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Vol. 79 No. 98

Thursday,April 5, 2012

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Taking it to the pros

Students gathered near the Student Plaza Fountain on Wednesday for a vigil in honor of Trayvon Martin and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the 44th anniversary of MLK’s death.

Members of the Progressive Student Alliance organized the event, which included former

Black Panther member JoNina Ervin.

“I think that a lot of young people know who Martin Luther King was but don’t now about his work,” Ervin said.

Students were given the opportunity to share their thoughts on Trayvon Martin, fol-lowing a brief moment of silence.

“We talk about those moments to mourn, but we have to keep on keeping on,” Ervin said. “It’s

up to us today to do what we can, where we are.”

Ryan Richardson, a junior English major and active mem-ber in the PSA, said it’s impor-tant for students to get involved in issues like this.

“There needs to be aware-ness of these types of events,” Richardson said. “Whoever you are — male, female; gay, straight; black, white; whatever — it has something to do with you.

BY CHRISTINA HOLLOWAYNews Reporter

Still Marching OnForty-four years after his death, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy continues to inspire others

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Students have a chance to pick up free tickets to an annual concert featuring the nationally acclaimed Pavel Haas Quartet.

The concert, sponsored by Concerts International, is scheduled for April 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Israel, at 1376 E. Massey Road.

Students who plan to attend may pick up a free ticket at the University Center’s informa-tion desk from now until the day of the concert. There are 30 available.

Phyllis Kaplan, president of Concert International’s execu-tive committee, said the com-mittee’s reason for issuing tick-ets to students is due to their 40-year relationship with The U of M’s music department.

“I would describe it as more of a collaboration,” she said. “Every year, we hold concerts

at the Harris Auditorium, and The U of M purchases 30 tickets and makes them available to their students.”

So far, according to Bob Barnett, director of the University Center, two stu-dents have shown up to claim their free tickets.

“The concert’s only three weeks away, so we usually won’t get enough rush until it’s closer to the day it’s supposed to occur,” he said.

Barnett said he plans on sending an email to the College of Communication and Fine Arts imploring its faculty mem-bers to share this information with their students, and will also place ads on the digital signs of the UC.

The U of M’s music depart-ment offers tickets to students as a means of getting them interested in attending concerts that feature world-class musi-cians, Kaplan said. The tickets

BY MELISSA WRAYNews Reporter

Concert International tickets available to first 30 students

Black Scholars Unlimited will host a show tonight to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House of Memphis titled “The Great Pretenders.”

Attendees will include students dressed as Beyonce, Tupac, Waka Flocka Flame and other artists. Students masquerading as their favor-ite celebrities will dance, lip-sync and act for a chance to win an unnamed prize.

The benefit concert will be held in the University Center Theatre. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the show will begin at 6 p.m. Advance ticket pric-es are $5 or $7 at the door.

“I would love to see every-one come together for a great cause and help raise money for the children,” said Jade Anderson, philanthropy chair and event coordina-tor. “I want to see a group of diverse students come together to help us give back. I want everyone to be enter-tained and have a good night and enjoy the performances.”

Ten performers are on

the agenda and a dance group is scheduled to enter-tain the audience during intermission.

Sophomores Charnita Heard and Ricky Smith will host the event dressed as art-ists T.I. and Tiny. The judges will be portraying Jill Scott, Sanaa Lathan and Zooey Deschanel.

Tevin McInnis, sophomore communications major, will perform twice. He said he wants his acts to be a sur-prise and doesn’t want to reveal them.

“I want to see everyone enjoy themselves and see the participants give their best effort,” McInnis said. “ If the crowd gets involved, it will make us perform better. So we are hoping for a lot of crowd support.”

Audience members who participate will also earn secret prizes.

“Students need to see the importance of support-ing an organization in a way that is fun as well as ben-eficial,” said Bianca Russell, event coordinator. “I want to see students support us by

BY WILLIAM YOUNGNews Reporter

Pretending for a causeStudents have chance to masquerade as celebrities for Ronald McDonald House

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Summer is just around the corner, but a study released in the April edition of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings may have students thinking twice before tanning.

The study looks at the increase in the number of people ages 18 to 39 who were diagnosed with skin cancer from 1970 to 2009.

“Young peo-ple think ‘It’s not going to affect me, I’m going to live forever,’” said. James Turner, dermatologist at Mid-South Dermatology in Bartlett. “It’s a double-edged sword – lack of understanding and a lack of applying it to themselves.”

According to the study, those being diagnosed with melanoma increased by eight-fold in young women and fourfold among young men. The study also reported that while the number of cases of melanoma was on the rise, the survival rate was also increasing.

“Caught early the progno-sis is good, almost 100 per-cent, late means the cancer is already invasive,” Turner said.

Representatives of Student Health Services at The University of Memphis said

they have hosted programs on tanning protection in the past and plan to address the topic again in the May issue of the Tiger Scoop newslet-ter. Brochures on tanning are available to students.

Turner said people should understand that tanning

efforts by the sun or by a tan-ning bed are accompanied by skin damage. He noted that premature aging, wrinkling and freckles could occur in addition to cancer.

“We need to start sunscreens early, even with infants,” he said.

Health educator at The U of M, Jacqueline De Fouw, said people of all races are at risk of developing melanoma, which is why being proactive in the application of a high percent-age block sunscreen is critical.

“Here on Earth, the sun’s rays have been worshiped for centuries. However, they are not the same as they were 50 years ago. Now, with a thinner or absent ozone layer,

the sun’s rays are increasingly leading to very grave risks like melanoma, besides the prob-ability of skin aging and dam-age,” she said.

Chelsea Peterson, U of M senior and business manage-ment major, said she started tanning when she was 16 years

old. She now says she goes tan-ning twice a week during the winter months to avoid any skin prob-lems and b r e a k o u t s . She spends an estimated $500 a year on tanning and lotions.

Pe terson said she recognizes the risks and says she tries to keep her tanning in moderation.

“Almost all of my friends tan more than I do, and many of them work at tanning salons,” she said.

Peterson’s grandfather died from cancer that originated from melanoma and her moth-er and aunt have both had skin issues as a result of exces-sive sun exposure.

“I think many people, espe-cially those my age, are con-vinced that something like cancer would never actually happen to them. Most people probably think these issues only happen to older people,” Peterson said.

BY MEAGAN NICHOLSNews Reporter

Here comes the sunStudy shows melanoma is increasing among young people

“Now, with a thinner or absent ozone layer, the sun’s rays are

increasingly leading to very grave risks likes melanoma, beside’s the probability

of skin aging and damage.”

— Jacqueline De FouwUM health educator

Health

showing up. I also want to see good imitations on the part of the performers.”

There will be an information table for students to purchase tickets today in the University Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets can also be purchased in the Multicultural Office.

“The Great Pretenders has always been known as a great show and we just want to continue the tradition,” said Frederick Hampton, co-chair of the philanthropy commit-tee. “I want to see a great crowd come out and support the cause. We should try to give more of ourselves to oth-ers. I want our students to come together for something greater than them.”

Construction workers break ground in front of the University Center for the installment of the bronze tiger statue, which will hold a time capsule in the base.

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Jasmine Guy, actress from the television sitcom “A Different World,” will deliver a lecture at an event entitled “Engaging the Torch: Unity Through the Arts,” April 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.

Guy will discuss unity through art and her own experi-ences as an art scholar.

“Jasmine Guy is an actress, dancer, author and singer. She is truly a scholar of the arts. And we are grateful to have her at The University of Memphis,” said Janeta Reeves, alloca-tion chair of Black Scholars Unlimited, the group hosting the event.

Guy has won six National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Image Awards for play-ing the role Whitley Gilbert in “A Different World.”

“I will be star-struck when I see Jasmine Guy. I didn’t know she was a person of so many talents. I think students will be surprised as well to see that,” said Chantanavia Davis, alloca-tion co-chair of Black Scholars

Unlimited.The event will begin with

performers of different races and cultures singing, dancing and performing poetry.

“I always want to keep peo-ple aware of diversity,” said Sarah Noor, sophomore health administration and Spanish major, who is performing a belly dance this year.

Photographers and painters will showcase their diversity-themed artwork outside the University Center Ballroom.

Anecia Monroe, co-chair of Black Scholars Unlimited, said the group wants to bring in random students to show off their artwork and demonstrate to others that the student body can come to together as one.

“Art is such a broad topic. We wanted to reach students on a different level of art that involved all cultures,” Davis said.

Davis said she is excited the event is finally about to take place — the organization has been putting together the per-formance since October.

“I feel like our campus is seg-regated and our organization’s main goal is to break those fixed groups on campus and bring them together,” Monroe said.

BY KENDRA HARRISNews Reporter

Sarah Noor, sophomore health administration and Spanish major, shows off her belly dancing moves in preparation for the welcoming ceremony of “Engaging the Torch: Unity Through the Arts.”

Engaging the TorchActress Jasmine Guy to come to UM to raise awareness on unity among artists

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The definition of swoon is “to become overwhelmed by ecstatic joy.” And the band SWOON hopes to impact its fans in a similar way with a per-formance with One Less Reason on Friday.

The bands will perform at Brickhouse Grill in Jonesboro,

Ark. at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 for ages 18 and up.

The Memphis-based collabo-ration consists of U of M alum-nus Mitchell Gammill, vocalist and guitarist; Kelly Oliver, bass guitarist; U of M alumnus Xavier Brooks, keyboardist; Nick Ginn, guitarist; and Cordius Williams, percussionist.

The band’s Facebook page claims “Don’t Label Us!” and its members do not consider their

band to have a genre. From the electric-like demeanor in “Dance Away” to the ballad-like lyrics of “Maybe” SWOON’s songs are unique, but influenced by such rock bands as Nirvana and Queens of the Stone Age. They said they hope to draw new fans to their eclectic sound.

SWOON has recently played at Newby’s, The New Daisy and Minglewood Hall and just launched their website, www.

campswoon.com. “Our mission is to seek out

and find other intelligent life forms who could use SWOON to help improve their lives,” Gammill said.

Band members have said they want to put Memphis back on the map for rock and roll.

“We want to bring back that nostalgia of the era of Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash,” Gammill said.

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are paid for through aggre-gated funds of the Student Activity Fee.

Charlie Schaffler, chairman of Concerts International’s board of directors, said it also helps that various fac-ulty members of the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music serve on the committee from time to time.

In recent years, the on-cam-pus Harris Auditorium has been booked, and Concerts International has changed the location of their concerts to Temple Israel.

“We changed our location to Temple Israel because we thought it would draw in a much larger audience,” said Barbara Frederick, execu-tive director of Concerts International’s executive committee.

The Czech Republic-based quartet, which consists of two violinists, a violist and cellist, got the inspiration of their name from classical composer Pavel Haas, one of several Czech-Jewish com-posers who were murdered in the gas chambers of the Theresienstadt concentration camp near Prague in 1944.

During his imprisonment in the camp, Haas wrote eight compositions, a few of which managed to survive.

One of the things that made the string quartet seem so appealing to the Concerts International committee is their reputation, Schaffler said.

“We rely heavily on word of mouth from vari-ous groups and agents,” he said. “The Pavel Haas quar-tet is well known in Europe. They’ve won awards such as the 2011 Gramophone of the Year award and we were lucky to get them in time for our concert.”

Kaplan said another thing that attracted them to the group is Haas’ story.

“Not only did he die so cruelly, but he was recog-nized only for his death and not his musical contribu-tions,” she said.

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Financial speculators are gam-bling on oil the same way they gambled on the housing market a few years ago _ a frightening prospect for the fragile economy, a Democratic congressional com-mittee was told Wednesday.

“It is similar to the gambling Wall Street did on whether or not people would pay their subprime (below-market rate) mortgages in the mortgage meltdown,” said Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland and a former federal regulator of financial markets. “Now they are betting on the upward direction of the price of oil.”

The housing industry collapse helped trigger the deep recession that began in late 2007 and whose effects are still felt today.

The economy is slowly recov-ering, Greenberger said, but it could come to a halt unless oil prices come down. Gene Guilford, president of the Independent Connecticut Petroleum Association, told lawmakers that the recent oil price run-up has cost

consumers an additional $10 bil-lion a month since mid-December.

The House of Representatives’ Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, which consists of party leaders, called the hearing to spotlight Democratic efforts to promote lower oil and gaso-line prices. No Republicans were present.

Today’s routine $4-and-higher prices for a gallon of gasoline have nothing to do with conven-tional supply-and-demand forces, Greenberger said. He formerly directed regulation of market trading in futures contracts and derivatives for the Commodities Futures Trading Commission.

“It is excessive speculation, which is a fancy word for saying that gamblers wearing Wall Street suits have taken these markets over,” he said.

Financial speculators such as investment banks and hedge funds account for at least 65 per-cent of purchases of contracts for future oil deliveries, more than twice their traditional share, while buyers who intend to actually take delivery of the oil and use it, such as airlines, make up only about one-third of demand. The

speculators bid up contract prices, sending oil and gasoline prices higher and reaping them huge profits. The bidding is stoked by fear of possible violence in oil-producing countries, notably Iran.

Congress has tried to pressure the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to put limits on how many contracts anyone can buy, but financial interests have stymied CFTC efforts in federal

court.Greenberger suggested sev-

eral remedies, including a strong Justice Department probe. He said the threat of a serious inves-tigation can be enough to intimi-date speculators.

“If there is a real investigation, just the appearance of it will cause these cockroaches to scatter,” he said, “because the light will be turned on.”

BY DAVID LIGHTMANNews Reporter

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TONIGHT @ 6:30

Walk&Talk If you could break any animal out of the zoo, which one and why?

“Giraffes, because everyone says I look like a giraffe. It’s

because I’m so tall.”

— Isaiah Moss, Biology, foreign language

sophomore

“Pandas because there’s a lot of money invested in them. They

get special treatment.”

— Drew Insch, Biology senior

“A giraffe because I would just ride it around the city all day.

Everyone loves giraffes.”

— Candace Peppers, Pre-Nursing sophomore

“Maybe a bird because it’s the easiest one to break out without

getting caught.”

— Michael Waters, Mechanical engineering

sophomore

“Penguins because penguins are cute.”

— Andreas Taylor, Computer science

junior

by Christina Holloway

Lauren Shouse wonders why her third child, Luke, is autistic. Was it his difficult birth? Was it something inherited that made her 6-year-old so stubborn and unwilling to speak?

“You would like to know what causes it so you can do all you can to prevent it,” said Shouse, of Weston, Mo. “It would be won-derful if we knew why.”

Medical researchers have the same hope, made all the more urgent Thursday with the release of new numbers showing that the prevalence of autism among the nation’s children continues its relentless climb.

One in every 88 children has been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder by the time they turned 8, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report looks at 2008 data from 14 communities, including the St. Louis area.

That’s an increase in preva-lence of 23 percent compared to data from just two years earlier, in 2006, and a 78 percent increase from the first year CDC gathered this data in 2002.

In 2002, fewer than one in 150 8-year-olds had been diagnosed with autism.

“The United States is experi-encing an autism epidemic,” said Mark Roithmayr, president of the advocacy group Autism Speaks. “It is a national emergency in need of a national plan.”

The CDC report uses extensive data collected from children’s medical and school records. While technically the data cannot be considered a representative national sample, it does line up closely with what other studies have found, and its consistent techniques make it valuable for measuring trends over time.

Autism is a disorder that affects the brain and a child’s development of social and com-munications skills. It shows up in

the first three years of life and can range in severity from serious impairments to challenges deal-ing with social situations.

Researchers have noted rising numbers of autism cases since the 1990s, but the cause or causes have remained elusive. A pro-posed link to childhood vaccines has been largely discredited. New research shows possible genetic associations. Other factors, such as parents having children later in life, also have been proposed.

But the growth in new cases may be largely the result of great-er awareness of autism, better ways to diagnosis it and great-er availability of educational and therapeutic services, some researchers say.

At Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, the number of young children referred for eval-uation of suspected autism has soared from about 300 annually five years ago to 500 now. The waiting list can run two months or longer.

Doctors, psychologists and teachers are all more attuned to possible symptoms of autism, such as delays in developing lan-guage skills or reluctance to play with other children, said Vicki Little, the psychologist in charge of Children’s Mercy’s autism ser-vices. That brings in more refer-rals, she said.

Changes in the criteria for diagnosing autism to include more high-functioning children add to the number of new cases, Little said.

“I tell parents (of high-func-tioning autistic children), ‘If your child had been seen 20 years ago, your child would not have gotten a diagnosis,’ “ Little said.

Rob Fitzgerald is the staff sci-entist at Washington University who collects the CDC autism prevalence data for St. Louis and four neighboring counties. While minority children are still less likely to be diagnosed with autism than white children, he’s been seeing the numbers rise much faster among African-

American and Latino children.In a way, that’s a good sign,

Fitzgerald said.“We’re encouraged that the

gap is decreasing,” he said. “I think the community is doing a better job identifying these children.”

But how important a factor is that for the escalating numbers of case?

“We’re caught in this dilem-ma,” Fitzgerald said. “We see this increased prevalence. Part of it is due to better identification and treatment, but we can’t rule out that there’s something else.”

Asked about this issue at a news conference on Thursday, CDC Director Thomas Frieden said it was possible that bet-ter diagnoses and treatment accounted for the rise in cases.

Roithmayr of Autism Speaks was quick to take exception. He cited research suggesting that just half the increase in the preva-lence of autism was due to broad-er definitions of the condition or more frequent diagnoses. Fifty percent of the increase remains unexplained, he said.

“There is a great unknown,” Roithmayr said. “Something is going on that we don’t know.”

Whatever the explanation for Luke Shouse’s autism, he has been doing much better since he was diagnosed and entered treat-ment, his mother said.

The earlier children are diag-nosed and begin therapy to mod-ify their behavior and improve their social skills, the better, doc-tors say.

Luke is going to kindergar-ten for a couple of hours a day. Most of his time is spent at the Family First Center for Autism and Child Development, where he receives therapy and school instruction.

Short term, the goal for Luke is to enter first grade as a full-time student next fall; long term, it’s for him to have a successful life, Lauren Shouse said.

“That’s our hope for him, and we won’t settle for less.”

BY ALAN BAVLEYMCT

Autism among children more commonHealth


A day after winning the indi-vidual title at the BancorpSouth Intercollegiate, University of Memphis senior golfer Jonathan Fly was named Conference USA Men’s Golfer of the Week, league officials announced Wednesday.

Fly claimed the individual title after shooting consecutive rounds of 68 to finish 8-under-par, two strokes ahead of second place. Rain kept Fly and com-petitors from improving their scores, as play was cut short due to the weather.

The senior’s title helped the Tigers finish fourth overall for the tournament hosted by the Ole Miss Rebels. Memphis had a team score of 285-286 to earn a top-five finish against a field that included five top-50 teams.

Fly, who also won the 2011 C-USA Championship’s individ-ual title, has garnered two Golfer of the Week honors during his career.

He and the Tigers will host the Memphis Intercollegiate on April 9-10 at Colonial Country Club. The Tigers will then prepare for the 2012 C-USA Championship in Texarkana, Ark., from April 22-24.

BY BRYAN HEATERSports Reporter

Fly named C-USA Golfer of the Week

Following a win over the SMU Mustangs on Sunday, The University of Memphis men’s tennis team climbed one spot to No. 31 in this week’s Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings.

Memphis appears in the polls for the tenth-straight week. The Tigers entered the rankings after a 4-3 upset over in-state rival No. 13 Tennessee in Knoxville on Jan. 20.

Freshman Connor Glennon and David O’Leary ranked 125th and 120th, respectively, in the individual polls. O’Leary has yet to lose a singles match on the season, compiling an impressive 17-0 record on the season.

The Tigers aim to climb high-er than the school-record No. 30 ranking achieved two weeks ago, with wins over three ranked opponents remaining on the schedule.

Memphis travels to Alabama to take on the No. 71 Crimson Tide Wednesday at 4 p.m. They follow that with matches at No. 59 UAB April 13, and then return home for No. 63 South Alabama on April 14.

BY BRYAN HEATERSports Reporter

Tennis climbs ITA rankings

Politics Golf

Tennis

With the Republican presi-dential nomination more firmly in hand after his three primary victories Tuesday, Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of hiding his true intentions and creating “straw men” to distract atten-tion from his record.

Speaking from the same stage where Obama had spo-ken 24 hours earlier, Romney cited an incident last month when the president didn’t realize the microphone was on when he was speaking to Russia’s president to ques-tion whether Obama is telling the electorate the truth.

“He does not want to share his real plans before the elec-tion, either with the public or the press,” Romney said in an address to the American Society of News Editors con-vention in Washington. He cited Obama’s remarks to President Dmitry Medvedev that he’d have more flexibil-ity to deal with Russian con-cerns after November ’s elec-tion. “His intent is on hiding. You and I are going to have to do the seeking.”

A day after primary wins in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C., Romney joked in response to a ques-tion about whether he’d asked his remaining rivals to drop out of the race.

“No, I haven’t. But now that you bring it up,” he said to laughter before adding, “I think people are free to make their own decision.”

Still, he noted, “I hope that we’re able to resolve our nomination process as soon as possible,” saying that Republicans need to be “somewhat competitive”

with Obama’s “billion-dollar quest.”

Romney’s address came the day after the president delivered a scathing cri-tique of Republicans before the same crowd, looking to frame the election as a choice between a president who’s watching out for the middle class and Republicans intent on starving government.

Asked about Obama’s address, Romney called it “rhetorical excess” and said there were too many “dis-tortions and inaccuracies” to name them. He defended the House of Representatives’ Republican spending plan, which the president described as “social Darwinism,” and criticized Obama for saying that Republicans would roll back environmental regula-tions and allow corporations “to do whatever they want.”

“These things are just straw men that have no basis in reality,” Romney said.

He didn’t mention his Republican rivals, aiming squarely at Obama, who he said thought that the answer to the economic crisis was “more spending, more debt and more government. The ‘new normal’ the president would have us embrace is trillion-dollar deficits and 8 percent unemployment.”

Romney argued that his vision for the U.S. was one “where the pursuit of success unites us, not divides us” and where “poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.”

“If we become one of those societies that attack success, one outcome is certain: There will be less success.”

He repeated his accusa-tion that Obama had made the economic crisis worse and criticized the administra-

tion’s $825 billion stimulus, saying it “was less a jobs plan and more the mother of all earmarks. The administra-tion pledged that it would keep unemployment below 8 percent. It has been above 8 percent every month since.”

Prominent economic ana-lysts such as Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics have testi-fied before Congress that the president’s stimulus program helped rescue the U.S. econo-my from the worst downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, Obama’s economic team did say ini-tially that the program should

keep unemployment from ris-ing above 8 percent, and it later conceded that it had underestimated the severity of the downturn.

Romney turned repeatedly to the president’s “hot mic” comment to Medvedev and said it called his “candor into serious question.”

“Unlike President Obama, you don’t have to wait until after the election to find out what I believe in, or what my plans are. I have a pro-growth agenda that will get our economy back on track, and get Americans back to work.”

BY LESLEY CLARKMCT

Romney accuses Obama of evasion


University of Memphis soc-cer players Mark Sherrod and J. J. Greer will play for the Portland Timbers U-23 team of the Premier Development League this summer.

Sherrod is coming off one of the best individual sea-sons in the history of the Memphis soccer program. The sophomore forward

scored a school-record 19 goals and tied the record for most points in a season at 42. He led the nation in goals per game and was one of 15 semi-finalists for the prestigious Hermann Trophy. Sherrod was also named Conference USA Player of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year, as well as being named to the All-Conference First Team and All-Academic Team.

Greer, a junior defender,

was named to C-USA’s All-Conference Second Team and NSCAA All-Midwest Second Team after helping to guide the Tigers to an 11-6-1 record. He also helped prevent the Tigers from conceding a goal for nearly 367 consecu-tive minutes at one point in the season, including three straight shutouts.

“We are really excited for J. J. and Mark to have this opportunity with Portland,”

Memphis head coach Richie Grant said. “Portland has a great team and coach, and J. J. and Mark will benefit greatly from the wonderful soccer culture Portland has to offer.”

The Portland Timbers U-23 team is an amateur team affiliated with Major League Soccer ’s Portland Timbers. The U-23s will play a 16-game regular season between May and July.

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BY SCOTT HALLSports Editor

Junior defender J. J. Greer was an anchor at the back for the Tigers, earning a berth on the C-USA All-Conference Second Team.

Sophomore forward Mark Sherrod scored a school-record 19 goals this past season.

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The 55th-ranked University of Memphis women’s tennis team improved on an already exemplary season with a 6-1 win over Southern Illinois on Saturday.

Memphis ran away with the doubles point with three blowout wins. An 8-1 thrashing by junior No. 27 Courtney Collins and freshman Alyssa Hibberd set the pace for the Tigers while Kelly Gray and No. 119 Tiffany Welcher com-bined for an 8-3 win. No. 74 Mariya Slupska and No. 69 Stefanie Mikesz closed out the doubles matches with another 8-3 win.

The Tigers dominated in the singles matches as well, coming away with five of the six. Slupska defeated SIU’s Natasha Tomishima, Hibberd defeated Ariadna Cairo and Collins took down Jennifer Dien before the Salukis scrapped a vic-tory. Melanie Delsart beat Welcher 7-6 (7-0), 0-6, 10-7 to claim the sole point for SIU.

Mikesz’s 6-4, 7-5 vic-tory over Anita Lee and Gray’s three-set win over Gisela Cairo ended the match on a high note and secured Memphis’ sev-enth consecutive win. The Tigers moved to 13-3 on the year and will face Conference USA rivals UAB in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Friday before tak-ing on Southern Miss on Saturday.

BY SCOTT HALLSports Editor

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UM tennis soars to victory over SIU

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