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Faculty Advisor of the UM Student Chapter of the Assosation for Computing Machinery, Dr. Dawn Wilkins travelled to Amory to deliver the computers.

She said she witnessed the destruction that still remains.

“Some of these kids don’t have anything at home and are relying on donations,” Wilkins said. “A lot of these kids have lost everything. It’s hard to predict what their reaction will be. I would think they will just be happy to have a computer and internet access and it will hopefully help them get back to normal.”

Computers will also be assigned to every teacher in every classroom when the school finishes reconstruction. Some of the computers will also be sent the temporary campus.

This is the third donation that the Ole Miss TREE program has organized since it was founded.

The TREE program has previously donated computers to students in Water Valley and West Tallahatchie high schools.

The University of Mississippi’s Technology Recycling to Enhance Education (TREE) program has donated 24 refurbished computers to the Monroe County School District office in Amory for schools that are still recovering from the April 27 tornado damage.

Students in Smithville will attend school beginning in August on a temporary campus of 43 mobile trailers while the K-12 school is reconstructed.

The tornado that hit north Mississippi this past spring left the Smithville High School “wiped out,” said principal Chad O’Brian.

He described the disaster as “complete devastation.”

O’Brian said he is unsure of what school supplies and resources will be available to the teachers and students in August. He said the remains of the school’s computers were sent to storage immediately after the storm and because there

Linda Christian, Manager of University Parking Services, announced Thursday that there will be a new “park and ride” lot added this fall to provide more parking options for commuting students, faculty and staff.

The Old Walmart parking decal will be available to students, faculty, and staff who wish to park on the north end of campus in the Oxford Mall parking lot and ride an OUT bus to campus.

There are 400 available parking spaces in the new lot. This lot builds upon the South Lot, which has around 950 parking spaces.

Last year, over 300 students purchased South Lot decals that allows students, faculty and staff to park on the south end of campus off Old Taylor road and take an OUT bus to campus.

With the purchase one of the two “park and ride” decals, students will be able to park at either location.

Students with the South Lot or Old Walmart decals are not allowed to park in any other area on campus between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, but students who purchase a commuter decal may park in commuter parking or one of the “park and ride” lots with no penalty.

In addition to the new parking lot, this year students, faculty, and staff will also see an increase in the price of decals for the first time since 2007.

Commuter and Residence Hall decals will increase from $60 to $75, and an additional or replacement decal will be raised from $10 to $15.

Both “park and ride” decals will increase from $10 to $20.

has not been electrical power on the campus since the tornado, it is unknown if the machines will function.

“You just don’t know what you’re dealing with,” O’Brian said.

The UM students and faculty members involved in the TREE program worked to collect computers from across campus that would otherwise have been sent to salvage.

The program cleaned and refurbished the computers and donated them to the public schools in need, according to Ole Miss officials.

O’Brian was happy and surprised by the contribution made by the university.

“In education, technology is the backbone of what we do,” he said.

“To have this kind of donation is unreal.”

O’Brian said the donated computers will primarily benefit the students and he plans for the computers to be used in the school’s elementary and junior high laboratories. He believes the students will be “very appreciative.”

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Early Friday morning, 1,096 avid Harry Potter fans made their way to Oxford’s Malco Theater for the midnight premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: part 2,” the eighth and final movie of the Harry Potter series. Tickets to the premiere sold out earlier in the week.

Diana Katanzhi, a manager at the Malco, said all 9 p.m. movies Thursday night were cancelled to prepare for the midnight premiere.

Doors opened at 10 p.m. to allow fans to line up to ensure they claimed the best seats.

In the 13 years since the first novel, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” was released, J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world has turned from a fictional story to a full-blown

about the magical world.

Daniel O’Sullivan, associate professor of French and senior fellow of the Residential College, first began reading the Harry Potter novels with his wife. “Someone had given my wife the fourth Harry Potter novel and we realized we didn’t know what was going on, so we went back and bought the first book. We took turns reading the book out loud to each other as we drove cross-country from Boston to Bloomington, Ind. We finished it before we got to Bloomington.”

While many would consider the concept of a fictional world about spells and magic to be a children’s concept, people of all ages are obsessed with the series.

“I think Rowling is such a great story teller,” O’Sullivan said. “I can get wrapped up in the story very easily. In a lot of ways, it is brain candy.”

O’Sullivan refers to himself and his family as “Potterheads,” and they plan to see the movie together Friday afternoon.

“The story works on so many different levels,” he said. “It is something that adults can talk about and kids can talk about. And something that adults can talk to kids about.”

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Wands & Things: America’s own Hogwarts?

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A new chain of “schools” called Wands & Things are scheduled to open in select cities across the country (New York and Los Angeles first, of course) on July 16 to commemorate the last Harry Potter film, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” which premieres the day before.

The curriculum promises to train the average individual to become a wizard in 10 days or your money back.

The magical scholar who has dared to promote this guarantee is named, oddly enough, Perry Hotter.

Hotter claims the Potter movies, which he has watched 111 times each, has culminated into changing him from a mere mortal to a real, noholds-barred wizard.

Which, of course, he feels compelled to share with the world.

According to the school’s

website, for only $2,500 and 10 days of your life, you can enroll in the course, move into the school (which, from the pictures, is a black tent with glittery moons glued onto the sides pitched outside of each city) and begin your training immediately.

You’re presented with your wand and “things,” a black cape and a really pointy cap after your check clears.

Or your card is approved, if you want the paraphernalia really quickly.

Either way, Hotter promises the experience will be very wizardly.

It seems he has personally trained a team of men and women who can instruct you as you trek your way into the magical realms, learning tricks of the trade along the way.

You even get to battle Hotter’s version of Lord Voldemort as your final exam, so to speak.

You go up against the dark forces to prove your prowess and the success of the course.

If all of this seems a little far-fetched to you, you’re definitely not alone.

Authorities are investigating Hotter and his band of sorcerous accomplices for any and all scam tendencies.

No, really? Surely not.

But despite skepticism and sarcasm (my own included), the schools are filling up fast with plans to extend them nationwide.

Hotter feels it is his duty to carry on where Potter, being fictitious and all, cannot.

While I try to be a very openminded person, somehow I can’t get my brain around all this wizard stuff. Especially from a man named Perry Hotter who wants $2,500 from me.

However, I realize that everything costs more these days, even becoming a full-

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Just like gas, you don’t get magical powers for free. But... is the guy serious?

Then, my child-like imagination that adulthood has smothered over the years pushes its way out from underneath the pillow, and I wonder...but what if it IS true?

What if I could be like Harry Potter? What if I could fight the dark forces with my best friends and fly on broomsticks?

What if I could be the best darned wizard in the entire world and have tons of fun all while I’m doing it? Now, that would be well worth the $2,500.

We’re going to miss you, Harry.

Angela Rogalski is a senior print journalism major who lives in Abbeville, Miss. Follow her on Twitter @abbeangel.

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Helping ‘the least among us’

BY MEGAN MASSEY Columnist

This summer, I’ve been interning at Interfaith Compassion Ministry (ICM) here in Oxford.

ICM is a non-profit organization that helps low-income people pay their bills and finds shelter for the homeless. Most of the time when I tell people what ICM does, I get asked if poverty and homelessness are actually issues in Oxford.

Oxford seems like such a wealthy, pristine city; most people don’t realize that when you get away from the Square and the university, there are a lot of people who are hurting, who lack food, who have no home.

Last year alone, ICM helped 5,951 people, 371 of which were homeless. I’m approaching the last week of my internship and throughout the summer, I’ve seen situations that students at Ole Miss should know and care about.

Sometimes it’s easy to get frustrated with people who come into ICM. Most are good, hardworking people, but some don’t try to better themselves.

It’s frustrating. But despite my frustrations, there’s one group of people I can never be upset with the kids.

There are so many children living in these low-income situations, and they’re all heartbreaking. Most of the time, one of the parents is completely out of the picture and these kids are forced to grow up too soon to take care of younger siblings.

A few have even had to translate for a foreign parent. Every time I see one of these kids, I’m reminded of how fortunate I am to have parents who care. Most of us can’t imagine growing up in homes like these, so we never think about them being real.

Former criminals are sad as well.

They’re a less obvious group to be concerned for, but many become homeless when they are released from prison because their families don’t want them around. It’s nearly impossible for them to find work or shelter. Even public housing won’t always accept them. Yes, they’ve obviously made mistakes but that doesn’t mean that they should be overlooked or forgotten.

I think the circumstances that have bothered me most this summer have been people who are laid off, especially Ole Miss employees.

From what I hear from volunteers at ICM, it’s like that every summer.

A lot of the food services employees on campus get laid off until the fall semester begins. They do receive unemployment, but typically, that’s only half of what they normally make.

Because they aren’t able to work in the summer, some don’t have enough money to buy food, pay their electric bill or pay their rent.

Please don’t take this the wrong

way; I’m not trying to judge or talk badly about Ole Miss or the administration. I don’t know enough about how the system works to do either, but I do think that if anyone should be thinking of ways to help these people, it’s the Ole Miss student body.

These are the people who make our food every day, whether you get your food in the Union, the JC or your fraternity or sorority house.

My point in all of this is to show that there are people struggling every day to eat or to keep their home, and they aren’t halfway across the world in a developing country; they’re on our campus, in our community.

We try so hard to keep issues like poverty at a distance.

We’ll donate money every now and then, but very few actually get involved in these people’s lives.

After this summer, I think that’s a huge mistake.

Yes, giving money is wonderful and needed. But sometimes, people just want to talk, to know someone cares. It’s important that we put faces with these problems because until we realize that these are real individuals being affected, we won’t be moved to do anything about it.

There are so many places in Oxford to volunteer.

From the Leap Frog after school program during the school year to places like Family Crisis Services that are open all year, find one that strikes a chord with you and check them out. Poverty isn’t as far away as we like to think.

Megan Massey is a junior religious studies major from Mount Olive, Miss.

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The enemy is on our side of the border

BY JONECE DUNIGAN Columnist

For many people in different countries, the United States will always be seen in a positive light.

Because of this, illegal immigration will definitely be a touchy policy discussed in not only the 2012 election, but for many elections to come, national and local alike.

The tug of war has always been to add more barbwire to our borders or to let them roam free. Mississippi decided to enforce a law that allows police to jail and eventually deport anyone who cannot prove they are a U.S. citizen.

The many who agree with stricter immigration laws support the cause by stating problems like the job market and drug trafficking. They are correct in those statements; however, there is a twist in each one.

Yes, the drug war is a problem, but there are plenty of fully-fledged Americans handling that industry. Yes, illegal aliens are taking jobs Americans either do not want because of personal pride or cannot receive due to lack of funds in a company.

What these supporters fail to do is try to see immigrants’ lives from their eyes and figure out why illegals work so hard.

Today, many would probably say that they have been in that situation because the recession takes a toll on us all.

Yet, to live in a crumbling shack with little money and to take care of the family sur-

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rounded by danger is something few Americans have lived through. If many of us did, then there would not be any jobs for illegal immigrants to take.

The reason why they work so hard for so little is because they know what it feels like to literally have nothing.

That is the story of many people who jump the border.

For them, immigration laws take away the right to see their children grow up in peace or to see their family happy, thus they believe that it should not exist.

They are not right because those policies can be used to help them once we realize that we have been calling the wrong side the enemy.

Something should be done to stop the employers who are preventing immigrants to fulfill the true American dream.

They are cheating to keep their money and to keep their companies afloat by paying illegals way below minimum wage and under the table.

That is slavery, which should not exist with what this country stands for. Along with that, we should help these people who want to become citizens.

Citizens might not agree with that because it would be more money from us, but yet again, we lack perspective.

On the first day of a foreign language class, when a person speaks nothing but an unfamiliar language, the expressions on our faces state, “What in the world is this person speaking?”

Yet we complain when someone is struggling to learn the hardest language in the world: English. Funny thing is when they do finally learn English, they did something that most cannot do: learn English as a

second language.

Also, the citizenship test is harder than we realize it is.

I took it in one of my classes three times before I actually passed and English is my native tongue.

The reason why these people move here is not a bad reason at all. Ever since our forefathers claimed the U.S., this land has always been a place for people to declare their freedom.

It happened to the Pilgrims when they escaped the chokeholds of oppression just because of their religion, to the African Americans after they claimed their right to live equally among other races in the Civil Rights Movement and to the women who can now dream of becoming whomever they want to be thanks to womens rights.

Whoever was a minority in one country due to sex, religion, race and ethnicity came to America and attained a better future for generations.

Every one of us comes from someone who went on the journey.

Everyone else should have that same opportunity.

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

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there with all them youngins and impart my wizarding and potions knowledge,” he said.

“I’m not sure how I feel about shaving my head and riding around in a little motorized wheelchair, but I’ll do it for my students.”

“Um, sir,” Tyrone Nix interrupted. “I think that’s Professor X. From X-Men.” Nutt stared blankly.

“The bald guy with the wheel-

chair is from X-Men,” Nix said.

“He’s not a wizard, he’s a mutant.”

“Whatever, Tyrone-y,” Nutt said. “Your swagger ain’t got us nowhere playin’ football, so now we gotta use horcruxes.”

The floo network disconnected at this point, but Coach Nutt contacted me later to make further comments.

“I was just jokin’ with Tyroneasuarus, we won’t really be usin’

no horcruxes,” he said. “I mean, if you were to go lookin’ for my horcruxes that don’t exist, just stay away from Faulkner’s grave, the James Meredith statue, that box in Dan Jones’ office labeled ‘TRADI$HUNZ,’ and that box of McNuggets sittin’ on my desk,” Nutt said with a smile.

“And Dan Mullen’s heart is definitely not a horcrux, so don’t go tryin’ to destroy that, wink winkiddy wink.”

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The University of Mississippi’s newest edition, the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, has added new opportunities for students who are looking to major in something less conventional.

The offered majors, which range from herbology to potions, have caught the attention of many across the country.

The number of applicants for the already record-breaking incoming freshmen class has doubled, and students from all over the world are applying for transfer for the new school.

One new specialty that has quickly become popular with many Ole Miss students is the charms program.

Bestselling author and new Ole Miss dean J.K. Rowling said a charm “does not fundamentally alter the properties of the subject of the spell, but adds, or changes, properties.”

A charm is one of the four known types of spells and is the most common.

It focuses on what an object does instead of what it is.

“Turning a teacup into a rat would be a spell, whereas making a teacup dance would be a charm,” Rowling said.

The charms program at Ole Miss is a standard four-year program that focuses on the ability to master and create complex charms. The charms taught to freshmen are generally harmless and less

With the University of Mississippi instituting the new School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the search is underway to find qualified professors for the multiple new classes being offered in the fall.

Since the university is cutting costs at every opportunity, school officials have decided to keep the search internal for the time being and fill the positions with current faculty and staff where possible.

Thus far, university officials have managed to fill various posts in the new school, including myself as professor of magical handsomeness. The latest addition to the school is Coach Houston Nutt as Potions Master.

As the head football coach, Nutt will face many challenges balancing his coaching duties with his new classroom duties.

“I tell y’all, I’ve been wizard-

in’ for a long time, boys,” Nutt said in an interview via floo network. “It’s in my blood. And as much as I love coaching football, going out there and givin’ it 110 percent, I love fiddlin’ with potions just as much.”

Though where Nutt actually learned the art of potions remains a subject of dispute, university officials remain confident in their choice.

“We know Nutt will attack the office of Potions Master with the same aggressive greatness he has when coaching football,” the office of the Provost said in a statement released Thursday. “He’s been setting up his classroom in the dungeon of Shoemaker over the past two weeks, and he hasn’t blown up the building yet, so that’s a great sign.”

Nutt said he is excited about starting classes in the fall and has been working after football practice to prepare his curriculum.

“Man, I can’t wait to get in

Lauren Davis, junior nursing major from Memphis, said she saw the first movie before she read the novels.

“I became a fan when the first movie came out. I saw it with one of my friends and got hooked. I didn’t start reading the books until all of them had come out. ”I told my mom all I wanted for Christmas was the special edition box set of the seven Harry Potter books. I have read them all at least four times each.”

Davis believes it draws so many people in because it’s “more about the relationships than the magical side of the story.”

“I love the development of the characters by J.K. Rowling,” Davis said. “With the exception of Voldemort, there is no purely good or evil character. All her characters are flawed. There is no “God” character.

I love the story of Snape.”

While millions filled theaters nationwife, not everyone was able to make it to the midnight premiere.

Gurkirat Kaur, junior biochemistry and Spanish double major from Silver Creek, is disappointed that she could not attend the midnight premiere.

“I have an organic test Friday, and I don’t want to fail the class,” she said.

“But I am also a summer college counselor so I will be taking some of my students to see the movie Friday afternoon.”

Kaur still plans to dress up even though she did not attend the premiere.

“I always dress up even if I am not attending a midnight showing,” she said. “My friends and I have held Harry Potter parties. I have a wand and everything.”

For many fans, the last movie is bittersweet.

“All good things must come to an end. It is part of the cycle of life,” said A.J. Celeski, a junior marketing communications and Spanish double major from Hernado. “I feel like it is ending at the perfect time because I feel like we grew up together. We are all taking different paths in life now.”

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even created some of their own.

Reilly Hamilton, senior marketing major and charms minor, said her favorite charm so far is the “color change” charm.

“I can change the color of anything I want and when I get tired of that color, I can change it to another,” she said. “It really came in handy when I lived in the dorms. I would change the color of my wall multiple times and when the R.A. came around to check the rooms, I just changed it back.”

Charms such as the “Hotty Toddy” charm, which is used to make any gameday Grove outfit come together perfectly, or the “From Dixie With Love” charm that can keep the student section filled until the end of the fourth quarter are unique to the Ole Miss school and are not taught at other schools.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY PETRE THOMAS| The Daily Prophet Jason Darby, a senior political science and criminal justice double major, likes to use the charms he learned in class to pick up the ladies.

“I’ve always been popular with women, but now I just have a few more tricks up my sleeve,” he said.

When asked exactly what those tricks were, Darby declined to comment. “I can’t be giving away all my secrets.”

complex, such as causing an object to levitate or hover.

As students spend more time in the program, they will begin attempting charms with a higher difficulty level that can have more of an impact. By graduation, students will have mastered a variety of charms and will have hopefully

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department, professor Charity Burbage, who will teach Muggle Studies, has a theory as to why Chancellor Dan Jones is not too excited about the development of the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

“It has been said that the chancellor was very close with the Malfoys during his own educational career and recently recruited the help of Lucious Malfoy to help bring down Colonel Reb,” Burbage said.

The Malfoys are prominent Death Eaters, and Burbage believes that Jones’ affiliation with the Malfoys may have caused him to turn over to the dark side.

Malfoy and Jones were unavailable for comment at the time of publication.

Despite the possibility of having a Death Eater in charge of Ole Miss, novice witches and wizards from around the nation are flocking to the university to support the new department, which might explain the ridiculous size of the record-breaking incoming freshmen class.

Students enrolled in the prestigious and selective department will be able to purchase textbooks at the Ole Miss bookstore, but wands must be purchased at Olivander’s Wand Shop in Diagon Alley, which is currently being renovated due to structural damage caused by “He Who Must Not be Named.”

Quidditch tryouts will be held at the end of August at the Ole Miss Intramural Fields. Broomsticks are required and will not be provided.

For more information regarding acceptance into the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, current and future students will be notified via Owl in the upcoming weeks.

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The Oxford Police Department continues the search for an unidentified magic user who closely resembles Taylor McGraw, Associated Student Body president and advanced wizard. The wizard was seen casting transfiguration spells on unsuspecting non-magical citizens, also known as muggles, changing them into a variety of animals from frogs and turtles to cats and dogs.

The most recent attack by Students will be pleasantly surprised this fall when they notice that a few more courses have been added to the Ole Miss curriculum. Faculty has been flown in from around the globe to make up the new School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at the Ole Miss.

With the Dark Mark appearing more frequently around the United States (more sightings were confirmed around July 4), Ole Miss is the first school in the nation to set up a separate department strictly geared toward the training and education of witches and wizards that live in the U.S. Many of the courses offered can fulfill the general education requirements for Muggle students in the areas of science and English. Students will be able to learn common spells such as “Alohamora,” a spell that opens locked doors, to the creation of potions like the “Beautifying Potion,” which causes individuals to look more attractive than they actually are.

In addition to courses such as introductory potions, spells and defense against the Dark Arts, Ole Miss is also in the process of setting up a Quidditch team.

The university is bringing in Quidditch coordinator Oliver Wood, graduate of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the United Kingdom and former captain of the school’s Gryffindor quidditch team.

“I think that adding Quidditch as an SEC-sanctioned sport here at Ole Miss will be very beneficial,” Wood said. “It would occur during the same time as the football season, which might cause conflict, but if Coach Nutt doesn’t have a very successful start to the season, we might be able to set up a good fan base.”

While the Oxford and Ole Miss communities have been extremely supportive and excited upon hearing about this new

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Featherbottom said. “There was a puff of smoke and Curtis was gone, but in his place sat a frog.”

McGraw was spotted fleeing the Square that night on his Nimbus 2001 with wand in hand but has not been seen since.

The transfiguration spell is reversible with a special potion made from the eye of a newt and the beard of a goat. While the transfiguration professor at the University of Mississippi was able to change Otartale back to his human form within 24 hours, the personality traits of the frog are still in effect.

“I just want to be normal again.

My newfound appetite for insects is most unsettling,” Otartale said.

Oxford citizens magic and non-magic alike are taking all the necessary precautions against the rogue wizard.

Posters of the current suspect have been posted around the city.

“Wizards like that give the whole magic community a bad name,” said transfiguration major Jon Rabbittseye.

Helga Picklenose, assistant professor of potions at the university, said that a new batch of the potion “mountain un-dew” will be ready within the week.

Oxford police urge the public to be on guard and, if possible, to obtain a magic-blocking amulet to protect from the dangerous spellcaster.

If you have any information that can help the police find the sorcerer, please contact the Oxford Police PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY PETRE THOMAS | The Daily Prophet Department. the serial sorcerer happened last night on the Square next to the Wet Wizard, a bar popular with local wizards and witches.

The latest victim, Curtis Otartale, was changed into a lime green frog Wednesday night around 11 p.m. after leaving the bar.

Ronnie Featherbottom, the only known eye-witness to the crime, was confused about the strange attack on Otartale.

“We were standing there, and out of nowhere, a shadowy figure appeared and chanted, ‘Formicus croakicus!’”

PETRE THOMAS | The Daily Prophet

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SEC football rankings: running backs Each Friday, The Daily Mississippian’s Bennett Hipp will rank the 12 SEC teams by position as part of an eight-week series.

Next week: quarterbacks

BY BENNETT HIPP The Daily Mississippian

1. Auburn: The Tigers lose a lot from their 2010 National Championship team, but return a great deal of talent at the running back position. Sophomore Michael Dyer rushed for over 1,000 yards as a freshman and will be paired with the electric Onterio McCalebb. McCalebb is one of the fastest players in the country and ran for almost 900 yards a year ago last year as a sophomore 2. Alabama: Even with the season-ending injury to talented freshman Dee Hart, Alabama ranks near the top in terms of running back units. Junior Trent Richardson now has the reins of the Crimson Tide running attack after the departure of 2009 Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram. Richardson rushed for 700 yards and six touchdowns last season and is ready to become the feature back in Tuscaloosa this season. His backup, sophomore Eddie Lacy, rushed for 400 yards on 56 carries last season.

3. Arkansas: Arkansas has enviable depth at the running back position with three solid backs in the rotation.

Starter Knile Davis rushed for just over 1,300 yards in 2010 as a sophomore and should come close to repeating that if he stays healthy this season. Junior Dennis Johnson is back from an internal injury and hopes to get back to his 2009 form.

Junior Ronnie Wingo Jr. showed

flashes of his talent last season and hopes to keep that talent on display full-time in 2011.

4. South Carolina: In contention for best running back in the conference, sophomore Marcus Lattimore has added weight and muscle in the offseason in hopes of being able to stay healthy in 2011. Lattimore carried the ball an astounding 249 times as a true freshman, racking up almost 1,200 yards rushing and 17 touchdowns.

Behind Lattimore on the depth chart is junior Kenny Miles, who garnered 40 carries in the offense last season.

5. Mississippi State: The Bulldogs return a nice stable of running backs. It starts with senior Vick Ballard, who narrowly missed out on 1,000 yards rushing last season and ended the year with 981.

In addition to Ballard, sophomore LaDarius Perkins returns after accumulating over 500 yards of rushing as a freshman. Despite 221 yards rushing last season, junior Robert Elliot has yet to live up to the hype that surrounded him as a recruit.

6. Florida: It remains to be seen how Weis uses the abundance of small, speedy backs in his new prostyle offense. Seniors Chris Rainey and Jeff Demps combined for over 900 yards rushing last season and are the top two backs returning.

Sophomore Mack Brown is another back to keep an eye on this season in Gainesville.

7. Ole Miss: Brandon Bolden returns for his senior season af-

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Senior running back stiff arms a Louisiana defender in a 43-21 victory last season. He rushed for a career-high 116 yards on a career-high 19 carries and finished with 337 yards and three touchdowns for the season.

ter leading Ole Miss in rushing a year ago with 976 yards and could eclipse the 1,000 yard mark this season. Sophomore speedster Jeff Scott hopes to find consistency, while senior Enrique Davis hopes to contribute as another back in the rotation this season.

8. LSU: The Tigers must replace Stevan Ridley and turn to talented sophomore Spencer Ware to do so.

Ware rushed for over 100 yards in last year’s Cotton Bowl and seems ready to be the starter this season.

Sophomores Alfred Blue and Michael Ford will be in the mix as well.

9. Tennessee: Senior Tauren Poole returns after rushing for 1,034 yards and 11 touchdowns

a season ago. The Volunteers have weapons in the passing game now, so Poole should have more holes to run through. Behind Poole is sophomore Rajion Neal and highly-touted recruit Marlin Lane.

10. Georgia: The Bulldogs almost fell lower than this spot with their mess at the running back position. Washaun Ealey decided to transfer out, while Caleb King was recently ruled ineligible due to grades. That leaves redshirt freshman Ken Malcome and junior Carlton Thomas.

The wild card is incoming freshman Isaiah Crowell, one of the top high school backs last year, who be thrown into the fire early.

11. Vanderbilt: The Commo-

dores have a new coach in James Franklin, but the previous staff left behind some offensive talent in juniors Warren Norman and Zac Stacy. Both battled injuries in 2010, but have a large amount of talent. It will be interesting to see if they can stay healthy and how Franklin uses both of them in the new offense.

12. Kentucky: Gone are the Wildcats top two rushers from 2010 in Derrick Locke and Randall Cobb. The duo combined for over 1,300 rushing yards and 15 touchdowns last season. After rushing for 254 yards as a freshman, sophomore Raymond Sanders put himself in position to start at running back in 2011.

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had four players and Arkansas had three. Kentucky was the only other school to have multiple members on the first team with two.

Nine of the 12 SEC schools had a member on the first team All-SEC squad. Each SEC school had at least one student-athlete on either the first, second or third team.

Alabama followed Arkansas in total selections with 13, while Georgia was third with nine selections among all three teams.

Every team had at least two selections on the combined three units.

There are six first-team preseason selections that were on last year’s first team coaches All-SEC postseason team.

Those include WR Alshon Jeffery (South Carolina), RB Marcus Lattimore (South Carolina), LB Danny Trevathan (Kentucky), DB Mark Barron (Alabama), DB Stephon Gilmore (South Carolina) and PK Blair Walsh (Georgia).

The All-SEC first-team squad has 14 seniors and 12 underclassmen, including 10 juniors and two sophomores.

The second team has 16 seniors, seven juniors and five sophomores.

The third team has nine seniors, 11 juniors and eight sophomores.

This marks the eighth straight year of the SEC Coaches Preseason All-SEC Team.

The team is announced each year in advance of the SEC Football Media Days.

This year, the event will be held next Wednesday through Friday at the Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, Ala.

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