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Lang campaign violates UM policy BY Chelsea Boozer News Reporter In his campaign for reelection under the Finding Answers Concerning Everyone party, Student Government Association President Hunter
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Lang broke University policy this week when he paid for campaign posters with $400 of operational assistance funds designated for Zeta Beta Tau, the fraternity of which he is president. Lang’s actions violated University policy because operational assistance funds distributed by the Student Leadership and Involvement office are comprised of money from the annual $44 Student Activity Fee. According to the SAF’s operational procedures, SAF funds may not be used to “finance, support, or influence voting” on any University, local, state or federal election ballot. Lang said it was a mishap and that he wasn’t aware of the rule, citing that he had to get ZBT’s advisor’s signature, as well as a representative from
the office of leadership and involvement and from Tiger Copy and Graphics to sign off on the order before moving forward with the purchase. He added that he used ZBT’s funds to promote his SGA campaign last year as well. “I never read the rules on how to spend that money, as far as operational assistance goes. I just spent it,” Lang said. He added that he asked the members of ZBT if they minded using their operational assistance funds to promote the FACE party, because the chapter never uses the $400 available to them and it was “basically going to waste.” He said ZBT members voted at a chapter meeting to allow it. “We have five people total out of our chapter running under the party, so it was an investment and the chapter was
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Geo loco?
Many University of Memphis students use the geolocation features on social media sites to inform their friends of their whereabouts. But in doing so, they may also be informing strangers of where they are — and where they are not. Addie McGowan, associate director of social media for Big Fish, a local website development company, defined geolocation as “using GPS capabilities on a cell phone to tag yourself at certain locations in a community, telling others where you are and finding out who else is there.” Many sites make it convenient for users to post their locations online. Facebook features a Places tool and another site, Foursquare, is designed specifically for people who wish to post their location online and want to easily transfer that information to their Twitter statuses. Meagan Elam, junior biology and Spanish double major, said she has posted her location on Facebook in the past “because everyone else was doing it.” “It’s cool seeing (other people are somewhere) at the same time you were,” she said. McGowan also cited several benefits of geolocation. “When used with common sense and at your comfort level, it’s fine and wonderful to support local businesses and locations and meet up with friends,” McGowan said.
refrain from displaying the posters bought with operational assistance funds until he
“Regardless of what he got
away with in years prior, the law is the law, and that doesn’t change. And ignorance of the law is no excuse.” ciate dean of student leadership and involvement, realized that Lang violated a University policy by using ZBT’s funds to sponsor FACE party’s campaign, he immediately met with him Thursday afternoon. “(Lang) was apologetic and recognized the expenditure of those funds didn’t meet policy,” Lawhead said. Lawhead ordered Lang to
— Tyler DeWitt SGA Senator and Presidential Candidate pay for them in full with his own money. Lang went to Tiger Copy and Graphics the next day and paid the $400 with his credit card.
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Broadcasting your location while out and about may put you at risk
However, there are potential dangers of posting one’s whereabouts on social
nitely be a good way for bad people to find out information on someone else.”
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doing it as an investment for the party,” Lang said. When Justin Lawhead, asso-
media sites, McGowan said. It doesn’t take much online research to find numerous incidents where criminals have used geolocation to rob, kidnap and stalk. “You’ve heard about people getting people’s information and stalking and killing them,” Elam said. “It would defi-
McGowan said she frequently runs into the issue of people, particularly older generations, being afraid of geolocation. “I think there is such a cultural shift happening between generations,” she said. “Those of us under 30 have grown up using social media and being trans-
parent so we are a lot more open but older generations who aren’t used to having their locations out there are more sensitive.” Derek Myers, deputy director of police services at The U of M, said he couldn’t recall any specific criminal incidents at The University due to someone posting their location online, but doing so could be dangerous. “There’s a possibility that (geolocation) can lead to issues, but we haven’t had any problems that I’m aware of because of it,” Myers said. McGowan said if geolocation features are used in a smart manner, risks are minimal. “Don’t be alone when you do it,” McGowan said, “and if you’re going to tag friends, maybe ask before. Also make sure that your home address is not anywhere on the profile that you’re associating the tag with.” Senior broadcasting journalism major Jessie Wilks said she began posting her whereabouts on Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare as a class assignment and has had a mostly positive experience, including receiving a 10 percent discount at YoLo Frozen Yogurt for informing the social media world she was dining there. However, Wilks said she never posts her whereabouts if she is alone. “Of course, you have to be conscious of your surroundings,” she said. “I mean there are creepers out there, so, especially as a young college woman, it can be dangerous.”
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Student Government BY CheLseA Boozer News Reporter Though Thursday night’s Student Government Association candidate forum was not a debate between candidates, presidential candidates Hunter Lang and Tyler DeWitt made it seem like one. Each slighted his opponent in a prepared speech, creating something of an answer-and-rebuttal format that elicited strong words, emotional responses and bickering from each candidate. At several points, the candidates failed to answer the questionx offered to them in favor of lashing out at each other. The first question asked to current SGA President Lang, running for reelection under the Finding Answers Concerning Everyone party, and DeWitt, running under the United Students
party, pertained to how, if elected, they would prove that they earn the presidential stipend of full in-state tuition. DeWitt, current senator of the college of engineering, said though he believes the SGA president deserves the stipend because of the demands of the position, the job is a service opportunity and a presidentelect receiving an excess of scholarship money should refuse it. He said the stipend money shouldn’t be disposable income for “paying for rent on your house or paying for your SGA campaign for the next year.” In a Daily Helmsman article earlier in the semester, DeWitt said he would give the stipend to The University of Memphis Scholarship Fund, if elected, and challenged Lang to expose his scholarship amount. Lang then stepped to the
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Candidates bicker, sidestep issues at SGA forum
SGA presidential candidate Tyler DeWitt (right), of the United Students party, squares off against reigning FACE party members K’La Harrington and Hunter Lang at the SGA Debate in the River Room of the University Center on Monday night. microphone, his face flushed, and strongly stated that he
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doesn’t receive a surplus in scholarship funds because he pays out of state tuition. “All right, look. This is a fulltime job,” Lang said. “I think it inappropriate for my opponent to be digging so far into my finances and challenging me in The Helmsman and right now to share my scholarship information. I have two full in-state tuitions one from (U of M musical group) Sound Fuzion and one from SGA. Those two scholarships do not cover what it costs for me to go to school here. Trust me when I say, ‘I still pay a pretty penny to stand in front of you tonight.’” Lang continued, saying that he is glad DeWitt doesn’t have to accept the scholarship and that his family can get him through school without it. “However, my father falls into the same category as several million other American families and has been out of work for the
past four to five years,” Lang said as several people in the crowd of nearly 100 began to cheer for him. “As an out-ofstate student, my family cannot afford to get me through college. I am working through this myself.” DeWitt replied to Lang’s allegation in his next response, teary-eyed and his voice occasionally cracking. “I’m very offended by the comments that were just made. My father passed away when I was 17 years old. I have a single mother and two younger brothers that I have to care for, and for someone to make an attack so irresponsible to my character — when I’m talking about accepting a scholarship beyond what tuition cost. And honestly, I demand an apology for that. That is personal business and you offended my family,”
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raised the possibility that contractors in management positions could approve proposals or payments for other contractors. Oates said the ratio needed to be Launched in February 2006 reduced. with an urgent goal — to save The 1,900-person agency has U.S. soldiers from being killed by spent nearly $17 billion on hunroadside bombs in Iraq — a small dreds of high-tech and low-tech Pentagon agency ballooned into a initiatives and had some sucbureaucratic giant fueled by that cesses, but it’s failed to signififlourishing arm of the defense cantly improve soldiers’ ability establishment: private contractors. to detect roadside bombs, which An examination by the have become the No. 1 killer of Center for Public Integrity and U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The emphasis on contractors McClatchy Newspapers of the Joint Improvised Explosive has earned the agency critiDevice Defeat Organization cism from government audirevealed an agency so dominat- tors and experts, who say that ed by contractors that the ratio it hasn’t properly accounted for of contractors to government their work. The critiques raise employees has reached 6-to-1. questions about the Pentagon’s A JIEDDO former director, Lt. bureaucratic approach to solvGen. Michael Oates, acknowl- ing a battlefield problem such edged that such an imbalance as the crude, often-homemade roadside bombs that accounted for lot of people the deaths of 368 coalition troops in were feasting off Afghanistan last year, the Joint Improvised according to icasualties.org, which tracks Explosive Device military casualties in Defeat Organization.” the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. “The number of contractors is — Dan Goure grossly out of whack for what we Former Official, U.S. would expect,” said one congresDepartment of Defense sional staffer who helps oversee
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JIEDDO but wasn’t authorized to be quoted by name. As early as 2008, the Government Accountability Office said that JIEDDO “does not fully identify, track and report all government and contractor personnel” in accordance with Defense Department rules. While Oates said the agency had since set up systems to do so, he agreed that it’s long relied too heavily on private companies. “When you get ready to spend money or make decisions with regard to the government’s money, there has to be or should be a ... military or GS (government service) person who makes that decision,” Oates said in an interview. The agency’s origins date to the early months of the Iraq war, when U.S. troops in Iraq suddenly found themselves under siege from roadside bombs, which the military dubbed improvised explosive devices. In the summer of 2004, Gen. John Abizaid, then the head of U.S. Central Command, sent a memo to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld calling for a “Manhattan Project-like” effort to quash the threat. The Army formed a 12-person task force and gave the project a $100 million budget. In 2005 the task force was turned into a
joint forces team and its budget mushroomed almost overnight to $1.3 billion. With deaths from roadside bombs spiraling out of control — from 50 in 2003 to 400 in 2005 — an even grander effort was sought the following year. Led by Montgomery Meigs, a retired, four-star Army general, JIEDDO was endowed with nearly $3.6 billion in its first year. Word passed quickly to defense contractors, inventors, universities and government labs that JIEDDO had more than $3 billion to spend and was looking for high-tech solutions.
Contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars were awarded to major defense firms. By September 2010, JIEDDO had 110 military employees, 142 Army civilians and 1,666 contractors on board, according to the agency. Using its own cost multiplier of $225,482 per individual, the estimated cost for contract staffers last year alone was more than $375 million. “A lot of people were feasting off JIEDDO,” said Dan Goure, a former defense official who’s a vice president at the Lexington Institute, a Washington-area research center.
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Remember to complete your ballot by clicking on the link to the referendum FOR PRESIDENT: (vote for 1) Tyler DeWitt (US) Hunter Lang (FACE) FOR VICE PRESIDENT: (vote for 1) Rachel Goodwin (FACE) Courtney Milton (FACE) Jade Anderson (US) Gurshan Bansal (US) Aaron Blackstone (US) Russell Born (US) Quintilianus Carger (US) Erica Chambers (FACE) Matt Coker (US) Hunter Dawson (FACE) Jeanae Doughty (FACE) Nuria Espin (US) Emily Gianella (US)
FOR SENATOR - AT-LARGE: (vote for 18) JC Griggs (US) Fred Perry (FACE) Donald Guy (FACE) Keon Prewitt (FACE) Frederick Hampton (FACE) Michael Simonetti (FACE) Austin Herndon (FACE) John Stevenson (US) Riccardo Hicks (FACE) Elizabeth Stewart (US) Nicholas Mastron (US) Chris Taylor (US) LaDarius Millen (FACE) Matt Uselton (FACE) Katy Murphy (FACE) Lauren Hillary Vance (FACE) Laquida Noriss (FACE) Anika Watson (FACE) Caray Oldham (US) Keesa Williams (FACE) Erica Peoples (US) Kaylee Willis (US)
ARTS AND SCIENCES: (vote for 5) Victoria Busse (US) Ben Giannini (FACE) Madison Edwards (Ind.) Alex Roubidoux (FACE) Cynthia Gamboa (FACE) Kirbi Tucker (FACE) Jordan Wells (FACE) Marcus Boles (FACE) Joseph Michael Casey (US) Courtney Clark (FACE)
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UM professor granted $2.1 million for Parkinson’s research University of Memphis psychology professor Charles Blaha has received a $2.1 million dollar grant from the National Institute of Health to aid Parkinson’s disease research. Blaha is working with Kendall Lee from the Mayo Clinic’s Department of Neurosurgery on a five-year study. Blaha and Lee are using an imaging technique called Functional Magnetic Residence Imagery in conjunction with Deep Brain Stimulation, a technique that uses electrodes to stimulate portions of the brain, to discover how Parkinson’s disease affects the motor functions of people with the disease. “We can see what parts of the brain are activated by DBS. No
Debate
from page 3 DeWitt said. Both candidates also told the audience about what they’ve already accomplished within SGA. Lang cited a list of achievements that included implementing the USA Today Readership program, students being refunded the remaining balance of their dining dollars and vying for the student seats at men’s basketball games that the athletic department considered cutting. DeWitt said he has been working to make the HOPE lottery scholarship available for use in summer terms as well as worked to reform SGA through its bylaws. “That is something we are directly working on outside of
one has done that before,” Blaha said. Parkinson’s is a progressive nervous system disorder that develops over time. Blaha and Lee’s research gives them new insights into the “mechanisms” of the disease, Blaha said. Blaha said with his background in neurochemistry and Lee’s as a neurosurgeon, their collaboration is “a match made in heaven to tackle a project as demanding and complex as this one.”
Psychology professor Charles Blaha looks over brain images from his research on Parkinson’s disease, for which he received a $2.1 million dollar grant from the National Institute of Health. SGA,” DeWitt said. “I can sit here and give a laundry list of every single bill we’ve passed, but let’s talk about the big issues — things that require a lot of work.” Vice presidential candidates addressed what they would do if elected into SGA. Dewitt’s running mate Rachel Goodwin said, if elected, she will focus on increasing accountability in SGA. She mentioned that agendas and bills passed in SGA have not been updated on their website since November 11. Courtney Milton, Lang’s vice presidential candidate, said she will focus on increasing campus safety if elected, and noted that she has written a bill that has brought more recycle zones to campus. Each of them also commented on how they would increase SGA’s transparency.
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“I feel that is already being put into action. Students can now log onto the website and see the bills that are passed and see the minutes of the meeting, ” Milton said. But, she added she would increase SGA’s programming and advertisement to let students know what the members of SGA do. Goodwin said the budget should be displayed on the website, which needs a makeover itself. “If you look at it right now, there are only a few general lines. It is not really specific to what the money is going toward,” Goodwin said. She said DeWitt and herself will work to make the budget “easier to read for the students” and will survey students monthly to aggregate what the student
body wants from SGA. Ben Giannini, running for senator of college of arts and sciences under the FACE party, said if elected he will focus on improving the communication between the CCFA dean and the student body and alumni. US party candidate Victoria Busse, running for the same position, said she would propose that professors take an English proficiency test to ensure they are fluent enough in English to teach because some professors are hard to understand due to their accents. She also wants The University to fumigate Clement Hall so its wasp infestation issue is eliminated and make the desks larger in Dunn Hall. Several other senators mentioned that they want to improve safety around fraternity housing.
Voting begins at 8 a.m. today and lasts until 11 p.m. Thursday at sgaelect.memphis.edu. At the end of the ballot is a link to a referendum vote asking students if they would be willing to pay a $5 increase in student activity fees in order to keep the USA Today Collegiate Readership Program on campus. Clips from both candidates’ speeches at Monday’s forum are available at dailyhelmsman.com.
Sherwood Middle School student James Austin, 13, raps lyrics from the Flobots’ song “Stand Up” for students outside the Ned R. McWherter Library. Austin said he often rides his bike around U of M, and Monday afternoon, he stopped on campus to take a break. “I was popping wheelies, then I got tired,” Austin said. “I realized I was listening to rap music, and I can rap, so I started rapping.” Austin, with a Burger King cup in hand, tried to collect some money with his performance but said no one was paying attention. “I tried to fundraise for the school over by the cafeteria (Tiger Den) earlier, but they said, ‘no.’” Austin is an aspiring rapper but said he also likes to draw. His favorite rappers are the Flobots, Eminem, Lil’ Wayne and Jay-Z.
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need for action,” Obama said. For days now, administration officials have been laying out the defense of the military campaign to different audiences. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates took to the airwaves over the weekend to make the case that the country has an interest in protecting its allies and promoting stability in the region. White House officials have also begun rolling out an argument relying on the fact that there would be international cooperation on the effort. But Obama’s remarks were aimed at an American public tired of ongoing war elsewhere and skeptical about the wisdom of the airstrikes. Obama made clear what aides have been saying behind the scenes for days — that those looking for a promise of military aid to other countries should assume no precedent from the Libya intervention. The U.S. doesn’t take action to adhere to precedent or to follow “consistency guidelines,” said deputy national security adviser
Denis McDonough, but rather to advance the nation’s interests. “Each of those interests is going to be unique in each instance,” he said. Still, Obama emphasized that he “refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves” before taking action against Gadhafi’s forces. The White House deliberations on Libya have been haunted in part by the memory of Rwanda, where government forces in 1994 began a genocide that killed 800,000 people. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, National Security Council aide Samantha Power and Clinton all have spoken of deep regret about the killings, and pushed for the administration not to risk a repeat in Libya. Obama himself has publicly supported the principle of intervention to stop governments from engaging in mass killings. At the same time, administration officials point to a comparison in the Bosnian war, in which NATO intervened with limited
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point of where we’re going to go.” For now, she said, “we’re kind of stuck.” Highlights of the report: —Young women now are more likely than young men to have a college or a graduate degree. —The numbers of women and men in the labor force are almost equal. —Wages and income remain inequitable. At all levels of education, women earned about 75 percent of what their male counterparts earned in 2009. —Women still live longer than men, but the gap is closing as they are more likely to face certain health problems, such as mobility impairments, arthritis, asthma, depression and obesity. —On days that they worked outside the home, almost 9 in 10 married women also did household chores, compared with slightly more than 6 in 10 married men. “Despite women doing all the right things to gain economic parity, we’re still seeing there is this tenaciousness to these issues,” said Fitzpatrick. “This all points to the fact that the revolution isn’t finished.” Nancy Heimer remembers applying for her first job as a certified public accountant in the late 1970s. “One of the men said, ‘I’ve never known a woman who wanted to be a CPA, but I’ve known a lot of bookkeepers.’” She took the job anyway. Today, she’s a partner at Heimer Dixon Lindsey Ltd in Minneapolis. “We’ve made strides, but then we’ve plateaued,” she said of women in the workplace, recalling meetings of the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants early in her career. “We’d always hear that there weren’t enough women in the pipeline, that once there were, there would be more women in top positions,” she said. Despite women for years outnumbering men graduating with degrees in public accounting, “that hasn’t seemed to pan out.” Likewise, she added, the American Institute of CPA’s committee on women and family issues didn’t gain traction
until men grew concerned with their longer hours. Renamed to address work-life initiatives, “it became more of a credible issue rather than a women’s need,” she said. Fitzpatrick said the White House report, “Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being,” is useful to remind people that despite the perception that all the right things are being done, “there’s nothing necessarily inevitable about parity.” She noted a new study of starting salaries by gender of physicians leaving residency programs in New York from 1999 to 2008. Researchers found “a significant gender gap that cannot be explained by specialty choice, practice setting, work hours, or other characteristics.” Moreover, they considered the trend “unexplained” and “growing over time.” In 2008, male doctors starting out in New York State made, on average, more than $16,000 more than newly trained female doctors, compared to a $3,600 difference in 1999. “We’re at a real crux,” Fitzpatrick said. “It’s not sustainable for women to continue to shoulder the excessive burdens. It shows up in mental health data, the droppingout syndrome, in younger women saying, ‘I’m just not going to do that superwoman thing.’” Heimer raised a similar point. “In fairness to other women,” she said, “what is the interest level or desire to be at the top? Do women really care as much as men? What satisfies me in my position is the relationship I
have with my clients.” The data in the White House report will figure into how individuals, families, workplaces and governments address issues of women’s well-being, socially as well as economically. It’s possible, Fitzpatrick said, that people may decide that equity no longer is a goal, “that maybe we’re good enough.” “But if you think it matters that people are getting paid equally for the same work, if a piece of the American dream is that equal effort should result in equal economic opportunity, then these studies point out there’s still some work to do.”
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Many of you reading this are probably considering marriage. What are you looking for in a husband or wife? Many look only for charm, good looks, money, etc. There is nothing wrong with these things per se. I thought my wife was gorgeous when I married her and I still think the same forty-one years later. However, the above named traits will not hold a marriage together by themselves. You need to look for someone who is committed to both you and to the marriage itself. Every marriage will have many strains and stresses. Only the committed will persevere. There are few things sadder than a broken marriage, but those based on a faulty foundation usually eventually break up. I have seen several examples of marital commitment lately. A good friend recently died of cancer. It was good to see his committed wife stand by him and do the best she could to encourage him and to alleviate his suffering. Another friend recently had surgery that left her face twisted. Her husband is standing by her and convincing her that she is still beautiful to him. Would that “charmer” you are dating stand by you if you were disfigured or paralyzed in a car wreck? What if some of you beautiful girls have a baby or two or gain some weight? Would “Romeo” still express his love to you or would he have a roving eye? Look at the one you are considering marrying and see what kind of character and integrity he or she has. You will be glad you did in the long run.
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On a frigid Louisiana morning in 2009, in a house that reeked of cat urine, Rainn Wilson kneeled down on a bedroom floor and began to bellow at God. Sitting next to him, off camera, director James Gunn stared down at a small monitor and tried to contain his excitement as hot tears streamed down the face of the sputtering actor two feet away from him. “It is so, so heartbreaking, but at the same time it’s really funny and people don’t know how to react to those things right next to each other, side by side,” said Gunn, best known as the writer-director of “Slither,” the 2006 comedy-horror film. “It was so uncomfortable, and that’s the playground I love to be in. It’s a scene that will change the way people look at Rainn Wilson. I know I was flabbergasted. Whatever you think of Rainn, it changes during that scene.” On April Fool’s Day, Gunn and Wilson’s strange, subversive little film called “Super” will reach theaters as perhaps the most unsettling and endearing superhero film imaginable, a kooky blend of “Taxi Driver,” “Donnie Darko” and “The Greatest American Hero” that aspires to be both heartwarming and (literally) skull-splitting. At the center of the film is Wilson, whom costar Ellen Page describes
as “a revelation” in his role as an unhinged vigilante who calls himself the Crimson Bolt and uses a pipe wrench to bash in the heads of dope dealers, pedophiles and people who cut in line at the theater. The 45-year-old Wilson’s previous film credits include “The Rocker,” “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” and “Monsters vs. Aliens,” but he is best known as the caddish, egomaniacal Dwight Schrute on the sitcom “The Office,” now in its seventh season. That isn’t about to change — the series pulls in 8 million or 9 million viewers for NBC on Thursday nights while “Super” is just a scruffy little indie film with a heretical spirit and a hard-earned R-rating. The movie has an impressive supporting cast (Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon and Nathan Fillion along with Page), but Wilson knows the movie is too fierce and jagged to be embraced by the wider popcorn constituency. “You have tonal shifts from really sincere crying to animated sequences to hyper-violence to farcical comedy,” Wilson said. “It’s equal parts Travis Bickle and Napoleon Dynamite. I love all the different places the movie goes. There is a lot of it that you just don’t see coming.” That’s an understatement. In a central scene, his character is snatched up by mysterious tentacles and held captive while his cranium is cut open like a soup can so the
giant, glowing finger of God can tap the top of his brain. For the record, Wilson said audiences shouldn’t be too alarmed by that scene: “It’s not a true story, just so you know.” The movie, written by Gunn in 2002, follows the story of Frank D’Arbo (Wilson), a short-order cook who loses his recoveringaddict wife, Sarah (Tyler), to a sleazy strip-club owner and low-level crime boss named Jacques (Bacon) who plies her with dope and double-talk. But like Joan of Arc, Frank gets a message from God — as well as a Christian broadcasting personality played with deadpan delight by Fillion — that takes him to a conclusion popular in contemporary American film: He will wear a mask and fight crime. Superhero cinema is all the rage. It’s a function of Hollywood’s need for the kind of big-screen spectacle that can coax audiences away from home theaters, and it’s the ideal use of computer-generated visual effects able to convince moviegoers that a man can fly. Poking fun at the tropes is a natural reflex of our collective masked-man fatigue. “Hancock,” “Kick-Ass,” “Defendor,” “Sky High,” and “Special” are a few of the caped satires and sendups in recent years, but none of them — not even Matthew Vaughn’s bloody “KickAss” — are as edgy as “Super.” “’Super’ feels, somehow, part of the real world, unlike a lot of
these movies that have a sort of similar theme,” Wilson said. “I’m so happy to be in this film.” It was Jenna Fischer, Gunn’s ex-wife and Wilson’s costar on “The Office,” who put the actor together with the role. The script had sat on a shelf for seven years, but Fischer’s affection for it never waned. One day on the set of “The Office” she told Wilson that he would be ideal for the part and texted Gunn to send the script over. The actor was 28 pages in when he reached a decision. “My hands were shaking,” Wilson said. It was 2009, though, and the independent film scene was in a grim Rainn Wilson, left, and Ellen Page funk. The director and arrive for the premiere of the film actor struggled to find “Super” in Los Angeles on March 21. supporters and finally got Ted Hope (“The Ice Storm”) After screenings in Toronto and and Miranda Bailey (“The Squid Austin, Texas, reviews have been and the Whale”) on board. The mostly good, but the film is divimovie was filmed in under 20 days, sive. When Wilson went on “The and Gunn said the urgency and Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” it discomfort of the shoot added to was clear the host didn’t know the jangled-nerves vibe of the film. what to make of his guest’s new “There was a culture of speed,” film. Gunn couldn’t contain his glee Wilson said. “We were doing 30 while watching the awkward consetups a day. It gave everything versation. “My movie mind-raped an edge.” Jay Leno. What’s better than that?”
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East Carolina Pirates burgle weekend series from Tigers BY Adam Douglas Sports Reporter First came the rain. Then came East Carolina, who dampened the Conference USA opening weekend for The University of Memphis. The Pirates defeated the Tigers in the C-USA opener and took the weekend series from the Tigers, two games to one. Rain in the area forced both clubs to alter the times of the first pitch in two of the three games. Both squads agreed to play on Friday as planned, and then a
double-header on Saturday starting with the first pitch beginning at 9 a.m. to avoid the inclement weather. A lack of hitting plagued the Tigers in the series, largely due to East Carolina boasting one of the best pitching staffs in C-USA. The Tigers dropped the first game of the series, 3-2, despite sophomore Dan Langfield’s 6.1 innings with four strikeouts. ECU held the Tigers to just five hits in the game, with two hits each coming from Robby Graham and the conference’s leading hitter, Chad
Zurcher. The first game of the doubleheader on Saturday proved to be best for the Tigers in a 3-2 victory. Seven Tigers had hits in the game as they snapped a 12-game losing streak in C-USA road openers. Ben Paullus (1-0) pitched 3.2 innings to earn the victory on the mound in relief of Memphis starter Ryan Holland. Paullus allowed no hits on the day and struck out five batters while walking one. Holland pitched 5.1 innings and allowed two runs on eight hits. He struck
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Phillips named C-USA’s co-hitter of the week BY Adam Douglas Sports Reporter University of Memphis junior Jessica Phillips, a first baseman from Chattanooga, Tenn., was named C-USA cohitter of the week for the second time this season, sharing the award with Houston’s Melissa Gregson. Phillips also won the award to open the 2011 season. This week’s award marks the fourth time this season that a Tiger has taken home league honors. Phillips made league history by connecting on a trio of home runs in the Tigers’ finale against UTEP, the most homeruns in a C-USA game
from page 1 Though Lang manipulated ZBT’s operational assistance funds for campaign use last year as well, Lawhead said his office has no record of that and Lang will not be punished for it. In the future, Lawhead said he will make sure Registered Student Organizations and Tiger Copy and Graphics know that operational assistance cannot be used to promote a campaign. Though Lang violated a University policy, neither he nor his party will be punished in the SGA election, election commissioner Anthony LaRocca said. LaRocca wouldn’t comment specifically on the issue, but said no election law has been broken.
by a single player. She finished the week with nine RBI to help The U of M sweep the Miners on the road for the first time in school history. Phillips leads the team with nine home runs and 25 RBI this year. She is batting a team-best .297 and has scored 15 runs. She is currently fourth all-time in school history for most home runs in a season with nine, three away from matching the school record. The Tigers (21-7, 6-3 C-USA) will play their next five games at home, where they will host a three-game league series with Tulsa this weekend and a doubleheader with Alabama State on Wednesday, April 6.
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out two and walked two. East Carolina reliever Brad Mincey (4-1) took the loss after allowing one run in the seventh. T.J. Rich sparked the Tigers to their first run in the game. Rich advanced to second on a balk by ECU starting pitcher Mike Wright and Robby Graham hit an RBIdouble to bat in Rich, giving The U of M a 1-0 lead. The Tigers then used a lead-off walk to Graham in the fourth to increase the lead to 2-0. The Pirates would rally in the bottom of the fifth to tie the score at 2, but the Tigers held
“In fairness to all the candidates in the election, the Election Commission will not comment on any alleged infractions until an infraction has been filed and we have had a chance to gather evidence. The situation that you have mentioned never led to infractions being filed and the party involved has satisfied the Election Commission’s request for information,” LaRocca said. “The parties are following both the Election Laws and University policies that pertain to campaigning.” Tyler DeWitt, Lang’s opponent in the election, said Lang’s actions were inexcusable. “Although no election laws were broken, there was clearly a violation of University policy,” he said. “And regardless of what he got away with (in) years prior, the law is the law, and that doesn’t change. And ignorance of the law is no excuse.”
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on to win the game by scoring another run in the seventh. The last game of the series went to the Pirates, who won, 5-3. Clayton Gant started for The U of M and pitch 6.2 innings and allowed two runs, one earned, on 10 hits. He struck out one and walked three. The Tigers open a 10-game home-stand on Wednesday with a doubleheader against Mississippi Valley State. The U of M plays 18 of its next 23 games in the Bluff City with one game at AutoZone Park.
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Obama from page 9 airstrikes intended to prevent the slaughter of civilians. The administration has insisted that no “doctrine” has emerged in the past 10 days, but that action will be considered on a country-by-country basis. Obama pointed out that regime change in Iraq “took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives, and nearly a trillion dollars,” Obama said Monday. “That is not something we can afford to repeat in Libya.” Claiming success in Libya and directing U.S. forces into a “supporting role,” Obama said the U.S. nonetheless will continue to work to cut off the supply of arms and cash to the Gadhafi regime and to assist the opposition. While refraining from openly criticizing Obama’s decision to dispatch military personnel to the region, some Republicans in Congress have criticized Obama for waiting several days before speaking publicly about the military action. Others questioned how Obama could allow Gadhafi to remain in power and not use military force to oust him. As long as the Libyan leader remains in control, said McCain, “he will increasingly pose a threat to the world and civilians in Libya will not be fully secure.”
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Tigers add fellow non-BCS powerhouse to schedule BY John mArTIn Sports Editor A home-and-home series between The University of Memphis and Xavier is “going to happen,” U of M coach Josh Pastner said Monday. Pastner said there are some kinks that need to be worked out before the contact can be finalized, but an agreement is in place. The series, which pits two of the most successful non-BCS
programs against each other, will open next season at FedExForum and will continue in 2012-13 at Xavier. “It’s going to be a high-level series,” Pastner said. “They’re returning everybody and so are we. This is a good series.” The Musketeers, who have made the NCAA tournament 10 of the last 11 seasons, lost to 11-seeded Marquette in the second round of this year’s tournament. There was pressure on The
other memphians named Parade All-Americans: JOHNNY NEUMANN, 1969, OVERTON HIGH. Neumann bounced around the ABA mostly, but he did play for the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers and Indiana Pacers for a combined three seasons. RICHARD MADISON, 1984, NORTHSIDE HIGH. Madison didn’t quite live up to his expectations at the University of Kentucky and didn’t play pro basketball post-graduation. ANFERNEE “PENNY” HARDAWAY, 1990, TREADWELL: Hardaway went on to a splendid two-year career at The U of M and was a 4-time NBA All-Star. He played 14 seasons in the NBA. JOE JACKSON, 2010, WHITE STATION: Jackson just finished up his freshman season at The U of M. He rediscovered his game in the C-USA tournament and was a major reason why the Tigers made it back to the NCAA tournament.
U of M staff to add a significant non-conference home-and-home series next season, as the Tigers’ series with Gonzaga was ended prematurely due to BYU joining the West Coast Conference. “This isn’t just a replacement game,” Pastner said. “Xavier is a good team.” Pastner said that he’d been in premature discussions with Arkansas about a possible homeand-home before former coach John Pelphrey was fired. Mike Anderson, who has success-
fully recruited Memphis high school prospects, was hired as Pelphrey’s replacement last week. Nothing has been finalized with the Razorbacks yet, Pastner said. Along with participating in the Maui Classic, a tournament which includes the likes of Duke, Kansas and UCLA among others, the Tigers will play both Belmont and Tennessee at home while playing Georgetown and Miami on the road next season.
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U of m signee named Parade All-American BY John mArTIn Sports Editor University of Memphis men’s basketball signee Adonis Thomas joined some elite company Monday. Thomas, a McDonald’s AllAmerican from Melrose High, became the fifth Memphian to be named a Parade Magazine
All-American. Monday’s announcement is the latest in a string of accolades for Thomas, who earlier this month was named the Gatorade Tennessee Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Initiated in 1957, the Parade team is the longest-running AllAmerica high school basketball team in the country.
Thomas is currently in Chicago for the McDonald’s AllAmerican festivities. He participated in the Powerade Jam Fest last night and will play in the McDonald’s All-American game tomorrow. The five-star forward averaged 21.8 points and 11.2 rebounds for the Golden Wildcats this season.
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