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news@dailyhelmsman.com The silver screen has always had a unique way of bringing people together. Indie Memphis Film Festival is hosting a free movie night Friday at Overton Square’s recently constructed Tower Courtyard. The evening will consist of a double feature — with a little extra in between. The event will kick off at 6:30 p.m. with Mel Brooks’ 1974 film “Young Frankenstein,” which starred Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr and Cloris Leachman. At 8:30 pm, FOX13 will follow the first feature with a presentation of an episode from the newly
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MLGW workers repair electrical lines and underground cables at the University of Memphis after a power outage that affected areas both on and off campus Monday night. tarily, and that’s what happened.” Roper said that she waited outside until 1 a.m. and got tired and went back to her room.
“They said wait until 12:30 a.m., and I gave it an extra 30 minutes,” Roper said. “I remember this (my phone) at 1:08 a.m. the power came
on.” She said that this is not the
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Power outage leaves campus in the dark A three-and-a-half hour power outage blacked out Richardson Towers as well as Smith Hall, Rawls Hall and other buildings at the University of Memphis on Monday night. Crystal Roper, a sophomore human development and learning major at the U of M, said that around 9:30 p.m. her power went out at her dorm in Richardson Towers. “I was getting ready for bed,” Roper said. “I went out in the hallway and see if the same thing was happening to them.” Roper said that after that, she went outside and saw almost all of the residents of Richardson Towers there. “It was crazy,” Roper said. However, according to Memphis, Light, Gas, and Water, the power outage, which affected 935 students, lasted 11 minutes. Richard Thompson, a senior communications specialist at MLGW, said that the outage was due to a safety issue for one of their crews. “A circuit outage dropped in the area that we had a crew working on a project,” Thompson said. “They needed to do a power drop momen-
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aired television show “Sleepy Hollow.” Waheed AlQawasmi, FOX13’s creative director, sees this week as an exciting opportunity to pair with the Indie Memphis family. “As far as content is concerned, we believe in the value of independent filmmaking,” he said. According to AlQawasmi, the fact that the event occurs over the course of Halloween weekend is a perfect way to air the television show. “We have a hot TV show catered to Halloween,” he said. “It just so happens that the festival begins on Halloween. We’re trying to get people to come out in Halloween costumes for a movie night under the stars. It’s going to be a fun event for everyone involved.” At 9:30 p.m., Tim Burton’s
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“Edward Scissorhands”, starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder and Dianne West, headlines the event. During previous years of the Indie Memphis Film Festival, various events such as Friday’s movie night have occurred at locations such as the Levitt Shell. With the completion of the Tower Courtyard that sits just behind Memphis Pizza Café on Madison Avenue, the festival has a new home to host the free film function. As part of the film festivities occurring from Halloween night to Sunday, the Tower Courtyard is now amid five venues that the festival sprawls across over the weekend. According to Erik Jambor, the executive director of the Indie Memphis Film Festival, they are “encouraging people to come out”
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not only to enjoy the films, but the recently renovated Overton Square area. While there will be seating, anyone attending the free movie night should bring a lawn chair or blanket. John Miller, a senior communications major at the University of Memphis, thinks the event is a perfect way to get out of the house with your friends, while also seeing some classic films. “I saw ‘Young Frankenstein’ when I was 12 or 13 years old,” he said. “Since then, I’ve always thought it is hilarious. It’s a classic movie.” Going to see a movie isn’t always just about seeing the film, but also meeting the fellow film buffs. For Miller, a free event over Halloween weekend is the perfect
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The National Cancer Institute awarded the University of Memphis’ School of Public Health a $2.86 million grant Thursday. The School of Public Health will use the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute grant to set up a research group to study the surgical and medical stages of lung cancer patients who have had parts or all of their lungs surgically removed due to lung cancer or other lung diseases. Dr. James Gurney, research director of the School of Public Health, has been a part of the program since April. “Although the amount for the entire PCORI grant is $2.86 million, the full amount is not given to us at once,” Gurney said. “We have to write a certain budget for each year, and if there is money left over after the year is up, we have to request a carry-over budget to keep that money or else it will go back to the government.” The school will not start the research the grant funds until the end of this year. However, the exact date has not yet been finalized. Faculty researchers at the School of Public Health will not directly work with patients, but they will analyze the patient data for past and future patients. The focus group will also have meetings with selected patients and patient caregivers for information. Xinhua Yu, assistant professor in the Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Environment health at SPH, has been a part of SPH for almost four years now. Yu’s duty while working with SPH is as the clinical epidemiologist in the grant along with
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news@dailyhelmsman.com Lambda Chi Alpha and Lifeblood joined forces to host a blood drive on the University of Memphis campus Wednesday and Thursday. The drive will take place in the Michael D. Rose Theater lobby from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. Donations from the drive will go toward helping sustain a stable and healthy blood supply for local hospitals and trauma centers. Lifeblood representative Jennifer Gladstone said that
although this is only the drive’s second year, the U of M has already benefited Lifeblood greatly. “The University of Memphis blood drives have been incredibly successful,” Gladstone said. “The exceptional turnout shows us that the students, faculty and staff know the importance of donating blood for local patients.” In October 2012, they collected 367 units of blood on the U of M campus; five months later, they collected another 350 units, according to Gladstone. “Each donation can save up to three lives, meaning that the blood collected at just these two
drives has helped 2,121 patients in local hospitals,” Gladstone said. The entire donation process takes about 40 minutes to complete. Before donating, a medical professional checks a possible donor’s blood pressure, iron level, temperature, pulse and medical history to determine if he or she is eligible to donate. All donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh at least 115 pounds and be in generally good health. Donors also need to make sure they have a valid photo ID. Donors should also drink plenty of fluids and eat a large meal before donating.
“We don’t have a specific blood type that we need,” Gladstone said. “However, in the past, we have found that the Memphis community is most in need of type O and type B.” Although Lifeblood has walkin donors frequently throughout each week, they rely heavily on blood drives such as these to help save lives. “Blood drives, like the ones at the University of Memphis, are extremely important not only to Lifeblood, but to the patients in our community,” Gladstone said. “There is no substitute for human blood, so if a patient is in an accident and needs blood,
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it must come from a volunteer blood donor.” The opportunity for Lifeblood to work with the U of M started with the Office of Student Affairs. The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity went after Lifeblood and saw the potential to have campus-wide blood drives where students, faculty and staff had the opportunity to donate. The University wanted to expand their partnership and needed a catalyst in order for this to happen. The University chose Lambda Chi Alpha to host the initial blood drive during the fall of 2012, and they have been doing it since. Domenic Martini, vice president of external affairs for the fraternity, said he only remembers seeing a Lifeblood truck his freshman year, so he’s glad to see Lifeblood has a larger presence on campus. “We are honored to have been chosen by the University,” Martini said. “We love being able to give back.” Martini thinks the blood drive is a convenient way for students to get involved. “It’s not like they have to go far,” Martini said. “They can give blood in between classes, and the donor site is right on campus.” In the future, Martini hopes they can expand the blood drives to include the summer semesters. “If we can keep doing as good as we are now, then I don’t see why we couldn’t make it happen,” Martini said. All donors will receive a Halloween-themed T-shirt. Walk-ins are welcome, but WWW.FREETHEHELMSMAN.COM appointments will be honored WWW.FREETHEHELMSMAN.COM first. WWW.FREETHEHELMSMAN.COM WWW.FREETHEHELMSMAN.COM
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first time the power has gone out at Richardson Towers since she moved in. “Yes, so many times — the last fall semester it happened twice, and once last spring it also happened,” Roper said. Peter Groenendyk, director for Residence Life & Dining Services, said that the University can’t predict these types of events happening. “The staff will ensure that emergency systems are operating properly and will assist with any resident concerns,” Groenendyk said. Groenendyk also said that students should be prepared for these incidents just like they would in their own homes. “They should be prepared with a flashlight,” Groenendyk said “Locations like the UC still had power, so the technology lab was still available, and MLGW is generally able to restore power in a few hours.” Nevertheless, Roper said that students should talk to their RA’s in these types of situations. “Do not talk to your friends. RA’s will know what’s going on,” Roper said. “People will make up things.”
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Midday Moves invited students, faculty and staff to the University Center Alumni Mall in an attempt to break a record in the Guiness Book of World Records. The record was for the most people doing sit-ups in one place. The previous record was 250 people, but more than 500 people gathered at the U of M to shatter that record.
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A band plays while attendees await the showing of a film at last year’s Indie Memphis Film Festival. This Friday, Indie Memphis will host a free film event at Overton Square’s new Tower Courtyard behind the Memphis Pizza Café on Madison Avenue. The event begins at 6:30 pm.
opportunity. “You get to dress up and meet interesting people,” he said. “It all sounds good to me.” Calvin Lauber, a graphic design major at the U of M, spends much of his time spending money to see films at movie theatres across the city. As a broke college student, having the opportunity to see a movie without burning a hole through his pocket is entirely enticing. “I think it’s easier to focus on the movie when you aren’t having to think about how much money you spent to watch it,” Lauber said. According to him, seeing older films such as “Young Frankenstein” and “Edward Scissorhands” projected back on the silver screen brings friends and families with children together in way that newer movies do not. “It’s cool to see classic movies on the big screen,” Lauber said. “Younger people missed that chance when the movie came out. In general, movies allow everyone to feel similar emotions for that amount of time.”
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Rex Dockery Field rededicated in remembrance By Corey Carmichael
sports@dailyhelmsman.com The Highland Hundred booster club recently donated a plaque in honor of Rex Dockery and those who lost their lives in a plane crash on Dec. 12, 1983. The University of Memphis will host a ceremony at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in honor of the former Memphis head football coach. Dockery, Chris Faros, Charles Greenhill and Glenn Jones were on the way to a luncheon for the Lawrenceburg Quarterback Club when the tragic accident occurred. Faros was the offensive coordinator for the Tigers, and
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Dr. Lisa Klesges, the dean of SPH. “I was trained in epidemiology,” Yu said. “During the past few years, I have been working with Dr. Raymond Osarogiagbon on the research of quality of care in lung cancer.” This is the second national grant SPH has received that is collaborating with Baptist Memorial Hospital. The previous grant dealt with the spreading of an innovative surgical corrective kit over the Mid-South region, which is funded by National Cancer Institute as well. “There is a research group in the Baptist Memorial Hospital,” Yu said. “In SPH, we have several faculty members involved in this PCORI grant.” The research outcome will be shared with the public, but not necessarily to the individual patients. Students in the public health department will also be able to join the lung cancer project research. They can be involved in research data analysis and focus group data collection and analysis.
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Greenhill was a defensive back. Greenhill is one of four football players in U of M history to have his number retired. Jones was the pilot and a member of the Highland Hundred booster club. Current U of M Associate Athletic Director Bob Winn, was the sports information director at the time of the crash nearly 30 years ago. He became director in 1981 and was in charge of football and basketball relations. The first head football coach Winn worked with as director was Rex Dockery. “He was a dynamic person,” Winn said. “He was from Cleveland, Tennessee and had the southern boy drawl. He was open and honest but was very fiery on the sidelines. People took to him quickly here in Memphis.”
Prior to his coaching career, Dockery played offensive line for the University of Tennessee football team. The Tennessee native got his first job as a head coach at Texas Tech University in 1978 before taking over the job in Memphis in 1981. In each of his first two seasons with the Tigers, Dockery won one game apiece, finishing both seasons with a 1-10 record. “Dockery had gone through the worst part of rebuilding but had offered hope during that time and improvement could be seen,” Winn said. “The team was more and more competitive, and in the 1983 season it showed that the level of talent had evened up.” In 1983, the Tigers started out the season with a win against
rival Ole Miss. After the game, the students tore down the goalposts and players carried Dockery on their shoulders. Memphis finished with a 6-4-1 record that season and was the second mostimproved team in 1983. Memphis was one of only two schools that improved their record by five wins from 1982 to 1983. Only 18 days after the season, the four tragically lost their lives. The whole city was in mourning and the Memphis City Council gave approval for the field to be named in Dockery’s honor. “As you look back on it, the death of four people close to you leaves you with a feeling of numbness,” Winn said. “We grieved internally as a
department and as an institution, but the naming of the field came about because fans and friends of his went to city council and said this is the right thing to do.” On Wednesday night, the field will be rededicated to Dockery and the crash victims and a plaque will be presented to commemorate their lives. The unveiling of the plaque will be held at 2 p.m. by gate three at the end of Tiger Lane.
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The Tigers’ best off-season addition is experience By Hunter Field
sports@dailyhelmsman.com Experience isn’t always a commodity University of Memphis men’s basketball head coach Josh Pastner has enjoyed, but this season he has five seasoned seniors to lead the Tigers on and off the court. Joe Jackson, Chris Crawford and Geron Johnson played for Memphis last season as juniors, while David Pellom and Michael Dixon Jr. transferred from other schools after each failed to play in a game last season. Both Pellom and Dixon are fifth-year seniors.
The team’s collective experience thrills their fifth-year coach. “I don’t know if I can go another 35 years and have four senior guards,” Pastner said. “And they’ve all been on a team that won 30 games and played major minutes.” Jackson started as a freshman and nearly every game since. He won multiple conference tournament MVP awards and Conference USA honored Jackson last season with the 2012-13 C-USA Player of the Year award. Crawford started in his first two years and played the sixthman role last season as a junior. He took home the 2012-13
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C-USA Tournament MVP award and the 2012-13 Sixth Man of the Year award. “Chris and Joe are special young men,” Pastner said. “And they’ve both gotten better — just look at their performance last year, but we can’t verbalize or talk about it, we have to produce on the floor.” Geron Johnson took the city by storm last season after a stint in junior college. The Dayton, Ohio, native averaged 10.4 points and 3.5 assists a game while also being, arguably, the team’s best defender. Dixon won the Big 12’s Sixth Man of the Year award as a junior and made the conference’s alldefensive team. With the quickness of Memphis’ four senior guards, advancing the ball across half court will be an unenviable task for opposing guards. This year’s backcourt prompted Matt Norlander and Jeff Borzello from CBSSports. com to rank the Tigers’ backcourt first in the country. Dick Vitale, ESPN’s voice of college basketball, ranked the U of M’s guards second behind Michigan State and just ahead of Louisville. The final senior, forward David Pellom, spent his first three seasons of eligibility at George Washington University until he injured his wrist before the 2012-13 season. Pellom scored 10.4 points to go along with 6.1 rebounds as a junior. The 6-foot 7-inch forward adds a much needed depth to the thin Memphis frontline. “It’s a big advantage to have all these seniors,” Pellom said. “Most big teams have five, six or seven freshmen coming in. For us, we were fortunate to have five
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Senior transfer Michael Dixon Jr. was officially introduced to Tiger fans on Oct. 18 at the annual Memphis Madness event. Dixon is one of five seniors on the 2013-14 roster. seniors. Me and Michael have been five-year guys and we’ve been down the long dirt roads and the ups and downs. Freshmen get upset at times when coaches are being down on them, but that’s just part of the game.” After taking a few weeks to start filling the senior leadership role, Pellom is now one of the more vocal Tigers at practice —
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not to mention the highlight reel dunks he has added as well. “Now, I’m starting to feel like a senior,” Pellom said. “When I first got here, I considered myself a freshman just like the others. Now, guys kind of look up to me and come out of their shell to me.” More experience means more productive practices. Jackson has played on the team for three years and thinks the team’s practices to this point have been the smoothest and most beneficial of his career. “(Practices have) definitely been smoother,” Jackson said. “When you’re a senior, you’re a leader. It’s become more natural for me to be more vocal.” Memphis’ preparation will be tested sooner rather than later. The Tigers will face at least three preseason top-20 teams in the first half of the season in Oklahoma State, Louisville and Florida. Pastner said the experience “absolutely” played a part in the tough schedule he made this season. Memphis is slated to play an exhibition game against Christian Brothers University on Nov. 8 before the regular season tips off on Nov. 14 against Austin Peay at the FedExForum. No one knows yet if the Tigers will have more success this season than in years past, but one thing is for sure: lack of experience won’t be a problem.
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sports@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis football team endured a rough first half of the season, marked with heartbreaking losses to Duke, Middle Tennessee and Central Florida. It is the second straight year the Tigers have lost five of their first six games, and earning a win will not get any easier with Cincinnati (5-2, 2-1) scheduled to visit the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium on Wednesday. “I think our kids have done a really good job in this long week, not a bye week, but a long week in getting ready for the game and regrouping,” said head Memphis football coach Justin Fuente at his weekly media luncheon. The team last played Oct. 19, in a loss to Southern Methodist. This season’s entire schedule has been unique. Their bye week came before they ever played a game, and they have played two teams coming off bye weeks with Cincinnati making the third. The Tigers’ second-year head coach makes no excuses over the schedule. “The bottom line is the schedule is a little bit like the weather — you have very little control over it, so you need to find your best way to manage whatever it is,” Fuente said. “I think having this little bit of extra time here before a Wednesday game and then a little bit of extra time before we play the next game is good for us. It allows us more time to continue to develop our young players and continue to coach up our older guys.” Wednesday’s game looks to be a low-scoring one. Cincinnati’s defense ranks seventh in the country, allowing just 287 yards per game. Memphis allows 331
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yards a game and ranks 13th nationally. Nick Temple, Greg Blair and Silverberry Mouhon lead the way for the Bearcats’ strong defensive-front seven. Fuente said it is essential to slow Cincinnati’s frontline. “They’re physical up front,” he said. “I think the strength of their defense is in the front seven — as big and physical as a team that we’ve played in the front seven.” Injuries forced the Bearcats’ offense to adjust on the fly. Their starting quarterback, Munchie Legaux, suffered a knee injury early in the season, thrusting backup quarterback Brendon Kay into the spotlight. Kay settled in over the last two games. Dating back to the second half against South Florida, Kay has completed 60 of 79 pass attempts while throwing for 717 yards and nine touchdowns. Kay owes a lot of his success to wide receivers Anthony McClung and Shaq Washington. The pair combined for 49 receptions, 460 yards and three touchdowns over the last four games. “Offensively, they’ve lost their quarterback earlier in the year and have done a great job in
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The Tigers play at home Wednesday at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium against the Cincinnati Bearcats at 7 p.m. Memphis will look to add a win to their 1-5 record. molding into their new quarterback and offense,” Fuente said. “They have some great skill kids on the outside that can really highlight mistakes in a hurry.” Memphis leads the all-time series with Cincinnati 18-12, including a 12-4 mark at home. They hope to notch their 19th win over the Bearcats in a game slated for 7 p.m. on ESPN 2.
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Submit a Proposal Packet:
by Fri. November 1 @ 4:30 PM [UC 211] No late packets accepted
Schedule a Pre-Hearing
Make an appointment online and get a free small coffee coupon from Dunkin Donuts while supplies last.
to discuss your proposal:
November 4-8 [by appointment]
Proposal Hearings:
November 11, 18, & 25 [by appointment]
Questions? Contact Angie Norwood: ardunlap@memphis.edu
For more info, call 1-888-LIFEBLOOD or visit www.Lifeblood.org