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NITCONCERTS WEATHER

� e key to NIT success is to pick yourself up o� the mat. You’re coming o� a loss in your confer-ence tournament, and you’ve slept with the disappointment of not making the NCAA tournament for the last several nights.

Teams that win in the NIT move past all that disappoint-ment and just play basketball. On Wednesday night, Southern Miss did that just a little bit better than Charleston Southern.

� e Eagles and Buccaneers started o� the game on � re in an up-and-down a� air that had Reed Green Coliseum electri� ed. An early 6-0 Buccaneer lead was erased and turned into a Golden Eagle lead before the � rst media timeout.

Led by a barrage of three-pointers and an aggressive de-fense, Southern Miss opened up a 13-point lead halfway through the � rst half. Charleston Southern, however, would not be put away so easily.

� e Big South regular sea-

son champions cut the Eagles’ lead to just four at hal� ime. � e two teams combined to make 12 three-pointers in the � rst half. Southern Miss shot an astound-ing 50 percent from the � eld and 60 percent from three-point land to start the game.

� e second half started out much like the � rst. � anks to � ve straight points from senior for-ward Jonathan Mills and a three from junior point guard Neil Watson, Southern Miss stretched their lead back to double digits. Once again, Charleston Southern had too much pride to roll over.

� e Buccaneers cut the Ea-gles’ lead to three before senior Dwayne Davis’s and-one oppor-tunity staved o� another CSU run, temporarily.

� e Eagles dodged several bul-lets during the second half. Two of those coming in the form of technical fouls called on Mills and Watson in the span of just over one minute of game time. Luckily for the Eagles, Charleston South-ern just couldn’t hit the shots to

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Ben WelchPrintz Writer

More than 850 University of Southern Mississippi students will be scattered across the Pine Belt Saturday morning for a day of com-munity-wide service at the fourth annual Big Event.

“� e Big Event is a great way for Southern Miss students to give back to the Hattiesburg

community,” said event codirec-tor and senior Julia Bradley. “It shows our student body’s com-mitment to our community through devoting a Saturday morning to serve Hattiesburg.”

� e SGA-sponsored event, which begins at 8 a.m. on Pride Field and will last until about 12:30 p.m., will end with a lunch pro-vided for volunteers. Students who registered to participate will be vol-unteering both on and o� campus, at such locations as Edwards Street

Food Pantry, the Salvation Army, Southern Pines Animal Shelter, � ames Elementary School and several other locations.

“We are overwhelmingly excited about the number of volunteers this year,” Bradley said. “� is event thrives on participation and sup-port. Southern Miss students have once again backed the Big Event so we can e� ectively serve the Hatties-burg community.”

For codirector and junior Jacob Barry, the day of service means

doing something for the commu-nity he’s come to love.

“I wanted to directly help the stu-dents do something,” Barry said. “It is a way to show Hattiesburg how much we care in a big way.”

Bradley said one reason she got involved with the Big Event is be-cause Hattiesburg is her hometown.

“I initially got involved with the Big Event when I realized its po-tential for Southern Miss students to do great things for Hattiesburg,” Bradley said. “� e Big Event incor-

porates community service with not only Southern Miss, but also my hometown.”

According to Barry, the event represents service on a larger scale at Southern Miss.

“Little community service proj-ects are great, but the Big Event is a way to show Hattiesburg how much we care in one big day,” Barry said. “It is bigger than just me, it is bigger than SGA, it represents the South-ern Miss community as a whole.”

USM preps for annual Big EventON CAMPUS

Mary Margaret HalfordExecutive Editor

More than 5,000 fans pack Greenhouse

See NIT, 5 Head coach Donnie Tyndall celebrates the Golden Eagles victory on Wednesday during the fi rst round of the NIT.

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Two Greek chapters at South-ern Miss have come together this week to show their love of community service while supporting a cause that affects many: autism awareness.

As part of the annual Que-Delta week, a collaborative phi-lanthropy event hosted by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and Omega Psi Phi fraternity, stu-dents and community members have come out to several activi-ties, including a kid’s carnival and date auction Wednesday.

“Our organizations strive to serve at all times and re-ally bring that to the forefront of everything we do,” said Fe-licia Loving, a senior Delta Sigma Theta from Vicksburg who serves as Walk For Autism Chair. “I think everybody has been enjoying it.”

On Thursday from 4 until 6:30 p.m., a Walk for Autism will be held on Pride Field. At the walk, University of South-

ern Mississippi graduate and autism awareness activist Mark Yeager will be speaking. After his speech, participants will walk and release blue balloons in honor of those who have au-tism.

For Omega Psi Phi member Gerald West, the best part of the week is a picnic to be held Saturday at 10 a.m.

“It brings together everyone from the Hattiesburg commu-nity in one place to just enjoy themselves,” West said. “It’s just a time for everyone to have fun and laugh and get away from any stress they may have.”

Loving said community ser-vice has always been important to her, and her involvement in a Greek organization only fueled that desire to help.

“Service a really strong pas-sion of mine and it has been since high school,” Loving said. “It just comes natural for me, personally, and with my orga-nization it’s part of what we al-ways try to do.”

West said both his and Lov-ing’s chapters value community

service, which gives them a great basis for the partnership.

“Our two chapters are very close to each other and we have similar goals to help this com-munity and give back,” West

said. “The community is like a person’s roots, if your roots aren’t stable then a person can-not grow.”

For West, serving people with autism is particularly special.

“A lot of people suffer from [autism], and not a lot of peo-ple understand it,” West said. “I want to bring awareness to it.”

Greeks unite for QueDelta weekON CAMPUS

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Carlaya Chestang, a junior medical lab sciences major from Fayetteville, N.C., paints the nails of a particpant in Delta Sigma Theta’s Kid’s Carnival Wednesday.

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NIT, from 1capitalize on any momentum, un-til they created their own.

With their deficit back to ten and just more than three min-utes left, Charleston Southern took their last stand and went on another scoring tear. Their final fall was courtesy of the biggest three plays of senior Rashard McGill’s career. Up just three in the final seconds and with the shot clock running down, Mc-Gill hit a runner in the lane to extend the lead to five. McGill then hit two free throws after

grabbing a rebound and blocked CSU’s final shot attempt to shut the door on the Bucs.

“If it wasn’t for our fans to-night, there’s no way we win that game tonight,” head coach Don-nie Tyndall said after the win about the crowd of more than 5,000. “I’ve had administrators who have been here 20-25 years who have told me that they have

never seen student crowds like this. What a student crowd to-night, they were fantastic.”

Mills and Davis led the way for the Eagles with 16 and 15 points, respectively. CSU was led by Saah Nimley, who scored 24 points, 21 of which came from behind the arc.

By a � nal score of 78-71, the top seeded Eagles advanced to the

second round of the NIT and will host � � h seeded Louisiana Tech Monday at 9 p.m. Louisiana Tech won the regular season meeting between the two teams at home by a score of 65-55.

As for their next game, “We didn’t play Southern Miss basket-ball last time,” Watson said a� er the game. “� is time it’s personal; we’ve been looking forward to this

for a long time. � ey’re going to see the real Southern Mississippi.”

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Concerts. Music. Shows. We all love to attend them, chat about what we expect when attending a certain artist’s show and chat even more about how the show actually went a� erwards.

� is weekend, I’m thrilled to be attending one of Eric Clap-ton’s concerts in New Orleans. � is man is a musical legend. I’ve been to quite a few concerts (in-cluding one extra-� ashy concert in Central Park featuring none other than Lady Gaga herself), and I’ve watched a great num-ber of award shows on televi-sion, which always manage to bring about the competitive edge among the artists who are per-forming at the show. It seems artists (and audiences) always like to see whose performance can top the previous performers.

Although some artists manage to weave the � ashy aspects of what society deems as an “entertaining show” with the music they are actu-ally there to perform (I’m pointing

my � nger at Beyonce, the master at weaving together entertainment and musicality), some artists who attempt to put on a show while still showing o� the music we love so much manage to fail miserably.

� ere is nothing more heart-breaking than sitting in front of the TV watching an artist perform with a light show, � re and awesome dance moves, only to sit back and truly listen to the artist butcher his or her beloved song because the fo-cus is not on the music, but on ev-erything else.

If I’m at a show or watching my favorite artist perform on television,

I want to hear the music. I want to hear the artist sing the song beau-tifully, soulfully and passionately. I’ve realized that maybe we, as an audience, expect to always be enter-tained visually or have all our senses pleased at one time, putting so much pressure on artists to do everything but sing their songs well.

True musicality in an artist these days is rare. Musicians don’t really focus on the music; they focus on the show. We’ve trained ourselves as a generation to accept crap music in replacement of a good performance, rarely accepting true music in place of a � ashy performance.

It broke my heart a few years ago when Paul McCartney was asked to perform the hal� ime show at the Su-perbowl a� er the Janet Jackson/Jus-tin Timberlake catastrophe at a prior Superbowl hal� ime. It broke my heart not because he was perform-ing, but because every single person from my generation destroyed this artist, musician and legend for per-forming his music, instead of danc-ing so hard he sounded horrible and having so many lights on stage your focus was everywhere but on the art-ist himself.

� is brings me back to my origi-nal point of even bringing up Eric Clapton. I’m not sure what to expect this weekend at his concert. I’m not sure if it’ll be � ashy or if he’ll simply stand on stage or sit on a stool and perform. I’m not sure, but I’m ex-cited to � nd out. I’m eager to go to a concert and hear some music from an artist who will perform his music and perform it well, even if it means that it’s not as showy as Gaga.

� is generation, myself included, sometimes puts too much pressure on artists to get out and rock our worlds instead of sitting back and allowing the artist to come perform for a crowd that should be just as excited if the show contained � re, dancing elephants and a light show to please the gods, as we should be if the artist chose to simply sit and perform his or her music to the best of their God-given ability.

Honestly, who wants to pay some-times hundreds of dollars for great seats to a concert that sells out in 30 seconds only for the artist to focus on everything but the one thing you came there to listen to and celebrate: the music.

Just sit back, relax and enjoy the music. Make a connection with the music and mission of the artist, not with the � ashy lights and produc-tion of it all.

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On Tuesday night, I headed to the local movie theater to see the new-est Disney movie, “Oz the Great and Powerful.” With an all-star cast fea-turing the talents of James Franco, Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz, I was sure this movie would transport me from my theater seat into the magical and wonderful world of Oz. Unfortunately, this pre-quel to the classic � lm “� e Wizard of Oz” le� me standing somewhere under the rainbow.

� e new take on the classic sto-ry centers on Franco, who plays a sideshow magician dreaming of fame and fortune. � is small-town performer is magically transported to the land of Oz a� er being swept away in his hot air balloon when a

Kansas tornado hits unexpectedly. Upon his arrival he encounters en-chanted characters, from beautiful witches to talking porcelain dolls and a loyal � ying monkey. His ap-pearance in the city is met with great celebration because many of the citizens believe he is the wizard sent to ful� ll a prophecy and de-liver the people from the tyranny of the wicked witch. A� er a series of twists and turns, Franco uses his skills in sleight-of-hand and inven-tion to help the people of Oz while becoming not only a great wizard, but also a great man along the way.

� e concept of the story is one that, if executed well, could have been a new great installment in this magical story. With the success be-hind the Broadway musical “Wick-ed” and the love for the classic mov-ie, the people behind this � lm had to have not only a great concept but

a great execution. Unfortunately, this is where they were lacking. � e story quickly got lost and jumbled as random details were addressed and others were overlooked. � ere were some aspects in the story that sort of explained the events in “� e Wizard of Oz,” but many things le� a sense of confusion rather than an-swered questions.

I will say that the comedic aspects of the movie were on point through-out. � e � ying monkey, voiced by Zach Bra� , added a fun aspect to the movie, and the munchkin spy, Knuck, played by Tony Cox, earned laughs from the entire audience. Franco did a great job portraying the self-centered, slightly obnoxious wizard. Michelle Williams charmed the audience with her interpretation of Glinda the Good Witch. I’d have to say that Mila Kuniz in the role of � eodora le� the most to be desired,

with a seemingly forced and unin-teresting performance.

Overall, the movie is worth a watch for anyone who is a fan of the original movie or the Broadway spin-o� . Just don’t get your hopes up.

Caitlin SealePrintz Writer

‘Oz’ prequel sets bar under the rainbowMOVIE

Women’s Golf:3/15 at Insperity Lady Jaguar

Intercollegiate 12th of 18

3/17 at Insperity Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate 14th of 18

Men’s Basketball:3/20 vs. Charleston W, 78-71 (NIT)

Baseball:3/20 vs. Auburn L, 4-3

Box Score:

Southern Miss SportsUpcoming Games:

03/21/132:30 p.m. Women’s Tennis at William CareyHattiesburg, Miss.

03/22/1311 a.m. Men’s Tennis at IdahoBoise, Idaho

4 p.m. Men’s Tennis at MarquetteBoise, Idaho

6 p.m. Baseball vs. RiceHattiesburg, Miss. (Pete Taylor Park)

All Day Track & Field, Cross CountryAlabama RelaysTuscaloosa, Ala.

03/23/1312 p.m. Women’s Tennis vs. SouthernHattiesburg, Miss.

12 p.m. Men’s Tennis at UtahBoise, Idaho

1 p.m. So� ball vs. UTEPHattiesburg, Miss.

2 p.m. Baseball vs. RiceHattiesburg, Miss. (Pete Taylor Park)

3 p.m. So� ball vs. UTEPHattiesburg, Miss.

03/24/1312 p.m. So� ball vs. UTEPHattiesburg, Miss.

1 p.m. Baseball vs. RiceHattiesburg, Miss. (Pete Taylor Park)

03/25/13All Day Women’s Golf at John Kirk Pan-ther IntercollegiateStockbridge, Ga. (Eagles Landing CC)

All Day Men’s Golf at Memphis Intercol-legiateCordova, Tenn. (Colonial CC)

� is was an article of opinion by Caitlin Seale, a writer for � e Stu-dent Printz. Email questions or comments to caitlin.seale@eagles.usm.edu.

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Senior forward Jonathan Mills fends of two CSU defenders to make a pass during the first round of the 2013 NIT at Reed Green Coliseum.

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An excited fan cheers after a scoring play by the USM Golden Eagles during the first round of the 2013 NIT Wednesday night at the Reed Green Coliseum.

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Fans cheer on the Golden Eagles on Wednesday during the first round of the NIT. Jamie Gominger/Printz

Left: Junior guard Cedric Jenkins scrambles for a loose ball on Wednesday during the first round of the NIT.

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USM fans celebrate the victory over Charleston Southern University in the first round of the 2013 NIT on Wednesday night at Reed Green Coliseum.

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