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Editor-in-Chief fumes over impending tobacco ban at U of Msee page 3

Put This In Your Pipe and Smoke It

Money aggregated from student fees was stretched further this year after a change to the meeting schedule of the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee.

The group now holds three meetings a year.The committee, made of administrators and

student representatives, has the responsibility to allocate funds to a number of eligible groups that put on events or programs for students. The funds are the sum of the $49 Student Activity Fee required of each full-time University of Memphis

student.Previously, the committee

met once over the summer and had more than $300,000 left from the bulk of monies each year.

“A lot of groups didn’t spend all the money they are given and we thought, ‘Why are we meeting once a year?’” said Tyler DeWitt, Student Government Association President.

Beginning this year, the committee will meet three times to discuss requests for funding. This week, U of M President Shirley Raines signed her approval of the committee’s decision to dis-pense another $314,188 in funds in addition to the amount distributed over the summer.

Of the amount given this fall, eight of ten groups who sent a proposal received money. The SGA received

$170,000, the bulk of the funds. SGA Vice President Rachael Goodwin, SGA advisor Stephen Petersen and DeWitt serve on the committee.

“It’s not like (DeWitt and Goodwin) have any advantage or any control over the outcome of the allocation,” said Petersen, Dean of Students and chair of the committee. “They would be sub-stantially out numbered and I don’t have a vote at all.”

DeWitt requested the supplemental budget for SGA, which is an addition to their already allotted $175,000 budget that is also comprised of money from the Student Activity Fee.

The extra money will fund student parking at football and basketball for this season, a com-puter and printer for SGA’s office, an electronic voting system for the University Center senate chambers, new election software, student organi-zation Model United Nation’s travel funding and a political speaker.

SGA was allotted $130,000 from the committee to bring in a political speaker. Originally, former President George W. Bush was sought, but DeWitt said Bush’s administration encouraged him not to bring a politician because it was an election year.

The SGA was given $24,000 of student fees

Students can dress as their favor-ite character and participate in an epic battle of the balls tonight from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. at the Campus Recreation Center.

The Honors Hall Student Council will sponsor the tournament, in

which all players are required to wear a costume.

Britney McWilliams, fundraising chair of the Honors Council, said there is a minimum of 4 players per team and everyone is invited to play.

“They don’t have to be in Honors – it’s open to anyone,” McWilliams said.

Austin Tutor, senior mechani-

cal engineering major, acts as the Programming chair of the Honors Council.

Because few organizations host a dodge ball tournament, Tutor said this would be a great way for students to learn more about the Honors Council.

Tutor said that his team plans

Characters welcome at Honors Council dodge ball tournamentBY CHRISTINA HOLLOWAYNews Reporter

Campus Activities

BY CHELSEA BOOZERNews Reporter

More than $314k in Student Activity Fees dispensed

University Finance

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By the Numbers:What else could $350,000 from the Student Activities Fund pay for?

3,571 ENGL 1010 textbooks at $98 each

1715 ink cartridges at $203.99 each

569 PC computers at $615 each

229 desks at $152.45 each

163 HP LaserJet print-ers at $2,139.99 each

35 guest speakers at $10,000 each

1.4 visits by former President Clinton at $250,000

Students took advantage of a town hall meeting on Wednesday night that gave students the opportunity to ask key University of Memphis administra-tors questions about their concerns with campus life and policy.

While some questions were answered in detail, others were answered indirectly.

David Zettergren, Vice President of Business and Finance, answered a ques-tion regarding a lack of healthy choices in vending machines that also addressed an increase in vending machine food prices in such a manner.

He said that he is open to “entertain other options that (students) think are available.”

“I would agree we need many healthy options. We certainly feel like we have that in there,” he said.

At least two students raised concerns about how U of M administration plan to enforce a campus tobacco ban that will begin in July. They also asked if the current University policy requiring cam-pus police to monitor no-smoking zones within 20 feet of campus buildings or entrances is being enforced.

One of these questions was directed to U of M President Shirley Raines. She passed the microphone to Zettegren.

“There are no fines …we did not want students to feel like they were harassed,” Zettergren said. “We assume people would comply and all it would take would be a reminder.”

He said there would be different pen-alties depending on whether a violator is faculty, staff or student. Students will have to appear before judicial affairs after an initial warning, he said.

Zettergren didn’t initially respond to whether the current smoking policy was being enforced, but after being asked again he said it takes a report of someone

smoking within 20 feet of a building for action to be made.

According to The U of M’s smoking policy posted online, a “Safety Officer also is authorized to monitor and enforce non-smoking rules…”

Zettegren did not address whether campus police do this.

Several questions arose about the effectiveness of equipment in dormitory bathrooms. Peter Groenendyk, director of dining services and residence life, said he has been made aware of a lack of soap and toilet paper in community bathrooms in the Living and Learning Complex.

He didn’t say whether anything would be done about it, but that Residence Life is looking into options.

Groenendyk also told attendees that the possibility of eliminating computer labs in dormitories is being considered because many students have laptops.

One student asked why The University turned down a proposal for an on-campus football stadium. Raines said that funding was a big factor.

“We shopped that plan to major donors, many of who said they would not give because we have a stadium two miles away,” Raines said. “We have a lot of empty sports venues in Memphis that people are still paying for.”

Zettergren spoke on a student’s concern about The University paying employees less than the living wage of Memphis that was determined by researchers on campus as $11.62.

“One thing that is not a factor in the equation has to do with the benefits that people are provided that are not actually included in your net pay, but be that as it may, we are very con-cerned about salaries and the wages on campus,” he said. “We’ve looked at that quite a bit.”

Passing the microphoneAdministrators leave some concerns unanswered at town hall meeting

Campus Events

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University of Memphis president Shirley Raines eyes the crowd as vice president of business and finance David Zettergren addresses students’ concerns about The University’s enforcement of the 2012 tobacco ban.

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“I’m glad I won’t have to hold my breath as I walk through all the crusty smokers surrounding the doors to campus buildings.”

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“I feel so bad for those in the Walk & Talk today. I’m really going to miss the warm smoke in my face ... NOT.”

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Seeing as their reason for banning tobacco products on campus is in an effort to make campus “more healthy,” this must mean they will also be banning trans fats, artificial sweeteners (another carcinogen), and all other products that are unhealthy.

No? Of course not. It would be ridiculous to take choice away from those who have a right to it. So what makes it okay to BAN some unhealthy items but not others?

Smokers tend to congregate, so the smoke is limited to their surrounding area. What would make sense is to pro-vide them a place to smoke away from the non-smokers or general pathways. The reason that people smoke near the doors of Patterson, for example, is because that is the only place nearby with seating and shelter. The few ashtrays they have on campus are always near doorways, forcing smokers to stand in the path of others. These ashtrays are also rarely ever emptied, resulting in smokers disposing of butts on the ground.

I agree that it is unfortunate to be a non-smoker and be forced to inhale someone else’s bad habit, but that habit is their choice. A more logical solution would be to facilitate smoking in areas away from populated pathways.

– Kelly Gilliom via Facebook

There should be covered seating regardless of smoking! I support the ban of smoking on campus. Why should I, a non-smoking person who is allergic, have to wade through the cloud of smoke to exit Dunn Hall or have to inhale it while sitting outside between PSYC and the auditorium when seats are taken indoors?

It’s not only unfortunate, but it’s disrespectful to those of us who have made the conscious choice not to smoke. Also, smoke is not limited to an area. It dissipates like every other smell, just like a bad cologne wafting through the air in a class room.

– Holley Haley via Facebook

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A funky, three-story house in Midtown known as Courthouse Co-Op is host to cross-country travelers, free live-music shows and home for several University of Memphis students.

The house is a sanctuary for creativity – paintings, drawings and collages cover the interior. The walls seem to breathe with inspiration.

“It’s a real laid back environ-ment; simple, but laid back,” said ‘Knowledge’ Nick Harris, Senior Finance major.

The name “Courthouse” is derived from the name of the street it’s located on: Court.

Courthouse also has a com-munity library filled with books ranging in topic, including top-ics of philosophy, gender, art and politics. The haven also contains its own music jam room.

“Eight people live here – we’ve got four students and four locals,” said Billy Haynes, sophomore English major and resident of Courthouse.

Haynes said they try to keep the shows’ schedule convenient for the students who live there.

“It can be a little hectic some-times and a little personal space has to be sacrificed but it can be a hell of a lot of fun and it’s eco-nomic,” Haynes said.

The house can be found on

couchsurfing.org, a website dedi-cated to finding travelers a free place to stay the night on their journeys.

“Courthouse” will host a free show Saturday night at 8 p.m. with several local and touring acts.

Haynes said the neighbors don’t complain about the music.

“They’re cool,” he said. “We’ve never really had any problems with them.”

Because the “Courthouse” is not a venue, there is no cover charge but donations are accepted.

Barkley Pryor, senior history and Spanish major is a member of the local rock/reggae band Sanga that will be performing at Courthouse on Saturday.

“We’ll be one of a couple differ-ent acts, all based around a reggae sound. It’s going to be one big reg-gae Halloween show,” Pryor said.

The Chinese Connection Dub Embassy, a local, roots reggae band, will also be performing along with The Soul Radics and reggae legend, King Django.

The Soul Radics are a ska band based in Nashville and King Django is out of New Jersey. Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica during the late 1950s and was a precursor to reggae.

John Michael Tubbs, a junior Saxophone player for The Chinese Connection Dub Embassy, said he expects “a col-lege crowd with a lot of cool diversity.”

Entertainment

BY JACK SIMONNews Reporter

Midtown ‘Courthouse’governs by rule of funk Where there’s smoke,

is there always fire?Halloween

came early at The U of M on Wednesday night as Shirley Raines intro-duced herself as University F a i r y G o d m o t h e r ,

officially banishing future tobacco use on campus with a wave of her magic wand.

University administration and the Student Government Association acknowledged that though they’ve spent a great deal of time on the anti-tobacco policy (and plan to continue doing so), they have no way to effectively enforce the policy.

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active minds meetingTODAY @ 4 p.m.

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Please join us as we work to change the conversation about mental health on the University of Memphis campus!

Active Minds is an RSO that works to raise awareness about the prevalence of mental health issues among college students, eliminate the stigma associated with those issues and to promote help seeking behavior.

For more information, contact us at activemindsuofm@gmail.com

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to put an emphasis on variety when it comes to costumes.

“We’re all gonna wear dif-ferent things,” Tutor said. “It should be a decent amount of teams that show up, so it should be fun.”

Tutor said this tournament would make for a great oppor-tunity for students to meet new people and to help them get involved on campus.

Cheyenne Medlock, pro-gramming co-chair, said that it would make for a great oppor-tunity to raise awareness for the Honors Council.

“For those who aren’t going out for Halloween, it’s a good thing for them to get involved in and dress up for,” Medlock said.

Students interested in partic-ipating can pay at the Honors Hall before 6 p.m. tonight for two dollars per person or at the door for three dollars per person.

DoDge ballfrom page 1

The White House on Wednesday said a McClatchy Newspapers news story was false when it reported that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were not deeply involved in talks with Iraqi officials over whether to leave a residual force of U.S. troops in the country before deciding to withdraw all U.S. troops by the end of this year.

The White House refused, how-ever, to release details of Obama’s and Biden’s involvement that would counter the details in the story.

McClatchy Newspapers on Tuesday reported that “President Barack Obama and his point man on Iraq, Vice President Joe Biden, remained largely aloof from the pro-cess” of negotiating whether U.S. troops could or would remain in Iraq past the end of this year. The story quoted logs provided by the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad showing that no talks between the president and vice president and Iraqi offi-cials occurred from March through October. The logs recorded the White House statements, or “readouts,” of calls made by the president or vice president.

The story also quoted a spokes-man for the government of Iraq. And it noted that, in addition to the embassy’s log records, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s office had put out a statement on Sept. 22 say-ing that al-Maliki and Biden had dis-cussed that day a possible residual U.S. force.

“That report is just categorically false to suggest that the president and the vice president hadn’t been in communication with Iraqi leaders,” said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney Wednesday afternoon when asked by reporters about the story.

“The vice president had many, many conversations with Iraqi lead-ers over the time period mentioned in that story. The president spoke with Prime Minister Maliki this summer,” Carney said aboard Air Force One as the president flew home to Washington from a West Coast trip.

Asked if he would release the dates or details of those talks, Carney said, “I don’t know.”

He also said that “there actually was” a White House comment of one of the calls to Iraq that was missed. “But the fact of the matter is ... we don’t read out every call we have, the president has or the vice president has with foreign leaders.”

“We stand by our reporting,” said James Asher, Washington Bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers. “We have repeatedly asked White House officials for details on Mr. Obama’s and Mr. Biden’s commu-nications with the Iraqi government. So far, they have declined to provide them. We await a response.”

White House challenges McClatchy news story

Politics

Executive branch offers no facts to counter allegationsMcClatchy Newspapers

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The U of M Classical Guitar Society presents

Dr. James Baur in Concert

Friday, Oct. 28 @ 7:30 p.m.Harris Concert Hall

Performing a Guitar Concerto with the Contemporary Chamber Players, conducted by Dr. Kamran Ince, U of M professor of music,

and featuring compositions by his father, Dr. John Baur, U of M composition & graduate music theory professor, and Dr. Ince.

Walk&Talk If you could ask Shirley Raines any question, what would it be?

“Why do students from middle class families have to suffer

most?”

— Analecia Guthrie, Psychology senior

“Why do we have less park-ing on campus this year, and

why are the parking pass prices going up?”

— Kaitlyn Foster, Nursing sophomore

“What is your favorite book in the Bible?”

— Quincy Newson, Education junior

“Is there a way more scholar-ships can be made available for

students?”

— Jessica Bell, Biology senior

“Why is the art building so run down?”

— Scott Nivens, Sophomore

by Aaron Turner

National

Putting the move in Occupy movement

How will it end?More than a month into the

Occupy movement, officials are beginning to talk openly of mov-ing protesters out of their encamp-ments in parks and public squares

around the country.But many activists show no

signs of budging as the movement continues to generate heavy media attention and support from liberal circles.

Looming large is the cautionary spectacle of Oakland, Calif. Police there arrested about 100 protest-ers before dawn Tuesday, using tear gas and riot gear to break up encampments — only to face a massive evening protest and threats of continued unrest from angry backers of the movement.

Leaders in other cities said they don’t want a repeat of that chaos, but it’s unclear how they will even-tually oust protesters who refuse to leave.

Even in Los Angeles, where city leaders have greeted the demon-strators warmly, there are signs of protest fatigue and increasing anxiety about what happens next.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who earlier this month had ponchos distributed to rain-soaked Occupy L.A. pro-testers, said Wednesday that the encampment next to City Hall “cannot continue indefinitely.”

Villaraigosa has instructed city officials to draft a plan for another location for the demonstration. He decided the camp could not stay after Los Angeles County health inspectors expressed worries about the cleanliness of the camp, and because of concerns about the con-dition of the lawn and trees.

“Look, our lawn is dead, our sprinklers aren’t working ... our trees are without water,” the mayor said.

Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, meanwhile, said police should enforce an existing law that keeps people from camping in city parks after 10:30 p.m. since they enforce it

BY KATE LINTHICUM, LEE ROMNEY AND CHRISTOPHER GOFFARDLos Angeles Times

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elsewhere.Among City Hall staffers, there

is ridicule about the protesters’ cleanliness and resentment that a weekly farmers market — usually held on the City Hall lawn — has been forced to move.

On the East Coast, where the Occupy Wall Street protests began in September and have since spread to many cities, the approach of winter could curtail the camp-outs dramatically. Here in the more temperate West, they could theo-retically continue year-round.

Los Angeles police officials said they have no plans to move the protesters out. “We’re still work-ing as best we can and trying to be cooperative,” said Cmdr. Andrew Smith. He said police have a con-tingency plan to clear out pro-testers if they have to, but said if police are forced to evict protesters they would take pains to avoid the tear gas used by police in Oakland.

About a dozen protesters showed up at Wednesday’s City Council meeting to ask lawmak-ers to allow them to stay. Protester Alex Everett, 26, said he came because he was alarmed at calls for the demonstrators to move on.

Everett, who moved into a tent outside of City Hall two weeks ago, said protesters would not leave without a fight. He said there may be violence if police move in to clear out the protest.

He said the LAPD would take a less confrontational tack than Oakland police “for public rela-tions purposes,” especially as the city tries to woo a National Football League team downtown.

Protesters are expressing similar resolve at encampments across the country.

In Lower Manhattan where the Occupy movement began, protest-ers show no signs of closing shop even as the weather gets colder. After battling back a city plan to clear out Zuccotti Park earlier this month, protesters have been try-ing to make the occupation more palatable to neighbors, who have complained about incessant drum-ming and urination in the streets.

The local community board voted this week to support the movement, but to also limit “sourc-es of noise” to two hours a day and to arrange for the protesters to have access to bathrooms.

Michael Kink, leader of a coalition of union and commu-nity groups, said he thinks the New York protests will continue through winter, though enduring the weather will be “tough.”

“The intention is to stay but I wouldn’t say stay forever,” Kink said. “At least right now the city is not in showdown territory but in work-it-out territory.”

The occupation in New York has morphed since it started. By day, the park fills up with hun-dreds of supporters and tourists, with police keeping close watch.

At night, the encampment is mostly quiet as protesters crawl into sleeping bags, in contrast to the all-night activity that character-ized the occupation’s early days.

In Oakland, near the site of the police raid, businesses were open Wednesday and little damage was visible other than two cracked win-dows. One resulted from a pro-jectile fired by police, said Mike Porter, a 24-year-old Pleasant Hill, Calif., protester who was charged

with disorderly conduct, loitering with no ID and remaining at the scene after it had been declared an illegal assembly.

He spent about 15 hours in jail and could hear the chants of eve-ning protesters from his cell. “I came back down as soon as I got out,” he said.

Porter decried the repeated use of tear gas and flash grenades, saying it was lone actors — “one moron” at a time — who broke the peaceful protests to lob a bottle at police in riot gear.

Tasha Casini, 22, said police shot her in the thigh with a rubber bul-let during the raid. She said she and other demonstrators tried to retake the plaza after the “second or third order to disperse,” and that she had tried to help a dem-onstrator who had been knocked unconscious by a projectile fired by police.

The police crackdown inspired Leandra Johnson, a 36-year-old mother of five from El Sobrante, Calif., to take to the street Wednesday with a sign that said “We Have the Right to Peaceful Assembly.”

“Last night is the reason I’m here today and it’ll be the reason I’m here tomorrow,” she said.

Oakland officials insist that they tried to work with the campers and got nowhere.

Across the bay in San Francisco, the occupy camps remain at Justin Herman Plaza South. But the city has threatened to arrest protest-ers who camp overnight, citing “evidence of excrement, urine, and

vomit” in a park with some 300 protesters.

All told, there have been an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 arrests in dozens of American cities since the Occupy movement began.

occupyfrom page 5

Attendees shake their hands in agreement with Kwazi Nkrumah, as he speaks recently at an Occupy LA security committee meeting on the steps of City Hall in Los Angeles, California. Authorities across the United States are pondering best practices to move protesters out of their encampments.

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to pay for the parking lots at basketball and football games. Students will be noti-fied via email of when and where tickets will be distrib-uted on a first-come first-served basis.

Model United Nations, a government-related student organizat ion that is active on The U of M’s Lambuth campus, will be allotted $2,000 for travel and reg-istration for competitions. Student orga-nizations not sponsored by the SGA can only receive up to 70 per-cent of fund-ing for travel requests.

DeWitt said another $2,000 was needed for a printer and computer because SGA’s are “hand-me-downs and unreliable.” Senators use these computers to research and write bills during their man-dated weekly office hours.

The remainder of the $12,000 given to the SGA will fund the new online election software and voting system. The voting system will allow the SGA to post on their web-site the voting record of each senator.

“This (supplemental bud-get) allows programs and allows SGA to do something,” DeWitt said. “Most of our bud-get was spent already. There’s not really a lot of money for projects that benefit students if you really thing about it. So SGA took the initiative this year to expand our role.”

Other registered student organizations at The U of M are allowed $400 a semester

for a budget, money that also comes from the stu-dent-paid fee. R e g i s t e r e d student orga-nizations can apply for addi-tional funding through the Student Event A l l o c a t i o n committee.

DeWitt said he realizes the SGA has cer-tain privileges other campus organizations don’t receive.

“ T h e S t u d e n t G o v e r n m e n t A s s o c i a t i o n is recog-nized by the

administration as a long standing group that is part of the administration at The University of Memphis,” he said. “We consider ourselves as partner with all (registered student orginaztions) and I welcome any partnership, whether it be a co-sponsor, promotion or whatever. We are open for it because we are the voice of the students.”

Some peo-ple say that it is impolite to use profanity, while others think that you can’t get your point across unless obscen-ities are used.

Whichever way you decide to live your life and what comes out of your mouth is entirely up to you. But when you’re a public figure or someone who is in charge of other people’s kids, should you tone down your language or should you do whatever it takes to win?

Due to the recent outtakes of one Shawn Abel, now for-mer head football coach at Collierville High School, we wanted to revisit whether or not you should curse at a young adult (teenager), or a college student-athlete, because although they’re in school, they’re still considered adults.

“I’ve never had an urge to curse, even when I’m furious,” said Josh Pastner, head coach of the men’s basketball team. “I believe you don’t need to curse to get your point across. I think you can motivate through respect.”

Whether or not the play-ers have Pastner’s respect has yet to be recognized. Since he

took over the program in 2009, Pastner has had his run-ins with a few players. During last season he benched a struggling Wesley Witherspoon for inap-propriate behavior on a team bus. Before that, senior for-ward Pierre Henderson-Niles was dismissed from the team because of playing time and also it was reported that he and sharpshooter Roburt Sallie had a few choice words before he decided he wanted to pursue a professional career after not being accepted into Louisville.

So, to say one should not curse and that players respond better to positive talk is an understatement. We now live in a world where sometimes the best way to get through to an 18-22-year-old is talk like them. So if Pastner wants to consider himself a cool coach for getting Rick Ross sched-uled to perform at Memphis Madness, he should consider talking to the players the same way they talk to each other. It’s not like they don’t do it. But I’m not saying that it makes things right to do so, but he should give it a shot.

“There are many coaches that have won championships and that are in the hall of fame, so I’m not saying my way is the right way,” Pastner said. “I’m saying personally, I just believe you can treat people the right way, coach them, get them better and teach them that

it takes some discipline to get your point across without say-ing a word that doesn’t need to be used.”

So if we end up seeing anoth-er Tigers team that lacks cohe-sion, chemistry, togetherness and seeming like they’re tun-ing out their coach and playing selfishly because he seems to use ‘baby words’ to motivate them, then we now know why the players aren’t playing up to their potential. It will be because Pastner refuses to be like his predecessor and call them names and throw them under the bus just to get to a national championship game. But if they do get to the nation-al championship game will it be in spite of all these things, or will it be because of pure talent?

“In my world of recruiting, I tell them that if you need me to curse at you to get you motivated, then don’t come to Memphis,” Pastner said.

Opinion

War of the wordsBY ADAM DOUGLASSports Editor

“I believe you don’t need

to curse to get your point

across.” — Josh Pastner

Head coach, Tigers basketball

FunDsfrom page 1

“It’s not like DeWitt and

Goodwin have any advantage or any control over the out-come of the

allocation. They would be sub-stantially out-numbered and I don’t have a vote at all.”

— Stephen PetersenDean of Students and

SGA Advisor

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After two straight losses – both conference match ups – The University of Memphis volleyball squad (15-9, 4-7 in Conference USA) will be looking to redeem themselves as they prepare for two more conference matches on the road, beginning with Tulsa on Friday and SMU on Sunday.

“The girls did not believe they could win because we played good teams last weekend,” said assis-tant coach Marko Majstorovic. “We are about to play good teams this weekend so all they have to do is believe they can beat those teams.”’

The lady tigers fell short to C-USA rival Houston on Sunday at the Tigers’ annual ‘Dig Pink’ game at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse.

“We were playing good teams, and that’s what it boils down to,” said April Jauregui, head coach of the volleyball team. “Our confer-ence is very solid this year. On any given night anyone can beat anyone.”

Led by Marija Jovanovic in kills with 14, Altrese Hawkins (13) and Vesna Jelic (12) pulled in double digits in both kills and digs with 11 and 13, respectively. Hajnalka Molnar tabbed 49 assists leav-ing her with 998 on the season. Plagued by routine errors, the tigers ultimately fell 3-1 against the Cougars.

“We struggled with errors, so we have to reduce our errors and play more focused volleyball,“ Hawkins said. “We need to believe in ourselves and our teammates and work together. If we all give 100 percent then we’re going to beat these teams we’re losing to right now.”

As they prepare to hit the road this weekend, the tigers are up against two teams they’ve already seen this season, Tulsa (19-5, 10-1) and SMU (9-14, 5-6). In a hard-fought five-set match, the Tigers downed SMU at home where Hawkins tabbed her record high 30 kills. In their last meeting, Tulsa swept Memphis in three straight sets.

“We beat (SMU) two weeks ago so we’ll have the same exact game plan,“ Jauregui said. “It’s about executing the game plan just like we did two weeks ago, we’ve got to play well.”

After two on the road, Memphis returns home for four straight home games – the first two against UCF, then followed by Tulane and Southern Miss; all games, they hope to win with fan sup-port as they play their last games on the season in the Elma Roane Fieldhouse.

“Home games are always a lot better than away games,” Hawkins said. “Hopefully we’ll have a big crowd come out and support us. We’re going to go out and play our game and that’s all that we need to do.”

Junior outside hitter Altrese Hawkins soars for one of 2 kills during the Conference USA match against Rice last week.

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Lady Tigers seeking redemptionBY JASMINE VANNSports Reporter

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