THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2014 VOL. 102, NO. 116 OFFICIALS: 4 DEAD, INCLUDING GUNMAN, AT FORT HOOD MORE INSIDE OPINION: ‘TURN AWAY THE GAYS’ BILL KEEP THE BOARDROOM OUT OF THE BEDROOM See Pages 2 & 3 SPORTS: FRESHMEN SHINE AS DIAMOND REBS ROUT ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF See Page 12 Opinion .............................2 News .............................4 Lifestyles .............................6 Sports ...........................10 @thedm_news THEDMONLINE. COM See Page 4 29161 Dr. Robert Vince, director of the Center for Drug De- sign at the University of Min- nesota, gave the The Univer- sity of Mississippi School of Pharmacy’s annual Charles W. Hartman Memorial Lecture Wednesday. The lecture, “Ad- ventures in Drug Design,” took place at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. David D. Allen, dean of the pharmacy school, said the lec- ture was created to honor a for- mer faculty member. “The Charles W. Hartman Memorial Lecture was estab- lished in 1973 to honor our school’s third dean,” Allen said. “Dean Hartman’s tenure at the school was sadly cut short by an automobile accident in 1970.” Before his death, Hartman accomplished many feats, in- cluding laying the groundwork for Faser Hall and the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences on campus. Vince is a medicinal chem- ist who focuses on different re- search topics, including drugs that combat HIV, Alzheim- er’s, herpes, and skin cancer. Vince’s talk demonstrated his knowledge over a broad field of medicinal chemistry research. “We are so thrilled that Dr. Vince agreed to be our Hart- man lecturer this year,” Allen said. “Dr. Vince has an Ole Miss connection and worked as an assistant professor in the medicinal chemistry depart- ment in 1966.” One of Vince’s most widely known accomplishments is his design of Abacavir, an HIV drug. Abacavir has been used for the global treatment of HIV and AIDs in adults and children. The royalties earned from this drug’s success have also allowed Vince and his re- search team to do other medic- inal research. Vince began by describing how his research early in his career on the herpes virus cen- tered on working with nucleo- sides to counteract viruses’ rep- licating systems. He went on to say that this research allowed him to understand the opera- tions of the HIV retrovirus. Vince also recounted difficul- ties he and his research team had with patenting and licens- ing their drugs. “The first AIDS drugs were approved even a lot faster than they would be today,” Vince said. “It would be a lot more difficult today to get drugs ap- proved.” Part of Vince’s message was that the inefficiencies of our licensing and patenting system can prove deleterious to impor- Dr. Robert Vince speaks at annual School of Pharmacy Hartman Lecture BY MARY VIRGINIA PORTERA [email protected]See HARTMAN, PAGE 4 Nelly to headline Grove concert The Student Activities As- sociation announced Wednes- day afternoon that Grammy Award-winning artist Nelly will be replacing Jason De- rulo at Friday evening’s con- cert after Derulo canceled his appearance on account of a death in the family. A native of St. Louis, Nelly will perform at 8:30 p.m. “We are very excited to welcome Grammy Award- winning artist Nelly to the Grove this Friday,” said Carly Eason, executive director of the Student Activities Associa- tion. “We have received a very positive response from the stu- dents of Ole Miss since our announcement, and we hope to see everyone in the Grove on Friday at 8:30 p.m. Our condolences go out to Jason Derulo and his fam- ily at this time.” Nelly is cur- rently ranked as the fourth- best-selling rap artist in Amer- ican music history by RIAA and has sold more than 21 million albums. He has also been featured onscreen in “The Longest Yard” and “CSI: NY.” Joining Nelly are special guests Travis Porter and Fly Panda. The concert is free and open to the university com- munity and guests. For more information, con- tact the Ole Miss Student Union at (662) 915-1044 or [email protected]. BY DM STAFF REPORTS [email protected]Students walk across campus on a warm spring afternoon Wednesday. ALEX EDWARDS | The Daily Mississippian NELLY Spring weather arrives to warm welcome
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Dr. Robert Vince, director of the Center for Drug De-sign at the University of Min-nesota, gave the The Univer-sity of Mississippi School of Pharmacy’s annual Charles W. Hartman Memorial Lecture Wednesday. The lecture, “Ad-ventures in Drug Design,” took place at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts.
David D. Allen, dean of the pharmacy school, said the lec-ture was created to honor a for-mer faculty member.
“The Charles W. Hartman Memorial Lecture was estab-
lished in 1973 to honor our school’s third dean,” Allen said. “Dean Hartman’s tenure at the school was sadly cut short by an automobile accident in 1970.”
Before his death, Hartman accomplished many feats, in-cluding laying the groundwork for Faser Hall and the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences on campus.
Vince is a medicinal chem-ist who focuses on different re-search topics, including drugs that combat HIV, Alzheim-er’s, herpes, and skin cancer. Vince’s talk demonstrated his knowledge over a broad field of medicinal chemistry research.
“We are so thrilled that Dr. Vince agreed to be our Hart-
man lecturer this year,” Allen said. “Dr. Vince has an Ole Miss connection and worked as an assistant professor in the medicinal chemistry depart-ment in 1966.”
One of Vince’s most widely known accomplishments is his design of Abacavir, an HIV drug. Abacavir has been used for the global treatment of HIV and AIDs in adults and children. The royalties earned from this drug’s success have also allowed Vince and his re-search team to do other medic-inal research.
Vince began by describing how his research early in his career on the herpes virus cen-tered on working with nucleo-
sides to counteract viruses’ rep-licating systems. He went on to say that this research allowed him to understand the opera-tions of the HIV retrovirus.
Vince also recounted difficul-ties he and his research team had with patenting and licens-ing their drugs.
“The first AIDS drugs were approved even a lot faster than they would be today,” Vince said. “It would be a lot more difficult today to get drugs ap-proved.”
Part of Vince’s message was that the inefficiencies of our licensing and patenting system can prove deleterious to impor-
Dr. Robert Vince speaks at annual School of Pharmacy Hartman Lecture
The Student Activities As-sociation announced Wednes-day afternoon that Grammy Award-winning artist Nelly will be replacing Jason De-rulo at Friday evening’s con-cert after Derulo canceled his appearance on account of a death in the family.
A native of St. Louis, Nelly will perform at 8:30 p.m.
“We are very excited to welcome Grammy Award-winning artist Nelly to the Grove this Friday,” said Carly Eason, executive director of the Student Activities Associa-tion. “We have received a very positive response from the stu-dents of Ole Miss since our announcement, and we hope to see everyone in the Grove on Friday at 8:30 p.m. Our condolences go out to Jason
D e r u l o and his f a m -ily at this time.”
N e l l y is cur-r e n t l y r a n k e d as the f o u r t h -
best-selling rap artist in Amer-ican music history by RIAA and has sold more than 21 million albums.
He has also been featured onscreen in “The Longest Yard” and “CSI: NY.”
Joining Nelly are special guests Travis Porter and Fly Panda. The concert is free and open to the university com-munity and guests.
For more information, con-tact the Ole Miss Student Union at (662) 915-1044 or [email protected].
Students walk across campus on a warm spring afternoon Wednesday.
ALEX EDWARDS | The Daily Mississippian
NELLY
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Tuesday, the Mississippi Leg-islature approved a conference report on Senate Bill 2681, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, sending it to Gov. Phil Bry-ant. The bill has caused con-troversy ever since it was gen-erated, with many comparing it to Arizona’s “Turn Away the Gays” bill. The bill would allow for individuals to sue over laws that place a substantial burden on their religious beliefs and practices.
The controversy that rises out of the bill’s introduction is that it could arguably open the door for discrimination, allow-ing businesses to not have to ad-here to anti-discrimination laws if doing so would cause them to violate their religious beliefs.
The gay and lesbian community feels this measure could affect them the most. It could allow businesses to deny them services because the business owner’s re-ligion opposes homosexual rela-tionships.
This bill, and the fact that people would discriminate and claim their religion as an excuse, deeply bothers me. Mississippi, sadly, is on the bottom of many lists. Education, health care, poverty, teenage pregnancy, in-fant mortality and the list goes on. One quality that Mississippi has always been able to take pride in, and I personally take pride in, is the generosity and welcoming nature of its resi-dents. Mississippi is consistently at the top of the lists for most charitable giving, despite being the poorest state in the Union. Coined the Hospitality State,
people visiting Mississippi are often blown away by the friend-liness of our citizens.
Mississippi has always prided itself on being a highly religious state. Our churches are full ev-ery Sunday. Tithe baskets are passed around with the poorest and the richest all giving what they can. Churches are often the lifeblood of communities, often helping the less fortunate, re-building in the wake of disaster and offering a sense of belong-ing to those adrift.
So, perhaps I attended a dif-ferent Sunday school lesson than those in our state legisla-ture. Maybe I slept in on the day we covered discrimination against others. Surely I must have, because everything that I was taught growing up in the church directly refutes the na-ture of this bill. I was taught to
love everyone, from a pauper to a prince, tax collectors or crimi-nals, sinners or saints. I was taught that you should welcome everyone to your home and your dinner table. I was taught that no one should be turned away, no matter where you have come from, what you have done or what you believe.
Clearly, I have missed an im-portant Sunday school lesson. I hope the legislature could give me its notes on what I missed so that I can see how a bill al-lowing discrimination is even a remotely good idea.
Or perhaps, I should give them my notes on the countless lessons I’ve been to that focused on love and acceptance.
Anna Rush is a third-year law stu-dent from Hattiesburg. She graduated from Mississippi State in 2011.
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Social conservatives can’t seem to mind their own business. Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court heard the beginning of oral arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. — a challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s mandate requiring certain for-profit businesses to offer in-surance plans with contraceptive coverage. Since House Republi-can attempts to dismantle the Af-fordable Care Act have failed in Congress (more than 50 times), and since the act withstood a constitutional challenge in NFIB v. Sebelius, I guess their logic (or lack thereof) told them to try, try again.
Lower federal courts have re-turned a mix of rulings on the constitutionality of the contra-ception mandate in the Afford-able Care Act. Due to the con-flicting conclusions reached by the lower courts, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby and provide clar-ity on this portion of the law.
Hobby Lobby, and other companies raising religious ob-jections to the contraception mandate, argue that the statute violates their rights under the Re-ligious Freedom Restoration Act and the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. They ar-gue that corporations managed with religious values shouldn’t be required to offer certain contra-ceptives to employees.
Essentially, they’re arguing that corporations are entities that can “exercise” religion — an inter-esting concept, to say the least.
Conversely, the government — I think correctly — argues that
a corporation is so far removed from the actual individual us-ing contraceptives that it doesn’t infringe on a corporation’s re-ligious liberties. Never has the court afforded a for-profit corpo-ration — such as Hobby Lobby — the far-reaching religious pro-tections for which it is arguing.
It also begs the question: Are corporations protected by either the free exercise clause of the First Amendment or the Reli-gious Freedom Restoration Act? The First Amendment and Re-ligious Freedom Restoration Act protect the rights “of the people” and religious rights of “persons,” respectively. So does Hobby Lobby — or any other for-profit business, for that matter — find protection under this argument? Well, it depends on if you con-sider corporations, or businesses, to be people. Recently, right-wing legal scholars and the con-servative branch of the Supreme Court have been leaning in that direction.
At the end of the day, I believe that the contraceptive mandate is both warranted and consti-tutional. Prior to the grossly irresponsible Citizens United campaign finance decision, the Supreme Court had little to no precedent giving a corporation the same rights as actual people. Corporations cannot “exercise” religion in the same manner a person can. If the court sides with Hobby Lobby, it sets a dan-gerous precedent. Could busi-nesses claim religious exceptions to serving gay clients? Can they claim a religious exception to providing insurance plans that cover certain vaccinations?
The employer — in this case, Hobby Lobby — is so far re-
moved from actually providing contraceptives to the employee. It’s not as if the government mandated corporations to have a morning-after pill dispenser in the break room. Where is the religious objection to offering in-surance coverage that provides Viagra?
The contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act has already benefited an estimated 27 million women, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Obamacare has helped prevent women from continuing to pay unreasonably more for their health care than men do, since women are no longer charged a co-pay for the wide range of preventive services they need. According to a poll by Hart Research Associates, wom-en of all demographics support the contraceptive mandate — including 92 percent of Demo-crats, 83 percent of indepen-dents, 63 percent of Republicans and 79 percent of Catholics.
Social conservatives need to mind their business and choose their battles. The contraception mandate is widely supported and has many exceptions, including for businesses that have 50 or fewer employees, churches and convents and religiously affiliated nonprofits.
My favorite sign from a recent protest at the Supreme Court read, “If men could get preg-nant, birth control would be from gumball machines and ba-con flavored.”
I suspect there’s more than a hint of truth to that statement.
Sean Higgins is a junior political science major from Brookings, S.D.
We’d like to request that The Daily Mississippian stop being delivered to the Alpha Tau Omega house. Thanks.
Ryne M. St. MarieChapter President of Alpha Tau OmegaUniversity of Mississippi
Dear editor,
I do not think you are taking the correct assumption of the fraternity community in your article “Direspect from unful-filled promises.” The way you wrote the article comes with absolutely no point of view from the fraternity men. When you say that “all has been done in the past six weeks is plan and participate in spring parties,” you are dead wrong. We are sick of this stereotype because it is not true. You are not the one sitting in chapter meetings discussing the incident and thinking of ways to prevent further incidents. Believe me, fraternities are doing this. We want the incidents to discontinue. I understand your disappointment with no immediate ac-tion, but there is no immediate action possible. The only thing that can happen will be fraternities extending invita-tions to African American potential new members during fall rush. I am proud to say that my fraternity, Sigma Chi Eta Chapter, has welcomed multiple African American members in the past few years. Other fraternities have as well. I encourage all fraternities on campus to follow these actions. Racism is an individual problem and not necessarily an in-stitutional problem. All the institution can do is educate its members and hope their individual actions reflect the views of the institution as a whole. Nobody is “being disrespect-ful” and “ignoring a promise,” particularly the fraternity presidents, so there is no reason to blast them.
Sincerely,
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tant medicinal research.Vince discussed some of his
most recent and current work in Alzheimer’s and DNA damage, or skin cancer, research.
Jungeun Bae, a graduate Ph.D. student in the School of Pharma-cy, spoke highly of Vince’s lecture.
Bae said the lecture inspired her to take part in pharmaceutical re-search.
“It was a very tremendous and amazing talk,” Bae said. “I found it very interesting that he cor-related his lab work to a larger pharmaceutical setting. It gave me hope for my lab work so that I can develop a drug for a specific dis-ease.”
HARTMAN, continued from page 1
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A gunman opened fire Wednesday at Fort Hood in an attack that left four dead, including the shooter, law en-forcement officials said.
One of the officials, citing official internal Justice Depart-ment updates, said 14 others were hurt. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not autho-rized to release information by name.
A U.S. law enforcement of-ficial said reports circulating within the Justice Department indicate the shooter died of what appears to be a self-inflicted wound. The official spoke on the condition of ano-nymity because the investiga-tion is still ongoing.
The Texas Army base was the scene of a mass shoot-ing in 2009. Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 wounded in what was the deadliest attack on a domestic military installation in history.
The Army said on its official Twitter feed that the post was still on lockdown. Injured peo-ple were being treated at the post’s Carl R. Darnall Medical Center and other local hospi-tals.
Outside the base, some rela-tives of soldiers waited for news about their loved ones.
Tayra DeHart, 33, said she had last heard from her hus-band, a soldier at the post, that he was safe, but that was hours earlier.
“The last two hours have
been the most nerve-wracking I’ve ever felt. I know God is here protecting me and all the soldiers, but I have my phone in my hand just hoping it will ring and it will be my hus-band,” DeHart said.
In Chicago, President Barack Obama vowed that investiga-tors will get to the bottom of the shooting, seeking to reas-sure the nation whose sense of security once again has been shaken by mass violence
In a hastily arranged state-ment, Obama said he and his team were following the situ-ation closely but that details about what happened at the sprawling Army post were still fluid. He said the shooting brought back painful memo-ries of the 2009 attack.
Obama reflected on the sac-rifices that troops stationed at Fort Hood have made — in-cluding during multiple tours to Iraq and Afghanistan.
“They serve with valor, they serve with distinction and when they’re at their home base, they need to feel safe,” Obama said. “We don’t yet know what hap-pened tonight, but obviously that sense of safety has been broken once again.”
The president spoke with-out notes or prepared remarks in the same room of a steak-house where he had just met with about 25 donors at a pre-viously scheduled fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. White House of-ficials quickly pushed tables to the side of the room to make room for Obama to speak to the nation.
Officials: 4 dead, including gunman, at Fort Hood
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Tuesday that he looks forward to quickly signing a bill that would ban abortion at 20 weeks, the midpoint of a full-term pregnancy.
“This measure represents a great effort to protect the unborn in Mississippi,” Bry-ant said in a statement after House Bill 1400 passed the House 91-20 and the Senate 41-10.
The bill has exceptions. Abortion would still be al-lowed at or after 20 weeks if the woman faces death or permanent injury because of the pregnancy. It would also be allowed in cases of severe fetal abnormality.
Diane Derzis, who owns Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, said the clinic stops doing abor-tions after 16 weeks’ gesta-tion. She said each woman undergoes a sonogram to de-termine fetal age.
Although the clinic would not be affected by the new law, Derzis said she expects someone would file a legal challenge.
The most recent Health Department statistics show 2,176 abortions were done in Mississippi in 2012. Two were listed at 21 weeks or later, and 382 were unknown gestational age. Support-ers of the bill said they were troubled by the number of unknowns.
Several states have a 20-week ban, including Ala-bama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.
Arizona’s 20-week ban has been blocked by a federal court, but supporters of the Mississippi proposal point out that Mississippi is in a more conservative federal appeals district, so a legal challenge might have a dif-ferent outcome.
Sen. Deborah Dawkins, D-Pass Christian, said a 20-week ban will affect poor women. She said those who have money and want an abortion could still travel out of state to get one.
“It occurs to me, over the past few years, that a lot of men do not understand how a female body works,” said Dawkins, who voted against the bill.
Sen. Angela Hill, R-Pop-larville, who voted for the bill, said: “This is not about a woman’s body. This is about the life of an unborn 20-week baby.”
Miss. Gov. says he will sign 20-week abortion ban
The Voice of Ole Miss
The Mississippi legislature passed a bill Tuesday that both gay citizens and gay-rights ac-tivists have denounced pub-licly. The bill allows individu-als and companies to assert a religious freedom defense against a lawsuit when refus-ing services to another private party. If the bill is signed by Gov. Phil Bryant, Mississippi would be the first state in the country to implement such a law.
For example, if a gay cou-ple wanted to hire a florist for their wedding, the flo-rist would have the option to claim it is his legally protected religious right to refuse ser-vice.
Four other states – Ohio, Arizona, Idaho and Oklaho-ma – are scrambling to find ways to make gay marriage il-legal or to pass bills that give people the right to treat mar-ried gay couples differently.
The Mississippi bill and similar efforts from other states raise the question about whether the state will ever le-galize gay marriage.
“There are people who are very by the book and this is how it is, very black and white, and it threatens people and its hard to see how or why it should,” said Jamie Nelms, a sociology professor at Ole Miss.
Joining a larger commu-nity speaking out for change, same-sex couples recently ap-plied for marriage licenses in Mississippi and were declined.
Over 100 couples in seven southern states have applied for licenses, and none of them have been accepted, as public policy holds that marriage is between a man and a woman in Southern states.
There are currently 17 states that have legalized gay marriage, and of those states, none of them are in the South.
“I think it’s just your back-ground and the culture of where someone comes from, especially in the South, of why they’re anti-gay,” said Nelms.
The South has a long his-tory of being religious and
some feel that gay marriage is an insult to their moral and religious beliefs.
Jordan Bard, a freshman English major who is gay, does not consider gay marriage to be a detriment to religion.
“Religion is not required for a happy marriage, and there-fore no marriage poses a det-riment to any religion,” Bard said.
Bard says he’s still optimis-tic that the South will change its attitude.
“The South will definitely be one of the last places to embrace marriage equality, but it will happen eventually, just like the equal rights move-ment of the 20th century.”
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Numerous musicians pass through Oxford every year. Some are on their way to the top, some are just on their way and some are just playing because they can. It is tough for any band to make it in the current music climate, and especially one from such a small area.
One of the few bands that did is Drew Holcomb and the Neigh-bors. Unlike many bands that range through this small town, when Drew and his wife, Ellie, come to Oxford, they are com-ing back to where their musical careers began.
Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors will be playing to-night at the Lyric. Their mix of soft indie and folky alt-rock notes merge along the new-age alter-native movement. Paired with the companion band, Judah &
the Lion, the Lyric will be filled with the kind of music Oxford loves: quirky, strong and just off the beaten path.
“I love Oxford,” Holcomb said. “It’s a town with a lot of personality and a lot of history.”
Holcomb first started coming to Oxford when his sister was a student at The University of Mississippi. He reminisced about Square Books and the many Double Decker Arts Festivals he attended on his visits.
“We’d just enjoy all the great things you have there,” he said. “I’ve been coming back ever since.”
After experiencing so much of what Oxford had to offer, Hol-comb knew right where to come when he started performing.
“We started playing music, and Oxford was one of the first towns we came and played,” he said.
Oxford is also special to Drew and his family because of one
particular Double Decker Arts Festival.
“When my wife, Ellie, and I were first friends and she was singing with me every now and then, I was trying to convince her to date me,” Holcomb said.
“I brought her down to Oxford for Double Decker in 2005, and that is where I asked her out for the first time, right there in the Square on the courthouse steps,” he said.
After many years of dating, El-lie and Drew married and later had their first child, a daughter.
“We named her Amy Lou af-ter Amy Lou Harris, who was the musician that night in remem-brance of our first date,” he said. “So Oxford is a very meaningful place for us as a family.”
In 2005, when Drew was lucky to catch a first date with Ellie, the band caught some special attention as well. The 2005 al-bum, “Washed in Blue,” gained the band a large amount of at-tention, and its music was soon included on TV shows such as “Army Wives,” “The Cleaner,” “House M.D.” and the recently ended “How I Met Your Moth-er.”
After extensive touring and a steady rise on the music scene, Holcomb expressed contentment in coming back to his roots.
“This is our first time to play the Lyric,” Holcomb said. “It’s good to come back and play there.”
A big first is on the young band’s horizon. On June 7, the band will host the Moon River
Music Festival in Memphis.“This show will definitely be a
preview of that,” Holcomb said. “Hosting a music festival is some-thing I’ve always wanted to do.”
The festival will feature mul-
tiple bands known to the Ox-ford scene such as The Dirty Guv’nahs, which played at the Lyric just two weeks ago.
“The other band on tour with us is Judah & the Lion,” Hol-comb said. “They’re a really great alternative-folk band.”
Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors are sure to bring their unique style to the Lyric’s stage and even give a sneak peek to what’s in store for this rising band.
“We love the crowd there,” Holcomb said. “We love Ox-ford.”
Coming home with Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors
Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors, pictured above, will play tonight at The Lyric.
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Feature Photos: RebelWell Spring Walking Challenge
The University of Missis-sippi’s RebelWell campaign kicked off Wednesday at 9 a.m. as Athletics Director Ross Bjork led faculty and staff on a walk around campus as part of National Walking Day.
The RebelWell Walking Challenge hopes to encourage University of Mississippi fac-ulty and staff to walk each day for 30 minutes. The challenge will last until May 13.
Those who wish to partici-pate are encouraged to down-load a walking log to keep track of the minutes they walk each day. Each day that the 30-min-ute goal is reached, names will be entered into a drawing for the chance to win gift cards and drawings. Walking logs are
due by noon on May 15, and five winners will be announced on May 16. The department with the highest participation rate will have the chance to re-ceive a healthy, catered lunch.
A second component of the RebelWell campaign is the Healthy Eating Walk-ing Tour that will take place every Thursday until May 13. The guided tours will be-gin at 12:15 p.m. in front of Lenoir Hall, and participants will walk for 30 minutes while learning about healthy dining options. Guided tours are free and open to the public, but advance registration is recom-mended.
To download the challenge log visit www.olemiss.edu/healthworks/walkingchallen-gelog.final.pdf.
Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 with no repeats.
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Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each3-by-3 block contain all of the digits 1 thru 9.
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Warning: Contains season three spoilers.
The long wait is finally over. The conflicts of the lands of Westeros are returning to HBO on Sunday in season four of “Game of Thrones.” Readers and watchers alike have been eagerly awaiting something to feed their addictions. The show’s faithful will finally get the resolution to some of the plot lines laid down in season three, while the books’ faithful will get their fix during the long wait for the next installment in George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, “The Winds of Winter.”
Season three left off with our favorite characters in their constant struggle to maintain power, win glory and legitimacy and, for some, survive. Tyrion, the universally loved “Imp” of House Lannister, has just been wed to Sansa Stark, a daughter of the house his family has been warring against. Following his failed siege of King’s Landing, Stannis Baratheon has decided to take his forces north to defend against the impending invasion
of the Wildlings at the behest of his Red Priestess, Melisandre.
Yara Greyjoy has just decided to go on a mission to save her brother Theon, who has been in the clutches of the sadistic Ramsay Bolton. Arya Stark, a prisoner and companion to San-dor Clegane (aka the Hound), is roaming the Riverlands af-ter discovering that her brother Robb has been murdered at the hands of Walder Frey during the Red Wedding.
Jaime Lannister has returned to King’s Landing healthy, but missing a hand. Everyone’s favorite brooding bastard Jon Snow has just returned to Cas-tle Black after abandoning the Wildlings and his new love, Ygritte. Finally, Daenerys Tar-garyen and her Unsullied sol-diers wrapped up the season with the conquest of Yunkai.
The approaching season should be one of the most excit-ing in the series. Joffrey’s royal wedding to Margaery Tyrell is on the horizon. Viewers will finally meet the Martells, the mysterious rulers of Dorne, who have not been present in the se-ries thus far. Also the epic battle brewing at the Wall should be one of the season’s penultimate
moments.The unresolved cliffhang-
ers have been one of the most grueling aspects for show-only watchers.
“I’m so ready to see what is to come of the Wildling invasion of the Wall, and where Arya’s story arc will end up on her jour-ney with the Hound,” said Matt Mueller, senior geological engi-neering major.
Resolution of plot points isn’t the only thing that draws in viewers though, as attested by the many readers of “A Song of Ice and Fire.”
Senior psychology major Ben Tedford said he has both read the books and watched the show.
“I’m really looking forward to the long-awaited introduction of Oberyn Martell and the cunning schemes the fans are in for from Littlefinger, my favorite player of the ‘Game of Thrones,’” he said.
No matter the outcome of season four, whoever lives and whoever dies, whoever comes up victorious and whoever is left broken and defeated, one thing is absolutely assured: George R.R. Martin will enjoy the taste of our tears. Valar morghulis, everyone.
Long-awaited return of Game of ThronesBY MICHAEL PRESTWICH
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McFarland earns AP All-American honorable mentionSenior Valencia McFarland
added to her postseason accolades as she earned AP Honorable Men-tion All-America honors it was an-nounced on Tuesday. It is her first career All-American accolade and her fourth postseason honor.
McFarland, an Edwards, Miss., native picks up her fourth postsea-son accolade after earning All-SEC second team honors, AP All-SEC Honorable Mention and College Sports Madness fourth-team hon-ors. The senior guard scored her 1,500th career point, becoming one of just seven players in pro-gram history to score 1500 points in program history. McFarland con-cluded her career with 1,655 points and graduates as the No. 6 scorer at Ole Miss. McFarland scored 20 or more points on 15 occasions this season and closed the season with double figures in each of Ole Miss’ last nine games. McFarland joins former Ole Miss great Armin-tie Price as the only Rebels to lead their team in steals in four consecu-tive years and is one of five players with 1,000 points and 500 assists. McFarland is also a two-time final-ist for the C Spire/Gillom Trophy, awarded to the top women’s basket-ball player in Mississippi.
The Southeastern Conference had seven players earn AP All-American honors highlighted by South Carolina’s Tiffany Mitchell who was a third-team selection. Isabelle Harrison, Jennifer O’Neill, Meighan Simmons, Courtney Walker and Aleighsa Welch each joined McFarland as honorable mention selections.
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Valencia McFarland drives the ball during a game this season. McFarland earned AP Honorable Mention All-America honors Tuesday.
Junior pole-vaulter Sam Kendricks has an impressive resume in his two and a half years with the Rebels.
In addition to a collection of school records, he won the first pole vault national title in Ole Miss history at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships, and he currently has a world lead-ing height in outdoor track. So that begs the question, what’s next?
“My goals fall in line with what the team wants from me. My job, first and foremost, is to represent the Rebels and try to win every meet,” Kendricks said. “I want to consistently jump higher than I did last year. I was consistently around 18 feet last outdoor season. I want to raise that to 18.6, 18.7 because there’s not many guys In the NCAA that can say they consistently jump that level, and I want to be that guy.”
Kendricks started off this season smoothly with two vic-tories, the first coming at the Ole Miss Open by way of a record-shattering performance.
“My goal coming into that
field meet was jump that field record by a centimeter. I did, and that was great,” Kendricks said. “That mean’s I’ve got 100 percent of the field records in the last two years.”
His second performance came at the Texas Relays, which he won for the second year in a row and where he posted his world leading height.
“I had a great meet,” Ken-dricks said. “No misses all the way up to 18.825. I won the competition by 8 inches.”
Kendricks will look to cap this outdoor season by defend-ing his national title. He has competed at National Cham-pionships in both indoor and outdoor track, so he’s familiar with the stage.
“The cool thing about com-peting at the national cham-pionship is all the guys there, they’re good and they all have their own ways of do-ing things,” Kendricks said. “They’re trying to compete for their schools, and they’re trying to beat you just as bad as you’re trying to beat them. So I kind of like that ‘fight for your life’ aspect of the national champi-onship.”
In addition to his NCAA
aspirations, Kendricks has na-tional goals.
“This summer is the USA na-tional championships. That’s where I go individually,” Ken-dricks said. “I’m gonna wear Ole Miss on my chest surely, but I’m competing as Sam Kendricks at that meet.”
Although he competes at these individual events, Kend-rick stressed the important role Ole Miss has filled for him, say-ing that without Ole Miss, he’d have nothing. Kendricks also looks to one day compete at the highest level possible.
“Everybody has an Olympic dream,” Kendricks said. “(The 2016 Summer Olympics), I am looking to compete at that, and if I wasn’t, I wouldn’t be doing myself any favors.”
Despite his bigger goals, Kendricks will first focus on the Rebels’ next meet.
The Alabama vs. Mississippi Meet features six schools from the two states: Alabama, Au-burn and the University of Al-abama at Birmingham will be pitted against Ole Miss, South-ern Miss and Mississippi State.
“I’ve never jumped at a meet like that before,” Kendricks said. “It’s going to be fun.”
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After spending a couple of weeks in state, the Rebel Netters will hit the road to face South-eastern Conference foes South Carolina on Friday in Colum-bia, S.C. and No. 15 ranked Florida on Sunday in Gaines-ville, Fla.
The Rebels (8-10, 3-6 SEC) are coming off an excruciat-ing loss to in-state rival Missis-sippi State last Sunday 2-4. The Rebels won the doubles point to take the lead 1-0, but could
not seal the deal in singles, as Mississippi State won four of the five singles matches. Junior Nik Scholtz had the lead in his match 6-3, 2-6, 5-4, before the Bulldogs clinched the match. Senior Johan Backstrom won the only singles match for the Rebels against Zach White of Mississippi State 6-1, 6-0.
The Gamecocks (11-10, 3-5 SEC) have experienced a roller coaster of a season so far. They went through a five-game los-ing streak in March to some of the top teams in the country in Texas A&M, Clemson, Florida,
Georgia and Tennessee. After that losing streak, the Game-cocks went on a 4-1 run, beating Alabama, Auburn, The Citadel and Arkansas in the process.
The Gators (11-8, 6-3 SEC) played great early in the season, but lost to the top three teams in the country in Ohio State, USC and UCLA. The Gators have an impressive conference record that includes wins over Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. The Gators will play Mississippi State in Starkville on Friday be-fore Sunday’s matchup against the Rebels.
Rebel Netters head on road trip to face South Carolina, Florida
Sam Kendricks competes during the Ole Miss Invitational.
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Nik Scholtz hits the ball during a match.
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The Ole Miss baseball team showed its resilience Wednesday after getting swept at Alabama over the weekend as it breezed past Arkansas-Pine Bluff in an 11-1 rout.
“One of the things that we’ve stressed always from game one is they all count the same,” head coach Mike Bianco said after the game. “So it doesn’t matter if you get beat in the ninth; it doesn’t matter if you win in the ninth; they all count the same. So don’t get caught up in the race and the scores.”
Freshman left-handed pitcher Evan Anderson had a landmark day, as he earned his first win of the season, improving his record to 1-0 in his second start. Ander-son gave up one hit and struck out one through 3.2 innings of work. Six total pitchers saw action to-day, including lefty Scott Ashford, who got his first action of the sea-son.
Kyle Schwartz took the loss for the Golden Lions. He lasted one inning and gave up four runs, two earned, on three hits.
Freshman J.B. Woodman also had a breakout day, as he hit his first career home run in an Ole Miss uniform. The solo shot came with two outs in the bottom of the third. Senior pitcher Redmond Floyd of the Golden Lions en-tered the game in the bottom of the fifth in relief of junior Samuel Olson, who recorded the first out of the inning with a ground-out to short from freshman Brantley Bell. A groundout to second from senior John Gatlin brought up
Woodman, and he belted the no-doubter over the right field wall.
“It was definitely nice,” Wood-man said. “It felt good to get one. I’ve been working hard for it, so it felt nice to finally get a home run.”
Ole Miss (22-8) shot out of the gates early, taking a 4-0 lead in the first inning. Junior leadoff hitter Braxton Lee got things started by drawing a walk, stealing second and then scoring on a wild throw after junior Auston Bousfield, hit-ting in the two-spot, grounded to the pitcher.
Bousfield slid safely into sec-ond and then stole third before senior Austin Anderson blasted his eighth double of the season, which knocked Bousfield in.
A single to center from senior Will Allen brought junior Sikes Orvis to the plate, and he scored Anderson with an RBI single.
Gatlin grounded into a double play but knocked in the fourth run of the auspicious first inning.
After a dry second inning, Ole Miss added three runs in the third and one in the fourth before Ar-kansas-Pine Bluff (8-20) scratched across its sole run of the day in the top of the fifth inning when sophomore Rashawn Tillman grounded into a fielder’s choice with runners at first and third. Ole Miss took the out at second and senior Mike Wieland trotted home. The Rebels answered with three more runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Ole Miss will take on the Au-burn Tigers this weekend in a three-game home series. First pitch is scheduled for Friday at 6:30 p.m.
Freshmen shine as Diamond Rebs rout Arkansas-Pine BluffBY HAWLEY MARTIN
Top: J.B. Woodman, left, is congratulated by Austin Knight after hitting his first career home run during Wednesday’s game against Arkansas-Pine Bluff. Bottom: Evan Anderson releases a pitch. Ole Miss won 11-1.
