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Black History Month events kick off at Student Union

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Barbara Combs delivers the kickoff address during the ceremony Tuesday.

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The UM Gospel Choir performs during Tuesday’s event.

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Donald Cole speaks during the Black History Month Kickoff Celebration

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The Lift Every Voice Awards winners pose for a photo after the Black History Month Kickoff Celebration Tuesday. From left to right are Morris Stocks, Lydia Jones, in place of her husband Chancellor Dan Jones, Susan Grayzel and Charles Ross.

SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll names 41 Ole Miss students

By Randall Haley arhaley@go.olemiss.edu

Southeastern Conference (SEC) Commissioner Mike Slive announced last Thursday that 41 Ole Miss student-athletes were among 655 named to the 2013 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll.

The Rebels’ honorees include 24 football players, 14 soccer players and three volleyball players.

The football team had several multiple-time honorees, including Tyler Campbell, Andrew Ritter and D.T. Shackelford, all of whom earned the honor for the fifth consecutive year for football.

The Rebels had an 8-5 overall record and the second straight bowl

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victory under head coach Hugh Freeze.

Campbell, a first year MBA candidate from Little Rock, said the most difficult part of competing as a student-athlete is effective time management.

“Because of practice and team travel, we have to be disciplined about doing our work whenever we have any free time,” he said.

Ritter, a first year MBA candidate from Jackson, said that an abundance of resources has helped him conquer the challenges of balancing academics with athletics.

“The coaching staff and academic counselors have been a tremendous help and resource for

me to acquire and maintain my GPA — specifically, the academic counselors” he said. “I am truly grateful for them.”

SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year Rafaelle Souza and fourtime honoree Erin Emerson made the list for the honor roll from the soccer team. The team posted a 16-6-2 record and made a second-round appearance in the NCAA tournament.

“Even though I love the sport I play, I always say that school comes first,” said Souza, a senior civil engineering major from Salvador, Brazil. “So, I feel really satisfied when I achieve any academic honor.”

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Oxford hosts inaugural Noir at the Bar

ASB passes class attendance policy, moves election

BY ALLISON SLUSHER ajslushe@go.olemiss.edu

The Associated Student Body Senate voted unanimously Tuesday night to amend a university policy addressing class attendance guidelines.

The policy currently states that professors are to use their discretion in determining what should be considered excused and unexcused absences.

Authors of the resolution ASB President Gregory

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Alston, Cabinet Member Jessica Brouckaert, Cabinet Member Chad Smith and Senator Michael Howell presented the resolution stating that while faculty members will still make their own attendance policies, policies must comply with an established university attendance policy.

The university policy grants students excused absences based on a list of what is considered excusable provided in the amended resolution.

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Novus Conservatism

By Whitney Greer whitneygreere@gmail.com

Fundamental tenets of conservatism are limited government and a democracy representative of the public. In attempts to place legislative restrictions on issues such as marriage rights and women’s health, conservatives have vilified and alienated vast portions of the populous. The GOP will only garner a sufficient voter base for elections when it applies its economic minimalist principles to the social issues realm. Conservatives should invest less time in attempting to legislate lifestyle choices of Americans, and more T H E D A I LY

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time crafting the American political structure to preserve the fundamental American principles of the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Enter Novus Conservatism.

Novus Conservatism maintains the economic principles of pro-business, limited regulation and capitalism-knows-best, while adapting its social governing ideology to one that does not assume its religion, beliefs or general way of life are worthy of imposition on the general populous. This approach would most importantly end the conservative politicization of social issues.

Not only would this take lifestyle choices that are highly individual off the docket of a gridlocked Congress, but, coupled with streamlining federal funding, it would also relieve taxpayers from funding actions they

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may not support. This shift in responsibility for fringe legislation would also serve to reduce America’s increasing nanny state policies. Conservatism would deviate from its stagnated and frustrated image to one, dare I say it … socially progressive?

What this new breed of political animal would look like in action is one focused on education, the economy, environmental standards, international relations, employment and so on.

Sub-issues that arise within these broader governing categories that are highly divisive should be decided upon within the states.

The logic establishes that each state’s composition is vastly different, and thus democracy on the “little big things,” can only be efficient when piecemealed to be representative of those it is designed to serve. This approach, while presenting pos-

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sible friction areas between federal and state governments, has recently been shown successful with marijuana legalization.

For those with particularly conservative (traditional, not Novus) ideologies to oppose certain lifestyles is an opinion they are entitled to, but to further their lack of support into prohibition of certain behaviors in their party platform as a governing strategy, they ultimately vilify those they disagree with, and instead of simply not supporting them they condemn them. The root of Novus Conservatism is then in refraining from politicizing social issues, holding that conserving their impulse to legislate on lifestyle choices is often the best kind of conservatism.

Whitney Greer is sophomore English major from Medford, Ore.

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St. Jude dining goes local

By Christine Dickason cndickas@go.olemiss.edu

Food is a driving force in our lives. But how often do we think about how the food reaches our plate?

At St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Chef Miles McMath, the director of culinary operations, must consider not only his own plate, but also the meals for thousands of employees, patients and their families. These meals are often complicated by the dietary restrictions and nutritional needs of the patients.

On Monday, my food policy class was lucky enough to get an inside look at the kitchens at St. Jude, courtesy of Chef McMath. We toured the Kay Kafe, the main cafeteria, which contains 16 eating concepts, such as a salad bar and bakery.

The food staff ’s commitment to children is incredible. For kids needing more nutrition, they created a gummy bear — offered in multiple flavors — that provides a nutritional boost similar to that in a PediaSure supplemental shake. When children are lacking a sufficient appetite, the chefs work to recreate home-cooked meals that are comforting to the patients.

Sometimes, all it takes to boost a child’s appetite is to let them take control. Patients can don a chef ’s hat and make their own personalized pizza any day of the week. Special events often involve the children decorating cupcakes or making cookies.

McMath explained that an emphasis in recent years at the hospital has been to use more locally sourced food. As part of that mission, St. Jude now has a garden of 60 raised beds, a weekly farmers market and a food truck roundup.

Relationships between chefs and farmers used to be more disconnected, McMath told us.

He hopes that programs like the ones he is instituting at St. Jude will help form bridges between those parties — not to mention connecting the consumers (patients, their families and employees) to the source of their food.

Institutional programs like these do not only benefit the people receiving the food; they also provide an economic boost for local farmers who are assisted when they need to move large quantities of product.

Without support from institutions like St. Jude, local farmers might face shortfalls in demand that would threaten their livelihood. St. Jude provides that safety net for the farms that are such vital components of our communities.

The kitchens at St. Jude also seek to reduce waste. A 2012 study by the Natural Resources Defense Council found that 40 percent of food in the U.S. is wasted. To combat this growing problem that drains our economic and environmental systems, St. Jude finds creative ways to cut its waste down to nearly zero. For example, it has an extensive composting and recycling program, as well as a relationship with Food Donation Connection, which allows it to donate leftover food to the Memphis Union Mission.

At one point in the conversa-

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tion, McMath noted that the way to a healthy and sustainable culture surrounding food is relatively simple: “Eat real food.”

I couldn’t agree more. If more people built relationships with local farmers and understood where their food was coming from, I think we would see a real change in the food culture and eating habits in the U.S. That change would be beneficial to our health, the environment and the local economies that are supported by food producers.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its extraordinary contributions to the field of pediatric catastrophic diseases. In providing outstanding care at no cost to the patients or families, it is an outstanding institution making a real difference in the world.

What is less recognized are the incredible food systems at work at St. Jude. The hospital’s passion for excellence extends to its culinary operations. The engineers and leaders of these systems — such as Chef McMath — deserve recognition for their roles in providing every patient, family member and employee with nutritious, delicious food.

Serving food to children with compromised immune systems and special nutritional needs is a difficult task that should not be taken for granted. The fact that they take their mission a step further by seeking local, sustainable food sources is a testament to their investment in and commitment to their jobs.

Christine Dickason is a junior public policy leadership major from Collierville, Tenn.

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Oxford hosts inaugural Noir at the Bar

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By Virginia England vhengland@go.olemiss.edu

Tonight, Oxford will host its first Noir at the Bar. Starting at 9 p.m., award-winning writers will read gripping excerpts from their best noir tales to the crowds at Proud Larry’s.

Noir crime fiction uses gritty realism to tell dramatic tales of deceitful, self-destructive characters in bleak, corrupt settings. The lineup of writers includes: Megan Abbott, Ace Atkins, Chris Offutt, Tom Franklin, Jack Pendarvis, Derrick Harriell, Jedidiah Ayres, William Boyle and Tyler Keith.

Noir at the Bar has been held in cities such as New York, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Denver and Austin. William Boyle, author of “Gravesend” and adjunct instructor at The Uni-

versity of Mississippi, saw an opportunity to bring the event to Oxford because of the large amount of writers in the area.

“I wanted to do it ever since I got here,” said Boyle, who first came to Ole Miss in 2011 to get his Master of Fine Arts in fiction.

“Being around so many writers who I admire so much and who fit into the noir world in some way, I knew I wanted to make this happen.”

When Megan Abbott became the 2013-14 Grisham Writer-in-Residence, Boyle knew it was the perfect moment for the event.

Abbott plans to read an excerpt from her latest novel, “The Fever,” which will be released in June.

“There is something so in-

vigorating about these events when you get to share your work,” Abbott said. “Especially in this case for me with something that I haven’t read before. It’s sort of a relief from being stuck in your head all day.”

Though she grew up in the Midwest and later lived in New York City, Abbott was always drawn to the mysterious feeling surrounding Mississippi. “(Mississippi) has a complicated history and literary tradition,” she said. “Everyone has a story and everyone is a natural storyteller. I’ll run into people at the gas station and they will tell me this elaborate family history and dramatic tale.”

Oxford has been home to William Faulkner, Larry Brown and Barry Hannah, all writers who have connections to noir, making it the perfect place for Noir at the Bar. “Faulkner wrote a couple of books that could be considered straight noir, and he wrote the screenplay for ‘The Big Sleep,’” Boyle said. “Barry Hannah wrote a great essay on noir and taught classes on noir.”

Often, places with troubled history create more thoughtful people, according to Tom Franklin, writer and Ole Miss English professor.

“The state just generates writers,” Franklin said. “I’ve been doing some writing workshops at Ole Miss, and every time someone shocks me with how talented they are. I think out of the trouble come these renaissances.”

Franklin is currently editing “Mississippi Noir,” a book that will feature stories written by many of the writers reading Wednesday night.

“It’s a community event that brings the community of writers together,” Franklin said.

“It will be a fun celebration of the written word and the word written with a slant of noir to it.”

Coupled with the perfect setting and more than an adequate number of guests, the inaugural Noir at the Bar is sure to become a staple of the Oxford literary scene.

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Alston said he wrote the resolution to ensure students who miss class as part of an authorized university activity would not be penalized.

“Over my time here, I’ve seen that students who are representing our university in recognized university events are being penalized for missing class,” Alston said. “By penalized I mean not being able to make up missed work and not being able to make up exams. We are trying to amend this policy because that’s what’s best for our students.”

Brouckaert said she and the other authors of the resolution determined what would qualify as an excused absence after looking at attendance policies from other universities.

“We got all the SEC schools’ attendance policies.

We looked at them and based them off of a lot of schools’ (attendance policies),” Brouckaert said. “We looked through everything and came up with a list that we thought fit our student body the best and that other schools followed.”

Alston said he plans on presenting the resolution to the faculty senate in the near future.

“It doesn’t have to go through faculty senate. We just want their support,” Alston said. “Then it will have to go through the Undergraduate Council and Council of Academic Administrators.”

The senate also passed a constitutional amendment that will move the spring election day for ASB offices from the third Tuesday in February to the fourth Tuesday in March.

ASB Secretary Morgan Gregory and Senator James Parrett authored the amendment.

“We got in the Governmental Operations Committee meeting and hashed out so many options for the cycle and what would be best for every branch of government,” Gregory said.

Gregory said she thinks the Senate will benefit by pushing the elections back because new officers would not have to spend as many weeks transitioning in the spring.

“By taking away those few weeks, we’re going to gain so much more by having that big chunk of time.”

Since the change to elections is a constitutional amendment, it will have to pass through the senate a second time. If the amendment passes again, students will vote on it on Feb. 18.

The University of Mississippi held its Black History Month Kickoff Celebration Wednesday at the Student Union.

A performance by the UM Gospel Choir preceded the deliv-

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ery of the kickoff address by assistant sociology professor Barbara Combs and the presentation of the Lift Every Voice Awards.

The observance of Black History Month is ongoing at Ole Miss, and a full schedule of events is available through the UM Communications website.

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Rachael McLamore and Skylar Johnson, both three-time honorees, earned the distinction from the volleyball team.

“It’s an amazing feeling getting recognition for working hard in the classroom, as well as on the court,” said Johnson, a sophomore marketing major from Parker, Colo.

The 2013 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll is based on grades from the 2013 spring, summer and fall terms.

Any student-athlete participating in an SEC championship sport or student-athletes participating in a sport listed on their institution’s NCAA Sports Sponsorship Form is eligible for nomination to the Academic Honor Roll.

SEC guidelines state that students are named as scholars listed on the academic honor roll based

on five criteria.

Student-athletes must have a GPA of 3.00 or above for either the preceding academic year or have a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or above at the nominating institution.

Summer school and intersession terms are included in the GPA calculation used to determine eligibility.

Student-athletes eligible include those receiving athletic scholarships, recipients of athletics awards and non-scholarship athletes who have participated as members of a varsity team for two seasons.

Students under consideration must have successfully completed 24 semester or 36 quarter hours of nonremedial credit toward a baccalaureate degree at the institution nominating them.

Student-athletes must have been a member of a varsity team for the sport’s entire NCAA championship segment.

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Rebels host No. 8 Tennessee Thursday

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Mississippi guard Diara Moore goes up for a shot past Florida forward Lily Svete during Sunday’s game.

Ole Miss: Freshman forward Shequila Joseph is due for a breakout game at some point. She is also the prime candidate to guard Cierra Burdick with the length and physicality that she brings to the defensive end of the floor.

As of late, the Rebels have struggled to have a consistent fourth scorer. This could be the game that Joseph comes through for the starting lineup.

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star running back D.J. Law, four-star wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie, three-star defensive tackle Michael Sawyers and three-star offensive lineman Jordan Sims.

Ole Miss is also in the running for five-star wide receiver Malachi Dupre and five-star athlete Bo Scarbrough. Scarbrough has been committed to Alabama.

Alexander and Dupre will make their announcements live during ESPNU’s coverage of national signing day.

The other recruits will sign their letters of intent throughout the day.

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Falling 81-60 to Florida at home this past Sunday, the Ole Miss women’s basketball team (10-13, 1-8 Southeastern Conference) dropped its third consecutive conference game since its first SEC victory over Mississippi State.

This Thursday, the road doesn’t get any easier for the Rebels, as they will host No. 8 Tennessee (18-4, 7-2 SEC) at 8 p.m. on CSS. In the last meeting between the two teams on Jan. 9, Tennessee dominated Ole Miss, 94-70, in a game where senior point guard Valencia McFarland went an abysmal four of 17 from the field. No Rebel scored in double figures in the loss.

“It was really frustrating because I felt like they were playing harder than us, and that hurts us,” head coach Matt Insell said.

In essence, Tennessee, one of the most storied women’s basketball programs in NCAA history, is the Super Bowl game for the Rebels.

Everyone wants to beat this team every year. To steal a game like this would be huge for the Rebels, as they will hit the road next week against Georgia and Kentucky.

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Ole Miss Rebels gear up for 2014 National Signing Day

By David Collier thedmsports@gmail.com

It’s that time of year again.

National signing day is here, and Ole Miss is looking to bring in another big recruiting class, as the Rebels will sign up to 24 players today.

It may not draw the attention of last year’s unanimously top-10 class, but the class looks to be a solid one.

The Rebels have room to sign 28 total players, and four junior college players signed in the early signing period in December. Those players include athlete Jeremy Liggins, linebacker Christian Russell, defensive end Marquis Haynes and offensive lineman Fahn Cooper, all of whom are threestar prospects, according to

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That leaves room for 24 more players to sign, including four-star safety C.J. Hampton and three-star quarterback Kendrick Doss, who were early enrollees who began classes at Ole Miss this spring. Hampton and Doss will both sign their letters of intent today.

The Rebels have room for 22 more spots and have 17 players committed, so if they sign all of their committed players, they could potentially add five players to the recruiting class.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Willie Cauley-Stein broke a slump with 18 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 18 Kentucky shot 60 percent in the second half for an 80-64 victory over Mississippi on Tuesday night.

The Wildcats’ 7-foot sophomore went 7 of 8 from the field to score more points than his previous six games combined (14) while reaching double digits in rebounds for the first time in nine games.

Cauley-Stein had six blocks and altered other attempts to help limit the Rebels (15-7, 6-3 Southeastern Conference) to 36 percent shooting in the second half and 39 percent (25 of 65) overall.

Kentucky (17-5, 7-2) made 15 of 25 from the field in the second half to turn a 35-34 halftime lead into a rout and earn their second consecutive victory.

Aaron Harrison added 16 points while Julius Randle scored 11 of his 12 points after halftime as the Wildcats finished shooting 51 percent (26 of 51) from the field.

James Young and Alex Poythress had 10 points each for Kentucky, which outscored Mississippi 44-24 in the paint and 19-15 in second-chance points while its reserves topped the Rebels’ 28-19.

Guards Marshall Henderson (16 points) and Jarvis Summers combined for 27 points on just 10-of-31 shooting in a matchup of secondplace SEC teams. The Rebels get another shot at the Wildcats in two weeks in Oxford, Miss., where they hope to play better than in the final 20 minutes on Tuesday night.

The Wildcats came in seeking improvement in their transition defense and in the middle, where 7-foot freshman Dakari Johnson started his second straight game. He

Eleanor Hasken | The Kentucky Kernel

UK forward Willie Cauley-Stein (15) struggles to pull the ball away from Ole Miss forward Sebastian Saiz (11) during Tuesday’s game.

had five points, four blocks and two rebounds but was overshadowed by a revived Cauley-Stein.

More impressive was how Kentucky kept Henderson (19.2 points, 1.7 steals per game coming in) and Summers (17.8 points, 3.9 assists) in check. Containing Henderson was a group effort with Aaron Harrison, Jarrod Polson and others helping out in holding the senior guard to 6-of-18 shooting including 4 of 12 from 3-point range.

A Rupp Arena crowd of 22,168 that braved freezing rain did their part trying to rattle Henderson, who as usual wasn’t fazed by the derision or an 0-for-2 start from the field by the 11:29 mark of the first half. When it’s Henderson, the question was when he would warm up rather than if.

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Four and a half minutes later, Henderson had eight points thanks to consecutive 3-pointers while the Rebels had a 28-23 lead that forced a Kentucky 30-second timeout with 6:55 left. While the Wildcats rallied for a 35-34 halftime lead, this game was even in many areas.

The Wildcats edged the Rebels 42 percent to 41 percent from the field and outrebounded them 22-17 with Aaron Harrison grabbing six along with scoring 12 points.

But Mississippi forged slight edges in the paint (18-16) and transition (8-5) while its bench matched Kentucky with 12 points.

Randle’s 1-point, 1-rebound first half explained some of those deficiencies, but the freshman began changing that in the second half by scoring 11 points including an impressive rebound and court-length drive for a dunk and a 50-41 lead that forced a Mississippi timeout with 14:59 remaining.

Poythress’ basket 2:10 later provided Kentucky’s first double-digit lead of the game that eventually reached 19 with 3 minutes left.