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Radi o active device found on campus
University of Memphis officials recently discovered a radioactive device inside of a Dumpster on campus. The device was discovered on April 5 and its radioactive nature was confirmed on April 9.
BY ELIZABETH COOPER News Reporter A radioactive device was extracted from a scrap metal Dumpster in an alley between the Heating and Cooling Plant and the Meeman Journalism Building on April 12. Sharon Whitaker, who works inside Meeman, said she was alarmed when she looked out her window and saw men in HAZMAT suits inside the Dumpster.
“I just kept thinking in my mind, ‘Something is not right,’” she said. “Whenever you put on a HAZMAT suit, it’s got to be something that has to do with your health.” The radioactivity in the Dumpster was first detected on April 5 by monitors at Sims Metal Management, where a truck took the bin to dispose of the waste. The metal processing company routinely scans the contents of bins brought there to check for radioac-
on campus that afternoon. Alton Simpson, director of environmental health and safety and The University’s radiation safety officer, was immediately notified by Physical Plant staff who covered the Dumpster with a tarp to stop the potential spread of contaminants. Simpson said the Dumpster was returned to The U of M because of legal obligations and was not removed because the source of radiation was unknown at that
tive substances before admitting their contents into its facilities. Monitors initially detected radiation levels that were 35 percent above normal background radiation, also known as naturally-occurring radiation, in the bin brought from The University of Memphis. The truck carrying the Dumpster was scanned two additional times, producing slightly lower percentage results before the Dumpster was returned to its original location
time. “The generator of the waste has the legal responsibility for the waste,” he said. “If it had been a liquid or a powder and there was a hole in the Dumpster, we could have spread contamination. So the plan was: leave it where it is.” Simpson scanned the Dumpster the day it was brought back to campus with two survey meters and detected no considerable amount of radioactive materials.
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Equal pay day awareness Women make seventy-seven cents per every dollar a man makes
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BY MICHELLE CORBET News Reporter
Doris Conley (left) and Thelma Jean Rimmer earn $8 an hour as employees at The University of Memphis, more than three dollars below the minimum living wage in Memphis – $11.15 an hour.
The Tennessee Economic Council on Women is raising awareness of the 77-cent disparity between men and women in light of Equal Pay Day, which was Tuesday. Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into the current year it takes women to catch up to make what men earned the previous year. The typical woman in
Tennessee makes 77 cents for every dollar a man makes, according to statistics released by the TECW. Black and Hispanic women make less, with Black women making 69 cents and Hispanic women making 52 cents to every dollar paid to white men working full time, year round, the statistics showed. The TECW is an agency that was established by state
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from page 1 legislation to access and look at ways to improve the economic status of women in Tennessee. Carol Danehower, council member of the TECW and associate dean of academic programs for The Fogelman College of Business and Economics, said the pay disparity acts as a “double whammy,” affecting women and the people they care for. “It makes the lives of women who are care givers of children and elderly more difficult. It puts more pressure on them when they are working the same jobs but getting less wages,” Danehower said. From 2006 to 2010, the median earnings for women were
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$31,585 compared to the $41,019 for men, according to the council. It is unclear whether the gap is due to discrimination from employers or women’s choices between work hours and family, but the first step in addressing the problem is to get people talking about it, said Phyllis Qualls-Brooks, executive director of TECW. “We’d like all sectors of the community to think about being paid in correlation to the work one does, not based on anything else like gender. We must find ways to make things more equal. The first step is to have a conversation about it,” QuallsBrooks said. Ana Pederson, junior psychology major, helped start The U of M Progressive Student Alliance her freshman year of
college. The PSA is a student group that raises awareness about the low wages of campus workers especially those who work in lawn, custodial and food services. “They do a good job of raising awareness of low wages on campus, especially women and women of color. Women of color make the least amount on campus. A mother said she has to work two jobs and more than 40 hours a week to make ends meet,” Pederson said. Danehower said it is a misconception that the issue of equal pay no longer exists. “Some people think that the gap has been erased over the years, but that is not the case. We made progress with the Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act, but we still have a long way to go,”
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Danehower said. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It made it so that the 180-day statute of limitations for filling an equal-pay lawsuit regarding pay discrimination resets with each new discriminatory paycheck. According to statistics released by the TECW, in the past 15 years, the number of women-owned-businesses has grown 54 percent. Tennessee is ranked 17th nationally for the number of businesses owned by women. Charles Alexander, director of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center at Volunteer State Community College, said there are also government contracts and services
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that are more readily available to women as minorities than their male counterparts. “Women want to own their own business for the same reason that anyone would want to own their own business: to control their own destiny and be their own boss,” Alexander said. Tennessee has moved up in the overall national financial rankings report based on health, political participation, access to childcare, education and economic success. “The state of Tennessee is moving forward,” QuallsBrooks said. “Ten years ago we were ranked 50th. Now we are ranked 40th. We are making steady, slow progress. With discussions and actions we must make a difference in the salaries of Tennessee employees.”
The Student Activities Counsel recently added a larger component to their entertainment calendar — a concert on memorial field by R&B star Miguel on Saturday at 7 p.m. With chart-topping songs like “All I Want Is You” and “Sure Thing,” and featured hits like “Lotus Flower Bomb,” Miguel was a top choice for SAC’s first student concert. Fredrico Doss, junior psychology major and SAC special events chair, said Saturday is the beginning of a new era for SAC. “SAC is aiming to have bigger events, so this is just a preview of things to come,” Doss said. He said things are changing because they want to prove a point to the student body. “We are trying to let the students know we heard them when they suggested more daytime events and weekend events,” he said. “A lot of students have been asking for a
concert and being that we are for the students by the students, we wanted to answer their calls.” Since October, SAC has been working to bring the students a familiar sound from the radio to campus. They went through a list of artists including Gym Class Heroes and Big Sean to finally select the Los Angeles native, Miguel. “We wanted to find an artist that a lot of students knew of,” Doss said. “He has a few hits on the Billboard 100.” SAC paid Miguel over $20,000 in artist fees to perform behind the Elma Roane Field House. Angie Norwood, SAC coordinator, said she was surprised they were able to get him to agree to perform for that amount. April showers have been taken into account and all of the equipment will be covered for protection, but students should come prepared for rain because the event will
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What is your favorite video game, and why? by Brian Wilson
“Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas—it’s so big that you can honestly do anything.”
“Modern Warfare 3. It serves as stress relief and actually makes me less violent.”
“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. It’s still the most suspenseful game I know of.”
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of radiological health, brought more sensitive instruments, located the radioactive spot, and determined it to be a few inches in width, but said the levels were still “very low.” Two days later, the tarp was removed and three men in HAZMAT suits entered the dumpster. They found the source of radiation to be a metal door apparatus that they then securely removed. Simpson said the door equipment was installed before regulations restricted companies from
using naturally-occurring radioactive materials in the construction of their hardware. “In the old days they used naturally-occurring radioactive material for a lot of interesting things,” he said The apparatus is being held in a secured location until it can be removed from the campus in a cost effective manner. The removal of a small piece of radioactive waste costs around $1000, and it is less expensive to remove several at
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from page 1 He conferred with The U of M emergency management coordinator, police services and a health physicist with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. “It was my determination with consultation and everybody agreed that the Dumpster did not present an eminent risk to public health or the environment,” he said.
At that time, no one at Sims Metal could be contacted to retrieve data about the radioactivity because it was late in the day Thursday and the next day was a holiday, Simpson said. It was not until Monday, April 9 that the data was sent and University staff confirmed there was a significant radioactive substance in the Dumpster, but the source remained unknown. The next day, Allen Grewe, head of the Western Tennessee’s division
“Smackdown 2010. You can make your own wrestlers with theme music and everything. My friends and I used to get really drunk and host ladder tournaments in it.” — John Bushnell, Political Science graduate student once, Simpson said. “We are currently in the process of trying to determine if there are similar devices and to assess if there is any hazard involved,” he said. Simpson motioned to an antique green glass ice cream container on his desk that contained trace levels of Uranium. “The radioactive levels were of no significance; no more than we are getting right now from something that came out of the kitchen cabinet,” he said.
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Graduating seniors show off at downtown art exhibit BY JASON JONES News Reporter A group of graduating seniors will have a chance to show off their work in a thesis exhibit titled “Draw. Shoot. Dye.” held downtown at the Marshal Arts Gallery. The exhibit, which is the students’ final showcase, is scheduled for Friday at 6 p.m. The Marshal Arts Gallery was chosen for the exhibit based on its notoriety, its large space and the students’ benefit of showing their work downtown, said Richard Lou, art department chair and professor of photography. “This will give the students a chance to create a body of work and use it to project themselves to where they want to go in the future,
Miguel from page 3 be outdoors. “It’s a rain-or-shine event, so we hope people will still come if it does rain,” Norwood said. Melanie Freeman, sophomore exercise science major, said she will attend the concert with her sorority sisters to celebrate the end of their week. “I’m very excited because I really enjoy Miguel,” she said. “My favorite song is ‘Vixen.’ It’s real sexy.” Freeman said she thinks this is a great use of her student activity fees and that most students will enjoy this event. This event is closed to the public because the students have funded this event and Norwood said she would like it to be fair for those who pay tuition. “Students should come because this is an experimental event for SAC, and if people don’t come then they might not have another one,” Freeman said.
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whether it be graduate school or a part of other galleries,” Lou said. Eleven artists are featured in the show, including six painters, two photographers, an illustrator, a studio artist and an artist who does both drawings and photography.
“It’s a very human show,” said Jed Jackson, professor of the senior thesis class. Sara Harwood, one of the participating artists who focused on photography, has six pieces in the show including one large installment that will hang from the ceiling.
The installation will consist of a series of 11 images printed on a transparency that are hung as a mobile. Most of the students began the creation process at the beginning of the semester and continued on through their studio thesis class.
Some of the pieces will include abstract paintings, cartoon illustrations of everyday life and photographs of family. “There is going to be a little bit for everyone,” Harwood said.
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U of M advertising team wins best presenter
BY JASON JONES News Reporter The University of Memphis’ senior advertising team received second place in the National Student Advertising Competition along with one of its five contestants winning Best Presenter of the competition. “You could call it a comeback year,” said Sandra Utt, advertising professor and advisor for the department of journalism. The NSAC takes place every year at the end of the spring semester. Participants are given a client, budget and set
of objectives for the project. This year ’s client was Nissan Motor Company, with a budget of $100 million and a target audience of 18 to 29-year-old multicultural people. The objectives were to increase lasting favorability and brand awareness, Utt said. The 18 seniors from The U of M began the competition in the fall. Nine schools from across the Southeastern region competed. The U of M finished second to the University of Alabama by three-tenths of a point. “Anything could go wrong or right, and the stars just seemed to be shining right,”
Utt said. It was the second year in a row that The U of M produced the best presenter in the competition with this year ’s winner being Walter Smith, senior journalism major. “He was very in control and made you believe what he was saying. He took command of the room,” Utt said. Winning the award has helped Smith network, he said. “The NSAC is a big deal in the advertising world and it’s a real honor to have won best presenter,” Smith said. “I’m already getting calls from different companies including ones I didn’t even apply to.”
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UM tennis teams head to C-USA championships BY DAVID CAFFEY Sports Reporter After ending the regular season with winning records, The University of Memphis men’s and women’s tennis teams will begin play in the Conference USA championship tournaments this week. The U of M men’s team finished the regular season on Sunday with a 4-0 shutout over UAB. Following the victory, the No. 33 Tigers improved to 17-4 (4-1 C-USA) for the season, their best record since earning 18 wins in 2002. C-USA officials released the conference champion-
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ship bracket on Monday, with Memphis seeded No. 2 behind top-seeded Tulsa. Memphis will play its first match of the tournament in Orlando, Fla. against the No. 7 seed Southern Miss on Friday. If the Tigers win over USM, they will advance to play the winner of Rice vs. SMU match on Saturday. Earlier in the season, The U of M beat SMU on the road 5-2, while Rice handed Memphis its only conference loss of the season, 5-2. Leading the charge for the Tigers will be freshman David O’Leary who enters the tournament undefeated in his collegiate career with 20 straight victories. Memphis will also look to No. 114 ranked Connor Glennon in singles competition. The No. 56 ranked Memphis women’s team finished its regular season on Sunday in a 5-2 defeat against conference foe Tulsa. Despite the loss, the Tigers ended the season with double-digit wins and a record of 15-4 (2-1 C-USA). The U of M will host the C-USA women’s championship at the DunavantWellford Tennis Center on the campus of Memphis University School. The Tigers earned the No. 4 seed in the tournament after losing only once to a conference opponent in the regular season. The team will play its first match of the tournament on Friday against the winner of the contest between the No. 5 seed Marshall and the No. 12 seed UTEP. If the Tigers prevail in the quarterfinal round, they will advance to a potential rematch with the No. 1 seed Tulsa in the semifinals. Memphis’ tournament efforts will be led by the No. 32 ranked junior Courtney Collins. After winning her seventh consecutive match in the loss to Tulsa, Collins improved her season record to 15-2. The Tigers will have two other ranked singles players in their arsenal in No. 80 Mariya Slupska and No. 86 Stefanie Mikesz. The championship game of the men’s tournament will be played on Sunday, April 22, and will be broadcast on Fox Sports Network. The final contest of the women’s championships will also be played on April 22, with a scheduled start time of 10 a.m.
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BY SCOTT HALL Sports Editor The University of Memphis baseball team dropped two of three games in a weekend series loss to East Carolina. The Tigers were held to just two runs in game one of the series on Friday. ECU relied on pitcher Kevin Brandt, who held Memphis to just six hits, including four strikeouts in 6.1 innings. Memphis scored their first run in the second inning, followed by another in the third, but could not get anything going offensively. The game was tied at 2-2 through five innings, but ECU scored a run in the sixth, seventh and ninth innings to take the game, 5-2. Memphis pitcher had an upand-down game, allowing four runs on five hits, but striking out eight. On Saturday, the Tigers’ bats came alive, torching the Pirates for 12 hits in a 5-2 win. Four Memphis batters had two hits in the game, with all five runs coming from different players. Derrick Thomas and Tucker Tubbs each had two RBIs. After an RBI double by Adam McClain gave the Tigers the lead in the third, Tubbs knocked out his first career home run to double the Memphis advantage. ECU tied the game in the fifth, but a single by Thomas brought in a run, and Tubbs followed up with a
sacrifice fly to give Memphis a 4-2 lead. Thomas gave the Tigers some insurance with a home run in the eighth to secure the 5-2 victory and tie the series at one game apiece. ECU clinched the series victory with an offensive onslaught in the rubber match on Sunday. The Pirates scored 14 runs on 17 hits to double up the Tigers and race away with a 14-7 win. ECU really got going in the fourth inning. After heading into the inning trailing Memphis 2-1, ECU scored two runs in the fourth, three runs in the fifth , and six in the sixth to take a 12-2 lead. The Tigers responded with five runs over the sixth and seventh innings, but ECU scored two more to prevent the Tigers from rallying for a come-from-behind win. “We had a hard time throwing enough pitches down in the zone,” head coach Daron Schoenrock said. “Wind blowing out on a day like today, you’ve got to throw down. Offensively I thought we put together some good at bats. At the opportune times, no, but you have to play differently when you’re down by a big margin like that.” With the series loss, the Tigers fall to 16-20 on the season, and 6-6 in Conference USA. They will begin a four-game road trip with a game against Murray State in Murray, Ky., before traveling to Hattiesburg, Miss., to take on Southern Miss.
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