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The University of Memphis has entered a new era of religion — Science Fiction. Michael Melton, junior earth science major, will dress in costume today and preach from a fiction novel next to a Christian preacher outside the University Center as a form of protest against others openly teaching religion on campus. Melton said he first noticed Chad Muller preaching from the Bible every Friday at the beginning of last semester and approached him and other students affiliated with the Baptist Collegiate Ministry to discuss their worldviews and why they believe in their religion. He said he was left unconvinced, so he took matters into his own hands. Melton stages impromptu public lectures every Friday, drawing from his favorite SciFi novels to make a statement about those who stand in the University Center courtyard and preach their religion openly for all to hear.
Michael Melton(left) reads from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe: “In the beginning the universe was created and this has made a lot of people angry and has been regarded as a bad move.” Chad Muller (right center) talks to UM students about the Bible after being interrupted by Melton. “I want to find proof of the truth,” he said. “I don’t care what it is, I just want to know what it is, but the only way I can know is through evidence. I don’t know what the truth is, but just because somebody stands on a chair and reads from a book doesn’t make
it real. It needs to be something that is proven through observation and evidence that everyone can experience.” Sam Norville, senior marketing management major and Christian, said he does not agree with Melton’s actions.
“God isn’t something you feel or see with your eyes, but there are hundreds of eyewitness accounts that all line up,” he said. “It’s evidence that supports itself and doesn’t contradict itself.” Norville said he wants those
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Domestic violence on campus
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BY MICHELLE CORBET News Reporter
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Intimate Partner Violence in the U.S., women ages 20-24 are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence.
Four acts of domestic violence have occurred on The University of Memphis campus in the past two months, one ending in a misdemeanor arrest. There are somewhere between 30 and 40 simple assaults each year, said Derek Myers, deputy director of police services. In 2011 there were 34 incidents of simple assault reported. Of those, 14 were classified as domestic violence. Brittney Taylor, 22-year-old senior criminal justice major, walked into police services Dec. 3 at 11:30 p.m. with evidence of several threatening text messages sent from her 25-year-old ex-boyfriend. “It was more of a threat,” Taylor said upon hearing the words domestic violence. “He was talking about coming up to my dorm and shooting it up. It was a mess. They put him on a no trespassing list, but he’s still around.” No arrest was made in the case. Police classified the situation as assault intimidation, but domesticviolence.org defines domestic violence as behaviors used by one partner to con-
trol the other. Behaviors can be physical, sexual, emotional or psychological abuse. Teresa Diener, project coordinator for The University of Memphis’ Center for Research on Women, said she grew up in a violent home and experienced a violent relationship in her teens. When CROW received a grant from The University, Diener went to training sessions to become qualified in raising educational awareness about what she prefers to call “intimate partner violence.” “It varies from assault to controlling behavior. I don’t have to lay a hand on you for it to be abusive. Intimidating you or going through your Twitter account or Facebook is considered abuse,” Diener said. In addition to the simple assaults reported in the 2011 crime report summary for The U of M, seven of 15 assault intimidation charges consisted of verbal threats, two were stalking complaints and two of five aggravated assaults were classified as domestic violence. “I think it goes unreported a lot. They don’t report it for all
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After President Barack Obama’s signing of the health care reform act in March 2010, The University of Memphis conducted statewide research on the number of uninsured Tennessee citizens without healthcare. The number of uninsured adults under the age of 26 in Tennessee was 20.1 percent, according to a 2009 American Community Survey. Presented in a database analysis, the research is conveyed by U of M’s Methodist Le Bonheur Center for Health Care Economics and The Sparks Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Cyril Chang, director of Methodist Le Bonheur Center for Healthcare Economics, said the study was completed in four parts: the impact of changes in eligibility, changes in health care utilization that result from expanded insurance coverage, impact of expanded coverage and uncompensated care and the impact of the expanded coverage on health care manpower in the state. The research indicated the significance of the health care reform to policy makers and how Tennesseans can better prepare for coverage in the future. The research showed 65.1 percent of Tennesseans under the age of 65 had private insurance, 18.2 percent had public insurance and 16.7 percent of citizens were uninsured. “The policy will reduce the number of uninsured Tennessee citizens by 50 percent,” Chang said. When Obama enacted the health care reform act, college students under 26 years old were mostly insured through their parents. Obama’s health care
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BY CHRISTOPHER WHITTEN News Reporter The Ronald McDonald House of Memphis is hosting its ROCK 103 Radiothon this week, with a little help from The University of Memphis Social Media Club. The radiothon is in its 21st year and has raised more than $7 million since it began. RMHC of Memphis is a “home away from home” for families who are in Memphis while their child is receiving treatment for cancer or other illnesses at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Fitzpatrick said. All families stay free of charge. “I first heard about the Ronald McDonald House in the first year. I wasn’t working for the station at the time, but I was listening from the outside. I was impressed, even back then, about what a great cause it was,” said Brian Jay, disc jockey for ROCK 103. “Over the years I have been a supporter of the House. Even before I worked with the station, I was a donor and it’s something I’ve always believed in.” The radiothon will run
today through 7 p.m. and is broadcast on ROCK 103 from RMHC of Memphis headquarters at 535 Alabama Ave. The U of M Social Media Club, one of the newest registered student organizations on campus, is actively working with RMHC to increase their social media presence. “’Social Media Club for Education’ is an initiative for the national organization but it’s still really small,” said Ashli Blow, president of the club. “We’re the first to do something like this — helping a nonprofit with their social media.” The 11-member student organization helped RMHC of Memphis determine the official Twitter hash tag — #RMHkids. Blow said she is also using Storify to bring the Twitter experience to those not registered with the social network. “Having The University of Memphis Social Media Club involved with the Ronald McDonald House Radiothon is a great opportunity for The U of M Social Media Club to use new media to make a positive contribution to the Memphis community,” said Brittany Fitzpatrick, communications
coordinator for RMHC. Since opening its doors in 1991, The Ronald McDonald House of Memphis has housed over 6,000 children from nearly every state and 45 countries. Fitzpatrick said RMHC of Memphis has put a lot of energy into strengthening their social media presence. The organization will launch several social media campaigns this year to increase awareness within the Memphis community and abroad. “We serve families from all over the United States and the world,” she said. “We have made our site accessible to people from all over the world by adding Google Translate.” RMHC of Memphis has a healthy relationship with The University, Fitzpatrick said. “Being a former Tiger myself, I know how important service is to The University of Memphis, and we want to provide as many opportunities as possible for U of M students to serve our families in need,” she said. RMHC also receives support from other organizations on campus, including the Black Scholars Club and the Memphis Institute for Leadership Education’s men-
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ROCK 103’s Brian Jay juggles interviews as he lays out the questions and answers on his computers at the 21st Annual Ronald McDonald House of Memphis Radiothon on Thursday. The event will continue through 7 p.m. today at The Ronald McDonald House of Memphis headquarters at 535 Alabama Ave. toring program. “We really want to build upon that to get more Tigers involved with Ronald McDonald House,” she said. Ronald McDonald House is often referred to as the “House that Love built,” Fitzpatrick said. “That’s not just a catch phrase, it really is a source of love, comfort, and compas-
sion for families in the midst of the fight of their lives,” she said. “As one of our fathers once said, ‘Together, we’re a diverse band of brothers and sisters waging a war against our common foe every day. Across the street is St. Jude. That is our battlefield. The Ronald McDonald House is our sanctuary. It’s where we find our rest.’”
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Do you believe domestic violence is an issue on our campus? by Brian Wilson
“No. I feel pretty safe as a woman on this campus.”
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who are skeptical to challenge him and question his beliefs with whatever they are curious about. He just wants everyone to be respectful, he said. “What (Melton) is doing is not a debate. It’s an argument and that is not healthy,” Norville said. “He needs to let (Muller) speak without interrupting him and then speak.” Melton said there is no point in quoting various novels, if Muller, who was not available for comment, is not preaching as well. “I want him to consider my feelings and I want to consider his, but what I really want is for everyone to consider everyone’s feelings,” he said. Melton was born in Memphis into a Catholic family and baptized by the Catholic Church when he was a small child. He said he was taught to be Baptist while he lived with his grandfa-
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ther in Heber Springs, Ark. “When I came back to Memphis, I started reading science fiction and I saw how beautiful it was and it lead me to question everything and think critically about life. I just want everyone to think critically about everything,” Melton said. Last week Melton delivered his speech from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” in a bathrobe, but said he didn’t do it to make fun of anyone’s religious belief. “The bathrobe wasn’t a mockery,” he said. “I did that because the main character in ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ wore a bathrobe. When I read ‘Star Trek,’ I will be dressed in a star fleet uniform.” He said an aversion to hate speech is the purpose of him reading fiction books. Melton said he doesn’t like the negative feelings students may receive from being told they’re going to hell. “It’s hate speech and I am sick of it,” Melton said. “I am not saya n n u a l
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ing that (Muller) does it, but if I hear him preaching against gay people or telling everyone that they are going to hell because they aren’t like him, I am going to go all out in my delivery until he quits.” Religion is what Melton said people use for an “excuse to let something happen.” During his speech, he said Muller quoted a scripture that said something along the lines of a fool speaks about what he does not know about. “I probably know more about ‘Star Trek’ than he knows about the Bible. I am willing to put money on it and if only the fool speaks without knowing, then maybe he needs to sit down,” Melton said. Jeff Jones, director of the BCM, spoke up for Muller in his absence. “Muller graduated last semester with a degree in philosophy and had a 4.0 GPA,” Jones said. “He is now in seminary school at Mid-America Baptist Seminary and has studied religion a lot outside school.” Jones said that Muller’s path was similar to the one that Melton is on. “He wasn’t always a Christian,” Jones said. “He was raised Catholic, got exposed to different worldviews and turned his back on God. As he studied more, he came back to God.” Jones said Muller is doing what he does out of love for people and welcomes everyone to come and talk to him. “I am different from (Muller),” Melton said. “It’s something I believe in. Maybe not in the literal sense like him, but I find these stories inspirational. This is more of an art form for me.” Jones said both men are entitled to voice their opinions openly, but it seems they are doing it for different reasons. “It seems like (Melton) is doing this to ridicule what Muller believes in and holds as his life principles,” Jones said. “Maybe he should share what he believes in instead of ‘Star Trek,’ which I am a fan of by the way. Melton said he will stop when he either gets board or it becomes “unimpressive.”
FBI file on Steve Jobs reveals negative reputation BY JEREMY C. OWENS News Reporter The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday released a file it kept on Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, in which interview subjects contacted on a background check discussed his previous drug use and tendency to “twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals.” The FBI conducted a background check on Jobs when then-President George H.W. Bush was considering him for a spot on the President’s Export Council, which he did not receive. Several of the interview subjects told FBI agents that Jobs’ ethics could bend depending on the situation. One subject “characterized Mr. Jobs as a deceptive individual who is not completely forthright and honest”; two former Apple employees “stated that Mr. Jobs has integrity as long as he gets his way.” The file also notes that “Several individuals commented concerning past drug use on the part of Mr. Jobs.” In the FBI interview with Jobs, he told agents he “experimented with marijuana, hashish and LSD” from 1970 to 1974, but said he had not taken any illegal drugs for five years. One interview subject — all names were redacted — told the FBI that Jobs used marijuana and LSD while in college and did not always support a child born out of wedlock nor the mother. Another subject, a woman who apparently had known Jobs since they were young, admitted to experimenting
with different drugs with Jobs, but said that Jobs had become health-conscious and rarely even drank by 1991. “She also stated that his success at Apple which provided an enormous amount of power for the Appointee also caused him at times to lose sight of honesty and integrity and even caused him to distort the truth at times to get his way,” the report on that interview states. That interview subject recommended Jobs for an appointment within the government, as did almost everyone contacted by the FBI, despite many negative feelings conveyed. The interviews took place while Jobs was leading the fledgling computer company he founded after he originally left Apple in a bitter feud. Apple sued Jobs for allegedly taking proprietary information with him when he left, a lawsuit that is referenced several times in the FBI file. The FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division was contacted on the manner, according to a letter in the file from that group’s head at the time, but he said an investigation was not in order. Jobs later returned to Apple as CEO when the company was on the verge of bankruptcy and led it back to a powerful position in the tech community thanks to the development of the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad devices. Bloomberg News reported that the FBI released the documents after a Freedom of Information Act request — FBI files can be made public after a person’s death. Jobs died Oct. 5 at age 56 of complications from a long battle with cancer.
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Pentagon says women in military to see more combat BY NANCY A. YoUSSeF McClatchy Newspaper
such positions only at the brigade level of combat, usually farther from the front lines. A brigade consists of three to five battalions, or as many as 6,000 troops. Until the change, women at the battalion level were limited to jobs considered in the rear of a formation — such as medics, logisticians, personnel and other support roles. The policy shift acknowledges that in today’s wars — where a
percent of Marines. In explaining its reasons for continuing to bar women from A decade after the United serving in infantry positions and States launched two wars that put special forces, the department said women at the front lines of unconthat it needed more time to study ventional fighting, the Pentagon the issue, citing “the austere concrept closer Thursday to formally ditions and the physical demands allowing them to serve in comof such operations.” bat by announcing an additional More than 238,000 combat14,000 combat-related jobs for related jobs remain closed to female service members. women, Principal Director for The changes are intended to Military Personnel Policy Maj. acknowledge the Gen. Gary Patton role women play told reportin today’s wars o continue such a ban is to ers at a briefing and give them ignore the talents and leadership Thursday. more chances Indeed, the to rise up the change wouldn’t that women bring to the military ranks. open women up P a r t i c u l a r l y military, and it further penalizes to a draft, should affected will be one be instatservicewomen by denying the Army, the ed, since they them the opportunity for future couldn’t serve in largest of the services, where the promotions and assignments that the same way as vast majority of men. are primarily given to personnel combat-related Critics said roles currently that the U.S. from combat arms specialties.” military is movare held by men. H o w e v e r, ing too slowly women still toward an inevi— Anu Bhagwati won’t be allowed table change. Service Women’s Action Network co-founder to serve in speEven Pentagon cial forces or officials concedinfantries — the front-line fighting battle line is no longer represented ed it was an incremental step, units—causing some advocates by thousands of troops marching suggesting that women will evenand service members to argue that toward enemy fire, but instead tually be allowed in combat. the changes don’t go far enough. can be a sole armored vehicle trav“To continue such a ban is The policy change, which the eling through a community _ the to ignore the talents and leadPentagon announced as part of threat of explosives, sniper attacks ership that women bring to the a congressionally mandated and firefights aren’t limited to military, and it further penalizes review and is set to take effect men. Anyone who leaves a base is servicewomen by denying them in the spring, opens to women exposed to combat. the opportunity for future pro13,139 positions in combat units According to Department of motions and assignments that — such as tank mechanic, artillery Defense statistics, by the end of are primarily given to personnel mechanic and crews on multiple- 2011, 144 women were killed in from combat arms specialties,” launch rocket systems. Iraq and Afghanistan, which rep- Anu Bhagwati, a former Marine In addition, the change opens resented 2 percent of the troop Corps captain and co-founder 1,186 combat-related jobs —such deaths in those wars. Another 865 of the Service Women’s Action as intelligence officers —to women were injured. Women accounted Network, an advocacy group, said at the battalion level, closer than for 280,000 of the 2.3 million who in a statement. they’ve been before to the fight- served in the wars, or about 12 The change is intended to help ing. Up until the changes, women percent. Women make up 17 per- women advance their careers, under a 1994 policy could serve in cent of the active Army and 7 which has been made more dif-
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ficult by their lack of combat experience. The report found that retention rates of women in the military after 20 years of service is significantly lower than that of their male counterparts. The Army didn’t promote its first fourstar female general, Gen. Ann Dunwoody, until 2008; she rose through the ranks as a logistician. The role of women in the U.S. military evolved dramatically over the past decade. As the demand for troops grew, particularly during the war in Iraq, women undeniably served on the front lines. Their commanders maneuvered around the Pentagon rules by attaching units with women in
them to combat battalions, where women could do the work but wouldn’t receive combat decorations or other credit for being in combat. The U.S. military lags behind many of its coalition partners in Afghanistan on this issue. Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy and Australia all allow women to serve in combat roles. The changes have the least impact on the Navy and Air Force, where most jobs are open to women. The Air Force is now planning to promote its first female four-star general, Lt. Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger. Wolfenbarger also is a logistician.
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kinds of reasons — shame, guilt, they don’t want to get their partner in trouble. I think it’s unreported with men also. It’s not socially acceptable for men to step forward,” Diener said. According to an offense report from police services, the most recent domestic violence incident occurred on Jan. 17 at 9:08 p.m. when Ashley Holloway, 19-year-old freshman teaching all learners major, and her 20-year-old boyfriend got into an argument that became physical at Richardson Towers. The fight began when Holloway’s boyfriend was looking through her phone while she worked on a school assignment. When he saw she had been talking to another man, he became angry, Holloway said. She checked him out of the dorm, but he refused to return Holloway’s phone. “He was real strict about me talking to other dudes. I was talking to one I’ve known since
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high school. My advice for girls and harder and I blacked out for her boyfriend, 17-year-old who are around my age is if a minute. He finally let me go. LaDarrius Deshuan Christian, a dude doesn’t want you talk- I started walking to call police. got into a verbal fight that ing to other dudes, let them go; He would call me back to get my turned physical and resulted in don’t date them. There’s only phone and drive off as I tried to a misdemeanor, vandalism and one person who controls your get it,” Holloway said. simple assault charges, accordlife, and that’s you,” Holloway Holloway said that later that ing to the incident report. It hapsaid. night her boyfriend called her pened Dec. 2 at 5:50 p.m. at The argument continued to roommate to let Holloway know Brown’s Park Avenue Campus the boyfriend’s vehiresidence in Robert cle where it escalated, Everett Cv. buse happens across she said. University The argument ended with of Memphis Police all races and socioeconomic Christian throwServices classified the incident as simple backgrounds. It doesn’t have ing furniture and damaging Brown’s assault. boundaries.” “He called me a hoe property, police and all that. He made said. As objects — Teresa Diener were thrown me really mad, so I Center for Research on Women around the bedstarted yelling back. project coordinator room and living He told me to shut up. Since I wouldn’t, room area, several he choked me, pushed me out he dropped her phone off at the hit Brown. “He was saying he was gathof the car and locked me out,” steps of Richardson Towers. Holloway said. Holloway’s boyfriend did not ering his things to leave, but it was in a manner that was In exchange for her phone, return calls for comment. Holloway said, her boyfriend Holloway later dropped the more than ‘I’m going to grab wanted gas money. charges because she said it was my things and go,’” said Derek “I gave him money because too much to deal with the legal Myers, deputy director of police my phone is my life—my work, process while in college. The services. Brown contacted police when my mom. He still wouldn’t give case is still under investigation. me the phone, so we decided we Last semester, 18-year-old she fled from her residence and were over. He choked me longer Erica Brown, a freshman, and called from another. Officer
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J. Wilson and officer Busby Templeton responded to the scene. Brown did not have any injuries the officers observed, but they witnessed the vandalism of her property. “He actually broke some furniture, and I imagine there was some damage to the walls,” Myers said. Officer Templeton arrested Christian. Being a minor, he was sent to juvenile hall. The case is under investigation. “Abuse happens across all races and socioeconomic backgrounds. It doesn’t have boundaries. I can go into a room of many kinds of women — young, old, Asian, black, white, Latino — to share my story, and I see many heads nodding,” Diener said. Diener said free counseling is available to U of M students at the Career and Psychological Counseling Center in Wilder Tower, and free confidential counseling is available 24-hours a day at 901-CRISIS7, a live telephone support hotline run by volunteers of United Way and UT Health Science Center.
College sells morning-after pills from vending machine BY RICARDO LOPEZ MCT
A central Pennsylvania college is surprised to find itself the center of media attention this week simply for selling Plan B, the so-called morning-after pill, from a vending machine. After all, the machine has offered the pills for at least two years, said Peter Gigliotti, spokesman for Shippensburg University, a public school about 40 miles southwest of Harrisburg. “This is nothing new,” he said. “I have no idea why it’s getting the reaction it’s getting now.” But women’s reproductive health has been a hot topic of late, and an Associated Press story on the vending machine was bound to get noticed.
Much is being made of the Obama administration’s requirement that even Catholic organizations provide contraception coverage to employees via their health
ed that 56 percent of voters agreed that health plans should cover the cost of contraceptives. Further, it found, a majority of voters said Catholic institutions should
from Planned Parenthood, a move many say was motivated by the health care organization’s support for abortion services. Gigliotti said the vending
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be sexually active. The university does strongly encourage all students to make wise and appropriate decisions in their lives, but we have no way to ensure that happens.” — Peter Gigliotti Shippensburg University spokesman plans. The requirement has drawn sharp criticism from some corners, and signs of support from others. On Tuesday, a Public Policy Polling survey conducted for Planned Parenthood report-
not be exempted from the requirement. And last week, Susan G. Komen for the Cure suffered a public relations debacle of epic proportions when the cancer group pulled funding
machine was installed at the urging of the school’s student government after a survey found that 85 percent of students supported the effort. “We value student input on matters that directly pertain
to their health and safety, so these results were an important part of the decision-making process,” he wrote in a statement. The vending machine, which also dispenses condoms and pregnancy tests, is in a private room at the college’s student clinic and is accessible only by students _ all of whom are 17 or older, the age at which Plan B is available without a prescription. “The university is not encouraging anyone to be sexually active,” Gigliotti said in a statement. “The university does strongly encourage all students to make wise and appropriate decisions in their lives, but we have no way to ensure that happens.” The school does not subsidize the cost of the drug, which sells at $25 a pop.
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BY SCOTT HALL Sports Editor The Memphis Tigers will put a 12-game winning streak against UAB on the line as they welcome the Blazers to the FedExForum tomorrow night, a streak that dates back to 2006. Entering Saturday’s game against UAB, Memphis is tied with Southern Miss for first place in Conference USA with a 7-2 league record. Southern Miss fell to UAB on Wednesday, while secondplace Tulsa lost on the road to UTEP. Memphis will hope for continued improvement from senior forward Wesley Witherspoon, whose performance has stepped up considerably in the last few games. After scoring 22 points in the first game against Belmont, he struggled to produce on the
floor, failing to score in double digits until the game against Marshall on Jan. 28. However, he has scored 12 points in three of the last four games, and head coach Josh Pastner said the credit must go to his player. “I’d like to say it’s all my coaching, but it’s not,” Pastner said. “Wesley is continuing to get better. He’s got to stay the course and continue to do what he’s been doing.” Pastner was complimentary about sophomore guard Joe Jackson’s recent performances, whose playing time has increased despite not exactly lighting it up offensively. “His whole game is dictated through his defense,” Pastner said. “The game is being slower to him. The last two games he has 15 assists to seven turnovers, and some of those turnovers weren’t his fault.”
Softball season starts
BY DAVID CAFFEY Sports Reporter The era of new head coach Natalie Poole begins today as the University of Memphis softball team opens up their season on the road with a doubleheader against No. 2/3 Alabama and South Alabama in the Mardi Gras Invitational in Mobile, Ala. For Poole, opening the season against a team as highly ranked as the Crimson Tide can set the tone and establish expectations for the rest of the season. “You’re facing a team (Alabama) that you’re going to see in the postseason,” Poole said. “You’re facing a team that’s basically going to create every scenario that you need to be in before you get into conference play” Memphis is 0-2 all-time against the Crimson Tide with the last meeting in the first round of the 2011 NCAA Tuscaloosa regional tournament in which The U of M fell 7-1. The Tigers will take on tournament host South Alabama in the second game of the doubleheader, the first of two times the teams will meet during the tournament. The U of M will continue the weekend with games against Jacksonville State and Mississippi State. All four teams that Memphis will face are in the top 70 of the RPI. Poole said her team recognizes the challenge that comes with opening the season on the road against top-level teams. “They understand what it’s going to take, and they understand that all those teams we’re facing here in the beginning are all teams in the end that we want to see,” Poole said. “If we can’t compete with that then we’re going to struggle when we get to post-season.” After finishing up in Mobile, the Tigers head to Las Vegas, Nev. for the Louisville Slugger Desert Classic and an opening match up with UNLV. The weeklong tournament will also include games against Hawaii, BYU and Indiana.
Jackson is not shooting particularly well of late, hitting 13-of-44 (29.5 percent) from the floor in the last seven games. Despite this, Pastner said he was pleased with Jackson’s play. “He’s been great in both of those games and it’s without even scoring or making a bunch of shots. He’s been great through defense, fiftyfifty balls and making the right reads to pass,” he said. Jackson has also turned out to be the most consistent Memphis player from the free throw line. He is hitting 86.7 percent of his foul shots this season, and has gone 31-of-34 (91.2 percent) from the charity stripe in the last five games, including 12-of-12 against Xavier. Memphis will have to contain senior forward Cameron Moore, who leads the team with 16.4 points and 10.8
by David C. Minkin
Jackson, Witherspoon keys for UM
Sophomore guard Joe Jackson dives to try to keep a ball inbounds against Xavier. Jackson has played well recently, despite shooting poorly from the field. rebounds per game. Moore led the Blazers on Jan. 7 with 20 points on 7-of-14 shooting. Sophomore wing Jordan Swing also will also concern the Tigers, after he hit five three-pointers and scored 19 points when Memphis won
62-59 in Birmingham. “We got lucky up there in Birmingham,” Pastner said. “They missed a shot that would’ve sent it to overtime. We were fortunate and we’re going to have to play a great game.”
“It’s going to be a tough couple of weeks on the road,” Poole said. “We’re going to play 11 games in two weeks” The Tigers were picked to finish fourth in Conference USA’s preseason poll, the highest the team has been placed in the program’s six-year history. Poole said the team has their sight set on another postseason appearance. “Because they’ve made it, they know what it takes to get back,” she said. “We’ve set our goals based on what they’ve accomplished and taking them a step further.” Memphis’ home opener is Feb. 21 against Mississippi Valley State, and they will host the Blues City Classic tournament beginning against Miami (Ohio) on Feb. 24.
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