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Thursday, October 13, 2022
Volume 111, No. 8
ASB’s student activity fee increase expands club funds
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AI rendering of the Jim and Thomas Duff Center for Science and Technology Innovation.
New STEM building set to open in fall 2024 MARY BOYTE
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In summer 2021, the Associated Student Body club funding ran dry. However, due to the recent student activity fee increase, approved by student vote last March, funding for registered student organizations has now increased
substantially with hundreds of thousands of dollars in reserve. “We got $406,581.79 for the fall semester. We had to wait for the drop period, (see) how many students were enrolled and how many classes they were in, account for class switches and (students) moving (to online classes). Just making sure everything was final before we charged people,” Emily Hawes, ASB treasurer, said.
Students walking by the Pavillion in the past year certainly have noticed the flurry of construction workers and machinery across the street next to Hume Hall. On the dividers surrounding the construction, AI-rendered images depict a giant, gleaming building with dozens of students milling around outside. The words “Jim and Thomas Duff Center SEE SAF PAGE 2 for Science and Technology Innovation” sit above the picture. This building has
In March 2022, ASB held a referendum to increase the student activity fee from a flat $5 fee to $2 per credit hour, which overwhelmingly passed with 79.42% of the vote in favor of the increase. This was heralded as a huge victory for ASB, especially since a referendum for the fee increase
been 10 years in the making. The largest universityfunded project in school history, the Jim and Thomas Duff Center for Science and Technology Innovation center has reached 50% completion. In a press briefing on Thursday, Oct. 6, Chad Hunter, university associate architect, announced that the 202,000 square-feet center will be completed in the fall of 2023 with students stepping through its doors starting fall 2024. The purpose, according
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The life of collegiate musicians: How student artists balance their time CLAY HALE
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With midterms wrapping up for the semester, University of Mississippi students are likely reminded that time management plays a key role in having a successful college career. Between the avalanche
of assignments, countless deadlines and organization meetings, students must cautiously select what to do with their precious free time. For some UM scholars, that time is spent with headphones in their ears as they finish production on their latest songs. For others in the same population, there may be a pen and paper in hand while they craft their latest heartbreak ballads.
For sophomore Alex Parsa, this hypothetical is a reality. The Madison, Miss., native pencils in as student by day and musician by night. That formula seems to be working for him, as he has accumulated just under 1 million TikTok followers and thousands of streams on musical profiles like Spotify and Apple Music. Parsa first recognized
his musical passion six or seven years ago — around his freshman year of high school — when his dad gifted him with his first guitar. “I had no experience with a guitar whatsoever,” Parsa said. “I was around 14 years old when I started, and now I’m decent, but it really just inspired me in the composition aspect. I wanted to make my own stuff.” The transition to
college was a bumpy one for Parsa in the beginning, but he eventually settled in and found the rhythm to help make his musical dreams come true. “It was complicated my freshman year (of college),” Parsa said. “I make my music myself basically, in
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