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Thursday, October 15, 2015

LEADING UP TO THE NOV. 3 GENERAL ELECTION, THE OXFORD CITIZEN IS FEATURING A Q&A WITH CANDIDATES IN STATE HOUSE AND STATE SENATE RACES INVOLVING LAFAYETTE COUNTY.

Hughes: State’s immediate needs are long-term needs Democrat J.P. “Jay” Hughes Jr., an Oxford alderman, attorney and business owner, is running as a challenger for House District 12.

Republican Brad Mayo, an investment advisor from Oxford, is running for reelection in House District 12. He has been in the Legislature since 2012.

Q: WHAT DO YOU see as Mississippi’s three greatest immediate challenges in the next four years?

A: OUR GREATEST challenges over the next four years will be developing pathways to success for Mississippians in the classroom, on the roads, and in healthcare.

Developing those will develop Mississippi’s economy and create quality jobs.

Q: WHAT DO YOU see as Mississippi’s three greatest immediate challenges in the next four years?

A: PUBLIC EDUCATION, infrastructure and health care access across the state.

Q: WHAT ARE THREE long-term issues that state government should be addressing now?

A: PUBLIC EDUCATION of all, infrastructure, and health care access. (Yes, I meant to repeat that).

Q: WHAT CAN THE LEGISLATURE do to have a real impact on each of those challenges?

A: (1) FULLY FUND the MAEP, while simultaneously getting costs in order through legislation. Simply underfunding education does not mean that the proper costs will be controlled at the local

Mayo: Classrooms, roads, healthcare

level. There is too much waste.

(2) After the legislature accepts and adopts that public education of all citizens is the single biggest priority every single year, then the second priority should be infrastructure.

We have a ridiculous number of failing bridges and roads, which interfere with

daily travel and safety of our citizens, and deter businesses from wanting to locate there. This means the wealthy areas get wealthier, and the poorer areas get poorer.

(3) Expand Medicaid.

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Q: WHAT ARE THREE longterm issues that state government should be addressing now?

A: (1) EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL system from pre-K to Ph.D.; (2) quality infrastructure; and (3) access to healthcare Q: WHAT CAN THE LEGISLATURE do to have a real impact on each of those challenges?

A: THE MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE, with input from

MDE, must lead the way on developing an educational system that prepares students for success. The Legislature should develop a plan for improving Mississippi’s infrastructure. We also must develop policies that encourage development of a healthcare system in rural Mississippi. If we do those three things, we will

strengthen Mississippi’s economic development.

Q: WHAT ROLES would you add to or remove from state government?

A: WE MUST REMOVE elected superintendents.

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2nd Color Invasion Oxford set for Halloween morning

BY JEFF ROBERSON OXFORD CITIZEN

Last year at the first Color Invasion Oxford event, more people turned out than predicted. This year, even more are expected.

What is Color Invasion Oxford? It’s a 5K run/walk with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Mississippi Alzheimer’s Association. It’s on Halloween morning, Saturday, October 31, at 8 a.m., beginning and ending at Stone Park.

“The Mississippi Alzheimer’s Association hosts a walk every year to raise money, and it’s called the Walk to End Alzheimer’s,” said Lori Hannah, the sales and marketing manager at Brookdale Oxford. “Their theme this year is ‘Be a Super Hero: Fight for Alzheimer’s.’ We give the money we raise to the walk to end Alzheimer’s.”

Hannah said she attributes the idea to another person who is involved in the event.

"Caroline Frazier of Providence Companion Care of Oxford had this crazy idea to do a color run, and I thought it was a great idea,” Hannah said.

So now they’re doing it for a second year.

“We were looking for a way to really boost awareness and fundraising for this cause,” Frazier said. “We all got together and decided to do a color run. It was a huge success. Last year we had over 700 involved in it.”

Frazier said getting more people involved is one of the key factors to its success.

“It was so important for us to get the Oxford community involved,” she said.

“The Alzheimer’s Association is based out of Jackson, so for us it was so important to do something like this here.”

It’s a fun event and one that leaves participants a bit off color, you might say. Or maybe in full color would be a better way to describe things.

“Everybody wears white,” Hannah said. “We start and

end at the Stone Center. Basically you run or walk the route, and along the route there are color stations. You go by and they throw color at you, so you come out tyedyed from top to bottom.

They throw it as you run by.

It’s a lot of fun.”

"It’s just colored corn starch and it comes out of your clothes,” Hannah added.

She also said the event is open to all, and the fact that it isn’t necessarily a competitive run or walk makes it unique and available to more participants.

“It’s not a timed run, so anyone can do this,” she said. "It is a complete fun run. We had people pushing strollers in it last year. The only thing is four-legged friends are not allowed. The powder from the color is not good for them.”

The cost of the run is $40 for adults and $20 for those 13 and younger. Participants that sign up early will get a tshirt.

“We were blown away last year,” Frazier said. “We had

an unbelievable amount of people who participated in this, strictly because it was based on raising awareness for Alzheimer’s.”

“We had one little girl who wore a t-shirt that said ‘In memory of my grandpa’ and it was just precious,” Hannah said.

“So many people thanked us for bringing awareness.

So many are affected by this disease," Frazier said.

"That’s been huge for us, just hearing people talk about Alzheimer’s and to raise awareness.”

Hannah said Alzheimer’s is already a part of many families and lives.

“I see Alzheimer’s affect people every day. Statistics say it affects 5.3 million

Last year’s Color Invasion Oxford attracted over 700 participants.

Americans. One in three seniors will die from Alzheimer’s or dementia, and it’s the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.”

The residents at Brookdale Oxford are also involved.

“We’re selling the footprints (posters) and our residents are buying them in honor of or in memory of to raise money here in the community,” Hannah said.

“I think last year our community alone raised $1,200 just by selling footprints.”

To register online go to: www.racesonline.com/ev ents/colorinvasionoxford Or go by either Brookdale Oxford at 100 Azalea Drive, or Providence Companion Care at 317 Heritage, Suite 7A in Oxford.

The Stone Center address for the event on October 31 is 423 Washington Avenue, Oxford.

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Experts, Athletes and Soldiers Part of UM Neuroscience Conference SPECIAL TO THE OXFORD CITIZEN

Former football players and soldiers, as well as neuroscience experts, are set to participate in a conference next month at the University of Mississippi, which has a groundbreaking Ph.D. program to train education professionals to help speed recovery from traumatic brain injuries.

In 2014, the UM School of Education launched a doctoral program in special education with a curriculum that includes courses in Cognitive Neuroscience, the Learning Brain and the Mind.

Drawing on the resources of this program, the university will bring experts to the Oxford Conference Center Oct. 19-20 for “Neuroscience and Learning: Healing the Injured Brain.”

Roy J. Thurston, UM assistant professor of special education whose research focuses on neuroscience and cognition, organized the conference, which is expected to attract professionals from the fields of health care, pharmacy, research, academia and education.

“We want to explore the impact injuries such as concussions have on memory, learning

and a person’s ability to reintegrate back into the classroom, athletics, career and society as a whole,” Thurston said. “This conference will show how an interdisciplinary approach to these issues is being met by researchers, and how it can benefit survivors, families, educators and medical and athletics professionals.”

Concussions and other head injuries, including those suffered by football players and military personnel in combat, have attracted widespread attention in recent years and have challenged medicine and science professionals to find answers. The conference will offer opportunities to hear about the experiences of those who were injured both in sports and combat and who have struggled to recover from traumatic brain injuries, or TBI. Dr. Esther Sternberg, director of research at the University of Arizona, is the conference's keynote speaker. She is the author of “Healing Spaces: The Science and Place of Well Being,”which explores the idea of how distractions and distortions around a person, includ-

ing colors and sounds, could shake up the brain's healing chemistry, and whether surroundings have healing powers.

The agenda also includes discussions on the effects of lighting on classrooms, the future of neuroscience, cognition and injury, and neuropsychology therapy.

Thurston will discuss memory and learning and talk about his research, as well as how UM is training professionals to help victims of TBI recover. The conference is made possible by a generous donation from Dr. Carl Lindgren, of Courtland.

The special education doctoral program has multiple components. One helps students learn how the brain works, while other sections of the curriculum deal with literacy, diversity and behaviors.

Neurosciences are studied in all areas of the new program.

One of only three programs of its kind in the nation, the UM curriculum is designed to train professionals to help those with traumatic brain injuries recover better. The program trains educators to use therapies that incorporate mathematics, language and other subjects to

speed and improve recovery.

Thurston’s research is in cognitive rehabilitation of people with traumatic brain injuries and also in neuroscience applications to education. He previously worked in Canadian hospitals, where he tested patients with brain injuries, looking at how they performed in math, language and other subjects. Those tests and therapies helped patients exercise their brains, which sped up their recovery, he said.

“The more you socialize with the people, the faster you heal,”Thurston said. “Experts are doing clinical studies. They don't understand it physiologically, but we would see people come into our classroom and as soon as they got to talk and interact with each other and help each other with tasks, their mood affect would go up. They would also heal faster and set goals for themselves and they weren’t depressed all the time.”

Students who pursue the UM doctorate can work in a variety of settings, including K-12 education, rehabilitation systems and hospital environments.

The university's Department

of Intercollegiate Athletics and schools of Medicine, Pharmacy and Education are helping with the conference, along with Dr. Michael Lehman, head of neuroscience at the UM Medical Center.

David D. Allen, UM pharmacy dean, said he is “very excited about this conference and the opportunity to have three schools at Ole Miss working together.” David Rock, dean of the School of Education, expressed thanks to Lindgren’s support, as well as the support of other university departments and schools.

“This is an exciting opportunity for professionals in the areas of education and medicine to share, collaborate and learn from experts in the field," Rock said. "We hope this event will grow to become a nationally recognized conference in neuroscience and education.”

Registration is $50 for the general public and $25 for students.

Continuing education credits are available for attendees. For more information or to register for the conference, visit https://services.nmec.net/EMI_C onferences.cfm?CN=44&CR=44.

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OBITUARIES RICHARD DALTON CHURCHILL

with Bro. Rusty Miller and Bro. Paul Childress officiating. Burial Mr. Richard Dalton Churchill, 88, will follow in the Edington Cemetery. passed away Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, at his home in Oxford.

The funeral service was held DEBRA ARMSTRONG Tuesday, Oct.13, 2015 in the BRUCE – Debra Armstrong, 45, Chapel of Waller Funeral Home died Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, at with Rev. Randy Hope officiather home in Bruce. Services will ing. Burial followed in North Ox- be at Thursday, Oct. 15, at Belle ford Cemetery.

Memorial Funeral Home Chapel in Bruce at 1 p.m. Visitation will be one hour prior to service WILLIAM PANNELL PONTOTOC – William Ross Pan- time at the funeral home. nell, 84, passed away at his home Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015.

SPENCER GUNN JR. Services will be held at Baldwin COFFEEVILLE – Spencer Gunn Nowell Funeral Home Chapel on Jr., 67, died Thursday, Oct. 8, Thursday, Oct. 15, at 2 p.m., 2015, at his home.

Services will be Saturday, Oct. 17, at Hopewell Baptist Church at Coffeeville at 1 p.m. Belle Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Innovate Mississippi announces that the next Discovery Luncheon, which is a community-based event that spotlights Mississippi’s rich entrepreneurial culture, will be held Tuesday, October 20, in Oxford at the Powerhouse from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.

Organized by Innovate Mississippi, this first Oxford Discovery Luncheon is presented in partnership with FNC and the OxfordLafayette County Economic Development Foundation.

“We’re excited to bring the Discovery Luncheon series to Oxford,” said Tony Jeff, president and CEO of Innovate Mississippi. “This event’s proven format helps people discover the remarkable innovation and entrepreneurial activity taking place in their own community – and all in a fun, educational environment designed to encourage networking. Innovate Mississippi holds Startup Weekends, Mississippi Angel Investor Network meetings and various other events in Oxford and at Ole Miss throughout the year, and we are happy to now expand into the area with

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this popular event.”

The agenda begins at 11:30 a.m. with registration and networking. The lunch program will begin promptly at 12:00 noon.

Josh Mabus, founder and president of the Mabus Agency, a creative marketing firmed based in Tupelo and Jackson, will serve as the featured speaker. Chip Wade, Ph.D., chief science officer of OrthoKinematics, a medical imaging startup launched in Mississippi, will present as the entrepreneur speaker.

Time for Q&A with the speakers will be included.

The event will conclude at 1:00 p.m.

“The EDF is excited that Innovate Mississippi chose Oxford for a Discovery Luncheon,” said Jon Maynard, president and CEO of the Oxford-Lafayette County Economic Development Foundation and Chamber of Commerce. “Our efforts at job creation in Lafayette County are heavily focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. The University of Mississippi provides Oxford the opportunity to be a prime location in Mississippi for new businesses being developed. Our ecosystem for innovation is taking shape, and we are

Sansing: ‘A Troubled History’ of Mississippi higher ed

BY ERROL CASTENS

WALTER THEISEN SR. POTTS CAMP – Walter John Theisen Sr., 78, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County. A memorial service will be Sunday, Oct. 18, at Springhill Baptist Church at Waterford at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Potts Camp Cemetery. Serenity-Simmons Funeral Home of New Albany is in charge of arrangements.

Innovate Mississippi Discovery Luncheon Tuesday at Powerhouse SPECIAL TO THE OXFORD CITIZEN

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seeing tremendous success in startup development.”

“The Discovery Luncheon is a great opportunity to bring the community together, to ignite conversation around innovation in Oxford, and to hear from entrepreneurs who are changing the world right here in our corner of Mississippi,” said Glen Evans, FNC president.

To register for the luncheon or for more information, contact Allen Kurr, vice president of economic development for the Oxford-Lafayette County Economic Development Foundation, at allen@oxfordms.com or 662-2344651.

Innovate Mississippi’s final Discovery Luncheon for 2015 will be held Thursday, December 10, in Ridgeland and presented in partnership with C Spire.

More details will be available soon at www.innovate.ms.

Innovate Mississippi is a nonprofit organization with the mission to drive innovation and technology-based economic development for the State of Mississippi. Visit www.innovate.ms to learn more.

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The controversies in Mississippi higher education run long and deep, reflecting early the same tensions extant today – between religion and secularism, between races and between Mississippi and outsiders.

One of the most enduring tensions, though, is how the state’s public institutions of higher education are governed.

“Perhaps no institution in American history has changed more dramatically and fundamentally than institutions of higher education,” said David Sansing, professor emeritus of history at the University of Mississippi. “The university system bears little resemblance to its forebears.

Everything has changed, except how we govern it.”

Sansing spoke Tuesday at a reading and signing of his latest book, “ATroubled History: The Governance of Higher Education in Mississippi” ($14.95, Nautilus Publishing of Oxford). A condensation and updating of his earlier and much broader work, “Making Haste Slowly,” the new 160page paperback spans from the forces that spawned Jefferson College to the transformation from classical and religious education to today’s marketplace-driven focuses on career preparation. It even has a narrative about South Mississippians’ resentment of the University of Mississippi’s far-northern location – a resentment so strong that some proposed becoming part of Louisiana.

“A Troubled History” includes even the latest major controversy in university control, last spring’s power struggle that ended with the resignation of the University of Mississippi’s Chancellor.

“Those, like me, who go directly to the index to see if the name ‘Dan Jones’ is there will find that it is. It’s completely up to date,” said Square Books owner Richard Howorth, who introduced Sansing at Tuesday’s book signing.

The contention of many in Ole Miss faculty, staff, students and alumni that the

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UM historian David Sansing shares accounts from his research for “A Troubled History:The Governace of Higher Education in Mississippi” on Tuesday at the Off Square Books College Board mistreated Jones and betrayed the institution is mild compared to the troubles of some of his predecessors at Ole Miss and other state-supported institutions.

The university lost its entire student body and its president to the Civil War, and its campus served as a hospital controlled successively by Confederate and Union forces during the war.

A great many male students from most state institutions left again during World War II, although returning veterans swelled their student body numbers after the war’s end.

Ole Miss was traumatized again during the riots and federal takeover that ensued over the integration of the university in 1962.

None of those experiences, though, was quite as personally tragic as the fate of Jeremiah Chamberlain, president of Oakland College, whose campus later became Alcorn State University. Chamberlain, a Union supporter, was stabbed to death in 1851 for purportedly expelling a student for giving a secessionist speech on campus.

One of the closest calls for public higher education in Mississippi – and one of the most surprising for modern readers – was during the administration of Gov. Theodore G. Bilbo, a notorious segregationist and moral failure who fired three college presidents and more than 100 faculty members.

Sansing said, however, that Bilbo was actually trying to consolidate and upgrade the academically inbred state college system, as had been recommended by consultants hired from the University of Wisconsin.

“Bilbo was guilty of punishing his friends and rewarding his enemies to some degree, but what Bilbo hoped to achieve was exactly what the O’Shea study from the University of Wisconsin had recommended,” Sansing said.

Sansing urged the several score of attendees at the reading and signing, “If you don’t read anything else in this book, I want you to read the chapter on Theodore G. Bilbo and the chapter on James Howard Meredith.” errol.castens@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenec

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A church and your choice

BRIEFING Parenting conference

ford’s Second National Down Syndrome Society Buddy Walk this Sunday.

The walk will start at the Christ Presbyterian Student Union Plaza and Church (PCA) invites Oxford parents to its first Par- go through the Grove on the University of Missisenting Conference, to be sippi campus. The event held 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. Dr. John Kwasny aims to raise awareness of will give two presentations people with Down syndrome as members of the - “Parenting Teens to be community and to raise Wise” and “Youth Culture 101: Social Media, Pornog- funds for new parent packraphy, Gender and Sexual- ets, educational meetings, networking events and ity, and Entertainment camp scholarships.

Media.” Questions-and“The success of last answers time will follow. year’s event was a testaBreakfast will be served ment to the importance of and childcare provided, our cause and all Missisboth without charge. sippians’ desire to show Please RSVP to scott@christpresoxford.or support,” said Jenny Rayner, president of 21 g with the number of United. “We again invite adults and children. everyone to join in on the Everyone is welcome. fun, not just families who Christ Presbyterian Church is at 1720A Univer- are directly affected by sity Avenue, behind Pitner Down syndrome.”

The Sunday afternoon Office Supply. event will start at 1 p.m.

Buddy Walk with registration and welcomes, followed by live pre-registration music and a short program.

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followed by more music.

The event will also include food and beverages, bounce houses, face painting, kids’ games, fire trucks and police cruisers and a tshirt for all participants.

Registration is $10 for adults and $5 for children ages 13 and under. Buddy Walk friends with special needs may participate for free. Participants are encouraged to pre-register at www.21united.org.

Senior artists exhibition North Light Gallery will host a reception for “WellSeasoned Art” by the Oxford Park Commission’s “Art With a Kick” Class.

The reception will be 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 26 and will open an exhibition of beautiful work from the creative hands of local senior artists.

North Light Gallery is at 295 Highway 7 North. For more information, email nlightgallery@gmail.com.

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hurch has always been a big part of country life, and Lafayette County has churches and denominations for almost every conviction. Throughout the county church is the center of the community. Church is where people meet, get to know one another, make deals, push political agendas, garner support for various causes and charities and occasionally worship.

If you are new to the County visit around, you may or may not find a place that seems right. Everyone should go, meet the people and gain the experience.

It has been years since I attended church. Steady in attendance for a while after retiring from the Army it became apparent that this was not the place for us. We visited around and eventually stopped altogether. In a way, church is missed, in another absence feels like freedom. No doubt I am better for the experience.

A Baptist, I have been known to visit a Unitarian church (particularly when I travel). Unitarians always are welcoming, interesting to watch and always have coffee, cookies and every once in awhile a potluck that is usually heavy on beans, rice and other vegetarian fare. The food is wonderful in its variety, cooked or not cooked, undercooked depending on the proclivities of the person presenting the dish. Never one to shy away, it was rare that I was disappointed. Food is central to both Baptists and Unitarians, one concentrates on quantity and the other on uniqueness.

I enjoy the Catholic Church. Dad’s advice to me when I went in the Army was to go to the Catholic Church. I will not repeat why, but it was advice that proved its worth on more than one occasion.

When the Catholics have their annual fish fry’s around Easter every year, I like going there on Fridays with the Knights of Columbus cooking and breaking

bread with them.

The church I grew up in out in the county is gone now but had a balcony where the ‘Black folks’ worshiped with us. As a child, I wondered why they were allowed to be a little closer to the Lord, and we had to sit under their feet. It was all about perspective I suppose. That church was torn down, a new modern church built, and no more African Americans worshiped there. There is a ‘colored’ section in the cemetery. The African American residents of that part of the cemetery started out separated from rest of the occupants, but as time passed as well as the parishioners, the area has slowly started to fill in around them. Integration by attrition I suppose.

There was allegedly a few Native American graves as well, supposedly identified by the piles of stone that was stacked above their graves.

African American Churches that I have attended always made me feel welcome.

The preaching is earnest, sincere, loud and leaves the listener no doubt that the Lord is alive and moving in the congregation. The Baptists were like this at one time and participatory religion missed. It seems now if someone gives the Preacher an Amen, half the congregation stares at the zealot and the other half check their watches hoping the Preacher isn’t thrown off stride.

The most heartfelt services I attended was in the Army and to paraphrase Forrest Gump, that is all I will say about that.

I made one good Chaplin friend, John and we correspond on occasion. I visited John a couple of years ago; he was living outside of Chicago. I was worried about him; having just retired from the Army John lost his wife just days after he retired. Showing the qualities of Job, John was not bitter, just sad at all the retirement plans they had made and now buried with her.

Find a place to go to church, go there and see if it is right for you. There are lots of people to meet and programs for the kids. Maybe the church will fit, maybe not. Like my friend John would say, do not go to church for the answers, go there for the questions and the answers will reveal themselves.

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Interim director: Ford Center ‘magnificent facility’

BY ERROL CASTENS OXFORD CITIZEN

Julia Aubrey has had the title of professor, singer, actor, director, writer, producer, president of the National Opera Association and many other roles in her career.

For the next several months, add the title of executive director of the Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts.

Aubrey, associate professor of music at the University of Mississippi, took over the position on an interim basis when Norm Easterbrook, who had headed the Ford Center since its opening in 2004, moved to Columbus, Georgia, to become executive director of its RiverCenter performing arts venue.

The most challenging part of the new position is “learning what I’m supposed to do,” she said. “There’s a great staff, and they know their jobs and have lots of ideas to help me as well. It’s very en-

joyable.”

Aubrey transitions often between directing the Ford Center and her duties in the Music Building on the other side of University Avenue.

“I still have my fulltime job across the street. I’m director of the opera program, teach voice and am assistant chair of the Music Department,” she said. “I do lots of evenings and weekends, which is not unusual in my field. It’s kind of what we do.”

One grace in the transition is that Aubrey, who is not standing as a candidate for the permanent position, is not responsible for securing performances for the 2016-17 season – an effort that will likely start in earnest in February.

“They have a search committee already; hopefully that’ll be completed by the end of the semester or the very beginning of the next year,” she said. “That individual will do a lot more in terms of development and programming. We’re just handling the season that’s ongoing. We’re booked

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Julia Aubrey, an associate professor of music at the University of Mississippi, is now the interim director of the Ford Center For Performing Arts. through the spring.”

Professor Aubrey, who holds three degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia, said balancing a host of competing priorities is a standard part of arts and arts education.

“I actually started out in the business world,” she said. “And I grew up in a workshop environment. My dad had every tool known to man. He was a mayor and a judge and a businessman, but he was a wannabe carpenter. When I wanted to

build theatre sets, I knew how to use the tools.

“I have a master’s in theater as well as a master’s in voice, but I worked in accounting before I went back to graduate school. Everything you do prior to getting this job is useful to it in some way.”

Aubrey also has a book in progress titled “Creative Exercises for the Stage,” which is intended to be a college textbook for theatre arts classes.

Ironically, she had

planned to slow down just a bit after serving as artistic director and stage director for “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,” an opera written by Ole Miss alumna Nancy Van de Vate. The opera premiered at the Ford Center last spring, and then it was taken – with professional guest artists, faculty members and graduate students in the cast, orchestra and crew – to reprise the performance in Prague, Czech Republic. The process of producing a new American opera will be seen in a documentary produced by Mississippi Public Broadcasting and Southern Documentary.

“That’s a culminating project for my career. The students are still talking about it,” Aubrey said. She added, laughing, “I had planned to rest after that huge project, and then I took on the directorship of the Ford Center.”

While Aubrey may not be planning next season’s programming, she intends to promote the Ford Center’s

offerings and its uniqueness, reminding North Mississippians of the cultural treasure that it constitutes. Just this week the Center hosted the Nairobi Chamber Choir one night and the Memphisbased PRIZM Ensemble the next, and this Sunday will host Thodos Dance Chicago.

“It is a magnificent facility.

Those of us in the production world recognize that, because we go other places, how unusual it is for a town this size to have this kind of facility,” Aubrey said, noting the ease and economy of attending Broadway shows and comparable offerings in other media right here in Oxford.

“It’s an extremely important cultural center for our university and the region. I’d like to see more people take advantage of what we have,” she said. “Especially I would hope people would help give their children a lifelong appreciation for the arts.” errol.castens@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenec

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Q: WHAT ROLES WOULD you add to or remove from state government?

A: (1) I WOULD ENSURE that cultural tourism credit is dead and that type of corporate welfare does not return.

(2) Remove political interference with the Department of Education.

(3) Add transparency complete and absolute.

A: I HAVE A LIFETIME of experience in working with both my hands and my brain. Growing up in a lower-income family, I learned to work hard at an early age to contribute. So, from selling magazines, shucking oysters in a restaurant, driving a truck, serving in the army, working to pay my way through school, building houses or practicing law, I have experienced all economic levels, and learned firsthand the value of hard work and character. I have learned lessons from all of my successes, as well as failures.

My granddad always preached: “Do right and work hard.” Experience in so many areas enables me to ask the right questions and obtain the right results so that the proper needs are met, and exceeded. It is, the experience of life, its ups and its downs that separates me from my opponent.

Q: WHAT EXPERIENCE, knowledge and characteristics do you have that would make you a better Representative than your opponent?

Q: WHAT IS YOUR position on Initiative 42?

A: I SUPPORT a constitutional amendment that mandates a free and adequate public education.

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way or another. It is simply a bad case of “rose colored glasses” to decline to expand Medicaid and then pretend that the same people are not still getting sick, that hospitals are not still having to treat them for free, and that we are not losing physicians and hospitals because of it. It affects every single one of us Mississippians every single day.

Once again, Mississippi is last. We are the only state in the country which does not have a constitutional mandate for public education. Without that, the legislature does not have to fully fund the public schools, which it is has not done in over 8 years.

Q: WHAT ELSE would you want voters to know going into this election?

A: I BELIEVE in public service and representing the people who actually live and work in this district. I believe in listening, communicating, and returning every call or email, personally. We would all be better served by people who want to serve the public in the legislature, than those who want a career in politics, or a hand in dolling out tax dollars. I wish we had more purple public servants in Jackson and Washington, than just red or blue. It seems the simplicity of common sense and working together is lost amongst the parties. It will take a lot of work, but even a marathon begins with a single step.

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Between my wife, mother, father, sister, brother and mother-in-law, my family has given more than 125 years of combined service as local educators. I listen to them.

They’re on the frontlines of local education every day.

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state’s schools. They limit the talent pool when we need the biggest pool available. We search far and wide for football coaches; we should do the same for our school’s educational leaders.

Q: WHAT EXPERIENCE, knowledge and characteristics do you have that would make you a better Representative than your opponent?

A: I AM A NATIVE of our area, and I know our people and values - quality education, prudent budgeting, and north Mississippi ethic.

I reflect those values in Jackson. I have the seniority to influence policy and have been an effective voice for our area. We have secured pay raises for our teachers and all state employees. Our local schools have received a $4 million increase in funding. I was able to use my relationships with Speaker Gunn, Lt. Governor Reeves, and Sen. Tollison to secure $3

million in funding for the extension of West Oxford Loop and the construction of the new road to the Lafayette schools.

Q: WHAT IS YOUR POSITION ON INITIATIVE 42?

A: I WILL NOT VOTE for Initiative 42, but am prepared to make the resulting tough choices while trying to protect our district should it pass. Initiative 42 does not do what many believe that it does. It does not mention “MAEP,” “appropriations,” “allocations” or “funding.” We have increased K-12 spending by nearly $300 million since I was elected. Whether Initiative 42 passes or not, I will continue to push for more classroom resources and

better pay for our teachers and teachers assistants.

Q: WHAT ELSE WOULD you want voters to know going into this election?

A: I AM A NORTH Mississippi conservative committed to quality education, prudent budgets, and the development of a strong economy. I don’t care about claiming credit or seeking headlines. I like to build coalitions and work together to solve Mississippi’s problems. I will work the next four years to continue our improvements of making Mississippi a better place to live, work, and raise a family. I will work to define Mississippi’s pathway to success.

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Bacchus on the Square one of Oxford's newest dining options

BY JEFF ROBERSON OXFORD CITIZEN

Another new and exciting restaurant has made its debut to the Oxford dining scene. Bacchus on the Square has opened at 1107 Jackson Avenue E. An interesting dining concept with New Orleans roots, Bacchus is owned by the Nicaud family of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

They already own and operate four restaurants, one each in Pass Christian, Long Beach, Gulfport, and Biloxi.

Field Nicaud, of the ownership family and located at the Oxford restaurant, said he is certain diners will love the food that the restaurant has to offer, especially since it is authentic and freshly made.

“All of our sauces are homemade for dishes like shrimp scampi and chicken Alfredo,” Nicaud

said. “The roast beef marinade that we use is a home recipe. All the salad dressings are from homemade recipes and freshly made.

We also fresh cut our meat. All the fish comes up from the coast for the fish specials that we do.”

Nicaud said Bacchus on the Square will continue the family tradition while offering its own uniqueness.

“We will do a lot of the things we do at some of the other restaurants,” he said. “It’s worked on the coast in our restaurants, and we know it will work up here."

There are some daily specials that Bacchus will offer its customers.

“On Mondays we do a 14-ounce pork chop, with cornbread and collard greens, all for $10,” Nicaud said. “The pork chop is big and thick, and it’s bone in.

It’s really good. It comes with barbeque sauce that’s

homemade and also from New Orleans.”

That’s early in the week.

Later in the week come more offerings to fulfill the dining desires of the patrons.

“On Thursdays we do $15 a dozen char-grilled and raw oysters,” Nicaud said. “On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we run fish specials, straight from the Coast with the fresh seafood that’s brought in each Friday.”

There are steaks, shrimp, and pastas on the menu for main courses as well as sandwiches ranging from Creole Club and Cajun Cordon Bleu to Burger du Jour and New Orleans poboys of shrimp, oyster and beef debris.

“We do oysters several different ways,” Nicaud said. “We do an excellent seared tuna and a sweet chicken chili as well as the debris (poboy). We marinate the meat for over 24

hours.”

Heading up the cooking staff is a chef with which the Nicaud family is quite familiar.

“Our head chef, Ryan Spoon, came up from the Coast,” Nicaud said. “He’s making the same dishes he has the past four years for us on the Coast at Bacchus on the Beach.”

Although his parents have other jobs, the entire Nicaud family is involved with the restaurants. It’s a family tradition.

"My brother Jourdan, my dad Kent, and my mom Jenny are all a part of the business,” Nicaud said. “Jordan opened his first restaurant when he was 21. My dad has worked in restaurants since he was 9. His mother had three restaurants in New Orleans.

“My mom is a lawyer for Balch and Bingham. She TURN TO BACCHUS PAGE 17

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Wanda Barbour Dent lives to the fullest every day

BY JEFF ROBERSON OXFORD CITIZEN

Wanda Barbour Dent has been around the medical profession all her adult life.

She did all the right things as far as taking precautions concerning breast cancer such as annual medical testing and self-testing.

Then one day, she received some unbelievable news after an exam. As is likely the case with nearly all those who get that call, she just didn’t think it could be true.

“Last year I had my routine physical and my pap smear and a screening mammogram,” said Dent, who is a nurse navigator for the Baptist Cancer Center in Oxford. “The women’s health nurse practitioner that I see, Katherine Elliott at Internal Medicine, called me and said there was something suspicious on my mammogram.

“I got the call and I was shocked. She said, “We need to do a biopsy.’ They called me to schedule it, and I said, ‘Well, I’ve got this and this and this to do, and maybe in three or four weeks I can do it.’ They were like, ‘No, let’s go ahead and get it done.’ So

I was thinking it might be a little more to it than I thought. It did come back suspicious for infiltrating ductal carcinoma. It is the most common of all breast cancers. About 70 and 80 percent are this.”

Dent knows a whole lot about the medical field for having been in it for so long.

But she admits she didn’t know all that much about breast cancer.

“I had been a nurse for 42 years. I had worked for Baptist for 37 years in various capacities and in different hospitals. We have two nurse navigators here. The other is Allen Linton. She has 10 years here as a navigator. She is my mentor, but she is also my navigator.

“When my biopsy came back positive, I actually called her before I called my husband, because I wanted to be able to talk to her about it. I read all the time, but I knew very little then about breast cancer. Allen helped me navigate through the system as a patient. She didn’t assume that just because I was a nurse I would know the things I needed to know.”

Then it was time to proceed with whatever was

Nurse Navigator Wanda Barbour Dent at work in her office at Baptist Cancer Center in Oxford. ahead, and Dent wasn’t sure exactly what that was going to be.

“So I went to see a surgeon and they did a lumpectomy and biopsy, and it came back that I had two lesions,” she said. “One was ductal carcinoma in situ, which means it hadn’t broken through the duct, and the other was infiltrating ductal, which meant it had already broken through the duct.”

Certainly her life changed at that moment, but she moved forward as she does with any challenge and faced it head on. And she

also discovered what was likely a contributing factor in her case.

“I’ve been getting annual mammograms a long time.

I have no family history. I breast fed, which lowered my risk. I had a child before 30, which lowered my risk. I exercise. I’m at a healthy weight. Obesity is a factor for breast cancer.

“But what I did which put me at risk and was my own doing, I took hormone replacement therapy and took it longer than what was recommended. I begged for it. I took it for nine years. It’s not recommended over five.

That made me at higher risk.

I was taking oral hormone therapy when I went through menopause. I did not want all those terrible hot flashes and feeling bad and mood swings. I tried doing it naturally and I was just miserable. Those hormone replacement therapies were great. But when you stay on longer than what doctors recommend, which is about five years, you can be at a higher risk for breast cancer. They can’t say that absolutely did it, but I had estrogen receptor positive cancer, so taking hormones was just like feeding my cancer.”

The results from her test meant she had a great chance at beating the cancer.

“Mine came out great. I had one positive lymph node. They took out eight because I had that one positive lymph node. I did not have to take chemotherapy. I had a mastectomy and I followed that with radiation, one breast, just my right breast. The left breast was fine. I get a mammography on that every year and I’ll do my self-testing.”

Dent and her husband,

George, have four children and a grandson between them - Taneill, who has a son, 7-year-old Isaiah, that she adopted from inner city Jackson, Mississippi; Gray, Alex, and Elena.

Dent said that while cancer isn’t something anyone would want, having it gave her a different outlook on life.

“I’m not happy I had cancer,” said Dent, who celebrated her one-year anniversary from treatment this week.” But what came out of that for me is that I don’t want to waste a minute that is not productive or is not going to help other people. I want to walk. I want to ride my bike. I want to go see my parents. I want to play with my grandson, my children.

“Also as a nurse, I just want to do something that makes a real difference in my patients. Every morning I wake up and say ‘I am so thankful to be here. I am so excited about my job.’ I try to wake up with gratitude first. If I think ‘This is going to be a tough day,' then I say, ‘It may be tough but it’s going to be good.’ And that’s the way I live my life.”

Women, and men, need to be aware of breast cancer

BY JEFF ROBERSON OXFORD CITIZEN

There has been more awareness for the prevention of breast cancer the past several years, and that is a good thing, according to Wanda Barbour Dent, a nurse navigator for Baptist Cancer Center of Oxford. Those messages need to be out there, loud and clear.

“Nationally about four out of five biopsies are negative,” said Dent, herself a breast cancer survivor. “But it’s that fifth one where we can make the difference. (Med-

ical testing) can pick it up early long before the person can feel it.

That’s why it’s so important for patients to have the mammogram every year.”

Dent has been a nurse for 42 years, and 37 of those have been with the Baptist system, mainly in Columbus for 27 years and now in Oxford since 2004.

She said there is really no reason for people not to have breast examinations, even if they are not insured.

“It’s just heartbreaking that this one thing that can make such a

life-changing difference, yet everybody still doesn’t have access to,” she said.

So she goes about the process of making people aware that they can have testing, even if they do not have insurance.

“With the mammogram programs we have now for women, our dilemma comes when we see people without health insurance who don’t know about our free mammogram program,” she said.

“We hope to touch at least a thousand people here with our outreach programs in the month of

October.”

Dent loves her job, and she loves helping make people aware of the opportunities they have to basically keep their health – if only they will take the steps necessary to do so.

“I’ll be really busy this month, but I’m so excited,” she said, obviously overjoyed with the chance to help people know more about their opportunities. “The free mammogram program here is supported in large part by the generous donations of the Ole Miss Panhellenic Council. They raised

$44,000 last year. Yes, that’s right.

Those girls raised $44,000. I don’t know how much they raised this year, but it all goes to the program for our outreach for our uninsured and underinsured folks.

“We also get finds through the Susan G. Komen grant. This year they will give us close to $12,000. I think we can do about 30 mammograms with that. There are some restrictions that we can use that for. With the money from the girls at Ole Miss, we’ve already TURN TO CANCER PAGE 11

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Cancer FROM PAGE 10

done 100 of them.”

So how do people know if they qualify for a free mammogram?

"Call me. I do the screening,” Dent said. “I would love to talk to them. I will see if they qualify. We don’t do them without a physician’s order.” The phone number is 662-513-9609.

Dent’s job as a nurse navigator is multi-faceted.

“I see the breast cancer patients.

I see the ovarian cancer patients. I see any of the GYN cancers. That’s what I do. I navigate our patients.

“With breast cancer, anybody that comes through this area that has an abnormal mammogram, they come and get me, or if they have an abnormal ultrasound of the breast, they come and get me.

I meet with the patient and the radiologist who is reading the mammogram or the ultrasound. When he recommends a biopsy, then I bring the patient back in here. So we start even before cancer is diagnosed.”

Dent knows the importance of annual testing for breast cancer.

Hers was detected that way, and she understands the need for all women – and even men – to be

Nurse Navigator Allen Linton, Mammography Tech Tabitha Burk, Nurse Navigator Wanda Barbour Dent of Baptist Cancer Center of Oxford. aware of the disease.

“The two factors nobody can change is their age and their gender. You may have gender transformation, but you can’t change your genetic makeup.

“Men have breast cancer, too. If males see a lump in their breast or see nipple changes, they need to go to the physician right away and not put it off. Usually our male patients are more progressed, be-

cause they don’t have mammograms or regular checkups. I encourage men to be aware they can have breast cancer, too.”

Dent said the fact that she had cancer wasn’t the deciding factor in her wanting to work at Baptist Cancer Center.

“I had already been interested in coming to the cancer center before I was diagnosed," said Dent.

"After I was diagnosed, I knew this

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was where I wanted to be. After I had my radiation treatments, the position came open for this spot, and I applied. It took a while and they interviewed several people. I was so thankful they hired me. It is the most wonderful place to work.”

It’s a job that is extremely rewarding, according to Dent. It's also about the place, too.

“What I love about it is that our patients are always the center of everything we do. Sometimes in different healthcare settings it’s so hectic and we are extremely busy.

But our patients are the central focus here.

“If we have a patient here, we follow the same guidelines as M.D. Anderson or Sloan-Kettering. Now they may have some clinical trials that we don’t have, or they may see more of a certain type. But as far as the evidenced-based guidelines, we follow all the national guidelines."

As a nurse navigator, Dent says what she does is to try to help patients and their families deal with the process from the start.

“The navigators develop a rapport and relationship with our patients and their families,” she said.

“I try to be in the room for them and take notes for them. The information can be so overwhelming.

After the physician walks out, then

I talk to them and have them tell me what they understood from the conversation.

“I don’t always tell them immediately that I’ve been through (breast cancer surgery and recovery), because it’s about them and not about me. But whenever the appropriate time, and you can tell when that is, and we’re talking about something like biopsies, I can say, ‘I had one of these.’ I go through that with them when it’s appropriate.”

Dent is a motivational speaker who has presented talks all across the South. She has two topics she likes to speak on.

"One is 'Laughter is the best medicine.' The other is 'A happy heart is a healthy heart.' When people laugh and when people are really happy, they are healthier, and it’s been proven over and over.”

Wanda Barbour Dent knows every day she is in the place she needs to be, doing what she needs to be doing.

“When I got this job it was like I had been given a jewel,” she said.

“It’s busy and hectic, but when we’re with that patient, everything else stops. That patient and their family are the focus of everything.

How can they get the most out of every day? That’s the reason we’re here.”

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Sarah Lisi picks out a pumpkin at the Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church.

Anne Lisi picks out a pumpkin at the Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church.

Construction workers continue work on the new Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi Tourists ride the Double Decker bus down Lamar Boulevard on Friday. in Oxford.

Cash and Allie Greer help their grandparents put out Halloween decorations.

Tourists load onto the Double Decker bus for a tour of Oxford and the Ole Miss campus of Friday.

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Spacious 5 BR/3 bath home 3 miles from the square. Large kitchen Family room combo with fireplace. Living room features French doors leading to the expansive patio. Home also features a walled Attic area and 3 bedrooms upstairs. Pool membership available for an additional 325.00 HOA fee. $331,900.

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Bacchus

BRIEFING

That's 662-638-3800.

The website is eat@bacchussquare.com.

Open from Thursday through Monday for lunch and dinner, there is a Happy Hour each day from 2 to 6 p.m.

And the name? Certainly it has a New Orleans ring to it.

“My dad was one of the founding fathers of the Bacchus parade in New Orleans,” Nicaud said.

"We’re big New Orleans fans, and my dad’s from New Orleans. My brother went to Tulane and so did mom and dad. I'm a student at Ole Miss. We’re all big Ole Miss fans and have

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Foster care parents needed

Lafayette County-Oxford Public Library auditorium from 5 to 7 p.m.

For more information, Mississippi Children’s Home Services (MCHS) is please contact Alexis Shumaker at (662) 890-6906 in urgent need of foster care parents in the Oxford (office), (901) 483-6387 (cell), or alexis.shuarea.

Foster care parents pro- maker@mchscares.org. vide a safe, loving environment for children in Ingomar Mound need. MCHS offers foster Day hosts atlatl care parents 24 hour access to MCHS profescompetition sional counseling staff as well as initial and ongoIngomar Mound Day ing training, a well-dewill be Oct. 31, 10 a.m. to fined plan of care, 2 p.m. at the historic site, support groups, and per off Highway 15 near Ingodiem resources. In the mar, south of New Alevent a child cannot rebany. The event is hosted turn to their home and by the Union County Herthey become available for itage Museum. adoption, foster parents There will be stations often have the opportufor learning about games nity to adopt the child. and crafts of Native For individuals and Americans, along with families interested in historic weapons demonlearning more about fos- stration, flint knapping ter care at MCHS and the demonstration, object many different ways you identification, mound be a part of transforming tours and an 11:30 a.m. the lives of these children atlatl competition. Age diand youth, MCHS will visions include 9 and host an informational under, 10-15 and 16session on Monday at the adult.

The Atlatl is a spear thrower that was used during the era in which the Ingomar Mound site was constructed, about 2,200 years ago. Through the eons of prehistory, primitive peoples from all over the world developed this weapon for hunting animals The atlatl and dart was one of the first true weapons system, consisting of both a projectile and a launching device. Archaeologists say the atlatl was used during that the Woodland Period in which the Ingomar Mounds were built; the bow and arrow was later developed about 1500 to 2,000 years ago.

Today there is a resurging interest in atlatls for sport and hunting. There is even a World Atlatl Association with national and international competitions.

For more information call the museum at 662538-0014. The event is free and is made possible by the museum’s Community Partners.

also does some interior decorating. She decorates all our restaurants on the coast and has done that here. My brother and I let her do her thing, and she does a great job. My dad is CEO of Memorial Hospital in Gulfport.”

The interior of Bacchus on the Square has been updated in some areas since the last restaurant was located there.

“We changed the windows. We have these big windows now where there used to be smaller square windows,” Nicaud said.

“There is no stage there (inside the windows at the front). We took the awning off (the front of the building). We’ve got a sign coming in and stickers for the windows. We’ve been really pleased with how it’s all turned out.”

They aren’t taking reservations currently. “But call an hour ahead of the time you want to eat, and we can tell you how busy we are and if there’s a wait,” Nicaud said.

been a long time. My uncle, Lloyd Nicaud, went to school here. My brother and I are graduates of St. Stanislaus.”

It doesn’t get much more New Orleans or Gulf Coast than that. Nicaud is pleased his restaurant is up and running in Oxford.

“I had been wanting to open a restaurant. This place came open and I thought it was a good deal,” he said. “We’re getting things going, and we’re looking forward to where we’re headed. We want everyone to come by and give us a try. And I want them to let me know what they think.”

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The farm tour will focus running.

The self-adhesive, nonon response to 2011 storm damage, including salvage denominated semipostal stamp is sold in sheets of and reforestation on the 330 acres of destroyed tim- twenty 60-cent stamps. The remaining portion not asber.

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John Davis Sports Editor

Second half of 2015 season starts off with news, drama

f you thought the first half of the 2015 college football season was interesting and exciting, strap in, because the second half looks like it will be even better. Monday was a busy day in the SEC as South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier announced he was calling it career. The Gamcocks now have a new, interim coach and things in the SEC just don’t seem as interesting without the Ol’ Ball Coach around.

If the news of Spurrier calling it quits wasn't big enough from an SEC standpoint, Ole Miss announced that there was closure involving the Laremy Tunsil case with the NCAA Monday night. The junior offensive tackle, who is expected to be taken in the top five picks of the 2016 NFL Draft, won't play against Memphis, but he will be on the field when the No. 13 Rebels host No. 9 Texas A&M on Oct. 24.

CBS issued a “six day window” for that game which means they will broadcast the game if the Aggies and Rebels both win this weekend. With Tunsil back on the field, and him being able to matchup against arguably the best pass rusher in the nation in A&M's Myles Garrett, it's hard to believe that game won't be kicking off at 2:30 next Saturday afternoon. Still, a win by the Rebels over Memphis in the Liberty Bowl this Saturday and win by the Aggies over No. 10 Alabama will cement things. Ole Miss may even host ESPN's College Gameday for the second time in two years if everything works out just right.

Tunsil and Spurrier were the only headliners in the SEC Monday. Florida quarterback Will Grier was suspended for the next year by the NCAA after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.

Every Ole Miss fan knows that Grier led the Gators past the Rebels two weekends ago, just days after a bout with the flu. It's obvious that whatever he took to help him play against Ole Miss was the substance that got him in trouble.

Florida is appealing the decision, but it won't be to determine Grier's status for the rest of the season, only the start of the 2016 campaign. Grier had tears in his eyes, and

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Ole Miss defeated Memphis last season with a smothering defense. The Tigers are much improved on offense in 2015, and the meeting in the Liberty Bowl Saturday could end up being a shootout.

Tremendous buzz fuels Memphis-Ole Miss meeting

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Memphis football coach Justin Fuente was asked about the line during his press conference at the Penny Hardaway Hall of Fame Monday morning. He wasn't sure how to respond to the question other than to ask 'what's the line?' The Rebels were favored by 10.5 points over the Tigers at the time, but that wasn't the line he was being asked about.

Additional student tickets were put on sale by Memphis, and the response generated great interest. It's not every year that the Tigers host the Rebels at the Liberty Bowl, and it's the first time that the Tigers are doing so as a ranked team. The “line” in this case was about the interest shown from the fans for Saturday's game, and Fuente, after figuring things out, generated a great laugh from reporters.

“It was really neat to see the kids out there and their excitement for the game,”

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Radio: WQLJ-FM 93.7 TV: ABC Series: Ole Miss leads 4810-2 Fuente said. “Just talking to some of them, some of them spent the night. Some of them had been there since the wee hours of the morning. Selfishly, it was really fun to go and be around them for 10 to 15 minutes. When you take over a program and you get to enjoy those 10 to 15 minutes, with where we were three years ago, it's a cool moment.”

There is enormous buzz surrounding the latest in-

stallment between the Rebels (5-1 overall) and Tigers (5-0). The game is on national TV, and the Liberty Bowl will be filled to the brim, rather than just by 25 to 30,000 fans. But unlike other meetings with the Tigers, it's clear that the color red will not dominate as in seasons past.

“I sure hope our people show up. I’m not sure how the tickets work out. I stay in my lane; I don’t get into all that,” Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze said. “But I hope every Rebel fan that can get a ticket to this game can because we need them there. For it to not totally feel like a road game would be great for us, so I sure hope all of our people show up. I know we have great fans and great support.

I look forward to seeing a lot of those guys in the stands on Saturday.”

Memphis' players were excited about the matchup with the Rebels, but they didn't offer any bulletin board material. The game was important, but not like it is to

the fans of the Tigers, who seem to be putting much more emphasis on the game.

“I think the way things are going for us, for both teams, has made the game better, more interesting. It's become a lot bigger game, a great opportunity for both teams,” said Memphis linebacker Wynton McManis. “They have good players, we have good players. We're going up against a very good team.

They're going to put their players in the right place to make plays and Chad Kelly is going to make plays. We have to be ready to stop that.

We're going to make plays, also.”

The Tigers didn't play last week, so they had extra time to prepare for the Rebels.

McManis, who leads Memphis with 26 tackles, said it was a big benefit to have a bye week.

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Friday Night Previews: Week 9 Red-hot Chargers have crushed 1-5A teams

just haven't been putting points on the board.”

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Another week in Division 1-5A play produced another through win for the Oxford Chargers. Lewisburg's Patriots turned out to be no match as the Chargers (5-2 overall) rolled to another one-sided win. It was the third straight game Oxford scored 50 or more points in 1-5A play.

“Offensively, we jumped out real well on them and defensively, we let them drive the ball a little bit on us but they didn't score,” OHS coach Johnny Hill said. “I thought our defense did really, really well. We got a lot playing time by a lot of different people, which is always good. It gave us a chance to heal up. A total of seven kids didn't play and then we had another seven kids that we played sparingly. It was a good game plan and right on the money.”

Outside of a few kickoffs gaining more yardage than Hill likes, the win was rated highly.

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sively, I thought it was a complete football game. I think we're getting better and that's a good thing.”

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Oxford's defense had another great performance against Lewisburg. Coach johnny Hill was pleased with their effort, as well as how the offense fared in the 56-21 win.

Charger to gain at least 100 yards on the ground since former starter Drew Bianco was put on the shelf from an injury standpoint. The week prior, Hiram Wadlington had 161 yards against Saltillo.

“Patton has great speed.

ONE-TWO PUNCH Josh Patton rushed for He looked like someone over 100 yards in the vic- shot him out of a cannon tory. He was the second the other night. He's like a

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his voice cracked, as he apologized to Gator Nation.

“I took an over-thecounter supplement that had something in it," Grier said. “I did not check with the medical staff before taking it. I hope that people can learn from this, learn from my mistake.

I'm really sorry to everyone, just really sorry.”

So as Tunsil gets set to play his first game, Grier's season is done. Both cases are different yet similar in the fact that both players did something they could have avoided. In Tunsil's case, according to the release from Ole Miss, he received impermissible benefits. Free cars, free lodging, an interest free

loan. And he wasn't honest about it all until after the investigation really started to cook. Like Grier, Tunsil said he was sorry for what he had done. He apologized to his teammates, his coaches and all of the fans for his decisions.

“This was a learning experience, and I'm looking forward to being back on the field with my team and redeeming myself,” Tunsil said in the statement. “The last 10 months have been a physical and mental battle for me, but I love playing this game more than anything else. I want to be here for my teammates who are depending on me to finish what we started together.”

Tunsil is fresh, and now he will get a chance to showcase his incredible talent in college for five more regular season

dart out there,” Hill said.

“He gives us a good onetwo punch with Hiram back there. Tias Hilliard also looked good running the ball. We moved him to defense this year because we had to have him there, but he's a good one to have if I need him at tailback because he's played the position before. He

picked it right up again and looked good doing it.”

Hill added that the offensive line did a great job of opening up holes for all the backs.

“I think our line played extremely well and I think (quarterback) Jack (Abraham) was exceptional again. He was like 15 out of 18,” Hill said. “Offen-

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The NCAA ruled that Ole Miss offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil, left, can return to the field against Texas A&M on Oct. 24. games. And in a bowl game, wherever that may be. Ole Miss is a much better offensive line with Tunsil able to play. The Rebels are a much better team as well with Tunsil able to dress, and play, rather than just show support from the

sidelines.

Ole Miss is about to start a tough six-game stretch.

The second half will be much tougher than the first half. Arkansas and Auburn may not be in the rankings any longer, but both are far from

New Hope is Friday's opponent, and the Trojans are young overall. They are just 1-6 and coming off a 35-24 loss to Lake Cormorant. Hill said that whenever his Chargers meet the Trojans, they never seem to play as well as he would like.

“For some reason, we usually don't play well against New Hope and that worries me,” Hill said. “I hope we get after them early and often and put the game away. They run the spread offense and the quarterback. They throw a lot of screens and defensively, I think they're not bad. They pushovers. The Rebels will have to play well to earn wins the final six weeks in order to stay among the among elite in college football. Senior Mike Hilton gave the team a “B plus” on the results of the first half. That's an agreeable grade since the Rebels lost a game to a very solid Florida team. On the road.

The Gators appeared to be on the verge of greatness after beating Ole Miss and then topping Missouri last week, but without Grier leading the offense, the second half is shaping up to be much more rocky.

Great teams find a way to overcome adversity. The Rebels found a way to win games without Tunsil, and others, in the lineup. They were far from perfect, but they're still alive. They still have a chance, and as the roster gets healthier,

A week ago, Abraham and wide receiver DK Metcalf were selected to play in the annual Mississippi-Alabama All-Star game. Offensive lineman Will Swindoll was picked to play in the annual Bernard Blackwell AllStar game.

Abraham and Metcalf will join a trio from Lafayette, Quin Jones, Tyrell Price and Eli Johnson, on the roster.

“There have been a number of times that I thought I had kids that needed to be on that team and they didn't even look at them,” Hill said.

“To have five out of this county is pretty spectacular.

You don't see that very often. I think it's credit to the Chargers and the Commodores and where our football programs are.”

Abraham is having another sensational year as he enters Friday's game with 2,087 yards and 22 touchdowns. He has completed 61.5 percent of his passes.

Metcalf, meanwhile, has 34 catches for 518 yards and seven touchdowns.

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maybe they can be the surprise of the second half just like the Gators were the surprise of the first half. Florida may end up finding a way to pull out wins without Grier. The Gators are very stout on defense. And head coach Jim McElwain has done a tremendous job of keeping his team focused. The second half of the season, however, will be tougher than the first half for the Gators, who travel to play at No. 6 LSU on Saturday night. It was going to be no easy task with Grier calling the plays. And it will be much tougher without him. So here's to the second half and whatever it brings. Just remember to get your popcorn ready.

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Friday Night Previews: Week 9 Commodores host Bulldogs for homecoming

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

It was hard for Lafayette coach Eric Robertson to find any fault with the way his Commodores played in their most recent win. Outside of some missed tackles, and a few missed opportunities overall on offense, the Commodores were very good against the TunicaRosa Fort Lions in Week 8.

A 30-7 win, on the road, in the rain, and over a team that had been undefeated, has a way of making any coach feel good.

“Going to Tunica is always a tough place to play with the kind of athletes they have. The atmosphere and the rain that came in kind of changes the mood so to speak,” Robertson said. “I thought we played really well on film despite missing a few opportunities here and there. We ran the football in a game where the ball was wet. They had nine in

the box and we got stronger as the game went on. I thought defensively we came out in the second half and played extremely well.

We scored twice on special teams with the safety and the scoop and score on the punt return. I thought we played well in all three areas against a good football team.”

Lafayette (7-1 overall) has a chance to wrap up a playoff spot Friday night with a win over New Albany.

Robertson didn't want to look that far ahead, but he did admit that the game was a lot bigger now that the Commodores had a win over the Lions.

“We don't talk about that, we just about it being a division game and that it's the most important game of the season because it's the next one,” Robertson said. “In order for us to win the region, we have to win this game Friday night. Every team has goals and one of

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ours is to win the region championship. That's the first step. If we are able to win this ballgame, it makes the next step that much more important.”

The focus this week, Robertson said, was to be the best Lafayette team to hit the field this season.

Some of the things he would like to see corrected were fewer missed tackles and a little more aggressive play in the secondary.

New Albany (4-4, 1-1 in 24A play) is coached by Jake

SPORTS IN DEPTH LAST FRIDAY'S RESULTS Lafayette 30, Tunica-Rosa Fort 7 Lafayette 16 0 7 7 – 30 Tunica-Rosa Fort 7 00 0–7 First Quarter LAF – Safety, 10:05.

LAF – Tyrell Price 5 run (Robbie Langley kick), 7:04.

TUN – Kevin Perkins 2 run (Perkins kick), 3:15.

LAF – Quin Jones 17 fumble return (Langley kick), 1:16 Third Quarter LAF – Price 61 run (Langley kick), 7:18 Fourth Quarter LAF – Price 5 run (Langley kick), 1:53.

Records: Lafayette 7-1, 2-0; Tunica 6-1, 1-1.

Oxford 56, Lewisburg 21 Oxford 28 7 14 7 - 56 Lewisburg 0 14 7 0 - 21 First Quarter OXF - Josh Patton 1 run (Liam Cooper kick), 10:19 OXF - Jimmy Greaser 47 pass from Jack Abraham (Connell Yoste kick), 6:54 OXF - DK Metcalf 19 pass from Abraham (Cooper kick), 2:25 OXF - DQ Thomas 60 interception return (Yoste kick), 0:57 Second Quarter OXF - Colton Skidmore 1 run (Cooper kick), 8:15 LWS - Ben Hoffman 2 run (Michael Roberts kick), 3:07 LWS - Jake Harville 15 pass from Bryce Brock (Roberts kick), 0:20 Third Quarter OXF - Ken Presley 39 pass from Abraham (Yoste kick), 11:33 LWS - Harville 40 run (Roberts kick), 8:48 OXF - Tias Hillard 34 run (Cooper kick), 6:54 Fourth Quarter OXF - Patton 10 run (Gray Jenkins kick), 11:24 Records: Oxford 5-2, 3-0; Lewisburg 2-6, 0-3.

REGION 1-5A STANDINGS Overall

Region

W L W Oxford 5 2 3 Lake Cormorant 5 2 3 Center Hill 4 3 2 West Point 5 2 2 Clarksdale 5 3 2 Lewisburg 2 6 0 New Hope 1 5 0 Saltillo 0 8 0 Week 9 Games Oxford at New Hope, 7 p.m. (95.5 FM) Lake Cormorant at West Point Lewisburg at Clarksdale Center Hill at Saltillo Week 8 Results Oxford 56, Lewisburg 21 West Point 54, Center Hill 13 Lake Cormorant 35, New Hope 13 Clarksdale 26, Saltillo 10

L 0 0 1 1 1 3 2 3

REGION 2-4A Overall W L 7 1 6 1 6 1 5 3 2 5 2 5

Region W L 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 2

Lafayette Senatobia Rosa Fort New Albany Byhalia Ripley Week 9 games New Albany at Lafayette, 7 p.m. (93.7 FM) Riply at Rosa Fort Senatobia at Byhalia Week 8 Results Lafayette 30, Tunica-Rosa Fort 7 Senatobia 39, Ripley 0 New Albany 44, Byhalia 27 Week 7 Results Lafayette 45, Ripley 14 Senatobia 47, New Albany 0 Tunica-Rosa Fort 38, Byhalia 0

OPC FLAG FOOTBALL SCORES Tuesday's Results 6-7 LEAGUE Cowboys 12, Texans 0 Scoring: Cowboys – Fisher Giles 2 touchdowns

Offense: Cowboys – Whitten Ellis. Texans – Cooper Williams.

Defense: Cowboys – Fisher Giles. Texans – Avson McCormick.

Game Hustle: Cowboys – Cade Ferguson. Texans – Kameron Gaies.

Oilers 26, 49ers 20 Scoring: Oilers – Tripp Sudduth 2 touchdowns.

Harrison Luke, Russell Moore. 49Ers – Only number provided.

Offense: Oilers – Russell Moore. 49ers – Lawson Fortner.

Defense: Oilers – No infromation provided.

49Ers – Kayleb Hilliard.

Game Hustle: Oilers – Simeon Maiden. 49Ers – Evan Urbanek.

10-12 LEAGUE Panthers 14, Ravens 13 Scoring: Panthers – Philip Neilson, Sam Ray. Ravens – John Dennis, James Dennis.

Offense: Panthers – Miles Luber. Ravens – John Dennis Defense: Panthers – Jake Roberts. Ravens – Gray Grant.

Game Hustle: Panthers – Davis O'Dowd. Ravens – Ross Shows.

Saints 30, Dolphins 6 Scoring: No information reported for either team.

Offense: Saints – Britt Robertson. Dolphins – Joshua Wadley.

Defense: Saints – Forrest Rowe. Dolphins – Davis Warrington.

Game Hustle: Saints – Blake Sanders. Dolphins – Caiden Cox. Cowboys 19, Jets 6 Scoring: Cowboys – Donovan Childress, Davis Peterson, Rowan Gordon. Jets — No information provided.

Offense: Cowboys – Donovan Childress. Jets – Carson Schmelzer.

Defense: Cowboys – Lucian Giles. Jets – Luke Newsome Game Hustle: Cowboys – Wilder Anderson. Jets – Slayden Mo.oneyham.

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Lafayette quarterback Will Ard and the Commodores host New Albany Friday night. A win for LHS secures a spot in the Class 4A playoffs.

Hill, the son of Oxford head coach Johnny Hill. Robertson said the Bulldogs were a much improved team, and he gave credit to Jake Hill for the turnaround.

“They have a good quarterback, a left-handed kid who throws the ball well,” Robertson said. “I see some

similarities (to Oxford).

He's going to want to onside kick it a lot. The way they go after punts, is similar. A lot of the alignment stuff is the same as Oxford, and it should be. He was part of a successful program at Oxford and he would be smart to put as

much as that scheme in that he can based on the type of athletes that he has.

I think Jake's done a good job of that. We have to be ready to play, and I think we will be.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

Forfeit twist adds intrique to matchup with No.3 Rangers, No.6 Lions

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

A matchup between two teams ranked in the top 10 of the NJCAA football ranks just became more interesting following a decision that was upheld MACJC Athletic Council.

When the the No. 4 Northwest Mississippi Community College Rangers travel to Scooba to play the No. 8 EMCC Lions Thursday night, they now have a chance to end the longest winning streak in the history of junior college football.

The Lions' winning streak is still alive after Co-Lin, the team that defeated the Lions in Week 2 of the schedule, had to forfeit the 31-24 victory. The Wolves dressed a player that was ruled ineligible by Jim Southward, the MACJC Director of Athletic Activities.

Southward was the one who spotted the irregularity through his annual eligibility check list. Co-Lin was alerted about the player's status, and he didn't play past the second week. Co-Lin filed an appeal of

Southward's decision. The athletics council that helps rule in MACJC matters upheld the original decision in a meeting on Friday.

While some rules differ between MACJC and the NJCAA, Southward made it clear that compliance on eligible players are the same, and that sanctions call for the games to be forfeited. Co-Lin is currently in the process of sending an official letter to EMCC athletic officials, as well as one to ICC, the team Co-Lin defeated 26-14 in the 2015 season opener. At the time of the meeting, the Wolves were ranked No. 7 in the nation. ICC is currently 4-3 overall, and 3-2 in the MACJC North Division.

The letters will make the return of wins official, giving the Lions the longest winning streak, currently at 32 games, in the nation. At the time of the meeting with the Wolves, EMCC was set to tie the record at 26.

EMCC won the last five games after the meeting with Co-Lin and currently sit tied with undefeated Rangers (7-0) at the top of the MACJC North Division.

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Shaw, Odum make Friday nights a family affair

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

When it comes to supporting the Lafayette Commodores on the football field each Friday night, it's a family affair for Bailey Odum and Emily Shaw. The seniors are second cousins, but the are more like first cousins or even sisters. There are times where they finish each other's sentences.

About the only true difference is Odum has blonde hair, while Shaw is just a shade darker up top.

What the duo have done is provide great stability for a veteran team. They are vital members of the squad, and enjoying every minute they have together.

Odum has cheered the past two years on the varsity team, and two years with the middle school team.

“It's been good, and really fun. It's stressful sometimes, but it's really fun.

And I like away games,” Odum said talking about the 2015 season up through the Tunica-Rosa Fort contest. “I like away games because we all get pepped up on the bus and have a good time.”

Odum is a flyer, and what she does best is stunting. The All-American cheer that the team learned at camp was a favorite one for Odum.

“We're taught cheers by the other seniors,” Odum said, who added she likes helping to make banners

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Lafayette seniors Bailey Odum and Emily Shaw are second cousins who have enjoyed spending time with each other as they cheer on the Commodores. each week. “We all have certain roles on the team.

And I like that I don't have to carry the flag because it's heavy.”

This is the first season for Shaw on the varsity team. She last cheered in middle school, and came back out this fall because she finally had time again.

“It was so stressful the other years and I wanted to be with Bailey and all my other good friends for my senior year,” Shaw said. “They all encouraged me to try out this year. I was a little nervous, but I was confident about it. I love it, and being with my friends on Friday night.

The bus rides are awesome. They're wild. I love away games.”

Shaw's decision to return to the cheering has benefited Lafayette, according to Odum, adding that her cousin can do “everything” well.

“I wish I had done this my whole career,” Shaw said.

Even though the Commodores lost to Oxford, that was the favorite game of the girls up to this point of the season.

“We had a great student section,” Odum added.

“The red paint was pretty cool.”

“We knew that they were going to do that, but the students didn't know,” Shaw added about the paint that was used to color the Lafayette students that night at William

L. Buford Stadium. “We were trying to keep it a secret.”

Center Drew Tapp dates Shaw, who wears his number on her face each game. Last week was a tough one for Tapp as his step father passed away. Shaw said Tapp, a junior, was given the choice of playing, or not, against Rosa Fort.

Tapp was there from the start to finish, just like she knew he would be.

“He is really dedicated to football,” she said. “No matter what's going on, he's going to play.”

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Watch for Odum and Shaw this Friday night as the Commodores host New Albany for homecoming. Kickoff is set for 7. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Balancing Act Oxford's Sarah Nash keeps everything straight

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Sarah Nash always looks like she has everything in control. The Oxford High senior is not only a very successful tennis player, she's a starter on defense for the soccer team. She also plays alto saxophone in the marching band. She is also a fantastic student in the classroom. None of it is easy, however. Her schedule manages to come together because of hard work.

“I have to study a lot, especially in English and History. I'm not very good at memorizing stuff,” said Nash, who has a 3.82 GPA. “Whenever I have to memorize stuff, I have to make flash cards.

That's the best way for me to memorize.”

Anything that will help secure a favorable test grade is fine with Sarah Nash. Her mother, Rose, and father, Louis, are both teachers in the school district. Of course Louis Nash is her coach in tennis. In short, there is no way she can hide a report card because her parents know everything that is going on.

“If I don't get good grades, I'm going to be in trouble,” she said with a nervous laugh. “If I acted bad in school, I would get in trouble. Remember when they gave you red and green dots in first grade? I might have done something bad, but I can't remember.”

This is the sixth in a series of stories on athletes from both Oxford and Lafayette.

Louis Nash said his daughter took ownership of her grades four and five years ago and developed her own set of criteria on what is important and what isn't as much.

“She keeps up with it. She takes care of it and she balances her time and schedule,” he said. “She decides when she has to do certain things. When it's practice time and when it's time to study et cetera.

I'm sure she learned most of her organizational skills from her mom. Growing up with teachers, you get to see and hear a lot about kids being organized or disorganized and what makes kids successful. I thin Sarah kind of listened and got tidbits from all of it and she decided what kind of student she wanted to be.”

Math is a favorite subject of Sarah Nash, who is currently taking Calculus. Her goal is to be a pediatric nurse, which means she will be focusing in on science when she gets into college. Nash has already been accepted at Delta

State University, and she has applied to Ole Miss.

“I would like to go to Ole Miss since I've been around it and I know the campus. It's a little bit new, but not extremely new. And I've always wanted to be in the band,” she said. “I've been playing in the band since the sixth grade.

I've been first chair all four years of high school.”

There are times when Sarah Nash gets tired. She practices soccer eighth period, and then she is off to band from 4 to 7 each night.

Early soccer matches and the band don't always correlate from a schedule standpoint.

“I am thankful for good band directors and good coaches and that they are able to work around my schedules with me,” Sarah Nash said adding that soccer is the sport she has improved in the most.

“You got to be aggressive when you're playing defense. If the ball gets by you, there's not another line of people, just the goalie.

You're basically the last string. I like the competition and I've been playing with all the other seniors for a while. I like the family dynamic. This year the seniors and juniors have little sisters and we do fun stuff with them.”

When it comes to playing tennis, Sarah Nash has been a part of several state champion teams. As talented as the Chargers have been from a roster

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Oxford senior Sarah Nash balances a 3.8 grade point average and three activities, tennis, soccer and band. standpoint, the team is trained very hard.

“She knows that practice is very important to me as an athletic coach and she knows that doing her school work and paying attention in class is much like paying attention in practice,” Louis Nash said. “Athletics and academics aren't apart. When you're teaching tennis or football, you're still teaching. I think the thing that helps her in the diversity in her life.

Band is just as intense as any sport as far as the amount of time you

have to practice. You throw band in there with tennis and soccer and you throw all of that in together with a full class schedule, and you have a lot on your plate. What she's done, to keep her gpa up, is pretty neat to me, being her father. And being her coach is just icing on the cake. That's just the fun part because it's been a blessing to coach both of my kids and an even bigger blessing that they are good at what they do.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

Rebels' Bramlett truly balancing his time as student-athlete This week's Q & A is with Ole Miss baseball pitcher Brady Bramlett, who has been busy with fall baseball practice and traveling to fulfill his role with the NCAA. Bramlett was also an escort last week during homecoming, and he sang the national anthem during the Vanderbilt game.

JOHN DAVIS: How has the leadership role with the NCAA been?

BRADY BRAMLETT: It's been terrific. I love doing what we do. I've really found a passion in my life. I found out what I want to do in the future and that's to be an

athletics director some day.

Especially recently, the big spotlight has been the student-athlete voice. It's been huge for our committee, we've been given the voice.

Now it's time for us to use it appropriately so that others can hear not necessarily what are needs are, but what are priorities are moving forward with our association.

ority is to have the institute of higher education understand that we wouldn't be here if if wasn't for our sport, and to recognize that by having more forms of scholarships for student-athletes.

Whether that be cost of attendance, which has now gone through, or whether that be just more scholarships in general for sports like baseball. If you look at your baseball roster, the majority of that team is going to be walk-on student athletes just because of the way the scholarships are formatted.

There is no way to make sure that each player is equally distributed scholarships.

ball scholarship relationship? Do you even try to wrap your head around it, or actually say it's not fair and wish it would change?

BRAMLETT: It's necessarily the idea of it being fair or not fair. It's been this way for so long that it's hard for people to wrap their head around moving to a new structure of scholarships in sports.

That's one push with us as student-athletes and people within athletics, we're trying to get that push to reconstruct scholarships in general.

DAVIS: And what are the priorities? I'm sure you are looking to get the cost of a scholarship paid for, especially for a baseball player who only has a portion of a DAVIS: How many times scholarship. have you traveled up to InBRAMLETT: We're not necessarily looking for a salary dianapolis to take part in because we are student-athNCAA work?

DAVIS: How do you look at letes, with the first word of that being student. Our pri- the actual baseball to foot- TURN TO BRAMLETT PAGE 25

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Ole Miss pitcher Brady Bramlett has been very busy this fall, balancing baseball and his leadership time with the NCAA.

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GAME 1 Ole Miss vs. Memphis

GAME 2 Louisiana Tech vs. Miss. State

GAME 3 Auburn vs. Kentucky

GAME 4 UCLA vs. Stanford

GAME 5 Iowa vs. Northwestern

GAME 6 Michigan State vs. Michigan

GAME 7 Alabama vs. Texas A&M

GAME 8 Florida vs. LSU

GAME 9 Missouri vs. Georgia

GAME 10 USC vs. Notre Dame

MIDDLE SCHOOL FOOTBALL ROUNDUP 'Dores-Chargers wrap up 2015 slate

day night.

The eighth-grade Chargers defeated Lafayette 27-6 in the Lafayette and Oxford wrapped nightcap to end the season with a perfect overall record. Coach up its middle school football Perry Swindall praised the slate with a doubleheader at William L. Buford Stadium Tues- team's accomplishments, adding they were very talented day night. The seventh-grade and possessed a great attitude.

Commodores defeated the Lafayette only lost two games all Chargers 16-0 to finish the year season, and both were to the 7-1. The win avenged a 42-16 loss to Oxford earlier in the sea- Chargers.

In the seventh-grade contest, son. Lafayette committed five turnovers in that loss. The Com- Creek Robertson got the Commodores on the board with a 9modores didn't have any Tues-

yard pass to Benton Linzy. CJ Brassell added the 2-point conversion run. Brassell later scored on a 51-yard run and then tacked on the final 2-point play.

Both touchdowns came in the second half for the Commodores. Robertson also had an interception, and coach Jimmy Murphrey credited the play of the entire secondary, including Brendan Toles.

“It ended up being a good learning season for the seventh grade, and the eighth grade for

that matter,” he said. “They learned a whole new offense and by the end of the year, they were running it well.” The seventh-grade Chargers finished the year 4-3 overall. Coach Mike Hardwick gave credit to the Commodores, saying they were the more physical and aggressive team.

“They deserved the victory,” Hardwick said. “I thought that when we had a chance to score early in the game and got stopped on downs on the 4-yard

line, it would have given us some momentum, and we also turned it over on downs inside their 20 yard line also early in the third quarter. It began to feel like whoever made the big play was going to win the game, and we had our chances to score and we were not able to score when we had the opportunity.”

Hardwick praised the play of Kywuan Phillips at running back and linebacker. Kendrick Blackmon and Connor Bradley also played well.

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BRAMLETT: The past three weeks I was there on Monday, Tuesday and came back and then went back Monday and Tuesday and then went back on a Friday. I went up for committee meetings. The first week I was there was for the minority opportunities and interests committee. The focus of that group is making sure that minorities in athletics are being represented equally and proportionally within the administration, coaches and just campus in general. Even officials and people that work during games. The next week was for the strategic vision and planning committee which is the sub committee of the Division I council. The Division I council is the legislative aspect of the Division I of the NCAA. Committees create legislation that then goes through the council to be approved. Once it goes through the council to be approved, it goes through the board of governors to then become approved NCAA legislation. Our com-

mittee is kind of the crystal ball of the Division I association. We review proposals and then also kind of look ahead to see what are going to be the issues and the obstacles that we're going to deal with later on in Division I athletics. The other group is the national student-athlete advisory committee which this past week, we went through all the proposals to see the implications that it's going to have on student-athletes and how it's going to affect our voice and our experience in collegiate athletics.

DAVIS: And with all that going on, you found time to sing the national anthem. I know you didn't just wake up and say I'm going to sing the national anthem. Obviously music is part of your life.

BRAMLETT: I am a music minor. That's part of my degree and I study private voice with Dr. Bradley Robinson. He is the director of voice for Ole Miss. Our director of opera, Julie Aubrey, said the athletics department has always been trying to get an athlete to sing at a football game for a while.

There has never been anyone in music that could actually do it. I approached her one day and I asked if there was a chance I could sing the anthem at a football game. She said perfect, let's do this. She and I worked on it and it was good to go and it happened for the Vandy game.

DAVIS: How did you think that you did?

BRAMLETT: I felt good about it. The hardest thing were the acoustics and the feedback. It was almost a two second delay from what I was singing to what I would hear from the speakers coming back to me. It was an incredible experience. Honestly, I'm more nervous to sing at a baseball game than I was to sing at the football game. I think that's because baseball is closer, more personal.

DAVIS: How did the crowd feel to you?

Bramlett: It was great. A lot of people shook my hand afterwards and told me I did a great job. I actually got an e-mail the next week from a veteran. He said it brought a tear to his eye and he loved

that I kept it traditional and to see them making their sport in our program so did it the way I did it. early.

DAVIS: What about the DAVIS: What does Coach Bianco say about everything pitchers? You're the guy and that you do? Does he ever going to have to be because say that you're amazing? of your experience. Who else BRAMLETT: He's told me do you see? Is (Sean) Johnbefore that he's really proud son back and healthy?

BRAMLETT: Sean has of me, especially after last year, it being my first year to completed his rehab play coming off my injury. bullpen. The pens I've Also being involved in music seen him throw, he looks and all that I am, he said he great. Chad Smith is anwas proud of me and where other name that's been I've come from and who I've thrown that is going to be become through the pro- another guy for us. Even gram. It makes me feel good the young guys, honestly, because I look up to Coach we have such a slew of B. He's an incredible coach strong arms. I feel comand an incredible person to fortable with putting anydo what he does. body out there on the mound, even this early on DAVIS: How has baseball in the fall, knowing that gone this fall? they're going to be sucBRAMLETT: Our team cessful. looks awesome. Our hitters DAVIS: How do you feel look the best I've ever seen them look in fall ball. All I personally? How much bethave to do is just carry a ter are you at this time comsmall percentage of what pared to last year? they're doing this fall into BRAMLETT: I've always the spring and we're going known what I can do. Coach to be just very successful just B always knew what I could seeing what the hitters are do, and now I've shown it. doing. We look great. The tal- For me, this fall has been to ent is there, the work ethic is get my body right and to get there. The younger guys are my strength up. And then to working hard, and it's great just really work on pitching.

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Last year, I was just so focused on staying healthy and to just be on the staff and to pitch. Coming off that injury to my shoulder, I was focused on staying healthy. This year, I'm focused on getting my body right and being that guy on the staff to lead us, to win ballgames and to get back to Omaha. It's something that we know and our coaches know we can do and hopefully all of the players in our program know that we can do.

DAVIS: How tough was it not be better in the postseason? You went 0-2 out in Los Angeles. As the summer went along, was it tough to know teams like Florida were still playing.

BRAMLETT: It is tough. It's tough to know that we were so good and that 100 percent could be us. But it's also fuel for the fire for this coming up year knowing that one, we don't want to be in that position again. We want to keep going. We're going to use that to push us to be better.

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