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Winston Smallwood works in his office in the Administration Building with the lights off and his windows open on a breezy fall afternoon because he says it’s the right thing to do.

Smallwood, sophomore com-munications major, is the team manager for PowerSave Campus, a team of four interns who are working to make the University of Memphis a more energy-efficient environment.

Smallwood worked for build-ing services delivering custodian supplies on campus for about four years before he became a full-time student, getting to know the cam-pus inside and out.

“I know it backwards and for-wards; everybody knows me,” Smallwood said. “When they see me they’re like, ‘Hey I know that guy,’ so I’m a familiar face, and I’m an all right guy.”

After a year of attending classes full-time, Sustainability Coordinator Amelia Mayahi recruited him to the PowerSave Campus as team manager.

“[Smallwood] being the team manager, is a communications major, so he is great with giving

presentations and telling goals to the students,” Mayahi said. “He has done a great job with leadership, speaking with [the] Physical Plant to make these changes happen.”

PowerSave Campus’ primary goal is to reduce the on-campus kilowatt-hour consumption by 40,000 per year.

In its third semester, this year’s team is working to implement an outdoor lighting project.

After Thanksgiving break, the Physical Plant will begin to change 119 of the 170-watt compact fluo-rescent light bulbs to 30-watt light-emitting diode out of the 200 wall sconces on campus.

The Tennessee Valley Authority and the Alliance to Save Energy fund PowerSave Campus. Each intern works up to 12 hours a week at an hourly rate with money set aside to fund proposed projects.

The LED lights will be pur-

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University receives donation

The Helen and Jabie Hardin Charitable Trust donated $3.7 million to the University of Memphis. Women’s athletics programs at the University will receive $2.6 million of the gift. This is the single largest donation made to women’s athletics in the history of the University.

“One of our goals at the University of Memphis is to always remain at the forefront of women’s athletics and to be compliant under the guidelines of Title IX and gender equity issues,” Tom Bowen, athletic director, said. “With the gift from the Hardin Foundation, we can begin additional facility construc-tion projects that will benefit our women’s programs as we enter the Big East Conference next year.”

Funds from this donation will be used to improve the Memphis track on the Park Avenue Campus.

“We will enlarge the footprint of the current facility, enclose the grandstands and place a full-scale soccer field in the center of the track. Both men and women’s track and men and women’s soc-cer will reap the benefits of this project,” Bowen said.

This gift will also allow sev-eral advancements to be made to the women’s softball stadium, including a new clubhouse with amenities such as locker rooms, coaches’ offices, indoor pitching and batting areas, and a laundry room.

The money allotted to the women’s athletics program is only a portion of the gift. The Helen Hardin Honors Program will receive $1 million and $100,000 will go to the U of M’s School of Public Health.

“Those of us who were fortu-nate enough to have known Helen and Jabie Hardin recognize that they were extraordinarily civic-minded and gave generously to many community organizations,” Shirley Raines, president of the U of M, said. “Our academics and athletics were recipients of their monetary support and their keen interest.” n

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31 Bits aids Ugandan women, provides them with sustainability

Uganda has been home to many charitable organizations — Invisible Children; its branch of Kony 2012, Children of Uganda; and now 31 Bits.

While the other organizations reach out to help children who have endured traumatizing events such as being kidnapped or trained to be soldiers at a young age, 31 Bits reaches out to the women of Uganda — a concept that came to Kallie Dovel when she visited Uganda in 2007.

“We help women in Uganda. They make jewelry that makes income to support their families,” said Dovel, who is now the interna-tional director for 31 Bits.

On the org’s website, a video nar-rated by Dovel shows bright faces of Ugandan women, a stark contrast to what has been shown to the world

in the plethora of other videos made in Uganda.

According to the video, these were “women with names and sto-ries, filled with joy and skills, who are ready to step forward to get a fresh start.”

Along with the profits the ladies make from their jewelry, they receive training, health education, counseling and, if they test positive for HIV, are enrolled in The AIDS Support Organization.

Adyang Pamela, business devel-opment manager for the organiza-tion, explained on the video that 31 Bits is not just a job but hopefully a life-changing part of the partici-pants’ lives.

“We don’t want them, after the four-year contract with 31 Bits, to go back to the same problems that they came with,” Pamela said. “We want them to be changed and different and able to sustain themselves.”

“We have taken this holistic

development approach and not just handouts so they can have a sus-tainable income,” Jessie Simonson, director of sales, said.

The company’s home base is in Southern California, but the jew-elry is sold in 230 stores around the United States and Canada, including Bella Bridesmaid, a store close to the University of Memphis.

Another way to get the jewelry is to host or attend a “31 Bits House Party.”

Women who choose to throw a party at their home will receive a box of jewelry and a video about the products.

“It’s a great way to sell the jewelry and tell the story,” Simonson said.

If a jewelry party is out of the question, there is a specific section on the 31 Bits website for college students.

“You can represent 31 Bits on campus by having the campus events like outreach nights. These are a

great way for students to represent different causes on campus, and you can do it through a newspa-per, the school bookstore, a student’s blog and different things like that,” Simonson said.

The U of M, for example, already has a campus representative. Natalie LeDoux learned about 31 Bits through a high school friend who was a representative for the com-pany on her college campus.

“Right now I’ve sold some at my house party and through friends,” LeDoux said.

The U of M senior is also involved in a separate internship and holds fast to the statement that being a campus representative is an easy job.

“It’s fun, it’s not stressful, the peo-ple are really sweet and I feel like I’m helping someone as well as help-ing myself,” LeDoux said about her volunteer work with 31 Bits, adding

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Tiger Blue Goes Green Day was part of the PowerSave Campus’ outreach program to tell the campus community about the group’s effort to reduce energy consumption on campus. Pictured from left to right the four interns who make up the PowerSave Campus team: Winston Smallwood, Abby Tawater, Deena Odeh and Ben Mallory.

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“How it works is you give them your credit card number, and if you don’t send back the jewelry you don’t sell, they just charge your card,” LeDoux said.

She then sends all of the money she makes from the sales back to the headquarters in California, and they use it to help the women in Uganda.

The jewelry is handmade from recycled paper, and it is economical on a college student’s budget.

“My most expensive piece is $53,” LeDoux said.

On Dec. 1, LeDoux will have an exhibit for the jewelry at Impulse Boutique in Collierville.

“[The owner is] letting me have a table at her open house so people can browse around the store, and I’ll have information cards,” LeDoux said.

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chased with the funding from TVA and Alliance to Save Energy and will cost approximately $3,500.

This one project is going to reduce the kilowatt-hours of the U of M by 72,970 hours per year, Smallwood said, which will save the University a little over $9,000 a year.

“This thing will pay for itself within four months,” Smallwood said.

Smallwood estimates the bulbs will be replaced by January or February but March at the latest.

“We don’t want to scare peo-ple into this,” Smallwood said. “We want people to see where the advantages are coming from. Who’s not going to respond to saving $9,000 a year? Plus, it’s the right thing to do.”

Junior elementary education major Abby Tawater, biology major Deena Odeh and math major Ben Mallory make up the rest of the PowerSave team.

“It’s not like I came to col-lege wanting to be all, ‘Save the earth,’ so we’re not limited to that,” Smallwood said. “We’re not look-ing for people that have that mind-set. We’re looking for people who have skills and can work as a team.”

Mallory oversees the group’s

budget. “Ben, he’s a mathematics engi-

neer. He understands the finance of it,” Smallwood said. “We have to do these energy audits where we have to calculate how much energy is being used, and he’s really good at that.”

Odeh serves as secretary. She takes notes at meetings, creates agendas and newsletters and oversees the PowerSave Campus Facebook page.

“Deena is a biology major, but what she is really good at is tak-ing notes, putting things together, and [acting] as team manager. I need someone to crack a whip sometimes and as far as I’m con-cerned, Deena serves that pur-pose,” Smallwood said.

PowerSave’s plans for next semester include incorporating energy efficiency curriculum in University ACAD classes and a program for elementary school children at the Campus School.

The U of M pays Campus School’s energy bill, Tawater said, so the academic infusion part of the PowerSave program could be targeted for elementary school children with a model used by Memphis City Schools.

“The PowerSave Schools

Program has the Energy Hog, a hog who comes and talks to kids. It’s a six-foot tall guy in a hog suit who does all the wrong things, he leaves lights on, he leaves things plugged in, he shows the kids what not to do,” Tawater said.

Children can be made energy officers throughout the year, she said, giving tickets to students, teachers and staff who don’t turn their lights off. Whoever has the least amount of tickets will be rewarded with a prize.

“It’s something to get them thinking about it and instill habits in little kids,” Tawater said.

“With the Campus School proj-ect, [Tawater] has taken the reigns,” Mayahi said. “While we’re making the building more energy efficient, we should speak to the kids,” she said. “You can make the building as efficient as you want, but when you’re changing the culture within it you give it new purpose.” n

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In several past devotionals we have looked at the evidence that Jesus Christ, is, in fact, God! He claimed Deity for Himself. He backed up those claims by performing miracles, accurately foretelling prophecy, and demonstrating the attributes of God, such as omniscience and omnipotence. What are the implications of the absolute Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ? If He is God, He is to be obeyed. Why is this? If He is God, He is also our Creator. John 1:1-3 states, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” Every human being owes obedience to Him as Creator. It is also true that He is the Redeemer of His elect people. They owe Him double allegiance. He is their Creator and Redeemer. If you are a human being, you are obligated to be obedient to Jesus Christ. If you are a true Christian, you have a double obligation. According to Philippians 2: 9-11, there is coming a day in which every knee shall bow at the name of Jesus and every tongue shall confess that He is Lord. Some will bow willingly and joyfully; some will bow reluctantly. All will bow. I urge you to bow now. May He give you the will to do so.

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Movie Review

Bond is back with a bang in ‘Skyfall’After a

f o u r - y e a r hiatus fol-lowing the convoluted and disap-p o i n t i n g “ Q u a n t u m of Solace,” James Bond

triumphantly returns in time for his 50th anniversary in “Skyfall.”

As a spy movie, “Skyfall” shines with taut action sequences and a thrilling pace, but it’s a true joy to watch as a fan of the James Bond mythos. It’s a film that nails all the marks of a classic 007 film while staying fresh to the “new Bond” for-mula of the Daniel Craig era.

It’s no secret that contempo-rary audiences have shaken off the campy, almost self-parodic action

films of the ‘90s in favor of dark, gritty, flawed heroes, and Craig turns in his finest performance yet in his third outing as 007.

Proving that he’s the best Bond since Sir Sean Connery, Craig plays a spy who is injured, aging, full of booze and apparently incapable of shaving. As ever, the Bond role requires an actor who can be in turns suave and sophisticated, yet brutal and relentless, and Craig owns every aspect of the superspy in a way that has seldom been seen throughout the 22 previous Bond flicks.

It’s this theme of aging and obso-leteness that carries the film, as 007 and Dame Judi Dench’s M fight to keep both their jobs and their lives against a government that doesn’t trust them and an enemy who wants them dead. Rarely in a Bond film have the stakes been so high, and Dench sells the film with an icy-cold performance as the grizzled leader of MI6 who will do anything

to accomplish a mission, even if it means sacrificing her best agent. For the first time, M and Bond get a substantial amount of screen time together, and the relationship between the two sets a great back-drop as Bond struggles to protect his surrogate mother figure from one of the best villains in Bond history.

Javier Bardem’s Raoul Silva is a bad guy with a menacing charm that’s as unsettling to Bond as it is to the audience. He’s charismatic, yet frightening, and his monologue to a captive Bond shines as one of the best scenes in the film, if not the entire 007 collection.

Unfortunately, Silva’s evil plot doesn’t quite stand out as one of the more nefarious schemes Bond has foiled, but his ominously threaten-ing delivery still marks a high point in film villainy.

As is to be expected from Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes and master cinematographer Roger

Deakins, “Skyfall” is absolutely gorgeous.

The neon billboards of Shanghai and a mist-covered valley in Scotland are two of the more memo-rable backdrops on display, and the scenes centered around the two are hauntingly beautiful and masterfully composed. The classic “Bond intro,” set to Adele and Paul Epworth’s evocative theme, is one of the pret-tiest ever and will be hard to top for whoever takes the helm of Bond’s next outing.

For all that “Skyfall” does right, there are a few minor complaints. The plot drags a bit in the third act, and Bond and Silva’s final confronta-tion is somewhat anti-climactic.

The action builds to a fever pitch only to peter out in the final min-utes, but it’s still plenty solid in the thrill department. Naomie Harris and Bérénice Marlohe are under-used and expendable as the “Bond girls” this time around, serving as

little more than eye-candy for Bond to woo, but the expanded role of M makes up for the gap in the femme-fatale department.

Ultimately, “Skyfall” is the quint-essential Bond flick. Like “Casino Royale” and “Quantum of Solace” before it, it continues the gritty reboot of the franchise but main-tains everything that makes Bond, well … James Bond. Fans of the franchise will be delighted to see the return of Q, 007’s trusty Walther PPK, and the exotic locales, sexy women and suave quips that have defined the character for 50 years.

Without feeling forced, “Skyfall” manages a few sly nods to ejec-tion seats and exploding pens that pay homage to classic Bond without resorting to the invisible cars and laser watches that made the Brosnan era so campy.

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It was closer than many would have liked, but nonetheless the University of Memphis men’s basketball team walked out of FedExForum on Saturday night with a 65-54 win over the Samford Bulldogs.

Leading the Bulldogs 54-51 with just over four minutes in the game, the Tigers went on an 11-3 run in the remaining min-utes to put away a feisty Samford team. Nine of those 11 points for the Tigers came from the charity stripe. Nine of the final 11 also came from the hands of junior guard Joe Jackson and sophomore guard-forward Adonis Thomas.

“They shot 50 percent for the game, so it was just about making shots,” Thomas said. “They made a lot of shots on the offensive end and it didn’t allow us to get out on the break and play our game.”

Memphis took its first lead of the game 6-4 after Jackson con-verted both of his free throws with 16:31 left to play in the first half. Tyler Hood of Samford gave the Bulldogs the lead back min-utes later with two free throws of his own to make the score 12-11. The Tigers then responded with a basket by freshman forward Shaq Goodwin, followed by a tip-in by senior guard D.J. Stephens to put Memphis back ahead 15-12. With eight minutes left in the half, Thomas gave the Tigers their largest lead so far with a jumper, bringing the score to 17-12.

With a little over a minute until halftime, Thomas connected on a lob to Stephens, who finished it to give the Tigers a nine-point advan-tage. Samford cut the lead back to seven, but Jackson converted on a jumper to put Memphis ahead 33-24 going into the locker room.

Coming out of the break, the Bulldogs brought the score to 36-30, but a 6-0 Memphis run gave the Tigers their largest lead of the game with 15:33 left to play. Samford continued to battle and made the score 46-40 with 11:30 to go. However, junior guard Antonio Barton kept up his solid play as he hit a three-pointer and made a steal to put Memphis back up by 12 halfway through the sec-ond half.

Samford then made it a game, as the team went on a 7-0 run to make the score 54-51 with just over four minutes remaining. The Bulldogs looked to make the score even on their next possession, but Jackson made the steal and took it the other way, drawing the foul as he went up for the layup. After making one of two free throws, Thomas gave the Tigers a 57-51 lead with a jumper and increased it to 59-51 with two free throws to force Samford to start fouling and give the Tigers the win.

“You know, I don’t want to make any excuses, no excuses,” Tigers head coach Josh Pastner said. “So there is no excuse, we’ve got to mature as a team and we’ve got to be better.”

Thomas was on top of the scor-ing chart for Memphis with 16

points. Barton added 14, while Jackson chipped in with 13. Tim Williams led the charge for the Bulldogs with a game-high 21 points and six boards.

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court Thanksgiving Day when they face off against Virginia Commonwealth in the second round of the Battle 4 Atlantis in Paradise Island, Bahamas. Game time is slated for 6 p.m. n

Tigers defeat Redbirds

The University of Memphis women’s basketball team (2-1) edged out the Illinois State Redbirds (1-2) with a 76-74 win in the third round of the Preseason Women’s National Invitation Tournament on Sunday.

Senior forward Nicole Dickson, who contributed a career-high 36 points to help Memphis secure the victory, led the Tigers.

“Nicole knows how to find her shot,” head coach Melissa McFerrin said in a postgame press confer-ence. “But she’s also just a very, very smart player, and when she has an opportunity she knows that her team needs for her to score so she didn’t pass up any opportunities, but also I thought Nicole played incredibly hard all over the floor.”

Memphis went into the locker room at the half with the 43-36 lead, with 19 of the Tigers points from Dickson, the sole Tiger to score double figures, but the Redbirds did not go down without a fight.

ISU sophomore Janae Smith recorded a career-high 31 points for the Redbirds. Smith was one of three ISU players to reach the double-digit mark.

Memphis added 12 points to the board strictly off of ISU turnovers, but the Tigers ran into some foul trouble in the second half, allowing the Redbirds to capitalize on free throws.

The Redbirds outscored the Tigers 38-33 in the second half, but Memphis’ solid first half kept the Tigers afloat.

The score was tied at 64 with eight minutes to go, but Memphis scored clutch jump shots to reclaim the lead 72-65 with just over four minutes on the clock.

The Redbirds once again flew their way back into the game and trimmed the score to within two, but ISU’s final three-point buzz-er beater fell short and Memphis stepped off Doug Collins Court, ending the back-and-forth battle with the road win.

Memphis will take on Texas-Arlington on Wednesday at 7 p.m. to end a three-game road trip. The Tigers will be back in Bluff City on Sunday to host Prairie View A&M University. n

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Senior D.J. Stephens slams home two points Saturday night against Samford University.

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