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Insight Park hosts first ‘Startup Weekend’
Gregory drafts bill to amend student elections By Allison Slusher ajslushe@go.olemiss.edu
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Almost two years after its grand opening, Insight Park continues its dedication to the survival and growth of startup companies and businesses by hosting Oxford’s first-ever Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend is a national movement geared toward teaching participants the basics of how to develop ideas or products into successful endeavors or potential businesses. With Startup Weekend’s unique composition, young entrepreneurs have the ability to hear, learn and grow from powerful businesspeople. “The weekend is not only an investment to the participant’s future but also a chance to lead to some immediate ventures,” said Lee Morris, event organizer and intern for Innovate Mississippi. Morris believes Startup Weekend has the potential to be a career launcher for those who participate in the events. Oxford’s Startup Weekend, hosted by the Innovation Hub at Insight Park, will kick off on Feb. 7 and end on Feb. 9. “The 54-hour weekend event is designed to give participants a
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once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to Lafayette County Entrepreneurwork with skilled business profes- ial Alliance, Innovate Mississippi sionals who will give them tips for and The University of Mississippi their business plans and encourage School of Business Administrathem as entrepreneurs,” said Blair tion, according to Executive DiJackson, senior journalism student rector Rick Duke. and Insight Park employee. Duke said Insight Park is alThose participating in the week- ways looking for ways to create end’s events will start by pitching a awareness about what exactly the business plan to a panel of judges. research facility does and about Based on the most popular ideas, entrepreneurialism, both for the teams of three or four contributors Ole Miss community and the city and one mentor are assembled to of Oxford. further enhance the original idea “It won’t surprise us to see some into a business plan and model. of the participants become tenFinally, the teams will be asked ants in The Innovation Hub’s into present their final creations in cubator in the near future,” Duke front of various Oxford locals in said. order to receive proper feedback. Both Morris and Duke believe Mentors and coaches from a Insight Park’s support of Startup wide array of entrepreneurial Weekend has benefits beyond backgrounds are set to help teams those that the participants can just during their business develop- take away. ments such as Josh Mabus, Beth“Obviously it helps Oxford any Cooper, Owens F. Alexander from an economical standpoint by Jr., Joyce Freeland, John Brandon having everyone come and bring and Ashley Locke. their dollars,” Morris said. “It also Insight Park was opened in helps put Oxford on a map of beApril of 2012 with a mission to ing innovative and a cutting-edge facilitate the growth of new en- city because it shows the fostering terprises while helping connect and encouraging of entrepreneurthe university at large with private ial growth.” sectors. In order to make Startup Duke believes the weekend will Weekend possible, Insight Park has partnered with the Oxford- See INSIGHT PARK, PAGE 3
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Gov. Bryant needs a time machine
Associated Student Body Vice President Morgan Gregory and the Governmental Operations Committee are in the process of writing a bill that will give elected officials an additional month in office. Gregory said the bill is meant to maximize the time senators have during their term. She also said that by pushing the spring elections back, the inauguration for newly elected officers will be pushed back as well. “Pushing back inauguration will eliminate the need for such a drastic transition and filling of open seats in the spring,” Gregory said. “(Pushing back inauguration will) condense the overall transition time between inauguration and Senate elections to maximize valuable time in the senate, which will also add to the quality of work done by senators because they won’t be so rushed to cram everything they want to do into such a short period of time.”
Gregory said the change would require both a bill to change the code and an amendment to the constitution. If the bill passes, students will then have to vote on the change. The student vote would be taken by clicking “yes” when a student selects candidates on www.myolemiss.edu for spring elections. This will signify that students are aware that these candidates will be in office for an additional month. If passed, the change will go into effect in spring 2015, giving the officers elected in spring 2014 an additional month in office. Gregory said the draft of the bill is not yet complete. She hopes the bill will be a way to improve the efficiency and process of the ASB Senate. “My hopes are that this, in addition to the recently passed bill amending and improving the way open seats are filled, will set the future legislative branch up for a term much easier to be utiSee ASB, PAGE 3
From Bibles to textbooks, El viaje de una mujer By Anna McCollum aemccoll@go.olemiss.edu
behind. “Repeat after me,” Fer nandez says to a classroom of eager students. “Cuando era una nina, yo viajaba a la playa.” They mimic their professor, Southern accents tainting her perfect Spanish words. She giggles and makes a quick joke, her lighthearted and outgoing nature a draw for many students. Today, the 39-year-old teaches intermediate-level Spanish at The University of Mississippi.Her journey from Cuba to Oxford has been tu-
With a generous smile and a playful attitude, Spanish instructor Mevelyn Romay Fernandez might just fool you into believing that she has had an easy life. Above her desk hangs a small Cuban flag, and around her finger and neck she wears tiny gold dolphins. These items and a heavy Spanish accent offer clues to a life Fernandez once had. Thanks to a couple Mississippians and a strong dose of steadfastness, she has long since left that life See MUJER, PAGE 3
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Gov. Bryant needs a time machine By Sean Higgins smhiggin@go.olemiss.edu
Gov. Phil Bryant’s State of the State address left Mississippians with more recycled talking points than substance Wednesday evening. I cannot say I’m shocked. Bryant has little to show when it comes to accomplishments for this state. Although he says Mississippi is progressing, it looks as if he is stuck in the wrong decade. Bryant is consistently pushing for antiquated “solutions” and holding our state back at every opportunity. Let’s look at health care as the first example. Although Mississippi has one of the highest rates of uninsured individuals in the nation, Bryant dedicated a mere paragraph to health care in his speech. And it had nothing to do with expanding access to needy Mississippians. According to Reuters, the governor’s refusal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act is depriving 300,000 adults access to much needed health care services. Never mind the fact that MisT H E D A I LY
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sissippi leads the nation in poverty, is second-highest in obesity, is highest in diabetes and is highest in pre-term births. Never mind the fact that Bryant turned down $426 million in funds from the federal government to cover Medicaid for the next year and $2.2 billion over the next seven years. Our governor’s political grandstanding is costing Mississippians access to quality health care and maybe even their lives. Republican governors across the nation are beginning to accept Medicaid dollars because it’s practical — Gov. Bryant needs to do the same. Instead of proposing ways to increase access to health insurance or reducing poverty in Mississippi, Bryant had more important issues to propose, you know, like changing our state motto to “In God We Trust.” Democrats in the state legislature should agree to change the state motto as soon as the governor agrees to change the state flag. And in another shot at the Constitution and reproductive freedom, Bryant said his goal is
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to end a woman’s right to choose in Mississippi. It’s as if the state motto and the few abortions in Mississippi are more problematic than the hundreds of thousands of Mississippians who lack basic health care services, access to a quality public school and are hungry each day. Bryant’s lip service to education was also far from impressive. Although the modest increase in funding for public schools is much appreciated, it falls short of what Mississippi schools need. High standards for students are meaningless if our priorities are grossly underfunded. The budget for fiscal year 2014 will underfund Mississippi schools by almost $300 million. In fact, our state has decreased the amount we spend per student in past years, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Education reform should also include an across-theboard pay raise for Mississippi teachers. Merit pay is not the immediate answer as Bryant suggested. Teachers need incentive and salary security if we want to attract more quality educators to
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Mississippi. If Gov. Bryant truly wants Mississippi to make progress, the political grandstanding needs to stop. Enough with the talking points. Enough with the decadesold policies from the 1950s. Let’s make meaningful changes that expand civil liberties and rights in Mississippi. First, we should expand the voting franchise by allowing early voting and online registration. We should make voting easier, faster and more accessible. Second, Mississippi needs to expand Medicaid. This is a nobrainer. The federal government is subsidizing the vast majority of the cost. Bryant needs to stop obstructing progress in our state. Finally, we need to fully fund Mississippi public schools and pay teachers a salary they deserve. The state of our state would be stronger with these actual solutions — it’s time for Gov. Bryant to get on board. Sean Higgins is a junior political science major from Brookings, S.D.
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multuous and exhausting, but Fernandez now feels like she is finally traveling in the right direction. Born in Havana in 1974, Fernandez had a less-thanideal childhood. “We were very poor. We didn’t have anything,” she said. “It was a time in Cuba when it was very hard to find food.” In mid-December of 1995, after a long day of class at the University of Havana, Fernandez was feeling melancholy and began to pray. All she wanted for Christmas was a nice meal for her family. As she was leaving the school, a friend of Fernandez’s from freshman year called to her. “She said, ‘Mevelyn, Mevelyn, come here! There is a group of Americans here, and they’re looking for somebody to interpret for them,’” Fernandez recalled. “So I went to talk to a group of about four or five very tall, older American guys and said, ‘Hey, are you from the United States?’” Fernandez smiled as she recounted her first memory of Bob McCustion. “They said, ‘We are. We are from Mississippi.’” Her Spanish accent paused as she jokingly mocked the men’s thick drawl. “I was used to more academic accents.” Most Cubans at that time were Catholic or practiced Santeria, and some were a mix of the two. The missionaries, from Tupelo, were looking for a Protestant who could speak Spanish to help them minister to the people of Havana. “It was all heaven-sent, I’m telling you,” she said. But what the Mississippi men were asking her to do wasn’t as simple
as handing out Bibles. “They were very bold,” she said. “They would approach crowds and start talking about the gospel, and I was interpreting for them, and that is illegal in Cuba. Thank God we never got in trouble. Sometimes we got scared, but we never got in real trouble.” Although risky, the work was fulfilling for the then-college student. The men left a few days later, but they kept Fernandez’s contact information. For the next five years, she, Bob McCustion, Frank Scott and their team spread their message throughout the country one mission trip at a time. By 2000, Fernandez was fed up with the Cuban government and was unable to earn enough money for her family. She decided to do whatever it would take to escape her home country, even though it meant leaving her mother, sister and sick grandmother behind. Two years later, and after a few months in Canada, Fernandez’s Mississippi connections came to her aid. She moved to Tupelo and worked
as a nanny for a while, but when a house fire burned almost all she owned, she decided to start over in New York City. The Big Apple taught Fernandez many things, but life was hard and expensive for her there. Finally, McCustion and his family convinced her to move back to Tupelo. It was after she had come back to the South and had applied for a driver’s license that Fernandez first visited Ole Miss. “I had to take my Cuban birth certificate to The University of Mississippi to be translated so I could get my learner’s permit,” she said. “When I arrived, the woman, who is now my boss, Julia Bussade, told me that the school was starting a new program with native speakers and that I should consider getting my master’s.” With help from her Tupelo friends and employer, that’s exactly what Fernandez did. She has been teaching at Ole Miss for two and a half years now. And she still wears the gold
dolphins to remind her of a time back in Cuba, when she took a dolphin trainer’s course at the Havana aquarium. With a grin and a gleam in her chestnut eyes, she explained that the experience has inspired her to write a children’s book. An inspiration herself, Fernandez often quotes Tolkien: “The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.” She grins. “I’m not finished yet.”
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“Cake: A Story Piece” at the Meek Auditorium By Samantha Abernathy slaberna@go.olemiss.edu
On Jan. 21, associate theatre arts professor Dex Edwards performed a dress rehearsal of his upcoming production, “Cake: A Story Piece.” The entire piece, written and performed by Edwards alone, is part of a trilogy that has been performed in locations such as Oregon and Atlanta and, soon, Los Angeles. “Cake: A Story Piece” is the second installment following “Rising Sun,” another production Edwards wrote. “The third part will actually happen another year from now out in L.A.,” Edwards said. It will also appear here in Oxford. According to the official press
release, “Cake: A Story Piece” is a one-man show written originally with 26 characters. Edwards said some of the characters were based on people he knew, though one was unfortunately cut from production. He said his grandmother plays a large role in the show. “It is most like I’m just telling a series of stories with different characters,” Edwards said. “Unfortunately one of the characters, Uncle Jimmy, was cut, so I will only have 25 characters for the production.” Edwards is best known for his work as a set designer and has received many honors, including a Critics’ Choice Award, for his design work. Edwards explained that though the set for “Cake: A
Story Piece” is very simple and didn’t take much work, it is still very important in the telling of his story. Throughout the production, Edwards tells several seemingly unrelated stories. In addition to this, he bakes three cakes during the performance: a chocolate, a red velvet and a butter cake. Then he puts them all together. “You would think that all these cakes together would not be good at all, but once the audience tastes the cake — yes, the audience will be invited to eat the actual cake after the performance on the stage — they will see how well it goes together, just like the stories I will tell during the play.” University of Mississippi senior Maricia Echols attended one of Edwards’ classes in the past and said she plans to see the show. “Mr. Edwards is very good at what he does and truly loves his work,” she said. “Cake: A Story Piece” will be showing Jan. 24 and 25 at 7:30 p.m. and Jan. 26 at 2 p.m. in the Meek Auditorium, and admission is a $5 donation to the theatre arts scholarship fund. Edwards and all involved strongly encourage everyone to attend.
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Lady Rebs down the Bulldogs 87-85 in OT The Ole Miss women’s basketball team defeated the Mississippi State Bulldogs 87-85 in overtime Thursday night at Tad Smith Coliseum. Photos by Alex Edwards and Thomas Graning
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Men’s tennis set to host ITA Kickoff McRoberts introduced as UM volleyball coach By Dylan Rubino djrubino@go.olemiss.edu
The Ole Miss men’s tennis team looks to start the spring season strong while hosting the ITA Kick-Off this weekend at the Gillom Sports Center. The No. 10 Rebels have the first match of the ITA Kick-Off, hosting No. 26 Michigan Saturday at 10 a.m. No. 22 Illinois will play No. 23 Clemson in the next match. The winners Saturday will advance to the regional championship at 1 p.m. Sunday. The losers will play at 9 a.m. Sunday. Ole Miss head coach Billy Chadwick is looking forward to seeing his team in action and sees a great opportunity in opening up the weekend against the Wolverines. “We saw them two years ago when they came down here. We were hosting regionals,” Chadwick said. “We had a tough, tough battle with them. They’re always a well-prepared team, talented team, and so we’ll have our
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to guaranteed three singles and three doubles, and it was against great competition, so we feel like we accomplished what we wanted to and that we are better prepared for this weekend.” This weekend is the first home match for the Rebels as the team comes home and tries to get its season off to a good start against great competition. “You are looking at four teams in this regional that are very equal,” Chadwick said. “What we have to take advantage of is that we are playing at home, and we need to make that the difference in putting us over the hump. And if we get a good crowd out there, it could be the difference in us advancing to the final 16 or not.” The winner of the four-team regional will advance to the National Team Indoor Championship on Feb. 14-17 in Houston, Texas.
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Ole Miss formally introduced Steven McRoberts as the seventh head coach of the Rebel volleyball program Thursday at the Gillom Sports Center. McRoberts was officially hired Jan. 16. McRoberts comes to Oxford with 17 years of volleyball head coach experience at the collegiate level that has seen him successful at every stop. He inherits a team that went just 14-17 and 4-14 in Southeastern Conference play, but he is setting the bar high for his program from the start. “We are looking forward to having success in year one,” McRoberts said. “We’re looking to be successful in the Southeastern Conference right away. The Southeastern Conference had eight teams make the NCAA tournament last year, so it’s our goal to be in that group next year.” McRoberts was most recently the head coach at Tulsa, where
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he accumulated a 78-24 record in three years. He also spent six years at Central Arkansas and eight years at Lubbock Christian in Texas. Throughout his career, McRoberts has tallied a 475161 record and recorded many achievements, including two NCAA tournament appearances, six 30-plus-win seasons, 11 conference championships, 10-time conference coach of the year and five All-American selections. McRoberts is looking to get the Rebels in the top half of the SEC and into the NCAA tournament on a consistent basis and find ways to expand the volleyball fan base at Ole Miss. “You have to win,” McRoberts said. “People like to go see winners. We are going to play an exciting style. We are going to play an up-tempo offense. Our job as coaches and players is that we give the fans a product that they want to come back and keep watching.”
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Rebels look to avenge lone SEC loss vs Bulldogs By Tyler Bischoff tfbischo@go.olemiss.edu
Ole Miss will look to continue its three-game winning streak as the Rebels take on the last team to beat them, Mississippi State, Saturday at 3 p.m. in Tad Smith Coliseum. Ole Miss has won its last two games on the road, and since Jan. 11, only Ole Miss and Florida have won road games in the SEC. Now, the Rebels (13-5, 4-1 SEC) return home and will look to repay Mississippi State for the only blemish on their conference record. In the last meeting between these two, Mississippi State won 76-72 and got big nights from two of their forwards. Roquez Johnson came off the bench and scored 20 points, as Ole Miss struggled to defend him in the post or when he drove. Colin Borchert added another 14 points, as he knocked down three of six 3-pointers. But the Ole Miss offense sputtered against Mississippi State’s 1-3-1 zone defense. Against that zone, the Rebels shot just 30 percent from the field and had a turnover rate
of 28.5 percent, double their season average. Since that game, Ole Miss has not seen a 1-3-1 zone, mainly because of senior guard Marshall Henderson’s return. Teams refuse to play zone defense against Ole Miss when he is on the floor, as they fear he will get open threes. Regardless of how Henderson performs on Saturday, his presence will be a major factor, as it will get his teammates a better matchup. In this meeting, Mississippi State may be without starting point guard I.J. Ready. Ready, a freshman, left the Bulldogs’ game against Alabama because of headaches. Since then, Ready has missed the last two games for Mississippi State, both of which were home victories for the Bulldogs. Ready scored 10 points and had four assists against Ole Miss earlier this year. Ole Miss will have to rely on junior guard Jarvis Summers to score — as it has all season — even though Henderson returns. Summers is averaging 17.9 points per game, and he led Ole Miss with 23 against Mississippi State.
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Ladarius White shoots the ball past Mississippi State forward Gavin Ware during the first half of a game in Starkville Jan. 11.
Henderson is averaging 18.7 points per game, as Ole Miss has two players among the top eight scorers in the SEC. But the Rebels have also gotten big-time production from others. Freshman forward Sebastian Saiz scored 20 points
against LSU, although he has just four total points in the two games since then. Sophomore forward Anthony Perez had 22 points when Ole Miss knocked off South Carolina. But rather than needing one player to have a career game,
Ole Miss is better suited for a few players to have quality games, which is what Ole Miss got against Vanderbilt on Wednesday. Perez had 13 points against See BASKETBALL, PAGE 5
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