Daily Helmsman The
Wednesday, September 28, 2012
Soccer streak continues Lady Tigers continue breaking records in historic run
Vol. 79 No. 19
see page 8
Independent Student Newspaper of The University of Memphis
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University practice of ‘overbooking’ classes irritates some students while impeding the educational process of others BY ROBERT MOORE News Reporter
Being late to class often has repercussions, but not all University of Memphis students consider that being tardy can sometimes leave them without a place to sit. At the beginning of each semester, professors are instructed to report to their department if they have any classes with inadequate seating for each student. The department then reports these classes to the office of the registrar. Jasmine Lee, a junior nursing major, said that she has had classes where too few desks have caused students to leave. “I have had classes in the past that did not have enough seats for everyone, and it was just frustrating,” she said. “Students who weren’t there on time didn’t have a place to sit. There were
times when I didn’t have a seat, so I left.” Kismet Winkelmann, assistant registrar for registration and scheduling, said that she sends out an email to every instructor before each term begins, asking them to let their individual departments know as soon as possible if they need any classroom changes. “If they don’t contact me, I don’t know about it,” Winkelmann said. “It bothers me to know there are students on campus without desks in some of their classes.” Often, though, there are some classes well over student capacity that never get moved to a larger classroom, said parttime philosophy professor Paula Cima. “I teach a philosophy 1101 course with 43 students, but the classroom only seats 32,” Cima said. “I have asked for another room. All you can do is ask.” Torya Polk, senior criminal justice major, said that her elementary logic course exceeds seating capacity and that the overcrowded environment can effect her concentration. “Not only is it hard to learn and obtain information when students are crammed together,” she said, “but I also have to rush to class just so I know I will be able to get a seat. I don’t understand why it is so hard to have a desk for every student.”
see
Seats, page 5
by Brian Wilson
The inconvenience of being seatless
Some classes, filled over capacity, never get moved to a larger classroom, forcing students and teachers to compete for space in the learning environment.
Local firms finding new prospects among UM interns
Southern Comfort Jazz Orchestra, local vocalist performance to pay homage to legendary female jazz artists of old BY ERICA HORTON News Reporter
see Jazz, page 5
BY CHELSEA BOOZER News Reporter
courtesy of SCJO
A taste of history will come to The University of Memphis on Monday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music’s Women of Jazz concert, featuring performer Joyce Cobb. Cobb and The U of M Southern Comfort Jazz Orchestra will perform the works of artists including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Melba Liston, Mary Lou Williams and Maria Schneider in the Harris Concert Hall at 3775 Central. An adjunct professor at The U of M, Cobb toured Europe with soul and gospel singer Otis Clay and opened for blues singer Taj Mahal. She also opened for R&B and soul group The Temptations and jazz singer Al Jarreau. Cobb said that she once opened for Muddy Waters in 1970 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. “I remember that it was full of young college kids, and I was pretty close to their ages at the time,” she said. “Whatever I sang, it was probably the music I knew at the time – country and rock. I doubt if I did any blues or jazz during his show.” Before opening for Waters, Cobb said, there was always music in her life. “My mother and father played a lot of classical and jazz, and I grew up on rock and roll and I just fell in love with music,” she said. “It kind of followed me all the way through my life.” It wasn’t until she started singing in Nashville on Ralph Emery’s morning radio show and the Teddy Bart TV Show that
The University of Memphis’ Southern Comfort Jazz Orchestra, above, performs with adjunct professor and vocalist Joyce Cobb on Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m.
For the Memphis-based LehmanRoberts Company, the Fogelman College of Business and Economics is a crop of potential employees that they harvest often. The company’s vice president, Patrick Nelson, hired the corporation’s first intern while he was an IT Director with the company and pursuing an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from The University of Memphis. “We are encouraging (the hiring of U of M interns) from the top down as it has proven for us a quality way to find great employees that we hope will remain working here well into the future, bringing value both to their personal development and to our orga-
see Intern, page 4