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MASCOT SELECTION POLL OPENS MONDAY BY LANCE INGRAM News Editor
The mascot selection process for the University of Mississippi will begin its next phase on Monday at 8 a.m. A poll will be available to Ole Miss students, faculty, staff, alumni association members and football season ticket holders to choose from 11 mascot ideas and provide feedback. The poll will close July 5. The poll will narrow the selection down to between three and five ideas, which will be voted on once school resumes for the fall semester, according to Ty New, co-chairman of the committee. No pictures will be made available in the poll because the committee doesn’t want people to get caught up in what the
idea looks like. The ideas will have accompanying stories that provide the voter a description of the idea and how it relates to Ole Miss or Mississippi, New said. New also said there will be a mass email and text message sent to students when the poll begins and on the last day to ensurre they are aware of the deadline to vote. Those eligible to vote will visit mascot. olemiss.edu. Voters must select their status related to the University, and from there, the site will transfer them to the designated voting area. There is currently an active Facebook group as part of reminding students to vote. For more information, visit mascot. olemiss.edu.
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GAMMILL GALLERY EXHIBITION ‘Spirit of New Orleans,’ photographs by Bruce Keyes from the book by the same name, presents a three-decade odyssey through the streets of the Big Easy. Museum open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Free, open to the public
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THE KING AND I In this rich Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, English widow Anna Leonowens comes to Siam in the 1860s to tutor the many wives and children of the country’s king. She soon discovers that she and the king live in two different worlds headed for a collision. Part of the 2010 Oxford Shakespeare Festival’s A Royal Season. MACEY BAIRD | The Daily Mississippian
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OLE MISS ATHLETIC WEBSITE MOVES TO NEW HOME BY ERIC BESSON Sports Editor
Visitors of OleMissSports.com can expect to see changes to the website soon. The CBSSports.com College Network announced Monday the acquisition of five new athletic websites, including Ole Miss’s official athletic website, which they will begin hosting on Aug. 1. “We’ve built a lot of momentum over the last few years with our Internet operations, and we feel this is going to be a positive move to be able to build on that success,” Ole Miss online communications director Kyle Campbell said. By joining the network, Ole Miss has entered a partnership with CBSSports.com. Revenue generated by OleMissSports.com will be shared by CBSSports.com, the University of Mississippi and TeleSouth Communications, which is the University’s multimedia rights holder. “The largest percentage of that revenue comes from RebelVision subscriptions, while other opportunities are available with auctions, the photo store and other online shops,” Campbell said. “While OleMissSports.com has been financially successful, the opportunity of raising those numbers even higher is an exciting opportunity with CBSSports. com.” One of the main concerns over the move to a new hosting partner is minimizing drastic changes so frequent visitors will not lose their familiarity with the website. “Certainly it’s a priority that we maintain a lot of familiarity,” Campbell said. “With our current (web) site, we don’t want our fans to be lost. We want the fan to be able to find the same things they have always been able to find. We just want to enhance their experience.” The enhancements will include upgrades to the live statistics (GameTracker) and live video (Re-
belVision) systems. “One huge change will be GameTracker, CBS Sports’ live stats functionality,” Campbell said. “We feel like that’s going to be an exciting new change for our website and something our fans can look forward to.” RebelVision will not undergo any fundamental changes pertaining to what is shown, but users will notice some differences including high-definition streaming because the website will be using a different platform. “We are going to continue to stream all of the things we have been able to stream. CBS has a different platform, a different web portal. So certainly, there will be some differences, but I think from an overall fan perspective this is going to be a better move for Ole Miss.” OleMissSports.com will also have an increased presence on mobile platforms. A mobile application is in the works, with a projected release during the fall semester. Specifics of what the app will entail are unavailable at the moment. With its recent acquisitions, CBSSports.com will host 52 of 65 (80 percent) of BCS-eligible schools. “The additions to the CBSSports. com College Network are further proof of our focus on premium collegiate athletic brands, a focus that has driven us to a dominant position in the BCS marketplace,” General Manager of CBSSports.com College Network Rob Schupler said in a press release. With the move, the university hopes to build on the recent success of the website. “Certainly, CBS College Sports is completely devoted to college athletics. They understand what it takes to be successful, so that was important. They offer cutting-edge technology. They offer unmatched technical service. From a big picture standpoint, we feel like this is going to be the best move for Ole Miss,” Campbell said.
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Ole Miss student Aaron Pullen and Summer College high shool students Joshua Church and Lateika Fox respond to the Engineering Challenge, designing and building a working coffeemaker system to produce 500 mL of coffee. The students were introduced to the Coffeemaker Project and learned about the dynamics of the system during a previous Introduction to Engineering class lecture and demonstration with Dr. Clint Williford, Chair of Chemical Engineering. Each team of students had 22 hours to think about and design their coffeemaker system. At 8 a.m., they entered the chemistry lab and were given 3 hours to produce coffee. The course is part of Summer College for High School Students at Ole Miss. The program offers students the opportunity to jump start their high school education in courses such as business administration, computer science, engineering, health professions, English, Spanish and journalism.
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OXFORD SET TO HOLD BLUES FESTIVAL STU KELLY The Daily Mississippian
Oxford is set to hold its first Blues Music Festival, beginning Friday, July 16, on the Square. The mission of the Oxford Blues Festival is to preserve, protect and promote blues music and culture. “I want this festival to grow and give the community of Oxford a reason to come together to enjoy music,” Daryl Parker, president of Oxford Blues Festival, said. “I want to keep the majority of this festival free so people who come out can relax and lounge— and not have to worry about their pocketbook. Keeping this a free event is important.” The festivities will begin with a dinner and storytelling event hosted by Henderson Thigpin and Terry “Harmonica” Bean at Irie beginning at 5:30 p.m. This event is designed to introduce people to blues musicians and to ask any questions they may have
in an intimate and friendly atmosphere. Live music will begin later Friday night at Rooster’s Blues House, featuring Cadillac Funk on the second floor and the AM Band featuring Big Rigg on the ground floor. Both bands will take the stage at 9 p.m. Terry “Harmonica” Bean wiWll also be taking the stage at Irie, at 9:30 p.m. In recognition of the musical experiences, Greg Johnson, a representative of the Ole Miss blues archives, will host a special presentation on the history of blues music at the Oxford Public Library Saturday at noon. This event is designed to teach blues music fanatics about the early roots and origins of blues. Music will begin shortly after at 2 p.m. when blues legend Kenny Brown takes the stage at Rooster’s Blues House. See BLUES, PAGE 5
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Yesterday, I covered a press conference for the local paper I write for during the summer. It wasn’t anything exciting. The details are boring. What intrigued me was that half of the people at the meeting knew who I was. Growing up in the “small-ish” town of Laurel, I’ve grown accustomed to people knowing me, but for some reason it struck me yesterday that this doesn’t happen in every town and city. Sure, it helps that my last name is Cegielski. My family is bound to be the only Cegielski family in a 100-mile radius. I also have a politically outspoken father who runs a newspaper. Plus, my mom is the only female gastrointestinal doctor in town. Okay, so my family doesn’t keep a low profile. I guess it should be expected to be recognized as “one of those Cegielski girls.” But if I lived in Jackson, Hattiesburg or Meridian this wouldn’t happen. I don’t think I’m the only person affected by this “everyone knows everyone” syndrome. I
can’t count the number of times I have been out with friends when we meet a random stranger who knows one or all of us. It just seems to be Laurel’s way. Even after being in Oxford for only a year, I’ve started “just knowing” who everyone is (and they know me), and I don’t have audacious parents to make a name for me. I think it’s the laid-back attitude of the South. And small towns make it easier to meet and greet all. I’ve always hated living in a small town. I’m a city girl through and through. That’s why everyone in my family thought it was super weird when I became dead set on going to Ole Miss. I was supposed to leave the South. I was headed for the Northeast with New York City and Boston only train rides away, but something changed. I soon realized that perks that Ole Miss had to offer and that I would flourish in Oxford. That’s not to say that I’m not headed for Man-
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As excited as we are to get the chance to be a part of history at Ole Miss, no one seems to know exactly what is going on with the Rebel Mascot Selection Committee. The only way we as a student body and as the student newspaper are able to get information from the Rebel Mascot Selection Committee is on their website, mascot.olemiss.edu, and a collection of brief YouTube videos in which they quickly list the steps of their master plan. On Monday, June 28, we move into Phase III of the committee’s seven-part process. According to a Facebook event that was sent out to 2,941 people as of Thursday evening (over half of which have yet to see it), Phase III is as follows: “All University of Mississippi students, faculty, staff, Alumni Association members, and season ticket holders are invited to participate in the first poll to select the Ole Miss Rebels’ on-field mascot.” We have until July 6 at 5 p.m. to vote on our favorites and give the committee
feedback. From there, the committee will get renderings for the best ideas and we will be polled again. Ultimately, the committee will decide which mascot they think fits our University best based on the feedback from whoever continues to follow this indefinite process with no set deadlines, that we know of, past July 6. We have yet to receive an email from the committee informing even the student body that this vote is beginning in three days. We have since found that they will send the student body an e-mail the day the vote begins. Why are we voting over the summer if we won’t even have an on-field mascot by the first football game or even possibly the entire season? More importantly, how can we vote on something we don’t know about? It’s merely a matter of getting the student body’s questions answered. We’re thrilled to get to vote, and that we’re getting into the mascot-selecting action sooner than we thought we might.
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We’d just like to understand what’s going on, and for a little more transparency. The co-chairs, Margaret Ann Morgan and Ty New, were more than willing to talk to us when we called. They are still committed to ensuring the student body gets what they want, and that everybody that wants a say gets that. For that, we applaud them. Not everyone in the student body has access to their phone numbers, though, and for the students that can’t or won’t seek it out themselves, we ask this: keep us as informed as possible. Some of us were confused by which phase we were in, where we’ll go next, and what this vote means. We’d guess that’s how a lot of others are. If the Mascot Selection Committee wants the student body to be part of the decision process, we must be informed and we need to be present. That said, we look forward to seeing what your votes will be, and are excited to have a mascot for the first time in seven (!) years.
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MISS UNIVERSITY TRUNK SHOW A trunk show honoring Miss University Adrian Turner as she prepares to depart for the Miss Mississippi program, will take place on Monday. Turner is a 21-year-old native of Tupelo. She is a pharmacy major and will be a senior this fall. After being crowned Miss University in February, Turner began preparations for the Miss Mississippi pageant. She will compete in the categories of interview, swimsuit, evening gown and talent. Jennifer Taylor, director of campus programming, said that Turner works every day and “always gives 110 percent.” Monday’s trunk show will include a preview of the outfits Turner will wear throughout the week of the Miss Mississippi program. There will also be a showing of her talent: a jazz dance performance, recorded at the Ford Center. Turner is also hosting a silent auction benefiting Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis. Le Bonheur is Turner’s chosen platform for the pageant. She chose this platform for personal reasons. When Turner was in sixth grade, her mother was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia. Research for this type of cancer is limited due
MUSIC PREVIEW PICK OF THE WEEK
The North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic is the place to be for live music this weekend. In its fifth year, the festival sets the stage for more than 20 local blues, rock and roots artists including Burnside Exploration, T Model Ford and Jimbo Mathus performing today, and North Mississippi Allstars, Blue Mountain, DuWayne Burnside and Kenny Brown on Saturday. The festival has stayed true to its roots — putting local hill country blues in the spotlight. This lineup will not disappoint, featuring nationally-renowned acts like NM Allstars, blues legends like T Model Ford and local favorites like Rocket 88. The music starts at 3 p.m. today and ends at midnight. It starts back 10:30 a.m. Saturday and the festival will wrap up at midnight, but campers are welcome until 12 p.m. Sunday. The picnic will take place in Potts Camp, off of Highway 349. The rural location is a great place to get away for the weekend, but close enough to drive
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to a lack of funding and support. Turner said that through “generous donations, Le Bonheur is able to provide affordable treatments, regardless of a family’s income.” The trunk show will be held June 28 beginning at 3:30 p.m. in the Ford Center Rehearsal Hall. BY JACOB FULLER The Daily Mississippian
back to Oxford if you can’t attend the whole festival. Tickets can be purchased at the gate for $25 per day and $25 to camp on site. No alcohol will be sold on site, so BYOB, but there is a $10 ice chest fee and no glass containers are allowed.
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Marah will be playing at Proud Larry’s tonight at 7 p.m. The Pennsylvania-based five piece, with three new members, will bring a Tom Petty/earlyelectric Bob Dylan-meets-Counting Crows-andWilco sound to Oxford on their tour trail around the Southeast. Their new album, “Life is a Problem” hit iTunes and Amazon.com earlier this week. With the Hill Country Picnic taking most of the local talent, Marah will be the best show for your buck on the Square this weekend. The show is 18 and up. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at proudlarrys.com or at the door.
It is no coincidence that Sandra Beasley found her way to Oxford. During the brief hour I spent with the fourth Ole Miss Poet-in-Residence, I felt that she embodied the utopian personality Oxford could possess. She was courteous enough to invite me over to the Grisham House – the elegantly quaint residence the University grants to its poets-in-residence – to do our interview, and couldn’t have possibly exerted any more of that hospitable manner that walks in stride with ideal Southern charm. Having grown up in Virginia and graduated from University of Virginia, Beasley said she already considered herself a Southern girl. “However, it’s interesting – really interesting – to come to a place where the definition of the South is slightly different. You know - the flavors are different; the music is a little different; the politics are a little different. I appreciate broadening my understanding of what it means to be a Southerner,” Beasley said. Beasley is a young poet who has achieved early success in her career, winning a number of honors and awards over the past few years for her writing, the most recent the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize honoring her collection of poems, “I Was the Jukebox.” Her talent for writing is impressive, and not only in the form of poetry. Beasley has proven herself
as a columnist for The Washington Post and just finished writing a memoir entitled “Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life.” By “just finished,” I mean she finished writing the final words in the Nashville airport before heading to Oxford little more than a week ago. In her memoir, Beasley uses her humorous perspective on an uncommonly vast array of food allergies, making the fact that she once worked as a food critic all the more ironic. “For the first week, it’s been about letting go of this recent project I’ve been working on pretty intensely, but it’s been easier to disconnect,” Beasley said. “You don’t need to do nearly as much email-jockeying and coffee-scheduling when everyone goes to the same three or four places. You just bump into people organically. If you don’t bump into them, then they wouldn’t have had time to visit anyway. I like it.” Beasley is returning to poetry in a new project she plans to start during her stay here in Oxford. “Change of scenery is a critical part of starting a new work,” she said. “Picking up and moving is kind of really getting serious on a new project. I think for any poet, their motif and their images are often drawn from their surroundings, and it’s really kind of fun to be in a different space and looking for that.”
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“The King and I,” the third production of the Oxford Shakespeare Festival, opened last night. For a complete review of the performance by Jacob Fuller, visit us at TheDMOnline.com.
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Rooster’s. Music will continue at Rooster’s, Red House, Ajax and The Blind Pig until midnight. On Sunday the festival will continue at the Foxfire Ranch located on Highway 7 North, in Waterford, Miss. The music will start at 5 p.m. and will last until midnight at the pavilion. “A festival just wouldn’t be a festival without some sort of out outdoor component,” Parker said. “Foxfire Ranch is just such an awesome place. There is just nothing better to me than being outside with a glass of lemonade and a hot dog enjoying good music,” Big Dave and The Evol Love Band, The AM Band and The Gary Burnside Band will perform the musical entertainment at Foxfire Ranch. “It’s my community, and to me being a good citizen is trying to develop and grow your community and cultivate it so that everybody can get something out of it,” Parker said.
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SOFTBALL SENIOR HOPES TO HELP TEAM TAKE ‘NEXT STEP’ BY ANDREW DICKSON The Daily Mississippian
Senior RHP/1B Brittany Barnhill may have taken the less-traveled route to Ole Miss than the majority of the softball team, but her importance to the squad now – both on the field and off – has made her arrival well worth the wait. Much like former Ole Miss football standout Jevan Snead, Barnhill played high school ball in Texas and began her collegiate career as a Longhorn at UT before transferring to Ole Miss. Unlike Snead, however, Barnhill was not required to sit out a year and was able to make an immediate impact. While she considers herself a “vocal leader,” Barnhill led the Rebels on the field as well in a variety of ways. As a pitcher she led the team in wins, earned run average, strikeouts, and opponents’ batting average against; as a first baseman, she led the team in doubles, finished third in RBI and turned in a .985 fielding percentage. And although her first year in red and blue turned out to be a successful one, Barnhill remains focused on taking both her game and the Ole Miss Softball program to new heights. “At Texas, playing in a regional every year was a given, but it’s a bit more difficult to pull that off in a conference as tough as the SEC,” Barnhill said. The Ole Miss Softball program
is still relatively new (it was started in 1997), but recent renovations (worth an estimated $1.2 million) have given the program a new look as it prepares to take the proverbial next step. But – as Barnhill attests – taking that step is up to the players and coaches. “The first goal for next season is to take Ole Miss to its first regional,” Barnhill said. “We finished just one game short of that goal this year, but we are very confident heading into next season.” Obviously the players want to win every game they play, but as Barnhill said, “You have to walk before you can run.” Barnhill will play a significant role in whether or not that goal is reached in 2011. From all indications she will be the featured pitcher for next season. Her diverse repertoire of pitches will certainly aid her. “I throw six pitches – a fastball, screwball, dropball, riseball, curveball, and a changeup. My fastball has topped out at 70 mph, but I throw it 67-68 miles per hour consistently. My out pitch is either my curveball or changeup, depending on which one is working better that day,” the talented righthander explained. (A 70 mph fastball in softball is the equivalent of a 98 MPH fastball in baseball, due to the differences in length from the mound to the plate in the two sports.)
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Brittany Barnhill, who transferred from Texas last year, is expected to be the Rebels’ featured pitcher this year. Barnhill said she throws six different pitches, including a fastball that consistently reaches 67-68 mph.
Former teammate Kelly Chandler commended her fastball but said “[it’s] her off-speed pitches that allow her to strike people out and be effective.” Barnhill credits much of her development to the Ole Miss coaching staff, especially pitching coach Megan Buning, whom she described as “phenomenal.” The two arrived on the Ole Miss campus
around the same time, and Barnhill says she has seen consistent improvement in her game ever since she began taking instruction from Coach Buning. That improvement culminated in Barnhill throwing the second no-hitter in school history in the second game of a doubleheader against Alcorn State; a few hours after RHP Becky Nye threw the
first no-hitter in Ole Miss history in game one. The senior liberal arts major hopes performances like that and a game against No. 4 Florida where she pitched eight innings and hit the game-winning double are foreshadowing for what is to come during her senior season, which begins next February. Until then, Barnhill and the rest of the team will be hard at work.
$43.7 MILLION BUDGET APPROVED FOR OLE MISS ATHLETICS BY ERIC BESSON Sports Editor
The University of Mississippi athletics department compiled a $43.7 million budget for the 2010-2011 athletic fiscal year, which was approved by the state College Board. The budget projects $25.8 million (59 percent) of the revenue to come from football, $5.7 million (13 percent) from men’s basketball and $949,000 from baseball. Budget revenue projections are estimated based on the previous year’s numbers, Ole Miss athletic director Pete Boone said. “We look at all our revenue sources from the year
before and estimate what we they think are going to be the next year,” Boone said. The University of Mississippi will allocate $3.4 million from student tuition, which makes up 7.8 percent of the athletics department’s projected revenues. For the 2010-2011 year, the university will begin to charge students for baseball game tickets. They also announced the debut of all-sport passes (on sale July 1), which include football, basketball and baseball student season tickets for $125 per pass. The university will sell 2,000 of these passes and then charge $84 for football, $48 for basketball and $68-72 for baseball tickets. Boone estimated the new
WHITE HEADED TO MOTOR CITY BY CAROLINE LEE Editor-in-Chief
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Former Rebel Terrico White was No. 36 overall in the 2010 NBA Draft, in which he was selected to join the Detroit Pistons. White was originally projected to be drafted second
in round two. He becomes the highest draft pick since Ansu Sesay in 1998, who was 30th overall to the Seattle Sonics. He is the first Rebel drafted since Justin Reed (2004), who went to the Boston Celtics at No. 40. While at Ole Miss,
White averaged 15.1 points per game as a sophomore and was the SEC Freshman of the Year in 2009. Also drafted is Jarvis Varnardo of Mississippi State University, who was selected by the Miami Heat at No. 40 overall.
ticket structure added $100,000 to the projected revenue. Expenditures According to Boone, $15.8 million of the expenditures will go towards salaries, wages and fringe benefits for the athletic department. He also said that $7.2 million will cover scholarships for the university’s student athletes, $1 million will cover the cost of utilities for the athletic buildings and $3.8 million will cover student-athlete travel costs. The football program is projected to spend $8.9 million (20 percent) of the expenditures, the basketball team $2.5 million (6 percent) and the baseball team $1.3 million (3 percent).