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Preparing for crisis GETTING STRICT ON THE SQUARE The Crisis Action Team is prepared to communicate with the Ole Miss community in case of safety hazards. The team was responsible for action during the icy conditions on Jan. 15. BY NICK ANDREWS ndandrew@go.olemiss.edu
The University of Mississippi’s Crisis Action Team (CAT) continues to increase emergency preparedness and use social media to make Ole Miss a safe campus. CAT is composed of five people on campus: Emergency Management Coordinator Jim Windham, Dean of Students Sparky Reardon, Chief of Police Calvin Sellers, Chief Communications Officer Tom Eppes and Associate Provost Noel Wilkin. This past winter intersession, the Oxford campus was faced with the “threat of ice and predicted hazardous road condi-
The City of Oxford has issued new regulations to manage parking problems on the Square, including license plate tracking cameras.
tions,” and on Jan. 15, CAT made the decision to close campus. The university responded by sending texts, emails and a tweets to inform students, faculty and staff. Classes scheduled at or after noon on that day were made up later on predetermined make-up days. According to Wilkin, these make-up days were built into the schedule in case class was canceled. “We follow the same procedures each time for winter weather, and we follow a checklist that has been developed and refined over several years,” Wilkin said. See CAT, PAGE 4
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For many students, the difference between going to college and working after high school can depend on the Federal Pell Grant Program. University of Mississippi freshman David Miller of Clinton is grateful for the program. He is the youngest of three in
a family in which the mother is the sole financial provider. Miller said he knew that if he wanted an education, he was going to have to figure out how to pay his own way. “I think I would have figured something out, but I don’t know if I’d have been able to come straight to a university,” See GRANT, PAGE 4
Oxford officials have installed improvements to the city’s existing laws to ease the Square’s ongoing parking difficulties. After discarding the paidparking system of its “Plan A,” The Downtown Parking Advisory Council decided to go with its “Plan B.” Using cameras powered by License Plate Recognition software, the newly hired Standard Parking group is charged with enforcement of the two-hour parking limit on the Square. License Plate Recognition software is a camera that records the license plate and position of a vehicle’s tires. The first time a vehicle remains parked for more than two hours, the violation is
free, and the violator will receive a letter explaining the fine process for issuing tickets. The second time a violation occurs, a $10 ticket will be served, followed by $25 for the third offense, then $50 for the fourth. The letter also relays that $10 is added with each month the ticket goes unpaid. The fifth offense, however, results in the placement of a boot on the vehicle. A $75 fee is needed to remove the boot, plus the accrued fines. Plan B also extends the hours during which the twohour limit will be in effect. The hours are now from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday. This plan is not popular with one restaurant manager.
“Parking on the Square is miserable,” said John Allgood, manager at Old Venice Pizza. “It’s miserable for my employees because they can never find a parking spot, and I think it keeps people from coming to the Square because they have a difficulty finding a spot,” Allgood said. “When they find a decent spot, they have to worry about if they have to be out of there in two hours,” he said. “That’s not necessarily a whole lot of time to shop and eat. It seems like they have to pick one or the other.” Electrical engineering junior Marcus Barnes is in favor of the parking limit during the day. “If you’re going to the See PARKING, PAGE 5
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If I wanted, I could go into a store and purchase a gun. Right now. Let me be totally clear, I have absolutely no experience holding or shooting a gun. I have had zero education on how to use a gun. I don’t even understand the most basic mechanics of a gun. But if I wanted, I could walk into a gun store and purchase one, no permit necessary. I would only need to obtain a permit if I wanted to conceal my weapon, and the permit would be laughably easy to get. I could walk into the store and tell them I want to buy a shotgun. They would run my name to see if I have any significant warrants out for my arrest, and then they would let me buy it. After the purchase, they would erase everything they just looked up from their system. I wouldn’t have to register my name or the gun I purchased with anyone. Does that scare you even a little bit? It doesn’t? How about this, then: My cousin is mentally ill. My aunt takes care of him because she can’t afford to get help. He is paranoid and believes that the government is trying to kill him. He has violent rages that he cannot control. He takes medicine, but without properly funded mental health support, it is difficult to diagnose and treat what is wrong with him. He can buy a gun. He has bought several, in fact. He hides them around his house so that, at a moment’s notice, he can grab the closest one and shoot. My cousin is nearing 40, and there is literally nothing my aunt can do to lawfully stop him from buy-
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International Education Week at Ole Miss takes place around the second week in November every year. The Ole Miss Office of International Programs hosts this event for international and American students. It welcomes all the students to experience different cultures.
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A lot of international student associations and countries represented on campus participated in the event in 2012 and had their own special ways to demonstrate their cultures. International Education Week 2012 was between Nov. 11 and Nov. 17, and each day had different topics and activities. The first day was World Fest in the Grove. Many organiza-
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tions and countries had their own display tables. At the fest, Sri Lanka’s table displayed its traditional costumes and culture; Japan’s table offered Japanese foods; Koreans used their writing brush to write non-Korean names in Korean; Egyptians provided their traditional desserts, and a beauSee CULTURE, PAGE 3
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For lawmakers, Jan. 1, 2014, is a monumental date looming in the ever-nearing future. That date is when the majority of the measures under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as many Mississippians refer to it, will take effect. Among other things, this date marks the deadline for state lawmakers to come up with their own health insurance exchange programs and have them certified and oper-
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tiful woman did Henna painting for other female visitors. On the following days, Vietnamese people provided their cuisine along with some entertainment (lion dance and fan dance), Africans had a drum and dance ensemble and Koreans provided their cuisine, along with a surprising flash mob dancing to “Gangnam Style.” The colorful international activities provided a platform for international students to demonstrate their cultures to the campus and community while enriching campus life. Interestingly, I didn’t see any Chinese activities promoting our long-standing history and rich culture — only two boards with some pictures on a display table. Calligraphy, lion dance and fan dance are all part of the Chinese culture. However, Koreans, Vietnamese and other non-Chinese cultures love, develop and expand upon different aspects of the Chinese culture more than the Chinese do. An increasing number of non-Chinese are interested in Chinese culture, so why do the majority of young Chinese not carry forth the Chinese culture? As a young Chinese woman, I also have that responsibility. Between the 1950s and 1960s, China’s Cultural Revolution ruined a lot of the traditional culture of our country. Moreover, after Deng Xiaoping’s economic reform in 1978, China’s economy was booming. However, we have paid too much attention to the economy while overlooking the culture. The discordance between the fast-growing economy and the stagnant culture allowed the cultural deformities and deprivation of our youth to increase. In my generation — although we still learn some traditional culture and history — we learn very little, considering our history goes back thousands of years.
ational, or the federal government will step in and run the show. These exchanges are to be an online marketplace offering a variety of government and other standardized health care plans, from which individuals must choose. Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney has been charged with the task of creating an exchange for Mississippi. He has been greeted with opposition on all fronts, especially from Gov. Phil Bryant. Opponents are not against Chaney’s exchange program It seems the traditional culture is only embraced by the older generation. The majority of young people only care about popular culture. This phenomenon is not only occurring in China. Cultural heritage is disappearing in the United States as well, like with traditional Delta blues. People who live in the Delta area are trying their best to revitalize the music, but the blues audience right now is composed mainly of people who are middle-aged and older. Although there are still some famous blues artists, the majority of those artists are aging. And even though blues is the origin of a lot of other music, the younger generation is more interested in its derivatives. The problem is that these traditional cultures have a hard time attracting young people and have an even harder time getting them to carry on the tradition. How do we save and carry forth these vanishing cultures? It is an important question for people from all ethnicities. These are the crystallizations of human wisdom, along with the development of human society. These are the common, valuable treasures of our society. We do not want to lose them. Wanfei Wu is a second-year graduate integrated marketing communications student from Yunnan Province, China. Follow her on Twitter @WanfeiWu.
plans for want of a better or different option; they are opposed to it fundamentally and in its entirety. They oppose “Obamacare” and will not agree to anything that is remotely linked to it. Bryant and other lawmakers have spoken out against Chaney and his work on creating an exchange for Mississippi, labeling him a “no-good socialist Obama sympathizer,” as one Clarion-Ledger columnist wrote. The bitter fighting and opposition is only hurting Mississippi. The Affordable Care
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ing guns. The fact is, almost anyone can buy a gun. The age-old arguments from gun advocates don’t make sense. In fact, the arguments we use to justify current standards aren’t used anywhere else in our lawmaking. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” is the mantra. But really, let’s apply this to almost anything else: “Crack cocaine doesn’t kill people, people kill people.” Does this mean we should legalize crack cocaine? What about black tar heroin? Because these inanimate objects don’t kill, right? Yes, there are illegal crack and heroin users, but can you imagine how many more people would feel okay buying these things if they were legalized? The law would legitimize drug usage, just as the law legitimizes gun ownership for absolutely any person, whether or not they are educated on the handling of a gun in any remote way or if they are healthy enough to use one. Another favorite is “Prohibition didn’t work.” First of all, no one in this discussion has ever suggested that guns should be totally outlawed. That’s not even
Act has been passed by Congress and ruled as constitutional by the Supreme Court. It’s law. Until it gets repealed, it must be followed. Trying to oppose it goes beyond putting the government in a stalemate; it also hurts Mississippians. If the lawmakers continue to oppose Chaney, then the federal government will have to step in with a plan of its own. An exchange will be in effect Jan. 1, 2014, whether Bryant or other lawmakers want it or not. Surely, an ex-
change plan made by Mississippi lawmakers would be much more beneficial and would address Mississippi’s needs better. It’s time to put aside the partisan bickering, accept that “Obamacare” is here and unavoidable, and buckle down and come to a solution on the task that we have been given.
on the table, so this parallel doesn’t apply. This fear that Americans won’t have their guns is actually irrational. However, if we’re going to use alcohol as an example, it doesn’t even work. There are a good number of rules attached to the sale and consumption of alcohol. You have to be 21 to purchase. In Mississippi and many other places, you cannot walk around with an open container. On Sundays, no liquor is sold. In fact, in some counties, you can’t sell liquor at all. The fact that someone, somewhere, could get a gun, regardless of if it was against the law or not, is a stupid reason not to have laws. If that were the case, we wouldn’t have any laws at all. The fact
that every single statistic indicates that more gun laws lead to less gun violence is reason enough for us to reevaluate our policies. No one uses high-capacity magazines and automatic weapons to hunt or for recreation. Sure, you could kill someone with any type of gun or any type of weapon, but the speed with which lives are taken is the variable here. If you are a mentally healthy, educated gun user, you will find a way to get a gun — it may just take a few extra steps. And if those extra steps save lives, then the harm in stricter gun control mystifies me.
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That checklist now includes Twitter alerts. The UM Emergency Twitter account sent its first tweet on Oct. 16, 2012, in response to the boil water advisory. Like January, October kept CAT busy managing campus safety. The boil water advisory went into effect after a water line broke on campus near a construction site. The next day a tornado watch was in effect in Lafayette County. In each case, the alerts were emailed,
texted and tweeted by Ole Miss. CAT is continually working to improve its preparedness for domestic and natural emergencies. An Incident Response Team (IRT) was created to handle the task of planning for emergency scenarios while developing appropriate responses. According to Wilkin, the IRT meets monthly to debrief and discuss. “We are always looking for ways to improve our preparedness and our response to campus emergencies,� he said. “We have learned from other institutions, the local emergency management administrators
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Miller said. “I would have had to work for a bit or go to a community college first.� Congress made cuts to the Federal Pell Grant Program in December 2011, and the cuts went into effect July 2012. Following these cuts, there was a decrease in enrollment in most of Mississippi’s community colleges, according to a University of Alabama study. The effects of the cuts include a limit to the number of semesters that a student can be on Pell Grants and include a decrease of the threshold income for receiving a fully-funded Pell Grant from $30,000 to $23,000. UM Financial Aid Director Laura Diven-Brown said the new regulations have not affected the number of students receiving Pell Grants at Ole Miss. During the 2011-12 school year, 5,281 students were awarded $22,158,355 in Pell Grant funding, and Diven-Brown said the Office of Financial Aid was on pace to match the number of students. She also said she did not yet have a complete number for total money received by students because students are still able to fill out the form and receive the grant. Diven-Brown said the new lifetime limit of approximately six years, or more than 190 hours, has affected some transfer students, but that she has found that students who started at Ole Miss have not had problems. “We have had issues with people who have attended multiple colleges, changed majors, did not do well or were non-traditional students,� Diven-Brown said. “A lot of them did not know that this was going to come, and they cannot change the past.� Diven-Brown said more than 700 admitted students were flagged as at, near or having exceeded these limits. Of the ones she looked at, she said many would graduate this year and never have any problems with
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Square to eat and not to party or to a bar, two hours is (a) good idea to me,” Barnes said. “But later in the day, two-hour parking isn’t enough.” Mathematics sophomore Ashton Boone expressed his favor for the parking limit. “The average person shouldn’t spend longer than two hours on the Square anyway — it shouldn’t take you three or four hours to sit down and eat a meal,” Boone said. “If there are big events hosted by organizations or some type of group, officials on the Square should extend the twohour period to meet accommodations,” he said. “But for the most part, I don’t see a problem with the two-hour limit.”
The Center for Mathematics and Science Education at The University of Mississippi received $1.2 million in funding to finance the Developing Excellence in Education through Professional Learning Communities Project. BY KAYLEIGH SKINNER kaskinne@go.olemiss.edu
The Mississippi Department of Education recently awarded funding to The University of Mississippi’s Center for Mathematics and Science Education (CMSE), which will provide opportunities for the state’s math teachers to improve their teaching skills. The new facility, located on Jackson Avenue by Malco Theater, is now another step closer to becoming a learning environment to both students and teachers. The $1.2 million grant will fund the Developing Excellence in Education through Professional (DEEP) Learning Communities Project, which is designed for math teachers who teach fourth through eighth grade. The CMSE is partnering
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with several North Mississippi schools and is accepting teachers, who will be notified in February. Participating teachers will attend a two-week summer institute in July, and they will continue their professional development through follow-up sessions later in the year. “The project aims to help teachers gain a better understanding of the Common Core State Standards in mathematics,” said Julie James, CMSE professional development coordinator.
“The purpose of the DEEP Learning Communities Project is to deepen teachers’ understanding of the mathematics they teach, as well as to support mathematics teachers within one school as they work together as a professional learning community.” CMSE director John O’Haver said he hopes the project will continue to show the positive impact professional learning communities can have on schools. “We believe that getting teachers to work openly and
effectively together to improve both pedagogy and content knowledge is a key to our state, and our nation, moving forward educationally,” he said. The CMSE submitted a proposal to the department in this past October. It was one of five projects selected for the Mathematics and Science Partnership program, according to Alice Steimle, CMSE associate director. “Our goal is to support teachers from partner schools to become collaborative professionals so that all teachers can contribute to the learning of all students,” Steimle said. The grant currently provides funding for three years. The CMSE has already partnered with schools for the 2013-14 school year but has not identified the partners for the following two years.
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Do you ever feel like we are seeing the same thing over and over again when it comes to horror movies? As a lover of horror movies, I can’t help but wonder why 90 precent of the films that have come to theaters in the past decade are remakes or sequels. “Psycho,” “Halloween,” “Friday the 13th,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “The Amityville Horror,” “The Omen,” “The Fog,” “The Shining,” “Frankenstein,” “The Grudge,” “The Last House on the Left,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “House of Wax” – any of these sound familiar? That is because all these films endured a crappy remake, and
now even “Evil Dead” is being remade. Should we be remaking these films? We keep recycling watered-down versions of classic horror films, and what does this say about our society’s creativity? Critical theorists would say that rather than trying to provoke audience interest, filmmakers only produce media that is expected; they make what sells, and we “buy” it. We, as consumers, perpetuate this lack of creativity without realizing it. We even spend money on horror movies simply to make fun of them, whether they live up to the original or not. Many horror films have multiple remakes and sequels, reproducing the same thoughts repeatedly with little variation
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No ordinary art show A viewer-inclusive art show utilizing live animals and knitting will be featured in the Powerhouse Arts Center this weekend.
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Your low-cost fun is here this weekend. For its third year, the Fiber Arts Festival will open its exhibit hall at 2 p.m. Friday in the Powerhouse. A $1 donation gets you into the exhibit hall, demonstration areas and the kids’ programs. Friday evening at 6 p.m., publisher, designer and author Shannon Okey will give a talk entitled “Knitwear as Fashion — Not Your Grandmother’s Craft Anymore.” Okey will discuss publishing and knitting. Her company, Cooperative Press, looks to feature new authors and help them bring a vibrancy to the craft. Animals are coming to town Saturday, so don’t be
surprised to see llamas, sheep, alpacas and goats in the parking lot of the Powerhouse. Inside on Saturday, angora rabbits will be on display as well. Visit the menagerie of animals and stay for the fudge, as Mississippi vendor Spoonfudge! will be also visiting. Various workshops will be held on Saturday and Sunday, and raffle drawings will take place Sunday. Fiber arts means more than knitting, and the momentum of the festival continues beyond the Powerhouse to a loom weaving class on Monday at Knit1. The class promises that students will leave with a finished product. For more information, stop by Knit1, call (662)-238-2829 or check out www.knit1oxford.com/ events.
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who portray some of the most riveting characters ever written. The masters of horror could barely afford expensive equipment to film their movies when they made their classics. The original “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” “Halloween” and “The Amityville Horror” were grainy and shaky and felt like documentaries or home mov-
ies; now it’s a commonly used technique. Much like revealing an elaborate backstory, seeing everything in perfect definition diminishes the illusion and ultimately cheapens the experience of a film. The gritty, raw aspect of a movie makes it feel possible, as if I, myself, am witnessing a murder or a kidnapping or a beating. But the hyper-real images, complex camera techniques and overelaborate deaths and stunts make the film seem fantastical, ridiculous and even laughable.
The movies may be entertaining, but, ultimately, they’re not scary. Allowing your imagination to fill in the blanks is much more terrifying than seeing everything in an obnoxious form. In this case, less is more. I reiterate: I love scary movies, and I am an enormous fan. I just think we should encourage more creative films – like “The Cabin in the Woods,” “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Zombieland” – and stop revamping films that have been done too many times.
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Rebel Netters set to host ITA kick-off weekend
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The Ole Miss men’s tennis team is tough to beat at home. They will seek to hold serve this weekend when they begin the 2013 season hosting the ITA Kick-Off Weekend Friday and Saturday at the Gillom Sports Center. This marks the beginning of the dual match season for the Rebels, who come into the weekend ranked No. 13 in the nation and boast an impressive 135-18 home record since 2000. The ITA Kick-Off Weekend serves as the first and
second rounds of the ITA National Team Indoor, played at 15 different sites around the nation. This marks the third time for the Rebels to host this event. Ole Miss will face Columbia in the first round Friday at 2 p.m. Louisville and NC State will meet at 9 a.m. Friday. The winners will play Saturday at 1 p.m. for the right to advance to the ITA National Team Indoor Final 16 in Seattle, Wash., Feb. 1518. “We’ve played Colum-
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bia a couple of times in the past, and they always have an excellent program,” head coach Billy Chadwick said. “They are a really good indoor team, so we’ll have to be at our best. We want to encourage all the Ole Miss fans to come out and help us try to advance to the Final 16.” Picked by the league coaches to win the SEC overall championship this year, the Rebels return five of the top seven from 2012, including two All-Americans in senior Jonas Lutjen and last year’s SEC Freshman of the Year, Nik Scholtz. Lutjen is ranked No. 5 in the nation in singles and Scholtz comes in at No. 30. In doubles, sophomore William Kallberg and senior Adrian Forberg Skogeng are ranked No. 25, while Lutjen and Scholtz are No. 43. Also back is junior Johan Backstrom who clinched the team’s berth in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen last year. Columbia comes into the weekend 0-1 after dropping a close 4-3 match to No. 58 BYU. The Lions are one of six Ivy League teams ranked in the ITA Top 75 coming in at No. 44. This is their second trip to Oxford for the ITA Kick-Off Weekend, as they also came here in 2010. The Lions are led by Winston Lin, the 2012 Ivy League Rookie of the Year, who is ranked No. 44 in singles. Admission to all matches for the weekend is free.
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to Rhode Island at home in late November and the other at Arkansas. In their first meeting with Ole Miss last season, the Tigers knocked Ole Miss off in double overtime, 69-68. The Rebels gave up 19 points to senior guard Frankie Sullivan, who is the Tigers’ leading scorer this season. Ole Miss ended up getting two wins over Auburn last year by winning the regularseason matchup in Oxford and a first-round game in the SEC Tournament. In the three matchups, senior guard Nick Williams averaged 16 points, sophomore point guard Jarvis Summers averaged 15 points, and senior forward Murphy Holloway averaged 14.7 points and 11.7 rebounds. The high-scoring Rebel offense could prove to be a problem for Auburn, which is 2-9 this season when allowing over 70 points. Ole Miss is averaging 81.3 points per game this season. The Tigers have three players averaging double-digit points: Sullivan with 17.2, junior guard Chris Denson with 11 and senior center Rob Chubb with 10.3. Denson has only played seven games because he was ineligible for the first seven games of the season and missed four more in January with a stress fracture in his left foot. For continuing coverage of Ole Miss men’s basketball, follow @ thedm_sports and @Tyler_RSR on Twitter.
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Marshall Henderson 28 points 6-for-15 from 3-point range 8-for-8 from free throw line
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Quote of the game “We’ll beat them 10 times out of 10.” – Marshall Henderson on Tennessee
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Diamond Rebs ranked 13th by Baseball America The Ole Miss baseball team continued to find itself in the national spotlight heading into the 2013 season as the Rebels pulled in their highest preseason ranking of the early polls when Baseball America tabbed the squad as the No. 13 team in the nation on Thursday. The preseason ranking marks the 10th time the Rebels have been ranked in the preseason in the Mike Bianco era and the ninth time in the last 10 seasons. Collegiate Baseball newspaper also had Ole Miss ranked in the top 25 when the publication released its preseason rankings back in December, as did Perfect Game earlier this week.
The Rebels are coming off a season in which the squad posted a 37-26 record and advanced to the championship game of an NCAA Regional for the sixth time in the last eight seasons. It also marks the 10th NCAA Tournament appearance for Ole Miss in the Mike Bianco era and 17th NCAA Tournament appearance all-time. The Rebels open the 2013 season on February 15 with the first game of a three-game series against No. 14 TCU at Oxford-University Stadium/ Swayze Field, setting up for an exciting weekend of college baseball as the two nationally-ranked teams face off for the third time in the last two seasons.
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WBB posts first SEC win GAINE SVILLE, Fla. – The Ole Miss women’s basketball team posted a high-energy, complete team effort in the team’s road SEC win Thursday night, downing Florida, 88-81, for acting head coach Brett Frank’s first career SEC win. With the win, Ole Miss improves to 8-11 overall (1-5 SEC) while Florida fell to 13-7 (2-4 SEC). Valencia McFarland led one of five Ole Miss players in double figures with a seasonhigh 24 points. She added 10 assists and has recorded at least five assists in nine of the last 10 games and 37 times in her career. Diara Moore added 13 points, followed by Gracie Frizzell (12), Danielle McCray (12) and Tia Faleru (12). At the half, Frizzell led the Rebels with 12 points, followed by Moore with 11 and McFarland with 10. Monique Jackson recorded a team-high seven rebounds in the first half. Ole Miss shot 51.5 percent (17-33) from the floor and 90 percent (9-10) from three-point range. In the second half, the Gators cut the Rebels’ lead to single digits, 58-49, with 16:30 left to play but Danielle McCray hit a three for Ole Miss to push the Rebels’ lead to, 61-49. Florida used a 12-3 run to cut Ole Miss’ lead to five, 6863, with 8:35 remaining in the game. The Gators cut the lead to three with 3:36 to play, but Moore recorded a steal on the next possession and found McFarland to put Ole Miss back up, 78-73, with 2:54 left. Ole Miss will travel to Starkville, Miss., to take on rival Mississippi State Sunday at 2 p.m.
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features running back Mark Dodson — a four-star prospect on Scout.com; junior college defensive tackle Lavon Hooks — the No. 1 JUCO player, according to ESPN; junior college wide receiver Quadarias Mireles — the No. 24 JUCO prospect on ESPN and tight end Christian Morgan — a four-star prospect on Scout. com. Although things are looking up for Ole Miss, all eyes fall to Feb. 6 on the calendar, when Ole Miss hopes it will be able to land a few other coveted recruits who are still undeclared. Still undeclared is the unanimous No. 1 player in the country, defensive end Robert Nkemdiche. The Loganville, Ga., native visited Florida this past weekend, according to Scout.com. As it seems to be each year, Ole Miss is in the running for another South Panola High School prospect in safety Antonio Conner, who is a five-
star prospect and the No. 2 safety in the nation, according to ESPN. This weekend will be the biggest recruiting weekend in Oxford, with 17 prospects scheduled to be in town for their official visits, according to Scout.com. Those players include three five-star players in Nkemdiche, Conner and offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil, two four-star prospects in Moore and quarterback Devante Kincade, 10 three-star players in tight ends A.J. Jackson and
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Ole Miss football recruiting Henderson catches fire, keeping gaining national attention SEC winning streak alive Junior guard Marshall Henderson led another Rebel offensive charge, as Ole Miss knocked off Tennessee 62-56 Thursday night. The Rebels will hit the road to face the Auburn Tigers on Saturday at 7 p.m., and it will be televised by FSN.
The recruiting season is in full swing with National Signing Day on Feb. 6, just a little over two weeks away. Ole Miss currently has 21 commitments, according to Scout.com, and that number could go up after this weekend, when the Rebels are hosting 17 prospects for their official visits. BY MATT SIGLER mcsigler@go.olemiss.edu
Although football season has come and gone, there are still a lot of eyes on the Ole Miss football program as National Signing Day (Feb. 6) steadily approaches. Rebel head coach Hugh Freeze is quickly putting Ole Miss in the national spotlight with the Rebels’ recruiting class, which is currently ranked as high as No. 10 in the country, according to Rivals.com. Scout.com has Ole Miss’ class at No. 13 nationally, with a total of 21 commitments. Over the past few weeks, the Rebels picked up four commitments, highlighted by wide receiver Laquon
Treadwell, who is a five-star recruit and the No. 1 wide receiver in the country, according to Rivals.com, as well as defensive end Elijah Daniel and running back Kailo Moore, who are both fourstar prospects on Scout.com. According to Scout.com, Treadwell selected Ole Miss over Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, Daniel picked the Rebels after taking a trip to Arizona State and Moore committed to Ole Miss after decommitting from Mississippi State a couple of weeks earlier. Ole Miss also announced its early signees who enrolled in school with the start of the spring semester. Nick Brassell highlighted the group that See RECRUITING, PAGE 11
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It took him a while, but junior guard Marshall Henderson finally got heated up and propelled Ole Miss (16-2, 5-0 SEC) to its eighth straight win and a 5-0 conference record, tied for the best start in conference play in Rebel history, in a 62-56 win over Tennessee (98, 1-4 SEC) in front of an announced crowd of 9,206, the third consecutive sellout for Ole Miss. Henderson was scoreless for the first 15:30 of the game. He knocked down four free throws for his only first-half points. In the second half, Henderson had two spurts. He scored 11 points in three minutes, then scored nine in a minute and a half, all of which energized the team and the fans. “One of my favorite sayings is, ‘All it takes is one.’ Sometimes, it’s just annoying how long it takes to get to that one,” Henderson said. “All I need is to see it go through the net one time.” Henderson ended with 28 points, including 6 of 15 from 3-point range, and 8 of 8 from the free-throw line. “Once he got one going, he
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made that crazy leaner,” head coach Andy Kennedy said of Henderson. “Then, he got all combustible and started knocking down shots.” Tennessee led at half, 25-18. Ole Miss was 4 of 23 from the field in the first half, 10 of 17 from the line and 0 of 8 from the three. Tennessee held a 2615 rebound advantage. The Volunteers were just 1 of 10 from three. “They had complete control of the tempo in the first half, and a lot of that is because we could never make a shot, which means we couldn’t extend on our pressure,” Kennedy said. Tennessee committed 21 turnovers, compared with just 11 by Ole Miss. The Rebels cashed in as well, with 18 points off turnovers, while Tennessee had just six. There were 53 fouls committed in the game, and both teams experienced foul trouble to their big men. Jarnell Stokes of Tennessee picked up two fouls in the first three minutes. Senior forward Murphy Holloway fouled out with just eight points and six rebounds, his lowest point total of the season. Freshman forward Terry Brutus played nine first-half minutes due to the foul trouble.
Brutus had played 28 minutes all season. Senior forward Reginald Buckner led the team in rebounding with eight, and sophomore point guard Jarvis Summers matched his season-high with seven assists. There was a lot of talk by players, fans and coaches leading up to the rematch, and most of it stemmed from Henderson’s 32-point performance in Knoxville earlier this year. “We still feel like we’re a little disrespected,” Henderson said. “That’s why we think Tennessee was talking so much, because they’re Tennessee and we’re Ole Miss.” Rebels face Auburn Saturday Ole Miss will have a short turnaround, as it will travel to take on the Auburn Tigers (810, 2-3 SEC) on Saturday at 7 p.m. It is the only time in conference play that Ole Miss will have just one day to rest. After starting conference play with two wins over LSU and South Carolina, Auburn has dropped three straight games. The Tigers are 8-10 overall and have dropped two games in double overtime, one See REBS, PAGE 10