The Daily Mississippian - March 5, 2015

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Thursday, March 5, 2015

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More inclement weather predicted for Lafayette County

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The city of Oxford and Lafayette County experienced heavy rain throughout Wednesday. With temperatures dropping below freezing early Thursday, meteorologists are predicting icy and hazardous conditions. The National Weather Service in Memphis issued winter storm warning for Lafayette County. The warning is in effect 9 p.m. Wednesday to 3 p.m. Thursday. Up to one quarter of an inch of ice, one to two inches of sleet and up to one inch of snow are expected.

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Upperclassmen struggle to find off campus housing MALLORY BOX

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With nearly 3,500 freshmen currently enrolled at The University of Mississippi, more upperclassmen are on the hunt for off-campus housing than ever before.

“When we first started providing off-campus housing in Oxford, people weren’t signing leases until mid-February or March,” said Scott Stage, senior vice president and property manager of Core Campus in Oxford. “We are now seeing these dates being pushed back. I urge students to start looking between Thanksgiving and Christmas

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Construction on the Links Apartment complex is seen last year. As the trend of large freshmen classes continues at Ole Miss, the need for off-campus housing developments also continues to grow. break and signing their lease soon after they return from

the Christmas holidays.”

In January 2014, The Uni-

versity of Mississippi announced that on-campus housing would be given to freshmen first, and this announcement sent many upperclassmen scrambling to find new places to live for the next year. Now, the rush is on again for next year’s rising sophomores.

“The biggest obstacle has been time,” said Madison Salisbury, an Ole Miss student who will live off campus next year. “A person looking for a place to live in Oxford should be actively searching right now, if not yesterday. Places to rent go quickly, especially the town-homes close to campus. My advice is to find

a place, sign a lease and start interviewing roommates.”

Emily Corley, a retired real estate agent of Coldwell Banker Realty, said there are some key questions to ask before making a selection.

“If renting is their first choice, obviously, location is key. Will you be safe in this area? Will your vehicle and belongings be safe from theft?

Is it convenient to your college campus?” Corley said.

Oxford has seen a significant increase in construction of apartment complexes in the past two or three years, and Stager said there’s no shortage of off-campus housing.

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On men who like men ALEX BORST

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I am a man who likes men.

I find this fact about myself extremely insignificant in the grand scheme of my life. I find the environmental work that I do and my goals of working in community development much more important than my sexuality. I can’t speak for every gay male because, believe it or not, we are all different. We have different value structures, upbringings and interests, and we are all products of the varied cultures into which we were born. But even though this idea of innate uniqueness seems to be common sense and in no need of debate, a very specific label has been put on gay people collectively that in no way defines what it means to be a gay man in the United States.

We aren’t all effeminate. We don’t all enjoy pop music. Every gay man in America didn’t squeal “Yaaaaaas” after the self-proclaimed “Queen” of the gays, Lady Gaga, belted a medley of Sound of Music songs at the Oscars (I loved that performance, but she is a great example of gay stereotyping).

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acteristics are in any way negative, but I am saying that their association to every gay man is unfair and often offensive.

Many of us love the outdoors, like to go hunting, listen to alternative music, have no idea what’s popular on Tumblr and have never watched a single episode of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” in our lives.

When I was growing up, I felt a profound disconnect between myself and other gay males. The only places a Mississippi boy could learn about gay culture in America are television and the media.

Whether looking at the dark and conniving Thomas in Downton Abbey or the sensitive and stylish Kurt in Glee, gay males have been misrepresented through a variety of stereotypes that have educated the media-hungry people of this country about what it means to be gay.

I understand how these stereotypes came to be, which makes the current state of gay culture even more frustrating. As homosexuality became more widely accepted over the past twenty years, all of the pent up frustrations of gay people not being able to live out who they are for so long ruptured and millions of gay people began to search for their identity openly.

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The media was able to utilize this fundamental change in what was socially acceptable and helped push the movement by providing the archetypes necessary to typify, normalize and sell a people that most Americans knew (and know) nothing about. As the media took it upon itself to define us, our search for individual identities was hindered, and we began to embody and embrace the culture that was fed to us.

Disco music, fashion, mannerisms, show tunes, lisps and promiscuity don’t typify me or most of the gay men that I know, and we generally don’t appreciate being associated with things with which we can’t identify. But as generations of gay people all attempt to simply exist in a world that is just now beginning to accept them, strict definitions ingrained in the worldviews of every media connoisseur have negatively affected gay peoples’ ability to self-actualize.

Again, I don’t believe that identifying with any or all of the things that I labeled here as stereotypically “gay” to be negative or positive. I think that they are simply personality traits and should be treated as such on an individual basis. I write this not with the in-

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tention of fueling a splintering of the gay male population in terms of identity, but to put into words how myself and so many others have felt about having our identity chosen for us.

We all fall prey to stereotyping and to treating people differently than we would those who we consider to be our equals. We all see some people differently due the inevitable labels that society places on us. But no matter if you are heterosexual or gay, black or white, male or female, labels can’t even begin to outline the intricacies in every individual’s personality.

I am a man who likes men, and there are obviously other men who like men. This fact about myself and about the rest of us is true, but it has no bearing on what our interests are and what kind of people we are. Get to know a few of us and see how beautifully different we are from one another. Placing us in a box and acting as if we are clones may allow you to keep your personal worldview, but it also makes your worldview incongruent with reality.

Alex Borst is a sophomore international studies major from Madison.

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New social media app Trio launches Wednesday

“Usually with mashups you need to have something like Final Cut Pro, if you even know how to use it, and other things that make them difficult, but with Trio, we have made it so that anyone can do it. Everything you need in one app,” Leybovich said.

Trio also connects users to the content they are seeing.

“Just like Pinterest, we do linked attribution to every asset used,” Leybovich said. “This gives users the ability to, when they see something they like, be taken right to the site it came from.”

Trio is a product of Meograph, a company that “lets you engage your consumes in creating unique multimedia content.”

The company’s two products prior to Trio were more web based and not as successful as hoped; however, the Meograph team believes that with the knowledge they have accumulated over the past two and a half years of making and selling media creation products, that Trio will prove that third times the charm.

Leybovich and the Meograph team encourage feedback and invite everyone to send their reviews or suggestions to trio@ trioapp.co.

JULIE LABERGE

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A new social media app called Trio became available for download on Wednesday. Trio is aiming to be the next big consumer creation platform in media mashups.

Misha Leybovich, the CEO of Meograph, has been working on Trio for a year along with co-founder and CTO Clay Garrett.

“Remix culture is coming to social media,” Leybovich said.

“Mashups are emerging as a mainstream art form for communication and expression among friends.”

This new app allows users to easily mix together assets, such as photos, videos and GIFs, from several sources and allows the user to also add music, audio and text. Users can also make these mixes using their own or other people’s social media, such as friends and celebrities.

“Trio makes it easy to remix other people’s (friends, celebs, brands) assets (Instagrams, Vines, GIFs, iTunes) into awesome mashups, putting the world of popular media at your fingertips,” Leybovich said.

Users can also create Trio’s together as well as enjoy watching

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content from other creators. “[Through] challenges, you and your friends can create Trios together around a fun, common theme. Have a blast putting together memes, memories and inside jokes,” according to the app’s description on iTunes.

The ability to use third-party assets is really what sets Trio apart from other social media apps. While other photo-video apps only allow use of content from your own camera roll, Trio is “making the world of

third-party assets easily available.”

This also makes Trio unique in the sense that you don’t have to be doing something awesome to be involved in it. Leybovich explained by means of a common example: people like to post about their vacations, however, not everyone is going on amazing vacations.

“With Trio you can just be creative, so you can look cool even if you’re not doing cool activities all the time,” Leybovich said.

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Students support bone marrow drive amfinn@go.olemiss.edu

It may take hundreds of thousands of conversations and thousands of miles of travel, but that’s not stopping three determined young women from trying to save lives. Sharing America’s Marrow is a cross-country tour devoted to obtaining 50,000 volunteers to donate bone marrow.

Ole Miss was one of the first stops on the tour in February. Sam Kimura, co-founder of the organization, was impressed by the students who participated.

“With the university being closed one of the days we visited, we probably did not reach as many students and faculty members as we could have, but the turnout on our second day was impressive,” Kimura said.

The idea of Sharing America’s Marrow was inspired by Kimura herself, her sister and her best friend from Louisville, Kentucky.

In 2010, Kimura needed bone marrow after being diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia. Unable to find a matching donor, she had to resort to an alternative treatment to manage her disease.

Kimura is currently in remission but says she “could potentially relapse and need a transplant in the future.”

In the meantime, Kimura hopes to help those currently in need of a transplant.

“It’s all about crushing the myths surrounding bone marrow

donation and raising awareness for the need for more donors on the registry,” she said.

Kimura’s message hit home for University of Mississippi student Chelsey Helman; her grandfather needed a transplant a few years ago, and the waiting was painful for her family.

“It took a while for him to get a donor because there were very few donors of the same match, and many people needing donations,” Helman said.

At the Ole Miss drive Feb. 2-3, student Logan Jelinske was touched by Kimura’s story.

“That’s why I signed up, because I could have helped save the

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girl I was talking to, and that was an amazing thing in my eyes,” Jelinske said.

Kimura realizes she’s going to have to do a lot of talking throughout the tour.

“It’s going to be tough because it’s literally going to take hundreds of thousands of conversations because most people say no when we ask them to join the registry.”

At Ole Miss 112 students said yes, which means Kimura and her partners have just 49,888 to go.

Anyone interested in donating marrow should visit SharingAmericasMarrow.com.

“I think it’s actually in a good spot. In the upcoming years, however, it’s very possible that we will start experiencing a shortage if Ole Miss continues to grow at the rate they have been,” Stager said.

Sophomore Shelby Dennis agrees with Stager - for the most part.

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Addison Sullivan, junior psychology major, recently downloaded the app. She is still learning it, but she can already see herself using it.

“It is actually really interesting. I have never made a mashup before because it seemed like something you needed a lot of technical smarts to do, but this seems easy. So far it is a pretty fun app,” Sullivan said.

The simplicity of the app was one of the goals Leybovich mentioned.

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How hip-hop met The Beatles

JARED BOYD

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When Kanye West released “Only One” on his website in the hours before New Years 2015, the ode to his daughter, North, created a stir. Mixed between heartfelt lyrics, West believed his words were channeled through him by his deceased mother, “Only One” features organs played by esteemed guest and former Beatle guitarist, Paul McCartney.

After its release, news came that West and McCartney had spent 2014 working on upwards of nine songs, many of which are scheduled to be released on the rapper’s upcoming album “So Help Me God.” The partnership between the 72-year old rock luminary and hip-hop’s foremost producer/rapper may come as a shock to fans.

On the surface, the two entities don’t mix. Some West followers even took to Twitter in response praising West for supporting “untapped talent.”

However, this doesn’t mark the first time a Beatle has played a major role in hip-hop.

In December 2003, then-littleknown hip-hop producer Brian Burton, whose stage name is Danger Mouse, set out to remix JayZ’s “The Black Album,” which, at the time, was touted to be his last offering as a solo artist in the rap industry.

Two and a half weeks of work went into the unique, 12-song project that paired Jay-Z’s street corner savvy lyricism with another monumental music goliath. All the beats on Danger Mouse’s iteration of “The Black Album” came from The Beatles’ self-titled 1968 album, affectionately dubbed by fans as “The White Album” to make “The Grey Album.”

After releasing “The Grey Album” in February 2004 in a limited 3,000 copy pressing, Danger Mouse quickly rose within the

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ranks of producers bringing their own spin to Jay-Z’s curtain call album. Unlike many mash-up artists of the time who simply lay one song’s vocals over the existing instrumental parts of another, Danger Mouse painstakingly broke each Beatles song he used into pieces. He extracted as much as he could of each drum stroke and cymbal crash played by band member, Ringo Starr. He did the same with other essential instruments like guitar and bass. With these clips, he built beats of his own, tailored to the moods of each song on the Jay-Z album.

In a March 2004 interview with MTV.com, he explained his process of translating The Beatles’ vintage rock sound into a more modern rap structure.

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“Taking one little Beatles’ handclap wasn’t going to do it…but if you double it up and move them away from each other, so they’re doubling up the delay, and then take of the pitch of it and throw it up in the air and make it a higher pitch.”

Even over a decade after its initial release, “The Grey Album” somehow manages to hold up better than the official Jay-Z release that it owes its origins.

With Jay-Z’s album already on the charts for a handful of months, Danger Mouse paced his album substantially better than its predecessor. Well-known singles are scattered about the track list.

In a bold move, “Public Service Announcement,” a record stuffed into “The Black Album” almost as if it was an afterthought leads Mouse’s version. “Allow me to reintroduce myself,” Jay-Z raps at the song’s opening.

Most impressively, Danger Mouse found ways time and time

again to blend the aesthetics of Beatles’ songs he sampled with Jay-Z’s raps, while matching the mood of each song’s official, more well-known counterpart. This practice is on full display with “99 Problems.”

The single burst into rap radio formats in April 2004 with an unusually brash Jay-Z. The oftentimes laid-back rapper enlisted the help of Rick Rubin. Danger Mouse pulls no punches in his take on the song, isolating the most punk-sounding elements of Beatles’ number, “Helter Skelter” to provide an equally heavy backdrop to Jay’s detailed narrative account about racial profiling.

Danger Mouse even replicates the sporadic signature sound of legendary beat-maker and longtime Jay-Z collaborator, Timbaland’s only offering to the album, “Dirt Off Your Shoulder.” Listening to Mouse’ Fab Four-inspired version, would leave most hip-hop fans wondering if Timbo

himself was able to step into the studio to assist in turning the Lennon-McCartney-penned “Julia” into a club banger.

Danger Mouse’s “The Grey Album” led him to overnight success in a career that eventually led him to teaming up with Atlanta-based singer and rapper, Cee-Lo, to form Gnarls Barkley.

Danger Mouse’s triumph, however, did not come without controversy. Just months after “The Grey Album” hit the Internet, EMI served Danger Mouse a cease and desist order. The company holds the rights to The Beatles’ material on behalf of Capitol Records.

In response, Downhill Battle, a grassroots online activism group launched a project known as “Grey Tuesday” to spread awareness about Danger Mouse, “The Grey Album” and the sharing of artistic ideas regardless of their violations of copyrights. Danger Mouse fought further legal recourse by stating his project was only for close friends, and he would participate in no further distribution of the project after the original 3,000 CDs he pressed were gone. GreyTuesday.com, however, offered curious listeners a place to download the album and some online retailers even began selling bootlegged versions.

In a 2011 interview with BBC Radio 1 McCartney agreed that EMI’s legal reprimanding of Mouse was absurd. “I don’t mind when something like that happened with ‘The Grey Album,’ but the record company minded,” he said, “They put up a fuss, but it was like; ‘take it easy guys, it’s a tribute.’”

Jay-Z also came out in the defense of Danger Mouse’s creative license.

The legacy of this distinctive experiment in hip-hop still exists today, in a more direct and intimate form. In 2004, rap and rock fans alike would probably flip at the news that Paul McCartney was working so closely within rap music. But with Kanye West and Paul McCartney’s latest collaboration no such controversy will arise. This time, there should be no cease and desist.

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Young Buffalo releases album, kicks off nationwide tour ZOE MCDONALD

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Young Buffalo released their first full-length album Tuesday and have planned a release party at The Lyric tonight to celebrate and commence their nationwide tour.

The birth of the Oxford-based indie rock band took place just before original members Jim Barrett and Ben Yarbrough graduated high school.

Throughout 2011 and 2012, band members came and went.

In 2012, after the addition of Will Eubanks, the keyboardist, they recorded their self-titled EP. They then received a Facebook message and later a series of YouTube videos from Andrew Guinn, who auditioned to become the band’s drummer.

It wasn’t until 2013, after “House” was recorded, when the band perfected their live sound with the addition of Tim Burkhead as drummer and the reassignment of Guinn to bass.

“Andy has the biggest hands I’ve ever seen, so we were like, ‘He’s gotta be able to, like, kill the bass,’” Barrett said.

The LP, titled “House,” was released on Votiv Records and has attracted the attention of

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In spite of the early 2015 release date, the album and Young Buffalo’s live sound has been a work in progress spanning back to 2009.

“That’s changed completely,” Barrett said, “I mean, the vibe of that is completely different from where I was originally going with it. I think definitely for the better.”

Motives behind some songs on the album have also shifted. Many Barrett wrote after a messy break-up, and he said now that the heartbreak has passed, he has changed and so have some of these meanings.

Additionally, “House” highlights the growth of the band from its youth, when Barrett and Yarbrough began writing and recording EPs, but they could not reach a point where they were performing for crowds regularly. Now, with their diverse assortment of band members and newly released record, they can.

“We’re able to go and play for folks and kind of do this for a living,” Barrett said.“It’s about leaving home and playing and doing what you dream of doing.”

In these ways, “House” dis-

plays a metamorphosis as it encapsulates vicissitudes of the years that went into the album’s craft.

These changes worked, and, with these additions and transitions, Young Buffalo’s sound has only grown. Barrett said after they recorded “House” in L.A. they brainstormed ways to emulate the music in a live atmosphere, and that’s when the addition of Burkhead became a possibility.

“It’s been a full year and now two months that we’ve been playing as a five-piece, and I don’t think its gonna change anytime soon,” Barrett said.

Since “House” was recorded in the fall and winter of 2013, the band had an entire year to practice and perfect their live sound. Young Buffalo as they are now began to practice only three or four days after the beginning of 2014.

“I remember the second time we played, we were playing some songs—it might’ve been one of our older ones—but it sounded so big that the whole shivers and goosebumps thing happened to me, like midway through the song,” Barret said.

“I kind of looked at Ben and was

like, ‘Yeah, this is the crew we need.’ And so I think, we realized right off the bat that it was gonna work, but it has taken a lot of time to get where we’re at right now.”

With an entire year to solidify Young Buffalo’s live sound, the release of “House” could not be timed at a better point in the band’s career. Now, the group can focus on writing and recording for a five-piece dynamic. There is a lot of freedom in

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this position, Barrett said.

“The boundaries with what we make are kind of nonexistent at this point, and that’s kind of fun. It’s maybe sometimes a little scary, but it’s fun to create, to invent in that way,” Barrett said.

Young Buffalo is planning on “throwing a bit of a party” this evening. They will perform along with Lil Iffy and some surprise guests. Tickets are $10 at The Lyric, and the doors will open at 9:30 p.m.

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do well is rebound the ball at a high mark at 40.9 rebounds per game. That is good for fourth in the SEC. Arkansas only allows their opponents to shoot 28 percent from three.

For a team that loves to speed you up on offense and create turnover, the Rebels are going to have a hard time doing that. Arkansas turns the ball over on average 13.6 times per game. Ole Miss turns their opponents over on average 17 times per game.

The Rebels come into the game averaging a steady 64.7 points per game and on defense, while giving up 62 points per game.

As well in the press conference Tuesday, Matt Insell talked about the need for paint touches to be successful. Faleru, freshman guard A’Queen Hayes and Sisk will all dictate that outcome.

First team All-SEC Faleru will need all of her 14.6 points and 10.5 rebounds per game to help that cause and hometown player, junior Little Rock native Gracie Frizzel (36 percent threepoint), will look to provide the threat from the outside that Ole Miss will need.

Fresh off her All-freshman honors, Hayes will look to give the Rebels another scoring threat needed to knock off the Razorbacks. It will be her first SEC tournament appearance.

Key reserves, including senior forward Danielle McCray and Sisk give the Rebels more threats on offense.

The two teams will play at noon Thursday on the SEC Network.

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The Ole Miss Rebels (17-12, 7-9 SEC) head to Little Rock, Arkansas, for the 2015 SEC tournament as they face the Arkansas Razorbacks (16-12, 6-10 SEC) at noon Thursday.

These two teams know each other pretty well – they faced off in the conference opener.

The Rebels came through with a victory by a score of 71-57.

Sophomore transfer guard Erika Sisk led the way with 19 points, and senior forward Tia Faleru had a double-double, scoring 10 points and pulling in 11 rebounds.

That result means nothing now as the Rebels begin the conference tournament slate.

Head coach Matt Insell alluded to in his press conference Tuesday that the team is taking a 0-0 record approach into the weekend.

In the Rebels’ most recent game they played, they dropped a contest to Mississippi State 55-47 last Sunday.

It has been an impressive first year for head coach Jimmy Dykes as his team has been a steady force in the SEC and has his team lined up for an NCAA tournament birth. Although the Razorbacks go into the tournament limping, they lost three of their last four games, including a loss at Missouri to finish the regular season.

Sophomore forward Jessica Jackson and sophomore guard Kelsey Brooks lead Arkansas in scoring at 14.6 and 14.4 points per game respectively. Junior forward Melissa Wolff and senior forward Jhasmin Brown both lead the team in rebounding with eight and 6.6 rebounds per game respectively.

Arkansas as a team averages 60.8 points per game and allows only 55.1 points per game.

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Johnson, Engram, Hilton talk preparations for spring DYLAN RUBINO

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A lot of familiar faces for the Rebels have departed following the 2014 season. Some of these names include quarterback Bo Wallace, safety Cody Prewitt, defensive back Senquez Golson and many more.

These senior leaders will be missed on both sides of the ball, but there is plenty of experience and talent left on the roster to replace the senior leaders that led the Rebels to a great 2014 campaign.

As spring practices got underway this week, some of the returning players talked to the media at the Manning Center team room about the expectations and goals of 2015 spring practices.

One of the returning leaders on the team will be senior C.J. Johnson. Johnson has played defensive end for most of his Ole Miss career, but head coach Hugh Freeze is exploring Johnson at middle linebacker, where he has experience playing at the mike.

Johnson totaled 38 tackles and four sacks at the defensive end position last season and looks to continue his success at a different position.

“I wouldn’t say it’s different. The game slows down for me a lot. I pretty much know where everybody on the front is doing,” Johnson said on the difference between playing defensive end and linebacker.

“Right now, it’s just getting adjusted to drops and coverages and stuff like that. That’s really about the only problem.”

With the departures of some senior leaders on defense, Johnson steps in as the key leader on the “landshark”

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Evan Ingram runs to start a play at football practice, Oct. 28, 2014. defense, especially with the change to middle linebacker.

Johnson said that he’s comfortable with being a leader on the defense, but there is still a lot to learn and that he’s trying not to force anything on his fellow teammates.

Johnson also admitted that it’s weird not seeing Golson and Prewitt with him on the defense, but it’s something he has to get used to.

“It feels weird being the oldest person out there and the person that everybody looks up to,” Johnson said. “It’s definitely something that I’m ready to embrace.”

Sophomore tight end Evan Engram was one of the top weapons for former quarterback Bo Wallace last season.

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Engram reeled in 38 catches for 662 yards and two scores for the 2014 season, but Engram thinks he needs to improve in 2015 in order to be a more complete tight end.

“I’ve been focusing on getting stronger, being able to hold blocks with the defensive ends and linebackers and all the bigger guys,” Engram said. “I’ve been focusing on getting stronger in the weight room, focusing on my hands and my route-running. Just everything that comes with the tight end spot. I want to be more a guy that coach doesn’t pull out on third and short. I want to stay in and see if I can hold my own.”

When asked about the return of junior wide receiver

Laquon Treadwell, Engram seemed very excited about his return and added that he looks like his normal self.

“It’s just good to have him around. Having him back in workouts and talking as usual and getting us going,” Engram said. “It’s fun. It’s good to see him back out there and putting a lot of work in in the training room.”

Senior defensive back Mike Hilton is another player that will join Johnson in changing positions. Hilton will make the move to rover safety, where Hilton said rover is more of a coverage skill set type of position and and free safety is more of a in-the-box type of position. Hilton also added that rover is more fit-

ting to his abilities where he can tackle in open space.

When asked about what he wanted to see from his defense this season, he wants the same “landshark” mentality that last seasons’ team had. Hilton thinks that can easily be accomplished.

“It’s really where we picked up from last year; turnovers.

It’s constantly hawking and creating turnovers,” Hilton said. “We feel like with our defense, and with our offense coming back and the guys we have on offense, we feel like if we give them a short field, they can make something happen.”

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Alabama win, remaining SEC schedule crucial for Rebs BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE

bsrippee@go.olemiss.edu

With their backs up against the wall, a reeling Ole Miss basketball team entered Coleman Coliseum in a must win situation. It was senior night for Alabama as they were looking to put a positive end to a frustrating regular season.

The first half was much of the same in regards to the recent struggles the Rebels have had. The zone of the Crimson Tide kept the Rebels pretty stagnant through the first 20 minutes of play. The Rebels offensive struggles continued as they entered the locker room down 30-27 with their NCAA tournament hopes hanging in the balance.

Ole Miss responded in the second half in a big way.

At the nine minute mark, senior Ladarius “Snoop” White made a three-pointer from the right wing. Senior point guard Jarvis Summers then immediately stole the basketball at half court and dished it to Snoop on the left wing who then buried another three pointer, forcing Alabama to call a timeout. The sequence gave the Rebels a 55-46 lead forcing Alabama to call a timeout. The Rebels never looked back from there as they scored 55 second half points en route to a crucial 82-74 victory.

A game in which Ole Miss had to win, the guard play rose to the occasion. White and junior guard Stefan Moody combined for 44 points, while Summers provided seven assists and no turnovers on the night. Say what you want about the shooting struggles of Summers, but seven assists and no turnovers is huge on the road coming from your starting point guard.

Probably the biggest story of the night was the Ole Miss bench, which provided 36

Guard Jarvis Summers prepares to pass the ball in a game earlier this season. points on the way to a big win.

The win has a large impact on Ole Miss’s NCAA tournament chances. If the Rebels

win also vaulted the Rebels to a tie for third in the SEC standings and back in contention for the double-bye in the

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SEC tournament. The Rebels sit a half game ahead of LSU, who has yet to play this week and a full game ahead of Georgia, who fell just short of Kentucky on Tuesday night.

Though LSU owns the tiebreaker over Ole Miss and get Tennessee at home on Wednesday, they still have to make a trip to Arkansas to finish the regular season on Saturday, which will be a tall task to say the least.

Assuming Ole Miss takes care of business on Saturday, they will earn a top four seed and a double-bye in the SEC tournament. With LSU’s remaining schedule, the Rebels also have a pretty good chance of earning a three-seed and avoiding Kentucky until a potential championship game matchup, if they were to advance that far.

Barring a letdown on Saturday, Ole Miss will likely land anywhere from a seven to 10 seed in the NCAA tournament. The strong performance from the backcourt on Tuesday is a positive sign for Ole Miss heading towards the postseason.

In the past when mid to lower seeds have made a run in the NCAA tournament, more often than not, they have had great guard play with a prolific scorer that can take over a game.

The Rebels have just that in Moody. Moody’s scoring ability accompanied by two veteran leaders in White and Summers will be a huge advantage to the Rebels in March. A team that shoots a high percentage from the free throw line and has great guard play can be a lethal combination in the postseason.

Ole Miss still has work to do to close out the regular season, but Tuesday’s win is not only a gigantic sigh of relief, but it’s also a positive sign towards the postseason.

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