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Volume 95 Issue 6
GREEK LIFE
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From left to right, USM juniors Morgan Barnes, Taylor Thompkins and senior Alyssa Walter listen to freshman introductions on Bid Day at the end of Pi Beta Phi’s recruitment week.
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USM cracks down on IDs Earvin Hopkins Printz Writer
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Students must now validate their student IDs before gaining free entry to USM home football games. “Scanning for baseball ID cards, we noticed one out of 10 ID cards weren’t valid,” said
assistant director of athletics Kent Hegenauer. “We can easily assume this is the same trend for football. The university is losing a lot of money by allowing invalid students free entry.” Students can go to the Ferlise Center, located on the corner of 4th Street and Golden Eagle Boulevard, next to Century Park, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. to receive vali-
dation stickers for their IDs. Students may also pick up stickers at the South End Zone Box Office at Carlisle-Faulkner Field at Roberts Stadium from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., from Tuesday, Sept. 7, through Friday, Sept. 10, for validation. “We are stepping in the right direction,” Hegenauer said. “It is not 100 percent perfect right now, but we will get there.”
SGA president Kasey Mitchell met with representatives from the Athletic Ticket Center to help decide the best way to inform students of the change. “It will be a transition at first for students to get used to,” she said. “Once everyone is accustomed to the system, however, I think everything will work as planned.”
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Cuts hit Southern Miss hardest across state Ashton Pittman Printz Writer
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The sweeping cuts to programs and faculty at Southern Miss continue to dominate campus discussions and the pages of The Student Printz, but talk of budget cuts is not as prominent at Mississippi’s other major universities. Terrisha Buckley, a staff writer for The Reflector, Mississippi
State University’s student newspaper, said that cuts had not been a prevalent issue at MSU. “We haven’t really suffered as much when it comes to budget cuts,” she said. “The amount of student worker jobs has decreased due to funding, but we haven’t lost any programs so far.” The Reflector’s website corroborated Buckley’s claims that news on cuts at MSU was lacking; instead of news articles on cuts to faculty or degree pro-
grams, the most prominent stories were about bike traffic increases, a local pizza restaurant and new rules on how to properly ring cowbells at football games. The online newspaper for Ole Miss, The Daily Mississippian, also lacked signs of distress over cuts; its news articles focused on stories like the Rebels’ defeat last week playing Jacksonville State and the debate over Sunday alcohol sales in Oxford, Miss.,
An article in BusinessWeek revealed that Ole Miss has been working for years on a project intended to streamline the institution’s operations. Larry Sparks, Ole Miss’ vice chancellor for administration and finance, said the project “served as a foundational piece to help us do some of this” and that it alleviated the pressure to cut more jobs.
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