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After a study at the University of Plymouth in England suggesting that doodling may aid in memory recall, comments chiding doodlers for not listening may be void.

Researchers performed memory tests on 40 volunteers, asking them to listen to a telephone message about a party. Half the participants were asked to doodle while listening to the message and to record the mentioned names while ignoring everything else. The other half were asked to do the same thing without the option of doodling.

Later they were given a surprise memory test, asking them to recall the names and places mentioned in the call. The doodling group performed 29 percent better than the other

group, the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology reported.

Though the study provides positives for scribblers all over, without repetition of the study, it could prove to be a false positive, said Brian Johnson, lecturer in Psychology.

“Scientific research is an ongoing process and no one study will ever definitively answer a research question on its own. A single study only provides either supportive evidence or refutive evidence for a theoretical perspective,” Johnson said.

Whether the study proves true or not, Johnson did note that certain processes related to the storage of information make recall easier. Therefore, it is probable that processes and mechanisms used to doodle act as facilitators to recall more than the actual act.

“People need to be active

participants in the learning process rather than trying to passively take in information. If a person is using doodling as a means to create a vivid meaningful example, than can facilitate and retrieval of information,” Johnson said.

Johnson explained that research on memory has consistently showed that encoding information into the memory semantically is more effective than encoding visually or acoustically. Semantic encoding is the process whereby verbal information is translated into the memory code through the attachment of meaning to the letters or words. He said if a person is encoding meaning from visual images, the amount of recall could presumably be very high because over-learning increases retention, making

Student car accident

victim stillin ICUStaff Reports

A UTM senior remains in intensive care in Memphis after surviving a wreck near Wal-Mart in Martin last Monday night, Sept. 27.

Holly L. Hopper, 22, of Hornbeak was transported by Weakley County EMS to the AirEvac base on Baker Road shortly after the wreck, which occurred shortly before 11 p.m. According to a Martin Police Department report, Hopper was then airlifted to The Med in Memphis.

Hopper is an Education (Integrated Studies: K-6) major who was completing her student teaching requirements this fall. She was planning to graduate in December.

Elise Jones, a UTM senior in Animal Science from Atoka and one of Hopper’s friends, said Hopper had been scheduled to move out of ICU on Friday and into her own room because she had improved well after surgery on broken ribs and vertebrae, .

Hopper also suffered a collapsed lung, had to be placed on a breathing machine, and still has no feeling from the waist down, Jones said.

However, Hopper developed

SGA passes ‘Senior Gift’ legislation

Brandy HardyPacer Writer

At its regular bi-monthly meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 28, the Student Government Association passed legislation that would establish the new Senior Gift Program.

The Senior Gift Program will allow students with more than 80 course hours completed to donate a 20 dollar gift through Banner to the university’s Alumni fund. The Alumni fund may be spent on campus landscaping, scholarships or other designated areas.

Any student that elects to give a senior gift will be automatically added to a list of alumni donor and to the non-dues paying organization of UT Alumni.

PRISM tours,

investigates campus haunts

Amy Ring& Erin Larkins

Pacer writers

The Paranormal Research and Investigation Society (PRISM) of Martin set out last Thursday, Sept. 30, to make a group of skeptics into a group of believers.

Casey McCasland, lead investigator and founder of PRISM, worked with his team of paranormal investigators that evening to educate a group of about 30 curious participants during the Third Annual UT Martin Haunted Adventures.

While touring the grounds of UTM, the group anxiously waited in anticipation for what McCasland called one of the most haunted sites in West Tennessee, Clement Hall.

As the tour wound along down the walking path at Pacer Pond, McCasland told the story of an old Native American burial ground underneath the pond and how Native Americans can still be seen roaming the area as the sun rises each morning.

The group then traveled down to the bridge, where, underneath, the scattered remains were uncovered of six happy park goers who had vanished. Some say they have experienced prickly feet or the sensation of being grabbed by phantom hands as they journey along on their workout routine.

McCasland also shared stories of an old man spirit in overalls walking his dog down the sidewalk in front of the library, the Administration Building’s ghostly haunt and

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Last Thursday, emergency officials recovered the body of 18-year-old Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi from the Hudson River.

Clementi had committed suicide a week prior by throwing himself off the George Washington Bridge after a sexually explicit act (between himself and another man) was streamed live, unbeknownst to him, by his roommates who have since been charged with invasion of privacy.

What’s more, is that reports have surfaced that Clementi had attempted to seek help from resident assistants, school counselors and may have even attempted to change rooms after the incident occurred.

Since, news agencies and celebrities have used Tyler’s death as a springboard to address cyber-bullying and the darker aspects of social media.

We at The Pacer would like to believe that from this tragic and unnecessary death, people would be more receptive to the safeguards one must take to protect themselves from Internet exploitation.

On the flipside, The Pacer staff wondered how a situation like this would be handled at UTM.

Tyler Clementi’s death would surely have been preventable had he received the help he needed in the days following the video stream and it’s unclear at this point as to how much impact university officials had (or didn’t have) in his suicide.

UTM administrators should take a moment and ask themselves how a scenario like this would play out on campus and what kind of grade we would receive in handling this type of situation.

Whether you agree with it or not, UTM has an active LGBT community and this scenario is not beyond happening here.

An event like this is a wake-up call to universities nationwide to evaluate themselves and use this opportunity to prevent repetition of such a tragedy.

And we sure as hell don’t ever want to have to report a story like this in The Pacer.

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Move on over summer, it’s time to fallAdam Ryan Travis

Guest Colmnist

H a y r i d e s . H o o d i e s . Homecoming. Yes, fall (or autumn if you’re feeling pretentious) has arrived! For those of you who have failed to notice the yellowing of the leaves or the slight chill that has been greeting us in the morning, ‘tis the season for fall festivals and pumpkin patches.

The following are a few other things that I welcome with open arms about this time each year.

1. People are starting to pick up the pace on the sidewalks. Even the slowest among us stop shuffling and start walking at a reasonable pace once the first frost hits.

2. Those pesky bees and wasps flying all around the pear tree by the Village / Clement Hall: their days are numbered. Even though I’m desperately behind on by bug collection for Entomology, I always look forward to the half year insect hiatus that fall and winter bring.

3. My options for what to wear to class are about to double. I’m not a fan of the teasing of late summer where you wear a long sleeve shirt to class only to step outside at noon to find that the temperature has risen thirty degrees. I’d rather freeze in short sleeves and walk faster. After all, that’s possible now since people are starting to do more mingling indoors. Thankfully, a hoodie and a pair

of jeans will soon be the norm for the entire day.

4. Not only am I happy that MY clothing choices are about to change, but I’m thrilled that a few people are about to have more fabric showing than bare skin. When a shirt is so tight that your belly button looks more like an impact crater, you might want to rethink wearing it lest the fire department have need to cut you out of it with the Jaws of Life.

5. The dominance of green chlorophyll is fading away to be replaced by the reds, yellows, and oranges that so distinctively mark this season. As we mammals bundle up in our jackets and coats, the trees do the opposite and drop their little glucose factories (leaves) for us to heap into piles and

jump in.There are, of course, a few

less pleasant things that beset us as the mercury drops as well.

1. I guarantee you that the distance smokers stand from the front of Humanities is directly proportional to the wind chill. It looks like it’s time to break out the gas masks again.

2. Speaking of Humanities (where I strangely have half my classes this semester despite being a Chemistry major), the semester is all downhill from here. The closer we get to midterms and the final drop date, the harder classes are getting.

3. Boasting two big holidays, Halloween and Thanksgiving, fall seems to force a pound or two of extra weight on

me every year. Between the cavity-causing caramels and the tryptophan-teeming turkey (myth), my metabolism doesn’t stand a chance.

In fact, we should all just save ourselves the trouble and go ahead and put the next size up in jeans on our Christmas lists.

It’s about time to start those lists anyway, and please don’t wait ‘til Black Friday and fight at 4am in JCPenny. Just trust me on that one. Some shoppers take things waaay more seriously than I do that day. *Insert shout out to the lady last year who kept ramming my ankles with her shopping cart because I wasn’t moving down the aisle fast enough for her*

Why the Tea Party might need another Tea PartyArthur W. Hunt III

Guest Colmnist

The other week on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Gen. Colin Powell was asked what he thought about the Tea Party phenomenon. Powell responded that while he appreciated the democratic spirit of the movement, it still had no clear agenda.

Powell’s logic was simple. Without an agenda the Tea Party lacks legitimatization. Without legitimatization it cannot reform the Republican Party. Without the Republican Party it will end up on the trash heap of other populist revivals.

Powell has a valid point. If the movement of Sarah Palin, et al, is only perceived as a rant against big government there will need to be another Tea Party, or something like it, to address our country’s problems, which are very real and looming over us.

There is a growing consensus among voters that spending ourselves into an eternal black hole is both an immoral and disastrous policy. At the start

of Reagan’s presidency the national debt was $700 billon. At the close of Reagan-Bush era the debt was 2.1 trillion. The debt more than doubled under Clinton and more than doubled again under George W. Bush. Today the national debt is approaching 14 trillion. We cannot afford—our children cannot afford—staying on this course any longer.

But neither Powell or the Democrats or the Republicans or the Tea Party people seem to understand the root of our predicament, or perhaps they just don’t want to talk about it.

The dirty little secret about capitalism is that it has never really been stable without government’s help. Big government and big business are two peas in the same pod.

Pure capitalism has not existed in this country since the 1940s. What we have had for sixty years is half-baked Keynesian economics. That is to say, we lower taxes and increase government spending during recessions with the intent of raising taxes and lower spending when

things get better. But when good times come we keep on spending. In other words, we lack the political will to curtail spending in whatever times we find ourselves.

Actually, big business

would prefer government to remain gargantuan because of its reliance on subsidies and special privileges. Under current conditions the real entities of a free market system—small businesses and entrepreneurships—hardly have a chance.

In his new book “Toward a Truly Free Market” John C. Médaille says we can significantly reduce the size of government if we do the following:

1. Cut the fat out of the military. Bring home the army and only sustain what is needed for a “national” defense. Also, significantly reduce foreign aid to other countries.

2. Do not allow development in places prone to national disasters.

3. Create incentives that would allow cooperatives, small businesses, entrepreneurships, and family farms to flourish. According to Médaille this will happen naturally if the size of government is reduced. If this sounds Jeffersonian, that’s because it is.

4. Reform education through vouchers to permit alternative forms of schooling, including homeschooling.

5. Reform health care by placing insurance, costs, and licensure into the hands of medical guilds.

6. Institute toll systems to pay for new roads and

transportation systems.7. Rather than over taxing

workers and capital institute a “single tax” with ground rents. The principle behind ground rent is that one should profit from using land, not just owning it.

Médaille holds out the principle of subsidiary, which says political and economic powers serve democracy best when they are decentralized and when there are many owners of property instead of a few.

It is only fitting that a “don’t tread on me” grassroots movement like the Tea Party adopt for itself a ground-up political agenda which returns responsibility and power to families, small business, and local communities. Otherwise, we’ll need yet another movement to challenge the Leviathan.

Arthur W. Hunt III is Associate Professor of Communications at the University of Tennessee at Martin.

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chArles BruBAkereditoriAl cArtooNistAmerican Paradise

CorrectionThe Pacer makes mistakes and, when

they are brought to our attention, we are honorbound to set the record straight.

Last week, we were informed of inaccuracies in the column “Courtesy and respect should be extended to all athletes,” which ran in the Viewpoints section on Sept. 29. We specifically wish to correct the information that had the most impact on the family and friends of the injured Dresden cheerleader.

First, the Dresden Lions quarterback’s grandfather was misidentified as the announcer for the football game. He has never announced any DHS sports

events and was not the announcer on Sept. 24.

Instead, the grandfather was on the field with the cheerleader, her mom, EMTs, cheer sponsor and others after the cheerleader fell.

Also, the TSSAA has requirements for team conduct in the event of a player injury, regardless of which team has the injured player. There are no such requirements for incidents that occur off the playing field, and that includes where the cheerleaders are. Thus having a “moment to show her some respect” was not possible under the current game rules. However, according to our source, every person

involved in the mishap was an example of support and assistance.

We at The Pacer also wanted to know if the injured cheerleader is now OK. We were told that she is back at school and will continue to participate in cheer activities.

We regret the negative impact the column had on family, friends, DHS supporters and others.

We also encourage all of our readers to let us know of any situation in which a clarification or correction is necessary. Part of our responsibility as journalists lies in the acknowledgment of mistakes and the pursuit of accuracy in all sections of the newspaper.

Letter to the editor

Suicides, ‘cyber bullying’ should prompt campus caution

Angie LandGuest Writer

I wanted to personally thank you for having Dr. Barber’s article published [The Pacer, Sept. 22 2010]. I found it very informative.

Though I don’t play the lottery, I am one of those parents within the poverty level income bracket with a child going to UTM (by way of many scholarships including the lottery).

These statistics are overwhelming to me. As you know I am a student here as well. However, I am paying my own way and if this cut comes

to pass along with the increases in tuition, I will have to do something drastic.

I have done the best I could being a single parent and tried to help my children “make the grades” to get these scholarships, now what? I apologize for venting to you, but until you really experience this injustice yourself, you can’t understand.

I again just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate just having someone else confirm what I’ve been thinking and the frustrations are not just mine.

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Fincher visits campus, responds to allegationsSpencer Taylor

Managing Editor

Tennessee 8th District congressional candidate Stephen Fincher visited the UTM campus last Thursday and, after an introduction, warmed up the interested visitors with a little humor. Soon after, however, Fincher’s tone turned serious as he addressed allegations regarding his campaign.

On Aug. 24, Covington lawyer Huston Gordon wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton expressing concern that laws regarding campaign finances had been broken in the Fincher camp.

“I’m being accused of two or three things. One, of an illegal loan that was made to my campaign.” First of all, it’s all false; it’s a lie. It’s a legal loan that was made from Stephen Fincher to the campaign. I borrowed the money from Gates Banking and Trust, a bank I’ve been doing business with since I was old enough to borrow money. The banks says it’s OK, the bank’s attorney says it’s OK, the FEC says it’s OK and I say it’s OK. There are no illegal loans and Roy Herron knows it,” Fincher said.

Fincher also confronted demands to have his tax returns released.

“Now, he’s challenging me, this week, to release my tax returns for some odd reason. For 24 years, Senator Herron has been running for office and now, all of a sudden, he’s worried about releasing tax returns. Well I’ll tell you something folks, I’ve been doing business and I’ve done a fine, upstanding job all of my life - my tax returns are straight, honest and forward. Roy Herron is afraid that his record is going to be exposed.”

Recently, attempts to have both candidates face each other in a debate have failed. Herron has accepted debate requests, recently from WREG-TV out of Dyersburg and the Memphis Rotary Club, yet Fincher argued that there have been previous opportunities.

“He [Herron] is also saying I’m afraid to debate. But in all reality, in the primary we had nine or 10 forums and a couple of debates. He was invited to some of those but chose not to participate. We had a forum in Humphreys County the other night, me and the other two independent candidates, Roy chose not to be there.”

Fincher offered his own take on these allegations.

“From the perspective of a farmer in Frog Jump, it seems to me Roy is losing and he can’t handle it.”

Fincher, running with the slogan that his “roots run deep in Tennessee, not politics,” has campaigned on the promise of bringing jobs to Tennessee, cutting the deficit and opposes the privatization of Social Security. Fincher also opposes what he calls “the government take over of health care.”

From his website: “We need a consumer oriented and patient friendly health care system. Reform should include better choice among health plans and more competition among providers. We need tort reform to bring down costs and reduce frivolous lawsuits. We can use free market principles to bring about portability and treat pre-existing conditions fairly. We need to help small businesses and individuals afford health care through tax credits and cuts.”

Election day is Nov. 2.

Information from the Commerical Appeal was used in this story.

Congregational Candidate Stephen Fincher sopke on campus on Thursday, Sept. 30. (Photo from houseconservatives.com)

Erin LarkinsPacer Writer

Sickness can be a scary thing for a college student with limited time and money, but there is a new clinic that Martin students and residents can visit for healthcare.

Tri-County Family Medicine and Urgent Care opened on May 3rd by Dr. Toby Hampton, M.D., an alumna of UTM who graduated in 1998.

“Tri-County Family Medicine and Urgent Care is bringing back 50’s style Dr’s offices. Anyone who walks through the door before 6 p.m. gets seen,” said Dr. Toby Hampton, M.D.

Tri-County Family Medicine and Urgent Care is considered a family medicine place for all ages. Walk-ins are welcomed all day and it accepts all major insurances. Co-pays are usually between $20 and $30 it is open Mon-Fri 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sat 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The clinic is located beside other clinics in Martin.

The clinic includes a triage area, 9 exam rooms, a procedure room and a lab. It does blood work; urine drug screens in house, mono tests, strep tests, flu tests, glucose tests, and A1C’s. It offers

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a high fever and was put back on a breathing machine on Friday, which is why she remains in ICU, Jones said.

She added that Hopper’s family now fears that Hopper may have developed pneumonia.

“Holly is one of my best friends, who is going to be a remarkable teacher,” Jones said. “She and her family have been through countless trials this past week, and they definitely

need everyone’s prayers.”According to the MPD

report, Hopper was traveling west on State Route 431 (University Street) and was stopped at the traffic signal at the T intersection of 431 and Courtright Road, the road that goes to Wal-Mart. She was driving a silver Chevrolet Prizm, which was struck in the rear by a black Chevrolet truck.

The driver of the truck, Garret Montgomery, 20, of

Union City, also was traveling west on State Route 431. The police report showed that Montgomery was “inattentive” and “exceeding the posted speed” when his truck hit Hopper’s car. The report also showed that no drugs or alcohol were involved in the wreck.

Montgomery is also a UTM student, a junior majoring in Plant and Soil Science (Crop and Soil Management).

One of the wreck’s two witnesses said she was turning left (east) onto University Street from Courtright Road when the wreck occurred and she “had to speed up to avoid being struck” by Hopper’s car.

The other witness also was stopped at the traffic signal, next to Hopper. He told police that he saw the wreck and also said that the first witness narrowly missed being struck by Hopper’s car after it was hit.

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“It was important for SGA to support the office of alumni relations with this legislation because, the money donated from senior gifts will go to a campus wide fund that will be used for many important things on our campus and for the students,” said Student Affairs Committee Chair, Kelsey Laxton. “Considering many UTM students benefit from this fund, why not provide an easy, yet optional, way to give back to the university?”

The next piece of legislation, brought forth by SGA Vice President, Erin Coates,

regarded the newly proposed House of Representatives that would be added as a second branch of student government, making it a bicameral legislature.

Around 140 student represented organizations including social sororities and fraternities, pre-professional sororities and fraternities and athletic teams will make up the new House. Each Senator would be appointed a proportionate number of members from the House of Representatives.

The House will be a new

organization within itself, being advised by Student Life Coordinator, David Taylor and will eliminate the need for a president’s roundtable.

Since a heavy amount of the senators in SGA are affiliated with Greek life, the House would act as a liaison between the organizations and senate without being completely biased with any of their decisions and also provide the senators with more insight on certain issues.

The legislation was laid on the table awaiting discussion from the Freshman council.

“The meeting was lively and spirited. Regardless of how people felt leaving the meeting, the important thing was that everyone began to think like effective student government members,” Coates said.

In other business, Senators learned and practiced, Robert’s Rules of Order, in order to conduct meetings in proper parliamentary procedure and SGA Chief Justice, Phillip Masengill, swore in Sarah Appleton, Greg Frye, Daniel Hay and Chase Pickett into new SGA positions.

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the sacrificial Quad.Finally came Clement; as

the groups divided, the fears and anxiety began to escalate. Hands were held tighter and buddies emerged; no one was going in alone.

Along the corridors of the fourth floor, everything began to change. As the temperature rose, some felt nauseated, while others smelled the nose-wrin-kling stench of burning flesh.

Tensions and stress rose as, one by one, group members entered into the very bathroom where, in the early 1970s, a suicidal-heartbroken UTM student allegedly jumped from the soap shelf after finding her fiancé in bed with another woman.

Some said they felt as if they were being watched, while oth-ers were trying to decide upon the best escape route should the need to evacuate arise. Even McCasland said “every man for himself,” should a nar-row escape become necessary.

In the groups, a flashlight test was conducted.

“We sat the light on a table across the room, while people observed the flashlight, which had a glow-in-the-dark grip. We then asked the spirit to give a sign of their presence, though it didn’t happen im-mediately, after a few times of asking, people witnessed the flashlight coming on by its own and could see that it was rolling back and forth on the table,” McCasland said. “This was the best tour PRISM has ever had. We had skeptics be-come believers.”

While some may have be-come believers Thursday night, many skeptics still remain, skeptics whom McCasland and his team of paranormal investigators are trying to convert. The PRISM team regularly investigates claimed haunted areas, “not to debunk, but to validate,” according to the website, http://prismpara-normal.net.

The group comes armed with an EMF meter to measure paranormal electromagnetic fields, cameras, EVP recorders to record paranormal sounds, infrared cameras to see in total darkness and IR frequencies, which spirits are said to be in, and a thermometer to legiti-matize “cold spots.”

Investigations involve all as-pects of the reported activities and the client’s observations from a scientific standpoint. The medical and psychologi-cal history of the client is also evaluated. Only after thor-oughly analyzing the claim and eliminating any environmental explanation are the findings re-ported to the client.

The documentations that ac-company the findings remain anonymous, unless permission is granted to be released by the clients, McCasland said.

For more information about PRISM or to report a mys-terious sensation, log onto prismparanormal.net.

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it more effortless and instanta-neous.

“People need to spend time working with the information, beyond the point at which they first know it, so that it is easier to recall. This means that peo-ple need to be actively engaged in the learning process and to avoid distractions,” Johnson said.

Organization of the informa-tion would still be key for stor-age and recall. Since people recall information best when

they have means for linking it together, doodling may serve as a sort of concept map that links important information for some, he says. Doodling would then serve as an engage-ment on the part of the listener, in which they could organize the information in a personal and meaningful way.

The effortful processing of information is what John-son believes to be the reason for the higher recall ability in doodlers, not just the act of

doodling. Other distractions may be more mentally tax-ing. Simple tasks that allow for multi-tasking, such as doo-dling rather than daydreaming, and create an engaged listener rather than a completely dis-tracted one.

Johnson summed the obser-vations up simply saying that, “Active listeners do better than passive listeners. Non-dis-tracted learners do better than distracted learners.”

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The Spirit Meetings

All writers and photographers, this year’s Spirit Magazine meetings will be held Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in Room 313 in Gooch.

Fall Surplus Auction

The fall surplus auction scheduled for Sat, Oct. 23rd. It is now set for Sat,Oct. 9th. Go to auctionzip.com enter zip code, click on date Oct. 9th and to view items being sold.

Lunch Box Theatre

The Department of Visual and Theatre Arts presents Lunch Box Theatre Wed, Oct. 6th in Gooch Hall in Room 216 from 12 p.m. until 1 p.m. Open and free to the public.

Sustainability Series

Sustainability Series continues Wed, Oct. 6th in Watkins Auditorium at 12 p.m.

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9-24-10 at 8:57 am-Student Rec Center-Vehicle towed due to an excessive amount of parking tickets.

Fire Call-9-25-10 at 9:54 am-Univ Village “G” Unit-Report a smoke alarm was sounding. Officers and MFD responded and determined it to be a false alarm.

9-25-10 at 10:45 am-Ag Pavilion-Report of a subject who had fallen from a horse. Officers and EMS responded and transported the subject to the hospital.

9-25-10 at 11:47 pm-Lot 7 (Ellington)-A subject was referred for violation of the drinking age law.

9-27-10 at 8:34 am-Lot 18 (Student Health)- Vehicle towed due to an excessive amount of parking tickets.

Fire Call-9-27-10 at 1:13 pm-UV “G” Unit-Report the smoke alarm was sounding. Officers and MFD responded and determined it to be caused by burnt food.

9-28-10 at 9:21 pm-Lot 1 (Football Stadium)-Report of a hit and run accident involving two vehicles. Invest Continues.

9-30-10 at 1:07 am-UV “A” Unit-Subject referred for violation of the drinking age law.

9-30-10 at 11:14 am-Univ. Street-Subject issued a citation for an expired license plate. (City Court)

9-30-10 at 1:43 pm-Lot 17 (Gooch)-Vehicle towed for an excessive amount of parking tickets.

9-30-10 at 10:40 pm-Univ. Street-Subject issued a citation for speeding. (City Court)

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Concert Series

The Department of Music presents its Concert Series Tues. Oct 12th from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. featuring Robert Spillman and Stanley Warren, Schumann Concert at the Trinity Presbyterian Church.

Crime Prevention Tips from Public Safety

Familiarize yourself with the layout of the campus.Carry your cell-phone and have it readily available.Plan the safest route to where you are going-choose well lighted busy pathways.Avoid shortcuts between buildings or off busy path-ways.If possible, travel in groups.Know where the emergency call boxes are located and how to use them.Stay alert to your surroundings and recognize poten-tial threats as soon as possible.Tell a friend where you are going and how long it should take you to get there-call them when you arrive-reverse the process when you return.If a motorist stops and asks directions, keep your dis-tance from the car.Trust your instincts-if something makes you feel nervous-remove yourself from the area immediately.

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Marquita DouglasAsst. News Editor

The first thing noticed when passing Dr. Melvin Hill’s corner office door is a black and white picture of Maya Angelou along with one of his favorite quotes on it. Tucked off at the end of the hall, Dr. Hill’s door is almost always slightly open.

The quote posted on his door, by philosopher William Barrett, from his book, “Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy” reads, “The story is told (by Kierkegaard) of the absent minded man so abstracted from his own life that he hardly knows he exists, until one fine morning he wakes up to find himself dead.”

In Hill’s classroom, it’s not just about dull lecturing and listening, rather conversational discussions are the tool of choice in his English Composition, American Literature, and African Studies courses.

Upon entering his classroom, students get the chance to escape the typical classroom setting and enter into a captivating back and forth discussion about texts previously read.

“I want to remain active with them. I try to make the class more of a discussion or conversation instead of a lecture. I get tired of hearing myself just talk for 40 minutes, and it is engaging to get students to have a conversation with me. It opens up to new ideas, different perspectives, and how to look at not just

the literature, but the world in which we live in,” said Hill.

Still new to the UTM family, Dr. Hill believes UTM was the perfect place to expand as a professor.

“Coming out of graduate school, I think one of my major concerns was if the department would be supportive in some of my own personal projects and the type of atmosphere that UTM offers,” said Dr. Hill, “It’s a friendly, kind of family orientated atmosphere here. I was drawn to those two.”

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, the youngest of 11 children, Hill completed his undergraduate studies at The University of Arkansas

at Little Rock and fell in love with Literature.

Majoring in English Studies, Hill proclaims that after his first African American Literature course, he knew then that English would be his field of study. He also gives homage to his favorite writers Ralph Ellison, Nikki Giovanni and Ralph Emerson, which was no easy feat to narrow down in a Top 3 List.

“I fell in love with the literature and the different movements that the literature expressed,” Hill said.

As Dr. Hill modestly, with his fingers calmly intertwined, discusses his dissertation work on Black Existentialism and

African American Writing from slavery until 1945, he asserts that he wanted to examine and trace genealogy of writers such as Frederick Douglass.

In addition to various fields of study Dr. Hill has several extracurricular interests. He enjoys cooking, publishing novels, listening to everything from rapper Tupac to R&B artist such as D’Angelo along with playing a little basketball on the side.

So not only can Dr. Hill teach you in the classroom, but he can possibly “take you to school on the basketball court.”

“I enjoy basketball. Actually, I was asked to join a basketball league recently,” said Hill, a Duke Basketball fan.

What better combination than a professor you can discuss Literature with in class and the latest LeBron James buzzer-beater after class?

Dr. Hill, with his laid back and intriguing personality, continues to encourage students to think freely for themselves not only in the classroom but in real life experiences as well.

He declares he wants each and every student he crosses paths with to take a positive note from their experience together.

When asked what he wants or hopes to instill into his students he quickly answers with, “so much.”

“If I had to narrow it down, I would want to instill social responsibility and being open-minded to shift individual ideology, that’s how we grow,” said Hill.

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UTM’s English Society, which has been inactive since about 2007 or 2008, is making a comeback. Kate Hein, UTM senior English major and society interim president, shared about the club.

The English Society is supported by the Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages, and while the EMFL department has an

English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta, the English Society exists as a resource open to all students, Hein said.

“Since Sigma Tau Delta is an honor society, people couldn’t get involved until sophomore or junior year, and by that point they were already bogged down with other commitments. That’s why we’re trying a more inclusive approach with an English Society open to everyone, and Sigma Tau Delta as a subset of that,” said Hein.

She said the main problem right now is getting students involved with the club. “At our first meeting we had three students. Our Facebook group membership is 8 students. What we do tends to reach more people than that, though. For instance, we coordinated the English and Modern Foreign Languages picnic that happened September 20, from 5:00 to 6:30 at C.E. Weldon Park. We had maybe 20 people there, faculty and students,”

she said.The English Society’s

next event is an informal discussion on popular culture and literature to be facilitated by Chris Hill, UTM English professor. The event is to be held on Wednesday, October 6 at 7:30p.m. It will be at The Looking Glass Coffee & Curiosities on Lindell Street in downtown Martin.

“We’ll also be participating in some Homecoming events, like decorating a banner. Later

in the semester we plan to have a paper-making party, a read-a-thon, a used book exchange and possibly a lit-themed scavenger hunt,” she said.

Hein said meetings are held on Mondays at 6:00p.m. when ever there are upcoming events to discuss. Anyone interested in when meetings are scheduled should contact Kate Hein at katehein@ut.utm.edu or Heidi Huse, faculty sponsor for the English Society, at hhuse@utm.edu. Online, there is also

a Facebook group, “English Society.”

“I’m excited about the society. We are just trying to put together a good program of low-key events to get more students involved this semester. Our main goal is to foster an appreciation for English on campus. Be on the lookout for events,” said Hein.

Faculty Profile:

Student Org Spotlight: The English Society

Rookie professor Dr. Melvin Hill combines a love of literature with a laid back classroom atmosphere

Dr. Melvin Hill

Brent CooleyPacer Writer

In the fall of 2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg embarked on a journey that would eventually lead to the creation of the social utility that we know as Facebook.

It seems easy enough to create something such as this, but two law suits, broken relationships, and thousands of lines of code later, Zuckerberg has become the youngest billionaire in the world.

The film, based on the book “The Ac cidental Billionaires” by Ben Mezrich, follows a younger Mark Zuckerberg ( Jesse Eisenberg), a seemingly pretentious undergraduate student that causes Harvard’s website to crash due to his hacking of the site. This leads to a meeting with Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss with whom he agrees to help build a social website similar to that of MySpace.

He decides, however, to create it himself with the help of his friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield). Eventually he is plunged head first into two law suits, one from the Winklevoss brothers and one from Eduardo for diluting his stock shares.

With that out of the way, it must be said that a movie about the creation of Facebook does not sound that appealing, but it is bolstered by the direction of the almost always dependable David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac, Se7en), a good screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, and a fantastic score by Trent Reznor of what was Nine Inch Nails and Atticus Ross.

Along with these four capable artists, “The Social Network” features very good performances, including a surprising turn from Justin Timberlake as Napster founder Sean Parker.

Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg strays away from what is expected of a normal protagonist. The ambiguity is layered quite thick as one moment to the next one’s sympathy towards him vanishes and reappears out of thin air. In fact, sympathy falls more upon Eduardo than Zuckerberg. He is portrayed more as a victim than a money-grubber going after Zuckerberg’s fortune.

All of the aforementioned contributions come together in a way that makes it at least somewhat interesting to cinephiles while not losing any mainstream appeal. It manages to feel dark and foreboding while still being humorous.

Its problems lie within the film’s pretentious, self-important attitude.

Many scenes are full of in-your-face smugness that at times it becomes detestable. That is more the script’s fault that a fault by the actors and actresses.

It treats Facebook and the philosophies of the characters more importantly than the characters themselves. More focus should have been put on the characters than the physical entity of Facebook.

There is evidence that “The Social Network” is trying to be the film to define a generation, but in the end it falls far away from that mark by trying too hard to be a classic.

While, “The Social Network” is an interesting, entertaining look into the creation of a $25 billion social utility it is ultimately about something that is not that important, even if it is a fun distraction.

With that being said, go see it. Neither is it the best film of the year nor is it that great, but it has meat on its bones, which much more one can say about this year’s lackluster cinematic offerings. If a rating has to be given then it gets an 8/10.

“Network” not perfect, yet solid Fincher film

Rachel CaglePacer Writer

Lunchbox Theatre has opened its pail again to bring delicious treats for your view-ing pleasure.

The specials last Thurs-day, Sept. 29, were “A Little Something for the Ducks” and “Philadelphia.”

“A Little Something for the Ducks” was a very good skit about an older man and wom-an having a “Grumpier Old Men” type of conversation about the criminal aspects of feeding the ducks.

The man tries to tell the woman how he has come to the park every day to feed the ducks since his wife died, and the woman accuses him of breaking the law.

He forgets how many years it has been since his wife passed away and the woman

berates him for it. One of the ducks starts

to like her and he makes her promise to go by and pick up the leftover bread from the diner every day to feed the ducks. She agrees only af-ter getting him to promise to come to dinner that night and have a real home-cooked meal instead of the meals he has been eating at the diner.

When they part ways to prepare for the coming night, he bids her goodbye as Ms. Criminal and she returns her parting with Mr. Know-It-All.

Kyle Douglas was the di-rector, Kate Hein played the woman and Matthew Mait-land played the man.

The next item on the plate, “Philadelphia,” was a funny skit about two women eat-ing lunch in a restaurant and things get a little backward.

A young woman is sitting at the table when a waitress with a not-so-sunny disposition comes to take her order.

Shortly thereafter, the young woman’s friend, Margret, rushes in complaining about the strange day she has had.

Everything Margret has asked for has been flipped around and has perplexed her all day long. Margret’s friend explains to her that she is stuck in a Philadelphia.

If she wants something she needs to ask for the opposite until she gets what she wants.

However, Margret’s friend has been in a California, where everything is sunny and beautiful today. When their orders arrive, Margret’s friend quickly realizes she has been sucked into a Philadelphia as well.

She is quite unhappy and her hysteria ends the skit on a

highly comical note.Glenda Alexander was the

director, while Susan Mer-ryman played the waitress. Diamond Adams played Mar-gret’s friend, and Kirby Lan-caster played Margret.

The students involved in Lunchbox Theatre obviously are working hard to cook up a good show. Lunchbox The-atre will continue to be served for the next three Wednesdays in 216 Gooch for those who seek artistic nourishment for the soul.

The show will begin about 12:15 p.m. and last until a little before 1 p.m., so you can still make it to your 1 p.m. classes on time.

Be sure to arrive early if you want to indulge in some free Sodexo catered food.

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Erica MillerPacer Writer

To most college students, saving money in any way is ideal. Almost all restaurants around the UTM campus are great for offering 10 percent student discounts, but what else is out there to help struggling students save? One might be surprised at the seemingly endless assortment of products and services that offer discounts especially for students.

FITNESS: Although our new

recreational center is huge and full of top-notch equipment, the amount of people or sheer size of the facility

could be considered a little intimidating. The Sideline in downtown Martin offers a reserved atmosphere with great equipment and a student discount.

Similarly, the Volunteer Hospital Wellness Center located behind the hospital has a superb student discount, a relaxed vibe, and good equipment. They also offer aerobics classes and have motivating competitions to get fit.

AUTOMOTIVE: Locally, E&C Garage sends

out a flyer every year with a student discount coupon attached.

Nationally, automobile insurance companies such as

Geico, Progressive, Allstate and many others offer special student discounts for good drivers with proof of enrollment. Interested students can get a free auto insurance quote at most any of their websites now.

SHOPPING: Saving money shopping for

clothes is the easiest. Union City has the Goodwill, which saves shoppers 10 percent with student ID. Maurice’s in Union City offers a student card that saves students 10% initially, and after that they still send additional coupons in the mail. Maurice’s also has student coupons in the store. Other stores like Old Navy have promotions in which you can

save 25 percent with a student ID for “Back-To-School” deals. Many other online stores have limited promotional offers like those as well.

ENTERTAINMENT: Martin Cine has a student

discount night, on Thursdays when ticket prices. Brandy’s Restaurant has a Thursday night special drink prices and karaoke. The brand new Huddle House in Martin is open 24/7 and also offers a 5 percent student discount. Many of the local bars have nights that offer specials like quarter beers, free cover, Ladies night, and 2 for 1 that is aimed at UTM students.

ONLINE:

This category has the widest span of discount for anything from airfare, hotel/motel reservations, computers, car rentals, cell phone deals, to other travel services like trains and buses.

A great website for plane travel is www.studentuniverse.com. It also has great tours, like one all day trip from London to the Stonehenge, Windsor Castle, and Bath for only $93.98 with student discount. There are also student discount cards available that allow students to get discounts from Target, T-Mobile, Macy’s, Greyhound Bus Service, American Airlines, Barnes & Noble, and more. Check that website out to get the entire list: www.studentadvantage.

com/discountcard/ <http://www.studentadvantage.com/discountcard/> . Expedia, Orbitz, and STA Travel all have great deals for travel and hotels. Apple.com has offers up to $200 savings for students looking to get a new Mac. The options for online discounts are virtually endless, pun completely intended.

Overall, being able to save money is grand. Many Martin businesses have been great in offering discounts and supporting UTM in the process. Plenty of businesses offer a discount that students would not consider. Asking them at the register and flashing that student ID is great advice to any frugal spender. Happy savings!

Local, national discounts aimed at saving students’ spending money

Lunchbox Theatre serves up palate-pleasing plays

Photos by Sherri Glenn

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Skyhawks take down Tennessee Tech

Face tough opponent this week hosting Jacksonville StateAthletic Communications

The UTM football team rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit to reel off 21 unanswered points and used a couple of late clutch defensive stands to down the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles 27-24 Thurs. Sept. 30, at Tucker Stadium.

Sophomore Tevin Barksdale rushed for a career-high 134 yards on 23 carries and a touchdown to pace a dominant effort by the Skyhawk backfield and offensive line. UTM rushed for a season-high 279 yards - besting the 191 yard effort on Sept. 18 against Eastern Illinois - with 191 rushing yards in the second half alone. UTM gained 450 yards of total offense, while the Skyhawk defense allowed just 116 yards of total offense to the Golden Eagles in the second half and 290 total yards for the game.

The running game wasn’t the only thing clicking for the Skyhawks, as quarterback Derek Carr was 12-for-17 for 151 yards, with two touchdowns (one passing, one rushing). Wide receiver Stephen Shiver hauled in three passes (including a touchdown) for 102 yards, tying a career-high set on Nov. 21 against Austin Peay in last year’s season finale.

On defense, OVC Preseason Defensive Player of the Year Josh Bey set the tone, tallying 12 tackles, a sack, 1.5 tackles-for-loss, a forced fumble and pass break-up. Jonathan Utley and Kendal Harper each tallied interceptions, as the Skyhawks accumulated a season-high six sacks and 11 tackles-for-loss. Entering Thurs. night’s game, UTM’s defense had seven sacks in the first four games.

The Skyhawk defense came up big in the game’s first five minutes. After Tennessee Tech converted a 4th-and-1 from the UTM 40 yard line, Tre Lamb fumbled and senior Josh Cody broke through the line to fall on the fumble and the Skyhawks took over at the 10:24 mark.

UTM’s offense then put together a long drive, kept alive by two clutch 3rd-and-long plays. The 14-play, 50 yard drive ended in a 28-yard field goal by Cody Sandlin to put the Skyhawks ahead 3-0 at the 3:28 mark.

The game remained scoreless until two minutes in to the second quarter, when Lamb found Tim Benford in the back left corner of the endzone to make the score 7-3 in favor of the Golden Eagles.

After a three-and-out by the Skyhawks, Tennessee Tech answered with a 40-yard field goal by Matthew Barker with 8:14 remaining in the second quarter to push its lead to 10-3.

The Skyhawks responded by riding the hot hand of Barksdale. Barksdale carried the ball on five of the team’s first seven plays of the drive as his aggressive downhill running and a career-best 17-yard scramble by Carr got UTM in good field position. After a pair of rushes from Jason McNair, a nine-yard strike from Carr to Bryant Milligan converted a key third down and set up first and goal from the Tennessee Tech 5. However, the Skyhawks

couldn’t punch the ball in and had to settle for a 23-yard field goal from Sandlin that sliced UTM’s deficit to four points with 1:30 left to go before the half.

Several breaks went against the Skyhawk defense on Tennessee Tech’s ensuing possession.

After an incomplete pass, Jett Howard forced a fumble on the next play to set up a 3rd-and-18 from the Golden Eagle 25 with 1:09 left. The Skyhawks brought the blitz on the next play, as Tim Cox rushed Lamb untouched and appeared to have wrapped the quarterback up. However, Lamb escaped the rush and connected with Alden Olverson for a 21-yard pass play out-of-bounds. Tacked on at the end of that play was a roughing the passer penalty from UT Martin, which brought the ball to the Skyhawk 39. A sack by Cox and Bey resulted in a 3rd-and-17, but Olverson hauled in a 16-yard pass to set up a 4th-and-1 from the 8-yard line. Tennessee Tech decided to go for it, with Lamb rushing for a quarterback sneak up the middle. The chains were brought out and the Golden Eagles were awarded the first down by the nose of the ball. On the next play, Lamb hit Tremain Hudson for an eight-yard touchdown that put the Golden Eagles up 17-6.

After both teams stalled to put points on the scoreboard in their opening drives of the second half, the Skyhawks made a statement by driving the full distance of the field for their next scoring drive. Barksdale rushed for gains of five and 18 yards, Carr gained 12 yards on a scramble out of the pocket and Maurice Taylor picked up 14 yards on a reverse off a fake pitch. On 2nd-and-inches from their own 45, Carr hit a wide-open Shiver on a beautiful play-action fake down the middle of the field. Sandlin converted the PAT to make the score 17-13.

It turns out that spark was all the Skyhawks needed, as momentum clearly swung in the favor of UTM from that point until the end of the third quarter. After the Golden Eagles took the kickoff back to the Tennessee Tech 39, Utley came up with a big interception on the first play of the drive to give the Skyhawks the ball back at the 50.

Three Skyhawk offensive plays resulted in minus-10 yards, and with punter Joe Hook in the backfield, it appeared that UT Martin would give the ball back to Tennessee Tech deep in its own backfield. However, on a 4th-and-20, Hook saw an opening

and sprinted 29 yards to pick up a crucial first down. A 20-yard pass from Carr to Shiver set up a 1st-and-goal for UTM, and two plays later, Carr broke the plane on a quarterback keeper to give the Skyhawks their first lead since 3-0 with 59 ticks left in the third stanza.

Tennessee Tech used a long reception from Benford to get near the red zone, but UTM’s defense once again stepped up to the challenge. The suffocating defensive unit forced Lamb to overthrow his intended receiver and right into the hands of Harper his second interception of the year at the Skyhawk 2-yard line.

Pinned deep into their own territory, UTM went with what was working best - the ground game. Barksdale accumulated rushes of 24, 27 and 10 yards while McNair added a 19-yard gain before Barksdale punched it in from the 1-yard line to extend UTM’s lead to 27-17 with 12:05 left to play. All in all, it was a nine-play, 97-yard drive in 2:44, as eight of the Skyhawks’ nine plays were rushes (the lone pass play was a 15-yard gain to Kenny Jones).

The Golden Eagles didn’t lie down, as Lamb rushed for a key eight-yard gain on 4th-and-6 from the Skyhawk 42. That kept the 10-play, 68-yard drive alive as Benford capped it off with a 20-yard touchdown reception to make the score 27-24 with just under nine minutes remaining.

A three-and-out by the Skyhawk offense and a 39-yard punt by Hook gave the Golden Eagles the ball back at their own 33. UTM continued its ferocity on defense, as TJ Drakeford rushed Lamb and forced a fumble before Lamb recovered possession for a loss of 10 yards. The Skyhawk pass rush then forced Lamb into an incomplete pass and on 3rd-and-20, Bey came up with a huge pass break-up to force a Tennessee Tech punt.

UTM got the ball back at the 5:42 mark, but once again couldn’t move the ball, forcing Hook to punt. However, Tennessee Tech brought a five-man rush to try and block the punt and they were flagged for roughing the kicker. On 3rd-and-5, Carr ran a naked bootleg that resulted in a first down to keep the clock moving. Three more plays occurred before the Skyhawks decided to try and ice the game on 4th-and-2 at the Tennessee Tech 29. However, the run was stuffed, and the Golden Eagles got the ball back on downs with 1:25 remaining.

Just as they had done for the entire second half, the UTM defense came up big with the game on the line, as Cody wrapped up Lamb for a loss of a yard on a sack, then two incomplete passes followed to set up a do-or-die 4th-and -11. Lamb heaved a long attempt down the left sideline but Derek Welch was there to bat the ball down. Carr then took a knee with 35 seconds left to ice the Skyhawk victory.

UTM faces another tough opponent next Saturday, Oct. 9 at Hardy M. Graham Stadium, when No. 4 Jacksonville State will roll into town. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.

It turns out that spark was all the Skyhawks needed, as momentum clearly swung in favor of UTM from that point until

the end of the third quarter.

Soccer sets record attendance in win over Austin PeayAthletic Communications

In front of the most fans to watch a UTM soccer match in the history of Skyhawk Field, the hometown soccer team took care of business and earned its first OVC victory of the 2010 season by downing Austin Peay 1-0.

A total of 669 spectators filled the bleachers and sidelines this afternoon, providing an environment that had not been seen in the 13-year history of Skyhawk Field. The previous high crowd occurred on Oct. 28, 2007 in a match against Murray State (457 fans).

“The crowd was phenomenal,” UTM first-year head coach Phil McNamara said. “They were definitely the 12th man today and we managed to beat a very good

Austin Peay team who came in with a very high winning percentage because of them. I’d like to give a big thank you to all the fraternities, sororities and other campus organizations for the electric atmosphere who helped us start a new chapter in Skyhawk history today.”

Katie Imperiale connected on her first goal of the season and fifth game-winner of her career in the 37th minute. As a team, a total of nine different Skyhawks attempted a shot, as UTM (5-6-1, 1-2-0 OVC) managed to put seven of its 13 attempts on goal. Austin Peay (9-4-0, 1-2-0 OVC) put five of its 11 shots on goal.

“I am real pleased for our kids – they worked hard today,” McNamara said. “We feel like we got the result we deserved.”

Skyhawk senior Jenni Duffy

got things started early for the Skyhawks, as she fired a shot on goal in the third minute that found the hands of Lady Govs goalkeeper Carley Newman. UTM goalkeeper Lauren MacKenzie – who tallied her third shutout of the season today – answered Newman with a save of her own off a shot by Hannah Jones at the

4:07 mark.The two goalkeepers

exchanged saves once again in the 18th and 22nd minutes as both teams struggled to maintain a consistent offensive rhythm. That all changed in the 37th minute.

Duffy lined a shot from the left side that forced Newman to dive and make a deflection

for a save. The ball shook loose to UTM freshman Mary Thompson, who tried to scoot the ball into the goal but Newman regained her balance and deflected yet another quick save. This time, the ball found Imperiale – who attempted the Skyhawks’ third shot on goal in a span of four seconds. This time the result was true, as the ball found the back of the net for Imperiale’s sixth career goal.

Neither side could get off a shot on goal for the rest of the first half, but Skyhawk junior Rosaelia Loza came out firing in the second half, as her attempt at 50:23 forced Newman to make a save. After MacKenzie made a clutch save in the 61st minute, Loza was up to her old tricks again, unleashing a powerful shot from the right side of the box

that grazed the left post and nearly gave UTM a two-goal advantage.

MacKenzie made a pair of saves in the 71st and 75th minutes, keeping the Lady Govs’ offense in check. The Skyhawks kept relentlessly attacking the goal, as freshman Hannah Fessenden wound up a shot on goal at the 78:40 mark that resulted in a Newman save and senior Marissa Wood-Sternburgh attempted a header just six seconds later but the shot hit the crossbar.

From that point on, the Skyhawk defense held their ground, holding Austin Peay to just one shot attempt over the last 15 minutes of the match to ensure the largest crowd in the history of Skyhawk Field left home happy.

(Media Credit/ Tony Marable,Tennessee Tech) (Media Credit/ Tony Marable,Tennessee Tech)

(Trevor Ruszkowski/University Relations)