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Helmsman garners awards BY CHRISTINA HOLLOWAY News Reporter Current and former Daily Helmsman staff members attended the 2011 Southeastern Journalism Conference Friday, bringing home six awards, including the top award for Best Overall College Journalist of the Year. The competition — which is known as the Best of the South — is held annually at colleges in the southeast. Ten people are ranked in each category. Managing Editor Chelsea Boozer was presented with College Journalist of the Year, beating out 41 other universities in the southeast. Stories submitted for consideration of the award included coverage of The University’s possible federal violations of the Clery Act as determined in an audit by the Department of Education. Other winners included Michelle Corbet, who placed ninth in arts and entertainment; former reporter Erica Horton, who placed fifth in features; Boozer, who placed fourth in news; former Editor-In-Chief Scott Carroll, who placed third in the opinion category; former staff member Cole Epley who placed sixth in layout and former Sports Editor John Martin, who placed first in sports. Carroll’s Best of the South award was garnered after judges reviewed editorials he’d written on issues of campus safety, including whether a bill should be passed allowing firearms on campus and the importance of officials utilizing The University’s emergency text message system responsibly. “Most of it is just the staff we get,” Carroll said. “We got more motivated and better reporters every semester that I was there, and it made my job easier. The same way with the editorials – the reporters were doing such good work. All of the information I needed to put an opinion on was there in their stories.” Martin, the Best Sports Reporter of the South, was
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Services to university part of citywide dialogue BY ELIZABETH COOPER News Reporter Hot dust sprayed Scott Mar’Quella in the face as a Memphis Area Transit Authority bus passed her 45 minutes after her first bus broke down. When the senior criminology major arrived on campus, she was an hour and 40 minutes late to her financial aid meeting.
Mar’Quella remembered this as her least favorite MATA experience. Now she is upset over increased fares and cut services to The University of Memphis that became effective in December. Her student perspective is one component of the Transportation Task Force that addressed the issues of inequality they
believe are inherent in the Memphis public transportation system at a town hall meeting Jan. 28. The group is now forming the Memphis Bus Riders Union to
increase public input and accountability for public transportation services in Memphis. “Public transportation is a civil rights issue,” said Laura Sullivan, a community organizer with the TTF, at the meeting. In a city where an estimated one-third of the population lacks access to private
transportation, poor services and high fares reflect the city’s inability to meet the needs of its people, Sullivan said.
Many of those reliant on public transportation are African American and working class, she said. Alison Burton, Director of Marketing and Customer Relations at MATA, views the issues from a different perspective.
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‘What Not to Wear’ in Memphis BY MICHELLE CORBET News Reporter
Students have a chance to participate as extras on the set of The British Broadcasting Corporation’s popular reality TV series “What Not to Wear” when it records an episode in Memphis today. The production crew creates a ruse in order to distract the person who is being surprised by their friends and family with a trip to New York City for a $5,000 makeover by hosts Stacy London and Clinton Kelly. BBC is recording three episodes of “What Not to Wear” in Memphis. The company, which is based out of New York City, has been filming in town for three weeks. Thus far, they have been to STAX Museum of American Soul Music on Monday and The Pink Palace Museum on Tuesday.
“Every city we go to, we like to shoot areas that are indicative of the city — STAX, Pink Palace. We like to showcase the city and its different attractions,” said Cynthia Bruck, one of two directors of the Memphis show. About 15 hours of each day are spent working on an episode. The BBC sent emails and flyers around town to advertise for fill-in roles on the show. Extras spend about five hours on the set, but are only needed for one scene. “It’s typical TV and movie stuff, ‘hurry up and wait’,” said extra Larry Clark, a former U of M student who decided college wasn’t for him and joined the Ringling Brothers Circus as a clown. The “What Not to Wear” directors prep the extras for the scene in which they surprise the person nominated for a makeover by their friends and family.
Before doing the real scene, the extras go through a rehearsal. “Make sure to look at the main action, not the camera. It loses the sense of reality,” said Director Brandon Phillips while directing the Pink Palace shoot Tuesday. The ploy at The Pink Palace filming was that a film company was coming to shoot a constellation show at the planetarium to present to potential donors. Everyone in the planetarium knew about the surprise that was about to take place except for The Pink Palace employee chosen as a contestant. “I love to watch the people and the production — I like the atmosphere,” said extra Sally Molasky, or Happy Johnson as she’s called on the stage, a former U of M student who is now a comedian and actress. When watching the constellation show, the outline of stars for
the last constellation was in the shape of the contestant. The narrators of the constellation show, London and Kelly, said the stars were not quite as bright or shiny as they could be. The outline then transformed into a photo of the employee. Six cameras were placed around the planetarium to capture the employee’s look of shock and excitement. “Reality is the spur of the moment. If you miss it, there’s no going back,” said Sean Davis, assistant camera operator and U of M Film and Video Production alumnus. The shows are expected to air on TLC this summer. BBC is shooting the last episode in Memphis today at the Mr. Pride Carwash on Poplar Ave. If interested in being an extra on the show, contact Esther Llamas at ellamas@nybbcproduction.com.
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Santorum’s voting record at odds with tea party’s fiscal philosophy BY DAvID LIGHTMAN & WILLIAM DOUGLAS MCT Supporters of the tea party movement, the grassroots conservatives who’ve been relentless in demanding tough, lean budgets, are rallying behind Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum — but Santorum’s record suggests he’s hardly one of them. His support among tea party Republicans is surging, according to a new Pew Research Center poll, which labels him the clear favorite of the influential group. Yet while Santorum was a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007, he was hardly the kind of die-hard fiscal conservative whom movement followers crave. “His record contains more than a few weak spots that make us question if he would resist political expediency when it comes to economic issues,” said an analysis from the Club for Growth, which promotes fiscal conservatism. Added Mark Meckler, a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, “There are places you can say yes and places you can say no” as to whether Santorum is a rock-solid fiscal conservative. The former senator, Meckler
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Inernational
Syrian violence finds its echo in Lebanon
In this northern Lebanese city, two adjoining neighborhoods reflect the growing concern that the violence raging in Syria could soon spill into Lebanon, whose own sectarian civil war captivated the world a generation ago. On the one side are the men of Bab al-Tabbaneh, a Sunni Muslim area that openly embraces the Free Syrian Army, the band of military defectors that has taken up arms against Syrian President Bashar Assad. On the other are the men of Jebel Mohsen, an enclave that is predominantly Alawite, the Shiite Muslim sect to which Assad and much of his inner circle belong. For two days last week, fighting shook the two neighborhoods, leaving three civilians dead and two dozen wounded, including members of the Lebanese army, which was deployed Sunday to separate the antagonists. But while calm has been restored, tensions remain high, and neither side expects the peace to hold. “We’ve broken holes in walls to allow people to pass safely from one building to the next,” a Sunni fighter in Bab al-Tabbaneh told a visiting reporter over the weekend. The atmosphere remained
defiant in Jebel Mohsen a few hours later. Fighters crowded around a reporter, chanting, “With our blood, our soul, we fight for you, Bashar!” Photos of Assad dotted the street. This is not the first round of fighting between the neighborhoods, whose conflict dates at least to the Syrian
a massacre of hundreds in the neighborhood in the 1980s, when the Syrian military occupied Lebanon. “Everyone here has someone who was killed,” said one militiaman, who identified himself only as “Tiger.” Their lingering anger underscores the fragility of
and expressions of support for Hamas, the Sunni fundamentalist political party that runs the Gaza Strip and that the United States has declared a terrorist organization. “Hezbollah is the devil,” said one of the militiamen, referring to the Shiite militia and political party that is now
Sunni Muslim fighters in the Bab al Tabbaneh neighborhood of Tripoli, Lebanon, clashed for two days with Lebanese supporters of Syrian president Bashar al Assad. army’s invasion of Lebanon in 1976 during the long Lebanese civil war, which claimed as many as 200,000 lives from 1975 to 1990. Militiamen and local leaders in Bab al-Tabbaneh said the violence stretches back to
what passes for stability here after the civil war that pitted Muslim against Christian and Shiite against Sunni. In Bab al-Tabbaneh, the complexity of the loyalties is on display. There are photos of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein
Lebanon’s dominant political player and a longtime Assad ally. The militia, which has leveraged more than two decades of armed resistance against Israel into political clout, now finds its relationship to its Syrian patrons more
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polarizing than perhaps ever before. “We are honored to support the Free Syrian Army,” said another militiaman. The views of the men in Bab al-Tabbaneh are shared by some members of Lebanon’s Parliament. “The Lebanese army is not doing its part to protect civilians against the pro-Syrians,” said Moyeen Murabi, a member of the Lebanese Parliament with the March 14th Coalition, a grouping of political parties named for protests that helped end the Syrian occupation in 2005. “We are afraid this will happen in other areas.” But the army itself is torn between supporters and opponents of Syria and Hezbollah, Murabi said. “The commanders of the Lebanese army are not confident soldiers will follow orders,” he said. “Otherwise, the Lebanese army should take action against any movement from any side that causes death and destroys property.” Murabi predicted that violence would plague Tripoli, and perhaps get worse, as long as the Syrian uprising continues. “We hope that when the Syrian regime falls, the situation will be better,” Murabi said. “The region cannot tolerate this regime anymore, or this mentality.”
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Arts & Entertainment
Grammys backstage highlights How the Beach Boys would pull off a reunion tour and album, what Adele’s ex thought of the success of “21,” if Grammy producers planned to pan to Chris Brown or Rihanna for a reaction shot during their respective performances and whether or not Lil Wayne was arrested at the ceremony (that was an Internet hoax) were some of the burning questions on reporters’ minds at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday. There were some answers: Al Jardine promised the Beach Boys’ forthcoming album would rival “Pet Sounds”; Adele assured us she thought the lad that provided the source material for “21” would be “very happy” for her wins. And there were some questions — namely: What do you ask the winner of best album notes when they are awkwardly thrown to the wolves in the press room? (Sorry, no answer for that one.) Here are a few vignettes from the backstage action: —Adele’s ‘peaceful’ recovery One of the lingering questions leading up to the Grammys was if the British soul singer would be ready to perform after treatment for a vocal cord hemorrhage in early October. The injury forced her to cancel a 10-date sold-out U.S. tour just as her tour de force disc “21” was shattering sales records. No one was more excited for her triumphant return and clean sweep of awards than the 23-yearold as she floated into a room full of applauding reporters all curious about her recovery. “It’s actually been really, really peaceful. It’s been a bit traumatic ... but being silent in such a nosy world was actually a bit of a blessing in disguise,” she giggled. “Thank God my voice healed and I stuck to all the rules they gave me. I’ve never been happier. I’m just glad to be back.” “I’m so mouthy ... so I’m glad to be forced to be quiet.” Justin Vernon doesn’t regret Grammy snub, felt unworthy of win Kanye West should take note. Bon Iver mastermind Justin Vernon snubbed the show beforehand and still found plenty of Grammy love — especially when the laid-back folkman took home the win for best new artist on Sunday. Vernon had the Net buzzing when he reportedly rejected an offer to perform because Grammy producers wanted him to do a collaboration with another artist, which he refused — he did at least say the proposed artist was awesome. A source said the fallout came from the singer being disappointed that producers wanted him on a satellite stage solo, and not with his full band — “Homie don’t play that.” “I don’t regret it,” Vernon said of the decision backstage. “There (were) so many people doing great music up there. Bonnie and Alicia stole the show for me. It was everything I wanted to hear.” The Wisconsin-bred band bested front-runner Nicki Minaj for
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Paul McCartney, second from left, gets by with “a little help from his friends” during the finale of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday. the best new artist trophy and took home a win for alternative album, and each time Vernon displayed a humbled sense of disbelief that was much more endearing (and adorable) than Taylor Swift’s exhausting OMG! face. “At some point I got really nervous. Maybe because I feel like I didn’t deserve to be here. This is the biggest night in music but a very small Staples Center. There’s much more music than that.” Trey Parker glad he has Mormon fans The first question for “The Book of Mormon” co-creator Trey Parker wasn’t how it felt to take home a Grammy for musical theater album. Instead, he was quizzed on how Mormons have reacted to the show’s lightning success. Parker, along with fellow “South Park” creator Matt Stone, have seen their debut Broadway musical — a profanity-laced look at missionaries in AIDS-plagued Africa — take the Great White Way by storm. “We actually are very happy to find that Mormons like the show,” a laughing Parker said (Stone didn’t attend Sunday’s ceremonies). “For some, it’s like their ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ We know when they are there because they laugh at some of the stuff others don’t.” When asked about creating the book for the unapologetically politically incorrect show, Parker quipped that though he was good at conjuring up “catchy little ditties,” it was still an overwhelming process. “Writing comedy songs is hard. As big fans of musicals, we wanted to do a show where the songs really matter,” Parker said. “Writing songs that are plot-driven is really hard. It was such a complete collaboration. You’d start with this cute little song and it would become this (big number).” “You need people in the room to write songs,” co-composer / lyricist Robert Lopez chimed in. “Because if you’re by yourself, (there’s) no one laughing.”
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Basketball
Defense keeps Tigers in the driver’s seat BY SCOTT HALL Sports Editor The high-flying University of Memphis Tigers take their game to the Big Easy tonight as they take on Tulane. Memphis is coming off a 34-point drubbing of Conference USA rival UAB, and they need a win to remain in the hunt for the C-USA regular season title. Memphis and Southern Miss are tied atop the C-USA standings with identical 8-2 records, while Tulsa is hovering a half-game back at 8-3. Southern Miss faces Tulsa tonight, so wins by Tulsa and Memphis would move the Tigers into sole possession of first place with five games to go. The Tigers credit their position
in the standings to better focus and In addition to scoring defense, per game overall. tighter defense. Memphis has stepped up in other Memphis’ paint presence has “We’ve improved in a lot of areas. Despite getting outrebound- continued to develop as the seaareas,” said head coach Josh ed by East Carolina on Feb. 8, son has progressed. The Tigers are averaging 35.1 Pastner. “We continue to get better, rebounds per game limiting their which allows you to n conference play, anybody while opponents to 33.6 have carryover, which allows you to have can beat anyone. There are no boards per game. The Tigers’ tight confirmation that gimmes.” you’re getting better.” defense has helped them recover from a In the last two — Josh Pastner 6-5 start to the season. games, the Tigers Head basketball coach Memphis has won 12 have held their oppoof the last 14 games, nents, East Carolina and is on a three-game and UAB, to 36.4 percent shooting from the field Memphis racked up 13 steals, two winning streak. The only losses for and 35.4 percent from three-point shy of matching the season high. the Tigers during this run came range. For the season as a whole, The Tigers also stole the ball eight to Central Florida (68-67) and Memphis has limited its oppo- times against UAB and forced Southern Miss (75-72), both on the nents to 38.5 percent shooting, and the Blazers into 12 turnovers. road. The Tigers will need their just 31.9 percent from deep. Memphis is averaging 7.6 steals
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defense to stay at that level when they head to New Orleans to face Tulane. The Green Wave has three players averaging more than 10 points per game. Ricky Tarrant (14.4 ppg), Jordan Callahan (12.3) and Josh Davis (10.3) are all potent weapons for the Green Wave, and Pastner is well aware of the threat. Last year, Memphis got all it could from Tulane, who pushed the Tigers for 39 minutes before finally falling 66-61 at the FedExForum. Kendall Timmons and Callahan combined for 25 points and five steals in that game, as the team hit nine threes to keep the game close into the final minute. “In conference play, anybody can beat anyone,” Pastner said. “There are no gimmes. Everyone is good.”
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The honors and accolades have piled up around the little French silent film “The Artist” all through this awards’ season — Critic’s Choice Awards, Golden Globes, and a Director’s Guild of America honor for writer-director Michel Hazanavicius. “I didn’t ask for all this,” Hazanavicius says with a laugh. “I made a movie that had a very low budget, that I struggled to get made. Now, I don’t know how to describe what happened or define what has happened, but we have 10 nominations for the Oscars. That is huge, especially for a French film — a French film about Old Hollywood. It’s a dream, like a Hollywood fairytale, the kind of story that
happens to other people. This time, I am living that fairytale.” Pretty heady stuff for a little-known French director with a thing for Old Hollywood — VERY Old Hollywood. “The Artist,” an un-ironic homage to silent films and the Hollywood of the silent movie era, has been acclaimed since it first screened at Cannes last May, with rapturous reviews greeting its arrival in American theaters. “It’s like we found a magic formula. I wasn’t looking for that. I just wanted to make a movie people would enjoy, and then all this happened.” French film buffs know what the filmmaker is talking about when he expresses surprise at all this glory. He’s immersed himself in old-style cinema before, mimicking the look and campy feel of ‘60s spy movies
(and black-and-white World War II action pictures) with his “OSS 117” movies, featuring his dapper and ridiculously dashing “Artist” leading man, Jean Dujardin, as a spy with a touch of Errol Flynn about him. “The Artist” is the pinnacle of that period-look / periodparody style — without the parody. “The ‘OSS’ movies were sarcastic,” Hazanavicius says. “ I wanted to make films that if you turned off the sound, you would think you were watching a film made back then ... After those films, I realized it would be possible to make the illusion more complete, to make a silent movie that looked as if it was made in the’20s.” He studied the editing and lighting styles of the great silent movie makers, from F.W. Murnau (“Sunrise”) to Joseph Von Sternberg (1927’s “Underworld”) and Frank Borzage (“Seventh Heaven”). He took pains to avoid rewatching a couple of his favorite movies — Billy Wilder ’s vamp about a faded silent film star, “Sunset Boulevard,” and the musical about the upheaval that the arrival of talking movies heralded in Hollywood — “Singing in the Rain.” “I knew I was borrowing from them for my story, but I didn’t want to borrow too much. They were my inspiration.” Being a serious silent film buff, he knew the medium’s reputation for hammy, broad acting is unwarranted. “Look at ‘The Crowd’ or ‘Sunrise.’ The acting is very natural. So Jean (Dujardin) is not playing his character like Douglas Fairbanks. He is very natural, and the only difference is the way the audience pays attention to him, to all the actors in the movie. When you look at the faces, you pay more attention to the expressions.”
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from page 1 “I just don’t understand it,” Burton said. “It is really disheartening to me that people want to make it about race and class when there is so much history about public transportation trying to help.” She recalled growing up as a member of the black community during the era of integration when some of the first jobs in Memphis for black men were as bus operators, a position often held with pride. “Many of these people were the first to retire with benefits,” she said. When the black bus drivers began to drive the buses, the white ridership decreased, Burton said. She also said many people refused to ride a bus if a black man was driving. As people moved to the suburbs, so did the jobs, she said. This east to west route structure is what the TTF said reflects the era of Jim Crow when domestic servants took buses to the wealthy neighborhoods out east. “The system hasn’t been updated to reflect the needs of the people that rely on it,” Sullivan said in reference to desired improvements on routes north and south. MATA said at the meeting it agrees that a structural change is necessary to increase customer satisfaction. MATA had an ongoing campaign to get more customer input on the restructuring of the transit system before it implemented the fare increase and route changes in December, Burton said. She also said they ran ads in The U of M directory at least twice to spread awareness about route options to campus. Student ridership is not at the level MATA would like to see, she said. “We don’t service as many students as we used to.” A cutback in services implemented in December 2011 eliminated route 2 from downtown to The U of M and limited night service to 5:30 p.m. on the 5-Central, an issue which Mar’Quella finds fault with. “Now I have to walk to the corner of Patterson and Poplar at night,” she said. “It’s dangerous. There’s no light there, no shelter when it’s raining.” The closest sheltered bus stop is Poplar at Highland where a bus runs downtown until 10:45 p.m. or eastbound until 11:45 p.m. The route services to the U of M were cut because the ridership sensors in the buses reflected poor rider rates to the U of M area, Burton said. Mar’Quella will join the first meeting of the Memphis Bus Rider Union this Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the AFSCME Union Hall, she said.
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Tigers declaw the Cougars BY DAvID CAFFEY Sports Reporter Houston scored the first four points in Sunday’s game against the University of Memphis, but the Tigers answered with an 11-0 run and never looked back. The University of Memphis women’s basketball team (19-5, 9-2 C-USA) dominated Houston (2-21, 1-10 C-USA), 69-41 at home Sunday. The team was led by Nicole Dickson’s 14 points and Jasmine Lee’s nine points. The Tigers’ defense stole the show, holding Houston to just 11-of-55 (20 percent) from the floor while Memphis’s offense took advantage, shooting 25-of71 (35 percent). “The last two weeks, we have been nothing but defending and rebounding,” said head coach Melissa McFerrin. “That has been our mantra in practices.” Memphis entered the second half with a 30-20 lead and broke the game open with a 21-5 run to open the half. The second-half lead gave freshmen Jailyn Norris and Lauren McGraw the opportunity to play more minutes than usual. Norris scored a career-high 13 points during her 15 minutes in the game. “When the lead goes up and you get minutes, you still have to do everything right.” McGraw said. “You can’t just go in there and ‘junk up’ shots.” The Cougars were led by Roxana Button’s 14
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Junior forward Nicole Dickson scored a team high 14 points and contributed eight rebounds in Sunday’s win over Houston.
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