Nibimenya Nadine lifts a painting from a shelf in the small white house off of Summer Avenue. It’s 4 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon, and the senior at Central High school is speaking about some of her artwork. “I like painting things from Africa, like the elephants ...
Two 24-day-old piglets lay tranquil on cushioned tables in the University of Memphis animal research facility. As the anesthesia puts the animals in a slumber, veterinarian Karyl Buddington keeps a sharp eye on them. Their oxygen level is at 2 percent saturation, and the ISO chlorine must ...
The University of Memphis may be a dry campus, but the area around it is flooding with places to get a quick drink. The Casual Pint, a southeastern laid-back craft beer chain with locations in Tennessee, Ohio, South Carolina and Arizona, will soon be opening a store on Highland Row. It is the first ...
1. Female Student pinned against wall at Centennial Place A male student was accused of assault on Sept. 21 in Centennial Place, according to a police report written by officer Robert Bramlett. The accused student pinned a female student to a wall after an argument. A staffer witnessed the altercation ...
It’s a torrid Tuesday afternoon on the corner of Goodman and Southern. Crossing guard Bob Jones stands on the side of the road as a bead of sweat trickles past his mustache and meets the toothpick dangling from his mouth. The temperature is 91 degrees, and the bright neon vest covering ...
The University of Memphis freshman class increased by 30.2 percent this year, according to U of M president David Rudd. After 2,050 students entered in 2015, the number spiked to 2,670 this fall, which is the largest increase in freshmen since 2007. The numbers represent full-time, first-year freshmen ...
The 1946 Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun, with its famous lyrics “anything you can do I can do better,” comes to mind when you look at the GPAs of University of Memphis men and women. Female students tend to have a higher grade point average than male ones, according to data collected by the ...
At least 20 full-time University of Memphis employees have applied to carry concealed guns on campus, according to U of M campus police services. The 17 main campus employees and three from the Lambuth campus, in Jackson, Tennessee, are taking advantage of a state law, which passed in April and went ...
When Lawrence Parawan walked onto this campus as a freshman four years ago, the person he found himself most impressed with was neither a student nor a professor. I nstead, the political science major was drawn to a warmhearted, sweet and smiling cashier –Ruby Boatley. “Out of the dozens of people ...
Jalen Todd leaned back in the massage chair and closed his eyes. His day had begun with the bus running behind schedule. This was followed a long, tedious writing assignment in his English class, which he had his doubts about. But in the U of M Relaxation Zone, Todd could finally let it all go. Any ...
