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Brewery uses beer to build Memphis pride
Sorority forced into three-year hiatus By Jonathan A. Capriel news@dailyhelmsman.com
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co-owners andy ashby (left) and Drew Barton (right) have a toast to their hard day’s work.
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Special to The Daily Helmsman In the early 20th century, Prohibition drove many large breweries into bankruptcy, convincing individuals to craft their own beers, albeit on a smaller scale. Andy Ashby and Drew Barton, co-owners of Memphis
Made Brewery, still practice this art of “craft brewing” and hope to use it as a way to enrich the community and camaraderie of Memphis. The history of “craft brewing”, or microbrewing, on a larger, profitable scale began in the late 1970s in the United Kingdom. A large number of smaller breweries decided to begin
producing a more traditional “cask ale,” an unfiltered and unpasteurized brew that’s fermented twice and served from a cask without the additional carbon dioxide. Although the word “microbrewing” initially was used to describe the size of the breweries, it slowly turned into something expressing the free-
dom of experimentation and the brewing flexibility of the breweries. During the 1980s, the terminology made its way to the U.S., being used to describe any brewery producing fewer than 15,000 barrels of beer annually. Ashby, 35, and Barton, 34, who
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Going green pays off for University By Joey Kachel
news@dailyhelmsman.com The Princeton Review recently rated the University of Memphis as one of the most environmentally conscious universities in the country. Since 2007, the U of M has been making a concerted effort to improve its environmental impact. Initiatives like introducing electric vehicles for cam-
pus workers, collecting cooking oil for biodiesel production and the TIGUrS (Tigers Initiative for Gardens in Urban Settings) program have increased the environmental consciousness of the University. With the University’s recent budgetary woes, the tendency is to rate some campus-wide projects by how much money they save the University. But for U of M Sustainability Coordinator
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Amelia Mayahi, the benefits of the Tiger Blue Goes Green initiative transcend money. “As any investment, to see an actual financial payback will still take time, but I am confident that we will see that in the near future with initiatives in recycling and energy savings,” Mayahi said. “However, the payback in students gaining experience and opportunities has been the quickest return.”
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A University of Memphis sorority has been suspended for three years for what has been described as a hazing incident, which resulted in a pledge seeking medical attention, according to a source that asked not to be named. The Office of the Dean of Students punished the Rho Gamma chapter of Zeta Phi Beta for violating the student code of conduct. Tori Griffith, coordinator of fraternity and sorority affairs, confirmed the suspension. However, she would not explain why the sorority was reprimanded. “For judicial reasons, we can’t share the details,” Griffith said. “Reasons for suspension can vary, but it is not uncommon for suspensions to last three to six years.” Founded 46 years ago this May, the sorority will be prohibited from participating in campus activities and will not be “recognized by the University” during the suspension, according to Griffith. No fraternity or sorority has been suspended in the past two years, Griffith said. The Zeta Phi Beta national office could not be reached for comment and the Rho Gamma chapter officers declined to speak on the suspension. The sorority chose not to appeal suspension. The U of M fraternity and sorority affairs website defines hazing as “any intentional or reckless act… by one (or more students) which is directed against any other student, that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of the student.” It can also include “treatment of a violent, abusive, shameful, insulting, or humiliating nature.” However, the website does not specifically list a penalty. Hazing is also forbidden by Tennessee statute 49-2-120. The Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. website says hazing is not allowed in any of its chapters. Sorority also states that it notifies each would-be member that hazing they should “walk away
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The chaos of cramming The University of Memphis
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news@dailyhelmsman.com There’s nowhere to run. There’s nowhere to hide. Finals week is coming—the time during each semester that send students into a panic. The tutors of the on campus Educational Support Program work closely with students in effort to raise their grades and overcome the dreaded final exams. “I would recommend looking over your older tests,” 21-year-old Luke Hurst said. The junior chemistry and biology major also advises students to work with their professors. “Go to office hours,” he continued. “Especially if you’re like on the borderline of a grade.” Jonathan Jenkins, a senior biology major, stressed the importance of a full night’s sleep. “Don’t pull all-nighters. Your brain is actually reviewing what you learned while you’re sleeping,” Jenkins said. According to information gathered from the Franklin Institute, when a student pulls an all-nighter in an attempt to retain more infor-
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Nearly all professors advise against pulling an all-nighter to try to cover all materials for an exam. mation, the sleep loss actually affects learning and memory. His colleague, 21-year-old Decoda Muller, has his own tech-
nique for studying and sleeping. According to him, it’s better to go to sleep and wake up early to finish looking over notes than it is to try
cramming all of the information in over the course of one night. “I wake up at least two hours before my exam. Well, two hours
before I have to walk out of the house, so even earlier, and I look over my material. You actually retain the information better than you would with an all-nighter,” Muller said. Jenkins said that you perform better if you don’t interrupt one full REM-cycle. REM, which stands for rapid eye movement, is a stage of sleep where your eyes randomly move, signifying brain activity similar to that when you are awake. Most dreams occur in this cycle. In addition to a good night’s rest, the tutors recommend flash cards as an effective studying tool. “The process of making flash cards can help you establish what is important,” Hurst said. Many students are accustomed to making flash cards for vocabulary in language classes and for math and science equations, but according to Jenkins, cards are also beneficial in lecture classes. They all recommend using quizlets.com. Quizlets is a flash card website that enables students to create their own cyber cards or use
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and get students into internships at environmentally conscious industries. Students taking part in these internships have been able to apply their knowledge of sustainable business practices in a multitude of industries. The Tiger Bike Share Program gives students access to bicycles for $35 per semester. The TIGUrS garden provides both a place of recreation for students and a source of fresh vegetables. And it’s not going to stop there, according to Amelia Mayahi. “I feel that Tiger Blue Goes Green has been working hard on proving its worth and being recognized by the campus and the surrounding community up until now,” Mayahi said. “I believe that goal has now been achieved and the next step will be finding many of the green fee initiatives that have proved to be successful programs each year a permanent home within University. This is opening the Green Fee up to even more new ideas and initiatives that will bring our campus to new heights in sustainability.” The Princeton Review lists the University as one of 332 “green” colleges, based on a study of hundreds of four-year institutions and their commitment to environmental sustainability. The report praises the University’s efforts to become more environmentally aware, including a partnership with Apple to collect 155 tons of old electronics on Electronics Recycling Day, the Tiger Blue Goes Green festival ,which both highlights environmentallysound technologies and practices in development at the University and helps students get jobs in green industries and the new dormitory under construction, which is one of the first public structures in Tennessee to achieve silver Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design certification from the US Green Building Council. The Princeton Review is an educational service that helps college-bound high school students prepare for higher education by offering test preparation classes and manuals and ranking colleges. They’re the organization behind Cracking the SAT, the only test prep manual to make the New York Times bestseller list and The Best 377 Colleges, which ranks colleges in 62 different categories (The University of Memphis isn’t in it.) Amelia Mayahi wasn’t surprised that the University made it into The Princeton Review’s list of green colleges. “We have achieved so much and in so little time. Of course there is plenty of room for growth, but I definitely think that our hard work has paid off and we deserve this placement,” Mayahi said.
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The Princeton Review recently praised the University of Memphis for being a green campus.
The University of Memphis Community Congratulates These Outstanding Faculty and Staff for Their Contributions to Research, Teaching and Advising Please offer your congratulations to our 2014 Award Recipients WILLARD R. SPARKS EMINENT FACULTY AWARD Kenneth Ward, Ph.D. School of Public Health
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH AWARDS Science, Engineering and Mathematics E. Olusegun George, Ph.D. Department of Mathematical Sciences
Creative Arts Kristen Iversen, Ph.D. Department of English
Social Sciences, Business and Law Ruthbeth Finerman, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology
Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Katherine Lambert-Pennington, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology
Humanities Aram Goudsouzian, Ph.D. Department of History
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARDS Douglas Campbell, Ph.D. Department of Economics
Kendra Murphy, M.A. Department of Sociology
Nicole Detraz, Ph.D. Department of Political Science
Carmen Weaver, Ed.D. Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DISTINGUISHED ADVISING AWARDS Courtney Brafford, M.S. Academic Counseling Center
David Horan, B.L.S. Department of Art
THOMAS W. BRIGGS FOUNDATION EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARDS Jacob Allen, M.Mus. Department of Theatre and Dance
Nataliya Doroshenko, M.S. Department of Mathematical Sciences
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University receives grant from GRAMMY foundation
By David Creech
news@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis will be receiving a $20,000 grant from the GRAMMY Foundation, which will go toward researching the benefits of musical training in strengthening the ear and preventing noise-induced hearing loss. The grant to the U of M is a part of an allotted $200,000 grant that the GRAMMY Foundation has dispersed between 15 recipients to fund music research and
sound preservation. The research will involve around 40 young adults, both musicians and non-musicians, to see if those involved have either strengthened ears or noiseinduced hearing loss. The study will be a collaboration between the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab and the Hearing Science Lab, directed by Gavin Bidelman and Shaum Bhagat respectively. The purpose of the research is to see whether or not musical training impacts hearing health.
The researchers will recruit musicians from the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, all practicing classical and instrumental music, and non-musicians from the community and compare their auditory responses. Those researching will use otoacoustic emissions, or OAEs, to measure sounds made in the cochlea, or a recording in the inner ear. This would allow the researchers to compare hearing health between the two groups. The participants won’t have to listen to music or even engage
with certain sounds but records the OAEs while a person is asleep and still diagnose a measure of hearing function. Gavin Bidelman, director of the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, already has an idea how the experiment will turn out. “We do know that musicians do well on auditory tests,” Bidelman said. “Musicians have enhanced auditory senses, and we suspect that musical training will give you some form of protection against loud noises.” The alternative to this hypoth-
esis is that musical training will damage the musician’s hearing health. “If we can identify that musicians are at an increased risk for hearing loss, that could lead to hearing protection and educational programs tailored to professional musicians,” Bidelman said. According to Bidelman, this will be the first systematic study of how musicianship might strengthen the ear and provide some resilience to noise-related hearing loss.
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from any hazing activity, and to report all attempts to haze to the proper authorities.” The Zeta Phi Beta website also says it prosecutes any hazing activity to the fullest extent of the law. Skylar Clayton, out-going president of the Pan-Hellenic Council and Iota Phi Theta fraternity member, would not comment on the suspended sorority. However, he did say this is the first time in the three years he has attended the U of M that a sorority or fraternity has been suspended. “Hazing is against (Iota Phi Theta) by laws, and we don’t believe in it,” Clayton said. “We are supposed to support each other, not tear on another down.” Back in March, two men were arrested in connection with an alleged hazing incident involving U of M fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi, according to a WREG News Channel 3 report.
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Fischer has dedicated more than 20 years to advancing our profession, training future public relations leaders, and adding to our industry’s body of knowledge. With approval of the Public Relations Society of America, the U of M Department of Journalism is pleased to rename its PRSSA Chapter in recognition of Fischer’s everlasting contributions as Chapter Faculty Adviser.
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both have backgrounds in beer knowledge and were bartenders for The Flying Saucer, decided to open a brewery after seven years of tossing around the idea. The duo learned the ins and outs of beer making in their own time, allowing them to wait on the right time to work through their plans. The two reconnected after Barton moved away to Asheville, N.C., to work for the French Broad Brew Company as a distributor and Ashby finished his tenure as a journalist for the Memphis Business Journal. Around the same time, Wiseacre Brewery on Broad Avenue and High Cotton Brewery in Binghampton opened. “I feel we came together at good time and really were some of the first, along with Wiseacre and High Cotton, to start a movement that could help our city,” Ashby said. The bare bones factory of Memphis Made located at the intersection of York Avenue and Cooper Street has only the necessary things. “We were lucky to find this old Cooper-Young loading dock,” Ashby said. “We left it as is for the most part, due to money and the fact that the hard
www.dailyhelmsman.com concrete floors and high ceilings were perfect space to move in only what we needed.” The wide open spaces allow for shipping to be done easier, and cleaning is as simple as hot water. As opposed to carrying a specific type of beer year round, Memphis Made carries a seasonal selection of beers based on whatever ingredients are readily available. As opposed to selling bottles or cans, a range of bars and restaurants in the Memphis area carry the brand to retain the sense of something only being for the citizens of the city, and as it stands, it’s the only way to get their beer. Choosing from local suppliers for every ingredient is one of the ways Ashby says that they are building up the community around them. “Most people decide to go to the Internet for the simplest things that could be around the corner,” Ashby said. “For everything, our signs, ingredients, T-shirts, machinery and whatever else you could imagine, we start at home.” It’s the sense of freedom created from making something that’s your own that Ashby loves the most. “Every brewery overpasses Memphis,” he said. “We can, and will, do this because our city grinds.”
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Co-owner Drew Barton pulls a sample glass from one of the tanks in the Memphis Made Brewery.
Nine people die each day due to distracted driving By Anna Joy Batchelor
Special to The Daily Helmsman Deena DeCourt vividly remembers the day of her daughter’s fatal car crash. The wreck was a result of distracted driving. However, a distracted driver did not hit DeCourt’s daughter Kristin Rushing. Instead, Rushing, 25, was the distracted driver. The day was July 16, 2012. Rushing was heading home from Wal-Mart with her two children, and they were traveling towards Henderson, Tenn. At the time, Jojo Rushing was six months old, and Addy Rushing was two years old. DeCourt’s daughter was driving on a two-lane highway with her seatbelt unfastened while talking on her cell phone with a friend. One of Rushing’s children wanted her attention, so she turned around to see what was going on. When she did this, she went off the road and into a ditch. As soon as she saw what was happening, she quickly tried to get back on the highway. However, she overcorrected, merged into on-coming traffic and crashed into another car. “To this day, Addy will tell you, ‘Mommy was thrown out the window.’ All of the windows were gone. It’s a miracle those kids were able to walk out of there with only minor bruises from their seatbelts,” DeCourt said. Rushing died on the way to the hospital. Accidents that are caused by distracted drivers are an increasing issue in the U.S. A recent study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control estimates that more than nine people die each day from wrecks involving distracted drivers. The number of distracted-driv-
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According to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, engaging in visual-manual tasks like texting while driving triple the risk of having an accident. ing-related accidents is rising. The National Center for Biotechnology Information conducted a study from 2005 to 2010 tracking the number of pedestrian and biker fatalities caused by distracted drivers. Over the five-year period, they found that the number of pedestrian fatalities rose 31 percent, and the number of cyclist fatalities rose 24 percent. According to the Center for Disease Control, there are three common types of distracted driving. People can be visually distracted (taking their eyes off of the road.) People can also be manually dis-
tracted (taking their hands off of the wheel.) And the last is a cognitive distraction (the mind’s focus on driving is interrupted). Cell phone usage is the allencompassing form of distracted driving because it takes visual, manual and cognitive attention away from driving. However, cell phones are not the only culprits that cause drivers to be distracted. The Department of Transportation lists activities of any kind that take a driver’s attention away from driving. Other than the use of cell phones, eating and drinking, talking to other
passengers, fixing hair or makeup, adjusting the radio and even global positioning systems are common distractions. According to Memphis Police Department patrolman Jimmy Gay, anyone can be pulled over and fined for these offenses in the city of Memphis. When there has been a wreck and the stories don’t add up, the drivers are most often charged with the failure of “duty to devote full time and attention to the operating vehicle.” “It’s really a catch-all term. The fine is less than $100, but it’s the court costs that’ll kill you,” Gay said.
The Tennessee law regarding the use of cell phones states that bus drivers and anyone with a learner’s permit or intermediate license can’t use handheld or hands-free devices while driving, and no driver of any experience is allowed to text while driving. Although texting is illegal in Tennessee, it doesn’t stop all people from doing so. Madison Murray, a 20-year-old international business student at the University of Memphis, admitted to occasionally putting on her makeup or talking on her cell phone while in the car but tries only to do so at stop lights. “I only come close to having accidents when I don’t take my (Attention Deficit Disorder) medicine. I zone out a lot more easily,” Murray said. Murray will only use her phone while driving if she receives multiple calls or texts from the same person. That’s when she knows it’s important. In an effort to reduce the number of distracted drivers on the roads, phone companies are creating smart phone apps to prevent people, especially teens, from texting while driving. Tim Norwood, 49, the general store manager of the AT&T store in Cordova, said in an effort to reduce the number of people who text while driving, most cell phones now have a function called “car mode.” “It’s like airplane mode, except it’s for your car,” he said. “When someone sends you a text while you’re driving, it will automatically send a response to the other person. It is customizable, but it will let people know that you’re driving and that you’ll get back to them when you can.”
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Underemployment of recent college grads up 44 percent By Hannah Johnson
Special to The Daily Helmsman Loren Dean graduated from Mississippi State University last year with a concentration in public relations, confident that she would find a job because of her high grade point average, networking connections, leadership positions and involvement on campus but was sadly mistaken. When she moved from Starkville, Miss., back to her hometown of Memphis, she had no connections and an uphill journey looking for a job. “I sent out résumés left and right and didn’t get much of a positive response—if I got any response at all,” Dean said. According to a 2012 Johns Hopkins research survey of 450 graduates, only 50 percent were employed full-time, and 60 percent of those who were working were only receiving an hourly wage. Dean interned with Relay for Life her senior year of college and held a resident assistant position
in her dorm, but most employers wanted at least three years of experience outside of the university. According to a 2014 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the average employment rate for college graduates has dropped by 1.4 percent since the first quarter of 2013. “Internships and planning for your future are huge, but many students don’t start focusing on that until senior year,” Erin Willis, Internship Coordinator and assistant professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of Memphis, said. After much futile effort in looking for a job, Dean decided to take any opportunities she could to get some experience and to begin to create connections with Memphis professionals. She landed an internship at Obsidian PR that eventually led to a full-time job. “I work to help my students cultivate relationships with alumni and local professionals because that is how you get jobs,” Willis said.
Many students don’t know where to look for these relationships because they are not involved in their community or their university. “Involvement and your résumé are crucial because that is what you have to show for the last four years of your life,” Willis said. Stephanie Tynes, a junior dietetics major at the U of M, is part of the Emerging Leaders program that requires involvement in the community, the professional world and at the University. “I feel like a lot of students don’t understand the importance of networking and making relationships with people in their field because they haven’t been taught to do that,” Tynes said. Tynes holds leadership positions in multiple organizations such as Student Dietetics Association and Pursue Memphis. She is interning at St. Jude and planning for another internship during graduate school. “In our economy, relationships are everything and a degree is just
expected,” Tynes said. Erin Moore graduated from Rhodes in 2007 with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and in 2009 from Union University with her masters. Despite her education, she struggled to find a job after college. “I am now a firm believer that most of the hiring is done through word of mouth and knowing the right people,” Moore said. Moore now works as a public relations practitioner for a local bank, not because that was her major but because of a networking connection she cultivated. Amanda Doyle is a nurse at Methodist Germantown on the cardiac telemetry floor. During her undergrad, she worked an externship, volunteered at community outreach programs related to her major and upheld a high GPA. “I think that my externship definitely set me apart from other nursing students and helped me get my current job,” Doyle said. Externships are not readily available for nursing students and
often require lots of extra effort and connections with people in the hospitals. “The reason a lot of students don’t get jobs is because they are afraid to call people and get out of their comfort zone,” Willis said. The fear of talking to and being honest with high level employers often leads graduates to become underemployed which means working a job below their education or qualification level. According to 2014 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, underemployment in recent graduates was up to 44 percent in 2012. “I think students are underemployed because they lack negotiation skills, but more than that, they don’t know their value,” Willis said. Many students get desperate after they graduate and take any job available. They lose their motivation or simply don’t know how to sell themselves. “It usually takes about three months to find a job; students just
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Death toll after deadly storms climbs to at least 30 By Michael Muskal Los Angeles Times
After leaving a trail of death and destruction across at least six states, a series of violent storms that spawned dozens of tornadoes continued to move through the South on Tuesday morning. It was the third day of deadly weather to rip from the Midwest through the eastern portion of the nation, bringing severe thunderstorms, fierce winds and large hail. In all, at least 30 deaths have been reported since Sunday in a swath from Oklahoma and Iowa to Alabama and including Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. Hundreds of injuries have been reported as homes and buildings toppled, mobile homes were tossed like confetti and heavy vehicles twisted in the wind. More than 70 million people live in the area identified by the National Weather Service, but the number in the prime danger zones were about a fifth of that. “The NWS Storm Prediction Center is forecasting a risk of severe weather Tuesday afternoon and into Tuesday from the Great Lakes southward to the central and eastern Gulf Coast and eastward to the Carolinas and Virginia,” the National Weather Service warned. “The greatest risk is from eastern Mississippi to central Alabama, where a Moderate Risk is in place. Several tornadoes, large hail and straight line damaging winds are likely.” This week’s tornadoes come near the anniversary of the 2011 outbreak that left more than 350 people dead across the South over several days beginning on April 25 during the annual tornado season. More than 250 people died in Alabama alone on April 27, 2011, when more than 60 tornadoes crisscrossed the state. This year’s tornado season has been much less severe but still deadly for some. Hundreds of tornadoes have touched down in recent days, including 13 reported in Alabama in the last 24 hours. Arkansas—especially in Vilonia and Mayflower—was especially hard hit on Sunday, with 15 deaths in three counties. “The state’s in a state of shock right now,” Republican Rep. Steve Womack, whose Arkansas district northwest of Little Rock was spared much of the damage, said in Washington on Tuesday. “These will try your souls.” The dangerous storms moved through Mississippi, where tornadoes began to strike Monday afternoon through the evening. Tupelo, a community of about 35,000 in northeastern Mississippi, was hard hit and every building in a two-block area was damaged, officials told television reporters. Officials said seven people died in Mississippi’s Winston County, where Louisville is the county seat, with about 6,600 people. Another person died in Mississippi when her car either hydroplaned or was blown off a road during the storm in Verona, south of Tupelo. As of Tuesday morning,
Mississippi Emergency Management confirmed at least nine deaths across the state. Two weather-related deaths were confirmed in Alabama. One of those tornadoes destroyed the Kimberly Church of God in Kimberly, Ala. Pastor Stan Cooke was using the church as a community shelter, keeping about 25 people safe underground. “I cried. I cried,” Cooke said to television reporters. “The church is not the people, the people are the church.” In southern Tennessee, two people were killed in a home when a suspected tornado hit Monday night, Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Mike Hall told The Associated Press. The winds destroyed several other homes as well as a middle school in the county that borders Alabama, Hall said.
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ones made in the past by other students. Muller admitted to seeing a fantastic rise in his grades as a result of using Quizlets. “I was not big on flash cards,” Muller added. “You have to make them, they take up space and I’m killing trees. I just truly hated them, but I can make flash cards on Quizlets from the convenience of my cellphone.” Quizlets.com and its subsequent smart phone app are free. Another point the tutors mentioned was prioritizing. Jenkins believes prioritizing enables you to study constantly throughout the semester, and it is the first step to approaching studying for finals. As for essay exams, Jenkins promotes familiarizing yourself with the material while Muller suggests talking to classmates. “Bother your friends. That’s what I did,” Muller said jokingly. As for the day of the exam, Jenkins said be sure to eat breakfast, and Hurst strongly recommended using the restroom before the test starts. “I learned that one the hard way,” Hurst admitted. For all exams, these tutors emphasized the importance of not “psyching yourself out” and over-worrying. “I used to have that bad,” said Jenkins. He would know the information but panic during tests and second-guess himself. “I (learned) to slip out of my head. Think about something other than the facts for five seconds. That helps a lot,” he said. Communications instructor Gray Matthews suggested that students clear their minds. According to him, panicking only makes both studying and test-taking that much more difficult. He stated that every situation is different, and the key is in understanding how your own mind works. “Thinking requires mental energy, so don’t waste that energy thinking about a million other things, or lose the energy by trashing your body,” Matthews said. “Listen to whatever kind of music most relaxes your mind if stressed, stimulates your mind if paralyzed by fear or lifts your mind if down. Listen to music that reminds you that you are a unique living wonder and not a mass-produced functional product.” As for when students should start studying, Muller, Jenkins and Hurst all agree that it depends on the student and the class. “I stay up to date on the material, so I don’t have to study as much,” Hurst said. Jenkins recommended a week. He also said students should repeatedly test themselves. “Repetition really solidifies what you learn,” Jenkins said.
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Men’s golf finishes seventh at conference championship By Austin Reynolds
sports@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis men’s golf team finished up play in the American Athletic Conference Championship Tuesday, finishing seventh in the field of 10 teams. The No. 47 Tigers shot 43 over par for the tournament and 18 over par in the final round. No. 31 SMU took the victory shooting +6. Memphis finished behind two unranked teams in Louisville and Cincinnati. The Tigers were led by senior Will Pearson who finished the tournament at +4. Memphis placed near the top of several tournaments earlier in the season but has stumbled in the weeks leading up to the conference tournament. Memphis head coach Grant Robbins said he felt like they had a good enough team to contend in the conference championship, but the Tigers came up just short. “We’re just kinda in a slump right now,” Robbins said. “It’s completely mental at this point. We’ve had a couple of rough tournaments to finish the season. We’re just pressing right now.” Since winning the Memphis Intercollegiate tournament on April 1, Memphis has finished 12th out of 15 teams at the Old Waverly Intercollegiate and 13th out of 14 at the Western Intercollegiate before the seventh place result in the conference tournament. According to Robbins, the Tigers’ veterans have fared well during the slump and it’s mostly the younger players who have struggled. However, Robbins is looking at things in a positive light, saying that the late-season slump will serve as a learning experience for the Memphis freshmen. While the Tigers didn’t end the season how they would’ve liked, Robbins said they are still in position to receive an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament, but they won’t know for sure until the field is selected on May 5 at 9 a.m. The selection show will be broadcast live by the Golf Channel. The NCAA Regionals begin May 15.
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single-season record, which he still holds today, with eight complete games in 1982. After his junior season, the Boston Red Sox selected Corder in the 1983 draft. “When you evaluate careers from the past, not just one season or a game, Tim’s career stands out,” Schoenrock said. “Tim put up some phenomenal numbers and helped Memphis to impressive seasons in all three years he played.” The baseball team will honor Corder and retire his jersey at 1:45 p.m. on Saturday just before the game against the Huskies at FedExPark. Schoenrock wants as many baseball alumni to attend the game and ceremony to honor Corder’s place in U of M baseball history. “We want to turn this into an Alumni Weekend,” Schoenrock said. “The main part of this alumni weekend is the retirement of the jersey, but we want to get the guys together in the grand stand to renew some old friendships while enjoying a game at newly renovated FedExPark.”
sports@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis baseball team will retire the jersey of former ace pitcher and M Club Hall of Famer Tim Corder Saturday before their matchup against the University of Connecticut. Corder, a Covington, Tenn., native, was one of the most successful pitchers of all time at the University of Memphis. He played only three seasons from 1981 to 1983, finishing with a 27-3 career record. He was a two-time All-American selection and a three-time All-Metro Conference First Team selection. “We are excited to honor Tim, and this is another somewhat local player to have his jersey retired,” Memphis head coach Daron Schoenrock said in a release. “We know that local players have been very important to the history of the program, and we look forward to seeing several of his teammates at the ceremony.” Corder is only the 10th Memphis
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NBA Commissioner bans L.A. Clippers owner for life The Associated Press NEW YORK — Issuing about the strongest rebuke that he could, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life Tuesday for making racist com-
ments in a recorded conversation, the first step toward forcing a sale of the club and permanently removing Sterling from the league. Silver also fined Sterling $2.5 million, and again expressed outrage.
“I fully expect to get the support I need from the other NBA owners to remove him,” Silver said. Several owners immediately chimed in with support of Silver’s decision. Sterling, the league’s longest-tenured owner and someone with an estimated net worth of about $2 billion, did not offer any immediate comment. The penalties, which were announced only three days after the scandal broke, are the harshest ever issued by the league and among the stiffest punishments ever given to an owner in professional sports. Silver said a league investigation found that Sterling was in fact the person on the audiotapes that were released over the weekend and immediately sent shock waves throughout the game. “We stand together in condemning Mr. Sterling’s views,” Silver said. “They simply have no place in the NBA.” Sterling acknowledged he was the man on the tape, Silver said.
Sterling still owns the team, but going forward he is immediately barred from attending any NBA games or practices, being present at any Clippers office or facility, participating in any business or player personnel decisions involving the team, or being part of any league business. It’s unclear how Sterling will respond. “This league is far bigger than any one owner, any one coach and any one player,” said Silver, who as commissioner has broad powers under what’s typically called the “best interest of the game” clause of the NBA constitution. But Silver works for the owners, and he will need 75 percent of them — if all 30 teams vote, he’ll need 23 on his side — to force Sterling out of the league completely. The fine will be donated to organizations dedicated to antidiscrimination and tolerance efforts that will be jointly selected by the NBA and the Players
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Association, Silver said. “This has all happened in three days, and so I am hopeful there will be no long-term damage to the league and to the Clippers organization,” Silver said. “But as I said earlier, I’m outraged so I certainly understand other people’s outrage. This will take some time and appropriate healing will be necessary.” After the announcement, the Clippers’ website had a simple message: “We are one,” it read. “We wholeheartedly support and embrace the decision by the NBA and Commissioner Adam Silver today. Now the healing process begins,” the Clippers added in a statement. Sterling’s comments were released over the weekend by TMZ and Deadspin, and numerous NBA owners and players have condemned them. Even President Barack Obama weighed in on the crisis, the first of Silver’s brief tenure as commissioner. “Commissioner Silver thank you for protecting our beautiful and powerful league!! Great leader!!,” Miami Heat star LeBron James wrote on Twitter. The league’s investigation started Saturday and players immediately began expressing intense displeasure with the situation, even going so far as to ask Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson to get involved on behalf of the players’ union. “When one rotten apple does something, or if you see cancer, you’ve got to cut it out really quickly,” Kevin Johnson said at a news conference in Los Angeles, flanked by NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and players like Steve Nash, Tyson Chandler, Luke Walton and Roger Mason Jr., among others. “And Commissioner Silver did that in real time. We’re so proud and thankful for him.”
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