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In mathematics, two negatives make a positive. This semester, the Student Government Association hopes to apply this principle to academic transcripts by eliminating the plus and minus grading scale at the University of Memphis. SGA President Ricky Kirby is part of a recently formed sub-committee comprised of students, faculty and administrators that is exploring the possibility of altering or removing the current grading system. “We have been getting a lot of student complaints about the plus and

minus system being unfair,” Kirby said. “They felt like the minuses hurt our good students.” Currently, implication of the plus and minus system is at the discretion of the teacher or department. If a student gets a plus attached to their grade, no extra bonus is given. However, if a student gets a minus attached to their grade, it deducts points from their grade point average. For example, if a student were to get 3 A’s and one A+, his or her GPA would be a 4.0, but if that same student were to get 3 A’s and one A- , he or she would receive a 3.96. “It’s just not fair,” Kirby said. “I think it hurts the students getting the minuses, because students at other universities

might have a higher GPA because their university doesn’t have a minus system.” In addition to Kirby, the committee will consist of students Markitta Stafford and Nick Mastron, faculty members Anna Michael and Suzanna Onstine, as well as an unnamed administrative representative. “We will get together sometime at the beginning of February, and discuss what students want, what the faculty is willing to budge on and what the administration is willing to enact,” Kirby said. Committee member Anna Michael is in favor of reform. “I think it puts our stronger students who care about their GPA at a disadvantage,” Michael said. “You shouldn’t

be penalized for getting an A- when you can’t be rewarded for getting an A+. I don’t inherently disagree with the plus/minus system. I just don’t agree that you don’t get the same weight for phenomenal work that you do for work that needs improvement.” Despite how people may feel about the possibility of changing the grading scale, Danny Armitage, assistant vice president of Student Affairs, likes that the SGA is willing to look into the matter. “I think that it is great the SGA is looking at issues’ of this nature,” Armitage said. “We are always interested in student feedback to see if we can make the process work and enhance the undergraduate experience for students.

news@dailyhelmsman.com In the digital age, it’s hard for people to get away from their cyber-screens. From laptops to smart phones, practically everything is done on a computer. At the end of the day, taking time away from the screen before going to bed can make a big difference in sleep quality. In 2013, 143.3 million people in the United States used smartphones to read the news and check their social media

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“Staring at screens for longer than 20 minutes at a time can break down cells and cause damage (to the cornea), dryness and near-point strain,” Dr. Melissa Zarn, optometric physician at the University Eye Care center, said. Near-point strain is caused when looking at something at a reading level for too long. Eye muscles strain to focus on things closer to the face and relax when looking off. This is due to the significantly less number of blinks while at reading level. The eye needs to blink

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to stay moistened and stable, according to Zarn. “Most people are zoomed in on whatever they are looking at and forget to blink,” Zarn said. She said eye damage becomes a concern whenever someone goes to sleep directly after staring at a screen too long. “Your eyes are closed when you sleep and lack the oxygen needed to restore the tear film on the surface. Staring

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profiles, according to data collected by comScore, a global leader in measuring the digital world. “Around ten hours of my day I spend looking at a screen,” Betsy Milton, library assistant at McWherter Library, said. “Most of my nights are spent reading the news on my small, cracked phone screen.” Whether it’s a phone screen or a computer, looking at a backlit display for too long can affect the structure of the cornea.

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For people too busy to make a trip to the library, some may be able to look no further than their neighborhood. Memphis is just one of the many cities in the U.S. to join the Little Free Library movement, a project based on the idea of promoting literacy for free. The idea first came to fruition in 2009 when Todd Bol of Hudson, Wisc., built a small replica of an old schoolhouse as a tribute to his mother. He put the schoolhouse outside his home and filled it with books. After his friends caught on to the idea of “leave one, take one,” he decided to expand his mission. Bol teamed up with Rick Brooks, co-founder of the movement, and began promoting the idea of Little Free Libraries throughout the country with the hopes of reaching the entire world. The mission of the Little Free Library organization, according to their website, is “to promote literacy and the love of reading by building free book exchanges worldwide” and “to build a sense of community as we share skills, creativity and wisdom across generations.” Andrew Carnegie, who supported the establishment of 2,509 public libraries at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, inspired the team. By August 2012, a year and a half before their actual target date, the pair had far exceeded their goal of creating 2,509 libraries. This year, they expect between 10,000 to 12,000 Little

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(before sleep) without taking breaks every once in a while is easily reversible.” In Zarn’s opinion, looking at screens alone cannot harm your vision long term, but other factors like eye shape and pre-existing vision problems can create breakdowns within the cells that aren’t easily reversed. “I know screens have made my eyesight worse,” Christie Fair, senior math major, said. She looks at screens for five hours a day at work and about three or four more surfing the Internet at home,

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Social media generation gap closes By Jordan Thomas

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One 67-year-old woman starts and finishes her day on Facebook just as many teenagers do. A 20-something college student rushes to class and angrily tweets as he gets stuck behind a train. The generation gap on social media sites that was once so extreme between young adults and senior citizens may be diminishing, but not in everyone’s favor. According to a recent study done by Princeton University, Facebook will lose 80 percent of users by 2017. Young teenagers are moving to platforms such as Instagram, while older people are sticking around, and, in many cases, are relatively new to the website.

About 43 percent of Americans age 65 and older use social networking sites, which is up from just one percent five years ago, according to the Pew Research Center. “I use Facebook to keep up with my kids and grandkids,” Sarah Jo Hardin, 67, said. “They don’t live in the same place as me, so it is how I see what they are doing and to watch them continue to grow up.” Hardin believes this is one of the main reasons people around her age have begun adopting social media sites. According to Carrie B r o w n Smith, an assistant journalism professor at the

University of Memphis, social media is something 18 to 29 year olds have grown up being a part of. In her opinion, making the transition onto the Internet is hard for some older people who are not open to change. “I mean, I think it (generation gap) d o e s exist to a certain extent,” BrownSmith s ai d . “Facebook has a pretty heavy penetration rate among all demographics – even my grandma has one.” Martin Key, a 73-year-old social media user, accesses Twitter so he can keep up with news and statistics from his favorite sports teams.

“I am a huge New York sports fan, so Twitter allows me to keep up with my teams,” Key said. “My grandson introduced it to me and showed me how to use it and all the other stuff I needed to know.” In the past five years, the number of people between the ages of 30 to 49 using social media sites has increased 53 percent, according to the Pew Research Center. “I use it (Facebook) to keep in contact with old friends from childhood, college and moving around for work,” Rod Stringer, 48, said. “I also use it to play different games with friends on

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there.” The trend of parents and grandparents using Facebook has caused some kids to choose different social media sites. “I don’t post as much on Facebook because my whole family can see it,” Justen Ketchum, 24, said. “It’s not that I have something to hide from them, but I don’t think they need to know everything.” Over 1.11 billion people are active on Facebook monthly and 48 percent of those users between the ages of 18 to 34 check their page as soon as they wake up. “As soon as I wake up in the morning, I check Facebook, Twitter and Instagram,” Kaitlyn Rose, 21, said. “If I don’t look at them, I feel like I might miss a lot. I get a little anxious.” For some young people, the challenge of going extended periods of time without checking their phone seems like an unbearable struggle. However, not all college students feel as if they have to check or update their social media sites so frequently. “I am just too busy. I can’t check Facebook or other sites all the time,” Ketchum said. “And, no one should share what they are doing every waking moment of their life with the Internet.” While younger people are often on the go, some older people have found more free time to spend at a desktop computer checking their Facebook profiles. “I can spend hours and hours on Facebook,” Hardin said. “I just start clicking on my friend’s pages then other pages from there. And when I look up, I have been on there for three hours.” Over time, social media sites have had big hits that led them to fall off of the radar. MySpace was a huge site before Facebook pulled many users away. With up and coming social media platforms like Snapchat competing against Facebook–owned Instagram, competition is looming in the social media market once again. From scrolling through social media to checking email, the issue seems not to be that young and old generations aren’t together online, but that they are accessing these mediums in different ways. For Ketchum, he can check his Internet presence or respond to an email all on his phone without ever sitting down at a computer – an easier option that allows him to save time and multitask. “I pretty much only use my phone to check my Facebook, Twitter or anything else,” Ketchum said. “Occasionally, I will use my laptop.” Stringer is an advocate of her computer and echoes the sentiment of the older generation. “I have a Blackberry phone, but it is hard enough to text on it,” Stringer said. “So, I just use my laptop to check my Facebook. According to Brown-Smith, the social media generation gap is closing. “With smart phones and tablets and Internet access almost everywhere, the huge difference in ages using social medias is going to continue to diminish,” Brown-Smith said.

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Library common room under repair By Patrick Lantrip

news@dailyhelmsman.com Students will have to wait for a few weeks before getting their feet wet in the library as the common room of the Ned McWherter Library dries out. On Jan. 7, a second floor pipe burst, leaking through the ceiling into the common room. It is still too early to tell exactly how much the damages will cost, but most of the damage was structural and didn’t affect the library’s collection. “We’re not happy about it, but

it’s easier to replace (structural damage) than some of our collection materials would be,” Sylverna Ford, dean of University Libraries said. “We were very fortunate in the way that the water flowed.” Ford said the library recently moved part of the collection that would have been directly in the path of the water. She also believes that most of the computers will still function, but the library will not know for sure until the equipment dries out. “One of the great fears in a library is when you get water in the environment,” Ford said.

“The opportunity for mold to grow in a library is scary because it spreads so quickly.” She added that it was fortunate that both the library and the Physical Plant were open at the time of the incident and were able to respond quickly. “We in the library are grateful for the quick response from everyone across the campus, and all the help we are continuing to get,” Ford said. Although the common room is still under construction, it is open for business, and the computers on the upper floors are still functional. photo By harriSon LinGo | StaFF

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“I would actually enjoy this new system better because it would allow me to not worry about the exact grade as much as the class.”

“Currently, I don’t favor the plus-minus system because minus grades harm GPA while plus grades have no GPA benefit.”

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exclusively toward children’s literature. “We don’t call ourselves owners, but rather, ‘stewards,’” Lemly said about establishing the library. She shares “stewardship” with the librarian at Grace St. Luke’s. The news of Lemly’s library eventually caught on in her neighborhood and now she says it’s a staple. “We have a lot of neighborhood families that take advantage of the library now, and many children have made this their path to-and-from school just to get books,” Lemly said. There are now over a dozen libraries registered throughout the city, and Lemly is thrilled that the idea is spreading. “It is nothing but positive,” she said. “We’re happy to keep children reading.”

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China’s industry exporting air pollution to US, study says By Tony Barboza Los Angeles Times

China’s export industry is responsible for dirty emissions that are blowing across the Pacific Ocean and contributing to smog in the United States, a new scientific study says. About one-fifth of the pollution China spews into the atmosphere comes from producing goods for export to the United States and other countries, according to the paper by a group of scientists that was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Winds blow pollutants from Chinese power plants and factories across the Pacific in about six days, where they boost levels of smog in the United States. Los Angeles and parts of the eastern U.S. experienced at least one extra day of smog that exceeded federal health standards for ozone in 2006 as a result of emissions from export manufacturing in China, the study found. “Rising emissions produced in China are a key reason global emissions of air pollutants have remained at a high level during 2000-2009 even as emissions produced in the United States, Europe and Japan have decreased,” the scientists wrote.

“Outsourcing production to China does not always relieve consumers in the United States _ or, for that matter, many countries in the Northern Hemisphere _ from the environmental impacts of air pollution.” Nine scientists in the United States, China and the United Kingdom used data from 2006 to quantify how much of the air pollution reaching the U.S. West Coast from China is from the production goods for export to the United States and other countries. Scientists followed the path of air pollutants, including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides carbon monoxide and black carbon, through the atmosphere to gauge their effects on air quality in the United States. While the United States has reaped some of the benefits of outsourcing _ cheaper cellphones, televisions and appliances and big declines in air pollution _ rising emissions in China have paralyzed cities there with severe smog. The paper is a reminder that U.S. demand for cheap imports from China has a way of blowing those environmental problems back at us, said Steve Davis, an Earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine, and co-author of the study. “It’s sort of a boomerang effect,” he said. Davis expressed hope that the

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Even in midafternoon, the air was hazy in Beijing on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. findings would be used by world governments working to craft international agreements to limit emissions of carbon dioxide that are driving climate change as well as short-lived air pollutants that are responsible for poor air quality around the globe. “We need to move beyond placing blame for who’s creating these

emissions and realize that we all have a common interest in reducing the pollution,” Davis said. Since the 1990s, scientists have known that pollution from China is carried across the Pacific by westerly winds and that it worsens air quality along the U.S. West Coast. Those emissions contribute only slightly to

U.S. smog levels, which are overwhelmingly caused by local emissions from vehicles, factories and power plants. “We shouldn’t take an alarmist perspective,” Davis said. “Los Angeles air quality is not going to be what it was in the ‘70s or ‘80s because of this.”

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Tiger named to Ireland’s Davis Cup team

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news@dailyhelmsman.com University of Memphis men’s tennis team senior David O’Hare has not only been making headlines in the U.S. for being on the third-rank doubles team in the country, but he also made them in his home country of Ireland where he was named to their Davis Cup team, which competes against countries from across the globe to crown one country the world’s best. O’Hare helps lead the Memphis squad currently ranked 21st in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s standings, but O’Hare and senior Joe Salisbury make up the No. 3 ranked doubles team in the country. O’Hare will be on familiar ground in Davis Cup competition, where he plans to play alongside the 150th ranked player in the world James Cluskey – a doubles specialist. The pair hopes to win their way through the Europe/Africa

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Senior David O’Hare makes his debut on Ireland’s Davis Cup team on Feb. 1. O’Hare currently ranks third in the country in doubles alongside his senior partner Joe Salisbury. Group II. The duo can earn Ireland its first Group I draw since 1991. Irish captain Gary Cahill selected O’Hare for the first time in his career to compete on the country’s Davis team. O’Hare’s group plays their

first match at the beginning of February in Minsk, Belarus. The winner moves on to face victor from the match between Egypt and Moldova in early April. The first round is formatted as a best of five played over three days. O’Hare’s doubles matches

will be played on a Feb. 1, with singles matches being played both the day before and after. O’Hare joins John Morrissey, a junior from Stanford, as the only college players on the Irish team. The honor will force O’Hare to miss the U of M’s matches against

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Chattanooga and Murray State in Memphis on Jan. 31., but he still plans to play this weekend in the ITA Kickoff Classic. Memphis drew the Mississippi State pod, where the winner advances to the ITA Men’s National Team Indoor Championship. The Tigers, seeded third in the pod, face No. 18 South Carolina Saturday at 10 a.m. The winner plays either the No. 14 Bulldogs or No. 27 Harvard on Sunday. The Tigers finished their last tournament – the MLK Invitational – going 6-3 against Ole Miss on Monday. “This tournament was good preparation for us for next weekend,” head Memphis coach Paul Goebel said. “It was good for us to win some close matches to get ready for the kickoff weekend.” O’Hare rallied back after dropping the first set in his singles match to force a third set, but he ultimately fell to Vinod Gowda. However, O’Hare and Salisbury won their doubles match against the Rebels’ duo of Nik Scholtz and Johan Backstrom.

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Tigers look to set the tone for tourney time By Corey Carmichael

news@dailyhelmsman.com At Tuesday’s press conference, head University of Memphis men’s basketball coach Josh Pastner was adamant about his elevated expectations for the last 14 games of the regular season. “This is my fifth year as head coach and I am as excited about this stretch run as I’ve been in my five years,” Pastner said. “Because there’s a lot of games, a lot to look forward to. I’m excited to see how our team handles and responds to the critical stretch.” Over the next 14 games, the Tigers (13-4, 3-2 AAC) will play all nine other members of the American Athletic Conference and non-conference opponent Gonzaga University. Eight of the games will be at FedExForum, including games against Gonzaga and Louisville. Of the six road games, two are against opponents that have already beat Memphis this year – Cincinnati and Connecticut. Senior guard Geron Johnson acknowledged the difficulty of the American. “I heard coach Rick Pitino say this is a tougher conference than he thought it would be,” Johnson said. “I feel like every team has run into a little adversity, and we’ll see who is going to push through it and stick to the game plan and win games. We all know it’s a tough conference and every night you have to come to play.” This conference-laden stretch begins Thursday night at 7 p.m. in FedExForum as the Tigers take on the University of Houston. Head Houston coach James Dickey’s

squad comes into Memphis with an 11-7 overall record and a 3-2 record in the AAC. Forward TaShawn Thomas leads the Cougars in scoring. The junior has scored 16.7 points per game this season on 61.5 percent shooting and grabbed nearly nine rebounds per game. “They’re talented in all different spots,” Pastner said. “They give you matchup problems, because they’ll put Danuel House at the four or Chicken Knowles at the five. They’ve got guys on transition, and they really spread the floor in transition and look to hit threes.” House is rounding into shape after missing nine games because of arthroscopic knee surgery. The Cougars lost four games without the 6-foot-7 sophomore as well as his first game back when he was limited to 19 minutes. He’ll look to help the Cougar’s defense, which allowed 91 points to Louisville last Thursday. Outside of the Louisville loss, Dickey’s team has only allowed 61 points per contest in five conference games. Overall, the Cougars have limited teams to a 41.5 percent shooting and only allowed 39.3 percent shooting in American conference play. Pastner said he will rely on his stable of talented guards to break down the defense. “When those guys are in the game, every minute they play they have to be elite,” Pastner said. “If they’re not elite, people can say ‘Your philosophy on that doesn’t work this year coach’ and so be it, and I’ll take the responsibility. I’m sticking to my guns on those four guys being elite, and that includes when we need stops, we need key rebounds,

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The four senior guards have struggled so far shooting the ball for the Tigers. Combined, they have shot 38.7 percent from the field turned it over 36 times. a bucket, a made free throw or a loose ball. They have to set the tone.” Over the last five games, the four guards Pastner referenced shot a collective 38.7 percent from the field (83 -214), 89 rebounds (17.8 per game) and stolen the ball 35 times with 36 turnovers. Most notably, their field goal percentage is down from the 47 percent mark posted by Joe Jackson, Chris

Crawford and Johnson last season. Despite the struggles, the seniors’ confidence has not been shaken. “We need to make shots,” Crawford said. “As I always say, we need to keep shooting the ball with confidence. As long as you’ve got confidence, the next shot can go down.” Even though the shots have not been falling for the senior guards, the front-

court has picked up the slack for the Tigers. David Pellom, Shaq Goodwin and Austin Nichols have helped the U of M by contributing a 63 percent combined-shooting rate on 290 shots. Memphis hopes to set tone over the next few weeks leading up to the first AAC tournament held at FedExForum, but it all starts on Thursday against Houston on ESPN News.