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Friday, October 7, 2011

ASB Senate hopes to numb campus parking pains

Vol. 100 No. 199

Largest recruitment class in UM history

BY JACOB BATTE thedmnews@gmail.com

Parking on campus has been a big issue this year, and the Associated Student Body Senate at the University of Mississippi has made a decision in hopes of easing the parking frustration. The senate passed resolution 11-17 Tuesday evening, which requests that the university administration place parking signs around campus. Senator Gregory Alston presented the resolution. “I proposed a resolution tonight to urge and request the University of Mississippi to install parking signs, designating who can park there in every parking lot instead of just some parking lots,” he said. Alston said in his presentation that the current situation causes confusion for students and results in a lot of parking tickets. “This is to urge them to put these signs on every end or inlet or outlet of the parking lot designating who can park there,” he said. “I think this will clear up a lot of confusion and will open up a lot parking spots hopefully.” During a period of technical questions, Senator Andrea Jordan brought forth the suggestion to place signs around campus that address fire lanes as well. While it was suggested that parking signs be color coded, Senator Alston said the university is not likely to replace every parking sign on campus. Senator Hardy DeLaughter brought up a motion to add a clause in the resolution to address the font on the current parking signs. DeLaughter said he has trouble reading some signs by the law school and suggested the fonts be made larger on the signs. Another motion was brought forth by Senator Steven Stewart to add a clause that allows the signs to represent multiple types of decals.

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INFOGRAPHIC BY KELSEY DOCKERY | The Daily Mississippian

The Greek Life office was able to provide withdrawal and release numbers for fraternity recruitment, but not for sorority recruitment. The primary pool quota for sorority recruitment was 117 new members and the secondary pool quota (sophomores, juniors and seniors) was 10 new members. Fraternity recruitment does not use a quota system.

BY WILL BEDWELL AND MEGAN SMITH williambbedwell@gmail.com megansmith67@gmail.com

This year saw the largest recruitment in the history of the University of Mississippi, according to the Greek Life office. “Our sororities had the second-highest quota in the history of Greek life behind the University of Arkansas this year, and we

were only three less than them,” said Jena Gains, the coordinator of Campus Programming. Stace Sievert, graduate assistant for interfraternity council, said that 70.4 percent of men who registered for recruitment received a bid from their first choice fraternity. Among sororities, however, only 77.5 percent of women who registered for recruitment received bids from their first choice sorority.

After a hectic week of recruitment activities, most who went through the process acknowledge it was a difficult but worthwhile experience. Pharmaceutical science freshman Mackenzie Lewis said that despite the stressful nature of recruitment week, she was glad she went through with it and pledged. Freshman park and recreation management major Ame-

lia Austin was similarly pleased with the results of recruitment week. “Yeah, it was definitely worth it,” she said. “I love being a part of it because you meet so many new people. It’s just a lot of fun, and it gets you involved in a lot of stuff.” Melissa Dent, a freshman biology major, found her initial See RECRUITMENT, PAGE 4

Honors College compared to Ivy League Schools BY D.J. JONES djones2195@gmail.com

The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College continues to reach new heights, as this past month’s issue of Reader’s Digest placed the University of Mississippi’s honors program on the level of the academically elite Ivy League schools. In the Digest’s article, sources list Ole Miss as the number one honors program, with schools including Arizona State, Cooper Union in New York and the University of Maryland behind it. Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez, the dean of the honors college, credited the faculty, support from the Barksdale family and the students with making the honors college excel beyond his wildest imagination. “We focus on what we do best — work with high performing students and encourage them to think imaginatively with the challenges ahead so that the University of Mississippi can lead our great state,” Sullivan-Gonzalez

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said. “Many have been generous with their compliments toward our work and we are grateful. “Remember, our students and faculty make this living experiment work well.” Sophomore chemical engineering major Shannon Kynerd thinks the Digest was spot on with the comparison. “This makes me feel really good and very confident in Ole Miss’ ability to keep up with the rest of the world,” Kynerd said. Kynerd strongly believes the honors college is on an Ivy League level, as well. “I think with the honors college, it’s a smaller community which is just like the Ivy League schools.” Needless to say, the sophomore chemical engineering major was more than pleased with her decision to join the Honors College. “The honors college has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, and I’m thoroughly enjoying it,” Kynerd said. “I See HONORS, PAGE 4

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Hospitality management junior Katie Kaiser, who is sitting in the honors courtyard, reads Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” for her honors English class.

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