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April 12, 2012

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Wiesenburg accepts USM provost position Justin Mitchell News Editor

On Monday, University of Southern Mississippi president Martha Saunders released a statement naming Denis Wiesenburg, vice-president for research USM, the university’s next provost.

Wiesenburg will be sanctioned in the position on July 1, 2012, pending approval by the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning. Wiesenburg said his provost request will be submitted to the board during their May or June meeting.

Wiesenburg has been serving as interim provost since November, when previous provost Bob Lyman stepped down from his position.

“It seemed like I was a good fit for what the president needed in the plants she had in putting two major aspects of academic activity under one office,” Wiesenburg said. “I was asked to do the job permanently but in a different way than ever before by managing both academic programs and research activities out of the provost office.”

President Saunders said she is confident that Wiesenburg is a good choice for the provost position.

“Dr. Wiesenburg was selected as provost because of his experience and expertise and the strong support from deans and faculty,” Saunders said. “I have tremendous confidence in Dr. Wiesenburg’s ability to provide academic and research leadership to foster excellence in

teaching, research and service. He is a quintessential scholar, and he has built a reputation on solid values and integrity.”

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Eustachy offered job at CSU Kyle Smith Printz Writer

Southern Miss head basketball coach Larry Eustachy is reportedly the leading candidate to become the next head coach at Colorado State University.

While ESPN, CBS Sports, the Fort Collins Coloradoan and the Associated Press all claimed Wednesday that Eustachy has accepted the job, Southern Miss interim athletic director Jeff Hammond said Eustachy has not decided between the two schools.

“As of this moment, Coach Eustachy has not accepted the job,” Hammond told The Student Printz Wednesday afternoon.

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HHDA to host Spring Art Walk

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Brian Smith (right) and his piano accompaniment perform at Southern Miss Got Talent Wednesday evening in Bennett Auditorium. Riley House, a freshman from Gulfport, Miss., won the competition.

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The Historic Hattiesburg Downtown Association (HHDA) will be hosting the Spring Art Walk in downtown Hattiesburg this Saturday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The art walk will feature art, music and food for Hattiesburg residents and students to enjoy. Many shops, restaurants and boutiques are extending their hours on Saturday to accommodate customers who come down for the event.

Local artists will feature their work in shops downtown as well along the streets. Blooms flower shop will feature a selection of Peter’s Pottery and will also be showcasing many spring specials unique to their store. McKenzie’s on Main will showcase the spring collection

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Earlier this week, multiple reports showed University of Oregon head coach Ernie Kent as the leading candidate, but Wednesday morning an administrator vetoed Kent as the next coach.

Colorado State is looking to replace Tim Miles, who left for the University of Nebraska in March.

Miles led CSU to an NCAA tournament birth last season.

Eustachy just finished his eighth season at Southern Miss, and he posted his 400th career win in February. In March, he was named District 11 Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. The Southern Miss Golden Eagles traveled to their first NCAA Tournament since 1991 under Eustachy this year.

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of Renae Dent Blakenship, a local artist. A Gallery will be hosting jewelry and art showcases during the walk. An Ali and Bird jewelry trunk show, new jewelry by Louise Fletcher and paintings and jewelry

by Amy Giust will be shown at the gift store on Front Street. Local artist Dolley Kirl as well as student art will be shown at Oddfellows Gallery on Front Street.

During the art walk, Benny’s Boom Boom Room will be holding a benefit concert for the Debbie Blackwell Shemper Scholarship Fund. The Remnants will perform at the benefit concert.

At 7 p.m. the Roots Reunion concert will be held at the Saenger Theatre. Featured musicians include Howard Lips, Mississippi Fried Gee, Patchwork String Band, L.C. Ulmer, Rochelle Harper Band and Pine Belt Pickers.

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SMAC Rockin’ The Roost Pride Field

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News

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Weekend activities to ‘Rock the Roost’ Arielle Edwards Printz Writer

Rockin’ for the Roost is a tailgate party and pep rally hosted by the Southern Miss Activities Council. According to Jennifer Payne, associate director for external affairs, the Legacy has previously hosted this baseball tailgate event solo. “To increase participation and encourage student attendance

in Eagle Fest weekend festivities, the Legacy and SMAC decided to team up and host a large-scale pregame student tailgate,” said Payne.

For the last five years, the Legacy titled the event “Rockin the Roost” but the name was altered to “Rockin’ for the Roost.” Both organizations are excited to be hosting the kick-off event for Eagle Fest weekend together. “Spring game weekend is a long-standing Southern Miss tradition, and it is

our hope that this event will also become a well-known and much anticipated spring tradition,” says Payne. Natalie Oalmann, public relations chair, says that this event is very similar to SMAC’s Friday Night at the Fountain events in the fall, but for the Baseball team. “We will have SL 100’s DJ Don King as the entertainment, along with a 40 foot inflatable obstacle course, cotton candy, and coupons for a $5 32 ounce soft drink and hot dog

inside the stadium for the game,” says Oalmann.

The event will begin Friday and will last from 3 until 6 p.m. on Pride Field. As part of the event, Southern Miss head football coach Ellis Johnson, along with the cheerleaders and pep band will host a pep rally at 5 p.m. “Seymour and the cheerleaders will be ready to get the crowd excited before going over to The Roost for the first pitch at 6,” says Oalmann.

“There is also a tailgate competition

that any student organization can sign up for.”

This event is free and open to all students and faculty. “A lot of hard work took place in order to make this event the best it can be. But its what we do, SMAC and The Legacy really want to see everyone there because we know they will enjoy it.”

This event focuses on bringing together to students and faculty to support athletes at Southern Miss.

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Diversity Dash brings splash of color to 5k Stormy Speaks Copy Editor On Saturday, the Student Association of Social Workers (SASW) at the University of Southern Mississippi will be holding a five-kilometer race called the Diversity Dash. This on-campus foot race, however, is not an average 5k.

The Diversity Dash is modeled after a color run, a race in which color powder made of corn starch and food dye is thrown every kilometer a participant completes.

Race coordinator Bethany Kent said the idea for the race was born out of both need and inspiration.

“We wanted a way to bring in funds for the many community service projects we (SASW) do throughout the year, but we also wanting to do it in a life-giving way,” Kent said. “USM has a reputation for embracing diversity, so when we came across the idea of

implementing color into a race we wanted to do the same.”

In addition to the race, the USM Percussion Ensemble/Samba Band and local act SmuDDgeBand will be performing, and Caliente Grille will provide fruit and other food at the end of the race. University president Martha Saunders will also be giving a speech.

The race will begin at Centennial Lawn, loop around campus and end at Centennial Lawn. Water stations will be set up along the route, where spectators will also be staked. Throughout the race, awards will be given for the most spirited, most enthusiastic, and most colorful participants, along with overall runner male and female awards. A color party will be held at the end of the race in which participants can be showered with even more color powder.

Senior biochemistry major Chelsa Williams will be participating in the race, which she said is a neat idea.

“I love color and I love running, so I’m curious to see what twist comes from mixing the two together,” Williams said.

In addition to the fun aspect of the race, president of SASW Lacey Mai hopes the Diversity Dash spreads a wider message to participants and spectators.

“We are using the Diversity Dash to promote holistic living, whether it be in the things you do, what you eat or the people with whom you surround yourself,” Mai said. “We as future social workers want to keep the conversation going about the importance of diversity in all of these for creating and maintaining well-rounded lives. We want to celebrate difference.”

The race will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Color packets can be picked up on Friday at Caliente Grille from 5 until 10 p.m. Participants are encouraged to wear white and use eye protection. Early registration is $15 and will be available

until midnight on Saturday. Registration will be $20 on race day and will be at 8 a.m. Each race packet includes a t-shirt, packet of color, race bib, local business coupons and organizational flyers.

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Dance concert shows performer personality Amber Grubbs Printz Writer Enjoy the finer things in life with students, faculty and alumni when the Theater and Dance Department at the University of Southern Mississippi begins its annual Spring Dance Concert Series this evening. The series is comprised of eight different dances, each created by students, faculty and alumni that are performed by the Repertory Dance Company.

Stacy Reischman Fletcher, associate chair and professor of dance, created one of the pieces that will be performed in the series. Six performers will dance in Reischman Fletcher’s creation “Under Pressure” to the song “Under Pressure” by David Bowie and Queen.

“It is about having too much to do and being pressured to complete a lot in a short amount of time,” Reischman Fletcher said.

The dance has Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” inter-spliced in the music, and some of the movement is hip-hop based.

“The cast performs with a great amount of energy and personality,” Reischman Fletcher said.

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Jamie Fisher dances during the dress rehearsal of the Spring Dance Concert at the Mannoni Performing Arts Center. The concert will be held April 12-15 and is presented by the Southern Miss Repertory Dance Company.

Brittany Heiken and Lee Brooks perform in several of the dances, including “Under Pressure.”

“It starts on a Monday and goes through the week, and we’re moving throughout the piece like it’s a work week, constantly un-

der more pressure,” Heiken said.

“We each created a phrase, so it represents the best of ourselves,” Brooks said.

The series promises something for everyone with a range of dance styles, although some can be recognized as “modern or contemporary” dance.

“The dances all have different moods and meanings. Some are more introspective and soulful, while others are upbeat and full of activity,” Reischman Fletcher said.

“No dancer is completely alike in this concert,” Brooks added.

Along with Reischman Fletcher’s creation are seven other pieces, two of which were created entirely by students.

Heiken hopes that attendees will leave the concert inspired and have an understanding of how a dancer lives. Brooks added that he wants people to see the diversity of the USM Dance Department.

“We want people to be educated about dance and be inviting of the diversity,” Brooks said. “The dance department is diverse just like this campus, and we want people to experience a whole new era of dance.

“This is what passion looks like, and we work hard,” Brooks said. “I want people to see that.”

“The faculty surprised us with a lot of these pieces, and each is very diverse,” Heiken said.

The series will run tonight through Saturday beginning at 7:30 p.m., and it will conclude with a matinee performance on Sunday at 2 p.m. A discussion with the choreographers will be held at 1 p.m. that afternoon.

The concert will be performed at Mannoni Performing Arts Center. Admission is $6 for students, $10 for faculty and staff and $16 for the public.

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InstaGRIM: The decline of Instagram

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Adam Levine is fugly and “Moves Like Jagger” is possibly the worst song of all time. You could do way better, JM!

Corbin McDavitt Printz Writer Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday that the social networking site would acquire the hip photo sharing application Instagram and its 13 employees for $1 billion. The popular smartphone app allows its 30 million users to snap pictures and apply filters to present a breathtaking image. Now, we’ve all seen an Instagram picture done right, and it can be awesome, but done wrong and it looks like a JuCo girl who played around with a Destin spring break picture on Picnik. The worst example is the Instagrammed photo at the bar.

Seriously, what filter is that? Beer Goggles? Keep it classy, Hattiesburg. But Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram comes way too soon after Instagram launched its app for the Android market. Prior to the launch, Instagram was solely available to iPhone users. Perhaps the move comes as Google acquired Picnik for Google Plus. As expected, hipsters everywhere are pissed…as they should be.

I am not usually one to argue for snobbery, but Facebook has crossed the line. The fact is that Facebook used to be such a good, beautiful thing. Like Instagram, Facebook was once valued for its exclusivity. You could not have a Facebook unless you had a college email address authenticating your account. But now any tween, pastor, employer and pregnant woman with a sonogram profile picture (go away, please) can have a Facebook account. Being hip is

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Shout-out to the Mississippi Deaf-Blind Project, housed on the Hattiesburg campus of The University of Southern Mississippi you guys do amazing things!

I cannot wait for Rockin’ for the Roost Friday, April 13 from 3:00 to 6:00 on Pride Field!!#Freestuff #DonKing #GorgeousDay You owe it to yourself to Facebook “Southern Miss Memes”. This stuff literally makes you lol... Or at least a slight chuckle an economic theory much like supply and demand: the fewer the supply, the more demand, and the cooler your product is. Now that Facebook and Android have gotten their hands on Instagram, the cool factor can only decline.

Although Facebook has pledged that Instagram will remain an independent force separate from Facebook, I fear that promise will be broken at the expense of a glimpse into the privacy of our personal lives. Take for example how the new Social Reader app

on Facebook bleeds into Timeline. This app shares to Facebook what stories our friends are reading without their permission. It is not really necessary to keep up with our friends once they have logged off of Facebook, but I’m glad to know you can read.

To resurrect the hip factor of Instagram, the solution is for users to decrease the amount of pictures they share with Facebook.

This will require users to create value for their pictures. The benefits will be fewer pictures of your

food, but seriously, it’s just Lucky Charms cereal. Everyone eats cereal; it’s not quirky. Stop trying to make quirky happen. Share with us something that describes you as an individual and take pictures of the great moments in your life.

Let’s get Facebook out of the sepia-colored picture.

This was an article of opinion by Corbin McDavitt, a writer for the Student Printz. Email questions or comments to corbin.mcdavitt@ eagles.usm.edu.

I’m not really sure why the smokers rights activist continuously throws bikers under the bus in their shout-outs. Sure, I think that smokers should have a nice covered place to sit and smoke. I’m just not sure why it’s relevant to refer to bikers like they are 2-wheeled demons. They are people just like you and me, just moving at a slightly faster rate to class. sincerely, unbiased third party I am a Pokemon Master.

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To the group of girls who nearly ran me over and got mad at ME in front of the Thad, the crosswalk is there for a reason. Try some common courtesy next time.

To K in Am. Govt - I think you’re amazing. Are you single? Maybe over the summer we could gt coffee?

To the native Gallifreyen, I looked for the Doctor Who facebook page and couldn’t find it! :(

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Thursday, April 12, 2012 Christopher Little/Printz

At left: Sherowin Clemens lines up the cue ball to take a shot in the Locker Room in R.C. Cook Union Complex.

Clemens is a member of the Billiards Association at the University of Southern Mississippi. Founded in the fall semester of 2011, the association is composed of students who enjoy playing pool. The group primarily plays eight-ball pool, the second most popular type played in competition, in which a player must pocket the eight-ball in the called pocket after all the player’s assigned balls are cleared from the table. The association also arranges pool tournaments on campus that are held in the Locker Room.

The association’s next tournament will be April 20 at 1 p.m. in R.C. Cook Union. Interested players can contact Fabian Garner, Jr. at Fabian.Garner@eagles. usm.edu.

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Live at Five Justin Mitchell News Editor Every Friday last Spring, senior social work major Kaitlyn Mount could be found relaxing in the grass on the corner of Bushman and Main streets downtown jamming to live music and drinking cold beer.

Mount and her friends never missed a Live at Five concert last year. This year, Mount plans to be loyal to the free music event that will take place each Friday for the next four weeks.

“Live at Five is just a lot of fun,” Mount said. “It’s so appealing because it’s held during the fall and spring when the weather is nice. It’s also on Fridays, so it’s a good chance to grab some beer, listening to good music and catching up with your friends.”

Live at Five is a concert series held every October and April that is free to the public and enlists bands both regionally and nationally. This spring, Live at Five will continue through the first week of May, because there was no concert on the first Friday in April because of Good Friday.

“Live at Five is something I look forward to every semester,” Mount said.

One aspect of Live at Five that is so appealing is that there

is no admission cost to the concert, so students and residents alike can enjoy a concert for free in downtown Hattiesburg.

Dr. E & the Voodoo Kings will kick off this spring’s concert series tomorrow. Next Friday, The Revelers from Baton Rouge will take the stage, followed by San Francisco natives The Monophonics the next week.

Brooklyn natives and Hub City favorites Snarky Puppy will round up Live at Five on May 4.

Formed in 2004, Snarky Puppy features over 30 band musicians and uses guitars, keyboards and saxophones along with percussion. Snarky Puppy’s genre can be described as instrumental fusion.

“I am looking most forward to seeing Snarky Puppy,” Mount said. “Why not start your weekend off by listening to live music and relaxing?”

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BASEBALL

Pitching kills Eagles’ chances Josh Seabrook Sports Editor

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University of Southern Mississippi’s Ashley Graeter, right, is congratulated by team mates after scoring against Louisiana State University in the first inning during the Wally Pontiff Classic at Zephyr Field in Metairie, Louisiana, Wednesday, April 11, 2012.

The Southern Miss Golden Eagles began the game with two quick runs, as Connor Barron hit a base hit, followed by an error by the LSU Tigers third baseman that gave the Eagles two men on base. A batter later, Blake Brown scorched a double down the right field line that plated two. That was the only two runs the Eagles could muster, despite out-hitting the Tigers Wednesday evening in Metairie, La.

Taylor Nunez started the ball game for the Eagles and was only able to record one out before departing. The Eagles emptied the bullpen in the game, hoping to save their stronger pitchers for this weekend’s three-game series against the Top 20-ranked University of Central Florida Knights.

The LSU Tigers managed to post eight runs on only a handful of hits. The Tigers used a plethora of relief pitchers as they looked to save their pitching for a pivotal series against the Alabama Crimson Tide this weekend. The Tiger pitch-

ers held Eagle batters in check after giving up two in the first inning. The final score had the Tigers on top of the Eagles 8-3.

The bright spots for the Eagles were Blake Brown, who notched two hits and drove in the only two runs of the evening for the Eagles, and James McMahon, who pitched well for the Eagles right out of the bullpen.

Other than the loss to LSU, the Eagles have performed well against SEC opponents. The Golden Eagles return to action Friday night against the UCF Knights at 6 p.m.

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Eaglefest 2012 set for this weekend Kyle Smith Printz Writer Starting Friday afternoon and running through Sunday afternoon, Eaglefest is the busiest

weekend for Southern Miss athletics during the spring semester.

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new football coach Ellis Johnson. At 6 p.m., the Golden Eagle baseball team will begin its three-game series against the University of Central Florida Golden Knights. The Knights are ranked number 15 in this week’s Baseball America college baseball poll.

Saturday’s activities begin at noon when the Black and Gold spring football game kicks off.

This will be the final opportunity to see the team perform until fall practice begins in August. Softball also has a game at 2 p.m. against the University of South Alabama at the softball complex. Baseball starts game two against UCF at 3 p.m. at Pete Taylor Park. Immediately following the baseball game, the Adam Doleac Band will be performing in The Roost.

The final day of Eaglefest will showcase two Southern Miss sports. Baseball will begin the series finale at 11:30 a.m. against UCF. Men’s tennis also has a home match at 1 p.m. against University of Louisiana - Lafayette.

All events are free for students with a student ID.

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The Southern Miss Golden Eagle football team practices for the Spring Game, an annual scrimmage that will be held Saturday at noon at The Rock. The Spring Game is one of several athletic events happening during Eaglefest weekend.

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4/6 vs. Marshall L, 2-1 4/7 vs. Marshall L, 6-2 4/7 vs. Marshall W, 3-2

Women’s Tennis: 4/5 vs. UAB L, 4-3 4/7 vs. Memphis L, 6-1

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4/6 vs. Middle Tennessee L, 4-3

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