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Raines dispels speculation about Kentucky candidacy University of Memphis President Shirley Raines received a nomination several months ago for the University of Kentucky presidential opening, which she turned down. Raines, 62, served as vice chancellor of academics and dean of education at Kentucky before she assumed The U of M presidency in 2001. “It was an honor to have been nominated by Kentucky, but I really want to stay at The University of Memphis,” Raines said in an interview with The Daily Helmsman. “Kentucky is a wonderful university, no doubt, but this is a wonderful university, too.” University of Kentucky President Lee T. Todd Jr.
announced last September that he will step down in June, ending his decade at the institution. Raines said she could not recall the exact date when Kentucky officials contacted her, but she subsequently refused the nominations. University of Kentucky spokesman Jay Blanton said the committee had no comment on any candidates at this time. Raines said that she wants to see The University through the 2012 centennial and thinks Memphis is the right place for her. “Wonderful things happen on our campus with our honors program and emerging leaders,” Raines said. “Between the community and The University, I feel like I’m a good match and good fit for this position, so I would like to stay rather than go to a place I was already at.”
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U of M President Shirley Raines says she’d rather stay in Memphis than return to the University of Kentucky, which nominated her for consideration for its presidency.
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Auditions for the Student Activities Council’s Talent Extravaganza are underway today and Thursday in the UC.
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University of Memphis students interested in showing off their singing, dancing or other unique skills are invited by the Student Activities Council to audition for its talent show. The second annual SAC Talent Extravaganza auditions are this week, with tryouts today and tomorrow in the University Center. Auditions take place today in UC Ballroom C from 3-5 p.m. and tomorrow in UC Memphis Room A at the same time. Students interested in auditioning are asked to arrive 30 minutes early to receive a tryout number. Because of last year’s success, SAC expanded its audition times this week in hopes of an even larger turnout, said Angela Norwood, coordinator of SAC. “We saw all kinds of talent last year, including everything from students playing instruments to poetry readings,” Norwood said. “We hope to see a similar turnout this year from any student with a talent they wish to share.” The talent show will take place March 22 at 7 p.m. in the Michael D. Rose Theatre.
Four student workers of the University Center’s Technology Hub were terminated Sunday with what they considered an insufficient explanation from their employer, Shundra White. They said they believe White fired them due to budget concerns, but White said the decision stemmed from misconduct. Several others were put on a 30-day probationary period at the same time. While the terminated workers, who were all paid more than minimum wage, said they were shocked by the news, all had been either warned or put on suspension prior to being fired. White, a manager in the Client Support Services department at The University of Memphis, said each fired individual had previously been confronted about misconduct on the job and “no one came in on Sunday thinking the world is grand and beautiful — thinking they had done no harm.” “The decisions were based 90 percent on poor conduct,” White said. “Ten percent was us being good stewards over our budget.” She said if workers aren’t doing their jobs, paying them is doing an injustice to the students coming to the Tech Hub. Derrick Brown, a first-year graduate student studying special education, was terminated Sunday after working in the Client Support Services department for four years. He said
White mentioned that the department was going through a budget cut during a five-minute speech delivered to those fired or put on probation. “Judging by the people fired, we were all the most experienced,” he said. “We had been working there the longest and were the ones making more money. To justify it, (White) said we were all bad workers. She just checked off poor performance (on a report given to the students terminated).” Brown made $9.20 an hour. White confirmed that she spent five to seven minutes telling the students her decision was final and wouldn’t take any questions that night before leaving the room. She said it was just a coincidence that those fired were all seniors with the department and noted that others who had been working just as long are still on staff. “With longevity should come some level of responsibility and maturity,” she said. “Anybody that I terminated was (fired) because they were not doing things that were standard and basic.” White said she told anyone with a complaint to schedule an appointment with her through her assistant for details, but the four students terminated said she never mentioned meeting with them further during Sunday’s meeting — only that there would be no further discussion on the matter. White said she expects her employees to take
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Shirley, I can be serious
Students should recognize selfless commitment to University BY MIKE MUELLER Managing Editor For the first time in my 10 semesters at The University of Memphis, I’m going to say this and really mean it: “Thank you, Shirley Raines.” Thank you for turning down a presidential nomination at a fairly prestigious university in favor of Memphis, for choosing Bermuda over bluegrass and barbecue over whatever it is they eat in the hills of Kentucky (squirrel?). It’s been less than two years since John Calipari made his exodus to Lexington and left this campus and this city in shambles. Despite the sentiments of some, those wounds have only begun to heal, and a presidential defection to the same school that Memphis’ former favorite son skipped town for would have opened them right back up. Would hundreds of students gathered at Raines’ house to try to change her mind as she tried to leave? Probably not, but there’s no doubt that it would have stung.
Raines came to The U of M from the University of Kentucky — who would have blamed her for going back? I know there are plenty of students who, for one reason or another, wish Raines had tried to turn in her blue blazer for one emblazoned with the UK logo. They’ll likely say, “I wish she had taken her old butt to Kentucky. It’s time for her to go,” or something along those lines. But is that what The University of Memphis needs, to have the leader of this University abandon ship on the eve of its centennial? I don’t think so. That would put a nice, dark cloud over the celebration, wouldn’t it? The University brass would be scrambling to find Raines’ replacement and dealing with the internal domino effect set off by her decision to split town. We’d be a school without a leader on its most monumental occasion. That would’ve been too fitting for this city. Living in Memphis can turn you cynical. I’ve been here for a decade, and I’m no exception.
There’s a trend of thought in this town that getting out of Memphis is the only way to be “successful” — because that’s when you know you’ve made it, when the bluffs fade away in your rearview mirror. Coach Cal left. He’s “successful.” But Raines, a native of Bells, Tenn., about 75 miles from Memphis, chose to remain, even after a decade in this place. School pride is fleeting among almost everyone at this University, but at least we know our president has some. I’ve indulged in many sarcastic Raines jokes during my U of M tenure, but today I won’t partake. So go ahead, Shirley, and take your blue blazer to the cleaners — I’ll foot the bill. And pick up a new one (on your tab). You’ve earned it. When graduation day rolls around on May 7 and I walk across the stage to receive my diploma, rather than thinking of some joke about Raines’ perfectly coiffed hair to tell later, I’m going to shake her hand and politely say, ”Thank you.” And I’ll mean it.
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from page 1 their jobs seriously. “It’s a real job, and we pay real money,” she said. Three of the four fired said they had been approached by White beforehand and were given a warning or told of something they were not doing right. Senior English major Daryl McKinney, who was making $9.25 an hour, was a team leader before being fired. He said White told him he was originally set for termination Wednesday morning after he didn’t report that some of his employees were sleeping on the job and didn’t manage the situation well when one lost a student’s U of M ID card. White told him that he wasn’t made for management, McKinney said. Nevertheless, he said he was shocked to read of his termination at the mass meeting Sunday. “My means of supporting myself was through that job. Now I have to worry about midterms, graduation and getting a new job,” McKinney said. White said one reason for McKinney’s dismissal was that he had lied on Wednesday about not being at work during a particular instance with one of the employees under his watch. Senior Antavius Flagg, liberal studies major who was making $7.75 an hour, has worked for the department for five years and said he was given a warning when he didn’t show up for work once over Christmas break. “Still, this should have been handled on a personal basis, not made the spectacle it was,” he said. McKinney, too, said he thinks the way the firing was handled was unprofessional because
White told the workers who weren’t fired or put on probation that the others were. “She should have been confidential about it,” he said. “It was like she was boasting about it. These are my peers, not just my co-workers. I have to go to school with these people. I have to go around in shame — walking around (when) they know I got fired.” White said she told the other groups because she needed to explain to them why she was asking them to pick up extra hours this week. “I didn’t think there was a problem with that,” she said. “I had to get rid of the ‘he say, she say’ rumors that were bound to happen.” Anther student who was fired, senior information technology major Gary Johnson, was earning $9 per hour and said he was once given a week’s suspension for telling a student using the Tech Hub, “You should know better.” Johnson said that the night before he was suspended, he was actually told he would not be working again after that night, but he was given another chance until his dismissal Sunday. Jeremy Sexton, senior biology major, is a current team leader in the Tech Hub and said those who were punished weren’t doing their jobs well. “There was unsatisfactory performance almost across the board. Work morale was low, and there was very unsatisfactory performance for certain individuals,” Sexton said. “There were definitely reasons for dismissal or probation, and there are guidelines that we all have to adhere to. If you get in trouble for one thing, it is okay. This was (due to) recurring issues and things of that nature that warranted punishment of some sort.”
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Renovations begin on abandoned UM structures for future School of Public Health, CFA buildings The School of Public Health and College of Communication and Fine Arts are relocating on campus to better fit students’ needs. Robison Hall, a former dormitory, will serve as the new building for the School of Public Health, while the Cecil C. Humphreys Law building will house the College of Communication and Fine Arts. With U of M stimulus funds, Robison Hall will be transformed into faculty offices and research labs for students and nurses. “Enhancing the School of Public Health will offer students another choice,” Provost Ralph Faudree said. “There is no other school in West Tennessee that has our program.” Faudree said the School of Public Health will guide and assist in building programs to address critical health issues in the Memphis community. The plan to renovate both empty buildings has been in effect for three years, since the decision to move the law school downtown was confirmed. Art courses currently housed in Jones Hall, a few blocks away from the main Communication and Fine Arts Building, will move to the law building. Offices of College of Communication and Fine Arts faculty on the second floor of the Communication and Fine Arts Building will also move to the law building. “The faculty of both (the communication and art) departments in close proximity will be beneficial to our students,” said Richard Ranta, dean of Communication of Fine Arts. However, the old law building must undergo layout changes and HVAC updating. Tri-State Heating and Plumbing Inc., which assisted with the University Center, is currently updating the building. The Communication and Fine Arts Building will create an art gallery to exhibit student artwork permanently in the vacated space in addition to current rotational student exhibit space. Equipment for both schools will be moved to the law building as early as this summer. Summer courses for the schools are scheduled for the summer term, but officials expect buildings to be fully operational by Fall 2011.
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Hit-and-run by Chris Daniels
Drivers fleeing the scene cause headaches and frustration for many U of M students
BY CHRIS DANIELS News Reporter University of Memphis students’ vehicles may be more at risk for an accident while parked on campus than during the commute to it. Bruce Harber, director of police services, said anyone involved with any type of vehicular accident should notify Police Services immediately. “Hit-and-runs are basically the
same thing as leaving the scene of an accident,” he said. “You have a responsibility if you’re involved in a motor vehicle accident. You should leave a letter or call the police. You need to do the right things.” Harber said the phrase “hit-andrun” was used in 43 of 238, or 18 percent, of on-campus, auto-related accidents in 2010. Streets located between Poplar and Park and between Highland and Goodlett are considered campus streets, according to Derek Myers, deputy
director of Police Services. Lesley Cruz, graduate student studying health administration, said she was the victim of a hit-andrun Feb. 24 at R.P. Tracks, located near campus on Walker Avenue. “I was parked parallel to R.P. Tracks. I was there with my friends for probably about two hours — about 8:30 to 10:30 at night,” she said. “And when I left, I noticed my mirror was hanging on by its wires, basically. I didn’t really notice the paint or the dents at first.” Cruz said she was disappointed
and couldn’t believe no one made an attempt to notify her of the accident. Cruz did not file a police report or talk to her insurance company about the accident. She said she was not expecting to get money or try to punish anybody for the accident because she understands what college life is like. “It just seems like a reoccurring theme within our age group that if something happens, they’re either quick to point the finger somewhere else or they don’t want to
take ownership of their mistakes, and I think that’s a problem,” she said. Students who witness a hit-andrun should notify Police Services and file a report so police might be able to find the person responsible, Harber said. “If we get (license) tag numbers, notes, witnesses, then we will identify the individual who’s responsible if we can,” he said. Filing a report covers the student from an insurance standpoint as well because he or she will have a report on file to make a claim and get the car repaired, Harber said. “If it’s not serious damage, most people are probably going to want to just make a claim or file,” he said. “We look at it from a statutory standpoint, making sure a report gets filed for insurance purposes for the victim, the person whose car is damaged, and also get it in to the judicial affairs system.” Parker Rhett, State Farm insurance agent, said the first thing victims of hit-and-runs should do is see if any witnesses can help draw up a report. The next thing to do, Rhett said, would be to file a non-emergency police report to let officials know what happened and see if there is any way to generate evidence as to who may have caused it. Rhett said after filing a police report, victims should speak with their insurance agents.
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Author explains the nuts and bolts of paternity DNA BY ERICA HORTON News Reporter At the funeral were 17-yearold Marcus Matthews, a baby girl and a young mother. The mother was dead, the baby was four months old, and Matthews, the child’s alleged father, was confused. Matthews, now 30, didn’t believe he fathered the child and had a paternity test performed a month before the mother’s death. A month after the funeral, a paternity test confirmed Matthews’ doubts about the child. She wasn’t his. “I don’t want anyone to go through what we went through,” said Matthews, coordinator for The U of M’s high school publication, Teen Appeal. “I want to tell people my story so they don’t have to retell it firsthand.” Today at 6 p.m. in the University Center Memphis Room, Matthews will host an open discussion entitled “Sex, Dating and DNA: Discussion with Marcus L. Matthews” about his book “I Am Not the Father: Narratives of Men Falsely Accused of Paternity.” Free and open to the public, the event will also mark the beginning of filming for Matthews’ documentary about false paternity claims and paternity fraud. “Since my book was released, I have heard some amazing stories about men who have been
victims of paternity fraud,” he said. “We were looking at a movie, hiring actors and turning it into a motion picture, but I said we needed to go deeper into paternity fraud first. A movie is great entertainment, but it’s not necessarily as informative as a documentary, and a lot of people don’t know what paternity fraud is.” Steve Conn, director of local business Medical Testing Resources, said paternity fraud is when a woman knowingly accepts resources, such as child support, from a man while knowing that he is not the child’s father. Conn is also known as DNA Steve, a radio personality who conducts paternity tests and reveals the results on local Hip-Hop and R&B station WHRK. He has done more than 600 DNA Steve shows in the last six years and called Memphis “fertile grounds” for those in need of DNA and paternity testing. He said about 2,500 people a year come to Medical Testing Resources for paternity testing. Medical Testing Resources performs 90 percent of private paternity tests in Shelby County. The number of men whose paternity tests reveal they are not the father varies by month, he said. “In February, about 48 percent of the (paternity) cases turned out to exclude the man who was tested,” he said. “Our highest month was October,
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when it was 71 percent.” Conn said there are two types of paternity tests: a legal test and a personal knowledge test. A legal test is $460 and can be used in court, while a personal knowledge test is $380 and cannot be used for legal purposes because identity requirements are not as strict, he said. Conn said he has recently seen an increase in the number of paternity tests run on aborted fetuses. “It doesn’t happen often, but it is occurring more and more,” he said. He said testing an aborted fetus is tricky, but people want to know. Equally difficult, he said, is paternity testing right after childbirth. Tennessee state representative G.A. Hardaway is currently working on legislation to make paternity testing mandatory immediately after a child is born. House Bill 25 by Hardaway, first drafted in 2007, says, “Regardless of the relationship between a child’s parents, a genetic test shall be administered as provided in § 24-7-112 to confirm the paternity of the child before a father shall be listed on the birth certificate.” “A child has the inherent right to know, ‘Who is my dad?’” Hardaway said. “That should be a basic right, and we have the technology to make it happen.” Hardaway said if the bill passes, the Tennessee Department of Human Services would pay for the $55 test if the parents were
below the poverty line or no more than 25 percent above it. Everyone else would have to pay for the test. Matthews said as someone who has experienced the effects of false paternity, he could appreciate Hardaway’s legislation. He said if a DNA test had been performed the day the little girl he was accused of fathering was born, the results would have become clear before the mother died. “Her mother would have been alive to address that I was not the father of the child, but instead, we take the test three months after child is born. She dies when the child is four months old, and we get results when child is five months old,” he said. “It’s not fun and games anymore. It’s not a trivial thing. This girl is dead, and there’s a baby who will never get to interact with her mother on this side of reality, and we don’t know who the father is. We would have been able to move forward.” Matthews said he hopes his documentary will be done by July of this year.
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Western governors fuming over Obama plan for wilderness areas Republican governors from across the country made clear this week how much they think Obama administration initiatives interfere with their states’ rights. In the West, Republican governors are especially riled up about the possibility that more federal land could be designated as wilderness, and they fear it might slow energy development in their states, said Idaho Gov. Butch Otter. “I see it as a job-killer,” said Otter, who along with fellow Republican Gov. Gary Herbert of Utah, testified Tuesday before a House of Representatives committee about their concerns with a new Obama administration policy. It could extend federal protection without congressional approval to millions of acres of wild lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced late last year that the government will begin inventorying BLM holdings across the country in an effort to identify and protect wilderness-quality land. Many Republican lawmakers and Western governors say they worry that the inventory — on pause during the Bush administration — could make it more difficult to develop oil and gas or other energy and mineral resources on BLM land. States were “totally ignored,” when the inventory was announced, said Otter, who was among the GOP governors in Washington for their annual winter gathering. He said he’s particularly con-
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Governor of Idaho C.L. “Butch” Otter, alongside Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert, testifies before the House Committee on Natural Resources about the impact of the Obama administration’s “Wild Lands” policy on jobs and economic growth at the Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
cerned about what would happen to geothermal energy projects and potential wind power complexes proposed on BLM land in Idaho, as well as plans for transmission lines across some BLM land. The agency manages nearly a quarter of the land in Idaho, or about 12 million acres. “Nobody called me and said, ‘In 60 days or in 90 days or 120 days we’re going to put out this
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secretarial proclamation. What do It’s a political discussion at the end of the hearing, followyou think?’ “ Otter said. “Even in that will resonate with many ing the governors and a panel of that short period of time, I could Westerners, about private proper- local officials, said the agency was have suggested a lot of opposition ty rights, states’ rights, and “trans- aware of the politics it faced when to it.” parency, jobs and public access,” it issued the inventory order. The Interior Department has said Republican Rep. Denny But “it was needed,” Abbey been actively fighting the way the Rehberg of Montana, who’s said. Since 2003, his agency hasn’t BLM inventory is being charac- seeking the Senate seat held by had any consistent means of catterized by Republicans, particu- Democratic Sen. Jon Tester. egorizing land that could be desiglarly those on the House Natural Both Rehberg and fellow nated as wild lands. Also, the law Resources Committee. Republican Rep. Raul Labrador and the courts require the BLM to The Interior Department had to of Idaho on Tuesday introduced do the inventory, he said. fight to persuade “Ultimately, the committee to the public will allow BLM direcltimately, the public will be be involved in tor Robert Abbey the land-use to participate in involved in the land-use planning planning decithe hearing. The that will devisions that will reflect how sions agency also put reflect how best out a fact sheet to manage lands best to manage lands with countering some with wilderness wilderness characteristics. In of the characcharacteristics,” terizations of some cases, it will be to protect he said. “In some their inventory cases, it will be to process, includ- them; in some cases, it will be a protect them; in ing claims that some cases it will determination not to.” it could hurt the be a determina— Robert Abbey ability to develop tion not to.” BLM director wind and other In a sign of energy resources how the House’s on BLM land. separate bills that would prohibit priorities have changed since The BLM proposed 24 solar the establishment of any national Republicans regained control, energy zones within 22 million monuments in their states without no environmental groups were acres of public lands identified for congressional approval. asked to testify at Tuesday’s solar development, Abbey said. In Abbey, who was shoehorned in hearing. 2010, the agency approved nine large-scale solar energy projects anticipated to generate enough electricity to power as many as a million homes. Entering the 2012 election cycle, wilderness issues are likely to remain divisive in the West, where President Barack Obama will be working to repeat his election victories in Colorado and New Mexico, and when Democrats hope to retain Senate seats in states such as Montana.
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“(You need) to see whether or not you want to file a claim because most people who have car insurance on their policy — they have uninsured motorist coverage, which basically accounts for anyone who hits them or causes any damage to their car,” he said. Victims’ insurance costs will not increase if they make a claim because they are not at fault, Rhett said. “If it’s minimum damage and it’s just a couple hundred bucks or something like that, then they might want to pay it out of their pocket and not report it to insurance,” he said. Rhett said if a motorist hits a car and the driver of the damaged car isn’t present, the driver at fault should leave his or her contact information on the vehicle. “Hit-and-run incidents happen pretty often — I don’t think there is an exact number to it, but it’s certainly not a rare occasion,” he said. “It happens quite often, which is very unfortunate. The main places we hear of it happening are parking lots.” Culprits of vehicular accidents have an obligation of reporting the incident to the police, Harber said. “If they don’t, depending on damage and other factors, especially on a city street, they’re going to be charged with leaving the scene of an accident,” he said.