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As details of Monday’s announcement sink in, faculty and students are disappointed to learn how professors and programs have been affected. Chair of the history department Phyllis Jestice said she will join the department of foreign languages to appeal the termination of tenured Latin and Greek professor Mark Clark, who has taught at USM for 30 years. “Instruction in Latin and Greek is absolutely indispensable for advanced study in several fields of history,” she said, “and Dr. Clark’s Latin and Greek program is a very impressive tribute to his dedication and hard work.” Jestice said, too, that Clark’s classes are “enormously popu-
lar.” Clark currently teaches 139 students in his five Latin classes. In the spring he teaches Christianity and the Roman Empire and Ancient Greeks, along with others. He also directs a fair number of honors theses, independent studies and master’s theses in history, Jestice said. After his class on Tuesday, junior Latin student Barbara McClendon said, “Dr. Clark is a scholar who has done a multitude of research and been recognized for his work. Go to the foreign language website and read his bio – or better yet, have a conversation with him – and decide for yourself whether this is a professor that our university needs to lose.” “It’s hard to imagine a real university without instruction in Latin and Greek,” Jestice said. “And there’s something truly horrifying about firing tenured professors. I’m not sure students
realize how different this can be from just losing a job. We work for years, sometimes decades, to reach tenure, and with it the expectation of a job.” Despite her disappointment in the loss of the Latin and Greek program, Jestice said the administration went about the cutting process the right way, drawing in faculty, staff and students to provide input. She said, however, that the outcome seems uneven. “It feels like the College of Arts and Letters was hit disproportionately hard, especially considering the tuition revenue that classes like Comparative Religion generate for the university. It feels like the administration was hit disproportionately lights, and that athletics continues to demand and get an unfair proportion of the university’s budget.”
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President Martha Saunders commented on the large number of cuts from the College of Arts and Letters. “The process was never intended to be proportional,” she said. “Instead, the priorities were set given a set of criteria including enrollment, centrality to the mission of the institution and cost, among other things.” Dean of the College of Business Lance Nail said the cut of the Management Information Systems program in his college was a reasonable choice. “The one academic program that has been slated for elimination in the College of Business was the most rational choice on the basis of enrollment trends,” he said. “We would have preferred to avoid eliminating the MIS program, but the size of the budget cuts was simply too large to avoid cutting academic programs.”
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President Barack Obama speaks at Xavier University in New Orleans, to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010.
Ashton Pittman Printz Writer Tuesday night, President Obama addressed the nation to announce the end of the United States’ combat mission in Iraq. The address was broadcast live
from the Oval Office — the same desk where President Bush announced the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom more than seven years ago. In the address, Obama maintained a somber yet hopeful demeanor. “I know this historic moment comes at a time of great uncertainty for many Americans,” he
said. “We’ve now been through nearly a decade of war. We’ve endured a long and painful recession. And sometimes in the midst of these storms the future that we’re trying to build for our nation — a future of lasting peace and long-term prosperity — may seem beyond our reach.”
Obama reminded the nation of the many hardships the nation has faced since the war began. Obama said, too, he is “incredibly proud” of the service and sacrifice of the men and women in the armed forces and of their families. He listed their accomplishments in Iraq, from bringing down the regime of Saddam Hussein to protecting the Iraqi people and to fighting terrorist insurgents. “So tonight,” he said, “I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended. Operation Iraqi freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country.” Obama said that the ending of combat operations was part of the fulfillment of his campaign promise to end the war in Iraq. In February, Obama announced a plan to bring all combat brigades home. Since he took office, nearly 100,000 troops have been brought home from Iraq. Although the combat brigades have all returned home, 50,000 troops will remain in Iraq for purposes of securing the country as it forms a new government.
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Gender gap at USM: women take the lead Jonathan Andrews Printz Writer If you’re reading this article in class or while eating in the Fresh Food Company, take a look around you. You may notice a pattern in your peers. If you haven’t noticed, there are probably more female students around you than males. Senior sociology major Elizabeth Cadner speculated that this is a result of post-modern feminism. “We’re getting out of the house and doing things our mothers didn’t do,” she said. In a 2005 article, USA Today pointed out that the gender gap in higher education was continually widening. At the time of that article, women made up 57% of the students at a Minnesota university. That year marked the first one that women earned more degrees than men at that school. Five years later, here at USM, that gap has further widened, where females make up 61% of the student population. That’s a ratio of three female students to two males. It isn’t just at USM either. In fact, this change in enrollment has not gone on under the radar of the National Center for Education Statistics.
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Obama affirmed that as Iraq moves forward, it will have a strong friend in the United States. At times, Obama took a positive tone in pointing out the successes of the war in Iraq. “We’ve persevered because of a belief
NCES statistics on degree-granting institutions show that in 2007, 7.8 million students enrolled in higher education were male. Females, on the other hand, make up 10.4 million of the enrollees, or 74%. Sophomore from Brookhaven, Miss., Hannah Byars, said she had not noticed the disparity. “I had never paid attention to it before, but now that you mention it, there is a pretty big difference,” Byars said. “In one of my classes there’s probably 20 girls and maybe six guys,” she added. Cadner said the disparity may become more evident with time. “In the future there’d probably be more stay-at-home dads because more women are entering the workforce,” she said. Cadner also pointed to the divorce rate as possible evidence of society’s emphasis on careers and therefore education. “Parents teach their children it’s okay to get married and have a family but ensure your future with a career, too,” she said. “You don’t have to rely on a man.” In Mississippi specifically, women made up 79% of the new students in fall 2006. For comparison’s sake, in 1970, women made up 42% of college populations. One of the university’s most obvious reactions to the change in en-
we share with the Iraqi people, a belief that, out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibilities.”
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Q & A session on budget cuts
An open question and answer period about the proposed budget cuts for 2012 will follow a discussion of them on Sept. 7 at 9:30 a.m. in the TCC 216. Director of Human Resources Russ Willis will lead the discussion. Willis is also the chair of the Subcommitee on Administrative Services on the University Priorities Council. The meeting will be open to the university community.
Student chef makes Top 6 USM senior Whitney Miller made it to the Top 6 on FOX’s MasterChef on Wednesday. The first part of the episode featured individual competition, and Miller cooked a shrimp dish, which was criticized by the judges. “Whitney, a couple of weeks ago you were blowing the competition out of the water,” said Chef Gordon Ramsay. “Now you’re struggling to keep your neck above the water. “I don’t even want to think about being eliminated,” Miller said on the show. “I know I really need to step up my game.” The second part of the episode featured team competition, and Miller’s team beat the other.
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From left to right: USM juniors Ashley Standberry, Quakeshia Latham, Tayion Taylor, Cornelius McWilliams and Mary Pipper enjoy a nice day outside on Tuesday, August 24th.
rollment can be found in the new Century Park residence halls. Of the four buildings that make up Century Park, only one of them houses males. Of all of the housing available to freshmen, six of the eight residence halls are inhabited by girls. Although women continue to outnumber men in higher education, according to statistics from the
U.S.Census Bureau their earnings still fall short of men’s. On average, women with a bachelor’s degree earned 33% less money annually than their male counterparts. Associate professor of sociology Amy Miller said that women outnumber men in higher education across all degrees, excluding the Ph. D. Miller pointed to occupational
segregation as a cause of the discrepancy in pay. “Women tend to get degrees in fields and take jobs that make less money than [those that men do],” Miller said. “It’s not cut and dry,” she said. “There are certainly women who make a lot of money, and men who make very little.”
Obama also surprised some political spectators with warm comments directed at President Bush. Obama, who opposed the Iraq war from the beginning and consistently disagreed with Bush on his handling of the Iraq war, said he spoke to the former
President earlier that day. “It’s a well-known fact that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset,” Obama said. “Yet no one can doubt President Bush’s support for our troops or his love of country and commitment to our security.
“As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women and our hopes for Iraqis’ future.”
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Ready, set, go green! Michelle Holowach Printz Writer Green is a very popular color these days, and USM has been taking action to make its green imprint on the world. The most recent sign of going green is the new residence hall Century Park – the first of what the university hopes to become many LEED certified buildings. LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is an internationally recognized certification system, verifying that a building aims to improve energy savings, water efficiency and other environmental issues. To be LEED certified means that the building has earned a certain number of points based on its energysaving strategies. Century Park has gotten a silver LEED certification and according to Chris Crenshaw, director of Residence Life, “Any project the University does from here on out will have to shoot for silver LEED certification.” Now that the university’s standards have risen so high, it has a pledge to keep in order to do its part in saving the environment.
When asked why the university made the decision to construct buildings such as Century Park that will aid in the cause to go green Crenshaw responded, “It’s the right thing to do as an educational institution, to be a proponent for bettering the world you live in. It’s a great way to kick off a new century – just do it right.” In the spring of 2008 President Martha Saunders officially launched Southern Miss “Go Green” initiative. Since then, EcoEagle has started to raise awareness among college students: 4,500 7-gallon cans have been placed across campus, and Southern Miss has been making an effort to educate college students on the importance of keeping the environment clean. Not only is USM taking strides to turn the world into a greener place, but students are playing their part as well. EcoEagle is a student organization that has done projects in the past such as the EcoEagle bike share, Lug-a-Mug, campus cleanups, kayak river cleanups and more. Junior Matthew Planchard, an EcoEagle representative, said the group has an EcoEagle garden in the works for this year. “We are trying to set up a community garden so people can come out and get some lettuce and get some tomatoes and just grow them over the course of the semester,” he said. EcoEagle also has a recycling program that Planchard said is probably
the easiest recycling program in the United States. “We are the only university that has a complete recycling program – you can put anything in there that’s recyclable.” Although Century Park has attempted to go green, residents have had a hard time seeing this. Bike rack covers have been installed to encourage riding bikes instead of driving, but while the covers are there, the racks are not. Automatic lights in the lobbies keep people from extinguishing the lights when they want to watch a movie or leave the room and end up staying on all night long. Although every resident was provided with a recycling bin, several students said many do not recycle. If they do recycle, they do not know what to put in the bins or where to empty it. “For as easy as Century Park makes it to recycle, it’s astounding to see how many students are not taking advantage of this opportunity to go green,” said Century Park resident Ann Marie Chilcutt. Planchard has simple advice for the non-green student. “Just think,” he said. “Think and research. Read. Have concern for the world that you live in. Realize that you can’t just take and take and take and take, because if you do that eventually there will be nothing left. So you have to learn to take with restraint and to give back when you can.”
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Budget cuts evoke mixed feelings Jacob Key
Junior history and English double major from Flowood, Miss. This is a frightening time in the history of our university. In a few short years, USM has gone from nationally recognized to nationally ignored, and the books have gone from black to red. We’re angry, but at who? Who can we blame? I love my Southern Miss. I like our small campus, our excellent faculty and small teacher to student ratio. We have a diverse campus, and a couple of nationally recognized sports teams. But our talking points and triumphs are being buried under messy budget shortfalls and controversial leadership. Our national rankings have plummeted since the departure of Shelby Thames in 2007. We’ve dropped dozens of places in the U.S. News & World Report Listings, and we’ve fallen from the Princeton Review altogether. Even the Washington Monthly listings, which placed us near the top in 2006, no longer list our university in their rankings.
As much as I love this school, my teachers and my life here, recent developments are making it harder and harder to justify inviting friends and loved ones to come pursue their education here in Hattiesburg, and it breaks my heart. The loss of the economics major last year was overlooked by the majority of campus. We turned the other cheek, and aside from a few marginally sincere gestures of solidarity, we ignored it. But as budget shortfalls continue to redden, staff cuts across the board are beginning to affect everyone. The campus community is in an uproar over the release of Dr. Dan Capper and several other religion and philosophy instructors from the College of Arts and Letters; somewhere between five and eight, depending on the source. But the Academic Planning Group’s death list recommends cutting between 17 and 19 positions from Arts and Letters, and recommends dozens of other cuts, both fiscal and human, from Science and Technology; the Gulf Coast campus almost has its own sec-
tion. Rumors are flying as to which teacher, which discipline gets the axe next. This fearful atmosphere is hardly conducive to scholarship, and I daresay that the sterility that the sitting administration has taken to addressing these affairs only adds to the gloom of what is already a desperate situation. I present two somewhat random items for your consideration: 1) The average salary for a public university president is $436,111, according to a January article in the Chronicle of Higher Education—higher than that of President Obama; and 2) the total support amount for Mississippi universities decreased 17.50 percent between the 2010 and 2011 state budget, while the Department of Corrections grew 18.96 percent. The first one’s worth an eyebrow raise or two, but it’s the second one that got me digging up statistics. According to the National Institute of Corrections, a government entity, Mississippi in 2008 had a crime rate that was 12 percent lower than that of the rest of nation, and violent crime rates were 37
percent lower. Here’s where it gets interesting: our incarceration rate was 38 percent higher than the national average, despite our lower crime rate. Mississippi also releases 57 percent fewer parolees than the national average. The benefits of rehabilitation over incarceration is an entirely different discussion, but think about it for a minute: we as taxpayers are paying for some guy who robbed a Texaco to eat three meals a day while the foundation of our university crumbles around us. I present this information to suggest that maybe our country’s priorities are a little jumbled, but that too is a separate argument. I will say, however, that where Haley Barbour doesn’t seem to understand the importance of education, Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree is more than aware of our troubles, and I doubt he would forget them were we to elect him Governor next fall. Budget priority is something you can often draw down party lines, but financial hardship, a simple lack of funds, is not. Money is short everywhere; cycles of recession are part of the deal when it comes to free market economics. If we still had an economics department you could ask them about it. This budget crisis has a chain of custody; you can follow its progression from the student saddled with upped tuition, to the university proper, on up to the state and then the federal level, itself burdened by two foreign wars, a recession, and fallout from the Bush tax cuts. As disappointed as I am in the way this situation is being
handled, I have hopes that the next few years will be better. The war is Iraq is finally drawing to a close, which means some of those ridiculous sums of money that we funnel into the defense budget can be shifted in education. The money spent in Iraq to this point could have solved USM’s budget crunch alone something like 49,000 times. Go back and read that again. 49,000 times. I’m not even adding in the billions from Afghanistan. I believe I speak for the rest of the student body when I say that I do not approve of the methods taken to balance the budget. As an academic myself, I can also speak for others like me, who plan on pursuing even higher levels of education, that we do not wish to live in a world where tenure means nothing and academics takes a backseat to petty office politics. That said, I must honor the difficult truths of the situation: we cannot entirely blame the sitting administration for these difficult times. Except maybe in the case of the sacking of Frank Barthelme. Or maybe the purchase of the infamous private jet. Or maybe the irresponsible number of scholarships handed out in recent years. The university’s battle cry has never had more meaning than it does right now, looming over a campus filled with students fearful for their disciplines and instructors fearful for their careers. We have nowhere to go but up. So, let’s dig in, my friends, and do what we can to survive this and place our Southern Miss back in the national spotlight.
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Mississippi should support the slots Ashton Pittman Printz Writer In June, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI) announced plans to build a new casino in Sandersville in Jones County. The 27,000-square-foot casino, which is expected to cost $18 million to build, will boast between 500 and 700 slot machines as well as a snack shop. More importantly, it will create about 250 new jobs. That should be welcome news in the current economy; with all the cut jobs and layoffs hitting Mississippians right now, an
investment that offers so many new jobs should be counted as a blessing. However, many of Mississippi’s elected officials do not think so. U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker and U.S. Sen. Greg Harper, both Mississippi Republicans, oppose the casino. Even U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss, and his November opponent, Republican Steven Palazzo, have finally found something to agree upon in their mutual opposition to the ca- lessly attacked the “slot parlor,” as sino. But no one is more ferocious he derisively refers to it. Initially, he in his animosity toward the project attempted to stop it by means of “diplomacy” with the Choctaw. When than Governor Haley Barbour. that failed, he turned to Mississippi Ever since the project was firstT:7.71” announced, Barbour has relent- Attorney General Jim Hood, hoping
to find a way to halt the building of the casino through the courts. It was another dead end; Hood explained that one of Barbour’s Republican predecessors, Governor Kirk Fordice, had made opposing the casino on legal grounds impossible when he signed the tribal-state gambling compact in 1992. “Lawyers in our office carefully reviewed possible legal challenges,” Hood said. “There is no apparent legal avenue to stop the development.” But Governor Barbour was not going to give up so quickly; the possibility that those independentminded Choctaw might bring
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250 new jobs to the area was just too much. On Aug. 27, Barbour sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency saying that the “slot parlor” would not be in compliance with federal environmental standards. He then asked the EPA to halt construction. The next day, a spokesman for the tribe pointed out that the tribe was indeed in compliance with the EPA, and that Governor Barbour’s safety concerns were based on outdated information. But Barbour is no environmentalist, so it is obvious that he really has no concern in regards to the environmental impact of the casino. So whether or not that information is outdated is a moot point to him; he is only interested in circumventing sovereignty of the MBCI in any way possible. Governor Barbour is attempting to go beyond what his gubernatorial powers allow. Maybe the intense opposition from politicians like Barbour, Harper, Wicker, Palazzo and Taylor has more to do with appealing to religious conservatives. Religious groups in Mississippi have long protested the building of new casinos. Just recently, the Coalition for Family and Community Values recently erected a billboard in Laurel opposing the Choctaw casino. That constituency, which is often seen as essential to winning in Mississippi politics, should stop using “family values” as a euphemism for white, southern, conservative beliefs – the rest of us have values, too. There is nothing wrong with personally opposing casinos on religious grounds. However, just because a group “feels” something is a “sin,” does not mean their particular brand of morality should be imposed on everyone. After all, someone else may “feel” that “God called them” to build a casino. Religious arguments aside, we are in a deep recession, and instead of recovering as our leadership in Washington promised, we seem to either be stalling or digging in deeper. The state of Mississippi is slashing the budget for practically everything, and education is being hit extremely hard. Jobs are not easy to come by. Perhaps Barbour and friends should focus on those issues instead of spend all their time trying to subvert the building of a casino that will create 250 very much needed jobs. Perhaps the “family values” groups should consider the families who might value a new opportunity to put food on the table. This was an article of opinion by Ashton Pittman, a writer for the Student Printz. Email questions or comments to ashton.pittman@ eagles.usm.edu.
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Zumba craze hits USM Sarah Rogers Printz Writer Zumba is the new workout phenomenon that many USM students are trying out. Even though this is the first year Southern Miss has offered Zumba at the Payne Center, it has already become one of the most popular classes. A Latin-inspired, dance-fitness class that incorporates international dance movements, Zumba is a new fad on campus. The hour-long class combines Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, and Reggaeton. “It’s a work out but it’s also a dance party,” said Zumba instructor Meriel Howlett, a freshman at USM. Freshman Kacy Decker said she is a Zumba workout regular. “I like dance so it’s nice to be able to workout and dance at the same time.” She also said she likes that Zumba keeps her heart rate high and boosts her endorphins in the body. The class is a high-performance cardio workout that exercises the arms, legs, hips and abs. The classes typically begin with a calm warmup song, followed by an hour of intense cardio dancing and then a cool off, stretch song to complete the hour. This procedure helps keep the heart
rate up for the full hour. Zumba was introduced to Southern Miss after the Payne Center’s wellness manager Susan Bone approached Zumba instructor Shellie Hubbard about teaching class here. Hubbard then came to Southern to test-run Zumba for the instructors at the Payne Center, and she received positive feedback. Howlett then emailed Bone to ask about an instructor position for teaching Zumba. After an interview, Howlett was hired on the spot, and the two instructors began teaching classes.
Now, both instructors said that all of their classes have been filled from wall to wall. Howlett’s first class was so overcrowded that half of the attendees had to be kicked out due to fire code regulations. Students now show up to the Zumba classes fifteen to twenty minutes prior to make sure they can participate. “It has been a pleasure to introduce Zumba to the Southern Miss community,” Hubbard said. Classes are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and Wednesdays and Fridays from 5:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m.
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FOOTBALL
Thursday, September 2 , 2010
Eagles open tonight against South Carolina Cade Morrow Printz Writer The Golden Eagles kick off tonight against the South Carolina Gamecocks. ESPN will broadcast the first game of the year, and although most students are ready for the night, some are finding it hard to get motivated for the college football season. Some students are not sure they’ll have time to watch since the game falls on a Thursday night. Freshman Allison Meleones from Long Beach, Miss. said, “I don’t have any definite plans right now, but I think we have rush that night so I will probably be there for a little while.” Although she will not be able to watch this game, she is planning to attend all of the home games. “I am very excited about the season, and I can’t wait for the home games to start,” Meleones said. Graduate student Josh Phillips is also having difficulty fitting the game into his schedule. “I am probably not going to be able to watch the game,” Phillips said. “I am a grad student and I will be very busy.” He is excited about the football season, but thinks that USM Freshman Lorenzo Patrick catches a pass during practice the opening week of fall camp. may still be a year or two away going to watch the game. football game of the year it will allow probably going to go out to Buffalo from greatness. “I don’t know where I am going everyone across the country to see Wild Wings or the Alumni House to “I still think that Coach (Fedora) to watch it, but I will probably either Southern Miss,” Gunkel said. watch the game on the big screen,” needs a year or two before he can get watch it at a friend’ s house or go to Sophomore Jeremy Eyer is Eyer said. the right guys in to compete with evthe fraternity house, ” said Gunkel. pumped up for football seasons and Eyer doesn’t know what to exeryone,” said Phillips. Gunkel speculates the exposure has plans to go out with a group to pect from Southern Miss this seaOne student who thinks the from playing the fi rst game of the watch tonight’ s game. son, but thinks tonight will tell him Eagles are ready to compete right season will serve USM football well “Me and a few of my friends are quite a bit. now is junior broadcast journalism major Cory Gunkel. Gunkel in the future. “I think that any exposure is good will be tuned in to ESPN tonight exposure and with it being the first but he is not sure where he will be
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“Southern Miss is always competitive, but I don’t know if they are ready to compete with the SEC,” he said. “I guess we will see if they have what it takes on Thursday.” Southern Miss will take on South Carolina tonight on ESPN at 6:30 p.m. central time.
Southern Miss vs. South Carolina Day: Thursday Date: Sept. 2, 2010 Location: Columbia, S.C. Time: 6:30 p.m. CT
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Southern Miss Sports: Upcoming Games Friday
Saturday
Sunday
7:00 p.m. Soccer at Samford Birmingham, AL
3:00 p.m. Volleyball vs. Miami Murfreesboro, TN
1:00 p.m. Volleyball vs Auburn Murfreesboro, TN
4:00 p.m. Volleyball vs Georgia Southern Murfreesboro, TN
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11:00 a.m. Volleyball at Middle Tennessee State Murfreesboro, TN
12:00 p.m. Soccer at Vanderbilt Nashville, TN
Southern Miss Weekend Box Score Volleyball:
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8/27 vs. South Alabama W. 3-0 8/27 vs. Nicholl’s State W, 3-0 8/28 vs. Kennesaw State W, 3-0
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Soccer:
8/27 vs. Mississippi Valley State W, 4-0 8/29 at Mississippi State L, 3-0