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Men’s basketball aims for undefeated C-USA season Independent Student Newspaper of the University of Memphis
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Memphis men’s basketball team. At the start of the season, head coach Josh Pastner pointed to the mural painted on the wall of the Larry O. Finch Center, which read “One City. One Team. One Goal.” Now five months later, it seems only fitting that one game remains to complete the team’s first undefeated regular season in league play since 2008-2009, former coach John
Calipari’s last season at the helm. “It’s very hard to do, and we have a great opportunity to do that, to go 16-0,” Pastner said. “You can’t go to 16-0 if you don’t take care of business Saturday and we have to play great because this is a very good team we are playing that’s playing their best basketball right now in UAB.” The Tigers (26-4, 15-0 C-USA)
opponent, the University of Alabama-Birmingham Blazers (1515, 7-8 C-USA), enter Saturday’s match having won six of their last eight games and four of the last five. Once one of the most heated rivalries in C-USA, the match has lost some of its shine over recent years. Regardless, huge implications
be able to provide. Asking for living wage is not a luxury,” she said. A living wage is the wage that it costs for a person to live with one full-time job. That number includes averages with bills, rent, food and living expenses without leaning on government assistance. In 2006, former University of Memphis mathematics professor Cecil C. Rousseau conducted a study on the living wages. He ultimately came up with $11.62 per hour for someone who lives in
Memphis. Another University employee named Josephine talked about the problems with living on such a low wage. “I’ve been working here 24 years and I still hardly make $10 an hour,” she said. “I’m thankful my husband has provided income over the years or it’d be impossible to make ends meet.” PSA representative Anthony Lucatelli said the campus workers’ last names were not being released
for their protection. “For relatively obvious reasons, we are not going to release their last names,” he said. “It took a lot of courage for them to speak out like they did.” The testimony provided by these workers gave the side of the story not many students see. Cleaning the University Center, library and classrooms are only eight hours out of the workers’ day. The other 16 are
This isn’t your mother’s board game — unless your mother’s board game has answers like “dick fingers” and “genital piercings.” This is Cards Against Humanity, the ultimate politically incorrect game that’s been sweeping across college campuses. The game is either $25 or free — if you’re willing to print out the cards on cardstock and cut them yourself. Each player starts out with 10 white cards. One player is randomly chosen to start out as the Card Czar and plays a black card. The Card Czar then reads the black card out loud, which will have either a question or a fill-in-the-blank phrase. Stephen Louie, a mechanical engineering senior, plays about once a month with his friends. “It’s kind of like Apples to Apples,” Louie said. “Every player has seven cards. They put down the card that fits that [category].” The black cards, which have a category, are seemingly innocent at first. One category, for instance, is “The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History has just opened an interactive exhibit on…” The white cards, which have the answers, can range anywhere from “menstrual rage” and “smallpox blankets” to “a Super Soaker full of cat pee.” “Games are usually meant to be kid-friendly,” Louie said. “It’s an adult game where you can be as immature as you want to be.” After each player has played their white card for the round, the Czar shuffles them all and reads them out loud. He or she then picks the best answer to the category — either the funniest or the one that fits with the phrase the most. Each winning card gets an Awesome Point. The first player with 10 Awesome Points wins the game. In December 2010, Cards Against Humanity started out as a two-month fundraiser on
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Memphis coach Josh Pastner reacts during first-half action against the University of Central Florida at UCF Arena in Orlando, Florida, Saturday, March 2, 2013. Memphis defeated UCF, 76-67.
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bheater@dailyhelmsman.com To many, the number one might not mean much. In the 21st century, one seems like a small and insignificant number, but Saturday at FedExForum, one game is all that will be standing in the way of an undefeated Conference USA regular season for the University of
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Campus workers speak out about wages
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news@dailyhelmsman.com Some campus workers are tired of not making enough money to support their families. At a Progressive Student Alliance meeting on March 7, several workers spoke out against their current wages. One of the workers, Vivian, said it is a struggle to take care of her children making as little as she does. “It’s a horrible feeling to not to
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uuC-USA Continued from page 1 will be riding on the contest as the C-USA Tournament begins next week on March 13. The big-man tandem of Rod Rucker and Jordan Swing leads the Blazers. Rucker ranks among the league leaders in rebounds per game, averaging 8.3 boards, good for sixth in C-USA. He also leads the Blazers on the offensive end with 14.4 points per game, making a living in the paint shooting 48.2 percent from the field. Swing complements Rucker down low, averaging a hair under 14 ppg at 13.9. Opponents have run into trouble
uuGame Continued from page 1 Kickstarter.com with a $4,000 goal. Eventually, 758 people backed the project, with a total of $15,570 pledged to the team. Last year, the group did an Ask Me Anything, or AMA, thread on Reddit, where users — often with previous experience playing CAH — could have an online questionand-answer session, no holds barred.
trying to help on Rucker, leaving Swing and others open for easy baskets. The Tigers will have to provide help on defense down low, but will also have to keep tabs on their man. “They’re well coached and they’ve got good players and they’re on a win streak,” Pastner said. “So, it would be special to go 16-0, it would be special to go 15-0, but we can’t go 16-0 if we don’t win the game and play 40 minutes at a very, very high level.” Memphis allows opponents to shoot 33.7 percent from three-point range, a stat that bodes well against a UAB squad shooting just 33.6 percent from downtown. No Blazer shoots over 40 percent from long
range, with guard Robert Williams acting as the team’s biggest triple threat at 37.5 percent. After allowing UTEP to dictate the pace of Tuesday’s match, the Tigers look to get back to the run and gun style they are accustomed to against a Blazer team, giving up 71.1 ppg. But Pastner said slugfests like Tuesday’s game are critical to a team’s success come time for the Big Dance. “If you’re going to want to make any kind of run in the NCAA Tournament, you’re going to have to win one or two grinders,” he said. “Every team to advance in the tournament has to win one or two ugly, grind out games to advance in
the tournament, so that’s something I think we’ve improved from last year.” Though Saturday’s game is important for résumé building, it will also be the final time seniors D.J. Stephens, Stan Simpson and Ferrakohn Hall take to the hardwood of FedExForum. “All those guys are going to end up getting their degrees in the spring, which is good,” Pastner said. “They’re all great young men and I’ve been fortunate and blessed and honored to coach them.” Tipoff is set for 11 a.m. and will be televised by CBS Sports Network. n
Due to the game’s overall politically incorrect phrases, words and jokes, many of the questions dealt with the content on the cards themselves. “We often have disputes about whether or not the ratio of funniness to offensiveness is high enough for any given card,” David Pinsof, one of the designers, wrote on Reddit. “No matter how offensive something is, we’re always willing to put it in if it’s funny enough. So it’s not about how terrible it is. It is about
whether the funniness outweighs the terribleness.” Even though users touted the game as being easy to explain, using Apples to Apples as a jump-off point, the CAH team doesn’t define their game as such. “Honestly, our game is very different,” Max Temkin, another designer, said in the AMA. “We both use the idea of someone asking a question and everyone answering, but many other games use this mechanic as well.” According to players online and
arguably the developers, CAH is meant to be as offensive as possible when played, but it’s not all social jabs and offensive jokes. The team recently donated the entirety of their holiday expansion pack profits — over $70,000 — to the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia. The founders and designers do have a target, however: everyone. “Nothing is off limits, provided it is funny enough,” Pinsof said to users. “We are an equal-opportunity offender.” n
uuWages Continued from page 1 full of taking care of families, paying bills and making ends meet. That eight-hour shift of cleaning and making the University look presentable is an often under-appreciated job and one that, in their opinion, is under-paid. Some workers’ shifts start as early as 3 a.m. and last until 11 a.m. Another faculty member, art professor Cedar Nordbye, spoke at the meeting. He is involved with the Faculty Senate and raising the wages would mean a lot for the University. As a University, we are looking to “create the next generation of leaders,” he said. “We want leaders who have a vision, ethics and want to support society.” He said that those qualities are necessary in leaders. Nordbye said that leaders would start by making a change. A look at the budget showed the 272 workers for the University do not make living wages. It would cost $800,000 to pay these 272 workers living wages. Nordbye said roughly $2 million out of every year’s budget could solve the wage problem. William Townsend, a member of PSA, stressed how important it was to raise awareness. “Our only issue is that not enough people know how to help,” he said. “We [the PSA] are looking to raise awareness, and we could do it with a mass of students.” Anyone looking to get involved can go to the Progressive Student Alliance meetings at 4 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Beale Room in the University Center. n
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Cricket team heads to nationals Tennis to face rival By Jordan Nichols
sports@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis cricket team will be heading to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. over spring break to participate in the American College Cricket National Championships. The national championships are being held at Central Broward Regional Park with games beginning on March 13. The semi-finals and finals will be held on the 17th. The team has been practicing every weekend at Echles Field, but since the field is not applicable for everything the team needs, they also practice at indoor facilities in the Memphis area. “We don’t have a pitch area, because we have not gotten permission to make one,” computer science graduate student Murali Krishna Ankaraju said. “But a local team allowed us to practice on their field.” Ankaraju was named the number one newcomer of the year at the end of 2012 and he hopes his success continues to a run at the national championship. The Memphis Tigers Cricket Club is an official club sport at the University of Memphis and is made up of undergrad, graduate and doctorate students. The club was started in 2007 and continues to gain more support. Last year, the club was accepted as an official member of the American College Cricket League. This is the first time the team will be playing in the national championships. “The team leaves Monday evening for Ft. Lauderdale and will play two exhibition games,” club president Santhosh Ankaraju said. They will play matches against the University of the West Indies and the U.S. Under 19 World Cup team. This will be the toughest competition the Tigers have played. The American College Cricket Nationals tournament consists of 28 teams. The teams are divided into four groups of seven teams each.
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The first round of games is played in a round-robin system, in which every team faces one another with the top two teams advancing to the quarterfinals. The University of Memphis Cricket Club was placed in Group C. The other teams in Group C include George Washington University, Arkansas State University, Virginia Tech, Carnegie Mellon, Montgomery College and Ohio State University. “We are expecting to do extremely well at nationals even though it’s our first time,” Murali Ankaraju said. “Even one of the tournament leaders said he expects for us to make it to the semifinals, maybe even the finals.” The team pays for most of its expenses out of pocket, but over
the past year has been getting help from alumni and student funds. The club also accepts donations at GoFundMe.com to help lower the costs of travel and accommodation. “We hope that with more publicity, we can raise more money to help offset the costs for the students,” club advisor Vamsi Krishna Dhanekula said. The club’s goal is to make it all the way to the finals and win the Chanderpaul Trophy, which the winning team will take back to their university. “We really want to win the tournament and trophy,” said management information systems graduate student Venkat Velaga. “It would help us promote the game of cricket in Memphis, and get us more funding from the University.” n
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sports@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis women’s tennis team is back home this weekend to kick off an eight-game home stretch. The Tigers face the University of Central Florida today and double up Sunday to battle the Billikens of Saint Louis University and the Racers of Murray State. Head coach Lee Taylor Walker said UCF is the strongest opponent the Tigers will face in their next eight matches. “If our team doesn’t take them seriously just because they have no ranking, we will lose and it will crush all the momentum we have right now,” he said. “So that’s the threat, but I don’t foresee our team taking anyone lightly. They will compete hard against everyone and use each match as an opportunity to improve and grow.”
Memphis split two matches on the road this past week. The No. 22 ranked Tigers picked up the win against No. 44 Saint Mary’s Sunday and dropped a match to No. 21 Arizona State Monday. “We learned from these matches that we must continue to define each of our players’ strengths more clearly,” Walker said. “We must also adjust to the outdoor conditions in normalizing the extended length of points.” The 4-2 win against Saint Mary’s marked the fourth victory over ranked opponents for Memphis this season and the first time the Tigers clenched the doubles point in the past four matches. Today’s match against Conference USA rival UCF is slated to begin at 2 p.m. The Tigers will hit the court Sunday to take on SLU at 9:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. against Murray. Play is at The University Club and admission is free. n
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