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As a student at Tennessee State University in 2009, Dezirae Dotson learned that she had cervical cancer. She faced the possibility of death, as doctors could not immediately operate, and circumstances led her down a road to a “secret” career in the adult entertainment industry. “I was terrified,” said the UM sophomore nursing major about her cancer. “I started thinking about all of the things I never got to do, like modeling.” As soon as her cancer was removed, Dotson began working on her “bucket list,” goals to reach before dying. “My sister contacted Elite Modeling for me and they began to book me modeling jobs, and those jobs led to other opportunities,” she said. At a photo shoot in Miami, a man approached Dotson and offered her the chance to do something more than model. He asked if she was interested in doing pornography. “My first thought was that
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A student at The U of M who was diagnosed with cancer had an unusual goal on her “bucket list”—become a porn star. he was crazy,” she said, “but before I made a decision, I talked to (adult actress) Mz. Booty and she told me about the similarities and differences between modeling.” Dotson goes by the stage name “Prada Thick”, and performs in the Big Beautiful Woman genre of pornography. Aside from her on-screen persona, Dotson said she is a typical 20-something. “I’m a real laid back and low-key person. I am not the type of person to walk into a room and say ‘Here I am!’” she said.
Dotson has performed in lesbian, group and traditional sex scenes in ten movies and on two websites. “It’s something I would’ve never done, but with me surviving cancer I was just like do it… The sky is the limit,” she said. “When I (die), I will have no regrets.” Dotson was living with her best friend Kindra Hibbler when she was diagnosed. Hibbler, who took Dotson to the doctor during treatment and was with Dotson during her diagnosis, would later
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‘Idomeneo’ to premiere Friday BY MICHELLE CORBET News Reporter The Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music will present “Idomeneo” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on Dec. 2 and 4. The Italian opera tells the story of a king’s vow to the Gods to take another’s life to save his own, but little does he know the life he would be required to take would be the life of his own son. The performance was originally written as a French play and first set to music in 1712 by French composer Andre Campra. In 1780, the play came under the direction of Mozart and his librettist Giambattista Varesco, who translated it into an Italian opera. “The music is from the classical period of music from about 1750 to 1850. It’s an old style, but that doesn’t mean we are going to present it in an old way,” said Carol Morse, manager of marketing and commu-
nications of the music school. The opera begins after Troy and Crete’s war over Helen of Troy. Crete won and took over Troy and kept many of the Trojans as prisoners, one of whom being the Greek princess Electra. Idamante, son of Idomeneo, the King of Crete, falls in love with the princess as he rules the country, thinking his father is lost at sea. Idomeneo does not die, but makes a vow with Neptune, god of water, that he would kill the first person he saw arrive on the shore if Neptune would save him and his crew. The first person the king sees is his son, and the rest of the opera consists of a father’s struggle to honor his vow by killing his son. The opera orchestra, conducted by co-director of opera studies Mark Ensley, will play Mozart’s compositions for each performance. The opera orchestra consists of members from the symphony orchestra.
Sarah Barnes, junior psychology major and music minor, plays French horn in the opera orchestra. “The instrumentation is interesting because this opera calls for four horns instead of the usual two,” she said. “Most of my music is in a different key. I’ve transposed the majority of my music so my transposing skills have increased. It’s nice to do something new.” “The themes of the opera will leave the audience with a sense of hope,” said Becca Payne, senior voice performance major and a member of The U of M Opera. Payne plays a Cretean in “Idomeneo.” “It’s a very effective show. I personally take away a sense that even though there are terrible things happening in the world, there’s still this little grain of hope that you can cling on to that keeps you fighting for what you believe in and what you want,” she said.
BY CHELSEA BOOZER News Reporter A site launched Tuesday has combined the communication aspect of social networking and format of ecourseware into one location. Coursekit, founded by a 21-year-old and two 20-year-old students from Penn State last year, is software that allows professors and students to share comments, material, syllabi and grades online. The site is similar to The University of Memphis’ ecourseware. Coursekit is based on social media though, making it different from other sites, said cofounder and CEO Joe Cohen, 20. “Class is very onedimensional. You go to class and listen to a lecture for an hour twice a week. If we give this class a place online, it’s a group of people having a continual conversation, getting to know each
other. They share ideas, cool articles,” Cohen said. “It is just like you do in your personal life, but specifically designed for education.” Cohen said that 3,500 students nationwide from 30 colleges, including The U of M, participated in a pilot program of Coursekit. Students from The University of Tennessee were also involved in the pilot. Tuesday was the first day that any professor could sign up their course on the software at no cost. Once registered, the professor would give students a code for the course, which the students would then enter onto the site to register themselves. A “stream” section on the site’s navigation bar is modeled after Facebook’s homepage. It displays comments posted by students or the professor. Students can share links, photos and music and reply to other students’ comments or
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‘Tis the Season BY ERICA HORTON News Reporter When Marcus Hurt went to St. Jude to volunteer with children from the Make-A-Wish Foundation for the first time, he couldn’t figure out whom he was there to help. “If I saw them on the street, I would think they were normal kids,” said Hurt, a senior music education major. “I looked at them, and I was like ‘What’s wrong?’ Then they start telling me their stories.” Hurt, who started singing when he was 16 and performing when he was 18, said he is more excited to perform in the Wishing Carols benefit concert than he has ever been before. Wishing Carols is an annual concert started by University of Memphis student Claude Hinds. This year’s concert is Dec. 18
at 6 p.m. at the Rumba Room downtown. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. All proceeds go to the Make-A-Wish foundation. In addition to buying tickets, donors can also buy wishing cards for $1 and sign their names on the bottom of them. The cards will be placed on a Christmas tree, which will be on display at the concert. “One kid told me that his favorite artist is Stevie Wonder, so I’m performing his song ‘Someday at Christmas,’ Hurt said. “His parents said he’s going to try to be there if he doesn’t have treatment. He’s 15 years old now. His parents just found out he has a form of cancer.” Hinds, a senior jazz performance major, said the idea for Wishing Carols came to him when he saw a Make-A-Wish TV commercial last year. Inspired, he did
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Two days removed from the firing of head football coach Larry Porter and the announcement of athletic director R.C. Johnson’s retirement, what’s the next move for The University of Memphis and president Shirley Raines? Tuesday, as promised, The University named a search firm that will head the process of finding a Porter’s and Johnson’s replacements. Eastman & Beaudine Management Consultants will
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team with Dr. Raines and a U of M search committee in finding the best fit for The University’s struggling football program. Based out of Plano, Texas, the group is one of the leading collegiate sports search firms in the country. So since they’re such a big deal, does that mean that they know what Memphians want? Will they take what the fans, supporters and students have to say into consideration? Here are some of the possible candidates that I’ve heard are being considered as successors to Larry Porter. Candidate #1: Hugh Freeze A Memphis native who is well
known and respected around the Mid-South, Freeze is in his first year as the head coach at Arkansas State. He has led the Red Wolves to a 9-2 record this season, and after clinching the Sun Belt Conference Championship, the team will be playing in the GoDaddy.com Bowl. If Memphis does decide to make this hire, Freeze may not come cheap. Right now he is making a modest $202,160 annually, but chances are the Tigers won’t be able to get Freeze at the same price. Candidate #2: Houston Nutt After spending four seasons at the helm of the Ole Miss Rebels football team and compil-
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the table, are Dr. Raines and the administration ready to bring the circus to town that comes with hiring Leach? He would bring a pass-happy and prolific offense, but his price tag could be the highest of any of the aforementioned candidates. Many other names have surfaced in The U of M’s young search for a new head coach, but I think that Freeze, Nutt and Leach are the top three candidates who would be the best fit. Only time will tell who will emerge as the best man for the job. And if they can’t find anybody, then I’m available – I graduate next month.
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Veterans returning to college face unique challenges Army veteran Ben Miller remembers the isolation he felt when he enrolled at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the fall of 2009. “I would show up on campus, talk to absolutely no one and go home,” said Miller, 27, who did three tours in Iraq as a counterintelligence specialist. “I didn’t feel like I really belonged.” With wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down and enhancements to the GI Bill, colleges and universities are expecting a surge in veteran enrollment unseen since World War II. But some academics and veterans’ advocates are warning
that many colleges are unprepared to deal with the unique needs of former service members. Many veterans face a difficult transition to civilian life, ranging from readjustment issues to recovery from physical and mental injuries. And they say without special attention, many will fail to graduate. “If colleges are not prepared to help transition soldiers from combat you do run the risk of losing an entire generation,” said Tom Tarantino of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. “The GI Bill isn’t a thank you for your service. What it really is is a readjustment benefit. It is giving them the opportunity to do something that is constructive for their mind and their body, that gives them a mission and allows
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them to move forward in life. It’s a backstop so you’re not walking right off the plane from combat in to the civilian world. It was designed to be a soft landing.” Studies show that some strategies work to keep veterans in school. They include specialized orientation programs, helping veterans connect with one another, training faculty and staff on challenges veterans face and offering more counseling and financial aid. But surveys show that many schools are lacking in such efforts. At UMSL, the number of students enrolled on the GI Bill from 2000 to 2009 fluctuated between 180 and 200 depending on deployments. Since 2009, when eligible veterans were provided significantly more for tuition, housing and books, that number has risen to 270 and the school expects it to go up even more. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently met with four veterans attending UMSL on the GI Bill. Their experiences mirrored those facing many service members entering the college ranks. All said they had felt isolated, and had difficulty adjusting to the campus culture and trouble relating to younger students. Three said they were bored with college life. “It’s the mundaneness of it,” said Scott Ury, a nursing student who traveled the world and did two Iraq tours as a security officer during six years in the Air Force. All four said they missed the action and camaraderie of the military and had considered returning. “You were part of a group,
where the big brother was looking out for the little brother,” said Patrick Barry, 25, who grew up in Kirkwood, Mo., graduated from Christian Brothers College high school and did two tours in Iraq as a Marine combat engineer. In addition to a full course load, Barry also works full time as a truck dispatcher. At UMSL, he joined a fraternity. Even so, like the other veterans, he said he’s had trouble making connections with younger students, who he sees as less disciplined and unable to relate to his experiences. “A lot of times I feel alone,” he said. Miller said that was part of the reason why he helped establish a veterans student organization at UMSL. “It’s a great support network,” said Miller, who is studying business. “It gave me the friends I do have in St. Louis.” A campus veterans’ organization or office that helps service members feel more engaged in student life is one key indicator of whether they will be academically successful, said Kathy Snead, director of Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges, a government-funded organization that helps veterans complete their degrees. “Working as a group they help push each other,” Snead said. “That support group keeps them in school.” The UMSL veterans’ headquarters in the Millennium Student Center is a single desk decorated on a recent day with a small American flag. Ury, who arrived at UMSL in 2009, said he could sometimes pick out the other veterans walking on campus but
never introduced himself. He stopped by the veterans desk a few weeks ago after learning the group was planning a Veterans Day commemoration. Now, he stops every day. He said his wife told him he’s seemed much happier since. “I sit in the chair and hope somebody walks by,” Ury said. “For me, being around other vets who have experienced the same thing is comforting or calming. You don’t have to worry about what they’re thinking. If I’m sitting around a college student I’m worried about whether what I’m doing, thinking saying is different, normal.” “We understand each other,” Miller said. “We all know we’ve been through something,” Barry said. Navy veteran Joe Gomez recalled his first daunting days of college, crisscrossing campus to sign up for class, line up his financial aid and attend to details that are part of enrollment. “Sometimes it’s frustrating when you get out of the service and don’t know how to do these things,” said Gomez, 27, who spent six years learning about ballistic missiles as a submariner, but received only a week of Navy training to prepare him for his return to the civilian world. As head of UMSL’s veterans student organization, Gomez, a political science major from Pacific High School, is pushing for an on-campus veterans’ center and college credit for military training. “We realize the problems and being the trouble shooters we are, we’re trying to fix our own problems,” Gomez said.
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Grads find gender still affects job hunt BY APRIL WILSON Contributing Writer Women are graduating at a higher rate than men at universities across the country, and statistics from the Department of Education show that women are outperforming men academically in universities. But some women say they are having a more difficult time finding jobs than their male counterparts. “My gender didn’t come into play until after college,” said Brittany Jackson, a recent U of M graduate with a degree in communication. “All of my male colleagues have found jobs after graduation in their fields, but none of my female friends with the same qualifications have been able to find jobs yet. Right now I have bills to pay, so I’m settling for a job outside of my field of choice.” Jackson was told by some of her professors and former bosses that men are more likely to find jobs in her field because they are more “marketable” and “easier to work with.” “I’m not getting discouraged though, because I didn’t expect it to be a walk in the park. But I’m ready to find something to give me a boost in my career,” she said. Naketa Edney, a research associate at the Center for Research on Women and instructor in the anthropology department at The University of Memphis said the weak economy is affecting everyone in the job market. “In the past, I have heard many people say that women have a harder time than men, but right now I think that it is hard for many people to find jobs,” Edney said. According to a 2011 study conducted by Northeastern University for The New York Times, 22.4 percent of college graduates in 2009 were unemployed. The average salary for 2009 and 2010 graduates was $27,000, down from $30,000 in 2008. “Really, I see it as an equal playing field,”said Roy Harvey, a recent graduate of The University of Memphis. “Those who didn’t find work after college decided to go on to graduate school, and others discovered different interests from their studies while in school.” According to Institutional Research at The University of Memphis, male graduates outnumber women in some of the most profitable degrees, including engineering and business. Harvey works as a sales representative for the Memphis Grizzlies. He graduated from the Fogelman College of Business. Men with bachelor ’s degrees have a higher annual income than women, according to the federal government. “The Condition of Education 2011,” a report from the Department of Education, concluded that
in 2009, males with bachelor nomic background. The study ics a little bit more serious degrees earned an average of also showed that men per- than the guys I see on campus, $51,000, while women earned form lower academically than but I do think men take more leadership roles an average of on campus,” $40,100 a year. said Trenika O n c e omen tend to achieve at Matthews, a unheard of for women to even a higher rate academically than junior at The University of attend college men in college because many Memphis. in America, For the fall they are now women have been told that they 2011 semester, surpassing men have to work much harder to nearly 3,000 more academically and outnum- succeed just because they are women enrolled full time as bering them on women. undergrads than college cammen, according puses across — Naketa Edney to institutional the nation. Research associate for the Center for research. According to Research on Women There is also a the Department gap between genof Education, ders in the transition from high women are more likely to women. get bachelor ’s degrees than “In general, I do feel school to college. According men of any race or socioeco- women do take their academ- to the National Center for
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Education Statistics, women are more likely to move right into college, while men tend to take more time entering into higher education. “College takes a certain level of maturity, which some (males) haven’t reached yet after high school,” Matthews said. While there is little solid evidence on why there are achievement gaps between men and women, Edney said that women might be conditioned to work harder in the classroom. “Women tend to achieve at a higher rate academically than men in college because many women have been told that they have to work much harder to succeed just because they are women,” she said.
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Tiger Recruiting Roundup BY SCOTT HALL Sports Reporter Memphis baseball head coach Daron Schoenrock has bolstered his pitching staff with the signing of four pitchers for the 2013 season. Right-handers Conner Porter and Jon Reed and lefthanders Colin Lee and Alex Gunn have all signed National Letters of Intent to play for the Tigers beginning in the 2013 season. Porter, a right-hander out of Olney Central Junior College, posted a 1.10 earned run average in 16.1 innings pitched last year. He averaged 3.07 ERA in 41 innings pitched at Castle High School in Newburgh, Ind., including 5-2 record and 49 strikeouts. “Conner possesses tremendous projection and upside as a power right-handed pitcher, and
we look forward to continuing to develop him at The University of Memphis,” Schoenrock said. Walters State Community College RHP Jon Reed also committed to The U of M. Reed transferred to Walters State after one season at the University of Tennessee, where he posted a 5.40 ERA in 41.2 innings pitched. Reed was ranked the No. 1 pitching prospect in the state of Oklahoma and the No. 2 player overall. Drafted in the 2009 MLB draft by the Cincinnati Reds, he finished his high school career with a 1.80 ERA and an above .400 batting average. “He has tremendous pitching maturity and we expect him to impact our 2013 rotation in a big way,” Schoenrock said. Left-hander Alex Gunn posted a 3-1 record and a 2.42 ERA in his first season at Hinds Community College. In 42.2
innings, Gunn had two complete games, one shutout and recorded 33 strikeouts with just six walks. “We are thrilled with Alex’s decision to become a Memphis Tiger,” Schoenrock said. “He is truly a winner on and off the field and we look forward to his arrival in Memphis.” Men’s golf is also getting into the recruiting scene. Head coach Grant Robbins announced the signing of two golfers, Florian Loutre and Drew Greenwood, who will join the team next fall. Loutre is the second-ranked junior in France, and the 11thranked junior golfer in all of Europe, according to europeangolfrankings.com. In 2011, Loutre medaled at the Italian Amateur, placed third in the European Boys Championship, seventh in the German Boys Championship and placed 16th
in the Portuguese International Amateur Championship. “Florian is an exceptional talent,” Robbins said. “Being a part of the French Elite National team, he has experience playing against top level competition all over the world. He has the ability to go low and should have an immediate impact on our program.” An Arkansas native, Greenwood won the 2009 Arkansas 5A State Championship. He also finished 17th in the 2011 AJGA Hunter Mahan Invitational and 23rd in the AJGA Signsnational Junior Invitational, as well as eighth in the 2010 Bubba Conlee National Junior Invitational. “Drew is a very talented player and a tremendous all-around athlete,” Robbins said. “He has all the tools to develop into a very good college player.”
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questions. The U of M’s advance learning center oversees ecourseware. The software is from the Desire to Learn company and is used by all schools under the ruling of the Tennessee Board of Regents. This year, TBR renewed its contract with Desire to Learn for an additional five years. But ALC’s Director Sandy Schaeffer said his department encourages
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faculty to think outside of ecourseware. “We are open to faculty using something like (Coursekit),” he said. “We encourage faculty to take great liberties in experimenting with whatever technology they think appropriate in their teaching. So stepping outside the zones of ecourseware is something we encourage all the time because it only has a certain set of designs and features.” Schaeffer said he did not know of Desire to Learn having any plans to implement
their own social networking tools, and that Coursekit could be a way for professors to implement social media into their courses. “Our campus does need to move forward with these kinds of things,” he said. He said there are other free sites like Coursekit that U of M faculty already use, including Sakai and Moodle. Rhodes College uses Moodle throughout their campus as the official online course content site, according to Schaeffer. Cohen said the use of
Coursekit in schools across the country will ultimately allow students to learn in a different, better way. He and the other co-founders dropped out of Penn State to focus on launching the site. Penn State currently uses Blackboard, another popular course content sharing site that schools pay for. “At the end of the day, people learn more (using Coursekit),” Cohen said. “They learn better because they can get their questions answered right away and can hear from other students.”
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