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Watch out Netflix, here comes ResLife. The University of Memphis has been offering in-house movies for students living in dorms, but for Peter Groenendyk, director of residence life and dining services, it wasn’t enough. The students weren’t satisfied either. “You had to wait for the movie,” said Brittany Boton, sophomore African-American studies major. “They showed the movies on one channel at specified times, so if you had something to do, you might miss the movie. And the good movies only came on on weekends.” Groenendyk said he knew he had to make a change. “I actually considered canceling our contract (with Swank Motion Pictures). We had no way to determine how many students were actually watching,” he said. “But our movie company had a new program, so we tried that.” Swank Motion Pictures has been offering online movie streaming for two years, said Alex Pieschel, a sales associate for their Residence Life Cinema. The U of M began testing Resident Select, the new version of SMP’s streaming program, in September and was the first of seven institutions to do so. “It’s a lot more convenient. They are easily accessible and comparable to Netflix,” said Kentrell Ballard, sophomore engineering technology major. “And using actual students in the ads is actually a good idea.” Resident Select allows schools to incorporate video bumps—in-house messages or advertisements—into their video stream. Residence Life and Dining Services collaborated to make commercials. The ResLife movie service is updated on campus every month. There are currently
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When Lanita Johnson’s schedule conflicts with her husband’s, she sometimes has to resort to breaking University policy. As stated in the Children on Campus Policy, The University of Memphis doesn’t allow students to bring their children to class. Johnson, senior biology major, did so once when she had no one to keep her nineyear-old daughter after her husband unexpectedly had to work late. “I had to be in organic chemistry, but I sat in the back and I don’t even think my professor even noticed that she was there,” she said. Last Halloween, students, faculty and staff were sent a reminder email by Rosie Bingham, vice president of student affairs, advising parents to leave their little ones at home. “At no time should students or employees bring children to campus as an alternative to reg-
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Campus mothers are hardly an uncommon sight at the University of Memphis, with current policies that generally allow child-age guests to roam free with adult supervision.
ular childcare or school or when (s)he is too ill to attend their regular childcare locations,” the email read. Bingham referred students to
The U of M policy, which states: “Presence in classrooms is restricted to properly enrolled students or visitors with legitimate purpose, who may be
adults or minors.” Meta Laabs, director of student affairs administration, said the rule applies to not only stu-
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Improvements ahead for family housing BY DANA PORTER News Reporter After ten years with no major advancements, improvements are scheduled for the Graduate Student Family Housing this year. “We are working with Tony Poteet, (assistant vice president) for planning, along with parking to develop a gated community over the next year,” said Peter Groenendyk, director of resident life and dining services. Groenendyk said such improvements are a factor in the rise of rent. Since last year, rent has increased $40 for onebedroom apartments and $125 for two-bedroom flats. The estimated cost of the gated fencing is $30,000 and construction will begin later this year. “We work very hard to keep rates down, but increases in rent are necessary most years for a variety of reasons. They include investments into the facility, increasing employee
benefits costs, utility increases, telecommunication cost, etc.,” he said. Basic maintenance, such as air condition replacements, is performed within the housing year-round, Poteet said. The staff paints, cleans and sometimes replaces appliances and carpet for the next occupant when a resident moves out of the facility. The most recent change to the housing was completed ten years ago when all apartments had extensive kitchen work preformed. The only other notable construction was the addition of two-bedroom flats 20 years ago. The housing now offers 150 units. The dorm’s water valves were replaced this week, which comes as relief to Delton Edwards, junior electrical engineering major and resident who noticed a malfunction. “When I would take a shower, about six minutes into getting in there the water would
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Study shows positive results for Daniel fast
BY MICHELLE CORBET News Reporter A biblical fasting method studied by a University of Memphis professor is being practiced at churches across the nation. Richard Bloomer, interim chair of Health Sport Sciences, is the first to conduct a study on a Daniel Fast, providing evidence to churches of its beneficial results. A Daniel Fast is a plant-based vegan diet, consisting of whole grains, fruits, beans, nuts and vegetables. It is based on Daniel, the biblical character who chose to eat such food while imprisoned to avoid violating Jewish customs. After ten days the guards were surprised to see that Daniel was healthier and stronger than those who ate the regular food. Vinegar, herbs, all soy products and oils are also allowed. No meats, fats, breads or beverages other than water can be consumed. As a New Year’s tradition, many modern Christians and Jews follow the Daniel Fast to help them focus on prayer and attain a closer relationship with God while improving their health. “For a lot of people, the main challenge is food preparation. People are eating foods, but it’s very restricted for people who don’t cook. They find it challeng-
ing to come up with meals. You can’t find them at fast food places or restaurants,” Bloomer said. Bloomer and his research team’s study consisted of 13 men and 30 women. The subjects were physically assessed before the study; researchers took their heart
decrease in blood pressure, cholesterol, inflammation and type 2 diabetics see blood sugar levels decrease in as little as three weeks,” Bloomer said. Bernard Kimble, pastor of The Mount Olive Baptist Church of Shreveport in Louisiana, peti-
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but the thing seen the most is a decrease in blood pressure, cholesterol, inflammation and type 2 diabetics see blood sugar levels decrease in as little as three weeks.” — Richard Bloomer Interim chair of Health Sport Sciences rate, blood pressure and a blood sample. Subjects kept a record of the foods they consumed on the diet. After the 21-day testing period, results showed improvements in the risk factors for cardiovascular disease and metabolic diseases such as stroke and diabetes. The team is conducting further research on how a Daniel Fast can maintain cholesterol levels. “We’ve seen weight loss, but the thing seen the most is a
tioned his congregation to join him on the Daniel Fast this January for both spirituality and health. Bloomer said they are just one of many churches engaged in fasting right now. Kimble and his wife, Pheobe, said the fast was successful for them when they participated for the first time. “Last year, we experienced weight loss, losing over 21 pounds in 21 days. My wife is a diabetic. Since then, her numbers
have come down, her medication has changed and we haven’t gained back any of the weight. I have continued to fast and pray throughout the year,” Kimble said. Kimble prepared his congregation for the fast with a monthlong series of teachings from the Book of Daniel. Many churchgoers had ailments which could be improved through fasting, such as high blood sugar. The fast comes from two stories in the Old Testament. The first account is from the first chapter of Daniel when Daniel was captured from Israel by the Babylonians. The second story from the book of Daniel comes from the tenth chapter when Daniel fasts for 21 days eating no meat, bread, wine or sweetened food. “Our primary reason to embark upon this journey was to have a more sensitive ear to the voice of God. I feel that if food is a major culprit of illness and sickness than food can also make us well,” Kimble said. There are two incentives for people to partake in the Daniel Fast. “From a Christian perspective, they fast to become closer to God and focus on prayer. Contemporarily, they continue because they see physical benefits,” Bloomer said.
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Homework help is good business BY JAY PRICE MCT Helping students with their homework, it turns out, can be big business. That’s how Advanced Instructional Systems has quietly become one of N.C. State University’s largest and fastest-growing spinoffs. Now the company is making plans to build on its basic online service, using information it learns about each student from answers they get wrong to create a form of instant, customized tutoring that’s available around the clock. The company, which offers an online assignment and testing service for university and high school students called WebAssign, was started by a small group of academics on campus in the late 1990s. The university holds rights to part of the underlying computer coding and company trademark and licenses those to the company, which is owned by a handful of its employees. AIS moved from the main campus onto the public-private Centennial Campus in 2003 with just a dozen employees, said John S. Risley, a physics professor and the company’s chief executive. It has grown to nearly 150 employees now -- many of them with science, math and engineering degrees -- and in the year that just ended passed two milestones: its 5 millionth student user and one billionth answer processed for homework assignments, tests and practice problems. In any given semester now, more than half a million students are using WebAssign. It has grown so much that in December, Risley and the company’s other owners felt it was time to appoint a board of directors, he said. “When you are a startup and you grow quickly, it becomes clear you need the help and experience,” Risley said. If the company ever goes public, NCSU would get a share of the money raised, but that may not happen, at least not any time soon. In the tech world, many private companies seem to be aimed at going public from the minute they’re founded, but Risley said there aren’t any plans for that. He said the owners are interested in education and like the direction the company’s going. For now, institutions sign up for WebAssign, and course instructors control the assignments. The company plans to begin marketing directly to students and to offer them an enhanced service that verges on using artificial intelligence to craft an online tutor. The company can have access to hundreds or even thousands of answers for a given student, Risley said, and can sift and monitor that data to tailor their learning. Analyzing several questions students get wrong in a
physics class, for example, can show whether they’re getting an answer wrong because they don’t understand the concept or they have a deficiency in a specific math skill. If they happened to have used WebAssign for, say, an algebra class a semester earlier, that would further expand the information that the system has for analyzing what they know and what they need to work on. The company’s current service gets solid reviews from the instructors who use it in their classes. “They got in fairly early, I think, and as a consequence developed what is probably the most mature system for online homework of this type that’s available,” said David Pengra, a senior lecturer at the University of Washington’s physics department, where he oversees graduate assistants who teach up to 50 sections of introductory undergraduate physics labs. His department uses WebAssign for lectures and labs for the course. Pengra said the department started using it in the labs about two years ago, just in time to help with a sharp budget cut from the state. It let them cut the 400 hours of graduate assistant time by about one-third just when they badly needed the savings to preserve teaching quality. Most of the saved labor was in that most mindnumbing aspect of teaching: grading assignments. At Penn State, the company’s service is used in seven large physics classes with a total of 3,500 students. It freed the 60 or so graduate teaching assistants to do substantially more teaching because they no longer have to grade a couple million homework answers each semester, said John Hopkins, a senior instructor. It also allowed the university to boost the staffing of a night-time learning lab where students can come for help from one or two graduate assistants to eight or nine, all without additional cost. “And that lab gets used a lot,” he said. Students benefit, too, he said, because they get instant feedback on their answers and, the way instructor there configure WebAssign, can try five more times for a diminishing amount of credit. That instant feedback makes it easier for students to know whether they have grasped a concept or not, he said. “That’s really important, because they know whether they’ve made a mistake immediately, instead of having to turn in the assignment and wait a few days or more to get it back,” he said. “You can imagine how important that might be if they have an exam on the material the next day.” Given graduate assistants’ lack of experience, the instructors said, reducing their role in grading yields results that are more reliable. Part of the system’s strength
is that it relies on an approach that gives instructors flexibility in which textbooks they use and how they can formulate assignment questions, Pengra said. Some competitors are tied to a specific publisher and only offer a single text for a given class. AIS includes 26 job openings. In particular it has been a boon for those with math, engineering, computer science and science degrees. University officials declined to say what the company pays in licensing fees, but the total from all start-ups is about $5.1 million a year. The fees, while obviously welcome, aren’t the university’s goal for startups, said Kelly B. Sexton, an assistant director in the office of technology transfer. The main point is jobs. NCSU’s startups have created more than 6,900 jobs, including 3,100 in North Carolina, she said. That’s up from 3,071 total jobs, including about 2,500 in the state, in 2009.
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from page 1 dents, but faculty and staff as well. “We ask that students not bring their (sick) children to class for the same reason they aren’t allowed at their normal child care facilities: to prevent germs from spreading from an ichild,” she said. “In emergency cases the classroom is the professor ’s prerogative on how to deal with special circumstances.” The policy said it is the instructor’s responsibility to address disruptive issues with students who bring their students to class. Johnson agreed that in normal circumstances parents should be prepared and said she will even try to avoid having scheduling issues in the future. “I brought her to class but I don’t think that students should make a habit of it. Its not good to just pop up with your child without speaking with the professor because it could make other students feel free to bring their children and then it becomes a distraction,” she said.
Johnson said in addition to getting permission from the professor students should take their child’s age into consideration. “I think it was ok because my daughter is old enough to sit still, when she was younger I would not have brought her with me,” she said. Margaret Scott, child development center manager, said children can be a distraction. “A child’s attention span is limited depending on their age -- expecting a four-yearold child to sit still is an impossibility,” she said. Scott’s facilities were referred by Bingham in her email stating that students should enroll their children in the child development center instead of taking them along to class. “We have a three- star rating, the highest rating possible for daycare centers, and we are also accredited,” she said. “We have an hourly rate of $2.75 for the students so they can have affordable options.” The child development center accepts applicants beginning at 30 months and is open Monday through Thursday 7:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. and close at 4:30 on Friday.
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World
New campaign for Yemen’s activists BY ADAM BARON MCT
said Ali Hassan, a khat seller in Sanaa who was negotiating mobs of customers despite the For nearly a year, tens of thoucampaign, which he said he was sands of Yemenis have taken to unaware of. “For many Yemenis, chewing khat is as essential as the streets to call for an end to the 33-year-old rule of President drinking water.” Launched online a week Ali Abdullah Saleh. ago, the “No T h u r s d a y, activists took Khat on Jan. aim at a differhey can try to get rid of it, 12 Campaign” gained the backent target, which but I doubt they’ll succeed. For ing of youth they say is as across great a menace many Yemenis, chewing khat is activists to Yemen’s progYemen. It also as essential as drinking water.” won support ress as decades from key figof government ures across the corruption and — Ali Hassan political specmisrule. They Khat seller trum, includacknowledge that the chance ing Tawakkol of success is even smaller than and elite circles, most Yemenis Karman, who won the Nobel the anti-Saleh campaign, which marked Thursday, the first day Peace Prize last year, Mohammed has garnered a pledge from of the Yemeni weekend, just as Abu Lahoum, a key opposition the president to step down they usually do: with a khat politician, and Vice President next month, after presidential chew. Sanaa’s khat sellers con- Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, elections. tinued to do brisk business, and who is expected to replace Saleh The new target is khat, a a khat-free Yemen seemed far as president in next month’s elections. leafy narcotic whose use here off. “Khat affects everything in is ubiquitous, and whose mild “They can try to get rid of high many activists blame for it, but I doubt they’ll succeed,” Yemen: the economy, politics, social” life, said Hind Aleryani, a Yemeni activist living in Lebanon who initiated the campaign. He said changing the nation’s khat habit would be a crucial step to achieving political change in Yemen. But it won’t be easy. Chewing khat is a basic part of the country’s cultural life. Formal chewing sessions are a crucial element of nearly every social transaction in Yemen, from wedding celebrations to business negotiations. A taste for the plant transcends social and class lines.
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Yemen’s inability to prosper. Their call was for Thursday to be a one-day nationwide boycott of the drug to raise awareness of its harmful effects. Fortunately, they had kept the bar low on declaring success. Outside of protest squares
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get cold, and I would have to rush to take a quick shower. This was going on for a while, which was an inconvenience for me and my son,” Edwards said. The valves have been replaced in response to such issues experienced by residents, Groenendyk said. “(The replacement) should provide for more reliable water service because where there is a problem elsewhere on the (South Campus), water will not need to be shut off,” he said. Roof replacements are also scheduled for the dorms, according to Poteet. “By 2014, we are planning to provide sprinkler systems to enhance fire safety,” he said. The graduate housing dorms, located on South Campus at Park Avenue and Getwell Road, were built in the early 1970s, formerly the area of the Veteran’s Hospital Complex worth $2.75 million. The federal government awarded the land to The University in 1967 at no cost. “There had been plans made to remodel that area and a request has been sent, but it takes strategic planning and money to fund things like that. Most of the buildings were created for veterans during the World War II era. This hospital was one of the three general hospitals made by the army,” said Edwin G. Frank, curator of special collections and associate professor. Graduate students, students with children, law students and married families are all eligible to live in the dorms. Amenities include a park for children, a swimming pool, a baseball park and free cable TV service.
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Events
Chomsky to speak at Rhodes
BY ELIZABETH COOPER News Reporter
World-renowned political theorist and activist, Noam Chomsky, will be giving two lectures in Memphis this weekend. The Mid-South Peace and Justice Center in conjunction with Rhodes College are hosting Chomsky for a discussion of the Occupy Movement at 5 p.m. today in the Bryant Campus Life Center on the Rhodes campus. The event is free and open to the public. On Saturday, MSPJC will also be holding its 30th annual gala event featuring Chomsky as keynote speaker. He will speak on revolutionary pacifism, which MSPJC Director Jacob Flowers defined as “the belief that we need to change the current system that we are in through non-violent means.” Chomsky is a prolific writer of critical essays pertaining to power relations, international affairs, linguistics, philosophy and history. He is a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Linguistics and Philosophy and travels the world lecturing on contemporary sociopolitical issues. His arrival in Memphis has attracted the attention of many University of Memphis activists. “I want to see what a seasoned member of the American activist movement has to say about Occupy and what he has to contribute,” said James Raines graduate student at The University of Memphis. While Sarah Marshall, a graduate student in the philosophy department said, “I’m interested in the intersection between politics and philosophy which Chomsky frequently addresses.” The free Rhodes College discussion serves to compliment Saturday’s event, which costs 20 dollars per ticket. The annual gala is the Peace and Justice Center’s largest fundraiser of the year and provides most of the funding for the grassroots non-profit.
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have to say about them,” said member Sadonia Beverly, freshman education major. With the recent epidemic Lee said the group will help of suicides due to bullying, save lives and show others that a group of students who self there are people out there that proclaim as nerds are coming like the same things as them. together to form a new club – “I was bullied in high Fans United. school, so I know how it feels “We embrace to be a loner. being a nerd I was just like because it’s who them,” Lee ur main goal we are,” said said. club president is to give people The group T e m p t a t i o n an outlet for their meets each Lee, freshman Friday at 1 fandom, whether p.m. in front criminal justice it’s anime, video of Mitchell major. Fans United games, cosplay Hall. There are is dedicated to several undator card games. University of ed activities Memphis stu- We are nerds and planned for dents who are don’t try to hide this semester. fans of anime, Because there it.” manga, cosplay are several — Jhayla Young and the card fans of mulFreshman graphic design tiple mediums, games Magic: The Gathering the club has major and Yu-Gi-Oh, ad hoc comLee said. The group plans to mittees that choose different register as an official organiza- events for the future. One of tion sometime this month. the undated activities is a zom“We started Fans United bie walk to take place across because The U of M doesn’t campus. have any events and activities “You will see us in our costhat represent us. A lot of people tumes and you’ll know it’s the get scorned for liking manga Fan’s United club,” Lee said. or cosplay so we embrace that Jhayla Young, freshman and don’t shy away from it,” graphic design major, summed she said. up the goal of the group. About 60 students have “Our main goal is to give joined the club already. Many people an outlet for their fanof them said they were either dom, whether it is anime, video bullied or teased in high school games, cosplay or card games. for liking certain things that We are nerds and don’t try were deemed uncool. to hide it. Just because you “I’m glad that there is a club like things that aren’t popular, like this because it gives people doesn’t make you less of a pera place to be themselves and son,” Young said. not worry about what people
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Basketball
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Tigers soar past Golden Eagles
Antonio Barton drives for a layup in the first half against Southern Miss., leading the team with 13 points.
This dunk by Will Barton ignited the crowd and put the Tigers up by 11 in the second half against Southern Miss. Barton had 11 points in the game.
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a three-point play by sophomore guard Joe Jackson and a breakaway dunk by Will Barton pushed the Memphis lead back to 11 with 9:53 left. “We really had it in control 41-29, but we got stagnant offensively and didn’t convert on some things,” head coach Josh Pastner said. “Then we didn’t execute and made some boneheaded plays.” Following the Barton dunk, Southern Miss clawed their way back into the game. Threeconsecutive three-pointers in the space of a minute cut the lead down to four with 8:28 remaining. Three minutes later, a pair of free throws and another threepointer briefly put the visitors back on top before sophomore
Communication is important in basketball. The players have to communicate with each other, the coaches have to communicate with each other, Southern Miss
guard Cedric Jenkins apparently didn’t understand that. The sophomore misheard his coach’s instructions and fouled Memphis sophomore guard Chris Crawford with 31.7 seconds remaining in the second half of the game with the scores
tied. Crawford hit both shots, putting the Tigers (11-5, 2-0 Conference USA) in front for good, 60-58, and allowing them to escape with the win and snap Southern Miss’ 11-game win streak. “We all make mistakes, and I am sure I made a few, but it was a heck of an effort tonight,” Southern Miss coach Larry Eustachy said. The game was tightly contested throughout, with ten ties and nine lead changes. Neither team led by more than four points in the first half, but Memphis opened up the second half on a 12-4 run to stretch the lead to 41-29 with 15:43 remaining. The Golden Eagles (15-3, 2-1 C-USA) cut the lead down to six before
guard Antonio Barton’s second three-pointer of the game gave the Tigers a 54-52 lead with 4:36 to go in the game. “Southern Miss is a good team,” Pastner said. “I think everybody agrees they are a good team. We got a lead, and then they hit some threes against the zone. The zone worked well for us, but they hit a couple threes, and we got out of it an went back and forth.” Two free throws by sophomore forward Tarik Black gave Memphis a 58-56 lead going into the final minute. He followed that up with a monstrous block of Jonathan Mills’ layup attempt with 35 seconds left before being called for a foul trying to block Mills a second time. Mills hit both free throws, tying the game at 58-58 and setting up the tense final seconds. Crawford was fouled by Jenkins and hit both of his free throws, putting the Tigers up by two. Southern Miss then had the ball and a chance to win the game with a three-pointer, but Jenkins’ shot as time expired was off the mark, and the Tigers escaped with their fifth consecutive victory, and their 18th straight over the Golden Eagles. The Barton brothers carried the Tigers with a combined 24 points, 13 for Antonio, and 11 for Will to along with nine rebounds, just one short of his ninth double-double this season. Tarik Black also narrowly missed out on a double-double with nine points and ten rebounds, also contributing five blocks. Will Barton also tied a career high with four steals. The Tigers will next depart on a two-game road trip, playing Houston on Jan. 14 and Central Florida on Jan. 18. They will return home to take on Southern Methodist on Jan. 21.
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BY DAVID CAFFEY Sports Reporter Since replacing Larry Porter following the 2011 football season, new University of Memphis head football coach Justin Fuente has been recruiting players and personnel with an emphasis on rebuilding the blighted program. After finishing the previous two seasons with a 3-21 career record, coach Larry Porter was fired and replaced by the former TCU co-offensive coordinator. Fuente has been charged with rebuilding a team that struggles on both sides of the ball. Because he was hired in early December, Fuente has had less than four weeks to recruit due to a “dead period” between Dec. 18 and Jan. 3 in which recruits cannot be contacted. Despite the limitations on time, Fuente has already put together a sizable list of players for 2012. John Martin, a Memphis recruiting analyst for Fox Sports’ Scout.com, said that Fuente has been successful so far in recruiting out of high school and in signing junior college transfer players. “He’s made some good decisions in terms of evaluation and has reached out to the junior college ranks, which Larry Porter overlooked during his time as coach,” Martin said. Among the most notable of Fuente’s commits on offense was graduate-transfer Jacob Karam, a back-up quarterback from Texas Tech. Karam was listed as a four-star QB in high school by Scout before signing with the Red Raiders and coach Tommy Tuberville. Karam has two years of eligibility left to play for Memphis. The potential standout player in the Tiger’s 2012 recruiting class is four-star cornerback Sheldon Dawson. Originally recruited by Larry Porter, Dawson is ranked No. 11 by Scout for cornerbacks. His recruitment status is listed at a “soft verbal” commitment, as he is still considering Arkansas, Cincinnati and Georgia, among others. Aside from recruiting players, Fuente has also had to assemble a coaching staff, a task he’s already had success with. Fuente named Barry Odom, former safeties coach at Missouri, as his defensive coordinator. Odom takes the helm of a defense that allowed an average of 35 points per game last season, a statistic that
ranked the Tigers as one of the worst defenses in the country. While Fuente has not named an offensive coordinator, his offensive staff hires include Holman Wiggins as running backs coach and Vance Vice as offensive line coach. Wiggins held the same position at Tulsa, a team that ranked second in rushing offense in Conference USA in 2011. During his three seasons at The University of Louisiana-Monroe, Vice oversaw a Sun Belt Conference-
leading rushing offense in 2009. The Tigers look to fill the remaining coaching vacancies, including defensive line coach, as the staff enters the remainder of the 2012 recruiting period. Although his time as coach has been limited, Martin says Fuente’s tenure has been outstanding so far. “His hires have been smart. All things considered, I think he’s done one of the better jobs in the country.”
courtesy of U of M Media Relations
Head football coach Justin Fuente, in the process of starting the program from scratch
Memphis head football coach Justin Fuente has gotten off to a good start on the recruiting trail in his short time at The University of Memphis.
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