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They want your blood

By Erica Horton

news@dailyhelmsman.com Instead of playing tricks and begging for treats this Halloween, University of Memphis students, faculty and staff can spill some blood to save lives.

The U of M and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity will host a blood drive Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Michael D. Rose Theater. Refreshments will be provided for donors.

The event’s slogan — “No Bones About It: Blood Donors Save Lives” — is printed on T-shirts to be given to each donor.

Tremaine McKinley, junior Asian studies and international trade major and Lambda Chi philanthropy chair, has been a donor since high school.

He said he was nervous the first time he donated blood but once he started, “it wasn’t that big of a deal.”

He said the worst side effect he’s ever seen anyone suffer after giving blood is a little light-headedness.

“Lifeblood has people trained to [draw blood]. The past few times I did it there were no problems at all,” he said. “You’re just sitting there and letting them do their job, knowing they’ve drawn blood before and its for a good cause — you’re saving a life potentially.”

Jeanie Pepper, LifeBlood recruiter and account manager, said the “No Bones About It” slogan was created because of the Halloween holiday.

“To me there’s nothing scarier than a blood shortage so I figured that would tie in well with Halloween,” Pepper said. “People can come in costumes if they want to. It’ll be kind of festive.”

Pepper said potential donors must be at least 16 years old with parental consent, have a photo ID, eat a good meal before donating and weigh at least 115 pounds.

The goal of the University and LifeBlood is to collect one pint from at least 100 people each day.

“One donation can save up to three lives and every three minutes in the Mid-South area someone needs blood,” Pepper said. “And all of the blood donations go to our local hospitals.”

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The Student Government Association passed bills Thursday that aim to allow vehicles to be parked on the grass across from Zach Curlin Parking Garage on the east side of campus and for trees to be planted in honor of former, current and future University of Memphis presidents.

The Student Government Association passed three bills Thursday night that intend to decrease the number of parking tickets handed out, increase the number of pages nursing majors can print and beautify the campus with trees in honor of University of Memphis presidents.

These bills have been approved by the student senate, but have to get official approval from the University of Memphis administration to be implemented.

Off roadin’ If the administration considers this bill, students will be able to park in the grass outside Parking Lot G off Zach Curlin Street without fear of receiving a parking ticket from Police or Parking Services.

Matt Hotz, SGA sergeant at arms and junior economics major, proposed the bill after he first discovered the land on the other side of Zach Curlin did not belong to the University.

“I did some research, and my committee chairman told me about it,” he said.

He found that Memphis Light, Gas and Water owns the land.

Hotz said commuter students who regularly park in the grass have been receiving citations from Parking

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Music program to boost tourism in Memphis

By Melissa Wray

news@dailyhelmsman.com Graceland and Beale Street might get some stiff competition when it comes to attracting tourists to the city of Memphis.

Thanks to the Consortium Memphis Music Town program announced by songwriter and producer David Porter, Memphis’ tourism and music industries could be getting a boost come Dec. 15.

The program is an initiative to strengthen the pool of up-and-coming musicians by having them mentored by some of the industry’s greats. Porter hopes this will revive the city’s reputation as a music capital.

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include Grammy-winning jazz artist Kirk Whalum, rap artist and producer Al Kapone, original Bar-Kays member James Alexander, former Stax Records owner Al Bell and Hi Records owner Boo Mitchell.

Dean Deyo, president of the Memphis Music Foundation, said Porter contacted the organization and asked them to serve as mentors for his program.

“We have been in total support of the Consortium from the beginning,” Deyo said. “We believe this is a fantastic idea.”

He said he plans on submitting the foundation’s best members in hopes of being considered for the Consortium’s music programs.

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“We will also act as a feeder to them, and in reverse. The Consortium will send us some of their artists for additional training or preparation,” he said.

Jon Hornyak, senior executive director of the Memphis chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, said he plans to contribute not only his experience as a musician, studio owner and artist manager but also as encouragement to young people who want to pursue a career in music.

“I hope the musicians that do enroll in the Consortium gain a better understanding of the level of talent and preparation required to have a shot at being successful in the music business,” he said.

Hornyak said he was honored that Tiger Babble Opinion Politics

Porter asked him to be a mentor for the Consortium committee.

“David and I have been friends and associates in the music industry for many years,” he said. “He is one of the architects of what is known as the ‘Memphis Sound’.”

Another supporter of the Consortium is the University of Memphis.

“The best way for students to learn about future career opportunities is to serve as an apprentice under an established professional,” said Randal Rushing, director of the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music.

“I feel our students will be able to learn and profit from our association with [the Consortium,]” he said. n

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Opinion

Libertarian is alternative to Obama, Romney

By Cathy Young Newsday

As the presidential race enters its final phase and political passions and divisions grow stronger, millions of Americans remain intensely dissatisfied with both major-party options.

For all their differences, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney represent politics as usual. Many see a far better alternative in Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, the former maverick Republican governor of New Mexico.

But is a vote for a third-party candidate a wasted one, or a legitimate refusal to support “the lesser of two evils”?

At a time when every election feels more depressing than the last, such a vote can, if nothing else, send a message to the political establishment.

Jacob Hornberger, head of the Future of Freedom Foundation, a libertarian educational group, points out on his blog that both Romney and Obama support Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public schooling, farm sub-

sidies, minimum-wage laws and the war on drugs. Both also support the “national security state,” including military intervention abroad and restrictions on liberties at home in the name of the war on terror.

The real philosophical divide, says Hornberger, is between those who think it is the role of the government to take care of people’s needs, manage the economy and run a military empire — and those who reject all of the above.

Many libertarians believe their ideas are marginalized by a political machine that shuts out true dissent, exemplified

by Johnson’s exclusion from the presidential debates. To a large extent, that’s wishful thinking.

There simply isn’t a constituency for a drastic shrinking of government programs; even Johnson’s proposal to cut both foreign and domestic federal spending by 43 percent, which is far from libertarian purism, would be highly unlikely to get anywhere near half the vote of the people in a referendum.

Social Security and Medicare are

overwhelmingly popular, even on the right. Most Americans support government action to ensure broader access to health care, though they differ on the specifics.

Nor is there majority support for a radical retrenchment on the international front, despite disillusionment with reckless interventionism. In a recent national survey conducted for the Washington-based Foreign Policy Initiative, more than 90 percent of likely voters said the United States should continue to play a major role in world affairs, and fewer than 30 percent wanted to slash military spending.

While most support getting out of Afghanistan, a Gallup poll last March found that only half wanted to speed up withdrawal and nearly two-thirds worried that leaving too quickly would create a safe haven for terrorists.

Johnson would bring the troops home immediately.

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Obama casts vote early as cross country campaign continues

By William Douglas & David Lightman McClatchy Newspapers

TAMPA, Fla. — President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney dueled Thursday across America’s swing states, working feverishly to push early voters to the polls and battling hard for the votes of women.

Obama, his voice hoarse, wrapped up a 48-hour campaign marathon, rolling through Florida, Virginia and Ohio. Romney stumped in Ohio, whose 18 electoral votes could decide the winner in 12 days.

They campaigned as Americans already are voting in 34 states — including key states Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Ohio. Voters in many states can go to the polls or cast “noexcuse” absentee ballots, meaning they don’t have to give a reason for requesting such a ballot, before Election Day. Obama is viewed as having the advantage in early voting states, thanks to the sophisticated get-out-the-vote machine he first used four years ago.

Obama voted himself Thursday in Chicago, the first time an incumbent president has voted early. He implored supporters to do the same. Thirty-five percent of all voters are expected to cast early ballots, up from 31 percent four years ago, according to Paul Gronke, director of the Reed College Early Voting Information Center in Oregon.

Republicans were equally eager to turn out the vote.

“I need you to commit as well, not only to vote, and vote early — I won’t say often, just vote early,” Romney urged a Cincinnati crowd.

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President Barack Obama casts his ballot in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago on Thursday. because it helps increase turnout, but “it frees up a lot of resources that can be used to get more voters to the polls in Election Day,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.

The two camps also vied to woo women, as a new AP-Gfk survey confirmed other polls showing that Obama has lost the big lead he had

held among women voters. Obama led by 16 percentage points a month ago, but the two are now tied, according to the AP poll.

The president nonetheless saw fresh potential to regain the momentum among women.

“I don’t think any politician in Washington, most of whom are male, should be making health care deci-

sions for women,” he told 8,500 people at Tampa’s Ybor Centennial Park.

“Women can make those decisions themselves.”

His remarks were aimed at women who back the 2010 federal health care law, which Romney wants to repeal and replace, as well as abortion rights supporters.

Democrats also spent Thursday

trying to capitalize on comments by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock of Indiana.

In a debate Tuesday, Mourdock explained his opposition to abortion rights including cases of rape, saying, “I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is a gift

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uuVote Continued from page 1 from God, and I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.”

Obama, asked about the comment Wednesday by late-night talk show host Jay Leno, said, “Rape is rape. It is a crime. And so these various distinctions about rape don’t make too much sense to me — don’t make any sense to me.”

Wednesday, the campaign unveiled an ad reminding voters that Romney also opposes abortion rights, though Romney supports abortion rights in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the woman.

“Which do you believe?” a female narrator asks. It then shows several clips of Romney saying the Supreme Court should overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that established a woman’s right to an abortion. “No matter what Mitt Romney’s ads say, we know what he’ll do,” the

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Romney continued to emphasize his economic message. During an appearance at Jet Machine in Cincinnati, a military equipment supplier and assembler, he outlined his plans after being introduced by women involved in local small businesses. Romney’s advisers maintain he can win the women’s vote with his economic arguments.

“For those of you in your 40s and 50s, who have always anticipated that these would be the high earning years, the most productive years, the years that you’d be able to put a little away for retirement or perhaps help your kids with college,” Romney said, “you’re finding that’s harder and harder to do.”

Obama offered his own ideas to a huge crowd at Byrd Park in Richmond, Va. “I’ve got a plan that will actually create jobs, not just talk about creating jobs; a plan that will actually create middle-class security, not just use the words but not deliver on the promise,” Obama said. n

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Williams, junior marketing major, said the fraternity has hosted two or three blood drives on campus over the past couple of years.

“People don’t realize how valuable blood is and there are so many people out there that need some of it and you’re able to help them,” he said. “One day you might need that medical help and it will be available.”

Dean of Students and Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Stephen Petersen said blood drives are something all major universities do to serve their communities.

“It’s been a long standing university tradition that’s been away for a few years,” he said. “We anticipate we will do at least one two-day drive in the fall and one two-day drive in the spring.” n

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major-party campaigns reflects, for better or worse, the range of mainstream opinion. It is no accident that, now that public sentiment has shifted toward same-sex marriage, we have a majorparty presidential candidate who backs that right.

Yet dissatisfaction with the twoparty choices is also real. The present party structure requires voters to accept a “package deal” in which, for instance, those who support less economic regulation and lower taxes must also accept an anti-abortion stance. In this sense, the libertarian alternative, which emphasizes more freedom across the board, is genuinely attractive. And Johnson is the only candidate willing to address the dangers to civil liberties posed by the war on drugs, an issue on which the libertarian view is gaining ground.

A vote for Johnson has only symbolic meaning. It’s a reminder that individual liberty matters, and champions of small government must have a place at the table. And that makes it a worthy contribution to the political process. n

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Tigers’ Ta es “The parties, the haunted houses and the adrenalin rush.”

Vincent Nesby, Psychology junior

“The haunted maze. It’s scary and I like to be scared all year round.”

“I like the costumes and the candy. You get to be somebody different for a day.”

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Foundation deals ‘crushing’ blow to crime

By Erica Hartsfield

news@dailyhelmsman.com Crime in Memphis can often be too much to handle. The Memphis Police Foundation is trying to hit the crime-invested city where it hurts with their Crush Crime Day today.

The Memphis Police Foundation is partnering with News Talk FM 98.9 to raise money for the installation of additional surveillance cameras at Shelby Farms Park. The fundraiser will take place from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Poplar Avenue and Ridgeway Road.

Nick Musarra, volunteer for the Memphis Police Foundation, said

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“It’s not owned by the University, but they were writing tickets,” he said.

Further down the road, Hotz said, the University may look into paving the grassy area to create more parking.

“The whole point of the resolution is it will help with campus parking,” Hotz said. “They were parking over there because they had no place to park.”

Paths of presidential tulip poplars In November, the campus community can look forward to twelve tulip poplar trees planted along the sidewalk of the alumni mall.

The state trees will be planted in celebration of the University’s centennial year to honor its past, present and future presidents.

Casey Long, SGA senator and senior international business major, proposed the bill after former SGA senator Austin Kemker came up with the idea, but graduated before he could implement it.

Kemker saw the trees as the SGA’s way to contribute to the University’s

the University of Memphis has faithfully assisted in the fundraiser since it started three years ago.

“U of M has been very helpful in getting fraternities and sororities to come out and volunteer,” he said.

In the theme of Halloween, volunteers for the fundraiser will be expected to stand near the designated intersection and collect donations using Trick or Treat buckets.

“We’re inviting volunteers to dress up in Halloween costumes,” he said.

All donations are given to the Memphis and Shelby County Law Enforcement Foundation so it is able to fund the surveillance cam-

eras out of its budget.

“When it comes to the police department, budgets are very tight and there are things that they need,” Musarra said.

According to him, a lot of cities have embraced cameras as a deterrent of criminal activity.

“They are all over Downtown for public safety,” he said. “They’re also used on the expressway. It’s all the same premise.”

Musarra said college students should participate in the fundraiser, whether it is to volunteer or to donate money.

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centennial year.

“Due to the fact that our presidents have served us well, and Shirley [Raines] has done a great job as our current president, we want to show a way to honor them,” Long said.

Each tree will have a commemorative bronze plate to honor the president it represents.

“I think it would be good to put the dates and institute something along the lines of what they accomplished,” Long said. “I would like to bring up the important bills they passed to make this a better environment for everyone.”

The cost of the plates is expected to be about $4,800 each, the trees $1,700 apiece. Long said campus landscape architect Ken Mulvany from the Physical Plant plans to include the cost in his yearly budget.

The trees will one day create a shaded path with six tulip poplars on each side of the sidewalk. Ten of the trees will honor past presidents, the 11th will honor President Shirley Raines and the 12th will honor the presidents yet to come.

The 12th plaque in honor of all future presidents will state some of the goals and expectations the University holds for its future presidents, Long

said.

Printing upgrade Nursing majors who find themselves running out of paper before the end of the semester are about to get 250 more pages than they expected, if the bill passed by the senate Thursday is honored by the administration.

Nicole Jones, senior nursing major and SGA senator for the Loewenberg School of Nursing, said she proposed the bill because nursing majors require more paper than most majors.

“One syllabus consists of 40 pages and PowerPoints could be up to 66 pages with the notes attached, “ she said.

From now on, the bill declares that nursing students will be allotted 750 printing pages each semester instead of the usual 500.

It hasn’t been discussed how this will be funded, Jones said, but she suggests an evaluation of the average number of pages used by students of each major and then dividing the allotments based on the percentage of paper being printed.

“There are majors that don’t even use 200 pages, so maybe you could determine allotment by how much is being used,” she said. n

What is your favorite part about Halloween?

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“You get to be somebody else, you don’t have to be yourself anymore.”

Meagan Cross, Psychology senior

“My favorite part of Halloween definitely has to do with getting together with other people and watching Halloween movies and just the Halloween party aspect.”

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Technology

Microsoft overhauls operating system

By Salvador Rodriguez Los Angeles Times

Microsoft Corp. has rolled out Windows 8, the most radical overhaul of its computer operating system in nearly two decades.

With Windows 8, the Redmond, Wash., company is hoping to remain relevant in today’s tech-savvy consumer market. The latest update includes a new interface called the Start Screen that is unlike anything seen before on a Windows operating system. The Start Screen was designed for tablets and touch-screen computers and features moving tiles similar to those on Windows Phone devices.

Windows 8 is geared not just for

personal computers but for tablets, laptops and smartphones, much as Apple has designed its operating systems to work across different devices including Mac desktops, iPad tablets and iPhones.

Analyst Michael Gartenberg of research firm Gartner Inc. said Windows 8 may be the most important launch in Microsoft’s history.

“This is the most major revision to Windows that we’ve seen probably since the first versions of Windows came out,” he said. “There’s definitely a lot at stake here.”

Gartenberg said Microsoft needs to explain to consumers why the radical change is happening, why it’s better and why they should relearn how to use an operating system they

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The company held a launch event Thursday at which it began to do that, but “now they have to take that message to the masses and reintroduce Microsoft as an ecosystem to the consumer in the digital age,” he said.

Microsoft wants the new Start Screen interface to be the future of Windows. In the meantime, the software company will attempt to ease users into the new era by allowing them to also use Windows’ familiar desktop interface.

“This is not a transition they can do overnight or even in one release,” Gartenberg said. “It’s clear that this new user interface is the future, but it would be too much to ask every business and consumer to suddenly break

with the past.”

Microsoft began selling Windows 8 online at midnight Friday, starting at $39.99. The new operating system was to be on the shelves at retail stores Friday morning.

Windows President Steven Sinofsky said Thursday that more than 1,000 computer models have been certified for Windows 8 and that there will be some PCs running Windows 8 that will sell for less than $300. Sinofsky also said Windows 8 will work well with Windows 7 PCs, making them boot up faster and run more efficiently.

Microsoft also launched an online store for Windows 8 apps similar to Apple’s App Store. Sinofsky said the Windows Store has more apps than

any competing stores had when they launched.

Microsoft and Sinofsky also used Thursday’s event to speak about Windows RT, a downsized version of Windows 8 that will be used mostly on tablet computers.

Windows RT uses an ARM processor, which is smaller, cheaper and uses less power than other computer chips. But Windows RT can only run apps purchased from the Windows Store, and it does not have the desktop view.

Microsoft’s long-anticipated flagship tablet, the Surface, was to begin selling Friday. It runs on Windows RT. A Surface tablet running the more robust Windows 8 operating software will launch later, the company said. n

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Associated Press The NBA board of governors has approved Michael Heisley’s sale of the Memphis Grizzlies to a group headed up by a California technology entrepreneur.

The NBA announced the sale’s approval Thursday. The sale still must

be finalized, and the Grizzlies said in a statement that is expected soon.

But the Grizzlies say both Heisley and Robert J. Pera will not comment until the sale is finalized because of confidentiality agreements.

Heisley agreed in June to sell the Grizzlies for a reported $350 million to Pera, founder and chief executive

officer of Ubiquiti Networks, a communications technology company.

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Basketball practice in full swing

By Bryan Heater

bheater@dailyhelmsman.com With the Nov. 12 opener against North Florida inching closer, the University of Memphis basketball team’s practices are getting tougher and more physical as they prepare for the 2012-2013 campaign.

“You don’t get any bumps or bruises without hard work,” junior forward Tarik Black said. “At least I’ve never heard of that. It just shows what is going on behind those doors when they are closed.”

The Tigers are now going through two-a-day practices and the physicality has shown with a few players getting knicks here and knacks there.

Junior guard Antonio Barton will be out until next week with an injured hand requiring a wrap on two of his fingers. Senior forward Ferrakohn Hall has been playing with a sore hip, while senior guard D.J. Stephens is nursing a sore hamstring.

“Practice has been good and the guys have worked hard,” head coach Josh Pastner said. “We’ve got a little bangs and bruises, but nothing serious which is good, knock on wood, that is all it is.”

Many of the players echoed the same belief: this year’s team, overall is better and the national title game is a realistic goal. Hall told reporters that should be everyone’s goal, as well as fan’s.

Other players were a little more modest speaking on those aspirations. Barton was quick to say that the tournament is a long way away and that the team has to focus on the season before they worry about it.

“We don’t ever want to get ahead of ourselves,” Barton said. “We just focus on one game at a time and one practice at a time. That is all we can really do.”

Many have seen the huge words painted on the Larry Finch Recreational Center’s walls that say “One city. One team. One goal. No egos.” Though many fans’ idea of that goal is a national championship, when asked what he and the team saw that one goal as, Pastner said it was to get better each day.

“My focus on one goal is for us to get better everyday we step on the floor,” Pastner said. “We all know we want to advance, we need to advance. Everyday we cannot step on the floor and not have a great energy day. I told our guys, our goal should be everyday we come out with great energy.” n

Tigers meet Mustangs Saturday

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By Bryan Heater

bheater@dailyhelmsman.com It is almost Saturday again, and that means the University of Memphis football team is getting ready for another showdown on the gridiron. This time, the Tigers are hitting the road to take aim at the Southern Methodist University Mustangs.

The Mustangs [3-2, 2-1 Conference USA] enter Saturday’s contest coming off a school record 72 points against Houston.

“Our kids are looking forward to going to Dallas and playing SMU,” head coach Justin Fuente said. “I’ve been a little bit more familiar with SMU than some people because we played them every year for the last couple years when I was at [Texas Christian University.]”

The Mustangs’ strength, like many C-USA teams, lies in the offense. SMU, under the tutelage of June Jones, throws the ball all over the field. Quarterback Garrett Gilbert is the field general for the Mustangs. On the season, Gilbert has thrown for 1,658 yards and 11 touchdowns. His weakness is his accuracy, where he has barely completed 50 percent of his passes.

Gilbert has an array of options to throw to at wide receiver. The Mustangs have six receivers with 100 or more receiving yards. Leading the group is Jeremy Johnson, who owns 46 catches on the season for 465 yards and three touchdowns. Darius Johnson backs him with 33 catches for 345 yards and three touchdowns as well. Aside from Gilbert’s main two targets, he also has viable options in Keenan Holman and Der’rikk Thompson.

“They’ve got some pretty special wide receivers,” Fuente said. “The running back they’ve got is a pretty exceptional football player. We’ll have to do a great job on both sides of the ball and special teams to give ourselves another chance.”

Unlike many of the Tigers’ past opponents, SMU tends to use just one running back. Zach Line has carried the ball 150 times this season for 717 yards and five touchdowns.

The Mustangs are known to run a lot of play action, opening up holes for Line to run through. The Memphis defense will have to stay in their spaces to cut down on the big runs.

Defensively, SMU thrives on turning the ball over. The Mustangs defense leads the country in takeaways with 25, interceptions at 16, and interceptions returned for touchdowns at six.

The Tigers offensive line will have to look out for pass rusher Margus Hunt, who has five sacks, and linebacker Taylor Reed, who has three sacks and six and a half tackles for loss.

“Defensively, they don’t get enough credit,” Fuente said. “They’ve been good up front over the last couple of years. They’ve done a great job rushing the passer and still covering down in the back end.”

With Saturday’s matchup in Dallas looming, the Tigers look to make the game more competitive than last year’s 42-0 rout in Memphis.

“Hopefully, we can build on the performance last week,” Fuente said.

“Our kids came out and really competed on both sides of the ball. We made our share of mistakes but I think it’s pretty plain to see we’re getting better every week.” n

photo by DaViD c. MinKin | Special to the Daily helMSMan

Senior safety Cannon Smith makes a tackle against Middle Tennessee State University. The Tigers travel to Dallas on Saturday for a game against Southern Methodist University.

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