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Housing Guide 2012

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Go “green” while the living is easy

The year of student-housing construction

Moving out: A guide to cleaning up this mess and finding your housing match

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Plastic bins, headphones and knowing when to leave: a guide to organization and study courtesy

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BY EMILY [email protected]

For most freshmen, organiza-tion in a small, cramped room is not an easy adjustment. Add a roommate to the equation and the world is just asking way too much.

Everyone is used to having their own space, their own rou-tines and their own way of do-ing things. Dorm rooms do not always allow for those habits to transfer from home.

Never fear. There are some simple ways to keep your room from being cluttered up to the ceiling that do not require a maid or a mother.

Make use of the space be-low your bed.

Lofting is very helpful, and if you are short like me, there is this cool new invention called a step-stool (yes, I really have one).

You can easily fit your desk, fridge and printer underneath a lofted bed at the same time – a small bookshelf may even fit if you’re especially clever with spac-ing.

This creates a nice little area that is completely your own, and it reduces the clutter around the room. Some crafty kids even like to hang long, sheer curtains from the mattress to the floor for a little bit of privacy.

If you suffer from acrophobia (fear of heights people, get with it), then just raise your bed with-out the loft and save $150. Un-derneath, you can fit plastic bins and drawers that are a necessity of dorm life.

If you have decided to attend the University of Mississippi, that automatically means that you have way too many t-shirts, hoodies and other comfy clothes for rainy days, or class, whichever you prefer. The dressers provided by the university really are not big enough to hold everything.

The plastic bins can also be good clutter catchers that stay out of sight and make mommy think she taught you how to stay clean.

Closet space is very im-portant and handy if you know how to arrange it.

Put stuff you don’t really use much at the top of your closet like your suitcase and the books you spent so much money buy-ing.

Buying a cheap shoe rack and putting it below your clothes is a good idea that I did not catch on to. But when you have to run outside at 2 a.m. because some stupid boy pulled the fire alarm (yet again) and you realize you have your shower shoes on, you will think twice about that whole shoe placement thing.

Another tip concerning clos-ets – they make these hanging things that are pretty conve-nient for storing hats, scarves, belts and other miscellaneous items.

On living with others:Now, keeping your side of

the room is a very good thing to concentrate on. However, we cannot forget that you will also be living with another human being, and they can get agitated

pretty easily.

Headphones are a won-derful invention.

And if you are really inno-vative, Bose Noise Canceling headphones are completely magnificent.

Some people like to study in silence, which means blar-ing your stereo or iHome will annoy them. This could cause tension, and take it from some-one who has experienced months of roommate tension, avoid that at all costs. Other people like to blare their stereo, but their taste in music may not match yours. For example, if my roommate decided to play Taylor Swift or Miley Cirus, I would probably have to shank her, or move out, it depends on my mood. That would be an-other circumstance where using your own personal headphones may come in handy seeing as the whole killing thing may re-sult in expulsion.

Silence your cell phone.Cell phones make the world go

round. Yes, we all know that. But hearing the same tone or song over and over again because of a text message conversation can get really aggravating, and may result in something being thrown at your head.

Another thing to be aware of is the loudness of your voice when talking on the phone. Your room-mate does not want to hear about what Sally told her boyfriend last night; he/she is probably trying to memorize names and dates of important people like George Washington or Martin Luther King, Jr.

Going into the hallway or tak-ing advantage of a study room could easily prevent these con-flicts.

OK, so follow me here. Bar, bulb, plug, illumination.

Make sense? It’s called a lamp. These lovely

developments are quite conve-nient when your roommate de-cides to go to sleep at 9 p.m.

Be considerate and turn the big light off. To be honest, they really aren’t that bright anyway.

Buy an adjustable lamp and light just the area of the room you need to study. Not only will you be an amazingly thoughtful roommate, but it will also prevent violence between you and your roomie.

So there you have it. A few sim-ple tips for surviving dorm life.

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From the first sight, it should not be hard to find your path in a small province town.

I’ve lived in a city with half a million people for 20 years; I didn’t know what it was going to be like in a smaller commu-nity.

Oxford is fast and easy to adjust to, but there are some things to keep in mind to get through and enjoy the adjust-ment process.

It’s up to you to decide how close to the university you want to live. You can choose the type of dorm and quantity of

roommates; live in a separate bedroom or share a room with another student.

On-campus life could be the way to go if you don’t have a car and don’t want to spend your valuable minutes waiting for the bus.

Staying “inside” the universi-ty lets you wake up a little later and spend less time getting to a class or the library.

Living off-campus makes the division between “school” and “home” more distinct. Staying off the campus territory can be relaxing, and separate you from an overwhelming routine.

If you don’t have your own transportation, however, you should consider transportation to and from campus (the last bus runs around 7 p.m.).

Whether on- or off-campus, the key point of feeling at home is getting along with room-

mates. Being different should not

build walls, but break the ice between you. A friendly atmo-sphere at home will result in bet-ter stress management, which leads to physical and mental health, and as a result, to higher grades. Setting “home rules” for bedtime, party time and house-hold issues at the beginning of the year could help to avoid a

lot of misunderstandings, too.I would advise you to not

limit your time only to aca-demic success. There are sev-eral on-campus organizations where you can find people with the same interests – all kinds of professional, cultural, religious, athletic clubs can be found on orgsync.com.

As an international student, I was involved in the Cultural Connections Program on the first day of my arrival and I met people who are now my best friends.

Another key to good life bal-ance is physical activity.

Exercise gives you the ability to forget about responsibility for an hour or two and allows you to mentally recover.

Also, in order to feel good and be able to capably handle deadlines, you should stay well-rested.

I would advise students to sleep at least seven hours a night. Then you won’t feel a need to take naps and will use your afternoons productively.

Wherever you are from, keep expressing yourself. Speaking with an accent can be an excel-lent “icebreaker” in any situ-ation. Whenever I meet local people, they were very inter-ested to know more about my culture and share their tradi-tions. An open mind and gen-eral tolerance will lead to enjoy-able living, being different but equal.

Southern hospitality is so common it will get your at-tention as soon as you arrive. Students, faculty and residents treat each other respectfully and are always willing to help. Be open to learn and feel free to teach, and you will quickly feel connected to the people.

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The guide to a clutter free dorm lifeCOLUMN

Pop Quiz: what is the most extreme form of capitalist pro-paganda currently circulating throughout the United States?

First, I would say any adver-tisement promoting the pur-

chase of items featuring fic-tional vampires.

Of course, immediately fol-lowing that would be seasonal dorm room catalogs.

In said catalogs, a “typical” college student sits at his or her art deco desk flanked by spher-ical lamps, basking in their

comfortable, spacious abode. This dramatization is, how-

ever, light years away from re-ality for most college students.

No matter how small you think a dorm room will be, it’s 10 times smaller than that, leaving no room for Death Star-like lighting fixtures.

Despite this negative out-look, one can have a pleas-ant dorm room living experi-ence by following a few simple guidelines.

1) Get a loft bed. Yes, they cost hundreds of

dollars. Yes, they feel as though they

might collapse at any mo-ment.

Yes, they are shockingly un-stylish.

However, you cannot take these factors into account when renting one.

You aren’t forking over those bills for a bed, but the space underneath it. Space in which you can place anything you want, if it will fit through the door.

2) Use the pre-’90s shelv-

ing conveniently molded into the walls of the room to your advantage.

Stick your fridge in the coat section and buy little plastic shelves to place in the vast crev-ice located above the drawers.

Within this pre-built shelv-ing unit lies freedom from clut-ter and the claustrophobia that accompanies it.

3) Don’t bring a futon or any other seating device in the couch family.

Before you whip out the tape measure, I will go ahead and tell you, it’s too big.

Not only will it crush those going up and down the stairs during move-in, but it will get mega dirty.

You will spill things on it, ne-glect cleaning it and, in turn, it will smell.

Dorms smell regardless; you don’t need to add to the stench.

4) Purchase small house-hold and electronic items.

No matter how enticing the idea of a 40-inch flat screen in your room sounds, don’t give

in. First of all, you will be far

too busy to watch television to the extent that will ever justify having it in your possession.

Secondly, dorms get limited channels and it costs extra to upgrade the package. It is not worth it for “Law and Order” reruns.

5) Also, leave behind the plastic clothes hampers and shower caddies.

Think bags, as in laundry bags and shower bags.

6) Finally, for the love of all things holy, do not bring your own office chair.

“The man” will not let you remove the torture device called a chair that already sits in your room.

This will force you to either sacrifice your new cushy and comfortable purchase to the dumpster gods or sell it on the black market, which is already saturated with office chairs.

You’ll have enough problems to deal with, so don’t make get-ting to the door safely in the morning one of them.

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Two apartment complexes, adding more than $11 million to the economy, are being built in Oxford this year to supple-ment the record enrollment at the University of Mississippi.

Forty-five town houses and condominium units have also been built or are being built from March 1, 2011 to March 1, 2012. From March 1, 2010 to March 1, 2011, no apart-ments were built and 28 con-dominiums and townhouses went up.

“As far as housing is con-cerned, I think we are seeing a flurry lately in the growth of student housing obviously because of the increase in enrollment at the university,” said Oxford Mayor George “Pat” Patterson.

Building official Randy Barber said the shortage of units on campus has led to the growth over the past year and that the trend for the newer apartments includes ameni-ties that help students save time, gas, and even get in bet-ter shape.

“You have your biking lanes, walking trails and a lot of them have business centers and places to work out,” he said.

Dean of Students Sparky Reardon said there are many reasons more students are coming to Ole Miss.

“I think that those who come to Ole Miss see a beau-tiful place where one can de-velop leadership and people skills, get a first rate education and quality experience, and feel safe at the same time,” he said. “Oxford offers more amenities than most college towns.”

Oxford is not alone in add-ing student housing, as work continues on campus on build-ing two residence halls on the former site of Miller Hall. The work on the residence build-ings will be finished and ready for occupation at the end of

July, coming in at a total cost of $32 million. Between the three buildings, 856 beds will be added.

Apartments are not the only aspect of Oxford grow-ing, as Patterson and Reardon both noted that the increased student population is help-ing retail and small business growth.

“It’s evident that the in-crease is having a positive ef-fect on local businesses, but it is more than just the student growth,” Reardon said. “It also encompasses retirees.

“In addition, Oxford and Ole Miss have top-notch fes-tivals and conferences. Not many towns our size have events like the Oxford Film Festival, Double Decker, the Conference on the Book or the Southern Foodway Alli-ance conference. Business is good even when the students are not here.”

Patterson said that with the growth comes a burden, in that it will increase traffic on the roads, and that the city

had to keep an eye on it to make sure the growth did not affect permanent residents.

“For your people who live here and raise a family here, you try not to make their lives miserable with all of this growth,” he said, adding that “The university is going to grow, and Oxford is going to grow along with it. I think the key is to manage the growth in a reasonable and sensible manor.”

Reardon said the growth has been positive in many ways, but he agreed with Pat-terson in that the university and Oxford face a challenge in keeping the qualities that attract people to Oxford alive and well.

“Those who have moved here in the last five to 10 years cannot truly appreciate the boom that has occurred,” Reardon said. “It takes pa-tience and foresight when dealing with growth, and I think that both the university and Oxford are dealing with it with grace and character.”

BY CAIN [email protected]

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ABOVE: A construction worker walks on the scaffolding at the construction site of the new residence halls. BELOW: A crane sets up. The three residence halls are set to be completed by July.

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My editors asked me to write an extra Top Zen this week for their annual Hous-ing Edition. They wanted any advice I could pass on to stu-dents looking to relocate in the near future. I’ve thought long and hard about this because I have had a fair amount of experience with living in Ox-ford. Particularly, I have ex-perience with the transit be-tween places of residence.

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I have lived in four different places with three different sets of roommates. Quite honest-ly, I have very few complaints with any of those situations. Really, any problems boiled down to standard roommate qualms i.e. “Who ate all my peanut butter?” “Who drank all my whiskey in retaliation for the missing peanut but-ter?” or “Who threw up whis-key and peanut butter but forgot to clean it up?” Know-ing this, my problems did not stem from my human room-mates. No, my grief stems from a far leggier and creepy-crawly suitemate.

Spiders. Those no good, eight-eyed interlopers of pri-vacy. Don’t try to tell me spi-ders keep other pests from

running rampant. I don’t care. Those other “pests” have a normal, regulated amount of legs and eyes. Readers, if I can pass on just one bit of advice, it would be to rent or buy a place that is lax on its “spi-der genocide” policy. Then become the Joseph Kony of the spider world (hey, hey, set-tle down – the Joseph Kony movement is a joke in its own right, now).

My problems with spiders up until the past year have been virtually nonexistent. I wasn’t the biggest fan of them, but I could honestly tolerate them pretty well. There was a time when I even tried to scoot spi-ders into a cup and set them outside to be free and do spi-dery things. Those days are

long gone, my friends. Ever since I moved into my apart-ment in a very wooded area, I have become the enemy of all things arachnid.

The winter months are tolerable, preferable, even. I don’t know where spiders go during the colder months (I imagine probably back to Hell where it’s warmer), but they are rampant throughout the other three seasons of the year. And they like to hide everywhere in my place that their tiny little sinister minds can think of. Cupboards, be-hind toilets, corners of the room, you name it. What’s more, they have grown fond of taunting me. Often, I will come home to find one just hanging out on my sink coun-

ter or on the wall above my bed. If it’s really quiet, I can hear their little spidery voices screaming, “Screw you. We are spider. We are legion.”

I feel no remorse any lon-ger. I am a spider-killing ma-chine. I suspect I am now the boogeyman whispered about by young spiders before they go to bed: “Don’t stay out too late, or Andy the Spider-Slayer will find you. Once he was a friend of arachnids. But one night, a spider pressed his luck and hid in the trouser leg of one of his folded pairs of pants. Andy put on the pants, felt something near his thigh, and things haven’t been the same since. So say your prayers, and hope that you don’t cross paths with Andy.”

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Soon, summer will be upon us and the living will be easy. I know students and faculty are excited to have a break and en-joy some rest, relaxation and new beginnings.

People move into new apart-ments and houses, and others stay on campus in residence halls. Whatever living situation you choose, this is the perfect time to go “green” and attempt to live a more sustainable life-style.

As you move into your new living space – or maybe stay in your current one – consider making some changes to your lifestyle that will not only save the environment but will also

lead to a healthier life. Don’t try to become a sustainability-hero all at once. Make goals, and as one goal becomes a habit, begin working on the next.

First, in your home or dorm, set aside a space where you can sort recyclables. Keep separate compartments for plastic, alu-minum, paper and cardboard.

Then, when the containers fill up, take them to the recycling facility off of Molly Barr Road or Highway 7. It’s not very dif-ficult and can be fun if you re-cycle with your friends or room-mates. Plus, your trash won’t be as heavy when you have to drag it to the dumpster or the curb.

Next, consider taking the OUT bus to class a few times a week. How easy is that? Yes, you may have to wake up a few min-utes earlier to catch the bus, but you won’t have to worry about finding a parking spot.

I’ve even considered taking the OUT bus to class every day, that way I don’t have to spend

ridiculous amounts of money on a parking decal or those pes-ky parking tickets that always seem to pop up throughout the semester.

Now that I’ve got you riding the OUT bus a few times every week and recycling, let’s tackle eating habits.

I consider this aspect of sus-tainability to be the most con-troversial — people do not like being told what they can and cannot eat. However, this is probably one of the most im-

portant aspects of sustainabil-ity.

You can conserve thousands of gallons of water simply by not eating meat once a week. Furthermore, a proper vegetar-ian diet has been shown to be healthier than one that includes a lot of meat.

Also, meat is expensive, so eating less of it can save your pocketbook. The Oxford and Taylor communities have farm-ers’ markets during the harvest-ing season, offering delicious, fresh produce grown locally and often without pesticides.

The last bit of advice I’ll give is a collection of suggestions people have been spreading for years.

Turn the lights off when you leave a room; use fluorescent bulbs instead of incandescent; turn up your thermostat when you leave your home; don’t run water while you brush your teeth. These suggestions are so simple, yet people still forget to

incorporate them in their lives.It can be hard to make these

things a habit, but it is com-pletely worth it when you do. Not only are you conserving energy, but again you’re helping your pocketbook. The thermo-stat suggestion is especially im-portant; in the summer, electric rates usually increase; watching your thermostat is a great way to decrease your electric bill and use less coal-generated power.

I hope you’ll be able to in-corporate these tips into your daily life this summer. If you’re more ambitious, start now! Also, consider participating in Earth Hour 2012 on March 31 — from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., don’t use electricity. Sustainable living is quickly entering an important stage, and I believe we will see a major increase in sustainable living in the next 20 years. Soon, it will be the popu-lar thing to do, so why not start now and be considered a trend-setter?

Go ‘green’ while the living is easyCOLUMN

BY ADAM [email protected]

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Don’t try to become a sustainability-hero

all at once. Make goals, and as one goal becomes a

habit, begin working on the next.

“ Adam Blackwell,The DM Columnist

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A guide to preparing good meals on a college budget

It’s no secret that the typical college diet is often stereotyped for consisting mainly of Ramen noodles and mac-n-cheese. But, can you blame us?

Without the luxury of spacious, fully-stocked kitchens often seen on the Food Network, college stu-dents usually have to put up with being crammed into a closet-sized space with three or more room-mates and an oven the size of a shoebox, or in a dorm with dining options being limited to whatever doesn’t scorch in the microwave.

However, college years don’t have to be filled with such lacklus-ter (and often unhealthy) food.

Believe it or not, there are easy ways to whip up easy, delicious meals in minutes with limited space and equipment.

From the microfridges of the dorm to the slightly roomier kitchens found in off-campus apartments, great college cooking requires only a few necessary ac-cessories and a little creativity.

In your apartment, there are a few key necessary appliances that will make cooking much easier and efficient.

These include (but aren’t lim-ited to): a pot, a frying pan, spatu-

las, a baking sheet, a can opener and cutting knives.

Always go with nonstick pans because of their durability and easy clean-up. Baking sheets open the floodgates for a variety of des-serts and pots allow for easy soups or pastas.

Junior Diarria Williams often cooks in his apartment and said acquiring the tools for a fully-stocked kitchen might be more of a marathon than a race.

“A good thing to keep in mind would be gradually acquiring all of your kitchen appliances and kitchenware because it can get re-ally expensive trying to get them all at once,” he said.

So spare your bank account, and try to stick to a gradual stock-piling of gadgets rather than a full-blown Williams-Sonoma shopping spree.

Rachael Ray may douse ev-erything in olive oil, but the E-V-O-O can get a bit pricey. A little canola oil can go a long way. This ingredient is used in many differ-ent recipes, and will be necessary in pan frying anything. Not to mention, stir frying is a painless way to make dinner in minutes.

Add some oil, garlic, bell pep-pers, onions, chicken and soy sauce for a dish that rivals any Asian restaurant in town.

Also, try to buy a spice rack to get a variety of cheap flavors that can last the entire school year. To counteract the stockpile, buy fresh vegetables on a weekly basis. They can be baked or steamed at a moment’s notice and serve as spectacular side dishes.

Another good item to keep on hand is a rotisserie chicken.

Buy one at the grocery store, take the meat off the bones, and store it in a container in the refrig-erator.

This takes out the problem of cooking the meat and simplifies the dinner-making process. Plus, chicken can be used in just about

any type of dish you can imag-ine.

Once you have your ingredi-ents, it’s time to start cooking.

Rather than coming home af-ter class at 5 p.m. and not having the energy to cook an entire meal from scratch, make (or prep for) these meals on Sunday, and keep them frozen or in the refrigerator for the remainder of the week.

This way, a tasty meal is only a quick stir fry or easy bake away, and you won’t have to resort to the frozen pizza in the freezer.

Try to stick to simple dishes, or else you will end up paying a large amount of money to buy the in-gredients.

Casseroles, pastas, salads, stir frys and quiches are easy and fun dishes to make.

Remember the key phrase is pre-packaged simplicity.

Healthy frozen meals, canned soups (get the low-sodium option to cut back on unhealthy salt) and bags of frozen vegetables are easy to heat up in a microwave.

Buy fresh fruit on Sunday, cut it into slices and put it in an air-tight container for an easy snack throughout the rest of the week.

Also, peanut butter and a loaf of bread can provide a healthy, tasty lunch option.

Of course, there’s also the mooching option.

One can cook up a meal at a friend’s apartment and keep the leftovers in the refrigerator for an easy dinner; just reheat and serve.

If you’re in a particularly gastro-nomic mood and are determined to cook an entire meal, search the Web for some creative recipes for microwave cooking. Many websites have information about cooking fairly elaborate meals, in-cluding lasagna and cornbread.

Cooking on or off a college campus doesn’t have to be stress-ful, nor does it have to take too much time or money.

With the right ingredients on hand and a few necessary tools, you’re on your way to a home-cooked meal.

Nothing, even small counter tops, should get in the way of making your culinary dreams a reality. As chef Amy Powell, au-thor of “Real Meals in Minutes,” said, “You might find that it is not from the kitchen, but the cook, that good food is born.”

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Broccoli Rice Casserole:

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Instructions: Cut chicken *(these are 1/2 breasts, as you buy them in the market) into 1 1/2 inch cubes. Lightly toss with cornstarch in bag to coat. Heat oil in skillet or wok; stir-fry chicken and garlic until lightly browned. Add soy sauce, vinegar, sug-ar and water. Cover and cook 3 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. Add green onions and cay-enne; cook uncovered about 2 minutes longer.

Walnut Raspberry Brownies:

3 Squares chocolate1 1/2 c Walnuts, chopped1 c Flour1/2 ts Salt1 1/2 ts Vanilla1 1/2 c Sugar3 Eggs1/2 c Crisco1/3 c Raspberry jam

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It’s that time of year. Stu-dents are browsing possible homes for the fall, leases are being signed and landlords are filling their books with new tenants.

This process is not always an easy feat for most college students. Dean Ott, property manager at Rental Central of Oxford, provided five points that students might want to keep in mind as they search for their home away from home.

1. KNOW YOUR ROOM-MATE.

Many tenants do not realize that once they sign a lease with other people, they are con-tracted by Mississippi law to act as one unit, Ott said. This law makes every person on the lease liable for the house. Un-less one person signs the lease, which experts say to steer away from, then every name on the lease is responsible for the whole amount of rent and other expenses.

“It’s kind of like being mar-ried,” Ott said. “It’s kind of like an all-for-one, one-for-all type of situation.”

Living preferences can also be a source of conflict between roommates.

Students should be mindful of who they choose to live with concerning lifestyles like sleep-ing arrangements, cleanliness, study habits and social prefer-ences, said Jennifer McClure, assistant director for marketing at the Department of Student Housing and Residence Life at the University of Mississippi.

While McClure said choos-ing the right roommate is cru-cial, she also said embracing diversity is important.

“It is always a great idea to try to live with people from different backgrounds,” Mc-Clure said. “There is just so much you can learn, and you can share your culture. It re-ally helps round out your col-lege experience.”

Some apartments have a roommate-matching program and also do individual leasing if students have no prospects to live with.

2. KNOW YOUR NEiGH-bORS.

If students want a place where they can have parties, it is best to stay away from residential neighborhoods, ac-cording to Ott.

“It’s not a situation where you can throw a party all night long and older residents in the neighborhood won’t call the police,” Ott said. “Because they will and they will call the landlord, and it creates a prob-lem for everybody.”

Ott said students should talk to their neighbors and learn about their situation. That re-lationship could save tenants from causing complaints.

Ott said that many times, if students tell the neighbors they are planning a party and give them a number to contact if they have any complaints, there are usually less prob-lems.

Students can even have problems with other student neighbors. Sarah Connelly,

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a first-year education gradu-ate student, has encountered neighbors who “think it’s Spring Break” all the time.

“On weekdays, they blare their music and they leave their door open, so that I can hear it even if I am in my house with doors closed,” Connelly said. “That’s annoying to have neighbors that you don’t re-ally know and you can’t really go and say, ‘Hey, can you turn down your music?’”

3. KNOW YOUR bUD-GET.

The rate that is given to a possible tenant at first can often increase with the costs that are less noticeable. Ott said that many times students want to be close to the Square, but those houses are old, and therefore, more likely to incur costs. Then again, he said if a

tenant’s priority is to be able to walk to and from the Square, that location and possible ex-tra cost is worth it.

McClure said whether stu-dents live on or off-campus, money is one of the most im-portant things to think about. She suggested looking at ame-nities, inclusions and proxim-ity to other transportation. The residence halls on campus have everything included, so though the visible costs seems higher, it may not be once oth-er expenses are factored into a budget.

Some students and parents may be thinking of buying a place.

“To me the perks of buy-ing is that you’re not throwing your money away,” said sec-ond-year pharmacy student Lauren Brady. “With rent, you are throwing your money away every month and when you buy something, it’s yours and if you don’t want to keep it whenever you finish school, you can turn around and sell

it.”

4. KNOW YOUR lAND-lORDS.

While there are many reli-able landlords in Oxford, Ott said faulty landlords do exist and students should be careful where they do business.

“We’ve seen situations where people rented a house and the owner goes into foreclosure,” Ott said. “You need to deal with reputable folks.”

Ott’s main piece of advice is to do research when looking at housing companies.

McClure said on-campus living is more beneficial if resi-dents meet their residence hall directors.

No matter where students live, landlords can be a stu-dent’s most helpful resource, according to McClure.

5. KNOW THE AREA.

Where students choose to live can affect their safety,

time management and conve-nience. Ott said to prioritize places or areas of town that are important to the student. If that is the Square, then stu-dents need to keep in mind that some housing options are further from the Square than others.

Connelly lives a half-mile from the Square, and she said she is thankful she chose to be in walking distance of the places she goes to the most.

“My friends that live way out, even though their house is less expensive, always have to drive everywhere and I don’t have to do that,” Connelly said.

Living on-campus allows students to be centrally lo-

cated and have active safety measures, but McClure has lived off-campus as a student and a professional and she un-derstands the importance of placement.

“Drive by at different times of the day and night to get a feel for the area,” she said. “Somewhere that looks really great during the day may be poorly lit at night and some-where that you don’t feel safe and comfortable.”

If you are not familiar with Oxford and the housing scene, Ott suggested going to the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Oxford. He said they will be able to help guide students to the most reputable businesses.

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Over the past few years, Re-lay for Life has become a staple on the University of Missis-sippi campus, right along with Rebel baseball, spring parties and Double Decker.

Doug Odom, publicity chair for the event, which is sched-uled for April 13, said one of the big goals was to increase the publicity. To do that, one of the first things Odom did was set up a “percentage night” with McAllister’s restaurant in Oxford.

McAllister’s agreed to publi-cize the event and Relay for Life

volunteers served as wait staff while also setting up games.

“They would donate 10 per-cent of their final profit after taxes from that night, which benefited both of us in the long run,” Odom said. “They really liked us; they really want to do business with us in the future, so we made some good con-tacts.”

Co-chair of the event Court-ney Pearson said other events have helped publicize Relay for Life as well, including The Little Black Dress event, which promoted breast cancer aware-ness.

“We had six or seven different vendors like Avon, Mary K and

other breast cancer awareness stuff,” Pearson said. “We also had a Hero of Hope speaker. It was a nice evening for women to kind of raise awareness and have a good time.”

Other awareness events in-clude Dancing for a Cure, an Ole Miss spin-off of Dancing with the Stars, where male vol-unteers were matched up with female faculty members. More percentage nights and events held by Greek groups have also helped raise awareness.

“I feel like we have made a better presence on campus this semester,” Pearson said. “The

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The fatal shootings of two Mississippi college students over the weekend has led to an outpouring of sympathy from University of Mississippi students and administrators.

“When these types of things happen, we’ve got to realize that the other universities in Mississippi are one family,” said Dean of Students Sparky Reardon on Sunday after-noon. “So we grieve with our

friends at Mississippi State and Jackson State, and just know that our thoughts and prayers at the University of Missis-sippi are with our friends at Mississippi State and Jackson State.”

Nolan Ryan Henderson III, 19, a Jackson State University student from Atlanta, was shot in the face and found at 1400 Valley St. in Jackson. John Sanderson, 21, of Madison, a first-semester transfer student to MSU, was shot multiple times Saturday night. Suspects in both shootings remained at large Sunday night.

UM administrators said

Sunday that they don’t yet know how the Mississippi State gunmen got past dormi-tory security, which is similar to the security used in resi-dence halls on the Ole Miss campus.

Henderson was found on the ground and pronounced dead on the scene. No suspect in-formation has been released.

Sanderson was shot mul-tiple times Saturday night on the first floor of the Ev-ans Hall residence building. Police were called at 9:54 p.m., and arrived within one minute. Sanderson was pro-nounced dead at 11:03 p.m.,

Bill Kibler, MSU vice presi-dent of student affairs, said in a press conference. The shooters are not believed to be MSU students, according to MSU officials.

A gun has been recovered and campus police have iden-tified a person of interest. The police have surveillance tapes from Evans Hall. Police are looking for three people reportedly believed to be in-volved in the shooting.

MSU President Mark Keenum said Sunday in a statement that there was no

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Geraldo Rivera’s comments on the Fox show “The O’Reilly Fac-tor” have caused a firestorm of controversy and backlash.

The Fox News host said that had Trayvon Martin not been wearing a hoodie on the day he was shot to death, “that nutty neighbor-hood watch guy wouldn’t have responded in that violent and ag-gressive way.”

The quote pulled from The Huffington Post was simply one report of many repeated stories on the dubious opinion of Ri-vera. Attributing the reaction of George Zimmerman (the man who shot Martin) to the clothes on Martin’s back was seen by most as ridiculous and a mistake on Rivera’s part that will surely haunt him for months to come, if not longer.

U.S. News on msnbc.com print-ed a tweet made by CNN com-mentator Roland Martin, who is

black: “Geraldo Rivera of Fox News has lost his mind. He’s say-ing #Trayvon Martin wearing a hoodie helped cause his own death?”

NOW, a segment on msn.com, had a photo of Rivera himself wearing a hoodie at a sporting event with the headline “Ger-aldo Rivera’s anti-hoodie stance doesn’t apply to him.”

The article pointed out the many times Rivera himself, who is of partial Puerto Rican descent, had taken his life into his own hands (at least according to his own opinions) by wearing some-thing that he feels strongly is the reason for the fate of many black and Latino youths.

The shooting of Trayvon Mar-tin has prompted thousands of people across the country to plan a march for justice in the memo-ry of Martin. U.S. News reports that, according to the Tampa

Bay Times, up to 1,000 people marched to one of Tampa’s busi-est intersections carrying signs that read, “I am Trayvon” and that many wore hoodies and car-ried bags of Skittles, just as Mar-tin did at the time he was shot.

The question remains: do the clothes we wear determine our own fate? Or are we simply look-ing for something else to blame for the darker instincts of some of the human race?

Zimmerman, whose father is white and mother is Hispanic, has been called a racist. Some people have even said it’s a return to Jim Crow. Zimmerman’s attorney said the evidence will show that it’s Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law properly applied.

Whatever one believes, the fact remains that an unarmed 17-year-old boy is dead.

Was it the fact that he had on a hoodie that caused his untimely

death? Or is Zimmerman a racist, out to shoot any person of color who gets in his way?

The answers may be far more complex than a simple yes or no.

Maybe the real question here is why did Zimmerman, a man who has had several run-ins with the law himself over the years, and who may have been a self-appointed watchman in the first place, have a permit to carry the Kel-Tec 9mm handgun that he used to shoot Martin?

According to The Daily Beast, even his association with the watch program is now in question.

Maybe we should re-examine the laws that put guns into the hands of people like Zimmerman before we start laying blame on items of clothing.

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This past weekend was a very busy one for the Ole Miss campus. Everything was hap-pening in a three-day time frame. Philanthropic events, junior preview day, spring parties and everything in be-tween.

But there was one event that I attended that opened my eyes to many different subjects. The OMazing Race, sponsored by the Department of Campus

Programming and One Mis-sissippi, took place Friday and Saturday with about 50 stu-dents competing for the grand prize of money and a brick on the Walk of Champions. The larger goal, however, was to meet people with varying interests and different back-grounds and to spark conver-sation among peers.

This year’s orientation din-ner highlighted the recent documentary “Not in Our Town,” which features Ole Miss in one of its three parts. The documentary covers the issue of “The South Will Rise Again” and the rally (and, more-so, the very peaceful yet powerful counter rally) of the Ku Klux Klan. If you haven’t

seen the video yet, you need to take the time to watch it.

During the discussion fol-lowing the documentary, this question was raised to all teams: “When was a time that you took a stand, or when did you not take a stand when you feel you should have?”

There were many stories shared on both sides and all of the stories were moving in their own way. It really brought the simple importance of standing up for something important to my attention.

Many recent events have taken place where people ei-ther took a stand or watched from the sidelines. The on-going presidential elections, the case of Trayvon Martin,

abortion rights in the state, the Kony 2012 campaign. All of these are examples of hot topics in which an individual can take a stand.

But you don’t have to only take a stand for points of national attention. You can take a stand every day, start-ing with very small instances. Get to know someone in your class that you would otherwise ignore, call up that person you’ve held a grudge against since she stole your middle school boyfriend, volunteer time to a cause for which you are passionate. It doesn’t mat-ter where you start, just start.

College students are known to put energy toward efforts of advocacy. The word “ad-

vocacy” has a save-the-world feel to me, but you can be an advocate of even the simplest matters. Find out what you advocate. Talk about it with other people, and find their passions as well.

Too often it is human na-ture to sit back comfortably, to save fear of embarrassment or disagreement, rather than standing up for what we know is right. Luckily, it is never too late to change. Take a stand for something. Do it every day, and let others know why you stand so tall.

Margaret Ann Morgan is a broadcast journalism junior from McComb. Email her at [email protected].

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The Mississippi Delta is a region of dichotomies. A visit to the area reveals wealth and extreme poverty, college cam-puses and illiteracy, historical and cultural importance and modern development. One could go on and on.

Over Spring Break, a group of nine law students, three from Ole Miss and six from Harvard Law School, lived and worked in Clarksdale. While the trip included some fun, such as a visit with Bill and Francine Luckett, a night at Ground Zero, days of soul food and a blues tour, the trip focused on helping rural landowners and farmers (or “growers,” as they are now called).

The Delta has some of the richest soil in the world. Al-though “big farming” has taken over the agriculture business in the United States, the past de-cade has seen a movement to

recapture land for local grow-ers. Several organizations, such as Delta Fresh Foods, are working to bring sustainable, local and organic agriculture back to the Delta in small and large farming operations.

This is not always an easy task to accomplish or get started. Many rural landown-ers do not have clear title to their land, which precludes them from receiving state and federal aid for these programs and opportunities. For exam-ple, a simple “hoop house” (a homemade green house) al-lows growers to farm certain crops year round, but the FDA will not place one on your land unless you can prove that you own the land outright.

What is called “cloudy title” can happen for a variety of reasons. One common reason is that the land has been in the family of the grower for many generations. Over time, as rel-atives die, they have failed to pass title through a valid will

or deed, or a surviving relative has failed to open the estate of the deceased and ensure that proper inheritance occurs.

The mission of the Pro Bono Trip was to research ways in which rural landowners and growers can secure titles to their land, set up valid wills and even donate their land to land trusts. Students spent the first day of the trip visiting local growers in Quitman, Green-ville and Winona. The next five days were spent research-ing the legal issues. Delta Fresh Foods, the Harvard Transac-tional Law Clinic and the Ole Miss Transactional Clinic will publish a guide, written by the students, that will teach rural landowners the importance of securing title, how to go about it and who to contact for assis-tance.

In previous columns, I have not hidden the fact that I have absolutely fallen in love with Mississippi since arriving here almost two years ago. My par-

ticipation on the Delta pro bono trip only heightened my passion for this state. Being in-volved on campus is incredibly important, but it is also crucial that we do not lose sight of the larger community surrounding us. Although the economy and job market seem to be making an upward move, an easy way to network is through volunteer work and joining organizations

outside the university environ-ment. Mississippi provides a plethora of opportunities to learn about the history, culture and social issues the state faces every day. Taking those chanc-es will make you not only a well-rounded student but also a more marketable employee.

Emily Stedman is a second-year law student from Marietta, Ga.

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thing is, you can’t start initiat-ing in January and expect to raise (our goal of) $45,000 in a few short months. So we want-ed to make sure Ole Miss kind of knew what relay was and is aware of the presence on cam-pus.”

Odom said there are current-ly between 42 and 45 teams signed up, and each team is “strongly encouraged” to raise $1,000.

“You can raise as much as you can, or if possible, even more,” Pearson said. “Provided that each team raises $1,000, we’ll be just shy of our goal; when you factor in the fundraising, we’ll actually exceed our goal of $45,000.”

The event lasts 12 hours, 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., and is separated

into three sections.“People see it’s 12 hours and

think, ‘Oh my goodness what am I going to do for 12 hours? Walk around the circle? That sounds really boring.’ But it’s broken up into three shifts and is a lot of fun.”

Pearson said the opening cer-emony begins with honoring cancer survivors.

“We begin the night by cele-brating what we’re all here for,” she said.

Then comes the Luminaria Ceremony, which is where par-ticipants remember those that have been lost to cancer.

“Last year we had some re-ally prominent leaders come out and speak,” Pearson said. “I don’t think people realize exactly how cancer affects peo-ple’s lives on campus. It’s the silent killer. It was really emo-tional last year.”

The event will end with the Fight Back Ceremony.

“It’s almost like a promise and a pledge,” she said. “Even if your relay is over, the fight is never over. You still have to continue to raise awareness for this disease.”

Adam Blackwell, advocacy chair for the event, said Relay for Life is not just about raising money.

“It’s also about coming to-gether to support cancer sur-vivors, those diagnosed with cancer and their families and friends,” he said. “Everyone on this campus has been affected by cancer in some way, so it’s something that everyone can participate in. Relay for Life is an organization that cel-ebrates and remembers those diagnosed with cancer but also works to fight back and find a cure.”

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indication others are in dan-ger.

Twenty-four students lo-cated on the same floor of the shooting have been relocated to other residence halls on campus, Kibler said.

In an email, Vice Chancel-lor of Student Affairs Larry Ridgeway said it is important that RAs, hall directors and desk workers enforce the ac-cess policy strictly.

Ole Miss student Thomas Foi said he feels safe in the Residential College.

“The RAs are really good about (identifying people),” Foi said. “They know pretty much everyone here. Living in a residence hall, you don’t think something like that would happen here. It doesn’t feel like something could hap-pen, but it probably could.”

In the event that something does happen, Noel Wilkin, associate provost and strate-gic planning chair, said the best thing students can do is to educate themselves on the emergency plans.

“I think it is very important that all of us in our commu-nity are aware of what to do when we are facing a crisis situation,” Wilkin said. “Ev-eryone should understand the appropriate procedures for when a thing like that occurs.

“Our hearts go out to the victim of the incident,” Wilkin continued. “Our thoughts are with the entire Mississippi State community.”

Associated Student Body president Taylor McGraw said the ASB would find a way to pay its respects.

“We’re also going to stick with our friends who are at those schools and hopefully

make phone calls to them and give them our support,” McGraw said. “It’s tough to swallow. I think like most people, I thought immedi-ately about if that had hap-pened on our campus, and you know you have some of those thoughts, and it helps you empathize with students at Mississippi State and Jack-son State and the poor fami-lies of the students who were killed.”

McGraw said it is a tough realization that something like this could happen to any-one at any time.

“It lets you know that even when you think you know you’re in a safe environment, it’s the furthest thing away from (your) mind, and nobody is immune from tragedy,” McGraw said. “We don’t al-ways know the reason for it. I hope they track down the people who are responsible.”

If an event such as this were to happen at Ole Miss, Uni-versity Police Department Chief Calvin Sellars said his first priority would be to catch the shooter.

Sellars said security guards patrol all campus dorms at night and that UPD cars pa-trol the campus every night. UPD pays extra attention to the dorms.

“The reason why we protect the dorms is because that is where students live,” Sellars said.

Jackson State President Car-olyn Meyers released a state-ment Sunday morning on the university’s Facebook page advising students to take extra safety precautions on campus and be prepared to show of-ficial university identification

when requested.“This is a very tragic loss,”

Meyers said. “As a parent and grandparent, my heart goes out to the family. We offer our sincerest condolences and prayers during this very diffi-cult time.”

Henderson’s friends took to twitter following his death, remembering him as a good person who did not cause any trouble, sending out prayers to his family and coordinating a candlelight vigil.

Though JSU released infor-mation online, J.C. Foster, a music education freshman at Jackson State, said students did not receive an alert about the incident.

At MSU, Maroon alerts were sent to students Satur-day night, and officials said they have received no reports that any of them failed.

Leading up to the shooting, there were approximately six robberies at Mississippi State in the Rice Hall dormitory. Daniel Edwards, an MSU mu-sic education freshman, was one of the students robbed on Monday.

“I’m not sure (if the shoot-ing and robberies are con-nected),” he said. “The sus-pects aren’t believed to be students.”

Edwards said classes are not cancelled, but the campus is on lockdown for the most part.

“The campus is pretty dead right now,” he said. “Nobody is really leaving their dorms.”

Students at MSU have been instructed to stay safe and cautious of anyone looking for a ride. The suspects are believed to have fled toward Jackson.

Keenum said in the press re-lease that he wanted to assure students, parents and faculty and staff that MSU, which is known as a safe campus, con-tinues to be safe.

“Our Bulldog family is sad-dened by this event and the loss of one of our students,” Keenum said. “Our hearts go out to John Sanderson’s fam-ily and friends and they will continue to be in our prayers.

“Our top priority is the safety and well-being of our campus and all who inhabit it.”

For more information on emergency preparedness, in-cluding information on severe weather, students can visit www.olemiss.edu/emergency.

Jacob Batte, Jon Haywood, Em-ily Roland and the Associated Press contributed reporting.

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The University of Mississippi’s Pace Environmental Law Moot Court Competition team just made history, becoming the third law school to win multiple titles in 24 years of the competition.

This victory was a result of the team’s three members: third-year law student Dreda Culpepper, sec-ond-year law students Kimberly Thompson and Brian Whitman.

Coached by professors David Case and Stephanie Showalter Otts, the Ole Miss team beat 77 other law schools.

“The entire law school com-munity is proud of the team and coaches who won the Pace En-vironmental Law Moot Court Competition,” said Richard Ger-shon, dean of the Ole Miss Law School. “The fact that they won this prestigious competition two years in a row is a testament to the outstanding students and faculty we have at the University of Mis-sissippi School of Law.”

The Environmental Law Moot Court Competition is hosted by Pace Law School in White Plains, N.Y., and it tests skills in appellate brief writing and oral advocacy on issues drawn from real cases. It also helps provide experience

in environmental litigation. Three adverse teams argue the issues, which reflects that environmental litigation involves the government, a public interest group and a member of the regulated industry. Each team had its problem, divid-ed issues and cases, and wrote and edited them together. Participants received cases in October and spent two months researching and writing briefs. Before February, they prepared for oral arguments. Those with the highest scores for both the written brief and oral argument participated in the final rounds.

“The preparation was quite in-tense,” Thompson said. “We had 22 law practice rounds before de-parting. But on the competition it was really helpful to know what you were talking about.

“My team was great. We were getting along very well. The win made it (an) even more exciting event.”

This was Culpepper’s second time to compete.

“This competition is a lot of fun and a great experience for me,” she said. “It provides practice, which is completely different from the activities in the classroom.”

Culpeper is the one who asked Whitman to participate this year with the team.

“Professors Case and Showal-

ter-Otts spent a lot of time making sure that our team was prepared to compete and win,” Whitman said. “All the teams were well-pre-pared, but our hard work really showed when it came time to ar-gue. Before I went to the competi-tion, I was not very familiar with the subject, but afterward I felt like my teammates and I could answer any question. The hard work be-fore the competition really helped to win.”

The team also won for Best Brief – Intervenor-Appellee, one of three awards for the highest scoring briefs given annually at the competition.

Thompson and Whitman ar-gued for Ole Miss in the quarter-final round, defeating teams from Drake University and UCLA, and in the semifinal round, Whitman and Culpepper won against teams from the University of Tennessee and Loyola-New Orleans.

The Ole Miss title was secured by Culpepper and Thompson, who defeated the University of Denver and seven-time NELM-CC champion Lewis & Clark Law School in the final round.

Professor David Case is satis-fied with the results of the team he and professor Showalter Otts coached.

“The Pace Competition is one of the oldest, largest and (most)

prestigious law school moot court competitions in the country,” Case said. “It took a lot of effort

and work to repeat Ole Miss as champions. I am very proud of this team.”

University of Mississippi team wins national competition two years in a row BY MARGARYTA [email protected]

Ole Miss law professor and coach Stephanie Showalter Otts, second year law students Brian Whitman and Kimberly Thompson, third year law student Dreda Culpepper and professor and coach David Case.

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A lot of outstanding careers have started at the University of Mississippi.

Martina Cotelo’s career path is an excellent example of suc-cessfully pursuing a goal and taking advantage of opportuni-ties, as she was recently select-ed for an internship at Ernst & Young, a Big Four public ac-countancy firm. She will spend two months working with Ernst & Young in their New York City headquarters this summer.

“Working for Ernst & Young will help me to understand whether I like accounting,” she said. “I like the lessons, and I want to see how the theory in-tegrates into working in the of-fice.”

Previously Cotelo was se-

lected for the annual Discovery Ernst & Young Conference for underrepresented minorities.

“(The) diversity aspect makes Cotelo’s experience a little dif-ferent from the others,” said Mark Wilder, dean of the School of Accountancy. “She will get an amazing working and life experience there.”

Cotelo was born in Uruguay and moved to Oxford at age 5. After graduating from Oxford High School, she entered Ole Miss to triple major in interna-tional studies, accounting and German. She holds a Barks-dale Scholarship, and she was one of the two students to re-ceive the Barksdale Award last year. Cotelo’s project provided for by the Barksdale Award was about her Jewish grandmother, who escaped from Germany to Uruguay in the 1930s. Cotelo

travelled to Uruguay to gather her grandmother’s letters and documents in order to finish the book she started before she died.

“She sent me the stories, and we often talked about the future book,” Cotelo said. “In Uru-guay I found a lot more than I thought. I was able to read only a part of the letters.”

Cotelo continued to tran-scribe the letters in Oxford once she returned with her German teacher Corona Petrescu.

“Analyzing the letters helped me choose my thesis topic,” Cotelo said. “Also, I’m going to study abroad in Potsdam, Ger-many next spring. The univer-sity there has one of the best Jewish Studies (programs) in Germany.”

Cotelo’s investigation brings a potential change into society.

“We always tell our students to make us jealous, to take on a project that is going to shake us and make us examine the fundamental questions,” said Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez, dean of the Sally McDon-nell Barksdale Honors Col-lege. “Processing the story of the grandmother who came through an ethnical conflict and rebuilt her life in Uruguay, Cotelo achieves that goal.”

Apart from triple majoring and doing the Barksdale proj-ect, Cotelo also works for the Sally McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College.

“Cotelo is an excellent work-er,” said honors coordinator Penny Leeton.

“She works with the prospec-tive students, gives tours around the building, helps with posters and flyers and does everything

we ask her.”“This summer I’m going to

be a retreat coordinator,” Co-telo said. “I like to organize events and help high school seniors to decide which path to take.”

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Hotty Toddy will forever be remembered, especially with the help of the 2012 graduat-ing class’s senior gift.

Every year, the graduating seniors, specifically the Senior Class Council, have a task of choosing a legacy of some sort to leave behind by selecting a senior class gift.

Meghan Litten, senior class secretary and treasurer, said the Hotty Toddy cheer is one of the best inclusive school traditions at the University of Mississippi.

“This year our class has de-cided to purchase a plaque chronicling the history of the

beloved cheer, Hotty Toddy, to be placed on campus,” Litten said. “The University of Mississippi’s historian is writing the history of Hotty Toddy that will appear on the plaque.”

Eighty seniors, including senior class president Toran Dean, vice president Clay Crawford and Litten generat-ed the idea of the plaque and helped make it a reality.

Dean said students on the council submitted ideas for a gift.

“I was surprised to see that each idea had the theme of school spirit, whether it be to buy a live black bear or give (a) statue or scholarship in honor of James Meredith,” she said.

Dean said they eventually landed on the cheer because of how it represents the uni-versity and its overall inclu-siveness.

“The Class of 2012 has seen some changes when it comes to traditions at the university, but the Hotty Toddy chant is one that included every stu-dent at our school regardless of race, color and creed,” she said.

Litten said the gift is a sym-bol of the seniors’ love for Ole Miss.

“It represents our, the Class of 2012, love for the univer-sity,” she said. “It is our thank you to the campus. We hope this gift will be something that the Ole Miss community will continue to enjoy in future years.”

The plaque will be present-ed in the late spring before graduation, and Ian Banner, Department of Facilities Plan-ning director, will assign the plaque a designated location on campus.

Litten said the seniors are excited to present the gift and that it means a lot to the school.

“We are really excited about the senior gift because it is something unique that can only be placed here, at Ole Miss,” she said. “This gift is important for Ole Miss and anyone who visits the campus because it demonstrates how much we appreciate tradition. HOTTY TODDY!”

To fund the approximately $6,000 gift, seniors wrote let-ters to family and friends ask-ing for donations. All dona-tions are accepted and can be made at www.umfoundation.com/seniors.

Class of 2012 Senior Gift memorializes Ole Miss cheerBY KATIE [email protected]

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There are just a few days left of Associated Student Body president Taylor McGraw’s term before president-elect Kimberly Dandridge takes over, and McGraw may soon be able to realize one of his campaign goals – a smoothie shop on campus.

McGraw said he is not fully convinced it will happen, but he is very impressed with how far it’s gone.

“I’m pleased that we’ve made progress in the sense that there are a lot of people talking about it,” McGraw said. “I’m eager to see how quickly we can move forward with it.”

McGraw thought of the idea for a smoothie shop and healthier food choices last year.

“I remember talking to Jona-than Parker, director of dining services, about it before I was even running for president,”

he saidA list of ideas was presented

to the ASB and administra-tors, and the idea seemed in-teresting.

“Aramark is 100 percent behind it,” he said. “They see it as something that stu-dents would like and enjoy, so they’ve always been helpful.”

McGraw said one thing in the way of the smoothie shop is space.

“It’s hard to make room for something like that on cam-pus,” he said.

Aramark has to get permis-sion from those in charge of buildings before they can make plans, according to McGraw.

“I think that was the hold up,” he said. “Everyone agrees that it’s a good idea, and we want to do it.”

McGraw said Jim Morrison in the Lyceum brought the lat-est idea of having a smoothie shop in the bunker location across from the Turner center.

“That could be a possible location,” he said. “They’re still trying to see if it meets all

the specifications that it would require – plumbing and all that.”

McGraw said he believes the student body is open to places where they can have access to quick, healthy food and that the dining services is looking for ways to accommodate the growing number of students.

“I think they’re constantly looking for areas to increase dining spaces,” he said. “They’re doing what they can with the space we have.”

Exercise science junior Claude Chandler said he thinks the smoothie shop is a pretty good idea with the growing number of students and may be a better food place.

“It’s good for healthy choic-es,” he said.

With McGraw’s term com-ing to an end, he is still anx-ious to get the ball moving on the possibility of a smoothie shop for campus.

“Hopefully over the summer they can have it all worked out and ready for the students next year,” he said.

Smoothie shop possibility on campusBY JENNIFER [email protected]

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SUNDAY: NO. 11 FLORIDA 5, NO. 14 OLE MISS 2

Coming off a big 6-1 win against South Carolina on Friday, No. 14 Ole Miss men’s tennis team (8-5, 4-2 SEC) were defeated by No. 11 Florida (10-7,3-3 SEC) 5-2 on Sunday at the Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center.

“Give Florida a lot of credit,” head coach Billy Chadwick said. “They did a really good job of playing well in the doubles and re-ally fighting it hard in every one of the singles.”

The tone of the match was set during doubles play with Florida scoring the crucial first point.

The nationally-ranked No. 12 doubles team of seniors Marcel and Chris Thiemann fell to the Gators’ nationally-ranked No. 8 doubles team of Nasism Slilam and Billy Federhofer 8-4 in match one. In match two, it was Ole Miss’ Nik Scholtz and Jonas Lutzen who de-feated Florida’s Tripper Carleton and Michael Alford 8-3, putting the deciding point on the shoul-ders of match three. Florida’s Bob van Overbeek and Spencer New-man defeated Johan Backstrom and William Kallberg 8-5.

In singles play Ole Miss could not generate any momentum. Scholtz was in the top singles spot but fell to Overbeek in straight sets 5-7, 3-6, giving Florida an early 2-0 lead. The loss was also Scholtz’s first in SEC play this season (8-1).

Lutjen, ranked No. 35 in the nation, fell in match three to 57th-ranked Tripper Carleton in three sets 6-2, 3-6, 1-6 to give the Gators a commanding 3-0 lead.

With Ole Miss having to sweep the remaining four singles matches, it seemed to be too little, too late.

Freshman William Kallberg earned the first point for the Ole Miss in match four with a 6-0, 4-6, 6-4 victory over Spencer New-man.

The 38th-ranked Marcel Thi-emann won a hard fought three

set match against Nasism Slilam 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 to make the score 3-2. Moments later in match five Florida’s Michael Alford defeated Chris Thiemann in three sets 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 to give the Gators the win-ning point, making it 4-2.

The Rebels will be home for two matches next weekend starting with Arkansas on Friday at 2 p.m.

FRIDAY: NO. 14 OLE MISS 6, NO. 40 SOUTH CAROLI-NA 1

The No. 14 nationally-ranked Ole Miss men’s tennis team re-bounded after dropping the dou-bles point at South Carolina to dominate the singles en route to a 6-1 win in Oxford.

For the third straight match, the Rebels dropped the doubles point. Scholtz and Lutjen won 8-5 at No. 2 doubles, but South Carolina claimed a pair of 8-4 victories at courts one and three to secure the first point of the match.

The Rebels regained the mo-mentum fast in singles and never let up, sweeping all six matches in straight sets.

First off the court was Scholtz, who downed Ivan Machado 6-0, 6-2 to improve to 10-1 at No. 1 singles and 5-0 in the SEC. Lutjen took out Andrew Adams 6-1, 6-2 at No. 3 to put the Rebels ahead for a good 2-1.

Friday was the twins’ birthday, and they celebrated by each pick-ing up a win in singles. Marcel Thiemann finished off Nick Jones 6-4, 6-2 at No. 2 singles to make it 3-1. Sophomore Johan Backstrom followed with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Kyle Koch at No. 6 to clinch.

Chris Thiemann handed Chip Cox a 6-0, 6-3 loss at No. 5, and then freshman William Kallberg defeated Thiago Pinheiro 6-4, 6-3 at No. 4 to complete the sweep of singles.

“We came out flat in doubles,” Chadwick said. “But the guys did a great job in singles of jumping on them early and never letting up.”

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SUNDAY: NO. 2 FLORIDA 6, NO. 19 OLE MISS 1

Despite a big win from senior Abby Guthrie, the No. 19 nation-ally ranked Ole Miss women’s tennis team finished the weekend 1-1 dropping a 6-1 decision to No. 2 Florida here Sunday. The Rebels are now 11-7 overall and 3-3 in the SEC.

The Gators swept the doubles as the Rebels fell to 0-6 when they lose the point. Guthrie and fellow senior Kristi Boxx, ranked No. 5 in the nation, suffered their first SEC loss, 8-3, to Sofie Oyen and Allie Will, ranked No. 3. For Boxx, it marked her first SEC loss of the season as she is now 5-1.

In singles, Guthrie knocked off 39th-ranked Oyen 7-5, 7-5 at No. 5 singles, but Florida won in straight sets on courts one, three and two in that order to secure their 103rd straight home win.

Florida went ahead 3-0 as Jo-anna Mather defeated freshman Erin Stephens 6-3, 6-2 on court three and shortly after Lauren Embree gained a straight set vic-tory on court one against No.

12 ranked Boxx 6-3, 6-3. The match ended when Will, ranked No. 1 in the nation, downed sophomore Caroline Rohde-Moe, ranked No. 72, 6-0, 6-1 at No. 2 singles.

Freshman Julia Jones was able to take her match to three sets as was sophomore Vivian Vlaar, but Florida prevailed in both.

The Rebels will continue on the road playing at Arkansas and LSU next weekend.

FRIDAY: NO. 19 OLE MISS 5, NO. 32 SOUTH CAROLINA 2

The No. 19 Ole Miss women’s tennis team (11-6, 3-2) defeated No. 32 South Carolina (10-5, 3-2) 5-2 at the Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center on Friday after-noon.

“It’s a very big win,” head coach Mark Beyers said. “I’ll take this win any day over South Carolina.”

The Lady Rebels started off winning the doubles points with convincing victories by Boxx and Guthrie 8-5 and Gabby Rangel and Erin Stephens 8-4.

South Carolina gained a 2-1 advantage after victories in the number two and four matches. Sophomore Caroline Rohde-

Moe lost to South Carolina’s Jak-lin Alawi in straight sets 1-6, 1-6 in match two, and freshman Julia Jones lost to sophomore Katerina Popova in straight sets 3-6, 0-6.

Freshman Erin Stephens tied things up at 2-2 with a 6-4, 6-2 straight-set win against South Carolina’s Dominika Kanakova in match three.

Vlaar, who missed the last three matches due to injury, re-turned to the lineup in a big way by defeating Josefin Andersson 6-3, 6-3 and putting Ole Miss on top 3-2.

With two matches left to play, it was Guthrie who clinched the wining point for the Lady Rebels in a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 three-set victory over Adriana Pereira.

“My match was a lot of mo-mentum shifts,” Guthrie said. “It was good for my confidence to know that in a close situation I can pull it out and over come my nerves and win the match.”

The 12th-ranked Boxx fol-lowed with a three-set set win 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 against Anya Mor-gina in the final match. The win kept Boxx undefeated in SEC play (10-0).

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No. 14 Men’s tennis splits weekend pair with South Carolina, Florida

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The Ole Miss softball team (13-15, 2-6 SEC) was unable to stop the offensive performance of the No. 11 nationally-ranked Georgia Bulldogs (27-5, 7-2 SEC) as they swept the Rebels over the weekend; 8-4, 9-0 and 8-0 in Friday’s, Saturday’s and Sunday’s games, respectively.

“It was a great effort by our girls, and we played great,” head coach Windy Thees said after Sunday’s loss. “We need our pitchers to throw strikes,

but I was very proud of the energy level, and we will only keep getting better from here.”

Senior Kendall Bruning started all three games against the Bulldogs over the weekend, pitching 16.2 innings and allow-ing 14 earned runs. In Sunday’s loss, Bruning did not allow a hit through 4.2 innings and did not allow a run until the top of the fifth off a loaded bases walk.

“She was phenomenal to-day; she hit her spots like you wouldn’t believe and did not try to over power them – she tried to pitch,” Thees said Sun-

day. “When she is able to locate her pitches like she did today, she can shut people down.”

The Rebels will travel to Ridgeland to face in-state op-ponents Jackson State at 3:30 p.m. and Southern Miss at 6 p.m. in a doubleheader Tues-day and return to SEC play this weekend when they host Auburn.

“We are excited to go to Jack-son and show them how Ole Miss plays softball now, and we want our girls to bring it down there and get back on the win-ning track,” Thees said.

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eighth inning, putting together its second rally with one out after a strikeout started things off for the Rebels. Matt Snyder doubled down the right field line and moved to third on a single to right from Will Allen. Ole Miss then sent Will Jamison in to run for Al-len with men at the corners.

Bousfield then delivered on a hit-and-run play with a single deep in the hole at second base, beating the throw to first as Jami-son reached second and Snyder scored with no outs on the play. Another single to shallow right from Overbey loaded the bases before Kirksey delivered his two-RBI fly out to center field to put Ole Miss on top 5-4.

Jamison scored from third easily on the play while Bousfield never slowed down after tagging at sec-ond; he rounded third and slid in safely ahead of the tag at the plate on the play. Overbey continued the theme of aggressive base run-ning, moving from first to third on the fly out. He scored on the next at bat when Blake Newalu deliv-ered a single to center to give Ole Miss the 6-4 lead.

The Rebels put things out of reach for good in the ninth when Snyder delivered his third home run of the season, this time com-ing up with at two-run shot down the right field line that scored Yar-brough and gave Ole Miss the 8-4 lead that would hold as Chavez retired the side in order in the bot-tom of the ninth.

Ole Miss returns to action on Tuesday night in a non-confer-ence game against Jackson State at 6:30 p.m. at Oxford-University Stadium. It’s the first of four home

games next week as the Rebels will also host No. 1 Florida next weekend in a three-game series.

SATURDAY: ALABAMA 3, NO. 17 OLE MISS 2

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – On a day that featured stellar pitching and defense, it was late inning heroics that decided things as the Crimson Tide got a two-run walk-off homerun in the ninth in-ning, and No. 17 Ole Miss (16-7, 2-3 SEC) fell to Alabama (9-14, 1-4 SEC) by a score of 3-2 on Saturday.

With hits and runs at a pre-mium, Ole Miss put together a seventh inning rally to grab a 2-1 lead and held things in check until Alabama’s Brett Booth fought off several pitches and came up with the game-winning hit in the ninth

with two outs on the board and a man on third.

FRIDAY: NO. 17 OLE MISS 11, ALABAMA 7

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – An of-fensive outburst that included two rallies and a seven-run seventh inning helped propel No. 17 Ole Miss (16-6, 2-2 SEC) back into the win column with an 11-7 win over Alabama (8-14, 0-4 SEC) on Friday night.

Ole Miss had five players post multiple-hit nights as part of a 16-hit performance on the way to the win. Andrew Mistone and Alex Yarbrough helped set the tone for the offense, combining for seven RBI as Mistone went 2-for-5 with four RBI and Yarbrough went 2-for-4 with three RBI in the out-ing.

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the quarterbacks we wouldn’t normally throw that ball – but a receiver would go make a play for them. I went and talked to the receivers afterwards and I said, ‘Look, if you guys make plays like that, it makes my job that much easier.’”

Singleton ready to playThe transition period from

high school to college took a lit-tle longer for sophomore Tobias Singleton.

He struggled early on last sea-son, but his play picked up to-ward the end of the season both at receiver and special teams. With one year and a produc-tive off-season under his belt, Singleton is ready to work his way into the wide receiver rota-tion. That’s why this spring is so important to him.

“It’s a big opportunity,” he said. “I’m coming out here ev-ery day and competing like my last. I want to play, and that’s what I’m going to do.”

Singleton plans to take advan-

tage of the fact that the Rebels new offense utilizes so many multiple wide receiver sets.

“It’s a fast-paced offense, so you’ve got to be in shape to run it,” he said. “I’m getting the hang of it every day, and with the new offense, I’ve just got to go out and play my game.”

Spring Practice Day Three

Defense wins first day in pads

After two days of going in just jerseys and shorts, Ole Miss strapped on the pads for the first time all spring. It seemed that practicing for the third day in a row along with putting on pads for the first time caught up with the Rebels.

“For the third straight day out here, asking them to play and practice a little different, I thought it was OK,” Freeze said. “I don’t think it was as good as the first two days, and maybe that’s because we were in full pads or maybe it’s because we went three straight days.”

After two days where the of-fense seemed to be ahead of the defense, especially the wide receivers against the second-

ary, the Ole Miss defense had a much better day on Sunday.

“Defense won the competi-tion today,” Freeze said. “They lined up in some odd stack stuff that we haven’t begun to work on yet, and they don’t stay there very long. (Defensive coordina-tor) Dave’s (Wommack) got a good a system, and his guys are coaching them up and playing hard.”

Quarterback updateOle Miss is still giving repeti-

tions to four or five quarterbacks during practice, but Bo Wallace and Barry Brunetti seemed to get more repetitions than the others on Sunday.

“Dan (Werner) and I have kind of said that after next week, we want to kind of settle in and get a couple guys more reps than the others,” Freeze said. “Right now we’re trying to give every-body reps. Those two guys will definitely be in the mix.”

With a paring down of repeti-tions in practice for the quarter-backs coming next week, Freeze again mentioned that it’s always a possibility for some of the quarterback candidates to try different positions.

“There’s always a chance of that, always,” Freeze said. “We’re always looking at who-ever can help our football team and wherever they can go, we’ll ask them to do that.”

Matt Hall dressed but not participating

Senior Matt Hall, who started every game last season for the Rebels at right guard, has been out at practice but not partici-pating due to some off the field issues.

“He’s got some issues that we’ve got to take care of off the field before we feel we can count on him for next fall,” Freeze said. “We’re just kind of going through those with he and his family right now. He’s a great kid and we want everything to work out, but we still don’t know if that’s the case or not.”

Senquez Golson updateOle Miss cornerback Senquez

Golson, who also plays outfield

for the Rebel baseball team, did not travel with Ole Miss base-ball to this past weekend’s series against Alabama.

He was out at football prac-tice but was not participating. Freeze said he wasn’t sure if Golson was going to be doing any football this spring or not because of his baseball respon-sibilities.

“He’s been here both days with us, in meetings and on the field,” Freeze said. “I try to be a realist, and not just look out for my own interest sometimes. I think we’ll know more next week when we see kind of how he gets back in the baseball swing and where he fits with them.

“I want our baseball team to be very successful, and if he’s a huge part of that, I certainly don’t want to detract from it by him coming out and do-ing something that would hurt them.”

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SUNDAY: NO. 17 OLE MISS 8, ALABAMA 4

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Down one run with the bases loaded and one out in the eighth inning, Zach Kirksey came up with a sac fly to the wall in center field that drove in two runs as part of a four-run rally to help No. 17 Ole Miss (17-7, 3-3 SEC) defeat Alabama (9-15, 1-5 SEC) on Sunday by a score of 8-4.

The win gave the Rebels the series, marking the first series win for Ole Miss in Tuscaloosa since the 2004 season when the Rebels also picked up a victory on Sun-day to claim the series over the Crimson Tide.

Kirksey’s two-RBI fly out to the wall in straight away center put Ole Miss on top 5-4, and the Reb-els would not relinquish the lead. It was the second rally of the day for the Rebels, who had already fought back from a 2-0 deficit to tie the game before falling behind by two runs again in the fifth in-ning.

Dylan Chavez (3-0) picked up the win in relief, working the final 2.1 innings and holding the Crim-son Tide hitless while striking out two batters. He retired all seven batters faced down the stretch.

Spencer Turnbull (0-2) took the loss for Alabama, allowing four runs on four hits with a strikeout

in 0.2 innings of work. Turnbull entered the game to relieve starter Jon Keller with two outs in the seventh inning. He got the Crim-son Tide out of the inning but left the game in the eighth with one out on the board and the bases loaded after having already sur-rendered one run to cut the lead to 4-3.

“It was a really good game and series with a lot of emotion from both teams,” said Ole Miss head

coach Mike Bianco. “I’m proud of our guys and the way we hung in there today. Mike Mayers pitched well, and Dylan (Chavez) did a great (job) on the mound at the end.

“We’ve lacked the timely hit, but we got that today,” Bianco said. “I’m proud of the way we swung the bat there at the end of the game.”

Alabama got on the board in the third inning, capitalizing on a throwing error to third on a bunt to the third base side of the mound. The ball sailed over the head of Andrew Mistone, allow-ing Austen Smith to score on the play, while A.J. Cole reached base safely and moved to second on the play. Cole took third on a sac bunt from Hunter Gregory before scoring on a groundout to second from Taylor Dugas to give Ala-bama the early 2-0 lead.

The Rebels answered in the fifth inning with a two-run home run off the scoreboard in left field from Preston Overbey. Auston Bousfield scored on the play after reaching on a single to left field in the previous at bat.

The Crimson Tide weren’t done, using a wild bottom of the fifth that included a ground-rule double to set up a two-RBI single from Jared Reaves that scored both Dugas and Ben Moore. Ole Miss got out of the inning without any more damage, but Alabama held the 4-2 lead.

Ole Miss went to work in the

Sunday late-inning rally lifts No. 17 Diamond Rebels to series win at Alabama

OLE MISS SPORTS INFORMATION

ALEX EDWARDS | The Daily Mississippian

Junior second baseman bounced back from missing Tuesday’s game to go 5-for-13 with three RBI and three runs scored in this weekend’s series win at Alabama.

See BASEBALL, PAGE 11

Freeze happy with first day

After his first spring practice as head coach on Friday, Hugh Freeze was pleased with his team and how they performed while learning a completely new system.

“I think we won the day,” he said. “I think we’re 1-for-1. As far as attitude and effort, con-sidering you’re putting in a new offense, a new defense, a new tempo and trying to make it as chaotic as you can, I thought they responded pretty well.”

Another thing Freeze seemed proud of was that players com-mented on how much fun the practice was.

“I don’t know if it (fun) guarantees us wins, but that’s who we want to be,” he said. “I learned that I’ve just got to be me and part of me is that I want to have fun. I want the kids to laugh and enjoy being out here. That is a priority.”

Wallace aided by famil-iarity

Junior college transfer quar-terback Bo Wallace is going through his first spring practice as an Ole Miss Rebel, but this is not his first experience with Freeze’s up-tempo offense.

Wallace signed with Arkan-sas State out of high school and redshirted in 2010. In that time,

he ran the scout team under then Arkansas State offensive coordinator Freeze. He admits that being familiar with the of-fense already is a big help.

“I’d lie if I said it wasn’t an advantage, but at the same time, I still have to make the throws and make the right reads,” Wallace said. “I think I probably still knew 80 percent of (the playbook). The termi-nology is the same, so I didn’t have to go back and learn any-thing different that we called at Arkansas State.”

Spring Practice Day TwoReceivers rule day twoAfter getting a challenge

from Freeze, the Ole Miss wide receivers stepped up and stole the show on the second day of practice.

“No doubt there was some (progression); no doubt, partic-ularly in the receiving corps,” Freeze said. “I challenged them that we’ve got (to) get things corrected from day one to day two. I really thought they im-proved.”

Freeze wasn’t the only one to notice how good of a day the wide receivers had.

“They had a great day to-day,” said Dan Werner, offen-sive coordinator and quarter-backs coach. “We are throwing balls out there – a couple of them were throws that I told

Spring practice notebook: first weekend in the books

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Junior college transfer quarterback Bo Wallace is competing with seniors Randal Mackey and Zach Stoudt as well as junior Barry Brunetti this spring for the starting quarterback job.

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