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Eco-festival fosters sustainability

A Vital Combination

By Omer Yusuf

news@dailyhelmsman.com Every day, students exercise in hopes of improving their health. Depending on what their goal is, they may lose weight or gain muscle mass.

However, what they eat before and after exercise could have just as a big of an effect on their bodies as the workout itself.

Cody Hughes, a freshman exercise sports and science major, said that what he eats before a workout depends on the the intesity of his exercise.

“I take pre-workout supplements to give me an extra boost, but it depends on the intensity level of the workout.” Hughes said.

When he first started working out, he started watching what he ate more closely. Once he started exercising five days a week, he started taking in more proteins.

“I started taking proteins to help see improvements in my muscle mass,” Hughes said. “In order to see sufficient gains, you have to take in as many grams of protein as your weight. For example if you are 150 pounds, you would have to take in 150 grams of protein.”

Livestrong.com, a website whose goal is to help people build their own healthy-living success stories, advises people to eat plenty of complex carbs before their workout, and to eat protein and carbs as soon as you finish the workout. This can be done by drinking a protein shake or eating a whole food meal.

Michael Porter, a senior advertising major, said he did not have to change his diet when he first started exercising regularly.

“I didn’t have to because I play sports, I workout to better my health.” Porter said.

During the week, he said that he would eat nutrition bars, oatmeal, cereal or something that would “sit” well on his stomach.

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The TIGUrS booth was one of many booths at this year’s Tiger Blue Goes Green Fair. The booths informed students about a number of organizations and groups on campus and in the community working to promote sustainability.

By Joey Kachel

news@dailyhelmsman.com Visitors who attended Tiger Blue Goes Green, the University of Memphis’ annual celebration of environmental awareness, were offered foil flowerpots and seed pods of Devil’s Ivy. They were also asked to enter a raffle for a recycled bicycle from the lost and found or one of a handful of folk-art sculptures made from recycled materials.

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more John Burks was one of the students who attended the festival. He felt that the displays shed light on topics most people didn’t consider.

“It’s really interesting,” Burks said. “It spreads a lot of awareness that people don’t think about in their daily lives.”

The event also featured a special focus on some of the environmentally progressive initiatives currently happening on campus.

Features like the Bike Share

program, TIGUrS garden and Memphis Healthy U gave students a first-hand look at what the University is doing to support energy conservation, resources allocation and healthy lifestyles, according to Marian Levy, associate professor and assistant dean of Students and Public Health Practice at the School of Public Health.

Several on-campus and offcampus organizations staged exhibits. The School of Public Health displayed their efforts to

fight salmonella across the state representatives from the Ground Water Institute — part of the Herff College of Engineering — explained soil striation and the importance of clean ground water.

There, students didn’t have to look far for something to do.

In addition to static displays, Midday Moves — part of the Memphis Healthy U fitness initiative — invited attendees to

One in 10 college students has made a plan for suicide, and there are more than 1,000 suicides on college campuses per year, according to a study done by Emory University.

It is imperative that the faculty reaches out to students, said Earle Donelson, a staff psychologist with the U of M counseling center.

“Being proactive with students who are considering harming themselves is very crucial,” he said.

“It is much better to be proactive than to be reactive.”

Led by Pam Cogdal and Theresa Okwumabua, Memphis STEPS uses

a similar mentality in their mission to draw attention to faculty, staff and the University community about the seriousness of suicide and the mental and behavioral health problems associated with it.

The program has been in motion for three years and, with a student-based research team made of undergraduate and graduate students, has garnered more than 12,000 contacts with students, staff, faculty and the community surrounding the University.

After presenting regionally and nationally at conferences, Cogdal and Okwumabua applied

for a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Through the Center for Counseling Learning and Testing and the Psychological Services Clinic, the STEPS program offers services that educate and train the campus and community. They recently presented at a conference in Nashville and provided a twoday suicide prevention educational program in Memphis.

Part of the mission is erasing the stigma that comes along

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Suicide prevention program lends a hand

By Joshua Cannon

news@dailyhelmsman.com A college student’s fast-lane lifestyle can be full of unexpected twists and turns. From class to class, students often silently walk past one another without the slightest idea of the burden that could be weighing down other students’ shoulders. For some, the campus may be large and full of many people, but there is still no one to talk to throughout the day.

The University of Memphis Suicide Training, Education and Prevention Services program is trying to change that.

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uuSuicide Continued from page 1 with suicide. Many people wont come forth about their problems out of fear, while friends and peers worry about overstepping their boundaries, according to Donelson.

“For a lot of mental health concerns, there is still a ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ mentality if you are having trouble,” he said. “There is also a problem with friends who don’t want to intrude. They may just not really know what do or who to talk to about what is going on.”

Along with research into the behavioral and mental health that comes with suicide, the STEPS program aims to provide more

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services to treat people experiencing these problems.

Donelson said those suffering emotional problems should visit 214 Wilder Tower and make an appointment. The Counseling Center is open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday through Thursday. On Friday, they are open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Walk-ins are welcome from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., though Donelson said students who are in distress can come in any time.

There is also an after-hour lifeline anyone can call at 901-678-HELP. “I think it’s important to pay attention if you see sudden changes in your friends and their mood,” Donelson said. “Contact somebody if you think they are having problems.”

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uuEco-fest Continued from page 1 perform calisthenics with them as part of their “Basic Training” program. For something a little lower-impact, the Morris S. Fogelman Jewish Student Center had a small putting green for visitors.

Those who made the shot received a small, plastic trophy and a discounted golf game at Golf and Games Family Park. The display was set up in partnership with Justin Timberlake’s ecofriendly golf course, Mirimichi, as a way to promote both the course and the Jewish Student Center.

For the gearheads in attendance, Wolfchase Toyota and Chuck Hutton Chevrolet exhibited eco-friendly cars. MLGW showed off a truck that ran on natural gas and FedEx displayed a zero-emissions electric van and a new, more ecologically-sound delivery truck.

Senior Tim White thought that the displays would help students better understand what sustainability is and how important it is to take care of the environment.

“I think it’s going to help a lot of people out,” said White. “This is really important.”

The Sierra Club — one of the oldest environmental organizations in the United States — also had a display at the festival, urging people to join their organization and explaining the potential dangers of fracking or the use of a high-pressure mixture

of water, sand and chemicals to break apart shale in order to get natural gas trapped inside. The process is considered by some to be highly environmentally damaging, as the chemicals used in the process can end up in the groundwater, contaminating it and causing injuries.

Scott Banbury, the Tennessee Sierra Club’s conservation officer, was pleased with the turnout.

“I’m talking to a lot of people who are very excited to stop bringing fossils out of the ground and sending them into the air, and instead put them into museums where they belong,” Banbury said.

The festival also drew some big names. Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell, a proponent of a number of progressive environmental and public health initiatives, spoke to a group of festival attendees and visitors about the pride he took in seeing the University’s efforts to increase sustainability.

“It’s great to see the University of Memphis rallying around sustainability in our community,” Luttrell said. “This school is one of the finest research institutions in the country.”

Mayor Luttrell also talked about the importance of sustainability in communities and praised the office of sustainability’s efforts in making a better place for future generations and urged people to get involved in their communities.

“Find your sphere of influence,” Luttrell said. “Find your passion. Get engaged.”

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Student health fair and fun run

By Ellyahnna Hall

news@dailyhelmsman.com The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act went into effect Oct. 1, leaving many with questions about the state of health care in the United States.

The University of Memphis will host its annual student health fair Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Student Plaza in an effort to give students and faculty information about health topics like more information about the Affordable Care Act and upcoming immunizations opportunities. The event will also have general information on how members of the

University community can stay healthy physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Several health organizations, such as the American Red Cross and Blue Cross Blue Shield, will be available to answer questions about the new health care law, according to Aukina Brown.

The day will start with a “fun run,” according to Brown. There will be representatives from both the nursing and optometry schools available for questions and handing out small gifts.

Every year, the University hosts the student health fair for student health awareness and activities for students, faculty and staff.

The theme of this year’s fair is Nutrition.

“I’ve gone before,” Cole Bradley, a graduate student in anthropology, said. “I got a lot of good information out of it about the services that are available here on campus, and, of course, nutrition is important.

I’m a grad, and I have a lot of studying to do and big papers to write.”

Taking a look around campus, a lot of students can see other students doing healthconscious activities. Whether it’s biking to campus or to class, taking advantage of the health services or using the recreation center, fitness and nutrition is

something that many students care about. The health fair has information about maintaining a good health.

“It is good to have a health fair so that students can have access to health literacy, and, when students leave home to come to college, they may not be as great about keeping up with their health as they would be in their home town,” Chris Reeder, an anthropology and medical alumni, said. “So, these type of fairs are a great opportunity for them to get some free information and maybe even some health services.”

Reeder hopes the gathering will hold information about sex-

ual health services and healthy study habits.

Amanda Cantrell, a senior psychology major, said she tries to eat healthy while she’s on campus.

“I usually just grab a banana or something whenever I’m near the Psych building,” Cantrell said. “I’m not here on campus much, so a quick health snack like a banana is really good.”

Students who are interested in doing the Fall 5K Fun Run/Walk should meet by the Fountain at 6:45 a.m. Registration is free. Those who participate will receive a certificate of completion.

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“I do not like eating big meals before I workout,” Porter said.

“After I workout, I try to add carbs, but, on the weekends, I will usually eat out at Moe’s, have a burger or eat guacamole.”

However, he also said that what he may eat after a workout could be okay for him but not necessarily for everyone else.

“For example, I could eat chips and handle it, but someone else may not be able to,” Porter said.

“Different things work for different bodies.”

Hughes said you are not getting the nutrition you need if you eat fast-food after a workout.

“I may eat fast-food after a workout, but it depends on the company,” Hughes said. “But I feel like I worked out for nothing, if I eat out afterwards.”

He also said that pre-workout supplement use depends on how serious you are about working out.

“It’s mainly for intense workouts,” Hughes said. “It’s not for everyone — depends where you are and what you’re trying to get out of it.”

Charlie Scheel, senior, an exercise science major does a variety of exercises.

“I do mainly resistance training and cardio,” Scheel said. “I specifically do running, biking, swimming and lifting weights.”

Scheel said that he does not eat an hour before he workouts, because he does not want to work out on a full stomach.

“I usually have carbs and a drink, a pre-workout supplement, but it’s not necessarily the best thing for you,” Scheel said. “For example, I would not take a preworkout supplement before I run or swim, because that would get my heart rate too high.”

Overall, Porter emphasized the importance of daily exercise.

“It only takes an hour a day,” Porter said.

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Egypt’s capital scarred by 2 1/2 years of turmoil

By Hamaz Hendawi Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s capital has long been proud of its nickname, “Mother of the World” — a metropolis of 18 million throbbing with the vitality and fun of other great cities, even if at times it seemed unmanageable and chaotic.

But Cairo’s spirit has been deeply scarred by 32 months of turmoil and bloodshed from two “revolutions,” constant protests and crackdowns, and a military coup.

Residents talk of an unfamiliar edginess. People are more suspicious of each other, whether because of increased crime or constant media warnings of conspiracies and terrorism.

Families are split by bitter ideological differences. Fights are sparked by a word or a gesture seen as supporting either the military or the Islamists who were ousted from power by the armed forces.

The mood goes beyond ideology.

With police battered by the upheaval and rarely enforcing regulations, many people flout laws with no thought of the consequences — whether it’s the cafes that take over sidewalks or thugs who seize plots of land.

A curfew in place for nearly two months has put a damper on Cairo’s nightlife. It has been eased to start at

midnight, but that was usually the hour when streets and parties were just getting lively.

Political violence has killed more than 2,000 people in the city and wounded many others, starting with the Jan. 25, 2011, revolution that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak. That was followed by demonstrations against the military rulers who replaced Mubarak, the protests during President Mohammed Morsi’s year in office, and the June 30 “revolution” that prompted the July 3 coup against the president.

“Political differences have made some people lose their humanity,” said Shaiymaa Awad, a 32-year-old Morsi supporter.

Awad said she was in a bus recently that drove past Rabaah el-Adawiya, the mosque where hundreds of Islamists were killed in August when police cracked down on a sit-in demanding Morsi’s reinstatement.

When she broke down crying, “other passengers looked surprised, but none of them understood why,” Awad said.

The Rabaah mosque is not the only city landmark now more famous for one of the violent incidents of the past 2½ years. Others include: — A historic bridge over the Nile, once a favored romantic spot for couples, that was the site of a battle between police and anti-Mubarak protesters.

— The towering Nile-side state TV headquarters nicknamed “Maspero,” now known for the army’s killing of more than 25 Christian protesters.

— Moqattam, once simply the rocky plateau overlooking the city where couples went to steal kisses, now remembered for a bloody street fight between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and opponents.

New neighborhoods joined the list Sunday, when Morsi supporters and police clashed, killing at least 40 people.

With more streets strewn with debris and blackened by fires, Cairenes fear the city is turning into a Baghdad or a Beirut at their most violent.

“Blood is everywhere,” said Belal Fadl, a popular satirical columnist and scriptwriter.

“It is good that life goes on after every episode of bloodshed, but it is terrible from a human perspective,” he said, adding that people now react to violence “as if they are watching it on a silver screen.”

Cairo has long been an unruly, tough place — densely populated, heavily polluted and choked with traffic. With few parks or green spaces, and almost no street entertainment, residents have few public outlets for escape.

Yet it also was the place where all Egyptians — rich, poor, intellectuals,

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Tigers’ Ta es “I recycle my paper and use a water bottle.”

Pulin Agrawal, Computer Science graduate student

“I try to waste as little paper as I can.”

Nandini Mukherjee, Public health graduate student

“I stopped smoking cigarettes.”

Blair Davis, Recording technology senior

How do you go green?

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“I try not to waste anything I use.”

Joseph Justice, Mechanical engineering freshman

“I recycle when it’s convenient.”

Melissa Long, Chemistry freshman

Taliban shooting survivor speaks in ‘I Am Malala’

By Jim Lawless Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — A year ago, Malala Yousafzai was a 15-year-old schoolgirl in northwest Pakistan, thinking about calculus and chemistry, Justin Bieber songs and “Twilight” movies.

Today she’s the world-famous survivor of a Taliban assassination attempt, an activist for girls’ education — and a contender to win the Nobel Peace Prize later this week.

It’s easy to forget she is still a teenager, and now a long way from home.

The memoir “I Am Malala” goes some way toward redressing that bal-

ance. Published around the world on Tuesday, the book reveals a girl who likes “Ugly Betty” and the cooking show “Masterchef,” worries about her clothes and her hair, but also has an iron determination that comes from experience beyond her 16 years.

The book, written with the British journalist Christina Lamb, recounts Malala’s life before and after the moment on Oct. 9, 2012, when a gunman boarded a school bus full of girls in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and asked “Who is Malala?” Then he shot her in the head.

The shooting is described briefly but vividly in the book, which is briskly written but full of arresting detail. “The air smelt of diesel, bread and kebab mixed with the stink from the stream where people still dumped their rubbish,” Malala remembers. One of her friends tells her later that the gunman’s hand shook as he fired.

Around that pivotal event, the book weaves Malala’s life story into the broader tale of her home region of Swat, a remote, mountainous region near the Afghan border. She says it is “the most beautiful place in the world,” but it’s also a crossroads traversed for millennia by armies and invaders, from Alexander the Great to Winston Churchill.

Into this valley, in the years after 9/11 and the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, came the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban. The book describes their arrival — preaching against girls’ education, shutting down DVD sellers and barber shops and displaying the bodies of people they’ve executed. They blew up the region’s ancient Buddha statues, and then they began blowing up schools.

“They destroyed everything old and brought nothing new,” Malala writes.

Malala considers herself a believing Muslim and a proud member of the Pashtun ethnic group, but recounts how from an early age she questioned her culture’s attitude toward women.

“When I was born, people in our village commiserated with my mother and nobody congratulated my father,” she writes.

Her father felt differently. The book recounts her debt to Ziauddin Yousafzai, an educator who founded the school Malala attended and kept it open to girls in the face of pressure and threats. He passed on to his daughter a hunger for knowledge and a questioning spirit.

At 11, she began giving TV interviews in Pakistan about girls’ education. In 2009, she started writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service under a pseudonym.

She soon became well known within Pakistan — and therefore a potential Taliban target. But she was reassured by the thought: “Even the Taliban don’t kill children.”

That optimism proved misplaced, but — miraculously, it seemed to many — Malala survived the shooting.

The final part of the book describes Malala’s life from the moment she regained consciousness in a British hospital, where she had been flown for specialist treatment, with the thought: “Thank God I’m not dead.”

She undergoes intense pain and multiple surgeries. In the hospital, Malala asks why her abdomen appears hard and swollen. It is the

top of her skull, removed to alleviate pressure and stored there until it could be reattached.

There are other striking, surprising details. Malaala’s favorite actress is Angelina Jolie. She loves the TV show “Ugly Betty,” whose central character works at a fashion magazine; Malala dreams “of one day going to New York and working on a magazine like her.”

In the hospital she enjoys the “Shrek” movies, but is shocked by the scene in “Bend it Like Beckham” when the female soccer players take off their jerseys to reveal sports bras.

She reads “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” — sent to her by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown — and identifies with Dorothy, trying to get home.

Malala goes to school in England now, and lives with her family in a house behind a big gate in the city of Birmingham. It reminds her a bit of being under house arrest.

The Malala Fund set up in her name campaigns for girls’ education around the world. She has received multiple awards and addressed the United Nations on her 16th birthday.

Later this month she is due to meet Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.

She remains determined to return to Pakistan one day and enter politics. And she says the Taliban’s attempt to silence her has backfired spectacularly.

“When I was shot they thought the people would be silenced, they thought that no one would talk,” she told the BBC in a recent interview.

“I think they might be repenting why they shot Malala.”

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Two win physics Nobel for Higgs theory

By Frank Jordan and Karl Ritter Associated Press

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nearly 50 years after they came up with the theory, but little more than a year since the world’s biggest atom smasher delivered the proof, Britain’s Peter Higgs and Belgian colleague Francois Englert won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping to explain how matter formed after the Big Bang.

Working independently in the 1960s, they came up with a theory for how the fundamental building blocks of the universe clumped together, gained mass and formed everything we see around us today.

The theory hinged on the existence of a subatomic particle that came to be called the Higgs boson — or the “God particle.”

In one of the biggest breakthroughs in physics in decades, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced last year that they had finally found a Higgs boson using the $10 billion particle collider built in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel under the Swiss-French border.

In a statement issued by the University of Edinburgh, where he retired as a professor, the famous-

ly shy, 84-year-old Higgs said he hoped the prize would help people recognize “the value of blue-sky research.”

Englert, 80, said the award pointed to the importance of scientific freedom and the need for scientists to be allowed to do fundamental research that doesn’t have immediate practical applications.

“You don’t work thinking to get the Nobel Prize,” said Englert, a retired professor at the Free University of Brussels. Still, “we had the impression that we were doing something that was important, that would later on be used by other researchers.”

The Nobel selection committees are notoriously cautious, often allowing decades to elapse before honoring a scientific breakthrough, and their choices are hard to predict. But this time, the prize went to people who were widely expected to get it.

“In CERN here, most all of the physicists I know, about 95 percent, expected those two would win it.

The question was if there would be a third and who it would be,” said Joe Incandela, a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara and leader of the CMS experiment, one of the two groups that discovered the Higgs

particle.

Before the announcement, there had been questions over whether a group of American scientists who published a paper shortly after Higgs would also be honored, or whether any of the thousands of scientists at CERN would share in the prize, too.

But that would have been a tricky decision for the judges, since each Nobel Prize can go to only three winners.

Ulf Danielsson, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the physics prize, noted that the prize citation also honored the work done at CERN. “This is a giant discovery. It means the final building block in the so-called Standard Model for particle physics has been put in place, so it marks a milestone in the history of physics,” Danielsson said.

The two winners will share a prize worth 8 million Swedish kronor ($1.2 million). The Nobel Prizes, established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, have been given out since 1901.

CERN Director General Rolf Heuer said he was thrilled for Higgs and Englert, while many of the thousands of scientists who worked there broke into applause when

the announcement was made after an unusual — and unexplained — one-hour delay. (It could be a while before the world finds out the reason for the delay, because the academy’s deliberations are kept secret for 50 years.)

Englert and Higgs were trying to provide an answer to a riddle: How did matter form soon after the Big Bang?

They proposed the existence of an invisible field that sprawls through space like a net. The building blocks of matter, they suggested, acquired mass when this field trapped them. Much later, as the universe cooled, they formed atoms that eventually became stars and planets.

To detect the field, the scientists suggested looking for the Higgs boson, because all fields are associated with a particle. Decades would pass before scientists were able to confirm the existence of this particle.

Only about one collision per trillion will produce a Higgs boson in the giant atom collider, and it took CERN several months after the discovery of a new “Higgs-like” boson to conclude that the particle was, in fact, very much like the one expected in the original formulation.

The phrase “God particle” was

coined by Nobel-winning physicist Leon Lederman, but it’s disliked by most physicists because it connotes the supernatural. Lederman said later that the phrase — mostly used by laymen — was really meant to convey that he felt it was the “goddamn particle,” because it proved so hard to find.

Michael Turner, president of the American Physical Society, an organization of physicists, said the Higgs particle captured the public’s imagination.

“If you’re a physicist, you can’t get in a taxi anywhere in the world without having the driver ask you about the Higgs particle,” said Turner, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago.

Turner said the Higgs is the first in a class of particles that scientists think played a role in shaping the universe. That means it points the way to tackling mysteries such as the nature of dark energy and dark matter, he said.

The physics prize was the second of this year’s Nobels to be announced. On Monday, the Nobel in medicine was given to U.S. scientists James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Sudhof for discoveries about how key substances are moved around within cells.

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ASSAULT

• An officer responded to an assault report at Desoto Avenue near State Street. The victim was in a Nissan with a friend when the friend asked her on a date. The victim declined and exited the vehicle.

The friend then followed her and pushed her to the ground, causing her to rip her jeans, cut her right knee and scrape her right palm.

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THEFT

An officer responded to a complaint that a victim was playing basketball at the University of Memphis Campus Recreation Center when he left his belongings on the bleachers. Upon returning, the belongings were missing. There are no suspects.

• An officer responded to a call that a complainant observed a male leaning into the window of a Chevrolet Silverado in the Conlee Lot, located north of the Central parking lot and south of Poplar Avenue. The suspect saw the complainant and ran into a green Honda Civic driven by another male.

The vehicle traveled west on Poplar Avenue. The Silverado’s driver side window was broken in. The victim was not on the scene. Suspects are two 19- and 20-year-old black males about 6 feet tall and 150 pounds.

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Officers responded to the University Center where a male in a Burger King uniform was found stealing food. The suspect ran but was caught between Goodman and Normal streets. The suspect wasn’t charged.

• An officer responded to a report that a complainant left her purse in the women’s restroom in Mitchell Hall at 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 25. She returned and the purse was missing. There are no suspects.

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An officer responded to a call that a complainant was sit-

ting at a desk in the third floor lobby of the Holiday Inn when her phone was taken. The complainant could not remember if she walked away from the desk or if the phone was taken while she was sitting there.

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An officer responded to a report that a complainant left a blue North Face backpack in the patio area of the University Center food court. He later returned, and it was gone. There are no suspects.

• A complainant reported that an unknown suspect stole his bicycle between 5:30 and 8:15 p.m. The bike was reportedly locked to the middle bike rack near the Administration Building.

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An officer responded to a call that a complainant’s Toshiba laptop was stolen between the hours of 2 and 5 p.m. in the Ned R. McWherter Library.

The laptop was left on the first floor in the Learning Commons room. The complainant returned at 5 p.m. and the laptop was missing. There are no suspects.

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An officer responded to a complaint that a student lost her student ID. She checked her balance and found that someone had made several food purchases with the card.

There are no suspects.

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VANDALISM

An officer responded to a call that a victim found damage to the driver’s side door lock, front dash, radio, stereo and car alarm to his 2003 Ford Mustang parked in Lot 46, located behind the Central lot.

The victim estimated that the damage totals at least $600.

There are no suspects.

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FORGERY

An officer responded to a report that a complainant was counting deposits from the previous day in the University Center when he found a counterfeit $20 bill.

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Soccer teams back on the pitch this week

By Corey Carmichael

sports@dailyhelmsman.com Coming off a month-long road trip, the University of Memphis women’s soccer team will face two opponents at home: Southern Methodist University on Thursday and Houston on Saturday.

After dropping three straight conference games, the Tigers will look to finish out the season strong with four games left at Mike Rose Soccer Complex and two more on the road.

The three straight losses Memphis collected do not tell enough, as two of the three were overtime affairs. The Tigers left all the matches with a score of

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are going to come out with a lot of energy, and I believe in this group.

It’s not going to be an easy task, and we are 100 percent focused, and we need to play well to get the result we want.”

The men’s team spent the week preparing to pounce on the Knights of the University of Central Florida.

Following four straight games in Memphis, the team traveled Tuesday to Orlando a day early to gear up for the game, which is set for 6 p.m. Wednesday.

In conference competition, Memphis has won two out of the three games played, with six more matchups scheduled. Memphis hopes to win one of those in Orlando on Wednesday.

class to play at the U of M. Lawson currently plays for the Hamilton Wildcats, alongside his younger brother, Dedric Lawson. His father assists in their coaching.

Dedric, only a sophomore in high school, has already been pegged the No. 4 recruit on the ESPN 25 list for the class of 2016.

Time will tell if the six-foot eightinch, 195-pound power forward will take his older brother’s lead and decide to stay in the Bluff City.

Since April of 2009, after taking the reigns of the basketball program from the former Memphis head coach, Pastner has made a concerted effort to harvest local

talent from within Shelby County.

A quick glance at this year’s roster and this statement is verified. Eight of the 17 players on the 2013-14 lineup are from Memphis, Arlington or Collierville.

Tiger supporters will soon have the chance to see how the group of veteran Memphis players will work with the new 2013 recruiting class. The freshmen and transfer players will put their newly-minted Memphis jerseys on and try to prove why their incoming class was labeled No. 3 in the nation

by ESPN. Memphis Madness is scheduled for Oct. 18. Memphis’ first game is slated for Nov. 8 against Christian Brother’s University.

a beard — a hallmark of an Islamist — and the policeman angrily accused him of intentionally trying to snarl traffic.

Later the same day, workers in one of the city’s country clubs berated a bearded colleague for putting worship ahead of work. “You cannot be at the mosque all day while we do all the work,” one barked.

The Aug. 14 crackdown near the Rabaah mosque left perhaps the deepest scar. The bloodshed gave Islamists a strong sense of martyrdom — but much of the rest of Cairo’s population showed little sympathy, embittered by Morsi’s presidency.

While the largely pro-military media hardly mention the deaths of Morsi supporters, the Sept. 19 killing

by Islamic militants of a police general led to an outpouring of emotion for his widow and children. The interim president received them in his palace, and the education minister personally escorted two of the general’s children to school on the first day of classes.

The curfew imposed during the anti-Mubarak uprising was openly

ignored, but uncustomary discipline has marked the nighttime restrictions put in place since August. Many say they are doing so to aid the crackdown against Islamists.

Mahmoud Ziad, a 23-year-old student who regularly takes part in protests of the coup, said he is haunted by seeing friends shot to death Aug. 14. He has other friends who used to oppose military rule but now support el-Sissi.

“I ask them how can they be happy after all those who were killed. How can they support the killer?”

The other legacy is a seemingly constant state of rebellion. Residents always found ways around rules imposed by overbearing force and bureaucrats. Now they simply break them.

Double- and triple-parked cars clog the streets. Drivers blithely go the wrong way on one-way roads. Police, if they ever show up, are challenged with much bravado.

“The line that separates freedom from criminal chaos has disappeared in

Top recruit commits to Memphis

By Meagan Nichols

sports@dailyhelmsman.com University of Memphis men’s head basketball coach Josh Pastner has established a reputation for bringing in some of the nation’s top recruiting classes.

Another one of the country’s top high school players committed to Tiger Nation on Monday.

K.J. Lawson, No. 21 on ESPN’s top 60 prospects for the 2015 class, made a commitment to stay in his hometown of Memphis, Tenn. to play for the Blue and Gray.

The six-foot seven-inch, 200-pound small forward from Hamilton High School is the first to commit for the 2015 recruiting

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3-2. Head Memphis women’s coach Brooks Monaghan said the losses were tough and the month away from home impacted the team.

“I actually like being on the road, but being on the road that long takes it out of you physically and mentally,” he said. “It wears down on you.”

Monaghan said the team was looking forward to playing at home.

The Tigers have not played a home game since Sept. 13 when they gave Alabama a 6-0 shellacking.

Monaghan said the team would channel that victory when they step back on the pitch Thursday at 7 p.m. against SMU. “We’re looking forward to it,” he said. “My expectations are that we

laborers and migrants from the countryside — were jammed together, forced to get along by smoothing over their differences with a sense of humor.

There was no contradiction seen between deep religious piety — another Cairo nickname is the “City of a Thousand Minarets” — and raucous street weddings with beer and belly dancers.

The city has gone through rapid lurches. The anti-Mubarak uprising saw an idealistic, “revolutionary” optimism.

Under Morsi, conservative Islamists were emboldened, scolding the public to adhere to “God’s law” and vilifying Christians and secular Egyptians.

Now the mood is defined by a media blitz demonizing the Islamists, idolizing military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, and intimidating critics.

One recent morning, a police officer shouted at a man whose car had broken down on a busy overpass. The man had

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF

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golf player Will Pearson

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Senior University of Memphis golfer and Memphis native, Will Pearson, tied for the third-place spot in overall play at the recent Shoal Creek Intercollegiate. The Memphis team won the event.

By Corey Carmichael

sports@dailyhelmsman.com Golf is a sport that pits individuals against an 18-hole course and can frustrate some of the world’s best players. For University of Memphis senior Will Pearson, the experience he has gained through the sport has taught him how to keep an even keel.

In the fall, the Memphis men’s golf team only plays in five different tournaments. College teams pick five players to represent their school at each tournament, and the scores are combined for one team score. In tournament play, the team’s overall score is the one that counts.

Pearson said he does not let the tournament pressure get to him.

“It’s different being a senior.

You get used to tournament play,” Pearson said. “They make every-

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thing exaggerated. If your team misses by one stroke, it hurts worse when you bogey a hole or make a mistake.”

Head Memphis golf coach and former Tiger player, Grant Robbins, said he asks his seniors to take up a leadership role, one that Pearson has stepped right into.

“As a player, Will is very steady, good ball-striker who makes sure to keep it in play,” Robbins said. “He’s a senior who has become a leader, but I don’t ask these guys to be vocal — I just ask that they lead by example.”

Pearson said his favorite golfers are Zach Johnson and Jason Dufner, two professionals who have unique

mindsets when approaching the game of golf. The Tiger senior said both Dufner and Johnson are known for their relaxed demeanor on the course.

“Those guys know they are not going to overpower the golf course,” Pearson said. “I also like the way they handle themselves professionally.”

In his free time, Pearson said he spends a lot of time with the golf team. Outside of team activities, he said they like to go out to dinner together and hang out as a team.

Robbins said he is happy with how the players interact with each other outside of golf.

“It helps immensely to have that

bond,” he said. “Golf is an individual sport, but if you can get a team to play for each other and make each stroke count that is great. If you can get that little extra out of a team, you can go from being an average team to a great team.”

The Tigers recently won the twoday Graeme McDowell Shoal Creek Intercollegiate hosted by UAB on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. The victory helped Memphis solidify the No. 24 team rank in the nation, according to Golfstat.com on Oct. 2.

The Tigers return to action Friday at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate in Jonesborough, Tenn.

Continued from page 7 Cairo,” said Mohammed Hashem, a veteran activist and publisher who transformed the city’s literary scene in the past decade with his patronage of young, experimental novelists.

In a city that was once extremely safe, crime has become more frequent.

Ahmed Mokhles, a 32-year-old doctor, said a youth on a motorcycle snatched his $450 mobile phone out of his hand while he was talking on it. The motorcyclist was slowed down by traffic, and Mokhles nearly caught up with him. But two men on another motorcycle — accomplices, Mokhles believes — blocked him, and the thief escaped.

Everything can conspire to build up stress — a blazing hot day, rising prices, unmoving traffic, family woes.

Allam Oudah, who earns $180 a month as a security guard and drives a taxi to make ends meet, described rushing his daughter to the hospital when she got diarrhea, not just for treatment but also because of mounting diaper costs if she wasn’t quickly cured.

When asked to turn on the air conditioning in the taxi, he broke into a sarcastic rant: “For 10 pounds, I’ll point all the fans at you. If that’s not enough, I’ll fan you myself.”

Fadl, the satirist, said that despite its recent problems, there is a resilience in the city.

“Give Cairo a little respite from its troubles, and it will quickly regain its old spirit,” he said.

Mustafa Ibrahim, a poet, noted the true meaning of the capital’s name — “al-Qahira” — Arabic for “the conquerer.”

“Cairo conquers its own residents as well as anyone who thinks he or she is bigger than the city,” he said. “Cairo can crush you, but it maintains its charm and spirit,” he said.

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