THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Volume 105, No. 11
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Ole Miss cornerback Tony Bridges, defensive back Kailo Moore and defensive tackle Breeland Speaks attempt to block a field goal by Florida State kicker Ricky Aguayo. Aguayo scored 18 points for the Seminoles.
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ust over five minutes into the second half of Monday night’s game between Florida State and Ole Miss, Kermit Whitfield caught a three-yard
BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE swing pass and ran it into the left side of the end zone for a Florida State touchdown. It tied the football game and after a Ricky Aguayo extra point, the Seminoles had its
first lead of the night at 2928, and it wouldn’t look back on its way to a 45-34 Labor Day shootout. “We didn’t deserve to win the game with the way we
played in the second half,” Head Coach Hugh Freeze said. A 28-6 barrage of offense by Ole Miss to start the game was suddenly awash. Gone.
Wiped as clean as Florida State’s play in the second half that led to 16 points in the first five minutes, and 33 unanswered before Ole Miss
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Voice feature paves way for campus bus improvements
the bus system more efficiently.” Plans for LED lights to be The OUT buses’ new audio system announces when a bus installed will help hearing-imis arriving, the next destination, paired students and automatic passenger counters will reduce bus routes and departures to the distraction of the driver. help disabled students. In the future, buses will include OUT will establish two North and South Hub Stations, where additional features to make buses will pick up and drop off campus transportation easier students in the fall of 2017, to for students who suffer from increase accessibility and consight or hearing loss. “We installed this annunciation venience. The stations will be located on campus so students system to aid students who will only have to walk as far as may be visually impaired,” 4 minutes to reach the station. Mike Harris, director of park“Next fall we also plan to have ing, said. “This way they can an internal system, which will hear the stops clearly and use ANNIE DENT
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only loop around campus, and an external system, which will take students solely off campus,” Harris said. “This will make the flow and utilization of the system less congested.” There are currently 26 buses total and 13 different routes, including the Safe-Ride night route, which is designed to decrease drunk driving throughout Oxford on nights and weekends. Harris said campus is an environment with a constant turnover of students, which include new freshmen who aren’t familiar with the campus and
students with disabilities. “We want to familiarize these students however best we can,” Harris said. “I ride the bus to campus from Molly Barr apartments every day and I’ve noticed a change in the way the bus system functions from last year,” integrated marketing communications major Meredith Hull said. “I think the bus system is incredibly convenient and reliable already, but simple changes or additions do make a noticeable difference.” The transportation system spends anywhere from $10,000
to $14,000 on one bus each month. The Parking and Transportation office is not funded by the university, but instead by the Rural Transit Assistance Program. Transportation is free for students. The office also receives an additional amount of funds from parking passes, parking tickets and paid meters. “We are a standalone business with separate funding, so we’re very limited, but transportation is an asset,” Harris said. “The future of transit is going to be huge, and we make the most out of what we can.”