The Daily Mississippian - November 1, 2016

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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Volume 105, No. 51

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The beat of the music can change the beat of your heart

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Capital improvement fees go toward $59 million Student Union project

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ince 2013, the university’s capital improvement fee has provided funding for repairs, renovations and construction on campus for student purposes.

This semester is the first

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Ole Miss prepares election night security

provement fee will also help offset debts from the new Student Union’s construction.

Cavett Ratliff, Ole Miss bursar, said he and his office collect the fees, but the finance department decides where to allocate the money across campus.

Ole Miss is preparing for 2016 Election Day to prevent a repeat of 2012 election night, when the nation’s first African-American president was re-elected.

The night Barack Obama was re-elected, hundreds of Ole Miss students exchanged racial epithets and violent, politicized chants. In addition, some students burned posters of the president.

Since July, a committee of faculty, staff and students has developed a protocol in case there is any “concerning behavior reported the night of the election,” according to a memo sent from Assistant Vice Chancellor Melinda Sutton.

“Given what happened on campus on election night four years ago, several of us from a variety of departments, agencies and organizations at Ole Miss agreed we could be better prepared for election night this year,” Director of Public Relations Jon Scott said.

One of the areas the university is monitoring is social media.

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$1,131,985 this year $2,085,201 in 2016 fiscal year

time the university has tapped into these funds, Larry Sparks, vice chancellor for administration and finance, said.

The fee is $50 for every student enrolled in at least 12 academic hours and is lower for students enrolled in fewer hours. All Ole Miss students pay the fee, regardless of major or campus, each term they

take classes.

“The first selected use of (the capital improvement fee) has been the Student Union project. That one is a $59 million project,” Sparks said. “The state provided $10 million. We have some other resources internally, and the remainder of that will come from the fee.”

Sparks said the capital im-

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University librarian celebrates 11 novels this month KIARA MANNING

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Beginning today, people around the world will attempt to write an entire 50,000-word book in one month as a part of National Novel Writing Month.

Ole Miss librarian Alex Watson said it is easy to participate.

“You can participate in any country in the world,” Watson said. “We have little subdivisions called legions everywhere.

There’s two for Mississippi, and each of those regions have a municipal liaison attached to it.”

Watson is the municipal liai-

son for the northern region of Mississippi and has participated in the program for almost a decade.

“I have participated every year since 2007,” Watson said. “I’ve done a book every year since then, so about nine years, and then these last two years I’ve participated in the summer as well, so that would be 11,” Watson said.

NaNoWriMo started in 1999, when a group from the San Francisco Bay area decided to write a novel during the month of September. They agreed that the word count would be no fewer than 50,000 words.

The program was later moved to November and has since evolved from a small group to an international nonprofit organization.

Watson said although the program is not officially affiliated with Ole Miss, it has held events at the J.D. Williams Library for the past six years. During that time, about a dozen people have successfully written a novel.

In the past, the program only allowed novels to be written; however, now individuals are able to write scripts, poetry and even fan-fiction. A new compo-

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Ole Miss librarian and municipal liaison Alex Watson has participated in National SEE WRITING PAGE 3 Novel Writing Month for the past six years.

OPINION

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If you choose to let it, music can bring you peace COLUMN

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In my column last week, I focused on what it means to be nourished. Instead of robotically going through the motions of my days, I am seeking out the type of soul food you can not find on the

menu at Ajax.

Luckily, our university and storybook town beckon to enrich us constantly. We need only dig deep enough—in our pursuit of information as well as in ourselves.

Last week, I had the privilege of attending a songwriters’ convention for the Women’s Council at The Lyric. But it is not the event itself that I want to talk about.

What I found that stretched and soothed and satiated my soul was something so utterly commonplace, it did not matter where I was at all: music.

I realize how trite and Twitter-perfect this sentiment sounds, how reflective of typical teenage angst and sensibilities. But as I listened to the backstories of some of the most famous country songs of

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the decade and watched the writers perform them, I realized how wrenching and intoxicating it was to hear raw emotion set to the tune of a guitar.

I think this concept of diaristic music can be lost in the face of an industry hyper-focused on revenues and commercialization. The radio has become a barren wasteland for real music, instead tirelessly boasting the same old auto-tuned “songs” about sex, alcohol and drugs.

But beneath the façade of celebrity and swagger, true artists persist quietly and resolutely, their motivations for production more therapeutic than pecuniary. They write songs because they cannot help themselves, because it is the way they cope.

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Luckily, we do not all have to be musically inclined to reap the same rewards, as these talented artists do the work for us. Finding yourself thoroughly understood and known by words you did not even compose—well, it reminds you of our shared humanity. It reminds you that you are not alone.

Sitting in that concert hall, this was the feeling that gripped me most profoundly.

The seemingly intangible and incommunicable desperations that have wracked me— a fear of losing control, anxiety over uncertainty— were suddenly surrounding me, entering through my ears and seeping into my veins and heart.

If, while reading this, you feel a latent yearning inside yourself to unclutter your

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mind of the cognitive so you can once more focus on the emotional you have so adeptly shoved aside, turn on a beloved song that reminds you of home or of a loved one.

Maybe someone that you let slip away or something that wrecked you.

Do not distract yourself with a mere product disguising itself as a true song. Listen to art. Because, sometimes, we need something impalpable to make sense of this alltoo-concrete world.

Julia Grant is a freshman public policy leadership and journalism major from Gulfport.

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ELECTION

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“Throughout the day and into the evening of Nov. 8, University Communications will have at least two of our team members keeping an eye on conversations taking place on social media platforms,” Scott said. “After reviewing accounts of what happened during the evening of Nov. 6, 2012, we’ll track many of the same keywords that were used that evening.”

Ole Miss administration will set up precautions similar to how the university prepares for home football games, but with some additional help, according to the memo.

The Lyceum will serve as a command center to monitor activity in one location. The Ole Miss Student Union will serve as a second command center in case it is needed.

The Demonstration and Assembly Response Team will be located at the Union and near Fraternity Row as well as other locations to look for inappropriate activity. The Department of Housing will have additional staff on duty throughout election night.

The University Police Department will be patrolling and monitoring security cameras. According to the memo, the university has increased camera security on campus since 2012 election night.

“We plan to work closely with our partners on campus, such as UPD, in the event we come across reports that might suggest there’s a disturbance on campus,” Scott said.

UPD Chief Tim Potts said he hopes it will be an early night for officers on campus.

Potts said UPD will have a few extra officers on duty, just in anticipation of events, but he said he hopes they are not needed.

“I think you’ll see a couple additional officers working, but I think you’ll see a more organized involvement with university administration,” Potts said.

nent to the program is “Nanorebels,” which enable people to monitor their progress online.

“We’ve had people writing memoirs, poetry, roleplaying game campaigns and fantasy stories,” Watson said.

People gain many benefits from participating in this program, according to Watson.

“They gain a deadline, which is extremely important,” Watson said. “You always hear people say ‘I wish I could write a novel,’ ‘I wish I could write something.’

Giving them a deadline really helps them move toward it.”

Some have participated in NaNoWriMo for five years.

Although no one from a Mississippi legion has published a novel yet, one of the most famous novels that have been published from NaNoWriMo is “Water for Elephants.”

The novel was later made into a movie.

Watson said he hopes people will write something themselves and others will enjoy reading it.

He said that is more important than writing a novel strictly for profit.

“You see again and again people saying, ‘I would like to see a book about x, y or z,’ or ‘why aren’t there books for people like me,’ and the answer to that is, well, you could wait for them, or you could write one yourself,” Watson said. “The worst thing that could happen is you put it away and never show it to anybody.”

“At the end of the semester, they go through and see what students they had at different campuses and departments and allocate the money,” Ratliff said. “If part of it is Tupelo, Online Learning or Desoto, they farm it out to those different places after the semester is over.”

In the 2016 fiscal year, the capital improvement fee collected more than $2 million.

Ole Miss has brought in $1.3 million already this fiscal year.

The Student Union renovation is a three-year project, according to Sparks. He said his team pushed for the threeyear goal because of financial uncertainty and need of space.

“Right now we are building the new space, and we are basically doubling the Student Union in size, and that section is moving along on schedule at this point,” Sparks said. “We are two years out from actually unveiling both the completed renovation of the existing and the new space.”

Sparks said the new Student Union space will open next fall while the old space is out of service during renovation if everything stays on schedule.

“The project that is next in line is a student facility which will be the old Whirlpool property. We have just completed the demo of the property, and it is going to be a student recreation center and transportation and parking hub,” Sparks said.

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The university’s capital improvement fee has provided funding for repairs, renovations and construction on campus for projects like the new Student Union.

Proceeds from the capital improvement fee will be put toward the new recreation center, but not the parking hub. The fees for the parking hub will be taken from other resources because it is not strictly a student facility, Sparks said.

“That facility will have both indoor and outdoor activities.

The Turner Center will still be there, and we won’t do away with that,” Sparks said. “This will be, for a lack of a better word, complementary to that facility once it’s completed.”

The university is finalizing

the recreational center’s design plan now.

Student and administrator collaboration spawned these two large-scale construction projects several years ago.

Since only one project could be completed at a time, the university decided to finish the Student Union renovations first. Sparks said the capital improvement fee has helped with these two renovations.

“For the foreseeable future, those are the two big projects that the fee will go to help take care of the cost,” Sparks said.

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Prediction: Nintendo Switch, while impressive, will flop MATT BARNTHOUSE

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The Nintendo Switch is an impressive piece of hardware, but it is too little, too late for Nintendo to save their line of home consoles. Like the Sega Dreamcast before it, the Nintendo Switch will be a brilliant gaming system swallowed by the competition thanks to desperation, failures in marketing and mistiming.

The release of the Nintendo Switch follows what was one of the biggest marketing flops in video game history: the Wii U. Per Business Insider, the Wii U sold roughly 10 million systems. By comparison, the original Wii sold 100 million, and the PlayStation 4 has moved more than 40 million units, according to Sony. Nintendo needs a system to save their home console business, and they are desperate.

Unfortunately, that desperation is what will lead to their downfall. The Nintendo Switch is expected to be released in March, a time when people aren’t exactly looking to purchase a new gaming system. It is no accident that most game systems are released just before the holiday season. One can infer that Nintendo is releasing the system in March because it is just before the end of their fiscal year. Apparently the executives at Nintendo think they can fool shareholders by reporting a “big boost in sales” right before the end of the fiscal year by releasing a video game system at the worst time

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of the year.

A similar situation happened to Sega in the late 1990s. Sega followed their most successful system, the Genesis, with the Sega Saturn, which was a massive flop. Desperate to recoup their losses, they released the Dreamcast.

The Dreamcast, while innovative and impressive, also flopped, and Sega left the console business. They decided that they were going to focus on what they do best: Make quality video games.

Nintendo makes fantastic video games. They can survive— and even thrive— by

leaving the console market to focus on making video games.

In fact, they may be forced to, following the Nintendo Switch.

This is not to say the Nintendo Switch isn’t going to be a fantastic product. It looks brilliant. The ability to play a full-fledged console game on-the-go and the apparent support from companies other than Nintendo to produce games is promising, but those same third parties showed similar support at the launch of the Wii U but then trailed off. Nintendo makes great products, but over the past

decade they’ve just been awful at marketing them.

Another issue that may doom the Switch is that it sits in a gray area on the market. Is portability enough to make people who already own a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One purchase another system? Paul Tassi from Forbes suggests that the Nintendo Switch’s competition is the iPad, rather than the PS4 or Xbox One, but there is another set of problems that come with that. Mobile games typically cost anywhere from nothing to $10. Video games on consoles cost around $60

(which Tassi acknowledges).

That alone should scare away many of the more casual mobile gamers.

In the end, the Nintendo Switch is bold and innovative. However, this is the “bold and innovative” that Nintendo needed three years ago for a chance to survive in the home gaming market.

Much like Sega, who released the Dreamcast early after the failure of the Sega Saturn, the Switch will prove to be Nintendo’s swan song and a signal to the Japanese juggernauts that it is time to leave the home console market.

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Snuff out the sniffles: How to fight off seasonal sickness MCKENNA WIERMAN

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Everyone is getting sick.

You’re sitting in class, trying your hardest to pay attention to the lecture, but your mind is focused elsewhere. Your face, which feels like it’s been stuffed with cement, wants nothing more than to lie down on your desk and go to sleep. The crumpled snotty tissue half-stuffed in your sleeve is rubbing your nose raw, and you’re trying your hardest to resist the urge to *sniff* every 10 seconds.

Yes, Ole Miss, it’s that time of year again, when a group of more than 20 people becomes a choir of sniffing, coughing, sneezing and wheezing. But it’s also a busy time academically, and socially, all the good parties are about to start up.

So how can you avoid succumbing to the seasonal sickness sneaking around school?

1. Stay clean: We tend not to think about all the places we put our hands every day. Keyboards in computer labs, hand rails as we walk down the steps, door handles, and let’s not forget our own cell phones. With all the coughing and sneezing that goes on this time of year, you are way more likely to pick up some nasty germs doing simple, everyday things. Nasty bugs like strepthroat, pink-eye and the common cold love to find their way into your body by getting picked up on your hands and then finding their way into your mouth or eyes. So while you don’t need to run around in a hospital mask and rubber gloves spraying disinfectant on everything, take extra measures to keep your hands, and things that touch your hands, clean. A small bottle of hand sanitizer gel or packet of wipes stuffed into the front pocket of your backpack is a cheap and easy way to keep your hands clean on the go. I would also recom-

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mend wiping your phone off every now and again, since it touches all kind of surfaces and then gets to hang out right by your mouth.

2. Be stingy with food and drinks: For many people, sharing a sip out of a water bottle or sharing a bite of lunch off someone else’s fork is not a big deal. But during cold and flu season, being generous could wind up getting you sick. If you really just have to try your dinner partner’s entree, use your own fork. Likewise, if you are feeling even slightly under the weather, keep your friends safe and let them know not to share the same straw.

3. Get plenty of rest: It’s difficult these days to get a full night’s sleep, but seven to eight hours of shut eye could mean the difference between coming down with a nasty cold and making it to the end of the year without a trip to the doctor. Sleeping doesn’t just help recharge your body and your brain after a long day of class; it helps keep your immune system strong to fight off viruses. During this mid-term time of year, it may be hard to find time between working, going to class and maintaining a social life to

get some good snoozing. So, while I am NOT saying it is cool to skip class or anything, I am saying that if you’re feeling overworked, taking a personal day isn’t the end of the world. Just don’t make a habit of it. If you’re continuously feeling stressed out, anxious or overworked even after taking a day off, you may have too much on your plate and it may be time to trim down your schedule a little bit.

4. It’s OK to go the doctor: If you’re not feeling well, you may be getting sick. And if you’re getting sick, you’re not doing yourself or anyone around you any favors by “toughing it out” and showing up to work or class sneezing and coughing all over everyone. Don’t wait to get worse if you feel ill; go to the doctor. If you haven’t already, go get a flu shot.

Trust me; getting a shot feels way better than getting the flu.

get to keep your immune system strong and fight off the bad germs around you. Vitamin C is your friend when it comes to keeping your immune system strong, and Zinc is great for fighting off a cold. Make sure that if you take a multi-vitamin that you eat with it, otherwise your body won’t absorb it and it won’t do anything. If you do start feeling icky, make sure you drink plenty of fluids and stay hydrated.

Remember, you can’t perform at your peak if you’re not feeling 100 percent. Play it safe, and if you have any flu symptoms like sore throat, fever, nausea, chills or body aches, head over to the Student Health Center or go to your local clinic.

5. Eat the good food: When you’re busy, you don’t cook. And when you don’t cook, more often than not, you eat junk.

A fast food hamburger or a pizza every now and again isn’t bad, but when all you’re eating is fried and greasy, it can take a toll on your body. Food is fuel, and you’ll need all the good help you can

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“Our expectations are very high they lost two times to the Bulldogs, now, over the summer I felt that falling 79-51 in Starkville and 60as a player and as a leader go- 51 in Oxford. With the new roster, ing on my senior year, I feel like they believe their chances of wineverybody has just been in the ning are huge, Insell said. gym including myself more than “We are taking a lot of better we have ever been, as far as just shots,” Insell said. “We’ve got working out, we actually want to good experience on the perimeter. get better,” Sisk said.

We’re doing nothing that we did As the Rebels get ready to tip last year offensively, we are just off their season, they already have going back to doing things that we Mississippi State listed as their used to do years ago.“ most anticipated game. Last year

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Women’s Basketball Head Coach Matt Insell gave a preview of the season at the Tuohy Center for basketball’s media day.

With their first game coming up on Friday against Mississippi College, Insell said he is excited for the year and thinks this season could be one of the best seasons Ole Miss has had in years.

“I couldn’t be happier with where our team is at. We are a lot farther ahead at this point than we have been in a long, long time. We are very well down as a team. For the first time in my tenure here, we are going to put a team on the court that actually looks like an SEC team,” Insell said.

Injuries haven’t hampered the Rebels too much in the offseason, and they will start the year mostly healthy. Point guard player Alissa

we have two exciting transfers joining in with our returners, and along with that, we signed three outstanding prospects in the three freshmen, so we just keep adding depth. We’re not a small team; we have good size this season.”

Several new faces have joined the team this season in both players and coaches. Four new players have been added to the team, including Shelby Gibson, Bree Glover and Kate Rodgers, who are all true freshmen, along with graduate transfer Taylor Manuel. To the coaching staff, George Porcha will now serve as the new assistant coach.

Leading scorer Shandricka Sessom will be returning to the basketball court for her junior year.

Last year, she averaged 15.6 points per game. Additionally, Erika Sisk will be only 64 points from reaching her career total of 1,000. Sisk said she also believes the team has a great chance of having a winning season.

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Alston has a shoulder injury but still might play in Friday’s game.

Meanwhile, transfer student Chrishae Rowe will remain ineligible to play until after December due to NCAA transfer rules.

So far, the Rebels have had two scrimmages against a Division I opponent and a practice team, which both went very well, per Insell. Ole Miss has improved its depth through solid recruiting classes in the last couple of years, and Insell said he thinks his program can take a big step forward because of it.

“You could see that when at SEC Media Day, they spoke about teams with top 100 players on them, we are second in the league with top 100 players in the league that are on our roster, and that’s exciting. Our players have grown up,” Insell said. “Last year, you felt like every game we were a player here or a player there away, and

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Kennedy adds depth as Rebels look to transcend expectations GRIFFIN NEAL

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Andy Kennedy, men’s basketball head coach, speaks about the upcoming season Monday at the Tuohy Center. transfer from Miami, are both expected to contribute heavily in their first year in Oxford.

Although Coach Andy Kennedy has not specified who his starters will be come Nov. 11, Saiz believes Neal and Burnett will fill out the backcourt. In the front court, the Rebels added the aforementioned Furmanavicius, Polish center Dominik Olejniczak, a 6-foot-11-inch freshman Karlis Silins, and another freshman, 6-foot-9-inch forward Nate Morris. They give the Rebels some much needed depth in a front court that was exceptionally thin a year ago.

“I think we’re pretty physical.

I think the quality of our depth is better. There’s not a big separation between No. 1 and No. 8,” Kennedy said.

He echoed Saiz’s remarks in that they realize there are large shoes to fill and no one guy can

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This team enters the season a little under the radar. Ranked ninth by the media at SEC Media Days and without a player on any of the preseason all-SEC teams, they feel as if they have something to prove. Armed with some bigger bodies on the interior, length on the perimeter and the “Dean of SEC Basketball” in Kennedy, who is the longest tenured coach in the league, this Ole Miss team looks like one eager to make some noise. After only one trip to the NCAA tournament in the last three years, the Rebels are hungry. Saiz is primed and ready to lead his troops to March.

“We’re ready,” Saiz said. “I don’t care what we’ve got to do to win. We’re going down fighting.”

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Stefan Moody is gone. The Rebels lost three of their top five rebounders, their best three passers (in terms of assists) and five of their top eight scorers to either transfer or graduation.

That team was bounced in the second round of the SEC tournament and did not appear in postseason play. But senior star and current SEC-leading rebounder Sebastian Saiz said he believes in his squad.

“This (2016-2017) team is the best I’ve been on in the past four years I’ve been here,” said Saiz.

“We all play together; we all contribute to the game. There is no one-man show, you know.

We all score; we all rebound.

We got a bunch of people doing a bunch of jobs.”

It’s hard to read that and not immediately think of last year’s SEC-leading scorer Stefan Moody. Moody commanded much of the offense last year, averaging 23.6 points per game, which translates roughly to onethird of the team’s points.

Relatively speaking, he was the one-man show on the offensive end of the floor. Saiz understands that with Moody out of the picture, he must take on a new and improved role on the team.

The 6-foot-9-inch forward flashed his range in Sunday’s scrimmage against Little Rock, splashing two three-point shots.

“I like it,” Saiz said. “You know, I have to step it up. If I want this team to play good, I must play good.”

The new-look Rebels won’t only need added range from Saiz: they’ll need big contributions from new acquisitions Cullen Neal, Deandre Burnett and Lithuanian forward Justas Furmanavicius if they want to succeed in today’s pace and space style of basketball.

Neal, a transfer from New Mexico State, and Burnett, a

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Ole Miss just hasn’t been able to find its stride this season. Even after their first two losses to Florida State and Alabama, hopes were high for the Rebels, as at times during those games they looked like one of the top teams in the nation. However, the Rebels have been unable to fix the second-half struggles and defensive shortcomings that plagued the team early on, and on Saturday, they dropped to 3-5 after losing 40-29 to Auburn.

“After meeting yesterday and watching the film, our kids competed and competed against what I think is one of the hotter and more talented football teams in the country right now,” Head Coach Hugh Freeze said. “You are right there, needed a couple of plays to go our way there at the end that didn’t which resulted in another loss. It continues to be an issue for us on defense, stopping the run and giving up explosive plays, and I have zero frustration in the effort of our kids. I do continue to have frustration over not being able to fix a recurring problem.”

Freeze will be trying another new rotation at linebacker this week after the defense allowed a running back to go for more than 200 yards for the second week in a row. Senior Rommel Mageo will be starting at the Mike linebacker position.

“He played in I think six snaps, and in all six he was sound in the right spot,” Freeze said.

Freeze said he wasn’t sure who would start at the Stinger position and fill out the rotation behind the starters.

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Head Coach Hugh Freeze speaks during Monday’s press conference about last week’s loss to Auburn. “(DeMarquis) Gates had an MRI yesterday, and we will see how that comes back today on his knee,” Freeze said. “He definitely did not play well, was not mobile, did not move around very well and was not physical. It will be hard to say today sitting here that with his knee issue that he would be the guy that we would go to right now. It would be between Willie (Hibbler) and (Detric) Bing-Dukes at the Mike and Tayler (Polk) and Ray Ray (Smith) and Temario (Strong) at the Stinger.”

To make matters worse for Ole Miss, an already thin offensive line unit is now even more hampered by injuries

after the Auburn game.

“This is one of those years where the injuries have just followed us around,” Freeze said. “Yesterday we didn’t have an offensive line for practice. Sean (Rawlings) is in a boot, and when he got hurt the other night it really hurt us in the tight red zone there on the third and fourth down because we had to call on (Robert) Conyers to try to get in there, and Conyers’ knee right now is tough for him to move it, and that really hurt us on those two plays there.

Both of them are questionable. Daronte (Bouldin) had a hip pointer, and he wasn’t doing really well yesterday ei-

ther. Rod Taylor did come out of his boot; we sure hope he can give it a go because we are going to need some bodies in the offensive line come Saturday.”

Freeze said he was going to try his best to fill the offensive line rotation without burning a redshirt, with Jacob Feeley and Talbot Buys listed as possibilities for Saturday.

For now, Freeze said the goal was to go 1-0 against Georgia Southern and focus on the rest of the schedule later.

“Traditionally, they have done extremely well when they are playing power five teams,” Freeze said. “They

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Freeze said Georgia Southern is a worthy opponent.

“I am glad we are home again,” Freeze said. “I encourage our fans to continue to keep supporting these kids and to be extremely loud to make communications difficult on the opponent.”

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