DailyHelmsmanThe

Independent Student Newspaper of The University of Memphis www.dailyhelmsman.com

Vol. 79 No. 60

Tuesday,January 24, 2012 U of M pushes

out healthy lifestyle incentives for students, faculty.see page 3

Move more, eat healthy

Students may have noticed an oval-shaped sticker bearing the letters “TST” affixed to stop signs and light poles around The University of Memphis campus. The acronym is pro-motion for the local Blues Rock band, The Soul Thieves.

“I started The Soul Thieves as an acoustic duo in Southaven, Mississippi,” said Zach Gilliam, junior integra-tive studies major and lead guitarist and manager for TST.

Their sound could be described as something between Dave Mathews Band

and The Black Keys, beer-bat-tered and deep-fried in a vat of southern soul.

The group expanded when Gilliam moved to Memphis, where he met Darrian Balongie, the group’s bass player.

The saxophonist, David Moore, joined the group after responding to an adver-tisement Gilliam placed on Craigslist.

Balongie knew a drummer, former University of Memphis student Rusty Dodd, and with the addition of a rhythm gui-tarist, William Charles, the band had evolved into a com-plete five-piece.

“I played in just about every University of Memphis band there is,” said Dodd, a former business finance major.

Dodd said he gained the

skills to compose music through his experience in marching band, percussion ensemble, orchestra and wind ensemble.

“The producer’s job in the studio is to refine and polish the sound, basically make it

Zach Gilliam, U of M junior and member of The Soul Thieves performing at Newby’s.

BY JACK SIMONNews Reporter

Students visiting the Recreation Center have an Olympic competitor in their midst.

A graduate of Ridgeway High School, Memphis Tiger Swimming Assistant Coach Gil Stovall swam for the University of Georgia in 2004 where famed swim coach Jack Bauerle coached him.

Seeing great potential, Bauerle told Stovall he wanted to train Stovall for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

“The Olympics was always a goal of mine — one you dream but are not quite sure it will happen. Once I was in college and started training at that level it boosted my confidence and made me think I had a chance,” Stovall said.

After years of training, Stovall missed the opportunity for an Olympic medal by one-hundredth of a second.

He placed second in the 200-meter butterfly at the US Olympic Team Trials, qualify-ing him for a spot on the 2008 US Olympic Team.

Stovall said he feels grateful that came so close to a medal, though a bit disappointed in the end.

“It was a pretty big disap-

pointment considering I was favored to medal. I ended up getting sick and things didn’t work out as planned but you have to roll with it and be grateful for the experiences. I still got to be part of one of the most prestigious swim teams, so it works for me,” Stovall said.

Stovall has now moved away from competitive swimming and is focusing on school and coaching.

Stovall is currently an assis-tant coach for Memphis Tiger Swimming, a year-round com-petitive swim team for ages five and up which is serviced by The U of M’s Recreation Center. In addition, he is also the head coach for the swim team at Hutchison High School in East Memphis.

“I am constantly drawing on my swimming career to help kids. Today, I am very self aware and hyper sensitive and

it helps explain to kids teach-ing techniques and how to deal with mental anguish,” he said.

His future goals aim as high as his Olympic ones, as Stovall is currently working towards organizing a college swim team.

“It’s a really healthy sport for body and mind. The people involved are well-rounded and intelligent people. It draws a good crowd and is a great com-munity to be involved with,” he said.

BY SARA HARRISONNews Reporter

Former Olympian in U of M’s ranksOlympic competitor Gil Stovall reminisces on medal opportunity

Rockin’ in Memphis

cour

tesy

of

Mat

t C

olvi

n

UM students apply skills gained through classical study to Blues-Rock group The Soul Theives

see Band, page 4

Gil Stovall, assistant coach for Memphis Tiger Swimming, at the NCAA championship after breaking Mel Stewart’s 17-year-old record for 200-yard butterfly.

cour

tesy

of

Gil

Sto

vall

Students interested in studying in a different coun-try can visit the Study Abroad fair, today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the University Center ballroom.

Twenty exchange stu-dents are studying at The University of Memphis this semester, a few of whom will be at the fair to speak to interested students about the university they came from.

Faculty members and stu-dents who have participated in past study abroad trips will be stationed at various tables giving testimony to their time abroad.

While the main aim of the fair is to provide infor-mation regarding the sum-mer programs, there will also be tables set up for stu-dents interested in semester programs, and tables with information on third-party providers.

Jonathan Holland, study abroad adviser, said students can receive credit for every trip.

“We want all our programs to meet degree requirements, so it doesn’t hinder your time to graduate,” Holland said.

BY CHRISTINA HOLLOWAYNews Reporter

Study Abroad Fair in UC

www.dailyhelmsman.com2 • Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Across1 Baby bovine5 At the drop of __9 Ice cream brand that’s “Grand”13 Ice cream-and-cookies brand14 “The Thinker” sculptor16 Fat unit17 Tailless cat18 Steak option19 Hereditary code carrier20 Ted Williams had a .344 life-time one23 Stat start24 Fishing pole25 Agreeable to doing28 Site of many a shady transaction34 More or less36 Cacophony37 __ Linda, California38 Chef ’s recipe words39 Boo-boo protector42 “Bad Moon Rising” pop gp.43 Go ape45 Go bad46 Attached to the bulletin board48 Bullet-proof vest, e.g.51 Pries (into)52 P&L column53 Visibility impairer55 Common college degree, whose abbreviation is a hint to 20-, 28-, 39- and 48-Across62 Japanese golfer Aoki63 With 67-Across, innovative or experimental artists’ group64 Birthday serving66 Envelope abbr.67 See 63-Across68 Way out69 Give guff to70 Shakespearean king71 Chip enhancers

Down1 Dot-__2 Man from Oman, often3 Actress Olin4 Dance that precedes “golf ” in the NATO phonetic alphabet5 Wheelchair guy on “Glee”6 Schmooze, as with the A-list7 Work like __8 Fey of “30 Rock”9 Asian menu appetizer10 Rasta’s hairdo11 Yin’s counterpart12 Hook’s sidekick15 St. for gamblers21 Go pitapat22 Disco __25 Vandenberg or Edwards: Abbr.26 Chico’s chicken27 Chickens, to kids29 Build up, as a collection

30 Hush-hush fed. org.31 Make booties, e.g.32 Game show host33 36-inch units35 Jamie of “M*A*S*H”40 __ de plume41 Tony of 60-Down44 Constricting snakes47 Compelled via force49 Suffix with lemon50 “Help Me, __”: Beach Boys hit54 “... happily ever __”55 Skewed view56 “The Thin Man” canine57 Fall behind58 Roundish shape59 Steak order60 Sitcom set in a garage61 Not attend65 “Men in Black” baddies, briefly

Managing EditorChelsea Boozer

News EditorsJasmine HunterAmanda Mitchell

General ManagerCandy Justice

Advertising ManagerBob Willis

Admin. SalesSharon Whitaker

Adv. ProductionHailey Uhler

Adv. SalesRobyn Nickell

Michael Parker

The University of Memphis The Daily Helmsman

113 Meeman Journalism Building Memphis, TN 38152

News: (901) 678-2193

Sports: (901) 678-2192

dailyhelmsman@gmail.com

The Daily Helmsman is a “designated public forum.” Student editors have authority to make all content decisions without censorship or advance approval. The Daily Helmsman is pleased to make a maximum

of 10 copies from each issue available to a reader for free, thanks to a Student Activity Fee allocation.

Additional copies $1.

Editor-in-ChiefCasey Hilder

DailyHelmsmanThe

Ads: (901) 678-2191

Fax: (901) 678-0882

Contact Information

Volume 79 Number 60

DOMINO’S PIZZA 550 S. HIGHLAND 323-3030No Waiting!

TIGER BABBLEthoughts that give you paws

“90s country XM? I’ll eat at Fresh Food Company every Monday ‘til I graduate.”

— @PersoNick

“I feel like you have to become a stalker and follow someone walking to his/her car just to park in Central.”

— @MemphisGinger

“The Student Health Center is a God send for those of us without insurance. Heading over later before class to get an antibiotic.”

— @NicTheEditor

“No rush at Dunkin’ Donuts. I guess I can skip my 11:40 class.”

— @clhwhitten

“Tornado season started early this year.”— @iChaseDreams_24

“I support Internet censorship laws. That is, if they ban all mirror-and-cell-phone self-portrait pictures.”

— @jacobmerryman

“Seriously professor? Please remove your teeth whitening fl uid from your mouth before teaching. Ok, thanks.”

— @kaitlyn_fl eet

“My geology teacher is an archeologist and references Star Wars. The movie geek in me is happy.”

— @tiffanybenya

Tell us what gives you paws. Send us your thoughts on Twitter

@dailyhelmsman or #tigerbabble. Or post on our Facebook wall at facebook.com/dailyhelmsman.

YOU REALLY LIKE US!Yesterday’s Top-Read Stories

on the Web1. Tiger Park to arrive in spring

by Meagan Nichols

2. The 10-Year Planby Timberly Moore

3. Noam Chomsky imparts expertiseby Elizabeth Cooper

4. Study shows positive for Daniel fastby Michelle Corbet

5. Radar lab open for businessby Kendra Harris

Complete the grid so that each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.

Sudoku

Solutions on page 8

Send us a letter

Have opinions? Care to share?

dailyhelmsman@gmail.com

The University of Memphis Tuesday, January 24, 2012 • 3

delivers...TONIGHT

Upcoming Specials:

FRIDAY, JAN. 27 | SAC CINEMA: KUNG FU PANDA 2 | 2 & 7 P.M.| UC THEATRE

TOMORROW | FOREIGN FILMS FESTIVAL: PANS LABYRINTH | 2 & 7 P.M. | UC THEATRE

Foreign Films Festival:Monsoon Wedding

2 & 7 P.M. | UC THEATRE

Campus Life

University of Memphis stu-dents are all in this together. At least that’s what the new Memphis Healthy U Campaign screams.

The official campaign slogan says it all — it is an initiative to “move more, eat healthier and be tobacco free.”

The cam-paign, which kicks off today in the University Center Atrium and River Room at 11:30 a.m., is a result of stu-dents’ concerns that have been brought to the attention of the faculty senate, said Marian Levy, master of public health director.

“We found that so many departments and divisions were doing good things, but we needed a way to get the word out about all the resources The U of M com-munity could access to reach their health and fitness goals,” Levy said.

Tiger Dining will be imple-menting the Healthy U logo at all of their healthy food locations.

As a part of the initiative, The Loewenberg School of Nursing plans to take health measure-ments at various times through-out the year to monitor students’ health improvements.

“This Nursing School and the Department of Communication will be collaborating to produce a series of spots to air on WUMR (radio) to reach the community with information on how to better communicate with your health-care provider,” Levy said.

In collaboration with the cam-

paign initiative, the Tigers Feel Great Fitness Program is offering a free ten-week fitness lesson that will be personally designed to suit each participant’s needs. The program includes group motiva-tion sessions, basic nutrition edu-cation, private fitness assessments

and free nutrition counseling.At the completion of the fitness

class, participants can fill out an evaluation in exchange for the chance to win a gift certificate for a personal trainer, swimming les-sons or a massage at the Campus Recreation Intramural Services Center.

Last semester, officials said a campus-wide tobacco ban would also be part of the campaign.

Michelle Stockton, co-coor-dinator of the campaign, said a committee is working on creating the policy, but nothing is set in stone. Provost Ralph Faudree said Memphis Healthy U will encour-age smokers to lead a healthier lifestyle.

“There will be a campaign to encourage people to be tobacco free. In terms of exactly how things are going to be structured — that hasn’t been determined. There are legal issues there. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be a positive, proactive campaign encouraging people to be tobacco

free,” Faudree said.The kick-off celebration today

will last until 1 p.m. Students, faculty and staff can partake in free Zumba sessions and receive health and fitness resource infor-mation, in addition to taking a free pledge of commitment to a

healthier life-style. Incentives for attending include a t-shirt giveaway in exchange for making a pledge and pedometers offered to stu-dents who get their blood pres-sure checked by nursing students.

“I’m hoping we’ll end up with a huge frac-tion of pledges

from our faculty, staff and stu-dents. One hundred percent would be nice,” Faudree said.

BY CRYSTAL FERRARINews Reporter

Students are being fruit as an alternative to fast food such as Burger King.

phot

os b

y N

ate

Pac

kard

Healthy IncentivesThe Memphis Healthy U Campaign boosting their efforts to a more fit student body

Salad is one of the many healthy options available in the UC dinning area.

“We found that so many departments and divisions were

doing good things but we needed a way to get the word out about

all the resourced The U of M community could access to reach

their health and fitness goals.”

— Marion LevyMaster of public health director

www.dailyhelmsman.com4 • Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Walk&Talk What do you do to stay healthy?

“I get Naked (Juice) every day.”

— Tori Martin, Undecided freshman

“I eat all the time and drink lots of water.”

— Scott Galbach, Engineering technology

sophomore

“I drink plenty of water and meditate.”

— Mario Freeman, Fashion merchandise

junior

“I exercise sometimes in the campus rec. center.”

— Kayla Garrett, Paralegal freshman

“I drink Cambodian protein shakes.”

— Kyle Crowe, Graphic design sophomore

by Nate Packard

sound like a million bucks, which is what I try to do,” Dodd said.

Gilliam started playing gui-tar as a sixth-grader in the worship band at a church.

Because Gilliam and

Balongie are both self-taught, their ability to play by ear, combined with Dodd’s text-book knowledge and composi-tion skills, work in tandem to create the sound of TST.

“This is definitely a creative make up for sure,” Gilliam said.

The band’s premiere album, “Park Avenue,” was recorded

at Fiction Studios over win-ter break and is slated for release in February. The engi-neer for the project was Kevin Carpenter, a recording tech-nology major.

“Both of our ideas of the sound blended together really nice and we came up with something that we think sounds like a million bucks,”

Dodd said.The album got its name

because the songs were written and developed at Balongie’s house near the intersection of Park Avenue and Echles Street.

TST also recorded an unre-leased single at Ardent Studios in November with record-ing technology senior Roby Randall.

“I dug their sound. They appear to be working hard,” Randall said.

TST will be performing in Oxford, Miss. at Two Sticks Sushi on Feb. 11 and Newby’s on Feb. 17.

“We want to share what we know is good music, with good times and good friends,” said Gilliam.

Bandfrom page 1

The University of Memphis Tuesday, January 24, 2012 • 5

Science

In an almost unheard-of move, scientists who study the deadly H5N1 bird flu announced a 60-day voluntary moratorium on studying the virus to allow time “to clearly explain the ben-efits of this important research and the measures taken to mini-mize its possible risks.”

The statement, released Friday by the journals Science and Nature, comes soon after federal officials had asked the journals and two research teams to withhold details of experi-ments that showed the virus can be coaxed to a form that passes readily through the air from mammal to mammal.

The request has rekindled a debate among scientists and in the media about how transpar-ently to share delicate informa-tion that could help research-ers develop ways to prevent and contain a disease threat but could also fall into the wrong hands.

Some have questioned whether experiments with such potentially risky results should be conducted at all.

Since the H5N1 bird flu broke onto the international scene in

the mid-1990s, only about 600 identified cases of human infec-tion, mostly among people who had handled poultry, have been recorded. About 60 percent of those victims died, however, making this an especially lethal type of flu.

Some scientists had feared it was only a matter of time before the virus mutated to pass easily

among humans and have been working in high-security labs to prove this was possible — and to learn what key changes would signal the emergence of a monster.

Virologist Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands created a virus that could spread, airborne, between ferrets, with just a few genetic changes. Ferrets react to the flu virus much as humans do.

“We knew if we were suc-cessful, we would be creating a potentially dangerous virus,” said Fouchier, lead author of the letter declaring the moratorium, which was signed by more than three dozen scientists.

But he said he believed the science was appropriate and the results should be published in full.

“We think, with these virus-es, we are in a better position to prevent a pandemic from happening, and if we cannot prevent a pandemic, then to develop available vaccines,” he said. “The work is too compli-cated for any bioterrorists to do in a garage — and for rogue countries, they would have experts. They don’t need our manuscript.”

The findings from Fouchier’s lab and another at the University

of Wisconsin set off alarms for the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, which made the recommenda-tion in December that details of the experiments be redacted from publications.

The journals and study authors have agreed to do this if a system is put in place for research information to be shared with scientists and pub-lic health workers who need it.

Michael Osterholm, direc-tor of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and a member of the biosecu-rity advisory board, said that even though the science was useful, the virus could poten-tially escape lab containment by accident.

“You have to look at the risk-benefit ratio,” Osterholm said.

Fouchier and co-authors wrote in the letter that they recognized the need to clear-ly explain the benefits of their research to a worried public.

They called for an interna-tional forum at which mem-bers of the scientific community could discuss the oversight of such high-security experiments and the potential risks as well as the benefits.

BY AMINA KHANMCT

Scientists suspend bird flu study

“We knew if we were successful, we would be creating

a potentially dangerous virus.”

— Ron FouchierVirologist

Bird is the word. Follow us!

@DailyHelmsman

@HelmsmanSports

www.dailyhelmsman.com6 • Tuesday, January 24, 2012

A Weekly Devotional For You

Love? Hate?

Almost everyone acknowledges that there was an unusual man named Jesus who lived in the Mid-East approximately 2000 years ago. He was and is a very controversial figure. While He lived on earth, many people dearly loved Him and would have gladly given their lives for Him. They showed an uncommon devotion to Him. They listened, transfixed, to the gracious words that came from his mouth. They were awed by the miracles He performed-healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, cleansing the lepers, raising the dead. After His death on the cross, myriads of His followers readily suffered persecution and even death for acknowledging His claims that He was God, manifest in the flesh. Even today, many Christians suffer persecution for their open devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ. However, there were other people, who also heard His teachings and saw His miracles but who had a much different attitude toward Him. They fervently hated Him. This is amazing, because He only did good to people. He never abused or persecuted anyone. It spite of this, many people, even many of the religious leaders, hated Him so much that they constantly tried to find a way to destroy Him. People are to this very day polarized by Jesus of Nazareth. Some love Him and want to obey Him. Some hate Him and deeply resent His teachings. There is a reason for this polarization, which we shall examine later on. In the meantime, into which class do you fall? Do you love Him, or do you hate Him?

Grace Chapel Primitive Baptist Church – Zack Guess, Pastor828 Berclair Rd. • Memphis, TN, 38122 • 683-8014 • e-mail: zguess@juno.com

Victories over a rival are always sweet, but they’re even sweeter when you’ve never won before. The University of Memphis men’s tennis team beat No. 13 Tennessee on Friday, their first victory over the Volunteers in pro-gram history.

In a third-set tiebreaker to decide the match, sophomore Joe Salisbury defeated No. 119 Hunter Reese to give the Tigers their first win of the season.

Down 5-6 in the third set, Salisbury held serve to notch the set at 6-6 and send the match into a tiebreaker. Reese controlled the tiebreaker with a 4-3 advantage when Salisbury reeled off four straight points, winning the match 1-6, 7-6, 6-6 (7-4) and giving the Tigers a win in their season opener.

After Tennessee won the doubles matches 2-1 and beat the Tigers in the first two sin-gles matches, Memphis won the final four singles matches thanks to Connor Glennon, David O’Leary, Leon Nasemann, and Salisbury.

The win is the best in the program’s history with the only other wins over ranked opponents coming against the No. 47 Oklahoma State Cowboys last season and William & Mary in March of 2003.

The Memphis tennis team next takes on Tennessee Tech on Friday at 6 p.m.

BY BRYAN HEATERSports Reporter

UM Tennis team nets a historic victory

National

Europe, US impose new Iran sanctions

Even as they tightened the financial screws on Iran with new sanctions on Monday, the United States and its European allies reiterated their readiness to resume talks with Tehran on curbing what they suspect is a secret nuclear weapons devel-opment program.

European Union foreign min-isters agreed to a phased ban on Iranian oil purchases by the bloc’s 27 states, and the Obama administration took action under which foreign institutions doing business with Iran’s third largest bank could be cut off from the U.S. financial system. The blacklisting of Bank Tejarat brought to 23 the number of Iranian financial institutions under U.S. sanctions for alleg-edly funding Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

By intensifying the pressure on Iran — but keeping the door open to talks — the United States and the EU underscored their goal of averting what many experts fear is a rising threat of a Persian Gulf military confrontation that could disrupt exports from the world’s main oil-producing region, dealing a fresh blow to the wobbly global economy.

“To avoid any military solu-tion, which could have irrepa-rable consequences, we have decided to go further down the road to sanctions,” French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said in Brussels. “It is a good decision that sends a strong message and which I hope will persuade Iran that it must change its position, change its line and accept the dialogue that we propose.”

The Obama administration hailed the EU decision, under which the bloc’s members won’t sign new oil contracts with Iran and will terminate exist-ing agreements by July 1. The ban also applies to purchases of

Iranian petrochemical products and sales of petroleum technol-ogy to Tehran.

In a joint statement, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called the EU move a “strong step.” But they reit-erated that the United States and other powers were looking for Iran “to engage seriously in discussions with the interna-tional community on its nuclear program.”

Since 2003, Iran has defied six U.N. resolutions demanding that it suspend its enrichment of uranium, which it kept hidden from international inspections for 18 years. The process pro-duces low-enriched uranium, for power generation, and high-ly enriched uranium, which is used to fuel nuclear weapons.

Iran insists that the program

is for peaceful purposes. But the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency reported in November that Iran had been working on a missile-borne nuclear warhead, and that it still may be pursuing some parts of the effort.

The EU action targeting Iran’s oil exports — the country’s main source of income — followed a similar move by President Barack Obama, who signed legislation Dec. 31 that denies access to the U.S. financial sys-tem to foreign entities that do business with Iran’s central bank. The central bank handles most payments for Iranian oil sales.

Iran is beginning to suffer serious economic consequences from U.N. sanctions and uni-lateral U.S. and EU measures. But Tehran showed no sign Monday of officially accepting a 3-month-old EU invitation to resume talks on its nuclear program.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi told the state-run news agency that sanc-tions “have proved ineffective in the past and will prove futile in the future, too.”

EU nations, which are collec-tively the world’s second largest purchaser of Iranian oil, will suf-fer “further complications” to their own struggling economies as a result of their Iranian oil purchase ban, Aragchi said.

Two senior Iranian law-makers also were quoted by state-run media as reiterating a threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow water-way at the mouth of the Persian Gulf through which some 40 percent of the world’s seaborne oil is shipped, in response to a disruption of Iranian petroleum exports.

The renewed threat came a day after a U.S. Navy strike

group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln, a nuclear-powered air-craft carrier, cruised into the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz. It was joined by French and British warships — an unambiguous statement of resolve to use force if Iran tries to blockade the 30-mile-wide passage.

Asked how Iran could show that it would engage in seri-ous talks on its nuclear pro-gram, an administration official told McClatchy Newspapers that Tehran must agree to resume negotiations “without preconditions.”

The last talks collapsed in January 2011after Tehran demanded international recog-nition of its right to uranium enrichment and the lifting of all sanctions before it would dis-cuss the nuclear program.

“Iran must provide an assur-ance that it is prepared to reopen talks without preconditions and engage in a constructive and serious manner,” said the admin-istration official, who requested anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the issue publicly. “We are not interested in talks for show alone.”

An EU diplomat, who request-ed anonymity for the same rea-son, said that Iran would have to respond to the EU invitation by stating unambiguously “that they are prepared to discuss the nuclear issue.”

BY JONATHAN LANDAYMCT

“To avoid any military solution, which could have irreparable

consequences, we have decided to go further down the road to

sanctions.”

— Alain JuppeForeign Minister

The University of Memphis Tuesday, January 24, 2012 • 7

free dinner & discussionthursday, jan. 26 @ 6:30 p.m.449 Patterson(at Midland)

contact: rev. mary allison cates, campus ministeremail: presbyplace@gmail.com phone: 901.481.0103 blog: presbyplace.wordpress.com

mark took stories from people’s memories, and combined them,

in writing, like pearls on a string. it’s a tale about slow-learning

disciples and becoming “messianic secret” keepers.

it’s a tale about us.

...on mark and truth.

Sports

In any basketball season, there are a number of games that serve as a measuring stick for how a team is progressing. The University of Memphis women’s basketball team measured up well Sunday night against the nation’s third-ranked defense, handing the UAB Blazers a 70-59 loss.

The Tigers (14-4, 4-1 C-USA) wasted no time building a 5-0 lead, but were troubled by the Blazers’ full-court press in the early minutes. After falling behind 14-12, senior guard Danay Collier woke the Tigers up with a spot- on three-point basket. The Blazers were then held to one field goal over the next five minutes, as the Tigers used a 6-0 run to push the lead to 21-16.

The Blazers were able to slow the bleeding temporarily with seven straight points, courtesy of junior guard Amber Jones. However, the Tigers went on a

7-2 run to end the half, going into the locker room with a 34-23 lead.

“We just grinded it out,” head coach Melissa McFerrin said. “We still have to learn to grind games back out when teams put a run on us, and I thought we did that today.”

The Blazers (13-5, 4-2 C-USA) did just that, cutting a 17-point Memphis lead to single digits thanks to two three-pointers from sophomore forward Karisma Chapman. The Blazers’ pressure created problems for the Tigers as they struggled to find any open shots. UAB senior guard LaShaunda Pratt converted on two three-pointers as well, trim-ming the lead to 55-52.

“We went in at halftime with an 11-point lead and talked about it never getting under 10,” McFerrin said. “It did and we lost our composure just a little bit, but then we just grinded it out.”

The Tigers grinded alright, getting the ball inside to senior post player Jasmine Lee who was

able to draw fouls and find open teammates when she was double teamed. Returning to their bread and butter allowed the Tigers to push the lead back to double digits at 62-52. One more surge by the Blazers cut the lead back down to single digits, but the Tigers stopped any hope of a Blazer comeback by closing out the game at the free throw line.

Memphis was led by senior guard Brittany Carter, who had 22 points, and senior guard Ramses Lonlack, who added 15 points and seven rebounds. Junior for-ward Nicole Dickson chipped in with 14 points and nine rebounds, while Lee recorded 11 points and 12 rebounds.

“We were just resilient,” Carter said. “It came down to who wanted it more and I was proud of my teammates because we all stepped up.”

The Tigers will take on the Marshall Thundering Herd Thursday at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.

BY BRYAN HEATERSports Reporter

Tigers nab second straight road win

Joe Paterno had shown up at practice with a new haircut.

A trophy had fallen off a shelf in his house and onto the Penn State football coach’s head, resulting in a cut that needed several stitches and required some adjustment to his classi-cally styled coif.

Paterno took some good-natured ribbing from his play-ers, remembered former wide receiver Deon Butler. But, as always, he had a response ready.

“I might start wearing baggy pants now, too,” Paterno joked.

Butler and the rest of Paterno’s former players, a group that numbers in the thousands and spans six decades of football, shared memories Sunday of a man who served as a role model for them in football and in life and reflected on the coach’s abil-ity to relate to three generations of players. Paterno died Sunday morning at age 85 from lung cancer.

“He always had a great sense of humor, so something like that can connect to people of all ages,” said current offensive lineman Mike Farrell, one of the last Nittany Lions to play for Paterno. “His sense of humor still worked with all the guys on the team. And his passion for football is something he shared with all of us.”

Paterno rarely joked once practices or games started, though, and he would share no laughs with players who cut classes or showed up late for meetings. But he went out of his way to help set his players up with internships or summer jobs, and he did what he could to help players network long after they had left the program.

“He was like a parent,” said former Penn State wide receiv-er Kenny Jackson, who later returned to the team as an assis-tant coach. “He always believed

you could go to school and play good football. And we won’t see that again — not like that.”

Butler, a former walk-on who is now a wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks, last saw Paterno about a year ago. The first thing the coach told him, he said, was to remove his earring.

“What he meant to Penn State is going to be hard to put into words,” Butler said. “Everything he’s done for the university, for that area, as far as the message and the loyalty that he possessed for everyone that went to that university and what he was all about — graduating and getting into the real world and teaching us all those life lessons. I don’t know if you’ll ever find another guy like that who’s really committed to that purpose.”

Many of Paterno’s players went on to successful careers in professional football. But even more went on to be successful in other professions — medi-cine, business, communications, the music industry. And many raised sons who would also play for Paterno.

“You knew that your son would come out of there and have the ability to handle dif-ferent things in life and make contributions in many differ-ent ways,” said former running back Mike Guman, whose son, Andrew played safety for Penn State in the early 2000s. “That speaks volumes for who he was as a man and what he stood for. There’s very few people that have the ability to tran-scend their occupation and what they do and to impact so many people. He was certainly one of them.”

Guman visited Paterno at his home in State College in late November, after the coach had been diagnosed with lung can-cer, and called it a visit “I’ll remember the rest of my life.”

Jackson had the chance to spend some time with Paterno

and his family at Mount Nittany Medical Center during the weekend.

“He fought to his last breath,” Jackson said. “It was just good to see all the kids get the chance to be there, to have a chance to share everything with him before he passed away.”

Jackson, as Paterno often did, credited Paterno’s wife, Sue, with keeping Paterno’s home life running smoothly while he ran the football program.

“People don’t realize how important the woman was,” Jackson said. “Many women couldn’t have handled it. That man gave all the time to us. Joe could have left here years ago and been owner of a foot-

ball team some place. He never wanted to leave because Sue didn’t.”

The Paternos lived in the same house on McKee Street for decades. Despite Paterno’s generous salary, they lived mod-estly and instilled blue-collar values in their five children as well as Paterno’s players.

“He wasn’t a guy that was as much concerned with himself as you may think,” Jackson said. “And that’s why he was so suc-cessful. He fed a lot of families. He fed a lot of families at one place and that just doesn’t hap-pen anywhere else.”

Paterno was loyal to his assis-tant coaches and they were loyal to him, too. Six of the nine assis-

tants on his staff this past season had been with the program for at least 10 years.

“He was a tremendous teach-er not because he knew all of the answers but because he chal-lenged us to find the answers for ourselves,” longtime assis-tant coach Tom Bradley, who was interim coach after Paterno was fired in November, wrote in a statement Sunday. “He made us better men than we believed we could be — both on and off the field. And when we lost our way or became unsure of ourselves, it was Coach Paterno who was there to encourage us, guide us and remind us that we must always strive to succeed with honor.”

Former Penn. State head coach Joe Paterno, seen in this 2010 photo after winning his 400th game, died Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. He was 85.

BY JEFF RICEMCT

Paterno leaves behind memories for many

MC

T

www.dailyhelmsman.com8 • Tuesday, January 24, 2012

PRICES: Classified Line Ads: (per issue) $10 for the first 50 words and 10¢ for each additional word. Prepayment is required at time of insertion. Payment can be made by cash, or check or money order made payable to The Daily Helmsman. Abbreviations count as a spelled word, hyphenated words count as one word, telephone numbers count as one word.

Display Classified Ads: (per issue) $10 per column inch. Ads are limited to one column width of 1 and 1/2 inches. Minimum ad size accepted is 1 col. x 2 inches. Maximum ad size accepted is 1 col. x 4 inches.

Deadline to place an ad is noon two business days prior to publication.

To place your ad or for more information, please contact The Daily Helmsman at (901) 678-2191 or come to 113 Meeman Journalism Bldg. Memphis, TN 38152-3290

The Daily helmsman Classifieds

HELP WANTED HELP WANTED HELP WANTED HELP WANTED HELP WANTEDSITTER NEEDED FOR 2 BOYS, 3-7 p.m., 2-3 days/week. Re-sponsibilities include picking up from school, occasional er-rands, transporting home and supervising homework. Must have own reliable transportation for pick up in East Memphis and transporting to Cordova. Pay commensurate with experience. Minimum salary $10/hour. Call 901-494-7160.

AFTERNOON NANNY NEED-ED: for one girl and one boy. 4:15 to 6:30 p.m. 4 days/week (M-Th) Resp include: available

when one gets off bus, pick-ing one up. Kids need shuffled to soccer, swimming, drums, dance, etc. Must have own re-liable transportation. Help with homework and a little help get-ting dinner started. Collierville area - Pay $10.00 per hour with gas allowance. English/Litera-ture student preferred - Please send email with a little informa-tion about yourself and to ex-press interest to jvan805@gmail.com.

BARTENDING. Up to $250 a day. No experience necessary.

Training available. Call 1-800-965-6520, ext 302.

CAREGIVER $11/HOUR M-F, 1:45-7 P.M. in Germantown for 16 yr. old 10th grader. Wanted: patient, physically fit, creative mentor. Perfect for education, math, psychology, and PE ma-jors with great references, safe driving record, reliable transpor-tation, nonsmoker and drug free only. Coach good study habits, pick up from Houston High, help with homework in Algebra II, chemistry, etc., drive home from school and to appointments,

workout, help with simple meals and chores. Email resume and references to eostric@earthlink.net and call 218-9859.

SITTER NEEDED FOR 2 BOYS, 3-7 p.m., 2-3 days/week. Re-sponsibilities include picking up from school, occasional er-rands, transporting home and supervising homework. Must have own reliable transportation for pick up in East Memphis and transporting to Cordova. Pay commensurate with experience. Minimum salary $10/hour, plus mileage. Call 901-494-7160.

WORK YOUR WAY through college with a cell phone. (615-461-0124.

Advertise with The

Daily Helmsman!

Call 901.678.2191

www.dailyhelmsman.comwww.dailyhelmsman.com www.dailyhelmsman.com

SolutionsBe cool.

Basketball

Sophomore guard Will Barton has been Memphis’ Mr. Double-Double this season with nine of them to his name. Now he finally may be getting some competition for that title.

Sophomore forward Tarik Black recorded his third career double-double and his first of the season, anchoring the post with 11 points and a career-high 13 rebounds on Saturday against Southern Methodist. He is the first player besides Will Barton to record a double-dou-ble in a game this season, last doing so in the 2011 Conference USA tournament championship game against UTEP.

The Mustangs (10-9, 2-3 C-USA) kept the game relative-

ly close for the first 26 minutes, leading by as many as five in the first half. After SMU’s Jalen Jones scored a layup with 13:30 remaining in the game to give the Mustangs a 36-35 lead, the Tigers responded with a 13-0 run to take control of the game.

“We ran the offense more efficiently than we did in the first half,” Black said. “We want to make our defense our offense. That’s the easiest way to play the game.”

Memphis’ late run was fueled by steals from Black, Antonio Barton and Will Barton, the lat-ter racing out for a fast break dunk which led to a three-point play. The team scored 19 points from 11 SMU turnovers in the game.

“We start on defense and get out and run,” Black said. “That

makes the game more interest-ing, it gets the fans into it and it makes for a fun atmosphere.”

Barton paced the Tigers (13-6, 4-1 C-USA) on the offensive end with 24 points on 8-of-15 (53.4 percent) shooting, despite almost sitting out the game with a sprained toe. He has scored more than 20 points in ten games this season, and has scored in double figures in 17 of Memphis’ 19 games.

“It’s really hurting, I’m real-ly sore,” Barton said. “At first, I couldn’t run, I couldn’t acceler-ate, stuff like that. I just wanted to suck it up. I thought my team needed me to go out there and just be me.”

The two teams remained close throughout much of the game, with the Tigers shoot-ing a high number of three-

pointers with little success. The Tigers shot just 2-of-16 from three in the game, with 11 of those attempts coming in the first half.

“Our whole thing is offen-sively we shot too many threes,” Pastner said. “I know some of them were open shots, but we settled, and we talked about that for the last 48 hours. I told the guys they were going to get open looks but that they couldn’t settle.”

The Tigers defended the three-point line fairly well, however, holding an SMU team that averages almost eight threes per game to just 5-of-27 from beyond the arc.

“We really did a good job defensively,” Pastner said. “We locked them down.”

The improved defense is a

cumulative effort, Black said.“Defense takes all five play-

ers to do it,” he said. “Everybody has to go in individually, obvi-ously, but I feel everybody’s improved their defensive pres-ence. Everybody’s taking the initiative on themselves, and that’s what just makes us a bet-ter defense as a whole.”

The Tigers will seek revenge on Wednesday when they face Rice at FedExForum. Memphis lost to the Owls in Houston last season, and the team wants to start a new winning streak.

“We’re in conference play, trying to get to the number one spot,” Barton said. “It’s defi-nitely important for us to go on a streak, to solidify us as the number one team.”

Sophomore guard Will Barton paced the Tigers with 24 points and five rebounds against SMU on Saturday.

Memphis pulls away late, beats SMU

Sophomore forward Tarik Black notched his first double-double of the season with 11 points and a career-high 13 rebounds.

BY SCOTT HALLSports Editor

Pho

tos

by D

avid

C.

Min

kin