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APRIL 20, 2006
Vol. 97, No. 132
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Lecture ASB to relay GPA change concerns
ends
J-Week
Willow Nero
Senior Staff Reporter
Layson Lawler
Staff Reporter
Founder, chairman and CEO
of Morris Communications
Company William “Billy” Morris will discuss journalism in the
bigger context of the nation and
freedom, concluding Journalism
Week with the inaugural Stuart
J. Bullion Lecture Friday.
He will also address students
and faculty on freedom in relation to the
changing
media environment
that
has
characterized recent
decades
and continues to
impact
Stuart J. Bullion the field.
T h e
e v e n t ,
sponsored
by the department
of journalism, will
take place
at 8 a.m.
on April
21 in the
William Morris T u r n e r
Center
auditorium and is free and open
to the public.
Morris is the first speaker at
what is expected become an annual lecture honoring the late
chair of the journalism department, Stuart Bullion. Bullion,
who lost his battle with cancer
in early 2004, served as the journalism department chairman for
seven years, during which he
achieved marked progress for
the university.
Chair of the journalism
department and professor of
journalism Samir Husni said
Bullion, a native of Lafayette
County, had always dreamed
about coming back to his childhood home and “leading young
minds in the profession and
education of journalism.” As
department chair, Bullionʼs
service led to the enhancement
of the journalism departmentʼs
reputation as well as the enlargement and stabilization of
the faculty.
Bullionʼs accomplishments
include helping to plan the
2002-03 “Open Doors” commemoration of 30 years of racial progress at Ole Miss, drafting the universityʼs creed in
2002 and working with representatives to bring the Freedom
Forumʼs Charles Overby Center
for Southern Politics and Journalism to campus in conjuncSee LECTURE
page 4
Students and faculty will
have a chance to explore issues
and express concerns regarding
the proposed grade change with
guest panelists from different
university departments and colleges in a public forum at 7 p.m.
Tuesday.
Organized by the Associate
Student Body, the forumʼs aim is
to help gather a consensus from
students, faculty and others in-
volved with the university so the
administration can make an informed decision on the proposal.
“We are trying to get the students involved and let them know
their opinion will matter,” said
Dru Ashoo, ASB director of academic affairs and one of the main
organizers of the forum. “This
is what the chancellor [Robert
Khayat] is going to hear.”
ASB President Roun McNeal
encouraged students to express
their opinions at the forum,
stressing that Khayat will take
his next course of action based on
how much pressure he feels from
either side.
“I havenʼt seen students this
passionate about something since
Colonel Reb,” said McNeal, referring to the removal of the
schoolʼs controversial mascot
from athletic events in 2003.
“[Khayat] has weighed the costs
and benefits of this thing sufficiently, and now itʼs just waiting
to see which way the scale is going to tip.”
The forumʼs panelists will in-
clude an Ole Miss graduate school
admissions counselor, College of
Liberal Arts Dean Glenn Hopkins
and Cornelis Gispen, the associate director of the Croft Institute.
ASB also hopes to add representatives from the fields of science
and medicine to the panel who
could help address concerns regarding the proposed GPA systemʼs potential effects on medical school admissions.
The forum will begin with
See GRADE
page 6
Salaries
dismay
faculty
Kim Breaux
Matthew Sharpe The Daily Mississippian
ReNu contact solution was pulled from shelves as the FDA found the solution could cause an infection.
Contact solution linked to
rare fungal eye infection
Susie Penman
Staff Reporter
About four days out of the
week, Ole Miss junior Patrick
Dogan spots his contact case,
opens it and puts his contacts
in – right eye first, then left.
By the time 15 seconds have
passed, his vision has slid into
focus.
“I think about my day,”
Dogan said. “If I know itʼs
going to be a long day, I wear
my glasses. If itʼs a short day,
Iʼll wear my contacts, because
sometimes they bother me.”
Dogan is one of 30 million
Americans who wear soft contact lenses, which means heʼs
one of 30 million Americans
who purchases contact solution
to clean and sterilize them.
Last week, however, one
type of contact solution disappeared from many stores: ReNu
with MoistureLoc.
Bausch & Lomb, the company behind ReNu, asked retailers nationwide to remove
ReNu with MoistureLoc from
their shelves last Thursday, according to the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration Web site,
http://www.fda.gov.
The ReNu solution has
been linked to Fusarium
keratitis, a rare fungal eye
infection that is prevalent
in the southernmost
U.S., according to the
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
Web site, http://www.
cdc.gov.
Symptoms of the infection include unusual
redness or pain in the
eye, tearing, discharge,
or sensitivity to light.
Lisa Walker, an optician at Rayner Eye
Clinic and Surgery
Center, said that while
the infections could be
caused by ReNu MoistureLoc, she thought the
problem had more to do
with improper care of
contacts than anything
else.
“I think people are just
not taking care of their
contacts
properly,”
she said. “They
over-wear them.”
According
to
Walker, the product
was removed from
the eye clinicʼs
shelves
on
Monday.
Though
a
high
number
of those who
have reported
infections use
ReNu
with
MoisureLoc,
no
evidence
has been found
that shows any
direct correlation between
the product and
the
problem,
the Bausch &
Lomb Web site,
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bausch.com,
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Some Ole Miss faculty cannot
remember the last pay raise they
received, and discontent is growing
among faculty members because
some think everyone is not paying
the price of university salaries that
lag sometimes 20 or more percentage points behind the regional and
national averages.
In the 2004-2005 academic year,
a professor in the school of applied
sciences, for example, made more
than 24 percent less than the Southern Universities Group average salary for a professor with the same
position at one of the 31 peer universities, when Vice Chancellor for Student Life Thomas Wallace received
a 62 percent raise, equivalent to a
$63,000 pay increase, according to
SUG reports and the Ole Miss 2005
Salary Budget.
And while a professor in the
school of education was making
$16,198 less than a professor at a
SUG peer university, Clay Jones, director of human resources, received
a $25,300 pay increase, according
to the universityʼs 2005 salary budget. Across all fields and ranks, the
university had an average $16,829
salary difference between its salaries
and the SUG universitiesʼ salaries,
which include Auburn University,
Louisiana State University, Florida
State University, Georgia Institute
of Technology, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mississippi
State University and University of
Arkansas, among others.
Chancellor Robert Khayat said
salaries are below average for administrators and faculty at the university, which, he said, accounts
for the 23 to 75 percent increase in
salaries for some administrators at
the university. Khayat said he tries
to maintain a healthy balance in all
university operations.
“Compensation for faculty, support staff and administration is one
of those areas that requires constant
awareness of the need to be competitive,” he said. “Through the years,
See SALARY
page 10
OPINION
Meghan Blalock
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915-5503
April 20, 2006
Speak now or forever
hold your peace
The change in the grading policy has caused quite a stir
amongst the student body here at Ole Miss.
From letters to the editor to idle conversation in Johnson
Commons, students are showing an interest.
The Associated Student Body is conducting a forum tonight to
give students the opportunity to go beyond the idle chat and tell
the administration how they feel about the proposed new policy.
College-age people are notoriously apathetic, but this is one
issue that students at this university canʼt afford to be blasé about.
You may never vote in homecoming or ASB elections with the
thought, “How will this affect me?”
You may even take this attitude toward state and federal elections, but this policy is one that will directly affect your life at
this university.
Go to the forum. Voice your opinion. Itʼs important to the process for
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students to be active in the process.
Go to the ASB
Whether youʼre for the new policy
or against it, go out and let the adminForum and voice
your opinion about istration know where you stand and
why.
the grading policy.
This is your academic future and
your university.
Itʼs up to the students to make their voices heard on issues that
affect them directly.
Being part of the democratic process, whether itʼs this ASB
forum or voting in the presidential elections, is an important part
of citizenship.
Those who donʼt participate have no one to blame but themselves when their needs are neglected.
Donʼt take for granted that everyone feels the same way you do
on a particular issue.
Donʼt take for granted either how important the actions and
voices of individuals are to the process of running any organization, whether itʼs a nation or a university.
If you choose not to take steps to make your opinion known and
are unhappy with the outcome, the blame for your discontent will
rest solely on you.
Like they say at every wedding, “Speak now or forever hold
your peace.”
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James Vlahos is a freshman journalism major. He can be reached at [email protected].
More involved government needed
G
Jesse Johnson
College Democrats
interest rate hike that will take
place on July 1. How many of
you fellow students are in favor
of that?
Donʼt listen to what detractors usually say: the primary
difference between the parties
is the belief in how active a role
the government should play in
the lives of its citizens.
Social Security, student
grants and loans, Medicare,
Medicaid, the Montgomery G.I.
Bill – all of these are among
overnment help is necessary for society.
Iʼve been trying to
figure out how we fell out of the
majority. Let me run through a
brief laundry list of accomplishments:
Weʼre the party that won two
world wars, with help from our
foreign allies.
Weʼre the party that guided
this country out of the worst
economic depression it has
ever been in.
Weʼre the party that broke
the stranglehold of segregaThis column is the third in
tion on the South.
a series
And weʼre the party whose
of three columns from
economic principles promoted
more citizens to the middle
the various political
class in the ʼ90s than at any
groups on
other time, in part by promoting responsible spending and
campus.
deficit repayment.
The funny thing about
Democrats is that a majority
of the public frequently backs
many programs that Democrats
our positions on issues, but you
created and still shepherd. The
wouldnʼt know it from the way
reason you donʼt hear politicians
a few elections have turned out.
talk about eliminating these
A perfect example of this is the
completely is because of overrecently-passed Deficit Reducwhelming public support.
tion Act of 2005 (a misnomer
Did you receive free or resince the reconciled tax giveduced-cost lunches in school? If
aways added onto the debt).
so, you can thank the Title I proEvery House Democrat voted
gram. Maybe someone in your
against this act, and only two in
family was laid off unexpectedly
the Senate voted for it.
and was lucky to have unemThis bill is the reason for
ployment checks as a safety
the forthcoming student loan
net available for them and their
family until they found work.
These things arenʼt hand-outs.
They are legitimate hand-ups.
Are there people who abuse
these programs? Sure there are
– just as there are people who
steal from private entities, and
they should be punished just the
same.
The bottom line: Privatization
of everything does not work just
as much as complete regulation
of everything is not desirable.
People realized this even before
the creation of the United
States.
In colonial Philadelphia,
fire stations were employed by
private insurance companies.
To minimize costs, special
“plaques” were displayed
outside the homes that were
insured by a certain insurance
company. When a fire broke out
in a home that wasnʼt insured
by the company, the fire station
would not provide any services.
This ridiculous system was
ended by Benjamin Franklin,
who turned it into a publiclyfunded service.
The threat facing some
programs is that they are being
under-funded, which results in
under performance, which then
places them on the chopping
block. Letʼs hope people realize
the value of these services before they learn the hard way.
Jesse is a senior pharmacy major
from Poplarville. He can be reached
at [email protected].
Online Poll Results
Will the political
debate help solve the
university’s problems?
To vote in todayʼs poll go to:
www.thedmonline.com
YES
6%
NO
94 %
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Letter to the Editor
President deserves respect, whether you agree with him or not
To the Editor:
I have always and will
always be proud and thankful
that I was born in the United
States of America. That is why,
this year, I have been constantly
annoyed by Americansʼ public
disrespect of our president.
First of all, I want to be clear
that I am not a Republican or
a Democrat, nor did I vote for
George W. Bush. However, it
appalls me to hear the things
that public figures have said
about him.
First, I had to hear it at the
funeral of Rosa Parks. People
are supposed to be speaking
about the loss of a great woman;
instead, I hear people taking
shots at Bush.
The fact that people would
use the death of a great woman
to state their political views
is disrespectful to her and her
family.
I was even more annoyed
to hear a former president do
the same thing at the funeral
of Coretta King. This is the
woman who dedicated her life
to carrying on the work of her
husband after he was murdered
for that same work. But instead
of showing respect to her and
her family and the memory of
her husband, our public figures
see fit to take the time to insult
our president.
Even worse is when I have
to hear it from complete idiots.
Case in point: Kanye West. First
of all, he sees fit to disrespect
everyone who lost their homes
and lives in one of the biggest
natural disasters in history. He
was asked to be part of a benefit
show to help these people, and
West sees fit to state his socalled political views and insult
our leader. What angered me
even more is how much he was
praised for it. Just because the
man puts out a few good songs
doesnʼt mean we should hang
on his words and applaud his
stupidity.
Newsflash No. 1: It is not
the presidentʼs job to care about
you. Newsflash No. 2: Black
people donʼt care about Bush
either. The difference is that he
doesnʼt publicly insult us.
Of course, Kanye West is
as bad as Cindy Sheehan. This
woman not only disrespected
our president, but she disrespected the memory of her son
who died defending our country. She has gone to meet with
Ceasar Chavez who (by the
way) is a man who has publicly
stated his hatred for our country and says that we must be
brought down.
The point I am trying to
make is that we are the greatest
country in the world. Everyone
here is lucky to be here. We
donʼt have to like the president
and we donʼt have to vote for
him; however, we all need to
show unity to the rest of the
world and give our leader the
respect that he deserves.
Itʼs time that our political
figures stop bashing him at
inappropriate moments. Itʼs time
that we stop listening to entertainers and hanging on their
words.
Letʼs stop praising those who
insult our leader.
When you disrespect our
president you disrespect our
country.
to buy it. However, this never
translated to me that material
things were the most valuable
things in life, or even ranked on
the list. Granted, I
will admit that I take
meaningless joy in
buying a new toy or
e have all
something fun, but –
heard the
especially as a poor
traditional
college student – I
teaching that “the
have learned to place
love of money is the
little or no value on
root of all evil,” but I
material joys.
wonder how many of
After all, my
us – as Americans,
body is going to
Meghan Blalock decay just as the
Troy Jonta Smith
as citizens of the
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beings – actually heed it. We
will. The nature of everything
seem to walk around in what a
is absurdity. It is quite absurd to
friend of mine calls a “capitalplace so much value on imist-induced haze” most of the
permanent material things that
time, thinking about what we
only serve to make us happy in
can do with our money – where
the moment, because in five, 10,
we want to eat dinner, what
or 20 years they will probably
new gadget we want to buy for
be meaningless to us.
our cars, what new ringtone we
Thus, I pose a challenge, as
want for our cell phones.
I am wont to do: even if you
I am guilty of this, too. I
have the economic ability, next
purchase things I know I donʼt
time you go to a store, donʼt
need; I feel bad about it for a
buy something just because you
minute, and then I quickly try
want it. Think about what you
to rationalize the purchase.
are doing, and realize when you
Usually I canʼt even convince
are rationalizing some action
myself that the purchase was
you feel is unethical.
entirely ethical or ethical at all
And if you donʼt consider it
– not when I know how many
unethical to buy something simpeople in my own country can
ply because you desire it, conbarely afford to eat everyday.
sider the moral consequences of
But, like the majority of people, this belief. The more things you
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the stifling of human freedom.
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The fact of the matter is,
though, that I donʼt deserve
Meghan is a junior philosophy and journalism major from
it. And neither do you. I donʼt
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deserve to spend ridiculous
reached at opinion@thedmonline.
amounts of money on things I
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donʼt need, because (especially
if I have a large expendable income) if I make this the maxim
behind my will, I will continue
to spend more and more money
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avarice consumes me. I will
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replaced by the term “desire,”
and the maxim then becomes, “I
should have whatever I desire.”
This would probably result
in somewhat of an economic
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But is this penchant for
avarice and greed our own
fault? Or is it, as Marx implies,
the result of our cash-based,
capitalist economy? Are we the
results of our society, which has
been telling us since birth – via
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equals happiness? Or do we
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are
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earth.
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ON CAMPUS
TODAY
April 20: The Afrolympics
Greek Show, an interfraternity
and sorority performance, will
take place Thursday at 7 p.m.
at the Ford Center.
Call 915-7439 for more information and ticket prices.
• Minister Keith Hughes will host a
Bible study at 7 p.m. at Hume Hall
room 200.
A prayer service will immediately
follow.
For more information call 662-2529968
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THIS WEEK
April 21: Vox will host a book
reading and lunch party at Off
Square Books today from 5 to 8
pm.
For more information call 662801-2164
April 22: A non-credit course
in stained glass will take
place at the Yerby Conference
Center, Room 112.
– Items for On Campus must be submitted in writing two days prior to the
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Students in a gifted and talented program from the Cleveland school district race to build the tallest
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students an early concept of civil engineering.
Judge
rules TVA
liable
Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge has ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority is liable
for overcharges to about 400 industrial customers in its sevenstate region.
U.S. District Judge Virginia
Emerson Hopkins granted summary judgment Tuesday in a
class-action lawsuit claiming that
the countryʼs largest public utility overbilled customers for surplus power during the summer of
1998.
She said a pretrial conference
would be set to prepare the case
for trial on the issue of damages.
The lawsuit was brought in
1999 by Birmingham Steel Corp.,
which after a bankruptcy filing
was replaced in 2004 by Johns
Manville, a fiberglass manufacturing company in Etowah, Tenn.
At the time, TVA had 60 directserved customers and 345 distributor-served customers taking
advantage of the Economy Surplus Power program, which gives
a price break to industries willing
to accept interruptible service.
Estimates vary widely for how
much TVA overbilled the industries for electricity TVA had to buy
from others to meet demand. The
judge ruled that TVA passed on
the cost of power purchases “even
for hours when TVA had sufficient
power resources to supply the ESP
load.”
Michael Ermert, a Birmingham
attorney representing the plaintiffs, said TVA overcharged the
companies $40 million.
“About 400 industrial customers are obviously concerned about
the bottom line for their companies and when you consider electrical charges are a large part of
running a company, charges can
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Grades: Proposed change would create number of gradations
Lecture: Bullion left endowment to be used for lecture series
opening comments from Provost Carolyn Staton and Ashoo
of ASB. Both will present their
plans for the future.
The panel will then discuss
issues about the grade change
policy, encouraging audience
participation.
“Weʼd like people to come out
of that with a better understanding of how itʼs going to affect
them whether theyʼre faculty
member or student or administrator,” Ashoo said.
The future plan of ASB is
to remain active on the grade
change policy issue, something
Ashoo said is being accom-
tion with a $7.5 million renovation of the journalism department
facilities.
Bullion wanted to be remembered for continuing a tradition
of excellence and fostering a
passion for journalism in his students. During his seven-year tenure, he was able to accomplish
what he had envisioned for the
universityʼs journalism department and was hopeful for its future. Upon his death, Bullion left
an endowment to be used to start
a lecture series that would highlight these aspects and encourage
future journalists, and Friday will
be the first lecture to honor his
wishes, said Husni.
“Journalism is still important,
and no matter how much technology changes, the business of
creating content is vital,” Husni
said. “If you donʼt have the fire
in your belly, there is no use. Itʼs
never a mechanical job; every
day is different.”
Remembered by his friends
and coworkers as journalist to
the very end, Bullion composed
his own obituary. His survivors,
including his wife and mother,
who was one of the first female
managers of The Daily Mississippian, will be in attendance at
Fridayʼs lecture.
The criteria for Bullion lecturers are those who have experiential knowledge and have excelled
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plished in ASBʼs push to hold the
public forum before the summer.
ASB acted in the interest of students who are eager to voice their
opinions, but were worried that
the issue could dissipate over the
summer, Ashoo said.
McNeal agreed that the ASBʼs
goal is to give the students an opportunity to be heard, but added
that ASB strongly recommends
strengthening the implementation plan in the proposal if the
new change were to be adopted.
The ideal implementation plan
would address how to update
university software, publicize
the grade scale change, educate
teachers on the change and update other university programs
dependent on the current GPA
system, McNeal said..
Associate Provost of Academic Affairs Tim Hall said the
administration is working closely
with the student body to reach an
understanding on the proposal.
“They are working very hard
to consult their constituents and
make sure the students are wellinformed about what has been
proposed and what the possible
consequences might be,” he said.
Hall said he has not seen the
ASB resolution 06-13 sent to the
provostʼs and chancellorʼs offices regarding the grade change
proposal, but was unsure if the
provost has read it.
McNeal said the resolution
was a compilation of arguments
from ASB and that he has spoken
with the chancellor and provost
about many of the issues on several occasions.
Staton and Khayat were unavailable for comment.
The proposed grade change
would create a number of new
gradations in the GPA scale,
which could bring the university
more prestige but also hurt the
GPAs of high-achieving students,
according to a resolution voicing
the ASBʼs consensus of the issue
passed in a unanimous vote on
April 3.
The grade change proposal
was approved in the Council of
Academic Administrators and
sits tabled in Khayatʼs office.
After consulting Staton and
hearing from students, the administration can act on the proposal.
The Council of Academic
Administrators is the highest
policy-making council below the
administration at the university
and consists of the deans of the
schools and key representatives
from other groups.
ASB, the graduate student
body, the faculty senate, the undergraduate student council and
the graduate student council all
have voting representatives on
the council.
Other university administrators knowledgeable on specific
topics serve on the council but
are not voting members.
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The Web site also said that
until an investigation concludes
otherwise, the product will be
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Susan Turnage, the pharmacy
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Morris, a second-generation as internationally in France and and the Advertising Council Inc.
journalist whose father owned
a newspaper in 1929, said journalism has always been a part of
his life and he considers his job
to be one of simply providing information to the citizens of a free
country.
“The importance of [journalism] is what we do to our nation,
the perpetuation of freedom and
our self-government,” Morris
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Morris, a native of Augusta,
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He established the Morris Museum of Art in honor of his parents, and in memory of his father
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Scholars Chair of Art at Augusta
State University and the William
S. Morris Chair of Newspaper
Strategy and Management at the
Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
at the University of Georgia.
A graduate of UGA, Morris
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree
in journalism and was named the
1983 Outstanding Alumnus of the
UGAʼs Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Morrisʼs visit and lecture
Friday mark his first trip to Ole
Miss, and he said he is looking
forward to experiencing all the
university has to offer.
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Campus Christian organization uniting for event
Haley Crum
Ole Miss has many diverse student Christian organizations, but
all will come together tonight in an
event called SOMA, a Greek word
translating to mean “the body.”
SOMA will take place in the
Grove at 7 p.m. and will feature
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two songs a cappella and will have
several of its members share testimonies of how they came to Christ.
“Being able to gather so many
different organizations helps us unify
our voice on campus, which is sometimes be distorted,” Ole Miss graduate student Jeremy Jones said. “It
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any fear from anyone else.”
The idea for SOMA began when
freshman Tyler Sanders of Hattiesburg attended a Christian conference
for college students, Passion ʼ06, this
past January.
Upon returning, he began putting together the student committee,
composed of members from the different student religious organizations on campus, and began planning
SOMA.
“I kind of felt God lying on my
arm saying that there wasnʼt much
unity between the organizations on
campus,” he said. “It says in Ephesians 4:4 that we are called to walk
down the same path and we are all
one body despite our small personal
beliefs, so thatʼs really where all this
is coming from.”
This is the first time student religious organizations have been
brought together to share their faith.
Sanders said he hopes SOMA will
become an annual event and continue
to grow in numbers and quality over
the next few years.
Testimonies will be given from
Bishop Anthony Barnes, brother of
former basketball coach Rod Barnes,
and Todd Abernethy, senior guard on
the Ole Miss basketball team.
High school students are also
invited to attend this event. Senior
Clayton Loden of Fulton, a member
of the student committee that orga-
nized SOMA, said that it is important
for high school students to see Ole
Miss in a different light.
“All of these high school kids see
Ole Miss as the big party and drinking school,” Loden said. “There is
good here, too, as opposed to evil.
They never see the campus ministries
and may not even know we have this
kind of stuff.”
The student religious organizations, as well as the students who organized SOMA, would like the student body to know that all students,
regardless of ethnic background or
religious affiliation, are invited to attend. The event will take place in the
Grove, regardless of weather.
Haley Crum can be reached at
[email protected]
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Fourth annual Swamp Stomper this Saturday
Sarah Liipfert
Staff Reporter
Ole Miss Outdoors is sponsoring its fourth annual Swamp
Stomper event, which will take
place Saturday at Sardis Lake
from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Swamp Stomper event is
a team race competition that will
require participants to endure
10 miles of canoeing, six miles
of trail running and 10 miles of
portage where team members
will carry their own canoes, according to Brad Gentry, graduate
assistant for Ole Miss Outdoors.
The adventure race is made
up of 10 teams, consisting of
four persons each and having at
least one member of the opposite
sex. Gentry said that all spaces
for participation in the race have
been taken.
“We are full. The participants
are mainly people who are up
for this very grueling physical
challenge,” he said. “For the
most part, [participants] are Ole
Miss students. There are some
residents involved this year, and
there is one full team from outof-town.”
Gentry said the Ole Miss
event has attracted attention
from other universities with active outdoors groups who either
want to take part in the challenge
or adopt the Swamp Stomper as
their own.
“What makes ours unique is
that itʼs not just physical events,”
Gentry said. “But thereʼs also
mental work involved.”
The mental work comes in
the form of mystery events that
teams will perform. The mystery
events can range from solving
a riddle to doing some sort of
team-building tasks.
There are prizes for the teams
that come in first through third
place. All competitors will receive an official Swamp Stomper long-sleeved shirt.
The event, sponsored by Buffalo Peak Outfitters, Salomon
Sports, Red Bull and Dominoʼs
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The first checkpoint is Coontown Landing. Each team will
then paddle its canoe to Clear
Creek Landing, the second
checkpoint.
Then the teams will embark
on a six-mile trail run and finish
back at their canoe.
Next, participants will paddle
to checkpoint three and carry
their canoe from Upper Sardis
Lake to Lower Sardis Lake (Engineer Point) where the race
will end after a sprint to Paradise Point, the area where boats
dock.
Team members will find a
post-race celebration at the fin-
ish line, Gentry said.
There will be a band at the
finish line, door prizes for spectators, food to enjoy and a playground for the little ones.
Spectators are encouraged to
come out and cheer on all 10
teams during the Swamp Stomper adventure race.
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ruling that dismissed a felony conspiracy charge against him.
DeLay, who announced this
month that he is resigning from Congress, still faces a money-laundering
charge and another conspiracy charge
AUSTIN, Texas – A state appeals
court sided with former U.S. House
Majority Leader Tom DeLay on
Wednesday, upholding a lower court
stemming from the financing of state
legislative races in 2002.
A lower court judge dismissed a
conspiracy charge against the Republican in December, agreeing with
defense arguments that a conspiracy
law did not cover election code violations when the alleged offense was
committed in 2002. The Legislature
amended the law in 2003 to include
the election code violation.
Prosecutors wanted the charge
reinstated. They argued last month
before a three-judge panel of the 3rd
Court of Appeals that conspiracy to
violate the election code had always
been a crime and that the 2003 change
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Salary: Chancellor unsure about when the last pay raise was received
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faculty, support staff and administratorsʼ salaries have lagged behind our peer institutions across the
South.”
As vital to the university as it is
to keep faculty salaries competitive,
Khayat said the university has a responsibility to keep administratorsʼ
salaries competitive as well.
Despite what some faculty have
said was a negative performance
review conducted by the Faculty
Senate of Provost Carolyn Staton in
2004, Staton received more than a
37 percent pay raise for the 20042005 academic year.
Khayat refused to comment on
the review conducted by the Senate,
citing arguments about the reviewʼs
validity.
Khayat said the provostʼs salary
has been well below the average
salary for a person at her position,
but he was not sure if the percent
difference between the provostʼs
salary and those of similar administrators across the South was any
worse than the percent difference in
faculty salaries.
The chancellor said he was not
sure when administrators last received a pay raise and said many
faculty are awarded merit-based
pay raises every year.
Khayat said he is always takes
fairness into consideration.
“Faculty have come first most
every year, and administrators have
gone several years often without increases,” he said.
Elizabeth Payne, a professor of
history, said she has not seen the
improvements to faculty salaries
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Khayat said his goal is to ultimately close the gap between current salaries and salaries at other
universities, but he said faculty
members can supplement their salaries with research grants, summer
school teaching, intersession teaching and faculty development.
“Industrious faculty can generate
additional money,” Khayat said, but
administrators have no opportunity
for salary supplements.
One official in human resources,
who asked to remain anonymous,
said Khayatʼs statement is not entirely true.
Administrators can receive additional monies through teaching
and jobs outside of their administrative position, she said. Just because
these monies are not called “supplements” does not mean they do not
serve the same purpose.
Some remain steadfast in their
beliefs that the significant administrative pay raises are unfair to faculty.
“Sadly, the administration forfeited an opportunity with salary
decisions to practice servant leadership and the rhetoric it preaches.
Sharing the burden of diminished
resources with faculty and staff
would have signaled to students the
administrationʼs commitment to the
virtues of service and vision,” Payne
said. “In choosing instead the ethics
and practices of a different model of
leadership, the administration has
communicated that power is more
important than wisdom and that here
at the University of Mississippi, hierarchy trumps community.
“As a member of the faculty and
as one who grew up in this state, I
am profoundly saddened,” she said.
Payne is not alone in her disapproval over how the pay raises were
allocated.
It is a question of fairness, said
Donna Davis, chair of the Faculty
Senate and associate professor of
law.
“Itʼs time for faculty salaries to
be a very high priority for the university,” Davis said. “The lack of
progress, especially compared to
administrative salaries, is demoralizing. My impression is that many
faculty members are losing ground,
not improving their status.”
Davis and Payne both cited the
effect the low salaries are having on
faculty.
“First, we are losing faculty, and
itʼs becoming increasingly difficult
to recruit and retain faculty,” Davis
said.
The universityʼs morale is suffering, too, Payne said.
“There is little bubbling of energy and ideas from the ground up
on our campus. Instead, fear of the
administration has led to a faculty
with low morale,” Payne said.
Paula Temple is a full-tenured
professor in art, and she has been
working at Ole Miss for 21 years.
During the past 10 years, she
said she has received two 3 percent
raises. During the past 20 years, her
salary has increased from $20,000
per year to $56,000 per year.
“Iʼm living paycheck to paycheck,” she said.
After adding up the costs of postage, art supplies, travel and other
expenses, she barely breaks even at
the end of the year, and her art sales
leave her with virtually no profit,
she said.
Temple said she realized that the
universityʼs salaries were below average, but she had no idea how low
the salaries were until she saw a
copy of the 2004-2005 SUG report.
“Now, we really feel undervalued,” she said.
She said the older faculty members at the university arenʼt targeted
the same way as the younger faculty.
Because sheʼs reached the top
position for her profession, she feels
the university doesnʼt have to try to
keep her at the university, while the
university faces the threat of losing
younger, less distinguished faculty
to other universities. Her impression was that faculty must do something big, like winning the Nobel
Prize, to receive a pay raise.
There are administrators and
professors who have been at the
university fewer years than Temple
who are receiving larger salaries.
“Itʼs a pretty sore spot,” she
said.
When the administrators are
receiving sometimes 20 or 30 percent pay raises, she said, “The rest
of us have a lot to complain about.
Itʼs pretty out of whack, thatʼs for
sure.”
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Campus debate to display party differences
Marla Cummings
Staff Reporter
Wednesday nightʼs political
party debate among three student
political organizations featured
the usual suspects of topics in
American politics.
The most heated discussion
between the College Democrats,
Republicans and Libertarians was
the war in Iraq and a possible war
with Iran.
The parties also discussed topics, such as racism, gas prices and
Mississippiʼs economy. Featured
during the debate were Democrat
President Jesse Johnson, Republican President Shad White and
Libertarian President Kevin Phillips.
A topic that hits even closer to
home is cuts in educational funding and higher tuition prices. “We
continue to throw money at the
bureaucracy and administrators
of schools,” White said. He said
many schools must be held accountable for the money they are
given. Otherwise, he said, it is just
wasted money.
Mississippi state grocery tax
versus tobacco tax was the first
topic to raise somewhat heated
conversation from all three parties.
The Libertarians admittedly
took the center of the road between republicans and democrats
on most topics. The Republicans
also stuck to their guns, even after
they were accused by the Libertarians to confuse party platforms
with personal views.
The
College
Democrats
stressed their opposition to the
war in Iraq while they were more
passive on topics of illegal immigration and global warming. Each
group had a list of topics beforehand to prepare statements.
Joe Atkins, a journalism professor who served as the debateʼs
moderator, asked questions, and
each group had two minutes for
debate. After all groups finished,
there was a 30-second rebuttal period.
When asked to comment on the
governmentʼs performance in the
wake of Hurricane Katrina the Republicans pointed the finger at the
Democrat leaders of Louisiana.
Stating that the downfall was
when the Mayor Ray Nagin of
New Orleans and Louisiana Gov.
Kathleen Blanco could not agree
on an evacuation plan.
The Libertarians pointed out
the levee failure is ultimately a
local and state government issue
that was ignored.
Democrats brought to light the
fact that FEMA did very well in
the Florida hurricanes in preceding years before. The Libertarians
refuted the Democrats, citing the
failure must be fault of the people
running FEMA and Homeland
Security. The topics were broad
as well as the answers offered by
the parties. Senior art history major Mache Robertson said she had
expected a debate.
“[The panelists] didnʼt really
answer the questions, and they
just give some really good ideas.
They didnʼt give any specific data
or information.”
White said last nightʼs debate
was not necessarily about answering questions on specific topics,
but more about students learning
about the different political parties
and where they stand on issues.
In evaluating the debate, political science professor Marvin King
said, “Libertarians have been most
consistent with their opinions and
their views.”
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Nominations due for award
Alex Beene
Staff Reporter
Oxford and Lafayette County residents now have the chance to nominate that neighbor, co-worker, friend
or acquaintance in the area who they
believe to be the best citizen in the
community.
The Oxford-Lafayette County
Chamber of Commerce is currently
accepting nominations for the 2006
Citizen of the Year for the OxfordLafayette County-University community.
Beginning in 1972, the Chamber
of Commerce has selected one individual each year who has greatly
contributed to the Oxford-Lafayette
County area and Ole Miss. A committee is set up each year to judge
the candidates based on their contributions and volunteering in their
community.
“We feel that it is great to recognize individuals who do great things
for the community and set an example for volunteerism,” said Max
Hipp, president of the Chamber of
Commerce.
Hipp said that it is always difficult for the committee to choose the
individual who should receive the
title of Citizen of the Year because
of the amazing contributions of each
nominee.
“One of the hardest things that is
faced in the process is determining
the recipient each year,” Hipp said.
“Each nominee is deserving of the
title in their own way, so the committee that makes the decision always has an extremely difficult task
in front of them.”
While the Oxford-Lafayette
County area has many citizens that
make significant contributions and
volunteer in different programs, the
average amount of nominee applications received each year is only five
to six.
Hipp said he believes that one
reason for the low number of nominees is because of the time it takes
to go through the entire nominee
process.
“If someone is going to make a
nomination, then they have to explain in detail why someone should
be Citizen of the Year,” Hipp said.
“Normally, people who are passionate about the citizens they nominate
are able to go through the process
smoothly.”
One of the key elements of an
individual nominated in the awardʼs
criteria is that they have a “perception as a role model for good citizenship and volunteerism in a non-paid
capacity,” according to Hipp.
The criteria that goes into the
decision-making process are formed
so that the committee can choose the
best candidate for the honor.
“It is such an honor for the Chamber of Commerce to award a deserving individual in the community
each year,” Hipp said. “Whenever
you have a chance to award someone
who has given back to their community, then itʼs a good day.”
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Walk and run to raise money for Relay for Life
Kari Arentson
Special to The DM
For one night, people all across
the country will be out walking or
running to help fight cancer.
Relay for Life is an overnight,
non-competitive event designed
to remember those who lost the
battle with cancer and to celebrate survivors and those battling
cancer, according to a news release from the American Cancer
Society. It is also a time to raise
money for research and programs
that the American Cancer Society
sponsors.
“[On the day of the relay,]
more than 3 million Americans
participate in Relay [for Life]
events nationwide,” cancer society officials said.
The society also encourages
anyone interested in participating to attend the event because
Relay for Life has something for
everyone.
Approximately eight to 15
people make up a relay team.
Each team chooses a theme and
sets a goal to raise $1,000, either
through private or public donations or sponsorships. Luminar-
ies, which are candle-lit paper
bags with a cancer patients or
survivorsʼ name on them, can
also be sold to raise money.
“We are hoping to raise
$56,000 in Lafayette County,”
said Sheila Horne, a community
representative for the American
Cancer Society.
Relay for Life has gone on for
more than 20 years and is the most
successful fund-raising event for
the American Cancer Society to
date, Horne said. Horne also said
that 20 teams are registered in
Lafayette County with at least 10
to 15 participants on each team.
On April 21, teams will meet
at the Lyceum Circle and take
turns walking or running. During
the event, members from each
team will always be walking or
running around the circle. At the
same time, games and activities
will be going on to keep other
team members engaged and involved.
Elizabeth Sanford, a junior
dietetics and nutrition major, has
participated in Relay for Life for
many years.
“I raised money several years
by selling luminaries and through
donations,” Sanford said.
Sanford said it makes her feel
good to raise money for Relay for
Life because she has had several
family members who have had
cancer.
Relay for Lifeʼs all-night vigil
will start at 6 p.m. on Friday and
go until 5 a.m. Saturday.
Last yearʼs Relay for Life
event on the Ole Miss campus
netted $46,000 for cancer awareness and research.
Kari Arentson can be reached at
[email protected]
ROTC charity golf tournament set for Saturday
Casey Phillips
Special to the DM
The Tri-Service ROTC Charity Golf Tournament will take
place Saturday at the University
Golf Course and will benefit the
Oxford branch of Big Brothers
Big Sisters of America, Inc.
This is the first year for the
tournament to be organized by
the Tri-Service ROTC, which
is made up of Navy ROTC, Air
Force ROTC and Army ROTC.
It is open to the public.
“The tournament is a great
way to help the local charity Big
Brothers Big Sisters,” said Marine
Corps Midshipman 2nd Class Joe
Sawyer, a junior civil engineering major at Ole Miss from New
Brockton, Ala. “Last year, I think
the tournament raised $1,000.”
Navy ROTC Squad Leader
Sarah Eaton, a sophomore criminal justice major at Ole Miss from
Hot Springs, Ark., said that Big
Brothers Big Sisters needs money
to stay alive. The tournament is
beneficial to them, she added.
“I am a member of Big Brothers Big Sisters,” Eaton said.
“Those kids just love having a
mentor come to spend time with
them.”
Participants will compete in
teams of four. Individuals wishing to compete will be placed on
a team. There is a $180 entrance
fee per team or $45 per person.
The cost covers the green fees for
the golf course, a golf cart, lunch
and one raffle ticket in the drawing.
A drawing will take place at
the conclusion of the tournament
for prizes, such as gift certificates
from restaurants, T-shirts and
movie passes. Also, Grisanti
Rebel Motors is sponsoring the
hole-in-one event where sinking
a hole-in-one wins a car.
“We are hoping to have around
100-150 people,” said Eaton.
“Everybody is invited. It is a
great opportunity to get together
and have fun.”
BBSA is one of the oldest
youth mentoring organizations in
the country, encouraging one-onone relationships between youth
and a volunteer to a helped the
youth through challenges he or
she might face.
Casey Phillips can be reached at
[email protected]
Katrina bites again with increased mosquito population
Elise Dillingham
Staff Reporter
The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast could possibly affect the stateʼs mosquito
population and encourage the
spread of the West Nile virus, according to mosquito experts.
The mosquito season is fast approaching and with it, fear of the
virus.
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Virus is difficult to predict.
“Itʼs not going away, and weʼre
predicting that mosquito season
will be really bad this year,” Conlon said.
Hurricane Katrina will affect mosquito behavior because
of increased breeding locations,
though these effects may not be
visible until about a year after the
natural disaster.
Conlon said he is concerned
about the mosquitoʼs new habitat
because “brush and cutting hold
ideal resting places for mosqui-
toes.”
Residents of the area are expected to begin noticing Katrinaʼs
effects this summer.
Florida is preparing for a huge
problem this mosquito season,
Conlon said.
“Weʼre looking forward to
a bad year in Florida,” he said.
“There was a somewhat relative
drought and when rain comes
out after a drought there are huge
problems.”
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According to the Mississippi
Department of Health Web site,
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people who are bitten by infected
mosquitoes can sometimes become ill with flu-like symptoms.
Occasionally, illness can be severe, leading to meningitis or encephalitis.
In 2004, four people died from
West Nile infections. In 2005, 70
people were infected by the virus,
and six people died in Mississippi
alone.
The American Mosquito Control Associationʼs Web site, http://
www.mosquito.org said “at least
43 species of mosquitoes have
been found infected with the West
Nile virus in the United States.
Many of these infected mosquitoes feed only upon birds, thus
contributing to a cycling of the
virus among avian populations.
“Other species feed upon these
infective birds and then will feed
upon mammals, including humans.”
Dead birds in an area are a
good early warning that infected
mosquitoes are present.
To protect yourself, avoid places and times when mosquitoes
bite. Evenings and mornings have
the most mosquito activity.
Wear shoes, socks, long pants
and a long-sleeved shirt when
outdoors for long periods of time,
or when mosquitoes are most active.
Clothing should be light colored and made of tightly woven
materials to keep mosquitoes
away from the skin.
Pants legs should be tucked
into shoes or socks, and collars
should be buttoned.
Use mosquito netting when
sleeping outdoors or in an unscreened structure and insect repellent containing DEET or other
recommended ingredients is advised.
For more information about
West Nile virus, call the West
Nile Virus Hot line at (877) 9786453.
Elise Dillingham can be reached
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Tyler Nelson
April 20, 2006
Rebs lay lumber to Lions Lady Netters look
to payback USC
Ty Allushuski
Similar to Tuesday night, Ole Miss
(23-15) used an offensive explosion
late in the game Wednesday evening
to defeat the Southeastern Louisiana
Lions (15-22) 11-4 at Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field.
The Rebels began the bottom of
the seventh inning tied at 4-4 with the
Lions but timely two-out hits resulted
in a four-run inning for Ole Miss.
Ole Miss Shortstop Zack Cozart
led off the inning with a single, and
Alex Presley reached on an error to
advance Cozart to second base. After two straight outs, the Rebel bats
caught fire and provided all the run
support the Ole Miss relief pitchers
would need.
A walk to Justin Brashear loaded
the bases for freshman Evan Button
with two outs. Button proceeded to
single to right-center field to bring
home Cozart and Presley and provide
the winning runs.
“We got some big two-out hits, and
with one-third of an inning left, those
are the biggest hits,” Button said. “I
was 0-3 in the game to that point, but
I was thinking positive and was just
hoping I got another chance to get another at bat. ”
Justin Henry then singled to score
Brashear, and C.J. Ketchum rounded
out the inningʼs scoring as he singled
to bring home Button.
Presley had a two-run homerun in
the bottom of the eighth inning after
Cozart singled, and Logan Power singled with one out to bring home Mark
Wright and complete the eveningʼs
scoring.
All nine Rebel starters collected
a hit on the evening and were led by
Ketchum who finished 3-5 at the plate
with an RBI and a run scored.
Rebel senior pitcher Stoney Stone
pitched two innings of work to earn
the win and improve to 2-0. Stone did
not allow a hit or a run and struck out
one.
Ole Miss freshman pitcher Jesse
Simpson made his 12th appearance
and first start of the season on the
mound for the Rebels. Simpson lasted
four innings and gave up four runs on
seven hits, but he did strike out five
Southeastern Louisiana batters.
“At first I was real amped for this,
Steve Newbold
To go along with that, Tokarieva
made All-SEC First team, while
teammate Ilona Somers made the
second team.
Somers posted a 6-5 record in the
league and is 12-5 in dual matches.
“To win an award in this league is
a significant accomplishment,” head
coach Mark Beyers said.
“Every time you step on the court
in the SEC you face a difficult challenge. We are very proud of Kseniia,
and we are also excited for Ilona to
When the Lady Netters play in
the SEC Tournament today, other
teams can take notice that Ole Miss
is armed with the SEC Freshman of
the Year, Kseniia Tokarieva.
Tokarieva started off playing in
No. 4 singles. She went 5-0 in the
conference and worked her way up
to the top of the lineup.
She finished with an 8-3 record in
the conference including 2-1 at her
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Simpson pitched well and did not
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“I felt real good through the first
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THURSDAY• APRIL 20, 2006
Baseball banter back for second session
We welcome back the Lanky for what seems like a millennium.
Tackle, Seth Keshel, for another Cashman has by far one of the easround of baseball banter.
iest jobs in sports and canʼt seem
PO: Well, 13 games into the to get it right. A prime example
season and the Evil Emin recent years is the
pire that is the New York
Yanks dishing out over
Yankees are already
$15 million on Carl Parounding out the bottom
vano and Jaret Wright.
of the American League
Aside from Wrightʼs
East. Thatʼs right, with
stellar season with the
a 6-7 record; the Yanks
Braves (and Leo Mazare BEHIND Tampa
zone) in 2003 when he
Bay and Baltimore.
went 15-8, he hasnʼt
With a payroll of $198
had an above .500 seamillion-plus, shouldnʼt
son since he was just
they be blowing away
his career with
Patrick Ochs starting
their competition? With
the Cleveland Indians
DM Columnist
that being said, do you
in 1997 and 1998. Pathink Brian Cashman has the easi- vano is the same story. After going
est or hardest job in sports?
18-8 with the Marlins in 2003, he
SK: Iʼm going to go ahead and went 4-6 in his first season in New
say Cashman has one of the hard- York and is currently on the DL for
est jobs in sports. He has an unlim- who knows how long. Back your
ited bank, but he also works for the boy Cashman now.
hardest boss in America, George
SK: I didnʼt say he was doing
Steinbrenner. A lot of the players a good job, but I wouldnʼt want
are getting up in years, but then the pressure of “The Boss” either.
again itʼs only 13 games into the Donʼt forget that the Red Sox won
season.
the World Series in 2004, and ToPO: True, it is early, but come ronto, Tampa Bay and Baltimore
on. When was the last time they all are increasing talent each year.
won the World Series, 2000? Randy Johnson canʼt pitch forever.
Theyʼve led the Majors in payroll
PO: Well, shouldnʼt the Yan-
kees keep at least some of its
SK: How can you possibly
youngsters? It seems whenever make me choose between two felthey have a promising young buck, low Hillcrest alums? I think Smith
they go and trade him off for some will be a doubles-machine in the
guy who is over the hill. When was spacious dimensions of Coors
the last time they had a guy come Field, while Head will be more of
up and make a major impact from a power guy in Cleveland. If hittheir farm system? Derting doesnʼt work out,
ek Jeter in 1995? And
he was one heck of a
donʼt get me started on
left-handed pitcher in
Jeter...having the best
his college days.
regular season record
PO: Ok, ok. We
is all fine and dandy but
know they were good
getting rings is what itʼs
here in Oxford, but
all about.
stop beating around the
SK: If you had those
bush, which will have a
deep pockets, you
better career in the mawouldnʼt worry much
jors?
about your farm system
SK: I refuse comeither. But if youʼre
Seth Keshel ment on that matter.
looking for an answer
Why are you grilling
The Lanky Tackle
out of me, watch out
me with such difficult
for T.J. Beam, a (head coach Mike) questions? Is this retaliation for all
Bianco-era Ole Miss product. Heʼs the teasing you received from me
a big right-hander who can run it when the NHL was on strike?
up to the plate in the mid-90ʼs.
PO: Yeah, I know the year they
PO: With that being said, who were on strike was one of the best
do you think will have the biggest years of your life, yadda yadda.
impact in the bigs when it is all said I just want an honest answer, but
and done from Ole Miss, Cleveland if youʼre not man enough to ante
Indians prospect Stephen Head or up and answer the question, thatʼs
Colorado Rockies farm-hand Seth fine.
Smith?
SK: Itʼs anyoneʼs call for now,
but both are ranked in the top 15
prospects by Baseball America
for their respective teams. While
weʼre comparing players, who do
you think will wind up with more
home runs at the end of the year,
Albert Pujols or Chris Shelton?
PO: Ha, yeah, a real hard question. While Shelton is having a
Brady Anderson-esque season
with nine dingers in 14 games, Albert will top Chris in the home run
race and could possibly lead Major
League Baseball. But for the time
being, Iʼm just glad Shelton is on
my fantasy baseball team. One last
question, will Bonds catch Hank
Aaron this season or even Babe
Ruth?
SK: I wouldnʼt shed a single tear
if that guy never hit another home
run. For someone who has been
exalted so much by this game, he
has done very little to give back to
it. I guess he has gotten a big head,
literally. I hope he never catches
Ruth, and I wish he would have
never passed McGwire. Aaron and
Ruth were true patrons of the game
and deserve to be remembered as
such.
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Kennedy eyes talented Coast Jackson stadiums up
Associated Press
BILOXI - New Ole Miss basketball coach Andy Kennedy
hopes to find some recruits on the
Gulf Coast.
“Weʼre looking at some prospects, reacquainting ourselves with
some coaches, and trying to reconnect the dots,” Kennedy said.
Speaking at an alumni gathering at a Biloxi restaurant Tuesday
night, Kennedy said he has two
scholarships left for the 2006-
06 season and he hasnʼt decided
whether to give them to junior
college players or high school recruits.
He wants to use one on a guard
and the other on a low-post player.
Kennedy said he met with the
Rebels players last week. Center
Dwayne Curtis, who led the team
in scoring and rebounding this past
season, has said he might consider
playing elsewhere after coach Rod
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feel for me.”
Kennedy already has a significant Gulf Coast connection on his
staff. First-year assistant Owen
Miller, who coached under Richard Williams on Mississippi Stateʼs
run to the Final Four a decade ago,
played for Bert Jenkins at Gulfport
High.
Kennedy, 38, knows the importance of luring the stateʼs best
players to Oxford. The Louisville
native was the 1986 Mississippi
high school player of the year.
“I grew up in SEC country,” he
said. “Thereʼs no surprises. This
was a tough league then. Iʼve been
coaching in the Big East, other
leagues, but this is certainly a challenging conference. That hasnʼt
changed.
“Florida won the national
championship, South Carolina
won back-to-back NIT championships and LSU went to the Final
Four this year. Itʼll continue to be
strong.”
for possible demolition
Associated Press
JACKSON - Two recently
renovated stadiums in Jackson
would be demolished under
separate proposals by a state
lawmaker and the cityʼs mayor.
Rep. John Reeves, R-Jackson,
wants to tear down state-owned
Mississippi Veterans Memorial
Stadium to allow for possible
expansion of the nearby University of Mississippi Medical
Center, and replace the stadium
with a 45,000-seat stadium at
Jackson State University.
“Not only is something like
this realistic, itʼs also necessary,” Reeves said.
“People have come to realize
we canʼt just sit back and let our
capital city slide into complete
decay.
“Jackson needs inner-city
redevelopment. New sports facilities, naturally, attract a lot
of people that go and spend
money.”
Mayor Frank Melton wants
to raze city-owned Smith-Wills
Stadium and build a multipurpose arena on the Lakeland
Drive site to attract an indoor
football team.
Reeves said he plans to introduce two bills during the 2007
legislative session.
One would allow the state to
demolish the football stadium
and use the site for potential
UMC expansion.
The second would seek a $60
million bond to help build the
stadium for Jackson State.
According to Reeves, the
bond would be repaid by the
state, likely over a 20-year period, with the funds generated
from a combination of stadium,
tax and tourism revenue.
Facility officials say neither
the existing football stadium
nor the baseball park turns a
profit.
The current venues have undergone nearly $15 million in
recent renovations.
“Why would anyone go
waste the taxpayersʼ money like
that?” Memorial Stadium director Watt Whatley said.
“No one has come to me with
any discussions about this. This
kind of stuff really makes you
wonder.”
Melton wants an arena to
help lure an arenafootball2 team
to Jackson.
The venue would be built on
the site of Smith-Wills Stadium,
which has been used in a variety
of ways since the independent
Jackson Senators disbanded after last season.
It played host last week to
the Mayorʼs Trophy baseball
game between Ole Miss and
Mississippi State and was the
home football field last season
for The Veritas School.
Melton declined to discuss
the plans for the arena and other
specifics, saying “Iʼve been told
to sit down and shut up about
this, so thereʼs not much I can
say.”
Ole Miss does in Devilettes
Staff & Wire
ITTA BENA – Ole Miss scored
twice in the top of the eighth inning to take a 5-3 lead and senior
right-hander Dana Brill shut down
the Devilettes in the bottom of the
frame as the Rebel softball team
secured its second extra-innings
victory over Mississippi Valley
State this season in a Wednesday
evening contest at the Devilette
Softball Field.
With the win, the Rebels extend their non-conference winning
streak to eight games, and also
secure their sixth win in as many
tries against teams from the state of
Mississippi.
“I was pleased that our girls did
not give in on the road today,” Ole
Miss head coach Missy Dickerson
said.
“After getting down 3-1, they
kept fighting and managed to pull
out a victory. It was good to see
them keep fighting.”
Brill (8-13) earned the win in
relief with four shutout innings,
giving up just one hit and fanning
seven Devilette batters.
Ole Miss (16-31) took advantage of a pair of Mississippi Valley
miscues in the eighth inning. Pinchrunner Jessica Plemons, who was
placed on second base by the international tie-breaker rule, moved to
third when sophomore first baseman Erin Faircloth reached on an
error. On the next pitch, Plemons
scored on a passed ball to give the
Rebels a 4-3 lead, then senior Mandy Ott hit a sacrifice fly to deep left
field scoring Faircloth.
Sophomore second baseman
Lauren Rowe had the first three-hit
game of her career, going 3-for-3
with a pair of RBI, and junior lefthanded pitcher Mary Jane Callahan, who started in the circle, had
three hits for the first time this season, going 3-for-5 with two runs
scored.
Ole Miss scored the initial run
of the contest in the top of the first
inning when Rowe hit a sacrifice
fly to deep left field to plate Callahan, who led off the game with
Payback: Tveit named
SEC Player of the Week
From
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make second team All-SEC. They both have worked very hard this year.”
The Rebels will look for those two to carry the team past South Carolina
where the No. 9 seed Lady Netters (11-8, 4-7), will look to deliver payback to
No. 8 seed South Carolina (11-9, 4-7). The Lady Rebels fell to South Carolina
at home on March 5 in a 4-3 heartbreaker.
The two teams are very evenly matched. Ole Miss lost two very close
double matches 8-6 and three singles matches went to three sets.
Beyers said he feels like his team is the one that nobody wants to play. Four
of the Rebels SEC losses were 4-3 matches
More tennis honors
Sophomore Erling Tveit was named SEC Player of the Week for his comefrom-behind victory over Mississippi Stateʼs Pierre Mouillon.
Tveit was down 5-2 in the third set against Mouillon but snatched a victory
from the jaws of defeat to help lift Ole Miss to a 4-3 win and its fifth consecutive outright SEC Western Division Championship.
This marked the second time this year that Tveit clinched a win over Mississippi State.
“The SEC is the strongest tennis conference in the nation, and it is a tremendous honor for Erling to be named the player of the week,” head coach
Billy Chadwick said.
His hard-fought comeback victory was the deciding factor in our winning
the SEC West Championship for the fifth year in a row.”
Tveit will lead the Rebels into the SEC Tournament Friday ranked No. 22
in the nation. He finished the year off with a 16-3 record at No. 1 singles.
Steve Newbold can be reached at
[email protected]
18 to Enter
21 to Drink
File Photo by Matthew Sharpe The Daily Mississippian
Lauren Rowe (left) and the Lady Rebels knocked off Mississippi Valley
State for the second time this year in extra innings.
a double.
Mississippi Valley State (17-24)
tied the game up at 1-1 in the bottom of the third when Crystal Holmes, who had tripled, scored when
Callahan made an errant throw to
first base on a ground ball.
The Devilettes took their first
lead of the game when Natasha
McFadden hit a two-run home run
in the bottom of the fourth to make
it a 3-1 score.
Ole Miss pulled back to within one in the top of the fifth with
Roweʼs RBI single through the left
side to score senior center fielder
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NBA Finals could be repeat of last season
I discussed the also-rans and the wave of momentum into the playpretenders on Wednesday. Today, I offs. However, they are just too
will finish up with the
weak and too thin to
teams who have an acstop Detroit or Miami.
tual shot of hoisting the
2. Phoenix Suns
trophy.
Steve Nash has com1. New Jersey Nets
pletely turned this franJason Kidd is the
chise around in the last
most unsung hero in
two seasons. Much like
professional sports, and
Kidd, he makes everyhe should be rememone around him better.
bered as one of the top
Shawn Marion has beten point guards of allcome one of the top 10
time. He makes everyplayers in the NBA.
Ben Mintz
one around him better.
These two combined
DM Columnist
He is not as great as he
with
contributions
once was, but he is a flat out win- from unheralded players like Raja
ner. He has single-handedly saved Bell and Boris Diaw have Phoenix
Vince Carterʼs career. Carter has back in the playoffs as the number
gone from whining at the end of two seed for the second straight
the bench in Toronto to a bona fide season despite the catastrophic loss
MVP candidate. Richard Jefferson of Amare Stoudemire for the seais one of the rising stars in the NBA. son. This team was written off for
This team, however, has one of the dead in the pre-season after it was
weakest front lines of all-time. announced that Amare could miss
They have no rebounders, shot- the year. Nash has elevated everyblockers or even a resemblance of one around him and they have had
a low post threat. Cliff Robinson, a spectacular season. But much
Scott Padgett, Zoran Planinic and like the Nets, this team is too weak
Lamond Murray are all regulars in down low to beat San Antonio in a
their rotation. As good as Kidd is, seven game series. They will make
there is just no way this team can it back to the Western Conference
handle Detroit or Miamiʼs front Finals again and if Dallas can upset
lines in a seven-game series. They San Antonio, they have a shot of
have been on fire down the stretch making the NBA Finals. All of this
and just had a 13-game winning is asking a lot, and the Suns will
streak snapped so they are riding a go down in the conference finals
for the second straight year. With
Amare back in the fold next year,
they should have a great chance to
win the title.
3. Dallas Mavericks
The Mavericks had an unbelievable regular season winning 60
games despite the presence of only
one All-Star. Dirk Nowitzki continues to improve each and every year.
They have great role players with
Jason Terry and Josh Howard. For
once, they play great defense and
have completely bought into Avery
Johnsonʼs system. As opposed to
past years, this team is built more
for the playoffs than for regular
season shootouts. They have been
neck and neck with the Spurs the
entire season and finally lost out on
the race for the number one seed
on Sunday. This team has the talent
and plays good enough defense to
go to the Finals. The question still
remains, can they beat the Spurs?
Until they actually beat them, I am
going to have to see it to believe it.
As much as they have improved,
they still are facing an uphill battle
in the second round. The SpursMavericks round two match-up has
all the makings of a classic series
and could easily go seven games.
Once again, the Spurs will beat
them, and the Mavericks will go
home disappointed for the sixth
year in a row.
4. Miami Heat
Any team with as lethal of a
combo as Dwyane Wade and Shaquille OʼNeal has a chance at an
NBA title. This inside-outside
combo is one of the best of all-time.
Can their supporting cast of Jason
Williams, Gary Payton, James
Posey and Antoine Walker step up?
This is the big question for the Heat
as all of these guys were brought in
for this reason. Last year, Shaq and
Wade carried them to the conference finals only to be thwarted by
the Pistons. If the role players step
up and Wade does not injure his
ankle again like last year, this team
could win the title. This team has
been on a mission ever since Pat
Riley came back to the bench from
his role in the front office early in
the season. Their matchup with Detroit in the conference finals should
be a nail-biter and could go either
way.
5. San Antonio Spurs
The Spurs are the model of
consistency in professional sports.
Every year, they are the best team
in the West and are fighting for an
NBA title. Before each season, they
keep bringing in new role players to
help the aging Tim Duncan who is
definitely hurting. Duncan may not
be what he once was ,but he still is
one of the best players in the NBA.
Tony Parker and Manu Ginnobli
form one of the best back courts
in the NBA and have great depth
with Michael Finley and the always
clutch Robert Horry coming off the
bench. They are primed for another
run at a championship and should
make the NBA Finals yet again.
6. Detroit Pistons
This team has been the best in
the NBA all season long. It has won
64 games and play as cohesively as
any unit in the last two decades.
Everyone on their team knows their
role and embraces it. Chauncey Billups is one of the most clutch shooters in the NBA and is a great point
guard. Rip Hamilton is a consistent
scorer. Tayshaun Prince is a shutdown defender, and the two Wallaces in the front court are downright scary. This team has been on
a mission all season to prove that
Larry Brown was not the reason for
their success in the last two years,
and they are hungry to bring their
second championship back to Detroit in the last 3 seasons. They will
beat Cleveland in five games in the
second round and then squeak by
Miami in six games during the conference finals. In the NBA Finals,
they will avenge last yearʼs loss
to the Spurs and beat them in six
games. The Detroit Pistons will be
the 2006 NBA Champions.
NOW
MONEY FOR COLLEGE
Ben Mintz can be reached at
[email protected]
State capital pursuing an arena football team
Associated Press
JACKSON - An ownership
group headed by former Mississippi and New Orleans Saints
quarterback John Fourcade is in
negotiations to bring an indoor
football team to Jackson, officials say.
The arenafootball2 team could
play at the Mississippi Coliseum
as soon as spring 2007.
Mike Brinkley, executive director of the state fairgrounds,
which operates the arena, told
The Clarion-Ledger of Jack-
son that he is negotiating with
Fourcade about fielding a team
in Jackson after the fairgrounds
commission met last week and
began pursuit of a team.
“We hope to finalize something soon,” Brinkley said.
“All I can tell you at this stage
is that itʼs something the commission has agreed to and weʼre
taking the next step in negotiations.”
Fourcade is the coach of the
af2 franchise in Bossier CityShreveport, La.
The Mississippi Headhunters
were supposed to begin play this
season after relocating from Columbus, Ga., but their debut was
postponed until 2007 because of
Hurricane Katrina.
One possible scenario has the
Headhunters moving to Jackson.
It is not known whether the
Headhunters are the team Fourcadeʼs group wants in Jackson.
“Jackson has been mentioned
as a potential great market for
the af2,” Lestinsky said.
“But no decision has been
made as of yet for next year or
beyond (concerning the Headhunters).”
Jacksonʼs team would play
in the 43-year-old Mississippi
Coliseum, a state-run building
downtown that seats 7,200 and
formerly hosted the East Coast
Hockey Leaguesʼs Jackson Bandits.
City officials are considering
a plan to demolish 31-year-old
Smith-Wills Stadium and build a
multipurpose arena on the Lakeland Drive site.
But Brinkley said the indoor
football plan is not connected
with Mayor Frank Meltonʼs plan
for a new arena.
The af2 league, formed in
2000, is considered a minor
league that develops players for
the Arena Football League.
Mississippi already hosts
one af2 franchise, the Memphis
Xplorers play in Southaven.
Other cities in the region with
af2 teams include Birmingham,
Ala.; Huntsville, Ala.; Little
Rock, Ark.; and Macon, Ga.
Work
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the Croft Institute presents
“Globalization and Varieties of Capitalism:
Emerging Patterns in Latin America”
Presented by Ben Ross Schneider
Thursday, April 20, 2006 – 7:00 p.m.
Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room
Croft 107
Ben Ross Schneider is a professor of political science at Northwestern University. He earned his B.A.
at Williams College in 1976, his M.A. in international affairs at Columbia University in 1981, and his
Ph.D. in political science at University of California-Berkeley in 1987. He has authored four books,
published numerous journal articles and written chapters for many other publications. His principal
academic interest is research on Latin American business and governance.
Croft lectures are free and open to the public.
For more information or if you require special assistance relating to a disability,
please contact Ann Marie Shivers at 915-7956 or [email protected].
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GRANITE, F/ P, 9 ft. CEILINGS. CALL
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baths, large rooms, great location, Free
sewer & lawn service. ONLY $885.
Avail. Aug. No Pets. 234-6481.
Dryer, $560/mo. Available 1st week
in April: 1BDR $475/mo. The Cove
Apartments. (662)234-1422
AVAILABLE MAY- One, two, three,
four, bedroom houses/apartments; efficiency apartments, Near Campus and
Square, 234-5885.
Large 2 BDR 1 BA 403 S. 5th. a block
from campus. Availability now through
August. $710 month. (662)234-8500
CAMPUS CREEK 2BDR 2BTH,
VAULTED CELINGS, GREAT VIEW,
$430, JUN/ JUL (251)490-8425,
(251)490-8425
Cheap sub-lease. End of May through
July at Campus Creek. $394/month.
Male or Female. (662)369-5453
TIRED OF CITY LIVING? Oxford West,
available 6/1. 2BDR/2BA. Central H/ A.
Great room, kit/ dining, all appliances.
10 min. from campus. Pets welcome.
(662)607-0767.
2 BDR 1 BA 403 S. 5th. Block from
campus. Available now and in August.
$710 month. (662)234-8500
CONDO FOR SALE
WALK TO SQUARE , Avent Park, or
New Skate Park. Beautiful 2 BR 1&1/2
Bath Condo with lots of Amenities.
$137,500. Visit www.ridge-point.com or
call (601)-384-7259 (662)234-0201
APARTMENT FOR RENT
OAK GROVE APARTMENTS: 2,3,4
Bedrooms. Fully Applianced, Gas
Grills, Fireplace (Wood included), Pets
welcome. 236-4749. www.oakgroveoxfordms.com
Large 2BDR/2.5BA Townhouse with
Appliances furnished. No pet policy.
Year lease required. Quiet atmosphere.
662-234-0000.
AVAILABLE NOW: 2BDR with Washer/
SUBLEASE JUNE & JULY Clearbrook
Drive 1 BR/1 BATH $385/ month, fully
applianced
Call for details (662)816-0929
AVAILABLE NOW AT THE COVE:
1903 Amderson. 1BDR Apartment,
$475. 2BDR w/washer and dryer, $560.
(662)234-1422. thecovea@bellsouth.
net.
Cheap sublease. End of May-July at
Sterling. $345/ mo includes all appliances and cable. Male/ Female. 662715-9715.
CAMPUS CREEK SUBLEASE 1br/ b
May 15-July 31 May Rent paid. $455
June/ July inclusive. 2nd floor. girl.
(662)312-9415
CLEAN&CHEAP SUBLEASE June 1August 15. Furnished. Beside campus. $345/mo includes high-speed,
pool, and water. (601)498-1388
HOUSE FOR RENT
1BR/1BA 2BR/2BA 3BR/3BA houses for lease. Water/ sewer/ garbage
included. (662)832-2428 or (662)2367736
3BDR 3BA HOUSES, w/Garage. Gas
Fire place. Walkin Closets. Very Nice.
CLOSE TO CAMPUS. $990/monthly.
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FSBO: 3BR/2BA house in Eagle
Houses on Old Taylor Road. Full size
Appliances. 2 leasing options starting
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Fox Hollow: 3BDR, 3BA & 3BDR,
2BA house on College Hill Road. All
Appliances, Fireplace, & Ceiling Fans.
Call 816-3803.
1 and 2 BDR houses. Water, Sewage,
and Garbage pickup included. (662)
816-3581. (662)236-6760
FOR RENT- 2 AND 3 BDR houses
in Shiloh Subdivision. $800/ mo for 2
BR’s, $1000/ mo for 3BR’s. Call 601573-1172
for further details.
Duplex - 2BR/2BA, Available
Now&July. Small Pets Welcome, 14
miles south/ Paris. $450/ mo. Award
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SUBLEASE CARROLLTON On Old
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2BR/2BA and 3BR/3BA Houses on
University Avenue Available June and
August- Appointment Only. (662)2367736 or (662)832-2428.
3BR / 2BTH HOUSES FOR RENT
Located in Shiloh Subdivision. One
available now. One available June 1.
One available Aug. 1. All are $975/
mo. Call (601)948-2073 or (601)2143322
STONE COVE PATIO HOMES- 3 bedrooms, 2 or 3 baths, large bedrooms,
vaulted ceilings, wood decks overlooking wooded area. Free sewer & lawn
service. Avail. August. Starting at $725.
No Pets. 234-6481.
HUNTINGTON PLACE- 3 bedrooms, 2
or 3 baths, large bedrooms, great quiet
location. No Pets. Starting at $675.
Avail. June & Aug. 234-6481.
3BR/2BA and 2BR/2BA with Study.
College Hill Road. Available June or
August. 816-0896 or 236-7736.
ROOM FOR RENT
Shack up @ Campus Walk
1 bed /1bath for sublease
Leave message at (662)563-7211
CONDO FOR RENT
Pharmacy student looking for two
male non smoking roommates to share
3bd/3ba condo. Fully applianced, mostly furnished $310/$330 (662)609-1417
2BR/1BA adjoins UM property, Cedar
Ridge. Furnished. Available 8/1/06.
$640.00/ mo. Award Realty (662)2349357
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Appliances, water included. Call
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Appliances, Walk-In Closets, Fenced
Backyard, Porch, Fireplace, Energy
efficiency house. $725/ mo. 662-8324625
WEEKEND RENTAL
2BR/2BA TOWNHOUSE Sleeps 6. 1/2
mile from Campus. Nightly, weekend,
and corporate rentals. E-mail: oxfor
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WEEKEND RENTAL: 4 Bedroom, 4.5
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located in Oxford is looking for quality individuals to join a winning team.
Credit and collections experience is
preferred but not necessary. Our top
producers earn $2,000+ per month in
commission. If you are a hard working
and focused professional and possess
financial, sales, telemarketing and/or
phone experience, please apply in person at 2612 Jackson Avenue West,
Oxford, MS. No phone calls, please.
WEBMASTER
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Oxford’s PMQ Magazine is looking for
a Webmaster to take over the most
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need up substantial updating. Please
email [email protected]
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CAREER SALES OPPORTUNITYProducer of national trade conventions seeks individual for career-path
position in a rapidly expanding Oxford
company. Applicants must be highly
motivated, have outgoing personality,
strong organizational, verbal and written communication skills. Knowledge
of computers and experience in sales
perferred. Please email to resume to
[email protected]. No phone
calls please.
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for cooks and servers. Apply in person.
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Great overnight children’s camps in the
Pocono Mtns. of Pennsylvania need
enthusiastic counselors to teach/ assist
w/ athletics, swimming, A&C, drama,
ropes course, gymanstics, riding, and
more. Office & Nanny positions too.
Apply at www.pineforestcamp.com.
SLICE OF LIFE
REBEL RAGS IS EXPANDING and is
now accepting applications for full/ part
time help for summer and fall. Please
come by 2302 West Jackson Ave,
ask for Ashley or MerryCline! Retail
Experience Required!
Must be 21 years old or older, highly
motivated, well spoken. Self starting business oppurtunity making up to
$60,000/year. 601-955-0240
ROOMMATE
ROOMMATE WANTED to share
3BR/3B condo. Gated community w/
pool. $525/ month includes all utilities,
cable, internet, etc. (662) 401-8300
ROOMMATE WANTED Student to
share large 3br/3b condo. Gated, pool,
mins from campus. $550/ mo Incls. all
utilities, cable, internet. Call (662)2341767
Wisconsin fruit cake rivals the cockroach for durability
WAUKESHA, Wis. – Lance Nesta did what many
people do when receiving a fruitcake: He set it aside.
Only Nesta rediscovered his more than 40 years later
in his motherʼs attic.
Nesta couldnʼt resist taking a peek at the cake, still
in its original tin and wrapped in paper.
“I was amazed that it hadnʼt changed at all,” he
said.
His two aunts sent him the fruitcake in November
1962 while he was stationed in Alaska with the Army,
he said.
“I opened it up and didnʼt know what to do with
it,” Nesta said. “I sure wasnʼt going to eat it, and I
liked my fellow soldiers too much to share it with
them.”
WEST NEW YORK, N.J. – When fire broke out
at a busy poultry market, the goats werenʼt sticking
around.
A drove of goats hightailed it down a busy avenue
as firefighters responded to a three-alarm fire on
Tuesday afternoon.
Some firefighters teamed up with market workers
to run down the goats by fashioning a corral out of
garbage cans and a trash bin, said Jeff Welz, North
Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue co-director.
The scheme worked. The Humane Society in
Newark stepped in after the fire had been brought
under control about 90 minutes later to provide temporary shelter for the goats.
Rescuers also saved some of the dozens of live
chickens for sale in the market, Welz said.
Frightened goats flee from fire, recovered in trash corral
Fox Trot
By Bill Amend
MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE
A Queen Pillowtop Set
A Brand name with warr. Can deliver.
$170. Call 662-322-8031
STACK WASHER
&DRYER FOR SALE
1 year old full size Fridgidaire stack
Washer/ Dryer. limited warranty. Price
negotiable. (601)415-2999
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MOTORCYCLES
SCOOTER Tired of Parking Tickets?
Brand new SCOOTER for sale.
80 mpg-Top speed 65mph
Street legal with lights.
Storage Rack - Bright Red
Ideal for Campus or In Town Riding.
$2250.00
662-840-1390 after 6:00 (662)4019876
YARD SALES
Boondocks
By Aaron McGruder
YARD SALE Saturday, April 22. 1405
Jefferson Ave. (behind Downtown Inn).
Furniture, accessories, toys, clothes
and more! 7am - 11 am.
MOVING SALE Furniture, Appliances
and more... GE Stainless Steel side-byside refrigerator, 32” Television, VCR,
DVD Player, Sofa, Recliner, Dining
table and much more! (662)796-0111
HUGE YARD SALE April 22 - University
Ave. (across from Ford Center), furniture, clothes, etc. 7am-noon
Saturday, April 22. 7 A. M. 107 Virginia
St. Moving. Furniture, Electronics,
Clothes, Household Items
Dilbert
By Scott Adams
PETS FOR SALE
Siberian Husky— $200.00and Lab
puppies—$150.00. AKC. First shots
and wormed. Call (662) 274-4904 or
(662)252-7271
PETS FOR ADOPTION
OXFORD LAF. HUMANE SOCIETYHomeless pets need FOREVER homes!
View them online at www.oxfordpets.
petfinder.com.
Non Sequitur
By Wiley
STUDENT JOBS
SUMMER
WORKOPPORUNITY
Sharp students to help run a business
this summer. Must be hard working,
competive, and open to travel away
from Miss. Call Todd for more info The Southwestern Company (615)2188677
NEED A PART-TIME JOB? The Job
Location and Development Program
lists off-campus, part-time job opportuntities for currently enrolled students.
Available jobs are posted on the job
board in Room 303 Martindale. Referral
hours for all jobs are M-F, 11:30-1:30
or by appt.
Doonesbury
By Garry Trudeau
Dad owes daughter an apology
for springing new mom on her
DEAR ABBY: “Crushed in California” whined about her new stepdaughterʼs “rude, tacky, inappropriate and
cruel” reaction after Stepmom and
Dad dumped notice on his 24-year-old
daughter -- in a public place, no less
-- that they had eloped.
Abby, the ADULTS were the rude,
insensitive, inappropriate,
self-centered and inconsiderate parties in this
matter -- not the daughter. They are
the
ones who
should be
seeking
to mend
fences.
When I decided to remarry, we
invited my daughters (all in their 20s)
over for a private dinner at home
where we made the announcement,
invited the girls to participate in the
planning and answered questions.
And yes, the question about a pre-nup
was raised. So what! My daughters
wanted assurance that I had thought
things through. They wanted to know
how the marriage would change our
familyʼs dynamics, home arrangements, college plans, etc. They were
surprised. They got emotional. But
they clearly cared about me and my
happiness. Their questions werenʼt out
of line; they were the same questions I
got from close friends.
It seems to me that these self-centered “adults” cared diddly-squat about
what Dadʼs daughter felt or worried
about: Keep the young woman in the
dark. Donʼt let her contribute toward
planning the event. Donʼt let her attend
this milestone. Then dump the news
on her in a public place to keep her
emotional response contained. That
ought to show her how important she
is in her dadʼs new life!
Get over it, Stepmom. You married
a man with a daughter. She needs to
be part of your life right now. You and
Dad blew it by shutting her out. Maybe
in time the daughter will forgive you.
-- A DAD IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
DEAR DAD IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: You appear to be at the
helm of a close and functional family. Itʼs sad that more families arenʼt
like your own.
What bothered me about the
letter from “Crushed in
California” was that
the first words out of
the daughterʼs mouth
had to do with money.
I believe that people
who earn and save
money should be able
to spend it as they wish. I
also believe that it is unwise to count
other peopleʼs money as your own.
If the father wants his daughter
to have any of his assets, then he
should have a will that says so. (Itʼs
called estate planning.) If he already
has a will leaving his property to his
daughter, now that he is married he
will need a new one, because here
in California, his wife would have a
claim on half his estate in the event
of his death.
Read on for other readersʼ comments:
DEAR ABBY: I, too, have a stepdaughter who “freaked out” when her
father and I married. Her father and I
were shocked at her reaction. We offered her the option of family counseling, but she refused to go. My husband
and I decided to go by ourselves. It
worked miracles!
Once his daughter came to grips
with the fact that we were going to stay
together, and she would always still
have her father, things gradually got
better. Now, a few years later, weʼre a
close and loving family. It seems she
was afraid she would no longer be No.
1 to Daddy, but she is -- sheʼs just No.
1 Daughter. I am No. 1 Wife. There
is plenty of love to go around for the
both of us. -- NO. 1 WIFE IN MINNESOTA
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that would enable gravity boot
usage in the Turner Center.
One way to work out the abs
is to “stretch” them. This is the
concept behind the “ab wheel”
youʼve probably seen advertised
on television around 2 a.m.
These wheels arenʼt expensive. For less than $15, you can
buy one with shipping included.
However, you donʼt need
the wheel if you have a slick
kitchen or bathroom floor and
some towels.
This is a wonderful exercise
for men or women who are trying to tone the midsection.
Hereʼs how to perform an “ab
wheel” movement for those who
donʼt own one themselves:
Step one: Locate an open
area large enough to accommodate your body when itʼs in
an extended position. Get into a
hands-and-knees position on the
floor with a towel under your
hands and under your knees if
necessary.
Step two: Slide your hands
forward and extend yourself
as far forward as comfortable
without lifting your knees off of
the floor.
Step three: Hold the stretched
position for a two-count, then
return to the start position. Perform as many as you comfortable with.
Additional tip: Abdominal
muscles respond best when at
least three sets are performed,
but it may take some time
to build up resistance to this
movement.
Safety tip: This exercise
probably wonʼt be comfortable
if you have lower back trouble.
Assess yourself before starting.
No matter how much a
person trains, there is a genetic
component to the abdominals
that can not be overcome.
That aspect deals with the
positioning of the abdominal
muscles. Some people have
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decades ago.
Few bands from emoʼs heyday have survived the dreadful
Hawthorne Heights Era and lived
to sing about it.
But fear not, my broken-hearted brethren — all is not lost. New
Jersey sweetheart Saves the Day
has released the fantastic “Sound
the Alarm,” which just may be the
album to restore respect to a genre
of music lacking any today.
So throw out (or burn, or sell
or use as a Frisbee) your “Senses
Fail” album and listen up.
Most famous for its moderate
radio hit “At Your Funeral,” Saves
the Day has been releasing poppy
punk tunes with more integrity
than Blink 182 and more hooks
than a tackle box since “Canʼt
Slow Down” was released in
1998.
Each of the bandʼs subsequent
releases, however, moved further
and further from the infectious
hardcore/pop-punk hybrid forged
on the debut. With “Sound the
Alarm,” the band has returned to
form in a big way.
Where “Canʼt Slow Down”
showed signs of a young band still
developing, “Sound the Alarm”
sees the band playing with all the
explosive, youthful energy and
addictive sing-alongs of its debut,
but with eight years more experience. And it shows.
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Highlightin
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neat, parallel rows of abdominal
muscles.
However, many people have
abs that do not align evenly.
Everything else being equal,
this is an aspect of the physique
that a person competing in a fitness or bodybuilding show has
no control over and can suffer
a lower score if compared to a
competitor with parallel abdominals.
To be honest, itʼs not really a
fact you pay attention to unless
youʼre conditioned to look for
it.
Most people would be happy
to have a well-developed midsection no matter how evenly
the abdominals align.
Next week, Iʼll write about
some of my dietary supplement
recommendations.
Until then, though, keep
working on those six-packs.
The Pitt News
PITTSBURGH – Believe it or not,
there once was a time when “emo”
wasnʼt such a laughable term.
The Promise Ring capitalized
on pop tunes with totally un-emo
lines like “I got my body and
my mind on the same page, and
happiness is all the rage,” Jimmy
Eat World was enjoying pre-“The
Middle” success with their nearperfect album “Clarity,” and the
Get Up Kids were proving that not
everything from the Midwest was
boring.
This, ladies and gentlemen,
was the late ʼ90s.
Then, like the Stock Market
Crash of 1929, emo, too, fell
from grace. The music went stale,
with many of its fathering bands
dissolving and being replaced by
groups so boring and so generic
that we actually started to lose
hope in the entire genre.
Music scholars around the
globe call this disastrous period of
bland, mid-tempo, brooding and
god-awful emo “The Hawthorne
Heights Era.”
Emo got so caught up in
its tired image as the music
that speaks to the perpetually
bummed-out teens of suburban
America that it lost touch with its
hardcore punk roots: the raw, restless and furious music of over two
re
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cutting out the sodas, junk food
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and fast food and eating healthy of gravity and the rest of your
carbohydrates, clean protein
body weight.
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The friendly pop-punk band
of 2001ʼs “Stay What You Are”
is long gone, and the quirky indie
band of 2003ʼs “In Reverie” has
left too. Both got the crap kicked
out of them by the thunderous,
down-and-dirty punk rock band of
“Sound the Alarm.”
The sound captured on
each of the albumʼs
13 tunes is really
like nothing the
band has ever
created.
The most
obvious change
is front man
Chris Conleyʼs
voice. Progressively getting
higher and
less threatening with each
previous release,
Conleyʼs voice on this record is
sharper and angrier than ever before — somewhere between AFIʼs
Davey Havok and Brand Newʼs
Jesse Lacey.
The bandʼs guitar sound also
gets a makeover. Previously,
the band used distortion to get a
punchy but soft sound; here, every
guitar line has the growl that a
good punk guitar should, and David Solowayʼs lead is consistently
heavy and raging.
While the music of Saves the
Day is something new here, Conleyʼs dual talent for writing both
catchy melodies that will addict
listeners the first time and lyrics so
personal theyʼd make Chris Carrabba blush remains the same. Part
of emoʼs downfall was the generic
lyrics of its worst bands, telling
listeners exactly how they felt.
Conley, no less emotionally wounded,
prefers to
show his fans
through vivid,
often gruesome
descriptions and
painful, melodramatic visuals.
Not one to
write about sunshine and lollipops,
Conleyʼs lyrics have
always been on par
with Matt Skiba of
goth-punk masters
Alkaline Trio in terms of being so
dark.
“Sound the Alarm,” however,
marks the first time where the
music backing Conley has the
same grimy, sinister feel that his
words do. “The End” could be the
soundtrack to your worst nightmare, beginning with a bomb of
hardcore punk percussion and
screaming guitars.
The storm clouds seem to part
for a moment as the guitars slow,
but itʼs just a trick — the songʼs
bridge drops like a surprise attack
at half tempo with the albumʼs
most emo line: “Iʼm a danger
to myself, got a grenade in my
mouth/ and my finger on the pin
ready to rip it out.”
Every other song is just as successful.
“Delusional” has a haunting
chorus My Chemical Romance
wishes it could write.
“Say Youʼll Never Leave” has
all the desperation and dirty rock
stomp of anything on Weezerʼs
classic Pinkerton.
Album closer “Hell is Here”
lives up to its title; the track
actually sounds like a punk rock
apocalypse, featuring Conley at
his most crazed, the rest of the
band musically following him into
insanity.
If the word “emo” makes you
think of whiny white boys in tight
pants and music that tries to break
your heart, well, then youʼre right.
But with “Sound the Alarm,”
Saves the Day proves that the
genre can be so much more
— truer, rawer, darker, louder and
entirely less laughable.
If any album this year could put
a nail in the coffin of The Hawthorne Heights Era and give emo a
second chance, this is it.
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Funk and blues will be only
two of the sounds rocking Off
Square Books on Thursdayʼs live
Thacker Mountain Radio recording at 5:30 p.m.
The guests, all of which are
Thacker veterans, include “One
Foot In Eden” author Ron Rash,
musical guest Tricia
Walker and blues artist Olga Wilhelmine
accompanied by her
husband/producer Jimbo Mathus, according
to Thacker host Jim
Dees.
“Olga and Tricia were both last on
Thacker shows in the
spring of 2005,” said
Thacker producer Lyn
Roberts. “They were
Ron
both big hits.”
Roberts said Rash will read an
excerpt from his third and most
recent novel “The World Made
Straight.”
According to the publisherʼs
Web site, http://www.henryholt.
com, “The World Made Straight”
follows a 17-year-old boy living
with a had-been schoolteacher/
drug dealer in a town divided by
a past Civil War massacre.
“Rash has emerged as a firstrate storyteller, and his newest work is another suspenseful,
character-driven tale of outsiders
in conflict with the legacies of
Free
their rural Appalachian community,” Dees said.
Rash has also authored “Saints
at the River,” which he read on
the Thacker show in 2004, Roberts said.
Walker, a songwriter from
Nashville, will perform three of
her Southern-influenced pieces,
Dees said.
“She is a songwriter from Nashville who
has honed her talent
over the years to the
point that her wellcrafted songs seem
effortless,” he said.
“The audience will
be enchanted by her.”
According to the
artistʼs official Web
site,
http://www.
t r i s h a w a l k e r. c o m ,
Walkerʼs songs have
Rash
been performed by
Faith Hill, Alison
Krauss and Patty Loveless.
Dees describes Wilhelmineʼs
performance style as “poised”
and said that she will perform
songs from her latest blues album, “Now is the Time.”
He expects the addition of Mathus to Wilhelmineʼs set to “up
the funk quotient nicely.”
“Olgaʼs voice and guitar playing should add a nice, bluesy edge
to the show,” Dees said.
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jewelry. (Luckily, though, I
remembered pants.)
Though I donʼt wear these
cute eye-catchers anymore, I
still love them.
Which is why I
nearly fainted when I
saw a photo of Paris
Hilton – yeah, let that
sink in a bit – wearing
an armor ring.
Granted, hers was
one of the pretty ones,
with floral designs cut
out of the metal, but
it was
Sheena Barnett nonetheless,
know, I know – I
an armor ring.
DM Editor
donʼt look like a
Flash forward a
typical goth kid.
few weeks later to spring break.
My hair isnʼt dyed black, I
Iʼm in the MTV Studio, attenddonʼt wear black every day and I ing a taping of TRL (yeah, I
really, really like disco.
know, screaming teeny-bopBut, deep down inside, Iʼm a
pers are never fun. But seeing
goth kid.
Gideon Yago in person made up
Iʼm currently craving a coffor it).
fin-shaped necklace, I think
Kelly Clarksonʼs “Walk
vampires are nifty and I dyed
Away” video was somewhere on
my hair black once (well, sort
the countdown. I hadnʼt seen the
of).
video for it yet, so I watched it
Hence my love of armor rings on one of the many TV screens
– you know, those long metal
in the studio.
rings that cover your whole
And whatʼs Ms. American
finger.
Idol wearing in said video?
I sported those beautiful
Bingo, you are correct – an
little metal delights all through
armor ring.
middle and high school, and
Iʼm OK with Kelly wearing
through a little of college.
an armor ring simply because
I finally stopped wearing
sheʼs cool enough to wear one
them about the time I started
and “Walk Away” is the catchiworking for The DM, mostly
est song ever.
because I was so busy with DM
But (youʼll have to excuse
stuff that I forgot to wear any
me while I act like Cordelia for
“Hey, Iʼll have you know that
my father brought this bear back
from Gstaad years ago. Then
all of a sudden these trendoids
everywhere started
sporting them. So Iʼm
totally not wearing it.
Then I thought, ʻHey,
Iʼm the one who
started this nationwide craze! What am
I ashamed of?ʼ”
--Cordelia, about her
bear purse, on “Buffy
the Vampire Slayer”
I
Darlene Dela Cruz
Ka Leo O Hawaii
HONOLULU — Ah, 21. The age
many people wait their whole lives
for.
To be legally able to down cans
of beer makes oneʼs 21st year of
life a milestone to mark.
Then, after 365 days of marking
maturity in boozeful reverie, something unthinkable happens: you
turn 22, and — gasp! — you must
face the harsh reality of real-life
decision making.
Writer Brad Dunn offers his
first book, “When They Were 22:
100 Famous People at the Turning Point in Their Lives,” to ease
the pain of facing the big doubledeuce.
Dunn, a former writer and
editor for the New York Times,
features 100 individual vignettes
of an eclectic array of famous folk
from 50 Cent to Condolezza Rice,
all with the underlying coincidence
that each of his subjects reached a
moment of epiphany at age 22.
Whether it be a pivotal career
moment (as Pam
Andersonʼs skintight shirt appearance on a stadium
Jumbo-Tron) or a
jarring realization (as
was Oprah Winfreyʼs
first experience with
rejection), Dunn lays
out a thought-provoking, humorous and
inspiring look at life.
“When They Were
22” is simply written, with a to-the-point
focus on each subjectʼs
lifechanging turning point.
No biography runs longer than
three to four pages, and Dunnʼs
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What am I ashamed of?
OK, maybe I didnʼt start this
craze, but I think itʼs funny that
I wore them so long ago, and
now theyʼre apparently cool.
They have reason to be cool,
though. If you wear one, just sit
back in amazement at the attention you get.
More people have started
conversations with me because
of my armor rings than anything
else.
And, ladies, they are great for
meeting guys. Iʼve had at least
two of my past relationships
begin with a conversation about
my armor rings.
And it gets better: thereʼs an
armor ring for everybody.
Want a girly one? Pick up
one similar to Parisʼ, with floral
designs.
Need something masculine?
Get the one that looks like skulls
eating other skulls.
Craving something scary?
Get a claw — an armor ring
with a long metal claw that
extends beyond the finger.
You can purchase your very
own ring for as little as $12 or
as much as $200.
Go rock out armor rings.
Theyʼre different, fun and apparently very cool.
Just remember who started
this craze – me.
Just kidding.
Silent Auction from 11:00-1:00 in the Union Lobby
brevity is part of the bookʼs charm.
While it would take two hours
to watch a “Behind the Music”
special on VH1 to get the message that famous people
mess up and find ironic
twists in their paths, it
takes about as much
time to get the same
message in reading
through “When They
Were 22.”
The book appeals
to a wide audience,
satisfying both the
kitschy, younger
crowd with stories
about P. Diddy,
Brad Pitt and
Norah Jones, as well as more
serious-minded folks interested in
religious and political figures like
Pope John Paul II and Karl Rove.
Readers need not be 22 years
old to appreciate the impact of
Dunnʼs stories — the book draws
in anyone at a major crossroads in
life, or folks at an age of reflection
over the way they handled past
failures, career changes and events
of chance that brought them to
where they are today.
“When They Were 22” is a
page-turner, not in the sense of
being an edge-of-your-seat thriller,
but in its ability to spark the
readerʼs curiosity to read on and
find out the plight of the famous
figure on the next page.
With tons and tons of students
at the Universities around the
world on the verge of commencement in May, “When They Were
22” would certainly make a great
gift for the expectant graduate.
Dunnʼs book finds a niche in
the human tendency to find solace
in knowing that other people
— specifically famous ones — go
through the same ups and downs
that come with life.
Ka Leo O Hawaii is the newspaper of the University of Hawaii
itʼs annoying.
Like every college student on
My page looks pathetic comthe face of the planet, I love to
pared to the flashy designs of other
waste time on the Internet.
pages. There are many
While I could, and
ways to customize the
by every means should,
theme and format, but
be spending what little
itʼs all way more work
free time I have apthan I care to put in to it.
plying for jobs, doing
Although, MySpace
home work or trying to
did reveal that my nowfigure out where I put
married, former best
my “temptress snares,”
friend from high school
Iʼd much rather check
is a bisexual currently
Facebook every five
looking for a woman to
seconds.
“share their relationFacebook is by far
Hannah Donegan ship.” Somehow, I
everyoneʼs preferred
DM Managing Editor canʼt help but think
choice for online
that I might have been
time wasting. The
better off not knowing that.
new feature allowing users to set
There are those who just donʼt
a personalized status and ordering
really like social networking sites
your friends list by most recently
all that much. For those we have
updated will continue Facebookʼs
Ebaumʼs World and Albino Black
reign as the main cause of procrasSheep.
tination.
Ebaumʼs World has quite posBefriending random people
from my classes and constantly up- sibly the creepiest video clip ever.
Itʼs someone called the Goddess
dating my book, music and movie
Bunny tap dancing and I see it
preferences have become very
unhealthy sources of entertainment. in my nightmares whenever Iʼve
made the mistake of eating Taco
Time spent finding out the
Bell right before bed.
favorite book of that one guy from
Albino Black Sheep has the ulrevolutionary history or how many
timate stress reliever: The Samuel
other people like Family Force 5
L. Jackson Soundboard. Whenever
has caused me to have to perform
frustration at work reaches an
any number of midnight miracles
just to get homework done on time. unbearable level, a certain Jackson
quote from “Pulp Fiction” about
At my age I really should know
oneʼs ability to speak English
better.
soothes the savage beast.
MySpace is another popular
Albino Black Sheep also has
site, but Iʼm not exactly sold on it
several flash videos that, for better
yet.
or for worse, I have committed to
First off, it always makes me
memory. “The Llama Song,” “The
sign in twice. I donʼt know if itʼs
Fifth Avocado” and “The Badger
just my computer being a dolt or if
Song” are all strokes of brilliance.
it is an extra security measure, but
“The End of Ze World” and “Numa
Numa” are also addicting little bits
of cyber junk.
While weʼre on the topic of
crazy little web clips, The DM has
a few favorites.
Google “Hello my future girlfriend” and gaze upon the worst
mullet to ever sit atop the head
of child. If you donʼt say, “Bye,
thanks for stopping by” nonstop
after that, you really have no sense
of humor.
Hitting up Google Video is another option if your appetite for the
inane simply cannot be satisfied.
YouTube has the greatest BMW
pseudo-commercial ever. It has
Clive Owen, James Brown and
Gary Oldman and thatʼs all you really need to know. The site also has
some pretty cool music videos.
If you would like to waste your
bandwidth on something a little
more substantial, try Lifehacker.
Itʼs full of tips, tricks and downloads to make life easier. One tip
mentioned using geckos to solve a
roach problem. I also learned how
to make a mouse out of an Altoids
tin and how to make a portable
USB charger. Cool stuff.
I even found software that will
let you make a PDF from any program and one program thatʼll make
iTunes work for all kinds of mp3
players. Cool stuff, indeed.
For the more self-important
types, Livejournal, Xanga and Deadjournal provide a means to tell
the world about all of your trials
and tribulations.
Iʼve had a Livejournal (or two)
and a Xanga, but aside from the
occasional borderline psychotic
rant, I didnʼt do much with either.
I donʼt see the point of blogging.
Then again, not everyone has the
luxury of going up to the Arts or
Opinion editor and saying, “Hey,
Iʼm writing a column.”
Last, but not least, we have
band Web sites. You can tell a lot
about a band by the quality of their
Web site.
My Chemical Romance and
Family Force 5 have, by far, the
coolest Web sites. Chock full of
animations, games, music and
cool little interactive features, both
sites have a lot of imagination and
personality.
Hannah Donegan can be reached
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Antebellum tours give glimpse into the past
Zachary Wilson
The newly renovated Gothicstyle villa Airliewood will headline the 68th Annual Tour of
Historic Homes, also known as
the Pilgrimage, this weekend in
Holly Springs.
Most of the houses in Holly
Springs, located 30 miles north
of Oxford, are built in the columned Greek Revival style.
Airliewood,
however,
is
unique because of its arched windows and doors, steep-pitched
roof and ornate bracketing, all
features of Gothic architecture.
Airliewood has a rich Southern history and became the
headquarters for Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant when the Union army occupied Holly Springs in preparation of the invasion of Vicksburg.
It was also later used as the
setting to describe Holly Springs
during Reconstruction in a novel
by Mississippi writer Sherwood
Bonner.
The house has now undergone a two-year renovation and
is ready to be featured in the historic tour.
“The Pilgrimage is a celebration of the lives of the antebellum homes and of our community,” said Jimmy Thomas,
executive director of the Holly
Springs Tourism and Recreation
Bureau.
“Itʼs an opportunity for people
to see what the houses looked
like when they were originally
built, fully furnished with an-
tiques,” he said.
According to Thomas, there
are several different tour packages available.
The Blue and Green tours
each feature three antebellum
houses or gardens and are $20
each, while the Gold Tour includes all six in one package and
is $35.
The special package, which is
$65 and includes all six houses
or gardens, also features a Friday
evening tour of the Hill Crest
Cemetery, where local townspeople act out roles of historic
characters from Holly Springs.
The event is followed by a
wine and cheese reception at
Fleur de Lis, an antebellum
home that is currently being renovated.
On Saturday night, special
package guests can experience
the Queenʼs Ball, a party where
the pilgrimage king and queen
are presented and celebrated,
and a Southern barbecue on the
grounds of another antebellum
home, Montrose.
Sunday is the slowest day,
Thomas said, and the tours are
offered in the afternoon.
“If somebody doesnʼt have a
lot of time to spend doing it but
still wants to take the tour, Sunday is the best day because itʼs
slow, quiet and there arenʼt a lot
of lines,” he said.
Tickets for the event can be
purchased at the Holly Spring
Public Library starting at 9:30
Friday morning, Thomas said.
Tours take place from 10 a.m.
Courtesy of the Holly Springs Tourism and Recreation Bureau
Airliewood, the only Gothic-style antebellum home in Holly Springs, headlines the Tour of Historic Homes this
weekend. The homes feature antique furniture and give visitors an idea of how it was to live in the past.
to 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on
Sunday.
For more information on the
Pilgrimage or Holly Springs,
visit the Tourism Bureauʼs Web
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