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Graduation means freedom from exams, project deadlines and that one crazy professor. But, while the chapter on the pursuit of a degree ends, the prospect of finding a job looms almost immediately after students receive their diploma. According to 2010 U.S. Census data, it’s easier to find a job in some majors than others. Clinical psychology graduates have the worst job outlook, with a 19.5 percent unemployment rate. Actuarial science majors have the best outlook with a zero percent unemployment rate. Laura Snyder, college academic advisor at The University of Memphis, said students should focus on the skills they learned during their major as opposed to the major itself. “Sometimes students will graduate and say, ‘OK, where’s my job?’ And it doesn’t work that way,” she said. “They graduate with the belief that, ‘I’ve got my degree, now I’m going to do this.’” One of the best things stu-
dents can do to prepare for the job market is get internships as early as possible and get involved in organizations on campus related to their major, Snyder said. Getting to know professors and other professional contacts doesn’t hurt either. “Network. Network. Network. Sometimes—really and truly—it’s not what you
know; it’s who you know. Anything you can do that will give you that extra little edge in the job market is good,” she said. “There are probably 40 other people wanting the job you’re applying for.” As of October, the national unemployment rate is nine
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A former Student Government Association President at The University of Memphis was shot with what witnesses described as a gas-powered air rifle on Sunday night. Hunter Lang, 2010 SGA President and senior music industry and recording major, was shot in the right hand outside of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house at 3586 Midland Ave. at about 11:30 p.m., according to Memphis police. He was treated at Saint Francis Hospital and released. The pellet is still lodged in his hand, and he is scheduled to undergo surgery on Thursday to have it removed.
In connection with the incident, police are seeking a University of Mississippi student who was visiting the fraternity house on Sunday night. Reached by phone Tu e s d a y night, Lang declined to comment on the incident for legal reasons. One witness, who spoke under condition of anonymity at Lang’s request, said that Lang was walking home on Midland when a pellet fired from inside the Sig Ep house struck him. In Memphis, suspects in similar airgun shootings have faced both misdemeanor and felony assault charges. Lang is the president of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. He also plays piano in The U of M band Soundfuzion. Daily Helmsman Editorin-Chief Scott Carroll contributed to this story.
BY CHELSEA BOOZER News Reporter Students in a design practice course are doing more than just asking others to pick up their trash today by staking out trashcans on campus for their “DUDE, Pick Up Your SH*T” campaign. Adjunct professor of the course, Matt Young, assigned students to come up with an initiative for a design campaign that would have a visible impact in a real world setting. “We saw a lot of trash on campus on a regular basis. We thought that would be something that was non-opinionated, non-political, and I think everyone can get behind that they want the campus to look
cleaner and more attractive,” Young said. The goal of the class was to present the suggestion of picking up trash on campus in a way that didn’t sound as if it was coming from an authority figure—like the administration—but from fellow students. Weeks were spent on word choice for the campaign. “I’m not your mom; Pick up your trash,” was considered, but Young said the class thought that sounded as if it was coming from parents and was still not the “right motivation” for students. “The primary reason for the expletive in the title is that we assume if someone saw that poster they would be more apt
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Mightier than the sword Lecture on the power of language to take place at Fogelman Executive Conference Center BY MICHELLE CORBET News Reporter Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Margaret Edson will deliver a 60-minute presentation on Friday about the power of spoken and written word. Edson will come to campus to present her lecture entitled, “The Map of Speech: Orality, Literacy and Writing for Performance.” The free event takes place at 2:30 p.m. in the Fogelman Executive Conference Center. The speech is open to students of all majors. Edson will focus on how we use language to influence others, which will appeal to
“anyone who has an interest in the power of language and how it can affect people,” said Brain Fruits, master of fine arts candidate in stage directing. The University will host a production of Edson’s play, “W;t,” on Nov. 10 and 11 at 7:30 p.m in The U of M studio theatre. “W;t” tells the story of an English professor who is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Through her struggle, she looks back on her life and work with insight and wit. Fruits is the director of the play. “She is forced to go to a hospital for intensive experimental
treatments for this rare type of ovarian cancer,” he said. “She is now thrust into a setting she’s uncomfortable with where she can no longer hide behind her teaching visage or her poetry.” Fruits said he hopes to deliver a production the audience can understand and react to honestly. “With any production, I hope they come away understanding what the story was; it’s our job to tell these stories as honestly and passionately as we can,” he said. “I want them to react honestly, whether they laugh, cry or fall asleep. I do this because I find beauty in truth and I want to represent that.”
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to verbally tell other students about it for that specific reason,” Young said. “It’s not meant to be controversial; it’s meant to be an attention grabber.” Senior graphic design major Chris Fiveash is one of 13 students working on the campaign. He said the class went with a guerilla marketing strategy by not informing the administration beforehand. “We feel like the asterisk in the title censors it enough. We thought that would be the best way to catch people’s attention, and maybe the cause will be more important than how we got their attention.” Thought not meant to be controversial, Young said he expects some to be shocked by the campaign. He said he hopes the administration can understand this is not a permanent thing on campus, but only four hours of one day. Students in the class will be posted at trashcans outside
the University Center and the Tiger Den today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. They’ll ask students to accept a challenge of throwing away their own trash and any debris they walk past on campus. Anyone who accepts the challenge will get a button that says, “I picked up my sh*t,” and their photo will be posted on the group’s Facebook event page. Each of the 13 students donated their own money to promote the campaign. T-shirts and buttons were printed with the catch phrase and Young, who owns a design firm, got the posters and flyers donated. Curt Crocker, junior graphic design major, said participating in the campaign is going to be fun and he hopes students take away the importance of picking up trash on campus. “We need to take pride in this campus, where we spend so much time. It’s a beautiful campus and there is no reason why there should be so much trash at the table you’re eating lunch at,” he said.
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The world is getting closer to the launching of a new Internet address system for pornography providers, and there are some eyeopening names being registered. Among them: washu.xxx and mizzou.xxx. Don’t, however, expect to find naked co-eds at either of these sites. In what amounts to a defensive maneuver, schools across the nation are snapping up the .xxx domain names that match their federally registered trademarks.
It’s simply a matter of trying to keep them out of the wrong hands. “We don’t want someone coming across our trademark on a porn site. God only knows what they’d come up with,” said Terry Robb, director of information technology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, which also has registered missouri.xxx and missouritigers.xxx. Colleges and universities are no different than other organizations in this regard. With the impending launching of the new .xxx top level domains later this year, everyone with a trademark had a chance to reserve names in what’s called a ‘sunrise phase.”
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Four-year schools courting community college graduates BY JOE BURRIS The Baltimore Sun When Luke Fisher of Westminster, Md., graduated from high school five years ago, he had doubts that he could excel at a four-year school. He turned down an offer to attend Towson University and opted instead for Carroll Community College. Fisher would become editor of the campus newspaper and a peer mentor for first-year college students. He is set to graduate this spring with an associate’s degree, and plans now to pursue his bachelor’s degree. He’s found a couple of area schools Quinn Stewart, 20, pictured October 20, 2011, in Columbia, —including the University of Maryland, is currently attending Howard County Community Maryland and Hood College— College and will soon transfer to Towson University to study that appear particularly eager to international relations. have him. “Their transfer advisers went that coming out of high school,” College in December. She is waitabove and beyond trying to get said Howard Community ing to learn if she’s been accepted me to visit their campuses,” College student Quinn Stewart to a four-year school. Fisher said. of Baltimore, who will transfer to The former student association He’s confident that such atten- Towson after graduating this fall. president has her sights on the tion will lead to acceptance—and Stewart considered a West University of Maryland-College he’s not alone. Increasingly, four- Coast arts college while in high Park. She says she came away year colleges are setting their school, but decided to enroll at from meetings with representasights on the growing talent pool HCC as an international studies tives from that school believing at community that they were colleges, as those impressed with schools have her leadership here are more students become attracexperience. tive, less-expen- going to community colleges, and “I definitely sive options for feel wanted at we are now accepting more of Maryland; students during I pretthose students.” the economic ty much feel like downturn. I’m expected to More stuget in,” Solovieff — Freeman A. Hrabowski dents are using said. “There’s no President of the University of Maryland, two-year schools question of it, Baltimore County to bolster their because of how credentials— much they’ve and statistics been involved show they are more likely to major while taking math and with (AACC). I’m not bragging transfer to four-year programs. science courses that she needed. or anything, but I feel like as an Nationally, community col- She plans to continue her major institution they want me, and lege enrollment has increased at Towson. that’s a nice feeling to have.” by more than 20 percent over School officials have eased Local community colleges say the last three years, according the way by strengthening agree- more four-year schools are sendto the American Association of ments on transferring credits ing representatives to their transCommunity Colleges. from two- to four-year programs. fer days, at which students are In Maryland, 9,702 students “There are more students given information and help movtransferred from the state’s two- going to community colleges, ing from one school to the next. year schools to its four-year and we are now accepting more Sixty institutions attended a schools during the academic of those students,” said Freeman recent transfer day at Howard year that ended in 2009, accord- A. Hrabowski, president of Community College. ing to the state Higher Education the University of Maryland, Dorothy Plantz, the school’s Commission. That’s up from Baltimore County. He and other interim director of admission 7,902 students four years earlier four-year college officials say and advising, said that while —a 23 percent increase. their schools are offering more four-year universities once sent “We have some very ambitious financial assistance to communi- a single representative to such statewide goals for college com- ty college students—particularly events, many now are sending pletion,” said Danette Howard, those who have excelled in two- representatives from each of the state’s interim secretary for year programs. their schools. higher education. She pointed to The University of MarylandSome students say representaGov. Martin O’Malley’s goal that Baltimore County also offers tives from four-year schools now at least 55 percent of the state’s discounts to community college are more visible on campus year residents between ages 25 and graduates. round. 64 will hold at least one college “The students who are best “I see a representative at least degree by 2025. have completed their (Associate three times a week,” said Harford “To meet that goal we have of Arts) degree,” Hrabowski Community College student to serve our transfer student said. “They have a sense of com- Nick Greives. “They’re in our population.” pletion. They understand a great student center at the very top Students who have attended deal about college-level teach- floor, so it’s a very high-traffic two-year institutions say their ing and responsibilities of college area. Towson’s always here. I’ve experiences have defied expecta- students, and they are typically seen two branches from UMUC, tions about college life. quite mature.” Salisbury. They’re just excited “Most of my friends, more Samantha Solovieff of to have our students with them than 30, go to community colleg- Annapolis is slated to graduate because they know that we’re es. I never would have thought from Anne Arundel Community ready to go.”
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Experts: Religion, government must not mix in U.S. BY SHAHID ALI PANHWER AND MAHA MUSSADAQ McClatchy Newspapers
The separation of church and state in American public life is essential to ensure that U.S. citizens retain their civil liberties and that the nation retains its exceptionalism in the world, a group of experts told a forum Tuesday at the National Press Club. As the 2012 election season heats up, the experts voiced concern over the view held by some that the First Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion, allows religion to be mixed with governance, which they said is incorrect. They said that American exceptionalism stems in no small part from religious liberty. John Ragosta, author of “Wellspring of Liberty: How Virginia’s Religious Dissenters Helped to Win the American Revolution & Secured Religious Liberty,” said that if the U.S. was categorically a Christian nation, then it would not have gotten the support that it has from people of other religious faiths. While Americans are more religious than the people of any other developed country, he said,
religion must remain separate from secular government in the United States. Jamie Raskin, director of the Law and Government Program at American University’s School of Law and also a Maryland state senator, noted that the Constitution allows people to follow whichever religion they desire, but that government should make its decisions based on logic and science. “One must be neutral and not be classified as Christian, Muslim or Jew,” he said. He noted that it may be accurate to label America a Christian nation in a demographic sense, but such a definition extended to constitutional law would destroy secular traditions developed over 200 years. John Kinney, dean of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University and pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Beaverdam, Va., said that people today are using God to push their political and social agendas. “When we are dragging religion into politics, then we are not searching for truth, but we do it to support our agenda in order to preserve our position, so the necessity for separation of church and state is essential” he said.
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Barnes & Noble unveils tablet BY Nathan OlivarezGiles Los Angeles Times
The Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet was announced on Monday as the bookseller’s answer to the coming Amazon Kindle Fire and Kobo Vox tablets. The Nook Tablet is now on pre-order and will ship to Barnes & Noble stores and other retailers (Target, Staples, Wal-Mart, Office Max and many others) late next week at a price of $249, about $50 more than the Kindle Fire. But for the extra $50, the Nook Tablet offers beefier specs than the Kindle Fire that, Chief Executive William Lynch argued in unveiling the new Barnes & Noble device, will add up to a faster, smoother experience when reading books, playing games or watching movies. So just what are those increased specs? The Nook Tablet gets 16 gigabytes of built-in storage and 1 gigabyte of RAM. The Nook Color, which used to sell for $249 but was cut in price to $199 on Monday, has 8 gigabytes of storage and 512 megabytes of RAM. Both Nook devices feature the same 7-inch touch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels and a microSD card slot that can accommodate up to 32-gigabytes of added storage. The Kindle Fire features Nook-Color-matching specs with a 7-inch touch screen, a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, 8 gigabytes of built-in storage and 512 megabytes of RAM. Amazon’s tablet has no microSD card slot. The Nook Tablet will offer
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At the University of Central Florida, President John Hitt wants to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from alumni and others in hopes of hiring faculty, expanding the library and paying for other needed projects, in part to help offset steep cutbacks by the Florida Legislature. At the University of Florida, which also has weathered state funding cuts, the goal is much more ambitious. UF, in the midst of its own major fundraising campaign, is trying to raise a whopping $1.5 billion by late next year. And one of Florida’s other large state universities, Florida State in Tallahassee, is laying the groundwork for a campaign to bring in as much as $1 billion. Their actions are part of a national trend. More than ever, educators say, public universities across the country are taking their financial futures into their own hands amid continuing cutbacks by state governments. Though fundraising among colleges isn’t new, schools are increasingly relying on the good will of private donors to erect buildings, hire staff and create student scholarships to accommodate growing enrollments. And they’re seeking amounts that are unprecedented, said Tim Seiler, director of the Fund Raising School at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. For example, University of Virginia, considered nationally to be a fundraising powerhouse, is in the final phase of a $3 billion campaign now. “There was a time when there was concern about the first university that launched a campaign that exceeded $1 billion,” Seiler said. “That glass ceiling has been shattered.” FSU is beefing up its fundraising staff in preparation for its $1 billion campaign, targeted for a 2014 launch. Late last year, FSU hired its current fundraising leader, Tom Jennings, away from University of Virginia. When FSU hired a new president last year, members of the university’s board of trustees were clear they wanted someone who could coax companies, wealthy alumni and others to help out. President Eric Barron was given a goal of bringing in $1 billion during his first several years of office and was offered a $100,000 bonus for every $100 million FSU receives in philanthropic gifts and pledges. “The state is still spending a lot of money on higher education, and ... FSU and others couldn’t survive without it,”
University of Central Florida President John Hitt wants to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from alumni and others in hopes of hiring faculty, expanding the library and paying for other needed projects, in part to help offset steep cutbacks by the Florida Legislature. Jennings said. “But the private philanthropy allows us to have a level of quality the state just can’t afford right now.” Thomas Haynes, vice president for university relations at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, understands that predicament as well as anyone. Haynes, who started only days ago, said he will help launch the largest fundraising effort ever at the historically black university. “Just about every organization has been hit significantly by the economic downturn,” Haynes said. “We’re really having to become extra aggressive with the fundraising efforts.” During the past several years, Florida’s public universities have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding. Building budgets have been hit especially hard. The 11-university system was given a total of $123 million for capital projects this school year -- about one-third of what was allocated the previous year, according to the Florida Board of Governors, which oversees public universities. Although the Florida Legislature allowed schools to raise tuition again this year, that money doesn’t fill all the holes and can’t be used to build or renovate facilities. Universities also were hurt when the state stopped funding two matching-fund programs they had relied on for years to generate money for new buildings and academic projects. There’s an $89 million backlog of projects dating from 2008 awaiting matching funds through the Courtelis Facility Matching program alone. Even as they gear up for fundraisers, universities know
it will be tough in this economic climate to raise the money they need. Things might be improving, though, according to a report by the national Council for Aid to Education. Charitable contributions to colleges and universities nationwide rose 0.5 percent to $28 billion last year. Adjusted for inflation, the amount fell 0.6 percent, the report says. But it’s doubtful that private money could ever completely replace state funding, said Ann Kaplan, who oversees the council’s annual survey of collegiate fundraising. Not only does charitable giving account for only a fraction of universities’ budgets, but it also often comes with strings. Many donors want their money to go to a particular project, said Kaplan: improving the library, for example, or expanding an arts program. Hitt has been key in his school’s fundraising efforts. Under his leadership, UCF has raised money for such major projects as a new medical school, stadium and basketball arena. UCF hasn’t yet set a specific goal for its new, multiyear campaign, which will kick off in another year or so. But officials have estimated they could collect $400 million to $600 million, said university spokesman Chad Binette. That would eclipse the $366 million generated by the school’s previous big fundraising campaign, which ended in 2006. “I am committed to its success, so much so that I signed a five-year contract extension as president to help us surpass our fundraising goals,” Hitt said during his State of the University speech.
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Illinois law school dean quits in grades scandal BY JODI S. COHEN Chicago Tribune The law-school admissions dean at the University of Illinois resigned after a school investigation found that he single-handedly and intentionally manipulated the class profile in six of the past 10 years, university officials announced Monday. The university will end up spending about $1 million on a two-month investigation into the embarrassing revelation that the law school manipulated the median grades and test scores of its students to make the classes appear more academically accomplished than they were. “It was critical that we perform an exhaustive, independent review to verify all the data, and fully understand what happened and how, so we can prevent it from happening again,” university spokesman Thomas Hardy said. “It’s an important investment in our future.” Paul Pless, the college’s admissions dean for the past seven years, resigned Friday. He had been on leave since early September after the university’s ethics office was tipped off that erroneous information had been reported about the Class of 2014, a group the college touted as “the most academically distinguished” in the school’s history, with a median LSAT score of 168 that boosted the school into a “rarefied level.” The actual median LSAT score was 163. The university hired two outside firms, Jones Day and data analysis firm Duff & Phelps, to investigate law school data from the past 10 years, including reviewing nearly 125,000 documents. The firms, along with the university’s legal counsel and ethics office, released a report Monday. It concluded that the law school “reported and/or publicly disseminated” inflated grades and test scores for the class of 2008 and the classes of 2010 through 2014. The acceptance rate of four classes also was manipulated, the report found. “Numbers were altered specifically and strategically to meet class profile goals and college ranking targets,” said Scott Rice, chief legal counsel for the university’s Urbana-Champaign campus. The report blamed all the errors on Pless, who it said “knowingly and intentionally” manipulated data In some years, individual students’ grades or test scores were changed. In other years, the overall test score for the class was inflated. For example, for this year ’s incoming class of 184 students, Pless allegedly
increased the test scores of 109 students and the GPAs of 58 students. The changes were made on spreadsheets that Pless maintained and were uncovered through a forensic analysis of his computer, the investigation found. The i n c o r re c t data enhanced the profile of the law school classes in such places as the American Bar Association and U.S. News and World Report rankings, which prospective students
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Tigers fall in season finale BY SCOTT HALL Sports Reporter
Despite taking an early lead, The University of Memphis men’s soccer team couldn’t hold on in the team’s regular season finale on Friday, falling 2-1 to Southern Methodist. Freshman forward Lewis Ellis struck early to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead in the second minute. Ellis flipped the ball over the SMU goalkeeper and into the back of the net. The goal was Ellis’ second of the season, and Sherrod recorded his fourth assist. Sherrod’s assist tied Sean Frasor’s record of 42 points in 2001. The Tigers’ lead was squandered in just two minutes late in the first half. SMU forward Juan Castillo scored unassisted in the 38th minute, and midfielder Arthur Ivo put the Mustangs ahead a minute later. Memphis was unable to equalize and the Mustangs walked away with the win. With the loss, the Tigers (11-5-1, 4-4-0 C-USA) secured sixth place in Conference USA and the No. 6 seed in the 2011 Conference USA men’s soccer tournament. The Tigers will take on thirdseeded No. 22 Central Florida tonight in the first round of the C-USA tournament in Tulsa, Okla. Memphis beat the thenNo. 9 Knights 3-2 on Oct. 29. It was the Tigers’ second upset of a ranked team this season. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. Six University of Memphis men’s soccer players received post-season Conference USA honors following the conclusion of the regular season on Saturday. Sophomore forward Mark Sherrod was named C-USA Player of the Year for the first time in his career, as well as Offensive Player of the Year and named to the All-Conference First Team. Sherrod’s 19 goals on the year set a new school record for goals in a season, and his 42 points is tied for most in a single season. Sherrod garnered multiple player of the week awards this season, and ranks second in the nation in goals, points, goals per game (1.13) and points per game (2.47). Sophomore midfielder Liam Collins was also named to the All-Conference First Team. Collins was an important piece in the Tigers’ offense this year, recording 11 assists and scoring one goal this season. He ranks fourth in the nation in assists (11) and assists per game (0.65). Junior defender J.J. Greer was named to the All-Conference Second Team, and sophomore goalkeeper Conor Hurley was named to the All-Conference Third team. Hurley, who recorded 46 saves and holds a 1.09 goals against average, is tied for the conference lead in shutouts,
with six. Freshmen midfielder Wil Linder and defender Chandler Gagnon were named to the AllConference Freshman team. Gagnon started every game and scored a game-winning goal against Florida International on Oct. 8. He also assisted on the game-winner against NebraskaOmaha on Oct. 11. Linder recorded four assists and scored three goals this season, including a game-winner against Kentucky on Oct. 23.
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Tigers to iron out a few kinks BY ADAM DOUGLAS Sports Editor
With two days remaining before their next exhibition game and less than a week from
able to prepare for conference play, because you always see different styles.” While Memphis adjusts those different styles, CBU will have to account for the Tigers carousel roster, as Pastner is still mum
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identity this year has to be on the defensive end of the floor.” — Josh Pastner the official start of the season, the University of Memphis Tigers basketball team still has some tweaks to tend to, according to head coach Josh Pastner. With Friday’s matchup against Christian Brothers University, the Tigers have the chance to address those issues one more time. “Some of the things we tweaked was that a lot of the offensive rebounds that we gave up were a result of us not getting back off the press,” Pastner said. “Christian Bothers gives us a totally different style than LeMoyne-Owen, which I think will be good for us to be
on a starting lineup and plans to continue spreading out playing time. The third year head coach said his team will have multiple starters throughout the season. “Going into last game I was playing everybody,” he said. “This game I am going to try to go with a more game-like situation, but I keep telling everyone that we don’t have a set rotation – we have eight to nine starters. The guys know it, they understand it – those are the facts.” No matter who plays and how many minutes they play, Pastner wants his team’s identity to be made on the defensive end of the floor.
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Head coach Josh Pastner, left, gives some pointers to sophomore forward Tarik Black. “Our whole team, our whole identity this year has to be on the defensive end of the floor,” he said. “Because as fast as we are, the one way to use our speed and quickness is to get stops – but we’ve got to rebound the ball. So our two biggest things are ball pressure, not giving other teams open threes and have the same type
of game we had last game turnover-wise, with 11. I was proud of the guys for that.” Though Pastner doesn’t quite know how the rotation will pan out this season, there will be one player unavailable to him for 30 or more games. Junior guard and forward Drew Barham decided to redshirt this season in hopes to have a better
opportunity to play next season. “It was a tough decision, but I thought it was the best decision at the moment and for my future,” Barham said. “I have a lot that I can improve on to be ready for the next two years. I can have a strong junior and senior year as opposed to maybe a somewhat average junior and senior year.”
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