THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
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Parking meters on the Square become operational today WILL CROCKETT
jwcrocke@go.olemiss.edu
Parking meters installed on the Oxford Square will be activated today. The parking meters will be active from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. every day except for Sundays from now on. “The meters will operate at an hourly rate of a dollar per hour,” Oxford Parking Director Matt Davis said. “They’ll run 12 hours a day and roughly 300 days a year.” When asked why Oxford chose to install parking meters in the Square, Davis said it mainly came down to preventing cars from being left in a Square parking spot all day. “(The meters) keep the trend of people parking on the Square all day away,” Davis said. According to Davis, there are now roughly 300 to 315 parking meters installed on the Square. These meters PHOTO BY: CADY HERRING
Parking meters are seen on North Lamar Blvd.
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Fraternity participates in ALS Ice Bucket Challenge MARY VIRGINIA PORTERA mvporter@go.olemiss.edu
Videos on social media of people doing the ALS “Ice Bucket Challenge” have been circulating in recent months, eliciting questions about the purpose behind the challenge. At The University of Mississippi, many students and faculty have gone above and beyond the challenge of simply soaking themselves with ice cold water and have really dove into the effort to support ALS research. For those that do not know exactly what ALS is, it stands for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and is commonly known as
“Lou Gehrig’s Disease.” ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that acts quickly, causing motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain to die. This leads to the inability for movement by those people that have the disease. The patient is fully cognizant of what is happening to them and experiences the full physical pain and distress of ALS. At The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, efforts are being made to research the disease. Dr. Alexander Auchus and Dr. Vettakikorumakankav Vedanarayanan of the neurology department are involved in research and support for ALS patients and
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recently took the ice bucket challenge themselves in support of the movement. Furthermore, plans are developing for an ALS clinic at UMMC to treat patients specifically with ALS. Fundraising has increased in Mississippi this year, most likely from the exposure of the ice bucket challenge. Jamie Craig from the ALS Association of Louisiana and Mississippi said that, “from July 29 through Aug. 28, Mississippi residents gave $34,921 to our chapter.” She also added that “donations from Mississippians have certainly increased this year – due in large part to the Ice Bucket Challenge.”
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PHOTO COURTESY: PHI DELTA THETA
According to Craig, the ALS association of Louisiana and Mississippi “has raised $177,000 since July 29 and raised $38,500 during the
same time period last year.” Craig mentioned that the Mississippi Alpha chapter of Phi Delta Theta at Ole Miss
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