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Thursday, November 21, 2024
Volume 113, No. 13
BUDGETING FLEX
FOOTBALL PREVIEW
OPINION
Students share how they budget their Flex Dollars and meal swipes throughout the semester.
Ole Miss travels to Gainesville, Fla., to face the Gators on Saturday, Nov. 23.
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Opinion contributor Edward Wilson shares his views on Trump’s recent Cabinet appointments. SEE PAGE 7
Oxford community rallies to Ole Miss Finance Club has provide Thanksgiving meals a ‘bull’ semester CLAIRE REYNOLDS A&C Editor
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Locations in Oxford providing free meals or food items for Thanksgiving
SIMONE BOURGEOIS A&C Staff Writer
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ith a local food insecurity rate of 18.4%, according to Feeding America, organizations on campus and in Lafayette County are offering food and community support to those in need this Thanksgiving. In preparation for the holiday season, Grove Grocery has ramped up its food collection efforts. Grove Grocery — located in Kinard Hall, Room 213 — offers
groceries, toiletries and cleaning products to University of Mississippi faculty, staff and students. “Grove Grocery serves all students on campus, many of which are out-of-state or foreign exchange students who have limited options when traveling home for the holidays,” Grove Grocery Director Capri Lobotzke said. “In an effort to serve students on campus for Thanksgiving, Grove Grocery partnered with ASB to put together Thanksgiving baskets for any students or staff in need of more food this
Thanksgiving. Last school year alone, we donated over 20,000 meals from our pantry and reached over 2,600 students.” Grove Grocery also offers a meal swipe program, a form of temporary assistance that allocates meal swipes to eligible members of the UM community. In addition to in-person resources, the food pantry provides grab-and-go bags that those in need are able to pick up and take with them, online grocery order-
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The Ole Miss Finance Club, formerly known as the Ole Miss Financiers’ Club, has experienced unprecedented growth. In less than a semester, the organization has grown from 25 to 170 members, and weekly meeting attendance has surged from an average of 10 attendees to 70. The Finance Club aims to educate students on how to handle their personal finances, introduce them to leaders in the field and provide hands-on investment experience. Presidents Andrew McDonough and Yiping Wang are optimistic about the club’s future. “Some of the things I think
we’ve implemented is a hyper focus on the members. When it comes to something like finance, there are a lot of people who want to break into it,” McDonough, a junior finance and management double major from Palm Beach, Fla., said. “We have a lot of kids who might be engineers or accountants who want to come in and learn about finance because it’s a personal skill.” In addition to general member involvement, the club has created a competitive way for students to learn about investing. Finance Club members are encouraged to share stock pitches during the organization’s weekly meetings. From there, a new subgroup called the Ole
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“You don’t want to create a barrier to entry for the students. That’s the role of the Ole Miss Finance Club. (We) accept any student that has a passion in finance.”
- Yiping Wang Ole Miss Finance Club president
UM Wind Ensemble showcases diverse repertoire Musicians continue their concert season with a show in the Gertrude C. Ford Center tonight, featuring standard, contemporary, collaborative and chamber pieces. NATE DONOHUE A&C Staff Writer
The University of Mississippi Wind Ensemble will play a free concert in the Ford Center at 7:30 p.m tonight. Professor of Music and Director of Bands Tim Oliver will serve as the conductor for the concert. “This concert is a culminating event for a series of rehearsals during which students prepare music individually and collaboratively,” Oliver said. “It serves both a musical and educational purpose. We hope the audience will have an opportunity for an enriching aesthetic experience that stimulates their objective
intellect while simultaneously stirring their emotions.” This is the second concert Oliver has conducted this semester. He shared two features that will make this concert unique. “First, we are collaborating with Dr. Jos Milton, a member of our voice faculty who will perform with the Wind Ensemble on a piece by Samuel Barber,” Oliver said. “Second, two of the five works on the concert are pieces that the University of Mississippi Wind Ensemble helped to commission. The music we perform at concerts includes standard, contemporary, collaborative and chamber repertoire.” The concert will consist of
five pieces. Three of these will be performed by the whole ensemble, while two will involve only a few of the musicians. “The styles of music to be performed range from a contemporary, Australian-composed fanfare, a work invoking the nostalgia of childhood memories, to a piece inspired by Cuban and Mexican dances,” Oliver said. “The entire group will perform some pieces, while smaller portions of the group will play other selections. One of the chief characteristics of a wind ensemble is its versatility in both styles and sizes of the ensemble within a single concert.”
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PHOTO COURTESY: THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MUSIC DEPARTMENT
The UM Wind Ensemble prepares to take a bow at a spring 2024 concert.