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From left to right, USM juniors Morgan Barnes, Taylor Thompkins and senior Alyssa Walter listen to freshman introductions on Bid Day at the end of Pi Beta Phi’s recruitment week.
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USM cracks down on IDs Earvin Hopkins Printz Writer
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Students must now validate their student IDs before gaining free entry to USM home football games. “Scanning for baseball ID cards, we noticed one out of 10 ID cards weren’t valid,” said
assistant director of athletics Kent Hegenauer. “We can easily assume this is the same trend for football. The university is losing a lot of money by allowing invalid students free entry.” Students can go to the Ferlise Center, located on the corner of 4th Street and Golden Eagle Boulevard, next to Century Park, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. to receive vali-
dation stickers for their IDs. Students may also pick up stickers at the South End Zone Box Office at Carlisle-Faulkner Field at Roberts Stadium from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., from Tuesday, Sept. 7, through Friday, Sept. 10, for validation. “We are stepping in the right direction,” Hegenauer said. “It is not 100 percent perfect right now, but we will get there.”
SGA president Kasey Mitchell met with representatives from the Athletic Ticket Center to help decide the best way to inform students of the change. “It will be a transition at first for students to get used to,” she said. “Once everyone is accustomed to the system, however, I think everything will work as planned.”
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Cuts hit Southern Miss hardest across state Ashton Pittman Printz Writer
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The sweeping cuts to programs and faculty at Southern Miss continue to dominate campus discussions and the pages of The Student Printz, but talk of budget cuts is not as prominent at Mississippi’s other major universities. Terrisha Buckley, a staff writer for The Reflector, Mississippi
State University’s student newspaper, said that cuts had not been a prevalent issue at MSU. “We haven’t really suffered as much when it comes to budget cuts,” she said. “The amount of student worker jobs has decreased due to funding, but we haven’t lost any programs so far.” The Reflector’s website corroborated Buckley’s claims that news on cuts at MSU was lacking; instead of news articles on cuts to faculty or degree pro-
grams, the most prominent stories were about bike traffic increases, a local pizza restaurant and new rules on how to properly ring cowbells at football games. The online newspaper for Ole Miss, The Daily Mississippian, also lacked signs of distress over cuts; its news articles focused on stories like the Rebels’ defeat last week playing Jacksonville State and the debate over Sunday alcohol sales in Oxford, Miss.,
An article in BusinessWeek revealed that Ole Miss has been working for years on a project intended to streamline the institution’s operations. Larry Sparks, Ole Miss’ vice chancellor for administration and finance, said the project “served as a foundational piece to help us do some of this” and that it alleviated the pressure to cut more jobs.
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4:00 p.m. Opening for The Intelligent Eye (William Baggett Art Exhibit) Museum of Art
11:00 a.m. Volleyball Tournament @ Ole Miss Oxford, Miss. 7:00 p.m.
4:15 p.m. Homecoming Interest Meeting Student Activities HUB Open Space 1st Floor
Fashion Show Benefit for Nonviolence and Katrina Research Center Fleming Education Center (Gulf Park Campus)
6:00 p.m. University Disaster Plan Community Meeting TCC 210
8:00 p.m. Friday Night at the Fountain Centennial Green Space
7:00 p.m. First Stage Monkeys Show of the Season TCC 210
Patriot Day
10:00 a.m. SMAC New Member Retreat HUB Open Space 1st Floor, Black and Gold Conference Rooms 11:00 a.m. Volleyball Tournament @ Ole Miss Oxford, Miss.
1:00 p.m. SGA Retreat Student Activities HUB Open Space 1st Floor
11:00 a.m. Rock the Vote (SGA) Weathersby Lawn
1:00 p.m. Women’s Soccer vs. Jackson State Hattiesburg, Miss.
12:00 p.m. Campus Citivan Club Membership Drive and Heart Walk Fundraiser Union Lobby
2:00 p.m. I.D.E.A.L Women – New Member Introduction TCC Ballroom III
5:00 p.m. Gay/Straight Alliance Meeting TCC 227
6:00 p.m. Football vs. Prairie View A&M The Rock
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Sophomores Brooke Wikstrom of Lawton, Okla., and Colton Pittman of Colombia, Miss., get their IDs verified on Wednesday. The new verification system confirms students are currently enrolled at USM, allowing them access to sporting events.
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Mitchell added that USM is one of few universities who still allow free admission to students. “Very few schools still allow free student entry to sporting events, and we are one of those lucky universities,” she said. “Of the ones who do allow free entry, almost all have some type of validation system. The proposed one for our university will be hasslefree and was actually used many years ago and worked well here.” Mitchell said students will only have to go to the ticket office or one of the designated validation locations once to receive a sticker that will remain valid for the entire season. She said, too, that one student can even bring in multiple IDs for validation. Mitchell said the new system was not a decision of SGA. The organization will, however, help the transition occur smoothly. “We immediately voiced our opinion to make sure that student input was sought and provided to the deciding office,” she said. “Our main objective now is to do our part in making sure students are informed and understand the new process. We
want to help the students out, approach the situation in a positive light and make sure that the transition to the new system is as flawless as possible from a student leader perspective.” Southern Miss student Whitney Tanner said she goes to the football games every year and will be in the stands again this year. “It’s bad enough that we are inconvenienced with all of these new changes that are being made to the university, of which most of us will not reap the benefits from,” she said. “The game is something that most students actually look forward to. Now there is a new challenge that we will have to face to support our own peers. When will the madness end?” USM student Yolanda Hibbler doesn’t like the changes this semester either. “A lot of people won’t even find out about this until it’s too late,” Hibbler said. “We, the students, are paying for these changes with tuition. I suppose I am more upset about all the changes this semester in general.” USM student Michael Cox said he won’t be affected by the validations of the student ID cards.
“It doesn’t bother me, because I’ve never been to a game. It is late notice though, but I can understand why it would be important,” Cox said. “I understand the need for some form of ID validation,” Mitchell said. “The student section, or free entry to students, is a right that is reserved for actual students of our university,” Mitchell said.
Despite the fact that 30 jobs have been cut at Ole Miss over the past two years, Sparks said that no programs or positions were being considered for cuts at the present time, though that could change with the loss of $9.5 million in stimulus funds next year. MSU is also bracing for a loss in funding with plans to save $11 million in budget costs next year. MSU Associate Provost Jerry Gilbert told BusinessWeek that savings would come from a retirement incentive plan and from cutting areas of inefficiency. “We’ve decided not to cut programs unless we can reap a financial benefit from cutting those programs,” Gilbert said. Jackson State University has yet to decide its course of action in the face of state budget cuts. University officials there said that JSU was not prepared to announce any layoffs while the university was still considering its options. Delta State University was also in the process of reviewing its choices, but DSU President John Hilpert made clear that tenured faculty would be safe over the course of the next academic year. USM’s local Hattiesburg neighbor, William Carey University, is one of the few universities in the state that is not facing significant challenges. USM and William Carey share one thing in common — both are experiencing record enrollment this year. But despite the close proximity of the two universities, the contrast between USM’s
financial situation and William Carey’s could not be sharper. Even as USM plans to cut 29 faculty members and 23 programs, William Carey, after spending the past two years opening a new campus on the coast and starting a new medical school, hired 60 new staff and faculty members for this academic year. The difference lies in the fact that while William Carey is a privately funded Baptist university, USM relies on state funding to sustain it. Record enrollment may be financially good news for a private school, but for a public university in the current economy, it means more state dollars are necessary to educate new students. However, the large discrepancy between the types of cuts USM is being forced to make in order to save $15 million and the relatively smaller cuts other state funded Mississippi universities face has left some Southern Miss students asking questions. Tyrone Adams, a senior political science major at USM, expressed his concerns about the political underpinnings of the situation. Adams wondered why universities from north Mississippi, where he said many of Mississippi’s prominent politicians are from, seem to be faring better than USM. “I feel like USM has always been overlooked by state politicians, even though we have a large number of students,” Adams said. “When is the last time we had a governor from south Mississippi?”
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SADD reaches out to students Michelle Holowach Printz Writer The death of a loved one is hard, but this pain can be turned into a mission to save the lives of others. This is exactly what SADD aims to do. SADD, which stands for Student Against Destructive Decisions, is a nationwide organization and a club recently brought back to life here at USM by Davontae Washington.
Early last fall many because of a bad were shocked by the decision some tragic death of LeJuother person lia White, a freshmade,” Washingman girl who was hit ton said. and killed by a drunk White had only driver. Washington, a been in school for close friend of White, a couple of days was heavily affected when her life was by her early death taken. and as a result he was Sophomore LeJulia White motivated to re-charDanielle Gaddy, 1991-2009 ter SADD at USM. SADD secretary, “It’s not fair that was driving the someone’s child lost their life car that fateful night.
“She was a fun loving girl,” Gaddy said. “She made everyone around her have a smile on their face because of her bubbly, outgoing personality. She never liked to see anybody down. If you needed anything, if you were just having a bad day, she was that one person willing to listen to your problems.” Washington said that he has never met a person who knew LeJulia and didn’t like her. He had met her at Priority Preview in spring of 2009 and become
close friends with her over the summer only to have her taken away because of someone else’s bad decisions. The mission of SADD at USM is to make sure people think through their decisions and do not engage in behavior that could jeopardize the lives of people around them. The mission statement of SADD as stated on their national website is “to provide students with the best prevention tools possible to deal with the issues of underage drinking, other drug use, impaired driving and other destructive decisions.” The goal of SADD here at USM, according to public relations executive Tiarra Forest, is teaching others about responsibility. “Know that you have to be responsible,” she said. “You can’t drink and drive, you can’t text and drive; make good decisions. Responsibility is our main goal.” As worded by Washington, SADD aims to encourage people to focus on destructive decisions as a whole and not just on drunk driving. Countless people have been affected by the consequences of destructive decisions and dangerous driving, and the members of SADD say they hope that this organization can change this in the future. “Me being a part of SADD is my way of teaching others how to be more responsible,” Forest said. SADD not only aims to make a difference on campus but in the community as well. They plan to work with Big Brother Big Sister, have a community day at the park, and partner up with Student Health Services for “Don’t Be Stupid” Week – a whole week dedicated to the goal of making responsible decisions. “What we’re trying to do is make everybody see our point, to see why it’s so important to think about decisions you make before you make them,” Washington said. “Some things you can’t say ‘I’m sorry’ for and everything is going to be okay. Some things you really can’t change after they happen. I’m just determined to really make people think about that.” Washington said he has never been involved with a SADD chapter before, but he is looking for as many people as possible to join him. “We’re looking for those people that just want to help out and that have a real drive to make a difference.”
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“Kiss a Pig” for American Heart Assoc. Jonathan Andrews Printz Writer Though putting lipstick on a pig doesn’t make it any less of a pig, it might make it better for the administrator who wins of one of USM’s fundraisers for the American Heart Association’s Heart Walk this year. The “Kiss a Pig” contest, as the name implies, will have campus celebrities competing for the chance to kiss a pig before the Golden Eagles’ football game against the University of Kansas on Sept. 17. The contestants for this competition include President Martha Saunders, Provost Bob Lyman, Vice President for Student Affairs Joe Paul, University Police Chief Bob Hopkins and Vice President for Advancement Bob Pierce. The prospect has Paul sweating like a pig. He joked that he is not campaigning to win the contest, but, if he does, he will pucker up for a good cause. “If I do win, I will hold my breath and kiss that pig,” Paul said. The kissing of the swine will take place on the Centennial
Lawn prior to Eagle Walk on the 17th. Before that, however, the voting must take place. Jars will be located in the Library Plaza from Sept. 7 - 10 and in Shoemaker Square from Sept. 13 - 17. Southern Miss students, faculty and staff can cast their votes by donating toward the contestant of their choice. Voting will remain open from 10:30 a.m until 1:15 p.m. The contestant whose jar contains the most donations by the end of voting on Sept. 17 will win the kiss. All proceeds from the contest will benefit the American Heart Association. Patricia Linton, an administrative assistant and the Operations Manager in the office of student affairs, said students can drop in as much or as little money as they want to cast their vote. “This year our goal is $15,000,” Linton said. “We had a record-setting year last year, and we hope to get even more this year.” Last year, donations totalled $22,966. The “Pass the Bacon” contest will occur simultaneously with “Kiss a Pig.” In this con-
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As sophomore Jillian Hardy works the booth for the American Heart Association’s “Kiss a Pig” fundraiser, junior Paige LeBlanc donates money to cast her vote for President Martha Saunders. The winner will have to kiss a pig on Sept. 17 before USM’s football game against the University of Kansas.
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test, small decorated porcelain pigs will be passed around the offices in the schools’ various departments. Faculty, staff or students can donate $5 to get the pig removed from whatever desk it is on. Linton said there are four pigs left to be adopted by Heart Walk team captains. “If it appears on your desk,
you are entered into the drawing, and you get to cast your vote toward who kisses the pig,” Linton said. In addition to being able to choose who that donation goes toward in the “Kiss a Pig” contest, that faculty, staff member or student, if they choose, will be entered into a drawing for various prizes. Prizes include gift certificates from area restaurants and
stores, gift cards from Barnes and Nobles, a parking decal for next year ($135 value) and a $500 scholarship for one lucky student. “Pass the Bacon” will also end on Sept. 17. Aside from getting the chance to see one of their most liked, or most disliked, administration members getting a kiss from a swine, Golden Eagles will help bring home the bacon for the American Heart Association. Sid Gonsoulin, the director of student affairs auxiliary service and that department’s team captain, said this is a worthy cause and affects everyone. “It’s personal,” Gonsoulin said. “There’s not one student who can say they don’t know someone who has had heart problems.” Gonsoulin said the money will also go toward research, and most of the donations in this area would stay here in the Forrest and Lamar county area. Participants in the Southern Miss Heart Walk will also be able to customize web pages that will allow friends and family to donate online. Anyone interested can also buy paper hearts to be put up around campus for $1 as well as T-shirts for $10.
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Coach Palmer gets the nod baseball
Kurt Cavataio Printz Writer The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame recently announced its induction class of 2011. One of the six was former Southern Miss baseball coach Corky Palmer. Palmer coached the Golden Eagles for 12 seasons and amassed a 458-281-1 record while at the helm for Southern Miss. Palmer is a Hattiesburg native, which makes this honor a special one for him. “I am very honored and humbled to be a member of such an elite fraternity of Mississippians,” Palmer said. Palmer guided the Golden Eagles to eight NCAA regionals, including each of his final seven seasons with the team. The former coach was also the only man to guide his Alma Mater to the College World Series in 2009. “I consider this one of the highest honors in my career, right there with being named the head coach at Southern Miss and taking the Golden Eagles to Omaha in 2009,” he said. “It is truly special to be inducted in your home state’s hall of fame.” Palmer coached baseball for over 32 years in the state of Mississippi. He began his coaching career at the high school level while accumulating a 102-52 record at Columbia Lee and Columbia High. He then got the call to coach Meridian Community College in 1987. Over 10 seasons with MCC, his record was 409-160, and he won 40 or more games in six of MCC’s seasons. His efforts brought him two National Junior College Athletic Association Coach of
the Year awards. In 1997, he was asked to join USM’s staff as an assistant to head coach Hill Denson. Just one year later, he landed his dream job – to coach his Alma Mater. Palmer produced many professional players in his time with the Golden Eagles. Former USM pitcher J.R. Ballinger, now with the Chicago White Sox’s organization, has nothing but positive remarks for his college coach. “Coach Corky Palmer is a great coach, and I have a lot of respect for him,” Ballinger said. “Coach Palmer knew the game; that’s what made him outstanding when he made out the lineup on game day.” Ballinger said academics were always important to Palmer’s players. “He would always make sure we got our study hall hours in or else,” he said. “If anyone got picked up by a pro team before they finished school he stays on them until they finish their degree. He really focused in on his player’s academic status. While I was there he pushed me to my fullest potential on the field and off the field. He is not only a great coach on the field but its how he motivated his players off the field. That really inspired me.” Current head coach Scott Berry coached with Palmer for 15 years before taking over for the legendary coach. “He’s one of the most competitive guys I’ve ever met and hated to lose more than anybody,” Berry said. “You’ll never find a guy who cared more about his team than he did. He built a great tradition here at Southern Miss.”
Palmer said he owes much of his success to his dad who taught him early in life that you’ll never get where you want to go without hard work. “He always told me to set my goals high, work as hard as I could, then simply achieve,” Palmer said. So, what is the retired Palmer doing these days? He’s working 20 hours a week with the athletic department raising money for the baseball team, among other things. In the meantime, he’ll be cheering on his good buddy Coach Berry and the Golden Eagles baseball team. The induction ceremony will take place in Jackson on July 29-30, 2011.
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Corky Palmer coached the Golden Eagles baseball team for 12 seasons compiling a 458-281-1 record and the team’s only trip to the College World Series.
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football
Students react to Southern Miss season opener Cade Morrow Printz Writer So another day has come and gone, and the sky still hasn’t fallen after Southern Miss’ 41-13 loss to the South Carolina Gamecocks. The students and fans at USM are disappointed after the defeat but are still hopeful for a successful season. Alden Bennett, a sophomore at Southern Miss, thought that Southern Miss was going to do big things this season and was disappointed with Thursday’s outcome. “There was a lot of hype surrounding the football team,” he said. “But that was just a bad performance all around on Thursday.” Alden said the Southern Miss football team is better than what they showed on Thursday, and the game only showed how good South Carolina is. “I think that South Carolina is very good this year and I think that this could be a big year for them,” he said. Southern Miss alumnus Drew White took away the same sentiments as Bennett from Thursday night’s game. “I think that South Carolina took us completely out of our
game plan and didn’t allow us to do what we wanted to do,” he said. “With that said, I don’t think that Southern Miss played to their full potential, and I think that we will have to do better in the coming weeks.” Drew said the Golden Eagles need to tweak their offensive approach for the next game against Prairie View A&M. “I believe that our offense needs to get more vertical,” White said. “We ran a lot of horizontal plays like screens and options, and South Carolina had no trouble defending it.” Drew said if the coaches can tweak the game plan, USM should still be the favorite in Conference USA East. “I still expect us to win the East because we have so much talent out there,” White said. “We just have to get a little more tenacity out on the playing field.” Another USM student hopeful for a successful season is sophomore Seth Barron. Barron said he saw much potential in the Southern Miss defense on the first two drives but then saw the Eagles abandon their game plan. “I was a little disappointed in how the Southern Miss defense laid down after the first two series,”
Barron said. “They looked really good early on, but after the first few drives they didn’t look good at all.” Barron saw the Nasty Bunch mentality early on in the game, but the defense got more passive as the game went on, he said. “I think that we need to throw a few more blitz packages in the game plan,” Barron said. “When we were putting pressure on the South Carolina quarterback we were successful, but we got away from that later in the game.” Southern Miss will have a chance to get in the win column Saturday when they take on Prairie View A&M. This will be Southern Miss’ first home game of the season.
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Quaterback Austin Davis is tackled by a South Carolina defender Sept. 6 in Columbia, SC. Davis was 31 of 43 for 238 yards with one interception and rushed for 28 yards.
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