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Undergrads snatch law school parking

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A non-law commuter parks in front of the new law school. Students of the new law school are having problems finding parking spaces due to non-law commuters parking in their lot.

BY CAIN MADDEN Campus News Editor

Chris Barber, a first year law student, said parking at the new law school is a bunch of “malarkey.”

Barber figured when he had to buy a $60 law school commuter parking decal, that law students would have the new lot to themselves.

“It was fine before the undergrads came back to school,” Barber said.

“Now it is starting to become an issue because undergrads are parking in the lot.”

While fellow first year law student King Farris admitted that parking was a difficult issue on campus, he figured it was time for law students to have their due.

“While I apprciate the need for

overall commuter parking, I figure, we were inconvenienced at Lamar,” Farris said.

“Now that we have our own building with a dedicated parking lot and had to buy our own decals, I feel like it should be for law commuters.”

Farris said other students with specific decals, such as students in a fraternity or Residential College,

Shepard Smith to teach an intersession class

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BY JACOB BATTE The Daily Mississippian

This May, Fox News anchor and University of Mississippi alumnus Shepard Smith will be teaching an intersession class for journalism majors.

The class is called Journalism 580: Multimedia Storytelling.

Smith also intends to take the students to New York, so they can get some behind-thescenes experience at the Fox News studio. The class will mainly consist of reporting assignments.

“The students will be trying to do local stories related to

the Oxford area,” Deb Wenger, assistant professor at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media, said. “(Students will be) potentially doing stories out of New York with Oxford or Mississippi connections.”

Wenger and Smith have remained in contact since the inception of the class, and she said Smith is really looking forward to the opportunity to teach at Ole Miss.

“He doesn’t want to just stand there and lecture,” Wenger said.

“He hopes to go out with the crews and help them do some reporting and really help the students understand how journalism works in the ‘real world’ that we talk so much about.”

Smith came up with the idea to teach a class while talking with Will Norton, Jr., Dean of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media.

Norton said Smith wanted remain connected to the University, and he is looking forward to having Smith back at Ole Miss.

“We intend to bring graduates of journalism at Ole Miss back to campus as often as possible,” Norton said.

“To bring back someone with Shepard’s national profile

is significant. He once worked in the Student Media Center and took virtually the same classes our students are now taking. I am hoping that, long after I am gone, many who are in this class will be back to teach students 20 and 30 years from now.”

Smith, who is considered one of the most trusted news anchors in the United States, was once an Ole Miss student, though he left for a job at WJHG-TV in Panama City Beach, Fla., just two credits shy of graduation.

He later received an honorary degree from the University.

The Fox Report with Shepard Smith is the top rated newscast in cable news according to U.S. Cable News.

Students interested in taking the class must have taken journalism 375 or 376 and have maintained a minimum 3.0 GPA. Students must also fill out an application, located in the front of Farley Hall.

Applicants will have to send their transcript along with what they consider their best piece of work and an essay explaining how they see this course fitting into their overall academic plan.

According to Wenger, they are aiming for 15 students for the class.

get their own decals, so why not law students?

“We have our own decal, so I’m not trying to take away anyone else’s parking,” Farris said. “If you want to park here, take your LSAT, enroll and buy a sticker.”

Farris said now that the law students are not at Lamar, there should be parking at the Ford Center.

“We couldn’t park (at Lamar) or at the Residential College,” Farris said.

“We had to park at the Ford Center and walk up the hill. Without us there, undergrads should be able to find parking.”

Ben Cooper, assistant law professor, said parking had been good for faculty.

“We had a horrible situation at Lamar, and it has been improved,” Cooper said. “So far, parking has been adequate.”

Cooper said, however, that he had heard of students having problems.

“They need to make the back lot the law lot,” Cooper said. “It would be nice if the law school had its own parking.”

Despite over a week of attempts, Linda Christian, manager of university parking services, could not be reached for comment.

Oxford and UM to host 8th Blues Symposium

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At the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, the blues is a reason to celebrate. The eighth annual Blues Symposium will take place today and tomorrow.

The Blues Symposium is a gathering of scholars, writers, photographers, musicians and music industry figures to discuss and present research about the blues in Mississippi.

Mark Camarigg, co-event planner and publication manager at Living Blues Magazine, said the conference is more of an academic presentation and a forum for researchers, but there will also be live blues music.

“Because it’s the blues, it can have a broader appeal than people just interested in the music,” he said. “We also bring in musicians to play, and you don’t have to be into academia to enjoy that.”

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Out with the old and in with the electric

BY MATTHEW HENRY Columnist

T H E

We have a finite amount of oil on this planet.

While many people may argue about how long we have until we run out, the fact still remains that one day, we will run out.

Actually, by the time oil supplies are “low,” prices will be so high that using petroleum for anything will be cost prohibitive.

In addition, we are currently seeing that the availability and price of oil is highly dependent on political stability in the countries and areas of the world where it is extracted.

With the recent demonstrations and political uprisings in the Middle East, we have already begun to see gas prices slowly increase.

Even though prices have not reached the levels that they were several years ago (when a gallon gas was well over $4), prices will continue to increase over the next months.

In addition, as countries

such as India and China continue to increase their demand for oil, the global price for oil will also increase (simple supply and demand).

Regardless of political leanings, I hope we can all agree that being less dependent on oil, a finite resource, is beneficial.

But changing our ways is no easy feat.

The United States is a petroleum nation. Whereas your iPhone will undoubtedly be obsolete in two years, the internal combustion engine has survived for nearly 100 years.

If we hope to begin to wean ourselves off of oil, we need two things.

First, we need a viable alternative automobile, and second, we need infrastructure to support this new technology.

Enter the electric car. Over the next decade, the electric car is going to take over the streets of the United States.

Although not nearly as

mass-produced as its gas-guzzling counterparts, the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf as well as the Tesla Roadster have started to hit the roads.

The main problem with these cars, however, is that they are new and therefore relatively expensive.

At least for the next two years these cars are going to be relegated to the high-end market.

But even when internal combustion cars were released, very few people could afford them.

It took years before the technology grew cheap enough for the masses to afford them. It also took a great deal of time to build the refining, transportation networks and gas stations throughout the United States.

The beauty of electric cars is that they run on the fuel we already produce in large quantities — electricity.

Once electric cars become

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more affordable and battery technology increases, people are going to need places to recharge away from the house.

There needs to be incentives for existing gas stations to build one or two “charging stations” into their existing system.

A switch from gas to electric cars does not mean that we have to destroy our existing infrastructure to make way for the new– think of it more as transitioning and transforming it.

There are numerous obstacles for the widespread adoption of electric cars.

We need more investment in battery technology and ways to make these cars more affordable. Once the price of gas is steadily over $6 or $7 a gallon, things will begin to change.

People will quickly trade in their 18 mpg SUV for a Chevy Volt or Nissan Leaf. We need to be ready when they do.

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The Obama Review: Only Time Will Tell

BY JONECE DUNIGAN Columnist

According to the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, President Obama’s job approval rating has gradually become higher since the plug in 2009, and the President’s overall approval rating has been gradually getting better since December 2010.

The statistics do not surprise me when compared to the 2009 ratings when things were looking bleak for the president. This gives me proof for my theory: We should not judge a president by his first two years of presidency.

Don’t get me wrong, we should judge how much work he puts into the bills he wants to get passed, but the progress of those bills cannot be judged until long term.

As soon as Obama stepped through the threshold of the White House in 2008, things began to fall apart with the

United States entering into a recession. People were losing jobs, which lead to lower incomes, which lead to less being bought, and the whole domino effect of problems goes on from there.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. People wanted action, and they wanted it right at that moment.

This is a fact about human nature, yet it is that nature that caused some citizens to believe that Obama was a man of fancy words with no action to hold them any meaning. We wanted to determine his presidency as soon as he swore in.

It is because the American people forgot that things get worse before they become better. This is especially true for the political arena because there is a long process about getting things done.

Obama had, and still has, plans that can make things a little brighter. I don’t mind the whole idea of staying on my parents’ healthcare plan until I am 24-years-old, and loan forgiveness shouldn’t sound bad to anyone on campus.

Of course, every president

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has a plan that some people are going to consider faulty - I am not a fan of the universal healthcare plan either.

Still, plans that are just now going into operation had a long process of getting approved through the House and Senate.

If there are changes to a bill, congress has to agree with the changes. If they don’t, then it is a good while of more debating before anything can get done.

That was the situation that went on during his first two years.

Along with trying to get his ideas passed, there were surprises that popped up every now and then. The oil spill in the Gulf was a big one. Some

even compared it to how Bush handled the Katrina situation and stated that Obama handled it better.

This is because Obama was actually in the field, observed what was going on, figured out a plan with the help of other experts and, in the end, funded jobs that paid people 1,000 an hour to clean the shores.

All of this while getting bills passed, dealing with wars overseas, and of course the factor we all tend to forget about: being a husband and father.

Now that it is the third year of his term we see things getting a little better. Jobs becoming more frequent are the first thing that people are beginning to notice.

Obama made many promises in his 2008 campaign that could not only help the nation get better, but to also bring it together. He also has two hands, two eyes, two feet, one mind, and more than 300 million people to take care of.

He is not a god who can cure everything with the snap of his fingers. We sometimes forget that the president is a human being just like the rest of us.

Wounds take time to heal and during this process we can only make sure the injury doesn’t get worse.

So far, Obama has done a great job in providing for all Americans and not just satisfying his Democratic supporters.

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en in the Blues,” “Africa to Mississippi,” “The Legacy of Howlin’ Wolf ” and “Religion and the Blues.”

The theme for this year’s conference is “Missing Chapters in Blues History.”

Jim O’Neal, founding editor of Living Blues and the Mississippi Blues Trail Research Director, will focus on a number of interesting stories and facts he has unearthed while compiling his research for the Mississippi Blues Trail Markers.

Camarigg said they did this to coincide with an issue of Living Blues that focused on Natchez.

“In a way (Natchez) is a forgotten piece of the Mississippi blues puzzle because folks really focus on the Delta and specifically Clarksdale or Greenville, but it’s surprising what little people know of the scene in Natchez,” Camarigg said. “We did a whole issue on the Natchez scene and

got a lot of great feedback, so we’re looking at these little untapped jams here in Mississippi, and (we want to) share these with the students and visitors.”

The event will begin tonight at Thacker Mountain Radio with musical guests the Reverend John Wilkins, Alvin Youngblood Hart and Natchez artists Gray Montgomery and YZ Ealey.

There will be a Highway 61 Radio program Blues Reception at Southside Art Gallery afterward, which will feature blues photography and live music.

On Friday, the conference will shift to discussions at the J.D. Williams Library, where presentations will be made by Scott Barretta, host of Highway 61 radio program and co-founder of Living Blues, Adam Gussow, a blues harmonica player and associate professor of English and southern studies at Ole Miss.

Greg Johnson, curator of the Ole Miss Blues Archive will also be presenting at the conference in the library.

The symposium will conclude with the Oxford Winter Blues Festival at 1 p.m. Saturday.

Ted Ownby, co-founder of the event, said the lectures will have some very unique topics such as blues tourism, something that has only appeared within recent years.

“You often hear the blues in the background, and it’s not very often in the foreground.

We structure it so that what we, as researchers, can present what we feel is important,” Barretta said. “It’s definitely geared toward pushing the boundaries of blues research beyond saying the same old things over again but keeping the public conscious of what’s going on.”

Barretta will moderate a Q&A with blues musicians Gray Montgomery and YZ Ealey from Natchez Friday morning.

He said it’s really important to actually hear the blues musicians talk.

“This kind of thing has a lot of cultural repercussions because the state is broadcasting to the rest of the world ‘look at what great stuff these African-Americans created’ because this is not something Mississippi would have done 20 or 30 years ago,” Barretta said.

Camarigg said the goal of the event is to recognize emerging blues music research and the significance of the blues genre, as well as its continued impact on American culture.

“We don’t set an expectation for success according to how many people attend because sometimes they can be very small and successful as long as people are getting a lot out of it,” Ownby said.

All lectures and discussions are free to the public and no registration is required. For more information visit http://livingblues. com/blues-symposium.html.

WORLD NEWS Libyan protesters defiant after Gadhafi speech New videos posted by Libya’s opposition show anti-government protesters raising the pre-Moammar Gadhafi flag on a building outside Tripoli and lining up cement blocks to defend themselves on a square inside the capital.

The videos were posted on Facebook Wednesday, a day after Gadhafi vowed to fight to his “last drop of blood” in a televised speech that signaled an escalation of a bloody crackdown on dissent by his supporters.

The footage couldn’t be independently confirmed.

Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told lawmakers it’s “likely” more than 1,000 people have been killed in the violence, according to Italian media reports citing witnesses and hospital sources.

Human Rights Watch has said nearly 300 people have been killed based on a partial count.

Oil prices hit $100 per barrel Oil hit $100 per barrel Wednesday for the first time in 2½ years as the unrest in Libya worsened, and gasoline prices in the U.S. climbed to nearly $3.20 a gallon, the highest level ever for February.

West Texas Intermediate crude for April delivery jumped $2.68, or 2.8 percent, to settle at $98.10 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Earlier in the day, prices hit triple digits for the first time since Oct. 2, 2008.

West Texas Intermediate has soared 18 percent since Valentine’s Day. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline rose 2.3 cents Wednesday to

$3.194, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service.

Gas has jumped 8.2 cents per gallon in the past month and $1.28 in the past year.

Tom Kloza, publisher and chief oil analyst at Oil Price Information Service, said he expects gasoline prices will continue to rise in the next few months to between $3.25 and $3.75 per gallon as the spring driving season approaches. $1M bond set in Southern Miss student’s slaying Hattiesburg City Court Judge Jolly Matthews has set a bond at $1 million for a suspect charged in the death of a 22-year-old University of Southern Mississippi student.

The Hattiesburg American reports that Anthony Rico Gipson made his initial court appearance Tuesday inside the judge’s chambers.

The 35-year-old Gipson is charged with murder in the death of Brittany Morgan, whose body was found inside her apartment Sunday night.

Md. Senate close to approving gay marriage bill The Maryland Senate has moved closer to passing a measure that legalizes gay marriage.

Senators voted 25-22 to advance a modified bill that includes more protections for religious institutions or groups that do not want to educate or provide insurance coverage to gay couples.

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, a Democrat, tentatively scheduled a final vote for Thursday.

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Q&A with Ronnie Agnew, editor of the Clarion-Ledger Ronnie Agnew is the executive editor of the Clarion Ledger, and an Ole Miss alumnus.

BY CAROLINE DANIELS The Daily Mississippian

What made you choose Ole Miss?

Ole Miss was interesting to me. My family had all gone to a Historically Black College or University, and I decided I wanted to go to a school that had multiple races and a mixture of students. Ole Miss wasn’t far from home. I am from south Pillow, right outside of Tupelo. I got accepted and didn’t apply anywhere else.

Ole Miss took me in.

Are there any professors who inspired you?

My mentor is the dean of the journalism school, Dr. Will Norton. Most, if not all, of my former professors are retired.

I remember Jerry Hoard, who taught communications law.

Mr. Dealany at the Student Media Center is an extraordinary man. I really remember the people who struck a chord and those people especially made a difference. I majored in broadcast and radio, but the lines are blurred, and you have to know all platforms.

What’s something you would tell students if you had the chance?

Make sure that while you are at the University to take advantage of everything and everybody. Don’t limit yourself to one way of thinking or to just one group. Expose yourself. When you leave in four years, or five or six, if you don’t have a relationship with different types of people, then that’s how you are going to live your life. Take advantage of diversity. Make it part of you education. When students finally get out of school and into the real world, they will understand what others are talking about, and they will be able to relate with a range of peo-

ple and that’s important, very important. Enjoy Ole Miss, but enjoy the entirety, not just your small piece. Just realize that somebody you know is going to do something great.

In order to be great, you have to surround yourself with great people, and great people come in all colors.

What do you think about black history month?

I’m not a real big fan of black history month. I feel like we need to celebrate all people, all of the time. I don’t care what color you are, if you have done something we can celebrate, the world needs to celebrate.

Your experience will be richer if you are around a diverse group of people. I love seeing so many people who are different. I just love it. That’s what America is. Imagine how boring a place America would be if we were all the same. I love the diversity in stories. As long as I’m editor, it’s going to stay that way.

What do you do in your position as editor of the Clarion-Ledger?

All editors report to me, and I am responsible for making sure we are doing what we need to do, covering the things we need to cover. I choose page one and that kind of thing What would you say is the best part about your job?

There are never any two days that are the same. This is a job that is almost like assembling a puzzle — it’s a different puzzle every day. You have to make decisions every day that aren’t the same. I never know what is going to happen.

How has your job influenced you?

I respect this job. It is a job that you cannot bring yourself into. You have to divorce yourself in this job, and realize it’s much bigger than you.

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You have a responsibility to give everyone a fair shot, from the wealthiest to the poorest of people. That’s how the job has changed me. Newspapers aren’t for a particular audience. They are for everyone. It’s easy to go to the CEO and feel very comfortable, but when you talk to a person who has maybe committed a crime, you have to remember that they are innocent till proven guilty.

Where did you work before the Clarion-Ledger?

I started in the Mississippi Delta working in Greenwood.

I went from Biloxi to Cincinnati with the Gannett Corporation, and I expressed an interest in being senior manager.

I was sent to Hattiesburg to be the boss. Then, I got my first editor job in Dothan, Ala. I left Dothan and came to the Clarion-Ledger. I got hired as managing editor and then got promoted in August 2002. I’ve been here 10 years. It is my ninth year as executive editor.

Why the Clarion-Ledger?

I’ve been reading the Clarion-Ledger since a long time ago. I stayed in the twin towers,

Stockard and Martin. I used to walk the hills on Sunday to get the Clarion-Ledger. They only had it at the Student Union.

Sometimes it would be sold out, and I would be so upset.

I had been a Clarion-Ledger fan for many, many years before joining the paper. It was always my goal to get to the Clarion-Ledger. I was scared

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I’m faced with the situation of saying that you’re here now Ronnie, so what do you do. I think I’ve done OK. I think I’ve made the Clarion-Ledger proud. It still gives me chills.

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Miller said his focus now moves to placing the measure before voters in 2012.

The bill will likely move to the House in the coming days.

Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley has said he will sign the measure if passed. Passage would make Maryland the sixth state to legalize gay marriage.

Ex-convict sisters too overweight to share kidney

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A proposed kidney transplant that won two Mississippi sisters their freedom from prison can’t take place until one quits smoking and they lose a combined 160 pounds.

Jamie and Gladys Scott had served nearly 16 years of their life sentences for an armed robbery when they were released from a sprawling prison in central Mississippi on Jan. 7.

Gov. Haley Barbour granted Jamie Scott an early release because she suffers from kidney failure, but he agreed to let Gladys Scott go on the condition she follow through on an offer to donate a kidney to her sister.

Jamie Scott told The Associated Press on Wednesday that she needs to lose more than 100 pounds and that her sister has to shed 60 pounds before their doctors will even test them for compatibility.

Doctors are also requiring Gladys Scott, a heavy smoker, to quit.

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Miss. Senate OKs its own museum bill Mississippi would borrow $30 million to help pay for a civil rights museum and another dedicated to the state’s overall history, under a plan approved Wednesday by the state Senate, but there’s a condition: Project organizers must raise $15 million privately before any state funding is released.

Sen. Walter Michel, R-Jackson, said he proposed the requirement because of the state’s current financial situation.

He also said that when the civil rights museum was proposed years ago, it was understood private money would be sought to fund it.

But Sen. Willie Simmons, D-Cleveland, was among the lawmakers who said no other state-owned facilities require a private match as a condition for the state to issue bonds.

He said the museums would be an investment that would be quickly paid off once tourists started visiting the state to view them.

The House earlier passed its version of a bond bill for the projects, but without any requirement for private money.

The House bill provided $55 million for the construction of the museums and a parking lot.

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Can You Keep Up with Professor Scott Owens?

BY KATHERINE WESTFALL The Daily Mississippian

Once an avid runner and now a race-winning walker, exercise science professor Scott Owens is the epitome of what he teaches in class every day.

He started off his academic career as a ninth grade English teacher in Florida. After two years, he changed his focus to health and fitness education and research.

In 1990, Owens decided it was time to move into the field of research. Since then, he has completed a large number of studies regarding the lifestyle and fitness of Americans.

A reoccurring theme in many of Owens’ studies is childhood obesity.

Over the years, Owens and his colleagues have conducted numerous studies on the best way to get kids to become more physically active.

“If you provide kids with the opportunity to be active, they will be physically active,” Owens said.

He said that a child’s fitness also relies heavily on the parent’s attitude toward a healthy

lifestyle and their willingness to be good role models for their children.

“Parents are key,” Owens said.

Owens has conducted one study that has recently sparked some interest is his Wii Fit study.

He and his colleagues recruited eight families from the Oxford area to show whether or not the Wii Fit game for Nintendo Wii was a viable weightloss tool.

Owens and his crew allowed the families to borrow the Wii Fits for three months and to use them as much or as little as they wanted.

“We wanted to create a reallife scenario,” Owens said.

“Our goal was not to regulate how much the families used the Wii Fits.”

Over the three-month interval, the average daily use of the program declined an incredible 82 percent — going from 22 minutes a day to approximately four minutes a day.

Over time, the novelty of Nintendo’s weight-loss game seemed to become a little repetitive. Interest began to fade,

and families fell back into their old ways.

Although the outcome of the study was not particularly positive, Owens said that Nintendo’s Wii Fit “could work if you use it.”

Although Owens has conducted many studies during his time in the health and fitness field, research is not the only thing that Owens participates in at Ole Miss.

As an associate professor of exercise science, he extends his knowledge to undergraduate and graduate students every day.

According to his graduate assistant, Keyser Ermin, Owens starts every class with trivia questions and always has something interesting to talk about.

“He is not a surprising professor,” Ermin, who has had Owens as a graduate advisor for over three years, said. “He is extremely organized and only puts questions on tests that pertain to his lecture.”

But that does not mean he is easy.

“He always told me that ‘rules are rules; don’t break rules,’” Ermin said.

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Society of Philosophers in America to host upcoming symposium

BY AVERY GAULDIN The Daily Mississippian

The University of Mississippi will host the first Society of Philosophers in America symposium Feb. 25-26.

The symposium will focus on disability, civic responsibility and community friendship.

The society is a non-profit organization with two primary goals.

The first is to promote education in the philosophy, practices and traditions of America and other world cultures. The second is to sponsor conferences and symposia to provide a forum for the philosophical exchange of ideas among scholars.

The symposium, like all SOPHIA events, is a conversational meeting that is meant to engage attendees and discuss philosophical issues.

Eric Weber, assistant professor for public policy leadership at Ole Miss, is the executive director of SOPHIA and a co-facilitator for the event.

Robin Wilkerson, director and professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s School of Nursing, will also lead one of the conversational sessions at the symposium.

“We want to talk about living a good life with respect and equality for people with disabilities,” Weber said.

There will be four sessions of the event and also brief readings in order to spark conversation among the group. The readings will be fairly short and roughly two pages, so people that come late can easily catch up and join the conversation.

The first session will discuss what disability means in our lives.

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“We want to get rid of the norm and push it away as our civic responsibility,” Weber said.

“Instead of a person being defined by their disability, we want to know them as a person and not John Doe who has epilepsy.”

Weber also added that a person is not their disease, and society needs to recognize that.

The last session will feature Oxford attorney Hale Freeland, who participated and wrote a case study in the 2009 SOPHIA

conference. He will be writing a case study called “I Ain’t Dead Yet! — Life and Lifestyle Decisions of Impaired Persons.”

The symposium will be held on Friday and Saturday in Bryant Hall.

The Weekly Top Zen: Let’s Get this Political Party Started

BY ANDY PAUL The Daily Mississippian

According to the televised news outlets, we should apparently start getting ready for the 2012 presidential campaign.

Obama is most certainly running again, but the Republicans will ante up with a fresh-faced candidate to challenge the establishment.

“Wait, what?” you might ask aloud to your copy of The Daily Mississippian, as those around you begin to slowly edge away in their seats. “We are just halfway through Obama’s term. Why do we need to even consider this right now?”

A very good question, I would say, and one to which I would answer, “Hey, look over there!

Some great and terrible distraction,” since I don’t have an actual

explanation for it.

And as you watched everyone nearby run off as fast as possible, since they just witnessed a verbal conversation between a human and a printed newspaper, I would ruminate on some of the Republican potentials for 2012.

The first that comes to mind is Mitt Romney.

Oh, Mitt — as American as a baseball glove and twice as leathery.

This strong-jawed American is the neo-conservative’s dream come true, and he seems set on keeping many of the Bush-era policies alive.

They worked so well for eight years, after all, and who wouldn’t want another term of fear-mongering against an invisible, foreign threat that I am told appears behind you if you say “Nancy Pelosi” three times in a

bathroom mirror.

It’s true. Glenn Beck told me on the playground.

Next up is media darling Sarah “Moose-Exterminator” Palin.

If there is one thing Mrs. Palin loves more than setting feminism back 50 years, it is complaining on national televised media about how much the national televised media is not allowing her to speak her mind.

Just ask TLC, which gave her a reality TV show out of pure spite, or “Dancing with the Stars,” who just wanted Bristol Palin on this past season so they could add “Gun-Nut Mothers” to their demographic list, alongside “Gay Men” and “Senior Citizens too Feeble to Change the Channel to ‘Antiques Roadshow.’”

Well now, who is that I see riding into town on a misinterpreted copy of “The Constitution?”

Why, it’s Libertarian extraordinaire Ron Paul!

Now that I think about it, it is funny that he is visiting a public college campus, since I’m sure state schools aren’t what the founding fathers had in mind when they crafted their unchangeable and never-outdated manuscript over 250 years ago.

Hey, don’t get upset.

I’m a staunch Libertarian, too — so staunch, in fact, that I use the original draft of every text I read. That’s why I always drink liberal amounts of snake oil to cure my headaches, as prescribed in my 1859 first edition copy of “Doctor Smithwhitiker’s Frontier Guidebook for the Prevention of Injury and Kidnapping

by Evil Railroad Barons Sporting Monocles.”

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only last a few days more!

Of course, these are just a few of the numerous Republicans revving up their loud, environmentally unsound engines for the upcoming election campaign.

I am sure that deep within the GOP underground fortress they are working on a political super-candidate with the beautiful skin tone of John Boehner, the charisma of Rudy Giuliani and the mechanical torture device referred to as a heart of Dick Cheney.

Think of it like the Republican Six Million Dollar Man. Sorry, that monetary figure is probably a bit out of date.

Given today’s economic climate, he’ll be more like the Republican Four Million Dollar Man. Here’s looking at you, Grand Ole Party!

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Who: All interested faculty and current students When: Monday, Feb. 28th-Thursday, March 3rd: 9AM-4PM Friday, March 4th: 9AM-1PM Where: Student Union 405A (3rd floor) Monday-Thursday Student Union 410 (Catalpa Room-3rd Floor) Friday Come and write words of encouragement and wisdom to the students we hope will be the incoming class of 2011. Refreshments, stationery, and writing utensils will be available.

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Ole Miss measures up in APR NCAA’s explanation of the Academic Performance Rate: The APR is a real-time assessment of teams’ academic performance. The APR awards two points each term to student-athletes who meet academic-eligibility standards and who remain with the institution. A team’s APR is the total points earned by the team at a given time divided by the total points possible.

BY AUSTIN MILLER The Daily Mississippian

In the 2010 NCAA release of Academic Performance Rate, the overall multi-year Division I APR is 967, up three points from last year. In the “big three” sports (football, basketball and baseball), football’s average multi-year APR is 944, up five points over last year. Men’s basketball’s multi-year APR is up seven points to 940, while baseball is up eight points to 954.

The 2010 multi-year APR is the average of single-year APRs from the 2005-06 through the 2008-09 school years, while the 2010 single-year APR is based on data from the 2008-09 school year.

In its seventh year of existence, the APR continues to change how college athletics does business. During the recruitment process, coaches are aware of APR and less likely to recruit someone who’s going to potentially lose APR points.

The state-of-the-art FedEx Student-Athlete Academic Support center, which opened in 2007, is a recruiting tool and also represents Ole Miss’s commitment to academic excellence.

“What’s happened across the country – and Ole Miss included – is there’s been a growth in academic support programs, in terms of the number of personnel, the type of support services that are provided, increased tutor budgets and a growth in facilities,” said Karen Schiferl, Ole Miss senior associate ath-

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letic director for academic support.

In the “big three” sports, this improvement can be attributed to specific academic enhancement groups in football and basketball. This is also true for baseball, in addition to other sport-specific policy changes.

One such change requires baseball student-athletes to be academically eligible heading into the fall, in order to compete in the spring.

In terms of single-year APR, all of the Ole Miss “big three” sports teams finished in the top half of the Southeastern Conference, led by its baseball team with a perfect 1000 score. Eight other programs – women’s basketball, women’s cross country, women’s golf, women’s softball, women’s tennis, women’s indoor and outdoor track and women’s volleyball – all posted a perfect 1000 score.

“For the past couple of years, our women’s golf team has been a top-10 team,” Schiferl said.

“Our women’s volleyball team, this past year, was a top-10 team. Our baseball team has been ahead of the curve nationally. Its public we had a bad year in football, when we lost three scholarships. That was a year that was a changing of coaches, so our issue had more to do with probably the coaching change in retention of student-athletes and not the academic eligibility of student-athletes.”

Teams that post multi-year APRs in the top 10 percent of their sport are publicly rec-

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Vanderbilt Georgia Florida LSU Alabama

975 973 971 965 957

(982) (965) (982) (961) (972)

Vanderbilt Alabama Florida Kentucky Georgia

980 966 956 954 944

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951 944 939

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Tenessee MS State Ole Miss

S. Carolina Auburn 935 Arkansas Ole Miss

938 (934) (915) 930 (956) 921 (957) (10th-20th)

935 (1000) 932 (979) 922 (980) (20th-30th) 918 (827) (938) 908 (977) 886* (933)

LSU Auburn 916 S. Carolina Arkansas

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Baseball Vanderbilt Kentucky MS State Florida Ole Miss Arkansas Alabama S. Carolina

1000 (1000) 979 (1000) 976 (983) 974 (983) 973 (1000) (70th-80th) 954 (957) 949 (975) 947 (983)

Georgia LSU Tennessee Auburn 932

941 (950) 938 (982) 936 (982) (906)

GRAPHIC BY EMILY ROLAND| The Daily Mississippian

The multi-year APR (2005-2009) for each of the 12 Southeastern Conference schools in each of the “big three” is listed in the graphic, while the single-year APR (2008-2009) is included in parentheses. For each of the Ole Miss teams, the percentile rank is also noted.

ognized by the NCAA, while teams with a multi-year APR under 925 or a single-year APR under 900 are subject to incremental penalties by the NCAA. In the Southeastern Conference, seven schools had teams score in the top 10 percent of their sport, including the Ole Miss women’s golf and women’s volleyball teams who both scored a perfect 1000 and were publically recognized. Vanderbilt led the SEC with seven of its programs receiving the honor, including its baseball team – the only “big three” sports team to do so in the conference.

LSU had three such teams,

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“It was a great accomplishment in high school, which is where I will leave it,” Kendrick said.

“Chris Warren came out of high school and was not ranked as high as I was, and he has accomplished so much more than a lot of people that came out of high school in my position. It is something that is in the past, and I hope to accomplish a lot more here and reach higher goals.”

While the Ole Miss basketball team has struggled on the court this season, the future with Kendrick could be a bright one.

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Auburn was the only SEC school with a team to receive penalties, with its men’s indoor and outdoor track and field team losing half a scholarship

each for a single-year APR of 914. In the “big three” sports, only the Arkansas basketball team fell below the “cut mark” with a multi-year APR of 886, but was not subjected to penalties due to the team’s demonstrated academic improvement, among other factors.

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With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, junior Matt Snyder ripped a single into center field to score sophomore Tanner Mathis for the winning run. Snyder’s clutch hit capped a 3-for-4 game, his thirdstraight multi-hit game.

“I wanted to make good contact on the ball because I wanted to win the ballgame right there for the guys – and it felt good,” Snyder said. “I have a little more tweaking to do with the swing. But once that starts getting in there, I’m going to start hitting the ball for more power. I’m starting to see the ball well and getting good contact.”

Senior Matt Smith homered to right-center in the bottom of the first to give Ole Miss an early 1-0 lead. Arkansas State tied the game

with a RBI double to center in the top of the second.

Before the 65-minute rain delay, the Diamond Rebels pushed across a go-ahead run in the second with freshman Preston Overbey’s RBI groundout to score senior Matt Tracy. After a leadoff walk in the fourth, junior Taylor Hightower scored on a Mathis single up the middle to take the lead out to 3-1.

“We squandered some opportunities and kept the pressure on – in the sense that it’s only 3-1,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said. “If it gets to 5-1, (Arkansas State) probably won’t even bunt in that situation, where (Bobby Wahl) throws the ball away. So that’s disappointing. I’m excited of what we can be, but we still got a ways to go.”

In his collegiate debut, freshman right-hander Bobby Wahl went four innings and gave up three runs on six hits. Wahl got into trouble in the fifth after back-to-back singles to start the inning.

On a ground ball back up the middle, he tried to get the lead run-

ner at third, but threw the ball away.

On Wahl’s throwing error, Arkansas State scored two runs to tie the game at 3-3.

“I picked up the ball and it slipped out of my hand a little bit,” Wahl said. “If there’s one play I could take back, I think that would be it, definitely.”

Coming into a 3-3 game with a runner on second, senior Trent Rothlin (2-0) picked off the inherited runner and retired the next two batters in order to get out of the fifth inning jam.

Rothlin stranded two runners in the sixth and didn’t allow another Arkansas State batter to reach base for the rest of the game. For the game, Rothlin pitched five scoreless innings, allowing only two hits, while striking out five to earn the win.

“One of the neat things over the last five days is to watch the guys continue to fight, even when, sometimes, it doesn’t go their way,” Bianco said. “In this game, you need to do that to have success.”

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Despite a lackluster season for the Ole Miss basketball team thus far, there are better things just around the corner.

Meet Jelan Kendrick.

Kendrick played his high school ball in Marietta, Ga., just outside of Atlanta. There, he made himself a known commodity in the world of

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During his senior season at Wheeler High School, he averaged 19.6 points, 6.7 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game on his way to McDonald’s and Parade All-American honors. Kendrick was rated the No. 8 player in the nation and the No. 2 small forward in the country by Rivals.com and the No. 15 player in the nation by Scout.com.

The standout player inked with Memphis, but the two parties parted ways in November. Soon after that, Kendrick began looking for a new school to take his talents and Ole Miss got into the mix.

Kendrick had several schools after him, but in the end, it came down to Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Ole Miss and West Virginia. However, Andy Kennedy’s Ole Miss Rebels

stuck out to Kendrick more than the others.

“The southern hospitality is blatant (at Ole Miss),” Kendrick said.

“Coach AK is a straightforward guy, and that is someone I need to play for.”

Kendrick decided on Ole Miss and is enrolled this spring.

Due to NCAA transfer rules, Kendrick must sit out for one year before he will be eligible to play, which means he will be eligible to play at the conclusion of the 2011 fall semester.

Kendrick can practice with the team this season, and he is getting everything out of it he can by learning from seniors Chris Warren and Zach Graham. “(Warren and Graham) have been great,” Kendrick said. “I’m blessed to get to come a year early and be up under their wing until next year when it’s time for me. They are very hard workers, and I’ve learned a lot from them so far.”

While most people would be hesitant about transferring and sitting out a year, Kendrick said he takes everything in stride.

“Everything happens for a reason,” Kendrick said. “Instead of backing away from certain situations, just take them head on. Do the best of your ability to maximize your situation.

“Right now, I’m trying to work on my entire game so I can be a more effective player when I hit the floor next year. I’ve been developing, not only as a basketball player, but as a person.”

Like most talented athletes, Kendrick has high goals for himself and his teammates.

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