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A 1 9 - y e a r -old suspect has con-fessed to the murder of University of Memphis s t u d e n t A a r o n Vasquez.

“Aaron was really outgoing and really cared about every-one he met,” Ashli Keffer, U of M sophomore, said. “He was one of those people that never met a stranger, and it always felt genuine.”

Police arrested Cordricus Arnold March 29 at 1:30 p.m. He faces a judge today during a video arraignment at 8:30 a.m. in division 15 of general sessions court.

Vasquez, a sophomore com-munications major, was stabbed while taking out the trash at the El Toro Loco Bar and Grille on Kirby Road, where he worked as a baker, in the early morning of March 23. He made it back inside before collapsing in the restaurant’s kitchen, where he was later found by a coworker. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene about 3:45 a.m.

The victim’s wallet and keys were stolen. His vehicle, a green 1998 Toyota RAV4, was also taken the night of his death but was returned to the scene of the crime four days later.

During the investigation, police identified Arnold as a suspect. When they attempted to arrest him, Arnold fled on foot. He sustained injuries and was transported to the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Police have not released infor-mation about his injuries.

Arnold is charged with first-degree murder, evading arrest

Local musicians will come together to support local tattoo art-ist Joe Stamp in a benefit concert for Stamp and his family at Newby’s Wednesday night.

An accident involving a car and a motorcycle on Southern Avenue and Houston Street three weeks ago sent Joe Stamp, the driver of the motor-cycle, to the hospital with severe injuries.

Since then, he has begun to mend and was released from the hospital Sunday night. While he had the lower portion of his leg amputat-ed, none of his injuries will disable him from returning to his job as a tattoo artist at No Regrets Tattoo Emporium.

Stamp will be making a public appearance at the benefit show in his honor.

Newby’s, which is hosting the show, will be opening doors at 7:30 p.m. and won’t close until 3 a.m.

Ed Harris, the promoter of the event, has high hopes that the event will sell out. With tickets at $10 and a maximum capacity of 1,000 occupants, the event could poten-tially raise $10,000 for Stamp and his family.

“It’s a huge party if you like the Memphis music at all or if you’re just a tattoo enthusiast,” Harris said.

There are ten bands on the lineup for this 18 and up show, all of which are local.

“It’s basically a college block

party, and it all goes to help out Joe,” Harris said.

Stamp has anywhere from six to eight months before he is healed enough to return to work.

“Since the tattoo industry doesn’t provide health insurance, the money and donations from this show will be to make sure his kids can eat,” Harris said.

Admission to the show is $10 at the door, but attendees should bring

Ricky Kirby and EuDarius Jones were elected president and vice president, respectively, during last week’s SGA general elections.

“It was kind of nerve-wracking because we didn’t know what was going to happen when we walked in the room to get the results,” Jones, who won 58.33 percent of the votes, said. “It’s given me great motivation to get started on next

year.”Jones believes the Making A

Difference party won out over the more established United Students party because of the high-visibility of their campaign.

“Some people said they voted for us because they’ve seen us around, and it was good to hear that, but I wanted them to know I really care about this campus,” Jones, a junior mathematics major, said. “I want them to have the same kind of experiences I’ve had,

so I want to use my last year here to make this campus feel better than it’s ever felt before.”

Kirby, a sophomore marketing major, thinks students appreci-ated the diversity of his party and wanted something different from their SGA.

“It was interesting because I haven’t been in SGA this past year, and I don’t think that made any-body made, I mean it may have swayed some voters, but I think for the most part people just wanted

something new,” Kirby, who won 56.11 percent of the vote, said. “I feel relieved because I can finally get to work on what I want to do and start making big strides on putting the platform into action.”

Although Kirby and Jones will not officially take office until May, they have already hit the ground running to get a jump start on next year.

Tuesday, Kirby spoke with Joy

In order to raise money for injured tattoo artist Joe Stamp, No Regrets Tattoo Emporium is selling shirts and donating the proceeds to Stamp and his family.

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On March 25, the University of Memphis Student Government Association sent out a tweet announcing that Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson would be speaking at the Michael D. Rose Theatre on April 1. Several students replied to the tweet with suspicions that it was some sort of April Fools prank.

This prompted Memphis SGA to send a tweet reiterating the fact that Johnson was coming:

A day later, the Memphis Tigers Facebook page, the official page for U of M athletics, uploaded a poster for the event, as well as information about seating. The event was slated for 7 p.m., and U of M students would be admit-ted at 6:40 with the general public shortly following. The Facebook post also stated that Johnson would speak for 45 minutes, then have a 30 minute question and answer ses-sion followed by pictures and autographs.

However, on March 27 SGA posted yet another tweet about the event, this time announcing that it would not be happening at all.

Naturally, some students thought back to the possibility of an April Fools hoax.

“I completely think that it may have been one [an April Fools prank],” freshman John Gluszek said. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it was real.” Gluszek also explained that he has never seen one of the posters about the event on campus.

Johnson has tweeted from her verified Twitter account multiple times since the cancellation of the event, but none

of them mention anything along the lines of a family emer-gency. Additionally, there are no tweets about her speaking at the Memphis campus.

While all of this could look suspicious to some, SGA President Russell Born has cleared up any confusion on the matter.

“That’s completely false,” Born said concerning allega-tions that the event was a hoax. “I can say with 100 percent honesty that it was no prank.”

Additionally, Born explained that he is working to reschedule the event before the end of the spring semester and is optimistic that he can do so.

“I think I can [reschedule before the end of the semes-ter] because we had everything worked out with the agency,” he said.

Many students may be disappointed that Johnson was not able to speak on Monday, but they can now be assured it was cancelled for legitimate purposes, as opposed to someone’s elaborate April Fools Day joke. n

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extra cash for the raffles and t-shirts.“We’re raffling away thousands of

dollars worth of things, like a custom acoustic guitar from Guitar Center signed by Joe Stamp,” Harris said.

Jase Harshman, a vocalist in This Tragic Day, did not know Stamp per-sonally but was close to fellow musi-cian Harris since he was a recording drummer on an album for his band.

“We’ve all been keeping up with it over the news but I’m covered in tat-toos so I’m a big fan,” Harshman said.

This Tragic Day will be playing at 11 p.m.

Another band playing is Surrender the Fall, which will be headlining the concert.

“Surrender the Fall is from

Memphis but considered a national band because they’ve toured with countless big bands,” Harris said.

Jared Cole, the vocalist of Surrender the Fall, was also called by their friend and former drummer, Harris.

“We all will be hanging out until they lock the doors,” Cole said.

Surrender the Fall was filled in on the situation and eagerly jumped on the lineup as the headlining band.

“We are always down to help out, especially with our Memphis family,” Cole said.

Cole has had tattoos from No Regrets, but none from Stamp … yet. “You never know when it could be you on the flip side of the coin — human-ity has responsibilities and I think everybody should reach out and be a part of something huge for somebody else,” Cole said. n

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Diversity was at the Heart of Memphis Saturday as more than 1,500 people showed up despite the rain to send a message that hate and prejudice were not welcome in the city.

The Heart of Memphis, which served as a peaceful alternative to the Ku Klux Klan rally held down-town at the same time, featured live music, food from the Memphis Food Truckers Association, a People’s Conference on Race and Equality and several other fun-filled family festivities including an Easter egg roll hosted by Memphis City mayor A C Wharton.

“It may be raining outside, but there is sunshine in here,” Wharton said. “This is what Memphis is all about, this is who we are; this is the way we do it.”

Wharton was just one of many speakers who delivered speeches on a wide array of topics at the event that was held at Tiger Lane from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“I feel like the world has taken a snapshot of Memphis dated April 4, 1968, and they won’t let us move past. That’s really what is going on

down the street today. I feel like they are not letting us move past,” Bryan Loritts, senior pastor at Fellowship Memphis, said. “But your presence here today says we’re not about our past … that a new narrative is being written in our city.”

One group at the forefront of that narrative is Memphis United, which hosted the People’s Conference on Race and Equality during the celebration.

The Conference featured multiple diversity workshops, several panel-style community conversations and an arts and information area. The topics discussed were not just limited to the Klan rally; they also sought to raise awareness on a plethora of issues such as environmental rac-ism, LGBT rights and immigration reform.

Dur ing C ommunity Conversation: Race, Faith and Movements, Colby Smith, founding member of the black power group the Invaders talked about moving forward.

“Let’s get Memphis moving in the right direction, the only way we can take something back is to be united,” he said.

Memphis United is a grassroots

movement that was originally started by Richard Lou, the chair of the Art Department of the University of Memphis, to discuss Memphis’ response to the Klan rally but has since grown into a coalition of con-cerned citizens with plans beyond Saturday’s event.

“Memphis United is an organi-zation that sprang up through the threat of hate descending onto our great city, but will continue to work towards love, equality and inclusion long after those in sheets have left,” Kevin Newton, graduate student and Memphis United organizer, said.

Newton encourages students to get involved in this organization because he believes that all students have a vested interest in the future of their community.

“If there is any student reading this, thinking ‘What do I care?’ ask yourself instead ‘What contribution do I want to make?,’ ‘If I could shape the future of society, how would it look?’ The answers to these questions will most certainly give you ample reason to care,” Newton said.

The next meeting for Memphis United is April 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the First Congressional Church at 1000 South Cooper St. n

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(Top left) Andre Johnson, an instructor in communications and African American studies at the U of M, serves as the pastor of Gifts of Life Ministries, an inner city church based on the servant leadership philosophy. Johnson discussed how racism is embedded in every theology and religion. (Bottom left) David Lamotte, activist and author of “White Flour,” discussed his new book and the People’s Conference on Race and Equality. (Right) Josue Rodriguez, a community organizer for the Memphis Center For Independent Living, was at the Heart of Memphis event to fight for equality for all people with disabilities. Because he was not provided accessible transportation, Rodriguez had to roll his wheelchair from Madison all the way to Tiger Lane in the rain.

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KKK stirs mixed emotions with visit to Memphis

Citizens chanted “The cops and the Klan go hand in hand” from behind a fence while the Ku Klux Klan led a barely audible pro-test nearly 100 yards away on the Shelby County Courthouse steps last Saturday.

Unlike the 1998 rally, there was no tear gas, but instead a down-pour of rain. There was no prop-erty damage, but rather barricades separating and preventing passion-ate words from becoming violent actions. There were no serious injuries, but there were SWAT and K-9 units at every turn.

Due to the constant rain and a faulty megaphone, the Loyal White Knights’ message went almost entirely unheard aside from the occasional “White Power” chant.

What originated as a rally instigated by the Memphis City Council’s decision to change the name of three parks became a day chock full of citizens exercising their First Amendment right: a

shouting-match discussion on ide-als of race and oppression.

“I have nothing against Jews or Catholics,” said a Mississippi native who chose to remain name-less. “But I feel like the white race is superior to all other races, and I don’t like blacks.”

Positions on the KKK’s pres-ence were clearly stated, with state-ments like “KKK go away!” that echoed throughout the sea of peo-ple. Chris Irwin, an attorney from Knoxville, Tenn., came to help the “brave people of Memphis” oppose the Klan and mark his 17th coun-ter rally.

Along with two friends, he stood holding a sign that featured a stenciled portrayal of Adolf Hitler’s suicide high above his head, the words “follow your leader” sten-ciled beneath the art work.

“We know where their ideas come from, it goes all the way back to Adolf Hitler,” Irwin said. “They have Nazi supremacists that fully support it. We’ve seen where the natural conclusion of that set of ideas goes. All I’m suggesting with this sign is that perhaps they

should follow it to its logical con-clusion and follow their leader, Adolf Hitler. And in the end of his game, he ended up blowing his brains out.”

Irwin stressed that he wasn’t advocating violence, though. He had come to participate in a peace-ful rally like many others. Irwin’s counter protest sign was an attempt to show that he was “against them” in case any members of the Klan videotaped him for later use.

While most maintained a peaceful protest, the day did not go without a total lack of con-frontation. When a young Joseph Cartwright Jr. entered the rally with a Confederate flag draped over his back in the fashion of a cape, a group of people quickly gathered around him.

“Stand on your own toes, don’t follow the next man, be a leader,” came from faceless voices deep in the crowd.

As they grew closer to the teen-ager, police removed him from the area for his own safety.

His father, Joe Cartwright Sr., thinks that while the flag’s mean-

ing is often misconstrued, the way people feel about it is deeply rooted.

“We really didn’t think any-thing of it,” he said. “It’s something that we enjoy, and we don’t see any hatred in it. We love history about the Confederate war. Every monument down here is a part of Memphis.”

Cartwright Sr. said his fam-ily came to the rally in support of keeping the names of the parks.

“I don’t want them changed,” he said. “I think it’s a part of history. History ought to be the way it is, good or bad.”

While Cartwright Jr. was removed from the rally for safety reasons, one man, Tyler Henderson, claims he wasn’t allowed to enter due to a T-shirt he was wearing. The shirt depicted African-American activist Huey P. Newton with a quote that read, “You can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail the revolution.”

While no official reason has been given, Henderson claims he was escorted away from the rally for not removing his shirt.

“It’s an absolute, complete stomping on First Amendment rights,” he said. “Now you can’t even wear a T-shirt with some-thing on it. I mean, I noticed that they bussed in the Klan and let them carry their signs and what-not, but when we go in to stand up against hatred and racism, they threaten us with arrest and point guns at us. This is the world that we live in now.”

While the Klan’s presence in Memphis shed light on many emo-tions, 35-year-old Chris Barker, the Imperial Wizard of the Loyal White Knights, stuck to the KKK’s purpose for visiting the city: pro-testing the renaming of Nathan Bedford Forrest Park to Health Sciences Park.

“They are erasing white people’s history,” Barker said. “It’s horrible they are changing it. They should have named the town after him. Without him, there wouldn’t be a Memphis.”

Robert Calhoun, a Memphian, came to the rally to stand against

By Joshua Cannonnews@dailyhelmsman.com

(Left) Joseph Cartwright Jr. entered the protest area wearing a Confederate flag as a cape. Reporters surrounded young Cartwright and questioned him about his reasoning for such a bold statement while other citizens jeered at him. (Top right) Knoxville attorney Chris Irwin speaks to the surrounding crowd and media about freedom of speech while toting a sign of Hitler shooting himself that read, “follow your leader.” Irwin believed that the Klan’s ideas and beliefs went hand-in-hand with the beliefs of Hitler and the Nazi party. (Bottom right) Swarms of police surrounded the Shelby County Courthouse armed with riot shields and armor.

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Students capture downtown architecture in photo exhibit

University of Memphis stu-dents provided “A Way of Seeing” at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre. The reception, which was held March 28, fea-tured art by University of Memphis students.

“All of the artists are students of the Architectural Department at the University of Memphis,” Patricia Cooper, visual arts coor-dinator at GPAC, said. “We are very excited to have their work hanging here in our Performing Arts Centre. I will get a chance to meet all of them at the reception, and we hope to find out what their hopes are for the future, their future in architecture.”

The art exhibit is not the only one that has been held at GPAC. The Centre featured works by other students in the community last year.

“We had a show last year that was with the Memphis College of Arts,” Cooper said. “As the arts coordinator here, I love to involve the students and the community with anything that goes on here. I love to bring fresh ideas.”

The exhibit is an opportunity for some University of Memphis architect students to get to show their work at the GPAC exhibit.

“This is really exciting,” said Megan Hoover, fourth year archi-tect and interior design Student. “I always thought that maybe one day I would be an artist, but people said that’s really hard to do. But I think it’s cool that

I can combine what I’m doing with architecture with another art form and explore it in dif-ferent ways and then show it to other people.”

Students met others who were excited to see the artist behind the work. They also expressed the importance of creating the opportunity for students to show their work to the community.

“They are our future. I love working with them,” Cooper said. “GPAC is really a great place to work; it’s really a gem here. I think this exhibit is just to bring awareness that we are all just one community here. We have people come from all over, from Memphis, Germantown and Collierville. It’s a place for every-one, not just people who live in Germantown.”

Hoover shared her experience of seeing a side of Memphis that many people do not get to see.

“Each person had a specific topic that they were exploring through photography,” Hoover said. “Mine dealt with kind of what happens to spaces after people have left them and people come over the years and kind of leave their mark on the spaces. People still go in there and kind of leave their marks, so that was my exploration, so there was a lot of graffiti and I focused on rundown buildings, alleys and the Tennessee Brewery.”

Hoover said that it was a bit of luck getting into one of the places that she was able to photograph.

“You can’t get in [the Tennessee Brewery] anymore; it’s an old abandoned building,” Hoover

said. “I was able to go inside the Brewery when there was a music video being filmed there. It was just kind of fate when that hap-pened, I guess.”

Because of the artist’s photog-raphy, other Memphians get to see that side of the city as well.

“I love to see the images of downtown Memphis. I think a lot of people don’t have the oppor-tunity to see, to get that real feel of Memphis and bring it here to the Germantown Performing Arts Centre,” Cooper said.

Artists who want to show their

work can still have an opportu-nity to do so.

“We’re booking the art exhibit for next season,” said Christina Comas, marketing coordina-tor for GPAC. “We are looking for professional artists to sub-mit their work for the 2013-2014 Grand Lobby Exhibit.”

Artists interested in an oppor-tunity to have their work shown at GPAC will need to submit their work, résumé and portfolio by Friday, April 26. n

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Mathematics and the Melting Polar Ice Caps

Last September the area of Artic Ocean covered by sea ice reached its lowest recorded level in more than three decades of measurements. Compared to the 1980’s this represents a loss of more than half the summer Arctic sea ice pack. Global climate models generally predict sea ice declines over the 21st century, but the precipitous losses observed have significantly outpaced most projections. Dr. Golden will discuss how mathematical models and statistical physics are being used to study key sea ice processes and to advance how sea ice is represented in climate models. This work helps improve projections of the fate of Earth’s ice packs and the response of polar ecosystems. A video from a 2012 Antarctic expedition to measure sea ice properties will be shown.

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Over the weekend, the University of Memphis baseball team defeated nationally-ranked Houston at FedExPark, win-ning one game of the three-game series. It was a low-scoring series, as the Tigers scored two runs on the weekend, and Houston scored five.

Friday night’s game set the tone for the weekend, as the scores were few and far between. Although the Cougars scored in the first inning, it was hard-fought, as starting pitcher Sam Moll did not allow a hit in the inning.

A walk to the leadoff man would be nullified by a fielder’s choice, but another walk and wild pitch left two runners in scoring position with one out. Moll got the next batter to ground out, however, the runner from third would score.

Houston would build on the lead in the fifth inning, scor-ing two more runs. Moll had the bases loaded with nobody out in the fifth, yet limited the damage to just two runs.

Memphis would only score in the ninth inning. Junior Zach Willis would score on a Bryce Beeler sacrifice fly, and that would be the last time the Tigers would cross home on the evening, losing 3-1.

Although Friday night resulted in a loss, there is something to be said about the quality pitching by both Sam Moll and senior Heith Hatfield. In six innings of work, Moll let up three earned runs on

four hits, but still struck out eight. Hatfield took over in the seventh and pitched three innings without a hit and struck out four.

After the game, head coach Daron Schoenrock had praises for both the Cougars and his pitchers.

“They’re [Houston] a very good plate discipline team, and they walk a lot. If you don’t throw it in there, they’ll get some high walk numbers. Heith came in and I was very pleased with him for holding them where they were.”

Saturday, the two teams were scheduled to play games two and three of the series as a double-header.

Game two of the series was another example of a pitching duel, as 19th ranked Houston only scored two runs off Tiger pitchers Erik Schoenrock and Jon Reed. Each pitcher allowed one earned run, but Schoenrock struck out 11 of the 22 batters he faced.

The pitchers’ efforts to keep the game close were futile. The Memphis offense rallied at sev-eral points, getting seven hits off the Houston pitchers, but never scoring a runner. An hour-long rain delay further stagnated the Tigers, but the Cougars were able to score one after the delay.

After the break between games, the Tigers continued their excellent pitching, as pitch-ers Alex Gunn and Clayton Gant stepped up and shut out Houston. Starting pitcher Gunn bent but never broke on the evening, as the Cougars threatened to score in the third and fourth innings.

Gunn escaped both jams with-out allowing a run, and was happy with the end result.

“I just tried to go out and play my game and make pitches. I did what I could do and let my defense play behind me. Our hit-ters got us one run, and that was enough for us to win it.”

The one run was scored by Tucker Tubbs, who reached home off a Zach Willis single to right field. Although the game was close, the product is the result of two conference teams that have excellent pitching staffs. Following the series, Schoenrock summed it up.

“Both teams had opportunities to win it. You are going to see a lot of close games in Conference USA in college baseball … I thought we competed well in the box today.”

Stealing a game in C-USA play is important, especially against a nationally ranked team. After this weekend, the Tigers are 15-13 overall with a 2-4 conference record.

The Tigers will play Ole Miss at AutoZone Park tonight at 6:30, followed by the University of Central Florida this weekend at FedExPark. n

Tigers hold Cougars scoreless in third game of series

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Barker’s opinion, and the 60 other members of the KKK who came alongside him. His Obama 2012 hat rested crooked upon his head, and his words spoke volumes over the rain and the people around him.

“I think they should be renamed,” Calhoun said. “Nathan Bedford Forrest was a war crimi-

nal. You can look at Fort Pillow and the massacre that happened there. They have a statue with him on horseback at his grave, and he should have never been hon-ored in the first place. William Faulkner said ‘the past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past’ and that is so true. This is just the Civil War revisited.” n

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and resisting official detention. According to an affidavit,

after waving his Miranda rights, Arnold confessed to stabbing Vasquez, following him into the back of the restaurant and tak-ing his wallet and the keys to his vehicle.

Arnold was booked March 30 at 1:05 p.m. under the name Cordrius Arnold, contrary to the spelling of his name on the affi-davit, Cordricus.

Currently, he is being held without bond. He has no adult criminal record.

A similar crime occurred about seven hours before Vasquez’s death behind the New China res-taurant located in the same shop-ping center as El Toro Loco. An employee stepped outside and an unidentified man slashed his throat. He sustained injuries but survived the attack. Police said that it has not been confirmed if the two incidents are related.

“As much as I want justice for him and his family, until the verdict is in you have to assume innocence until proven guilty. You don’t want to blame the wrong person for it and put him through unnecessary suffering,” Keffer said. n

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Stout, the director of Adult and Commuter Student Services, and Tammy Hedges and Terez Wilson with the Alumni Association to start planning for opening week of fall 2013.

“We want the atmosphere to be completely different dur-ing opening week,” Kirby said. “We want to bring a high-pro-file artist to campus, and we’re going to work with the Alumni Association, Blue Crew and the Athletic Department so it’ll be a joint effort.”

Over the summer, he aims to add 600 more general parking spots to campus.

“Definitely by August I want more general parking spots. I know we can’t have parking garag-es up by then, but we can have things paved, we can have things restructured, there’s things we can do in the summer,” Kirby said. “It’s a lofty goal, but I think we can make it happen, I really do.”

He also wants to move the Copy Center in the University Center to another location and use the space as a store where reg-istered student organizations can use their funds to purchase items they need for events like paper plates and cups.

“Since Richardson Towers will be losing their store, we want to make that space into a place where you can buy snacks, school supplies, things like that with Tiger Funds and Dining Dollars, and RSOs can use their RSO funds to order things they need,” Kirby said.

Dr. Stephen Petersen, the advi-sor for SGA, believes that Kirby and Jones will do an excellent job leading SGA.

“We were fortunate to have two very strong executive slates in this year’s SGA election,” Petersen said. “They are all excellent stu-dents with strong leadership experiences. I’m confident that President Kirby and VP Jones will do an excellent job for our stu-dents. They will bring fresh ideas and their platform is a reflection of the interests, needs and con-cerns of our students.”

Jones hopes that he and Kirby will be able to revitalize the cam-pus and get more people involved with SGA.

“I hope that the people who want to try to do something on campus, something that’s never been done before, will be open enough to tell us their ideas and to not be afraid to come to the meet-ings,” Jones said. “SGA sounds all political, but we want to break that barrier down.” n

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soccer head coach Richie Grant has had success keeping some of the state’s best talent at home to play for the Tigers. Monday, he announced that two more Tennesseans signed National Letters of Intent to play between the goals for the Tigers next season.

“I’m really pleased to have our roster filled up with Tennessee players,” Grant said. “We feel like we’ve found two of the bet-ter players in the state.”

Kenneth Kauker, from Memphis, is a four-year letter winner from Christian Brothers High School. Kauker was a part of the 2010 TSSAA Division II Class-AA state championship team where he played center-mid and center-back for the Purple Wave. Aside from his time with the Purple Wave, Kauker has also played with the Memphis Futbol Club and the Midsouth Futbol Club.

“Kenneth Kauker is very close to us with his father playing here back in the early days of the pro-gram,” Grant said. “Kauker has great technical ability and he has good game sense. As he matures and develops, he will definitely compete for playing time.”

Along with Kauker, Jackson Boonstra out of Nashville also

signed his letter of intent to suit up for Memphis in the fall of 2013.

“Boonstra has the ability to compete up front because he’s athletic,” Grant said. “He can score goals and he can create goals. If he responds well to the training environment and is committed to improving his freshman year, I think he’ll be able to get some minutes for us, especially with Mark Sherrod graduating after next season.”

Boonstra is a two-year let-ter winner at David Lipscomb Academy, where he played for-ward. While gearing up for the Mustangs, he helped lead the team to a district title in 2012. For the 2012 season, Boonstra was named to the TSSAA All-State first-team, All-Region first-team, All-District first-team and the Tennessee Sports Writers Association All-State first-team.

The Tigers finished the 2012 season with an overall record of 8-7-3 (4-2-2 Conference USA), losing 1-0 to Kentucky in the first round of the C-USA Tournament. After a disappoint-ing end to last season, the Tigers will look for a big year from senior Mark Sherrod and his supporting cast, as well as the newcomers, to bounce back and provide a smooth transition into their new conference. n

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Men’s soccer head coach Richie Grant added two more players from Tennessee to play for the Tigers in 2013.

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