The Daily Mississippian – October 3, 2013

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Vol. 102, No. 28

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UM students, football players disrupt play

By Adam Ganucheau dmeditor@gmail.com

Many members of an audience of mostly Ole Miss students, including an estimated 20 Ole Miss football players, openly disrespected and disrupted the Ole Miss theater department’s production of “The Laramie Project” Tuesday night at the Meek Auditorium.

Cast members of the play, which is about an openly gay male who was murdered in Laramie County in Wyoming, said members of the audience became so disruptive at times that they struggled completing the play.

According to the play’s director and theater faculty member Rory Ledbetter, some audience members used derogatory slurs like “fag” and heckled both cast members and the characters they were portraying for their body types and sexual orientations. Ledbetter said the audience’s re-

actions included “borderline hate speech.”

“I am the only gay person on the cast,” junior theater major Garrison Gibbons said. “I played a gay character in the show, and to be ridiculed like that was something that really made me realize that some people at Ole Miss and in Mississippi still can’t accept me for who I am.”

According to several accounts, the football players attended the play because they are enrolled in a freshman-level theater course that requires the students to attend a specific number of plays throughout the semester.

The play’s House Director Lyda Phillips, who is a theater major and an athletics ambassador, became aware of the reactions of the football players and called a coach, who then called department of athletics Associate Director of Academic Support Drew Clinton See LARAMIE, PAGE 4

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The cast of “The Laramie Project” performs a dress rehearsal of the play Sept. 24. The production is about a gay man who was murdered in Wyoming.

Ole Miss Greek recruitment week stimulates Oxford economy

By RANDALL HALEY arhaley@go.olemiss.edu

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Sorority paraphernalia is displayed at a boutique on the Oxford Square.

OPINION: Nuclear dribble Weeds Will you be electric sheep?

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This week the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils are hosting formal sorority and fraternity recruitment, but students attempting to join Greek organizations won’t be the only busy ones this week.

Local gift shops, hotels and other businesses are affected as well.

Sorority and fraternity members often buy gifts for new pledges, which keep gift shops on their toes for the duration of recruitment.

“Rush week, here, could be compared to a football game weekend,” said Whitney Smith, an employee of Hinton and Hinton.

Smith said that even though there is an away game, they expect to stay busy throughout the weekend.

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Katy Mitchell, an employee at the Lily Pad, said they go through thousands of gifts throughout rush week. They stay busy wrapping gifts the entire week. Not only do Mitchell and her co-workers struggle to find time for sleep, they have to purchase an extra storage unit for all the gifts.

“Sunday alone, we will be giving out anywhere from 600 to 700 presents,” Mitchell said.

Some students’ parents who want to be a part of their child’s experience book rooms in hotels for the weekend or, in some cases, the week.

The Inn at Ole Miss is currently booked full through this weekend.

Lena Snow, the front desk See ECONOMY, PAGE 4

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Racial language conference to be held today

By AMINA Al SHERIF aalsher@go.olemiss.edu

The Conference on the Semantics and Ethics of Racial Language will be held today from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Gertrude Ford Ballroom at the Inn at Ole Miss by the Department of Philosophy and Religion in conjunction with other departments.

Following a number of incidents last year at The University of Mississippi that involved racial slurs and topics of racism, Professor Donovan Wishon took it upon himself See CONFERENCE, PAGE 5

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Nuclear dribble

By Neil McMillan tnmcmill@go.olemiss.edu

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The First Amendment sometimes disappoints Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant.

The Commercial Appeal reported Bryant saying that “I am disappointed in the overreaction, and that’s what it is: overreaction. It’s amazing to me that any discussion about nuclear power causes such a reaction.

What other topics are we not allowed to discuss?”

Though Bryant pleads with a rhetorical flair for nuclear power to be discussed, he apparently views any concerned rumblings that resist a growing nuclear sector as “overreactions.” Nevertheless, Mississippians should always engage in a conversation which could impact our economy, environment and neighbors.

Former governor Haley Barbour and the Mississippi Energy Institute have recently sparked a conversation regarding a possibility for Mississippi to handle the nation’s nuclear waste.

If MEI’s “nuclear cluster” comes to fruition possibly 4,000 new jobs and $30 million in taxes will filter through the state.

Instead of swallowing economic incentives hook, line and sinker — and rod, angler, boat and lake — Mississippians should first examine our nuclear history.

In many respects, Mississippi is a model state for nuclear ac-

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tivity. Since July 1, 1985, the Grand Gulf Nuclear Generating Station has been producing electricity near the Mississippi River in Clairborne County.

According to Entergy, the plant employs 675 people and has a $49 million payroll.

Artfully avoiding the conundrum of nuclear waste, Entergy touts the plant’s environmental benefits by helping to reduce pollutants. Nuclear energy decreases sulfur dioxide emission which can lead to acid rain, nitrogen oxide waste which contributes to smog and carbon dioxide which contributes to global warming fears.

In fact, Entergy plans to expand Grand Gulf ’s capacity from 1.2 gigawatts to 1.4 gigawatts. When this occurs, Mississippi will host the largest single-unit nuclear power plant in country. Thus far, Grand Gulf ’s safety record is stellar. With potentially the world’s fifth largest single-unit reactor, Mississippi is clearly a nuclear state.

Before we say “Take that, Iran” or continue to ignore the Fukushima leak fiasco in Japan, Mississippians need to remember that two nuclear warheads were detonated on our turf in the 1960s.

Project Dribble refers to the key Mississippi component of the Vela Uniform Program for nuclear testing in the U.S. According to history professor Stephen Cresswell, the U.S. sought

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an underground experiment site. Officials were concerned that the U.S.S.R. could evade the 1963 treaty which banned nuclear tests affecting the atmosphere and water by detonating bombs beneath the ground. In theory, if the U.S. could gauge the seismic activity of an underground test, then the Soviets could be thwarted. Hence, the allure of the Tatum Salt Dome, 28 miles southwest of Hattiesburg.

For the war effort, Project Salmon was tested in Mississippi. At 10:00 am on Oct. 22, 1964, a nuclear test one-third the size of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the bottom of a 2,710-foot shaft within the theoretically impermeable salt formation.

Beneath at least eight aquifer layers, the 5.3 kiloton bomb created a 110 ft. salt-lined cavity intended to test future explosives. Two years later on Dec. 3, 1966, the Project Sterling was detonated. Still later, two gas explosions for Project Miracle Play were conducted within the salt dome.

During the tests, no radionuclides were released. Success.

However, when nuclear scientists later came to analyze the site, nuclear waste was released as they bored a hole through the concrete plug to the contaminated salt dome. Clean-up ensued. A 1999 report confirmed that no leak now exists. Still,

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residential status remains prohibited near the test zone.

Apparently, Lamar County could weather quite an attack.

100 locals were temporarily employed as truck drivers for the scientists. 400 residents were evacuated for Salmon. The government compensated their inconvenience to the rate of $10 an adult, $5 a child.

Residents said the shock was far greater than they had been led to believe. A Hattiesburg American editorial suggested that the patriotic duty for U.S. security superseded the interests of the rather powerless locals.

Today, Lamar County residents who remember the tests still claim that high rates of local cancer have been ignored by the government. Water is now piped in to residents in order to allay fears.

To this day, Mississippi remains the only state east of the Rockies to endure a nuclear explosion. Geologically, Mississippi may be an ideal place to store nuclear waste since Yucca Mountain, Nevada is no longer an option. Never mind that underground nuclear waste storage is a federal crime. Mississippi once rented out our citizens homes to nuclear interests as cheaply as a Lincoln per child.

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Thomas McMillin is a senior southern studies major from Madison.

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Will you be electric sheep?

Weeds

By ANNA RUSH akrush1@gmail.com

The grass is always greener on the other side. When you compare lawns, it often seems that your yard does not match up with the weed-free, vibrant landscape your neighbor effortlessly maintains. While lusting after our neighbor’s yard, another thing grows inside of us: the need to complain.

When we get together with friends to discuss our yards, inevitably someone starts complaining about the amount of weeds they have.

After hearing this, another friend brings up that the west side of her lawn barely gets any sun and it is impossible to grow anything. Not to be outdone, friend number three chimes in with the fact that all of her azaleas are dying from root-rot and she has to dig them up this weekend.

It can be easy to take the approach of pointing out all of the dead spots in our own yard when we feel that we can’t compete with the Jones’ yard. Complaining to our friends about our shortcomings can be both fishing for compliments or searching for appreciation over how difficult our lot in life is.

We point out our flaws with the hopes that our friends will respond with, “What? I think your yard is beautiful, you have the best petunias I’ve ever seen!” or “Don’t worry, you are working hard and I know all that landscaping is going to pay off !”

In actuality, friends are just as self-conscious about their shortcomings and need to

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hear the same things from you. This can turn into a selfdeprecating downward spiral.

This sinkhole manifests itself in a variety of conversations. Different majors have different downsides, and we want to complain so that our friends know that ours are definitely the hardest. Jobs vary, but we want the satisfaction of knowing that our friends “just don’t understand how hard it is.” Nearly every aspect of our lives can be made into a point of competition, and in this downward spiral the one with the biggest thorn in their paw wins.

How do we get out of the complaint ditch that we have dug ourselves into? We all know what to do, it’s just a matter of conditioning yourself to do it: Stop complaining.

When your friends are on the vein of complaining to see whose yard is worst, cut it off, change the subject, or give a compliment instead of a complaint. When a friend complains to you, build her up and resist the urge to prove that you have it worse than she does.

Help your friends focus on the positive aspects of their yard and help them with the weeds when they need a hand.

You will be surprised how your attitude of your own yard changes and how leaving it alone to help a friend actually makes you appreciate its own qualities, even the imperfect ones.

By HOPE OWENS-WILSON howensw@go.olemiss.edu

How pleased was I when I logged into Facebook and looked on my timeline and learned that there was an incident of homophobia and general insensitivity at Tuesday night’s performance of “The Laramie Project”? Not very.

Still, I was invigorated. The ignorance displayed at that evening’s performance made a few things clear to me: no matter how much progress society makes, it can make more; from ignorance can come positivity and hope; and refusal to acknowledge and accept the impending turning of the societal tide will result in few things good.

Struck with the parallels between this event and the recent happenings in the United States Congress, a question formed in my mind. How long can ignorance last? If we are to take the enactment of the sequester as an example,

Anna Rush is a law student from Hattiesburg. She graduated from Mississippi State University in 2011.

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(even though there have been recent attempts at this), I think one of the strongest weapons we as humans have in our arsenal is our desire to learn and adapt. By putting this weapon to use through means of respectful and deliberate dialogue and action, it should be possible to make it known that our lives, minds, and spirit will not become the perfect hosts for hate and ignorance.

I know it is possible because I have seen it happen repeatedly in history. Still, we must not be convinced that this work of eliminating is a onetime thing. As anyone who works in medical research (or any research field for that matter) knows, progress is an ongoing, arduous process. Unlike our Congress and those hecklers at “The Laramie Project,” I hope that many others are willing to do what it takes.

Hope Owens-Wilson is a senior southern studies major from Jackson.

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it should be clear that the answer is not long before it kills itself.

Yet, why does ignorance persist? I believe that ignorance is similar to a virus or a parasite. It can go for months or years undetected, all the while stealing vital nutrients from its host. Furthermore, it is self-limiting. A virus or parasite cannot sustain itself once its host dies, so it creates new ways to spread its infection to as many hosts as possible.

Luckily, however, through advances in medicine, society has learned how to aid in the removal or prevention of these pests. We now use vaccines, anti-viral medication and other treatments to rid ourselves of these ailments.

But is there a vaccine for ignorance? Can we not find a cure for its destructive tendencies?

While I don’t think there will ever be a shot or a pill that one can take to rid themselves of societal ignorance and hatred

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to come to the auditorium, according to the theater department’s performance report.

“The football players were certainly not the only audience members that were being offensive last night,” Ledbetter said. “But they were definitely the ones who seemed to initiate others in the audience to say things, too. It seemed like they didn’t know that they were representing the university when they were doing these things.”

After the second act of the play and after Clinton arrived, cast members were told backstage that the football players wished to apologize to the cast after the play for their actions, which included “taking pictures of cast members while making fun of them, talking on their cell phones, hollering at the females in the cast and talking to other audience members during the acts,” according to the performance report.

“The football players were asked by the athletics department to apologize to the cast,” Ole Miss Theatre Department Chair Rene Pulliam said.

“However, I’m not sure the players truly understood what they were apologizing for.”

The football players’ apology, which was given by one undisclosed football player on behalf of the entire group, caused two cast members to cry.

“I have been acting for seven or eight years, and a lot of that has been in front of young children,” sophomore theater major Rachel Staton said.

“That was by far the worst audience I’ve ever performed in front of. It wasn’t all football players, but they seemed to be the leaders. If I can go support and respect the football team in their stadium, I feel like they should be able to support and respect me and my fellow cast members when we are doing a show.”

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partment issued no comment, but Ledbetter said he received an emailed apology from a member of the athletics department that expressed that they knew about the incident and would handle it accordingly.

Ole Miss Dean of Students Sparky Reardon was made aware of the incident Wednesday morning.

“I am extremely sorry to hear that this happened,” he said. “We are still looking into the specifics to determine what happened.”

This incident occurred just two weeks after the inaugural UM Creed Week, which honored the University Creed that begins with the words, “I believe in respect for the dignity of each person.”

“It’s ironic in a way. In (“The Laramie Project’) we address these topics of hate against homosexuals,” Ledbetter said.

“What happened in the audience (Tuesday night) was the very thing we were trying to portray in the show. (The incident) suggests we have a long way to go.”

According to Ledbetter, while the majority of the audience was being disrespectful, not all members of the audience caused problems.

He said that a few people even approached the cast after the show and showed their appreciation to the actors and actresses.

Ledbetter believes that more needs to be done on campus concerning discrimination against homosexuality.

“The unfortunate part of all of this is that I don’t think that the audience members that caused these problems really understood what they were doing,” he said. “Further education on all of this needs to be brought to light.”

The play ran Thursday through Sunday last week, and no incident like Tuesday’s occurred. The production will run Wednesday through Sunday this week at the Meek Auditorium.

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Members of the Delta Gamma sorority run out to meet potential new members during the second week of recruitment.

ECONOMY, continued from page 1

manager, said that during recruitment week the Inn is normally booked for Fridays and Saturdays.

“We’re sold out Thursday through Sunday,” Snow said. “It’s unusual to be full on Thursdays and Sundays.

Those are usually our slow days.”

Laura Hood, general manager of Comfort Inn, said they are also booked up for the week.

Considering it is the closest hotel to the university apart from the Inn at Ole Miss, Hood says a lot of their clientele this week are parents who come for recruitment.

Restaurants on the other hand don’t experience as big

of a change as stores and hotels.

Jon Strehlow, kitchen manager of Old Venice, said business remains steady but there are no obvious increases in sales.

Ayers Spencer, owner of Oby’s, said they had a large catering order to deliver to Kappa Kappa Gamma last year during rush week, but other than that no big increases.

“A couple of years ago, when rush week was held before school started, we noticed a big difference,” Spencer said. “Since they’ve started in October, there is nothing above average in our sales.”

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CONFERENCE,

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continued from page 1 to start the conference in an effort to highlight the importance of exploring racial language within the context of human philosophy and interaction.

Wishon joined Ole Miss’ Department of Philosophy in the fall of 2012 after earning his doctorate at Stanford University. The conference was inspired by Wishon’s interest in furthering the knowledge of philosophy students on diversity.

“It would be of great interest to the philosophy students at UM,” Wishon said. “Many of the brightest minds in philosophy today are not the stereotypical old caucasian males.”

Wishon said the faculty’s efforts to arrange the conference resulted in an interdisciplinary line up of regional experts doing cutting-edge research on the semantics and ethics of language.

The first portion of the conference will cover the nature of racial slurs from the perspective of recent work in linguistics, philosophy of language and psychology. The second part will look at the ethical and social dimensions of racial language in an attempt to understand the moral implications its use has with respect to individuals, groups and society as a whole.

Some of the co-sponsors of the event include the departments of African-American studies, modern languages,

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The Oxford Police Department is hosting its first ever open house this Saturday.

By LOGAN KIRKLAND lykirkla@go.olemiss.edu

The Oxford Police Department will host an open house for the Oxford community this Saturday, Oct. 5 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Chief of Police Joey East wants the open house to be an opportunity for the department to reintroduce themselves and to interact with the community.

East said he does not just want to be officers showing up at the scene, but people who are a part of the community.

“We are trying to market ourselves in a different way,” East said. “We want to be a more accessible police department.”

According to East, OPD has reorganized and “vamped up” their units. The open house is an opportunity to show others the equipment they use, along with the variety of officers who serve the Oxford community.

East says a goal of the open

house is to show the community that the police officers are no different from people in the community; they too have family and also see themselves as citizens of the Oxford community.

“We definitely want to break down any walls, or the stigma of the us vs. them type of mentality,” East said. “It’s absolutely not that way.”

Joseph Bishop, an Oxford Police Department patrolman, said he is excited to show the department to the community in a more informal way.

“There’s many different perceptions of the department,” Bishop said. “The open house gives us a chance to meet people in a more relaxed and informal basis.”

David Langford, a sophomore chemical engineering and biology major, said the open house is a good opportunity for students to see OPD in a different way, rather than just “the people who give us tickets”.

“It’s a great opportunity for

students and residents of Oxford to form bonds with the local authorities,” Langford said.

The open house will include demonstrations from the mounted patrol and K-9 units, investigators providing child identity kits as well as food, drinks and a bounce house for the kids.

East said the department never meets the community on their own terms, and with the open house they want to create a family environment.

“Mainly we just want to open our doors,” East said.

“We want to make it a family outing.”

sociology and anthropology, the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs amongst others.

Assistant Provost of Mathematics Donald Cole will be giving the opening remarks.

Keynote Speaker Dr. Ravi K. Perry, assistant professor of political science and Stennis Scholar for Municipal Governance at Mississippi State University, will be speaking alongside Dr. Allison Burkette, professor of linguistics, and Dr. Luvell Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis.

Anderson views the conference as a good opportunity to share his knowledge on his research subject, semantics and ethics of racial language.

Dr. Anderson will be answering questions regarding racial slurs during the conference.

Negar Akhundi, a teaching English as a second language graduate student, said she is attending the conference to further update her teaching skill set and increase her awareness of the subject matter.

Dr. Felice Coles, professor of linguistics, encourages all students to attend the conference as it discusses an important part of language and culture in a sociolinguistic context.

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Obama, lawmakers meet on shutdown’s 2nd day WASHINGTON (AP) -President Barack Obama conferred with congressional leaders at the White House on Wednesday for the first time since a partial government shutdown began, but there were no signs of progress toward ending an impasse that has idled hundreds of thousands of federal workers and curbed federal services around the country.

Obama “refuses to negotiate,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters after private talks that lasted more than an hour.

“All we’re asking for here is a discussion and fairness for the American people under Obamacare.”

But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said,

“We’re locked in tight on Obamacare” and neither the president nor Democrats in Congress will accept changes in that health care law as the price for spending legislation needed to reopen the government.

With the nation’s ability to borrow money soon to lapse, Republicans and Democrats alike said the shutdown that has furloughed an estimated 800,000 federal workers could last for two weeks or more, obliging a divided government to grapple with both issues at the same time.

The Republican-controlled House approved legislation to reopen the nation’s parks and the National Institutes of Health, even though many Democrats criticized them as

part of a piecemeal approach that fell far short of what was needed. The bills face dim prospects in the Senate, and the White House threatened to veto both in the unlikely event they make it to Obama’s desk.

“What we’re trying to do is to get the government open as quickly as possible,” said the House majority leader, Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia. “And all that it would take is us realizing we have a lot in agreement.”

An attempt by Democrats to force shutdown-ending legislation to the House floor failed on a 227-197 vote, with all Republicans in opposition.

That left intact the tea partydriven strategy of demanding changes to the nation’s health care overhaul as the price for essential federal financing, despite grumbling from Re-

publican moderates.

Democrats were scathing in their criticism.

“The American people would get better government out of Monkey Island at the local zoo than we’re giving them today,” said Rep. John Dingell of Michigan.

The Republican National Committee announced it would pay for personnel needed to reopen the World War II Memorial, a draw for aging veterans from around the country that is among the sites shuttered. In a statement, party chairman Reince Priebus challenged Democrats “to join with us in keeping this memorial open.”

Democrats labeled that a stunt. “We’ve already been working on a plan to open the Memorial - and the entire government - after the GOP caused them to close,” said

party spokesman Mo Elleithee. “It’s called a clean” spending bill.

A sampling of federal agencies showed how unevenly the shutdown was felt across the government.

The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Housing and Urban Development listed only six percent of their employees as essential, and therefore permitted to work during the impasse.

James R. Clapper, director of national intelligence, said about 70 percent of civilian employees in agencies under his control had been sent home.

By contrast, about 86 percent of employees of the Department of Homeland Security remained on the job, and 95 percent at the Veterans Affairs Department.

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Maj. Ryan Burke scans the nearly-empty shelves in the meat section at the Fort Carson commissary in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday. The commisary was busier than normal after news that it will close as a result of the government shutdown.

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Feature photos: Tilted and Pickled Pulled pork was eaten and punch consumed. Books were signed and readings heard. A chocolate cake with green icing and airplane bottles of whiskey was ogled and then devoured.

The Powerhouse was thick with people, enjoying an evening of food, music and literature. This was the Tilted and Pickled event at Oxford’s Powerhouse Tuesday night.

The event was a book release party for writing duo and Ole Miss professors Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly’s new novel, “The Tilted World,� and Chef John Currence’s cookbook “Pickles, Pigs, and Whiskey.�

If you missed the event, there are more signed copies of both the novel and the cookbook for sale at Square Books.

Photos by Ann-Marie Herod and Dexavier Sturdevant.

People gather at Oxford’s Powerhouse Tuesday night for the Tilted and Pickled event.

Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly signed their newest book, “The Tilted World.�

John Currence signs his newest cookbook, “Pickles, Pigs, and Whiskey.�

A live band performs at the Tilted and Pickled event Tuesday night.

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SPORTS SPORTS | 3 october 2013 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 9

Reinforcements in the frontcourt

By TYLER BISCHOFF tfbischo@go.olemiss.edu

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For the first time since the 200809 season, Ole Miss will have neither Reggie Buckner nor Murphy Holloway on the roster. A key to replicating last season’s NCAA Tournament appearance will be replacing two of the most decorated players in Ole Miss history.

The two combined to play in 264 games for the Rebels. Buckner has the most blocks in program history, and the top four single-season totals of blocked shots.

Holloway finished up with over 1,000 points and rebounds, the only Rebel to accomplish that feat.

He also ended up second all-time in steals at Ole Miss. Last season, the two averaged 23.9 points and 17.3 rebounds per game.

“Those are not easy numbers to replace, and I’m not going to ask (just) two guys to do it,” head coach Andy Kennedy said.

Junior forward Aaron Jones and senior forward Demarco Cox will be coming back from injuries that kept both of them off the court since February. Jones tore an ACL, while Cox suffered a stress fracture in his foot.

New to the team will be freshman forwards Sebastian Saiz and Dwight Coleby. Both come to Ole Miss as three-star recruits, according to Scout.com.

“We’re going to ask those four guys to do it by committee,” Kennedy said. “I think they are certainly capable of doing it; they just haven’t done it.”

Jones has been back to full contact for about two and a half weeks, while Cox returned a month ago, according to Kennedy.

Before his knee injury, Jones played in 20 games last season, averaging 16.9 minutes and 3.45 points. Jones had the third-best rebound percentage on the team at 12.6. For comparison, Buckner and Holloway posted rebound percentages of 14.5 and 16.9 last season.

Cox only played in seven games

last year, but two seasons ago he averaged 13.4 minutes, 3.2 points and 2.9 rebounds in 33 games.

Kennedy is expecting the freshman to have an immediate impact at the very least in backing up Jones and Cox. “These two guys are as talented of (forwards) as we’ve brought into this program,” Kennedy said of Saiz and Coleby.

In practice on Tuesday, Saiz showed off his bank shot from about 15 feet, a skill that could give Ole Miss a forward that could stretch the floor with a jump shot.

That is all Ole Miss has for depth in the post entering the season. Sophomore Terry Brutus will miss the entire season with a torn ACL and sophomore Anthony Perez will move back to a wing position. Perez was an emergency post player for Ole Miss last season when depth on the frontline became an issue.

None of the forwards expected to replace Buckner and Holloway played during the Rebels run late last season as Ole Miss won the SEC Tournament and advanced to the round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament.

The most noticeable flaw in Buckner and Holloway’s game was their poor free throw shooting. Buckner finished his career at 48 percent from the line, while Holloway was slightly better at 51 percent.

Jones and Cox will be slight upgrades, as they have shot 58 and 54 percent from the free throw line, respectively.

Saiz, a native of Spain, played in two international tournaments this summer for Spain. From the line, he was 38 of 59 (64 percent) in those games.

Finding second and third scoring options behind senior guard Marshall Henderson will be critical for the Ole Miss offense. At least one of the forwards will need to become an offensive threat for Ole Miss to avoid a significant drop off.

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Not so fast, my friend

By TYLER BISCHOFF tfbischo@go.olemiss.edu

When the sign with the Corvette logo is raised on the Ole Miss sideline, it’s go time. Get to the line and get ready to snap the ball as soon as possible. This week No. 24 Ole Miss will not only be running the up-tempo offense, but also defending it as the Rebels travel to Auburn to face Gus Malzahn’s offensive attack.

“We certainly can look just alike offensively,” head coach Hugh Freeze said. “We’ll be able to simulate their looks very efficiently for our defense.”

The tempo is an effort to catch defenses off guard and tired. It is an attempt to get more possessions and plays than the opponent. If you get more possessions and plays, then you have an advantage that should help lead to outscoring opponents.

“Our goal is to play faster than anybody in college football,” Malzahn said at SEC media days this offseason. “We feel like, if you can execute our offense at a fast pace, it’s a big advantage. So we’ll be striving for that.”

For both Ole Miss and Auburn this season, their offenses have not been as fast as anticipated or advertised. Both of these supposedly fast-paced offenses are ranked outside of the top 60 in plays per game, according to TeamRakings.com, which only calculates FBS versus FBS games.

In all games, Ole Miss is averaging 73.8 plays per game, while Auburn is right below at 72.5.

There are three teams currently running over 90 plays per game and 21 teams averaging over 80 plays per game, a benchmark that Malzahn declared for his team this offseason.

“Our goal when we talk to our players is 80 (plays per game),” Malzahn told Al.com. “But each game unfolds differently. Sometimes, you can score enough points on less than 80. The main thing is we play faster than any team in the country on each snap.”

Auburn has only eclipsed 80 plays once this season in a loss to LSU, while Ole Miss ran over 80 plays against Vanderbilt and Southeastern Missouri State, but just 57 against Alabama.

A drawback of the up-tempo offense is the strain it can put on your defense if your offense doesn’t spend enough time on the field. Ole Miss and Auburn are currently in the bottom 35 of the NCAA in time of possession.

While time of possession is a poor indicator of winning and losing, as Texas A&M, Georgia and Oregon all ranked in the bottom 35 last season but won at least 10 games, it can cause your defense extra wear.

The up-tempo offense is only bad for your defense if your offense isn’t picking up first downs.

In any style of offense, constant three-and-outs will wreak havoc on your defense.

So far this season, Ole Miss is snapping the ball every 21.5 seconds on offense, while Auburn is running a play every 23.2 seconds.

A key difference between Ole Miss and Auburn is the backfield.

Auburn employs a two running back formation more frequently than Ole Miss. Tre Mason and Cameron Artis-Payne have both carried the football more than 40 times. The only Ole Miss running back that has received that much of a work load is senior Jeff Scott.

With slightly bigger backs, expect Auburn to run between the tackles more often than Ole Miss as well. All three of Auburn’s running backs weigh over 200 pounds, while Scott and sophomore Jaylen Walton, the only other Ole Miss running back with 20 carries, weigh less than 170 pounds.

One advantage the Rebels have is at quarterback. Junior Bo Wallace has completed 61.9 percent of his passes this season, down from his 63.9 completion percentage last year, which was the second best in Ole Miss history.

Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall is only completing 58.3 per-

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Quarterback Bo Wallace looks to the sideline for a play call during Saturday’s game at Alabama.

cent of his passes and has thrown four interceptions in four games.

Wallace hasn’t thrown an interception this season, an improvement from his SEC-leading 17 picks a year ago. That doesn’t mean Wallace hasn’t made mistakes. He has had multiple passes hit defenders in the hands, but they failed to make him pay.

Wallace, in year two of running this offense against SEC defenses,

has proven to be slightly better than Marshall, who has had just four games.

This game should allow for both teams to up their average plays per game as the opponent won’t be sitting on the ball like Alabama, Vanderbilt or LSU do, which all rank in the bottom 35 of plays per game.

This could be the first of many match ups between two coaches

and teams trying to change the offensive philosophy in the SEC. In the future, this could be the game that determines which uptempo team will challenge for the SEC title.

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continued from page 12 together and compare notes and stuff like that. Now that we are in the same conference, it is a little bit different, but we still have a very good relationship outside of football.”

After that, both coaches made a few stops.

Freeze went to become head coach at Lambuth University of the NAIA. He then had a short stint at San Jose State before being hired as the offensive coordinator at Arkansas State. Then, Freeze took over as head coach for the Red Wolves for one year before getting the job at Ole Miss.

Once Malzahn left Arkansas, he went to Tulsa as the offensive coordinator before serving as the same position at Auburn under former head coach Gene Chizik. Malzahn, then, took the head coaching job at Arkansas State after Freeze left for Ole Miss. After one year in Jonesboro, Ark., Malzahn found his way back

to Auburn as head coach.

“It’s certainly been a very enjoyable ride, not without its share of ups and downs,” Freeze said. “I can’t speak for Gus and if there have been valleys in the journey. We certainly have in having to leave Ole Miss the first time, going to Lambuth and a short trip to San Jose. Those weren’t the most enjoyable decisions that I had to make. They affect family. You’re always wondering if it’s the right decision for my future.

“You just never lose faith and trust in those people that are very close to you and believe in you. Gus’ family is very dear to him, also. I can’t speak for him, but it is somewhat eerily similar. We’ve shared many times that we wished we weren’t in the same half of this conference. We’d see each other every so often and be able to help each other. That’s not reality. We have to go and play.”

And that’s the difficult part for Freeze and Malzahn. The two have been friends since first meeting back at high

school coaching clinics. Now, they have to put that friendship on hold for a week.

There’s SEC football to be played.

“It’s difficult playing your friends,” Freeze said. “I sent him a text yesterday and said, `I don’t enjoy playing my friends. I’ll talk to you after it’s over.’ That’ll be the last time we talk. He sent me one back saying the feeling was mutual. We don’t enjoy it, but we’ve got to do it.”

Although Freeze and Malzahn may not enjoy facing each other, college football fans may fall in love with watching the the two offensive gurus compete year after year.

Both Freeze and Malzahn have the same offensive philosophy, which centers around a run-based spread that likes to go as fast as possible.

“We are similar in pace and tempo,” Malzahn said. “Going to Arkansas State following Hugh was a pretty easy transition. Offensively, they at least had a base foundation. We have shared offensive ideas over the years. I

have taken some of his stuff, and he has taken some of our stuff. There are some similarities.”

The similarities are so close in fact that Freeze said it could be advantageous for his defense in their preparation for Saturday’s game. However, Freeze expects Malzahn to have some new looks for the Rebel defense.

“We certainly can look just alike offensively, if we wanted to,” Freeze said. “We’ll be able to simulate their looks very efficiently for our defense. Having said that, both of us can change a lot during the course of the week.

“He’s got two weeks to do whatever he’s going to do. I know that he’ll dress things up and have some wrinkles we haven’t seen.”

Both Ole Miss and Auburn are averaging 28.5 points per game. Ole Miss is averaging 73.8 plays and 418.8 yards per game, while Auburn is averaging 72.5 plays and 439.5 yards per game.

Everything about Freeze and Malzahn is virtually the

same, but eventually – well, Saturday – the two will separate themselves.

Someone has to walk away from Jordan-Hare Stadium a winner Saturday night, and whoever does will walk away with bragging rights for the year from one friend to the other.

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Freeze, Malzahn to face off for first time

By DAVID COLLIER thedmsports@gmail.com

FILE PHOTO (AUSTIN McAFEE) | The Daily Mississippian

Hugh Freeze and Gus Malzahn have a lot in common.

They are both head football coaches of Southeastern Conference Western Division teams. They are both currently 3-1 this season. They both have the same offensive philosophy. They both were successful high school head coaches that got an opportunity to make the jump to the SEC as assistants. They both were the head coach at Arkansas State for one season.

Heck, they both even wear a visor on the sideline.

With all those similarities, it’s easy to see how Freeze and Malzahn have become close friends. But this week, Freeze’s 24th-ranked Rebels and Malzahn’s Tigers will face off in an SEC showdown Saturday night at Auburn.

“He is definitely a friend,” Malzahn said of Freeze at his weekly press conference. “He is one of my best friends in this business. We came from a similar background and a similar path.”

That background began in

high school.

Freeze was the head coach of Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis, Tenn., for 13 years and appeared in six straight state championship games, while Malzahn coached seven different teams in 14 years to the state championship game.

From there, the two went to the SEC. Freeze followed offensive lineman Michael Oher to Ole Miss, where he served as the assistant athletics director for external affairs before becoming the recruiting coordinator and tight ends coach under former head coach Ed Orgeron.

Malzahn followed quarterback Mitch Mustain to Arkansas, where he served as the offensive coordinator under former head coach Houston Nutt.

“We were two guys blessed enough to have be given the opportunity to come from high school to college,” Malzahn said. “The guys that came from high school to college stick together. There are a group of us guys that stick See FACE OFF, PAGE 11

Hugh Freeze is escorted off the field following Saturday’s 25-0 loss at Alabama.

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