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Soledad O’Brien to speak for Black History Month Black History Month schedule of events Feb. 3, 7, 10 and 12: Diversity Skills Training, noon in Butler Auditorium Feb. 7-9: 11th Annual Oxford Film Festival, Malco Oxford Commons and Oxford Conference Center Feb. 10: Film Screening: “The Loving Story,” 6 p.m. in Oxford-Lafayette County Public Library Feb. 11: Brown Bag: “Race and Space: Responses to The Loving Story,” noon in Faulkner Room of J.D. Williams Library Feb. 11: Lecture: Craig Wilder, chair of the MIT Department of History, 7 p.m. in Nutt Auditorium Feb. 12: Film Screening: “The Loving Story,” 6 p.m. in Room 106-D of J.D. Williams Library Feb. 13: “A Red Carpet Affair: A Celebration of Yesterday, Today and Forever,” 6 p.m. at The Inn at Ole Miss Feb. 19: Overby Center Panel Discussion: The Voting Rights Act of 1965, 11 a.m. in Overby Center Auditorium Feb. 24: Isom Center Brown Bag: “What’s It Like Being a Lesbian in the South?” by Danielle Kerr, UM graduate sociology student, noon in Faulkner Room of J.D. Williams Library Feb. 24: Former CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien keynote address, 5:30 p.m. in Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts Feb. 25: Multicultural Dialogue Session: Rap[ped] Up in American Culture with Bryan Cooper Owens, instructor of African-American Studies; and Timothy Abram, senior Public Policy Leadership student; 2 p.m. in Union 405 Feb. 25: Black History Month Concert, 7:30 p.m. in Nutt Auditorium
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The University of Mississippi announced Monday that former CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien will highlight the celebration of Black History Month at Ole Miss. O’Brien has won numerous awards, including an Emmy, for her reporting and most recently launched Starfish Media Group, a media production company dedicated to telling “life’s untold stories.” “Soledad O’Brien’s work complements the continued efforts of the university to stimulate healthy conversations on race and questions of identity,” Valeria Ross, assistant dean of students for multicultural affairs and volunteer services, stated in a university press release. The celebration kicks off today at noon in the Student Union lobby with a keynote speech by Barbara Combs and a performance from the university’s gospel choir. Associate sociology professor Combs released a book in November 2013 about the freedom marchers involved in the civil rights movement titled “From Selma to Montgomery: The Long March to Freedom.” Along with Combs’ discus-
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sion of the celebration of diversity and culture at Ole Miss, the Lift Every Voice Awards will be presented. These annual awards are given to members of the Ole Miss community who have “contributed to the betterment of human relationships on campus,” according to Donald Cole, assistant provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs. “Appreciating our varied cultural histories and common story as Americans is critical to building an inclusive community,” freshman political science major Ryan Nolen said. Scheduled Black History Month events include train-
ing sessions, film screenings, panel discussions and Brown Bag lectures, all of which are open to the public. The celebration will conclude on Feb. 25 with a concert featuring the Ole Miss African Drum and Dance Ensemble in Nutt Auditorium. The entire schedule can be found on the front page of today’s edition of The DM. “As a communication person, I think it’s critical for all of us to remember that it is not enough to talk about the past — we must act on our knowledge,” said JoAnn Edwards, speech instructor and director of UM Speech and Debate.
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Jason Derulo to headline annual spring concert By Julie LaBerge jklaberg@go.olemiss.edu
The Student Activities Association announced Wednesday that Jason Derulo, Travis Porter and Fly Panda will be the performers for this year’s spring concert. The performers were selected with the help of the association’s entertainment committee in an attempt to see what genres and artists students want to hear. “We got feedback that students were tired of country music and wanted a change,” said Alley Daily, a senior business marketing major and di-
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rector of the association. “We are an organization that caters to our students and want to bring events that they love and enjoy.” During homecoming week the SAA also made a firsttime push toward Twitter to encourage students to tweet about who they wanted to see at this year’s spring concert. They asked students to tweet their favorite artists’ names with the hashtag #musicinthegrove. Addison Sullivan, sophomore general studies major, said she is excited about the picks. “I actually can’t wait,” Sul-
livan said. “Jason Derulo is always awesome to see, and Travis Porter was a great surprise.” Some students, however, have voiced disappointment over the performer selections. “I feel like they have been slacking on performances the last couple of years, given the fact that I know they have the ability to book great performances that have been in the Grove in the past,” said Alex Medders, junior forensic chemistry major. The number of students in the Grove for the spring concert averages around 3,000 to 6,000 people. Last year saw
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one of the biggest turnouts, when thousands of students gathered in the Grove to enjoy the performances of Grace Potter and special guest Jerrod Niemann. Bradley Baker, adviser to the association, said the members of the organization try to improve the concert each year. “Regardless who is playing in the Grove, to have a free concert is something students should enjoy and is a fun college experience,” Baker said. “We always try to one-up ourselves with different genres to bring in more of a crowd.” Junior psychology major
Brandon Beamon said he was surprised to see Fly Panda on the lineup. Fly Panda is a duo made up of rapper Lukas Ka$h and singer Winter Rae who do trap-style music with a mixture of dubstep. “When I saw Fly Panda in the lineup, I was left with the question: Who are these randoms?” Beamon said. After researching the band on YouTube, however, Beamon said he is looking forward to hearing the band at the concert. The concert will be held April 4 at 8 p.m. on the Grove stage.
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What about the other options? By Trenton Winford tgwinford@bellsouth.net
In a recent class discussion, my classmates and I talked about the emphasis that has been placed on obtaining a college degree in today’s society. Some students felt the emphasis was justified, while others disagreed with the sentiment. However, throughout the discussion, I noticed that my fellow classmates had all made an assumption that severely limited the discussion, primarily because it seems to be the same assumption that most individuals, lawmakers included, make when the topic of higher education comes up. This assumption is that there are only two options for individuals: the current college system or T H E D A I LY
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no college at all. This assumption forces the discussion to completely ignore the possibility that the current system has flaws (which it does) and that alternatives to the current system exist. What is the current system, though? When people think of college, a four-year university with a wide range of fields of study for individuals in the 18-23 age range comes to mind for most people. From this definition, the discussion moves forward, often ignoring that to many students “college” is something completely different. Of course, many of you are likely thinking of community or junior colleges now, and they are the primary alternative, especially in Mississippi. Despite being the primary alternative, though, the community college system in Mississippi is grossly underfunded, and often ignored by lawmakers
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and citizens alike. If the primary alternative is struggling, then what hope do other alternatives have? After all, online, for-profit schools like University of Phoenix and DeVry face an uphill battle against public perception, despite an increase in enrollment. Online degrees and programs offered through traditional universities face many of the same difficulties. Unfortunately, many in the public consider these to be easy or inferior programs, even when offered alongside rigorous traditional programs at institutions such as Harvard and Princeton. But these alternatives offer students routes that were not available even a few decades ago. They allow full-time workers to advance their education without interrupting their income. They allow individuals to choose programs that are not restricted by
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geography. For students who cannot go through the traditional system, these alternatives offer a lot in actuality, but are unfortunately burdened by perception. This perception has caused a divide in higher education where each route is looked at as a distinct system rather than as one part of a larger system. In turn, it has led to the individual systems having to fight for funding, students and recognition instead of working together to push American education and its benefactors forward. The beginning of the solution to this is increased awareness and knowledge of what the different systems have to offer so that everyone will see that we can all benefit from the advantages that each offers. Trenton Winford is a senior public policy leadership major from Madison.
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Give the guy a break BY: Hawley Martin thedmnews@gmail.com
The 2013 NFL season ended Sunday night with a bang, but for Peyton Manning it seemed more like a whimper. It’s hard to say which part of Super Bowl Sunday captured the most attention. Between Joe Namath traveling to an igloo in the Arctic Circle to trade for that coat, a successfully ostentatious halftime performance that featured a charismatic Bruno Mars and an ever-wildly pleasing performance by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and a lineup of commercials that were “stronger than last year,” according to Adweek, the folks who prepared for this event definitely hit it out of the park. But the game itself will go down in history. The Seattle Se-
ahawks won their first Super Bowl in franchise history with each starter of the winning team making his Super Bowl debut. In the four major professional sports (football, baseball, basketball and hockey), the city of Seattle captured only its fifth major title Sunday night. The first came from the now-dissolved Seattle Metropolitans, who won the Stanley Cup in 1917, and the second came in the 1979 NBA Championship from the Seattle Supersonics, who have since moved to Oklahoma City and become the Thunder. Finally the Seattle Storm won the WNBA finals in 2004 and 2010. Most impressive of all, the Seahawks defeated the favored Denver Broncos and its seemingly unstoppable quarterback Peyton Manning, arguably the greatest quarterback ever, in a 43-8 rout. Or maybe the game won’t go down in history. In the days and weeks preceding the game, many sports critics, analysts and writers
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argued that if Manning won the Super Bowl, he would cement himself as the greatest quarterback of all time, and if he lost, then, well, who knows. If Manning won the Super Bowl? It takes 10 other players on the field, 42 players off the field, a coaching staff, an administration, a fan base and a city to win a Super Bowl, not one player. Football demands the most teamwork of any sport. One simple mistake from one player on any given play creates a hole that usually explodes and devastates the outcome. One game should not and cannot define a single player’s status as the greatest quarterback of all time. Yes, Manning’s playoff record slipped below .500 Sunday. Yes, he has one Super Bowl ring. These statistics reflect a team effort, not that of one player. Peyton Manning is undoubtedly the greatest regular-season quarterback ever. His list of awards, accomplishments and re-
cords could fill up a phone book, and most critics contend it is impossible to argue against these personal accomplishments. But his historical performance in the playoffs blemishes his claim for all-time greatness, according to most critics. Manning’s personal playoff statistics do not disqualify him from all-time greatness. And if one cites his personal statistics for his regular-season greatness, he or she must consider correlating statistics for the playoffs as well, rather than the final score of the game. In the loss Sunday night, Manning broke the record for most pass completions in a Super Bowl. Given his performance in the regular season, this would be an obvious prediction. All roads lead to Rome, so to speak. But the points on the board cast shadows on this record-breaking performance. Some critics say that Manning does not have what it takes to win in the postseason. Among
the records to refute that notion, Manning holds the record for leading the biggest comeback in a conference championship game, as he led a charge that overcame an 18-point deficit to defeat the New England Patriots and Tom Brady, heralded for his comeback success and cool attitude under heavy pressure, to win the 2006 AFC championship 38-34. I don’t mean to say that Peyton Manning is or is not the greatest quarterback of all time, but it is not fair to allow one game in one player’s career to define his legacy and success. In the words of Gary Gaines, head coach of the 1989 State Champion Permian High School Panthers, “There ain’t much difference between winning and losing, except for how the outside world treats you. But inside you, it’s all about the same.” Hawley Martin is a senior history major from Richmond, Va.
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Oxford becoming breeding ground for talented potters By VIRGINIA ENGLAND vhenglan@gmail.com
A few miles down Highway 334, a Spaniard who first came to The University of Mississippi to run track feverishly churns out pottery from an oldfashioned groundhog kiln. Pablo Sierra does ceramics the traditional way. He digs his own clay from the soil in Yocona, kneads it in a clay mill powered by his horse and throws and sculpts the clay on a wheel in the studio he built behind his home. To complete the process, he fires the clay. Sierra considers himself a craftsman, not an artist. He said the process is what brings beauty to his pieces, making
them organic and authentic. “There are beautiful traditions in the South; it’s funny how there are very few people who take the traditional approach here,” Sierra said. “American potters want to be viewed as artists who make one-of-a-kind work.” Sierra’s process is greatly influenced by Mississippi. “Pottery is one of those things where you don’t become somebody else because you move to different place, but it’s unconscious — like you don’t make Chinese pots in Spain,” Sierra said. The main seller of Sierra’s pottery is Levi Hostetler, a member of the Amish community in Randolph.
Hostetler’s son is an aspiring potter and hopes to learn the traditional pottery techniques Sierra practices. Sierra is merely passing on what he knows to someone else, just as his former Ole Miss professor Ron Dale did with him. “I took classes under Ron Dale and I learned a lot from him,” Sierra said. “I may not have his same approach to the craft, but you learn from everything the more you see, and being exposed to different people is never going to hurt you. The more you see the better.” Dale’s exhibit, “Recollecting: 1980-2012,” was on display at the University Museum until Jan. 11. It features large-scale contemporary pieces that are constructions of wood and clay. “All of my work comes from pots, and that’s where it stems and originates,” Dale said. “I know that some these things that I make and fire are to be used, but the other pieces make more obvious sort of statements. Handmade objects make statements in themselves, that it’s worth your while as a buyer because it’s special,
handmade and distinctive.” The job at Ole Miss is what first brought Dale to Oxford. He taught ceramics for 25 years before retiring. Oxford also appealed to Matt Long, associate art professor and graduate coordinator, who currently teaches ceramics at Ole Miss. In 2000 Long was asked to be a visiting artist in Ole Miss’ art department and led a weekend workshop. “I felt at home, and of all places, The University of Mississippi; I had never even been to Mississippi before,” Long said. “I said to my wife, ‘I don’t wish anything bad on Ron Dale, but if he dies I’m going to apply for that job.’” When Dale retired in 2004, Long left the University of Florida for Ole Miss. Long said he teaches because he feels he can make a difference in his students’ lives. “The teachers I had were huge, and it’s a big deal to have teachers like that,” Long said. “I still think that that’s why I weather the storm of higher education because of how big
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of a deal a teacher can make in a young person’s life. They can change their future. I’m a kid who grew up in the mountains on a small farm and came from no money. I chose to do ceramics and here I am a professor at a great institution and to me that means all things are possible.” Long said students play a large role in the community of Oxford through the Empty Bowls Project, which Dale brought to Oxford 13 years ago. Empty Bowls is a national movement that raises money to feed those in need. All the proceeds go to the Oxford Food Pantry. “I donate 200 bowls, and Pablo has given that many before as well, and Matt makes sure the students participate,” Dale said. Keith Stewart, a former student of Dale’s, does ceramics in his studio located behind his home in Taylor. But Dale’s classroom was not Stewart’s first introduction to ceramics. Stewart comes from a long line of potters — his family has been making pottery since 1888. Stewart chooses to create utilitarian pieces instead of decorative pieces. “I’m not making art, I’m making pottery,” Stewart said. “I find it infinitely more charming when someone calls me up seriously distressed because they broke their coffee mug and it’s the only one they want to use. It becomes something that they hold and put their lips on and their food in. It integrates with their life in a way that a painting can’t.” Unlike Stewart’s, Long’s pieces are at the juncture between utility and artful concept. “They are still mugs, bowls, flask and jugs and teapots and all those forms, but my attempt is to be artful with them and sometimes it’s about the visual and sometimes it’s about having something beautiful in your hand to drink from to nourish your body,” Long said. “Sometimes it’s about them being a conductor of conversation for that human interaction to exist.” Sierra considers himself a production potter doing mostly utilitarian work, but he does do some decorative pieces. “There is nothing more beautiful to me than something that is functional,” he said. “The objects that you use every day to me are beautiful.” Sierra continues to go against the grain of most American pottery, following his purest approach of digging it from the land. To him, it’s what seems natural.
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UM Writing Center to move to Lamar Hall By Natalie Moore nemoore91@gmail.com
By fall 2014, The University of Mississippi’s Writing Center will move from the third floor of the J.D. Williams Library to the second floor of Lamar Hall, located just off the Grove. Bob Cummings, director of the Center for Writing and Rhetoric, said the move was a decision made in the 2009 Quality Enhancement Plan, in which the university renewed its commitment to teaching writing. The move will hopefully make the writing center more prominent and closer to classrooms, according to Cummings. “If it’s easier to get to the writing center, and the writing center is in view, it is more likely students will remember the services and use the services,” he said. “So the move is about making sure that anyone that is interested in using the writing center services is able to do so.” Moving locations is nothing new for the center. Over the years it has moved all over campus, including to the basement of Bondurant, Brevard and even Kinard. While not all classes meet in Lamar, freshman writing classes will be centered in the building by next fall. However, the writing center is available to help any student at the university with any class writing assignment. Cummings said that a larger space will allow the writing center to hopefully help more students. “I hope that the services offered will be improved even more by the new space by allowing the ability to handle more appointments at the same time because of more square footage,” Cummings said. The writing center was started more than two decades ago on the Oxford campus and provides students with help in any
stage of the writing process. Students can sign up for appointments online to either meet in person or have writing evaluated online. The 30-minute or longer sessions can cover anything from the brainstorming process to editing a paper with students who are trained to work in the center. Writing center consultant Anna Terry said she enjoys helping improve students’ work and grades. “I like talking to the students, reading their papers and learning things from their perspective,” Terry said. Although Terry said she got the job her sophomore year through a friend, the process has since changed to include training for a semester and taking a class. Terry might not see the move happen before she graduates, but she is excited for the change. “There really isn’t any rea-
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son not to go when your tuition technically is paying for it,” Terry said. “And we will help you every step of the way. It’s just a really beneficial tool.” While there is still no defini-
tive date for the move, writing center staff said that promotional information and posters will be distributed throughout campus to keep students in the know.
Cummings said he believes the new location amid Lamar Hall’s newly reopened classrooms and pedestrian traffic will be advertising in itself.
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McRoberts announces the first member of coaching staff Ole Miss volleyball head coach Steven McRoberts announced the first member of his coaching staff Monday. Angela Mooney, a native of Lubbock, Texas, will serve as an assistant coach and the recruiting coordinator. Mooney comes to Ole Miss with 10 years of experience as an assistant coach. She spent the past season as an assistant coach at South Dakota State. Prior to her stop at SDSU, Mooney was an assistant at UTEP in El Paso, Texas, for nine years, where she played an instrumental role for the Miners in recruiting, training middle blockers, academics, community outreach and coordinating the UTEP volleyball camps. In her nine years on the bench at UTEP, Mooney tutored four all-conference performers, including three in the 2011 and 2012 seasons. Only three UTEP players earned all-conference recognition in the first 30 years of the program,
and all three Miners who received all-freshman team accolades came under her tenure. Mooney played a pivotal role in helping the Miners’ defense into one of the best blocking teams in the nation. Unranked in blocks per set before her arrival, Mooney guided the Miners to a national ranking of 28th in blocks per set in 2009, and coached a trio of nationally ranked blockers in 2010, including an AVCA All-Midwest Region Honorable Mention selection. “As I started to look at putting my staff together at Ole Miss, I began to think of all the things that I will need (from an assistant) to get this program to the highest level,” McRoberts said. “That’s why I am really excited to add Angela to our staff here. She will bring a lot of knowledge and energy to our program. I have watched her grow from her playing days at Texas Tech, and I have coached against her when she was at UTEP. She is a hard worker and always has a
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to go into Rupp Arena and have a chance to win. The duo combines to average 37 points per game, but it will be the role players who need to step up to beat Kentucky. Ole Miss got career games from freshman forward Sebastian Saiz with his 20 points versus LSU, and from sophomore forward Anthony Perez with his 22 points versus South Carolina. The Rebels might need another 20-point outburst. Or, getting everyone to contribute could lead to an upset. If Ole Miss can get Saiz, Perez, junior guard LaDarius White and junior forward Aaron Jones all around the 10-point mark, then the Rebels might have enough offensive firepower to take down Kentucky. The game will tip at 6 p.m. and be broadcast on ESPNU.
positive outlook on things. She will help us achieve our goals here at Ole Miss, and she will be a great mentor for these young ladies. In addition to being our recruiting coordinator, Angela will also be involved in the day to day training of our players on the court.” Mooney also brings extensive coaching experience at the club level. She coached for the Texas Power Volleyball Club from 200104. In her inaugural season as head coach, Texas Power won the Sun Country Regional Championship and qualified for the 2004 Junior Olympic National Tournament. She also served as an assistant for Texas Power the previous three years, helping the team make appearances at the AAU national tournament in 2001 and the National Invitational in 2002. In 2005, Mooney teamed with the El Paso Sunspots Volleyball Club as the head coach of their top 18s team. The Sunspots’ 18-Heat won the Sun Country Regional
Championship, qualifying for the 2005 Junior Olympic National Tournament. In 2009, Mooney captured her fourth regional championship in five years as head coach of the Sunspots 18s, and again returned to the Junior Olympic National Tournament held in Miami, Fla. She also served as the co-head coach of the 2007 Sun Country High Performance team that competed in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. A 2004 graduate of Texas Tech with a degree in human development and family studies, Mooney joined the coaching ranks after a prolific career with the Red Raiders from 2000-03. She recorded 930 kills, 348 digs and 229 blocks in her career, and still holds a number of hitting and blocking records. She also earned Academic All-Big 12 honors in 2003. Mooney and her husband, David Herman, welcomed their first child, Jacob Herman, in June 2011.
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SPORTS PAGE 8 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 4 february 2014 | SPORTS
Rebels look for big road win at Kentucky By Tyler Bischoff tfbischo@go.olemiss.edu
The schedule gets tougher. Ole Miss will hit the road to take on Kentucky in Rupp Arena tonight. The Rebels and Wildcats are tied for second in the Southeastern Conference standings. Ole Miss (15-6, 6-2 SEC) is coming off a huge comeback victory over South Carolina, but now the Rebels will start a tough stretch in the SEC that sees Ole Miss play three of its next four on the road. “(We) have to battle the five future pros, a hall of fame coach and 23,000,” head coach Andy Kennedy said. Kentucky is one of the biggest teams in the country; none of its starters is under 6-foot-6. This height helps make Ken-
tucky one of the best rebounding teams in the country. The Wildcats are fifth in the NCAA in total rebounding percentage and first in offensive rebounding percentage. Ole Miss is the second worst defensive rebounding team in the SEC. Kentucky is led in the frontcourt by freshman Julius Randle, who is expected to be a top NBA draft pick this summer. Randle leads the team in points, 16.1 per game, and rebounds, 10.1 per game. Joining him up front will be two 7-footers. Sophomore Willie Cauley-Stein is second in the SEC with 3.1 blocks per game, but in Kentucky’s last game, he was replaced in the starting lineup by freshman Dakari Johnson. “We have to make a bunch
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of shots because it’s hard to get rebounds (against Kentucky),” Kennedy said. In the backcourt, Kentucky starts three freshman guards — all at 6-foot-6. The point guard is Andrew Harrison, who averages 11.1 points and 3.5 assists per game. His twin brother, Aaron Harrison, starts on the wing and scores 14.1 per game. Along with the twins is Kentucky’s 3-point shooter, James Young. He attempts just under seven threes per game and knocks down 35 percent of them. Ole Miss, which plays the most zone in the SEC, will likely stay in 2-3 zone to keep Kentucky from beating it up inside. This strategy worked to slow down Johnny O’Bryant and LSU, but Tennessee shot 55 percent on threes and destroyed Ole Miss’ 2-3 zone. LSU and Tennessee are second and third behind Kentucky in rebounding. Junior guard Jarvis Summers and senior guard Marshall Henderson will have to continue to play like all-SEC players if Ole Miss is going See REBEL, PAGE 7
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Ole Miss guard Derrick Millinghaus pushes past South Carolina’s Duane Notice in Saturday’s game.
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