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Board of Aldermen decides fate of new farmer’s market Report:

BY BRACEY HARRIS braceyharris@gmail.com

After more than 45 minutes of discussion, the Oxford Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to approve a modified grant for the new farmer’s market Tuesday night.

Mayor Pat Patterson began by acknowledging that the meeting was not a public hearing and public comments would not be taken. He also asked Lynn Wilkins, the city grant writer, to explain where the city was in terms of the grant.

Wilkins said a citizen’s group was interested in a new market and invited him and the Oxford Park Commission to be a part of it at the same time she found a grant for a farmer’s market.

“The timing was close to a deadline so we decided to submit,” Wilkins said. “The market is designed to reach low-income families and farmers not currently being served. It’s meant to be an addition.”

The city has the remainder of spring to work with the USDA to modify the timeline, but Wilkins said the money must be spent by

May in order to keep the grant, even if it’s just a trashcan.

The grant would pay $50,000 over two years to a part-time manager for the market. Several aldermen, as well as Patterson, raised concerns about the amount.

Alderman John Morgan asked if it would be possible to cut down the salary and put it toward other needs such as structural costs. Alderman Ney Williams suggested using a share for tables and other needs the new farmer’s market might have.

Patterson also acknowledged that the numbers and the salary seemed pretty expensive.

“Everybody’s for a farmer’s market; how we get there is the question,” Alderman E.O. Oliver said. “There’s been some major issues brought up, and we haven’t addressed them.”

Oliver asked whether the city had included Mid-Town in discussions and whether or not taxpayers objected. He also argued that all options had not been explored, particularly the new market’s location.

“I think it’s a work in progress, and we don’t have all the an-

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The board of aldermen discusses a USDA grant for the new farmer’s market Tuesday evening at city hall.

swers, but we need to take a step forward,” Patterson said.

Patterson allowed one person in attendance to speak against the grant.

Anne McCullough, a vendor at Mid-Town, stepped forward to argue that neither Mid-Town nor the Board of Aldermen had been treated fairly, as they seemed to be under the impression that money would be spent

on construction. McCullough listed issues with parking, drainage and a possible liability to the city, and she also said the city would not be prevented from receiving another grant if they were rejected.

McCullough mentioned a meeting between Kay Cobb of the Oxford Tea Party and PatSee MARKET, PAGE 4

Mississippi booksellers: ‘books are here to stay’

BY Jennifer Nassar jennifernassar2@gmail.com

Four of Mississippi’s most esteemed booksellers discussed their management situations and plans for surviving the competition of other bookstores and technology at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics at the University of Mississippi yesterday.

Moderator and Overby fellow Bill Rose described bookstores as “traditionally good friends to the community” as he introduced Richard Howorth, owner of Square Books, Jamie Kornegay, of TurnRow Book Company in See BOOKSELLERS, PAGE 5

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Western Kentucky Athletics Director Ross Bjork is expected to be named the next Ole Miss athletics director, RebelGrove. com is reporting. According to the Rivals.com affiliate, Bjork has called his coaches off the road and back to Bowling Green, Ky., to tell them of the intention to take the same position at Ole Miss.

Bjork was hired in 2010 as the athletics director at Western Kentucky. At the age of 39, he is currently the youngest athletics director of the 120 NCAA FBS programs. He hired a new baseball coach this past July and oversaw major facility upgrades for the school’s tennis and track and field program with the groundbreaking expected this summer. He retained football coach Willie Taggart after a 2-10 season in 2010, and the football team finished 7-5 this past season. He fired basketball coach Ken McDonald in January after a 5-11 start and gave assistant Ray Harper the interim head coaching job. After he removed the interim tag from his title on Feb. 18, Harper led the Hilltoppers to the conference tourna-

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A group of independent bookstore owners discuss the industry with Overby fellow Bill Rose (center) Tuesday morning.

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Change we should believe in

BY Adam Ganucheau aganucheau24@ gmail.com

Ole Miss has been fond of changes lately. Criticism came after banning Colonel Reb, “From Dixie With Love” and the Rebel flags in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Ask any committee member from a historical preservation board or something like it: people do not react well to change.

In general, change is something mankind will probably never learn to fully accept — at least immediately.

But I have a suggestion for a change at Ole Miss that everyone would accept right away. It’s something this university needs in more ways than one: a parking garage.

This is not the ordinary parking column that makes false complaints.

This is a column that is using facts to call out the administration and Parking Services. This is also a column to you, the students, urging you not to sit back and accept our ter-

rible parking situation any longer.

Earlier this year, Ole Miss students received an email from Parking Services explaining that the Ford Center parking lot had been closed to commuter drivers. Less than a month later, the lower commuter lot on Gertrude Ford Boulevard was closed to commuter drivers for construction. This past week, one side of Old Taylor Road was blocked off to commuter drivers to create a “walkway” for drivers getting to campus.

All three were very stupid moves, and I have some suggestions for the administration and Parking Services.

Suggestion No. 1: stop blocking parking spots. We all know how hard it is to get a parking spot on campus with all lots open. It’s not only students; I have heard professors complain about the parking too. Closing three of the main lots on one side of

campus is just not logical.

Suggestion No. 2: stop avoiding the issue; build a parking garage.

Most other SEC schools have parking garages on campus. Not only would students be able to use the garage on a regular basis, but sports fans would have better parking on game days as well. Some argue that a parking garage takes away from campus beauty. Well, put a red brick facade on it and move on — problem solved.

Suggestion No. 3: tell the Cobra security officers who give parking tickets to lighten up. Getting a ticket for parking on a line is a little extreme.

Students pay about $75 for a decal to park on campus. When those students get fined for parking in the only spot possible, something has to give. Going even further, when those students are late to class because there are no spots available, some-

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thing has to give.

Now, to the students: form groups, write letters or emails to anyone and everyone or send in letters to the editor to The DM. Anything is more than what is being done now. Do not accept the fact that we are getting more parking spots taken away from us on a weekly basis.

With growing attendance numbers and athletic success, there are just too many vehicles on campus to avoid the parking situation any longer. This change would be one that people would look back on with pride. This administration needs to make this change for the university.

If there are any cons to building a garage, I certainly cannot think of them. And until I hear them, I’ll be waiting for a change.

Adam Ganucheau is a sophomore journalism major from Hazlehurst. Follow him on Twitter @Ganucheau.

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The cold facts of Kony

BY Alec Jones jonesalexander18@gmail.com

There is genuine evil in this world that society fails to acknowledge. Baby seal poachers, Goldman Sachs mortgage bond salesmen, biological weapons engineers and college textbook companies are just a few examples.

Then there’s Joseph Kony, the Ugandan warlord who truly embodies the darkest elements of humanity. Kony is the epitome of a villain. He’s effluent with legs. Does this make him worth America’s time, though? Not one bit.

The Kony 2012 movement is nothing more than propaganda preying on our generation’s good intentions. It diverts our attention from real issues in the world and creates an emotional chimera not worth pursuing. Approaching Kony 2012 with lines of logic rather than waves of emotion shows it for what it really is.

Wanting to stop evil is an intuitive reaction to these kinds of things. It takes a higher

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level of thought to recognize we can’t be all things to all people. There are simply more good causes in the world than resources.

Less people have died in the world because of Kony than because of Barack Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize winning president and overseer of four Middle Eastern conflicts.

Kony is therefore responsible for the deaths of even less people than Bush. The warlord may have kidnapped kids during his reign of terror, but so have the rest of Africa’s tyrants. Should we go after the entire continent?

Perhaps those who oppose Kony should advocate change in America before trying to save the world.

The open secret of Kony 2012 is its implicit suggestion to support military intervention on behalf of Uganda.

This is why the film is without merit or morals. Some say we shouldn’t do this because we have no vital interests in Uganda. They’re correct but do not even acknowledge that Uganda’s government is far more atrocious than Joseph Kony.

Kony 2012 isn’t about humanitarianism, it’s about geopolitics. To think our presence

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in Uganda would stop with just a few military advisors is blindly naïve.

Even humanitarian aid is simply taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to dictators in poor ones. If we’re going to eliminate evil let’s do it quietly, out of the public eye and with as little force as necessary – the way we got Osama.

War propaganda is getting cliché. Militarism under the guise of humanitarianism is morally repugnant.

The meritless root of the Kony movement ails us the most. It’s nothing more than an election year marketing campaign to make aggressive foreign policy seem cool to the kind of people who wear Tom’s Shoes. It’s “Black Hawk Down” for people who own numerous tie dye shirts. Even the Kony posters look remarkably similar to the hope and change banners from four years ago. It indoctrinates progressives into thinking America’s status as “World Police” is a good thing.

The liberal Hollywood elite have jumped on the bandwagon, too. This is because Kony 2012 is a wedge issue unifying liberals and openhearted youth behind the beating war drums

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of the Obama Administration.

It ameliorates Obama’s broken campaign promises of peace to his passionate youth voters. It keeps us from accepting Obama is another Bush but without just casus belli.

Most importantly, it compels society to hold contradicting beliefs – to end injustice by promoting injustice. That’s usually how duplicitous propaganda like this works.

We may never get Kony in 2012, but it ensures Obama’s reelection. We should know better than to jump on the bandwagon. There is nothing to learn from Kony 2012 other than that far too many people are impressionable enough to let viral videos sculpt their opinions and determine their passions.

Since Kony 2012 is undeserving of our attention, allow me to suggest more meaningful issues.

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All of the following will suffice: job creation, America’s role in the Middle East, containing China, auditing the Federal Reserve, immigration, energy independence, sovereign debt and tort reform.

Unlike Kony, these concerns directly impact America and don’t require viral videos to matter.

Whether it’s in this life or the next, Joseph Kony will see justice.

Let’s stop acting like sheep by thinking Kony’s justice is America’s burden. First and foremost, the United States of America is our responsibility.

Before we start talking about sending more of our money and military overseas to save the world for others, let’s first restore America.

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terson that took place Tuesday, where Patterson told Cobb that farmers had been denied from selling in Mid-Town. She said that statement was a lie, but Patterson stepped in, saying he has documentation of his meeting with the farmer that had claimed to be denied from the selling with Mid-Town.

“The truth is if you go forward, it will put an end to the MidTown farmer’s market,” McCollough said.

Alderman Morgan said he hoped the new market would make Mid-Town more profitable, but McCollough said Mid-Town vendors had been contacted and asked to sell at the new market instead.

John Currence, chef and owner of City Grocery, Big Bad Breakfast, SnackBar and Boure, stepped forward to speak in favor of the new market. He began by pointing out that he, as well as

three others in favor of the market, had originally served on the Mid-Town board.

“The original mission of the market and the spirit of it has slowly and very deliberately been peeled off over the course of the last 12 years,” he said.

Currence said the current location of Mid-Town was intended to be temporary. He also said the Mid-Town board voted against making the market more accessible.

“Frankly, the market has been a very boutique, upscale market,” Currence said. “We have done nothing but try to include vendors. There is no intention to try to eliminate people from participating.

“We’re not trying to compete with the grocery stores. We can cite reports swelling grocery sells.”

Despite the controversy that has surrounded the debate since conception, Currence said he doesn’t see where the problem is.

“I’m perplexed that we’re having a debate about it,” he said.

“All we’re doing is improving a

green space. We’re creating a space where people can move around.”

Before the vote, Wilkins said the grant could be altered in terms of timelines, budget lines, location and staff changes. He said the USDA just wants to avoid reconsidering the scope and scale of the grant.

Morgan seconded the motion to vote on the grant with modifications, and a unanimous vote by the members of the board in favor followed.

“I’m happy that the aldermen have made a good choice for Oxford that affects it now and in the future,” said Trey McCain, head of the advisory committee for the new market.

Not everyone at the meeting was as positive about the vote, however.

“I am disappointed that the city is going ahead with a direct salary for a part time salary,” McCullough said. “I don’t know what kind of message that sends to our first responders to pay someone that works for six months (and) four hours a week.”

Farmer’s market background At a Dec. 6, 2011 meeting, the Oxford Board of Aldermen tabled the grant due to what Mayor Pat Patterson explained as concerns.

Advisory committee head Trey McCain thought the tabling was due to a miscommunication between the advisory board for the new market and the board.

He explained that some aldermen were not clear on what the grant would pay for, such as construction costs.

The Mid-Town board has stated in a statement to The Daily Mississippian that they felt the grant could be beneficial in other towns.

McCain argued that the market would give people a choice.

Mid-Town has not taken a definitive stance against the new market but has expressed concerns. Concern was also

been expressed that if the city rejected the grant that they may not eligible again for several years. Grant writer Lynn Wilkins did not address the issue during the meeting.

Patterson has openly expressed support for the new market.

The new market would fall under the management of the Oxford Park Commission.

OPC director Rob Boyd has explained that his office would be responsible for hiring the manager for the new market.

The Mid-Town board has made it clear that they intend to continue with their market this May. Mid-Town has been in existence in Oxford for more than 10 years.

Mid-Town has also expressed concerns over being informed late of plans for a new market and lack of clear communication.

College Goal Sunday assists students with financial aid

BY Devin Haslob devin.haslob@gmail.com

Many Mississippi college students breathed a sigh of relief in February when it came time to tackle their financial aid paperwork thanks to the fourth annual College Goal Sunday. The event, which took place Feb. 1929 at nearly 60 sites across the state, provided future college students with free financial aid assistance from trained volunteers.

To organize this statewide volunteer event, the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning worked in conjunction with its nonprofit and government part-

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nerships, Mississippi College Goal Sunday, the YMCA and GEAR UP Mississippi.

Volunteers and financial aid professionals from universities all across the state helped college students apply for financial aid, a process that can sometimes be convoluted and overwhelming.

GEAR UP Mississippi director Nira Coleman-Johnson said the assistance is opened to all ages.

“It is not just for kids exiting high school and those entering freshmen (year of college),” she said. “One of the things that I encourage as the director here is when we’re out and on campus, we not only select future

freshmen, but (also) anyone else who is preparing for college and could use some financial assistance.”

Financial aid is an inviting option for students, freshmen especially, who need more than parents’ pocket money to pay the tuition bills.

Forty-seven precent of undergraduate students received some form of federal financial aid in the 2007-08 school year, according to the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.

Financial aid is important both nationally and locally. The University of Mississippi budgeted $185.2 million toward financial aid in 2010.

Mechanical engineering fresman Sam Alshehab said financial aid helped shape his goals.

“My financial aid has kind of kept me focused,” he said. “If my grades slipped, I’d have to pay for college myself, so I always have to make sure I make the grades.”

While there was not a College Goal Sunday site at Ole Miss, the Office of Financial Aid sent several coordinators to South Panola High School in Batesville to help students and parents complete applications.

“What was most impressive was the fact that they didn’t just send us one person because no one had the time,” ColemanJohnson said. “They seem to have made time and they took it seriously as part of their job for the university, and that was to go out and assist parents and students with getting the aid they needed from Oxford to them.”

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Information courtesy the University of Mississippi Office of Financial Aid.

College Goal Sunday was established in Indiana in 1989 as an answer to the stigma about higher education for lower-income individuals who often did not believe they could afford it.

It has since helped thousands of people complete financial aid applications.

The Indiana state government program that chose the third Sunday in February (also Financial Aid Awareness Month) for its namesake has also become active in the educational programs of 39 states.

Though this 2012 College Goal Sunday event ended Feb. 29, students who couldn’t make it to the event shouldn’t fret as there are still many opportunities to receive assistance with fi-

nancial aid applications, should they need it, and information about specific scholarships or financial aid for which they might qualify.

College Goal Sunday can always be reached via its website and it regularly advises students to visit their local university’s office of financial aid with their queries, especially those who still need help with their FAFSAs. For more information about next year’s Mississippi College Goal Sunday or any of the educational support services offered

by GEAR UP Mississippi, visit their websites at Mississippi College Goal Sunday, http://www. mscollegegoalsunday.org/ and GEAR UP Mississippi, http:// www.gearupms.org.

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Square Books owner Richard Howorth discusses his bookstore Tuesday at the Overby Center.

Greenwood, Emily Gatlin, of Gum Tree Book Store in Tupelo, and John Evans, of Lemuria in Jackson.

Each of the booksellers started off at different places, either with a plan or from the ground up.

Former Oxford mayor Howorth got the idea of starting a bookselling business from his childhood.

“When I was young, there wasn’t a bookstore in (Oxford) and it was always the subject of conversation at the dinner table,” he said. “It was at the back of my mind that it was something I should try to do.”

Kornegay started off writing for the Oxford Eagle, but he was determined to write a novel. Kornegay ended up working at Square Books and told Howorth he would only be working there for about six months, and then he was going to finish his novel.

“I think I left about eight years later,” Kornegay said.

“I learned everything I could in the store and took that onto Greenwood.”

Gatlin was originally hired at Reed’s, part of a department store in Tupelo, to sell wedding gifts.

“I really liked books and they needed somebody to take that over,” she said. “I kind of just fell into it.”

Evans traveled after college looking for books to buy and decided to open his own bookstore.

He started Lemuria in a small apartment, which now has a fiction and children’s bookstore within it, and he said it grew into what it is today.

Regarding the survival of bookstores and independent bookstores in Mississippi, the panel generally agreed the store’s connection with the community is essential.

Evans said he has probably had the toughest competition with bigger bookstores.

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“All of our stores have different markets,” he said. “It allows us to set the goals in our community that we want our bookstore to be.”

Gatlin, who writes about bookselling in her blog “Bookseller Barbie,” said it is very necessary to know and listen to the demands of the community.

“You constantly have to listen to the community,” she said. “And (do) special inventory according to what people want, making it a place that people want to go to.”

The booksellers said getting and maintaining business is more than just a receiving a paycheck.

Howorth said when bookstores give way to something else, it’s not just a financial loss.

“One thing you lose is that node and connection between writers and readers, and readers and publishers, for that matter,” he said. “Changes kind of immolate that and Amazon is certainly creating that community.”

Kornegay said physical bookstores have something Amazon and other similar companies can’t replicate, like the sandwich shop he opened for his customers in TurnRow. “Spontaneity,” he said. “It’s a social stop throughout the day. You have to judge who is

there and what they’re interested in.”

When it comes to the Internet, Evans said the effects of the bookseller’s business will turn into a dictatorship.

“Amazon is probably heading into dictating what Barnes and Noble is going to do within the next five years,” he said.

“That’s just my feeling of that – Amazon is going to win the Internet war.”

Evans also said that because the city of Jackson has grown, Internet shopping is more convenient for most people.

“Most of my customers live 15 or 20 minutes away,” he said.

Gatlin fills a lot of orders through the Internet for physical books and said she feels the end for them is nowhere near, despite the current E-book trend.

“People will always want signed books and author events,” she said.

With challenges here and more to come, Howorth said there is still a future for physical books. “(There are) digital developments, which are great distractions from physical books,” he said. “And the economy, since the fall of 2008, has been a challenge, but there still remains a strong interest for books. People come in and love books and love bookstores.”

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Patricio Gonzalez and Alex Ortiz from Walk Against Fear tells Hillary Roberts, a senior finance major, about their struggles as undocumented adults in the United States. Walk Against Fear was started by Ingrid Cruz with the blessing of James Meredith in response to new anti-immigrant laws being bought up in Congress. The Walk began on March 11 in Memphis and is scheduled to end on April 7 in Jackson. For more information about the Walk Against Fear, visit its website, walkagainstfear2012.com.

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ment title and an NCAA Tournament appearance this past season. Bjork also fired women’s basketball Mary Taylor Cowles earlier this month after a 9-21 record this past season.

Prior to Western Kentucky, Bjork spent 19 years as an administrator, having worked on the senior staffs at UCLA, University of Miami (Fla.) and the University of Missouri. From 2005 to 2010, Bjork was the senior associate athletic director for external relations at UCLA, where he directed all fundraising activities, including the John

Wooden Athletic Fund, marketing, promotions, ticket sales, branding, licensing, merchandising, corporate sponsorships, ISP Sports, radio rights, television rights, websites and other sources of revenue generation.

Total giving to athletics doubled in his first year, and season ticket sales for football and men’s basketball increased to record

totals.

From 2003 to 2005, Bjork was the associate athletic director for external operations at Miami, where he directed the search process for hiring Frank Haith as the men’s basketball coach, secured the naming rights for the school’s $52 million on-campus arena, renegotiated the school’s Nike and Gatorade contracts and increased total giving to athletics. He also spent six and a half years at Missouri, first as an athletic development officer and later as the assistant athletic director for development, where he oversaw all development operations that raised record funds each year and also directed the sales campaign of the football suites’

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project and implemented the seating program for the school’s new basketball arena.

As with the head football coaching search, which ended with the hiring Hugh Freeze, the co-chairs for the athletics director search committee have been FedEx executive Mike Glenn and Archie Manning. Other members of the search committee have included Richard Noble, Ron Rychlak, Ethel YoungMinor and Cal Mayo. Current athletics director Pete Boone, who announced his retirement at the same time former football coach Houston Nutt was fired, agreed to continue to serve as athletics director until a replacement is on board or until June 30, whichever occurred first.

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McGraw wants to add basketball goals behind Turner Center

BY Kathryn Winter kathryn.winter2011@gmail.com

The new Tad Smith Coliseum being built behind the Turner Center at the University of Mississippi is delaying the outdoor basketball court project proposed by ASB president Taylor McGraw.

Before leaving office, McGraw hoped to put basketball goals near the intramural fields. The project is lingering, but it is still possible to add more goals for students in an outside court.

The Turner Center has four courts for about 15,000 students to use. The courts are used for classes, club sports, career fairs, camps, preview days, intramurals and various other events, making it difficult for students to use the courts whenever they want.

Jason Shirkey, associate director of campus recreation, said if students really want an outdoor basketball court then the project will be completed, but the loca-

tion might not be near the Turner Center.

“If the location behind the Turner Center is what students want, then we will wait until the new Tad Pad is built,” Shirkey said. “We just are not sure how much room there will be behind the building.

“We know that they will be taking the area where the six tennis courts are located, which is very close to Turner. I wonder where the tennis classes will be held, don’t you?”

UPD and Shirkey decided McGraw’s goal of putting the courts near the intramural fields would make them too far out and wouldn’t be in the students’ best interests regarding safety.

“I started working on this project a year ago, and I won’t finish it, but hopefully it will get moving in the right direction,” McGraw said. “We have several other projects we are working on also. This is complicated and requires multiple steps and approvals, like most building proj-

ects on campus. I wish it were moving faster, but I understand why it takes time.”

University architect Ian Banner said there is no completion date at this time for the basketball goal project.

Banner said the proposal of putting the basketball goals behind Turner would be better than the intramural fields because they would be closer for students and they wouldn’t have to drive to play.

“This project has ‘gone off the boil’ a bit because of other critical projects,” Banner said.

“However, if we can assist in improving student activities in a planned way with appropriate activities, it is a good thing. The basketball court can be added within those parameters.”

McGraw’s idea initially came from the overcrowding in the Turner Center courts.

“The needs of an outdated Turner Center and the needs of the student body go hand in hand,” Shirkey said.

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Mason Wilbanks, Walker Kelly and Sam Clayton Kelly PHOTOS COURTESY, TOP MORGAN MACALL BOTTOM MOLLIE BARDIN SMITH TOP: Two lanterns released at the Whatlestale Public Beach in Destin, Fla,. on March 14 in tribute of the three Ole Miss students who died in a car accident during the fall. Close to 200 people showed up as part of the tribute.

BOTTOM: Mollie Bardin Smith and Shelby Moor, who was Walker Kelly’s girlfriend, release lanterns.

“Knowing that the boys watched everyone light the lanterns in remembrance of them was a feeling of warmth,” Mollie Bardin Smith said. “Letting them know how many people they have impacted and continue to impact was even better.”

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Softball returns home tonight after two-week road swing

BY JOSH HOLLINGSHEAD conner.josh12@gmail.com

The Ole Miss softball team (13-12) wrapped up an 11game, 14-day road swing this past weekend against No. 1 Alabama (25-0, 6-0 SEC) in Tuscaloosa. The Rebels return to the friendly confines of the Ole Miss Softball Complex to host Central Arkansas (22-10) tonight at 6 p.m.

“I’m so excited for our home stand because we have two weeks worth of home games all in the state of Mississippi,” head coach Windy Thees said in an interview after the weekend in Tuscaloosa. “It’s going to be great and I’m looking forward to it and I know my kids are looking forward to showing how far they have come just from last year to all the fans from Ole Miss.”

Tonight marks the second meeting of the season between the two teams with Central Arkansas rallying in the bottom of the seventh to win 6-5 in Conway, Ark. In the loss, sophomore Londen Ladner went 2-for-3 with a careerhigh four RBI, including a two-out, three-run home run to give Ole Miss a 5-4 lead in the top of the seventh.

The Rebels return from a road trip that covered 4,881 miles, five cities, four states and eight different teams. The trip started in Conway, Ark., against Central Arkansas (22-

10), then started Southeastern Conference play against Arkansas (18-9, 2-6 SEC) in Fayetteville, Ark. Ole Miss then traveled to Palo Alto, Calif., to play in the three-day, five-game Louisville Slugger Classic hosted by No. 10 Stanford (25-3) with a tournament field that included Cal Poly (7-13), Colorado State (12-17) and James Madison (10-15). The team returned to Mississippi for a game at Mississippi Valley (16-18) but the game was cancelled due to unplayable field conditions in Itta Bena. The Rebels finished the road trip with a three-game weekend set at Alabama.

In all, the Rebels posted a 5-6 record during the 11game stretch. After an 8-7 loss to Central Arkansas, Ole Miss swept a two-game series against Arkansas. In Palo Alto, the Rebels left with a 3-2 record with wins against Cal Poly, Colorado State and James Madison and a pair of losses to Stanford. Ole Miss fell to 2-3 in conference play after a three-game sweep at the hands of the top-ranked Crimson Tide. The seven runs in Saturday’s 10-7 loss was the most Ole Miss scored against Alabama in school history.

The Rebels will play eight of their next 10 games at home, including the conference home opener this weekend against No. 11 Georgia (23-5, 4-2 SEC).

Assistant AD Lynnette Johnson updates women’s hoops coaching search Women’s basketball beat writer Jake Thompson sat down with Lynette Johnson, executive associate AD/senior women’s administrator and committee chair, to discuss the women’s basketball coaching search as it enters its third week. Also on the search committee to replace former women’s basketball coach Renee Ladner are Don Cole (provost, vice chancellor for academic affairs) and Michael Thompson (senior associate AD, marketing and communications).

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Jake Thompson: How far into the search process is the committee?

Lynnette Johnson: We’re movExecutive Associing into week ate AD Lynnette three. We’ve had Johnson a lot of great interest in our position. It’s a great position.

It’s a BCS/SEC level position.

We have been communicating with a lot of folks and working on our list.

JT: Is there a short list of candidates, or are you still working through a larger pool?

LJ: We’ve narrowed it down.

We’ve been working more off our short list the whole time.

JT: What is the time frame for finding a new coach?

LJ: As quick as we can. As I’ve said before, from a recruiting standpoint, the longer you don’t have a head coach then we’re already behind because we are 12th (place in SEC standings this season).

As quick as we can, but we want to make sure we have the right fit. As long as it takes, but as quick as we can is the best answer I can give you.

JT: With no head coach and Armintie (Price Herrington) heading back to start her WNBA season soon, who is running the day-to-day operations (for the women’s basketball program)?

LJ: David Graves and Jocelyn McGilberry are still kind of holding down the fort for us

right now.

All of our staff, then, is contractual — same with football — and will have the opportunity to be retained.

The new coach will make the decisions on who their staff will be. But they are helping us and the director of operations (Margie Gill).

I’ve met with the team several times to make sure they are continuing to do what they are supposed to do, like go to class.

They are already starting their spring workouts with our strength and conditioning coach (Randall Dorvin).

Things don’t just stop. They continue to move forward.

They have a great support system around them.

JT: Has losing the head coach affected recruiting in any way? Any commitments lost?

LJ: Really you are going to switch gears with whatever focus the new coach is going on.

So right now, it is just maintaining that.

Everybody is in the NCAA Tournament right now so everybody’s focus is to that. And (so is) the WNIT, so everything is somewhat quiet.

JT: Is there a sense of confusion or uncertainty with there being an athletic director search on top of looking for a new women’s head coach and where everything is going to be come the fall semester?

LJ: That hasn’t been as much of a concern. We’ve discussed the fact that we are in an AD search.

All of the folks that have been interested in the position will know that because they will

have researched that, and we’ve just kept them abreast of that process.

But the timeline right now is that this is when you’ve got to go get a women’s basketball coach because it is women’s basketball season.

For our program, we felt it was important we maintain that process regardless of when an AD is named.

JT: It is a three-person committee, so what are the responsibilities of each member of the committee?

LJ: As a committee as a whole, the first thing we did was meet and go over the criteria of our expectations, get it posted and then we’re working through the resumes and the people that are interested.

We’ve met three or four times already, and they are completely part of the process, the feel and fit for what is going on.

Now, obviously I am the front person in regards to overseeing women’s basketball, but they are completely up to date on all of our resumes and things going on.

JT: How did the team handle the news especially with it coming a day after their loss in the first round of the SEC Tournament?

LJ: Change is always tough.

You become emotionally connected to your coaches and staff.

They are disappointed, but decisions are made and as we continue to communicate, you got to move forward.

That is what coach Ladner tasked the team with. She was great with them when she spoke to the team.

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Catching up with Ole Miss Men’s hoops offseason notebook: Kennedy rumors, newcomers for next season Tennis: recapping Spring Break

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As the Ole Miss men’s basketball season ended, rumors began to swirl that Ole Miss head coach Andy Kennedy would be a top candidate to replace former head coach Mike Davis at UAB. Davis was fired this past Friday after a 122-73 record in six seasons at the school, which included four consecutive seasons with at least 20 regular-season wins and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2010-11. Later that day, Gary Parrish of CBS Sports reported that UAB might try to lure Kennedy from Ole Miss. Kennedy played for UAB from 1989 to 1991 under legendary coach Gene Bartow. He was an Honorable Mention All-America Selection in 1991, in addition to being a two-time All-Sun Belt Conference team member, and finished his career as the school’s second all-time leading scorer with 1,787 points and still holds more than 15 school records.

Kennedy just finished his sixth year as head coach at Ole Miss. In those six seasons, Kennedy became the first coach in school history to lead the Rebels to five postseason appearances and has the most overall wins (125) and SEC wins (46) by an Ole Miss coach in a sixyear span. With 125 wins during his time at Ole Miss, Kennedy has the sixth-most wins in Southeastern Conference history by a coach in his first six seasons in the league and ranks third in Ole Miss career victories behind B.L. “Country” Graham and Rod Barnes.

It will be interesting to see how Ole Miss deals with the rumors surrounding Kennedy, particularly concerning the reports of Western Kentucky Athletics Director Ross Bjork, who is expected to be named Ole Miss’ next athletics director. Bjork, who was hired in 2010 by Western Kentucky, fired men’s basketball coach Ken McDonald in January after a 5-11 start and gave assistant Ray Harper the interim head coaching job.

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Ole Miss, which returns almost its entire team from this past season, will likely need to keep Kennedy to ensure there is no further attrition from the program, as well as hold onto the strong recruiting class set to come in for next season.

The Rebels have hit the recruiting trail hard this season and currently have four commitments set to join the team next season.

Two longtime commitments are Martavious Newby and Anthony Cortesia. Newby, a 6’2,” 195-pound shooting guard from Booker T. Washington in Memphis, should see immediate playing time for the Rebels next season. Newby is listed as a four-star prospect on Rivals.com and a three-star on Scout.com, while Rivals.com also lists him as the No. 97 player in the nation.

“He’s an absolute steal for Andy Kennedy, an absolute steal,” Eric Watson, an AAU and Memphis high school coach said in a Rivals. com interview on Newby. “He’s got floor savvy that he doesn’t get credit for. He plays the game and not just spot for spot.”

Cortesia is a 6’9,” 205-pound power forward from Montverde Academy in Florida. He is listed as a three-star prospect on Rivals. com and a four-star on Scout.com.

While not currently a four-star or ranked among the top 250 prospects, a recent Rivals.com article mentioned Cortesia as one of the top players outside of the top 250 with an excellent shot at entering the rankings.

Rivals.com basketball recruiting staff, in describing Cortesia, said that, “The thin 6’8” senior showed significant improvement under coach Kevin Boyle. Signed with Ole Miss, Cortesia is a combo forward who likes to face up and bomb away jumpers from deep.”

While students were away on spring break, Ole Miss doubled the size of its recruiting class with two commitments from junior col-

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lege players.

The first of these was from 6’2,” 170-pound shooting guard Marshall Henderson. Henderson played for South Plains (Texas) College, the No. 1 junior college team in the nation. He transferred to South Plains after playing his freshman season at Utah in which he started 30 of 31 games and was second on the team in scoring (11.8 ppg). For South Plains this season, Henderson is averaging 19 points per game and shooting 45 percent from the field, 42.7 percent from 3-point range and 86.5 percent from the free throw line. Henderson could come in immediately and give Ole Miss the shooter it lacked at times this season.

The Rebels also picked up a commitment from 6’9,” 235-pound power forward Jason Carter. He started his college career at Alabama, where he played in 16 games and averaged 1.4 points and 1.8 rebounds per game his freshman season, then transferred and played this season at Chipola College in Florida. Cater averaged 15.0 points and 8.0 rebounds per game while shooting 47.6 percent from the field, nearly 40 percent from behind the arc and 62.7 percent from the free throw line.

Men rise in rankings, Scholtz shows improvement The No. 14 Ole Miss men’s tennis team continues its rise in the ITA National Rankings, moving up a spot each of the past two weeks since jumping 28 spots from No. 44 to No. 16 in the March 6 poll.

During spring break, the Rebel Netters improved to 7-4 overall and 3-1 in Southeastern Conference play with wins against No. 19 Tennessee, 5-2, and No. 7 (Div. II) West Florida, 7-0, and a loss to No. 6 and conferenceunbeaten Georgia, 5-2.

“It was a big win over Tennessee,” head coach Billy Chadwick said. “We played them earlier in the round of 32 in the National Team Indoor and came up a little short, and we really did a good job up and down the lineup in singles this time. It really showed how much we have improved in the last five weeks.”

Freshman Nik Scholtz earned SEC Freshman of the Week honors this past week after a 5-1 combined record in singles and doubles with wins against the No. 53-, No. 36- and the No. 3-ranked players in the nation in singles. He also moved up to No. 12 in the latest ITA Singles Rankings.

“I’m feeling well and hitting the ball well,” Scholtz said. “We got a few days off for spring break, which was good for the mind and the body to get fresh.

“It was really good to get Freshman of the Week. I’ve never had anything like that in college tennis. It’s pretty new to me, and it’s all been happening pretty fast, but I’m really happy and glad that I could give something back to the university.”

Scholtz and the team are off until this weekend when they travel to No. 48 South Carolina Friday and host No. 10 Florida

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“We’ll have some time to do some conditioning now and do a little weight lifting and get our bodies ready,” Scholtz said.

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Women upset No. 8 Tennessee, await No. 2 Florida this weekend The No. 19 Ole Miss women’s tennis team also posted a 2-1 record during the break and improved to 10-6 overall and 2-2 in Southeastern Conference play, rising six spots in the ITA National Rankings over the past two weeks.

The team started the break with a 5-2 win against No. 8 Tennessee and a 5-2 loss to No. 6 Georgia in SEC play and finished the week with a 7-0 sweep of Florida International. A match against No. 21 Yale was rained out.

“I thought we played pretty well against Florida International,” head coach Mark Beyers said. “I felt like we were the better team, and we showed that on the court.

“It was unfortunate that we got rained out against Yale. We would have liked to play Yale.

They are a good team and, from a ranking standpoint, it could have helped us gain a couple spots.”

Senior Kristi Boxx was named SEC Player of the Week this past week after a perfect 4-0 record in singles and doubles against Tennessee and Georgia.

Boxx, ranked No. 12 in the ITA Singles Rankings, is currently 20-7 overall and 10-4 at No. 1 singles.

The Rebels will continue SEC play this weekend with a home match against No. 35 South Carolina Friday and a road match against No. 2 and conference-unbeaten Florida Sunday.

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The Ole Miss baseball team looks on from the dugout as Southern Miss shuts them out 10-0.

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Junior outfielder Tanner Mathis misplays a fly ball for one of three Ole Miss errors committed during the loss to Southern Miss.

The No. 17 Ole Miss baseball team (15-6) continued their offensive and defensive struggles as Southern Miss (12-9) shut out the Rebels 10-0 last night at Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field. The Rebels were out-hit 17-3 and committed three errors, as the team’s losing streak stretches to three games.

“We’ve got to get tougher,” head coach Mike Bianco said. “We can’t feel sorry for ourselves. We’ve got to have better at bats. We’ve got to hit balls harder, get more swings off. We’ve got to hit when we opportunities and have guys in scoring position.

“But tonight was just a disaster.

It was a total team disaster.”

That it definitely was. It was Ole Miss’ worst loss since a 18-4 defeat to Auburn on May 21, 2010 and the worst non-conference loss since an 18-6 defeat to ArkansasLittle Rock in Mike Bianco’s first weekend as head coach in 2001.

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Yarbrough rested Junior second baseman Alex Yarbrough, who is leading the team in hitting with a .410 average, sat out last night’s loss to rest his left elbow that he hurt in the first inning of Saturday’s loss to Auburn.

However, there was some good news yesterday.

“Alex felt a little better today,” Bianco said. “He wanted to play bad, but he wasn’t even going to swing today. He won’t swing tomorrow or probably Thursday.

We’ll probably wait until Thursday. But this was the first day he felt better.”

While it is still not clear whether Yarbrough will play on Friday, Bianco expects him to be in the lineup.

“I’m pretty confident (he will play),” Bianco said. “He wanted to play tonight. Up until game time, he was trying to get in the lineup.”

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sive struggles. “It’s a lot of reasons.

It’s from at bat to at bat. What we have to do is getting back to better at-bats, making it difficult on the pitcher and, then, being able to execute.”

Southern Miss got on the board early as right fielder Mason Robbins drove in first baseman Blake Brown, who hit a two-out triple off the center-field wall. Freshman right-hander Sam Smith got the start for the Rebels, but was chased after four innings. He gave up four runs on eight hits, but only one run was earned.

In the bottom half of the fifth inning, Ole Miss loaded the bases on a hit by pitch and two walks, but senior designated hitter Matt Snyder flied out to end the inning.

The Golden Eagles blew the game wide open in the seventh against freshman right-hander Josh Laxer, who replaced Smith.

Brown lofted a three-run home run over the right-field fence to extend the lead to 7-0. Laxer gave up three runs – two earned – on four hits in two innings of work.

Junior right-hander Tanner Bailey replaced Laxer and gave up three runs on three hits in 1.1

When? Thursday, March 23rd at 2:00-2:30 pm and 4:00-4:30pm Where? 1st floor of Martindale in the Admissions meeting room Can’t attend an interest meeting? Contact Regina George at hrgeorge@olemiss.edu for more information.

The Cultural Connections Mentor Program needs YOU! Cultural Connections Mentor Program matches newly arriving international students with an established student mentor who meets and welcomes students at orientation. Mentors help link incoming students with university and community resources and programs, provide initial and follow up social support and identify needs/concerns of the students, and work in pairs or teams with international students throughout an academic year.

Mentors also assist in working through daily living challenges and initial social and cultural adjustment.