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U of M plans to restrict tobacco use on campus
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Town hall meeting today By Christopher Whitten
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Joey Endler, a senior history major, takes a smoke break outside Mitchell Hall.
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news@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis is working to clear the air throughout campus by implementing a limited tobacco use policy. What was originally meant to ban tobacco use altogether is now “actually not a ban” on smoking around
campus, but rather a means to eliminate smoking in some areas, according to Robynn Hopkins, administrative associate for human resources at the U of M. Maria Alam, assistant vice president of human resources, said the University’s decision to limit tobacco rather than ban it was the best way to accommodate all individuals who
visit the campus. “We realize this is quite a change for the campus, and wanted to ensure we took into account the concerns expressed previously by our students, faculty and staff,” Alam said. “While many colleges and universities have gone completely tobacco- and smoke-free, we chose to compromise and have designated
areas.” Alam said implementation of the policy, originally slated for July, was postponed to benefit the campus in its entirety. “The effective date of the Limited Tobacco Use policy was changed to October 1, 2012 in consideration of
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Campaign draws attention to UM football By Bryan Heater
bheater@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis football team paired with Sullivan Branding to rejuvenate a fan base that has endured one of the worst stretches in Tiger football history.
A “Mind your business, Dennis” ad campaign has been set into motion with a short commercial uploaded to YouTube. Earl Keister, creative director at Sullivan Branding, said the “Mind your business, Dennis” ad is an effort to bring more fans out to
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Saturday’s season opener versus the UT-Martin Skyhawks. “We want people to get excited again for Tiger football,” Keister said. “[Copywriter] Josh Harper and [Art Director] David Hardin came up with the idea of an office setting for the ad. It’s like a cross between
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The Student Government Association will hold a town hall meeting today in the University Center Theater at 12:45 p.m. Administrators and SGA members will be on hand to answer any questions that students may have and to listen to any concerns students may have as the school year gets underway. SGA President Russell Born ran on a platform of transparency during last year’s student government elections, and the town hall meeting is just the first step towards ensuring that, he said. “I vowed transparency to the students of the SGA as well as the administrators,” Born said. “This is the beginning of that. We are focused on this meeting and answering students questions and addressing their concerns.” Vice President Caray Oldham will facilitate the town hall, Born said. There will be a microphone set up for students to “look an administrator in the eye” and voice their questions and get a response. Born said he doesn’t want to overshadow the genuine concerns of students – SGA members will be listening more than speaking. “This town hall is not to focus on SGA,” he said. “It’s more a time for students to ask administrators questions and focus on their own individual lives, and ask why things are how they are.” n
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We’ve got your back By Chelsea Boozer
cboozer@dailyhelmsman.com A lot has happened with The Daily Helmsman s i n c e y o u ’ v e been gone. With the fall semester came Boozer four new top editors: Managing Editor Christopher Whitten, Design Editor Amanda Mitchell, Sports
Editor Bryan Heater and me, the Editor-in-Chief. When we learned we had gotten the positions last semester, we immediately began thinking about how we could improve the paper. Amanda and Chris spearheaded the efforts of our redesign. We’ve hired new photographers to cover more sports and campus life, and we trained a new reporting staff. We worked all summer and couldn’t wait for August to get here so we could really get started. Unfortunately, in the midst of all of this a committee of administrators, faculty, staff and students cut the funding that covers much
of our printing and distribution costs, funds that make the paper free to students. With a 33 percent cut in funds we had few options: cut back on staff or print fewer days. Either option meant we weren’t going to be able to cover as much on campus as we’d planned. Neither of those were an option we were happy with. We soon learned that the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee’s decision to give us $25,000 less than we have historically received was retaliation. Two committee members – the former Student Government Association president and vice president – were outspokenly angry that we didn’t write a story about one of the SGA’s events last semester. They said they should be getting free advertisement through our articles and want the paper to publish press releases submitted and written by organizations. Apparently, they need a lesson in journalism. The editorial you are reading now is clearly labeled “Opinion” at the top, because we believe it is important to let readers know when we are stating our opinions. The rest of the paper has labels such as “Campus Life” or “National” and the articles in those sections present facts for you to take and form an educated opinion of your own. Our goal is not to promote any one group or another, including the University of Memphis. Nor is it to make the University look bad. A few of those who play a role in setting the paper’s funding cut have told me that the Helmsman needs to help them “put the University on a regional map” and promote more school spirit on campus. That’s not our job. As a student I like the University, and am proud when I
The Daily Helmsman’s integrity is not for sale
wear my Tiger Blue, but as a journalist, I’m here to make sure the paper reports on all of the news. Some of the committee members would have us run public relations pieces and be a tool for the University to get out good things about it and never report on any of its mishaps. If I’m not mistaken, there is already a public relations office for that. The University doesn’t need the Helmsman to be a PR newsletter, and don’t worry, we won’t be. We are here to tell the truth. Sometimes that truth is good news such as Up ‘til Dawn raising a record-breaking amount of funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. But at other times, the truth is that a registered sex offender was pretending to be a student and living in a campus dorm last semester before he was arrested and accused of raping a student in that dorm room. Our job as the independent student newspaper is to tell students what is going on, how their money is being spent, what new eatery is on campus and how our football team did in their first game of the season. Since I’ve been a part of the paper – I’m going on my third year now – we’ve tried our best to produce a quality publication. We’ve had some mess-ups, but we’ve also provided the campus community with information they didn’t get from anywhere else – not local media and certainly not our tightlipped administration. All of that is at stake now. Now that the paper’s funding has been cut because some people were mad that our purpose is not to solely cover their favorite organizations and news they think is “good,” there is no way for us to ensure the paper won’t suffer financially if we report the next rape that happens on campus instead of an
SGA event. We have demanded the University not only restore our funding for this year, but find a different funding method for the paper. I’m hopeful that will happen soon when the University is finished with its investigation, scheduled to wrap up this week. While I’m editor-in-chief, I won’t let anything get in the way of this paper’s commitment to you — students, professors, faculty, staff, administrators and anyone else who reads this paper and supports a free, uncensored press. I’m standing up and fighting to keep timely, valuable information coming your way. I’ll continue to do that for you all. Now, I’m asking you to do the same. If you want to keep benefiting from the Daily Helmsman, speak up and support us. n
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Professional advises students to take care of their piercings and tattoos By L. Taylor Smith
tions in the 18 years that he has been a piercer, so while it isn’t news@dailyhelmsman.com likely for one to occur, it’s imporAlthough tattoos and piercings tant to follow the instructions for were traditionally reserved for sail- how to clean a new piercing or tators, punk rockers, and biker gangs, too, he said. According to Trilogy’s aftercare the demographic has changed. According to a Harris Poll con- sheet, piercings should be cleaned ducted in February, the percentage twice a day for the first few weeks of adults between the ages of 18 with soapy water or Provon, a and 24 with one or more tattoos medicated soap. Jewelry should jumped from 9 percent in 2008 to not be taken out until the pierc22 percent in 2012, and 60 percent ing has healed completely. Tattoos of adults have at least one piercing. should be cleaned twice a day with As one of the closest tattoo par- an antibacterial soap, but they also require an lors to the ointment Un ive rs it y to help of Memphis I think initially heal the campus, people are drawn skin such Tr i log y as cocoa Tat t o o s to the idea of butter or and Body individualizing u n s c e nt e d Piercings themselves, and Lubriderm. on South Morgan Highland they keep doing it to Smith, a Street gets a control their image.” junior art lot of traffic major, has from college MORGAN SMITH spent $600 students. on four tatJ o e l junior art major toos and Newman, a professional piercer who has been 20 piercings. She said people at Trilogy for three years, has seen can easily get addicted to getting tattooed. the demographic fluctuate. “I think initially people are “The majority of customers coming in for piercings are females drawn to the idea of individualbetween the ages of 16 and 20, and izing themselves, and they keep the most common piercings are the doing it to control their image,” nostril, the navel and the tragus, Smith said. “After I started getting which is the portion of the ear that tattoos and piercings, it was hard to projects in front of the ear canal,” stop myself from getting another.” Smith said anyone interested in Newman said. “For tattoos, it’s usually college to middle-aged males, getting a modification should go to an established parlor, otherwise and those are usually text tattoos.” No matter the gender or age, they risk being exposed to unsterpeople who come into the shop can ilized equipment at the hand of be ill informed about how to take someone with less experience than a professional tattoo artist. care of their new modifications. “You have to live with your skin “Unfortunately, the general information about aftercare that for the rest of your life, and when you find on the Internet is very you get a tattoo, you’re surrenderwrong, which can be a huge prob- ing temporary control to someone lem,” Newman said. “For example, so they can put art on your skin,” some piercing kiosks tell people to she said. “Pay the extra money so turn their jewelry after they get a you have something to show off. piercing, but that can cause tear- You’ll save money in the long run ing, scarring and a great deal of by avoiding getting it removed or covered up.” n unnecessary pain.” Newman has seen three infec-
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Daily Helmsman works for financial independence By Margot Pera
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The student newspaper launched its “Free The Helmsman” campaign this summer in a move to become financially independent from the University of Memphis.
Lately The Daily Helmsman has been the subject of local and national media when, after being cut funding by a University of Memphis committee, the paper said it was targeted based on some committee members’ disapproval of its editorial decisions to run or not run certain stories. Now the paper has launched a campaign to try to become financially independent from the University, as it already is editorially – meaning student editors make the final decisions on anything to do with the paper. Helmsman staffers believe that going before a committee comprised of administrative officials and Student Government Association officers that the paper frequently covers – and not always in the best light – is unfair because it will make for a biased judgment. “We can never truly be free if our management has to come begging every year to the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee made up of people we cover and sometimes anger in our stories,” said Candy Justice, general manager of the Helmsman. The staff has launched a “Free The Helmsman,” campaign with
a website, bumper stickers and buttons. Editor-in-Chief Chelsea Boozer said the greatest benefit of the newspaper’s financial independence would be that it could “ensure we are not cut funding because some administrator or angry student is mad at what we cover, which basically is prior restraint.” But the paper’s goal may not be reached anytime soon. Justice said the only way the paper could immediately become financially independent is if a foundation took on the newspaper with an endowment of $75,000, the annual allotment from the committee before this year’s 33 percent cut. Otherwise such a goal may take several years to achieve. Until such funds can be raised, the Helmsman is insisting the University find a new way to allocate funds for the paper, be it an earmarked amount each year or having a baseline fee and then basing any additional funding on enrollment. Committee members explained that cuts were across the board and the Helmsman wasn’t singled out, but Boozer says several committee members have told her that some members had problems with the paper’s content and disapproval of the paper was discussed in the meetings in which funding was decided.
University of Memphis President Shirley Raines issued an investigation into the matter, which is scheduled to wrap up sometime this week. Her executive assistant, David Cox, is conducting the investigation and will present a report of his findings to Raines. If the paper’s funding was cut based on its content, that is a violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. In a letter to Raines, Executive Director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government Kent Flanagan said, “The manner in which the budget cut was administered, accompanied by criticisms of The Helmsman, constitutes a violation of the First Amendment rights … This situation has gained national attention and not the kind that the University wants, I am sure. You can resolve it.” The Helmsman has retained Brian Faughnan as its legal counsel in the case that the situation has to be taken to court. “A little over two weeks ago, I sent a demand letter to counsel for the University outlining what it was going to take for The Daily Helmsman’s situation to be resolved without litigation,” Faughnan said. “Those demands involved not only the restoration of the funding that
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An ashtray by the Theatre building sends a mixed message.
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our students, faculty and staff to allow for adequate time to properly communicate this initiative and the designated smoking areas,” she said. Alam said there will be specific areas on campus designated for those who use tobacco, and there will be some exceptions to where smoking is allowed on campus as well. “Tobacco use is also prohibited in all state vehicles, as well as the Blue Line shuttle,” she said. “Exceptions to this policy are individual guest rooms in the Fogelman Executive Center and the U of M Holiday Inn that are designated as ‘smoking rooms’ and residential rental properties governed by tenant leases.” U of M health educator Jacqueline De Fouw said the implementation of the policy is a positive improvement for the campus. “It’s a good step in the right direction,” she said. “It will help create a healthier environment and foster greater respect.” De Fouw has done research on tobacco- and smoke-free campuses and has conducted surveys of students’ tobacco use over the years. In 2006, a third of U of M students said they smoked everyday, De Fouw said. By 2011, 11.7 percent of students said they smoked daily, while more than two-thirds said they never smoked at all. When the policy goes into effect, there will be visible reminders around campus of where smoking is allowed and where it will be
prohibited. “Appropriate signage will be displayed and all receptacles for discarding smoking materials will be removed from areas where smoking is prohibited,” she said. “Students, faculty, staff and visitors may utilize tobacco products in their personal vehicles.” In order for the policy to take root on campus, Alam said students, faculty and staff must be willing to abide by the rules set in place. “The success of this policy
Tim Freels, a behavioral neuroscience graduate student, enjoys a cigarette outside the Ned R. McWherter Library. depends on the thoughtfulness, consideration and cooperation of tobacco users and non-users,” she said. “Discipline policies applicable to students, faculty and staff may be invoked, if necessary, to secure compliance with this policy.” Under current University policy UM 1614 and the Tennessee “NonSmoker Protection Act,” smoking is permitted outside of University facilities provided smokers are located a minimum of 20 feet from doorways, windows, and ventilation systems. Smoke from such
areas shall not infiltrate into areas where smoking is prohibited pursuant to the provisions of this part. In a letter to the University, hospitality and resort management senior Kadye Garrett pointed out the shortcomings of the current policies and their lack of enforcement, taking it upon herself to measure distance from the entryways to both the Music and Theatre buildings. “There is a less-than-five-foot space in the very middle of the breezeway that could technically
be used as the ‘smoking area,’” she said. “I find this interesting because there are ashtrays mounted well within the 20-foot area from the doors.” Garrett, 24, said she feels the entire breezeway, which generally serves as the main entrance to the campus by students, faculty, staff and visitors, should be deemed a no-smoking section. Whether Garrett’s opinions are shared with administrators and exactly how the new policy will be enforced remains to be seen. n
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The “Mind Your Business, Dennis” billboard hovers over drivers exiting the Poplar/I-240 exchange. The motto comes from the hit commercial in Memphis advertising the first home football game this Saturday against UT Martin.
next to the infamous office water cooler. The first worker says that Tiger football starts Saturday and asks his co-worker if he has gotten his tickets to the game, at which he replies, “You bet, but I was nervous about losing them so I got them tattooed on my arm.” After showing him the tattooed ticket on his arm, he asks, “What if your arm gets cut off?” Apparently, this thought already ran through his mind because he turns around and lifts his shirt up to reveal he has gotten five more tattooed on his back as his “backup plan.” While rummaging through the fridge, another co-worker named Dennis overhears their conversation and says, “Man, I hate to see where you’re going to put your basketball tickets.” That is when the ad’s slogan is presented as the tattooed man yells, “Mind your business Dennis!” “We have received really, really positive feedback on the ad,” Keister said. “I went to sleep early the first night it aired and woke up the next morning to about 10 text messages saying how funny and great it was. Fox news picked it up and aired it, Chris Vernon talked about it on his radio show, and many more picked it up like Geoff Calkins, Sports Illustrated, Gary Parrish and countless blogs. It has been a huge success.” It ends with head coach Justin
Fuente surrounded by four Tiger players at a vending machine saying that these hometown Tigers want “you” at the game. Junior defensive lineman Corey Jones then hits the vending machine and a bag of chips falls down. Other short commercials will be aired for each home game of the 2012 season. “We did six shoots for all six home games that will air at the beginning of each week,” Keister said. “They all will have the same main two characters in an office setting. … We want to sell each game to the fans in a comedic way that people will remember.” The ad continues a recent trend of making Tiger football more relevant in a basketball-dominated city. With concerted efforts to boost the University’s football image through stadium renovations and humorous ads, Tiger fans have some assurance that football’s days of taking a backseat on the bus are nothing but distant memories. n
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was cut, but also avoiding a repeat of this situation by agreeing to a better plan for the future as to allocation of state funds from the Student Activity Fee.” Further discussions between the University and the Helmsman regarding the paper’s demands are postponed until the completion of the internal investigation. As for the paper’s attempt to become financially independent, U of M legal counsel Sheri Lipman said the University “views the Helmsman as independent already.” “If financial ties are cut, I do not have a feeling one way or another,” she said. “The Helmsman makes editorial decisions already and I respect that. If financial independence helps support editorial independence I think that’s wonderful.” Boozer added that “cutting funding means covering less, and if we are afraid of covering certain stories based on whether or not the committee will cut our money, we are not fairly informing the students of what’s occurring on campus.”n
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Sophomore helps Mexico advance in FIFA U20 World Cup By Bryan Heater
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Sophomore midfielder Natalia Gomez-Junco helped Mexico advance in the FIFA U20 World Cup to play Nigeria.
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The University of Memphis women’s soccer team lost their season opener versus Missouri 5-1, ending any hopes of repeating last year’s magic. A major reason is the absence of several of their top players, who have been competing in the FIFA U20 World Cup. Among those competing internationally, perhaps the most impressive has been sophomore midfielder Natalia Gomez-Junco. Gomez-Junco scored one of Mexico’s four goals in a 4-0 route of New Zealand Saturday to help her team earn the group A title with six points. The win sends Mexico to the next round, where they will face off with group B winner Nigeria who won their group with a total of seven points. “I have been able to watch all the games thus far, and Natalia has played extremely well,” Tigers head coach Brooks Monaghan said. “This is an incredible experience for her and she is handling it well. We miss her, but we wish her the best of luck because this experience will only make her better when she returns.” Junior forward Christabel Oduro and sophomore midfielder Kylie Davis played for the Canadian national team but were eliminated after a 2-1 loss to North Korea. Gomez-Junco and the Mexican national team play Nigeria at 2 a.m. central time in Tokyo. The Tigers return to the field Friday at 7 p.m. for their home opener against the Arkansas State Red Wolves. n
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