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Director of Parking and Transportation Isaac Astill steps down

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The University of Mississippi’s Director of Parking and Transportation Isaac Astill announced yesterday that he will be resigning due to a new job offer as a director of facilities in Tooele County, Utah.

Hired in July of 2012, Astill was the first-ever director of parking and transportation at the university.

Astill will officially step down from his position on Nov. 15 to begin work in his home state of Utah on Nov. 18, according to a university press release.

Working for Ole Miss, Astill executed many changes to the parking system on campus, such as creating online vehicle registration and extending hours of public transportation traveling to campus.

Most recently, Astill played

a major part in implementing campus’ first parking garage, scheduled to be ready for the fall 2014 school year.

Located next to the VaughtHemingway football stadium, the parking garage will allot 829 new parking spaces.

“I’ve grown tremendously since I’ve been here,” Astill said in an interview with University Communications.

“The administration has been incredibly supportive — I can’t say that enough. I’ll always be a fan of Ole Miss. It’s a great school, and Oxford is a great city.”

Larry Sparks, vice chancellor of finance and administration, emphasized that Astill’s resignation was not related to the perception of Ole Miss’ parking situation.

“He is a good employee and he is a good person,” Sparks said. “We hope that he would have stayed. He was absolutely, positively not forced out

regardless of what rumor still might be out there.”

Sparks indicated, as Astill himself said, that a new job opportunity is the cause of the move.

“Isaac (Astill) had another job opportunity and he took that job; he made us aware of it,” Sparks said. “We hate to see him go, we tried our best to entice him to stay and were unsuccessful in that.”

According to Sparks, the department of administration and finance has already put together a search committee to immediately begin looking for individuals and accepting applications. Sparks said the department is talking to one or two individuals about the possibility of serving in interim capacity.

If no replacement is found, Sparks said members of the department will serve internally with an interim position.

Isaac Astill was hired as the Director of Parking and Transportation in July of 2012

Students express thoughts on UM’s possible tuition rise

BY SAMANTHA ABERNATHY slaberna@go.olemiss.edu

A recent AP story indicates the price of tuition at many Mississippi public universities, including The University of Mississippi, could possibly rise in the very near future.

According to the AP, “Mississippi’s two largest universities (Ole Miss and MSU), could increase tuition by 5 percent a year over the next two years.”

Ole Miss junior Ashton Boone questions why the state doesn’t attempt to bring in money from other places.

“I don’t understand why they are placing the burden on those trying to get an education,” Boone said. “Do we really need this increase when we have so many other resources?”

Boone is one of many juniors who may have to grad-

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uate a year later than anticipated, which makes her concerned about how to pay for the extra semesters.

Junior Savannah Riegler said this only makes things more difficult for those students having to pay for their own college education.

“For those of us who pay tuition out of our own pockets, this is perpetuating the already important student debt crisis,” Riegler said. “I work hard all year to pay my college tuition and fees, and this does not make things easier.”

The rise of tuition is a big concern for out-of-state freshmen and sophomores who are concerned about how much it will cost them to attend Ole Miss during their junior and senior years.

Freshman English major Krysta Ortiz, an out-of-state resident, said this is causing

problems for her and others coming to Ole Miss from outside of Mississippi.

“Being an out-of-state student, I think a rise in tuition is very inconvenient,” Ortiz said.

Ole Miss has some of the more affordable rates for an out-of-state school in the SEC. However, students wonder how long this will last if tuition costs keep going up.

Grace Gardner, a sophomore Atlanta native, said her parents would definitely be upset about an increase and suggested Ole Miss think about having a set tuition rate from students’ freshman years.

“The school should implement these set rates so that way we won’t have to pay twice as much our senior year than we did our freshman year,” Gardner said.

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The importance of being earnest (in grammar)

BY CARL CASE

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What does the ability to differentiate between correct and incorrect grammars say about a person? Is it indicative of his or her intelligence? His or her observation skills? It’s quite shocking to see how many people enter college lacking basic knowledge of sentence structure, grammar and academic writing skills. Having knowledge of these things is essential in an academic setting (read: everyday life).

What kinds of perceptions do people get from you when you send out tacky, ungrammatical tweets or Facebook statuses?

Are we judging you for it? The answer to this is absolutely! I believe that college students should be quite familiar with the most basic forms of English grammar.

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people who are not intimately familiar with English grammar (you really start to become aware of things in your own language when you begin studying a foreign one), but being that many Americans only speak one language, why not do it well?

I have been disappointed by countless English majors who cannot differentiate between “your” and “you’re” and ones who believe that apostrophes can actually be used to form the plural (i.e., 90’s, A’s, ex’s, etc.).

It is absolutely astounding to me that these people can read countless literature pieces and write hundreds of pages but basic grammar eludes them.

Does this have anything to do with their intellectual capacities or their observational skills? I, personally, have not the slightest clue how things like this happen. It’s almost oxymoronic.

Many people will argue that

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on social media, a person can be as informal as they like. I don’t necessarily think that means making yourself appear less intelligent. Please don’t think that I’m referring to the way in which people structure their sentences. Most of us at this university speak Southern English, so I have no problem with “ain’t” and deletion of verbs. You know this to be true if you’ve seen any of my tweets.

I, however, cannot get behind the incorrect comma placements, the disrespect many people show to apostrophes and the atrocious nature in which “you’re” and “your” along with “there,” “they’re” and “their” are ignorantly used. English should not be this hard for native speakers, especially those seeking B.A.s and B.S.s.

Being the open-minded person that I am, I realize that people don’t really speak the same way that they write. I am not

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one of those pretentious people who believe that formal, standard English is appropriate in every context — we know that isn’t always the case. I am just advocating that people, collegeeducated adults, be familiar and conscientious of simple things in their language that many children in eighth grade or lower tend to get right most of the time.

Everyone makes mistakes on papers, makes typos or confuses more complicated grammatical structures, but for a person to not know things that many people take for granted is preposterous. A little proofreading hasn’t hurt anyone, not to my knowledge. Next time you decide to hit send on that tweet or Facebook status, make sure that you cover your basic grammar.

Carl Case is a senior English and Spanish double major from Brookhaven.

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The Tea Party disaster

BY SEAN HIGGINS smhiggin@go.olemiss.edu

The tea party is arguably the most unpatriotic movement the United States has seen in the last century. Radicals such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and our very own Rep. Alan Nunnelee (RMiss.) shut our government down over an immature, petty disagreement. And for what? To stop the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which is already bringing a countless number of Americans access to affordable, critical medical care.

Let me make myself clear. I don’t take issue with mainstream, intellectual Republicans. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is a great example. McCain is pragmatic, thoughtful and willing to extend a hand to work with Democrats on a variety of issues. He puts his country first. On the other hand, we have folks like Cruz and Nunnelee who shamelessly grandstand and obstruct any item on President Obama’s agenda.

Don’t be fooled for a second; the tea party caucus wanted the government shutdown. They actually thought they could get something out of it. But they were wrong.

Instead of achieving any of their shutdown goals, like defunding the Affordable Care Act, the tea party caucus smacked American taxpayers with a $24 billion bill. Billions of dollars were wasted on a teenage temper tantrum caused by the small minority in the House of Representatives.

Never before have these types of tactics been used, and the American people deserve better. As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stated, plenty of Democrats opposed the war in Iraq. But never did they use the budget as a bargaining chip for political purposes.

I applaud congressional Democrats for refusing to tolerate this type of behavior. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called out the tea party “anarchy gang” for refusing to compromise with Senate Democrats in passing a budget that would have kept the government open. Since April, the Senate had asked the House to conference on a budget 18 times, and the House Republicans refused.

So whose fault is the shutdown? It surely was not the fault of Senate Democrats or our president.

Not only did the hostage-taking tactics of the tea party strike me as unprecedented, but so did their rhetoric and demeanor throughout the entire shutdown showdown. It’s as if they live in an alternate reality — a fact-free zone.

The vague attacks on government growth and “big government” under the Obama administration are pathetic and disingenuous.

Government spending would not be nearly as high had he not taken office in the midst of the worst economic downturn since

the Great Depression. Austerity measures and draconian budget cuts do not create jobs, they create poverty. Besides, the legislation the Republicans are trying to defund is deficit-neutral, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

In addition to their fact-free tirades, blaming President Obama for the shutdown, conservative protests were rampant with racism and bigotry. One wise protester suggested that the president “bows down to Allah” and needs to “put the Quran down.”

Another suggested Obama was the president of “his people” instead of “the people.” The crowd suggested that the police looked “like something out of Kenya.”

Worst of all, one tea partier had the gall to wave the Confederate flag in front of the White House, the home of the first black president and his family. Where were the Confederate flag-waving protesters when President Bush was spending trillions of dollars in Iraq? Oh yeah, he was white.

The tea party is rooting for America to fail under President Obama solely to prove a point.

They’re rooting for the Affordable Care Act to fail. This radical, irresponsible movement almost brought the United States government to its knees with the shutdown and our close call with a default on our debt. The tea party is everything but patriotic.

As President Obama said, hardworking middle-class families are rooting for success because their lives depend on it. It’s time for the tea party to stop obstructing progress; elections have consequences, and that’s a lesson they need to learn.

Sean Higgins is a junior political science major from Brookings, S.D.

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The value of reading

BY ANNA RUSH akrush1@gmail.com

Monday I had the pleasure of attending the premiere of James Franco’s adaption of “As I Lay Dying” at the Lyric. I must confess I haven’t reread the book since my AP History class, and some of the scenes caught me off guard.I’m not sure if I had forgotten parts of the book or if I did not fully grasp some of the concepts when I read it 10 years ago. Not to discredit the wonderful English teachers who assigned us a wide variety of great literature, but many of the books I read I did not fully appreciate when I read them.

I am a part of the Sparknotes/Internet generation and having all that knowledge at your fingertips brings about the temptation to be lazy. Generally speaking, given the option to be lazy, a fifteen year old will always be lazy.

Mrs. Shoemake would assign our AP History class to read a stack of classic literature and quiz us on the important themes. I have always been a bookworm and made a good faith effort to read all the books we were assigned.

That being said, when it was the night before a quiz with only half the book finished I certainly took to the internet to find out what the conch symbolized in “The Lord of the Flies.”

Yes, it was lazy. Yes, Mrs. Shoemake would have been incredibly disappointed if she knew, but I had more important things to do, like go to Sonic with my friend who just got her license. I could mull

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over the societal criticisms in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” or I could google (I’ll be honest: I think I had to “Ask Jeeves,” but I didn’t want to show my age) and pile in my friend’s older sister’s 1998 Jeep Cherokee to travel to an away football game.

Looking back, I wish I had paid more attention to the books I was assigned to read.

I wish I had come to my own conclusions about the characters in “The Old Man and the Sea” instead of using Sparknotes so I could go watch a movie with my crush.

So many great books are wasted on eye-rolling teenagers.

The Mrs. Shoemakes of the world try their best to instill

a love for reading and appreciation for difficult books that force you to think, but they are greeted with kids who turn in half-thought out analyses supported by Wikipedia.

Maybe they take comfort knowing that sooner or later their kids will grow up and want to go back and reread those books and delve even deeper into great literature?

Perhaps I’ll sit down and write Mrs. Shoemake a letter, but I’m terrified of what autocorrect and WordPerfectinduced laziness has done to my grammar.

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

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Everybody’s Tent receives support from alumni, Department of Athletics

BY ALLISON SLUSHER ajslushe@go.olemiss.edu

As part of homecoming week, The University of Mississippi’s Associated Student Body will host Everybody’s Tent for the third time in the Grove with help from university alumni and the Ole Miss Department of Athletics.

The goal of Everybody’s Tent is to offer a place in the Grove where all fans can feel included and welcomed. After hosting the tent for the first time at the Southeast Missouri game, the ASB continues to build on the idea.

Everybody’s Tent will be located in front of the Union in the Grove from 2:30-5:30 p.m.

Saturday. The ASB runs the tent with help from various sponsors each week. The athletics department will serve as one of three sponsors for the upcoming game against Idaho.

President Gregory Alston is thankful for the support from both Athletics Director Ross Bjork and the department.

“Ross Bjork has been so supportive of our initiatives, in-

cluding Creed Week,” Alston said. “We are very excited that he is supporting us with Everybody’s Tent.”

Various alumni from the university have also shown their support for the new endeavor, and two will serve as the remaining sponsors for this week’s game.

John N. Palmer, ambassador to Portugal under President George W. Bush, will sponsor the tent this week along with Long Distribution of Corinth, owned by Ole Miss graduate Randy Long.

“We are very excited to have the Ole Miss Department of Athletics, Long Distribution and Ambassador John N. Palmer sponsor Everybody’s Tent this weekend,” Alston said.

During the Texas A&M game two weeks ago, the Trent Lott Leadership Institute sponsored the tent and welcomed politicians from both Mississippi and Texas. Guests included Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, former Mississippi Gov. William F. Winter, former Mississippi Sen. Trent

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Lott and former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who did the coin toss before the game, also made an appearance at the tent.

William Fowler, director of

Everybody’s Tent, was pleased to have the politicians come and noted what their presence said about the university.

“Winter and Gramm shook hands under the canopy in

a rare moment of bipartisan harmony,” Fowler said. “We hope moments like this will set an example for how we treat one another with respect despite any differences.”

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Alzheimer’s disease affects more than five million Americans, but caring for people with the disease is a job that usually goes unpaid.

The disease is the sixthleading cause of death in the United States, according to the Alzheimer’s Association,

and it affected 53,000 Mississippians in 2010.

Family members are often stretched to devote an increasing amount of time to caregiving or put their loved ones in a nursing home or day program.

University of Mississippi pharmacology and research professor John Matthews, who has researched neuro-

degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, believes that the impact of the condition is undercut by cultural misunderstandings of the disease.

“I think there’s a perception in the population that dementia is a natural consequence of aging — nothing can be further from the truth,” Matthews said. “It’s not normal to get memory loss as we get

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UM first university in state to offer neuroscience education major kamille3@go.olemiss.edu

This will be the first full year that The University of Mississippi School of Education’s new doctoral program is up and running.

The program will focus on education and special education with an emphasis on the neuroscience behind the way people learn. Specifically, it will concentrate on people who have suffered head injuries such as strokes and concussions and how those people can be rehabilitated to help rebuild their neural pathways.

Two of the major groups affected by brain trauma are children and athletes, both of which require extensive rehabilitation beyond the physical therapy level. The only other universities with equivalent programs are Harvard University and the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign.

Roy Thurston, the creator and primary administrator of the new program, received his Ph.D at the University of Calgary, Alberta. It was in Calgary that he began to specialize in traumatic brain injury and its effect on learning, working with an educational facility in conjunction with a major hospital to help improve mental function in children with brain trauma.

This experience motivated him to form a similar program at the university level.

“In years past, where you were two years after a stroke, mentally, was just where you were going to be,” Thurston said. “However, we’ve learned a lot about brain plasticity. The brain can keep learning and keep forming connections even

after that two-year period.”

When the brain is damaged, often in falls, car accidents or sports injuries, part of the frontal lobe is damaged. Hospital doctors are focusing on stabilizing their patients and ensuring the brain is in a suitable condition to allow independent function.

What patients and educators find to be ignored often, however, are the effects of brain trauma on the cognitive mind.

It has been observed that after a head injury, people frequently suffer from personality changes, increased anger and aggression, memory loss, headaches and sensitivity to light. Professional football players have reported that the lights and noise of a stadium can trigger immediate headaches that are detrimental to their athletic performance.

The new doctoral program has two goals in mind. The first is to allow doctoral students to research and observe the effects of head trauma on learning and cognitive function. The second is to establish a place where those experiencing the negative effects of trauma can come to learn on a more specialized level, which will help them return to their former level of mental function.

Thurston’s intends to replicate the near-miraculous results he has seen in other educational facilities.

“We’ve had college professors with traumatic injuries come in on a seventh- or eighthgrade level of function. After six months, they would be up to 12th grade, and after a year, they could be caught up and ready to start teaching again.”

He also feels that this would benefit the university’s athletes.

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This does not cover salaries of those who work at Memory Makers or any of the other expenses that keep the business running. Arnold said the service became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to accept donations to stay afloat.

“We don’t break even,” Arnold said.

Memory Makers is moving to a larger location to accommodate more participants, but a larger space will invariably increase costs.

Currently, the organization relies on a donor to pay its rent, but the new location will cost $800 more per month.

Arnold said Memory Makers is also struggling to find the funds to renovate the new space.

“We don’t have that covered,” Arnold said. “We will need more support at a bigger place.”

Arnold said she lost her father to the disease and that caring for him caused her family great stress.

“I was up all day working, and all night with him — you don’t get any rest,” Arnold said. “He would follow me around because he knew that he couldn’t manage things by himself.”

Arnold said that caring for someone with this disease is often so stressful that the caregiver dies before the person with Alzheimer’s.

“My mother was 66 years

old and she died taking care of my daddy, just because it was too much for her,” she said. “It’s just overwhelming responsibility.”

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, last year 15.4 million caregivers provided more than 17.5 billion hours of unpaid care. In Mississippi, 203,000 caregivers provided 231 million hours.

“I’ve had lots of friends who have struggled with enough hours and energy in the day,” said Rita Cauthen, a volunteer at Memory Makers.

Matthews and his wife are also transitioning into the role of caregiver for his mother-in-law, who suffers memory problems but has not yet been given a definitive diagnosis.

“It’s a huge burden on my wife. I can see it in her behavior and her level of anxiety and the level of energy that she’s got, because it’s wearing her down,” Matthews said. “Her mother isn’t there anymore, and that makes her angry.”

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Sometimes the aftermath of even minor head trauma can be bewildering, and he hopes that student athletes will know that they are not alone and have a major resource to help them.

“They’re working on making new football helmets for these players, but even so, your brain can move around inside your skull, and you can’t protect against that,” Thurston said.

Special Education Program Coordinator Denise Soares said she is very excited to get the word out about the new program “We’re hoping to get as many people interested in the program as possible, even from other schools within the university,” she said.

According to Thurston and Soares, no other university in the United States currently has a functioning education Ph.D program that incorporates neuroscience, and they believe it will be both a feather in the university’s cap as well as a valuable resource for students and members of the community who have suffered long-term effects of brain injury.

The program already has doctoral students enrolled and conducting research. One student is focusing on the effects of stress on learning and memory, while another is investigating how poverty and its accompanying malnutrition can hinder students from learning effectively.

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Mississippi Sen. Wicker and former Gov. Barbour speak to Ole Miss College Republicans

BY JHESSET THRINA O. ENANO joenano@go.olemiss.edu

United States Sen. Roger Wicker and former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour spoke Thursday night to the Ole Miss College Republicans in the Student Union Ballroom.

In the midst of issues concerning the Affordable Care Act, debt ceiling and the recently concluded government shutdown, the two politicians discussed the strength of the party and youth involvement in the elections.

“What unites Republicans is far more significant than what divides the Republicans,” Wicker said.

He added that there are more purists trying to divide the party than are focusing on

a united stand against President Barack Obama’s health care reform and their cause for domestic energy production.

“In the end of the day, if we want to do something about Obamacare, we gotta win,” said Barber, who served as Mississippi governor from 2004 to 2012. “This is about winning.

Winners make rules.”

In his talk, Barbour discussed Obama’s appeal to the youth during his campaign. In an interview, however, he noted the decline of youth voters for Obama in his 2012 presidential run.

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“I think the substance of his policies are going to make young voters take another look at the economic growth policies of the Republican Party.”

Ole Miss College Republicans chairman Emerson George said the organization has grown to 382 members from fewer than 100 last year.

He said the group is continuously trying to expand, inviting more guests to its bimonthly meetings.

“We’ve really been trying to grow excitement over the Republican Party,” George said.

Voter registration in preparation for the 2014 midterm elections and recruitment are the organization’s focus for this year.

“You can make a difference in the elections,” Barbour said, addressing the College Republicans. “I want to urge you and nothing else to take what you believe in and make a difference.”

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Yalobusha Review: New Writing for A New Age

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Oxford literature is often thought of as only the William Faulkner and Rowan Oak-style success. However, since 1995, the Ole Miss graduate writing program has been publishing the Yalobusha Review, a literary journal that aims to recognize works that are a little less “The Sound and the Fury” and a little more “The Sound of Creativity and Innovative Writing.”

The biannual publication is about bringing Oxford literature into the modern age. Submissions are open to anyone, allowing for a melting pot of different styles and techniques for readers to sample. This also allows students a chance to experience what working for a literary journal is actually like and understand the work that goes into it.

Michael Martin Shea has been a part of the Yalobusha Review since 2011 and senior editor since 2013. Shea describes the publication as a “contextual writing opportunity” that allows members of the graduate writing program to “gain perspective” on their writing. The Yalobusha Review has been run entirely by students of the graduate writing program at Ole Miss since its founding.

Working on the Yalobusha Review allows graduate students to run their own journal, giving them firsthand experience that they will be able to turn into career opportunities.

When looking for pieces to publish, Shea said the staff looks for “works that display more energy rather than meaning.”

We want to publish something that will get stuck in your head, even if you don’t really understand the real meaning of the piece,” he said

From their website with a quirky photograph of a woman wearing a costume bunny head listening to old records, to stories about zombie football teams, the Yalobusha Review is new and different and definitely stands out.

Submissions can be fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction or artwork, which gives the journal a wide range of entries to choose from for each publication. This ensures the works are fresh, interesting and always different.

Yalobusha is described as seeking to “showcase work that alters or subverts mainstream forms of expression.”

There are also two awards available each year for writers: the Yellowwood Prize for Poetry and the Barry Hannah Prize for Fiction. Submissions are welcome to anyone. There are no style or form guidelines, and the competitions offer writers the chance to have their work acknowledged by successful authors in their fields. Not only can students receive hands-on experience, they are also able to express their individuality through writing.

Mainstream is definitely one thing this online journal is not.

Submissions for the Yalobusha Review will reopen Oct. 30 and can be made on the Yalobusha Review’s website at yr.olemiss. edu.

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Four Downs: Idaho Vandals vs. Ole Miss Rebels In this week’s edition of Four Downs, The Daily Mississippian football beat writers Matt Sigler and Cody Thomason and sports editor David Collier answer four questions regarding the week’s matchup.

1. What does last week’s upset win over LSU do for Hugh Freeze’s program going forward?

Matt Sigler (@SigNewton_2): The win over LSU is huge obviously, not only for the confidence of the team right now, but also in aspects such as recruiting heading forward. I feel like this team now believes they can play with anyone, even though the loss to Texas A&M showed that, and finish a game, which maybe wasn’t shown so much in that A&M game.

Cody Thomason (@TheCodyThomason): It instills the level of confidence that Ole Miss had earlier in the season before their losing streak.

Beating the No. 6 team in the nation shows the Rebels that they can compete with anyone, and the momentum from this huge win should carry over to their game against Idaho.

David Collier (@DavidLCollier): It helps the most in recruiting. For a year and a half now, Hugh Freeze has been selling to recruits that Ole Miss was close to knocking some of the SEC powers off and that they could be the difference. That strategy worked well last year, but at some point, you need results.

Last Saturday night, they got those results.

2. Now that both Jaylen Walton and I’Tavius Mathers have proven themselves as playmakers, what does Hugh Freeze do to utilize both players in addition to Jeff Scott when he’s back healthy?

Sigler: I think they will be able to sit Jeff Scott more often, allowing him to get his legs back under him and not forcing him to carry the ball 20-plus times a game like he was at some points last season.

Thomason: I think Freeze needs to use a running back by committee approach and split the carries among the three of them. Although he can still give Jeff Scott the most carries as the starter, he should not have a large discrepancy in the number of carries between the three backs.

Collier: Before the season, Hugh Freeze said he wanted to give Jeff Scott around 12 carries a game to keep his legs fresher at the end of the year.

Early on, he didn’t do that, but Scott’s recent time forced Freeze to give both Jaylen Walton and I’Tavius Mathers more carries. They responded well, and I think they have Freeze’s trust going forward. I think all three will get significant carries going forward, which will help the offense.

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Sigler: Sophomore safety Chief Brown. He had a great spring and fall camp, then comes out and begins to get some solid playing time split with Trae Elston, but I think the icing on top was last weekend when he led the team in tackles and had a huge interception against LSU. Thomason: Cody Prewitt.

He has continued being a good tackler and one of the strongest hitters on the team but has also stepped up in coverage, leading the SEC in interceptions this season. He is second on the team in tackles and has been a leader on the defense.

Collier: I’m going to go with freshman huskie Tony Conner. Everyone talked about Robert Nkemdiche, Laquon Treadwell and Laremy Tunsil, but not a lot of love was given to the “other” five-star freshman. Conner has stepped in and played tremendously at huskie, even gaining enough trust after one week to allow sophomore Mike Hilton to move to corner. Conner hasn’t gotten enough credit, but he’s still making plays for the Ole Miss defense.

4. What is the key for Ole Miss’ homecoming game against Idaho?

Sigler: Don’t overlook Idaho. Yes, Idaho is not a huge SEC powerhouse, but don’t go into the game sluggish and lackluster. This is a game you can use to fine-tune some things before you get back into real challenges. Also, Ole Miss will have to attempt to stay healthy, especially with a bye week coming up. Two weeks of rest for some of these injured guys could prove to be huge.

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game lightly. We all remember the Jacksonville State game from a few years ago, and no one wants a repeat of that performance at all. The key is to treat this game like any other week, give full effort and make sure that Idaho does not catch Ole Miss by surprise.

Collier: Play smart. The only way Idaho hangs around in this game is if Ole Miss allows them to by turning the ball over, making dumb penalties, missing assignments and missing tackles. If everyone wearing an Ole Miss uniform does their job, the Rebels will walk out with an easy win.

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Soccer looks to continue good play

BY NICK ELEY

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The Ole Miss soccer team will follow one of its toughest and most successful weekends of the season by facing the best team in the Southeastern Conference in Texas A&M on the road tonight before hosting Alabama Sunday.

Texas A&M (12-3-1, 7-1 SEC) hasn’t lost a game in over a month, and it has averaged 3.5 goals per game in those seven games, all wins.

Junior forward Shea Groom leads the team in scoring with 10 goals on the season, and is sixth in the conference. They lead the conference in shots and shots on goal taken by wide margins.

Fortunately for the Rebels, they are one of the few teams in the conference that can both score and defend with the Aggies. Ole Miss (12-3-2, 5-2-1 SEC) is coming off a weekend that saw them beat LSU, tie with South Carolina in double overtime and reclaim a national ranking in the process. The Rebels moved back into the 23rd spot in the NSCAA rankings this week.

Ole Miss can’t help but look ahead to postseason play, as

the Rebels’ play so far this season has put them in prime position to reach the NCAA tournament.

“This past weekend, beating LSU and tying South Carolina, has put us in a very good spot,” Rebel head coach Matt Mott said Monday in his weekly press conference. “We’re in the 20s in RPI right now. It certainly puts us in the tournament if it ended today. We have to take care of business with these last three, starting with A&M on Friday.”

Ole Miss will continue to rely on the services of seniors Rafaelle Souza and Mandy McCalla, who are near the top of the scoring race in the SEC as well. Souza netted her 14th goal of the season against LSU, and McCalla has 11 goals on the season as well.

However, senior goalkeeper Kelly McCormick has been “fantastic” all year, according to head coach Matt Mott, and will be an important piece of the puzzle as Ole Miss looks forward to the last stretch of the regular season and postseason play.

“She’s been great all year,” Mott said. “Her distribution is good, but her shot stopping has been fantastic. We hope she continues to play the way

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McCormick and the rest of the Rebels’ somewhat maligned back line will need to be in top form for an A&M team that Mott said has “athletes all over the field.”

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Ole Miss’ Square Jam back for year two

BY TYLER BISCHOFF tfbsicho@go.olemiss.edu

For the second straight year, The University of Mississippi will kick off the basketball season with Square Jam tonight at 6:30 in front of Oxford City Hall.

Both the men’s and women’s teams will participate in a basketball showcase that includes a 3-point shootout, dunk contest and a game of knockout, and new to this year’s event will be a horse competition.

Square Jam will take advantage of the intimacy that Oxford and the Square provide and looks to heighten excitement for the upcoming basketball season.

“It kinda brings that home feel,” said Brandon Hudspeth, Ole Miss marketing coordinator. “It’s very small but big at the same time. We’re excited about doing it.”

To keep fans involved, last year’s game of knockout featured fans from the crowd. Also, Aaron Jones used a fan during the dunk contest.

As other schools start their seasons with midnight madness, Ole Miss has found a creative way to draw fans to watch the basketball teams in a loose envi-

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“We’re a football school,” Hudspeth said. “Obviously football is king, but doing things like this and taking basketball to the Square, which is the hub of Oxford, where our fans are, it helps send that message that we’re serious about basketball.”

Last year’s Square Jam drew approximately 2500 fans, and with this year’s event expected to draw more, improvements have been made to the event.

In order for more people to see the event, there will be additional bleachers and a video screen set up. The court will feature an Ole Miss logo, and the players’ benches will be heated.

Last season, Nick Williams and Gracie Frizzell won the 3-point shootout, while Jones took home the dunk contest and Derrick Millinghaus won knockout.

The dunk contest this year will be judged by Athletics Director Ross Bjork, head women’s basketball coach Matt Insell and a member of the Rebel Rewards program.

Insell is entering his first season as the women’s head coach.

Previously, he was an assistant at Kentucky and will look to turn around the women’s program,

which went 9-20 last season and has been below .500 the last three years.

The men’s team won the SEC tournament last year and made it to the round of 32 in the NCAA tournament.

A week from today, the men will play an exhibition game at home against USC-Aiken.

The women will host Christian Brothers in an exhibition on Nov. 3.

The regular season will begin for both teams on Nov. 8 in a doubleheader. The women will host Jacksonville State at 5 p.m., and the men will follow with a game against Troy.

For continuing coverage of Ole Miss basketball, follow @Tyler_RSR and @thedm_sports on Twitter.

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Ole Miss hosts Idaho for homecoming Saturday

BY MATT SIGLER mcsigler@go.olemiss.edu

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Head coach Hugh Freeze and players rush the field last week against LSU.

be the main force out of the backfield for Idaho. He leads the team with 348 yards on the ground and five touchdowns.

After holding LSU to just 24 points last weekend, the Rebel defense carries a lot of momentum heading into this game. Junior linebacker Serderius Bryant, the team’s leading tackler, could return this week from a concussion, which sidelined him against LSU. A player the Ole Miss defense may see make another big impact is sophomore safety Chief Brown, who recorded a career day against LSU, leading the team in tackles with eight and also recording an in-

terception.

The Vandal defense will have a tough task in taking down a high-powered Ole Miss offense this weekend. Idaho is allowing 43.1 points per game this season and also giving up 540.9 points per game.

“They like to bring a lot of field pressures, which we’ve seen,” Freeze said of the Idaho defense. “They’ll mix in enough boundary to keep you guessing. I know I’ve said this several times, but it is difficult to accurately portray exactly how they’ll treat us because we don’t have a really good look on film of somebody that does exactly what we do. They are

a very active defense, and they are in the right positions.”

Defensively, the Vandals are led by leading tacklers Marc Millan and Bradley Njoku, who rank first and second on the team with 56 and 53 tackles, respectively. Through seven games, Idaho has also forced 13 turnovers.

Ole Miss junior quarterback Bo Wallace enters this Saturday off one of his best performances as a Rebel, going 30for-39 for 346 yards.

Sophomore running backs Jaylen Walton and I’Tavius Mathers are also looking to continue their good play after Walton ran for a team-best 106

yards and two touchdowns and Mathers added 51 yards of his own. Senior running back Jeff Scott could return after being sidelined last weekend with a deep thigh bruise, but he likely won’t see a lot of playing time regardless of how healthy he is.

Freshman Laquon Treadwell and junior Donte Moncrief will likely get the most looks through the air, like they have all year, with Treadwell leading the team with 39 catches and Moncrief setting the pace with 465 yards and four touchdowns.

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“That gauntlet that we’ve gone through has taken a toll on us some physically and mentally,” Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze said in his weekly press conference Monday. “We certainly need to continue moving in the right direction in all areas. We have a team coming in this week that I’m sure they will play like they have nothing to lose. They’re playing in an SEC home and have a chance to make some noise, just like many teams did last weekend.

“We don’t want to be on the other end of that. So we’ve got to regain our kids’ focus and elevate our concentration to do little things right.”

Idaho will bring in a struggling offense that averages just 16.4 points per game and a little over 350 yards per game.

It looks like Taylor Davis will get his first start of the year at quarterback, while Chad Chalich and backup Josh McCain are both nursing injuries. Davis has played in three games this season and is 14 of 39 passing for 199 yards with a touchdown and interception.

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