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UM takes gardening to new heights The University of Memphis is cultivating its green thumb by introducing a new rooftop garden on the Physical Plant building. Amelia Mayahi, sustainability coordinator for the Physical Plant, said the 200-square-foot garden was installed in June and is a pilot project for a potentially larger green roof. “I got the idea from an invitation in the mail that green roof installers were trying to come to Memphis,” she said. “People use it a lot in hospitals and other universities I’ve talked to. They said it’s worked for them.” Mayahi said the tester plot is meant to examine mold released into the air or debris released into the drainage system, and to test the reduction of the heat island effect. The effect happens when there is a collection of tall, concrete buildings. The temperature in a city will rise more quickly, but green roofs help eliminate excess heat by insulating buildings. “We’re using succulent plants, which are able to withstand extreme temperatures,” she said. “The plants freeze in the winter and help keep the building warm and stay warm during the summer to help keep a building cold.” Mayahi said rooftop gardens also prolong the life of a roof because plants absorb water, which can cause roof damage more quickly. If the pilot plot works, the initiative could spread to other rooftops on campus. “In the long run, we want to save money on the roof and energy costs,” Mayahi said. The plants for the plot cost about $3,000 and take five hours to install. Mayahi said some physical plant employees, including her, became certified installers to save on cost.

BY CHRISTINA HOLLOWAY News Reporter With the sniffles, sneezes and coughs associated with flu season approaching, Student Health Services is pairing up with Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital to help students prepare. Nurses from Le Bonheur will give students shots Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Student Health Fair in the Student Activities Plaza outside of the UC. Jacqueline De Fouw, health educator of Student Health Services, said that Le Bohneur charges a fee of $20 per shot. Students who come will have to sign a waiver to confirm any allergic reactions, or if they have had a reaction to a previous flu shot. “It takes two weeks for the shot to build up in your immune system so that you have immunity to the influenza,” she said. Getting the flu shot doesn’t just help one person, but can also prevent it from spreading as well, De Fouw said. “By getting the flu vaccine, you protect yourself from influenza, and also protect others from getting it from you, so it’s very important to keep from spreading it also,” she said.

The rooftop garden located on the top of the physical plant building. The garden is used to insulate the building, and for aesthetic appeal as it can be seen from the fourth floor of Manning Hall. The plants that make up the garden are succulents, which are able to withstand extreme weather and stay green year-round. As of now, no students are part of the initiative. “I have high hopes,” Mayahi said. “I would like to see this spread through campus.” Calvin Strong, director of custodial landscape services, said he thinks the rooftop garden could have some positive effects. However, he wants to make sure that installing garden roofs will not cost more than the resources The University is already using.

Strong said that some cases of going green – like placing recycling bins across campus – have saved The University money. “We want to be cost effective,” he said. “We want to make sure it’s not costing us more to be sustainable.” While the Physical Plant works on its rooftop

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Study shows practice of ‘catching up on sleep’ not ideal for students BY CHRISTOPHER WHITTEN News Reporter University of Memphis student Kiara Caston can be found bundled up on a couch on campus at least twice a week, asleep. With a night job at FedEx Express, it’s not uncommon for the criminal justice major to only get four hours of sleep each night, so she uses campus resources to recover. “I sleep all day on the weekends, but I still have to wake up to do homework,” Caston said. A recent study released by Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine suggests that students who use the weekend to catch up on lost sleep during the week actually perform worse on attention tests. The pool of participants was comprised of 2,638 Korean high school students who, on average, got about six hours of sleep each night but slept almost three hours more on the weekends. Exercise science major Jalicia Jones said she often finds a quiet place, like the library or the University Center Alumni

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Junior criminal justice major Kiara Casto takes a nap in the Alumni Mall lounge of the University Center on Wednesday evening. Lounge, so she can sleep before work. Jones said she typically gets 6-7 hours of sleep each night but loses hours of sleep when she has to study for a test. “I might only get four hours of sleep, and then I try to catch up whenever I can,” Jones said.

Adjunct graduate faculty for The U of M Department of Psychology, Sid Nau, Ph. D., is an accredited sleep specialist by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He said the study could be misleading. It suggests that once stu-

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Symptoms of PTSD make transition to civilian life difficult for soldiers BY Timberly Moore News Reporter

Sergeant Johnathan Bratcher’s deployment from a marine base in Japan to a secluded valley in Afghanistan brought around-theclock stress. When he returned to the United States, his attitude was noticeably altered. Bratcher served in Afghanistan from August 2007 to April 2008. He came back home from Japan in 2010. “My mother said that I was quiet when I got home,” said Bratcher, a senior finance major. “I was also jumpy.” When men and women in the military return home from com-

bat, some find settling back into their old lives – socially and psychologically – difficult, a potential indicator of post-traumatic stress disorder. Dr. Gayle Beck, chair of excellence holder in the psychology department, described PTSD as “an anxiety disorder that sometimes develops in the aftermath of a traumatic event.” Beck said that PTSD is often characterized by reoccurring symptoms including nightmares, emotional numbing, avoidance of trauma-related reminders and being easily startled. Diagnosing PTSD can be difficult, as many soldiers returning from overseas need time to transi-

tion to civilian life. “There is a difference between PTSD and readjustment,” Bratcher said. “I was different at first, but everyone is a little jumpy when they come back from a warzone.” Bratcher said that normal sounds like a car backfiring would make him jump. The sounds took on a different meaning for him in Iraq, he said. “Over there, it meant that you were under attack,” he said. Though PTSD diagnoses can vary in their severity, the disorder carries the stigma that all cases are extreme, Bratcher said. “I’m no doctor, but I think that the majority of us just need someone to talk to. Marines have been

dealing with this for 200 years,” he said. Bratcher said that one of the most difficult things about coming home is learning how to relax again. He said that it was more of a subconscious and gradual change that came with help from the government. “After coming home, we have to attend workshop, and they even offer them for our families as well,” he said. Bratcher said that he spent time with a military psychologist to discuss any concerns or issues he may have. “The government goes above and beyond for us and I genuinely appreciate that,” he said.

Bratcher said that attending school, after he dropped out to serve in 2005, is more manageable. “It’s a lot easier than going to war,” he said. Captain Joseph Kilner, assistant military science professor, said that going overseas does not necessarily mean that a soldier will experience psychological changes. “It depends on your job; you don’t always have to kill,” said Kilner, who served two tours in Iraq from 2005-2008. He said that in some ways, war has affected those who serve in a positive way. “(War) makes you thankful for what you have in America, -- peace and prosperity,” he said.

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BY VICTORIA KIM AND HARRIET RYAN Los Angeles Times Michael Jackson’s personal physician waged a cover-up regarding the singer’s health in the weeks leading up to, and the minutes following, his death, according to testimony on the second day of Dr. Conrad Murray’s manslaughter trial. Before the singer’s June 2009 death, Murray assured concert promoters that Jackson was in perfect health when, in fact, he was dependent on nightly doses of a dangerous surgical anesthetic to sleep, witnesses said in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday. And after Jackson stopped breathing, Murray told the singer ’s personal assistant Jackson had “a bad reaction” and never asked for 911 to be called, the assistant told jurors. “Call me right away, please,

call me right away, thank you,” Murray said in the recording played during the testimony of the assistant, Michael Amir Williams. When Williams called Murray back a couple of minutes later, the doctor said Jackson had a “bad reaction” and asked him to go to the house, Williams testified. “At no time during that call he asked you to call 911?” Deputy District Attorney David Walgren asked. “No, sir,” he responded. Williams testified that he called security personnel at the house and asked them to see what was going on. By the time Williams arrived at the mansion, Jackson was being brought out on a gurney, he said. Murray seemed frantic, he recalled. “I knew it was serious,” Williams said. After Jackson was pro-

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nounced dead, Murray asked Williams to drive him from the hospital back to the singer’s mansion to retrieve something, Williams testified. Murray said he needed to get “some cream that Michael wouldn’t want the world to know about,” Williams said. Williams said he found the request so odd that he lied to the doctor, saying police had taken his car keys, and told a security guard of his plans to deceive Murray to avoid taking him back. Williams then called security personnel at the home and told them not to allow anyone into the home, “just for the simple fact that Dr. Murray asked to go back,” Williams testified. Before Williams took the stand Wednesday morning, an attorney for the company producing Jackson’s comeback shows testified that Murray had asked for a CPR machine and a second physician as part

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Doctor hid Michael Jackson’s poor health, witnesses say

Conrad Murray watches the court proceeding on the second day of his involuntary manslaughter trial in the death of pop star Michael Jackson in downtown Los Angeles, on Sept. 28. of his contract to care for the pop singer. When AEG Live attorney Kathy Jorrie remarked that resuscitation equipment was

already likely to be at the London venue where Jackson was to perform, Murray said

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Cantaloupe warnings persist as death toll continues to mount BY PETER MUCHA The Philadelphia Inquirer With 13 confirmed fatalities so far, a series of listeria illnesses linked to recalled Colorado cantaloupes has become one of the deadliest food-related outbreaks in decades. Before the toll is finished, it might be surpassed since the early 1970s only by the more than 50 deaths from a 1985 listeria outbreak in California related to a Mexican-style soft cheese. Although the recall of Jensen Farms-raised Rocky Ford melons was announced Sept. 14, concern continues for several reasons. Listeria is more lethal than salmonella or E. coli, two betterknown food-poisoning agents. Contaminated fruit is dangerous even with proper refrigeration. Also, symptoms — including diarrhea, fever and muscle aches — can be slow to appear. “That long incubation period is a real problem,” said Robert Tauxe of the Centers for Disease Control. “People who ate a contaminated food two weeks ago or even a week ago could still be falling sick weeks later.”

So just because someone seems fine a day after trying a sample doesn’t prove it’s safe. Consumers should look for a label saying “Colorado Grown,” “Distributed by Frontera Produce,” “Jensenfarms.com” or “Sweet Rocky Fords,” according to the FDA. If there’s no label, ask the store that sold it, the CDC suggests. Anyone with such a recalled melon should discard it and sanitize any surfaces it contacted. Confirmed were deaths in Maryland, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. Additional fatalities were being investigated in New Mexico, Kansas and Wyoming. The second worst U.S. foodrelated outbreak involved hot dogs and deli meats in 1998-99,

in which listeria was blamed for at least 14 deaths. Overall, the number of new cases, including the deaths, was up to 72, including 10 other states: Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Florida, Nebraska, Montana, North Dakota and California. Not reporting cases, but also receiving Jensen Farms cantaloupes from July 29 through Sept. 10 were New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Minnesota, Arkansas, South Dakota, Idaho, Arizona and Utah. To prevent listeria, consumers are advised to “thoroughly cook raw food from animal sources” and “rinse raw vegetables thoroughly under running tap water before eating,” according to the CDC.

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Faster than the speed of light?

Newly discovered properties of subatomic particles challenges “universally accepted” principle of physics BY MASAE HONMA AND NORIYUKI YOSHIDA The Yomiuri Shimbun

announced Thursday was made by researchers working on a research project called OPERA. As part of the project, neutrinos emitted from a research center in The finding by an 11-nation suburban Geneva arrived at the research group, including Gran Sasso National Laboratory Nagoya University in Japan, in central Italy faster that neutrinos may than the speed of light. travel faster than light f independent studies The Swiss research has astonished physicenter is operated cists in Japan and ... confirm the same findby the European around the world. ing, the theory of special Organization for Confirmation of the discovery would relativity will have to be Nuclear Research, known as CERN. overturn Albert The Italian facilEinstein’s theory of modified for the first time ity has the world’s special relativity, in 100 years.” largest underground which asserts that the laboratory for experispeed of light can — Masanori Yamauchi ments in particle never be exceeded. Deputy director, Institute of Modern physphysics. Particle and Nuclear Studies ics has been built on Einstein’s theory the basis of Einstein’s theory, one type of neutrino — muon of special relativity was puband the impact of the startling neutrinos — was found to lished in 1905 and has since been the foundation of major data announced Thursday in exceed the speed of light. Europe on neutrino studies Muon neutrinos are one strides in modern physics. alone would be immeasurable, of the three known types of The theory says nothing that neutrinos. has a mass can travel faster according to experts. The astonishing finding “This challenges a funda-

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from page 3 he “wouldn’t want to take a chance,” she testified. Murray said “he will be putting on an extraordinary performance,” she recalled. “Because of that, given his age and the strenuous performance he was putting on, he needed to be sure if something went wrong, he (would have) a CPR machine.” He also said he needed a second doctor in case he was tired or unavailable, she testified. When she asked for Murray’s help in collecting Jackson’s medical records from the past five years for insurance purposes, Murray said he had been the singer’s personal physician for three years, but the volume of records would be “very tiny” because of how stellar the singer’s health was, Jorrie testified. Earlier, Jorrie said Murray called her twice as she drafted his $150,000-a-month contract

with Jackson 10 days before Jackson died, asking for a “number of revisions.” Murray was to be paid retroactively beginning in May 2009 and through March 2010, Jorrie said. Murray did not want to be required to refund any portion of his monthly payment if Jackson changed his mind or canceled the tour, she said. During the contract negotiations and drafting, Murray repeatedly offered that Jackson was “perfectly healthy” and in “excellent condition,” she testified. Jorrie’s testimony came after AEG Live executive Paul Gongaware testified that he was on the lookout for any drug use by Jackson because he was concerned about how it would affect the “This Is It” tour. Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter and administering the fatal dose of the surgical anesthetic propofol that caused Jackson’s death.

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Technology

Amazon unveils Kindle Fire tablet computer with competitive pricetag BY DAVID SARNO Los Angeles Times Amazon.com Inc. unveiled its first tablet computer with a host of functions and features that allow it to do nearly everything the iPad can do — but at less than half the cost. Called the Kindle Fire, the device may quickly become the strongest competitor yet to the iPad, analysts said. Barely 18 months after Apple Inc. released the first iPad, tablet computers are a nearly $30 billion industry, with the iPad accounting for almost 80 percent of the market. The Fire, introduced Wednesday by Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, is aimed at attracting consumers who want a tablet but can’t afford the iPad and its other pricier competitors. Amazon set the price at $200 — well below Apple’s $500 iPad. “The price is really what’s going to drive a lot of success for Amazon,” said Alex Spektor, an analyst with Strategy Analytics in Boston. “Its features are competitive with other tablets, but the low price doesn’t make it seem like a cheapo device.” Spektor said the sleek look and snappy performance set the device apart from other low-cost tablets that have failed to catch on with consumers. In addition, the world’s largest online retailer brings to its Fire a huge library of movies, music and books — content that no other iPad

rival can match. “Home run,” analyst Ben Schachter of Macquarie Securities wrote in a note to investors. The new Kindle “will almost certainly be successful with consumers.” The tablet’s low price reflects Amazon’s effort to remain a discount leader, a key strategy in its early success selling books, electronics and appliances. “We’re building premium products at non-premium prices,” Bezos said about the Fire. Wall Street’s reaction indicated that the Kindle Fire may turn out to be a worthy competitor: Shares of Amazon rose 2.5 percent on Wednesday as major stock market indexes fell as much as 2.2 percent. Apple bloggers objected to the notion voiced by some that the Fire would be an “iPad killer,” saying the best it was likely to do was end up in second place. “It’s not going to touch the highend of the market where the iPad lives,” wrote Jim Dalrymple, a blog-

ger on the Loop. Instead it might appeal to “kids or spouse(s).” Amazon started taking orders Wednesday for the Fire and will start shipping it Nov. 15. Although the Kindle Fire will let users browse the Web, watch movies and read books, it is missing

several of the bells and whistles of earlier tablets: There is no camera or cellular capability, and its screen, at 7 inches, is substantially smaller than the iPad’s. Still, Amazon hopes its tablet will have a unique advantage: The Fire will be connected to the company’s massive cloud computing network, a worldwide system of high-speed servers that can quickly send video, music and Web pages

to the device. “No one can really touch Amazon in terms of their cloud services,” said Sarah Rotman-Epps, an analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass. “Amazon is leading with content and services, and that’s what consumers care about more than the hardware.” The company built a new kind of Web browser for the Fire. It is designed so that much of the heavy lifting associated with loading Web pages is done on Amazon’s servers, allowing the device to display the sites more quickly. RotmanEpps said the Fire posed a special problem to tablet makers already trailing the iPad. The faster browser, lower price and broad access to digital entertainment made it better “in every obvious way” than more expensive tablets from Samsung Electronics, Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and HTC Corp., she said. Like the Fire, tablet devices from those rivals use a version of Google Inc.’s Android mobile operating system. But Amazon went a step further, creating a custom version

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of the operating system to focus largely on Amazon products and entertainment. The Fire also appeared to spell trouble for Amazon’s competitors in the electronic book market, chiefly Barnes & Noble Inc., which makes the Nook e-reader. Shares of Barnes & Noble dropped 91 cents, or 6.9 percent, to $12.30 on Wednesday because of investor fears that the already underperforming Nook would fall further behind. “It hurts them a lot more than it does Apple because they’re so reliant on the Nook,” analyst Michael Souers at S&P Equity Research told Reuters. Last month Barnes & Noble forecast that sales of its Nook devices and e-books would double this year and reach $1.8 billion, or nearly a quarter of its revenue, even as its same-store sales stagnate amid an industrywide decline in print book sales. Souers predicted that the company would have to lower the price on the Nook, which was launched in 2009. The Kindle was launched in November 2007. Also Wednesday, Amazon introduced improved versions of its original Kindle e-readers, which use electronic-ink technology instead of digital displays. Among those was Amazon’s $79 Kindle, its lowest priced e-reader yet and 30 percent lighter than previous models. The company also will offer a $99 Kindle Touch, on which users can turn pages by touching the screen rather than by pressing plastic buttons. Another version of the Kindle Touch will feature a cellular connection and will sell for $149.

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garden, The University is getting ready for the annual Tiger Blue Goes Green event, Oct. 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the student plaza. Gregory Russell, member of The U of M’s sustainability committee, said that the event is a sustainable technologies awareness day where students can learn more about green projects around campus. “We’ve focused on making campus a more sustainable environment for the past three years,” he said. This year ’s theme is “Exploring Green Transportation,” Russell said. There will be more than 40 booths from campus and community vendors, a give-away drawing for a mountain bike and a bike-to-campus ride that will start at both Shelby Farms and Cooper-Young in Midtown.

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Hundreds protest ‘diversity bake sale’ Hundreds of students packed the University of California, Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on Tuesday to express their views on the use of race and gender in university admissions decisions — and to weigh in on the tone of the debate. The dialogue in this bastion of the free-speech movement was triggered by a bake sale, sponsored by the Berkeley College Republicans, that promised goods priced according to the buyer’s race, ethnicity and gender. The event, met with anger by many students, was timed to counteract a phone bank in support of a bill on California Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk that would allow the University of California and California State University systems to consider such factors, as long as no preference was given. Proposition 209, passed by state voters in 1996, banned affirmative action in public university admissions. The current bill would not violate that ban. Instead it would permit schools to consider things such as ethnicity, much as they do extracurricular activities, when weighing candidates. Under the bake sale’s satirical pricing structure, whites were supposed to pay $2 for the same pastry that would cost American Indians just 25 cents. (The Republican club, however, accepted whatever people chose to pay.) Supporters formed a protective barrier around the group’s table on Tuesday; Prop 209 author and former UC Regent Wade Connerly, who is black, showed up to help the students sell frosted cupcakes. Republican campus clubs have held such sales over the years to challenge racial preference policies. But this time

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While California sophomore Derek Zhou, left, makes a sale, a crowd argues with former Regent Ward Connerly, seated, as the Berkeley College Republicans hold a bake sale on the campus in Berkeley, Calif. on Sept. 27. The Republican group held the bake sale with items priced according to ethnicity to protest affirmative action. social media spread the news worldwide, prompting outrage and praise for organizers. The event spawned a secondary debate about civility and respect. “It’s kind of ugly,” said 21-year-old gender and women’s studies major Tatianna Peck, who held a sign in mock protest of the exclusion of “queer people” from the pricing structure. “It’s ... forcing people into a defensive position instead of an honest place of listening.” On Sunday, the Associated Students of the University of California’s senate passed a resolution condemning “the use of

discrimination whether it is in satire or in seriousness.” In a message Monday, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and two vice chancellors endorsed that position and said that the strong reactions to the bake sale provided “a vivid lesson that issues of race, ethnicity, and gender are far from resolved.” Anthropology major Damaris Olaechea, 24, and her roommate did their part Tuesday to create “an environment where people can come have dialogue with respect and sensitivity,” giving out hundreds of pink homebaked “conscious cupcakes.” But that didn’t boost busi-

read, in a play on words to remind the campus of their presence. “The university has chronically failed to address the appalling lack of diversity,” said organizers, who called on Brown to sign the admissions legislation. Despite the strong emotions, many saw something positive in the debate. “This has created the dialogue we wanted,” said Shawn Lewis, president of the Berkeley College Republicans.” “Berkeley is the home of the free-speech movement. We want to be sure it doesn’t become the capital of political correctness.”

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from page 1 dents fall behind on sleep they should not catch up. “It’s difficult for some people to find time to sleep because of their job, including students, but they should do just that,” Nau said. “As everyone knows from experience – and huge amounts of research show – human performance worsens when a person frequently gets less sleep than that person needs.” Nau said this is especially true some college students and people who work unusually long shifts. According to Jacqueline De Fouw, health educator at The U of M, a spring 2011 survey showed 46 percent of students reported difficulty sleeping affected their academic performance. Nau recommends students avoid repeated days of insufficient sleep and to plan naps throughout the day. He said if a student anticipates going more than a day with little sleep, then that student should get extra rest ahead of time.

ness for the Asian American Association, which happened to be holding its bake sale fundraiser. Vi Tran, 18, who did her best to hawk the group’s “nonracist cupcakes,” she said she agreed with the Republican students’ stance. “I think acceptance should be based on merit,” she said, lamenting the cause had been so clouded by anger. That anger led a group calling itself The Coalition to stage a silent protest, with hundreds of students — many of them African American or Latino — lying down in the heart of Sproul Plaza. “UC Us Now,” their signs

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Tigers announce 2012 schedule Lady Tigers sweep both weekend foes, improve to 12-3 BY ADAM DOUGLAS Sports Editor

Entering his 8th season at the helm of the Tiger baseball team, head coach Daron Schoenrock has a tough non-conference schedule prepared for his young team. and Volunteers on the diamond for the first time since the 1995 season. The Tigers begin a fivegame road trip in Knoxville, Tenn., on April 4 against the Volunteers. Memphis will host Tennessee for the first time since 1993, when the two teams battle on May 9 at FedEx Park. “I like the fact that we play at home a lot early in the season, because it gets us ready for the grind of the season,” Schoenrock said. “And with Tennessee, there was a change in coaching staffs. I had this game in the works with the previous coaching staff, and when the new staff came in, we solidified it – it’s huge for our local Memphis fan base to play and have a home-and-home

series with them.” The Tigers return 18 letterwinners from the 2011 squad that posted Memphis’ fourth 30-win season since 1995. Five position players who earned 40-plus starts return and twothirds of the weekend starting rotation will take the mound in 2012. Schoenrock believes that though this team is relatively young, its expectations are high. “I always expect us to compete for a C-USA title,” Schoenrock said. “Four out of my seven years here we’ve finished either third or fourth in conference, and that’s a big accomplishment for the level of competition in this conference.”

The University of Memphis volleyball team captured their first back-to-back conference wins this season, sinking the East Carolina Pirates 3-0 and sweeping them in three straight match sets (27-25, 25-19, 25-18) on Friday. On Sunday, the Lady Tigers notched their second win of the weekend by beating Marshall in three straight matches (25-22, 25-21, 25-21) at the Elma Neal Roane Fieldhouse, improving the Tigers record to 12-3 overall and 2-1 in conference play. “It was nice to win both matches,“ said head coach April Jauregui. “We’re getting better every time we play. We just take it one game at a time.” Junior outside hitter Altrese Hawkins led the Lady Tigers in kills for the matches with 25. Setter Hajnalka Molnar, further proving her national status, posted 34 assists against ECU while junior right side Marija Jovanovic led the defense with 23 digs in the games. “We just came together as a team and picked up on our defense,” Hawkins said. The Lady Tigers face another C-USA double-header this weekend, this time on the road against Tulane and Southern Miss. “This time we did a great job playing our game,” Molnar said. “If we play together like we did this past weekend, we can beat them.” Memphis will face the Golden Eagles on Friday, Sept. 30 before traveling to New Orleans to take on the Green Wave on Oct. 2 at 1 p.m.

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Hawkins and Jovanovic posted stellar numbers in the first week of conference play, earning 35 and 32 kills, respectively. Each ranks in the top five of C-USA in kills per set, Hawkins with 226 and Jovanovic with 190. Molnar leads the team in total assists with 674. She is second best in C-USA and third in the nation in assists per set (12.25a/s), posting 100 assists in three matches. Molnar posted a game-high 37 assists against Marshall. “I think it’s going to be some tough matches; both teams are really good,” Jauregui said. “This is a chance this weekend for us to go and play well and compete, and the other things will take care of itself.”

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BY JASMINE VANN Sports Reporter

by Joe Murphy

The University of Memphis baseball team will have a tough non-conference schedule ahead of them in 2012 thanks to games against eight clubs that advanced to the 2011 NCAA Tournament. They will also feature 30 home games, including a clash with the University of Tennessee at FedEx Park, eighth-year head coach Daron Schoenrock announced Wednesday. “Every schedule is unique in college baseball, in the fact that you start planning a schedule far more in advance,” Schoenrock said. “A lot of these opponents we started working on in 2008 or 2010.” The Tigers’ 2012 schedule features 25 matchups against nine teams that clipped 30 wins last season and six games against 40-win programs in Conference USA foes Rice and East Carolina. Memphis will play 18 games against 2012 NCAA Tournament qualifiers, eight of which will be played at home. The Tigers will play 29 games at FedEx Park and one game, against Ole Miss, at AutoZone Park on April 24. “When you put a schedule together, you don’t have a grasp on what your team will be like that season, but this schedule is conducive to getting some young guys ready to play at home,” Schoenrock said. “We are going to have new players in the mix behind the plate, at second base and in center field, as those positions were left void due to those players being drafted to play professionally.” For the third straight season, Memphis will open at FedEx Park. The Tigers open with a three-game set against Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, a midweek contest against Austin Peay and a three-game series against Kennesaw State. A home-and-home series with Tennessee showcases the Tigers

Junior outside hitter Vesna Jelic looks to make a kill this past weekend against Marshall.

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than light. According to the theory, when the speed of an object approaches the speed of light, its mass increases so much that it cannot accelerate any further. Since muon neutrinos, like the other two other kinds of neutrinos, have a mass, they should not be able to exceed the speed of light, according to Einstein’s theory. The theory explains a number of other strange things that happen when an object approaches the speed of light. For example, time slows down for an object traveling at that speed, and space shrinks. The notion that time can slow and space can shrink has had an enormous impact on a large number of fields beyond physics. The late Alfred North Whitehead, considered one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, established a unique view of space based mainly on Einstein’s theory. The most recent finding may lead to a revolutionary change in not only the basic principles of physics but also in our concepts of space and time. Masanori Yamauchi, deputy director of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization’s Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, said: “If independent studies by a plural number of experimental facilities confirm the same finding, the theory of special relativity will have to be modified for the first time in 100 years. But I have no idea how it will have to be modified.” Hitoshi Murayama, director general of the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Physics and Mathematics, said confirmation of the European discovery could mean that strange phenomena only considered possible in the world of science fiction may become possible in reality. For example, time machines could allow us to travel back in time and change events. If the CERN-Gran Sasso finding is confirmed, the neutrinos in the experiment arrived at the Gran Sasso Laboratory “earlier” than when they were emitted from CERN, 730 kilometers (453.6 miles) away, Murayama said.

Women’s Soccer

Tigers’ Oduro again recognized among best players in nation

by Anthony Vasser

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Sophomore forward Christabel Oduro jostles for possession of the ball during the Lady Tigers’ game against Rice University last weekend.

BY JASMINE VANN Sports Reporter University of Memphis women’s soccer forward Christabel Oduro has added to her weekly accolades for the 2011 sea-

son, voted onto the Soccer America Team of the Week on Wednesday and named Conference USA Co-Offensive player of the week on Monday. Oduro is the second Lady Tiger to receive the C-USA

honor this season and the sixth recipient of the award in program history. Oduro scored three goals in the Lady Tigers’ C-USA opener and kicked the game-winning goal against Rice in a 1-0 victory.

The native of Brampton, Ontario currently leads the Lady Tigers in scoring with five goals. Of her eight attempted shots on goal last weekend, five landed on the frame, giving her a .625 shot percentage.

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