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Law school recognized as top 10 valueole miss was ranked by media company on Being a Black lawyer in its first edition of “the Black student’s Guide to law schools” as among the top 10 best values for law school.
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UM Math lab Moves off caMpUs for More spacethe university’s math lab has moved from Kinard hall to the old walmart building due to campus growth.
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The new math lab facility is located on Jackson Avenue by the Malco Theater.
Last year, the decision was made to move the The Uni-versity of Mississippi’s math lab from Kinard Hall to room A01 in the Jackson Avenue Center, otherwise known as the old Walmart building, due to Kinard having inadequate space for students.
Mathematics instructor Robert Hunt said the old lab in Kinard was fine when it first opened about 10 years ago, but due to the university’s growth since then, students have outgrown Kinard.
“During fall 2011 it was common for a line to be out the door and around the cor-ner,” Hunt said.
He said more comput-ers were added for fall 2012, which alleviated the long lines, but there was no way to keep expanding in Kinard Hall. The air conditioning in Kinard was another issue.
“The air conditioning in that room in Kinard never did work very well; it was always hot,” Hunt said.
At its peak, Kinard had 78 computers available, and it was not uncommon for sev-eral to be out of commission due to network problems.
In the new lab, there are currently 114 computers avail-able with plenty of room to
expand for the future. Students who live on cam-
pus without a car will still have access to the math lab because there is an O.U.T. bus that will take students to the Jackson Avenue Center.
Sophomore broadcast jour-nalism major Chandler Lewis said he has no problem with the math lab moving from Ki-nard, but he said he feels it will affect those without vehicles.
“I believe it’s fine if you have a car, it’s convenient, but if you don’t then it’s just a hassle,” Lewis said.
Junior geological engineer-ing major Jonathan Pender shared Lewis’ opinion.
“It inconveniences people that live on campus,” Pender said. “Many people that live on campus don’t have a car; having to find a way to the math lab or waiting for a bus may conflict with their sched-ule.”
Along with more space, Hunt said he feels students benefit from the Jackson Av-enue Center because it is a more appealing environment and more conducive to learn-ing.
“It’s also just more inviting with bright lights and good air conditioning,” Hunt said. “Willie Price (Lab School) is not downstairs, so there are not distractions from children running around outside.”
BY TAYLOR [email protected]
Taking advantage of Fulbright opportunityUniversity of mississippi biology doctoral student tim colston is the recipient of a 2012-13 fulbright scholarship and left this past week for ethiopia to study reptiles.
PHOTOS BY THOMAS GRANING | The Daily Mississippian
LEFT: Ole Miss law students RaToya Gilmer, Michael William and Ashley Hudson RIGHT: The University of Mississippi School of Law
See law school, PAGE 4
University of Mississippi biology doctoral student Tim Colston departed last week for Africa.
Colston, a lifelong lover of reptiles, was named as a re-cipient of a 2012-13 Fulbright Scholarship and will study under the direction of Abebe Getahun of Addis Ababa Uni-versity in Ethiopia for eight months.
In an interview with Ole Miss News, Colston said that
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Tim Colston, a biology doctoral student, was awarded the 2012-13 Fulbright Scholarship.
The University of Mis-sissippi School of Law was ranked among the top 10 best value law schools on Oct. 17 by the media organization On Being a Black Lawyer (OBABL).
The rankings were deter-mined by active alumni as-sociations, black student en-rollment and distinguished faculty.
The involvement of the Black Law Students Associa-tion (BLSA) on campus helps minority students adjust to the rigors of law school and
establishes a network of alumni and current students recognized in the ranking of the UM law school.
“The alumni network — I can’t emphasize how impor-tant that is when finding a job,” said BLSA Vice Presi-
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C O L U M N
This week vice presiden-tial nominee Paul Ryan promotes his budget plan around the country.
The Romney-Ryan budget promises to reduce the na-tional debt while also both consolidating and lowering existing individual income tax rates from six brackets into 10 and 25 percent cate-gories. The plan offsets these cuts by increasing the age at which Americans receive So-cial Security benefits (to age 67, in 2023), repealing the Affordable Care Act and de-creasing funding for non-de-fense discretionary spending (NDD) by $1.7 trillion over a 10-year period. The sig-nificant cuts in this category primarily focus on removing anti-poverty initiatives from the federal budget and shift-ing these services to states. (These programs include food stamps, Pell grants and
Medicaid, among others.)Ideological perspectives
on the Ryan budget vary. Socially liberal voices pro-
test the defunding of anti-poverty programs, while fis-cal conservatives see cuts as necessary to avert a debt cri-sis. The word “crisis” belies the reality that no proposed budget from either party balances the budget in any short-term sense, and Ryan’s plan includes increases in defense spending and de-creases in federal revenue (e.g. tax cuts).
This is not to imply that the national debt is not a se-rious issue, but rather that the rhetoric surrounding potential cuts in the budget often serves political agen-das beyond the scope of the American economy. Con-frontations over the nation-al debt inherently become ideological after a collective realization that debt levels must decrease, as party plat-forms dictate what gets cut
from the budget.What happens if Ryan’s
plan becomes law? Regard-less of ideological perspec-tive, the role of the state in anti-poverty programs changes.
This budget reduces feder-al funding of Medicaid from $628 billion to $332 billion and phases out food stamps by 2016 (These numbers, as well as those in the preced-ing paragraph, come from the Congressional Budget Office). A decrease of this level greatly reduces Medic-aid funding in Mississippi.
In 2007 the state received 83 percent of its Medicaid funding from the federal government. That translates into $3.3 billion of almost $4 billion spent. Without this federal funding, the state ei-ther reduces the number of people participating in the program or the benefits they receive, or raises the funds in another manner (higher taxes or the defunding of
other programs). The plan defunds more than just Med-icaid, and Mississippi will face serious budget shortfalls without increases in rev-enue. Taxpayers will either see their lower federal tax rates replaced with higher state taxes (unlikely, given the traditionally conserva-tive nature of the state) or see losses of once-federally funded services.
This dilemma points to an issue left largely unaddressed by either party: poverty.
The services Ryan plans to cut affect people both disre-garded in this election cycle and often more generally disenfranchised at the voting booth. One in six Americans live below the poverty line, and in Mississippi this statis-tic increases to one in five. Romney-Ryan supporters argue that maintaining these federal programs at the ex-pense of potentially lower
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Do judicial elections make sense?C O L U M N
A few weeks ago, I filled out my absentee ballot at the Madison County Courthouse. On the ballot was a race for Mississippi Supreme Court jus-tice. In the weeks since then, I have noticed quite a bit of cam-paigning for that race.
The more that I think about this race, the more it concerns me. For starters, the incum-bent, Bill Waller Jr., is the chief justice of Mississippi. This means it is possible for Missis-sippi’s top state judge to lose his seat this November.
Federally, as well as in the majority of states, judges are appointed to tenure in order to free them from backlash from voters for an unfavorable opin-ion. For instance, if a justice to-day ruled that under the U.S. Constitution segregation is lawful, he or she would likely be voted out of office, even if his or her opinion was founded in the Constitution, because segregation is unfavorable to-day.
Some might argue that any justice who would approve segregation today should be removed from office, but that defeats the whole purpose of the judicial branch.
However, most judicial races do not revolve around a single topic issue. In fact, most con-stituents are not even aware of judicial races until they get to the ballot.
Do we really want a position as important as Mississippi
Supreme Court justice to be decided by voters unaware of the race and the candidates in-volved?
Additionally, candidates for a judge position in Mississippi have to raise money in order to campaign for the position. This means that candidates could potentially be receiving cam-paign funds from citizens who might appear before them or one of their colleagues in court.
In his bestselling book “The Appeal,” John Grisham tells the story of a company that manipulated the Mississippi judicial elections. After it lost a big trial in Mississippi courts, it backed a candidate for the Mis-sissippi Supreme Court who would reverse the decision from the lower court. Aside from the eloquent storytelling, the fact remains that the plot of the story is not impossible.
Mississippi needs to recon-sider the way that judges are placed in office. The constitu-
tionality of laws and practices of Mississippi is far too impor-tant to be politicized.
However, there is an argu-ment that appointing judges is even more politically messy than electing them, since ap-pointments could be based on political favors rather than qualifications.
Due to checks and balances, any politically motivated ap-pointment would likely not be approved by the Mississippi Legislature when there is a lack of qualifications.
Rarely do I advocate more government autonomy from the voters, but this case is an exception. After all, the judi-cial branch is the ultimate form of checks and balances in the government, not the voters, when it comes to issues of con-stitutionality.
Trenton Winford is a junior public policy leadership major from Madison.
tax rates perpetuates cycli-cal poverty, but the fact remains that their tax plan is unproven, and there are people who don’t have jobs and can’t afford to buy food. Suggesting that such pro-grams exacerbate jobless-ness without acknowledging the pervasive joblessness in America exhibits a denial of reality, and a plan to reduce funding to crucial federally provided services simply shifts the burden to the states most unprepared to handle budget shortfalls.
From a political perspec-tive, Romney and Obama’s aversion to a frank assess-ment of poverty is under-standable, but as voters, we should characterize this aversion as unacceptable. Obama puts programs in
place to help low-income people, yet omits these suc-cesses in speeches leading up to the general election. Romney assumes that his lower tax rates will allevi-ate the issue, but a tenu-ous promise of eventual improvement does little for those receiving the benefits he hopes to eliminate.
Meghan Holmes is a second-year graduate Southern studies student from Arab, Alabama. You can follow her @styro-foamcup.
Dear Editor,
Sometimes policy problems can be resolved at a low cost, sometimes installing a stop light could go far in making our lives safer. I’ve seen count-less accidents at the intersec-tion between Thacker Heights Drive and Highway 6, near Waller Funeral Home. The intersection is the only access to the city of four major neigh-borhoods, so heavy traffic en-ters the ramp into an equally heavily trafficked highway. People are distracted and don’t expect other motorists to stop at the yield sign, and thus rear-end.
Recently a large SUV ran over my motorcycle. I could have easily died. After stand-ing up unharmed I looked at the funeral home just in front of my wrecked bike and thought ‘how convenient’.
I don’t have statistics at hand, but I am not the only
one who has received damage there. Personally, I had three accidents at the intersection. My neighbor also had three accidents. Employees of the nearby gas station told me they saw up to six accidents in one day. Same place, same dynamic: a distracted motorist rear ended at the yield sign.
Something as simple as in-stalling a stop light could go far in preventing motorists from running over each other. It could go far in protecting our properties. When it comes to cyclists or motorcyclists like me, it could save our lives. I love support businesses in Ox-ford. However, I hope not to support the funeral home any-time soon.
Sincerely Yours,Christian SellarAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Public Policy
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he hopes to promote conserva-tion by making people aware of Ethiopia’s diverse reptile populations and how geology, geography and changing cli-mates have affected these ani-mals.
“The endemic snake com-munity in the highlands versus the other snake community in the lowlands is an aspect that I would not have had in my Ph.D. studies,” Colston told Ole Miss News. “So that’s re-ally going to add a lot to our understanding of community evolution and assembly in
snakes, and reptiles in gen-eral.”
Colston said the Fulbright is the first step in what he sees as a long-term collaboration with Ethiopian academics.
“I am going to be spending eight months doing fieldwork and establishing contacts with park rangers and locals in the area that I will use throughout my career,” he said.
Colston had previously studied under the direction of his dissertation adviser Brice Noonan, an assistant professor of biology at The University of Mississippi.
Noonan said he is excited about the attention the biology program has received.
“For our department, this
award puts a public face on the strides the biology department is making in research,” Noon-an said. “We are publishing more papers, bringing in more research funding and attract-ing top-tier graduate students from across the country.”
Noonan said high-profile fel-lowships, like the Fulbright, enhance the global image and reputation of biology at Ole Miss.
“For our lab, Tim is under-taking some very interesting interdisciplinary work that ne-cessitates capital investment,” Noonan said. “This fellow-ship ensures the foundation of Tim’s research will not be limited in its scope, broaden-ing the impact of his findings.”
FULBRIGHT,continued from page 1
Robert C. Khayat Law Center THOMAS GRANING | The Daily MississippianTim Colston, the 2012-13 Fulbright Scholarship winner, studied under his dissertation adviser Brice Noonan (pictured above), an assistant professor at The University of Mississippi.
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dent Michael Williams. “It’s not what you know; it’s who you know.”
Second-year law student and BLSA member Ashley Hudson agreed with the law school’s high rank.
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can as a resident of Missis-sippi, you get a scholarship,” Hudson said.
Third-year law student and BLSA member RaToya Gilmer found the university and law school to be hospi-table.
“It was a transition for me coming from an HBCU (His-torically black colleges and universities),” Gilmer said. “The administration anda other students were very welcoming. I’ve met a lot of people and I’ve grown a lot.”
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a joint committee of faculty and students revive “everyone speaks” campaign with hopes of encouraging dialogue within the university community.
Ole Miss revives ‘Everyone Speaks’ campaign
A joint committee of faculty and students is re-launching the 1946 “Everyone Speaks” campaign for the University of Mississippi to encourage appreciation of diversity and communication among mem-bers of the Ole Miss commu-nity.
Everyone Speaks will go live in the upcoming spring semester after the comple-tion of survey collections by the committee.
To determine where the campaign should focus its ef-forts, members of the steer-ing committee will survey students in front of the Union this week.
Students will also be asked to fill out a simple question-naire about how they feel as members of the Ole Miss community — accepted, val-ued, ignored, or otherwise — and to compare their percep-tions of Ole Miss before they enrolled as a student.
The student committee is made up of Britni Riley, Lau-ren Williams, Lindsey Pham,
Margaret Ann Morgan, Sid Williams, and Veronica Tor-rey.
Students are supported by faculty members Danny Blanton, Deborah Purnell,
Greet Proovost, Lindsey Ab-ernathy, and Mary Stanton.
Senior journalism major and member of the student committee Margaret Ann Morgan asked that all Ole Miss students consider par-ticipating in the brief survey this week.
“This is all in an effort to understand what direction this campaign should take in making Ole Miss the most welcoming and all-inclusive place it can be for every single student, today and for years to come,” Morgan said.
Dean of Students Sparky Reardon is excited to see Ev-eryone Speaks making a re-turn to campus.
“It’s a wonderful aspiration for the University because we brag about being a hospitable place,” Reardon said. “And I think there’s no better way to do it than to speak to people.”
“It takes very little to say ‘hello’ to somebody, and your hello can be the differ-ence between a good day and a bad day.”
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While still in development, the Scion FR-S was code-named the FT-8 and was to be the spiritual successor to the Toyota Corolla AE86 — a car that has become a legend in the drifting scene with its cheap price, low weight and rear-wheel drive architecture.
On paper, the FR-S has all of those things with a start-ing price of $24,200, a curb weight of only 2,758 pounds and, as its predecessor, rear-wheel drive. But look beyond the paper because the FR-S is much more than that.
The FR-S was a joint col-laboration between Subaru and Toyota (parent company of Scion). The platform, chas-sis and engine were done by Subaru and most of the exte-rior design was done by Toy-ota. Subaru even has its own version of the car called the Subaru BRZ.
There is only one word to describe the exterior of the
FR-S: sexy. Starting with its LFA-like, shark-nose front end to the gorgeous 17-inch rims and ending with LED taillights and a rear diffuser with dual exhaust, the FR-S demands attention.
I can fault the designers for only one thing: a badge on the front fenders that has “86” surrounded by two hori-zontally opposed cylinders. It looks like a stuck-on after-thought and ruins the oth-erwise fluid lines of the car. Subaru, however, remedies this and replaces the badge with a simple vent on the BRZ.
There isn’t anything fancy about the interior of the FR-S, with the predominant color being flat black, and it is only interrupted by red stitching around the steering wheel and shift knob. However, the simple, easy-to-use radio and HVAC controls bring a sigh of relief for technophobic car guys like me.
I am 5-foot-8 and 170 pounds, and the driver seat in
the FR-S fits me like a glove without an inch of wiggle room. This is perfect for peo-ple my size and smaller, as the seats hold you still in the tightest of turns. But if you’re 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds, you might want to look elsewhere.
The seats are also on the hard side and might get tir-ing on a long road trip. The back seats are about as big and comfortable as the ones in the battery-powered cars children drive. Not to men-tion, it would take Houdini to get in and out of them.
The back seats do have some usefulness in that they fold down to extend the meager 7 cubic feet of trunk space.
The 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine is arranged in the typi-cal Subaru “boxer” format, meaning the cylinders are horizontally opposed in an H-pattern, compared to a typ-ical V or in-line arrangement. This allows the car to have a low center of gravity and aids in handling performance.
Subaru didn’t do all the work on the engine though, with Toyota providing its di-rect and port fuel injection system with four injectors in-jecting directly into the com-bustion chamber and four injecting into the intake port.
The engine is good for 200 horsepower and 151 pound per foot of torque. While this may seem like a meager output compared to most cars today, the engine is re-sponsive and feels like it has double that. Sixty miles per hour comes in at 6.3 seconds, which puts it on par with cars like the Hyundai Gen-esis Coupe 2.0T and Mazda Miata.
Our test car came equipped with the Aisen 6-speed man-ual gearbox similar to the one used in the Lexus IS. It has very crisp, precise shifts and is the best-feeling shift-er I’ve felt since the S2000. A 6-speed automatic is also available, but only get it if it’s necessary. This car is worth learning how to drive in man-
ual. Equipped with the 6-speed
manual, the FR-S gets an En-vironmental Protection Agen-cy-rated 22 miles per gallon in the city and 30 mpg on the highway and takes premium gas only. However, drive the FR-S like it’s meant to be, and you will certainly see lower numbers.
The handling of the FR-S is similar to a Miata’s. It is very neutral and will show you how good a driver you are. Turn the traction control off and mash the gas pedal in a corner and the back end will slide out, smoke and all, de-spite its low horsepower. So, yes, like the AE86, it would make a decent drift car, but I think it would be more at home on an autocross track.
With its responsive engine, slick-shifting transmission and agile handling, the FR-S is about as fun as you can have in the front seat of a car. It is one of the few cars I have driven whose keys I hated to give up. It is a guy’s car.
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sportsSPORTS | 24 OCTOBER 2012 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 9
Diamond Rebels begin Fall World Series today
The Ole Miss baseball team will wrap up its fall practice this week with its annual Fall World Series at Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field beginning with game one this afternoon.
The Rebel roster will be di-vided in two with the squads competing against each other for bragging rights in a best-of-three series. Game one begins at 2:45 p.m. to-day and is open to the pub-lic. Game times for game two and three (if necessary) are yet to be determined.
The Red team, managed by Brett Huber, will send right-hander Scott Weath-ersby to the mound to start game one today. The Blue team, managed by Tanner Mathis, will counter by send-ing Chris Ellis to the mound.
“It’s going to be fun,” Hu-ber said. “Tanner (Mathis)
and I both have pretty even teams. I tried to get as many hitters as I could, but I went for guys I know will go out there and compete hard. If we get game one, I think we should be ok. That’s the most important game. I feel confident with Scott (Weath-ersby) taking the mound for us in game one.”
“I’m looking for a really good competition and for us to do what we’ve done all fall and that’s come out with high energy and play to compete for a champion-ship,” Mathis said.
The Rebels have been practicing for the last month in preparation for the 2013 season that will open on Fri-day, February 15 with the first game of a three-game series against TCU at Ox-ford-University Stadium/Swayze Field.
O L E M I S S S P O R T S I N F O R M A T I O N
Senior right-hander Brett HuberFILE PHOTO (ALEX EDWARDS) | The Daily Mississippian
Morgan leading by example
When junior outside hitter Kara Morgan sat out the loss to Alabama last month with an an-kle injury, it was apparent that the success of the Lady Rebels volleyball team depended on Morgan’s successes on the court.
Since arriving at Ole Miss, Morgan has been an important asset to the team. Besides sit-ting out the Alabama game, the Pickens, S.C., native has played in every match as a Lady Rebel, including all 109 sets last season and 70 of the 74 sets this season.
“Kara has really developed into our go-to player,” head coach Joe Getzin said. “She’s now leading the team in kills and hitting percentage, and she’s been a starter for three years here.”
She started playing volleyball in 7th grade, and according to Morgan, there was no question about where she wanted to play
in college. “My club coach really helped
me in the recruiting process,” Morgan said. “He knew (Getzin) from South Carolina, so he got me connected. There was no other question. I came here, I loved everything about it, I loved the girls and it was just a perfect fit for me.”
Last season, Morgan was sec-ond on the team with 266 kills, averaging 2.44 per set. Even though she had a significant role on offense, she has stepped up her game this season, currently leading the team in kills with 228, averaging 3.26 per set.
To go along with her team lead in kills, she also leads the team in serve aces with 20, and she is in the top four on the team with 142 digs.
Morgan also has 220 more total attacks than senior outside hitter Allegra Wells, who is sec-ond on the team in that catego-ry, and Getzin said that shows their team is not moving and
passing the ball well on offense. Getzin is pleased with Mor-
gan’s production in matches though and values her leader-ship role on and off the court.
“Kara is one of our captains,” Getzin said. “I think on the court it’s more by example, and off the court she makes sure that everyone has their ducks in a row.”
Being a co-captain on the team, Morgan is a natural leader and the player teammates look to during the games, but it takes more than a co-captain title to be a leader.
“I think my role as a leader is really to just have a big voice and a lot of enthusiasm,” Mor-gan said. “Constantly talking on the court and picking people up when they’re down and just having fun with it.”
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through 20 games this season, junior outside hitter Kara morgan has played a large role as both a statistical and emotional leader for the lady rebels.
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It was, however, present at South Panola High School, a nationally recognized foot-ball powerhouse. Gross has carried that winning confi-dence over to Oxford.
“Anytime those guys from South Panola come here and you play with them, and I’ve played with some guys from South Panola before, you know the mindset and
the mentality that they have because they’re winners,” Johnson said. “They’ve won all their life.”
For Gross, there was really no other option.
“I just knew I was going to come out here, and I was go-ing to give it my all,” Gross said. “I knew I was going to try my best.”
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NFL players. If they think this is going to be even close to be-ing easy, then there is no way. Our guys practiced extremely well today, and we just have to get better tomorrow.”
Hilton stepping up at huskie
True freshman Mike Hilton has seen his playing time in-crease dramatically over the past few weeks after turning in solid performances in his re-cent appearances. On the year, Hilton has recorded 14 tackles and two sacks and forced a fumble.
“He is like a lot of these young kids that have gotten better,” head coach Hugh Freeze said. “I think he has continued to
improve, particularly in prac-tice, thus his playing time has been elevated and he’s given us a little flexibility there to make some moves on the back end and give us some more depth. I’ve been real pleased with the way he is progressing.”
Hilton said he has tried to take advantage of every oppor-tunity he is given to play and has worked hard to receive playing time.
“I’ve been taking my time and learning the whole sys-tem,” Hilton said.
“I’ve trusted the coaches most importantly. I’ve been making my plays when I get the opportunity. I had to sit back and wait my turn, but now, I’ve got my opportunity, and I just have to make the best of it. I just worked hard, watched a lot of film and asked a lot of questions, so I could
learn the scheme just like that.”Sawyer and Elston sit
outJunior cornerback Charles
Sawyer and freshman safety Trae Elston sat out Tuesday’s practice with minor injuries. Freeze said Sawyer and Elston could have practiced, but the staff decided to sit them.
“We want to make sure they are ready to go,” Freeze said. “I fully expect them to be full go tomorrow. They probably could have gone today, but just trying to make sure we are healthy for this last stretch.
“Charles has a sore ankle, and Trae has a sore knee. Nothing structural, just a little inflammation.”
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The Southeastern Confer-ence rolled out its 2013 football schedule this past Thursday. And upon first glance, it ap-pears SEC commissioner Mike Slive had it out for the Rebels when he and his minions pieced together Ole Miss’ ’13 schedule.
Why so bad?For starters, Ole Miss has
only one home game — a Sept. 7 matchup with Southeast Mis-souri — during the first six weeks of the season. Then, the Reb-els play six consecutive home matchups from Oct. 12 to Nov. 23 before traveling to Mississip-pi State to close out the season. (It must be noted that Ole Miss has two bye weeks in 2013: One Sept. 21 and another on Nov. 2.)
Additionally, the Rebels are at Alabama for a second con-secutive year. That’s quite a daunting task, considering Nick Saban, the SEC’s resident mi-ser/football genius, doesn’t be-lieve in losing football games, especially at home.
Surely squeaky-clean Hugh Freeze didn’t do anything to deserve a schedule so laughable on the surface that it doesn’t seem out of the question that Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen didn’t draw it up him-self.
And there are other implica-tions to such an odd schedule. Oxford restaurants and busi-nesses rely heavily on the influx of spending that occurs during home football weekends. But with only one of those during the first six weeks of the semes-ter, those restaurants and busi-nesses will surely take a finan-cial hit. Likewise, during the Rebels’ six-game home stand, it’s very unlikely that many families will be able to attend all of those games during such a compact time period. Another financial hit for Oxford restau-rants and businesses.
With that being said, from a
football standpoint, the sched-ule isn’t as bad as it seems.
There key here is for Ole Miss to weather the early storm, and if they can do that, things set up well on the back end of the schedule. That means start-ing the season 2-2 with games at Vanderbilt, against Southeast Missouri, at Texas and at Ala-bama.
After that, the Rebels are at Auburn, a team that, as Ole Miss fans saw a few weeks ago, is a dumpster fire to say the least. With Gene Chizik likely done as the Tigers’ coach any day now, who knows what this team will resemble next year?
Then, conveniently, come six consecutive home games (Tex-as A&M, LSU, Idaho, Arkan-sas, Troy and Missouri). And while I’m not saying the Rebels will win them all, none of those matchups, besides LSU, are all that intimidating.
Plus, the Rebels get Texas A&M at home again. That’s the trade-off with traveling to Alabama in consecutive years, and I’m here to tell you that it’s a good one. It doesn’t matter if Ole Miss plays the Crimson Tide in Oxford or Tuscaloosa — the Rebels are significant under-dogs in either place. But Texas A&M in Oxford, as opposed to in College Station, significantly increases Ole Miss’ chances at victory.
Finally, there’s the finale at Mississippi State, a game that should be interesting consider-ing the Rebels appear to have a competent coach roaming the sidelines of Vaught-Heming-way Stadium.
On its surface, the 2013 Ole Miss football schedule appears to be hodgepodge of games thrown together by Slive and company at the last possible moment. A closer look, how-ever, reveals an opportunity for Freeze and the Rebels to build on what has already been an impressive start in Oxford.
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Junior cornerback Charles Sawyer missed Tuesday’s practiceFILE PHOTO (AUSTIN MCAFEE) | The Daily Mississippian
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As the Ole Miss women’s soccer regular season comes to an end, it’s also nearing the end for the three Lady Rebel seniors, midfielders Alix Hil-dal and Meghan O’Rourke and defender Emily Sinovich.
For these three veterans, it is all about enjoying it while it lasts. The team honored them Sunday on senior day during a pregame ceremony before the final home game of their careers.
“It was special what they did for us,” Hildal said.
While this season has not met the team’s expectations, Ole Miss is still going to the Southeastern Conference Tournament after a two-year absence. For O’Rourke and Sinovich, it is an achievement they thought might never hap-pen.
“It’s awesome, honest-ly,” O’Rourke said. “I know Sino (Sinovich) and I haven’t made it to the beach since we’ve been here. Alix has made it once. I’m proud of
this team, how far we’ve come in a couple of years.”
While Hildal has been to the tournament before, she had another repeat honor at the beginning of the season, earn-ing her second preseason All-SEC honor of her Ole Miss career. Hildal has also started every game for the Rebels during her four years here.
Team chemistry is one of the main things the three seniors have enjoyed during their fi-nal season.
“The team has been really close this year,” Hildal said. “It’s been a really good senior year. They’ve made it easy be-ing seniors.”
Head coach Matt Mott ac-knowledged the significance of losing the seniors’ experi-ence next season.
“Great character,” Mott said of the seniors. “Alix has been just awesome her entire career for us. “One of the best play-ers that ever put on the Ole Miss jersey,” he said. “Sino and Meghan coming in as transfers has just done a lot for the culture of our team. I’m going to miss them a lot.”
With 11 freshmen on the team this year, the need for that kind of leadership would seem obvious, but with how well the young group per-formed on the field this sea-son, the seniors’ job was much easier.
“They are definitely a crazy bunch, but they’re good soc-cer players and it helps us on the soccer field,” Hildal said of the freshmen.
O’Rourke, who was a trans-fer from Mercer University, played at Ole Miss for two seasons and has played in 15 games and has one goal.
Sinovich, who transferred from The University of Ala-bama-Birmingham in 2011, played two seasons for the Lady Rebels. During her career at Ole Miss, she has played in 35 games and start-ed in eight games during the
2012 season.The seniors will close out
their final regular season on Thursday night in Starkville against Mississippi State and hope to continue the year at the SEC Tournament, which starts on Monday in Orange Beach, Ala.
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the ole miss women’s soccer team has been highlighted all season long by the young talent throughout the roster, but midfielders alix hildal and meghan o’rourke and defender emily sinovich have all provided valuable senior leadership.
Rebel soccer seniors enjoying their final seasons
PHOTOS BY TYLER jACKSON | The Daily Mississippian
LEFT: Senior midfielder Alix Hildal embraces a teammate during senior day activities this past Sunday. MIDDLE AND RIGHT: midfielder Meghan O’Rourke and defender Emily Sinovich accept flowers during pregame.
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Defense prepares for Arkansas offense
Gross eXceeDING eXpectatIoNs
Ole Miss will be facing off with one of the Southeastern Conference’s most powerful offenses in Arkansas this week-end. The Rebels (4-3, 1-2 SEC) will be forced to stop senior quarterback Tyler Wilson, who leads the SEC in passing yards per game (326.2 ypg), and se-nior receiver Cobi Hamilton, who leads the SEC in receiving yards per game (107.7 ypg).
“He can read coverages,” defensive coordinator Dave Wommack said of Wilson. “He can understand what you’re try-ing to do with your defense. You step one way, and he’s going another way. He knows where to go with the ball, and he has great presence on the field. I don’t think he gets flustered.”
Despite a lackluster start to the season, the Razorbacks have won two conference games in a row with wins over Auburn and Kentucky before heading into their bye week last weekend, and a large part of the turnaround has been their offense, which has scored 24 and 49 points in those two wins, respectively.
“I think they do a really good job with their offense,” he said. “They are very organized. They know what they are do-ing. They get that across to their players and that is why they’ve been successful on offense.”
The Arkansas running game has also stepped things up the past two weeks with junior Knile Davis and senior Dennis Johnson carrying the load. Da-vis has rushed for 337 yards this season with two touchdowns, while Johnson has rushed for 328 yards and five touchdowns.
“Davis has played better,” Wommack said. “That is the biggest thing. They were turn-ing the ball over a bunch. I think they lost confidence in Davis for a while, but I think it has come back.”
Wommack is stressing to his players this week not to focus on the Razorbacks’ record (3-4, 2-2 SEC), but to realize that the team is still filled with playmak-ers on offense.
“They’ve got NFL players all over the place,” Wommack said. “The tight end, the wide receiv-er Hamilton, the quarterback, the running back — they’ve got
the ole miss defense has a tough task this weekend in the balanced attack of arkansas, led by senior quarterback tyler wilson.
freshman defensive tackle issac Gross hasn’t taken long to make an impact for the ole miss football program. through the first seven games of his career, Gross has totaled 18 tackles, four tackles for loss, one and a half sacks and a quarterback hurry.
Freshman defensive tackle Issac Gross records a sack in a game against UTEP earlier this season.FILE PHOTO (QUENTIN WINSTINE) | The Daily Mississippian
Double teams are usually reserved for veteran defen-sive linemen who have both the physical presence and a multitude of pass-rushing moves to beat an offensive lineman in different ways.
With that said, you can imagine Issac Gross’ sur-prise when Auburn came out and put double teams on the undersized but quick freshman defensive tackle.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Gross said. “In high school when you get double-teamed, it means you’re a target. You’re causing havoc somewhere.
“I didn’t like being dou-ble-teamed because dou-ble teams wear your body down. When you’re getting double-teamed, especially in my position, you know you’re doing something spe-cial out there.”
Gross’ play so far this sea-son could certainly qualify as special, as the 260-pound-er has been consistently out-weighed by 30 to 50 pounds by opposing offensive line-men yet has managed to re-cord 18 tackles, four tackles for loss, one and a half sacks and a quarterback hurry.
There was some debate among the coaching staff prior to the season about whether it was smart to play Gross at his current size or if he could even be effective. His play in camp after ar-riving on campus made that decision an easy one.
“That was the discussion,” Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze said. “It would be nice to redshirt every fresh-man, but he kept showing up in practice as a guy that just makes plays. He’s so explosive off of the football. Yes, he’s 260 pounds, and you wish he was 290, but he is what he is right now. He’s
more than held his own.“The last thing we wanted
him to do at 260 pounds was to go through that stretch of Texas, Texas A&M, Al-abama, Auburn and get dumped on his head a few times and his confidence be rattled. We’re proud to say that that has not happened. Issac has answered every challenge that he’s been is-sued.”
For a player of Gross’ stat-ure, it takes a quick first step and an extremely high mo-tor to play at the level re-quired to be effective.
A Batesville native and former South Panola High School standout, Gross said that pride for his home state motivates him on the field.
“I just like to play foot-ball,” Gross said. “I love be-ing at home, a Mississippi guy. When I go out there on that field, I feel like I’m playing for the whole Mis-sissippi.
“I just play with a lot of passion for my state, a lot of passion for the team.”
That passion is something his teammates have noticed about Gross as well.
Junior cornerback Charles Sawyer, one of the few vet-eran players on a young de-fense, said Gross’ attitude is why he isn’t surprised by the tackle’s early success.
“No, I’m not surprised at all,” Sawyer said. “That guy has a big heart, and every time he works, he does it with a passionate desire to be successful.”
Sophomore defensive end C.J. Johnson has seen an-other part of Gross’ mental-ity that puts him at an early advantage.
It’s the confidence that comes with winning, some-thing that wasn’t present at Ole Miss when Gross ar-rived.
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