The Student Printz October 19, 2022 | Volume 108 Issue 8

Jake Lange leads Southern Miss rally for 20-19 homecoming win against Arkansas State

DIMA MIXON PRINTZ REPORTER

Southern Miss needed to pull something out of its back pocket to pull off a stunning comeback against Arkansas State, and Head Coach Will Hall and company did just that. Hall put walk-on quarterback Jake Lange in at the end of the third quarter because it “put them in the best position to win the game.”

Lange delivered, and Hall’s decision-making at coaching fueled a 13-0 fourth quarter to lead the Golden Eagles to its first homecoming win since 2019 and the largest come back win since the road match against Kentucky in 2016.

“Since I’ve gotten here, I’ve talked a lot about how we are doing things the right way, how we are building this program back the right way. I’ve talked about how we are doing good things nobody sees. One day we are going to start winning game too [but] right now we just aren’t a complete team,” Hall said. “I know it’s not pretty. I’m going to be honest with you that it may not be pretty for a while around here.”

Hall also added that it was the fight of the Golden Eagles that led the squad to victory.

“I saw a group of kids that battled all week. I saw a group of kids that saw things not go in their way for three quarters, but they kept battling,” Hall said.

Arkansas State opened the game with a nine-play, 75-yard touchdown drive. Starting quar terback James Blackman found wide receiver Jeff Foreman for a 28-yard touchdown pass to go

up 7-0 early.

“I never felt like [our defense] wasn’t working. He was com pleting passes but they weren’t scoring. We completed a lot of passes last week, but we didn’t score. I thought our defense was working and I thought we really got some good hits on him,” Hall said.

Southern Miss’s offense sputtered to get any momen tum in the first half. On South ern Miss’s first drive, starting quarterback Zach Wilcke tried to squeeze a ball into Jason Brownlee, but Kenneth Harris intercepted the pass, and Arkan sas State got the ball right back. That would be the first of two interceptions by Wilcke in the first half.

However, defensive coordina tor Austin Armstrong’s defense came to play as they have, forc ing Arkansas State to a quick three and out.

Southern Miss could not get anything offensively and had two straight punting series. Ar kansas State added a field goal to go up 10-0 before Southern Miss got on the board.

Wilcke led the offense on the best drive of the night, up to that point, with six plays for 75 yards, capped by a 23-yard touchdown pass to Brownlee that brought the score to 10-7 at the half.

Southern Miss led in yardage at halftime and had almost 100 more rushing yards than Arkan sas State; however, they had two

turnovers to none by the Red Wolves.

Arkansas State forced South ern Miss in a three-and-out to start the second half and followed that with a ten-play, 79-yard touchdown drive where Blackman found Foreman again for a nine-yard touchdown pass to bring the score to 17-7. After another drive led by Wilcke, Hall decided to go with Lange.

“I thought it gave us the best chance to win the game. Zach is a talented, really good player. He has turned the ball over a lot here recently. I thought he was a

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Quarterbacks Jake Lange and Zach Wilcke walk off the field after the game. Lange replaced Wilcke in the second half and led the comeback.

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Feature OCTOBER 19, 2022

USM Alum, Author talks debut novel

SHANNON BARBIN PRINTZ REPORTER

Julia Brewer Daily, an award-winning author and Southern Miss alum, is scheduled to debut her new novel ‘The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch’ on Nov. 1, 2022.

Daily is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. Her birth mother placed her for adoption at a maternity home and she was adopted at two months old and spent her child hood in Mount Olive.

Being just 30 minutes away from the USM Hattiesburg campus, she chose that to be her college home. Daily graduated in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in English and education, and in 1987, she grad uated with her master’s degree in education administration.

Daily said the campus was much smaller in the 1970s, easy to walk, and always filled with friendly peo ple. She credits her success in her education to USM, the professors and her advisors.

“The flexible schedules our advi sors forged for us non-traditional students were crucial as we held jobs, studied and reared our chil dren simultaneously,” Daily said.

According to booksforward.com, Daily was the founding director of the Greater Belhaven Market, a producers’ only market in a historic neighborhood in Jackson and shad owed Martha Stewart. As the Exec utive Director of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, she wrote their stories to introduce them to the public.

Daily has been a writer in every position she has worked. She was accustomed to writing press releas es, president’s speeches and touting education programs.

Fiction, however, sparked an inter est within Daily. She began to take classes, attend writer’s retreats and conferences where she was able to create a network of people who shared in her success.

Daily is also a member of the

Writers’ League of Texas, the Wom en Fiction Writers’ Association, the San Antonio Writers’ Guild and the Women’s National Book Associa tion.

“I join professional organizations to feed myself creatively from the community of writers and those on the same path,” Daily said. “We sup port each other, volunteer on boards and committees and pay it forward for those a little farther back on the journey.”

Daily previously wrote a novel named ‘No Names to be Given’. It was inspired when she searched and found her birth mother.

“I thought at the time it would make a good story because few if any, searched for biological fami lies. I discovered a Napoleonic law still in the books in New Orleans that stated an adoptive child could inherit from natural parents. You can’t inherit from someone you don’t know, which became the

the longest drive of the seasona nine-play, 95-yard drive in just under three minutes.

loophole that opened my original records,” Daily said. “I took writing classes after finding my birth moth er and wrote a few of the chapters that made their way into the novel, but it was not until I retired and had unencumbered time that I fin ished the book.”

‘No Names to be Given’ has won twelve awards in total, including the International Impact Book Award, the NYC Big Book Award, The His torical Fiction Company Award, an American Writing Awards Finalist, the Authors’ Circle Fiction Book of the Year, and several number one best-seller categories on Amazon.

“I hope ‘The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch’ is as well-received,” Daily said. “It is always an honor to have work recognized by peers or organizations, especially readers who reach out to me to let me know they enjoyed my work.”

‘The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch’ was inspired by when she and her

husband moved to Texas.

“I became enamored with vast Texas ranches that have been in the same family for multiple genera tions, so my second novel is about one of those,” Daily said. “I was in trigued by the ancient ruins at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, where no one knows what happened to the people who lived there. I was amazed by the condo-like cave system and wondered why they would have left—sickness, warfare or drought. They could have moved to Texas and onto a million-acre ranch like the Thorn, where they could exist without detection. Those thoughts led me to introduce The People into my story.”

The setting for ‘The Fifth Daugh ter of Thorn Ranch’ takes place in southwest Texas on the border of Mexico and the United States, with the Rio Grande River running through the property. The scene is a harsh landscape with skyscraping cliffs and excruciating heat.

“Julia Daily builds a captivating world by letting her imagination lead the way. The result? A unique story that’s a little Wild West, a little old Mexico, a little ancient history, and a lot rebellious — in all the most interesting of ways. What hap pens when a strong-willed ranching heiress crosses a line she never knew existed? An adventure that’s bigger than Texas,” New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of ‘Perennials’, Julie Cantrell said.

Daily shares that writing novels is her new career. She has been work ing since the age of 18. Daily strives the most when she is faced with a project. She said that she will never stop working and that to have read ers find you, you must write many books.

Readers wanting to purchase Daily’s novels can request either book from a library or buy it from Amazon or any online bookstore. The books are available in Jackson, Lemuria Bookstore, Pass Books in Pass Christian and Octavia Books in New Orleans, but any bookstore will order if asked.

little emotional early- that’s why the ball was high on him. He is a really accurate passer that was missing high because he is so into it,” Hall said. “I thought we had to remove him for a second. Let Jake come in, let him catch his breath. Jake is a guy that’s going to do exactly what the play call says…we just needed a little more execution and I thought Jake could give us that.”

That did not happen right away, as the first drive he was in ended with a safety as Ma son Hunt dropped the ball out of the endzone, which pushed Arkansas State’s lead to 19-7 entering the fourth quarter.

In response, Lange led the of fensive right down the field with

Using younger weapons, Janari Dean and Tiaquelin Mims, Lange kept the Golden Eagles alive with the drive. Start ing running back Frank Gore Jr had a 30-yard touchdown rush on third and ten to bring the game to 19-14.

“It’s a lot of prayer. I just go out there and do my job. I came here to play college football, and I believed I was ready,” Lange said.

Lange also led the Golden Eagles on the go-ahead touch down drive with a 12-play, 45yard drive to give the Golden Eagles it’s first and only lead of the night. While facing a third and nine, Lange scrambled to avoid a sack, hurdled a player, then got positive yardage to set

up a more manageable fourth down, which they completed. It was arguably the play of the night.

“When you have a coach like Coach Hall who teaches you how to read and react and see the play before it happens, it was easy to go out there and do my job,” Lange said.

He also compared the play to a play by former Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence he remembered watching on TV.

Dean then scored the first touchdown of his career on what would be the game-sealing score.

“Yeah, that was a heck of a birthday present. My birthday is tomorrow, so I was really excit ed for that, but it wouldn’t have been done without the offensive line. They did a heck of a job blocking up front,” Dean said.

Southern Miss won the game by the incredible heroics of Lange, but the defense paved the way for the team by putting them in the position to get back in the game.

Jay Stanley, Santrell Latham, and Daylen Gill all led the team with tackles (eight) and four dif ferent Golden Eagles accounted for sacks.

Dominic Quewon got the hurry on Blackman that forced a bad pass to seal the game on fourth down.

“That was a Southern Miss win. When everything was against us, we just kept freaking battling. Together.” Hall said.

Southern Miss improves to 3-3, and 1-1 in conference play. The Golden Eagles go on the road to play Texas State next weekend.

Julia Brewer Daily poses with her newest Novel, The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch.

McKenzie Baird Photography

Church of Jackson is here to stay

BROOKE PARKER PRINTZ REPORTER

The Church of Jack son is a consistent visitor to the Uni versity of Southern Missis sippi campus. Every Tuesday, they can be found at Shoe maker square. Their protests range from 10 to 15 people with various graphic images to two people holding a pick et sign.

By looking at the Church of Jackson’s Face book page, it appears that the church operates out of the pastor’s home, Keith Dalton, in Brookhaven. The Church of Jackson did not respond when the Student Printz reached out for a comment.

There has been cam pus-wide disapproval of their visits, especially from students who have had alter cations with the Church of Jackson. The SGA Senate has heard the bulk of these com plaints and has been working closely with The Division of Student Affairs. There is little that can be done.

“Since they’re in a publicly funded university, they have every right allotted by the constitution. That includes freedom of speech, freedom of religion,” said Christo pher Lee, SGA Senate Vice President. “So, if we tried to impede on that, that’s direct ly an interference with their first amendment rights.”

The University of Southern Mississippi is a public insti tution and must allow access to external groups for them to exercise free speech. To keep this maintained, USM has a policy set up that orga nizations need to go through to secure a spot on campus.

First, there are only five free-speech zones across USM’s Hattiesburg campus.

Four of them are outside: Shoemaker Square Fountain, Pedestrian Plaza, Weathersby lawn and Centennial Green. For visitors looking to do a small tabling event, they can set up inside the Union.

If a visitor is not inside of these free speech zones, they can be asked to relocate.

Guests must then have a record on file with the Student Affairs office. This information includes the or ganization's name, as well as contact information. Student Affairs does not currently run background checks on external visitors, but they do collect license numbers.

The Dean of Students, Sirena Cantrell, will then look over their submission and tell visitors dates that are available. If all the spaces are taken, they must come on a different day.

“I try not to schedule or ganizations right beside each other,” Cantrell said.

Visitors have no limit on how many people they can bring, which means freespeech zones can get crowd ed very quickly.

Nothing can legally keep the Church of Jackson off campus, but students are allowed to use these freespeech zones as well. Count er protests or picketing are allowed, however, there have been a few instances where students have had to be rep rimanded for behavior to wards the Church of Jackson.

“There have been instances of students spitting on them, flashing their extremities,” Lee said. “So, that’s assault and public indecency. Those are crimes that could be fol lowed up by a lawsuit.”

The Church of Jackson cannot be dismissed unless they become violent, but the

administration is looking for ways to provide relief to stu dents. SGA Senate is working to make counseling services readily available when the Church of Jackson is on cam

pus.

Students are encouraged to reach out to Student Affairs or the SGA Senate if they have comments or questions.

2022

Campus food pantry affected by increased prices

GARRETT GROVE SMTV EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

With increased in flation and price gouging galore, food costs for many are higher than ever.

These factors affected the Eagle’s Nest Food Pantry at The University of Southern Mississippi.

For many, the campus re source under The Hub is priceless.

The Student Association of Social Work started it in 2016. The Dean of Students now oversees the pantry, but stu dents still run it.

Lauren Magee is the volun teer coordinator and intern at Eagle’s Nest. Though there are many volunteers, the grad student told the Printz that donations have decreased. She believes the increased cost of living affected the ability of many to give.

“People will come in and they’ll need things and some times we don’t have it,” Magee said. “And it just makes it hard because they aren’t able to get donations due to prices going

up.”

Private donations keep most shelves stocked at Eagle’s Nest. Hattiesburg non-profit Extra Table provides the most food for the pantry.

Extra Table distributes over 20 tons of food each month to over 50 agencies and pantries.

Eagle’s Nest provides the campus with more than canned food. Fresh food, fro zen food, spices, and even dog/cat food are possible for those to get. However, the pantry is out of most of these items or about to be.

Outside of dietary needs, the Eagle’s Nest Food Pantry has products designed to address the hygiene, academic, sanita tion, and sexual needs of those who come. Many of these items are also in short supply.

Richelle Bien works with Magee at Eagle’s Nest.

The graduate student in the School of Social Work said the available resources still pay dividends beyond addressing hunger.

“We are here to help you to the best of our ability for you to get access to your basic needs because we want to help

you focus and succeed here at USM,” Bien said.

Those also committed to this mission are volunteers like Hayden Dangerfield.

Volunteering helped the freshman biological sciences major to be more empathetic toward others.

“I didn’t realize how many people there were like in my community that needed this

food pantry because they didn’t have access to the same things that I might,” Danger field said.

The Eagle’s Nest Food Pan try is open on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Fridays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. People can go to its website to buy items on its Amazon Wish List, donate, and volunteer.

USM celebrates National Coming Out Day

HUEY TURLICH SM2 REPORTER

Prism, one branch under the Inclusion and Mul ticultural Engagement organization, hosted a celebration in honor of Nation al Coming Out day on Oct. 11 on Weathersby Lawn. The student organi zation put together activities and food for the LGBTQIA-plus community to celebrate the strength and courage it took for each individual to come out and also for the strength needed for future individuals that will come out when they are ready.

National Coming out day is ob served annually to celebrate coming out and to raise awareness of the LGBT community and the civil rights movement. All coming-out stories are not the same. Each one is unique to the individual whether it has a posi tive outcome or a negative one. The importance of this day goes deeper than celebrating as a community. It is to bring awareness to the strength it takes for individuals to come out and truly be who they are.

The night was filled with dancing and festivities for everyone to enjoy. They had painting, coloring, friend

ship bracelet making, and to top it off a friendly game of Jenga.

“It is a celebration to commend the strength and what it took for us to come out,” said Wes Shaffer the coordinator of PRISM.

Prism’s main goal was to host a fun night filled with activities and fun

for the LGBTQIA community and their allies to enjoy. They want the students that have come out and also those who are struggling to come out to know they have a safe place within the organization and a community to support them every step of the way. They stand for equality and to

be a light for college students going through situations that some may not understand.

The event was a success and many individuals came out to celebrate and participate in the various activities they had to offer.

The shelves at the Eagles Nest food pantry are bare as prices increase for food items.

Southern Miss PRISM celebrates National Coming Out Day.

Huey Turlich | SM2

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Golden Pitch Idea final round Nov. 17-19

CULLIN ROGERS SM2 REPORTER

The Golden Idea Pitch Competition is an annual event hosted by the Hatchery.

The competition is designed to provide support, mentor ship, and funding to students of the University of Southern Mississippi.

This is the fourth annual occurrence of this acclaimed event which is a place for stu dents to pitch ideas in order to receive funding to make their dreams a reality.

The deadline for submis sions was Friday, Oct. 14. Then, on Nov. 1 these students will present their submissions live before a board of judges. The final round for the Golden Idea

Pitch Competition will be held from Nov. 17 through the 19.

This year the competition will be held differently from the way it has been held in years prior. In order to upgrade the experience, this year’s final pitch event will be a “weekend hackathon”

What exactly is a hack athon? Well, this portion of the event has been described as a

way to fast track contestant’s ideas in under 50 hours.

Don’t miss out on hearing from some of our university’s best and brightest as they pitch their ideas on how they want to leave the University of South ern Mississippi better than they found it. For more information on this exciting event, be sure to go to usm.edu/business

Putter of Steel, Nerves of Steel

JACKSON POWELL 4TH STREET SPORTS REPORTER

On a sweltering Tuesday after noon at the Squire Creek Country and Golf Club in Choudrant, Louisiana, the situation at hand could not have been simpler. The ball lay still on the long, smooth green and the prize was merely feet away. However, this sport leaves no margin for error.

Thongpipat Rattan ayanon, with a one-stroke lead in hand, slowly ap proached the ball to deter mine his course of action. His restless eyes gazed on the green’s trajectory as his numb hands grab the putter. The difference between winning and pos sibly losing depended on him. He softly inched the club opposite of the ball, and, like a coiled spring, he sprung his putter to slice through the ball. The ball gently rolled towards the hole with the tourna ment on the line.

Applause.

“Success in golf de pends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character,” Arnold Palmer, the great golfer once said, and Rat tanayanon’s shot was proof of that statement.

The ultimate teammate is something that coaches across all sports urgently seek to add to their ros ters, and Southern Miss Men’s Golf head coach Eddie Brescher found one and then some with Rat tanayanon.

The Thailand native made the journey to America after a success ful career in the high school-equivalent ranks, including playing in the professional Asian Tours Thailand Open in 2017 as a 16 year-old and cap turing two victories on the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour.

Rattanayanon, nick named Pat, easily made the transition to Hatties burg and became an in

stant factor on the golf team.

“I’ll say this about Pat: he has not given us one issue on the coaching side of things since he’s been in Hattiesburg for the last three years. He’s never been late for anything, and he’s never had an issue with a teammate,” Bre scher said. “Having that as a coach, I trust him to go out and perform at an elite level even when he doesn’t have his ‘A’ game.”

The ultimate form of re spect between a player and a coach is when a coach totally and fully trusts his player. This is certainly the case with Rattanayanon and Brescher. According to Rattanayanon, he gave a poor performance at the practice round leading up to the Jim Rivers

Intercollegiate. Rattan ayanon said the ball was “all over the place,” yet Brescher had no doubt that his guy could get it done. He said that Rat tanayanon’s “alignment was off” and needed some guidance.

“That’s routine main tenance in golf. You kind of get off line, so you need another set of eyes to help you get back on track. I don’t really have to say a whole lot to him,” Brescher said. “He’s an

all-conference player and a proven winner. I have that trust in him. That trust didn’t happen overnight, but we’re to the point now where I can get him to the tournament and provide him all the resources to be successful.”

Rattanayanon delivered a solid first round before delivering a masterful performance on day two by going six strokes under par. On the night before the third and final day of the tournament,

Rattanayanon slept less than preferred.

“My roommate, Ryan Dupuy, told me that he heard me flipping over all night,” Rattanayanon said. “All I could say was ‘I’m sorry man. I’m just so nervous.’”

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“Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.” - Sam Snead

Rattanayanon arrived at the final hole of the tour nament with a lead intact. He knew it, too, as he had been the team’s scorekeep er for the duration of the match. His nervousness may have gotten the better of him on his tee shot, as he hit the ball far to the right and near the bunker. At that moment, Rattan ayanon needed a little bit of coaching to make sure

he accomplished his goal.

“To know what he’s go ing through in that mo ment, it’s very important for me, as a coach, to step in and give him some comfort in that moment,” Brescher said.

The coaching paid off, as Rattanayanon said he figured it out to get it back on the green. His excel lent shot set him up with a makeable, albeit challeng ing putt to make. Five feet away from glory, Rattanayanon’s nerves began to get the better of him again. He could feel his hands go numb as sweat soaked his palms. He did his best to dry his hands and drink water as he said before lining up for the winning putt. In the first tourna ment of the year for the Golden Eagles, Rattan ayanon had a chance to be a hero. And he succeeded.

“It’s the first win for me in four years here, so it means a lot. It’s so tough to win a golf tournament [since] there are like 120 guys in the field. It’s just so tough to win,” Rattanayanon said.

The Jim Rivers Colle giate victory was a fantas tic start for Golden Eagle men’s golf, and it gave the season a stellar start.

Southern Miss men’s golf team celebrates after winning their first tournament of the year in September.

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