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Lipman Head Start on its feet BY ERICA HORTON News Reporter
which will remain open through May, is still available because The University is operating under its old contract. Head Start is a federally funded program that provides educational opportunities for children 3 to 5 years old at no cost for low-income families. Under its guidelines, The University must pay 25 percent of the total cost of the program, or roughly $6,800 per
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Though it was denied more than $400,000 in federal funding by the Shelby County Commission in November, the Head Start Center of Learning at The University of Memphis is up and running, for now. According to the director of Shelby County Head Start, John Lovelace, funding for U of M’s Head Start program,
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Sandra Turner, director of the Lipman School at The U of M, and project assistant Dominique Smith explain an international geography lesson to Head Start students.
child. Housed in the Barbara K. Lipman School, U of M’s program serves 20 children, the maximum for the location. Lovelace said that after May, Head Start will publicize proposal bids in local newspapers, allowing other organizations to compete for the new contract. “Other people can request to have a Head Start Program,” he said. “Whoever meets Head Start guidelines the best will be selected.” Vicki Azlin, grandmother of 5-year-old Head Start student Hayden Azlin, said it’s great that the program is continuing for now, but she wonders what will happen after May. Azlin was part of a group of parents and relatives who petitioned against Shelby county’s denial of $400,159 in funding for the program. “The point of the petition was to present it to the Board of Commissioners to have proof there was communitywide and University support for this program,” she said. More than 1,000 signatures later, Azlin said she and other supporters never got to present the petition because they were never put on the commissioners’ meeting agenda. “(Parents) invited commissioners to the classroom and meetings, and none of them came,” she said. “ One said he couldn’t because he works for The University.”
Azlin said at the moment, she and other protestors are taking a break. “Everybody was so busy and upset in November — they hardly enjoyed Thanksgiving,” she said. “But we haven’t given up the fight to save the center long term.” Sandra Turner, principal investigator of the Head Start grant at The University of Memphis and director of the Lipman School, said although she is not sure of the future, the possibilities are endless. Turner said she knows that Dean of Education Donald Wagner negotiated with Mr. Lovelace, and the county commissioners knew petitions were available. “I love those 20 children, and while they’re with me, they’re getting everything they need,” she said. Wagner could not be reached for comment. The funding proposal needed seven votes to pass when it was brought before commissioners in November. Henri Brooks, Sidney Chism, Justin Ford, Melvin Burgess and Heidi Shafer voted against the 2010 contract, while Walter Bailey, Wyatt Bunker, Mike Carpenter, James Harvey, Terry Roland and Chris Thomas voted in favor of it. Mike Ritz abstained, and Steve Mulroy, a U of M employee, recused himself.
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Case of the Mondays? BY AMBER CRAWFORD News Reporter
Not having a Monday class for two weeks may seem like an ideal situation for some U of M students, but it’s a gamble that some may not be willing to take. The last day U of M students could add or change their spring full-session classes was Wednesday. However, those enrolled in Mondayonly classes aren’t able to attend that class until Jan. 24. Upon attending their Monday classes, if some students find their classes are not what they expected or too much for them to handle, they’re left with few options. If they choose to drop a course and fall below 12 hours, they lose full-time status and jeopardize their scholarships and insurance discounts. Senior journalism major Sarah Valadie is one of many students at The U of M currently enrolled in a Monday-only class. “Personally, I like having the time off, and if I had to drop it, it wouldn’t affect me since I would still have 12 hours,” Valadie said. “But I might have to drop my Monday class because I’ve heard it can be very time-consuming, and I have to work. So I can see where someone who didn’t have as many hours as I do could have a problem.” Tennessee has two public university systems: the University of
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BY CHRIS SHAW News Reporter The blues duo comprised of University of Memphis junior Elizabeth Wise and freshman Alex Uhlmann traces its roots to a class last semester. “The first day of music theory class, I heard a voice from the back of the room say, ‘I play upright bass,’ and I was thrilled because that was the next element I wanted to add to my music,” said Wise, a vocalist and guitar player. “A few weeks later, I got up enough courage to ask Alex if he’d like to jam, and he said yes.” Less than six months later, the tandem is making plans to record its first fulllength album while performing regularly at Midtown and Downtown venues. Uhlmann, a music education major, and Wise, an English major, said the music they make together works well because they’re both interested in each other’s musical opinions. They described their sound as a mix of jazz, blues and folk. “Elizabeth gives me a lot of freedom to play whatever I want,” Uhlmann said.
“She’ll play me a song that she wrote forever ago, and I’ll try to make something work.” Wise toured as a solo artist last year in Virginia, her home state, and locally during Memphis in May but found she didn’t know enough about the marketing side of the music business to reach her fans. Luckily, Brandon Chase Goldsmith, a communication Ph.D. student studying political rhetoric, was willing to help. “Elizabeth’s a friend of mine, and she mentioned she didn’t know anything about marketing, and that’s something I used to do,” Goldsmith said. Before coming to The University of Memphis, Goldsmith worked as head of box office promotions and marketing at one of the biggest country and western nightclubs in San Antonio, Texas. The hardest part of being in a band, Goldsmith said, is getting your name out to the public. But now that Wise and Uhlmann are getting local attention, they have the challenge of balancing a full-time class load while keeping a presence in the music scene. “When people ask me what I’m doing, I always say ‘school and music’ because
that’s my life,” Wise said. “I took a semester off and was playing music during that time, and I loved it, but I really wanted to come back and get my degree.” Wise and Uhlmann might agree on the concept of their music, but they had differing thoughts on the possibility of leaving school to take their act on the road. “My goal is to be a touring musician,” Uhlmann said. “If it was a big legit tour and we were playing all over the country, I would at least take a semester off. That’d be achieving a huge life goal.” Wise said that education is still her top priority. “There are lots of things I want to do in my life, but music is the only constant,” Wise said. “I never want to drop it. I’m not going to drop music for school, and I’m not going to drop school for music.” This week, the musicians will take the stage at two Midtown venues. Wise performs tonight at 9 at Bayou Bar & Grill on Madison Avenue, along with Dave Cousar and Grace Askew. Friday at 8 p.m., the Wise-Uhlmann duo will open for Dan Montgomery at Otherlands Coffee Bar, located on Cooper.
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Double time: Scholars by day, musicians by night
Junior English major Elizabeth Wise, above, and freshman music major Alex Uhlmann will perform their jazz/ folk/blues duo repertoire this week at two Midtown venues.
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English instructor stirs conspiracies into conversation BY CHELSEA BOOZER News Reporter A graduate assistant in The University of Memphis’ English department used what some students have called “conspiracy theories” to get students in her freshman-level English course thinking critically. Michael Melton, freshman biology major, took graduate assistant Deborah Canale’s English 1010 course last semester. He said in-class discussion topics introduced by Canale included UFOs, a secret missile launch by the U.S. government and the use of airport security pat-downs to desensitize Americans to molestation. “There are people out there who think that,” Canale said. She said she presented these topics to keep her class up to date on current events. “My theory was for them to read news headlines and be able to think on both sides,” she said. Last semester, Canale also instructed students to research WikiLeaks and write a paper
on their opinions of whistleblowers and the controversy surrounding the nonprofit organization. Melton said Canale e-mailed the class links to YouTube videos, along with class assignments and reminders, as suggestion topics for a report they were required to present for class. The report could be about any topic, Canale said. One video included “911 was a fraud!” in its title and featured a retired major general of the U.S Army, Albert Stubblebine, who said an airplane did not crash into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, as reported by government and media. Melton said though some of the discussion topics upset him, Canale taught the information he expected to learn from the course and wasn’t a bad teacher. “Sometimes it seemed like she was trying for us to believe that way,” he said. “She was trying to teach us these things.” Canale said she didn’t persuade students to agree with her.
“I did not force my opinions on anyone or make them write my opinions,” she said. In one meeting, when the class was ahead of schedule, Canale said she showed a video about Bill Holden, a man who claims he has had several close encounters with aliens and UFOs. Canale said she was trying to make class fun for her students, but that effort failed, and her students thought it was “lame.” Derek Peeples Jr., freshman music education major, said they once watched a video in class about Palestinian beer. Canale said this is her first year teaching at The University, and she is still trying to learn what interests students. “She (Canale) was open for discussion, but if your opinion moved too much from her, she
got defensive,” Peeples said. He added that he attempted to ignore what he didn’t think was relevant to learning the coursework. “I tried to stay focused on what pertained to English, but it got hard to tune out,” he said. Canale said she was “shocked” to hear some of the students’ “outlandish” accusations. “I’m really surprised, and it’s strange,” she said. In order to promote critical thinking, Canale said that she wanted to create discussion between students. “We debated back and forth — I was trying to get them to debate with each other,” Canale said. She said she also used study groups to promote critical thinking. Melton said he thinks she went a little too far by presenting
“conspiracy theories” but found her an effective teacher. “There is a point when thinking critically turns into thinking her way,” he said. Melton added that he believes she thought she was allowing the other side of the topics to be heard. Melton and another student, who asked to remain anonymous, accused Canale of telling them they were victims of propaganda when they brought in reports that showed opposing viewpoints on issues she brought up. Canale denied the accusations but said she did tell them to be cautious of writing propaganda by not including arguments from both sides of an issue. “I don’t understand how they got this twisted,” she said. “I thought I was a better teacher than that. This is really wild.”
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Over 69% of U of M students drink in a healthy manner This means the majority of U of M students choose healthy behavior rather than binge drinking.
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Tennessee system and the Tennessee Board of Regents. The U of M’s scheduling for the academic school year is conducted by TBR, which is in charge of five other state universities, 13 community colleges and 26 technology centers in the state. TBR determined that its campuses begin the spring semester on a Thursday, rather than a Monday. Paula Myrick Short, TBR vice chancellor of academic affairs, said the semester might have started earlier had The U of M not fought for a longer winter break. “We originally planned the semester to start right after the new year,” Short said, “but The University of Memphis argued for us not to move it any sooner than the Tuesday after Martin Luther King Day.” Short said they had to negotiate with other campuses that didn’t want to start the academic semester so late in the month, finally arriving at the decision to begin every spring semester on the Thursday before Martin Luther King Day. As for those with Mondayonly classes who won’t experience their first class until after the add/change deadline, Short said the schools are going to run into that problem no matter what. “The campus is just going to have to make allowances,” he said. “If that’s a problem, someone should talk to the provost to develop a proper protocol. And students should communicate to the SGA president their concerns.” Short said that she would encourage interested students to review TBR Guideline No. A-019, available for public viewing on its website, www. tbr.state.tn.us. This description gives an overview of the standards that TBR sets for its campuses regarding the academic calendar. Campuses under the University of Tennessee system began their spring semester the day before those under the TBR system, yet their last day to change and add classes is not until Friday, Jan. 21. According to the TBR guidelines, campuses under its jurisdiction have 14 school days to add or change classes. The University of Memphis gives students 12 days. Tom Nenon, vice provost for assessment, institutional research and reporting at The U of M, said that many faculty members think the allowed time to add or change classes is too much. “Students that add or change a class don’t come into it until a week and half into the course,” Nenon said. “This often causes problems for the faculty.” Nenon, who was involved in the TBR discussions and developed the template for the academic calendar, cited two main reasons why The
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U of M argued to start the spring semester after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. “The primary reason is all of the things that need to be done,” he said. “For the fall semester, we have the summer, which is spread out over several months. But for the spring, we only have a few weeks. Offices need more time.” The other reason, he said, was for faculty to have time to work on research projects. Ralph Faudree, provost at The U of M, said that administrators need the extra time to help prevent financial aid issues and other problems among transfer and returning students. “We need time to investigate so students can have all the information they need to hit the ground running,” Faudree said. As for the issue that some with Monday-only classes face, Nenon said that most of those are graduate or upperlevel courses, and those who can afford to drop the class normally have the option of taking those courses on Tuesday or Thursday. Faudree said changing the add/change deadline could be considered for future semesters.
Police Beat — by Melissa Wray
Assault
n Dec. 9 at 1:39 a.m., officers responded to a fight call from Richardson Towers. The victim said that he and another resident had been involved in an argument that resulted in the victim’s being struck in the face one time. The case remains under investigation.
Trespassing
n Jan. 1 at 4:45 p.m., officers saw Marlon Anderson, a.k.a. Marlon Rice, walking toward the back entrance of the Communication and Fine Arts Building. Anderson, who has 21 arrests and citations from U of M police dating back to 1995, was arrested and charged with criminal trespass and issued a misdemeanor citation.
Burglary
n Jan. 11 at 5:35 p.m., officers responded to a burglary call from the Carpenter
Complex. Starkitsha Higgins said that her room had been broken into and several items stolen between 7:45 a.m. Jan. 8 and 5:45 p.m. Jan. 9.
Theft
n Dec. 13 at 12:09 p.m., officers responded to a call made from the Ned R. McWherter Library. Supriyapriyadar Pati told officers that a black man walked up and sat in the desk directly behind her for a short period of time. When she noticed that her purse had disappeared, the suspect had, as well. The purse contained credit and debit cards. n Dec. 14 at 11:57 a.m., a theft was reported from Clement Hall. Venson Whitmore Jr. told officers that he had finished taking an exam and left before he realized that his phone was missing. When he returned to the classroom, the phone was gone. The case is still under investigation.
n Dec. 23 at 9:51 a.m., a theft from the Student Recreational Center was reported. James Vest told officers that he was working out in the weight room two days prior when he placed his iPod on the seat of the ab chair equipment. When he finished his workout, the iPod was gone. The case is still being investigated. n Jan. 13 at 7:40 p.m., officers handled a theft reported at the Student Recreational Center. James Murray told officers that he arrived at 7:00 p.m. to play basketball, placed his iPhone on the bleachers and covered it with his ball cap. When he returned to the bleachers, his phone was gone, but the cap was on the floor.
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n Dec. 15 at 11:59 a.m., officers handled a vandalism report from room 167 of the Administration Building. Amanda Clarkson said that the
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monitor to her Dell computer had been forcefully removed from its mount. The case is still being investigated. n Dec. 15 at 2:44 p.m., officers responded to a walkin call at 505 Zach Curlin. Monique McClain said that she parked her rental car on the first floor of the Holiday Inn at 10:30 a.m., but upon her return an hour later, she discovered multiple scratches on the vehicle. There are no known witnesses or suspects. n Jan. 3 at 7:30 a.m., officers received a vandalism complaint from the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law downtown. Kim McAfee told officers about a broken window in a University van. Maintenance employees said that there was nothing in the van worth stealing, nor were there any implements of any kind that could be used to break the windows. The case remains under investigation.
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Suicides jump sharply among Army reservists, guardsmen BY NANCY A. YOUSSEF McClatchy Newspapers Suicides among active-duty soldiers dropped in 2010 for the first time in five years, but the number of Army reservists and National Guard members who killed themselves nearly doubled, leaving Army officials scrambling to find ways to gain control of a suicide crisis that’s defying the Pentagon’s investment in prevention programs. “It’s not a deployment problem, because over 50 percent of the people that committed suicide in the Army National Guard in 2010 had never deployed,” Maj. Gen. Raymond Carpenter, the acting director of the Army National Guard, said Wednesday at a news conference where the new figures were announced. Carpenter also discounted the role that economic conditions played in the increase in suicides among reservists and members of the National Guard. “Only 15 percent of the people who committed suicide in fact were without a job,” he said. The Pentagon statistics released Wednesday listed 145 members of the Army National Guard and Army Reserves as suicides in 2010, up from 80 in 2009. Active-duty suicides totaled 156 in 2010, down from 162 in 2009, the Pentagon said. Of U.S. military installations, Fort Hood, Texas, had the highest number of suicides last year, 22, compared with 11 in 2009. Fort Campbell, Ky., which had the highest number of suicides in 2009, 21, had 10 last year. The Army’s rising suicide rate, which last approached its current levels in 1990 and 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, has puzzled Army officials. Suicides hit their lowest levels in the last 20 years in 2000, when 63 soldiers killed themselves, according to Army statistics. The Army has made suicide prevention a top priority. It’s proposed shifting an unspecified part of proposed budget savings to suicide prevention programs next year, and soldiers now undergo training on spotting potential suicides among their comrades. Soldiers receive resiliency training and post-deployment evaluations of their mental health, and Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the vice chief of staff of the Army, who’s led the service’s suicide prevention effort, is briefed on each suicide. Chiarelli said he took some satisfaction from the drop in suicides among active-duty soldiers, and he credited the Army’s emphasis on suicide prevention for that. Now, he said, the Army must expand its efforts to the Army National Guard and Reserve. “I really believe we are leading an effort to destigmatize soldiers, family members, civilians (from seeking help) when they have these behavior health issues,” he said. “They are injuries.” That, however, may be more difficult among these troops. Unlike active-duty soldiers, members of the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve are part-time soldiers who have lives
outside the military and often live hundreds of miles from the other soldiers in their units. Carpenter, the Army National Guard’s acting director, said failed relationships appeared to be the largest common factor in suicides. “We have got to make the suicide-prevention plan a family plan, because it’s that family that is with the soldier the other 28 days of the month,” said Lt. Gen. Jack Stultz, the chief of the Army Reserve. In mid-July, the Army released the results of a 15-month study of suicide trends. That 350-page report absolved the repeated deployments of soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years of responsibility for the increase in suicides, noting, as Wednesday’s statistics did, that few of those who’d killed themselves had deployed more than once to a war zone. It said that levels of illegal
drug use and criminal activity in the Army had reached record highs, while the number of disciplinary actions and forced discharges were at record lows, and it suggested that tougher action against drug offenders might help curb the problem. “Drug and alcohol abuse is a significant health problem in the Army,” the study found. Where the Army once rigidly enforced rules on drug use, it got sloppy in the rush to get soldiers ready for the battlefield, the report said. Officers who once trained soldiers on everything from drug abuse to financial planning had only enough time to get their troops ready for battle. The number of misdemeanors that soldiers committed — including traffic infractions, drunken driving and being absent without leave — rose to 50,523 in fiscal year 2009 — a sign, the report said, that “good
order and discipline” were declining in the ranks. Five years earlier, the number was 28,388. Chiarelli conceded Wednesday that the Pentagon doesn’t know what causes suicides, saying that each case is different. He said the Army was hamstrung because it couldn’t investigate each recruit’s mental health before he or she joined the military. “If you want to join the United States Army, I look you in the face and ask you if you have ever had any mental health problems, and if you say no, that is basically it,” Chiarelli said. In spite of the evidence that deployments are unlikely to be the cause of suicides, Chiarelli said he was still hopeful that increasing the amount of time between deployments to two years for every year deployed would help solve this problem. “I really believe (that) is one of the things we have to look at,” he said.
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Women’s Basketball
Tigers aim to recover against Central Fla. After having a 10-game winning streak snapped by UTEP last week, The University of Memphis women’s basketball team is looking to bounce back. Following their loss to the Miners, the Tigers (13-5, 2-2 C-USA) fell, 65-58, to UAB in Birmingham, Ala. on Saturday. Despite out-rebounding the Blazers, 40-37, and shooting 44 percent, the Tigers were hindered by 26 turnovers that led to 28 UAB points. According to women’s basketball coach Melissa McFerrin, the team has responded well to the losses. “I think we’re fine,” she said. “We’re like any other team who’s lost two games in a row. We need to respond very well against Central Florida. Even though it’s on our home court, they’re a team that’s capable of beating us if we don’t play well. We need to get back to playing well, regardless of the circumstances.” Leading scorer Brittany Carter was held out of the Tigers’ 60-55 loss to UTEP last Thursday after injuring her tailbone in a game against East Carolina. The redshirt junior guard scored 18 points on 50 percent shooting in the loss to UAB. “I think it was unfortunate that we had an untimely injury to Brittany Carter,” McFerrin said. “I would’ve liked to have thought we could have still come away with a win against UTEP. We didn’t do that.” The Tigers are trying to improve their ball-handling after committing 23, 21 and 26 turnovers in the last three games. McFerrin said the numbers come from conference foes being more familiar with the Tigers. “They know Alex Winchell is playing the majority of our point guard minutes,” she said. “We’d love to have 16 turnovers a game. That’s our goal. If we get significantly more than that, we have a hard time winning, and that has largely been our issue against UTEP and UAB.” After going 11-3 to begin the season, the Tigers have gone 2-2 in conference play, and had a 10-game winning streak come to an end last week against UTEP. “Unfortunately we didn’t have our best player on the floor for that game,” McFerrin said. “We’ve got to learn how to be a team that can overcome those obstacles if we want to chase the goals that we have set out for ourselves this year.” McFerrin said she still thinks the team has room to improve over the long grind that is the college basketball season. “We’re certainly in a touch stretch right now,” she said. “It’s gonna be important that we handle this difficult stretch well, learn some things from it and
grow from it. We’re not a finished product by any means.” McFerrin added that the Tigers must make the necessary adjustments and improvements to get back on track for the rest of the season. “We’re approaching what I and many other coaches call the dog days of the college basketball season where it’s not so much fun to go to practice every day,” she said. “Winning basket-
ball teams handle the dog days well. But I’m hopeful that we’re going to be a team that knows how to handle that.”
The women’s basketball team, after rattling off a 10-game winning streak, has lost two straight. The Tigers will need to rally around each other if they want to bounce back against Central Florida tonight.
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Sports In Brief
Porter signs five top juco recruits for 2011 football season BY JOHN MARTIN Sports Editor
University of Memphis football coach Larry Porter was hired by athletic director R.C. Johnson last year primarily to do one thing: Recruit. And that’s exactly what the second-year head coach is doing.
In the 2010-2011 mid-year signing period, five junior college players signed to play for the Tigers next year: defensive lineman Zach Gholson (Palomar College), defensive back Perrance Ward (East Mississippi Comm. College), offensive lineman Jordan Devey (Snow College), linebacker Kenyata Johnson (Hinds CC) and
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receiver Jamere Valentine (Butte College). Johnson will have the tough task of replacing leading-tackler Jamon Hughes, who graduated in December. Hughes was the thirdleading tackler in the nation with 147 tackles total. “He moves laterally really well. He’s got good strength. He’s put together well,” said Johnson’s junior college coach, Gene Murphy. “I think those add up to mean something special.” The three-star linebacker played in nine games for Hinds last season and tallied 45 tackles. He chose The U of M over fellow Conference USA programs UCF and East Carolina. Johnson’s ability to adapt to tough situations in every day life — his mother passed last year —
have prepared him for the struggles of U of M football, Murphy said. “He’s the kind of guy whose had to learn how to survive with the tough stuff,” Murphy said. “It does one of two things. It either makes you stronger or breaks you. I like to think it’s made him stronger.” On the other side of the ball, Devey — at 6-foot-8 and 320 pounds — is counted on to improve an offensive line that lost senior Brad Paul to graduation. Devey, who was a member of his high school band before ultimately joining the football team, chose the Tigers over Cincinnati and Marshall. He’s rated as a three-star offensive lineman on Rivals.com. “In some ways, maybe some schools missed on him,” said
Devey’s junior college coach, Tyler Hughes. “He felt really good about Memphis and the coaching staff. He’s a mature person and he looks at it as a great opportunity.” Devey was an All-Scenic West Athletic Conference selection. The 6-foot-4 Gholson transferred to Palomar College from Boise State. Following the 2010 season, he received the Defensive Player of the Year award after compiling 69 tackles and three sacks. Valentine joins a promising receiving core that includes sophomore standout Marcus Rucker. In nine games of action for Butte College last season, Valentine had 17 receptions for 190 yards and a touchdown. National Signing Day is on Wednesday, Feb. 2.
BY JOHN MARTIN Sports Editor
if the Tigers were in for another beating on the road. Southern Miss led The U of M by as many as 18 points at one juncture. The Golden Eagles led 40-29 at halftime. The Tigers used a 7-0 run to pull within six, 48-42, with 14:44 remaining in the game. The U of M took its first lead of the game, 69-66, when freshman guard Will Barton made a 3-pointer with 3:17 left. With five seconds left in the game, Southern Miss led, 75-73. The Tigers threw the ball in to
freshman guard Joe Jackson, who dished it to Carmouche in the corner for the game-winning three. Carmouche finished with 11 points and four rebounds, while Barton had 15 points and five rebounds. Gary Flowers had 21 points and four rebounds for Southern Miss. Wednesday’s victory in Hattiesburg marks the first road win for the Tigers this season. They travel to Birmingham, Ala., to play the University of Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday.
Carmouche’s late heroics lift Tigers Leave it to an upperclassman to save the day for The University of Memphis men’s basketball team. In an up-and-down game against the University of Southern Mississippi, it took a last second three-point basket from junior guard Charles Carmouche to give the Tigers (14-4, 3-1) their first road win of the season, 76-75. In the first half, it looked as