August 23, 2012 Volume 97 Issue 1

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As students gear up for a busy school year, the University of Southern Mississippi Physical Plant is also gearing up for an even busier year with construc-tion projects across campus.

A recent grant has propelled the Physical Plant into action with the mission of beautifying the campus street between the Liberal Arts Building and Jo-seph Greene Hall.

Chris Crenshaw, director of the Physical Plant, said the project is stretching from the intersection at Pearl Street to the intersection at Montague Boulevard between the LAB and Joseph Greene Hall.

“We are most excited about this project,” Crenshaw said. “We plan to have this area look-

ing even better than West Me-morial Drive already does.”

� e project includes bricking the entire length of the street, landscaping with trees that will turn a golden color during the fall months, up-lighting (which will include uniform lighting) in the landscaping of the trees, con-structing half-walls for profes-sors to take their classes if weath-er permits, and installing picnic areas and covered bike racks.

Crenshaw said students should take note that although the area in its entirety is blocked off, there is a walkway that will remain open between the con-struction sites linking Joseph Greene Hall, the LAB and the International Center.

In addition, the area’s water supply line has been completely replaced, and the sewer to Jo-seph Greene has been repaired.

This project is expected to

reach completion by Dec. 31.Separately, in May, campus

was buzzing with the excite-ment of the groundbreaking of the new College of Business building, Scianna Hall, which will be located off U.S. 49, nes-tled between McCarty Hall and the Trent Lott Center for Eco-nomic Development.

Crenshaw said though the construction team working on Scianna Hall has made exten-sive progress since May, the building project still has a long way to go.

“The foundation is in its early stages since the infrastructure of the building is still being laid,” he said.

Crenshaw added that cer-tain outages on campus will be unavoidable, but efforts will be made to keep them zoned

Southern Miss sees campus construction

ON CAMPUS

Carly TynesPrintz Writer

� e University of Southern Mississippi Department of Res-idence Life has been working non-stop on renovations and plans for future residence halls on campus, and students are taking notice.

Female residents in Hillcrest Hall this fall were greeted with a face-li� to the building, the � rst construction the building had seen since its completion in 1965.

Scott Blackwell, director of Residence Life, said exterior windows were replaced and the 225 dorm rooms received fresh

paint on the walls and ceilings. Tiles in common areas were re-placed with a laminate � ooring that resembles wood but has an easier, cheaper upkeep, Black-well said.

Heather Chopin, a � rst-year Hillcrest resident and sopho-more from Petal, said she was shocked when she walked in and saw the new � ooring in the dormitory.

“I feel more at home in Hill-crest now because of the new renovations to the building,” Chopin said. “It feels as if I can truly call this my home away from home.”

Res. Life renovates USM housing

See RES LIFE, 3A surveyor measures the depth of the decline being dug for the foundation of Scianna Hall, the new College of Business building being constructed off U.S. 49.

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Carly TynesPrintz Writer

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ON CAMPUS

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Caitlin Osborne, a freshman from Hattiesburg, inspects an English book in the on-campus bookstore before purchasing it for her class. Barnes and Noble at Southern Miss is open Monday through Friday from 7:45 a.m. until 5 p.m.

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*USM has had an offi cial campus newspaper since 1918, when it was known as The State Teacher’s Col-lege News. It has been published under its current name since 1927.*Many people believe the name of the paper is a play on the word “prints,” but this is not quite true.*In the late 1920s, a Broadway musical, The Student Prince, was among the most popular. An editor named Olen Brewer changed the name of the paper to that of both the musical and the pipe he smoked in late 1926.*Several names were submitted for the student body of 300-400 to vote on that year, and The Student Printz won.*To avoid confl icts with the Dorothy Donnelly musi-cal, The Student Prince, Brewer changed the name to its German spelling, and the title has stuck with the paper since the name was offi cially changed in 1927.

*USM has had an offi cial campus newspaper since 1918, when it was known as The State Teacher’s Col-lege News. It has been published under its current

*Many people believe the name of the paper is a play on the word “prints,” but this is not quite true.*In the late 1920s, a Broadway musical, The Student Prince, was among the most popular. An editor named Olen Brewer changed the name of the paper to that of both the musical and the pipe he smoked in late

*USM has had an offi cial campus newspaper since 1918, when it was known as The State Teacher’s Col-lege News. It has been published under its current

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Former longtime University of Southern Mississippi English professor and William Faulkner scholar Noel Polk died Wednes-day. He was 69.

“A very sad day for those of us who knew Noel, and for the state as a whole,” Pamela Pridgen, di-rector of the Library of Hatties-burg, Petal and Forrest County, told Hattiesburg American. “He was an ambassador for Missis-sippi and its authors and writers all over the world.”

Polk taught at USM from 1977 until 2004. He then went on to teach English at Mississippi State University, where he also served as editor of Mississippi Quarterly,

a scholarly journal about life and culture in the South published by the College of Arts and Sciences at MSU.

“For almost thirty years, Noel Polk was a challenging, com-passionate teacher to countless students at Southern Miss,” Maureen Ryan, USM English professor, said. “Widely recognized as one of the fore-most experts on Southern litera-ture—particularly the writing of William Faulkner—he published important scholarly work and lec-tured around the world. And in doing so he served as a charming and erudite ambassador for Mis-sissippi and our university.”

Polk’s work focused on Ameri-can � ction, and he was also a

highly regarded Wil-liam Faulkner scholar. He edited Faulkner’s novels for the Library of America and Ran-dom House and au-thored several books concerning the work of Southern writers. He also studied the works of Eudora Welty and lectured on the

works of both Welty and Faulkner in the United States, Europe, Ja-pan and the former Soviet Union.

Polk was a native of Picayune. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Mississippi College and his doctorate from the University of South Carolina. Funeral arrangements have not been made.

Former Southern Miss English professor dies

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CONSTRUCTION, from 1

RES LIFE, from 1

Other residence halls across cam-pus also received some updates, which Residence Life feels will please students.

In Hickman Hall, the headquar-ters of Residence Life and housing for 60 guests on campus, students who are wheelchair bound can now easily access the laundry room, which was also renovated this sum-mer. Bolton Hall welcomed a new sprinkler system, while Wilbur Hall residents had the option to select to live in the campus’s � rst-ever 800 square foot studio rooms. Century Park residents will also have access to a new convenience store named University Market that has been added to the southeast corner of the Learning Center.

Blackwell added that he’s pleased

the residence halls are currently at full capacity, with 3,400 booked residents living on campus this year. He said Residence Life will soon address the students currently on the wait list to get into housing.

Blackwell said stu-dents can expect to see a lot more com-ing from Residence Life in the upcoming months, including

the demolition of Scott, Vann and east Bond halls. � e project includes plans for a new set of residence halls and a three-acre grassy area.

Chris Crenshaw, director of the physical plant, said the construction in that area will be an “iconic addi-tion to the Southern Miss campus.”

Blackwell said the summer of 2014 is the estimated opening date of the three-building housing com-plex to be named Century Park South. � e complex will house 950 students and replace the area known as the “freshman quad.”

With the opening of Century Park South, there will be a 230-bed increase that will help accommodate the 3 percent enrollment adjustment the university has seen.

Freshman Ryan Lehman of Covington, La. browses the new convience store located in the Centry Park Learning Center.

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and limited. He said students should check their e-mail ac-counts regularly for notifica-tion of these outages and esti-mated times, dates and areas that will be affected.

Scianna Hall will be a state-of-the-art facility housing com-puter lab classrooms, an audi-torium venue for guest speakers and top-notch technology. This new home to the College of Business will open in 2014.

Yet another project on campus is replacing the grass on Centen-nial Lawn, where cattle panels currently block the area. Cren-shaw said the lawn should be

open by the � rst football game.Brittany Holifield, a senior

music education major from Laurel, said she was most ex-cited about the renovations that the older buildings on campus are receiving.

“The older structures on campus have a lot of value, and I think the renovations are bringing out their original beauty,” Holifield said.

Students and faculty are en-couraged to keep up with these projects by checking the Physi-cal Plant’s website at www.usm.edu/physical-plant.

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Chick-fil-A controversy fizzles on campuson CAmpus

Over the summer two peti-tions surfaced among the USM community, one in favor to re-move and one in favor to keep the Chick-fil-A on campus at Seymour’s in the R.C. Cook Union, though neither has for-mally been submitted to the uni-versity. The petitions came after national controversy related to a statement made by Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy regarding his beliefs against gay marriage.

The first petition, created by USM student Andy Bearden, as-pires to remove Chick-fil-A from its campus location.

“Remove the extremely anti-equality Chick-fil-A from our campus,” Bearden said in a calling card to his petition.

“The University of Southern Miss prides itself on being a c u l tu r a l ly diverse and i n c l u s i v e community supportive of all indi-viduals. The univers ity has even taken the o p p o r t u -nity to make this known through the nondiscrimination policy,” Bearden said in the document.

The policy Bearden refers to

states, “The University of South-ern Mississippi offers to all per-sons equal access to educational, programmatic and employment opportunities without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, re-ligion, race, color, national ori-gin, Vietnam era veteran status or disability status.”

The second petition, created by Ryan Kelly, director of External Relations of the College of Health, aims for the antithesis.

While Kelly would not com-ment directly, his desire was for supporters of the restaurant to sign the petition to make known that there were divisions of the university that supported Cathy and Chick-fil-A.

Jim Coll, chief communication officer at USM, said though uni-versity officials knew of both pe-titions, neither was ever formally presented for consideration.

“The university is aware of the online peti-tion started by a student and is also aware of the support for Chick-fil-A from many of its constit-uents,” Coll said.

Roughly a month after each petition made its de-

but, controvery erupted on the social networking scene. Now both have dwindled to a halt.

Bearden’s petition to remove the restaurant at latest has re-

ceived 718 of 15,000 desired signatures. Kelly’s petition evoked less of a response, re-ceiving 592 signatures, but it only asked for 1,000.

Supporters of Chick-fil-A and Kelly’s petition are drawing great-ly from the argument that their First Amendment rights to free-dom of speech and religion are being infringed upon.

“I believe in freedom of speech,” Chick-fil-A consumer and psy-chology major Zach Knight said. “You have the right to believe what you want to believe. Buy the products, not the politics.”

Staunching this argument are members of the Gay Straight Al-liance on campus and supporters of Bearden’s petition.

“Cathy is entitled to his own

opinion,” GSA council leader Amber Hammons said. “We’re not trying to take that from him. We don’t support his involvement with and donations to anti-gay organizations and it has been that way for years…not just since he made those comments publicly.”

According to Bearden, some supporters of the petition have also come under fire because of their outspoken support of the movement.

“A faculty member that doesn’t want to be named was putting their full support behind my cause told me one day that she didn’t want to support this pub-licly anymore because she had received numerous threatening emails,” Bearden said.

Even if both petitions pull in

as many signatures as they want and are presented to the univer-sity, there is a business end to the situation that better explains the relationship between Chick-fil-A and the university that may be the ultimate deciding factor in the fate of the restaurant.

“The University of Southern Mississippi has outsourced its food service operations through a long-term contract with the Aramark Corporation,” Coll said. “Chick-Fil-A is one of ten different retail-dining options available on campus. Aramark provides dining services on more than six hundred college campuses nationwide, includ-ing five public universities in Mississippi.”

Paul WhitePrintz Writer

Chick-fil-A in the R.C. Cook Union on campus was the target of two petitions started this summer as a result of national controversy stemming from comments by the company’s CEO regarding gay marriage.

Allen J. Schaben

You have the right to believe what you want to believe. Buy the products, not the politics.

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The BoCo says goodbye...again LoCaL

After five years in downtown Hattiesburg, The Bottling Com-pany closed its doors this summer.

Mitch Brown, who co-owned the business with his brother, Ken Brown, told the Hattiesburg American the decision was diffi-cult but made as a family.

The venue’s last night of opera-tion was Aug. 4, just more than a week after 11 music publishers and Broadcast Music, Inc. filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the venue and its owners.

The suit was filed on July 27, claiming that 12 individual songs were played without license or permission at The BoCo. The songs included hits by The Roll-ing Stones, Johnny Cash, Jimmy Buffett and other artists.

“It seems like an unusual situa-tion to me,” Paul Linden, a profes-sor in the entertainment industry department at The University of Southern Mississippi, said. “All live music venues must have a public performance license to play music, unless they own ev-

erything through originals. This is simply a case of a venue that did not pay a performance rights organization their annual blan-ket license fees, which seems a little silly.”

Linden said PROs provide broadcasters and venues with the

rights, and that is one of the ma-jor ways owners of songs get paid for their “intellectual property.”

Linden added the songs named in the suit could have been trans-mitted by a recording or by a cover band performing at the venue, but a license must be paid

for either way.The announcement of the clo-

sure came about via the business’s Facebook page immediately after a party that took place the previ-ous day saying, “Our doors are closed for good.”

The closure of the business

came as a shock to the Hatties-burg community. Josh Byrd, a junior graphic design major said, “I had no clue,” University of Southern Mississippi junior graphic design major Josh Byrd said. “I’ve been to a few shows there, and it was a cool venue. Hopefully whatever opens up in its place will bring as much to downtown as The BoCo did.”

The Bottling Company origi-nally opened its doors in 2006 at its downtown location, 126 Mobile St. After a yearlong stint as The Shed Barbeque and Blues Joint, the business returned to its original name in October 2011.

Caitlin SealePrintz Writer

April l Garon /Printz

Every summer a select group of songs dominate airwaves, celebrating sunshine, fun and freedom from the pains of the spring semester. Surf rock leg-ends the Beach Boys officially coined the term “song of sum-mer” in 1965 with the release of their cult hit “California Girls.” Forty-seven years later, “song of summer” is still a title all music artists vie for. This year a bub-bly, straight-banged Canadian took the top spot that dominat-ed airwaves, and thus, “Call Me Maybe” lives on for the masses.

POP: “Call Me Maybe” Carly Rae Jepsen

Recorded by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen, “Call Me May-be” has o� cially been crowned the most popular song of summer 2012. In the United States, the track ultimately reached num-ber one on the Billboard Hot 100

chart and the Pop Songs chart, according to Billboard.com. “Call Me Maybe” sold over 7.3 million copies and takes the second most selling single of 2012, losing only to Gotye’s “Somebody � at I Used to Know.” So who is responsible for the song that just won’t go away? Yet another annoying Ca-nadian crooner—Justin Bieber...as if Bieber hadn’t done enough for the world of music already. A� er Bieber and girlfriend Selena Gomez tweeted about the infec-tious tune, Jepson was signed to Schoolboy Records and released the single in America. Even Olympians couldn’t get enough. In July, the United States Olym-pic swim team released a parody video of athletes such as Michel Phelps, Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin lip synching to Jepson’s chart-topping single.

INDIE: “Tongue Tied”

Grouplove

Los Angeles-based indie rock band Grouplove hit the main-stream scene this summer with the release of their second single, “Tongue Tied.” Arguably my favorite song of the summer, “Tongue Tied” sent Grouplove to the mega charts in 2012. � e song � rst gained attention when Apple used the tune in a commercial for the iPod Touch in 2011. Although the song was released in July 2011, Grouplove’s “Tongue Tied,” from their debut album “Never Trust a Happy Song,” gained the most momentum this summer. In June, “Tongue Tied” o� cially nabbed the number one spot on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart.“Tongue Tied” is for 2012 what Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks” was for 2011. Grouplove will be head-lining a huge U.S. tour this fall that includes a stop in New Orleans’ House of Blues in October.

R&B:“Thinkin Bout You”

Frank Ocean

Frank Ocean’s debut studio album, “Channel Orange,” hit the shelves July via Island Def Jam records. Ocean’s first single, “Thinkin Bout You,” was re-leased via Tumblr last year but didn’t receive national attention until the album was released over the summer. Pitchfork dubbed the album “best new music” in addition to giving the album a 9.5 out of 10, an apoca-lyptic feat in the hipster music scene. Ryan Dombal, a music reviewer for Pitchfork, said that “Thinkin Bout You” shows how Ocean “battles his own brain while reminiscing about a first love.” Ocean made waves in early July after revealing that his “first love” was actually a man, coinciding the release of the sin-gle, according to the New York Times. After posting a letter online concerning his year-long relationship with the unidenti-fied man, hip-hop superstars Jay-Z, whom Ocean teamed up

with on the track “Church in the Wildwood,” and Tyler the Cre-ator, a fellow member of Odd Future with Ocean, showed their support for the young R&B star. Although “Thinkin Bout You” peaked at 72 on the Bill-board charts, the attention sur-rounding Ocean’s music abilities and personal life made him the must-see superstar in the sum-mer music realm.

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“ “The bookstore has such great deals on textbooks and gives you a fair price to buy them back” said no one ever.

Ready for the new school year! SMTTT

Thank you FFC for try-ing again to stop me from taking the pineapples, be aware that I will not tolerate your unmitigated abuse of these delicious fruits, by using them as decoration, I do not go to the FFC for the cool pic-tures or the visually pleas-ing set ups, I go there to eat.

Had a blast a GEWW! I loved meeting new people and I can’t wait to see whats in store for this year! Team 26 To The Top!!

Come out to the Sigma Al-pha Epsilon house tonight for the Back to School Bash with music by Trazy Productions!

Happy second fi rst day of school!

Watch out guys! The cops will stop you and the park-ing people will ticket you.

Dear bookstore,Please stop being cheap, and take the time to double bag my $500 book collec-tion that I was forced to purchase from your monop-olized textbook business.#englishmajorprobs

Already ready for people to stop going to class so I can get a decent parking spot on campus again.

9 days till the fi rst Southern Miss football game! Can’t wait! Go eagles SMTTT!!

So, how bad is it that its only been one day of class and I’m already feeling some senioritis?!

Songs of summerMUSIC

Hannah JonesManaging Editor

Billboard.com posts a weekly chart tracking the

most popular songs of Summer 2012 based on their performance on the Hot 100 chart from June 9, 2012 to Sept. 6, 2012.

These rankings refl ect sales up to this week.

1. “Call Me Maybe,” Carly Rae Jepsen

2. “Payphone,” Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa

3. “Somebody That I Used to Know,” Gotye ft. Kimbra

4. “Wide Awake,” Katy Perry

5. “Lights,” Ellie Goulding

6. “Where Have You Been,”

Rihanna

7. “We Are Young,” fun. ft. Janelle Monae

8. “Starships,” Nicki Minaj

9.”What Makes You Beautiful,”

One Direction

10. “Scream,” Usher

Hit summer 2012 tunes encompassed a wide range of genres, from pop to indie rock.

Songs of summer

Billboard Hot 100

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Meet the 2012-2013 Printz editorsPrintz

As the fall semester officially kicked off yesterday, the editors of The Student Printz were back in action delivering Southern Miss news every Tuesday and Thursday. The editorial staff is comprised of a unique group of talented and experienced students who dedicate themselves to make each is-sue of The Student Printz enjoyable and in-formative for students, teachers and faculty members.

Printz editors, writers, photographers and designers strive each week to bring students an articulate, intriguing collegiate newspaper. After sweeping the Mississippi Press Awards last year, the editors of The Student Printz are dedicated to maintaining the high level of excellence that is not only hoped for but is also expected.

Mary Margaret Halford, Executive Editor Mary Margaret Halford is a senior news edito-rial major with a Spanish minor from Vicks-burg. This is her third year on the staff of The Student Printz and her second as executive editor. Mary Margaret enjoys sassy comments, flipping her hair, Nike shorts and Ropers. Fol-low her @MaryMargaret25 on Twitter.

Hannah Jones, Managing Editor

Hannah Jones is a senior English major and news editorial minor from Lucedale. It’s her second year as managing editor for The Student Printz and third year as an arts and entertainment writer. Hannah enjoys Earl Grey tea, over dressing for every occasion, Woody Allen movies and sarcasm. Follow her @hb_jonez on Twitter.

Stormy Speaks, Chief Copy Editor

Stormy Speaks is a senior psychol-ogy major and management and German minor from Madison. This is her fourth year as a member of The Student Printz and first as chief copy editor. She enjoys reading, traveling, movies starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and spicy red pepper hummus. Fol-low her @stormyzane on Twitter.

Kyle Smith, Sports Editor

Kyle Smith is a first-year graduate student in sports management from Daphne, Ala. This is his second year at The Student Printz and first as sports editor. He enjoys blogging, fishing, hunting, track and field (espe-cially javelin), making fun of Ala-bama fans, Tim Tebow and cuddling with his yellow lab Marley. Follow him @goldeneaglejav on Twitter.

Mary Alice Truitt, Art Director

Mary Alice Truitt is a junior pho-tojournalism major with minors in history and Spanish from Columbus. This is her first year as art director and second as a Printz photogrpher. Mary Alice enjoys cats, bluegrass music, her daily cup of bitter black coffee and excessive organization. Follow her @matruitt on Twitter.

Chris Greene, Web Master

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Sports Thursday, August 23, 2012Page 8, Student Printz

Major donation made to Athletic Department

On Aug. 16, � e University of Southern Mississippi Athletic De-partment announced that local businessmen Jim and � omas Du� made a large contribution to the department. In return for their do-nation, the Athletic Center will be named the Jim and � omas Du� Athletic Center.

� e donation of millions of dol-lars is the second largest ever given to the athletic department.

� e Athletic Center was built in Fall 2002 and kept a generic name since construction. It houses the of-� ces of the department’s administra-tion, the football o� ces, the football locker rooms, the athletic weight room and several o� ces for other athletic teams.

� e Du� s have also committed to provide a semi-truck, trailer and driver for the Southern Miss foot-ball team to transport equipment to away games starting this season. “All of the big NCAA programs have a semi-truck that they take to away games. Southern Miss athletic di-rector Je� Hammond said, “� is is something the best of the best have.”

“� e Du� s have been involved with Southern Miss athletics for the last few years, and they want to be a part of our continued growth here at Southern Miss,” Hammond said. “� ere are no better people in the South than the Du� s.”

� e donation could go towards payments of the department’s debt, but it will likely go toward some-thing that can be immediately used by current athletes.

“We will look at our needs,” Hammond said. “We could use the money to go towards the payment of debt from our facilities, but I would like for it to be reinvested into some-thing to help the student athletes. Our track is in need of resurfacing. We are looking to construct a new academic learning center for our student athletes. We want to relocate the weight room to the south end zone. We could use it to improve Reed Green Coliseum. We also have three hundred sixty-four student athletes on scholarship. � e money could go towards any of these.”

Hammond also said that he has been working closely with the Du� s over the past few years. “We have de-veloped a very trusting relationship,” Hammond said. “Jim and � omas’s willingness to contribute shows their willingness to help Southern Miss move into the hundred-year cel-ebration and to help Southern Miss athletics continue to grow.”

� e Du� s own � ve businesses in Mississippi, four of which are in the top 100 largest private businesses in the state. � ey employ 3,800 people and have revenues of over $1.3 bil-lion. � omas Du� is a graduate of the College of Business and holds a degree in banking and � nance.

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Kyle SmithSports Editor

From Katrina to Gold� e wind blew, the rain fell and

the waters rose. Everything changed on that August day as Hurricane Ka-trina bore down on the Gulf Coast. In the months that followed, people searched for something to grasp on to, something to give them hope, something to tell them that all was going to be okay. A graduate of Gulf-port High School traveled to Bei-jing, China to give them that. Long jumper Brittney Reese was search-ing for a gold medal in the 2008 Bei-jing Summer Olympic Games and wanted to bring it home to the Gulf Coast. � at dream fell short as Reese leapt her way to � � h place. Most of the coast found their golden lining when the New Orleans Saints won

Super Bowl XLIV in the 2009 sea-son. Reese would not be deterred. She entered the 2012 London Sum-mer Olympic Games in search of the gold medal that she so anxiously wanted to bring back to Mississippi. With a � nal distance of 7.12 m, Re-ese brought that gold home.

Reese told the AP, “In ‘08 my goal was to come out there and get a medal. And when I placed � � h, I was devastated and cried the whole way back to the (athletes) village. I had the whole Gulf Coast behind me. I got a lot of emails, a lot of Face-book and Twitter about my Gulf Coast family representing me, being there for me, and I wanted to come out here and do that for them.”

A Golden Eagle’s Search for Gold

On June 9, Ganna Demydova captured the NCAA Title in the women’s triple jump by setting the

NCAA Championship record for the event. Less than two months later, the Golden Eagle found herself in London representing her home country of Ukraine in the same event. A � nal score of 13.97 m was good enough to qualify better than half the Olympic � eld. However, De-mydova did not place in the top 12, which is required to advance to the Olympic � nals.

Other HighlightsFour USA Olympic teams entered

the Summer Games ranked number one, and all four lived up to expec-tations. � e hardwood saw both the men’s and women’s basketball teams go perfect in Olympic play, bringing home gold medals. � e men’s team included New Orleans Hornets rookie Anthony Davis, who became the youngest gold medal winner in USA basketball history.

� e soccer pitch witnessed the

USA women’s team avenge a World Cup loss to Japan by defeating them in the gold medal match to live up to its number one ranking.

� e name “Fab Five” was justi-� ed as the USA women’s gymnastics team took gold in the gymnastics team competition. Gabby Douglas followed up with the � rst gold by an African-American female in the in-dividual all-around competition.

In similar fashion to the 2008 Summer Games, the best individual performances were found in the pool and on the track. Michael Phelps � nished o� his Olympic career by medaling six more times in London, including four golds. Phelps brought his career total to 22 medals with an astounding 18 gold medals. If he can � nd room in his trophy case, Phelps also received a lifetime achievement award from the FINA.

Not to be outdone, Usain Bolt

looked to defend his title as “fastest man in the world” against country-man Johan Blake and several threats from the USA. Bolt retained that ti-tle by smoking the � eld in the 100 m, becoming only the second man to repeat gold in that event. Four days later, Bolt defended his gold medal in the 200 m becoming the � rst to repeat gold in the 100 m and 200 m.

USA � nished � rst in the medal count with 46 gold, 29 silver, and 29 bronze medals for a total of 104 Olympic medals. China � nished second with 88 medals while the host country, Great Britain, � nished third with 65 medals.

USA dominates 2012 OlympicsBen WelchPrintz Writer

Southern Miss Sports: Upcoming Games

Soccer:8/24 at Louisiana Tech 11 a.m.8/26 at SE Louisiana 4 p.m.

Volleyball:8/24 vs. South Alabama 7 p.m.8/25 vs. Central Arkansas 11 a.m.8/25 vs. Louisiana Tech 7 p.m.

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� ere was plenty of action in the world of Southern Miss athletics over summer break. While only two sporting teams remained active a� er spring se-mester � nals were done, there was still plenty of news you prob-ably missed.

Hammond announced as ath-letic director: A� er spending the previous � ve months as interim athletic director, Je� Hammond accepted a one-year contract as the university’s new director of athletics on June 6. He originally came to Southern Miss as senior associate director of athletics in July 2010. Hammond is also a former Golden Eagle athlete who played quarterback on the football team from 1976-1978. He has already begun to imple-ment his plan to reduce the de-partment’s debt and has begun a campaign to “� ll the Rock” with fans for the � rst home game on September 15.

Baseball misses postseason: � e Southern Miss baseball team is not used to missing the postsea-son. However, a� er an average sea-son followed by an early exit in the Conference USA baseball tourna-ment, the team failed to make a regional appearance for the � rst time in nearly a decade. � e team looks to build on last year’s expe-

rience, as the major-ity of last s e a s o n’s roster will return.

T r a c k and � eld goes to N a t i o n -als: Track and � eld

took to Des Moines, Iowa, this summer looking to bring a few more championships to Hatties-burg. A� er Tori Bowie � nished second in the women’s long jump, it appeared that Ganna Demydo-va would be the Eagles’ last hope to bring home a championship. A� er moving into the lead early in the competition, Demydova would hold onto the narrow lead to win the women’s triple jump. Bowie and Demydova helped the Lady Eagles � nish in a tie for 12th place in the nation.

Demydova in the Olympics: Demydova, a� er winning the NCAA women’s triple jump title in June, quali� ed for the Ukrainian Olympic team in the third and � nal women’s triple jump spot. She competed in the XXX Olympiad in the qualify-ing rounds of the women’s triple jump on Aug. 3 in London. She � nished 15th overall with a best jump of 13.97m. She failed to qualify for the � nals.

Alford signs with Blue Jays:

Anthony Alford, the two-sport Petal native, had initially com-mitted to Southern Miss to play both football and base-ball. But after the Toronto Blue

Jays drafted Alford in the third round of the MLB draft, Alford decided to turn pro in baseball. He signed a contract with the Blue Jays and began playing ball

at their Class A minor league af-filiate the Lansing Lugnuts. He will play football at Southern Miss this fall, which is allowed under NCAA rules.

Five things you missed during summer breakSPORTS

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Head coach Ellis Johnson looks on as the Golden Eagles practice possible game scenarios in preparation for their fi rst game against the University of Nebraska on Sept. 1.

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Freshmen participate in the painting of the Eagle Walk at GEWW Sunday.

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Alex Boylan, a freshman nursing major from New Orleans, La., uses her body and hands to cover the Eagle Walk in new paint. Painting the Eagle Walk is one of GEWW’s biggest traditions. Golden Eagle Welcome Week lasted from Saturday until Tuesday.

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Junior Alex Hamilton of Mendenhall participates as a member of the cheerleading squad in the Eagle Walk during GEWW Sunday.

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Bottom Right: Freshmen participate in the annual painting of the Eagle Walk at GEWW on Sunday.

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Above: Freshmen Sara Kathryn Beasley, Sarah Campbell, Ryan Vo and Shelby Gallup leave their mark on the Eagle Walk during GEWW Sunday.

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Right: Alex Shows, a graphic design major from Moselle, studies Peter Boie’s knot trick at GEWW’s magic show. Boie performed in Bennett Auditorium on Sunday.

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Golden Eagle Welcome Week is designed to wel-come freshmen and trans-fer students to the South-ern Miss community. It’s a week filled with meet-ing new friends, learning Southern Miss traditions and plugging students into clubs and organizations.

Students are divided into groups by major and led by upperclass students who were selected by the Office of First Year Experi-ence.

During the week, stu-dents participate in festivi-ties such as painting the Eagle Walk, magic and tal-ent shows, pep-rallies and sessions designed to ori-ent new students to life at Southern Miss.

GEWW 2012 greeted re-cord participation and pre-pared for a crowd of nearly 1,500 new students.