DailyMississippian thedmonline.com Vol. 100 No. 183 Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011 The inside David Saunders, a former University of Mississippi as- sistant football coach, filed a notice of claim this summer against the university for a vi- olation of contract and dam- ages. Saunders said he believes UM athletic director Pete Boone retaliated against him for his work with student ath- letes with learning disabilities. The former linebackers coach claims Boone violated the Re- habilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabili- ties Act. He is seeking dam- ages for “anxiety, stress and lost income.” The notice of claim stat- ed that then first-year head coach Houston Nutt offered Saunders a coaching position in 2008, a position which in- volved aiding athletes with learning disabilities. Soon afterward, Boone eliminated the position. Saunders then spent time working with a nonprofit or- ganization, but he still gave Nutt advice on helping stu- dent-athletes remain eligible to play. According to the claim, Nutt continued to tell Saunders he wanted him on his staff and Former football coach may seek damages from university BY JOHN MCEACHIN [email protected]PHOTO COURTESY OLE MISS SPORTS INFORMATION ‘A Resistant Mind’: Honors College Convocation P. 5 Fiddlin’ Rooster Farms fundraises for St. Jude P. 6 The University of Mississippi has 12,622 parking available spac- es, of which, 14,590 were sold. You read that right. While most decal types were undersold based on spaces, 4,268 students who purchased the commuter/law commuter decal could be out of a space at any given time, if all 7,722 commuters tried to fit into the 3,454 available spaces. According to officials with UM Parking Services, that scenario is not likely. “Not all commuters are on campus at the same time,” a park- ing service release said. “They go and come throughout the day.” Students are feeling the effects of the over 2-to-1 commuters per parking space, however, including junior Candace Ball, who has a Campus Walk decal, which also has access to commuter spots. “Commuter parking sucks; it is terrible,” the business finance and hospitality management double major said. “Tuesday, I had to park at the basketball arena and run to Peabody in four minutes, so I wouldn’t be late for class and a test.” Ball said she has been late to class because she couldn’t find a spot and has received two tickets this week, parking in faculty spots so she could get to class on time. “I did not know it was a faculty spot,” Ball said. “The sign was covered up by a bush.” Parking Services Director Lin- da Christian admits that parking is particularly bad for commuter students, but she said part of the problem might be that commut- ers are not utilizing the east side of campus. “At the beginning of the semes- University Parking Services oversells commuter decals BY LEAH CAYSON AND CAIN MADDEN [email protected], [email protected]See PARKING, PAGE 6 INFOGRAPHIC BY PETRE THOMAS | The Daily Mississippian Check theDMonline. com Saturday for a live blog from the Vanderbilt game See COACH, PAGE 5 Left number represents the number of parking spots available in each section. Right number represents the number of parking decals sold for each section. Six lots are currently oversold.
David Saunders, a former University of Mississippi as-sistant football coach, filed a notice of claim this summer against the university for a vi-olation of contract and dam-
ages.Saunders said he believes
UM athletic director Pete Boone retaliated against him for his work with student ath-letes with learning disabilities. The former linebackers coach claims Boone violated the Re-habilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabili-ties Act. He is seeking dam-
ages for “anxiety, stress and lost income.”
The notice of claim stat-ed that then first-year head coach Houston Nutt offered Saunders a coaching position in 2008, a position which in-volved aiding athletes with learning disabilities. Soon afterward, Boone eliminated the position.
Saunders then spent time working with a nonprofit or-ganization, but he still gave Nutt advice on helping stu-dent-athletes remain eligible to play.
According to the claim, Nutt continued to tell Saunders he wanted him on his staff and
Former football coach may seek damages from universityBY JOHN [email protected]
PHOTO COURTESY OLE MISS SPORTS INFORMATION
‘A Resistant Mind’: Honors College Convocation
P. 5
Fiddlin’ Rooster Farms fundraises for St. Jude
P. 6
The University of Mississippi has 12,622 parking available spac-es, of which, 14,590 were sold.
You read that right. While most decal types were undersold based on spaces, 4,268 students who
purchased the commuter/law commuter decal could be out of a space at any given time, if all 7,722 commuters tried to fit into the 3,454 available spaces.
According to officials with UM Parking Services, that scenario is not likely.
“Not all commuters are on campus at the same time,” a park-ing service release said. “They go
and come throughout the day.”Students are feeling the effects
of the over 2-to-1 commuters per parking space, however, including junior Candace Ball, who has a Campus Walk decal, which also has access to commuter spots.
“Commuter parking sucks; it is terrible,” the business finance and hospitality management double major said. “Tuesday, I had to
park at the basketball arena and run to Peabody in four minutes, so I wouldn’t be late for class and a test.”
Ball said she has been late to class because she couldn’t find a spot and has received two tickets this week, parking in faculty spots so she could get to class on time.
“I did not know it was a faculty spot,” Ball said. “The sign was
covered up by a bush.”Parking Services Director Lin-
da Christian admits that parking is particularly bad for commuter students, but she said part of the problem might be that commut-ers are not utilizing the east side of campus.
“At the beginning of the semes-
University Parking Services oversells commuter decals
INFOGRAPHIC BY PETRE THOMAS | The Daily Mississippian
Check theDMonline.com Saturday for a live blog from the Vanderbilt game
See COACH, PAGE 5
Left number represents the number of parking spots available in each section. Right number represents the number of parking decals sold for each section. Six lots are currently oversold.
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Imagine being 16-years-old and having a degree in psychol-ogy and a plan to finish medical school in another two years; this would be an amazing accom-plishment, to say the least.
It’s a definite testament to the term “gifted.” But it’s also a fact that the public schools in Andrew Almazán’s hometown of Mexico City didn’t contribute much to his early success.
In an article that ran in the Mi-ami Herald, Almazán said that
millions of exceptionally talent-ed youngsters in Latin America are being pushed out of public schools due to a lack of gifted-student programs.
He told the Herald that when he was in elementary school he became bored with the classroom activities and found himself get-ting into trouble with his teachers for challenging what they were saying in class. They viewed him as a “troublemaker” and diag-nosed him with attention deficit disorder, even though he had an IQ of 162, higher than even that of Albert Einstein.
Almazán said that in Mexico about 95 percent of highly gifted students are not being identified as such. Instead, teachers are pronouncing them as trouble-some and ADD problematic, as
they did in his case. But this problem is not exclu-
sive to Mexico. Reports from the president of Argentina’s Founda-tion for the Evolution of Talent and Creativity, Maria del Car-men Maggio, show that teachers don’t want to have to study hard-er to give gifted students special attention and authorities don’t want to come across as support-ing those with the biggest talents.
This is unbelievable and unac-ceptable for the 21st century.
To have young students dis-playing the kind of promise that Andrew Almazán (and others like him) had and for teachers to dub these kids as “troublemak-ers” due to their own laziness, is a reprehensible act that should be dealt with by the administrations of the schools.
That, or let the kids handle it with a retribution of their own; maybe lock them in the class-room and make them listen to an entire Ricky Martin CD over and over.
After a few million grueling rounds of “Livin’ la Vida Loca,” I’m sure they would see the error of their ways.
After all, what’s crazier than not wanting to help talented stu-dents reach their full potential?
Most teachers feel it is their obligation to assist these kids in learning to handle and direct such amazing intellect toward fu-ture goals that are right for their personalities. Teachers are nur-turers of our children and every one I personally know is dedicat-ed and is given the resources to work with these wonderfully tal-
ented young people. Any public school system, whether in Latin America or here in our own country, that doesn’t encourage their teachers to put forth every effort and ability to help students like Andrew, should sit down and rethink its priorities.
Our kids’ education is one of the most important assets that the future of our planet has.
It’s not just isolated results that actions like this produce — it’s a global issue.
We all feel the repercussions from those teachers who don’t feel it’s their responsibility to as-sist our children.
Think about it.
Angela Rogalski is a senior print journalism major who lives in Abbeville. Follow her on Twitter @abbeangel.
It’s all around us. It doesn’t sleep. Many die from it. It de-stroys dreams.
It’s used as a means for so-cial mobility and political con-trol. It can be found most in Mississippi, and is often char-acterized as a plague moving throughout regions like the Mississippi Delta and the Ala-bama Black Belt.
It’s poverty. In Mississippi, the poverty
rate currently stands at 23 percent, whereas the national poverty rate is 15 percent, meaning folks within these percentages with a family of four are earning less than $22,000 a year.
We can’t hide from poverty, despite living in one of the richest nations.
Instead of hiding from it and leaving people in a system that never gives them the opportu-nity to move up the social lad-der, we should be addressing the issue of poverty head on.
Currently in Mississippi, the unemployment rate stands at 10.3 percent. Most economists would argue that high unem-ployment rates increase the poverty rate and low unem-ployment rates decrease the poverty rate.
While that is true in most cases, Mississippi is unique.
That phenomenon does not hold true for Mississippi, even with low unemployment rates, like in 2001 when it was at 4.9 percent, the poverty rate was at 19.3 percent.
It is evident that poverty in Mississippi goes beyond em-ployment; it reaches to the depths of education, commu-
nity engagement and politics. If we are to truly move for-
ward as a state, we must ad-dress poverty.
It’s at the core of our prob-lems, and it creates a repeat-ing cycle of nothingness.
Unfortunately, some politi-cal leaders in Mississippi fear that addressing poverty weak-ens their political power and control. Evidence shows that the more educated citizens are, the more likely they are to be civically engaged.
For far too long, the legis-lature and executive branch have failed to fund poverty study and develop a strategic plan for addressing poverty in Mississippi.
Poverty is at the core of our disparities, not only in Missis-sippi, but also across the na-tion.
The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households,
according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly avail-able government data from 2009.
These numbers further di-vide us.
They create a repeating cycle of dependence on gov-ernment programs that are steadily at the risk of being defunded.
Just last week, when mem-bers of the Mississippi legisla-ture sought to inset a study for minority business contracts in a jobs bill, Gov. Haley Barbour rejected it, arguing, “One day people will learn how to do things the easy way.”
Unfortunately in Missis-sippi, we have always taken the easy way out, neglecting our impoverished communi-ties, further increasing their dependence on government programs, and then later de-funding them.
As political candidates are gearing up for the upcoming
election year and discussing their plans to move Mississippi to the next level, we must chal-lenge them to address poverty head. Then we have to take personal responsibility in our communities and ask our-selves, “What have we done to address the poverty crisis in Mississippi?”
Every night there are many that both go to bed hungry and wake up each morning jobless.
Sadly, there’s a new case of this each day.
This easy way out has led us to a repeating cycle of being No. 1 in everything bad and last in everything good.
I call on Mississippians to challenge our political leaders to fund a poverty study and develop strategic plans for at-tacking poverty in Mississippi.
Cortez Moss is a senior public policy leadership major from Cal-houn City.
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“Don’t Worry — We’ll Get More!” I saw this slogan on a poster in the 1993 movie “Su-per Mario Brothers.”
In the movie, a dystopian, fungus-infested Manhattan is ruled under the thumb of Dennis Hopper, who sees the city’s resources dwindling.
The poster in question pro-moted Dennis Hopper’s char-acter, King Koopa, as an envi-ronmentalist whose solution to the problems facing his people is to find more.
Anyone who understands anything about entropy realizes that while earth is not a closed system, we certainly aren’t go-ing to suddenly get more fresh water from the sunlight that powers our planet. Oil doesn’t spontaneously form out of nothing.
If there is some process that we don’t understand that pro-duces oil, clearly it isn’t enough to satiate our appetite for the black stuff.
How is our present consump-tion even sustainable? Ask a politician, and they might say, “We’ll get more.” Certainly, however, science disagrees with this. Anyone capable of using EBSCOhost could find vari-ous articles about the potential dangers we face in the future if we continue at our current rate of consumption.
When I met Mississippi Rep. Alan Nunnelee at a town hall in New Albany, his answer to our energy woes seemed to be mountaintop removal and hy-draulic fracturing.
Apparently to sustain our-selves, we must destroy our en-vironment and set our drinking water on fire.
Of course, the “drill, baby, drill” sentiment isn’t the only problem facing our non-re-newable resources.
Drinkable fresh water could become scarce, food resources could die off and pretty much anything we have to mine for will likely become harder and harder to find on our planet.
We can’t always get more. We live on a planet with a
finite amount of resources for everyone involved and lack the ability to mine our celestial neighbors.
I can’t imagine the kind of person who actually believes we’ll never run out of resourc-es. Perhaps it comes from the idea that we’re the exclusive executors of our planet’s es-tate; that whatever resources the planet possesses are ours for the exploiting.
Frankly, I don’t think this is a moral response to our prob-lems. Even if our species is the only one that counts, our con-sumption certainly undermines the ability of our successors to survive and thrive.
We’ve treated our planet as a credit card for far too long.
We don’t have another one to move to just yet, and we don’t have the tools to get our resources from elsewhere ei-ther.
While that day may eventu-ally come, if we don’t find a way to reliably sustain our con-sumption, we won’t make it.
The universe isn’t infinite and neither are our resources.
By all means, I don’t want anyone’s business to suffer, but if we don’t find a way to curb our civilization’s environ-mental hemorrhaging, those businesses won’t exist in the future.
I’m not sure why our repre-sentatives and corporate oli-garchs don’t understand this.
It’s certainly in their best in-terests to be sustainable. Even if they don’t think so, what is their ultimate goal? What is the point of this accumulation of wealth if there is no way to sustain it?
Perhaps the endgame is to put those who are destroying our ability to sustain civiliza-tion on a rocket and fire them into space in the hopes they can find new planets to destroy.
I’d hope, in that case, they fly right into a star or stray too close to a supernova.
That would end their reign of destruction real quick.
Alan-Michael White is a senior English major and linguistics minor from Dumas.
I read in the Sept. 13 edi-tion of The Daily Mississip-pian that Oxford School Dis-trict Superintendent Brian Harvey has decided to adopt an abstinence-only curricu-lum for sex education classes in the district.
His decision comes at a mo-ment when our state has the highest rate of teens giving birth, the third-highest teen pregnancy rate, and the high-est rates of teen chlamydia and gonorrhea in the nation.
In following his line of thinking, I have discovered several ways to save money, time and effort.
1. If your house is burn-ing down, don’t call the fire department — it might start raining!
2. If you’re sick, don’t go to the doctor. Just hope to get well on your own.
If you get worse, the answer is obvious: You’re not hoping hard enough!
3. Don’t worry about doing your housework either: Little fairies might appear during the night to do the dishes and fold the laundry.
(On weekends, yard elves might come to do the lawn, too, so we can watch football all weekend.)
The data accumulated by the state and federal public health officials is incontro-vertible:
Abstinence-only sex educa-tion has little to no effect on addressing these serious pub-lic health issues.
Harvey, you don’t get to choose your reality.
You do get to choose how to respond, though, and I think you need to pull your head out of the sand and deal with the reality our state’s teens faces.
Daniel E. O’Sullivan, Ph.D. Associate professor, modern
languages Senior Fellow, the Residen-
tial College South
Letter to the Editor CorrectionA column on page two of
Wednesday’s paper incor-rectly stated the champion-ships won by the Ole Miss Rebels. The Rebel football team claims three national championships from 1959, 1960 and 1962, based on polls by polling organiza-tions such as Sararin, Foot-ball Writers and Billingsley.
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Getting into college is a game — the college admissions game.
Former Yale professor William Deresiewicz spoke at the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College Fall Convocation Mon-day night about college students.
According to Deresiewicz, the college admissions system has cre-ated a funnel for getting in that is creating a narrow student — one who is part Ivy League elite, also known as a 19th century aristo-crat, and part 20th century tech-nocrat.
“You take advanced classes, standardized tests and spend the rest of your time on extracurricu-lar activities,” he said.
“There is no such thing as time off; there is no time for yourself.”
On top of that, the student also has to be athletic, personable and passionate about a particular sub-ject, but not so much so that they slack off on all the other subjects.
If that isn’t enough, the student has to be committed to service and leadership.
“It is not enough to be in stu-dent government — you have to run it,” Deresiewicz said.
And this system of resume-building does not stop once stu-dents get into college, Deresie-wicz said.
Students have to continue to strive for excellence and not do anything unless it improves their resumes for work or graduate school.
Unfortunately, Deresiewicz said, students on this path look better on paper than they do in reality.
“The system has taught you to avoid risk,” he said. “You learn to measure yourself by other’s stan-dards and not your own. Think-ing stops once you leave the class-room.”
Students are not taking time to learn about themselves or what they really want to do, but rather are becoming what other people want them to become.
Deresiewicz thinks students should resist these molds.
“Being resistive means taking risks, not playing it safe,” he said.
“We have to unthink what we know. Reach your own conclu-
sions.”Deresiewicz said that to do this,
students have to learn that soli-tude and loneliness are different things. Solitude is actually a good thing, which allows a student time for inner communication.
Deresiewicz recommended four broad ways to seek internal knowledge through solitude: sit-ting still, whether by the shore or in your room; keeping a journal; having long conversations with a close friend; or through reading.
“By friendship, I do not mean 968 friends on Facebook bounc-ing messages off of each other,” he said. “That is not friendship, that is a distraction.”
Deresiewicz said one of the best things about college is a door that students can shut and be alone with their thoughts.
“A liberal arts education should give you recognition of yourself — humanities are a different form of knowledge than science,” he said. “Science is about exter-nal reality, while humanities are concerned with internal reality.
“It is not quantifiable or vari-able, and it changes from person to person.”
‘A Resistant Mind,’ what you ought to get from a liberal arts education
Author William Deresiewicz answers questions from students at the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College Convocation. Deresiewicz is the author of two books, and has been published nationally in publications, including the New York Times and the London Book Review.
believed he could make it happen if the Rebels were successful in the 2009 season. The Rebels went 9-4 that year and captured a second-straight Cotton Bowl victory.
“To avoid Coach Nutt’s pursuit of other employment opportunities, Mr. Boone agreed to a number of chang-es which Coach Nutt desired in the football program, one of which was the rehiring of Saunders,” according to the claim.
The claim states Nutt of-fered Saunders a position for $120,000 per year, which caused Saunders to turn down other job offers. How-ever, Saunders did not sign a written contract.
Saunders’ claim insisted Boone did not hold to his side of the earlier agreement with Nutt to hire Saunders, leading Saunders to work without pay until April 2010. Saunders fi-nally received a contract to work for $12 per hour as the “Operations Coordinator.”
Saunders took the job be-cause he had no income, ac-cording to the claim.
Saunders spent the year of 2010 searching for employ-
ment elsewhere while serving as the operations coordinator, and on Jan. 3, 2011, he took a job as an assistant football coach at University of Loui-siana at Lafayette.
“The university is com-mitted to the success of its student-athletes both on and off the field,” university at-torney Lee Tyner said. “We are confident in the universi-ty’s position if Mr. Saunders chooses to pursue his claims in court.”
No lawsuit has been offi-cially filed, Tyner said.
Jim Waide, attorney of Waide & Associates, P.A., cur-rently represents Saunders in this case.
“(Saunders) is a terrific football coach and recruiter, and he has the best interests at heart of his student-ath-letes, especially these student-athletes that come from poor backgrounds,” Waide said. “We are hopeful to get this resolved without the filing of a suit, but whether we do or not, I honestly do not know.”
Boone would not comment on the subject but did release a statement in August saying, “We’re extremely committed to helping all student-athletes succeed, especially those with learning disabilities, so we were surprised about this claim.”
COACH, continued from page 1
ter, the concentration for commut-ers was the Coliseum, Hill Drive and around the football stadium area,” Christian said. “While that was smack dab full, I drove over to Ford Center, Depot and then the mega lots around University Place or Old Taylor Road. There (were) all kinds of parking spaces available.”
Christian emphasized that com-muters cannot park in the same area as on-campus students and should utilize all parking areas available.
Another issue is students’ lack of education about designated parking areas.
“Since parking is more of a crunch this year, we find that a lot of students don’t pay attention to this parking map,” Christian said as she showed a 2011-12 parking guide. “Parking assigned areas are color coded. We make changes every year.”
The maps, however, are not all that great, Ball said. They are hard to read and not easy to look at while driving, she said.
Another problem, Christian said, was the low number of South Lot decals sold at 144. Christian said approximately 300 South Lot decals were sold last year. There are 942 spots available in the parking lot, which utilizes the OUT bus system to get students to campus once they park.
As a Campus Walk resident, however, Ball said she has to buy
a Campus Walk decal, and can’t buy another one.
With a record enrollment in-crease of 6.5 percent, parking woes are to be expected.
The cost of a parking decal at Ole Miss is $75 for the first de-cal and $15 for the second decal. Christian said some people com-plained about this year’s increase in the price because parking de-cals have been $60 since fall 2007. However, when Ole Miss prices are compared to those of other SEC schools, Ole Miss decal pric-es are significantly lower.
“Our decal fees have been $60 since the fall of 2007,” Christian said. “We just went up $15 and a lot of folks have not liked that. All of our costs have gone up steadily since 2007 like everything else.
“We don’t keep the money. We keep part of it, but the other part of it goes to the physical plant for the maintenance and upkeep of parking areas.”
For instance, University of Ten-nessee non-commuter permits are $253 and commuter permits are $162. The University of Florida’s decal prices are also higher than those of Ole Miss. All parking de-cals are $144 annually or $72 per semester, while Louisiana State University’s parking permits are $125 annually or $63 per semes-ter. Many people are in favor of increasing the price of parking decals.
However, many students dis-agree, including elementary edu-cation junior Amber Wheeler, who said the prices of parking de-cals are fine the way they are.
“(Fewer) people will buy decals
if the price increases, and I know I don’t want to pay more for a de-cal,” she said.
Not only are other SEC schools’ parking decals more expensive, but some do not allow freshmen to have a vehicle on campus. Van-derbilt University offers under-graduate parking permits only to sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Wheeler said freshmen shouldn’t be allowed to bring their vehicles to school.
“Most of them live on campus anyway,” Wheeler said. “I just don’t see why you would need a car if you live on campus and have access to everything you need.”
Christian said Guess and Miller Hall have had shared parking up until this year.
“Miller is no more,” she said. “So Guess is a stand-alone resi-dence hall. There’s nothing for them to share with.”
There are 96 potential parking spaces available for Guess Hall. However, 107 Guess Hall parking permits were sold. Parking servic-es tried to accommodate these ex-tra permits sold by creating a spill-over parking area in what is called the upper Kincannon field lot.
“There is more than ample (space) for them to park,” Chris-tian said. “There’s a nice little side-walk that hooks up with Guess.”
Since the university’s enroll-ment has increased, the demands on the Ole Miss infrastructure have also increased. Students and faculty have complained about these growing pains and Christian has had to take the heat.
She chuckled and said, “It comes with the territory.”
On Saturday, Fiddlin’ Rooster Farms in Water Valley will kick off the fall season by hosting a fund-raiser for St. Jude Children’s Re-search Hospital in Memphis.
“We are hoping this weekend is a huge event because we want to raise a lot for St. Jude,” owner Rhona Webb said. “It’s a charity that’s near and dear to my heart.”
The day will begin with a 5K run at 8 a.m. along the county road, and will then move to an off-road Farm Man challenge at 9 a.m. Both events cost $30 for adults and $20 for children under 18. The costs will cover the activi-ties for the day.
The Farm Man Challenge will spread throughout the farm, in-cluding the corn maze, pasture and woods. Competitors will face several “cropsticles,” like hurdling hay bales and other farm-related activities.
“It’s a great event for anybody — for families, students, individu-als and groups,” Webb said. “We really hope that people will turn out in huge numbers so we can make a significant contribution to the cause.”
Along with the competitions, several other activities will take place. One of the main draws, according to Webb, is the corn
maze. “We didn’t plant our corn until
after the Fourth of July, which was much later than most farms,” she said. “We wanted our corn to still be green this time of year.”
The 6-inch tall maze itself was cut into the design of a scarecrow with a crow on its shoulders.
Maze-goers can navigate the maze through a passport system, allowing them to stop at tents to answer multiple questions that, when answered correctly, guide them in the right direction.
In addition to the maze, the fundraiser will feature a barnyard, pig races, hay rides, a pumpkin patch, a cow train for children and food.
According to Webb, one of the most exciting events of the day is the corn cannon, which shoots ears of corn 500 yards in an at-tempt to hit a target.
Several live bands will also play during the afternoon festivities and visitors should be sure to visit the bakery while enjoying the music.
Fiddlin’ Rooster Farms will re-main open on Fridays from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. until Nov. 5.
Webb and her husband own and operate the farm year round, hosting school field trips and camp fires for church groups by reserva-tion. For more information about the event, visit fiddlinroosterfarm.com.
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Are you from Tennessee? Be-cause you’re the only 10 I see! Going far beyond such a hor-rible pick-up line, Proud Larry’s presents an amazing band that will literally be the only 10 you see on Sept. 26.
The band is called “10 Out of Tenn” and is made up of 10 separate artists, each with suc-cessful careers of their own.
Informally know as “TOT,” the group gives rise to an en-chanting ensemble, mixing sounds from many different genres to provide a thoroughly tantalizing experience. This ex-perience is its own genre, coined by co-founder Trent Dabbs as “Southern soundscape pop.”
The innovative idea of rus-tling up 10 artists to create a mega-group of talent was bred and cultivated by Trent and Kristen Dabbs. Kristen sought to change the public’s view of the Nashville music scene.
“People know Nashville as country music and there’s a whole other scene here,” she said. “We decided to put these artists on the road to show peo-ple what is really happening in Nashville.”
Trent’s inspiration sprung from a 1978 film.
“Martin Scorsese directed a documentary called ‘The
Last Waltz,’ which is a perfor-mance piece where Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Van Morrison played on the same stage in the same night,” he said. “It was re-ally inspiring. After we made the first compilation, which was just a bunch of friends in this com-munity, we thought we should take it on the road and kind of have this live iPod shuffle.”
And what a shuffle it was. With those two ingredients
combined, it did not take long for a reaction to take place. That reaction is now in its fourth cycle with a new album and nationwide tour schedule.
Volume four includes per-formers Amy Stroup, Gabe Dixon, Katie Herzig, K.S. Rhoads, Tyler James, Matthew Perryman Jones, Trent Dabbs, Butterfly Boucher, Jeremy Lister and Andrew Belle. The background drummer is Will Sayles.
Stroup’s music has been fea-tured on shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Brothers and Sisters.”
Dixon’s song, “Find My Way,” was also the theme song for “The Proposal” starring Sandra Bullock.
Katie Herzig gained much attention for her contribution of “Hey Na Na” to Honda and Target commercials.
Rhoads, multitasking as a singer/songwriter, producer, composer and multi-instru-
mentalist, has produced songs for the likes of Mia Carruthers and Erin McCarley.
Tyler James had a song, “Call My Name,” that reached num-ber one on the Billboard Heat-seekers charts, and he has en-joyed performing as both a solo artist as well as a part of a duet or band.
“Something Borrowed,” a movie from earlier this year, featured one of Matthew Perry-man Jones’s songs, “Satellite.”
Trent Dabbs holds six solo albums under his belt and has songs featured in shows like “Hawaii Five-O” and “Vam-pire Diaries.”
Butterfly Boucher gained in-stant recognition after the re-lease of her first album and has since gone on to duet with Da-vid Bowie and tour with Sara McLachlan.
The ninth member, Lister, gained fame with his a capella group, “Street Corner Sym-phony,” on the NBC show “The Sing-Off.”
Belle released his first album last year and has since reveled in the honor of having his al-bum in the iTunes Top 10 Al-bums from 2010.
The undercover 11th mem-ber, Will Sayles, has worked as a drummer for eight years and has played for “Sixpence None the Richer,” Matt Kearney, John Paul White and many oth-ers.
“We have everything from horns to glockenspiels,” Trent Dabbs said.
The ability of these perform-ers to play such a wide range of instruments is a factor that adds tremendously to the show that they put on during their tours.
“TOT” co-founder Kristen Dabbs said, “They rotate in-struments on stage; while Trent is playing, K.S. Rhoads is play-ing bass and Butterfly Boucher is playing guitar. They just all kind of rotate around. It’s just a fun show, the way that it’s set up.”
She later divulges the secret to “10 out of Tenn’s” growing recognition, “It just works to have 10 artists.”
Trent seems to agree with her conclusion, as he describes a
typical day at practice with 10 artists in one room. “It’s like being at a musical camp that I don’t want to leave.”
At Proud Larry’s, Trent hopes to share this feeling with the Oxford residents.
Since he lived in Oxford be-fore moving to Tennessee to record his first album, Trent views the band’s upcoming per-formance as a homecoming of sorts.
“A lot of these artists have never been to Oxford so I’ve been talking it up,” he said. “I don’t think they believe me at this point.”
So mark your calendars and show “TOT” some genuine, eternal Oxford spirit while you enjoy a night of musical phe-nomena.
Mus 352: Intro to ‘Southern Soundscape Pop’BY NATHANIEL [email protected]
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Students watch “Bridesmaids’” during the Grove-In Movie. This week the department of Campus Programing will show “Pirates of the Carib-bean Stranger Tides” on Thursday and Sunday at 8 p.m.
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Some say that laughter is the best medicine, which is great news for those who fre-quently visit the Blind Pig Pub and Deli.
On Tuesday nights, from 9:30 p.m. until close, the Blind Pig transforms into a freestyle comedy club.
Open Mic Comedy Night at the Blind Pig is open to any-one who has ever dreamed of becoming a comedian, or those who simply want to brush up on his or her comedy techniques.
“People usually start signing up when it starts at 9:30,” said Bruce Butler, the man behind the comedy at the Blind Pig.
Butler is the MC for Com-edy Night, the director of the improv troupe Laff Co., and the secretary of South East-ern Comedy Arts Alliance.
“It’s a good time even when it’s bad,” Butler said.
“People should come be-cause it’s a change from the ordinary.”
Most of the people who sign up to perform do not have much comedic experience.
However, Ben Hutcherson, who has been regularly per-forming at the Blind Pig since
February 2011, has had much experience as a stand-up co-median.
As a lover of both comedy and the Blind Pig, Hutcherson jumped at the chance to per-form once a week at the popu-lar bar.
“Personally, it’s the atmo-sphere of the Blind Pig that makes Comedy Night so spe-cial,” he said.
Hutcherson’s love of perfor-mance and comedy also stems from the hilarious aspects of daily life, like when someone is embarrassed or when things do not go as planned.
“It’s a lot of fun,” Hutcher-son said.
“I speak as a teacher on a daily basis, so it’s fun for me to speak honestly.”
Hutcherson and other co-medians who are regular per-formers at the Blind Pig are in for a taste of the “big times,” as some of them will perform at the Southeastern Comedy Arts Festival held at the Link Center in Tupelo, Miss.
The Southeastern Comedy Arts Festival (SECAF) cel-ebrates comedy, improv, and stand-up. It is one of the larg-est comedic arts festivals in the region.
“There’s going to be lots of improv, and it’s going to be a
great time!” Butler said. The festival will be Sept. 17.
The Blind Pig itself is the main reason why most of the comedians love performing at its Comedy Night.
Founded in 2007 by broth-ers Jim and Clay Moore, the Blind Pig has served as a his-torical reference to the “speak easies” of the 1920s, which were underground bars that catered to “high-class” cus-tomers like the famous mob-ster Al Capone.
“The Blind Pig is open year-round, except on Christmas, and its main clientele is made up of restaurant personnel looking for lively atmosphere and fun before heading back to work,” Leaton Moore, man-ager of The Blind Pig, said.
Open Mic Night at the Blind Pig is held every Tuesday. The first comedian performs at 9:30 and everyone is encour-aged to attend.
“Funny things happen all the time,” Hutcherson said.
The event is free of charge. To find more information about anything and everything related to comedy in Oxford, including Laff Co. and Come-dy Night at the Blind Pig, visit the Oxford Comedy Facebook group at www.facebook.com/oxfordcomedy.
Laugh ‘til it Hurts: comedy night held at the Blind Pig every TuesdayBY KRISTEN [email protected]
It’s the second year of Hillel on the University of Mississippi campus.
Many people wonder why the Ole Miss campus needs another religious organization, but this one is different.
Founded in 1923, Hillel has become the largest Jewish stu-dent organization in the world, boasting over 550 chapters worldwide.
The organization focuses on the Jewish community of Ox-ford, along with the community at Ole Miss.
Senior political major Sarah Atnipp, president of Hillel, wants to bring the focus away from the city and more to the university.
“There are no temples in Ox-ford to worship at and the clos-est are in Memphis and Tupelo,” she said. “Most of the time, if I want to worship, I have to go home to Houston, Texas, and it should not have to be that way.
“We had a Hanukkah party last year, but that was kind of it, and we want to do a lot more this year.”
Atnipp could not do all of this alone. With the help of Wendy Goldberg, a composition and
rhetoric instructor at Ole Miss, and Jason Solinger, an English professor, she was able to get the organization off the ground.
Atnipp said the meetings range from religious studies to fun get-togethers, depending on what the group wants to do.
The organization offers Shab-bat services twice a month in Paris-Yates Chapel and Atnipp can relate to that history.
“My dad was Baptist and my mom is Jewish, and it is tradi-tion to take the religion of your mother,” Atnipp said. “I was al-ways raised as a reformed Jew, and at a place like Ole Miss, it can make you feel isolated when you do not know anyone else.
“That’s one of the main rea-sons for starting the organiza-tion.”
Hillel is much more than just a student organization.
College-age Jewish students can apply for “Birthright Israel,” which gives the student an op-portunity to experience Israel— at absolutely no cost.
“I am going in the summer, and I am more than happy to help anyone interested in apply-ing,” Atnipp said. “I have the contact information and all that, and there is no reason every Jew-ish student should not look into
this.”In the end, though, it is all
about friendship. Coming to Ole Miss is a scary thing for every-one, especially when they do not know anyone of the same faith. Awkwardly declining invitations to the BSU or RUF can get old after a while, and Atnipp said she wants to make sure that all Jewish students have somewhere they feel comfortable to go.
“There are lots of Jewish people out there, you just have to look,” Atnipp said. “People have this stereotype of Jews in their mind and think that we all conform to it, when a lot of us do not.”
Atnipp said this group is a way for Jewish students at Ole Miss to get connected.
“I sometimes feel judged when I tell people I am Jewish, and on TV you see extreme Jewish jokes, and it can be hard,” At-nipp said. “I just want Jewish kids to know that there are more out there, and they do not have to feel alone.”
If you are a Jewish student in-terested in attending the meeting, it is at 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday in the Student Union lounge.
For more information about both Hillel and Birthright Israel, visit www.hillel.org.
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The Tigers rolled to a 49-3 victory over in-state FCS op-ponent Northwestern State last Saturday. The defense was dominant, holding the Demons to negative yards rushing and only 95 yards total. Sophomore running backs Michael Ford and Spencer Ware combined for four rushing touchdowns, while both senior Jarrett Lee and sophomore Zach Metten-berger took snaps at quarter-back. The Tigers have defeated the Bulldogs of Mississippi State 11 straight times and 18 of the last 19.
This week: Mississippi State (1-1, 0-1 SEC), 7 p.m., ESPN (Thurs-day)
2. Alabama (2-0, 0-0 SEC, 2nd last week):
Sophomore AJ McCarron got the start and played the whole game at quarterback, while junior running back Trent Richardson bounced back with 111 yards and two touchdowns on 26 car-ries last Saturday. After an early Penn State field goal, a fake punt sparked the go-ahead touchdown late in the first quarter and the Crimson Tide went on to win 27-11 in Happy Valley. A showdown with Arkansas looms on Saturday Sept. 24.
This week: North Texas (0-2), 6:30 p.m., Fox Sports Net
3. Arkansas (2-0, 0-0 SEC, 3rd last week):
The Razorbacks stepped up in competition and rout-ed New Mexico 52-3 last Saturday. Junior quarter-back Tyler Wilson continues to impress, completing 18 of 26 passes for 259 yards and a touchdown. Sopho-more quarterback Brandon Mitchell entered the game in the second half and adds a dual-threat ability in the ab-sence of Knile Davis. Both Wilson and Mitchell had rushing touchdown, while junior Ronnie Wingo Jr. led the team with 73 yards on 12 carries and freshman Kody Walker added two touch-downs on the ground.
This week: Troy (0-1), 6:30 p.m., CSS
4. South Carolina (2-0, 1-0 SEC, 4th last week):
Big plays in the kicking game and on defense was the dif-ference in this past Saturday’s back-and-forth 45-42 win at Georgia. Senior defensive end Melvin Ingram had a 68-yard touchdown run on a fake punt and a 5-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown. Also on de-fense, senior Antonio Allen had a 25-yard interception return for a touchdown and junior cornerback Stephon Gilmore set up another score with a 56-yard fumble return. Soph-omore running back Marcus Lattimore answered the bell on offense with 176 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries.
This week: Navy (2-0), 5:00 p.m., ESPN2
5. Florida (2-0, 0-0 SEC, 5th last week):
Four different players rushed for touchdowns as the Gators shutout the Blaz-ers of UAB 39-0 last Sat-urday. Senior running back Chris Rainey led the way with 119 yards and a touch-down on 16 carries and add-ed three receptions for 43 yards. Senior quarterback John Brantley was an effi-cient 12-for-19 passing for 195 yards and sophomore Trey Burton got some quar-terback snaps in the wildcat. Florida hosts Tennessee and should answer questions about both teams and the SEC East hierarchy.
This week: Tennessee (2-0), 2:30 p.m., CBS
6. Auburn (2-0, 1-0 SEC, 8th last week):
Auburn keeps finding ways to win, holding on for a 41-34 win over Mississippi State last Saturday. The Tigers have the nation’s longest winning streak at 17 games and have also won 10 straight games decided by eight points or less.
The defense gave up 531 total yards, but stonewalled the Bulldogs at the goal line in the closing seconds. Junior Barrett Trotter threw for 146 yards and two touchdowns and sophomore Michael Dyer ran for 150 yards and two touch-downs to lead the offense.
This week: at Clemson (2-0), 11:00 a.m., ABC
7. Mississippi State (1-1, 0-1 SEC, 6th last week):
The Bulldogs came up a yard short on three sepa-rate plays of tying the game in the closing moments of this past Saturday’s 41-34 loss at Auburn. Senior run-ning back Vick Ballard was pushed out at the one-yard line after a seven-yard run. Ballard was then tackled for a one-yard loss and then senior quarterback Chris Relf was stopped just short of the goal line on an op-tion keeper as time expired. Ballard had 135 yards and a touchdown on 21 carries. Relf threw for 195 yards and a touchdown through the air and added 106 yards on the ground.
This week: at LSU (2-0), 7 p.m., ESPN (Thursday)
8. Tennessee (2-0, 0-0 SEC, 7th last week):
Sophomore quarterback Tyler Bray threw for a career-high 405 yards to lead the Vol-unteers to a 45-23 win over Cincinnati. Bray completed 34 of 41 passes, threw for four touchdowns and accounted for another score on the ground. Sophomore receivers Justin Hunter and Da’Rick Rog-ers finished with 100 yards or more receiving and a touch-down catch for the second straight week.
This week: at Florida (2-0), 2:30 p.m., CBS
9. Georgia (0-2, 0-1 SEC, 9th last week):
Sophomore quarterback Aaron Murray had a big game, throwing for 248 yards and four touchdowns on 19-for-29 passing, but the Bulldogs made too many mistake in a 45-42 home loss to South Caroli-na. Freshman running back Isaih Crowell also had 118 yards and a touchdown on 16 carries in the loss. The Bulldogs are arguably the best 0-2 team in the country, but head coach Mark Richt, his coaching staff and play-ers are looking for answers to turn the season around amid swirling dissension from fans and media.
This week: Coastal Carolina (2-0), 12:00 p.m., Pay-Per-View
10. Vanderbilt (2-0, 0-0 SEC, 11th last week):
The Commodores rallied from 21-14 down in the fourth quarter to defeat Connecticut 24-21 last Saturday. Senior cornerback Casey Heyward made the big play with a game-tying, 50-yard interception re-turn. The defense forced four turnovers in all and held the Huskies to 193 total yards. Freshman Jerron Seymour had a big 40-yard touchdown run early in the game and led the rushing attack with 70 yards on eight carries. The victory gave the Commodores their first winning streak since 2008.
This week: Ole Miss (1-1), 11:21 a.m., SEC Network
11. Ole Miss (1-1, 0-0 SEC, 10th last week):
Sophomore running back Jeff Scott was the story of the game, rushing for three touchdowns, return-ing a punt for another and accounting for more than 200 total yards in a 42-24 win over Southern Illinois. Junior quarterback Zack Stoudt got the start, but ju-nior Randall Mackey also took some snaps, and both are expected to play Satur-day at Vanderbilt. The de-fense forced four turnovers - all interceptions - but gave up 420 yards of total of-fense to the Salukis.
This week: at Vanderbilt (2-0), 11:21 a.m., SEC Network
12. Kentucky (2-0, 0-0 SEC, 12th last week):
The Wildcats trailed the Chippewas of Central Michi-gan 13-6 at halftime, but man-aged to make some plays on offense to stave off disaster and win 27-13. Freshman run-ning back Josh Clemons made the play of the game, going 87 yards for the go-ahead touch-down in the third quarter. Junior quarterback Morgan Newton continues to struggle as he completed 9 of 18 pass-es for 114 yards and a touch-down.
This week: Louisville (1-1), 6 p.m., ESPNU
sports briefsDIAMOND REBS OPEN FALL BALL THIS WEEKEND WITH SCRIMMAGES
The Ole Miss baseball team will take to the field this weekend to open fall practice with a pair of scrimmages that kick off seven weekends of work as the Rebels prepare for the 2012 season.
After weeks of individual work-outs, the Ole Miss baseball team hits the diamond for the first time as a full squad with Scout Day starting at 1:30 p.m. on Friday and a noon scrimmage on Saturday.
REBELS FINISH FIFTH AT SAM HALL INTERCOLLEGIATE
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Joe David shot a two-under 69 to notch his third career top-five individual finish, but the Rebels were unable to hold onto their lead atop the team standings and came in with a fifth-place finish at the Sam H. Hall In-tercollegiate at the Hattiesburg Country Club, Tuesday.
With the Rebels in first place going into the final day and South Alabama, Louisiana-Lafayette, UAB, and Memphis nipping at their heels, it was UAB who emerged from the pack with a sparkling 11-under final round to take the champi-onship with a 16-under overall score.
Ole Miss finished at 4-over for the day and six-under for the tournament.
HALEY SANDERS GRABS TOP 20 FINISH AT COUGAR CLASSIC
Junior Haley Sanders shot an even-72 in the final round Tues-day, to earn her second career top-20 finish, as the Rebels finished in 11th place at the Cougar Classic (presented by Piggly Wiggly) in Charleston, S.C.
No. 4 LSU took home the team title and individual title, as de-fending national champion Aus-tin Ernst finished at 13-under to lead the Tigers.
LSU overtook No. 9 North Carolina, who held the lead at the conclusion of Monday’s action, with an 11-under final round to end the tournament at 16-under.
Facing a 22-team field that fea-tured nine teams ranked in the top 25, the Rebels finished with an 876 for the tournament.
WOMEN’S TENNIS KICKS OFF FALL SEASON AT FAB FOUR
The Ole Miss women’s tennis team will kick off the fall season Friday at the Duke Fab Four Invi-tational in Durham, N.C.
Alabama, Illinois, Miami, North Carolina, Purdue, Texas, Texas A&M, Virginia and Wil-liam & Mary will also compete.
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When defensive end Wayne Dorsey arrived at Ole Miss, he was thought to be a quick fix for a position in need of depth, but the 2010 season didn’t go as well as he had hoped.
But one year later, Dorsey is not only becoming a force on the Rebel defensive line, he is becom-ing something that is much need-ed on this young team – a leader.
The 6’6,” 270-pound senior was rated the number one junior college recruit in the nation by Scout.com after earning 30 tack-les and five sacks in just six games in 2009. The Ole Miss coaching staff had high hopes for him go-ing into the 2010 campaign, but Dorsey never seemed to get into a groove.
Dorsey started in four games last season for the Rebels, while he played in all twelve. He fin-ished with 12 tackles for the sea-son including one sack and four tackles for loss. However, with a full offseason under his belt, Dorsey, who was voted a team captain for this season, looks to be inching closer to the player every-
one hoped he would be.“It’s knowing what to expect,”
Dorsey said. “Going into any-thing the second time, you know what to expect and what will hap-pen.”
In the Rebels’ first two games of the season, the Baltimore na-tive has four tackles with one sack and two tackles for a loss.
“I’ve played OK but I can play better,” Dorsey said. “I will play better. I have to raise my intensity level in the SEC. I’m ready for that opportunity.”
Dorsey’s intensity level was high last Saturday when he made an exceptional play to get a huge interception against Southern Il-linois that he returned to the four-yard line on the Salukis’ first pos-session of the game.
“I saw the quarterback kept taking steps back, so I knew it was a screen,” Dorsey said. “I tried to get off the cut block and get my hands in the air. He threw it right to one of my hands, and I batted it up in the air. I kind of lost it in the lights.
“Luckily, it fell right into my hands, and then, I tried to get into the end zone.”
Dorsey said at that moment he
looked back and saw no one com-ing.
“Then I look back toward the end zone and the guy was diving at my legs,” he said. “It was kind of disappointing (to be stopped short of the end zone).”
Dorsey’s interception is one of five this season for the Rebel de-fense that only had six intercep-tions last season.
“We’re hungry,” Dorsey said. “That’s one of the things that coach Nix, coach Burns, coach Price and the entire coaching staff emphasizes.”
Dorsey said the Rebels can control the game by getting turn-overs.
“Everybody on the defense takes it upon themselves to try to create one,” Dorsey said. “We truly feed off another person on the defense making a big play.”
Unfortunately, the Ole Miss de-fense has also been known for giv-ing up the big play. A defense that had no big plays against them in the season opener against BYU saw Southern Illinois bust a cou-ple of big plays last Saturday.
Dorsey knows his team has to do better as they head into their first Southeastern Conference game of the season on the road against Vanderbilt.
“It’s just small things,” Dorsey said. “As a defense, we can get better. We’re going to correct those things.”
Dorsey said he had confidence that Coach Nix and the rest of the staff are going to get the team ready to go.
“I think everybody is looking forward to this game, especially the ones that were here last year,” Dorsey said. “We had a bad taste in our mouths when we came back in the locker room after we played.”
Senior defensive end Wayne Dorsey intercepts a pass from Southern Illinois junior quarter-back Paul McIntosh and returns it 27 yards to the Salukis’ four-yard line in last Saturday’s 42-24 win.
