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Volume 2 | Issue 77
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Inside 4 News
‘Eggs and Issues’: Legislators give take on session.
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The Oxford Indoor Yard Sale is set for Saturday at the Oxford Conference Center.
Oxford Indoor Yard Sale celebrates seventh year BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER
This Saturday from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., the Oxford Conference Center is holding its annual Indoor Yard Sale. The event began in the Conference Center in 2009 and has steadily grown over the past seven years. People bought one of two dif-
ferent sized booths for between $30-$45 to sell their wares. Sellers keep 100 percent of their profits. There is a $2 entry fee for buyers. After the sale is complete, venders have the option of donating unsold goods to the Oxford thrift store Holding Hands. Micah Quinn is the events manager for the Oxford Confer-
ence Center and has held the position since its opening in 2004. She said the idea for the event came about when they noticed a slow in events due to the economic downturn of 2008. “It was during the recession and so no one was really planning events so the director, Hollis Green, had a great idea: Why
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don’t we create our own event?” she said. When the Indoor Yard Sale began, the Conference Center held the event several times a year, but as the economy got better, people began scheduling more events and the Conference Center began to run out of TURN TO OXFORD PAGE 6
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With construction projects having ripple effects campuswide, Ole Miss planners’ work seems a bit like a cross between threedimensional chess and Whack-a-Mole. Transportation and Parking Director Mike Harris noted a host of small adjustments in traf-
fic and parking capped by two huge projects – this spring’s expected start on a 1,500-space parking garage for residential students and this summer’s creation of some 500 spaces of new paved parking next to the Whirlpool Center on Chucky Mullins Drive Extended. One of the small changes recommended is a restriction of the loop in
front of the new Pavilion at Ole Miss to commercial vehicles, including university-owned cars, trucks, vans and golf carts. “We thought about designating it as a loading/unloading zone, but we realized the general public might interpret that to include loading and unloading people, so TURN TO UM PAGE 13
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UM Students, Staff Lead LOU Community MLK Day of Service Events OXFORD CITIZEN REPORTS
Students and staff members from the University of Mississippi will be spearheading efforts to promote healthy lifestyles in Lafayette County and Oxford during 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances. The opening ceremony for the Lafayette-OxfordUniversity MLK Day of Service begins Monday at the Oxford Activity Center starting at 9:30 a.m. Program participants include Oxford Mayor George "Pat" Patterson and Lafayette County Board of Supervisors President Jeff Busby. Donald Cole, special assistant to the UM chancellor for multicultural affairs, will deliver the keynote address. Afterward, awards will be presented to four outstanding LOU volunteers in two categories. Community member recipients are Patrick Alexander and Jacqueline Certion, both of Oxford; and Judith Thompson of Abbeville. Faith
Meyer of Oxford is the student recipient. "It is exciting that University of Mississippi students and staff are choosing to make a difference in the lives of others," said Kacey Schaum, assistant dean of students for leadership and involvement. "Volunteering builds communities and strengthens relationships. To have our students take opportunities to participate in endeavors like these is amazing." Other activities scheduled are: Through Fr iday – a letter-of-appreciation writing campaign for civil rights leaders John Perkins and Charles Evers. Also, "I Have a Dream" art project. Participating schools include Oxford-University School and Lafayette High School. Saturday – Delta Service Corps VISTA is sponsoring a canned goods drive for the UM Food Bank, Pantry and Love Packs. Drop-offs may be made between noon and 4 p.m. at CVS, Larson's Cash Saver and Walgreen's.
Monday – Ole Miss athletics/UPD-sponsored "Dream Team" 5-K wellness walk/fun run. The event begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Oxford Activity Center. The first 50 participants to register get free T-shirts. Monday – Volunteer projects at the Veterans Home in Oxford. Monday – Sorting of food collected during the food drive. "Learning the larger history surrounding civil rights and MLK is important, but we see a need to educate our students about living leaders who made great movements right here in Mississippi," said Sara Baker, co-coordinator of the letter-writing campaign. "We hope to give proper gratitude to local leaders. We hope to educate students on the civil rights movement here in Mississippi and give them a local, current perspective about the continuous issue." Community participation is crucial to the success of the service observance,
said Sarah Ball, Volunteer Oxford director. "This national day of service honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and commitment to transforming our nation through service to others," Ball said. "The LOU MLK Day of Service offers community members a chance to engage in a variety of volunteer opportunities that are designed to give back to the community." An assistant professor of English and African-American studies at UM, Alexander created a Prison-to-College Pipeline Program for inmates at Parchman Penitentiary. He is also volunteers with the Rethinking Mass Incarceration in the South Conference. Thompson is a UM assistant professor of teacher education. A lifelong volunteer, she has been involved with the Boys and Girls Club, CREATE Foundation, Leap Frog, Lafayette County School Board and other groups. She is chair of the LOU
Excel by 5 Steering Committee, a communitybased project that strives to improve the quality of life for children ages 5 and younger. A senior academic adviser for the UM Fast Track Program, Certion started a free summer program for tutoring students in math and reading. She is also involved in the Boys and Girls Club, Sigma Gamma Rho sorority and other organizations.
An Ole Miss sophomore from Austin, Texas, Meyer is involved in Kappa Delta sorority. She chaired its Personal presence, Attitude, Communications skills and Enlarging our world committee and worked with Prevent Child Abuse America and the Girl Scouts. For more information about LOU MLK Day of Service events, contact Ball at volunteer@oxfordms.net or Shaum at krshaum@olemiss.edu.
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OBITUARIES MARY LOUISE SHAW MCPHAIL Mary Louise Shaw McPhail, 78, passed away Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi. The funeral service was held Wednesday, Jan. 13, in the Chapel of Waller Funeral Home with Rev. Charles Lipe officiating. Burial followed in Forrest Memorial Cemetery in Batesville. Memorial contributions in Mrs. McPhail’s memory may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1905.
PAUL CLEATUS BRAY Paul Cleatus Bray, 82, passed away Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, at Senatobia Convalescent and Rehab Center in Senatobia. A graveside service will be held Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, at 2 p.m. at Eastover Memorial Cemetery with Rev. Bob Jackson officiating. Visitation will be held Thursday from 12:30 p.m. until 1:30 at Waller Funeral Home before processing to the cemetery. Memorial contributions in Mr. Bray’s memory may be made to LeBonheur Children's Medical Center, 50 North Dunlap, Memphis, TN 38103-9984.
JAMES RANDALL DEATON James Randall Deaton, 47, passed away Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016 at his home. Graveside services were held Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 at Memorial Garden Park, 9036 Oktoc Road, Starkville, MS 39459 With Bro. Truett Allen officiating. Coleman Funeral Home of Oxford was in charge of arrangements.Memorials may be made to the Oxford-Lafayette Humane Society, P.O. Box 1674, Oxford, MS 38655 or the local AA Chapter. Online condolences may be left on the Tribute Wall of this website.
BARRY THOMAS DOYLE BYHALIA – Barry Thomas Doyle, 54, died Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, at his home. Memorial services were held Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, at Brookside Baptist Church, Olive Branch. Serenity Autry Funeral Home of Holly Springs was in charge of arrangements.
JAMES MICHAEL TATE James Michael “Mike” Tate, 56, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi. A private memorial service will be held at a later date.
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‘Eggs and Issues’ Legislators give take on session BY ERROL CASTENS OXFORD CITIZEN
Living in Oxford is a blessing, said District 9 State Sen. Gray Tollison (R-Oxford), but that very quality of life makes it a challenge to represent in the Mississippi Legislature. “We live in a bubble. The rest of Mississippi is not like Oxford,” Tollison said at Monday’s annual “Eggs & Issues” breakfast sponsored by the OxfordLafayette County Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Foundation. “When you go to Jackson, we’ve got representatives from all over the state, representing 3 million people. It’s a blessing and a curse to be from Oxford. I love the fact that we have a $100 million new arena here, but when we go down there arguing for money for Ole Miss, they’re like, ‘You just got a $100 million new arena; you don’t need any more money.’ That’s what we have to deal with: ‘You’re a great school; you don’t need (state funding).’” Tollison said it’s an ongoing challenge to separate the perception that Oxford and Lafayette County have endless resources from the reality that the University of Mississippi’s most visible enhancements are created with donations that have nothing to do with local government. “Yes, we do have a $100 million arena, but that’s private money. That doesn’t pay for the new sewer,” he said. “Somebody once told me, ‘No one wants to have a sewer plant or a roof named after them.’
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A number of people turned out for Monday's Eggs and Issues event held at the Oxford Conference Center.
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construction, Tollison said. Regarding school districts, he said, “There are bright spots all across the state (but) there are widening gaps between the TURN TO EGGS PAGE 7
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Oxford prekindergarten registration begins Monday On Monday, at 8 a.m., the Oxford School District’s 2016-17 prekindergarten (pre-K) program registration opens online at www.oxfordsd.org/prek. To qualify for the district’s pre-K program, children must be 4 years old on or before Sept. 1, 2016, and live within the Oxford School District. School officials encourage parents to register their child online as soon as possible on Monday and turn in required registration documents on time. Registration for the program will close on Friday at 4:30 p.m. “It is important for parents to register their child online as soon as registration opens at 8 Monday,” said OSD Director of Federal Programs and Student Registration SuzAnne Liddell. “Students who demonstrate a need for a preschool program are placed in our pre-K program first. Remaining slots are filled on a first come, first served basis.” Required registration doc-
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spare Saturdays. Out of the ones they hosted, the January sale has always been the most popular and now they host the event exclusively this month. That time of the year was chosen because there is less going on in town. Quinn said that they try to avoid weekends with home basketball games or kids activities because it gives more people the opportunity to attend the event. Jim and Marge McCauley have been coming to the Indoor Yard Sale nearly every year since its creation. The couple has lived in the Oxford area for about 15 years and recently moved into the city from their house in the country. The McCauleys said that with the move, came the need to get rid of some things they no longer have the room or need for. Having previously had a booth at the Mustard Seed, they have a good bit of antiques that are in need of a good home. The couple also like that it is held indoors in January when there is not very much else going on in town. “It’s just a fun thing to do,” Marge said. “Everybody you know comes by to see what’s
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The seventh annual Oxford Indoor Yard Sale is a popular event, especially in January when it's cold outside and there is less going on in Oxford. going on and you get to see and talk with all your neighbors. Maybe even make a little money while you’re at it.” This year’s booths sold out faster than any year previous. Many people that attended the event in previous years are now returning in order to be active participants in the sale, setting up their own booths. Quinn said the entry charge doesn’t make the Conference Center a large profit but it does help pay for the costs of putting the event on. Amberlyn Liles has participated in the sale about every other year since its beginning.
She loves the fact that it is held at the beginning of the year because she likes to start out her year by cleaning out some of the gently used items she no longer has use for. This year she has several clothing items for kids and adults as well as some décor items like rugs and lamps. “It doesn’t matter if it’s raining or really cold outside because it’s always held in the building,” Liles said. “There’s food, drinks and a little bit of everything for everyone.” chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: @chaningthegreen
Cannon Motors of Mississippi has purchased Chandler Nissan, making it the company’s second dealership in Oxford and 12th in the state of Mississippi. The new Cannon Nissan is located near Cannon Chevrolet Buick Cadillac on Highway 6 West. The addition of Cannon Nissan of Oxford will establish Cannon’s third Nissan dealership in the state of Mississippi, along with Cannon Nissan Greenwood and Cannon Nissan of Jackson. “The Cannon Motors of Mississippi family is excited to expand our presence in Oxford and throughout the state,” said Michael Joe Cannon of Cannon Motors of Mississippi. “Oxford is the fastest-growing community in Mississippi, and we aim to grow with it to continue to provide quality service and products for our customers.” Cannon Motors of Mississippi is currently celebrating 60 years of business since Cannon’s father first started the business in 1956 in Calhoun City. The company has 12 dealerships in Oxford, Greenwood, Cleveland, Calhoun City, Grenada, Jackson and Vicksburg.
Jr. Leadership deadline Friday Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce is accepting applications for the 2016 Junior Leadership Program. All
10th grade students who live in Oxford and Lafayette County are encouraged to apply. Junior Leadership is a program designed to help high school students develop the essential leadership skills to be successful in the future. Over 430 students have graduated from the program since its inception in 1998. The sessions are developed to introduce the students to team building techniques, goal-setting strategies and are required to complete a community project prior to graduation. Through dynamic community speakers and onsite tours of local facilities such as Baptist Memorial Hospital, Caterpillar, Chancery Building and various facilities at the University, the students are able to get a unique view of what goes on in their community. The program runs from late January through the early April and meets on Monday afternoons after school from 4:15 till 6:15 p.m. Orientation will be held Jan. 25, and the program concludes with a graduation ceremony April 11. Junior Leadership is sponsored by Your Extra Closet - Oxford’s clean, safe and simple choice for self storage. Applications and schedules are available in school counselors’ offices, at www.oxfordms.com or at the Chamber office at 299 Jackson Avenue West. For further information call Pam Swain at (662) 234-4651.
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haves and have-nots. In Oxford, when I was in high school here, we had 1,500 kids (in the Oxford School District). Now we’ve got over 4,000. The same (growth) with Lafayette – they’re up to 2,500.” By comparison, he said, some Delta districts have lost 30 percent of their student population in the past 10 years, and Montgomery County School District has fewer students than any single grade in Oxford School District. “That makes no sense. How do you hire a good math teacher to teach one class?” Tollison said. He added that sometime soon, low-population counties with several high schools may have to be targeted for consolidation of those schools. “Some people tell me, ‘Basketball is important,’ but … giving kids an education is more important,” he said. Tollison also mentioned healthcare as a major issue.
When the state spends nearly two-thirds of its revenue on education, the growth of Medicaid makes every allocation beyond those two items that much more competitive. “This year for the first time ever we’re going to spend $1 billion of your dollars on Medicaid,” he said. “Some 800,000 people – almost one in three folks – are on Medicaid.” Freshman District 12 Rep. Jay Hughes (D-Oxford) said as a Democratic representative in a Legislature with Republican majorities, he is under no delusions that he will be given direct forms of power. “What I will have is a fresh start, an effort to go down with a child’s eyes and believe on what I ran on – that education is the most important thing,” he said. That doesn’t mean I’m not for economic development, because there’s no greater thing for economic development, to me, than education. Think of Oxford as a microcosm of what the rest of the state could be if they the same quality schools and teachers. We can educate a
child for 12 years and have them contribute to our community and our state for the rest of their life, or we can fall short of that, and we can support them through welfare or incarceration or other government programs for the rest of their life.” Hughes said he has introduced a bill to mandate all superintendents of education to be appointed. The change would set minimum qualifications and spare school districts from being stuck with an ineffective elected superintendent for four years. “If you hire somebody … and they fail to meet the standard, you terminate them and get someone better,” he said. “They would have to have at least four years on-the-ground, inthe-classroom work, at least two years of administrative experience or a master’s degree in education, and they could come from anywhere in the United States. There are so many administrators who want to make a difference.” Hughes said school choice sounds attractive and fair on its surface, but
he fears mass migration from poorer districts to richer ones, creating new problems for both in the process. “How many kids are we going to inherit from Marshall County, and Panola, and Yalobusha?” he asked, noting that state funding would follow students to their new schools, further impoverishing struggling districts while not fully covering the new costs for their new districts. Healthcare is another key issue, Hughes said. “It’s not just more money for Medicaid. It’s not just regular access to healthcare, but it’s quality healthcare in rural places,” he said. “It’s to ensure that people get to the physicians and get treated when it’s simple instead of waiting to the end, when it’s much more expensive. It’s amazing when you’re living in a rural community, and you’ve got an hour to go, whether it’s a headache or a heart attack. That’s something we can do better.” Hughes encouraged Mississippians to give their legislators frequent feedback. “There is power in information. … Let’s ask these
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questions and stay informed during the process,” he said. “Legislators listen to the people when y’all make the effort to talk.” District 13 Representative Steve Massengill (R-Hickory Flat) echoed some of the themes his colleagues also covered. “Education and roads are going to be the biggest thing. … Nobody wants to drive on dirt roads,” he said, noting that he does so regularly. Massengill also noted that in some other countries, students are separated early according to their projected career track, a fact brought home by a German exchange student who came to live with Massengill and his wife. He said school consolidation might have some advantages, but the loyalties of communities to their schools made combining campuses – or even districts – politically dangerous. “If you don’t want to get re-elected, consolidate two or three schools,” he said. “The people love their little schools.” District 12 Rep. Nolan Mettetal (R-Sardis) empha-
sized the labor that goes into deciding the state’s priorities. “We’ve worked hard, hard, hard to fund public education. When you put 62 to 64 percent of your total fund in education, you must be serious,” he said. “We’ve been working so hard to provide access to healthcare.” Mettetal noted such advances in recent years as rural physician scholarships that help pay for medical school in exchange for contracts to practice in small towns and tort reform, which helped change Mississippi from a business unfriendly environment to one of the most positive in the nation. “A few years ago we had physicians bolting from the State of Mississippi,” he said. “‘Physicians’ Practice’ recently chose Mississippi as the best state in which to practice medicine. We’re in the top 10 of so many ratings as far as states in which to do business. We’ve got some good things happening in Mississippi.” errol.castens@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenec
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‘Will You be a Rebel, Baby?’ BY ERROL CASTENS OXFORD CITIZEN
A former Lafayette Elementary School teacher has released a book aimed at small children whose parents have an affinity for all things red and blue. Brianna Foster, now an assistant principal at Water Valley’s Davidson Elementary School, wrote “Will You Be a Rebel™, Baby?” in a moment of inspiration some two years ago and now is working on distributing the finished product. The book combines a love for Ole Miss traditions with the ambitions and achievements of the University of Mississippi’s graduates to create a hardback collection of inspirational, aspirational messages for little Rebels-to-be. On a picture page that Chad superimposes Thompson’s illustrations of children and others onto a photo from the Walk of Champions, Foster writes,
“Will you be a REBEL, baby? Will you take long walks through The Grove? Will you enjoy the warm breeze blowing? Feel the grass beneath your toes?” Illustrator Thompson’s humor adds subtly to the effect of Foster’s verse, as in another Grove illustration that shows a crowd of game-day celebrants, complete with chandeliered tents, Solo cups, and Ole Miss baby boy and girl in diapers completing their outfits with blue blazer and pearls, respectively. “Will you be a REBEL, baby? Will you meet some brand new friends? Will you tailgate before the games? Will you keep up with all the trends?” Children also populate the book as cheerleaders, football players and basketball players, but Foster doesn’t just focus on athletics and traditions. She asks in her poetry, “Will you leave your special mark? Will you do something that
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lasts?” with a nod to Ole Miss’ literary foundations, its artistic endeavors, and the many professional careers from medicine to education to law that the university’s alumni follow. A variety of people are depicted throughout the book. “It was very intentional. Working in the public schools, you don’t see a classroom of just one demographic, and you want to encourage kids of all backgrounds,” Foster said. For a book full of optimism, it’s ironic that it was conceived in a time of frustration, after Foster had left the classroom to specialize in instructing other educators. “I was working for the State Department of Education, and I was driving to Cleveland every day to coach teachers in reading and literacy,” she said. “I didn’t know if I had made the right decision. I didn’t feel like I was in the right
place, doing the right job. “It’s a two-hour commute each way. I was praying that God would give me some direction, and after I asked, 10 minutes later I pulled over and wrote the book on the side of the road. It took me just a few minutes to get it out of my head onto my laptop.” The initial inspiration didn’t preclude the need for follow-up work. “God gave me the idea, because I didn’t come up with it on my own,” Foster said. “I had no idea what to do with (the manuscript). I was like, ‘Thanks; more specifics would be good!’ But I had the idea down and let it sit for a while.” After following Laurie Fisher, the author of ‘Where Do They Go on Game Day? The Story of the Squirrels Who Live in The Grove,’ on social media, Foster made contact with her publishing company, Mascot Books. TURN TO REBEL PAGE 13
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tion early in 2017. “When construction is complete, this whole street is going to become a two-way. It’ll be widened a little bit, and we’ll lose all the rest of this parking,” Harris said. “We’re not going to lose that staff parking on the north side of Lenoir. That’s really the only staff parking we have in that area.” The loop at Kennon Observatory is being prepared to full as the main campus transit hub. Canopies for waiting passengers have been built on the north edge of the loop behind Lewis Hall and Brevard Hall, and a new Estimated Time of Arrival has been installed. When Oxford-University Transit’s campus shuttle service resumes next week in anticipation of the start of the spring semester a week later, the ETA sign will show riders when the next bus on each route is due. “It’ll have Gold, Yellow Express, Yellow and Green. It’ll show the times those routes will arrive. All those are being programmed this week,” Harris said. “I have been assured the glass roofs will be on by Friday. The gates are being installed this week,
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we’ve designated it ‘Commercial Vehicles Only,’” Harris told members of the UM Transportation and Parking Committee. “It would be like any other restricted area; it would be 24/7, and if a violation is between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., we (Parking and Transportation) would enforce it, and after 5 p.m. University Police Department would enforce it. You wouldn’t be restricting the ingress or ingress by parking a commercial vehicle in there.” Another will be the shifting of North Lane, east of the Ole Miss Student Union, when work begins soon on the expansion of the Delta Gamma House, which fronts on Sorority Row. A fence that will surround the construction site will protrude into North Lane. To compensate, about a dozen parking spaces behind Delta Gamma and Lenoir Hall will be lost to allow the one-way northbound street to shift west of the fence. The spaces will not be recovered when the project reaches comple-
and they will also be in by Friday.” With mechanical arms barring vehicle entry to the loop, buses will use electronic signals to open them, as will campus maintenance vehicles and departmental vehicles assigned to Lewis and Brevard. The biggest parking project in the university’s history will soon be under construction. A 1,500-space garage for residential students will be built between Kinard and Kincannon Halls, and bids for the road that constitutes the first phase of construction will be opened Feb. 11, with a notice to proceed expected to be issued March 1. The garage itself, which will be built on the site of an existing parking lot, will yield a net increase of some 1,200 spaces and have entrances on the first three of its seven floors. Bids for it are expected to be open April 7, with a notice to proceed issued likely on May 17. The garage is scheduled to be completed in time for the 2017 fall semester. While it is near the western edge of campus, students in any residential zone may buy a parking pass for the garage instead of surface
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lots if they wish. Students who will be attending classes on the University of Mississippi’s Oxford campus this fall are urged to keep their online parking registration dates in mind. Commuters will be eligible to buy parking passes in mid-July, starting with senior and graduate students on July 11, juniors July 12, sophomores July 13, and freshmen July 14. Residential students will be eligible to buy their parking stickers the next week – West zone July 18, Central zone July 19, East zone July 20, South zone and Campus Walk July 21. Faculty and staff may purchase their parking passes on July 22. Harris said most residential zones sell out either on the first or second day they are offered. Residential students this fall who miss getting an on-campus parking pass but still want to bring a vehicle to campus will have to park at the Whirlpool Center’s security-patrolled parking lots, which is served by shuttles.
Company representatives showed her the work of several illustrators, and she teamed up with Thompson. After seeing their collaboration, Mascot representatives asked Foster if she could do a similar book for Mississippi State University. Being an Ole Miss graduate, she used her own familiarity with Ole Miss’s archrival but also borrowed the perspectives of several MSU friends to make sure she touched all the requisite bases for folks who wear maroon and white. The resulting volume will be out later this month. Already, Foster is aiming toward a series of such books that will address each SEC university, and she’s even thought of expanding it to noncollege cities to encourage kids both to respect their heritage and to raise their aspirations. Will this career as a writer supplant Foster’s career as an educator? Not a chance, she says. “Education has always been huge to me,” she said. “I grew up poor and with a kind of rough home life.” Raised largely by her grandparents, who did not drive, Foster said her teachers were the ones who made sure she could get to practices, meetings and competitions for extracurricular activities from academic clubs to cheerleading – even giving her ways to raise money for cheerleading uniforms. “Educators have really gotten where I am today,” she said.
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Bella Mia Salon provides break from daily grind BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN
A break from reality, or at least the day-to-day grind, is how Kahla Cobb wants her customers to feel when they are inside Bella Mia Salon. There are a number of services that Bella Mia has offered since Cobb opened this past October. From hair care, to manicures and pedicures, Bella Mia is a full-service salon. It's a one-stop shop to luxury and beautification. Cobb has only recently wanted to open a salon of her own. She thought about it for three months and then executed her plan. The biggest reason for moving into her own space revolved around her children, as flexibility to help raise five had been an issue. “I was blessed with an awesome clientele that had a lot of support behind me. I just felt like I couldn't grow any more, so I decided it was time for me to take the next step and grow a little further,” Cobb said. “When I chose to do this, I had one girl come and she has been supporting me the whole time. That following Monday, I had four more walk in and it was everyone I wanted so it was great.” There are seven full-time workers at the salon, and Cobb said each one of them has a great reputation for services rendered. “Each of them has something different to offer and separates them apart,” Cobb said, who added that hair was her speciality. “I
Bella Mia Salon A list of prices and services can be found online at http://www.bellamiasalonandspa.com/index.htm learned how to do nails from a great group of women. I picked it up and I wanted to keep doing it because it made people feel good. My ultimate goal is to turn somebody's day around and to make them feel good like I have been able to do by doing this. I have a great support system. My husband has given up everything to make sure I'm able to do it. So I've been blessed in many ways.” Ever since the grand opening, business has been brisk. Cobb expected some down time over the holidays with the students gone, but she has been very pleased overall. When it comes to extras, or something that makes Bella Mia different than another establishment, Cobb spared no expense on the pedicure chairs. They feature large bowls at the base for soaking, and some of the finest leather for a customer to sit back in. “I looked for the most luxury line pedicure chairs and didn't hold back on spending money on it,” she said. “My hair products are also the top luxury line. And nails. I went to the top with everything before I stopped.” The little extras have
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Kahla Cobb, center, is the owner of Bella Mia Salon. Her staff, from left, include Amanda Bies, Kassy Feazell, Shannon Hodges, Melissa Reese and Kyla Peters. been welcomed by customers who are looking to be pampered, especially when it comes to these specific services. “They come in to get their stress off. We are not just hair stylists and nail techs, we therapists. We are family. We are a shoulder to lean on. And it's therapy for us,” Cobb said. “To make yourself feel good, the simple little things like getting your nails painted, it makes a woman go from here to there. It's nice to watch them walk out smiling. It feels good.” There hasn't been just one service that customers choose over another, Cobb
said. There has been a balance of nails, hair, pedicures and other tasks completed over the past three months. Oribe is the hair product line that Bella Mia has relied on, and it is at the top when it comes to performance and reputation. “It smells amazing, it does it's job,” Cobb said. “A lot of the hair has been simple blow outs to where if they don't feel like fixing their hair, they can come in and we shampoo them and we style their hair and they're good to go. Our pedicures and our nails, that is always a higher end of sales because you do
them quicker. You can turn out more mint nails than you can hair in an hour.” Spray tanning and waxing are also available for customers. The spray tanning offers color for events in only 15 minutes time. “It's big during the winter months, but summer months pulls some in just before they get into their bathing suits and really get their tan going,” Cobb said. “Our full body waxing has done very well. A lot of people don't know where to go in Oxford and here we are. I've been told that I'm the least painful person, so I'm happy that I can do that as well for people.”
Cobb said that she has a lot of male clientele when it comes to waxing. Most of it involved chest, back and facial hair. “I've waxed since I was old enough to do it, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I really do try and promote it to people because it really does make life easier,” she said. For those that haven't run across Bella Mia, it's located at 1112 North Lamar Blvd in the North Lamar shopping center across from Dollar General and just before the Beacon. Cobb originally had thoughts of setting up shop on West Jackson Avenue due to the high amount of traffic. “What I didn't realize is a lot of people try and go away from there. We started looking at places and we got with a realtor, Taylor, who found this place that was up for rent and also up to be able to buy,” Cobb said, who is renting to own. “That has really been big because you don't always have that opportunity with a lot of places. This parking lot, when it comes Sunday morning, Lusa's (Bakery) is slammed. When the snow ball place (Sno Biz) is open, they are non stop. Ms. Peggy also pulls in a lot of traffic with her alterations because she has been here for years. We have had a lot of complements from people that they would rather be here than on the other side of town.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
St. Leo has secured its location on Square BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER
The Italian restaurant Saint Leo, set to open later this spring, has secured a location on the Square. Oxford resident Emily Blount is the restaurant’s owner. Blount grew up just north of San Francisco and has spent many years working in the restaurant
industry. She lived in New York City for 13 years, where she worked in the famous, New York restaurants Raoul’s and Scarpetta. Blount attended Emerson College in Boston for her BFA and received culinary training at Verace Pizza Neopolitana. Blount is collaborating with chef Dan Latham for the restaurant. Latham is
from Madison and spent six years working in two of Mario Batali’s restaurants in New York. Latham later opened the popular restaurant L&M’s Kitchen and Salumeria here in town and currently resides in Atlanta. Saint Leo first began gaining popularity with the three, sold-out pop-ups they offered last fall. In the
pop-ups, members of the public could purchase a ticket and sample some of the restaurant’s menu offerings. The last pop-up was held at the Powerhouse on Nov. 20. The menu of Saint Leo is going to be composed of seasonal items made from locally sourced ingredients including mozzarella and ricotta cheeses that will be
crafted in-house. There will also be rotisserie chicken and hand-made pizzas that are baked in a woodfire oven imported from Italy. The building they are occupying is located at 1101 Jackson Ave East, on the northwest edge of the Square. The space will contain a 1,100 square-foot dining room that is ex-
pected to seat 72 guests. There dining room will also feature a marble-topped bar where guests can order from a drink menu consisting of a variety of seasonal cocktails, local craft beers and wines that were selected by a sommelier for the restaurant. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: @chaningthegreen
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Does Facebook make us dumb? xford began 2016 in the eye of the storm with natural calamities unleashed all around us. Our northern and eastern neighbors, in Marshall, Tate, Benton and Tippah Counties, suffered heartbreaking tornado damage at Christmas while a raging Ole Man River rose up above flood levels to our west. The Mississippi River is cresting this week at Tunica, Vicksburg, Natchez and New Orleans at over 50 feet, a crushing six feet over flood stage. According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Corp of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carre spillway, 27 miles upstream from New Orleans, “a key relief valve” to spare the city high water. The AP said the water released rushed out a rate that would “fill the Superdome in a minute and 40 seconds.” As of last week FEMA had set up a temporary headquarters in Oxford to begin the task of helping North Mississippians who lost everything at Christmas – a double whammy. It’s not just Mississippi: drought-stricken California is also experiencing extreme (and ironic) weather with monumental rains causing rock slides and flooding. In the midwest, “lake effect” snow has been a problem and on the East Coast, the rare, “ocean effect snow.” Here in Oxford, Mississippi we apparently sit in some sort of buffer zone or temperate range. We seem to have dodged these early winter storms with maybe a brief power flicker. The dreaded El Nino is said to blame, creating instability which turns tornadic, and then volcanic. In the case of the north Mississippi Christmas tornados, social
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Jim Dees Tales of the Town media showed it could be more than cat videos or pictures of strangers’ meals. Facebook actually helped survivors and government authorities. On Christmas Eve, Mona Ables was driving on Highway 72 in Tippah County when to her terror she saw a tornado bearing down on her. She abandoned her car and fled to the nearest farmhouse. The residents, the Hawkins, had re-purposed the old house and as it happened, had a bed blocking the front door. The family heard Ables’ screams but were unable to move the furniture to open the door. In subsequent news interviews they credit Ables with alerting them to the tornado as they all survived. The family considers her pounded palm print on their window, the sign of an angel. Ables rode it out outside with a man who also abandoned his vehicle and appeared at the house seeking shelter. The stranger, Joe Gibson from Tennessee, shielded Ables as a large central air conditioning unit flew by as well as full grown trees, and a shipping container which Ables later said, “tumbled by like a leaf.” Ables and Gibson survived by holding on to a corner of the house and then got separated in the chaotic aftermath. Ables desperately wanted to thank “the Stranger” and posted her story on Facebook. It was shared 12,000 times in 11 hours and eventually, over 30,000 times. Albes and Gibson
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"Her post was shared 12,000 times in 11 hours and eventually, over 30,000 times." were reunited just days later along with the Hawkins family and tears and hugs went all around. Each considered the other a guardian angel. While Facebook can undoubtedly be used for the greater good, what about its everyday use? Are millions of cubicle jockeys nationwide less productive in the workplace because they can kill time with endless scroll in braindead numbness? A provocative article this week in Bloomberg News, “How Facebook Makes Us Dumb” says the problem is many
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users search social media to back up their political views and opinions even if they rely on sources that promote erroneous information. (Imagine that). The study, done by an Italian social science firm, covered all Facebook posts by a focus group of users for five years. The study found that people migrated to sites that backed up their world view (no surprise) but the effect was of shutting off diverse opinion and broader insight, in effect, locking oneself up in a “virtual gated community.” Ah yes. The
“Don’t Read the Comments” crowd. “Once people discover that others agree with them, they become more confident -- and then more extreme. In that sense, confirmation bias is self-reinforcing, producing a vicious spiral,” the study concluded. In the case of Mona Ables and Joe Gibson, the Hawkins family and surely countless others across north Mississippi, social media is a Godsend; a true blessing. Roll the scroll and cue the cats.
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John Davis Sports Editor
Ole Miss welcomes back one of its own Saturday night ichael White will make his return home to Ole Miss Saturday night. The current head coach of the Florida Gators has yet to see The Pavilion, and the atmosphere the $96.5 million arena has been able to already create. White, who played for Rob Evans and then was an assistant under Andy Kennedy, has always been a revered by the Ole Miss faithful. He's been around college athletics his entire life, with his father, and now his brother, gaining success from administration standpoint. His ability at point guard when he was a player helped lead the Rebels to the NCAA Tournament, and it garnered some of the first major attention for the Rebels on the hardwood. During his weekly address to the media, White said it would be “fun” to see The Pavilion. “I'm proud of what has been accomplished there of course at my alma mater and I'm interested to see the excitement that is surrounding that program right now,” White said, who then added he didn't ever doubt the commitment would be made to improve facilities in time. “We thought it would be just a matter of time. I think the success that Andy had his first few years kind of rejuvenated the administration and the fan base.” White added that “it has been a long time coming” in regards to the arena. “I'm sure a lot of the former players and coaches and the fan base are equally excited and proud,” White said. There wasn't a story that White could recall about an animal on the loose when he was in the Tad Pad. Georgia coach Mark Fox said he remembered when a squirrel was in the locker room a few years back. Kennedy said he encountered raccoons. Of course how could we forget the time when water soaked the floor during the women's game with Tennessee? White said he remembers practices being canceled when he was a player and an assistant coach because it was raining and there was some water on the floor. “Those managers couldn't move fast enough to get up the wet spots,” he said with a laugh. “There were light issues, heat issues. But, I also have a lot of great memories, too. We had some big wins at home in front of a crowd back in front of Coach Evans and Coach (Rod) Barnes that was experiencing success, sustained success, really for the first time in school history. It was in a facility that wasn't attracting them because of the facility. They generated the excitement, our guys
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Senior Zoe Scruggs is enjoying her final season with the Lady Chargers. She is also looking forward to playing for her time playing for Delta State next year.
Passionate leader Scruggs helps set the tone for Oxford BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
Don't ask Zoe Scruggs a question if you're not prepared for the answer. Scruggs, a senior leader on the Oxford Lady Charger soccer team, is very aware that these are the last few weeks of her high school soccer career. And she has thoughts on the subject. “Everybody on all the other sports, football, baseball, I've all heard them say that this is their last first game as a senior,” she said. “I thought about that and it's going to be kind of hard to end this time because I've been playing for six years now. It's going to be a bittersweet thing for sure.” Scruggs is the only senior that has chosen to play college soccer. She has committed to play at Delta State, and she will make that verbal pledge official this next month. “I looked at schools that were close to home. I didn't really want to go really far but I didn't just want to play junior college. I wanted to play the highest level that I could make right out of club and high school,” said Scruggs, who primarily plays center midfield. “I looked at Southern Miss because my dad went there and we are from that
area and I love that school. That didn't go my way and then I looked at Union and Mississippi College. Most of the Gulf South Conference teams. They all appealed to me in some form or fashion.” Delta State is in the process of hiring a new head coach. Scruggs, who had five goals and eight assists before division play, said she was a little worried about the new hire based on a style standpoint. It's the same feeling that she had when former OHS coach Laura Flint left during the summer and before Hunter Crane was hired. “I was worried about this team and I remembered something my parents told me and that it is don't worry about things you can't control,” she said. “Here is Coach Crane, who is one of the best I've ever had. It turned out to be something not to worry about and I'm hoping that's going to be the case at Delta State. I'm happy I still get my scholarship. They have the major that I want to do, speech language pathology, so that works out. It's two hours away. When I walked on campus, it felt like home. You had this sense that I could go to school here, I could live here. I loved it. When they asked me to be a part of the soccer program, there wasn't
anything in my mind that told me I shouldn't do this.” While playing for Delta State is the future, Scruggs isn't prepared to leave her present. She has really enjoyed her senior year with her friends and Crane. “I have loved every minute of it and that's been a hard thing for me to say in past years,” Scruggs said. “The morale is all around better. Nothing about this is negative and without a doubt, this has been my best year. And that's all you can ask for. I wouldn't ask for anything else.” Unless there is a game the night prior, Scruggs doesn't even mind coming to practice. “I'm always like this is going to be fun. I love my team and I can't wait to get out there,” she added. Oxford has played well all season long, and really started to get better as the matches have turned to division play which decides seeding for the MHSAA Class 5A playoffs. Scruggs said that the team is “definitely state champion material.” “We are still winning and still achieving things. There is something we're always working on in our games and I TURN TO SCRUGGS PAGE 20
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All-Around performer Shaw's improvement has benefited Lady 'Dores BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
Orianna Shaw may just end up being a coach in the future. She's been around three head coaches the past three seasons, picking up things from each along the way. Lafayette's junior forward has increased her knowledge of basketball each season, partly through games played and partly through what she has learned from her coaches. Shayne Linzy is currently leading the Lady Commodores. Linzy coached against Shaw the past few seasons when he was at Oxford. He had great respect for her then, and now that she is on his team, Linzy is like a kid in a candy store from a happiness standpoint. “Her understanding of the game, with her being a year older and a year more experienced, I think has allowed her to pick up things faster,” Linzy said as he started to chronicle her development. “There are still some players that still don't know when to do something or when they get out there, if they're struggling shooting the ball, they decide to be a passer. And then you start passing the ball when you're wide open or have a chance to drive and things like that. She is now knowing when to pass and knowing when to shoot.” The biggest area that has improved for Shaw since Linzy has been around is her ball handling. “She's not going to be our next point guard, but she is now at the point where me and the other coaches are much more comfortable with her getting the ball in transition and going the length of the court,” Linzy said. “She's done it several times. When things break down, she will pull it out and she knows to find the point guard or the lead guard and to give it to them and let them reset the offense.” There was a time in Shaw's career where she didn't look to score. She has always been a fierce rebounder, and defender, but scoring was something she had to work on. John Sherman, last year's coach, started to instill that in her, and Linzy has continued to stress that thinking as well. “She has more weapons and
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Lafayette's Orianna Shaw has become a much more complete player for coach Shayne Linzy as a junior. that's not me coming in and teaching that type of stuff, that's a year of experience and introducing that,” Linzy said. “The more they play, the more of what they see they can do. There's more options than just saying 'I'm going to dribble right here or I'm going to pass right here or
shoot.' She's looking for cutters now and she's looking to penetrate with her dribble. She's done a really good job.” Of course, when it comes to talk about defense, Linzy makes no bones about how important Shaw is to the team. “We put her on the other
team's best offensive threat every night,” Linzy said point blank. “She is phenomenal on the glass. I remembered when we played them last year and I would wonder how they got rebounds like that. She is one of those kids that the ball is just drawn to her hand. She finds it.
I've got two of them like that where they just come out of nowhere and get it. She has gotten rebounds where she isn't even in the picture and then she comes in and it's suddenly in her hands. That takes a special type of kid to want to do that because a lot of them will sit out here and let somebody else bang around where the dirty work is.” With the ability to play inside or outside, and to still be black and blue, but polished, Shaw seems to play differently, even if she doesn't give the appearance of being any more vocal on the court than in past years. Shaw said that Linzy has “similar” ways of teaching basketball compared to Sherman. And because the two styles are similar, the things Shaw learned last year have been like building blocks to the point she is now. “I understand basketball a whole lot more than when I was a freshman. I didn't know basketball, I just knew some of the simple concepts, like a layup. I know there is a lot more to it, that it all connects,” Shaw said. “I'm more of like the quiet leader, still. People do come to me for help. I know my personality is a lot more quiet. (Team) is like my family, so I'm coming out more to them. It's easier for me to talk to them. So I guess I have changed more in that way in that I talk more to them.” Last season, Shaw was only focused on rebounding. This year, she has noticed her scoring is better overall. “I actually shoot when I get the ball. I don't look to pass all the time,” Shaw said. “Coach Linzy has told me I've gotten better. Other people have told me as well, so I guess that's made me a different player.” Shaw's big focus, outside of basketball, is doing well in school. She is also a standout on the track team, but the 400 meter dash can wait because there was still a lot of basketball to be played. “I think everybody has the game goal and that is to beat everyone. It's possible but it's not always easy,” Shaw said. “We all have the same goal of getting to state and actually winning this year. We all work hard when we play.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
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Great feet, nasty streak defines Georgia OL product BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
Hal Lamb knew four years ago that Jack DeFoor had a chance to be a very good offensive lineman. DeFoor, who has committed to sign with Ole Miss in the Class of 2016, has started at left tackle for Lamb's Calhoun (Georgia) Yellowjackets the last three seasons. DeFoor (6-foot-4, 285 pounds) has been a consistent performer during that time period, and his play on the field garnered him a lot of attention. “He's a very good player who has very good feet. He's got the right mentality to be a great offensive lineman at that level,” Lamb said. “He needs to put a little bit of weight on, but other than that, I think he's top notch. I think he'll be a great player for Ole Miss once it's all said and done.” Lamb didn't think it would take DeFoor long to get up to 300 pounds, and Lamb added that he had a lot of upside. “He's a slim kid that could put on 15 pounds pretty easily,” he added. “He has played a little basketball but he's not playing
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this year. He throws the shot put in track and he will this spring.” DeFoor was rated as a three-star prospect by the services. recruiting Rivals.com had him ranked as the 60th best player in the state of Georgia. He committed to Ole Miss in May, and since that pledge, he's been rock solid, avoiding overtures from other programs to take official visits, Lamb said. “He went over to Ole Miss for a visit and he just fell in love with the place and he came back and told me that was the place for him. I said 'Do you want to make sure you visit other
Jack DeFoor of Calhon, Georgia is set to sign with the Ole Miss Rebels and play on the offensive line. places?' And he said no, that's the place for me,” Lamb added. “He said his mom was OK with him going that far off and he said he really fit in well at Ole Miss and that's where he wanted to go. I said 'Let's do it' and he's been with them every since. He shut it down after that and there are people still to this day coming in and wanting him to visit.” As for playing left tackle, Lamb said he wanted his best player protecting for his quarterback. “That's the reason he
played there for three years and he won't have a problem moving inside if that's what they need for him to do,” Lamb added. “I know (Ole Miss) likes his feet, No. 1. They think he's got great feet for an offensive lineman. They also like his nastiness. When he's on the field, he's very nasty and very physical. He likes contact, he likes to work. We knew he was going to be special from the get go. To be honest, we thought he would be more of a defensive guy when he was in the eighth and ninth grade. He
kept growing and growing and he turned out to be an offensive lineman.” There were times where DeFoor played defensive tackle for the Yellowjackets, who went 14-1 overall this past fall. The other thing that DeFoor does well, according to Lamb, is get to the second level. Linebackers have routinely been blocked and unable to tackle Calhoun's runners when DeFoor is out in front. “That's what line coaches like. He's good with the first level, but he's
very good about getting to that second level and getting his hands on a linebacker, and blocking athletic linebackers,” Lamb said. “I think that's the best thing he does. He's pretty good at both (run, pass protection) and he can do either one pretty well.” Lamb said that DeFoor was “an A, B student” and that the school hasn't had any issues with him making his grades. Some of the other schools that offered DeFoor include Clemson and Georgia Tech. Appalachian State was the first school to offer, Lamb recalled “Early on in the process, he really liked Georgia Tech and they were one of the first ones to offer him,” Lamb said. “Florida is one that has made a big push for him. Georgia talked to him but I don't think they ever pulled the trigger. He had App State, Cincinnati, Georgia Southern, Clemson. It really came down, to me, in the long run to Ole Miss, Clemson and Georgia Tech. Ole Miss is getting good one. I guarantee you that.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
OM's Hansson likes team's selfless approach, depth BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
Depth, coupled with experience, may be the best way to describe this year's Ole Miss men's tennis team. The Rebels head into their first action of the season this weekend at Georgia Tech ranked No. 19 in the ITA rankings. As head coach Toby Hansson sees it, rankings before the year start don't matter much because each team is going to have to prove they belong. “I feel like there are a lot teams that aren't ranked very highly that have the potential to move up a lot,” Hansson said. “Right now, it's a situation where we can move or we can move down. It's really in how we perform. I couldn't tell you if we should be better or worse. We are where we are
right now and we'll have to play every match like a new one. What is important for us is how we progress, how we improve. If we can control those things, we'll get better and hopefully we'll move up the rankings as well.” Where the Rebels are ranked at the end of the 2016 season is really the most important one, Hansson said. “Every second week, there is going to be a new ranking coming out and I feel like it's going to change a lot this year,” Hansson said. “There are a lot of good teams out there that will be ranked that aren't. There are a few teams in our conference that have some quality players on their team. It will be really interesting to see what will happen this year.”
and I feel like we've improved as far as the way we set things up for the players and the way we help them get better,” Hansson said. “The way we communicate with the players, working with video, these kind of things have helped their development and sped everything up with their development. That's what we're banking on. That's what it comes down to. We feel like we're better because we have put in the work. It's going to be interesting to see if we can step up and be as good as we can be.” Senior Stefan Lindmark JOSH MCCOY/OLE MISS ATHLETICS is ranked No. 36 heading Ole Miss men's tennis coach Toby Hansson is happy with his team being ranked No. 19 to into the season, but the start the year, but much more concerned with how they progress, and then finish this spring. roster has several players that have experience in matches played. The transition from for- part to the players on the on a daily basis. “I think we could have a made some “We mer head coach Billy team. The roster knows Chadwick to Hansson has what Hansson expects, changes that we thought gone well, thanks in large and what he's looking for were beneficial to the team TURN TO HANSSON PAGE 21
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The Pavilion has created an amazing atmosphere for the Ole Miss Rebels, who enter Saturday's game with Florida with a perfect 2-0 record at home in the SEC. PHOTO BY MARLIE ROBINSON
Lafayette's Jason Reveles (7) battles for possession of the ball during Tuesday night's match with Pontotoc at William L. Buford Stadium. Pontotoc won 3-0.
Lafayette splits 3-4A soccer match with Pontotoc Warriors BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
There were mixed emotions left on the soccer field for Lafayette Tuesday night. The Lady Commodores continued to roll in 3-4A play, defeating Pontotoc with seven goals, and five coming from Alley Houghton. The Commodores weren't as fortunate, however, as their first-place standing came to an end after Pontotoc defeated them 3-0. It was the second time the two teams have met. Lafayette won the first meeting in a shootout, but the difference in score gives the Warriors the advantage when it comes to the playoffs that start later this month. Gene Anderson didn't think his Commodores played poorly, but they didn't get a lot of breaks either. LHS fell behind 2-0 in the first half, and the frustration only mounted. “The first goal the scored was on a penalty kick and I don't know how he saw it from 40 yards away and nobody hitting the ground,” Anderson said. “I think that contributed to some of the break down. Some of the guys were getting a little chippy and irritated. That was just giving them a goal. Then they had
five or six hand balls and they didn't call them. When things are starting to break down like that, you get a little frustrated.” Anderson said that Pontotoc's third goal, which was scored in the second half, came after the forward dribbled out of bounds. “It was like a 1-0 game and if you don't put balls in on target, you're not going to get a goal and if you give one up, you're going to lose,” Anderson said. “Besides the two calls, that's how we've been playing. Sometimes we play really well and sometimes we break down a little bit and there's not as much charisma among the players.” With the Commodores now playing from behind, Anderson was hoping that fact would act as motivation for the next week. “What we talked about after the game was I wasn't upset with how we played. If you're down 3-0, there are no breaks. You have to play as hard as you can and if you want to make it past a week from Friday, that's how we have to play,” Anderson said. Lafayette's remaining 34A matches are against Cleveland and Senatobia. Both have to be wins in order to have first place, unless Pontotoc loses more
the rest of the way. The Warriors still have to play Cleveland twice, and Senatobia one more time. “We were firmly in the lead and now it's kind up in the air,” Anderson said. Lady 'Dores roll Maddy Houghton added two goals in the win for Lafayette a game after losing just its second match of the season. Melinda Scruggs liked where her team was heading into the final few regular season matches, but also very aware that there were still a few things to work on. “There are things that we are doing well and have gotten better with as the year has gone on that has made us better,” Scruggs said. “Any coach will tell you that there are things that can be done better, but I like where we are. The girls have come together and doing a lot of things well.” The Lady Commodores are 14-2 overall on the season and have two more District 3-4A matches as well as a match with North Pontotoc left before they can really begin defense of their MHSAA Class 4A state title. Lafayette defeated North Pontotoc 7-0 to start the season. John.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
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generated the excitement. We rallied around the fact that we were a program that was overcoming. I know Andy has gone on record as to saying that this gives them more of an even playing field. I don't think there is any question about that.” One of the best quotes that came out of the first two games that I've heard comes from another coach, a local favorite like White, and that is John Sherman saying “In my town” when he walked into The Pavilion last Thursday night. That's sums up the impact of the venue as well as anything to me. When a man like Sherman, who has been to a number of big-time events and venues, is impressed like that, Ole Miss administrators should take it as a huge complement. “It is a complete game changer for our program,”
was how Kennedy told other SEC writers listening in on the weekly teleconference. “Never have we had in the history of our program something that could really be a center piece and a calling card for our program. We just experienced a 72 hours like I've never been a part of with the opening and us playing Alabama and the sell out crowd and the passion that was in the building. Then you turn right back around and within 48 hours, you're have a ribbon-opening ceremony, the official opening of the building and you play a good Georgia team. And for us to win in it in the fashion that we did, it's truly an amazing weekend. Hopefully it's a springboard for good things to come.” Having White visit for the third ever game in the new arena would qualify as that springboard. The game is sold out and it's hard to believe that White won't get a standing ovation. It should be another tremendous
scene all the way around. “I'm really excited for Mike. A great guy and a great Rebel. When I got this job in 2006, he was on Rod Barnes' staff and very seldom do you retain guys on staff when you take over a new job,” Kennedy said. “I did so with Mike because I had a relationship to him prior. I knew the value that he would bring our staff, most especially, his understanding of Ole Miss as I was trying to figure things out in a new situation. I had no doubts he would be a successful head coach. I remember the process about how hard we were pushing for him to get Louisiana Tech. I knew he would go great things at La. Tech and I think he's going to do great things at Florida. I'm excited to see his reaction because he is a guy that has so much sweat equity in our program. I'm excited for him to see that Ole Miss has taken that next step.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
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Beyers excited about his Rebels heading into spring BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
A talented recruiting class, coupled with some key returners, has Ole Miss women's tennis coach Mark Beyers excited about his team heading into the start of the spring season. Even though the Rebels lost Julia Jones, a top 10 player who garnered over 100 wins in her career, Ole Miss started the season No. 25 in the ITA rankings. It's the second straight season that the Rebels have garnered a preseason ranking, another sign that Beyers has kept the Rebels relevant and competitive in a league that is not very forgiving. “I think the fact that we lost one of the best players that we have ever had in this program and that we are still top 25 the next year shows that we are not rebuilding. I think that speaks volumes of the depth and the recruiting class,” Beyers said. “That's what I'm most proud of. The drop off is
not there. That's something we see everyday from a depth standpoint. This is an awfully good team, I think, and that's something we will hopefully see in the next couple of months. I think the rankings are a testament to the work these girls have put in.” Ole Miss is currently in sunny South Florida playing in the University of Miami Invitational. The Rebels' season came to end at the hands of the Hurricanes in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Vanderbilt, the defending national champion, and the University of Texas will join Ole Miss in Miami. “You've got four good teams there basically. It won't count from a team standpoint, but it does count for the girls' individual rankings and they will get three great singles matches and three great doubles matches,” Beyers said. “We'll be there a couple of days earlier and because we won't miss any school, we can get some
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Mark Beyers and his Ole Miss women's tennis team are in Coral Gables, Florida this weekend. The trip is part of several early tests in the attempt to be prepared for SEC play. outdoor tennis in. It's al- week of practice.” most like a quick preseason How much work the players put in over the break was going to decide just how successful they were in this weekend. “You can't just do nothing for three or four weeks and come back and be ready to go,” Beyers said. “The kids that are already in intersession are already hitting even if we can't be with them during those workouts. The thing that really came from the fall is how many kids we really have that had some good results. Maybe we don't
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feel like in every game, we're progressing and we're working better as a team,” Scruggs said. “I think we're getting ready to play in a state championship type game.” Crane felt like things really started clicking for the Lady Chargers after they defeated Northwest Rankin, a Class 6A school, 1-0 on Dec. 12. “It carried over to the Showcase and then we played well at the Showcase and was very im-
have a top 10 player on this team, but I do think we have some that have that potential to be that top 10 player like Julia Jones was. From a depth standpoint, I think we're going to be awfully good.” There are two seniors – Mai El Kamash and Marija Milutinovic — on the roster and Beyers felt like both were looking to help lead the team to heights they maybe hadn't reached in a few years. “There are also some kids that are younger that are showing some really good leadership skills,” Beyers said. “Once we see all the team stuff start and the dual matches, we'll see who can do some of that stuff and do the things it takes to be a good teammate. That's regardless of what position they are playing.” The Rebels' first home match is Jan. 23 against Arkansas-Pine Bluff. Following that match, the Rebels will take on No. 8 Stanford in Nashville. The Cardinal had a home-andhome set with Vanderbilt and they wanted to play another good match before heading back to California and Beyers was able to get that spot. “If you look at the last 20 years, Stanford has been one of the perennial powerhouse programs and won numerous national championships,” Beyers said. “To get an opportunity to play Stanford at a neutral site was a great opportunity.” Tough matches early
pressed going into the break,” Crane said. “I think that gave us a lot of confidence coming in district play. We want to host first round and I expect us to perform over the next couple of weeks. The girls have bought into what we want to do and they're buying into what the team wants to do. It's not really a bunch of individuals out there running around. That's exciting to see.” And the way the Lady Chargers have played starts with how Scruggs plays. Crane felt like Scruggs would be able to help build Delta State's program back up to where it should be.
should only help the Rebels in SEC play. Three of the top four schools in the rankings are from the SEC. “We're 25 and we're the eighth ranked SEC team and in addition to that you play Stanford so we will have plenty of opportunities,” Beyers said. “At the same time, you have to balance that a little bit. You can't just play Top 25 schools because you'll get in trouble with that .500 rule in order to be eligible for postseason. That's always the balance. Play enough ranked teams to get up in the rankings but also give yourself enough wins to be eligible for postseason.”
NEW LOOK STADIUM Renovations have been performed to the tennis center. Box seats have been added to the stands and the courts have been redone. “It looks fantastic. We might be indoors a little more at the start of the season, but it looks amazing out there,” Beyers said. “The benches on the court, the little details that make a big difference go a long way to making this one of the top venues in the country. Ross (Bjork) and the administration understand to compete in the rankings and with every other program in the country that facilities is a big part of that. They have been tremendously helpful with the outdoor center here.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
“I know she is excited about that. I think it's a good fit for her in that she still gets to say close to home and still branch and be at a four-year school,” Crane said. “Zoe has an intense passion for the game. She can be bubbly when we're sitting here and talking, but when we get out on the field, she is fiery, intense. She has an intense passion for soccer and her teammates and she brings that everyday. You can't say enough about her. I love her to death. It wouldn't be the same without her.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
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couple of players that are Top 10 and the think that we are this year is more balanced,” Hansson said. “We have some seniors, some juniors, we have some good sophomores and freshmen that came in. All nine guys have played a lot of matches. We've sent them to tournaments and they've gotten into competition. I feel like we have a lot of different options of who we can play. I think this team is really a team. There is a reality that they may not play every match because it is so even. They need to trust the strategy of the coaches putting in the team and the players that are going to help the team be successful.” Hansson added that his players have shown to be selfless, in practices, but also because that is their makeup. “I'm around them on a daily basis and I couldn't be happier with the way that they carry themselves and the way that they support each other and push each other to get better,” Hansson said. “Those are important factors and the keys to our success this year.” There are a couple of the Rebels who have proven themselves in tough environments and tough matches. With that gained experience, Hansson was looking for them to show the younger players how to gain that certain level of trust. “We have played plenty of matches last year where it came down to the last
point starting off with the match against Florida where Gus (Hansson) is playing a junior that previously played No. 1 Florida and he was able to beat them,” Hansson said. “That was only (Gus's) third official match and for him to do that, it gave him some confidence. Those are the kind of things that make your players grow. And I'm sure they will be able to share that experience with the younger players as well.” Ole Miss finished the 2015 season ranked No. 17 in the nation, but out of the NCAA Tournament in the second round. Columbia defeated Ole Miss 4-1 last year at the Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center. Looking back, Hansson felt like he got the most out of last year's team. “Many of these guys showed some guts and overall, I'm pretty content with the year,” he said. “I would have liked to have some matches back, but that's how it is in sports. We handled some losses pretty well and came back from them. Just like you saw from the football team now. You're playing against tough opponents every single week, every single match and they rallied back. I think that's the thing this team is capable of doing, even more so. It's a strong unit we have here. I think this is a team that will battle very hard, each match. With the experience of last year and previous years, we know that you can not take one single match lightly with the league we are playing in.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
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SPORTS IN DEPTH FINAL AMWAY COACHES' POLL OF THE 2015 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON 1.Alabama (14-1) - 1400 2. Clemson (14-1) - 1344 3. Stanford (12-2) - 1235 4. Ohio State (12-1) - 1231 5. Oklahoma (11-2) - 1172 6. Michigan State (12-2) - 1121 7.TCU (11-2) - 1020 8. Houston (13-1) - 928 9. OLE MISS (10-3) - 919 10. Iowa (12-2) - 862 11. Michigan (10-3) - 812 12. Notre Dame (10-3) - 781 13. Baylor (10-3) - 763 14. Florida State (10-3) - 645 15. North Carolina (11-3) - 543 16. Utah (10-3) - 499 17. LSU (9-3) - 485 18. Navy (11-2) - 402 19. Oklahoma State (10-3) - 392 20. Oregon (9-4) - 356 21.Wisconsin (10-3) - 307 22. Northwestern (10-3) - 207 23.Tennessee (9-4) - 190 24. Georgia (10-3) - 173 25. Florida (10-4) - 141 Dropped out: No.24 Temple (10-4). Others receiving votes: Western Kentucky (12-2) 73; San Diego State (11-3) 55; Toledo (10-2) 27; Washington State (9-4) 23; Mississippi State (9-4) 18; Temple (10-4) 18; Marshall (10-3) 15; Arkansas (85) 11; Appalachian State (11-2) 9; Boise State (9-4) 8; Louisville (8-5) 7; Duke (8-5) 2; Memphis (9-4) 2; Southern California (8-6) 2; Georgia Southern (9-4) 1; West Virginia (8-5) 1.
THIS WEEK AT OLE MISS Thursday, Jan. 14 Women's basketball at Texas A&M, 7 p.m. (105.1 FM)
Saturday, Jan. 16 Men's basketball vs. Florida, 7 p.m. (ESPN2) Sunday, Jan. 18 Women's basketball at Miss. State, 6 p.m. (SECN) Tuesday, Jan 19 Men's basketball vs.South Carolina, 6 p.m. (SECN) Thursday, Jan. 21 Women's basketball vs.Kentucky,8 p.m. (SECN)
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TUESDAY'S RESULTS • Lafayette (G) 71,Tunica-Rosa Fort 40 Leading scorers: Lafayette – Shaniyah Buford 43,Mariah Holland 12. Note: Shelbi Buford had 11 assists in the first 2-4A win of season. Record: Lafayette 12-5. Tunica (B) 54, Lafayette 52 Leading scorers: Lafayette — Quin Jones 19, Tyler Williams 11, Chris Long 11. Record: Lafayette 4-9, 0-1. SATURDAY'S RESULTS Commodore Challenge • Lafayette (B) 74, Ingomar 69 Ingomar 9 23 11 26 – 69 Lafayette 21 17 24 12 – 74 Leading scorers: Lafayette – Mack Bishop 23, Quin Jones 19. Ingomar – Jay Pickens 26. Cade Hall 19. Records: Lafayette 4-7; Ingomar 16-6. • Grenada (G) 48, Lafayette 46 Grenada 12 14 11 11 – 48 Lafayette 16 13 11 6 – 46 Leading scorers: Lafayette – Shaniyah Buford 22. Grenada – Emily Bush 14. Records: Grenada 11-2; Lafayette 11-4.
LAST FRIDAY'S RESULTS •Oxford (G) 72,West Point 51 Oxford 17 28 13 14 – 72 West Point 13 18 8 12 – 51 Leading scorers: Oxford – Aliyah Herod, Kyla Malone 16, Jordan Freeze. West Point – Qiayon Bailey 12,Amari Heard 11. Records: Oxford 12-4, 1-0; West Point 11-4, 1-1. • West Point (B) 62, Oxford 52 Oxford 13 11 10 18 – 52 West Point 13 10 13 26 – 62 Leading scorers: West Point – AJ McFarland 18, Randall Johnson 11, Kelly Martin 10, Qua Brownlee 10. Oxford – Jarkel Joiner 20, Terry Williams 17, Cole Cromwell 10. Records: Oxford 10-4, 0-1; West Point 7-9, 2-0.
HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER TUESDAY'S RESULTS • Oxford (B) 2, Saltillo 0 Saltillo 0 0 – 0 Oxford 1 1 – 2 Goals scored: Oxford – James Cutler, Keaton Calhoon. Assists – Cole Calhoon, John Owen Yoste,Thomas Mayo. Record: Oxford 10-7-1; 1-0. • Saltillo (G) 2, Oxford 1 Saltillo 2 0 – 2 Oxford 0 1 – 1 Goals scored: Oxford – Madisyn Longnecker. Assist – Morgan O'Connor Record: Oxford 11-5, 0-1.
OPC BASKETBALL MONDAY'S RESULTS 7-8 Boys League • Pacers 24, Lakers 13 Offense: Pacers – Braylen Judson. Lakers – Kaleb Dunn Defense: Pacers – Camden Ball.
Lakers – Jonathan Cothern. Game Hustle: Pacers – Luke Westmoreland. Lakers – Carson Hendrickson. 9-10 Boys League • Clippers 32,Thunder 9 Offense: Clippers – Anerews McLellan. Thunder – Brendan O'Dowd. Defense: Clippers – Andrew Jordan.Thunder – Andrew Paysinger. Game Hustle: Clippers – James Wilder Anderson. Thunder – Fisher Waldrop. 10-12 Girls League Spurs 19, Nuggets 5 Offense: Spurs – Gracie Barrett. Nuggets – Emma Shelton. Defense: Spurs – Sarah Vega. Nuggets – Josie Johnson. Game Hustle:Spurs – Mallory Dunn. Nuggets – Ciara Cooper. 7-9 Girls League • Lakers 16, Nuggets 14 Offense: Lakers – CeCe Frierson. Nuggets – Timiyiah McCarty. Defense: Lakers – Madison Shum. Nuggets – Taylor Bradley. Game Hustle: Lakers – Breanna Hobson. Nuggets – Madison Smith. 10-12 Girls League • Bulls 14, Nuggets 11 Offense: Bulls – Jaida. Nuggets – Madison. Defense: Bulls – Ella Beth. Nuggets – Holly Game Hustle:Bulls – Molly.Nuggets – Kateleyn. 9-10 Boys League • Clippers 29,Warriors 21 Offense: Clippers – Zahir. Warriors – Everett. Defense: Clippers – Jackson. Warriors – Sharpe. Game Hustle: Clippers – Wilder. Warriors – Dye.
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Rebels face tests at A&M, MSU BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR
Ole Miss begins a tough stretch of games in the SEC tonight at No. 13 Texas A&M. Ole Miss is coming off losses to LSU and Florida, its first game inside The Pavilion. Tipoff for tonight's game is set for 7. It can be seen on SEC Network Plus. It can also be heard locally on 105.1 FM. The Rebels (9-7 overall, 1-2 in the SEC) will then travel to play at Mississippi State on Sunday afternoon. Three of the next five games are on the road with all five games coming against five of the seven teams ranked in the SEC. Former Oxford High standout Erika Sisk is leading the Rebels in SEC play with a 12.7 points per game average. Alissa Alston is also averaging 10.3 points per game in SEC play. Ole Miss has yet to win in College Station, Texas. The Aggies lead the overall series 4-1. In the Rebels' loss to Florida, they fell behind double digits in the first quarter and remained behind double digits throughout the contest. Florida led by as much as 20 points, and for almost 36 of the 40 minutes. The Rebels shot under 30 percent for the second straight game. They were also out rebounded 62 to 44 by the Gators. Ole Miss' next home game is Jan. 21 against Kentucky. Tipoff for that contest is set for 8 p.m. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd
OLE MISS SPORTS BRIEFS M-Club donates to Forward Together
honor every Ole Miss athlete who ever earned a letter competing for Ole Miss and will also be part of the Walk of Champions, which will conThe M-Club Alumni Chapter of the Ole Miss Alumni Association has nect to the new entrance to VaughtHemingway Stadium's north end announced the commitment of a new $1.5 million gift to the Forward zone. The letterwinner walk and Together Campaign. After giving $1 plaza associated with it will be unmillion in 2012, the M-Club has now veiled in late 2016. “To see the M-Club, comprised of donated $2.5 million since the start of the campaign, bringing the cam- former student-athletes, committing to the future of Ole Miss Athletics is paign total to over $160 million. proof that all Rebels are part of one “The M-Club Alumni Chapter is excited to continue to play a signifi- big family,” Ole Miss Director of Athletics Ross Bjork said. “This addicant role in the Forward Together tional $1.5 million donation will go a Campaign,” said M-Club President long way with the plans we have set Todd Sandroni. “We are also honfor the future.” ored that some of the funds from The large donation by the M-Club our latest donation will be applied helps the Ole Miss Athletics Foundatoward the letterwinner walk and plaza, which specifically recognizes tion, seeking to raise $1 million to the contributions and achievements honor Gibbs for the letter winner walk. The foundation is hoping to of the very group we represent.” “The projects associated with the reach the project goal by March Forward Together Campaign provide 2016. To directly donate towards the another opportunity for M-Club Jake Gibbs Letterwinner Walk and alumni to support and remain actively involved with Ole Miss Athlet- support Ole Miss Athletics, click here. ics,” said Clay Cavett, associate The M-Club Alumni Chapter of director of alumni affairs. “These inithe Ole Miss Alumni Association protiatives will continue to propel our vides the opportunity for letterwinathletics program forward, and we ners to maintain relationships are proud to be a part of that moacross different sports, generations mentum.” The $1.5 million commitment will and geographical locations, and albe split in half between baseball and lows them to remain actively involved in Ole Miss Athletics. The football initiatives. Specifically, the M-Club is open to all former letterorganization will put $500,000 towinners in varsity athletics. For furwards the Jake Gibbs Letterwinner ther eligibility information or Walk. The letterwinner walk will
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Bramlett at NCAA Convention Ole Miss baseball pitcher Brady Bramlett is traveling to San Antonio, Texas this week to represent the Southeastern Conference at the NCAA Convention. Bramlett is one of three student-athletes from the SEC who will vote on proposed governance rule changes under the NCAA’s Division I autonomy process. Joining Bramlett at the NCAA Convention will be Diamond DeShields, a member of the Tennessee women’s basketball team, and Jay Hughes, a former member of the Mississippi State football team. The trio will represent SEC student-athletes as part of the Autonomy Conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12, SEC) to “engage and empower student-athletes by giving them both a voice and vote within a transparent decision-making process." DeShields and Hughes are the SEC’s voting members for the second straight year, while Bramlett will attend the convention for the first time as a conference voter. “Representing the SEC is a complete honor and thrill,” Bramlett said. “Student-athletes have a vote at the table, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the collective voice is heard.” The NCAA Division I Board of Di-
rectors voted in August of 2014 to restructure how schools and conferences govern themselves, paving the way for student-athletes to have a voice at every level of decision-making.
Camp this weekend Ole Miss baseball are hosting two winter camps. The hitting speciality camp will be this weekend and open for grades 1-12. Cost is $240. Parents can save $20.00 per sibling. Contact sahead@go.olemiss.edu prior to registering to receive your promo code. All of the camps will be hosted at Oxford-University Stadium. Check in will between 8 and 8:30 a.m. The camp offers extensive instruction on the specific skill of hitting for campers. Some of the skills learned will be stance, swing mechanics, mental side, bunting, base running, weight training and video evaluation. Campers will need to provide a glove, cleats or spikes, cap, tennis shoes for indoor workouts. A bat and baseball pants are optional. Spending money is also needed for concessions or souvenirs. Lunch will be provided for campers at the 1810 Grille at the Manning Center. A pitching speciality camp will be held Jan. 23-24 also at a cost of $240. It is also open for grades 1-12. For more information on the camps, visit http://collegebaseballcamps.com/rebelbaseball.
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