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Ole Miss distributing reasonable amount of merit aidOn average, Ole Miss provides more merit aid to students than both MSU and Southern Miss.

In the midst of a struggling economy, students across the country who need financial aid to attend colleges and universi-ties might not be getting all the money they deserve.

Most colleges and universities with higher costs of attendance have distributed less merit aid to more students in the last five years, while most colleges and universities with lower costs of attendance have distributed more merit aid to fewer students in the last five years, according to a recent New York Times ar-ticle. Merit aid includes scholar-ships and grants that students received based on special talent such as academics, activities or sports.

The chart from the New York Times shows that, for the 2011-2012 school year, the Universi-ty of Mississippi had an average cost of tuition of $5,548, and 24 percent of freshmen received merit aid from the school—a mere 4 percent increase from the 2007-2008 school year. However, the average amount of aid given to that 24 percent of freshmen is $5,530—an in-crease of 37 percent from the 2007-2008 school year. Based on the averages, students are responsible for having to pay

about $18 out of pocket for tu-ition.

With the announcement of tuition at Ole Miss increasing 8.5 percent for the 2012-2013 school year, students have wor-ried about being able to afford school. The chart shows that Ole Miss is granting a reason-able amount of merit aid to students who truly deserve it—more so than other universities in the state, at least.

At Mississippi State Univer-sity, the average cost of tuition in 2011-2012 was $5,570 — $40 more than Ole Miss. Just like Ole Miss, 24 percent of fresh-men received merit aid from Mississippi State in 2011-2012. However, unlike Ole Miss, that 24 percent is a 19 percent drop from the 2007-2008 school year. The average amount of merit aid given to students at Missis-sippi State is only $3,096, which would leave students at Missis-sippi State having to pay about $2,474 out of pocket for tuition.

At the University of South-ern Mississippi, the average cost of tuition in 2011-2012 was $5,562—$32 more than at Ole Miss. However, only 11 percent of freshmen received merit aid from Southern Miss—13% less than those that received aid at Ole Miss. Additionally, an av-erage of $3,982 was given to that 11 percent, which leaves

students at Southern Miss hav-ing to pay about $1,580 out of pocket.

While these numbers are

based on averages, Ole Miss appears to have the better ratios

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Students travel to Togo for engineering mission tripThree Students and five professors will make a trip to Lomé, Togo as part of the Ole Miss chapter of Engineers Without Borders from August 6 -13.

Last week at the Oxford Tour-ism Council Meeting, positive numbers were released for the most recent figures in tax rev-enue. For the month of April 2012, hotel and motel taxes col-lected increased dramatically. The food and beverage tax col-lected from restaurants also in-creased.

This year $22,838 in hotel and motel taxes were collected for the month of April, a 27 percent increase since April 2011. This comes from a two percent hotel motel tax added to all rooms that the consumer pays for. Director of Tourism and Marketing at the Oxford Convention and Visi-tors Bureau Mary-Kathryn Har-rington said they use this money to promote Oxford and create more hotel rooms for hoteliers. Chan Patel, the owner of the Hampton Inn in Oxford, plans to build another hotel by the Oxford Conference Center. On West Jackson Avenue, Bruce Pa-tel of Tupelo plans to also build a new hotel.

“As more hotels are devel-oped, we have a capacity for more guests to stay in Oxford, which generates more tax,” Her-rington said. “Currently, on big weekends we far exceed the ca-pacity Oxford currently has for guests to stay and thus people go to surrounding towns to stay in their hotels.”

The two “big weekends” like-ly responsible for the increase in taxes collected are the Double Decker Festival and the Grove Bowl, which both take place in April. Both events bring flocks of tourists to Oxford, and though this certainly books the city’s ho-

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April tax revenues increase for OxfordBecause of events like the Double Decker Festival and the Grove Bowl, both res-taurant and hotels saw an increase in business during the month of April.

The Ole Miss chapter of En-gineers Without Borders will be in Lomé, Togo on an engi-neer mission trip August 6 to 13. The team of eight will con-sist of three professors and five students.

The students in the study abroad program will earn one class credit. The team has had to raise about $30,000 to pay for the trip.

According to Dr. Cris Sur-beck, assistant professor of civil engineering, a year of planning and proposals went into the trip before approval was ob-

tained from Engineers Without Borders. The team was also re-quired to make a 5-year com-mitment to the village.

The student team was se-lected based on experiences with engineering work, first aid knowledge, language and com-munication skills.

“We needed to build a team

that had the right people and everyone had something big to contribute,” Surbeck said.

The team will consist of civil engineering major Alan Bar-gar, geological engineering major Elsie Okoye, civil engi-neering major Maddie Costel-

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Judging Carey

American Idol’s newest judge, Mariah Carey, was supposedly picked for her “star power.” She is a Gram-my-winning entertainer and has been touted as having had more number one hits in the U.S. than any other solo artist.

That’s pretty impressive. Yet, for the life of me, I seem to recall all that happening in the 1990s.

In an AP story that ran in the Seattle Times, it was re-ported that the young adult audience for the show has been steadily shrinking. So, is it that they’re seek-ing a younger demographic by choosing Mariah Carey, over say, Aretha Frank-lin? If so, let’s hope you were born prior to her first

number one hit, “Vision of Love” way back in 1990, or you might have to do a You-Tube search to get a visual of who she is.

Of course, I’m not imply-ing Mariah has been a re-cluse since the 90s; she has had four number one hits in the 21st century, it’s just I’m not entirely sure she would be the first name that rolled off the tongue of a teenager when asked, “Who’s big in the world of music today?”

And then if you talk about experience in the business, Carey’s name wouldn’t be exactly the first moniker that popped up either. Frank-lin’s name would certainly override on that score. The Queen of Soul is a legend when it comes to female art-ists.

According to Kathie Lee Gifford (who?), a lot of kids out there wouldn’t know who Franklin is.

I could argue the same when Carey’s name was added to the judges’ roster.

In fact, I am. But, of course, Gifford

didn’t hire Mariah, Fox did, on the criteria that “she is the biggest recording art-ist that any of these talent shows has ever had,” said Fox entertainment chief, Kevin Reilly, in the AP sto-ry from The Seattle Times.

Okay, maybe. If you go by the abovementioned fact of the number one hits, but hits fade and artists come and go. Prior names are re-placed by new names, and if experience in the business isn’t a factor when these tal-ent shows select their judg-es, then what are the criteria exactly?

This is really not a Car-ey-bashing article. I have been a fan of Mariah Car-ey’s since “Vision of Love” came out. I just wonder how the powers-that-be come up with their choices and then brand them as the “artist that many of these contestants have tried to emulate, have tried some of the songs, and

have tried to hit the notes,” another quote from Reilly about Carey.

As a watcher of the show, on occasion, I’ve seen and heard them emulate many artists, attempt to cover many songs, and try to hit some notes that even the original singer couldn’t.

In fact, one of Aretha’s songs, “Natural Woman,” has been tried many times.

Let’s be fair, American Idol hasn’t deemed Aretha Franklin too old or too ob-scure to be a judge. Only Gifford mentioned that on her morning talk show. And there is one more spot to be filled since both rocker, Stephen Tyler and J-Lo are reported to be leaving.

So, there’s still a chance American Idol could gain some much-needed “RE-SPECT.”

Angela Rogalski is a print journalism senior who lives in Abbeville. Follow her on Twit-ter @abbeangel.

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Families need loving fathers

Last week, after reading a column by fellow Lott stu-dent Tim Abram where he recounted experiences and lessons that he learned from his family, I began to won-der about the true effects of family on children as they age and mature. So, I re-searched the issue and found many studies with alarming, though not surprising re-sults.

A 2006 report by the US Department of Health and Human Services analyzed hundreds of studies and other reports on the effect of involved fathers on chil-dren’s health, educational attainment and likelihood to

commit crime. One of these studies showed that children who grew up in a home with-out an involved father were seven times more likely to be incarcerated in their life-time. Another study found that paternal involvement was far higher in households where the parents were in their first marriage than it was households where par-ents were unmarried, remar-ried or divorced.

One of the primary rea-sons for these results is the relationship between the mother and father. Couples in their first marriage with children tend to consider the relationship with their chil-dren as strong, while unmar-ried parents or couples in a subsequent marriage tend to consider the relationship with their children as mod-erate.

However, this isn’t true for all single parent fami-

lies. In his book The Chil-dren of Divorce, Andrew Root points out the differ-ences in child development and health between children who lost a parent to death and those who lost a parent to divorce. In the cases of divorce, children and teen-agers are similar to other children and teens who were raised by an unmarried par-ent. However, in the cases of death, children and teens were similar to those of two parent families.

This boils down to the choice of the parents. Where the parents either never married or later divorced, then one or both of the par-ents were choosing not to be with the child. Meanwhile, with an unintended death, the parent is not given the choice. The fact that parents would choose to divorce causes the children to ques-tion, “Why don’t they want

to be with me?” even though most divorces cite causes completely unrelated to the children.

Things that seem trivial, such as throwing the base-ball or reading a bedtime story, are often put near the bottom of a parent’s priority list. However, it is the seem-ingly trivial matters that show a child what he or she really means to the parent.

In the movie Courageous, the lead role, Adam Mitch-ell asks, “When did you first think of yourself as a man?”

A few of the answers were about moving out of the house, going off to college, or turning 21. However, one of the characters answered, “When my father told me I was.”

We can continue to fund welfare, dropout prevention, and crime prevention pro-grams, but these will never have the effect on kids as a loving father will.

Trenton Winford is a junior public policy leadership major from Madison.

Following the horrible tragedy in a movie theatre in Aurora, Colo., President Obama stated that this was not a time for partisan poli-tics. I must disagree with our President here. While we as a nation should come together to support the peo-ple of Aurora, the victims of this tragedy and their families, we must also look at how such tragedies can be prevented in the future. Here, we must look at our politics and policies.

Neither political party has taken a definite step toward any type of gun control in recent years. President Clin-

ton signed a ban on assault weapons into law in 1994; however, the law expired in 2004. In 2008, then-can-didate Obama promised to renew the assault weapons ban, but nothing has come of that promise. Since the tragedy in Aurora, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, among other politicians, has called for increased dialogue and policy creation regard-ing gun control.

Personally, I don’t see a heavy need for guns in this country. If you want to go hunting, that is perfectly fine; however, in my mind, it would be wonderful to live in a country where people didn’t need or want guns. But, let’s get back to reality now. Not everyone thinks like me, and in a country this large it’s important that we consider all opinions, es-pecially the majority opin-

ion. It’s important to clarify that I am not advocating for the complete banishment of firearms.

I would argue that people advocating for total gun control are misguided and unrealistic. Their opinion isn’t wrong. I just think it’s impractical and disregards the second amendment of the Constitution.

I am advocating for regu-lation of the gun “market.” Yes, Americans have the right to bear arms; however, I don’t believe Americans have the right to own as-sault weapons and magazine clips.

When the framers of the Constitution wrote the Sec-ond Amendment, these ad-vanced weapons did not exist. Civilians have no use or need for such weapons. Furthermore, I believe that the purchase of guns should

be more strenuous. A per-son shouldn’t be able to buy such a powerful weapon on a simple whim. Background checks should occur and strict procedures should be followed. While the occur-rence in Aurora is extreme-ly tragic, we should not sit idly and reflect. We need to take action.

While I want to see regu-lations and laws enacted, I honestly don’t think it will happen for quite some time. The National Rifle Associa-tion has become a powerful political force. Any candi-date who strongly, openly opposes the NRA is des-tined to lose or barely win an election. With that risk, few politicians are willing to take on gun rights legis-lation. This is just another example of too much pow-er in the hands of interest groups.

With multiple gun-related tragedies over the past few years, it is time for America to rethink its current fire-arm laws and regulations. The recent events in Aurora are extremely upsetting and sad; we should continue to pray for the victims, survi-vors, and their families.

We should take time to re-flect, however, we must also take action. Our country and our policymakers can-not continue to sit idly and “reflect” as more tragedies occur.

A lack of action from our leaders is disrespectful to Americans, but more impor-tantly, a lack of action is dis-respectful to all the victims of gun-related tragedies.

Adam Blackwell is a junior public policy leadership major from Natchez. Follow him on Twitter @AdamBlackwell1.

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With over 200 locations across the four corners of the United States and every where in between, Pita Pit has found a new home in Oxford.

Located on North Lamar Boulevard, right off the square, owner of the new Pita Pit, Jack Brighenti, thought this would be the perfect lo-cation to provide healthy eat-ing to both students and the Oxford community.

He is the owner of two oth-er Pita Pits, which are located in Baton Rouge and New Or-leans. His newest location is the first to open in the state of Mississippi.

“It definitely has that youth-ful kind of energy around; a lot of undergraduates and graduates, a lot of intellectu-als, professors, and also the community itself,” Brighenti said. “The historic roots and the Square here, we were just kind of drawn to it. We just thought it would make a good fit to provide some-thing healthy to that demo-graphic.”

Pita Pit opened in May when classes were ending and students were leaving to head back home, but that has not stopped the restaurant from staying busy.

According to general man-ager Muri Soares, people from the community have been filing in during the day and into the evening for a taste of what Pita Pit has to offer.

“We thought we would be a little bit slow because we were starting when students were leaving, but we actually have had so much business that we were almost glad that we opened in the slow season,” Soares said. “I think people really like us in Ox-ford. I think Oxford is wait-

ing for something like Pita Pit, something that offers healthy food and delivers late.”

Pita Pit aims to provide healthy food that is quick for people who are on the go. They offer vegan and veg-etarian options, and all of their pitas can be turned into salads for the same price.

“We try to provide a fun and enjoyable experience for them and offer them some-thing that is not only good for them but it also tastes good,” said Peter Riggs, vice president of Brand develop-ment for Pita Pit.

Everything is cooked to or-der and each customer has the option to create their pita exactly how they would like

it to be made. “There are a lot of choices

under 450 calories,” Brigh-enti said. “In general, it is healthy food that also tastes really good. So we have kind of married those two ideas together. It’s something dif-ferent to the traditional southern food and provides options and combinations for what you want. That’s kind of our idea.”

Around the United States many Pita Pit restaurants are located near colleges and universities, and with the new location students at Ole Miss will have the option to use their express dollars.

“We stay open late until three in the morning, Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday,” Brighenti said. “If they are up late at night studying, which I know they would be doing at three in the morning on a weekend, they can call Pita Pit and get something healthy on their Ole Miss ex-press.”

Pita Pit will be reaching out to Ole Miss organizations and offering bagged lunches and party platters that can be catered for events and tail-gating.

Eating healthy and on-the-go: Pita Pit comes to OxfordJack Brighenti, 25, brings Pita Pit to Oxford, the first of the chain to open in Mis-sissippi.

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Normally, people come to school to get a degree. Most students here could agree with this. We deal with class-es at 8:00 a.m., going to class uphill both ways and other everyday nuisances. Big problems even occur inside the classroom, which brings me to my next point. You know what really grinds my gears….

People with poor class-room manners. Now hear me out before you judge and say I am the largest nerd since Steve Urkel of Fam-ily Matters. I think we can all agree there has been at least one time we have been agitated by someone during class. Sometimes things hap-pen and there is no way to avoid it, but most of the time, people just don’t know how to act.

You know that magical mo-ment when you’re sitting in class and you almost under-stand what the professor is trying to discuss and out of nowhere Lil Wayne comes in rapping about being a fire-man from the speakers of some student’s phone? By the time the phone is shut off, classroom concentration is lost. Accidents happen, but if it happens multiple times during a semester or in one lecture period, we have a problem.

Or have you ever sat near someone who just had to talk to their friend about that par-ty last night or what to wear

to formal? When I hear this, my ADD kicks in and all of a sudden, I’m learning about what matches what instead of the teacher’s lecture. Not only is this disrespectful, but it is also distracting. There are those who can success-fully carry on a conversation at low volume. But if when you whisper, you are just as loud as if you are screaming at a party, try not to attempt to talk in class.

Have you ever been in class with someone who just has to be right? That one guy or girl who just loves to ar-gue? Even if we can all agree the sky is blue and the grass is green, they will come up with something to challenge this. I strongly believe that discussions are a part of the learning process, but we need to carefully pick our battles.

Now I could continue about other annoying things like when people browse Facebook, watch Netflix, or other distracting things, but I will stop here. We all do something occasionally that distracts others and is just completely disrespect-ful to the professor. Turn off the cell phones and laptops, talk after class, and please for everyone’s sake, if you just want to argue with the professor, do it during their office hours.

So, readers, do you have something that grinds your gears? Lend me your thoughts and I will give them voices, my friends. Until next time, keep calm and carry on.

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of merit aid distributed to the cost of tuition. These numbers do not include housing, meals or any other expenses neces-sary for college students. These additional costs worry students and parents alike. When deter-mining the 24 percent of fresh-men that received merit aid in 2011-2012, one must consider that not all students need merit aid and that some cannot quali-fy for merit aid.

“For merit aid, there is not always a lot of money to go around,” Director of Financial Aid Laura Diven-Brown said. “Often times, very qualified students may not actually re-ceive merit-based aid because of other talented students re-ceiving the aid first.”

Colleges and universities take into account different factors for distributing merit-based aid versus need-based aid.

Estimates for the total cost of attendance at Ole Miss for 2012-2013 are around $21,216. If the average merit aid dis-tributed to freshmen last year remained the same for the up-coming year, students would be stuck with $15,668 to pay to attend the university.

For students who do need fi-nancial aid and cannot receive

merit aid, family contributions and loans come into play when schools determine how much need-based aid to distribute to the student.

If a student does not qualify for merit aid, the Office of Fi-nancial Aid at Ole Miss uses the Expected Family Contribu-tion (EFC) of the Federal Ap-plication for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to determine how much need-based aid that a stu-dent can receive, which factors in things like family income in determining the amount of money a student needs to at-tend school.

In this debt-stricken econo-my, many families cannot af-ford to provide thousands of dollars to their children for col-lege because of their own debt problems. Subsequently, stu-dents have to take out loans be-fore even starting college. The average graduate student debt level has risen over $25,000 in the past three years, and the distribution of merit aid can play a huge role in that student debt average.

“I have had to take out nu-merous loans just to pay for college,” sophomore business management major Sam Fre-drick said. “Unfortunately, I owe thousands of dollars al-ready, and that number will only get higher as I continue my education.”

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tels, restaurants benefit from the travelers as well. The food and beverage tax also collects two percent of each purchase, and this April tax revenues collected increased 16 percent to $191,727. Herrington said this money goes to a variety of projects including flowers on the Square, Pat La-mar Park and FNC park.

“April is a busy month: 2 weeks into April and 2 weeks into May,” Manager of Old Venice Pizza Company John Allgood said. “You’ve got Double Deck-er, graduation weekend, students moving out, parents are up here helping students move out…That whole period of time is a good month for everybody.”

Yaya’s Manager Rebecca Bishop also noticed an increase in customers during the month of April.

Fridays are typically busy days for Yaya’s. On April 6 the store had 58 customers. Each Friday in April steadily increased the amount of customers – on the last Friday of the month (during the weekend of Double Decker) 82 people came in. Only 52 cus-tomers came to the store on July 6. Bishop feels the spike in tax revenue is possible because any major event in Oxford invites more tourists and encourages more traffic in local businesses.

“I can tell you Double Decker is our busiest day of the year, hands down,” Bishop said. “We have all our employees. All staff members are here working.”

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li, journalism major Norman Seawright and graduate civil engineering student Jimmy Jakcon. Assistant professor of civil engineering Cris Surbeck, assistant dean for undergradu-ate academics in the school of engineering Marni Kendricks and assistant professor of jour-nalism Nancy Dupont will join the students on the trip.

This will be the chapter’s first trip to the village of Akou-mape. The purpose of the trip will be to assess what the vil-lage’s needs are and to collect soil and water samples.

They will be testing the wa-ter to determine if it is up to drinking standards. The soil test will show how sturdy the soil is. The assessments are needed before they can start to build.

The team plans on return-ing to the village within a year to start the project, which will most likely be a water project. The plan is to start out small by developing a relationship with the village and to see what the village is capable of doing, ac-cording to Surbeck.

“The idea is not that we go over there, and give them a gift. The idea is that we go over there and teach them some-thing that they don’t know how to do,” Surbeck said.

DuPont and Seawright will be filming a documentary, blogging and shooting photos for the project.

Surbeck said having journal-

ists along will help the engi-neers’ efforts.

“The best teams are the ones that have people other than engineers with them,” Surbeck said.

In addition to filming the documentary, Seawright will be assisting with taking water and soil samples.

This will be Seawright’s first time creating a documentary. He plans to focus on what the project aims to accomplish and how it relates to the villagers: what daily life is like and what kind of impact it will have on the village when the project is finished.

“What I hope, personally, to accomplish is to understand how cultural differences can influence one person’s view of the world,” Seawright said.

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Engineering students Alan Barger and Jimmy Jackson test a water system as part of their preparation for their engineering mission trip to Togo.

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Oxford residents were invited to the lawn of the Walton-Young house Friday, July 20 and Saturday, July 21 for a night of music and food as part of the Oxford Blues Festival. The house sits next to the UM Museum and was built in 1880 by horace Walton, the owner of a hardware store on the Oxford Square.

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Do You KnowWhere This Is?

How well do you know your university? The DM has been publishing close-ups of the university to test your knowledge. The answer to today’s photo will appear in the DM on August 20, 2012.

Calling all Rebels!

Prior photo challenge answer is the statue of Frank Rogers Day at the entrance of the Luckyday Residential College located south of Jackson Avenue between Sorority Row and Alumni Drive.

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the website pennleaguere-port.net and scouts the league, recently saw Snyder and tweeted his thoughts on the first baseman.

“Yankees prospect Matt Snyder on SI is slow as mo-lasses but has quick wrists and makes solid contact. Show-ing power lately as well,” he said, from his twitter account @Dave_Gershman.

A move up the ladder could happen before the sea-son ends, as the low-A level is not usually meant for play-ers who just graduated from college.

Still, Snyder has gotten his professional career off to a good start.

co last Friday where he com-peted in a warmup meet. Young will begin his Olym-pic career on Tuesday, Aug. 7 when the first round of the men’s 200 meter begins.

While Young is enjoying the Olympic Games for the first time, Brittany Reese is returning for her second Olympics. The Gulfport, MS native is coming into the games as a heavy favorite in the women’s long jump competition.

The two-time and reigning long jump world champion is looking to improve on her last Olympic outing. At the 2008 games in Beijing, Reese came out of the long jump qualification round scoring the longest jump of the night and finished fifth in the finals.

Since then, Reese claimed the top spot in women’s high jump in 2009. Last year Re-ese claimed three titles: the World outdoor title, USA outdoor title and Diamond League title. Reese will com-

pete in the long jump quali-fication round Aug. 7 with the finals held the next day.

Track and field may not be the only sport to see a Rebel win gold, as former Lady Rebels basketball star Jenni-fer Gillom will be an assis-tant coach for the Women’s U.S. National Basketball team.

Gillom was named an as-sistant coach for the 2010 World Basketball Champion-ship games and was asked to stay on for the Olympics in London. Gillom will be able to bring plenty of Olympic experience to the team as she is a former gold medalist herself.

She helped bring home the gold as the U.S. won the 1988 Seoul games. With the U.S. having won the last four Olympic titles they are con-sidered the heavy favorites.

Gillom could also be a part of a record setting team as no other women’s team in any sport has won five straight Olympic gold med-als titles. The women’s bas-ketball team play their first Olympic game on Saturday, July 28.

OLYMPICS, continued from page 8

FILE PHOTO (ALEX EDWARDS) | The Daily Mississippian

Former Rebel first baseman Matt Snyder, who was drafted by the New York Yankees.

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On Friday, the games of the XXX Olympiad begin with Opening Ceremonies. Ole Miss will pay close at-tention as three of its current and former student athletes compete on the world’s big-gest stage.

For senior track and field star Isiah Young, this will be his first Olympic expe-rience. Coming off a good outdoor season, including an SEC outdoor title, and a solid U.S Olympic Trials, Young earned his way onto the U.S. team after a strong performance by clocking a career best time of 20.16 in the finals of the men’s 200 meter.

That time was good enough for third place and earning Young a flight to London last week and then to Mona-

Olympic Rebels hope to bring home the gold BY JAKE THOMPSONjcthomps@go.olemiss.edu

COURTESY OLE MISS SPORTS INFORMATION (STEPHEN SLADE)

LEFT: Ole Miss junior sprinter and Team USA member Isiah Young. MIDDLE: Former Ole Miss long jump star and Team USA member Brittney Reese. Right: 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Women’s Basketball Assistant Coach Jennifer Gillom.

C O L U M N

Rebels in the pros: Matt Snyder

Matt Snyder returned to Ole Miss for the 2012 season after being selected in the 44th round of the 2011 Ma-jor League Baseball draft.

After hitting .332 with 12 home runs and a .952 OPS for the Rebels his senior year, the New York Yankees drafted Snyder in the 10th round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft.

He was quickly placed at the Yankees’ low-A affiliate, the Staten Island Yankees of

the New York Penn League. While the level is low for a college senior in profes-sional baseball, Snyder has hit very well since his place-ment there.

On the year, he is hitting .308/.411/.471 with two home runs and nine dou-bles.

He also has posted an impressive 16/22 walk-to-strikeout ratio. However, part of that is due to inferior pitching in the league.

Dave Gershman, who runs

BY BENNETT HIPPjbhipp@go.olemiss.edu

See snydeR, PAGE 7

See olympic, PAGE 7

COURTESY OLE MISS SPORTS INFORMATION (WESLEY HITT) FILE PHOTO (CAITLIN ADAMS) | The Daily Mississippian