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Supervisor has change of heart, YAC funding under discussion

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Yoknapatawpha Arts Council contributes to the Double Decker Art festival each year. Double Decker is an annual event that receives high attendance.

BY JOHN MCEACHIN AND MALLORY SIMERVILLE jdmceach@gmail.com thedmnews@gmail.com

Lafayette County Supervisor Robert Blackmon announced a change of heart Tuesday afternoon, following Monday’s board of supervisors vote to cut funding

in support of the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council.

After Blackmon spoke with several people involved with the arts council, he announced his support of the funding and his decision to change his vote.

YAC director Wayne Andrews spoke with Blackmon in an effort to help the board of supervisors

understand what YAC does for the community.

“I am pleased that Mr. Blackmon spoke with me and others that he represents to learn more about the arts council’s role in the cultural and economic growth of the county,” Andrews said. “Of course we still have to wait for the November meeting to see how

the supervisors vote.”

The board had previously voted 3-2 to discontinue YAC’s funding of $15,000, and there will be another vote at a supervisor’s regularly scheduled meeting in November.

“We were really surprised when we got the news of what had happened with the vote. Obviously

we are concerned about our ability to support programs,” Andrews said. “Obviously $15,000 in these tough economic times is an amount to be concerned about.”

The arts council supports multiple programs 320 days out of See FUNDING, PAGE 4

No visitation in Kincannon residence hall due to excessive vandalism

BY JACOB BATTE thedmnews@gmail.com

A custodian knows going into his job that it’s never to going to be the prettiest occupation.

But on Monday morning, the custodians who work in Kincannon came to find hair in the showers, urine on the floor, stalls destroyed and an excessive amount of trash.

Lorinda Krhut, director of student housing and residence life, said the supervisor and assistant supervisor of maintenance, as well as the director and associate director of housing, viewed the destruction and made the determination that the cost to repair the bathroom would be more than the department could absorb.

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many acts of vandalism occurring in Kincannon since the beginning of the school year,” Krhut said.

Because they could not determine if the damage was done from residents of Kincannon or guests Krhut said the department of Student Housing put a ban on visitation that went into effect on Monday, Oct. 3.

Visitation will remain suspended until Oct. 10, when the administration will meet to determine whether or not to keep the suspension in effect.

Krhut said a deadline has been set for Friday, Oct. 7, for students to “take responsibility for the damage and/or identify those individuals responsible for the damage.”

If the deadline is not met, then housing will then be forced to institute community billing — in essence every resident will be billed for the damages done by a few.

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A student waits outside of the Kincannon residence hall Tuesday. Kincannon residents were issued a building-wide no visitation following recent vandalism.

Freshman Kincannon resident Hank Bishop said he sees why Housing made their decision, but he is still upset with it.

“I think it’s unfair to the people who didn’t do anything,” Bishop said. “I understand where they are coming from; they have to do

something about it obviously.”

Ryan Schemlz, a freshman journalism major, said he is not a fan of being billed for something he didn’t do. “(Community billing) will definitely be a problem,” Schemlz said. “I’ll be pretty upset with

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that.”

Another Kincannon resident Ryan Stone said he is only bothered by community billing. “(The visitation ban) really doesn’t bother me that much,” See KINCANNON, PAGE 4

Moncrief following in the footsteps of greatness P. 12

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The administration must move forward The time for debate is ending. The message is clear. It is time the University of Mississippi advances with the cause of Forward Rebels.

This outstanding organization was slandered over the past few weeks.

Its vision for this university was dismissed, and its supporters have been cast in a false light.

Fortunately the fear-mongering and vague language from its opponents cannot last forever.

Supporting Pete Boone and ignoring the expectations of progressminded individuals has been done in the defense of cronyism and the status quo.

It is done at the expense of Ole Miss, Ole Miss Athletics and every member of this community. The choice is obvious.

Some like to portray the Forward Rebels as divisive and extremist. In Dan Jones’ infamous letter he went so far as to use the word “malicious.”

What is divisive and malicious is the totalitarianism of assaulting one group’s use of free speech and then using the power of office to broadcast a message that is out of touch with our community. Ignoring the voice of

BY ALEC JONES jonesalexander18@ gmail.com

the people isn’t done by officials who view us as members of a community but rather as subjects lacking any say in the school’s decisions.

The campaign put on by the Forward Rebels is a natural result of the athletics department having a history of sub-par performance; the message should come as no surprise. The newspaper ads are incredibly justified.

Allegations of incivility are feeble attempts to silence our community by ineligibly pulling the political correctness card.

A survey by the Commoncensus Sports Map Project finds that the Mid-South is literally the deepest market for NCAA football in the country, smaller than New York or Los Angeles, but far more concentrated and passionate.

Ole Miss is in the heart of this market but has fewer fans than any ACC school, the third fewest fans in the SEC and is 49th overall in total fans.

It is self-evident that the likelihood of a second year without a top 25 ranking or bowl game is repugnant. One would expect such football mediocrity from the University of Maine, not the University of Mississippi.

A golden retriever could probably achieve better results as athletic director than Pete Boone, yet we pay him $429,000 a year for this?

Why is the First Amendment suddenly on trial for bringing up this blatant breach of faith? Maybe Pete Boone’s title should be changed to athletics czar.

The CEOs of AIG and Citigroup agreed to take $1 salaries after receiving bailout money for devastating the American economy. Surely Boone enjoys his comfortable position and would not follow suit for devastating our football program.

Either way, he’s proven his inability to generate success for decades. Continuing to support him in his soonto-be vacated position defies all logic known to mankind.

If one still doubts the merit of the Forward Rebels Foundation, try explaining why, in barely a week, it’s found nearly 7,000 supporters. Compare that to Boone’s 3,900 Twitter followers, of whom he only follows 18.

Jones said in his letter, “The short answer is that I will not react.” It would be wise of him to realize that when faced with a decision, the best

thing to do is to do the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, but the worst thing is to do nothing.

Dan Jones does a fair job as chancellor. He is an honorable man. He’s no different from any leader in the fact that people only pay attention to highs and lows, and he’s experienced some very unlucky breaks so far.

Nevertheless, his reaction to our voice suggests he may be incapable of handling the political element of being chancellor. A mere demand for Boone’s resignation at the end of this season probably couldn’t put the fire of the Forward Rebels to rest at this point.

It is time the bureaucrats from the administration, athletics department and other organizations stop the backscratching and cronyism and get with the program.

They exist to serve this community, not one another. We are fed up with the status quo.

It is time a few rogue officials stop supporting it.

Alec Jones is a junior accountancy major from Catonsville, Md. “Like” him at facebook.com/thealecjones.

Effective leaders, we’ve got ‘em Leadership is the key to what makes a group of people successful.

Without effective leadership, the group is bound for failure. An effective leader must power through adversity to make the group as successful as possible.

Ole Miss is going through tough times right now. We will get through it if not for one reason: We have very capable leaders who know exactly what they are doing.

Forward Rebels attacks Chancellor Dan Jones constantly for various reasons. They slam him for not effectively employing an athletic director who can field winners. They degrade him for how he has handled the mascot situation.

What they fail to do is give recognition to what he has accomplished during his stay at Ole Miss.

BY ADAM GANUCHEAU aganucheau24@ gmail.com

Jones is a man who loves Ole Miss dearly and works harder than anyone knows for the good of our university.

Since he has been chancellor, Ole Miss has had more students on campus than it ever has before. The freshman class is the largest in the state and has a higher average ACT score than ever before.

Jones did what he thought was best for the university in regard to the mascot, and, in my opinion, the university is a better place for it.

Slightly less powerful, but as equally important a leader to us is Taylor McGraw, Associated Student Body president. In McGraw’s presidential campaign, he promised many things.

As a true leader should, McGraw has followed through on his promises. Taylor McGraw is one of the

most integrity-filled leaders I have ever met, and he is coming through for us significantly.

A major platform McGraw based his campaign on was better funding for student organizations. Not even a semester into his stint as president, McGraw has gotten student organizations that wanted better funding more money. He also promised free scantrons. I picked one up for myself this morning.

McGraw is in constant communication with Jones, and they are working together keeping our best interests in mind. Still waiting on those outdoor basketball courts, Taylor, but I’m sure you are working on it.

When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, things were looking really bad. FEMA and George Bush seemed to be lacking in their deci-

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sion making. Gov. Haley Barbour came through for our state in major ways. His effective leadership got our state through the Katrina incident.

Our “friends” at Forward Rebels are forming our Katrina. I guarantee Jones will get us through this, and he will defeat Forward Rebels.

With effective leadership comes great opportunity. That opportunity could mean a number of different things for us.

We may be going through a rough time right now, but we will make it through. We have to trust our leaders instead of shunning them.

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Beauty from pain

BY MEGAN MASSEY memassey1848@gmail.com

During the past few weeks I’ve become really jaded with politics and society in general.

With next year comes a presidential election, and the mudslinging between candidates has already begun. I don’t know what it is about an election season that seems to bring out the heartlessness in people.

Then I see a video of people cheering for the number of executions in Texas under Rick Perry; meanwhile, Georgia executes Troy Davis, a man who was more likely innocent than guilty.

All this left me banging my head against the wall, wanting to give up on people having any goodness in them at all. Needless to say, at the beginning of this week, I was feeling pretty cynical.

But yesterday I read a USA Today article that did what I thought was impossible — restored a little bit of my hope in the “human spirit.” The article is titled “Mother cares for her son’s Amish victims,” and if you haven’t read it, you should.

Most of you probably remember the shooting that occurred a few years ago at an Amish school in Pennsylvania.

Charles Carl Roberts IV opened fire on 10 Amish schoolgirls; five were killed, five seriously injured. It was a shocking event.

No one could understand why someone would attack the Amish, who are arguably the most peaceful group in the country, especially the parents of the shooter.

Chuck Roberts, his father, ran an “Amish taxi” before the shooting. He would drive people to destinations that were too far for a horse and buggy to travel.

He had no idea that his son harbored such dark feelings and wondered how he and his wife could ever face their Amish

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To the Editor: Never in my life have I been so mad as when I read the Rev. Jeff Hood’s letter to the editor yesterday in The DM. Do you have any idea how crazy it sounds to compare Ole Miss to the Roman Coliseum?

To say the “white elite” are screaming for the blood of those on the field whom we are oppressing is ignorant.

I’m willing to bet that nearly all, if not every single player on the field on Saturdays, are doing so because they love the game.

Does that scream oppression to you? Many of the players are on scholarships for football as well.

If letting someone play a game they love in exchange for a free education is oppression, then it doesn’t seem like a bad thing.

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t oppression “the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel or un-

just manner”? At least that is the dictionary definition of oppression.

As far as “African Americans filling most of the menial/servant tasks of cleaning and security,” they are paid to do those tasks. If they are not satisfied with the roles they are filling, they are free to find a less menial job to do.

I don’t see any slave drivers following them around with whips.

Most of the crowd around you probably was white at the football game; maybe that is because Ole Miss has a majority population of white students and alumni.

I see plenty of African Americans at the football games as well as in the Grove, but since they do not make up the majority of the population, you may have missed them.

Or maybe it was the blinders you seem to be wearing that made you miss them.

Why is it that some people, black and white alike, will

seek out things to call racist and oppressive?

Next time you want to call your school an oppressive/ racist community, you should look a little deeper into the truth instead of making assumptions of what you want to believe.

Jessica Jones Senior, Patterson School of Accountancy To the Editor: I am a proponent of the Green Fund. A simple Google search of “colleges with green funds” reveals that there are plenty of colleges in our country that have instituted a green fund on their campuses.

I think it’s about time that the University of Mississippi votes “Yes!” for the green fund!

Marlena Jarjoura Senior, Special Education

Megan Massey is a junior religious studies major from Mount Olive. Follow her on Twitter @megan_massey.

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neighbors after such a horrific event.

But what happened soon after these shootings is beautiful.

An Amish man named Henry who lives near the Roberts came to their home to comfort the grieving family. He assured them that the community still loved them.

A few months later Chuck and his wife Terri began visiting the victims’ families, and Terri began to invite the surviving girls over to their home for picnics.

She even helps take care of the most injured of the surviving girls, who was paralyzed because of the shooting. The young girl cannot walk, talk or eat, but Terri still sits by her, reads her books, sings to her and even helps the parents bathe her.

I write all of this because, odds are, a lot of you feel just as jaded as I often do.

We need more of these stories. Wouldn’t it be nice if instead of cheering executions and vengeance, we could get excited about people who can put transgressions behind them and move forward in peace and forgiveness?

We can get so wrapped up in being angry about something that we forget that often beauty comes from the most heinous situations.

This school shooting was terrible, and there’s no excuse for it. But for once, it’s nice to see people respond in love instead of hate.

The parents of Charles Roberts and the Amish community have healed and will continue to heal as a result of their response to such an unthinkable crime.

It’s about time the rest of us followed suit.

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Board of Aldermen establishes FUNDING, continued from page 1 commission for Square parking

BY JOE SCOTT jwscott1.olemiss@gmail.com

Driving around until someone gives up a parking spot on the Square may be less of a problem in the future.

The Board of Aldermen started a major change in traffic with the introduction of a new commission that will focus on the city’s parking issues.

An ordinance establishing the Downtown Parking Advisory Commission had it’s first reading at Tuesday’s regular board meeting.

According to the ordinance, the purpose and function of the Downtown Parking Advisory Commission will be to make recommendations to the Board of Aldermen to approve concerning parking policy, plan and design parking structures, create parking rates and contact private parking providers.

The introduction of the Commission comes after several months of decision making on the matter and years of work on the city’s parking situation.

“This has been a multiyear task,” Mayor George “Pat” Patterson said. “This is meant as no criticism to any of our organizations, but we simply have to get more organized on this.”

The city hired a consultant for advice on the problem this summer.

The solution came from studies done on the traffic policies of Tacoma, Wash., which had similar issues involving downtown parking and fixed the problem by creating a Stake Holder Committee built of community members that made decisions on parking.

The City of Oxford is following in line with the Downtown Parking Advisory Commission.

Actions would be paid for by fines and fairs generated by the committee and other city parking funds. The key will be to evoke public trust through transparency.

The commission is still in the process of being created and is subject to several changes between now and implementation.

the year, but one art show in particular was believed to be under question by the board on Monday.

“It seems that there was confusion over an art show that happened last week, ‘Scratch and Sniff,’ by Katherine Rhodes Fields, which is a mature art show –– not that the images are mature but that the topics are mature,” Andrews said. “What she’s trying to convey, which is about how woman are treated and gender roles, is a mature thing; how she gets you to think about it, you have to be an adult.”

The art exhibit was originally a part of the monthly “Art Crawl” but when the arts council received five calls about the nature of the exhibit, including a concerned call from Mayor George “Pat” Patterson, Fields decided to move her work to a different location.

Board vice president Ray Sockwell confirmed that the board did vote not to approve the funding on Monday, and that he voted no because he did not believe they should receive funding this time around.

“I think because it was marketed as a mature show, we wanted

to encourage people to recognize that it had some elements that you might want to learn a little bit more about before just walking into it,” Andrews said.

He said Fields wanted to move the show to a private venue to give her more control and to allow the arts council to step away from the project to focus on other programs.

“The only reason to have that show was to give Oxonians the option to see a show that originated here and hadn’t had a chance to be shown here,” Andrews said.

“We have to recognize that what may offend one person may engage and intrigue another to learn and grow as a person.”

Andrews said Fields’ art is meant to communicate a message about the way she feels women are treated and the way in which she did so was through her artwork.

“How she communicated it was how she had the ability to communicate it with art work,” Andrews said. “If she had just given a lecture on please do not refer to my body with food terms, obviously she maybe wouldn’t have gotten that attendance or that message out, but it seems to be a pretty valid message that she was trying to convey.”

Fields’ exhibit in St. Louis set an attendance record, as well as

in Oxford.

“I was surprised that would be the reaction,” junior studio art major Michael Lester said after the first vote Monday.

“Especially when you look at what other artists are doing around the country, her exhibit was fairly tame. It was not really that provocative; it wasn’t that extreme. Also, it was a positive message. It wasn’t anything that was degrading.”

Andrews said he felt the board was trying to ensure that YAC continued to be good stewards for the funding. Although the one event was only three hours of the 320 days spent on programs in Oxford.

“I respect what they were trying to state, but we had already responded to the community requests to change the program,” he said. “I am hoping that with community support, that people approve of the job that we are doing at the art council and that we are considerate of the funding we received.”

Andrews said if they do not receive the $15,000 from the board, the last thing they will do is cut programs.

“We are focused on the community,” he said. “I would like people to know and understand the diverse range of things that we do.”

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Left: Vandalism is carved into the odd-floor elevator doors in Kincannon Hall. Vandalism in Kincannon has ranged from writing on the walls, garbage not being thrown away and broken property in bathrooms. Right: The divider between the urinal was broken and removed during an act of vandalism.

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Stone said. “I mean it’s bad because I don’t like the visitation ban. I don’t think they should punish everyone, but how else are they going to do it?”

Krhut said that if housing has to use community billing, they will inform the resident’s parents. “(Community Billing) is something we do not want to do,” Krhut said. “We encourage students to follow the Ole Miss Creed and do what is right so that all are not penalized for a few.”

Student housing provided pic-

tures on posters placed throughout the dormitory that showed large clumps of hair around the bathroom floor, trash placed inside a toilet, urine on the floors, what appears to be shaving cream spread across a bathroom mirror and a broken stall.

“I mean whoever did it that’s pretty messed up. I don’t know what the hell they were thinking, that’s ridiculous,” Schmelz said.

“I can’t really complain about the rule, so I’m no going to say that’s wrong, but if it goes on for a long time then I will have a problem with it eventually.”

In an email that was sent to the residents of Kincannon, Krhut

stated housing realizes that “It’s probably a minority of students who are involved in the malicious vandalism.

“We unfortunately must resort to drastic measures to try and bring closure to the investigation,” Krhut said in the email.

While the Administration continues their investigation of the incidents in the dormitory, many students will anxiously await to hear student housing’s decision on community billing and the visitation ban.

“I just think someone should stand up and save everybody else form having to pay for it,” Bishop said.

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Nisolo shoes brings new brand to Oxford

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Workers hand-makes shoes for Nisolo, a shoe company based out of Oxford with shoes made in Peru.

BY KAITIE HARRISON kaitieharrison@gmail.com

Discovering and fulfilling needs of impoverished countries is a hard task, but Nisolo, a newly created business by a University of Mississippi alumnus, does just that.

Ole Miss graduate Patrick Woodyard spent the last year in Trujillo, Peru, working for a microfinance organization that helps develop small businesses for impoverished women.

After spending time in impoverished communities and realizing that the people of Peru had the tools to uphold businesses,

just not the means, Woodyard discovered the country’s true needs.

“Of course, it depends on the situation, and it depends on how extreme their needs are,” he said.

“But no, it’s not donations, it’s not money. More than anything it’s opportunity, and opportunity in two ways: One is job creation and employment, and two is access to quality education.”

With a degree in international studies and Spanish, Woodyard started this new business with the goal of supporting job creation and access to quality education for the community he worked in.

One of Woodyard’s clients,

Doris, introduced him to her husband who made shoes out of their home. The shoes were handmade leather and the catalyst to creating Woodyard’s new business.

“When I found out the talent was there and the passion was there, all that was really lacking was a vehicle through which these shoe makers could have much more consistent sales,” he said.

“I thought, OK, there’s really a possibility here to really help this group of producers out.”

Through meeting and working with Doris, Woodyard had the idea to create a business that shared its profit with impoverished communities.

Woodward said through consumer actions and decisions, people can either help others or harm others. With the sales of his business, which offers handmade leather shoes, belts, bags and bracelets, Peruvian schools receive money.

“With each purchase, instead of giving something away, what we’re doing is we’re paying for the school supplies and school fees of children in the communities where we’re working,” he said.

Another important aspect of the creation of the business was the name: Nisolo, meaning “not

alone” in Spanish.

Woodyard said the name of the company was important because it represents what the business stands for.

“I was just sitting there thinking we have to have a name — what is at the very core of what we’re trying to do and what is the message we are trying to convey in a name,” he said.

The name ties in everything Woodyard wanted to accomplish in joining the United States to the developing outside world. He said he wanted to teach American consumers that they’re not alone.

“In the developed world, every day the world becomes more interconnected; therefore, every day the decisions we make as consumers affect the world more and more, so it’s just that idea that we are not alone in the U.S.,” Woodyard said.

On the other hand, relating this concept to Peru, Woodyard said he doesn’t understand why impoverished communities don’t have the same opportunities the U.S. does.

“I’ve seen talent that exists there and discipline that exists there, the motivation that exists there, and it’s been hard for me to put together why these people are not able to have the same op-

portunity that I have in the U.S.,” he said.

Nisolo’s vision for its consumers is to “wear change” by partnering with its producers to promote long-term growth and empowerment in these communities and beyond.

Woodyard said they have many plans for Nisolo’s future, but to start, they want to establish Nisolo’s headquarters in Oxford.

The roots of Nisolo trace back to Ole Miss, and they want to pay a tribute by doing so.

Woodyard said he looks forward to seeing Nisolo grow and, as it does, create more job opportunities and help more people.

“Job creation demonstrates our growth, and our growth is determined by those reading an article like this,” he said. “As we grow our shoe makers (and) producers, with whatever they’re making, Nisolo grows and so will those communities because we’ll be creating jobs.”

Woodyard and his team will be on campus Oct. 3-7 at the Student Union displaying their products. Nisolo will launch its brand and initial product line Oct. 6 at the Powerhouse. For more information or ways to get involved with Nisolo, go to www. facebook.com/nisoloshoes or www.nisoloshoes.com.

Angel Ranch closes due to lack of funds

BY CAITLIN CLANCY cgclancy3@gmail.com

Angel Ranch, a house that has been used as a shelter for kids since 2006, has shut down due to lack of funding.

“I am disappointed,” Angel Ranch executive director Sue Turner said. “I am very disappointed that the community at large did not provide support to sustain a shelter for foster children.”

The Angel Ranch, a public, non-profit charity, has struggled over the past year. In June 2011, the ranch stopped accepting abused children, and as of Aug. 13, the ranch was no longer listed as a non-profit organization.

Turner was the only employee left at the conclusion of Angel Ranch and said she is grateful for the help that was received during the charity’s lifetime. She said many University of Mississippi students supported the charity by hosting fundraising efforts and volunteering hours of their time.

“My favorite memory was the student involvement,” Turner said. “The Ole Miss student generosity is overwhelming. The students gave unconditionally of their resources with no expectations in return and without being told what the money was being

spent on. I am grateful to them for their compassion and sense of civic responsibility.”

The Kappa Sigma fraternity chose Angel Ranch as the recipient of its annual philanthropy, Angel Ranch Diamond Day Tournament, and has invested over $100,000 in the lives of the foster children of Angel Ranch since 2004. The Ranch even attended Diamond Days this past year, which earned more than $40,000 towards the charity.

Other organizations have also conducted events to benefit Angel Ranch, such as walk/runs, gold tournaments and silent auctions, barbecues, dipes and wipes drives, food and household needs collections, yard work and tutoring.

“It became very strenuous to be able to find funding to meet project needs,” Turner said. “Without a funding source to meet operating costs, it is impossible to run the shelter.”

Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office put the Angel Ranch property up for sale in September 2011.

The property will be sold or donated to another non-profit organization registered with the Secretary of State’s Division Charities, and the former shelter has been listed in the Oxford Eagle and the LafaShopper.

Currently, Angel Ranch is completing all necessary paperwork to dissolve with the assistance of the Mississippi Secretary of State. All assets are being donated to other organizations registered with the Mississippi Secretary of State, and Angel Ranch will end business within the next few months when it will also dissolve its relationship with the IRS as a 501 (c) 3 organization.

Created in 2004, the Angel Ranch facility opened on Nov. 1, 2006, in the Pine Flat area of Lafayette County for abused and neglected children. The children stayed at Angel Ranch until they were placed in foster homes by the Mississippi Department of Human Services.

Angel Ranch served 107 children from 28 Mississippi counties during its life, including 15 sibling groups that were not separated, and 13 children who stayed for multiple visits.

The ranch also provided for the physical needs of the foster children who were living there at the time of closure.

However, the children Angel Ranch cared for are still in the legal custody of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, which will continue to make decisions on their behalf.

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“Working with the university students was inspiring; it kept me going, and it was encouraging to

see the involvement of Ole Miss university students whose hearts were for our cause and our mission,” she said.

“My favorite part was the interactions of the kids from Angel Ranch with the university kids.”

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This year’s Passion University Tour is making its first visit to Oxford and the University of Mississippi.

On Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m., at the Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for Performing Arts, Passion will host a Christian worship event specifically geared toward college students.

“Thursday night’s event will give college students a chance to come together and worship in one place,” Zach Brent, Ole Miss student and Passion attendee, said.

The Passion event will include a worship concert led by worship leaders and musicians, Charlie Hall and Kristian Stanfill, as well as a video message from the Passion Conferences founder Louie Giglio.

“We want this to be a unifying event of Christians on campus, coming together for worship,” Passion event coordinator Brad Jones said. “We’re anticipating students from several different campuses, churches and minis-

tries.”

Passion is a non-profit Christian conference organization that holds conferences to unite college students through common faith and purpose.

“It’s a whole event where you come together to worship and learn about how to be a light on your campus,” Brent said.

The tour is meant to attract university-aged young people who want to be a part of the Passion movement.

“The Passion University Tour is going to 12 different campuses to bring students together for one powerful night of worship and to tell people about the Passion 2012 event in January,” Jones said. “This year will be Passion’s first time to Ole Miss, and we’re pumped.”

The upcoming Passion 2012 event is a worship conference of more than 35,000 college students at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta from Jan. 2 to Jan. 5.

“Passion 2012 is a huge gathering of thousands of students from all over the country and the world; students from 20-plus

countries will worship together in the Georgia Dome,” Jones said. “This year, we wanted to make sure a bunch of Ole Miss students come out and join us.”

The Passion 2012 conference will offer students the chance to celebrate their common faith and to collect donations for charitable causes.

“Passion is great to go to because you see people from all over the world,” said Lacey Gray Stone, Ole Miss student and Campus Crusade member.

“There’s nothing like worshipping with thousands and thousands of other students with you.”

The Ole Miss Passion event tickets are $10 and are available online at the Passion 2012 Tour website or at the Ford Center.

Passion 2012 tickets are on sale for $200 on the Passion 2012 website.

“So far we’ve sold 200 tickets online for the Ford Center, but we’re shooting for 700,” Brent said. “We’ve trying to beat the 500 that went to the University of Tennessee’s Passion conference.”

news brief ASB Senate approves budget for new year The Associated Student Body senate approved a $97,425 budget for the current academic year.

The ASB general fund, which is for ASB operations, will be $47,425.

The ASB will allocate $50,000 to various campus organizations — 71 organizations applied for funding. Of that, $1,500 will be held for allocation during the spring semester.

ASB Treasurer John James said he would release what was specifically allocated to each group at a later date, once the groups are informed of the funding they will receive.

Specifics for the ASB general fund include Code Approved Salaries, which are the set salaries of the ASB president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, judicial chair and attorney general.

The salaries total $15,425.

The ASB office was allocated $5,000 for office supplies for the year.

The ASB Senate will be working with a $1,000 this semester, and the Justice Department will have $500.

First-Year Experience, a set of programs ASB President Taylor McGraw created, will receive $4,000 to split amongst it’s different programs.

The communications department will have $9,000 to spend on advertising and marketing.

Diversity affairs, which heads up the Two+2 program and the Black and White Affair, has been allocated $1,500.

Other cabinet departments will have $6,000 to work with.

The subtotal came out to just over $42,000, but a $5,000 presidential contingency fund pushes the budget to it’s final total.

James said this year’s budget was based off of last year’s model and McGraw’s plan.

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Undiscovered musicians will perform tonight in front of the masses and fall prey to the harsh criticism that may or may not await them.

The fans will choose their favorite, and he or she will rise to fame and have numerous posters and girls’ shirts with his or her face on them everywhere.

No, this is not American Idol, but rather a slightly exaggerated account of what is going to happen tonight at Soulshine Pizza: the Oxford Songwriters Showcase Open Mic. The Oxford Songwriters Association, lead by Caroline Hourin, is working hand in hand with Soulshine Pizza Factory to update the Songwriters Night into an American Idol-esque talent show where local musicians can get their big break.

For the past three years, Oxford Songwriters has been hosting this type of event at the Powerhouse. (Little-known fact: the Powerhouse was affectionately dubbed the Troubadour Lounge by the Oxford Songwriters).

Naturally, when both the Oxford Songwriters and Soulshine Pizza were looking to expand their audience and magnify the reach of local music, they teamed up.

“We’re really excited about the series,” project coordinator Hourin said. “We’re trying to reach as many musicians in

the Oxford area as possible.”

Tonight there will be two featured and well-known local artists to serve as anchors for the open mic night: Patrick McClary and John McLeod.

Those who are fans of Daybreakdown should know Patrick McClary, who is credited for giving the band its Southern rock sound with deep lyrics.

McLeod has been writing pop and rock songs since the 1960s, so those eating at Soulshine should enjoy hearing a weathered musician.

In between the two acts there will be local acts who have to sign up by 8 p.m. tonight to appear at the open mic night, which begins 30 minutes later.

The event is not only to bring more patrons to Soulshine Pizza Factory, but also to create awareness of the local talent in Oxford.

The customers in the restaurant who double as the musicians’ audience will vote for their favorite act of the night. The musician with the most votes will be awarded a paid solo show at Soulshine in December, along with various prizes from sponsors like Cathead Vodka, which is working in partnership with the Oxford Songwriters Association and Soulshine Pizza Factory.

“You can think of this as American Idol for Oxford,” said Wayne Andrews, director of Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. “The fans choose the winner, although there isn’t a

panel of judges.”

“We wanted Soulshine to be a place that invited people to hear great music, talk with their friends and enjoy an evening out,” Soulshine owner Chris Sartin said. “The Oxford Songwriters Association has helped us to create an open mic night that offers both a lineup of great music and a chance for new musicians to break into the scene.”

If there are some incredibly talented musicians bumming around, go sign up at the open mic night. This is a great way to become known, and the fans, not the critics, will choose who they want to hear more often.

As for those who are talentless with guitars and such but are hungry, they should go by Soulshine Pizza Factory tonight and stick around past 8:30 p.m. to hear local music to accompany their custom pizzas.

Patrons 21-years-old and up can enjoy the Cathead Vodka, which is sure to be flowing tonight.

The open mic night will take place every other Wednesday night at Soulshine and go on from tonight to Nov. 16. The winner will be named Nov. 16 and will reappear at Soulshine in December.

To learn more about Oxford Songwriters Association or the Songwriters Showcase Open Mic event, contact the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council at 662-236-6429.

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BY ZACH MITCHELL zmitchell42@gmail.com

When Kurt Cobain screamed “Here we are now/entertain us” in 1991, he wasn’t exactly looking for a hit. He wasn’t looking for accolades; he wasn’t looking to make some grand statement.

Flash forward 20 years later, and comedian Jon Stewart is hosting a townhall-style forum with Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Butch Vig. Cobain’s private journals are available for purchase at your local bookstore, a grand total of four live albums by Nirvana (one more than actual studio albums) are available and Grohl is making radio-friendly arena rock with the Foo Fighters.

And so it is natural that Nirvana’s landmark album “Nevermind” should be re-released on its 20th birthday with a remastered album, B-sides, rough cuts and live tracks.

Admittedly, not all of it is that necessary (who really needs five versions of “Drain You?”), but Nirvana diehards

will appreciate the historical value of the unearthed tracks.

The remastering job on the original is superb.

It improves on the original album by cleaning up Grohl’s drum sounds and pushing the bass further up in the mix, while not sacrificing any of Cobain’s vocal presence. The songs still hit as hard as the first time I heard them (admittedly not in 1991).

“Drain You’s” Sonic Youthesque noise freakout is still as pounding as ever, and the chords of the eternal anthem “Smells Like Teen Spirit” still resonate even after the 100th listen.

If you’re interested in this at all, it’s not because of the remastered album.

The real prizes here are the other three-and-a-half discs of assorted rarities, and these discs are a mixed bag, but most of it is worth at least a few listens.

The B-sides range from pretty good to great. While “Even In His Youth” feels like a throwaway punk tune, the cover of The Wipers’ “D-7”

stands as one of my personal favorite Nirvana tracks, and “Aneurysm” is absolutely essential.

What’s puzzling about this half-disc (tacked onto the end of the actual album) is the repeats: most of the studio tracks have been compiled and are readily available elsewhere, while half of the live tracks are available on the fourth disc of this set. I understand keeping these songs together for posterity’s sake, but it’s a little ridiculous.

The only place this disc really falls short is on the final two live B-sides, taken from the “In Bloom” single, which suffer from poor mixing and just lazy performances.

Disc two is where the fun starts. The Smart Studios sessions are legendary among Nirvana fans due to Bleachera drummer Chad Channing playing on these songs, many of which would end up on “Nevermind.” Of particular note is this version of the future hit “Lithium,” which features soft acoustic guitars in the verses that contrast well

with the crunchy guitars in the chorus, serving as a great metaphor for the song’s subject matter.

The boombox tapes, however, feature Grohl behind the kit.

These takes, while of low quality, offer up new lyrics and melodies to old hits like “Teen Spirit.”

It’s an interesting look at Cobain’s songwriting process, even though this is not something you’ll want to spin that often.

I’m honestly conflicted over the third disc, which consists of producer Butch Vig’s original mixes before the band called in Andy Wallace to give it a cleaner sound.

I felt it would be more like Bleach: more grunge-y and more punk rock.

Instead, it’s just less polished. The drums have more reverb to them at times, and there are little tweaks here and there, but the disc is the least interesting of the bunch.

The mixes just feel “done” before.

It’s fun to listen to what

could have been, but when it comes down to it, these are the exact same songs that are on “Nevermind.”

There’s no real reason to listen to these above the original (or remastered) album.

The live disc, of course, is amazing. Nirvana puts on a great show, and it’s a rare treat to hear a performace of “Teen Spirit” in which Cobain cares enough to play the guitar solo correctly.

The band seems very into the performance and even busts out an early version of the In Utero classic “Rape Me.” It almost feels like you’re in the studio with Nirvana, following the album’s creation from demo to the live show.

It’s Nirvana at its most punk and at its most pop. It’s the three-piece group rocking someone’s basement and the seasoned band playing in arenas.

It’s one of the greatest albums of all time deconstructed and put back together again, and it’s definitely worth picking up if you’re a fan of the band.

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Morgan makes a difference for Rebel volleyball

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Sophomore Kara Long digs out a ball in a five-set loss to Mississippi State Sunday. Long tallied a career-high 15 kills in the game and is third on the team in both digs and kills this season.

BY MATT SIGLER mcsigler@olemiss.edu

Sophomore Kara Morgan is no stranger to volleyball.

Standing just above six feet, Morgan’s presence on the floor intimidates players game in and game out. The Pickens,

S.C., native lettered all four years of high school and also earned Class 3A State Player of the Year in 2008.

“I’ve been playing volleyball since about fifth grade,” Morgan said. “My whole family is really athletic at any kind of sport.”

Morgan’s talents immediately transferred to the collegiate level for Ole Miss last season.

In her freshman season, Morgan played all 30 matches, starting in 22 of them.

“It was tough; it was really exciting just to step on the floor as a freshman,” she said. “It

was really tough to get acclimated to the whole new system and things like that.”

Morgan is a versatile player, often seen putting up big numbers in both the kill and dig categories. At her outside hitter position last season, Morgan was credited with five doubledigit dig performances.

Her game, however, is not limited to big numbers on the floor. Morgan is also known to bring intangibles to the game, which is a hard quality to find.

“I think I bring a lot of energy to the floor,” she said. “Just a lot of excitement and things like that, so I think that’s a big thing for our team.”

This season Morgan has stepped up for the Rebels, including a season-high 15 kills in a match against Mississippi State, and she has also continued her play as a consistent starter. She is third on the team in both kills (120) and digs (95) through 14 games this season.

Looking ahead, she also has high hopes for the remainder of her collegiate career.

“I definitely hope to bring my team to the SEC West Division

title,” Morgan said. “Doing things like that and to (get to) the NCAA tournament.”

However, this is proving to be a tough task for the Rebel team so far this season. The Rebels sit at 5-9 overall and 1-5 in SEC play, so turning things around is a must for Morgan and her teammates. Morgan personally looks to help carry the load as the season progresses. “(I make) sure I come in the gym every day and get a lot of reps,” she said. “I make sure that I’m doing what I can to help the team.”

Those kinds of things, along with solid team play from her teammates, could be just what the Rebels need to catch a break and turn the season around.

“I think a lot of hard work, a lot of focus (and) a lot of dedication to the sport itself will help us,” she said.

Morgan and the Rebels will look to get their second conference win this Friday in Lexington as they take on Kentucky.

Ole Miss wraps up the weekend Sunday at No. 19 Tennessee in Knoxville.

McCormick’s college career off to a great start

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Freshman goalkeeper Kelly McCormick takes a goal kick in a 3-0 win over Alabama Sunday. McCormick recorded her first career solo shutout in the game and holds a 2-1 record in five games played this season.

BY JAKE THOMPSON jvthomps@olemiss.edu

Freshman goalkeeper Kelly McCormick is having a solid start to her career as a member of the Ole Miss soccer team.

McCormick recorded her first solo shutout against Alabama Sunday and holds a 2-1 record in five games played this season.

Ole Miss head coach Matt Mott also realizes the talent in McCormick and has noticed her improvement as the season has progressed.

“She covers the ground really

well,” he said. “She covers the goal well. Her kicking game has improved. I think her awareness on the field has improved.”

This success is not a surprise and can be traced back to her playing days at Dana Hills High School in Dana Point, Calif. On her high school team, she was a four-year varsity starter and a three-year team captain. She also participated in track and field and cross country.

“I’ve been playing soccer since I was about 4- or 5-years-old.”

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“As a goalkeeper, I think everyone looks up to Hope Solo and how well she performs, so I’ve always looked up to her,” she said.

When she decided to make Ole Miss her collegiate home, it was not based solely on soccer.

“My dad’s side of the family all went to Ole Miss, and I wanted to play soccer and I got a scholarship,” she said. “It was like a small enough school where

I could get the academic attention that I needed, yet has a big football team. So it was just the perfect fit for me.”

McCormick also had a sense of familiarity with the school before she arrived on campus in the fall.

“I came to soccer camp here in middle school –– seventh and eighth grade –– and I had been to a couple football games since then,” she said.

McCormick also feels that she would enjoy Ole Miss even without the appeal of playing college soccer.

“I just wanted to find a fit where if I were to never play soccer again I would still be happy at whatever school I was at,” she said. “So I would be really happy at Ole Miss just being part of the campus and the community.”

McCormick, a biology major, has dreams of becoming a veterinarian, but she said she also keeps soccer in her future plans and hopes to make a career out of it.

“I have aspirations to play professionally one day,” she said.

“I know it’s going to take a lot of hard work, but I want to do it.”

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Moncrief following in the footsteps of greatness

BY BENNETT HIPP jbhipp@olemiss.edu

When Ole Miss signed one of the top groups of wide receivers in the country this February, wide receivers coach Gunter Brewer knew that those receivers would have to be ready to step in immediately and see significant playing time this season.

One of those freshman receivers, Donte Moncrief, has done just that and has become the Rebels’ main big play threat at receiver just five games into his college career.

Through those five games, he is averaging over 20 yards per reception and leads all Ole Miss receivers with two touchdown catches.

Moncrief said that he feels comfortable being relied on as a big play threat because of the belief the coaching staff has in him.

“They believe that I can

make plays, so I believe in myself that I can make plays,” Moncrief said. “I just came in with my head on, listened to coach Brewer, take coaching and just play ball like they want me to.”

The relationship between Moncrief and Brewer started when Brewer recruited Moncrief when he was the wide receivers coach at Oklahoma.

Their relationship continued when Brewer joined Ole Miss head Houston Nutt’s coaching staff in January of 2011.

“Coach Brewer recruited me at Oklahoma State, so I knew how he was,” he said.

“So when he came here, I knew he was going to be a hard coach and was going to get everything out of you.”

Moncrief was one of the main priorities for Brewer recruiting-wise when he arrived at Ole Miss and said that both Moncrief and his family were glad that he would be coach-

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“He was happy,” Brewer said. “The mom was happy, I think the whole family was and I was too. My job was to make sure he stuck with the Rebels.”

Brewer said one of the things that has allowed Moncrief to succeed so early in his college career is “his maturity level.”

“He gets in, studies tape, does a lot of stuff on his own,” Brewer said. “He comes to work, doesn’t say a lot, so I think that keeps him out of the other things that some of the other kids get caught up in as a freshman. He’s more focused and a little more mature thus far than some of the other players I’ve had at that age.”

Some of those “other players” that Brewer has coached include Randy Moss, Dez Bryant, and Justin Blackmon.

While it is too early to compare Moncrief to those kinds of players, he sees some similarities between them.

“It’s a long time down the road (before) we’ll be able to tell that,” Brewer said. “Blackmon wasn’t even a speck on the map. He made himself a

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Freshman wide receiver Donte Moncreif takes a screen pass and goes 57 yards in Saturday’s 38-28 win at Fresno State. Moncrief leads the team with two touchdown catches and averages nearly 21 yards per reception.

player and I think Donte is that way.

“Everybody comes at their own time so before we make any comparisons, I know the guys are working extremely hard. If they can make plays in this league, they’ve got a chance to be special.”

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week before playing Alabama at home Oct. 15, Moncrief has already started preparing for the Crimson Tide and isn’t intimidated.

“They play a lot of coverages,” Moncrief said. “They’re very fast and very physical, but they put on pads just like we do.”

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ST. LOUIS (AP) –– University of Missouri curators voted Tuesday to consider leaving the troubled Big 12 for another conference.

The governing board’s members agreed unanimously after a 4-hour closed meeting at the system’s St. Louis campus to give Missouri chancellor Brady Deaton authority to look elsewhere.

Speculation has centered on a possible Missouri move to the Southeastern Conference, which recently agreed to accept Texas A&M from the Big 12 starting next year The Big 12 has also lost Nebraska and Colorado to other major conferences.

Missouri has been a Big 12 member since the conference began 15 years ago and was a charter member of the Big Eight, the Big 12’s predecessor.

NEW YORK (AP) –– The NBA canceled the remainder of the preseason Tuesday and will wipe out the first two weeks of the regular season if there is no labor agreement by Monday.

“We were not able to make the progress that we hoped we could make and we were not able to continue the negotiations,” Commissioner David Stern said after nearly fours of talks between owners and players ended without gaining ground on a new deal.

No further meetings are scheduled, making it even more likely the league will lose games to a work stoppage for the first time since 1998-99, when the season was reduced to 50 games.

Stern and Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said owners offered players a 50-50 split of basketball-related income. That’s below the 57 percent that players were guaranteed under the previous collective bargaining agreement, but more than the 47 percent union officials said was proposed to them.

The only numbers that matter now, however, are the millions that stand to be lost when arenas go dark.

“The damage will be enormous,” Silver said.

Players had offered to reduce their BRI guarantee to 53 percent, which they said would have given owners back more than $1 billion

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over six years. They say they won’t cut it further, at least for now.

“Today was not the day for us to get this done,” players’ association president Derek Fisher said. “We were not able to get close enough to close the gap.”

With superstars like Kobe Bryant, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett standing behind him, union executive director Billy Hunter said the players’ proposal would have made up at least $200 million per season - a sizable chunk of the $300 million owners said they lost last season.

“Our guys have indicated a willingness to lose games,” Hunter said.

The sides are also still divided on the salary-cap structure.