Monday, March 17, 2014
The Daily
Mississippian
Vol. 102, No. 103
The Student Newspaper of The University Of Mississippi | Serving Ole Miss and Oxford since 1911
New construction phase prompts parking changes BY CATY CAMBRON thedmnews@gmail.com
The second phase of campus construction for a new parking garage and basketball stadium began Saturday, March 8. The second phase of construction will mean several changes to parking around and near the construction of both campus facilities. The five-story parking garage is expected to add 825 parking spots and be completed by fall 2014. The basketball stadium is expected to be completed in early 2016 and will include a food court and academic areas. The first phase of the construction that began in December closed 163 parking spots around the construction site. A total of 443 commuter and 112 faculty-staff parking spots are expected to be eliminated during the second phase of construction. When construction is completed, there will be almost 400 more parking spaces on campus than before, according to parking services. While the work on both of these amenities could be affected and delayed by weather,
the phase two parking changes could be in effect until early 2016. STUDENTS: One of the commuter parking lots that contains 153 spaces near the current basketball arena is now classified as a faculty-staff parking lot and will reopen as a commuter lot once the parking garage is completed in the fall 2014 semester. The parking lot west of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium is closed to both commuters and faculty-staff. Hill Drive and its intersection with All-American Drive will be closed until the fall 2014 semester. This road is currently being straightened. One hundred additional commuter parking spaces around this area are closed and being used to park the construction equipment. These 100 parking spaces will reopen in early 2016. FACULTY: A 153-space lot has been reclassified as faculty-staff parking. The parking lot west of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium is closed to both faculty-staff
Orange indicates lots now classified as faculty and staff parking Red and blue are areas and lots closed for the construction on campus Pink indicates parking lots that are now open to anyone with a commuter, facultystaff or residential hangtags. Not pictured is the Jackson Avenue Center lot. Graphic by The Daily Mississippian
and commuters. The faculty-staff Turner Center parking lot is closed due to construction on AllAmerican and Hill Drive. A portion of these spots will reopen once construction on Hill Drive is completed.
According to parking services, there are 272 parking spots in the lot behind the Ole Miss track facility. Anyone with a faculty-staff, commuter or residential hangtag is allowed to park there. The Park & Ride express shuttle will now be
picking up drivers in the north end of this parking lot. Anyone with a commuter or faculty-staff hangtag is now allowed to park in the Park & Ride lots (South Lot and Jackson Avenue Center lot).
Suspects in McClendon shooting indicted on capital murder charges BY CATY CAMBRON thedmnews@gmail.com
A Lafayette County grand jury indicted three former Ole Miss students on capital murder charges in connection to the the Dec. 18, 2013, shooting of first-year MBA student Zach McClendon, 25, of Gulfport. According to circuit court documents, the grand jury filed the indictment charges against Derick Boone, Joseph Lyons and Steven Wilbanks on Feb. 19, 2014. Boone, 23, of Laurel, Jo-
OPINION:
seph Lyons, 20, of Houston and Wilbanks, 22, of North Carolina, were arrested and charged with capital murder shortly after the shooting. At the time of the incident, both Wilbanks and Boone were enrolled in school at The University of Mississippi; Lyons was a former student. The three men also lived next door to McClendon. The Lafayette County Sheriff ’s Department found McClendon’s body just after 3 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, after responding to a
welfare concern call at an apartment in the College Hill community. McClendon was found with a single gunshot wound. The three suspects stole three textbooks and McClendon’s car. Video surveillance from a nearby gas station of where they parked the SUV allowed authorities to identify the three men, according to authorities. As of now, Boone, Lyons and Wilbanks are being held without bond in the Lafayette County jail.
Ole Miss picks up win, drops series to South Carolina
Bill Maher on Rand Paul
IGNACIO MURILLO | The Daily Mississippian
Ole Miss knocked out of SEC tourney, misses postseason Anthony Perez and LaDarius White react during the final seconds of the game against Georgia in the quarterfinal round of the SEC tournament in Atlanta on Friday. Georgia won 75-73 to eliminate Ole Miss. See page 7 for a tournament recap.
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