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UM students propose bill to increase crime reports on campus “Ultimately, The University needs to be adjacent to a safe neighborhood,” Bennett said. “If students do not have the ability to live safely off campus, then that will just be another factor that will cause students to enroll elsewhere. The health of
said that he isn’t against the bill, but patrolling a half-mile radius outside of campus is too large an area for his staff of 34 full-time At this year’s Tennessee officers. Intercollegiate State Legislature “The concept has merit, but it conference, University of would come down to the details Memphis students passed legof it,” Harber said. “What’s islature that measurable? addressed their What’s reasonhe health of the University able? Where concerns about whether crimes the need depends in part on the health of does near campus to know lie?” should be reportA federal The University district. ed by University law known as — Jonathan Bennett police. the Clery Act TISL representative TISL is a proalready mangram where coldates that camlege students from across the the University depends in part pus police report crimes that state meet and pass legislature on the health of The University occur on campus, in a non-camrelevant to their campuses. district.” pus building or property owned Sixteen University of Memphis Up to five of the bills passed by The University, on public students attended the program at TISL will be submitted to property adjacent to campus and last weekend. Governor Bill Haslam for con- in areas within the patrol jurisU of M senior political sci- sideration. The fate of the bills diction of campus police. ence major Jonathan Bennett will not be decided until midHarber said he was unaware proposed a bill that demands all December. Bennett said he is that campus police had to report public institutions of higher edu- interested in lobbying the bill crime adjacent to campus or cation report all crimes occurring to state representatives, so they incidents off campus yet within within and around half a mile of would introduce it and pass it in patrol jurisdiction. its main campus. the Tennessee legislature. “This is definitely something The measure passed with an Bruce Harber, U of M Police see Bill, page 3 overwhelming majority, 73-6. Services director of public safety,
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Tigers take down Vols in double OT thriller, 99-97 BY ADAM DOUGLAS Sports Editor The game was one for the ages. The University of Memphis Tigers (2-1) matched up against the Tennessee Vols in a consolation game and it turned out to be in the Maui Institutional one of the best games thus far. In a game mostly dominated by The U of M, the Vols mounted a comeback only to lose a heartbreaker in double overtime, 99-97. The game started as the previous two regular season games for the Tigers have, sophomore big man Tarik Black picking up two cheap fouls and heading to the bench. But the deep Tigers bench, led by sophomore Antonio Barton and freshman Adonis Thomas, helped spur the Tigers to a 10-point halftime lead, 55-45. Barton had 17 points in the first half. Thomas had 11. During the first half, Memphis led by as many as
16. But the Vols stayed relentless and would not give up. By the 4- minute mark of the second half, Tennessee pulled to within four at 77-73. But the Tigers, as they proved multiple times during the game, had an answer. After struggling in the quarterfinals against Michigan, sophomore guard Will Barton swished a go-ahead three pointer to stop the Vols’ run and put the Tigers up 80-76. Closing the game out down the stretch proved to be very tough for Memphis, as they allowed the Vols to tie the game at 83 with .5 seconds left on the clock. Once the Tigers inbounded the ball, Thomas heaved a desperation half-court shot towards the basket, but to no avail – and into overtime they went. The Vols began overtime scoring first with a couple of free throws and then a putback layup by Jeronne Maymon, two of his 32 points. But the Tigers answered with Wesley
Witherspoon free throws to cut the lead by the Vols to 87-85. Both teams would trade baskets until Josh Richardson’s threepointer puts the Vols up by two, 91-89. Sophomore guard Chris Crawford answered back with a nifty layup around two defenders to tie the game at 91 and send the game into a second overtime. With the game tied at 97, Antonio Barton hit a clutch shot, giving the Tigers a 99-97 lead with only .19 seconds left. It would prove to be the game winner. On the ensuing possession, the Vols couldn’t get the ball inbounds and Witherspoon stole it with .8 on the clock. A last second try by the Vols fell short and the Tigers escaped with a 99-97 victory. Both Barton brothers finished with a combined 47 points, 17 rebounds and one assist. The Tigers play Georgetown for the 5th-place finish in the tournament. Tipoff is scheduled for 4 p.m.
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Police investigate attempted robbery BY ERICA HORTON News Reporter University of Memphis police are investigat ing an attempted robbery that happened in the Zach Curlin Parking garage at approximately 9 p.m. on Tuesday. T h re e black men, between 5-foot-8 and 6 feet tall, wearing black hooded sweatshirts and blue jeans, approached a female student from behind in the parking lot, according to police. One of the men tried to take the victim’s backpack and cell phone as the other two watched. After the suspects failed to take her belongings, they ran southbound toward Walker Avenue, police said. “She wasn’t injured, there was no weapon seen and, to my understanding, he didn’t try long,” said Bruce Harber, U of M Police Services director of public
safety. Officers alerted U of M students of the incident less than an hour after it occurred through TigerText. “This is the first attempted robbery that was actually on campus this year,” Harber said. “A lot have been off campus or near campus.” The Zach Curlin parking garage was built 12 years ago, and seldom the scene of a crime, Harber said. Though campus, including the garage, is well lit, students should not walk alone by themselves at night and should utilize the Tiger Escort system, he said. “The big thing is that this time of year it gets dark much earlier, which is why we have Tiger Escort,” he said. “Anytime between dusk and dawn, if you have to walk by yourself, call them.”
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New Twilight movie creepy, disturbing, horriffic Thirty seconds into “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1,” Taylor Lautner takes his shirt off. Clearly, the “Twilight” filmmakers have identified the one appealing aspect of their movies. “Breaking Dawn” is thankfully the penultimate movie in the series, and it hasn’t gotten any better since its first awkward pause. While there are fewer long silences between the protagonists, the series has gotten worse in almost every other way. The movie begins with the wedding of Bella and Edward, where Bella starts slow dancing with her shape-shifting suitor Jacob mere minutes after getting married. This leads to the disturbing honeymoon scene, which features Edward breaking the bed, destroying a pillow and injuring Bella during sex. Apparently it’s okay to horribly bruise your spouse in the world of “Twilight,” as Bella’s totally cool with this. Also, this episode brings up many questions that I did not want to think about. Mainly: how does that even work since Edward, being an undead vampire and all, doesn’t have any blood flow? The film shows the sex scene only briefly in order to keep a PG-13 rating, which means naked Edward scenes are kept to a minimum. The movie then deals with the other werewolves not liking the half-vampire, half-human abomination that Bella, who was knocked up by Edward
during the honeymoon, is carrying. There are also several clumsy scenes of the vampires debating aborting Bella’s unholy spawn. Oh, and for plot convenience, the vampire gestation period is basically a month, so she very quickly gets close to giving birth. Vampire babies also have the regular vampire super powers, so the baby does things like break Bella’s ribs by kicking in the womb. It also needs blood, so the audience is treated to scenes of Bella drinking O- blood through a straw in a Styrofoam cup. It only gets weirder from there, as the thrashing baby breaks Bella’s spine right before she goes into labor. What follows is best described as a vampire c-section involving Edward’s fangs in lieu of a scalpel. So ”Breaking Dawn” is far stranger and creepier than the previous movies, and Jacob somehow manages to up his creep factor from last summer’s “Eclipse,” where he uttered such stalkeriffic lines as “You know you love me, you just won’t admit it.” He does this by getting very uncomfortably close to a newborn baby. Werewolves have an ability called imprinting, which means they are forced to fall in love with the person they imprint upon. Jacob imprints on a newborn, so he will be training the baby, from birth, to fall in love with him. Pedophiles call this “grooming.” Stephanie Meyer calls it romantic. Aside from that, the movie seems rather short despite its padding. Clocking in at two hours and covering two thirds
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we need to look into,” he said via email last week. “I think we’ll have to look at the term ‘patrol jurisdiction,’ and its intent.… Our agreement (with the Memphis Police Department) refers to an enforcement area, which is a sizeable area —approximately 1.5-2.0 square miles—and might be significantly larger than the typical university patrol jurisdiction.” Harber said U of M Police Services is in the process of making sure they are abiding by the Clery Act, but a bigger issue is deciding what information should be reported and when. “We need to make sure we’re in compliance, but the larger issue is getting reasonable information to those who need it, without providing so much that we create an overload situation,” Harber said. Bennett lives in an apartment complex on Brister Avenue, an area adjacent to campus. He suggested that police patrol such areas around campus more. Harber said Police Services gives first priority to campus, but police do patrol the areas adjacent to campus regularly. University-owned fraternity houses and student ministries are located adjacent to campus. “The neighborhood around The University needs more police protection,” Bennett said. “While I see police all over The University, I have rarely seen police cars drive down my street—that is, unless a crime has already happened… A U of M enforcement area includes the entire University District, but I’ve never seen a University cop on my street.”
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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in a scene from “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1.” of the book, it seems like they could have cut down on some of the earlier scenes and fit it all in one slightly longer movie. Other oddities include the potential names of Bella’s child, including Renesmee—which drew laughs from the audience—and Edward Jacob. There is also a dream sequence of Bella standing on a pile of corpses at her wedding and multiple scenes of Bella attempting to look sexy while playing chess. The werewolf characters continue to lack any interesting
motivations and the thought of a movie about Edward’s brother Jasper’s adventures as a vampire in the Civil War is still more appealing than the actual plot. The only real positive of the movie, besides the frequent eye candy for the female viewers, is Charlie, Bella’s angry, sheriff father, who hates Edward as much as I do. Thankfully, the series will end next fall, when Bella Swan becomes a vampire and even more of a Mary Sue than she is now.
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Senior forward Brittany Carter scores 23 points in 89-60 win BY SCOTT HALL Sports Reporter
heavy lifting in our half court offense, in terms of scoring. Then we need everyone else to play their roles.” Freshman guard Lauren McGraw stepped up in the absence of senior guard
room leading 43-31. “We had done a little bit in the first half to let Pine Bluff Defense might be the believe they could play with theme of the season after the us, and I told them in the University of Memphis womlocker room that was a misen’s basketball team forced take,” McFerrin said. “So we 31 turnovers wanted to start en route to an out really strong 89-60 win over rittany was playing on her in the second half Arkansas-Pine and I thought front foot instead of her back Bluff on Saturday. Brittany Carter Senior guard foot and was being a little bit was really key Brittany Carter in that. She came cautious, so she went in to scored 23 points, out right from including a attack mode today. Our team the tip and early career high five in the second and t h r e e - p o i n t e r s , is built around Brittany, Nicole was committed on 9-of-16 shootand Jasmine doing the heavy to playing hard ing. Junior forand just making ward Nicole lifting in our half court offense, plays.” Dickson helped The Tigers in terms of scoring. Then we out with her forced the Lady need everyone else to play third consecutive Lions into 31 double-double, t u r n o v e r s , their roles.” 19 points and leading to 33 ten rebounds, Memphis points. — Melissa McFerrin and senior forMemphis turned Women’s basketball head coach ward Jasmine Lee the ball over just contributed 14 13 times, leading points, ten of which came from Ramses Lonlack, who was to 13 points for Arkansas-Pine the free throw line. Sophomore attending a funeral. McGraw Bluff (0-3). guard Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir scored eight points on 3-of-7 “It was nice to get those had six points, six rebounds, shooting, and chipped in four three (Nicole Dickson, Brittany seven assists, and a career high steals and five assists. Carter, Jasmine Lee) going, we six steals. “I felt like today – since just need everyone else to play “It was nice to see Brittany we didn’t have (Lonlack) – their roles,” McFerrin said. and Nicole get back in the I thought I should step up “I thought Lauren McGraw scoring column,” said head a little and help bring some played well today. She tipped coach Melissa McFerrin. more energy that she usually some balls, got some steals, hit “Brittany was playing on her brings,” McGraw said. some layups, I’m really startfront foot instead of her back The Tigers (3-1) got off to ing to see Lauren McGraw’s foot and was being a little a bright start, opening up a mental capacity come in to bit cautious, so she went in seven point lead at the 15:48 play here. She makes simple to attack mode today. Our mark in the first half, a lead plays that not every player team is built around Brittany, they maintained throughout sees and she did that two or Nicole and Jasmine doing the the half, going into the locker three times this evening.”
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Senior guard and forward Brittany Carter pushes the ball up the court against Saint Louis last week.
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