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Traveling, tuition and tiaras: divergent
A closer look at the budgets of SAC and SGA viewpoints
BY CHELSEA BOOZER
News Reporter
The student money trail at The
University of Memphis is paved with
campus-wide activities and scholarships,
but it’s littered with pageant regalia and
executive perks, all subsidized by man-
datory fees.
Student Activities Council’s $400,000
budget and Student Government
Association’s $265,000 budget consist
entirely of student-paid funds, including
fees charged to approximately 90 percent
of the student body that commutes to
campus.
Colis Chambers, director of student
affairs and finance, said SGA and SAC
“have the primary roles and responsibili-
ties for thinking broadly” for the student
body, which is why they receive funding
from a student fee.
If students want to know how their
money is being spent, they have a legal
right to access SGA’s and SAC’s budgets,
which are public records.
Prior to Nov. 22, a budget appeared
nowhere on SGA’s website, despite the
slogan touted last year by the reign-
Facing
the music
BY ERIN FLOYD
Contributing Writer
Somewhere there’s music,
How faint the tune.
Somewhere there’s heaven,
How high the moon.
Those who walked through the hall-
ways of the Rudi E. Scheidt Music
Building on a recent Tuesday evening
stopped to listen as Joyce Cobb, long-
time Memphis singer and moonlight-
ing University of Memphis music
instructor, stood in a classroom practic-
ing songs for an upcoming gig for an
audience of one. Students walked a
little slower as they passed the door,
peeking in to see who was belting out
lyrics from “How High the Moon,” a
signature tune of Ella Fitzgerald.
After a few more songs, the unex-
pected mini-concert came to a close,
and Cobb was able to sit down to talk
about herself and her career. Cobb said
her interest in performance began at an
early age.
“I think I was 4, 5, maybe 6 years
old in my grandmother’s church in
Oklahoma,” she said.
Her grandmother taught piano
ing F.A.C.E. party, “A Transparent SGA.”
After what President Hunter Lang called
an “intense” senate meeting, as well as
inquiries from Daily Helmsman reporters,
the budget was added to the site.
Prior to its inclusion on the website,
several phone calls, submission of a
Freedom of Information Act request and
completion of The University’s illegal
Public Records Inspection form were nec-
essary to view SGA’s full and detailed
budget.
Though SAC’s budget is also not acces-
sible online, SAC advisor Laura Hoffman
supplied it on request.
F ollow this story to page 4
for a detailed breakdown of
2010-2011 SGA and SAC operat-
ing budgets.
SGA’s Budget
Activities sponsored by SGA include
student travel, frosh camp, SGA’s spring
elections, a multicultural festival and
weeklong events for U of M’s basketball
homecoming.
The rest of the association’s budget goes
toward executive officer stipends, travel
Joyce Cobb, U of M instructor in the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music,
regularly performs her catalog of jazz, rock, pop and country covers at
a litany of Memphis venues.
lessons at her church, so Cobb got
involved with one of the programs it
offered. She decided to start by singing
“The Best Things in Life Are Free.”
“I performed that song in front of the
congregation of the church one Sunday,
Thursday,
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Vol. 78 No. 058
to state events for its president, expens-
es for students who attend Tennessee
Intercollegiate State Legislature, the $500
“Dreamers, Thinkers, Doers” scholarship
and operation funds for SGA, the senate
and Frosh Council.
Of the $10,000 allotted for SGA’s elec-
tion, advertisement accounts for 15 per-
cent. The remaining $8,500 is designated
for a graduate assistantship with U of M
professor Max Garzon in the computer
science department. Though compensat-
ed for a full year, the chosen GA is only
responsible for creating and operating
voting websites during the spring semes-
ter for the SGA election and basketball
homecoming.
According to SGA election commis-
sioner Anthony LaRocca, SGA is “chang-
ing the way we do elections,” who said he
isn’t sure if a graduate assistant will con-
tinue to be paid for running the website.
Thus far, no changes have been made.
Of the $2,000 spent on Mr. and Mrs. U
of M, half funds a scholarship for each,
and an equal amount is spent on the
flowers, crowns and supplies given to the
see Budgets, page 4
courtesy of Joyce Cobb
and I remember this total acceptance,”
Cobb said. “That’s really what it’s all
about — being accepted, causing reac-
tion, stimulating an audience to rise
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by Malcolm Regester
Colin Kidder, sculpture graduate student,
concentrates as he grinds a metal medium,
bringing his thesis sculpture into form.
BY ERICA HORTON
News Reporter
Toward the back of the Art Museum of The
University of Memphis on Wednesday after-
noon, a white folding wall blocked students’
view of an upcoming exhibit. Behind the wall,
Erin Jennings prepared 42 new spaces for
11-by-14 photographs, all featuring the naked
human form.
The work is part of the museum’s Master of
Fine Arts student thesis exhibition, “Content
Under Pressure,” which opens Saturday and
runs through Jan. 8.
The exhibit features the work of three art-
ists, photography graduate students Jennings,
Kate Wichlinski and sculpture graduate stu-
dent Colin Kidder. All share a central theme
— examining the way people look at one
another.
“It also came from the pressure we as art-
ists are under to make something good while
in an academic setting,” said Wichlinski,
whose photos focus on images from her per-
sonal life.
“I tried to instill emotion in mine,” she
said. “I tried to take portraits of people as
they really are, to find some core of who are
they are.”
Jennings, who already holds a master ’s
degree in political science with a concentra-
tion in film theory, said her art is inspired
by the different ways people view males and
females in photos and cinema.
Already surrounded by eight of her 4-by-3
photos of a man and woman naked from the
waist down, Jennings said she will display a
total of 50 nude photographs, all taken using
the digital infrared process.
see Masters, page 5
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Music
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to their feet and applaud. I think
that’s when it first hit me. It was a
‘they like me, they really like me’
sort of experience. I was hooked
from then on, but I never really
did much of it again until I joined
choral groups in high school.”
According to Cobb, family
members and other artists encour-
aged her interest in music.
“My mother was a dance
teacher, so I was always exposed
to classical, and my dad was a
jazz buff,” she said. “He was
really into bebop and big band
music. But when I became inde-
pendently into music and start-
ed developing my own tastes,
there was the whole rock-n-roll
influence — Elvis, Joni Mitchell,
Bob Dylan, disco, the Beatles, the
Rolling Stones, the Eagles. I love
a lot of R&B. As of today, I’m still
into various selections of hip hop,
smooth jazz and current writers,
like John Mayer, who I think are
good.”
Cobb said that she also respects
country music for its storylines.
“I was raised in Nashville, so
I grew up seeing Dolly Parton
when she weighed 150 pounds,”
she said with a laugh. “But yes, I
was exposed to a lot of country
music. In fact, a subsidiary label
of Stax signed me to sing country,
but fortunately the label closed
before I ever recorded. I couldn’t
imagine being a total country
singer with all of the other music
that I enjoy. So I’m comfortable
without a record label and sing-
ing all the songs I like. That’s cool
with me.”
Cobb said her varying tastes
and open mind have helped her
career.
“I’m really into a lot of music,”
she said. “From ‘40s swing to 2010
contemporary and everything in
between — I’m surviving today
because I can do all of that. I can
do Duke Ellington songs, Patsy
Cline songs, George Gershwin,
even Bach. Versatility is key.”
She admits, however, that it
usually takes more than talent
and versatility to succeed in the
music business.
“I’ve heard Duke Ellington say
that 80 percent is luck — being at
the right place at the right time,
in front of the right people,” Cobb
said. “But it’s also about being
prepared. So I would agree and
say it’s 80 percent luck, but also
20 percent study and practice.”
A Minute to Win It
Thursday, December 2, 2010 • 3
Cobb’s luck and practice seem you don’t want that. You want just fits my kind of character.”
to have paid off, since she was the shooter crowds. That was a hard Cobb takes pride in some of
tour, we started in Prague, Czech
Republic, and went to Austria
first woman to have a club in her lesson, because I really wanted her other feats beyond her club and southern Germany, Brussels,
name on Beale Street. Joyce Cobb’s to be a jazz club.” and radio show. Luxembourg — some amazing
“(Opening the club) was a While Beale Street itself may “I think my most major accom- jazz clubs. I definitely plan to
great moment — one of the high not be ready for a solely jazz plishment is when I wrote a song, continue traveling.”
points in my life,” Cobb said. “My club, Cobb is keeping jazz alive ‘Dig the Gold,’ and it made No. Cobb’s work has given her the
name was in neon lights 42 on Billboard,” she opportunity to meet and perform
“I
on Beale Street, and I got said. “It was because I with many celebrities, including
a brass note on the side- not only sang it but also Bill Cosby, the Righteous Brothers,
walk. I remember think- remember this total wrote it — that it was a the Temptations, Taj Mahal, Al
ing, ‘Oh, my God, what acceptance. That’s really big accomplishment to Jarreau, Muddy Waters, Rufus
have I done to deserve me. It was then that I Thomas, Ruby Wilson, Cybill
this?’ I just couldn’t what it’s all about — being realized how important Shepherd, Bobby McFerrin and
believe it. However, I had accepted, causing reac- and profitable publish- Kurt Elling.
a hard learning experi- ing can be. I took my first In addition to touring, Cobb
ence because nightclubs tion, stimulating an audi- check and put a down said her future plans include con-
are the liquor business.
There were nights that I
ence to rise to their feet payment on a home.”
Cobb said she’s also
tinuing to teach at The University
of Memphis for years to come.
felt like a pusher because and applaud.” pleased with her latest “I enjoy teaching classes as well
I wanted people to drink album. as doing the one-on-one instruc-
— that’s where you have to make
— Joyce Cobb “I have a new CD out with tion,” she said. “I started teach-
your money, the bar.” Music instructor Michael Jefry Stevens, which has ing here during the Gene Rush/
Despite the club’s challenging gotten some wonderful reviews, Tim Goodwin administration of
business aspect, Cobb took great in Memphis through her own both national and international,” the jazz department. Their only
joy in running it. gigs, as well as her radio show on she said. “We did a European concern was that, of course, I had
“It was magical because there WEVL 89.9 FM. tour, and we plan to do another to have a B.A. degree in order to
was a lot of Memphis showcas- “I love volunteer radio because one in 2012.” qualify to teach. But they thought
ing,” she said. “We had so many it allows you to bring your own Since her touring took her to that 20 to 33 years of experience
great people play in that club. concept of a show into the mix, many different areas of the world, was good enough as opposed
However, it made me realize that and you’re allowed to bring your she gained an appreciation for to an education degree. My par-
Beale Street wasn’t, and prob- selections from home,” she said. her home city. ents were teachers — my father
ably still isn’t, ready for a jazz “You don’t have a program direc- “I’m happy as long as I’m in taught college, and my mother
club. Jazz people usually come in tor telling you what to play every Memphis. I have no desire to taught high school. They were
and listen and maybe order two 15 minutes. You pretty much have leave it — I want to die and be hardworking teachers. They’d
wines the whole night, holding the freedom to play the music you buried here,” Cobb said. “But I come home so tired, and I swore
up a seat, and since the drinks want to play, as long as it fits the do like to go out in the world and
are where you make the money, theme and the FCC regulations. It visit different places. On this past see Music, page 6
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SGA Budget: $265,000

(numbers rounded as provided by the SGA)

Frosh Camp: $90,000

Executive scholarships (including tuition, stipends and parking): $40,000
Student travel expenses: $90,000
President’s travel expenses: $1,500
Election (including advertising and graduate assistantship for operation of election websites): $10,000
Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature expenses: $6,000
Basketball Homecoming (including food, entertainment, ads and T-shirts): $10,000
Multicultural Festival co-sponsor contribution: $2,000
Mr. and Mrs. U of M (including scholarships, flowers, crowns and supplies): $2,000
‘Dreamers, Thinkers, Doers’ scholarship: $500
SGA operational funds (including publicity, notebooks, copy fees and food): $5,000
Senate (including camp and retreat training, T-shirts and supplies): $6,000
Frosh Council (including T-shirts, supplies and food): $1,400

SAC Budget: $400,000

(numbers approximated as provided by the SAC)

Tuition, stipends and scholarships: $18,600

Travel to National Association for Campus Activities convention: $14,000
Frosh Frenzy: $5,400
Opening week events: $10,000
Printing, publicity, shipping and office supplies: $20,000
Fall, spring and summer programs (including high profile speakers and events like Wednesday Night Live, Friday Night Films, Alternative
Spring Break, Summer Splash Programs, along with Ideas and Issues programming — e.g. HIV awareness, ‘Why Do You Hate Me? Week’
and ‘Open Your Eyes, It’s Real: War’ — and Cultural Arts programming — e.g. Chinese acrobats, international concerts and cultural dance
lessons): $332,000

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finalists and two winners.
Current Mrs. U of M Cathy
Gianella, senior journalism and
Spanish double major, received
the award last spring. She said
the experience reminded her how
expensive that kind of pageantry
can be.
“It’s probably not the best use
of money,” she said. “I know how
much all that stuff costs.”
Shirts for senators comprise an
additional $1,000 in the budget.
When asked why students’ money
was spent on the apparel, Lang
said they wear their shirts around
campus to be visible to students
who wish to voice their opinions
to senators.
Frosh Camp gets $90,000, and
the same amount is also reserved
for student travel assistance. Any
student can request funding from
the SGA to help pay for academic-
related travel. Up to 70 percent of
the total expense may be rewarded.
In addition to the $40,366
already designated for four officers’
stipends, SGA’s proposed bud-
get for 2010-2011 says SGA wants
to appoint a Secretary of Human
Relations and Office Management
and “is looking to make this a
permanent, paid position.” The
budget does not specify what pay
the prospective secretary would
receive.
SAC’s Budget
Activities sponsored by SAC
include guest speakers, Frosh
Frenzy, opening week festivities,
Wednesday Night Live, Friday
Night Films, Alternative Spring
Break and programming that cen-
ters on Cultural Arts and Ideas and
Issues.
SAC’s budget allots 86.4 percent
of its money for those events.
The remainder of the budget
goes to supplies (about 5 percent)
and officer stipends and travel
expenses (8.15 percent).
Two officers receive tuition
through the council, and seven get
monthly stipends.
This fall, $6,000 funded a trip
to the National Association for
Campus Activities Regional
Conference for four students and
two staff members. In the spring,
an additional $8,000 will send five
students and one staff member to
the NACA National Convention.
SAC’s proposed budget states
that these conferences let students
“get leadership training as it relates
to student activities on university
campuses.”

Letter to the Editor

Dear Daily Helmsman,
I just wanted to thank you for reporting the
SGA story. I was shocked to find that my tuition
dollars pay for some officers’ free education.
I am frustrated by this because I feel I work
just as hard as they do. I do not believe any of
their justifications were strong enough to war-
rant a full ride.
What follows is an e-mail I am sending
to the SGA. I do not expect a response, but
nonetheless, I just feel obligated to express my
frustration:
Dear SGA,
I am a senior here at The U of M, and I
just finished reading the article in the Daily
Helmsman on Dec. 1 about my tuition paying
for your tuition.
I would like to express my frustration that
SGA’s seven officers receive full tuition reim-
bursement. I believe I work just as hard as
any of the seven officers, and I pay for school
myself. The argument that the officers “do not
have time” to find a job to help pay school is not
a good reason. I take 18 units a semester, and
I still find time to take on a part-time job and
keep straight As. The SGA’s requirements of
maintaining a 2.0 average and 6 units a semes-
ter do not merit a full tuition reimbursement.
I feel all the officers should not accept the
tuition reimbursement because they should
want to participate in SGA regardless. They
should want to improve the school and help
the student body because it is the right thing
to do.
The full tuition scholarship offers ulterior
motives for students to participate. Also, if the
SGA officers refused the tuition, they could
help keep someone from being laid off during
budget cuts or put the money into scholarships
for other students who cannot afford tuition or
focus on lowering tuition in general.
If the SGA officers feel they do deserve to
have their tuition paid for, I feel they should
apply for a grant from the state of Tennessee or
federal government.
The officers’ reward for their hard work
should come from helping fellow students.
Your fellow student,
Noelle Cross
The University of Memphis
Solutions
Masters
from page 1
“I’ve taken male and
female figures and cast them
in the same space so they can
be viewed as objectively as
possible,” she said.
The artists said they have
all been working on their
pieces for about a year.
Kidder, who finished the
majority of his pieces this
semester, said his sculptures
and video for the exhibit focus
on personal and social rela-
tionships between people.
One of his pieces is a
cross-like, 10-foot wooden
beam through which a dou-
ble-headed nail is wedged.
Two hammers placed on
each end of the nail strug-
gle simultaneously to pull
it out.
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struggle between people
and how we tend to work
against each other instead of
together,” he said.
Kidder ’s second piece, a
metal sculpture of a man
bending over backward and
stretching to kiss a woman,
represents a less-than-recip-
rocal effort put into an inti-
mate relationship.
His final work, a video
called “Black Alien,” is
about an extraterrestrial
coming to earth and trying
to deal with the fact that he
is an outsider. Kidder said
the short film addresses rac-
ism and society.
Wichlinski said she hopes
students come out to see
the different perspectives on
humanity each artist offers.
“It’s a chance to see what
we’re thinking about, and
it’s free and right here on
campus,” she said.
Life and Death
Will power
U of M lecture outlines specifics, benefits
of estate planning with students, faculty
BY MELISSA WRAY
News Reporter
Wednesday afternoon at the
Ned R. McWherter Library, the
director of planned giving at
The University of Memphis, Dan
Murrell, spoke to U of M students
and faculty about one of life’s
unavoidable realities — death.
Specifically, at “Know What
You Have and Where It Will Go,”
Murrell addressed estate plan-
ning, organizing one’s finan-
cial and personal affairs in the
event of mental incapacitation or
death.
“The benefits of effective estate
planning include the prompt and
private distribution of one’s estate
without the excessive involve-
ment and expense of courts and
attorneys, possible minimization
of taxes and other expenses,”
Murrell said. “The peace of mind
and knowledge that one’s assets
will go to the people and places
that they want them to go to the
greatest extent possible is another
benefit.”
Murrell, who has 13 years of
experience in the estate develop-
ment business, said that though
the estate planning process can
be uncomfortable, it is a deeply
personal act of love that benefits
one’s family.
In his presentation, Murrell
covered the importance of
including one’s retirement
assets and life insurance policies
in his or her will, the benefits
that one could reap from an
effective estate plan, the barri-
ers that one can encounter while
making an effective estate plan
and the effects of investing in
and committing to a charitable
organization.
“The retirement assets and
life insurance policies are often
overlooked in estate planning
because people believe that
the plan will cover everything,
including those two assets, and
that is not the case,” he said.
Murrell said that people should
include those two resources into
their wills because “they may be
the largest or most substantial
portions of their estate.”
Jane Garvin, paralegal at
Thursday, December 2, 2010 • 5
the Martin, Tate, Morrow and
Marston law firm, said that peo-
ple should also include trust pro-
visions and a guardian for minor
children in their wills.
“A will that is properly signed,
executed and notarized is much
easier to handle than a handwrit-
ten one,” she said.
Murrell said that giving chari-
tably in an estate plan helps “cre-
ate your legacy and pass on some
of your values.”
“One of the biggest mistakes
that people make in the estate
planning process is that they do
not consider including a chari-
table gift in their planning,” he
said.
Evonne Krell, professional
writing graduate student at The
U of M, said although she already
knew a lot of things about the
will-making process and the
importance of sharing it with her
family, she learned a few new
things from the presentation.
“I didn’t know anything about
the life insurance and retirement
policies being separate from one’s
will,” she said.
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Music
from page 3
I’d never be a teacher. But I ended
up becoming a teacher, and I’m
quite comfortable with it.”
Cobb has also found her com-
fort zone in the jazz genre, and
that’s where she would like to
stay, she said.
“With jazz, you can age grace-
fully and continue to sing. You
don’t have to put on spandex
when you’re 80, you know?” she
said. “You can be a jazz diva, or
whatever they want to call you.”
Though she is able to do what
she loves, Cobb said it is not
always easy.
“I think the hardest part of my
job is selling myself,” she said.
“You need an aggressive agent,
an aggressive record company
and a very aggressive distribu-
tion factor. Either one or two
seem to always be missing in my
life. I believe in myself and my
talents, but I know that a lack of
these elements makes it impos-
sible. The business of music is a
challenge to me. I will never get
it. What people consider to be
major success hasn’t ever, at this
point, been in my cards.”
Despite difficulty in timing
and circumstances, Cobb remains
positive.
“But that’s alright — because
I got rhythm. I got ‘Gershwin,’”
she said with a smile.
Cobb has other hobbies besides
singing, and many involve the
outdoors.
“A lot of people don’t know,
but I love fishing,” she said.
“And I haven’t done it in a while,
but I went cross-country camp-
ing — from Rhode Island to San
Francisco. I’d really like to do that
again. I love hiking, walking and
sports, especially tennis. I used to
play a lot of that.”
When asked about herself as
a person, she shared her artistic
views and discussed causes to
which she has dedicated herself.
“I really am one for doing your
art your way,” Cobb said. “I’m not
really conservative — extremely
liberal. I believe in the rights of
artists to express themselves
and the rights of people to
live their lives freely. I’m very
humane. I’m also involved in per-
formances for the elderly. And
children — I love working with
children. I like working in theater,
too, because I think it’s great ther-
apy for anybody. You get to know
yourself and your limitations.”
Cobb said that she feels any-
one who performs music has a
big responsibility.
“You can teach people things,
help people through their prob-
lems, impart ideas — so it’s quite
powerful to be a music person.
On my tombstone, I’ll probably
have ‘So many songs, so little
time.’”
Her final words of advice cen-
ter echo her carpe diem outlook:
“Just don’t stop till you drop,
from parental care to Medicare,
and still feelin’ fine,” she said.
“No matter how you obtain it,
have joy in your life. And elimi-
nate stress. I feel that stress kills
you, you know? Whatever it
takes to be happy — as close to
happiness as you can get — live
it. That’s my recipe for longevity.
And no French fries.”
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Basketball
Tigers avoid upset in 78-71 OT win
“We just took our foot off the like this, it won’t be pretty.”
BY JOHN MARTIN
gas for a little while,” said fresh- With 35 seconds left in the
Sports Reporter
man guard Will Barton, who game and the Tigers clinging
It took more time than usual, led the team with 20 points and to a one-point lead, ASU guard
but The University of Memphis six rebounds. “People weren’t Daniel Bryant drew a shoot-
men’s basketball team managed playing defense anymore. We ing foul on U of M sophomore
to escape FedExForum with stopped moving the ball, and D.J. Stephens. Bryant, who led
a 78-71 win in overtime over we gave a lackluster effort.” the Red Wolves with 16 points,
Arkansas State University on The Tigers also got little help made 1-of-2 foul shots and tied
Wednesday night. from their big men, as senior the game at 65-65.
Early in the first half, the forward Will Coleman, who Freshman guard Chris
contest began looking like a rou- fouled out in the last minute of Crawford, who played the point
tine blowout for the Tigers (6-0). regulation play, finished with in the final minute of regulation,
They jumped out to a sizeable three points and four rebounds. ran the clock down below 10
23-5 lead against the Red Wolves “This can’t happen, man,” seconds before he drove to the
(1-6) as the The U of M’s defense Coleman said. “If we play like basket and ultimately shot an
clamped down and forced ASU this Saturday, it’s a guaranteed airball as time expired.
to 2-of-20 shooting early on. loss. Because Western Kentucky “I was trying to get to the
During an eight-minute is a way better team than
stretch during the first half, Arkansas State. And if we play see B-BaLL, page 8
the Tigers held the Red Wolves
without a field goal. The U of
M, seemingly, would be able to
cruise to a 6-0 start.
Arkansas State, however,
fought back and cut the lead to
11 points by halftime. With 15
minutes left in the second half,
the Tigers lead was whittled
down to six.
“They never stopped playing,”
said freshman guard Antonio
Barton, who finished with 10
points and three rebounds. “We
saw that we were up 18 points,
and we expected them to fold,
but they didn’t.”
In the second half, the Red
Wolves’ zone defense flustered
the speedy Tigers and forced
them to settle for ill-advised
shots. The Tigers shot 4-of-14 on
3-pointers in the half.
by David C. Minkin
Sophomore guard D.J. Stephens came up big for the Tigers
in overtime, finishing with six points and five rebounds in
15 minutes of play, as well as making a transition layup to
put The U of M up 78-71 in the closing seconds.
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Technology
Wireless carriers muddying waters
with arbitrary ‘4G’ network claims
BY WAILIN WONG
Chicago Tribune
The marketing world is
full of vague adjectives like
“new,” “better” or “healthy”
that don’t necessarily mean
much.
The wireless industry
has its own buzzword: 4G.
Carriers have taken the
technical-sounding term for
fourth generation and turned
it into a vehicle for compet-
ing advertising claims that
could confuse consumers.
Starting with Clearwire
Corp. and Sprint Nextel
Corp., wireless carriers have
used 4G to describe a major
leap in speed, capacity and
power over other networks.
But operators don’t agree on
what constitutes that techno-
logical milestone. As a result,
4G has become a marketing
term almost unrelated to its
technical definition, which is
determined by industry stan-
dards bodies.
Earlier this month,
T-Mobile USA Inc. said it had
expanded its 4G service to
six markets, adding them to
a roster of “America’s larg-
est 4G network.” The carri-
er ’s announcement prompt-
ed grumbling from some of
its competitors, which said
T-Mobile was trying to pass
off an improved 3G network
as a new 4G network. Critics
noted that the carrier itself
had refrained from using
“4G” to describe its technol-
ogy, called HSPA+, when it
was introduced.
T-Mobile is unapologetic.
“For customers, it’s setting
an expectation of a significant
change in their experience,”
said Bentley Alexander,
T-Mobile’s regional vice
president of engineering and
operations. “It’s a step above
and beyond the experience
folks are having today. ... It’s
appropriate to call it a 4G
network, and we’re proud to
call it that.”
The raised eyebrows over
T-Mobile’s 4G announcement
underscore the ultracompeti-
tive nature of the wireless
industry, which is hungry
for revenue from mobile
data servi ces — Web surfing,
video streaming and photo
sharing — that will be fur-
ther enabled by the newest
network technology. Every
carrier wants to show it has
the best pipelines for that
data, and 4G is elegant mar-
keting shorthand.
“To us, what it means is it’s
the next generation of tech-
nology,” said Mike Sievert,
Clearwire’s chief commercial
officer. “It has to be more
than just faster. ... It also has
to have higher capacity, the
tons of megabytes of data
that we know people want.
And, finally, there has to be
Thursday, December 2, 2010 • 7
a breakthrough in the cost of
the technology.”
Verizon Wireless plans to
launch its 4G network in 38
markets on Sunday, while
AT&T Inc. says it will make
its 4G debut in 2011. Both car-
riers use a technology called
Long Term Evolution, or LTE.
Clearwire and Sprint’s net-
work technology, also used
by Comcast Corp., is known
as WiMax.
If a carrier is pitching
“4G-like speeds, or ‘Yesterday
I had a 3G network; today
I’m going to brand it as a 4G
network,’ you’ve got to look
under the hood a little bit
and do a true comparison,”
said T.J. Fox, president of the
Illinois and Wisconsin region
at Verizon Wireless.
In the wireless indus-
MCT
try, various agencies coor-
dinate how the radio spec- Verizon Wireless senior technician Jim Harper works at a switching center in Los Angeles.
trum is used globally and The company and other major cellular providers have spent billions to build 4G networks,
set technology standards, many of which have yet to live up to their expectations. Worldwide, the United States does
which are important for not stack up to international standards of established 4G criteria.
interoperability between
communications systems. In carriers aren’t giving up the A c c o rd i n g to Ya n k e e AT&T is moving its mar-
October, the International term. And because there is no Group, the message is not k e t i n g f o c u s a w a y f ro m
Telecommunication Union, agency with legal authority reaching consumers. A sur- using 4G, said Dave Fine,
a United Nations agency, over how 4G should be used vey conducted this year t h e c a r r i e r ’ s v i c e p re s i -
announced its designations in advertising, carriers are showed 66 percent of par- dent and general manag-
for “true 4G technologies.” free to describe their tech- ticipants were unfamiliar er in Illinois. He said that
All of the U.S. networks tout- nology however they please. with the term 4G. Even 3G while “the number is get-
ed as 4G fall short of ITU This dynamic mirrors how was confusing. t i n g a c ro s s , t h e m e s s a g e
criteria. “all natural,” for example, “Our research shows that might be lost in the num-
“None of the networks has become a ubiquitous yet it made no sense to label the ber” because of competing
today meet the ITU’s speci- hazily defined term. technology 4G,” Nicoll said. claims over whether a net-
fications for 4G,” said Chris “It was clear this was a “Over half of the consum- work is 3G or 4G.
Nicoll, a distinguished brand-new network. It had ers we surveyed either had “We’ve changed our mes-
research fellow at the Yankee never been built before, and never heard of 3G or didn’t sage in our advertising and
Group. “It’s like saying, “My it was clearly an advanced know what 3G was. So if out in public because it’s
bicycle is a car because it network,” said Todd Rowley, they don’t know what the about the fastest mobile
has wheels and has the same vice president of 4G at baseline was, going to the broadband,” Fine said. “Do
(technology) roadmap to get Sprint. “Because a group of next G doesn’t give you a you want the fastest mobile
to the automobile.’” very smart people that are moving point. They could broadband network or do
Still, with so much recognized said, ‘Hey, this have called it anything, and you want G’s? We want to
momentum behind making is the bar,’ does that mean the consumer would have simplify the message to the
4G a household name, the it’s the bar? I say no.” been just as confused.” consumer.”
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Russell’s Take
Poor preparation almost comes back to bite Tigers
Though men’s basketball coach Josh Pastner has repeatedly
said junior forward Wesley Witherspoon and senior forward
Will Coleman are the leaders of this year’s young squad, he
told his players before Wednesday night’s game that there
is no team captain of the Tigers. Afterward, Coleman said
Pastner’s words “hurt,” because “he said he has never been
more disappointed in a team, ever.”
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Josh Pastner doesn’t use
the word “disappointed” very
often.
But following the Tigers’
narrow 78-71 overtime vic-
tory over Arkansas State on
Wednesday night, “disap-
pointed” was the word of the
night.
“I was extremely disappoint-
ed with our effort tonight,”
Pastner said. “We were very
fortunate and lucky tonight to
win the game.”
Oftentimes throughout the
contest, Pastner ’s young squad
lacked a sense of urgency, opt-
ing to rely on talent instead of
doing the little things neces-
sary for a win. But somehow,
The University of Memphis
men’s basketball team came
away with yet another victory,
its sixth in a row.
by David C. Minkin
Though Pastner said a 6-0
record “beats being 5-1 or 4-2,”
he still wasn’t pleased by the
outcome — a sentiment he
made clear to the team.
“Coach Pastner told us after
the game that he has never
been this disappointed in a
team, ever, and that hurt,” said
senior forward Will Coleman,
who had three points and four
rebounds off the bench.
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shortly after tip-off or the
screaming at certain players
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the floor, but Pastner showed
signs that he knew ahead of
time that his players might not
be prepared.
“I could tell in the two or
three days leading up to the
game that they were playing
loosey-goosey,” Pastner said.
“Even in shoot-around, the
coaches were telling me, some
players were giggling and
laughing, and they weren’t
prepared.”
For The U of M to remain
a consistent, winning team —
and maintain its top-15 rank-
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a key point. No longer do the
Tigers have the refined weap-
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the switch and win the game.”
Though they have the talent
to get big leads, they simply
don’t have the killer instinct to
put teams away. That’s when
preparation comes into play.
When Pastner became
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prevents poor performance.
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night’s game, The U of M’s
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the second-year coach had in
mind.
In fact, Pastner was so
displeased before facing the
Red Wolves that he reiterat-
ed a strong point to his team
— there is no captain of this
year ’s Tigers. Not Coleman, the
team’s sole senior, nor junior
forward Wesley Witherspoon,
who was The U of M’s most
valuable player in its first five
games.
“It hurt, especially with me
being a senior,” Coleman said.
“It hurt me, just because of
what he said and how disap-
pointed he was — this cannot
happen again.”
For others, the close game
served as a wake-up call.
“Our talent helped us get
the lead, but the preparation
wasn’t there,” said freshman
guard Joe Jackson, who had 10
points and five assists. “This
was my first overtime in col-
lege. It opened my eyes that
any team can stay in the game
with you.”
Even as lesser-known teams
present problems for the
Tigers, they manage to con-
tinue winning.
Pastner said his team was
lucky to come away with the
win this time.
For now, at least, it’s better
to be lucky than good.
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paint and force a foul or get an
open shot,” Crawford said. “I
thought I got fouled, but the ref-
erees didn’t see it.”
In overtime, the Tigers used a
9-0 run to pull away once and for
all from the pesky Red Wolves.
Even with the hard-fought vic-
tory, however, U of M coach Josh
Pastner was hardly pleased with
the team’s performance.
“Tonight, we played like it
was a right to play on the floor,
not a privilege,” Pastner said.
“And what bugs me more than
anything is pouting, when guys
think that they’re owed some-
thing — that drives me up the
wall.”
Pastner added that he could
sense complacency throughout
the Tigers’ practices this week
and in their shoot-around before
the game.
“The guys were loosey-goosey,
they’re giggling,” he said. “I
don’t know if it’s because of the
(holiday) layoff, but whatever
it is, it can’t happen. But there’s
only so much you can do. I’ve
used the bench as a motivational
tool. I’ve subbed guys out, but
eventually the team’s got to take
ownership of it.”
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