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Taylor McGraw is congratulated by supporters after winning the ASB presidential election. McGraw won with 50.46 percent of the votes.

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BY CAIN MADDEN

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Campus News Editor

A crowd of over 100 arrived around the steps of the Lyceum Tuesday at 5:20 p.m.

The crowd was made up of associated student body candidates, campaign workers and supporters.

For the presidential race, that crowd was almost evenly divided between those wearing blue stickers for Taylor McGraw and those with red stickers for Cortez Moss.

A glance at the crowd appeared to give Moss supporters the edge.

But when ASB officials announced the results voted by 3,019 students at 5:30 p.m., it was the McGraw supporters who gathered around each other in a group hug.

“I would not be here without every single person who helped me during my campaign,” said McGraw, after he and his opponent, Moss, hugged.

“I want to thank Cortez for running an awesome campaign. He

made me work for every single vote.”

McGraw received 1,517 votes, while Moss pulled in 1,468 votes.

Counting the 21 voters that voted on write-in candidates, McGraw won by 50.46 percent.

“It has to be one of the closest races in ASB history,” McGraw said.

Shortly after the results were announced, Moss issued his support for McGraw.

“I’m willing to work and help Taylor,” Moss said. “This is not the end. I still have things to accomplish.”

Abby Olivier and Evan Kirkham also won their elections, though in less dramatic fashion.

Olivier received 2,146 votes for the position, while her opponent Casey Stafford received 776.

“The first thing I thought when I won was that I was going to do a good job, and that I’m ready to get started working,” Olivier said. “I’m honored and humbled and fortu-

nate that people supported me.”

Kirkham, running for attorney general, received 1,600 votes and his opponent, BJ Barr, received 1,285 votes.

“My opponent ran a clean campaign, and I’m glad to be on top,” Kirkham said. “I am a sophomore, and I’m very humbled that people supported me.”

Jon Daniel McKiever, Courtney Pearson and John James ran unopposed for secretary, judicial chair and treasurer, respectively, and were elected to those positions Tuesday night.

When McGraw takes office, he is going to start working on his todo list.

“I’ve had at to-do list since I joined the senate freshman year, and I mark one off as I get it done,” McGraw said. “I’ve still got a lot to do on that list. I am ready to fulfill all of my campaign promises.”

Kirkham said the first thing he is going to do is sit down and work on refining the ASB code. Olivier

wants to work with senators to restructure the senate.

Dean of Students Sparky Reardon and current president Virginia Burke said they were ready to work with the new officers.

“I’m excited about their ideas and energy,” Burke said.

For celebration, McGraw said he hoped to get some time to thank every one of his supporters Tuesday night.

“First, I’m going to the ASB senate meeting, then chess club and then an intramural basketball game,” McGraw said. “Then, I hope to take my girlfriend out for Valentine’s Day on the Square, since I wasn’t able to yesterday.”

Olivier had dinner plans with her parents, followed by a get together with her supporters.

Kirkham, after two weeks of non-stop work, said he was only thinking about one thing.

“Sleep,” he said. “I may celebrate a little, but I am really ready to sleep.”

BMX park coming soon to Oxford

BY MASON MCMILLION The Daily Mississippian

FNC Park will soon have a new bicycle moto-cross, or BMX, park.

The exact start date of the BMX addition is uncertain. Brad Freeman, planning and marketing director at FNC, said he hopes to get a bid process started so the work on the park can begin sometime

this spring.

“It is really too early to say since we haven’t let bids out, but hopefully we can get the bids out and approved by April or May with work started shortly thereafter,” Freeman said.

“There is a process that we have to follow.”

Freeman said once all the plans are in place, the BMX track will be

built behind the softball fields.

The Pathways Project Grant, which has funded several projects in Oxford before, constructed by the Board of Aldermen, Mississippi Department of Transportation, Roger Wicker and citizens in Oxford, provided the funding of the park.

The design team who builds the BMX course is still unknown and

will not be known until all the bids are out and awarded.

Freeman did say the BMX course will consist of several dirt jumps and turns down a gradually winding slope.

“If possible, we hope to have a starting gate at the start of the track as well,” Freeman said. “The track will be for bikes. No motorized vehicles.”

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While I’ve never been an avid Jeopardy fan, I have been known to watch an episode or two.

I often play along and tend to know a number of answers, but I could never do well on the show because I’m too slow at buzzing in.

For those of you who watch the show regularly, or at least read an article about it, you know that Ken Jennings had a very impressive run a few years ago – he won almost 75 consecutive rounds of Jeopardy.

I started to watch the show around his 50th appearance just to see what everyone was talking about in the news.

Jennings was extremely impressive and answered questions so quickly it was hard to wrap my head around it.

He ended up earning over $3 million on Jeopardy - which is

pretty good for knowing a lot of random trivia.

Although Jennings eventually lost, he represented the fact that human beings are capable of extraordinary feats of mental strength.

However, our notion of human mental capabilities may change after this week’s episodes of Jeopardy.

Many of you have probably seen mention of the supercomputer Watson, which was built by IBM and “taught” to answer Jeopardy questions along with understanding the subtle nuances of the English language.

Computers have been powerful enough to understand human speech for a few years now, but the fact that a computer can be given an answer (like in Jeopardy), understand any puns or connotations, and then give the appropriate

response is mind-boggling.

Three of the Jeopardy episodes this week will pit IBM’s Watson computer against previous contestants, including Jennings.

Finally, we will be able to see who is superior – at least in the realm of trivia game shows – man or machine.

All of the episodes have been prerecorded, so the contestants already know the outcome, and it could turn out that previous winners will hold his or her ground against Watson.

But what happens when America tunes in this week and sees incredibly talented and intellectual human beings trounced by a machine? This may very well change the way people look at artificial intelligence.

Although many advancements have been made in the

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realm of AI in recent years, we are a long way from the sort of AI featured in science fiction.

If it turns out that a machine built in 2011 is able to fully understand the nuances and complexities of the English language, what does that mean for machines built in 2020?

I am not saying we should be fearful of such advancements because technologies such as this have incredible potential to do a lot of good for humanity.

What we should be, however, is aware of these advancements that are taking place.

Soon the best minds may not be in the man or woman who has studied all of his or her life, but in the body of a machine.

Who knows, maybe having this sort of competition will light a fire under humanity.

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Letters to the Editor Dear Rebels, I doubt I was the only one amazed at a comment made

by ASB presidential candidate Taylor McGraw in Monday’s edition of The Daily Mississippian. Mr. McGraw said that the ASB received between $70,000 and $80,000 in a good year but that, after “operational costs,” they are left with only $30,000 to distribute to campus organizations.

That means that between 57 and 62 percent of the money we give to our student government goes to financing our student government!

The election was this week and it seems appropriate to raise a very important question: Do we need, or want, an ASB? The numbers above show a gross inefficiency that can not be tolerated. Next, I wanted to find out just how many members of the ASB were in fraternities and sororities to see whether or not it was proportional to the student body, but unfortunately the “elected officials” page on the ASB website just told me it was sorry for not working.

You would think that with all the money they are not spending on the student body, they could maintain a functional website.

Finally, the number of people who vote on this campus is less than 50 percent. Now, you will often hear the argument “if you want a better ASB, vote.” Maybe, however, the student body’s collective silence is a testament to just how little faith there is in the ASB. If this is the case, unless someone wants to publicly make the argument that we need the ASB to pad the resumes of a privileged few, maybe it

is time to ask whether or not we need a student government and, if we do, whether or not we need a wholly new one.

James Langdon Senior Philosophy Major I was appalled by the two letters published Monday in The DM. Both Ms. Lesseig and Ms. Thomas displayed a shocking level of snobbery that is becoming all too common among the liberal elites these days.

In addition to referring to hard-working, average Mississippians as “ignorant” and “misinformed,” the two also refused to understand the subtle yet powerful argument made by Josh Clark’s political cartoon: no matter what “scientists” may say, there’s no better substitute for understanding weather patterns than the five senses God gave us.

And this winter, there’s been very little “warming,” as far as I can tell. It’s been cold.

This is where the “commonsense” in “commonsense conservatism” comes in.

Real Americans don’t need some eggheaded scientist in some laboratory or writing for the New York Times (the Bible of liberal elites) to tell them what the weather is doing; they just know. And if things are getting warmer? Sounds good to me.

I like my weather like I like my women: hot.

Maybe now that it has warmed up a bit, Al Gore and the rest of his elitist followers can take their misinformation to Canada, where it belongs.

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Eliza Listens Each week, advice columnist Eliza answers your questions about college life: classes, relationships and anything else you can think of. Have a question of your own? Submit it to elizalistens@gmail.com.

Dear Eliza, I’ve been talking to this girl for a while now and everything is going great, but the other day one of her friends asked me what we are.

I told her friend that I really like her and she is the only girl I am talking to right now, so that should be enough, but she kept asking, “How would you feel if she was talking to someone else? Because technically you aren’t officially together.”

It did get me thinking and later that week, I talked to her and we are “Facebook official” now as her friends call it.

My question is: Why couldn’t her friend just come out and say that I should ask her out?

Girls do this stuff all the time - they act like we’re supposed

to know what they want, but we don’t.

Why do they do this, Eliza?

Kevin Dear Kevin, People can’t tell you what to do; we can only encourage or help you process the situation.

I’m happy that her friend did that, because most of the time people have no problem with telling others what to do.

I think we all need to back off and just let others make the decision. To answer the second question, I think it is us expecting too much from guys and wanting to believe that y’all see the connection too.

We don’t always know we are doing it either, to be completely honest.

When we talk to guys for weeks on end with no clue of what the relationship is and what it’s becoming, we get frustrated and often think we’re just being played. While most men don’t think this way, society has taught us that if there’s no ring, there’s no commitment.

While you do not by any means need to start shopping for diamonds, a simple conversation can do the trick.

In my opinion, I think everyone needs to work on their communication skills with each other. Don’t leave no room for people to misunderstand the situation.

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Miss. makes progress on Civil Rights Museum

BY MALLORY SIMERVILLE The Daily Mississippian

Mississippi is making efforts to heal racial transgressions of the past by constructing a museum to celebrate African-American history and culture.

Charles Ross, director of AfricanAmerican studies at the University of Mississippi, said he supports the idea of the museum being built.

“The fact that (Mississippi) does not have a museum that recognizes the struggle is a real void that is long overdue, and hopefully is something that will take place rather quickly,” Ross said.

The Mississippi Legislature is currently in the process of authorizing House Bill 79, which will develop a Mississippi Civil Rights Museum fund.

The bill would help to build the state’s first museum dedicated to African-American history. The location is still undecided, but is tentatively set for Jackson.

The bill is still active, due to a later deadline for budget and revenue bills.

Although Oxford does not have a civil rights museum, the University is amid celebrating Black History Month.

“You know it’s called black history, but I think one of the descriptions that I believe is more accurate is American history,” Ross said. “It’s something we should be cognitive of 365 days of the year, but of course, in February we have set aside this particular month to focus a little bit more on those accomplishments, achievements and individuals.”

President of the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) and Increasing Minority Access to Graduate Education (IMAGE) for undergraduate, Latoya Anderson said she felt like the Uni-

versity has come a long way.

The program offers tutoring and conferences to help undergraduate minorities make the transition to graduate school.

Anderson said minorities majoring in science, technology, engineering and math are underrepresented in these areas.

“This program is here to help you concentrate on your studies so that we can ensure that you get into graduate schools in your field,” Anderson said, “Without the IMAGE program, a lot of minorities would have a harder time making it on this campus.”

To celebrate Black History Month, the University has planned a series of events, which started

with guest speaker Markeeva Morgan, an alumnus of the University, and was followed by a performance by the University of Mississippi Gospel Choir.

Several events are being hosted on campus throughout the entire month including several events hosted by Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, and National Society of Black Engineers.

The University Museum will feature an exhibit titled Civil Rights Struggle: African-American GI’s in Germany.

“We now have grown from one student to the student population almost being as high as 15 percent.”

Ross said. “I think the University has come a long way since 1962.”

UM Big Event involves students in community service

BY CHARLES HALE ROBINSON The Daily Mississippian

Associated student body president Virginia Burke said she was ready to lead the way for thousands of student volunteers to leave a mark on Lafayette County.

Students can volunteer for the University of Mississippi Big Event on March 26 and help approximately 1,000 other Ole Miss students give something back to Oxford, Burke said.

“The Big Event will start with registration around 7:30 a.m., followed by a kick-off with speeches from the Chancellor and other University and city officials with groups set to go out around 9 a.m.,” Burke said.

“We will meet in the Union Plaza and Grove area. Depending on the projects that different groups are assigned to, volunteers can expect to finish around 1 p.m. or 2 p.m.”

The goal of this event is geared more toward individuals and areas that do not usually receive much attention. Any community member is eligible to register a project that is in need of service. The projects need to be in by Feb. 18.

Volunteering opportunities will include yard work, cleaning out basements and painting rooms and fences. Lunches will be provided for all volunteers.

Inspiration for this event came from Texas A&M’s Big Event, and the Associated Student Body decided to materialize their dream of benefiting the Oxford community by getting their hands dirty, Burke said.

“Go to your MyOleMiss account and register, get your friends to register and be ready for a fun day,” said Melinda Carlson, associate dean of students. “I have been working with the Student Steering Committee and advising the group to help create a wonderful experience for our students to connect with and say ‘thank you’ to the community.”

Registration forms are available at the Lafayette County Courthouse.

To register a community project or to sign up online, visit http://www. olemiss.edu/bigevent. Group registration needs to be in by Feb. 18.

Individual registration is open until March 4.

For more information contact Associate Dean of Students Melinda Carlson at mpc@olemiss.edu.

Interested in applying to serve on next year’s ASB Presidential Cabinet?

Applications will be available February 16th in the ASB Office (Union 4th floor) and are due back by February 25th.

Contact Virginia Burke with any questions regarding due dates or positions at kvburke@olemiss.edu.

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Pulitzer Prize winner to visit with students

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BY JACOB BATTE The Daily Mississippian

Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer prizewinning journalist and author of the critically-acclaimed book, “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” will be in Oxford for the next few

days.

On Wednesday night she will have a book signing at Off-Square Books at 5 p.m. On Thursday at 11 a.m. she will make an appearance at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics to discuss her book and the craft of writing.

She will also be a special guest on the Thacker Mountain Radio show Thursday evening.

Her new book, published this past summer, has been named one of the best books of 2010 by Atlanta Magazine, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, The Economist and many others.

She has been hailed for her extensive research into the book that includes more than 1,200 interviews spanning across 15 years.

Curtis Wilkie, an Overby Fellow

and Kelly G. Cook chair of journalism, was very impressed with her research into the book.

“In terms of journalism it is quite a performance,” Wilkie said. “She is a Pulitzer prize-winning former reporter for The New York Times, and it’s a splendid job of reporting.

She conducted about 1,200 interviews to do the book, over a number of years. I hope she’ll talk about how she goes about collecting information, and I think she’ll be an inspiration to the students.

“She was out here a year ago, and she met with students here and did a program at the Overby center last year, and I understand it was a terrific show, attracted a lot of interest, so naturally we wanted to get her back to meet with the students again, talk with them.”

Wilkie is also excited about what the students can learn from Wilkerson.

“Students can learn how to report from her for one thing, if they are at all interested in becoming journalists.” Wilkie said.

“This is a very good and successful journalist who will be talking about her craft, not only as a reporter but as a writer, how to take the material that you gather as a reporter and turn it into something that is readable. I think she’s got a lot to offer.

She is now a teacher, and I think people can learn a lot from her. Not just students, but anybody that chooses to come here tomorrow and listen. I’m looking forward to hearing her speak.”

The program is open to the pub-

lic.

While she was working for the Chicago bureau of The New York Times, Wilkerson won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the 1993 floods across the Midwest and a profile of a fourth-grader who took care of his four siblings during the tragedy.

Wilkerson is the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism. She is also a recipient of the George S. Polk award for Outstanding Regional Reporting, a Guggenheim fellowship and was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.

She is currently a professor of journalism and director of narrative nonfiction in the College of Communications at Boston University.

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Fired up: Ole Miss students go above and beyond the call of duty

BY ROCKFORD COOK The Daily Mississippian

Study, sleep and put out fires?

Ole Miss students go above and beyond the college student’s call of duty (keep up the GPA and party like a rock star) as a part of the volunteer firefighter team serving the city of Oxford.

As volunteers, these students do everything that a full-time fireman does but with no pay or compensation.

They are among the few that answer the call, no matter when it comes to them.

Jonathan Hollis, a senior art major, is part of this group.

“It was challenging at first, trying to readjust yourself to college while also taking night classes at the Central Fire station,” said Hollis, who started his training

when he was a freshman.

“It was there where we completed the class work and also some of the physical training aspect of the course. It was difficult keeping my focus on my studies because my mind was always on the possibility of my becoming a volunteer firefighter and completing the course. But now I have everything balanced pretty well with my schoolwork, social life and my fire fighting duties.”

Hollis is not the only student risking his life. Another is graduate student David Alm. “I love being part of a team,” Alm said. “For me, that is the best part of being part of the volunteer firemen.”

Alm, who dreams of becoming a policeman, had to find an outlet for his love of public service

and emergency response.

“Since you cannot get hired as a police officer until you are 21, the next best thing was to train to be a volunteer fireman,” Alm said. “I would not trade the experience for the world. I have put out several grass fires, pulled bodies out of cars and even a handful of house fires. As a college student, some people play Xbox; I enjoyed putting out fires.”

Although they enjoy what they do, the danger involved is real.

Hollis recounts a house fire on Highway 30 in the dead of winter.

“It was very cold and ice was everywhere,” Hollis explained.

“When we had arrived, the fire had started to spread from the bedroom to the bathroom.

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But the risk does not outweigh their sense of community pride and their commitment to public service.

“I feel this is my way of giving back to my community,” Hollis said. “Community service is greatly important, and this is me doing my part. I get a great sense of purpose with this position.”

“They are great,” Lafayette County fire chief Mike Hill said.

“It takes a special person to be a volunteer firefighter. We have to have them. In fact, we are grateful to have them. It has to be a very dedicated person to wake up in the wee hours of the morning and be called to duty for no pay.

They truly benefit our community and the surrounding communities.”

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As Easy As 1, 2, 3: Meet Julie Anderson

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BY MORGAN BRADLEY The Daily Mississippian

Sitting at the front of professor Julie Anderson’s calculus class is not like sitting at the front of a typical math class.

Waking up for her class is not like waking up for any other dreaded 8 a.m.

This is because Anderson is not an ordinary math instructor.

Waking up, hiking in the cold and rain to Hume Hall, squeezing between the tables and listening to a calculus lecture for over an hour somehow becomes an enjoyable morning.

But how?

Math is not something easily understood by everyone, but according to Anderson’s students, she does a lot to counter that difficulty.

“Ms. Anderson is a great teacher,” Lindsay Pham, sophomore marketing communications major, said. “I’m not good with numbers, but she made business calculus seem like reciting the alphabet. I had not taken math since my junior year of high school, and she helped my transition from high school to college easier with her style of teaching.”

Even students who have not had Anderson for more than a couple of weeks agree that she is an outstanding instructor.

“She has a ‘grade school’ style of teaching in that she makes sure that everyone understands a concept before she moves on to another subject,” Lindsay White, a freshman biology major, said.

Her fellow faculty members back up the claims.

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Fellow instructor Lanzhen Song said that Ms. Anderson “goes beyond her job and is a quality teacher” and is “charismatic and very easy to get along with.”

Anderson earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from Ole Miss and is an Oxford native.

She worked in large variety of jobs before teaching at Ole Miss, such as serving as a lifeguard at both a resort in Florida and a YMCA in Massachusetts. She also worked in an automotive plant in New Hampshire and taught summer school to inner

city kids in Los Angeles.

But all of this led her back to a love of Oxford, Ole Miss and math.

“I believe that if you don’t like math, then you have not had good teachers.” Anderson said.

“I think everyone can learn, but students convince themselves at an early age that they are not good at it or they don’t like it. I don’t buy it. I love to see someone’s light bulb go on.”

Her biggest pet peeve is when students text all through class.

“Back in the olden days, we could go a good 50 minutes without any contact from the outside world,” she said. “It is rather insulting, because I think if they would listen then they would learn.”

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Women’s track and field head Women’s golf places 12th toward SEC Championships in first spring tourney

BY JACOB BATTE The Daily Mississippian

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As warm weather descends upon Oxford, so closes the No. 49 Lady Rebels Track and Field indoor regular season, and coach Joe Walker is happy with what he has seen from his team.

“So far it has been a really good indoor season,” Walker said. “We’ve spent a majority of the season ranked, so that’s reasonably good there; so I feel like we have a good season long performance out of them. We just need to get ready for the SEC Championships.”

Two Lady Rebels have stood out so far this season: Sofie Persson and Juliana Smith.

“Both of them look like pretty solid candidates to be at the NCAA national championship so were really excited about that,” Walker said. “I’m really looking forward to seeing how they progress over the next couple of meets.”

Persson, a junior who is ranked No. 7 in the country in the 800-meter dash, is also a member of the Lady Rebels 20th ranked 4x400 meter relay with junior Kristin Bridges and sophomores Sofia HellbergJonsen and Lauren Hollingsworth.

Persson believes she still has room for improvement.

“I’m happy about my season because I’m getting better and better each week, but I haven’t run as fast as I think I can,” Persson said. “Every meet I want to run faster than I have run before and I want to score better for the team.”

The Lady Rebels are coming off the Tyson Invitational, one of the most prestigious meets in the country, where the biggest problem was not the competition.

“We had an atrocious trip over, it took us 15 hours to get to Fayetteville, we were stuck between Forest City and Little Rock for about eight hours trying cover 85 miles.” Walker said.

But even after a tough journey to Fayetteville the Lady Rebels still had a good weekend.

“We had a good meet – the

Tyson meet is one of the biggest, most prestigious meets in the country,” Walker said. “It’s almost like a national meet or like an SEC meet, so it’s a very difficult competition, but we had a great meet. We had some really outstanding performances, we’re really proud of the way the kids competed.”

Up next on the schedule for the Lady Rebels are the SEC Championships, also be held in Fayetteville, Feb. 25-27.

“There are so many teams ranked nationally in our league, so it’s an extremely competitive meet,” Walker said. “I think we’re ready to compete well.

I’m real excited about it. I think it’s going to bring out the best

with our kids. We’ve competed at this facility before, so we’re used to the venue. Everything looks good. We’re healthy finally, so everything looks good going into this meet.”

Smith, a senior ranked 10th nationally in the weight throw, is looking for a solid end to her indoor season.

“Right now, I’m ranked 1st in the SEC, and I’m beating No. 2 by a foot, so hopefully I’ll be able get out there and pull out a win,” Smith said. “I’m not looking for a personal record necessarily, just a solid meet, and then rest up the week after for nationals, and hopefully get a big throw there so I can be top eight and be All-American.”

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Women’s golf places 12th in first spring tourney

by David Collier The Daily Mississippian The Ole Miss women’s golf team finished their first tournament of the spring season Monday, placing 12th at the University of Central Florida Challenge in Orlando, Fla. Sophomore Haley Sanders led the Rebels this week as she shot a 226 total for the three rounds which placed her in the top 40 overall.

After experiencing poor weather back in Oxford, Orlando provided the Lady Rebels the opportunity to play in good conditions for the first time since the fall. The recent snow storms have made preparing to play a difficult task, but Coach Michele Drinkard likes the challenge.

“You’ve got to take advantage of every opportunity you can,” Drinkard said. “One thing you do get in golf is some non-traditional weather. You never know

what you’re going to get, and you have to be prepared for everything.”

Despite getting off to a sluggish start in Orlando, Drinkard said she is extremely confident in her team as they approach, what she hopes to be, a banner year.

“We’re looking forward to a really exciting spring season,” said Drinkard. “The girls are more prepared and focused than they ever have been. I think you are really going to see some neat things happen for us this spring.”

Drinkard expects junior Natalie Gleadall to lead this year’s team, which offers something different than other teams in the past.

“By far, this is the strongest teams we’ve ever had. We have very talented players,” said Drinkard. “The team really has high expectations of achieving all that they set out to achieve and being a lot more focused on what they want.”

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Ole Miss hoops in position for SEC Tourney

BY REID BARRINEAU The Daily Mississippian

It’s quite ironic that it’s the visiting Auburn Tigers coming into tonight’s game off a win.

The Tigers defeated Mississippi State 65-62 Saturday in Auburn while the Rebels lost on the road at Alabama, stopping their win streak at three games.

But, irony aside, the Rebels should be able to get back to their winning ways this evening.

It’s no secret that the Southeastern Conference West is largely a joke this season.

Auburn and LSU are both struggling mightily and there’s a fivealarm dumpster fire raging down in Starkville right now. While Arkan-

sas still has a grasp on respectability, the Hogs aren’t going to contend for a conference, or division, title this season.

Alabama has proven itself to be the cream of the crop in the SEC West, while the rest are jockeying for the division’s second SEC Tournament bye.

The good news for the Rebels is that they appear to be best positioned to earn a bit of rest Thursday in Atlanta.

After sweeping LSU and winning at Arkansas, the remaining schedule shapes up well for Andy Kennedy’s team.

Ole Miss, 16-9 (4-6 SEC), has two remaining games against Auburn, both of which it should win.

While anything can happen in a

rivalry game, the Rebels should be able to walk out of Starkville with a win Saturday given how the Bulldogs appear to be taking on water faster than the Titanic.

There’s three wins. Then figure the Rebs should be able to beat the Razorbacks at home if they can do so on the road – that makes four.

Then there are the two remaining X-factor games away at South Carolina and home against Alabama.

The Gamecocks have the potential to be a disaster in their own right. They scored only nine first half points against Georgia this past weekend. However, USC has beaten Vanderbilt, Florida and Clemson, so who knows what to expect out of that bunch.

Given that they’ve lost five of

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limits us a little bit. When you already fill up the DH (spot), everyone has to play a position.”

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The Ole Miss men’s golf team finished 9th this weekend, and senior Jonathan Randolph finished 7th overall in the Gator Invitational held in Gainesville, Fla. Randolph went into the final round one stroke off the lead, but he went three-over on the back nine to finish with a 72 on the day. The Brandon native shot a total of 212 for the tournament.

This weekend’s tournament was the third top-10 finish for Randolph, who was a First Team All-American last season when he led the Southeastern Conference in stroke average with a mark of 70.44.

Junior Joe David also had a good showing as he finished the tournament with a score of 215, good enough for 11th place.

The Rebels entered the spring with high expectations as they hope to build off the momentum that last year’s team provided. Among the goals for this year’s team are winning the SEC Championship and returning to NCAA Regional play.

Despite losing sophomore Tom Brown to a wrist injury, Ole Miss Coach Ernest Ross is extremely optimistic as his team moves forward.

“I honestly believe we are a top-20 team,” Ross said, now in his 15th

season with the Rebels. “We’ve got a returning First Team All-American, Jonathan Randolph, and a newcomer junior college player, Zach Primavera.

“We’ve got one senior and three juniors, and I think experience helps. I like our team right now.”

Competition hasn’t been the only thing Ross’ team has been up against. Mother Nature has also been a obstacle for Ole Miss as winter storms have ripped through the south, severely limiting practice time.

“We just have to prepare the best we can,” Ross said. “We’ve been doing some work indoors, but that doesn’t nearly simulate what you need to do to get ready.”

The Rebels look forward to warm weather so they can get ready for the rest of the spring season including Ole Miss’ next event, the John Hayt Collegiate in Ponte Vedra Fla. on Feb. 21-March 1.

their last six and play at Tennessee this evening, I’m thinking this team will be on the precipice of going into the tank this weekend when Ole Miss heads to Columbia.

And Alabama is Alabama. The Tide is a solid team that is the class of the West and making a push for an at-large berth in the Big Dance.

Given their remaining schedule, I like Ole Miss to earn their second SEC Tournament bye in a row this season. Between the three teams in the bye hunt– Ole Miss, State and Arkansas–the Rebels have the easiest schedule down the stretch in conference play.

The Rebels could just about lock the bye up if they earn the split with State Saturday and earn the sweep over the Razorbacks in the regular

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On Matt Crouse and the weekend rotation: “It was kind of difficult to figure out the rotation. It was a little different for us this year.

The last couple of years we’ve had Drew (Pomeranz). Before that, we had Will Kline and Lance Lynn. So, Matt (Crouse) has some big shoes to fill, pitching on Friday night. But one of the things that all those guys that I mentioned have is they’re great competitors. And I think at the end of the day, the other starters that will pitch on Saturday and Sunday have great stuff and are terrific pitchers, but Matt Crouse gives us the best chance to win on Friday night because it’s not only the

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To me, it’s very similar to 2009 when we had (Scott) Bittle and Morgan.”

season finale in Oxford.

But they must also take care of business against their lesser opponents, like Auburn. It’s been a tough season down on the plains, but misery loves company.

As they showed Saturday, the Tigers haven’t given up on this season yet and they’re looking to bring whoever they can down with them.

Last week’s LSU game showed the Rebels can lose to the conference bottom feeders on any given day.

That said, Auburn still isn’t very good.

If the Rebels can avoid trailing early and turn in at least a B- effort, they should get their fifth SEC win of the season and set the stage for going a lap ahead in the bye race this weekend in Starkville.

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BY AUSTIN MILLER The Daily Mississippian

On Monday, Ole Miss baseball coach Mike Bianco sat down for media days, where he talked about subjects like the weekend rotation and more. The DM baseball beat writer Austin Miller was there to cover the event.

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four days. It goes by quickly. We were here in this exact meeting room about six months ago as we welcomed 20 new faces to the program. For the first time, I believe, in my 11 years here, we have more new guys than returners, but it’s a great recruiting class. A lot of those new faces certainly will be on the field.”

On offensive depth and the opening lineup: “The first lineup is usually not the last lineup. The first rotation usually isn’t the last rotation.

I think in the first four weeks, as always, one of the goals is to

play different people – play different lineups and look at different combinations – to find out who that best group is. So that when we start conference play against the University of Alabama here in about four and a half weeks, we put the best nine on the field. We will certainly put the best nine as of February 18 out there, but we will also try some different things.”

On Matt Snyder’s health and availability: “We’ll play (Matt Snyder) when he’s ready. I have no doubt he will be the designated hitter on opening day. As far as the field, we will wait to see how the rehab goes and see what the doctors say. As far as our situation and what we can do, it See BIANCO, PAGE 11