Bloody photos of aborted fetuses, the starved bodies of Holocaust victims and a black man hung from a tree can be viewed in the Student Plaza from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, sponsored by the College Republicans and Tigers 4 Christ, is on campus campaigning against abortion.

With the wealth of information that's just within reach of any popular search engine, the temptation for students to easily plagiarize couldn't be more prevalent. While professors and instructors once used the same search engines to catch plagiarism, some at The University of Memphis are using the Web site Turnitin.

As the iPod craze sweeps the nation, colleges and universities are taking their chances to hop on the bandwagon. At the start of 2006, Apple began a program called iTunes U, in which six universities agreed to start putting class lectures and notes on iTunes.

On Feb. 23, 1997, outside of the Empire State Building, seven tourists were shot, one was killed, in a random act of violence committed by a Palestinian man before he turned the gun on himself. Since 2000 Cedar Nordbye has commemorated the event by helping to "form history through conversation.

Everything was in order for eight members of the SGA to go to an SGA conference at Texas A&M University. Plane tickets had been reserved and hotel rooms had been booked. So it came as a surprise when the day before students were scheduled to leave Memphis, it was mentioned at an SGA meeting that two members who were planning to go on the trip did not meet the minimum GPA requirements to even be members of the association.

The fight for religious freedom is alive and well at The University of Memphis and is not limited to the commentaries of John McManus and Omar Baddar. The U of M Gospel Choir has long filled the music hall with heavenly melodies, but last year the choir changed from being a student organization to a class.

University of Memphis campus police are making new strides in reducing the number of car break-ins and on-campus theft through the installation of new surveillance cameras around campus. "Most of the new cameras we have installed are on the parking gates around campus," said Derek Myers, deputy public safety director.

Although many different images of Army officials torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib have circulated all over the world, one has become the most iconic. That image, of a prisoner with a bag on his head standing on a box with wires attached to his hands, will be the central focus of a lecture in the Engineering Auditorium at The University of Memphis at 7 tonight titled "The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable: Word and Images in a Time of Terror," given by W.

After a year's worth of hard work in the classroom and the community, some University of Memphis students get to show this week how they brought the two together. Students in Free Enterprise will compete against more than 500 university SIFE clubs from around the world Thursday in Downtown Memphis at one of 17 SIFE regional competitions held across the country.

Thug is a word that is thrown around among people both young and old. Some people often see thugs as dangerous and a problem for society. Students from The U of M who have had some indiscretions in the past and faculty members will discuss 'Do thugs go to college,' in a new program called "Perspectives in Life: Do Thugs go to College.

Many University of Memphis students are suffering from illnesses every day, but they are forced to continue working or going to classes, either for financial reasons or because the syllabus said that you can't miss more that five days without being penalized an entire letter grade.

If the teacher at the front of the classroom is babbling and rambling on about something not even remotely interesting, students have several tried and true methods of passing the excruciating time. "I've gotten caught text-messaging a couple of times," Alan Pendleton, sophomore physical education major, said.

Exam week is approaching, bringing with it feelings of uncertainty for many students intent on improving their academic standing. "Yes, I am definitely feeling the pressure," said Hussam Elqudsi, senior civil engineering major. "I'm currently taking 17 engineering hours.

The University of Memphis could soon join the list of campuses having a Planned Parenthood Federation of America pro-choice student organization. Vox, the Latin word for "voice," and Voice for Planned Parenthood, is a nationwide program created by Planned Parenthood.

Between 1994 and 2004, the median tuition at a four-year institution in Tennessee increased 71 percent. At the same time, state dollars per student went into a steady decline. "For a number of years, we really haven't had any new state appropriation dollars," said Bob Adams, vice chancellor for business and finance at Tennessee Board of Regents.

Students entering The University's foreign language program may be surprised at the curriculum. According to the department's communicative method of teaching, every foreign language class from 1010 levels to graduate levels will be taught without a word of English.

It was all smiles Saturday afternoon for Todd Banner and Eugene Pinkhassik. The two students, co-founders of NanoTect, posed for pictures on front of the FedEx Institute of Technology's Methodist Presentation Theatre while holding a $20,000 check. NanoTect won over Deep Web Analytics and Ablitech to become the Business Plan competition's inaugural winners.

While changes have been made to the food pyramid as well as other health guidelines, the jury is still out on whether or not these changes have helped curve the upward trend of American obesity. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, that rate of obesity has increased between the late 1980s and 2002.

Elvis could be rolling over in his grave. Libertyland, the amusement park that sits on the Mid-South Fairgrounds and houses The King's favorite ride, the Zippin Pippin, has been closed for several months. Citing financial losses, the board of directors that controls the park voted in November to shut Libertyland's doors and to sell its equipment.

The Herff College of Engineering will be hosting the American Society of Civil Engineers at the Deep South Regional Conference Friday, March 31-April 1. Students will be participating in a Steel Bridge Building Contest at The University of Memphis and a Concrete Canoe Race at Southwest Tennessee Community College's Macon Cove Campus.

The digital revolution is growing every year and demand for its technology, to aid in daily life, will most likely not cease for years. Last week's laptop ban generated opposition from some law students. However, amidst the controversy, University of Memphis students and professors described the resulting petition attempt as simply instinct.

Last Saturday, Memphis Area Women's Council, University of Memphis' Women's Study Program and the Center for Research on Women held Girls for Change. The event, a rally focused on sexual harassment, sex education and violence against women, took place in The University Center's Faulkner Lounge.

Honoring the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., John Bakke, professor emeritus of The University of Memphis department of communication, is slated to receive the MLK Human Rights Award. The ceremony, to be held on today at 1 p.m., will also see presentation of the 2006 Dr.

Has a professor ever sent you an e-mail that mysteriously never arrived? If you are having University of Memphis e-mail forwarded to an America Online account, it might not be so mysterious after all. "If your school e-mail is forwarded to AOL there is a chance you will not receive it, or it may be very delayed in arriving," said Sue Hull-Toye, director of client services.

If you ask some students, there have been several instances in the past year that could deem our local government "corrupt". Media officials stress that they are just reporting the truth and not trying to exaggerate what our local government is doing. The University of Memphis is holding a panel discussion of public officials and journalists tonight from 6:30 to 8 in the Rose Theatre that will focus on the media's coverage of local government.

Daylight Saving Time means having to reset all the clocks and adjust to a new sleep schedule. Yes, it's annoying, but is it even useful? Michael Downing examines the debate about DST in his book "Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time" (Shoemaker & Hoard Publishers, $15).

A tough math class prompted Rich to take the drug. The effect: "I could study for, like, eight hours straight," said the University of Wisconsin-Madison junior. Samantha, a Marquette University sophomore, popped it on the eve of a big history test. "I stayed up all night," she said, "and totally zoned in.

NEWBERN, Tenn. - Thunderstorms packing tornadoes and hail as big as softballs ripped through eight states, killing at least 27 people, injuring scores and destroying hundreds of homes in the South and Midwest. Tennessee was hit hardest, with tornadoes striking five western counties Sunday and killing 23 people, including an infant and his grandparents and a family of four.

PHILADELPHIA - In a series of self-portraits he painted to document the progressive ravaging of his brain by Alzheimer's disease, William Utermohlen disappears before our eyes _ and his own. The works shortly after his diagnosis convey terror and isolation.

University of Memphis student Greg Luster was charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle Thursday after he took an ARAMARK golf cart parked near The FedEx Institute of Technology. "He told police that he took it because his feet were hurting and he was tired of walking," said Derek Myers, deputy police director.