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‘Smoke up the Grove’ lights up REBELS START 2-0 FOR FIRST TIME SINCE ‘09 Students, faculty and staff protested the new campus-wide smoking ban in the Grove this past Friday with the hope of the university reconsidering the designated smoking areas policy.
The Ole Miss Rebels won their second game of the season Saturday against UTEP, 28-10. However, head coach Hugh Freeze and his staff said the team still has a long way to go.
PHOTOS BY QUENTIN WINSTINE The Daily Mississippian
Junior running back Jeff Scott led the team with 113 yards on 13 carries against UTEP in his first game back from injury.
BY MATT SIGLER mcsigler@go.olemiss.edu
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A student waves a ‘Don’t tread on me’ flag during the protest against the smoking ban.
BY TAYLOR DELANDRO tjdeland@go.olemiss.edu
What has been a big controversy since the beginning of the school year has received student and faculty responses. On Friday in the Grove, a peaceful, non-violent protest was led by members of the public Facebook group, “Smoke Up The Grove,” which was started by two Ole Miss law students. The group invited anyone interested in smoking to smoke during the protest. Any nonsmokers who were against the ban were welcomed to attend the protest, as well. Ole Miss students and faculty protested the smoking ban by
signing a petition to stop the university from passing the zero-tolerance law. Criminal justice and political science senior Shawn Geter and liberal arts senior John Pimperl, who are both smokers, feel it is their constitutional right as American citizens to be able to smoke cigarettes in public. Pimperl said he feels his freedom to pursue happiness in whatever he desires is being taken away. “The university is prejudice only against cigarette smoking and not against any other tobacco users,” he said. Deborah Smith, a univerSee PROTEST, PAGE 4
Saturday’s win over UTEP was a big milestone for a program trying to get out of the bottom of the Southeastern Conference. The Rebels’ 28-10 win over the visiting Miners of Conference-USA not only gave Ole Miss their same win total from 2011’s disappointing 2-10 season, but it was the first time Ole Miss opened the season 2-0 since defeating Memphis and Southeastern Louisiana in
2009. It was also the first time the Rebels won back-to-back games since wins over Fresno State and Kentucky in 2010. “We’re thrilled sitting at 2-0,” head coach Hugh Freeze said following the game. “We beat a good football team tonight. They proved last week they were a great football team, and I thought our kids played with great passion. Obviously, we’ve got a lot to build on. We made it a lot harder than it had to be. The one thing that never was questioned was how hard they were playing for this university,
and I think everybody should recognize that.” The Rebels got off to a good start, scoring 21 first-half points and shutting out the Miners in the half. Things got started when sophomore quarterback Bo Wallace found sophomore wide receiver Donte Moncrief on a 55-yard touchdown pass less than five minutes into the game. “That was something that we put in this week,” Wallace said of the play. “It was a great scheme See REBELS, PAGE 7
Rock your vote from where you are Ole Miss students that are not from Lafayette County or Oxford can still have an equal opportunity to cast their votes without traveling all the way home. BY ANN-MARIE HEROD aherod@go.olemiss.edu
With the presidential election right around the corner, numerous media outlets are urging young Americans to vote with the “Rock the Vote” campaign. Absentee voting is one way college students can assure their voice is heard in the upcoming election.
Absentee voting allows registered voters who will not be in their voting precincts or counties on election day to cast their votes by filling out ballots and mailing them in ahead of time. People registering to vote absentee must go through an application process and give a reason why they are voting absentee. Reasons include but are not limited to: being
a member of the military or a disabled war veteran, physically disabled or attending a college outside of the county. For many people, exercising the right to vote is extremely important. “Everybody should take advantage of their right to vote, and we have a lot of students See VOTE, PAGE 3