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New theatre to open soon at Oxford Mall
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Jasmine Cole
Staff Reporter
Design Courtesy of Malco Theatres
Malco Theatre is currently building a new 10-screen movie theatre adjacent to the site of the current theatre at the Oxford mall. The
current site, pictured below, is scheduled to be completed by the end of the month.
Brandon H. Walters
Senior Staff Reporter
Oxford residents, Ole Miss students
and those in neighboring areas will soon
have a new place of entertainment to
enjoy.
Malco Theatre hopes to open an
eight-screen theater complex in the Oxford Mall by late September or early
October, according to Karen Scott, sales
and marketing coordinator for the Malco Corporation.
Plans for Oxfordʼs new, state-ofthe-art Malco theater have been in the
works since April 2003, but due to ownership disputes over the Oxford Mall,
construction was put on hold several
times during the years. In October 2004,
a new group came in and purchased the
mall property and construction began in
earnest.
“We re-negotiated to build a larger
theater than what was originally planned
for, and since construction takes 10 to
11 months to complete, . . . we are almost ready to open,” Scott said.
The new theater will feature eight
auditoriums with stadium-style seating,
an arcade and a cafe. There will also be
an expanded menu at the concession
stand.
“I am glad that there is a new, larger
theatre coming to Oxford,” said Angela
Garner, a sophomore psychology major.
“It does not make sense having to drive
to Memphis or Tupelo for a good movie
selection. It should also be pretty good
for Oxfordʼs economy.”
Myrinda Grantham, a senior legal
studies major from Ellisville said, “I
am really [glad] it is finally opening. I
can finally watch the movies I want to
see without going to Tupelo. Since fuel
costs so much right now, it will help me
out greatly.”
John Brooks, a sophomore political
science major from Knoxville, Tenn.
said he agreed with Grantham and Garner.
“Itʼs about time that Malco opens. It
is pretty pathetic that Oxford has a four
screen theatre for a population of over
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Hurricane Katrina Aftermath Bulletins:
- Miss. Supreme Court extended filing deadlines by 90 days for appeals
pending from the 27 south Miss. counties of the 2nd Supreme Court
District.
- Interstate 10 - both Westbound & Eastbound - will be open to traffic but
reduced to one lane for at least five weeks.
- Cellular South is averaging more than five million calls per day in south
Mississippi.
Toiletries needed for a temporary 750-bed
set-up in Meridian:
shower shoes
conditioner
disposable razors
shaving cream
travel-size soap
toothpaste
shampoo
lotion
hospital being
deodorant
combs
cotton balls
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Susie Penman The Daily Mississippian
The death of Chief Supreme
Court Justice William Rehnquist
this past Saturday has left a second opening on the Supreme Court
bench, and now President George
W. Bush is faced with making the
historic decision of who will be
next to serve.
“Rehnquistʼs death creates another vacancy on the Court, and [it
is] the first time since 1971 when
there have been two vacancies simultaneously,” said John Winkle,
professor of political science at Ole
Miss.
The Court may operate with
seven or eight Justices instead of
the full nine when it opens its term
in October, which means that, conceivably, the Court could have tie
votes in some cases. In that event,
the lower court ruling would stand,
Winkle said.
Ole Miss political science professor Robert Albritton said he believes Rehnquistʼs death will have
less of an effect on the High Court
than many people predict.
“I do not think his death will
have a major impact on the Supreme Court, as his replacement
will probably follow in the same
line of judicial decision-making,”
he said. “We now know what the
president will do. He is appointing
Judge John Roberts as Chief Justice
instead of Associate Justice.”
Albritton said he understands
the presidentʼs decision to appoint
Roberts, who has never sat on the
Supreme Court and has not yet been
confirmed, to replace Rehnquist.
“Because Judge Roberts had virtually gained majority support for
his original appointment, it seems
clear that he will become the next
Chief Justice,” he said.
There is not much debate as to
whether or not the newly-appointed
Roberts will continue to carry on
Rehnquistʼs legacy.
“If confirmed, Roberts will
likely continue the philosophy of
Rehnquist, that is, a conservative
posture on most issues to come beSee COURT
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ROTC members aid in relief efforts
Genie Alice Via
Staff Reporter
Members of the Ole Miss National
Guard and ROTC program were deployed last week to help with hurricane relief efforts on the Gulf Coast.
Some students were able to stay
up to a week, but others were sent
back almost immediately because the
National Guard decided it was more
important for them to be in school and
finish out the semester.
Jake Todd, a senior insurance and
risk management major from Hen-
derson, Ky., is one of the students
who worked on the Gulf Coast for a
week.
“It was so rewarding to be there,”
Todd said. “Those people had so little
- they had nothing. They still tried to
give us what they had to thank us for
being there.”
Todd mentioned a few people who
stood out in his memory from the experience.
“There was one man that had a
cold coke and wanted to give it to us
to thank us for giving him a bag of
ice,” he said.
“People were trying to keep their
food from rotting so they would cook
for us at night. One guy boiled shrimp
for us.”
He said all of the people he encountered were gracious and appreciative.
“Everywhere we went there were
people waving at us and giving us
thumbs up,” Todd said.
“Iʼve never gotten a welcome like
that before. I saw a sign that said, ʻIf
you donʼt support our troops now you
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OPINION
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September 8, 2005
Replacing
Rehnquist
W
ith the passing of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, a second
vacancy has appeared on the Supreme Court. After Associate Justice Sandra Day OʼConnor announced her retirement
on July 1, Bush nominated John Roberts to replace her. While many
had feared the nomination of Roberts, who is perceived as a conservative justice in the same vein as Rehnquist, whom he clerked for at one
time, Roberts was truly feared because he was to replace OʼConnor.
OʼConnorʼs jurisprudence was viewed by most as being very centrist,
and OʼConnor was often the swing vote on many important decisions
handed down under her watch.
But now, with two vacancies on the High Court, Bush could be
preparing for a mighty one-two punch of conservative justices, one to
merely even things out (Roberts) and a second to tilt the balance (currently-unnamed jurist).
Unfortunately, with Bushʼs current
political ground quickly eroding with the
UR IEW
floodwaters standing in New Orleans, he
Bush will have to may not be able to get the true conbe careful in choos- servative he wants on the court. Many
ing a nominee for Republicans are beginning to break from
the Bush administration, especially over
the High Court.
the handling of the disaster following
Hurricane Katrina. The likelihood of
long-term political fall-out could hurt Bush in his push for naming a
second justice. Combined with the growing disillusionment over the
festering war in Iraq, Bush could be begging for votes, many of which
he would have been counting as slam dunks just weeks before.
Both the Democrats and the major media outlets have regained
some of the moral outrage they lost in the months following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Finally, the Dems have awoken
from their Rip Van Winkle-like slumber, and itʼs just in time. With any
luck, Americans will be able to get a justice who will establish him or
herself as an able jurist and not one who will legislate from the bench,
a feat that the right is just as guilty of doing as the left is.
Yet in actuality, many Republicans may forego the political gains
to be made from fighting amongst themselves to stand fast with the
president on getting a justice they want into power. With Senator
Frist and others supporting the judicial activism from the right, such a
scenario is likely to happen.
Time will only tell how this will end.
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Bush didnʼt respond quickly enough for New Orleans in Katrinaʼs wake
Dear Editor,
Ray Naginʼs recent pleas
and scathing rhetoric directed
at Washington strike me as depressingly familiar. It reminded
me of Kate Haleʼs comments
three days after Hurricane
Andrew left her Florida community devastated. Hale motivated
Bush senior to end a political
game of inaction. It was about
ten days before victims and
7,000 Florida National Guardsmen started seeing tent cities,
mobile kitchens, 22,000 active
troops, and an Army PSYOPS
station dubbed Radio Recovery.
The response was considered
embarrassingly sluggish. The
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) learned
a lesson and up until now has
received mostly accolades.
Today is Katrina plus eight,
–
and the federal response,
realized and promised, seems
petulant compared to Andrew.
So far, it is still mostly local
National Guard units (~21,000
troops), depleted of men and
equipment and spread out over
an area far larger than the tip
of Florida. About 4,000 active
troops have recently arrived.
Equipment, MREs and seven
thousand more troops are “on
the way” and will not arrive for
at least another day or two.
Like father, like son. Although our indifferent sorry
excuse for a leader said otherwise while dispensing his usual
detached platitudes, we had reasonable predictions of Katrinaʼs
dynamics before it hit the Gulf
Coast, and FEMA has warned of
a New Orleans disaster for over
a decade. So where is FEMA?
FEMA is now a part of that
bureaucratic leviathan called
the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS).
The message couldnʼt be
clearer. The DHS responded
poorly to a 15 mph disaster that
was anticipated. What of the
unexpected?
The predictions regarding
future hurricane seasons, east
coast tidal waves, and Californiaʼs “big one” are unsettling. At the very least, FEMA
should be restored to its Sept.
10 character before this warming globe smacks us upside the
head again.
Cameron E. Johnson
biology
graduate student
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ing the responsibility unto his ad- floating by in the flood, bitten
city just about gone. I can still ministration (as he said he would by rats, to do that (for Anderson
remember it as it
after 9/11). Next came
Cooper), and it took tourists
used to be. But itʼs
the incompetence. You
being evacuated from a hotel
funny – right now,
do know what FEMA
before the Superdome residents
I think Iʼm starthead, Michael Brown,
were mobilized to do that (for
ing to see the truth
was doing right before
Shepard Smith). Rich, white and
behind my city, the
Bush appointed him,
privileged over poor, black and
truth behind a lot of
donʼt you? Working for forgotten. The truth will come
things. That hurricane
the IAHA. Thatʼs an
out.
stripped away more
experienced disaster reYou know one man who spoke
than just the Superlief organization, right? the truth and got my respect?
dome roof. It stripped
No, itʼs the Internation- Kanye West. George Bush
away the niceties we
al Arabian Horse Asdoesnʼt care about black people?
(including myself)
sociation. Apparently
Of course he doesnʼt. He doesnʼt
Glenn
Fayard
have been fooling
that,
coupled
with
have a care in the world. Thatʼs
DM Columnist
ourselves with. Of
Brownʼs “extensive”
why he was anticipating sitting
course, New Orleans was always
experience as a city councilman
on Trent Lottʼs new porch while
two cities. For me, the city was
and whatnot, was enough for
New Orleans died. An irony:
always the French Quarter, VetBush to fire former FEMA head,
Trent Lott said that old mansion
erans Boulevard and all of those
James Lee Witt, a man who even
was built in 1854. I wonder what
old beautiful houses.
Bush himself praised during his
kind of labor was used?
That was my New Orleans
first presidential debate and who
This situation should not
because my family had money,
Blanco has now hired.
be surprising: George Herbert
because we were white. Take a
Do I blame Brown? Yes, I do.
Walker didnʼt know what a price
look at the other city – itʼs all
I blame him for dragging his feet
scanner was. And of course,
over the news. New Orleans
as well as the National Guardʼs
thereʼs Barbara Bush: “And so
was one of the poorest cities in
feet. I blame him for refusing to
many of the people in the arena
the nation before the hurricane,
allow in outside assistance such
here, you know, were underpriviand it was two-thirds black. And
as the Red Cross. I blame him for leged anyway, so this — this is
all you have to do is watch the
deploying public relations teams
working very well for them.”
footage at the Superdome to see
instead of rescue teams.
What a beautiful mind, indeed.
the split: who, exactly, was living
According to the Salt Lake
How did that fake cowboy
paycheck to paycheck with no
Tribune, FEMA assembled a
do it? Dubyaʼs blood is blue as
car to escape in and no place to
gaggle of firefighters in Atlanta.
the sky and so is the whole Bush
go even if they did? And who,
Instead of
clanʼs. Itʼs
exactly, had an escape plan that
working for
times like
amounted to dropping $40 to
emergency
this, when I
gas up the SUV and drive off
relief, they
think of him
That was my New Orleans running as
to some relativeʼs house? And
were to
donʼt try to tell me this is about
work as
because my family had money, an outsider,
“personal responsibility.” You
community
running as
because we were white.
really think you could survive off relations
an alternathat summer job you had, flipping workers,
tive to the
burgers, bagging groceries or
i.e., to
“Washingjust doing what you could, like
distribute
ton elite,”
these folks had to, and still have
FEMA
running for
to, and probably will have to,
flyers. Of course, Monday, 50 of
oppressed NASCAR dads everywithout your parents to pull you
these men were quickly mobiwhere and pulling it off without a
out whenever you overextended
lized for serious duty: standing
hitch, that...
that credit card?
beside Bush at PR events.
Iʼll end there. Folks, give what
Thereʼs more to see. Do you
You can see the media finally
you can, help how you will, and
honestly buy the spin, that it was
starting to crack. Theyʼre not
keep looking for the truth. Those
“state and local authorities?”
listening to Chertoff or Brown
faces youʼre seeing deserve it.
Governor Blanco declared a state or whoever; Shepard Smith
Glenn is a sophomore from
of emergency on August 26th.
wouldnʼt even listen to HanMadison. He can be reached at
Bush signed it the next day, taknity! Of course, it took bodies
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NewsRoundup
In Mississippi
In the U.S.
Schwarzenegger to
Khayat only president veto gay marriage
on corporate board
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov.
JACKSON — Most of Mississippiʼs eight university presidents
report they arenʼt on corporate
boards, which can pay large
amounts to those who serve.
University of Mississippi
Chancellor Robert Khayat is the
only one on a company board of
directors, according to state ethics
reports, official biographies and
other information obtained from
the universityʼs executives.
Serving on corporate boards
can be lucrative. Louisiana State
University Chancellor Sean
OʼKeefe reported that heʼs getting
paid at least $200,000 a year serving on the boards of three companies, including chemical giant
DuPont. This is in addition to the
$425,000 the former NASA chief
gets as head of Louisianaʼs largest
university.
Mississippi State University
President Charles Lee hasnʼt been
asked to serve on a corporate
board, said Joe Farris, assistant to
the president. Lee does serve on
the boards of The Nature Conservancyʼs state chapter and the Mississippi Technology Alliance, but
theyʼre nonprofit groups that donʼt
pay their board members.
Former Starkville
mayor dies of cancer
STARKVILLE — Funeral
services were held Tuesday for
Mack Rutledge, a former two-term
mayor of Starkville who died following an eight-year battle with
cancer.
Rutledge, who was 73, died
Sunday at the Oktibbeha County
Hospital.
Rutledge, a native of Pontotoc,
came to Starkville in 1971 as a
youth court counselor with the
Mississippi Department of Youth
Services. He worked as a probation officer with juvenile offenders
for six years, then took a job with
the Golden Triangle Planning and
Development District.
Bradford murder
conviction upheld
JACKSON — The state Court
of Appeals has rejected Sam
Bradford Sr.ʼs argument that
he killed his wife in the heat of
passion and was guilty of manslaughter, not murder.
Bradford was sentenced to
life in prison in 2004 in Jefferson
County for the shooting death of
his wife, Althea Denise Bradford.
Her body was found in the driveway of a home on Aug. 31, 2003.
Prosecutors said she died from
a gunshot wound to the head.
Deputies testified the handgun
used in the shooting was in
Bradfordʼs possession.
The Appeals Court said state
law provides that a homicide
may result from a willful act or
deliberate design without being
murder if the killing occurs in
necessary self-defense.
Arnold Schwarzenegger announced
Wednesday he will veto a bill that
would have made California the
first state to legalize same-sex marriage through legislative action.
Schwarzenegger said the legislation, given final approval Tuesday
by lawmakers, would conflict with
the intent of voters when they approved a ballot initiative five years
ago. Proposition 22 prevents California from recognizing same-sex
marriages performed in other states
or countries.
“We cannot have a system
where the people vote and the
Legislature derails that vote,” the
governorʼs press secretary, Margita
Thompson, said in a statement.
“Out of respect for the will of the
people, the governor will veto [the
bill].”
Bush leads nation in
mourning Rehnquist
WASHINGTON — Chief
Justice William H. Rehnquist was
buried Wednesday as President
Bush led the nation in bidding
farewell to the man who orchestrated a dramatic states rights
power shift in a third of a century
on the Supreme Court and settled
the acrimonious 2000 election in
Bushʼs favor.
With more laughs than tears,
family and friends spoke poignantly of Rehnquistʼs final days
– when he cracked jokes in the
face of death – and proudly of the
imprint of his 33 years on the high
court.
“We remember the integrity and the sense of duty that
he brought to every task before
him,” Bush told the funeral audience during a two-hour service at
In the World
Egyptians choose
president for first time
CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptians voted Wednesday in the
countryʼs first-ever contested
presidential election, but charges
of fraud and a big boycott rally
marred balloting that longtime
leader Hosni Mubarak portrayed
as a major democratic reform.
Ordinary citizens and opposition party members told The
Associated Press that election
workers inside polls in Luxor
instructed voters to choose
Mubarak, who is expected to
be easily re-elected to a fifth
six-year term. In Alexandria,
workers for the ruling National
Democratic Party promised food
to those who cast a ballot.voters
said.
More than 3,000 people
marched through downtown
Cairo at midafternoon. Police
watched from a distance, despite
government vows the day before
that protests would not be allowed.
– Associated Press
Theatre: Cine 4 to show independent films
Court: Former clerk, Roberts, nominated to become top judge
20,000 when school is in session,” he said. “I hope that the
student population will support
the theatre so that other developers will see Oxford as a good
business venture.”
When the new theater opens,
the Cine 4 theater complex currently in place will not close.
Those four auditoriums will become a viewing place for many
independent films.
Malco Corporation owns and
operates theaters in much of the
mid-South, including theaters
in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky and Missouri.
The closest locations to Oxford
are in Memphis, Southaven and
Tupelo.
Oxford Mall is located on
West Jackson Avenue.
fore the Court,” Winkle said. “The
Supreme Court has had a conservative and Republican majority
since 1971, so there is little expectation that Roberts would interrupt
that trend.”
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Brandon H. Walters can be
reached at bwalters@thedmonline.
From
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Richard Forgette, chairman of
the Department of Political Science, said he agreed with Winkle
that Roberts would follow an ideological path similar to that of his
predecessor.
“Judge Roberts was a clerk for
Chief Justice Rehnquist, so philo-
sophically, heʼs expected to be in
concord with him. The nomination of Roberts is meant to achieve
continuity,” Forgette said.
With Bush positioning Roberts
to take over for Rehnquist as Chief
Justice, the question of who he will
pick to follow in the path of retired
Justice Sandra Day OʼConnor
takes on a new twist.
Forgette said he believes, however, that the best indication of the
Presidentʼs next steps will come
when nomination hearings actually begin.
“The Supreme Court nominees
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and justices often turn out to be a
lot different than envisioned when
nominated,” he said. “We will all
be listening closely to nomination
proceedings, but we donʼt really
know what will happen.”
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ROTC: Coast looks like war zone, according to ROTC members
From
Susie Penman The Daily Mississippian
The new theatre will feature stadium seating, as shown here.
Hurricane UM Gospel Choir
death toll First Fall Meeting:
trickles in
Tonight
Associated Press
JACKSON — Stymied by
washed-out roads and tons of
debris, the effort to accurately
catalog Mississippiʼs dead after
Hurricane Katrina is struggling
to keep up with the decaying effect of 90-degree heat.
Even when cadaver dogs pick
up a scent, workers say they frequently canʼt get at the bodies
without heavy equipment. Thatʼs
leading to death estimates ranging from fewer than 200 to more
than 1,000.
“The state doesnʼt know the
answer,” said Lea Stokes, a
spokeswoman for the Mississippi Emergency Management
Agency. “I know people donʼt
want to hear that, but we just
donʼt know.”
That uncertainty has led to an
agonizing wait for people who
are desperate to locate family
and friends but who cannot yet
fathom the scope of the stormʼs
devastation.
“We get a lot of information
about New Orleans, but I donʼt
even know how bad Alabama
and Mississippi are,” said Darryl
Moch, 32, of Portland, Ore., who
has tried for days to locate his
best friend, Leon Harvey Packer,
of Biloxi. “How bad was Mississippi hit? Whatʼs the number of
people displaced? Whatʼs the estimated damage?”
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can kiss my ass.ʼ”
Todd went to Picayune, Poplarville, Diamondhead and Bay St. Louis
to help hand out food, water and ice.
He was there from Tuesday, Aug. 30
until the following Monday.
“It was very chaotic when I first
got there,” he said. “But in the week
that I was there it got so much better. I canʼt imagine how much better the conditions will be in just two
weeks.”
Seth Davidson, a senior marketing
major from Grenada, said the Mississippi Coast looked like a war zone.
“I went to check on one of my
friends that is from [the Gulf Coast]
and his whole street was just flattened,” Davidson said. “Every house
I saw had major damage.”
Davidson, who worked out of
Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, said the
job of his unit was to find places for
the people from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stay
and to hand out water and ice in Gulfport.
“One thing that was really hard
was that so many people were asking
us questions, and we didnʼt always
have the answers,” he said. “Most
people were really appreciative
though. Everybody was just thanking
us for being there.”
Jay Johnson from Natchez was
stationed at the Crossroads Mall in
Gulfport. He said the hardest thing for
him was not being able to give people
food where he was stationed in Gulfport at the Crossroads Mall.
“It was so sad to see families with
carloads of kids that they couldnʼt
feed,” said the senior business management major. “We did what we
could, but FEMA didnʼt send food to
where we were set up. All we could
give them was water and ice.”
Johnson said the thing that really
stood out to him was the media under-reporting on the Coast.
“Where we were I was really
isolated from any media,” he said.
“Coming back and seeing they way it
is being covered shows me that people really cannot understand the magnitude of the damage. Every single
building had some kind of damage. It
looked like an atomic bomb had been
dropped in the middle of it. It will
never look the same.”
Johnson said there were convoys
of trucks everywhere, there were
people lined up at gas stations for
miles and they had to go off the road
to get around some of the debris in the
middle of the interstate.
“It really felt and looked like a
military occupation,” he said. “It was
weird seeing something like that in
America.”
Todd said he was saddened by the
appearance of the Gulf Coast as well.
“Trees were split like toothpicks,”
he said. “It was unrecognizable.”
he said. “If they had stayed they
would have lost this semester. The
Guard doesnʼt want to delay getting
those guys into full-time army positions.”
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• SEPTEMBER 8, 2005
Paws for Art auction to take place tonight
Victoria Hiles
Staff Reporter
The Oxford-Lafayette Humane
Society will host their biggest charity event of the year - the Paws for
Arts auction - on Thursday, Sept. 8
at the Oxford Conference Center.
Paws for Art is a fund-raiser
that helps provide operating expenses necessary for OLHS to run
smoothly, said Development Director Elizabeth Speed.
“The money raised will help
with food supply for animals and
critically ill or injured animals,”
she said. “It also helps us to keep
the shelter open, not necessarily
with staff, but by not turning away
people with animals because of a
space issue.”
Clarion-Ledger cartoonist Marshall Ramsey was scheduled to attend as the guest of honor, but he is
unable to attend due to the shortage
of gasoline in the Jackson area - a
by-product of Hurricane Katrina
- and also because he has been
working around the clock to cover
any breaking news related to the
stormʼs aftermath.
“I really regret I canʼt make it
up to Oxford for this wonderful
event, but Iʼm going to try to find
another way to support the cause,”
Ramsey said.
Ramsey and Speed said they
feel that itʼs unfortunate that he
will not be able to attend, but they
insist that itʼs nothing to worry
about, just a collaboration to look
forward to in the future. Speed said
she would love to have Ramsey as
their guest of honor next year, but
she has not thought that far ahead
yet. Planning for next yearʼs event
will begin as soon as this yearʼs
auction is over.
Paws for Art is not limited in
entertainment value. Guests will be
treated to live music, catered food
from some of Oxfordʼs most wellloved restaurants, and a full bar.
The main attraction is the silent
auction and the live auction which
will be headlining the event. The
silent auction begins at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets for the patron party
event of the auction are $45 per
person or $80 per couple. During
this time, guests will enjoy a silent
auction where 150 items will be
sold. Guest will also get a sneak
peek at the live auction items. All
tickets are available at the door.
Because the OLHS values its
sponsors so highly, each sponsor who responds to an invitation
with the generous $1000 donation
will be honored by having his or
her name in the auction program,
Speed said. Furthermore, each
sponsor is given eight tickets to the
patron party, and they will have a
private table close to the runway
where items are being auctioned.
Sponsors are also recognized on a
placard at the shelter.
“We sold 10 tables this year.
Selling the tables is new to us this
year, so we were excited to sell
them so successfully,” Speed said.
The live auction party starts at
7:30 p.m. It will include 27 different items, like a one nightʼs stay
at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis,
two round-trip tickets courtesy of
Air Tran and two free tires from
Gateway Tire Center. Other items
include jewelry, a free teeth-whitening treatment and many paintings from local and regional artists
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Ole Miss art professor Jere Allen is one of the local artists who
will be featured in the auction. He
supported the charity event last
year and if his painting is anything
like his donation from the previous
year, Speed said, it should bring in
a lot of revenue for the shelter.
“Jere is internationally known
and donates these one-of-a-kind
images that he manipulates in
Photoshop exclusively for OLHS.
Last year, Jereʼs art piece sold for
$750,” she said.
Allen, other artists and Oxford
businesses have been very generous with their donations to the auction. Speed said she is the first to
recognize how lucky she is to be
among such great philanthropy.
“The response has been fantastic. Iʼm very fortunate to have such
great support from the community,” she said.
One local artist who is excited
to support the charity event is Lydia Lewis Myers. She got involved
with the Paws for Arts event
through her sister-in-law, Angie
Avery Lewis, and is glad to be involved in the arts after being away
for a period of time.
“Itʼs wonderful and exciting to
be back, and being able to help, itʼs
awesome. I was thrilled, and hopefully it will make a lot of money
for the humane society,” Myers
said, when speaking of her work.
Myers specializes in portraits of
pets and has recently been working
in Alexandria, Va., just outside of
Washington D.C. She is back in
Oxford now and is back to work
as usual. Her painting that will be
auctioned off during the live auc-
tion features a group of beagle
puppies.
“I hope someone buys it. Most
people canʼt resist the power of a
puppy,” Myers said.
OLHS needs more revenue
to expand the shelter, and Myers
said that she knows first-hand how
crowded they can get. Her family
gets all of their pets from humane
societies, and she said she is heartbroken that not all of the pets can
be adopted.
“I would do anything for the
pets, anything so that they wouldnʼt
have to put down so many animals
because of space,” Myers said.
Despite the shelterʼs lack of
space, Myers said she believes the
situation is improving and is excited to be working with her friends
who care as much about shelter animals as she does, like artist Wanda
Reid, owner of Frame Up.
Myers stressed the importance
of art and how beneficial it is for
youth and people of all ages to get
involved in the arts.
She said she was disappointed
to learn that many schools are trying to get rid of their arts programs,
but Myers warns that doing so is a
mistake.
“Itʼs everything - music and art
- it builds who you are even if you
canʼt paint. Everyone has some artistic ability, whether it be creative
writing or some form of art. It develops you in every way,” Myers
said.
For more information about the
Paws for Arts auction call Elizabeth Speed at 662-281-8888.
Associated Press
tive Terry Lanni, toured the site
Tuesday, evaluating damage and
discussing strategies for rebuilding, according to a company
statement released Wednesday.
The group also met with employees picking up their paychecks.
“Viewing the devastation is
something I will never forget,”
Lanni said in the statement.
“What has happened to this community is unimaginable, but we
are committed to our employees
and neighbors.”
Bobby Baldwin, president
and chief executive of Mirage
Resorts, said the company plans
to use as many Beau Rivage employees as possible for rebuilding efforts. The company said it
was committed to rehiring all its
employees when the resort reopens.
“While we will take the time
necessary to carefully assess the
situation, we are also dedicated
to identifying the fastest way
to rebuild and restart the Gulf
Coast economy and the lives of
our employees and their community,” Baldwin said.
More than 70 employees have
been assigned jobs working with
contractors to perform initial
restoration activities. Company
officials said 300 more positions were available and would
be filled with current employees
when possible.
MGM Mirage has invested an
estimated $800 million in Beau
Rivage. With costs for rebuilding, the company said it will
have invested more than $1 billion in the Gulf Coast region.
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Lectures feature film fest highlights
Alexis Lognion
Staff Reporter
The Brown Bag Luncheon
series continues today at noon
with two special editions held
in conjunction with the ongoing
Oxford Film Festival.
Sara Rashadʼs award-winning
short film “Tahara” will be shown
at the Isom Centerʼs luncheon
in 203 Johnson Commons. The
film, which addresses the issues
surrounding the culture of female
genital mutilation (FGM), also referred to as female circumcision,
will be followed by a discussion
moderated by Olamide Alabi.
Alabi, a coordinator of graduate admissions who works with
the Isom Center, will draw from
her own knowledge and experiences for the lecture.
“As a victim of FGM, I plan
to focus on the increasing num-
bers of victims who now live in
Europe, Canada and the United
States,” Alabi said. She also said
the number of women and girls
who are victims or potential victims of FGM now tops 168,000 in
the U.S. alone.
Of “Tahara,” Alabi said, “I
think the story offers a candid
look at the reality of FGM. It also
empowers women in practicing
cultures to understand an important choice in their life.”
The Center for the Study of
Southern Culture will feature a
preview of Darren McDanielʼs
festival entry, “The Essence of Irwin,” in the Barnard Observatory
lecture hall. This is the second
screening of the film, following
its premiere at Chicagoʼs Gene
Siskel Film Center.
The filmʼs Web site, http://
www.downrightswell.com/irwinmain.html, touts the movie as “an
THURSDAY • SEPTEMBER 8, 2005
The necessities
alleged documentary” about the
town of Irwin, Texas. McDaniel, an alumnus of the Southern
Studies program, explained the
reasoning behind this labeling in
a press release.
“Iʼm real and my bio is real,
but my only journeys to Irwin
have been on paper and while
watching the project come alive,”
he said. “My intent, however, is
to keep the audience guessing and
investigating, allowing them to
enjoy the film as ʻpossibly true.ʼ”
The film features McDanielʼs
fellow Southern Studies alumnus,
Warren Black, in the role of Officer Warren B. Diggs.
Black also collaborated on the
filmʼs original score and performed songs for the soundtrack
with his Oxford-based band, the
Circuit Riders.
Alexis Lognion can be reached
at [email protected]
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Susie Penman The Daily Mississippian
Refugees check in at the old Wal-Mart, which is now a shelter.
FRIDAY:
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THURSDAY • SEPTEMBER 8, 2005
Katrina struck some elderly hard, not over yet
Associated Press
When Katrinaʼs fury bore
down on the Gulf Coast, the old
people were the least able to run.
Some could barely walk.
Some were left in despair at
a rural Mississippi school. Others drowned in a Louisiana nursing home. The lucky ones – the
tough ones – got out. And now,
wrenched from their familiar routines, they may have a harder time
coping with the aftermath than
younger victims, experts say.
The story of older people and
Katrina does contain uplifting
sights, like the elderly woman carried off a chartered jet from Baton
Rouge by her son in San Diego
last Sunday.
But consider what happened
late last week at an underpass in
Metairie, La., when a man tried to
get his 78-year-old father, whoʼs
blind, and his 75-year-old mother,
whoʼs crippled by arthritis, onto a
bus.
“I couldnʼt get them on because
the young people, the healthy people were pushing and fighting to
get on the bus. I couldnʼt put them
in that situation,” said the man,
Bruce Barnes of New Orleans.
That happened time and again
as buses appeared, filled up, and
left. Even when a bus was set aside
for the elderly and disabled, the
workers wouldnʼt let both Barnes
and his 62-year-old aunt accompany the parents. Rather than
leave the elderly couple alone on
the bus or the aunt behind, all four
waited some more.
Finally a doctor got them onto
a helicopter to the airport, where
they boarded a plane for Austin,
Texas.
And consider Bay High School
in Bay St. Louis, Miss. It was an
unofficial shelter turned cesspool,
the sight of which Gary Turner,
Trudy Roberts and Felix Ruiz said
should be considered a crime.
The three strangers became a
rescue team of sorts when they
fled to the high school themselves
and found people in their 70s, 80s
and 90s wallowing in their own
waste on the auditorium floors.
They had been brought to the
school and abandoned, most unable to move without help.
“Rats wouldnʼt even go in
there,” said Turner, of Bay St.
Louis.
A 90-year-old woman named
Mildred told Turner she wanted
to die, but he wouldnʼt let her. He
helped her to a potty chair someone carried in, then slowly moved
her outside.
“Someone just dumped them
there,” he said angrily. “Most of
them needed to be in the hospital.”
At night, as the older people
tried to sleep, they became prey.
The younger, the stronger and the
ruthless came two nights in a row,
stealing their money and medications.
“People have no respect for the
elderly,” Turner said. “They need
to get a better plan. You canʼt put
people in here who are on oxygen,
who canʼt walk, who canʼt take
care of themselves.”
Ruiz says he went to a nearby
hospital for help but found none.
Then he went to the National
Guard. Finally, on Friday night,
someone took the older people to
what he hopes was a cleaner, safer
place.
The portable toilets arrived
then, but it was far too late.
Ruiz helped carry one of the
women to the ambulance.
“She kissed my cheek and
said, ʻThank you,ʼ” he says, tears
welling. “Thatʼs the only reason I
came back to this hell hole.”
The school is in Hancock
County, and Rich Nicorvo of
Coral Springs, Fla., says he believes the county – a largely rural
place with just 50,000 residents
– will learn from this experience.
A police captain and volunteer at
the emergency operations center
there, heʼs worked five hurricanes
and has seen horror stories like
the one at the school before.
He said itʼs unfair to blame local officials. “These poor folks
... would not have the money for
training and shelters.
They donʼt have the resources,” he said.
The story was even
grimmer just outside
New Orleans. Thirty
people died at a flooded
nursing home in Chalmette, and State Rep.
Nita Hutter said the staff
left the elderly residents
behind in their beds.
Even after older people make it to safety,
far from their destroyed
communities, their troubles may not be over.
Experts say they may
have a harder time than
younger people in dealing with being uprooted
AP Photo Michael Mulvey The Dallas Morning News
– in part because theyʼre
John
Marine
points
to
his
wife
Helen’s
forehead
as he says loving words to her
often being wrenched
Wednesday,
Sept.
7,
2005,
in
Biloxi.
The
couple
of
54 years rode out Hurricane
from the comforting
routine of neighbor- Katrina together when the storm hit the Gulf Coast last week.
hoods theyʼve lived in
for decades and maybe
and theyʼre the survivors... I sus- of New Orleans was disoriented
hadnʼt left for years.
pect the dead bodies the evacuees and in “very, very terrible” spirts,
Older evacuees do have one are describing, many of them, said her daughter.
thing in their favor, experts say. A weʼll find out were frail elderly
“One night she went to the relifetime of living may have made who couldnʼt sit in the sun for 48 stroom, and when I woke up she
them tougher.
hours.”
was walking into the wall,” Patri“I was in [Hurricane] Betsy, I
Even so, many evacuees were cia Smith said. “She couldnʼt find
was in Camille, I was in all of it. in a confused state when they first her place on the floor.”
And Iʼm still here now,” Josephine came off the buses, Dyer said,
Dr. Dan Blazer, a Duke UniBingham, 68, said on a bus taking because they couldnʼt get to their versity psychiatrist who heads the
her from New Orleans to Dallas.
medicine or they suffered from American Association for GeriTerrell Coleman, 66, of Moss medical problems such as dehy- atric Psychiatry, said the relocaPoint, Miss., was more succinct dration and infections. Many were tion Katrina has forced on people
at an outpatient medical clinic in admitted to hospitals.
is likely harder on those who are
Houston: “I grew up with hurriDyer said some older evacuees older.
canes. Iʼm used to them.”
at the Astrodome didnʼt have relaMany of these people had lived
Dr. Carmel Bitondo Dyer, a tives to help them get to food or in their homes for many years and
geriatric physician and associate the toilet, and some canʼt hear the were expecting only one more
professor of medicine at the Bay- loudspeaker announcements or move, he said. “An unexpected
lor College of Medicine, has heard see well enough to know where to move is extremely stressful for
plenty of comments like that while get their medicines.
them.”
working at the Astrodome.
Another evacuee shepherded
Linda Bertoniere, a 65-year“Some of the evacuees said to seniors into one area of the Astro- old retired restaurant manager
me, ʻI made it through two world dome so they could be together, who was sleeping on a pallet of
wars, I can make it through this.ʼ... and social workers are checking plywood at a warehouse in LouiIn some ways I think older people on the needs of those without siana last week, said she wanted
have seen a lot, have been through family. Some are being placed in to leave her demolished neighbora lot. Theyʼre more resilient,” she private homes or other kinds of hood. But she sounded resigned
said in a telephone interview this residences, according to the level about her future.
week.
of care they need, Dyer said.
“When youʼre my age,” she
Of course, she added, “the peoIn Dallas, at the Reunion Arena said, “itʼs just too hard to start
ple who made it here are tough, shelter, 74-year-old Gladys Smith over again.”
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