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Update On Proposed Smoking Ban
Friday, November 11, 2011 Vol. 79 No. 43
Independent Student Newspaper of The University of Memphis
All-day events at UM to honor service members BY ERICA HORTON News Reporter
SGA resolves to add designated smoking areas on campus see page 3 www.dailyhelmsman.com
Juszkiewicz said he doesn’t regret one moment in the Army. “It was my mission, duty and job,” he said. Today, veterans like
try to simultaneously read the names of the fallen soldiers. The roll call will begin at 8 Sergeant Scott Juszkiewicz a.m. and is expected to last six was 21 years old when he found hours. out he would be deployed to Immediately before the roll Haiti. It was 1997. call begins, there will “We were in forbe a short Veterans sermation and our comvice and a Motivational his is our way of manders came out and Formation Run hosted told us our upcoming appreciating veterans and by The U of M ROTC deployment would at Memorial Field at saying thanks for what 7:30 a.m. happen in 72 hours,” Juszkiewicz said. The two-mile run you did.” Three days later, will last about 30 minhe was on a 20-hour utes and is open to the — Lt. Richard Bragg flight from Hawaii in public. University of Memphis ROTC a military plane alongLieutenant Richard side 300 other soldiers Bragg said the run on his way to a foris unique in that the eign land to help stabilize the Juszkiewicz will be honored Army, Navy, Marines and the government. around the country and at Air Force ROTC will do the After 18 and a half years The University of Memphis, run together instead of sepain the military, Juszkiewicz where administrators will host rately — as they usually do has traveled to more than 12 a National Roll Call at The during the week — to signify countries including Egypt, University Center Plaza. unity. Germany, France, Italy, Kuwait, This is the first year that The Participants in the run will Thailand, Malaysia and Japan. University has participated in carry the Tennessee, US and Though he wasn’t always the event and will be one of excited to get deployed, 103 schools around the counsee Veterans, page 5
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Benjamin Kemker, left, stands among fellow prior-deployed veterans during an ROTC training session on Thursday in preparation for The University of Memphis ROTC’s Veterans’ Day commencement.
Higher ed commission Bridge of hope says tuition increases a possibility next year One woman’s triumph over the black market for human beings BY JASMINE HUNTER News Editor
BY KYLE LACROIX News Reporter In a meeting on Thursday afternoon, the Tennessee Higher Education Commission approved a recommendation of a five to eight percent increase in University of Memphis and University of Tennessee Knoxville tuition for the 2012-2013 school year. In THEC’s meeting, broadcast over the Internet via live stream, the commission approved the recommendation, which presents several potential tuition increases, contingent on how much money comes from state appropriations. While THEC approved this recommendation, it will not necessarily become a reality. “This recommendation is just an initial step, the final approval would not happen until May or June of next year, we would look at the parameters and we would discuss it with the board of regents and they would eventually pass it on to the Tennessee legislature,” said David Zettergren, vice president of Business and Finance for The U of M. “The first step is to get the amount of money appropriated to us from Tennessee, we wait to see what those are, then we set fees based on that.” According to Zettergren, appropriations for The
U of M have decreased over the past several years. THEC also passed a few recommendations for appropriation, one of which would cut U of M appropriations by five percent. “They have discussed a possible five percent reduction. It’s not confirmed, but is a possibility,” said Zettergren. “Right now, the revenues for the state are up, so that’s good in terms of the state being able to provide what we’re accustomed to.” The tuition recommendation includes three possible increases: a five percent increase, a six and a half percent increase and an eight percent increase, which would raise tuition for a full academic year to $8,019, $8,115 and $8,212 respectively. These numbers include mandatory fees. Other colleges in the state face a three to six percent increase in tuition, while Tennessee Technology Center faces a five to ten percent increase. Over the past five years, The University of Memphis has had a 46.4 percent increase in tuition and mandatory fees have risen from $868 to $1246. “Appropriation has been down, so in order to keep services at the level we’re used to, we have to raise fees,” said Zettergren. “We try to keep tuition as reasonable as we can, but we want to maintain our high level of quality in our programs.”
Sitting in her kitchen having dinner—potato soup, homemade bread and chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven— with her husband and teenaged son, Kimberly Benson does not look as if her past has anything to do with modern day slavery. At the age of five, Benson was raped. Then, at the age of 16 she was date raped. At 17, she was sexually assaulted, and a year later she was gang raped by a group of men who took advantage of her being intoxicated. “I woke up in the bathroom with evidence that I had been sexually assaulted several times,” she said. Just a month or so afterwards, she had a run-in with the sex trafficking industry. “I had a friend who acted like my best friend. I was so naive; I thought she really liked me,” she said. “We went to a friend who said she had other friends in Chicago who wanted to meet
me. They asked me how much I would charge for sexual favors, and they handed her a wad of money to pay for me. I took off running out the door, and I never looked back.” Benson said her road to recovery was long and hard. “When I was 19, I met a young man whose family was Christian,” she said. “He and his family not only took me in, but loved me unconditionally. And that was something I had never seen before.” The young man became her husband Daryl. They both underwent professional counseling together in order for him to understand what she had been through. “So it took a circle of people around me that loved me unconditionally to let me feel what I needed to feel and be able to do things in a healthy manner and understand that even though my past was horrible, my future didn’t have to be dictated by my
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Trafficking, page 8