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$20 Million Gap Could Get Filled By Joey Kachel
news@dailyhelmsman.com University of Memphis Provost David Rudd sent an email to all faculty and staff on Thursday detailing how the school’s $20 million budget gap could be filled.
He emphasized that the shortfall is not unusual for higher education institutions of the University’s size. In fact, some schools have it worse — the University of Connecticut, a public university with about 22,000 students, has a budget gap of almost $30 million, and the
University of Akron, with about 24,000 students, has a shortfall of $26 million. There are a number of reasons for the shortfalls, including cuts to education budgets due to the worsening economy and declining enrollment. Rudd maintains that
the gap is “relatively small” given the school’s budget of $500 million. “Most universities have budget ups and downs based on enrollment,” Rudd said. Ultimately, the school has the potential to regain almost $21
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Hearing loss hits college campuses
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Personal devices like iPods may be contributing to hearing loss in the 25 and younger generation. Noise measuring more than 85 decibels can cause permant damage to the ear drum and permant hearing loss.
By Courtney Smith
news@dailyhelmsman.com College students are known to crank up their music, but they may not realize that increasing the volume also increases the chances of suffering from hearing loss. The University of Memphis Student Health Center said 25 percent of new students already have some hearing loss. Sound is measured in deci-
bels, and prolonged exposure to sounds of 85 decibels and more can cause permanent hearing loss, according to the American Academy of Audiolog y. Concerts, car horns and MP3 players at full volume all rank about 100 dB. Jennifer P. Taylor, director of audiology clinical services at Memphis Speech and Hearing Center, said students can receive a thorough hearing evaluation in about an hour.
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“Determining what tests need to be completed is dependent upon the extent of the problem reported,” she said. Taylor said if the tests show a person has sensory nerve damage, he or she cannot be treated medically and may need to wear an amplifier. Sarah Sappington, 24, is a student at the University of Memphis majoring in audiology. Sappington was part of the Student Health Fair Wednesday
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on campus. She dealt with the issues of hearing loss and gave information on how to handle the issue. Sappington said audiograms are used to check what pitches someone can or can’t hear. The patient is put in a sound booth with the test administrator on the other side. “We adjust the level of the sounds, frequencies or the pitches of the sound. We test you at
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Haunted happenings spook the Mid-South By Robin Spielberger
news@dailyhelmsman.com It’s that time of year when everything tastes like pumpkin and smells like cloves. The air is crisp and the leaves change to earthy oranges and yellows, before falling from treetops, and Halloween is right around the corner. “Halloween is a time where you can let you inner freak flag fly and have no one judge you,” Austin Kemker, a sophomore at the University of Memphis, said. “It’s also a nice time to just get some good scares in.” For those seeking spooky thrills, several new Halloween attractions are available for adventure junkies and zombie hunters. Hauntedweb of Horrors at 700 N. Germantown Parkway has two separate haunts – Dark Matter, a psychedelic labyrinth, and Tormented, which begins with a visit to Dr. Hacker’s nefarious insane asylum and ends up in a creepy bayou. Every Thursday until Oct. 24 is College Night, where students can buy a ticket to one haunt, and get a second free. Admission is $10 per haunt, $18 for both haunts and $30 for a “RIP Pass” which lets people go to the front of the line for both. Tours run Thursday through Saturday every week until Nov. 2, running from 7:30 to 10 p.m. on Thursdays and until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Another daunting scream fest, Cedar Hill’s Haunted Farm in Desoto County, Miss., has scared thousands of people since it opened in 1996. “We started out just being open during the day, with hayrides to our pumpkin patch, but when I was in high school, our church youth group wanted to
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uuHaunted Continued from page 1 do a night time hayride, so we did that,” said Robert Foster, owner of Cedar Hill Farm. “Along the way a few of the older guys hid along the route and jumped out and scared everyone with chainsaws and fake knives, just yelling boo, and that was how the Haunted Farm came about.” Their haunted hayride and Trail of Terror, a quarter mile walk through the woods, always draws a crowd. This year they’ve added Sensturbia, an attraction where visitors are blindfolded before entering the haunted house. They also offer the Mid-South Zombie Apocalypse for zombie hunting enthusiasts. Participants are armed with a semi-automatic paintball gun loaded with 100 rounds and thrown into an apocalyptic zombie scenario. Their attractions are $8 to $10 each, and are open every Friday and Saturday night in October, with lines opening at 6 p.m. and ending at 10 p.m. To get 7 percent off tickets and avoid paying sales tax, visitors can purchase tickets in advance with the promotion code “Jack O Lantern” at halloween.gocedarhillfarm.com. Jones Orchard at 6880 Singleton Parkway in Millington
also offers up the allure of a haunted farm with their Festival of Fear, Shadowlands and Terror at 2596, two acres packed with terror. Visitors can trek through acres of corn swarming with monsters or take a new wild ride through the hidden secrets of Jones Orchard in the Hangman’s Hollow Haunted Hayride. “We added three phobia scenes to Shadowlands, a snake, a spider and a roach phobia, a scare tickler to the Claustrophobia II section, and new low voltage lighting to the cabin trail, plus many additional sound effects,” Henry Jones, owner of Jones Orchard, said. The Festival of Fear is open every Friday and Saturday in October from 7 to 11 p.m., with tickets ranging from $6 to $28, based on the number of haunts one wants to visit. A special $18 discount ticket is available for those wanting to visit Shadowlands and Terror at 2596. “The Festival of Fear attracts several thousand guests each year, and the numbers are affected by the weather since it is an outdoor haunt, but Saturday night is usually about twice as busy as Friday night, and it gets busier as Halloween draws near,” Jones said.
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uuGap Continued from page 1 million. The administration plans to recover $2.5 million from “unfilled positions” from within the University — jobs around campus that have been cut or rolled into already existing positions. The University plans to recover another $304,000 from the president’s salary, since interim President Brad Martin is working without regular pay. Rudd hopes to regain another $2.7 million from facility projects that were deferred or stopped. Basically, certain maintenance projects will be halted in order to make up funds. These are projects like classroom and lab renovations, room conversions — such as from an office to a classroom or a classroom to a lab — and certain other special projects around campus. Provost Rudd’s email also stat-
Friday, October 11, 2013 • 3 ed some funds would be gained from “carry forward accounts.” When departments in the University get funded, some of the surplus cash is kept around and carried over into the next fiscal year. Occasionally, the surplus money is left to accumulate over even longer periods. Last year, the University carried over $8 million. In an effort to close the gap, the University will recover some of these funds. The athletics department is contributing about $400,000 in an effort to fill the gap. Athletics contributes about $8 million to the University’s revenue from scholarship funds, which the department pays for directly. The scholarships themselves come largely from private donations and is the destination for most of the donations given to the University. Last year, the athletic department’s budget was $35 million. The department “breaks even” according to Provost Rudd,
due in part to private donations, concessions, ticket sales and licensing fees. “The athletic department is the most successful wing of University fund raising,” Rudd said. The U of M is not the only university that’s facing financial woes. In January, Moody’s Investor Service declared that the outlook for the entire U.S. higher education sector was negative, citing lower household incomes since 2008 and a decrease in high school graduates, both of which lead to lower enrollment for universities across the country. With lower enrollment comes less people paying tuition, and so universities have had to raise tuition and cut services in order to meet operating costs. There have also been substantial cuts in education budgets and research funding, compounding the troubles faced by higher education institutions.
uuHearing Continued from page 1 different pitches to see how your hearing is,” Sappington said. “So when we play a noise for you, you just press a button or raise your hand every time you hear it, and we get the softest level you can hear.” She said students who want to avoid hearing loss should avoid listening to loud music longer than 30 minutes at a time, especially at concerts. Raener Ayers-Fleming, a sophomore criminal justice major, isn’t concerned about hearing loss and says he blasts his music whenever he can. “Not that I haven’t noticed, I’m pretty sure it is going to hurt on down the line,” AyersFleming said. “Sometimes I do feel a sting in my ears if it’s up too loud, then I just turn it down if it’s too loud. I just go with the flow.”
Sports at a glance Football
Event: Memphis vs. Houston Date: Oct. 12 Location: Houston, Texas Time: 11 a.m. CT
Golf
Event: Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate Date: Oct. 11 to Oct. 13 Location: Jonesborough, Tenn. Time: All Day
Men’s Soccer
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Event: Memphis vs. Connecticut Date: Oct. 12 Location: Storrs, Conn. Time: 6 p.m. CT
Women’s Soccer
Event: Memphis vs. Houston Date: Oct. 13 Location: Memphis, Tenn. Mike Rose Soccer Complex Time: 1 p.m.
Men’s Tennis
Event: ITA Ohio Valley Regional Date: Oct. 11 to Oct 15 Location: Knoxville, Tenn. Time: All Day
Volleyball
Event: Memphis vs. SMU Date: Oct. 11 Location: Memphis, Tenn. Elma Roane Fieldhouse Time: 7 p.m. Event: Memphis vs. Houston Date: Oct. 13 Location: Memphis, Tenn. Elma Roane Fieldhouse Time: 1 p.m. Event: Memphis vs. Tennessee State Date: Oct. 15 Location: Memphis, Tenn. Elma Roane Fieldhouse Time: 6 p.m.
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Tigers poised to pounce back 4 • Friday, October 11, 2013
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sports@dailyhelmsman.com Often, sports test individuals’ and teams’ abilities to overcome adversity. The University of Memphis (1-3) football team has a chance to prove their resilience on Saturday against the University of Houston (4-0). Memphis suffered a heartbreaking loss against the University of Central Florida last week, but they do not have time to hang their heads. The Tigers are slated for an 11 a.m. start at Corbin J. Robertson Stadium in Houston. Memphis head football coach, Justin Fuente, said in his weekly media luncheon on Monday that last week’s game was a hard fought battle. “We came up a little bit short, but I was awfully proud of the way our kids continued to fight and battle and play for each other,” he said. “We have regrouped, and we’re ready to go begin our preparations for an undefeated Houston team this Saturday.” Memphis heads to Houston for the 22nd matchup between the two schools in program history. Houston joined the Tigers in their move from Conference USA to the American Athletic Conference. This is the first year for both schools in the American. The Tigers last faced Houston in 2010, a 56-17 U of M loss. Memphis gave up five passing touchdowns in the game. The undefeated Cougars still impose a deadly aerial attack. They scored every quarter through four games this season and lead the conference in total offense with 534 yards per game. Fuente emphasized the threat Houston poses with several dynamic playmakers on offense. “They’re very talented, well coached and very explosive offensively,” he said. “We’ll have to do a great job on both sides of the ball and on special teams in order to give ourselves a chance.” Houston wide receiver Deontay Greenberry headlines the Cougars’ talented group of receivers. The
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sophomore averages 132 receiving yards per game, the most in the American. Greenberry has passed the 100-yard mark every game this season except in the opener. Fuente said it will be a group effort to hinder Greenberry. “We’ll have to do a good job of getting pressure on the quarterback, either through bringing people from the secondary or from the linebacker core or just our front three,” Fuente said. Freshman John O’Korn will be the one throwing to Greenberry. O’Korn took over for David Piland after a concussion ended Piland’s football career during the Cougars’ second game. O’Korn has big shoes to fill as Piland ranks seventh in career passing yards at Houston. O’Korn threw for 312 yards and four touchdowns last week against the University of Texas San Antonio and has a fan in Fuente. “He’s got a really bright future in front of him,” Fuente said about O’Korn. “They’ve done a good job of moving him along in a short amount of time. It’s pretty impressive to watch.” With Houston’s high-octane offense, the Tigers’ secondary becomes even more paramount. To make matters worse, Memphis may be forced to compete without Bobby McCain, a senior defensive back and emotional leader for the team. McCain injured his knee in the U of M’s devastating loss to UCF on Oct. 5. His status for Saturday is a gametime decision. The Memphis secondary will look where they have all year for help — their defensive line. Memphis ranks seventh in the country as a team in sacks per game — 3.5. Redshirt junior, Martin Ifedi, leads the team and ranks third nationally in sacks, averaging 1.4 each game. Fuente agreed when asked if the defense has stood out this season. “I don’t know if you can put your finger on one thing,” he said. “The kids have confidence in the scheme and where they’re supposed to be.
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University of Memphis freshman, Sam Craft, and the rest of the Tiger pack head to Texas this weekend to play the Cougars of the University of Houston at 11 a.m. Saturday. We’ve got some guys that have played really well — the linebacker core, the defensive front. We have some guys in the secondary that didn’t play as much last year that have really stepped up and developed.” Paxton Lynch, the Tigers’ redshirt-freshman quarterback, posted the best game of his career against UCF. He notched career highs in both completions, 20, and passing yards, 279. The Tigers gained 397 yards of total offense against the Knights and need a similar performance to match the high-powered Cougars this weekend. Fans shouldn’t expect any carryover from last week’s loss, and Fuente explained the team would use the game as a motivator. “It always comes back to practice and preparing yourself in the best manner in order to perform on Saturday,” he said. “If you don’t do it on Tuesday, if you don’t do it on Wednesday and you don’t do it on Thursday, then there’s no real reason for us to just expect you to do it on Saturday.”
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