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The University of Memphis’ Lambda Chi Alpha chapter will be teaming up with Lifeblood to host a two-day blood drive on March 5 and 6. The fraternity has looked to set their event apart from typi-cal blood drives by giving this one a St. Patrick’s Day theme.

“We’ve been talking with Lifeblood about it, and since it falls around the time of St. Patrick’s Day, we decided it would be good to run with,” said Lambda Chi Alpha member Domenic Martini on the event’s theme.

This will be the second blood drive hosted by the fraternity. The first one took place in the fall. According to Martini, it was high-ly successful.

“We had 250-plus donors,” he said. While this is already a considerable number, Lambda Chi Alpha is looking for it to climb even higher in the second go-around.

“Our goal this time is 350,” Martini said.

In addition to the amount of blood that was donated in the

fall, Memphis Lambda Chi Alpha members Dixon Williams, Alex Galbraith, and Tremaine McKinley accepted the Lifeblood Newcomer of the Year award on behalf of the University of Memphis.

College campuses play one of the largest roles in raising blood nationwide, and that becomes especially important in the winter months.

“Colleges are responsi-ble for about 20 percent of the blood supply in the country,” said Alan Gibson of the American Red Cross Blood Services. “When we get into this time of the year blood supply is typi-cally compromised due to weather and seasonal flu.”

If this is not incentive enough for potential donors, visitors to the blood drive will also be treat-ed to refreshments. The Lifeblood mascot will be in attendance, and everyone who donates blood will receive a free St. Patrick’s Day themed t-shirt with a depiction of a four-leaf clover and the words “lucky donor” around it.

The event will take place in the lobby of the Rose Theatre from

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For more than half a decade, as well as half of their lives, The Summers have been playing music together. Now the band has plans of moving on, and though they still plan to make music together, they want to change their image and do what most bands can’t — make a new name for themselves, as well as a new sound.

The band is made up of three brothers: guitarist and lead sing-er Jared Summers, lead guitar-ist Wesley Summers, drummer Branson Summers. Bassist and vocalist Peter Armstrong, who shares no relation to the brothers, rounds out the lineup.

“We all started playing music at the same time and grew at a similar rate. Our musical influences are collective and have grown togeth-er throughout the years, so it has always been really easy to click with music; very natural.” Branson said.

The band’s influences spread drastically between the band mem-bers, but they cite the new sound as more influenced by progressive/math rock than the previous alter-native/pop-punk influences.

“The new sound is different, still rock-based, but more mature,” Armstrong, junior exercise sports science major said. “We’re just writ-ing and seeing what comes out.”

The Summers started as a band seven years ago after splitting from a previous project. They started playing cover shows and recording demos while living in Louisville, Ky. A few years later, the band moved to Memphis, where they continued playing classic rock at gigs around town.

“We did The Summers for so long, and it was a big part of our lives. Parting from it and doing something different is something I’m stoked about,” said Jared, who started the band with his brothers when he was only 11.

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This week, students using Dining Dollars and Tiger Funds can enjoy discounts on select food items across campus.

The Student Government Association negotiated the discounts with Tiger Dining. They will be in effect through March 1.

“One of the complaints that SGA has heard the most is the expensive price of food on campus,” Russell Born, SGA President and creator of the discount week, said.

Many students have cited the high price of food on campus as a downside to the University of Memphis.

“It’s too high. It forces student to use up all of their Dining Dollars quicker or have to pay these ridicu-lous prices with our own money,” Lexi Dailey, a U of M student, com-mented on Facebook.

Other students echoed this complaint.

“Way too high! Also, the food choices are terrible. There is mostly over processed food that contrib-utes to all kinds of illness and dis-eases later in life,” Jordan Meyers, junior at the U of M, also posted on Facebook.

Born has been attempting to implement a discount week since late November of 2012.

“This action shows we are lis-tening to our students,” Sean

Armstrong, marketing manager for Tiger Dining said. He stated that prices on campus are very close to market prices.

Prices on certain foods have been reduced during this week in many dining areas on campus includ-ing the Tiger Den, the University Center, Psychology Building and Theater Building.

However, discounts are not across the board. They only include select items, most of which are side items and drinks.

Although no future discount weeks are planned, Born hopes it will be a recurring event.

“I would personally like there to be a once a semester or once a year discount week,” Born said.

Born has been working on other projects aimed at saving students some cash on campus. Currently, he is trying to implement a program that would allow students to use their Tiger Funds at restaurants near campus such as Garibaldi’s, Huey’s and Buffalo Wild Wings.

“That has been a very time-consuming process,” Born said. “Hopefully that will be a program that will begin next year.”

Born has been working on this program since June of last year. He hopes that it will be in effect by August 2013. n

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The role of the abolitionist was a dangerous role in the antebellum years — even more dangerous than that of the fugitive slave.

The Burkle Theatre and Arts Group, named after German immi-grant Jacob Burkle and consisting of 15 University of Memphis stu-dents, gave its debut performance illustrating this fact at the Burkle Estate on Feb. 16, also known as the Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum.

“I formed this group in order to collectively explore African-Americans’ impact on writing, act-ing and all forms of entertainment,” said Allyson Truly, president of the BTAG and junior theater and psychology major. “Our purpose is to diversify theater and provide a nurturing environment that fos-ters creative thinking and discus-sions about students and issues that revolve around our diverse community.”

Truly also described the Burkle Estate as a “part of the overall civil

rights heritage of Memphis.”“The house aided in bring-

ing freedom to many people who would have been killed searching for freedom on their way to the Underground Railroad,” she said.

Junior theater major and BTAG member Jeneka Wise echoed Truly’s statement, adding that Burkle has helped make history.

“He helped to save the lives of hundreds of slaves by hiding them until they could safely travel to freedom,” she said. “He didn’t have to, but he chose to, even after he knew the consequences that would come if he got caught helping a slave.”

James Chumney, associate pro-fessor emeritus of history, said there is a distinction between those who are anti-slavery and abolitionists.

“Someone who is anti-slavery may abhor slavery, but that doesn’t mean they want to stop it,” he said.

“Abolitionists want to help put an end to slavery.”

It was this nature that labeled abolitionists as extremists among their fellow northerners, leading to them being attacked and their homes mobbed, Chumney said.

“Most abolitionists were well-educated and smart, hailing from the New England region,” he said. “They would sometimes send young pastors who were concerned about the treatments of slaves in the slave states.”

A stockyard owner in the public eye, Burkle was an abolitionist who opened his home to many fugitive

slaves on the outskirts of Memphis, which was Tennessee’s largest slave-trading city in the mid-1800s, mainly due to the establishment of more than a dozen lucrative slave-trading businesses.

As far as the controverasy that tends to surround black

actors who gain noto-riety for playing roles deemed as subservient or stereotypical is con-cerned, Truly said the offense came from the fact that those kinds of roles have always been the only portrayals of black people.

“No one wants to only be one thing,”

she said. “African-Americans have made major con-tributions to American society, and that should be portrayed in televi-sion and theater.”

Wise also decried the restriction

of black actors, saying that playing a character involved in history is an honor.

“You are telling a story that needs to be told,” she said.

Chumney’s interpretation of the controversy surrounded the notion that any black person in the Civil Rights Era who seemed too accom-modating and accepting of white people was labeled as an “Uncle Tom.”

“An ‘Uncle Tom’ is basically a black person who was a lovable character, unwilling to help put an end to slavery,” he said, referring to the protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

Truly said that without help from both blacks and whites, slavery would never have been abolished.

“With Burkle’s help, he gave life to people who were suffering and being treated as subhuman,” she said. n

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U of M students Jeneka Wise, Allyson Truly, Tristan Parks and Charisse Norment gave a performance at the Burkle Estate last Saturday. Dressed as characters including Nat Turner and Baby Suggs from Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” the troupe depicted the fear and trepidation runaway slaves faced while on the run from their owners.

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If you have been following us, we have come to the point of examining the claims that Jesus Christ has made about Himself. Was and is He Lord over all as He claimed? Was He an imposter or a deluded individual? Where can we find reliable answers to such questions? There is now, and has been for centuries, a book commonly called the Bible, which, in boldest terms, professes to be a revelation from God. The authority of this revelation has been admitted by millions of people, both in the past and in the present. If the Bible is not what it purports to be then its writers were either deceived themselves or else they were malicious deceivers. There is great evidence that the Bible is all that it claims to be. We will briefly list one of these evidences and then examine some others later. The Bible has been proven time and again to be historically accurate. A century ago critics held that the Bible was untrustworthy as history. They denied that the Hittites ever lived. Sargon was considered a mythical character. Some of the historical information in the Acts of the Apostles was deemed in er-ror. However, the confident denials of early critics have proved in every case to be the assumptions of ignorance. Archeology has consistently vindicated the testimony of the Bible. If the Bible is accurate in its portrayal of history, shouldn’t we assume that it is also accurate when it describes Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords?

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had “band coaches” who were giv-ing them direction to help grow as a band, and helping the pre-teen Summers boys progress as musicians as well as song-writers.

“The band has been a growing period and a learning process from the beginning. Since we started so young, our mom was booking our shows at first, and she handled the business aspects of the band because we were too young to deal with any of that on our own,” Branson said.

In January 2010, 16-year-old Branson started taking over the business part of the band. Booking shows with bands with similar tastes and styles of music, The Summers quickly became a crucial part of the constantly growing “alt-scene.”

“We were pretty much on the way into being a pop-punk band at the time of the EP, we were want-ing to do easy-core and breakdowns and music like that. However, our producer restricted us and kept us in more of a poppy genre, which we were resistant to at the time. Then we started progressing more towards the newest CD’s sound as soon as the EP got released and Peter joined the band,” Branson said.

In October of 2010 the band released their first self-titled EP, which was the product of eight months of writing. With the recent addition of bassist Armstrong, the

band left their previous producer due to different creative visions and started pushing toward the signa-ture pop-punk/alternative sound that would define their band for the remainder of its existence.

“For a while, we were looking for a bassist and wanted to hold audi-tions about a year prior to us meeting Peter. At some point, we got tired and stopped looking; we decided to just focus on the music and wait for the right fit to come along,” Branson said.

Soon after the release of their EP, the band started to write new songs with Peter, eventually leading up to recording the band’s debut full-length, “It’s No Life Story,” in November of 2011.

“When we wrote the last album we wanted to make something aggressive, as opposed to the soft-pop-punk EP we released before,” Armstrong said. “Now it’s like we have this, we have that, now let’s just grow up and write what comes to us.”

The CD was released in August of 2012 at the band’s CD release party at Newby’s on the Highland Strip. The band drew a crowd of more than 300 people throughout the night, which is one of the biggest local shows the scene has seen in the past few years.

“I met The Summers a few years ago, around the same time Peter joined the band. Since then I’ve been really close to all of them and watched them as they’ve grown up, as musicians and people,” Hunter

Davidson, guitarist and vocalist from local band Midway said.

“I’m proud of them and definitely expect great things from the future. So far their new material, from what I’ve heard, sounds awesome and I only expect their fan base to grow.”

The constantly maturing band wants to move on from the pop-punk genre and find themselves as musicians as well as people. By changing the sound and nature of the band, they feel that it is only right to

change the name with it.“It’s difficult choosing a new

name. We, or at least I do, like the idea of getting away from the whole “last name band” thing,” Jared said. “I just think it’s time, it’s just really dif-ficult to think of a new name that we really like because we don’t want it to be something random. We want it to be a name that means something.”

The band’s last show as The Summers is this Friday at the Abbey, located on South Cooper Street.

Doors will open at 6 p.m., and admis-sion costs $5. The Star Killers will be opening the show, followed by Dime Fiction, Yet, Midway, Looking for Alaska and The Summers headlining.

“Sometimes change is good, The Summers was fun and it was a grow-ing experience,” Armstrong said. “We learned a lot and met a lot of cool people and a lot of bands who have influenced us to make this move, but the band has run its course and it’s time for a new thing.” n

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After another rise in the rank-ings from No. 21 to No. 19 in the Associated Press poll, the University of Memphis men’s bas-ketball team looks to extend their winning streak to 19 games on the road against the Xavier Musketeers in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Tigers enter tonight’s match as the only team in NCAA Division I men’s basketball to have not lost a decision on the road (7-0). The Musketeers (15-11, 8-5 Atlantic 10) own a 9-3 record at the Cintas Center and are coming off a 75-71 loss at home to Virginia Commonwealth.

Xavier’s Semaj Christon (15.0 ppg) and Travis Taylor (11.6 ppg) are the only players on the team averaging double figures in points.

Taylor poses a tough task for Tiger big men Shaq Goodwin and Tarik Black, as he not only scores, but leads the team in rebound-ing at 8.6 rpg. He has helped the Musketeers out-rebound oppo-nents by an average margin of +4.9 rpg.

Memphis has allowed opponents at their home court to shoot 27.2 percent from three-point range, a stat that bodes well against a Musketeer squad shooting just 34.7 percent from long range on the season. The top outside shooting threats for Xavier the Tigers will have to keep close tabs on are Brad Redford (43.9 percent) and Dee Davis (38.8 percent).

Recently, sophomore guard-for-ward Adonis Thomas has stepped up his game and given the Tigers another added dimension on the offensive end. The sophomore, as well as guards Joe Jackson and Geron Johnson, will have opportu-nities to drive against a Musketeer defense that is forcing just 11.8 turnovers per game.

The Tigers have had a tough time against A-10 competition, holding a 68-67 edge all-time. A win tonight would be head coach Josh Pastner’s 100th victory of his career at the helm of the program, and just the sixth in program history.

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Tigers sweep Missouri in tournamentOver the course of three games

this weekend, the University of Memphis baseball team out-scored University of Missouri 19-5 for a series sweep. The win-less Missouri Tigers came to town to steal a game from Memphis at FedEx Park but left three losses worse.

Friday night, Memphis gave ace Sam Moll a bit of breath-ing room by scoring a couple of runs in the first inning, but he didn’t need it for his entire seven innings pitched. Through seven, he shut out Missouri and only allowed one hit while striking out five in 106 pitches. Junior Conner Porter would continue

the shutout, striking out four bat-ters in his two innings of service.

The offense didn’t relax on Friday, piling on six runs off 14 hits. The game started off right with a home run in the first inning struck by Tucker Tubbs, scoring him and Zach Willis. From there, both Zach Willis and Carter White had three-hit eve-nings, White scoring twice.

After beating Missouri on Friday, the Tigers squared off again at 2 p.m. on Saturday. However, Memphis wouldn’t win this game as easily, as they found themselves in a 3-1 hole in the bottom of the seventh.

Realizing the need for a spark, Memphis began to work the at-bats, loading the bases on two walks and a single with only one

out. Another walk gave Memphis a run, and Missouri threw one of their three errors to first to score another. With the score tied, out-fielder Ford Wilson singled to left to put Memphis in the lead at 4-3. An insurance run in the eighth put the Tigers ahead for good at 5-3.

Following the clinch of the series, both teams came out hungry for a win on Sunday. Memphis scored one in the first, then would score seven runs in the seventh and eighth innings to sweep Mizzou.

In the first, a double by junior Drew Griffin would drive in Tubbs from third base. Nobody scored until Missouri tied Memphis at 1-1 in the top of the seventh.

Missouri wouldn’t do so well after the seventh inning stretch, as numerous mistakes led to a cou-ple of Memphis scores. Memphis’ Nate Rupiper reached first on an error, then took advantage of another miscue, a wild pitch, to reach third. A single by infielder Ethan Gross drove the runner in to give Memphis the lead.

While on base, Gross took advantage of more Missouri blunders. After stealing second, he moved to third on a wild pitch, and scored on a separate wild pitch. That put the home team ahead 3-1 leading into the eighth.

Missouri would respond by scoring again in the eighth, but a furious rally in the bottom of the eighth would insure victory for

Memphis. Two runners would move into

scoring position with one out after a sacrifice bunt by Griffin. After an intentional walk to load the bases, Rupiper stepped up with an infield single. A pinch-hitter drove a single to left, and drove in two more runs. To pour it on, Gross would cap off his day with a two-RBI single to give him three hits and three RBI on the day.

This was an important series for the Tigers, and it put the Memphis team at above .500 at 4-3. They have gained some momentum before traveling to Oxford, Miss. on Tuesday to play the Ole Miss Rebels at Oxford University Stadium. n

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Tigers take down UTEP Miners 77-71The Memphis Tigers (16-11, 7-6

C-USA) struck gold from behind the three-point arch and defeated the University of Texas at El Paso Miners 77-71 at FedExForum on Sunday afternoon. With the win, the Tigers pushed their way into fourth place in the conference enter-ing the homestretch of the season.

The Miners struck first in the contest by way of a Kelli Willingham three-point shot, and things seemed to be going UTEP’s way early as they pounded the offensive glass. Another troubling sign for the Tigers was that freshman forward Asianna Fuqua-Bey got herself into early foul trouble with two fouls on the offensive side of the ball. The Tigers kept it close, however, and senior forward Nicole Dickson connected from downtown to give Memphis their first lead at 11-9.

Nine of the Tigers first 11 points came off three-pointers, and this was a trend that Memphis looked to continue over the remainder of the half. Junior point guard Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir knocked down a tri-ple from the right corner to cap off an 11-0 run that gave the Tigers a 16-9 lead seven minutes into the game. Minutes later, UTEP would go on a run of their own, scoring eight straight points to get back within three points. However, the Tigers continued their barrage from beyond the arc as they carried a 41-28 lead into the locker room at halftime.

Memphis shot 53 percent from the field in the opening half, includ-ing a blazing 7-10 from deep, while holding the Miners to only 34 per-cent shooting. Despite the large disparity in shooting percentages and in the scoring column, the rebounding game was about even, with the Tigers holding a slight 19-18 advantage. Dickson led all scorers at the break with 20 points on 8-14 shooting.

Memphis had no intention of cooling off in the second half, as the three-point shootout continued with an Abdul-Qaadir triple from the top of the key at the start of the second period of play. This sparked a 14-2 run for the Tigers that saw their lead grow to 25. However, Memphis would be unable to keep up their high scoring pace for much longer. The Tigers went nearly eight minutes without a point, until soph-omore post player Ann Jones flipped on in from inside with ten and a half minutes to play. Fortunately for the Tigers, their defense held strong while their offense was out, and the score was 57-40 Memphis.

The Tigers began to get sloppier with the basketball, and turnovers repeatedly led to easy Miner points. With eight minutes remaining, a Kayla Thornton trey from the right corner had UTEP within single dig-its at 61-52. Memphis held off the Miners over the next several minutes, and the score read 69-60 when Tigers entered a timeout with five minutes to go. Memphis then looked to put the game away and went on a 5-0 mini run capped off by a layup in transition by freshman guard Ariel Hearn. The run gave Memphis a 74-60 lead with three minutes remaining. The Miners ended the game on an 11-3 run, but there simply was not enough time left in the ball game, and the Tigers picked up a 77-71 victory in their final game at FedEx Forum this season.

Memphis took home the victory in large part due to their defense, as

they held the Miners to just 33 per-cent shooting from the field. UTEP out-rebounded the Tigers 39-36, despite 13 rebounds by Memphis junior post player Pa’Sonna Hope.

“We’re not happy with that,” Dickson said. “We always want to come out on top on rebounding, so it’s just something that we have to come into practice tomorrow and just work harder at it.”

Dickson led the Tigers with 27 points, and Abdul-Qaadir set a new career high in points with 19, while

also dishing out five assists. Hearn appears to have fully broken out of her slump, as she pitched in a solid effort with ten points and nine rebounds.

“When she’s playing well, she’s not a freshman. When she’s play-ing well, she’s a seasoned junior,” head coach Melissa McFerrin said of Hearn. “She’s very, very multi-faceted right now in her game when she’s playing well.”

Kayla Thornton led the Miners with 32 points.

“Thornton, number five, she’s a great player. She hit crucial shots,” Abdul-Qaadir said. “That was a good win for us. We’re in the top four (in C-USA) right now, maybe tied I think, so it’s just a good win. We’re going to continue on with the momentum we have now.”

The Tigers will look to carry that momentum into their next game, a Thursday evening showdown on the road against Tulsa. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. n

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The women’s basketball team played Sunday’s homecoming game against the University of Texas at El Paso Miners in the FedExForum. The game’s halftime show had several former players revis-iting the team.

photo By Joe MUrphy | special to the daily helMsMaN

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