the daily mississippian - february 15, 2011

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T UESDAY , F EBRUARY 15, 2011 | V OL . 100, N O . 83 MEN’S BASEKTBALL TAD SMITH COLISEUM Support the Rebs Wednesday as they take on Auburn. 7 p.m. Free with student ID. Abby O. for Vice-President O... The Possibilities Vote for Abby Olivier on February 15th on MyOleMiss Hometown: Hattiesburg, MS Major: Public Policy Leadership Minor: Southern Studies GPA: 3.50 M ISSISSIPPIAN THE DAILY C ELEBRATING O UR H UNDREDTH Y EAR | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF M ISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE M ISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | WWW . THEDMONLINE . COM 1911 2011 this week inside MEET THE CANDIDATES: CORTEZ MOSS AND TAYLOR MCGRAW STATE THEIR POSITIONS ELECTION DAY COVERAGE GEE’S BEND QUILTS COME TO UM MUSEUM NEWS Lee Eric Smith, former com- munications specialist for the Uni- versity of Mississippi media and public relations department, was sentenced to two years supervised probation after pleading guilty to a charge of aggravated assault. Smith was arrested in October 2008 for allegedly molesting his then-2-year-old daughter, accord- ing to an Associated Press article. The accusations were brought against him by his wife, Chanelle. The two have since divorced. He was indicted on charges of sexual battery and touching a child for lustful purposes in March 2009. The District Attorney dropped the charges filed in the Lafayette Circuit Court in January and charged Smith with the aggravat- ed assault charge. Smith pleaded guilty on Jan. 4, 2011. According to court documents, he was fined $1,710 for court costs, crime victim fees and district attorney investigative fees as well as his probation sentence. Ashley Allen, assistant district at- torney and prosecutor for the case, was not available for comment. Smith graduated from Ole Miss in 1992 with a degree in journal- ism and psychology. In the early 1990s, he was the first black edi- tor-in-chief of The Daily Missis- sippian. He no longer works for the Uni- versity. He blogs for the Memphis Grizzlies fan blog 3 Shades of Blue, www.3sob.com, and runs www. amessagefromgod.org, a “spiritual guidance” website. According to the website’s “About” page, inspiration for the project came in October 2006 and is meant to stress “relationship over religion.” Former UM employee charged with aggravated assault BY BRIT STACK The Daily Mississippian The University of Mississip- pi theater department has big plans for performances this se- mester, with students not only acting but also taking on more roles behind the scenes. “This is the first time we’ve been able to showcase students’ directing and writing work, and I think it’ll be great,” Car- ey Hanson, interim chair of the theater department, said. “The Uganda Project: Come & See — Go & Tell,” created by two Ole Miss instructors, is based on their missionary work with the people of Uganda. Dance professor Jennifer Mizenko and assistant profes- sor of art Brooke White have combined their photography and choreography to capture their experiences in Uganda. Their goal is to communicate their experiences through the performance of Ole Miss’ Mis- sissippi: The Dance Company. The students will perform Mizenko’s choreography in Ugandan attire in front of a projection of the photography to tell a story of the Ugandan people. “For me, there are two main goals for this production: One, the Bishop asked me to ‘Come’ to Uganda and then ‘Go’ back to Mississippi and ‘Tell’ what I saw — thus the name of the production,” Mizenko said. “Two, I am fusing modern dance with physical theater principles and photography, creating a fusion of different art forms. It’s the first time I’ve attempted this on a large scale, and I am very excited to see how it all comes together into one piece of art.” “The Uganda Project” will be shown at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17 through Saturday, Feb. 19., in Fulton Chapel. A matinee performance will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20. The next event planned, “Two New One Acts,” will consist of two separate plays. The first play, “Dollhouse,” was written by Ole Miss alumnus Derek Van Barham and will be direct- ed by Ole Miss theater student Sam Damare. “’Dollhouse’ is a short one- act play about an artistically- driven couple, Mark and Da- vid, and their journey to try to BY CHARLES ROBINSON The Daily Mississippian Ole Miss theater department ready to break a leg for spring semester ASB president meets with Lt. Governor See THEATER, PAGE 2 EMMA WILLOUGHBY | The Daily Mississippian OPEN CAMPUS ATHLETICS FORUM INDOOR PRACTICE FACILITY An open campus forum on student athletics at Ole Miss will be held Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Indoor Practice Facility on campus. The meeting, open to all Ole Miss students, will provide discussion and information on competing with recreational, intramural, club and varsity teams. 6:30 p.m. Associated Student Body presi- dent Virginia Burke recently met with Lieutenant Governor Phil Bryant in Jackson. She did this with the Mississippi Student Body Presidents Council, who went to the Capitol in Janu- ary. “We went to thank our legisla- tors for their support of higher education, and remind them how important higher education is for the future of Mississippi,” Burke said. The group met with the chair- men of the senate, house of rep- resentatives, the universities and college committees and Lt. Gov. Bryant. “It was very interesting to meet with the lieutenant governor, and we were glad to be able to deliver our message about the importance of higher education,” Burke said. They also attended the Institutes of Higher Learning board meeting and met with senator Perry Lee and representative Kelvin Buck to talk about higher education. “We talked about the value of higher education and the need for our state legislators to continue to make higher education a priority,” Burke said. “We also discussed how along with growth in the size of our student population, our universities are financially stretched to meet all of the needs of students and encouraged them to keep this in mind when making the budget. “It is clear to me that both Rep. Buck and Sen. Lee understand the BY AMBER HELSEL The Daily Mississippian See CAPITOL, PAGE 5

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T u e s d a y , F e b r u a r y 1 5 , 2 0 1 1 | V o l . 1 0 0 , N o . 8 3

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sVote for Abby Olivier on February 15th on MyOleMiss

Hometown: Hattiesburg, MS • Major: Public Policy Leadership • Minor: Southern Studies • GPA: 3.50

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MEET THE CANDIDATES: CORTEZ MOSS AND TAYLOR MCGRAW STATE THEIR POSITIONS

E L E C T I O N D AY C O V E R A G E

GEE’S BEND QUILTS COME TO UM MUSEUM

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Lee Eric Smith, former com-munications specialist for the Uni-versity of Mississippi media and public relations department, was sentenced to two years supervised probation after pleading guilty to a charge of aggravated assault.

Smith was arrested in October 2008 for allegedly molesting his then-2-year-old daughter, accord-

ing to an Associated Press article. The accusations were brought against him by his wife, Chanelle. The two have since divorced.

He was indicted on charges of sexual battery and touching a child for lustful purposes in March 2009.

The District Attorney dropped the charges filed in the Lafayette Circuit Court in January and charged Smith with the aggravat-ed assault charge. Smith pleaded

guilty on Jan. 4, 2011.According to court documents,

he was fined $1,710 for court costs, crime victim fees and district attorney investigative fees as well as his probation sentence.

Ashley Allen, assistant district at-torney and prosecutor for the case, was not available for comment.

Smith graduated from Ole Miss in 1992 with a degree in journal-ism and psychology. In the early 1990s, he was the first black edi-

tor-in-chief of The Daily Missis-sippian.

He no longer works for the Uni-versity. He blogs for the Memphis Grizzlies fan blog 3 Shades of Blue, www.3sob.com, and runs www.amessagefromgod.org, a “spiritual guidance” website.

According to the website’s “About” page, inspiration for the project came in October 2006 and is meant to stress “relationship over religion.”

Former UM employee charged with aggravated assaultBY BRIT STACKThe Daily Mississippian

The University of Mississip-pi theater department has big plans for performances this se-mester, with students not only acting but also taking on more roles behind the scenes.

“This is the first time we’ve been able to showcase students’ directing and writing work, and I think it’ll be great,” Car-ey Hanson, interim chair of the theater department, said.

“The Uganda Project: Come & See — Go & Tell,” created by two Ole Miss instructors, is based on their missionary work with the people of Uganda.

Dance professor Jennifer Mizenko and assistant profes-sor of art Brooke White have combined their photography

and choreography to capture their experiences in Uganda. Their goal is to communicate their experiences through the performance of Ole Miss’ Mis-sissippi: The Dance Company.

The students will perform Mizenko’s choreography in Ugandan attire in front of a projection of the photography to tell a story of the Ugandan people.

“For me, there are two main goals for this production: One, the Bishop asked me to ‘Come’ to Uganda and then ‘Go’ back to Mississippi and ‘Tell’ what I saw — thus the name of the production,” Mizenko said.

“Two, I am fusing modern dance with physical theater principles and photography, creating a fusion of different art forms. It’s the first time I’ve

attempted this on a large scale, and I am very excited to see how it all comes together into one piece of art.”

“The Uganda Project” will be shown at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17 through Saturday, Feb. 19., in Fulton Chapel. A matinee performance will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20.

The next event planned, “Two New One Acts,” will consist of two separate plays. The first play, “Dollhouse,” was written by Ole Miss alumnus Derek Van Barham and will be direct-ed by Ole Miss theater student Sam Damare.

“’Dollhouse’ is a short one-act play about an artistically-driven couple, Mark and Da-vid, and their journey to try to

BY CHARLES ROBINSONThe Daily Mississippian

Ole Miss theater department ready to break a leg for spring semester

ASB president meets with Lt. Governor

See THEATER, PAGE 2

EMMA WILLOUGHBY | The Daily Mississippian

OPEN CAMPUS ATHLETICS FORUM

I N D O O R P R A C T I C E FA C I L I T Y

An open campus forum on student athletics at Ole Miss will be held Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Indoor Practice Facility on campus. The meeting, open to all Ole Miss students, will provide discussion and information on competing with recreational, intramural, club and varsity teams.6:30 p.m.

Associated Student Body presi-dent Virginia Burke recently met with Lieutenant Governor Phil Bryant in Jackson.

She did this with the Mississippi Student Body Presidents Council, who went to the Capitol in Janu-ary.

“We went to thank our legisla-tors for their support of higher education, and remind them how important higher education is for the future of Mississippi,” Burke said.

The group met with the chair-men of the senate, house of rep-resentatives, the universities and college committees and Lt. Gov. Bryant.

“It was very interesting to meet with the lieutenant governor, and we were glad to be able to deliver our message about the importance of higher education,” Burke said.

They also attended the Institutes of Higher Learning board meeting and met with senator Perry Lee and representative Kelvin Buck to talk about higher education.

“We talked about the value of higher education and the need for our state legislators to continue to make higher education a priority,” Burke said. “We also discussed how along with growth in the size of our student population, our universities are financially stretched to meet all of the needs of students and encouraged them to keep this in mind when making the budget.

“It is clear to me that both Rep. Buck and Sen. Lee understand the

BY AMBER HELSELThe Daily Mississippian

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Egypt’s military rulers dissolve parliament

Egypt’s military leaders dissolved parliament and suspended the con-stitution Sunday, meeting two key demands of protesters who have been keeping up pressure for immediate steps to transition to democratic, ci-vilian rule after forcing Hosni Muba-rak out of power.

The military rulers who took over when Mubarak stepped down Friday and the caretaker government set as a top priority the restoration of security, which collapsed during the 18 days of protests that toppled the regime.

The caretaker government held its first meeting since the president was ousted and before it began, workers removed a giant picture of Mubarak from the meeting room.

The protesters had been pressing the ruling military council, led by Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi, to immediately move forward with the transition by appointing a presiden-tial council, dissolving the parliament and releasing political prisoners.

The suspension of the constitution effectively puts Egypt under martial law — where the military makes the laws and enforces them in military tri-bunals. The ruling council is expected to clarify the issue in upcoming state-ments and the role of civilian courts remains unclear.

Gas pump prices highest ever for this time of year

U.S. gasoline prices have jumped to the highest levels ever for the middle of February. The national average hit $3.127 per gallon on Friday, about 50 cents above a year ago. The price is about 6 percent higher than on this date in 2008.

Although gas prices are expected to rise, most experts aren’t expecting a reprise of 2008, when the price spike forced many drivers to join car pools and trade in gas-guzzling SUVs for fuel-efficient cars.

“It would be a mistake to think we’re going to have that all over again,” said OPIS chief oil analyst Tom Kloza.

He said oil demand will slide in the U.S. by May, as refineries slow fuel production while they switch to summer blends of gas. World oil con-sumption also may not rise as much as expected. Still, Kloza said he expects gas to reach $3.50 to $3.75 per gal-lon this spring because of the usual run-up in prices ahead of the summer driving season. That would mean an increase of 12 to 20 percent from the current level.

Obama wields scalpel to budget devoid of painful political choices

President Barack Obama’s budget submission on Feb. 7, will take a sur-gical approach to a deficit problem that his Republican rivals say warrants a meat axe. As Obama seeks $53 bil-lion for high-speed rail over the next few years, House Republicans are try-ing to pull back $2.5 billion that’s

already been promised. He’s seeking increases for his “Race to the Top” ini-tiative that provides grants to better-performing schools; Republicans on Friday unveiled a five percent cut to schools serving the disadvantaged.

Confederate License Plates? A fight is brewing in Mississippi

over a proposal to issue specialty li-cense plates honoring Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans says it wants to sponsor a series of state-issued license plates to mark the 150th anniversary of what it calls the “War Between the States.” The group proposes a differ-ent design each year between now and 2015, with Forrest slated for 2014.

Student arrested after shot fired at Miss. school

Jackson police have taken a 17-year-old student at Wingfield High School into custody after a shot was fired in a bathroom. Police Department spokeswoman Colendula Green says three male students were in a restroom Thursday when the gun discharged. Green says officers believe the student was showing off the weapon when it went off. There were no injuries. The names of the students have not been released.

Founder of 2 natural food gro-

cery chains resigns The founder of two chains of natu-

ral foods grocery stores has resigned after he was arrested in a child pros-titution sting in Phoenix. Police say Sunflower Farmers Market CEO Mi-chael Gilliland is accused of soliciting sex online with someone who identi-fied herself as an underage girl. He faces a charge of felony child prosti-tution. Gilliland resigned from Sun-flower, which has locations in seven states. He also founded Wild Oats Markets Inc., which was acquired by Whole Foods Market in 2007. Gil-liland was one of eight men arrested Thursday in the sting. Sunflower says he told the company he believes he is not guilty.

Pa. teen admits trying to hire hit man on Facebook

A Chester County teenager faces 11 to 22 years in prison after agreeing to a plea agreement on charges he used Facebook to try to hire a hit man to kill a woman who had accused him of rape. Nineteen-year-old West Chester, Pa., resident Corey Christian Adams accepted the plea agreement Friday on charges of rape, criminal solicita-tion of murder and other counts. In July, a 20-year-old woman who had accused Adams of raping her after a party called police to point out a post-ing on his Facebook page offering $500 for “a girls head.” In a later post-ing, police say Adams said “he needed this girl knocked off right now.”

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child,” Damare said. “Mark, the writer of the two, is

writing the play, as the audience watches, to convince his partner David, the singer, that they would be good parents for a child.”

“This is a wonderful show about a couple who is trying to save their relationship while humanizing an otherwise alternative lifestyle,” Damare said.

The second play, “Young Blood,” created and directed by Anna Donnell, will be based on the ups and downs of modern stu-dent life.

“I began working on my one-act this summer in Chicago,” Don-nell said. “I was working on my

honors college thesis by observing and interviewing a collaborative Latina theater group called ‘Te-atro Luna.’

“These women used their per-sonal stories to write and create a show that was unique and rel-evant. After observing their pro-cess, I decided to bring the pro-cess they used to put together a show at Ole Miss.”

“Two New One Acts” will be performed Tuesday, March 29 through Sunday, April 3 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 2 through Sunday, April 3 at 2 p.m. in the Meek Hall auditorium.

In the first annual “An Evening of Cinema,” The University of

Mississippi Cinema Competition will present the work of its win-ners, Jordan Berger and Houston Settle, with their short film “The Ninth Floor.”

The event will also show work from the competition’s runners-up, with Lauryn DuValle and Alla Jeanae Frank’s “Pickett” and Britt Allen’s “Circulation.”

Award-winning short film “Si-lent Radio,” by professor Alan Ar-rivee, will also be shown.

“An Evening of Cinema” will take place in Fulton Chapel at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 7 through Saturday, April 9.

The final event of the semester will be Rachel Sheinkin’s Tony

Award-winning musical comedy “The 25th Annual Putnam Coun-ty Spelling Bee.” Directed by as-sistant professor Rory Ledbetter, the show tells the story of a mid-dle school spelling bee.

“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” will show at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 5 through Saturday, May 7, and at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7 through Sunday, May 8 in Fulton Chapel.

Tickets are available at the UM Box Office in the Student Union which can be reached at 662-915-7411.

For more information, contact Carey Hanson in the main office of Isom.

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Just around Gee’s Bend: Quilts as art

BY KRISTI JACKSONThe Daily Mississippian

ADDISON DENT | The Daily Mississippian

The Mary Buie Museum recently opened an exhibit that introduces a collection of quilts from Gee’s Bend, Ala., to the University of Missis-sippi campus.

The quilts arrived Jan. 11 and will be on display at the museum until April 2.

William Andrews, director of the University Museum, said he has wanted to bring this exhibit to the museum for a while.

“I saw The Quilts of Gee’s Bend at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in 2006,” An-drews said.

“I was enthralled like every-one else by the beauty of the quilts. The exhibit had a tre-mendous amount of critical acclaim and had been shown at the Whitney Museum of

American Art. “After the Hattie Mae Ed-

monds Fund for Southern Folk Art was established at the mu-seum, bringing this exhibition to the University of Mississippi Museum became a priority.”

Freed slaves settled in a small town called Gee’s Bend after the American Civil War.

The women made quilts out of their old clothes or any dis-carded materials as a means of survival. These quilts can help give outsiders insight into the lives of the women quilters of Gee’s Bend.

Although the quilts were not intended to serve as an art form, the quilts have taken a new stance in the world with their bold and sophisticated colors and have a new name — modern art.

Living in shacks with little or no insulation, one of the quilters recalls needing four quilts on a single bed just to

stay warm. Electricity was not intro-

duced in Gee’s Bend until the 1960s, followed by telephone service in the 1970s.

The quilters began to receive recognition for their works during the art exhibition en-titled “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend” in 2002.

The artists are currently re-visiting older quilts and creat-ing new quilts with the intent to make the quilts more artis-tic.

These quilts have been re-ferred to by The New York Times as “some of the most mi-raculous works of art America has produced” and have been praised around the world.

The quilts were loaned to Ole Miss by the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Tinwood Al-liance, whose mission is to better help people understand that there is more to art than putting paint on a canvas.

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From Taylor McGraw:I tried out for wide receiver on

the football team my freshman year. About a dozen of us showed up at the Indoor Practice Facil-ity with a physical form and our high school cleats.

I bench pressed 225 pounds six grueling times, hit 29 inches on my vertical leap and ran a se-ries of out routes and post pat-terns. I had been training for a few months, but I had wanted to be an Ole Miss Rebel my whole

life.I was going to Rebel football

games well before “Deuce was loose” or before anyone had heard of a guy named Eli Man-ning. I was going to basketball games when the Rod Squad ruled the student section and when Colonel Reb rapelled from the catwalk before each game. I was going to baseball games when Matt Mossberg was a player, not a coach, and when the left-field-line bleachers were just a grassy

hill.Whenever the basketball team

played on the road, I would crank up David Kellum’s broad-cast on my radio and imitate Justin Reed’s dunks and Aaron Harper’s threes on the Nerf goal in my bedroom.

Ole Miss sports were an ob-session back then, and they still are. One of the major reasons I didn’t go to college somewhere else is because I couldn’t stand the thought of missing an Ole

During a political campaign, like the ASB elections today, there’s plenty of talk about platforms and policies. But at the Daily Mississippian sports, we wanted to know a little more. With that in mind, ASB Presidential candi-dates Taylor McGraw and Cortez Moss stopped by to offer their thoughts on Ole Miss athletics – the important stuff, right?

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After tryouts when I saw that my 40-yard-dash time was far from SEC caliber, I realized that I could do more to support Ole Miss sports from my seat in the stands and the ASB Senate. The coaching staff agreed, and my dreams of dressing out in the red and blue ended in coach (Clif-ton) Ealy’s office with a hand-shake and a “Thanks for trying out.”

I hope to continue my support as ASB President.

But I think it is fitting that there will be a lot of blue and red

stickers on campus today. Be-cause no matter which candidate you support, we’re all Rebels.

From Cortez Moss When Daily Mississippian

sports editor Paul Katool called me to write this article I imme-diately thought about my experi-ence with high school athletics. I only played tennis, but I worked for my hometown newspaper where I covered all sports – basi-cally, I was the sports writer.

Then, I thought about my ex-periences with Ole Miss sports. I have always been a basketball fan, perhaps because I come

from a family of basketball play-ers and coaches. I never cared much about football until I came to college.

I marched in the Ole Miss Band both freshman and sopho-more year and I thought I would have the same experience as high school. I was proven wrong. My first Ole Miss football game was crazy – I had never been in the Grove before so this was indeed a new experience for me.

As a band member it was dif-ferent: We were commissioned with getting the fans pumped about Rebel football.

As Mr. Willson stood on the

podium to count us off to play the warm-up, the crowd went wild, and I didn’t know what was about to happen.

Then we played “From Dixie with Love” and the crowd be-came even crazier. I thought that would be the end of things, but upon entering the stadium I real-ized what it means to be a Rebel.

We played Memphis and won 41-24 – it was an awesome game. The third quarter is what really inspired me when we played “I Saw the Light.” During band camp, Mr. Willson talked about how emotional we would be, but I never believed him.

That year was coach Houston Nutt’s first year in Oxford, and we went to the Cotton Bowl. For me, it was an experience of a life-time that I will never forget.

Although I was never really into sports in high school other than tennis and baseball, I did cover them for the local news-paper. But Ole Miss truly helped me become a sports fan.

I have since tried not to miss a football game, I occasionally attend baseball games to see my good friends Matt Snyder and Brett Huber and I try to never miss a basketball game in the Tad Pad.

needs of college students across Mis-sissippi. They are both in tune to the issues and doing all they can to help strengthen the university and college system in our state.”

Lt. Gov. Bryant said he enjoyed getting to meet with the presidents from the universities from around the state.

“I was honored to meet with fel-low university student government presidents from around the state,” Lt. Gov. Bryant said.

“We discussed a variety of issues including additional funding for Mississippi Universities. I appreciate their interest in the legislative process and taking Mississippi’s higher edu-cation to the next level.”

CAPITOL, continued from page 1

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Dear students,In the past, you probably have ig-

nored ASB elections like Ole Miss Today e-mails. I don’t blame you. The ASB never really does much that af-fects you.

But that will change if you elect me president.

My platform goals are not vague bul-let points I made up for a flyer. They are items from my to-do list as the Stu-dent Affairs and Athletics Committee Chairman in the ASB Senate. They are practical solutions to common prob-lems.

I spoke with our Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance, and he didn’t see any reason why the univer-sity couldn’t start providing scantrons for students. The Ole Miss Bookstore sells about $7,000 worth of scantrons per semester, and those unnecessarily big, oft-broken scantron vending ma-chines cost $14,000.

I will continue my research on ath-letic ticket prices and put together a presentation that compares our to-tal student contribution to athletics (through both tuition and tickets) to that of other SEC schools.

Then I will work with student lead-ers to make a recommendation that keeps our student sections packed and our teams competitive.

After collaborating with the IT de-partment, today I will be the first stu-dent to test the university’s brand new wireless printing system. If all goes well, you’ll soon be able to print pa-pers from your laptop in the Grove and pick them up at your convenience from Weir Hall.

I am going to meet with the direc-tor of dining services next week to dis-cuss our options for a smoothie place on campus. I hear that the owner of Smoothie King in Oxford is excited.

I am working with Bill and Jason

Ritchie from campus recreation on put-ting some outdoor basketball courts by the intramural fields to free up some space inside the Turner Center.

I won’t promise you I can get you out of parking tickets or build you a new Union or Turner Center, but I will work my hardest to make it more transparent where you can and can’t park, while making parking services more online-oriented so you don’t have to waste time filling out appeals slips or driving to Kinard and waiting in a never-ending line. And I will work my hardest to push for more efficient uses of the facilities we currently have while we plan for long-term improve-ments.

Too often, the ASB tells students what the administration wants and not telling the administration what stu-dents want. But that’s something I’ve never been afraid to do; I do it weekly inside these very pages.

The other day, I received a note from the former editor of this newspaper. Here’s what she wrote:

“You possess the unique ability to be completely and constructively hon-est...without being condescending. You damn sure kept me accountable last year and continue keeping the university community accountable in your columns. It’s a rare quality.”

I’m a journalist, not a politician. I’m the guy who asks tough questions, not dodges them.

Win or lose, I’ll remain dedicated to serving this university community that has raised me since I was the 6-year-old son of a pair of Ole Miss professors chanting the clean version of Hotty Toddy from my seat in the Tad Pad as my favorite mascot rapelled from the catwalk amid red and blue streamers.

Ole Miss is my home. All I’m asking is that you give me a chance to take care of it the best way I know how.

Taylor McGrawCandidate for ASB president

Cortez MossCandidate for ASB president

When I sat down to make a deci-sion about running for ASB President, I first consulted my faith. This is a huge responsibility to undertake, but as I thought about why I wanted to be ASB President and what I offered as a Rebel, and as a candidate, I knew that it was a position I could hold with a maximum amount of integrity and passion.

I thought about the experiences I have had at Ole Miss. From being an orienta-tion leader and helping with the 2008 Presidential debate, to being a mem-ber of the Pride of the South marching band, the experiences I have had here have been nothing short of amazing. Then, I thought about the University itself, what she stands for, the spirit she embodies, the kinds of individuals she has produced, her accomplishments and her controversies.

After I thought about these things and wondered what I could do to con-tinue the legacy and spirit of Ole Miss as ASB President, I sat down and looked at where we were as an institution, where we hoped to be and what we needed to do to get there. All of these plus my

years of tireless work through ASB leads me to where I am now in my candidacy for ASB President.

My goal as ASB President is to rebuild Rebel pride throughout the Ole Miss family and create an environment on our campus in which we are all proud. I want the Associated Student Body, in congruence with Cardinal Club, Stu-dent Programming Board and others campus organizations to build upon a community that is already rich in tradi-tion and pride. Instead of focusing on what songs are played at the football game or what our on-field mascot is, I want to focus on reinforcing a strong network of faithful Rebels that consis-tently come together, even when times are not ideal.

There is more to my platform than just building Rebel pride. Here are just a few issues that are on my platform that have derived from many conversations I have had with students, faculty and Ole Miss Rebels across the way.

Parking: One consistent issue that stu-dents, faculty and visitors all have prob-lems. I propose that we implement a

policy called “First Ticket Forgiveness.” This policy will allow students to be for-given one parking ticket per semester.

My commitment to always being the Ole Miss Rebels: I would like to begin by assuring my fellow Rebels that I will fight to ensure that we always remain the Ole Miss Rebels. In a goal of main-taining this name and increasing school spirit, I hope to see fellow Rebels work together to name the student section at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium that would include “Rebel” in its title.

New Student Union and Recreation Center: We need to put pressure on ad-ministrators to move swiftly on a plan for these new facilities. We can no lon-ger wait; the living room of our campus is not conducive to the needs of us as students. Administrators can no longer ask us to wait to have more meeting space, better food options and a better place to exercise.

Switching from Webmail to Gmail for campus e-mail: “RebelMail” will give students 7.5 GB of space, the familiar Gmail interface and will maintain their current address. Switching to Gmail will

save the University thousands of dollars. The service is offered free to universi-ties. The money we save from switching can be re-allocated to meet other stu-dent needs.

Funding Rebel Ride: A means for us to travel to and from the Square safely on weekends. Thanks to the work of some great peers, Stephen Worley and Alex McClelland, we have been able to ride to and from the Square free of charge. Let’s keep that up. It’s time that ASB works to make sure Rebel Ride is fully funded, whether that comes from local sponsors or corporate sponsors.

These are just a few of the issues that I am concerned with for our beloved University. I am always willing to dis-cuss matters with fellow students, fac-ulty and alumni, and would love to hear what you have to say.

As ASB President, I am interested in more than just issues. I want to be a leader for all students, a friend outside of the office and one that students can confide in and trust to continue to build upon the legacies and increase the spirit of being an Ole Miss Rebel.

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Today, all 14,000 or so Ole Miss students in Oxford will have the opportunity to make a huge difference in the direction of this campus. I speak, of course, of the chance you all have to pick new student leaders.

This is not an appeal for votes to one candidate or another. This is my fifth go-round on the ASB elec-tion circuit. I’m not writing this to tell you who to vote for - merely to vote. Period.

This year, though it’s really on neither of the candidates’ platforms, there is an opportunity for the next ASB president to have an otherwise abnormal influence on the future of the University through service

on the Strategic Planning Council, which is hard at work on the UM 2020 plan. The goal of the plan is to figure out what the University is going to do over the next 9 years: what we’re going to build, expand, etc.

The ASB President will be ex-pected to speak up for the students during this process, which means it’s very important to pick the cor-rect man.

The same thing goes for each candidate for vice president, which I think is really the most important race this year, though I will admit a bias in this thought process.

Since the VP is in charge of the ASB Senate, this year’s VP has their work cut out for them to reverse a decline in procedural knowledge that’s gotten worse over each of the

past two years and leads to such spectacles as the one which oc-curred last Tuesday with the Senate taking an hour to pass a bill to buy a chalkboard.

In the end, of course, the choice will come down to you, the stu-dents. The candidates themselves can only do so much to persuade you to vote for them; I can only ask that you do.

On the one hand, it’s encour-aging to stand on the steps of the Union or the Lyceum and hear that 1,000 people voted for you, even if 3,000 people voted for your opponent.

On the other, it’s depressing to know that out of 14,000 voters, only 4,000 voted and only 1,000 of those voted for you.

Please, please vote today, y’all.

Whatever you do today, don’t forget to vote

BY BRANDON IRVINEColumnist

HOW TO VOTE IN ASB ELECTIONS

Any student with a myOleMiss ac-count is eligible to vote between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. today.

To vote, log in to myOleMiss and click “vote in student elections” under the main tab.

The results will be released at 5:30 p.m. on the Lyceum steps.

If you have any questions, contact the ASB office in Union 408 or at [email protected].

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Chocolate is great until the en-tire box somehow mysteriously disappears.

I usually chalk it up to the sweet-tooth fairy or something of the sort, ignoring the obliga-tory smirks that follow my lame excuses.

But now that the love/“I hate being single” holiday has offi-cially come to a close, and the pink and red candy is half-off at Kroger, Walmart and Walgreens, the danger period has begun.

Take a very large step back from that $1.95 bag of chocolate Dove hearts. I know they are ir-resistibly creamy, and those se-cret love messages on the wrap-pers really are the most adorable thing – but resist.

Go eat some celery or some-thing. Dye it pink. Be creative with desperation.

Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but spring break is just

around the corner and it is time to look at ourselves with the bag-gy sweatshirt off.

It is terrifying. It is something that makes me want to put the baggy sweatshirt back on and go buy the aforementioned choco-lates. I understand. The world understands, but it is necessary.

March is an adjustment peri-od, but I am suggesting we begin to adjust a little earlier this year.

I witnessed some really atro-cious-looking “Hey, it is kind of warm outside, so I am going to go all the way and express my de-sire for a better body and a sun-tan” outfits, and I want to avoid them this year.

For the Men: The JortThey still exist. Though I would hope that

most Ole Miss boys would have better taste and modesty than this, there are still a few out-breaks every once in a while that are large enough to warrant the fear of a rekindling of this trend.

Legs are definitely assets, but when it is March, and the said legs have not seen the light of day all winter long, the knee and lower is all we need. Trust me.

Jeans are pants that should cover the entirety of the male leg.

It is nothing against our men and the naturally painfully pale (ahem, example: me). It has much more to do with a sense of duty to fellow man, the commu-nity and the world.

For the Ladies: Tube Tops I get it. They are simple,

stretchy and do not require much work. Who does not want to be able to just slip something on and go?

On paper it sounds great, but in reality, they are less than flat-tering.

I am pretty sure the only per-son deserving of this garment is a Victoria’s Secret model. And even then, I’d rather not see it.

My ego would be utterly shat-tered, and my spring break goals rendered petty and/or unattain-able.

How could a shapeless, clingy tube of a top ever be considered becoming?

Ladies need something that is figure-flattering instead of a top that outlines our every flaw and trouble area with something sim-ilar to spandex.

For EveryoneShort shorts are for females,

and tops that resemble tubes are not the best choice for anyone.

Everyone needs time to lay off the chocolates and venture into the sunshine for the first time in months. There is an entire world out there, and it is ready for some tasteful spring break cloth-ing choices.

Hibernation is nice, but there is more to us than baggy jackets.

We all have our mishaps, so consider this a stumble: Get up, brush off those perfect-length pants and stride forward into a fashion-friendly future.

BY MARY B SELLERSThe Daily Mississippian

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Cracking the seal on a new seasonBY ANDREW DICKSONThe Daily Mississippian

American sportscaster Ernie Harwell readily admitted that baseball is just a game – as sim-ple as putting a bat to a ball – but simultaneously recognized it for being as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It’s a sport. It’s a business. And for some, it’s even a religion.

For Ole Miss Baseball fans, the game is cruel and unusual– yet strangely addicting.

Fans have packed University Stadium at Swayze Field on the Ole Miss campus in record fash-ion these last two years, averag-ing nearly 7,000 a game over the 2009 and 2010 seasons – third highest nationally in average at-tendance both years.

And why wouldn’t we be at the ballpark? During his tenure as the skipper for Ole Miss, Mike Bianco has led the Rebels to tre-mendous success. The highlights include winning the SEC West twice, winning the SEC baseball

tournament once, making it to four NCAA Regional Champi-onships (‘05, ‘06, ‘07 and ‘09) and hosting three NCAA Super Regional Championships.

But with great success comes great expectations, and though Bianco has made it to college baseball’s equivalent of NCAA Basketball’s “Sweet Sixteen” with some frequency, he’s yet to make it to Omaha for the Col-lege World Series – the bench-mark of the college game.

Frustration among our fan base after some of our recent heartbreaks is understandable. In the three Super Regional Championships we’ve hosted (against Texas, Miami, Florida and Virginia), we’ve won the first game out of three and fallen short in the next two games.

Ole Miss is 0-6 in Omaha-clinching games under Bianco. Harwell once said this: “For nine innings baseball is the sto-ry of David and Goliath, Sam-son, Cinderella, Paul Bunyan, Homer’s Iliad, and the count of Monte Cristo.” But for Rebel

fans, baseball is more analogous to Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” where a number of interchange-able teams can easily fill the vil-lainous role of Macduff.

Perhaps this year the story will play out a bit differently.

Despite some key losses to the roster, it is not short on talent. The weekend rotation will likely consist of Matt Crouse, David Goforth and Austin Wright. Stellar closer Brett Huber (12 saves in 2010) also returns, as well as former closer Jake Mor-gan (9 saves in 2009), who ap-pears be ready to go after missing last season and recovering from Tommy John surgery. Few – if any – leads should be lost after the seventh inning this year.

The new bats being intro-duced to college baseball this season are likely to reduce power numbers according to prognosticators, which could be considered a plus for a team that puts an emphasis on pitching. But the Ole Miss batters will be dealing with the same perceived disadvantage.

With that said, our position players are worthy of attention as well. Outfielder Matt Smith, first baseman and designated hitter Matt Snyder and second baseman Alex Yarborough re-turn to anchor the lineup, which also features plenty of youth.

Look for freshman third base-man Preston Overbey to provide a spark and the winner of the Blake Newalu/Austin Anderson battle at shortstop to contribute on offense as well.

Though there are holes to fill, the average Ole Miss Baseball fan has little to worry about in 2011. The stadium is still one of the best in the nation, and so is the party going on in right field.

Thousands of students are still going to fill right field and fill themselves, crafting perhaps the best college baseball atmo-sphere in the country on any given game day. The party be-gins again more than an hour before first pitch this Friday – don’t be late.

Attendance is always taken.

OLE MISS STUDENT ATHLETICSAn open campus forum on student athletics at Ole Miss will be held Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Indoor Practice Facility on campus. The meeting, open to all Ole Miss students, will provide discussion and information on competing with recre-ational, intramural, club and varsity teams.

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