The Daily Mississippian - July 1, 2011

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WINDY THEES NAMED NEW SOFTBALL HEAD COACH

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This year’s race for Mississippi governor will make a stop at Ole Miss next week as Democratic candidates Bill Luckett and Johhny DuPree participate in a debate at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, in the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics.

The debate will host two of the four Democratic candidates for governor. Luckett, a Clarksdale businessman and attorney, and DuPree, the mayor of Hattiesburg, will be on campus while Bill Compton Jr., a teacher from Meridian, and Guy Shaw, a retired tax asessor from Yalobusha County, are not attending. Lucket and DuPree are considered the front runners for the Democratic nominee.

The primary will be held Aug. 2.

Luckett was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1948. He graduated from the University of Virginia before joining the military, where he served as a commissioned officer in the Mississippi National Guard for eight years. He then graduated from the University of Mississippi law school and began practicing law. According to Luckett’s official website, one of his first clients was former chancellor Robert Khayat.

Luckett is currently a senior partner of the Luckett Tyner Law Firm and owns of several restaurants in and around Clarksdale. An avid pilot, Luckett is a member of the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association.

He serves as the president of the hunting club in Coahoma County and is the lifetime membership chairman of his local chapter of the NAACP. At a forum held this past Wednesday at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Park campus in Long Beach, Luckett said that if he wins the race, he is going to try to improve Mississippi by expanding early childhood education.

“The best job program is a great, quality education, starting with early childhood learning and continuing right on through in high school to your choice of career path, whether it takes you to a community college or a four year institution,” he said at the forum.

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Windy Thees walks off the field between innings as the Memphis head softball coach. Thees started the softball program in 2006 and led the Tigers to a their first NCAA Tournament this past season.

Windy Thees, who started the Memphis softball program in 2006 and led the Tigers to their first NCAA Tournament this past season, has been named as the head softball coach at Ole Miss, athletics director Pete Boone announced Thursday.

She compiled a 184-154 overall record in her six years at Memphis, including a schoolbest 36-14 mark this past season, and guided the Tigers to the Conference USA Tournament each of the last five seasons.

“We are very excited to have Windy lead our softball program,” said Ole Miss senior executive associate athletics director John Hartwell in an Ole Miss news release. “She brings a wealth of experience as a coach and player at the highest levels.

We conducted a thorough nationwide search and spoke to many experts in the collegiate softball world. Windy rose to the top of our list due to her success building two programs and her reputation as a recruiter and developer of talent.”

Under Thees, Memphis players earned nine all-conference and eight freshman all-conference awards. This past season, shortstop Heather Mott earned first-team All-C-USA honors, while outfielder Ashleigh King

was named to the C-USA AllFreshman team.

Thees came to Memphis from Georgia College and State University, where she had been the head softball coach and Senior Women’s Administrator since Fall 1999. She led the Division II school, located in Milledgeville, Ga., to a 163-92 overall record. Her best season at GCSU came in 2003, when she guided the team to a 42-9 record and a runner-up finish in the Division II National Championship.

As a player, Thees was a fouryear starter at both catcher and second base for Florida State from 1993 to 1997. She helped lead the Seminoles to three ACC Championships and made the All-ACC Tournament Team twice. She was also voted the team’s Most Inspirational Player all four seasons and served as a team captain her senior year in 1997.

Ole Miss finished 14-39 (323 SEC) last season. In the program’s history, the Lady Rebels have had two winning seasons in 2005 (30-28) and 2010 (2927) and reached three-straight SEC Tournaments from 200608. For next season, Ole Miss returns its top four hitters, including SEC All-Freshman outfielder R.T. Cantillo, but must replace graduated Brittany Barnhill and Lindsey Perry in the circle.

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NBA LOCKOUT LOOMS AS SETTLEMENT NOT REACHED

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Union chief Billy Hunter said Thursday that “it’s obvious the lockout will happen tonight” after players and owners failed to reach a new collective bargaining agreement, potentially putting the 2011-12 season in jeopardy.

Despite a three-hour meeting Thursday and a final proposal from the players - which NBA leaders said would have raised average player salaries to $7 million in the sixth year of the deal - the sides could not close the enormous gulf between their positions.

“The problem is that there’s such a gap in terms of the numbers, where they are and where we are, and we just can’t find any way to bridge that gap,” Hunter said.

The CBA expires at midnight, after which all league business is officially on hold, starting with the free agency period that would have opened Friday.

Commissioner David Stern said “with some sadness” he would recommend later Thursday to the labor relations committee that the first lockout since the 1998-99 season be imposed. Teams will be prohibited from having any contact with their players, who can’t come to team facilities.

Once the NBA takes that action, two of four major professional sports in the United States will be locked out. The NFL locked out its players in March, and the two sides have been in discussions this week, trying to work toward a new deal.

“Needless to say we’re disappointed that this is where we find ourselves,” Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said.

The last lockout reduced the 1998-99 season to just a 50game schedule, the only time the NBA missed games for a See LOCKOUT, PAGE 4

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Google’s fight against Facebook

BY JONECE DUNIGAN Columnist

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Ever since our generation got its hands on the computer, Google was the search engine god of the Internet. It answers all our questions from health diagnostics to directions to our favorite restaurants.

Since everyone thinks so highly of it, we expect a genius team to come up with anything and be successful at it.

Facebook is a site that has become so in tune with our lives, it allows us to keep in touch with far away friends and build businesses. Due to its success, it has surpassed Google in being the top of all the Internet.

Now, Google has announced to their challenger that they are trying their luck at a different ball game.

According to the Washington Post, Google Plus is the first promising launch of many attempts to create its own kingdom in the social media uni-

verse. Its first try with Wave was halted by the law due to social media’s all time famous privacy complaints. Google Plus, however, makes privacy stronger by allowing a person to make their circle of friends to share certain conversations or pictures with.

Other features include Hangouts, which is a component that lets a member chat with multiple people through your phone, and even an RSS feed that allows you to insert and receive things you are interested in.

The reason why this profile sounds familiar is because Google Plus is made with the same generic make-up as its rival.

This weakness could send the site into the same fate as other attempts, which hid in the background of an everchanging social culture until it died.

People daydream about driv-

ing the latest Mustang and gaze at the brand new tablet because they are always lured by something new.

With technology being so advanced today, that goal is hard to accomplish even for a company as big as Google.

Another factor that hurts this plan is the lack of friends with benefits.

Facebook joined forces with well-known titles like iTunes and Bing because both sides of the deal know friends are what people are influenced by the most. The companies are not going to switch sides and become partners with something that has the same instruments for success as the company they are with now.

Because of this, Google will have a hard time finding the people they need to create the dream team and surpassing Facebook.

Since the team spent thousands of dollars in employee

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bonuses and other tools to create Plus, these weaknesses sounds pretty risky for the company.

A better business plan would be to stop cookie cutter business plans.

Something new has to be created that will satisfy the curiosity of its consumers.

Once other companies begin to realize more customers are following Google, they will have dollars signs flashing in their eyes and be happy to be of service.

With all these factors in line, the No. 1 search engine will be the No. 1 site of all things on the Internet. All it takes is a good leader who is willing to step out the box with a stubborn spark of creativity.

Jonece Dunigan is a sophomore journalism major from Canton, Miss. Follow her on Twitter @JoneceD.

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A year in the life

BY EMILY STEDMAN Columnist

“Should I go to law school?”

Google that and you’ll receive 18.5 million responses in .11 seconds, ranging from online quizzes, cost-benefit analyses and a simple “No, you probably shouldn’t.”

It is remarkable. Everyone has an opinion on law school, even those who have never been, who have no lawyers in their family and who have a general disdain for the profession.

Growing up in a household with two lawyer parents, law school was always on the horizon. My birth announcement read, “Stedman and Stedman welcome their newest associate.” But when the time came, I hesitated.

After two years of teaching fifth grade, I realized: I love kids and I love teaching, but the bureaucracy of education is not for me.

So what was the logical next step?

Law school. I am that girl who saw “The Blind Side,” realized how much I missed living in the South and applied to Ole Miss because it seemed fun and looked beautiful... on the big screen at least.

Most of our generation thinks of “Legally Blonde” when they think of law school. Elle arrives in her brightly colored outfit and everyone else is in drab, boring suits and sweaters. The classmates are rude, aloof and unsocial. The professors are hard-hitting and study groups are invitation only.

I am not sure why anyone goes to law school. Some genuinely want to be lawyers or have a love for the law and all things legal. Others go because it is family tradition or is merely expected of them. Still others have a liberal arts degree and it is the only graduate school option that seems possible. Some go because the economy has taken or

has refused to give them a job.

After a year at Ole Miss, I have found that law school does not suck. Like anything else in life, it is what you make of it. It can be exactly what you have seen in the movies: drab, boring, harsh and hellish. But it can also be what Elle Woods hoped it would be: fun, social, intellectually stimulating and rewarding.

In a world where most people do things to pack their résumé, I have found that having that as your goal makes people generally miserable. But if you focus on what you like and what you’re genuinely interested in, life can be quite fabulous. So, if you are considering law school or any other graduate program, keep the following things in mind: First, make friends. You will need a support network and not one that is a phone call away, although those help, too. Everyone

is nervous and everyone, even those who went to that school for undergrad, will respond well to a smile, a handshake and a “Hey, wanna go grab a drink after class?”

Second, share resources. This is a quick way to make friends and also is a quick way to ensure that others share their resources with you. In law school, life is all about “the outline,” a detailed but concise review of the class from a previous student (hopefully one who did well). Some share and others are greedy.

In the end, it is those who share who end up doing better in school. Maybe not grade wise, but definitely in the legal-connections department and once you are in the real world, it is your connections that really matter, not your academic performance.

Finally, find balance. Graduate school is difficult. It will be a level

of academic rigor like you have never experienced before. Find a study routine that works for you and make time for yourself and your social life. It may come down to scheduling it in, but a night out on the Square is well worth the laughter and memories come “No-Fun-November.”

In the end, I am one of the few who would tell you that I would do my 1L year over again. It was academically hard, but the people at Ole Miss have been a joy to learn with, party with and shut down the library the night before oral arguments with. So take the movies and Google with a grain of salt, pursue what interests you most and be yourself.

Emily Stedman is a second year law student from Marietta, Ga. Follow her on Twitter at @EmilyLStedman.

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RIGHT TO STIMULATE EPIC VIOLENCE

BY DYLAN HOFF Daily Evergreen

You can take away our freedom to use assault rifles on innocent civilians, but you cannot take away our right to do the same in Grand Theft Auto IV. That is the gist of a Supreme Court ruling handed down Monday, which struck down a California law that would have banned violent video games from being distributed to minors. In this first ever case revolving around video games, the Court ruled the ban would violate the free-speech rights of video game retailers and gamers alike.

Justice Antonin Scalia, in writing the majority opinion, said, “Our cases hold that minors are entitled to a significant degree of First Amendment protection.” The Court ruled that video games are a form of art.

Therefore, they deserve the same

First Amendment protection granted to other art forms.

Scalia goes on to point out that stories have contained gruesome, violent images since the beginning of time. He cites “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” and “The Odyssey” as perfect examples of violence that are a regular part of childrens’ educations.

While my own video game days are a thing of the past, I still appreciate the entertainment value found in this modern, interactive form of storytelling. Action-adventure stories have existed throughout human history, and it is awfully hard to tell such stories without depicting violence. Similarly, throughout human history, there have existed children who face possible moral corruption at the hands of violent stories.

While the method of telling violent stories has evolved, video games are no more corrupting to youth than older methods. Studies examined

during the case showed that children exposed to violent video games did display higher levels of aggression, but the same was true for children who spent time watching Bugs Bunny cartoons. That is right, beloved cartoon icon Bugs Bunny is corrupting our children. I guess we should not be surprised, when he is not getting Elmer Fudd to shoot Daffy Duck in the face with a shotgun, he is wearing dresses and makeup. No way children should be allowed anywhere near a murderous transvestite rabbit.

If you are going to ban the sale of violent video games, you have to start banning other violent forms of storytelling; but that is something the Supreme Court has rejected in the past. Censorship of obscenity and sexual conduct in art has been upheld, but violence is considered too nebulous by the Court to be banned in the broad way outlined

by the California law.

The bottom line, as it always is in cases like these, is that parents need to accept responsibility for the actions of their children. No parent should be buying Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty for their child unless they are sure their child can handle it and can differentiate between reality and video games. That is why we tend to start children off easy. We show them Looney Tunes or read them “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” first.

Talking animals and mythical beasts doing harm is easier to accept as fake than the realistic humans depicted in modern video games. Once a parent is sure of the child’s mental cognizance to differentiate, the parent can start introducing the child to more complex, sophisticated and even violent content for entertainment.

I have personal experience with this. I have watched and helped my younger sisters graduate from

SpongeBob Squarepants cartoons to the books and films of Harry Potter and (shudder) Twilight. Even I have yet to find the courage to risk the latter series, but that might have more to do with the fact that I have good taste.

Common sense dictates parents should be able to control their own children and that government has no need to slap penalties onto companies for attempting to make a profit through storytelling meant for mature, responsible adults. Unfortunately, common sense is not all that common, which is why we see the Supreme Court having to decide cases like this one.

For now, avid gamers can relax and know that “big brother” will not be taking away our access to virtual worlds where you can kill prostitutes with a baseball bat, rip the heads off monsters and head-shot a terrorist with a sniper rifle. Game over.

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work stoppage. Hunter said it’s too early to be concerned about that.

“I hope it doesn’t come down to that,” he said. “Obviously, the clock is now running with regard to whether or not there will or will be a loss of games, and so I’m hoping that over the next month or so that there will be sort of a softening on their side and maybe we have to soften our position as well.”

Despite frequent meetings this month, the sides just didn’t make much progress.

Owners want to reduce the players’ guarantee of 57 percent of basketball revenue and weren’t interested in the players’ offer to drop it to 54.3 percent - though players said that would have cut their salaries by $500 million over five years.

They sparred over the league’s characterization of its “flex” salary cap proposal - players considered it a hard cap, which they oppose - and any chance of a last-minute deal was quickly lost Thursday when league officials said the union’s move was in the wrong direction financially.

“I don’t think we’re closer; in fact it worries me that we’re not closer. We have a huge philosophical divide,” Stern said.

The NBA’s summer league in Las Vegas already has been canceled, preseason games in Europe were never scheduled, and players might have to decide if they want to risk playing in this summer’s Olympic qualifying tournaments without the NBA’s help in securing insurance in case of injury.

The expected lockout comes exactly one year after one of the NBA’s most anticipated days in recent years, when LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and the rest of the celebrated class of 2010 became free agents.

That free agency bonanza highlight by the James, Wade, Chris Bosh trio in Miami - got the league started on a season where ticket and merchandise sales, ratings and buzz were all up. That weakened the owners’ case that the system was broken beyond repair, but it also demonstrated why they wanted changes, with Stern saying owners feel pressured to spend as much as possible to prove their commitment to winning to fans.

“We had a great year in terms of the appreciation of our fans for our game. It just wasn’t a profitable one for the owners, and it wasn’t one that many of the smaller market teams particularly enjoyed or felt included in,” Stern said. “The goal here has been to make the league profitable and to have a league where all 30 teams can compete.”

Hunter said he hopes the two sides will meet again in the

next two weeks.

The players’ association seems unlikely, at least for now, to follow the NFLPA’s model by decertifying and taking the battle into the court system, instead choosing to continue negotiations. Hunter said last week he felt owners believe the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, which is debating the legality of the NFL’s lockout, will uphold employers’ rights to impose lockouts.

“We’ll just continue to ask our fans to stick with us and remain patient with us. As players we want to play. That’s who we are; we’re basketball players,” Lakers guard and union president Derek Fisher said. “Right now we’re faced with dealing with the business aspect of our game. We’re going to do it the same way we play basketball. We’re going to work hard. We’re going to be focused. We’re going to be dedicated to getting the results that we want.”

The NBA projected $300 million in losses this season and said it lost hundreds of millions in every season of this CBA, ratified in 2005. League officials said 22 of the 30 teams would lose money.

But owners don’t just want to minimize their losses. They want to make a profit, along with developing a system in which small-market teams could compete with the biggest spenders. The Lakers and Mavericks, who won the last three NBA titles, are annually at the top of the list of highest payrolls.

So they took a hard-line stance from the start, with their initial proposal in 2010 calling for the institution of a hard salary cap system, along with massive reductions in contract lengths and elimination in contract guarantees. Though the proposal was withdrawn after a contentious meeting with players at the 2010 AllStar weekend, the league never moved from its wish list until recently.

About 90 percent of NBA players get paid from Nov. 15 through April 30, so they won’t be missing checks for a while.

But Stern has warned that the offers only get worse once a lockout starts, so the league could try to push through elements of its original proposal when bargaining resumes.

Like with the NFL lockout, NBA players won’t be the only ones affected. Employees of teams and the league also face a very uncertain future. Stern admitted all options would be considered, including furloughs for his employees.

“The people who stand to have their livings impacted by a shutdown of our industry are going to have a negative view of both sides,” Stern said. “I think our fans will tend to have a negative view of why can’t you guys work this thing out.”

Students react to new enrollment standards

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Secondary education major Murphy Turner and English education major Courtney Pearson lead the future engineering students out of Fulton Chapel during transfer orientation.

BY LENOX BAKER The Daily Mississippian

With a 19 percent increase in the number of freshmen students enrolled at Ole Miss from Fall 2009 to the Fall 2010 and similar increases at other colleges and universities around the state, the Mississippi Board of Education has issued a change in the 2012 requirements for admission to its institutes of higher learning.

For some students, the hope is tougher standards will lead to a slowdown in the university’s growth. A shortage of parking, scarcity of student housing and the fast pace at which class sections closed during registration periods this past year are all side effects of high enrollment at Ole Miss during fall and spring semesters.

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Luckett cited making pre-kindergarten classes mandatory as a way to really improve children’s education in the state.

“We have got to find a way to make our children competitive when they enter kindergarten and first grade,” he said.

Luckett has received public support from academy award-winning actor Morgan Freeman, who frequents Ole Miss. Freeman, a Mississippi resident, helped raise money for Luckett’s campaign last fall, making several stops across the state. The two co-own Ground Zero Blues Club and the restaurant Madidi, both of which are located in downtown Clarksdale.

Luckett has also received support from state senators Robert Jackson of Marks and Albert Butler, who represents Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds and Jefferson counties. He has also received support from former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Reuben Anderson.

Dupree was born in Fort Ben-

tancy major, believes that part of the what makes Oxford so charming is that it is a small town.

“It’s a great community, but you can’t even drive down Jackson or through the Square because there are so many people, much less park for class,” she said.

The new Mississippi college preparatory curriculum changes include the addition of one more math, science and social studies unit; however, some Ole Miss students, like sophomore psychology manor Kelsea Johns, feel as though more extreme measures might be necessary.

“I really think it’s a step in the right direction,” she said. “But I just kind of think that if they want to make a real difference, it’s going to have to be something more extreme that what

they’ve already done.”

Johns is correct in thinking that already many Ole Miss students are meeting some high standards. The 2010-11 freshman class had a record of 288 students enrolled in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale honors collage and more than 350 students with an average GPA at or above 3.69.

However, even if these new requirements do little to reduce the number of students on campus, managerial finance major William Collins said he supports any movement toward tougher standards.

“I think that classes are plenty difficult and the return rate is increasing,” hes said. “I’d like for us to be up there, you know, with Georgia and Texas. That would be a good goal to strive for.”

ning, Ga., in 1953. He married at age 19 while working for Sears Roebuck for 15 years. In 1988, he received a degree from the Mississippi Real Estate Institute and started his own real estate firm. It is still in business today. He was appointed to the Hattiesburg school board in 1987, where he would remain until 1992. He then spent time on the Forrest County board of supervisors till 2001. During that time, he would earn a political science degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. In 2001, DuPree ran for and became mayor of Hattiesburg.

While DuPree has been in office, the city has received several awards including: One of 10 Great Small Towns to Operate a Business and to Retire by Southern Business and Development; a top 20 U.S. City for Job Growth

by NewGeorgraphy.com; one of 50 top cities and 10 lifestyles energizing businesses by Entrepreneur Magazine and Top 10 best places in U.S. to launch a small business

by CNN/Money.com. In 2004, he received the most influential African American in Mississippi award.

Like Luckett, DuPree is also a lifetime member of the NAACP, but unlike Luckett, DuPree does not favor hunting. He is a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

At the forum last week, Dupree stated that the government should play a bigger part in helping citizens get jobs.

“The government does not create jobs, but it sure can aid in creating jobs,” he said. “We aided in creating 1,000 jobs in Hattiesburg last year, which is unheard of in many cities in Mississippi.”

Camille Lesseig, president of the College Democrats at Ole Miss, believes this is a good opportunity for students and citizens of Oxford to get to know the candidates.

“Luckett is from Clarksdale and DuPree is from Hattiesburg so I think it’s going to be a great way for people to get to know both candidates since they are not from Oxford and Lafayette county,” Lesseig said. “It’s a good way for people to get involved and know who is running.”

For more information on Luckett and DuPree, visit their official websites luckettforgovernor.com and johnnydupree.com.

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Junior Boys provide I Guess I’ll Watch It: summer dance fever ‘City of the Living Dead’

BY NATHANIEL WEATHERSBY Columnist

On the morning of June 14, an album dropped that truly deserves the word “sick.” Junior Boys, consisting of Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus, recently released their fourth studio album “It’s All True.” The band must have visited the world of psychedelic beats and sweet vocals to bring us back this musical treat. The album includes nine songs that dare you to dance whenever you hear it, wherever you are.

The Canadian two-man band initially arose with members Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark. Johnny Dark left the group early in the band’s career to pursue a solo career.

Jeremy then acquired Matt Didemus as a replacement and what a replacement it was. The new duo now represents a musical style that hovers playfully between the genres of electronic and indie pop.

Several of the songs begin with instrumental thus implanting that itch throughout your body that soon develops into full on dance as soon as the vocals begin. Greenspan’s vocals would be less without the music, as would the music without his voice.

Thus, the two come together seamlessly as one entity.

Greenspan’s voice is usually soft and sensual at times but at others can express vocal experience on many different levels. This fact along with the wide range of melodies and rhythms make every song on this album unique in their own way.

Junior Boys vaguely resembles music from our parents’ or grandparents’ albums of oldies. While listening to “It’s All True,” you could easily close your eyes and visualize disco lights spinning while dancers in multi-colored clothing rock tirelessly to the beat.

In fact, every album that has spawned from the Junior Boys minds and talents expresses this same trait. This trait does not waver across song speed. “The Reservoir,” the fifth track on their album carries a slower melody and vocals that

are even more sensual than usual.

Greenspan easily drifts in and out of a soft falsetto throughout the song.

Additional voices join his and give the song an aura of wonder.

Junior Boys’ second member and engineer Matt Didemus certainly carries his weight in the group with the development of addictive sounds.

If Didemus were to create a completely instrumental album, he would have little to no problem with gaining widespread attention and fame.

The band seems to entertain the aforementioned idea with the song “Kick the Can.” Didemus’s melodies sift through your ears and throughout your body threatening to take control of you.

Junior Boys’ musical concoctions will leave you dancing, completely relaxed and everything in-between.

Expressed vividly throughout the entire album, Didemus’s talents are truly something to envy.

The problems with Junior Boys are scarce. The only thing that could hinder someone from falling completely in love with this band is if that person simply does not like this type of music. Not just anyone can enjoy the musical styling of Junior Boys.

A person must first have an open, imaginative mind. The use of a plethora of sounds, both strange and familiar, may surprise a few listeners at first.

However, after growing accustomed to Junior Boys music, those surprised listeners will find themselves appreciating each and every sound introduced to their ears.

For those who already enjoy the Junior Boys genre of music, you will find yet another romance within their new album. For future Junior Boys fans now is the time to get on board.

Made apparent through “It’s All True,” Greenspan and Didemus know exactly where they want to go musically and they are not stopping until they get there.

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I’m not quite sure where to begin with this one. The page or so of notes I took while watching the movie features lines like “Sex doll scene,” “Death by worms” and “Conversation interrupted by a whirlwind of maggots.” You may think that gives you somewhat of an idea of what you are dealing with when it comes to Lucio Fulci’s 1980 B-grade horror flick “City of the Living Dead,” but you are quite mistaken. “City of the Living Dead” makes absolutely no sense, right down to the final scene where evil has been vanquished, yet the heroine shrieks as a happy, smiling child runs to greet her. Yeah, and that’s not the most out of place sequence in the film.

Lucio Fulci is part of the Italian horror wave from the 1970’s/80’s featuring directors such as Dario Argento (“Suspiria”) and Ruggero Deodato (“Cannibal Holocaust”).

All of the movies from this era focus more on setups for gore rather than any real plot, but they have earned a special place in horror history, primarily for their notorious reputations. Fulci’s other credits include “Zombie,” which is an infinitely more enjoyable flick than “City of the Living Dead,” mainly because it features an underwater fight between a zombie and a shark. High brow stuff.

Not that this film doesn’t have entertaining sequences. It’s just that they are few and far between, and you have to slog through a disjointed mess of plot strings, horrendous acting and a soundtrack that sounds like it was made by a drunken Pink Floyd cover band.

“City of the Living Dead” is ostensibly about four people who try to close the gates of hell before All Saints’ Day after it was opened by a priest who hanged himself in a graveyard.

I think. I mean, that’s what I’m told in earnest by multiple close-up shots of distraught characters who break the fourth wall by staring directly at the camera. But that’s not exactly what happens in the movie.

For 30 minutes, there are two disparate stories going on that have nothing to do with each other.

One plotline centers on a journalist researching the priest’s suicide aided by a girl who was killed at a séance.

How can a dead girl help with investigative research? Well, because she is dug up by the journalist after waking up in the coffin.

Because, you know, she didn’t actually die, she was just stunned or something. Moving on...

The other plotline involves a psychiatrist, his girlfriend, a random patient who is scared of men and some Boo Radley-type recluse named Bob, who I think was accused of some heinous sex act. The shrink’s gal pal still visits him on occasion because she feels sorry for the adorable, potential child rapist.

Then she gets killed by a ghost zombie and the dead priest from earlier. I say “ghost zombie” because they lurch around and eat people, yet can appear and disappear at will. Anyway, that happens and it looks like the movie is gonna be about a framed Bob trying to clear his name and prove that he didn’t literally rip that girl’s brains out. He just has to convince everyone it was the ghost zombies from the gates of hell.

That’s fine with me in terms of a plot, except there is the whole other journalist and dead-no-wait-notreally girl thing going on. These storylines switch back and forth for awhile, making the viewer extremely confused and bored.

I think Lucio Fulci got bored, too, because he eventually has Bob killed by some angry dad who impales his head with an industrial drill.

Fulci must have been real proud

of tidily wrapping up that story, except he forgot about the psychiatrist and the patient with the manphobia. They ventually cross paths with the other two characters for reasons I’m still not clear on, and the four of them set off to find the dead priest’s body to close the gates of hell.

Oh, I forgot to mention how they meet up, because it’s probably the biggest plot hole in any movie I’ve ever seen. Journalist and not-dead girl are in the actual cemetery where the priest is buried (by the way, they never say why they need to get the body, they just do) and the other two characters find them there. “What are you all doing here?” asks the psychiatrist, at which point they all leave the cemetery to go recount the story elsewhere. Then they freak out that they are almost out of time before the gates of hell do something terrible and vague.

Honestly, I think it’s for the best if ghost zombies and demon priests kill people like this, because they are clearly too inept to live.

Which, luckily for the viewer, happens.

Journalist and man-phobia patient have their brains ripped out (ghost zombies aren’t creative) and the other two break into this catacomb thing under the city.

Then they kill the demon priest, so hooray for them. Except 10 minutes earlier the not-dead girl says it’s All Saints’ Day and they missed the deadline.

But I guess it’s daylight savings or something, because it seems to work out for them. That, or demon priests don’t own a watch.

Yeah, don’t see this movie. It’s bad. Oh, but at one point the ghost zombie priest shows up and psychically makes a woman bleed from the eyes and vomit up her own intestines.

So there’s that image to leave you guys with. Happy Fourth of July!

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1. Alabama: Junior Barrett Jones is the start of the Alabama offensive line, as he’s started at right guard the past two seasons.

He took reps at left tackle during the spring and could start there in the fall. Chance Warmack, another junior, started every game at left guard last season and also returns, as does senior center William Vlachos, who is one of the best in the conference. Massive sophomore D.J. Fluker looks to have a breakout season at right tackle, while sophomore Anthony Stein could step in at right guard if Jones stays at tackle. Highly-touted recruit Cyrus Kouandjio will press for playing time as well.

2. Ole Miss: The Rebels return 10 linemen who started a game last season and also add Arkansas transfer Matt Hall, who sat out in 2010. A pair of bookend tackles highlight the Rebels’ offensive line in senior Bradley Sowell, who was second-team All-SEC last season, and junior Bobby Massie. Senior Alex Washington is listed as the starter at left guard but sophomore Patrick Junen, among others, will push him at this spot. Junior A.J. Hawkins has the lead over sophomore Evan Swindall at the center position, while Hall has worked himself into position to start at right guard this season.

3. LSU: The Tigers must replace left tackle Joseph Barksdale, but sophomore Chris Faulk looks to be ready to step right in. Junior Alex Hurst could become one of the best right tackles in the conference if he isn’t already, while senior Josh Dworaczyk and his 25 career starts return at left guard. Junior P.J. Lonergan is solid at center, while senior T-Bob Hebert, who

can also play center, or senior Will Blackwell will start at right guard.

4. Kentucky: Four starters return on one of the conference’s most underrated lines. Junior right guard Larry Warford was second-team All-SEC last season and will be the anchor of the Wildcats’ offensive line. Senior Stuart Hines returns at the other guard position for his third season as a starter. Junior Matt Smith was solid at center last season, while senior left tackle Chandler Burden is expected to be ready after missing spring practice. Right tackle is the big hole on the line and senior Billy Joe Murphy is expected to get the first shot at filling it.

5. Tennessee: The Volunteers’ offensive line is very young, but has a ton of talent all along it.

Sophomore center James Stone was a Freshman All-American last season and returns to anchor the line this upcoming season. Another sophomore, Ja’Wuan James, was solid at right tackle as a freshman and should be even better this season. Junior Dallas Thomas is the veteran of the line at left tackle and was solid as well last year. With sophomore Zach Fulton returning at right guard, the only open spot to fill is left guard.

Sophomore JerQuari Schofield hopes to be the one to start there this season.

6. Mississippi State: Gone is star left tackle Derek Sherrod and replacing him will be Dan Mullen’s toughest task in the offensive line. Sophomore Blaine Clausell and senior James Carmon, a former defensive tackle, are the two candidates to fill the spot but neither inspire much confidence.

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7. Arkansas: The Razorbacks have to replace three starters, but Bobby Petrino has recruited well enough to where it shouldn’t be that big of an issue this upcoming season. Sophomore left guard Alvin Bailey and sophomore center Travis Swanson are the two returnees in the offensive line.

Bailey is one of the more talented guards in the conference and will impress in 2011. True freshman Brey Cook was a highly touted recruit and could be forced into duty at right tackle. Sophomore Anthony Oden is ready to step in at left tackle, while senior Grant Cook will be looked upon to fill the left guard spot.

8. South Carolina: The Gamecocks must also replace a couple of starters along the offensive line.

Senior Kyle Nunn returns at left tackle along with junior T.J. Johnson at center, and senior Rokevious Watkins at right tackle. True freshman A.J. Cann could be forced into duty at left guard, while senior Terrance Campbell will get the first shot at right guard.

9. Georgia: The Bulldogs’ offensive line is, in a word, a mess.

Senior tackle Trinton Sturdivant is out for the year with a knee injury and the talented A.J. Harmon has transferred from the program as has Brent Benedict. A pair of seniors return in center Ben Jones and left tackle Cordy Glenn, who makes the move over from guard.

Senior Justin Anderson, a former defensive lineman, will likely get the nod at right tackle, while sophomore Kenarious Gaines is projected to start at left guard. A gaping hole at right guard, however, looms large.

10. Florida: Youth and injury risks will be the story of the Gators offensive line in 2011. Junior right tackle Xavier Nixon and sophomore right guard Jon Halapio are the only two returning starters. Redshirt freshman Chaz Green earned the starting spot at left tackle during spring practice, while sophomore Jonotthan Harrison looks to be the starter at center.

11. Vanderbilt: The Commodores return all five starters from last season, but that may not necessarily be a good thing. The experience is nice, but they were also one of the worst lines in the conference in 2010. Sophomore Wesley Johnson is the unit’s best player and will man the left tackle position in 2011.

12. Auburn: Only one starter returns for the defending national champions in senior right tackle Brandon Mosley. However, Mosley came out of junior college as a tight end and still has things to learn on the offensive line. Senior A.J. Greene missed last season but returns to play at left tackle.

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Junior offensive guard Matt Hall protects the quarterback from being sacked by junior defensive end Jason Jones during spring practice. Hall, a transfer from Arkansas, also makes the move from offensive tackles to offensive guard this season.

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Sept. 3 cannot come fast enough for Matt Hall. The 6’10” junior from Russellville, Ark., was forced to sit on the sidelines last year after transferring from Arkansas after the 2009 season.

Hall played in 11 games for the Razorbacks after redshirting the 2008 season, but felt that Ole Miss would be a better fit for him.

“I am so grateful for Coach Nutt to come out here,” he said. “It’s done nothing but benefit me; I just love being here and I love the guys, it’s just been a perfect move for me.”

It’s not the only move Hall has made. With senior Bradley Sowell and junior Bobby Massie returning at the tackle position, he also switched from tackle to guard.

“It’s been a change,” he said. “I’m just getting used to it. I got used to it a lot in spring ball. I like it right now, I like where I am at right now. I like the way the guards are in our system.

We’ve been working on it a lot.”

Hall said he has added 10 pounds since spring practice to put him at 350 pounds, likely making him one of the biggest interior linemen in college football. Hall said he is comfortable with his new added weight.

“I have had it on for a couple of weeks now, sitting there moving around with it,” he said. “It doesn’t seem too bad so as long as I can have that weight and still move around with it. I feel like it’s probably where you want to be at guard.”

Already a big, strong and physical player, one thing Hall is working on is his speed and quickness with his move to guard.

“The quickness and the footwork is what I need to work on,” he said.

“I’m strong enough to play there, but it’s the speed, quickness and technique that I’m trying to work on at

the moment.”

After battling injuries across the offensive line last season, many players return with starting experience, particularly at the guard position.

Junior Alex Washington is the projected starter at left guard, while senior Logan Clair and sophomores Patrick Junen, Jared Duke and Evan Swindall are among those competing for playing time at the guard position.

However, Hall believes he will be a starter for the season opener against BYU. “I feel like I have put my time in and I have worked hard enough to have my starting job and me and Coach Markuson have talked about it,” he said. “I think we will have a real good line and I am excited about it.”

Ole Miss will be starting a new quarterback this year, as well as having a young receiving corps. Hall said these factors make it critical for the offensive line to perform well.

“The older lineman and I know that a lot of pressure is going to be put on us to help carry the offense because we do have a young quarterback, no matter who it is,” he said.

“We do have a few receivers and tight ends back, but they lost some guys last year, so we are going to have to step up. We have known that since the end of last season was over. We knew it was going to be like this, so we are going to be ready for that.

While Hall isn’t looking past any games, he said he can’t help but be excited for the Arkansas game.

“I can’t wait until that game,” he said. “I still talk to a few guys on the Arkansas team and we’re still friends.

They understand that I came here because it was better for me. It’s probably going to be a little emotional playing the guys from your home state, but I wouldn’t like anything more than to beat them.”