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Local record label showcases 35 bands in this weekend’s 8th annual Goner Fest

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Crank it up to 11

Aaron Robinson, organizational leadership major, was chosen among a pool of 500 prospective models to represent H.I.M-istry skin care products.

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UM junior Robinson is true ‘model student’When University of Memphis junior

Aaron Robinson received the email declaring him a H.I.M-istry spokesmo-del, the feeling was “unbelievable,” he said.

“I never even considered modeling,” he said. “A lady at church asked me, ‘Why are you not in radio or TV?’ I tried it and I’m glad. She saw something in me that I didn’t see in my self.”

H.I.M-istry produces skin care prod-ucts for males that can be purchased over their website or in department stores.

Robinson and four others were chosen out of 500 males nationwide for model-ing positions with the company. The contest began five months ago and con-testants were allowed to submit just one photo of themself for the competition.

“It was a great accomplishment just

being in the top 12 of the nation, and I was happy with just that,” he said. “I’m thankful that I’ve made it this far.”

H.I.M-istry recommended Robinson join the contest after seeing an online ModelMayhem profile he created about a year ago.

Robinson’s photographer and man-ager Demetrius Morgan said that he’s a gifted and talented individual.

“He’s a breath of fresh air some-times,” Morgan said. “Aaron gives off this energy that you can’t explain. He’s outgoing, there’s nothing he won’t do.”

As a H.I.M-istry spokesmodel, Robinson will showcase the company’s products, attend events and model for commercials.

“He’ll be selling the product as a model. H.I.M-istry will utilize his beauty and talent,” Morgan said. “Hopefully we’ll go global. We don’t want to be top five, we want to be number one.”

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BY CHRIS DANIELSNews Reporter

The ticking and tapping of laptops can be heard in almost any classroom at The University of Memphis as students flick their eyes between the screen and their professors. As more students use laptops to take notes and more professors demand that homework is printed, fewer students resort to traditional pen and paper note taking.

With the increase of technology, messy, incomprehensible hand-writing is becoming the norm.

“If I can’t read it, they don’t get credit,” said Thomas Banning, associate engineering professor about some of his students’ work.

Banning said having legible handwriting is important not only in class, but in the professional environments as well.

“Handwriting is something for all professions,” he said. “Writing

is a communication tool, whether in engineering or English. Students are becoming too computer dependent and they can’t even draw good letters or shapes manually.”

During the beginning of Banning’s graphics and descriptive geometry class, students learn manual drafting and lettering.

He said when he hands out the practice letter-tracing work-sheets, the first thing students wonder is if they’re back in grade school.

“However, as soon as they try to meet my expectations, they real-ize they don’t have fine muscle movement anymore which means they have to practice,” he said. “They will get hand craps when they’re practicing.”

Students learn hand drafting and hand lettering meaning manu-al for the first four to six weeks and then they move to the computer, Banning said.

He said students learn block printing in first or second grade,

Homecoming week begins

With homecoming week in full swing and a football game against Southern Methodist University on Saturday, numerous organizations at The University of Memphis are work-ing together to spice up the events on campus this week to get more students involved.

The Alumni Association is sponsor-ing its annual Homecoming Parade on Friday with U of M president Shirley Raines as its guest. The parade will end with a pep rally with Coach Porter.

The Luther C. McClellan Black Alumni Chapter Homecoming Step Show will follow the pep rally. It will feature current students and returning alumni from Delta Sigma Theta, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Phi Beta Sigma, Omega Psi Phi, and Kappa Alpha Psi. The cost is $10 for Alumni Association members and students and $15 for non-members. Proceeds benefit the LCM Scholarship Fund.

For the homecoming game, the Highland Hundred has donated two buses to charter students from the Central Avenue parking lot to The Liberty Bowl at 9 a.m. and take them back 30 minutes after the game.

The Student Government Assignments also secured 100 spots for student tail-gating this weekend.

But with a football program that only has two victories in its past 15 contests, attendance has been lacking at Liberty Bowl Memorial, something that SGA president Tyler DeWitt said he hopes to change.

DeWitt said that a student could walk through The University of Memphis campus and never even know the school had a football team.

DeWitt said that this is the first year

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The lost art of the written wordDespite efforts inside the classroom to preserve craft, U of Mprofessors report handwriting is becoming relic of times past

BY ERICA HORTONNews Reporter

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Technology

Cleaner, faster, smallerWith gas prices continu-

ously rising and the price of electric cars falling, some consumers are waving good-bye to the high gas prices of yesteryear and hello to an alternative to gas-fueled vehi-cles – including the physi-cal plant at The University of Memphis.

“My uncle said never be the first to try anything,” said Calvin Strong, director of cus-todial landscape services.

In 1997, the physical plant did was one of the first University of Memphis departments to purchase an electric vehicle on campus.

This year, The U of M is joining the ECOtality, North America’s Electric Vehicle (EV) Project’s cause in spread-ing knowledge about “green” transportation.

On Oct. 4, The U of M will host its annual Tiger Blue Goes Green Day and promot-ing environmental awareness throughout campus with the electric-powered automobiles already on campus.

During the event, U of M faculty members will intro-duce new campus sustain-ability initiatives.

U of M will also be showcas-ing the Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Volt, Ford Fusion and Toyota Highlander hybrid and elec-tric automobiles from U of M police Services and the physi-cal plant.

“These cars are like the technology of comput-ers…they are getting faster and smaller,” said Jeffrey Marchetta, associate mechan-ical engineering professor. “But in the next few years, these companies will be working on how more elec-

tricity can be compacted into a smaller space and battery technology.”

Charging the electrical automobile during a spring break road trip will not be an easy task, but the hassle could cost U of M students less on the back end.

“When my gas light comes on, my hands sweat, my stomach boils and I begin a staring contest as the pump ninja chops my wallet into pieces, but I know MLGW will downright snatch it,”

said senior journalism major Raphael Small.

U of M deputy director of public safety, Derek Myers, said that police services paid $27,500 for each of their three Ford Escape Hybrids, but received a “hefty” return on the back end.

Electrical cars did the trick when it came to cutting gas costs, receiving better gas mileage and experiencing better performance with less maintenance costs by nearly 100 percent, he said.

“We are receiving 20 miles to the gallon with electrical vehicles versus single digits with our motorized vehicles,” Myers said.

Memphis joined three other major metropolitan areas in Tennessee, 17 cities in six states and the District of Columbia in a electric auto-mobile initiative.

By the end of the year, Tennessee is expected to have 1,000 operating charging stations. Memphis plans to house 70 of the 1,000 stations.

BY HANNAH OWENGANews Reporter

An electric van, used by The University of Memphis physical plant, is one of many sustainable energy initiatives that The University has implemented in attempts to conform to more environmentally friendly practices. The van will be showcased at the Tiger Blue Going Green Expo on Oct. 4.

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Entertainment

When Scott Riggs took his first commercial radio DJ job in 1995, he was handed a list of songs and told never to veer from it.

“It was a shock,” said Riggs, who soon learned that DJs rare-ly get to choose the music at broadcast stations, where play-lists are dictated by top 40 hits. “I wanted to be the guy who played a new song that blew someone’s mind and turned them on to great music.”

Today Riggs, 41, gets to do just that. As director of music programming at the San Diego online music service Slacker Inc., Riggs oversees about 70 DJs who select most of the songs played on the com-pany’s 150 sta-tions, including genres as var-ied as trance, hip-hop, gospel and swing.

S l a c k e r ’ s h a n d c r a f t e d approach sets it apart not just from broad-cast radio but also some of its online rivals, including Pandora Media Inc., which relies on an algorithm to determine what song to play next.

Slacker and Pandora are among a cluster of digital ser-vices vying for a slice of the $13 billion U.S. radio adver-tising market now dominat-ed by traditional broadcast-ers such as Clear Channel Communications Inc. Slacker is also going after a burgeoning business in subscription music streaming, which lets paying users skip commercials and pick the exact songs they want to hear.

Although the digital music market is still in its infancy, Slacker has been around since 2006. Its founders initially had envisioned a portable music service that used satellite band-width, but they abandoned the idea in favor of using standard Internet connections to deliv-er music. Slacker launched in 2007 as a free Web-based ser-vice, supported by ads.

At the end of 2007, Slacker introduced a premium ad-free service for $3.99 a month that enabled subscribers to skip songs and listen to music even

when there was no Internet connection. That year it also started to sell a portable player that allowed users to listen to the service on the go, followed in 2009 by a music service on BlackBerrys and other smart-phones such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone. And in May it launched an on-demand service that lets users pick the exact songs they want to hear for $9.99 a month.

Subscription music services like Slacker have been around nearly a decade, beginning with Rhapsody in 2001. But until recently most have strug-gled to make money, largely because audiences have been reluctant to pay for music and because the services them-selves were initially confusing to use.

“Music is something that most people want, but in gen-eral they don’t like to pay for it,” said Mark Leschly, man-aging partner of Rho Capital Partners, whose firm has invested in Slacker since 2008. “It’s been a difficult business model for many years.”

As a privately held com-pany, Slacker does not disclose its financial data. The company has 30 million registered users, 6 million of whom listen at least once a month, as well as 400,000 paying subscribers.

“The only reason we’re not net-profitable today is because of our marketing expenses,” said Jonathan Sasse, Slacker’s senior vice president of marketing.

Although Slacker has strug-gled over the years to find the right business model, it has not deviated from its DJ-centric approach, believing that the way to people’s ears — and wallets — is to offer music curated by experts in dozens of genres.

Riggs is at the heart of Slacker ’s efforts, overseeing a group of contract DJs who build their stations’ playlists

from scratch and continually fine-tune them. On a recent Tuesday morning, Riggs took a break from his management duties to engage in his favorite task — finding new songs for his stations. He surfed through a few music blogs and played snippets of tracks until some-thing caught his ear — a new release from War on Drugs, an up-and-coming band he knows and likes. With a few clicks, he added the track to his playlist.

Riggs then checked how his listeners were responding to his choices. Unlike broadcast

radio, Slacker’s software can detect every time a user switches to a different sta-tion or skips a song. Slacker also lets users ban songs they don’t want to hear again or “heart” songs they like.

Riggs noticed that Adele, whose blues album topped the charts for much of this year, was seeing a high number of skips, suggesting that listeners were fatigued with her songs. At the same time, she also had a high “heart” rate. Riggs decided to play her songs less frequently.

“Our stations are constantly modified,” Riggs said as he fussed over his playlists. “For us, it’s about making the best station in that genre. It’s more art than science.”

Slacker’s software takes each user’s preferences into account alongside the DJs’ playlists to weigh which songs to serve up.

Slacker ’s subscription ser-vices give users even more con-trol. Listeners can skip as many songs as they like, whereas the free service allows only six skips an hour.

“There are times when I only want to hear Steely Dan and nothing else,” said Ted Cohen, president of TAG Strategic, a digital music consulting firm in Hollywood, Calif. “And there are times when I want to sit back and be taken on a journey by a trusted DJ. Slacker lets me have both.”

From left, Scott Riggs, senior director of Slacker Radio, Jim Cady, CEO Slacker Radio, and Jonathan Sasse, director of marketing of Slacker Radio, pose for a photo at their office in San Diego, Calif. on Aug. 23. The online radio start-up uses more than 60 DJs across the country to program its 100+ digital stations.

BY ALEX PHAMLos Angeles Times

Online music service relies on humans, not algorithms, to provide its listeners with a truly unique music experience

“Music is something that most people want, but in general they

don’t like to pay for it. It’s been a difficult business model for many

years.” — Mark LeschlyManaging partner,

Rho Capital Partners

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the SGA has worked with the athletics department to improve attendance.

“We’re going to try to break the record at every game but it’s hard to do without stu-dent incentive,” DeWitt said. “Incentive drives results – ask any economics professor on campus.”

Despite discrepancies in the official student attendance numbers reported after the Tigers’ season opener against Mississippi State, the record remains at 4,100 set in 1996 against The University of Tennessee.

“The machines broke at 3,500 but I think we shattered the record,” DeWitt said. “I’ve been here for four years and I’ve never seen anything close to what I saw that night.”

There will be numer-ous awards given during the halftime show including The

Parent of the Year, the True Blue Traditions Award and the Mr. and Ms. U of M awards.

The physical plant is the recipient of the True Blue Traditions Award for their help with the Tigers Around Town project.

“The physical plant is the

glue to this whole opera-tion,” said Alumni Affairs Coordinator Terez Wilson.

Following the game, there will be a concert and after-par-ty with live performances by U of M students Hunter Lang, Anthony Moore and others.

The concert will be in the Pipkin building on Tiger Lane at 10 p.m. Proceeds go to the Kappa Eta chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

According to Xavier Jones, the chapter cooperates with the Sickle Cell Foundation of Tennessee, Project Alpha a fundraising project designed to aid young men with sexual education, and their annual voter registration drive.

Robinson, who is majoring in organizational leadership and is the vice president of adult and commuter services at The U of M, said his school par-ticipation helps him with his oral skills, speaking in public and dealing with nervousness.

Joy Stout, director of adult and commuter services at The U of M, said that she thinks it shows how much Robinson likes to broaden his horizons by competing and winning the H.I.M-istry model position.

“It’s a real joy to work with him and he works very hard,” Stout said. “He has good fol-low-through in completing his responsibilities.”

Robinson said he wants to be humble and that his peers and family are excited for him.

He said that he’s grateful for the encouragement.

Robinson keeps a particular photo of himself by his bed that helps him stay positive every day.

“Its inspiration for me to keep believing in myself,” he said.

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Applications for this committee are now available

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UC 211

A favor to ask of conference commissioners and university presidents and chancellors on behalf of fans everywhere: Can you give it a rest on Saturday?

Before games kicked off last week, the Pittsburgh and Syracuse move to the ACC started as a rumor. By the kick-off of the day’s marquee game between Florida State and Oklahoma at 8 p.m. Eastern, the move was all but confirmed.

The idea of conference realignment seemingly hangs over almost every game this season, and this week is no exception. Big 12 play begins with two games between teams that may not even be in the con-ference, if it exists, next season. Still, that league’s top matchup should remind us why college football is beloved despite the wheelings and dealings of the powers-that-be.

Oklahoma State and Texas A&M look to be headed their separate ways, but the game between top-10 opponents is setting up to be another enter-taining show of offense that has become the Big 12’s trade-marks in recent years. The other key Big 12 game Saturday is Missouri at Oklahoma. Missouri won last season at home.

West Virginia looks to be the Big East’s best team, and Geno Smith and the Mountaineers will be going against LSU’s smothering defense Saturday. But rather than the game, most of the talk emanating from the Big East is whether it can sur-vive as a football entity.

In the more “stable” leagues, there are key division battles in the SEC (Arkansas at Alabama) and ACC (Florida State at Clemson).

Here’s a look at the key tele-vised matchups in Week 4.

WEEK 4 VIEWER’S GUIDEOKLAHOMA STATE AT

TEXAS A&MWhen: 2:30 p.m., ABC regional

or ESPN2Broadcasters: Sean McDonough

play-by-play, Matt Millen analystThe line: Texas A&M by 3Why you should watch: The Big

12’s future is in doubt, but the Big 12 still will crown a cham-pion at the end of the season, and Oklahoma State and Texas A&M, both ranked in the top 10, appear to be contenders for the title and perhaps more. This matchup has featured high-scoring games in recent seasons, and it also been one of the most hotly contested series in the Big 12. Four of the past five meetings have been decided by five or fewer points and fea-tured a combined 67.6 points per game. That trend doesn’t look to change. Despite a new offen-sive coordinator, Oklahoma State leads the nation in passing, and TB Joseph Randle has rushed for at least 121 yards and two touch-downs in each game this season. The Cowboys’ defense may be a liability, but in fairness, that unit has faced potent offenses from Arizona and Tulsa. This is the first time Oklahoma State has faced the Aggies since Ryan Tannehill became the starting quarterback. He has weapons galore in TBs Cyrus Gray and Christine Michael and WR Jeff Fuller.

ARKANSAS AT ALABAMAWhen: 2:30 p.m., CBSBroadcasters: Verne Lundquist

play-by-play, Gary Danielson analyst

The line: Alabama by 12Why you should watch: Other

than Kentucky, these two teams are the last in the SEC to play a league game. Something tells us this game will have more rami-fications than the Wildcats’ SEC opener against Florida. Arkansas will try to atone for last season’s collapse, where Alabama erased a 13-point deficit for a 24-20 win in Tuscaloosa. New Razorbacks

QB Tyler Wilson has looked good – against Missouri State, New Mexico and Troy. The Hogs’ win over Troy, decided by “only” 10 points, should come with an aster-isk as Arkansas was without start-ing WRs Greg Childs and Jarius Wright and DE Jake Bequette. Childs is expected to return, while Wright and Bequette are work-ing their way back from injury. Arkansas will need to be at full strength for Alabama, which has allowed a combined two touch-downs in three games. Look for Alabama to follow a similar game plan as it did a year ago, when it rushed for 227 yards against the Hogs. Last week against North Texas, Crimson Tide TBs Trent Richardson and Eddie Lacy each topped 150 yards, the first time two backs hit that milestone in the same game in Alabama history.

FLORIDA STATE AT CLEMSON

When: 2:30 p.m., ESPNBroadcasters: Brad Nessler play-

by-play, Todd Blackledge analystThe line: Florida State by 2.5Why you should watch: A week

after facing Oklahoma’s Landry Jones, Kenny Stills and Ryan Broyles, Florida State’s defense has another difficult challenge on its hands. Clemson’s offense, led by the pass/catch tandem of Tajh Boyd and Sammy Watkins, put on a show against Auburn (624 yards on 92 total plays), but some of that may have been the product of going Auburn’s abysmal defense. Florida State’s defense did a nice job against Oklahoma, but FSU’s offense has some questions on the injury front. QB E.J. Manuel left the Oklahoma game with a shoul-der injury, and WRs Bert Reed and Kenny Shaw could join fel-low WR Willie Haulstead on the injured list. It’s not a great time for FSU. Could the Seminoles go from being a top-five team to chasing Clemson in the ACC race over the span of two weeks?

MISSOURI AT OKLAHOMAWhen: FX, 7 p.m.

Broadcasters: Gus Johnson play-by-play, Charles Davis analyst

The line: Oklahoma by 21.5Why you should watch: Missouri

scored a rare win in the series last season with a 36-27 victory that ended a seven-game losing streak to OU, which included Big 12 championship games in 2007 and ‘08. Picking up consecutive wins against the Sooners for the first time since 1965-66 will be a tall task for the Tigers. Missouri’s defense struggled on the road against Arizona State’s passing game in an overtime loss two weeks ago, and now the Tigers must prepare for Landry Jones and a potent Sooners passing attack. Missouri has had injury troubles, but the Tigers may have found their tail-back in Henry Josey, who rushed for 263 yards and three touch-downs in the first half against FCS Western Illinois last week. Then again, that’s Western Illinois. Florida State rushed for only 64 yards on Oklahoma’s defense last week, not including sacks (the Sooners held the Seminoles to 27 yards including yards lost on sacks).

LSU AT WEST VIRGINIAWhen: 7 p.m., ABCBroadcasters: Brent Musburger

play-by-play, Kirk Herbstreit analyst

The line: LSU by 6Why you should watch: The

arrival of coach Dana Holgorsen has been a boon to West Virginia’s passing game. Geno Smith is one of four quarterbacks to already have hit the 1,000-yard mark. Two of the others also have been coached by Holgorsen: Oklahoma State’s Brandon Weeden and Houston’s Case Keenum. LSU has proved it can stop run-first teams with dou-ble-digit wins over Oregon and Mississippi State. West Virginia presents a different challenge, and will LSU CBs Tyrann Mathieu and Morris Claiborne be up to the test? LSU QB Jarrett Lee was 21-of-27 for 213 yards against Mississippi State last week.

Football

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which requires fine muscle move-ment and by fourth grade, they learn cursive, which is more relaxed.

“Everyone picks up their own style for cursive,” he said. “There are consistent styles for block letter-ing. There are no consistent styles for cursive writing.”

Mary Ransdell, clinical associate professor who researched the hand-writing of school children, said via email that though handwriting is taught in elementary schools, it is not assessed on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP), so it’s not given much attention in classrooms.

She said even if a person was taught handwriting and practiced the skill to the point of having very legible handwriting as a child, their handwriting becomes more person-alized to the individual as that per-son advances through school.

“For others, the development of a distinctive style is important so they add self-styled flourishes to their cursive letters. Quite a number of people prefer to print or type information, but only handwrite their names when a signature is required.”

Ransdell said for some people, handwriting becomes less legible the faster they take notes.

Kaylin Ewing, teaching assistant in the history department, said she is one of many teachers who do not allow students to use laptops in her classroom.

“Sometimes they’ll come up to me and ask a question and I’ll tell them to go to their notes,” she said. “They show me what they have in notes and sometimes they can’t read what they wrote down.”

Ewing said she tries to go through notes slowly and that stu-dents can ask her to slow down if they don’t catch something.

She said though she has no set policy about grading and legible writing, Ewing said most of her students tend to print their work.

She said after teaching for a while, she’s gotten used to all kinds of calligraphy.

“You get used to it,” she said. “It’s not fun, but with time, you get used to anything. It takes constant contact and practice.”

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Phi Alpha Theta, the History Honor Society presents

Friday Sept. 23 @ 12:45 p.m.Mitchell Hall, Room 200

A lecture by Dr. Suzanne Onstine

Assistant Professor - History

“The Life Cycle of a Theban Tomb in Ancient Egypt”

Pizza & Drinksprovided with generous support from Student Event Allocation

The annual garage rock blowout known as Goner Fest starts tonight at the Goner Records store at Cooper Young, continuing through the weekend with performances at Midtown institutions like the Hi-Tone Cafe and the Buccaneer.

But with more than 35 bands scheduled to play during the next three days, wouldn’t it be nice to get the “best of” list before you drop $60 for the golden pass?

I thought so, too.In a recent Rolling Stone article,

Goner Records was named the eighth best independent record store in the country for their relent-less efforts to dig up some of the best garage rock on the planet. Noted by Rolling Stone was the

label’s recent work with San Francisco psychedelic rocker Ty Segall.

The hype is real. Singles from Segall’s latest

effort, “Goodbye Bread,” have been getting massive airplay from college radio stations nationwide. But what really sets Segall apart from the flock of longhaired, indie rock, plaid enthusiasts is his abil-ity to captivate an audience and keep them reeling throughout his bombardment of fuzzed out rock and roll.

Segall headlines the first night of Goner Fest tonight at the Hi-Tone.

Headlining Friday night are Detroit’s Gories. The Gories are one of the oldest bands playing at Goner Fest, but age hasn’t slowed down front man Mick Collins as he continues to release new music

with his new band the Dirtbombs. As far as garage rock goes, The Gories are about as authentic as it gets. Minimal drums, bluesy guitar and scruffy vocals make the band a veritable blueprint of classic garage noise. Memphis leg-end Alex Chilton produced and worked with the band in the 1990s and if it’s good enough for Chilton, it’s good enough for you.

Saturday’s schedule is jam-packed with music from 1 p.m. to 2 a.m., but you’ll want to get to Murphy’s on Madison Avenue early to check out one of the most unique bands the local scene has spawned in recent memory: The Manatees. Called a “walk through Abe White’s nightmares” by Goner Records owner Eric Friedl, The Manatees have taken everything they hate about Memphis and its

population and churned out tribal garage rock that is just as scary as it is catchy. Fun fact: guitarist and songwriter Abe White’s mother is an art professor at The University of Memphis.

Skip ahead to Saturday night at the Hi-Tone and be sure to catch the Oakland, Calif. girl group Shannon and the Clams. The Clams call on 60s girl groups like the Shangri-Las and The Dixie Cups to recreate a soundtrack perfect for a drive-in movie or a make-out session in the University Center. Songwriter Shannon Shaw also plays in the pop-punk band Hunx and His Punx, whose live show is notori-ously raucous and unpredictable. Expect a more intimate and sub-dued set from Shannon and the Clams on Saturday night.

Human Eye headlines Goner Fest Saturday night at the Hi-Tone, featuring infamous Detroit rocker Timmy Vulgar. Vulgar, not unlike the late Memphian Jay Reatard, has been cranking out punk rock by the bucket load since the late 1990s. But with his newest project, Human Eye, Vulgar has caught the attention of a more mainstream crowd, including the uber hip indie rock label Sacred Bones. Vulgar probably won’t be showing up on The Tonight Show any time soon, but his brand of science fiction rock and roll demands your attention.

There you have it – the cream of the crop, so to speak. Of course, one of the biggest reasons to attend a music festival is to find out about new music. So if you’re low on cash like me and halfway to need-ing a liver transplant, check out some of the most exciting bands the garage rock genre has to offer and leave the all day and all night partying to the goners.

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Ty Segall plays last years Goner Fest at the Hitone. Segall headlines the Hi-Tone again tonight at the eighth annual Goner Fest.

BY CHRIS SHAWNews Reporter

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University of Memphis junior setter Hajnalka Molnar received Conference USA setter of the week honors, the league announced on Monday.

“I am proud of Hajnalka and thankful to the conference for rec-ognizing her achievements for the second time this year,” said head coach April Jauregui. “We have a strong history here at Memphis of very good setters. Hajnalka fits right into that category. She is our captain and our leader.”

The Budapest, Hungary native currently leads the NCAA in assists per set, which helped fuel the Lady Tigers last week-end in Greensboro, NC. Molnar ended her record breaking week-end tying her personal best with five service aces, a tournament best 49 assists in the win against Radford and one dig shy of her third double- double this season. This marks Molnar’s second time garnering the setter of the week honors this season.

“I was really happy, because it’s a big thing,” Molnar said. “I put in a lot of work during the off-season, and my passers are doing a great job in serve receive and defense. It’s a team sport, not an individual sport.”

Memphis came out strong in the Spartan Spiketacular quickly garnering two straight set victories against hosts UNC-Greensboro and Howard. They also bested Radford, 3-1.

“We really played together as a team and focused on our game and played good volleyball as a whole in Greensboro,” said junior outside hitter Altrese Hawkins. “We passed balls, dug balls and put them down, and that was the reason for our success.”

With an 11-2 start this season, Memphis’ best since 2006, the Tigers looked to gain yet another victory in their first C-USA match of the season against UAB, but the Blazers swept Memphis with a 3-0 (17-25, 14-25, 20-25) straight set win.

Junior right side hitter Marija Jovanovic led tigers with 14 kills followed by teammate Hawkins with 10 recorded kills, landing her in18th place in Memphis volley-ball history with a recorded 1,019 kills. Junior Vesna Jelic defended the home team with 14 digs but Memphis (11-3, 0-1 in C-USA) still fell short as UAB came out victorious.

“I would say we just need to reduce errors on our side,” Hawkins said. “We had a bunch of service errors and hitting errors, so reducing our errors is the key.”

Tigers continue conference play this weekend as they host East Carolina on Friday at 7 p.m. and Marshall on Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Elma Roane Fieldhouse.

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The University of Memphis women’s tennis team got its fall season underway Saturday and Sunday at the MT Shootout hosted by Middle Tennessee State University. With individ-ual ranking points on the line, three Tigers won their respec-tive brackets, including Mariya Slupska, Stefanie Mikesz and Alyssa Hibberd.

“We feel like we’re a strong team,” said head coach Lee Taylor Walker. “We really wanted to build confidence and get those first-match nerves out so I think it went great. As long as everyone keeps learning and improving, we’re going to have a good team. There’s really no limit to what we can accomplish.”

Slupska, a senior, won the Blue Singles brackets with three straight set victories, defeating Vanja Tomic from Austin Peay University (6-1, 6-1) and two nett-ers from Middle Tennessee’s Yuiri Nomoto (6-1, 6-2) and Carla Nava (6-3, 6-1). Newcomer Tiffany Welcher, a senior transfer from Alabama, also competed in the Blue Singles bracket, winning her first match against Western Kentucky’s Monta Reinfelde (4-6, 6-2, 6-2). Welcher then dropped two sets to Nava before bouncing back to defeat Nomoto at 6-2, 6-0, in the consolation bracket.

Competing in the White Singles bracket, sophomore Mikesz also ran through in straight sets with wins over Lipscomb’s Jenny Borck (6-0, 6-2), Western Kentucky’s McKinley Mason (6-1, 6-2) and Middle Tennessee’s Marietta Bigus (6-3, 6-0). Mikesz was joined in the White Singles bracket by junior Kelly Gray, who went 2-1 in the tournament with a dominating 6-0, 6-0, win over Austin Peay’s Weronika Kurka and a 6-2, 6-2, victory over Mason in the conso-lation match.

The Raiders bracket also fea-tured a Memphis champion, with freshman Alyssa Hibberd announcing her presence to the collegiate tennis world by win-

ning three straight-sets match-es. Hibberd blitzed Western Kentucky’s Morgan Freeman 6-0, 6-0, before tallying wins over Lipscomb’s Elizabeth Keevil (6-1, 6-3) and Middle Tennessee’s Taylor Coffey (6-1, 6-1) to take the bracket.

“Our newcomers have really come in and challenged everyone immediately,” Walker said. “That creates a really good competitive environment for us, which really helps us. We’re happy with their contributions already.”

Junior Andrea Arques-Garcia was the lone Tiger competing in the Lightning Singles bracket and won her first match, 6-3, 6-3, against WKU’s Katrina Vucina before dropping her final two contests, including a three set

thriller (6-3, 1-6, 8-10) against Nayara Moraes in the consola-tion match.

All three Tiger doubles teams also emerged victorious on the weekend with a 9-0 overall record.

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Slupska, Mikesz, Hibberd each claim individual bracket victories at MT Shootout tournamentBY ADAM DOUGLASSports Editor

Freshman netter Alyssa Hibberd was among the new faces that made an impact last weekend at the MT Shootout hosted at Middle Tennessee.

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