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U of M cracks down on illegal downloading By Austin Reynolds
news@dailyhelmsman.com Earlier this week, an administrator sent an email to all University of Memphis students, reminding them of the University’s strict policy regarding illegal downloading on the Memphis network. Students who are caught violating the policy can face punishments such as loss of access to the University’s Internet network as well as legal action. Compliance with this policy is not an issue, according to U of M chief information officer and vice provost for information technology Ellen Watson. “We have very good compliance with the policy,” Watson said. “We are required to report if we have a certain number of illegal downloads.” The University has software that tracks every download and upload made on the network. According to the email, every time any type of file is downloaded or uploaded, the software keeps a record of the user’s name, IP address and the name of the file. Watson claimed that no students illegally download on the network but then went back on the statement. “None do (download illegally). Not on our network. Once in a while something slips through, but we are very much in compliance with the law,” Watson said. It is rare for something to slip through, and the issue is not rampant said Watson. The Daily Helmsman polled 24 students on the issue and, of the 24, 13 said that they did not have a problem with illegal downloading, and 15 said that they have illegally downloaded before. Additionally, six said that they have previously illegally downloaded on the Memphis network. Watson has her reasons for her stance against illegal downloading.
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Credit Union sets up fund for deceased student By Joey Kachel
news@dailyhelmsman.com Family and friends remember Patricia Guerrero as a kind, loving person who was devoted to the people around her. Maira Guerrero, Patricia’s sister, recalls the spirit and kind nature of her sibling. “She was a pure-hearted person,” she said. “She had no hate inside of her at all. She was beautiful.” Guerrero, a junior management information systems major at the University of Memphis, died in an automobile accident Saturday night. According to police, she was riding with Jorge Davila on Interstate 40 in Hickman County when Davila’s Ford Mustang rear-ended a tractortrailer that was parked on the shoulder near mile marker 158. Both were killed in the accident. Officials say both were wearing seatbelts and neither drugs nor alcohol were involved in the wreck. The First South Financial Credit Union set up a memorial fund for Patricia. All proceeds will be donated to her parents to cover funeral costs and other expenses. They hope to reach a goal of $16,000. Anyone interested in donating can drop off cash or checks at any First South location including the one on campus. Checks should be made out to the Patricia Guerrero Memorial Fund.
Patricia, 20, graduated from Kirby High School with her sister. At her graduation, people remarked that she would be well-remembered someday. “At the time, we joked around that she was going to become renowned, and now people know more about her than me,” Maira said. Maira recalls how graduating from high school was one of Patricia’s biggest goals and spoke about the immense effort she put in to making her dream come true. “It took so much for her to graduate,” Maira said. “When she got good grades, she felt so proud.” After graduating high school, Patricia enrolled at the U of M. She became involved in a number of student organizations, including the Hispanic Student Association and the TRIO club. Edith Salazar, a pre-nursing junior and president of the HSA has fond memories of Guerrero. “She was very outgoing and happy all the time,” Salazar said. “She liked to tell jokes and play pranks. She was a very loving person.” Patricia was instrumental in organizing on-campus events for Hispanic Heritage Month, which drew hundreds of people and became a source of pride for members of the HSA. “Everyone was so happy at the turnout,” Salazar said. Lonnie Latham, associate dean
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Patricia Guerro, a junior MIS major, was very involved at the University of Memphis. She died after a car accident Saturday. of multicultural affairs and advisor to the Hispanic Student Association remembers Patricia as a vivacious, young woman.
“She was a young lady who was very outgoing and full of life,” Latham said. “She always looked
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Public forum aims to spur discussion about $20 million budget gap at U of M By Amber Williams
news@dailyhelmsman.com The past couple of weeks have been filled with confusion for instructors, workers and students after the University of Memphis announced a $20 million budget gap. The United Campus Workers and the Progressive Student Alliance are hosting a public forum titled Public Higher Education in the Age of Austerity on Friday in the University Center room 308 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
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“Students shouldn’t assume that, oh, this is just a worker thing. No, the students are directly affected,” Brandon Shaw, cochairman of the PSA, said. Shaw, a senior philosophy major, emphasized its affects on the campus as a whole. “I feel like if the workers are hurting, so are the students,” he said. “We’re fighting for student and worker rights; the two are coexistent.” He says there is much confusion about the meaning of the gap and how it affects the U of M community.
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“We are hosting this forum, because the union believes in the importance of transparency, democracy and real shared governance on our campus,” Thomas Smith, the lead organizer for the UCW, said. “Transparency is more than a weekly email or a regular blog post. Transparency is opening the books, describing in detail the general situation, the causes, the potential impacts and creating spaces for broad and honest discussion about our campus’ future.” Smith encourages everyone in the campus community to attend
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the upcoming town hall meetings. Faculty and staff want to share their concerns in preparation for the administration-sponsored events next week, according to Smith. “We will not accept any austerity measures against campus workers, especially without transparency about where our tuition money is going,” Michele Nyberg, co-chair of PSA, said. “Students have to make sure that the campus workers that keep our University running don’t suffer anymore scrutiny than they
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uuIllegal Continued from page 1 “I think all of us understand that if we’re an author or a musician it’s fair for us to be compensated for our efforts. It’s both an ethical and a legal responsibility,” she said. Students find themselves on both sides of the issue. Freshman theater major Jerald Smith said he does not have a problem with illegal downloading. Smith has illegally downloaded free music off the Internet before, but said he has not done so on the University network. Sophomore marketing major Garrett Brown has a different opinion about illegally downloading copyrighted material. “Technically it’s stealing,” Brown said. Brown also suggests that with the availability of subscription services people should not have a need to get their music illegitimately. One of the more popular services similar to the ones Brown described is Spotify, which launched in 2008 and allows users to stream millions of songs for free with periodic advertisements. Users can pay a nominal fee per month to remove the advertisements and enable unlimited streaming from a mobile device. Artists are paid a small amount each time their music is streamed on the service.
uuStudent Continued from page 1 up.” She is survived by her sister, Maira, and her parents, Maria and Geronimo. The Forest Hill Funeral Home will hold the visitation and rosary for Patricia at 2440 Whitten Road from 6 to 7 p.m. The mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at 1695 Central Ave. After the mass, a meeting will be held at Forest Hill Funeral Home.
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TIGUrS Garden gives a little culture for the sake of community By Freddy Hodges
news@dailyhelmsman.com The Tiger Initiative for Gardens in Urban Settings is becoming more than just a Green Campus Initiative; it’s getting multi-colored. Beginning next week, the program will paint the outline of the mural already drawn by a University of Memphis mom, artist Vinodini Jayaraman, whose work has been published in Reader’s Digest twice. “We had a long, ole blank wall over there. It was green and didn’t really inspire us,” said Art Johnson, TIGUrS Garden coordinator. The wall was painted white for the final celebration of the University’s centennial last year, giving the program a place to get creative. “One of our gardener’s, Sreedhar Jayaraman’s, mom is a very talented artist, so we asked her to do something with it,” Johnson said. Tigers, peacocks, elephants and deer cover a small portion of the wall. “You notice it (the style) through her symmetrical shapes and figures in her artwork,” said Sreedhar, a junior economics major. Jayaraman has been creating art since she was a child when she used it as therapy for a stuttering problem. It isn’t yet known if the mural will be extended or if other artists will be lending their hands to the wall. “As far as I know, she is the only one commissioned to do any portion of the wall,” Johnson said. Next week, students will assist
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The Tiger Initiative for Gardens in Urban Settings will add color to a mural by Vinodin Jayaraman, a mother of a University of Memphis student. in painting the piece and bringing color to an otherwise colorless wall. “We wanted to get the community involved. It isn’t about just gardening and vegetables,” Sreedhar said. There are no fences around the garden, because students are supposed to feel free to roam the garden, to pick the ripened fruits and to enjoy the serenity of the atmosphere. Students can also volunteer their time and help cultivate the gardens. For Jayaraman, it’s about the Tiger. “Tigers are a symbol of
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already have.” Nyberg, a junior Latin studies major, thinks students should support the union. “They represent workers on campus and are working to ensure that (they) are treated fairly and don’t have to depend on government assistance and multiple jobs to support themselves and their families,” Nyberg said. Cedar Nordbye, associate art professor, believes that this forum is important. “It will be an opportunity for faculty and staff and students to solidify our connections to each
strength and good luck,” she said. “What connects me as an artist to the University is the tiger.” Jayaraman has a master’s degree in international studies and feels strongly about the state of the environment and especially that of endangered species like the tiger and the elephant. “I started drawing the tiger, because I realized when they (her sons) were children, there may not be any left when they grow old,” said Jayaraman. Jayaraman’s work isn’t only found on the wall near the garden, but she also has a painting
other and to take ownership of our situation,” Nordbye, foundation coordinator, said. “There are changes going on in higher education, and we are being conditioned by administrators and legislators that we need to wait in fear for the next edict, the next pronouncement.” He admits his involvement in governance as a faculty senator at the University made him fall in love with the school and feel at home. “I would encourage everyone else at this University to take steps to be heard, to use your voice to help shape this institution and, by doing so, to own it,” he said.
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she created on silk titled Nine Tigers hanging in an office in the theatre building. “Tigers are our (India’s) national animal,” Jayaraman said. “In 1900, there were more than 100,000 tigers living between Turkey and China.” Today, Jayaraman says, around 1,500 live in the wild. Jayaraman feels that, as an artist, it is her charge to reach out to the conscience of the viewer, and she also believes that the visual of the tiger helps to bring to mind the animal’s reality. For her, the U of M is a perfect place to start that journey.
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Sports at a glance Cross-Country Event: Rhodes Invitational Date: 9/28/13 Location: Shelby Farms Park, Memphis, Tenn. Time: Men’s team race at 10:40 a.m. Women’s team race at 10 a.m. Riffle Event: Tiger Open Date: 9/28/13 Location: Memphis, Tenn. Time: TBA Men’s Soccer Event: Memphis vs. Rutgers Date: 9/28/13 Location: Mike Rose Stadium, Memphis, Tenn. Time: 7 p.m. Women’s Soccer Event: Memphis vs. Louisville Date: 9/27/13 Location: Louisville, Ky. Time: 6 p.m. Event: Memphis vs. Cincinnati Date: 9/29/13 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Time: noon Softball Event: Memphis vs. Rhodes College Memphis vs. Arkansas State (Club) Date: 9/28/13 Location: Rhodes College, Memphis, Tenn. Time: 10 a.m. and noon
Event: Memphis vs. Southeast Missouri Date: 9/29/13 Location: Cape Girardeau, Mo. Time: 2 p.m.
Men’s Tennis Event: ITA All-American Championships Date: 9/27/13-10/5/13 Location: Tulsa, Okla. Time: All day Women’s Tennis Event: Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American Championships Date: 9/28/13-10/6/13 Location: Pacific Palisades, Calif. Time: All day Volleyball Event: Memphis vs. Louisville Date: 9/27/13 Location: Louisville, Ky. Time: 7 p.m. Event: Memphis vs. Cincinnati Date: 9/29/13 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Time: 1 p.m.
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UM Hockey starts season close to home By Meagan Nichols
sports@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis Hockey club laces up its skates Friday night at the Mid-South Ice House in Olive Branch, Miss. to start the 201314 season. The Tigers play Friday at 9:15 p.m. and Saturday at 4:15 p.m. as part of a two game series against the Bulldogs of Mississippi State. Michael McAteer, a junior business management major at the U of M, is the president of the Hockey club and has been a member of the team since its inception in 2011. “Last year, we swept State and that was our first series sweep,” he said. “They (Mississippi State) don’t have any place to practice. They have to go to Decatur, Ala. to practice, so I expect them to have only had one or two practices.” Memphis head coach Josh Herbert founded the club after noticing a demand for the sport but no outlet to play. Thus began Tiger Hockey, a registered student organization at the U of M. The team plays at the Division III level in the Southeast Region of the American Collegiate Hockey. The club practices once a week, Wednesday mornings at 5:30 a.m. at the Ice House. The team already had tryouts for this year, but any U of M student is eligible to join. Players and coaches highly recommend anyone interested have previous hockey experience in an effort to avoid injury. Students must pay a $1,300 fee to be a member, and undergraduate students need to be enrolled in at least nine hours of classes and graduate students need six. All players have to maintain a 2.0 GPA to remain eligible. Last year, the team went 6-14-1. Drew Bracey, vice president and player
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University of Memphis Hockey opens its third season this weekend at the Mid-South Ice House in Olive Branch, Miss. for the Memphis Hockey club, is a sophomore undecided major at the U of M. Bracey said the past two years the team had an overall loosing record, but hopes this year will be different. “I am looking forward to seeing how the team will be this year,” he said. “This weekend should show us how the rest of the season will be. It will be a good example.” With only nine skaters and two
goalies on a team usually comprised of around 18 athletes, coaches redesigned the offensive game in an effort to conserve the players’ energy. “The numbers are relatively low, but the players I do have are our core guys that can get the job done,” Herbert said. “Energy conservation and conditioning off the ice is a big thing I’ve been harping on the guys with.”
Herbert said the two major focuses this year are on recruiting and building on the progress the team has made over the past two years. Admission to attend this weekend’s games is $7 for adults and $5 for anyone under the age of 18 or anyone with a valid U of M ID. “We appreciate the support,” Herbert said. “We encourage anybody and everybody to come out.”
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