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Volunteers pick through a wooded area to eliminate the trash that surrounds McKellar Lake.

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UM voter registration drive today

Students not registered to vote in this year’s election aren’t silenced just yet.

The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change will sponsor a voter registration drive today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Students may spot the tables set up at five locations on campus — the Central Avenue crosswalk, the corner of Patterson Street and Walker Avenue, the corner of Patterson Street and Central Avenue, the Student Plaza and the University Center atrium.

Cortney Richardson, a U of M alumnus and minister at Saint Paul Baptist Church in Whitehaven, along with other student organizations including Empowered Men of Color, Alpha Kappa Alpha, the NAACP and Kappa Alpha Psi have teamed up to set out tables to inform stu-dents about important issues in this year’s election and register them to vote.

The Hooks Institute wants to increase voting among 18- to 29-year-olds, after a Gallup poll released in July stated that 58 percent of young people are “definitely likely to vote.”

“College students will defi-nitely be affected by this year’s election,” Julie Graves, assistant director for the Hooks Institute, said. “Some of the things they should be concerned with are whether or not Pell Grants will be available and affordability of healthcare. If Pell Grants are gone, a great number of stu-dents will not be able to attend college.”

Enthusiasm for this year’s election is not as prevalent among young voters as it was in 2008, most likely because college graduates are unable to find jobs, Graves said. One of the missions of the voter registration drive is to educate students on how vot-ing laws affect them.

“I think that U of M students are pretty enthusiastic about this year’s election,” Richardson said.

Students don’t typically spend their Saturdays moving trash, but last year 225 volunteers did just that. University of Memphis students in the Helen Hardin Honors program cleaned up more than 15,000 pounds of waste, and they received several awards for their efforts.

After teaming up with the non-profit Living Lands and Waters in 2010 for Alternative Spring Break, honors students coordinated an effort to clean McKellar Lake and in June won the national Jefferson Award in the environmental category for public service.

Four students — Thien-Khoi Phung, Grace Waters, Cheyenne Medlock and Thien-Chuong Phung — will be recognized Oct. 18 at the Lipscomb-Pitts Breakfast Club at the Memphis Botanic Gardens.

Of the more than 15,000 pounds of trash collected at McKellar Lake, six tons were recycled. The cleanup sessions were hosted once a month from August 2010 through February 2011 and lasted two hours each.

The McKellar Lake cleanup effort was also recognized for the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 U of M Presidential Leadership Award for Excellence in Service.

Colton Cockrum, assistant

U of M to host Fall Classic for St. Jude

The University of Memphis is planning to hit a home run for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital by hosting a Wiffle ball home run derby called the Fall Classic.

The Classic, organized by Tiger Dining to raise money for St. Jude, will take place Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Alumni Mall. Each participant is asked to pay $5, with all of the proceeds going to the hospital. Complimentary T-shirts will be given to partici-

pants, and food will be provided from the Fall Classic Grill from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Beth Perkins, employee of St. Jude and American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, said the U of M has succeeded at put-ting their creativity to the test by deciding to use Wiffle ball as a fundraising event.

“What a fun way to support the research and treatment provided by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which has changed the way the world treats childhood cancer and other deadly diseases during the last 50 years,” Perkins

said.Though the event is not orga-

nized by ALSAC, which is St. Jude’s fundraising organization, the group is greatly appreciative of what the University is bringing to St. Jude, Perkins said.

“Regardless of who wins, the University students hit a home run with this fundraising activity because we depend on donor dol-lars so no patient family ever pays St. Jude for anything,” she said.

The Alumni Mall will be trans-formed into a miniature baseball field Thursday and participants will gather to play ball. Afterward,

a Home Run King and Queen will be crowned.

Sean Armstrong, Tiger Dining marketing manager and event coordinator, said the event will be a way to initiate new fundraising ideas with a recreational approach.

“It reels in fundraising in a cre-ative way,” he said. “If people are spending their money, they might as well have fun doing it.”

Senior chemistry major Sherita Donald said she admires what the University is doing to benefit St. Jude, and this is a good method of

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Events aim to give students facts about GRE, graduate school

Walking across the stage of FedExForum is usually the cul-mination of years of burning the midnight oil and poring over textbooks.

However, for some students, getting a college diploma is only the first leg in the race to a pro-fessional career. Jacob Howard, a first-year economics graduate stu-dent, knew early on that he would have a long road ahead.

“Nowadays, an undergrad degree doesn’t guarantee a job, so I knew when I started college that I’d probably be going to gradu-ate school,” he said. “But I didn’t get really serious about it until the summer before senior year. I really should’ve gotten serious the first semester of my junior year.”

So when the Helen Hardin Honors Program hired him to develop events geared toward honors students at the U of M, he decided to create a week of events focused on applying for graduate school.

“Honors students are typically the students who are going to grad school, but it can be an overwhelming process,” Howard said. “They have big dreams and ambitions, and any help to get them where they want to be is a good thing.”

The Graduate School Preparation week kicks off Saturday at 1 p.m. with a practice Graduate Record Examination offered by Kaplan, a test prep ser-vice, in the Honors Hall, located at 425 Patterson St. The GRE is a standardized test that is required for admission to most graduate schools.

The test questions determine an individual’s ability to analyze relationships among words and

concepts, problem solve, think critically and articulate complex ideas successfully, according to the Educational Testing Service, a nonprofit organization that administers the exam.

“I thought it was a great idea because this is the time that seniors are applying for grad school and experiencing that grad school angst,” Melinda Jones, director of the honors program, said.

Once the assessment has been administered, students can attend a free course from Kaplan on Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the Living Learning Complex. The course is designed to teach test taking strategies for the exam, including time management.

The GRE has 100 questions on

the paper version and 80 ques-tions on the computer version; both versions contain a timed sec-tion that requires analyzing an issue and argument. With approx-imately four hours to take the test, students have to use their time wisely in order to answer as many questions as possible.

On Oct. 11 at 3 p.m. in the LLC, Lemmie Griggs, supervisor for graduate admissions at the U of M, is giving a talk about how to apply for graduate school, includ-ing what can help a student stand out when they apply.

“What a lot of students don’t know is that graduate school is very competitive and the longer you wait could lessen your chanc-es,” Griggs said. “Excellent grades and test scores will always set you

apart, but letters of recommenda-tion are very important.”

Grant Reynolds, a junior phi-losophy and political science double major, plans to attend the events to get a jump start on what’s to come once he finishes his undergraduate degree.

“Since I’m planning on going to graduate school, this is a good way to start thinking ahead,” Reynolds said. “Basically, I want to find out what to expect from grad school, how to apply, how to narrow down my choices, and how to choose the one that best applies for my needs.”

The events are open to any U of M student. Students who want to take the assessment or attend the course must R.S.V.P. through the Honors program. n

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Political discussion today

The Helen Hardin Honors Program will host an event today open to honors students only that will explore how policy will shape the presidential election.

“We decided to hold this event because we thought people would be interested in learning more about the candidates and it’s a good opportunity for deciding who you want to vote for,” said Jacob Howard, graduate assistant at the honors hall.

The event will be a ques-tion-answer session led by Eric Groenendyk, assistant professor of political science.

“Everyone has issues they are interested in, and being able to go in and engage in a discussion is both exciting and beneficial,” Groenendyk said. “The discussion will depend on what the students ask. I assume we will discuss what the issues are, the implications of the debate, and the possible out-look of the campaign from both sides.”

Health care, the financial crisis and the economy are other topics Groeendyk expects to be discussed.

The event will take place on the first floor of the Living Learning Complex at 3 p.m. Pizza will be provided. n

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giving back to the institution.“I think the University of

Memphis giving back to St. Jude is an honorable gesture. I’m sure the money that is donated will be greatly appreciated,” she said. “Wiffle ball is a great way to get students involved in something that’s both easy and fun.”

According to Armstrong, Tiger Dining has tried to do everything it can to advertise the event. While Armstrong doesn’t want to get his hopes up too much, he said he is optimistic that this event will be something different for everyone.

“It’s kind of overwhelming,” he said. “It’s really going to be wild.”

Up ‘til Dawn, Campus Recreation and Intramural Services, the Physical Plant, the Department of Residence Life and Dining Services and Memphis Healthy U are supporters of the event.

This is the first time the University has hosted a Wiffle ball game. Armstrong said he hopes it will catch peoples’ attention and make them want to get involved in giving to a worthy cause.

“Any donations will make it a special day for St. Jude,” he said.

In addition to the U of M’s fundraising efforts, celebrities and employees of St. Jude came togeth-er to make their own version of The Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” The video features prominent figures and staff of St. Jude as well as patients of the hospital all singing what they call “Hey St. Jude.”

“It actually got the ball rolling,” Armstrong said. “It’s all with the mentality of ‘Let’s help the chil-dren.’” n

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“Last year there was more of a turnout because of all the hype surrounding Barack Obama being the first African-American presi-dential nominee.”

Some students at the University are already registered to vote and are well informed about the issues.

Kayla Stringer, a Spanish major, is a registered voter. She said voting is important because “you cannot have an opinion if you don’t.” She said the amount of loans and Pell grants are an issue no matter what election year we are in.

Graves said “the process of going to vote is valuable for first-time voters.”

“Adults are informed because they have lived through the issues. It may be difficult for a student living at home to understand cer-tain things they might not be affected by,” she said.

The Hooks Institute’s mission is to promote civil rights and social change. The Institute hopes to generate more interest in their affairs through the voting drive.

“I think this drive is the Ben Hooks thing to do,” Richardson said.

Richardson said the University has a responsibility to inform stu-dents of all the issues.

“I think any decision made in ignorance is definitely not good,” he said, “but people need to vote even if they know a little. There is always going to be someone who knows more or less than you.”

Students who are unable to attend the voter registration drive still have time to register — the deadline in Tennessee is Oct. 8. n

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GOP candidate says gun photo no threat to Obama

NASHVILLE — A congres-sional candidate insists he wasn’t threatening Democratic President Barack Obama in a Facebook post that showed a photo of his handgun.

The Tennessean reports that Republican Brad Staats, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper in the 5th Congressional District, posted a picture of his Colt pistol last week with the following commentary:

“Apparently Tennesseans are part of that crazy crowd that Obama says ‘cling to (their) reli-gion and guns.’ Well, then I must be part of that crazy crowd. Here is something that I usu-ally have with me. Welcome to Tennessee Mr. Obama.”

Staats told the paper that the post was meant to contrast his support for the Second Amendment with the president’s position on guns and was not meant as a threat.

“Good Lord, no,” he said. “Absolutely not. I’m not one of those that would ever threaten the president. He’s probably got enough of his own stuff to worry about without me.”

A Secret Service spokesman said the agency was aware of the Facebook post and would follow up if necessary.

Staats said he took the state’s handgun carry permit test earli-er this year and that he has been

a member of the National Rifle Association for several years. He said he carries his gun for protection.

“There are just a lot of law-abiding citizens here that carry their guns,” Staats said. “There are a lot of people in Tennessee that believe in their Second Amendment rights.”

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per in a later Facebook post on his campaign page.

“So the Tennessean took one of my posts and called it a threat to Barack Obama, which was completely taken out of con-text,” he said. “My post from Friday was regarding the fact that the UN Small Arms Treaty, passed last week will under-mine our Second Amendment

Rights.”The original post made no

mention of the treaty, which according to a United Nations news release on Sept. 7 is aimed at “commitment to preventing, combating and eradicating the illicit trade” of small arms and light weapons.

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A special tribute to managing stress will be showcased at the 10th annual Student Health Fair today.

“We have over 60 exhibitors that are signed up to be there,” said health educator Jacqueline De Fouw. “The ROTC program will be there to dis-cuss and promote exercise, the recre-ation center will hold Zumba classes for people to join in on, and there will be pet therapy for those who are animal lovers.”

One exhibitor will be A Step Ahead, an organization that promotes long-term birth control for free. St. Jude will provide sickle cell testing and Methodist Health Care will give flu shots.

Several student organizations will also be promoting stress management and other causes.

The student group Active Minds “will be promoting and normalizing mental health disorders like depres-sion, panic and anxiety. Also, True Blue Minds will be there promoting low-risk drinking,” DeFouw said.

The fair is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and is open to the public. n

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director of the University Honors Program, said that when representa-tives from Living Lands and Waters, an organization dedicated to cleaning rivers in the United States, came to McKellar Lake for Alternate Spring Break they told him it was the worst accumulation of trash they had ever seen.

“After they left, we said if we don’t keep doing this, no one will,” Cockrum said. “And students started planning these cleanups and get-ting people from the community involved.”

McKellar Lake, located south of Downtown on President’s Island, is connected to the Mississippi River and is considered a slack water bay, which means it does not get a current that comes in and cleans it out.

Eight people are on the planning committee for the 2012 McKellar Lake volunteer effort including students, Cyndy Grivich with Memphis City Beautiful and Amelia Mayahi, the U of M Sustainability Coordinator.

Stephen Louie, senior mechani-cal engineering major and McKellar Lake cleanup volunteer for three years, said the first time he helped clean the lake he knew there would be trash, but he didn’t expect so much.

“The first thing I did was take a trash bag and start cleaning,” he said. “Honestly, when I saw the trash, I was very taken aback about how docile everyone was about the whole situ-ation. You kind of see the grittiness of your community when others are unaware of it or refuse to see it.”

Louie said when he goes back each year he feels indifferent toward the trash.

“It’s unavoidable,” he said. “People are just going to throw things away. Sometimes garbage just gets swept down into that part of the river. The best thing you can do for a situa-tion like this is raise awareness and make people more aware about what they’re doing.”

Thien-Khoi Phung, junior bio-medical engineering major, said the next volunteer opportunity will be Nov. 17 from 9 a.m.-11 a.m. for America Recycles Day.

“Our last clean up on the lake we had about 225 people and that was last fall,” he said. “So, we’re looking to have a really big group and we are looking for Living Land and Waters to come back and help us out as well to make the effort more organized and bigger.” n

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Women claim Walmart discrimination

NASHVILLE — Three Tennessee women sued Walmart Inc. on Tuesday claiming they lost pay and promotion opportunities because of their gender.

The Barrett Johnston law firm said the suit is the third of its kind against Walmart in the country in the past year.

Walmart spokesman Randy Hargrove said the company has strong policies banning discrimination.

In 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out a class action lawsuit rep-resenting 1.6 million women who worked at Walmart on the grounds that their allegations were too varied to show the company engaged in a

specific nationwide pattern and prac-tice of gender bias. Since then, litiga-tion attorneys have been pursuing cases on a regional basis.

The latest represents three women who each worked for Walmart for more than 10 years and seeks class-action status to cover current and former female employees at Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Mississippi.

Cheryl Phipps of Covington and Shawn Gibbons of Cookeville claim they were denied management train-ing and were paid less than men.

Bobbie Millner of Jackson claims that she inadvertently got the pay-check of a fellow assistant manager with less experience and found that he

earned thousands of dollars more per year than she did. She said a Walmart manager told her “men needed to earn more.”

Hargrove cited the previous Supreme Court decision in respond-ing to the Tennessee lawsuit.

“As we have said all along, these claims are unsuitable for class treat-ment because the individual situa-tions are so different and because the claims of these three people are not representative of the hundreds of thousands of women who work at Walmart.”

In a statement, Phipps said, “Many of us have waited more than a decade to have our day in court to fight for the pay and advancement opportuni-ties that we rightly deserved.” n

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No more ramen noodles: A cookbook for students

When writing a cookbook for beginners, it may be best to assume complete ignorance. Mincing may be new to the read-er’s vocabulary. Rice may require step-by-step instructions.

“The Ultimate Student Cookbook: From Chicken to Chili” (Firefly, $14.95), by Tiffany Goodall, offers an almost fool-proof guide for college students who may have been eating cere-al for every meal. Photographs accompany each step so that you can see what it means, exactly, to quarter an onion. Thought bub-bles remind you to wash the raw chicken off your hands.

From a simple omelet to a more ambitious roast chicken to a homey (the author is British) shepherd’s pie, Goodall knows

her audience. A section on “food on the move” has a default serv-ing size of one. A budget-friendly recommendation involves invit-ing friends to chip in for a big midweek meal. Several recipes are described as being choice for hangovers (Thai green curry) or before a night out of partying (sausage and mashed potatoes). A page is dedicated to mak-ing “vodka watermelon,” which entails scooping a hole out of the melon, pouring in vodka and inserting a bunch of straws.

And, brilliantly, among Goodall’s smoothie recipes is one calling for dried instead of fresh fruit, which often meets a sad end in the refrigerators of the kitchen-averse — a group far larger than students.

The dried apricot and raisin smoothie was the first in a series of recipes I tried from Goodall’s

cookbook, to test its novice-friendliness. Combined with a banana and skim milk, it was a frothy and somewhat chunky con-coction, but tasty and worthwhile considering the shelf life of the key ingredients. Next I whipped up a chickpea, cucumber and red onion salad to take to work, dressed with just lemon and olive oil, which took about seven min-utes to make and served as lunch for the next three days.

Inviting a friend over for din-ner, I presented as an hors d’oeuvre “the ultimate cheese on toast,” which is basically shredded cheese combined with milk, onions and Worcestershire sauce on bread, and baked under a broiler — which I don’t have, so I stuck it in the oven and it worked just fine. Feeling confident, I added serrano ham under the cheese, which was a good move.

The main dish was a goat cheese and rosemary risotto, a labor of constant stirring that turned out fragrant, delicious, perfect, probably my proudest culinary triumph ever thanks to the easy directions and, let’s be honest, a profound amount of butter. As Goodall might say in a thought bubble: “Amazing!” I only wish she had offered suggestions for accompaniments.

I had less luck with the chicken and coconut curry, which turned out bland, thin and soupy. Was it because I didn’t buy the sunflower oil the recipe called for, opting instead to use the vegetable oil I already had in my pantry? Was it because I used light coconut milk? Perhaps, but then it would have been helpful for the recipe to say why such details are important.

Again, assume complete igno-rance. n

By Alexia Elejalde-RuizMCT

For more informationInterested volunteers can email Colton Cockrum at ccockrum@memphis.edu for more information about future cleanups, which are open to U of M students and the public.

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The University of Memphis Wednesday, October 3, 2012 • 7

The name of the game in college athletics has taken a turn over the past few years. Academic excellence is now valued over on-field achieve-ments. National Collegiate Athletic Association President Mark Emmert spoke to a crowd Tuesday at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn to give the scoop on developments in college athletics.

Emmert hammered home that the state of academics in college athletics has never been brighter. With academic guidelines set in the past few years requiring student-athletes to maintain a minimum of a 2.0 grade point average, gradu-ation rates in college sports have never been higher.

“I’m going to say this so that everyone can hear. Student-athletes at virtually every college in America have higher graduation rates than the non-athletes,” Emmert said. “And that is true whether they are men or women, black or white, and regardless of their socio-economic status.”

Numbers on ncaa.com show that eight out of 10 Division I student-athletes are earning their college degrees within six years of entering school. In 1995, the NCAA began using the single-year Graduation Success Rate, which measures the percentage of graduating athletes from a sole class.

The most recent numbers included the GSR from student-athletes who entered college in 2004-2005. The rate of 82 percent was the highest recorded total since the NCAA established the single-year GSR.

“In fact, when you look at the performance gap between African-Americans and the majority of the culture at most universities, African-American males graduated about 10 percent higher if they hap-pened to be an athlete,” Emmert said. “Graduation rates across every level of college athletics are up and continue to rise.”

Those findings are echoed in the averages at the U of M. Men’s basketball posted a GSR in 1998 of 25 percent. The most recent num-bers in 2004 listed the Tigers GSR doubled to 50 percent. The team posted a high GSR of 67 percent for the 2002 season.

Other sports that have risen at the U of M include football (61 per-cent in 1998 to 75 percent in 2004), baseball (46 percent in 1998 to 93 percent in 2004), and women’s bas-ketball (71 percent in 1998 to 100 percent in 2004). Overall, sports

at Memphis went from a GSR of 63 percent in 1998 to 80 percent in 2004.

“The academic performance for our student-athletes, while we still have things we need to improve on, is actually quite strong and we are very proud of that fact,” Emmert said.

With graduation rates for stu-dent-athletes rising, Emmert said the landscape of college athletics

has never been better. Because of the increase in

these rates and the ever increas-ing demand for student-athletes to focus more on their ball skills than their brain skills, the NCAA announced last year that the required grade point average for student-athletes would be raised from 2.0 to 2.3 for high school athletes trying to gain an athletic scholarship to further encourage

education over a career in sports. This rule will be implemented

beginning with the 2015 class.Amidst controversy in college

athletics about paying players and sacrificing the integrity of the student-athlete, Emmert and the NCAA is standing firm in con-tinuing to increase graduation rates by making players see that their student status comes before athlet-ics. n

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Tigers dominate invitationalBy Bryan Heaterbheater@dailyhelmsman.com

For the second straight year, the University of Memphis men and women’s cross country teams domi-nated the Rhodes College Invitational on Saturday.

The men’s 8K saw four Tigers fin-ish in the top-10. Leading the way was junior James Maglasang, who finished the race in 25:09 to place first indi-vidually and help the men’s side to a first place team finish. The title was Maglasang’s third straight at the meet.

Teammate Dan Kuhman crossed the finish line four seconds behind Maglasang at 25:13 to claim second place individually. Aiden Galasso (26:25) and Austin Carter (26:27) rounded out the placers for the Tigers, finishing fourth and fifth respectively.

In the women’s 5k, senior Louisa Lingley took home the top spot with a time of 18:24. Alisha Fitch captured second place individually for the Tigers crossing the line at 18:52. Junior Jenny Johnston (19:17) placed fifth for the Tigers, while Nandia Taylor came in seventh with a time of 19:24. Meagan Nichols (19:51) and Taylor Kriha (20:08) both finished in the top-20 at 13th and 19th, respectively. The women also claimed the team title.

The Tigers now ready for the Pre-NCAA Championships in Louisville, Ken. On Oct. 13. n

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