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ICEE BRAIN FREEZE CONTEST TODAY Ole Miss Dining Services will sponsor an Icee Brain Freeze Con- test in the Student Union Food Court. Participants will compete to drink Icees quickly without stopping for “brain freezes.” The contest begins at 1:30 p.m. M ISSISSIPPIAN THE DAILY THE DAILY W EDNESDAY , N OVEMBER 3, 2010 | V OL . 99, N O . 51 W EDNESDAY , N OVEMBER 3, 2010 | V OL . 99, N O . 51 LASER TAG PURSUIT WITH ROCK BAND AND EA SPORTS The Student Programming Board will sponsor a laser tag game in the Student Union Plaza tonight from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. EA Sports will also host a game of Rock Band on two giant screens. homecoming week inside THE CLASH AT HALFTIME OPINION LANDSCAPING LOOKS FOR ‘WOW FACTOR’ NEWS TEAM HURT BY INJURIES SPORTS T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF M ISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE M ISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | WWW . THEDMONLINE . COM T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF M ISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE M ISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | WWW . THEDMONLINE . COM At 11:37 AM yesterday the Oxford Police Department received a report of an armed robbery at the Mechanics Bank on East University Avenue. At about the same time Hunter Ford was sipping on a smoothie on the porch of the Main Squeeze, the juice bar located just west of the bank to the rear of Pizza Hut. “I heard shouts from the woods to the right behind the bank,” Ford, a senior busi- ness management major from Laurel said soon after the sighting. “I saw a soaking wet kid running.” Ford said the suspect ran right in front of the Main Squeeze, in-between the building and the cars parked in front. Later on police would recover rain-soaked money stained with red-dye paint from the muddy area. “He was starting to pull off his mask, he ran around back and that’s when I saw the bank manager, standing behind the wall,” Ford said of a concrete block barrier between the Pizza Hut parking lot and the bank. “He was looking over the wall, and he saw me.” According to Ford, the suspect then ran to the back of the Main Squeeze, hopped in a vehicle and fled through an outlet on the south end of the parking lot. “I put my head around the corner and saw the car drive away,” Ford said. “I ran to the bank manager and told him what hap- pened.” When the police arrived they recovered a black mask with eye holes from the back parking lot. OPD released a report later in the day through e-mail to the local media summa- rizing the event in a few sentences. “Bank officials reported to officers that a B/M wearing a ski mask came into the bank and robbed the bank at gun point,” the re- port stated. “Suspect then fled on foot be- hind the bank area and left in a vehicle.” “Officers found a gun, money, and other evidence that was covered in red paint from the ‘dye pack’ that discharged near where the suspect vehicle was parked.” “The suspect vehicle was described as be- ing an older model vehicle light tan in color or light yellow. Possibly a GM or Ford prod- uct.” Two of the officers interviewing wit- nesses in the area said that a great deal of the money had been recovered soon after the robbery and that the search for the suspect would now involve canvassing the nearby area as well as contacts in the town. They were unsure as to whether the suspect was acting alone. This is the second bank rob- bery in Oxford in the last year. Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Oxford Police Department at 662-232-2400. The police had made no arrests at press time. SUSPECT AT LARGE IN ROBBERY OF MECHANICS BANK BY TIM SUMMERS The Daily Mississippian Christeen Shivers campaigns for her son, Richard Shivers, outside of the Stone Center where many Oxford residents came to vote. Shivers braved the rain all day to campaign for her son. THURSDAY ROCK CLIMBING WALL The Mississippi National Guard and Ole Miss ROTC will sponsor a rock climbing wall from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the Student Union Plaza. Polls close in Miss. for Congress race ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Republican Alan Nunnelee un- seated Democratic U.S. Rep. Travis Childers on Tuesday in north Mississippi’s 1st District, reclaiming a seat the GOP held for 13 years before Childers grabbed it in 2008. “I know what motivated you was not just a political cam- paign. It was your love of our country,” Nunnelee told cheer- ing supporters at a victory party in his hometown of Tupelo. U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor of Bay St. Louis was struggling in south Mississippi’s 4th District, where he faced a strong challenge from Republican state lawmaker Ste- ven Palazzo of Biloxi. Taylor — like Childers — is a fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrat who often votes against the party’s leadership. Two Mississippi congressmen were easily re-elected Tuesday. Democrat Bennie Thompson of Bolton won in the Delta-to- Jackson 2nd District, while Re- publican Gregg Harper of Pearl won in the central 3rd District. It’s rare for a Mississippi con- gressional incumbent to lose. Nunnelee told supporters he wants to repeal “Obamacare,” the massive health overhaul that became law earlier this year. “Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the free- doms and the opportunity that we have inherited from those who came before us,” Nunnelee said. Nunnelee is a 16-year state senator from Tupelo and chairs the powerful Appropriations Committee. In speeches and commercials, he relentlessly tied Childers to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Cali- fornia. Childers, of Booneville, voted against Pelosi on issues such as the health overhaul. But he found himself caught in a wave of anti-Washington sentiment from voters leery of federal gov- ernment expansion. North Mississippi’s 1st District is not easily identified by party labels. It voted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presi- dential race. Seven independent or third-party candidates also ran in the 1st District, but split only a small portion of the vote. Barbara Cowley, 66, a retired insurance adjuster who lives in Smithville, said she voted for Nunnelee because she’s worried about the direction Democrats are taking the country. She worked with Nunnelee in an in- surance office several years ago. Cowley is covered by Medi- care and said she worries the fed- eral health overhaul that became law earlier this year will put Medicare at financial risk. “This health care program, I think, is just going to ruin older people,” Cowley said Tuesday. Barbara Lumpkin, 78, a for- mer federal employee who lives in Southaven, said she voted for Childers. “He’s honest and he has integrity,” Lumpkin said. In a telephone interview from a victory party with about 2,000 supporters in his hometown of Bolton, Thompson said he’s grateful to voters. He also said he has accepted that Republicans will take over the House major- ity and he will lose his chairman- ship of the House Homeland Se- curity Committee. He’ll become the committee’s top member of the minority party. “I’ll be the ranking Democrat and will still have a part in set- ting policy to keeping Ameri- cans safe and making sure that natural disasters are responded to accordingly,” Thompson told The Associated Press. “For that, I will go back in January — I’m still chairman until the end of this session — and continue to work to work for the 2nd Dis- trict.” Harper of Pearl defeated the same opponent as in 2008, Democrat Joel Gill of Pickens. The Reform Party’s Tracella Lou O’Hara Hill of Hattiesburg also ran this year. Harper could not immediately be reached. This was the information available at press time. For fur- ther updates, visit thedmonline. com.

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ICEE BRAIN FREEZE CONTEST

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Ole Miss Dining Services will sponsor an Icee Brain Freeze Con-test in the Student Union Food Court. Participants will compete to drink Icees quickly without stopping for “brain freezes.” The contest begins at 1:30 p.m.

MISSISSIPPIANT H E D A I L YT H E D A I L Y

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LASER TAG PURSUIT WITH ROCK BAND AND EA SPORTS

The Student Programming Board will sponsor a laser tag game in the Student Union Plaza tonight from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. EA Sports will also host a game of Rock Band on two giant screens.

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At 11:37 AM yesterday the Oxford Police Department received a report of an armed robbery at the Mechanics Bank on East University Avenue.

At about the same time Hunter Ford was sipping on a smoothie on the porch of the Main Squeeze, the juice bar located just west of the bank to the rear of Pizza Hut.

“I heard shouts from the woods to the right behind the bank,” Ford, a senior busi-ness management major from Laurel said soon after the sighting. “I saw a soaking wet kid running.”

Ford said the suspect ran right in front of the Main Squeeze, in-between the building and the cars parked in front. Later on police would recover rain-soaked money stained with red-dye paint from the muddy area.

“He was starting to pull off his mask, he ran around back and that’s when I saw the bank manager, standing behind the wall,” Ford said of a concrete block barrier between the Pizza Hut parking lot and the bank. “He was looking over the wall, and he saw me.”

According to Ford, the suspect then ran to the back of the Main Squeeze, hopped in a vehicle and fl ed through an outlet on the south end of the parking lot.

“I put my head around the corner and saw the car drive away,” Ford said. “I ran to the bank manager and told him what hap-pened.”

When the police arrived they recovered a black mask with eye holes from the back parking lot.

OPD released a report later in the day through e-mail to the local media summa-rizing the event in a few sentences.

“Bank offi cials reported to offi cers that a B/M wearing a ski mask came into the bank and robbed the bank at gun point,” the re-port stated. “Suspect then fl ed on foot be-hind the bank area and left in a vehicle.”

“Offi cers found a gun, money, and other evidence that was covered in red paint from the ‘dye pack’ that discharged near where the suspect vehicle was parked.”

“The suspect vehicle was described as be-ing an older model vehicle light tan in color or light yellow. Possibly a GM or Ford prod-uct.”

Two of the offi cers interviewing wit-nesses in the area said that a great deal of the money had been recovered soon after the robbery and that the search for the suspect would now involve canvassing the nearby area as well as contacts in the town. They were unsure as to whether the suspect was acting alone. This is the second bank rob-bery in Oxford in the last year.

Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Oxford Police Department at 662-232-2400.

The police had made no arrests at press time.

SUSPECT AT LARGE IN ROBBERY OF MECHANICS BANK

BY TIM SUMMERSThe Daily Mississippian

Christeen Shivers campaigns for her son, Richard Shivers, outside of the Stone Center where many Oxford residents came to vote. Shivers braved the rain all day to campaign for her son.

T H U R S D AY

ROCK CLIMBING WALLThe Mississippi National Guard and Ole Miss ROTC will sponsor a rock climbing wall from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the Student Union Plaza.

Polls close in Miss. for Congress raceA S S O C I A T E D P R E S S

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Republican Alan Nunnelee un-seated Democratic U.S. Rep. Travis Childers on Tuesday in north Mississippi’s 1st District, reclaiming a seat the GOP held for 13 years before Childers grabbed it in 2008.

“I know what motivated you was not just a political cam-paign. It was your love of our country,” Nunnelee told cheer-ing supporters at a victory party in his hometown of Tupelo.

U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor of Bay St. Louis was struggling in south Mississippi’s 4th District, where he faced a strong challenge from Republican state lawmaker Ste-ven Palazzo of Biloxi.

Taylor — like Childers — is a fi scally conservative Blue Dog Democrat who often votes against the party’s leadership.

Two Mississippi congressmen were easily re-elected Tuesday. Democrat Bennie Thompson of Bolton won in the Delta-to-Jackson 2nd District, while Re-publican Gregg Harper of Pearl won in the central 3rd District.

It’s rare for a Mississippi con-gressional incumbent to lose.

Nunnelee told supporters he wants to repeal “Obamacare,” the massive health overhaul that became law earlier this year.

“Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the free-doms and the opportunity that

we have inherited from those who came before us,” Nunnelee said.

Nunnelee is a 16-year state senator from Tupelo and chairs the powerful Appropriations Committee. In speeches and commercials, he relentlessly tied Childers to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Cali-fornia.

Childers, of Booneville, voted against Pelosi on issues such as the health overhaul. But he found himself caught in a wave of anti-Washington sentiment from voters leery of federal gov-ernment expansion.

North Mississippi’s 1st District is not easily identifi ed by party labels. It voted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presi-dential race. Seven independent or third-party candidates also ran in the 1st District, but split only a small portion of the vote.

Barbara Cowley, 66, a retired insurance adjuster who lives in Smithville, said she voted for Nunnelee because she’s worried about the direction Democrats are taking the country. She worked with Nunnelee in an in-surance offi ce several years ago.

Cowley is covered by Medi-care and said she worries the fed-eral health overhaul that became law earlier this year will put Medicare at fi nancial risk.

“This health care program, I think, is just going to ruin older

people,” Cowley said Tuesday.Barbara Lumpkin, 78, a for-

mer federal employee who lives in Southaven, said she voted for Childers. “He’s honest and he has integrity,” Lumpkin said.

In a telephone interview from a victory party with about 2,000 supporters in his hometown of Bolton, Thompson said he’s grateful to voters. He also said he has accepted that Republicans will take over the House major-ity and he will lose his chairman-ship of the House Homeland Se-curity Committee. He’ll become the committee’s top member of the minority party.

“I’ll be the ranking Democrat and will still have a part in set-ting policy to keeping Ameri-cans safe and making sure that natural disasters are responded to accordingly,” Thompson told The Associated Press. “For that, I will go back in January — I’m still chairman until the end of this session — and continue to work to work for the 2nd Dis-trict.”

Harper of Pearl defeated the same opponent as in 2008, Democrat Joel Gill of Pickens. The Reform Party’s Tracella Lou O’Hara Hill of Hattiesburg also ran this year. Harper could not immediately be reached.

This was the information available at press time. For fur-ther updates, visit thedmonline.com.

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BY MATTHEW KINGCattoonist

Unless there is a drought, feel free to not come back some other day. It seems to me that lately the

weather has been, for lack of a better word, disgusting. Without warning it has

switched on us from sunny and warm to cold, rainy and undeniably humid.I severely underestimated just

how unpredictable the weather in Mississippi could be.I was surprised the other day

to wake up to a text message indicating that a tornado had been spotted (which ended up in Illinois and nowhere near Mississippi). That same day, the elevator

in Crosby Hall sparked a fire. I was forced outside to stand in the cold, while still in paja-mas, for 25 minutes.Today I woke up feeling sub-

par, and it only got worse when

I looked out the window. It never fails to rain when I am already in a less-than-good mood.Personally, I would like to

catch a break instead of a cold. I have been sick twice since I

have been here, and I feel like I am getting sick again.My room is already the tem-

perature of Antarctica, so the weather being nasty outside doesn’t help.They say that you can never

catch the same cold twice. That may be true, but it seems like as soon as one person gets sick around here, everyone gets sick. Much like the domino ef-fect.Even those who have just got-

ten over a cold could just as soon catch a new one. The good news or bad news

– whichever way you choose

to take it – is that the change in weather has not been detri-mental to the fashion trends on campus. These trends seem to be just

as contagious as a cold.The girls still wear their track

shorts and big T-shirts. Some have replaced their shorts with leggings, but nothing has re-ally changed. This week rain boots have

been added to the attire, which I have to admit doesn’t look as ridiculous as it sounds.I wonder what the girls will

be wearing when winter shows up. Certainly not leggings, be-cause they are not pants and they are a few inches shy of warm. I have noticed this week that

while the girls are prepared for the weather with their boots and umbrellas, the boys are not. Pledges are required to

dress up in their polos or but-ton up shirts, and khakis. This is not proper attire for the rain. Some use umbrellas, but I see most of them walk through the rain uncovered.Let’s just say I have seen more

than enough wet frat boys for my liking.The only thing I like about

rain is the smell. Everything smells so fresh after a down-pour. It is as if the world is trying to purify itself.Rain plays an important role

in nature. I mean, it does help water the plants and keep them alive, so we can be alive. But other than that, I don’t see the need for it.If I could I would do a reverse

rain dance. But since I have no idea how to do that, I will just wish every night at 11:11 that it doesn’t rain again for a while.

BY STEPHANIE THOMASColumnist

Rain, Rain, Go Away

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ALIX ZACHOWcopy chief

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Dear Eliza, My girlfriend and I have

been dating off and on for two years. When we go out and party, she gets wasted and ends up making out with random girls in the clubs and blows me off. This wouldn’t be a prob-lem if she hadn’t told me about this bisexual phase she went through in high school. Now she is always hanging out with girlfriends when I want to go out or just chill. I’m starting to think that there is more to it. Can I confront her without sounding like a jerk?

JasonDear Jason, Well, it sounds like she is just

looking for a good time and is in no hurry to be in a serious relationship (like you said, “off and on again for two years”). The best first step is to be hon-est and ask her: Y’all should be comfortable enough with each other to do so.

Girls are hard to read. We don’t even know what we want or where we’re going.

Example: It takes some girls several outfit changes to figure out what she is wearing for that night, plus the three different hairstyles we go through and the 19 different eyeshadow/lip

gloss combinations. The same principle applies for our boys: We never know what we want until we find it.

We also don’t want to ditch our friends and leave them for a guy. It’s girl code– don’t leave the bar without the group you came with or don’t leave your girlfriend alone in the bar.

Just ask jokingly and say seems like so-and-so is con-nected to you at the hip, and see where that takes you. It could possibly be a misunder-standing.

However, you could possibly be dating a bisexual girl. In the end, the key is to just have fun and at the end of the night, pray that she will come home with you and not the two girls she found at the bar. Hope this helps!

xoxo,Eliza-----Dear Eliza,First, let me brag about my-

self. I’m 6’3, 225 lbs, and Built Ford Tough. In high school, I dominated in every sport I played. I ran faster than anyone my size, threw a fastball like no other and could shoot from 3-point land all day long.

Unfortunately, I attended a

small high school and was only recruited by a few small col-leges, but I didn’t care. Since the day I first saw the Grove, I’ve known Ole Miss was the place for me.

My passion is basketball, and I’m considering trying out for the Ole Miss basket-ball team next year. However, I’m so athletic that I could probably make it on any of the three main sports teams at Ole Miss (sorry, no hockey for me). I might never be an All-SEC player, but I’d contribute to whichever team I chose to join.

Here is where I need your help: It seems that girls don’t really talk that much about basketball players. They’re al-ways ogling the football play-ers when they stumble into The Library for free or chasing the baseball players’ cleats once spring arrives. I really want to play under coach Andy Ken-nedy, but not if the Ole Miss ladies are going to ignore me when I wink at them on cam-pus. Is it because basketball

players wear baggy pants and ridiculous headbands? I have no clue.

I’m new on this campus and want to know what sports team the girls at Ole Miss love the most. Should I follow my hoops dream or try out for coach Houston Nutt’s squad?

-Full Court DepressedDear Full Court Depressed, First, you can’t base your

team choice off of what the girls might think of you. If you love to play basketball, then go for it! If you’re good enough to make it on a college team and can stay on the team, you’ll most likely get more of-fers later on in life and then you’ll be famous and girls will be “ogling” you then.

Second, it is a major turnoff when guys are full of them-selves. No one cares that you “threw a fastball like no oth-er” or that you’re “Built Ford Tough.” You can’t go around in life with that kind of attitude and you will not get very far in life if you treat people like you’re better than them (like

dissing the hockey team).If you really want to know

my opinion, I think you need to work on yourself because there’s obviously something else going on that is turning the girls off.

I understand sports are very important to some people (es-pecially those who have played their whole life and then get to college and have trouble with it for the first time), but this is college. While you may be the best from your high school, so is everyone else competing against you. Sometimes you have to move on and say that was who I was and this is who I want to be.

It’s tough, but there are more important things in life than playing football or basketball.

Do what you love and don’t think about what everyone else thinks. Have fun, enjoy col-lege, make friends and adjust your attitude; soon enough, the girls will follow.

Hope this helps!xoxo, Eliza

Eliza ListensEach week, advice columnist Eliza answers your questions about college life: classes, relationships and anything else you can think of. Have a question of your own? Submit it to [email protected].

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∏ΒΦCHILI COOKOFF

Come out to Pi Phi tonight and partake in some scrumptious chili

for a scrumptious cause! The party starts at 5:30 PM!

Whiskey Bent will be performing and all proceeds benefi t First Book!

Sponsored by Chili’s, Esthetiques, Indigo’s, JC Graphics, and The Ole Miss Bookstore

Tickets are $5 at the door!

Each fall, Ole Miss Landscape Services plants approximately 10,000 seasonal color flowers, such as pansies, kale and viola, at several campus focal points at a rough cost of 50 cents a plant, or $5,000, Landscape Director Jeff McManus said.

“We make this change dur-ing the two to three week period between the last mowing and before the mulching starts,” Mc-Manus said. “Our laborers stay consistent year round, so we have the manpower already available with time to work on our smaller projects.”

Associate director of enroll-ment services Jody Lowe said he often hears compliments on the work the landscaping depart-ment does, including the season-al flower beds.

“It is often mentioned by our prospective students, who are amazed at how beautiful and well-maintained our campus is,” Lowe said. “We get comments on that every year.”

Landscaping is one of the tools the University pulls out in re-cruitment, Lowe said.

“I think that in having a beau-

tiful and well-maintained cam-pus is obviously very appealing to both prospective students and parents,” Lowe said. “It is also one of the many factors the Uni-versity uses to keep students in good spirits.”

McManus said recruitment does play a part in what he does.

“Studies show that if a student has not made up their mind about your university, many will decide within the first 15 minutes of be-ing on campus,” McManus said. “They have not talked to anyone yet — they will decide if a Uni-versity is good or not based on the way the buildings and land-scape looks.”

McManus said part of his job is based on creating what he called the “wow factor.”

“When recruiting, we want the best students, athletes, fac-ulty and staff to see the campus and say, ‘this place is something I want to be a part of,’” McManus said.

For parents, he wants them to feel like this is a comfortable place to leave their children.

“If a parent sees that a campus is well taken care of, it may make them feel like we are taking care of other things too,” McManus said.

While flowers do have an aes-thetic value, they also have a car-bon value, McManus said.

“Plants eat carbon — it is something we learn in grade-school but many forget,” Mc-Manus said. “When we plant, it is a win-win.”

The fall is not all about spend-ing money, McManus said — landscaping also saves a bit in the mulching process.

“Our lawn mowers are the per-fect mulching tools,” McManus said. “By taking care of it on campus, though, we save a good $20,000 to $30,000 every year.”

McManus said the campus in-terior has approximately 4,500 trees, while the campus as a whole has hundreds of thousands, which creates tons of leaves. Instead of hauling them off, Landscape Ser-vices mulch them and then put them out to deliver nutrients.

Composting also plays a role in saving $10,000 a year. When a tree falls, there are parts peo-ple will not want, such as the stump.

“Instead of hauling these parts off, we have a place on campus designated for composting,” Mc-Manus said. “It is where we let the dead trees go through their cycle of returning to nature.”

Landscaping for the ‘wow factor’BY CAIN MADDENThe Daily Mississippian

ELIZABETH BEAVER | The Daily Mississippian

Landscapers plant new flowers for the winter in the roundabout on Old Taylor Rd.

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Billy Lamb, Superintendent of Building and Grounds for the City of Oxford, may be responsible for the upkeep and care of the city during the week, but keeping Oxford fresh is only one of many things he enjoys.

Stepping into his office at the Building and Grounds headquarters, two things are immediately eye-catching: a guitar, which sits in the corner of the room, and a collection of old Oxford pictures.

“I collect everything,” Lamb

said. “Anything old and of val-ue; I enjoy collecting.”

Some of the framed photos include the first-ever newspa-per ad by former mayor John Leslie when he ran for Oxford mayor, a black-and-white shot of Lamar Avenue pre-pave-ment and an aerial view of the Watermelon Festival in front of the courthouse.

As for the guitar, Lamb said that he loves playing music and has been doing so since he was eight years old.

Behind him, he points out a picture of himself standing be-side legendary blues artist B.B. King, one of his musical idols.

“I’ve actually played some with his band before,” he said.

Above Lamb’s picture with King is one of him with five other men, a group shot of Lamb’s band, Soule.

The band has been together about 17 years, according to Lamb, and while they have not recorded any CDs, most of their music, which Lamb describes as a Motown sound, can be heard at weddings.

“We’ve got weddings booked on into next year,” he said. “Our next one is on the elev-enth.”

One of his favorite songs to play is popular at most wed-

dings. “I love to play ‘My Girl’,” he

said. “We always get that one requested.”

Along with B.B. King, Lamb said another of his favorite musical artists is the Tempta-tions.

Along with his collection of pictures, Lamb also describes his love of collecting vintage guitars, as well as amplifiers.

“I probably have about 18, one of the oldest being a 1955 Gibson electric guitar,” Lamb said.

One of his favorites, as well as highest-valued in his collec-tion, includes a 1965 L-Series

Fender.Aside from the fun things in

his office, as for his job, Lamb said that it started out slow, but today it’s an interesting and enjoyable career.

Mayor Leslie hired him for a city job and wanted to see what Lamb could do with the building and grounds depart-ment, Lamb said.

Today, Lamb proudly says that he started and built the department to what it is now.

“What I enjoy most about this job is the variations,” Lamb said. “There’s something different every day, and it’s a challenge.”

BY KATE NICOLE COOPERThe Daily Mississippian

GETTING TO KNOW: BILLY LAMB

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On Oct. 20, singer-song-writer Randy Rogers took the cramped, scuffed stage at Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos, Texas. While the Cleburne native had been performing at owner Kent Fin-lay’s converted rail-side depot for years, this night was par-ticularly special as it marked the local hero’s tenth year as a signed, Nashville standout. “I’m proud to say I’ve worked

the same job for ten years ,and lots of people can’t say that,” affirmed a modest Rogers, looking back on his career. “It’s something we’ve built from the ground up that no-body can take away.” For Rogers, this construc-

tion began at a young age with the sounds of country legends such as Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, as well as 90s grunge outfits Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots. After learning piano at age 6,

Rogers began writing songs at 11. By his late teens, he was winning local talent contests fronting a high school garage band. Soon after graduation the singer/songwriter was in-troduced to San Marcos and its secluded yet rich music scene. Having started out as a side-

man, Rogers, at the prodding of Finlay, began playing open mic Wednesdays, subsequently introducing original material to the barroom audiences. “Guy Clark and Waylon Jen-

nings - the people that my fa-ther made me listen to when I was younger- shaped me and molded me,” Rogers said. “Growing up in Texas, I had an array of people to look up to, and I’m thankful for that.” In 2000, Rogers recruited San

Marcos regulars to back him for a live album to be record-ed at Cheatham. The record, “Live At Cheatham Street Warehouse,” was released later that year on Downtime Re-cords under the moniker, The

Randy Rogers Band. Two years later, Rogers and

a revamped backing band, including percussionist Les Lawless, guitarist Geoffrey Hill, bass player John Richard-son and fiddler Brady Black, released a studio album on Downtime entitled, “Like It Used To Be.”By this point, the group was

solidified as the singer-song-writer had finally found the committed, capable musicians he needed to immerse himself in business and to leave the confines of San Marcos and Cheatham. “We just kind of all decided

we’d start this band, split ev-erything up ‘even Steven’ and hit the road,” Rogers said. “All of us could afford to not make any money and just hit the road and go for it. It was just the right time.”After putting out 2004’s

“Rollercoaster,” and their first charting record, “Live at Billy Bob’s Texas,” on the Lon-

estar state’s own Smith Mu-sic Group, The Randy Rogers band signed a major label deal with Mercury Nashville in 2005.“They’ve always let us be our-

selves; they’ve always let us evolve as a band,” Rogers said of their relationship with Mer-cury’s parent corporation, Uni-versal Music Group Nashville. “Us signing a deal was contin-gent on those points because we already had our own thing going. We were already selling records, already touring.”In September 2006, their ma-

jor label debut, “Just a Matter of Time,” brought the scrappy Texans their first mainstream success. The album was re-leased at number 61 on the Billboard 200. “Just a Mat-ter of Time” also reached the eighth position on the country charts, garnering them two hit singles, “Kiss Me in the Dark” and “One More Goodbye,”

Randy Rogers Band to perform at The Lyric tonightBY JOSH BREEDENThe Daily Mississippian

COURTESTY OF CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE.

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Let us go back to eight years ago. You were young and playing rock, paper, scissors with friends. Hide-and-seek never seemed so appeal-ing.Now that the real world is slowly

catching up with us, sometimes a little innocent child-like fun is de-sired, if not needed.

The Ole Miss Student Program-ming Board has decided to incor-porate laser tag–yes, laser tag– into homecoming week this year. The game started last year during

Welcome Week, but with so much success and high demand, SPB could not resist bringing it back for homecoming.“We started laser tag last year for

welcome week and had a really big turn-out,” said Will Yerger, sopho-

more marketing communications major and co-director of special events for the Student Program-ming Board. The Student Programming Board,

under the leadership of Campus Programming, hopes to spark new friendships, provide the Ole Miss community with a little excitement and get fans in the spirit of home-coming. “Through the laser tag event, we

just want the students to have a good time,” Yerger said. “It is a great opportunity to get out of the dorm room and go have some fun. It is a great way to meet new people and try something new. How often do you get the chance to play laser tag in the Grove? It is an incredibly fun event and we hope that everyone will come and have a great time.” SPB also hopes to promote its role

on campus.Its mission, as stated on its web-

site, is “to increase the social, cultur-al, and educational opportunities for students on Ole Miss campus with original, academic enlighten-ing but entertaining activities and programs.” It is comprised of about 75 mem-

bers who make up the entire execu-tive board with four co-directors of special events.“Tons of people normally show

up and sometimes you have to be on team with new people you don’t know,” Yerger said. “It’s a great way to build friendship.” During the big laser tag event, SPB

has added the popular Rock Band video game that will be on stage as well as EA Sports giving students a variety of activities in which to par-ticipate.Many students who have had the

pleasure of playing laser tag plan to

relive the entertaining event again. “I played laser tag earlier this se-

mester,” Shaquera Franlkin, a soph-omore accounting major, said. “It was a lot of fun. I hadn’t played in a really long time. The adrenaline rush of running around made me feel like a child again.”“Laser tag was a great experience,”

John Newman, a sophomore pub-lic policy major said. “I’ve played before but never in a setting like on the Ole Miss campus.”The Grove, where laser tag is nor-

mally held, changes from tailgating and picnics into a perfect location for laser tag– a “war” zone full of hiding places. Due to rainy weather, it has been

moved to the Union Plaza for to-night.“We would love to continue this

tradition of laser tag going for years to come,” Yerger said. “Hopefully as the years go on, it will continue to grow and will become a large part of future homecoming weeks.”Amid controversy about tradition,

Ole Miss may have a new one — laser tag. The excitement of running and

dodging adds to the fond memories for Ole Miss students. The Student Programming Board

will host its laser tag event in the Union Plaza, tonight at 7 p.m.

BY ASHLEY BALLThe Daily Mississippian

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the former holding a spot Bill-board’s Hot Country Songs for 28 weeks. The band’s self-titled 2008

follow-up would only expand on this success, surpassing all of its predecessor’s impressive chart positions while ranking 29 in digital album sales dur-ing the week of its release. Their latest record, August’s

“Burning the Day,” exhibits the group’s same “root-sy” spin on modern Nashville centered around Rogers‘ raspy drawl, earnest lyricism and edgy in-strumentals. Rogers and company, along

with success on the charts, are quietly building a reputation as one of country’s premier live acts.

Earlier this fall, the band took part in Farm Aid’s Annual con-cert in Milwaukee on a roster that included Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp and former collaborator Kenny Chesney. “We played early in the day

and then just walked around and enjoyed being there,” said Rogers of the experience. “Be-ing a fan of the musicians on stage and just kind of taking it all in. You can just tell those people that are part of that organization are dedicated to

their cause - just passionate people, passionate about the music business, passionate about Farm Aid. It was a great event to be a part of.” Through all of the success,

Rogers and his band have man-aged to cling to their roots, still grounded in the dusky, hard scrabble earth of the Tex-an musical tradition with the patron saints of this tradition, men like Townes Van Zandt and George Strait, who stood on the same meager platform at Cheatham communicating

the most common emotions using a most genuine and rare talent.“We stick to our guns, we

know what we sound like,” said Rogers. “I don’t want to sound like somebody else, and I sure as hell don’t want to sound like somebody I’m not.” The Randy Rogers Band will

perform tonight at The Lyric with fellow Texans Robert Earl Keen and Reckless Kelly. Tickets are $20. The doors

open at 8 p.m. and the show begins at 9 p.m.

ROGERS, continued from page 7

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Thiemann will compete for the doubles title in a 16-team field, while senior Tucker Vorster will participate in a 32-player singles draw. Junior All-American Kristi Boxx from the Ole Miss women’s team will also perform in the cham-

pionships after she received an at-large spot.“We’re real excited about go-

ing to New York City,” Marcel Thiemann said. “It’s a great city and a great national tour-nament.”The Thiemann twins earned

a berth into the ITA National Indoor Championships when they seized the ITA South-ern Regional doubles title last month in Tuscaloosa. Both said it still hasn’t completely sunk in that they’ll be playing at the same location where the yearly US Open tennis tourna-ment takes place.“It’s like a dream,” Chris Thi-

emann said. “I’ve always want-ed to go and watch a match there at the US Open but for

us, to be able to actually get to play there it’s amazing.”Ole Miss coach Billy Chad-

wick said the brothers shouldn’t have any pressure playing on such a big stage because they played in the NCAA doubles championships last season. The duo are currently ranked the No. 10 doubles team in the country.“I feel they learned a lot play-

ing in the (NCAA) doubles championships last year,” Chadwick said. “They’re going into this tournament knowing what it takes to win and they’re going to take it one match at a time.”For Vorster, who is referred

to as “Dragon” by friends, the road to New York was one of

beauty. The senior All-SEC second team selection from a year ago didn’t drop a set en route to the ITA Southern Re-gional singles title.“I feel like I’m on top of my

game and at the same time I can beat anyone right now,” Vorster said. “Hopefully I can keep this win streak going.”Chadwick gave the Pretoria,

South Africa native plenty of praise in claiming the Regional title.“This is a great big step for-

ward for Tucker,” Chadwick said. “He’s a senior and to win the (Southern) region is an outstanding accomplishment.”Vorster is approaching the

matches in the Big Apple as an opportunity to upset higher

ranked players. He also hopes to improve on his No. 58 na-tional ranking in singles. “All the matches I play up

there will be confidence boost-ers for the spring, and obvi-ously I hope to get my rank-ing up to the top 20– maybe even higher than that,” Vorster said. For the Thiemanns and Vorst-

er, playing in New York serves as valuable experience for an Ole Miss team that could pos-sibly be ranked preseason Top 10 in the fall. “All three of them have the

ability to win the title but they’re going to have to be at their best and they’re going to have to catch some breaks along the way,” Chadwick said.

ELITE GROUP OF REBEL NETTERS HEAD TO BIG APPLEBY JOHN HOLTThe Daily Mississippian

It was the start of a new era with the coaching change from Steve Holeman, the Rebels’ fi rst and only other women’s soccer coach in pro-gram history, to Matthew Mott. There were defi nite growing pains,

particularly early in conference play, but both freshmen and upperclass-men emerged as contributors and leaders on this year’s team. While Ole Miss, which fi nished

the year 7-9-4 (3-5-3 SEC), came up just short of a return to the Southeastern Conference Tourna-ment, the future remains bright with Taylor Cunningham being the only graduating senior. “This year was a year of a lot of

change, a lot of new philosophies and different expectations, so it’s good to have a year under your belt with a new coaching staff,” junior Dylan Jordan said.After the graduation of three se-

nior starters from last year and key injuries to juniors Kelsey Breathitt and Abbie Curran, this year’s fresh-man class stepped forward. Freshman Mandy McCalla led

Ole Miss in assists and was named

to the SEC All-Freshman team as a forward. Despite only starting 15 games, freshman Sarah Story set school records with 109 saves this season and 17 saves in a scoreless double-overtime draw to Georgia.“There was no time to be a fresh-

man for anybody on this team,” Jordan said. “They really stepped up and made an impact on this team. Mandy’s a leader. She’s a freshman, but she has that leadership mental-ity. Sarah defi nitely came in and got her fair share of experience in goal, facing some of the best forwards in the country, and she had an overall successful season.”Like McCalla, freshman Erin Em-

erson started every game this season for the Rebels. She scored three goals, including two to lead the comeback against Arkansas, while also assisting on McCalla’s game-tying goal. A pair of freshmen, Ally Nikolaus and Maddie Cunning-ham, also provided energy off the bench and also helped fi ll the voids left by Breathitt and Curran.Jordan became a scoring threat

from her attacking midfi eld posi-tion and led the team in goals (7) and game-winning goals (4). She was named SEC Offensive Player of

the Week after three goals and an as-sist against Southern Miss and TCU and then netted the game-winning goal in a 2-1 upset win over nation-ally ranked No. 25 Auburn.With the team’s back against the

wall late in the season, sophomore Alix Hildal, who moved into the midfi eld from defense, sparked Ole Miss to back-to-back come-from-behind victories against Kentucky and Vanderbilt. She scored the game-tying goal in a 2-1 overtime win over Kentucky and tallied a hat trick, including two penalty kicks, in a 3-2 win at Vanderbilt.After scoring the game-winning

goal on senior night against Ken-tucky, Cunningham scored the fi rst goal against rival Mississippi State and looked as though she would lead her team back to the SEC Tournament, but the Bulldogs would score two goals in the game’s fi nal 22 minutes to bring the Reb-els’ season to an end. “It hasn’t really hit me yet because

(Monday) would have been our off day, but it’s the fi rst time since I’ve been here we haven’t gone to the SEC Tournament,” said Cunning-ham. “It’s sad to leave, but it’s going to happen.”

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a 3-5 record, and needs to win three out of their last four games to make it to a third consecutive bowl game. What makes things even more difficult is the rash of injuries the Rebels have suffered. “One thing you can’t control is

injuries,” Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt said. “Now we have to look at our young guys and tell them

it’s time to play. The last few years we have had very few injuries, but this year is different. We always tell them that they are a play away. “They truly are a play away when

we are down to our fourth-string defensive end. Staying ready and staying together are the main things we concentrate on right now.” Ole Miss limps into Saturday’s

game with Louisiana-Lafayette af-ter going through three defensive ends at one spot this season. The Rebels will rotate another DE, Gerald Rivers, after he suffered a high ankle sprain against Auburn. Linebacker Jonathan Cornell

injured his hip in that game as well, but is expected to be able to play Saturday, as is injured safety Damien Jackson. Even with injuries, Ole Miss

knows they must come up with another “November to remember” if they want to play past the Egg Bowl.

“It hurts to be at this point when we planned on a different record at this time,” Nutt said. “We wanted to be at 7-1, 6-2 or 5-3 at the worst. The bottom line is that it hasn’t fallen that way. As a coach everyone looks to you. We have to do our best coaching job in November because that is what people remember.” Since Nutt arrived in Oxford after

spending a decade at Arkansas, the Rebels have been dominant in the month of November. In 2008, Ole Miss reeled off four-straight wins in the month, including a romp of LSU in Death Valley, and a 45-0 drubbing of Mississippi State. Last year was more of the same, as the Rebels went 3-1 in November with big wins over Tennessee and LSU. If Ole Miss hopes to become

bowl eligible, the Rebels must win at least three games out of Louisi-ana-Lafayette, Tennessee, LSU and Mississippi State. “I don’t know if there’s any magic

left, but I know this: It’s easy to say, ‘I confess; it’s your fault,’” Nutt said. “That’s what we try and keep in this room on Sunday. There’s enough blame for everybody. I’ve seen teams like this just fall apart.”

Injury bug bites Rebels hard BY BENNETT HIPPThe Daily Mississippian

Ole Miss defensive end Kentrell Lockett, who suffered a season-ending injury against Fresno State, stands on the sidelines during the Rebels’ win earlier in the year over Kentucky. The Ole Miss defense has struggled to create a pass rush with Lockett out of the lineup.

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