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Money for knowing

and the books for free
BY CHRIS DANIELS
News Reporter
In grade school, some students
receive a dollar for every A on
their report card.
Manpower Demonstration
Research Corporation is investi-
gating how effective that premise
might be with college students
by testing an incentive-based
scholarship in four states with
the hope that it will motivate
low-income students to complete
their courses and graduate with
a degree.
by Megan Harris
enroll in college full-time, exhib-
ited higher rates of semester-to-
semester retention and earned
more college credits, the non-
profit research organization
reported.
MDRC will explore national-
izing the program in 2012 after
its research is completed.
Tyson said the only way finan-
cial assistance could “hurt” a stu-
dent is if the student fails to meet
the requirements to maintain the
monetary support. In most cases,
the student understands these
requirements but may be eligible

They tested the strategy as for other forms of financial aid if

part of their “Performance-Based
Scholarship Demonstration,” in
which students who maintained
Learning never tasted so good. The student who spends the most dining dollars at at least a 2.0 grade point average
an on-campus vending machine from now until Dec. 18 will receive up to $500 in were awarded money in three
textbooks for the spring semester. Any student who uses dining dollars at a Pepsi installments: $250 upon enroll-
vending machine will also be entered into a drawing for an identical prize. ment, $250 at midterms and $500
they are not met.
“We tend to reward excellence
in this country, in whatever form
it takes,” she said.
Tyson said that ultimately, a
student’s education is under his
or her own control.

Pepsi Pimpinʼ
BY MIKE MUELLER
News Reporter
Soda-sipping students at
The University of Memphis
can swipe their way to free
books next semester, thanks
to a new promotion from
Pepsi.
Every student who uses
dining dollars to purchase
a beverage from the Pepsi
vending machines on cam-
pus through Dec. 18, the final
exam day of the semester, has
a chance to win up to $500
in textbooks for the spring
semester from University
Bookstore.
The student who spends
the most dining dollars at
Pepsi machines during the
promotion, which began
Monday, will also receive up
to $500 in books for next
semester.
A random drawing will
determine the winner of all
other students who swipe
their campus ID cards.
Sandy Barksdale, director
of auxiliary services at The U
of M, came up with the idea
and pitched it to PepsiCo Inc.
“I thought textbooks help-
ing students was better than
a gimmick prize,” she said.
“Five hundred dollars in
textbooks would probably
help. That would be a nice
surprise for someone.”
Barksdale added that if
students get excited and the
promotion is successful, it
could return in the spring.
after the semester’s completion.
April Tyson, associate direc-
tor of financial aid and schol-
arships at The University of
Memphis, said the greatest ben-
efit of any financial assistance
is that it helps students further
their education.
“Regardless of the reason(s)
why the student is receiving
the aid — financial need, aca-
demic performance, physical
performance — the assistance
is designed to increase the stu-
dent’s chances to obtain (his or
her) higher educational goals,”
she said.
PBSD was based on the find-
ings of a 2003 MDRC program,
“Opening Doors Demonstration,”
in which two New Orleans col-
leges showed promising results.
Students were more likely to
“It is up to each individual
student to discover just what
motivates each of them to learn,”
she said.
Andrea Graves, sophomore
psychology major and recipient
of the academic-based HOPE
scholarship, said financial aid
is a wonderful way to help stu-
dents further their academic
career and cope with newfound
independence.
“It has helped me realize the
importance of saving my money,”
she said. “Mostly it gives me one
less thing to be stressed about so
I can work less and focus on my
studies.”
With the MDRC’s program
requiring no more than a C aver-
age to maintain aid, some students
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Tigers end the season

with 37-17 loss to UCF
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BY JOSEPH RUSSELL pass completions for 252 yards and two

Sports Editor
For The University of Memphis foot-
ball team, the never-ending struggle of
the 2010 season is now over. The Tigers
closed out their schedule Saturday with a
37-17 loss to Conference USA foe Central
Florida in front of an announced crowd of
14,992 at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium
on Senior Day.
Freshman quarterback Jeff Godfrey led
the Knights (9-3, 7-1 C-USA) with 14-of-17
touchdowns — four passes for 118 yards
and both scores to senior wide receiver
Jamar Newsome — as well as an addi-
tional touchdown on the ground.
Meanwhile, the Tigers (1-11, 0-8) got
major productivity from their own fresh-
man quarterback, as Ryan Williams com-
pleted 21-of-34 passes for 272 yards and
two touchdowns with one interception.
But with just 23 total rushing yards, The Freshman quarterback Ryan Williams completed 24-of-31 passes for 272
yards and two touchdowns with one interception in The U of M’s 37-17 loss
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question whether the scholar-
ship’s recipients will be pushed
enough in the classroom.
Victoria Peters, freshman
exercise science major, said
incentives can effectively pro-
mote better grades but may send
students the wrong message.
“Incentives make students
learn more, but not for the right
reasons,” she said. “They make
students learn for the money,
not just for knowledge or ways
that might benefit them.”
Lauren Smith, junior health
services administration major,
voiced similar sentiments, add-
ing that students might not
achieve their full potential if
the academic bar is set too low.
“If students are being paid
to make grades, they wouldn’t
care about making good grades.
They wouldn’t strive for an A,”
she said. “They would prob-
ably just do well enough to
receive the money.”
Though she understands the
financial needs of some stu-
dents, Smith said such schol-
arships illustrate how college
has lost its focus on academic
achievement, instead func-
tioning as a stepping-stone to
employment.
“I get the feeling that no one
really cares about learning,”
she said. “They’re just trying
to get that piece of paper — the
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U of M’s offense failed to gener-
ate enough points to come back
from an early deficit.
“I thought this game was a
lot like our season,” Tigers coach
Larry Porter said afterward.
“We had a lot of opportunities,
but we just couldn’t quite put it
together.”
Godfrey opened the game’s
scoring with a 9-yard touch-
down scamper on UCF’s second
possession of the game. The
U of M immediately answered
with a 6-play, 74-yard drive,
capped off by a 23-yard strike
from Williams to sophomore
wide receiver Marcus Rucker, to
tie the score at 7-7 with 3:38 left
in the first quarter.
“If you look at some of the
plays (Williams) made today,
he checked us into the right
play, and that was critical,”
Porter said. “He is beginning to
see these things. Without them
even moving, he knew blitz
was coming, and so I thought
that was critical in terms of
growth.”
The Knights took the lead
early in the second quarter with
a 27-yard field goal by junior
kicker Nick Cattoi, then junior
running back Latavius Murray’s
4-yard rushing score, to take a
16-7 lead at the break.
The Tigers had a chance to
cut into the lead, but senior kick
returner D.A. Griffin fumbled
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the second-half kickoff, giving
the ball back to UCF. Murray
then scored on a 7-yard touch-
down run four plays later, finish-
ing with 75 yards and two scores
on 16 rushing attempts.
“I thought we gave (UCF) a
number of opportunities and
gave them an advantage in terms
of easy scores,” Porter said. “But
when you look back at this game,
I felt that we had an opportunity
to win. We just didn’t quite put
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respectively — in the opening
minutes of the fourth quarter,
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touchdown pass to senior tight
end Deven Onarheim with 37
seconds left in the game, end-
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outcome on an otherwise disap-
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The University of Memphis
Remembering Ethan
Family of gunshot victim pushes for legislation
BY SARA PATTERSON
Sports Reporter
Alan and Cathie Jacobs were
on their way to dig for rocks in
Mount Ida, Ark. — the self-pro-
claimed “quartz crystal capital of
the world” — on the day their son
was shot in Memphis.
The Jacobs had just arrived at
their destination and were settling
in for a Memorial Day weekend
getaway in 2007 when Cathie’s
mother called with the news: Their
son Ethan had been shot in the
parking lot near his houseboat at
the McKellar Lake marina and was
in critical condition.
The couple sped back to the
Regional Medical Center at
Memphis. Ethan, 31 years old, died
at 2:30 the next afternoon from
organ damage and internal bleed-
ing caused by the gunshot wound.
And just like that, the rock that
was the Jacobs family began to
crack.
Three years after his son’s death,
Alan Jacobs, a geologist, looked
from his recliner to the box of igne-
ous matter sitting on the breakfast
table. Rocks were strewn about
the Jacobs’ single-story home on
a quiet street in East Memphis.
Gneiss, a granite rock transformed
by heat and pressure, shared a
space on the mantle with a picture
of Ethan, a broad-shouldered man
with glasses, neatly cropped brown
hair and a goatee.
“The MED did a wonderful job,
but you know, it was too much
damage to his body,” Alan said,
taking long pauses. “I had to make
the call for them to take him off life
support.”
Alan said that day was a night-
mare. Ethan had an exuberant,
“larger-than-life” personality, his
mother said. An active person, he
preferred hard labor to homework
and hopped around from one job
to the next: plumbing, construc-
tion, sales and security. He enjoyed
being near the water and got his
license to work on barges in the
Mississippi River, but Cathie said
he was like an elephant on a tree
trunk when he tried to jump from
barge to barge.
When he moved to a house-
boat on McKellar Lake, his par-
ents noted their concern for his
safety in the downtown area. But
Ethan had lived in more danger-
ous places, including Israel, where,
his grandmother proudly noted,
he once helped pull people out of a
burning synagogue.
Born in Texas, Ethan moved
with his family to Memphis after
he finished 11th grade. The football
coach at White Station High School
spotted Ethan on his first day and
begged him to join the team, but
sports weren’t really Ethan’s cup
of tea.
Instead, he became involved
with his synagogue, Baron Hirsch,
and hoped to create a place in
Memphis for Jewish singles. His
parents created a fund in his name
through the Memphis Jewish
Foundation, and Cathie said they
plan to use some of the money on
projects that Ethan dreamed up but
will never have a chance to fully
realize.
Cathie and Alan said news of
Ethan’s murder shook the Jewish
community.
“Things like this generally don’t
happen in a community like this,”
Alan said. “The outpouring at the
funeral was overwhelming.”
The Jacobs, a strongly religious
family, turned to the structure of
the Jewish mourning process to
cope with their loss. The first week
was an intense period of mourning,
known as Shiva, during which the
family members removed them-
selves from society. For the next 23
days, called Shloshim, mourners
still observed restrictions to facili-
tate the process in accordance with
their religion. For a year following
Ethan’s death, the Jacobs adhered
to certain mourning guidelines,
studying the Torah and praying
for Ethan with family members.
The pain slowly and slightly
began to fade, but it was replaced
by a new sensation. The fire of
activism was lit in Cathie’s heart
and began to blaze.
“It was just … I had to do some-
thing,” Cathie explained, tears
streaming down her cheeks.
And so, in a state where any
law dealing with guns is a hot-
button issue, the family entered
the political landscape. Pain was
their motivation — the Jacobs saw
advocacy as their chance to make
a difference in the community that
had shown them so much support
in the months following Ethan’s
death.
“If this prevents somebody else
from getting killed, then yes, it is
worth the fight,” Alan said.
***
After going out on Beale Street
on May 27, 2007, around midnight,
Ethan was walking with a friend
through a dark parking lot by his
houseboat when an unfamiliar
car approached. The Jacobs said
Ethan’s killer asked him if he “had
it,” and shots rang out before Ethan
could ask what the driver was talk-
ing about. Police told the media
it was an apparent robbery, but
the Jacobs family said Ethan still
had his wallet on him after the
incident. Cathie speculated that it
Ethan Jacobs, pictured at right with his younger sister Rena,
was one of six people killed in Memphis over a four-day span
around Memorial Day in 2007.
was a gang initiation or maybe a
random act of violence — senseless
in either case.
A past president of the Memphis
chapter of Hadassah, Cathie turned
to the Jewish women’s organi-
zation to help guide her activist
efforts. The Memphis Hadassah
chapter scheduled three forums to
“educate, motivate and activate”
the community. Each forum con-
sisted of a panel with a member
of the police force, a judge and a
victim’s family member.
The forums helped connect
Cathie with a larger network of
Memphis activists who had similar
stories and priorities. The strong
relationship between the Jewish
and African-American communi-
ties — dating to the Civil Rights
Era — bound Hadassah to local
grassroots organizations, such
as Operation Safe Communities
and Freedom from Unnecessary
Negatives.
“We are supportive and con-
stantly collaborating,” said
Rosalind Moore, who co-founded
FFUN with her husband, Stevie,
after their son Prentice was killed
in 2003 leaving the now-defunct
“Denim and Diamonds” nightclub
in Memphis.
“We work not only on a local
level but actively engage with
other communities,” she said. “My
husband is aware of legislation in
the state, and having his expertise
helps drive where we focus.”
In January 2008, several groups
came together to focus on the
Tennessee General Assembly, and
a busload headed to Nashville
eight months after Ethan’s death.
The demonstrators were to carry
signs with pictures of their lost
loved ones.
On the nearly three-hour ride
from Memphis to the Tennessee
Capitol, people took turns walking
to the front of the bus and telling
their stories. It was emotional, the
Jacobs said, and when they arrived
in Nashville, Ethan’s family — his
mom and dad, his sister, his grand-
mother — found the courage to
share their experience with legisla-
tors they’d never met.
courtesy of the Jacobs family
“We just sort of wanted to put
a human face to the cause,” said
Rena Jacobs, Ethan’s younger
sister.
Lobbying under the auspices
of the Tennessee Public Safety
Coalition, the Jacobs urged law-
makers to pass a package of seven
bills that the group said would
help reduce gun-related crimes.
One bill proposed harsher
penalties for people found in pos-
session of handguns after being
convicted of felonies involving the
use of force or a deadly weap-
on. Another bill would eliminate
parole for aggravated robbery, and
yet another would provide tough-
er sentences for crimes involv-
ing handguns. Other bills sought
greater resources for prosecutors
and tougher penalties for drivers
caught operating vehicles under
the influence of drugs and alcohol.
The group had limited success
in Nashville, Alan said. A few of
the bills passed, and others were
tabled. When TPSC returned this
February, they brought up many of
the same bills.
Attempting to persuade legisla-
tors with statistics, TPSC turned
to 2006 FBI crime data that listed
Tennessee as the state with the
second-highest violent crime
rate in the nation, with 760.2 per
100,000 residents, second only to
South Carolina. In 2007, Tennessee
was ranked seventh in the nation
in firearm-related deaths by the
Violence Policy Center, an advo-
cate for gun control.
But statistics weren’t enough
to win over the legislature, and
Alan said he thought it was partly
because the group’s message was
drowned out by the strong coali-
tion of gun rights advocates push-
ing their own agenda in the capitol
around the same time.
“We tried to make it abundantly
clear that we are not trying to lobby
for gun control, but it’s a hot-but-
ton topic, and people get really sen-
sitive — they get worked up into
a fervor,” Rena said. “Meanwhile,
people are suffering because (gun
rights advocates) aren’t willing to
concede. It’s not really a conces-
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 • 5
sion, but for them, everything leads
to taking away the right to have
weapons, which is unfortunate.”
***
In 2009, the Tennessee legisla-
ture passed a series of laws backed
by gun lobbyists, including two
controversial bills that allow hand-
gun-carry permit holders to bring
guns into public parks and restau-
rants that serve alcohol. Gun rights
issues also dominated the final
weeks of the 2010 gubernatorial
race, and Republican Bill Haslam
said people should be allowed to
keep their guns locked in their
vehicles at work, regardless of their
employers’ policies about having
firearms on the property. In the
last week of the race, Haslam told
the Tennessee Firearms Association
that if a bill abolishing the cur-
rent handgun-carry permit system
passed in the legislature, he would
sign it into law.
Haslam won the election.
Shelby County commissioner
and University of Memphis asso-
ciate law professor Steve Mulroy
said it was evident that the gun
lobby had a stronghold in state
government, even though the
gun lobbyists’ views are not
proportionally reflected in the
state’s citizenry.
“I think it is pretty clear — polls
show and common sense shows
that most people don’t like the
idea of guns in bars and parks,
yet the legislature passed those
laws,” Mulroy said. “It shows that
the lobby is extremely powerful. It
doesn’t really matter what popular
view is because it’s not unpopular
enough that people will vote you
out of office for it, so I believe
the legislature is knowingly going
against what constituents would
want.”
A poll released by Middle
Tennessee State University in
October 2009 found that most
Tennesseans disagreed with the
gun rights laws now in effect in
the state. Eighty percent of state
residents opposed allowing per-
mit holders to carry handguns
in bars, 54 percent opposed guns
in parks and 60 percent opposed
them in restaurants. The Tennessee
Newspaper Network conducted
a poll this summer with similar
results. Seven in 10 voters said
they opposed the law to allow
handguns in restaurants that serve
alcohol.
Opponents of gun control say
the polls aren’t an accurate assess-
ment because people may not real-
ize that gun owners still cannot
legally drink alcohol while carrying
their weapons, even though they
can now bring guns into establish-
ments where alcohol is served.
Shelby County issued the high-
est number of permits, 14,389, to
carry a handgun in the state in
2009. Knox County was next with
7,869, and Davidson came in third
at 7,348. The highest number of
handgun carry permit suspen-
sions, revocations and denials also
went to Shelby County, with 143,
translating to about one in every
100 permits issued in the county.
Most of the people who bought
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Long-term joblessness creates anxiety, family conflict
BY ANNA GOTTLIEB
Contributing Writer
You might call it the domino
effect.
First, 36-year-old Tasha
Menzter lost her management
position at a Memphis-area fur-
niture retailer. Then, she had to
move in with her parents because
she could no longer afford her
apartment. As the months of
unemployment rolled on,
Menzter’s car was repossessed.
“I tried to stay positive, but
there were moments where I’d
feel sorry for myself,” she said.
Mentzer is among the 6.2 mil-
lion Americans who have lost
their jobs during the current
economic downturn and have
remained unemployed for more
than 27 weeks.
Research shows the effects
of long-term unemployment
can be more than financial,
as it often results in low self-
esteem, depression, marital dif-
ficulties, lost friendships and
more responsibility handed to
the children of unemployed
parents.
After seven months of unem-
ployment, Mentzer moved back
to her home state of Ohio, since
she could not find a job in the
Memphis area. Her husband,
from whom she was separated,
and two of her three children had
already moved to Ohio. Mentzer
had stayed to accommodate her
16-year-old daughter’s desire
to finish her sophomore year of
high school in Southaven, Miss.
Though Mentzer said her
joblessness did not affect her
marriage, Mindy Kronenberg,
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adjunct psychology professor
at The University of Memphis,
said it can cause tension in a
relationship.
“I’ve noticed in research where
there’s increased marital conflict
following loss of job,” she said.
“That may be because the indi-
vidual loses self-respect and has
depression or anxiety and irrita-
bility, which lead to conflict.”
Jeannie Hicks, 46, of
Greenwood, Ind., who was
unemployed from July 1, 2009, to
May 17, used her credit with gas
and electric companies to avoid
situations like Mentzer’s.
“I tried to eliminate any unnec-
essary needs,” Hicks said. “I built
up a credit on gas and electric
bills, so I could use that (later).”
Hicks said long-term unem-
ployment caused major changes
in her life, but the biggest stress
was financial difficulty.
“I started to work doing dif-
ferent things under the table,”
she said. “I did things I wouldn’t
typically do, like working at
my friend’s café and cleaning
houses.”
She also became involved in
child care, taking charge of a
friend’s young son during tradi-
tional work hours.
Two-thirds of unemployed
adults “make the best of their
bad situation” and take odd
jobs like babysitting or house-
hold chores, according to a Pew
Research Center study conduct-
ed this year on the impact of
long-term unemployment during
this recession.
“My parents would pay me for
doing work for them around the
house,” Mentzer said. “It wasn’t
much, but it did help.”
Aside from the expected finan-
cial consequences of unemploy-
ment, the Pew study confirmed
that a third of those unemployed
lost self-respect, and four in 10
lost contact with friends.
Both Mentzer and Hicks said
although they lost some self-
worth, their friendships grew
stronger.
“For me, personal relation-
ships became stronger because
friends would look out for me,”
Hicks said. “If we went out, they
would pick up the tab. Things
like that.”
Hicks wasn’t the only one who
suffered financially during her
unemployment. When she lost
her job as an admissions adviser
at DeVry University, her son’s
free tuition through the school
went with it.
“We really didn’t have to pay
for anything until she lost her
job,” said Josh Hicks, 21, a stu-
dent at the Tinley Park, Ill., cam-
pus of the university. “Then we
had to actually start taking out
loans. All of them are in my
name, besides the Parent PLUS
loan that she took out.”
Hicks’ son said he had to get a
job in order to pay for his portion
of college costs, and his mother
had to borrow money from her
parents and him.
“Her checks weren’t even
coming to her at first because
DeVry messed up,” he said. “So
she had to borrow money every
now and then from her mom and
dad to help pay for things.”
Hicks said his mother strug-
gled with the fact that she might
not get a job in the same field as
she had before. His mother said
she is now in a different field and
had to start at the bottom of the
ladder.
“Before, I was an admissions
adviser in the education industry
and technical sales,” she said.
“Now, I am in a manufacturing
environment doing production
planning. First, I was a produc-
tion technician.”
According to the Pew study, 29
percent of those unemployed for
longer than six months say their
new jobs are worse than their
previous jobs. Though Menzter
found a job within a week of
moving to Ohio, she said it is
worse than the jobs she had in
Memphis.
“I went from managing a
store to working at McDonald’s,”
Mentzer said. “I made $42,000 a
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year, and now I make minimum
wage. It’s a bit depressing, and I
can’t buy things for my kids as
much as I’d like.”
Mentzer said her children
understand the situation, and
they know things will get better
eventually. However, Hicks’ son
said the only thing his mother
wanted to do was work, and
he felt bad that she couldn’t do
that.
Kronenberg said that the
emotional toll of unemployment
affects children and their parents
in a cyclical fashion — if one is
depressed, then the other will
notice and feel empathy.
“I think that’s why it’s impor-
tant to seek help if either the par-
ent or the child is having prob-
lems,” Kronenberg said. “If you
have a child who’s depressed,
the parents may blame them-
selves, and then they become
more depressed, and it becomes
circular.”
The Pew Research Center said
only 19 percent of those experi-
encing problems because of their
job loss seek professional help.
Kronenberg said this may be
because mental health facilities
are not widely available in all
areas of the country.
“At The University of
Memphis, people are lucky
because they have access to the
Psychological Services Center,”
she said. “But I’m not sure how
much people know about it.”
The Psychological Services
Center is located in Room 216
of the Psychology Building and
is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday
through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. Friday.
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Opinion
MEMPHIS
Miserable or misunderstood?
BY ASHLEY AKIN
Contributing Writer
When Forbes magazine named
Memphis the third most miserable
city in the U.S. in February, promi-
nent locals, including Memphis
Mayor A C Wharton and Memphis
Flyer editor Bruce VanWyngarden,
were outraged.
But did they have a right to be?
When the article was pub-
lished, many defenders of the
Bluff City argued that the ratings
were arbitrary and unfounded, so
The Daily Helmsman decided to
analyze Forbes’ assessment point-
by-point to determine whether
Memphis is miserable or simply
misunderstood.
Forbes based its rankings on
nine factors: weather, commute
length, unemployment, sales tax,
income tax, violent crime, corrup-
tion, professional sports teams and
superfund sites (abandoned haz-
ardous waste locations). All factors
were given equal weight, except
sales and income tax, which were
combined into one metric.
Weather
Average temperatures in
Memphis range from 31 degrees
Fahrenheit in January to 94 degrees
in July, according to the National
Weather Service. Ron Childers,
an Emmy-winning meteorologist
who works for Memphis’ WMC-
TV, said this moderate temperature
range is one of Memphis’ greatest
assets.
“The Memphis area and the
Mid-South as a whole experience
a very mild climate throughout
the year,” Childers said. “In my
20-plus years of weather forecast-
ing, there have only been a handful
of extreme instances. As someone
who monitors the weather not only
in the Mid-South but around the
country, I’d take Memphis weather
any day.” emission, energy-efficient vehi-
Length of commute
The average commute time in
Memphis is 23 minutes, 2.5 min-
utes less than the national aver-
age, according to the U.S. Census
Bureau. Julie Oaks, public infor-
mation officer for the Tennessee
Department of Transportation,
credits the Traffic Management
Center and HELP Truck programs
with this relatively light travel time
from home to work.
“Our Traffic Management
Center is the central location where
all traffic cameras in the Memphis
area are monitored,” Oaks said.
“HELP Operators are dispatched
to assist stranded motorists or local
police working a crash.”
Fast response times to wrecks
and stalled vehicles help avoid
long traffic jams. Oaks also credits
the programs TDOT runs in con-
junction with the Memphis Area
Transit Authority for the reduction
of congestion on roadways.
“State employees in Memphis
can ride MATA service at no cost
More than 18,000 enthusiastic Tiger fans attended Memphis Madness at FedExForum, where
Will Coleman entertained the crowd with his own brand of comic antics. Forbes magazine’s
assessment of Memphis did not take into account the Tigers’ loyal following throughout the
city but rather concentrated on the Grizzlies’ losing record during the 2008-2009 season.
through a program administered
by TDOT,” she said. “This helps
encourage employees who might
otherwise drive a vehicle to work
to consider taking mass transit
instead.”
TDOT also offers the
SmartPass Program, which
allows people who drive low-
cles to use the High Occupancy
Vehicle lane, even if they aren’t
carrying other passengers.
Tennessee highways were
ranked No. 1 in the nation by truck
drivers in OverdriveOnline.com’s
poll for the fourth year in a row, a
status that could be a mixed bless-
ing if the good highways cause
more trucks to travel through the
area, yielding complaints from
some area car drivers.
Unemployment
The unemployment rate in
Memphis mirrors the national
average, both of which were 9.6
percent in September, according to
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Memphis’ unemployment rate has
been on the decline since January
and is the lowest it has been since
April 2009.
Joel Melton, an architect who
moved back to Memphis after he
was laid off in New York, said
finding work is difficult, but local
programs in place can help.
“One place I recently heard
about is the Tennessee Career
Center,” Melton said. “They’ve
been a huge help because they
offer everything from job search
information to resume writing.”
The center serves employers and
the unemployed alike by matching
candidates with the appropriate
jobs.
Memphis also benefits from
BRIDGES, a nonprofit commu-
nity development organization,
which has a workforce develop-
ment arm serving more than 3,000
people annually. The Tennessee
Department of Human Services
refers individuals to the program,
which combines state resources
with community leadership.
Sales and income taxes
The sales tax in Memphis is 9.75
percent, 7 percent of which is a
state tax and 2.75 percent of which
is levied by Shelby County, accord-
ing to the Tennessee Department
of Revenue.
Tennessee’s sales tax is one of the
highest in the country. However,
Tennessee is one of only nine states
that has limited or no income tax.
Memphians are only taxed by the
state on income related to divi-
dends and interest, which is negli-
gible for many people.
Caroline Little, a 26-year-old
advertising account manager at
archer>malmo, said she’s happy to
trade one for the other.
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“I have so many friends who
live in big cities who are constantly
complaining about the huge chunk
of cash that comes out of their pay-
checks every month,” Little said.
“I’d much rather pay a little more
every time I buy something than
see one big amount taken away all
at once.”
Violent crime
Memphis’ reputation as a
crime-ridden city is widespread.
However, some factors could call
into question Forbes’ ranking the
city at No. 2 for violent crimes.
Memphis submits to the strict-
est reporting requirements the FBI
has, in an effort to record — and
ultimately reduce — its crime rate.
The data Forbes used come from
the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, a
program in which cities with more
than 100,000 people may choose
to participate. But many large cit-
ies, such as Chicago, choose not to
participate because the reporting
requirements are so rigorous, so
their data are not even considered
in the Forbes evaluation of cities
with the most crime.
Furthermore, Memphis reports
all crimes, regardless of scale,
meaning that the smallest theft is
recorded, while some cities, like
New York, only report thefts of
more than $1,000.
Larry Brown, a retired law
enforcement officer from Texas
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who now serves as the man-
ager of public safety and code
enforcement for the Center City
Commission in Memphis, said
there are so many different ways
to code crime that simple com-
parisons are misleading.
“Memphis is getting a bad rap,”
Brown said. “The FBI website
states that they don’t suggest that
you compare based on those num-
bers, and I know from my own
experience that a call can be coded
in different kinds of ways.”
Brown said that some cities with
a high crime rate even adjust their
reporting requirements so they
appear lower.
“You can’t just compare those
numbers and come out with a
newspaper article,” Brown said.
Memphis Police Director Larry
Godwin said that the city’s strict
method of reporting crime is vital
to the Blue C.R.U.S.H. initiative
and, ultimately, will be worth the
improvements the city can make
as a result. Blue C.R.U.S.H., which
stands for “crime reduction utiliz-
ing statistical history,” is a part-
nership with The University of
Memphis that takes advantage of
technology to create multi-layered
crime analyses of “hot spots” based
on crime data.
“MPD is now able to evaluate
incident patterns throughout the
city and forecast criminal hot spots
to proactively allocate resources
and deploy personnel,” Godwin
said, “and this results in improved
force effectiveness and increased
public safety.”
He stressed the fact that people
are ultimately what make this sys-
tem work.
“It’s about the officers,” he said.
“You can have all the technology
in the world, but you’ve got to
have leadership. It’s not a silver
bullet — it’s a combination of best
practices.”
Public corruption
Forbes ranked Memphis in the
top 10 cities with the highest num-
bers of public officials convicted
of committing crimes. This judg-
ment was based on West Tennessee
numbers as reported by the Public
Integrity Section of the Department
of Justice.
Tim Maddux, an employee of M.
Lee Smith Publishers in Nashville,
has covered the state legislature
for many years and formerly lived
in Memphis. He said the arti-
cle makes a valid point in noting
Memphis’ public corruption.
“Almost every year, it seems
like the Memphis delegation faces
a scandal of some sort,” Maddux
said. “Corruption is kind of a given
now, and I think that’s really sad.”
Whereas crime is being met with
programs like Blue C.R.U.S.H.,
Memphis’ only comprehensive plan
for correcting public corruption
comes from the Memphis division
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That’s about the
Some encounter discrimination based on weight or height
BY JOCELYN DONALD
Contributing Writer
The cliché “kids will be
kids” is often used to dismiss
the discriminatory behavior of
children who tease their peers,
whether joking about anoth-
er child’s weight or picking a
short kid last for a schoolyard
basketball game.
But such ridicule and rejec-
tion don’t always stop when
children grow up, as many
adults deal with unfair con-
sequences of their physical
appearances in their personal
and professional lives.
University of Memphis stu-
dent Gabriel Bell, teased for
his weight and referred to as
the “chubby kid” during his
youth, can relate to this class of
social pariah. Though he said
he accepts the importance soci-
ety places on physical appear-
ance, the prejudice he’s expe-
rienced because of it through
his 23 years has hurt more than
his feelings — it’s hindered his
ability to get a job.
“This past summer, I went
for a job interview at the head-
quarters of Radio Shack. Before
they saw me, they seemed like
they liked me and were going
to hire me,” he said. “But when
they saw me, the manager said
they had to speak with their
boss and came up with a dumb
excuse, saying the boss was
only looking for two workers.”
Bell is not alone in his treat-
ment by potential employ-
ers, as a recent study by Yale
University found weight dis-
crimination occurs as often as
racial discrimination in the
workplace and may influence
a person’s employment as
early as their first interview.
If hired, the applicant’s weight
may negatively affect his abil-
ity to earn wages on par with
his colleagues and decrease his
chances for a promotion.
Since two-thirds of Americans
are considered obese by medi-
cal standards, that makes for a
lot of potential discrimination.
“When you see someone
fit, people tend to gravitate to
them a little more than with
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of the FBI. The Law Enforcement
Corruption Street Task Force con-
sists of personnel from the FBI, the
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and
the Memphis Police Department,
who combine their expertise and
resources to seek out and eliminate
public corruption. As it currently
stands, however, Memphis is still
fighting this epidemic one official
at a time.
Pro sports
Forbes declared Memphis’ sole
professional franchise, the NBA
Grizzlies, lacking because they
won only 26 percent of games dur-
ing the 2008-2009 season. Yet the
2009-‘10 season ended with the
Grizzlies’ winning 51 percent of
their games.
Andrew Douglas, a reporter
and anchor for WMC-TV, said he
size of it
an overweight person,” Bell
said. “Everybody discriminates
against overweight people.
Blacks discriminate against
other black people that are
overweight, as well.”
Some surmise that inequity
to be financially influenced. In
2008, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention report-
ed that the annual obesity-
related health care cost in the
U.S. was around $147 billion
a year. As a result, medical
expenses for employees who
are overweight have increased
more than for a person of aver-
age weight.
The entertainment indus-
try and other forms of media
have also been criticized for
their role in weight discrimina-
tion. Supermodel Tyra Banks
bit the proverbial hand that
fed her in 2007, lashing out
against tabloids and magazines
for publicizing her own weight
gain. The 5-foot-10 Banks said
she weighed 161 pounds at the
time, about 30 pounds more
than she weighed as the cover
model of Sports Illustrated’s
1997 swimsuit issue.
Local Rapper Chris “PRO”
Dansby said television pro-
motes a body image that’s
unrealistic for most people.
“Size six is that dream girl
in every music video now,”
he said. “Makes you feel like
whenever I shoot my video,
I can’t have anything over
that, or it’s not cool. But what
they don’t see is that in reality,
there are not a lot of size-six
girls. There’s a lot of beauti-
ful women that are thick and
should embrace it.”
According to a 2009 study
by Michigan State University,
larger women in television and
in movies have one-third fewer
romantic interactions than their
smaller co-stars. Less than 15
percent of overweight actors
were judged by study partici-
pants to be charming or smart,
compared to 25 percent of the
average-weight actors.
Though the body image
emphasized in the media
doesn’t bother him, Bell said he
feels bad for women who are
thinks the team is on an upswing.
“I think the Grizzlies are going
to be better than last year’s team,”
he said. “They already are in terms
of records. They have their starting
five back, and they have another
year of more experience with each
other on the court.”
Douglas also said that people
should consider the difficult confer-
ence in which Memphis competes
when judging the team’s record.
“The only thing working against
them is they play in the tough-
est conference and probably the
toughest division in the NBA,” he
said. “If they were in the Eastern
conference, they would have made
the playoffs last year. I think they
will make it this year, as long as
everyone stays healthy.”
Regardless of their record,
the Grizzlies are very active in
the Memphis community. A few
weeks ago, the Memphis Grizzlies
Charitable Foundation award-
Magazine covers often encourage the misconception that only thin women can be beautiful.
constantly exposed to it.
“I got to like me for me, so it
doesn’t affect me,” he said. “But
I don’t like how they portray
women, like women have to be
a certain size. That’s horrible.”
For 18-year-old model
Diamond Council, weight is an
inherent issue in her profes-
sion. She said she accepts it as
being part of the industry, but
the way women’s weights can
be the basis of discrimination is
a problem.
“I chose to be a model, so
weight is always going to be
an issue if I want to get jobs,”
Council said. “There is no right
size, but I look at it as I am
competing with smaller girls
every day for jobs, so you have
to be fit.”
Council, who signed with
modeling agency Wilhelmina
in 2009 and will be featured
this year in ads for Gap cloth-
ing, said being a model has
ed $425,000 in new grants to 16
Memphis nonprofits.
Douglas also pointed out that
The University of Memphis basket-
ball program draws huge crowds
and enthusiasm from diverse
groups of Memphians.
“When it comes to the Memphis
Tigers, you can’t beat the fan base
here,” Douglas said. “I know of
no other big city that supports its
college basketball team more than
Memphis.”
Douglas cited the fact that the
Tigers play in one of the nicest are-
nas in the country, sell out almost
every game — as shown by the
11 p.m. Memphis Madness game
Nov. 15 — and have the ability to
unify diverse people.
“The team is treated like an NBA
franchise,” he said. “When the
team wins, the city comes together
like no other.”
Superfund sites
A superfund site is an uncon-
not made her immune from
criticism.
“I can remember photogra-
phers only taking frontal shots
of me so they would not get
a picture of the small curves
that I do have,” she said. “They
would even airbrush my hips
to make me look straight and
plain.”
Though height is desirable
for a fashion model, as an ado-
lescent, Council didn’t find it as
enjoyable as she does now.
In school, she was stared
at for being the “tall, lanky”
girl and said that’s one of the
reasons she feels height dis-
crimination is also a problem
in society.
Heightism, or height dis-
crimination, is also prevalent
in the workplace and everyday
life. Some jobs do require or
favor a tall person, whether it’s
manual labor, modeling or even
political leaders. Admissions
trolled or abandoned place where
hazardous waste is located and
which could affect local ecosys-
tems or people. In the Memphis
area, 16 sites are now classified
as superfund, according to the
Environmental Protection Agency’s
website. Currently, 10 sites are
undergoing cleanup efforts.
The Memphis Defense Depot is
one such site. The 2008 Five-Year
Review found that “the cleanup
approach for the site is expected
to be protective of human health
and the environment,” according
to the EPA.
Liza Creech, a marketing repre-
sentative for Grubb & Ellis prop-
erty management in Memphis,
said these waste sites are hazards
to residential areas and businesses
alike.
“From an environmental per-
spective, of course, I hate that there
are hazardous waste sites just sit-
ting around our city causing prob-
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requirements for the U.S. Air
Force ROTC state military
pilots must be between 64 and
77 inches tall, or 5-foot-4 to
6-foot-5. Some studies have
even indicated that shorter
people are paid less than taller
people.
Bell said discrimination
against people who are consid-
ered “different” may never go
away altogether, but he believes
it is getting better.
“This country is getting to
the point where we are not
tolerating discrimination,” he
said. “So many suicide cases by
teens who are taking their lives
for being picked on for being
‘different’ is making people
wake up. But we are living in
a competitive society where I
have to be better than you, so
I have to find something to
discriminate against you about
to make me look better — it’s
competition.”
lems,” Creech said. “And from a
professional perspective, I wouldn’t
want to list or sell a property near
them. I think it rests on Memphis
and the EPA to make cleanup and
revitalization a real priority.”
What was Forbes missing?
Forbes may have done its
homework, but point-by-point,
Memphis doesn’t seem to be as
much of a miserable place as it is a
work in progress. With its narrowly
defined categories, the magazine’s
editors failed to consider much of
what Memphis has to offer: the
city’s rich music history, its active
church communities, Leadership
Memphis and its focus on connect-
ing and creating more community
leaders, the growing arts commu-
nities, the new charter schools,
the Shelby Park Conservancy, the
proximity to the Mississippi River
and the numerous public outreach
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Mike Gideon, 54, is a Tennessee
resident and handgun-permit car-
rier. He said he tends to side with
gun rights advocates and thinks
that gun owners are the strongest
deterrent to violent crime. He said
victims of violent crimes misplace
their efforts by focusing on gun
laws.
“The debate on gun control
always starts with a story like this,”
he said in an e-mail, referring to the
Jacobs’ experience. “If this hap-
pened to one of my family mem-
bers, and I wasn’t so close to the
gun control issue, my first instinct
would be to eliminate the guns.
The fact is … the gun didn’t kill
their son. It was an available tool.
Deadly force killed their son.”
Alan Jacobs doesn’t own a gun,
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but he said he respects a person’s
constitutional right to bear arms.
Yet someone was able to drive up
to Ethan, say two words and end
his life. Jacobs said current laws
make it too easy for criminals to
get their hands on the deadliest
weapons available.
Gideon, a member of the
Tennessee Wildlife Resources
Agency shooting range in Nashville
and the owner of 20 guns, said pun-
ishment for violent crime shouldn’t
depend on the criminals’ accoutre-
ments of choice.
“I’m all for maximizing penalties
for violent crime of any kind. I’m
not for passing irrational, over-the-
top gun control laws that penalize
law-abiding citizens and do little or
nothing to prevent violent crime,”
he wrote in an e-mail. “Should
there be severe penalties for violent
crime? Absolutely. Should murder
by gun have a stiffer penalty than
murder by tire tool? I’m not so
sure.”
Many gun owners say that gun
control laws don’t actually control
criminals — many of whom use
illegal means to obtain weapons
— and law-abiding citizens pay
the price.
“Criminals will always have
firearms,” said Adam, an Arkansas
resident who works in Memphis
and requested that his last name
not be published. “Somebody will
steal a gun. That person will com-
mit a crime and turn around and
sell it.”
Adam owns 10 guns but hasn’t
gotten a handgun-carry permit
yet because, he said, the process
is time-consuming. Tennessee’s
requirements include paying $115
in application fees, undergoing
a background check and taking
a shooting class. Data from 2009
showed that it took an average of
70 days for applicants to obtain
a handgun-carry permit in the
Volunteer State.
Whether Ethan’s killer obtained
his weapon lawfully or not is an
unanswerable question, as police
are still hunting for a suspect.
The search for Ethan’s killer
stretched on for months following
Ethan’s shooting, while the family
was sitting Shiva and observing
Shloshim. However, Ethan hap-
pened to be killed on one of the
bloodiest weekends in Memphis
history: The homicide unit was
working six separate murders that
occurred over the span of four
days.
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programs that are growing into the
character of Memphis.
Jenna Molinksi, a fifth grade
teacher at KIPP Diamond char-
ter school (its name stands for
Knowledge Is Power Program),
said Memphis’ charter schools will
head off many problems the city
now faces.
“Our schools are so different
from traditional public schools,”
Molinksi said. “Parents are required
to sign a contract that says they will
be active in the education of their
children, meaning they have to
commit to everything from getting
them there on time to helping with
homework. If we can get the kids
and parents engaged and excited
about possibilities for their future,
the city will have more confident,
productive people, and that’s just
what Memphis needs right now.”
Divided in opinion,
united in possibility
Many Memphians agree the city
will require a lot of work to over-
come perceptions and problems,
but there are many different views
of these challenges.
Chip Johnson, COO of Regional
Diagnostic Services, lives in
Nashville but works in Memphis
half of every week. He said there are
good things about the city — but
not enough to counteract the bad.
“Sure, I can find things I like
when I visit Memphis,” Johnson
said. “But so many of my friends
who live there say the social
scene in Memphis isn’t great,
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 • 11
and they’ve all had their cars
broken into at some point. I just
choose to live somewhere that’s
a little safer and has more going
on entertainment-wise.”
Nat Akin, an English teacher at
Memphis University School and
longtime Memphis resident, said
he feels that exactly the opposite
is true. He said Memphis’ strug-
gle with image is superficial and
doesn’t reflect the positive realities
of the city.
“Many other cities are easier to
like for the space of a weekend,”
said Akin. “But Memphis can be a
difficult city because our problems
are as obvious as our high points
to outsiders. If you’re from here,
though, you know that (type of)
honesty makes it even more a city
to love.”
Geoff Calkins, columnist for the
Commercial Appeal, also said the
city is moving in the right direction
and that every person’s ability to
make a difference is what sets the
city apart.
“It’s getting better all the time,”
he said. “Just look at the Greenline.
That’s a perfect example. Or the
ever-improving Memphis Zoo. Or
the Redbirds. Memphis is an infi-
nitely better place than it was when
I arrived because of the passionate
work of people who take owner-
ship in the town.”
Calkins said the opportunity to
improve the city benefits its citi-
zens in return.
“I know I’m not miserable
in Memphis,” he said, “in part
because Memphis is a place where
you can have an impact and make
a contribution.”
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Ethan
from page 9
Ethan’s death, police had a suspect
in custody. Ethan’s friend, a key
witness in the case, was asked to
identify the killer from a set of
photographs. The witness said he
recognized the man and pointed to
the photograph of a 5-foot-10, 240-
pound 20 year old.
The man from the photograph
was arraigned. Another month
passed, and the witness was asked
to identify the same man from the
photograph in a human lineup.
Ethan’s friend couldn’t positively
identify the suspect, and the charge
was dropped.
Years passed, and Ethan’s file
was classified as a cold case. In
2009, the District Attorney’s office,
coupled with private donations
from a member of the Jewish com-
munity, offered $10,000 for clues
that could lead police to the per-
petrator, a man the Jacobs family
would like to see put in prison for
the rest of his life.
“There is a fellow out there who
has no regard for society’s laws
... or life,” Alan said. “And that’s

Memphis Lacrosse
scary.”
Applications Are Now Available For It has been hard for the Jacobs
Student Government Association to find a sense of closure while still
believing their son’s killer is out on
2011 Election Commission
Now Accepting New the streets. But Rena, who is now
30 years old, started a blog to help
Impartial and honorable students deal with her brother’s murder
wanted to serve on the commission
which helps ensure a fair and
Players For the and to support her parents’ efforts.
“Remembering Ethan,” hosted on
blogspot.com, has hosted more
organized SGA election in March. 2010-2011 Season than 12,000 viewers. A picture
of Ethan giving Rena a bear hug
Requirements greets new visitors each day.
• 2.0 GPA Experience Encouraged “You can leave a comment, and
sometimes they come from people
• 6 completed credit hours at
U of M but NOT Required I’ve never met,” Rena said. “But
they find the blog somehow, some-
• Course load of at least 6 hours where. I don’t visit often because

For interest in
in Spring 2011 it’s too painful to go and read the
• Available for occasional stories that people leave.

Mens or Womens
meetings from January And so a website has become
thru April Rena’s container for memories of

Lacrosse
Ethan. Her mom, Cathie, keeps a
folder for hers. From it, she pulled
Pick up & submit completed
Contact Head Coach
out a spare flyer that featured a pic-
applications in the SGA office ture of Ethan, sitting with his arms

Ryan Pavlicek
on the 2nd floor of the UC folded across his lap. He wears
a white polo shirt and an easy
by Wednesday, Dec. 8
at 484-7634
smile — the look on his face sug-
gesting the picture was snapped
Questions? Contact Anthony LaRocca at: or memphislax@yahoo.com mid-chuckle. Other smiling chil-
dren and teenagers share space on
alarocca@memphis.edu

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the page.
“Please honor our memory by
supporting anti-crime legislation,”
The daily helmsman the flyer reads. “We are the faces of
homicide in Tennessee.”

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