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Students of Latin, one of USM’s ill-fated initiatives in the pending budget cuts, are petitioning to resuscitate the dead language. Senior history major and classics minor Davis Morgan is one of the advocates for the program. “The petition I participated in was a short, very tastefully written paragraph to Dr. Lyman, respectfully asking for a reconsideration about the Latin department’s termination,” Morgan said. “It stated that we knew the decision was not made rashly but asked for further consideration.” Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Bob Lyman is a member of the Southern Miss administrative team and is one of the people who assist in the decisions made on the budget cuts. Morgan and other students learned of the petition from email or during class and then volunteered to help with the petition. Morgan took
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his petition to different Latin classes to get signatures from anyone who would sign it and eventually got 130 signatures by himself. “Southern Miss has an amazing connection to high school Latin teachers across the state and region that no other university in the area has,” Morgan said. “I love the university and want it to always have a thriving Latin department.” USM senior Shardae Foley is working on a minor in Latin and wants to help save the department as well. “I am a third year Latin student,” Foley said. “Latin is essential if students are majoring in paralegal studies or political science. My advisers recommended I take Latin, and I have faith Latin will continue to be at Southern Miss, so I encourage you to take it, too.” Chair of Foreign Language and Literature Leah Fonder-Solano is thankful to the students for trying to make a difference. “We’ve been touched by students and alumni,” Fond-
er-Solano said. “We disagree strongly with the cuts. Latin thrives today, and our 150-student statistic proves that Latin is very useful. I am so proud to know that our students care enough to try to make a difference.” Though he disagrees with its current decision, Morgan has respect for and faith in the administration. “One of Dr. Saunders’ best accomplishments has been bringing the university family together, and I know she is committed to the Southern Miss family,” he said. “With Saunders as President, we have a great opportunity to appeal to an administration that values education and the Southern Miss community above all. “I encourage anyone who has not done so to write a respectful letter to her or Dr. Lyman, or sign a petition, or find some way to get involved and save Latin at Southern Miss.” If you want to sign the petition, call the Foreign Language Department at 601-266-4964.
Students protest proposed budget Jonathan Andrews Printz Writer At the height of the demonstration outside the administration building, 11 students showed up to protest the university’s recently announced budget cuts. A Facebook event publicizing the protest had 15 people marked as attending the event, 78 of the invitees said they would not attend and 178 did not respond to the invitation at all. Amelia Steadman, who organized the group, is an alumna of the International Studies program in Spanish from 2006. Steadman said she found the turnout to the event somewhat disappointing but said, too, that she hadn’t been on campus to personally promote the event. “Part of that is the fact that I put it together, and I’m off campus, so I only relied on Facebook and I really encouraged people to spread by word-ofmouth,” Steadman said. Steadman said she expected the group to grow as the protest went on. They didn’t, however, but Steadman said the students who showed up still made a point. “I think that the fact that these students are out right now is extremely important and shouldn’t be undermined,” Steadman said. Katie Danes, a psychology major from Daphne, Ala., was another protester. Danes said she came out in support of her major, which she feared was on the chopping block.
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Jordan Morrow, a senior psychology major from Florence, Miss., shops for fresh produce at the farmers market on Thursday, Sept. 16. The market it located in downtown Hattiesburg and is open from 3-6 every Thursday through the months of April and October.