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McCullum’s block seals game Joshua Campbell
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Library hosts Banned Books Week Noé Cugny
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Southern Miss found themselves with their backs up against the wall, staring overtime in the face after Appalachian State’s Taylor Lamb hit Simms McElfresh for a two-yard touchdown to make it 21-20, pending the extra point. Extra points are more of a formality in today’s game, but that final extra point is the reason the Golden Eagles are now 2-2. Dasman McCullum came up huge for USM, blocking the extra point and sealing the win. “I just knew we had to make a play,” McCullum said. “I know (Rakeem) Nunez (Roches) had been getting good pressure on the field goal blocks so I said, ‘Nunez, you make the pressure and I am going to block it,’ and I just happened to stick my hand up at the right time and block the field goal.” Although running back George Payne scored all three Golden Eagle touchdowns, two rushing and one receiving, the ground game continued to struggle. The Mountaineers held USM to just 61 yards rushing on 25 attempts, just a 2.4-yard average.
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Abby Smith/Printz Seymour leads the Golden Eagles onto the field at the USM vs. Appalachian State game Saturday. Southern Miss won 21-20 after an exciting last few minutes in which they blocked the Mountaineer’s extra point.
The Joseph Anderson Cook Library will host Banned Books Week at The University of Southern Mississippi Sept. 21-27, promoting the freedom to read and to choose what to read by organizing public readings on campus and raising awareness on censorship. Every year, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom promotes awareness of challenges to library materials and celebrates freedom of speech during Banned Books Week, typically held during the last week of September. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country this week will draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. University Libraries will present the Southern Miss Read Out in the Cook Library Art Gallery Sept. 25. The event will involve members of the university faculty, staff and student body.
Vice President for Student Affairs Joe Paul, Interim Director of the School of Mass Communication and Journalism David Davies, Honors College Dean Ellen Weinauer and many more will read excerpts from various books from the list of most frequently challenged books. The selection includes books such as J. D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye,” John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath,” Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables,” all of which were once banned for various reasons. “The purpose is to bring attention to citizenship rights and highlight our freedom to read and to choose what we want to read, without someone else dictating that or telling us what we can or can’t do,” said Dawn Smith, assistant to the dean for publicity and outreach at the University Libraries. “It’s promoting the right and the freedom to read whatever you’d like to read.”
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SGA Senate debates tobacco-free initiative Lindsey Kelley Printz Reporter
In the past few weeks, the SGA Senate has been carefully considering and debating a potentially tobacco-free campus initiative. The initiative was introduced in the Senate meeting Sept. 4, when Sen. Douglas LeBlanc and Sen. Kristen Dupard brought forth the idea to expand the current smoke-free initiative to cover all tobacco products, such as chewing tobacco and snuff. Southern Miss is working
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many senators being hesitant policies for smoking zones. The policy as it stands, about the plausibility of according to Student Health enforcement. Sen. Matthew Dubuisson Services, said that “smoking of tobacco products on remained mostly silent in the The University of Southern debate, but he persisted in Mississippi’s campus is disagreement with the policy. limited to designated smoking “If I’m chewing gum while areas.” This policy includes walking down the sidewalk, the electronic cigarettes or what’s UPD going to do? “vapes,” which have recently Make me open my mouth and grown in popularity. This check for snuff?” he said. LeBlanc remained adamant policy is set in place to soon updating UPD’s become entirely smoke-free about Mary Sergeant/ Printz by 2016. handling of the tickets for toward being a smoke-free The idea was hotly debated smoking violations. He said campus, which began in the in the next few meetings, with UPD is supportive of the past few years with strict
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potential initiative and is willing to change the severity or nature of the citations. “Current policy is (to) charge to (a student’s) account. If they need to up the fine, then they are behind whatever the administration decides to do,” he said. LeBlanc said the Department of Residence Life is fully in support of the project and other sectors have offered monetary backing for the necessities of carrying out the initiative.
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