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The University of Missis-sippi has established a new official mission statement and institutional core values.

The mission statement and values went into effect in Jan-uary.

“We wanted to come up with something that all people involved with Ole Miss could be proud of,” said Jim Morri-son, director of strategic plan-ning and campus sustainabil-ity. “We are very happy with the result.”

There is some criticism of the new mission and core val-ues, however. During the fac-ulty presentation in August 2011, a presentation showing the drafted mission statement includes the following termi-nology at the start of the third paragraph: “As Mississippi’s flagship institution, the Uni-versity provides...” When the mission statement was submit-ted to the State Institues of Higher Learning board, how-ever, it failed to include that terminology, but continued with the originally drafted, “The University provides...”

“We thought it would be in our best interests to focus on the ‘flagship’ aspects outside

of the mission statement,” Morrison said. “We feel like much more can be done with what we came up with, as op-posed to just including it in the mission statement.”

In February, a month after the new mission statement was implemented, UM 2020 released a list of 18 detailed “flagship goals” on its web-site.

With the recent pressure from Mississippi State Uni-versity’s statewide billboard campaign, people involved with Ole Miss are yearning for some sort of retaliation from the administration.

In the minds of many peo-ple, Ole Miss is the flagship university of the state of Mississippi. The University of Mississippi was chartered in 1844 and began classes in 1848, 23 years before any oth-er public college or university existed in Mississippi (Alcorn in 1871). Ole Miss was also the only public university in the state until 1958, 110 years after classes first started in Oxford.

Peer institutions such as the University of Alabama have “flagship” terminology included in their core values:

New mission statement adopted, changed from original version

BY ADAM GANUCHEAUaganucheau24@gmail.com

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A panel of a former creative ad director and two Ole Miss alumni gathered at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics to discuss the necessary steps to succeed in the world of public re-lation, product development and marketing.

Moderator Robin Street, pro-fessor of public relations, intro-duced Harold Burson, a gradu-ate of Ole Miss and the founder of one of the top PR agencies in the world, Burson-Marsteller;

Leslie Westbrook, a former Miss Ole Miss who now has her own research company; and Mickey Brazeal, a former account execu-tive who now teaches at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

Street described the public re-lations and integrated marketing communications field as “a lot of fun, but also a lot of work.”

Of that work, Brazeal said his greatest surprise was the level of talent and intensity.

“It’s not routine; it’s not easy,” he said. “You need to decide if you can make that kind of com-mitment.”

He added that in order to get attention and recognition it is necessary to “force an emotional

response.”“The only way you’re going

to get done is to do something a little unusual, something brave,” he said.

Westbrook said her specialty is in understanding and study-ing consumer behavior and that it’s important to understand how your buying audience thinks and acts.

“No matter how trends come and go, never take your eye off the basics,” she said.

Burson and Westbrook both contributed to one of the most tragic and memorable PR cases of all time.

Students learn secrets of public relations and marketing

BY JENNIFER NASSARjennifernassar2@gmail.com

WILL STROUTH | The Daily Mississippian

Three top public relations executives from across the country talk to Ole Miss students about their experiences in the PR field. From left to right, Mickey Brazeal, Leslie Westbrook and Harold Burson.

See PR, PAGE 4

Family, friends and students gathered in front of the Lyce-um yesterday for the inaugu-ration of the new Associated Student Body members and the Student Programming Board.

Kim Dandridge, the first black female Ole Miss ASB president, took her oath of office along with Emmalee Rainey, vice president, Emily Rast, secretary, Rebecca Rule-man, treasurer, Matthew Kief-er, attorney general, Court-ney Pearson, judicial council chair, Wil Yerger, director of student programming board, and Kishan Gopal, associate director of SPB.

Before her inauguration

Dandridge said she was excit-ed for this moment and that she’s ready to start working tomorrow.

“I’m so honored to have so many people here today to support, and I’m just really ready to get the student body together and promote unity on this campus,” Dandridge said. “I’ve been waiting for this moment — it kinda just hit me that I won the election right now.”

Vice President Abby Olivier stepped in for ASB President Taylor McGraw, who is in New York interviewing for a Teach For America position for next year.

“I was telling Taylor the other day this is my first time to officially step up to take over for him as president, and

also officially my last time,” she said.

“I’m excited, but I wish Taylor could be here because a lot of the accomplishments of the past year for ASB go to him.”

Olivier led a quick prayer and offered some comments on the academic year.

“We had a lot of good pro-grams this year, my favorites being Two + 2 and 21 Days of Good. We’re still working on the Green Fund and the possibility of a smoke-free campus,” she said.

“As far as elections go, we saw a lot of improvement from a campaign that had a lot of violations and candi-dates to one that went com-pletely smoothly and one that had barely any violations.”

New ASB members inaugurated in front of LyceumBY KATHRYN WINTERKathryn.winter2011@gmail.com

WILL STROUTH | The Daily Mississippian

Kimbrely Dandridge addresses the crowd after being sworn into office as the new president of the Associated Student Body.

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I tried answering a question this week via the cliche journalis-tic route of seeking out as many viewpoints as possible. This only humored my muse. I’ve known for a while that the following question has no final answer: “What does being an Ole Miss Rebel mean to you?”

But instead of merely relaying to you the answers I received and try-ing to give some objective view of what it means to be a Rebel, I de-cided to contest that the notion of being a “Rebel” is the same as oth-er notions — empty of all meaning except that which I give it.

I’ll start with an abstract defini-tion and connect it to some exam-ples. I define a Rebel as a person who is in opposition to any form of establishment, a very broad state-ment when one considers all the

things that could constitute as “op-position” and an “establishment.”

For example, I have for years now been in opposition to the unique establishment of hair-cutting cus-toms. I can’t be entirely sure why, but the length of my hair irritates some to no end. “Evening, Miss,” they’d say if they were clever. “Cut your damn hair, boy,” is typical.

“I’ll start cutting my hair as soon as everyone else stops doing it,” I always say.

Perhaps the angst with a man’s hair length comes from a conscious or unconscious religious convic-tion. For example, in the New Tes-tament (1 Corinthians 11:14) Paul writes: “Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”

Respectfully, Paul, nature doth not; nature has never produced

a pair of scissors all by itself. But maybe Paul meant something else by “nature,” or maybe Paul had a deeply rooted inferiority com-plex with a “white” man with long, flowing hair — as Jesus is often de-picted.

I can only speculate. I won’t deny the satisfaction that

I take from being able to make per-sons with reservations about men with long hair uncomfortable, but what I’d like for them to do is look deep inside and ask: “Why does he make me uncomfortable just by looking different?”

They might find more than what they were looking for.

But back to the question at hand. I find myself in a place where near-ly everyone chooses to be called a Rebel. This is unique because even the “establishments” (i.e. the

administration, college or school departments, UPD, etc.) identify themselves as Rebels.

So while conflict between Rebels and their chosen “establishments” (everyone here chooses a depart-ment, whether or not to be Greek, what organizations to be a part of and so on) is unsurprising, perhaps expected even, we find ourselves with something in common.

Yes, every self-identified “Rebel” finds him- or herself in love with the same Ole Miss. Of course, Ole Miss is a girl we need to be careful loving; she will tear your hair out for the novelty of having done so if possible — as all fans of her ath-letic teams will attest to.

One has to conceptualize Ole Miss intelligently or risk seeing

To be a Rebel

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When tragedies like the kill-ing of Trayvon Martin happen, they always seem to bring up a very unsettling sentiment I’ve noticed, which I can only de-scribe as a sort of indifference to injustice.

Now that bloggers have had time to duke it out via the in-ternet, I’ve noticed a few trends that are popular, but one that I found particularly disturbing was the idea that if George Zim-merman were black, or if he had a Hispanic-sounding sur-name, the story wouldn’t receive nearly as much media attention as it has. This is absolutely true, but the argument is absolutely absurd and completely beside the point.

The point is, an unarmed teenager was shot to death by a self-appointed neighborhood watch volunteer, and while the body of the teenager was tested for drugs in his system and put into the morgue as a John Doe for three days, the shooter was not tested for drugs or alcohol, not asked to recall the incident at the scene and wasn’t adminis-tered a background check. At no point was George Zimmerman put in handcuffs.

This is a classic chicken-and-egg scenario. This kind of in-cident happens all the time, generally in less obvious circum-stances. In 1988, a Baltimore teen who had stolen a bike was shot in the head by an elderly man who told police, “I’m tired of having stuff stolen.”

No charges were pressed, no real investigation, no media cov-erage.

The Trayvon Martin story, however, due to the enormous public outcry from the commu-nity, hit some sort of Gladwell-ian “Tipping Point” and be-came a phenomenon. Local media outlets started to give the story more airtime, followed by more national news coverage, followed by entire segments on CBS and ABC and other major networks. The media coverage doesn’t make the story impor-tant; the story makes the story important.

The very nature of media sen-sationalism is to bring up what-ever they can to make you watch and to jump to conclusions that may or may not be true. The media doesn’t care about justice, it cares about ratings, and those two things rarely go hand in hand, especially through main-stream networks.

In a recent ABC “Good Morn-ing America” interview, a friend of Zimmerman, Joe Oliver, de-fends his friend, explaining that he called Trayvon a “goon,” not a coon, and that, “Goon is a term of endearment in the high schools these days.”

Yes, Zimmerman refers to

Martin by a term of endear-ment directly after he calls the police to report him as engaging in suspicious behavior and calls him an “asshole.” Oliver contin-ues to say that he “doesn’t know anyone under the age of 40 that uses the word ‘coon’ as a racial epitaph,” which is pretty similar to how I don’t know anyone over the age of 15 who uses the word “goon” at all. Does Mr. Oliver’s friendship with Zimmerman make him qualified in any way to not only be talking about an ongoing investigation, but also to be broadcast to the entire country, telling us that Zimmer-man is innocent because he said so? I don’t see how.

He absolutely has his right to free speech, but ABC also has the right to not put him on the air. And these recent reports stat-ing that Martin was suspended from school at the time because of a marijuana-related incident are another instance of the me-dia getting in the way of justice. Again, I don’t see how Martin getting in trouble with drugs has anything to do with him being shot and killed.

After Zimmerman shot Mar-tin dead, eyewitnesses say that he was pacing around the body say-ing, “It was self-defense,” before a police officer arrived, asked him a few questions (not ask-ing him to recall the event) and let him go. The Sanford Police Department stated that they had no reason to arrest Zimmerman and due to Florida’s Stand Your Ground law and Zimmerman’s account of the event, police found no reason to further ques-tion or arrest Zimmerman.

This seems to be a pretty clear-cut example of a hate crime. Listen to the 911 tapes. Zim-merman calls Martin a “F---ing coon,” and later says, “These as-sholes always get away.”

He had no reason to follow Martin, but he followed him anyway, even after being told, “You don’t have to do that,” by the 911 operator. When Martin felt threatened, he approached

Zimmerman, and they engaged in a physical altercation that led to Zimmerman killing Martin.

It sounds like Zimmerman was the aggressor and that Mar-tin was the one “Standing his Ground.” If you listen to the tapes, you can hear screams for help for about 30 seconds, which Zimmerman claims are his.

If Zimmerman, the man with the gun, had been screaming for help for more than 30 sec-onds, you would think he would have a little more to show for it than a broken nose and blood on his head, especially since he weighed 250 pounds and was being attacked by a 17-year-old who weighed 140 pounds.

The question is not, “If Zim-merman was black, would this have gotten as much media at-tention?” Of course it wouldn’t have. That’s a completely ar-bitrary question. The question is, “If Martin had been white, would the Sanford PD have been as quick and reckless to as-sume that Zimmerman was tell-ing the truth?” No. The Sanford PD assumed Zimmerman was telling the truth and didn’t want to investigate. They racially pro-filed Martin in hopes that the case would blow over because of the frequency of violent crime in the United States and especially the state of Florida. However, in this instance, the case didn’t blow over, and the Sanford PD had some explaining to do.

And what happens if the state attorney and the chief of police actually have to do their jobs and defend the ideals that they are sworn to protect? Well, they resign, of course. Sure, the state attorney was essentially forced out by a vote of no confidence 3-2 by the city council, but again, another chicken-and-egg scenario. If there were no public outcry not only from the Sanford community but from all over the country, as well as massive media attention, would the chief of po-lice have resigned, given he had approached the case the exact same way? I don’t think so.

Without the outcry and me-dia attention, would the city council have voted the same way, given the state attorney had approached the case the exact same way? I don’t think so. The blatant misconduct and negli-gence and the refusal to take re-sponsibility for said misconduct and negligence is absolutely ter-rifying and equally infuriating. I wonder if the police force is any less negligent when there isn’t enough public outcry to garner major media attention? I would guess not.

And this should be terrifying and infuriating for anyone who has followed the story at all, but it seems that, at least in the blog-ging community, and friends that I’ve talked to, people are too quick to make this a political or race issue and ignore what it is really about — the lack of jus-tice in the judicial system.

I’m not saying that George Zimmerman is guilty of any-thing. I don’t work for the San-ford PD. However, I am saying that George Zimmerman, given the evidence from the tapes and eyewitness accounts, should have been arrested at the scene and should have to defend himself in a court of law. It shouldn’t take us putting the Sanford PD’s feet to the fire to make them actually investigate any case.

The late George Carlin said it best, “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges.” Kind of like the privilege Trayvon Martin had to wear whatever he wanted and to go to the store and buy a bag of Skittles and an iced tea that was taken away from him the night he died. Or like the privilege his parents had to a po-lice force that was fair and just.

And if that’s not either terrify-ing or infuriating to you, you’re not paying enough attention.

The injustice should be the focus on Martin caseBY AUSTIN FINNSpecial to The DM past her flaws. If her Rebels are

being honest, they know that she owns a towering shadow (in the Jungian sense) that hangs from her shoulders, a superior-ity complex in the making for more than 160 years.

And her prideful nature seems to go about getting in her way. She has a beautiful, unique perception of her own essence and refuses even the slightest alterations with great indignation. Often she’s afraid to admit to trying a better way of doing things.

She has it bad.But I only know that because

I’ve got it equally as bad — pride, that is. Humans are crea-tures of habit and are proud of said habits, and how am I ever to escape that fact?

“The better we have succeed-ed in entrenching ourselves in our personal standpoint and social positions, the more it ap-pears we have discovered the right course and the right ide-als and principles of behavior,” psychologist Carl Jung once wrote. “For this reason we sup-pose them to be eternally valid and make a virtue of unchange-ably clinging to them.”

So, “What does being an Ole Miss Rebel mean to you?” It means whatever you want it to mean, whether you’re a student, faculty member, alum, sidewalk fan or an outsider.

But to me, being a “Rebel” at Ole Miss in 2012 means know-ing when to rebel and when not to by critically questioning ab-solutely everything — especial-ly what you believe, and why. You may just find inside some ideas — or “establishments” — well worth rebelling against.

Andrew Dickson is a senior reli-gious studies major from Terry.

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The Associated Student Body Supports Ole Miss Athletics

The track is located off Hill Drive next to the indoor practice field. Admission is free.

The track team will kick off the year with the Ole Miss Invitational this Saturday. The meet will run throughout the day with both running and field events. Make plans now to

come out and support your OLE MISS REBELS!

The track team will kick off the year with the Ole Miss Invitational this Saturday. The meet will run throughout the day with both running and field events. Make plans now to

come out and support your OLE MISS REBELS!

The Associated Student Body Supports Ole Miss Athletics

Come support the

Ole Miss Track and Fieldteam this weekend!

The track is located off Hill Drive next to the indoor practice field. Admission is free.

Sandra Steingraber, a biolo-gist, poet and cancer survivor, has researched the connection between human rights and chemical contamination in the environment.

Steingraber spoke to Uni-versity of Mississippi students Wednesday evening with a lecture entitled “Environmen-tal Human Rights from Silent Spring to Fracking Shale.”

The event, which took place at the Overby Center, was an informative talk that related Steingraber’s life to the issues of contamination and cancer. A cancer patient herself, Ste-

ingraber has been researching water contamination and the effect of fracking for years.

Charles Turnbough, a mi-crobiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, did not attend the event but is knowledgeable about environ-mental issues such as fracking.

“Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is a process used throughout the United States to extract natural gas and, to a less extent, oil from rock formations deep in the earth. In this process, many millions of gallons of wa-ter, sand and chemicals are pumped underground at high pressures to break apart rock formations and thereby re-

lease entrapped gas and oil. The gas and oil are then re-covered through a series of wells that are drilled along the fracking path, which typically is extended horizontally for long distances,” Turnbough said.

Ann Fisher-Wirth, English professor at the University of Mississippi, introduced Ster-ingraber.

“Sandra has attained nu-merous awards including ‘Ms. Magazine’ Woman of the Year and a Hero Award from the Breast Cancer Fund,” Fisher-Wirth said.

Steingraber reflected on her bladder cancer diagnosis.

“Cancer is more than a bio-

logical experience; it changes your identity,” Steingraber said.

Steingraber has combined her love of biology and Eng-lish by publishing books such as “Living Down Stream” to further inform her audience of harmful contaminants in some water contents, while also giving an autobiography of her life.

“I write about my life as a cancer patient,” Steingraber said. “Biology and poetry are both about the mystery of life.”

According to the United States Environment Protection Agency website, efforts to safe-ly dispose of contamination

have been explored. These op-tions listed on the website in-clude: underground injection of waste disposal fluids from oil and gas wells, wastewater discharges to treatment facili-ties, storm water discharges from oil and gas operations or transmission facilities, use of surface impoundments for storage disposal and recycling of wastewaters.

Although awareness of fracking has strengthened, Steinberg encouraged students to advocate further research of this issue.

“The earth under our feet is alive,” Steinberg said.

“We need to write about sci-ence for the public.”

Notable author informs students about frackingBY FRANCES ALLISONftalliso@olemiss.edu

In 1982, seven people died as a result of a person or persons re-moving several Tylenol packages and injecting arsenic into the cap-sules.

Tylenol hired Burson to man-age its publicity.

The tragedy caused a lot of publicity, and the first strategy was to convince to the public that Johnson & Johnson Co. was seri-ous about protecting everyone else, according to Burson.

“We portrayed Johnson & John-son as a victim,” he said. “Also we’ve got to cross the idea that the distribution chain for both over-the-counter pharmaceutical prod-ucts and food were really at risk.”

Every package of Tylenol was removed from stores while some-thing was done about packaging.

As a result, Tylenol lost more than $75 million in sales.

Westbrook was then hired to come up with a replacement for capsules.

“It was number one in their product line,” she said.

“The capsule had an image of being the fastest-acting and the

easiest to swallow.”Westbrook worked with the re-

search and development depart-ment to come up with ideas of shapes to replace the capsules.

Johnson & Johnson eventually replaced the capsules with tablets, according to Westbrook.

“Consumers had a reasonably good confidence in tablets,” she said.

Westbrook added that the pack-aging group worked to make a tamper resistance packaging; however, caution had to be taken with wording.

“You can’t say ‘tampered proof,’” she said. “It’s impossible to say that anything is one hun-dred percent tampered proof, but we learned through consumer research that tampered resistance was fine.”

After this case, Burson-Marstell-er became the “go-to” company for crisis management.

“Ironically, no one has yet been found,” Burson said.

Brazeal, who has worked with companies on customer commu-nication techniques, stressed the importance of persuading and keeping your customers on differ-ent cases.

“A lot of what is going to hap-pen in the future has to do cus-

tomer relationship management,” he said.

He used the example of fre-quent customer cards used mostly at supermarkets.

“The notion of that is A) ‘I can know what it is you buy’ B) ‘I can know how much it is that you spend, and over time I can know how to maximize that relation-ship,’” he said.

“We individualize that relation-ship,” he added.

The panelists finished off with their advice for the students con-sidering careers in the area dis-cussed.

Burson said the importance of PR is the ability of writing, your own portfolio and your personal-ity.

“Get yourself in a frame that you can work with other people,” he said.

Brazeal brought out the im-portance of anxiety reduction and putting oneself out there to persuade others, especially future employers.

“Demonstrate yourself and re-duce their anxiety level,” he said.

Street was very appreciative of two things that the images of the panelists, with two alumni, bring to the university.

“I think it says a lot about the

quality of the education you get at Ole Miss,” she said.

“The very underappreciated amount of talent, creativity and in-telligence we have in the South.”

Burson has won many awards in the PR industry. He is in the Public Relations Society of Amer-ica’s (PRSA) Hall of Fame; he was named PR Professional of the Year twice and was named the Most Influential PR Professional of the Century by “PRWeek” magazine.

Leslie Westbrook first started off at Ole Miss as an education major. Before she graduated, she called off her wedding to her college sweetheart about three weeks be-fore the big day. She first worked at Procter & Gamble in marketing research.

Mickey Brazeal spent about 28 years in the advertising business. His first job was with Burson-Marsteller. He is now a professor of integrated marketing commu-nications.

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“Develop a university-wide emphasis on leadership as a primary role of the flagship university of the State of Ala-bama.”

When UM 2020 was cre-ated, a link to the UM 2020 blog was posted but was never updated. Currently, no official university press release has been released regarding the new mission statement or core values. However, Morrison said that meetings are ongoing to plan an official release or ceremony.

The process of getting the statement and values ap-proved took place over a pe-riod of months. The Strategic Planning Council, made up of representatives of faculty, staff and students, contributed to the creation of the mission statement and core values. The SPC is closely related to UM 2020, the university’s plan to help establish priorities, make choices and achieve a new level of excellence in the next decade.

After the original statement and values were drafted by the committee, the documents were presented to the faculty on Aug. 26, 2011, during a UM 2020 update meeting. From there, the committee had to reach the approval of the IHL board. The docu-ments were received by IHL in October 2011 and approved in January 2012. The university updated the mission statement and core values on its website in January and placed a link to UM 2020 on the page.

The new mission statement and institutional core values are listed on the chancellor’s page at the university website, and the flagship goals are list-ed on the UM 2020 website.

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INVESTIGATION CONTINUES INTO JSU STUDENT SLAYING

3 SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN SLAYING AT MISS. STATE

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Jackson police have arrested a cousin of Jackson State Uni-versity student Nolan Ryan Henderson III, who was shot to death on Sunday outside an apartment building.

Jarrod Emerson, 25, was charged Wednesday with mur-der of Henderson, 19, of At-lanta, The Clarion-Ledger re-ported.

Police said Henderson re-portedly was in a fight with sev-eral Jackson State football play-ers at an off-campus pool party. Emerson told investigators that Henderson called and asked him to come over because he’d been assaulted. They went back and confronted the people.

Police say Emerson allegedly pulled his gun and fired several shots. They say Henderson was shot as the crowd scattered, and ballistics tests found that the bullet from his body matched Emerson’s gun.

Police spokeswoman Colen-dula Green said officers early Sunday found Henderson’s body on a walkway inside the Palisades Apartments. Hender-son reportedly lived on campus but was attending a pool party at the apartment complex. He was shot once.

Assistant Chief Lee Vance said police tested two weapons.

Vance said the investigation is being hampered by a num-ber of different accounts from witnesses.

Family members told the newspaper the poolside barbe-cue was arranged by some JSU football players as a goodbye party for outgoing seniors.

At one point, a fight broke out between Henderson and players, said Sanya Henderson and the victim’s father, Nolan, both of whom have spoken with police.

The shooting began after the alleged assault, when Hender-son and his friend returned, Kinnel said.

“Shots rang out, and he was hit,” Sanya Henderson said.

David Hoard, vice president for institutional advancement at JSU, said he was unaware of any football players’ involve-ment in the shooting.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi State Uni-versity student slain Saturday night at a dorm was shot twice, an autopsy shows.

John Sanderson, 21, was shot in the chest and a second bul-let traveled through his arm into the abdomen, Oktibbeha

County Coroner Michael Hunt said.

The small-caliber handgun police think was used in the shooting was found early Sun-day on the Starkville campus. It is being tested at the state crime lab. Three people have been ar-rested and charged with capital murder.

MSU officials have said drugs may have been a motive in the killing, but authorities have re-leased few details.

The possible motive in the killing “will come once the in-vestigation is complete,” Bill Kibler, vice president of stu-dent affairs, said.

“Police do have some clues but nothing that is releasable information. The next step is to get (the suspects) to Oktibbeha County and start piecing their stories together,” Kibler said.

MSU campus police chief Georgia Lindley said six peo-ple were present in the Evans Hall room when the shooting occurred — the victim, three suspects and the room’s two occupants. Lindley and other university officials would not identify the dorm’s occupants or say whether charges would be filed against them.

On Monday, Kibler said Sanderson lived in Rice Hall, not Evans Hall. When asked why Sanderson was in Evans Hall on the night of the inci-dent, Kibler said he was “prob-ably visiting.”

Richard Griffin, a superviso-ry inspector for the U.S. Mar-shals Fugitive Task Force in Jackson, said the third suspect, Trent Deundra Crump, 21, of Flowood, turned himself in at the Alachua County Sher-iff ’s Department in Florida on Tuesday. Griffin said Crump was to make his first appear-ance before a judge Wednesday and could be extradited back to Mississippi.

Duntae Harvey, 21, of Jack-son, surrendered at an apart-ment complex in Jackson on Monday. Mason Perry Jones, 21, of Jackson, was also arrest-ed by the U.S. Marshals Fugi-tive Task Force in Memphis on Sunday.

Court documents show all of the suspects and the victim had arrest records.

Harvey has been convicted of possession of drug parapherna-lia and contempt of court, re-sulting in a six-month jail sen-tence and a $4,534 fine. He has a string of other misdemeanor charges, ranging from shoplift-ing to domestic violence.

Last May, a judge ordered Crump to serve 60 days in jail and pay a $624 fine for threat-ening with a deadly weapon. A month before, he had been ar-rested on a charge of discharg-ing a firearm.

In 2010, Crump was charged

with the felony of burglary of dwelling house, but the case was dismissed. His record also includes a host of misdemean-or charges, including simple assault with injuries, domes-tic violence, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and failure to appear in court.

When Jones was arrested over the weekend, authorities picked him up on a warrant involving a Valentine’s Day armed rob-bery of a man sitting in a car outside a convenience store in south Jackson.

In 2007, after being arrest-ed on a charge of the sale of a small amount of marijuana, Sanderson told Madison police he and another man had car-ried out auto burglaries in af-fluent subdivisions, according to police reports obtained by The Clarion-Ledger through a public records request. Two years later, he complained of having his house burglarized and having his Playstation 3 and video games stolen.

That same year, Madison police responded to a fight in-

volving Sanderson, according to records.

In 2010, Sanderson was charged with two counts of aggravated assault. According to police reports, Sanderson waved a man he knew over to his vehicle in the parking lot of Walmart in Madison. He extended his hand to shake hands and when the man shook hands, Sanderson reportedly pulled the man into the vehicle and shot him in the face with a BB pistol before shooting him twice in the back of the head as the man turned away.

Sanderson then grabbed the man’s coat, dragged him 30 feet and then tried to run the man over, according to the records. Sanderson later told police the man had tried to choke him.

In an unrelated case, Sand-erson was charged with embez-zling from his employer.

Sentenced to two years in prison, Sanderson completed the Regimented Inmate Dis-cipline program in 2010, en-abling him to have his felony conviction expunged.

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Laurin Dixon, a third-year student of the professional pharmacy program at the University of Mississippi, has been awarded a Taro Research Foundation Scholarship.

“The selection process was very hard,” Dixon said. “There were eight named scholarships, and it is a great honor to get one of them.”

The $5,000 award is part of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foun-dation’s student scholarship program. It supports develop-ment of future leaders in the community pharmacy industry and recognizes students with a strong interest in developing careers in this field. Competi-

tion was considerable because more than 950 students across the country applied for the scholarship.

“She is an excellent student in and out of the classroom and is diligent in her studies,” said Donna West-Strum, who has known Dixon for three years as her honors thesis chair. “She is involved in numerous organizations and volunteers much time to various phar-macy organizations. When I saw the announcement for the scholarship, I sent it to her and thought she would be a great applicant for this scholarship. I encouraged her to apply and reviewed her application ma-terials. I was thrilled when she received the award.”

Several reasons influenced Dixon’s decision to study phar-macy.

First, she has always liked science and second, her uncle is a professor at the Univer-sity of Arkansas pharmacol-ogy school. Plus, she already had some practical experience working as a Walgreens intern in Chicago.

“It was an amazing experi-ence. With me there were four interns who worked in the cor-poration innovations office and pharmacy affairs department,” Dixon said. ”I got practical

skills and experienced (the) business side of the pharmacy. I want to admit that my univer-sity professors prepared me for this internship really well.”

Now Dixon is completing rotations at the UM Medical Center in Jackson.

This fall she will complete ro-tations at NACDS and the U.S. Food and Drug Administra-tion’s Office of Orphan Drug Products.

“She is a well-rounded and great student,” professor of pharmacology Marvin Wilson said. “She always takes advan-tages of opportunities she is aware of. This scholarship will open new doors for her and will characterize her as a prestigious and prospective employee.”

Dixon said she likes being in-volved in many extracurricular activities. She tutored in or-ganic chemistry when she was on the Ole Miss campus and thinks it was helpful to teach others. She was also a member of the student chapters of the American Society of Hospi-tal Pharmacists and American Pharmacists Association and was selected for membership in such honoraries as Omicron Delta Kappa, Mortar Board, Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, and Order of Ome-ga. Out of all of this, Dixon said she enjoyed being an Ole Miss Ambassador the most.

“I was an assistant director of special events,” Dixon said. “I wrote letters, gave tours and was present on special events. It was a great experience.”

“We are thrilled to learn that this generous scholarship is be-ing awarded to Laurin,” said David D. Allen, dean of the UM pharmacy school. “This is a wonderful scholarship pro-gram, which makes a mean-ingful difference for pharmacy students, education and our profession.”

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A citizen in Belzoni recently complained of having to pay $1 a page to copy a claims docket; with no specific price on copying in Mississippi, there are some concerns and desires to have a charge.

Charlie Mitchell, assistant dean of the Meek School of Journalism and News Media, finds the clerk made the copy-ing price of 50 cents for Oxford way too high.

“It’s way out of line with Mis-sissippi law,” he said.

Section 25-61-4 of the Missis-sippi Public Records Act states, “A public body may charge rea-sonable costs for the actual cost of searching, reviewing, dupli-cating and if needed, mailing the records.”

The problem with Missis-sippi is that there are no specific charges for copying, said Mitch-ell.

“The Federal Freedom of Information (FOI) rules set the price at 10 cents a copy,” he said. “I think the first 100 copies are free for the media.”

The law says that the charges should never go over the “ac-tual cost,” and “the decision to charge for public records is dis-cretionary.”

“There’s no way it’s a dollar; there’s no way it’s 50 cents,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell adds that prices for photocopying vary in different ways.

“It all depends on contracts that clerks have with their copier companies,” he said. “They vary by county, by state or by the of-fices in the very same building.”

The Mississippi Center for Freedom of Information, of which Mitchell is currently pres-ident, has worked with members of the legislature to try to “bring some consistency to how these charges are decided.”

Mitchell said that there is no charge for just an inspection of documents and that charging for copies is not wrong.

“Why should the taxpayers have to pay for photocopies?” he said.

Lafayette County Circuit Clerk Baretta Mosley said the charge for copying mainly de-pends on what documents are wanting to be copied, and she said she assumes the legislature determines the price for it.

“We charge 50 cents if we have to go and pull the file and make the copy; if somebody is doing their own research and wants to make a copy, we charge 25 cents,” she said.

Mosley has not had any com-plaints as far as the prices of copying since she’s been in of-fice as the circuit clerk.

“I can understand some people getting upset about the price,” she said. “You have to think about the process of the work that goes into maintaining these documents.”

She added that the costs of paper, toner and salaries of em-ployees to file and maintain the documents add up.

“I guess people don’t think about the overhead that it costs the county to maintain these documents,” Mosley said.

“We’re not charging this fee just because we can. The fee goes to maintaining the docu-ments and the taxpayers who have to pay for it.”

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The No. 14 nationally ranked Ole Miss men’s tennis team will continue Southeastern Confer-ence play this weekend with home matches against No. 39 Arkansas and No. 27 LSU from the Palm-er/Salloum Tennis Center/Galt-ney Courts. The Rebels (8-5, 4-2 SEC) enter the final stretch of the regular season, which includes a pair of road matches next week-end at Vanderbilt and Kentucky before the regular season finale at home against Mississippi State.

Ole Miss is currently in fourth place, second in the Western Divi-sion, two games back of undefeat-ed Georgia and Kentucky, both at 6-0 in league play, and one game back of 5-1 Mississippi State.

“We’re very excited about this weekend,” head coach Billy Chad-wick said. “We’re at crunch time in the SEC, and we need to get these two. We need a big crowd.

“Then we have to go on the road and do some work and get back into things. I would like to encourage people to come out and see the new tennis facility because it’s fantastic.”

Arkansas comes into Friday’s

match with a 14-7 overall record, 1-5 in league play.

“There is no such thing as an easy match in the SEC, but if we’re prepared to play, we’ll be fine,” Chadwick said of Arkansas.

LSU enters the weekend with an 11-7 overall record, 2-4 in league play, and nearly upset No. 24 Tennessee and No. 4 Georgia this past weekend before dropping both matches 4-3.

“I am not surprised with that result because LSU has a very fine team,” Chadwick said. “They are really good from top to bottom, and it got everybody’s attention, just how close they played Geor-gia, because they should’ve beaten them.”

The Rebels will be led by their No. 1 singles player, freshman Nik Scholtz, who is currently ranked No. 19 in singles with a 10-2 re-cord in dual matches and 5-1 in the SEC. Senior Marcel Thiemann is ranked No. 36 in the nation with a 9-3 record in dual matches and also 5-1 in the SEC at No. 2 singles. Junior Jonas Lutjen and freshman William Kallberg are also ranked No. 40 and No. 61 in the nation, respectively.

The Rebels will begin play to-day at 2 p.m. against Arkansas

and continue Sunday at 1 p.m. against LSU.

Boxx, Guthrie lead women into weekend

The No. 17 nationally ranked Ole Miss women’s tennis team will hit the road this weekend for a tough trip to No. 29 Arkansas and No. 35 LSU. The Rebels (11-7, 3-3 SEC) are coming off a week-end split with a home win against South Carolina, followed by a road loss to No. 2 Florida. Now, the attention turns to two more critical SEC matches.

Ole Miss is currently in a three-way tie for fourth place in the SEC standings with Auburn and LSU, three games back of undefeated Alabama and Florida at 6-0 in league play, two games back of Georgia at 5-1 and one game back of Vanderbilt at 4-2.

“It’s tough trip for us,” head coach Mark Beyers said. “We’re playing two good teams, which makes it even tougher. It’s not an easy weekend. We played well last weekend in the win over South Carolina and even in the loss to Florida, so we have a lot of confi-dence from that standpoint.”

Arkansas enters Friday’s match at 11-8 overall, 2-4 in league play, while LSU is 10-7 overall, 3-3 in

league play.“They are still No. 29 in the

country,” Beyers said of Arkan-sas. “They beat Tennessee, so it is one of those things where, ‘Don’t let that record fool you, they are a good team.’

“The same with LSU, so there will not be any easy matches.”

The Rebels will be led this weekend by their two seniors, Kristi Boxx and Abby Guthrie. As a team, the duo are ranked No. 6 in doubles with a 14-2 record in dual matches and 5-1 in the SEC. Boxx is currently ranked No. 12 in

singles with an 11-5 record in dual matches and 5-1 in the SEC at No. 1 singles. Guthrie, who won both her matches this past weekend, is 12-5 in dual matches, including 9-2 at No. 5 singles and 5-1 in the SEC.

“Abby had a great win against Florida,” Beyers said. “She beat a player who was undefeated for a year. For her to come up with a win like that is big.”

The Rebels will begin action today at 1 p.m. against Arkansas and will continue Sunday at 1 p.m. against LSU.

Men’s and Women’s Tennis take on Arkansas and LSU this weekendBY MATT SIGLERmcsigler@olemiss.edu

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The Ole Miss track and field team will return home this weekend to host the Ole Miss Invitational on Satur-day.

The team is coming off a big performance at the SEC/Big Ten Challenge this past weekend, in which they cap-tured first place in eight dif-ferent events.

“It wasn’t really a good start for us and we had a couple things we were dis-appointed in, but after that everything just started roll-ing and we had a great meet and ended up finishing really well,” head coach Joe Walker said.

The meet featured SEC schools Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Tennessee, while the Big Ten was represented by Indiana, Illinois, Ohio

State, Purdue and Wiscon-sin.

Junior sprinter Isiah Young was the highlight of the meet for the No. 21 nationally ranked men.

He won both the 100- and 200-meters, including a meet record in the 100 with a time of 10.16, which also tied ju-nior teammate Mike Granger for third-best in school his-tory.

His time leads the nation and is the second-fastest time in the world this outdoor sea-son, while junior Ricky Rob-ertson also leads the nation and is tied for second-best in the world with a 7-4.5 mark this past weekend.

On the women’s side, se-nior Logan Waites shattered the school record in the 3,000 meters with a time of 9:45.54, which earned her the title in the meet. The new record eclipses the 10:02.60 mark, which has held since 1989.

Now the Rebels return home where they have ex-celled in the past, and Walk-er believes that the trend will continue this weekend.

“We’re really excited about being at home,” he said. “We’ve always defended our home turf really well, and it’s our chance for our family and friends to see us and to come out.

“So, it is always a big affair for us to be at home. We get

excited when we are here.”Going into the home meet,

the Rebels have three ath-letes who earned SEC weekly awards for their performanc-es at the SEC/Big Ten Chal-lenge. Young and Robertson were named runner of the week and co-men’s field ath-lete of the week, respectively, and Waites garnered co-women’s runner of the week honors.

Saturday’s meet is sched-uled to begin at 10 a.m., and among the schools that will be represented are SEC schools Alabama and Mis-sissippi, as well as Mem-phis, among other Division I schools across the Southeast and the country.

Track and Field set to host Ole Miss Invitational this weekendBY MATT SIGLERmcsigler@olemiss.edu

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Rebel tennis players Marcel Thiemann and Gabby Rangel have been nominated for the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Postgraduate Scholar-ship, and football player Devin Thomas and softball player Amanda Hutcheson have been nominated for the Brad Davis Community Service Postgrad-uate Scholarship by the Uni-versity of Mississippi.

The H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Postgradu-ate Scholarship has been pre-sented by the Southeastern Conference since 1986 to the league’s top male and female scholar-athletes.

The SEC Community Ser-vice Postgraduate Scholarship is named for former Associate Commissioner Brad Davis. Davis succumbed to cancer on March 2, 2006. He had been a member of the SEC staff since 1988, first serving as an assistant commissioner, until 1994 when he was promoted to associate commissioner.

The Southeastern Con-ference will name the 2012 recipients of the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship on April 6 in conjunction with National Student-Athlete Day.

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In 2012, the Ole Miss soccer team will play a total of 12 home games and face 10 teams that advanced to last year’s NCAA Tournament third-year head coach Matt Mott Thursday. In addition, the sched-ule will have a new-look for SEC games with the addition of Texas A&M and Missouri to the league.

“We’re excited about our 2012 schedule. Adding Texas A&M and Missouri will only make the SEC even stronger. We’ve put together a good non-conference schedule with six home games, and we will be playing great teams at home like Memphis and Texas Tech. Overall, I’m excited to have 12 home games throughout the year. We love play-ing at home in front of our fans and having that home-field advan-tage.”

Nine of the 10 teams that Ole Miss will face this year that ad-vanced to postseason play in 2011 are SEC opponents.

During its non-conference sea-son, the Rebels will play six of its seven non-league games at home, including games against Memphis and Texas Tech. Ole Miss will also host Southern Miss, Louisiana-Lafayette and Arkansas-Little Rock, while the Rebels will be traveling to Middle Tennessee.

The Rebels will open SEC play hosting Arkansas on September 14 and conference-newcomer Texas A&M on September 16. Ole Miss will then play four-consecutive games on the road at conference-newcomer Missouri, followed by Alabama, Florida and Auburn from September 21-30.

Ole Miss will host Georgia on October 5 and Kentucky on Octo-ber 7 before traveling to Vanderbilt (October 12) and South Carolina (October 14). The Rebels will host LSU and Tennessee on October 19 and 21 and will close out the regu-lar season in the Magnolia Cup with a game at Mississippi State on October 25.

Soccer Unveils 2012 Schedule

OLE MISS SPORTS INFORMATION

The Ole Miss Rebels softball team (14-16, 2-6 SEC) hosts the No. 24 nationally ranked Auburn Tigers (24-11, 3-7 SEC) in a three-game series this weekend at the Ole Miss Softball Complex. Ear-lier this week, the Rebels split a midweek double header in Ridge-land, losing to Jackson State, 7-2, before bouncing back with a 5-3 win against Southern Miss.

Senior Kendall Bruning took the loss in game one, giving up seven runs — six earned — on nine hits with eight strikeouts in six innings. Bruning leads the team in the circle with an 11-8 record,

a 3.82 earned run average and 90 strikeouts in 111.2 innings pitched. In the second game, junior Erinn Jayjohn pitched her first career complete game to earn the win, giving up seven runs — six earned — on nine hits, while striking out eight.

“All of her pitches worked,” head Coach Windy Thees said of Jayjohn after Tuesday’s game against Southern Miss. “She spins the ball really well, she is off speed and can switch up the speed on all of her pitches.”

The Auburn Tigers, one spot ahead of Ole Miss in the league standings, enter the weekend af-ter dropping a midweek double header against No. 2 nationally

ranked Alabama. Including the double header split, Ole Miss has lost four of five dating back to this past weekend’s series sweep against Georgia.

As a team, the Rebels are hit-ting .296, sixth in the SEC, led by freshman Londen Ladner who ranks 10th in the conference with a .397 batting average, followed by senior Corrine Doornberg who ranks 11th with a .386 batting av-erage. Ladner also leads the team with five home runs, while fresh-man Allison Brown leads the team with 28 RBI.

Friday’s series opener is set for 6 p.m., Saturday’s game is sched-uled for 2 p.m. and Sunday’s game at 1 p.m.

Softball to host No. 24 Auburn in weekend seriesBy JOSH HOLLINGSHEADconner.josh12@gmail.com

Practice Report: Freeze pleased with yesterday going into today’s scrimmage

After a lackluster performance during Tuesday’s practice, the Ole Miss football team came back strong Thursday, said head coach Hugh Freeze.

“I couldn’t be more pleased re-ally,” Freeze said. “The way they bounced back from what I thought was a half-hearted effort. I didn’t think their attitude was bad, but I didn’t think we gave great effort for the entire practice Tuesday.

“We just told them in our team meeting that it’s time that they ex-pect more of themselves, and it’s not OK to not give great effort.”

The Ole Miss offense has come along slowly due to learning a new system and facing a defense that has already installed a good bit of their playbook, but Freeze said the offense was better Thursday.

“Today, I thought, was great,” Freeze said. “It was the best team competition we’ve had, and the offense finally competed a little bit. We had too many balls on the ground offensively, but the thing I was most pleased with today is that they bounced back with great energy and effort.

“That’s my background, and I take it personal if we don’t have

success.”Grant happy to be at

defensive tackleSenior Uriah Grant signed with

Ole Miss out of junior college last year and came in as a defensive tackle.

Due to injuries and ineffective-ness, the Miramar, Fla., native was forced to rotate between defensive end and tackle. This year, Grant is happy to have only one position.

“Last year, I wasn’t really a de-fensive end, but coach asked me to do it, and I’m going to do any-thing to help the team,” Grant said. “I’m just glad that right now I’m just playing defensive tackle.”

A new coaching staff under Hugh Freeze has energized the team, and defensive line coach Chris Kiffin has certainly done that to the defensive line.

“There’s a lot more energy, a lot more fun, a lot more enthusiasm,” said Grant. “It makes you want to come out to practice and just go hard and just have fun.”

Because the defensive tackle group as a whole is inexperienced, Grant will have the opportunity to step in and play major snaps at the position.

“D-Line is huge to begin with, and to play in this league, you better be two-deep at least, if not

three,” Freeze said. “Uriah is a guy that obviously we think is go-ing to be right in the mix. I know Coach Kiffin’s pleased with his in-side guys.”

The new coaching staff has also emphasized the importance of becoming closer as a team, and Grant said he can see the effects.

“Things are going pretty good right now, we’re building a closer team and guys are just learning the plays and stuff,” Grant said.

“We’re just coming together as one, and that’s what coaches ask for – just to come together as a family.”

By BENNETT HIPPjbhipp@olemiss.edu

Three things to keep an eye on in today’s 4:15 p.m. scrimmage at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium:

1. QuarterbacksMost of the focus in tomor-

row’s scrimmage will be on the quarterback position and how they handle Hugh Freeze’s high-tempo, spread offense. Through five practices, junior Barry Bru-netti and sophomore Bo Wallace have started to separate them-selves from the group. Wallace has an advantage because he already knows most of the termi-nology from his stint at Arkansas State, and Brunetti has done well because the offense suits him in terms of his playing style. Tomor-row gives Zack Stoudt, Randall Mackey and the rest of the quar-terbacks an opportunity to close the gap on Brunetti and Wallace.

2. Questions on DefenseWhen the hiring of Dave

Wommack was announced, and he said that he would bring his 4-2-5 defense to Oxford, there was much skepticism about whether that scheme could work in the Southeastern Conference. The defense has consistently been ahead of the offense so far in spring practice, and the same should be expected tomorrow. But, the defense isn’t without question marks. Chris Kiffin is still searching for pass rushers on his defensive line, and while Wom-mack has said that sophomore C.J. Johnson has stood out to him, there will be plenty of chances for others to shine. Also, a retooled

secondary with Charles Sawyer back at safety will be something to watch. With Sawyer not at cor-nerback, there’s now an opening to fill at the position.

3. Offensive LineAnother area to watch dur-

ing the scrimmage will be the offensive line. Already tasked with replacing both starting of-fensive tackles, the line has un-dergone a shuffle during spring practice. Junior Emmanuel McCray has been working at left tackle with Aaron Mor-ris moved to left guard. Junior college transfer Pierce Burton has been working with the first team at right tackle, but the line remains unsettled.

Ole Miss offensive and defensive lines go through spring drills.

AUSTIN MCAFEE | The Daily Mississippian

Junior Barry Brunetti

Senior Randall Mackey

Senior Zack Stoudt

Sophomore Bo Wallace

PHOTOS BY AUSTIN MCAFEE | The Daily Mississippian

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If No. 16 Ole Miss (18-7, 3-3 SEC) thought its first two week-ends of Southeastern Confer-ence action was tough, it’ll think this weekend is nearly impossible as the Florida Gators (23-2, 5-1 SEC), who are ranked No. 1 in the nation, come in to town for a three-game series starting tonight at Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field.

“It’s another opportunity in the Southeastern Conference,” head coach Mike Bianco said. “It’s a big one for the fans and everybody because you’re playing the No. 1 team in the country. But, I think it’s important to be ourselves.

“I think it’s important to stay the course. It’s going to be an exciting weekend. The weather is going to be great, and there will be some great crowds.”

Coming into the weekend, Florida took two of three on the road from the defending national champions South Carolina this past weekend and defeated No. 4 Florida State for a second time on

Tuesday, while Ole Miss took two of three at Alabama and shut out Jackson State, also on Tuesday.

Florida leads the all-time series 45-44 after a series sweep this past season in Gainesville.

On paper, the Gators and Reb-els look similar at the plate. As a team, Florida is hitting .295 and averaging 7.1 runs per game, to go along with 37 home runs this season. Ole Miss is hitting .313 and averaging just under seven runs per game, while having hit 20 home runs this season.

The Gators are led at the plate by junior catcher Mike Zunino, who leads the team in batting av-erage (.376), RBI (32) and home runs (9). He leads the SEC in home runs, ranks second in RBI and fifth in batting average, while Ole Miss senior designated hitter Zach Kirksey leads the league in RBI (33), ranks second in home runs (8) and junior second base-man Alex Yarbrough ranks third in batting average (.407).

On Friday night, sophomore right-hander Bobby Wahl will look to set the tone for the week-end, but it won’t be easy going

against junior right-hander Hud-son Randall of the Gators. Wahl is a perfect 4-0 on the season with a 2.36 earned run average in 34.1 innings pitched with a team-lead-ing 42 strikeouts. Randall is 3-0 on the year with a 3.41 earned run average in 37.0 innings. He has also totaled 34 strikeouts on the year.

Senior right-hander R.J. Hively will look to continue his domi-nance on the mound and opposes junior left-hander Brian Johnson on Saturday afternoon. Hively is 3-1 and leads the team with a 1.47 earned run average in 36.2 innings of work. Johnson is 4-0 with a 3.13 earned run average over 31.2 innings.

On Sunday afternoon, sopho-more right-hander Mike Mayers goes up against sophomore right-hander Jonathan Crawford. May-ers has pitched better than his 2-2 record indicates this year. He holds a 3.47 earned run average in 36.1 innings pitched, and oppo-nents are hitting just .205 against him. Crawford is 2-1 with a 3.95 earned run average over 27.1 in-nings.

Friday’s series opener is set for a 6:30 p.m. first pitch and will be televised on Sun Sports. Sat-urday’s game is set for 1:30 p.m., while Sunday’s series finale will start at 12:30 p.m.

A history of upsetsOle Miss has a good history in

series versus top-10 opponents at home, especially those ranked No. 1 in the nation.

The Rebels are a perfect 2-0 against top-ranked teams at home after defeating the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs in 2009 and the No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks this past season. Dating back to 2003,

Ole Miss has hosted 13 top-10 opponents, taking the series 10 of those 13 times.

“We’re really excited to play them,” Yarbrough said. “Their (lineup) 1 (through) 9 and their whole pitching staff is arguably the best team in the country. They’re going to have a lot of great arms they’re going to throw at us all weekend — a lot of power arms.

“1-9 in their lineup, they’re go-ing to be about as strong as we’ll see all year. But, we’re just trying to focus on playing our game, playing the game the right way and playing hard. I think if we fo-cus on that, we’ll be OK.”

Hometown motivationIf it weren’t enough to be play-

ing the No. 1 team in the country, sophomore catcher Will Allen has some added motivation this week-end.

Allen hails from Gainesville, Fla., so he is very familiar with the visiting Gators.

“Obviously, I’m from there,” he said. “I’ve got great respect for their program and their coaches. Both of my parents went there, and my dad played football there. I grew up a Gator fan, but things change.

“I came up here one Friday night and fell in love with Ole Miss and Oxford. I’m just really looking forward to the opportu-nity to play them.”

Buchanan gaining confi-dence

Freshman Hawtin Buchanan has looked impressive in his last couple of appearances, including striking out the side in a perfect sixth inning against Jackson State on Tuesday night.

“Just getting some innings un-der my belt is really good for con-fidence,” Buchanan said.

In just 4.2 innings this season, the 6-foot-8, 250-pound right-hander has struck out 10 batters, while giving up just four hits.

No. 16 Diamond Rebels host No. 1 Florida in weekend showdown

BY DAVID COLLIERdlcollie@olemiss.edu

INFOGRAPHIC BY CAIN MADDEN | The Daily Mississippian

FILE PHOTO (ALEX EDWARDS) | The Daily Mississippian

Junior second baseman Alex Yarbrough makes a play in the field. Yarbrough leads the team and ranks third in the SEC with a .407 batting average this season.