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The ban of a substance known as “K2” or “Spice” has been passed in the Mississippi cities of Moss Point and Gautier.

Moss Point and Gautier are the third and fourth cities to ban the substance in Mississippi.

In June, Southaven and Olive Branch in DeSoto County banned the product for sale or consumption.

Spice is a mix of herbs and synthetic cannabinoids that, when smoked, produce a high similar to that of marijuana.

The synthetic cannabis compound was created in a laboratory at Clemson University and was meant for research in creating therapeutic drugs and laboratory testing, according to Earnest Magazine, the Clemson University Engineering and Science magazine.

Spice comes in various flavors including strawberry and blueberry. It is marketed as herbal incense or potpourri, not as a way to obtain a legal high. It does not show up on drug tests, according to Marshall Fischer, part of Mississippi Narcotics Bureau.

The narcotics bureau has seen a larger number of synthetic cannabis users in the past year, Fisher said. He said he has met with various state lawmakers and bureaus in an attempt to get legislation to ban it.

The substance would be classified as a schedule 1 drug, meaning that there is no medicinal use for it.

Senator Gray Tollison said spice is basically a synthetic THC, an ingredient in marijuana.

When asked about a statewide ban of the substance, Tollison said, “We hope the governor puts in a special session about it, if not, it won’t be until January 2011.”

Spice was found in several tobacco and convenience stores in Oxford.

Some stores keep it in a case next to the cash register, but other stores require purchasers to ask for it by name. Prices locally range from $10 to $28, depending on the amount.

The stores willing to answer questions said that the substance sells, and that there is no typical age of the buyer in Oxford.

However, the store

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The Blind Side was more than a movie-- it was a movie that touched not only the hearts of viewers, but the hearts of those producing it.

Alcon Entertainment, the production company behind “The Blind Side,” was compelled to donate a sum of $25,000 to Ole Miss or nonprofit organization of Coach Nutt’s choice.

“Of course none of us involved in the project (the production of The Blind Side) could have possibly imagined the impact this movie would have, not only in a commercial sense, but most importantly in terms of how it affected countless lives,” Fredrick Smith, chairman of Alcon Entertainment, said in a letter to Nutt.

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Small bags of “spice” are arranged for sale in a local shop. The synthetic cannabis is currently legal in most parts of Mississippi.

owners and managers asked to remain nameless.

“I wish we never would have stocked it,” one store manager said.

Another spice merchant said that he had not heard the news of the ban along the Gulf Coast.

His supplier is located in a city near the ban areas.

Captain Keith Davis, of the Oxford Police Department Narcotics Division, said a ban on spice has yet to be discussed in the city government.

He also said there have been incidents related to the usage of K2, but the inability to charge for possession means no arrests for having or using it.

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member of the Boys and Girls Club of America board in Oxford.

“We [Boys and Girls Clubs] had launched our own campaign to raise money,” said Christi Grice, L.O.U. Clubhouse director. “So we were elated when Diana called us about the donation.”

The clubs in the North Mississippi region set a goal to raise $100,000. Each individual club was to raise a targeted amount of $20,000.

The Boys and Girls Club of America lost funding due to legislation and budget cuts, said Grice.

“I was so excited that I called to thank her again after she told me the first time,” said Grice.

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“Spice is not illegal, so we can’t track its use yet,” Davis said.

“Therefore, we can’t charge for it until the state or federal government makes it illegal.”

According to Fisher, many of the synthetic cannabinoid products are marked as harmful if consumed by humans on their packaging.

One death has been linked to spice usage, The New York Times reported on July 10.

Other side effects to usage have included severe vomiting and the loss of consciousness, Fisher said.

“There is a health risk involved,” Tollison said.

“Young people need to be very careful using it.”

Even regular marijuana users are smoking spice.

Fisher said that in a recent conversation a sheriff told him that marijuana users preferred spice to marijuana because it was “twice as high, if only for half the time.”

“There are reports that it is 100 times more potent than marijuana,” Fisher said.

Tennessee, Kansas, Georgia, Kentucky and Alabama have imposed statewide bans since the beginning of 2010. Since the beginning of July, both Missouri and Arkansas have put bans in place. Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Ohio and New Jersey are also looking to put prohibitions in place.

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SUIT SEEKS TO BLOCK MISS. ‘PERSONHOOD’ INITIATIVE JACKSON — A lawsuit filed in state court seeks to block a Mississippi “personhood” initiative that would define life as beginning at conception.

The proposed state constitutional amendment, pushed by people who want to end abortion, is scheduled on the ballot in November 2011. That’s the same time voters choose a governor, legislators and many other officials.

Robert McDuff of Jackson is one of the attorneys suing the state on behalf of Deborah Hughes and Cristen Hemmins, identified in court papers only as residents and registered voters in Lafayette County. Attorneys from groups that support abortion rights — Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the state and national chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union — helped file the

suit July 6 in Hinds County Circuit Court.

McDuff said Wednesday that the “personhood” proposal violates the Mississippi Constitution, which specifies the initiative process can’t be used to change the state Bill of Rights.

McDuff said redefining the word “person” would be a substantial change and could lead to government interference in the doctor-patient relationship.

“If a fertilized egg were entitled to due process, some doctors might fear that someone might sue them for the impact of a fertility treatment or for lifesaving measures that may be necessary when a woman suffers a miscarriage,” McDuff said in an interview.

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My relationship with Colonel Reb BY

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The relationship between Colonel Reb and me is strained, and I am happy to see him leave.

I am aware that I can take my educational plan elsewhere, but I choose not to. The University of Mississippi is MY school just as much as anyone who goes here, so the best thing that anyone can do is to get used to it.

But, for the sake of this, let’s recount why the intermingling of races on this campus is extremely important. To do this, I will kindly take all the people that have anything to do with day-to-day activities out of the equation if they are a minority race.

My day begins…

As I wake in the morning, I shower and get ready for school. The first thing I think about after my white chocolate mocha is that I have an English 224 class. We all know that The DM is the best way to jog our brains into thinking about romanticism, realism and how that affects our world.

Wait... The DM, Rebel Radio and NewsWatch are all under the direction of a minority.

Rewind.

So I wake up, get dressed, go to the local gas station and pick up the Oxford Eagle and proceed to my English class.

Whew, I almost messed up there.

After class, I’ll go to lunch at either the Union or the JC after a terribly long two-hour class. Due to the Union’s compromising position at the current time, I’ll go to the JC. (Hey, it’s more food there anyway.) As I make my way assuredly toward the JC, I see a huge crowd of summer camp kids in the doorway waiting for their “cool college kid lunch.”

Oh, wait... that’s not right, either.

There’s a note on the door that says “help wanted” because the staff at the JC decided to go work elsewhere, they didn’t feel like they belonged here.

As you look around, the diversity that I usually see on my beloved campus is gone.

I am the minority.

So much for the melting pot that America has always claimed to be, and for the UM creed that states: “The University of Mississippi is a community of learning dedicated to nur-

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But that was the university’s standpoint, not the “normal, everyday student.”

Back to the point.

Well, there is one main point, and that is unity - a small word that means a ton.

We as a whole voted to change the mascot so that the people that attend this university, whether minority or majority, can fully love the ideals that it stands for.

Let me be the voice of a portion of the student body that likes to remain quiet.

Colonel Reb was and is a figure that allows schisms in the Ole Miss family, and I am glad to see that my family decided to let him go, because the “tradition” that we all love should not be compromised by a symbol that will divide us.

I mean, Rebels tend to go against the grain when they are in their prime, but the fact still remains that we still have a rich tradition even as we move forward to becoming that great, American university.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Mia, I agree with the main idea behind your article “Spread the Love;” we should be polite and respectful and make the world a better place.

Nevertheless, you seem to need a lesson in American history. You confuse old TV shows and movies with reality. Happy-white-family-in-a-pretty-white-neighborhood TV shows, such as Leave it to Beaver, are simply a depiction of white nostalgia, not reality – it was a way for whites to deal with the beginning of the end of their inherited privilege in America due to major social changes – changes such as the increasing civil rights for

minorities or women’s suffrage. These shows mask the sufferings of minorities with white picket fences.

These were the days when women had no legal rights to their children, no recourse for dealing with domestic abuse or rape (which needed a witness), no means to support themselves financially – a time when women were at the mercy of their fathers and their husbands.

This was also a time when African-Americans and homosexuals were regularly cursed, beaten and killed for being what they were. They faced this hatred every day and had no effective legal protection.

What I am trying to say is that we should be proud

DRUG WAR

BY JACOB FULLER Columnist

And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.” - Genesis 1:29 There were 847,864 cannabis (marijuana) arrests in the U.S. in 2008, almost triple the number arrested in 1991.

In the past decade, more than 6.5 million cannabis arrests have been made in the U.S. - about the equivalent of the populations of Mississippi, New Mexico and Wyoming combined. About 89 percent of those arrests were for simple possession only.

That means a cannabis smoker is arrested every 38 seconds in the U.S.

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At the end of 2009, there were more than 1.6 million Americans in state or federal prison. That is a population larger than that of 12 states and the District of Columbia.

The majority were serving time for drug-related offenses.

Make no mistake: this is prohibition. The money, man power, prison cells and multiyear terms spent to enforce this prohibition grandly dwarf the alcohol prohibition of the 1920s and early 1930s, and they didn’t even bother changing the Constitution this time.

But just like that prohibition, there is money to be made in illegal drugs, and those making the most money have bank accounts and laundry lists of violent crimes that would make Al Capone look like Mother Teresa.

These people know if illegal drugs (cannabis most of all) are legalized, their fortune and power will be taken from them. So, like Capone, they have no interest in seeing their product legalized. When millions of people demand an illegal product, the person who is willing to do anything to anyone to make a dollar is who will gain the most.

As we should have learned almost 80 years ago, prohibition only creates more violent crime and empowers evil men.

Alas, they are not the only ones that stand to lose. If illegal drugs were legalized in this country, prisons would empty and the majority of police and prison guards on force would have little to nothing to do with their day.

For you see, marijuana ar-

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of how far we have come as a society and that we absolutely do have morals today - more than we’ve ever had. Please don’t wish that you could take all of the civil and legal rights that so many men and women fought for and trade them for a pretty dress and a lacy parasol. I for one am grateful to be alive now in this era where, for the most part, it is socially acceptable for women and other minorities to pursue their own happiness.

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rests far exceed the number of arrests for manslaughter, murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault combined.

Thousands of jobs would be lost in the government as well as in the drug dealing business that supports many Americans.

Richard Nixon created the DEA in 1973 and our nation has never been the same. The American government’s war on drugs and its own people began.

Are Nixon’s ideals really those of our America today? Is the opinion of the most shamed president in our nation’s histo-

ry more valuable than those of tens of millions of Americans today?

It is time we stood and let our voices be heard, America.

We are in two overseas wars that we do not want and one against our own people, because we allow men we vote for like Nixon, Bush and Obama to make our decisions for us.

And they do so on the words of the lobbyists, not the people.

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Girls club since 2008.

With funding being so low, the donation will have major effects of the care of over a 150 children.

Grice said her first concern is the children. “Being able to teach them; that alone is what draws me to the program.”

The Boys and Girls club is a safe haven for many children with working parents during the summer.

The Nutt family is very dedicated to the well-being of the Boys and Girls Club, and their choice to volunteer make that

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fact very evident.

On July 31 at 7 p.m. Nutt and Dan Mullen, the head coach for Mississippi State, will speak at “Tailgating Together for Our Kids.”

The event will be held at the BancorpSouth Conference Center in Tupelo.

Proceeds from the event will go directly to the Boys and Girls Clubs of North Mississippi.

There will be a silent auction for school memorabilia.

Dinner is $50, and dinner and cocktail hour is $100 to attend the fundraiser.

Liberty Counsel, has worked with those who gathered signatures to put the amendment on the Mississippi ballot. He said McDuff ’s example about possible lawsuits against physicians is “speculative.”

“That hardly seems the basis to bring a legal challenge,” Crampton said.

Abortion opponent Les Riley of Pontotoc led the effort to gather more than 106,000 signatures for the initiative.

“We want to make sure that all human beings have equal protection under the law,” Riley

said Wednesday.

The defendant is Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, who certified that Riley and others had gathered enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot. Hosemann also has said he supports the proposed amendment.

“I believe Mississippians do have the right to amend their laws and the constitution by the initiative process followed by an open vote of the electorate,” Hosemann said Wednesday. “I think that’s what the Legislature intended.”

Attorney General Jim Hood’s office will defend the state in the lawsuit, and Hood said he expects to receive help from attorneys for those leading the initiative. No trial date has been set.

Crampton said he disagrees with McDuff ’s argument that the “personhood” amendment would substantially change the state Bill of Rights.

“We think this amendment is perfectly appropriate within the confines of the rules laid down by the state of Mississippi for citizen initiatives,” Crampton said.

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BP begins testing new cap over Gulf oil leak NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP allayed last-minute government fears of making the disaster worse and started trying to slowly choke off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, in the hope of finally stopping the leak.

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the Obama administration’s point man on the disaster, said the government gave the go-ahead after carefully reviewing the risks of the procedure.

The plan is a test of whether a new temporary well cap can withstand the pressure and ultimately contain the oil.

“What we didn’t want to do is compound that problem by making an irreversible mistake,” he said at the end of a 24-hour roller-coaster of hopes raised, hopes dashed and hopes raised again along the Gulf Coast.

The cap — a 75-ton metal stack of pipes and valves — was lowered onto the well on Monday in hopes of either bottling up the oil inside the well machinery, or capturing it and funneling it to the surface. But before BP could test the equipment, the government intervened because of second thoughts about whether the buildup of pressure from the gushing oil could rupture the walls of the well and make the leak worse.

“We sat long and hard about delaying

the tests,” Allen said. He said that the pause was necessary in the interest of the public, the environment and safety, and that officials were convinced the test could go forward.

If the cap works, it will enable BP to stop the oil from gushing into the sea, either by holding all the oil inside the well machinery like a stopper or, if the pressure is too great, channeling some though lines to as many as four collection ships.

The test began with BP shutting off pipes that were funneling some of the oil to ships on the surface so the full force of the gusher went up into the cap.

Then deep-sea robots began slowly closing, one at a time, three openings in the cap that let oil pass through. Ultimately, the flow of crude will be blocked entirely. All along, engineers will be watching pressure readings to learn whether the well is intact. The first two valves shut off like a light switch, while the third works more like a dimmer and takes longer to close off.

Allen said BP will monitor the results every six hours and end the test after 48 hours to evaluate the findings.

The one-day delay came just when it looked as if the Gulf oil crisis was nearing an end. The holdup was met with

disappointment along the Gulf Coast.

“This thing’s been going on for so long now, it’s time to take a gamble,” said Mitch Jurisich, a third-generation oyster farmer from Empire, La. “If it’s going to blow the bottom of the ocean out, it’s just going to blow the bottom out.”

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the government acted “out of an abundance of caution to do no harm,” and added that he did not consider the delay to be “some giant setback.”

With the testing on hold, oil continued to spew nearly unimpeded into the water. Two vessels on the surface collected about 700,000 gallons on Tuesday, BP said. The government estimates 1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons are leaking every day.

BP also said it was halting drilling for the duration of the test on one of two relief wells that are intended to plug the gusher permanently from deep underground. The company said it was stopping the work because it was not clear what effect the testing of the cap could have on it. Work on the other relief well had already been stopped according to plan.

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“We’re going to get this thing stopped as fast as we can,” he said. “If it is not in the next couple of days with the test, we’ll do it with the relief wells.”

Tony Wood, director of the National Spill Control School at Texas A&MCorpus Christi, said the government’s caution is a prudent course, because so much of the work being contemplated is uncharted territory.

Wood said trapping the erupting oil in the cap could increase pressure inside the casing, or the piping inside the well, and could fracture it until it is leaking like a sieve. That could make it impossible to plug up the well.

The caution follows a string of failed attempts by BP to contain the leak, including the use of a giant concrete-andsteel box that quickly became encased in ice-like crystals; a colossal siphon tube that trapped very little oil, and an effort to jam the well by pumping in mud and shredded rubber.

As of Wednesday, the 85th day of the disaster, between 92 million and 182 million gallons of oil had spewed into the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon rig leased by BP exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.

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the dream.

Since the decision, the group has released their debut album, “Recreational Vehicles,” which has been well received by critics and fans alike and has toured heavily backing the album and the group’s name.

“The reception has been great,” Harris said. “Everywhere we’ve been we’ve gotten a lot of ‘we really love the record and love the band,’ which has been really awesome to see us grow in the last year.”

Although, it hasn’t all been peaches and cream for the band.

“We’ve definitely had some nights where there was like 15 or 20 people at shows. And you know, you’re used to playing around Oxford where you do really well, so at first it was much harder than we thought it was going to be,” Harris said.

But the lack of fans showing up was not enough of a deterrent to keep the band from pushing forward. The band quickly realized that those fans wanted to be there and they were going to give them the best show they could give them.

The hard work has paid off and the band is starting to notice an increase in attendance, especially since their performances at Wakarusa.

“Ever since Wakarusa we can really tell a difference when we go to different cities,” Harris said. “There’s always somebody at the show from the southeast

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During the July 4th weekend, the group played at two late night shows following jam band giant Phish’s performances in Alpharetta, Georgia.

The band was worried beforehand, however, because Zoogma was playing in Atlanta, which is about 30 minutes northeast of Alpharetta.

But the shows brought in more than 300 people each night, a testament to the band’s growing fan base.

“It’s picking up especially with Nashville, Knoxville, Athens, Atlanta, and those kind of cities and surrounding areas are where we have focused on in the past six months and its showing. They’re becoming our biggest markets,” Harris said.

The group’s strategy has been to start in the Oxford area then

build out from there. Once an area has been conquered, the group will move to another city where they will build up another area until the Southeast has been taken care of.

With much of 2010 still left, the band has dates planned through November including stops in Nashville, Austin and an appearance at the Bear Creek Music and Arts festival.

In the future, Zoogma hopes to continue writing and touring to grow their fan base. And once the group believes they have established themselves in the Southeast enough, they plan to move into another area of the country to begin establishing with no signs of slowing down.

“We’ve all said as long as the group is still progressing, the dream is worth chasing, and things are definitely progressing,” Harris said.

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We’ve all said as long as the group is still progressing, the dream is worth chasing, and things are definitely progressing

For any band on the rise, the chance to play at a big-name music festival is a chance that is hard to pass up.

In early June, native Oxford band Zoogma, had the opportunity to perform at the 2010 Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival in Ozark, Ark. The group wasn’t too pleased with their place initially, though.

“When we first found out that was our slot we were disappointed because we knew nobody was going to come out at noon on Friday,” Zoogma drummer Matt Harris said.

“We got there and started the first few songs, and it was like 300 people there, but about half way through the set we looked up and there was people all the way to the back!”

Against the odds, the group’s performance made them the talk of the festival and went over so well that they were asked Saturday to perform a second show Sunday.

“The first two songs (on Friday) we could see a lot of our friends out there from like Oxford and Memphis, and then about halfway through people started piling in, and it was packed,” Harris said. “You could definitely feel the energy as more people came in, and we kept looking at each other like ‘this is happening!’ It was the most fun I’ve had playing music.”

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Room for Rent 1 Female roommate needed at High Pointe 3BDR/3BA, $500/ month, Furnished. Utilities Included. (662)6890303. roommate needed: Share a new 3-BR Condominium, 317 Price St., 1 Mi. from the Grove and less than a mile from the Square. Rent is $750 including utilities. Call Dylan (770) 309-7197

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SEC RANKINGS: RBs EACH THURSDAY THE DM’S PAUL KATOOL WILL RANK SEC TEAMS BY POSITION. NEXT WEEK: QUARTERBACKS 1. Alabama: Alabama could break out the ‘ole wishbone offense and win another national championship with last year’s Heisman Trophy winner, Mark Ingram, and Trent Richardson running the rock.

They make up the best tailback tandem in the country, and some are saying that Richardson is better than his decorated teammate.

2. Georgia: Washaun Ealey didn’t even get a snap through the first four games of the season last year, but the sophomore had at least 70 yards during the remainder of ’09. Ealey’s 183 rushing yards in the Bulldogs’ regular season finale against Georgia Tech put the tailback on the map for this coming season.

3. Auburn: Onterio McCalebb started out with a bang as a freshman breaking the 100-yard barrier in Auburn’s first two games, but an early-season ankle injury slowed his pace. Michael Dyer, the crowned jewel of Auburn’s 2009 recruiting class, will join McCalebb in the fall.

4. Kentucky: Track skills don’t

necessarily translate to the gridiron, but they have for Derrick Locke, who bounced back nicely from an injury-ridden sophomore campaign with more than 900 yards on the ground last year. The speedy senior is the featured back without another established runner on the roster.

5. Florida: Jeffrey Demps and Chris Rainey provide the speed essential to the Gator’s spread option attack. Emmanuel Moody, the battering ram of the group, has one more season in Gainesville to establish himself as a real threat in the Gator’s offense.

6. Ole Miss: The school up north (come on, let’s embrace it; it’ll drive those over in the pasture crazy) has a bevy of tailbacks, starting with the between-the-tackles trio of Brandon Bolden, Rodney Scott and Enrique Davis. Then there are the scatbacks – the miniscule Korvic Neat and former safety Derrick Herman. Brandon Bolden is the veteran and will most likely lead the team in carries, but he has to produce with so many other

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Junior Brandon Bolden sits atop the Ole Miss running back depth chart but will face competition from Rodney Scott, Enrique Davis, Korvic Neat and Derrick Herman for the opportunity to tote the rock.

runners competing for touches.

7. Vanderbilt: The Commodores might lack skill at many positions, but they have a rising star at running back in Warren Norman.

As a freshman, Norman rushed for 783 yards last year – an impressive total – but he needs to improve on his three touchdowns from ’09 to give Vanderbilt’s offense a needed jolt in the fall.

8. Arkansas: The passing game will understandably be the focal point of the offense, but when the Razorbacks do choose to run they have some solid options. Ronnie Wingo Jr., who was second on the team in rushing touchdowns, and Broderick Green – weighing in at 250 pounds – are both intriguing

players. Dennis Johnson and Kniles Davis round out a formidable foursome.

9. LSU: The hype in Baton Rouge this spring has surrounded redshirt freshman Michael Ford, a homegrown talent that wowed fans of the purple and gold with a phenomenal performance in the spring game. Ford will look to invigorate a rushing offense that ranked No. 11 in the SEC last year.

10. South Carolina: The Gamecock’s rushing attack was stagnant last year as they finished last in the SEC. Enter incoming blue-chip signee Marcus Lattimore, a bigbodied, versatile tailback that hails from James F. Byrnes High School, one of the top prep football pro-

grams in the nation. Perhaps Lattimore can solve the Visor’s rushing woes.

11. Mississippi State: Anthony Dixon was the offense for the Bulldogs in 2009 with a passing game that never managed to get off the ground. Mississippi State is hoping the combination of junior college transfer Vick Ballard and Robert Elliot provide production for the Bulldogs.

12. Tennessee: Montario Hardesty is gone to the Cleveland Browns, and former super recruit Bryce Brown isn’t listed on the Volunteer’s roster. That leaves David Oku and Tauren Poole as the starters, but the pair combined for less than 200 yards rushing last year.

ALL-AMERICAN GOLFER REPRESENTS OLE MISS NATIONALLY AND WORLDWIDE golfers in the country. In addition, when his name does make the paper, it’s for all the right reasons and none of the wrong ones.

Regretfully, college golfers who do all the right things cannot be sensationalized quite like a wide receiver that caught a total of 12 passes last season being dismissed from the football team can (Rick Comegy 1, SWAC 0). Let’s give credit where credit is due.

The finance major from Brandon, MS, has earned a place on the All-SEC Academic Honor Roll in each of his first three years and has found his way onto the UMAA Honor Roll and the Dean’s Honor Roll three times each.

That’s impressive when you consider how much time he’s spent on the golf course.

He captured his first collegiate title in what he considers his best performance of last season by winning Vanderbilt’s Mason Rudolph Championship. He shot a career best 64 in the first round and finished eleven under par to win the tournament by five strokes.

More recently, Randolph traveled to Northern Ireland, home of this year’s Palmer Cup. The event, named after who you think it’s named after, is a marquee matchup similar to the Ryder Cup that pits eight of the best college players in America against eight of Europe’s best. (Teams are selected according to player’s nationality, not the location of their respective universities.)

Randolph was an integral part of the United States’ first Palmer Cup victory on European soil by earn-

ing the team three of the points it scored in a 13-11 victory.

He says the Cup had a lot of highlights, but the one that sticks out to him the most was getting to meet Northern Irish golf pro Graeme McDowell just one week removed from his U.S. Open Championship.

So what helped Ole Miss sign such a talented player out of high school?

“I chose Ole Miss because Coach Ross had just taken the (head coaching) job back, and I knew that he was going to do everything in his power to help Ole Miss get back to winning SEC Championships like it was before he left,” Randolph said.

“Coach Ross has definitely helped me the most since I’ve been here.

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Without a doubt, the hottest issue on the Ole Miss Campus at the moment is the selection of a new mascot and the seven years our university has taken to find a new representation of all the great things going on around campus. Maybe we’re looking a bit too hard.

Enter into the conversation rising senior Jonathan Randolph – a first team All-American that is much more capable of representing what it means to be an Ole Miss Rebel than any foam-headed sideline space taker we could draw up.

Randolph is worthy of the title “student-athlete” – he excels in the classroom and also happens to double as one of the best collegiate

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a player I need to help myself improve.”

While he’s already accomplished a great deal, Randolph says he and the rest of the team are already focused on what lies ahead.

“As a team I expect us to be much more consistent this year with all of the experience we’re bringing back, and then make some serious noise in the post-season when it rolls around,” he said. “Individually, I would just like to keep improving on what I’ve been doing.”

Randolph says he is working on improving his overall consistency on the course, but he was as consistent as they come in the SEC last year when he led the conference with a 70.08 stroke average.

Randolph is hoping that continuing to develop a strong mental game will pay dividends once he exhausts his eligibility and begins his quest for a PGA Tour card. Until then, he hopes the Ole Miss program continues to take large steps forward.

“We finished second at SEC’s last year and we have our goals set even higher for this year,” he said.

“We want to thank everyone for the continued support and know that we will work tirelessly over the next year to bring back as many trophies to Oxford as we can.”

Can a black bear or a blues musician represent you? Or will a crusty old man with a handlebar moustache forever be your mascot? Or, are you as fed up with adults arguing over the likeness of a cartoon character as I am?

Regardless of how that petty seven-year squabble ends, Jonathan Randolph will be a great representative for Ole Miss on some of the PGA Tour’s biggest stages for years to come.

Thank God.