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Graduation speakers announced Marie John Printz Writer For the first time in recent history, Southern Miss will observe commencement ceremonies with two different speakers.

“I think having two different speakers will be more entertaining for commencement guests who may have to attend both ceremonies,” said Alex Strahan, a senior political major and Petal, Miss. native. “I am participating in the morning ceremony and look forward to hearing what former governor Mabus has to say because his background is more closely aligned with my degree in the College of Arts and Letters than that of other colleges.”

The morning ceremony, which will begin at 10:30 a.m. and includes the Colleges of Health, Arts and Letters, Honors College and University Libraries, will feature current Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus.

The afternoon ceremony, which will begin at 2:30 p.m. and includes the Colleges of Business, Education and Psychology, Sci-

ence and Technology and Honors College, will feature Judge Deborah Gambrell, who will also speak at Gulf Coast graduation ceremony on May 14.

Mabus, who is currently serving as the 75th secretary of the Navy, is one Mississippi’s youngest governors and was elected to office in 1988. During his gubernatorial term, Mabus stressed the importance for educational reform and job creation.

Mabus also served as the ambassador for Saudi Arabia after President Clinton appointed him to the position in 1994.

A native of Ackerman, Miss., Mabus received a bachelor’s degree from The University of Mississippi, a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and a law degree from Harvard Law School.

Mabus’ accomplishments include the U.S. Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award, the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Achievement Award and the Mississippi Association of Educator’s Friend of Education Award.

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Senior religion major West McKellar rides to Caliente with other bikers in the Bike Pub Crawl Tuesday.

USA Today editor speaks to students USA Today features editor Kim Willis visited campus Tuesday. The USM alumni spoke to journalism classes in the afternoon and offered a glimpse of what it’s like behind the scenes of a national newspaper.

“It’s a nice gig,” she said of her job.

“And working for the purple section is a lot of fun.”

A former features editor of The Student Printz, Willis graduated in 1986 with a major in news-editorial journalism and a minor in computer science. After graduation, she worked at the Hattiesburg American as a reporter and then became a copy-editor at The Clarion Ledger.

Willis then jumped on board USA Today early in its career. A part of the paper’s initial staff, she was one of many who were borrowed from other Gannett Company, Inc., news-

papers.

Gannett owns the Hattiesburg American, The Clarion Ledger and the now thriving Kim Willis USA Today.

While working at USA Today, Willis said she got to cover White House events, entertainments news

and more; she also got promoted at The Clarion Ledger. Willis suspected the promotion was an attempt to stop her from making a permanent transition to USA Today.

But Willis ended up back at USA Today and has been there ever since. And despite the long hours, she said she loves her job.

“I know there’s nothing I could have done better than this,” she told students. “Covering the presidential inauguration doesn’t

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Willis said her job today entails covering trends, celebrities and the news of the day. She also edits a lot of music content. She spent much time talking about the process of gathering news and also the structure of the staff at USA Today. She also offered the inside scoop on the convenience or inconvenience of recent celebrity deaths.

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Fraternity fundraises with football Mary Margaret Halford Printz Writer This Tuesday, the men of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity hosted a football game against Pi Kappa Alpha to raise money for their philanthropy, the Abbie Rogers Civitan Camp.

The game takes place each year in M.M. Roberts Stadium between SAE and the IFC fraternity who bids the highest amount of money to play. This year, Pike won the spot in the game.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon won the game 15-8.

To raise even more money for the Abbie Rogers Camp, members of SAE are all required to sell $300 worth of sponsorships and advertisements. There is also a Caliente Grille night where ten percent of the proceeds are given to the camp.

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For his most recent work, Mabus has focused on a long-term recovery plan for the Gulf of Mexico in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill which has gained extensive bi-partisan support.

Gambrell, the tenth district Chancery Court Judge, is a native of Jasper County. Enrolling at Southern Miss at age 16, Gambrell graduated in 1972 and has since been awarded the Spirit of Clyde Kennard Award from the university.

Earning her Juris Doctorate with cum laude distinction in 1978 at Mississippi College of Law, Gambrell returned to Hattiesburg and has practiced law for

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SAE fratermity hosted a football game against Pi Kappa for the annual philanthrophy football game on April 19.

In order to get sororities involved, a Miss Charity Bowl com-

petition is held in which one contestant from each chapter enters

over thirty years.

Appointed to the position of Chancery Court judge in January of this year by Governor Barbour, Gambrell cites her inspiration for law from civil rights visionaries Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr. Gambrell is active in the community as a member of the YMCA’s Board of Directors, the United Way Board of Directors, and has served on the Mississippi Bar’s Committee on Professional Responsibility for six years.

Gambrell is married to Mr. Vincent Chambers, is a mother of six and grandmother of eight. She cur-

rently resides in Hattiesburg and continues her efforts to serve the community and her profession.

The decision to host two different commencement speakers has found positive feedback from students, who will find that each speaker, respectfully, can hone in on a more degree-specific discourse, offering a more personalized graduation experience for both graduates and guests.

Both ceremonies on the Hattiesburg campus will be held on Friday, May 13, 2011 at Bernard Reed Green Coliseum, with parking available in the newly completed parking garage and along 4th street.

and competes in a money drop contest. The contestant with the most money in her jar wins the title, announced during halftime at the game.

Elizabeth Rexford, a sophomore Delta Gamma, won this year’s Miss Charity Bowl title.

“I’m so excited about winning and I’m so proud of my chapter for donating to this great cause,” said Rexford. “We really appreci-

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“Liz Taylor died perfectly,” she said. Willis said Taylor died at 9 a.m., allowing enough time for Willis and her team to gather and organize content for the next day’s issue. Other deaths, however, sent her team into a frenzy – like a celebrity who passed at 2 a.m., leaving little time to alter the next day’s issue.

Willis also shared with listeners what celebrity obituaries her team has on standby. The list included those who were old, sick or known for erratic behavior.

Willis also talked about how her team identifies a trend. She said if they see three examples of it, it’s worthy of coverage. She referred to a story on anti-Facebookers and anti-Tweeters. She said her husband was the first one she saw develop an aversion to the social networking sites, and then she saw Miley Cyrus follow suit. After one more case, she assigned the story, and it generated many clicks on USA Today’s website.

Willis advised students to diversify their skills and enroll in a few marketing classes. She said writers should know how to take pictures, because they will be asked to do so.

She also advised blogging and learning to take video.

“Her best advice was the fact that we really don’t have to go get our master’s in order to do well in the field,” said junior Latoya Duncan.

“The best thing to do is seek internships and work your way up.”

ate how much other chapters help us with our philanthropy and love to return the favor.”

President of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Brock Doleac was very pleased with the money raised this year for Abbie Rogers Civitan Camp.

“The guys have really gone out and sold their ads,” said Doleac.

“We are way ahead of where we were this same time last year.”

The money given to Abbie Rogers provides a week long camp for mentally challenged children, Doleac said.

Doleac added that the football game is exciting for players and spectators, while raising money at the same time.

“It’s fun for people who played football to strap on the pads again and play in the The Rock,” said Doleac. “We really enjoy raising money for this certain philanthropy, the practices and preparation can be difficult but overall I think the majority of people who participate enjoy it.”

“I think having competitions like this definitely brings everyone together,” said Rexford. “It allows us to interact with one another and at the end of the day we know it is for a good cause and we’re happy to get the chance to participate.”

Duncan added that Willis’ talk was both informative and encouraging.

“It made me feel a little more comfortable being in the journalism field. With the economy being so bad, she gave us that hope. There’s still jobs; we just have to work hard to earn them and keep them.”

Willis’ advice and fascinating stories resonated with her audience, and students eagerly asked her questions and chatted with her following her talk.

Duncan was one of the students who stayed and chatted with Willis, seeking individual advice. The broadcast journalism and sports coaching education double major said she planned to study abroad soon, and Willis supported her.

“She told me just to stick with the ideas I had and pursue them,” Duncan said. “Especially with me being a minority and a woman, it’d be easier but at the same time I need to make sure my resume is impressive.”

“What a great role model,” said Christopher Campbell, chair of the School of Mass Communication and Journalism. “This is somebody who’s very much involved in the cutting edge of journalism right now.

She has a good handle on what’s happening and what’s going to happen in the future of journalism. The opportunity to hear from somebody like this is so important.”

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New bill protects children on buses A little boy’s legacy becomes law

Ashton Pittman Web Editor

Earlier this month, Gov. Haley Barbour signed into law a comprehensive school bus safety bill designed to enact harsher penalties for those who fail to yield to stopped school buses.

But the bill, called Nathan’s Law, is designed to do more than just that, said Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel (REllisville), who authored the law. He said that part of the goal was to draw hope from tragedy.

That’s because the genesis of the law is rooted in the death of North Jones Elementary School kindergarten student Nathan Key. The 5-year-old was struck and killed in December 2009 when a driver passed the stopped school bus Nathan was attempting to exit.

Nathan’s Law goes into effect on July 1, 2011. It will create a 10-foot buffer zone around school buses. It will also rework the state’s aggravated assault statute so that striking a

child who is attempting to enter or exit a stopped school bus is considered a felony.

Students and school bus drivers will be affected as well.

Those seeking an operator’s license to drive a school bus will require safety testing. A school bus safety education curriculum will also be introduced for grades K-3.

McDaniel reintroduced the bill in January after it died in conference last year.

At that time, Lori Key, Nathan’s mother, told the Laurel Leader Call that she blamed Rep. Ed Blackmon (D-Canton) for killing the bill because he failed to bring it back up for consideration.

“We have one man in the Mississippi legislature that has killed a bill that may help to save the lives of other Mississippi children,” she said.

But she vowed to continue fighting.

“We are not done,” she said.

“We are definitely not through fighting and won’t be until stronger laws are in place to

protect our children.”

Perseverance paid off for the proponents of Nathan’s law in the end, however; the bill passed almost unanimously, with only Rep. Gary Chism (RColumbus) voting ‘nay.’

“I don’t know why he voted ‘no’ and I really don’t care,” McDaniel said. “That’s a vote he’ll have to answer for, I suppose.”

“This has been a long, hard fight,” Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant said in an article that appeared on schoolbusfleet.com. “But [it] was worth every effort to provide a safer environment for our children.”

Bryant praised Nathan’s family for being “instrumental” in seeing Nathan’s law through.

The overwhelming victory, McDaniel said, illustrates the nature of politics that killed the bill last year.

“We got everything we wanted and we should have gotten it last year,” he said, “but for whatever reason, politics played a role.”

This time, however, Blackmon supported the law.

“The only real change was the fact that Rep. Blackmon on the house side decided to negotiate in good faith,” McDaniel said. “And he ended up conceding about 95 percent of the original law.”

One provision that did not make it into the final bill was one that would have prevented drivers in a school crossing zone from operating mobile devices unless parked.

But McDaniel is just glad that the bulk of the bill – one he has described as being very special to him – is finally law.

While developing the legislation, McDaniel conducted legal

research and met with experts.

But he also had a chance to get to know Nathan’s family.

“In watching their struggles, we have all been reminded that when we face the death of a loved one, we come face to face with the power of God,” McDaniel said, writing for the Laurel Leader Call.

A new law would never replace Nathan, McDaniel wrote.

But through it, “he has touched an entire state.”

“We now know for sure,” McDaniel wrote, “one man really can make a difference, even if he was just a little boy.”

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Starbucks employees: we like them a latté Michelle Holowach Printz Writer We see them every day, but few of us know the stories behind those smiling faces that are there to save us every morning or evening with a swig of much needed caffeine.

Even though we tend to see them only as our ethereal angel before a long Monday morning or an ominous all-nighter, the employees at Starbucks in Cook Library are people too, just like everybody else. They have lives outside of the ones they live behind the Starbucks counter, even though they do love the task of being our caffeine salvation.

“We have anywhere from 5001200 people come through in a day,” said manager Will Timmons. “So we serve a lot of coffee, and it’s gotten to the point where, being in a university, you get to know a lot of the people who come in. A lot of the regulars who come every day, a lot of my baristas already have the drinks ready and made for people by the time they get to the register because they seem them walking through the door.”

Timmons, the friendly manager of Starbucks who we all see walking around with a big smile on his face and a welcoming word for all who come through the door, is originally from Baton Rouge, La. He graduated from LSU and a little over a year ago came to work with Eagle Dining. He started out as manager of the Powerhouse,

but now Starbucks has become his home.

“We do try to be one big happy family,” Timmons said. “Literally we’re to the point where we can joke around with each other and know that each other are joking, but we still get our work done and everybody genuinely seems to really enjoy working with each other.”

His employees seem to agree with this statement.

“I’ve loved working here,” said student manager Victoria Bolls.

“It doesn’t really feel like a job.

Like, for the most part, 99 percent of the time I enjoy coming to work, I love all of the people I work with, and my boss is really cool. Will makes work fun.”

At this statement her boss turns around and says, “She lies.”

“I don’t,” Bolls laughs in return.

The camaraderie resonating from behind the counter is so strong it can be felt by any bystander.

“It’s not work when everyone is working together,” Bolls said.

“We’re all laughing all the time.”

Bolls not only works many hours a week at Starbucks, she is also a full time student at USM. She is a junior child studies major who transferred here this year from Hinds Community College in Jackson.

Bolls’ job helps her pay apartment bills and keeps her safe from the boredom of idleness. But when Bolls isn’t busily balancing school work, and friends, what does she like to do?

“I really enjoy, um, just sitting,”

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Starbucks employees Dominic Faulkner, Will Timmons, Courtney Moore and Kyle Guy

she laughed. “I’m a big fan of just sitting at home in front of the TV, as lame as that sounds. But after work and school I like to sit and relax.”

One thing many people probably don’t know about the enthusiastic student manager always greeting them from behind the counter is that she also likes to crochet in her spare time.

“My mom taught me when I was little but I just picked it up again the last two years,” Bolls said.

What even fewer people may know is that the night manager who is in charge of closing Starbucks up every day after midnight

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ended up here only after a long journey as an active member of the United States Navy.

Jessica Aragon, the night manager of Starbucks and a senior criminal justice major, is originally from northern California.

Right after high school she joined the military, and has lived in Hawaii, Italy, Georgia and now Mississippi. Even after such a long adventure, her days remain filled.

“I usually close at least four days a week,” Aragon said. “So Sunday through Thursday I close, and I get out of here at about 12:30 at night. It’s just really hard getting up in the morning after a 12:30 shift and not being able to go to

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After graduation, Aragon plans to stick with Aramark as a location manager, and she may be around here for a little while longer or she may be moved to another state – maybe even another country.

“Starbucks is just a great place to work, really,” Aragon said. “I never drank coffee until I started working here. And then it kind of gets addicting.”

These are just a few of the many faces working behind the counter at Starbucks. Courtney Moore, a senior elementary education major, has worked for Seymours and Kentucky Fried Chicken in the past, and now she works at Starbucks and babysits on the side.

Next week she gets to see all of her hard work come to full fruition.

“I’m saving up for a car, and I’m actually going to get my car next week,” Moore said.

While it is easy for us to grab our frappacino and run out the door without a thought toward the person who made our scrumptious treat for us, it’s important not to forget that these are people, too.

“The way that my employees deal with people would probably have to be their number one strength,” Timmons said.

“Because that’s basically a Starbucks thing – to make this the place where people feel really comfortable coming. I have people come that don’t drink coffee; they just come in and hang out between classes or this is their study place. It’s just a nice atmosphere, and my employees definitely help make it that.”

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To the couple in the green space around 1:45 a.m. on Tuesday night: Seriously? I mean, Really? Never again, you dirty, dirty people.

Get a room. Weirdest walk from the library ever.

To the person comparing Mississipi State’s spring game to ours: If you have such a problem with it, transfer there! Some of us spent our entire Saturday on campus working for the event and we do not appreciate having all our effort overlooked. Please and thank you.

I would like to thank the person who turned in my wallet to the desk on the second floor of the Thad Cochran Center. You are a life saver!

The Geography grad students have it going on. Hot AND smart. I don’t even like GHY, but the men in that department make me want to. ;) To the random girl in my dance class: please stop “whipping yo hair back and forth,” this is modern dance, not Flirty Girl Fitness.

To the guy that wore the tank top in the Math 102 class one day that sits near the front... Please wear it again. You’re sexy!

There is a blonde in Newman’s State Politics class. She is the most beautiful woman at Southern Miss. However, I’m not a frat guy so... chances with a sorority girl – highly unlikely!

To say that the KKK exhibit is there to remind us that racism still exists is a LOAD OF CRAP!! We live in the South... Trust me we are VERY aware!

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Opinion

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Don’t hire Donald Trump Ashton Pittman Web Editor There’s been a lot of buzz lately that Donald Trump would like a new job. The man with the mystifying combover has indicated that he would like for us to fire President Obama and give the office of the presidency to him instead.

Some have suggested that Trump’s rumored candidacy is just a publicity stunt to raise ratings for his television show.

But if Trump does run, I’m not exactly ready to say, “You’re hired!” to a billionaire conspiracy theorist.

A presidential candidate should have integrity. But after buying into the conspiracy theories that suggest Obama was born in Kenya, not the United States,

Trump has forfeited any claim to integriry he may have possessed.

His embrace of the “birther” movement also shows that he’s simply not a good candidate. No serious contender for the presidency would actively subscribe to a theory that the majority of the country—and even the majority of the Republican party— has rejected.

Former Bush adviser Karl Rove agrees that it’s a mistake on Trump’s part to join in the birther nonsense. Rove had his own theory.

“This is a mistake,” Rove said on the O’Reilly Factor. “It will marginalize [Trump]. And he’s falling for Barack Obama’s trap.

Barack Obama wants a Republican to fall into this trap because he knows it discredits us with the vast majority of American people when they do.”

Birtherism aside, something else concerns me about Trump.

There’s an immaculate 68-story skyscraper in New York City that bears his name. Inside that skyscraper, his hit show, “The Ap-

prentice,” is filmed.

Trump is a billionaire celebrity.

Our economic condition has improved from “atrocious” to “abysmal.” Even so, it would still be nice to know that our nation’s leader has some scintilla of an idea as to how it feels to choose: food for the family or gas to get to the grocery store?

And yes, Obama has demonstrated some ineptitude when it comes to addressing the issue of high gas prices. For example, he recently suggested that people who are complaining about high gas prices should “think about a trade-in.”

But he has also indicated that he’s not completely out of touch.

“I don’t pump gas now,” he said.

“But I remember what it was like pumping gas.”

He made that comment while speaking to an audience in New York City earlier this month. I’d like to point out that there is no skyscraper called the “Obama Tower.”

That’s not to demonize people, nor is it to say that all rich peo-

ple are out of touch. Indeed, Bill Gates, once the richest man in the world, is a fine example of how one can be a billionaire and retain a sense of modesty.

But that man is not Trump, and at particularly juncture, we need a leader who has a stake in our economic wellbeing that goes beyond reelection. That man isn’t Trump.

“I’m not a schmuck,” he once said. “Even if the world goes to hell in a hand basket, I won’t lose a penny.”

I suppose that, should the world really go to hell in a hand basket under his watch, he expects we would at least find comfort in the fact that he, President Trump, definitely wasn’t born in a poor nation like Kenya.

I’m not a schmuck either, Mr. Trump.

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.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Civil Rights exhibit instead DeAndra Johnson is a senior biology major from McCall Creek, Miss.

In my humble opinion, it would be more appropriate and reasonable for The University of Southern Mississippi, which is located in the Deep South, to have a Civil Rights exhibit, rather than a KKK exhibit.

Yes, I understand where the author of the exhibit is coming from by stating that we should be mindful of the fact that the KKK still exists.

The fact of the matter is, however, that many of us already realized

that very fact BEFORE this exhibit.

Google “KKK” and you will see just how prevalent the organization still is. There is no need to honor this hate organization by giving it a place on a campus in the Deep South, where too many people have seen the destructiveness of the organization. This saddens me.

I never understood why there is a huge Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN, while there is no huge museum in Mississippi. Southern Miss, maybe we can change this.

Instead of giving the KKK more exposure, let’s create a Civil Rights museum that highlights the POSITIVE things African Americans AND Caucasians have done in the past to secure a better future for all races. Let us honor the poor souls who have died for that very POSITIVE cause! Yes, the KKK exhibit

opens the door for discussion, but it also opens the door for offensiveness. Instead of honoring a HATE organization, we can Google it.

Honoring the civil rights of ALL human beings, black and white, would be much more appropriate on a Mississippi college campus.

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Heart break in the Big Easy Travis Thornell Sports Editor

Louisiana State was able to come back in the eighth inning to defeat 19 ranked Southern Miss 8-6 in the Wally Pontiff

Classic in Metairie, La. Wednesday night. The Golden Eagles’ loss broke their five game winning streak.

Southern Miss (27-9) opened up the scoring in the top of the first with a RBI single by B.A. Vollmuth to score Kameron

that the bats of Southern Miss had awakened with a 3 run inning to take the lead, 6-5. Marc Bourgeois came up in the clutch with a 2 RBI single to take some of the momentum from the proLSU crowd at Zephyr Field.

LSU then took advantage of two costly Golden Eagle errors.

The Tigers’ Grant Dozar led of the bottom of the 8th with a walk. Dozar was then able to advance to third when Isaac Rodriguez had a throwing error to first on a grounder by Spencer Ware. With runners on first and third, Ty Ross hit a weaker grounder that died by home plate and USM catcher Jared Bales overthrew first base allowing Dozar and Ware to score the tying and go ahead runs for the Tigers. The Tigers nailed down one more run with a sac fly by Trey Watkins to score Ross to give the final score, 8-6.

USM coach Scott Berry talked about the game: “We had too many missed opportunities

Brunty. LSU (24-14) answered to take the lead with a two-run first and then back-to-back one run inning in the second and third.

Golden Eagle starter Boomer Scarborough was roughed up early and gave way to reliever Dillon Day. Day stabilized USM and threw 6 solids innings, only giving up 2 runs.

Day, whose pitching kept the Eagles in the game, said, “We had some opportunities on offense, we had plenty of opportunities everywhere. I gave up a few runs myself and could have put up some zeroes on the scoreboard. I am not putting it on anybody.”

The inability of the Southern Miss offense to take advantage of runners on base was the story of the night. Twelve Golden Eagles were stranded during the game.

Five of those runners were in scoring position and Southern Miss was not able to convert any of those chances.

In the 8th inning, it appeared

throughout the game offensively. We just did not step up and execute and get those runners in. If you are going to be a great club and beat great teams, you have to get two out hits and we did not do that.”

Golden Eagle first baseman Adam Doleac said, “This was not a game where the better team won tonight … We were right there and we had it. We had bases loaded several times.

The (8th inning) is not where we lost it; it was several opportunities in the game … We felt great with our team headed in and tomorrow, we will feel better than we do right now. We have a good ball club and gotta change our focus to Marshall and get them this weekend.”

The Southern Miss baseball team will look to get back in the winning direction with a Conference USA series home game against last-place Marshall at 6 p.m. Friday.

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Baseball vs. Marshall Day: Friday Location: Pete Taylor Park Time: 6:00 p.m.

Overall record: 15-20, C-USA 2-7

Marshall’s Last Five Games: 4/13 v.s. Coppin St. 4/15 v.s. Houston 4/15 v.s. Houston 4/17 v.s. Houston 4/10 @ Eastern Kentucky

W, 3-2 L, 12-1 W, 4-3 L, 10-7 W, 4-2

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Baseball: 4/16 vs. UNO 4/17 vs. UNO 4/20 v.s. LSU

W, 14-1 W, 1-0

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Southern Miss Sports: Upcoming Games Thursday, April 21 all day Women’s Tennis @ C-USA Championships Orlando, Fla.

Friday, April 22 at 6 p.m.

Baseball v.s. Marshall Hattiesburg, Miss.

W. Tennis: 4/14 @ Tulane

L, 5-2

Softball: 4/16 vs. UTEP 4/17 vs. UTEP 4/20 vs. Alcorn St.

Friday, April 22 at 1 p.m.

Softball @ Marshall Huntington, W.Va.

Saturday, April 23 at 2 p.m.

Baseball v.s. Marshall Hattiesburg, Miss.

W, 11-10 W, 8-0 W. 5-1

Friday, April 22 at 3 p.m.

Softball @ Marshall Huntington, W.Va.

Saturday, April 23 at 6 p.m.

Baseball v.s. Marshall Hattiesburg, Miss.

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Locals bike for beer

Meryl Dakin Managing Editor Thirty seconds before take off, bells, horns and cheering filled the parking lot of the Keg and Barrel as over 80 bikers began the first ever Bike Pub Crawl Tuesday evening.

“I’m not your mom or dad,” shouted Keg owner John Neal to the crowd. “Be adult, be responsible, and let’s all support biking and local businesses!”

“We were definitely shocked at how many people were here in the beginning,” said Diana Pennington, general manager of the Keg. “Bikes just kept coming in, and coming in, and coming in.”

The bikes were flanked in front and back by vehicles that blocked off the right lane of Hardy Street for the caravan. When the fleet passed the Jr. Food Mart, one rider jokingly asked, “Anyone need gas?” Another responded, “Yeah.

Beer!”

And beer they found – the crew hit five local bars in midtown and downtown. First stop: Caliente Grille.

Caliente owner Charles Arinder decided to participate in the ride.

He said when he talked to Neal, the two had anticipated 50 people to join, and out of that around 35 to buy beer at each bar.

“So, I thought, 35 people

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Bikers participating in the Bike Pub Crawl ride down Hardy Street on the way to their first stop, Caliente Grille. Keg and Barrel manager, Diana Pennington, estimated that over eighty people joined in the festivities on Tuesday.

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“Literally as soon as I pulled up to Caliente I just wheeled into the backdoor, went behind the line, told two girls to go grab as much beer as they could, and started pointing at people and serving them. I had just enough time to get half a beer down and make it to End Zone.”

Arinder said he was pleasantly surprised by the success of the event. “It was win-win for everybody. We got exposure to people who had never been here before. I can easily see 300 or 400 bikes participating in the future.”

Pennington joined the crowd on a tandem bike with Keg bartender David Klem. “It was an experiment – experience,” she corrected herself, laughing.

“I was on the back so I just pedaled and couldn’t see what was going on. When we started braking I would just brace myself.”

Pennington said it was the first time she’d ridden a tandem, and the two practiced beforehand in the bar’s parking lot. “The turns were pretty scary, but it was really fun, really different,” she said.

“I think most of the pictures are going to be of [David] and I’ll be peeking out the back.”

Neal rode in the midst with a boom box strapped to the back of his bike, blaring rock songs to his fellow riders. He wasn’t the only one with musical accompaniment, however. Poplarville native Paul Kaufmann, dressed in full bicycler

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gear, packed his ukulele for the ride. Not only did he serenade the crowd at bar stops, he strummed while actually riding his bike down Hardy Street as well.

“I didn’t know why, but I was glad he was doing it,” said Melissa Lang about the unlikely troubadour.

The USM graduate student said she rode to promote a more bike-

was great.”

Hackbarth said Pennington texted her with count of the riders when they left the Keg, and that they ran out of beer with the first wave of people.

“It made me realize what we need when we open for dinner,” Hackbarth said. “Like, table numbers. Instead of saying, ‘This goes to the guy in the green shirt with the weird hat.’”

Hackbarth said she saw a lot of people who’d never been to Southbound before, which will boost their business when they start their dinner menu mid-May. “Menu looks awesome,” she said. “We’ve been trying different things, making crazy fancy stuff.

Everybody’s excited. He’s been here for seven years; it’s time to offer beer.”

The last stop was a return to the Keg and Barrel. “Coming back everyone was just in a great mood; everybody continued to drink and stay here after,” Pennington said. “It was a great night.”

The event was so successful that Pennington and the other local business owners have decided to start holding a pub crawl every three months. “We’re going to do it in the summer, change up the bars, change up the route, but other than that there’s not much I’d do differently,” Pennington said. “I think it was a great success. I can’t wait to do it again.”

It was overwhelming at first when we saw the 80 bikes coming toward us.

We just had no idea.

It was great.

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Heidi Hackbarth friendly Hattiesburg. “I wanted to do it even if this first time wasn’t a huge event so they’d do it again,” she said. “I want to see it keep going.” Lang said she thoroughly enjoyed the entire event, even with unexpected obstacles – “I didn’t realize Hardy Street had hills.”

After hitting The End Zone and The Shed, the group moved to SouthBound Bagels, and the restaurant was able to put their brand new beer license to extensive use.

“It was overwhelming at first when we saw the 80 bikes coming toward us,” co-owner Heidi Hackbarth said. “We just had no idea. It