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Anthropology professor looks to the stars for his inspiration

Raising HIV/AIDS awareness

At age 8, Daniel Bauer wanted to become a famous escape artist. He achieved national recognition and even got signed to a $2 mil-lion deal in 2002, but his contract was canceled and career halted when he tested positive for HIV. Falling into depression, he began using drugs heavily and became suicidal.

Since then, he has become a motivational speaker, the spokes-man for Just Get Tested and the official successor to the famous Harry Houdini. The Student Activities Council brought Bauer to speak at the University of Memphis for the first night of their event, Open Your Eyes Week.

Constacia Gaddy, chair of SAC ideas and issues, said the council wanted to touch on a topic that was controversial.

“HIV/AIDS affects all age groups, sexual orientations and ethnicities — U of M students are no exception,” Gaddy said.

Gaddy, who organized the Open Your Eyes Week, said that Bauer would arouse interest among students.

“He has lived with HIV for 11 years and (he’s) an escape artist. I knew he would attract students.

In Ross Sackett’s classroom in Manning Hall, there is a skeleton dan-gling in a portable locker, but it’s not just there for Halloween. The skeleton serves an important role: helping to show students how they evolved.

Sackett has worked as a full-time instructor in the anthropology depart-ment since the late 1990s, and he cur-rently teaches biological anthropology and nutritional anthropology.

He first came to the University of Memphis after his wife Ruthbeth Finerman secured a position at the University. They both received their doctorates at the University of California, Los Angeles. Now, Finerman is chair of the anthropology department at the U of M. The two professors share similar research interests — every other summer or so, they continue their field-work in the Ecuadorean Andes.

“Ruthbeth and I first met in my father’s intro archaeology class when we were undergrads at UCLA,” Sackett said.

His father, James Sackett, is a retired professor of anthropology at UCLA and a renowned expert in French Paleolithic archeology. Anthropology was not the only fascination his father instilled in him.

According to Sackett’s personal website, one of his earliest memories

involved astronomy. On Feb. 15, 1961, a total solar eclipse passed over southern France, where he lived while his father was finishing his dissertation. Although he’s not certain he actually saw the eclipse as it happened, he remembers the event and the excitement clearly. So began a life-long love of stars and other heavenly bodies.

“My favorite, by far, is the moon,” he said.

Light pollution from cities is a per-sistent problem for stargazers. Artificial light competes with the natural light in the night sky. The moon, however, is so brightly illuminated that lunar surface details can be seen even in the daytime.

When Sackett was an undergradu-ate student and still thinking about a future career direction, he asked a grad-uate student in astronomy what that field was like.

“He told me as soon as you become a professional astronomer, you will never look through a telescope again,” he said.

The grad student informed him that astronomy at the professional level is mostly about applied mathematics.

“His advice to me was: ‘If you love astronomy, stay an amateur.,” Sackett said.

Sackett’s enthusiasm for astronomy goes beyond just looking through telescopes — he builds them, too. He not only builds telescopes of different

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ross Sackett, an anthropology professor at the University of memphis, uses a skeleton to teach his students about human evolution.

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BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s president cast doubt Monday on the chances of holding a long-delayed international peace conference to end the country’s civil war, saying the factors that would help such talks succeed do not cur-rently exist.

The United States and Russia have been trying for months to convene a conference in Geneva to negotiate a political solution to a conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people and forced some two million more to flee the country. The U.N. chief has set mid-November as a target for the pro-posed gathering, but both Damascus and the opposition are skeptical and no final date has been announced.

President Bashar al-Assad brushed aside the renewed efforts to coax the government and its opponents to the negotiating table, telling Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen TV in an interview that “the factors that would help in holding it (the conference) are not in place if we want it to succeed.”

He said it’s not clear who would represent the opposition, or what credibility the opposition’s representa-tives would have inside Syria.

“Who are the groups that will par-ticipate? What is their relation with the Syrian people? Do they represent the Syrian people or they represent the country that made them?” Assad asked, alluding to his government’s claim that the rebels are agents of Western and Arab powers. “There are many questions about the conference.”

For its part, Syria’s fractured opposition has yet to decide wheth-er to attend the proposed Geneva conference.

The main Western-backed oppo-sition umbrella group, the Syrian National Coalition, is scheduled to meet Nov. 1 and 2 in Istanbul to decide whether to take part in the

talks. One prominent faction within the Coalition, the Syrian National Council, has said it has no faith in negotiations with Assad’s regime and won’t participate in any Geneva negotiations.

The ability of the Turkey-based Coalition to speak for the broader rebellion has long been in dispute, and fighters inside Syria — many of whom reject negotiations with the regime — have accused the opposition leaders in exile of being out of touch with reality on the ground. The Coalition’s already strained credibility took a major hit last month when nearly a dozen prominent rebel groups public-ly broke with the opposition umbrella group. More rebel brigades have since followed suit.

Assad, meanwhile, has managed in

the past six months to restore a sense of stability to his government’s hold on power, shaken by losing large chunks of the country to the rebels in 2012.

Dressed in a blue suit and exuding confidence, Assad used much of the interview to denounce Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey for supporting the rebellion against him. But he also addressed the issue of his future in the country and presidential elections planned for 2014.

“I don’t see any reason that pre-vents me from running for the next elections,” he said. “It is still early to talk about it. We can only discuss it at the time when the presidential elec-tions date is announced.”

Much of the opposition says no peaceful transition is possible unless Assad leaves power.

The president also said that he is willing to take part in peace talks but reiterated his previously stated posi-tion that he will not negotiate with the armed opposition unless they give up their arms first.

International diplomatic efforts to broker a political resolution to Syria’s civil war have stumbled repeatedly, while the violence inside the country has raged on, exacting a terrible toll on the civilian population.

Residents of one besieged rebel-held suburb of Damascus issued an urgent plea Monday for the interna-tional community to save them from starvation and constant bombard-ment after efforts to evacuate civilians from the area collapsed this week.

For months, government troops have blocked food and supplies from

entering the suburb of Moadamiyeh west of the capital, activists say. Around 3,000 residents of the sub-urb were able to flee the area late last month during a rare, temporary cease-fire.

Aid agencies say Syrians across the country face difficulties getting food, but hunger in the rebel-held suburbs of Damascus, largely surrounded by government territory, is particularly acute.

In an open letter circulated by the opposition’s Coalition, Moadamiyeh residents pleaded with the interna-tional community for help.

“Save us from death. Save us from the hell of Assad’s killing machine,” the letter said.

The Coalition called on interna-tional organizations to establish a humanitarian corridor to allow food into the area. On Saturday, the United Nation’s humanitarian chief Valerie Amos called for an “immediate pause” in clashes to allow civilians to leave.

A spokesman for the Moadamiyeh council, Qusai Zakarya, confirmed that local residents had sent the letter to the Coalition asking for help.

“We are heading toward a defi-nite destiny: starvation,” he said via Skype, with the clap of shelling and the thumping of a helicopter audible in the background.

Activists from the Moadamiyeh Media Center reported that six people died of hunger in September.

Also Monday, Syrian opposition activists and state television said gov-ernment forces killed a prominent army defector who became a rebel leader.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as well as the pro-government Al-Ikhbariya TV said Yasser al-Abboud was killed during fighting in the town of Tafas in the southern province of Daraa. Al-Abboud was among the first high-ranking Syrian army officials to defect and join the rebellion.

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Syrian refugees are living in concrete homes built adjacent to a mosque in the border town of Aarsal, Lebanon. Tens of thousands of refugees and rebel fighters in the border area anticipate the Syrian government to launch an offensive to sweep them from the region that links a refugee haven in Lebanon to Syria.

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie dropped his fight against gay marriage in New Jersey on Monday, framing the decision in a pragmatic way: No point in fight-ing a losing battle.

Just hours after gay couples began exchanging vows with the blessing of New Jersey’s Supreme Court, Christie announced he was withdrawing his appeal to the high court.

New Jersey is the 14th state to legalize gay marriage.

As the Republican governor seeks re-election two weeks from now and ponders a run for presi-dent in 2016, Christie’s decision holds both risks and benefits for him.

It delighted gay rights activ-ists and could enhance Christie’s appeal to independents and moder-ates of both parties. But it angered members of the GOP’s conserva-tive wing, which already distrusts

Christie and wields outsized influ-ence in some state primaries.

Bob McAlister, a veteran Republican strategist in South Carolina, said Christie’s latest move “is absolutely going to hurt him.”

“Abandoning foundational prin-ciples that go beyond politics is not the way to get positive attention in South Carolina,” he said.

Brian Brown, president of the conservative National Organization for Marriage, said he was “extremely disappointed” with Christie’s deci-sion, which he portrayed as “effec-tively throwing in the towel on marriage.”

Last year, the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill to legalize gay marriage, but Christie vetoed it. The issue ended up before Christie again after a trial-level judge ruled last month that the state must allow same-sex couples to wed.

Christie appealed that ruling to the state Supreme Court. The court agreed to take up the case but unan-imously refused on Friday to delay the start of gay weddings in the meantime, saying the state had little

chance of prevailing in its appeal. Same-sex couples began exchanging vows Monday just after midnight.

Advisers to the governor said that in dropping the appeal, Christie had stayed true to his principles.

“Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote of the people, the court has now spoken clearly as to their view of the New Jersey Constitution and, therefore, same-sex marriage is the law,” Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak said in a statement.

“The governor will do his con-stitutional duty and ensure his administration enforces the law as dictated by the New Jersey Supreme Court.”

Although New Jersey is a Democratic-leaning state, polls show Christie holds a commanding lead against Democratic state Sen. Barbara Buono ahead of the Nov. 5 election.

The governor has positioned himself as a straight-talking prag-matist who can win support across

the political spectrum.Even as he has opposed gay mar-

riage, Christie has preached toler-ance. He nominated an openly gay judge to the Supreme Court and signed legislation last summer bar-ring therapists from trying to turn gay youngsters straight.

During a debate last week, Christie said if one of his children came out as gay, he would “grab them and hug them and tell them that I love them.”

Many conservatives distrusted Christie at least as far back as a year ago, just before Election Day, when he praised President Barack Obama in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.

When conservatives gathered in Washington recently for the Family Research Council’s annual Value Voters summit, the ballroom heard from such potential presidential candidates as Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky and former

Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. Christie was not invited.

But many establishment Republicans contend that social issues ultimately will take a back seat to economic ones as gay mar-riage becomes more widely accept-ed in America.

“Opposing the freedom to marry is a loser for our party and serves to drive away a growing number of voters who have turned the page,” said David Kochel, a top adviser to Republican Mitt Romney in Iowa during the 2008 and 2012 presiden-tial campaigns.

Some Republicans said Christie’s decision wouldn’t hurt him much if he decides to seek the White House, especially in a crowded primary field populated with several conser-vatives who could end up splitting the vote.

Conservatives “were never going to be his voters anyway,” said John Ullyot, a Republican strategist and former Senate aide.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Four same-sex couples who were legally married in other states filed a law-suit Monday challenging Tennessee’s laws that prohibit recognition of their marriages.

The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Nashville, says Tennessee’s laws violate the federal Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and due process, and “the constitutionally protected right to travel between and move to other states.”

The U.S. Supreme Court last June struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defined mar-riage as the union of one man and one woman. However, the court did not address state bans on same-sex marriage. Under the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, gay couples who are legally married in states that allow it can get the same federal benefits as married opposite sex couples.

In Tennessee, however, marriage between partners of the same gender is prohibited by state law and by a constitutional amendment approved

in 2006. It says that for a marriage to be legal in the state, it must be between a man and a woman.

“All of our plaintiffs are people who were legally married in their states of residence,” said Abby Rubenfeld, an attorney for the cou-ples. “The federal government says it’s OK, then they move to Tennessee for job purposes, for whatever, and all of a sudden their marriage isn’t recognized.”

Veterinarians Sophy Jesty and Valeria Tanco, both plaintiffs in the

lawsuit, got married in New York in 2011 and now live in Knoxville where they teach at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine.

Tanco is 18 weeks pregnant, but under Tennessee’s current law, Jesty wouldn’t be recognized as the child’s legal parent.

“Val will have a legal parental status based on the fact that she’s the one that’s carrying our baby,

Same-sex couples challenge Tennessee marriage laws

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A Weekly Devotional For You God’s Invitations

God is gracious. He gives gracious invitations to sinful human beings to come and find rest and comfort in Him. However, God is not a beggar. Some have the idea that God is wringing His hands and frustrated at the many who refuse His invitations. This however is not true. It is very interesting to see to whom God sends His invitations. He does not invite the self-sufficient and self-satisfied. Christ said in Mark 2:17 “ They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sin-ners to repentance.” Those who are righteous in their own estimation have no call from God. Jesus also said in Matthew 11:28, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” If you are burdened with a sense of your sinfulness you have an invitation. If you feel no need of being saved from your sinful condition, you have no invitation. Even though God is infinitely holy He has good news for those who realize their great need of Him. There is good news for them in Isaiah 57:15, “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.”

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Last week we looked at the quest for satisfaction and fulfillment in our lives. This search for satisfaction, for significance, is a tremendous driving force. One of the ways that the attack on morale and the will to live in certain prisoner of war camps is conducted is forcing the prisoners to repeat meaningless tasks. The prisoner might be required to dig a deep ditch. He toils and sweats. When he has accomplished his task, he is then made to fill the ditch up with the very dirt he had excavated from it. When he is tired at the end of the day, when he is aware of his aching back, and the calluses on his hands, he has a certain sense of meaningless and despair. While he has worked hard and expended much effort, he has really accomplished nothing meaningful. There is no significance to what he has done.

As we saw last week, Solomon spent his opportunities, resources, and talents in the pursuit of pleasure, as many are doing today. He felt no lasting satisfaction in pursuing pleasures that none of us have the resources to duplicate. He wound up in despair and even said that he hated life.

Near the end of his life, as he looked back, he reached some conclusions that it would do us all well to consider. He said in Ecclesiastes 12:13, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”

Looking Back

Why did you chose to go to the U of M?

By Stuart SettlesTigers’ Ta es

“It was fairly cheap, and I lived in Memphis.”

Brendan Bradley, Undecided sophomore

“It wasn’t too far away from home, since I’m from Nashville, but it’s not too close either, and I just wanted a new experience away from Nashville.”

Aaliyah Nicholson, International studies

freshman

“It was a great financial choice and (I could) stay home with my family.”

Austin Russell, Health service

administration sophomore

“It’s where my parents went, I got good scholarships, and I really like Memphis in gen-eral.”

Allison McCommon, Nursing sophomore

“It’s close to home, and also the psychology department is really good for graduate students and undergrads.”

Alona Gray, Psychology senior

One tattoo group, Klika Tattoos hailing from Hesperia, Calif., came to Memphis to show off its artwork and tattoo some people in the process last weekend.

“When my ink gets out there, hopefully people can love and appreciate it,” said Joe Solomon, owner and promoter of Klika Tattoos.

This weekend the group joined other tattoo artists at the Cook Convention Center for their first tattoo-related convention in Memphis. With one of the biggest booths at the convention, tattoo enthusiasts and onlookers alike could not help but stop and check out their work.

After being in the tattoo busi-ness for more than 10 years, Solomon assembled his own group of artists from the differ-ent tattoo conventions he attend-ed to. Solomon and the artists who represent his business bring artwork, thoughtful tattoos and a different perspective of tattooing to the table.

For Solomon, tattoos mean more than just a pictures and words. He believes that all tat-toos have a story, and they show people what a person has gone through or where they have come from.

“Tattoos are supposed to mean something about family, heritage, community and — most impor-tantly — where you come from,” said Solomon.

One artist in particular who is a part of Klika Tattoos

believes that tattoos transcend even beyond sentimental ties and beliefs. Everardo Flores said that tattoos are more about the peo-ple, the public and transferring ideas to the skin.

“It was a calling for me to edu-cate people about tattoos,” Flores said. “It hurt badly, but it was something for me.”

After working construction for more than a decade and being in a musically-driven family, Flores knew he wanted to make a change in his life and impact the people around him. Flores also grew up around tattoos, so he thought the best way for him to impact people was by going into the tattooing industry.

“The people keep me going in this business, turning people’s visions into tattoos. It doesn’t get better than that,” said Flores.

Californian tattoo artists ink up willing Memphians

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shapes and styles, but also routinely enters them in competitions. He has won awards in craftsmanship and mechanical design.

To Sackett, creating telescopes and teaching have a special connection.

“They are both about being creative in public,” he said. “Both are a kind of intellectual performance.”

Sackett carries a heavy teaching load, but loves it. His summers, however, are his own to pursue either anthropologi-cal research or construct telescopes like the Moonsilver or Dobsonian.

Avery Williams, a freshman electri-cal and computer engineering major, is in Sackett’s biological anthropology class, which covers human origins and prehistory.

“I wanted to take his class, because it sounded so interesting,” Williams said. “Lecturing is no different than sales-manship, if you ask me. Make it sound appealing while at the same time being informative. He does it just right.”

Raine Jones, also a freshman, is tak-ing the course as well. He’s still not sure what he wants his major to be, but Sackett’s class has given him a lot to think about and carefully consider. While the professor hasn’t brought up his adventures in making telescopes to the class just yet, Jones is not surprised that Sackett is multi-talented.

“He brings his real-life experiences to back up what he talks about,” Jones said. “You can tell he cares and (he’s) excited about what he does.”

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The University of Memphis Tuesday, October 22, 2013 • 5

The University of Memphis men’s soccer team wraps up its final two games of the regular season this week at the Mike Rose Soccer Complex against two American Athletic Conference rivals.

The Tigers (8-6-1, 2-4-0) take to the pitch Wednesday against the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University (3-8-2, 2-1-2) and again Saturday versus the Cardinals of the University of Louisville (9-2-2, 4-0-1).

Head Memphis coach, Richie Grant, said the two games this week are of vital importance.

“We are in good shape in the RPI (NCAA’s Rating Percentage Index) because of the caliber of schedule we have played this year,” he said. “We have a big opportunity this week.”

Memphis currently sits at the No. 51 spot out of the 203 schools listed on the latest RPI soccer stats released Monday.

The Tigers head into Wednesday’s game coming off the 2-1 loss to Temple University on Saturday. Grant said the defeat was frustrating because the team played well in the first half, but were unable to bring home the victory.

Senior Mark Sherrod had the lone goal for the Tigers in the 85th minute of play against Temple, tying the game one all. The goal marked the veteran player’s fifth on the season. With 40 career goals to his name, Sherrod ranks No. 3 in the Memphis men’s soccer program record books for all-time goals. Morton Akerfors, who played for the Tigers from 1987-90, holds the record with 49.

“We are going to use it for fuel for the week,” Grant said. “We are disap-pointed in the outcome, but we will use it to motivate us.”

The Tigers will have their first chance at redemption Wednesday against SMU. The game is slated to start at 7 p.m.

Grant said the Mustangs have had a poor nonconference schedule but have done a solid job in conference play. SMU’s last game was against the University of Central Florida. After double overtime, the Mustangs left the field with the 0-0 tie.

The Tigers will have a few days off before they return to action under the lights Saturday at 7 p.m. against yet another conference foe, Louisville.

The Cardinals have racked up four conference wins thus far and one tie. The 2-2 tie occurred Oct.19 against UConn.

“(Louisville) are the top team in

the league,” Grant said. “Them and Connecticut have separated them-selves. They can make a run for a national championship.”

Saturday’s game will not only be big because of the tough matchup, but it will also mark Senior Night for seven Memphis players.

Grant said this year’s seniors have helped build the Memphis program into a national caliber team over the years and said he wants their last regular season home game to be an

awesome one.“This team was built around this

group of senior players,” he said. “The game will be one to remember.”

Grant said fan support through-out the season has been great, espe-cially against Rutgers University ear-lier this season.

“Saturday will be one of the best games in the country,” he said. “We appreciate the support and hope people come out and support the team.”

Regular season nears the end for men’s soccer team

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The University of memphis men’s soccer team ends regular season play this week on its home turf. The Tigers face SmU Wednesday and Louisville Saturday.

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He was really excited to come here,” she said.

Bauer has taken a special interest in coming to speak at the U of M campus.

“As of 2012, Shelby County represents nearly 50 percent of all new HIV infection in Tennessee,” he said. “I want to know why the hell students are not taking greater action to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS.”

Bauer’s concern stems from the large number of num-bers people living with HIV in Memphis. According to the Tennessee Department of Health website, the HIV posi-tive population has increased every year since 2010.

Everyone should be tested for HIV, said Jacqueline De Fouw, who is a U of M health educator and nurse.

“There are a lot of ways people can contract it,” she said. “A person can be born with it, catch it from unpro-tected sex, using unclean nee-dles in drug use and cleaning up infected blood.”

Many people do not realize they have it because symp-toms are usually very short and occur a few weeks after exposure.

“It might feel like a mild cold that is easy to overlook,” De Fouw said.

Any person could have it and not know about it.

The University Health Center offers free HIV screen-ing every Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. sponsored by Planned Parenthood. Blood tests and cheek swabs are both available.

“It only takes twenty min-utes to get the results back form the cheek swab,” De Fouw said.

However, HIV takes time to show up in a person’s system — six months to a year.

“You should wait six months after your exposure before getting tested and even if your tests come back nega-tive, you should still get tested again six months later,” she said.

De Fouw said the best way to avoid catching the virus is to postpone or abstain from sex. Using a latex or poly-urethane condom can reduce your risk.

“If someone is having sex that is the best way to protect them,” she said.

Birth control pills and the Depo-Provera shot will not prevent the transmission of the virus, De Fouw stressed.

Students can obtain free condoms at the University Health Center. Bauer, who caught HIV from a partner he had unprotected sex from, said sex can be fun, but the effects may not.

“If you can’t afford con-doms, you can’t afford a $33 test,” he said.

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Chris Sanders, executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project, a gay rights advocacy group, said he applauds the plaintiffs’ effort because he is contacted every week by gay couples seeking legal recognition.

“We believe it’s the first step in knocking down a huge barrier of discrimination in the state,” he said.

The filing Monday comes as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has decided to drop his legal challenge to same-sex marriage, making New Jersey the 14th state to allow gay marriages.

Rubenfeld, who married under California’s same-sex marriage stat-ute, said she hopes her lawsuit puts Tennessee on track to be among the next states to recognize same-sex marriage.

“It doesn’t matter what number (we are), we’re to be there,” she said.

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Mustangs trample TigersA slow start and stag-

nant offense allowed Southern Methodist University to take down the University of Memphis football team (1-5, 0-3) on a chilly Saturday at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

The Mustangs (2-4, 1-1) launched a 79-yard pass on the second play from scrimmage and never looked back winning 34-29.

SMU outscored the Tigers 24-0 in the second quarter and 31-3 in the first half. The U of M took the second half 26-3, but the early deficit proved too much to overcome.

Head Memphis football coach Justin Fuente said his team can-not put themselves in that big of a hole.

“I’d like to apologize for the way we played the first half,” Fuente said. “They came out and played better than we did on both sides of the ball. We’ve got a little bit of a long week here. We’ll evaluate everything and see where we’re at.”

SMU’s high-octane offense was on full display from the start even against Memphis’ national-ly-ranked defense. The Mustangs posted 460 total yards on Offense.

“The key is our quarterback,” said head SMU coach June Jones. “He is competitive and doing all of the things you need to do to win football games.”

Their quarterback, senior Garrett Gilbert, threw for 321 yards and said he was pleased with his team’s ability to put points on the Tigers’ defense.

“We knew we were facing a

great defense,” he said. “We feel like there hasn’t been a game yet where we couldn’t move the ball. For us, it’s just a matter of finish-ing drives.”

The Tiger offense struggled to put the ball in the end zone. They scored two touchdowns, but the first came after a penalty negated an interception returned for a touchdown by the defense. The offense scored their second touchdown on the final play of the game once the game’s out-come had been decided.

The U of M’s offensive strug-gles could be attributed to several things, Fuente said. He plans to evaluate everything this week.

“My sense is it’s a develop-ing offensive line,” he said of the offensive struggles. “It’s some young skill players — receivers and running backs — that show flashes of playing really well and show flashes making you want to pull your hair out.”

The offense wrestled to over-come the inevitable setbacks that come with a football game — sacks, loss of yards and incom-pletions. However, they almost always found themselves on the losing end of those battles. With just under 11 minutes to play in the third quarter, redshirt freshman quarterback Paxton Lynch marched the Tigers down the field. The drive stalled after a second-down sack on stole Memphis’ momentum. Lynch was dropped again on third down, and the Tigers punted.

Fuente said he wants to see his team be tougher when adversity strikes.

“When we’re perfect (on offense), we’re pretty good,” Fuente said. “But when one little

hiccup happens, we’re having a hard time overcoming. We got to be able to bounce back.”

The offense got things going in the second half. They extended several drives and got into the end zone twice. However, Fuente isn’t satisfied.

“They were just in base defense,” he said. “That’s not a great indicator. They’re just keep-ing everything in front and rush-ing three. We did get something going there, but that’s pretty vanilla looks from them.”

Despite the final score, the U of M defense played fairly well, especially junior linebacker Ryan Coleman. Coleman returned

two fumbles for touchdowns, an NCAA record.

He ripped the ball straight out of an SMU running back’s hand in the third quarter and returned it 15 yards for the score. Four min-utes later, Coleman scooped up a fumble by SMU’s punt returner and took it 19 yards for the score.

Coleman was named the National Linebacker of the Week and the National Defensive Performer of the Week by the College Football Performance Awards on Monday. The confer-ence also placed the Tiger on the American Athletic Conference’s five-player Honor Roll.

“We work on ripping the ball

out so much — it just becomes second nature,” Coleman said. “But it blew my mind how easy it was (to rip the ball out). I’ve had good games with intercep-tions returned for a touchdown, but never like this, never two in one game.”

Junior defensive end Martin Ifedi registered a sack and 1.5 tackles for loss. Ifedi ranks No. 4 in the country in sacks with 1.3 per game.

The football team gets an extended break this upcoming week. They don’t play until Oct. 30. It will be a Wednesday night game broadcasted nationally on ESPN from the Liberty Bowl.

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Memphis basketball showcased on national stage A FedExForum full of 18,000 spec-

tators cheered on the University of Memphis men and women basketball teams in the season kick-off Memphis Madness event Saturday.

ESPN covered the star-studded affair as part of their Midnight Madness cov-erage. Memphis unveiled its new court design, introduced the teams, exhibited the Tigers’ dunking abilities and played a short scrimmage, which included more highlights than the actual dunk contest.

The lights dimmed as Jimi Jamison, former frontman of the band Survivor, made his way down to the court singing “Eye of the Tiger.” A fog machine helped build the suspense.

The crowd cheered wildly as the Tigers presented their new court design, which features the Memphis skyline and iconic bridge.

Memphis has ranked in the top-11 schools in the country for men’s basket-ball attendance for the entire time head coach Josh Pastner has been at the helm of the program, according to the NCAA.

Along with the court design, iLu-minate, a dance crew that wears light-up suits while performing electrifying shows, entertained Memphis fans. The group was one of the finalists on America’s Got Talent in 2011, but on Friday night, the dancers featured a spe-cial guest.

When the lights went out, another performer wearing a glowing jacket with a Memphis “M,” joined the last dance. The guest entertainer turned out to be Pastner, who showed a bit of personality through the performance.

“I took break-dancing classes in col-lege and that helped me for the big stage,” Pastner said jokingly.

Along with the entertainers, fans watched special videos from rappers Yo Gotti and Rick Ross. Gotti showed support for his hometown team and said he appreciated seniors Joe Jackson and Chris Crawford for being the ones who have stuck around all four years. Ross’ video was played before Geron Johnson took his turn in the dunk con-

test. Gotti challenged Johnson to show what he had.

Both the men and women’s teams were introduced Saturday with each player dancing to the song of their choice. Some of the more notable dances came from freshman Austin Nichols and junior Hippolyte Tsafack. Nichols danced to “23” by Miley Cyrus and Tsafack paid tribute to Elvis Presley with the song “Jailhouse Rock.”

“It’s a completely different experi-ence than being a fan of it,” Nichols said. “Being a recruit attending is very differ-ent than being a part of it. There is a lot of hard work that goes into making this a success.”

The new Tiger was impressed with the event as well as the support the fans gave. Dunk contest winner Shaq Goodwin and Michael Dixon Jr. said Nichols was the best dancer among the player introductions. The forward showed off his dance moves to huge applause from the crowd. Dixon, anoth-er new Tiger, said he was also surprised at the encouragement from the fans.

“Memphis Madness was better than what we did at Missouri,” he said. “It’s just better here. The fans are amazing here. To come out to 18,000 people is amazing.”

Current Tigers said they were awestruck.

Among the 18 high school prospects in attendance, 11 were unofficial visits from the 2015 and 2016 classes.

The big names from the 2014 class were Cliff Alexander and Jaquan Lyle, both top-40 recruits in ESPN’s Top 100. Alexander is a six-foot-eight, 225-pound forward from Chicago who is ranked No. 3 in the Top 100, and Lyle, a six-foot-four 185-pound guard, is from Indiana.

The two top recruits sat together during the event and would be a huge addition to any team in the country. Time will tell if Memphis Madness was enough to encourage a commitment from the duo.

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Fans (above) packed the FedexForum Friday night to help kick off the 2013-14 basketball season at the annual memphis madness event. This year’s special entertainment was the group iLuminate (below) from America’s Got Talent.

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