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Architect’s rendering of one of the new residence halls to be built on the Guess Hall site.
JULIE LABERGE
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In response to the demand for on-campus housing, The University of Mississippi is in the process of tearing down Guess Hall and building two new residence halls in its place. The preparatory work for demolition has already begun; full demolition of the building will follow and is expected to
be completed by January 2015. According to Jennifer McClure, assistant director for marketing, this $40 million project will provide the university with two five-story buildings with a total of 624 new dorms. The classification of students housed in the buildings will be based on enrollment-based needs. Then new dorms are going to include outdoor and indoor activity/event spaces and
study spaces. “The courtyard in front of the buildings will be a great space for students who want to enjoy the outdoors,” McClure said. There will also be a media room used for student housing tours and events for residents as well as visitors. Brandi Hephner LaBanc, vice chancellor for student affairs, is very excited about the new residence halls and
believes they will make the university a stronger campus community. “By increasing our on-campus residential capacity, it allows more students (first-year and returners) the opportunity to live on campus and be more engaged in out campus community,” LaBanc said. The University of Mississippi is also making sure to stay green with this construction. Ninety percent of the materi-
als removed from Guess Hall will be recycled. “It is definitely the responsible thing to do,” LaBanc said. “As our Creed reads, ‘I believe in good stewardship of resources’ – this is a great example of our university taking the Creed to heart in all that we do.” The project is scheduled to be completed and open in time for new residents in Aug. 2016.
Ole Miss Bike Shop encourages alternative transit LOGAN KIRKLAND
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A branch of Parking and Transportation Services provides an option for students to make campus less automobile dependent. The Ole Miss Bike Shop, located near the Turner Center, offers bike repairs and rentals. Stephen Valliant, bike technician, said the shop opened in order to provide a service for students, faculty and the general public. “Bikes aren’t going anywhere,” Valliant said. “They’re definitely a worthwhile cause as far as alleviating parking and transportation on campus.”
The shop provides walk-in services for anyone who needs repairs, but their primary service is the bike rental program for students. Valliant said they have acquired and made 100 bikes operational. “There is a grant being applied for right now for a bicycle friendly university,” he said. “The feedback will give us a lot of direction of where we want to go in the future.” Valliant said the shop quickly rented out the 100 bikes
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The Kremlin vs. Budapest Memorandum BRICE ASHFORD
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On March 18 of this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the former Ukrainian region of Crimea officially belonged to Russia. The safety and independence of Russian-speaking Ukrainians has been cited as the reason for the decision to reunite with Russia. In 1994, the Budapest Memorandum was signed by the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland and the Russian Federation. According to the Kremlin, the Russian government did not violate the memorandum. Crimea held a referendum for independence on two days prior to Putin’s declaration; since a referendum is submitted by the people, regardless of how it originated, the Kremlin would be correct in saying Russia did not violate the first obligation of the memorandum. The first obligation of the memT H E D A I LY
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orandum actually supports the union between Crimea with Russia. The people of Crimea acted in an independent and sovereign manner. The second obligation of the memorandum is subjective, specifically speaking, “their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine.” The naval blockade of Ukrainian vessels that was executed earlier this year is in fact a threat and a use of force. Putin has been extremely strategic throughout every decision making process of this conflict. He has showcased his strength and political wit to the world. As the Ukrainian government attempts to strengthen national security and end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, its president, Petro Poroshenko, requested lethal assistance from the United States. This request was denied. Officials within the Obama administration have stated “the president does not believe that sending
lethal arms to the Ukrainian military is an effective way to end the conflict.” The Obama administration responded to Poroshenko’s request for aid with a nonlethal military assistance package. The aid will cost the United States $53 million. Although $53 million is more than the U.S. can afford when considering the absurd deficit, I believe the Obama administration has made the right decision. America is still suffering from the costs (American lives, time and money) of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is now facing another conflict within the borders of Iraq, this time concerning ISIS. The crisis in Ukraine is one that the United States simply cannot afford to become directly involved in. Although it would be wise to remain absent from military presence in Ukraine, America cannot afford to ignore international affairs or warnings. As early as 2008, Republican officials, such as governors Sarah Palin and Mitt
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Romney, warned of a potential crisis in Ukraine. Their warnings were met with scoffs, and essentially mockery, from Obama. The international attitude towards the Anschluss (German annexation of Austria) was one of apathy, this ultimately resulted in the expansion of Nazi Germany. The international community should not allow even the slightest possibility of a similar occurrence. It is extremely important for the international community to respond to such actions in a firm, yet appropriate manner. I commend the economic sanctions against Russia. It should be considered a step in the right direction. I would agree with those who believe that America should focus on the issues that occur within its own borders. Yet, it is still important to remember that ignoring international affairs can have lasting negative effects. Brice Ashford is a junior marketing major from Ridgeland.
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continued from page 1 they had available. With the added bike traffic, the shop is installing more bike repair stations and trying to promote the rules of the road and bike safety awareness. “What we want to push is commuter safety,” he said. The shop is finding new ways to accommodate to the high demand for bikes. Valliant said it has always been a university policy to pick up abandoned bikes, but now the shop can utilize this policy. “We pick up 30 to 40, sometimes 50, bikes every semester, that are abandoned or deemed unrideable,” he said. “The ones that we can revive go back to the rental fleet.” Valliant said prices for bike repairs change depending on the job, but that a general tune-up, repairing the bike without purchasing new parts, is $20. For $25, you are given a bike for the entire semester with a lock and service at any time it is needed, according to Valliant. The department ordered 50 new Ole Miss-painted 7-speed cruiser bikes to add to the program. “There are a couple of grants that we are using and looking to expand to keep the bikes flowing in,” Valliant said. “It’s one of the next steps to getting towards more of a pedestrian friendly campus.” Sara Douglass, postbaccalaureate fellow for the Office of Sustainability, said the program is great for the
campus because it encourages students to bike instead of drive, which reduces carbon emissions. “I hope we can get more bikes, and I hope that students will start biking instead of driving to campus,” Douglass said. “I also hope we can start implementing an education aspect of biking on campus.” Valliant said he wants to see the program grow, not just for the university, but for the people who make up the university. “We’re not looking to be a professionally-rated bike shop,” he said. “We’re definitely more service-oriented and more cost-effective.”
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UM, Winter Institute hold 2014 Racial Reconciliation Week MAGGIE MCDANIEL
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Monday The University of Mississippi kicked off their second annual Racial Recognition Week hosted by the university’s athletics department and the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation. The week will continue through Friday with events dedicated to promoting racial equity and getting students to talk about race. Yesterday the week began with the showing of the movie “Come to Hell or High Water: The Battle of Turkey Creek” in the Overby
Center. Today a campus panel discussion on “Race and Pop Culture” will be held at 6 p.m. in the Overby Center. For Wednesday events include a dedication and reception for the Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement at 2 p.m., and Integrated Marketing Community Service at 7 p.m. in the Paris-Yates Chapel. Thursday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Depot “Redefining the Welcome Table: Inclusion and Exclusion in American Foodways” will take place. At 6 p.m. in the Weems Auditorium in the School of Law
“SEC Storied: It’s Time - Chucky Mullins” will be shown. The week’s activities will end Friday with the dedication of Chucky Mullins Drive at 2:30 p.m., the Winter Institute 15th anniversary celebration and open house at 4 p.m. in Lamar and the M-Club Hall of Fame Induction at The Inn at Ole Miss at 6 p.m. Ending the week on Saturday during the football game against Memphis, former Ole Miss head coach Billy Brewer and former Vanderbilt player Brad Gaines will be awarded with the Nathaniel Northington Groundbreaker in Athletics Award.
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Oxford Science Café: Kandhasamy on the Big Bang SARA E. BAKER
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Shivaraj Kandhasamy will speak about the Big Bang and its Cosmic Messengers at 6 p.m. tonight at the Lusa Pastry Café as part of the monthly Oxford Science Café. The Oxford Science Café is an event to promote intellectual discussions in our area. Each event features a professional in the world of science speaking on a topic of their choice. These speakers range from researchers to professors and other scholars. The talks are part of a science conversation series organized by the Department of Physics at the University of Mississippi. Professor Marco Cavaglià works with Lusa Pastry Café on these events.
“I think it is very important for people to hear about science, especially science that we do here at the University of Mississippi,” Cavaglià said. “We host every month a science café with topics ranging from physics to biology, pharmacognosy to history of science, held by scientists and researches from UM and other US universities and research labs.” The featured speakers lead a conversation about scientific theories, research, and many more topics in the ever-changing field. This month’s speaker will focus on Cosmology, while previous topics include the study of medicinal plants, space studies, among many others. “What’s better than learning about the latest developments
in science, in laymen terms, from people who actually do science?” Cavaglià asked. “It’s better than watching a NOVA documentary on TV. You can’t ask your TV set questions.” This month’s feature is Shivaraj Kandhasamy, who will speak on the topic of The Big Bang and the implications it has for other scientific ideas. “The talk is about the theory of Big Bang and various experimental evidence supporting the theory. In the talk I will also touch upon the recent result from BICEP 2 experiment claiming the detection of gravitational waves from the early universe,” Kandhasamy said. Kandhasamy is currently working as a part of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, or LIGO, collaboration. LIGO is at-
tempting to detect gravitational waves from various astrophysical objects such as binary neutron stars, block holes and possibly from the early universe. Kandhasamy will discuss how we can physically explore the Big Bang, using cosmic microwave background radiation. “In laymen terms, it can be considered the ‘afterglow’ of the Big Bang that expanded and cooled down to the present energy. The cosmic background radiation that we observed was generated when the universe was only about 380,000 years old,” Cavaglià explained. “So when we look at the cosmic background radiation, we’re looking back in time over 13 million years.” For someone without a science background, the language
may seem overwhelming. But the Science Café is for everyone, especially University of Mississippi students. “Students in particular may benefit from science cafe lectures to complement what they learn in classes: We discuss topics that are often not covered in class,” Cavaglià said. “And you can do it while sipping good coffee and munching on a delicious pastry.” There is also the benefit of hearing from professionals in the field of science on many different levels. “As a non-pre-med chemistry major, it’s nice to have other scientific perspectives from professors and professionals that I may not have been able to interact with otherwise,” said Emily Anne Sharpe, junior chemistry student. More information about the Oxford Science Café schedule can be found on the Ole Miss website or the Oxford Science Café Facebook page. As the Oxford Science Café webpage stated: everyone is invited and children are welcomed. “I like the idea that people leaving the Science Café will know a bit more about science, how scientists work and do research,” Cavaglià said. “When I see a kid in the audience, I always wonder if he or she will become a scientist one day.”
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‘We Are Proud to Present ...’ the first show of the year TORI WILSON
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The first Ole Miss Theatre production of the semester opens today — a play titled “We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915.” Though the title is daunting, the play has garnered critical acclaim in the few short years since its publication. The show, written by Jackie Sibbles Drury, involves a group of actors who endeavor to dramatize the genocide of the Herero people, an event that has been largely forgotten by history even though it was one of the first genocides of the 20th century. As the actors act out the events of the genocide, they find the contents of the play hit closer to home than they expected. Drury first began the script during her time at Brown University while pursuing her MFA in playwriting, and spent several years researching and rewriting her work. “We Are Proud to Present” has been produced internationally in such locations as London, Chicago and New York. Now the production comes to The University of Mississippi stage, and those
involved are eager to share the unique, humorous but thoughtful play with the community. The show is meta-theatrical — the nine actors who comprise the cast portray actors who are putting on a show, in a manner similar to last year’s production of “Six Characters in Search of an Author.” The show also follows a recent trend in the theater department to present plays and musicals that push beyond the conventions of society. Last year, the season explored themes of homosexuality, body image, free will and religion in four distinctly diverse productions. “We Are Proud to Present…” explores themes of not only racism, owing to its subject matter, but also the creative process and the ‘magic’ of theater. “I feel that the show is exceptionally well written,” director David Reed said. “(The script) deals with poignant issues here on the UM campus and in the world at large.” However, Reed was quick to emphasize that the show is equal parts humor and drama; theater in-jokes are scattered throughout, and Reed said audiences will appreciate the modernity of the writing. He described the show as “very accessible” whether the
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Students perform in “We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia” at Meek Auditorium yesterday. attendees are theater aficionados or seeing a play for the very first time. Tina McCoy, who plays Actor 6, described her role in the show as the “artistic director” of sorts, a strong-minded woman who wants to tell the story of the Herero people because she is interested in exploring her heritage. McCoy was attracted to the show as an actress by the playwright’s use of humor to express serious ideas. “People don’t always need dra-
ma to grab the attention of an audience,” she said. “Sometimes comedy works best.” The character McCoy plays finds her ancestry foreign and wants to understand the people she portrays. Like her character, McCoy hopes the play will promote understanding. “Theater is meant to send a message,” McCoy said. “I just hope that (people) come to the show and open their minds to the message that we’re sending.” Kaleb Mitchell plays Actor 2/
Black Man. Mitchell, like his fellow actors, believes the production of this play comes at an important time for the university and Oxford community. However, he understands the show will bring to light issues that “no one wants to see.” The show will invite audiences to consider the social climate of the university just as surely as it will entertain. “We Are Proud to Present” opens at 7:30 tonight at Meek Auditorium.
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playing time and proved something to Freeze. “The game is why he played more. He plays better in the games that he practices,” Freeze said about Ward after Boise State. “He keeps producing like that, and he’ll certainly keep playing.” Ward has noticed a difference between the person he was his first year and the person he is now. “I guess it’s just getting a better feel of the system,” Ward said. “It’s just getting different looks down and knowing your place on the defense. It’s really just knowing the system.” The defense so far has had a knack of giving up big runs and not plugging up the holes enough to hold opposing rushing attacks in check. That seems to be one of the few weaknesses on defense so far for the Rebels. Ward has noticed the problems and sees some ways to correct
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Ole Miss, Bianco agree to four-year extension Following a College World Series appearance and the most successful season in program history, Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco’s contract has been extended to run through the 2018 season, Athletics Director Ross Bjork announced Friday. Bianco’s four-year deal is the longest allowed by the state of Mississippi and includes a base salary of $640,000. It also includes incentives for both academic and on-field accomplishments. The base salary will increase each year in an amount equal to the incentives earned from the previous season. In addition to the base salary increase and the incentives, Ole Miss also agreed to an increase of 15 percent in the salary pool for the assistant coaches. “Mike has set the tone for ultimate success for Ole Miss baseball since his arrival in 2001,” Bjork said. “I have had the fortune of working with many high level coaches over the years, and I have not seen a head coach operate a complete program in all phases exactly like Coach Bianco. He believes in competing at the highest level just as much as he believes in the academic and social success of our student-athletes, and for that, we are grateful of his leadership.”
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Series appearance in 2014. Ole Miss tied the school record for wins in a season at 48 as the Rebels claimed the SEC Western Division title and played for a spot in the national championship series. Through his 14-year career at Ole Miss, Bianco has posted a 557-323-1 record (.633 winning percentage) and has posted 12 seasons with a .500 or better record in SEC play - the second most of any program in the league since Bianco became the Rebel skipper. He has led Ole Miss to 12 NCAA Tournaments in his 14 years and claimed three SEC Western Division Titles (2005, 2009, 2014), the SEC Tournament (2006) and the SEC Championship (2009). Under Bianco’s guidance, the Rebels are one of only 16 teams in the nation to have advanced
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Freeze, Wallace talk to media about bye week and Memphis
FILE PHOTO: THOMAS GRANING
Quarterback Bo Wallace releases a pass during a football practice earlier this season.
CODY THOMASON
csthoma1@go.olemiss.edu
The open week is officially over for the Ole Miss Rebels as they get set to take on the Memphis Tigers this Saturday. “It’s time to get back into a very difficult stretch of games that we’re going to have over the next month-and-a-half to two months. We’re playing a very difficult opponent,” head coach Hugh Freeze said. Freeze spoke about how Memphis head coach Justin Fuente has done in rebuilding the Tigers’ football the team. “I’m extremely impressed with the job that Justin (Fuente) has done in a short amount of time.
They’ve played with tremendous passion and physical football. He’s upgraded the talent level significantly from the last time I had an experience with him when I was at Arkansas State,” Freeze said. “It’s certainly going to be a game that we’re going to have to play very, very well to win. It will be a good challenge for us. We need that at this point in the season.” Freeze felt a couple of things really stood out about the team. “Their athleticism, the quarterback is playing really well, and defensively they’re very aggressive,” Freeze said. “They tackle extremely well.” Senior quarterback Bo Wallace offered his own assessment of Memphis.
“They play really hard. They’re physical. They do some things that can cause problems,” Wallace said. “The great thing is, we had two weeks to prepare for them. Our team feels pretty prepared right now. These next couple of days we’ll have to fine tune and really hone in on the game plan.” Sophomore defensive end Fadol Brown also talked about what he saw from Memphis, specifically from their offense. “They find ways to move the ball,” Brown said. “They’re a team that wants to catch you out of position and take advantage of it with big plays.” Freeze was also impressed with how Memphis played in a tough loss to No. 11 UCLA.
“They’ve gone toe-to-toe with one of the nation’s best at their place,” Freeze said. “If their quarterback keeps playing solid, their defense is good enough to keep them in every game.” Freeze also addressed the team’s injuries. “I’Tavius (Mathers) practiced yesterday. I thought he looked pretty decent. I expect him to go,” he said. “Collins (Moore) is still not ready. He tried to practice yesterday, but he’s not ready to play yet.” He also spoke on defensive end C.J. Johnson and offensive lineman Aaron Morris, who are still getting up to full speed after sustaining injuries last year. “They’re still a little rusty. Aar-
on had a little procedure done last week that we hope is going to help him. He practiced last night and looked better,” Freeze said. “C.J. is further along, but I don’t know that he’s back to where he was before the injury. I think he’ll be raring to go the next time we get out.” He also talked about freshman guard Rod Taylor, who subs in with Morris and senior guard Justin Bell frequently. “He’s progressed himself to where he’s in the mix and is going to play a lot of snaps. We probably will not start him any time soon. I don’t know that that would be best for him or our team,” Freeze said. He’ll be in the game very quick and we’ll rotate those guys around at guard.”
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