The Daily Mississippian – March 18, 2014

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

The Daily

Mississippian

Vol. 102, No. 104

The Student Newspaper of The University Of Mississippi | Serving Ole Miss and Oxford since 1911

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CLARA TURNAGE | The Daily Mississippian

Ole Miss student Daniel Myrick retrieves a ticket from his car in the East Coliseum lot on the Ole Miss campus in Oxford Monday. The lot, which has long been a commuter parking lot, changed to a faculty and staff parking lot Monday due to construction on other parts of campus.

Ole Miss alumni and college admissions counselors Stephen Nelson and Jason Welch recently launched The Good South. Both Mississippi natives, Nelson and Welch have opened the Mississippi-operated online retailer with the hopes of sharing “Southern lifestyle clothing with a mission to support students pursuing higher education,” according to the company’s mission statement. Welch said that the pair were inspired to launch the brand by their experiences both as admissions counselors and consumers. “Through our jobs as admission counselors for the university, we have had the opportunity to travel together for work and have discovered See SOUTH, PAGE 5

Fourth annual Big Event to be held Saturday BY SARA ROGERS sbrogers@go.olemiss.edu

The University of Mississippi will host the fourth annual Big Event this Saturday. The Big Event consists of about 150 different service projects directed by University of Mississippi students who work in groups to complete each project. Eric Villarreal, co-director of volunteer recruitment and senior biochemistry major, is confident that the day of service is worth volunteers’ time. “There is no better day of the year to go out and serve others, as others have served us,” Villarreal said. “I promise that you will have such a good experience

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from the beginning to the end. Plus, breakfast is served that morning, and everyone loves a free breakfast.” Ole Miss students created a Big Event committee in Oxford in 2010 after seeing a similar service day at Texas A&M. Although still fairly new on campus, the service day has had much success in the past and is predicted to have even more this year. Sophomore exercise science major Lauren Malone said she thinks the Big Event is a fulfilling experience. “I was able to give back to our community while having a lot of fun,” Malone said. “It really seemed to bring students togeth-

er for a great cause. I’m excited for Saturday.” According to Kristin Volker, Big Event director and senior management major, one team leader heads each group. These leaders will be trained at sessions this week in preparation for the event. After training, the leaders will notify their group members regarding details about Saturday. Through March 3, any Oxford-Lafayette resident could register a project online, ranging from cleaning out a garage to sprucing up a lawn. The project was then approved to be an official Big Event service project for one of the teams to complete Saturday.

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“We are still building and still getting our name out there, but we have had great success,” Volker said.

Volunteers will meet in the Tad Pad before beginning their projects. The projects will last from 7 a.m. to noon.

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