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Sigma Nu Columns Society is more than ‘just a uniform’ violates university hazing policies BY HOUSTON BROCK jhbrock129@gmail.com
The Sigma Nu fraternity at the University of Mississippi is guilty of violating the university’s and fraternity’s hazing policies, as confirmed by the dean of students and the Sigma Nu national chapter. The violations occurred this past winter break, soon after the fraternity’s previous probation period ended. Associate Dean of Students Melinda Pullen Carlson declined to comment on what the sanctions consisted of until the appeals process is complete. Sigma Nu has until today to appeal the undisclosed sanctions that the university has placed on it. Executive director of Sigma Nu Brad Beacham confirmed that due to inappropriate pledge activities in late January, the chapter was investigated by both the university and the General Fraternity, also known as nationals. Over the past three weeks, they have worked together to compile as much information as they can on the situation. The chapter’s local alumni and General Fraternity presented their own plan of action to the university’s judicial council, which was ratified. Two more undisclosed sanctions were added to their punishment. Both the state and the university have strict hazing rules. The university hazing policy states that any students or organizations found guilty of hazing can face criminal prosecution and/or civil liability, and the state defines hazing as intentionally or recklessly engaging in any conduct which creates a substantial risk of physical injury to another person. Breaking state hazing laws carries up to $2,000 in fines and up to six months in jail. The dean of students is still awaiting a Sigma Nu appeal and will reveal further information upon its decision. The fraternity is just off probation from a previous alcohol-related hazing violation that occurred in Spring 2012.
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Public policy leadership senior Marianna Breland being inducted into the Columns Society.
BY KELLS JOHNSON krjohns2@olemiss.edu
Aside from working the skybox at a football game or ushering at the freshman convocation, the University of Mississippi Columns Soci-
ety has a lot on its plate. The Columns Society is an organization composed of 12 men and 12 women who work as hosts and hostesses for the faculty, student body, alumni and prestige of the university. Ole Miss sanctioned this
elite organization four years ago for the 2008 presidential debate that was held on the campus. In order to be a member of this society, a student must display certain qualities or characteristics that promote
the university’s image and uphold its noble creed. “A resume doesn’t matter,” said Marianna Breland, public policy senior and president of the Columns Society. “We look at the heart when it comes to selecting our new members. Columns needs people who actually care about an individual’s first impression of the university — people who are passionate about Ole Miss.” Like a few other organizations, getting into the Columns Society is an extremely selective process. “Members of the Columns Society possess the talents of leadership, communication skills, humility and service,” said Ellison Brown, biochemistry senior and current Columns Society member. “The society is a powerful way to get involved on and off campus and could possibly open doors for networking.” Becoming a member of the Columns Society seems See COLUMNS, PAGE 4
Big attendance at Ford Center for “The Color Purple” BY Charles Hale Robinson charleshalerobinson@gmail.com
More than 800 people were in attendance at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Mississippi to take part in the third national tour of the Broadway musical “The Color Purple” on Sunday. “This is definitely one of the better-attended shows,” said Jonathan Whitmire, front-of-the-house manager of the Ford Center. “And it’s just a large show in general with the number of trucks, the set and the costumes. So it’s one of the bigger shows of the season for sure.” The musical adaptation of “The Color Purple” has been nominated for 11 Tony Awards and was based on both the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the film directed by Steven Spielberg, which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards. On its third national tour, the group now has the opportunity to lower costs and play smaller venues such as Oxford, according to Michael Heitzler, merchandise manager of “The Color Purple.” “That’s part of the glory in making it small enough to go places like Oxford because
typically these audiences would never see a show this size or caliber,” Heitzler said. “So it’s been a blessing and quite a journey. We’ve played everywhere from the biggest markets in the country to the smallest towns in the country that you’ve never even heard of.” Heitzler said the quality of the performance has not been affected by downsizing. “I think that this particular production company has done a stellar job of maintaining the artistic integrity,” he said. “Therefore, the performers, in my personal opinion, are just as astounding as they were on Broadway or in the first national tour.” Nathan Ford, a sophomore musical theater major, said he was exposed to a story that he otherwise may not have been. “I actually hadn’t read the book, seen the movie or anything like that, so it was fun for me to see a musical (of which) I was learning the story as it went along,” he said. After performing a lead role in the Ole Miss production of “R.E.N.T.” this past fall, Ford said he was able to sit in the audience with a different perspective. “It’s amazing to see their ability to project the kind
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Photos from the production the third U.S. tour of “The Color Purple.” “The Color Purple” was performed at the Gertrude C. Ford Center on Sunday to a crowd of more than 800.
of energy it takes to fill up a room like the Ford Center,” he said. “And to know that I was up there attempting to do that — I just wonder what the audience saw, because I
know I wasn’t that good.” For information about future events at the Ford Center, call 662-915-2787 or send an email to fordcent@ olemiss.edu.
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Importance of inward thinking
BY ADAM GANUCHEAU aganucheau24 @gmail.com
As members of the Ole Miss family, we have a special mindset. We have certain standards for who we welcome into our family. A stroll through the Grove on a Saturday in the fall will prove that: beautiful women in colorful sundresses, gentlemen in sports coats and old men in sweater vests. Other than those types of people, there isn’t much room for outsiders. This concept saddens and frightens me, but it is how we have done it in Oxford for as long as anyone can remember. I think it’s time for a change. To me, this change is so necessary to the good of our university — even more so than Colonel Reb, “From Dixie With Love” or Dixie flags. The university as a whole needs to start appealing to more than just the prototypical prepster from
out of state. As much as it pains me to compare Ole Miss to Mississippi State in any fashion, I have to do it in this context. The “School Beneath Us” takes pride in calling itself “The People’s University.” They welcome every single Mississippian with open arms, regardless of how they dress, what fraternity they were in or what their last name is. At this given point in time, if I were to give Ole Miss a suitable nickname, it would be “The University of Southern Suburbia.” How many students do you know from Houston, Dallas, Nashville or Atlanta? Not that those people are bad, but we need to shift our focus inward to the state of Mississippi be-
fore we continue to go outward to other states. We have lost all focus on the state of Mississippi, which bothers me greatly, considering that our name is the University of Mississippi. Not only do our admissions department and administration need to wake up and realize this, so does our family. We have started to take the proper steps. Chancellor Dan Jones understands what I am talking about. I think the admissions department is starting to understand what I’m talking about, too. Mississippi State’s trashy billboards along every major highway in Mississippi show them what I’m talking about every single day. What we need to do as a family is open up and show the same hospitality to outsiders that we show to
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the insiders. Don’t ignore people in the Grove who are a little different from us. And for goodness’ sake, be proud of your state and embrace the people in it. We are the flagship university in the state of Mississippi. We just need a little more work on the “Mississippi” part. I envision a Grove where people of all socioeconomic classes, ethnic backgrounds and ages are in one big tent. Also inside the tent is a respectable ratio of Mississippians to outof-staters. On top of the tent is the word “Flagship.” We know what we need to do — let’s make it happen. Adam Ganucheau is a sophomore journalism major from Hazlehurst. Follow him on Twitter @GanucheauAdam.
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Valentine’s Day in retrospect
BY ALEC JONES jonesalexander18@gmail.com
There’s a good reason a lot of romantic comedies somehow involve Valentine’s Day. Whether people describe their situation as single, engaged, in a relationship or “it’s complicated,” the way most people treat the holiday is a little entertaining. Don’t get me wrong, V-Day is great, and for a lot of reasons. First of all, Valentine’s Day doesn’t discriminate based upon your religion — everybody is welcome to celebrate. Then there’s the fact that basically nothing exciting happens in the entire month of February; New Year’s Eve
is long gone, the temperature still hasn’t warmed up, the NFL season ends and the NBA doesn’t even get interesting until the playoffs. Valentine’s Day isn’t bad for the economy, either. How else are you going to coax hordes of guys into movie theaters to watch “The Vow,” anyway? There couldn’t be a worse time for this holiday to occur, however. As a rule of thumb, most relationships tend to start when the weather gets warm. By summertime they will have become official, and by the time the weather gets chilly again, people either stay together or break up after seeing the other person’s family at Thanksgiving. You have two polarized groups by February — the disenfranchised single people and the ones in serious relationships. Valentine’s Day does a pretty good job at dividing people
just as much as it does bringing them together. But by making the day something more than what it is — just another day — neither side makes the situation any better. If it’s not big enough to be the kind of holiday where you get out of work or an exam, it automatically doesn’t deserve any hype. Plenty of single people out there make a concerted effort to talk about Singles Awareness Day and try to use the phrase, “It’s just another marketing holiday,” as much as possible. Save the attitude. If people get distraught for simply being single on the wrong day of the year, they actually might be better off staying so until they’ve resolved their dependency issues. Going overboard for Valentine’s Day is just as ludicrous, however. Waiting for a special day of the year to give it your all in a relationship isn’t the
right approach. If you’re with somebody, you should definitely get as much out of the day as possible, but that’s not an excuse to let it get to your head. An overwhelming amount of girls essentially make Valentine’s Day into a giant contest with each other. Likewise, plenty of guys lack the imagination to understand that every other guy is doing the same exact thing by making a big deal out of Valentine’s Day. So much for trying to stand out from the crowd, buddy. When single people criticize it for being a Hallmark holiday, they can be a little hypocritical. Being in a relationship and listening to what “Cosmopolitan” and the people who make the commercials for Zale’s tell you is equally ridiculous. That’s just the price we pay when society tries to make love into a holiday; however, we forget why we’re even celebrating it and
turn it into some ritual. Think about it. We invent Santa Claus for Christmas. For Easter we have a giant rabbit. On Thanksgiving we pretend that the colonists got along well with the Native Americans, and then we binge instead of being grateful. Putting Valentine’s Day on a pedestal and expecting it to be magical isn’t helpful for a relationship or for creating one. The best thing to do is just be realistic about the day and save all the effort for the genuine experiences in life and relationships. You’ll appreciate it a lot more that way. Plus, either your single friends won’t give you a hard a time about it, or you’ll be happy until you eventually find somebody as levelheaded as yourself. Alec Jones is a junior accountancy major from Catonsville, Md. “Like” him at facebook.com/thealecjones.
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Since Twitter’s creation in 2006, the website has been a hub of unrestricted news. Now, six years later, Twitter has announced a new censorship policy that could once again change freedom of expression on the Internet. Simply put, Twitter’s new censorship policy will allow the removal of tweets on a countryby-country basis. When a government orders that a post be taken down, the post will be replaced by a statement saying, “This tweet from @username has been withheld in: Country.” However, the post will remain visible to users in all other countries where no such order was issued. Twitter is also partnering with
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UM pharmacy faculty member wins AACP New Investigator Award BY LEAH CAYSON lecayson@gmail.com
The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy recently announced that a University of Mississippi faculty member is among 18 recipients of the New Investigator Award. Rahul Khanna, assistant professor of pharmacy administration and assistant professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, will use the award to study the relationship between the health and well-being of caregivers of autistic children and the emotional and physical stress they experience. “I feel really fortunate and excited to be selected for this award, especially since they are so competitive,” Khanna said. “This is a national award, and there is a lot of prestige associated with it.” Khanna applied for the same award last year but fell short of the selective process. “Thanks to the support and encouragement I received from our department chair, Dr. Donna West-Strum, and other colleagues, I applied for this award with a new research proposal,” he said. Khanna has already started working on the project associated with the award. This is a one-year award that goes until the end of this year and also includes the submission of a mid-year progress report. “Since there are several steps involved in this project, I have set up weekly deadlines for myself to accomplish them,” he said. “I want to make sure that I submit a qual-
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Pharmacy professor Rahul Khanna talks with graduate research assistant Krutika Jariwala. Khanna won the AACP New Investigator Award, which provides start-up funds for new pharmacy school faculty.
ity report, which is in line with the expectations for this award.” Finding the time for research and teaching is no problem for Khanna, who said the two complement each other. “The beauty of working in academia is that each day is different and brings different sets of opportunities for work and learning,” he said. Some of his days are devoted completely toward working on his teaching lectures, while other days
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he concentrates on his research. When Khanna isn’t planning lectures or working on research, he keeps an open-door policy for students. “I believe teaching to be a continuous process, which goes beyond the confines of a classroom,” he said. Not only is Khanna devoted to making sure his students learn, but he is also generally involved in more than one research project at a given time. Khanna said he tries to structure his days accordingly so that he can give appropriate time to each project at hand. To stay organized, Khanna said he prefers to set up weekly meetings with his research team in order to make continuous progress and address issues in a timely manner. Besides teaching and research, Khanna is involved in service activities, which generally involve being part of departmental and
school committees, reviewing manuscripts and reviewing conference presentation abstracts. Amid his hectic schedule, Khanna said he manages to find down time to enjoy himself. “When not working, I try to catch up on television shows, watch a game or maybe go out for dinner with my friends,” he said. “I also like playing basketball and tennis, which helps me keep an active routine.” Khanna’s full schedule is reflective of his devotion to teaching and research. “We are very proud of Dr. Khanna,” said Donna WestStrum, chair of pharmacy administration. “He is a talented young investigator with lots of potential, as indicated by the competitive nature of the AACP award program. We look forward to collaborating with him as he continues to develop his scientific career.”
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tough, but staying in seems even more challenging. Because the organization is so professional, members are expected to follow a strict dress code and are expected to be very punctual. Besides the fact that the Columns Society is relatively new and many do not know much about it, students wonder if the society has certain secrets. Moreover, some rumors even say the society chooses its members by favoritism. “We’re not a secret society or anything like that, but we are very close,” Breland said. “The Columns Society shares a close bond because we all made a pledge of commitment, service, integrity and to give our humble hearts to this organization. We are also very diverse — black, white, pharmacy majors, public policy majors, extremely involved and not that involved.” Lauren Wright, a junior public policy major and Columns Society member, said she believes that if the Columns Society has secrecy, it’s only because of the organization’s protocol. “Columns stresses professionalism,” she said. “When it comes to admission into the organization, we’re not going to let anyone know that they are a member before they are supposed to.” In order to be a member, a student must have at least a 2.75 GPA, be in good judicial standing with the university, successfully complete the application and undergo two intense interviewing processes. Schools such as the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama have organizations similar to the Columns Society, and Ole Miss hopes to network with them in the future.
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Rifle sets its sights on first NCAA Championships since ‘06 BY Jake Thompson
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Kentucky becomes the epicenter of the Ole Miss athletics universe this weekend. The men’s basketball team is set to play No. 1 Kentucky Saturday afternoon at Rupp Arena in downtown Lexington with hopes of improving their NCAA Tournament chances, and the Ole Miss women’s rifle team will compete in the NCAA Qualifiers back on Kentucky’s campus. “I feel pretty good going in,” head coach Valerie Boothe said. “The team has been training really well. All they have to do is just keep doing what they have been doing and nothing extra, and I think they’ll have a good weekend.” The team is coming off a big win against the University of Memphis on Feb. 1 and looks to carry that momentum into Lexington Saturday. “That was a big confidence booster,” sophomore Alvia Yeager said. “In that match, everyone came together after all the hard work we have been doing.” The NCAA Qualifiers count as only 50 percent of the over-
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“It is a home game against a top25 team in Vandy. It is a must-win for us.” Williams said he believes the team is more aware of the computer numbers and how they relate to reaching the NCAA Tournament. “I think every game from this point on is a must-win, but it is what it is,” he said. “In past years, we probably wouldn’t have looked
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all score used to determine if teams will make the NCAA Championships. The score from the qualifying match will be averaged with the average of the Rebels’ three highest marks of the season. The eight teams in the nation with the highest overall scores will then advance to the NCAA Championships March 9-10 in Columbus, Ohio. Ole Miss is currently ranked eighth in the nation with an overall average of 4,651.67. While the championship selections are not until next week, Boothe said she believes all the at the numbers. This year we are looking at it trying to soak everything in to help us get informed to know what we’ve got to do.” Williams is confident that this year’s team is NCAA Tournament worthy. “I know we are a tournament team,” he said. “We just have to play to our potential, stop being so inconsistent and keep going at it every day the same, and I think we will make it if we continue doing that.” Ole Miss hosts Vanderbilt at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Tad Smith Coliseum.
coaches will have a pretty good idea of where their respective teams will stand after the qualifiers Saturday. Ole Miss has not made the NCAA Championships since 2006 and Boothe, who has been the only coach in the rifle team’s 16-year history, said she is not letting that pressure get to her or the team. “We treat every year different and every year that is the goal,” Boothe said. “This team is not held to probably the same standards as the 2006 team, but I think they are just as good ath-
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Ole Miss head football coach Hugh Freeze has completed his first full-time staff with the Rebels with the addition of Corey Batoon as assistant athletics director for player development and Tyler Siskey as coordinator of recruiting development. Batoon arrives in Oxford after three seasons as an assistant coach at Arkansas State, where he coached cornerbacks, safeties and special teams during his PHOTO COURTESY OLE MISS SPORTS INFORMATION tenure and worked with Freeze letes. They are just doing the in 2010 and 2011. Another former ASU staff best they can to get there.” The NCAA Qualifiers are an member with Freeze, Siskey all day event and will be held at spent the past four seasons as Barker Hall on the University of the Red Wolves’ wide receivers coach. Kentucky campus.
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Bubble Watch: Rebels face must-win against Vanderbilt Thursday BY David Henson dahenson@olemiss.edu
In the hopes of winning a big victory at home, the Ole Miss men’s basketball team will hit the court Thursday night against the Vanderbilt Commodores. The Rebels enter Thursday’s game with a 15-9 overall record and 5-5 in Southeastern Conference play with six regular-season games and the SEC Tournament left to play this season. As of Wednesday, Ole Miss ranks 50th in the Ratings Percentage
Index (RPI) and 48th in strength of schedule (SOS). The Rebels also have two top-50 RPI wins against Miami (35) and Mississippi State (44). With that resume, Ole Miss is currently the epitome of a NCAA Tournament bubble team. For the past several weeks, bracketologists and other college basketball writers and analysts have been busy updating their brackets for the NCAA Tournament ahead of Selection Sunday on March 11, when the field of 68 will be revealed.
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Andy Glockner from “Sports Illustrated” has the Rebels “in the mix” for a tournament bid. “Splitting weeks is not going to do it most weeks with this profile, but the Rebels may take a split this week when they host Vanderbilt and then travel to Kentucky,” Glockner wrote in Tuesday’s Bubble Watch. Chris Dobbertean from SB Nation had Ole Miss as the fifth team out of the tournament in his Monday bracket. Jerry Palm from CBS Sports released his latest bracket Tuesday, and Ole Miss was one of his first four teams out of the tournament as the second listed team. From ESPN, Joe Lunardi did not include Ole Miss on any of his tournament listings in his Monday bracket, and Eamonn Brennan did not mention the Rebels in his Bubble Watch Tuesday. Lunardi said in an interview this past week that Ole Miss needs to get to 10 or 11 conference wins to feel confident abut the NCAA Tournament. He also said the Rebels will likely remain on the edge of the bubble unless the Rebels string wins together, which means defending their home court against teams like Vanderbilt. “I think the minimum is probably 10 (conference wins) to feel confident, and then, depending on the draw, you certainly don’t want to lose to a lesser team in the conference tournament,” Lunardi said in an interview this past week. “If they get to 10 (wins), they might not need to win an ‘up’ game, they might just need to avoid losing a ‘down’ game. They
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Ole Miss celebrates after this past Saturday’s 61-54 win against Auburn. The Rebels are 15-9 overall and 5-5 in SEC play, and rank 50th and 48th, respectively, in the Rating Percentage Index and strength of schedule.
would have a hard time getting to derstand the significance of each 10 (wins) without beating two or remaining game. three pretty good teams. They got “We realize our opportunities to get a couple more scalps.” are becoming more limited,” he Junior guard Nick Williams said said. “The players understand the the team knows the situation it is significance of the game based in and is ready to face it. on the fact that we only have six “We have had our backs against games left with three of them on the wall since (the) season started,” the road, where statistics have he said. “We can’t run from it. We shown it’s harder to win, so you have just got to embrace the grind better win at home.” and that is what we have been doThe players agree that Thursing — just embracing what we day’s game against Vanderbilt is have got to do, and either we are a must-win. going to do it or not.” “I go into every game sayWhile the Rebels say they go ing it is a must-win, but there is into every game as a must-win, no doubt about this one,” senior Ole Miss head coach Andy Ken- forward Terrance Henry said. nedy said his players realize the season is winding down and un- See BUBBLE, PAGE 5