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U of M student Cory Higdon, far left, during a 2010 general assembly meeting of the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature.
BY CHELSEA BOOZER News Reporter The Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature will continue to aid Tennessee college students in kickstarting their careers through simulating state government, complete with a House of Representatives, Senate, lobbyists, a media wing and mock trial competitions. Since its establishment, 12 University of Memphis students have served as governor of TISL, an annual four-day fall program in Nashville meant to assist students in honing their understanding of the government’s inner workings. Tre Hargett, Tenn. Secretary of State, knows firsthand how involvement in TISL can lead to a career in politics. He served as a TISL Governor in 1993, when he was a student at The U of M. “The first time I came to the State Capitol was because of TISL,” he said, attributing his introduction to politics to the program. TISL is open to college students in
over 30 cities across the state. Nashville and Memphis host the majority of the schools with 12 and 10, respectively. U of M students Gian Gozum and Cory Higdon, both seniors, have governed the event’s past two General Assemblies. Higdon, current TISL Governor and political science major, said he most appreciates the networking opportunites afforded by the group, noting its “rich heritage” and “prestigious alumni” ranging from elected officials and lawyers to lobbyist and judges. “Our generation is on the cusp of leading our communities, this state and this nation. We look to organizations like TISL to bring people together from many different walks of life and give them the chance to make a difference, to have a voice, to forge alliances and create hope for the future,” Higdon said. Students in TISL have influenced laws state legislature, most notably the “Click it or Ticket” seatbelt campaign that originated in the student chambers.
Victoria Busse, sophomore political science major, was a representative last year and will also attend this year’s assembly in November. “I think that’s amazing for students,” said Busse of being able to influence a law. “Some of us haven’t had a real job yet. We are still undergrads, and this is a way for us to write a real law. This is a way for a 19 to 20-year-old to make a difference in the community.” Gozum, head delegate for The U of M and a double major in Asian studies and international creed economics, emphasized that any major in any year at The University can apply for TISL. He and Higdon both started with the organization as freshmen. Senator, representative, media affiliate, lobbyist and mock trial competitor positions are available. “This is a good learning opportunity to figure out how state government works,” Gozum said. “Everything that you read about in government courses about how government works, you see it all play out in TISL.”
The University Center Ballroom will house 60 Memphis-area employers seeking potential employees at the fall Career and Internship Expo this Wednesday. Career Services will hold its semi-annual Career and Internship Expo from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Employers, including FedEx, International Paper, LeBonheur Children’s Hospital and the CIA, will each have booths set up alphabetically with job information to give to U of M students. “We typically have an average of 700-800 ur goal students at each is to get fair in the spring and fall,” said information Courtney Cooke, to as many assistant director of career services. students as Cooke said possible.” that students should come prepared with their — Shea Houze resumes so they Career advisor, can leave them career services with prospective employers. She also recommends that students prepare by researching companies beforehand. “It is a way for students to set up interviews for a job or an internship. They will also leave with job resources,” Cooke said. Cooke also said that students are required to dress professionally. For men, this includes a suit and tie. For women, a matching dress or pantsuit is required. More detailed dress requirements can be found on the career services website. When students arrive, they are expected to stop at the registration table to sign in. Participants will then receive a nametag and a map of the employer booths with basic information about each company. Students will then be invited into the U.C. Ballroom to browse dozens of employer booths to learn more about their chosen careers. Clay Woemmel, associate director in career services, encourages students to thoroughly prepare. “It is important for students to do preparation in order to be familiar with companies they
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Many students wishy-washy when it comes to majors BY CHRIS DANIELS News Reporter University of Memphis students, as young adults, are faced with difficult decisions every day, though no decision can weigh more heavily on their future than their chosen major. “It’s scary having to decide what I want to do for the rest of my life, but I know it will come to me,” said
Guy Kelley, undecided freshman. “I just want to know I’m making the right decision.” Kelly said he’s interested in different areas but he’s waiting to understand more about these fields before he makes his decision. “I want to make sure it’s what I want to do before I go into it,” he said. According to spring 2011 U of M enrollment data, there were 2,111 unde-
cided students, including 1,366 freshmen, 579 sophomores, 112 juniors and 54 seniors. Carl Chando, director of the academic counseling center, said that there are many reasons why students are undecided, ranging from the number of available majors to undeveloped decision-making skills. “Some students don’t realize what it takes to get through a certain major
and the obstacles they face,” he said. “Others discover that the subject matter is not what they thought it was. Sometimes they discover an area that they’ve never even considered before.” Chando said that The U of M offers plenty of resources for undecided students to make informed decisions about their career path.
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BY ERICA HORTON News Reporter For University of Memphis student Sedrick Askew, the traditional 8 ½ by 11 inch resume won’t do. Instead, he prints 15,000 wallet-size ones every year. “Your business card speaks for you,” said Askew, a special education and video production graduate student. “You can put them in the (University Center), by the doors and in restaurants that people go in on a daily basis. It makes people curious.” Askew, who owns graphic design company Vivual Impact, said he spends about $300 a year on the cards, about $100 for every thousand, but that the money is well spent. He said he spells Vivual Impact with a “v” instead of an “s” to put his own flare in his business. Askew said he was in business for two years before he decided he needed business cards. “I had a long conversation with my mother and she said, ‘You should market yourself,’” he said. “I used to walk around with a notebook in my bag to write down people’s names and numbers.” Askew said his cards lead people to his other marketing outlets such as Twitter and Facebook, and usually people don’t pick up one card at a time.
“They take a few and they give them to a friend,” he said. “It generates income and creates more business and more clients.” Xavier Jones, senior business management and marketing major, said he began printing business cards for his company, Final Touch Graphics, in 2010. Jones said he only prints 1,000 a year and uses “business-card ethics” when he distributes them. “You don’t give them to people you don’t know or don’t have face to face interaction with,” he said. “Don’t treat business cards as flyers. You typically shouldn’t give a business card to someone unless they ask for it.” Though Jones said business cards helped his business tremendously, he uses them less frequently because face-to-face interaction is decreasing. He said that he can’t imagine using business cards in about 4 or 5 years.. “There are many more outlets for business than just face to face interaction,” he said. “There’s email, Facebook and Twitter. By the time we meet face to face, they already have my contact information.” Audra Brown, junior math major, has used business cards to promote her power pop and grunge band the Snugglepus’ for a year, but has had personal ones for seven years. Brown said she orders about 2,000 per year from Vista Print,
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The business card of U of M student Cortney Richardson. Deemed obsolete in the digital age by some, business cards are regarded by others as a timeless mark of professionalism. which offers the cards for free if you let the company put their name on the back. She only pays five dollars for shipping. “I think it definitely helps. Having a business card at all makes people remember you,” she said. “Every time we play a gig we give away about 100 business cards.” Brown said club owners tend to take her more seriously when she has a card to give them, and that she uses them for job interviews even if they’re not related to music. “I think they’re a really good way to get your point across
and promote anything,” she said. Kimberlee Keef, management instructor at the Fogelman College of Business and Economics, said that ultimately, business cards help students build networks. Keef said that in the 19th century, when people would visit each other’s houses, they would give their card to the butler who would then give it to the master of the house. “In business, if we have a card on us, instead of giving information and having them write it down, why not give
them a card?” she said. She said students who don’t own a business or have a lot of experience can still use cards to promote themselves as a “scholar of management.” Keef said the worst that could happen is that a potential employers uses a student business card as a book mark. “The resume is more important, but you can’t give them to someone you just met,” she said. “The card is definitely a point of interest or point of discussion and they’re kind of like miniature resumes in a way.”
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Some employers look past the veneer of physical appearance BY ROBERT MOORE News Reporter College graduates eager to find a job in today’s market may benefit more from updating their social media sites than they would from updating their wardrobe. Employers from around the Memphis area including Ford Motor Company are changing their criteria for what constitutes a strong job interview applicant. Now, less of an emphasis is being put on physical appearance and more on what an applicant knows. Richard Matheson, the general manager of the Mid-South region for Ford Motor Company, frequently hires students directly out of college in different managerial positions. “If a young person comes to me looking for a job and their hair is a little longer than normal or their appearance isn’t standard, I usually look past it,” Matheson said. “Applicants who appear confident and have impressive goals carry more weight than applicants who are only dressed well.” Employers are taking use of the
Internet a step further by requiring applicants to have a plan for how they intend to use social media to enhance their job performance. “I am seeing a lot of local college graduates more attuned to technology and social marketing,” Matheson said. “So many young applicants can operate social marketing with such ease, and this definitely gives that age demographic an edge in interviews. The future of business is marketing.” When Martha Green Hopper, the director of rehabilitation services for Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, conducts an interview for a position on her team, she is usually more interested in the questions the applicant asks her. “I find that less employers in my field are putting a lot of stock in attire and appearance,” Hopper said. “For me it is all about the content of the person and whether or not they are asking me the right questions. I know what they should want to know from me, and a well prepared applicant always asks the right questions.” Employers are focusing more on how much the appli-
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cant knows about the company and their plans to make it better. College graduates today are leaving universities with an extensive knowledge on how to utilize the Internet to find and prepare for job interviews. To certain employers, this is key. Bill Gates, vice president for Understand Service Initiative Tennessee, has interviewed job hopefuls directly from college for 35 years. In recent years, Gates has focused more on how applicants have utilized the Net to prepare for interviews. “What I look for in an applicant is someone who is able to talk in detail about not only the industry, but the company as well,” Gates said. “The Internet has made it simple for someone to have a lot of insight about a particular company before an interview.” Despite this shift in focus for interviews, employers are still less receptive to applicants that fail to meet proper dress and etiquette standards. “I am still looking for someone to be in business attire,” Matheson said. “Appropriate attire for a male in a managing position consists of a suite and tie. It helps for
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Though dressing sharp is still a staple of the interview process, many employers are placing less importance on it. both men and women to appear clean-cut and well groomed.” Jeff Field, managing partner and vice president for Landers Nissan and Landers Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep in Southaven, Miss., said he still places a strong emphasis on the professionalism of an applicant.
“A lot of college graduates come to me for interviews and are simply not prepared,” Field said. “Most are not on time, a lot of them are dressed poorly, and some don’t even have resumes. Always have a resume prepared... .”
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BY MARNI JAMESON The Orlando Sentinel
Giving new meaning to the phrase recycle, repurpose, reuse, a Florida plastic surgeon is opening a fat bank so patients who have fat removed during liposuction can store it for future use. Cosmetic surgeons who perform fat-transfer procedures typically transfer the patient’s fat immediately after removing it through liposuction, often within the hour. Common sites for the transferred fat are the face and breasts. Having their fat in the bank would allow patients to draw on it later, when they want to plump up body parts that have succumbed to age, said Dr. Jeffrey Hartog, whose new Liquid Gold center is next to his cosmeticsurgery clinic. “I will present it as an option to any patient having liposuction,” he said. The fat bank is a unique concept, say those behind its launch. But opponents of the idea say such centers are rare for good reason. Dr. Daniel Del Vecchio, a plastic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital who has studied fat transfer, is among those concerned. “Animal data shows that frozen fat doesn’t hold up as well as fresh fat,” he said. Plus, he added, storing it poses “a logistical nightmare. There are better solutions.” Although fat-transfer procedures — minus the freezing — have been around for some
time, they aren’t too common because of their mixed results. In a 2007 national consensus survey published in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal, the authors wrote, “Unfortunately, the clinical optimism expressed by the proponents of the procedure has not been corroborated by objective scientific assessments.” The difficulty lies in the fact that human fat is harder to control than synthetic fillers, including implants. Once relocated, some of the transferred fat absorbs. Just how much is tough to predict. Physicians take an educated guess, but if they overfill, they leave a lump; under-fill, and they need to add more. Without fat in the bank, if a patient needs more fat in the transferred site, then a repeat liposuction procedure, which requires anesthesia, is necessary, Hartog said. “Fat banking takes this [procedure] to a whole new level,” Hartog said. “We put the patient to sleep once. Do the lipo. Get the fat out once and have as much as we need for later injections.” Del Vecchio said he would still rather harvest the fat and use it when it’s fresh. “You only need 30 to 50 cc’s for a facial procedure. You can always find that somewhere on a woman’s body. And that’s the best bank of all.” At Hartog’s new center, once fat is harvested through liposuction, it’s drained, cleaned and put in containers for freezing. Though Hartog declined
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Fat bank aims to let patients store removed fat for reuse in future
Plastic surgeon Dr. Jeffrey Hartog stands in front of fat storage tanks after opening the area’s first fat bank, called the Liquid Gold LipoBank, at his Winter Park, Fla. office. A fat bank allows patients to deposit their own fat and keep it in frozen storage for later use.
to state specifics because it’s a “patented process,” he said he then adds “protectants” to the fat and puts it into a slow freeze, ultimately taking the fat to minus 192 degrees Celsius, a very deep freeze, where the fat tissue can stay for the patient’s life, he said. The cost to store 250 to 300 cubic centimeters of fat, which would fill a coffee cup, is $900 for the first year and $200 a year after that, he said. Dr. Stephen Baker, associate professor of plastic surgery at Georgetown University, also has serious reservations about the banking and reuse of frozen fat.
“No good data exists to substantiate the fact that frozen fat does well or is metabolically viable,” Baker said. Hartog cited a study published in 2005 in the Annals of Plastic Surgery. It looked at optimal freezing and thawing conditions for fat tissue, and stated that “longer storage times may be harmful” and concluded that the study didn’t answer the question of whether the body would accept the tissue. Another paper published in 2007 in Cryobiology found that freezing fat tissue “may become a real option after further refinements.”
Baker also registered concern about the potential for error in what is essentially a privately run tissue bank. “Even in the best-run tissue banks, which require multiple layers of tissue identification, humans make mistakes. If a patient gets the wrong fat injected, the results could be serious,” Baker said. Hartog says his center complies with the Food and Drug Administration guidelines for tissue banks and is under FDA oversight. Still, said Baker, “To do this for an elective procedure is really putting yourself at risk.”
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He said the first step is academic counseling. Counselors can offer advice about careers students might be interested in. “The counselors provide them information about requirements for different majors and what you can do with those majors,” he said. Chando also teaches honors ACAD and said that he sees a strong desire from his students to choose a major. “Students don’t need to feel bad. But at the same time, the sooner they decide, the sooner they graduate,” he said. Morgan Daugherty, undecided freshman, said he hasn’t determined his major because he is exploring his options. He said that he’s considering
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pre-law. Daugherty is enrolled in Chando’s honors ACAD class and said that, so far, the class hasn’t helped with his decision. As the semester moves along, though, he said he thinks it will help.
decide his major and is trying to enjoy school as long as possible. “It’s a choice that’s going to be a part of my future,” he said. “I’m thinking about nursing or psychology.” Junior computer engineering major Drew Garth said that he’s glad about the major he decided on, but wishes he explored more of what The University has to offer. “It needs to start in high school,” he said. “I wish universities would reach out to high schools more and educate students on all the different choices they have.” Garth said he felt somewhat rushed into making his decision, and that could lead to some students making a wrong choice about a career. “Sometimes its difficult to know what path to take,” Garth said. “It’s not always clear what you want to do.”
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realize what it takes to get through a certain major and the obstacles they face. Others discover that the subject matter is not what they thought it was. Sometimes they discover an area that they’ve never even considered before” — Carl Chando
Director, academic counseling center Chando said that The U of M also offers career services, employing various tools to aid students in their decision making process. Undecided freshman Jarvis Morris said he is trying to wait unil the last minute to
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Open house can help students climb ladder to success in biz world
BY MELISSA WRAY News Reporter Today and Wednesday, University of Memphis students interested in pursuing a career in business can come to an open house being held in the lobby of the Fogelman College of Business and Economics. The open house will take place today from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday’s open house is scheduled for 5 p.m. Both will provide information on FCBE student organizations, its honors program and the seven initiatives of the Fogelman Promise, a combination of programs designed to prepare students with the necessary skills to survive in the business world. “The Fogelman Promise’s seven initiatives focus on providing students with basic skills such as business etiquette, creativity, communication skills and exhib-
iting professionalism in a business environment,” said FCBE dean Rajiv Grover. “There is also a program called the Fogelman Fit, where FCBE students, faculty and staff are encouraged to participate in activities that will help improve their physical and mental health.” Gaylon Hall, director of the Avron B. Fogelman Center for Professional Career Development, said that the open house is a good way to expose students to the opportunities available to them. “It’s great that more students are interested in attending this year’s open house because in the past, I felt that students weren’t being exposed to more opportunities with some of the other events we held,” Hall said. There will be door prizes and drawings for prizes, including tickets to the Orpheum and coupons for free massages.
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are interested in by being knowledgeable about the companies. Students should also avoid shopping from booth to booth to get free giveaway items rather than learning,” Woemmel said. Shea Houze, career advisor with career services, will also be at the Expo. Houze works with students and professors to present information about what career services has to offer. Presentations can also be catered to specific groups such as ACAD, nursing or the education department. “Generally faculty and staff request us to give information for resumes, for interview tips and dressing for interviews. Our goal is to get information to as many students as possible,” Houze said. Professional behavior is very important to potential employers, she said. “Good professional behavior goes a long way in getting an interview,” Woemmel said.
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New ‘super PAC’ aims to raise $55M for Rick Perry BY MARIA RECIO McClatchy Newspapers Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the GOP presidential front-runner, may be leading the pack in the money game as well, as a new “super PAC” supporting him gears up to raise $55 million or more — a potential game changer for the 2012 race. The new pro-Perry political action committee, Make Us Great Again, is one of the emerging “super PACs” that started springing up after last year’s groundbreaking Supreme Court ruling in Citizen’s United v. FEC, which allowed unlimited cash from individuals and corporations for PACs that are separate from a candidate’s campaign. “These are new vehicles for vast sums of money,” said Bill Miller, an Austin, Texas, political consultant to Republicans and Democrats who is not affiliated with Perry. “It’s a new day in campaign finance. They’re going to play an incredible role.” The Make Us Great Again PAC promises to set a new pace, flooding Iowa and other early voting states with ads. “Super PACs can make or break a presidential candidate,” said Virginia-based GOP consultant Tom Edmonds. “The incredible amount of money they can raise and spend has incredible influence.” A pro-Perry PAC spokesman, Jason Miller, confirmed that “an early planning document” had set the $55 million figure, first reported by NBC News, but he declined to release any updated amount. “Fundraising is going very well and there’s a lot of enthusiasm for Governor Perry,” he said. Mark McKinnon, a Texas con-
sultant who worked with former President George W. Bush, said, “It ain’t chump change. And I suspect every penny will be used to attack Romney.” Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is Perry’s closest rival. The committees by law may not coordinate with a candidate’s campaign. But the Perry super PAC has some built-in radar: It’s led by Austin lobbyist Mike Toomey, a former Perry chief of staff, who is in tune with his former boss’s thinking. Toomey recently got some national attention in the GOP debate for his role representing Merck, the maker of the Gardasil vaccine for human papillomavirus that Perry ordered all Texas young girls to be inoculated with. The Texas legislature overruled Perry’s order. The super PAC for Perry is likely to amplify charges that the Texas governor is too close to moneyed interests as part of Austin’s pay-to-play political culture, where lucrative government contracts often are awarded to those who’ve made big campaign contributions. Perry himself became a millionaire while serving in relatively low-paying government posts over the past 20 years by making lucrative investments that benefited from his connections to special interests with business before the state government.. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin last week challenged Perry for being ensnared in what they called “crony capitalism.” At the Perry campaign, political adviser David Carney said, “I have no clue what any other entity is doing, fundraising or otherwise. I don’t believe everything I read. We are working hard to build our campaign team on all fronts: finance, political,
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organizational, and operations. Time will tell if we ever catch up with our competitors, who in some cases have been running for months if not years.” Federal rules for campaign fundraising outside of the super PACs limit individual contributions to $2,500 per election cycle, making the non-affiliated committees an easier way to raise large sums. “The sky is absolutely the limit,” said Michael Beckel, spokesman at the Center for Responsive Politics, whose website, opensecrets.org, tracks political money. “This is the first election cycle where super PACs will be used by any presidential candidate.” Already, the pro-Perry super PAC’s projected $55 million fund is almost as much as the $63.5 million that all super PACs spent in the 2010 elections, according to opensecrets.org. “The whole rise of super PACs is troubling,” said Craig McDonald, director of Texans for Public Justice, a watchdog group that questions how separate the new PACs will be from the campaigns they champion. “It allows corporate money into campaigns. It allows an entry point for special favors for donors.” Donors will be made public, but Miller said the pro-Perry PAC won’t have to file its first report until January. Perry is particularly adept at raising large sums of money because in Texas campaigns, individual contributions are unlimited. And as Texas’ longest-serving governor, Perry raised nearly $100 million from 2001 through October 23, 2010, with nearly 50 percent of it coming from 193 mega-donors who gave him $100,000 or more.
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Joshua Stepp looks toward his parents during his murder trial on Aug. 22 in Raleigh, N.C. The 28-year-old Iraq War veteran, who acknowledged killing his stepdaughter Cheyenne Yarley when she was 10-months-old, insists that he is not guilty of first-degree murder because of his post-traumatic stress disorder.
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BY DAVID ZUCCHINO Los Angeles Times He killed her, Joshua Stepp admitted. He slammed the face of his 10-month-old stepdaughter into a carpeted floor, roughed her up as he changed her diaper, stuffed wet toilet paper down her throat, and soon she was dead. But Stepp, a 28-year-old former Army infantryman who saw combat in Iraq, insists that he is not guilty of firstdegree murder. His post-traumatic stress disorder left him incapable of premeditating the killing of tiny Cheyenne Yarley in November 2009, he and his lawyers say. Because of his severe PTSD, Stepp was not able to “form the specific intent to kill,” said his attorney Thomas Manning. He asked jurors earlier this month to find Stepp guilty of the lesser charge of seconddegree murder, which lacks the potential for the death penalty. After a decade of combat overseas, growing numbers of
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veterans are relying on PTSD as a central element of their defenses in criminal cases. Stepp’s trial is being closely watched as one measure of just how far defense lawyers are able to push in arguing that the disorder influences veterans’ criminal behavior. The number of such cases will rise as more veterans return from Afghanistan and Iraq with post-traumatic stress or other trauma from repeated combat tours; already, more than 170,000 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan have been diagnosed with PTSD, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Thousands of veterans accused of nonviolent crimes have had charges or sentences reduced in the last several years after citing their PTSD as a mitigating factor. Veterans with combat trauma are now often sent to counseling and treatment programs rather than to prison for lowlevel offenses. “The idea isn’t to get the guy off; it’s to help the veterans get the treatment they need. They deserve our help,” said Shad Meshad, founder of the National Veterans Foundation and a Vietnam veteran who has counseled soldiers for 40 years. The prosecutor in the Stepp case told jurors that his defense insults veterans because it “taints their suffering” and “perverts this disease.” On the night Stepp killed Cheyenne Yarley, he had downed rum, bourbon and beer, plus painkillers prescribed for his wife, an Army veteran and Cheyenne’s mother, his lawyers said. He was angry about being called home from a bar by his wife to care for Cheyenne and Stepp’s 4-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, his lawyers said. His wife had to go to work. In vague, halting testimony a prosecutor called “convenient,” Stepp said he couldn’t recall many details of that night. Cheyenne died of head trauma from multiple blows. “I can only, like, remember really intense parts,” he testified. He added later: “I don’t know, it just like happened, and then I’m there and I’m like, ‘What the hell?’ “ Stepp’s PTSD and his drug and alcohol abuse left him incapable of plotting or intending Cheyenne’s murder, Manning said. “People with untreated PTSD do not have the same checks and balances, or brakes, that the rest of us hopefully do,” Manning told jurors. Stepp had seen fellow soldiers blown apart by roadside bombs in Iraq, his attorney said in court. In one instance, he had to put those pieces in the container available to him: a pizza box. When Stepp came home
from Iraq, he grew more and more damaged by deepening PTSD, his attorneys said. The night Cheyenne died, she wouldn’t stop crying and kept soiling her diapers, and Stepp lost control, Manning said. “There is no pity being asked,” Manning told the jurors. All he asked was for them to find that Stepp’s PTSD left him incapable of deliberately killing his stepdaughter. But prosecutor Boz Zellinger pointed out that Stepp repeatedly lied to his wife over the phone and to a police dispatcher while his stepdaughter was dying in the family’s apartment. “What shows his competency more than his deceit?” Zellinger asked the jury. “He had a fixed purpose: to kill that child so no one would see what he had done to her.” He added: “Every single piece of evidence shows the defendant was in control of his actions that night.” Zellinger scoffed at Stepp’s PTSD claims, saying defense experts relied entirely on Stepp’s own, unreliable statements in concluding that he suffered from the disorder. He raped Cheyenne intentionally, the prosecutor said. Blood was found on Stepp’s underwear, Zellinger said, and the girl’s injuries were so severe they could not possibly have been caused by vigorous wiping. “Every orifice that Cheyenne had was injured,” Zellinger said. But Stepp denied sexually abusing Cheyenne, with Manning saying that the bruises around the infant’s anus and vagina occurred when Stepp wiped her roughly as he changed her diaper. On Sept. 8, a jury of six men and six women found Stepp guilty of first-degree murder and sexually assaulting his stepdaughter. Manning immediately began putting on witnesses in the penalty phase, where Stepp’s PTSD remained central to the lawyer ’s attempt to save the veteran from the death penalty. Courts and prosecutors are far more willing now than during the Vietnam era to consider a veteran’s combat trauma in sentencing for nonviolent crimes, lawyers say. Veterans’ groups credit a growing awareness of PTSD, activism by advocates for the mentally ill and a nation sympathetic to the conditions under which soldiers must operate. “There is definitely a recognition that the emotional and psychological scars of our veterans are real,” said Stephen Saltzburg, general counsel for the National Institute of Military Justice, which studies the military justice system. A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2009 helped pave the way for combat trauma — and military ser-
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toll” of combat. a Minneapolis lawyer and vet- tion, often working closely Today, more than 80 spe- eran who since 2002 has repre- with Department of Veterans cial veterans’ treatment sented more than 100 veterans Affairs medical centers. courts have Although many prosecubeen established nationare sympahe idea isn’t to get the guy tors wide and hunthetic to comdreds more are off; it’s to help the veterans get bat veterans, planned, said some PTSDthe treatment they need. They related defense Christopher Deutsch, a tactics are deserve our help.” spokesman for viewed with — Shad Meshad the National skepticism. Founder, National Veterans Association “Prosecutors Foundation are always of Drug Court Professionals. wary of the Veterans’ courts do not diagnosed with PTSD. Instead, ‘defense of the day,’ or trends provide “a get-out-of-jail-free the courts steer defendants that ... may be overused card,” said Brockton D. Hunter, toward treatment and proba- because there is some per-
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— Bert Milman, Music education freshman ceived broader understanding or acceptance by courts and juries,” said Scott Burns, executive director of the National District Attorneys Assn. The law, said Elizabeth Hillman, a law professor and president of the National Institute of Military Justice, “is uncertain and evolving.” On Sept. 12, jury members told Judge Osmond Smith that, after deliberating for two days, they could not reach a unanimous verdict on a sentence. Following state law, the judge sentenced Stepp to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Missouri plays Saturday at top-ranked Oklahoma in what was supposed to be its inaugural game in the fresh and revitalized 10-team Big 12. But the conference with three teams in this week’s Associated Press top eight and five in the top 19 is on the verge of extinction. And now the most intriguing question isn’t whether Missouri will win in Norman for the first time since 1966, but if it will be playing there for the final time as part of the last gasp of the league, or at least anything resembling its current makeup. With reports intensifying that OU and University of Texas regents on Monday will empower their presidents to navigate a future with the Pac-12 that probably would include tag-alongs Oklahoma State and Texas Tech, the league Missouri began with in 1928 as the Missouri Valleyspinoff Big Six could within days dwindle to an unsustain-
able five members. Considering the stray thunderbolt this weekend when Pittsburgh and Syracuse stunned the Big East by leaving for the Atlantic Coast Conference, the future in some ways never has seemed more a puzzle not only for Missouri but also much of college athletics. “Nobody knows,” one conference administrator said, “and who do you trust?” Said another, “It’s a game of dominoes, and there are still a lot of dominoes to fall.” But if the newest developments perhaps bear some distressing ripples for Missouri, they also could have encouraging ramifications. Assuming the Big 12 can’t find a way to adequately repopulate if OU, Texas and Co. indeed leave, Missouri may be betterperched than ever for consideration by two of the most successful and stable conferences: the Big Ten and the Southeastern. While Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany repeatedly has said he is comfortable with the
league’s 12-school structure and would not feel the need to grow because others are, it’s impossible to know how other maneuvers may influence Delany. And while the Big Ten twice has passed on an eager Missouri, if it were to look to 14 now, Missouri would seem to be one of the few remaining worthy fits with potential former targets Pittsburgh and Syracuse presumably off the market. Maryland of the ACC also was believed to have been scrutinized by the Big Ten before, and between its involvement in the ACC expansion and the ACC’s vote last week to increase its exit fee to $20 million also appears now not to be a Big Ten option. Meanwhile, the SEC seems to need to add at least a 14th — if for no other reason than to add a seventh league game to each conference football week — after Texas A&M clears legal hurdles for its escape from the Big 12. That is, if there remains a discernible Big 12 to escape. And therein may lie a key
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Missouri running back Henry Josey races for a touchdown in the second quarter against Western Illinois University at Faurot Field and Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Mo. Sept. 17. Missouri beat Western Illinois, 69-0. to renewed SEC thinking on Missouri. Philosophically, the SEC all along had not wanted to be perceived as responsible for the demise of the Big 12, a stance no doubt since reinforced by the Baylor-led threats of litigation. Between that and at least an initial desire to look east for geographical balance and questions about whether Missouri’s brand and accompanying markets would add enough value to justify dividing the pie further,
Missouri hadn’t figured in deep SEC thinking. But if there is no Big 12 to invade, Missouri gets a stronger look. And its two top 30 TV markets, academic reputation, recent football success and men’s basketball tradition and the fact it’s contiguous to three SEC states becomes more noteworthy, even if Missouri would be hardpressed to thrive in football. Especially when the SEC
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appears to be holding tight to its “gentleman’s agreement” not to add schools from states already within its footprint: Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech and Louisville, for instance. In fact, in a world with no Big 12, and perhaps even with a dying one, Missouri and West Virginia appear to be the strongest suitors for the 14th spot. If none of that comes to pass with so much yet uncertain, Missouri and West Virginia could be linked in another way. Perhaps the seven remaining Big East football schools and the five standing Big 12 schools could be fused, even if the alliance would smack of the roots of the Big 12 as an unruly amalgam of the Big Eight and Southwest. “I don’t think anything’s off the table,” a well-placed source within those conferences said. “It’s such a new world order.” So much so that NCAA president Mark Emmert on Sunday expressed concern about the tension and disruption even as he inadvertently demonstrated how powerless he is to stop it. “This is not about playing Monopoly and moving pieces around on the board. ... There’s a chance to do some things that would be helpful, and there’s a chance to do some things that would be very wrong,” he told USA Today, later adding, “We don’t have the authority to manage or approve or disapprove of any of these situations.” It might help lend some peace to the never-ending turbulence if he did. As the Big 12 has been contending with its anticipated downfall for weeks, the abrupt moves of Pittsburgh and Syracuse left the Big East office in a mix of ‘shock, anguish and anxiety,” according to a conference source. ACC Commissioner John Swofford in a teleconference Sunday morning left the door open to more mayhem ahead when he said, “We are very comfortable with this 14” but added the ACC is “not philosophically opposed to 16.” Asked if he was continuing to have dialogue with any of the “double-digit” other number of schools that had reached out to the ACC, he said, “Probably to some degree.” He added: “I’ve never seen this level of uncertainty and potential fluidity among schools and conferences. Schools are looking for stability and when that stability doesn’t exist for whatever reason, as long as that’s going on, I think the conferences that appear to be stable moving forward are going to receive inquiries from schools that are desirous of having that kind of stability.” He either ignored or didn’t catch the irony of the fact that a willingness to swoop in on other schools is a prime reason for the instability. As for whether he might be inclined to lay off the Big East and give it a chance to resettle and, in fact, survive, he said, “I’m not focused on that.” And the next dominoes wait to be tipped.
Former Tiger Lady Tigers Williams goalkeeper gives back recognized BY ADAM DOUGLAS Sports Editor
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Carolina Panthers running back and former Tigers great DeAngelo Williams presented The University of Memphis with an enormous gift on Monday. The former AllAmerican running back and Heisman Trophy candidate presented athletic director R.C. Johnson with a six-figure donation that will go to the Tiger Scholarship Fund and be used as a part of the Vision for Victory Capital Campaign. “I am very fortunate to have been blessed with this opportunity to give back to a football program and a university that did so much for me during my career as a Tiger,” Williams said. “Everyone around me knows I remain loyal to The University of Memphis and am thankful for the close relationships that I made while I was there. It is my hope that this gift will open the door for others to get involved and give back to this program, because this is such a crucial time for showing support to Tiger football.” Williams’ donation includes naming rights to the football locker room at the Murphy Athletic Complex. “We are thankful for the donation from DeAngelo and know that it will make such an impact on this program,” Johnson said. “We are proud of what he accomplished while he was here and all that he did for this program during his fouryear career. To have him make this donation is a testament to how much he cares for this university. He is such a true ambassador for this program.”
BY BRYAN HEATER Sports Reporter Senior goalkeeper Elise KuharPitters has been named the Conference USA Co-Defensive Player of the Week for her performance last Thursday against the Vanderbilt Commodores, the league announced on Monday. This was her second weekly honor this season and third in her career. “Our defense has played well thus far and Elise has stepped up big when she has needed to,” head coach Brooks Monaghan said. “I can’t say enough good things about the season that Elise is having. She is making gamewinning saves when she is asked to and that’s all you can ask for from a goalkeeper.” Kuhar-Pitters allowed no goals on seven shots against Vanderbilt, her fifth shutout of the season and the 28th of her career.
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Women’s soccer shuts out Vanderbilt, extends unbeaten streak to 8 games BY BRYAN HEATER Sports Reporter The No. 11-ranked University of Memphis women’s soccer team extended its record winning streak to eight games, defeating the Vanderbilt Commodores 2-0 last Thursday at Vanderbilt. While Memphis started slow, the Commodores found opportunities to strike early. Vanderbilt freshman midfielder Ashley Oswald found space to fire a shot in the opening minutes of the match from about 10
yards from the goal. Senior goalkeeper Elise Kuhar-Pitters, who recorded her fifth shutout of the season, came up with a big save for the Lady Tigers as she made a diving save to the right. “We didn’t come out as well as we wanted to,” KuharPitters said. “We went in at halftime and talked about how Vanderbilt was outplaying us and that we needed to pick it up.” A minute into the second half, freshman forward-midfielder Kylie Davis crossed the ball from the left to the forefront
of the net. Sophomore forward Rasheeda Ansari capitalized on the pass and headed the ball in for goal. “I thought we adjusted to the way Vanderbilt was playing in the second half,” head coach Brooks Monaghan said. “I was definitely more pleased with our performance in the second half.” The Lady Tigers added some insurance in the 59th minute of the match when freshman midfielder-forward Natalia GomezJunco received a pass from senior forward Melissa Smith
almost hold an opponent scoreless the whole game, and overall, despite the circumstances, I’m excited about them.” Freshman quarterback Taylor Reed carved up the APSU defense to the tune of 332 passing yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions. One of those touchdowns came on a bizarre play where Reed connected on an 18-yard pass to senior tight end Andrew Ene-inta, who fumbled the ball only to have it recovered by the Tigers for a 22-yard touchdown. “Things slowed down for me this week, but I have to give credit to those skill players on the outside making plays… It definitely felt good to have things go our way like that,” Reed said. Junior linebackers Akeem Davis and Kenyatta Johnson each had 10 tackles for the re-
tooled Tiger defense. But despite the changes on that side of the ball, Tiger players said there’s still a lot more work to be done. “It’s a great win – we’re going to embrace it, hold on to it and let it soak in – but we have SMU on Saturday,” Davis said. “But I have flaws in my game just like we all do. So we have to just keep on practicing, and they say practice makes perfect, but around here at The University of Memphis we believe that perfect practice make perfect.” Not only were players relieved to snap the program’s longest losing streak in 25 years, Porter, too, was in better spirits, briefly joking about the state of the program through the last 15 games. “We’ve been losing,” Porter said, laughing. “Under the circumstances or not, we needed a win.”
in the penalty box. GomezJunco dribbled the ball around a Commodore defender and netted the ball six yards away to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead. The Lady Tigers’ defense would keep the Commodores in check the rest of the match, securing the victory. The U of M’s defense allowed only seven shots, extending Kuhar-Pitters scoreless streak to 527:25, a program record. “We always talk before the game that we want to get the shutout,” Kuhar-Pitters said. “When we have a clean sheet
for the game, we get more confidence that we can get this done.” Though Monaghan praised the Tigers’ performance this season, he said that Memphis is still working to improve. “I think we are where we need to be at this point in the season,” said coach Monaghan. “We haven’t peaked by any means, but to be 8-0 and still not be at your best, I think that is a good position to be in.” The Lady Tigers open conference play on the road against Houston on Friday.
BY ADAM DOUGLAS Sports Editor It wasn’t pretty, but before an announced crowd of 18,808, The University of Memphis Tigers football team ended their 11-game losing streak and defeated the Governors of Austin Peay State University, 27-6. The Tigers (1-2) won for just the second time in their last 15 contests, a dubious feat dating back to the 2010 campaign where they struggled to a 1-11 finish. The revamped Tigers defense, which gave up more than 400 yards of total offense to each their two previous opponents, held the Governors to 368 yards for the game, a notable improvement. “I want to take my hat off to our defense, under the circumstances, as well as my defensive staff,” head coach Larry Porter said. “For them to pick up and
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