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Sports: Tennis, p 15
Opinion: Murphy Hiring, p 8
A&E: Adult Swim Carnival
Tour, p 26
Jack Murphy, the
new coach of the
NAU men’s bas-ketball
program.
(Photo courtesy
Inside NAU)
NAU picks Murphy
Former Memphis asst. to coach men’s basketball
Current University of Memphis assistant coach
Jack Murphy has been hired to lead the NAU
men’s basketball program, the school announced
Thursday afternoon.
“We are so pleased. This is a
great day for NAU Athletics,” said
Lisa Campos, the Vice President
for Intercollegiate Athletics. “It
was a really competitive process.
There was a lot of interest in this
position. We know that Jack is
the right person to do that and if
you look at his background, he’s
learned a lot from great coaches.”
Murphy has been on the
Memphis staff since 2009, joining
the program when close friend Josh
Pastner took over. Before holding
that position, he was a member of
the Denver Nuggets organization under George Karl,
acting as an advance scout while also serving as the
video coordinator and leading players such as Carmelo
Anthony, Chauncey Billups and J.R. Smith in off-season
workouts.
“My first thanks goes to obviously Dr. Campos and
President Haeger for seeing a vision in me,” Murphy
said. “It’s very humbling. I’m overjoyed but it hasn’t hit
me yet.”
Murphy’s coaching career started at UA, where he
was a team manager before working his way up to direc-tor
of basketball operations, spending eight seasons in
Tucson from 1998-2006 under Lute Olson, before leav-ing
for the Nuggets gig.
Serving under three quality coaches in his young
career, Murphy has taken away an extensive knowledge
of how to handle programs both on and off the court.
“I learned from Coach Olson how to respect the
game and respect your players,” the 32-year-old said.
“With Coach Karl, I learned how he managed players
and his staff. He was an unbelievable motivator in sev-eral
ways. From Coach Pastner, I’ve learned how impor-tant
it is to bring in entire communities and empower
the players.”
BY BRETT MURDOCK
FOR THIS WEEK’S STAFF EDITORIAL ABOUT THE
HIRING OF JACK MURPHY, SEE PAGE 8
see MURPHY page 16
BY WILLIAM BROWN
The lost world of north campus
Students experiment in educational greenhouse
NAU draws people from all
over the world for its forested
mountain landscape — and
draws people from across Arizona for
its four seasons. However, what many
do not know is that different climates
exist here on campus — and plants
from all over the world thrive within
them.
These artificial climates, sus-tained
within two different green-houses
on campus, provide oppor-tunities
for students to study biomes
not found in northern Arizona. They
also serve a variety of other purposes,
including wildfire restoration and
sustainability exercises.
Tina Ayers, the supervisor of the
teaching greenhouse, said the facility,
which was built in the 1960s, received
some much-needed renovations last
year.
“The place really got a facelift
last summer [when] the Dean of the
College of Engineering, Forestry and
Natural Sciences bought us some new
panels,” Ayers said. “They are Lexan
panels that are polycarbonate plastic
and twin walls that are energy-effi-cient
and buffer the outside tempera-ture.
NAU took off the old glass that
kept breaking and installed the [new]
panels.”
see GREENHOUSE page 7
TOP: Kendra Hart, a junior biology major, inspects one
of the many plants located in the greenhouse. BOTTOM:
Students from Botany Club and Tri Beta prepare to feed
worms with recycled organic material. (Photo by Christina
Breen)
Issue 13, VOL 99 April 19, 2012 - April 25, 2012
Life: Earth Week, p 13