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news@dailyhelmsman.com Current Student Government Association President Ricky Kirby hopes to lead his Making A Difference party to a second-year victory during elections. If elected, Kirby’s running partner Prataj Ingram would take former SGA vicepresident E uDarius Kirby Jones’ position. Jones is set to graduate in December, and was unable to accept the offer to run for a second term. “She has a way to bring in any culture and can work with anyone of any background,” Kirby said about Ingram. “To be able to accept and work with diversity is one of the best qualities I think there is.” Ingram has been heavily involved with SGA this year and served as a senator, where she passed multiple bills including the proposal of a bridge over the railroad tracks and a new recreation center. Construction on these projects is to begin spring of next year. “I hope people focus on what is

real and let the Election results will be released A l w a y s work speak for at 3 p.m. Friday. Online voting Serving and itself,” Ingram for the Student Government P r e s e r v i n g said. “We pride party candiAssociation is open and voting ourselves in being dates Domenic able to say we ends at 11:59 p.m. March 27. Martini and accomplished Jalen Griggs everything we said we would.” want to Ingram also serves as a Frosh live up Camp counselor and is the president to their of the Mock Trial team. name. Kirby and Ingram both agreed one “ W e of SGA’s biggest achievements of the would like year is its support of the tuition freeze. to bring “That tuition cap has not been the bardone for a rier down while,” Ingram said. “On top of that, between we are starting programs and differSGA and the Martini ent ideas to keep it low because the students and make it a prolast thing we want to do is lower gram where they can go and talk the tuition to the people in their offices and have it and actually get some results on go back up.” campus,” Martini said. “I don’t M A D want people to feel like it’s this plans to big mysterious organization that continue to just gives us coupons for the carry out Tiger Den once in a while.” their promMartini, the presidential canises from didate, played a role in SGA this this year as year as the secretary of Dining Ingram well as making Services and Residence Life. He new ones for next year. also serves as the president of “The MAD campaign has a lot of his fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha initiative, and I just think is just ready,” and was a student orientation guide last summer. see MAD on page 3 A.S.A.P. consists of 20 mem-

bers. Martini carefully chose the students he wanted in his campaign by seeing who stood out as being really involved on campus. “I wanted a small group of dedicated people who actually wanted to do something for the school,” he said. Martini chose Griggs as his running partner after he saw how passionate he was about the programs he was involved in. The two met through Griggs’ older brother, J.C. Griggs was a part of the Freshman Senate his freshman year and served as a senator this year. He also will be an orientation guide this summer and will serve his second year as a Frosh C a m p counselor. His heavy involvement led him to be Griggs passionate about other programs and organizations on campus. “I would like to use the power

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Spring fashion brings bright colors By Samuel Prager

news@dailyhelmsman.com The resurgence of insects buzzing and the sudden blooming of brightly colored flowers can only mean one thing — spring has arrived. However, for many students a change of scenery isn’t the only notable part of the season. A wave of new garments can be seen in the crowds of students enjoying the cool spring breeze throughout campus. “You’ll see a lot of bright colors this spring. Pink, mint

green, a lot of light pastel colors,” Amanda Adams, who works at locally owned clothing store Sachi, said. “Black and white will also still be strong throughout the season.” Adams, who purchases all of the store’s merchandise, said that high-waisted shorts and crop tops will be one of this season’s strongest combinations. “This spring, there are several styles to look out for. Both men’s and women’s fashion will be incorporating all-white looks and pastel colors,” Talia Pepe, Christian Brothers University

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student and fashion blogger, said. “In women’s fashion, two piece sets are popular. Men’s fashion will have very clean looks. Box style button downs, prints and pastels.” Pepe recently attended the New York City Fashion Week, one of the world’s most important fashion events, and said that attending such a prestigious event in the fashion world gave her more insight into a field she already loved. She noted that although trends are a big part of “what’s in” and “what’s not” in fashion,

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being yourself is also important within the fashion spectrum. “I believe fashion is both a representation of one’s self and inspired by trends. Fashion is an art form. It is expression of one’s self,” Pepe said. “My personal style is inspired from the past with a taste of modernism. I love vintage! However, I tend to reconstruct and evolve the look into a more updated style.” Haley Hanners, a junior English major at the University of Memphis, said that fashion is an important part of expressing

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Indie Memphis will screen “Bill Cunningham New York” at Malco’s Studio on the Square at 7 p.m. Tuesday. This documentary, which describes New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham’s work and life, is the third and final instalment in the fashion-focused film trio presented by the non-profit film organization in celebration of Memphis Fashion Week. Director and founder of Memphis Fashion Week Abby Phillips chose the three movies. She wanted to present a well-rounded cinematic series on the fashion industry, she said. “We highlighted a model in the first film, designer in the second and a photographer in the third,” Phillips said. “(‘Bill Cunningham New York’) is a great movie, because it is about more than just a fashion photographer.” The film shows how Cunningham, who still uses his Canon film camera in the digital era, bicycles the streets of New York, documenting the trends and changing styles of celebrities and everyday people. “The best fashion show is definitely on the streets,” Cunningham said in the opening of the documentary. “I don’t decide anything. I let the streets speak to me.” For nearly four decades, Cunningham has had two full-page columns in the The New York Times Sunday paper. “He was one of the last residences to have an apartment in Carnegie hall,” Phillips said. “It is even a great film for those who do not like fashion because you get to see the history of New York.” Memphis Fashion Week unites local photographers, designers and fashion-minded Memphians, according to their website. Models will strut designs from eight designers Friday and Saturday at Annesdale Mansion and Beneral De Witt Spain Airport. Tickets to “Bill Cunningham New York” are $7. However, those with tickets for Memphis Fashion Week can view for free.

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MAD Page 1 Ingram said. “They all are eager and don’t want to just sit back. They’re ready to get in there.” The party is made up of 83 members, all from different backgrounds. Plans for this term include keeping tuition flat and giving students nine free credit hours in the summer or pay for up to 12 hours in the school year in order to increase affordability and retention. “A lot of students can’t get out in four years because they can’t afford to pay for 15 hours,” Kirby said. “When it’s cheaper to pay for 12, there is not an incentive to take the extra three each semester to graduate.” As a Chicago native, scholarships for out-of-state students is something that

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 • 3 is very important to Ingram. She hopes to make it easier for students like herself by creating more scholarships for out-ofstate students. When Kirby came into office, he made it clear he wanted to change the way SGA is viewed by students. “Last year, I never saw the SGA office open and this year you can’t come in and it’s not open,” he said. “We rebranded it to make it more official with administrators and more recognizable for students.” Since he was elected into office, the amount of Twitter followers on SGA’s page has tripled. A Facebook page was also started which now has over 900 likes. “As cheesy as it sounds, we have done something to touch everyone’s life,” he said. “I have a passion for this, and I love knowing every day I come in here we are making a difference.”

A.S.A.P. Page 1 of being vice president to provide and inclusive environment where we could team up with other programs and make smaller organizations feel bigger than what they really are,” he said. If elected, the two want to have the senators be more involved and write more bills. They also plan to set up a website called “We the Students” where students would be able to

write a petition to SGA and have other students sign it. After their petition would obtain a certain amount of signatures, SGA would be obligated to respond. “This way the students could actually petition the student government and we would be able to really see what issues the students want to discuss and what they would like to see from us,” Martini said. Other plans for this semester include getting rid of the stereotype that the University is a place where students only com-

mute to school and immediately go home by increasing involvement from all students of different backgrounds. Higher quality parking and dining are also issues A.S.A.P. wants to improve. “I think I am a good fit because I have a diverse background and have been a part of many organizations during my time at the University of Memphis,” Martini said. “I’ve seen the process of bringing events to campus and think I am the right person for taking SGA and putting it on the same level as the students.”

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his is an appeal to authentic Christians. Many profess the name of the Lord Jesus but deny Him in their lives. They may show allegiance to Jesus and His teaching when in a friendly environment, but are ashamed to do so when in an indifferent or hostile setting. Admittedly, it is difficult to demonstrate loyalty to Jesus Christ and His values when being ridiculed for doing so, but it can be done. There are many who have not been ashamed of true godliness under difficult circumstances. One of these was the famous Hebrew prophet, Daniel. He had been taken captive and carried to a pagan country. Because of his integrity and ability, he had been appointed to a position of power and prestige. Some of his peers became very jealous of him and deviously plotted to have him destroyed. To escape from his dilemma he would be forced to compromise his religious convictions. He refused to do so and his life was placed in jeopardy. The only true God, the God of Israel, delivered him. Daniel willingly took the risk of sacrificing his life rather than compromise his convictions. Do you Christians on the University of Memphis campus have similar strong convictions about your Lord? Are you willing to stand up for Him when you may be mocked and ridiculed for doing so? I would encourage you with the chorus of a familiar song: “Dare to be a Daniel; Dare to stand alone! Dare to have a purpose firm! Dare to make it known!”

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US, allies throw Russia out of G-8 By Lesley Clark

McClatchy Washington Bureau ROME — President Barack Obama and leaders of the world’s largest industrialized countries expelled Russia from the Group of Eight until it “changes course” in Ukraine and formally canceled plans to attend an economic summit in Russia in June. The move was aimed at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan to host the G-8 group of economic powers at Sochi, Russia, which would have been its second starring role on the world stage after this winter’s Olympics. Instead, the G-7 leaders will meet in Brussels without Putin. At the same time, the group said it would not send its foreign ministers to a planned G-8 meeting in Moscow next month. Though largely symbolic and falling short of new sanctions against Russia, the statement from the G-7 leaders pledged that they “remain ready” to intensify sanctions if Russia takes further action in Ukraine. “This group came together because of shared beliefs and shared responsibilities. Russia’s actions in recent weeks are not consistent with them,” the lead-

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itself, then so be it,” Lavrov told reporters after holding his first talks since the annexation with Andriy Deshchytsya, Ukraine’s interim foreign minister. “At the very least, we are not trying to hold on to this format, and we see no great tragedy if it (the G-8) does not meet,” said Lavrov, who also met separately with Secretary of State John Kerry. The move is symbolic but still important, Michael McFaul, a Stanford University-based Russia specialist who until recently was U.S. ambassador to Moscow, told reporters on a conference call. McFaul said he believes Putin understands that he’s growing

isolated and is bracing for a possible military engagement with NATO forces at some point. “Right now I think he’s focused on consolidating and digging in for confrontation with the West,” McFaul said. “They fully expect it and that’s what they’re doing.” The U.S. last week expanded a round of economic sanctions against Putin’s allies, but Obama is under pressure on the trip to convince European allies to step up their response. Many analysts say the sanctions won’t have much bite without Europe’s involvement, but many leaders

there are leery, given Europe’s trade and energy reliance on Russia. The statement from the leaders also notes that they’ve directed the G-7’s energy ministers to meet “to discuss ways to strengthen our collective energy security.” And it warned that the leaders “remain ready to intensify actions including coordinated sectoral sanctions that will have an increasingly significant impact on the Russian economy, if Russia continues to escalate this situation.”

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said. “If you wear something that you think looks good, more than likely you’ll feel good too.” Whether it’s a student’s own personal spin on style or the world-fashion mogul’s designated trends, students and socialites can hope to see bright colors alongside semi-vintage white apparel for this spring’s fashion.

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FOR VICE PRESIDENT: (vote for 1) Jalen Griggs (A.S.A.P.) Prataj Ingram (M.A.D.)

Michael Barbour (M.A.D.) Phoebe Bauer (A.S.A.P.) David Blount (M.A.D.) Eric Bourgeois (M.A.D.) Melissa Byrd (M.A.D.) Fernanda Corral (M.A.D.) Ben Daniel (A.S.A.P.) Raven Douglas (M.A.D.) Amelia Durkee (M.A.D.) Madison Furr (A.S.A.P.)

AT LARGE: (vote for 18) Mary Garcia (A.S.A.P.) Christiana Giles (M.A.D.) Dallas Harness (A.S.A.P.) Shaq Goodwin (M.A.D.) Kevan Hatamzadeh (M.A.D.) David Knowles (M.A.D.) Winnie Law (M.A.D.) Mariah Martini (A.S.A.P.) Tevin McInnis (M.A.D.) Amber Nelson (A.S.A.P.)

Lainey Ortega (M.A.D.) Rachel Robilio (A.S.A.P.) Sara Rolin (M.A.D.) Shea Stock (A.S.A.P.) Kelsey Taylor (M.A.D.) Charles Uffelman (M.A.D.) Emily Vallor (M.A.D.) Greg Weatherford (A.S.A.P.) Katelyn Wooley (M.A.D..)

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Pastner’s postseason struggles prompt tough questions By Hunter Field

sports@dailyhelmsman.com It was the question most Tiger fans were asking themselves after the University of Memphis men’s basketball team fell to the University of Virginia 78-60 in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday night: What should be made of head coach Sports Editor Josh Pastner’s struggles in the NCAA Tournament? After all, players come and go, but coaches remain, and are essential to the long-term success of a program. Pastner and the Tigers have made

the tournament the past four seasons. They lost their first game in 2011 and 2012 and they won their first game but lost their second in each of the last two seasons. The problem with those losses is that they’ve had a similar theme. The Tigers dig themselves a hole and start playing hero ball, lacking the mental toughness to stay in the game. The U of M began all four of those seasons ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll, making the program’s failure to make the Sweet 16 in those four years seem like a bigger failure. Fans want their team to exceed expectations not fall short of expectations. Maybe the problem is with the expectations. Pre-season polls are inherently flawed because they are released before any team takes the court but

don’t try to tell an angry Tiger fan that. Also, it’s unlikely the AP Poll missed on Memphis four years in a row. Memphis sports-talk radio was rife with what Pastner would call “Negative Nellies” on Monday. They were calling for Pastner’s head and calling the season a drastic failure. To that I say slow down. After all, Pastner’s first five seasons at the helm have been some of the best debut seasons in the history of college basketball in terms of wins. He’s amassed 130 wins and only 44 losses (.747). Unfortunately for Pastner, most of the wins have come in the regular season against mostly inferior competition, especially when the Tigers were in Conference USA. Pastner registered his first wins against top-25 competition this season. They won five top-25 games this year

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after winning zero games over ranked opponents in the last five years, and they were ranked each week of the season except for the final AP Poll. That was a step in the right direction, but missing the Sweet 16 undid whatever progress was made in those regular-season victories. Fans and media judge college coaches based off their performance in the tournament, and Pastner has been the first to admit those judgments are fair. He even said it would be fair to judge his performance based on whether or not Memphis made the second weekend of the tournament. You can make that judgment if you’d like, and you’d probably conclude this season was a failure. However, I’m not going to ignore the regular season. Contrary to popular belief, I think the regular season still has value.

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FedExForum was rocking during the U of M’s comebacks against Gonzaga and arch-rival Louisville. Senior guard Joe Jackson was blocking 7-footers at the rim and Tiger fans were helping their team roar to victory. It’s those types of moments that make college basketball’s regular season great. Yet now that the season is over, critical fans will discount the importance of the regular season, but those same fans sure seemed to enjoy the Louisville and Gonzaga wins at the time. As much as it pains the Tiger faithful to hear it, Memphis is not Kansas, North Carolina, Duke or Kentucky. The U of M has a great basketball program, but it’s not a perennial power that can expect to be competing for a championship year in and year out. That said, Memphis should probably make the second weekend of the tournament, if not most years, every couple of years — an area Pastner has obviously fallen short. However, I’m not ready to close the book on Pastner. His first year was spent coaching scraps from John Calipari’s era and the last four years have been the same core of players. I want to see how he does with his second crop of guys — Nick King, Austin Nichols, Markel Crawford, Dominic Woodson, Kuran Iverson and others. The coach always deserves the brunt of the blame, but players should get some of the grief, too. Jackson has had a great career, chronicled in The Daily Helmsman last week, but he struggled in the tournament games he appeared in. Should Pastner be blamed if his players make critical mistakes in big games? I’ve sat through practices. Pastner constantly preaches to never cut underneath screens, but there it was on Sunday. Senior guard Geron Johnson cut a screen to give the Cavaliers a wide open look from three. Does Pastner deserve the blame for that? The great coaches like Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim and Calipari find ways to keep good players coming in year after year and succeed. Pastner has only had the chance to work with one set of players, and judgment should be held until this next set of recruits cycles through. Pastner also does a stellar job of graduating his players. The U of M’s basketball team has tested their way into the Academic Final Four in each of the last three seasons, posting a perfect Academic Progress Rate last year. He has pulled guys out of rough circumstances. Johnson came to Memphis with a lengthy history of minor theft and drug charges, but Pastner helped him turn his life around. Another senior guard Michael Dixon Jr. was dismissed from the program at the University of Missouri for rape allegation although no charges were ever filed. Pastner brought him to Memphis and Dixon succeeded. Fans will judge Pastner and call for his firing. That’s their prerogative, but I think the jury is still out and these next few years will show the fifth-year coach’s true colors. Pastner makes the program about more than just basketball, and that’s something Memphis fans can take pride in.

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Saddening send-off for Tiger seniors By Corey Carmichael

sports@dailyhelmsman.com At the 9:10 mark of the first half, senior Michael Dixon Jr. made a driving layup to grab the lead for the Tigers, and, for the first twelve minutes, Sunday’s game hung in the balance. At that point, the team held a 16-15 lead despite missing six layup or dunk opportunities and giving easy looks to some of the Virginia’s jump-shooters. Following that layup, the University of Memphis men’s basketball team struggled and only scored four more points in the next nine minutes. The University of Virginia scored 20 in the same span, leading the Tigers by 15 at the half. Virginia’s pack-line defense rendered the Tigers incapable of getting quality, easy looks inside the paint and forced a lot of missed layups, even within five feet of the basket. The four off-ball defenders crowded the inside and encouraged contested long-range looks, ultimately dooming the Tigers to a poor shooting night beyond the arc. Head coach Josh Pastner addressed the media after the game about the packline defense and how some defenses have caused the Tigers to struggle this season. “That’s just kind of been our thing this year, where we’ve gone stretches where we’ve missed short shots or open

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The Tigers fell out of the NCAA Tournament in the first weekend for the fourth-straight year. They finished the year with 24 wins and 10 losses. shots and it’s kind of had just an avalanche effect on us,” the fifth-year coach said. After starting one for nine from threepoint range in the first half, the Tigers finished 3-13 from deep. For the night, Memphis was limited anywhere from outside, scoring 18 points on Sunday from outside the paint after averaging 38.2 per game this season. Throughout the first half, the Tigers settled for their first look instead of searching for the best available shot, analyst and former NBA player Len Elmore noted several times on the TNT broadcast that the team was rushing them-

selves in order to quicken the pace of the game. Senior Memphis guard Joe Jackson heralded the Cavalier’s defense after the game. Jackson finished with seven points in his final collegiate game. “They’ve got to be the best defensive team I’ve ever played against in college,” Jackson, a Memphis native, said. “The way they see the ball, never lose sight of the basketball. They help each other out every possession. You will never get an easy layup on them.” In the second half, Memphis scored 11 points in the first five minutes but the Cavaliers matched that total in the same

span. No matter how quickly the Tigers scored, their defense was unable to execute and prevent Virginia from scoring. Virginia head coach Tony Bennett’s squad was highly efficient from the floor and they made 30 of 54 attempts from the field for a 55.6 percent shooting night. The prevalent theme from the Memphis loss would have to be the points left on the floor by the Tigers and an inability to cover players for the entire 35-second shot clock. Numerous hurried layups and a lack of patience offensively accounted for some of the deficit for the Tigers.

Defensively, points inside were too easy for the Cavaliers and their screens in the half-court sets had the Tigers on their heels with Joe Harris and London Perrantes freeing themselves for open looks off of these screens. “When we get down, we obviously dig ourselves a hole and I guess we just, I don’t know, lose focus on the defensive end,” Dixon said after the game. “And I guess we just try to get it back on the offensive end instead of locking in even more defensively in trying to get stops.” Although an 18-point loss is not a great way to send off the seniors, this has been a groundbreaking year for the team as a whole and for Pastner’s five-year tenure. The Tigers notched five top-25 wins after failing to win any games over ranked opponents in the last five seasons. Throughout his first five years, he has won more games (130) than any other Memphis coach in his first five years. After the game, Pastner credited his seniors for keeping the program at a high level. “And through time, these guys to my left (Jackson, Dixon, Chris Crawford, Geron Johnson) have made the program not only stay above water, we were able to get to land and have a lot of success, a lot of wins. And I’m very, very proud of those guys,” he said.

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