As Editor-in-Chief of the The Daily Helmsman, let me personally apologize for the lack of professionalism that has recently come from our Twitter account. Wednesday, the Helmsman ran an article covering an online debate concerning methods of raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital paired ...
Twenty-five musicians whose music has become synonymous with the city of Memphis were inducted in the inaugural Memphis Music Hall of Fame on Thursday night. The ceremony kicked off with the gospel roots of Memphis music and concluded with a performance by Dusty Hill of ZZ Top singing an Elvis Presley ...
One Student Government Association senator plans to propose an act that would allow students who receive a parking citation for not having a hangtag to be given a one-week grace period to acquire necessary tags and decals to park in a University of Memphis lot. Joshua Jackson, senator for the graduate ...
Between classes Monday, students found themselves in computer labs eager to check off their holiday shopping lists with Cyber Monday deals. Shop.org conducted a survey that anticipated 129.2 million Americans would shop on Cyber Monday, a 6.4 million increase from shoppers last year. While some Cyber ...
Winston Smallwood works in his office in the Administration Building with the lights off and his windows open on a breezy fall afternoon because he says it's the right thing to do. Smallwood, sophomore communications major, is the team manager for PowerSave Campus, a team of four interns who are working ...
The University of Memphis engineering department will mentor potential Herff College of Engineering Tigers from Wooddale High School through the awarding of a $100,000 grant. The University jointly entered into a federal competition with Memphis City Schools to be considered for the Garrett A. Morgan ...
While Zachary McCoy takes 23 hours of classes and spends up to 18 hours working as a certified pharmacy technician weekly, he still finds time to serve as the music director of the Balmoral Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra was established by McCoy as a volunteer ensemble that performs for donations ...
The Student Government Association is attempting to give the University of Memphis community its right to chew - tobacco, that is. On Nov. 8, the SGA passed a resolution that would change the current on-campus limited-use tobacco policy to an "on-campus smoking ban," allowing smokeless tobacco to be ...
The Student Government Association approved three bills Thursday night to extend hours at Tiger Dining facilities and the Student Recreation and Fitness Center and turn the first floor of the Ned. R. McWherter Library into a place for around-the-clock study sessions. If University of Memphis administration ...
The lines of Shelby County voters waiting to cast their ballot early consisted of more blacks and women than whites and men during early voting, according to statistics from the Shelby County Election Commission. A total of 36.3 percent of early voters were black, 28.3 percent were white and 35.4 percent ...
