THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Friday, March 20, 2015
Volume 103, No. 101
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MARCH SADNESS
Ole Miss to host Color My College 5K Saturday LANA FERGUSON
lnfergus@go.olemiss.edu
Ole Miss Campus Recreation has partnered with Color My College to host a 5K run beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Grove. The race will consist of participants running through red and blue colored powder, a nod at the university’s school colors. It will be the first time Color My College has come to Ole Miss. “We reach out to various schools over the course of the year seeking interest,” said Tonya Shuler, event director at Color My College. “Typically, if we have the support of the university, we make every attempt to get there.”
Amanda Alpert, coordinator of intramural sports and Sport Clubs for Campus Recreation, has worked closely with Color My College for the event. “There are many things that go on behind the scenes leading up to the event that require someone on site to handle, and that is where we came into play,” Alpert said. Color My College works with the university to pick a beneficiary for each of their events. Campus Recreation has chosen Special Olympics Mississippi. “I would like to keep getting Ole Miss Campus Recreation involved with Special Olympic events, so when we were asked to select an organization to
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Aaron Jones and Martavious Newby leave the court after losing to Xavier 76-57 in the second round of the NCAA tournament Thursday, in Jacksonville, Fla. For full story, see page 7.
COURTESY: COLOR MY COLLEGE
Students question effectiveness of wristbands in right field DREW JANSEN
ajjansen@go.olemiss.edu
The Rebels have played 10 games at Swayze Field since the athletic department’s announcement of the new regulation that requires wristbands for those drinking alcohol in the stadium’s right field student section. The rule has since been met with mixed reactions from students. Senior geological engineering major Jake Moore said that while wristbands are widely used to prevent underage drinking, the method’s efficacy depends on adequate enforcement. FILE PHOTO: PAYTON TEFFNER “I understand their conUniversity of Mississippi students watch the game in right field against Arkansas Pine cerns, but I don’t think it’ll Bluff, Tuesday. really affect the illegal drink-
ing unless they’ve got guys patrolling through right field,” Moore said. Freshman chemical engineering major Will Moyer voiced a similar opinion on the new rule. “While it will cut down on some underage drinking, I don’t think that instituting wristbands will stop those determined to drink at the games,” Moyer said. But some students, like senior chemical engineering major Beau Craven, have expressed a more negative view toward attempts to quell underage drinking. “They are trying to solve a problem with wristbands that they won’t ever solve,” Craven
said. While senior economics major Alex Ray also had concerns over the policy’s efficiency and effectiveness, he said that he was still waiting to see how the change worked out. “The drawbacks seem minimal so far, but I don’t think the policy has been fully tested yet because of all the recent bad weather. As things warms up, the crowds will provide a better gauge of how smoothly things run.” UPD Chief Calvin Sellers said the department has issued no tickets and made no arrests at baseball games this season. He explained that arrests have not been weekly
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