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Vol. 100 No. 275

New ASB members inaugurated in front of Lyceum

BY KATHRYN WINTER Kathryn.winter2011@gmail.com

Family, friends and students gathered in front of the Lyceum yesterday for the inauguration of the new Associated Student Body members and the Student Programming Board.

Kim Dandridge, the first black female Ole Miss ASB president, took her oath of office along with Emmalee Rainey, vice president, Emily Rast, secretary, Rebecca Ruleman, treasurer, Matthew Kiefer, attorney general, Courtney Pearson, judicial council chair, Wil Yerger, director of student programming board, and Kishan Gopal, associate director of SPB. Before her inauguration

Dandridge said she was excited for this moment and that she’s ready to start working tomorrow.

“I’m so honored to have so many people here today to support, and I’m just really ready to get the student body together and promote unity on this campus,” Dandridge said. “I’ve been waiting for this moment — it kinda just hit me that I won the election right now.”

Vice President Abby Olivier stepped in for ASB President Taylor McGraw, who is in New York interviewing for a Teach For America position for next year.

“I was telling Taylor the other day this is my first time to officially step up to take over for him as president, and

also officially my last time,” she said.

“I’m excited, but I wish Taylor could be here because a lot of the accomplishments of the past year for ASB go to him.”

Olivier led a quick prayer and offered some comments on the academic year.

“We had a lot of good programs this year, my favorites being Two + 2 and 21 Days of Good. We’re still working on the Green Fund and the possibility of a smoke-free campus,” she said.

“As far as elections go, we saw a lot of improvement from a campaign that had a lot of violations and candidates to one that went completely smoothly and one that had barely any violations.”

Students learn secrets of public relations and marketing

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Kimbrely Dandridge addresses the crowd after being sworn into office as the new president of the Associated Student Body.

New mission statement adopted, changed from original version

BY ADAM GANUCHEAU aganucheau24@gmail.com

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Three top public relations executives from across the country talk to Ole Miss students about their experiences in the PR field. From left to right, Mickey Brazeal, Leslie Westbrook and Harold Burson.

BY JENNIFER NASSAR jennifernassar2@gmail.com

A panel of a former creative ad director and two Ole Miss alumni gathered at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics to discuss the necessary steps to succeed in the world of public relation, product development and marketing.

Moderator Robin Street, professor of public relations, introduced Harold Burson, a graduate of Ole Miss and the founder of one of the top PR agencies in the world, Burson-Marsteller;

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Leslie Westbrook, a former Miss Ole Miss who now has her own research company; and Mickey Brazeal, a former account executive who now teaches at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

Street described the public relations and integrated marketing communications field as “a lot of fun, but also a lot of work.”

Of that work, Brazeal said his greatest surprise was the level of talent and intensity.

“It’s not routine; it’s not easy,” he said. “You need to decide if you can make that kind of commitment.”

He added that in order to get attention and recognition it is necessary to “force an emotional

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response.”

“The only way you’re going to get done is to do something a little unusual, something brave,” he said.

Westbrook said her specialty is in understanding and studying consumer behavior and that it’s important to understand how your buying audience thinks and acts.

“No matter how trends come and go, never take your eye off the basics,” she said.

Burson and Westbrook both contributed to one of the most tragic and memorable PR cases of all time.

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The University of Mississippi has established a new official mission statement and institutional core values.

The mission statement and values went into effect in January.

“We wanted to come up with something that all people involved with Ole Miss could be proud of,” said Jim Morrison, director of strategic planning and campus sustainability. “We are very happy with the result.”

There is some criticism of the new mission and core values, however. During the faculty presentation in August 2011, a presentation showing the drafted mission statement includes the following terminology at the start of the third paragraph: “As Mississippi’s flagship institution, the University provides...” When the mission statement was submitted to the State Institues of Higher Learning board, however, it failed to include that terminology, but continued with the originally drafted, “The University provides...”

“We thought it would be in our best interests to focus on the ‘flagship’ aspects outside

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of the mission statement,” Morrison said. “We feel like much more can be done with what we came up with, as opposed to just including it in the mission statement.”

In February, a month after the new mission statement was implemented, UM 2020 released a list of 18 detailed “flagship goals” on its website.

With the recent pressure from Mississippi State University’s statewide billboard campaign, people involved with Ole Miss are yearning for some sort of retaliation from the administration.

In the minds of many people, Ole Miss is the flagship university of the state of Mississippi. The University of Mississippi was chartered in 1844 and began classes in 1848, 23 years before any other public college or university existed in Mississippi (Alcorn in 1871). Ole Miss was also the only public university in the state until 1958, 110 years after classes first started in Oxford.

Peer institutions such as the University of Alabama have “flagship” terminology included in their core values: See STATEMENT, PAGE 5

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BY JOSH CLARK @dm_toons

To be a Rebel

BY ANDREW DICKSON addickso@olemiss. edu

I tried answering a question this week via the cliche journalistic route of seeking out as many viewpoints as possible. This only humored my muse. I’ve known for a while that the following question has no final answer: “What does being an Ole Miss Rebel mean to you?”

But instead of merely relaying to you the answers I received and trying to give some objective view of what it means to be a Rebel, I decided to contest that the notion of being a “Rebel” is the same as other notions — empty of all meaning except that which I give it.

I’ll start with an abstract definition and connect it to some examples. I define a Rebel as a person who is in opposition to any form of establishment, a very broad statement when one considers all the

things that could constitute as “opposition” and an “establishment.”

For example, I have for years now been in opposition to the unique establishment of hair-cutting customs. I can’t be entirely sure why, but the length of my hair irritates some to no end. “Evening, Miss,” they’d say if they were clever. “Cut your damn hair, boy,” is typical.

“I’ll start cutting my hair as soon as everyone else stops doing it,” I always say.

Perhaps the angst with a man’s hair length comes from a conscious or unconscious religious conviction. For example, in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 11:14) Paul writes: “Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”

Respectfully, Paul, nature doth not; nature has never produced

a pair of scissors all by itself. But maybe Paul meant something else by “nature,” or maybe Paul had a deeply rooted inferiority complex with a “white” man with long, flowing hair — as Jesus is often depicted.

I can only speculate.

I won’t deny the satisfaction that I take from being able to make persons with reservations about men with long hair uncomfortable, but what I’d like for them to do is look deep inside and ask: “Why does he make me uncomfortable just by looking different?”

They might find more than what they were looking for.

But back to the question at hand.

I find myself in a place where nearly everyone chooses to be called a Rebel. This is unique because even the “establishments” (i.e. the

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administration, college or school departments, UPD, etc.) identify themselves as Rebels.

So while conflict between Rebels and their chosen “establishments” (everyone here chooses a department, whether or not to be Greek, what organizations to be a part of and so on) is unsurprising, perhaps expected even, we find ourselves with something in common.

Yes, every self-identified “Rebel” finds him- or herself in love with the same Ole Miss. Of course, Ole Miss is a girl we need to be careful loving; she will tear your hair out for the novelty of having done so if possible — as all fans of her athletic teams will attest to.

One has to conceptualize Ole Miss intelligently or risk seeing See REBEL, PAGE 3

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The injustice should be the focus on Martin case

BY AUSTIN FINN Special to The DM

When tragedies like the killing of Trayvon Martin happen, they always seem to bring up a very unsettling sentiment I’ve noticed, which I can only describe as a sort of indifference to injustice.

Now that bloggers have had time to duke it out via the internet, I’ve noticed a few trends that are popular, but one that I found particularly disturbing was the idea that if George Zimmerman were black, or if he had a Hispanic-sounding surname, the story wouldn’t receive nearly as much media attention as it has. This is absolutely true, but the argument is absolutely absurd and completely beside the point.

The point is, an unarmed teenager was shot to death by a self-appointed neighborhood watch volunteer, and while the body of the teenager was tested for drugs in his system and put into the morgue as a John Doe for three days, the shooter was not tested for drugs or alcohol, not asked to recall the incident at the scene and wasn’t administered a background check. At no point was George Zimmerman put in handcuffs.

This is a classic chicken-andegg scenario. This kind of incident happens all the time, generally in less obvious circumstances. In 1988, a Baltimore teen who had stolen a bike was shot in the head by an elderly man who told police, “I’m tired of having stuff stolen.”

No charges were pressed, no real investigation, no media coverage.

The Trayvon Martin story, however, due to the enormous public outcry from the community, hit some sort of Gladwellian “Tipping Point” and became a phenomenon. Local media outlets started to give the story more airtime, followed by more national news coverage, followed by entire segments on CBS and ABC and other major networks. The media coverage doesn’t make the story important; the story makes the story important.

The very nature of media sensationalism is to bring up whatever they can to make you watch and to jump to conclusions that may or may not be true. The media doesn’t care about justice, it cares about ratings, and those two things rarely go hand in hand, especially through mainstream networks.

In a recent ABC “Good Morning America” interview, a friend of Zimmerman, Joe Oliver, defends his friend, explaining that he called Trayvon a “goon,” not a coon, and that, “Goon is a term of endearment in the high schools these days.”

Yes, Zimmerman refers to

Martin by a term of endearment directly after he calls the police to report him as engaging in suspicious behavior and calls him an “asshole.” Oliver continues to say that he “doesn’t know anyone under the age of 40 that uses the word ‘coon’ as a racial epitaph,” which is pretty similar to how I don’t know anyone over the age of 15 who uses the word “goon” at all. Does Mr. Oliver’s friendship with Zimmerman make him qualified in any way to not only be talking about an ongoing investigation, but also to be broadcast to the entire country, telling us that Zimmerman is innocent because he said so? I don’t see how.

He absolutely has his right to free speech, but ABC also has the right to not put him on the air. And these recent reports stating that Martin was suspended from school at the time because of a marijuana-related incident are another instance of the media getting in the way of justice.

Again, I don’t see how Martin getting in trouble with drugs has anything to do with him being shot and killed.

After Zimmerman shot Martin dead, eyewitnesses say that he was pacing around the body saying, “It was self-defense,” before a police officer arrived, asked him a few questions (not asking him to recall the event) and let him go. The Sanford Police Department stated that they had no reason to arrest Zimmerman and due to Florida’s Stand Your Ground law and Zimmerman’s account of the event, police found no reason to further question or arrest Zimmerman.

This seems to be a pretty clearcut example of a hate crime.

Listen to the 911 tapes. Zimmerman calls Martin a “F---ing coon,” and later says, “These assholes always get away.”

He had no reason to follow Martin, but he followed him anyway, even after being told, “You don’t have to do that,” by the 911 operator. When Martin felt threatened, he approached

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Zimmerman, and they engaged in a physical altercation that led to Zimmerman killing Martin.

It sounds like Zimmerman was the aggressor and that Martin was the one “Standing his Ground.” If you listen to the tapes, you can hear screams for help for about 30 seconds, which Zimmerman claims are his.

If Zimmerman, the man with the gun, had been screaming for help for more than 30 seconds, you would think he would have a little more to show for it than a broken nose and blood on his head, especially since he weighed 250 pounds and was being attacked by a 17-year-old who weighed 140 pounds.

The question is not, “If Zimmerman was black, would this have gotten as much media attention?” Of course it wouldn’t have. That’s a completely arbitrary question. The question is, “If Martin had been white, would the Sanford PD have been as quick and reckless to assume that Zimmerman was telling the truth?” No. The Sanford PD assumed Zimmerman was telling the truth and didn’t want to investigate. They racially profiled Martin in hopes that the case would blow over because of the frequency of violent crime in the United States and especially the state of Florida. However, in this instance, the case didn’t blow over, and the Sanford PD had some explaining to do.

And what happens if the state attorney and the chief of police actually have to do their jobs and defend the ideals that they are sworn to protect? Well, they resign, of course. Sure, the state attorney was essentially forced out by a vote of no confidence 3-2 by the city council, but again, another chicken-and-egg scenario. If there were no public outcry not only from the Sanford community but from all over the country, as well as massive media attention, would the chief of police have resigned, given he had approached the case the exact same way? I don’t think so.

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Without the outcry and media attention, would the city council have voted the same way, given the state attorney had approached the case the exact same way? I don’t think so. The blatant misconduct and negligence and the refusal to take responsibility for said misconduct and negligence is absolutely terrifying and equally infuriating. I wonder if the police force is any less negligent when there isn’t enough public outcry to garner major media attention? I would guess not.

And this should be terrifying and infuriating for anyone who has followed the story at all, but it seems that, at least in the blogging community, and friends that I’ve talked to, people are too quick to make this a political or race issue and ignore what it is really about — the lack of justice in the judicial system.

I’m not saying that George Zimmerman is guilty of anything. I don’t work for the Sanford PD. However, I am saying that George Zimmerman, given the evidence from the tapes and eyewitness accounts, should have been arrested at the scene and should have to defend himself in a court of law. It shouldn’t take us putting the Sanford PD’s feet to the fire to make them actually investigate any case.

The late George Carlin said it best, “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away.

They’re privileges.” Kind of like the privilege Trayvon Martin had to wear whatever he wanted and to go to the store and buy a bag of Skittles and an iced tea that was taken away from him the night he died. Or like the privilege his parents had to a police force that was fair and just.

And if that’s not either terrifying or infuriating to you, you’re not paying enough attention.

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past her flaws. If her Rebels are being honest, they know that she owns a towering shadow (in the Jungian sense) that hangs from her shoulders, a superiority complex in the making for more than 160 years.

And her prideful nature seems to go about getting in her way. She has a beautiful, unique perception of her own essence and refuses even the slightest alterations with great indignation. Often she’s afraid to admit to trying a better way of doing things.

She has it bad.

But I only know that because I’ve got it equally as bad — pride, that is. Humans are creatures of habit and are proud of said habits, and how am I ever to escape that fact?

“The better we have succeeded in entrenching ourselves in our personal standpoint and social positions, the more it appears we have discovered the right course and the right ideals and principles of behavior,” psychologist Carl Jung once wrote. “For this reason we suppose them to be eternally valid and make a virtue of unchangeably clinging to them.”

So, “What does being an Ole Miss Rebel mean to you?” It means whatever you want it to mean, whether you’re a student, faculty member, alum, sidewalk fan or an outsider.

But to me, being a “Rebel” at Ole Miss in 2012 means knowing when to rebel and when not to by critically questioning absolutely everything — especially what you believe, and why.

You may just find inside some ideas — or “establishments” — well worth rebelling against.

Andrew Dickson is a senior religious studies major from Terry.

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Notable author informs students about fracking

BY FRANCES ALLISON ftalliso@olemiss.edu

Sandra Steingraber, a biologist, poet and cancer survivor, has researched the connection between human rights and chemical contamination in the environment.

Steingraber spoke to University of Mississippi students Wednesday evening with a lecture entitled “Environmental Human Rights from Silent Spring to Fracking Shale.”

The event, which took place at the Overby Center, was an informative talk that related Steingraber’s life to the issues of contamination and cancer.

A cancer patient herself, Ste-

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In 1982, seven people died as a result of a person or persons removing several Tylenol packages and injecting arsenic into the capsules.

Tylenol hired Burson to manage its publicity.

The tragedy caused a lot of publicity, and the first strategy was to convince to the public that Johnson & Johnson Co. was serious about protecting everyone else, according to Burson.

“We portrayed Johnson & Johnson as a victim,” he said. “Also we’ve got to cross the idea that the distribution chain for both overthe-counter pharmaceutical products and food were really at risk.”

Every package of Tylenol was removed from stores while something was done about packaging.

As a result, Tylenol lost more than $75 million in sales.

Westbrook was then hired to come up with a replacement for capsules.

“It was number one in their product line,” she said.

“The capsule had an image of being the fastest-acting and the

ingraber has been researching water contamination and the effect of fracking for years.

Charles Turnbough, a microbiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, did not attend the event but is knowledgeable about environmental issues such as fracking.

“Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is a process used throughout the United States to extract natural gas and, to a less extent, oil from rock formations deep in the earth. In this process, many millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground at high pressures to break apart rock formations and thereby re-

lease entrapped gas and oil.

The gas and oil are then recovered through a series of wells that are drilled along the fracking path, which typically is extended horizontally for long distances,” Turnbough said.

Ann Fisher-Wirth, English professor at the University of Mississippi, introduced Steringraber.

“Sandra has attained numerous awards including ‘Ms. Magazine’ Woman of the Year and a Hero Award from the Breast Cancer Fund,” FisherWirth said.

Steingraber reflected on her bladder cancer diagnosis.

“Cancer is more than a bio-

easiest to swallow.”

Westbrook worked with the research and development department to come up with ideas of shapes to replace the capsules.

Johnson & Johnson eventually replaced the capsules with tablets, according to Westbrook.

“Consumers had a reasonably good confidence in tablets,” she said.

Westbrook added that the packaging group worked to make a tamper resistance packaging; however, caution had to be taken with wording.

“You can’t say ‘tampered proof,’” she said. “It’s impossible to say that anything is one hundred percent tampered proof, but we learned through consumer research that tampered resistance was fine.”

After this case, Burson-Marsteller became the “go-to” company for crisis management.

“Ironically, no one has yet been found,” Burson said.

Brazeal, who has worked with companies on customer communication techniques, stressed the importance of persuading and keeping your customers on different cases.

“A lot of what is going to happen in the future has to do cus-

tomer relationship management,” he said.

He used the example of frequent customer cards used mostly at supermarkets.

“The notion of that is A) ‘I can know what it is you buy’ B) ‘I can know how much it is that you spend, and over time I can know how to maximize that relationship,’” he said.

“We individualize that relationship,” he added.

The panelists finished off with their advice for the students considering careers in the area discussed.

Burson said the importance of PR is the ability of writing, your own portfolio and your personality.

“Get yourself in a frame that you can work with other people,” he said.

Brazeal brought out the importance of anxiety reduction and putting oneself out there to persuade others, especially future employers.

“Demonstrate yourself and reduce their anxiety level,” he said.

Street was very appreciative of two things that the images of the panelists, with two alumni, bring to the university.

“I think it says a lot about the

logical experience; it changes your identity,” Steingraber said.

Steingraber has combined her love of biology and English by publishing books such as “Living Down Stream” to further inform her audience of harmful contaminants in some water contents, while also giving an autobiography of her life.

“I write about my life as a cancer patient,” Steingraber said. “Biology and poetry are both about the mystery of life.”

According to the United States Environment Protection Agency website, efforts to safely dispose of contamination

have been explored. These options listed on the website include: underground injection of waste disposal fluids from oil and gas wells, wastewater discharges to treatment facilities, storm water discharges from oil and gas operations or transmission facilities, use of surface impoundments for storage disposal and recycling of wastewaters.

Although awareness of fracking has strengthened, Steinberg encouraged students to advocate further research of this issue.

“The earth under our feet is alive,” Steinberg said.

“We need to write about science for the public.”

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Leslie Westbrook listens to comments from Harold Burson.

quality of the education you get at Ole Miss,” she said.

“The very underappreciated amount of talent, creativity and intelligence we have in the South.”

Burson has won many awards in the PR industry. He is in the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) Hall of Fame; he was named PR Professional of the Year twice and was named the Most Influential PR Professional of the Century by “PRWeek” magazine.

Leslie Westbrook first started off at Ole Miss as an education major.

Before she graduated, she called off her wedding to her college sweetheart about three weeks before the big day. She first worked at Procter & Gamble in marketing research.

Mickey Brazeal spent about 28 years in the advertising business.

His first job was with BursonMarsteller. He is now a professor of integrated marketing communications.

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Investigation continues into JSU student slaying

County Coroner Michael Hunt said.

The small-caliber handgun police think was used in the shooting was found early SunJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — day on the Starkville campus. It Jackson police have arrested a is being tested at the state crime cousin of Jackson State Uni- lab. Three people have been arversity student Nolan Ryan rested and charged with capital Henderson III, who was shot murder. to death on Sunday outside an MSU officials have said drugs apartment building. may have been a motive in the Jarrod Emerson, 25, was killing, but authorities have recharged Wednesday with mur- leased few details. der of Henderson, 19, of AtThe possible motive in the lanta, The Clarion-Ledger re- killing “will come once the inported. vestigation is complete,” Bill Police said Henderson re- Kibler, vice president of stuportedly was in a fight with sev- dent affairs, said. eral Jackson State football play“Police do have some clues ers at an off-campus pool party. but nothing that is releasable Emerson told investigators that information. The next step is to Henderson called and asked get (the suspects) to Oktibbeha him to come over because he’d County and start piecing their been assaulted. They went back stories together,” Kibler said. and confronted the people.

MSU campus police chief Police say Emerson allegedly Georgia Lindley said six peopulled his gun and fired several ple were present in the Evans shots. They say Henderson was Hall room when the shooting shot as the crowd scattered, and occurred — the victim, three ballistics tests found that the suspects and the room’s two bullet from his body matched occupants. Lindley and other Emerson’s gun. university officials would not Police spokeswoman Colen- identify the dorm’s occupants dula Green said officers early or say whether charges would Sunday found Henderson’s be filed against them. body on a walkway inside the On Monday, Kibler said Palisades Apartments. Hender- Sanderson lived in Rice Hall, son reportedly lived on campus not Evans Hall. When asked but was attending a pool party why Sanderson was in Evans at the apartment complex. He Hall on the night of the inciwas shot once. dent, Kibler said he was “probAssistant Chief Lee Vance ably visiting.” said police tested two weapons.

Richard Griffin, a supervisoVance said the investigation ry inspector for the U.S. Maris being hampered by a num- shals Fugitive Task Force in ber of different accounts from Jackson, said the third suspect, witnesses.

Trent Deundra Crump, 21, of Family members told the Flowood, turned himself in newspaper the poolside barbe- at the Alachua County Shercue was arranged by some JSU iff ’s Department in Florida on football players as a goodbye Tuesday. Griffin said Crump party for outgoing seniors. was to make his first appearAt one point, a fight broke ance before a judge Wednesday out between Henderson and and could be extradited back to players, said Sanya Henderson Mississippi. and the victim’s father, Nolan, Duntae Harvey, 21, of Jackboth of whom have spoken son, surrendered at an apartwith police. ment complex in Jackson on The shooting began after the Monday. Mason Perry Jones, alleged assault, when Hender- 21, of Jackson, was also arrestson and his friend returned, ed by the U.S. Marshals FugiKinnel said. tive Task Force in Memphis on “Shots rang out, and he was Sunday. hit,” Sanya Henderson said.

Court documents show all of David Hoard, vice president the suspects and the victim had for institutional advancement arrest records. at JSU, said he was unaware of Harvey has been convicted of any football players’ involve- possession of drug paraphernament in the shooting. lia and contempt of court, resulting in a six-month jail sen3 suspects arrested in tence and a $4,534 fine. He has slaying at Miss. State a string of other misdemeanor charges, ranging from shopliftSTARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) ing to domestic violence.

— A Mississippi State UniLast May, a judge ordered versity student slain Saturday Crump to serve 60 days in jail night at a dorm was shot twice, and pay a $624 fine for threatan autopsy shows. ening with a deadly weapon. A John Sanderson, 21, was shot month before, he had been arin the chest and a second bul- rested on a charge of discharglet traveled through his arm ing a firearm. into the abdomen, Oktibbeha In 2010, Crump was charged

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The university hung ribbons in remembrance of the recent shootings at Mississippi State University and Jackson State University.

with the felony of burglary of dwelling house, but the case was dismissed. His record also includes a host of misdemeanor charges, including simple assault with injuries, domestic violence, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and failure to appear in court.

When Jones was arrested over the weekend, authorities picked him up on a warrant involving a Valentine’s Day armed robbery of a man sitting in a car outside a convenience store in south Jackson.

In 2007, after being arrested on a charge of the sale of a small amount of marijuana, Sanderson told Madison police he and another man had carried out auto burglaries in affluent subdivisions, according to police reports obtained by The Clarion-Ledger through a public records request. Two years later, he complained of having his house burglarized and having his Playstation 3 and video games stolen.

That same year, Madison police responded to a fight in-

volving Sanderson, according to records.

In 2010, Sanderson was charged with two counts of aggravated assault. According to police reports, Sanderson waved a man he knew over to his vehicle in the parking lot of Walmart in Madison. He extended his hand to shake hands and when the man shook hands, Sanderson reportedly pulled the man into the vehicle and shot him in the face with a BB pistol before shooting him twice in the back of the head as the man turned away.

Sanderson then grabbed the man’s coat, dragged him 30 feet and then tried to run the man over, according to the records.

Sanderson later told police the man had tried to choke him.

In an unrelated case, Sanderson was charged with embezzling from his employer.

Sentenced to two years in prison, Sanderson completed the Regimented Inmate Discipline program in 2010, enabling him to have his felony conviction expunged.

“Develop a university-wide emphasis on leadership as a primary role of the flagship university of the State of Alabama.”

When UM 2020 was created, a link to the UM 2020 blog was posted but was never updated. Currently, no official university press release has been released regarding the new mission statement or core values. However, Morrison said that meetings are ongoing to plan an official release or ceremony.

The process of getting the statement and values approved took place over a period of months. The Strategic Planning Council, made up of representatives of faculty, staff and students, contributed to the creation of the mission statement and core values. The SPC is closely related to UM 2020, the university’s plan to help establish priorities, make choices and achieve a new level of excellence in the next decade.

After the original statement and values were drafted by the committee, the documents were presented to the faculty on Aug. 26, 2011, during a UM 2020 update meeting.

From there, the committee had to reach the approval of the IHL board. The documents were received by IHL in October 2011 and approved in January 2012. The university updated the mission statement and core values on its website in January and placed a link to UM 2020 on the page.

The new mission statement and institutional core values are listed on the chancellor’s page at the university website, and the flagship goals are listed on the UM 2020 website.

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UM Pharmacy student wins Taro Research Foundation Scholarship

By MARGARYTA KIRAKOSIAN mkirakos@olemiss.edu

Laurin Dixon

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Laurin Dixon, a third-year student of the professional pharmacy program at the University of Mississippi, has been awarded a Taro Research Foundation Scholarship.

“The selection process was very hard,” Dixon said. “There were eight named scholarships, and it is a great honor to get one of them.”

The $5,000 award is part of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation’s student scholarship program. It supports development of future leaders in the community pharmacy industry and recognizes students with a strong interest in developing careers in this field. Competi-

tion was considerable because more than 950 students across the country applied for the scholarship.

“She is an excellent student in and out of the classroom and is diligent in her studies,” said Donna West-Strum, who has known Dixon for three years as her honors thesis chair.

“She is involved in numerous organizations and volunteers much time to various pharmacy organizations. When I saw the announcement for the scholarship, I sent it to her and thought she would be a great applicant for this scholarship.

I encouraged her to apply and reviewed her application materials. I was thrilled when she received the award.”

Several reasons influenced Dixon’s decision to study pharmacy.

First, she has always liked science and second, her uncle is a professor at the University of Arkansas pharmacology school. Plus, she already had some practical experience working as a Walgreens intern in Chicago.

“It was an amazing experience. With me there were four interns who worked in the corporation innovations office and pharmacy affairs department,” Dixon said. ”I got practical

skills and experienced (the) business side of the pharmacy.

I want to admit that my university professors prepared me for this internship really well.”

Now Dixon is completing rotations at the UM Medical Center in Jackson.

This fall she will complete rotations at NACDS and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Orphan Drug Products.

“She is a well-rounded and great student,” professor of pharmacology Marvin Wilson said. “She always takes advantages of opportunities she is aware of. This scholarship will open new doors for her and will characterize her as a prestigious and prospective employee.”

Dixon said she likes being involved in many extracurricular activities. She tutored in organic chemistry when she was on the Ole Miss campus and thinks it was helpful to teach others. She was also a member of the student chapters of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists and American Pharmacists Association and was selected for membership in such honoraries as Omicron Delta Kappa, Mortar Board, Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, and Order of Omega. Out of all of this, Dixon said she enjoyed being an Ole Miss Ambassador the most.

“I was an assistant director of special events,” Dixon said.

“I wrote letters, gave tours and was present on special events.

It was a great experience.”

“We are thrilled to learn that this generous scholarship is being awarded to Laurin,” said David D. Allen, dean of the UM pharmacy school. “This is a wonderful scholarship program, which makes a meaningful difference for pharmacy students, education and our profession.”

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High fees for copies of official records are a hindrance. A regional admissions counselor makes copies in the Student Services building.

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A citizen in Belzoni recently complained of having to pay $1 a page to copy a claims docket; with no specific price on copying in Mississippi, there are some concerns and desires to have a charge.

Charlie Mitchell, assistant dean of the Meek School of Journalism and News Media, finds the clerk made the copying price of 50 cents for Oxford way too high.

“It’s way out of line with Mississippi law,” he said.

Section 25-61-4 of the Mississippi Public Records Act states, “A public body may charge reasonable costs for the actual cost of searching, reviewing, duplicating and if needed, mailing the records.”

The problem with Mississippi is that there are no specific charges for copying, said Mitchell.

“The Federal Freedom of Information (FOI) rules set the price at 10 cents a copy,” he said. “I think the first 100 copies are free for the media.”

The law says that the charges should never go over the “actual cost,” and “the decision to charge for public records is discretionary.”

“There’s no way it’s a dollar; there’s no way it’s 50 cents,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell adds that prices for photocopying vary in different ways.

“It all depends on contracts that clerks have with their copier companies,” he said. “They vary by county, by state or by the offices in the very same building.”

The Mississippi Center for Freedom of Information, of which Mitchell is currently president, has worked with members of the legislature to try to “bring some consistency to how these charges are decided.”

Mitchell said that there is no charge for just an inspection of documents and that charging for copies is not wrong.

“Why should the taxpayers have to pay for photocopies?” he said.

Lafayette County Circuit Clerk Baretta Mosley said the charge for copying mainly depends on what documents are wanting to be copied, and she said she assumes the legislature determines the price for it.

“We charge 50 cents if we have to go and pull the file and make the copy; if somebody is doing their own research and wants to make a copy, we charge 25 cents,” she said.

Mosley has not had any complaints as far as the prices of copying since she’s been in office as the circuit clerk.

“I can understand some people getting upset about the price,” she said. “You have to think about the process of the work that goes into maintaining these documents.”

She added that the costs of paper, toner and salaries of employees to file and maintain the documents add up.

“I guess people don’t think about the overhead that it costs the county to maintain these documents,” Mosley said.

“We’re not charging this fee just because we can. The fee goes to maintaining the documents and the taxpayers who have to pay for it.”

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Men’s and Women’s Tennis take on Arkansas and LSU this weekend

BY MATT SIGLER mcsigler@olemiss.edu

The No. 14 nationally ranked Ole Miss men’s tennis team will continue Southeastern Conference play this weekend with home matches against No. 39 Arkansas and No. 27 LSU from the Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center/Galtney Courts. The Rebels (8-5, 4-2 SEC) enter the final stretch of the regular season, which includes a pair of road matches next weekend at Vanderbilt and Kentucky before the regular season finale at home against Mississippi State.

Ole Miss is currently in fourth place, second in the Western Division, two games back of undefeated Georgia and Kentucky, both at 6-0 in league play, and one game back of 5-1 Mississippi State.

“We’re very excited about this weekend,” head coach Billy Chadwick said. “We’re at crunch time in the SEC, and we need to get these two. We need a big crowd.

“Then we have to go on the road and do some work and get back into things. I would like to encourage people to come out and see the new tennis facility because it’s fantastic.”

Arkansas comes into Friday’s

match with a 14-7 overall record, 1-5 in league play.

“There is no such thing as an easy match in the SEC, but if we’re prepared to play, we’ll be fine,” Chadwick said of Arkansas.

LSU enters the weekend with an 11-7 overall record, 2-4 in league play, and nearly upset No. 24 Tennessee and No. 4 Georgia this past weekend before dropping both matches 4-3.

“I am not surprised with that result because LSU has a very fine team,” Chadwick said. “They are really good from top to bottom, and it got everybody’s attention, just how close they played Georgia, because they should’ve beaten them.”

The Rebels will be led by their No. 1 singles player, freshman Nik Scholtz, who is currently ranked No. 19 in singles with a 10-2 record in dual matches and 5-1 in the SEC. Senior Marcel Thiemann is ranked No. 36 in the nation with a 9-3 record in dual matches and also 5-1 in the SEC at No. 2 singles.

Junior Jonas Lutjen and freshman William Kallberg are also ranked No. 40 and No. 61 in the nation, respectively.

The Rebels will begin play today at 2 p.m. against Arkansas

and continue Sunday at 1 p.m. against LSU. Boxx, Guthrie lead women into weekend The No. 17 nationally ranked Ole Miss women’s tennis team will hit the road this weekend for a tough trip to No. 29 Arkansas and No. 35 LSU. The Rebels (11-7, 3-3 SEC) are coming off a weekend split with a home win against South Carolina, followed by a road loss to No. 2 Florida. Now, the attention turns to two more critical SEC matches.

Ole Miss is currently in a threeway tie for fourth place in the SEC standings with Auburn and LSU, three games back of undefeated Alabama and Florida at 6-0 in league play, two games back of Georgia at 5-1 and one game back of Vanderbilt at 4-2.

“It’s tough trip for us,” head coach Mark Beyers said. “We’re playing two good teams, which makes it even tougher. It’s not an easy weekend. We played well last weekend in the win over South Carolina and even in the loss to Florida, so we have a lot of confidence from that standpoint.”

Arkansas enters Friday’s match at 11-8 overall, 2-4 in league play, while LSU is 10-7 overall, 3-3 in

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Freshman Nik Scholtz

league play.

“They are still No. 29 in the country,” Beyers said of Arkansas. “They beat Tennessee, so it is one of those things where, ‘Don’t let that record fool you, they are a good team.’

“The same with LSU, so there will not be any easy matches.”

The Rebels will be led this weekend by their two seniors, Kristi Boxx and Abby Guthrie. As a team, the duo are ranked No. 6 in doubles with a 14-2 record in dual matches and 5-1 in the SEC. Boxx is currently ranked No. 12 in

Track and Field set to host Ole Miss Invitational this weekend

BY MATT SIGLER mcsigler@olemiss.edu

The Ole Miss track and field team will return home this weekend to host the Ole Miss Invitational on Saturday.

The team is coming off a big performance at the SEC/ Big Ten Challenge this past weekend, in which they captured first place in eight different events.

“It wasn’t really a good start for us and we had a couple things we were disappointed in, but after that everything just started rolling and we had a great meet and ended up finishing really well,” head coach Joe Walker said.

The meet featured SEC schools Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Tennessee, while the Big Ten was represented

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Junior sprinter Isiah Young was the highlight of the meet for the No. 21 nationally ranked men.

He won both the 100- and 200-meters, including a meet record in the 100 with a time of 10.16, which also tied junior teammate Mike Granger for third-best in school history.

His time leads the nation and is the second-fastest time in the world this outdoor season, while junior Ricky Robertson also leads the nation and is tied for second-best in the world with a 7-4.5 mark this past weekend.

On the women’s side, senior Logan Waites shattered the school record in the 3,000 meters with a time of 9:45.54, which earned her the title in the meet. The new record eclipses the 10:02.60 mark, which has held since 1989.

Now the Rebels return home where they have excelled in the past, and Walker believes that the trend will continue this weekend.

“We’re really excited about being at home,” he said.

“We’ve always defended our home turf really well, and it’s our chance for our family and friends to see us and to come out.

“So, it is always a big affair for us to be at home. We get

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Junior Ricky Robertson

excited when we are here.”

Going into the home meet, the Rebels have three athletes who earned SEC weekly awards for their performances at the SEC/Big Ten Challenge. Young and Robertson were named runner of the week and co-men’s field athlete of the week, respectively, and Waites garnered cowomen’s runner of the week honors.

Saturday’s meet is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., and among the schools that will be represented are SEC schools Alabama and Mississippi, as well as Memphis, among other Division I schools across the Southeast and the country.

singles with an 11-5 record in dual matches and 5-1 in the SEC at No. 1 singles. Guthrie, who won both her matches this past weekend, is 12-5 in dual matches, including 9-2 at No. 5 singles and 5-1 in the SEC. “Abby had a great win against Florida,” Beyers said. “She beat a player who was undefeated for a year. For her to come up with a win like that is big.”

The Rebels will begin action today at 1 p.m. against Arkansas and will continue Sunday at 1 p.m. against LSU. OLE MISS SPORTS INFORMATION

Ole Miss Nominees For SEC Postgraduate Scholarships Announced BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Rebel tennis players Marcel Thiemann and Gabby Rangel have been nominated for the H. Boyd McWhorter ScholarAthlete Postgraduate Scholarship, and football player Devin Thomas and softball player Amanda Hutcheson have been nominated for the Brad Davis Community Service Postgraduate Scholarship by the University of Mississippi.

The H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Postgraduate Scholarship has been presented by the Southeastern Conference since 1986 to the league’s top male and female scholar-athletes.

The SEC Community Service Postgraduate Scholarship is named for former Associate Commissioner Brad Davis.

Davis succumbed to cancer on March 2, 2006. He had been a member of the SEC staff since 1988, first serving as an assistant commissioner, until 1994 when he was promoted to associate commissioner.

The Southeastern Conference will name the 2012 recipients of the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship on April 6 in conjunction with National Student-Athlete Day.

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Practice Report: Freeze pleased with yesterday going into today’s scrimmage

By Bennett Hipp jbhipp@olemiss.edu

After a lackluster performance during Tuesday’s practice, the Ole Miss football team came back strong Thursday, said head coach Hugh Freeze.

“I couldn’t be more pleased really,” Freeze said. “The way they bounced back from what I thought was a half-hearted effort. I didn’t think their attitude was bad, but I didn’t think we gave great effort for the entire practice Tuesday.

“We just told them in our team meeting that it’s time that they expect more of themselves, and it’s not OK to not give great effort.”

The Ole Miss offense has come along slowly due to learning a new system and facing a defense that has already installed a good bit of their playbook, but Freeze said the offense was better Thursday.

“Today, I thought, was great,” Freeze said. “It was the best team competition we’ve had, and the offense finally competed a little bit. We had too many balls on the ground offensively, but the thing I was most pleased with today is that they bounced back with great energy and effort.

“That’s my background, and I take it personal if we don’t have

success.”

Grant happy to be at defensive tackle Senior Uriah Grant signed with Ole Miss out of junior college last year and came in as a defensive tackle.

Due to injuries and ineffectiveness, the Miramar, Fla., native was forced to rotate between defensive end and tackle. This year, Grant is happy to have only one position.

“Last year, I wasn’t really a defensive end, but coach asked me to do it, and I’m going to do anything to help the team,” Grant said. “I’m just glad that right now I’m just playing defensive tackle.”

A new coaching staff under Hugh Freeze has energized the team, and defensive line coach Chris Kiffin has certainly done that to the defensive line.

“There’s a lot more energy, a lot more fun, a lot more enthusiasm,” said Grant. “It makes you want to come out to practice and just go hard and just have fun.”

Because the defensive tackle group as a whole is inexperienced, Grant will have the opportunity to step in and play major snaps at the position.

“D-Line is huge to begin with, and to play in this league, you better be two-deep at least, if not

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Ole Miss offensive and defensive lines go through spring drills.

three,” Freeze said. “Uriah is a guy that obviously we think is going to be right in the mix. I know Coach Kiffin’s pleased with his inside guys.”

The new coaching staff has also emphasized the importance of becoming closer as a team, and Grant said he can see the effects.

“Things are going pretty good right now, we’re building a closer team and guys are just learning the plays and stuff,” Grant said.

“We’re just coming together as one, and that’s what coaches ask for – just to come together as a family.”

Junior Barry Brunetti

Senior Randall Mackey

Three things to keep an eye on in today’s 4:15 p.m. scrimmage at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium: 1. Quarterbacks Most of the focus in tomorrow’s scrimmage will be on the quarterback position and how they handle Hugh Freeze’s hightempo, spread offense. Through five practices, junior Barry Brunetti and sophomore Bo Wallace have started to separate themselves from the group. Wallace has an advantage because he already knows most of the terminology from his stint at Arkansas State, and Brunetti has done well because the offense suits him in terms of his playing style. Tomorrow gives Zack Stoudt, Randall Mackey and the rest of the quarterbacks an opportunity to close the gap on Brunetti and Wallace.

2. Questions on Defense When the hiring of Dave Wommack was announced, and he said that he would bring his 4-2-5 defense to Oxford, there was much skepticism about whether that scheme could work in the Southeastern Conference.

The defense has consistently been ahead of the offense so far in spring practice, and the same should be expected tomorrow.

But, the defense isn’t without question marks. Chris Kiffin is still searching for pass rushers on his defensive line, and while Wommack has said that sophomore C.J. Johnson has stood out to him, there will be plenty of chances for others to shine. Also, a retooled

secondary with Charles Sawyer back at safety will be something to watch. With Sawyer not at cornerback, there’s now an opening to fill at the position.

3. Offensive Line Another area to watch during the scrimmage will be the offensive line. Already tasked with replacing both starting offensive tackles, the line has undergone a shuffle during spring practice. Junior Emmanuel McCray has been working at left tackle with Aaron Morris moved to left guard. Junior college transfer Pierce Burton has been working with the first team at right tackle, but the line remains unsettled.

Softball to host No. 24 Auburn in weekend series

By Josh Hollingshead conner.josh12@gmail.com

The Ole Miss Rebels softball team (14-16, 2-6 SEC) hosts the No. 24 nationally ranked Auburn Tigers (24-11, 3-7 SEC) in a threegame series this weekend at the Ole Miss Softball Complex. Earlier this week, the Rebels split a midweek double header in Ridgeland, losing to Jackson State, 7-2, before bouncing back with a 5-3 win against Southern Miss.

Senior Kendall Bruning took the loss in game one, giving up seven runs — six earned — on nine hits with eight strikeouts in six innings. Bruning leads the team in the circle with an 11-8 record,

a 3.82 earned run average and 90 strikeouts in 111.2 innings pitched.

In the second game, junior Erinn Jayjohn pitched her first career complete game to earn the win, giving up seven runs — six earned — on nine hits, while striking out eight.

“All of her pitches worked,” head Coach Windy Thees said of Jayjohn after Tuesday’s game against Southern Miss. “She spins the ball really well, she is off speed and can switch up the speed on all of her pitches.”

The Auburn Tigers, one spot ahead of Ole Miss in the league standings, enter the weekend after dropping a midweek double header against No. 2 nationally

ranked Alabama. Including the double header split, Ole Miss has lost four of five dating back to this past weekend’s series sweep against Georgia.

As a team, the Rebels are hitting .296, sixth in the SEC, led by freshman Londen Ladner who ranks 10th in the conference with a .397 batting average, followed by senior Corrine Doornberg who ranks 11th with a .386 batting average. Ladner also leads the team with five home runs, while freshman Allison Brown leads the team with 28 RBI. Friday’s series opener is set for 6 p.m., Saturday’s game is scheduled for 2 p.m. and Sunday’s game at 1 p.m.

Senior Zack Stoudt

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Soccer Unveils 2012 Schedule In 2012, the Ole Miss soccer team will play a total of 12 home games and face 10 teams that advanced to last year’s NCAA Tournament third-year head coach Matt Mott Thursday. In addition, the schedule will have a new-look for SEC games with the addition of Texas A&M and Missouri to the league.

“We’re excited about our 2012 schedule. Adding Texas A&M and Missouri will only make the SEC even stronger. We’ve put together a good non-conference schedule with six home games, and we will be playing great teams at home like Memphis and Texas Tech. Overall, I’m excited to have 12 home games throughout the year. We love playing at home in front of our fans and having that home-field advantage.”

Nine of the 10 teams that Ole Miss will face this year that advanced to postseason play in 2011 are SEC opponents.

During its non-conference season, the Rebels will play six of its seven non-league games at home, including games against Memphis and Texas Tech. Ole Miss will also host Southern Miss, LouisianaLafayette and Arkansas-Little Rock, while the Rebels will be traveling to Middle Tennessee.

The Rebels will open SEC play hosting Arkansas on September 14 and conference-newcomer Texas A&M on September 16. Ole Miss will then play four-consecutive games on the road at conferencenewcomer Missouri, followed by Alabama, Florida and Auburn from September 21-30.

Ole Miss will host Georgia on October 5 and Kentucky on October 7 before traveling to Vanderbilt (October 12) and South Carolina (October 14). The Rebels will host LSU and Tennessee on October 19 and 21 and will close out the regular season in the Magnolia Cup with a game at Mississippi State on October 25.

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No. 16 Diamond Rebels host No. 1 Florida in weekend showdown

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Junior second baseman Alex Yarbrough makes a play in the field. Yarbrough leads the team and ranks third in the SEC with a .407 batting average this season.

BY DAVID COLLIER dlcollie@olemiss.edu

If No. 16 Ole Miss (18-7, 3-3 SEC) thought its first two weekends of Southeastern Conference action was tough, it’ll think this weekend is nearly impossible as the Florida Gators (23-2, 5-1 SEC), who are ranked No. 1 in the nation, come in to town for a three-game series starting tonight at Oxford-University Stadium/ Swayze Field.

“It’s another opportunity in the Southeastern Conference,” head coach Mike Bianco said. “It’s a big one for the fans and everybody because you’re playing the No. 1 team in the country. But, I think it’s important to be ourselves.

“I think it’s important to stay the course. It’s going to be an exciting weekend. The weather is going to be great, and there will be some great crowds.”

Coming into the weekend, Florida took two of three on the road from the defending national champions South Carolina this past weekend and defeated No. 4 Florida State for a second time on

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Tuesday, while Ole Miss took two of three at Alabama and shut out Jackson State, also on Tuesday.

Florida leads the all-time series 45-44 after a series sweep this past season in Gainesville.

On paper, the Gators and Rebels look similar at the plate. As a team, Florida is hitting .295 and averaging 7.1 runs per game, to go along with 37 home runs this season. Ole Miss is hitting .313 and averaging just under seven runs per game, while having hit 20 home runs this season.

The Gators are led at the plate by junior catcher Mike Zunino, who leads the team in batting average (.376), RBI (32) and home runs (9). He leads the SEC in home runs, ranks second in RBI and fifth in batting average, while Ole Miss senior designated hitter Zach Kirksey leads the league in RBI (33), ranks second in home runs (8) and junior second baseman Alex Yarbrough ranks third in batting average (.407).

On Friday night, sophomore right-hander Bobby Wahl will look to set the tone for the weekend, but it won’t be easy going

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against junior right-hander Hudson Randall of the Gators. Wahl is a perfect 4-0 on the season with a 2.36 earned run average in 34.1 innings pitched with a team-leading 42 strikeouts. Randall is 3-0 on the year with a 3.41 earned run average in 37.0 innings. He has also totaled 34 strikeouts on the year.

Senior right-hander R.J. Hively will look to continue his dominance on the mound and opposes junior left-hander Brian Johnson on Saturday afternoon. Hively is 3-1 and leads the team with a 1.47 earned run average in 36.2 innings of work. Johnson is 4-0 with a 3.13 earned run average over 31.2 innings.

On Sunday afternoon, sophomore right-hander Mike Mayers goes up against sophomore righthander Jonathan Crawford. Mayers has pitched better than his 2-2 record indicates this year. He holds a 3.47 earned run average in 36.1 innings pitched, and opponents are hitting just .205 against him. Crawford is 2-1 with a 3.95 earned run average over 27.1 innings.

Friday’s series opener is set for a 6:30 p.m. first pitch and will be televised on Sun Sports. Saturday’s game is set for 1:30 p.m., while Sunday’s series finale will start at 12:30 p.m.

A history of upsets Ole Miss has a good history in series versus top-10 opponents at home, especially those ranked No. 1 in the nation.

The Rebels are a perfect 2-0 against top-ranked teams at home after defeating the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs in 2009 and the No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks this past season. Dating back to 2003,

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Ole Miss has hosted 13 top-10 opponents, taking the series 10 of those 13 times.

“We’re really excited to play them,” Yarbrough said. “Their (lineup) 1 (through) 9 and their whole pitching staff is arguably the best team in the country. They’re going to have a lot of great arms they’re going to throw at us all weekend — a lot of power arms.

“1-9 in their lineup, they’re going to be about as strong as we’ll see all year. But, we’re just trying to focus on playing our game, playing the game the right way and playing hard. I think if we focus on that, we’ll be OK.” Hometown motivation If it weren’t enough to be playing the No. 1 team in the country, sophomore catcher Will Allen has some added motivation this weekend.

Allen hails from Gainesville, Fla., so he is very familiar with the visiting Gators.

“Obviously, I’m from there,” he said. “I’ve got great respect for their program and their coaches.

Both of my parents went there, and my dad played football there.

I grew up a Gator fan, but things change.

“I came up here one Friday night and fell in love with Ole Miss and Oxford. I’m just really looking forward to the opportunity to play them.”

Buchanan gaining confidence Freshman Hawtin Buchanan has looked impressive in his last couple of appearances, including striking out the side in a perfect sixth inning against Jackson State on Tuesday night.

“Just getting some innings under my belt is really good for confidence,” Buchanan said.

In just 4.2 innings this season, the 6-foot-8, 250-pound righthander has struck out 10 batters, while giving up just four hits.

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