The suspended fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon has decided to appeal its two-year suspension through a hearing resembling a court of law under Tennessee Uniform Procedures Act (TUAPA). "If a student or an organization rejects a recommended sanction from our office, they have the right to choose one of ...
Every day on college campuses across the nation, students discuss, debate and argue sensitive political subjects in and out of classrooms. Most of the time, the disputes end relatively uneventful, but one University of Memphis student is going to University court after she said a political debate turned ...
One theme dominated the final Student Government Association meeting of the 57th general assembly on Thursday - student voice. Over 30 representatives of the Environmental Action Club and Tennessee Legislature Democratic Rep. G.A. Hardaway joined senators and challenged them to raise their voices on ...
You know the dream in which somehow, everyone in school knows what you look like naked? For two University of Memphis women, that just became a reality. Freshman health and human performance major Leela Martin and junior photography major Olivia Lyric are two of 36 co-eds featured in Playboy's "Girls ...
Some of the most economically powerful people in Memphis gathered at The University of Memphis Monday to hear Presidential hopeful John McCain speak about the future of economic policy in America, should he be elected as president in 2008. Sen. McCain spoke to the invitation-only crowd on the importance ...
It's official, students are mad. After over 19,900 votes were cast, election commissioner Desmond Robinson certified the Student Government Association's 2007 election, officially giving the M.A.D. (Making a Difference) party a victory over the SGAgency at 5:56 p.m. Friday. A proposition that would ...
Carla Robinson, the graduate student who was stabbed Monday said, contrary to what was reported from campus police, she did not resist her attacker, and she was not walking alone. In an interview with The Daily Helmsman, Robinson said she had just left class in McCord Hall and was walking toward the ...
Less than a day before the 2007 Student Government Association's election polls were set to close, the dominant parties, SGAgency and M.A.D., headed to court. The two parties voiced a number of grievances, both formal and informal, in front of the election commission Wednesday at a meeting in the Panhellenic ...
Things are getting messy in the 2007 Student Government Association campaign for vice-president. Though SGA members continually called for a clean campaign, the last meeting of the 57th general assembly was full of controversy - centering on vice-presidential candidate James Callicott. "I find it kind ...
It's election time once again at The University of Memphis. Two parties, SGAgency and M.A.D. (Making A Difference), will confront each other over the next three days and try to convince students that they should control the organization viewed by administrators as "the voice of the students." When the ...
