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Students get answers to concernsBy Michelle [email protected]

A small group of students attended a Student Government Association town hall meet-ing Wednesday to ask a panel of University of Memphis adminis-trators about tuition, parking and sustainability.

With tuition on the rise, students wanted to know the probability of scholarships increasing with the cost of college tuition.

Every year the office of finan-cial aid evaluates how scholarships offered by the U of M compare to scholarships other Tennessee insti-tutions are offering.

Director of Financial Aid Richard Ritzman said an incom-ing academic scholarship paired with the Tennessee HOPE Lottery Scholarship should still cover the cost of tuition, but as costs continue to rise, the University is looking into the possibility of increasing scholar-ships in the future.

The U of M spends about $8 million in academic scholarships for incoming and current students, Ritzman said.

Two students inquired about plans to build a bridge across Walker Avenue to provide a safe way for students to cross the street as a train is passing.

“Yes, we have looked at that prob-lem,” said Vice President of Business and Finance David Zettergren. “It David Zettergren, vice president of business and finance; Rosie Bingham, vice president of stu-

dent affairs and Angela Floyd, director of parking, listen as students ask questions at the town hall meeting in the University Center.

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Theft of tiger tongues a growing problem Someone has been snatching

tongues from the tiger statues on campus.

There have been many reports of missing tongues from the vibrant tigers that appear on campus and around Memphis.

“An alumni called from campus and said several of the tongues were miss-ing,” Alex Begonia, an alumni coordi-nator, said. “They were all located in the oval behind the library.”

The statues are sprayed with a pro-tective coating that prevents weather damage. The tongues are secured with unique adhesive glue, but with enough

force they can be removed. Thieves would have to pry the tongues out and maneuver them around the tigers’ large teeth.

Other departments have also been contacted about the feline defacement.

“We have received reports of miss-ing tongues, but I have not personally gone and witnessed any,” said Director of Building and Landscape Services Calvin Strong. “We are looking into ways to prevent it from happening in the future.”

Building and Landscape Services is responsible for responding to reports of vandalism to the tigers on campus, but the Alumni Association is charged with replacing the missing tongues.

“Due to the $50 cost of the replace-ment kit and the likelihood that more thefts will occur, we will not be replac-ing any of the tongues at this time,” Begonia said. “If there were vandalism such as graffiti that compromised the artistic integrity of the statues, immedi-ate action would be taken.”

The Alumni Association has put the burglary issue on the agenda for the national board committee’s quarterly meeting.

Fans, students and alumni originally funded the 100 fiberglass tigers, deco-rated by students, alumni and other local artists. Each is representative of one year of the University’s centennial.

While more than one department

has received notice of the statue deface-ment, the campus police have not been contacted about this issue.

Supporters purchased the tigers to display outside of their business or home for $5,000 or sponsored them to remain on display on campus for $3,000.

“We will only get involved if the owner of the tigers files a police report,” Derek Myers, deputy director of public safety, said. “The thief would face a charge of theft or vandalism.”

Regardless of the theft, the tigers will continue to be displayed on cam-pus for the foreseeable future.

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University receives top marks

Student fondness of RateMyProfessors.com has made the University of Memphis one of the top rated schools in the nation.

The U of M came in second only to Stanford University in the site’s annual lists ranking the nation’s top professors and universities, based entirely on student input.

R ateMyProfess ors . com, operated by mtvU, is the largest online destination for professor ratings.

“It’s all based on student input,” said Jake Urbanski, senior publicist at MTV. “It’s a really great thing for teachers and the school to get recogni-tion from the students that are there everyday. It’s all done by their peers. They really get to see who the best teachers are.”

To qualify to be in the rank-ing, a school must have at least 30 rated professors and campus ratings. The rankings are deter-mined by combining the overall professor average rating and the overall school ratings, which are an average of its campus ratings.

The ratings are developed from more than 14 million stu-dent user reviews and feedback of the 7,500 schools and 1.7 mil-lion professors listed on the site.

Several Memphis profes-sors from various departments received perfect scores for over-all quality, which is a combina-tion of clarity and helpfulness.

Cary Holladay, a creative and fiction writing teacher who has been at the U of M for 10 years, ranked in the top five professors

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has been a problem for many, many years. There is a plan but the problem is it is a very expensive plan.”

Administration has looked at numerous options including a “walk-over bridge” and “go-under bridge,” but has been told the ideal solution would be a land bridge.

“It is a very broad bridge that goes slightly up,” Director of Residence Life and Dining Services Peter Groenendyk said. “It looks really good and creates a lot of green area. That is a project that

is out there in the dream stage. I think $21 million is the amount just for the basic parts of this project.”

The University is working with the Tennessee Department of Transportation to clean up crosswalks that will direct students to safer areas to walk across the railroad tracks.

One student asked what the possi-bility of having spring semester parking hangtags be usable during the summer session also. He said he received several parking tickets this summer because he took one on-campus class and didn’t have a hangtag for the summer session. The insufficient amount of parking for

students at the beginning of the fall semester was also brought up.

Director of Parking and Transportation Services Angela Floyd suggested several lots that rarely fill up, including the Conley lot just north of the Central lot accessed from Poplar Avenue.

“I can count on one hand how many times it has filled up in the past three years,” Floyd said.

Floyd also named the lots east of Goodlett Street, the South lot next to the Athletic Office Building and some of the streets around the Athletic Office Building and the Alumni Center that

are labeled as general parking. Students who attended were inter-

ested in how the University plans to enforce the limited tobacco use policy on campus.

Enforcement would be a difficult issue, Zettergren said.

“We have a limited number of secu-rity officers on campus and I don’t now if I want their primary focus to be looking out for people who are smoking,” Zettergren said. “But as we get complaints via email I do commu-nicate those to Police Services and have someone look into that.”

Administration officials are in the process of planning to promote a “Healthy U” marketing campaign that will combat the smoking lifestyle.

Vice President of Student Affairs Rosie Bingham noted that if the lim-ited tobacco use policy is violated, stu-dent enforcement would be handled through the Office of Student Conduct and issues with staff would go through the University’s human resources department.

Students showed a positive response towards the new recycling center on DeSoto Street near Mynders Hall and wanted to know what further plans the University had for a more sustainable campus.

Groenendyk recently proposed a project to clean up the area behind the Administration Building where

food services could set up a grill and have permanent outdoor dining and seating.

The board also reminded students about the Green Fee, a $10 fee each full-time student pays to fund projects that make our campus more sustainable.

On the Tiger Blue Goes Green web-site, there is a list of ideas students have submitted that include recycling runoff water, campus police patrolling on bicycles and electric carts instead of squad cars and on-campus dining offering locally grown, organic foods when feasible.

“Any of you can pick up on any of those ideas and develop a plan or proposal to bring to the Green Fee, so if you’re thinking of doing something but don’t know what, go look at some of those ideas,” said Dean of Students Stephen Petersen.

The SGA town hall meeting offered a chance for students to ask questions and voice their concerns, but the panel said they encourage students to keep open communication with them and the SGA throughout the year.

“This is a new experiment for us, and we want to know what you’re interested in,” Zettergren said. “We obviously can’t do everything, but we won’t know about it if you don’t tell us. So make suggestions and we’ll be glad to look at those and get back to you to do what we can.” n

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FRAUD

• On July 18 at 3:40 p.m. at 3669 Alumni Drive (Brister Hall), a victim advised police she received a letter from Cap-ital One Financial Corp. and that an account was opened in her name, according to a police report. The case is under in-vestigation.

THEFT

• On July 26 at 7:20 p.m., a victim advised police his tri-cycle, a black, three-wheeled Tri-Fecta with a white basket, was stolen from campus, ac-cording to a police report. The victim advised police that his tricycle, worth approximately $250-$300, was secured us-ing a chain with a lock and key on the southwest corner of the J.M. Smith Hall a week and half before he reported it missing. The case is under in-vestigation.

• On Aug. 23 at 5:45 p.m., of-ficers responded to a call from a staff member that said her bike was stolen from the rack between the Administration Building and Manning Hall. At 7:10 p.m., police saw a man riding the bike on Norriswood and arrested him, according to a police report. The suspect was taken to jail.

• On Aug. 14 at 2:02 p.m., po-lice responded to a call at the University Bookstore from a victim that said his key was stolen from his golf cart. The victim told police he left his key in the ignition of the cart, went inside the store for a mo-ment and returned to find it missing, according to a police

report.

VANDALISM

• On Aug. 3 at 3 p.m., an of-ficer responded to a complaint about vandalism at the South Parking Lot. The victim ad-vised police that she parked her car at 10:30 a.m. and re-turned at 2:45 p.m. and noticed a flat tire, according to a police report. The report further stated that there was a cut on the tire.

BURGLARY

• On June 27 at 4 p.m., po-lice responded to a burglary at Mitchell Hall. Faculty said sev-eral computers were missing from a storage space, accord-ing to a police report. The case is under investigation.

DRUGS

• On Aug. 26 at 1:53 p.m., of-ficers responded to a call at Carpenter Complex from a Residence Life employee. Of-ficers found a small amount of marijuana, according to a police report. No one was ar-rested and the report was sent to the Office of Ethical and Ju-dicial Programming.

TRESPASSING

•On Aug. 9 at 10:47 a.m., po-lice arrested two men who were allegedly sleeping at the Ned. R. McWherter Library. Both men had grooming items with them according to a po-lice report, and one had been previously arrested on campus for trespassing. Both were ar-rested with given misdemean-or citations and escorted off campus.

Residence Life employee. Of-ficers found a small amount of marijuana, according to a police report. No one was ar-rested and the report was sent to the Office of Ethical and Ju-dicial Programming.

TRESPASSING

On Aug. 9 at 10:47 a.m., po-lice arrested two men who were allegedly sleeping at the Ned. R. McWherter Library. Both men had grooming items with them according to a po-lice report, and one had been previously arrested on campus for trespassing. Both were ar-rested with given misdemean-or citations and escorted off

ficers responded to a call from a staff member that said her bike was stolen from the rack between the Administration Building and Manning Hall. At 7:10 p.m., police saw a man riding the bike on Norriswood and arrested him, according to a police report. The suspect

On Aug. 14 at 2:02 p.m., po-lice responded to a call at the University Bookstore from a victim that said his key was stolen from his golf cart. The victim told police he left his key in the ignition of the cart, went inside the store for a mo-ment and returned to find it missing, according to a police

Residence Life employee. Of-ficers found a small amount of marijuana, according to a police report. No one was ar-rested and the report was sent to the Office of Ethical and Ju-dicial Programming.

TRESPASSING

•On Aug. 9 at 10:47 a.m., po-lice arrested two men who were allegedly sleeping at the Ned. R. McWherter Library. Both men had grooming items with them according to a po-lice report, and one had been previously arrested on campus for trespassing. Both were ar-rested with given misdemean-or citations and escorted off campus.

• On Aug. 23 at 5:45 p.m., of-ficers responded to a call from a staff member that said her bike was stolen from the rack between the Administration Building and Manning Hall. At 7:10 p.m., police saw a man riding the bike on Norriswood and arrested him, according to a police report. The suspect was taken to jail.

• On Aug. 14 at 2:02 p.m., po-lice responded to a call at the University Bookstore from a victim that said his key was stolen from his golf cart. The victim told police he left his key in the ignition of the cart, went inside the store for a mo-ment and returned to find it missing, according to a police

STAFF REPORT

Greeks stage meet and greet

Greek sorority and fraternity recruiters gathered in the Student Plaza outside the University Center on Wednesday afternoon for a Meet the Greek event for students.

Members of several sororities and fraternities handed out information and answered questions from stu-dents who are interested in joining Greek life.

“Being in a sorority made my college experience better,” Amanda Staggs of Phi Mu said.

Greeks are involved in activities on and off campus including charity work and intramural sports. Greeks also strive to be the best academi-cally, some members said.

“We are proud to have the highest GPA for all the fraternities,” said Josh Day, member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Sororities and fraternities alike stress the importance of sisterhood and brotherhood.

“I can talk to any girl in my soror-ity about anything I need to,” Staggs said.

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For more informationStudents can sign up for recruitment from the “Current Students” tab on the U of M website, or email Greek Affairs at [email protected]

still working at the University.“It’s a lovely surprise and

quite an honor,” Holladay said. “However, a lot of the responses are truly reflections of the stu-dents themselves.”

RateMyProfessors.com is constantly receiving new pro-fessor reviews and more stu-dents are beginning to use it as a resource when selecting courses.

“I think RateMyProfessors.com is a good source,” U of M student Damien Tate said. “It gives you a vision of what a professor is going to be like. However, there’s noth-ing like meeting a professor face-to-face.”

Holladay said she has found useful criticisms in the student reviews that she might not have gotten in other critiques.

“You learn what works and perhaps what doesn’t. It’s an opportunity to build strength and keep growing as a teacher,” she said. n

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UM receives grant to improve local literacy

A branch of the U.S. Department of Education plans to grant funds to four research sites, including the University of Memphis, that will go toward helping adults read and write more efficiently.

Faculty from the Institute of Intelligent Systems and psychol-ogy and education departments will receive $2.2 million of a federal grant as part of a five-year plan to conduct research that will help improve adult literacy.

The program will begin Sept. 1 at Literacy Mid-South, a nonprofit orga-

nization in the Cooper-Young area of Memphis.

According to a 2006 national lit-eracy survey, Memphis was one of the top 10 most illiterate cities and 43 per-cent of adults who live in lower literacy cities live in poverty.

U of M faculty involved are psy-chology professor Art Graesser, edu-cation professor Mark Conley and Andrew Olney, assistant professor in the Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Graesser, who is in charge of the University’s portion of the $10 mil-lion federal grant, collaborated with Daphne Greenburg, associate direc-tor for the Study of Adult Literacy at Georgia State University, and Maureen Lovett, professor of senior scien-tist psychology at the University of Toronto, to write a proposal to improve adult issues with reading and writing.

The grant will provide extra soft-ware and pay programmers and faculty.

“U of M works on the technical side of the research which would involve a collection of data and studies between the adult and the program they are using called AutoTutor, which I am principal investigator of,” Graesser said.

Last semester, Graesser received the U of M’s most prestigious research award – the Presidential Award for Lifetime Achievement in Research.

AutoTutor, DeepTutor and Guru are conversational agents disguised as animated characters that use synthe-sized speech, facial expressions, ges-tures and tones in order to teach topics such as computer literacy and concep-tual physics.

Andrew Olney said there are not enough volunteers to meet the needs of students because most teachers have full-time jobs, and it is sometimes dif-ficult to schedule tutoring sessions outside of class without the help of students.

“The idea of AutoTutor is not to eliminate a human tutor but to supple-ment the addition to human tutoring,” Olney said.

AutoTutor started in 1997 at the U of M and subjects include physics and math for college students.

The local research group will con-duct weekly meetings about the devel-opment of the AutoTutor software.

The group will conduct a survey at Literacy Mid-South as well as in Canada and Georgia to see how the software has improved.

Researchers are trying to impact many centers with AutoTutor and col-lect a large library of information from the software, Conley said.

“Art (Graesser) presented the infor-mation to me because I have a lot of practice in designed adolescent lit-eracy,” Conley said.

Senior education major Ashley Subber feels that a live tutor would be better for teaching adults how to read.

“I definitely feel that this program is an opportunity for growth but inter-acting with a human is best,” Subber said. n

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Nonprofi t label fi ghts debt, works with student bands

What started out as a small T-shirt franchise to combat expen-sive mall prices in 1999 has slowly evolved into Smith7, a charitable record label that sponsors local music and donates to families and friends in need.

“We started making shirts that were cheaper and wanted to put the money towards investing in our friend’s business ideas, but soon realized we did not have enough money to do that,” said 35-year-old Brian Vernon, Smith7 founder and lead singer in the punk-rock band Wicker.

Vernon began giving the money earned to charities and, within a year, he started helping other bands with their merchandise.

“I hoped that it would be a good way to get our name out there and help my friends who didn’t have enough money to front for their shirts,” Vernon said.

Along with selling shirts and local CDs, Smith7 began hosting shows in a Poplar Avenue record store.

“I really just wanted to start up a community for people like myself who had not fit in with any of the set crowds in high school,” Vernon said. “We weren’t jocks,

we didn’t drink or use drugs, we weren’t preppy and we weren’t geniuses. I wanted to create an environment where anyone could come, be themselves and not have to try and fit in.”

To enhance the environment that he wanted Smith7 to have, Vernon got his friends involved by contributing their own talents.

“More artwork was being cre-ated and as I started booking more shows around the city, the co-founder of Smith7 decided he wanted to stay focused on band merchandise, so I split off to form Smith7 Records,” Vernon said.

In its beginning stages, Vernon said Smith7 Records went through both good and bad periods that have shaped it into what it is today.

“I had already signed four bands when we got our chance to work with the indie space-rock band Dora to fund their entire record and recording process, which took my whole life savings,” Vernon said.

Having already spent his life savings, Vernon began managing his label out of the trunk of his car.

“The whole experience was incredible and took our involve-ment with bands to a whole new level,” Vernon said.

The group eventually found

a home at Cat’s Music in Germantown, Tenn.

“This really began the glory days,” Vernon said. “We started having shows out there that grew from 20 of our friends to over 300 kids going absolutely nuts in the middle of suburbia.”

Sophomore philosophy major and Hey My Name Is singer and guitarist Isaac Erickson became involved with Smith7 by playing a show with a Smith7 band, Upstate.

“I started going to shows reli-giously and eventually Hey My Name Is was signed,” Erickson said. “I have loved to watch new bands join Smith7 Records throughout the past few years.”

Smith7 Records relocated to Cat’s Music’s Cordova location and Vernon began scouting for their own venue.

“I almost signed a lease to a venue when I met Jeff, Janice and Josh Lowry who owned Skate Park Of Memphis. We all shared the vision of wanting to have shows for all ages, so we began booking shows at SPOM,” he said.

Along with booking shows, Vernon said he invested the little money he had left into a house for his friends and touring band to live in without the burden of

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“The goal of the pep rally is to generate excitement for students,” Russell Born, SGA president, said. “It is the start of something special.”

Born wants more marketing on campus for football games and other sporting events. “Tiger nation is bigger than you or me,” Born said. “It’s a feeling that gets inside you.” n

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sunny afternoon just down the street from Wisdom Avenue, past elegant double-globed streetlights and large manicured lawns, about 65 students with help from par-ents, grandparents, brothers and sisters were moving into tidy apartments on the edge of an ath-letic field.

Friday was move-in day at Oxley Commons on the campus of the former Lambuth University, which has been undergoing rapid change for the past year as the Lambuth Campus of the University of Memphis.

“This will be my first time mov-ing in, and I’m really nervous,” said Hanna Bauman, a 22-year-old education major in her third year at the school. “When I first started I didn’t want to move away from home. Last year, my sopho-more year, I said I’m moving out. Have the college life. Meet more people. Do more activities and events.”

Outside the door of the Vernell Jones Administration Building, Laura Grace Dean, an 18-year-old freshman from Camden, stood

chatting with her grandmother, Mary Ann Hayes of Brownsville, not perfectly happy with the situ-ation but eager to start her college career. The new student’s mother, Mary Beth Banks-Dean, joined the conversation. “Let’s put it this way” she said. “Any kid that’s got a 3.63 average, made a 26 on her ACT … “

“I wanted to go to the main campus, Mama,” her daughter interrupted.

“Well, this way you can get your feet wet,” Banks-Dean said. “After you get your feet wet you can move off to the big campus.”

Grandmother just beamed. “I think it’s wonderful that Laura’s going to get to go to school, and she’s so smart, and she’s going to do so well,” she said. “And I live in Brownsville, so I can get to her quicker than I could if she was in Memphis.”

This may be the perfect fit, in fact, for ambitious West Tennessee students who need a learning environment close to home, or who have parents and grandpar-ents who would like to keep them close a while longer.

Some people are “a little scared of Memphis,” said Dan Lattimore, 68, the former journalism depart-

ment chairman who now leads the Lambuth effort on behalf of the U of M. “They shouldn’t be, but they are.”

The University of Memphis acquired its new off-campus satel-lite in the summer of 2011 after the 168-year-old private univer-sity gave up in its long battle with financial difficulties and the loss of academic accreditation. The city of Jackson, Madison County, West Tennessee Healthcare and Jackson Energy Authority signed their rights to the campus over to the state of Tennessee after paying about $2 million each to purchase the property.

Lattimore, dean of the University College and vice pro-vost for extended programs, which puts him in charge of U of M sites off the main campus, pointed out that the U of M has had a long-standing connection with Jackson and its community college.

“You have a small college atmosphere with a large univer-sity backing,” he said. “And that makes a lot of sense. We can take advantage of a lot of economies of scale by using the administrative structure back in Memphis but still have a small college feel — small classes, good teaching. We

won’t have big classes. We don’t have large lecture rooms. “

And there is not much usable dorm space now, but one dorm with a 200-student capacity is being renovated to expand the on-campus population even fur-ther next year. As of Friday, 65 to 70 students were expected to be moved in by the start of classes on Monday, up from about a dozen the first year. About 600 students have enrolled, up from 284 last fall.

The school is emphasizing its new nursing program as well as the business and education cours-es that have been offered for some time by the U of M at the local community college.

During a tour of the nursing school facilities with his wife, Bonnie Lattimore, a former nurs-

ing instructor, and a visitor, Dan Lattimore stepped into a mock hospital room, known as a “simu-lation lab,” and an adjacent room with a one-way mirror that allows instructors to observe the “treat-ment” of a plastic patient on a real hospital bed.

“This little guy cost about $30,000,” Lattimore said of the dummy, who has a pained expres-sion on his face and a voice that emanates from a speaker in the ceiling. Such investments should pay off in a section of the state that lags behind the rest of the nation in the percentage of the population with a college degree.

“We told the state we would have 1,000 students in four years,” Lattimore said. “And I think that’s well within reach. We’ll probably have it in three.” n

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ing at the University of Memphis, and it’s not the phone company.

The Memphis Tigers Cricket Club, officially introduced as a Registered Student Organization by the Student Activities Council in July 2009, has been working on establishing its name while battling limited resources on campus.

Playing together since 2007, the members of MTCC began inching their way towards cred-ibility in May 2009 when they competed in the Independence Cup at the University of

Mississippi, earning runner-up in the team’s first official tour.

“Right now we have 30 people and each team has 11 people so we have almost three teams on campus,” said Krishna Dhanekula, the group’s advisor. “We play and practice each other so when we get to a tournament we pick the best players to play.”

After failing to advance past the group stage in the team’s sec-ond tournament – the Bulldawg Cricket Tournament – MTCC has advanced to the finals in every tournament the team has com-peted in since.

They have done so with lim-ited resources, often being forced to find other areas to practice

because of the abundant use of on-campus fields by other teams and clubs that have been an RSO longer.

“As of now our funds are limit-ed from the University, so we are paying out of our own pockets to get new equipment and trav-el to tournaments,” Dhanekula said. “Other universities have their own cricket fields and have funds and play under the lights. We mostly play in the parking lots right now. Sometimes we get lucky and get to play on Echles Field.”

Despite trouble with practice facilities and funds, coach and star player Murali Ankaraju said the club is working on becoming a member of American College Cricket, the official cricket league.

“We decided to play in tour-naments with our own funds and win some tournaments and trophies to show the University we are progressing,” Ankaraju said. “Once we show them we

are progressing, hopefully we can become an official team and join the ACC.”

He said winning future tour-naments will help legitimize the club’s presence on campus and ultimately help it become an offi-cial member of the ACC.

The club is preparing for a trip to Jackson State on Sept. 8 to play in a four-team tournament. The team then travels to Mississippi State in late September, where eight to nine teams will compete.

As the team moves forward, Ankaraju said the main focus is to continue expanding the sport at the University so the group can one day compete competitively in the ACC.

“We are heading in the right direction,” he said. “Cricket has come a long way since it was introduced here in 2007, and the future of it is very good. We are all confident that MTCC will become one of the best teams in the collegiate ranks.” n

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a lease.By the time investments

were made in the house, Smith7 Records had raised more than $6,000 for families and charities in need, while Vernon lost more than $10,000 to band investments.

“We wanted to help our bands who were tied to Memphis due to school, jobs or lack of funds,” Vernon said.

With that idea in mind, Pants Tour, a weeklong Memphis band tour, was cre-ated to showcase local talent and raise money for charitable causes.

During Pants Tour, Vernon said they began to run out of venues to house the shows.

“In an act of desperation, we decided to have a show at my house. That was the offi-cial beginning of the 7house,” Vernon said.

Vernon said that hosting house shows has given the label a better opportunity to raise money for charity. Erickson was involved in a charity show recently.

“I put together a benefit show for a friend’s dad who needed a heart transplant. One of the best things I’ve gotten out of Smith7 is helping people,” Erickson said.

Although Smith7 has had its rough periods, Vernon said it’s a success.

“Despite being $40,000 in debt, Smith7 Records is still alive,” Vernon said. “These days we don’t have the same resources we used to and sell-ing CDs isn’t viable, but I’m still proud about what we have done and are continuing to accomplish.” n

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After dropping their first game to Missouri, the University of Memphis women’s soccer team is set for their home opener Friday against the Arkansas State Red Wolves.

“We’re going to take the positive from the negative and get better every game,” said Tigers’ head coach Brooks Monaghan. “I think one thing we learned from that game is that we are a very deep team.”

This will be the Red Wolves’ third game. They have won their last two games without allowing a goal. For the Tigers, this will be the second time on the pitch this season and the first of two home games at Mike Rose Soccer Complex after a two week break.

“We’re just ready to play,” Monaghan said. “We’ve been off for two weeks, and we’ve got some key players com-ing back.”

Sophomore midfielder Natalia Gomez-Junco is still competing for Mexico in the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in Tokyo. Junior Christabel Oduro, the reigning and preseason C-USA Offensive Player of the Year, and sophomore midfielder Kylie Davis are also back.

“It’s good to be back home,” Davis said. “ I definitely missed my team-mates. I want to use the experience I

gained playing there to just help my team however I can. I’ll also be glad when Natalia comes back, but I’m still rooting for her.”

Oduro is coming off a stellar season last year, leading the Tigers with 16 goals and an undefeated regular season.

“Christabel has very high expecta-tions of herself this year too, as she should,” Davis said of her teammate.

“Their experience is so important to our team,” Monaghan said.

C-USA coaches recently picked the Tigers to finish first this season and capture their sixth-straight conference title. But rather than feeling more pres-sure, Monaghan said it’s “a huge confi-dence builder.”

C-USA is “such a tough conference to win, let alone do it six times in row,” he said.

The Tigers will have two days of rest before their next match against the No. 3 Oklahoma State Cowboys. Monaghan is just getting his team focused on Arkansas State, with game time kicking off at 7 p.m.

“We’ve always got to take it one game at a time,” he said. “Our number one focus is getting better with every game, but it’s a good way to get prepped for our game against OSU.”

The two teams last met in 2010 in Stillwater with the Tigers losing 2-1, respectively.

Davis said she is not concerned about the short time off between games.

“I think once we get out there, the adrenaline will carry us through,” she said. “But whatever the game plan is, we’ve got to stick to it.”

With expectations set high for the Tigers this season, Monaghan is very confident in his young team.

“We’ve got 30 players on our roster and only five are juniors and seniors. This is still a new team but we still have tremendous expectations,” he said. “We welcome the challenge.” n

Tigers ready for border state rivalBy Greg [email protected]

Head coach Brooks Monaghan and the women’s soccer team look to bounce back Friday night against Arkansas State.

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