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Improvements to Liberty Bowl PostponedNew Jumbotrons, AstroTurf

and a sound system were sup-posed to be presented in a plan to City Council at Tuesday’s meet-ing, but with a lack of funding, the measure was postponed for another two weeks.

“We don’t have the funding sources in place,” said proposal sponsor Reid Hedgepeth, posi-tion three councilman of super district 9.

Hedgepeth sponsored a pro-posal that would allow for the installation of new AstroTurf, improved lighting, a fresh coat of paint, a new sound system, eleva-tors and two new Jumbotrons by the start of the 2012 Tiger football season on Sept. 1.

When the Tigers announced their acceptance into the Big East Conference, renovations to the Liberty Bowl stadium became more of a concern.

“The Liberty Bowl has a lot of issues that have been neglected for some time,” Hedgepeth said.

He explained the only way the current Jumbotron can be repaired involves buying old parts from an unused Jumbotron in Chicago. A former U of M football player on the team from 1997-2000, Hedgepeth described the AstroTurf a, “hot and in bad

shape.” “When you get in the Big East,

it helps to upgrade. When you get in a conference of that quality we need to get our facility up to qual-ity. At some point we must make a commitment,” he said.

According to Hedgepeth, the project could cost anywhere from $6 to $12 million depending on how many improvements were made.

University of Memphis Athletic Director R.C Johnson said he thinks the motion was postponed because the city coun-cil was preoccupied with the third and final reading of the ordinance to raise the city property tax. At the close of yesterday’s meet-ing, the council voted in favor of revising the budget in lieu of increasing the citywide property tax.

“I think it was because they had so much going on with the property tax increase and what they were going to try to do with the budget. I don’t think they felt like it was enough time. I don’t think there was anything magi-cal. It was just a concern over the amount of time; as you know, the city is having some real budget issues,” said R.C. Johnson, U of M athletic director.

The city is expecting a $47 mil-lion deficit in the budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Hedgepeth

and the City Parks Committee are looking for potential tenants to financially back improvements and renovations to the Liberty Bowl stadium.

“Well certainly money is a crit-ical issue,” Hedgepeth said.

In regards to public discussion

of funds coming from University of Memphis alumni or the pri-vate business sector he said, “If I knew where the funding was coming from, we would vote on it today, but the people who are saying where it’s coming from aren’t being truthful.”

Time is also an issue concerning the project, as the two Jumbotrons would take five months to install.

“I don’t think it’s impossible. It will just make things harder. Plus, if we don’t know how to pay for it, it’s hard to get the council to vote,” Hedgepeth said.

A lack of funding has postponed talks to make major renovations to the Liberty Bowl, home of Tiger Lane.

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BY MICHELLE CORBETNews Reporter

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Lisa Babb, senior political science major, is one of the typists for the Alma Mater project.

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Art installation challenges students to question what makes a university.

Five women and a man dressed in ‘60s attire sat behind a series of tables and vintage typewriters Tuesday afternoon as a steady stream of student participants lined up to share their vision.

The interactive perfor-mance titled “Alma Mater in the Making” is part of a two-piece project the Art Museum at the University of Memphis is sponsoring in honor of The University’s centennial.

For three days, artists Sheryl Oring and Dhanraj Emanuel will document answers to the question “What do you think the university could be?” on the UC Plaza from noon until 2 p.m. Thursday.

Students can become involved in the project by pro-viding an answer to a typist wearing a secretarial dress or

a man in suit and tie who then transcribes their response onto a postcard.

The installation offers a chance to experience a different level of communication uncom-mon in modern times, Oring said.

“I feel like the way it’s set up with a typist really engen-ders a type of communication that is very different than social media like Facebook,” she said. “Someone posing a question and listening so intently gives people a feeling of being heard; it’s very empowering.”

They chose the ‘60s attire to allude to the era’s rich history of student-led protest move-ments and social change.

The second part of the proj-ect will be an exhibition in the AMUM gallery that will feature the postcard responses, photog-raphy, audio and video from the performance.

Oring said the postcards

were “snapshots in time that can play a role in getting people to think about the future when universities are facing a lot of questions about the future of technology and the role of the classroom.”

The contrast of 1960s technol-ogy within the modern univer-sity setting attracted the atten-tion of passing students yester-day, many of whose responses addressed tuition increases and the desire for more affordable college education.

Emanuel said at its most basic level the piece seeks to explore the expectations students have for The University.

AMUM invited Oring and Emanuel because the couple’s past work involving public input aligned with the muse-um’s desire to involve student participation in its centennial exhibition.

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Tonight: Page One5 p.m. in Rooms 103 & 117 in the Living Learning Complex

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Tomorrow: Brian Stelter6 p.m. reception in UC Lobby / 6:30 p.m. lecture in UC Theater

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Business

Magic on the shelfCraig Rich walked into The

University of Memphis’ FedEx Institute of Technology last fall after stumbling upon infor-mation about the new Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation online. As a new brand owner, he was in need of guidance and wanted to offer some of his own to U of M students after being inspired by a child.

Rich was on dad duty in late 2009 when he supervised his daughter as she hosted a play date with her best friend. Before the eight year old left the Rich household, she had given him a sweet idea — a cereal that had nothing but

marshmallows.“I served the girls Lucky

Charms and my daughter ’s friend picked out all of the marshmallows and refused to eat the rest of the cereal,” said Rich, creator of Magician’s Cereal Marshmallows. “Her mother complained about buy-ing boxes of cereal and having to throw them away after all the marshmallows were gone.”

He started working with a manufacturer to develop the product and a graphic design-er to create the packaging.

Matthew Lunn, Magician’s Cereal Marshmallows package designer, said Craig was pas-sionate about the way he want-ed the design to be executed.

“I came up with drawings for the magician and we sat

down and tweaked it until we got it to where he wanted it,” said Lunn.

By June of 2010, the cere-al was being packaged, dis-tributed and sold in stores in and around the Memphis area including a Collierville and Cordova Walgreens, Piggly Wiggly and Stepherson’s Superlo Foods. Rich also ships his cereal to England and Australia for those who place Internet orders.

“I thought ‘This is so excit-ing,’” said Rich about seeing his product on the shelf. “It took six or seven months for all this hard work to pay off.”

Lunn has tried the cere-al and said he likes it even though he doesn’t frequent the cereal aisle as much as he has

in the past.“I have not gone to see it in

stores yet,” said Lunn. “I need to go and see it. It would be cool to see it on the shelf.

Now, Rich has sights on a shelf in Wal-Mart’s cereal aisle and is asking U of M stu-dents help to make his dreams come true by voting for him in the “Get on the Shelf” contest presented by Wal-Mart, which ends on April 3rd.

“Students can vote twice a day,” said Rich. “They can do it once by texting 4530 to 383838 and also by going online to vote at www.getontheshelf.com/product/4530.”

Rich has aligned himself with The U of M’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and been walking

around campus at least once a week to hand out samples and voting information.

Kelly Penwell, program manager for the CEI, said Rich was one of the first clients they ever had.

“Rich has been very active in what we are doing here,” said Penwell. “He has offered suggestions to many of the students and other clients we serve in our office.”

Rich said to have his sweet and crunchy marshmallow cereal sold in every grocery and drug store in the United States would be a dream.

“I look forward to expand-ing beyond America someday but I have to get established in the U.S. first,” said Rich.

BY TIMBERLY MOORENews Reporter

Local businessman designs new cereal brand with help of FedEx Center for Entrepeneurship

big number and the world is changing so fast,” said Leslie Luebbers, director of AMUM.

She said the piece also rais-es the question: “What is a university? Is it just an educa-tion or is it a place where peo-ple come together that would otherwise not come together?”

As a U of M graduate, Emanuel said his affection for The University helped inspire the title “Alma Mater,” but the title also serves as a way for people personally to reflect on their school.

“It is universal in a way – everyone probably has a school they’ve gone to and a personal connection to that institution,” Emmanuel said.

The three-day perfor-mance piece ends Thursday, at which time students can type responses in the AMUM gallery through April 14. The “Alma Mater” exhibition will open in June.

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You say it. We type it. Today & TomorrowNoon - 2 p.m. each dayOn the Student Plaza

Your words become part of “Alma Mater: University of Memphis”Opening late June

If you are unable to participate in this performance, come to the Art Museum, CFA 1st fl oor, March 23-April 14, and type your answer on a card for inclusion in the exhibit. Funded in part by Student Activity Fee Funds memphis.edu/amum

What do you think the University could be?

Justice Department to probe Trayvon Martin killingA grand jury will look into

the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Seminole County State Attorney Norm Wolfinger said Tuesday.

“I share in the desire of the family and the community to accurately collect and evaluate all the facts surrounding the

tragic death of Trayvon Martin,” said Wolfinger in a statement released Tuesday morning. “That is why I directed the expe-ditious review of the investiga-tion which was delivered by the Sanford Police Department one week ago today... I will also be utilizing the investiga-tive resources of the Seminole County Grand Jury which will be called to session on Tuesday,

April 10, 2012.”Wolfinger, whose office has

been reviewing the case since last week, asked for patience from the public and said his office will conduct “a thorough, deliberate, and just review of the facts.”

Wolfinger’s statement fol-lowed a decision late Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the

FBI to investigate the killing of the Miami Gardens teenager by a neighborhood watch volunteer.

That announcement coin-cided with a statement from Florida Gov. Rick Scott asking the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to offer “appropri-ate resources” in the case.

The federal and state agencies are intervening in what attor-neys call a botched investigation into the killing of the Michael Krop Senior High School stu-dent, who was killed Feb. 26 in Sanford, a town of 55,000 just north of Orlando. Trayvon, 17, on suspension from school, was staying at his father’s girl-friend’s house when he walked to a nearby a 7-Eleven store to buy candy and iced tea.

George Zimmerman, 28, a neighborhood watch volunteer with a long history of calling in everything from open garage doors to “suspicious charac-ters,” called police to say he had spotted someone who looked drugged, was walking too slow-ly in the rain, and appeared to be looking at people’s houses. Zimmerman sounded alarmed because the stranger had his hand in his waistband and held something in his other hand.

The unarmed teen was carry-ing Skittles and a can of Arizona iced tea.

Zimmerman said he had stepped out of his truck to check the name of the street he was on when Trayvon attacked him from behind as he walked back to his truck, police said. He said he feared for his life and fired the semiautomatic handgun he was licensed to carry because he feared for his life.

“The department will conduct a thorough and independent review of all of the evidence and take appropriate action at the conclusion of the investigation,” the Justice Department said in a statement. “The department also is providing assistance to and cooperating with the state offi-cials in their investigation into the incident. With all federal civil rights crimes, the government must prove beyond a reasonable

doubt that a person acted inten-tionally and with the specific intent to do something which the law forbids — the highest level of intent in criminal law.

“Negligence, recklessness, mistakes and accidents are not prosecutable under the federal criminal civil rights laws.”

From the start, Trayvon’s family accused Sanford police of molding the investigation to fit Zimmerman’s account. Several witnesses said they heard cries that sounded like a boy wail-ing — howling silenced by the crack of gunfire — and were shocked to hear police later por-tray the cries as Zimmerman’s. One witness said police ignored her repeated phone calls.

The police chief was accused of telling lies big and small in ways that shielded Zimmerman. The family hired attorneys who helped devise a national campaign to demand a federal investigation.

Members of Congress and prominent black clergy mem-bers joined the chorus for a fed-eral probe. At a rally outside the Sanford courthouse Monday, students called for Zimmerman’s arrest.

Police Chief Bill Lee told The Miami Herald that he was com-fortable that his investigators were fair and thorough.

“I can say very confidently we would welcome any outside entity that wants to come look at what we did,” Lee said last week. “They are welcome to come here and look at it. We have not done anything but conduct a fair and complete investigation.”

He dismissed accusations of irregularities and insisted that investigators found no proba-ble cause to arrest Zimmerman because there was no evidence to disprove his version of events.

The U.S. Community Relations Service will be in Sanford this week to meet with civil rights leaders, community leaders and local law enforce-ment officials to address tension in the community, the Justice Department announcement said.

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ATTENTION ALL STUDENTSS G A E l E c t i o n V o t i n G t A k E S P l A c ETuesday March 27 @ 8 a.m. - Thursday, March 29 @ Midnight

Polling locations:UC 2nd Floor & South Side of Lobby Atrium McWherter LibraryOr vote by laptop with login name & passwordview the ballot by going to: www.memphis.edu/sga/elections.htm

Meet Your SGA Election Candidatesh E A r t h E i r V i E w S o n t h E i S S u E S

Monday, March 26 @ 7 p.m. • UC Theatre

Business cards edged out by technologyNational

Chalk up another looming casualty of the Internet age: business cards.

Ubiquitous as pinstripes, the 2-by-3.5-inch pieces of card stock have long been a staple in executive briefcases. Exchanging cards helps to break the ice and provides a quick reference for forgotten names.

But to many young and Web-savvy people who are accus-tomed to connecting digitally, the cards are irrelevant, waste-ful — and just plain lame.

Diego Berdakin, the found-er of BeachMint Inc., a fast-growing Santa Monica, Calif., e-commerce site, has raised $75 million from investors without ever bothering to print up a set. He doesn’t see the point.

“If someone comes in to meet me, we’ve already been con-nected through email, so it real-ly doesn’t feel like a necessity in my life,” he said. “When I go into a meeting and there are five bankers across the table, they all hand me business cards and they all end up in a pile, in a shoe box somewhere.”

U.S. sales of business cards have been falling since the late 1990s, according to IBISWorld Inc., an Australian business data company whose data go back to 1997. The slide appears to be accelerating. Last year printers posted revenue of $211.1 million from the seg-ment. That’s down 13 percent from 2006.

The weak economy has been a factor in recent years. But analysts said printed business cards, like newspapers, books and magazines, are fast giv-ing way to digital alternatives. Smartphones, tablets and social media are helping people con-nect more quickly and seam-lessly than ever before.

“It’s a steady decline,” said Caitlin Moldvay, a print-ing industry analyst with IBISWorld. “The printing industry in general has entered into a decline, so this is part of that trend.”

Many under-30 tech entre-preneurs see the paper rectan-gles as an anachronism, so they are turning to digital options.

About 85 million people have a professional network on LinkedIn. Some 77 million smartphone users have down-loaded the Bump app, which allows them to bump their phones together and instantly exchange contact information.

Others carry a personalized quick-response code that smart-phones can scan like a hyper-link. And, of course, there’s always Facebook, email and digital business cards.

If they do take a paper card, some said they use a smart-phone app to snap a picture of it and instantly digitize the card’s information. Then they toss it into the nearest trash can.

“Paper is not so appeal-ing to this generation,” said Kit Yarrow, chairwoman of

the psychology department at Golden Gate University in San Francisco who has stud-ied Generation Y: the 20- to 30-year-olds who grew up with the Internet. “They absolutely gravitate toward products that help them do things really effi-ciently. It’s time-consuming to organize business cards — and not portable.”

Sam Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Parking in Motion, which sells a mobile app for finding open parking spaces, said his Santa Monica firm’s digital presence is its most effective communication tool. “The business card is your website,” he said.

Still, old habits die hard. Friedman said he makes sure his employees are issued busi-ness cards, which sometimes come in handy at conferences.

Other firms that do business abroad, particularly in Asia, have found printed business cards to be crucial to corporate culture and ritual there.

And although the number of U.S. print shops is declining, some are thriving with the help of e-commerce and innovative new designs. Online printer MOO Inc. specializes in “mini-cards” that are half the standard size to appeal to eco-conscious entrepreneurs. Others are ped-dling plastic business cards equipped with flash drives that companies can hand out as pro-motional freebies.

But one of the most successful firms, Vistaprint, keeps it rela-tively simple. The Netherlands company allows customers to create personalized business cards using online templates or their own digital designs. Businesses on a budget can get as many as 250 cards free of charge.

The company posted sales of $452.8 million in North America last year, up 17.9 percent from 2010. Spokeswoman Wendy

Cebula said that business cards account for about 30 percent of Vistaprint’s product revenue and that most of its customers are small businesses.

“We’re just not seeing that electronic medium replace” printed business cards, she said. “We see them as complements as opposed to substitutes.”

Jean Twenge, author of the book “Generation Me,” said that business cards won’t disappear completely until a near-perfect replacement is developed. But the San Diego State University psychology professor also said she understands why young people in particular are reject-ing the printed product.

Young adults, she said, tend not to see work as central to their identity, and they’re less interested in tradition and ritual.

“We’re less formal now,”

Twenge said. “People used to call their boss ‘Mr. Smith.’ Now they call their boss ‘John.’

“The generational shift makes sense. This is how cul-tural change happens.”

At 36, Ralph Barbagallo is near the cutoff for Generation Y but despises business cards all the same. A mobile game developer from Valencia, Calif., Barbagallo said he goes to three

major conferences a year and has to distribute paper cards. But lugging and exchanging fistfuls of them is a pain, he said, and it’s hard to remember who is who.

“When they run out this time, I’m not printing any-more,” he said. “I’m going to force the issue and come up with a solution.

“They need to die somehow.”

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Diego Berdakin, the founder of BeachMint Inc., doesn’t see the point of business cards. “When I go into a meeting and there are five bankers across the table, they all hand me busi-ness cards and they all end up in a pile, in a shoe box somewhere.”

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Walk&Talk What would you change/improve about The University of Memphis?

“More places to buy food. I’d like to have more vegetarian

options.”

— Sarah Barnes, Psychology junior

“The whole library should stay open 24/7.”

— Miao Qien Liu, Music performance grad student

“Healthier, less-expensive food. Just finding a decent healthy sandwich runs me like twelve

dollars.”

— Josh Cox, Spanish sophomore

“They should probably stop cut-ting down all the trees for stupid statues. There are better ways to

spend our tuition dollars.”

— Andrew Cook, Music education sophomore

“We should focus more on the arts. A lot of people don’t real-ize that this is a very prominent

music school.”

— David Wohlschegel, Trumpet performance freshman

by Brian Wilson

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Nominations Are Now Being Acceptedfor the

Presidential Leadership Recognition Awards

Dr. William E. Porter Advisor of The Year AwardRecognizes RSO advisors for their service to & support of U of M students & organizations.

Distinguished Service AwardRecognizes a project or ongoing effort of a student group that has demonstrated

commitment to community and/or social or political cause.

Excellence in Service AwardRecognizes an individual student who has demonstrated commitment to

community and/or social or political cause.

Organization of The YearRecognizes a Registered Student Organization for its contributions

to the campus and its membership.

Phoenix AwardRecognizes a Registered Student Organization that has gone from

a state of non-existence and flourished into a thriving organization.

Program of The Year AwardRecognizes a program or event, sponsored by a student group, that has provided

high-quality, out-of-the-classroom experiences for the campus community.

Nomination applications are availablein Office of Student Leadership & Involvement (UC 211) or online at

www.memphis.edu/student_leadership/organizations.htm

Nominations are due by Friday, March 23 @ 4 p.m.

Submit applications to Student Leadership & Involvement, UC 211

The Presidential Leadership Award Ceremony will be heldSunday, April 22 @ 1 p.m. in the UC Ballroom

Apple sold more than 3 million iPads in the tab-let computer ’s first three days of availability to set another record, the com-pany announced Monday afternoon.

“The new iPad is a block-buster with 3 million sold — the strongest iPad launch yet,” Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said in the news release.

Apple began selling the

new iPad in nine countries along with Hong Kong, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Friday, its widest launch yet for a new device. The new iPad goes on sale in 24 more countries this Friday.

The most recent launch before the iPad appeared Friday was the iPhone 4S, which went on sale in seven countries on Oct. 14 and reached sales of 4 million devices in its first three days.

The new iPad boasts a retina display with a groundbreak-ing resolution of 2038x1536

pixels; an A5X microchip with quad-core graphics that will make the device faster; upgraded cameras with bet-ter sensors and the ability to shoot high-definition video; a voice dictation service; and 4G, or LTE, capability.

The devices cost from $499 to $829 depending on memory and other features. The previous iteration of the device, the iPad 2, went on sale for $399 at the same time the new iPad was introduced, but the sales figures released Monday were only for the newest iPad.

Apple dominates the tablet computer market, accounting for 54.7 percent of the sales in the 2011 holiday-shopping quarter despite new, lower-cost entries into the market by Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Apple stock closed at a record price of $601.10 Monday, the first time it has closed higher than $600 in the Cupertino, Calif., com-pany’s history. Apple also announced Monday that it would begin paying its inves-tors a dividend for the first time since 1995.

BY JEREMY C. OwEnsMCT

Solutionsare cool!

University of Memphis’ Adult and Commuter Student Services will host an off-cam-pus housing fair today in the University Center Ballroom from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The event, which is free to all students, faculty and staff, offers information about local housing and apartment oppor-tunities while allowing students to save time and gas.

“Instead of driving across Memphis to research different housing options and looking at places in person, we’re going to have 31 booths with repre-sentatives for students to speak to,” said Adam Thomas, grad-uate assistant for Adult and Commuter Student Services and coordinator of the fair.

This off-campus housing fair, which has been held since 2004, has been a “great success,” said Joy R. Stout, director of Adult and Commuter Student Services.

“We get an average of 700 students, faculty and staff attending the fair,” said Stout.

Students also have the opportunity to enter drawings for door prizes during the fair. One of the prizes includes a $100 gift card to the on-campus bookstore.

Along with the fair, a seminar is being held titled “Understanding Leasing Agreements” which discusses topics like safety, tenant rights and responsibilities, lease agree-ments and other subjects per-taining to off-campus housing.

The first 300 students will receive a free canvas bag, while the first 50 students will also receive a free T-shirt.

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Who is Robert Bales? Friends, comrades thought they knew

For those who grew up with him, Robert Bales seemed to have a place reserved on easy street. Captain of the football team and president of the sophomore class at his Ohio high school, Bales after just three years of college had an oceanfront condo in Florida. He was also pulling in more than $100,000 a year as a financial

adviser.His investment work ran into

trouble, though, and when the Sept. 11 attacks came, Bales felt what friends said was an irresist-ible call. He enlisted in the Army — signed up for the hardest duty anybody could ask for, the infan-try — and headed almost straight for Iraq.

“I thought, ‘Jeez, man. That’s crazy. You’ve got it all,’” said Steven Berling, a high school friend.

But Bales had long seemed fas-cinated by what led nations into combat. “I remember one day in AP (advanced placement) history class, Bobby and the teacher were going back and forth about old wars and ... various historic bat-tles,” Berling said. “He must have been reading up on all that on his own.”

In Iraq, Bales was a soldier “who really believed in it,” his former platoon leader, Chris Alexander, said. “It was rare to find an E5 sol-dier who was as deep a thinker as he was. ... He’d get into these epic conversations about the Middle East and our role.”

Now, friends are trying to piece together how the gregarious 38-year-old staff sergeant could have become the tragic anti-hero suspected in the late-night mas-sacre of 16 Afghan civilians — a crime that has prompted new questions about how much longer the U.S. can remain in Afghanistan.

For soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, where Bales was based during three deployments to Iraq and one in Afghanistan, the events have been dumbfounding. Bales trained his men carefully, oversaw his patrols vigilantly, and treated Iraqi villagers with respect and good humor. That he could have snapped so precipitously is almost beyond comprehension.

There is sympathy for the finan-cial problems, multiple deploy-ments and violence that may have imposed unbearable stress, but also contempt for a soldier who may have put others in the path of potential violent reprisals.

“The picture that’s being paint-ed of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales — that ‘There but for the grace of God goes any other American soldier’ — this is amazingly offensive,” said Bryan Suits, who hosts a Seattle-based KFI radio show pop-ular with soldiers and veterans.

Suits, who served three Army deployments, said nearly all long-serving U.S. troops had similar sto-ries of nightmarish deployments. “Everybody’s been there. And this is the first time a guy has killed 16 civilians,” he said.

But Bales’ combat colleagues appear more mystified than angry.

“I know Bales. I worked with him for years. He was a great NCO,” Alexander said. “And you don’t go from being somebody like that to all of a sudden shooting unarmed people. ... There’s some-thing more to it.”

Longtime friend Michael Blevins, who grew up with Bales in Ohio, said almost the same thing. “I want people to know there is no way the guy I knew did this,” he said. “You don’t go from being a local hero to a monster.”

People from the working-class neighborhood of shady lanes and two-story panel homes in Norwood, Ohio, where Bales grew up said that, even early on, Bales

seemed to feel it was his mission to protect the neighborhood.

“When Bobby was 10 or so, there were half a dozen teenag-ers talking loud and obnoxious in front of his house. He went out-side and ran them off after knock-ing one of them into the bushes,” Blevins recalled. “My mother watched the whole thing from her porch. When it was all over, Bobby walked across the street and said, ‘I’m sorry they were talking that way and that you had to hear it.’”

Bales attended Ohio State University for three years and went to work as a financial adviser with several firms in Ohio, launch-ing his own investment firm with his brother in Florida.

But according to a report from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Bales and his Ohio firm were the target of a major com-plaint from a client in 2000. In 2003, Bales and his partners were directed in arbitration to pay more than $1.2 million in compensatory and punitive damages for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and other charges.

Meanwhile, the World Trade Center attacks had occurred, and Bales abandoned the world of stocks and bonds for the Army.

Bales was stationed almost immediately at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, joining the 2nd Infantry Division’s 3rd Stryker Brigade. Court records show he was charged in 2002 with criminal assault in a case involving a girl-friend; the charge was dismissed

after he underwent anger-manage-ment training.

In 2005, he married Karilyn Primeau, who grew up in the well-to-do suburbs east of Lake Washington, and who neighbors said already owned a home in Auburn, not far from the military base. Bales by then was prepar-ing for his second deployment to Iraq and walking with a pro-nounced limp; acquaintances said it appeared a medical mishap had compounded a previous injury and led to the loss of part of his foot. It’s unclear when the original injury occurred.

“His main focus and goals at that time were to get healthy, get in another unit and go back over there,” said his neighbor in Auburn, Timothy Burgess. “Which kind of amazed me, because he’d already got injured and it was like, ‘Ain’t you done enough?’”

Bales also suffered a head injury in a vehicle rollover unrelated to combat. But he seemed to revel in battle and, even when patrols were quiet, would sit alert on the back of his Stryker vehicle as he’d been trained to do, Alexander said.

“Some of us got pretty jaded, but he really wasn’t one of those. There was a genuine, ‘We need to win the hearts and minds’ attitude, and he put effort into it. He’d smile at the kids. He learned a little bit of Arabic to throw out at folks, the kind of stuff that shows you’re not Robocop walking around in body armor.”

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Sports

Men’s tennis picks up two wins at Rice InvitationalAfter beginning the season

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their best record since 1988, The

University of Memphis men’s tennis team traveled to Houston, Texas over the weekend for a 2-1 performance in the 54th Rice Invitational.

Memphis began their tour-nament run against the host-

ing Rice Owls on Friday, los-ing 5-2. The loss snapped a three-game winning streak with the last defeat com-ing against Southeastern Conference foe Ole Miss in Oxford, Miss. on Feb. 28.

Freshman David O’Leary, ranked No. 108

in Division I, led the team against Rice, continuing his

undefeated singles run with a win over Leif Berfer. Sophomore Johnny Grimal picked up the only other singles win, and the duo of Grimal and senior Leon Nasemann gave the team its only doubles victory of the day.

The Tiger’s responded to the loss against No. 63 Tulane on Saturday. The team came out in full force defeating the Green Wave 4-0. Freshman Connor Glennon, ranked 91st in D-I, added another victory for the season over Joe Young. Grimal and sophomore David O’Hare also chipped in singles victories.

In the last match of the tour-nament, the Tigers continued their winning run against Iowa.

Sophomore Joe Salisbury defeat-ed Jonas Dierckx in straight sets to pick up a win for the Tigers in singles play. The teams of O’Hare and Salisbury and Grimal and Nasemann dominat-ed in doubles action, finishing off the Hawkeyes in single sets.

Following the tournament, the No. 34 Tigers’ record improved to 12-3. After picking up wins in all three contests, O’Leary extended his career-undefeated streak to 14. Glennon improved to 11-3 on the year, and Grimal moved to 12-2 following five straight victories.

The Tigers return home to the Racquet Club of Memphis on Saturday to take on in-state

foe Middle Tennessee State. In the last meeting with the Blue Raiders, the Tigers won 4-3 on a neutral court in Jacksonville, Fla. Grimal and O’Hare earned singles victories to pick up the win, the second over MTSU for the 2011 season.

The team will play the last home match of the season on March 28 against St. Louis.

After the two-match home stand, Memphis will hit the road for their last three games of the regular season begin-ning with SMU on April 1 and later against UAB and South Alabama. The 2012 Conference USA Championships will begin on April 21 in Orlando, Fla.

BY DAvID CAFFEYSports Reporter

Environment

Pressure to harvest small fish worries scientistsAs ocean scientists probe what

ails some of the largest creatures in the sea, a wave of new research is urging them to look at the lit-tle things — specifically the tiny schooling fish that make up the cornerstone of ocean food webs.

Species like herring, smelt, sar-dines and squid are the food of choice for many of the ocean’s top predators. But there is increas-ing pressure globally to harvest marine “forage fish” for every-thing from hog feed and fertil-izer to fishmeal in tuna pens or as bait for recreational or commercial fishing.

And these creatures are often the fish scientists understand the least.

“The idea that forage fish are important isn’t new,” said Phil Levin, a biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle. “But if you take the fish out of the system ... what are the costs if those fish are no longer there to be eaten by birds or mammals or other fish? That’s what we’re talk-ing about now.”

Take, for example, the discov-ery late last year by an internation-al team of scientists who tracked what happens to birds when the

small fish they eat vanish.Those researchers stumbled

upon a remarkable pattern: Every time populations of ocean forage fish — small schooling creatures like squid or anchovies — dipped below a third of their peak, seabird births also plummeted, accord-ing to the study published in late December in the journal Science. It happened with terns and gulls and auklets and puffins. It hap-pened in the Atlantic, the Arctic, in Europe and off the U.S. West Coast.

Then, late last month, another pair of scientists deter-mined that sardine populations from California to Washington appeared likely to collapse in com-ing years, just as they had during the “Cannery Row” days of the middle 20th century.

Other experts disputed the finding, but the debate highlight-ed an emerging conflict in marine science.

These tiny fish, while resilient, may be especially vulnerable to overfishing, climate change, habit loss and shifting ocean chemistry. And their loss could have pro-found impacts throughout marine ecosystems — far more so, even, then the loss of some well-known predators.

“In the big picture, there are

growing concerns globally that some forage fish stocks are unhealthy and the way we harvest them is unsustainable,” said Bill Sydeman, a marine biologist with California’s Farallon Institute and member of the team that worked on the bird study.

There’s no clear pattern off the coast of Washington and Oregon. Fisheries for anchovies and herring are relatively small, and research-ers say that while sardine popula-tions have been in decline, there has also been a recent rebound and fishing pressure remains a fraction of what it was a half-century ago.

But some other species — such as the tiny endangered oceangoing smelt called eulachon found in the Columbia River and its tributaries — are facing dramatic reductions from habitat loss, climate changes and other factors. And the big bat-tle shaping up is what to do next — whether to study and protect the important tiny schooling crea-tures we don’t really fish yet at all.

Some see potential future pro-tein in the voluminous, glow-ing lanternfish that occupy deep waters in the Pacific, or the slender eel-like sand lances that feed larg-er fish. But others see the future stability of an ocean food chain already in flux.

“We know that predator spe-

cies, marine mammals and sea-birds are very dependent on forage species,” said Paul Shively, with the Pew Environment program that is working to prevent expan-sion of commercial forage-fish har-vests. “We know that the demand for forage species is growing. But most of our laws exist to promote fishing — not to make sure we’re considering impacts on the entire ecosystem.”

In many cases, those impacts aren’t clear.

The odd mechanics of the Pacific Coast help make California and the Pacific Northwest one of the world’s most productive ocean environments.

The entire system is driven by the bottom of the food chain. When the wind blows, it causes water to rise from the deep, bring-ing with it fresh nutrients that fuel microscopic plant and animal life. Between those tiny phytoplank-ton and zooplankton communities and the salmon and whales for which our region is famous are a relatively small group of fatty schooling creatures, often dubbed forage fish because so many other creatures eat them.

Researchers call this food chain “wasp-waisted,” because this mid-dle section is relatively narrow. Far fewer species, perhaps a few

dozen in all, make up the bulk of marine forage fish, and that makes them extraordinarily important.

“The majority of the biomass is really tied up in just a handful of species,” said Levin, with the fish-eries service. “With some preda-tors there are two or three that play the same role, so that if one goes down, something else can func-tionally do the same job. That’s not so much true with forage fish. There’s not as much redundancy.”

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Basketball

Tigers face decisions heading into off-season

Even though the loss to St. Louis on Friday ended the Tigers’ season prematurely, there is still work to be done for head coach Josh Pastner.

One of the biggest questions facing the Tigers this off-sea-son is whether or not soph-omore star Will Barton will return for his junior season, or declare for the NBA draft. The 6-foot-6-inch guard was the Tigers’ leading scorer and top rebounder this season, averag-ing 18 points and eight boards per game.

Freshman wing Adonis Thomas might also give the draft a serious thought. Thomas missed 16 games due to ankle surgery, but aver-aged 8.8 points on 48.6 percent shooting in 23.9 minutes per game this season.

DraftExpress.com’s mock draft has Barton going 36th overall, while nbadraft.net has him listed 51st. Thomas is not listed in either website’s mock draft. They will have to choose quickly, however, as the NCAA requires student-athletes to withdraw their names from the draft by April 10 if they decide to return to school.

Pastner will also have to

tackle the issue of hiring an assistant coach. Jimmy Williams took over the vacancy on Dec. 3 after Luke Walton left to return to the NBA. His appointment, however, only lasts until April 30, after which candidates will be brought in to interview for a more perma-nent position. Williams may be considered for that spot as well, and considering the

Tigers’ improvement in the frontcourt since his hiring, Pastner might decide to re-sign him.

“That will be to be deter-mined based on how I feel things go and the flow of things,” he said in December.

The issue of senior guard Charles Carmouche’s redshirt status will be on the dock-et this month. Carmouche

played in only seven games this season, and not since Jan. 4 against Tennessee, after suf-fering from tendonitis. Despite being cleared by team doctors to play, he decided to sit out the remainder of the year in hopes that the NCAA would grant him a redshirt for the season, allowing him to return next year.

The Tigers have plenty of

freshman talent coming in next season to offset any losses. Pastner has already signed forwards Shaq Goodwin and Damien Wilson, and has picked up a verbal commitment from guard Geron Johnson. Junior swingman Drew Barham will also be available after redshirt-ing this past season. He could see increased minutes if Barton leaves.

BY sCOTT HALLSports Editor

The season isn’t over for head coach Josh Pastner, as he has to make some important decisions that could affect the team for the next few years.

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