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Thursday, August 26 , 2010 Volume 95 Issue 3SERVING SOUTHERN MISS SINCE 1927

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USM senior Whitney Miller reached the Top 9 on Wednes-day in the new FOX series “Mas-terChef.” � e 23-year-old from Poplarville, Miss., is the young-est contestant on the show. If she wins, she receives $250,000 and the opportunity to publish her own cookbook.

“I haven’t taken any cooking classes or anything,” said Miller, who learned her way around the kitchen at age 12, when she and her two sisters were given chores to help prepare meals.

“We all had our duties in the kitchen, and I think I enjoyed it more than any of them,” she said. “Starting in ninth grade I cooked every night for my family.”

Despite this, Chef Gordon Ram-say, one of three judges on “Mas-terChef,” was hesitant to put Miller through even the � rst round of auditions for the show, when they were selecting 50 amateur chefs to participate in the competition. Miller said that she has felt pres-sure to prove herself ever since.

“I’ve been cooking since I was young, and I’m also very competi-tive,” she said. “� ey see this sweet person on the outside but not the competitiveness.”

Whether they see it or not, the competitiveness is there. Miller has continued to impress the judg-es since making the Top 14.

“My proudest moment was the � rst time we stepped into the ‘Mas-terChef ’ kitchen as the Top 14—I won our � rst challenge,” she said. “No matter how I did past that, I got to prove this � rst round that I have what it takes.”

� e young chef said that when concocting new recipes and pre-senting her food, she utilizes the creativity she picked up from her mother. She learned the “Southern basics and Southern hospitality” from her great-grandmother.

“I try to keep to my Southern roots,” Miller said. “� is past epi-sode (Aug. 18) I cooked Southern fried pork chops.”

Miller also consulted recipe books and the Internet to help her learn, and she begged her parents for DirectTV, so she could watch the Food Network.

Now, with about ten years’ worth of experience, Miller has a restaurant in Poplarville called Glaze. She changes the menu every week, with one exception.

“� e only thing that stays the same is shrimp and grits, and that’s every Tuesday,” she said. “Every-body told me that they would kill me if I took it o� .”

Samantha SchottExecutive Editor

Contestant Whitney Miller prepares her signature dish on “MasterChef,” a new culinary competition series that continues to cook on Aug. 3 on FOX. ©2010 Fox Broadcasting Co.

Greg Gayne/FOX

Student chef makes Top 9

Faculty/staff parking dominates USM

Students say parking seems more congested than ever this semester. Parking management, however, says the future of USM’s parking looks brighter.

Interim Director for the Depart-ment of Parking Management, Lucy Bowens, sheds some light on the situation. Bowens said that the future of Southern Miss parking is the parking garage.

“I am very excited about the fu-ture of USM parking,” she said. “� e parking garage is to house 1,200 vehicles which will help bet-ter serve our campus community.”

� e parking garage is to be com-pleted by March 2011 for the usage of faculty/sta� and students. � e parking garage will cost $15,327,000 for its total completion.

For now there are 7,015 parking

spots on campus: 1,535 for faculty/sta� , 1,454 for residents, and 1,448 on commuters.

“� e parking garage isn’t doing us much good right now,” Tashia Jennings said. “But I guess we

must su� er with the extremely far away student parking until the parking garage’s completion.”

On the other hand many faculty and sta� say that parking this se-mester has been easier for them.

Associate Professor of English, Dr. Sherita Johnson, said that in her � ve-year career here at Southern Miss, this was the � rst year she was able to easily � nd a parking spot.

“� is was the � rst time we ac-tually didn’t have to � ght the stu-dents for a parking spot,” John-son said.

Professors must pay $135 for parking, like the students. How-ever, they can choose a payroll deduction over 9 months as a pay-ment plan for their parking decal.

Parking o� enses are more min-ute for faculty and sta� . � ey are allotted legal parking in commut-er, as well as open zones and facul-ty/sta� parking - whereas students are only allowed to park in their designated area.

Earvin HopkinsPrintz Writer

The Theatre and Dance parking lot is one of many parking lots on campus facing congestion problems.

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Special Page 3Thursday, August 26, 2010

Five years ago today, I was a soph-omore photojournalism student from Ocean Springs, Miss., sitting in Maggie Williams’ reporting class in Southern Hall. The semester had just begun and Maggie was talking about what makes the news news. She had written three names on the board and asked the class if anyone knew what they were.

At this point, I was more wor-ried about the Andrew Bird con-cert I was going to at the House of Blues in New Orleans that night than any people in the news. Someone in class raised a hand and said Katrina was a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

I’m from the Mississippi Gulf Coast and never evacuated for a single hurricane growing up. So, I went to New Orleans that night, not realizing it was the last time I

would enjoy the city in its true form. Thankfully, I came back to Hatties-burg that weekend. I had class on Monday, right?

Monday morning Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When we fi-nally got the trees off the cars in my driveway three days later, I grabbed every piece of photo equipment I could get my hands on and headed for the Gulf Coast.

Although I had already had one internship and was the photo editor of The Student Printz, I realized that this was the first hard journalism that I was attempting. This was real news. Everything I had learned thus far as a journalism student was go-ing to be put to the test.

I spent two weeks on the Gulf Coast making pictures. USM was closed during that time and return-ing to resume classes was pretty sur-real. Trying to pick up in class where we had left off before the storm seemed impossible.

On the one hand, all of my jour-

nalism classes seemed to have much more meaning. On the other hand, they seemed so meaningless.

That semester was both one of my best and worst semesters in school. I learned what kind of journal-ist I wanted to be, and I won some awards for my photographs from the aftermath of the storm on the coast. It was difficult, though, to learn how to deal with this tragedy and continue with my education at the same time.

In the end, prompted by financial problems brought on by the storm, I took the next semester off from school. I realize now I really needed a mental break as well.

When I came back to school one year after Hurricane Katrina shook up my world, I had a new perspec-tive on my future as a student and a photojournalist.

Katie Carter graduated from USM in 2007 and is now a work-ing photojournalist with the Vicksburg Post.

Katrina: five years later

Katie CarterGuest Writer

A former Printz photo editor reflects on her experience

A young man sits on the sea wall on Front Beach in Ocean Springs only about one block from my house. Even though the water had washed away the Biloxi bridge nearby, my mother’s house miraculously survived with only wind damage to the roof.

Katie Carter/ Vicksburg Post

Two pine trees fell over the driveway and covered all five cars at my friend’s house where we weathered the storm in Hattiesburg. It took us three days to trim them back enough to remove two drivable cars out so we could head for the Coast.

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Even after plugging and destroy-ing the leaking oil well in the Gulf, people are still cautious about select-ing shrimp, crab legs, crawfish and other seafood products from any restaurant buffet. Months after the oil well explosion, Hattiesburg res-taurants such as Southern Seafood and Crescent City Grill, and compa-nies like The Merchants Company are still being affected financially by customer suspicions and rising seafood prices. These factors have in turn affected how much consumers are willing to pay pay for their favor-

ite catch of the day.Hattiesburg’s The Merchants

Company suffered a drop in sales. The company is a food service distributor, selling products such as meat, chicken, condiments and seafood in bulk to restaurants, military bases, schools and univer-sities like USM.

“Sales were down because tour-ism was down,” said Jarrod Gray, Chief Financial Officer of The Mer-chants Company. Although most earnings are generally made during the summer, the lack of tourists did not result in the same income as pre-vious summers.

A popular seafood restaurant in Hattiesburg affected by the oil spill

is Crescent City Grill. Rather than a drop in sales, the restaurant saw an increase in sales. Because of the rigorous testing - state and federal - that Gulf seafood and all freshwa-ter seafood undergoes, Clint Taylor, managing partner of Crescent City Grill, was confident in food safety in his restaurant and in products from the Gulf.

“Panic set in for about a month,” he said, “and people started buy-ing differently than they normally would have.”

Taylor also said the first day of the oil spill people worried about the availability of the seafood and were in a rush to buy, causing the prices to increase. This increase caused Taylor and his management team to go through a series of menu changes to accommodate the pric-ing of seafood plates.

John Nguyen, store manager of Southern Seafood in Hattiesburg, talked about the days following the leaking of the oil well as a time when people were worried about eating Gulf seafood. Before the di-saster, the restaurant received 85 to 90 percent of their seafood products from the Gulf. After, when process-ing plants shut down, the restaurant had to look to other suppliers to provide them with seafood, causing price increases.

Nguyen said the restaurant had a big drop in sales and customers would ask if the products came from the coast and upon learning that they did, would choose not to buy. Because of its reputation and backup

suppliers, however, the restaurant could remain open to customers, Nguyen said.

“I believe it will be five years be-fore people will be more confident enough to buy.”

Deonica DavisPrintz Writer

Shrimp sit for sale at Lil Butcher Shoppe on Broadway Drive on Tuesday. According to the shop, the oil spill has had no effect on the store’s seafood supply.

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A recurring menu item is “Brittyn’s Birthday Cake.” Brit-tyn Miller is Whitney’s young-er sister and a junior at USM, studying business and market-ing. “Brittyn’s Birthday Cake” consists of angel food cupcakes stu� ed with cream cheese, con-densed milk and strawberries, and topped with homemade whipped cream.

“She started o� making it be-cause she made it for my birth-day,” Brittyn Miller said. “It was so popular when everyone came for birthday parties. People come into her shop, Glaze, and they will just order dozens of them.”

Brittyn Miller works at her sis-ter’s shop, managing the � nances

and business. She also watches “MasterChef ” at the shop with her family on Wednesday nights.

“My whole family and friends, we all watch it at Glaze every night that it comes on,” she said. “And we watch it, and we talk, and we’re all yelling and intense.”

Brittyn Miller went with her sister to auditions for “Master-Chef ” and was excited to see her make it onto the show.

“It was just something that I thought she deserved,” Brittyn Miller said. “She’s just an awe-some cook. I just wanted people to know that and appreciate her.”

“MasterChef ” airs on Wednes-day nights at 7 p.m. on FOX.

Assistant professor of math James Lambers discussed the ups and downs of the abundance of faculty/sta� parking.

“I am unsure of the future of USM parking, but I don’t under-stand why they are increasing faculty/sta� parking and decreas-ing student parking, when they are cutting the number of faculty/sta� and are accepting an increas-ing number of students this year,” Lambers said. “Shouldn’t it be the other way around?”

“I personally would not ben-e� t from the parking garage. So, I hope the parking garage is for the students,” Lambers said. “I’m not complaining; I am happy I can eas-ily � nd a parking spot. However, we have an obligation as a learning institute to better serve our stu-dents.”

Construction on campus has also brought about many changes to the parking situation.

� erese Baldo, a junior psychol-ogy major from Covington, La., said because of the new Century Park dorms, there are less spaces available to commuters.

“We have to pay $135 for a park-ing pass now and we might not even have a spot,” said Powell. “We’re not guaranteed anything.”

Additionally, the future of handicapped parking isn’t looking too bright, said USM student Shar-dae Foley.

“Parking for handicapped stu-dents and faculty should be the schools � rst priority,” Foley said. “I have seen so many times that just because they have a few handicap parking spots and a handicap door doesn’t mean that they’re handi-cap-accessable.”

Foley explained the troubles of parking for her this semester.

“Handicap parking at USM is okay for the most part, but it is bad when we have to � ght other students who are not handicapped for a handicap parking spot,” Foley said. “I live o� campus and I hope I can continue to park close to the LAB, because I can not walk too far when I have to carry my books to class.”

PARKING, from 1

Chef Ramsay, left, checks in on Whitney, right, as she prepares her mystery box dish on MasterChef which aried Wednesday, Aug. 18 on FOX. ©2010 Fox Broadcasting Co.

Greg Gayne/FOX

CHEF, from 1

One woman’s possible execu-tion by stoning in Iran spawned hundreds of rallies across Europe to plea for her life. Megan Hix-son has brought the campaign to Southern Miss.

On Friday in front of the LAB from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., stu-dents will pass out flyers and sign a petition to send to the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei.

Hixson, a senior international studies major, said she learned about Sakine Mohamadi Ashtiani just before she headed to London on the British Studies Program this summer.

“I saw the story break right be-fore I left and it wasn’t really big, but it got huge in Europe,” she said.

Hixson attended numerous ral-lies in Europe, organized by the group “100 Cities Against Stoning.” Currently, there are 103 cities in-volved, and 11 are in the U.S.

According to the Amnesty In-ternational website, Ashtiani was convicted in May 2006 of having an “illicit relationship” with two men and received 99 lashes as her sentence. Despite this, she was then also convicted of “adultery while being married,” which she has de-

nied, and she has been sentenced to death by stoning.

Since this sentence, the Iranian government has stated Ashtiani would not die by stoning but may still be hanged for her crime. Howev-er, what in America would be called “double-jeopardy” (being tried for the same crime twice) holds in Ira-nian government as well. Therefore even by their laws, Ashtiani’s second punishment is illegal.

Dr. Benjamin Harding, professor of religion at USM, said, “There’s something else at work here, and it’s pretty scary in a sense.”

He said the problem with this case is that “we’re dealing with an injustice perpetrated by a crimi-nal regime.

“The traditional Shiite idea of justice is perverted madly in this regime,” Harding said. “The Iranian people have a strong sense of jus-tice, but they also have people who are manipulated easily.”

However, Harding warned against vilifying the Iranian people as a whole.

“What I fear to come out of this is stereotypes,” he said. “And if there’s anything Mississippians should un-derstand, it’s a negative stereotype.”

Harding said that if the current regime were dismantled, “Iran could be a very dynamic country. They’re not evil people, they’re just an unfortunate people at this point.”

The Amnesty International group on campus is supporting Hixson in her cause. Co-chair Dylan Harris said one of Amnesty’s functions is to support individuals in their campaigns. He said many don’t know stoning still exists as a method of punishment.

“A seventeen-year-old girl in Af-ghanistan was stoned because she had a baby outside of marriage,” he said. “They buried her up to her neck but they only threw pebbles so they wouldn’t kill her. She died 48 hours later of starvation.”

The gruesome case made Harris aware of the brutal punishments still in use around the world.

At the rally Friday, Hixson’s main goals are to alert people of situa-tions like Ashtiani’s and to have people sign the petition.

“Even if we only get 100 signa-tures, that’s still another hundred that will go to the supreme leader.”

Even though Hixson is passion-ate about Ashtiani’s case, she said she knows it’s just a drop in the bucket of hundreds more.

“As idealistic as I’d like to be, I know this case won’t change any fu-ture cases in itself,” she said.

However, rallies and protests should not be discounted in impor-tance to policy changes. Harding said that the Iranian government has responded to the volume of these worldwide protests, and con-

sequently, several sentenced to exe-cution by stoning have been spared.

“It’s important to be aware that things like this happen around the world,” Hixson said. “We’re more concerned with nuclear threat than

human rights issues. There’s no sep-aration based on race, creed, reli-gion, clothing…. We’re all humans.”

For more information about the rally, search “against stoning Hat-tiesburg” on Facebook.

NewsPage 8 Thursday, August 26, 2010

Protest: death by stoning in IranUSM students rally to save woman from unlawful death

Meryl DakinPrintz Writer

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Iranian Sakine Mohamadi Ashtiani sentenced to death.

AP/Amnesty International

Opinion Page 9Thursday, August 26, 2010

In an age where young people are more adapted to the Internet than ever, it seems absurd to think that a website designed for students’ ben-e� t could cause them such trouble.

USM’s SOAR is a website de-signed to help students manage their grades, monitor their progress, track their billing and create a schedule. For a site so necessary, its layout and overall navigation should be clearer.

Upon logging into the site, stu-dents are brought to a page with sparse design, few buttons and strange words: “Favorites,” “Self Service,” and more. Immediately, students might notice this site is a drastic change from the busy USM home page. � e lacking design sug-gests that not much thought was put into the aesthetics of this site for students (the ones who allow USM to exist).

� e fact that stu-dents initially have trouble with SOAR is understandable; its layout and word usage seem strange and unclear. It’s also understandable, how-ever, that a� er a while of attending USM, students will grow accustomed to the site they need to get through the year.

It’s astounding that Facebook can change its layout twice a year and,

while upset by it, young people can adapt and occasionally � gure out a way to reinstate the features they enjoyed from the previous version. However, SOAR, which seems to stay somewhat static, still gives stu-dents trouble. With this student site, it seems students are learning to navigate it - but just enough to get by.

Students themselves have near-ly become web designers. Enter Myspace, the blog, the Wordpress, the Formspring - young people are not, for the most part, technology-illiterate. Perhaps if the site o� ered more creativity and options for stu-dents, they could design a SOAR that � t their needs.

� ere are things about the web-site that could be made better with little to no e� ort. When asked, USM students said they’d like to see more helpful links, such as to their USM

email. Confusion over billing was also mentioned.

Overall students seem to be con-cerned that they aren’t doing what they need to do to stay on top of things at school. When questioned about concerns, students o� en of-fered suggestions - going more in-depth about holds, explaining what they are; making the site more “freshmen-friendly.” USM’s students don’t want to complain, they want to do what needs to be done to do their best - and SOAR should help them do that, not hinder it.

SOAR is clearly not a front-burn-er issue for o� cials, however. � e site is running � ne, iTech is available for questions, students have the op-tion to make an appointment and have someone do all the things they would need to do on SOAR - but that’s not the point.

� e website exists for the students’ conve-nience. It would seem that a college tries to do this as a sort of “thank you” to them for tuition money, an assistance to aid their life, which was made more di� cult upon paying to go to said col-lege. SOAR, contrarily, seems to make students feel unappreciated, unsupported and con-fused.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “All we have to fear is fear itself.” He was right: le� un-bridled, fear will erode our com-mitment to freedom and coax us into exchanging liberty for safety, even to the point of disregarding the rights of our fellow citizens. A� er the attack on Pearl Har-bor, Roosevelt succumbed to the very fear he warned of when he suspended the rights of 120,000 American citizens; for no other reason than their resemblance to our aggressors, Japanese Ameri-cans were rounded up and placed in internment camps. � at na-tional sin remains a stain upon our history.

Today, America’s politicians are willing to cede our founding principles to irrational fear once more. � is fear targets Muslim Americans and their religious liberties. � e fact that radical Muslims destroyed the World Trade Center, some say, is reason enough to deny moderate Mus-lims the right to build a Muslim

community center two blocks from Ground Zero.

O� en erroneously called the “Ground Zero mosque,” the planned community center, Park51, will include a theater, � tness center, basketball court, swimming pool and prayer room. � e sponsors of the project hope to use the center to promote toler-ance and interfaith dialogue.

Politicians hope to use the pro-posed center to promote their own careers. Obviously pandering for votes, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stated his opposition to the project last week. But Reid, a Mormon, should understand better than anyone the need to protect even the rights of those whose religious views do not pro-cure popular favor. Perhaps not.

Initially, President Obama ex-pressed support for the project. Once his statement began to attract the ire of popular opinion, howev-er, he retreated from the issue and made a half-hearted attempt to re-tract his prior endorsement.

On the other side of the political spectrum, many in the Republican party are resorting to all out dem-agoguery. Playing on raw emo-tions le� over from 9/11, some in

the GOP have begun demonizing even moderate Muslims. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gin-grich went as far as to argue that the United States should not allow a mosque to be built in Manhattan “so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.” � is absurd moral equivalence contends that the United States should bestow only as much free-dom upon its Muslim citizens as Saudi Arabia bestows upon its Christian and Jewish citizens—in other words, none.

If they were smart, Republicans would model their approach af-ter President George W. Bush’s unwavering support of moder-ate Islam. By treating the attacks of 9/11 as an attack on Muslim Americans as well, Bush drew a � ne distinction between radical jihadists and peaceful Muslims. “� ey love America just as much as I do,” he said of Islamic leaders days a� er the attack. He had his � aws, but where Obama wobbles on the rights of Muslim citizens, Bush stood resolutely.

Not only did Bush champion the dignity of Muslim Americans, his vision for Iraq meant the es-tablishment of a government that

o� ered freedom to its Muslim citizens in place of despotism. At the time, most Republicans hailed the liberation of millions as a milestone in the struggle for democracy. � is month, the � nal combat brigade le� Iraq, still a fragile nation, but far more free. Yet the same people who sent our men and women to die for the lib-eration of Iraqi Muslims now wish to deny American Muslims their constitutional guarantee to reli-gious liberty.

� ey would deny Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the plans for Park51, the right to build on private property too. Critics of the project have accused Raul of everything from harboring anti-American sentiments to sympathiz-ing with terrorists. Rauf, however, has only ever sought to mend rela-tions between Islam and the West.

In 2003, Rauf spoke at a me-morial service for Daniel Pearl, a journalist who was killed by Paki-stani terrorists. � ere, he a� rmed his admiration for the Jewish and

Christian faiths: “If to be a Chris-tian is to love the Lord our God with all of my heart, mind, and soul,” he said, “and to love for my fellow human being what I love for myself, then not only am I a Chris-tian, but I have always been one.”

Despite Rauf ’s reconciliatory overtones, fear mongers would have us believe him to be a sup-porter of unholy jihad. Such fear-engendered slander serves only to distort reality. Compassion and understanding should be shown to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11, but at the same time, we must never permit sensitivity to return us to the mistakes of our past. So basic a right as the “right of the free exercise” of religious worship should never be surren-dered to fear.

OpinionPage 10 Thursday, August 26, 2010

Moderate Muslims not the enemyRELIGION

Ashton PittmanPrintz Writer

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

Arts & Entertainment Page 11Thursday, August 26, 2010

Colour Revolt plays at the Hippo

Get ready for a revolt.Colour Revolt, a self-proclaimed

indie rock band from Oxford, Miss., will be playing at the Thirsty Hippo in downtown Hattiesburg on Satur-day, Aug. 28, at 9:00 p.m. The band is on a nationwide tour to promote the Aug. 10 release of their second album, The Cradle.

According to the band’s MySpace page, The Cradle is a story of re-birth. In July 2009, Colour Revolt experienced the debilitating loss of band members and faced financial trouble. But the surviving mem-bers, Jesse Coppenbarger and Sean Kirkpatrick, were unwilling to give up. They recorded The Cradle with three other musicians in 2010, mak-ing the album a testament to the band’s resilience and determination.

“‘A lot of it is just kind of the heartbreak of losing the people who are like your family, your brothers,’” quoted the article of Coppenbarger. “But [there is] also the sense that this thing is going to keep going.’”

Since their formation in 2004, Colour Revolt has toured with well-known indie rock bands, in-cluding Anathallo, Explosions in

the Sky, and Manchester Orchestra. The band has also played at several prominent music festivals, includ-ing Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, and opened for renowned alternative rock band Brand New in 2006. Most recently, they have formed their own record label, New Fear.

Colour Revolt has performed at the Hippo five or six times over the past five years, said Brad Newton of the Thirsty Hippo. He said the audi-ence always gets excited and sings along when Colour Revolt per-forms, and he expects nothing less this time.

“We’re expecting a healthy, en-

thusiastic crowd that better not stand around with their arms crossed,” said Newton.

Paul West, a sophomore en-tertainment industry major from Jackson, Miss., has attended previ-ous Colour Revolt shows and has always enjoyed them.

“They have a different sound that they pull off well,” said West. “I am looking forward to see how their music has changed since there are only two members now.”

Young Buffalo, also from Oxford, will be opening for Colour Revolt. The show is slated to begin at 9:00 p.m. Tickets are $8 at the door.

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Left: Tyler McCants and Christina Kelly dance during dress rehearsals.

Bottom: Alumnae Christina Kelly, left, and Shelley Manry Bourgeois, right, dance with sophomore Tyler McCants during dress rehearsals.

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Top: USM alumna Shelley Manry Bourgeois performs during dress rehearsals on Tuesday.

Bottom: Sophomore Tyler McCants, bottom, dances during dress rehearsals for “Have You Passed Through This Night?”

Sophomore Tyler McCants, left, and USM alumna Shelley Manry Bourgeois, right, dance during dress rehearsals for “Have You Passed Through This Night?” on Tuesday.

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