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Who keeps Ole Unemployment claims Miss beautiful? drop nationwide Ole Miss is known throughout the U.S. as “America’s Most Beautiful Campus,” but less is clear about what exactly goes into maintaining that title. BY ADAM FLAHERTY gaflaher@go.olemiss.edu
The University of Mississippi’s beauty is well-known across the country, but how it is kept beautiful is more of a mystery to most. Keeping Ole Miss’ “America’s Most Beautiful Campus” title, as it was named by Newsweek in 2011, is in fact a complex financial and logistical operation. The campus is maintained by the University of Mississippi Landscape Services
The weekly total for unemployment claims dropped to its lowest level in four years.
Department, which operates under the Office for the Vice Chancellor of Administration and Finance. The mission statement of the department sums its role up well: “Our Mission is to provide professional services to the university, which ensures that its natural splendor is well maintained, environmentally sensitive and aesthetically pleasing to our customers. Our objective is to expand See LANDSCAPING, PAGE 5 GRAPHIC BY CAIN MADDEN | The Daily Mississippian
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Landscaping workers spread mulch on campus Friday. In the fiscal year 2010, over 1,053 trees, 10,381 shrubs and 8,760 yards of sod were planted on campus.
As of July 7, initial claims filed for unemployment benefits across the nation dropped dramatically, hitting 350,000 by the end of the week, according to data released by the United States Department of Labor. This is the lowest level in four years, a sharp decrease from the 392,000 filed the week of June 16. The sudden drop could
be due to circumstance, but the four-week average also dropped by 9,750 to 376,500. In 2008 when the nation’s recession first began, weekly claims for unemployment benefits were above 400,000 and peaked at 667,000 in March 2009. The week of June 30 saw Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Maryland with the largest decreases in initial claims filed. Florida and Pennsylvania supplied
statements listing the cause of the decrease: fewer layoffs in a variety of industries including agriculture and manufacturing. “If claims are dropping that much, it seems more people are finding jobs,” Robert Newsom, a legal studies major at Ole Miss, said. “Hopefully this means it will be easier for students to find jobs once we graduate.” Other students are less opSee UNEMPLOYMENT, PAGE 4
Ole Miss alumnus chosen as VP for Teach for America Billy Crews, newly chosen vice president of Teach for America, hopes to close the academic achievement gap in the Mississippi Delta. BY DAVID KENNEDY davidoakridge@gmail.com
University of Mississippi and Oxford public school graduate Billy Crews returns home after 30 years as a public media executive and education advocate to join Teach for America’s Regional Staff as vice president in the Mississippi Delta region. “It was the opportunity to work for Teach for America that
brought me here, but my commitment to Teach for America is rooted in values planted in me since my childhood in Oxford and the Ole Miss campus,” Crews said. Crews recently resigned from his position as the chief operating officer in the Tupelo Independent School District after realizing what he offered as a community builder wouldn’t make a significant impact “a sys-
tem with a lot of tradition.” Before his transfer to TISD, Crews was the CEO for Journal Inc.’s publication of the Eastern Daily Mississippian Newspaper, the largest owned newspaper in Mississippi. In the 1970’s, Crews’ efforts initiated the Mississippi Reading Improvement Program by raising over $1 million. The program was eventually included in the state’s education reform plan
as a way to help students across Mississippi avoid falling behind in reading. Crews said his new job will give him an opportunity to work with an organization that shares his genuine passion for education. “There is a number of forces and factors and key constituents that all have to work together to increase our educational level across the board,” Crews said.
Crews named outstanding teachers, outstanding leaders in the school building level, state leadership in the educational community and political leadership as some of the things that are necessary for educational improvement, both in Mississippi and throughout the U.S. “One key is to attract the best and brightest across this counSee CREWS, PAGE 5
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am thoroughly enjoying my summer break; it is so nice to basically have free time all the time. I’ve come to realize that the reason summer is so magnificent is because we get to do the activities we couldn’t otherwise do during the semester. For example, this summer I’ve been able to catch up on my “fun” reading. I’ve read about the Dickie Scruggs incident in Kings of Tort, and now, I’m working on a presidential book called “The
President’s Club.” I hope to get to Suze Orman’s “Money Book for the Young, Fabulous, and Broke” (because we all know just how fabulous I am). I love reading during the school year, and thankfully, my major allows me to read some pretty interesting works. However, in the summer, my reading isn’t required, and I get to make the selections. It’s so relaxing to read something mindlessly and purely for entertainment, knowing that you don’t have to memorize or learn it and you won’t be tested on it later. Another “different” activity of the summer is working. Personally, I love working, going into an office everyday and all that comes with it. I’m unable to work during the semester due to extra-curricular
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Adam, I’m having to take summer classes,” don’t worry, I put my time in, too. I took a class in June and worked with orientation. Even summer classes are better than the normal semester classes, though. They’re much more relaxed, and you get the work done in hardly no time. If trying to finish that one class you’re dreading, summer is definitely the right time for you. Plus, you still have a couple of weeks’ vacation before the fall semester starts. Here’s to hoping everyone is having an enjoyable summer! See everyone in the Fall. Hotty Toddy! Adam Blackwell is a public policy leadership junior from Natchez. Follow him on Twitter @AdamBlackwell1.
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In 1947, a supposed UFO crashed in the vicinity of Roswell, N.M. Since then, the American public has been hooked. There have been innumerable reports, studies, exposes, books and movies about the incident. It’s just an absolutely fascinating possibility. Visitors from outer space, a family maybe, on their way, to say, a movie about some weird creatures that live on a planet called Earth, crash in a lonely field, their lifeless bodies recovered days later by military personnel, then whisked away for secret autopsies that years later are still being speculated about. Well, that last part is true anyway — 65 years later, and we’re still talking about it. A recent article in USA Today has former CIA agent, Chase Brandon, going on record saying the Roswell incident actually happened. Of course, his imagination isn’t as family-oriented as mine — mom, dad, kids and a movie was never mentioned. But what was said was quite a bombshell. According to Brandon, the documents regarding the alleged landing of beings from space are locked up at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. He has seen them, and apparently, read them. OMG, it’s happening again. Roswell is the chosen spot, the promised land of extraterrestrial contact. We knew it all along. Or do we? On further research of Brandon’s assuaging of his conscience, I discovered an interesting fact that wasn’t mentioned in the article, which
was taken from interviews from The Huffington Post and the Daily Mail. He has a new book coming out, a sci-fi, political conspiracy thriller about the CIA’s cover-up of the Roswell UFO crash. Imagine that. After 35 years with the CIA, Brandon comes clean through his new book, “The Cryptos Conundrum.” One can only hope it was the thought of clearing his guilt-ridden conscience from keeping the secret since, according to the USA article, the mid 1990s, and not the idea of adding many zeros to his bank account from the sale of the book, that caused his recent confession. Of course, we may never know the answer to that. Just like we may never know just what was found in Roswell, N.M., no matter how many books and movies, reports and studies, we read and see about the subject. It’s one of those things you have to decide for yourself. It’s even been argued that alien visitors are mentioned in the Bible. However, Biblical scholars will tell you that the Bible is not a “science” book and should not be read as such. Flying saucers and little green men may not have been what Ezekiel had in mind when he wrote about his vision. And I would agree. In the realms of the unknown, we humans tend to fill-in-theblanks according to our own interpretations. Now, I’m not saying there aren’t aliens out there, and I’m not saying there are, but what I am saying is this: Being skeptical of people who have more than a vested interest in getting you to believe in their recently released stories isn’t really a bad thing! Angela Rogalski is a print journalism senior who lives in Abbeville. Follow her on Twitter @abbeangel.
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The controversy surrounding voter ID has had its fair share of the spotlight, from cries of Jim Crow to claims that voter fraud does not exist. Nonetheless, the policies have mostly been approved into law in a number of states. Both supporters and opponents of voter ID legislation want this to be the focus. However, in the grand scheme of the voting process, voter ID is a small issue, really a non-factor. According to a report by George Mason University, 131,304,731 people voted in the 2008 Presidential Election. Around 82 million people who were eligible to vote decided not to go to the polls that day (or vote absentee). The U.S. has broadcast to the world for over 200 years that our form of democracy is the best way to go. We pride ourselves on the fact that every individual has a voice in this country. Yet, we sit back and think it is perfectly okay for almost 40 percent of eligible voters to not cast their votes! After the fall of the Taliban, Afghans went to the polls to choose their leaders in the first direct election under their new constitution in 2003. At least
75 percent of eligible Afghan voters voted in that election. A vast number of the voters walked for many miles to cast a ballot. Here in America, we complain if we spend more than five minutes at the precinct, if we even go at all. Americans have truly lost the meaning and purpose of elections. If Americans had to overcome the obstacles to vote that the Afghans had to, we probably would have only a fraction of voters turn out on Election Day. It is time for Americans to wake up and to realize what we have right in front of us that billions of people around the world do not have the luxury of. We want to call voting a right and claim that is something we deserve simply because of the fact that we were born within some imaginary lines on a map. Americans cling tightly to
things that we feel privileged to have, but we hardly give a second thought to things that we consider to be a right until we feel we might lose it. Perhaps the best thing that will come out of the voter ID legislation is making people realize just how important the voting process is. Those that choose not to vote are forsaking the very thing that the Founding Fathers risked their lives and liberty for: direct representation. At the close of the Constitutional Convention, a woman asked Ben Franklin what type of government the delegates had established. He replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” I do not believe that blatant indifference to the voting process by so many Americans is the beacon of light that the Fathers wished to model for the world. Trenton Winford is a public policy leadership junior from Madison.
Correction Yesterday, July 16, the column “Family > Money” was credited to the wrong writer. The author of the column is named Tim Abram. He is a public policy junior from Horn Lake. Follow him on Twitter @ Tim_Abram.
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‘It’s not a restaurant, it’s a pizza joint.’ BY EVERETT BEXLEY elbexley@go.olemiss.edu
If your stomach is empty and you need someone to talk to, Dennis Van Oostendorpis is just the man to wain the woe. Van Oostendorpis, owner and operator of 6‘N Tubbs on Jackson Avenue, said there is one thing he would like to make clear from the get go: “This place is not a restaurant,” he said, grinning. “It’s more social than that. You come in, have a slice, shoot the breeze, watch the game and split when you’re ready. 6’N Tubbs is a pizza joint.” The “pizza joint,” which garnered its name from its original address on the corner of Highway 6 and Tubbs Road in Batesville, came to Oxford in August 2011 and has been serving hand-tossed New York-style pizzas, calzones and strombolis six days a week ever since. Patrons can usually catch the Florida/ New York native behind the counter wearing a football T-shirt and baseball hat, flour covering his hands and clothes as he tosses a pizza or pulls one out of the large deck oven. Van Oostendorpis describes the place as “Manhattan meets Mississippi” and it’s easy to see why. The walls are covered with a map of the New York City subway system, more than a few Dave Matthews Band posters, as well as one of Bruce Springsteen at Madison Square Garden, about six New York license plates, some Eli Manning photographs and an impressive collection of Jo DiMaggio memorabilia. The atmosphere is comfortable, like a family establishment, but cool, like the groovy dorm room down the hall. All the prices are to the dollar so no one has to dig for change, and although the pizza is served with a fork and knife, customers are encouraged to eat with their hands. “I want the place to feel easy,” Van Oostendorpis said. “You can here come just to hang out and not even have anything to eat. It’s all about acceptance.” Coming in and not eating would be a difficult task though, given the fresh smell
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timistic. “A nation-wide statistic like that can really hide what’s happening on a regional scale,” chemistry junior Cara Thorne said. “Are more people taking dead-end jobs to make ends meet, or are they able to get careers that are
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Owner of 6‘n Tubbs Dennis Van Oostendorp works on a pizza Tuesday afternoon.
of pizza in the oven. Van Oostendorpis acquired his recipe from an old co-worker at Sony Corporation, where he served as executive chef before entering the pizza business. “There was a Sicilian guy named Frank Darco, who had sold his pizzeria and retired and started working at Sony with me,” Van Oostendorpis said. “You don’t learn how to make pizza. Someone has to show you. Darco showed me, and I use his recipe, altered a bit.” Darco hasn’t created the 6’N Tubbs experience alone. Mary Grimes Van Oostendorpis, Dennis’ 75-year-old mother, covers the floor while he works the kitchen.
“She takes all the orders and handles all the cash,” Van Oostendorpis said. “She’s the glue and I’m the boards.” Mary is likely to stop by tables to ensure her customers are eating. “You better get back to that pizza before it gets cold,” she said. “I want to see more eating.” Ole Miss accounting sophomore Ellen Whitaker said she likes 6’N Tubbs because it offers a break from the norm. “I like that it isn’t a chain,” Whitaker said. “You can tell everything is fresh. He slices the mozzarella right there in front of you and you know where it’s coming from and you know who’s giving it to you.”
Van Oostendorpis said he decided to leave his job at Sony, move to Mississippi, where his parents and brother were living, and open a pizzeria because he wanted to help satisfy people the best way he knew how — with food. “Yeah, I have to bust my ass sometimes when it’s busy, but seeing a little kid holding a slice of pizza with a smile on his face makes it worth it,” he said. “It’s like a family here.” And like every family, 6’N Tubbs regulars are garnered with nicknames before long. “Once you start coming a lot, you get a nickname: Ron from New York or Hotty Toddy Scotty, for example,” Van Oostendorpis explained. “I got out
of the big business so I could see who I was feeding. I’d rather win someone’s stomach than win some award. Awards don’t feed anybody.” Van Oostendorpis wants 6’N Tubbs to be “of and for the people.” “I don’t believe this is my place,” Van Oostendorpis said. “It’s your place. This is where you come when you want pizza, so it’s yours. This is where the kids play hopscotch on the floor and the young guys eat after the baseball game. I don’t eat here. The food is for you.” For good conversation and tasty food, stop by 6’N Tubbs on Jackson Avenue Monday through Saturday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
applicable to their major?” In May 2012, Mississippi’s unemployment rate was 8.7 percent, slightly above the nation’s steady rate of 8.2 percent.The state reached its highest level, 13.5 percent, in April 1983 and lowest, 4.9 percent, in April 2001. “I think that if students remain flexible in today’s economy, if they are willing to move to different parts of
the country and are willing to think outside of the box when applying the skill set that they have acquired in college, then they will be in the correct mindset to grab any opportunity that presents itself,” Thorne said. The Department of Labor also reported that 80,000 new jobs were created in June, which is a discouraging statistic because the unem-
ployment rate has stayed the same even though claims are decreasing. Director of the University Career Center Toni Avant thinks the decrease is a good thing. “Any drop is a good drop,” Avant said. “Whether its 1,000 or 20,000, that’s a good thing because it means folks are going back to work.” Avant said many factors
affect why unemployment claims are dropping but the career center has had a steady amount of positions posted even before the decrease. “It should provide some hope for students who may have the notion that there are not any job opportunities available,” Avant said. “It’s just a matter of them conducting an effective search.”
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the beauty of the campus in order to attract, support and increase a healthy, safe learning background.” Financing such operations is a complex endeavor, but one the university manages more efficiently than many of its peer institutions. In the Grounds Costs Survey, conducted by the University of South Carolina, Ole Miss had the lowest cost per acre of the surveyed universities in Mississippi. At the time of the survey, the university spent an average of $1,089.00 per acre on landscaping for 43,560,000 square feet of land, which was maintained by 24 full-time employees. The entire landscaping budget came to $1,089,662.00. This figure can be compared to Mississippi State University’s landscaping budget, which totaled $2,074,536.00. Mississippi State spent $1,729.00 per acre on 52,272,000 square feet of land, employing 33 employees to maintain the campus. Landscape Services’ budget is financed through a combination of student fees, private donations and state allocations, according to the the Office for the Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance. It would be diffi-
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cult to analyze exactly what percentage of the budget is comprised of each funding source since Landscape Service’s budget comes from a fund used for many campus necessities. Fiscal efficiency has not reduced the quality of the work product Landscape Services provides for Ole Miss, however. Newsweek ranked Ole Miss as the number one most beautiful campus in America. Keeping the campus so well maintained takes a lot of work. In the fiscal year of 2010, over 1,053 trees, 10,381 shrubs and 8,760 yards of sod were planted. Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance Larry Sparks said the growth of the university has had a mixed impact on Landscaping Services.
“The growth of Ole Miss has certainly impacted the work of Landscape Services,” Sparks said. “Sometimes, as we grow, new facilities reduce the acreage of the campus and thus the need for landscaping labor. Other times, expansion necessitates a higher level of maintenance and care for the campus.” Sparks said that despite challenges, the work Landscape Services does is “vital to the environment of the university.” “I definitely think the aesthetic of the university fosters a better learning environment,” he said. “When we are recruiting students, we know that if we can get them on campus, we will have made up their mind. It’s a place students want to learn and live.”
try,” Crews said. Crews said he hopes his background as a community builder will assist him in strengthening Teach For America’s reputation in the community. Because 70 percent of the organization’s funds come from private donors, networking and recruiting funds will be an important part of Crew’s job. While providing equal public education to every single student in the Mississippi Delta region may not be possible, Crew said he believes his efforts could “close the achievement gap and help all children,
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regardless of their background, achieve high (academic) standards.” Teach For America recruits college graduates who have yet to find a job, allowing them to start their careers as teachers in schools that do not have the resources to provide the leadership constituents that Crews described.
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himself at Ole Miss. “I realized punting would be my best option to pursue a career,” Campbell said. “I wasn’t going to go anywhere playing linebacker, and I just realized that punting would be my best option.” It didn’t take long for Campbell to find his niche on the Rebel football team as a freshman in 2009. “I came (to Ole Miss) on my visit when coach (Houston) Nutt invited me, and I just loved the atmosphere and everything about it.” In his first season in red and blue, Campbell was named to the SEC AllFreshman team by the SEC coaches after being the No. 2 punter in the SEC and No. 12 in the NCAA with a 43.95 yards per punt average. Things only got better for Campbell in his sophomore season, where he led the NCAA in punting (46.37 ypp). He became the 19th NCAA statistical individual
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Campbell enters senior season as top tier punter Ole Miss senior punter Tyler Campbell has established himself as one of the premier college football punters during his career. He’s now entering his senior season, where he hopes to continue his success and potentially win the prestigious Ray Guy Award.
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Rebels in the pros: Chris Coghlan Former Rebel Chris Coghlan, currently part of the Marlins organization, is still trying to find his niche at the professional level.
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offense and defense do, Campbell knows it is still an important part of the game. “In the mindset of just the general game, everyone knows it is important,” Campbell said. “It is a third of the game — offense, defense and special teams.” Punting a football may seem simple, but being a punter is no easy task, especially when they are called upon only a few times a game and are expected to perform on the spot. So Campbell and his kicking teammates go through training just like any other player would. “We do all the strength and conditioning work the
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Punter Tyler Campbell has established himself as one of the premier college football punters during his career at Ole Miss. He’s now entering his senior season, where he hopes to continue his success and potentially win the prestigious Ray Guy Award. Despite only seeing the field a few times a game, Ole Miss’ senior punter Tyler Campbell is one of the most important players on the team. While special teams may not receive the glory like
players do in the summer,” Campbell said. “The whole team does it together. As far as the season goes, during the week we are working mainly on game plan and execution. So we go out and get repetitions and try to get as consistent as we can for Saturday.” Getting into the sport was never an issue for Campbell, who began his football career like most kids, in junior high. “I started playing in seventh grade,” he said. “Every little boy wants to play football, and seventh grade is when my school started so I just started playing.”
Even though Campbell has made great strides as a punter today, he was not always limited to what he did on the field. “Actually in seventh grade I was a running back,” Campbell said. “It just so happened we all lined up and I kicked the ball the furthest, so I became the punter that way. In high school I also played linebacker and punted.” Campbell knew, however, that for his career to continue he would need to focus on his kicking game, so he did, and eventually found See CAMPBELL, PAGE 7
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Things haven’t been easy for Chris Coghlan since winning the National League Rookie of The Year Award in 2009. That season, he hit .321 with a .850 OPS (on-base average plus slugging). He followed that up with a decent 2010 before tearing his meniscus in July in a freak shaving cream pie accident. Coghlan slipped while trying to smash a shaving cream pie in the face of See PROS, PAGE 7