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Rebel the Black Bear coming to life

BY PAUL KATOOL Sports Editor

On the corner of Michael Thompson’s desk in the Ole Miss Athletics building sits a fabric sample: It is a square of the fur that will soon make up Rebel the Black Bear’s grizzly pelt.

Thompson, Ole Miss senior associate A.D. for communications and marketing, has worked only six months in a job that includes overseeing the Rebels’ external marketing efforts and all components of

media and public relations.

Cast into the proverbial fire, Thompson was charged with taking Rebel from the concept board to the sidelines of Ole Miss sporting events and beyond.

Yes, the Rebel the Black Bear costume – like it or not – is currently in production and should take only a few more weeks to complete.

Thanks to a company called Street Characters, the costume will be revealed sometime in 2011, either later in the spring

or in the fall.

Thompson, a 2001 graduate of Ole Miss marketing, said realizing Rebel has been a fourstep process. Production of the costume and working through licensing have been just the first two.

However, the third step, finding the actual person or people to wear the costume and “become” Rebel, has proven to be an arduous task.

“What people don’t realize See REBEL, PAGE 15

ASB candidates debate for Tuesday’s votes

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Associated Student Body presidential candidates Taylor McGraw and Cortez Moss discuss issues ranging from a new student union to increased ASB funding at Friday evening’s debate held in the Overby Center.

BY CAIN MADDEN Campus News Editor

Many students arrived at the Associated Student Body candidate debate Friday afternoon with their candidates already picked.

But electrical engineering freshman Zach Morgan said he brought one of his friends because the friend had not made up his mind on who he was going to vote for Tuesday.

“He is on the fence about who to vote for, so he came here to figure that out,” Morgan said. “I made up my mind when their platforms came out, and I thought Cortez (Moss) had the best platform I could get behind.”

Others came for Taylor McGraw, who like Moss, was running for ASB president, including Reese Logan, a biochemistry freshman.

“I wanted to come out and see Taylor and support him,” Logan said.

The Presidents When moderator Zach Cruthirds asked the candidates if they had the power to force the administration to grant one request, McGraw sided with helping student organizations, and Moss felt improving the campus to help with recruitment was more important.

“If I had a magic genie and could call up Chancellor (Dan) Jones to make one thing happen, I would say give as much money to the ASB as we can,” said McGraw, who spoke first on this question due to an earlier coin toss. “I believe in capitalism. If you give student organizations money, organizations like the gospel choir that have a passion for the

campus, I believe they will do good things for the campus.”

McGraw said the ASB receives $70,000 to $80,000 in a good year, and after ASB operational costs, there is only approximately $30,000 left to go to all the campus organizations.

“Split that money that many ways, and they have enough for a pizza party,” McGraw said. “I will work with the new treasurer to get our budget in line with other schools in the SEC. Florida’s ASB has $16 million, but I guess the average is $200,000 to $300,000.

Ours is pitiful.”

While Moss said he’d be grateful to see more money going to the gospel choir, which he is president of, he said he believes the University should get started on the new student union and recreation center.

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Last Tuesday a school bus collided with an 18-wheeler, killing two high school teachers from Ackerman High School and the driver of the 18-wheeler.

Junior Jessi Foust, a graduate from Ackerman High, said she knew all of the people on the school buses who were killed and injured in the event. She said that coach Steven Moss, 37, who was killed in the accident, taught one of her history classes and attended the same church, Ackerman Baptist Church.

Foust said her parents were informed about the accident Tuesday afternoon.

“It’s just a really sad situation that has affected everyone in the community,” she said.

Pastor Danny Irvin of Ackerman Baptist Church said Moss was an active member.

The church, along with other churches in the area, held special prayer services Tuesday night.

“No one got up and spoke last night, it was just everyone coming together and hugging, crying and praying,” Irvin said.

Irvin was not at the prayer service but was instead with the Moss family.

Phyllis Graham, a special education teacher who was killed in the accident, only went on the trip because one of her students attended, Irvin said.

The school held an assembly Wednesday morning and invited all the ministers to come down and speak to the kids who needed help.

“Everyone will be fine,” Irvin said. “Coach Moss was a good Christian man, and we know he will be in heaven. There will be a sense of loss, but everyone in this community will come through just fine.”

Irvin said he noticed how extensive the damage to the bus was and how lucky it was that none of the students were injured.

“God definitely had his hand over the young people on that bus protecting them,” he said.

“It just shows that God is in control.”

Brian Mobley, public affairs officer for the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol, was present at the scene.

The accident occurred around 2 p.m. on Mississippi Highway 8 approximately one mile west

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Teen Mom: Prevention or Endorsement?

BY JENNIFER NASSAR Columnist

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If MTV’s intent to air “Teen Mom” is the prevention of teen pregnancy, then they are doing a terrible job.

I look at the girls on “Teen Mom” and wonder how MTV could think these girls are positive role models who show that teen parenthood isn’t a life any teen wants. If MTV wants to promote that message, don’t put girls on the show who are more concerned with their dating life or publicity than with raising their child.

I see the girls on that show who don’t have a clue, who fight with their parents and beat up their boyfriend/fiance/baby daddy.

While that’s normal for the average teenager (minus beating up a boyfriend), I hope that doesn’t happen a lot.

While on the subject of abuse, I’m going to point out Amber.

For those who don’t watch the show, Amber is notorious for her emotional and physical abuse toward her on-again-off-again

fiance Gary. While they both take part in fighting, Amber takes things further by screaming louder, cursing and hitting Gary in front of their daughter.

Watching that show, I often think, “Child protective services needs to break through the door and take that baby.”

I don’t know if Amber does that because that’s how she is or because she thinks Gary won’t hit her back because she’s a girl.

Either way, it’s not acceptable, even for a “reality television star.”

While it’s safe to say that teen motherhood is stressful, that is no excuse for physically hurting someone, especially in front of a child.

Beside the emotional issues, “Teen Mom” makes teen pregnancy look way too easy.

I’ve seen a few of the girls from the series work as waitresses, and yet they go home to nice apartments and move to Nashville with a new boyfriend.

I highly doubt the average per-

son can afford all of that along with baby expenses while working as a waitress without mom and dad footing the bill.

Another thing that irritates me is that in times of financial crisis, the girls whine and complain that they’re broke and nobody will help them. Girls, you’re getting help, whether it’s from your parents or your paycheck from MTV. I don’t believe for a second that those girls don’t get paid for doing the show. I’m not saying that receiving help is a bad thing, but just admit it.

Also, the publicity they get is ludicrous. I see the girls on magazine covers and all over the news.

Whenever they’re in magazine articles and posing for pictures, they don’t look too stressed or broken – they look quite calm and put-together.

We live in a crazy world where people will do just about anything to get their 15 minutes of fame and often believe every-

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thing they see on so-called reality television.

Today, people are killing, stealing, faking and just being downright weird to get their face out there.

Then, this show comes along about teen moms living a stressful life on camera and a glamorous one off.

Congratulations, MTV, for making it 10 times easier for teenage girls to get their fame.

Even if they were having a hard time, it communicates that to get fame and money, it’s easy: just get pregnant before you hit 20.

I am in no way taking aim at teen mothers. I respect and admire them for the sacrifices they make for the best interest of their children.

It happens everywhere. It’s not the worst thing in the world, but I’m pretty sure girls who live the everyday life of being a teen mother wouldn’t recommend it, regardless of how much they love their children.

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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, I was very disappointed to see Josh Clark’s unfortunate contribution to the Daily Mississippian on February 9, in which a Mississippi resident is depicted taking Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize away from him, apparently due to the fact that it snowed in Mississippi this year, and this incidence somehow proves global warming false.

In a part of the country where a staggering number of misinformed residents have a tendency to take pride in a denial of science for nothing but political purposes, publishing such a contribution is simply irresponsible, whether or not Mr. Clark actually shares the beliefs of the Mississippian resident he so embarrassingly portrayed.

I encourage those students

for which this caricature of Mississippians is apt to venture outside their usual source of (mis)information and learn about climate change from a variety of sources, especially scientific journals and other academically relevant publications. One article I thought to be particularly important was one published in the New York Times on Christmas this year entitled “Bundle Up, It’s Global Warming,” in which author and environmental researcher Judah Cohen explains that “we’re freezing not in spite of global warming, but because of it.” This may prove very educational.

I am by no means attempting to defend Al Gore or his actions or accomplishments personally. I am, however, attempting to defend reason. Especially in an academic setting like our university, the denial

of science without valid reason is extremely dangerous to what we as a community set out to do: learn. A closed mind is a poison to this effort.

I urge Mr. Clark to carefully consider the implications of future contributions to the Daily Mississippian upon our community. Working for a newspaper, whether international or local, is a tremendous responsibility and should not be used, even mistakenly or facetiously, for such harmful purposes as spreading misinformation and closed-mindedness.

Kira Thomas Junior International Studies Mr. Clark, I’m confused as to the purpose of your cartoon in last Thursday’s issue of the

Daily Mississippian. If you were trying to say due to the recent snowfall, the issue of the global warming is somehow not valid, then I feel obligated to tell you that you are severely misguided and ill-informed in this assumption.

Perhaps you haven’t seen the news regarding the floods in Australia and Brazil or the record high temperatures recorded this winter in Canada or you may have already forgotten that 2010 was also the hottest year on record, but all of these would seem to suggest that global climate change is real. Global warming or more accurately put, global climate change is just that: global.

Just because it’s been unusually cold this year in Missis-

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sippi does not negate the fact that our globe is experiencing severe climate changes. On the other hand, if this were an attempt to comment on the prevalence of ignorance among Mississippians regarding the issue of global climate change, I feel it was too poorly done to accurately communicate such a sentiment. In the future, please make some attempt to fact check before publishing your cartoons.

P.S.: For more information on this issue, might I suggest Al Gore’s 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.

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of Calhoun City in Calhoun County.

Mobley said that upon arriving it appeared that Gary Bailey, 54, of Mantachie, was traveling east on Mississippi Highway 8, operating a 2010 International semi-tractor/ trailer. It appears that his vehicle and a 2000 International school bus, operated by Shane Burton, 40, of Ackerman, side-swiped each other.

The 18-wheeler and a second school bus, operated by Moss, then collided head-on.

The buses were carrying seniors from Ackerman High School returning from a visit to Oxford and the University of Mississippi.

Mobley said that Burton, the driver of the first bus, suf-

fered minor injuries in the accident.

There were approximately 57 students traveling between the two buses, Mobley said.

Approximately 17 of the students were carried to local hospitals by ambulance, private vehicles and one student was airlifted to North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo.

“None of the students appear to have received lifethreatening injuries in the crash,” Mobley said.

Traffic came to a halt for about six hours as crews worked until the crash scene could be cleared.

The accident remains under investigation by the Mississippi Highway Patrol.

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Empty Bowls, an annual fundraiser for the Oxford Food Pantry, will take place today at the OxfordUniversity Methodist Church from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Participants pay $15 for a bowl of soup, a piece of bread and a bottle of water, with all benefits going to the food pantry.

The soup is served in bowls crafted by the University of Mississippi’s Mud Daubers, area Girl Scouts and local potters, such as Ron Dale and Jennifer Pace. According to event organizer June Rosentreter, about 1,000 bowls have been made.

Participants choose their bowl as a reminder of the meal’s purpose: that someone’s bowl is always empty.

“It is such a great thing to do and be a part of,” said Barbara Smith, a

volunteer for the organization for the past eight years. “Many people have worked extremely hard to make this possible, and it is all being done for a good cause.”

Local restaurants including Bottletree Bakery, Emileigh’s Bakery, Honey Bee Bakery, Larson’s Big Star and Aramark will provide the soups and breads.

Empty Bowls is an independently organized worldwide project. Its purpose is to provide help for organizations, like the pantry, that fight hunger, while advocating awareness about local hunger issues.

This fundraiser came to Oxford as a suggestion by Ron Dale, a ceramics professor at Ole Miss. He knew one of his students, Rosentreter, volunteered for the Pantry and told her about the event.

She has been in charge of the fundraiser since it began eight years

ago.

“This fundraiser is a cooperative effort with people at the pantry, the restaurants helping with the food, the community and the many volunteers who have done so much to put this on,” Rosentreter said.

Rosentreter said that about 800 people attend each year.

This year’s event had to be rescheduled because of the weather last week and now conflicts with a fundraiser being put on by St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.

The pantry is Oxford’s local food bank, providing food for the homebound and needy. In 2010, they helped an estimated 8,000 people.

It is run completely by volunteers.

Empty Bowls is its only fundraiser and raised $15,000 last year.

There will be reserved parking in the church’s parking lot, located at Tyler Avenue and 10th Street.

Traffic accidents down on campus during snow

BY CAIN MADDEN Campus News Editor

University Police Department officials said traffic accidents on campus were below average during the snow days.

Michael Harmon, UPD captain of field operations, said there are typically three to four accidents a day on campus.

“When it is 90 degrees and sunny, we have three to four accidents a day,” Harmon said. “So, I consider it pretty fortunate that we only had five accidents over a two-day period.”

Dean of Students Sparky Reardon serves on the critical action team that made the recommendation to close the campus Wednesday and Thursday.

“Closing the campus likely contributed in keeping the accidents

down,” Reardon said.

Although we do our best to maintain the education order of the institution, sometimes you have to make the call for folks to stay home.”

Reardon said the University does play a role in keeping accidents down.

“I think the best thing that the University can do is provide weather information in advance and keep our community informed about weather and road conditions,” Reardon said. “Individuals are going to make their own decisions. We hope that they are wise ones.”

Harmon said the wise decision is to stay home when road conditions are bad.

“But if you do go out, be careful of your surroundings, and slow down,” Harmon said. “When you

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hit an icy spot, the tendency is to slam on the brakes, but don’t do that because you will slide.”

Overall, Harmon said he was impressed with how the students handled it.

“I think students were careful and that kept accidents down,” Harmon said. “Hopefully, people will continue to pay attention to these things and be safe.”

The first accident on campus happened at 1:55 p.m. Wednesday. It was a two-car accident involving a black Honda Civic and a black Ford Explorer at the intersection of Jackson Avenue and Rebel Drive. Harmon said one car hit the other because of the ice.

The second accident was a hitand-run Thursday at 10:15 a.m.

A vehicle hit the side of a blue Ford Escape that was parked in the Women’s Terrace parking lot.

The third accident was Thursday at 1:04 p.m., involving a University telecommunications truck and a GMC truck. Harmon said one truck slid into the other.

The fourth and fifth accidents were also hit-and-run problems that were reported Thursday. One was reported at 3:30 p.m. and the other at 7:16 p.m.

The 3:30 report involved a black Nissan Altima that was hit during the men’s basketball game Wednesday night. The final accident involved a red Mercedes at Crosby Hall.

“There are good people in the world who will leave a note with the contact information for people to contact them after they get out of class,” Harmon said. “But this is very rare.

“Usually, we try to get a tip from the victim or a witness to help us track down the other person in the hit-and-run. Also, if there is a paint transfer, we can contact body shops to see if there is any work being done on a car of that color.”

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Sorority holds event to improve self-worth in grade-school girls

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Saturday in Bryant Hall and the Barnard Observatory, the Theta Psi chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority hosted its first P.R.I.N.C.E.S.S. Summit.

P.R.I.N.C.E.S.S. is an acronym for preparing respective individuals by nurturing character and encouraging service and scholarship.

“It’s going to be a lot of work, but it’s worth it,” AKA member Jinnifer Jackson said.

The summit was intended to encourage girls from grades

6 to 8. The girls played icebreaker games to get know each other, then broke off into workshops with speakers.

“We chose speakers by our personal preferences,” event organizer Gloria Howell said.

Speakers for the day included Kathy Marshall-Smith with “I See the God in You,”

Dr. Catherine Woodyard with “Healthy Body, Healthy Environment,” and Gloria Webber with “Confidence, Motivation, and Assertiveness.”

The itinerary for the day also included a panel of college students that were present to discuss issues related to adolescent relationships with the

young ladies who attended the summit. The panel included students Chigozie Udemgba, Cortez Moss, Diana Price, Adrian Turner, Morgan Lindsey Burnett, Alexa Lampkin and Chioma Udemgba.

Joana Edwards, from the department of forensics, was the keynote speaker for the lunch hour.

“People from everywhere were just giving, probably because of the mission,” Howell said.

The attendees also enjoyed their time at the summit.

“It’s been really fun, and I’ve met a lot of friends,” summit attendee Miriah Stacey said.

“I like that they helped me change the way I think about myself,” attendee Bianca Thompson said.

Pre-registration for the summit for was free for all girls, and if any decided to attend the day of, there was a $10 charge.

The girls were served two meals, breakfast and lunch, and were given a snack to take home.

The members of Alpha Kappa Alpha said they plan to hold the event annually and possibly make it a two-day event.

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“This is where the bulk of everything happens on campus,” Moss said. “We cannot move forward in getting recruits if we don’t build a new union or rec center.

“If you don’t feel like you can get your best work out, or get your best meal on at the union, then you are skeptical about coming here.’

The first topic of the debate was in line with both public policy students’ “magic genie” changes — dealing with budget cuts.

“Last year, we got cut 7 percent, and we are expecting more cuts this year,” said Moss, who spoke first due to the coin toss. “We’ve done a good job in not letting it affect us as badly as other universities. For example, we have not laid off any professors.”

Moss said most importantly, students needed to continue to go to Jackson to argue against budget cuts. As far as ideas the University could implement, Moss said he did have a couple of ideas, and he is also open to sitting down and talking with students about any ideas they may have.

“One way, is to switch from

webmail to Gmail,” Moss said.

“We spend thousands on webmail that can be reallocated.

“Another way is auditing our revenue stream — look at where it is coming from and where it is going and redirect it if we can.”

McGraw said he agreed with Moss in continuing to visit the capitol. McGraw also wants to work with the Lyceum, especially in keeping any budget cuts away from the ASB. “I want to look at areas on campus that are going to get cut, and try to find some alternate way to get around that,” McGraw said. “But if something gets cut, I hope it is not ASB, because there is no better investment they can make than in our students. Our organizations do a lot, and if they had money, they could do a lot more.”

Another important topic of the debate was Ole Miss athletics.

Moss, who spoke first, said maintaining rebel pride through the mascot change was something he would focus on.

“I don’t think it will be easy, but I have confidence,” Moss said. “One thing, is to insure

that we will always be the Ole Miss Rebels. Secondly, we need to set up and develop an implementation plan for this process. That plan needs to involve people all across our campus to talk about it.”

Moss’s second concern regarding athletics was ticket prices.

“There is no such thing as free football — either you pay for it up front in tuition, or you pay for it at the gates,” Moss said. “I don’t think you should tax us on the front end.

But we need to make our prices comparable to other schools in the SEC. We need to say, ticket prices are too darn high, and we need to work on it.”

McGraw said he had already addressed the ticket prices once in an article in the Daily Mississippian entitled “Speaking of that: ticket prices are too damn high,” but he was happy to do it again.

“We are the highest in the SEC,” McGraw said. “I know we switched to an ID card system with some sort of $10 fee that no one knows where it is going. I am wondering, as a student, how they are raising the prices with no explana-

tion.”

McGraw said raising the prices to the highest in the SEC is sending the wrong message.

“One of my first orders is to talk to the athletic director and his staff and find an alternative way to raise money,” McGraw said.

McGraw, who is from Oxford, said he had been a rebel fan since he was a toddler, and that he would support the Rebel Black Bear.

“I have issues with the process of getting a new mascot,” McGraw said. “But I will support that thing, and I will support the Ole Miss Rebels.”

Another question Cruthirds posed to the candidates dealt with Chancellor Jones’ support of volunteerism. McGraw, who spoke first on the issue, said he had a life changing experience over Wintersession.

“I went down to Belize to work with kids who had no running water, no electricity, no roads to walk on and it shook me up,” McGraw said.

“Especially staying on the other part of the island, with resorts, tourists and that stuff.”

McGraw said it got him thinking about how he could

bring that attitude back to Ole Miss and encourage students to volunteer because he said he knew it was easy to go to the square, party and lose sight of the big picture.

“You don’t have to go to Belize,” McGraw said. “There are areas in Oxfrod that could use a lot of work.”

If he were president, McGraw said he would continue the Big Event, which is aiming to send 1,000 volunteers out into the community to help. On top of that, he’d like to pick an organization and make it the ASB charity of the year.

“We would plug all of our resources into the charity in getting students involved,” McGraw said.

Moss said he was glad to see the chancellor make a commitment to volunteerism, and he said he would continue to support the chancellor and the William Winters institute.

“I believe in critical service learning, where majors go out and work, as it intertwines with course work,” Moss said.

Moss said Ole Miss also needed a program similar to the University of Alabama’s, which sends freshman out to

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The Vice Presidents Abby Olivier of Hattiesburg and Casey Stafford of Tupelo are running for ASB vice president, and both debated about issues concerning the ASB, including how to help students get more involved in the organization.

“I know in the past, we have put out live streams, and people can come in and watch if they want to,” Olivier, public policy junior, said. “One fix is to get a twitter account and tweet the legislation we pass. If people want to be involved and want to see what is going on, it should be available.”

Stafford emphasized working with Rebel Radio, Newswatch and the Daily Mississippian.

“I’ve been talking with Rebel Radio on programs so people can hear what is going on,” Stafford, public policy junior, said. “With news watch, it is important to bring them in when there is an important piece of legislation going on.

The DM has a beat writer who covers the ASB. We need to develop relationships with these organizations.”

Cruthirds also asked the senators to address the structure of the senate.

Stafford said a flaw she sees in the senate is in addressing the students.

“I don’t think we are doing enough to establish relationships with you,” Stafford said.

“I think we should go to the districts and talk to people. By doing that, you bring out what is best.”

Olivier said the structure needs a makeover, and she also wanted to switch the election cycle of the senators to the spring semester, so they did not coincide with the personality elections, such as Miss Ole Miss.

“I think what it needs is to be simplified,” Olivier said. “We have too many senators, and not enough work for them to do. This results in a few good leaders, and others that are not doing anything.”

Olivier said her contribu-

tions to the senate have been little things, such as getting a crosswalk, more recycling bins and soon, hydration stations at the Turner Center and the Student Union.

“But my biggest contribution has been passion,” Olivier said. “I got in my freshman year, spring semester, and fell in love.”

Stafford said she had been over committees, and it was interesting to look back and see how she had impacted the campus.

“More broadly, my greatest impact in the senate, has been giving back,” Stafford said.

In closing, Olivier said if elected Tuesday, she would continue to stick up for the University.

“For any of you that knew me during my freshman year, remember that I fell down a flight a stairs and got a black eye,” Olivier said. “A few days later, I was running for an open senate seat with a black eye.

My tag line was that I’d put up a fight for the University.

“I love the ASB, it is nerdy, but I do. Ever since that moment, when I was elected with a black eye, I took up for the ASB, and will always take up for the ASB.” Stafford said her realistic approach would be what would make her a good vice president.

“The senate needs that,” Stafford said. “They are not researching, not speaking to people about what is attainable before they write legislation.

By bringing that, it will make a huge difference in the quality of legislation we write and how we advocate for your rights.”

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BJ Barr and Evan Kirkham are running for attorney general. Kirkham, who spoke first, addressed the confusion in the ASB code, as it deals with elections.

“My entire goal is to bring clarity to the election process and make ASB more visible,” Kirkham said. “One specific thing is to make the election process more available and require town hall type meetings for big legislation or massive changes to the constitution.”

Barr said he had spent his last two years working on the election commission with the ASB code, and he said he felt like he knew the ins and outs.

“Over the last semester, I spent time trying to find errors and rewrite it,” Barr said.

“I have gone step by step and line by line and made adjustments. It is not passed, so my first thing is to look at the code and get any changes made that it needs.”

Barr said voter turnout is another issue he wants to look at.

One idea he had was a pop up that asked about voting when students log onto Blackboard or My Ole Miss.

“Voter turnout is about 20

percent,” Barr said. “I want students more involved. Students that vote will care more about what we are doing for them and they will have their voices heard.”

Kirkham said he came from Dallas and worked his way up, which is why he believed he would make a good attorney general.

“I came here with basically nothing and found my way in the Ole Miss community,” Kirkham said in his closing statement.

Kirkham’s final issue was campaigning on election day.

“I think it scares students away to get bombarded by 165 campaign stickers,” Kirkham said. “We don’t want to scare people or make them feel overwhelmed, so I think we need designated zones for campaigning.”

The Specifics Primary elections are Tuesday, Feb. 15, and, should there be a need for a run-off election, it will be held on Thursday, Feb. 17. Log onto My Ole Miss on the www.olemiss.edu website to vote.

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“We have an equivalent to that, being the Mississippi Delta,” Moss said. “I am committed to service of our state and will continue that if given the opportunity to serve.”

McGraw said, in closing, that this was his home, which he loved, and he wanted to take care of it.

“That is why I joined ASB and became a senator my freshman year,” McGraw said. “Last year, I was honored as senator of the year: We didn’t always agree, but they recognized that I worked hard for students.”

Too often, McGraw said, ASB tells students what the administration wants to do, instead of the other way around, and he has ideas that he could help put into practice, such as free scantrons, a place to get smoothies on campus and more basketball courts.

“If elected Tuesday, I will achieve these goals, or go down trying,” McGraw said.

Moss said his ideas were also practical, such as getting started on the student union, forgiveness for the first parking ticket and dealing with the 23 percent increase of the incoming freshman class.

“If you elect me, you can count on me to not stop working for the students,” Moss said.

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Valentine’s Day and the candy-coated emotional response

BY AMELIA CAMURATI The Daily Mississippian

Women and men react differently to Valentine’s Day. Women run around spending entire paychecks on candy, flowers, cards and stuffed creatures with things like “be mine” and “forever yours.”

Men scrape rose petals together, along with a last-minute dinner reservation for two at the noisiest five-star establishment in town, all in the name of love.

Somewhere in the 1,513 years since Valentine’s Day was officially declared a holiday by Pope Gelasius, it has become the most commercialized of the fake holidays, with Cinco de Mayo and St. Patrick’s Day close behind.

At least with Christmas, there is definite reasoning behind the celebration.

The Church has canonized three separate Valentine’s, all of whom were martyrs. Though no one knows the exact reasoning behind this holiday, that does not stop Hallmark and

Hershey’s from turning the depression and elation of millions of people into a cash crop industry.

An estimated $14 billion is spent every year on trinkets that will not last the week and are supposed to show undying love for a significant other.

Yes, that figure is correct– $14 billion – a ridiculous sum for a ridiculous holiday.

Walmart has been stocked in red and pink glory since the beginning of the year.

Their profits will only grow in the next 24 hours from the

poor souls who missed the magenta confetti and paper mache hearts decorating, well, everything and forgot to grab that bouquet on the way out.

From the heart-shaped boxes that could feed a village in Africa to the teddy bears that can sleep six, everything is oversized and overdone. This simply serves to inflate the ego of some and elicit a homicidal rage from others.

If for no other reason, support our economy and find a date for the night. Trick those hormones into believing it’s

love.

For those unaware, the reactions we associate with love are created by the complicated scientific combination of two hormones: dopamine and norepinephrine.

The mixture of the two released deep inside the brain is the main contributor to the pounding heart, butterflies and other physical symptoms felt when the ultimate Mr. (or Mrs.) Right Now comes into view.

Soon, people will start injecting dopamine for that “I love you” response while Ke$ha writes a “song” about it.

So, if Valentine’s Day isn’t about presents and it isn’t about love, what is the point?

The same point as every other holiday: to have fun.

I personally made a bet with some coworkers involving a reporter in Louisiana for part of my holiday festivities, and I have never been so excited.

The bet: whether he sends me something for this wretched holiday. Either I’m right and get nothing, or I’m wrong and get a present. Regardless, I win, so I left the option up to him.

Quit taking this holiday so seriously and remember it is just a ploy for companies to make money and for insecure girls to feel better about themselves.

And remember, chocolate elicits the same response in the brain as sex, so make sure to stock up on the Russell Stover’s just in case.

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Short on men, retirement home hires dance partners BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Hewitt Bruce extends his hand to a waiting lady pining for a dance — and someone with whom to share it. He twirls and waltzes and makes exacting steps; she has become the woman to envy. And as one song fades to another, he is off again, never far from making his next sweetheart a little less lonely.

The shortage of men at Edgewater Pointe Estates is a perennial fact of life at retirement communities and nursing homes around the country, where women often outnumber men 3-to-1. Forget finding a mate — finding a man to dance with is tough enough.

Edgewater’s solution? Hire them.

Bruce and another dancing aficionado, Nick Zaharias, are paid to make sure the surplus of women have a chance for a spin on the dance floor. The complex also brings in volunteers from a local college fraternity.

“When you bring a smile to someone’s face and you help them to remember what it was like when they were younger and they were able to dance with their significant other or their husband, of course it’s uplifting,” Bruce said. “You’re really bringing hope to people.”

On this night, a Valentine’s Day celebration just ahead of the holiday itself, the ballroom at Edgewater Pointe is adorned with balloons while candles flicker and the disco ball turns. A musician sings and plays the keyboard, cracking jokes about Engelbert Humperdinck along the way. And with precision, Bruce and Zaharias wear separate paths through the room, inviting women for a dance.

“At home, I dance with a broom,” said Victoria Schabel, a 90-something resident who has kicked off her shoes to ease her sore feet and whose sparkling gold skirt and blouse shimmered as she danced with Zaharias. “This is better.”

The escorts make small talk with their guests as they sway, and wide smiles often spread across wrinkled faces. Some women, widowed or

single and eager to enjoy the music, dance with girlfriends instead.

Some are too limited by disability to dance; others try anyway.

“OK, who’s next?” Zaharias asks a table full of women, his arm outstretched.

Zaharias, 72, is a retired product designer who’s taken too many ballroom dancing lessons to count.

Bruce, 58, is a retired clinical psychologist whose training in dance led to his gig at Edgewater, and jobs as a dance host and instructor on cruise lines.

Both men are single. Their employment as dancers, while not a norm at retirement communities, points to the demographic imbalance of such homes.

Edgewater Pointe is part of a 23home chain whose roughly 9,000 seniors are about 70 percent female, the result of longer lifespans among women and less likelihood they’ll live alone. Elsewhere, the numbers are even more lopsided, including the Los Angeles Jewish

Home, where men account for just 10 percent of residents.

“I had to live to be 86 years old before I got odds like that,” said Ellis Simon, a retiree there.

Simon has grown used to hearing his name repeated by admiring ladies as he walks through the dining room. At one time, he boasted three simultaneous girlfriends, but two have since died.

“I don’t see how he keeps from getting killed,” said Brett Fielder, the home’s chief operating officer.

Still, men don’t always find what they’re looking for. And women find themselves frustrated with such a small pool to pick from.

Paul Hartman, 90, lives at The Hebrew Home at Riverdale in the Bronx, where he has trouble finding someone who meets his requirements of being “50 to 70 with sex appeal.” He goes to beading classes and has made dozens of pieces of jewelry, but has no one to give them to.

“I’m outnumbered and I’m still

lonely as hell,” he said. “There’s not a decent woman to talk to here.”

Just outside the city at Atria Lynbrook on Long Island, 88-yearold Mary Palmeri, a retired nurse, is quick with a joke and wouldn’t mind finding a man who shared her sense of humor and a bit of intellect. But no luck.

“There’s nothing to get excited about,” she said. “There’s no love material.”

Back at Edgewater, the lights are dim and the gold balloons are shaped into a giant heart. Just a few men are sprinkled about, and most of them are married. The ones

who aren’t have learned they hold newfound appeal in a place where they’re so outnumbered.

“All of a sudden, you’re the most popular guy in the world. You’re eligible,” said 83-year-old Richard Stock, whose wife died about three years ago. “All my life I wanted that attention.”

Stock wasn’t sure he’d ever set his eyes on another woman again, but he met Dee Bardo about two years ago and they fell in love.

The song winds down and he leans in for a kiss. And when it’s time to go, they walk away with hands clasped.

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Feed the Hunger gives students a chance to make a difference

BY ABIGAIL WHITE The Daily Mississippian

College students are routinely marked as ignorant, self-absorbed and preoccupied. Often overlooked is their compassionate nature that drives many of them to work towards improving the global society.

Recently an incredible number of students have started volunteering for Feed the Hunger.

Feed the Hunger is a children’s outreach program that feeds starving children in places like Africa, Haiti, and Bangladesh.

The organization holds pack-athon events throughout the country, bringing people together to pack food.

Ole Miss has the exciting distinction of being the first ever college campus to host a pack-a-thon.

Since September, Feed the Hunger members have been working towards their goal of recruiting 700 volunteers to pack 135,000 servings of food for starving children in Kenya. The packaged meals contain chicken, dry vegetables, rice and soy, which is the number one protein.

Each meal costs $0.26; meaning Feed the Hunger must raise

$35,100 to meet their goal.

Thus far, money has been made through donations, sponsorships and t-shirt sales. However, nearly $20,000 still needs to be raised.

Feed the Hunger members are hoping to raise a significant amount of money at a fundraiser at the Library on Feb. 16 after the Auburn basketball game. All proceeds from the $10 cover will go to Feed the Hunger.

Most importantly, the majority of money comes from the members of each packing team, which consist of 15-20 people that pack for twohour shifts.

Teams are formed by churches, community organizations, businesses, schools and individual volunteers. To participate each team is asked to raise $1,040, or $70 per team member to pay for the production, shipping and distribution of the food overseas.

Several on-campus organizations have gotten involved with Feed the Hunger. Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society assisted in selling t-shirts and has formed multiple teams. \ They have also been active in promoting the campaign.

“I want the Ole Miss campus and Oxford community to know

about this great event because we will need many people to make it a success,” Gamma Beta Phi president Brittany Simpson said. Many sororities and fraternities have also gotten involved; Sigma Chi has already donated $1,000. Pi Kappa Alpha is holding a Powderpuff event the weekend of Feb 18-19.

Local charity More than a Meal has also helped with efforts, forming teams and promoting the event.

The Ole Miss Feed the Hunger campaign was the brainchild of a group of girls who traveled to Kenya last summer with New Directions International.

Senior Mary Katherine Perry was compelled to bring Feed the Hunger to Ole Miss when she saw the food that gets shipped to Africa.

“Seeing it actually take place rather than just hearing about it had a deep impact” on all of the girls, according to Perry.

More specifically, seeing exactly who the food went to and spending time in rural tribes and the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya had a deep impact.

Senior Audrey Dickerson “couldn’t get the images from the largest slum in the world” out of her head. During their visit, they

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knew they could not come back to the US without taking action.

Many people question why they are so compelled to help malnourished children in Africa when there are many starving children right here in America.

“There is need all over the world and our heart is placed in this,” said senior Adrienne Pingel said. “You can only do so much, but it’s important that you’re doing it.”

Feed the Hunger is not simply handing out a meal to random children.

The parent company of Feed the Hunger, New Directions International, manages hundreds of schools worldwide and helps Feed the Hunger determine which schools are in the most need of aid.

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The impact, however, is not just on the recipients of the schooling and food.

Pack-a-thon volunteers will gain a feeling of satisfaction and might be compelled to continue helping out more.

“Everyone doesn’t have the opportunity to go to Africa, but people want to get involved, and this is their chance,” Pingel said.

Also, it is great knowing that it is 100 percent guaranteed that the food will directly reach starving children.

The Ole Miss Pack-A-Thon will be held at the old Wal-Mart building Feb. 25-26 .Do not worry if you do not have a team or cannot raise the $70. Give whatever you can, even if it is nothing, and show up to help.

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‘25K’ causes a bang at Oxford Film Festival

BY NATHANIEL WEATHERSBY The Daily Mississippian

25K features up-and-coming actor and university student, Houston Nutt Jr. shirtless and bleeding.

The movie poster simply reads: “Money.Guns.Trouble.”

Nutt and Billy Chase Goforth, 25K writer, director and fellow actor, wear no-funny-business expressions and carry weapons with flames hiding two mysterious faces behind them.

The poster gives a simple but straightforward description: “two bail recovery agents encounter drug runners, corrupt cops and other trouble when they find a treasure map promising $25,000.”

Everything about this movie screams action and adventure.

“We haven’t seen a story in a while set in the dusty, hot south,” Goforth said. “So I thought let’s make a movie like Walking Tall, or White Lightening, or one of those awful Burt Reynolds movies from the early 70’s.”

The plot formed from stories circulating about drug-runners along the back roads of Arkan-

sas and Mississippi.

“A lot of those stories and rumors kind of fed the script,” Goforth said.

Goforth’s brother designed actually designed the movie poster.

“I told him to design a box that looks like a video box at Blockbuster that mom would never let you rent,” he said.

Films that premiere in festivals sometimes have bad reputations, but Goforth and his team have reached a new level of low-budget entertainment with 25K. “If you’ve got a part-time job and a dream right now, you can afford to make a movie,” Goforth said in regards to the movie’s budget.

Goforth would not divulge the actual price of the film production but confirmed that 25K was a low-budget film.

He found the low cost of production essential when deciding to make the film.

“Literally, within the past two years, you can go into Best Buy and buy everything you need to make a movie where before that equipment was out of reach,” Goforth said. “I started look-

ing at the equipment, figuring out what we could really do and how much money it would take. All of a sudden, it seemed doable. And I thought I’m not really going to be happy until I make a movie myself. We shot on a Canon 7D DLSR, that’s really made for still photos but you can shoot it now with a film lens.”

Goforth expects more showings of 25K in various other southern festivals in the future.

“25K has a fun story – It has shoot ‘em up scenes; It’s got some good funny dialogue,” Nutt said. “I think it’s a fun movie a young person can watch with just popcorn and a coke and enjoy it.”

Goforth said he’s not quite ready to retire.

“We made one and it was so much fun doing it that we’re going to have to make another,” Goforth said.

“It’s the best kind of awful movie ever, and I hope a bunch of students see it.”

25K opened at Oxford Film Festival this past weekend and plans on traveling the film festival circuit in the coming months.

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Rebel Netters down MSU for 26th consecutive time

ADDISON DENT | The Daily Mississippian

Tucker Vorster and the Ole Miss men’s tennis team defeated Mississippi State for the 26th consecutive time Thursday night in Jackson.

Mississippi State has had the best of Ole Miss this year in several sports. At least in one sport, that trend did not continue Thursday as the No. 17 Rebels defeated the No. 32 Bulldogs 4-1 in the annual Mississippi Cup at River Hills Tennis Club.

Ole Miss built a 3-0 lead and then had to hold off a furious rally by Mississippi State. The Bulldogs made it 3-1 and were up a set at five and leading in the third set at No. 4, when freshman Johan Backstrom finished off a 6-4, 6-2 win over State’s Zach White at No. 6 to clinch the victory for the Rebels.

With the win, the Rebels (32) have now won 12 straight cups and 26 in a row in the overall series, dating back to 1999.

The Rebels began the night by taking the doubles point with wins at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions. Marcel Thiemann and Jonas Lutjen defeated James Chaudry and Zach White 8-5. Johan Backstrom and Adrian Forberg Skogeng

topped State’s Louis Cant and Malte Stropp 8-6 at No. 3 to clinch the point.

Ole Miss carried the momentum over from doubles into singles, winning three close first sets. Thiemann gave the Rebels a 2-0 lead with a straight set win at No. 1 against George Coupland. After winning the first set 7-5, Thiemann cruised 6-1 in the second.

Senior Tucker Vorster put the Rebels within one with a huge win at No. 3 singles. After taking the first set in a tiebreaker, 7-6(4), he broke at 4-4 and served out the second set 6-4 to make it 3-0.

State (1-3) got on the board when Artem Ilyushin rallied to beat senior Kalle Norberg 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 at No. 2 singles.

It marked the first loss for Norberg in singles or doubles against State in his career.

The Rebels will now turn their attention to the outdoor season as they get ready for their first outdoor match Saturday, Feb. 26 against Tulane. The match begins at noon at the Palmer/ Salloum Tennis Center.

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Georgia’s comeback dooms Lady Rebs

FORREST SMITH| The Daily Mississippian

Valencia McFarland’s team-leading 15 points came in a losing effort as Georgia rallied past Ole Miss Saturday by a score of 61-56 in Oxford.

After leading the majority of the game, the Ole Miss women’s basketball team saw No. 24/RV Georgia take the lead with 9:55 left to play as the Bulldogs defeated the Rebels 61-56 Sunday afternoon.

Ole Miss led from the 8-minute mark in the first half until Georgia went ahead with 9:55 left in the game. The Rebels cut the Bulldogs’ lead to two, 47-45, with 7:47 to play but couldn’t regain the lead.

With the loss, Ole Miss fell to 10-14 overall (3-9 SEC) while No. 24/RV Georgia improved to 19-6 overall (9-3 SEC).

The game featured four ties and three lead changes through the first 14 minutes of the half.

Maggie McFerrin’s third three of the game put Ole Miss up 20-17 with 5:47 left in the first half.

A three-pointer from Valencia McFarland put the Rebels

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half when the Bulldogs went up 43-42 with 9:55 to play.

McFarland led Ole Miss with 15 points and seven assists while McFerrin scored a career-high 12 points on four three pointers. Byrd finished the game with 10 points while Hope grabbed a team-high seven boards.

“In the second half, Georgia came out and upped their intensity,” Head Coach Renee Ladner said. “Nikki made players guard her tonight. We need her to be a force every night.”

Ole Miss will host Arkansas on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the annual “Tickled Pink” game. Ole Miss is teaming up with Baptist Hospital North Mississippi and all fans who wear pink to the game get in free. In addition, Baptist Memorial will be giving door prizes to fans wearing pink and all proceeds from fan donations at the game will stay in Lafayette County.

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is it’s a significant time commitment, event if it was just appearing at Ole Miss events,” Thompson said. “But when you add in the other community events, visiting schools and hospitals all over the state and region – all of the good will things that great mascots do – it adds a significant layer of complexity.

“We can have all the suits in the world, but if we don’t have talented people to get in those suits then we’re pretty much stuck.”

The final piece of the puzzle – launching the mascot – is something that Thompson and his staff are working on. In what was a well-documented summer of 2010, a student-led committee led the effort to come up with a new mascot to replace Colonel Reb and subsequently handed over the implementation of Rebel to Thompson.

Along the way to Rebel’s eventual selection, there were plenty of ill-fated mascot concepts – remember Hotty and Toddy? There was also notable opposition to the process as a whole.

The Colonel Reb Foundation, to this day, has been a vocal opponent to the replacement of Colonel Reb. Recent efforts by the group include a billboard on Highway 6 that features Colonel Reb taking a baseball bat to an airborne Rebel the Black Bear.

Thompson said he has taken the trials and tribulations that the committee and the University administration have been through into consideration.

“We aren’t going to announce

up by 10, 27-17, with 3:32 remaining in the first half. Georgia used a 6-0 run to pull to within four, 27-23, with 1:10 left in the half. McFarland hit a pair of free throws with 1.2 seconds left as Ole Miss led at half, 31-25.

McFarland and McFerrin each had nine points at the half while McFarland and Nikki Byrd each had a team-high three rebounds. The Rebels shot 48.5 percent (11 of 24) from the floor while the Bulldogs shot 37.5 percent (9-of-24).

Ole Miss used a 7-0 run capped by a basket from Byrd as Ole Miss led 39-29 with 17:43 to play. Georgia tied the game at 38-38 with 15:17 left, but the Rebels pushed their lead back to four, 42-38, on a jumper from Pa’Sonna Hope with 12:01 remaining.

Georgia took its first lead since the 8:01 mark of the first

anything until we have it ready,” Thompson said. “It’s only fair to the people who were on that selection committee, to the administration that went through this entire process and did it right.

It would be a disservice for them if we just threw it out there and didn’t put a lot of thought out there.”

While Rebel the Black Bear has long been green-lighted, Thompson said he still regularly receives criticism of the new mascot. Among the most vocal critics of Rebel are parents who are upset that their children will not be able to experience Colonel Reb in the Grove like they did as children.

Thompson, who has an 18-month-old daughter, said he believes that while Colonel Reb is a thing of the past, Rebel can provide the same joyous

memories that the former mascot did.

“My daughter will go through the Grove when she is 8 years old, and she will see Rebel and think it’s the greatest thing in the world,” Thompson said.

“The emotions will be the same, but it will be for something different. The smiles will be just as big and the laughs will be just as loud (as they were for Colonel Reb). The sooner all of our fans understand that the better.”

For Thompson, Rebel the Black Bear is primarily about the children.

“That’s what we have to get back to, capturing the child’s imagination and getting them excited about something that we haven’t had in the Grove in a long time,” Thompson said.

“That’s the best part of the whole mascot thing.”

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Ole Miss rally falls short at Alabama

BY ALEX LAKE The Daily Mississippian

As Chris Warren does, so does Ole Miss. On Saturday afternoon in a game that showcased Warren’s struggle, the Rebels snapped a threegame winning streak with a 74-64 loss to Alabama on the road.

Warren, the primary offensive cog for Ole Miss (16-8, 4-6 SEC), scored his first field goal with 1:16 left in the game, cutting what was a considerable Rebel deficit to 70-

62. The senior point guard finished with 15 points, hitting 10-12 free throws.

The Crimson Tide (16-8, 8-2 SEC) started the game fast and nearly doubled up the Rebels midway through the first half, leading 47-27 at intermission.

The Rebels were sparked by the 3-point marksmanship of freshman guard Dundrecous Nelson in the second half. Nelson hit three 3-pointers after halftime to help rally Ole Miss.

ALEX EDWARDS | The Daily Mississippian

Dundrecous Nelson was an effective three-point shooter in Ole Miss’ 74-64 loss at Alabama Saturday.

Zach Graham, a senior guard, again had a good game for the Rebels, hitting 6-of-14 field goals for 13 points.

The Tide proved to the Rebels why they are the conference’s

best defensive team. Sophomore forward Tony Mitchell paced the Tide with 20 points and seven rebounds. JaMychal Green, a junior forward, ripped through Ole Miss’ big men, scoring 15 points and five

rebounds.

Player of the Game: Forward Tony Mitchell Mitchell ended the day going 8-of-13 from the field, including one three-pointer for 20 points.

Stats of the Game: Alabama entered the game shooting 30.1 percent from three-point land. On Saturday, the Tide converted 46.2 percent of their threepoint attempts.

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