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Tim Wright, cadet 4th class from the USM ROTC, stands guard at Hattiesburg Veterans Memorial Park Wednesday. The annual 24-hour Veterans Vigil was held from 10 a.m. Nov. 10 until 10 a.m. Nov. 11.

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Joshua Dishman, cadet 4th class from the USM ROTC, stands guard Wednesday during a 24-hour silent vigil in honor of Veterans Day.

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Firesheep, an add-on for the popular web browser Firefox, has security experts shaking their heads at how such a large security vulnerability in many websites could have gone unchecked for so long.

The way it works is this: a potential hacker runs the program in their browser while connected to a open wireless network (like the USMStudent and EagleAir networks used on cam-

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Joshua Dishman and Tim Wright, cadets 4th class from the USM ROTC, stand guard. The vigil provides cadets with an opportunity to celebrate veterans from the Hattiesburg area.

pus). Unsuspecting victims log in to their favorite website (for example Google, Facebook or Twitter). As soon as they do so, Firesheep grabs their information and sends it to the hacker who is free to simply click a user in the add-on and log in to the same website as that user.

The add-on, which surfaced in late October, was released by its creator, Eric Butler, to “expose the lack of security inherent to using unencrypted Wi-Fi networks,” according to its website.

The vulnerability that Firesheep exploits is in one that

occurs during the login s e s sions on these websites.

According to a PC-World article about the add-on, “The Firesheep plug-in listens on the network and looks for any traffic that contains a cookie, a small bit of information that a website sends to a visitor once they have started a session.... By eavesdropping on someone else’s cookie, the Firesheep user can jump into that person’s session without necessarily hacking into the other person’s computer.”

Julia Scafidi, a sophomore from Bay St. Louis, Miss., said

she doesn’t like that someone could access her accounts without her knowledge.

“It’s an invasion of privacy,” Scafidi said, “and if they have access to things like that it scares me to think about what other things they can gain access to.”

Cookies are the culprit in this case, but not the delicious chocolate chip or macadamia nut sort, of course.

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Thursday, November 11, 2010

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La Bohème Mannoni Performing Arts Center 7:30 p.m.

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All day School of Music Audition Day Mannoni Performing Arts Center 12:00 p.m.

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The Learned Ladies Martha R. Tatum Theatre 7:30 p.m.

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Cakes For Kids (midnight pancake breakfast) Intramural Field

All day Southern Miss Cross Country at Regionals Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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Volleyball vs. UAB Hattiesburg, Miss.

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100 Alumni Musem of Art, Marsh Hall

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Volleyball vs. Memphis Hattiesburg, Miss.

Correction:

In Tuesday’s story titled “Honor society collects textbooks,” The Printz incorrectly named the company to which the books are donated. The books are donated to a company called Better World Books. The Printz regrets the error.

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Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national symbol instead of the bald eagle.

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The only English word with a triple letter: goddessship Michael Jordan makes more money from “Nike” annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

The driest place on earth is a series of valleys near Ross island in Antarctica where, for the past 2 million years, no rain has fallen.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

A day in the life...

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Nursing majors: they’re bloody cool Jonathan Andrews Printz Writer The national shortage of nurses is not evident in USM’s School of Nursing, as they have trouble fitting all of their students in the space allowed to them in Elizabeth Harkins Hall.

Kathy Masters, the Associate Professor of Nursing, said class sizes are growing, but students in the nursing program should give their textbooks the attention they are due.

Prerequisites are also important to students as the rest of the nursing curriculum “builds on the things that they learn in those classes.”

Masters said the vast amount of information that encompasses the curriculum of the School of Nursing doesn’t allow classes to simply teach students out of their books.

“It’s impossible to, with all the information in our textbooks, expect everything you need to know out of them be presented to you in class,” Masters said.

Caryn Rosamond is a senior from Madison, Miss. and the president of USM’s chapter of the Student Nurses Association.

She said studying for courses in her major is “strenuous.”

“I guess in a way, it’s a lot more stressful, but we get a lot more knowledge out of it,” Rosamond said.

“You basically stay in the same building all day, and it’s similar to grad school,” she said.

Instead of simply teaching the textbook to nursing students, Masters said, professors try to focus on application of those ideas through things like case studies.

Masters also said that even though most of the nursing students are very intelligent, the study habits that got them through high school and prereq-

uisites will not work as a part of the School of Nursing.

“When they get into the actual nursing courses, they really have to learn how to study,” Masters said.

“Even if they’re very bright, they still have to study.”

An important part of being a nursing major is the student’s participation in clinicals, which is where students go to the hospital to “practice nursing,” according to Masters.

Masters said students begin clinicals with a semester taking care of one patient at a time in the hospital, but move on to taking care of more patients as well as those with more acute conditions.

“By the time they’re ready to graduate, they may take care of three or four patients at a time,” she said.

Rosamond mentioned that patient records for clinicals have to be picked up by the student from the hospital the night before they’re to go and those, in addition to material they learned in class, had to be studied.

Rosamand said clinicals are where she and other nursing majors learn not only basic skills of nursing but also the people skills involved with the profession.

“How to interact with people and how to take care of paperwork,” she said.

Rosamond said her interaction with the people is part of her interest in nursing.

“I’ve always loved helping people,” she said, “and I’ve always loved science and knowing how things work.”

A love of helping people is something that senior nursing major Melanie Langston said helped her choose nursing as her interest, too.

“My little brother was diagnosed with diabetes at a young age, so I was always around the hospital setting,” Langston

Courtesy of the School of Nursing

Senior Amy Beaugh works on a simulation for her nursing class.

said.“That also helped make me interested in what nurses do.”

Before they get into the hospital to help people, however, nursing students are required to learn with an interactive mannequin that reacts to the treatments that they give to it. Masters said it helps students to understand how their actions can affect patients, without having to try them out on actual patients.

Though this mannequin provides a realistic simulation for the students to practice their craft on, the lack of resources available to the nursing department does not allow this simulation to live up to its potential, according to Masters.

“Sometimes I think it works against us, that we as nursing

on that website.

Lucas Martin, a Spanish major from Salem, Miss., said, “Things that are called ‘private’ are done so for a reason.”

Martin, who uses Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family, said, “If i wanted the whole world to see something, then I’d post it as a status or talk about it through a comment on someone’s page.”

Since the exploit has surfaced, websites have not exactly run to patch it. Google is one of the few sites to fix the problem so far.

However, web surfers are not without options. Blacksheep, Firesheperd and other tools have been created to counter Firesheep and are available to download for free.

Masters cited the School of Nursing’s high pass rate for the NCLEX exam as one of these successful outcomes.

The National Council Licensure Examination or NCLEX is similar to the PRAXIS for teachers or bar examinations for lawyers.

“Most of the time, we’re at the national average or above,” Masters said. “We did have a little dip in May; I have to be honest.”

Rosamond said after her own graduation and a year of work in Jackson at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, she would like to pursue her ultimate goal as a nurse.

“I want to be a travel nurse, to take care of and help people all around the country,” she said.

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Firesheep, from 1 analogy may help.

When people call a company’s customer service line, they are asked for several pieces of information to identify them as a real customer and describe their problem. After they give all of this information to the representative, they are usually given some sort of number to identify their case so that that information does not have to be collected again.

Similarly, when you log in to Facebook, the website automatically creates a cookie for that session which your computer simply has to present to the website to allow you to do your business on it until you logout.

Firesheep grabs that cookie on open networks and allows anyone using it to pretend to be the you

faculty, that we really put a lot of effort into making it work even if we don’t have the resources,” Masters said.

Regardless of this lack of resources, she said the school has a tendency to end up with successful outcomes. Langston said part of this success comes from a supportive network of faculty in the department.

“The teachers are very helpful.

They don’t mind at all taking a little extra time out of their schedule to help you,” Langston said.

Langston said even when students are not able to meet with their own instructor in a particular course for whatever reason, other professors teaching the same course are happy to help.

Nobel Prize winner to present science lecture on campus Nobel laureate and renowned physicist Eric Cornell, will share his expertise with the general public during a lecture on Nov. 30 at the Thad Cochran Center for the Society of Physics Students at Southern Miss.

Cornell is one of three winners of the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.

Cornell is a professor of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Fellow of JILA, an interdisciplinary research institute run jointly by the University

of Colorado at Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

“A Nobel prize winner visiting our campus allows us to increase scientific awareness at Southern Miss and in the Hattiesburg community,” dean of the College of Science and Technology at Southern Miss, Joe B. Whitehead said.

“This increased awareness will translate into more students participating in scientific careers.”

The Bose-Einstein Condensate is an exotic state of matter only possible at extremely low temperatures, a few billionths of a degree above Absolute Zero. In a normal gas, atoms move independently of each other. If the temperature

of the gas is lowered enough, the atoms will start moving in unison, thus behaving as a giant super-atom. This super-atom is known as Bose-Einstein Condensate.

Today physicists are working on controlling the condensate to create new technologies, such as an atomic laser, a device that delivers a coherent beam of atoms, as opposed to a laser that delivers a coherent beam of light. This super-cold beam of atoms could be used for making measurements far more precise that those made with lasers. It could also be used for making extremely small computer chips, taking nano-science to an entire new level of precision.

Opinion

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As We See It

I want to vote?”

The reasons are multi-faceted.

Firstly, voting gives you a voice. Yeah, it’s a super small voice. But if everyone in the nation whispered, everyone would hear the message.

Secondly, if you don’t vote, then you have no business complaining about the state of the nation.

If you aren’t going to take place in the political discussion, then Information & Research on Civic please don’t get on a soapbox.

Learning and Engagement (CIRThirdly, do you know how CLE), younger voters (aged 18- many people in the world are 29) represented 11% of all eligible not able to vote? I would suggest voters. Of that 11% of young, eli- looking at what Iraqi voters went gible voters, only 20.9% voted in through to vote. Are you really arthe midterm election. That’s not a rogant enough to not vote when T:7.71” lot at all. people around the world risk evSo, the question is, “Why would erything to have a voice?

The Student Printz’s Editorial Board

Vote.

This article is about why you should vote. In an effort of full disclosure, we’ll mention that of our editorial staff of 5, only 2 voted.

That’s actually a much higher ratio than most 18-24 year-olds, and we’re fairly politically active. The rest of the staff has been chided.

According to The Center for

Thursday, November 11, 2010 Fourthly, there’s a lot of people who have died for you to have the freedom to vote. Why don’t you go to one of their funerals and say you didn’t vote? I’m sure everyone would appreciate that.

If you’re going to engage, then you need to educate yourself.

If you are only going to follow what pundits like Glenn Beck, Anderson Cooper, Al Sharpton, or Rush Limbaugh tell you, then maybe not voting is a good course of action.

Your children’s future depends on you voting – or, at least, someone’s children. And to those of us who want a good future for our kids, could you please be a bit more responsible?

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Money misdirected Justin Defee is a grad student from Livingston, Texas Something tells me if the jobs of our president and/or athletic director were in question, this would be a bigger deal to them.

Who cares about the other departments that are closing, tenured employees being laid off, or students leaving? I’ve been to two games since I have been here. It is complete BS to force students to pay for events they don’t even go to when people are losing their jobs. Richard Giannini said “In order to make up a $3 million reduction, 13,636 students would have to purchase a football season ticket.” He’s only looking at one side of the issue. How about doing a better job of promoting season tickets to the residents of Hattiesburg (and other surrounding areas) to offset the costs?

Keep cutting departments and the university’s enrollment will go down. That means less money for the athletic department. At that point, I’m sure students will just start paying even more for unused tickets to all manner of sports. I came here for a degree, not to go to football games. I could do that without paying tuition. I’m not knocking our athletes. I’m just knocking the people who say they are doing everything in their power to save money and jobs, while continually proving otherwise (i.e. leaving the damn lights on in the stadium at night, etc.)

Maybe the athletic department should just suck it up, you know, like the professors who won’t be here much longer. By all means, continue to limit degree plan options for future students. Hey, we will still have football and polymer science, right?

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Gay men, please don’t date women Ashton Pittman Printz Writer

Gay men who hide their sexuality often suffer severe emotional pain and psychological trauma; that fact is obvious. But the pain inflicted upon women who date and even marry such men is rarely ever mentioned.

Unfortunately, that is far more common than many people realize. Closeted gay men will date and even marry women for a number of reasons. Sometimes, the reason is that they want to pursue a “normal” life in accordance with society’s ideal. Most often, they feel a religious obligation to be heterosexual, to marry a woman and to have kids.

One of the most obvious examples of that is longtime Contemporary Christian artist Ray Boltz.

He married at a young age, became an award winning Christian singer, and spent the next thirty years of his marriage leading a double life, even as he prayed for God to change him. After finally giving up on the idea that God would change his sexuality, the broken man came out to his wife and children.

Though he and his wife chose to divorce afterward, she and their children did not turn on him; they offered him love and support, despite the hurt they must have felt.

But when Boltz came out publicly in 2008, many enraged Christian music fans left him hateful letters, vowing to burn his albums.

It is the fear of that kind of ha-

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tred and of that kind of rejection that leaves so many gay people to live lies. Lying to oneself about something so important is painful enough, but eventually, that pain can spill over to others.

Through the course of my college career, I have witnessed many relationships between closeted men and unsuspecting women.

Sometimes, she knows that he “struggles with homosexuality,” but believes him when he says that he has changed or is praying to change.

Any straight woman in a simi-

lar situation should understand this: Sexuality is not a habit, nor is it a lifestyle; it is something that is unchangeable. There is no switch that she can flip on, no therapy she can undergo, and no prayer she can pray to suddenly become a lesbian and lose interest in guys.

The same is true with the gay man she is dating.

No man should put a woman through the stress and pain of such a relationship. Such men often believe themselves to be doing the right or “godly” thing.

In reality, he is often using her

for his own purposes as he tries to “fix” himself.

The logic for many of these men is that he can avert an eternity in hell by forcing himself to be with a woman. Being gay is not wrong; if there is a sin, surely it is the selfish act committed when a man dates or marries a woman, knowing he can never give her body his full admiration; knowing he can never appreciate her the way she deserves.

If the fear of hell compels a man to refuse acceptance of his sexuality, he could choose to remain celibate.

But the more noble choice would be for him to accept himself and give up lying. Lying, after all, is explicitly condemned in the Bible.

If only men like Ray Boltz had grown up hearing lying condemned from the pulpit as fiercely as homosexuality likely was, they may have spared themselves and others a lot of pain.

This was an article of opinion by Ashton Pittman, a writer for the Student Printz. Email questions or comments to ashton.pittman@ eagles.usm.edu.

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La Bohème shines at Southern Miss ers. The performance was so perfect. It’s a show that no one should Printz Writer miss on Thursday evening.”

Graduate Assistant Jennifer The most frequently per- Hart talked about the opportuformed opera worldwide, La Bo- nities opera has here at Southhème, was performed at South- ern Miss. ern Miss Tuesday evening where “The opera has given many the cast received a standing ova- of our students a chance to pertion. An encore of form with a La Bohème will live orchestra, be performed tosomething that night at 7:30 p.m. is very rare at the Mannoni even on the Thursday Performing Arts university lev7:30 p.m.

Center. el,” Hart said.

La Bohème tells Mannoni Performing “We have so a poignant story many excellent Arts Center about a commumusicians innity of starving volved and the artists in 1830 Paris, France. Ro- result will be very moving. It’s dolfo, a poet, forms a romantic a timeless love story, and even relationship with a mortally ill though it will be performed in seamstress named Mimi. Their the original Italian, there will love affair experiences ups and be subtitles so that the audidowns caused by Mimi’s flirta- ence will know what’s going on tious nature, but Rodolfo finds it throughout the show.” hard to leave her because she has Music education major Anasa fatal illness. tasia Talley plays Musetta (MarMarine biology major, Erin cello’s mistress), and she talked Meylan, talked about Brad Gilm- about the work it took her to get ore (the male lead who plays Rod- ready for a big production. olifo) and everyone else on Tues“Right after I got the role, I had day’s performance of La Bohème. to translate what the songs were “I thought it was a wonderful saying,” Talley said. “I had to learn performance,” Meylan said. “Brad the music and had to singing it did a fantastic job and so did ev- well. Practice, practice, practice eryone else. I think the orchestra was something we all had to do, doesn’t get enough credit. They but it was well worth the process, were amazing along with the sing- and we made fun with it.”

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Showing:

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Members of the cast of La Bohéme practice for the opera which hits the stage on Thursday at 7:30.

Talley talked about her character, Musetta, in La Bohème.

“Musetta is a good person deep down. She is a little flamboyant, and real spunk,” Talley said. “She morphs into a beautiful person in the end, that is the true beauty of Musetta. She has a lot of dimensions she exposes as she changes throughout the plot.”

Talley discuses Southern Miss’ performance in contrast with its

original version.

“I heard music snippets from other performances of La Boheme, and I thought we performed it almost perfectly,” Talley said. “I thought it was amazing and people gave compliments to everyone, so Thursdays performance should be even better.

“I feel like every aspect of the show is spectacular and every-

one is performing at a level that you wont see a lot, especially at a university level,” Talley said.

“It’s an astoundingly beautiful story. I hope everyone shows up to watch.”

Tickets to La Bohème are free to students and are available online at www.southermisstickets.com or by calling 601-266-5418. For more information, call 601-266-4001.

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WUSM raises funds in face of cuts Hannah Jones Printz Writer With the shadow of budget cuts still looming over campus and endless talk of spending and saving swarming departments and organizations, USM’s radio station, WUSM-FM, is adopting alternative methods to help raise money.

WUSM will be hosting a benefit concert Thursday, Nov. 11 at The Thirsty Hippo in downtown Hattiesburg. The show kicks off at 9 p.m. and will feature perfor-

mances from local favorites Vanilla Jane, John Henry and DJs Gordo Padilla and Brian Rose. All collected proceeds from the five dollar cover charge will directly benefit WUSM. “Electronic Phonics” radio host, senior Darren Tynes, said the role he played as the show’s organizer and event coordinator was for the purpose of “bringing the Hattiesburg music scene together for the sake of music.”

Tynes said because WUSM is a listener-supported radio station, money can sometimes be tight.

Tynes said that the station is in

need of equipment upgrades and monetary means to maintain current equipment. Because of the university’s troubled economic state, WUSM collectively decided to host a benefit concert and in return use the proceeds to aid in the cost of equipment upgrades and maintenance.

Tynes has high hopes for the upcoming show. “It’s an opportunity for all the locals to support Hattiesburg music while having fun.

“I wanted to get together some local bands that I knew wouldn’t have a problem donating their

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time and talents,” Tynes said. “It’s come together quite nicely thus far. It’s a great cause.”

USM junior Kristen O’Flarity has chosen to attend the benefit concert for many reasons.

“I just want to support all of my friends who are involved with the station,” O’Flarity said. “I love 88.5, the Hippo and the bands that are playing that night.

O’Flarity is also looking forward to the help the concert can offer the radio station as well as the opportunity students will have to mingle and meet new people while experiencing local music.

“It’s a great opportunity to get off campus and check out the Thirsty Hippo,” O’Flarity said.

“You are guaranteed to see people you know, meet new people and fall in love with some new music.”

DJ Brian Rose will perform with his roommate and fellow DJing partner Gordo Padilla. Rose is excited about gaining exposure through the event.

“Any chance for us to play out in public and not in the living room

is one we jump at,” Rose said.

“We enjoy any exposure we can get because every little bit helps.

We seriously enjoy what we do.”

Padilla also expressed his feelings about performing.

“I am very excited to be part of the event,” Padilla said. “I like the fact that we seem to have a reciprocal relationship with Darren’s radio show; we have made mixes for him before which were displayed on his show so both of us will benefit from the exposure.”

Rose hinted at a possible surprise collaboration with another artist performing in the show. Rose also said attendees can be sure to expect a “faceblasting set of electro-dubstepdisco madness” from himself and partner Gordo Padilla.

More information concerning WUSM’s benefit concert can be found on their Facebook page, “WUSM 88.5 FM Benefit Show” as well as by visiting wusm.usm.edu.

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ON CAMPUS

Intellect and amour face off in new play Sarah Rogers Printz Writer The Learned Ladies opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. The play is set in a French corridor where certain women in the play express their love for learning while others express their love for marriage and children.

The Learned Ladies takes place in the 17th century. It is about a domineering mother, Philaminte, who is concerned with education, and a father, Chrysale, who is timid of his wife. The younger daughter, Henriette, is traditional for the time period and wants to be married and have children.

The older daughter, Armande, follows the mother’s footsteps by wanting to learn and study.

The mother and father argue over whom their younger daughter should marry throughout the play. The mother wants her to marry a poet, Trissotin, because of his intellect while the father wants her to marry a nobleman, Clitandre, because they love each other.

The play is a fast-paced, classical comedy written by Moliere. The play also has a modern feel to it, director Louis Rackoff said.

“In the spirit of Moliere, the style of performance is heightened so it’s a little larger than life and it makes for a very theatrical evening,” Rackoff said. “We’re an educational department and we want to make sure the students get exposure to different genres of

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Trissotin(Alex Piper),a witty poet, entertains the learned ladies with one of his newest poems.

style and content.”

The play is written in verse.

Richard Wilbur, who is famous for translating Moliere’s plays, was the translator for it.

“Working with the elevated language of this play has been very challenging, but I’ve enjoyed it,” actress Margaret Wild said. “I don’t want people to be nervous about coming to the

play because of how elevated and able to add more lighting efthe language is. A lot of peo- fects. ple don’t like coming to classic “The set is really cool. To me plays because of it looks like how difficult peosomething ple think they are from Alice in 7:30 p.m. going to be to unWonderland,” Thursday Nov. 11 derstand. The lanWild said.

Friday Nov. 12 guage is so elevatThe direced it is definitely tor wanted it Saturday Nov. 13 easy to interpret.” to look like Wednesday Nov. 17 The Learned LaFrench garThursday Nov. 18 dies has a single dens, said Friday Nov. 19 set throughout the light designer play. Originally the C h r i stophe r play took place in Cole.

2:00 p.m. an indoor setting, “The feelSunday Nov. 14 but the director and ing I wanted to Sunday Nov. 21 design team desort of evoke cided to make the was kind of set into an outdoor a quirky garcourtyard in order to be different den,” said scene designer Cody

Showings:

Stockstill. The set was put together by undergrad students, several being freshmen.

One reason that the setting was changed from a room to a courtyard was for lighting effects. That way, they could make it look morning, noon, and night. The show uses around 350 lights.

Both Rackoff and Wild said that the show’s costumes are beautiful. The costumes look 17th century but with a modern 1950s flare. “We want the audience to believe in the characters and care for them,” Rackoff said.

“On every show, there is something different and this show is kind of neat just to see everything unfold like a big pop-up book,” Cole said.

The cast and crew are all ready for opening night. “[I’m ready] to see the audience’s reaction to the play,” Stockhill said.

“I don’t want people to think it’s going to be boring because it’s definitely not boring,” Wild said.

“Anything but boring.”

The Learned Ladies opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Martha R. Tatum Theatre. The show will run Nov. 11-13, 17, 18, and 19 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 14 and 21 at 2:00 p.m. There will be a pre-show talk Sunday at 1 p.m.

Prices for The Learned Ladies is $12 for the public, $10 for faculty, staff, seniors, and military, and $6 for students.

Sports

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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Football

Eagles hit the road against No. 25 UCF Cade Morrow Printz Writer Southern Miss’ football team got back in to the win column on Saturday with a win against Tulane. Although the Eagles are not mathematically eliminated from conference championship contention, they still need a lot of help to have a chance.

Their next game against Central Florida is a must win if they want to keep their hopes alive.

The Knights currently sit atop the division and have cracked the top 25 in the coaches poll.

Coach Fedora has been impressed with what he has seen of the Knights on film.

“We are looking for weaknesses and cannot find any to be honest with you,” Fedora said. “Offensively, they have scored about 40 points in each of the last five games so they are really hitting on all cylinders there and defensively, they are basically No. 1 in the league in every category.

On special teams they are No. 1 in the league on kickoffs and kickoff returns. They have a great football team. They really do and are a very solid football team. We are going to have to go out there and play a complete game. We have to play great in all three phases.”

Southern Miss will have to play a better game than the one they played on Saturday. wide receiver, Quentin Pierce, thought the team

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Junior wide receiver Kelvin Bolden catches a ten yard pass from Austin Davis in overtime for a first down in Saturday’s 50-49 loss against UAB.

could have played better early on.

“We came out kind of sloppy. I don’t know why. Coach told us the whole week that there wasn’t going to be much of an atmosphere

(in the Superdome). We came out sloppy and flat,” Pierce said.

The Eagles could have some good news coming later in the week, as some star players are get-

Women’s Basketball vs. McNeese St. Day: Date: Location: Time:

Friday Nov. 12 Reed Green Coliseum 12:00 p.m. CT

Volleyball vs. UAB Day: Date: Location: Time:

Friday Nov. 12 Reed Green Coliseum 7:00 p.m. CT

Southern Miss Box Score Football:

11/6 at Tulane W, 46-30

W. Basketball:

11/3 v.s. Mobile W, 80-49

M. Basketball:

11/4 vs. William Carey W, 87-58

Volleyball:

11/7 at UCF L, 3-0

ting closer to being healthy.

“We expect C.J.(Bailey) to be back this week and DeAndre (Brown) is getting a lot closer, so I am hoping that he will be back this week as

well,” Fedora said. “If he is able to go on a limited basis, it would depend on how limited those snaps would be and I will have to make that decision this week.”

Even though Southern Miss is a long shot for the conference championship, Coach Fedora believes that there is still a lot to play for this season.

“To me there is a lot of things left. First of all you still have three games and then there is the possibility of a bowl game. So who is to say that you cannot win 10 football games,” Fedora said.

“That is the way I am looking at it, which is to finish this season with 10 win. How many times has that been done in 100 years here?”

Southern Miss will take on the Central Florida Knights Saturday in Orlando, Florida.

Southern Miss Sports: Upcoming Games Friday at 12:00 p.m.

Women’s Basketball vs. McNeese St. Reed Green Coliseum

Saturday at 11:00 a.m.

Football at UCF Orlando, FL

Friday at 6:00 p.m.

Men’s Basketball at USF Tampa, Fla.

Saturday all day Cross Country NCAA South Regional Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Friday at 7:00 p.m.

Volleyball vs. UAB Reed Green Coliseum

Sunday at 1:00 p.m.

Volleyball vs. Memphis Reed Green Coliseum