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Friday, January 21, 2011

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In coming weeks, the Student Government Association at The University of Memphis will put to vote reformed bylaws that, if passed, will modify power distribution with-in SGA’s three branches and alter eli-gibility requirements of senators.

Tyler DeWitt, SGA senator and junior accounting major, spearhead-ed the project, which he calls the “Comprehensive Reform Package.” He said he and other senators spent most of winter break adjusting the bylaws, referencing federal bills and constructing SGA’s statutes in a simi-lar fashion.

Though it is only 75 to 80 percent complete, DeWitt said, the reform will “clean up” SGA’s procedures and is “addressing issues students have brought up,” but they are “nothing too drastic.”

DeWitt said the package will be completed by Tuesday.

A key component of the modified bylaws is an ethics reform clause that would create a check on the executive branch of SGA. According to DeWitt, the current bylaws leave “too much power on one branch.”

The executive council members will be held accountable for their 10 required office hours per week in this new reform.

“If we are going to do this, earn your keep,” DeWitt said, referring to the need for executive officers to, in his opinion, give “100 percent” if they receive perks and stipends.

DeWitt said that no current revi-sion has been made to the SGA Constitution about executive sti-pends, but that could be an issue that should be addressed by the SGA in the future.

Though the ethics reform is still under con-struction, DeWitt said he wants the senate to construct the executive council’s bylaws so that “a check and balance” is put on the execu-tive branch. Under current rules, the executive branch creates its own bylaws.

Gian Gozum, SGA senator and junior economics major, agreed that power in branches will be distrib-uted more evenly if these bylaws are adopted.

“The bylaws will help us do our job easier and lessen bureaucracy in some areas,” he said.

Sophomore dietetics major Mitul Patel said he is in favor of the bylaw reformation.

“I think it would be a good thing because it would make the executive

SGA senators push reformBY CHELSEA BOOZERNews Reporter

see SGA, page 4

The University of Memphis campus will have a new deco-ration in 2012 — a big, bronze tiger.

As part of The University’s 2012 Centennial Celebration, it will reveal a life-size sculp-ture of The U of M’s mascot in April of next year. The bronze monument will be located on the Alumni Mall.

“There has been a desire to have a sculpture on campus for many years,” said Bobby Prince, associate vice presi-dent of development at The U of M.

Prince said the notion of a sculpture has been around for many years, but planning

began just two years ago.“It’s a phenomenal project

for The University, something we all as Tigers can identify with,” Prince said. “It’s very exciting and very appropri-ate for the 2012 Centennial Celebration.”

Greg Vann, senior orga-nizational leadership major and member of the Tiger Sculpture Committee, urged fellow students to support The University’s monumental endeavor.

“I think all students should be excited about and try to get behind this project,” Vann said. “A lot of major universi-ties have something they can take pride in and build tra-dition around. It will help enhance the landscape and

draw attention to our great school.”

University committees and campus groups are plan-ning events and activities for the Centennial Celebration, which begins in the coming fall semester and continues through the end of 2012.

Prince said the sculpture’s ultimate location, on the west side of the University Center, is a suitable setting because “it’s a great gathering spot.”

He added that the location is ideal because the west side of the UC is also where the next phase of new University development — a new, rede-veloped Alumni Mall — will begin.

“The project will be fully funded through private

guests and alumni friends,” Prince said.

Those who donate at least $100 to the project can see their names engraved at a yet-to-be-determined location close to the sculpture.

People giving over $10,000 will have their names engraved on the tiger itself.

Although the monument’s placement has been deter-mined, its design hasn’t. The University has given sculptors around the nation a chance to be a part of the project.

“We have artists from around the country interested in this project,” Prince said. “It started with 24 nationally known sculptors, and we’ve

Towering tiger monument on way for UMBY JASMINE VANNNews Reporter

see MonuMent, page 10

University of Memphis employees will be joined by U of M students, local faith leaders and elected officials Saturday in their fight for higher wages.

University employees, United Campus Workers,

Workers Interfaith Network and The U of M’s Progressive Student Alliance will host a prayer vigil for living wages at the Wesley Foundation on campus at 1 p.m.

The vigil comes on the heels of a nearly 32 percent insurance premium increase for U of M employees. As part of a new policy that

began this month, premiums were upped from $228 to $335 per month.

The Rev. Rebekah Gienapp, executive director of Workers Interfaith Network, said attendees will urge state leg-islators to increase the wages of University workers, many of whom earn less than $8 per hour.

UCW organizer Tom Smith said the group hopes pay raises for university employees in Tennessee will be introduced in the state’s 2011-2012 budget. If not, he said supporters are prepared to work with general assem-bly members to propose a

UM workers hold vigil to bolster wageBY SCOTT CARROLLEditor-in-Chief

see ViGil, page 12

Snow way out

Outside Patterson Hall, the English department’s home on the southwest corner of The University of Memphis campus, snow begins to accumulate around pathways Thursday afternoon. The return of the white stuff near the end of The University’s second partial week of spring semester classes

caused administrators to cancel Friday classes at the Campus School, and U of M closed Thursday at 7 p.m. as students scurried home before the icy mixture of snow and rain turned treacherous.

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University of Memphis junior Josh Baucke crashed through a floor-to-ceiling window last semes-ter at Baptist Collegiate Ministry — in the name of nerdball.

“I blame the air vent that was on the ground,” the engineering technology major said.

Nerdball is a combination of pingpong and racquetball, said Jeff Jones, director of BCM.

Nerdball competitors, typically seven to 10 in a game, are armed with a paddle and position them-selves around a pingpong table. They bounce a pingpong ball off the table to the floor and some-times off walls and ceilings.

Before the game, nerdballers decide in what order they will hit, and players acquire points when they fail to hit the table on return shots. When they acquire seven points, they’re out.

“It’s an intense game that normally doesn’t create prob-lems,” Jones said. “But people run into walls, dive — it’s really a lot of fun.”

Baucke embodied that com-petitive spirit the day he met the window face-to-pane.

“Me and (a friend) were taking long shots at each other that were at least five to 10 feet away from the table, and he shot one far off to the left,” he said. “And I went running, and I tripped over the ground vent and went crashing through the window.”

Baucke said he was to lucky to have survived the incident “with-out a scratch” on his body.

“That was the amazing part, because pieces of glass and shards and stuff just fell everywhere,” he said. “They all magically fell around me.”

He said it could be described as “divine intervention.”

Bolorhuu Ligden, then a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, brought nerdball to BCM four or five years ago.

Ligden was a pastor of what he called an “underground” church in China and came to The U of M to speak during Bible studies. In his spare time, Ligden introduced BCM students to nerdball, and many took to the new sport.

Timothy Buolamwini, a senior double majoring in sports and lei-sure management and in physical education teacher education, was among those who picked up the game.

“Nerdball is just a fun game,” he said. “It’s kind of like tra-dition here. It brings people together — even if they don’t know you, they can play the game and have fun.”

The BCM offers students the chance to participate in weekly activities, retreats and mission trips. It also provides students with free lunch every Friday.

Baucke said for nerdballers and non-nerdballers alike, the BCM is an awesome place to hang out, and people are there almost all the time playing games or relaxing.

“The BCM is an awesome place to hang out,” he said. “People are there almost all the time play-ing pool, nerdball, whatever you want to play.”

Baucke said his competitive streak for nerdball has subsided since it sent him through the win-dow, and he’s opted for pingpong since.

The BCM will hold a nerdball tournament Friday, Jan. 28. A $3 entry fee will help fund BCM’s summer missions. Winners receive trophies and other prizes.

“It’s way better than ping-pong,” Baucke said.

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level be more honest,” he said.The Comprehensive Reform

Package will also raise the required 2.0 GPA for senators to a 2.5.

“If you can’t make 2.5, you might need to focus on school,” DeWitt said, “and SGA will be a distraction.”

Jackie Hicks, sophomore nursing/biology major, said she thinks the new checks and balances are necessary.

“Regarding the checks on the executive branch, I think there should be more,” she said. “They should be held up to the same standards as any official elected in a democrat-

ic fashion ... policies, budgets and expenditures should be reviewable and voted on by those who elect them to office. I realize this may be impracti-cal and not feasible, but there must be some accountability to the entire student body, not just the elected few.”

“Raising the GPA would mean the senators had to have knowledge in order to lead properly,” Patel added.

Other smaller issues addressed in the new bylaws are a provision that stipulates the speaker of the senate should act in a professional and fair manner, a specific outline of the impeachment procedures, and a request to keep an accurate voting record, detailing which senators voted for what bills and how they voted.

DeWitt said that “transpar-ency is important,” and the bylaws will require the record of votes to be posted on SGA’s website within a week of the meetings.

Currently, attendance is logged, and the numbers of “yes” votes and “no” votes are recorded, but there is nothing in place that shows how a par-ticular senator has voted.

“That’s not exactly easy,” DeWitt said, “but we have not made much progress in the area. Maybe if we address it through bylaws, we might get something done.”

He also said that in the future, something SGA may consider is an electronic voting system for the UC Senate Chambers, which is used by the faculty and staff senates as well. He said it might be something The University could invest in.

DeWitt added that no one is to blame for the bylaws’ cur-rent state but that they were simply outdated and need to be organized.

“When it comes down to it, it’s execution,” he said.

He said these bylaws will help clearly portray what is required out of each position in SGA and, in return, will help students hold SGA officials accountable.

“Students are the boss,” DeWitt said.

He said U of M has 36 sena-tors and over 22,000 students, so senators should “keep that in perspective when making decisions.”

“How do we know what to change if we don’t hear from students?” he said. “SGA is here for the needs and interests of students.”

He said he hopes to post the new bylaws online if they pass through the senate and welcomes any student to access the suggestion box on SGA’s website, memphis.edu/sga, to voice an opinion on the new bylaws.

He added that “it’s impor-tant for us (students) to hold our elected officials account-able” and that SGA representa-tives are “at the request of our constituents.”

After taking a largely sym-bolic stand on Wednesday, Republicans will begin a new phase of their effort to overturn the sweeping 2010 health care law today, pursuing a variety of strategies: court tests, funding cutoffs and piecemeal changes.

The GOP-led House of Representatives voted Wednesday 245-189 to repeal the law, but that effort is likely to go nowhere in a Senate still ruled by Democrats, and even if it passed there, repeal wouldn’t survive a certain presidential veto.

That’s one reason why today, the House plans another vote directing its committees to look for specific changes they can make to the health care law.

Changes over the next two years could involve reducing paperwork burdens on business-es, permitting the sale of cover-age across state lines, denying the government funds to imple-ment the law, and denying funds for a series of grants and other health-related programs.

Still, many political hur-dles stand between House Republicans and success in those endeavors, as one house of Congress generally needs to reach compromise with the other house — and the president — to achieve anything.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said the GOP will push for repeal despite the seemingly long odds, since Democrats control 53 of the 100 seats.

“The Democratic leadership in the Senate doesn’t want to vote on this bill,” McConnell said after the House vote. “But I assure you, we will. We should repeal this law and focus on

common-sense steps that actu-ally lower costs and encourage private sector job creation.”

Republicans may have a bet-ter chance of success in court.

Some 25 other states have joined Florida’s lawsuit in federal court challenging the health care law — six signed on Tuesday — and Virginia is pressing a sepa-rate case. All those states echo a key Republican argument in con-tending that the law’s require-ment that nearly everyone buy insurance by 2014 or face penal-ties is unconstitutional.

In December, federal District Court Judge Henry Hudson ruled that a person can’t be forced to buy coverage; the Obama administration is appeal-ing. But Virginia, which filed the suit, also is appealing, saying that Hudson should have over-turned the entire law. The case is expected to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

First, though, some Democrats in Congress said they’re open to some change: “We will certainly look at any good ideas that come down,” said House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md.

But they also warn that the law is a carefully crafted balanc-ing act, and removing one piece could jeopardize the success of another.

For instance, Republicans are eager to overturn the individ-ual mandate, but would keep the terms barring insurers from rejecting people with pre-exist-ing conditions.

Doing that, though, risks sending premiums higher, since in theory healthy people would be less inclined to buy coverage while the number of people need-ing coverage would increase.

“The argument for a man-date is that if you’re going to lower costs, improve access and improve the quality of care, you have to increase the risk pool,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Several bipartisan discussions are under way on Capitol Hill about possible changes in the law, but without strong support from the administration they are expected to languish.

As a result, most of the Republican efforts are likely to be little more than political posturing, independent analysts suggest.

“Republicans need to ask themselves whether they want to impede implementation of a law that they disagree with but that they cannot stop,” said Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, a research group.

Republicans insist that by picking off pieces that may be unpopular, they can chip away at the law, but they’re vague about precisely what they will do next, or when.

Asked about a timeline, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said the committees “are not all organized right now.”

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Unbeknownst to most, vicious battles against orcs, “miniature giant space ham-sters” and mutated humans are waged on campus several times a week by a group of University of Memphis students.

The members of Memphis Role Players’ Association meet in groups to play tabletop role-playing, board and card games on campus.

“‘Dungeons & Dragons’ is, of course, popular, but we also play ‘Shadowrun,’ ‘Pathfinder’ — and some of our members made up a tabletop game based around the video game ‘Mass Effect,’” said Daniel Henry, a founding member of the MRPA. “It’s been pretty popular. It’s a homemade sys-tem, and we’re sort of play-testing it.”

In role-playing games, players describe actions their characters perform to a game master, who describes the outcomes. The game master controls the plot of the RPG, changing it in reaction to what the players do. Players speak and react as the characters they created would.

“We have a real variety of systems,” said Derek Russell, the vice president of the orga-nization. “We ran a game called ‘Eclipse Phase’ last semester, and someone ran a d20 modern game (a system using 20-sided dice).”

Dice rolls are often used in conjunction with charac-ter abilities to achieve desired results. The amount of dice and number of sides varies from game to game.

Some have a negative view of people who play tabletop RPGs and view them as social outcasts, Henry said. Over the years, various religious groups have alleged that “Dungeons & Dragons” promotes demon worship.

“Part of the reason we formed MRPA is (that) we wanted to get the hobby out there, to get rid of the negative stereotypes that people have, to show we don’t sit around in basements all day,” Henry said. “There are the stereotypes — the fat, white guys living in their moms’ basements, eating chips all day — but that’s the exception, not the rule.”

Other members of the MRPA agreed that the stereotypes are inaccurate.

“We’re a diverse group: Some of us are super-nerds, and some of us aren’t,” Russell said. “We don’t worship any Dungeons & Dragons gods, but we do have a wide variety of faiths. Some of us are really nerdy, and some of us play football, we’re not some cult meeting in a basement some-where.”

Russell said that they also play obscure board games, such as “Shadows Over Camelot,” and trading card games like “Magic: The Gathering.”

According to Russell, 20 to 25 people show up to their board game night, and those passing by will often watch and occa-sionally even join the games. Russell said that the day for board game night has not been chosen for this semester.

Benefits to members of the MRPA include access to a large collection of board games, trea-surer Andrew Overstreet said.

“We do have a board game library that any member can bor-row from to play,” he said. “It has 20 or 30 games right now.”

Overstreet also said that the MRPA is considering fundrais-ers to expand its board game library.

The MRPA will hold a con-vention called MRPA GameCon next weekend, Jan. 28-30, at

the University Center. The event will include scheduled RPGs, guest speakers, board game library access and a dealer ’s room. The registra-tion deadline for game masters is Sunday, but other attend-ees can register on the day of the convention or beforehand on the convention’s website, mrpagamecon.us.to.

“We have a huge variety of games, and the dealer ’s room will have some local game stores selling role-playing books and other games, but we also have some artists sell-ing homemade trinkets and jewelry,” Henry said. “The con will be free, so we’re hoping for a lot of people. This event is not just for nerds. Anyone can have fun there.”

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BY KYLE LACROIXNews Reporter

Enthusiasts of role-playing games, known in some circles as “RPGs,” meet in the University Center to play the card game “Magic: The Gathering.”

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Aaah! A crackling fire. How cozy. How romantic.

And, alas, what a waste. Although the room feels toasty, the chimney spews out heat indiscriminately.

About 90 percent of the fire’s warmth heads up and out, along with some of the heat that is generated by your furnace.

A conventional fireplace also doesn’t promote complete combustion of the wood, no matter that the logs eventually turn to ash. This can exacer-bate air pollution both indoors and outside.

The nasties include carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and fine particles that can aggravate asthma and other conditions.

For these and other rea-sons, fireplaces are well worth our consideration. Half of all homes in the United States have either a fireplace or a freestanding stove. Fireplaces are one of the top three fea-tures people want, said the National Association of Home Builders.

And they can really cast a pall over things.

Andy Palmer was think-ing about some of this when she contemplated the hand-

some stone fireplace at her retirement village in Kennett Square, Pa.

The place is a bastion of green. They’ve switched out their bulbs. They have a sus-tainability ethic. They’re building new cottages certi-fied to the greenest industry standards (no fireplaces).

But when Palmer, who has worried about climate change for some time, thought about that roaring fire in the public room, she was troubled.

She put out a query on a regional sustainability list-serve, and boy did she get a lot of hot tips.

Comments included every-thing from practical advice to technical dissections to philosophical musings about environmental justice and our “capitalist oligarchy.”

Fireplaces do serve their primary purpose. Somewhat.

A few winters ago, Marc Brier, a park ranger at Valley Forge National Historical Park in Norristown, Pa., kept a fire going in one of the log cabins for several days.

He wanted to show that, despite the privation and hard-ships, Washington’s army in 1777 was resourceful and resil-ient. And, occasionally, warm.

After three days with a fire in the 14-by-16-foot cabin, the temperature by a wall near the

fireplace was 70 degrees, and the dirt floor had thawed. It was 31 degrees outside.

The problem is that fire-places just don’t work well enough, especially not for a world so different from two centuries ago.

There are many options, if no easy answers. Much can depend on what kind of fire-place you already have, which will determine whether or what kind of changes you can make.

Something as simple as a fireplace door can reduce the flow of air into the fireplace — and then up the chimney.

One option is to give up on wood. Get a gas fireplace insert. Many of these are 80 percent efficient and generate little pollution.

(A caveat: For this and other options, the pollution refers to that generated at the source. Many are concerned about the environmental effects of natural gas extraction, for instance.)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recom-mends if you stick with wood, you select an EPA-certified device — its latest list includes 887 models — and follow its best-burn practices.

Common options include a pellet stove, a freestanding woodstove and a fireplace insert.

They have many features that differ among types, man-ufacturers and more. But if green is your goal, one thing to look for is the emissions rate, expressed as grams per hour.

EPA-certified woodstoves generate no more than 7.5 grams of particulates per hour, compared with 15-30 grams for older models, and as much as 60 grams for a conventional fireplace.

Some of the fireplace inserts have catalytic combustors. Pull

a lever, and a fire’s leftover gases are burned in a separate chamber. EPA-certified stoves of this type emit a max of 4.1 grams of particulates an hour.

Pellet stoves, which burn compressed wood and plant waste, pollute even less. Pellet stoves don’t require certifica-tion, but some manufacturers voluntarily seek it.

Another thing to look for is

the efficiency, often expressed as a percentage. The EPA assigns some devices a default efficiency rating — 63 percent for noncatalytic stoves, 72 per-cent for catalytic stoves, and 78 percent for pellet stoves.

For my own fireplace, I opted for a catalytic wood-stove insert maybe five years ago. I can’t say whether this was the best choice for my house — it was pre-greening for me. But it fit the space and it works.

It’s basically a metal box with a glass door that fits into the fireplace and extends maybe six inches in front.

Since we live on a wooded property, we generate nearly enough renewable fuel on-site.

The insert’s big steel shell radiates heat back into the room. I like how it keeps the room where we spend most of our time warm.

The other night, when the temperature outside was 28 degrees, the air 16 inches in front of the insert was 97.8 degrees.

Four feet to the side, I dis-lodged the cat, Charlie, from my armchair and found the temperature a balmy 71.4 degrees, far higher than we keep the thermostat.

One drawback: An internal fan that shoots hot air into the room makes an industrial racket worse than my fridge.

In the end, though, I’d rath-er listen to that than be chilly and breathe smoke.

Charlie, too, probably.

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A cold, hard look at the faults of a fireplaceBY SANDY BAUERSThe Philadelphia Inquirer

Thinking about going “green” with a fireplace? EPA-certified woodstoves generate no more than 7.5 grams of particulates per hour, compared with 15-30 grams for older models, and as much as 60 grams for a conventional fireplace.

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Another round of winter weather swept through Memphis Thursday afternoon, depositing 1-2 inches of snow, with sleet accumulation in some areas. Snow began falling shortly after midday and continued into the early evening. An emergency TigerText notified U of M students, faculty and employees of The University’s 7:00 p.m. closing due to inclement weather. The Campus School, the elementary school located at U of M, was closed for today’s classes. Students still on campus when the snow swept through basked in the bright glow of the snow covering the ground, and Wesley Witherspoon (bottom right), junior forward for the Tigers, took a break for an impromptu snowball fight with managers and teammates.

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www.dailyhelmsman.com8 • Friday, January 21, 2011

Later this year, Hewlett-Packard researchers said, they expect to deliver to the U.S. Army a working prototype of what they’re calling a “Dick Tracy wristwatch” — a lightweight, wearable device that soldiers in the field can use to view digital maps and other data on a flexible plastic screen that won’t shatter or crack like glass.

Though it will be spartan by design, researchers said HP’s pro-totype could be one of the first in a new wave of products incorpo-rating flexible electronic displays. Freed from the constraints of a rigid glass screen, designers could one day build flexible plastic displays into clothing, wall coverings and perhaps even e-readers or tablets that can roll up like a newspaper.

“You can start thinking about putting electronic displays on things where you wouldn’t ordi-narily think of having them,” said Nick Colaneri, a scientist and direc-tor of the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University. “How about a stack of thin displays that I can peel off and stick on things, sort of like a pad of Post-It notes?”

Long before those hit the market, however, flexible plastic displays will provide tablets, smart phones and other portable computers with big screens that weigh less and are far more durable than today’s models, said Carl Taussig, director of advanced display research at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif.

“Unlike glass, plastic doesn’t break when you drop it on the floor,” said Taussig, whose employ-er has a vested interest in electronic displays, as the world’s biggest

seller of personal computers.Experts have long predicted a

big future for flexible displays. The Defense Department has funded efforts to develop lightweight screens that soldiers can use in hostile environments. A host of computer-makers and electronics companies are working on com-mercial applications.

“We’re quite bullish on this mar-ket,” said Jennifer Colegrove, vice president for emerging technolo-gies at DisplaySearch, an indus-try research and consulting firm, which estimates that sales of flex-ible displays will grow from $85 million in 2008 to more than $8 billion in 2018.

But technical issues have made it a long and sometimes frustrating quest. Mountain View, Calif.-based Plastic Logic showed off a proto-type e-reader with a flexible dis-play last year, dubbed the “Que,” only to announce later that its com-mercial release would be delayed indefinitely.

Standard components for liquid crystal displays, used in most por-table computers today, generally require a rigid glass to keep images from being distorted. Traditional displays also depend on transis-tors that are embedded in glass through processes that involve temperatures high enough to melt or distort plastic.

Taussig’s team at HP, however, is working with plastic film that is both lighter and thinner than glass, and which can be stored in rolls. Their method resembles, in a sense, the way newspapers are printed from giant spools of paper.

The process starts with rolls of plastic that has been treated with thin layers of metal and other material. The plastic is run through a press that imprints a microscopic, three-dimensional pattern, which can then be etched to create transis-tors on the film. These can transmit instructions to electrically charged particles or diodes contained in a second layer of plastic, which then displays text or images.

While it’s not yet ready for

commercial use, Taussig said he’s convinced the roll process can be far cheaper than current “batch” methods for making glass displays, which require vast clean rooms and precision robotics to keep each pane from being damaged in pro-duction.

Other groups in Taiwan and elsewhere are developing manu-facturing processes in which layers of transistors are laid down on sheets of plastic temporarily bond-ed to a pane of glass. Colaneri said display manufacturers could adopt that approach while using much of their existing equipment.

But eventually, Colegrove said, HP’s “roll” approach may be a less expensive process for making flexible screens in large volume. Currently, she added, the cost of

the glass display might be $30 to $40 for a typical e-reader like the Amazon Kindle that sells for $139.

The prototype that HP is build-ing for the Army also takes advan-tage of low-power features associ-ated with E Ink, the technology used in most e-readers. As a result, Taussig said the device will be able to run on the power from a small, flexible solar panel that can be part of the wristband.

E Ink uses black and white particles with opposite electrical charges, floating in tiny capsules of liquid. Electrical signals cause the particles to form a pattern of letters, words or other images. The display requires little power because it has no backlighting and uses electricity only to create a new page.

While that’s good for static dis-plays, such as maps or blocks of text, Taussig said his team is also working with organic light-emit-ting diodes, or OLEDs, to build flexible displays capable of show-ing color and video. That will take more time, he added, although he said HP has proved the concept with very small displays.

Other companies are working on the same goal. Samsung touted a 4.5-inch flexible prototype using OLED technology at this month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Sony and LG have also shown off flexible display proto-types in recent months.

The first consumer products using flexible displays will like-ly have the same rigid frames as today’s laptops and tablet comput-ers, Colaneri said. Even if the screen can bend, he explained, researchers have not yet developed flexible processors and other computer components.

Next will come products with screens that are curved or molded permanently into inno-vative shapes, he added, while a screen you can roll up and stuff in your pocket may be several years away.

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The University of Memphis Friday, January 21, 2011 • 9

The country music road show launched in 2010 as the Country Throwdown tour will return in 2010, this time known as Willie Nelson’s Country Throwdown Tour 2011.

The multi-stage tour is again helmed by Vans Warped Tour producers 4 FINI, Inc., with country icon Nelson headlin-ing and a mix of established country names and newcom-ers — Jamey Johnson, Randy Houser, Lee Brice and Nelson’s son’s band Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real — provid-ing support.

“Willie Nelson is an American treasure,” return-ing Throwdown performer Johnson said in a statement. “When I was asked to return on the Throwdown Tour and was told Willie would be doing the shows, it was a simple yes.”

Last year ’s Country Throwdown — which featured performances from Johnson, Montgomery Gentry, Little Big Town and Jack Ingram, among others — didn’t come to Nashville, but Willie Nelson’s Country Throwdown Tour 2011 is scheduled to make a stop at the Woods at Fontanel in Whites Creek, Tenn. on June 3. Announced dates run from May 27 in Philadelphia through July 2 in Eufaula, Okla., and more shows are expected.

Along with main stage and side stage performers, the Throwdown will again include in-the-round sets from singer-songwriters on a smaller Bluebird Cafe stage. Those performers are yet to be announced.

A ticket pre-sale is set to begin Friday, Feb. 11, and tick-ets will go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. February 18. Prices are forthcoming. For more info, check out the website for Nelson’s tour at www.coun-trythrowdown.com.

Iron pyrite — also known as fool’s gold — may be worthless to treasure hunters, but it could become a bonanza to the solar industry.

The mineral, among the most abundant in the earth’s crust, is usually discarded by coal min-ers or sold as nuggets in novelty stores.

But researchers at the University of California-Irvine said they could soon turn fool’s gold into a cheaper alternative to the rare and expensive materials now used in making solar panels.

“With alternative energy and climate-change issues, we’re always in a race against time,” said lead researcher Matt Law. “With some insight and a little bit of luck, we could find a good solu-tion with something that’s now disposed of as useless garbage.”

The UC-Irvine team believes the mineral can be processed into a thin film for use in photovol-taic cells, and could eventually convert sunlight into electricity at roughly the same rate as existing technology.

Though it’s too early to esti-mate the cost of cells made with pyrite, Law said they’re likely to be cheaper because fool’s gold is so readily available. A prototype could be ready within the year, but it could be at least three years before the cells are commercially available.

Some industry analysts, how-ever, are skeptical that the team — which includes a chemist, a mathematician and a physicist — can hit pay dirt.

“I don’t want to pour cold water on what they’re doing, but every day somebody comes up with a new idea for a solar cell technology,” said Shyam Mehta, a solar industry analyst with GTM Research. “Commercializing it is a lot more difficult than people seem to think, and it’s full of failed attempts.”

To be successful in the market, he said, scientists have to replicate the carefully controlled conditions of a laboratory in a factory capable of producing hundreds of thou-sands of panels a year, at a cost that can compete with Chinese prices.

The U.S. solar photovoltaics industry is worth at least $2 bil-lion and growing, but not much of the cell-making process occurs domestically. Existing types of cells, such as cadmium telluride and amorphous silicon, use mate-rials that are either very scarce, potentially toxic or not especially efficient.

And other materials such as indium — about $300 a pound — are in high demand for use in touch screens and other tech gadgets. These so-called rare earth elements are available only from a single U.S. mine in California or from China, which is clamping down on exports of the material.

Law and his colleagues believe fool’s gold, which is composed of

iron and sulfur, could be used to make solar cells in a major pro-duction process.

Iron pyrite has been eyed as a candidate for solar panels in scattered studies in the 1980s and ‘90s, along with other cheaper, abundant materials such as cop-per oxide, copper sulfide and zinc phosphide, Law said. But a lack of clean-tech financing, unsophisti-cated processing equipment and lack of interest caused the research efforts to fizzle.

“Now, with better tools and funding and a sense of urgency, more people are looking again at very promising materials that might have had one stumbling block or two earlier that had tripped them up,” Law said.

One of the challenges in devel-oping solar cells from fool’s gold is that the material has poor volt-age. That is, the mineral is full of microscopic pockets that suck in electrons, limiting conductivity and the ability to convert solar energy into electricity. Law’s team is working on ways to plug the holes.

The work is being funded in part by a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s solar program.

Law said the effort is attracting the attention of solar companies and other researchers, many of whom are starting to look into iron pyrite again. But with exist-ing photovoltaic technology already so established, new solar innovations will have a harder time catching up in the market, he said.

“There’s a narrowing win-dow for new technology to come online,” Law said. “If we fall asleep at the switch, it’ll be much more difficult to compete against big companies that are already learning to do this better, more efficiently and faster.”

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www.dailyhelmsman.com10 • Friday, January 21, 2011

The U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on gays serving openly in the military cost the Pentagon more than $193 million over six years, the Government Accountability Office reported Thursday.

In the first-ever public account-ing of the cost of the Clinton-era policy, which remains in effect despite its December repeal, the GAO determined that the bulk of that expenditure, $185.7 million, went toward recruiting and training replacements for the 3,664 gay service members expelled during those years. The Pentagon spent another $7.7 million on administrative costs.

The report also suggested that

the cost on military readiness of the policy had been high. It said 79 percent of soldiers expelled from the Army under “don’t ask, don’t tell” held jobs that were critical to military opera-tions. In the Navy, 760 sailors expelled spoke languages con-sidered critical to U.S. military operations, including Arabic, Serbian and Haitian Creole, the report said.

Advocates of repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” hailed the report, saying it bolstered their position that barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military had been costly financially and to the nation’s military readiness. They urged the Pentagon to move quickly to certify that it was ready to lift the ban, something required by the repeal law President Barack

Obama signed in December.“Today’s GAO report under-

scores that the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ law not only deprives the military of the qualified Americans it needs, but has also been a huge waste of taxpayer dollars on replacing patriots lost under this discriminatory law,” Aubrey Sarvis, an Army vet-eran and executive director for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, said in a statement. “These numbers remind us why it’s time to move forward on cer-tification so we can begin imple-menting repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ and make a smooth transition to open service.”

Rep. Susan Davis, D-Calif., commissioned the GAO report as chairwoman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on military personnel during

the last Congress.“Clearly this was the right

thing to do,” Davis said about repeal in a statement on the report’s findings. “No longer will American taxpayers contin-ue to pay to throw out patriotic service members who want only to serve their country.”

The report said the military had been unable to determine the cost of “don’t ask, don’t tell” before 2004, because not all the services could provide information on training expens-es. The majority of the approxi-mately 13,500 service members expelled since the policy took effect in 1993 weren’t included in the study.

The GAO said it had calcu-lated the total cost of “don’t ask, don’t tell” for the six years — 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

and 2009 — by determining the expenses associated with the initial training of a new recruit, then multiplying that cost by the 3,664 service members who were expelled during those years.

The average cost was $52,800, but it varied widely by service, the GAO said. The Navy’s cost was the highest, at $103,000 per recruit.

“Our calculations for the ser-vices’ replacement costs amount to about $19.4 million for the Air Force, $39.4 million for the Army, $22 million for the Marine Corps, and $104.9 million for the Navy,” the GAO report said.

The majority of those expelled had already served at least two years in the military, the report found.

The report showed little sign of racial discrimination — 70 percent of those expelled were white, and 18 percent black, roughly equivalent to the per-centages of blacks and whites in the military.

But enforcement fell dis-proportionately on women, with the report saying that women made up 34 percent of those forced out. Women make up only about 14 per-cent of the number of people in the military.

Among the critical job spe-cialties affected by “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the report said, were many for which the military had paid recruiting bonuses, includ-ing infantrymen, mental health specialists, chemists, biologists, military policemen and nuclear specialists.

The report also suggested that the expulsions probably hurt service members even after they left the military. The report said that only 57 percent of those expelled for being gay received an honorable discharge, com-pared to a military wide average of 74 percent.

Those who didn’t receive an honorable discharge were likely to face a more difficult job mar-ket and were also likely to have lost some veterans benefits.

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narrowed it down to three finalists.”

Prince said the committee will choose a sculptor in the next 90 days, allowing the win-ner a little more than a year to complete it.

Prince hopes the monument exemplifies past tradition and encourages new ones, he said.

“We want students to under-stand the importance of the tra-dition,” he said. “Students may take pictures, rub its paw for good luck on an exam and start new traditions on campus.”

Senior business finance major Khiira Tate echoed Prince’s sentiment.

“It’s a new year, so it makes sense — a new year, new peo-ple and new beginnings, which will bring new traditions,” Tate said.

The University of Memphis Friday, January 21, 2011 • 11

Wednesday night, The University of Memphis men’s basketball team walked into Reed Green Coliseum in Hattiesburg, Miss., winless on the road, the victims of two embarrassing efforts away from home.

The Tigers (14-4, 3-1 Conference USA) walked out of their game against the University of Southern Mississippi in sec-ond place in C-USA, with a new-found grit and maturity previ-ously unseen on the road.

And, thanks to last-second heroics from junior guard Charles Carmouche, they finally achieved a victory on someone else’s home court.

For the tender-footed Tigers, Wednesday’s 76-75 final result was a tough road win earned, a new corner turned.

“The way we played last night, it was great,” said senior forward Will Coleman. “It felt like a turning point. Guys played hard, stuck together and had each others’ backs and didn’t give up on each other.”

They had plenty of chanc-es to give up. Southern Miss sprinted to a 29-11 advantage in the opening 10 minutes of the game. Coleman and freshman forward Tarik Black — the only viable big men for the Tigers, as freshman forward Hippolyte Tsafack is recovering from a knee injury — battled foul trouble all night. Junior forward Wesley Witherspoon, the team’s second-leading scorer, was still suspended.

The Tigers could’ve mailed it in and sleepwalked to a third straight loss on the road.

There was something differ-ent, however, about Wednesday’s game.

“We showed a lot of matu-rity and toughness to be able to (remain composed) after being

down 18, where maybe in the past or earlier in the year, we would’ve had trouble coming back,” U of M coach Josh Pastner said. “(In Wednesday’s) game, we were able to keep our poise. Guys stepped up.”

In the last three weeks, the Tigers have endured injuries, ail-ments, a drop out of the Top 25 polls, a loss to SMU and the sus-pension of the upperclassman who was designated as their leader.

As frantic as things have been for the Tigers, they some-how picked themselves up and churned out a win on the road for the first time this season.

“It’s all about maturity,” Black said. “You live and you learn. You learn from the experiences you’ve been through.”

In their first road game of the season against Tennessee on Wednesday, Jan. 5, the then-No. 22 Tigers were routed, 104-84, in a game that wasn’t even as close as the score might indicate. The loss knocked The U of M out of the Top 25 polls.

Exactly one week later, the Tigers lost, 64-58, to SMU — which has an RPI of 284 —despite leading by 11 with 11:18 play.

Against Southern Miss on Wednesday, unlike in their other road contests, the Tigers didn’t fold.

They rallied.“We’ve been better the last

two games,” Pastner said. “You’ve gotta remember, we’re the youngest team in the history of Memphis. It was just going to take some time for us to build and get to where we need to get to and understand the impor-tance of different things, our expectations and standards.”

While the Tigers’ most recent road game’s outcome was more favorable than the last two, the storyline was largely the same:

The freshmen are still frustrat-ingly inconsistent.

With 43 seconds left in the game, The U of M had the ball and led by one point, 73-72. Instead of running down the 35-second shot clock, freshman point guard Joe Jackson drove to the rim without much body con-trol and was called for charging.

Southern Miss capitalized on the turnover and retook the lead, 74-73.

Jackson made up for it 38 seconds later when he took an inbound pass and beat his defender up the floor to sling a pass to Carmouche for the game-winning 3-pointer.

“(Jackson’s) pass — he deliv-ered it right on the money, across his body — two or three months ago, he wouldn’t have been able to make that pass,” Pastner said.

Just two or three weeks ago, The U of M couldn’t win on the road. A hard-fought victory against a conference opponent Wednesday night, Black said, is an indicator of just how far the Tigers have come since then.

“We still have a lot of matur-ing to do, we’re still a young team,” he said. “But I feel like it’s a milestone that we’ve been maturing. If we left that gym yesterday with the same kind of loss that we lost against Tennessee, then you could say something like, ‘Well, we’re not learning.’ But we’re learning from our experiences.”

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Tigers’ latest win marks ‘a turning point’BY JOHN MARTINSports Editor

Senior forward Will Coleman dunks emphatically over a Southern Miss defender. Despite being down by as many as 18 points in the first half, the Tigers snatched victory from the Golden Eagles with a last-second 3-pointer and won a road game for the first time this season, 76-75.

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“The folks at The University of Memphis who do things like clean the buildings — they work very hard,” Gienapp said. “But they still can’t make ends meet because of their wages.”

State Rep. Jeanne Richardson of Memphis confirmed Thursday she will be attending the vigil.

A 2010 study by David H. Ciscel, U of M profes-sor emeritus of economics, determined the living wage in Memphis to be $11.62.

The study explained a living wage to be the pay required for a household to “live a minimally decent life” independent of month-ly public assistance, food stamps, childcare subsidies and rent subsidies.

U of M employees have not received a pay raise in nearly four years, and some who have worked at The University for more than 20 years make only $7.50 per hour, Smith said.

He said it’s not just work-ers who maintain campus facilities who are struggling because of their wages.

“It’s also a lot of folks who are working clerical jobs at The University — folks who are working as administrative assistants across campus, people doing secretarial work,” he said.

In October, U of M employees, UCW and WIN protested the looming pre-mium increase and lack of pay raises at a community forum at the University Center.

After a similar UCW and WIN forum at University of Tennessee-Knoxville, changes were made to the insurance plans of employ-ees who were paid on a biweekly basis, and their premiums were divided into two monthly payments instead of one.

Though the change did not alter the amount of the premiums, it did make it more manageable for work-ers to pay them, Smith said.

In a letter to U of M President Shirley Raines, UCW asked Raines to con-sider enacting similar mea-sures. The group is awaiting her response, Smith said.

“I think that’s something we can work together on,” he said of the proposed change.

U of M Provost Ralph Faudree said he understands the plight of University employees, but other fac-tors must be weighed.

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The University of Memphis men’s basketball team doesn’t have much time to celebrate its first road win of the season.

The Tigers (14-4, 3-1 Conference USA), after rally-ing to erase an 18-point defi-cit in Wednesday’s 76-75 vic-tory against the University of Southern Mississippi, travel to Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday to face C-USA foe University of Alabama-Birmingham, which is 9-0 at home.

The Blazers (13-4, 3-1), who are currently in third place in C-USA, defeated Southern Methodist, 67-53, Wednesday.

And while the Tigers’ unlikely road win against Southern Miss was overdue, U of M coach Josh Pastner knows his team can’t dwell on it and overlook the Blazers.

“They’re playing well as a team,” Pastner said. “Their point guard (senior Aaron Johnson) is as good as anyone in the league. I think he’s close to breaking the assist record at the school or in the conference. They’re well coached and well disciplined.”

The Blazers are led by senior guard Jamarr Sanders and junior forward Cameron Moore, who average 18.6 and 16.7 points per game, respectively. Moore also averages 9.3 rebounds.

U of M senior forward Will Coleman, who will be matched up with the 6-foot-10 Moore, fouled out of the Tigers’ win against Southern Miss on Wednesday. Coleman and freshman forward Tarik Black, who had four fouls against Southern Miss, will need to stay out of foul trouble in order to prevent Moore from torching the Tigers.

The U of M will be with-out junior forward Wesley Witherspoon — who was reinstat-ed from his indefinite suspension Thursday — for the third straight game due to knee soreness.

“We won’t let him participate in practices or games until he’s 100 percent,” Pastner said, “and that could be two weeks, three weeks or the remainder of the season.”

Witherspoon underwent right knee meniscus surgery last month.

Pastner said that Witherspoon would not play until everyone — U of M coaches, medical staff and his family — agrees that he’s fully healed.

The key for the Tigers, as has been the case for them all season

long, is carrying the momentum from previous wins into tough road games.

Junior guard Charles

Carmouche, who hit the game-winning 3-pointer against the

Golden Eagles on Wednesday, said he was confident in the Tigers’ ability to move forward.

“(The win at Southern Miss) was big for us,” he said. “Our team is headed in the right direc-tion. We’re trying to get back to where we were in the beginning (of the season).”

Even though Wednesday’s game ended the Tigers’ drought in hostile environments, Pastner said there’s still room for growth against UAB.

“I believe over these last two games, we’ve shown signs of get-ting better,” he said. “But you’re only as good as your last game. Our focus now is consistency and taking that next step.”

The game tips off at 6 p.m. and will be aired on ESPN2.

Men’s Basketball

Tigers tangle with UAB in Top 3 C-USA matchup

Saturday’s game against Alabama-Birmingham will hardly be a layup for The U of M, which struggled on the road this season before winning at Southern Miss on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 76-75. The Blazers are currently one game behind the Tigers in Conference USA.

BY JOHN MARTINSports Editor

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