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Informative alcohol signs on campus may try to persuade more and inform less BY CHELSEA BOOZER News Reporter

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According to several signs recently posted across campus, most University of Memphis students don’t drink alcohol during the week. However, these signs don’t display statistics or the fact that most students have imbibed within the past year. The signs read, “Most U of M students report they consume zero alcoholic drinks in an average week.” When asked their opinion on the signs, several students said they were unsure of its claim. Four of seven who passed the signs Tuesday afternoon said, “I don’t believe it.” Ashley Harris, junior English major, said the wording of the signs is vague. “‘Most’ is very broad. I can’t take the sign seriously,” she said. “There is no truth to it, no percentages, no statistics. What is an ‘average week?’” Two students said the sign reflects their group of friends and is believable. Misbah Razmi, management information system graduate student, said the sign is encouraging. “When I saw it, I believed it and I thought it was good,” she said. The sign’s message originates from 2011 Core Drug and Alcohol Survey data that

BY CHRISTOPHER WHITTEN News Reporter

A sign posted east of the Michael D. Rose Theatre by Student Health Services is one of many around campus with information on the alcohol use of U of M students. Some students say the signs are too ambiguous to be believable. shows 55.1 percent of the 659 University of Memphis students surveyed said they didn’t drink any alcoholic product in an average week. What isn’t reported are percentages collected of how many students do drink alcohol. The majority of the 2.9 percent of the student body that chose to submit survey answers admitted to drinking recently. Within 30 days before taking the sur-

vey, 59.6 percent of the survey takers said they drank some kind of alcoholic beverage, while 75.3 percent, or 496 of the 659 students, had in the past year. Furthermore, 46 percent said they were underage and drank in the past 30 days and 26.4 percent said they binge drank in the past two weeks. Jacqueline DeFouw, The U of M’s health educator, said the messages, which are a

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UM resources enable students to quit unhealthy vices

University of Memphis Health Services offer the benefits of their very own Smoking Cessation Clinic to any interested students, for a price—sessions start around $50.

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A little-known campus resource can help students can kick their smoking habit for good. For the past 15 years, The University of Memphis has been home to the Smoking Cessation Clinic, a training place for doctoral candidates pursuing degrees in clinical psychology to assist U of M students who want to quit smoking. Located in room 126 of the psychology building, the clinic offers one-on-one sessions by appointment only and costs $50 for four to six sessions. Jim Whelan, director of the Psychology Services Center, said the clinic helps people prepare to quit smoking by setting a date and teaches them how to deal with urges after they stop smoking. “Nicotine lasts three to five days in the body. The problem is the behavior that accompanies smoking,” Whelan said. “For example, some people always like to have a cigarette when they’re drinking coffee.” Whelan said compliment behavior, like having coffee with a cigarette, is an actual physical addiction. He said people attempting to quit smoking should break their connections to the routing behaviors associated with smoking. Kenneth Ward, professor and director of the School of Public Health, said for some

Congressman Steve Cohen announced last Wednesday that the National Science Foundation has approved The University of Memphis for two new research grants totaling over $1.5 million. “The University of Memphis is a commended research institution that consistently expands the field of knowledge in areas as diverse as education and seismology,” Cohen said via a press release on his official website. “These new federal funds will allow The University of Memphis to continue to make substantial advances in its many areas of research.” One grant for just under $1.1 million will go to a project called “Beyond Boredom: Modeling and Promoting Engagement during Complex Learning.” Dr. Sidney D’Mello, research assistant professor in the Institute for Intelligent Systems at U of M, said his project is working on the

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college students, smoking is a way to socialize, which causes students not to categorize themselves as smokers or addicted to cigarettes. “And It’s not just cigarettes,” he said. “The new trendy way is hookah. I have come across people who are addicted, and it has the same negative health effects as cigarette smoking.” Ward said hookah has “quite a bit of nicotine” even though some people think that the “bad stuff” gets filtered in the water. “Nicotine is the primary chemical in tobacco. It’s a psychoactive drug that causes brain changes and it’s the addictive constituent,” he said. “What kills people is the other stuff in the cigarette, carcinogens and other chemicals like carbon monoxide, which blocks the uptake of oxygen.” U of M students who can’t afford the $50 fee, but still want to stop smoking, can contact the Student Health Services and schedule an appointment. Jacqueline DeFouw, health educator at Student Health Services, said those who want to stop smoking should consider counseling because smoking is a “very strong addiction,” and students often smoke for social reasons. “One thing I see on campus a lot is that students say they only smoke now as students, but plan to stop when they graduate,” she said.

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that there’s not much of a herd to begin with: if the reported 55 percent of students don’t drink in a given week, as opposed to the assumed 45 percent who do, that leaves a 10 percent difference between students who partake in alcohol and those who don’t. Not such compelling data, right there, though SHS is presenting it in such a way to convince students otherwise. It’s a stooping tactic that departs from their typically wellrounded efforts to inform students, efforts that typically focus on providing resources, advice and data to young adults so that they can make healthy, educated decisions.

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and time again because of a fault shared by this campaign – instead of addressing the issue, people Stopping are simply told, “don’t do it.” by the groWhy not promote moderation? cery store last A Danish study that followed week, I was 12,000 people for 20 years found delighted to that those who drank moderately find that my – one to three drinks a day – and favorite seaexercised saw their risk of dying sonal beer from heart disease decrease by was on sale 50 percent. seemingly earlier than usual – Those who abstained from Samuel Adams Octoberfest, the alcohol and exercised saw their Excalibur of fall brews. risk for heart disease decrease by Before taking that first foamy, only 30 percent. cold sip from my trusty mug, There’s no need for propathe thought that most University gandist, hit-and-run tactics when of Memphis students don’t constructive data encouragdrink in an average week – as ing students to find a healthy Student Health medium in Services has so their drinking here’s no need for ambiguously is available. claimed in sigContinuing propagandist, hit-and-run tactics such nage throughpuffery out campus – when constructive data encouraging will only repel never crossed from students to find a healthy medium in students my mind. what should Indeed, be a reliable their drinking is available. after a few and valuable more pints that evening, nothing It’s also a tactic that, thankful- resource during their college of any real consequence crossed ly, proved to be more transparent career. my mind. than deceptive, widely dismissed The French poet Charles But SHS seems to be count- by students – part of a demo- Baudelaire wrote, “One should ing on the herd mentality of stu- graphic that detests being pitched always be drunk … But with dents, as U of M health educator to in the first place – as bollocks. what? With wine, poetry or virJacqueline De Fouw implied, for Why not promote tue, as you choose.” the success of their micro-cam- responsibility? I’ll have the wine – pass the paign discouraging alcohol use. Abstinence-driven education virtue to Student Health Services. Some quick arithmetic tells us has been proven ineffective time Cheers.

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DeFouw said by the time those students graduate, they will have an addiction. “Often people try four or five times to stop before they’re successful. Some are able to do it cold turkey, but most people need assistance to stop, often medication such as a nicotine replacement treatment. Your brain will actually tell your body that you need to have that nicotine. That’s what’s so hard to break.” Sedonia Beverly, freshman education major, said she has never tried smoking because she doesn’t want any diseases associated with the activity. “I’ve never had the desire,” she said. “When I see people smoking, I always think they’re stressed.” Beverly said there are times when she’s walking around campus and will walk into a cloud of smoke from someone’s cigarette by accident, but is not too offended by it. Though, she said, it is “kind of rude.” Brian Hoard, senior marketing major, said he started smoking when he was 15 years old. “I just picked one up one day,” he said. Hoard said he considered stopping smoking once three years ago when he went out for a sports team, but said he couldn’t breathe during practice and started again. Now, he said he smokes every 30 minutes and spends about $168 per month on cigarettes. Undecided freshman Kate Shearon said she never considered smoking, though members of her family do smoke. “I don’t like the smell, and I know a lot of people who died or have lung cancer because of smoking,” she said. Shearon said she noticed that people around campus smoke a lot, but it doesn’t bother her. “It’s their decision,” she said. “If they want to smoke, they can. It’s none of my business.”

from page 1 Social Norms marketing campaign headed by the Student Health Services, are worded to encourage students not to drink. She said Leslie Perkins, a psychologist, assists with the wording. By writing “the majority” or “more than half,” it gives students the feeling of wanting to be part of the group, DeFouw said. According to DeFouw, that is the premise of the campaign. “We want students to be part of a group that is doing a healthier behavior. We try to word the message where it tells the student what’s happening and it doesn’t put another group in a negative light,” she said. She also said that statistics were used on the signs in previous years, but a representative of The University’s marketing and communications asked her to not use exact numbers because it may send the wrong message to parents and visitors to campus. She said not putting a statistic on the sign also allows them to be reused. Bobby King, manager of marketing and communications, said his department copy edited the messages and didn’t have any part in writing them. “They are not from us at all,” King said. “Somebody else came to her and said the way they are phrased doesn’t come across the way they intended them to.” DeFouw admits some error to the surveys. She said a contributing factor to the low number of participants is that they are issued online and 8,000 students were emailed the survey. She also acknowledges that more studious students tend to answer surveys. About 83 percent of those that took the 2011 survey said they make As or Bs. Almost all of them were full-time students, about 70 percent were female and just over 81 percent lived off campus. DeFouw said the messages on the signs derived from the survey’s results are meant to be positive, but some students said they couldn’t interpret them. “I don’t really believe it,” said senior business management major Chelsea Micke. “It depends what ‘most’ means, because I stay on campus and the people I see – the majority of them drink and have parties.”

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BY MOLLY EICHEL Philadelphia Daily News When Schoolly D, oft namechecked as the godfather of gangster rap, went to see “Scarface” for the first time, he brought the hottest girl on the block, expecting a downand-dirty make-out session in the balcony of the theater. But like every other woman in the theater, Schoolly’s date sat in her seat with her arms crossed as he and the legion of guys in the audience were completely engrossed by what was happening on screen. “Every man that walked out of that theater had just that look on his face like when they were a baby and looked at their mother’s eyes. We were walking out like we were zombies,” said Schoolly D, who has referenced the movie in his work and mimicked the famous blackand-white “Scarface” poster of Al Pacino for his 1996 compilation record, “Gangster’s Story.” “We had to go back three or four times.” Despite being an overlong (three hours) movie that received mixed reviews and didn’t rake in nearly as much box-office cash as studio suits expected, “Scarface” has reverberated throughout popular culture. Its iconic lines — “Don’t get high on your own supply,” “The world is yours” — are part of the cultural lexicon. Its influence can been seen in film and TV, where it’s both revered (“Miami Vice”) and parodied (“The Simpsons,” “South Park”) as an easy signpost for greed. It’s even been referenced in the political sphere, with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush labeled as “President Scarface.” Its merchandise still sells well, from T-shirts to video games to the novelizations by Philadelphiabased writer L.A. Banks, who passed away earlier this month. “When the movie came out in 1983, people weren’t used to that kind of gangster movie,” said Ken Tucker, a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter who’s currently a TV critic for Entertainment Weekly and a music critic for NPR’s “Fresh Air.” “(Director Brian) De Palma wanted to do something that was operatic and this grand artistic statement. “Critics didn’t think it had any artistic merit,” said Tucker, author of “Scarface Nation: The Ultimate Gangster Movie and How It Changed America” (St. Martin’s Griffin, $16.95). “But what regular audiences saw in it was this guy who came from nothing and rose to the top.” The movie’s release coincided with the rise of hip-hop and the genre’s transformation from party jams to a harder sound, with lyrics that reflected the urban reality, Tucker continued. Groups such as the Geto Boys — whose ranks included Brad Jordan, a rapper who took on the moniker Scarface — and Mobb Deep sampled lines from the movie. In 2003, Def Jam Recordings released an entire compilation of songs inspired by “Scarface.”

A documentary came out the same year, “Scarface: Origins of a Hip Hop Classic,” which featured the likes of Snoop Dogg and Eve talking about their favorite movie. “Tony was a gangsta before it became a popular term,” Tucker said. “He brought himself up from nothing, so people seized on all of these catchphrases from Oliver Stone’s wonderful script. It was a completely over-thetop movie that you could laugh at — like when Pacino falls into that huge pile of cocaine. But on the other hand, in the beginning when Tony Montana arrives as a Cuban immigrant, it shows the ambition and drive that is talked about so much in hip-hop culture.” Schoolly D agreed, but also brought up Montana’s fractured take on morality. “It was

less about the drugs and more about the hustle,” he said. The magic of “Scarface” is how it’s sustained its relevance. “I’ve been listening to (the recently released album) ‘Watch the Throne,’ and there’s no difference between the chair Tony Montana sits on and the throne Kanye and Jay-Z are talking about,” Tucker said. When Tucker spoke with De Palma, Stone and producer Martin Bregman for “Scarface Nation,” they all said that they couldn’t understand why “Scarface” has held up as well as it has. “Now it has this place in the culture that no other movie does,” Tucker said. “There’s periodically talk of remaking ‘Scarface’ or rereleasing it with a hip-hop soundtrack. But you can’t repeat that.”

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Men’s Soccer beats Lipscomb 4-1 The University of Memphis men’s soccer team is off to a 1-0 start after a 4-1 victory over the Lipscomb Bisons on Sunday. Senior forward Parker Duncan scored twice in the rout, with sophomore forward Mark Sherrod and junior midfielder Andreas Guentner also chipping in with a goal each. “We started the game very well,” head coach Richie Grant said. “We talked in the dressing room about getting the first goal. We came out sharp and we were on the front foot for most of the game. The Tigers took a 1-0 lead into halftime when senior midfielder Cody McCoy played a long ball to Sherrod in the Lipscomb penalty area, and then passed to Duncan for the goal. McCoy and Sherrod both picked up assists on the goal. “It was a super goal,” Grant said. “Great ball across from

Mark. His pace to get in behind them was great.” Duncan, on the other hand, credits the first goal to Sherrod being creative. “The first goal was just a great team goal,” he said. “We got the ball wide to Mark, who put in a great cross and all I had to do was slide and it went in the goal. I credited him – it was his goal.” The Tigers stretched their lead to 2-0 off of a corner kick in the 51st. Sherrod headed in at the far post after sophomore midfielder Liam Collins served the ball into the box. The Tigers added to their lead in the 61st minute with a goal from eight yards out. Duncan completed the scoring twelve minutes later. Memphis was awarded a penalty kick after a Bison foul down in the box. Senior defender Thomas Shannon took the kick, but his shot was blocked off the post by Lipscomb’s goalkeeper and into the path of Duncan, who scored. “A real center forward’s goal,”

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Senior forward-midfielder Parker Duncan races for a loose ball against Lipscomb on Sunday. Grant said. “He was poaching when it came back off the post, so definitely a man-of-the-match performance.” Duncan said the win reflected the team’s philosophy going into the season. Grant said he’s looking forward to seeing Duncan perform this season.

“I think Parker is going to have a good year and if tonight’s an indicator, we’ll take him up on that,” Grant said. The Tigers’ next game is against Belmont on Thursday in Nashville. They will return home to face Missouri State on Sunday at Mike Rose Soccer Complex.

Tigers are geared up for Thursday With just one day remaining until the the University of Memphis Tigers football team open their season against Misssissippi State, the team is confident that they can improve on last season’s 1-11 record in Larry Porter ’s first season as head coach. “Last year we came up short and it was not expected,” junior defensive tackle Dontari Poe said. “But this year is different and we know what to expect from Mississippi State, so we just have to focus at the task at hand and be ready this year.” Being ready is really important for these young Tigers. There will be a lot of new players on both sides of the ball, and preparing for a team like Mississippi State might be a bit hard for this team. But some players relish in the fact that they are taking on such a big opponent to start the season. “I’m very excited to be getting out there again,” senior defensive end Frank Trotter said. “Playing against a team like Mississippi State and them being ranked is huge for us. Plus being on national television gives us a chance to show everyone what we’re capable of and what we can do.” But don’t think these Tigers are underestimating the competition. “We know what their quarterback Chris Relf brings to the table,” Trotter said. “He’s a dual-threat guy that can run and throw, and we know that at any given time he can take off. So in order to stop him, we must not give him lanes

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Tigers wide receiver Jermaine McKenzie hauls in a pass during The U of M’s season opener against Mississippi State last September. The Bulldogs bested the Tigers 49-7 in the game. and keep a spy on him in the pocket to keep his head moving at all times.” The question is not whether the Tigers defense will be able to stop the Bulldogs Thursday night, but if the offense — led

by sophomore transfer Andy Summerlin — will be able to post numbers comporable to Relf and company. “Andy’s very mature and he’s been around the college game for a while,” senior wide

receiver Tanner Rehrer said. “He’s a very intelligent man — always studying, watching film and trying to get better — that I think he’ll take this challenge on and be good with it.”

first computer tutor that can detect and respond to human emotions, such as confusion, frustration and boredom. “The tests will prove to be beneficial for struggling students,” D’Mello said. “A student that has fallen behind can actually be brought up to speed during a 60-minute session.” D’Mello said that 41 percent of the money goes directly to The University. The remainder of the money will go to employ graduate and undergraduate students’ research and provide an incentive to attend graduate school. The department will also be able to employ a postdoctorate researcher. Any license that his department secures will belong to The University as well. Dr. Robert Smalley, professor of earth sciences at U of M, will lead the “Collaborative Research: Great Earthquakes, Megathrust Phenomenology and Continental Dynamics in the Southern Andes” project. The University of Memphis Center for Earthquake Research and Information has received a one-year grant in February following the earthquake that occurred along the Argentina-Chile border. “This will be The University’s fourth NSF funded research project since 1993,” said Smalley. Smalley is currently the head researcher on a separate project in Antarctica, and will begin his new project in South America this spring and through summer. Smalley and a graduate student will spend about six weeks each year collecting data across Argentina and Chile. The newest grant has been approved for the next four years. The $430,000 grant to Dr. Robert Smalley’s department will supplement his salary as well as that of a third University graduate student. A large portion of the money will be used to replace the equipment that has been used to measure the geological movements of the earth because of earthquakes. In 2010, the NSF had an annual budget of $6.9 billion and funded approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America’s colleges and universities. Each year, the NSF receives about 40,000 proposal ideas but only approves about 10,000. The FedEx Institute of Technology will be hosting the Memphis Research and Innovation Expo on October 6 where some of the Institute for Intelligent Systems’ projects will be on display.

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BY RICHARD SIMON AND RENE LYNCH Los Angeles Times With thousands of East Coast residents still cut off by severe flooding in the wake of Hurricane Irene, National Guard members and firefighters were set to begin airlifting food, water and other supplies to some of the stranded. Meanwhile, more than 3 million utility customers remain without power, and it could be Labor Day weekend before they get the lights turned back on. On Tuesday, while the rest of the country was moving on from Irene and turning its attention to the upcoming three-day weekend, large swaths of the Northeast remained mired in mud and misery in the wake of the deadly storm. In New Jersey, search-andrescue teams helped nearly 600 people stranded by the Passaic River, which was measuring 13 feet above flood stage, according to Reuters. In Vermont, emergency workers were planning to bring in food and supplies via helicopter; rains and flooding have washed out many roads and bridges, leaving some towns cut off. And to the south, at least 2,500 residents were stranded on remote Hatteras Island in North Carolina. Utilities have been working around the clock since the storm ripped up the East Coast over the

weekend, stripping power to more than 8 million people. Electricity has since been restored to millions up and down the Atlantic seaboard, but certainly not all. And that might not change anytime soon. Power companies have been in triage mode, focusing first on getting power restored to hospitals, police stations and other emergency-service providers. They planned to turn their attention next to schools — classes across the country will be back in session after the upcoming Labor Day weekend. Then, they’ll finally focus on homes. The storm has been blamed for at least 40 deaths in 10 states, and that number could rise as authorities sift through the debris and assess damages. The rain and heavy winds also ripped out power lines and power poles — or sent trees crashing down upon them. Definitive answers about when power will be completely restored were hard to come by Tuesday, given the difficult and hazardous working conditions. Customers in flooded areas have been warned to be prepared for lengthy outages until flood waters recede and crews can safely enter and restore service. In North Carolina, Progress Energy reported that restoration efforts have been hampered by severe flooding and by the number of trees on power lines. In remote

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Supplies to be airlifted to areas cut off by Irene

Shayna Weinstein, left, gets a hug from her dad, Amdy Weinstein, as they prepare to leave what’s left of their summer cottage on Aug. 29, at Cosey Beach in East Haven, Conn., that was destroyed by Tropical Storm Irene on Sunday. and low-lying areas, crews have used helicopters, boats and tracked vehicles to assess and access damage. In New Jersey, where power was out to more than 200,000 PSEG customers, the utility reported that crews were working to dry flooded substations, but that flood waters are preventing crews from entering a number of other areas. In Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia-based utility PECO said electrical service was interrupted to about 500,000 by the storm. Service had been restored to more than 332,000 customers by late Monday, and there were hopes that nearly 90 percent of all customers would be back online by Wednesday. However, it warned:

“Service for those isolated customers, with the most extreme damage, should be restored before the holiday weekend.” Connecticut Light and Power, which experienced its worst power outage in history, reported that crews were working to restore electricity to more than half a million of its 1.2 million customers. “We expect approx 95 percent of all customer outages to be restored by end of day Friday,” the Long Island Power Authority tweeted. Nearly 400,000 of its customers were still without power. In Washington, D.C., Pepco Holdings Inc. said it would complete most repairs by Thursday. Baltimore Gas & Electric, Long Island Power Authority in New

York and Dominion Resources in Virginia said most of their outages should be restored by Friday. Dominion Virginia Power and Dominion North Carolina Power reported that power had been restored to about 600,000 of the 1.2 million customers who lost electricity. “We are working to help ensure that our customers have power for the Labor Day weekend,” Rodney Blevins, Dominion’s vice president of distribution operations, told the Los Angeles Times. Blevins said the restoration effort is the company’s second largest, behind Hurricane Isabel from 2003, “when 1.8 million customers were affected and restoration took two weeks.”

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BY TIM JOHNSON McClatvhy Newspapers Unlike many of the migrants who pass through Mexico on the way to the United States, Adolfo Herrera isn’t hoping for a new life. He’s returning to an old one. He’s going home. Herrera speaks street-worthy English, is a big fan of the Dallas Cowboys and has spent 25 of his 28 years in Texas. He was deported a year ago to his country of birth, Colombia, but felt like a foreigner. “I don’t got family in Colombia. I don’t know nobody. I don’t want to live there,” Herrera said, speaking in a migrant shelter near the border with Guatemala. “I’m going back to the United States. No doubt, buddy,” he said, listing the numerous relatives — from grandmother to brothers — who live near his home in Lewisville, north of Dallas and Fort Worth. Two weeks ago, the Obama administration announced a dramatic change in U.S. policy, saying it would drop efforts to deport illegal immigrants who have no criminal records. Instead, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Aug. 18, her department will focus on the deportation of convicted criminals and those who might be a national security or public safety threat. Under the new policy, some 300,000 pending deportation cases will now be reviewed in U.S. immigration courts. That, however, does nothing for those already deported, and

many are among the migrants willing to take huge risks to get home again. “I know it’s really dangerous but I have to do this for my children,” said Mary Luz Armendariz, a Honduran who was deported from Long Beach, Calif., recently after 18 years there. Armendariz left her three children, all U.S. citizens, behind with friends, and the phone calls with them have been painful. “They cry. ‘I miss you, Mom. I love you. Why don’t you come back?’ “ she said. She spoke as she prepared to shinny up a ladder to the top of a freight train known as “La Bestia,” or The Beast, at a rail yard in Arriaga, a town in Chiapas state that is the southernmost point in Mexico’s rail system. The glow of a rail yard light fell on her face. A bandage wrapped her knee, strained from days of walking. The migrant journey north has never been riskier. Some fall victim to gunslingers from organized crime groups who halt trains and abduct migrants for ransom. Scores of unlucky ones end up in mass graves. Others are pressed into service as cartel triggermen to do battle with rival gangs. Some simply fall to the tracks off what many call the “trains of death.” Still, they keep coming, many of them propelled by the desire to reunite with family and friends in lives they built in the United States. Most migrants’ trips begin

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Longtime U.S. residents, deported, brave Mexico’s ‘trains of death’ to get home

Migrants cross the river between Gautemala and Mexico on July 2. With dangers of travel that include injury from accidents and abduction by organized crime, the passage of migrants through Mexico has never been riskier. with a benign river crossing — a raft excursion. Along the Suchiate River that delineates part of the border between Mexico and Guatemala, some 100 rafts made of twin tractor inner tubes lashed to a wooden-slat platform carry passengers and contraband cargo back and forth. Passengers pay less than $2 to cross the river. Local, state and federal police largely ignore — or benefit from — the illegal trade. It is a free-for-all, a door left wide open. “The only danger around here

is that your raft pops a leak and you take a dip,” said a young rafter who would only give his name as Chucho. After crossing the border, the first stop for migrants is often Arriaga, a sleepy town on the Tehuantepec Peninsula where Mexico is its narrowest. It is where they hop aboard La Bestia. Every other day or so, hundreds of migrants flock to the rail yard to clamber atop the metal boxcars and tanker wagons. As they travel northward, migrants hop other trains at rail yards with names like Coatzacoalcos, Medias Aguas and Tierra Blanca in Veracruz state, Tenosique in Tabasco state, and Lecheria on the outskirts of Mexico City. They sit atop freight cars, fighting not to fall off with the sway-

ing of the trains or getting pushed off by low-hanging branches. Some migrants cling to couplings between wagons — occasionally with horrid consequences. When 16-year-old Gertrudis Rosa fell asleep, the Honduran youth had already spent an exhausting six nights as a stowaway on freight trains. On his seventh night, Rosa rested on a coupling. Overtaken by fatigue, he fell to the tracks. The wheels of the hurtling train severed both his legs. His double amputation in mid-May was a terrible but not uncommon tragedy. “By God, that train is criminal,” said Teodolinda Interiano, Rosa’s mother. When she heard the news of her son’s injuries, she

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from page 9 was hospitalized with shock for five days in Honduras before she could make the journey to be by his side. She spoke at the Good Shepherd Shelter, which harbors migrants who have lost arms or legs under the freight trains in Mexico. The migrants who face the greatest risk on the journey north are those who pay the least to human smugglers, or coyotes. Mostly, they are Central Americans, and many have made the journey repeatedly. They travel solo much of the way and know where to find the hostels run by charities that provide free lodging and food. “With my experience now, I can make it to the border on my own,” said Juan P. Suazo, a 38-year-old Honduran who has made the journey five times. “Once you are at the border, you have to hook up with somebody who’s linked to Los Zetas. Otherwise you will fail.” Suazo referred to the transnational crime gang that has spread from narcotics trafficking to extortion, counterfeiting, kidnapping and migrant smuggling. Suazo was eager to return to California, where he lived seven years, and perhaps take up his old job as a valet parking attendant in Beverly Hills. “I would drive beautiful cars, Volvos, Mercedes Benzes, Lexus, BMWs. They paid me $14 an hour, and I’d get tips,” Suazo said. Another migrant, Jorge Perez, a Guatemalan, discussed the multiple risks he faced as he headed illegally back to Minnesota, where he’d resided for years, long enough to chalk up two felony convictions. Then he cut a questioner short, tiring of the line of inquiry: “You’d do the same thing. If you were in my situation, you’d do it, too.” Getting kidnapped by gangsters from Los Zetas, who often operate in league with corrupt rail employees and police, is the greatest fear of the migrants. In a six-month period in 2010, a total of 11,333 migrants were kidnapped in 214 separate incidents, the Mexican National Human Rights Commission found in a report published in February. In June, the Rev. Alejandro Solalinde, a priest who runs a migrant shelter in Oaxaca state, said masked gunmen stormed a train as it entered Veracruz state and abducted some 80 migrants. A similar incident in mid-December saw 50 Central American migrants go missing, never to be found. In the most shocking incident, a frightened Ecuadorean migrant tipped off authorities in August 2010 to a ranch in Tamaulipas state along the Texas border where they found the freshly executed bodies of 72 migrants. The Ecuadorean had feigned death, then fled the scene. “I’m not going to take the train. Too risky,” said Herrera, the Colombian who grew up in Texas. “I’m afraid of getting kidnapped. ... I’d rather walk and take more time and make it safely then go on the train and get kidnapped.”

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What is your vice? by Brian Wilson

“Cigarettes—I’ve been smoking for 15 to 20 years now. I quit once for about a year but ended up coming back.”

“Reading books, so long as they’re not required for any classes.”

“Music. The lyrics of good hiphop speak to me better than any substance could.”

“Fan-fiction gets me through the day.”

— Gabriel Valdez, Music, freshman

— Erin Rohlfing, MA, History

— Jimmal Carr, Photography, freshman

— Tiffany Redman, History, PhD Student

Here comes the new Pac...12? BY Jerry Brewer The Seattle Times For now, it’s the Pac...um... uh...12. Excuse the verbal fillers. It’s going to take time to get the Pac10 out of the brain. How many times this year will you stammer or call this enhanced conference the Pac-10 out of habit? It’s like being asked to write the date during January of a new year. You’re bound to slip up. You’re bound to realize that, for all the talk about change, the days will often feel the same. The Pac-10 (+2) will produce program-altering television revenue--more than $20 million per team--starting next season. Year 1 represents the awkward transi-

tion. Everything is eerily similar, until the subtle differences attack your senses. The preseason favorites are teams you could’ve predicted at the end of last season. Oregon and Stanford are clearly the class of the league, but Arizona State is intriguing if it can control its rogue linebacker, Vontaze Burfict, and learn to win close games. USC remains the ultra-talented yet enigmatic team on probation, ineligible for bowl play and relegated to a spoiler role. The middle of the Pac provides opportunities for many evenly matched teams, and that depth should help the conference keep its powerhouse reputation. Of the two newcomers, Utah is equipped to be a player from the

start, but the Utes’ level of competitiveness will depend on how well its athletes adjust to better competition. And poor Colorado looks to be the team every school uses to clean its cleats, at least for now. What’s changed? Little on the surface. And everything underneath it. The race for the Pac-um-uh-12 title seems predictable, but the road those teams travel will be interesting. The new North and South divisions are true gamechangers. The best two teams in the league, Oregon and Stanford, are both in the North division, so they can’t meet in the first Pac-12 championship game Dec. 2. And now that 12 teams make it impossible to have a roundrobin conference season, differing schedules could mask which team is truly better. For instance, if preseason prognostications hold true, the Cardinal has it a little easier in conference play because it doesn’t face two of the South division’s finest, Arizona State and Utah. The Ducks play Arizona State but not Utah.

These are silly things that happen when you expand a conference. In the big picture, it’s a minor inconvenience considering the TV money that teams will receive. But after 33 years of doing things a certain way, it will take some time to adjust. Sans nitpicking, the new Pacum-uh-12 faces two questions: How long before Utah and Colorado play at a level to make the conference stronger? And which school will figure out this tweaked league and emerge as the top dog in its early years? We’ve touched on the first question. Utah is already good and has a chance to use the conference’s resources and relevance in California to become great in the near future. Or the conference could reveal its warts. On the other hand, Colorado, which shared a national championship with Georgia Tech in 1990, hasn’t been to a bowl since 2007. It hasn’t had a winning record since 2005. It has lost 40 of its last 61 games. New

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from page 10 coach Jon Embree, a first-time head coach, has an enormous rebuilding task ahead. The answer to the second question isn’t as easy as it seems, either. This era of scandal in college sports already put USC on probation. Once the NCAA investigation into Oregon is over, the Ducks— who are on the conference’s cutting edge mostly because of coach Chip Kelly’s innovative offense—could receive some harsh sanctions, too. Stanford lost coach Jim Harbaugh to the San Francisco 49ers this offseason and will lose quarterback Andrew Luck to the NFL after this season. So the Cardinal figures to take a step back soon. There’s plenty of opportunity for a new alpha football team to emerge, and perhaps Steve Sarkisian’s rising Washington program is in the best position to take advantage if a shift is indeed about to occur. The Huskies certainly have been out of the loop for long enough. They were second to USC in total wins and Rose Bowl appearances during the 33-year history of the Pac-10, and they were tied for second with UCLA for total bowl appearances (22) and Pac10 titles (four outright, three shared) during that span. Their rebuilding might be finished just in time to recapture old glory in a renovated league. It’s amazing how the addition of two teams and a bigthinking commissioner can make every member of a conference start daydreaming. This Larry Scott creation should be interesting—once you remember its new name.

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Pac 12

Junior Hajnaka Molnar and junior Altrese Hawkins, center, were named Conference USA Setter and Offensive Players of the Week at their respective positions on Monday, the league office announced.

Tigers volleyball team nets weekly awards BY SCOTT HALL Sports Reporter Two University of Memphis volleyball players were recognized by Conference USA on Monday for their play last week. Redshirt junior Altrese Hawkins was named Offensive Player of the Week after averaging 4.27 kills per set, including hitting .630 against SEMO, and helping the Tigers to four consecutive victories in the Memphis Invitational. She was also named tournament Most Valuable Player after recording a .383 hitting efficiency during the weekend. It was her third career Offensive Player of the Week award. “It was just combination of a team effort during those games,” Hawkins said. “Without the

defense and the passing that we had, I wouldn’t have been able to get the kills that I did get, so I just want to thank them.” Junior Hajnalka Molnar was also honored as C-USA Setter of the Week for the first time. Molnar averaged a conferencebest 13.27 assists per set and had 35 digs in four matches. She played every point in the Tigers’ four wins, which included the program’s 800th victory. “It was a great start to the season,” Molnar said. “I’m proud of my teammates and the way that they passed the ball and played during the tournament.” Memphis goes on the road for the first time this season as they travel to San Francisco, Calif. on Thursday to take part in the USF Asics/Powerade Challenge.

University of Memphis unveils Athletic Hall of Fame named for Tiger great ‘Penny’ Hardaway BY ADAM DOUGLAS Sports Editorial The University of Memphis athletic department, along with former NBA All-Star and Tiger great Afernee “Penny” Hardaway, have officially opened the new Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway/ University of Memphis Athletic Hall of Fame on Tuesday night. “We are very excited to be able to have the official grand opening of the Athletic Hall of Fame during the same week as our football season opener against Mississippi State,” athletic director R.C. Johnson said. “The opening of this facility will certainly add to the ambiance of the week for Tiger fans and we want everyone to come out to take the walk through Memphis athletic history.” Other former Tiger greats including former basketball players Leon Mitchell, Andre Turner and former Central High standout Lester Hudson were on hand, among the 300 people who came out to show support for Tigers athletics, Hardaway and The U of M. “It’s a blessing for the alumni and for Penny,” Turner said. “For a player of his magnitude

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of his magnitude to have a building done in his honor is just an extension to all the former players because we are all integrated together and it means a lot to all of us.” — Andre Turner Former Tigers basketball player felt as though it was just the right thing to do – to help the school that helped him launch his career. “The school has done so much for me,” Hardaway said. “When I finally made my dreams come true by going to the NBA, the first thing to do was to give back to the school that meant so much to me. This just goes to show you that God is good, and what I want kids to know is that if I can do it, they can do it too.”

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