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news@dailyhelmsman.com With the presidential debates officially over and election night nearing, people are still discussing the issues and needs of the American people. Jarvis Tyner, civil rights activist and executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA, will speak to students in the Mitchell Hall auditorium Thursday at 7 p.m. on the topic, “We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest: The Great Challenge of the 2012 Elections.” Free and open to the public, the event is hosted by the Marxist Student Union, the Graduate Association for African American History, the University of Memphis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Student Event Allocation Committee. James Raines, former student and vice president of the Marxist Student Union at the U of M, helped plan the event. “I think this is important because of the challenges that we’re facing in these upcoming elections. There has been a lot of noise from the right wing,” he said. “A lot of the attacks on President Obama have been racist. A lot of noise we hear out of the Romney camp has been sexist and homophobic.” Raines said Tyner will present an alternative vision to the right wing noise. “I think he’s going to highlight the fact that the struggle for equality and civil rights is still going on in America,” Raines said. He said students should pay attention to the election because of the overwhelming debt some students will face when they graduate and because who is elected will affect the laws in their work place and personal lives. “The overall message I think that’s going to be presented is also of putting people before profits. I think that’s what’s really at stake here,” he said. “As Americans, which do we think is more important — that some multi-billion corporations make 10 percent more or people have jobs where they can earn a living wage and that they can work with dignity?” n
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Shelby County Historic Commission Chairman Jimmy Ogle speaks to a group of students. As a dedicated historian, Ogle has delivered countless lectures and has performed more than 280 tours in his 20-year career.
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news@dailyhelmsman.com Memphis history buffs will crowd the halls of the Edward J. Meeman Journalism Building on Thursday for a lecture about the history of the Commercial Appeal. Jimmy Ogle, chairman of the Shelby County Historic Commission and current community engagement
manager at Riverfront Development Corporation, will suit up as John Reid McClanahan, owner and publisher of The Memphis Daily Appeal. Ogle will also give a presentation on how that paper morphed into its modern form. The Memphis Daily Appeal was a Southern-sympathizing newspaper published during the Civil War.
McClanahan and the few members of his staff would pack up their pressroom supplies and travel ahead of William Tecumseh Sherman, a Union military general who wanted to quiet all dissent and opposition to Federal Army control by regulating the content of the newspaper. The newspaper’s name later changed to the Commercial Appeal, and “the newspaper has continued
in business, and is now the oldest continuously operated business enterprise in Memphis,” said Chris Peck, editor-in-chief of The Commercial Appeal. Ogle’s presentation will highlight why it is important to have free press during times of war. “This lecture is a very important
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First mock trial competition this weekend By L. Taylor Smith
news@dailyhelmsman.com This weekend the University of Memphis Mock Trial team will travel to Saint Louis University in Missouri to participate in its first competition of the school year, the 8th Annual Billiken Barrister Tournament. During the tournament, students pose as attorneys and witnesses in a court case designed by the American Mock Trial Association, the organization that coordinates college-level mock trial competitions. “They complete four rounds, and
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they play two rounds as defense and two rounds of plaintiff,” Michelle Bliss, who teaches the U of M’s mock trial course, said. “They’re scored individually and as a team.” Bliss, instructor of public law and political theory, supervises the team and accompanies them to competitions. Their performance is scored based on the validity of their arguments, their knowledge of courtroom procedure, their persuasiveness and their professionalism, according to the AMTA. The Mock Trial team is spon-
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sored by the Department of Political Science, but it is open to students of any major. In order to join, students are required to enroll in the mock trial class, but they need to contact the adviser beforehand to receive a permit due to limited seats in the class. Grant Reynolds, a junior political science and philosophy double major, joined the team because he thought it would be fun but also intellectually challenging. “I’m thinking about going to law school after I finish my undergrad, Tiger Babble National Campus Life
and I figured this would be a good way to get some experience and see if it could be a career for me,” Reynolds said. “It’s also helped with my writing and communication skills.” Once the fall semester wraps up, the team — composed of six to 10 members — is chosen to participate in regional and national competitions during the spring semester. The spring course is only open to individuals chosen for the Mock
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Students not getting answers on loan payment By Renee Schoof
McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — College students who took out private student loans before the recession hit are telling the government they’re getting a runaround from lenders as they struggle to pay them back.
In a report released Tuesday, the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that student borrowers, like homeowners with troubled mortgages, are upset about how hard it can be to get help with their payment problems, and how long it can take for lenders to fix their own errors.
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“Student loan borrower stories of detours and dead ends with their servicers bear an uncanny resemblance to problematic practices uncovered in the mortgage servicing business,” said Rohit Chopra, the bureau’s ombudsman for student loans. His report was based on nearly 2,900 complaints to his office since March, when it set up a website to inquire about problems that borrowers were having with the private student loan market. The consumer protection agency, established under a Wall Street regulation law, worked with the Department of Education on the project. The federal government took over the student loan business under President Barack Obama. The administration said doing so saved billions of dollars in middleman costs. Unlike federal student loans, private loans don’t have a system of income-based repayment. Outstanding student loan debt is more than $1 trillion. Private loans account for more than $150 billion of that total, the report said. About $8 billion of those loans are in default. Chopra said the report was not an attempt to measure how common the problems were, but “an early warning” of further concerns that could surface in the future. Sallie Mae, a major private student lender, said in a written statement that it helps customers who run into financial trouble. “We have modified $1.1 billion in private education loans with interest rate reductions or extended repayment since 2009,” the company said. Many of the borrowers who complained took out their loans before the economy tanked in 2008, and then graduated at a
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Brianne O’Doherty, 21, stands in her partially empty bedroom in her apartment in Whittier College on May 18. She attended school for four years and has accumulated $35,000 in student loans. time when jobs have been hard to find, according to the report. They said they can’t take advantage of lower interest rates or modify their repayment plans when they don’t earn enough money to make large monthly payments. Many of the complainants had obtained loans to attend for-profit
and often have been unable to reach loan officials to help them reschedule payments to avoid default. Chopra said borrowers also complained about how their payments were handled. He said some with more than one loan reported that extra payments they meant to apply to high-interest loans were mistakenly applied to loans with lower rates. The report suggested that lenders implement “creative efforts” to help borrowers restructure their debt when necessary. Modifying such loans would not only help borrowers, but also could lead to higher overall collections for lenders, it said. Congress should look into ways to make it easier to get the loans modified, the agency said. n
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uuSPJ Continued from page 1 part of Memphis journalism history,” Tom Hrach, journalism professor and adviser to the Society of Professional Journalists, said. “It shows students that free press issues have been going on for centuries.” Memphis was a strategic military outpost for the Union Army during the Civil War. Most people do not realize the difficulties McClanahan faced to keep the press going with the North constantly in pursuit, Ogle said. Ogle received a bachelor’s degree in education from Memphis State University in 1980. After graduating college, he became involved in park and recreation services, including a job as a special events supervisor for the Memphis Recreation Department and administrative manager of the Memphis Park Commission, where he learned about the names of parks and their histories. Ogle started researching the city’s history and eventually began to give tours around Memphis. During the tours, he often dresses up as a character relevant to what he is lecturing about. Ogle has given roughly 280 tours in his 20 years of being a Memphis historian. “I learn a lot about the history by being the characters,” Ogle said. “In my job, I get to learn something new every day.” Once a year, Ogle participates in an event called the “Elmwood Costume Twilight Tour” where he dresses up as a resident of Elmwood Cemetery and tells their story. Last year, more than 800 people attended the event. “No city portrays American history better than Memphis,” Ogle said. “From early settlers to explorers, to civil rights, music and medicine, Memphis history tells history as much as any other city.” The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in room 100 of the Meeman Journalism Building and is free and open to the public. n
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Apple shows off iPad Mini, standard iPad surprises By Patrick May, Jeremy C. Owens & Troy Wolverton San Jose Mercury News
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple Inc. gave fans the mini-moment they had been waiting for Tuesday by introducing a smaller iPad to the world, but the company surprised the technology community by also updating the standard iPad with a fourth-generation iteration just seven months after its last update. The smaller device will officially be called the iPad Mini and cost $329 and up, pricey when compared with popular 7-inch tablets like the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7, which start at $199. The iPad Mini will have a screen slightly smaller than 8 inches — the original iPad
has a screen just under 10 inches — while having the same resolution of the larger version. The updated larger iPad was a surprise because Apple usually waits at least a year to introduce new iterations of popular consumer devices, and the third-generation iPad was launched in March. The new full-sized iPad will double the speed of its Wi-Fi connection and receive the new Lightning connector, the smaller connection introduced on the iPhone 5 last month, Apple marketing guru Phil Schiller announced slightly less than an hour into Tuesday’s event. Apple will continue to offer the iPad 2 and the iPad introduced Tuesday, effectively killing the third-generation iPad introduced
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also later announced new iBooks authoring software, iBooks Author, available Tuesday. Cook then ceded the stage for the first time to Schiller, who introduced a smaller version of a popular Apple product — but it wasn’t the iPad. Apple will begin offering a 13-inch MacBook Pro with retina display, after previously only offering a 15-inch model with the high-resolution screen technology. The 13-inch model will be 20 percent thinner and a pound lighter than the previous 13-inch MacBook Pro, with a screen resolution four times greater, but no optical drive.
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Trial team and alternates. In addition to the course, weekly practices give participants an opportunity to apply what they have learned in class and practice for any upcoming competitions. “We practice eight to 20 hours a week, more so when we have a competition coming up,” Bliss said. “I want to teach them as much as I can, but there are some things they need to learn on their own since they have to think on their feet.” The Mock Trial team got its start in 1999 and finished second in the regional tournament within a year. This year, Bliss wants the team to make it to nationals. “Last year, we were invited to the opening round of the national championships, and we played well against Harvard and Princeton,” Bliss said. “Our goal for this competition is to survive it and learn from it.” Reynolds said he hopes the hours of practice will show when they step into the courtroom. “Obviously, everyone’s a bit nervous because everyone’s new and it’s our first competition,” Reynolds said. “I
feel like we’re prepared, but I think we have a long way to go.”
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uuApple Continued from page 5 which will be 80 percent thinner than its predecessor while also losing the optical drive, but does not have a retina display. Apple will also introduce a “Fusion Drive” for use with its Mac mini and iMac desktop models, which will combines 128 gigabytes of flash storage and a hard drive with 1 to 3 terabytes of capacity. The new iMac will start at $1,299 for the 21.5-inch model and $1,799 for the 27-inch model. Cook then returned to the stage for the most-anticipated introduction of the day, the iPad Mini. Once famously derided by Jobs as a loser of a concept, a lower-priced and sma l l e r- s c re e ne d tablet from Apple gives the Cupertino tech giant a way to protect its flank from rivals Google and Amazon, which are nipping at its heels with their $199 devices. “This is huge,” Akash Agarwal, head of business development for mobility at SAP Mobile in Palo Alto, Calif., said while waiting for the doors to open outside the theater Tuesday morning. “Size really matters from a business perspective, and a smaller iPad will really open up markets for Apple. You’ll see these things in kids’ backpacks, in purses and at construction sites and fast-food places, where a smaller device makes a lot more sense.” Charlie Quong, a director of product development for Mophie, a Southern California company that makes charging cases for iOS devices, drove up for the show and agreed with Agarwal’s thoughts on enterprise uses for the device. “We’ll definitely be making charging cases for the new device,
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 • 7 and we expect to see it used in more and more business transactions,” he said. “We make a reader that scans bar codes, and we’ll see more and more applications like that, and the Mini could capitalize on that trend.” Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry was not as kind in his thoughts on the event, saying in an email not long after it ended that “Innovation at Apple is over.” “The best is over for Apple. IPad Mini is playing catch up to Google Android, probably will have a mediocre customer adoption,” Chowdhry said. IHS iSuppli reported Tuesday
morning that Apple’s introduction of a smaller tablet would nearly double the market for tablets in the 7-inch range both this year and next year. After the Kindle Fire drove sales of smaller tablets to 17 million in 2011, 34 million devices will be sold this year and another 67 million will fly off shelves in 2013, the independent analysis company reported. “Just as Apple has dominated the market for 9.7-inch tablets with its iPad, iPad 2 and new iPad models, the company is poised to rule the market for 7.x-inch products, driving rapid growth of the segment in 2012 and 2013,” IHS researcher Rhoda Alexander said in a news release, adding that demand for the product is especially strong in Asia. The price of the device was high-
er than many analysts expected — a consensus guess of $249 circulated on the Web, as analysts believed that price offered buyers a presumably sexy alternative to other similar devices as well as a way to connect with other devices within the Apple integrated ecosystem. The challenge in entering the scaleddown tablet market, said analysts, is to price the iPad’s younger, pintsize sibling in such a way that it helps push profits and growth but does not send cost-conscious buyers to less expensive devices like the Kindle and other products. It’s a balancing act for Apple because this competing crop of easy-to-carry mobile devices have been improving dramatically with each new iteration while still selling for breakeven prices as little as $159 in the case of the Kindle Fire. The latest iPad, by contrast, starts at $500. “Our expectation is $299 or lower” for the Mini, analyst Amit Daryanani with RBC Capital Markets told the San Jose Mercury News this week. “The whole point is you want to have it low enough to hopefully leverage the price elasticity. So with a $50 education discount, for example, you could sell it for $249 to students, which is half the price of the iPad.” Apple’s last big product launch was the iPhone 5, and the Cupertino, Calif., company sold 5 million of those devices in the first three days of availability, a record for an Apple product launch. Analysts expected even bigger sales numbers, however, and blamed reported production delays by Apple, which helped send the company’s stock down 13 percent from the launch date of Sept. 21 through the end of last week. n
Crime Log October 9- 21
ASSAULT/INTIMIDATION • On Oct. 12 at 4:20 a.m. of-
ficers responded to a call in Richardson Towers where one roommate allegedly made a threatening statement to the other, according to a police report. The roommate denied making threats and the men were reassigned to different rooms.
• On Oct. 15 at 9 a.m. Memphis police responded to an aggravated assault call on South Highland Avenue, according to a police report. No arrests were made. BURGLARIES
• Between Oct. 18 and 21 there were three residential burglaries on Alexander Street, Central Avenue and Prescott Street, according to a police log. These crimes were reported to the Memphis Police Department and no arrests were made. DRUGS
• On Oct. 15 at 10:40 p.m. officers responded to a drug complaint in Richardson Towers. The complainant told police they received a noise complaint from one of the residents and went to the room where the noise was allegedly coming from. The complainant told police when they entered the room they smelled a candle burning. The complainant went back later and found a mason jar with a green, leafy
substance and pipe, according to the police report. The substance tested positive for marijuana and no resident was in the room when it was found. The case is under investigation.
• On Oct. 20 at 1:44 a.m. Memphis police responded to a drug/ narcotics violation on South Highland Avenue and Walker Avenue, according to a police report. An arrest was made. EMBEZZLEMENT
• On Oct. 12 at 10:15 a.m. officers responded to an embezzlement call at the Athletic Office Building. An employee’s receipts came up short, according to a police report. The case is under investigation. OTHER
• On Oct. 17 at 2:17 p.m. offi-
cers responded to a suspicious person call in Patterson Hall. The officer advised a man on trespass status with the University of Memphis not to return to campus and gave him a misdemeanor citation, according to a police report.
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On Oct. 9 at 4:13 p.m. officers responded to a theft from building call in the University Bookstore, according to a police report. The complainant advised that a man stole three textbooks. An arrest has since been made.
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By Bryan Heater
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It’s midway through the season and the University of Memphis football team has won one game. Though the Tigers continue to field a better product each week and are competing on a more consistent basis, head coach Justin Fuente and his team still have work to do on both sides of the ball. Fuente is coaching a situation he walked into. The players are the remains of a forgettable two years under the direction of former coach Larry Porter. Aside from working with his current players, Fuente and his staff are working on the recruiting trail to find players who will be the best fit for the Tigers’ scheme. So far, Fuente has secured nine verbal commitments for the class of 2013. The group includes three three-star commitments, five two-stars and one player who is currently unranked, according to Rivals.com. The prospect that jumps off the board the most is three-star quarterback commit Brayden Scott from Sequoyah High School in Tahlequah, Okla. Scott chose the Tigers over offers from a number of major football schools, including Arizona State, Clemson, Houston, Missouri, Purdue and Tennessee. For his senior season, Scott has completed 90 of 151 attempts for 1,379 yards for 26 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Though his numbers are down a bit this season, much of that is due to defenses keying in on him and a reduced number of passing attempts. Scott is an accurate pro-style quarterback who fits well
into Fuente’s offensive scheme. As a junior, he threw for 2,270 yards and 26 touchdowns with 11 picks. The other standout is Olive Branch High School athlete Samuel Craft. Craft is having another solid year for the Conquistadors and remains a solid verbal commit to Memphis despite their troubles this season. Craft said it takes more than a year to turn things around and he is a piece of the puzzle that will get Memphis football relevant again. He is rated as a three-star prospect, the No. 39 athlete in the country
and the No. 7 player in Mississippi. Three-star outside linebacker prospect Jackson Dillon is also among the top of the current commits. Dillon hails from Ringling High School in Ringling, Okla. and has massive size for a linebacker at 6’6”, 210 pounds. The Tigers took a hit Monday when New Boston, Texas running back Damien Haskins flipped his commitment from the Tigers to Oregon State. Haskins has run for nearly 30 touchdowns. Among the other players pledged to play football for the
Blue and Gray next fall are offensive lineman Zach Collins (two stars), defensive tackle Cortez Crosby (two stars), Lenard Harden (two stars), offensive lineman Trevor Morgan (unranked), defensive back Dontrell Nelson (two stars), and defensive back B.J. Ross (two stars). With the game losses stacking up, some fans are already looking to the future. The recruiting efforts of Fuente and the continued progression of the team gives hope that there is a brighter tomorrow for Tiger football. n
The University of Memphis women’s golf team finished third in their home tournament, the FedEx Memphis Women’s Intercollegiate, at the Ridgeway Country Club on Tuesday. The Tigers posted team scores of 316, 311 and 305 for a total of 932 to place third out of 14 teams. Samford won the tournament with an overall team score of 913 and Xavier came in second with a score of 927. Senior Alex Alang led the way for the Tigers, posting rounds of 78, 75 and 74 to tie for sixth place. Sophomore Ashleigh Whisenant placed second on the team and tied for 13th shooting 77, 78 and 77. Also finishing in the top 20 was senior Julia Hodgson. The senior shot a 77 on the first day, followed by another 77 then a 79 to complete the tournament. Three more Tigers just missed top 20 finishes. Junior Ashley Kees (75, 83, 77) tied for 21st, while senior Sarah Mathews (86, 76, 75) tied for 24th and sophomore Natalie Turk (83, 75, 80) tied for 26th. Rounding out the Tigers were junior Shelby Sain, who tied for 49th with rounds of 87, 78 and 78, and freshman Julia Gerlach, who shot three straight rounds of 86. Memphis will return to action on Wednesday and Thursday in the Rainbow Wahine Invitational in Oahu, Hawaii. n
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