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Vol. 79 No. 85

Wednesday,March 14, 2012

Tigers conquer C-USA tournament, leave Memphis in top form

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Tigers St. Louis Bound

10-year plan may uproot UM garden

Freshman Economics and International Studies Major Sreedhar Jayaraman says that he spends hours each day visiting the TIGUrS campus community garden, emphasizing the need for raised awareness.

The University of Memphis is moving forward with its 10-year plan that was released in January and it could displace the garden east of the Elma Roane Fieldhouse.

Tony Poteet, assistant vice president of campus planning and design, said a new Science Research Facility could undergo construction as early as the end of next year and take the place of the garden.

“We’re anticipating receiv-ing state appropriations and we are collecting what we need to match that,” Poteet said about generating funds for the research building.

The garden is maintained by the Tiger Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings, also called TIGUrS, which began in 2009 and stemmed from an idea by Committee Chairwoman and Director of Animal Care Facilities Karyl Buddington.

“I walk around campus a lot, and I saw how we just plant flowers and tear them out a few months later and plant some more,” Buddington said. “I thought we should use the space to grow food.”

Buddington said the reality of a garden sprouted as quickly as the idea. Now, the Urban Oasis is one of many gardens around campus. Plant beds rest near

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University of Memphis BracketologyBracketology (noun): the art

and science of studying and pre-dicting the outcome of games throughout the men’s NCAA tournament. Also known as the public craze that sweeps the nation every March as everyone becomes a basketball analyst.

The men’s NCAA tournament began yesterday. With Memphis competing in the tournament for the team’s 25th appearance and their recent victory over Marshall winning the C-USA tournament for the sixth time, the question on everyone’s mind is how far will the Tigers go and who will win it all.

Every year before the NCAA tournament, ESPN posts the tour-nament bracket along with news and information for each team that allows the public to predict wins and losses.

Fans can create a group with friends where they compete for the best predictions and overall winner of the bracket, which clos-es on Thursday when the tourna-ment begins. Everyone from stu-dents to the President of United States fills them out.

President Obama holds a com-petition each year that allows people to compare their brack-et to his. Whomever beats his bracket gets their name posted on his website, according to www.barackobama.com.

This bracket craze has hit home for The University of Memphis as the Tigers, an 8- seed, will be play-ing against St. Louis, a 9-seed, on Friday in Columbus, Ohio.

USA Today has predicted the Tigers to go to the Elite 8 and pos-sibly the Final Four, where most of the ESPN analysts have pre-dicted that Memphis will lose in the first round against St. Louis. The local community, however, has kept the faith in their Tigers.

Whether students choose out-comes based on news and statis-tics or which mascot could beat up the other, everyone seems to have an opinion. Many students have Memphis winning against St. Louis, while others have the Tigers moving to the second

round and deeper.“We have the best bracket for

us to go deep in the tournament since we’re facing one of the easi-er number one seed teams. If we get past St. Louis and Michigan State, we could go all the way,” said Jonathan Van Eaton, junior interdisciplinary major.

Scott Hall, The Daily Helmsman sports editor, has Memphis mov-ing past St. Louis, Michigan St. and Louisville to the Elite 8, while Student Government Association President Tyler DeWitt has the Tigers beating Kentucky and Kansas to win the championship.

Even if they don’t have Memphis going all the way, some students have predicted the Final Four and championship game,

which include both favorites and upsets.

“I hate to say it, but I have Kentucky winning the whole thing,” said Ryan Badgley, sopho-more exercise and sports science major.

These predictions are not lim-ited to students, as prominent faculty members have their own opinions on the Tigers and the tournament outcome.

Although R.C. Johnson, The University’s athletic director, would not comment on the brack-et craze due to his connection to the team, U of M President Shirley Raines said she feels that if the Tigers played their best, they could make it all the way to the Final Four.

BY JASON JONESNews Reporter

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In an attempt to grow aware-ness for the campus garden, its cultivators are asking people who have an appetite for the fresh and organic to contrib-ute recipes for an upcoming cookbook.

“We want this cookbook to be sort of a healthy living book. We will have recipes that give you the nutrients you need every day with healthy snacks and easy exercises you can do at home or on the go,” said Karyl Buddington, founder of the garden and director of ani-mal care facilities.

This year, Alisha Chism is the Tiger Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings, known as TIGUrS, garden’s “green intern” and is in charge of all promotional aspects. The intern has to complete a proj-

ect each spring, so Buddington pitched the idea of a TIGUrS Cookbook to Chism and they went for it.

“This is the first time we have done something like this. We want to set up picnic tables and make it more of a visit-ing scene. We really want it to grow,” said Chism, an exercise and sports science major.

In order to publish on time, all recipes should be sub-mitted by the end of March, Buddington said. Anyone who chooses to submit recipes with vegetables and herbs that are or should be in the garden must attach a photo of the dish and email the recipe and photo to [email protected]. Meat and fish recipes are also welcome. The goal is to publish 200-250 cookbooks that cost around $10 apiece.

“So far, we have already got-ten a lot of response about the cookbook, so I am starting to get really excited,” Chism said.

The cookbook will be sold to The University of Memphis faculty, students and staff and to the community. In the book, students can see dishes that their peers have created with produce that is free on cam-pus. There are a total of five gardens around campus with an array of vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers.

“Healthy living pertains to my major. I would purchase the cookbook because I think that it is a good idea that is written by our peers, not pro-fessionals. Students would be able to relate with the cook-book on a personal level,” said Jill Creed, a junior sports and leisure management major.

Sponsored by the Green Campus Initiative, TIGUrS began in March 2009. It offers free organic fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers to students, faculty and the surrounding community.

“It’s going to be a little dif-ferent and I think it will be really fun,” Buddington said.

BY NATALIE LEDOUXNews Reporter

Academics

The Fogelman College of Business and Economics is add-ing a minor to its degree program that uses social media to engage consumers in the business sec-tor. They’re calling it social commerce.

“It’s designed to meet the growing needs of businesses. It teaches students to utilize the needs of social media to use in the business world,” said Marla Stafford, chair of marketing and supply chain management.

Social media is changing the way companies do business. A “like” on Facebook or “checking in” on Foursquare could mean discounts to consumers. Students who learn social media skills will be prepared for the advances of social technology in business.

“Given how social media is being used — it’s big, but not going away. It’s here and impor-tant. Businesses of all kinds are using social media — nonprofits, big companies, small sandwich

shops — anyone who is going out in the work force will benefit. This is a helpful minor because it is relevant to today’s society,” Stafford said.

A Social Commerce minor can accompany any major. The Fogelman College of Business and Economics intended the minor to be paired with a busi-ness degree, as business students would need 12 additional hours to receive the minor. Nonbusiness majors are required to take an additional 18 credit hours.

“It will give them the skills and tools they need. It’s not a how to use Facebook course. It teaches them to utilize social media to engage consumers, and they have a required internship to apply what they’ve learned,” Stafford said.

There are four required cours-es for the minor: Principles of Marketing, Principles of Social Media Commerce, Social Commerce Strategies and Analytics, and an internship/practicum that will count for aca-demic credit that gives students

a chance to practice the skills they’ve acquired.

Carlos Perkins, who is earning his second Bachelor’s Degree in international business, said he thinks a business course focus-ing in social media is dangerous because of the distractions that come with sites like Facebook.

“The money you pay should be for what the class is for. (Social media) is more about commer-cialism. You’ll be on there for something other than class,” he said.

Students have a choice of their social media elective being Media 2.0 Production and Distribution in the Internet Age, which is a communication course, or the marketing course, Social Media Best Practices and Trends. They also have to take one of the fol-lowing electives: Consumer Behavior, Advertising and Sales Promotion, Negotiation Skills, Business Communication and Website Development.

“Everyone is calling and emailing. There is definitely an interest in it,” Stafford said.

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“When we started, we want-ed a garden we could build in two days so we could take it out in two days, if needed,” Buddington said.

That time has come, accord-ing to Bill Harbin, a design drafter for The U of M’s 10-year plan.

“That spot is on the map. It’s kind of a wish list for what we want to accomplish,” Harbin said.

Art Johnson, a landscaping employee who works in the garden, said students would be disappointed if the garden went away.

“There’s people out here every day and not just stu-dents. There are community members, faculty and staff, too, that come out to the garden,”

Johnson said. Johnson is assigned to main-

tain the garden when others don’t, but students volunteer all the time, he said.

“I’m in the trenches here,” Johnson said. “So I see peo-ple come and go all the time. People come every day, even in the winter.”

Sreedhar Jayaraman, a fresh-man economics and interna-tional studies major, has vol-unteered in the garden since he began classes at The U of M last semester.

“It’s a great addition to cam-pus,” he said. “It’s fresh, organ-ic and free. We’re really trying to get the word out about it. Every Wednesday, students can come out and volunteer. “

While Jayaraman said he believes the garden will have to move next year, others like Chris Madden, a senior music and sociology major, said he thinks the garden will stay and the building will find a differ-ent spot.

“The garden is going to stay,” Madden said. “There are enough people to keep it around. “

Poteet said that wouldn’t be the case, however. The build-ing is a permanent fixture that would require the garden to relocate.

“We support the efforts of the garden,” he said. “But the building is part of our 10-year plan and the planning has already been decided.”

Poteet and The U of M’s planning department told Buddington if construction begins as planned, the garden would temporarily move to a fertile strip of land near E.C. Ball Hall.

“They came to me with the plans for that area, but I told them it wasn’t going to be big enough for the whole garden,” Buddington said. “We just can’t fit our entire garden there,”

The University originally received a $1 million grant for planning the Science Research Facility but it fell through, she said, because the state did not have the funds for the proj-ect and now those plans are obsolete.

“I’m ok with whatever hap-pens as long as we still get both (the building and the gar-den). But I don’t know that (the research facility) will ever get built in my lifetime,” Buddington said.

The garden has grown each year since it was started and with the economy the way it is, Buddington said students should learn to grow their own food.

“It’s going to come to a point where if the garden is impor-tant to campus — and I think it is — people will stand up and fight for it,” she said. “If you spend this much time away from home, it should at least feel like a place you want to be.”

This year’s planting day is April 17. No pesticides are used in the garden. Flowers are planted to bring in bees for pollination and students donate kitchen waste for the TIGUrS to make into compost. Volunteer days this semester are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

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GOP candidates battle to capture Alabama, Mississippi conservatives

The Republican presiden-tial candidates grappled in a Southern showdown Tuesday, with primaries in Alabama and Mississippi testing which one could best appeal to some of the most conservative states in the union.

The stakes were particularly high for Newt Gingrich, betting heavily on a Southern strategy to keep his struggling campaign alive. Far behind in delegates, the former Georgia representative hoped for home turf wins that would keep him in the hunt, a campaign he said Tuesday would drag into the summer.

Gingrich faced strong chal-lenges from Rick Santorum, hoping to knock Gingrich out so he could have conservatives to himself, and from Mitt Romney, wishing for an outright win but happy to take a share of the del-egates and preserve his big lead.

There were 107 delegates at stake Tuesday: 47 in Alabama, 37 in Mississippi, 17 in Hawaii cau-cuses and six in American Samoa.

As voting was under way, Romney led the field with 454 of the 1,154 delegates needed to clinch the nomination, accord-ing to the Associated Press tally. Santorum had 217, Gingrich had 107 and Ron Paul had 47.

The Southern states, reliably Republican in general elections, are among the most conservative in the country. Deeply religious, 69 percent of primary voters in Mississippi and 77 percent in

Alabama called themselves evan-gelicals or born-again Christians four years ago.

Bidding for their votes, candi-dates poured on Southern refer-ences, sometimes at the risk of gaffes.

“I realize it’s a bit of an away game,” Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, said at one point. “I am learning to say y’all and I like grits, and ... strange things are happening to me.”

At another, he referred to his morning grits as “cheesy grits.”

Not to be outdone, Gingrich campaigned in a Bassmaster fish-ing shirt and chided the Yankee Romney.

“I just want you to understand that as someone who has repre-sented Georgia for a long time, I like grits, I like cheese grits, I like it with gravy, and there are a number of ways you can have it,” Gingrich said. “I’m glad that the governor is beginning to learn about the South.”

Turnout was steady at a pre-cinct in Biloxi, Miss., where Maureen Broussard said she was turned off by Romney’s use of “You might be a redneck” come-dian Jeff Foxworthy to reach the South. “It was like he was saying, ‘Let me send another redneck to talk to those redneck people,’ “ she said.

Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, watched the returns from Birmingham after spending the day in a last-minute pitch for votes in Alabama, which borders Georgia. The only states he’s won outright are Georgia and South

Carolina, which also borders Georgia.

Gingrich aides predicted a long slog to the nomination, one that would keep Romney from

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Blazers Scorch the Tigers in C-USA Opener

In their first Conference USA series of the 2012 season, the University of Memphis softball team fell to UAB in a three-game sweep.

The Tigers began league play on the road in Birmingham, Ala. Saturday in a doublehead-er against the conference-rival Blazers.

In new head coach Natalie Poole’s first conference game, the Tigers only score came in the

first inning when senior Jessica Phillips drove in junior Morgan Mosby to put the team on top 1-0. UAB’s Mandy Lowman hit a three-run home run in the fourth to put the Blazers on top 3-1, a lead the Tigers were unable to reduce for the rest of the contest.

The Tigers increased the offensive productivity in the second game of the day out-hitting UAB 12-4, the most hits in a game the season. Despite the performance at the plate, the team was unable bring runners

in, losing 4-3.Mosby led the Tigers’ effort

with a record-setting perfor-mance, going 4-for-4 and scoring a run. The four hits tied Lelani Bernardino’s performance last year against Chattanooga for second-most hits in a game in school history.

The team ended the weekend with a one-hit effort to finish the series without a win in a 2-0 shutout. Blazer pitcher Lannah Campbell shut down Memphis’ bats with seven strikeouts. Sophomore Ijiah Hargrove earned the Tigers’ only hit with a single in the third inning.

The series marks the second time in program history the Tigers have been swept in their conference opener since los-ing a two-game rain-shortened series at home against Marshall in 2008.

Following the weekend’s losses, the team falls to 5-19 for the season with the most recent win coming over Alcorn State on March 6. The team has been on the road for most of 2012, with only six games taking place on their home field.

The Tigers are struggling this season compared to last year’s NCAA Regionals run in which Memphis had a 17-7 record after 24 games played.

Memphis will host Tennessee-Martin today at 5 p.m. In the last meeting between the teams, the Tigers swept the Skyhawks in a two-game midweek series in 2009. The 2010 and 2011 games were both postponed and later cancelled because of weather.

Conference play will resume this weekend against Marshall. Memphis will host the Thundering Herd at South Campus beginning on Saturday with a 4 p.m. scheduled game time.

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Heading into Friday’s second round matchup against the Saint Louis Billikens in the NCAA tournament, the University of Memphis Tigers are feeling pret-ty good about their chances.

“All we’re thinking about is going all the way,” sopho-more guard Will Barton said. “We know it’s going to be one game at a time, though. We’re not looking past Saint Louis to look at another team or coming in scared. Our goals are set on going all the way.”

The Tigers will go into the game on a seven-game winning streak, including going 3-0 in the Conference USA tournament en route to the title, and those games weren’t close. Memphis won their last seven games by an average of 22.7 points per game.

The Tigers have also won 20 of their last 23, storming through Conference USA the way many expected them to prior to the season, winning by an average of 17.9 points per game.

Last season was a completely different story. The Tigers lost three of their final five regular season games, blowout losses on the road to Rice, UTEP and East Carolina. A close win over Tulane at home on the final day did little to ease the worries of Tiger fans, and the team went to El Paso, Texas for the C-USA tournament needing to win the title to be absolutely sure of a place in the Big Dance.

The rest is history. Memphis, led by freshman point guard Joe Jackson, won three straight and did what they hadn’t done since 1987 – win a conference tournament outside of Memphis. Jackson led the Tigers in points in each game, with 15 points against Southern Miss, 24 points against East Carolina and 17 points against UTEP, including two clutch free throws to put Memphis up with seven seconds left. His performance earned him the Most Valuable Player award for the tournament.

They then came agonizingly close to an upset of fifth-seed-ed Arizona in the NCAA tour-nament, but that loss did not diminish the fact that Memphis figured it out and began play-ing its best basketball when they needed to.

This year’s edition of the Memphis Tigers have taken the same path, but have started ear-lier. The Tigers arguably began

to figure it out following a come-from-behind victory over Xavier on Feb. 4, a game that saw the emergence of senior forward Wesley Witherspoon as a suit-able fill-in for the injured Adonis Thomas.

Since then, the Tigers have gone 10-1, the only slipup a 60-58 loss to UTEP on a cold shoot-ing night for Memphis. They’ve blown out many of their oppo-nents, including a 34-point beat-down of UAB on Feb. 11.

“I think we’ve been playing our best basketball through this streak,” Barton said. “We just have been taking it serious and doing what coach wants to do, and that’s bringing a lot of ener-gy and passion. I think that’s the main thing - we’ve always had the talent, but now we are putting in all the hard work and dedication. When we have our heads on right and have the right mindset, I feel like we can beat anyone in the country.”

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