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This week will see the beginning of a year-long safety renovation project along the campus portion of Central Avenue. Plans for the safety project include lowering the speed limit on Central Avenue and making changes to the street’s landscaping, signage and lighting. A median will be constructed on Central Avenue to aid drivers in making left turns. Workers will also install a fence around the general parking lot to help guide pedestrians to crosswalks. “Safety is the emphasis of it,” said Tony Poteet, assistant vice president of campus planning and design. The design process began in 2008 when University officials began working with Architecture Design VI Studio. Nine U of M students participated by helping to critique potential renovation ideas. “This project has been difficult in that we’ve looked at all sorts of alternatives,” Poteet said. There are three construction phases. In the first, workers will expand the intersection at Central Avenue and Zach Curlin
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Planned changes to Central Avenue include adding a median and new sidewalks.
Street, while also expanding sidewalks on the south side of Central Avenue. This phase, which is expected to take up to five months, will be the longest. Phase two, which includes the construction of the new median, will begin early next year. During the construction,
which is expected to last two to three months, only one lane will be open in each direction on Central Avenue. The third phase is expected to begin in the spring of 2014 and last three to four months. New sidewalks will be constructed on the north side of the street,
so the north-bound lane of Zach Curlin Street will be closed. The upgrades are being funded by money from the City of Memphis Capital Improvement Program and state capital maintenance funds and enhancement
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U of M ROTC ranked as states best By Austin Reynolds
news@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis was ranked the best military service school in the state of Tennessee in a list compiled by the Online College Database. Of the 15 ranked universities, Memphis was one of only three schools to boast ROTC programs for the Army, Navy and Air Force. “I think having all three of the services gives everybody that’s interested in the military options to explore,” said Lieutenant Colonel Marc London, the Air Force ROTC Detachment Commander at the U of M. “I also think that the University
on a whole has a wide display of majors that are not only attractive to incoming students, but they’re also attractive to the Air Force.” London said that academic areas that the Air Force is highly interested in include nursing, foreign languages and engineering. The hard work put in by ROTC students shows not only in their detachment but also in the classroom. “The thing that impresses me is, I’ll go out and talk to the professors at the different colleges, and I’ll ask them how are our cadets doing here at school, here at the University of Memphis, and the responses I get is profession-
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al, organized, responsible, hard workers. So, a lot of the training that we have here at ROTC, in my opinion, gets them going in that direction,” said London. The three ROTC branches at Memphis run most of their dayto-day operations separately but come together multiple times throughout the year for different occasions such as the annual Veteran’s Day run or the competition for the Commander’s Cup. “(The Commander’s Cup) is an athletic competition among the three branches,” said senior electrical engineering and cadet wing commander Eric Fesmire. “We do a lot of different sports, and we have a field day of events,
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and, basically, a culmination of points comes to what basically results in one of the three branches getting what’s called the Commander’s Cup.” For many individuals, including Fesmire, ROTC is a way to fulfill a lifelong dream. “Different people come in for different reasons. They want to serve their country, they have a family history of military, they want to continue that tradition,” said Fesmire. “The driving force for me is that I’ve always wanted to fly. I’m very passionate about the military, I’m very patriotic I think and I just have that desire
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For two days, starting at sundown on Wednesday and ending at nightfall on Thursday night, Jews in Memphis will celebrate a new beginning. Rosh Hashanah, which in Hebrew means “first of the year,” marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year. Jews see Rosh Hashanah as a way to start over with a clean slate and get excited for the year ahead, according to Kallie Brown, president of the Morris S. Fogelman Jewish Student Center at Hillel of Memphis. The celebration usually includes observance and prayer in the synagogue and concludes with festive, family meals in the evening. At the service, a shofar - a ram’s horn - is blown, symbolizing a call to action and a reminder of what has happened during the past year, what is happening now and what the future holds. The story of Abraham being told by God to sacrifice his son Isaac is also read, as well as a sermon from a rabbi, a Jewish religious leader, and prayer. “On Rosh Hashanah, I go to the Beth Sholom Synagogue of Memphis, and the service usually starts around 9:15 p.m.,” Brown said. “I leave the main service around 2:30 p.m., though there are some who remain there for the whole day. I then go home and have dinner with friends and family.” A Rosh Hashanah dinner includes foods which vary across the globe, including chicken soup, maztah balls, little dumplings, apples and honey. “We eat apples and honey on Rosh Hashanah, to symbolize a sweet year,” Brown said. Rosh Hashanah was first recognized as a Jewish holiday in 5774 BC and is the oldest Jewish holiday. “It is the Jewish celebration of the new year, of the Jewish calendar, which is a different calendar
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Organization for young women of color opens By Ellyahnna Hall
news@dailyhelmsman.com Women and girls of color can get access to new resources surrounding reproductive justice and sexual health at the University of Memphis. The grassroots organization Sister Reach focuses on the educatio, policy and advocacy of sexual health and reproduction of women and girls of color. It has a new location on the University of Memphis campus. “Sister Reach does its work through the framework of reproductive justice,” said Cherisse A. Scott, founder and CEO of Sister Reach. Sister Reach will have its twoyear anniversary next month but is new on the U of M campus. “Because of the grant we did with the Tennessee Board of Regents in partnership with the department of sociology, we have been on campus for a little over a month,” said Scott, 39. “I think it’s one thing to be accessible to the community; I think it’s another to be accessible to students who may not have access
uuCentral Continued from page 1 grants. About $1.5 million of work has been done already, including drainage work, planning and the installation of the traffic light at Innovation Drive and Central Avenue. Poteet said the remaining construction and utility work will total about $2 million. “Once funds are appropriated for use, they stay there until they’re used,” he said. “Those funds were appropriated years ago.” The city council approved the renovations, and city officials were in charge of finding a contractor and implementing construction. Poteet said the contractor
to transportation to resources in the broader community.” Sister Reach does a lot of work off campus, but as project coordinator, Scott still wanted it to be accessible to young women on campus. “This program is aimed particularly at black and brown women and trying to understand our economic status. Those of us that don’t have cars might have bus fair,” said Scott. “So, if young women want to come and have some kind of oneon-one private conversation, there will be someone here for them to talk to.” Scott will not be the only person with a vast knowledge in reproductive justice that young women can speak to. “What this is offering is a different kind of curriculum than is normally offered here at the University,” said Zandria F. Robinson, assistance professor of sociology, at the U of M. “Nobody gets the reproductive justice and sexual health offered to them the way that Sister Reach is
offering,” said Robinson. “This type of education is central to a person’s life — not just to their life as a student but to their life as a person beyond campus.” This is professor Robinson’s second year at the U of M. She also received her masters degree from the University and shared her excitement about Sister Reach being on campus. “I admired Sister Reach for such a long time and wanted to get with them on campus,” said Robinson. “I meet Cherisse at a community event and knew that we had to get together. My work in sociology is in race, class, gender and sexuality in the South, and reproductive justice is a great intersection for looking at race, class, gender and sexuality in the South.” Sister Reach has a goal of not only seeing young girls make it into college but retain and graduate despite the challenges that these young women face in life. “We want to give them the resources to make it past those challenges that the University may
chosen, White Construction and Associates, has some U of M alumni on their staff. Melanie Williams-Har vey, a registered dietician major, said she had so many problems crossing Central Avenue that she paid the $90 fee to upgrade her general parking pass to priority status. “Central is a pain in the butt,” she said. “Even in the crosswalks you almost get hit by cars.” “I think that’s a great asset for students here,” said WilliamsHarvey, 36, after hearing the news of the safety project JirMichael Walker, a music composition major, disagrees with Williams-Harvey. “If it’s not like rush hour or something, it’s easy,” Walker, 20, said about crossing Central. “Honestly, I don’t think (the
renovations) are necessary.” Walker said he does not like the idea of spending money to fix something that he considers a common sense issue. “It’s crossing the street,” he said. “If there’s a lot of traffic, cross at the light. I think there’s a fair balance between common sense and regulation.” Poteet said the University wants to improve the crossing situation after several students were hit on Central Avenue over the years. He is confident that the scheduled renovations will do that. “We just appreciate everyone’s patience during this time,” he said.
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not be equipped to handle that are faced by marginalized students of color,” said Scott. “And I just think that it kind of helps with the morale of the project to be kind of immersed in the University of Memphis campus culture. So, for me it’s a really great opportunity. It expands our capacity and reach as far as our locations.” Sister Reach has a strong plan of action in place to help young women of color on campus. “It’s a three-year grant. We’re going to women from each classification — freshman, sophomore, junior and senior,” said Robinson. “We’re also going out into the community and working with girls coming into college. We are just going to follow them all the way through college and give them all kinds of support and not just reproductive justice.” Scott shared some other goals that Sister Reach has, now that it is on campus. “When I was in school, being on campus was just like being in the world,” said Scott. “You’re away
from mom and dad. It’s kind of cool that young people can be informed about the type of decisions that they are going to make on their own, like some of their life decisions around space and pregnancy, sexuality, and spirituality, and it may give some of them to the opportunity to volunteer for the first time. ” Both Robinson and Scott shared that the goal of bringing resources to even one woman that would not normally have them would be successful but all 20 is what the aim is. “So, we wanted to bring Sister Reach into campus and offer women of color access to resources that they wouldn’t normally get,” said Robinson. “It’s just so important to get that life curriculum that you would normally get by the school of hard knocks.” There campus location is Clement Hall Room 309. Sister Reach’s other location is 1750 Madison Ave. Suite 600 inside the Family Safety Center. They have services that are focused on the African American, Latina and LGBTQ communities.
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uuJewish Continued from page 1 because it is a lunar calendar,” said Sherry Weinblatt, director of the Morris S. Fogelman Jewish Center at Hillel of Memphis. Rosh Hashanah is followed 10-days later by Yom Kippur, the “day of atonement”. During this period, tradition holds that God decides who lives and dies in the upcoming year. They believe that there are three ways to alter God’s decision – through prayer, charitable acts and repentance to God. Overall, the idea of a fresh start in the spiritual sense helps Rosh Hashanah keep its tradition. “To me, what separates the Jewish new year from the ‘other’ new year is that Rosh Hashanah is more spiritual, while the regular new year is more of a party,” Brown said. “If I have any goals, I save them for Rosh Hashanah.” Morgan Bromley, a sophomore biology major, also views the holiday in a similar light. “The main meaning of Rosh Hashanah to me is renewal, and, to me, that is what the holiday is all about,” Bromley said. “It’s a major festivity, it’s the January 1 of the Jewish Calendar.”
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House Speaker Boehner says he’ll vote for Syrian airstrikes By William Douglas, Anita Kumar and James Rosen MCT
President Barack Obama and his administration on Tuesday pushed to win approval to strike Syria from skeptical and war-weary lawmakers, meeting with congressional leaders and dispatching top deputies to testify before a Senate panel. At a White House session, Obama picked up a key supporter when House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters afterward that he supports the president’s desire to launch a limited strike at Syria in retaliation for the alleged use of chemical weapons two weeks ago. “I’m going to support the president’s call for action, and I believe my colleagues should support this call for action,” Boehner said after meeting with Obama. “The
United States for our entire history has stood up for democracy and freedom for people around the world,” he said. “The use of these (chemical) weapons has to be responded to, and only the United States has the capability and capacity to stop Assad and to warn others around the world that this type of behavior is not going to be tolerated.” Syrian President Bashar Assad has repeatedly denied responsibility for the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people in a Damascus suburb. Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and other top U.S. officials say the evidence of his involvement is indisputable. Obama said Tuesday that any military action against war-torn Syria would not involve “boots on the ground.” “This is not Iraq, and this is not Afghanistan,” Obama said. “This
is a limited, proportional step that will send a clear message not only to the Assad regime, but also to other countries that may be interested in testing some of these international norms — that there are consequences.” Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also came out in favor of a U.S. military response. “In my view there is a preponderance of evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Assad’s forces willfully targeted civilians with chemical weapons,” Menendez said at the start of a hearing Tuesday. “Having said that, at the end of the day, the chemical weapons attack against innocent civilians in Syria is an indirect attack on America’s security, with broader implications for the region and the world.” Defense Secretary Chuck
Hagel, who has said for days that the Pentagon is prepared to launch a strike that would likely use Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from U.S. Navy destroyers off Syria’s coast, gave his strongest support yet for such an attack. “The Syrian regime’s actions risk eroding the nearly centuryold international norm against the use of chemical weapons — a norm that has helped protect the United States homeland and American forces operating across the globe from these terrible weapons,” Hagel told the panel. “Weakening this norm could embolden other regimes to acquire or use chemical weapons.” In New York, U.N. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon pleaded for more time before any military actions, urging Obama and Congress to wait for the conclusion of tests by his team of weap-
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Associate’s degrees, technical certificates can yield more By Adrienne Lu Stateline MCT
Students who earn associate’s degrees and occupational certificates often earn more in their first year out of college than those with four-year college degrees, according to a new study examining the average salaries of graduates in five states. For the study, College Measures, a partnership between the American Institutes for Research and Matrix Knowledge Group, worked with Arkansas, Colorado, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia to obtain data on how much graduates from twoand four-year colleges in those states earned in their first year after graduation. College Measures aims to improve the decision-making process for students, parents and policymakers for a more efficient and productive higher education system. “The findings challenge some conventional wisdom, showing for example that what you study matters more than where you study,” Mark Schneider, president of College Measures, said. “Higher education is one of the most important investments people make. The right choices can lead to good careers and good wages while the wrong ones can leave graduates with mountains of debt and poor prospects forever paying off student loans.” Schneider said states tend to put a lot of money into the flagship universities, the best-known research institutions in each state. But his study indicates state legislators should focus more attention and funding on community colleges, which “can represent a good way for residents of a state to get the training that they need to get into the local labor market and earn a reasonable wage.” Schneider said that regional fouryear public colleges should also take a cue from community colleges and think more about how they can best train students to fill the needs of local job markets. Among the lessons of the study: Short-term credentials, such as two-year degrees and technical certificates, can be worth more than bachelor’s degrees in early years. The study found that in Texas, those who graduated with technical associate’s degrees earned over $11,000 more on average in their first year after graduation than those with four-year degrees. Those who graduate from flagship campuses who entered the job market directly after graduation did not earn more than graduates of regional college campuses.
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news@dailyhelmsman.com After a glance around any building on campus, one might see throngs of students inhaling smoke from what looks like a small, black wand. It is the latest trend emerging among smokers called e-cigarettes, or electronic cigarettes. E-cigarettes look like regular cigarettes; the only difference is that they don’t contain tobacco. Instead, there is a device inside that heats up liquid nicotine that turns into liquid vapor that smokers inhale and exhale. “The great thing about the e-cigarette is that you can buy them without nicotine, so it is helping me get off regular cigarettes,” said junior communications major Hunter King. “I read articles online that say they are not good for you, but for me it is better than the whole ritual of lighting a cigarette.” King said that being a smoker is so ingrained in his personality after being a five-year, packa-day smoker. “I am choosing between the
lesser of the two evils,” King said. “I smoke less cigarettes and do not think about smoking as much.” The biggest benefit King has had from the switch is financially. King used to spend $35 a week on cigarettes and now spends $15 a month. “The $40 for the cartridge was the most expensive part of it, and the $15 for the liquid lasts me about a month,” he said. The liquid used in an e-cigarette can be found in a myriad of flavors, ranging from gummy bears and cotton candy to the typical classic tobacco. “Regular cigarettes are full of tar and other carcinogens that are horrible and cause things like throat cancer,” said Danny Tockey, part owner of a local e-cigarette store. “The e-cigarette juices just contain vegetable glycerin, propylene glycol and nicotine, which are not harmful.” Tockey’s business partner, Steve Butler, said that vegetable glycerin is found in nearly every food product we use in the United States.
“Basically it is the same thing as vegetable oil, natural and not harmful, the same thing with propylene glycol,” he said. Vegetable glycerin is extracted from palm and coconut oils and used as an additive in cosmetics and food and also as a sweetener. Propylene glycol is used by the chemical, food and pharmaceutical industries as antifreeze when a leakage might lead to contact with food, according to the Center for Disease Control. The Food and Drug Administration has determined that it is “generally safe for use in food.” However, the CDC states that even at low concentrations nicotine causes tremors and increases heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate. Dr. Lowell Dale of the Mayo Clinic states that the FDA has questioned the safety of e-cigarettes. When he analyzed samples of two popular brands, he found traces of nicotine and toxic chemicals, including known cancer causing substances. Dale stated that until more is known, it is a safe play to say no
NAACP-KKK meeting in Wyo. believed to be a first By P. SOLOMON BANDA Associated Press
A meeting between the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and an organizer for the Ku Klux Klan over the weekend is believed to be the first of its kind. The meeting between Jimmy Simmons, president of the Casper NAACP, and John Abarr, a KKK organizer from Great Falls, Mont., took place at a hotel in Casper, Wyo., under tight security, the Casper Star-Tribune reported. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the United Klans of America said Tuesday that the meeting is a first. Abarr told The Associated Press that he met with Simmons Saturday and ended up filling out an NAACP membership form so he can get the group’s newsletters and some insight into its views. He said he paid the $30 fee to join, plus a $20 donation. But Abarr said he didn’t ask anybody at the meeting if they would like to join the KKK. “You have to be white to join the Klan,” he said. Simmons asked for the meeting following reports that KKK literature was being distributed in Gillette, about 130 miles north of Casper, and that AfricanAmerican men were being beaten
while out in public with white women. “It’s about opening dialogue with a group that claims they’re trying to reform themselves from violence,” Simmons said in a telephone interview Tuesday, saying the meeting went well. “They’re trying to shed that violent skin, but it seems like they’re just changing the packaging.” Abarr said he knows nothing about any beatings or the literature that was distributed in a residential neighborhood in October. Gillette police Lt. Chuck Deaton said there have been 10 hate or bias crimes reported in the past five years that involved namecalling, none of them assaults on African-Americans. Deaton said any beatings may have happened outside of city limits and were not reported to Gillette police. The literature said, “save our land and join the Klan,” Deaton said. He said police were unable to speak with the “young man” who was distributing the material, and he was chased away by neighbors. “In the 21 years that I’ve been here, that’s the first I heard of the Klan in Gillette,” Deaton said. Abarr said he agreed to meet with Simmons as way to open a dialogue between two race-based groups. United Klans of America
imperial wizard Bradley Jenkins of Birmingham, Ala., said in a telephone interview that he sanctioned the meeting and called it a first between the KKK and the NAACP. “I don’t know if we accomplished too much,” Abarr said. “We’re not about violence. We’re about being proud to be white.” NAACP officials in Washington, D.C., requested questions in writing but did not immediately respond. Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center said previous meetings between white and African American separatists groups have taken place before, but none between the NAACP and the KKK. He called the United Klans of America a “copycat wannabe” group that’s not the same one responsible for violence during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, including the death of four girls at a Baptist church in Birmingham. The original UKA was dismantled in the 1980s following a lawsuit by the Southern Poverty Law Center. “I think it’s outrageous and counterproductive,” Potok, a senior fellow at the center, said of the meeting. “It gives legitimacy to the Klan as an organization you can talk to.”
to electronic cigarettes. Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, reaffirmed Dale’s statement that there is still more research to be done on e-cigarettes, especially their impact on long term health, but they appear to have fewer toxins than smoke found in traditional cigarettes. Dr. Harvey Simon, Editor of Harvard Men’s Health Watch, wrote that electronic cigarettes contain the toxic chemical diethylene glycol (DEG) and various nitrosamines, powerful carcinogens found in cigarettes. In 2006, the FDA had received a substantial number of reports about fatal DEG poisoning of consumers who ingested cough syrups that were manufactured with DEG-contaminated glycerin and can cite poisoning cases spanning back to 1937. Tockey, like King, can see an improvement in his finances as a tangible by-product. “I used to spend $240 a month on cigarettes, a carton a week,” Tockey said. “Now, I spend $30 a week on vapor juice.”
uuSyrian Continued from page 5 ons inspectors, which left Syria over the weekend but must still analyze and report on its findings. Ban expressed appreciation for Obama’s decision to go to Congress on the issue, but he said significant elements of the U.S. version of events in Syria involving the chemical weapons attack remain unproven. A poll released Tuesday suggested that Americans haven’t come around to Obama’s view, with 48 percent of those surveyed opposing a U.S. strike against Syria, 29 percent supporting one and the rest uncertain. Threequarters of Americans believe that U.S. airstrikes would likely create a backlash against the United States and its allies in the Middle East, and 61 percent fear they would likely lead to a long-term U.S. military engagement there, according to the poll by the Pew Research Center.
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Tigers football supports graduates By Corey Carmichael
sports@dailyhelmsman.com The University of Memphis is giving away two season tickets to each of its nearly 4,000 recent graduates. All the University asks from the 2012-13 alumni is to print the congratulatory email or one of the printed letters mailed to their address. The former students need to bring the printed email or letter with a valid ID to the Memphis Athletic Office located in the Penny Hardaway Athletic Hall of Fame building to claim their tickets. Any student who graduated last year is eligible for the season tickets, and Associate Athletic Director
Bob Winn said this is a great idea to grow a fan base from within the University. “Tom Bowen came up with this idea, brilliant in its simplicity, to try to build the fan base,” Winn said. “You want people who care about the University to be a big part of the fan base. New graduates may or may not be in a financial situation to pay for season tickets, and we’ve given them that opportunity.” The average attendance has declined since 2003, when Memphis won the Wyndam New Orleans Bowl with a 9-4 overall record — a 5-2 record at home. The average attendance that year was 40,622 out of the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium’s more than 60,000 seats.
After a few years of attendance in the 20,000 person range, Winn said the free tickets are a part of an initiative to get the stadium to capacity and assert Memphis as a larger national athletic base. “Graduates have been supporting us with their attendance, service fees and time for the last four years, and we should support them,” Winn said. “We are trying to get the stadium to the 40,000 to 50,000 range.” The Tigers are competing in the newly formed American Athletic Conference for the first year, and season ticket holders will get to see games
against Duke, Arkansas State, the University of Central Florida, Southern Methodist University, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Tennessee-Martin and the University of Temple. The season opener is Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the Liberty Bowl against Duke.
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Volleyball player garners new award By Meagan Nichols
sports@dailyhelmsman.com University of Memphis freshman volleyball player, Catlin Lilly, was named the first American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Week honoree. “We didn’t actually have that recognition in Conference USA,” said head volleyball coach April Jauregui. “So, we are very happy for her.” The Tigers are coming off a 2-1 record at the Belmont Invitational in Nashville over the weekend. In addition to the conference award, Lilly was named to the AllTournament team at the Belmont Invitational. The Memphis freshman recorded 46 kills and 36 digs over the three games. Lilly’s 46 kills currently ranks her first in the American among all freshmen and third among all players. Jauregui said Lilly was recruited to replace recent Memphis graduate and all-time Memphis record holder in kills, Altrese Hawkins, who recorded over 1,800 career kills during her collegiate career. “Those are definitely big shoes to fill,” Jauregui said. “But she was our top recruit, and we are going to rely on her a lot even though she is only a freshman.” Jauregui said the matches over the weekend were a good seasonopening test for the Tigers, who she said rose to the challenge during competition. “Defensively, we are playing amazing,” Jauregui said. “We are trying to convert those digs into offensive points.” The Tigers return to action this weekend when they host the Memphis Invitational Friday and Saturday at the Elma Roane Field House.
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Freshman soccer player earns AAC honor By Meagan Nichols
sports@dailyhelmsman.com The American Athletic Conference recognized one University of Memphis women’s soccer players on Monday for her outstanding performance over the weekend. Freshman forward Valerie Sanderson was named the American Offensive Player of the Week. The Quebec native’s hat trick in Sunday’s game against Middle Tennessee solidified the 3-1 win for the Tigers and earned the attention of the league office. “They were three very good goals,” said head women’s soccer coach Brooks Monaghan. “I can’t say enough about her composure. Hopefully, it won’t be the last time she receives the award.” Sanders on joined t he Memphis program in the spring, and, based on what she showed then, Monaghan said he was not at all surprised with her strong performance over the weekend. He said he hoped the honor would give the young Tiger the confidence to continue to progress. The Blue Raiders of Middle Tennessee struck early Sunday netting the first goal in the fifth minute of play, but that was all Sanderson (3-1-0) would allow. The Memphis freshman struck back in the 32nd minute with the assist from senior Christabel Oduro to tied the game 1-1. Oduro’s assist tied her for the third most assists in Memphis program history. Middle Tennessee was unable
uuStudents Continued from page 5 In all five states, those who graduated with engineering degrees earned the most. Graduates with degrees in technology, engineering and math earned more than other majors, but the study found no evidence that those with science degrees in subjects such as biology or chemistry earned higher wages. Each of the states in the study matched student records with data collected from the state’s unemployment insurance database. Every state used data from its public universities. Arkansas, Colorado and Virginia also reported data from some private, not-for-profit institutions. The study did not include earnings of students who moved out of state after graduation. About 20 states nationwide have the kind of data used in the study, Schneider said, but most do not make the information easily accessible to the public. “What we’ve done with these five states, every state should be doing,” Schneider said. Funding for the study was provided by the Lumina Foundation, which has provided additional funding to examine the wages of students beyond the first year after graduation and who move out of state.
to summon a response, and Sanderson grabbed the lead for the Tigers with the pass from freshman Danielle Tolmais in the 54th minute to make the score 2-1. With less than a minute on the clock, Sanderson silenced the Blue Raiders with an unassisted goal to end the game 3-1. Memphis outshot Middle Tennessee 18-7. Sanderson was responsible for seven of those shots. Sunday’s win on the road came after the Tigers were unable to defend their home field Friday against Vanderbilt (1-1-1), dropping their first game of the regular season 2-1. The lone goal for Memphis came from senior standout Christabel Oduro in the 23rd minute of play. Junior Nugene Nugent was credited with the assist. The Commodores outshot the Tigers 19-15. Seven of Vanderbilt’s shot were on goal. “Friday was a bit disappointing,” Monaghan said. “We’ve made winning a tradition, and I don’t think we dealt with the defeat well, which is a good thing.” Monaghan said the difference between Friday’s loss and Sunday’s victory came down to the quality of play and the caliber of Middle Tennessee versus Vanderbilt. “I think we just played our style of soccer,” Monaghan said. “But Vanderbilt is a stronger opponent, and there is no question about that.” While Friday’s loss was difficult, Monaghan said he was
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University of Memphis freshman, Valerie Sanderson was named the Offensive Player of the Week Monday after netting three goals against Middle Tennessee over the weekend. pleased with where his young team was at this point in the season and explained he would not
want his squad to peak too early. With three wins and a loss to their credit so far, The Tigers
head to the Blue Grass State this weekend to battle Western Kentucky.
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