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Maine-based singer-songwriter takes on Memphis music scene By Robbie Porter
news@dailyhelmsman.com In a city full of musicians trying to get noticed and make it out of town, one artist is embracing exactly what many wish to escape. Lauren Crosby, a 19-yearold singer-songwriter from Georgetown, Maine, decided to come to Memphis, hoping to share her music with the South. “Well, kind of the whole reason I came (to Memphis) was for music. School is just school. It can be done anywhere, but I would like to make connections down here and just explore,” Crosby said. “This place has a lot of nooks and crannies that I’ve found, which I absolutely adore, and I’ve really fallen hardly in love with it.” Crosby described her music as an acoustic mixture of folk and blues. She cited Melanie Safka as her biggest musical influence but said she also draws inspiration from artists like Joni Mitchell and Fiona Apple. While she has been singing in front of live audiences since she was 14 years old, Crosby said she just started doing solo gigs for the first time this summer. Even though she is new to both solo performances and the South, it hasn’t stopped her from getting her name out in the local music scene. Crosby performed at Otherlands Coffee Bar in midtown, and she recently performed at the Hard Rock Café downtown. Several bands that also played at the Hard Rock Café asked her to open for them in some of their upcoming shows. “I got asked to play in Southaven next weekend, and I met some people who want to record me,” Crosby said. “I also met some touring bands who are interested in playing some shows with me.” The sophomore education
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President says University needs more students By Alexandra Pusateri news@dailyhelmsman.com
The interim President of the University of Memphis R. Brad Martin said the University would no longer be business as usual, changing its model to be more competitive. “We cannot rely on raising tuition as a sustainable business model,” Martin said at a town hallstyle meeting on Thursday, adding the emphasis of the change was about increasing enrollment and attracting more students to the U of M. President Martin and Provost David Rudd answered the majority of questions asked by students and faculty. Rosie Bingham, vice president of Student Affairs, and David Zettergren, vice president of Business and Finance, were also available for questions. According to a PowerPoint slide presented by Martin, when the University fails to recruit a student or loses a student to poor performance, transferring or dropping out, it is penalized twice financially. Since 2011, the University has seen a drop in enrollment of about 1,500 students — one of the contributing factors in the $20 million budget gap. The University is also incorporating new strategies to get students to graduate within a six-year timeframe. Only 46 percent of students currently graduate within that time, and the administration
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Cedar Nordbye, an art professor at the University of Memphis, was one of many asking President Brad Martin emotion-packed questions at a town hall meeting Thursday. said they want to increase that number to 55 percent. “When all is said and done, we still have a $20 million gap,” Zettergren said. Cedar Nordbye, an art professor, raised concerns about the
University being run as a competitive business, as Martin presented it. “I don’t see the University as a competitive business. I think that’s the wrong ideological view, that’s the wrong societal view,” Nordbye
said followed by applause from the audience. “The universities in this country are a crucial branch of civic life in a democratic society.” Schools run competitively with business models are “just how the
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Local Oktoberfests celebrate German tradition By Freddy Hodges
news@dailyhelmsman.com Oktoberfest started in Munich, but this weekend, Memphis will celebrate the fall festival in its own way. Germans celebrated the first Oktoberfest in 1810 with a royal wedding. Traditionally, it starts the third weekend of September and ends the first Sunday of October. Bluff City Oktoberfest, one of the local celebrations, will host a free event Saturday and Sunday on Riverside Drive. Brooks Monypeny, brew-tasting chair of the organization, said attendees are welcome to donate to Hope for
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Heroes – Tennessee, an outreach program of Samaritan Counseling Centers of the Mid-South, which provides counseling support for veterans and their families. Though this is Bluff City Oktoberfest’s first year, Monypeny hopes the festival will turn into the Memphis in May of fall. “If Memphis in May marks the beginning of the summer, I’d like this to mark the end of the summer,” Monypeny said. “We’d love to get some sorority or fraternity to adopt us as a support group or community outreach program.” In addition to beer, vendors will sell T-shirts and Oktoberfest
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memorabilia, and Fayette County Packing will give away free bratwursts on Saturday. “I hope we got enough. We’ll give ‘em out, ‘til we give ‘em out,” David Smith, sales and marketing employee for Fayette Packing Co., said. Bratwursts are a new endeavor for the company, and they’ll be using the festival to debut their arrival to grocery store shelves. The festival also features local bands like Devil Train and Cypress Creek Bluegrass Band on Friday night and a variety of performances starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday. “This is something that I’m posTiger Babble
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itive, at the end of the day, will go well,” Monypeny said. “It’s got a lot of support from the community, as well.” Tug’s, a Harbor Town restaurant and bar, holds its own Oktoberfest celebration in front of its Harbor Town Square location. “I special order the meats for it all,” Kerry Smith, head chef and manager of Tug’s, said. They will bring a smorgasbord of German cuisine to the party including bratwurst, knackwurst and weiswurst. Smith said knackwurst is a
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uuMusic Continued from page 1 major is spending the semester at the University of Memphis through the National Student Exchange Program. She chose Memphis, because she had never been to the South and didn’t know much about the culture. “I’ll be honest with you. I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than five black people together at once,” Crosby said. “There’s very little ethnicity in Maine, so coming down here was a very big shock to me, but I love it, actually. You can just soak up personalities and cultures.” Crosby said she gained about 75 percent of her fans in Memphis from sitting outside her dorm playing guitar and singing. Jenny Johnston, a senior health ser vice administration major, saw Crosby play at Otherlands Coffee Bar earlier in the semester.
uuGerman Continued from page 1 smoked sausage made with beef, veal and pork, seasoned with garlic. Weiswurst is made with veal and bacon, seasoned with herbs, and simmered in a wine and chicken-stock. Unlike the Bluff City Oktoberfest, Tug’s put on festivities for the past four years, catering to those who like a more authentic German experience and lovers of
Friday, October 4, 2013 • 3 “She gave everyone there chills,” Johnston said. “Everyone who played that night was talented, but I thought Lauren was the best.” That was the first time Johnston saw Crosby live, but she had heard some of her music before she went to the singersongwriter night. “I often think sometimes I love music too much to be a musician,” Crosby said. “You know, I’ll listen to something and think ‘This is amazing. Why can’t I write something like that?’ So, I get all down on myself, but then I play a show and people are like ‘You’re so good. You’re music is amazing.’ And then it just all makes sense. I just get such a high from it, and that’s when I know that I want to be a singer-songwriter.” Crosby will perform at Java Cabana in the Cooper-Young neighborhood at 8 p.m. Saturday. There is no cover charge.
food. There is no experience that is as authentic as Munich when it comes to Oktober festivals, though. During the celebrations in Munich, many men wear leather pants, some women wear traditional German dresses, and everything from the beer to the food is big, according to Lale Ida. “That’s the only real one,” Ida, a German exchange student and junior journalism major, said. “All the rest are like . . . here.”
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uuPresident Continued from page 1 world works now,” Martin said, also preparing students for the world outside of college. “We do not want to be bound by metrics,” Martin said. The U of M plans to take a focus to education majors with an emphasis on K-12 education. Martin also said the College of Education is interested in starting a dual-enrollment high school, catered to those interested in teaching, in order to put the University on the map as a premier higher education institution for K-12 education. Kaeyla Willis, a senior fashion merchandising major, asked if students would be able to have input in redesigning courses and suggested increasing student involvement in the process. “We target underperforming courses in terms of redesign,” Rudd said. “It’s not deleting old and inserting new courses. We’re simply looking at how we can effectively deliver the curriculum to meet the needs of our students.” Courses considered to be underperforming are those with more than half of students either failing or dropping out of the course altogether. “I don’t know if we’ve had students directly involved in the development of courses,” Rudd said. “It’s a great thought.” Martin said the University also wants to consolidate tuition for incoming students from other states. “We want one tuition,” Martin said, suggesting doing away with the out-of-state tuition. “We want the ability to attract people here.” The next town hall meeting is from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Friday in the Michael D. Rose Theatre on campus.
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Sports Tigers to face toughest test yet at a glance By Hunter Field
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Event: Memphis vs. Central Florida Date: Oct. 5 Location: Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, Memphis, Tenn. Time: 3:30 p.m.
Men’s Soccer
Event: Memphis vs. South Florida Date: Oct. 5 Location: Mike Rose Soccer Stadium, Memphis, Tenn. Time: 7 p.m.
Women’s Soccer
Event: Memphis vs. Rutgers Date: Oct. 4 Location: New Brunswick, N.J. Time: 6 p.m.
Softball
Event: Memphis vs. Christian Brothers Date: Oct. 4 Location: Tiger Softball Complex, Memphis, Tenn. Time: 4 p.m.
Event: Memphis vs. Harding Date: Oct. 6 Location: Tiger Softball Complex, Memphis, Tenn. Time: 2 p.m. Event: Memphis vs. Rhodes College Date: Oct. 6 Location: Tiger Softball Complex, Memphis, Tenn. Time: 4 p.m.
Men’s Tennis
Event: ITA All-American Championships Date: Oct. 4 - Oct. 5 Location: Tulsa, Okla. Time: All Day
Women’s Tennis
Event: Razorback Classic Date: Oct. 4 - Oct. 6 Location: Fayetteville, Ark. Time: All Day
Volleyball
Event: Memphis vs. Temple Date: Oct. 4 Location: Philadelphia, Pa. Time: 7 p.m.
The University of Memphis football team (1-2) toppled Arkansas State two weeks ago to post its first win of the season. However, that was Arkansas State, a 2-3 team. This Saturday’s opponent, Central Florida, presents the Tigers with a much tougher challenge. The Knights (3-1) boast victories over Penn State and Akron University with a near upset of 13th ranked South Carolina after leading 10-0 at halftime last week. Head Memphis football coach Justin Fuente said he expects UCF to play as well as advertised. “I think they (UCF) are very well coached, disciplined and, in a lot of ways, their program is what we aspire to be on the field — just fundamentally sound and tough,” Fuente said at his weekly media luncheon on Monday. “I think our kids are looking forward to the challenge of playing really good people that have kind of made a little bit of noise on the national stage.” Memphis goes into Saturday’s game coming off a bye week, which Fuente said he used to get some of the older players rested and to polish some of the younger players’ fundamentals. The team got better and experimented with different schemes during the off week, according to Fuente. Young players have been forced to develop on the fly for the Tigers this season. At quarterback, Memphis starts Paxton Lynch, a redshirt freshman. Lynch headlines a group of young offensive skill players including true freshmen Sam Craft, a receiver, and Marquis Warford, a running back. Both Craft and Warford scored their first collegiate touchdown in the Tigers’ 31-7 route of Arkansas State.
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The University of Memphis football team returns to the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium at 3:30 p.m. Saturday to face Central Florida. The game marks the first conference game of the season for the Tigers. UCF relies on more experience where they’re supposed to be. You very Fuente said. The Memphis coach said from their offensive playmakers. rarely see them hurt themselves or see he wants to see similar improvements this time. Quarterback Blake Bortles, a redshirt them make silly mistakes.” “I felt like a little switch went off for The Tigers will look to redshirt junior, ranks third in the American Athletic Conference throwing for 293.5 junior Martin Ifedi, a defensive end, us from a physical standpoint,” Fuente yards per game. Redshirt junior run- to help slow down the Knights attack. said of last year’s game. “I felt like we ning back, Storm Johnson, leads the Ifedi leads the NCAA in both sacks had taken a step forward, even though conference in touchdowns with eight — 1.8 per game — and tackles for loss it was a small one, in the intensity, competitiveness and the physical nature — 3 per game. scores already. Senior Bobby McCain heads the of playing the game. I even said it on Fuente said the Knight’s high-powered offense impressed him and said Memphis secondary. McCain has the headset in the middle of the game, the Tigers have to play well, because already intercepted two passes this sea- `Our guys are starting to figure it out.’” The game starts at 3:30 p.m. son and attempts to add to his total UCF won’t beat itself. Saturday at the Liberty Bowl Memorial “I think the thing that jumps out at Saturday. Last season the Tigers made huge Stadium. you the most as a coach is their sound scheme,” Fuente said. “They’re always strides during their game against UCF,
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