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It’s easy to notice all the changes around Ole Miss.
There is a new on-field mascot, new buildings, new brand market-ing campaigns and new professors and staff. The change that is the most exciting and most frighten-ing around campus, however, is probably the recent growth in the student population.
As the Daily Mississippian re-ported last semester, this year’s freshman class is the largest in the University’s history, nearly 20 per-cent larger than the class of 2013.
On campus, this means adjust-ments in student life, especially concerning transportation and
on-campus housing.“So far, we have been able to
house all freshmen on campus,” student housing director Lorinda Khrut said. “However, we were very full this past fall.”
Khrut said that the housing sup-ply will have to meet the demand if class sizes continue to increase.
“We will have an additional 720 beds in the fall of 2012 in antici-pation of future growth,” Khrut said. “Right now, we will house upperclassmen in Northgate and Campus Walk. That should take care of most of our upperclass-men. Other changes include Crosby being converted into a freshman-only dorm, as opposed to mixed freshman and sopho-more Greek women.”
Another area that affects a lot of
students is the financial aid depart-ment. Its lines are notoriously long at the beginning of the semester, and staff members have definitely noticed an increase in these lines. Fortunately the amount of aid students will get will not be af-fected by increases in the number of students attending Ole Miss,” financial aid director Laura Diven Brown said.
“We have found a heavy demand for Federal Work-Study program opportunities this year, though, and Work-Study funds are lim-ited,” Brown said. “As a result, the work-study allocation for fall and spring is fully committed al-ready. We also expect to have ris-ing numbers of students attending
BY RACHEL JOHNSONThe Daily Mississippian
Campus works to accommodate growing student body
Sunday alcohol sales in Oxford have been officially approved by the state.
The Mississippi Department of Revenue has approved restau-rant sales of wine and liquor on Mother’s Day (May 8), Father’s Day (June 19) and the Sundays following University of Mississip-pi football games. It includes sales on Valentine’s Day and New Year’s
Eve when they fall on a Sunday.“I’m glad they sought to allow
Oxford to govern itself and to prove this compromise,” said Brad Mayo, Board of Aldermen Ward VI. “Oxford citizens wanted some change, and this is that change.”
Mayor Pat Patterson was no-tified Monday of the state’s ap-proval.
The first Sunday sales of 2011 will fall on Mother’s Day.
On Dec. 7, the Board of Alder-men voted to allow on-premise al-cohol sales from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sunday alcohol sales approved by State
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BY JOSH CLARK Cartoonist
You don’t need to be a terri-bly observant person to know that Americans absolutely love bottled beverages. Water, soda, beer—we don’t care as long as it’s portable and satisfying.
This is a fairly new phenom-enon that has exploded in the past 10 years, give or take. Be-fore the 1970s, bottled water was virtually nonexistent.
Now, almost everyone you pass on campus has a bottled something in their hand or backpack.
So what’s the harm? Every-one is constantly telling us to drink more water.
When I was nine or 10 years old, I remember learning about how fish and other animals got caught in plastic six-pack rings (the things that hold bottles and cans together) and suffocated. I then posted signs all over the house reminding my family members to “save the fishies” and cut the plastic rings.
Recently, I learned about a similar issue regarding bottled water. Except this time, it’s ourselves that need saving.
Why do we drink bottled water? Most would say that it is because it’s “purer” or more “filtered” than tap water. We’ve heard about pharmaceuticals in the water, and chlorine galore!
So it must be dangerous to drink our water, right?
Wrong. The U.S. has argu-ably the safest drinking water available on earth. That is be-cause municipal water facilities test your tap water up to 400 times a month.
That’s a lot, folks. In contrast, there is only one
person at the FDA to monitor and hold accountable all the bottled water companies in the U.S. So would you rather have water that is checked 10 times a day or never?
The bottled water industry would love to have you think
that their water is healthier and purer than the water out of the tap.
Even though the bottled wa-ter companies are held respon-sible to no one for the safety of their water, people still think that it is the safest available. Well that’s true, because at least forty percent of all bottled wa-ter is…wait for it…tap water.
It gets even better. If you look on some bottled water, there will be fine print that says “enhanced with minerals” or something like that.
That mineral would be sodi-um chloride, which is salt. Salt make us thirsty.
What do we drink to quench our thirst? That’s right, water. Yeah, the bottled water indus-tries are clearly concerned with your health.
So what’s a parched college student to do? Instead of pay-ing whatever ridiculous price they’re asking now for Ole Miss
bottled water, why not go and get a stainless steel or plastic bottle for less than $20 that will last you forever?
I’ve had my Nalgene for al-most 10 years and it still is in great shape.
I hate plastic, but it is not go-ing away. Though companies have tried to make certain types safer such as having BPA-free items, the government does not have the power to control and monitor all types.
So as far as we know, plastic is here to stay, but you can help the planet and your own body by buying a reusable stainless steel or BPA-free plastic bottle to hydrate yourself.
If you still don’t feel safe about tap water, buy a filtered water pitcher or a filter that attaches to the faucet. They’re cheap and last a very long time.
It’s a small step to drink more water, and make the planet and your body healthier.
Tapped OutBY KATHLEEN BROWNThe Daily Mississippian
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Dear Eliza,I’ve been trying to move on
from my ex and have been talking to a few guys, but there seems to be one thing in com-mon with them all... no one goes on dates anymore!
Before you just assume it’s just me and that other people are in fact going on dates, hear me out.
I’ve spoken to several of my friends and sorority sisters, and we all agree that guys don’t think about actually taking girls on dates anymore. This is really disappointing.
Yes, guys text us or call invit-ing us to go to parties or go-ing to the bars with them but hello, that is not a date! Sorry guys, but it just isn’t.
So my question for you Eliza, how do we get guys to realize that we want a real date and not just a night of bar hopping out with all our closets friends and strangers?
Please, not just for me, but
for all girls: We need your help!
Allie
Dear Allie, As much as we all want to
change at least something about the opposite sex, we all know that really just won’t happen.
Yes, we have heard the stories about that one girl who found a guy and was able to change him and they lived happily ever after, and that’s great, but this isn’t a fairy tale. You can-not change a guy and a guy will never change for anyone.
However, we can make it more of a challenge for guys to see us and get a hold of us.
For example, if a guy you like continues to text you about meeting up at the bars or con-tinues to invite you to a party, say no, but suggest that if he is free the next night to let you know.
Now he knows you’re not turning him down due to lack
of interest, but because you don’t want to be in such large crowds all the time.
Soon enough, he should get the hint.
If not, it’s time to either suck it up or move on.
We can’t always expect men to be able to read our minds.
Be more direct and take an initiative in your dating life.
I hope this helps! xoxo, Eliza
Dear Eliza, I’m in a sorority, and we have
a date party coming up soon, but I’m having trouble finding a date.
I’m not really talking to any-one right now, and my guy friends either have girlfriends or have already been my date at one time or another. I feel like I need a change.
I’m tempted to ask my
friends to set me up, but in the past they always find the “per-fect guy” for me who turns out to be this awkward, annoying, guy who gets really drunk, tries to make out with me and gets sick.
If you can’t tell, I’m a little irritated just thinking about those times. I feel like I’m out of options. What should I do?
MR
Dear MR, I think it’s great for you to
ask your friends for help, but if there are specifics you’re look-ing for, make that clear to your friend.
Also, I know the more we procrastinate and try and con-vince ourselves we’ll find a date or say, “Oh I’ll just skip this one,” the more likely we’ll
end up going with one of our girlfriend’s boyfriend’s fresh-man pledges, and, well, you see where that’s going.
Remember to ask a close friend who knows you well enough to know what kind of guys you like.
If you are still unsure about who to ask, you can always ask a guy friend even if you’ve tak-en him before.
The main part of date parties is to be with your friends and have a good time.
If he was a good date the first time, chances are he will be again.
And remember: There will always be another date party.
Hope this helps!xoxo,Eliza
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Research scientists at the National Center for Physical Acoustics at the University of Mississippi have been working extensively on a project that could potentially create an al-ternative source of energy.
Senior research scientist and research professor of phys-ics, Charles Church, has been working on this project for over two years.
“We know how to approach the problem, but we don’t know what the answer is,” Church said. “It could take six months. It could take six years.”
The ultimate goal of the project is to produce small tabletop fusion generators that will provide an alternative en-ergy source.
“Fossil fuels won’t last for-ever, and when they run out,
we will be in trouble,” Church said.
The acoustic cavitation re-search project began with the California-based company, Impulse Devices, and is led by Felipe Gaitan.
Gaitan received his doctorate in physics from the University of Mississippi and is respon-sible for the discovery of sin-gle bubble sonoluminescence. Gaitan’s findings created a new field of study in physics.
The University of Mississip-pi’s research team also corre-sponds with Boston University, the University of Washington and Rutgers University.
“We all work on different aspects of the project,” Church said.
Kenneth Bader, a gradu-ate student at the University of Mississippi, has worked full-time on the project since spring 2007.
“The project is really inter-esting,” Bader said. “It’s the kind of project that makes you want to be into science.”
Bader works on the project seven days a week and some-times invests 10 hours per day.
“It’s been quite intense labor, and we’ve been taking in a lot of data,” Bader said
There are many different aspects to the research, which have kept Bader busy.
“It’s a never-ending research project,” Bader said. “Some-times, you start doing some-thing with the intention of finding one result, and along the way you find that there is a lot of other interesting stuff going on. You can get side tracked.”
The end result of the re-search project will have many global benefits for the environ-ment.
“Current nuclear power
plants produce a lot of irradi-ated materials in the contain-ment vessel and the surround-ing buildings,” Church said. “There are all sorts of potential pollutants that come out of a power plant. With the devices we are talking about producing, there will be very little radiated material that you will have to worry about.”
If the research collected proves to be successful, re-searchers will be able to create small devices that will be dis-tributed throughout the world.
“This device would do the same thing that the sun does, it will provide the same sort of energy,” Church said.
The University of Mississippi researchers are using acoustic cavitations under high pressure that may ultimately produce a cleaner, less expensive and un-limited source of energy.
Acoustic cavitation is the
process of producing vapor-filled bubbles in liquid under high pressure. Researchers use acoustic resonators to conduct their experiments.
“The general idea is acous-tically generated inertial con-finement fusion,” Church said.
If the research heads major advancements, it will bring large amounts of recognition for the University of Missis-sippi and increase its academic reputation.
“Everybody has heard of places like MIT and Stanford because they do great work,” Church said. “If the research is successful, we will prove to be able to do top quality work.”
Scientist Sara Brown said the results for the project that have been collected at the Uni-versity are confidential, and some questions regarding the project need to be approved by Impulse Devices employees.
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Kenneth Bader, a graduate student at Ole Miss participating in the project, shows of some of the equipment used during research for alternative energy.
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Next time the electricity goes out, try to look at the bright side: You are still better off than the squirrel that just died.
Each winter, dozens of squirrels and other small animals are killed on Oxford and Lafayette County’s power lines. Keith Hayward, assis-tant manager of North East Mis-sissippi Electric Power, said the animals are drawn to the heat put off by the equipment.
Despite serving customers in ru-ral areas outside city limits, North East Electric had fewer problems than Oxford Electric with squir-rels this winter. Oxford Electric department manager Lynn Rob-bins said he believes this is due to Oxford Electric operating in an urban area.
“Squirrels have a larger play-ground in the rural areas,” Rob-bins said. “In town, the squirrels use power lines as transportation. We have a very high concentration with very little habitat.”
To help prevent these outages,
both Oxford Electric and North East Electric use squirrel guards. The guard, which is a small piece of plastic, insulates the hot wire above the transformer, which makes it harder for the squirrel to connect the two.
Oxford Electric gradually in-stalls these guards when they re-pair a transformer and install them on all new transformers, Robbins said.
“Since we put these safeguards in place, we’ve cut down our out-ages considerably,” Hayward said. “It’s expensive, but it is helping a lot.”
Hayward said during the cold weather, the squirrels like the warmth of the transformers, which is where most of the prob-lems come from.
Robbins said more than a squir-rel per week was killed in Oxford this winter. This can cause serious problems for electric departments and their customers, as well as the furry rodents.
“Sometimes they cause major damage, and we have to go fix it,” Robbins said. “Other times we
find the squirrel at the bottom of the pole, and no damage is done.”
The transformers, which are the large cylinders perched on top of power poles, are where most of these incidents happen.
“When the squirrel gets on top of the transformer, his tail hits the hot wire and connects him to the transformer which is grounded,” Hayward said. “It electrocutes him, which usually blows a fuse and turns everyone’s lights out.”
In most cases, the squirrel is shot off the pole, and the lights will only flicker or go out momen-tarily. In other cases, more serious damage can occur.
“Sometimes the sheer heat and flame from the flash will crack the insulator,” Hayward said. “That’s when we have a lot of problems.”
Hayward said these cracks allow moisture inside the transformer and can cause lights to blink daily for weeks until the problem is lo-cated.
Most power lines will be run underground in the future, which will help alleviate the problem, Robbins said.
Squirrels to blame for winter power outagesBY LEE HARRISThe Daily Mississippian
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As numbers increase and freshmen classes continue to grow, changes around campus can be expected.
The Department of Facilities Planning has proposed a three-year plan that includes the de-struction of Miller Hall to make way for a new residence hall that will house an anticipated 720 students.
Department of Facilities Plan-ning director Ian Banner said
the total cost for the project has yet to be determined because the administration is still plan-ning the number of rooms the residence hall will contain. Ban-ner said that each bed, along with the building and sup-plies for each room, will cost the University approximately $43,000, but the total budget may change depending on how many beds are added.
Miller Hall, a two-story brick dormitory that once housed up to 120 students, now serves pri-marily as a site for offices and
administration.“With the building being 50
years old, it is past its useful life,” Banner said.
Miller Hall is the most ap-propriate building site due to its central location on campus, Banner said.
“We can’t make everything the center of campus,” Banner said. “But we want to keep stu-dents as close to the middle as possible.”
Lorinda Krhut, director of student housing and residence life, agreed that Miller Hall was
an appropriate choice.“The renovation of Miller
Hall will be a definite benefit to the University,” she said.
Students and faculty can ex-pect to see construction on campus in the next four to six weeks if building plans are ap-proved.
Building plans to tear down Miller Hall have been submit-ted to the Mississippi Depart-ment of Archives and History, along with the Institutions of Higher Learning. Both of these departments must approve the
plans in order for construction to begin.
Banner said having to get ap-proval from the Mississippi De-partment of Archives and His-tory and the IHL was important in maintaining a fair check-and-balance system with the Depart-ment of Facilities Planning.
Funding for the new residence hall will come from a combina-tion of student housing fees and Educational Building Corpo-ration bonds. Banner said he hopes the new residence hall will be ready by fall 2012.
Ole Miss submits plans for new residence hall in fall 2012 BY CAROLINE DANIELSThe Daily Mississippian
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summer school.” Brown said that because aid for
summer school is hard to come by already and because of the increase
in aid requests, not all applications may be accepted.
Students aren’t the only ones af-fected by the deluge of incoming freshman. Staff members all over the University are feeling the effects of having more students to serve.
“The staff do have to work lon-ger hours, but we look at it as an opportunity to be creative in our time management skills,” Khrut said regarding student housing.
Likewise, financial aid staff members are working harder and longer to serve students.
“Our staff members have worked very hard to serve the students and have put in extended hours on weekends, nights and early morn-ings, to accommodate the needs,” Brown said. “We know how im-portant it is for students to have
funding on a timely basis for their semester expenses.”
In the admissions office, 10 staff members and two temps manage a workload of approximately 50 ap-plications per day.
“We’ve honestly been having to manage, with applications up and our staff the same,” said Jennifer Simmons, assistant director for ad-missions.
“We’ve just been trying to get all of them processed in a timely man-ner, which sometimes mandates over time.”
Whitman Smith, the director of enrollment services, credits a num-ber of things for this growing inter-est in the University.
“There are a lot of people taking notice of the University that previ-ously did not, because of a lot of
different aspects: good size, good price, good programs,” Smith said.
In particular, he is a fan of the new eZing part of the Ole Miss website.
EZing, which gets its name from a shortening of the new motto “Experience Amazing,” is a news feed of all the stories coming out of the University, Oxford and North Mississippi.
Smith said eZing compiles all na-tional news concerning Ole Miss.
These new public relations ap-proaches have helped boost what Smith said he believes the Univer-sity already offers students.
“I think the positive news that comes out of the University and Oxford can’t hurt us, and Brand Services has certainly helped,” Smith said.
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I was shopping at Walmart the other day because I collect items made by small Guate-malan children in sweatshops, and you do too. Let’s be honest with ourselves: It is a new year, and with that comes resolu-tions we will probably give up by mid-March.
Mine was to be more hon-est.
That, and to stop writing Natalie Portman letters about how I could make an excel-lent stepfather to her unborn child.
Anywho, everyone knows that Walmart has about as much moral fiber as a stick of celery. That is to say, none whatsoever – this is probably because both the retail store and the vegetable are inanimate objects and do not possess the capacity for philosophical rea-soning.
That said, celery does actu-ally have quite a bit of dietary fiber. So you could say that, in some ways, a piece of celery is better for humanity than big-box retail.
Sorry, I am getting off-track.
We all know the all-in-one behemoth of consumerism does not always err on the side of – what is the word I’m searching for? – decency.
But we go there again and again and again.
Not just because they keep getting better Justin Bieber posters every week, but be-cause they are just so darned convenient. Where can I get a can of tuna, a hot pink shot-gun (I swear it’s there, look for yourself ) and the Blu-Ray edi-tion of “White Chicks”?
Nowhere, I tell you. That is why we ignore the facts.
As I was in the checkout line with my tuna and Wayans brothers film, I saw a couple of girls ahead of me looking at the gossip magazines. On their left was a periodical detailing a purportedly vicious breakup between Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock. On their right was an almost identical picture of the couple with the head-line, “Yes, They’re Together!”
The girls had no idea what to do.
They were completely at a loss due to this apparent error in space and time.
I hadn’t the heart to tell them the truth of the matter. Sandra and Ryan care about those girls in the checkout line as much as Walmart cares about the tiny Central American chil-dren who sew their discount baseball caps with the bottle openers in the bills.
I then began to wonder which was actually more un-fortunate: those girls becom-ing upset over such a trivial subject, or me scoffing at them in my faux-ivory tower con-structed by illegal, underpaid immigrant workers.
It was then and there that I gave up my New Year’s reso-lution and continued to scoff away. I also bought the maga-zine stating the Hollywood duo are still together, because I like being optimistic. Just be-ing honest.
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Imagine not gathering at the Grove or Vaught-Hemingway on game day. Instead, picture spending Saturday at the town square to witness a public hang-ing.
This was reality for those that lived in Oxford in 1893 and a reality that Oxonians have now brought to film.
The “Hanging of Big Todd Wade” is a Mississippi narra-tive short film that depicts Big Todd Wade, a larger-than-life fictitious character, who is sen-tenced for a crime he undoubt-edly committed.
We see the tough luck he en-dures from the time he is sen-tenced to the time he is sent to the gallows for his hanging. Todd Wade encounters bruises and rebuking along the way, but director Micah Ginn establishes a comedic twist to the film.
“Obviously, (the film) has a dark comedy sensibility about it,” Ginn said. “It is about a very serious thing – the death sentence and execution. But the angle we’re trying to approach is
not lingering on that so much. What we hope to show is the funny relationships and physi-cal comedy that makes up the action of the movie.”
This movie will only be eight to 10 minutes long, and Oxo-nians of all ages act as extras in the movie.
“We wanted to generate a project that would play at the festival and would feature as many locals in front of and be-hind the camera we possibly could,” Ginn said. “It’s always a really big treat when there are lots and lots of locals that are in the films.”
Needless to say, audience members are bound to see someone they know, whether from the Grove or the grocery, dressed as someone from the 1800s.
The magistrate in the film who reads Wade’s last words is Oxford actor Johnny McPhail. w
“One of the most incredible things that happened when we were shooting was that there was at least a hundred people out there in the snow, dressed in the 1800s garb and our director
says, ‘Anyone who wants a line can have one,’” McPhail said. “So you’re going to see all these great close up shots of these ev-eryday, local people.”
The Eighth Annual Oxford Film Festival will feature “The
Hanging of Big Todd Wade” as well as several other short films, all of which are competing for awards.
“Comparatively, this festival is just as good as Sundance, but a 17th of the size,” McPhail said.
“This is the place if you really want to meet ‘the’ people.”
Make plans to attend this family-friendly film and meet the people who brought this production to the screen at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 12.
Hanging “Big Todd Wade” at the Oxford Film FestivalBY ANNA ELLINGBURGThe Daily Mississippian
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Oxford residents dress up in 19th century garb to film “The Hanging of Big Todd Wade.”
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The American Association of University Women will host a book sale Feb. 21-22 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Student Union.
“All proceeds from the sale will go to scholarships for Uni-versity of Mississippi students and to the AAUW Educational Foundation,” said Amy Mark, Oxford branch president of AAUW and associate professor at Ole Miss.
“It’s the world’s largest source of funding exclusively for gradu-ate women.”
Most of the money earned will benefit the Sarah Robinson Scholarship named for a teacher and 50-year member of AAUW.
This scholarship was estab-lished for women majoring in English, education or gaining a master’s of fine arts degree.
The sale is in memory of Jan Hawks, a former assistant pro-fessor of history at the Univer-sity.
She was also the first director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women’s Studies and the last Dean of Women at Ole Miss.
“AAUW has had an active
branch in Oxford for more than 30 years,” said Christina Torbert, a finance and member-ship chair head of AAUW. “We have been conducting the book sale for more than 20 of those years.”
In order to continue the an-nual book sale, the AAUW needs books. This is where stu-dents come in to play.
Donations will be accepted until Feb. 20. There are three different dropoff sites in the Oxford area.
On campus, donors can drop off books at the Isom Center. Other dropoff locations include High Point Coffee on Jackson Avenue and Kroger on Univer-sity Avenue.
The drive needs volunteers on Friday and Saturday before the book sale and the Monday and Tuesday of the sale.
“I love book sales,” English major and past AAUW scholar-ship winner Katie Gandy said.
“This eclectic collection is fun to peruse between classes, while also affordable enough for me to purchase one or several items.”
For more information or to volunteer, contact Mark at [email protected].
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The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of the Oxford music scene is indie.
The Square boasts artists like JJ Grey & Mofro, Randy Houser and Bassnectar. While all of these shows are great, they don’t really appeal to a diverse audience.
Currently, the most main-stream artist appearing in Ox-ford is Jimmy Eat World. Even though Jimmy Eat World has gained some mainstream suc-cess and notoriety, it’s certain-ly not a band everyone likes.
This isn’t to take anything from the wonderful bands that come here, but some of the students say that their musical preferences are left out.
When browsing the upcom-ing concerts in Oxford, there’s hard rock, indie, funk and
country. Unfortunately, this doesn’t
bring in a new crowd. Upon asking students what they would like to see, there was a resounding request: hip-hop.
“I know we need more hip-hop on the scene,” Timber Heard, junior anthropology and journalism major, said.
Students are missing out on what may be the most popular music style in the world. Hip-hop is everywhere: from Tokyo to London to Atlanta.
It seems that Oxford gets left out when certain hip-hop groups come to Mississippi.
Jackson boasts artists like Wiz Khalifa, Nelly, David Banner and many others. They consistently bring hip-hop names to their students and residents.
Hattiesburg has also brought in some big names like Waka Flocka Flame and Three 6 Mafia. Even Starkville plays host to some hip-hop acts.
Oxford may have the rare hip-hop act, but there is no regular scene for residents who like the genre.
While many students are hip-hop listeners, it’s not the only genre they want to see more of in the area.
“Alternative music is always good to hear or see,” Amber
Brooks, freshman forensic psy-chology major, said. “I’m not a really big fan of hardcore rap, but I do enjoy the old-school and R&B feel.”
Alternative music is some-times present in Oxford, but it can be too obscure for many students to know about. There are a lot of bands people aren’t familiar with in the area.
“I’d like to see more main-stream acts,” Amber Brown, junior accountancy major, said. “I think it would be good to have a more diverse lineup in the area. We’re really lack-ing a well-rounded scene – we need pop, hip-hop, R&B, country, rock and blues.”
These students don’t expect Diddy and Beyonce to play a show at The Lyric, but they do expect a broader variety of live music.
Perhaps these artists don’t come to Oxford because they don’t know they’re wanted.
Whether it’s reggae, hip-hop, country or ancient folk music, Oxford would benefit from a wider array of concert opportunities.
Diversity only comes when people speak up and let ven-ues know what they want. So if you want interpretive blue-grass with underlying techno, find it, and ask for it.
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Some people make following the weather part of their daily routine, while others keep it in the back of their mind but catch up on it when they can. Those that follow college foot-ball recruiting either follow it religiously or take a wait-and-see approach and make obser-vations when the time comes.
For those like me, that fall into the latter category, today is just another day on the cal-endar. But for those who fol-low the recruiting trail closely, it’s anticipated the way many others anticipate Christmas day.
The players in the recruiting game are high school athletes – most of them are barely 18 years old.
People who follow recruit-ing closely (or “Recruitniks”) often try to speculate what is going on in the mind of these athletes by reading interviews conducted between the pros-pects and the media.
But the mind of a high school student changes with the wind. Their thoughts go back and forth in their heads just like the weather. Trusting them to behave predictably is analo-gous to trusting rain clouds enough to leave your umbrella
at home.As unpredictable as recruit-
ing is, my “source” (a guy I sit next to at my other job on campus) pumped sunshine when I consulted him about our recruiting forecast last week, despite our 4-8 season in 2010. That prediction was also despite Mississippi State’s 9-4 record and the in-state empha-sis MSU has put on recruiting lately. Houston Nutt some-how managed to “steal some of Mullen’s thunder” by picking a few coveted prospects off of the Mississippi State “commit-ment” list.
Of course State fans were a bit baffled when their momentum (perceived or genuine) did not translate into instant recruiting successes. But considering how long these coaches have been recruiting these players (some-times for two or more years), it’s obvious that their decision is not based solely on one good or bad season.
But as with any highly rated signing class, fans from other programs will allege that our recruits are “afraid to compete” or that they are on an Auburn-esque pay-for-play plan.
I do not have to be reminded of Cecil Newton to know that some people have their hands out; Alabama was buying a de-fensive tackle for $200,000 10
years ago. Almost every pro-gram in the SEC has been on probation in recent memory, including the two programs in this state.
This class addresses imme-diate needs with eight junior college transfers and some ex-citing young talent, but also offers a lot of depth. Nutt and staff did a great job of recruit-ing these players to represent their state by playing together and have raised expectations again by doing so.
I usually judge a class two or three years down the line after we see who lives up to their billing and sticks around for three or four years, but there appears to be something spe-cial brewing in this year’s crop of players. McAlister, McClus-ter, Oher, Willis and Wallace – we’ve had the players on cam-pus before, but this is the kind of class that gives you a chance to get multiple stars like that on campus at one time.
The pessimist claim that Houston Nutt is on the down-side of his career and that this is his last hurrah, but wishful thinking says a fire has been lit and that he will do whatever it takes to prove he can win this conference once before he calls it quits.
Either way, it is safe to say that the rivalry is back.
BY ANDREW DICKSONThe Daily Mississippian
Today may be special for future of Ole Miss football
With the advancement of social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, the coverage of college football recruitment has changed dramatically. No longer are the days where fans wait until national sign-ing day to see what highly rated re-cruits their school of choice signed.
Recruiting has become an in-ternet obsession of sorts, as college football fans rush to internet mes-sage boards and pay sites to get the latest scoop on their favorite recruits. Social mediums like Face-book and Twitter have provided an outlet for recruits – some have even committed to schools by posting it in a status update or a tweet. The move to social mediums like this isn’t always innocent fun, though.
Facebook, on one hand, has be-come a nemesis of sorts to the na-tion’s highest rated football players. For some reason, fans of schools seem to think it’s OK to bombard recruit’s Facebook walls and pri-vate messages with comments en-couraging the athlete to go to their school.
Seemingly every status update, no matter the subject, is responded to by random older fans of schools
with messages like “Roll Tide,” “Hotty Toddy,” “War Eagle,” etc.
What’s the reason for this? What goes through a person’s head that makes them think that posting on a 17 or 18-year-old recruit’s Fa-cebook page who they have never met is going to affect where the re-cruit goes to school?
If anything it hurts the school’s chances by doing this. In fact, these actions on Facebook may have helped Ole Miss land 5-star line-backer CJ Johnson. His Facebook had this status last Tuesday:
“This is my last Facebook post, and I’m gonna leave facebook with this. Linda Johnson has never worked as a house worker making $100,000 a year, and I will not be a Mississippi state bulldog, and I’m not considering Mississippi state anymore because you have con-stantly comment on my page send me crazy inboxes and has made my recruiting experience a living night-mare. Goodbye facebook.”
Are fans proud of themselves? Yes, Johnson is a 5-star player and the best player in the state accord-ing to Rivals.com, but he’s still a teenager in high school.
There is a reason coaching staffs are paid to recruit these athletes – not John Doe sitting at his comput-
er at his house filling up a recruit’s Facebook page with comments about their favorite school.
Not all advancements in so-cial media and recruiting are bad though. Twitter has become the lat-est place to find up-to-the-second updates on recruits.
Almost every pay site and recruit-ing analyst has a Twitter which they update daily with information on every recruit imaginable. It has be-come a staple on signing day, where news of signed letters of intents and signing day decisions are broken immediately after they happen.
In fact, both Tennessee and Van-derbilt are tweeting signed letters of intent as soon as they arrive to the school’s fax machine on signing day, another ground-breaking and innovative move.
Social media has increased cover-age and made it easier for the aver-age college football fan to find the latest recruiting info, but there is a definite downside to the use of it as well.
Recruiting is supposed to be an enjoyable process for recruits and something they’ll remember for the rest of their lives, so let’s all make sure to keep it that way by staying away from recruits’ Facebook and Twitter pages.
Is social media a detriment to recruitment process? BY BENNETT HIPPThe Daily Mississippian
The Ole Miss rifle team has one goal for the remainder of the season: to qualify for the NCAA Championships March 10-12.
Qualifying for the NCAA Championships can be a diffi-cult task. Half of a team’s quali-fication is based on their top three scores from the regular season, while the other 50 per-cent comes from the results of the NCAA Qualifier.
The last time the rifle team qualified for the NCAA Cham-pionships was in 2006, when they were led by All-American Shannon Wilson. Ole Miss coach Valerie Boothe said she is hopeful that this year’s team can get back to the NCAA Cham-pionships with the leadership of seniors Meredith Holman and Colleen Tillson and junior Keely Stankey.
With the NCAA Qualifier less than two weeks away, Boothe’s team seems to be peaking at just the right time.
“This has been our best sea-
son in the last five years. The last time that we were in the po-sition we are now was the only other time that the team had made it to the NCAA Cham-pionships,” Boothe said. “We haven’t had a team appearance since 2006. We are, right about now, where we were that year that we did make it. So we’re hoping we get the bid again.”
After a good showing in El Paso, Texas against UTEP this weekend, the Lady Rebels hope to carry that momentum to a match against Memphis on Wednesday and the NCAA Qualifier on Feb. 13.
Despite a sluggish start to the season, Boothe is excited about how her team is performing heading into the NCAA Quali-fier and the Great America Rifle Conference Championship.
“We are right where we need to be,” Boothe said. “We had a slow start, but now, we’re start-ing to heat things up.”
The Lady Rebels hope to continue their stride towards the postseason as they take on the Memphis Tigers in Oxford on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.
Rifle aims for NCAA Championships BY DAVID COLLIERThe Daily Mississippian
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Floyd Raven, a cornerback from Louisiana, is just one of the many highly-rated football prospects that the Rebels are expected to sign on Wednesday.
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Perhaps the three Ole Miss students in the first row of the student section wearing Ken-tucky blue provided enough motivation, but Andy Kenne-dy’s red-clad Rebels along with an inspired student section proved that they are not what their measly conference record would suggest.
Chris Warren, Ole Miss’ se-nior guard, drained his 300th career 3-point shot and the biggest of his career with 2.9 seconds on the clock to give the Rebels (14-8, 2-5 SEC) a 71-69 win over No. 10 Ken-tucky (16-5, 4-3 SEC). It was the Rebels’ first win over a top-ten foe since 2002.
Warren led the Rebels in scor-ing with 22 points on 9-of-15
shooting, making four of his seven 3-point attempts.
“I’m not going to say I knew for sure (that the shot was go-ing in) but I knew it looked good and from my angle it sure looked good,” Warren said. “It was a big shot. Hopefully I’ve got many more to come though.”
The Rebels were also helped by the defensive play of sopho-more forward Reginald Buck-ner. The Memphis native end-ed the game with 12 points and five blocks. One block with 6:37 left in the game led to a fast-break where senior guard Zach Graham was able to com-plete a three-point play.
“I haven’t blocked a shot like that in a long time,” Buckner said. “It helped us out so we could win the game.”
Along with a solid defensive play, the Rebels were able to force Kentucky into a season-high 18 turnovers.
Ole Miss coach Andy Ken-nedy put the game in perspec-tive minutes after perhaps his biggest win with the Rebels.
“(This game) means nothing if you can’t put it together,” Kennedy said. “It’s time to start stringing wins together.”
Warren said that the win was something he knew that his team could pull out.
Player of the Game:Chris WarrenAs well as hitting the game
winning shot, Warren ended the game shooting 9-of-15 from the field and going 4-of-7 from the 3-point arc for 22 points. He also ended the night with three assists.
Stat of the Game:Warren’s four 3-pointers in
the game moves him in to 5th place in SEC history in career 3-pointers.
BY ALEX LAKEThe Daily Mississippian
25-foot shot pushes Rebels over No. 10 Kentucky
Zach Graham hangs on to the ball during the Rebels’ 71-69 win over Kentucky.