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Midtown’s makeshift music venue BY CHRIS SHAW Arts and Entertainment Reporter
jazz. However, folks started showing up to ‘jam’, which wasn’t the idea,” he said. “One week, I showed up, and a bunch of random The last place you’d expect to see folks were doing a bluesy-jazz jam. I left then live music in Memphis has now become and disassociated myself from it.” Midtown’s premier venue for underground After seeing the success of jazz night, music of all kinds. Wenzler and junior journalism major The Lamplighter Lounge has served beer Beth Cooper convinced the owners of the in Midtown Memphis since 1932, but it Lamplighter to try booking shows at the tiny wasn’t until 2009 when law student Cole Midtown dive. Weintraub asked bar manager Chuck “The first few shows were mainly just our Wenzler if he and his friends could break friends’ bands playing, but now bands from the house rule of “no Japan, Montreal and loud noises” and France have played,” conduct spontanesaid. here are not a Wenzler ous blasts of noise Local artists like with keyboards, synlot of rules. That’s the Manatees, Kruxe, thesizers and drums. Finger and attractive to bands Moving Wenzler agreed to Girls of the Gravitron pay Weintraub one because it is a casu- have all played at pitcher of beer for the Lamplighter, al place to play and as well as national his performance. “It ended up touring acts like everyone is on an drawing a bigNew Orleans’ equal playing field.” Haunted Hearts and ger crowd than we’d ever seen at Baltimore’s Lower — Beth Cooper Lamplighter, so he Dens. Journalism junior gave us more beer,” Cooper said she Weintraub said. thinks the bar’s cozy Calling the sounds from jazz night “exper- atmosphere – with a maximum capacity is imental” would be a compliment. Weintraub 46 people – attracts audiences to the semiexplained the typical jazz set as something biweekly performances at the Lamplighter. like “Patti Smith taking Miles Davis’ ‘Bitches “Things are relaxed here as far as a code Brew’, mixing it with Henry Mincini’s later of conduct. That’s understood,” Cooper stuff and throwing it into stale bathwater said. “There are not a lot of rules. That’s with an electric toaster.” attractive to bands because it is a casual But after a few, solid performances in front place to play and everyone is on an equal of increasingly larger audiences, Weintraub playing field.” grew tired of what his creation had become. Lamplighter bartender Katherine Dohan “I invited different folks every week, said the enclosed space can often prove including musicians who could actually play benficial for artists.
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CLION symposium to explore heady topics BY CHRISTINA HOLLOWAY News Reporter The Center for Large-Scale Complex Systems and Integrated Optimization Networks will hold a symposium today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The CLION symposium, which will be held in the FedEx Institute of Technology, will focus on mathematic and scientific studies and is free to the public. Robert Kozma, co-chairman of the symposium, said students will be able to test a new headband which reads brain waves. “Using the band, you can control your iPod using your brain waves,” Kozma said. Co-Director of CLION Paul Werbos said that since the brain controls it, the device can be thought of as a “Super-Wii.” “You can control a car or a video game directly by thinking, and you don’t have to wire people up,” Werbos said.
There will also be a presentation demonstrating how the brain works by testing rats during an experiment with driving cars. “She instruments the brain while they learn to drive, so that you can see things about learning in the brain that you can’t do any other way, that nobody’s ever done,” Werbos said. While Kozma focuses on the understanding of the brain, Werbos is more focused on the mathematical side of it. “How the same kind of mathematics can be used as a model of the brain to understand their data, or you can implement it to build a machine to build stuff like the brain does,” he said. Werbos mentioned that a combination of mathematical principles, the brain, and “super chips” is needed to understand the brain’s process. “You can implement it to build a machine to build stuff like the brain does,” Werbos said.
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Bartender Katherine “Alleycat” Dohan serves beer at The Lamplighter on Madison Avenue. The Lamplighter, a longtime Midtown staple, has recently expanded its venue to offer live music. “Sometimes its a little loud for such a small place, but it makes for an intimate performance,” she said. Those involved with what’s been going on at the Lamplighter lately understand that the makeshift venue could go back to being the quiet, local bar it’s been since the ‘30s at any moment. “I’d say I deserve ‘blame’ more so than ‘credit’ – Jazz Night really ruined the place,” Weintraub said. “I used to live near there and enjoyed going in every once in a while to read a book or talk about the end
of the world with a friend or two, now you can’t do that because someone is always playing.” Cooper said she is willing to add live music to her nightly shifts as long as there are people who want to play. “Who knows how long it will serve as this venue space. For right now, it’s filling a hole the city is in need of,” she said. As part of their ongoing series of live music, The Lamplighter will host the rockabilly band Michael Hurt and the Haunted Hearts this Saturday.
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U of M reaches out, offers classes to Ridgeway High School’s beleaguered physics students BY ERICA HORTON News Reporter Memphis Tigers and the Ridgeway Roadrunners will unite to provide an opportunity for high school students who want to tackle the laws of physics. After the Ridgeway High School physics program was cancelled two weeks ago due to a staff shortage, The University’s U Teach Memphis students and professors teamed up with the school for a stillunder-construction project to restore it. Volunteers from U Teach Memphis will serve as teachers for Ridgeway’s physics program this year, pending administrative details. Co-director of U Teach and physics professor Donald Franceschetti, said for instance, two people who want to volunteer for the initiative had their fingerprints taken on Wednesday for security
reasons. “ He also said that it is likely a Memphis City Schools administrator will be in the classroom with him when he does guest lectures. New books have been ordered for the physics program, which could start as soon as next week. But, Franceschetti said he hopes it will start no later than November to give the high school students time to understand everything they will be taught. “The current plan is that we will see students in two courses,” Franceschetti said. “The first will be a one-credit lab course and the second will be a threecredit physics course.” He said Ridgeway High School students must have a minimum 20 ACT score to take the class, which will be
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Science
The science of the Mojave Desert — and scorpions that glow in the dark BY CARLA RIVERA Los Angeles Times Darkness cloaked the desert, pierced only by a canopy of stars that provided a glittering backdrop for 20 college students treading cautiously over the cracked, dry landscape. But a soft hiss stopped them in their tracks. Mudassar Haq heard the rattlesnake and shouted to alert the others as classmate Thomas Parker shined a flashlight on a large sidewinder slithering away under a tuft of salt grass. “I immediately knew what it was, that’s something you don’t think twice about,” said Haq, 20, a Cal State Fullerton junior. “My instinct was to run.” But neither student did. Their calm response allowed for an unexpectedly close look at a staple
of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. “This is an unusual treat,” Fullerton associate biology professor William Hoese told the group. “We’re going to give it room.” The biology students were spending a recent weekend with 40 classmates and two professors at Cal State’s Desert Studies Center, a 1,200-acre field station in the Mojave that is one of the world’s few desert research facilities. The center, 60 miles east of Barstow near Soda Springs, has a colorful past as a 1940sera health spa founded by Curtis Howe Springer, a radio evangelist. Springer built dormitories, created mineral baths in the shape of a cross and sold potions he claimed would cure everything from hair loss to cancer. He named the resort Zzyzx, so it would be “the last word
in health,” as he put it. But he had set up his business on federal land without authorization and it was confiscated in 1974, although the sign for Zzyzx Road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas still puzzles motorists on Interstate 15. A man-made oasis, the site is now part of the 1.6 million-acre federally owned Mojave National Preserve. The Cal State facility is run by a consortium of seven campuses and managed mainly by Cal State Fullerton. About 2,300 people visit annually, including day-trippers and those planning multi-night stays. For a $16 nightly fee ($8 for Cal State students and staff), guests can use the center’s library, lab, Internet access, cots and hot showers. Some expenses at the center have been trimmed because of
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state funding cuts but overall operations have not been threatened, said its director, Cal State Fullerton professor William Presch. This year, it received $56,000 for operations from the Cal State system and another $50,000 in fees that pay for major equipment and upkeep. The center will soon install a 40-kilowatt solar plant that will power most of the facility. The National Park Service owns and maintains many of the older buildings and submitted Zzyzx, its original buildings, landscaping and other features for National Historic Registry status. A lake on the property is home to the Mohave tui chub, an endangered fish once thought to be extinct. The center attracts researchers from around the world to study geology, climatology, astronomy and other fields and it has been used in feature films and documentaries. NASA uses it as a base camp for its Spaceward Bound program, which trains students and teachers to live and work in harsh environments that mimic surfaces of the moon and Mars. It’s also a place where Cal State and other students learn firsthand about desert plants and animals, and where many have a first encounter with the natural world in an unforgiving environment. “It’s a big thing for them to think they might not shower for a night,” said Fullerton associate professor Danielle Zacherl, who brought 240 members of her introductory biology class to the center over two recent weekends. “Being in the desert is a physical and cultural challenge.” That point was emphasized by site steward Jason Wallace, who briefed the students on a few basics: The nearby springs attract bighorn sheep, foxes and other desert creatures; leave a door or window open and you can expect some interesting visitors come morning.
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What are your plans for the upcoming fall break? by Aaron Turner
“Play in the band for the football game on Saturday, do a photo shoot with a friend and carve pumpkins.”
“Study at home and maybe watch some movies and shop.”
“I’m just goint to chill with friends and stay bored, sleep and eat. The break is way too short — it should be longer.”
“Hang out with friends, play soccer and ultimate Frisbee.”
“I’m going to Orange Beach in Alabama. The weather is supposed to be really nice down there.”
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Underwear bomber pleads guilty, delivers warning BY DAVID ASHENFELTER AND TRESA BALDAS Detroit Free Press Accused underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty Wednesday to eight criminal charges, including conspiring to commit terrorism. The guilty plea came on the second day of his criminal trial in U.S. District Court in Detroit. No sooner had court started than Judge Nancy Edmunds called a 45-minute recess to take up an important matter. When Abdulmutallab returned, his standby defense lawyer, Anthony Chambers, said his client had decided to plead guilty.
Abdulmutallab read from a statement saying he was guilty under U.S. law, but not under Islamic law, for the crimes charged. He said he tried to carry out the bombing in retaliation for the murder of innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Isreal and elsewhere by the United States. He warned the U.S. that, if it continued to murder innocent Muslims, a calamity would befall the U.S. “If you laugh at us now, we will laugh at you later,” he said. He said committing jihad against the United States is one of “the most virtuous acts” a Muslim can perform. Edmunds set sentencing for
Jan. 12. Abdulmutallab faces a mandatory 30 years in prison, but could get life for some of the charges, which include conspiring to commit terrorism and using a weapon of mass destruction. He pleaded guilty to trying to bring down a Detroit-bound jetliner on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb concealed in his underwear. The bomb misfired, passengers and crew wrestled him to the ground and he was taken into custody when the plane landed in Detroit. Along the way, he told several people, including FBI agents, what he had done, according to an opening statement Tuesday by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel. Edmunds called in the jury after Abdulmutallab was led out of the courtroom and advised them what had happened. She said jurors could talk to reporters if she wanted. She assured jurors again that their names would not be released to the public. Outside the courthouse, Chambers, said he hadn’t advised his client to plead guilty. “It’s disappointing,” he said, adding that he never wants a client to plead guilty to charges that could result in a life sentence. He said Abdulmutallab made the decision on his own. Chambers said he thinks he had a viable defense to some of the charges, adding that he questioned whether the aircraft was damaged by the bombing attempt. He said the guilty plea enables his client to get on with the rest of his life and to read a statement in court to explain his actions.
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Nation
Iranians allegedly behind plot to kill Saudi ambassador in US BY KEN DILANIAN, PAUL RICHTER AND BRIAN BENNETT Tribune Washington Bureau American officials charged that an alleged plot by Iran to blow up the Saudi ambassador as he dined in Washington marks a radical shift by Tehran toward direct confrontation with the United States. The FBI said Tuesday that it had broken up a conspiracy orchestrated by a secretive unit of Iran’s military with close ties to the country’s senior leadership. In addition to criminal charges against two alleged perpetrators, the U.S. announced sanctions against five peo-
ple, including two described as senior officials of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard who were accused of overseeing the plot to kill Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir. The high-profile nature of the administration’s statements, featuring the secretary of state, attorney general and director of the FBI, appeared to reflect the White House’s determination to hold Iran responsible for the incident. “We see this as a dangerous escalation of the Iranian government’s use of violence to advance its agenda,” said a senior White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not
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authorized to discuss the matter publicly. In a statement, the Saudi Embassy called the plot “a despicable violation of international norms.” Iran called the allegations a “fabrication.” Late Tuesday night, the State Department warned Americans at home and abroad to watch out for possible attacks linked to the alleged plot. In a travel alert, the department said the incident could signify “a more aggressive focus by the Iranian government on terrorist activity against diplomats from certain countries, to include possible attacks in the United States.” According to the criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday, members of Iran’s Quds Force, an elite Revolutionary Guard unit, tried to hire what they thought was a Mexican drug cartel to kill the Saudi envoy. The complaint said that Manssor Arbabsiar, an Iranian American living in Texas, flew to Mexico and, at the behest of the Quds Force, agreed to pay a man he believed to be a cartel operative $1.5 million to kill the ambassador. Over time, the plot focused on bombing an unspecified restaurant the ambassador frequented, the complaint alleged. The “cartel member” turned out to be a confidential informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration. He reported the solicitation to U.S. law enforcement and recorded his conversations with Arbabsiar, officials said. Arbabsiar gave the man a down payment of roughly $100,000 and told him the plot should go ahead even if 100 or more bystanders would die in the explosion, the complaint alleged. “They want that guy done, if the 100 go with him,” he allegedly said. The case “reads like the pages of a Hollywood script,” FBI Director Robert Mueller told reporters in announcing the arrest along with Attorney General Eric A. Holder Jr., but “the impact would have been very real and many lives would have been lost.” At Arbabsiar’s arraignment in New York on Tuesday, his lawyer said he would plead not guilty. The fact that the man the Iranians allegedly contacted was an informant allowed U.S. officials to monitor the conversations from the outset in May, officials said. “Was it a lucky break? Yes,” said a U.S. law enforcement official, “but everybody jumped on it.” The plotters also discussed an attack against the Israeli Embassy in Washington, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said in a Senate speech. An Israeli Embassy spokesman said he could not confirm that. U.S. officials previously have
accused the Quds Force of sponsoring terrorist attacks abroad, including assassinations, and of roadside bomb attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq. But officials expressed shock and anger Tuesday at the allegation that Iranian operatives would plan to slay a diplomat on U.S. soil. Seth Jones, an expert on Iran with the Rand Corp., said if the Quds Force was plotting attacks inside the United States, it would amount to “a notable change in behavior.” It would be very hard to believe that senior Iranian officials condoned such an operation, he said. At the news conference announcing the case, Holder noted that the criminal complaint does not allege involvement by top officials of the Iranian government. Separately, U.S. intelligence officials would not say whether evidence directly linked senior members of the Iranian government to the conspiracy. Other U.S. officials, however, went further. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House intelligence committee, said the evidence suggested the plot was approved “at the highest levels of the Iranian government” in part because the Quds Force is believed to report directly to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. The criminal complaint lays out a series of recorded phone conversations from May to October between the two men
charged in the case, Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri, alleged to be an Iran-based member of the Quds Force. Arbabsiar was arrested Sept. 29 and confessed after being read his Miranda rights, the FBI says. Shakuri presumably remains in Iran. While they interrogated him, U.S. officials showed Arbabsiar an array of seven photos, two of which were of senior members of the Quds Force, according to the complaint. Arbabsiar identified one of the known Quds Force officials as a senior commander he met with in Iran who was coordinating the plot. Expressing outrage, lawmakers urged the Obama administration to confront Iran. Reps. Peter King, R-N.Y., and Michael McCaul, R-Texas, called the alleged plot “an act of war.” But no one was calling for a military strike, and the U.S. has been leveling economic sanctions against Iran for years, with no measurable change in behavior. Rogers said he hoped the revelations put pressure on the Europeans, the Chinese and the Russians to go along with tougher U.S. economic sanctions against Iran. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in an appearance at the State Department, said, “We will be consulting with our friends and partners around the world about how we can send a very strong message that this kind of action, which violates international norms, must be ended.”
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Obama’s package too big, GOP says As expected, jobs bill fails to gain traction in Senate while country faces potential double-dip BY LISA MASCARO AND CHRISTI PARSONS Tribune Washington Bureau The Senate blocked President Barack Obama’s jobs plan Tuesday night, prompting Democratic leaders to begin laying plans to divide the $447 billion package into pieces they hope will be too politically popular to oppose. The legislation, which is the centerpiece of Obama’s latest effort to boost the struggling economy and avoid what economists warn could be a doubledip recession, failed to attract the votes needed to overcome a filibuster. Sixty were needed, and it received just 50 — with all 46 Republicans present voting against. Now, Democrats will bring up individual elements of the bill that have widespread appeal in opinion polls. They are likely to include a tax break for workers and funds to prevent teacher layoffs, as well as new spending on road construction and school modernization. Other provisions include tax credits for companies that expand their payrolls and hire veterans looking for jobs. One of the most controversial provisions was a 5.6 percent surtax on millionaires, starting in 2013, that was designed to pay for the legislation. Even before the vote, Obama acknowledged the bill faced certain defeat and conceded the White House would have to take a new approach. “We’re going to have to break it up,” he said shortly after meeting with a group of business and labor leaders in Pittsburgh. “Folks should ask their senators, ‘Why would you consider voting against putting teachers and police officers back to work?’ Ask them what’s wrong with having folks who have made millions or billions of dollars to pay a little more,” Obama said after meeting with his Jobs Council. The unemployment rate for September was 9.1 percent. The GOP-led House has refused to consider Obama’s proposal. Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., the majority leader, said he welcomed a breakup of the bill, but dismissed the proposed tax hike on the wealthy as a “nonstarter.” “Hopefully this says this is the end of the political games,” Cantor said. “Our message is we do have some potential to agree on some things.” Unemployed workers converged on the Capitol Tuesday to hold protests and a prayer vigil to press for passage. The demonstration recalled the “Occupy Wall Street” protests occurring across the country. Republicans have stood en masse against additional federal spending to spur the economy. And even some Democrats oppose the “millionaires’ tax.” “You can’t tax your way out of an economic downturn,” said Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., who opposes the bill even though he
voted to end the filibuster. Two Democrats facing difficult re-elections voted to block the legislation — Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Sen. Jon Tester of Montana. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., initially voted to halt the filibuster, but later switched his vote under a procedural rule that will allow him to bring up the bill again in the future. One senator, Tom Coburn, R-Okla., missed the vote while undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, the architect of the Democratic message operation in the Senate, will argue at a Washington forum Wednesday
that the proposals are desperately needed to help the country avoid a double-dip recession. The payroll tax break would provide workers with an average of $1,500 annually. An existing payroll tax reduction, which is worth about an average of $1,000 a year, is set to expire in December. Obama has proposed extending and increasing that tax break for 2012. “We are struggling now to avoid a recession,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moodys.com, who has estimated Obama’s jobs package would shave a percentage point off the unemployment rate. “If we allow that to expire ... we face a significant risk of going back into
recession.” Other elements of the Obama package are also expected to come before the Senate, including ones that would provide $35 billion to states to prevent layoffs of teachers, firefighters and first responders and $25 billion for school modernization. Schumer is preparing legislation that would combine Obama’s proposal for a $10 billion infrastructure bank to spur road and highway improvements with a GOP-backed proposal for a tax break for companies that repatriate overseas profits. He hopes the matchup would generate bipartisan support. Advisers to the president argue that Americans are rally-
ing around his call to pass the job-creation plan. The more he talks about it, they say, the more support swells. In a memo to campaign staff Tuesday, Obama strategist David Axelrod said “support has grown by nearly 10 percent” over the past three weeks as the president has barnstormed for the bill. When Obama travels to Michigan on Friday, he will slightly adjust his message. Rather than urging crowds to tell Congress to “Pass this bill!” as he has done for the past month, he’ll talk about passing it piece by piece, according to one senior administration official who expects that the payroll tax is likely to be the first provision to come before Congress.
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Lady Tigers. “The teams that are above us and right below us won their games on the weekend, so it’s going to switch when its that close. Hopefully we can get the results that we need this weekend and jump back up. It’s so tight that with any little slip up, you’re going drop a little bit. But at the end of the day, it’s great to say we’re top ten.” The Tigers return to the Mike Rose Soccer Complex on Friday to face UTEP (10-3-2) at 7 p.m. “We say, ‘Take one game at a time,’” Monaghan said. “Don’t get caught up in the rankings and weekly awards, just focus on the task at hand.”
This week marks the University of Memphis women’s soccer team’s fourth straight week ranked in the top ten, the longest such run in program history. Since Sept. 20, The U of M (13-0-1) has been ranked in the top ten of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Though dropping from No. 6 to 8 in less than a week after tying SMU last weekend, the Lady Tigers are one of just six undefeated teams at the Division l level. “All of the teams are quality teams,” said Brooks Monaghan, head coach of the
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Spurrier bans columnist BY JOSH KENDALL McClatchy Newspapers South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier declined to hold his normal Tuesday news conference while Ron Morris, sports columnist for The State newspaper, was in the media meeting room at Williams-Brice Stadium. “I am not going to talk while he’s in here,” Spurrier said. “That’s my right as a head coach. I don’t have to talk to him.” Spurrier then called TV and internet media members with video cameras out of the room, telling print reporters he would come back and talk to them after he spoke to the TV media. When Spurrier re-entered the room, Morris still was in his seat and Spurrier walked out again. Spurrier is upset, he said, about a column Morris wrote in March regarding sophomore Bruce Ellington’s decision to play football as well as basketball at South Carolina. Ellington, who started at point guard for the Gamecocks last season, will miss nearly half of the basketball season because of his football obligations. “Last spring, he wrote a story about me recruiting Bruce Ellington and luring him away from the basketball program,” Spurrier said. “Completely fabricated story. I didn’t talk with Bruce until he had met with
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Lady Tigers drop two spots, remain in Top 10 nationally
South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier, known for his colorful sideline demeanor, walked out of a Tuesday press conference attended by a columnist who wrote a critical article that questioned one of Spurrier’s player’s actions. Coach (Darrin) Horn.” Spurrier later talked to several members of the print media, including a State sports writer, in a conference room in the nearby football team’s office complex. “Coach Spurrier has every right to express his opinion about a newspaper column published last March,” said Henry
B. Haitz III, president and publisher of The State. “We know of no inaccuracies, and we invite readers to review the March 27 article for themselves on www. thestate.com.” Spurrier later said he “probably” will do the same thing at the team’s next scheduled news conference, set for Oct. 25.
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Tigers set to host USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regionals BY JASMINE VANN Sports Reporter
Hoping to qualify for the National Indoor Championships in November, The University of Memphis women’s tennis team and 20 teams across the region will compete during the USTA/ ITA Ohio Valley Regions, an event hosted by the Tigers at the Racquet Club of Memphis. “We’re really excited to be hosting this event,” said Lee Taylor Walker, women’s tennis head coach. “The Racquet Club is one of the premiere tennis facilities in the country, which makes it a great place for all these teams to play.” The Tigers go into the weekend after competing in the 2011 ITA/Riviera All-American Championships, where all four competitors won at least one
match against top competitors in the nation. “This was a good tournament for us,” Walker said. “Last year we only had two players invited and we went 0-2. This year, four of our girls were invited and we went 4-4. This tournament allowed us to get some confidence, learn a lot and show we can compete with the top players in the country. We’re looking forward to some big breakthroughs in the next few weeks, especially with us hosting USTA/ITA Regionals.” Friday, the event kicks off with the first and second qualifying rounds of singles and doubles. Saturday, U of M junior netter Andrea Arrues- Garcia will play in the first match of the tournament. The action continues with the final draw of singles and doubles matches, followed by back draws on Sunday. Teams
will compete in quarterfinal and semifinal matches on Monday. Championships for back draw singles will be held Tuesday at 8a.m. while main draw doubles finalists will compete at 10 a.m., followed by main draw singles at 10:30 a.m. Courtney Collins, junior netter, is set to face IUPUI’s Shelby Hullett on Saturday in the first round of the singles main draw. Teammates Mariya Slupska, Tiffany Welcher and Alyssa Hibberd are also among the seven Lady Tigers competing. Welcher and Hibberd will begin doubles main draw play at 8 a.m. “We have two Memphis players seeded in the top eight, so our girls are looking forward to competing,” Walker said. “Fans will really have an opportunity to see a lot of quality tennis this week.”
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similar to an advanced placement course. However, students will not have to take an advanced placement test to get college credit. “This is the first year we’ve gone and taught physics in a high school,” Franceschetti said. “I’ve already had several parents contact me by email and thank me.” The U Teach program was started a year ago and is supported by a $1 million endowment from an anonymous donor. Dean of arts and sciences Henry Kurtz said the program is meant to get science, math and engineering majors interested in teaching. “At the end of this program, you would get a degree and be certified to teach high school,” he said. “It’s not a separate science degree or a watered down degree. It’s a teacher training option on top of science.” Kurtz said the opportunity to teach physics at Ridgeway is great for the undergraduate students in the U Teach program and for the community. “They have just the problem that U Teach is trying to solve,” he said. Administrators from the nowdefunct Memphis City Schools declined to comment for this story.
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Sherrod scores hat trick in Tigers’ rout of Mavericks BY ADAM DOUGLAS Sports Editor Sophomore forward Mark Sherrod scored three goals on Tuesday as The University of Memphis men’s soccer team (7-3-1, 1-2 in Conference USA) defeated the visiting Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks 8-0 at the Mike Rose Soccer Complex. “We moved the ball well, but I thought we got a little impatient in the first half,” said Richie Grant, head coach of the men’s soccer team. “(Mark Sherrod’s) all-around game is very good. He’s been immense for us this season, and he’s going to need to continue to be as we go on into the end of the season.” Andreas Guentner and Tiago Reichert also added goals for Memphis. In addition to assists by Chandler Gagnon, Wilson Linder and Lewis Ellis, Liam Collins recorded three assists on the evening, giving him nine on the year. Tiger great Dayton O’Brien is the last to record double-digits in assists, posting 14 in 2004. “Mark makes it easy for me to get him the ball,” Collins said. “He’s always in the right space for me. He just has to be looking for (the ball).” The Tigers were aggressive from the beginning of the
match, taking a 1-0 lead in the 32nd minute with an Andreas Guntner goal. Guentner ’s shot nicked the bottom of the crossbar before going in. Sherrod added the second goal of the evening for Memphis, scoring off a through ball from Wil Linder. The Tigers entered halftime with a 2-0 lead over the Mavericks. Sherrod started the second half for the Tigers by scoring
his second goal of the match. Collins served the ball into the box for Sherrod, who scored on a header. Collins and Sherrod connected just under nine minutes later in the match after Collins stripped a UNO player of the ball. Sherrod took the feed from Collins at the top of the box and drilled a shot to the far post. Including
Tuesday’s hat trick, Sherrod has scored 11 goals on the season, the most since Andy Metcalf recorded 12 in 2005. Gordy Gurson scored a hat trick against Alabama A&M last season in the Tigers 8-0 win. “I give all the credit to Liam,” Sherrod said. “Every game it seems like he can always find me. My job is to just get in the box, and Liam just serves it up on a silver platter to me.”
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U of M sophomore midfielder Liam Collins heads a pass to a teammate for a goal during a match against Wisconsin.
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