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ON CAMPUS

‘Gimme’ that Black and Gold’ Tuesday, Oct. 18

Event: Spirit Switch Up Location: Pride Field Time: 7:15 p.m.

About: Each team will perform an

organized cheer.

Wednesday, Oct. 19

Event: Bone Marrow Drive Location: Union Lobby Time: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

About: Sponsored by Mississippi

Bone Marrow. Extra points will be given for each participant who takes place in this drive.

Event: Bring It On: Eagle Style Location: Reed Green Coliseum Time: 7:15 p.m.

About: Each team needs 15 to 25 members to participate in a dance/skit/ cheer competition.

Thursday, Oct. 20

Event: Homecoming Gives Back Location: Payne Center Time: 12 to 4 p.m.

About: SGA, The Office of Community Service Learning, and Recreational Sports will sponsor the “Stop Hunger Now” service project. Teams will package food in the Payne Center.

Friday, Oct. 21

Event: Fountain Sit Location: Shoemaker Square Time: 1:30 p.m.

About: Teams need one to two mem-

bers to participate. Come out and enjoy music and activities presented by SMAC. Homecoming court will be present at this event. Team points will also be announced.

Saturday, Oct. 22

Event: Homecoming Parade Location: Downtown Time: 10 a.m.

About: Parade will start downtown.

All floats must be ready to leave from Justin Sellers/Printz campus at 8:30 a.m.

Students cheer on their favorite teams at the Golden Eagle Challenge Monday. The Golden Event: USM v.s. SMU Eagle Challenge is the one of several homecoming activities this week. The rest of the homecoming festivites are listed to the left.

Location: The Rock Time: 7 p.m.

ON CAMPUS

Painting Southern Miss pink Pink is a popular color during the month of October, and Southern Miss is doing its part to raise breast cancer awareness through its annual event “Paint Southern Miss Pink.”

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the country and affects the lives of thousands of women. According to the American Cancer Society, about 230,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women a year, and about 39,520 women will die from it.

At USM, breast cancer aware-

ness is imperative, as it affects the lives of students, faculty and staff.

Susan Bone, assistant wellness director of Recreational Sports, headed up the committee this year that led the way to painting Southern Miss pink.

“It’s an educational facility, so Paint Southern Miss Pink is an opportunity to educate people on continuing to be healthy and to take care of their bodies,” Bone said. “If we aren’t well then we can’t learn and we can’t be successful. We can’t even do our activities of daily living.”

Paint Southern Miss Pink has been a tradition on campus since 2002 and was started by Student

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The Rock in The District is painted pink for Breast Cancer Awareness during the month of October.

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Activities director Mary Beth Walker. Since then, it has hosted a multitude of events, such as a womanless beauty pageant and a pig race. This month, Paint Southern Miss Pink hosted a door and bra decorating contest.

“Basically, our goal is to create awareness and also education to the population on campus for the students, our faculty, our staff and any visitors,” Bone said. “It’s to help promote awareness and education, particularly for people who may not do anything related to breast cancer help.”

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Mark Your Planner 18 19 20 21 22 9 a.m.

Scuba Steve T-Shirt Fundraiser Union Lobby 10 a.m.

Kappa Sigma T-Shirt Sale Shoemaker Square, TCC and Union Lobby 11 a.m.

A Klassy AKAssion Union Lobby 11 a.m.

Bra Art Contest/Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraiser Union Lobby 12 p.m.

Eagles for Life Diaper Drive TCC Lobby 2:30 p.m.

Chalking for Mass on the Grass Pavement Around Campus 7:15 p.m.

SGA Spirit Switch-Up Pride Field

9 a.m.

Alcohol Awareness Week TCC Lobby

10 a.m.

Rock and Mineral Sale Union Lobby

11 a.m.

Rugby Club Recruitment TCC Lobby

10 a.m.

Rock and Mineral Sale Union Lobby

10:30 a.m.

Homecoming Gives Back Payne Center

10 a.m.

Disney College Program Information Table Shoemaker Square

11 a.m.

COGIC Fellowship Bible Study Promotion Shoemaker Square

11 a.m.

NPHC Homecoming Stepshow Ticket Sales Union Lobby

11 a.m.

SMAC Silent Dance Party Centennial Lawn

11 a.m.

A Klassy AKAssion Union Lobby

11 a.m.

Diabetes Foundation Fundraiser Union Lobby

12:15 p.m.

Sports Officials Association Promot Table TCC Lobby

11 a.m.

Bone Marrow Drive Union Lobby

5 p.m.

Promote the Vote Shoemaker Square

3:40 p.m.

Mystics Lounge Film Showing Liberal Arts Building

6 p.m.

Fundraiser for Susan Komen Payne Center

6 p.m.

CSA Mass on the Grass The District

7 p.m.

COGIC Fellowship Bible Study TCC 216

Designers Taylor Fesenmeier Taylor Henry

9 a.m.

Delta Sigma Theta Homecoming Banquet TCC Ballroom II

11 a.m.

A Klassy AKAssion Union Lobby 11 a.m.

Bra Art Contest/Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraiser Union Lobby 12 p.m.

Eagles for Life Diaper Drive TCC Lobby 1:30 p.m.

SGA Homecoming Fountain Sit Shoemaker Square 7 p.m.

Friday Night at the Fountain Centennial Lawn

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October 19, 2011 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

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The Legacy’s T-Shirt Burn October 21 at Friday Night at the Fountain 6 p.m.

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Mass on the Grass set for Wednesday Leighanne Lockhart Printz Writer Picnics may not be such an outdated idea for some college students who have decided to partake in one this week with Jesus and friends.

The Catholic Student Association at USM will be hosting its annual Mass on the Grass in The District Wednesday.

“This is a great opportunity for students to come out and worship God in the midst of His beautiful creation,” said senior political science major and president of CSA Joey Tramuta.

The CSA hosts student Masses every Sunday and Wednesday at 6 p.m. at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, followed by dinner in the student center behind the church.

St. Thomas is located immediately off campus on West 4th Street across from the Payne Center.

“Since we are located off campus, the Catholic students really have to go out of their way and come to us to receive their spiritual nourishment,” Tramuta said. “It’s great for us to be able to bring that nourishment to them every once in a while.”

Sophomore therapeutic recreation major Erika Hosler is the CSA’s spiritual committee leader. She said

refreshments will be offered, as well as fellowship following Wednesday’s outdoor Mass for others to meet the members of CSA and to ask questions about the organization or Catholicism.

“Mass on the Grass is a very relaxed way for others to witness the liturgy and Eucharistic celebration of a Catholic Mass,” Hosler said.

“Having it on campus, we hope to have more people attend who might normally be too scared to enter a church building that they are unfamiliar with.”

The Mass will begin at 5 p.m. with dinner and fellowship to follow until 8 p.m.

Paint Southern Miss Pink hosted their traditional door decorating contest. Eighteen doors were decked out in bright pink, creative bra illustrations, encouraging messages and pictures of survivors.

After being examined by a panel of judges, the door that won the prize for Paint Southern Miss Pink was “Tutus for Tatas”, located in Hickman Hall Room 204 and decorated by the Luckyday scholars.

Sarah Dixon, coordinator of the Luckyday Scholars Citizenship Program, helped decorate the winning door and thinks it is important for the USM campus to be aware of breast cancer.

“Everyone has been touched by cancer and a lot of us have been touched by breast cancer in some way, either by a family member of someone we know,” Dixon said. “So I think that early detection is very important.”

Continuing the festivities of Paint Southern Miss Pink, three bras have been decorated and will be put on display in Shoemaker Square from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. until the end of this

week. The Southern Miss community is invited to choose which bra they like best and vote on it by placing money on it. All donations will go to Waiting for a Cure Foundation and the American Cancer Society.

Even though October is halfway over, there are still many ways to get involved with breast cancer awareness. On October 29th the American Cancer Society will host a 5k on Pride Field called Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. Registration will open at 8 a.m., and the walk starts at 9 a.m.

The Payne Center is still collecting lids from Yoplait Yogurt, which is doing its Lick the Lids fundraising event. For every pink lid donated, Yoplait will give a portion of the profits back to the Susan G. Kommen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Southern Miss is painted pink during the month of October so victims and survivors of breast cancer will not be forgotten, and maybe a new generation can take their place in helping find a way to put an end to the nation’s most prevalent cancer.

PINK, from 1 For Bone, the most important thing this year is raising awareness for breast cancer on campus.

Students may not be aware of the things they can do to prevent breast cancer, so she encourages them to take care of their bodies and pay attention to their health.

“Self care is important, so monthly self breast exams,” she said. “Students can also participate in events such as walks or runs and get mammograms at age appropriate times.”

Freshman Kristina Dumas, a freshman interior design major, has been affected by breast cancer in her family; her grandmother has survived the disease twice.

“I definitely think it’s good for people to be educated about breast cancer and the dangers of it,” Dumas said. “If people know even early signs of breast cancer, then it could potentially save lives because they could go talk to their doctor about it and catch it earlier rather than later. And if you know anybody that does have breast cancer, just be there for them.”

At the beginning of the month,

Father Tommy, pastor of St. Thomas since October 2000, is an avid Golden Eagles fan and usually holds the student masses. However, Father Godrey will be filling in as the celebrant for this Wednesday’s Mass while Father Tommy is out of town.

Campus minister Carrie Bell said Father Tommy had the idea to host an outdoor Mass celebration for the Southern Miss and Hattiesburg communities two years ago, but the weather did not permit.

“We are excited to have a great forecast for this year’s second annual Mass on the Grass, and we invite everyone to join us for a beautiful outdoor celebration,” Bell said.

CSA offers various ways to get involved in addition to attending Mass and dinner. Other activities include retreats, community service, intramurals, praise and worship, bible studies, mission trips, campus outreach, tailgating and participating in other events around the community as well.

According to St. Thomas’s website, “CSA’s mission and goal is to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the USM community and to help students grow toward spiritual maturity and develop the heart and mind to respond to God’s particular calling in their lives.”

Kappa Sigma strives to help ‘save second base’ The men of Kappa Sigma Fraternity will be selling Save Second Base t-shirts for $15 to benefit the Favre4Hope Foundation.

The foundation, founded in 1995

by Brett Favre and his wife Deanna, initially reached out to disadvantaged children in Mississippi and Wisconsin, where Favre played football for the Green Bay Packers.

In 2005, after Deanna Favre completed breast cancer treatment, the Foundation extended its support to charities that provided support for breast cancer patients. Since the start of the foundation, over five million dollars have been donated to various charities in those states, including breast cancer charities Ribbon of Hope in Wisconsin and Pink Ribbon Fund in Mississippi.

Kappa Sigma plans to have a table set up for orders in Shoemaker Square and a lemonade stand at Sam’s Club on U.S. 98

from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Money will be due Sunday for the first batch of orders, which will be in by Oct. 29 for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk at Pride Field. All proceeds will benefit Favre4Hope.

Zach Knight, president of Kappa Sigma, said they chose to benefit the Foundation because October is breast cancer awareness month and to show support for a renowned USM alum and his cause.

Chris Foxworth, Kappa Sigma’s philanthropy chair, lost his grandmother to breast cancer and wants to highlight its importance.

“The Hope Foundation isn’t just about raising the most money,” Foxworth said. “It’s about educating so that if detected early can be treatable.”

“All the proceeds are going to charity, so it’ll be for a great cause,” Knight said.

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Occupy Wall Street comes to Jackson Ashton Pittman Web Editor Dozens of activists took the streets of Jackson, Miss., Saturday to occupy the capital and send the message — “We’re angry.”

“The more we work, the more we take on, the longer the hours, the less benefits,” the Occupy Mississippi activists shouted in unison. “We continue to see our communities fall apart.”

The protesters in Jackson, like their fellow occupiers across the country, didn’t come with a singular message or demand.

Instead, they came with lists of grievances: unaffordable health care, corporate corruption, bailouts for banks but not for citizens, unemployment and mounting personal debt.

Some were wearing Guy Fawkes masks from V for Vendetta, a film about a masked superhero who overthrows an Orwellian regime.

Among the protesters were Republicans, Democrats, liberals, conservatives, libertarians, religious and non-religious, said Jackson resident Gunnar Davis.

“And none of that matters,” Davis said.

“Everyone here has different things they’ve gone through, and everybody is coming for a different reason,” Davis said. “We’re coming out here to stand together as a community, as the 99 percent.”

The “99 percent” refers to what activists consider the group of Americans who have been hurt financially as corporations and banks continue to prosper.

“It’s not the government for the people anymore,” Davis said. “It’s the government for the one percent. And we get the trickle down effect. When they get tax cuts, we get the struggle. When they get bailouts, we pay for it.”

After an assembly meeting and sign painting, protesters took to the capitol building to demonstrate.

Scott Sorensen held up a sign that told his story.

“I went to college. I have a degree,” Sorensen’s sign read. “I don’t know how I managed to do it because our professors kept saying, ‘There aren’t any jobs.’ They said no matter how hard we worked, we would never have what our

parents had.”

After college, Sorensen’s marriage failed, he said, due to debt-related stress. “So now I live in a tent,” he wrote. “I won’t negotiate with them. They can sue for my bike.”

Sorensen was one of many who came with a story to explain his motivation for taking to the street.

“For a long Kelly Price/Southerner time, the banks Protestors at the Occupy Mississippi demonstration on Saturday express their were running frustations about the country’s economic situation. well but they’ve been re-regumarket and not a corrupt, dirty, and that’s kind of hard to fathom. lated.

They’re That’s what I hope it leads up to — going to hell because of it,” said underhanded market,” he said.

Davis expressed hope that non-violently all the way.” former stockholder David Lions. the activists who comprised the Occupy Mississippi can be Lions left the stock market when found on Facebook at facemovement could pave the way for he came to believe that politicians book.com/occupymississippi or something bigger. had been paid off to do the bidreached via email at occupyms@ “This is potentially groundding of Wall Street.

“I’ll get back into the stock mar- breaking,” he said. “What needs to gmail.com. ket when it turns back to a fair happen is a complete reformation

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Feature

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FYE: Having Fitts of fun with Wynde Arielle Edwards Printz Writer

Q:

What do you love most about Southern Miss?

Wynde Fitts spends her time leading the First Year Experience office and its collective initiatives that are focused on the orientation and retention of new undergraduate students. As the director of First Year Experience, she lives to serve the students at USM and to help them feel at home.

A: It is hard for me to narrow this question down to just one thing.

I love this place so much, but the people of Southern Miss are what I love the most. I truly feel that the heart of this institution lives in the faculty, staff, students and alumni.

The people of this institution are what make is special, make it change and keep it growing.

they want to at Southern Miss. We never claim to have all the answers, but we will always listen and help students find their answers.

I have the best job on campus because I get the chance to see the future of the institution I love walk

Q: What does your job entail?

Q: What do you love most about A: Our goal in the FYE office is your job? to help students become whom A: I often tell my colleagues that

in the door every year. I have the opportunity to help students reach their potential, develop pride in this institution and help them achieve their goal of graduation.

Q: Tell me what it is like being

the First Year Experience director. Do you get a lot of interaction with the incoming freshman?

A: As the director of the First Year Experience I have the opportunity to interact with nearly all of our new students. It is a challenge and a privilege to work with our new students and parents. In addition, I work with so many outstanding upperclassmen through our other student organizations, programs and outreach.

Q:

I know that you are in charge of GEWW (Golden Eagle Welcome Week) and Southern Style. Can you tell me what all goes into that?

A: Beyond a shadow of a doubt, working with Southern Style is my favorite part of my job. Southern Style is a group of students that act as paraprofessionals for the FYE office. I enjoy the development of the team and the unique individuals that make up each team every year. The group itself is one of this institution’s long-standing traditions. We work to serve this institution and its students. That is what makes it special to me - developing servant leaders. Golden Eagle Welcome Week is such an incredible

time each year where not only do we get the chance to work with new students but reenergize the student that serve as the GEWW Crew.

FYE is recognized for what Fitts likes to call the “fun” things that they get to do. Yet it is all the work done behind the scenes that is even more important. She feels like they are defined as an office by the things that no one sees, like helping students who are struggling academically or transitionally.

Serving others, whether through Preview, GEWW, Southern Style or transfer programs, the FYE office, and Fitts, strive to make a difference, one student at a time.

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IPhone 4S revolutionizes phone industry Stormy Speaks Copy Editor

It was Friday around 2:30 p.m.

I was sitting at home impatiently watching the clock, when suddenly there was a knock at the door.

That meant only one thing: my new phone had arrived. I jumped up from the couch and jerked the door open, probably scaring the UPS man. As soon as I signed for the little rectangular cardboard package and shut the door, I eagerly ripped off the plastic wrapping and hurriedly opened the box. Lying there neatly arranged with the ear buds, instruction manual and charger was my black, 32 gigabyte, Apple iPhone 4S. I had been waiting more than two years for a new iPhone. Here are five reasons why and how the iPhone 4S has changed the cell phone once again.

1. A new processor. The new dual core A5 chip brings mobile phone performance to a whole new level. It’s the same processor used in the iPad 2 and delivers twice as much power and up to seven times better graphics performance as previous iPhone models, according to the Apple Store website. Booting up apps, music, and the internet takes just seconds. To top it all off, the battery is super-efficient; it can be used continuously for up to eight hours of talk time and up to six hours of data use.

2. A new operating system.

The new iOS is touted by Apple

as “the world’s most advanced mobile operating system,” and, according to fans, it just might be. One of the best features is the new notification system. If the user receives a text message while the phone is in use, a slim bar with a preview of the message and its sender pops up at the top of the screen. Pull down on the notification, and a tray with unanswered texts and phone calls, along with weather, notifications, and calendar events, will also be displayed. This is a fast, easy way to keep up with the day’s goingson and streamlines the phone’s overall operation.

Another handy feature is Reminders.

Similar to Notes, Reminders allows the user to, well, make reminders for various tasks, such as “Remind me I have a Printz meeting at 5:00 tomorrow.” An alert will later display at a time designated by the user before the event. Reminders can also be used to make shopping lists, and items can be checked off as they’re picked up.

3.

A new voice control agent.

Perhaps the most talked about feature of the 4S is Siri, an artificial intelligence program acquired by Apple in 2010. It does almost everything the user asks, from finding nearby food joints to writing text messages and emails to looking up random information on the internet. It’s not perfect, but it’s very handy when the user needs to quickly get information, such as when I was driving to Baton Rouge last weekend and needed to check the weather. Instead of looking

down at my phone to open the Weather Channel app, I held down the home button and asked Siri, “What is the weather like in Baton Rouge?” Her response? “The weather in Baton Rouge looks very nice this week,” and she pulled up a for the next few days visual of the weather. It was quick, simple, and just what I needed.

4. A new syncing system. iCloud is Apple’s new media management program that allows users to wirelessly sync music, documents, photos, and more to other wireless

devices without physically plugging the phone into the computer.

For example, if a user buys a song on iTunes on a computer, with iCloud is enabled the song also automatically syncs to the iPhone.

This is a great feature if you hardly charge your phone overnight via a computer to avoid stumbling to your desk to turn off the alarm in the morning like I do.

5. A new camera.

The camera on the iPhone has increasingly improved across models, so naturally the 4S’s camera is the best

yet. It shoots with an 8-megapixel resolution, which is about equivalent to a small, everyday camera.

The video quality has also been enhanced and shoots in 1080p HD, rivaling many small cameras.

It’s a sleek merging of a phone and camera, making capturing moments at sporting events and concerts simple and convenient.

With all these new features, it’s hard to say no to a phone upgrade. The iPhone 4S combines multitasking, efficiency and style into a sleek device everyone can use.

Opinion

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AS WE SEE IT

Student Shout-outs

The Student Printz’s Editorial Board

The Printz reflects you

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2 those who D0N’T know proper protocol in the library: WHISPER,TAKE YOUR CALLS OUTSIDE, turn your music down (Idc what you’re listening to), stop having social hour in here (it’s N0T the club), I pay USM T00 MUCH $ NOT to use this facility the way it was intended!

Dear Percolating Lady, Did you try the “Bird and Taters”?

To the boy in my EI class who thinks I haven’t noticed his “nonchalant” stares. I have peripheral vision. You’re sweet and I’m flattered.

For all these people who seem to be against Initiative 26, have any of yall truly looked at document and the wording of the document. It will only ban abortions unless in extreme cases(Rape, Incest, Health of mom) and only ban the Morning after pill.

The Occupy Wall Street movement only began a little over a month ago, but it has since spread across the country and the world.

The protesters come from many different viewpoints and bring with them many different plights. So far, the media has portrayed them as a bunch of rogue college students and exhippies without a clear message.

Do they hate corporations?

Do they have a socialist agenda to take wealth away from the rich and redistribute it? Or are they genuinely concerned citizens who are fed up with the current system?

While pundits and politicians wrangle with the question of who these people are and what they want, we think there’s at least one good aspect to what they’re doing: they’re awakening Americans to their responsibility as citizens.

We’ve been written off as a generation of media junkies with no concern for the outside world, but

these protestors, many of whom are college students, are proving that stereotype wrong.

And the world is listening.

Whether we agree with them or not, we all realize that something is wrong with our current system and needs to change. But instead of merely complaining or editorializing about it, these people are taking to the streets and doing something about it.

They’ve been labeled by some as socialists or Marxists, but we can’t help but recognize the fact that the “99 percent” are gloriously upholding the key democratic values of free speech through protest.

We may perhaps differ with them when it comes to their tactics, but their desire to see an American renaissance wherein the American dream is a reality once more is admirable.

That’s something that 100 percent of us should be able to appreciate — and strive for.

MCT Campus

A rally within blocks of the White House brought out several thousand protestors to mark the 10th anniversary of the Afghanistan War, Thursday, October 6, 2011 at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. Planning for the rally began six months ago, but the event’s timing dovetailed perfectly with nationwide protests in support of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York City.

The Student Shout-outs section is definitely my guilty pleasure. I can’t help but wonder if any of my professors impersonate students, so that they can make snide remarks as well.

Could you just go ahead and tell us where these mysterious smoking areas are going to be? You’ve already taken our buttcans. Do you just want us to throw them on the ground, or should we accidentally set the garbage cans on fire?

If anyone is interested in learning more about playing Intercollegiate Muggle Quidditch, come to the learning center in Century Park this Friday at 4. Only people seriously interested in a fun athletic experience need apply.

Foster the People for Eaglepalooza! ...that is all.

I can’t go to Taco Bell, Karen, I’m on an ALL CARB DIET!

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King Lear doesn’t disappoint Sarah Hoffman Printz Writer When I first read Shakespeare’s King Lear in April of this year, my instructor informed our class, “You’ll either love it, or you’ll hate it. I don’t think there’s any in-between.”

My only knowledge of the tragedy consisted of it being a tragedy about a king and his three daughters. It’s also one of the longer plays by Shakespeare.

After reading it with Stanley Hauer, professor emeritus of English at USM, in the spring of 2011, it will forever be one of my favorite Shakespearean plays.

Apparently, I am not alone in my sentiments toward this play or my gratitude for Dr. Hauer.

He has been invited to host a pre-performance discussion at 1 p.m. on Sunday. It only makes sense that I would consult his perspective and opinion on USM’s production of King Lear.

Q: Did you have any personal involvement in pushing for this production?

A: The director, Mr. Louis Rackoff, and I have been talking about it for years. He has been seriously considering it for two, and we have often discussed it over dinner. It’s been in the works for several years. The trick is the title role.

Q: How so?

A: According the play, as most of us read it, King Lear is 80 years old. By the time you’re 65 or above, you have the sense to play the part, but you no longer have the voice. We saw that, much to our deep regret, in the late Laurence Olivier film. He waited until just a few years before his death to make King Lear, and he’s just too old. This King Lear, Mr. Kincaid, is a very good one, but he looks too young. There’s just no getting around it. You go with the voice, and that was the trick in this production was to get the King Lear.

Q: I found his voice to be astoundingly powerful. I didn’t even mind the age difference.

What do you think?

A: His voice is so wonderful that, especially by the time you get to the third act, you don’t care anymore. Dr. Hauer’s insight into

the difficulty of finding an effective actor to play King Lear was something I imbibed from him in his class. Upon learning of USM’s pending production, I became excited and anxious to see if they were able to deliver a performance that did Shakespeare justice. Dr. Hauer has a delightful comparison that I could never top.

Q: How did you feel about USM’s performance?

A: I think in many ways it’s the most powerful I ever saw, and when you think that Anthony Hopkins was my first Lear, that’s very high praise.

Q: I found the entire casting to be excellent, particularly Shelley Johnson, Lisa Fischel, and Elizabeth McCoy. They were all superb in their portrayals of Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia, respectively.

They all worked together to bring the issue of gender to the surface of the performance. Did you happen to pick up on that as well?

A: One of the good things, and bad things, about seeing a performance is a director must make a choice, and the reader doesn’t have to make a choice.

The reader can have it three or four different ways. The director must decide, for example, if

Goneril and Regan are evil from the beginning or turn that way.

The reader doesn’t have to do that. So being a director’s tough while being an English teacher is pretty easy by comparison.

Q: Whose idea was it for you to host a pre-performance discussion?

A: Unless I am mistaken, it was my colleague Professor Iglesias of the English department. I was deeply honored.

When you’re retired, there’s a certain fear of being forgotten, and I was honored to be asked.

Q: We’re honored to have you with us. What do you plan to discuss?

A: The talk is pretty much combination of what I say in class.

It’s sort of King Lear in me. As I began outlining these 20 minutes I began thinking, ‘I have taught King Lear over 65 times. And what have I learned from teaching King Lear 65 times?’. And that’s what I’m going to talk about.

There’s nothing I have to say that will illuminate this play; it’s all been said. But what I can do is tell you how it has illuminated me.

USM’s Theatre department has achieved a highly difficult task with supreme simplicity

and grace. I am honored to have been given the opportunity to view such a fine performance of a play that stretches beyond the boundaries of centuries of culture and literature to reach us here in today’s world with the same issues of family, gender, and the human experience.

If this review was too vague to be convincing to see King Lear, here’s a wonderful story courtesy of Dr. Hauer that may do the trick: “It’s actually about Dostoyevsky, but it applies to Shakespeare as well. Two old scholars were sitting in front of the fireplace, again they happen to be talking about one of Dostoyevsky’s novels, and one of them said, ‘What d’you think it’s all about?’. The other one took a long draw on his pipe and said, ‘Everything.’ And I think that rather applies to King Lear. It’s about everything.”

Special thanks go to Dr. Stan Hauer.

This was an article of opinion by Sarah Hoffman, a writer for The Student Printz. Email questions and/or comments to elizabeth.hoffman@eagles.usm.edu.

Sports

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volleyball

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Lady Eagles spike Thundering Herd Josh Seabrook Printz Writer The Lady Eagles made quick work of the Marshall Thundering Herd, three sets to none. The first set saw the Lady Eagles jump to an early 5-1 lead before the Marshall coach had seen enough and called the team’s first time-out. After the time-out, the Lady Eagles continued to attack. Each time the Thundering Herd had a string of points in a row, the Lady Eagles defense stiffened up, and the offense played off the intensity of the defense.

The Lady Eagles offense was fierce and attacked constantly. After building up a strong early lead, the Lady Eagles went in for the kill. Outside hitter Halie Ecker led the Lady Eagles in points and kills.

Ecker gave credit to her teammates for her success during the game.

“Something great that Kelsea (Seymour) does is she spreads the offense so well as an outside

hitter, and she really thrives off holes in the block,” Ecker said.

The Lady Eagles got off to a slow start at the beginning of the season, and one of the contributing factors to that slow start was they didn’t finish games. Lady Eagles head coach Abbey Sutherland has preached finishing games with the same intensity with which the team started.

“Something that we’ve really focused on this past week is finishing. In every drill we did, there was a certain number we had to get to, and it was all about finishing, so it required a lot of mental toughness,” Ecker stated.

Another player that had a major impact on the game was outside hitter Ashley Mell. Mell tacked on 14 points and notched 12 kills and nine digs. Mell, alongside Ecker, was one of the main attacking forces for the Lady Eagles.

“We made sure to see if a defender was back so we could tip, or if she was shaded in so we could hit the angle or line,” said Mell.

Southern Miss Men’s Athletics Win 2011 Halbrook Award The University of Southern Mississippi men’s athletics program has won an eighth straight Halbrook Award for having the highest graduation rate among Mississippi’s public universities during the past academic year.

The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, the Mississippi Community College Board and the Mississippi Association of Independent Colleges all work together to give out the award.

The Halbrook Award recognizes

colleges and universities that maintain and achieve high academic standards for student athletes. Winners were announced at the Mississippi Association of Colleges and Universities Annual Conference Oct. 3-4.

The awards were established by the State Legislature in 1995 and named for former State legislator David Halbrook, whose family also endows the award program.

The women’s award was won by the University of Mississippi.

Football vs. SMU

Southern Miss Box Score Volleyball:

10/14 vs. ECU W, 3-0 10/16 vs. ECU W, 3-0

Soccer:

10/14 at Houston L, 2-0 10/16 at Rice L, 3-1

Scores from C-USA Saturday

SMU 38, UCF 17 Marshall 24, Rice 20 UTEP 44, Tulane 7 Tulsa 37, UAB 20 East Carolina 35, Memphis 17

Southern Miss Sports: Upcoming Games 10/19 7 p.m. Volleyball at Tulane New Orleans, La.

10/22 7 p.m. Football vs. SMU Hattiesburg, Miss.

10/21 4 p.m. Soccer vs. Memphis Hattiesburg, Miss.

10/23 1 p.m. Soccer vs. UAB Hattiesburg, Miss.

10/21 8 p.m. Volleyball at UTEP El Paso, Tex.

10/23 1 p.m. Volleyball vs. UCF Hattiesburg, Miss.

The Lady Eagles won the first set by a score of 25-16.

In the second set, the Lady Eagles continued to attack.

To start the set, the two teams traded point for point with neither team sustaining a rally. The Lady Eagles finally pushed out in front 10-6 before Marshall called a time-out.

After the time-out, the Lady Eagles continued the attack and won the second set by a score of 25-17.

The third set proved to be the toughest of the afternoon, but the Lady Eagles still prevailed over Justin Sellers/Printz the Thundering Herd by The Southern Miss Lady Eagles volleyball team scored a win against the a score of 25-23 to sweep Marshall Thundering Herd on Sunday.

Marshall three sets to none.

The Lady Eagles imseason and hope to continue their “I expect great things from a proved to 9-11 overall and 3-5 in recent success. Sutherland ex- lot of our players,” Sutherland C-USA. Marshall fell to 4-15 overall pects much from the team and said. “Lisa, who is our Libero, is and 3-6 in C-USA. counts on all her players to con- always focused and ready.”

The Lady Eagles have high tribute throughout the season. hopes for the remainder of the