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Mississippi Innocence Project to screen at the Overby Center

BY JOHN MCEACHIN jdmceah@gmail.com

A screening next week will showcase that the impact professors claim dedicated students can have is more than empty words.

The Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics at the University of Mississippi will screen a documentary on Oct. 25 called Mississippi Innocence, released by the Mississippi Innocence Project.

The documentary features two men from Noxubee County who were wrongly convicted of murder.

Kennedy Brewer was convicted of raping and killing his

girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter, Christine Jackson, and sentenced to death by lethal injection in 1995. Levon Brooks was also found guilty of the rape and murder of another little girl, Courtney Smith, and was sentenced to life in prison.

The Mississippi Innocence Project at Ole Miss has a mission to make sure its clients obtain the best legal representation they can provide and work to acquit Mississippi prisoners who are not guilty of the crimes they are charged with.

“From an educational perspective, it allows our students to work on real cases and train as lawyers, even if they’re not going to be

criminal lawyers at all,” Richard Gershon, dean of the School of Law, said. “It’s a great opportunity to learn how evidence rules work and how the system works as well.”

In this case, MIP worked with other lawyers to help prove both Brooks and Brewer were innocent of the crimes they were sentenced for. In 2008, both men were released from prison after substantial evidence came out, proving their innocence.

Tucker Carrington, director of Mississippi Innocence Project, helped to exonerate the two men from their sentences. Carrington See PROJECT, PAGE 5

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A group celebrates a victory after being helped by members of the Mississippi Innocence Project.

TEA Party Oxford discusses platform Parking on city’s mind

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Lee Habeeb, chief media officer for Forward Rebels and Salem Radio Network host, speaks at the TEA Party rally at the chancery court building in Oxford.

BY JOHN MCEACHIN jdmceach@gmail.com

The TEA Party of Oxford met Tuesday night at the Lafayette County Chancery Court Building to discuss political issues cropping up this election season.

The goup’s mission statement states the belief in a strict interpretation of the constitution, free enterprise, responsible management of the treasury, limited government, private property rights, border secu-

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rity, personal responsibility and a strong defense of American freedom.

“We are not part of any national group that we take directives from,” vice chair of the TEA Party of Oxford Ray Garrett said. “We are a purely local group of people that decided we needed to do something to work together to improve government at all levels –– local, state and federal.”

Kay Cobb, who is the chair of the TEA Party of Oxford was a Democrat turned Republican who started the TEA Party movement in Oxford.

“It’s a good group of people,”

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Cobb said. “We are not crazy; we are not idiots. We are not whatever adjectives that the media wants to put on us.”

She said they are simply a group of concerned people coming together to try and help the country, state and city.

The mission statement claims the TEA Party is trying to educate its citizens and to help save the nation from what they believe is the rise of socialism and “out of control spending and borrowing, oppressive taxes, intervention in free markets, attacks on true American values and limitations on individual rights.”

Lee Habeeb highlighted the night, discussing the Occupy Wall Street movement, a current protest group similar to the TEA Party.

Habeeb said the Occupy Wall Street movement is a fake movement, which is what he said the media called the TEA Party movement.

Habeeb also said he believes the media is treating the “fake” movement like a real movement, while also treating the TEA Party like a fake movement.

“I can promise you this, everywhere I go the TEA Party See TEA PARTY, PAGE 5

BY JOE SCOTT jwscott1.olemiss@gmail.com

The City of Oxford Planning Commission is working to clean up parking on the Square.

The Downtown Parking Advisory Commission, a project that the city has been working on for several months, is still in what some call the beta phase, as the ordinance for its creation had its first public hearing two weeks ago at the board of aldermen meeting.

The Downtown Parking Advisory Commission will be styled after the Stake Holder Committee created in Tacoma, Wash., to deal with fairly similar downtown parking issues.

The plan is to put the responsibility and power over decisions concerning parking into the hands of the community. The commission will have the ability to design parking structures, create rates for on and off street parking, contract private parking providers, and make suggestions to send to the board of aldermen for passing.

The commission will be formed by community members. The positions on the commission will be filled by different categories of the community, including representatives from the downtown merchants and from the city at large.

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The commission will report to the board of aldermen to make approvals on all of its decisions.

“While it’s important for this commission to help with the parking situation, it’s still important to make sure that the responsibility ends here,” Mayor George “Pat” Patterson said during the hearing referring to the aldermen.

Funds used by the Committee will be generated through the cost of parking fees and permits. The percent of revenue that will go back to the committee will be decided by the board of aldermen.

The committee’s funds will then go toward the creation of parking spaces and structures.

The committee’s funds will be considered separate from the city budget, while still being audited by city officials.

“I think it’s important to note that if this groups starts charging for premium parking, it’s really not to get revenue for the city, but to clear up parking,” Patterson said.

The city is taking this big step after several months of concern over the issue of parking.

“It’s all about managing resources,” said Tim Akers, planning commission advisor. “Before you can build more parking and construct more parking structures, you have to manage your resources.”

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BY ADAM GANUCHEAU aganucheau24@ gmail.com

In the midst of desperate campaigning for the upcoming presidential election, many of us have been sizing up potential candidates.

Right now, most Americans are thinking about qualifications, experience and leadership ability. As the next few months go on, we will start thinking about each candidate’s political agendas, platforms and beliefs.

That period of time is when things get overwhelmingly ridiculous.

People should vote for and support the candidate who is best qualified for the position. People should vote for the candidate who has comparable beliefs to their own. As any grandmother has told her grandchildren,

“Just because it should happen doesn’t mean it will.”

In America today, we are far too concerned with what we are expected to believe rather than what we should believe. The reason for this: political parties.

Political parties existed before our country was created. Political parties can be traced back as far as mankind has inhabited the earth. The partisan system in America has been used effectively for a long time.

Political parties are not exactly the problem, though. The problem is that we are so adamant about the beliefs of the parties that we associate ourselves with.

Up until very recently, I considered myself a Republican. There are several reasons for my association with that party. I was raised in a conservative household, I was raised in small-town Mississippi, and I went to a small private school in a very rural area.

After being in Oxford for a while, I have started to change my political views.

I have challenged myself and pondered some questions about my political beliefs. Why am I pressured into believing what I believe because of the party I am associated with?

Not only did I find that I had a personal struggle going on with myself, but I also found that I might actually

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be hurting this country that I love so much.

Before, I would write off any candidate who was associated with a different party just because they were a Democrat.

Never mind the fact that they could have taken comparable stances on certain things that I agree with. Never mind the fact that they could have been more qualified than the person I supported.

This is one of the many things that are wrong with our country today.

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Anwar and peace Why I chose Teach for America

BY ALAN-MICHAEL WHITE alanmichael.white@gmail.com

For those unaware of recent events, Sept. 30 a terrorist died in Yemen, killed by a predator drone on the order of President Barack Obama.

Normally this wouldn’t really register with us; as a society we’ve become desensitized to the loss of life. Plus, after all, this was one of the bad guys – why do we care? Because the terrorist, Anwar al-Awlaki, was a United States citizen.

A very compelling argument can be made against this decision. Does the government have the right to kill its citizens?

There aren’t any easy answers to this question. We kill criminals in some states for the murder of others. While the states themselves are committing those actions, they do reflect upon us as a civilization.

This isn’t a perfect example.

After all, even Texas gives its mentally deficient killers a trial to ensure their guilt. Anwar alAwlaki most certainly was never brought to trial for his actions, which include conspiring with Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Malik Hasan and the infamous Underwear Bomber.

There is another comparison to be made, however. In some situations, police forces may be forced to kill a perpetrator who poses a threat to the wellbeing of the general populace.

While the ethics of this action are equally fuzzy, they do set precedent for this action.

Sure, it’s not the police force taking down an armed bank robber or a drug lord, but it’s not too much of a stretch to say that the federal government can’t kill its own citizens when

they are threatening the safety of other citizens. This isn’t the first time.

President Lincoln maintained that the Confederacy was a made-up idea and that its members were U.S. citizens.

During prohibition, several U.S. citizens, who were, incidentally, gangsters, were listed as public enemies with the order to be shot on sight.

Still, is it moral?

Well, morality is sort of a subjective concept. Actions can be, at once, moral and immoral.

All human life has value, certainly, and shouldn’t be extinguished at the whim of anyone, no matter who they are. Some individuals are a threat to other people and if they cannot be brought to justice, may have to be brought to an end.

Without a trial, it can’t be said for certain that Anwar alAwlaki was directly involved in the deaths of anyone, American or otherwise. But evidence entered into the trial of Nidal Malik Hasan would suggest he did have a role in supporting the deaths of American citizens, at least the ones at Fort Hood. This may not make the killing justified, but it does make it understandable and it does appear to be in the best interest of the nation.

Morality, even killing, is not so cut and dry as we would like to believe. Not to make a utilitarian argument, necessarily, because the ends don’t justify the means. It’s a loss of life as bad as any, an act of evil, to kill even a terrorist. Unlike the old sayings we’re taught as children, two wrongs can make a right.

The lives saved are a net plus for our society, and for that, I’m thankful.

Alan-Michael White is a senior English major and linguistics minor from Dumas. Follow him on Twitter @nintfjr.

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Arianna entered my sixthgrade math classroom struggling with simple, basic computation, doing math on a second-grade level.

Although her struggles sometimes discouraged her, I knew that she was eager to be challenged. Each day she began class wide-eyed, notepaper on desk and pencil in hand, but by the end of class she was withdrawn and defeated, no matter how much she tried to master the sixth-grade concepts. It was obvious that low achievement had defined her in elementary school, even though she brought high hopes to middle school.

Arianna’s story is all too common among students growing up in low-income communities.

When kids growing up in poverty enter kindergarten, they are already academically behind their wealthier peers. This gap in educational opportunity only widens over time. By the fourth grade, they are three grade levels behind and half won’t graduate from high school. Only one in 10 will attend college, and for those lacking a college degree, many doors are firmly shut.

As a senior at Ole Miss and a native Mississippian, learning about the achievement gap greatly unsettled me.

At Ole Miss I had access to a first-class college education, while just a few miles away in the

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we fail to realize the real reason our country is a democratic republic.

We have the duty to choose the best leaders for our country, and we fail to do so every election cycle because of political

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Mississippi Delta, kids were falling further and further behind academically. The entrepreneurial Ole Miss spirit inside of me wouldn’t tolerate this inequity — I had to find a way to help expand educational opportunity for children growing up in poverty. That’s why I joined Teach For America and became a sixthgrade math teacher in Charlotte, N.C. My time at Ole Miss proved invaluable in shaping who I would be as a leader in the classroom, an encourager, a fighter of apathy, an advocate for my students and ultimately, someone who deeply believed in educational excellence for all children. It has provided me a launching pad to fulfilling and meaningful work.

And now, I’m getting the chance to partner with others across classrooms and in my community to help a new generation of students have the same opportunities I had.

My students in Charlotte faced many additional challenges of poverty, but they’ve shown me that with dedication and hard work from both myself and them, they could overcome almost anything.

After years and years of low expectations for Arianna, the time had come for her to know that if she didn’t “get it,” it was not going to be OK until she did “get it.”

Once separated from her rambunctious, boy-crazy friends, she stood out in my class as a student who would excel to great heights

if given the proper environment and additional opportunity for study. Out of all 75 of my students, Arianna grew the most — 3.5 years of growth in just one academic year.

For too long, one’s zip code has defined destiny. But we know that with an all-hands-on-deck approach, educational inequity is a solvable problem. With the commitment of educators and leaders across all sectors, we can give all of our children an excellent education.

While Teach For America members start by making a twoyear commitment, the experience has a lasting impact. As members of a broader community, my fellow TFA alumni and I are working with other teachers, parents, administrators, community members and policymakers in the pursuit of excellence for all students.

I know the difference I made in the lives of my students, and I know the transformational impact the experience had on me.

Knowing that we can close the achievement gap, I simply can’t walk away from this work. As you think about the role you will play in the broader world upon graduation, I hope you will consider joining me in these efforts.

I encourage you to apply to join our movement to give all students an excellent education by Oct. 26.

parties.

Instead of focusing so much on what your party and cable news stations want you to believe, focus on the actual candidates. Cover up the party affiliation of the candidates, and read the platforms and agendas.

If you ask me what party I’m affiliated with, I won’t give you an answer. That might not necessarily be the American way of

thinking, but that is fine by me. I will take pride in knowing I voted for the person I think is best for America.

To be honest, we could all use a little more pride in our country.

Erika Berry is a 2008 Ole Miss graduate. She is also a former vice-president of the Associated Student Body.

Adam Ganucheau is a sophomore journalism major from Hazlehurst.

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Amendments being discussed for city taxi ordinance

BY ROSS CABELL rsscabell@gmail.com

Students who use the many taxi services provided in Oxford may see some changes in the months to come.

The Board of Aldermen held a public reading Tuesday on eight new amendments to the city taxi ordinance.

This could make it harder for new taxi companies to open shop in Oxford.

“We’ve got to clean up our act here,” Mayor Pat Patterson said. “I mean, I hate regulation but this is too important.

If you ask me if I would rather not have the taxis then them not have the insurance.”

One of the other changes proposed that could have the biggest impact on students at the University of Mississippi is a $10 maximum fare for all taxi companies.

James Howard Evans, junior pre-med and classics major, said he thinks having a $10 maximum fare is a good idea, something that really helps out college students who may not be able to fork over as much money as Oxford residents.

“For all of the students living in housing off campus, like on Old Taylor, I think a set price of $10 would be fair for most,” he said. “I feel like for some people who live close enough to walk, they shouldn’t have to pay $10. I think that they should have to define the threshold.”

Hayden King, senior business administration major, disagrees with Evans.

“Last time I was in a taxi, they charged me $5; I could understand charging $10 if you’re the only person in the taxi, but if it’s a full cab, I think it should be around $5 per person,” King said.

Louis Brummet, owner of Hotty Toddy Taxi, agrees with King. Brummet said he believes the city should not be able to regulate prices and that the choice should be up to the customer as to how much or how little they should pay.

“Having a maximum $10 fare for all taxis is a restriction of trade,” he said.

“That would be the same thing as if one store can only charge $5 and Walmart having to do the same. If you want to

spend $10 for a T-shirt and Ole Miss Apparel is charging $45, it is your option for what you want to buy.”

Brittany Grissett, a senior communications disorder major, believes there are both pros and cons to having a set fare.

“As for students and others using cabs, they won’t have to worry about paying too much for a safe ride home,” she said.

“I feel like this could be a bad thing for the drivers though; they could not be getting as much for their service.”

Raising the liability insurance rates is another big issue for cab companies in Oxford.

The state requires $10,000 per person and $20,000 for the total accident.

The amendment states that the minimum for liability insurance for taxi drivers in Oxford could be $100,000 per person and $350,000 for total damage, making it the highest in the state.

Brummet said having higher liability insurance coupled with a maximum fare rate of $10 would have a large impact on the smaller cab companies,

possibly putting them out of business.

This would leave the larger taxi companies with too many customers and not enough taxis, which in turn would directly affect students at Ole Miss.

“The minimum is to protect taxi companies,” he said.

“I don’t think they should exceed to the point over the state requirement; no matter how much it costs for a wreck, you wouldn’t have enough.”

Evans thinks this could be a positive outcome for students looking for the safest ride home.

“I think that it is a good thing that the city would make them accountable for the same amount,” he said.

“If all of the taxi companies charge the same price, then the customers can figure out which company has the best liability insurance.”

“Everything is more expensive here in Oxford,” King said. “But I think having to pay more on liability insurance is ridiculous.”

Taxi companies would also have to have their company

logo permanently displayed or magnetically fixed to both sides of the cab and must be visible from 75 feet.

This is to prevent the use of shoe polish on the windows of cars advertising as cabs.

“Being a taxi driver is what some people do for a living, and when you have guys chalking up the cars, passing off as taxi companies, it takes away from what some people do for a living,” Grissett said.

“I do not agree with people painting on windshields,” Brummet said.

“If you are a legitimate taxi, you need to go and get a sign.

I have seen people get magnetic signs and not approach the city with business plans.

Everybody needs to register vehicles with the city.”

The taxi services in Oxford provide students with a better alternative to get home, preventing driving under the influence or worrying about having to walk home late at night.

“People do need to get home, and the taxi is great option available to them,” Evans said.

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movement is alive, strong, and ready to cease action again in 2012,” Habeeb said.

When asked if the party endorsed a presidential candidate for the 2012 election, Habeeb said they do not endorse anyone.

Gary Morris is one of the approximately 75 citizens who showed up to the meeting.

“We’re getting away from our constitution,” Morris said. “It’s not taught.”

“I have nine grandchildren, and something has got to be done with this country for our futures, for their futures.”

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The Ole Miss Bookstore has been praised and shunned by students recently, but until yesterday students had no way to express their feelings about the establishment other than old-fashioned complaining to the manager.

Ole Miss Bookstore brand ambassador Ashley D. Ball was in the bookstore Monday offering students a chance to get a free cup of coffee, while voicing their opinions about the bookstore at the same time.

“We want to change the perception people have of the bookstore here,” she said.

Ball works for a marketing company out of New York called Mr Youth, which was chosen to represent Barnes & Noble on college campuses.

She said all suggestions and comments would be typed and sent to Mr Youth and then to Barnes & Noble for review to let the company know what students thought about its bookstores.

“We don’t want to be a bookstore ally; we want to be an academic ally for you, a friend, in a sense,” Ball said.

Some students are OK with the bookstore as is, including freshman Chinese major Sharon Miller.

news brief Retrial date for former UM student charged in student death rescheduled The retrial date for former University of Mississippi student David Jackson Williams has been rescheduled for February 2012, according to the office of the Lafayette County circuit court clerk.

Originally scheduled for Oct. 17, the retrial date was moved after the court issued an order of continuance.

The continuance was ordered due to the late disclosure of information to the defense, according to William’s Oxford-based defense attorney David Hill.

Williams was originally convicted of the murder of Demetria Bracey, of Jackson, in November 2007 and sentenced by Lafayette County Circuit Court Judge Andrew Howorth to life in prison.

However, the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned Williams’ conviction and ordered a retrial in November 2010, citing significant trial errors as reason for the reversal of Williams’ conviction and the order for a new trial.

Williams steadfastly maintains his innocence in regard to the murder accusation, according to Hill.

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Students check out at Barnes and Noble in the Union. Barnes and Noble held a raffle when students gave suggestions on how they could improve the store.

“I love the bookstore; it’s where I come in between classes when I have a break to just kind of hang out,” Miller said.

Other students haven’t had such an enjoyable time in the campus bookstore.

Brittany Kelsey, a junior radiology tech major, said the bookstore has done a good job since she started school, but she wishes the staff would lighten up.

“I got in trouble the other day for looking in a magazine before

paying for it,” she said.

Miller said the only complaints she had were that sometimes the outside noise gets in and there aren’t enough comfortable chairs.

Ball said Barnes & Noble is trying its best to let students know that the bookstore cares about them.

Ball is in her last semester as brand ambassador and encourages anyone who is interested in taking her place to email her at adball@olemiss.edu for more details.

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years to complete. The project was finished in November 2010.

Harper discussed the importance of Mississippians being the ones to make the project.

“It’s important in that we’re the ones doing it here, whether it’s our own projects or with students who work with us for the classes that we teach,” Harper said. “It’s important for us to learn to be able to tell our own stories.”

Joanna Satcher, a third-year law student who is part of MIP, said she was amazed at how flawed the criminal justice system was when she saw the documentary. “(The film) made me more aware of potentially how many innocent people are actually serving time because of lack of sufficient evidence, or incompetent counsel, or for whatever reason,” she said.

Former law student Tiffany Speegle, now a research assistant who manages MIP’s cases, helped organize the premiere showing of the Oxford Film Festival this past February.

“I was impressed first of all with the quality of the movie,” she said. “(York) just did a really great job. It looked really professional. It looked like Hollywood studio quality made for TV journalism.”

The film will run at 5:30 p.m. with a discussion afterward featuring national journalists, lawyers and Carrington himself.

“From a perspective of the innocence project movie, it’s a really outstanding film, and it’s about exoneration,” Gershon said.

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decided he wanted to create a documentary about the Brooks and Brewer cases, so for guidance he went to Joe York, who works in the media and documentary projects department at Ole Miss.

York ultimately produced the film.

“This story of what happened had not been adequately told, and I thought that Joe might be able to help better tell a story that I thought needed telling,” Carrington said.

Normally, York works with Southern Foodway Alliance to make documentaries on food.

When Carrington told him about the two cases, York joined forces with him to produce the MIP documentary.

It took only four people to make the film, York said. While Carrington educated York on the case, Andy Harper, director of media and documentary projects, served as the executive producer of the documentary. Carol Mockbee acted as the managing producer, and Slade Lewis, a local musician, wrote and performed the entire musical score for the film.

“I can’t think of any more lifechanging result to work that’s gone on at the university than that right there,” York said.

The 60-minute film cost approximately $25,000 to produce and took about two-and-a-half

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‘Booty Drop’ now open to UM students

BY CAITLIN CLANCY cgclancy3@gmail.com

Kevin Lance, a junior at the University of Maryland, and Matthew Weaver, a junior at the University of Indiana, launched Booty Drop, a website where college students can anonymously post humorous hook-up experiences.

The website combines hookups with gossip and is composed entirely of usergenerated content.

Students at colleges around the country can anonymously post, comment and rate their fellow students’ tales of victory and woe, as either “Bootylicious” or a “Booty Fail.”

The idea for Booty Drop

began with a rap song.

“Matthew and I were fooling around one day thinking of a funny rap we could write when the name ‘Booty Drop’ popped into our heads,” Lance said. “However, we soon realized that with a name like Booty Drop, we could do a whole lot more.”

The planning process for Booty Drop began in February, and the website launched on Aug. 8.

Initially, Lance and Weaver purchased the site in case they decided to pursue the idea of posting a funny rap song online.

The domain was already owned by someone as a parked domain, but they were able to

negotiate the domain.

“After studying in college for a year, it was pretty obvious that one thing on everyone’s mind was hooking up,” Weaver said. “People love talking about hookups, plain and simple.”

Other websites like Texts From Last Night, College ACB and the defunct On Campus Drama are also aimed toward college students, but have some downsides.

Texts From Last Night lacks the details that usually make these types of stories funny, and websites like College ACB are known to damage or ruin students’ reputations because anyone can go on and post.

The goal of Booty Drop is the opposite, which is why the website is completely anonymous. Only college students can post on the site by registering their university email address.

An email is sent after they have registered with a randomly generated user ID and changeable password. This way, it is impossible for anyone to trace a post back to the user.

“We knew there was a niche in the market for a website like ours, a place where college students could anonymously post their humorous hook-up stories,” Lance said. “The key to success for our site lies in anonymity, both from the user posting and to the person being talked about.”

To start off, Lance and Weaver decided to keep the website within the ACC, Big 10 and SEC, but the site will continue to grow based on which schools have the most site traffic and student demand.

Although they do wish to reach schools nationwide, the co-founders feel that if they released the site to every school, it would become too difficult to advertise.

Most of the site’s advertising is built around social networking like Facebook advertisements and Word of Mouth, and the pair also get the word out by chalking on sidewalks at their own schools about BootyDrop.

Debora Wenger, associate journalism professor at the University of Mississippi, dis-

cussed how useful these tools of social media can be to a website like BootyDrop, and to our generation in general.

“I think this is a good example of how quickly a new product or new company can get their message out to the general public,” she said.

“Anyone with a good idea in this day and age is able to more quickly reach a much larger audience because of the ease and low cost of using social media.”

The website’s revenue is based completely on advertisements, and a company out of St. Louis called Insite Advice, LLC, is in charge of the web design for Booty Drop.

Since the launching of BootyDrop, the website has received over 70,000 page views, with registers from nearly every school in the ACC, Big 10 and SEC. Weaver hopes the success of the website will continue and more people from all the invited universities will join Booty Drop.

“While we have had some early success, we eagerly look toward the future with the hope that many more Booty Droppers will soon join the ranks,” he said.

Plans for the future of Booty Drop also include an iPhone and Android application.

Wenger is not sure that the company will succeed.

“If the creators of this website find additional information people might find useful and if they branch out in some way to offer another social media aspect or tool, it is possible for the website to succeed,” she said. “I don’t think this content alone will be enough to make it long term, however.”

The founders said the website is purely meant for humor and to be a place where college students can take a break from their hectic lives and laugh a little.

“We feel that BootyDrop. com really finds the middle ground for a college website,” Lance said.

“People love talking about their sexcapades, and we are a website where you can talk about this knowing that it is not going to come back to haunt you.”

Lamar proposes change in billboard advertisement

BY JOE SCOTT jwscott1.olemiss@gmail.com

Lamar Advertising Company took a shot at changing the ad business in Oxford at last night’s Board of Alderman meeting.

Lamar Advertising made a presentation to the Board for a new way to do billboard advertising in Oxford, and make an adjustment to the city’s advertising ordinance.

The idea is to replace all traditional billboards within city limits, with fewer digital billboards that could display multiple advertisements on one face.

The current proposal includes tearing down Oxford’s 11 current billboards and add construct 4 digital billboards to replace them.

The change in road advertising media comes with the requirement that the city changes its ordinance on advertising to allow the hightech boards.

This is leaving a lot of debate over legalities as the city’s lawyers voiced concerns over letting an independent company influence city law.

The idea comes from a great deal of work that Lamar Advertising has been doing for other Mississippi cities such as Ridgeland, Tupelo and Madison.

Lamar has switched plenty of other cities to digital and have presented Oxford with numerous options and opportunities for conversion.

Lamar Advertising also said that the digital billboards will be available for usage by the city and by charitable organizations for no charge.

There was a lengthy debate at the meeting concerning the safety of the billboards.

The board stressed that they must be sure that the digital billboards will not be distracting or dangerous for Oxford drivers.

The company insisted in the presentation that the company is up for compromise and is eager for a continued discussion on the initiative.

“This will be good to discuss in the future and we’ll see where it leads.” Mayor “Pat” Patterson said.

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University of Mississippi journalism professor Robin Street came up with the idea to host an event to celebrate minorities in race, ethnic origin, disability and sexual orientation in April, while also shedding light on bullying.

That event was Diversity Rocks.

On Oct. 5, Diversity Rocks won “Best in Show” from the Southern Public Relations Federation (SPRF) at the yearly Lantern competition, which recognizes the best professional work from public relations professionals in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Street and 14 of her students created a multimedia campaign at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media.

“What Robin and the students did was use a full complement of communications tools and programs to teach us to celebrate diversity as a strengthening force,” Meek School Dean Will Norton Jr. said.

Diversity Rocks won the first place “Lantern” in the Internal PR Campaigns category, as well as Best in Show, beating 200 entries in 81 categories.

“This was the first entry I have ever seen that received two perfect scores from two different panels of judges,” said Ron Barnes, SPRF Lantern Awards chairman. “The people of Mississippi should be very proud of the students and faculty of the University of Mississippi Meek School of Journalism and New Media for this outstanding accomplishment.”

Street was not only thrilled that she and her students were able to compete and win against professionals with years of experience, but she was also proud to be able to shed light on a cause that was very personal to her.

“I had the idea for Diversity Rocks after learning about several young gay men nationally who killed themselves after being bul-

lied,” she said. “I also wanted to do something to honor my father, George Street, for whom racial reconciliation had been a critical issue in the last years of his life. So I thought of a campaign to promote acceptance of all minorities among our journalism students.”

In an interview with The Daily Mississippian on April 24, Street said, “I’m also doing it in honor of three people I love: the AfricanAmerican woman, Virginia Taylor, who helped raise me, my son, Brennan O’Dell, who is gay, and my father, George Street.”

Street and Meek School videographer Mykki Newton also won an award of achievement in the public service announcement category for the PSAs produced for the campaign featuring Shephard Smith, Kentrell Lockett and Zach Graham.

Street won awards in achievement and excellence in the public relations writing category, as well.

In the prolific fashionoriented movie “The Devil Wears Prada,” Nigel, the art director of Runway magazine, declares that “(Fashion is) greater than art because you live your life in it.”

What are the truths in this statement?

First of all, fashion is an art form — it is part of our expressive culture as human beings.

It is impossible to make a clothing decision that “exempts you from the fashion world” (as declared by Miranda in the aforementioned film).

Being fashionable is a declaration of power and control over one’s own presence.

However, being fashionable is a vague term — there is not one look, one outfit, one attitude or one set of standards that will garner fashion success.

In fact, there are many.

As there are surfeits of colors, cuts and styles to choose from when selecting a garment, there are multiple ways to combine garments that express a unique vision.

Presentation is key.

One of the significant ideas to be known about being the all-desired, “mega-meaning” term “fashionable” is to find a style that is unique to the individual.

Satisfaction and comfort

in your clothing and in your overall look are central elements in being able to not allow one’s clothes to dictate one’s feelings and actions.

Yes! Clothing is that powerful; it can dictate mood and even attitude.

Depart from the basics (dull colors can make one feel gloomy and bright colors can have the opposite effect); there are essentials in an outfit that can lead to improved mood and the ability to project confidence.

However, not one of these “basics” is universal, as everyone is different in their attitudes and interpretations of personal style.

These “basics” can range from appropriate fit and comfort to fashion forward and in vogue.

When applying for a job, going on a date or simply walking to class, fashion decisions have to be made.

Unless one defines oneself as a nudist, it is impossible to avoid such decisions, and the key is to know how to make such decisions effectively in regard to the situation and to what makes one feel at his or her best.

Clothing makes a statement.

It can reveal a number of things about a person: attitude, personality, tendency to conform, style and taste.

Therefore, it is important to consider such things when deciding what to wear.

What defines simply wearing a number of clothes, as opposed to presenting an outfit of artistic fashion, is how one utilizes garments to effectively present a unified look, which can lead to a cohesive identity.

Fashion is all about choice, and while this can be an exciting realm of decision, it can also be daunting.

The best choice is to take a risk while maintaining the attitude one wants to embody.

Furthermore, a powerful principle of fashion is the element of surprise.

Often, people get into a rut concerning their wardrobe and in their lives in general; they are predictable.

Predictable is safe and often boring.

Sometimes taking a risk — going against your own comfort level or against conformity — can reveal a new aspect of one’s character.

And, in the process, it could reveal unanticipated facts about a person, even to him or herself.

Be bold, but do not forget your identity.

Every garment and every decision one makes can slowly develop personality and uniqueness.

However, if abiding by conformity or against one’s vision, this can lead to losing oneself and, in turn, buttressing the concept of one allowing one’s clothes to be in charge.

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BY JOSH PRESLEY joshpresley@hotmail.com

Confession: I’ve never seen the original “Footloose,” so I walked into the remake with a clean slate.

I was even prepared to like it just fine because occasionally I enjoy feel-good movies where singing and dancing solve all the world’s problems.

If “Footloose” had just stuck with that idea, it might have been a good movie, or at least a passable one.

In “Footloose,” a teenager from Boston named Ren moves to a town down South where they don’t allow dancing because a few years back five teenagers were killed after a night of lewd and lascivious gyrating.

Obviously, it was the dancing that killed them.

Those hedonistic “young’uns” danced their way right into the path of an oncoming truck.

It wasn’t the alcohol or general lack of awareness on the road that teenagers can have.

It was the dancing.

Sorry, sarcasm overload.

I hate to harp on it, but this isn’t the ‘50s. It’s completely unbelievable that a town could ban rock ‘n’ roll and dancing in 2011.

Taking over for Kevin Bacon, Ren is played by Kenny Wormald doing his best (or worst) Mark Wahlberg impression.

Due to plot convenience, Wormald is kind of great at everything.

He “MacGuyvers” a completely broken-down old junker into a sweet ride with a dope sound system in the span of an afternoon, thanks to a little montage action.

He can outrun everyone on the track team. He has mastered the art of gymnastics.

All the ladies think he’s pretty

rad.

His greatest quality, however, is that he can dance. And not just that back and forth shuffle we stereotypical white guys always do. He dances like those people in “You Got Served” and “Step Up” and “Step Up 2: The Streets” and probably a bunch of other movies I don’t hate myself enough to have seen.

Ren must use the power of his dancing and rally the other high school kids to put an end to the town’s oppressive laws.

Now all snark aside, the dancing in this movie is pretty acrobatic and spectacular to watch, though it is completely preposterous that all the students at this high school are apparently professional dancers.

I even agree with Ren’s reasoning as to why dancing is a pure and good thing. Again, if the movie had just been about that, it could have been OK. The problem is that “Footloose” doesn’t know what it wants to be.

In any given scene it can switch from feel-good teen comedy to a fish-out-of-water story to an after-school special to soap opera to Lifetime original movie to left-wing propaganda to right-wing propaganda to goofy to sentimental to dark and back again.

It succeeds at none of those things.

Add to this a fair amount of scenes that are completely inane and pointless, and you start to realize the movie just doesn’t know what to do with itself when characters aren’t dancing.

Speaking of characters, the supporting cast is hit or miss, and the often groan-inducing dialogue doesn’t help much.

Julianne Hough, from “Dancing with the Stars,” plays Ren’s love interest, preacher’s daughter and all-around bad

girl.

If they gave Academy Awards for the ability to wear tight jeans, Hough would win and be the first runner up, too.

But because they don’t, I don’t see her winning one anytime in the near future.

Dennis Quaid is completely wasted here as the ultra-conservative preacher. He is just too nice, and you know from the moment you see him that eventually he’ll come around and let them dance.

Miles Teller is fun as Ren’s friend Willard, despite the fact that he plays the dumb Southern stereotype. He’s likeable and the montage (seriously, there’s probably five of them in the movie) where he learns how to dance is one of the most enjoyable things here.

The highlight of the supporting cast is Ray McKinnon (“The Blind Side,” “Sons of Anarchy”) who plays Ren’s uncle as a small-town Southern man who is both open-minded and, gasp, tolerant. He also has a fairly funny speech on why you can’t buy beer on Sunday in his town.

Fortunately, the movie keeps most of the songs from the original.

Unfortunately, they are all cover versions by popular country artists. Blake Shelton’s rendition of the title track is so similar to the original that you wonder why they even bothered.

Is Kenny Loggins not cool enough for kids these days?

His version is played at the beginning, at least.

So what we’re left with is a movie that tries to wear too many hats, and none of them fit. They’re all too loose.

Foot loose.

Somebody should’ve cut “Footloose.”

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Ole Miss football midseason review: Offense

BY BENNETT HIPP jbhipp@olemiss.edu

Quarterbacks: Through six games, Ole Miss has started three different quarterbacks, which is never a good thing. Junior Randall Mackey was in line to open the season as the starter, but was suspended for that game against BYU. He played parts of games against Southern Illinois, Vanderbilt and Georgia before earning the first start of his career against Fresno State, where he played well. He struggled this past week against Alabama, and he has plenty of areas to improve as the Rebels start the second half of the season.

Junior Zack Stoudt is probably the best fit for what Ole Miss wants to do on offense, but the Rebels’ offensive line struggles to block well enough for a traditional drop-back passer like Stoudt, so he has moved to being the backup after starting four games.

Sophomore Barry Brunetti started the game against BYU,

attempted three passes and was benched late in the second quarter. It’s hard not to wonder why Ole Miss didn’t redshirt him this season. The Rebels badly need consistent play at the position for the rest of the season.

Running backs: Injuries and ineffectiveness have ruled the Ole Miss backfield so far in 2011. Senior Brandon Bolden has recovered from a broken bone in his ankle but was suspended for last week’s game against Alabama for a violation of team rules. Bolden is back from suspension and looks to build off his performance against Fresno State a couple of weeks ago in which he ran for 43 yards and two touchdowns. In Bolden’s absence, sophomore Jeff Scott stepped up and showed how much he has improved from a year ago. Scott ran for career-high 138 yards and two touchdowns in the Rebels’ win over Fresno State. He has, however, struggled in Southeastern Conference play. Senior Enrique Davis was injured last in the

game against BYU and missed three games. On Saturday, he carried the ball seven times for negative yards. For the season, he has 23 yards on 20 carries and has been largely ineffective in his return.

Wide Receivers/Tight Ends: The Rebels signed a large group of talented receivers in February, and that signing class is already paying big dividends at the halfway point of the season. Freshman Nickolas Brassell has flashed game-breaking ability, averaging almost 25 yards per reception and scoring the Rebels’ only touchdown against Georgia on a punt return. Fellow freshman Donte Moncrief has done the same, elevating himself into a starting role and averaging over 20 yards per catch, to go along with two receiving touchdowns for the year.

Sophomore Ja-Mes Logan leads the Rebels with 16 catches for 229 yards but hasn’t found the end zone through six games

this season. Junior Melvin Harris was kicked off the team Monday for a violation of team rules. Junior tight ends Jamal Mosley and Ferbia Allen have a combined nine catches for 87 yards, and Mosley also had a touchdown catch against Southern Illinois.

This unit has been successful to the halfway point this season, but much of its success going forward is tied to the quarterback play.

Offensive Line: Before the season, the offensive line was projected to be the strength on the Ole Miss offense.

After six games, it has been the exact opposite. Offensive tackles Bradley Sowell and Bobby Massie have struggled in pass protection, and the line, as a whole, has struggled to open running lanes for the Rebels’ running backs.

Battles continue to go on at the left guard spots between sophomore Patrick Junen and freshman Aaron Morris while sophomore Evan Swindall got the start at center against Alabama in the place of suspended junior A.J.

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Junior quarterback Randall Mackey hands the ball off to sophomore running back Jeff Scott in Saturday’s 52-7 loss to Alabama.

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back,” he said. “When we go team drills, I’ll go half with the offense and half with the defense. Defense is really just natural to me, but I still get a lot of work in on it.”

Although he is just a freshman, Brassell expected to play both ways from the very beginning.

“A lot of schools recruited me asking if I wanted to play receiver or defensive back,” he said. “So, I had a feeling I would have to do both. You just have to want it. I never want to come off the field.”

Now that it appears the cornerback position has dwindled to just a few remaining contributors, Brassell is confident those remaining guys can get the job done.

“It’s just really a team thing,” he said. “Everybody has to stay together as one. We got to do what we got to do to make it to a bowl game.”

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In Saturday’s 52-7 drumming by the Alabama Crimson Tide, Ole Miss also lost the services of senior cornerback Marcus Temple for the remainder of the season.

Filling in for Temple, who had totaled 28 tackles, two interceptions and one sack before suffering a season-ending right ankle injury, will be freshman two-way player Nickolas Brassell and freshman cornerback Senquez Golson.

“He’s a captain and really one of the best corners we’ve got,” Golson said. “His passion for the game, the way he played and the way he carried himself – I looked at him as a leader.

“It hurt me to see him go down.”

The two freshmen know they will need to elevate their level of play to fill in for their injured senior leader.

“There can’t be any pressure,” Golson said. “It’s just time to step up and play. I’ve got a week to get ready. I was out there for a couple of quarters this week. It was a good experience. Hopefully, I can turn it around.”

Golson turned down a significant offer to play professional baseball with the Boston Red Sox to play both football and baseball at Ole Miss, and now, he will need

to contribute in a big way.

The Pascagoula native saw more action in Saturday’s game, and he recorded one tackle. However, Golson was also burned by Heisman Trophy candidate Trent Richardson, and he knows he needs to do better.

“Not good at all,” he said of his performance Saturday. “You live and you learn. Hopefully, I can bounce back. I don’t have my head down about nothing. I’ll just come out and compete again. I think I need to be more aggressive. (I need to) play loose, play my game.

“The way I played against Alabama wasn’t me. I was kind of tight, so hopefully, I can loosen up.”

Junior cornerback Wesley Pendleton, whose role will also expand with the injury to Temple, knows Golson will bounce back from last weekend’s struggles.

“What happened Saturday really hurt him,” Pendleton said.

“You can really see he’s trying to do better. He’s not taking any lazy steps.”

As for Pendleton, who will start opposite either sophomore Charles Sawyer, who may move from safety, Golson or Brassell, he knows there will be pressure on his unit, especially this Saturday against Arkansas’ potent offense.

“We have a lot of pressure,” he

said. “So we just have to work. It’s going to be like the spring. “(Arkansas’) got a lot of great receivers, so we just have work and disguise some stuff – try to trick them into some mistakes.”

Brassell’s role will undoubtedly be expanded on the defensive side of the ball in Temple’s absence, but head coach Houston Nutt wants to make sure they are not asking too much of the South Panola product. According to Brassell, he can handle whatever the coaches ask of him.

“You feel like when you want to be one of the best guys, you never want to come off the field,” he said. “That’s how I feel. Whatever the coaches ask me to do, whatever position I need to do, I’ll go out there and do it. It’s just competing.”

So far this season, Brassell has done just that. Defensively, he has totaled nine tackles and broken up three passes, while on the other side of the ball, he has caught eight passes for 199 yards and rushed for 41 yards on seven carries.

During the week, Brassell does the best he can practicing on both sides of the ball. “(I practice) mostly just offense – trying to learn the routes and getting the timing with the quarterSee CORNERS, PAGE 11