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In the midst of hundreds of University of Memphis students weaving in and out of tables for the annual Registered Student Organization fair , more than 20 students managed to find a moment of peace and stillness in the crowd. In collaboration with Christian student organizations, two students organized U of M’s first freeze-flash mob. Those who participated gathered outside of the University Center and Alumni Mall and opened their Bibles to Psalms 46:10. “Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth,” the King James Version of the verse reads. Cortney Richardson, senior organizational leadership major and one of the organizers of the mob, said the scripture is a perfect example of people letting God come into their lives. After the five-minute meditation ended, participators were tapped on the shoulder, which was their permission to move again. Richardson said the touch represented how all Christians are all a part of the body of Christ. “It speaks to how much we all need each other,” he said. “This is the beginning of a school year. I think above all, college students struggle with identity, when God himself created us. He is really the person to tell us what to do, just like the person who made the computer has the right to say what the computer does.” The idea for the flash mob was conceived when during a conversation between Richardson and administrator in the Student Activities office. Richardson said he was concerned that student organizations used too much of their funding to to promote events lacking in originality and purpose. “For instance, if you are having a fashion
Students participating in a flash mob at the Alumni Mall on Monday, an event organized by senior organizational leadership major Cortney Richardson. show, is a flyer really the best thing for you to do to promote it?” he said. Richardson said the administrator mentioned flash mobs, but at the time he didn’t know what they were. He said when he found out what they were he made fun of them, but eventually decided to look for the opportunity to do one. “The Lord dropped it in my spirit to have this for the Christian organizations to do this,” he said. “How cool would it be? How
cool would Christ look?” Richardson partnered with Andrew Cross, senior film major, to make a secret Youtube video which was spread to people chosen to participate in the flash mob. “We want to make a major impact on the U of M,” Cross said. “Our faith requires us to share the Gospel. We want people to see that there’s a lot that comes with being a Christian. We want to do things like this to show the
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University urges students to use common sense at rail crossings During the summer, The University of Memphis made several changes to campus. With a new parking lot on Central Avenue and construction sites around campus, it could be easy to miss the new signs on both sides of the railway near Southern Avenue warning students to cross the tracks at paved areas. An e-mail sent by Tony Poteet, associate vice president for campus planning and design, warned that U of M administrators have noticed several students crossing the railroad tracks on Southern Avenue at unpaved areas, creating the dangeorous potential for students to
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BY ROBERT MOORE News Reporter
Students crossing a paved area of the railroad tracks near Southern Avenue on Monday afternoon. Administrators are encouraging students to be safe and use the paved areas to cross the tracks. trip at these locations at unsafe times. Administrators also said that they have seen several close calls where students have been almost hit trying to beat the train
“It just isn’t good common sense,” said political science graduate student Maegan Traynom. “You never know when a train
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As a business officer in the School of Public Health, Ropo Sanvee is a world away from the life she once led in Liberia, West Africa. Sanvee has worked at The University of Memphis since June of 2000. Her job includes managing the day-to-day operations in the School of Public Health. Sanvee describes her job as “supporting the SPH faculty in anything they might need, such as assisting with pre-award grant submission and post award grant monitoring, as well as managing the school’s budget and preparing contracts for graduate students.” As a child in Liberia, Sanvee lived with her parents and eight siblings. Both of her parents worked, which allowed her to attend a private school and participate in extracurricular activities. “We were encouraged to study hard and do well in school, but we did not go to many parties or social events,” Sanvee said. Sanvee began college in 1983, graduating as valedictorian from a junior college in 1985. She later transferred to Cuttington University College and earned a degree in biology in 1989. With aspirations of becoming a medical doctor, she attended medical school, but after six months, the first Liberian Civil War broke out in Nimba County, shutting down the university. Desperate for work, Sanvee found a job with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Liberia. As the civil war moved closer, Sanvee and her sister made the decision to leave home with their parents and move to a safer part of the city. Without transportation, the only choice they had was to walk. “We could only take what we could carry with us,” Sanvee said. “We saw dead bodies scattered everywhere.” Eventually Sanvee’s parents moved to the safer part of the city as they waited for the war between ethnicities, the Mano and Gio tribes, to end. As the situation worsened, Sanvee decided she needed to leave Liberia. In 1996, Sanvee was transferred to Sierra Leone with the International Committee of the Red Cross. But after four months, she was ready to come back home.
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Senior organizational leadership major Cortney Richardson, left, reads his bible as part of a flash mob at the RSO Fair on Monday at 4 p.m.
tremendous faith we have in God.” Cross said if a student of a different religion showed up to participate it would not have been a problem, though he and Richardson promoted the event primarily to Christian groups on campus. Jonathan Woodall, director of the Christian Student Center, said Richardson and Woodall’s initiative showed unity among Christians on campus. “I think, unfortunately, that the popular idea is that we’re all fighting against each other and I don’t experience that here,” he said, in reference to the different denominations on campus. As the students stood with their Bibles open for the five minutes of prayer and meditation on the chosen scripture, attendees continued with the RSO fair, checking their cell phones and laughing with each other. A few gave quick glances to the group before continuing
on their way as a few straggling participators joined the crowd of mobbers. Though Richardson and Cross anticipated hundreds of students, they still though the event was a success. Richardson said they plan to try again before the Fall 2011 semester ends. Greg Mason, senior music education major and one of the flash mob participants, said though the turnout wasn’t what he expected, the effort put into it was great. “I think we caught people’s attention and I think God was glorified through our efforts this afternoon. It was a perfect parody of that verse too, because we actually stood still for five minutes and acknowledged who God was,” he said. Laura Tippit, sophomore English major, said the experience touched her personally. “I wasn’t really focused on numbers really, but I liked it. I think it was a pretty cool exercise,” she said. “In the midst of all the chaotic stuff going on, I got to think and meditate on my faith.”
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With wide, anticipating eyes, the class of 2015 filed into The University of Memphis’ Michael D. Rose Theatre on Monday for the first event of their college career at The U of M, the New Student Convocation. “This convocation is a beginning for you,” said U of M president Shirley Raines, a featured speaker at the event. Daniel Bureau, coordinator of the event, said the convocation is a great way for students to learn the traditions of The U of M. “I get involved with new
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Tripoli goes thirsty with source of water still in Gadhafi hands BY DAVID ENDERS McClatchy Newspapers Water is in short supply in Tripoli, Libya’s newly liberated capital, and from here it’s easy to see why: The massive storage tank, part of the network that supplies water to the capital from a huge underground aquifer in southern Libya, is nearly empty. And this storage facility lies just 25 miles south of Tripoli. The real problem, say rebel leaders, lies much further away, in Hasouna, 400 miles to the south, which forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi still control. They have turned off the tap, not just to Tripoli but to many of Libya’s cities. As water lines run dry and prices for bottled water skyrocket, Tripoli’s burgeoning water crisis reveals the limitations of the rebel leadership, which still must consolidate its control over vast parts of the country even as it tries to exert its authority over a shortage-plagued capital.
While Tripoli has been mostly cleared of serious pro-Gadhafi resistance, much of the country to the south lies outside rebel control, and that means that not just water supplies, but also refineries and oilfields, have yet to be secured. Rebel leaders offer no estimates for how quickly that might be accomplished. Fakher Badr, a member of
Tripoli last week. For now, he said, trucking in bottled water will have to do. “Workers shut down the well near Hasouna,” he said. Tripoli and most of Libya’s coastal cities draw their water from what’s known as the Great Man-made River, a massive system of pumps and pipelines that Gadhafi began constructing
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trucked in from Tunisia over the weekend, provided a temporary respite, though it was selling in some places for up to six times the pre-revolution price. the rebel National Transitional Council’s stabilization team in Tripoli, said he knew of no plans for securing southern oil and water facilities, and that his committee was only just beginning its work after arriving in
in 1984 to tap massive stores of fresh water that oil exploration had discovered beneath the Sahara Desert. The connection to Tripoli was completed in 1996 — there are still phases being built in what
is often billed as the world’s largest engineering project. Until recently what Libyans call the “underground river” was delivering 264 million gallons of water a day to the capital. Gadhafi called it the eighth wonder of the world. An American company, Brown and Root, now KBR, did the initial design and construction. But with the wells that tap the aquifer outside of rebel control, the water is no longer flowing north. Even here, rebel fighters approached the storage tank with caution, fearing that proGadhafi fighters still might be lurking nearby. The gate in the fence surrounding the massive storage tank — essentially a covered concrete box, roughly 200 yards square and 50 feet deep — was open, but the complex was deserted. Rebel fighters in the area expressed pride that the complex had not been looted. “The people in this area are with us,” said Abdel Kader, one
of the fighters. But even if the workers at the storage facility were to return, there would be little for them to do without water flowing from the well field hundreds of miles away. A shipment of bottled water, trucked in from Tunisia over the weekend, provided a temporary respite, though it was selling in some places for up to six times the pre-revolution price. Those supplies, however, are unlikely to meet the needs of bathing and cleaning in a city of more than 1 million. “This is a national emergency,” said Badr of the National Transitional Council stabilization team. “We need help with drinking water.” Badr reiterated the council’s request that the former Libyan
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Irene damage reaches nearly $7 bn. BY KEVIN G. HALL McClatchy Newspapers Hurricane Irene is now in the history books, to be remembered as a storm that could have been a whole lot worse. Even so, flooding left in Irene’s wake had experts Monday revising cost estimates upward, now expected to exceed $7 billion in the United States. “We estimate the overall storm losses around $7 billion, insured losses about $3 billion,” said Jan Vermeiren, the CEO of Kinetic Analysis Corp., a riskmodeling firm in Maryland that late last week had envisioned $20 billion in losses before Irene weakened. Irene came on shore in North Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane, held steady as it passed Maryland and Delaware beaches late Saturday and weakened to a tropical storm by the time it struck Manhattan on Sunday. Still, its romp up the East Coast left a trail of wind damage from North Carolina to Rhode Island. Heavy, prolonged rains caused the worst flooding in decades in New England states such as Connecticut and Vermont. Flooding will continue for several days, according to Craig Fugate, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “We still have rivers that have yet to crest. The River Forecast
Center for the Northeast was reporting that some of these rivers may not crest for two to three days,” Fugate said Monday during a White House briefing. “So the extent of impacts we still won’t know, but, again, many of these areas have been dealing with very dangerous flooding. Some of it has resulted in the loss of life.” The American Red Cross said Monday that it had housed at least 27,000 people along the East Coast in temporary shelters because of Irene and appealed for blood donations, as it was 2,100 donors short of needs. CEO Gail McGovern also pleaded for money donations. “Frankly, the Red Cross response is going to cost millions of dollars,” she said. TV sets across the nation blared images Monday of swollen rivers cresting over bridges in Vermont. Flooding was so bad in parts of the state that the threat forced FEMA on Monday to close disaster-recovery centers in Barre and St. Johnsbury that had been opened after a similar natural disaster in May. In a statement marking the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which caused more than $100 billion in damages, President Barack Obama pledged continued cooperation with state and local governments in the wake of Irene. “Those response efforts are
ongoing and we will continue EQECAT Inc., an Oakland, paid an estimated $40.6 billion that partnership, responding as Calif.-based designer of catastro- on 1.7 million claims for damage quickly and effectively as pos- phe-modeling software for insur- from Hurricane Katrina, accordsible, for as long as necessary, ance companies, also expected ing to the Insurance Information until the affected communities flood damage to be high and Institute. are back on their feet,” the presi- much of it uninsured. National Regarding the Irene estimate, dent said. Flood Insurance Program statis- “That’s a significant amount of Many local governments may tics show that only 3,673 federal money, but that is not a major find rebuilding a challenge, giv- flood policies were in force in event for the insurance indusing the plunging revenues of Vermont this week. try. ... To put it in context, the recent years. “Flood is not a typically tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri, “The weak economy means insured peril,” said Thomas were probably $3 billion. The local governments will be less Larsen, EQECAT’s senior vice earthquake in Japan was probable to help, and small busi- president, noting that most ably a $30 billion event,” said nesses will be footing the bill,” insurance policies don’t cover Franklin Nutter, the president Vermeiren said. floods. “We’re seeing ... 20- or of the Reinsurance Association Monday was a day for mea- 30-year flood levels, something of America. “The industry’s suring losses. preliminary By Kinetic’s assessment is estimates, New that much of he cleanup along the Jersey and New the damage was Northeast may create a York led all to uninsured states in total temporary bump in construction- properties.” damages, with Reinsurance sector employment, but it won’t is what insurestimates for losses respecamount to much. The minuses ance companies tively of $2.1 biltake out to minisimply outweigh the pluses. lion and $2 bilmize their own lion — about 40 losses. Nutter percent of each estimates that of them insured losses. we haven’t seen in many years.” reinsurers will pick up one-third North Carolina ranked third, The company anticipates that to half of the insured losses from with an estimated $1.4 billion in insured losses in North Carolina Irene. damages. This modeling didn’t and South Carolina will range Few companies watch hurinclude Vermont. from $200 million to $400 mil- ricanes and their aftermath as “Flooding is the big unknown lion, about 90 percent of that closely as Lowe’s Cos., the North here, and that makes estimate along coastal North Carolina. Carolina-based national hardlosses quite difficult,” said From an insurance stand- ware and home-improvement Vermeiren, adding that flood point, Irene won’t be too costly, chain. damages in Connecticut and with insured losses estimated at Its Emergency Command Vermont could result in another $2 billion to $8 billion. By con$1 billion in losses. trast, insurance companies have see irene, page 7
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East Haledon Ave. in Paterson, N.J. was filled with two feet of water Aug. 28 after Hurricane Irene swept though the area.
Center had sent out more than 1,000 truckloads of emergency supplies to about 300 stores in the path of the hurricane, which spanned from South Carolina to New England. The center now is deploying for reconstruction needs. “For example, we can monitor areas along the East Coast that experience extreme high winds during a storm and prepare or expedite roofing materials to those areas. Or we can monitor floods and river crests so that we can prepare and/or expedite flooring and carpeting to those regions,” spokeswoman Sarah-Frances Wallace said. “Some of the other items in high demand in the repair and recovery stage of a storm include trash bags, sump pumps, wet/dry vacuums, cleaning supplies, outdoor power equipment and lumber.” Initial emergency supplies were being shipped from regional distribution centers in Valdosta, Ga.; Kissimmee, Fla.; and Garysburg, N.C., Wallace said. She noted that distribution centers in Pittston, Pa.; Plainfield, Conn.; and Pottsville, Pa., were tapped for supply duty and are closest to the hard-hit Northeastern sites. The cleanup along the Northeast may create a temporary bump in construction-sector employment, but it won’t amount to much. The minuses simply outweigh the pluses. “I think you get immediate opportunity for cleanup companies and roofers and emergency repairs to buildings and roads ... but in terms of being a net positive for construction overall, no,” said Ken Simonson, chief economist for Associated General Contractors of America, the trade group for large contractors. “The major replacement work tends to take a very long time. Going back to Hurricane Andrew and the impact it had on south Florida, the evidence is that it took 10 or 15 years to replace the bulk of the housing destroyed there.” “I think people tend to overestimate the positive economic side of natural catastrophes,” he said. “You tend to forget that other businesses are shut down permanently or the projects people wanted to start that they now are not doing. The net impact is always negative, destroying property that had some utility.” Economic forecaster RDQ Economics in New York issued an analysis Monday estimating only a minor national economic impact from Irene. “The Eastern Seaboard can count itself fortunate that Irene was less destructive than it might have been. The loss of life is tragic but at (currently) 35, we can be thankful that it was not greater. If property damage estimates are anywhere close to the mark, the impact of Irene on measured economic activity is likely to be small,” RDQ economists wrote, adding that Irene losses are expected to equal “about 0.05 percent of the nation’s annual output of goods and services.”
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BY JOHN SMALLWOOD Philadelphia Daily News OK, can we put a bit of reality into this “pay college athletes” debate that is again in the forefront with numerous allegations of misdeeds surfacing at the University of Miami? Giving “student-athletes” an extra $300, $400 or $500 in addition to their full scholarships is not going to deter the type of activities that have reportedly happened over the last decade at “The U” between jailed booster Nevin Shapiro and Hurricane football and basketball players. A few hundred bucks a month is not going to buy diamond-studded necklaces, gain underage players entrance to VIP suites of exclusive nightclubs, pay for high-end prostitutes, parties on yachts, bigscreen television sets and other perks. And I doubt the NCAA would look favorably on an athletic stipend being use to pay for
an abortion. Paying college athletes isn’t going to stop any of the illicit activities involved with collegiate athletics because this isn’t about needing material things. What happened at Miami, Ohio State, USC and most schools involved in improper benefit violations is primarily about greed. It was studentathletes breaking rules because they wanted something they normally could not have, not because they needed something most other students had. None of these cases involve things like taking a girlfriend to a movie, buying a hamburger or a new pair of pants. These perks go far beyond “basic student needs.” But I am not even making a moral argument about this. Conceptually, I could care less if some kid can bilk a few coins from an overzealous booster. The NCAA likes to talk about amateur integrity, but most of its regulations are geared
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Nevin Shapiro appears in video provided by WFOR/CBS4 at pre-game ceremonies in September 2003 when the University of Miami Hurricanes played the Florida Gators. Shapiro, now serving 20 years in federal prison for his role in a $930 million Ponzi scheme, said he provided Miami players with cash, prostitutes, cars and other gifts over the past decade. toward preventing highly funded schools from buying up all of the top players and thus widening the competitive advantage they already have. Morality- and amateurism-based arguments are just public-stated window dressings. But there is a tangible and compelling argument against
pay-for-play. Most universities simply cannot afford to give athletes more monetary aid than they already are. From the outside we see the billion-dollar contracts the NCAA has negotiated for college football and the men’s basketball tournament and we say, “Raking in the cash.”
We see the ridiculous multimillion-dollar contracts paid to some coaches and say, “How come there is no cut for the kids?” That is the myopic look at the situation. I read a story in the
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People weigh choices carefully, one reason that hard-core ideological groups have less sway here. The state has a history of deflating candidates who ride in fresh from ideology-fueled Iowa caucus victories, and all but ending their presidential bids. In 2008, for instance, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee got no momentum from his Iowa win and finished a distant third here, with 11 percent. These voters understand nuance. “You’re never going to find anybody who agrees with you about everything,” said Brian Stowell, who owns a Claremont custom cabinet-making company. Their heightened scrutiny helps make 2012 difficult to handicap. In the last University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll, taken June 21 to July 1, Romney led Obama by 47 percent to 43 percent. In November 2008, Obama beat Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee, by 9.6 percentage points. The poll’s margin of error was plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. Romney remains the Republican favorite in this state. He has a home in Wolfeboro and he governed Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. But he’s no shoo-in, as the University of New Hampshire
When it comes to the politics of 2012, New Hampshire is a state of uncertainty. From Keene in the southwest corner to Dover on the other side of the state, voters are largely unenthusiastic about President Barack Obama, but they’re not crazy about the potential Republican challengers either. Folks here routinely say they’re fed up with everyone and don’t know what to do when they go to the polls next year. “The candidates all say what people want to hear, and then nothing gets done,” said Debbie Babineau, a Lebanon property manager. Voters in this state of 1.3 million people are closely watched as reflective of the national mood. New Hampshire traditionally holds the nation’s first presidential primary, meaning that people here get to see and even know potential presidents in person, allowing them to take the measure of their leaders in ways that are available to few other Americans. New Hampshire also features a relatively prosperous white-collar middle and upper class, generally in its southern tier outside Boston, along with more blue-collar, rural and small-town populations sprinkled throughout the state. he candidates Since 1980, New Hampshire also usually has all say what people gone as America goes in the want to hear, and November general election, then nothing gets giving its electoral votes to the presidential winner all done.” but once. The exception was 2004, when Massachusetts — Debbie Babineau Sen. John Kerry, well-known Property manager, since he was from a neighLebanon, N.H. boring state, eked out a win here but fell short nationally. poll found that only 8 percent of It’s the first-primary status, Republican primary voters had though, that makes these voters made definite choices. especially savvy. A lot of variables are still in play. Corporate lawyer Claire The biggest is turnout; 392,000 Howard, in the last two weeks, state voters are “undeclared,” or asked former Massachusetts Gov. independent, meaning that they Mitt Romney a question about can vote in either party’s primary. health care at an Exeter economic Some 264,000 residents are regisforum and watched Texas Gov. tered Democrats and 272,000 are Rick Perry at the Bedford “Politics registered Republicans. In the past, & Eggs” breakfast with business independents helped boost more leaders. mainstream Republican candiAlex and Leigh Anne Foster of dates, such as 2000 and 2008 winLee aim to see all the candidates; ner McCain, over more ideological they’ve seen every president since alternatives, such as Huckabee. Bill Clinton. Alex, a computer-softThis time, the turnout mystery ware company owner, is intrigued involves whether folks who voted by Perry and his conservative for Obama in 2008 will cross over ideology. Leigh Anne, a health to vote in the GOP primary, and if care official, likes Minnesota so, for whom. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Disappointment with Obama is same reason, adding that “she’s easy to find, even among those tenacious.” who say they still support him. It’s not unusual to see peo“He’s getting closer to being ple such as Jim Marshburn, a the lesser of two evils,” said Steve Rochester school bus driver, who Bos, a policy planner with the state took a notebook to a Dover town Education Department in Lebanon. hall meeting last week hosted by Chances are they won’t vote Romney. Marshburn planned to Republican, but there’s little evireview his notes at home later, dence that activist Democrats will checking them against Romney’s be urging others to vote for Obama, record. and that could mean a boost for a
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Those in attendance listen to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney field questions while speaking to a crowd during a town hall meeting at the Keene Recreation Center in Keene, N.H. on Aug. 24. Republican come November 2012. “People are disappointed,” said state Democratic Rep. Steve Lindsey of Keene. “The economy’s not helping. The Christmas shopping season will determine Obama’s chances here.” Right after that, perhaps in January, the presidential primary is likely to occur. Voters here feel the shaky economy, though not as critically as elsewhere. The state’s unemployment rate — 5.2 percent in July — has been considerably lower than the nation’s — 9.1 percent in July — but well above its pre-2008 recession lows. Romney would seem the obvious choice for these voters, as long as he stays on his current course
of talking largely about economics and avoiding much discussion of social issues. “He’s got to be seen as the champion of the moderate, centrist wing of the Republican Party,” said Dante Scala, an associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire. Romney, like others, also has to offer detailed answers to vexing questions. At the Exeter town hall meeting, Bob Vecchio, a retired Exeter financial officer, asked Romney his plans for Social Security and Medicare, and how they would factor into his plan to cut the federal debt. Romney pledged not to touch the programs for those who already have retired or are near-
ing retirement, but he was vague about other details, saying only that “we want to make sure the promises we’re making to the next generation are promises we can keep.” “He could have been more specific,” Vecchio said, though he added that he thought Romney could beat Obama. Jaelle Johnson, a Rollinsford teacher, watches candidates and tries to discern who’ll make the best leader. “It’s an instinctive thing. I’m asking myself, ‘Can you define your vision? Motivate your team? Can you lead the country?’” she asked. “Obama has the self-confidence but I don’t think he has those skills needed to lead.”
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Libyan rebels stand atop the vast storage tank at Said al Siah, Libya, 25 miles south of Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 29. The tank, through which water for Tripoli passes from wells hundreds of miles to the south, is nearly empty because pro-Gadhafi forces are still in control of the well fields and have shut them down.
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from page 5 government’s assets in foreign banks, largely frozen after the rebellion against Gadhafi began in February, be released to the National Transitional Council. “We need our assets unfrozen so we can buy food and what we need,” Badr said. “We have cash sitting in the United Kingdom.” Meanwhile, residents of Tripoli are coping as best they can. Adel Khalifa, a Tripoli taxi driver, said that until water is restored, he’s relying on what he had stored under his house before Gadhafi fell.
“We were expecting a water shortage, so we also filled the reservoir under our house,” Khalifa said. Nadia Tarhouni, who lives in downtown Tripoli, has been buying bottled water, but she says she won’t be able to do that forever. “We are running out of money,” she said. “We are waiting for people to bring us water.” Salem Kilani, who lives in Tripoli’s suburbs, said supplies have arrived in tanker trucks from other cities whose wells lie inside rebel lines. As for the well at his house, “the water is not drinkable,” he said. Even as water supplies remained scarce, gasoline
appeared to be more abundant, helped by a shipment of more than 7 million gallons that was delivered Sunday by tanker to storage tanks in Zawiya, 20 miles west of Tripoli. Another ship carrying diesel fuel is expected to arrive Tuesday. Still, lines were hours long at Tripoli gas stations, where gasoline was selling for less than 72 cents a gallon. To skip the wait, motorists were paying 30 times that on the black market. And it was uncertain when gasoline would once again be flowing from the Zawiyah refinery, which in ordinary times was the primary source for Tripoli residents. The Sharara oilfield that supplies the refinery also lies outside rebel control.
Washington Post recently that said my alma mater — the University of Maryland — may have to cut sports to address a nearly $1.2 million operating deficit in the athletic department. According to the article, unless Maryland finds some high-end boosters or corporations to step to the plate in a bad economy, the school will likely have to implement across-the-board cuts to all 27 varsity sports or eliminate a few teams to balance the books. The situation at Maryland is also apparent at the vast majority of the schools that play Division I-A football — the prime money maker of college sports. According to 2009 NCAA budget figures, only 22 of the 120 schools that play I-A football make a profit. There is no financial wiggle room to simply add additional expenses. The obvious argument is that since football and men’s basketball are the primary revenue generators, just pay those athletes. That still doesn’t work. Let’s say the NCAA said schools could pay football and basketball players an extra $300 a month for entertainment spending. If schools award the maximum 85 football and 13 basketball scholarships, the extra cost would be $235,200 during an eightmonth school year. If you are already operating in deficit, where do you
find another near quarter-ofa-million dollars? The reality, however, is that the judicial system, primarily because of Title IX, will never allow colleges to just pay male athletes from a revenue-generating-sport. The total amount of spending money given to male athletes would have to be automatically doubled to match an equal number of female athletes. Judicial precedent has clearly determined that will not be negotiable. Then there is the matter of schools with non-revenue sports that have high regards from fickle boosters. Athletic directors can slight those sports at their own risk. You can bet that if the football and basketball players at Penn State start getting spending money, the wrestlers and members of the newly created and well-funded varsity ice hockey team are going to get paid, too. Adding cost without raising revenue will mean program cuts. Boosters will not be too happy if those cuts reduced athletic programs to football, men’s basketball and 12 women’s sports. The Pandora’s Box? Logic says that it will be impossible to just pay scholarship football and basketball players. Just a $300 per month stipend could mean more than $1 million in additional operating costs to schools whose athletic programs are already working in the red. When you do the math, paying student athletes simply doesn’t add up for most universities.
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Luke Walton officially joins Tigers staff Luke Walton officially joins Tigers staff University of Memphis head basketball head coach Josh Pastner officially welcomed current Los Angeles Lakers forward Luke Walton to the Tigers coaching staff on Saturday at the Larry O. Finch Center. Walton worked mainly with post players during an afternoon workout, while giving other Tigers some pointers on how to take their games to the next level. “He was one of the most vocal coaches out there,” said sophomore forward Tarik Black. “I want to listen to everything he has to say. He’s where we want to be, as far as being in the NBA. So if it’s a pool of knowledge that he’s trying to teach, then I want to swim in it.” A picture taken of the 1973 NCAA championship game hung nearby as Walton spoke during a media session on Saturday. Hi father, Bill Walton, was 21-of-22 from the field in the game, leading his UCLA Bruins to the title over a U of M team coached by Larry Finch. “Yeah that’s ‘Big Red’ right there,” Walton said, gesturing to his father in the photo. “I know my name has a historical reference in this city. It’s kind of funny how all things come full circle. My father took a championship away from Memphis back then – now I’m here to help bring one here.” Pastner said he was pleased with Walton’s transition to coaching since his arrival on Friday. “I’ve got to give coach Walton credit,” Pastner said. “He dove right in and began coaching. He did an exception-
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Current Los Angeles Lakers forward Luke Walton talks to the media about his new job as an assistant basketball coach for The University of Memphis men’s basketball team. al job, as did coach Stoudamire and coach Murphy.” Walton said that the longer he’s here, the more involved with the team he’ll become. “Today was a take-in
day today,” Walton said on Saturday. “I really didn’t want to get involved as much – I will get more vocal as things progress. But I was just trying to see how things ran around
here, getting to know the personnel and getting to know the kids.” Walton getting closer to the team, Pastner said, means Tigers players benefiting from
“It’s kind of funny how all things come full
circle — my father took a championship away from Memphis back then, now I’m here to help bring one here.” — Luke Walton Assistant men’s basketball coach
the experiences of a seasoned professional who has competed against, and alongside, some of basketball’s greatest current players. “Luke will be a great coach because he brings a wealth of knowledge and a winning attitude to the Tigers program,” Pastner said. “His experiences, which include playing in four NBA Finals and winning two NBA world championships, are lessons that he can share with our players to help them grow and develop their games – that’s something that you cannot teach at this level.”
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Lady Tigers off to 4-0 start The University of Memphis women’s soccer team took to the road last weekend for matchups at Alabama and Samford, notching two more victories that brought their record to 4-0 this season, the program’s best start in its 16-year history. Friday’s contest against the Crimson Tide proved to be defensive battle. The lone goal was scored during the 64th minute when Lizzy Hildebrandt, senior defender and midfielder, found Christabel Oduro, sophomore midfielder and forward, with a one-on-one opportunity at the near post that led to the only goal of the game. “I thought it was a good, hard-fought match,” said head coach Brooks Monaghan. “It was a game where we weren’t able to play our style for 90 minutes. We played our pos-
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from page 1 Sanvee returned home, but her stay was short-lived. In 1998 another pocket of civil war broke out. “I could not keep living in fear,” Sanvee returned home, but her stay was short-lived. In 1998 another pocket of civil war broke out. “I could not keep living in fear,” Sanvee said, so she permanently moved to the United States with her
session style in spurts, but they made it difficult on us.” The Lady Tigers’ suffocating defense allowed only one shot on goal in the 86th minute of the game, but was saved by senior goalkeeper Elise Kuhar-Pitters. “Our defense played well tonight, but Elise came up with a massive game-winning save for us there at the end,” Monaghan said. “The defense did a good job in not letting shots go on target, and Elise did well when she had to come up with a save.” The team traveled to Birmingham on Sunday to face the Samford Bulldogs, a game that ended in a 2-0 win for the Lady Tigers. Freshman forward and midfielder Kaitlyn Atkins picked up her team-leading third assist off a corner kick where she found junior defender Christie Kline seven yards out from the
goal in the 31st minute. An ensuing header by Kline found its way to the back of the net, giving The U of M a 1-0 lead and Kline her first career goal. The Lady Tigers would strike again in the 82nd minute when freshman midfielder and forward Natalia Gomez-Junco netted her first career goal, as well, with a 30-yard strike past Bulldog defenders. “It was another good win against a solid team,” Monaghan said. “I thought we played extremely well the first 35 minutes of the first half. The overall thing is we have to play a consistent 90 minutes.” The U of M has won 16-straight games in August, outscoring opponents in those games 57-55. They return to action on Sunday, Sept. 4, where they’ll travel to Bowling Green, Kentucky to take on the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.
Freshman forward Natalia Gomez-Junco dribbles past Arkansas-Little Rock defenders in a recent Lady Tigers soccer game.
family. Originally she lived in New York, visiting friends in Memphis. “Memphis reminded me of home with the family-oriented, slower pace of life,” Sanvee said. Memphis was where Sanvee wanted to start her new life. One of the first people that Sanvee met in Memphis was Scott Hauss. Hauss was holding soccer try-outs for an 8 and 9-year-old girls soccer team at Bellevue Baptist Church and Sanvee brought her daughter Abi to try out. Sanvee met several
families through the soccer team, which eventually led to Sanvee joining Bellevue. Hauss, who is still a friend of Sanvees, described her as “a strong, independent lady who is not afraid of working hard.” Sanvee has gotten very involved at Bellevue. She met Suzanne Watson, who was teaching a class for single moms. Watson has known Sanvee for eight years. “Ropo is an intelligent woman who has had no problems in adjusting to the culture in America,”
Watson said. Upon receiving her immigration status and work permit, Sanvee worked with the Associated Catholic Charities for one year before she applied to work at The University of Memphis. Sanvee said she is thankful for her friendships here and feels blessed to have a job at The U of M. “The University is a great place to work and there are great people here. I have made many friendships here,” Sanvee said.
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is going to start moving or start moving faster. It’s never a good idea to play around with a train.” It’s not only administrators who have noticed safety issues at the railway however. U of M students have also found fault with the safety proceedings. “It’s just not a good intersection in many ways,” said Lindsay Booth, a senior business finance major. “That intersection is dangerous enough with cars alone, but when you add a train and students late for class it could lead to a bad situation. “ In a response to this safety concern Norfolk Southern Railway, the railway that manages the crossing on campus, and U of M administrators passed out railroad safety brochures Monday warning students of the hazards of not following railway safety rules. Norfolk Southern has also installed new signs on both sides of the tracks facing Southern Avenue and Zach Curlin. The signs direct pedestrians to the paved crossing areas. Tony Poteet said the safety of students is the department’s main priority. “We have to make sure that all students know the importance of following the safety rules and how dangerous that crossing can be,” said Poteet. For some students, trying to beat the train comes down to punctuality. “I see students trying to run ahead of the train all of the time,” said Angela Crouch, a junior criminal justice major. “A lot of professors do not accept being caught behind the train as an excuse for being tardy. People shouldn’t try this, but I can see how students get caught in the moment.”
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