When Austin Grisham, a sophomore organizational leadership major at The University of Memphis, returned home last Wednesday night, he returned to the last sight he expected to see. The front door of his house, located at 770 Goodman St., had been forced open and the house had been robbed. "We weren't ...
The University of Memphis has joined up with Cook Systems International, a Memphis-based information technology (IT) solutions firm, to form the CollegeCareerCorps program, which gives U of M students majoring in a technology-based field the opportunity to acquire real-world job experience. Students ...
Since 1966, The United States has observed Daylight Savings Time at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday in April and on the last Sunday in October. Beginning this year, daylight savings will be extended. From now on, it will begin at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November. The ...
Problems around the now sunken area of the basement of the Theatre and Communications Building were first reported in 2003 by a building inspector, who recorded that there were noticeable and sizeable cracks in and around the southeast stairwell of the building. Every year since, building inspections ...
John Paul Clark, a 2006 graduate of The University of Memphis in film and video production, recently became the grand prize winner of a nationwide movie trailer contest. "The contest was advertised on a Web site," Clark said. "I just decided to go for it." The contest called for participants to make ...
When Jason Radish pledged Kappa Sigma in the fall of his freshman year of college at The University of Memphis, he was well aware of the infamous fraternity lifestyle. "My brother was already a member," said Radish. "I wanted to be a part of the good times." By the time he was initiated in the spring ...
Each day in the United States, 60 people receive an organ and live. However, another 17 people who are waiting for an organ run out of time and die. According to Barry Marshall, Administrator of the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute and Cardiovascular Service Line, the number of organ ...
Robert Uhlmann, a Memphis attorney and 1975 graduate of The University of Memphis Law School, has not seen much change in the Liberty Bowl Stadium over the last 30 years. "I have been coming to see The University of Memphis play here since I was a student," said Uhlmann. "The stadium has stayed relatively ...
Melissa Willhite, 22-year-old senior business major at The University of Memphis, has been taking birth control pills since she was 16 years old. "I started taking them to regulate my period, and I have been taking them ever since," said Willhite. "They just make sense." Around 70 percent of college-age ...
Upon entering college, many students are on their own for the first time. The college atmosphere is drastically different from anything they have ever encountered, shocking many incoming students. On top of that, experts keeping tabs on the campus mindset say that whether or not a person is in college, ...
