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The STudenT newSpaper of The univerSiTy of MiSSiSSippi | Serving ole MiSS and oxford Since 1911
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ThurSday, noveMber 21, 2013 vol. 102, no. 63
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Ole Miss ROTC to participate in inaugural Egg Bowl Run
On Nov. 12, the United States De-partment of State released their Open Doors Re-port on Interna-tional Educational Exchange, report-ing a 7.2 percent increase in the number of inter-national students at institutions of high-er education. In the 2012-13 academic year, there were a reported 819,644 international stu-dents studying in the U.S.
Ole Miss, too, has experienced a rapid increase of interna-tional student enroll-ment.
Since 2005, in-ternational student enrollment has in-creased by 74 percent, and since 2008, that number has increased by 43 percent, accord-ing to Greet Provoost, the director of the Of-fice of International Programs.
The reason for this increase is a university-wide commitment to campus international-ization. Ole Miss has placed a priority on in-creasing enrollment of international students, according to Provoost.
International students at Ole Miss fall under the newly established Of-fice of Global Engage-ment, which includes the Office of International Programs, the Office of Study Abroad and the In-tensive English Program.
As of fall 2013, there are a reported 911 inter-national students attend-ing Ole Miss. Of these students, 102 are partici-pating in post-graduate
optional practical training with the Office of Global Engagement, Provoost said.
Ninety-three countries are represented by these diverse students, coming from seven regions of the world including Asia, Eu-rope, Latin America, Afri-ca, the Middle East, North America and Oceania.
One hundred fifty of these students are ex-change students who will be staying at Ole Miss for one term or one year. Six-ty-four other students are enrolled in the university’s Intensive English Program and 595 are enrolled in regular degree programs. Of those, 289 students are enrolled in undergraduate programs and 306 in the graduate school.
Tamar Karakozova is a current Ph.D. candidate in secondary English edu-cation. In the myriad of countries represented here at Ole Miss, she hails from Tbilisi, The Republic of Georgia.
Karakozova came to Ole Miss in 2006 through the Edmund Muskie Gradu-ate Fellowship Program, a graduate exchange pro-gram funded by the U.S. Department of State.
Many international stu-dents have to work hard to attend Ole Miss, and Kara-kozova is definitely one of them.
“In order to receive the fellowship, I had to go through a number of com-petitions, pass TOEFL (Test of English as a For-eign Language) and the GRE, as well as an inter-view,” she said. “The whole process took about a year.”
After arriving in Wash-ington, Karakozova was flown to Memphis, Tenn., after being told she was to attend The University of Mississippi. She was greet-ed by a group from the Of-
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A new tradition will begin in the Egg Bowl rivalry when ROTC cadets make a 100-mile game ball run from Ox-ford to Starkville.
Before daylight on Nov. 25, University of Missis-sippi ROTC cadets will run 45 miles carrying the Egg Bowl game ball to Calhoun City. Once in Calhoun City, UM cadets will hand off the game ball to members of Mississippi State University’s ROTC program in the city square at a small pavilion. MSU’s ROTC will then carry the game ball 55 miles from Calhoun City to Davis-Wade Stadium in Starkville, where the ball will be handed off to the Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen.
Matt Hayes, assistant pro-fessor of military science at Ole Miss, says this is a way to get the community involved.
“It’s Thanksgiving time and football season,” Hayes said. “We want to pump up the game more.”
The run will begin on Union Drive and proceed to University Avenue. The ca-dets will then head on Uni-versity to Highway 7, where they will run until the split at
Highway 9. Mississippi State Highway Patrol and Univer-sity Police were requested to escort the runners while on the public roads and streets.
Twenty UM cadets will take turns running the ball, rotat-ing every three to four miles. One mile outside of Calhoun City, all of the UM cadets will run in army formation with the flags to hand the ball off to MSU.
In the hand-off location, both the Ole Miss mascot and the MSU mascot will be pres-ent. Both universities’ media relations are expected to vid-eo and still shot the relay for use during a pre-game video. Hayes said there is more to this run than just the football rivalry.
“The values of this run are personal courage, sacri-fice, perseverance, teamwork, physical fitness and the spirit of competition,” Hayes said.
John Bolding, Ole Miss ROTC cadet battalion com-mander, said this is an event where the schools can come together to appreciate forces greater than them.
“For me personally, it’s an event that we can do with the MSU cadets,” Bolding said. “It’s like a brotherhood.”
BY RANDALL [email protected]
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Chancellor Dan Jones and ROTC members at the Veteran’s Day Review Nov. 14.
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There is a story in the news that has become my guilty pleasure. It has had more cra-zy revelations and antics than a trashy reality TV show. But since it’s being covered by the likes of CNN, it doesn’t come with nearly the same level of shame when you tune in or look for updates online. This story involves drugs, cover-ups, politics and, of course, a possibility of an actual reality show following the particular individual’s notorious rise to notoriety.
The story I have been caught up in is not of another child star falling off the wagon
or quasi-celebrity housewife caught in a cheating scandal, but the tale of a mayor of a city of nearly 3 million admit-ting to smoking crack cocaine.
Mayor Rob Ford of To-ronto, Canada, admitted to smoking crack cocaine and has been under a media fire-storm as a result of that and a seemingly never-ending stream of scandals.
Before we get into these scandals, Rob Ford was elect-ed as mayor of Toronto, Can-ada’s largest city and on that purports itself as being the cultural, entertainment and financial capital of the coun-try. Close to 400,000 Toronto voters elected him as mayor. Prior to becoming mayor, he served as a city councilor, an elected position, for a decade.
And now for the juicy stuff: This guy admitted, on film, to smoking crack cocaine with-in the past year. In attempts
to justify it, he said that it must have been in one of his “drunken stupors.” That’s some pretty hard partying for a man elected to lead Cana-da’s largest city, if you ask me. The more you look into this guy, the stranger and weirder the story gets. He brazenly resists common decency even when national and continen-tal news station reporters are filming him. He swears, drunkenly threatens to beat people, has bulldozed through a city council meeting and knocked a councilor to the ground and unabashedly goes into detail about his bedroom activities.
Is this a warning sign of the direction that politics are go-ing? Is it too late to make a U-turn? With the onset of social media and smart phones that can instantly capture an im-age or video and then post it onto the internet, politicians
are never truly “off duty.” In the past, scandals could be covered up, and indiscretions could never see the light of day. Now, we have full dis-closure to a person’s past and present.
The question remains, how-ever, if this trend will help or hurt. Will we get to see politi-cians “as they really are” and therefore make wiser choices with our votes? Or will scan-dals become so common place that we dismiss them, lower-ing our standards? Will we re-ward scandal and raise these fallen politicians to the height of celebrity status — complete with book and TV deals? Are brash, crack cocaine-smok-ing politicians the next “big thing” for the beltway?
Anna Rush is a law student from Hattiesburg. She graduated from Mississippi State University in 2011.
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We are approaching that wonderful/dreadful time of the semester once again: teacher evaluation submis-sions are open. You have until midnight on Dec. 8 to sub-mit the evaluations. For all you freshmen out there, you might not have understood the double adjective in the first sentence, so I’ll explain it.
If you submit all of your teacher evalua-tions, you get to view your final grades be-fore everyone who fails to submit them. That sounds like a great thing un-til you log into your MyOle-Miss account and realize how time-consuming and inconve-nient it seemingly is.
These teacher evaluation submissions are about more than just the few extra hours you receive to view your final grades. This is about the fu-ture of your university. Here’s my advice to everyone who feels that lazy urge to check whatever box you see first without accurately evaluat-
ing your professors: Don’t let yourself fall into that trap.
The University of Missis-sippi is a wonderful academic institution that has increased its regional and national stock over the past few years. The Patterson School of Accoun-tancy’s three degree pro-grams are ranked in the top ten nationally. This year’s freshman class holds an insti-tutional record with an aver-age ACT score of 23.8 and a high school GPA of 3.43. Ole
Miss was ranked by Forbes as a top 20 “best buy college” in America. Our applica-tion numbers and enrollment numbers continue to increase drastically each year.
It might not feel like it this week, but we are not here for the last-minute assignments of each semester or even foot-ball: We are here for a great education. Believe it or not, teacher evaluations are an extremely important tool in
helping to continue our up-ward academic trajectory.
When you submit teach-er evaluations without any thought, it not only hurts the education of your peers and future students at Ole Miss but the university itself. Teacher evaluations are for deans and department heads to hear from you and make management decisions for the future.
It’s so easy to mark “10” or “0” for every single evalu-
ation in order to get it done. I know because I have done it. In hindsight, I regret it. Maybe an honest, thought-ful teacher evaluation could have initiated a conversation between a department head and the faculty member that I had a couple problems with. Maybe that conversation could have prevented future problems that I already expe-rienced.
When you fill them out, be
honest. Barring an emotional instance when you burst into a dean’s office uninvited and complain irrationally, you probably will not get the chance to let the university know how your professors perform in the classroom. If you aren’t too fond of a particular professor, you get to burn them. If you love a certain professor and think they walk on water, express yourself. In either instance, you will feel great afterwards
(for any of my current or past
p r o f e s s o r s reading this, have fun trying to figure out
w h i c h end of the gauntlet you fell with me … kidding).
I am not one to preach and I certainly don’t want to tell you how to live your lives, but this advice is important. Think about it. It boils down to your love for the university and its future. Please do your part in helping the university continue to grow.
Adam Ganucheau is a senior journalism major from Hazlehu-rst, Mississippi.
Thoughtful advice: be more thoughtfulBY ADAM GANUCHEAU
[email protected] Dear Editor,
The Daily Mississippian colum-nist Whitney Greer’s column on Guantanamo unfortunately sub-stitutes a good deal of bombast (“reign of incompetence,” “liberal US propaganda machine”) for the kind of hard headed, mutually respectful dialogue the Ole Miss creed is meant to encourage. First off, nobody I know wishes to set the guilty free. Nor do we — in a shocking attack on our patriotism — worry more about Guantana-mo Jihadists than our troops, now in their twelfth year or war. Person-ally, I see no contradiction between killing an armed Osama Bin Lad-en in Pakistan and feeding Jihadists who have surrendered, and I cer-tainly do wish Mos Def (whoever he is) to represent my position.
Instead, folks like me believe both in the right of the accused to trial and the strategic and eco-nomic benefits of closing Guanta-namo. We recognize the difficulties involved, but would like to see these debated in a manner more in keep-ing with the intellectual standards of this university’s community.
Peter K. FrostVisiting ProfessorCroft Institute
Letter to the Editor
”“It boils down to your love for the university and its future. Please do your part in helping the university continue to grow.
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fice of International Programs here at Ole Miss.
“I was not the one who made the choice of my U.S. location for my academic program, but I am very glad I got to be in Oxford” she said.
So what persuades these stu-dents to embark on long jour-neys to come attend Ole Miss?
“Great academic programs, competitive costs, location, at-tractive climate and academic and institutional collabora-tions draws international stu-dents to Ole Miss,” Provoost said. “Many students find us via internet searches, partners and recommendations.”
Karakozova’s experiences in Oxford have proven the town to be an inexhaustible resource to her as an inter-national student, and she has found her hobbies and her niche in the diverse edges of the community.
“This place is historical. I love it,” she said, “Oxford has a great community of stu-dents and scholars from all over the world. I think it is an exact definition of America — a tossed salad rather than a melting pot.”
Despite the fact that she is from a much larger city, Kara-kozova believes Oxford has enough pluck to compete.
“I am from the capital city in the Republic of Georgia, with a population of over 1 million people. Even though I have many opportunities to attend events at home, I think Oxford has just as much to of-fer,” she said.
Hollywood also helped bring Ole Miss to the global stage when it comes to higher-level education opportunities for international scholars.
“A few years back, ‘The Blind Side’ helped us gain
name recognition in many corners of the world,” Pro-voost said.
The departments involved with international students work to “bring the world to Mississippi” and use this con-cept for the UM 2020 plan, according to Provoost.
Karakozova believes Oxford is a great town in which the world can find a home.
“Oxford for me has never been too ‘foreign’ to adapt,” she said. “The major resource of this town is its people.
“Although international students may be shy at first and stick together, they do need someone local to hang out with to make friends and share experiences.”
The university is working to bring more global citizens to both campus and the local Oxford community.
The UM 2020 plan suggests a focus on global marketing, recruiting international stu-dents via various means such as developing academic part-nerships with higher educa-tion institutions around the world.
“I see a bright, diverse, en-gaging and ever-growing in-ternational student popula-tion,” Provoost said. “They will be fully integrated in our campus community and cru-cial to internationalizing the comprehensive learning expe-rience of all UM students.”
ENROLLMENT, continued from page 1 Kerry: US and Karzai agree on
language for pactWASHINGTON -- Secretary
of State John Kerry said Wednes-day that the U.S. and Afghanistan have agreed on the language of a bilateral security pact that could clear the way for thousands of U.S. troops to train and assist Af-ghan forces after the NATO com-bat mission ends in 2014
The agreement is far from com-plete. The document now goes to the Loya Jirga, a 3,000-member council of elders that has the right to revise or reject any clause of the draft agreement. Whatever they agree upon then goes to the Afghan parliament, which could make still more changes before the agreement is approved.
On the U.S. side, only the Obama administration needs to approve the agreement, but it could reject changes made by Afghan officials. If it does, that leaves open the option for the U.S. to pull all troops out of Afghani-stan. Such was the case in Iraq, when the U.S. and Iraq couldn’t agree on terms of a security ar-rangement. Sectarian violence has plagued Iraq since, and some fear Afghanistan could head down that path without a con-tinued U.S. presence if Afghan forces cannot defend the country themselves.
Kerry said the language, agreed to after about a year of tense on-again, off-again negotiations, will be reflected in the draft proposal presented Thursday to the Loya Jirga, in Kabul.
“There were some people who may have questioned or doubted whether that was going to hap-pen. Well, it’s happening tomor-row, and it’s happening tomor-row with agreed-upon language between us,” Kerry said during a news conference at the State De-partment with Australian officials
and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
“We have agreed on the lan-guage that would be submitted to the Loya Jirga, but they have to pass it,” Kerry said.
The agreement would give the U.S. a legal basis for having forces in Afghanistan after 2014, and also allow it to use bases across the country.
U.S. officials have not yet dis-closed the number of U.S. troops they want to keep in Afghanistan after 2014. U.S. officials have said the U.S. and NATO could keep between 8,000 and 12,000 troops there. Of those, the U.S. is expect-ed to provide no more than 8,000.
Kerry said that whatever the number, the role of the U.S. mili-tary would be “limited.”
“It is entirely train, equip and assist. There is no combat role for United States forces, and the bilateral security agreement is a way to try to clarify for Afghans and for United States military forces exactly what the rules are with respect to that ongoing rela-tionship,” he said.
Karzai’s office posted a copy of the draft proposal on its website on Wednesday.
According to the draft posted on the website, the agreement, as expected, gives the U.S. legal jurisdiction over troops and De-fense Department civilians, while contractors would be subject to the Afghan judicial process. Deep divisions in Afghanistan over legal immunity for American soldiers and contractors as well as night raids had threatened to scuttle diplomatic efforts.
The pact also provides for U.S. counterterrorism operations in coordination with the Afghans, with the goal that the Afghan forces should be in the lead. It
also notes that U.S. troops will not conduct combat operations unless they are “mutually agreed” on by the U.S. and Afghans.
On the sensitive issue of U.S. troops going into Afghan homes, the agreement says that U.S. forces should not “target Afghan civilians, including in their homes, consistent with Afghan law and the United States forces’ rules of engagement.” It also says that U.S. counterterrorism operations should be conducted with “full regard for the safety and security of the Afghan people, including in their homes.”
An additional line, which was agreed to by both sides, says that “U.S. forces can only enter Af-ghan homes in extraordinary cir-cumstances when the life or limb of Americans is at stake,” accord-ing to a U.S. official. The official, who said this language is the only line missing from the draft posted on the website, was not autho-rized to discuss the details of the document with the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Kerry and Karzai spoke by phone on Wednesday for the sec-ond time in two days.
On Tuesday, Karzai invited Kerry to attend the Loya Jirga. Kerry has no plans to attend, but offered the idea of providing reas-surances about the U.S.-Afghan security relationship in addressing past issues, such as civilians casu-alties, which have been discussed many times. The State Depart-ment said that those assurances might be offered in the form of a letter or another format, but said nothing had been decided.
Associated Press writers Brad-ley Klapper and Lolita C. Baldor in Washington contributed to this report.
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Bolding said that the run is a good opportunity to do something different and is something that the cadets will always remember.
“I’m graduating this year,” Bolding said. “It’s like a lega-cy for me and my senior class to be able to say that we were the first to do the run.”
The game ball will be signed by both universities’ presidents, by both head coaches, and by the Professor of Military Science from each university.
After the game, the ball will be auctioned off, and pro-ceeds will benefit the Wound-ed Warrior Program.
ROTC, continued from page 1
Since its inception in 2007, Ole Miss Ambassadors for Southern Hospitality has grown to allow students to get a taste of the hos-pitality industry.
“These students are the voice of our department when it comes to student planning events such as tailgates, fundraising, field trips and guest speakers for learning outside the classroom,” said facul-ty advisor Jeremy Roberts.“They plan trips to various destination cities around the Oxford area as well as Tunica, Jackson, Mem-phis, New Orleans and of course Oxford to learn more about the hospitality industry in interactive panel discussions, on-site visits and tours.”
A group of hospitality man-agement students created the student organization as a means for students in the major to learn, improve and practice hospitality skills. It has since been expanded to include all students who are interested in hospitality manage-ment.
Each year, Ole Miss Ambassa-dors for Southern Hospitality fo-cuses on certain areas of hospital-ity management. The members
create events and activities that pertain to the focus areas. This se-mester, the organization focused on tourism and event planning, among other areas of interest.
“We visited the Oxford Tour-ism center in which we learned about tourism industry and the ways tourism exists here in Ox-ford,” said Jacqueline Stout, ju-nior hospitality major and CEO of the organization.
Ole Miss Ambassadors for Southern Hospitality planned and coordinated a Halloween fundraiser for children of the Ox-ford area this semester. The event consisted of various games and activities for children in the Ox-ford community.
“We thoroughly enjoyed our Halloween fundraiser and hope to make it a tradition that gets bigger and better each year,” Stout said.
In addition to widespread par-ticipation from students in the Department of Nutrition and Hospitality, the organization’s of-ficers expressed excitement over the involvement from students of all majors.
“We had members at the (ac-tivities) fair for students with un-declared majors, which was a lot of fun,” said Sloan Gray, junior
hospitality major and secretary of the organization.
Ole Miss Ambassadors for Southern Hospitality has numer-ous activities planned for next se-mester, many of which will take place outside of the Oxford area. The organization hopes to orga-nize a trip to News Orleans, ac-cording to Gray.
“While in New Orleans, OMASH members would get to experience tours in hotels and res-taurants,” she said.
Getting involved in the organi-zation can open opportunities al-lowing experience for students of all majors, according to Roberts.
“Even if they aren’t interested in the hospitality industry, OMASH is a great way (for students) to gain experience in volunteering and learning the in’s and out’s of some awesome corporations and busi-nesses,” Gray said. “OMASH is also a great way to make connec-tions with prominent people not just in Oxford but other cities and states as well.”
Roberts encourages students from all majors to participate in Ole Miss Ambassadors for South-ern Hospitality. Interested stu-dents can apply on the hospital-ity management page of the Ole Miss website.
OMASH gives students hospitality management experience
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The popular Oxford Radio show Thacker Mountain Radio is wrapping up its fall season to-night in a rocking fashion. This edition will feature a reading by the incredibly talented Jayne Anne Phillips, as well as a perfor-mance from the Grammy-nom-inated North Mississippi Allstars and the Clarksdale mainstay Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and the Blues Posse. The show is tonight at Off Square Books at 6 p.m.
Thacker Mountain Radio is also one of Oxford’s prime spots for hobnobbing with the cre-ative powers that make this town unique. Producer of the show Kathryn McGaw said that at-tending a live performance is an original experience.
“What’s cool about coming to the live performance, though, is that you experience being part of our community,” McGaw said.
“It’s a great opportunity to spend time with amazing au-thors, musicians and people. To me, Thacker Mountain Radio is Oxford in an hour.”
Jayne Anne Phillips will be doing a reading from her latest book, “Quiet Dell.” The novel, set during the Great Depression, follows the Eicher family, victims of a real-life, gruesome murder that occurred near her childhood home of Clarksburg, W. Va., and Emily Thornhill, a reporter cov-ering the investigation.
“It’s the culmination of six years of work,” Phillips said.
The novel is inspired by the stories Phillips heard about the murder as a child, according to an interview Phillips gave with Lynn Neary on NPR.
“The tragedy of their loss was somehow answered for me in the writing of them,” Phillips said.
“They became real to me and alive and saved, in a sense.”
While this is her first time on
Thacker Mountain Radio, Jayne Anne Phillips is well acquainted with Oxford.
“I have an old connection to Oxford,” Phillips said. “I think I’ve come to Oxford for just about every single book.”
Phillips has nothing but praise to shower on the city and the businesses that inhabit it. “Square Books is one of the best book stores in the country,” she said.
The headline act for the event will be the North Mississippi All-stars, who are starting the second leg of their tour promoting the al-bum “World Boogie is Coming.” Natives of Mississippi, brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson play a raucous brand of hill country delta blues, which they learned from following the great musical tradition of the Mississippi Delta.
While they are officially a two-piece band they always host a rotating cast of power players
in the blues world. Tonight they will be accompanied by electrify-ing guitarist Lightnin’ Malcolm, a disciple of the Mississippi hill country styled blues.
Tonight’s performance kicks off a six month tour that starts in Oxford and finishes in Byron Bay, Australia.
The other musical act of the evening will be Christone “King-fish” Ingram and the Blues Posse. Kingfish is a 14-year old phenom who brings down the house with his fast and fluid lead guitar and soulful voice. The other half of the posse is David “Space Cow-boy” Isaac.
If you can’t catch the show to-night, there is a live broadcast on Rebel Radio, FM 92.1, as well as a re-broadcast on Mississippi Public Radio, FM 90.3. Thacker Mountain Radio will be back Feb. 6 and will run on until April 25, kicking off the Friday of the Double Decker Arts Festival.
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BY MICHAEL [email protected]
Renee Ombaba delivered the final in a series of Brown Bag Luncheon Lectures hosted by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture Wednesday in the Barnard Observatory.
Entitled “In a Foreign Land: The Stories of African Immi-grants and their Children in the US South,” Ombaba presented her experiences as the child of African Immigrants growing up in the South.
Ombaba, a second year Southern Studies graduate stu-dent working as an assistant in the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, spoke first about her name.
“Growing up I was always teased about my name,” said Ombaba, whose mother came from Zambia and father from Kenya.
“I was different,” Ombaba said. “The other kids at school saw me in the consumable depic-tion of Africa, and they forced me into the African box they cre-ated.”
Like many children of Afri-can immigrants, Ombaba strug-gled to find her identity among Southerners, Americans, African Americans, and African immi-grants in America.
“African immigrants and their children can often feel detached and unwelcome when they come to America,” Ombaba said.
Ombaba remembers how at first she was unsure how to feel about her African heritage.
“I always felt I belonged at the end of the line,” Ombaba said. “My name always caused a stir when it was time for roll call.”
But for Ombaba, comfort was found was close to home.
“My mother began teaching me about my heritage,” she said.
Ombaba’s mother took time to become involved with teaching African culture to her classmates,
and helped Ombaba begin to feel pride in her African heritage.
“She taught me I was special,” said Ombaba.
Today, Ombaba hopes to spread awareness in the South about the African community and culture.
“My main goal is to really show that there is an African Ameri-can culture deeply involved in the South,” Ombaba said. “We exist. We are part of the culture, the heritage, and the identifica-tion. We participate.”
According to Ombaba, Af-ricans and Southerners shape their identities though collective and personal memories. Em-bracing African heritage can be vitally important in community building and developing a sense of identity for both African im-migrants and their children.
“It gives people the opportu-nity to share experiences to find out who they are,” Ombaba said, “In some cases, community is all African immigrants and their children have to stay con-nected.”
Ombaba hopes that by bring-ing the African culture of the South into better light, she will help those caught between two worlds to find out who they are.
Hosted by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture in Barnard Observatory since it’s foundation in 1978, the “Brown Bag Luncheon” is a lecture series featured every Wednesday dur-ing the academic year at noon.
“We call it our “brown bag se-ries,” because we hope folks with simply bring their lunch (in or out of a brown bag) and spend their noon hour on Wednesdays with us in our lecture hall,” says Mary Hartwell, Operations As-sistant for the Center. “The se-ries is part of the Center’s com-munity outreach to afford folks an opportunity to learn about the broad spectrum of our in-terdisciplinary approach in the study of Southern culture.”
BY MCKENNA [email protected]
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After getting swept in their three games at the Rainbow Wa-hine Classic in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Ole Miss women’s basketball team will return to the court this weekend with two games against Southeastern Louisiana and Ten-nessee State.
Ole Miss vs. Southeastern Louisiana
The Rebels (1-4) will face a well-tested Southeastern Louisiana Lion team that has played three teams from the Southland Con-ference and Tulane. Meanwhile, the Rebels are in desperate need of a win since they have lost four straight games after winning their first game over Jacksonville State. Fun fact: Southeastern Louisiana has three players from the state of Mississippi: forward Nanna Pool from Magnolia, guard Jameika Hoskins from Aberdeen and guard Peaches Anderson from Meridian.
Impact Player - Ole Miss: In just 26 minutes per game, junior pow-er forward Tia Faleru is averaging 3.6 points and 10.8 rebounds per game. There is no question that
she has been the best player for the Rebels thus far. In order for the Rebels to get back on the winning side, she is going to have to continue to provide Ole Miss with a post presence. Outside of Faleru, the Rebels don’t have much help down low.
Impact Player - Southeastern Louisi-ana: Junior guard Symone Miller, who is averaging 17.3 points per game and six assists per game, scored a career-high 35 points in Southeastern Louisiana’s only win of the season against Mobile. After losing three straight games, look for Miller to come out strong and outscore the Rebels.
Ole Miss vs. Tennessee State
With a quick turnaround on Sunday, Ole Miss will face a Ten-nessee State team that picked up an impressive come-from-behind road victory over Troy last week. The Rebels look to avoid losing another Sunday home game like they did against Central Arkan-sas. The Lady Tigers, who fin-ished 13-15 a season ago, are led by junior power forward Chelsea Hudson, who led the Tigers in scoring a year ago with 18 points per game.
Impact Player - Ole Miss: Sopho-more guard Gracie Frizzell has got to get her shot going for the Rebs. Thus far, Frizzell is shooting 19 percent from the field and has only made 3 of 30 attempts from the three-point line. Matt Insell expects Frizzell to be the leader in three-point field goals this year, as she ranked first on the team last year with 49 threes made. Friz-zell must get her shot back if Ole Miss is going to consistently win.
Impact Player - Tennessee State: Junior forward Chelsea Hudson has been the only scoring threat for the Tigers this season averag-ing 18 points per game. She is the only Tiger averaging double figures this season. Faleru and Jenkins must lock down on her in the post if the Rebels want to win their first Sunday home game of the season. The Rebels were dominated in the points in the paint in their tournament in Hawaii. Winning the battle in the paint is a must against Hudson and the Tigers.
For continuing coverage of Ole Miss women’s basketball, follow @brown-ingstubbs and @thedm_sports on Twit-ter.
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Tia Faleru shoots the ball during the Jacksonville State game Nov. 8.
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Volleyball travels to Alabama for weekend bout
Ole Miss will head to the state of Alabama for two matches this weekend, as they will play Alabama (21-8, 8-6 Southeastern Conference) on Friday and Auburn (17-10, 8-7 SEC) on Sunday.
Ole Miss (13-15, 3-12 SEC) enters the weekend on a three-game losing streak de-spite playing well last week-end. The Rebels led Georgia 2-0 before falling in five sets and lost by a total nine points in three sets to No. 17 Ken-tucky.
“You have to continue to push even though you’re do-ing good things,” head coach Joe Getzin said. “There’s still more out there. That’s the dif-ference between winning and losing at that highest level.”
Ole Miss has struggled de-fensively all year, and in the past five games, have adjusted the playing rotation of their defensive specialists. The Rebels will have a tough task with Alabama, who has the third-best hitting percentage in the SEC at .257.
Ole Miss has allowed con-
ference opponents to hit .272 this season. The Rebels are last in digs per set with 12.55.
Alabama is led by one of the most efficient attackers in the SEC. Freshman Krystal Riv-ers is third in SEC in hitting percentage at .419. She is also sixth in kills per set with 3.61; she is one of two SEC players that is in the top 10 in both hitting percentage and kills. Freshman Brittany Thomas and sophomore Laura Steiner also average over threes kill per set for Alabama.
Due to Alabama’s efficient hitting, sophomore setter Si-erra Wilson is second in the SEC with 11.9 assists per set.
Auburn ranks as an average team in most statistical cat-egories, but their defense has been good this season. Oppo-nents are hitting .188 against Auburn, the fifth best mark in the SEC. Auburn also ranks third in the SEC in digs with 16.45 per set. Senior Sarah Wroblicky is third in the SEC with 4.63 digs per set.
Sophomore Nakeyta Clair has been the best attacking player for Ole Miss this sea-son. She has the most kills per set, 2.54, and has the high-
est hitting percentage on the team at .304. She also leads the Rebels at the net with 118 blocks.
Senior Kara Morgan has done it all this season. She ranks first on the team in aces, second in digs and fourth in kills. Morgan can continue to move up the record books as her career comes to an end. She is currently tied for sec-ond all time in service aces with 85. She needs seven more aces to set the Ole Miss record.
Ole Miss has been one of the better teams in the SEC in service aces. The team ranks third in the SEC with 140 aces. Seven Rebels have at least 14 aces this season. However, Ole Miss has more service errors than aces with 189.
After the weekend, Ole Miss will wrap up the season with a home match against LSU (16-10, 6-8 SEC) on Wednesday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m.
For continuing coverage of Ole Miss volleyball, follow @Ty-ler_RSR and @thedm_sports on Twitter.
BY TYLER [email protected]
Kara Morgan hits the ball during a match this season.
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Ole Miss soccer looks to keep season going in NCAA Tournament
Ole Miss offense prepares for stingy Missouri defense
Mandy McCalla tries to keep the ball away from a Jackson State defender Nov. 15.
The No. 24 Ole Miss Rebels will have their hands full when No. 8 Missouri heads to town Saturday, and most believe it will be because of the Tigers’ high-powered offense. However, Mis-souri’s defense is no pushover. The Tigers bring the eighth best total defense in the Southeast-ern Conference (386.8 yards per game), but more impressively the second best run defense (111.9 yards per game) and third best scoring defense (20.2 points per game).
“It will be another great test,” Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze said. “You get that most weeks in this league. They’ve had great success stopping the run and getting pressure on the passer. It’s a great challenge, and hopefully, our kids will be ready for it.”
Missouri leads the SEC in sacks with 34 and is also the conference leader in interceptions with 17. Their pass rush will be led by Mi-chael Sam, who leads the Tigers with 10 sacks. Also, Kony Ealy will be a factor, who is second on the team with 6.5 sacks.
“Top to bottom, they provide probably the biggest challenge we have had all year,” offensive line coach Matt Luke said. “They are good in every spot. It’s not like they have one guy you can focus on.”
Freeze said it is difficult to simu-late the pass rush the Tigers will have, but the team is attempt-ing to do so through one-on-one drills.”
“It’s difficult,” Freeze said. “We do one on one’s every day of course and work on our tech-niques, but it is certainly hard to simulate those ends that they have.”
Freeze has stressed the impor-tance of the running game in this weekend’s matchup, and Luke believes that the movement the Tigers have up front is the major cause of team’s struggling to run the ball.
“They do a good job of move-ment, they are never in the same place,” Luke said. “They move about every snap. They are a moving front. They don’t let you double team them because they are constantly moving, twisting, and mixing up the front making it tough on you. Nothing is ever easy.”
The Rebels have the fifth best rushing offense in the conference averaging just over 200 yards per game, and also have the third best pass offense in the conference, av-eraging 297.4 yards per game, but this Missouri defense will be a new challenge for Ole Miss.
BY MATT [email protected]
No. 22 Ole Miss (16-5-2) will look to continue a record-setting season on Thursday night when they travel to Tal-lahassee, Fla., to face No. 3 Florida State (19-1-3) in the second round of this year’s NCAA Tournament.
After defeating in-state foe Jackson State 9-0 over the weekend, the Rebels look to advance to the Sweet 16 for the first time in the program’s history against the power-house that is Florida State. The winner of Thursday’s game will play the winner of BYU and Colorado, who will face off earlier in the day. Beating Florida State would give this year’s Rebels their 17th win of the season, add-ing to the already-record total they have set this year.
After Friday’s win over Jackson State, Ole Miss head coach Matt Mott spoke about the challenge Florida State would present for his team.
“I’m very familiar with them,” Mott said referenc-ing his time as an assistant at Texas and Auburn, where he faced the Seminoles multiple times in the NCAA Tourna-ment. “I think they’re the best-coached team in the country. I think (Florida State head coach Mark Krikorian) is as good as there is, and they have a bunch of really good players. I’m happy with where our team is at this point in the season. We’ll go down there and be excited to play and play as hard as we possibly can can and hopefully get a result.”
The Rebels have set a mul-titude of individual program records this season, including
senior Rafaelle Souza becom-ing the program’s all-time leading scorer. Her hat-trick on Friday brought her total to 44 goals on her career. Mandy McCalla has also moved into the top five all-time scorers in school history. The senior has scored 15 goals this season, bringing her career total to 37, one goal shy of third place all-time for the Rebels.
Thursday’s game is sched-uled for kick-off at 6 p.m. There will be no video avail-able online, but live stats can be tracked during the contest at www.OleMissSports.com.
For continuing coverage of Ole Miss soccer, follow @thedm_sports on Twitter.
BY NICK [email protected]
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Quincy Adeboyejo catches a touchdown during the Troy game Nov. 16.
