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Thursday, March 9, 2017
Volume 105, No. 104
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Filmmakers take stage at Honors Convocation
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LEFT: Self-taught animator Brent Green performs at Honors Convocation at the Ford Center Wednesday. RIGHT: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green speaks during his short-story style presentation.
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When award-winning filmmakers Brent and Sam Green are asked permission to screen their films, they decline. They perform every showing in-person with a full band. The musicians and filmmakers who took the stage at the
Sally McDonnell Barksdale Spring Honors Convocation Wednesday night appeared more like a group of friends hanging out. “Live Cinema” featured seven short films with live music and in-person narration by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green and animator Brent Green, whose films have been performed at the Sundance Film Festival.
“Honestly, I would have paid a lot of money to watch this,” Wesley Craft, a freshman public policy major, said. “I feel like I know them.” The chancellor’s artist-in-residence, Bruce Levingston, played the piano with the ensemble in one performance. Each film explored everyday concepts many may take for granted, like being the oldest person in the world, the San
Francisco fog or a middle-aged diabetic. One documentary, “116 Candles,” discussed the phenomenon of holding the world record of the oldest living person in the world. With the death of each record holder, the door to the past is swung shut. “I was inspired,” freshman public policy major Sophie
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Fall rush dates amended After much controversy, conversation and 2,716 signatures on a petition, the university rescheduled formal fraternity and sorority recruitment to Sept. 1724. Donald Abels, coordinator of the university’s Office of Fraternity and Sorority Greek Life, released the changed dates in an email Wednesday afternoon. “Recruitment dates for College Panhellenic and the Interfraternity Council are as follows: September 17-24, 2017,” Abels wrote. Marketing major and Panhellenic member Di Law began an online petition to reschedule the original recruitment dates, which interfered with the away football game at Alabama on Sept. 30. The petition garnered more than 2,700 votes and the attention of Greek Life leaders. Representatives from the university administration, IFC and Panhellenic met to discuss moving the dates. The Rebels have a bye weekend in their schedule on Sept. 23, the only Saturday of the season without a game. The final rounds of formal rush will happen this day instead of on the morning of Alabama game day.
Oxford participates in International Women’s Day JACQUELINE KNIRNSCHILD SLADE RAND thedmnews@gmail.com
Mothers, daughters and sisters in Oxford and around the world tapped into passions left over from the January Women’s March on Washington to stand in solidarity with women workers on Wednesday. Organizers behind the protest on the morning after President Donald Trump’s inauguration called for American women to make March 8 “A Day Without a Woman.” The organization’s website outlined ways women could show their support with the International Women’s Strike planned for
the same day. “Anyone, anywhere, can join by making March 8 ‘A Day Without a Woman,’ in one or all of the following ways: Women take the day off, from paid and unpaid labor. Avoid shopping for one day (with exceptions for small, women- and minority-owned businesses. Wear RED in solidarity with ‘A Day Without A Woman.’” Both the march and day off were sponsored primarily by Planned Parenthood and the National Resources Defense Council. The organizers’ site claims inspiration came from New York City’s recent Bodega Strike
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Secret surveillance: The CIA, your smart TV and you
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I have long dreaded this day. I was hoping that it wouldn’t come, but it’s here. It’s time to don our tinfoil hats, because it looks like that crazy uncle of ours who always said, “They’re listening to us!” was right. Except the “they” he is talking about may be much closer than we could have imagined.
In a recently released document collection, WikiLeaks claims the CIA can infiltrate everything from Android phones to Samsung smart televisions. The CIA wrote a program called Weeping Angel that puts the Samsung TV into a false off state, in which it proceeds to collect conversations and send them to a CIA server. I hesitate to even imagine how easily the CIA can collect data from my Google Home, whose job it is to literally listen to everything I say. The same can be said about Amazon’s Alexa, but that’s not really the point. The point is how far the CIA is taking this whole “spying on its people” thing. If it is getting so creative as to use TVs to collect information, I imagine soon I won’t be able to trust my microwave.
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I mean … not that I talk to my microwave often. Anyway, an alarming number of people are taking a lethargic approach to this. A lot of people say something like, “Well, if I have nothing to hide, I don’t need to worry, right?” No! Not right! Not caring about the right to privacy is like saying you don’t care about your right to free speech because you have nothing to say. Further, the notion that one’s country is doing so much spying on its citizens should incite fury. This is America! The land of the free! The only other countries that can even compete with this level of intrusion are Russia and China. The only positive I could see of such intense spying would be if this spying actually stopped crime and ter-
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dium-scale terrorist plots. Even further, the United States does not even rank among the highest targeted countries. On the Global Terrorism Index, an attempt to quantify how much terrorist activity occurs in a country, the United States ranks 34th, far behind China and Russia, which sit at 23 and 24, respectively. So, to sum everything up, the CIA is allegedly hacking televisions to spy on us, and it hasn’t been shown to prevent the terrorism that we’re not highly at risk for anyway.
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rorism. One statistic President Donald Trump has been touting lately is how Chicago has had its steepest murder rate increase in the last 50 years. Since the induction of the Patriot Act in 2001, we have had the largest mass shooting on United States soil in Orlando, Florida, the Boston Bombings and the 2015 Chattanooga Shootings, just to name a few. Since 2010, there have been 41 acts of terrorism in the United States. One would think that with such intense surveillance that has been unmasked, the United States would be more protected. According to The Intercept, which, admittedly, does lean left, there has been no evidence that National Security Agency or CIA mass surveillance has thwarted any large- or me-
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continued from page 1 by Yemeni immigrants and the national Day Without Immigrants. Wednesday’s project coincided with International Women’s Day, which was founded as a Socialist labor movement in 1909 and recognized by the United Nations in 1975. American women’s protests were matched by similar demonstrations in countries including Poland, Ukraine and Indonesia. A handful of Oxford business owners and Ole Miss employees stood in recognition of women in the international workforce on Wednesday. The women-operated Square Books promoted meaningful books, and Rebel professors wore red to class. “We have a display of important books on women’s rights and issues,” Square Books general manager Lyn Roberts said. “We are hosting an event with H.C. Porter, the artist, this evening.” Allison Burkette, associate professor of linguistics, said she would have stayed home from her Wednesday class if she were not already planning on missing two class meetings for an overseas conference in April. Burkette instead opted to wear a red Square Books Jr. T-shirt borrowed from her daughter. “I was not in a position to not show up to work today,” Burkette said. “So I’m going to wear red to be in solidarity.” Burkette said she only made one purchase throughout the day, at Bottletree Bakery, which is owned by a woman. Besides that, she did not participate in the economy. Her husband was out of town Wednesday, and Burkette said she was also unable to boycott her “unpaid labor at home.”
“I’m stuck with all my normal paid and unpaid labor,” Burkette said. Kate Centellas, associate professor of anthropology, said she carried out a “kind of half-strike.” She said she had already signed up to chaperone her son’s field trip on March 8, long before the strike was announced. “Were I not committed to the trip, I would not be coming in to the office,” Centellas said. However, Centellas said she shed many of her other daily responsibilities by chaperoning the field trip. “By going on the field trip, I am essentially leaving my partner in charge of our two smaller, more demanding kids all day,” Centellas said. Centellas said she also planned a strike at home, meaning she would not do any dishes, laundry or other chores. Burkette said she expected more people to wear red on Wednesday, but did run into a woman on the Square sporting the protest’s color.
“I did pass an older woman on the street who was wearing red, and it could have been coincidence, but she smiled at me and said hello,” Burkette said. “I was hoping that we kind of had a moment there.” History department chair Noell Wilson said she would have worn red if she were in town for the protest, instead of in California. “I would have worn a red shirt and encouraged or invited all females – faculty and staff – in the history department to do the same,” Wilson said. International studies associate professor Vivian Ibrahim said she and her colleagues usually make a day out of the annual women’s celebration on March 8. “We all try to have a dinner together and celebrate,” Ibrahim said. “I’m hoping when my kid is old enough she’ll understand the significance and that many of the original struggles are still real.”
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Kline said after viewing the short film. “I started crying.” By simultaneously exposing the humorous side and the uncomfortable dark side, “Live Cinema” displays a deeper, imaginative meaning to seemingly ordinary events. Every time they perform their films, there is an independent director’s commentary. In between each movie, the band members and filmmakers joked around, told stories of production mishaps and laughed with the audience. The casual conversation appeared improvised. Brent Green said one element of the show that is not present in either his or Sam’s previous work is the audience. “The thing that makes it feel like it’s working is that everyone is hanging out,” Brent Green said. Musicians Brendan Canty, James Canty, Becky Foon and Kate Ryan alternated between instruments, providing audio that heightened the experience in a way words just cannot accomplish.
Sam Green said sometimes words do not always work as well as sounds when describing a specific feeling. He said he will ask the Cantys to give him audio to portray certain sentiments, such as “something sunny that feels nice,” and the sound they produce will be just right. Brent Green thinks the most powerful way to communicate today is by combining computer technology, film, music and great writing. Sam and Brent Green do not consider themselves pioneers of “Live Cinema,” but they are continuing to develop the new field. “I’d say it’s using older forms of cinema to make something new,” Sam Green said. The blend of mediums and organic atmosphere allowed “Live Cinema” to capture the attention of the audience. The consensus among students seemed to be that the performance felt as natural and spontaneous as a conversation. Michaela Gay said she was especially struck by the originality of the performance as an art major. “I just kind of watched it in awe of how different it was,” Gay said.
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Ole Miss ‘e-cyling’ gives old technology new life TRENTON SCAIFE
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Like most colleges, the University of Mississippi goes through tons of technology, with year-to-year upgrades turning modern PCs into salvage. The electronic waste, known as e-waste, can’t sit in a storage closet forever, though. Instead, the university has them cleared away and sent to be reused or recycled. This process starts with the Office of Procurement, where Patti Mooney determines the fate of the computers that come her way. Computers too old to serve one department lose their hard drives and get sent to a new home. Whether or not that new home is another place on campus depends on the need. As long as parts can be bought for them and there’s a motherboard to shove them into, old Ole Miss computers will eventually reside in another staterun department. “Basically, someone would have to run over your laptop before we call it e-waste,” Mooney said. Once a device is dead enough
to be called e-waste, the state mandates it be sent to a recycling center. In Mississippi, thats Magnolia Data Solutions. Owned by Barrett White, MDS has been smashing electronics since 2012. Plastic circuit boards are melted down, metals are reclaimed and parts with a bit of life in them go back out to market. Loose hard drives make their way to MDS, too, but not before the Office of Procurement destroys them a little bit itself. Hard drives hold onto their data so tightly that the only way to truly clear them is to destroy them, and this process starts with a magnetic pike. “If it comes to us, it will not leave without a hole in it,” Mooney said. The state requires the university to recycle what can’t be rehabilitated, but students’ e-waste is another matter. Laws don’t require them to properly dispose of their tech, and providing a way for 23,000 students to dump their devices properly presents its own challenges. “It’s not manpower so much as having the responsibility dispersed among so many people,”
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Mooney said. That’s where the Office of Sustainability comes in. Through the Green Initiative, under assistant director Anne McCauley, the Office of Sustainability works to reduce various streams of waste, from food and plastics to small electronics, from entering landfills.
Working with the non-profit recycling group Funding Factory, classes across campus were outfitted with e-waste recycling bins. The small slots won’t accommodate old tower PCs, but they do provide a spot to throw cell phones, ink cartridges and other small gadgets so they won’t end up in a landfill.
“Beyond that, we don’t really have anything,” McCauley said. “We’ve got so many devices now that we should really be offering students expanded opportunities to deal with them.” Until those opportunities arise, McCauley and her staff use informational campaigns in the fall and spring. Their most successful is the Green Grove Initiative, a small campaign run during football season handing out green recycling bags to tents in the Grove in hopes of encouraging students and fans to recycle. The options for students to throw out their e-waste are limited as of right now, with the nearest MDS recycling center being three hours south of Oxford. McCauley said she believes companies like MDS may see the economic opportunities to be had in harvesting resources from e-waste. “We’re already starting to think about how we can do better, and as our options increase, we can engage in it in a deeper way.” This article was submitted to The Daily Mississippian from an advanced reporting class.
Familiar faces return to Oxford stage this Friday DEVNA BOSE
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School is slowing down and spring break is nearing, but Proud Larry’s doesn’t show any sign of stopping its steady stream of soulful local bands, and this Friday night is no exception. Fides and Sage Boy will be opening for El Obo this Friday night, and the Proud Larry’s stage is a familiar place for all three groups. Sage Boy, a brand new project from the former members of Water Spaniel, was started in fall 2015 after Gray Secrest, drums, and Forrest Philpot, vocals and guitar, spent years dreaming about starting a band with a different vibe. “We fantasized for a long time about starting a ‘dancey’ band that would still be dressed in sad music,” Philpot said. Things quickly starting rolling after that point for the new project. “From there, we met our friend Connor, who helped us initially write a handful of songs as another guitarist,” Philpot said. “We added Dylan Crouch on bass because Gray and I had both played with him in other bands and love and trust him, and we added Kacee on vocals and guitar after we realized none of our voices were as strong as we wanted for the music we were writing. I initially didn’t even want to sing, but Connor moved and the jobs all
sort of changed in-band.” The changes made have only strengthened Sage Boy’s thoughtful sound, and the band continues to write more and play more. “Our sound is straightforward but sometimes thoughtful pop music for listening to after your team just lost the big game at home field,” Philpot said. Band member Kacee Russell shared her sentiments stating, “I would say our sound goes in a lot of different directions, but it does end up having kind of an emo aftertaste a lot of times.” She claimed her Hayley Williams-esque vocals certainly add to the overall sound with her strong Paramore influences. “Also, Forrest just writes some damn good, real lyrics,” she said. “Also, I yell a lot.” Sage Boy’s biggest influences are Tigers Jaw, Built to Spill
our eyes set on Sage.” Russell added that she thinks she would have never imagined being a part of Sage Boy, but all of the band members’ different styles contribute to its weird and cool music. “We don’t give a dang what your mom COURTESY: PROUDLARRYS.COM thinks about us,” Crouch said. and Turnover, which is what The other opener for El Obo it’s been listening to in recent is Fides, a motley crew from years, and bassist Dylan Crouch Clinton that has been been “endescribes the band as a mix bethralling the saints and sinners tween Steely Dan and Brainiac. of the Bible Belt since 2010.” “I like doing Sage Boy because The band had been performit took a lot of present circuming rock from the ‘60s and ‘70s stances from each member and for the Jackson restaurant cirmade it into a pretty bouquet – cuit when the average age of one that comes across as slightthe band members was 15 years ly tired or downtrodden I think, old, and as the members have but in a way that is really easy gotten older, writing and perto grasp onto if you’re in your forming original music has be20s and have done something come a focus of the band. stupid maybe once or twice,” “Tommy Bobo, Cody SparkPhilpot said. “Musically, I think man and I have been playing our vocal harmonies sound retogether since we were 14 and ally nice with the walking gui15 years old and going to Clintars and groovy drum and bass ton High School, and we started parts. If we were a very large really trying to write and record corporation, I’d say, ‘Sage Boy original music in 2012 as Cody Inc. has good synergy.’” and I were graduating,” Reed “We’re unique because we all Smith said. “Jacob Lifsey, who came out of different projects is our synth player, has been at the same time,” Secrest said. playing with us since this past “And yeah, some are still conJuly, when our new album tinuing, but for now we have ‘Across the Yard’ was released.
He recorded and mixed the album, so his joining felt very natural.” Seven years later, self-described “heavy indie rock band” Fides travels all over the state to perform “high energy and cathartic” live shows jam-packed with psychedelic rock and R&B influence, sure to send goosebumps down your spine. Headliner El Obo is the project of Jesse Coppenbarger, formerly of the celebrated Mississippi indie-rock group Colour Revolt, which Reed Smith of Fides described as “easily the best/most influential rock bands to ever come out of Mississippi.” El Obo was created to serve as an outlet for “music that didn’t fit the louder guitar sounds of Colour Revolt,” according to an article from Swampland, and it shows a deeper facet of ideas that Coppenberger has only previously hinted at with Colour Revolt. All three bands are stoked to be returning to the Proud Larry’s stage. “This is our fourth time playing Larry’s,” Smith said. “And we are always pleased with everything from the sound to the crowd to the hospitality.” Sage Boy’s members are equally as excited and are always down to play at the iconic Oxford jam spot. “I hope the show at Larry’s warms hearts and moves bodies, or maybe the other way around – not sure,” Philpot said.
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7 South brings brotherhood, good vibes to music LEXI PURVIS
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7 South isn’t a typical Oxford band. When they’re not out jamming at Locals, the band members can be found studying for tomorrow’s midterms. Formed by four brothers of the fraternity Sigma Chi, 7 South includes lead singer and guitarist Michael Reddoch, lead guitarist Johny Hallow, bassist Stephen Elgin and drummer Collin Curtin. The band has also recently added keyboardist Grant Reviere to the mix. When you think of a band practicing for a show, you think of an old garage with a bunch of instruments going 100 miles per hour, but for 7 South, the fraternity house is the ideal practice location. “We found a set of drums in a closet in our basement, so I started playing,” Curtin said. “We all ended up playing together. After finding the drums, we moved them into an extra room in our basement, so our house mom gave us a lock for the door and gave us our own music room.” Aside from the love of mu-
sic, each member of the band is also originally from outside of Oxford. The band came up with the name 7 South because the members all have to take Highway 7 to get to town, and the city of Oxford is what brought them all together. “Highway 7 is a pretty significant highway in Mississippi,” Hallow said. “It really reflects the Mississippi vibe. It’s a beautiful drive, and the name had that jam band feel, so we kept it.” “And we couldn’t think of anything else better,” Elgin said. 7 South credits a fellow band associated with the fraternity, Ebenezer Goodman, for hooking it up with its first gig at Rafters. That performance landed the band around 12 more upcoming gigs for the semester. It’s been asked to perform for other fraternity functions, sorority formals and well-known music hotspots in Oxford, like Locals and The Library. “When we formed the band, we had no idea we would actually be playing gigs,” Curtin said. “The band was just something we did for fun. It was a great study break, but now we get to perform all
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7 South around Oxford.” The brothers of Sigma Chi have been incredibly supportive of the band, and they even sit in on practice and listen to the group jam out. The group practices late into the night, but the brothers living in the Sigma Chi house don’t seem to mind the noise because they all enjoy the music and supporting their brothers. “A lot of guys in the house
just sit in and listen to us practice,” Hallow said. “The support from Sigma Chi has been great.” 7 South doesn’t have a set style it plays because it plays just about everything. The members set a goal to learn five new songs before every gig so they can have a variety of different music to perform for their audiences. The band’s current goal is to learn
around 60 songs and eventually begin writing its own original music. “We play everything from ‘Party in the USA’ by Miley Cyrus, all the way to Led Zepplin or ACDC,” Reddoch said. While 7 South is still new, it’s already experienced a lot of local success. The members of 7 South are extremely excited for their future as a band, as is the rest of Oxford.
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Terrence Phillips, a sophomore guard for the Tigers, fouled out with just minutes left in regulation time, it felt as though Missouri’s fate was sealed. Not on Kevin Puryear’s watch. The sophomore guard dropped 30 on Auburn and led Mizzou with seven rebounds. On top of that, current head coach Kim Anderson has been asked to step down after this season by his athletic director. In other words, his players are now competing for roster spots next. What does this all mean for their match against the Rebels? Missouri’s going to have plenty of motivation and momentum. If Jordan Barnett, leading the Tigers with 12 ppg, produces and Puryear comes close to replicating his Wednesday night form, Ole Miss is in for a handful.
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The Southeastern Conference Tournament tipped off Wednesday night in Nashville, Tennessee, as 14thranked Missouri upset 11thranked Auburn 86-83 in overtime with an emphatic last-minute shot. The Ole Miss Rebels, entering the tournament as the No. 6 seed in the SEC, are now set to take on Mizzou at 9:30 Thursday night. Whether you’re making the trip to Tennessee or tuning in at home, here are a few key points to look out for:
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A look at early favorites in the National League East RANDY MORGAN
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With baseball season quickly approaching, perhaps no other conference in Major League Baseball will be as hotly contested as the National League East. Filled with a solid mix of future stars and old guns, the NL East should keep fans across the league on their toes. Here’s an early look at the conference’s frontrunners:
WASHINGTON NATIONALS PROJECTED: 1ST
NEW YORK METS PROJECTED: 2ND
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES PROJECTED: 3RD
Last Season: 90-72 | 1st in NL East
Last Season: 87-75 | 2nd in the NL East
Last Season: 71-91 | 4th in the NL East
Just two seasons removed from a World Series appearance, the Mets are ready to make a surge again. While they have one of the best rotations in baseball, health will continue to be a factor. Noah Syndergaard will start on day one for the Mets and looks to make a run at the Cy Young Award. Jacob deGrom will be the second man in the rotation, followed by Matt Harvey, Steven Matz, Robert Gsellman. The young arms could prove to be the best in the majors, but they have to stay healthy. Matt Harvey still has not returned to his form after his season-ending Tommy John surgery in 2013. The Mets’ offense looks to step up and provide some much-needed run support this year as they bring back power-hitting outfielder Yoenis Cespedes to the lineup. Veteran David Wright hopes to provide some much-needed offense late in his career.
With newly acquired starter Clay Buchholz leading their rotation, the Phillies can improve on their 2016 record. Their offense will have to prove better than last season, but with Maikel Franco and Howie Kendrick playing on the left side of the field, the Phillies should be able to muster enough runs to win games. While its success relies a lot on a few “what ifs,” manager Pete Mackanin, entering his second season, looks prepared to lead his squad deep into the playoffs. Its bullpen will rely on some aging arms in Joaquin Benoit and Pat Neshek, but it has some youth in Hector Neris, Edubray Ramos and Jeanmar Gomez. There are plenty of questions surrounding the Phillies’ ability to put it all together this year, but, on paper at least, there’s no reason they shouldn’t make a run at a wild card spot.
The Washington Nationals have been a favorite in the NL East for the past few years. Over the offseason, the Nats attempted to add Chris Sale to their talented rotation but missed out. Despite that, the Nationals traded top pitching prospect Lucas Giolito and some minor pieces for Chicago White Sox outfielder Adam Eaton. Stephen Strasburg, Max Scherzer and Gio Gonzalez lead one of the best rotations in the majors. The only question for the Nats on the mound would be in the bullpen. With Mark Melancon closing, Shawn Kelley and plenty of unproven talent working out of the pen, the Nats could face some issues if their starters struggle. On the offensive side of things, the Nationals have plenty of options. A healthy Bryce Harper, newly acquired Adam Eaton and Jayson Werth are all offensive powers in the outfield. The infield gets a makeover this season now that young phenom Trae Turner has moved to his natural shortstop position. Daniel Murphy, who was second in MLB with a .347 batting average last season, Ryan Zimmerman at first and Anthony Rendon at third finish out the infield. Newly acquired Derek Norris will catch this year.
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Rebs fall to Georgia State, dropping 5 of last 6 games ETHAN WRIGHT
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Following a strong 7-0 start to the season, Ole Miss baseball has dropped five of the last six games as of the Wednesday afternoon loss to Georgia State at home. The loss, which brought the series to 1-1, saw the Rebels shut out in their own stadium. Through 11 innings, the Rebels’ offense just couldn’t seem to turn hits into runs, an issue that’s plagued Ole Miss throughout its six-game skid. To put the issue into perspective, Ole Miss has scored just five runs in the past 46 innings and has been held scoreless in 43 of those innings. The drought isn’t helped by the fact head coach Mike Bianco suspended captains Colby Bortles and Tate Blackman before Wednesday’s game. As Bianco explained after the game, the lack of production can’t fall on any one individual but should rest on the team as a whole. “If there was any one [problem], we would certainly fix it or tell them,” Bianco said. “It’s tough. We just didn’t look well the past two days.”
The Rebels certainly have talent and potential to spare, as shown during the initial 7-0 stretch, but the current drought is hard to nail down and may be even harder to fix. Bianco, an experienced collegiate coach, believes it may be a matter of patience. “You just keep competing. … You just keep fighting. You can all of a sudden get a couple base hits and you’re back,” Bianco said. If he’s is right, that return to form needs to come sooner rather than later. The hitting, or lack thereof, is counterproductive to even the most impressive pitching. Will Ethridge, in his second start of the year, commanded the flow of the game from the first pitch. He finished the game with 10 strikeouts from 95 pitches and was perfect through his first five-and-ahalf innings. Despite giving up two hits later on, Ethridge continued to dominate throughout the game and ended up retiring the first three batters he faced in six of the seven innings he pitched. After Ethridge was pulled, Dallas Woolfolk started his own reign of terror on the mound. His pitching halted several scoring attempts by Georgia State, including
James McArthur pitches in a game earlier this season. one of the most important pitches of the game – a late in the game, bases loaded, full-count strikeout to keep the game scoreless. Despite Ethridge and Woolfolk’s impressive performances, their efforts would be in vain, as the Ole Miss offense failed to get off the ground. Following Wednesday’s defeat and the continual offensive drought, one has to wonder: When will the offense
start producing? And when can we expect to see Bortles and Blackman back on the field? The answers to these questions may coincide, as Blackman is second on the team in batting average, and Bortles leads in slugging percentage. Beyond the numbers, the two are respected leaders on the team and both have contributed countless hits in their careers at Ole Miss.
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While the batting slump started before their suspension, the key to overcoming it could be in their return. If anything, they can’t make things any worse. With conference play looming in the not-so-distant future, it remains to be seen if Bianco’s men can pull things together in time to make a serious postseason run. Only time will tell.
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