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news@dailyhelmsman.com The University area will be getting a new addition with the Highland Row project, which is estimated to start construction at the end of 2014. Highland Row, which is within the boundaries of Midland Avenue, Central Avenue,
Ellsworth Street and Highland Street, is going to be a mixeduse residential development with four stories of luxury apartments above retail space along with townhouses and a parking structure. As the University of Memphis’ community redevelopment liaison, it is Leah Dawkins’ job to encourage growth and manage development in the University
District. “There’s going to be over 350 residential units,” Dawkins said. “One of the buildings is going to have a 25,000-square-foot retail space on the ground floor.” The $62 million residential development won’t be funded through public funds — Milhouse Development, the project’s developers, has invested capital funding into the proj-
ect. With private investors, the developers are expecting the project to bring in a great deal of revenue. The only part of the development that will be funded publicly is the parking garage, with a tax increment to accumulate the funds. The Community Redevelopment Agency will
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Galloping into the New Year Chinese New Year marks beginning of Year of the Horse
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news@dailyhelmsman.com While most people rang in the New Year three weeks ago, for some it hasn’t even started yet. The Lunar New Year, more commonly known as the Chinese New Year, begins on Jan. 31. According to the lunar calendar, which is based off phases of the moon, Friday marks the beginning of the year of the Horse, a symbol of
success in the Chinese zodiac. Riki Jackson is the assistant director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Memphis, which promotes Chinese language and culture in Memphis. She said the American New Year and the Chinese New Year bring about similar feelings of new beginnings. “We all have the desire to start new — cleaning of the house, removal of the old worries, removal of the old debts,” Jackson said. “It is the biggest holiday, (and) it is very difficult to
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duplicate the events in the U.S. especially, because it’s not a mainstream holiday (here.)” Yiping Yang, associate director of the CIUM, openly celebrates the holiday, which typically lasts for fifteen days. “We call it the Spring Festival,” Yang said. According to Yang, the Chinese New Year is similar to the “American Christmas.” He emphasized the importance of family during this time and even went as far as calling it a
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reunion. “You try your best to see your parents (and) grandparents,” he said. Yang has worked at the U of M since 2009 and has not been able to visit home. “We are a family here,” Yang said. “My colleagues, friends, the people I see everyday are close enough for me to consider them a family — we are a family.” A vital part of many celebrations is the festive food, and the Chinese
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The University of Memphis is sending seven honors students to Nashville on Feb. 12 to present their research in the annual Posters at the Capitol event. This year’s participants are Joshua Canterbury, Damian Coomes, William King, Nicholas Mastron, Patrick McNicholas, Breya Walker and Grace Waters. The participants’ research comes from a variety of undergraduate fields and majors, ranging from economics to biomedical engineering. Honors Program Director and Associate Professor Melinda Jones believes this is a great event that benefits the University. “It demonstrates the University’s commitment to undergraduate research and benefits the University because most of these students are working with faculty members on research projects,” Jones said. Each fall semester, U of M undergraduate students present their research at the Works in Progress Symposium, sponsored by the University’s Honors Program. After evaluations from the faculty, the Honors Program then selects seven undergraduate students to participate in the Posters at the Capitol. “We try to select seven students that represent different disciplines at the University of Memphis,” Jones said. Damian Coomes, a senior psychology major with a concentration in behavioral neuroscience and participant in this year’s Posters at the Capitol, is very excited to be a part of the event and feels it is a reward for all the work he has put into his research. “This is definitely rewarding,” Coomes said. “Research is quite the process. Even with the best
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New Year is no different. According to Yang, the Chinese New Year has Jiaozi, or dumplings. U of M student Tammy Louie, 18, looks forward to the celebratory food every year. “On a typical Chinese New Year, we have dumplings in the morning,” Louie, a finance major, said. “At night time, we have a lot of food, (and) each food has a different meaning — health, prosperity, happiness, luck, long life.” The finance major admitted that her favorite part of the holiday is the Red Pocket. She described it as an envelope filled with money. According to Louie, the noodle symbolizes long life. “The longer the noodle, the longer the life,” she said. She stated that some days they would not eat any meat in order to cleanse their system. Because Louie lives here in Tennessee, she admitted that their celebration of the New Year is Americanized because they only celebrate it for three days. “Traditionally, by the third or fourth day, everybody goes back to work anyway,” Louie said. Even though her family may not celebrate the New Year in its entirety,
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manage the structure separate from the developers who will manage the rest of the project. The overall goal of the project is to encourage pedestrian-oriented development. Dawkins also believes the project will make the area more attractive and will encourage other developments. As of right now, it’s unclear as to what businesses will be moving in, but whatever moves in will most likely be a small, local business. The community is excited for the possibility of a smaller
Louie said they make sure to do all of the “important things,” including praying and celebrating with family.
Louie remembered her father giving her a piece of candy each day they celebrated the festival as a symbol of
good fortune and a sweeter life. She also mentioned the significance of certain fashions and colors.
grocery store to take the space. “I would love for the district to have its own grocer,” Dawkins said. “But I don’t want to get everyone’s hopes up only to have them dashed.” While some of the community is concerned about crime in the area, Dawkins said there has been a concentrated effort to bring the crime rate down. “Crime rates aren’t significant in this area. I think that the more people you put on the streets, the less crime rates will be,” Dawkins said. “If you activate public spaces and create a friendly environment, crime will naturally decrease.”
Although the development will be close to campus, it won’t be marketed to students — instead, faculty, staff and families are the main target. “There’s a wave of people moving to the city from the suburbs who want a more urban feel, so it will be much like Harbortown,” Dawkins said. The community is concerned about the possibility of increased traffic running through the neighborhoods, but Dawkins believes that this, along with other growing concerns, will eventually work themselves out. Joe Scott Howard, a sophomore biology major, is a resident
of the neighborhood where the Highland Row project is being constructed. He believes that it will bring in more students and make the area more attractive. His only concern is people parking on the streets, as a tow truck seems to be always patrolling the neighborhood. “I want a restaurant to be put inside of the development,” Howard said. “There is a Kroger down the street and several coffee shops nearby, so I don’t think we need anything else like that.” Morgan Cromwell, neighborhood resident and junior art therapy major, believes the residential complexes will still have
For example, wearing red symbolizes good luck. “I remember when I was little, my mother made us wear a new outfit during the New Year,” Louie said. “Sort of like a ‘new year, new me’ type of thing.” According to Yang, the CIUM will host a party at the University Center on Saturday afternoon. Over 50 teachers, both University professors and K-12 Shelby County teachers, will attend. As part of the celebration, CIUM is also sponsoring An Oriental Monsoon. “We’ve sponsored hundreds of different events, and this is one we’ve been honored to bring to Memphis,” Jackson said. In addition to the Tibetan and Mongolian dances, Jackson emphasized the Martial Arts that will be performed. “It is absolutely beautiful,” Jackson said. “There is a harmony of the mind, body and spirit. It (An Oriental Monsoon) exposes a piece of different culture, a different world. To truly embrace a language, you must embrace the culture.” An Oriental Monsoon will take place on Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in the University Theatre at Christian Brothers University. The program will feature classic Chinese dance, instrumental solos and opera pieces. It is free and open to the public.
many students residing there, even though they are not marketed that way. “We can never have too many places off campus to live, so that would be a huge plus for people who don’t want a long commute,” Cromwell said. “It was difficult for me to find a house near campus.” Josh Dunning, a junior computer science major, thinks that the new development will greatly benefit the district. “It will improve the area aesthetically and could potentially bring in some great businesses to keep more students in the University area,” Dunning said.
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Wine in supermarkets bill advancing in House
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The House committee that killed last year’s version of a bill to allow wine sales in Tennessee grocery stores on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of giving cities the ability to hold referendums on the proposal. The House Local Government Committee voted 13-3 to advance the bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Jon Lundberg of Bristol. “I’m excited,” said House Sp e a ker B et h Har wel l, R-Nashville and a lead proponent of the wine measure. “I think they’ve taken the appropriate action in listening to their constituents.” Supporters of this year’s push
for wine in supermarkets have split the effort into two bills pending before separate committees. One would establish the mechanism for a local vote, while the other would define which retailers would be able to sell wine. Local Government Chairman Matthew Hill, R-Jonesborough, cast the deciding vote against last year’s version of the bill because of concerns that the measure wasn’t getting a full hearing. Hill said he voted in favor of the current bill because it is in keeping with state laws that call for local votes on whether to allow package stores, liquor by the drink, charters to establish now towns and annexation issues. Hill said the bill “gives another voice to the people in our state to decide what is best for their
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local communities.” Under the definitions bill introduced in the House State Government Committee earlier on Tuesday, stores would have derive at least 20 percent of their sales from groceries in order to qualify for a license to sell wine. The 29-page proposal sponsored by Rep. Ryan Haynes, R-Knoxville, would also require stores to have a retail space of at least 2,000 square feet and set July 1, 2016, as the earliest date that supermarkets and convenience stores could sell wine. Existing package stores would also be allowed to sell non-liquor items like beer, cigarettes, snacks and ice. “The public’s desire to have wine in grocery stores has been listened to, and we’re trying to make that happen,” Haynes said.
The latest version of the proposal rebuffs attempts by lobbyists for package stores and liquor wholesalers to exclude all convenience stores and big box retailers like Wal-Mart and Target. But it would give a nod to existing liquor store owners by banning any store located within 500 feet from being able to sell wine until July 2017 — unless they can obtain permission from their neighbors. Many liquor stores are located close to supermarkets because of the current law that prevents grocery stores from selling any drinks stronger than beer with an alcohol content of 6.5 percent by volume. The supermarket wine bill would not allow Sunday wine sales, but would give liquor stores the ability to deliver alco-
hol to customers. It would also require a 20 percent markup on all wine sales. “It’s a back and forth,” Haynes said. “At one point you have something that everybody is pleased with, and then somebody will want to add something like Sunday sales and votes get drawn away, making the bill harder to pass. “That’s why we’ve had problems in years past.” While the current measure would allow supermarkets and convenience stores to sell wine with an alcohol content of up to 18 percent, it would not allow so-called high-gravity beer. Craft brewers have said they may pursue separate legislation to lift the cap on alcohol content for beer.
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Ukraine PM resigns, government offers concessions By Jim Heintz and Maria Danilova Associated Press
KIEV, Ukraine — In backto-back moves aimed at defusing Ukraine’s political crisis, the prime minister resigned Tuesday and parliament repealed antiprotest laws that had set off violent clashes between protesters and police. The two developments were significant concessions to the anti-government protesters who have fought sporadically with police for the last 10 days after two months of peaceful aroundthe-clock demonstrations. The protests erupted after President Viktor Yanukovych turned toward Russia for a bailout loan instead of signing a deal with the European Union and have since morphed into a general plea for more human rights, less corruption and more democracy in this nation of 45 million. The departure of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov removes one of the officials most disliked by the opposition forces whose
protests have turned parts of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, into a barricaded maze. However, Azarov’s spokesman told the Interfax news agency that another staunch Yanukovych ally, deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov, will assume temporary leadership of the Cabinet, a move that is unlikely to please the opposition. Other key issues remain unresolved in Ukraine’s political crisis, including the opposition’s repeated demand that Yanukovych resign and a new election be held. Azarov’s resignation came just before the opening of a special parliament session that repealed anti-protest laws that had set off violent clashes between protesters and police. E ar l i e r this m ont h , Yanukovych pushed through the new laws to crack down on protests and increase prison sentences for creating disorder. The laws also prohibited demonstrators from wearing helmets and gas masks as many have done for fear that riot police would try to violently disperse protests.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a lawmaker and one of the opposition’s top figures, hailed the parliament’s move. “We have repealed all the laws against which the whole country rose up,” he said. O ve r the we e ke n d , Yanukovych offered the premiership to Yatsenyuk, but the opposition leader refused the post. Parliament will consider an amnesty measure Wednesday for scores of arrested protesters. But Yanukovych has said the amnesty is only possible if demonstrators clear the streets and vacate the buildings they now occupy — a condition that is probably unacceptable to many. The prime minister’s departure on Tuesday brought encouragement to those at Kiev’s sprawling protest encampment but no inclination to end their demonstrations. “The authorities are afraid and making concessions. We should use this moment and continue our fight to achieve a change of power in Ukraine,” said 23-year-old demonstrator
Oleg Rudakov. The opposition has accused Azarov of mismanaging the economy and condoning corruption, and has ridiculed the Russian speaker for his poor command of Ukrainian. Animosity toward him grew after the protests started in November when he labeled demonstrators extremists and refused to listen to any of their demands. As head of the Cabinet, he was also seen as bearing responsibility for the recent use of force by police. Yanukovych’s cash-strapped government just managed to avoid bankruptcy with the money pledged in November by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia spent $3 billion to buy Ukrainian government bonds in December and has promised to spend up to $15 billion total. Putin said Tuesday that Russia will abide by the deal to buy those bonds and offer its neighbor cheaper natural gas even if the Ukrainian government ends up being led by the opposition. Russia’s main concern regarding Ukraine is to protect Russia’s
financial commitments, not geopolitical issues, Putin said in Brussels at a Russia-EU summit. “Will we revise our agreements on credits and energy if the opposition comes to power? No we won’t,” he said. The Russian leader also sharply criticized the European Union for sending high-level delegations to Ukraine during the anti-government protests, saying that could be interpreted as political interference. “ The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are,” Putin said. “Considering the specifics of relations between Russia and Ukraine, it is simply unacceptable.” In Washington, meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden welcomed progress toward defusing the political crisis and urged Yanukovych to sign the repeal of the anti-protest laws without delay. Speaking by telephone for the third time in less than a week, Biden also encouraged the Ukrainian president to keep working with the opposition.
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experimental designs, things will go wrong.” Not only will the students get to present their research at the Capitol, but they will also get a chance to meet the Tennessee state legislators. While it hasn’t been confirmed, they may also get a chance to go to lunch with the state representatives and senators. Coomes feels it is an honor to be a part of the event and encourages other student researchers to continue to work hard in their fields. “Anything you can do to expose people to the awesome things you are researching is a
good thing,” Coomes said. “Any sort of research is beneficial.” Jones encourages undergraduate students to get involved with research, as well. “Students interested in undergraduate research at the University of Memphis should contact the honors program, we will be happy to assist them,” she said. Students wanting to see research done by peers on campus can visit the 26th annual Student Research Forum March 31 in the University Center Ballroom. Students interested in participating in the forum must turn in applications by March 18.
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College athletes take step toward forming union By Michael Tarm Associated Press
CHICAGO — Calling the NCAA a dictatorship, Northwestern’s quarterback and the United Steelworkers announced plans Tuesday to form the first labor union for college athletes — the latest salvo in the bruising fight over whether amateur players should be paid. Quarterback Kain Colter detailed the College Athletes Players Association at a news conference in Chicago, flanked by leaders of Steelworkers union that has agreed to pay legal bills for the effort. The NCAA and the Big Ten Conference both criticized the move and insisted that college athletes cannot be considered employees. Colter said the NCAA dictates terms to its hundreds of member schools and tens of thousands of college athletes, leaving players with little or no say about financial compensation questions or how to improve their own safety. That college football generates hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue only bolstered the argument for a union, he said. “How can they call this amateur athletics when our jerseys are sold in stores and the money we generate turns coaches and commissioners into multimillionaires?” Colter asked. “The current model represents a dictatorship,” added Colter, who just finished his senior year with the Wildcats. “We just want a seat at the table.” Colter said “nearly 100 percent” of his teammates backed the drive to unionize. But only he spoke publicly, saying the others wanted to keep a low profile. CAPA’s president, former UCLA football player Ramogi Huma, said a union would help ensure that scholarships, at minimum, cover all living expenses as well as tuition. Currently, he said, scholarship athletes come up thousands of dollars short each year. A union would also push for full medical coverage that could carry over past college. While the effort to form a union among college athletes appears without precedent, there is recent a case that may help their cause. More than 600 graduate teaching and research assistants at New York University voted to form a union in December and to affiliate with the United Auto Workers. It was the first such union in the country to win recognition by a private university. For now, the push is to unionize college athletes is focused only on private schools like Northwestern — though large public universities, which are subject to different sets of regulations, could follow, said Huma, who is also the head of the National College
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Kain Colter, a star quarterback and receiver who completed his college football career in December, gestures toward United Steelworkers International president Leo Gerard as he answers questions following the announcement that several Northwestern football players wish to join a labor union, during a press conference at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Players Association he founded in 2001 to lobby for the interests of college athletes. “This will be the first domino,” Huma said. If the players succeed, a union could fundamentally change college sports, said Brian Rauch, a New York-based labor attorney. He said it could raise the prospect of strike by disgruntled players or lockouts by schools. The NCAA has been under increasing scrutiny over its amateurism rules and is currently in court, fighting a class-action federal lawsuit filed by former players seeking a cut of the billions of dollars earned from live broadcasts and memorabilia sales, along with video games, and multiple lawsuits filed by players who say the organization failed to adequately protect them from debilitating head injuries. NCAA President Mark Emmert and others have pushed for a $2,000-per-player stipend to help athletes defray some of their expenses, but critics say that isn’t nearly enough and insults players who help bring in millions of dollars to their schools and conferences. Last season, Colter and football players from Georgia and Georgia Tech had the letters APU — All Players United — written on their gear during games as a show of solidarity in an effort organized by the NCPA. At the time, the NCAA said it wel-
comed an “open and civil debate regarding all aspects of college athletics.” The NCAA issued a statement Tuesday making clear where it stands on the athletes’ quest to form a union. “Student-athletes are not employees,” NCAA chief legal officer Donald Remy said. “We are confident the National Labor Relations Board will find in our favor, as there is no right to organize student-athletes.” He added: “This union-backed attempt to turn student-athletes into employees undermines the purpose of college: an education.” A statement from the Big Ten Conference echoed that, saying it “does not believe that full-time students participating in intercollegiate athletics are employees.” “That said, the Big Ten Conference has the utmost respect for both the legal system and the rights of students to pursue their beliefs through that system,” the league said. NLRB spokesman Gregory King confirmed that a petition by the players to form a union was filed at the board on Tuesday. King said the board would likely conduct a hearing within the next 10 days. The key issue the board must resolve is whether the football players are employees as defined by federal labor law, said United Steelworkers official Tim Waters. If they’re deemed employees, he
said, they would have the legal right to organize. “It’s crystal clear that college football players are employees,” he said, arguing most put in a 40-hour work week and create
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revenue, though not for themselves. He and the Steelworkers president, Leo W. Gerard, said the relationship between colleges and athletes amounted to “pay for play.” William B. Gould IV, a Stanford Law School professor emeritus and former NLRB chairman, predicted the board will rule for the players. “The major obstacle is the Brown University decision of a decade ago,” he said, referring to a 2004 decision under a George W. Bush-era board that removed the right of graduate students at private universities to unionize. The NLRB said in 2012 that it will reconsider Brown, and Gould thinks it will be reversed. “I think these guys are employees because their compensation is unrelated to education, unlike the teaching assistants in Brown University, and they are supervised not by faculty, but by coaches,” Gould said. “Their program for which they receive compensation does not have a fundamentally component. So given the direction and control that supervisory authorities have over them, I think they are easily employees within the meaning of the act.” Rauch, the labor attorney, said he thought union-minded athletes will have a tough time demonstrating they are employees, and he thought their chances of prevailing were slim. “They have high hurdles to jump,” he said.
Greater Memphis Chinese New Year Festival 5:00 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014 Rose Theater, The University of Memphis Presented by the Greater Memphis United Chinese Association
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Men’s basketball faces familiar foe By Hunter Field
sports@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis men’s basketball team continues their tour of former Conference USA opponents on Wednesday when they travel to Orlando, Fla., to square off against Central Florida (9-8, 1-5 AAC). The Knights joined Memphis in their move to the American Athletic Conference, but UCF has experienced far less success than the Tigers. They’ve lost four straight games and five of their last six. However, they play well at home, posting an 8-3 home record. Memphis head coach Josh Pastner refused to overlook the Knights, acknowledging the talent on UCF’s roster. “They’ve got a great coach and great players,” Pastner told the media on Monday afternoon. “Isaiah Sykes is a triple-double machine. This is a really good basketball team. They’re better than their record.” Sykes, a 6-foot-6 senior, leads the Knights in points, rebounds and assists. He averages 15.1 points per game and 6.4 boards. Last season, Sykes posted 13.5 points per game in two games against the Tigers. Memphis’ players concern themselves more with how they play rather than the opposition. Senior guard Joe Jackson wants to continue pounding the ball inside. “We’re an inside out team,” Jackson said. “We’ve got good bigs, and we’ve got to use them. Once the bigs get going, it makes it easier for us on the wings.” Sophomore forward Shaq
Goodwin has benefitted from the inside-first mentality. He’s averaging 13.2 points and seven rebounds, but Pastner feels like his biggest impact is emotional. “Shaq’s energy has been great,” the fifth-year coach said. “We feed off his energy, and we are a better team when Shaq is at a high level.” Pastner wants the Tigers to continue to be unselfish with the basketball. They rank fifth in the country in assists per game (17.8) and posted 23 assists on 25 made baskets in their last game against South Florida. He has been adamant all season about the ball getting to the second and third side before hoisting up a shot. Despite stellar assist numbers, the Tigers have struggled from behind the arc all season. They shoot 31.5 percent from three, but the shooting may be trending upward after a 45.5 percent outing against South Florida on Sunday. The Tigers have been as good, if not better, on the road as they are at home. They’ve racked up six wins away from FedExForum and lost only twice. Both losses came to ranked teams, and they beat a ranked Louisville team inside the KFC Yum! Center. “We’ve done a nice job on the road,” Pastner said. “We just got to continue with it. Home or away — at this point in the year — you got to rack up as many wins as you can. We are 22 in both polls, and we want to stay in the polls. And the only way you stay in the polls is to win games.” Senior guard Chris Crawford explained the Tigers are very familiar with the Knights. Crawford and Jackson have
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The Tigers play their third straight game against a former C-USA on Wednesday. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. in Orlando, Fla. played UCF seven times in their first three seasons, dropping just one of those games. “We’ve been playing those guys
Tigers’ Ta es “Brazil, because the World Cup is there this summer, and the parties are going to be crazy over there.” Iyad Khdier, Supply chain management and logistics senior
“Probably a place I’ve never been or never really heard of. I think the study abroad experience is probably a lot better that way. Devante Hill, Biology junior
“The Netherlands. I’ve heard they have an open mind there and would like to see what that’s like.” Shannon Gray, Dietetics sophomore
since my freshman year here,” Crawford said. “We’re very familiar with them and their coaching staff. They’ve got some great play-
ers like Sykes and those guys.” The game is slated to start at 6 p.m. at CFE Arena. ESPNU plans to broadcast the game nationally.
If you could study abroad anywhere, where would it be? By Brandon Caradine
“The only place I can think of is somewhere in Italy, possibly Rome, because I have always wanted to travel to that part of the world.” Lucas Lindsey, Organizational leadership freshman
“Probably China, because I think the language is really interesting and the culture is very different, so I think I could learn a lot from it.” Wyatt Justice, Engineering freshman
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Women’s basketball looks to get back on track By Austin Reynolds
sports@dailyhelmsman.com Coming off two road losses to ranked competition in No. 1 Connecticut and No. 5 Louisville, the University of Memphis women’s basketball team (10-10, 3-5 AAC) hopes to recapture some of the momentum of their threegame winning streak before the road trip. The Tigers get that opportunity against the struggling Central Florida Knights (8-11, 1-7 AAC) Wednesday at noon in Elma Roane Fieldhouse. Memphis head coach Melissa McFerrin realizes how important it is for the Tigers to get back on their feet after the losses. “The emotion of a win carries you a long way, and we’ve got to get rid of some of those ugly feelings from those two losses and feel good about ourselves again but we’re not devastated,” McFerrin said. “Obviously, the final score was not what we judged ourselves upon once we got those games behind us. So with UCF in our gym tomorrow, it’s important that we come away with a win.” The losses to UConn and Louisville came by scores of 83-49 and 88-61, respectively, but there were still positive signs for the Tigers — notably the scoring of redshirt freshman guard Mooriah Rowser. Rowser came off the bench and notched 14 points against Louisville and nine against UConn, and she did it efficiently at a combined 11-17 from the field. Her scoring has been inconsistent this season after missing nearly the entirety of her
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Memphis senior forward Pa’Sonna Hope averages eight points per game. She’ll look to continue scoring the ball against UCF on Wednesday at noon. freshman campaign with a knee injury. “I don’t think we gave her injury enough credit in how it would impact her,” McFerrin said. “I think what we’re finding right now is that we had a young kid who lost a little bit of confi-
dence, and I think now getting some points on the board I think some of that’s coming back. We need her to be a scorer.” UCF enters the matchup spiraling out of control on a sevengame losing streak with their lone-conference victory com-
ing against the hapless Houston Cougars (4-15, 0-8 AAC). The Knights are winless since their star sophomore point guard Briahanna Jackson left the team for personal reasons in early January. Jackson was leading the team with 17.8 points per game.
Despite the Knights’ struggles, McFerrin knows that no victory comes easily. “They will be here, and they have re-tooled,” the Tigers coach said. “You can see it on video tape, and they are hungry. They are out to prove that their team was not a one man show.” The game against UCF serves as the midway point of conference play for the Tigers, and McFerrin said that her team is about where she thought they’d be. In the conference’s preseason poll, Memphis was picked to finish sixth. Entering the matchup with UCF, Memphis is tied with Southern Methodist for the sixth spot with the majority of their games against the league’s elite teams out of the way. The contest against UCF is the second meeting between the teams this season. In the first game, the Tigers caught fire from the floor, shooting 53 percent from the field and 46 percent from beyond the three-point arc in a dominating 88-52 victory. After the UCF game, the Tigers head back on the road for yet another game against highlevel competition when they play Rutgers (15-4, 6-2 AAC). On Jan. 14 the two teams squared off at Elma Roane Fieldhouse, and Memphis walked away with the victory, despite being outshot 55 percent to 36 percent. Rutgers was ranked No. 23 at the time, and the game gave the Tigers their first victory over a ranked opponent in more than 10 years. Memphis tips off against Rutgers Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in Piscataway, N.J.
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