Emily Patey, senior nurs-ing major, has wanted to be a nurse since she was a child.

“Really, I just grew up want-ing to be a nurse. The motiva-tion behind it was probably helping people,” she said.

Linda Finch, associate dean for The University of Memphis’ undergraduate nursing pro-

gram, co-authored “The Effect of Nursing Students’ Clinical Experiences on Probability of Graduation,” an academic paper that found students like Patey will be more encour-aged to pursue the nursing field if they undergo a nega-tive clinical experience.

“We looked at how the more discomfort there was in

The Marxist Student Union has been a registered student organization at The University of Memphis since 2003, but until recently the group has been rela-tively dormant.

The MSU’s mission this semes-ter has been to bring attention to the plight of Cuba. Students from the MSU plan to hold an awareness seminar on the Cuban Five, also known as the Miami Five, Thursday at 6 p.m. in the University Center Shelby Room.

The talk was spurred by the 2001 conviction of a group of five Cuban intelligence officers who were charged with conspiracy to commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder and other illegal activities in the United States at the end of the 1990s.

The Five appealed their con-victions and the alleged lack of fairness in their trial has received international attention and criti-cism. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta overturned their convictions in 2005, but the full court later reversed the five’s bid for a new trial and reinstat-ed the original convictions. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case in 2009.

“There have been over 100 terrorist attacks on Cuba,” said James Raines, doctoral candi-date in literature at The U of M and vice president of the MSU.

“Many came from the ports in the Southern part of the U.S., but we did nothing.”

Cuba is among the most tar-geted country in the world for terrorist attacks — the Cuban government classified nearly 3,500 deaths as a result of “ter-rorism,” “aggression,” or “acts

of piracy or other acts” in a 2001 report by Cuba’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations.

“There’s been a history of terrorist attacks against Cuba by right-wing groups based in Miami,” said Daniel Laumann, history professor and faculty adviser of the MSU. “The attacks

were well-documented in their effort to undermine the Cuban government. Cuba had looked to the U.S. for help but without success, even though Cuba has always supported the U.S. in its war against terrorism.”

Raines said the Cuban Five were in the U.S. to protect their

own country and could not have received a fair trial in Miami, which is home to the largest Cuban immigrant population in America. The most recent public outcry regarding Miami’s base-ball manager, Raines said, proves

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The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is offering a new style of education — minus the tuition.

Located on the third floor of The FedEx Institute of Technology building, the CEI assists over one hundred busi-nesses that were founded by cur-rent University of Memphis stu-dents and community members in their startup process.

The center, which opened in the fall, offers internship and networking opportunities, free business advice, workshops and brainstorming sessions.

Colt Schwerin, senior finance major, interns at the CEI and is working toward becoming a cli-ent as well.

After brainstorming with his bosses, Schwerin is in the idea phase of creating a micro-loan funding program.

“I do market research, analy-sis of projections and financial documents, but working here makes you feel like you are doing something much more profound because of the impact

that you can have on people’s lives,” Schwerin said.

He chose to work for the CEI over another internship offer from a bank, and said he looks forward to going into work every day.

“This place has a sense of synergy that is unmatched by any other job that I’ve ever had,” he said.

Kelly Penwell, program man-ager for the CEI, said she relo-cated from Long Island, New York to take the position.

“I moved down here the sum-mer before we opened to help set up and work out all of the logis-tics we needed worked out,” Penwell said.

Services provided by the cen-ter are free for clients because the Center operates using a two-year grant from the Small Business Administration.

“My hope is that we will con-tinue after the two years because the demand is definitely there,” Penwell said.

Penwell, who taught for six years, said she has never worked with a better group of people than The U of M interns she has.

Jack Simon, communications media and political science

major, said the CEI might be one of the greatest resources The U of M has to offer.

Simon’s upcoming Brister Street Music Festival is spon-sored by the CEI. A group of community entrepreneurs helped him brainstorm ideas for his festival during a whiteboard session, where he pitched his

proposal. He said the best part of the CEI is that it’s free.

“The CEI is the most under-utilized resources on campus,” Simon said. “There’s a lot of cre-ative minds involved bringing together lots of creative minds for the purpose of successful entrepreneurial business.”

The CEI offers services to a

variety of businesses including non-profits, childcare, biomedi-cal, and retail facilities.

“If you feel like you can’t do it by yourself, then come on down to the CEI,” Penwell said. “It’s a great opportunity. The University of Memphis has one of the finest business schools in the country. Why not utilize it?”

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Children’s art projects will line the walls and tables of the gym-nasium at Lester School in the Binghampton neighborhood today at 3:30 p.m.

Students involved in the Community Arts Academy at Lester will display their prints, sculptures and other projects worked on throughout the semes-ter in the weekly after-school program that is run by under-graduate and graduate students in The University of Memphis’ Department of Art Education.

Donalyn Heise, associate pro-fessor of art at The U of M and co-coordinator of CAA, began the program four years ago to prepare U of M art education majors to be able to teach well in any setting.

“Our students didn’t have a

background in teaching in urban environments with a diverse stu-dent population,” Heise said. “Many had a stereotype formed by the negative media attention that neglects to show all the assets of the urban population.”

Lester is a Title One school, which means a high concentration of students who attend live at or below the poverty level. Heise said U of M students quickly realized the children were no different from others.

“The University students that went there fell in love with the kids, and that exposure changed their attitude and stereotypes about urban schools,” Heise said.

Each year the academy has a theme that the students follow throughout the course of the pro-gram. This year’s theme of “Who are we now? What is our his-tory? and What do we want to

be?” was chosen to align with the University’s centennial celebration.

Academy students have worked on various projects, from portraits and printmaking to clay “face jugs” and a three-dimension-al tower with a window display-ing students’ perception of them-selves and what they would like to become.

Heise said many of the proj-ects reflect the assets of the com-munity and the resilience of the children. She said the creativity and resourcefulness taught within the program gives students a “pro-tective factor” that increases their self-confidence

Next year Lester will become a charter school and undergo struc-tural changes that will extend the school time, conflicting with the start time of the Community Art Academy program.

Jamin Carter, who received his

Masters of Art and Teaching from The U of M, is the art teacher at Lester and has been integral in getting students involved in the program, Heise said. However, he said he questions whether the Community Art Academy will continue at Lester after his posi-tion is terminated when the school becomes a state-administered charter.

Regardless, the Community Arts Academy will continue to mix graduate and undergraduate arts education students at The U of M with the urban youth.

Heise said the students in the program teach the future art teach-ers as much as The U of M students

teach them. Because the program is optional, the teachers have to come up with fun ways to keep the chil-dren interested.

“I have learned to connect my art projects with the emotions of the child,” said Quo Bailey, a grad-uate student and teacher at the art academy. “They react much better when the project becomes a part of them.”

Initially the Community Arts Academy received a grant to fund resources for the projects. Now the funding comes from the U of M students’ art material fees. Heise said external grant funding is needed “to do bigger and better things.”

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that.Miami Marlins manager Ozzie

Guillen, a Venezuelan immigrant, was handed a five-game suspen-sion Tuesday after he told Time magazine he loves Fidel Castro and respects the Cuban dictator for staying in power so long.

“(Guillen) is a victim. This was a severe miscarriage of jus-tice. He essentially said he hated Castro, but respected his chutz-pah,” Raines said. “Cuba is one of our closest neighbors — you could swim there — and (Fidel Castro) had the audacity to say no to the U.S. government.”

Raines said the public outcry against Guillen is very telling of the American sentiment towards Cuba.

“If this is happening to such a public guy, how can we possibly think the Cuban Five ever got anything close to a fair trial?” Raines said.

Laumann said he has always been outspoken with regard to his pro-Cuban sentiment and was saddened to hear about the public animosity toward Guillen.

“It’s unfortunate. The last thing (Miami) needs is a pro-Cuban manager. And it’s only because of economic survival he decided to retract his statement. Free speech is under attack just to appease politically powerful people,” Laumann said. “I love Fidel, too. If that leads to me being suspended from teaching classes, then so be it.”

He said there are many places around the world that consider Castro a hero.

“This incident in Miami is unfortunate,” he said. “There’s a vocal and politically power-ful group in Miami, but they don’t represent all Cubans or Cuban-Americans.”

Laumann and his wife, Study Abroad Assistant Director Rebecca Laumann, plan to take a trip to Cuba this summer as part of a faculty expedition. If all goes well, they hope students will be able to visit the country in 2013.

“Only on special conditions can I go to Cuba,” he said.

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the role, the more interested they were in staying in school to get their degree,” Birnbaum said.

Rhodes College associate professor of commerce and business, Dee Birnbaum, co-authored the paper, which was presented in early March at the Association for Marketing and Health Care Research Meeting in Park City, Utah.

What they discovered was contrary to their expectations. The researchers thought if the students saw conditions like poor staffing with patients not receiving the care they needed they would be less likely to graduate as a nurse because they would be dis-couraged. Researchers found, however, the more problems students witnessed, the more likely they were to graduate as nurses.

“The results showed a

negative clinical experience increased the rate of gradua-tion, which was really unex-pected,” Birnbaum said.

The study was conduct-ed over the course of three years, from 2006 to 2009, and solely included interviews of nursing students from The U of M Loewenberg School of Nursing. It consisted of asking 263 students about the clini-cals they participated in their first semester.

Two main motivations for people to pursue nursing sur-faced in the interviews. One was the motivation of helping people, like Patey described, and the other was the moti-vation of a stable job, good income and job availability.

“We have, for years, had students come into nursing for helping people or the humanitarianism viewpoint. They are now coming in for stability of the job,” Finch said. “So to have it identified by students, it showed while there are other reasons, there

are clearly two opposite ends of the spectrum: people who want to help and people who are in it for money, stability and mobility.”

Through clinical experi-ence, nursing students see nursing is not always perfect and apply the theoretical as well as conceptual knowledge they’ve acquired in the class-room to real life situations and patients, she said.

“They see nurses are scien-tists, artists and humans — no one person fits a mold. Every patient is an individu-al. Every nurse must go into their toolkit to find the right way to care for that particu-lar patient. It’s not as easy as choosing the right answer on a test. Real life issues require critical thinking and reason-ing,” Finch said.

Patey said she’s learned more though participating in hands-on clinical experiences than she has in class.

“I can see that maybe peo-ple will not realize how much

work it is, but the thing is you have eight patients. They don’t realize how hard the job is until they have clinicals,” she said.

The nursing students inter-viewed for the study answered questions about the nature of their clinicals, the staff, the workload expected of the student and how the clinical made the student feel about nursing as a career. Finch and Birnbaum later checked to see which participants had gradu-ated, and are in an ongoing phase of the data analysis.

“When you think about it, if they see the situation is desperate their help is needed and the ones who want a good career are also needed. The worse the conditions were the more they wanted to stay and do something in the field,” Birnbaum said.

While the healthcare field is expanding with 313,000 more jobs for nurses in 2011, there is a shortage of educators who can teach the field of nurs-

ing, Birnbaum said. In 2011, graduate schools rejected 67,563 applicants, according to Birnbaum. She said though there is a high demand for health care professionals, there is a lack of educators to fill the shortage.

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing announced Monday that Loewenberg School of Nursing received a score of 98.39 per-cent on the National Council of Licensure Examination, a test all nurses must take to get a license to practice in the state.

“I would say to the gradu-ating seniors this spring as their associate dean of nurs-ing to never lose sight of the core values: caring, diversity, integrity and leadership,” Finch said. “And to always remember that patients and their safety is the number one consideration. We are servants to the public. Nursing is a challenging but rewarding career.”

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Aggravated AssaultOn April 3 at 10:04 p.m.,

officers arrived at the Park Avenue campus in response to an aggravated assault call. The student victim told officers she paid for a PlayStation game for an acquaintance and con-sistently asked him to pay her back. She then posted a mes-sage about the money on the suspect’s Facebook wall. The suspect later threatened her on the Park Avenue campus with a knife. The case is under investigation.

Between the dates of March 21 and April 10, there were four reports of aggravated assault in the area surrounding campus.

Simple AssaultOn March 22 at 10:28 p.m.,

a student who had just been struck by two other males flagged officers down at the Carpenter Complex. The two suspects ran on foot and offi-cers apprehended one. The case is under investigation. Between the dates of March

21 and April 10, there were two reports of simple assault in the area surrounding campus.

Sexual AssaultOn March 26 at 3:00 a.m.,

officers responded to a forc-ible sex offense in Carpenter Complex, where the student stated she had been assaulted by an acquaintance. The case is under investigation.

Fraud On March 29 at 12:50

p.m., officers responded to a complaint from the University Center where a student had lost his credit card. It was later used to make a large purchase. The case is under investigation.

Theft On March 23 at 7:17

p.m., officers arrived at the Zach Curlin parking garage in response to a cell phone burglary. The student told officers that a car approached her, and the driver asked to use her cell phone. When she handed the suspect her cell phone, the vehicle drove off. The case is under investigation. On March 28 at 3:25 p.m.,

officers responded to a shop-lifting call at The University Bookstore. The outside ven-dor informed officers that the suspect entered the store and left with several books with-out paying for them. The case is under investigation. Between the dates of

March 21 and April 10, there were 18 reports of theft, six reports of burglary, four reports of robbery and four reports of shoplifting in the area surrounding campus.

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“Under each president the terms change. It was pretty easy under President Clinton and nearly impossible under Bush the second, but it’s been getting easier under Obama.”

Laumann said Cuba isn’t responsible for keeping

Americans out of the coun-try. The U.S. has maintained a blockade of Cuba since 1960. In 1992, Congress passed the Cuban Democracy Act with the stated purpose that the embar-go should continue as long as the Cuban government contin-ues to refuse to move toward “democratization and greater respect for human rights.”

The MSU’s efforts to change the public’s view of Cuba with their semester-long campaign were hindered last month when a man stood up dur-ing a papal Mass in Cuba and yelled “Libertad!” (Freedom) and “Down with Communism” in Spanish before being carted away and beaten by a group of at least three men, including one wearing a Cuban Red Cross uniform.

“Based on how we’ve han-dled Trayvon (Martin),” Raines said. “We’re not the country to pass judgment on how (the Cuban government) handles their own affairs.”

Laumann said Thursday’s session is timely and solidifies the MSU’s reasons for their campaign.

“We’re doing what we’re sup-posed to do at The University, which is educating the com-munity about the world. We are trying to expose Americans to the lies against Cuba, which is against American ideals,” Laumann said.

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The University of Memphis men’s and women’s track and field teams made a big splash at the Joey Haines Invitational over the weekend, earning 13 first-place finishes to finish the two-day meet.

For head coach Kevin Robinson, the teams’ perfor-mance at the event was mile-stone for the season but there

is room for improve.“We won 13 events today,

had multiple season and per-sonal bests and competed very well across the board,” he said. “This team has come a long way, but we are not satisfied.”

The Tigers had a dominant performance in hurdles with senior Robert Jackson and freshman Tyrell Forde finish-ing first and third in the men’s 110-meter event respectively.

Junior Quaniqua Jones won the women’s 100-meter event with a time of 14.54 seconds.

Casey Carl, Kyle Bynam, Thomas Poole and Austin Crenshaw took all four top spots in men’s javelin, while Anna-Maria Bischof earned the win for the women.

The U of M’s Monica Mason, Nandia Taylor and Jasmine Darden also swept the top three finishes in the wom-en’s 800-meter run, and Julien Wolf and James Maglasang finished second in third in the men’s event.

The track and field teams resume competition on Saturday in Oxford, Miss. as part of the Mississippi Open.

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Women’s golf finish 11th in Oxford

The University of Memphis women’s golf team shot a combined 921 to finish 11th at the BankcorpSouth Rebel Intercollegiate hosted by Ole Miss in Oxford, Miss.

Junior Alex Aläng led the Lady Tigers throughout the tour-nament, finishing the contest tied for 27th place after shooting 75-73-78 — 226 in three rounds of play. She also hit her first career hole-in-one in the first round. Freshman Ashleigh Whisenant (80-76-76 — 232) fin-ished the weekend tied for 48th place after scoring a career-low 76 in her final two rounds.

Senior Marissa Steen and junior Julia Hodgson tied for shares of 58th place. Steen shot an 83 in her first round, but

rebounded with second and third rounds of 77 and 74 to finish with a combined 234. Hodgson was consistent throughout the week-end, hitting 78 in each of her rounds for 234.

The Lady Tigers barely missed out on a tie for tenth place, falling just 10 strokes (311-304-306—921) short of tying Harvard (304-301-306—911) for tenth.

Memphis will next com-pete in the Conference USA Championship, which will be held in Gulf Shores, Ala. from

April 23-25.

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UM pitcher receives national honorsTennis

After showing a dominant performance on the mound in Memphis’ April 7 win against Marshall, sophomore pitcher Sam Moll was honored on Tuesday as the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Pitcher of the Week.

In the Tigers’ 7-0 victory over the Thundering Herd, Moll threw the program’s first complete-game one-hitter since 1994 and the first road shutout since 2003. After throwing 16 consecutive no-hit innings, Moll currently holds the best ERA on the team with 2.25.

The honor is the first national weekly recognition for a Memphis pitcher since Derek Hankins won Louisville Slugger National Pitcher of the Week in 2004. Moll

is the second Tiger to be recog-nized by the NCBWA as Dan Uggla won the orga-nization’s Hitter of the Week award in 2001.

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addi-t i o n to the N C B W A award, Moll was also announced as Conference USA’s Pitcher of the Week on Monday. The league award is the second in Moll’s career and

the second for a Tiger pitcher in 2012. RHP Chase Joiner was rec-

ognized by C-USA in March.

BY DAViD CAFFeYSports Reporter

Tigers take down Southern Miss

The University of Memphis women’s tennis team moved to 15-3 with a 6-1 win over Southern Miss on Saturday.

The No. 57 Tigers began the day with a sweep of the doubles matches. Stefanie Mikesz teamed up with Alyssa Hibberd to take out Mackenzie Oskin and Morrea Williams, 8-0, while Courtney Collins and Kelly Gray clinched the doubles point with an 8-2 win and Mariya Slupska and Tiffany Welcher won 8-5 to com-plete the sweep.

No. 69 Mikesz started the Tigers off on the right foot in singles play, dropping just one game en route to a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Oskin. No. 74 Slupska and Hibberd each won their matches, dropping only three games each.

The Tigers’ lone loss came when Southern Miss’ Alex Bradley defeated Andrea Arques-Garcia 6-2, 6-1. No. 127 Collins defeated Alexus Coats 6-2, 6-3 and No. 119 Welcher rounded out the match with a 6-3, 6-4 win.

After her fourth win over Conference USA opponents this season, Welcher was named C-USA Player of the Week on Tuesday. She joined Collins as the only two Memphis players to have earned the honor this season.

The Tigers will travel to Tulsa, Okla., to face the Tulsa Golden Hurricane in their final match of the season. They will then turn their attentions to the C-USA tournament, which will be held April 19-22 in Memphis.

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