THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Volume 105, No. 73
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Art, wine and double decker buses
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Acoustics center celebrates leader’s retirement SLADE RAND
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PHOTO BY: DEJA SAMUELS
tudents and locals gathered Tuesday for the first Yoknapatawpha Art Crawl of the semester. The art crawl carts participants to several galleries and venues via Ox-
ford’s iconic red double decker bus. Wine and snacks are served at the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. Exhibits at this art crawl included “Dunhuang through the Lens of James and Lucy
Lo” at the University of Mississippi Museum, and Jill Foote-Hutton, “Picture This” at Gallery 130 in the art department, among others.
After more than 20 years as a Rebel, Sara Brown celebrated her retirement Tuesday afternoon at the University’s National Center for Physical Acoustics. As 2 o’clock rolled around, scientists and graduate students at the NCPA took a break from their projects and headed to the building’s lobby where a double chocolate cake reading “Happy Retirement Sara” waited for them. “Working with all these guys over the years I’ve learned one thing,” Brown said. “They all like sweets.” Brown first stepped on campus in fall 1995 as a biology graduate student. Since then she’s earned two master’s degrees in the subject (one from Ole Miss, one from Southern Mississippi) and a Ph.D. in higher educational leadership. She said these two degrees came together when she joined the NCPA in 2001. “Within ‘sustainability’, I was interested in the sustainability of being able to do research, acoustic for example, that uses alternative energy forms as a way of doing work itself,” Brown said.
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Law students host drive for victims of tornadoes LYNDY BERRYHILL
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A group of law school students are collecting disaster relief items for residents impacted by the tornado in the Hattiesburg area last Saturday. The tornado left four dead and reduced hundreds of homes to rubble. Gregory Alston, Hattiesburg native and Ole Miss Law School Student Body president, traveled to his hometown to help clean up the aftermath. “There’s some people down there that really need
some help,” Alston said. Alston said trees and shredded building material filled yards and streets that had to be cleaned up. That was when he decided to have an outlet for other university students to help. “I just thought that it would be great for all of the law student body to help out during this devastating loss,” Alston said. Although the donation drop off is in the Robert C. Khayat Law building, Alston said donors are not limited to just law school students. “We’re collecting a wide range of things such as personal hygiene items,
but also cleaning supplies, blankets and clothing,” Alston said. The drop-off location is in the law school building’s atrium, which is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with no advance notice necessary. Alston said he plans to take the donations to Hattiesburg after next Friday, but is also considering taking more donations at a later date. “We may keep it going longer,” Alston said. Hattiesburg resident COURTESY: JENNIFER LOTT
A tornado ripped through Hattiesburg Saturday night leaving four dead and SEE STORMS PAGE 3 many without homes.