Arab Women, which used to receive U.S. funding. One news-paper published the word “trai-tor” next to Badran’s photo to

smear her as an American agent.As a result, even some of the

young female protest leaders are keeping quiet on women’s issues, frustrating older feminists who consider them naive for thinking that the slogans of the uprising will automatically protect their rights.

“These girls think the revolu-tion called for equality, democ-racy and social justice, so when that’s accepted, women’s rights will be covered,” Badran said. “They think equality will free them all. We have great respect for them, and we are trying to discuss this. Our wisdom and years of experience with their energy and technology is what we need.”

Many women from the new generation of Egyptian activists bristle at highlighting women’s rights, insisting that the revolt was for reform in all sectors of society. To them, cultural and educational changes have to take place before any meaning-ful discussion of women’s rights. And they deride Western-style feminists who push for wom-en’s rights without sensitivity to Egypt’s conservative context.

“There are still women — and I meet them often — who think they were created to stay at home and be good and faithful house-wives,” said Rola Badr, an officer in the April 6 Democratic Front, an offshoot of the youth move-ment that was at the forefront of the uprising. “I can’t talk with them about a woman becoming a minister before I help them erase what they’ve been fed for the past 30 years.”

“It’s a combination between the weak performance of the gov-ernment and the poor attitudes toward women in Egypt,” said Abu el-Komsan, who recently received a death threat because of her work. “Instead of asking, we must show our strength.”

After several fruitless meet-ings with senior officials from the ruling military council and caretaker government, women’s activists said, some groups are pushing for dramatic measures. One idea — scrapped for security reasons — called for mothers to drop off their children in Tahrir Square and let government forces deal with them for a day.

They’re also trying uncon-ventional conduits to decision-makers.

One recent afternoon, a small group of women gathered out-side Prime Minister Essam Sharaf’s house, shouting for his wife to push her husband to address their demands. Public relations specialists are teaching the activists how to pitch profiles of inspiring Egyptian women to local newspapers.

In June, women’s activists held a national conference that cre-ated an umbrella group — the National Federation of Egyptian Women — to fight attacks on women’s rights in family law cases, promote the inclusion

of women in government, and launch a public awareness cam-paign. They work long hours, fielding calls for guidance from discouraged activists around the country.

“I get literally hundreds of calls, women crying and afraid. After the first 20, I started tell-ing them, ‘Go to hell,’” Abu el-Komsan said. “’If you’re not going to defend yourselves, I’m not going to do anything.’ I told them, ‘Go write letters to all the newspapers, write in your own language, write with your spell-ing mistakes.’ Just organize.”

In the election-season politi-cal grandstanding, candidates are courting the Islamists, the business community, Coptic Christians and the poor. Women, however, still aren’t viewed as a vital constituency, despite official figures that show about 20 mil-lion women are eligible to vote.

Just one presidential candidate — the former Arab League chief Amr Moussa — has approached women’s groups to pitch his vision for a new Egypt. Only a couple of the many emerging political parties explicitly call for women’s rights as part of their charter goals. Even the secular, intellectual elites, activists said, address women’s rights with flowery words of support, but no real action.

“’Oh, our sisters, oh, our daughters.’ I hate that,” Badran said, referring to male politicians’ pandering. “It’s a power transac-tion. It’s not about feelings and emotions, and they won’t get it until they feel our power. We have to show that we are half the society, we are organized, and we can use our votes for empowerment.”

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When Cook Medical Inc. decided to spend $35 million to build two manufacturing plants in Canton, Ill., it wasn’t just busi-ness. It was personal.

The company’s founder, the late William Cook, grew up in Canton. He knew firsthand the town’s devastation when International Harvester closed its 33-acre manufacturing plant in 1983, leaving 3,000 workers job-less in a city of 15,000. The area never fully recovered.

“So our intent was to try to help a Midwestern town that had fallen on some difficult times through no fault of their own,” said Kem Hawkins, the president of Cook’s parent company, Cook Group Inc.

William Cook’s vision was to build a plant every year or two in struggling communities through-out the Midwest to create jobs and “begin that process of restoring hope,” Hawkins said.

Cook’s death in April hasn’t deterred the company from that goal, but an unforeseen obstacle has jeopardized the effort.

In 2013, the Affordable Care Act will begin to levy a 2.3 per-cent excise tax on U.S. sales of certain medical devices, ranging from stents and defibrillators to artificial hips and bedpans. The tax is supposed to raise $20 billion over 10 years to help fund univer-sal health care.

It will cost Cook, the world’s largest privately owned medical-device company, about $17 mil-lion of its $1 billion in annual U.S. sales. Hawkins has done the math.

“That’s a plant a year that we’re

not able to reinvest in. Or it’s a large clinical study that we can’t invest in. Or it’s maybe 10 or 12 or 15 new product innovations that we can’t reinvest in,” Hawkins said. “If we can’t build the plants, then we can’t hire the people.”

The medical device industry shares his concerns. It’s lobbying Congress to repeal the tax or at least postpone it.

The United States is the world’s leading exporter of medical devic-es, and each new industry job adds more than four to the over-all U.S. economy. An industry report claims that 43,000 U.S. jobs will be lost because of the tax, many of them to foreign coun-tries such as India and China, where labor, taxes and raw mate-rials are cheaper. That’s more than 10 percent of the nation’s 422,000 medical-device workers.

Industry analyst Jeff Jonas, of Gabelli & Co. of Rye, N.Y., said the tax could cut a company’s U.S. profits by about 3 or 4 percent, but he disagreed with the report’s “aggressive assumptions” about job losses.

“There will be job losses because of it, but I think a more realistic number would be some-what lower than 43,000,” he said.

Small development-stage com-panies, particularly those that are just beginning to book revenue on newly approved products, will take the biggest hit, said Brad Perriello, co-founder and editor of MassDevice.com, an online jour-nal that covers the device industry.

“Those companies are gener-ally revenue-negative or not yet profitable, and taking a slice of their top line right off the bat could be very difficult for them to cope with,” he said.

In a forum on Capitol Hill last

week, device company executives met with Republican lawmakers to discuss the tax and growing regulatory head winds that could curb growth in one of the nation’s strongest and most promising sectors.

Several Republicans are spon-soring legislation to kill the tax, including Rep. Erik Paulsen of Minnesota and Sens. Dan Coats of Indiana and Scott Brown of Massachusetts.

Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, who helped cut the tax from 4.6 percent to 2.3 percent during last year’s health care debate, also would consider

repealing it as part of a compre-hensive restructuring of corporate taxes.

Not everyone is having second thoughts about the tax, however.

John Boyd, the president of the Boyd Co., a site-selection consult-ing firm in Princeton, N.J., said that rather than sending U.S. jobs overseas, the tax probably would cause manufacturing jobs to move from more expensive areas to smaller, lower-cost cities such as Rochester, Minn.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Madison, Wis.

“We’re not one of these com-panies running around projecting this incredible exodus” of jobs,

Boyd said. “In fact, I’ve been say-ing just the opposite. There are lot of macro and micro trends that actually speak well for the U.S. in the next several years for the industry.”

Boyd said the device industry was less vulnerable to offshore job losses because of the weakened U.S. dollar, as well as intellec-tual property and piracy concerns in countries such as China. He thinks those problems will lead some device companies to move their foreign production back to the U.S. over the next few years,

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For the 15th time in the last 16 games, The University of Memphis Tigers football team

was on the wrong end of the scoreboard, the 10th time in as many games where their oppo-nent has scored 40 points.

In front of a homecoming crowd of 16,748 at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, slightly 2,000 people less than last week’s win against Austin Peay State University, the Tigers were defeated by Southern Methodist University 42-0. Despite the lopsided loss, head coach Larry Porter said that he saw improvement in his team.

“I thought defensively we started to settle in and play a good brand of football,” Porter said. “There are some positives in that we held (SMU) score-less in the third period and we turned them over four times throughout the game.”

Though the Tigers defense held SMU scoreless in the third quarter, they still couldn’t capitalize on turnovers. The offense was inept against the Mustangs’ defense, accumu-lating a meager 139 yards of total offense. The Tigers failed

to score a touchdown for the second time in the four games this season.

“Offensively, we had a hor-rible day. There are no excus-es,” Porter said. “All across the board, all 11 guys and includ-ing the coaching staff, we’ve got to be better.”

Freshman Quarterback Taylor Reed, who was pres-sured all day by the SMU frontline, completed 17-of-32 passes for 153 yards. His new main target was senior Tanner Rehrer, who caught five passes for 51 yards while filling in for injured wire receiver Marcus Rucker. Rucker recently under-went arthroscopic knee sur-gery that will keep him out of action for 4-6 weeks.

Reed said that it is no coinci-dence that Rehrer has become more a reliable target.

“I’ve watched a lot of film with Tanner,” Reed said. “He’s a really intelligent player and sees things really well. So he has a knack for finding spots and getting open.”

Without several key players on offense, including injured sophomore running back Jerrell Rhodes, the rushing attack struggled was almost non-existent. The Tigers rushed for a total of 14 yards and couldn’t convert on key third downs. The team fin-ished just 2-of-13 on the criti-cal downs, with only 7 first downs to extend drives. They punted 10 times – three shy of an all-time game record.

“Right now we’re searching for efficiency within our offense to be able to sustain drives and put points on the board,” Porter said. “We couldn’t run, couldn’t pass, couldn’t do any-thing. Offensively, we’ve got a lot of work to do.”

Junior linebacker Kenyatta Johnson jars the ball loose from an SMU receiver on Saturday. Despite four takeaways, the Tigers were unable to produce any points through four quarters.

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“I think this is a well-deserved honor for Christabel,” head coach Brooks Monaghan said. “I thought she was very solid this weekend, but she still has to work on being a consistent play-er over 90 minutes of a match. She has the ability to receive this award many more times down the road and become an All-Conference player as long as she

stays disciplined with her play.”Oduro tallied three points

last weekend to help the Lady Tigers win their conference road openers against the Houston Cougars and Rice Owls. She provided the assist on Memphis’ first goal in a 2-1 victory over Houston and scored the only goal of the game in a 1-0 victory over Rice.

“It feels really good to be rec-ognized,” said Oduro, a sopho-more. “I found out from some friends on Twitter congratulat-ing me.”

The Lady Tigers have now accumulated five weekly hon-ors for the season, four defen-sive and one offensive, a new program record surpassing last season’s total of four weekly honors.

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while device makers in Canada and Europe could bring opera-tions to the U.S.

And because the excise tax can be deducted from a com-pany’s income taxes, the true impact will be more like 1.4 per-cent instead of 2.3 percent, said Jonas, the industry analyst. A research and development tax credit of nearly 2 percent further

eases companies’ tax burden, Jonas said.

Jonas said larger device mak-ers such as Boston Scientific, Covidien, Medtronic and Cook could raise prices while reducing costs and discretionary spending to offset the tax.

In addition, low tax rates on their European, Asian and South American operations allow large device makers to better absorb the tax increase.

“If you’re a big medical device company, you might be getting 30

percent of your sales in Europe and that means 30 percent of your business has a 15 percent tax rate,” Jonas said. “That’s how their (overall corporate tax rate) creeps lower.”

Cook manufactures in Australia, Denmark and Ireland. But Hawkins argued that compe-tition is too keen to assume that they can just raise prices without hurting sales.

“This notion that we can ‘just pass it on’ is simply untrue,” Hawkins said. “Because we’re a

private company, we can take a little less profit and do the right thing. But you have to ask your-self: At what point do we start to lose business because we can no longer compete on price because of the advantages of companies manufacturing in low-cost” for-eign countries?

At Zoll Medical Corp. in Chelmsford, Mass., company CEO Rick Packer said the tax would cut the company’s invest-ment in research and develop-ment. “That means fewer jobs for engineers,” Packer said.

About 1,800 of its 2,000 employ-ees are based in the U.S., but Zoll, which makes resuscitation devic-es, has no foreign manufacturing operations. That could change, however, Packer said.

“I’m an old manufacturing guy that just believes I ought to try and do it in the United States if I can. But if I have to go and squeeze every last nickel out of my cost structure, then I need to move my manufacturing to offshore places and lower my costs and try to fill in the hole that the tax is going to cost,” Packer said.

That’s not an option for small-er firms with low profit margins or those that are struggling to become profitable. Because these companies often need venture capital to expand their operations, even a small hit on profits can make outside funding more diffi-cult to secure, particularly in these economic times.

“They just don’t have as many levers to pull as the big guys” when it comes to trying to offset the tax, Jonas said.

That doesn’t bother John Reid, a co-founder of AbbeyMoor Medical, in Parkers Prairie, Minn. In a state with more than 400 medical-device companies that employ more than 50,000 people, Reid’s company has fewer than 10 employees, who make devices to treat male urinary problems.

He hasn’t thought too much about the tax, and he isn’t worried about its impact.

“I just look at it and say, ‘If it comes, I have to contend with it, because everyone else will have to contend with it,’ “ Reid said. “I just can’t see it having a material impact on us in the short run. I can’t.”

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“The (tuition) difference comes when you get above six credits because on-campus fees are only assessed for the first six hours. Online fees continue no matter how many credits you take,” Lattimore said. “It gets more complicat-ed than that… Graduate hours are also assessed a little differ-ently in RODP for example.”

Bobby DeMuro, 25, lives and works full time in North Carolina but takes six gradu-ate-level online hours at The U of M and 12 hours at other schools.

“I only compared Memphis’ online tuition with online tuition of other schools and it’s extremely competitive,” DeMuro said. “Besides, I find that the expense is completely offset by my ability to remain at home and work full time at my full-time salary and level.”

Kelli George, 41, senior his-tory and anthropology dou-ble major, takes both online and on-campus courses. She is skeptical about the online fees.

“I really dislike the extra fees since that cuts into my financial aid refunds. I think it is just a scheme for The University to keep money back from the financial aid refunds,” she said.

Even though online stu-dents don’t pay the program service fee, which includes the student activity fee, they have had access to its perks, such as free admission to all University games and on-cam-pus activities.

“Access should be granted to only those students who pay the program service fee, however due to previous sys-tem limitations, this access could not be limited,” Smith said. “We are now able to limit access to only those students paying … however, we are currently allowing access in the current term while a team studies implications to both students and the institution.”

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