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The University of Mississippi Athletics Department has announced that commuter parking lots will be cleared on football game days for members of the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation to park instead. Students who are parked in commuter lots on game days will be towed unless they have a parking pass through the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation. Parking on curbs and sidewalks will also no longer be allowed. The decision process to change the parking on game days started last fall prior to football season, according to Dan O’Dowd, assistant ANNA BRIGANCE | The Daily Mississippian
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FILE PHOTO (QUENTIN WINSTINE) | The Daily Mississippian
“Homegrown, Homemade, Hometown” will be the slogan for the new Oxford City Market, which will open on April 30. The farmers market will run from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. each Tuesday. The organizers want to make the market a bi-weekly event with another day closer to the weekend, perhaps Friday. “We want to avoid clashing with other local markets in the area while providing local
farmers as many opportunities to make as much money as possible,” the market’s representative said at the meeting. All produce providers will be inspected prior to the first market to make ensure the growers are indeed selling what they claim to be producing. Also, claims of organic food will first need to be verified by the state of Mississippi, and all claims of pesticide-free food will need to be verified prior to the first market.
O.U.T. Buses extend routes this fall
A walking challenge: ‘The Amazing Pace’ Tracking the distance covered when walking around campus is now easier with the installation of distance markers that have been placed along common routes.
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The Retreat at Oxford and the Hub at Oxford student living complexes will be serviced by the Oxford University Transit line this fall. The board unanimously passed a proposal to extend the route along An-
derson Road to run past the new living complexes. “Originally we thought this might cost us some money, but they’re both agreeing to subsidize it themselves,” Mayor Pat Patterson said.
Falkner Flats’ building plans change THOMAS GRANING | The Daily Mississippian
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Distance markers were installed on common paths on campus over spring break to encourage University of Mississippi students to get active. Andrea Jekabsons, assistant director of employment and training in the department of human resources, explained the university’s move.
“If they can’t do the mile marker in between classes or while on campus, then it is a reminder to find time to walk,” Jekabsons said. Beginning outside Peabody Hall, two paths circle campus. The blue path requires a 15-minute walk, and the red takes only 10 minutes to complete. Together, the paths total 1.25 miles. Classics senior Gabby Cog-
gin said she thinks the path markers are a positive move. “It’s going to be really helpful to know how far I have run now and pace myself and possibly hit a different goal the next time around,” Coggin said. Chancellor Dan Jones will walk the newly defined paths to celebrate National Walking Day with members of the Oxford-University community at 10 a.m. on April 3.
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A proposal to change the original building plan for the Falkner Flats housing project on Old Taylor Road passed by a vote of 5-2 Tuesday night. The proposal changed the original plan from a dorm style of living to the more conventional look of a house, complete with a garage.
Ward III Board of Aldermen member Janice Antonow opposed the bill, citing concerns about traffic congestion and lack of commercial development. Falkner Flats is operating under a planned unit development plan, one that allows for and encourages commercial development on the property.