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BY Erica Horton News Reporter While many University of Memphis students cuddled with their sweeties on Valentine’s Day Monday, Student Health Services kicked off National Condom Awareness Week on campus, encouraging lovers to safely wrap up their holiday.

Jacqueline De Fouw, health educator at The U of M, said to recognize the week several student groups will have displays and information tables set up in the University Center.

She said the purpose of the week, which was started in 1978 by students at the University of California, Berkeley, is to promote the education and awareness of safe sex.

“We have some students who are sexually active with multi-

ple partners and it is important for every student to recognize the importance of keeping their body (Sexually Transmitted Infection) free,” she said.

“The latex condom is a barrier which helps prevent sharing STI viruses like HIV, herpes, human papillomavirus, bacteria, funguses and other infective substances when used properly.

Latex condoms are also a barrier for sperm, so they can prevent pregnancy.”

De Fouw said each year, several thousand condoms are given away during programs and outreach on campus and that free condoms are available for pick up in the Student Health Services bathroom.

“The best way to protect yourself is to practice postponing sex,” she said. “If you do choose to have a sexual rela-

UM announces plans to ditch Barnes & Noble for Follett’s retail services see page 3 www.dailyhelmsman.com tionship, make sure you and your partner are ready and it is the right time, right place, right person and fits with your values. The only person who will protect you is you.”

Joan Carr, director of community affairs for the Greater Memphis Region of Planned Parenthood, said this week is important for the city, which has a low condom IQ. “There is a lack of awareness here in the Memphis area of the effectiveness and proper use of condoms,” she said.

Carr said it is important for sexually active young people in the Memphis area to use condoms every time they have sex because of the high incidence of sexually transmitted infections in the area.

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Rise of the phoenix

BY Michelle CorbeT News Reporter Every day, millions of children dealing with lifelong illnesses wish other children could understand their sicknesses and the struggles they go through.

That’s why M. Dwayne Jones, junior communications major and president of the Adult Student Association of The University of Memphis, said he wrote a preteen fantasy and adventure novel, “The Book of the Phoenix: Rise of the Warlock Prince.”

Jones drew from people in his life for inspiration, he said.

“I chose to highlight cancer (in the novel) because one of my neighbors has a 5-year-old daughter who just died from cancer four months ago, and cystic fibrosis because it’s a condition I’ve always been passionate about,” Jones said.

“The Book of the Phoenix,” published Feb. 4, centers on three friends who each struggle with

a different lifelong illness. One character has juvenile diabetes, the same condition with which Jones’ 8-year-old son Jordan was diagnosed at age 2.

Having witnessed the struggles of his son and his neighbor’s child, Jones wrote “The Book of the Phoenix” with the hope of encouraging sick children and educating others about the trials they go through, he said.

“The book inspires children who have lifelong illnesses,” Jones said. “My son is always asking me about children who are like him. The book lets them know they aren’t the only ones out there. It gives them heroes they can relate to.”

Catherine Dice, English instructor at The U of M, said the details of any story may vary, but the core components of the “hero journey” or adventure tale are the same: The hero must leave the comforts of home in order to face obstacles that test his or her strength, determination, intelli-

gence and overall character.

“The child reading the book might not be able to consciously compare the rigors of chemotherapy to facing a three-headed monster, but I think they can certainly relate to the emotional responses of the character in the adventure story,” Dice said. “Plus, the successes — and probably the setbacks — of the character can offer some hope to kids facing enormous challenges to their health.”

In Jones’ story, the three friends begin experiencing unexplained, supernatural phenomena when they turn 11. They start developing supernatural powers and discover they are members of a secret order controlled by the Book of the Phoenix, the purpose of which is to keep the balance between good and evil.

“With the fantasy/adventure genre, I was able to create a book that incorporates lots of action

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Student’s novel helps give sick children new lives

M. Dwayne Jones (right) uses the idea of the reborn phoenix in his new book, dedicated to helping children with lifelong illnesses, like his son Jordan (left), who suffers from diabetes.

Ghana be a good semester: finishing up studies in Africa

BY Amber Crawford News Reporter

Graubman

Though he could have finished up his undergraduate career in the air conditioned rooms of the Edward J. Meeman Journalism Building, University of Memphis senior John Graubman wanted to “go out with a bang.”

He’s currently living in a hostel surrounded by barbed wire and security guards in Ghana.

“It’s alright living here,” said

journalism major Graubman. “(There’s) no air conditioning and no hot showers, but you don’t need one after walking so much all day. And you can’t drink the water, as it has too much bad stuff in it so every day you only drink bottled water or (water packaged in plastic bags).”

Graubman, scheduled to graduate this summer, is a member of the International Exchange Student Program at The U of M studying at the University of

Ghana’s Legon campus. When he decided last semester that he wanted to study abroad, he said he had a difficult time deciding where to go.

“I thought about going to Scotland or Australia or maybe the UK or China,” Graubman said, “but none of it seemed like it called out to me, like it would be somewhere where I could make a difference.”

When he came across the opportunity to study in Ghana,

he talked to Rebecca Laumann, assistant director of international programs study abroad, who helped him make up his mind.

“After hearing so much about it, I was convinced that I was going,” Graubman said. “And here I am.”

Graubman has been studying in Ghana for three weeks and said the classroom experience there is not what he expected.

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Follett in, Barnes & Noble out Follett Higher Education Group, the largest college bookstore operator in the nation, will officially take over the campus bookstore March 8.

The organization will replace Barnes & Noble, who originally planned to extend its contract with The University of Memphis before backing out last year.

Follett has over 700 bookstores on college campuses in North America and runs bookstores at local institutions including Rhodes College, Christian Brothers University and Southwest Tennessee Community College.

Follett has signed a 10-year contract with U of M and will run the bookstore on campus until a new, 40,000-square-foot building is constructed just west of campus in the planned Highland Row mixed-use center at 443 S. Highland.

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Shelves at The U of M’s campus bookstore languish, remaining empty until Barnes & Noble sells its remaining wares.

Phoenix

from page 1 while at the same time shows children going through treatments,” Jones said. “They can relate to it and be entertained at the same time.”

A percentage of Jones’ royalties from the book will be donated to local and national juvenile cancer, juvenile diabetes and cystic fibrosis research.

Ghana

from page 1 “Many of the classes haven’t had professors show up yet as the Ghanaian time is on a different, more laid back schedule,” he said. “Students usually show up two weeks or so after classes have supposedly started.”

“Classes are different as well, as we only go to school once a week per class,” he continued.

“So I’m in class roughly 10 hours out of the week total, and the rest of the time is my own time.”

Because of classes being cancelled and an illness that struck him shortly after arriving at the University, he said he has only been able to attend two of his courses — acting and ethics.

Jones’ son, Jordan, said he thinks the novel will help sick children deal with their problems.

“It can help them not to be scared and not to feel different from other people,” he said.

The cover of Jones’ book features the image of the mythical phoenix, a bird that is reborn from its own ashes. Jones chose to use the phoenix in his novel for symbolic reasons.

“The children are like the phoenix,” he said.

“They will rise no matter what. They can do whatever they want in life.”

Acting, his favorite of the two, is held outside on a small, wooden, dust-covered stage, Graubman said.

“It is fun to interact with the Ghanaian students and see how their acting is different from ours,” he said. “Ethics was just a long and boring lecture, hence me dropping it, in a warm and barely fanned classroom.”

Laumann said students who show an ability to adapt to different environments and cultures are usually a good fit for placement in Ghana, although some may not acclimate as well.

“Studying abroad in Ghana isn’t for everyone,” she said.

“However, it is an excellent choice for students who are interested in experiencing life in a developing country.”

According to Laumann, Ghana is a particularly excellent location to study because of its people’s hospitality and the wide variety of courses available to students are taught in English.

But it takes some work to be able to study abroad.

Graubman said he had to fill out several applications and checklists, file for a Visa and passport and receive immunizations, which kept him busy for a good part of the fall semester.

As for financial aid and scholarships, Graubman said it’s just like going to The U of M. “All I had to do is get a plane ticket to Ghana, and then I’d be basically paying the same price,” he said.

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“The Memphis metro area has some of the highest rates in the country of Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis,” she said.

“The rate of HIV infection in our area is also well above the national average. While abstinence is the only way to completely protect yourself from sexually transmitted diseases, consistent and correct use of condoms can significantly reduce the risk.”

According to the 2010 U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use by the Center for Disease Control, 85 percent of couples who don’t use any form of birth control over the course of a year will experience pregnancy.

The report also said when couples correctly use a male condom every time they have sex over the course of a year, only 2 percent of women become pregnant.

Payshence Green, freshman education major, said she became sexually active two years ago and uses protection — but not every time.

“It’s not comfortable and sometimes when I use (condoms) they slip,” she said. “But I am on birth control and I only don’t use condoms with one person who I’ve known for five years.”

She said she doesn’t worry about getting pregnant because she takes her birth control “faithfully,” but if she did get pregnant or contract an STI, there would be no one to blame

but herself.

“It’s my decision to have unprotected sex,” she said. “If I caught anything, I would take responsibility, learn from it and try not to do it again.”

Sophomore engineering major Kallen Wilson said she always has safe sex.

Wilson, a volunteer at the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center, said she learned about safe sex at a “Sexperts” class.

“You learn about different STDs, different kinds of condoms, anything to do with safe sex,” she said.

Wilson said there is a common misconception that lesbians, like herself, can’t have safe sex.

“I signed up for the class because abstinence isn’t always the answer and it can be fun to have safe sex,” she said. “For girls (having intercourse with other girls), there are finger cots, dental dams and condoms for when you use strap-ons.”

Carr said in 2009, 6,390 women aged 15-24 gave birth in Shelby County, which also accounts for about 20 percent of all teen births, ages 10-19 in the state of Tennessee.

“We believe the majority of those pregnancies are not planned,” she said. “Proper and consistent use of condoms could prevent many of those pregnancies. However we also recommend that women who don’t want to get pregnant back up the use of condoms with another birth control method, such as the birth control pill, because condoms do sometimes fail or slip off.”

Student Office and also received the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which comes with an artistic obligation: creating a series of painting and sculptures that represent his experiences in Africa.

“I (will) tour the collection through the Mid-South in hopes of inspiring students to want to study abroad in Africa,” he said.

If he were to sell a piece, all proceeds would go to the formation of a foundation that will distribute scholarships to those who wish to study abroad in Africa, Graubman said.

Students interested in spending a semester in Ghana must be in good academic standing, have a grade point average of at least 2.5 and schedule an appointment at the Study Abroad Office.

Associate history professor and Chair of the Ghana Studies Council, Dennis Laumann, will lead a group of students for a three-week program to learn about Ghanian history, politics, cultures, religion and more.

The schedule will include visits to the palace of the king of the Asante, the coastal forts where the slave trade was conducted, the last home of W.E.B. Du Bois and a monkey sanctuary.

“In short,” Mr. Laumann said, “the trip is a wonderful opportunity to learn about African history and culture and to experience another part of the world.”

But for those who can’t actually go to Ghana, Graubman said anyone is welcome to keep up with his African experiences on his blog at www.johnblogman.com.

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Egypt’s military dissolves parliament, suspends constitution The Egyptian army has tightened its grip over the country by suspending the constitution, dissolving parliament, and calling for elections within six months, key demands of the protest movement that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

The actions by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces came two days after Mubarak resigned and were an indication to protesters that the military, the most respected institution in the nation, was edging toward forming a credible democracy.

However, the army left intact the ex-president’s council of ministers to run the government.

The steps Sunday showed that the nation’s generals, who took power as Mubarak stepped down, were trying to navigate a precarious course between asserting military authority and addressing the issues that drove protesters into the streets.

Reformers and demonstrators welcomed the army’s intervention as a signal that after 30 years of dominance and corruption by Mubarak’s ruling party, independent candidates and opposition voices would potentially gain a voice in a future government. In many countries such a gambit by the military would invoke concern, but Egyptians have grown to trust the army more than politicians and other state institutions.

“It’s a move toward a transition to democracy that the army had emphasized in earlier statements,” said Nabil Abdel Fattah, a political analyst. “It’s a guarantee the military is moving closer to a real parliamentary state.”

Earlier Sunday, the military moved into Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the uprising in Cairo, and began to clear out the tent city that had sprung up since the revolt against Mubarak’s rule began Jan. 25.

Demonstrators largely did not resist their efforts, though small groups remained in the plaza.

Protesters and opposition leaders had been demanding that parliament be dissolved and that the constitution be reformed to curtail the power of the president and allow wider political freedoms, including repealing laws that limit independent candidates.

Those limitations and intimidation by security forces allowed Mubarak’s National Democratic Party to sweep parliamentary elections in November. The elections were widely condemned as

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An Egyptian woman sweeps the street near a graffiti-riddled wall Sunday, with signs recalling Egypt’s revolution that took place over 18 days in Cairo. rigged for excluding candidates from the Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition groups.

The outrage over the November poll was one in a string of triggers that led to the uprising and eventually toppled the Egyptian leader.

Some demonstrators had expressed concern that an increased military role might threaten civil rights and delay reforms and new elections.

But political analyst Diaa Rashwan noted: “If the army had wanted to take over the country, they would have already. So far, it has only been the army that has listened to the demands of the protesters and acted upon them.”

The effort to clear Tahrir Square was a further sign of the military’s determination to restore normalcy to the nation’s capital. The popular uprising shut down Egypt’s economy, sparked clashes and froze activity in downtown Cairo, home to the government and major businesses.

Cars honked and circled the city hub for the first time in more than two weeks as scores of soldiers fanned out into the remaining tent cities on the square and unceremoniously tore them down.

The families and young people, who had been camped out there, mainly complied and accepted that Tahrir Square no

longer belonged to them. The soldiers dismantled the plastic tarps and walked among strewn papers, trash and a child’s lost teddy bear. One teenager shoved and pushed at the soldiers and cried at having to leave.

A protester who was evicted warned that if the demonstrators’ surrendered Tahrir Square, the army would never meet the Egyptians’ demands for greater democracy and an end to decades-long emergency decrees.

“We don’t want to leave,” said Mohammed Shaheen. “They’ll never give up the emergency laws. And they’ll use them to put people in jail.”

Meanwhile, in a strange twist in a country where everyone feels victimized, several hundred police officers held their own protest in front of the Interior Ministry demanding higher salaries, access to government medical care and rehiring of officers fired for disciplinary or administrative violations.

The officers also called for former Interior Minister Habib Adli to be held accountable for denying them raises and benefits. Adli is under investigation for alleged financial crimes and running a police and domestic intelligence force that was criticized for torture and human rights abuses.

In the early days of the antigovernment demonstrations

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clashes between protesters and police left several dead and many injured. Long before that, the police have been considered one of the main sources of the daily cruelties, indignities and demands for bribes suffered by Egyptians.

But on Sunday police officers said they too were oppressed under Mubarak’s regime and explained that they pressed for bribes to supplement their salaries, which for some can be as low as $50 a month.

“When there is corruption

in the government, he gets no money, he has to get his money from the people,” said Sherif Katib, second in command at a police station in El Minya. “If I don’t have my rights, I will rob.

Rob from the people.”

Katib and many others blamed the government for pitting the people against the police. “We are countering the image, it was said in the foreign media that the police are abusing people,” said Ahmad Ali, an officer in Cairo. “The police are from the people.”

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Group Bike Ride Wednesday, Feb. 16 3 p.m.

Meet at the Student Plaza Fountain by the Administration Bldg.

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Suicide bombing kills 2 guards at Kabul shopping mall A suicide attacker blew himself up at the entrance of a Kabul shopping mall Monday, killing two people and wounding two others, according to Afghani security officials.

“Two guards of the shopping mall have been killed and two others injured,” said Gen. Ayoub Salangi, Kabul’s police chief.

The attacker detonated his explosives vest after he tried to enter the Western-style mall but faced resistance from the guards.

“I was inside the building

when I heard security guards saying a suicide attacker came,” said Mohammad Rasoul, the mall’s manager.

“There was only one attacker.

Our security guard opened fire on him and he detonated his explosive,” said Rasoul, who suffered minor shrapnel injuries in his right hand.

Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the attack in a text message to the news media.

President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack in a statement, calling it a brutal act of terrorism by those who attempted to target innocent civilians shopping for

their daily needs.

“The attack reveals yet again the evil and anti-Islamic intention of the terrorists who don’t want to see people live in peace,” the statement added.

Kabul City Center is the first modern shopping mall in downtown Kabul. It was damaged last February when insurgents attacked a guesthouse nearby.

A suicide attacker blew himself up in the entrance of a Kabul shopping mall Monday, killing two and injuring two others, security officials said.

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Middle East nations scramble to contain unrest Possible revolutions loom on horizon in Iran, Bahrain, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Kuwait, Cameroon

BY KiM MurPHY Los Angeles Times To track the growing political movements gaining strength from the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia across North Africa and the Middle East, one would be well advised to get a planner.

There were Saturday’s clashes between demonstrators and police in Algeria, now referred to as #feb12 on Twitter, much as Egypt’s uprising shall forever be known as #jan25. New popular protests are scheduled Monday in both Bahrain (#feb14) and Iran (#25Bahman). Libya comes next on #feb17, followed by Algeria again on #feb19, Morocco #feb20, Cameroon #feb23, and Kuwait #mar8.

On Sunday, hundreds of protesters in Yemen — a country whose frustrated population has

spent too much time in the streets since the Tunisian uprising to be tied down to a single date — marched toward the presidential palace before being halted by police. More demonstrators took to the streets in the southern city of Taizz.

The crowds were clearly energized by the popular uprising that forced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign Friday, and were seeking a similar outcome for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

“First Mubarak, now Ali!” many of the marchers shouted.

Governments across the Middle East are scrambling to step up political concessions, dole out financial benefits and — when that fails — deploy riot police in an attempt to ease instability and buy time.

But the successful uprisings

in Egypt and Tunisia, where President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled Jan. 14, already have changed the terms of discourse between rulers and the governed, some analysts said. The uprisings, they said, cast doubt on the idea that entrenched Middle Eastern regimes must be preserved at all costs as indispensible barriers to sectarian violence or Islamic extremism.

Instead, protesters from Morocco to Iran are setting aside the region’s traditional religious and geopolitical divides to take on common culprits of corruption, police violence, political repression and vast gaps in wealth.

Though Jordan and Egypt have been in a trench together as the only Arab nations to have signed peace treaties with Israel, thousands of Jordanians flocked

to the Egyptian Embassy here Friday in a spontaneous celebration of Mubarak’s resignation.

“It’s not just solidarity with the Egyptians people are feeling,” said Mohammed Masri, analyst at the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan. “They feel the victory of Tunisia and Egypt is their own victory ... something that they feel they contributed to. And the regimes of the Arab world must now understand that the Arab people have discovered a new route for political change, that is, taking over the streets.”

In Jordan, some are describing the wave of grass-roots dissent sweeping the region as a new pan-Arabism, like the antiIsraeli, anti-Western fervor that mobilized the region in the 1950s and 1960s, this time directed not against Israel and the U.S. but against Arab regimes that have quashed democratic expression and economic opportunity.

“I think what the Egyptian and the Tunisian people have shown is that we have to take responsibility, and not simply be victims,” Lamis Andoni, a Palestinian-American journalist and analyst in Jordan, said in an interview.

“The old ‘wisdom’ of past revolutionaries that liberation from foreign domination precedes the struggle for democracy has fallen,” she wrote in an opinion piece for the Al-Jazeera network.

In Algeria on Saturday, thousands of police officers deployed at May 1 Square kept all but a few thousand demonstrators out of the plaza in protests aimed at forcing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power, expanding job opportunities and lifting the nation’s emergency laws.

About 400 people were arrested.

Monday’s protests could be even more tense: Iran has banned the demonstration, put at least one opposition leader under house arrest and blocked Internet searches related to the planned rally. “There is a spreading effect of Egypt,” said secular nationalist publisher Amir Kaviani in Tehran, “but I think the conductor of all these so-called uprisings in the Middle East is sitting

in the White House.”

Still, the planned protest seems to have domestic support: More than 50,000 fans have signed on to Iran’s 25 Bahman Facebook page.

In Bahrain, where a Sunni ruling family governs a Shiite majority, the government recently offered 1,000 dinars (about $2,650) to each family as a means of offsetting economic complaints. But Monday has been declared a “Day of Rage” by protesters, who are demanding the release of political prisoners, end of torture and reform of the judicial system.

Kuwait managed to postpone a demonstration triggered by the recent death of a young man who was apparently tortured by the police by announcing the resignation of the interior minister.

The rally is now set for March 8.

Many analysts say the wealthy dynasties of the Persian Gulf for the most part are not likely to be seriously rattled by public protests, but are more worried that the collapse of long-term, reliable allies such as Mubarak could undermine regional stability and strengthen Iran.

At the same time, stability will come only at the price of considerably speeding up political reforms, said Turad Amry, a Saudi political analyst.

“I think we will notice more expedition to reform, and more listening to the people. You will find more freedom of the press, which we are already enjoying more of,” he said. “However, people are complaining about the health sector, housing, unemployment and other issues, and I think there will be some expenditures and reforms in those areas.”

Egypt and Tunisia, said Masri, by providing a model of leadership change that did not immediately usher in sectarian violence or Islamic extremism, removed the chief boogeymen typically raised by Arab leaders against democratic change.

“It turns out that threat used by the political authorities in the Arab countries, threatening their people with the consequences of democracy, collapsed very quickly,” he said. “The fears are gone.”

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Generation gap apparent in Sunday’s Grammy Awards

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Uprisings have been in the news of late, and here was another one. This year ’s Grammy Awards ceremony, telecast from Staples Center Sunday night, was a generational takeover and an airing of the widening gap between the traditional corporate music industry and the dynamic, diverse culture that’s redefining the very nature of popular music right now.

The long show’s defining moment came at the very end, after the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire claimed a surprise upset for album of the year. “We’re going to play another song because we like music,” said a flushed Win

Butler before his band commandeered the stage for one last song, making a statement that you’d think would be a given for any musician, but which actually spoke to an ever-intensifying debate within the pop world.

Many top acts are now dogged by accusations of not being musical at all — of being all about spectacle, studio trickery and the execution of exhausted formulas.

Yet here was a Grammy show full of bold moves and noisy risks, most taken by young artists, capped by a triumph for the band that, for many serious music fans, defines uncorrupted artistry.

The contrast the night’s most notable winners embodied is stark. On the one hand,

Mick Jagger performs at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Lady Antebellum, whose easylistening country pop typifies the kind of commercial crossover sound that’s moved units and won industry awards for at least half a century, took home a startling five gramophone statues and destroyed rap’s grim standard-bearer Eminem’s chance to leave his outsider past fully behind.

The trio’s success seemed like a victory for the commercial old guard identified with carefully crafted, highly accessible golden hits, an impression reinforced by the group’s Nashville affiliation and its weirdly conservative-seeming name, which seems to celebrate the pre-Civil War South.

In a field of major nominees including the ever-challenging Lady Gaga, the brash Cee Lo Green and the playfully innovative Bruno Mars, Lady Antebellum couldn’t be more beige in tone.

Then there’s Arcade Fire, who took the stage at evening’s end and smashed through a cacophonous, jubilant rendition of “Ready to Start” that included chaotic shouting, careening guitars and Regine Chassagne’s walloping Creoleflavored drumming.

The band’s one prize was a huge one not only because its music is so inspiring, but because it records for Merge Records, a longstanding independent label that epitomizes how artists can operate successfully outside the corporate system.

Though in many ways, Arcade Fire’s music is actually fairly old-fashioned — this is an arena rock band, heavily influenced by elders such as the Talking Heads and U2 — its style is forcefully bohemian and its artistic practice is grounded in progressive values of communal creativity and a grassroots connection with its fans.

While the major label-driven industry cowers in fear of the Internet’s destruction of old sales models, Arcade Fire stands as a model of how artists can both retain creativity and reach a large and loving audience.

As thrilling as that final award was for anyone who cares about individuality and daring in pop, it was only one moment in a night full of brazenly creative moves.

Time and time again during the three-hour telecast, the newer talents moving pop forward showed their willingness to take risks and seize the chance to distinguish themselves from what’s come before, even as they paid conscientious respect to the older stars who devised the lan-

guage they’re now rewriting.

The program’s formal tributes, including the opening tribute to Aretha Franklin featuring a cross-section of wailing divas and the more subtle nod to Dolly Parton by John Mayer, Norah Jones and Keith Urban, weren’t as interesting as the ones that shone through as subtexts within individual performances.

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A member of the younger generation represented at the 2011 Grammys, Katy Perry performs in one of her signature overthe-top costumes at Sunday’s ceremony in Los Angeles.

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tigers can’t withstand owls’ rally, fall 71-58 BY adaM douGlas Sports Reporter For the first time since Jan. 20, The University of Memphis Tigers returned to Elma Neal Roane Fieldhouse on Sunday looking to continue their four-game winning streak in Conference USA play.

The Rice Owls would have none of it.

The Tigers (18-7, 7-4 C-USA) started strong and jumped out to a 10-2 lead after a 3-pointer from senior Alex Winchell. But Rice caught fire at the right time in the second half and outscored the Tigers 21-11 over

the final eight minutes of the contest to win, 71-58.

“We really weren’t committed to being a defensive team today,” U of M coach Melissa McFerrin said. “We knew coming in that their post players were their highlight players and we didn’t do a good job on the defensive end today.”

Memphis got a strong first half out of junior post player Jasmine Lee, who notched a double-double by halftime (15 points, 10 rebounds) and altered a number of Rice shots due to her presence in the lane.

Rice got a boost from Morgan Mayse, who scored 10 of her 15

points in the first half.

The Tigers took a 31-28 advantage into the break.

Rice’s scoring woes continued into the second half, and they didn’t score until the 17:20 mark. Unfortunately, Memphis couldn’t capitalize, and their then-six point lead would be its largest of the second half.

Rice slowly began to whittle the lead down, trading possessions with the Tigers for much of the second half until a Jessica Kuster jumper with 9:14 left in the half gave the Owls their first lead of the second half.

The Tigers trailed by three,

50-47, with eight minutes to go when Rice’s offense came alive. A three by Jessica Goswitz sparked the Owl offense, which got triples from five different Owls (15-10, 7-4 C-USA) on consecutive offensive trips to help chip away at the Tigers’ lead.

“We just lost control of the (C-USA) race today with a home loss to Rice,” said McFerrin. “They’re now in the driver ’s seat when it comes to tie-breakers with us. Over the next five games we need to understand that we have to play with a sense of urgency about how we play.”

Lee finished the game with 19 points and 13 rebounds for her seventh double-double of the season. Before Sunday’s game, Carter needed 15 points to reach 1,000 for her career.

She finished with 11. Carter and Lee were the only Tigers in double figures.

Sunday marked the first time since Jan. 27 that fewer than three Tigers scored in double-digits.

The Tigers will regroup and head south for two road games this week beginning with Southern Miss on Thursday and then a televised game with Tulane on Sunday.

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BY JoHn Martin Sports Editor University of Memphis freshman guard Will Barton has been named the Conference USA freshman of the week,

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Way,” which had her emerging from a giant egg, took her glam persona in a new direction by incorporating the disco flair of artists such as Chic and Sylvester.

Cee Lo Green, dueting with Gwyneth Paltrow in a skit that also featured the Muppets, found the wit in what might have been a degrading pose by presenting himself as the love child of Elton John and funk forefather George Clinton.

The trio of Janelle Monae, Bruno Mars and B.o.B. gave a retro-futuristic spin to classic R&B style, while two folk-based groups, England’s Mumford & Sons and North Carolina’s Avett Brothers, survived the daunting challenge of performing with their hero

the league office announced Monday.

Barton averaged 15.5 points, six rebounds, and four assists in the Tigers’ two wins against Central Florida and Southern Miss last week.

In The U of M’s 63-62 win against UCF on Feb. 9, Barton made the assist to his younger brother, Antonio, for the game winning 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds left.

“Will came through for us,”

Bob Dylan by feeding punk energy into their traditionalist sounds.

And Rihanna came close to the carnal authority of the young Tina Turner performing her hit “What’s My Name” with the rapper Drake, in what had to be one of the sexiest performances the Grammy Awards have seen.

The night didn’t only belong to the young. Mick Jagger, in particular, came off as miraculously energetic paying tribute to the late Solomon Burke (though it would have been nice if Raphael Saadiq, the living soul man who backed up Jagger, had been publicly acknowledged).

Dylan brayed his way through “Maggie’s Farm” with his usual flair, maintaining his position as pop’s top old trickster. Barbra Streisand didn’t do as well singing

“Evergreen”; the great singer was in better voice Friday night at the MusiCares gala that honored her as person of the year.

Though the lineup’s generational range was impressive, in the end the spirit belonged to the future, as unpredictable and fragmented as it may seem.

From Justin Bieber, who outshone his mentor Usher in their martial-arts-inspired production number, to best new artist underdog Esperanza Spalding, whose success may throw deserved light on jazz’s vital newcomers, to the English band Muse, whose big-concept stage show proved there’s still more than one way to fill a rock arena, this was a Grammy ceremony that could make viewers believe that pop is anything but dying.

It may not be easily categorizable; it may not unite large audiences behind a single still.

But music, even in this most mainstream setting, can still set a blaze.

U of M coach Josh Pastner said. “He hit some big shots and came away with some great defensive rebounds. He deserves the honor, he played well.”

It’s the second time the

6-foot-6 guard has garnered the award this season. He was also named freshman of the week on Jan. 24.

His brother, Antonio, has also received the award twice this season.

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Tigers rally against Southern Miss, prevail 67-61 Charles Carmouche set his feet, squared his shoulders and, like he did in the team’s Jan. 19 meeting, knocked down a clutch 3-pointer.

On Saturday, Carmouche’s

three — which tied the game up at 51-51 — proved to be the catalyst for the Tigers’ comeWith 8:44 remaining in the back victory, 67-61, in front of game against Southern Miss, a season-high 18,104 fans at University of Memphis junior FedExForum.

The Tigers (196, 7-3 Conference USA) took their first lead of the game, 53-51, with 7:30 left in the game on a senior Will Coleman put-back.

“We’ve got hearts of lions on this team,” said Carmouche, who finished with eight points and three rebounds.

“Everybody just stays calm and listens to coach, runs the offense and plays our game. If we play our game, we don’t have to worry about anything else.”

Saturday’s win was the Tigers’ 16th straight over Southern Miss.

It was also the Tigers’ 12th win decided by nine points or fewer.

On Jan. 19, it was a last-second Carmouche 3-pointer that gave the Tigers a 76-75 in Hattiesburg, Miss. While the junior guard’s three on Saturday might not have been Freshman forward Tarik Black goes up for a dunk in the Tigers’ 67-61 win as important, against Southern Miss on Saturday at FedExForum. Black finished with 17 it did keep the Tigers’ hopes of points, nine rebounds and four blocks in a season-high 35 minutes.

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After the game, the Tigers’ RPI advanced to 32 — the highest it’s been all season.

The Tigers also moved up to third-place in C-USA behind UTEP and UAB. Much like their meeting with Southern Miss on Jan. 19, the Tigers were cold-cocked in the opening minutes of the first half. The Golden Eagles used a 6-0 offensive rebounding advantage early to jump ahead to a 25-13 lead.

“I didn’t think we were playing bad,” U of M coach Josh Pastner said. “They were getting second chances. They hit some tough shots. We had some good defensive stands where we had a hand in their face and they hit some tough shots, bottom line.”

Momentum started to turn for the Tigers when USM forward Gary Flowers, who had 21 points and four rebounds in their last meeting, picked up his second foul with 8:02 left in the first half. The Tigers reduced the Golden Eagles’ lead to six, 37-31, by halftime.

Flowers ultimately fouled out with 4:30 in the game and finished with 14 points and six rebounds.

“For us to beat these guys, that’s not easy to do,” U of M coach Josh Pastner said. “Those guys are good.

They’ve got a pro in Gary Flowers. You could possibly make a case for coach (Larry) Eustachy for (C-USA) coach of the year. They’ve just got good players.”

The Tigers extended their advantage to four, 55-51, after sophomore forward D.J. Stephens hit a jump hook with 6:52 remaining in the game.

Southern Miss, however, scored the next seven of nine points to retake the lead, 58-57, on a Maurice Bolden layup with 3:56 left.

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The Tigers then took a 59-58 lead — one they wouldn’t relinquish — with 2:45 in the game on two freshman forward Tarik Black free throws.

The Tigers were 6-for-6 from the free throw line in the final 2:45 of the game and finished 16-of-22. Southern Miss, which entered the game shooting 74 percent from the stripe, was 9-of-18. “(This win) is big. It shows what type of team we are,” Carmouche said. “We’re going to continue to get better. If we can beat a team like Southern Miss, we can beat anybody in this conference.”

The Tigers held the Golden Eagles, who came into the game shooting 36.2 percent from three as a team, to 22 percent from the perimeter.

Black played a season-high 35 minutes and finished with 17 points and nine rebounds.

The 6-foot-8 forward, who mostly defended the C-USA Player of the Year candidate Flowers, also had four blocks. “(Playing 35 minutes) isn’t something that you should really expect, it’s something that you should want to do, because as a basketball player, what do you want to do?

You want to play,” Black said.

“That’s why I’m here, and so I want to be out on the floor every minute. If I can play 40 (minutes), I want to play 40.”

Freshman guard Chris Crawford finished with a complete effort of nine points, seven rebounds, five assists, and two blocks.

“I want to do whatever it takes to win,” Crawford said. “That’s finding my teammates, getting big rebounds. I just want to fill the stat sheet up every time. If I do everything set all my teammates up and they’re looking good, we all look good as a team. That’s all that matters.”

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