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Greek recruitment registration increases for 2014 LOGAN KIRKLAND & KYLIE MCFADDEN thedmnews@gmail.com
Fraternity and sorority recruitment week is now underway, and just as the freshman class numbers have swelled this year, the numbers of those going through recruitment have increased as well. Fraternity recruitment registration increased from 1,231 students in 2013 to 1,231 in 2014. Likewise, sorority recruitment has increased from 1,386 registered in 2013 to 1,556 this year.. “As the freshman classes continue to grow, it’s just logical that we’re going to see the numbers participating in recruitment continue to grow as well,” said Danny Blanton, director of public relations for the university. While the overall registration numbers increased in both fraternity and sorority recruitment, the registration rates of minorities were not so consistent. While minority registration for sorority recruitment increased from 82 females in 2013 to 103 in 2014, the minority registration number for fraternity recruitment decreased from 84 males in 2013 to 82 in 2014. Blanton said that while recruitment is a major part of this week, the university urges students to not lose sight of their academic pursuits. Students are released from recruitment if they miss any classes to attend recruitment rounds, and if a student misses a round of recruitment due to a conflicting class, that particular round can be made up. “I know that the Dean of Students’ office takes great care to make sure that the students’ studies come first, and that their academic performance isn’t interfered with,” he said. Blanton lauded the increase in registration and the benefits of going Greek. “I think it’s great that students are getting involved in extracurricular activities since it only enriches their collegiate experience, and I think that by the numbers continuing to grow, it shows that students are seeing value in their participation in Greek organizations,” he said. Fraternity and sorority recruitment began Sunday and will continue through Sept. 21.
Potential new members watch on as part of 2014 Greek recruitment in front of the Phi Mu sorority house Monday.
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Home game raises parking meter revenue MARY VIRGINIA PORTERA mvporter@go.olemiss.edu
Parking meters went active on the Square Sept. 2 and are still raising controversy among the Oxford and University community. Although the meters bring in money and improve the overall traffic situation downtown, not everyone supports the new measures. The meters, installed over the
summer, came as somewhat of a shock to students accustomed to parking wherever they choose on the Square. Elizabeth Kruczek, a junior accountancy major and regular frequenter of Pure Barre on the Square, was frustrated when she learned of the new parking meters. “I understand that the meters are bringing in a lot of money to the city of Oxford, especially on
game weekends, but they come as somewhat of an inconvenience for me when I have to park on the Square so regularly,” she said. “The fees add up over time and getting a ticket is especially expensive.” Each time someone receives a parking violation, the fee increases incrementally by ten dollars. Matt Davis, Oxford parking division director, said the first six days the meters were running,
the meters earned approximately $10,000. If the parking meters brought in $10,000 in only the first six days of operation, the potential they had for the first home game weekend was high. Davis said $8,000 was brought in just over this last weekend, but he added that monetary gain was not the only positive attribute of the meters this
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2014 or 1984? Facebook is watching you BRICE ASHFORD
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Whether it comes in the form of gossip, internet postings or government surveillance, privacy infringement is everywhere. Privacy no longer exists in today’s world, the word itself is so laughable it’s reduced to its most archaic meaning: “The state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people.” In a world filled with known national intelligence agencies such as the NSA, CIA and others, that are surely unannounced to the public, every camera, microphone and/or computer is beginning to feel increasingly more Orwellian. Social media’s game changer, known as Facebook, has recently attracted a lot of attention due to its mobile messaging application. The Facebook Messenger T H E D A I LY
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app can access large amounts of personal data. You cannot gain access to the app without first agreeing to the Terms of Service, rendering it difficult to communicate with others on Facebook via your smartphone (It is still possible to access Facebook via mobile web browser to message other users, however this is extremely inconvenient). According to the Terms of Service, the app allows Facebook to “call phone numbers without your intervention,” “send SMS messages,” “record audio with microphone” and many other sticky little addons that allow the app to collect swaths of potentially sensitive information. Facebook’s motives for collecting this data remains unclear. Some might say it is for marketing purposes while others may speculate there is underlying government involve-
ment. This isn’t the first time the social media giant has received bad publicity for being a little too nosy. I do not support the mass collection of public data by any entity, whether the action comes from the command of any form of government or a corporation. Private information should remain private. I cannot and do not hold Facebook 100 percent accountable for this issue, however. The Terms of Service were established as a way for companies and corporations to explain to their clients, “This is what you’re getting into.” As invasive as Facebook messaging seems, its clients are not forced to use any services, after all. Where do we, the consumers, draw the line? Although I do not agree with handing over the use of my phone’s functions
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to the company, I have chosen to agree to the terms and services; therefore, I have elected to render a certain level of privacy in order to gain access to a more efficient means of mobile communication linked to Facebook. The terms of service for other devices, such as laptops, do not differ in the ways that they collect data. The truth is, we have all been subject to monitoring since the day we signed up to use the website. The technological advances the world has achieved makes it increasingly difficult to maintain a private lifestyle. There is no sure way to fully block monitoring or surveillance. Be cautious of the actions that you choose to ensue. Remember, “Facebook is watching you.” Brice Ashford is a junior marketing major from Ridgeland.
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continued from page 1 past weekend. “The meters were effective on Saturday to where people were not leaving their cars on the Square all day for hours on end,” he said Though they have annoyed some Oxford citizens, the parking meters are good for small businesses downtown. “Especially from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the meters turn fast, and that is good for my business, gameday sporting business, and elderly people who cannot walk far distances to shops and restaurants,” said Jeff Johnson, small business owner and member of the Downtown Parking Advisory Council. “The meters create parking spots,” he said. As members of the parking advisory council, Johnson and fellow council members give aldermen advice on measures they intend to pass. Johnson commented that the funds from the parking meters will go toward eventually building
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Parking Officer Ken Whitfield gives a ticket for an overdue parking meter on the Square last Monday. a parking garage behind City Hall. “With the advent of the parking meters, this is the first time that a parking garage has become a possibility for Oxford, and the city really needs one,” he said. The meters are active from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and will be running for the majority of the year, excluding some holidays.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Monday the United States has taken the first step in its planned expanded fight against Islamic State militants, going to the aid of Iraqi security forces near Baghdad who were being attacked by enemy fighters. The U.S. Central Command said it conducted two airstrikes Sunday and Monday in support of the Iraqi forces near Sinjar and southwest of Baghdad. The strikes represent the newly broadened mission authorized by President Barack Obama to go on the offensive against the Islamic State group wherever it is. Previous U.S. airstrikes in Iraq
were conducted to protect U.S. interests and personnel, assist Iraqi refugees and secure critical infrastructure. These strikes were in direct support of Iraqi forces fighting the militants. Central Command said the strikes destroyed six Islamic State vehicles and one of the group’s fighting positions
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The Residential College Art Project: more like home TORI WILSON
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The Residential College South has always strived to be a home away from home to its students, but faculty fellow Marvin King is now giving students a chance to decorate their community. This year, the RC Art Project includes a photography contest, art exhibit, and a communal art venture. The public, interactive portion of the undertaking is set up just past the entrance to the RC lobby: a large loom, nicknamed the “friendly loom,” at which those PHOTO BY: CLARA TURNAGE who frequent the lobby throughThe “Friendly Loom” sits in the Residential College South lobby as part of the Residential College Art Project. out the day may stop and weave a few rows before going about their was looking for something to fill day at 4 p.m. in the lounge outside Brooke White, associate profesbusiness. The loom fills a little bit the hours. the residential college’s teaching sor of Art at the University, helps every day; colorful yarn creeps up “I discovered that with knitting, kitchen, and Choinski is always oversee the exhibit. It features a from the bottom of the wooden I enjoyed making things, I enjoyed glad to see new faces with an in- variety of works that change reguframe and will soon become a tap- giving them as gifts, and I found a terest in knitting. larly to allow students a chance estry to be displayed in the RC. whole new circle of friends,” she Of course, the “friendly loom” to experience a full range of work The loom is a project of the said. isn’t the only new feature in the from the university’s talented artresidential college’s Knitting and When King started looking for residential college. It is only one ists. Crafts Club, and faculty advisor activities to bring students to- part of a plan to create a “homey King called all of these activities Buffy Choinski hopes the activity gether, Choinski stepped up and atmosphere” for students, accord- and installations the RC Art Proj— which is open to the public — started the knitting club. ing to King. ect, an endeavor to “enliven the will provide the residential college “Meetings tend to be small,” A baby grand piano offers mu- industrial blandness of the white and university community with a Choinski said. “Sometimes we sically inclined students a chance walls students are typically subchance to work together to create just sit and talk and knit and other to share their talents, and the jected to in dormitories.” a beautiful work of art. times I have the opportunity to teaching kitchen lobby is decoThe final facet of the RC Art Choinski came upon knitting teach interested students how to rated with a rotating collection Project is the second annual RC herself almost six years ago, when knit.” of artwork from Art Department South Photo Contest. This contest her children were grown and she The group meets every Wednes- students and faculty. is another public event encourag-
ing faculty and students to submit photography that will then be judged by Brooke White. White will then choose 10 pieces to feature in the halls of the RC along with the other installments of the art exhibit. Last year, 30 people sent in more than 60 photos, and of those, twelve were chosen to be printed and hung around the Residential College. King hopes that this year’s contest will attract even more entrants. White, who judged entries for last year’s contest and is reprising that role this year, is excited to see the variety of submitted photographs. “Last year we had photographs that ranged from places on campus to landscapes in Thailand,” she said. White also stated that this year’s contest, like last year’s, has no particular theme, but she will be looking at “composition, lighting and subject matter” as she considers each entry. She will select ten winning pieces once all the entries are in by the deadline of Sept. 26. The photos from the RC South Photo Contest, along with the tapestry from the “friendly loom” and selected pieces from the art department, will be featured in the Residential College South throughout the year.
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Egan signs ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ at Square Books
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Jennifer Egan will sign her book “A Visit from the Goon Squad” at 5 p.m. tonight at the Square Books Cafe. After the event, Egan will speak on campus in the Bondurant Auditorium at 7 p.m. “The school had an interest in this event,” Egan said on her decision to visit Oxford. “And I absolutely love college towns. I love speaking with students. Students are the best readers. They’re the most open readers. We’re both fellow seekers of wisdom.”
This book isn’t a recent publication, but it is still an influential one. “A Visit from the Goon Squad” came out in 2010 in hardcover and in paperback in 2011. It is a national bestseller winning the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the LA Times Book Prize. Despite this recognition, or perhaps because of it, Egan is excited. “I’m also excited about Square Books,” Egan said. “There aren’t a whole lot of long-lasting independent bookstores, and Square Books
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that are crazy, but true,” Egan said. “Exaggerations that read as crazy but still make sense are my favorite tools. I write in that place all the time, and Benny gets me there.” She refers to two stories within the novel that she enjoyed writing the most: “Selling the General” and “40 Minute Lunch.” The former is about a publicist down on her luck. She is trying to fix the reputation of a genocidal general and does so by fabricating a relationship between the general and a celebrity. “40 Minute Lunch” tells the story of a reporter who goes a little crazy while trying to interview a celebrity. Both stories achieve this sense of exaggerated, crazy truth that Egan enjoys. Egan gives some advice for young writers too,“Remember
to read what you want to write and read it a lot,” she said. “Writers have the gift of being able to look at the writing of others sentence-by-sentence and figure out what makes it good. You have to make a habit of writing regularly. You don’t want to wait for the angels to start singing. That struggle never ends, but it’s great if you can make writing a habit.” Egan is excited to come to Oxford. “I’m headed to Pennsylvania and Connecticut later this year, but it doesn’t feel like an adventure like Oxford does,” Egan said. “I’ve never been to Mississippi and I’m so excited to visit. My son’s a huge Ole Miss football fan, so I’m especially excited about that. “It’s a famous place, a famously beautiful town.”
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Women’s tennis wins titles at invitational event
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – For the second year in a row, the Ole Miss women’s tennis team captured the Country Club of Little Rock Invitational singles title, and this year they added the doubles title to go along with it. Freshman Arianne Hartono (Meppel, Netherlands) teamed with Mai El Kamash to win the doubles and then followed it up with an impressive three-set win against the University of Houston’s top player, Desponita Vogasari, who is ranked No. 68 in the preseason ITA Singles Rankings. In the singles final, Hartono won a close first set in a tiebreaker, 7-6(3) but then Vogasari came back to take the second set 6-3. Hartono didn’t flinch, getting a break in the third to win it 6-3 and her first singles title with the Rebels. Hartono and El Kamash teamed up for the first time this weekend, and won three matches after getting a walkover in the first round. The duo defeated 59th-ranked and top seeded duo, Yang Pang and Sasha Shkorupeieva of Arkansas 8-6, in the final. On Saturday, Hartono and El Kamash took out the No. 2 seed from the University of Houston. “This is a good start to the year,” head coach Mark Beyers
said. “I am very proud of Arianne and Mai. It was Arianne’s first tournament and the first time for her and Mai to play together. They beat the No. 1 doubles teams from Kansas, Arkansas and Houston. The girl that Arianne beat in the singles is a really good player. “It’s hard to have expectations for the first tournament of the season, because you just don’t know what is going to happen. But the girls responded well and got some good match play in. We are excited to come home with the doubles and singles titles. This is a great tournament and we had a lot of Ole Miss fans supporting us.” The rest of the team was in Cary, North Carolina competing in the Duke Fab Four. The Rebels picked up 10 wins between seniors Erin Stephens and Iris Verboven, sophomore Zalina Khairudinova and freshman Natalie Suk. Khairudinova and Suk advanced to the finals of the White Draw doubles with an 8-4 win over the Florida team of Brianna Morgan and Brooke Austin. In the final, just one break decided the match in favor of the nation’s third-ranked tandem of Monique Albuquerque and Clementina Riobueno (Miami), 8-5.
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Freeze, Wallace address media during bye week
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The Rebels head into the first open week of the season with high expectations after the 56-15 win over Louisiana-Lafayette that propelled them into the AP top 10 for the first time since 2009. Just three years ago, the Rebels finished the 2011 season winless in Southeastern Conference play with a 2-10 overall record. The turnaround head coach Hugh Freeze has evolved within the program has shocked many. Being ranked in the top 10 is something Rebel nation has been waiting on for a while, and Freeze showed excitement with his team Monday. “It’s obviously exciting for everyone, to our kids, to our people here, but really to me, every day has a life of its own,” Freeze said. “Every play in a game has a life of its own, today is a life, tomorrow too.” Freeze also addressed concerns with the ranking his team achieved. “All you ever worry about is the rankings or the scoreboard and what it says,” Freeze said. “You lose sight of the process and it’s just result-oriented, and that’s certainly not what we are about in this program. We hope those things go our way and we hope those things stay our way.” The bye week comes at a good time for the Rebels, as injuries start to build up. Junior running back I’Tavius Mathers has a toe injury and fellow freshman running back Jordan Wilkins has an ankle injury. Linebacker D.T. Shackel-
Hugh Freeze and players prepare to take the field before Saturday’s game against Louisiana-Lafayette. ford suffered an ankle injury during the game. All three will be limited in practice this week. Freeze mentioned that it may take the next two weeks of free time to get these players healthy and ready to go for Memphis. The momentum the Rebels have built has come at the right time, but the open week also gives
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the team a chance to game plan more and get rest for injured players. Freeze is happy the bye week comes now and has a plan he uses every year. “I wish we were playing this week really, but having a bye week is never a bad thing,” Freeze said. “We do the same thing every off week. We’ll study ourselves and the next opponent or the next two opponents if we can, and we’ll recruit. That’s what we do in the off week Tuesday to Thursday.” It’s no secret that in less than three weeks, Alabama comes to Oxford in the first home SEC contest for the Rebels. Keeping the team focused in the bye week and against Memphis in two weeks before Alabama is a tall task, but it must be done.
“I don’t know if it’s totally possible,” Freeze said about his team looking ahead to Alabama. “Certainly the process is what I’ll reiterate to them. It’s about today and not what didn’t go right yesterday. It’s about what we do today to make sure we’re prepared for the next step in this journey which is September 27. We’ll constantly remind them of that.” Starting quarterback Bo Wallace said his team is focused. “We have a mature group that knows. We know what’s at stake,” Wallace said. “We know what’s coming up, but no one is satisfied with the way we are playing. You don’t see us celebrating after beating these teams. We’re taking a business-like approach to these games and trying to play our best
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game.” At the same time last season, the Rebels were 3-0, but last season the Rebels had their bye week before heading into their matchup in Tuscaloosa against Alabama, where they lost 25-0. This week provides a new task, but Wallace doesn’t see any similarities between the 3-0 team last season and this season. “I don’t think we lost focus or anything like that (last season), but we have to pay attention to details this time around,” Wallace said. “I don’t think we paid attention to little things as much last year, but I love this team being mature and taking things one thing at a time. That’s not just us saying that. That’s really how we are as a team.”
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