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Listen to Dex: ‘Don’t text and drive if you want to stay alive.’

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Many students endanger themselves and others by texting while driving. Nearly half of all people polled by The Daily Mississippian text while driving.

BY LEE HARRIS ltharri1@olemiss.edu

The Ole Miss student body seems to have missed Dexter

McCluster’s plea to not text and drive.

A recent poll conducted by The Daily Mississippian found that nearly half of all respon-

dents text while driving, an additional 24 percent only text at stop lights and another 24 percent talk on the phone but don’t text. Only 6 percent

of those polled do not use a cell phone at all while driving.

There were 123 respondents to the poll.

Most students seem to acknowledge the dangers inherent with distracted driving, but many are still comfortable enough to do it anyway.

“It’s very dangerous,” managerial finance senior Bo Windham said. “I text and drive more often than I should, but I try to do it when I know that there are no cars around me for a few hundred yards.”

Some students, such as Windham, said they use different tactics to minimize the risk involved with texting and driving. Ann Atkinson, an accountancy senior from Memphis, said she also tries to be careful about when or where she does text.

“I try to just do it at stop signs and stop lights,” she said. “But when I am driving, I definitely don’t look down for more than a second.”

Despite the efforts by students to be careful about texting while driving, studies have shown that texting invariably

lowers the ability of drivers to cope with encounters on the road.

One such study, by the Texas Institute of Transportation, found drivers’ reaction times slowed from one to two seconds to more than three to four seconds. At highway speeds, two and a half seconds is enough for a car to travel the length of a football field without the driver ever looking up. Another study taken

by Car and Driver Magazine found that individuals who text while driving have slower reaction times than drivers who are legally drunk.

It is findings like these that have caught the attention of Mississippi State Representative Tommy Reynolds.

Reynolds, who has served in the Mississippi Legislature since 1980, said the evidence suggests a need for legislation to prevent drivers from texting and driving in Mississippi.

“I think it’s something that we’re going to have to try to address,” he said. “We’re goSee TEXTING, PAGE 4

Oxford Fire Department enforces occupancy load checks

BY KATHRYN WINTER kathryn.winter2011@gmail.com

The overcrowding in bars, restaurants and hotels during the University of Mississippi football season has the Oxford Fire Department concerned about the city breaking fire codes.

The OFD serves approximately 19,000 Oxford residents and 14,000 Ole Miss students on campus, according to Oxford’s website.

Fire Chief Mike Hill said the department has been conducting occupancy load checks on various locations.

“We’ve been doing occupancy load checks recently, and obviously you don’t want to overcrowd because that’s how people get killed,” he said. “Businesses and mercantile have a large group of people that assemble there, so

inside

they have a chance for a large loss of life.”

Every business, assembly or mercantile has a certain number of people that can be in there at once, which is known as an occupancy load and is determined by the fire department.

Hill said there is a difference between occupancy load checks and fire code inspections.

“We do fire code inspections once a year, where we go into businesses and look at their electrical wall coverings and make sure their sprinkler systems are up to date,” he said.

“I don’t go into a place and decide how many people can be in there; it’s all based on math. You measure your business and how big it is and how many net square feet you have in that space, and you divide by a predetermined number in our code books.”

An event that changed fire code and occupancy laws was

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Students and Oxonians crowd together in a building for a concert. The OFD is concerned about occupancy loads in city buildings.

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killing 100 people, according to the Providence Journal. In five minutes, the club was destroyed by flames. Out of 462

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Is Halloween going green?

BY ANGELA ROGALSKI abbeangela@gmail.com

Worrying about the environment and the contents of the foods we consume are honorable and important issues that should concern all of us, especially considering the debates on genetically modified foods (whether they’re harmful or not) and the detrimental effects of climate change on our oceans and forests.

Greenpeace.org reports that climate change remains the biggest challenge to our environment.

But a recent article linked on “The Washington Post” about Halloween has me in a bit of a quandary.

The article focused on the mainstays of this candy-induced, costume-ridden, decoration-driven holiday: namely, the candy, costumes and decorations and how they may be working in sinister alliance to undermine our attempts to be more globally conscious and responsible when it comes to our constant endeavors to “go green.”

According to the article, the National Confectioners Association projects at least $2.2 billion worth of candy will be sold this Halloween season (that’s a lot of chocolate, folks).

The effects of all those fun-size

candy bars and their non-recyclable packaging was also mentioned, along with the millions of pounds of cocoa and corn syrup that has to be farmed, processed and shipped. Cocoa cultivation has been criticized for the destruction of millions of acres of rainforest.

The article did provide another side to that claim –– teaching farmers how to cultivate cocoa with more eco-friendly techniques may be our best hope on that point.

The article was very fair, preaching moderation, instead of handing out bags of carrots and pine nuts as an alternative to all that very bad candy. Personally, I don’t think chocolate is ever bad.

But that’s just me.

I really had no problems whatsoever with the way the points were presented; I guess the problem I’m having is with my own concept of this time of the year.

As a child, I remember my Halloweens as fun times spent trick-or-treating and shopping with my mom for a costume, maybe going to a party where we bobbed for apples once in awhile.

It was a kid’s paradise –– all the candy you could eat and getting to dress up like one of Charlie’s Angels and being taken to those neighbors’ houses that my parents trusted. Luckily, my folks had a lot of friends.

I just never thought as the ecoconscious person I really want to be I’d have to rethink my position on Halloween. Moderate the

candy to one piece per goblin or princess ... now that’s tough. Little faces staring up at me with visions of Snickers and M&Ms in their eyes does not incite moderation.

It provokes the overbuying of the sweet stuff that I manage to do each year, providing my own family with enough leftover chocolate that we could give Wonka a run for his money.

I’ve decided to give myself a little time to think about this; maybe until the next Halloween rolls around. In the meantime, Oct. 31 is right around the corner. And there is definitely candy to buy ... $2.2 billion worth!

Angela Rogalski is a senior print journalism major who lives in Abbeville.

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Why should you vote for the green fund?

BY ZACHARY JARJOURA zhjarjou@gmail.com Special to The DM

This week Ole Miss students will have the opportunity to help our university save money and move Ole Miss toward a sustainable future. Starting today, students will be able to log in to myOleMiss and show their support for the Ole Miss Green Fund.

For those of you who have not heard about the Green Fund, it is a proposed $5 to $12 addition to tuition that would create an opportunity for student-created and student-led projects that increase energy efficiency, sustainability and investment in renewable energy on our campus. Since this is a very broad and general description, I’ll be more specific for each of the three categories mentioned.

1. Energy efficiency projects refer to those that would help us conserve and use energy more wisely. Installing energy efficient lighting (LEDs, CFLs, motion sensors), smart energy meters,

and retrofitting inefficient HVAC systems in existing buildings are examples of possible projects.

2. Sustainability projects refer to those projects that help us use our natural resources more wisely and help reduce campus waste.

More recycling bins, installing more hydration stations and purchasing more bikes for the bikeshare program are examples of possible projects.

3. Projects that increase our investment in renewable energy are those that move us forward by using more clean, renewable energy. Investment in Green Power Switch, installation of solar panels and geothermal energy systems are examples of possible projects.

The Green Fund would be governed by a Green Fund Committee composed mainly of students, but will also have faculty and staff representatives. The Green Fund committee will review and approve/deny funding for projects proposed by students, faculty and staff.

The idea for a Green Fund is not new. Green Funds are now

established on more than 100 university campuses nation-wide, and the benefits for both the university and students are undeniable.

It is a fact that a Green Fund can save Ole Miss money. For example, University of Texas-Austin recently completed lighting and steam system retrofits that are saving the campus roughly $3 million per year. These projects that keep the operating costs of universities down can reduce upward pressure on tuition or otherwise free up funds for better use (i.e. scholarships).

In addition, Ole Miss is publicly committed to sustainability and resource conservation through our University Creed to be “good stewards of our resources,” our Office of Campus Sustainability, and our signing of the Climate Commitment. A Green Fund will increase the effectiveness of all three of these initiatives. With our campus energy bill currently at millions of dollars and student enrollment at a record increase, investment in energy efficiency

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university, but also our entire state, refuting incorrect perceptions of Mississippi and possibly making it more desirable to many out of state or international students.

Others may argue that student groups should not be able to alter tuition. You’re right. That is why we are having a student wide vote this week to see whether this is something the majority of students want to get behind. This will have campus-wide benefits and it will take campus-wide support to make it happen. But it starts with us, the students.

The benefits of the Green Fund, as mentioned earlier, are great and undeniable.

The cons are, well, not eating dinner out once each semester.

So this week, think green to save green.

Oct. 24 to 28 be sure to stop by a green voting station tent or log in to myOlemiss and vote yes for the Green Fund.

Zachary Jarjoura is a second-year sociology graduate student from Senatobia.

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is more important now than ever before.

Furthermore, the Green Fund would create more leadership and student involvement opportunities at Ole Miss. Students would have a chance to participate in the Green Fund directly through available positions on the Green Fund Committee as well as the opportunity that everyone would have to submit and lead sustainability project proposals.

This hands-on experience will be a huge asset to students as they enter the job market and will be very appealing to future employers. Another benefit for students is that the projects funded by the Green Fund will make it easier for us to recycle, reduce waste and generally live in a more sustainable way.

So that is the Green Fund spiel.

Some might argue against the increase in tuition, but realistically, it’s little more than the cost of eating out once each semester.

In exchange, the Green Fund will not only help the national view of

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Eighty-five faces of hunger

BY CORTEZ MOSS cortez.moss@gmail.com

Approximately 85 children of Oxford wait in line each Friday for their weekly ration of food to carry them through the weekend.

But to them, their hunger never dies; it continues week by week.

For far too long these faces of hunger went without food every weekend, excited to attend school on Monday, not because of their hunger to learn but because of their hunger for food after a long weekend without.

The children stand in line week by week not able to plead their cases, in hopes that one day their unusual story of hunger in a wealthy region of a poor state, where one might assume that the faces of hunger are few to none, might be recognized.

It’s unknown to these children that their lives could be different.

It is even unknown to them that their present condition needs serious recognition.

The media does an exceptional job displaying the faces of hunger in Africa and the Mississippi Del-

ta, but I cannot go without questioning, what about Oxford?

It seems unlikely that the media would even have a need to cover a story of this magnitude, especially in a land engulfed with wealth and riches, not just financially, but intellectually.

A land to many that is filled with milk and honey.

A land that has produced some of the most prolific and provocative writers and scholars of the last two centuries and some of the most well-known and sought after athletes of this day.

It saddens me even more to hear the story of a kid, whose backpack was found dripping with milk, and when asked to open his backpack to clean the milk, he responds, “I just wanted to carry the milk home because we never have any.”

It is this story and many more of despair and seemingly endless hunger that has propelled folks like Mary Leary, Helen Phillips and Alyce Krouse to create LovePacks in Oxford. LovePacks is a nationwide organization dedicated to eliminating hunger among children.

Each week they build food packs to send to six school sites in Oxford in hopes of eliminating food depravation.

It shouldn’t be them alone; to-

gether we can fight hunger.

We can sit on the sideline and be saddened by the chances these kids might not have as a result of hunger, or we, as college students and members of the Oxford community, can do something about it. Some of us have.

For example Sigma Chi Fraternity in 2010 gave $5,000 from the their Derby Day events to LovePacks. This donation alone provided over 500 packs of food to hungry children. While this made a difference in 2010, let us reflect on this and ponder what we can do now in 2011 to eliminate a seemingly endless problem.

Let us take bold action in eliminating hunger. It is unfair that children have to stand in line each Friday for their weekly ration of food in a land such as Oxford, with the greatest institution on this side of heaven and some of the most distinguished leaders in America. You can help the children of Oxford by emailing LovePacks at lovepacks@gmail.com.

Off the cusp of Food Day 2011, let us be mindful of food access and insecurity, not for ourselves but for the neediest of the needy, like those 85 children of Oxford.

The Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate believes that John Woods’ recent column in The DM leaves readers with a number of false impressions that require public correction.

The Faculty Senate Resolution that was adopted by the Senate was brought to the floor by concerned faculty members who believe that the Chancellor has been unfairly abused and threatened; there was no prior contact between the Chancellor and the Faculty Senate prior to the adop-

tion of the resolution; the proposal was not brought to the Senate by an administrator, nor was the Senate asked for any particular action.

The resolution was not “rubber-stamped” by the Senate or enforced by the administration. It was adopted after civil debate on the issue.

After appropriate discussion, the resolution was adopted by a majority of the Faculty Senate.

In no case was freedom of speech denied or abridged. After this open, public debate, the Senate passed the resolution in support

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‘Walking Wednesdays’ teaches health, safety and money-saving tactics

BY EMILY ROLAND dmmanaging@gmail.com

Be sure to take extra caution when driving to work or campus Wednesday morning, as the sidewalks become cluttered with elementary- and middle-school children walking to school.

The Oxford School District, in association with the Mississippi Department of Transportation, the city of Oxford, the Lafayette-Oxford-University Pathways Commission and the University of Mississippi School of Applied Sciences, is providing a “Safe Route to School” every Wednesday to help promote healthy alternatives to automobile transportation.

“If you start behaviors young, (children) can understand that physical activity can be fun, it’s enjoyable and it has a social element,” said Brad Martin, a

graduate student in health promotion, who acts as a research assistant, manager and advocate of the “Walking Wednesdays” events.

Oxford School District’s elementary and middle schools have been participating in Safe Routes to School since 2007.

The state-wide program aims to help communities teach children that walking and bicycling to school is “a safe, healthy alternative to taking a car or bus” while seeking to reduce obese and overweight children at the same time, according to the Mississippi Department of Health website.

Martin said the program has grown substantially since its beginning, with 307 students walking at Oxford Elementary School in recognition of International Walk to School Day this past Wednesday.

Bramlett and Della Davidson elementary schools, along with Oxford Middle School, also participate in Walking Wednesdays, each with different drop off points. Parents can simply drop off their children at the specified locations; they are encouraged to participate, as well.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said it is “an important role for parents and caregivers to teach children about pedestrian safety” while also stressing “the health and environmental risks related to physical inactivity,” according to Barbour’s official proclamation that October is “Walk to School Month.”

Despite the problem of childhood obesity in Mississippi, parents still tend to be cautious when allowing their children to participate in the program.

Martin said he makes sure to

The Lyric offers a new series for children

BY BLAIR JACKSON sblairjackson@gmail.com

Little Lyric, a new concert series, hopes to build cultural values early for young Oxonians.

This concert is held once a month at the Lyric theater, and each event showcases a new

performer. Artists present a wide variety of musical genres and interact with children and parents of the audience.

Little Lyric was founded by Erin Abbott, who also owns Amelia’s on the Square. Other sponsors of the program include LOFT and the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council.

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Abbott said the concert series is a way for children and parents of the Oxford community to be able to experience art.

“It’s just another activity that brings art into children’s lives,” she said. “They may not have a music program at school, but they can come and have a music experience at the Little Lyric once a month.”

Abbott said the series will host primarily local performers, but she wants to reach out to some national acts as they travel through the area, too.

“It’s a great outlet to let kids be exposed to live music,” Abbott said.

Jake Fussell was the first to perform at the Little Lyric, and the next performer will be Shannon McNally, who Abbott described as having a bluesy-rock style. The Little Lyric programs show on the second Sunday of every month at 1 p.m.

Honey Bee Bakery provided treats at the first performance, and Abbott said she hopes to branch out to other local restaurants to get involved in the program. She is optimistic of the series’ future and she said she was happy with the turnout at the first performance.

“I think it’s only going to be something that grows as the word gets spread more and more,” Abbott said.

University of Mississippi students who are interested in volunteering with the Little Lyric concert series are encouraged to contact Abbott at ameliapresents.com.

The Little Lyric series is for parents and children ages 13 and younger. Children get in for free, and entry is a flat fee of $5 per family.

constantly reassure parents that the volunteers will keep the kids safe and get them to school on time, but earning parental support is one of the larger hurtles the program faces.

As an incentive for the students to participate and get excited about exercising, Jeff Hallam, an Ole Miss health promotion professor and the director of the Center for Health Behavior Research, said the volunteers give medallions for walking to school that can be collected and traded in for prizes.

“There are a lot of blue (medallions), a lot of green ones and there are not so many red ones and black ones, so there’s a lot of trading that goes on (between the children),” said Hallman, who is the project coordinator for Walking Wednesdays. “(The medallions) are used as a kind of an underground cur-

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ing to need to study it and do a proper and deliberate approach. But I do think that it’s an issue that we need to give more attention to.”

Currently, Mississippi is one of only 16 states that does not have a law prohibiting drivers from texting while driving a vehicle. A bill was passed through the Mississippi Senate that would have banned texting while driving, but it never reached the floor of the House of Representatives for a final vote.

Even if the state was to pass legislation that prohibits drivers from texting behind the wheel, it is clear many people feel it is an acceptable risk and would continue to do it anyway.

“It wouldn’t make that much of a difference if it was illegal,” Atkinson said. “I would still text if necessary.”

Another student, Coby Virtue of Pinehurst, N.C., said he doesn’t think texting and driving is necessarily dangerous in all cases. Instead, he said it depends on who the person doing the texting is.

“I think there are lots of people on the road who shouldn’t be driving anyway,” Virtue said. “So I think for a competent driver who knows when it’s appropriate to text while driving, it’s absolutely fine.”

Even if legislation was passed, the difficulty of identifying offenders would make the issue hard to enforce. Oxford Police Chief Mike Martin said his department simply looks for careless driving to enforce distracted driving laws instead of looking for specific behaviors.

rency, where if they want something they will trade medallions for something else. We didn’t expect that — the idea was for the kids to trade those in for other prizes, but some of the kids don’t want to let go of the medallions.”

In addition to the physical activity that Walking Wednesdays promotes, Safe Routes to School has developed a curriculum matching Mississippi education requirements that can be utilized by teachers in the classroom. For example, Hallam described a mathematical word problem that illustrates an outdoor scene encouraging physical activity and walking or biking to school.

“Anytime we can get students up and moving, it’s a good thing,” Oxford School District interim superintendent Brian Harvey said. “(Careless driving) clearly covers any type of distracted driving in that if you fail to drive your vehicle in a controlled manner, such as crossing over center line, running off the road etc., you are carelessly driving your vehicle,” he said. “This is much easier to enforce.”

On both a local and national level, there has been an emphasis placed on raising driver awareness about the dangers involved with texting while driving.

Cellular South commissioned former University of Mississippi running back Dexter McCluster to film a music video denouncing the practice. The U.S. Department of Transportation even created a website dedicated to distracted driving.

The willingness to text and drive has not been limited to Oxford. A recent study conducted by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that texting while driving has deceased in every region of the country except the South.

Mississippians have historically been reluctant to accept regulation, according to Reynolds.

When the seatbelt law was finally passed in 1994, it was one of only five states left in the country without a seatbelt law.

However, with proper education of the public and the judiciary, Reynolds said this issue will very likely see some sort of legislation passed in the near future.

“I think this can certainly be considered an idea whose time has come,” Reynolds said. “Too much regulation is a bad thing. But at the end of the day, we do need to look after the lives and safety of the people.”

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Writing exercise: translate LOL-speak to English TUPELO — Shannon High School English teacher Victoria Ashby wrote a fiveparagraph essay about a book her class had read and asked her 16-year-old daughter to translate it — not into French or Spanish, but into “text-message” speak.

LOL. The next day, she presented it to her class. After they finished asking if she was serious, the students began translating the passage back into standard English.

“It was the greatest experience I ever had,” said Ashby, who teaches English II and integrated writing at Shannon.

“They had to fix something I wrote, and they knew the language, but knew it was inappropriate.”

Today’s writing instructors have a special challenge as they teach students an ancient art in a technological age.

They must emphasize formal writing to an audience that has become accustomed to breezy, abbreviated text messaging from a young age.

They also must teach creativity during an era of accountability when student progress is measured by scores on multiple choice standardized tests.

“I think that teaching any content, and particularly teaching language arts, is now harder than it has ever been,” said Kim Patterson, director of the Mississippi Writing/ Thinking Institute at Mississippi State University.

The challenge has been exacerbated by the proliferation of text messaging. Students enter classrooms with a familiarity for communicating in a language that emphasizes

abbreviations and downplays grammar.

“We have set a precedent that slang and acronyms have no place in our class,” said Pasteia Garth, who teaches seventh-grade English at Nettleton Junior High School.

“We don’t let kids get away with ‘LOL.’” There is a place for text message language, Garth said. But there is also a place for standard English.

That was the lesson Ashby was trying to teach her students with the translation exercise she created last year.

“They thought it was the greatest thing that they could write that well,” Ashby said.

“That helped their skills and their confidence level.”

Distinguishing between the various forms of expression gives educators an opportunity to teach real-life lessons about audience and purpose, said Ellen Shelton.

Shelton is the director of the University of Mississippi Writing Project. Like its sister organization, MSU’s Mississippi Writing/Thinking Institute, the writing project works with high school teachers to help them instruct students on the subject.

“Writing is still all about communicating and communicating well, no matter the medium,” Shelton said.

Helpful platforms Shelton, a former high school teacher, said she has seen students’ writing become more concise as they adjust to platforms like Twitter, which restricts messages to 140 characters. She has also seen many of her former students now keep their own blogs, writing

often without realizing they are writers.

In fact, teachers have been able to use technology with their instruction. Ashby sometimes uses the classroom projector to have students collaborate on essays with everyone adding their own part to something displayed on the screen.

She also posts a student’s work, without identifying the author, and has classmates edit it.

Tools like spell check and grammar check have weakened editing skills, teachers said. Thus, exercises to improve those skills have become important.

Robert Cummings, director of the Center for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi, uses Wikipedia. org for writing assignments he gives to his university students.

The website is an encyclopedia that uses content entirely written by the general public all over the world.

Students must find articles on the site, research that topic and add new information. Not only do they have to know the topic well enough to see what new information is needed, but they must also write for a critical public that can either accept or reject their entries.

“Now they are writing for a real external audience that responds to their writing,” Cummings said.

Technology has done nothing to de-emphasize writing, Shelton said.

“To me, there is even more emphasis placed on writing today because we use it in everything we do,” she said. “We communicate via email and text messages and social media. We tweet.”

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lation, burns and trampling.

“The thing about that fire is that they had the right number of exits, but they didn’t have a sprinkler system, which could have kept the fire down while people got out safer,” Hill said.

“People weren’t worried about fire extinguishers or fighting the fire, they were just trying to get out alive, and that is why overcrowding beyond occupancy can cause loss of life.”

Hill said he passes a recording of the fire to bar owners on the Square as proof of what a fire can do and how much damage can occur if businesses don’t follow occupancy code.

Entrepreneurs looking to build a new restaurant and calculate the occupant load at 100 people or more must include sprinklers because of the Rhode Island fire.

“Restaurants can be busy or at their occupant load, but if you can’t move two or three feet in any direction when you need to, then you need to go somewhere else,” Hill said.

Soulshine Pizza has seen overcrowding problems as many restaurants on the Square face during busy game weekends.

“I’ve definitely lost some business due to occupancy loads,” Soulshine owner Steven Ash said.

The maximum occupancy on the inside of the restaurant is 138 and 44 on the outside patio. However, the numbers can change because Soulshine can remove all the tables and chairs and have up to 295 people on the inside and 95 people on the outside.

“I used to have problems with occupancy when I was at the University Club because they do a lot of banquets, formals, weddings, plus dinner service at the same time,” Ash said. “Occupancy always varies. The University Club had extra doors, and you can have

more people in there if you have several different exits.”

Ash said game weekends are the worst in terms of overcrowding.

“Gameday weekends are miserable,” he said. “I have almost enough seats to reach the maximum occupancy, but if people come in and we’re on a wait, then most customers have to wait outside. I only have room for an extra 10 or 15 people to stand inside; the others have to wait on the sidewalk.”

Another problem with occupancy loads is on campus in the dorms. Garrett Rigby, a senior liberal studies major, said Ole Miss Housing takes fire codes and occupancy very seriously.

Rigby is a resident assistant for Guess Hall, a coed dorm.

There are three RAs per side, one for each floor.

The occupancy rule for a basic dorm room in Guess is six people maximum.

“There are protective screens over the doors; if those are removed there’s a heavy fine for that, if the fire extinguishers seemed to be used the entire floor will be fined,” Rigby said.

“The thing about being an RA is that we get to know most of the residents, and so over the weekend there was a group of about five or six guys I didn’t recognize that had come in to stay with one of our residents for the Alabama game.”

When that happens, RAs can revoke the guest’s ability to ever come back. The resident would automatically be documented and can lose visitation rights, Rigby said.

Residents are allowed to have visitors and overnight guests, but only if they fill out the proper paperwork beforehand.

“I can’t even begin to stress to students how important it is to not go into a bar or restaurant that’s packed or overcrowded,” Hill said. “If something does happen, you’re not going to have time to get out.”

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UM alumni association introduces Texas license plates

BY KATIE HARRISON kaitieharrison@gmail.com

Soon, Texas-based alumnus will be able to show off their University of Mississippi Spirit.

The Ole Miss–Texas license plate is a joint effort by the Rebel Club of Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston Rebel Club and San Antonio and Austin Ole Miss Club.

MyPlates, the specialty plate’s vendor for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, has assisted the foundation with marketing.

Rebecca Bertrand, vice president of Houston Rebel Club, said the plates will showcase Ole Miss.

“We’ve been working on it and have thought about it the past few years, but the effort caught on last fall,” she said.

“It’s going to be a great showcase for Ole Miss and will continue a revenue stream that (the plates) set up.”

Ryan Williams, an engineer alumni living in Austin, came up with the idea for the plates and has been the liaison between the Ole Miss Alumni Association and MyPlates. A $5,000 deposit was required in order for the contract to be signed and production to begin on the plates.

Port Kaigler, club coordinator for Ole Miss Alumni Association, said they primarily used the Internet to raise money for the deposit.

“We raised the money through e-blasts sent from our office to our Texas alumni, and the hard work of our four local Ole Miss Clubs in Texas,” Kaigler said.

Once 300 plates have been sold, the majority of the deposit will return to scholarship funds for Ole Miss students from Texas and will be a recurring revenue stream to endow scholarships through the foundation.

North Dallas native Jacob Ludlum, an applied science homeland security freshman, said the plates will help spread Ole Miss pride.

“It can show the representation of Ole Miss students in Texas,” he said.

“It can exploit how Ole Miss students are really a family when you see the license plate in another state and have the (Ole Miss) name on it.”

As of yet, 241 plates have been sold, pushing the foundation closer to the 300 mark.

Kaigler said the proceeds from the endeavor will be split among four scholarships endowments.

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plate that is sold that will also be divided among the four clubs’ scholarship endowments,” Kaigler.

North Dallas native Matt Kotecki, a business freshman, said initiatives such as this are useful to students from Texas and other states.

“I definitely need more money, like a lot of kids out-of-state, and I’ve taken a lot of loans out, so programs like this are really help-

ful and I think there should be a lot more of them,” he said.

With 30 Ole Miss Clubs in Mississippi and 34 Ole Miss Clubs in other states, Kaigler said the alumni association supports out-of-state clubs the same way they support in-state clubs by establishing scholarship endowments to help send students from their areas to Ole Miss, promoting events and lining up speakers for those events.

Kaigler said Texas isn’t the only state they’re focused on.

“We focus on Ole Miss alumni no matter where they live,” Kaigler said.

There is currently an Ole Miss alumni license plate in Tennessee, and the association is working on a plate in Georgia.

Bertrand said the plate has led to some other initiatives to spread awareness.

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BY SEAN DORAN spdoran@olemiss.edu Special to The DM

Let’s be honest, most of us had a dream car in mind when we first got our learner’s permits, and it wasn’t dreams of a new Nissan Altima or a Honda Civic. We all had dreams of that sports car or imported sedan that was on the cusp of cool when we were fifteen. The bad news is we are in college and can’t afford the newest sports cars, but the good news is with the right know-how we can pick up those cars we first drooled over for a steal. I know this is true because I have been doing it for years. I went from driving Hondas to driving Porsches for the same price. In this column, I’ll go over a car from each of the major production areas and give pointers that can be used to buy any used car you could want.

Mercedes-Benz CLK series

• T h i s German classic coupe with V6 and V8 options has all the interior space and luxuries Mercedes-Benz is known for.

•Buying these cars off lease can take nearly two-thirds the value off of them in two years with fewer than $20,000.

•Sit around and wait on this car. Pick a price you want to pay and wait until you find that one. I know about buying these because I’ve actually bought one and paid next to nothing for it.

•The biggest thing on buying European cars is to make sure you take them to a mechanic to get them checked out before you go all in on one –– chances are nothing will be wrong but better be safe than sorry.

Corvette Z06

•This is the ultimate car if you want to trade every bit of comfort for a fun ride and a huge engine.

•It’s tricky to buy because they fall in value so fast. The best way to get an American car is to go on eBay and see where the current price drop to around $20,000 (usually a C5 model) is and nab one.

•These are easy to find with low miles on them bought by wealthy business and oil men who bought them new for a ridiculous price and are now looking for the next best thing.

•The best thing about these cars is that they are reliable, and all it takes to find a good one is to make sure you crank it cold when you test drive it. Even better is that if anything goes wrong on this car, every mechanic you know can work on them.

Honda S2000

•This is the ultimate budget sports car. These can be picked up for less than $10,000 in great shape and will supply endless fun.

•The S2000 will run forever.

The engine is a mechanic’s dream with the perfect balance of power and reliability.

•The key to buying these is to find the one you like, not just the cheapest. It will pay off in the end, and you won’t ever kick yourself for not getting the car you really wanted.

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Boxx to play for Southern Rebels to play for singles, doubles Regional title today titles at Southern Regionals today BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Ole Miss women’s tennis senior Kristi Boxx will play for the singles title at the USTA/ ITA Southern Regional Championships today after winning twice on Sunday.

In the quarterfinals, Boxx, the No. 2 seed in the tournament, came back to beat the No. 8 seed, Jenny Pfeifler of Auburn 4-6, 6-4, 6-0.

In the semifinals, Boxx took out Alexa Guarachi of Alabama 6-4, 6-4 to reach the finals at this event for the second time in her career. The Grenada native also made the finals in 2009 and now has reached at least the semifinals three straight years.

The singles final will pit the top two seeds, as Boxx faces top-seeded Mary Anne Macfarlane of Alabama. The two met earlier this year in the final of the Duke Invitational, with Macfarlane winning in straight sets.

Freshman Erin Stephens lost a close match to LSU’s top player, Whitney Wolf, 6-4, 7-6 in the quarterfinals.

In the doubles semifinals, Boxx and fellow senior Abby Guthrie lost to Macfarlane and Guarachi (Alabama) 8-4.

“It was a great job by Kristi to come back and win her

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Senior Kristi Boxx serves in a match season last season against Texas Tech.

first match. She played really well in the third set. We are excited to have a finalist for the third year in a row,” head coach Mark Beyers said.

“Hopefully we can bring home the title this year. Erin played a solid match against LSU’s top player and had a great tournament.”

The winner of the match earns a berth in the USTA/ ITA National Indoor next month in Flushing Meadow, N.Y.

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Junior Jonas Lutjen prepares to serve in a match against Tulane last season.

AUBURN, Ala. – For the second year in row, the Ole Miss men’s tennis team will play for the singles and doubles titles at the USTA/ITA Southern Regional Championships, after posting semifinal wins on Sunday.

In the morning, junior Jonas Lutjen teamed up with sophomore Johan Backstrom to defeat the Alabama duo of Daniil Proskura and Carlos Taborga 8-6 to advance to the finals.

They will face LSU’s Olivier Borsos and Chris Simpson in the final today at 9 a.m.

Following the doubles, Lutjen took to the courts for his singles semifinal against Borsos.

Lutjen won the first set 6-3.

He quickly went up 2-0 before Borsos tied it up at 2-2. At 5-4, with Borsos serving to stay in

the match, Lutjen broke to win it 6-3, 6-4 and reach the finals for the first time in his career after a semifinal appearance last year.

Today’s singles final will pit Lutjen, ranked No. 72 in the nation, against Andreas Mies of Auburn at 10:30 a.m. Mies defeated Mississippi State’s Malte Stropp in the other semifinal.

“We are excited to once again have a chance to bring home the singles and doubles titles at this event,” head coach Billy Chadwick said. “Jonas is playing really well right now, as are he and Johan in doubles. Monday’s matches should be great tennis.”

On the line for both is a berth in the USTA/ITA National Indoor in Flushing Meadow, N.Y. next month.

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Volleyball splits with Arkansas and LSU on the road SUNDAY: OLE MISS 3, LSU 2 BATON ROUGE, La. - The Rebels fought off six match points in the fourth set before roaring out to an insurmountable lead on the Tigers in set five as Ole Miss (6-14, 2-10 SEC) defeated LSU (147, 7-4 SEC) by a score of 3-2 (12-25, 25-20, 16-25, 33-31, 15-13) on Sunday.

A pair of Rebels hit over the .400 mark for the match as Allegra Wells led the way, hitting .400 with a careerhigh 18 kills and senior Regina Thomas hit .450 with 10 kills and four blocks on the afternoon. Sophomore Kara Morgan added 12 kills to help the Rebels in the upset bid of the Tigers.

It was a double-double for Morgan, who also put down 14 digs on the afternoon. Se-

nior Morgan Springer led the back row defense with 24 digs, while Amanda Philpot also tallied a double-double with 47 assists and 13 digs.

“It’s seemed like a long time coming, but I think it’s a reflection of how hard the team has continued to work when they could have easily given up on this season,” said Ole Miss head coach Joe Getzin.

“The things we continue to talk about each day in practice were brought to the floor today.

“Allegra had a great match along with Regina, and Morgan Springer had a great defensive performance,” Getzin continued. “It was truly a team effort as we brought in a lot of players off the bench in situations, and it worked for us.”

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next weekend for a pair of matches, hosting Auburn on Friday night at 7 p.m. before facing Georgia at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. Both matches will be played at the Gillom Sports Center, and admission is free to the public.

FRIDAY: ARKANSAS 3, OLE MISS 0 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Regina Thomas and Allegra Wells both put down 10 kills to lead the Rebels, but it wasn’t enough to get the win as Ole Miss fell to Arkansas (13-8, 5-5 SEC) by a score of 3-0 (23-25, 26-28, 23-25).

Thomas hit .350 in the match as she only committed only three attack errors on 20 swings. Springer led the back row defense with 19 digs, while Ashley Veach added 10 digs to help bolster the back row.

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Millsap leads Rebels on final day of SEC/PAC-12 Challenge KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Senior Haley Millsap carded a 2-over 74 in the final round of the Mercedes-Benz SEC/ PAC-12 Challenge, as the Ole Miss Rebels shot a 303 to finish the tournament in 13th place.

No. 6 Alabama won the tournament, besting No. 1 UCLA by just one stroke.

Ole Miss finished ahead of four top-25 opponents in the 23-team field that featured 21

ranked teams from the two conferences.

“I’m proud of the team overall,” said head coach Michele Drinkard. “We had a good week in a tough field of teams. It is always a goal to play better than teams ranked ahead of you.”

Millsap was consistent for the entire round, carding a par on 16 of 18 holes. She finished at 7-over for the tournament.

Junior Haley Sanders notched the best finish for the Rebels, posting a 5-over for the tournament after shooting a 75 Sunday.

Natalie Gleadall, who began the final round at 1-over, shot a 77 to finish one stroke behind Sanders.

The Rebels will conclude the fall part of their schedule Oct.28-30, when they compete in the Landfall Tradition in Wilmington, N.C.

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Soccer wins 2-1 at Kentucky, keeps SEC Tournament hopes alive

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LEFT: Junior forward Alix Hildal scores the Rebels’ second goal in a 3-0 win over Vanderbilt last Thursday night. Hildal also scored the game-winning goal in Sunday’s 2-1 overtime win at Kentucky. RIGHT: SEC soccer standings after 10 conference games. Top eight teams advance to the SEC tournament. Teams shaded in white have clinched. Teams shaded in light grey are still in contention for the 8th spot. Teams shaded in dark grey have been eliminated.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Ole Miss soccer team won its second straight game Sunday afternoon with a 2-1 overtime win at Kentucky.

With the win, Ole Miss improved to 7-10-1 overall (3-7 SEC), while Kentucky fell to 12-6 overall (5-5 SEC).

Alix Hildal scored the game

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the game.

After Green had a four-yard touchdown overturned and Wilson was stopped short on a quarterback sneak, Wilson scored from one yard out on fourth down to give Arkansas a 24-17 lead. For the game, Wilson completed 13 of 28 passes for 232 with two one-yard touchdown runs.

The Razorbacks’ next possession had them in prime scoring position once again, looking to

winner for the Rebels in the 92nd minute on an unassisted goal.

“I’m so proud of the team today,” head coach Matt Mott said.

“With our backs against the wall, we came out fighting and got a great win. We got a great early goal from Dylan, and Alix put the team on her back to score the goal in overtime. It was a really good take a two-touchdown lead. Backto-back long runs from freshman wide receiver Marquel Wade and Johnson, coupled with a personal foul penalty, moved Arkansas to the Ole Miss five-yard line. Johnson finished the game with a career-high 160 yards on 15 carries, including a 52-yard touchdown run.

On the next play, senior defensive tackle Justin Smith forced a Johnson fumble that was recovered by sophomore defensive back Charles Sawyer, but the Rebels couldn’t take advantage. Two plays later, the Razorbacks tackled sophomore running back Jeff Scott for

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win against a good team on the road.”

The game marked the team’s first overtime win this season. The Rebels are now 1-2-1 in overtime games this season.

Dylan Jordan scored her second goal of the week and eighth of the season in the 46th minute as she finished a cross from Mandy Mca loss in the end zone for a safety to extend their lead to 26-17.

In the fourth quarter, Hocker added a 23-yard field goal to take the Arkansas lead out to 29-17, but then Ole Miss made it interesting.

Mackey used his feet to move the ball down the field and then threw his second touchdown pass to Moncrief to cut the lead to 29-24.

Moncrief ended the day with five catches for 73 yards and a pair of touchdowns.

Junior tight end Jamal Mosley recovered the ensuing onside kick from junior Andrew Ritter and set the Rebels up at their 43-yard line with just over a minute left in the

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Kentucky wasted little time tying the game as the Wildcats’ Kelsey Hunyadi scored in the 49th minute as she hit a longrange shot that beat Rebel keeper Kelly McCormick.

As a team, Ole Miss took 15 shots with five on goal, while Kentucky recorded 22 with seven on game. Mackey, who had a great game with 219 yards and two touchdowns on 18-of-30 passing, then made two critical mistakes to end the comeback attempt. With no timeouts remaining, he took a sack and then threw an interception.

Senior running back Brandon Bolden returned from suspension and finally found some running room Saturday, rushing for 68 yards on 14 carries to lead the Rebels’ ground attack, which finished with 151 yards on 46 carries.

He was proud of the way the Rebels played in the loss and thinks this can be a game the team can build

goal. McCormick made six saves in goal.

The Rebels will close out the regular season at home Friday night at 7 p.m. when the team hosts Mississippi State. The game, which will be televised on Fox Sports, will mark the last regularseason home game for the Rebels’ six seniors. on going into the Auburn game next week.

“We can build on (this game),” Bolden said. “We came out on fire in the first half. We was up and had the lead. Then we just have to keep that fire going.”

Now the Rebels turn their attention to the Auburn Tigers in hopes of ending the conference losing streak and, more importantly, keep hopes of a bowl game alive. Kickoff next Saturday is set for 6 p.m. from Jordan-Hare Stadium and will be televised on ESPNU. “We’re going to treat them just like another team and give them all we got,” Moncrief said.

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Ole Miss upset bid falls short against No. 10 Arkansas

BY DAVID COLLIER dlcollie@olemiss.edu

Ole Miss played, perhaps, its best game of the season and held a 17-0 lead halfway through the second quarter but could not overcome an Arkansas second half comeback as the Rebels fell to the Razorbacks 29-24 on Saturday afternoon.

With the loss, Ole Miss has now lost 10 straight SEC games, dating back to last season’s 42-35 win over Kentucky.

“I’m really proud of our guys’ effort today,” head coach Houston Nutt said. “I thought we played extremely hard. I wish we had the third quarter back.”

It truly was a tale of two halves Saturday. In the first half, the Rebels outgained the Razorbacks 250 to 128 yards, as Ole Miss built a 17-7 halftime lead. Coming out of halftime, Nutt said the Rebels (25, 0-4 SEC) needed something to have happened in the third quarter to give them confidence.

Instead, the Razorbacks, at one point, scored 29 unanswered points, including 19 in the third quarter as they nearly tripled the Rebels’ output in the second half ­­— 310 to 120 yards.

“We needed to go ahead and finish it,” Nutt said. “We had some really good effort and attitude out there against a team ranked 10th.

Their attitude has been awesome.

I wish we were standing here with a win. We were close, but it didn’t happen.”

For the second week in a row, the Rebels scored first when junior Bryson Rose nailed a 43-yard field goal to give Ole Miss an early lead.

However, this week the Rebels stretched out their lead. Early in the second quarter, junior quarterback Randall Mackey connected with freshman wide receiver Donte Moncrief on a 31-yard touchdown pass in the back corner of the end zone, the duo’s first of two scores in the game.

Later in the quarter, Mackey extended the Ole Miss lead to 17-0 on a three-yard touchdown run, the first of his career. Mackey finished the game with 30 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries.

Arkansas finally put some points on the board right before the half on a 52-yard run from junior running back Dennis Johnson. Equal-

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Junior quarterback Randall Mackey finds freshman wide receiver Donte Moncrief in the back corner of the end zone for a four-yard touchdown pass in a 29-24 loss to Arkansas.

ly as painful for Ole Miss, the long receiver Joe Adams for a 37-yard touchdown came on a 3rd-and-14 gain and then punched it in the attempt, and the teams went to endzone himself on a one-yard halftime with the Rebels holding quarterback sneak to tie the game, on to a 17-7 lead.

17-17.

Just like the previous week “We had them off balance the against Alabama, Ole Miss strug- first half,” Nutt said. “They came gled coming out of halftime with out (in the) second half and took Arkansas dominating the third that away. We got off rhythm a litquarter and the early part of the tle bit and dropped some balls. We fourth quarter. On the Rebels’ first had some illegal procedures. five possessions of the second half, “All we needed was one score. I they punted four times and anoth- feel like we needed one score to get er ended in a safety. Meanwhile, our confidence up and make us the Razorbacks scored on four of think we were going to win. The their five possessions, and only a biggest thing was the changes they fumble just short of the end zone made on our motions — the wide kept the offense off the board. plays.”

“We came out and played hard On the next Ole Miss drive, the first half but came out with Mackey looked to have connected two bad drives to start the second with Moncrief for another big play, half,” Moncrief said. “We have to but he could not haul it in and the get better at keeping our heads up Rebels were forced to punt. to play ball.”

Meanwhile, the Razorback ofThe Arkansas scoring in the fense continued to click in the third second half started with a 33- quarter as Wilson found Adams yard field goal from Zach Hocker, again for a 67-yard gain on the which capped a drive that includ- first play of the next drive to move ed a fourth-down conversion on a the ball inside the Rebels’ 10-yard 19-yard pass from junior quarter- line. Adams had four catches for a back Tyler Wilson to junior tight game-high 124 receiving yards in end Chris Gragg. On the next possession, Wilson found senior wide See UPSET, PAGE 11