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OHS Drum Major loves doing her part

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BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

A record crowd is expected to attend the home season opener for the Ole Miss Rebels Saturday afternoon. The new-look Vaught-Hemingway Stadium can now seat 64,038 fans, and there are several new amenities for fans, and stu-

dents, to get used to. A smile and a hello from the army that makes up event management and guest services is something Ole Miss Athletics stresses each fall.

Preparing for football games, and athletic contests for all sports, is planned for months in advance. Joe Swingle, the senior associate athletics director for fa-

cilities and game operations, and KT Short, the assistant AD for game operations and guest services, are the two of the main individuals that focus in on how fans are enjoying their experience.

Guest services includes a number of workers, from security to those that take TURN TO FANS PAGE 6

Oxford's Dennis always finds a way to get things done

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

UPD welcomes new additions to the force, including K-9

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Tuesday morning in room 200 of the Lyceum, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Brandi Hephner LaBanc swore in the University Police Department’s newest recruit: a happy, four-legged pup named Dios.

Officer Dios is a Belgian Malinois who received topnotch training by Vohne Liche Kennels in Denver, Indiana. Dios is specially trained to detect narcotics as well as track a target and accompany officers on patrol.

UPD Officer Justin Watson will serve as Dios’ handler. The two began working together in late June and have become fast friends. Watson describes his fellow officer as sociable and friendly, adding that this is a very good thing because Dios will be doing a lot of work in the community.

The majority of the work Dios will be doing is set to

tionships and use them as a teaching opportunity to educate students on the dangers of drug use.

Once Dios completed nearly all of his training earlier this summer, Watson made the trip to Indiana to spend six weeks working with the dog. This six-week training period was necessary for the pair to develop a bond, as well as to teach Watson the ropes of being a K-9 handler, something he has never done before as an officer.

“He’s a good dog,” Watson said. “He works well and he really likes to find the drugs. He’s also really friendly and wants to play and be petted.”

Dios will be making rounds on the campus throughout the semester in order to get acquainted CHANING GREEN with the student body. WatVice Chancellor of Student Affairs Brandi Hephner LaBanc swears in Officer Dios to the University Police Department Tues- son said that this an imporday morning as his partner, K-9 handler Officer Justin Watson, watches. tant thing to do because it lets the students and facbe community outreach. mote positive relationships 9 will be spending time on ing relationships through- ulty at the university beDios will work the univer- between UPD and every- patrol, but his biggest role out the community. UPD is TURN TO UPD PAGE 5 sity community to pro- one else on campus. The K- on the force will be foster- hoping to grow those rela-

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OHS Drum Major loves doing her part person, so getting out there and making those relationships came easy for me.

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

When Michaela Spiller is not working on her AP German homework or keeping up with her college algebra class, the Oxford High School senior is leading the Oxford Charger Band as their Drum Major. Spiller has just begun her second year in the position after leaving her spot in the clarinet section to audition for the role of drum major. Spiller took time out her homework schedule over the Labor Day weekend to sit down with Oxford Citizen Reporter Chaning Green to discuss her role in the band.

CHANING GREEN: What made you decide to try out for drum major?

MICHAELA SPILLER: My friends had been drum majors in previous years. Through them, I got a bit of a closer look into what goes into being a drum major. It really puts you in a better position to help the band, and that’s something I really wanted to be able to do. I’ve always been passionate about band. Ever since I joined the band, it’s been something that I’ve loved, and I’ve wanted to be as involved as I possibly could. Being drum major gives me so many more opportunities to help out and be involved and it's something that I really love.

GREEN: Where you nervous whenever you tried out?

SPILLER: A little bit, but I had been preparing for the audition for months. I’d been taking lessons from Ali Taylor. She was a drum major at Ole Miss two years ago.

When it came to the actual day of auditions, I wasn’t so nervous because I knew that I was prepared.

GREEN: When did you first become involved in the band?

SPILLER: I joined the band dur-

GREEN: What do you like about your fellow band members? Why do you like working with them?

SPILLER: Everybody in the band is really supportive of each other.

We’re always pushing each other do our best. After practice, we’re all friends. It creates this really friendly environment with a lot of motivation and encouragement.

We all get along really well.

GREEN: What do you like to do outside of band?

SPILLER: I’m involved with different clubs around school. German Club, National Honors Society, National German Honors Society and Anchor Club.

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OHS drum major Michaela Spiller salutes the press box before a performance last year. The theme of the band’s show that year was Gangster Jazz. ing my sixth grade year. I began on at football games or competitions the clarinet. We got to try out on all more? the instruments, and I just loved SPILLER: Well, I like football that one the most. games because it gives us the opportunity to support the football GREEN: What do you think your team as well as be there with the favorite part about band is? Why community. Though, at competido you love it? tion we get to perform and comSPILLER: I like being able to work pete, we still get to have the with so many other people and performance aspect of that, so I work as a team to create some- feel like that’s a good balance. I love thing amazing. Band is different being able to perform as well as from a lot of sports in the fact that support the community, so I’m sports teams are smaller. In band, gonna have to go with football you get to work with well over 100 games. people everyday. Those are your teammates. It’s a different experiGREEN: What do you want to do ence, and it’s really fun. when you graduate?

SPILLER: I’ve been thinking GREEN: How do you like your di- about attending the University of Alabama. I just went and visited rector, Mr. Morse?

SPILLER: Oh, I love Mr. Morse. He their campus and they have so came my freshman year, and the many options when it comes to band hasn't been the same. He’s possible majors to pursue. I’m curmade it a better program, and the rently still trying to decide what I’d like to study. Right now, the two energy is so much different. that I’m looking into are exercise GREEN: Do you like preforming science, which I would study and

then go into physical therapy, and the other is music education.

Music education is the one I’ve been considering the longest. I love band. I think being a band director is something that would really fit my personality. As far as physical therapy, that’s a new interest. I had to enter into physical therapy for drum major-related injuries, and it was just really cool. I really liked it.

GREEN: What is a challenge of being drum major that you don’t think people would normally consider?

SPILLER: I think it would be having that leadership role when so many people are involved. We have 140 people in our band at Oxford High School. Being able to gain their respect and build relationships with every single person in that band is very important. It’s a very different environment from being in classroom and having 30 people in a class. I’m a pretty social

GREEN:What do you do with Anchor Club?

SPILLER: Anchor Club functions basically has an all-girls Beta Club.

You have to maintain a certain GPA and then work on community service projects. For example, with the Veteran’s Home, we go over there and play games and spend time with them. We do projects for things like Alzheimer’s awareness or helping to get donations for the Oxford Food Pantry. It’s basically about whatever is relevant at the time and could use a little help.

GREEN: Are you in any advanced classes?

SPILLER: I’m enrolled in two AP classes and two classes for college credit. The ones that are for college credit are English and college algebra. The classes are taught at Oxford, but the credit is through Northwest Community College.

I’m currently taking college algebra and AP German this semester, with English and AP government beginning next semester. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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OBITUARIES LEE BOLEN Lee N. Bolen, 79, passed away Sept.

5, 2016, after a lengthy battle with multiple myeloma cancer. A memorial service will be held Monday, Sept. 12, in the Chapel of Waller Funeral Home with Rev. Claire Dobbs and Rev. Warren Black officiating. A catered reception and visitation will take place Sunday, Sept. 11 from 4 until 5:30 p.m. in West Hall at Waller Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions in Dr. Bolen’s memory may be made to the Lee N. Bolen, Jr. Scholarship Endowment for undergraduate or graduate students in the Department of Physics, The University of Mississippi Foundation, 406 University Avenue, Oxford, MS 38655 or the charity of the donor’s choice.

MARTHA WORTHAM A public viewing will be held for Martha Wortham Thursday, Sept. 8 and Friday, Sept. 9 at Coleman Funeral Home. Thursday's viewing will run from 2 until 5 p.m. Friday's viewing will be from noon until 3 p.m. There is also a visitation schedule Friday at the Church of the Lord God in Thaxton starting at 5.

A funeral service will be held Saturday, Sept. 10 at Church of the Lord God at 10 a.m.

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UM to screen Japanese film series

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Over the next three weeks, the University of Mississippi will be working with the Japan Foundation to screen a series of Japanese films depicting rural life in contemporary Japan.

The Japan Foundation works to promote relationships and culture exchanges between Japan and the international community. The American branch is based out of New York City and works with universities, business and organizations around the country to foster friendships between Japan and different facets of American industry, academia and more. This is the third year Ole Miss has been selected by the Japan Foundation to hold the film screenings.

Noell Wilson is a professor at the Croft Institute for International Studies who specializes in East Asian history and culture with an emphasis in Japan. In addition to her professorial duties and the fact that she is currently serving as interim chair of the history department, Wilson operated as the site coordinator for the screenings.

“I teach Japanese history through the History Department and Asian studies through the Croft Institute, so I’ve had a lot of interaction with the Japan Foundation over the past 11 years that I have been at the university,” she said. “They sponsor a variety of activities and this is just one of many.

They like to promote Japanese culture in areas of the United States where it is underrepresented, where there’s not a large Japanese population and therefore less opportunities for people to become exposed to Japanese art.”

Each film series the foundation puts on operates with a theme.

This year’s theme will be showcasing stories of rural Japan in modern times. Wilson said that this theme is an important one worth

exploring because when many people think of Japan, they think of gleaming cities and the busy subways of Tokyo, forgetting that the majority of the country is in fact rural communities that rely on agriculture and various forms of industry.

“The theme for this year is focusing on rural life in contemporary Japan by exploring those connections and that nostalgia, longing and the daily life of Japanese people,” Wilson said. “I think that most Americans, as well as foreigners from all over the world, think of Japan as very high-tech

and urban, but a fair amount of the population lives in rural areas.

It’s something that I think a lot of Japanese directors have been interested in exploring in a society that is largely urban and focused on just a handful of major cities.”

The first film being shown is titled “Coming to Spring” and is directed by Daisaku Kimura. The plot centers on a man by the name of Toru who is forced to leave Tokyo and return to his hometown nestled in the mountains of central Japan once he learns about the death of his father.Things become a little more complicated when

Taro decides to give up his highlevel job in the city and stay in the mountains to run his late father’s business.

“Ecotherapy Getaway Holiday” is the second film being screened.

This movie is directed by Shuichi Okita and tells the story of seven women who are on a guided tour through the mountains that will take them to a beautiful waterfall.

The women are deep within the mountain forests when they realize they are missing something extremely important: their tour guide.

The last film being shown the series is titled “A Farewell to Jinu.”

This film is directed by Suzuki Matsuo and is a comedy. The story follows a bank teller who suddenly finds himself allergic to money.

The man then sets out to never use money again. He soon ends up living in a rural village and has to deal with the colorful cast of characters that inhabit is new home.

Wilson said that she feels as though this concept of rural versus urban life is very much a universal idea that can be applied even to the scale of county versus city life here in Mississippi.

“I think it’s a question that every developed society in the world, whether it be Asia, Europe or the Americas, has to think about,” Wilson said. “It’s this idea about how to keep the rural population connected and integrated and fulfilled in a society where, if you look at television and news coverage, so much of what is considered important is only happening in urban spaces. “ The three films will be shown in the Overby Center. Screenings take place on September 14, 28 and October 12, all at 7 p.m.

Screenings are free and open to the public. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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come familiar with Dios while allowing the animal to become acclimated to a busy university setting.

Watson will also be educating the university community about what Dios is capable of and why the dog’s talents are a welcomed addition to the police force.

UPD Chief Tim Potts said that he is excited to be adding such a highly trained and qualified officer to the force.

“He will definitely draw attention,” Potts said.

“Having Dios with us will start conversations. If people see Dios and come up to us in order to start a conversation with us they normally wouldn’t have, then

all of this is well worth it.

He can do narcotics work, and while that is a very important part of his job, his relationship with the students is what he will be huge in helping us to build relationships with the community.”

Dios is the first K-9 to join the force since Potts became chief in the summer of 2015. He said that throughout the process of bringing Dios on to the team, he has learned a lot about the capabilities of the animals and how they can serve the community.

For example, Dios only hits on narcotics when he is working. He can walk around the police station completely ignoring the evidence room until he is told to be on guard. His ability to go from work to play and back again in an

instant is truly remarkable, Potts said.

One of Dios’ duties will be to work major sporting events, seeking out attendees carrying contraband.

He and Watson will be working shifts lasting from 3 p.m. to midnight or 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. during the week, and occasional weekend shifts. The cost of Dios and his training was paid for by the Ole Miss Family Leadership Council and totals out to just over $17,200.

Also being sworn in at the ceremony were the human officers Christopher Parker, John Cooper, Don Douglas, Colin Bliss and Kendall Jenkins. Potts welcomed all six new additions to the force. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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tickets at the gate to the ushers in and around the stadium. There are a coordinator and an assistant coordinator for guest services as well as two fulltime interns. On the event management side, there is an assistant director and two coordinators as well as a bevy of students that are hired for games.

Anything and everything that can have contact with fans is considered part of guest services. Ole Miss manages the vendors such as Whelen, which serves as the security for the home games. Close to 1,000 temporary workers are in place for each game, Short said.

“Even if they don't work in our department, they are part of our group and a part of the experience for every single game day,” Short said. “They buy into our vision and what we want to do for every single fan that walk through the gates of our stadium. What

that means is our methods are exactly the same and we are very involved in the training for all those workers. It starts with bringing in someone in the summer time to talk to the managers and the people that are at the top of those companies so that they have the message to relay to their people at the beginning.”

There are a number of students that are also used as workers, and trained by Ole Miss. This year two individuals who work on the corporate side of ChickFil-A were brought in to help with the guest services training.

Each year, members of the Ole Miss staff attend conferences to learn more about serving the public.

Short said that many professional teams, and other collegiate staffs, attend the guest services conventions in order to share knowledge on the subject.

“We basically delve into what everyone else is doing within the industry and to make sure that Ole Miss is up to par and make sure that there isn't any-

thing we are falling behind on,” Short added.

Swingle said that guest services is all about the fan experience. At Ole Miss, that goes from receiving tickets and the parking pass to overall communication. At olemissfb.com, information on what to wear, stadium policies, shuttles and tailgating are all included. Moving through the stadium for fans should be easier than ever thanks to the new upgrades.

“The openness of the concourses, we're bringing in new weight finding signage and everything is going to be more consistent throughout,” Swingle said. “Hopefully it's going to be easy for someone to walk through the stadium and figure out where they're going and if they have an issue, make sure they're able to ask a question and have it answered quickly.”

Short reminded that there are a number of guest services booths located all along the concourses.

“They are easy to spot.

They have an umbrella and they say guest services right above them. We staff those booths with students we have trained with the knowledge to answer as many questions as possible,” Short said. “If not, they have a radio they can call to get the answer. The whole point of every bit of all the construction projects we have done is to make the stadium more user friendly. We want to make it for someone who has never walked on our campus or stadium before to find their way just as easily as someone who has been coming for the past 20 years. Ole Miss is known as the hospitality school and we want them to walk away with a very positive experience. We teach our people that it starts in the parking lot. So if you're first impression driving into the parking lot isn't pleasant, it affects everything else about your day.”

With so many moving parts, Saturday afternoons or evenings can get hectic, Short said.

“If we let one thing slip,

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it has a ripple effect on everything that is happening that day and that is why we have so many people and we're constantly meeting,” Short said. “It's all about communication and I think we over communicate, which is helpful because you can never communicate too much.

When there is something happen in the parking lot, we make sure that our marketing group knows because who knows how that is going to affect them. I think one of the things that is special about our administration is that we work together so well.

We are one big team and communication is key.

Unfortunately when you have almost 1,000 people coming into work, one person can leave a bad impression so we are very, very aware of that we try to do everything possible to keep from happening.”

Ole Miss has distributed cards to fans that states its core purposes, which is “creating a bucket list experience for all.” The three core service standards include “we own our sur-

roundings,” “we serve our guests successfully and swiftly” and “we entertain our guests like family.”

There are a number of questions that fans ask about and Short said they try to anticipate every single issue a fan may have. A lot of the questions can be taken care of on the front end. And when they can't be taken care of, the small fires are dealt with.

“We are constantly answering questions that can range from something that is simple all the way up to we need UPD to be involved, a major issue in the stadium,” Short said.

If fans do have an issue with unruly behavior or other related incidents, they can report them directly from their seats by texting “Rebs” followed by a space and a brief description of the incident and location in the stadium to 69050. Proper security and/or emergency personnel will then be dispatched to the area in question.

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OM football season means fall fashions are here

BY KATHRYN WINTER NEWS WRITER

Football season is here and with it comes fall fashion. Every Ole Miss girl knows on game day to pull out her finest red and blue.

According to Brooke and Nicole Cain, owners of Indigo’s boutique on the Square, some fall fashion trends include: wrap necklaces, chokers, suede, and lace up booties. Indigo’s has been open since 2002, and ran by a motherdaughter team. They pride themselves on creating a family atmosphere and offer first customer service.

Hot colors for fall are olive, tan, taupe, and burgundy. Rompers and dresses for game day are popular, as well as high waisted outfits and crop tops.

“Of course we sell a lot of red and navy, we like to think we have a large variety and we appeal to everyone age wise,” Brooke Cain said. “We had one customer say that our store really captures the essence of Oxford.”

Indigo’s carries shoes, clothes, jewelry and all accessories.

“One of our favorite things about fall is seeing our customers

come into town for football games, dressing people for the Grove and back to school,” Cain said.

A popular item in the store is the Giving Keys necklaces. Singer and actress Caitlin Crosby started wearing an old hotel key as a necklace on tour, and had the idea to engrave it with inspirational words. The Giving Keys brand employs people transitioning out of homelessness. Each key features a word like fearless, hope, strength, or courage. When a wearer of the key encounters someone else who needs the message, they are encouraged to give it away and share their “pay it forward” story.

Other trends for fall fashion from the runway include: velvet, bell sleeves, capelets, extra long sleeves, jumpers, leather trench coats, and statement pieces like chunky 90's style chokers. Tinsel is a big trend according to Elle.com, as sparkly coats, dresses and skirts are always a hit for the holidays. Edgy metal details are really popular as well as luxurious but comfy designer hoodies.

Cross body fur stoles take on a fresh look with asymmetrical draping, and the nautical trend

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Red and navy, as well as tan, are some of the "in" colors for Ole Miss football games. continues strong into fall with navy inspired calf and ankle length coats (Prada, Coach, Tommy Hilfiger.) Grey plaid in unexpected cuts and silhouettes

makes it a fun pattern for winter, and eighties power one shoulder dresses and tops with loads of ruffles were seen on the Moschino runway.

The more embellishment the better- as Marc Jacobs and Oscar de la Renta proved with ornate over the top gloves. Statement furs (both faux and real) in bright colors and patterns can be eye catching among winter’s dreary background. Pumpkin spice (the muted orange color) looks flattering on different skin tones and is a big color for fall, according to Glamour.com.

Reconstructed denim gives an artsy and unique vibe, especially when paired with chunky ankle boots. The last popular trend for fall is shearling jackets- in classic brown and black leather.

While many Southerners still follow the tradition of not wearing white after Labor Day, off white or cream can be used as a great transitional color from Summer to Fall.

“The great thing about moving into fall is that you can throw on a cute jacket, blazer or vest. It can not only keep you warm, but can add a pop of color to any outfit,” Cain said.

Indigo’s is open Mondays through Saturdays 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. and is located at 265 North Lamar, Suite Q.

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New character program created to help students at OIS

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

Character really does matter for the students that attend Oxford Intermediate School. A program named Creating Character has been established to help educate the fifth and sixth graders who attend the school.

Joanne McGehee, who teaches sixth graders science at OIS, said a group of teachers, and some parents, approached the administration at the end of last year to “get the ball rolling.” McGehee said it was something that she saw the need for and her goal is for the children to “sit back and take it all in.”

“We will meet twice a month and every student has been assigned an advisor, which is a staff member here at school,” McGehee said. “Sometimes will we have a speaker from the community or from the other schools. Sometimes they will meet just in their small groups where they discuss the topics a little deeper and do some activities that will hopefully build that skill to where it becomes a habit.”

The new program, themed around everyday heroes, was introduced not long after the 2016-17 school year got underway. Sergeant Mario Weekley of the Oxford Police Department, who is

also one of the resource officers in the schools, stopped by to talk with the students about making good decisions, and how the decisions they make now can impact their future.

“The kids were engaged and they seemed to be excited to get a break and hear something that encouraged them,” McGehee said. “I believe in teaching the whole child and not only focusing on their academic achievements. At this age, it's about instilling the importance of character, and teaching them some character development. Not only what we think of with integrity, but also things like health and

wellness. They start to have issues with bullying about this age and we want to teach them how to interact with each other positively and just be kind to others.”

Bullying isn't just a thing for males, McGehee said both genders have situations to deal with, especially in relation to social media.

“So many kids have access to Facebook and Instagram and Snapchat and they don't always think about what they post,” McGehee said.

“We have seen that increase in the past few years. I personally don't allow a lot of the technology in the classroom, cell phones and personal devices, just to try and

eliminate that here when I have control over it. I do think it's important that if parent's are going to allow their kids to access to these things that they teach them the right way to use it.”

McGehee said they have seen a lot of changes at the high school since Bradley Roberson has been in charge, and the goal is to see those type of positive results at OIS. McGehee said that theme revolving the everyday hero was to make the kids realize that a person doesn't need superpowers to make a difference.

“We are able to incorporate community members and we are so lucky here in

Oxford to have people that these kids can see around town,” McGehee said. “We can show them there are heroes right here. One of our big goals is to build a culture here at Oxford Intermediate School of learning but also of caring. We just hope that we can enforce that now and teach them skills now that will help them when they do reach seventh and eighth grade and high school and life really throws some curveballs at them. We want them to know how to deal with it and really make some positive choices.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

City Board discusses affordable housing in the Oxford community

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

The question of whether or not to donate city land located off of Molly Barr Road near the Oxford Creek subdivison to go toward the construction of affordable

housing was by far the most discussed topic during this month’s first City Board meeting that was held Tuesday night.

Fred Laurenzo presented in front of the board and those gathered in attendance at the meeting about

why he, along with community organization LOUHomes, felt the need for more affordable housing in the Oxford community.

Laurenzo pointed out that the city of Oxford has the highest median income to housing price ratio in the

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Alderman Robyn Tannehill went on to agree with Laurenzo noting that there are many people who work very essential jobs in the Oxford community, and yet are not able to afford the cost of living in the community they work so hard to serve.

As City Planner Judy Daniel explained, the donation of public land is not that simple. The city is zoned so that only certain areas can be used for certain things. For example, there are parts of the city that can only be used as commercial or residential properties. RB, RE, R1A, GB, SC and several other combinations of letters and numbers are used to designate certain parts of

the city that can only be used in a particular way. If the city were to donate the proposed area of land, the area would first have to properly rezoned in order to make it legal for the land to hold residential properties.

The city is not allowed to take a shortcut around that.

Members of the board engaged Laurenzo in several questions concerning finances around the potential housing development.

They asked about whether or not people could purchase the homes only to turn around and sell them for a significant profit. Laurenzo had detailed responses that outlined what steps will or could be in place to prevent that from happening. However, there was a lot more to get into than time allowed. Daniel then approached the podium to tell the aldermen

that she was familiar with the regulations in place for this type of scenario and that she would be able give them detailed information about it in written form later if they would like.

Another major point during the meeting was the adoption of a new city ordinance designed to prevent overflow of university parking onto South 5th Street, below Van Buren and on Tyler Avenue. This new ordinance requires residents of the homes to have updated parking permits if they wish to park on the street near their homes. There would also be visitors’ permits available for guests who wish to park in the area.

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City officials getting ready for a busy September

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

The month of September is expected to be one of the busiest Oxford has seen in years. With three home football games taking place this month and two of them expected to be some of the biggest of the season, city officials are hard at work preparing for the influx of visitors.

This Saturday Ole Miss will be facing off against Wofford College, a small liberal arts college in South Carolina. Though the game may not draw as much of a crowd as the major SEC matchups coming later in the month, the first home game of the season is always a popular one as people are itching to get back on the Grove and in the stadium.

Coming up next weekend, the Rebels will be going up against the University of Alabama in one of the most highly anticipated games in the entire

SEC. The following matchup will pit the Rebels against the University of Georgia, another big player in the SEC. All of these major games back to back to back is a pretty rare occurrence. Mayor Pat Patterson said that in he can only remember a handful of times in the past 40 years that the city of Oxford had so many major games grouped so closely together.

Every week before a home game city officials, emergency services representatives and others meet that Wednesday afternoon to make sure everyone is on the same page. They map out where the heaviest flows of traffic will be and where best to route ambulances and other emergency vehicles in case they are needed. They discuss street closings and go over security plans. Everyone works to make sure as many details as possible have been thought through and planned out.

Chief Joey East with the Oxford Police Department said that a lot of preparation goes into how the police department operates during a game weekend.

No leave or vacation time is taken during these weekends. East said that is essential that OPD have every single officer available during this time. All reserve officers are also ready to go and often outside security companies like Cobra are contracted with the city to provide additional support.

“This next year will be my fourth year as chief, but I was deputy chief for six years before that,” East said, citing his experience dealing with the busy game weekends as high-ranking official in the OPD. “In the past four years, football season has gotten busier and busier every year. Since Coach (Hugh) Freeze and his team have gotten in there, our seasons have gotten crazier every year.”

Police presence in the city picks up beginning the

Wednesday night before a home game. East said this is when the first increases of traffic on the roads and in the bars can be seen. On Thursday the police department will be begin putting out around 150 temporary signs all over the city. Friday night is extraordinarily busy with everyone celebrating the end of the week and all of the outof-towners experiencing the Square. About three hours before the game begins Saturday, OPD is out getting ready. The police operate in shifts, staying out in full force anywhere from 2 to 4 a.m. that night.

East said that when officers are not on duty this week, they are sleeping to get ready to go on the next shift.

“We do a good job of getting everybody in and getting everybody out,” East said. “When you have two main ways into town, it can be a little slow moving, but for the most part, people come in and are pretty

courteous. You’re always gonna have to arrest about 40 people during the football game, but when you have 40,000 people here, that’s really not that bad. It’s a process, but we’re ready for it.”

The mayor said even though this weekend is going to be extremely busy for city personnel, he wants to let everyone, visitors included, know they are welcome in the city and that he hopes they have a wonderful time. Football weekends are meant to be a good time for everyone.

The mayor said that the police will be out to make

sure everyone stays safe during this time, but they will lock up the ones who cross the line.

“Come and enjoy yourself,” said Patterson. “Enjoy the game, enjoy the community, enjoy the restaurants, but do so in moderation. If someone gets arrested in Oxford, Mississippi on a gameday weekend, he or she deserves it. So if you see someone or know someone that’s gotten arrested, just know that he or she deserved it.” chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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his week it was announced that you can now download the voice of Morgan Freeman onto your GPS device and have the cinematic “voice of God” guide you on the road of life – or at least to your next exit. Although the app is a promotional tie-in to Freeman’s latest film, it is nonetheless good news for those who just didn’t feel enough drama in the dulcet tones of Siri, the Everywoman of GPS. I’ve often wondered if it is Siri’s sister (Sophie?) who gives you the time and temperature and movie times over the phone. Or that you need to buckle your seat belt.

Siri has the perfect voice for a long road trip, with her allknowing, almost motherly assurances. In fact, a 2013 film by director Spike Jonze, Her, starred Joaquin Phoenix as a lonely man who falls in love with the female voice on his computerized operating system. (It probably helped that the voice in Her belonged to Scarlett Johansson). In the film, set in the “near future,” people spend all their time speaking into their devices rather than to each other.

Not exactly fiction All of this prompted me to think of the reassuring voices across a lifetime that we have depended on – whether we realize it or not – to navigate us through the choppy waters of life. In another lifetime, DJ Wolfman Jack was a 1970s rock and roll presence with a gruff, fauxhipster vibe.

On warm summer nights back then, my high school buddies and I discovered that coun-

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try music could be cool. We spent many a Friday and Saturday night parked on Delta back roads where impromptu parties would spring up. We tuned in to WWL 870 AM, the great New Orleans station and their allnight trucker show, “The Road Gang,” hosted by Charlie Douglas.

All the talk was in trucker idiom, including weather reports and commercials. Then of course there was the music; trucker songs by artists like Dick Curless (“A Tombstone Every Mile”), Dave Dudley (“Six Days on the Road”) and Red Simpson (“I’m a Truck”). If disco was the devil, “The Road Gang” was the heavenly antidote.

On Saturdays when the Ole Miss Rebels played, if we weren’t there in person, we tuned in to Rebel announcer Bill Goodrich. Goodrich, who was the “Voice of the Rebels” from 1958-1965, was enthusiastic and had a wonderful catch phrase when the game was going well for the Red and Blue: “Woo-Hoo Mercy!” To an 8year-old, it didn’t get any better than that.

It wasn’t until years later I discovered that behind the boyish exclamation was a D-Day war hero with two Purple Hearts. We welcome these voices into our homes and hearts but don’t really know them. Stan Torgenson was the next Rebel broadcaster (1967-1973, and 1978-1984).

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Stan’s signature call was “HEEE SCORES!” which he found occasion to use often during the Archie Manning era.

Stan weighed 300 pounds and had to climb several flights of stairs at then-Hemingway Stadium to access the press box.

Such was Stan’s out-of-breath huffing and puffing that one wag suggested, “The first quarter often sounded like an obscene phone call.”

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In later Saturdays, the booming Midwestern baritone of Garrison Keillor was a staple of our home. Keillor brought us into his strange world of Norwegian bachelor farmers, the Chatter Box Café, Powermilk biscuits (gross) and of course, “children who are all above average.” Keillor created an entire universe with just his mind and mouth.

Now that he has officially retired from his show, we may never see – or hear – his likes again.

Perhaps some motorists will find comfort in knowing that Morgan Freeman is reaching down from a heavenly satellite to light their path. Others may choose to stay with the always pleasant Siri. Some creaky old codgers might even continue to employ that old-school of old school methods: a road map.

And some of us may just enjoy the very real, non-satellite feeling of getting a little lost before finding the right road home all on our own.

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LifeLinc provides efficient, organized approach to anesthesia

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

A more efficient and organized approach to the way surgery patients come in contact with anesthesia is what LifeLinc Corporation provides locally. Patients, the surgeons who perform the procedures, and the hospitals or surgery centers that serve as the host site, are all thought of and catered to by LifeLinc.

Oxford resident, Dr. Greg Thompson, is the president of the company that is based in Memphis, but now serves those that live in 11 different states, including Mississippi. He has been in that position for a year now, and his two decades of experience as a clinical anesthetist have helped grow the company.

Thompson, who has lived in Oxford since 2011, was re-united with his friend, Dr. Eric Callan, the CEO of the company.

Thompson had been with the president and the chief of staff in the Methodist Healthcare system and he was working with the anesthesia group that was at Baptist Memorial Hospital. Thompson left that group in 2015, and he wasn't sure what he was going to do next.

“It was at that time I got a call from LifeLinc, which was started in 2003 by Eric, a person who I used to work with,” Thompson said. “He had been at a hospital in Chattanooga (Tennessee) and the CEO of that hospital asked if he knew me. They talked and he told (Callan) that he thought we needed to get together. It was really out of the blue and just after I had decided to leave the practice in Oxford.”

Callan wanted a medical doctor to hold some sort of leadership in the company, and he wanted someone who was actu-

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Thompson's background is also heavy in hospital administration, which gives him, and the company, the knowledge to help hospitals better organize from a financial and business standpoint as well.

“What we think separates us apart is those other companies tend to be run by business people so MBAs and accountants and that type of stuff. Our leadership structure is clinical practicing anethesia providers,” Thompson said. “My partner is a nurse anesthetists and he has a doctorate degree and I'm an anesthesiolo-

gist and MD. When we go places and try to talk to anesthesia providers and doctors, we not only say we can help you make the numbers work for you but we actually understand what your providers are going through because we go through it ourselves everyday. I think that helps us relate to the physicians and the nurse anesthetist that are working there.”

LifeLinc has experienced a lot of growth over the years, doubling in size the past couple of years to be even more specific. The response on how the company provides data, to both patients and

hospitals, has been well received.

“We're getting busier which we are happy about,” said Thompson, who practices most days in Oxford. “We share outcomes and patient satisfaction scores with the hospital. We want to improve ourselves but we also want them to see that they're getting their value and getting what it is they're contracted for.”

Another LifeLinc has been well received is that it allows physicians to practice medicine, and helping with the burden of things like insurance.

“I think the challenge in the health care market, physicians

particularly, is they are seeing this new paradigm where physicians are working in their own independent practice where they actually own and operate the practice,” Thompson said. “Seventy percent of physicians work in some sort of employment arrangement. Thirty percent in free-standing practice. We let them practice. We may re-organize them to be more efficient and effective, but they get to concentrate on clinical practice. All they have to do is medicine.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Rebels left to pick up the pieces following FSU loss

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short week to prepare for Wofford was supposed to be the biggest worry for Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze to have to deal with Now he, and the Rebels, have to pick up the pieces following Monday night's 11-point setback to Florida State.

Turnovers – four to be exact – did in Chad Kelly and the Ole Miss offense. As good as Kelly looked in the first half against the Seminoles, his turnovers at the start of the third quarter, and overall, tarnished his night. The tempo offense under Kelly's direction, especially early, looked great. The offensive line protected him the first 30 minutes. Then everything came crashing down after intermission. Ole Miss couldn't find a way to block the Seminoles up front.

Kelly couldn't get a drive sparked, with his arms or legs. The Ole Miss defense that confused FSU quarterback Deondre Francois in the first half couldn't get off the field until the Seminoles ended drives with scores.

Florida State scored on eight straight possessions and 30 unanswered points at one point, erasing the comfortable 28-6 lead for the Rebels in the process.

It was a second half to forget for sure for the Rebels. It is one that Seminole fans will remember for years since it turned out to be the biggest deficit overcome in school history. It was a wild finish to a wild first weekTURN TO REBELS PAGE 18

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Oxford High senior Anna Dennis is a standout in both soccer and swim.

Oxford's Dennis always finds a way to get things done

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

There are times when it's hard for Oxford High's Anna Dennis to get all of her school work completed, attend her various club meetings and compete in two different sports. The soccer and swimming standout routinely juggles her schedule to fit in club soccer practice and high school swimming practices and meets. Dennis, who also holds a grade point average above 4.0, definitely has a lot going on in her life, and a lot to get accomplished.

Early mornings have turned into late nights for Dennis, who always seems to carve out time to study each night at home. Certain subjects in school come

This is the first in an eight part series featuring mulit-sport athletes at both Lafayette and Oxford who also perform at a high level in the classroom easy, or naturally, to Dennis. Her favorite?

“That's a hard question. I would say that I'm pretty good at math, but my favorite subject is art,” she said with a laugh. “Last year I took Visual Arts II and we do a lot of stuff with color pencils which was really neat.”

This fall in the pool, Dennis is looking to contribute as much as she possibly can for the Chargers. She missed some time last season and that's not in her plans her final go around.

“I've been swimming since I was 8 probably. I've been playing soccer a little bit longer, just when I could start,” Dennis said. “They're both really different. I think they are sports that I'm good at and I enjoy doing them. Two years ago for swim, I had a really good season.

I thought it was something I was good at.”

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painful moment of the night, for so many reasons.

The Ole Miss secondary FROM 12 just wasn't up the challenge of defending Franend in college football. cois. The redshirt freshman Seven teams that were picked the Rebels apart to ranked in the preseason the tune of 419 yards and poll went down. Two of two touchdowns. He went them were in the top five, and that hadn't happened from looking like a rookie to an All-American in the since 1972. Great matchups for fans to watch matter of 30 minutes. Ole Miss is going to have to have now turned into tough places to be for some find a way to overcome the loss of Webster because teams, and coaches. things don't get any easier.

Ole Miss was one of Alabama and Georgia have seven teams from the SEC plenty of skill guys on the to lose the season opener. outside that can do the Of course the Rebels were same things FSU wideouts playing a very good oppowere able to do. nent away from Oxford.

Ole Miss is also going to Still, when you're up 28-6 have to find a way to proon a team, not finding a tect for Kelly. His fumble way to close that contest that set up the second out is tough to swallow.

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There were a lot of bright spots for the Rebels in the loss. The defensive line played well. They limited Dalvin Cook to 91 hardfought yards. Cook may have hurt the Rebels catching the ball out of the backfield, but the running game was held in check for the most part. It was good to see defensive tackle Issac

Gross back in the lineup.

Breeland Speaks, Benito Jones, Marquis Haynes and DJ Jones also played well up front. The Rebels held their own in a lot of areas against a team many feel like can win the national championship this season.

There would be many across the nation that would feel the same way

about the Rebels right now if they had been able to maintain their three-score lead. The pieces can be put back together and the season is far from over. A playoff in college football allows for these type of games to happen, and for the team that loses, to make up for it.

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better, however, against Alabama and Georgia to end the month. If the Rebels are truly going to make a run at another elite level bowl, and the national championship, they will have to finish just like they started the season opener.

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Byars provides strong leadership skills for Oxford

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Make no mistake, Ansley Byars is the one cheerleader who keeps all the others at Oxford High headed in the right direction. Each of the seniors has their strong suit.

Byars is a leader, and many feel she is the most organized of the bunch.

“I do like lists,” Byars said.

“Now that we are seniors, you have to step up. You can't be just a follower. You have to take control and be responsible and lead the younger ones.”

Oxford coach Allison Wally said that Byars was the “epitome of leadership.”

“Not only is she a senior captain, but she is also serving as student body president. That is a reflection of the respect her peers have for her, and she has certainly earned it, excelling in the classroom as well as in cheer and dance,” Wally said. “We will be counting on her excellent leadership in the months leading up to our state competition and nationals. Her positive attitude and energy help drive us all forward.”

Byars feels like she is a better cheerleader compared to this time a year ago.

She has learned how to deal with different types of people, and branched out past her friends on the cheer squad. Byars said she had to be a mom to everyone, and that she had to help everyone out when they needed it.

Oxford's football team came into the season as underdogs. Byars felt that and

Cheerleader Ansley Byars pointed out the newness, from Chris Cutcliffe leading the way as head coach, to new players in key positions.

“Because we are the underdogs, more people are coming to games and rooting us on because they want us to do well,” she said. “It's more fun to cheer at the games now. At the Southaven game, we probably had more fans than they did. That was nice.”

Byars credited her mother Whitney for her natural leadership. Whitney Byars served as president of the Oxford school board, and Ansley said her mother liked to be involved, especially in school spirit.

“She has been really helpful,” she said. “Both of my parents are just really involved in athletic events and in the school in general. I love it.”

Last year's meeting with Madison Central was still Ansley's favorite game to have cheered at heading into the second week of her senior season. She loved that the game was so close.

This Friday night, the Chargers host Lafayette in what will be her final Crosstown

Classic, and that may end up becoming her top contest.

Devin Rockette is the Charger player that Ansley supports each week prior to games with various snacks and treats.

“I know he has had offers and State and Ole Miss. It will be exciting to see him grow in football and perform better,” she said. “We have always had classes together and been friends.”

Friday nights are just a part of what Ansley Byars does for the cheer team. She is also a member of the competition squad and last year the team finished fifth in the nation for the game day portion.

“We got to go to Disney, which is what we were looking forward to. We weren't even thinking about placing so that was a good surprise,” Ansley Byars said. “This year we're a lot more organized and all of the girls on the competition team can tumble. We have younger girls who are good with stunting.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Friday Night Previews: Week 4 Cutcliffe impressed with Commodores' overall talent level

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Confidence is definitely something the Oxford Chargers have heading into their annual meeting with Lafayette. OHS improved to 2-1 last week with a big road win at Madison Central. It came after a disappointing loss to Starkville, and coach Chris Cutcliffe felt it was big for his team to respond immediately against another quality opponent.

“I think it was a really big confidence boost to go get that win on the road,” Cutcliffe said. “You always feel a lot better after a win. One of the things we told them, even after a big win, was there were things we still had to do to get better, so don't lose sight of the areas where we need to improve just because we feel good about winning.”

Cutcliffe reminded that the key to any sport where a playoff comes at the end of the regular season is to get better and better every week.

“The goal is to be playing really great at the end of the year when you're in the playoffs. You have to be improving every week throughout the season if you're doing things the right way,” Cut-

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field as well. She is always marked up with the oppossing team's best player as an outside backer. And she likes the contact that a soccer defender gets to be a part of.

“For both of them, you have to be a fighter. You have to get after it,” Dennis said about the similiarties between swimming and soccer. “I like a lot of action.”

Hunter Crane coaches the Lady Chargers in soccer and he is amazed at what Dennis can get done.

“She is one of my favorite players because she always does it the right way. When

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“Our defensive line played well, especially Nick Sisk. He was outstanding. Another pro was we had guys step up when we had some guys get injured. They filled those shoes pretty well. There are still some things in special teams we have to get better.

We still turned the ball over twice and didn't force any.

So we were very fortunate to lose the turnover battle and win the football game.”

One big thing that Cutcliffe would like to see his team change are the slow starts. Madison Central gained a 10-0 lead, which was the third straight time the Chargers had to overcome a deficit in order to win a game. They've done it twice, but not having to do it

all is what he really wants to achieve.

“We have to play better early in games. We finish games well, but we haven't played very well at the start and that's something we have to get better at,” Cutcliffe said.

Emotions will be high Friday night when the Chargers host the Commodores. Cutcliffe agreed that it is a big game for the community, but for the players, the feelings for this game are differ-

ent than all the others.

“You feel emotions of it as a player more than as a coach where every week you're trying to dot every I and cross every T and everything is taken care of,” Cutcliffe said. “I think the players feel that emotion.

You don't win a rivalry game purely on emotion. Both teams are going to play hard, they always do. It's going to be a good football game. You have to win on your execution and your week of prepa-

ration. The emotions are going to wear off and then it's going to depend on who plays better, who can execute.”

The Commodores are 0-2 heading into the contest, and Cutcliffe said both losses came to good football teams.

“They lost two close games and could just as easily be 2-0 if a few things go differently. They have some very talented players. I think they're very close to being 2-

you think of a student-athlete and the multiple sports, she is what you want your younger kids to look up to,” Crane said. “She has been that as a junior and she is going to be that as a senior and I just hope when people look at Anna Dennis, they say she did it the right way. That's something impressive for her.”

Crane said that Dennis could play anywhere on the soccer field but she is the most comfortable at her defensive spot.

“Anna is going to be the one that marks the other team's best goal scorer. I'm going to switch her to that side. She's the frustrater and she is one of the better players on the team,” Crane said. “I look to her to solid-

ify our defense. We gave up 17 goals all of last year and she was a huge reason why.

She is a vocal leader and she was voted a captain again as a senior. She was our only junior captain last year. And she is taking on more of a leadership role this year now that the big group of seniors we had last year is gone. She was able to follow their example vocally. Even though I'm having to share her with swim, any of the questions the girls have, they send them to her and she gets in touch with me and sends it back out. She is one everyone looks to for guidance, on and off, the field.”

The Chargers have a lot of young swimmers on the roster, Dennis said, but

many of them have been in the pool their whole lives.

As for the soccer team, many feel Oxford is the team to beat in Class 5A. “I think we're going to be really good this year. For soccer, we lost some seniors that were key players but we have a lot of young players that are stepping up,” Dennis added. “That's really good to see. I think we can win that second state title. I think there are people on the team that see that we're good enough to do it, so why can't we be good enough to do it again.”

Robert Gonzalez coaches Dennis in swimming, and he felt good about the freestyle events because of Dennis' ability.

“Anna, due to her being a senior, has been around the program the longest. She carries more weight as far as what is expected of her,” Gonzalez said. “Being a dual-sport athlete, and being really good at both of those, that puts a lot of pressure on her to be able to lead a very young group.

Being a leader doesn't mean that you're the fastest swimmer or the best swimmer. But she brings not only the quality of swimming that we need but she also brings a different mentality to our team that is very, very needed. If I had a team that were all Anna Dennis, then I would be in very, very good shape.”

Choosing a college is something Dennis is work-

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Oxford football coach Chris Cutcliffe was proud of his team for earning a road win over Madison Central in Week 3.

0,” Cutcliffe said. “Every year when we play Lafayette, we're going to see their best shot. They're going to play as hard as they can and I think they're going to play well.

That's the nature of this rivalry, that we're always going to expect that from Lafayette. It doesn't matter when we play them during the season or what our records are, we're going to get their very best game whenever we play them.”

There are a number of good Lafayette players that Cutcliffe was preparing for, on both sides of the ball.

Cutcliffe said Jamarcus Quarles gets better every week and “Tyler Williams has made some big plays at wide receiver.”

“You have to account for him, no doubt. Will Ard is very experienced at quarterback and he does what he is supposed to do and doesn't make a bunch of mistakes,” Cutcliffe said. “It makes it harder to defend when they're spreading the ball out. We definitely have to cover our bases because they are a balanced offense and can hurt you in a lot of different ways.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

ing on currently even if a decision may not happen until December, or even a little later. She is still unsure about which major she would study, but it's clear that she will not be a doctor like her father.

“I would like to go away and see what's out there but at the same time, I would be happy here,” said Dennis, who applied to Ole Miss last week. “I'm working on my application to Auburn. I may want to be a graphic designer or someone who makes things for advertising. I don't do blood. I don't do anything like that. I like to help people, just not medically.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Quin Jones made some plays in his first taste of college football action for East Mississippi Community College last week. The No. 1-ranked Lions may have lost their season opener, but that didn't get the former Lafayette High standout down about his first contributions for head coach Buddy Stephens. Jones made a couple tackles for a loss and saw action on special teams.

“I pretty much played the whole game. It was a good experience,” said Jones, who is still playing the same position he did for the Commodores. “The speed is different. In high school, people play just to play. When you're at this level, people are playing so they can try and make a living out of the game and get to a higher level. Every play counts, every player is going to be good. It's kind

of like survival of the fittest out there. You have to eat out there whenever you have your chance.”

Jones, who came to watch Lafayette play at Grenada last Friday night, said he was loving the new experience of junior college.

“I still reminisce about playing in high school and being with my brothers and stuff like that. It makes me miss the game more,” Jones said. “I can't complain. I think everything worked out for me. God had it planned out for me going to junior college.”

The 0-2 Commodores will travel across town to play the Oxford Chargers this week, and Jones saw a lot of fight from his former team against Grenada.

Jones said the Commodores reminded him of the team his sophomore season that went on to play for the Class 4A state title.

“They have a whole new coaching staff and trying

to get the kinks right.

When you see them later in the season and they start clicking, they're going to be scary,” Jones said.

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Jones added that he wants Lafayette to win every game, and a win over the Chargers is something he would be very proud of because that's something he didn't experience.

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Early Success Gibson coming through for Ole Miss volleyball

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

It didn't take Kate Gibson long to make an impact on the 2016 volleyball season for the Ole Miss Rebels. Not only did she earn the first Player of the Week honor from the SEC office, she continued to perform at a high level in the Rebels' first home action of the season.

Following three wins over the weekend, Gibson was at the top of the stats list for the Rebels. She was averaging 4.16 points per set and 3.76 kills per set, which is also the top figure on the team. Even when the numbers point to a good outing, Gibson is focused on being better. The McNeese State contest was the fifth on of the season, and it wasn't the best for Gibson, who was focused on being better against North Carolina State. Gibson finished with 13 kills, tied for second best on the team, against the Wolfpack. Against McNeese, she had 11 kills to her credit.

Gibson felt like she was a stronger player, crediting the work put in during the offseason as the key to early success.

“We really, really worked on getting me to do the right technique all the time and building me up through that. This spring really helped Lexi (Thompson) or Kathryn (Cather) and I,” Gibson

said. “It was us three all the time and I got a ton of reps and I kept working and working. It has pushed me to a faster, better start this season.”

This is Gibson's second full year with the Rebels after transferring in from the University of Memphis. She was told by the other players what to expect from the coaching staff. Everything she knew how to do was broken down. Things that she may have struggled with improved, like passing the ball. The team scrimmaged more this summer and Gibson worked with the young freshmen when the coaches couldn't have any interaction.

“We really worked hard with the freshmen. We told them how it was going to be and we told them to expect it from us before they got it from them,” Gibson said. “With the returners being able to break in the freshmen, I don't think the coaches had to do as much technique. We were trained so well to be able to help them as they came in.”

Skill wise, Gibson felt like the 6-0 Rebels were very scrappy and that the defense was the best since she's been in Oxford.

“I think even with bigger, taller teams we'll be able to compete with them even though our height isn't there,” she said. “I think even though we were picked 12th (in the SEC) in

the preseason poll, we'll be able to play with the teams at the top pretty well.”

Not being picked any higher in the SEC motivated Gibson, and “probably everyone else” on the team. The overall schedule is tougher as well, and that was a plus for the Rebels as they attempt to make the NCAA Tournament.

“I think we're excited to play against them and prove to the rest of the NCAA and the SEC that we shouldn't have been ranked 12th,” Gibson said.

“We like challenges. We get challenged everyday in practices. So being able to be challenged by other teams besides the SEC is awesome because it just prepares us for conference play. It's going to benefit us so much more than it has in the past.”

Gibson has grown in her role on the team, and her love for Oxford and for Ole Miss. She has a bigger role from a leadership standpoint this year. Gibson is one of four upperclassmen on the team.

“I think that's the one thing that is different. I've always wanted to be a leader, but there were so many others age wise ahead of me,” Gibson said.

“I enjoy being in the leadership role. At my end of the year meeting last December, the whole staff said they needed more from me as being a leader.

It was being more vocal on the court, in the class-

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Ole Miss junior Kate Gibson has gotten off to a great start this season for the Rebels. She earned the first SEC Player of the Week honor and leads the team in kills after seven matches. room, just all around.”

Ole Miss coach Steven McRoberts said there was a confidence about Gibson this season. He feels like she has relished the role, and that it has shown up in her play on the court.

“She is off to a great start and scoring a lot of points for us,” McRoberts said. “I like that she feels like she hasn't played as well be-

cause it lets me know she has set the standard high.

That's what we want for all of our players. We talk everyday about wanting to improve and the more we get to know each other and play with each other, we're going to have some ups and downs, but so far so good as far as the way we're improving. And she is a big part of that.”

This summer meant a

lot of time spent with family for Gibson. She is really, really close with her family.

“I love coming back, but being with them is so enjoyable. That's what I love the most,” said Gibson, who was able to travel to Texas to visit her boyfriend's family.

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Friday Night Previews: Week 4 Commodores are hungry heading into Crosstown Classic

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Lafayette coach Michael Fair has a team filled with hungry players. That's what an 0-2 start has made the Commodores, who travel across town to face Oxford Friday night.

Lafayette has been close in both of its losses, especially this past week against Grenada where inches separated the Commodores from a potential victory.

“These guys are wanting to win and we feel like we have played two really good opponents, and Oxford will be our third in a row. The strides that we have made on our football team, the improvement that we have made from the first to the second game, it's drastic,” Fair said. “We feel like we're headed in the right direction. We've got a hungry football team and they're ready to play Friday.”

Grenada was a physical team that takes pride in delivering blows to opposing teams, and Fair felt like his Commodores stood in and took the shots the entire game.

“For 48 minutes, we were holding our own on the line of scrimmage and winning at times at the line of scrimmage, on both sides of the ball,” Fair said. “That's what I take away from it. We challenged our guys since I got here. We want to be a physical football team and we're getting there. I think we showed against Grenada the kind of team we can be.”

The Commodores were more balanced on offense against Grenada. Will Ard threw for over 150 yards, while a number of different receivers caught balls.

“We want to be an offense that throws the ball when we want to. We try to get our box count where we want it and they really respect us on the outside,” Fair said. “We were getting a lot of man coverage against Grenada

on our receivers because our run game was coming on. And we took advantage of that on two big pass plays. One for a touchdown and one for another long gain. Will is getting better everyday.

And you have to think that everything we are doing is new to these guys. There is no carryover from terminology to scheme from last year to this year on either side of the ball, or special teams. It's not like we were wanting to change, but we're coaching to our personalities and our coaching tendencies and everything is just different. Each game we play, we're get better and better and better. I'm excited about where this team can go.”

Fair first heard about the annual Crosstown Classic, and important the game was, in April when he was hired.

“When you go to WalMart or the grocery store, that's what they want to talk about. It's not all of a sudden that this game is important,” Fair said. “It's the nature of the beast of this thing. You always hear about the crowds and the amount of people that are here and pull for their teams. The thing about it is we're so close in proximity, just a couple of miles away from each school. This is very important for our players and our coaches for a variety of reasons.”

Oxford quarterback John Reece McClure has impressed Fair, who has seen him improve each week on film.

“He looks comfortable with what they're doing back there and they have some weapons on the outside. You look at what they did against Starkville, those two long plays and they scored 14 points quick, from anywhere on the field,” Fair said. “If you can out run Starkville, you can out run anybody.

They're very fast. And their defensive front is very solid, likely the

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Their linebackers fit so well with their line and it will be a challenge this week to get anything up in there.”

The key in a rivalry game, Fair said, is to be true to what a team does well, and not try and do be something you can't do as well just because it's a big game.

“You need to stay in the moment and we have a blueprint around here that we're following to build a championship caliber football team,” Fair said. “Each and every opportunity we get to play, no matter if it's Grenada or Oxford or whoever, it's another step in the right direction we want to be.

We don't to vary this blueprint that we have laid out. We want to be physical on the line of scrimmage and to take care of the football and not make any mistakes. If we do that, it doesn't matter if it's the Crosstown Classic or the North Half championship, we're going to stay true to ourselves and do what we feel suits us.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Gator season turns up positive grab for Riddle

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

It didn't take but a few minutes for Jeremy Riddle, and the men who traveled with him, to catch an alligator they could talk about for a while. The group snagged a gator that measured 10 feet, 6 inches two weekends ago at the start of the season, in area approximately 100 miles southwest of Oxford.

Riddle said not long after using spotlights to locate a gator, a weighted tremble hook found its mark, just around the head.

“We were lucky enough that when we hooked it, we hooked it up in the head and the head came up first and then we were able to get a hand line with thick grapple head on the head, too, which pretty much gives us control,” said Riddle about his first gator hunt. “We had two boats and five people. In Mississippi, you have to use a shotgun with No. 6 or smaller. We actually shot him with a .410. It was a real team effort.”

Before heading out into the back areas of the state, Riddell got his tag and did a lot of research

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Two alligators, one that measured 10 feet, 6 inches, were taken by a group of hunters that included from l. to r., Nathan Howell, John Darby, Chuck Darby, Stan Sparks and Jeremy Riddle. on where he could locate a gator.

He said that the Northwest Zone is the toughest to hunt in compared to the zone that includes spots like Vicksburg and Natchez.

“I talked to a lot of people over

in the Delta and did research on where I could find an alligator and I got a lot of I don't know,'” Riddle said. “I ended up hooking up with a guy out of Grenada that had done it before. He had all the

gear and the knowledge and we was another gator, one that basically teammed up and went measured 6-4, that the group in together.” caught on the same night as well.

Riddle said the hunt was “a very enjoyable experience” and John.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd that he would do it again. There

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SPORTS IN DEPTH PREP FOOTBALL LAST WEEK'S RESULTS Grenada 14, Lafayette 7 Lafayette 0 0 0 7 – 7 Grenada 0 0 0 14 – 14 Fourth Quarter GRE – Isiaha Triplett 5 run (Easton Curry kick), 8:13 LAF – Tyler Williams 18 pass from Will Ard (Robbie Langley kick), 7:20.

GRE – Deon House 40 run (Curry kick), 6:22.

Records: Grenada 3-0, Lafayette 0-2.

Oxford 21, Madison Central Oxford 0 7 7 7 – 21 Madison Central 7 3 0 7 – 17 First Quarter MC - Jack Walker 42 pass to Hunter Blalock (Kale Nation kick), 10:03 Second Quarter MC - Nation 22 field goal, 1:12 OXF - John Reece McClure 15 pass to Dede Pegues (Gray Jenkins kick), 0:05 Third Quarter OXF - Hiram Wadlington 1 run (Jenkins kick), 9:36 Fourth Quarter MC - Gabe Little 5 run (Nation kick), 8:45 OXF - McClure 52 pass to Barry Flowers (Jenkins kick), 3:01

Records: Oxford 2-1, Madison Central 1-2

CROSSTOWN CLASSIC SERIES 1972: OXFORD 3, Lafayette 0* 1973: OXFORD 28, Lafayette 12 1974: LAFAYETTE 16, Oxford 0 1975: OXFORD 29, Lafayette 27 1976: 35-35 Tie 1977: LAFAYETTE 12, Oxford 6 1978: LAFAYETTE 26, Oxford 7 1979: OXFORD 28, Lafayette 23 1980: LAFAYETTE 18, Oxford 3 1981: 0-0 Tie 1982: OXFORD 13, Lafayette 0 1983: LAFAYETTE 21, Oxford 0 1984: LAFAYETTE 26, Oxford 13 1985: LAFAYETTE 13, Oxford 0 1986: LAFAYETTE 14, Oxford 0 1987: LAFAYETTE 33, Oxford 8 1988: LAFAYETTE 19, Oxford 7 1989: LAFAYETTE 14, Oxford 10 1990: OXFORD 21, Lafayette 0 1991: LAFAYETTE 18, Oxford 7 1992: OXFORD 28, Lafayette 0 1993: OXFORD 35, Lafayette 6 1994: OXFORD 13, Lafayette 10 1995: OXFORD 19, Lafayette 13 (OT) 1996: OXFORD 7, Lafayette 0 1997: LAFAYETTE 22, Oxford 6 1998: LAFAYETTE 41, Oxford 35 (OT) 1999: LAFAYETTE 29, Oxford 21

2000: LAFAYETTE 14, Oxford 12 2001: OXFORD 27, Lafayette 13 2002: OXFORD 21, Lafayette 20 (OT) 2003: LAFAYETTE 12, Oxford 7 2004: OXFORD 28, Lafayette 14# 2004: LAFAYETTE 22, Oxford 6+ 2005: OXFORD 28, Lafayette 25 2006: LAFAYETTE 29, Oxford 28 (OT) 2007: LAFAYETTE 21, Oxford 14 (OT) 2008: LAFAYETTE 32, Oxford 7 2009: LAFAYETTE 31, Oxford 21 2010: LAFAYETTE 21, Oxford 14 2011: LAFAYETTE 40, Oxford 12 2012: OXFORD 19, Lafayette 0 2013: OXFORD 30, Lafayette 0 2014: OXFORD 41, Lafayette 7 2015: OXFORD 31, Lafayette 21 Notes: *Civitan Bowl, #Regular season, +Class 4A playoffs Series Totals: Lafayette leads 24-19-2.

OXFORD-LAFAYETTE COACHES 1972: LHS - Jim Aven, OHS - Bobby Sanders 1973: LHS - Aven, OHS - Sanders 1974: LHS - Avent, OHS - Sanders 1975: LHS - Aven, OHS - Sanders 1976: LHS - Bill Scott, OHS - Sanders 1977: LHS - Scott, OHS - Sanders 1978: LHS - Scott, OHS - George Blair 1979: LHS - Scott, OHS - Buz Morrow 1980: LHS - Danny Patterson, OHS Morrow 1981: LHS - Doug Vanlandingham, OHS

- Walter Denton 1982: LHS - Vanlandingham, OHS Denton 1983: LHS - Vanlandingham, OHS Denton 1984: LHS - Vanlandingham, OHS Denton 1985: LHS - Vanlandingham, OHS Denton 1986: LHS - Vanlandingham, OHS - Bob Tyler 1987: LHS - Jimmy Arrington, OHS Dennis Dupree 1988: LHS - Arrington, OHS - Dupree 1989: LHS - Arrington, OHS - Dupree 1990: LHS - Mike Moore, OHS - Dupree 1991: LHS - Moore, OHS - Dupree 1992: LHS - Moore, OHS - Johnny Hill 1993: LHS - Moore, OHS - Hill 1994: LHS - Moore, OHS - Hill 1995: LHS - Moore, OHS - Hill 1996: LHS - Moore, OHS - Robert Youngblood 1997: LHS - Boyd Bayles, OHS - Youngblood 1998: LHS - Bayles, OHS - Tim Carter 1999: LHS - Scott Samsel, OHS - Tim Carter 2000: LHS - Samsel, OHS - Johnny Hill 2001: LHS - Samsel, OHS - Hill 2002: LHS - Samsel, OHS - Hill 2003: LHS - Samsel, OHS - Hill 2004: LHS - Samsel, OHS - Hill (two

games) 2005: LHS - Anthony Hart, OHS - Hill 2006: LHS - Hart, OHS - Hill 2007: LHS - Hart, OHS - Hill 2008: LHS - Hart, OHS - Hill 2009: LHS - Hart, OHS - Hill 2010: LHS - Hart, OHS - Hill 2011: LHS-Hart, OHS-Hill 2012: LHS-Robertson, OHS-Hill 2013: LHS-Robertson, OHS-Hill 2014: LHS-Robertson, OHS-Hill 2015: LHS-Robertson, OHS-Hill Lafayette coaches' records vs. Oxford Jim Aven: 1-3 Bill Scott: 2-1-1 Danny Patterson: 1-0 Doug Vanlandingham: 4-1-1 Jimmy Arrington: 3-0 Mike Moore: 1-6 Boyd Bayles: 2-0 Scott Samsel: 4-3 (Includes playoff win) Anthony Hart: 6-1 Eric Robertson: 0-4 Oxford coaches' records vs. Lafayette Bobby Sanders: 3-2-1 George Blair: 0-1 Buz Morrow: 1-1 Walter Denton: 1-3-1 Bob Tyler: 0-1 Dennis Dupree: 1-4 Johnny Hill: 12-9 (Includes playoff loss) Robert Youngblood: 1-1 Tim Carter: 0-2

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