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U of M students arrested, cited at Capitol protest in Nashville At least two University of Memphis students were among seven protesters arrested in Nashville on Tuesday afternoon at a rally for students’ rights and living wages for university workers.

Justin Sledge, philosophy graduate student, and Sally Joyner, law student, were charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after entering the Tennessee State Capitol with other protesters during a state Senate committee meeting and subsequently refusing to leave. Tennessee state troopers forcibly removed the students after several minutes.

Two Memphis College of Art students, Paul Garner and Abby Shoalf, were also arrested on the same charges.

Bond for each of the seven arrested protesters was set at $2,000 Tuesday night.

All except Joyner are members of the Progressive Student Alliance, which, along with hundreds of other protesters from labor groups across the state, converged on the Capitol on Tuesday afternoon to voice complaints with collective bargaining bills on the legislative docket.

The protest was civil until some of its participants began shouting at legislators and “laying down on the floor of the committee room and locking arms together,” said a witness to the protest.

“As things started to get a little bit more heated and more state troopers came in, that’s when the tone really changed,” said the witness, who asked

not to be named.

Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey issued a statement on the protest following the arrests: “The right of all citizens to protest and assemble peacefully is sacred in the state of Tennessee. However, this General Assembly will not be intimidated by nomadic bands of professional agitators on spring break bent on disruption. We talk through our differences here. Tennessee is not Wisconsin.”

At U of M, classes resumed Monday, following The University’s spring break March 7-11.

University President Shirley Raines declined to comment on the incident Tuesday night.

News reporters Chelsea Boozer and Erica Horton contributed to this story.

Video footage of the incident can be accessed at dailyhelmsman.com/multimedia.

courtesy of Sam Lowry

BY SCOTT CARROLL Editor-in-Chief

Hundreds of protesters from labor groups and unions gathered outside the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville on Tuesday afternoon to voice their concerns over proposed legislation.

SGA Election 2011

Does your vote really matter?

The student body does not necessarily choose all SGA senators via elections

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BY CHELSEA BOOZER News Reporter

The Japanese town of Ishinomaki is flooded, and the city’s downtown area remains deserted Tuesday.

From ruins of Japan, tides of hope

BY CHRIS DANIELS News Reporter While survivors of Japan’s disastrous earthquake and subsequent tsunami recuperate from the massive and widespread devastation caused by the natural phenomena, University of Memphis students and faculty are planning to send relief.

U of M’s Japanese Culture Club will meet at their weekly language table Friday in the Tiger Den at 1 p.m. to develop a plan to aid those affected in Japan. All students are welcome to participate.

“It’s really disastrous, this is the most gigantic earthquake that you can imagine in Japan,” said Yuki Matsuda, associate professor of Japanese and JCC advisor. “Not only the tsunami destroyed a whole city and people are still worried about nuclear radiation so it’s just sad to hear about all

those.”

Matsuda said JCC and The Japan America Society of Tennessee at The U of M hope to create a relief program that will raise money and accept food, supplies and any other donations that will help those in Japan.

The Japan America Society of Tennessee, located in Nashville, will collect the donations, which will go directly to Japan. The JAST and The Japanese Traders and Manufactures Association of Memphis will sponsor the fund drive, Matsuda said.

Matsuda, a native of Japan, said she has been in touch with family and friends currently in Japan via video-chat program Skype and everyone she knows is safe.

“I have a lot of friends in Tokyo area, and

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Last year, University of Memphis students elected 34 officials for the 2010-‘11 school year in a Student Government Association election. Nearly a year later, only 24 of them remain, and 12 officials currently serving were not announced to or elected by the student body. Those senators were appointed by SGA President Hunter Lang.

The 10 elected senators no longer serving either resigned or were impeached by the senate.

SGA President Hunter Lang has appointed 11 new senate members since taking office. Presidential appointees must be approved by two-thirds of the senate body. Lang said the vote prevents the president from appointing only friends.

Lang appointed three senators this semester: Matt Uselton, Joe Hopper and Aaron Robinson.

Uselton performed in U of M music group Sound Fuzion with Lang. Hopper is a member of Zeta Beta Tau, the fraternity for which Lang serves as president. Robinson served on Lang’s cabinet board — a group that advises the SGA president but has no role in the senate.

Lang also appointed Michael Bowen, Jonathan McCauley and Allan Purcell Jr., students who ran under the F.A.C.E. party with Lang last year but were not ultimately elected by the student body.

Lang said that though he knows the senators through other organizations, they went threw the same interview process as others who wanted to be appointed, and he chose them based on merit — not his personal relationship with them.

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There are many other noteworthy hip-hop, R&B and rap artists that would be sure to please University of Memphis students without causing undue offense and potential violence. The choice to glorify everything a University should be against by sponsoring this show is one of the most ignorant and culturally hostile things The University of Memphis has done in years.

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Three 6 Mafia has habitually promoted and glorified gang violence, substance abuse, misogyny and the stereotyping of African-Americans.

Their live routine often calls upon the audience to provoke gang violence, making their shows not only offensive to sensible people but also a potential security risk. Their lyrics and history speak volumes on why this is entirely inappropriate.

The content of their material is not something I, along with many of my fellow students, feel The University of Memphis should endorse by allowing a show in association with The U of M in any way whatsoever.

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Campus Events

UM English professor gains recognition from local women’s group

U of M ‘Writers Series’ brings renowned poet to campus

BY ERICA HORTON News Reporter University of Memphis English professor Cynthia Tucker will receive the Vision Award from the Women of Achievement on March 27 at The University of Memphis Holiday Inn. Deborah Clubb, executive director of Memphis Area Women’s Council and one of the founders of Women of Achievement, said the group’s seven annual awards — presented for courage, determination, heritage, heroism, initiative, steadfastness and vision — were created to “capture and define what women achieve in the community.”

According to the organization’s nomination criteria, the Vision Award is presented to “a woman whose sensitivity

to women’s needs led her to tremendous achievements for women.”

“Through women’s studies, teaching and writing, (Tucker) absolutely has been one who has focused on women’s voices and stories,” Clubb said. “She has been about women’s voices — telling women’s stories and helping spread (the) impact and power of women in our culture.”

Tucker, who teaches the course Women of Literature at The U of M, has produced five major works, the most recent of which is “No Silent Witness: The Eliot Parsonage Women and Their Unitarian World,” published in 2010.

The award reception is open to the public for $25 per seat.

Reservations can be made by calling 525-7510 no later than March 23.

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Women of Achievement recognize professor for her “tremendous achievements for women”

Wichita State University’s Albert Goldbarth is on campus today as part of The U of M’s River City Writers Series.

BY HANNAH OWENGA News Reporter American poet and essayist Albert Goldbarth will read some of his poems and take part in an open forum interview on campus today.

The interview will begin at 10:30 a.m. in room 456 of Patterson Hall, and Goldbarth’s reading is scheduled for 8 p.m. in the University Center Bluff Room. Both events

are free and open to the public.

Goldbarth, the Adele Davis distinguished humanities professor at Wichita State University, is visiting campus as a guest of The University of Memphis’ River City Writers Series.

Though graduate students chose the series’ last guest, faculty members selected Goldbarth as a featured writer.

“Anyone who loves music and singing will find much to enjoy in

his work,” associate English professor Cary Holladay said.

Goldbarth has published more than 25 collections of poetry and several collections of essays. He is the only poet to have won the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, and he has also received the PEN Center West Award for Creative Nonfiction and the Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Award for Humorous Poetry.

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Politics

Amid furor over state pensions, Congress gets much bigger ones Some members of Congress haven’t been shy about criticizing underfunded state and local pension plans, even though they themselves enjoy much heftier retirement packages than most private-sector employees and state workers do.

Budget battles in New Jersey, Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio have captured headlines of late as lawmakers struggle over how to pay retirement benefits for state and local government workers. Some Washington lawmakers have added fuel to the flaming national debate.

In a recent speech to South Carolina Republicans, for example, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said “we’ve got to get real about what we can and cannot afford” in state pensions.

From the other pole of debate, Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown linked opponents of publicsector unions to Nazi Germany.

For all the theater, members of Congress, regardless of party, aren’t saying much about their

own retirement plans, which are much more generous than those held by most Americans. In fairness, the nation’s lawmakers hold responsibilities more comparable to top corporate executives than to average workers, but there’s no available data on CEOs’ retirement packages, which typically feature forms of compensation other than pensions, such as stock options.

Lawmakers also pay less into their pensions, and get a better match from taxpayers, than most state employees do across the nation.

“They still reserve to themselves a more generous formula than rank-and-file members of the federal government,” said Peter Sepp, executive vice president of the National Taxpayers Union, which long has charged that U.S. lawmakers’ retirement benefits are too generous.

Since 1984, members of Congress have enjoyed both a defined-benefit plan and a definedcontribution plan. The definedbenefit plan gives them a fixed pension in retirement that’s scaled to their number of years in office.

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calculation, 13 sitting senators and 31 members of the House of Representatives — about 8 percent of the Congress — have served at least 25 years and accrued annual pensions worth at least $50,000. By comparison, for average U.S. former workers 65 or older who receive private pension payments, the median annual amount is $8,016, according to the nonpartisan Employee Benefits Research Institute.

As long as they’ve served five years, lawmakers can collect their pensions starting at age 62; if they’ve served 20 years, they can collect them at age 50; and if they’ve served 25 years, they can collect them no matter how old they are. Their annual pension annuities cannot exceed 80 percent of their final salaries.

Only 30 percent of active workers in the country had definedbenefit plans last year like the one available to lawmakers, according to the Employee Benefits Research Institute.

Lawmakers also can contribute up to $16,500 every year to a 401(k) retirement plan on a tax-deferred basis, or about 9.5 percent of their pay. Taxpayers match them up to

the first 5 percent of a congressman’s or senator’s salary, which has been $174,000 since 2009.

Federal lawmakers contribute 1.3 percent of their salaries — $2,262 this year — into that retirement plan. By comparison, the midpoint for defined-benefit pension contributions from state workers — whom some critics have painted as fat cats living off the taxpayer — is 5 percent.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is one of many members of Congress who have recently called for other government employees to sacrifice some of their pension benefits, despite significant congressional perks.

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Campus Life

Resident advisers come to the rescue

BY ERICA HORTON News Reporter After a March 3 fire forced junior advertising major Walter Smith and his roommate out of their third-floor dorm room in South Hall, The University of Memphis Residence Life staff offered the students a helping hand.

Geoffrey Fenlong, area coordinator for Carpenter Complex, Rawls Hall, Smith Hall and South Hall, said h e a s k e d staff members t o b u y

comforters, toiletries, toothbrushes, laundry detergent and air fresheners, among other things, for the pair.

Smith and his roommate were also moved to a new room in South Hall the night of the fire, which caused $10,000 worth of damage. Allegedly caused by an overloaded electrical outlet, according to firefighters on the scene, the blaze is still under investigation.

Fenlong said that during his 11 years at The University, he has never seen a dorm fire of that magnitude.

“It’s not a common occurrence,” he said.

Peter Groenendyk, director of Residence Life and Dining Services at The U of M, said in an e-mail that any time students are displaced, Residence Life will work hard to find them a place to stay.

“Although The University can’t replace any personal items, we will in most circumstances ensure that they have clean linens and toiletry items to get them through the next day,” he said.

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Student Government

Elections: Who really chooses SGA senators?

SGA

from page 1 “All three people have worked to get there and really want that seat. It had nothing to do with favorites. All three are taking it very seriously,” he said. “And anyone that was on the F.A.C.E. party with me last year — they originally ran for the seats to begin with.”

Lang added that the senators were not prioritized ahead of any others who asked him to be appointed into the senate.

He also said that Hopper expressed interest in the SGA before he was in ZBT and was appointed because he is an older student getting a later start in college and he has a lot of life experience. Lang said Uselton was appointed because of his interest to improve campus safety and Robinson was appointed because of his direct connections with adult and commuter students as tresurare of the Adult and Commuter Student Association.

Other senators appointed

by Lang are Courtney Clark, Lemorris Barber, Alex Carter, Hunter Dawson and Nicole Jones.

Lang said he interviewed all new senators before making his appointments.

In addition, Chief Justice Joshua Jackson did not take office following a student election. Rather, he was appointed by student justices of the student court. Jackson receives full tuition from the SGA budget.

Those in the SGA, the selfproclaimed voice of the students, have complete control over their $265,000 budget — comprised of money students pay each year through the Student Activity Fee. Lang said presidential appointments provide an efficient way of replacing senators who quit or are impeached.

They allow the process to move quickly, he said.

“Think about if too many people don’t (meet the grade point average required of every senator) or drop (from the senate), and we don’t have quorum (in the SGA) — we would have to otherwise wait for the student body to elect in new officials,” Lang said. “This would be a long, drawn-out process that would get very old, very fast.”

Some students agree with Lang, while others think the student body should have a say in new representatives.

“You can’t hold an election every time someone leaves or comes in. If you’re voting for a party, you are voting with trust that they can make those decisions,” sophomore theatre major Shakiera Adams said. “We don’t have the time, resources or money to (have that many special elections).”

Junior theatre major Keegon Schuett said if SGA held special elections, he would vote.

“There needs to be publicity if they were to (have special elections for every new senator),” he said. “I feel a lot of information

is slipping through the cracks, have some voice,” DeWitt con- voting last year, the most ever and that is why people don’t tinued. “I’m willing to work recorded for SGA elections and vote.” five percent higher than the previous Only 2,610 of the majorthe more than tudents don’t even know year, ity of students have 23,000 students at The University of who these people are. We no active role in University-level Memphis voted in the main election last (the SGA) don’t even tell The politics.

Sarah Gagnon, year — just 11 per- Helmsman when people are junior social work cent of the student appointed. The student body major, said she didn’t body. vote last semester Tyler Dewitt, SGA should have some voice.” because she didn’t college senator for hear much about the elections. business and economics and — Tyler Dewitt She also said she thinks that the Lang’s in this year’s presidential SGA Senator SGA president has to appoint campaign, said senators should not be presidentially appointed. people because too few people “This is the transparency on this to find a solution, but thing. Students don’t even they should vote somehow. know who these people are,” he Theoretically (the SGA presisaid. “We (the SGA) don’t even dent) could appoint every tell The Helmsman when people single senator — that’s not a democracy.” are appointed.

With only 2,610 students “The student body should

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are voting initially.

Junior psychology major Faith Mbarathi said she doesn’t see the point in voting because she doesn’t think the SGA, or any other organization at The University, considers her opinion important.

“I don’t think (the SGA) should have us voting if they are appointing people any way,” she said. “I don’t feel like there is a purpose in voting if it’s not going to count in the end. If we do vote, it should be held throughout the entire year, and those running should not drop out.”

Voting for the 2011 election will take place online March 29-31 at saweb.memphis.edu/sa_sga/elect

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Campus Events

Are You a Psychology Major?

Join Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology!

Sexologist to speak about relationships

BY HANNAH OWENGA News Reporter

Membership Applications Available Online at: www.psichi.org/pdf/memappl.pdf

Completed applications should be returned to the Psych Bldg., Room 202 by March 21 @ 4 p.m.

Questions? Please contact Elizabeth Crunk, Chapter vice president, at: aecrunk@memphis.edu

Pepper Schwartz, an awardwinning sexologist, will speak at The University of Memphis today at 1 p.m. in the University Center River Room. She will discuss “Sexuality Throughout the Life Cycle” at the event, which is free and open to the public.

Joy Clay, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said Schwartz has gained national recognition for her work on human sexuality and relationships.

“We thought that the topic would cross disciplines and be of interest to both students and faculty,” Clay said. “Her insights and experience will also be of value to our graduate students in sociology

and women’s and gender studies.”

Schwartz, professor of sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle, received her Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. She has authored more than 50 articles and 16 books and has made multiple appearances on “The Today Show,” “Oprah,” “Good Morning America” and National Public Radio.

The sociology department worked for six weeks with U of M’s Center for Research on Women and the Women’s and Gender Studies program to confirm Schwartz as the guest speaker.

“It is news you can use: reliable data with clinical applications,” associate sociology professor Joseph Ventimiglia said.

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Excellence in Service Award

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Organization of The Year

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Phoenix Award

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Nomination applications are available in Office of Student Leadership & Involvement (UC 211) or online at www.memphis.edu/student_leadership/organizations.htm

Nominations are due by Monday, March 21 @ 4:30 p.m.

Email online applications to: tnwiley@memphis.edu, or turn in to UC 211

The President’s Leadership Award Ceremony will be held Sunday, April 17 @ 1 p.m. in the UC River Room

Japan

from page 1 they’re okay as far as their life is concerned, but it’s very inconvenient because of the lack of energy,” she said. “They definitely need help in terms of support.”

The earthquake, registered at 9.0 on the Richter scale, shook the country and caused a tsunami with waves as high as 30 or more feet. Dozens of aftershocks continued to tremble throughout Japan. The natural disaster’s death toll numbers in the thousands and continues to rise as more bodies wash up on the coast or are discovered beneath rubble.

Matsuda has been watching live video footage of the aftermath in Japan, which is streaming on ustream.tv.

“I can see how people are suffering in the affected area,” she said. “They’re looking for food.

They don’t have enough blankets and it’s a very cold area in the northern part of Japan. It’s really horrible to look at.”

She said despite the horrific circumstances, there is a great sense of togetherness in Japan right now and most of them are staying positive, thanks to, in part, the help the country has received from other nations.

“Japanese people are really grateful for America,” she said.

“America came first and so quickly and are aiding them so deeply. The whole nation is really appreciative of foreign aid.”

She said although the country had been hit with such a large disaster, there is still hope of recovery.

While watching live video footage she witnessed a man whose home was washed away, but his noodle shop remained intact. She said the man gave all he had left to feed those around him.

“Things like that really make me think things will get better and they’re strong and will bounce back pretty soon,” she said.

John Wagle and Skip Nelson from Illinois State University are at The U of M for the Earth Scope workshop, composed of various talks about earthquakes and how the earth works in general, which will be held Thursday through Sunday.

Nelson, associate professor of geology from Illinois State, said Japan’s situation is a total disaster.

“Japan has suffered a variety of damages depending whether they were earthquake induced or tsunami induced,” he said.

John Wagle, a graduate student from Illinois State, said what has happened in Japan “is terrible.”

“It’s a very large disaster that keeps getting worse,” Wagle said. “Particularly with the concern about nuclear reactors and the possibility of meltdown. It’s a very concerning situation.”

Matsuda said the people of Japan need money and donations but that the main thing university students can do is “cheer them up.”

“They’re low in spirit so we can create maybe a letter or something, so they realize we care for them,” she said. “So they feel supported, and that’s something I hope our students can do for them.”

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Music

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts newest honorees

BY RANDY LEWIS Los Angeles Times Now into its second quarter-century, its rebellious youth largely a memory and its adolescence rapidly receding into the past, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s annual induction ceremony canonized Neil Diamond, the Alice Cooper band, Tom Waits, Dr. John and Darlene Love as its newest performer honorees on Monday night at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan.

All five had long been eligible under the hall’s requirement that acts only become candidates 25 years after the release of their first recording, making this something of a catch-up year for those like Cooper, Diamond and Love, all of whom sold millions of records in their prime, or in the cases of Waits and Dr. John, artists whose critically admired work hadn’t been accompanied by the kind of commercial success that might have helped usher them into the hall earlier.

The performers quickly made up for lost time, though. Upon being inducted by his shock-rock disciple Rob Zombie, Cooper and his band mates opened with a string of their hook-filled ‘70s hits accompanied by a choir of ghoulishly outfitted and makeup-laden kids from the Ronald McDonald house of New York. It was an aptly dramatic moment from an artist whose onstage theatrics have often overshadowed his hits — teenage classics such as “School’s Out” and “Eighteen.”

In typical fashion, as mature and respectable as the hall of fame has grown over time, singer and frontman Vincent Furnier, a.k.a. Cooper, made his acceptance speech with his neck and shoulders draped with a yellow boa —

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the snake, not the scarf. Then he saluted his wife on their 35th wedding anniversary.

Bette Midler referenced her own status among the overlooked when inducting Love.

“I’m so happy to be here,” she told the black-tie audience of several hundred that also included Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Bob Geldof and Robbie Robertson among its rock star elite. “Now when you Google ‘Bette Midler ’ and ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,’ at least something will come up.”

Midler said that Love’s voice on such Phil Spectorproduced hits as “He’s a Rebel” had “changed the

world. Now girls all wanted the rebel guy. ... She picked us up by the scruff of our necks and shook the starch out of us.” Midler later joined the jam session for a rousing version of “He’s a Rebel.”

Near tears, Love noted that she will turn 70 later this year, and thanked Spector “for recognizing my talent and making me the main voice in his Wall of Sound.” Her speech elicited a standing ovation.

Later, she sang “Zip-A-DeeDoo-Dah” with Springsteen playing a lowdown solo on a Telecaster.

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from page 8 Angeles-based S p e c i a l t y R e c o r d s , which was home to L i t t l e Richard and, for a time, Sam Cooke, w a s entered into the hall as a

recip- i e n t of the Ahmet Ertegun Award, given to noteworthy record executives.

Perhaps not s u r p r i s i n g l y, it was the New Orleanian who first turned heads. Even before he came onstage following his induction by John Legend, R&B-funk-meister Mac Rebennack, a.k.a. Dr. John, stood out in his neon purple attire amid a sea of penguin-suited men and evening-gown-bedecked women.

Rebennack is best known for his virtuoso piano version of “Iko Iko” and his own classics “I Walk on Gilded Splinters” and “Right Place Wrong

Time,” which he played Monday with full-force backing from the 20-piece, Paul Shaffer-led big band and chorus. Legend joined for a piano fest on “Such a Night.”

Dr. John has been a crucial figure in the pantheon of New Orleans rock, funk and R&B for 50 years. But he, too, has held more of a cult following rather than the kind of broadbased popularity that has worked in favor of so many inductees over the years.

Conversely, Neil Diamond came onstage snapping digital photos of the crowd before him, capturing a moment that he perhaps thought might never arrive for the opposite reason. Despite his widely respected skills as a songwriter and his long history as an entertainer known for appealing to Middle America, he’d previously been passed over at least in part because of those mainstream tendencies.

“Why so long?” wondered Paul Simon while saluting Diamond, before answering his own question. “I have a theory. Six words: ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Anymore.’

Beautiful love song. Recorded with Barbra Streisand, one of the great voices of our time.

But Barbra Streisand, rock and roll? I don’t think they even allow that kind of DNA near this place.”

For his part, Waits, whose work over the last four decades he has described as composed of “brawlers, bawlers and bastards,” pondered the usefulness of his award.

Upon learning of his nomination in December, Waits had released a typically wry statement: “I never really cared about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ... but now I am surprised to discover how much

“I never

really cared about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ... but now I am surprised to discover how much I do care.”

from fellow musical iconoclast Neil Young (who later joined Waits for a rendition of the latter ’s “Get Behind the Mule”), the newly enshrined Waits identified one potential reason for his excitement. Holding the statuette, he noted that it was “really heavy. I’m wondering if there’s a keychain version I can keep on me so some day a guy will say ‘Pete, take the cuffs off — he’s a hall of famer.’ “

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As spring practice approaches, Porter points out the positives

BY JOHN MARTIN Sports Editor

of this team — it has vastly improved.”

Porter said the most important catalyst of the turnaround isn’t the effort on the field, ironically, but the one in the classroom.

“Players’ attitudes in terms of going to class, speaks with their attendance,” Porter said.

Last season, the Tigers’ total offense was ranked 117th out of 120 teams in the Football University of Memphis footBowl Subdivision. Their total ball coach Larry Porter acceptdefense was 114th overall. ed the responsibility of turnIn order to ensure improveing around a heavily damaged ment for next season, Porter football program last year. A has shaken up his staff. day before 2011 spring pracHe let go of his former offentice started, Porter declared sive line and running back that the curcoaches. Porter rent state of also brought the program is in Juan Taylor, ver the past year, we as in much better who coached a staff have been very aggres- receivers at shape under his staff’s reign. under sive in making sure that we put Buffalo “The health Turner Gill. and the healing F o r m e r ourselves in position to change of our program s t a r t i n g the culture and also the overall q u a r t e r b a c k have vastly improved,” Cannon Smith cleansing of our program.”

Porter said. was converted “Over the past to defensive — Larry Porter year, we as a back in a move Coach staff have been that should very aggresallow freshsive in making sure that we “Their attitude in terms of man Ryan Williams to take put ourselves in position to going to study hall speaks with the majority of snaps. change the culture and also their attendance. Then you look Porter said that offensive the overall cleansing of our at their productivity, and we continuity and fundamentals, program.” continue to improve. That is which Porter will monitor in Porter said that despite a exactly what we want to do.” spring practices, are critical 1-11 record last season, the Porter said the new weight in order for the Tigers to comTigers are carrying momen- room at Murphy Complex, pete next season. tum into the spring, most- which officially opened in “Because we have had and ly due to recruiting and a February, has also contributed seen so much change, what wholesale shift in attitude. to his team’s upbeat mindset. we truly want to do is make “This time last year, there was “The attitude that they carry that positive change and a lot of unknown. This time into that new weight room to translate that into positive this year, we’re very excited be productive and grow is growth as we enter spring as a staff,” Porter said. “If you phenomenal right now, and football,” Porter said. “That’s look at the work ethic, the atti- that just comes from the spirit what we’re looking forward tude, the discipline, the spirit of our team,” he said. to doing.”

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An Arizona state of mind: Tigers must maintain survivor mentality against the Wildcats’ brawn

BY JOHN MARTIN Sports Editor At the most important juncture in the season, University of Memphis men’s basketball coach is running on four days without sleep.

“After the game (against UTEP), you’re just on an adrenaline rush and you’re not sleeping, and then Sunday we find out who we’re playing and you’ve got media to do and then you’ve also got to watch film. As we get a little close and we’ve kind of put our gameplan in, I’ll try to get a few hours here and there.”

In the days leading up to his first NCAA tournament game as a head coach, Pastner ’s mind isn’t exactly sharp. But against the physical No. 5-seed Arizona Wildcats, the Tigers just might boast a cerebral advantage.

The Tigers had to win three games in the Conference USA tournament just to get into the NCAA tournament. The Wildcats, who were the regular season Pac-10 champions, lost in the Pac-10 tournament final but still received a comfortable 5-seed.

“I think that (mentality) helps us a lot, because going into the conference tournament we knew we had to go to the championship and win all those games or we probably wouldn’t be in the situation we are in now,” freshman guard Will Barton said Sunday.

Pastner said he couldn’t speak on Arizona’s behalf but that the Tigers are accustomed to having their backs against the wall.

“That’s not just for us, that’s for every team you’re playing at this point,” he said.

“Both teams are going to have a sense of urgency and you kind of survive and advance or you’re going home.”

While the NCAA tournament craze has complicated Pastner ’s sleep cycle, he said he’s still preparing for the Wildcats as if it’s just another game.

“You want to make sure you’re prepared and this is that time of the year where you’re just going to have to grind it out,” Pastner said. “On the other hand, you just have to make sure you’re sharp and fresh.”

In order to refine their mental focus, Pastner and the Tigers (25-9) left three days early for the C-USA tournament in El Paso last week and ultimately earned a trip to the NCAA tournament after beating UTEP, 67-66, in the C-USA title game.

They left Tuesday night for Tulsa, Okla., in hopes that a second consecutive early arrival can render similar results.

“It’s good for us, because you’ve got nothing to do but just talk to each other for a couple days,” Pastner said.

“There are a lot of opportuni-

ties to build and grow as a team.”

Getting to the tournament site a few days early, however, isn’t just a psychological benefit for the underdog Tigers.

“The first day of practice (in the C-USA tournament), everybody was dog tired after just warming up,” freshman forward Tarik Black said.

“Things we do here to warm

up — things we have fun doing — down there, we were like man, do we still have to go through with practice? Going down there and warming up and having two (extra) days down there, that let our bodies get used to everything that’s going on down there.”

The Tigers’ mental advantage, which is also fed by a growing collective shoulder-

chip, could be one of few against the Wildcats. Williams, who Pastner voted as National Player of the Year, averages 19.1 points and 8.1 rebounds while shooting a staggering 60 percent from three. He’s also ninth in the country in free throw rate according to KenPom.com.

Most national analysts have already conceded a Texas-

Arizona second-round matchup in the West region. But a restless Pastner and his players aren’t ready to wake up from the dream of a national championship this season just yet.

“It’s survival mode now, and going into the NCAA tournament — if we lose, we’re out,” Barton said. “And no one wants to leave.”

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