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As campus slept, one country was brought to the ground: buildings decimated, families displaced and people dead. Sophomore Doug Adhikari woke up on a normal day in Mississippi to see multiple missed calls and text messages. Unsure of what was wrong, he called his family back. On Wednesday, April 25, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake destroyed many cities in Nepal. The memories of Adhikari’s home lay in the rubble
“You forget to feel. You breakdown, you just don’t know what to think,” said Adhikari, a finance major. “You almost have this sense of guilt that you’re not there trying to help.” As the days pass, the death toll continues to increase above 5,000. “It keeps climbing every time I check, and it traumatizes you,” Adhikari said. Adhikari continues to call or text his family to check on the progress they and the country has made. He said his parents continue to say ”It’s ok” and “We are fortunate to be alive”
and that, even though this disaster has happened, life will go on. Despite their reassurances, he can recognize the impact this event has had on their lives. “You can hear it in their voice that they are terrorized by this whole event,” Adhikari said. After the earthquake, Adhikari’s parents, who reside in Kathmandu, slept in their car for three nights because it was not safe to be back in the house due to the aftershocks, which are strong as well. “The first three days was probably the worst time I
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After years of working, Tonia Adams’ hands are callused but agile. “I tell you: my day is so long,” Adams said. “These hands, oh God, they hurt so bad sometimes because I work so much on them. I’m constantly doing something with these hands. But I love everything I do.” Adams has worked on the cleaning staff of the Chi Omega sorority house for 15 years. Every morning, she gets up at 5 a.m. and heads to the first of her three jobs, which include cleaning condos off campus and delivering newspapers for the Oxford Eagle. “The reason I picked up the (third) job is because my daughter went to college and, me, I’m a single mom,” Adams said. “Her father was killed in a car crash last year. That left me with a lot on me.” She works for a yearly wage of less than $22,000 a year, or less than $11 an hour. Her wages keep her afloat, but no more. Sociology professor James Thomas thinks wages shouldn’t work this way. He said a salary should enable you to buy food, housing and security without public assistance. So, Thomas
launched a living wage campaign in his social problems class this semester to raise the minimum pay at the university to $17.28 an hour. He said unsustainable wages cross the lines of race, gender and class – making it applicable to both workers on campus and students interested in social problems. “When we think about a living wage issue, the people who work the jobs that pay below a living wage threshold proportionally are overrepresented by people of color and women,” Thomas said. “This isn’t just an issue about class or income. Living wage is a really comprehensive way to address systemic, intersecting, durable inequalities.” All semester, the students in Thomas’ class have written claims and groundwork for the campaign. Ian Whalen, a senior sociology major, said this class has differed from others he has taken in the field. “A regular sociology class really focuses on the theory of action,” Whalen said. “We talk about social movements and social concepts. But in this class, we’re actually going out and doing activist work.”
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Blurred lines in Mississippi immigration program politics KARSON BRANDENBURGHOAGLAND knbrande@go.olemiss.edu
Washington, D.C. - Discussion of immigration reform may look red and blue in news reports, divided along political lines, but, in Mississippi, it’s a little more gray. President Obama issued a series of executive actions November 20, prompting a whole new conversation about immigration. These actions included expansion of the current Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and initiation of a new program, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents. The first allows persons who arrived in the United States before 1964
and before they were 16 years old to avoid deportation by applying for deferred action while they worked toward citizenship. The second, and more recent, allows for parents of children born here to also get on board with delayed deportation while they work toward citizenship. Immigration isn’t something that solely affects states on the border, where tempers have flared and immigration is caught up in volatile political battles. Realistically, southern agricultural states like Mississippi are at the forefront of the battle, too. Immigration impacts agricultural states like Mississippi because agricultural industries— farming, shrimping, etc. — need migrant workers for things like picking crops and manning
crews on the shrimp boats. Hence, the gray hue of immigration reform is evident in Mississippi politics. Run by Republican politicians, the state must balance political loyalties with the needs of Mississippians. Sen. Thad Cochran, a Mississippi Republican, has been long-involved in a battle to keep new regulations from hampering the H-2B temporary visa program for foreign workers, which allows seasonal immigrants to supplement the workforce, especially in the Gulf Coast states. “Shrimpers, foresters and other seasonal industries across Mississippi rely on the H-2B program to supplement their permanent workforce as they
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Bruce Jenner is braver than you’ll ever be My experience with the Kardashian family and the global phenomenon that is their lives is a bit limited. Not, mind you, out of any high-minded opposition to reality TV and celebrity gossip. On the contrary, I generally choose to waste my time on cooking-centric reality shows, and when I read celebrity gossip it is nearly always about musicians. So, I know a bit about Kim as the primary rival for the affection of my beloved Kanye, but beyond that, it’s all uncharted territory. Sports culture, likewise, is an embarrassing gap in my cultural competency. So, the many presumably-herculean Olympic achievements of Bruce Jenner are beyond me. Something I do know a good deal about, however, are the issues surrounding transgender identities and the transgender community.
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For this reason, I’ve been paying close attention to Jenner’s recent coming out as a trans woman, as well as the reaction to it in the public sphere. Coming out as trans is difficult at any age, but in watching Jenner’s story, I immediately empathized with the pain of coming out now, at age 65. The pain of trans people of all genders going through life pretending to be someone they’re not is immense, and having to suffer through that from childhood until now, as Jenner has, makes this all the much braver of an act. I absolutely recommend watching the Amazon original series “Transparent” for a fictionalized insight into this experience. Jeffrey Tambor, of “Arrested Development” fame, plays a trans woman who comes out, like Jenner, in her 60s, and deals with her and her family’s
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emotions during this experience. Though it would have been nice to have an actual trans woman play the role – discrimination against trans women is so great that nearly every major trans role in film has been played by a man – Tambor actually treats the role with great respect, communicating an authentic experience of being an older trans woman. Between “Transparent,” “Orange is the New Black” cast member Laverne Cox posing nude for “Allure,” stunning trans model Andreja Pejić gracing the cover of “Vogue,” and now Bruce Jenner, transgender visibility is at an all-time high. And it’s been a long time coming – trans women, along with drag queens and cisgender lesbians, many black and Hispanic, were instrumental in the 1969 Stonewall Riots, largely
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considered the start of the gay rights movement. Sadly, that very same gay rights movement has largely forgotten the fact that trans people have been there carrying the flame from the very beginning. From Chad Griffin’s Human Rights Campaign’s only recently-reversed policy of non-support for transgender rights, to radical lesbian feminist groups explicitly condemning trans women, to gay icon RuPaul promoting anti-trans slurs on his show, it’s looked a lot like the LGBT community forgot the “T” at some point along its journey - privileging same-sex marriage and the gay white male over any other issue and demographic. Today, thanks primarily to the efforts of countless brave, outspoken trans men and women, it appears this trend is
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continued from page 2 starting to be reversed. For example, more and more people are becoming educated on the problems our current restrooms on campus create for trans people. Should a recently-out trans man use the men’s restroom and risk being targeted for violence and shaming? Or should he use the women’s restroom, stripping him of the recognition of his innate gender? When one looks at the alarming statistics for violence against
trans people – one in four trans people have experienced bias-driven assault and are three times as likely to be harassed by police, with these rates climbing for trans people of color – it becomes immediately clear why making them feel safe and not have to risk their lives for something as fundamental as using the restroom should be a campus priority. Expect to see campaigns for mandatory gender-neutral restrooms on campus soon. All of this points towards a new, more accurate cultural understanding of gender in our society. Our culture is clearly moving towards recognizing that gender is more than simply
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what configuration of genitalia you happened to develop; that it is a spectrum, allowing for more diverse expressions than just male and female. If you haven’t realized this yet, I’m sorry to say, but you’re behind the times. And if you, dear reader, are one of those people – and I know that, unfortunately, many of you are – that has been delighting in making crude jokes about Bruce Jenner and denying his identity as a woman, then you are directly responsible for the culture of violence trans people experience in our society. The unconscionably high murder rate, unemployment
rate, and homelessness rate trans people face? That’s on you. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but history has not looked kindly on the fag-bashers of the ‘70s and ‘80s, nor will it look kindly on you. Is it the fact that Bruce Jenner has had the courage to be true to himself and live his life authentically, while you’ve been stuck in the same cookie-cutter rituals and identities all your life? Bruce Jenner is braver than you’ll ever be. Robert McAuliffe is a junior international studies major from St. Louis.
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DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART (SHAPED GLASSES) You know I read it in a magazine? A jail in Hernando, Mississippi now houses the man who stole Elton John’s famous heartshaped glasses April 21st. According to the Clarion Ledger, the glasses were housed in the Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum in Memphis when 26-year-old Matthew Colvin of Southaven swiped the glasses. According to Colvin’s mother her son wasn’t originally planning on even visiting the museum that day, but went with his girlfriend because it was raining that day. The heart-shaped glasses are valued at over $2,000 and were put back on display Wednesday. It’s all a little shade-y if I say so myself.
WHEN YOU HAVE THAT DREAM THAT YOU ARE NAKED AT SCHOOL And it becomes reality. This Tuesday at Madison Central High School, a student of the school got up during class and began to undress completely then ran out of the classroom then the school. WLOX News reported that the Madison police were called and secured the student. In fact, the student ended up running to Broadmoor Baptist Church who then called the police and reported the student. The policemen then transported the student to a hospital where he still remains in ICU. Police say that nothing has been confirmed yet, but there is suspicion that the strange actions were a result of spice ingestion. Blood work has been performed, but the results have not been released yet.
HARRY TRUMAN, DORIS DAY, RED CHINA, JOHNNIE RAY We didn’t start the fire, but two men certainly stepped up to the plate to stop it. The Sun Herald reported this week that two men in Moss Point rescued their neighbors from a house fire. Among the victims was a 102-year-old grandmother and her 44-year-old grandson. One of the rescuers, Octavius Kirkland, recalled that the smoke was so thick they could hardly see enough to rescue their neighbors. After the men rescued the victims, the grandmother, Gracie Free, was clearly concerned about her two dogs inside. The men then returned back into the enflamed house and rescued the dogs in order to ease Free’s concerns. According to the fire department the fire likely started in the bedroom and the house was almost completely totaled as a result. It took firefighters from four different counties 45 minutes to control the fire.
Though he is graduating, Whalen said he hopes to continue working with the campaign while at graduate school next year. “I think it’s really innovative because you actually feel involved in something. You feel like it’s not just a class where you’ll go and take notes and write a paper on a book you read,” Whalen said. “You’re applying what you’re learning to an actual movement. I really love it.” Thomas used a living wage calculator developed in 2001 by MIT professor Amy Glasmeier to calculate the basic needs for a single adult and a dependent in Lafayette County. The calculator accounts for prices of food, transportation, housing and many other geographically variable factors. On this campus, a wage of $17.28 per hour would increase the paychecks of 249 recognized staff positions, or nearly 32 percent of the staff positions on campus, according to the department of human resources job descriptions and pay rate ranges. Thomas said he expects the effort to take at least three years. “I’m willing to do this for as long as it takes,” Thomas said. “The consequences could be huge, right? If the university says they’ll do it, would this be something other major universities in the state decide they’re also going to do? Does that put pressure on legislatures in Mississippi in Jackson?” Mississippi has resisted raising wages. In 2013, the state legislature passed House Bill 141, which said no city, county or municipality could set a minimum wage higher than the federally-approved $7.25 an hour. But this doesn’t prohibit an individual employer – like the university – from raising hourly wages. University Staff Council President Carl Hill said he knows many people staff who work multiple jobs. “After taxes and insurance comes out, you’re roughly looking at $1,000-$1,100 a month,” Hill said. “(That) goes really quickly
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when you think about living in Oxford, where the cost of living is a little more expensive.” The university has already recognized the need for higher wages in some respects, Hill said. Ole Miss currently pays a minimum wage of $10.25 an hour. Larry Sparks, vice chancellor for administration and finance, said these workers are the backbone of the university. “For a university, the number one resource is our people,” Sparks said. “We all have needs and expectations. If you make a commitment to your individuals, it helps starting with employee morale and moves to things like stability. You see individuals who stay longer.” The $10.25 per hour university minimum wage was not always so high. In 2004, the wage matched the $5.15 per hour national average. Sparks predecessor, John M. Williams, began the initiative under the in-house slogan “10 by 10,” which hoped to reach a $10 minimum wage by 2010. Though this was delayed by the 2008 economic recession, the university reached this goal in 2011. “Since that point, we have increased it as we could. We look at it annually as we’re going through our budget process,” Sparks said. “Every year, the question is ‘Can we afford to raise the minimum wage?’” The university made the last jump to a $10.25 minimum just last semester, and Sparks said and the budget might allow for
another increase this year. The problem is not the principle of raising the minimum wage, but the ripple effect, Sparks said. Staff members who have longevity – those who have been working on campus for years or even decades – are rewarded for their commitment with increasing raises. If the minimum is raised, others must rise to compensate. But the main problem is the availability of funds, Sparks said, especially if the university were to increase wages to $17.28 an hour at once. “To do it in one fell swoop, I think, would be catastrophic for this institution,” Sparks said. The university is heavily dependent upon tuition because only about 15 percent of daily operations are funded by state appropriation, Sparks said. At this point, Sparks said the state has neither the growth rate nor the funding to raise the minimum to $17.28. Sparks said he has a tentative solution. “There’s ways to accomplish everything. The question becomes: are you willing to do what it takes to accomplish it?” Sparks said. “Could we do it over a period of time and set goals and benchmarks? Absolutely.” “If we are committed, and you see persistent attempts year after year to provide wages even when other institutions are unable to, then I hope that shows our commitment to our individuals,” Sparks said. Sparks said the university has raised the living wage seven out of the past eight years. He said though he wasn’t sure how long it would take to reach a living wage because it depends on the ever-changing yearly budget, he is sure that it can be done. Until then, men and women like Tonia Carter will continue working to make ends meet. “Oxford is a great place to live and a great place to raise your kids. It’s just, with the economy growing so big around here, it makes it so expensive for you,” Carter said. “It’s really hard being a single mom with two girls, but I just feel so blessed that I’ve made it.”
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continued from page 1 could think of after the earthquake,”Adhikari said. “They are trying to be strong so I don’t feel bad here.” It hurts to think about the people still missing. He imagines people with broken ribs, broken arms, scared and alone. “It’s pretty gory, but you think about that kind of stuff. You think about that kind of stuff when you know what’s happened,” Adhikari said. “People have lost parents, people have lost their children, everything they have ever known.” Adhikari will return to his home once exams are over, but said he is heartbroken over the destruction of what he once knew. “Places you went to when you were there a few months ago are not there any more, have completely collapsed,” Adhikari said. “It’s pretty terrible.” Freshman Abhijaya Shrestha could not get in contact with his parents for hours after the event. “I immediately wanted to call back home and check if they were fine or not,” said Shrestha, a mechanical engineering major. “It was like falling from a huge cliff. It was extremely shocking news.” Shrestha is continuously told that he is fortunate he was in the United States when the earthquake occurred, but said he wishes that he were back in Nepal. “I may have been struggling, but I would have been with my family,” Shrestha said. Devastation is one word that Shrestha continues to use while describing his hometown. Kathmandu is highly populated, he does not know if everyone he knows is alive, or leaving the city and cannot help them if they need it.
“I can imagine how families have been destroyed,” Shrestha said. “They may be my neighbors; they may be anyone.” Nosa Egiebor, executive director of global engagement, said the earthquake in Nepal has become a major human disaster, and his heart goes out to the families who have lost loved ones in the earthquake. “We, at the Office of Global Engagement, have contacted all of our 24 or so Nepalese students at Ole Miss to let them know that we are here for them,” Egiebor said. “Luckily, we are made to understand that none of them lost loved ones in the earthquake, but one of the students had their home destroyed.” Egiebor said the Institute for International Education has established an emergency fund to support Nepalese students in the United States who may need emergency financial support. Nominations for the funds must come through the International Office at their institutions. “We have notified our students from Nepal about the availability of this IIE emergency fund, and that we’ll be glad to nominate and work with any of them who may need such emergency funds,” Egiebor said. Shrestha and Adhikari said donations and prayer are the best way to help. Shrestha said it is a priority for humanity and the world as a whole to help, there are actual people who still may be buried under rubble. Shrestha said $1 is equivalent to 100 rupees and that can buy a meal for five to six people. So, even if you think you are donating very little, it can turn out to be very helpful. “We had a unique culture that was different from most of the world and now that is destroyed,” Adhikari said. “That is devastating news not only for Nepal but the whole world. Nepal needs help.”
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continued from page 1 fight to protect American jobs by keeping their businesses open year-round,” Cochran said in a press release. “The irresponsible decision to stop the H-2B program sowed hardship and uncertainty- two things that make running a business more difficult.” Though Mississippi does have different priorities than some of the northern states, Cochran’s stance aligns with the majority of the Republican Party when it comes to President Obama’s executive actions relating to deferred action legislation. Cochran’s senior communications director, Chris Gallegos, said Cochran “supports the rule of law and has opposed the President’s unilateral actions regarding the illegal immigrants in the United States.” Gallegos also said, while Cochran does support the H-2B program for temporary worker visas, he still believes that preventive measures, such as increased border security, need to be addressed. Laura Vazquez, senior immigration legislative analyst for the National Council of La Raza — the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States — said the council supported and even encouraged the executive action by President Obama. The basis of her reasoning was that, in 2013, the Senate passed a comprehensive bill with bipartisan support and La Raza pushed for that legislation. “We thought that it was a very difficult bill,” Vazquez said. “It’s not what NCLR would have written, but it was a compromise.” And Vazquez said that her group was willing to make that compromise, even though the bill had a longer path to citizenship that it wanted. When the House failed to pass
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Cochran, R-Miss., is interviewed by CQ Roll Call on January 14. the bill, Vazquez said her group thought it was a failure to do their job. “So, we thought it was critical that the president address the situation with his impact,” Vazquez said. Now, Vazquez says that comprehensive immigration reform needs to be addressed because it impacts more than just the immigrants. “One of the things that we know is that this isn’t an issue that touches just someone who is undocumented,” Vazquez said. “This isn’t an issue that touches people just in isolation. Undocumented immigrants are married to U.S. citizens, working with U.S. citizens.” Conn Carroll, now communica-
tions director for Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, and formerly White House correspondent for Townhall.com, said sympathy isn’t a good enough reason for amnesty-like programs like the president’s. “I think the big problem with conservatives right now is that we’re not having a real honest conversation on either side,” said Carroll. “We can’t just keep saying, ‘The people here today are special, and tomorrow we’ll start deporting people.’” Immigration reformation may not be a conversation that has clear sides or a clear resolution, but in Mississippi, most agree it’s a conversation that needs to be had until a compromise and conclusion are reached.
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This Saturday, one of Oxford’s local rock bands will take the stage at Proud Larry’s for a free, two-hour show. The Heard, a bass and drum-fueled two-piece band, has had a steady ascent since their formation last summer. Brian Hatch, bassist and half of the duo, said he “just wants to get everybody out there groovin’ and dancing. It’s mostly rock-n-roll,” Heard said. “Some of it’s more in the punk bane, and some of it you could call ‘indie.’ It’s mainly just rock-nroll.” Grooves, loud vocals, booming drums and distortion will make up this pre-exam rock-out session at The Lyric. In fact, Hatch, senior English major at the Ole Miss, has two exams on Monday, which is why he will be celebrating his birthday at Proud Larry’s during Saturday’s show. About two or three years ago, Hatch met Jace Hughes through his roommate, who also happened to be Hughes’ girlfriend. “We jammed together a few times— nothing really serious,” Hatch said. “We played together for a while, and then eventually,
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summer of last year, we just really started trying to do it.” With Hughes on drums and vocals and Hatch on bass, a band was born. With extra time during the summer, they were able to practice three or four times a week. They eventually had six songs under their belts, and The Heard began to start playing and opening for local shows. Hughes and Hatch, no strangers to the food industry, say the name of their band partly comes
from popular jargon used in restaurant kitchens. “Heard!” is a term used by an employee to signify he has understood any direction given to him but does not have time for a lengthy answer, Hatch explained. After arguing about band names for months, the two decided on the name when Hughes replied with “Heard!” one day, and it stuck. The band has now recorded a self-titled EP made up of four songs that are about as metal
as two men can get. Hughes pounds the drums while simultaneously ripping out lyrics. As for Hatch, he does not simply strum the bass. He carries a deep, thundering melody as Hughes continually supplies the beats. Their music video for “Inside Your Head” recently won the Local Voice’s “Townie” award and was screened at the Oxford Film Festival this year, much to Hatch and Hughes’ excitement. In the past year and-a-half,
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their repertoire has grown from the six songs they formulated over the past summer to 20. As Hatch and Hughes bonded over time, their song writing and stage-presence became more natural. “Sometimes we’ll write a song from start to finish in five minutes,” Hatch said. “We’ve been playing together so long that we’re getting to where we read each other and play together and know what the other’s about to do.” After Hatch graduates, The Heard will take on a tour of the Southeast. “We’ve got a tour booked this summer,” Hatch said. “We’ve got some shows in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. We’re just trying to build some momentum and get as many people out as possible.” The pair is most excited for shows near home, Hatch said. After their kick-off this Saturday at Proud Larry’s, The Heard will travel to Memphis for a performance at Murphy’s Memphis Bar and Grill on May 15. For those who miss their performance this Saturday, they will be part of a group show alongside Gilded Creatures and others at The Blind Pig on May 21.
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Early Bird Catches the Worm: Why you should wake up at dawn to ace your exams MCKENNA WIERMAN
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FINALS SURVIVAL GUIDE: I know what you’re probably thinking: Why would I wake up early for my exam after I’ve studied all night long for it? If you remember last semester, I tried to stress the importance of NOT pulling an all-nighter and getting as much sleep as possible. And I stand by that. What I’m saying now is to get to bed nice and early, so you wake up at sunrise and get motivated. Turns out how you start your morning before a big exam can be just as important as how you study for the test. Here are some reasons why the snooze button is your worst enemy during finals week: 1) You’ll be way more likely to go to bed early: Sometimes you have to trick yourself into doing things you’d otherwise not want to do. By telling yourself “Hey, I’ve got to wake up at the crack of dawn tomorrow,” you’ll also be saying “So, maybe I won’t stay up until 1:45 a.m. at the library memorizing textbooks until I make it on the Ole Miss Campus Snapchat Story.” Taking an exam, no matter how much you study, is pretty stressful for everyone. By getting to bed early the night before, you’re taking the first step of preparing your brain for the actual exam. 2) You can eat: Food is fuel. I’m sure we all saw those TV ads growing up encouraging us to eat a balanced breakfast, and if you haven’t heard the science by now as to why breakfast really is the most important meal of the day,
you have been living under a rock. Waking up early means allowing yourself the time to actually prepare this sacred meal. And I’m not talking about just filling a bowl with some kind of sugar-packed cereal or drowning tasteless flakes with half-gallon of milk, then shoveling them into your mouth at industrial speed as you demonically read through your notes one last time. I’m talking about putting on your bathrobe and shuffling into the kitchen to cook up some eggs, toast — bacon, if you have it. For those of you who live in the dorms, oatmeal, fruit, yogurt and granola will survive a few nights in your mini-fridge. Sip -do not chug- your coffee. 3) You’ll actually wake up: While you sit down to enjoy the glorious breakfast you were able to prepare because you woke up oh-so-early, you’re also giving your brain the time it needs to actually wake up. Your brain works differently when you are asleep versus when you are awake, and it takes time to adjust settings. While it’s adjusting, you aren’t getting full use out of your noggin. Think of it this way: you wouldn’t take an exam while you were getting ready to go to sleep, so why would you take one after just waking up? Punching the snooze button a million times so you can stay in bed until the last possible second means taking your exam with a brain that isn’t at 100 percent. Waking up a few hours before you go gives you the time you need to get your bearings in the conscious
realm. 4) You can wake your body up, too. Ever realize that you’re
running late, jump out of bed, rush to get ready, then notice how fast your heart is beating while you’re rushing out the door? You’ve just gone from a state of total relaxation to stress-mode2000 in seconds. You need a little time to stretch out your muscles, roll your neck and get your blood flowing again. Taking a shower, stretching out or full-on going to the gym in the morning wakes your body up, which means during a test you won’t be a living stress ball. Not to mention, physical activity also gets oxygen up to your brain, which helps with step #3. 5) You can plan. So, you’ve decided to wake up early, you’ve made your breakfast and you’ve eaten. Now what? Do you just stare at the wall for a while, waiting for your brain to boot up? No! You plan your day! Having a plan means less stress - which means you
can focus on taking a test instead of your racing heartbeat as you try to multitask. Set goals, map out your priorities for the day, decide what you can and cannot accomplish rather than just trying to wing it. Eliminating as much stress as possible from your day will only help you do well on your exams, I promise. Plan when you have time to eat and devise breaks between exams and study sessions. Start your day off right. Mornings are important. You get up on the wrong side of the bed, and suddenly everything seems a little funky
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for the rest of the day. The beginning of your day can influence how you’re feeling when you’re working on something stressful, like an exam. So, be sure to get lots of rest the night before and eat brain-food for breakfast. Get your blood flowing, get your brain going and visualize all the things you are going to accomplish. Remember: you remember and recall information best when you are in a similar environment to where you learned it. Since it’s highly unlikely your study binges in the library all occurred moments after you rolled out of bed, do yourself a favor and take time to sit back and smell the coffee.
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Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze had his first draft pick as a head coach in former Rebel wide receiver Donte Moncrief last year. Moncrief was drafted in the third round with the 90th overall pick by the Indianapolis Colts. Freeze is expected to add two more names to that list. Former Ole Miss All-American defensive backs Senquez Golson and Cody Prewitt are expected to be drafted in the 2015 NFL Draft and are expected to go somewhere in-between the 3rd and 5th rounds. Both Golson and Prewitt attended the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama and the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. Golson was the Rebels’ first unanimous All-American since 2008, and led the Southeastern Conference. He
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NBA Playoffs: Conference semifinals preview BROWNING STUBBS
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The first round of the NBA Playoffs are almost over. The Daily Mississippian’s Browning Stubbs takes a look at the current state of the Playoffs.
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Atlanta Hawks vs. Washington Wizards This series features two teams that could potentially make a finals run. Atlanta certainly struggled in their series with the Nets on the road. It all starts with Hawks swingman Kyle Korver, who is only shooting 35 percent from the three point line, compared to 49 percent in the regular season. This may be a tough series to win, as Washington holds one of the best crowds in the Eastern Conference. Paul Pierce has been a revelation for the Wizards, as he’s finally showing his veteran leadership on the young Wizards team. This Hawks don’t look like the same team that won 60 games in the regular season, and this is why I’m favoring the Wizards. Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Chicago Bulls AP PHOTO: MARK HUMPHREY This is the dream matchup everyone has been waiting for; Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph shoots against the Portland Trail Blazers in the second half of Game 5 of an NBA basketLeBron James against a healthy ball Western Conference playoff series Wednesday. Derrick Rose. The Cavaliers will with LeBron. However, the Cavs 114 Courthouse Square 662.236.7970 start this series without guard still have Kyrie Irving, who will J.R. Smith for two games due to have a lot to prove with the aba suspension, and forward Kevin sence of Kevin Love. At the moLove will not return to the play- ment, I favor the Bulls due to the offs due to a separated shoulder, uncertainty of the Cavaliers. which is bad news for the Cavaliers. Chicago will certainly have *Written assuming the Spurs, Y their eye on LeBron as the Bulls Hawks, and Bulls advance in IDA R F can throw Jimmy Butler, Joakim their respective first round Noah, or Taj Gibson to matchup matchups.
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Softball heads to College Station to face Texas A&M and four strikeouts through her 5.0 innings of work. Osias is 1213 on the season. “Madi was great tonight in the circle,” Smith said. “Natalie (Martinez) started things off for us getting the big two-run home run. We got people on base, stole some bases, got some hits and played solid defense all the way around. Now we’re looking forward to going on the road to play at Texas A&M.” As the Rebels head to College Station to take on the Aggies, they need to be in complete attack mode. Texas A&M is 35-17 on the season and have defeated top-ranked opponents such as UCLA, Auburn and Kentucky. Key players for the Aggies are junior outfielder Cali Lanphear and senior pitcher Rachel Fox. Landphear has eight home runs on the season with 38 hits. She was also on the 2014 USA Softball Player of the Year Top 50 Watch List. Since transferring from Texas, Fox has tossed 123 strikeouts in 158.1 innings of work as the Aggies’ Friday and Sunday starter. She will likely be taking the mound against Ole Miss this weekend. Heading into postseason play, these next three games are key for both the Rebels’ standings in the rankings and their mental game. Securing these wins will give Ole Miss a positive mindset heading into the SEC tournament beginning May 6 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The first pitch of the series is set for 6:30 p.m. on Friday.
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After snagging a 9-0 win from Mississippi Valley State (13-31) on Wednesday night, the Rebels officially tied the school record for wins in a single season with 30. The last time Ole Miss won 30 games in a season was in 2005. With this weekend’s upcoming three-game series against No. 25 ranked Texas A&M, head coach Mike Smith has the chance to break this record in just his first season at Ole Miss. “This is a great thing for our program,” Smith said. “Being in the first year, you really want to do some special things. My hat is off to these ladies for putting in the time and work to get one percent better every day. I’m happy for the team, our fans and the Ole Miss community. This is a total team effort. Our job is not done yet, though, and hope to go on the road and add to that win total in this last series and the SEC Tournament.” Highlights from Wednesday night’s game include a two-run bomb from junior catcher Natalie Martinez in the second inning to start things off, followed later by hits from sophomore second baseman Alyssa Invergo, sophomore centerfielder Miranda Strother and freshman infielder Alex Schneider to give Ole Miss their nine runs of the evening. Junior pitcher Madi Osias led the Rebels on the mound, allowing only two hits with two walks
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Rebels travel to Missouri to face Tigers in weekend series BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE
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The Ole Miss baseball team will travel to Columbia this weekend to face Missouri for a three-game series. Ole Miss comes into the game with a 24-22 overall record and 10-11 in Southeastern Conference play. Ole Miss is coming off of a midweek win against in-state rival Mississippi State and have won five of their last seven games. The Rebels will look to add to their NCAA tournament resumé with a series win against the Tigers. Missouri comes into the game trending in the opposite direction. The Tigers are 26-19 on the year and 12-9 in SEC play, but have lost five straight games including being swept at Vanderbilt last weekend. Junior left-hander Christian Trent will take the ball for the Rebels on Friday night and will be going up against junior right-hander Reggie McClain for Missouri. Trent comes into the game with a record of 6-4 with a 3.75 ERA and is coming off of a win against Alabama in his last start. McClain is 5-5 on the year and is coming off of a loss against Florida in his last start. The junior owns a 5-5 overall record with a 3.79 ERA. Ole Miss will throw sophomore right-hander Brady Bramlett on Saturday. Bramlett comes into the game with a record of 5-2 and a 2.18 ERA. Bramlett’s ERA of 2.18 ranks third in the conference
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Colby Burtles steps off the plate to pitch at the April 15 game. holds opponents to just a .216 average at the plate. Ole Miss is still undecided between senior left-hander Sam Smith and freshman lefthander Will Stokes for Sunday. Senior right-hander Scott Weatherby is also an option.
Missouri will throw freshman right-hander Tanner Houck on Saturday. Houck is 6-3 on the year with a 3.54 ERA and will be looking to bounce back after giving up seven runs in last week’s loss to Vanderbilt. Junior right-
hander Peter Fairbanks will start for the Tigers on Sunday. Fairbanks owns a 4-3 record with a 2.52 ERA. The Tigers are led offensively by the top of their order, who have particularly hit well in the recent weeks.
Over the last 12 games, the Tigers have been led by their 2-4 hitters in sophomore outfielder Jake Ring, sophomore infielder Ryan Howard and junior infielder Josh Lester. Howard is hitting .340 with seven RBIs and six runs while tallying a pair of doubles and a homer. Lester is hitting .341, hitting safely in 11 of the last 12 games with seven runs and eight RBIs. Lester has also totaled three homers and three doubles. Ring is hitting .298 with nine RBIs and eight runs scored while slugging six extra-base hits during the 12 game span. Ole Miss will look to continue production from a couple of hitters that have been swinging a hot bat over the last couple of weeks. Junior outfielder Connor Cloyd has been hitting well and has recorded seven straight multihit games and 11 alone during the month of April. Sophomore third baseman Colby Bortles is coming off of a multi-hit game as well as two RBIs in the midweek win over Mississippi State and has swung well over the last two weeks, providing a spark for the Rebel offense. Ole Miss will need to continue to keep the momentum going on their way to earning a bid to the NCAA tournament. The Rebels have ten games remaining in the 2015 schedule and would greatly benefit from a road series win this weekend. First pitch Friday is set for 6 p.m.
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