The Daily Mississippian – October 4, 2013

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University responds to ‘The Laramie Project’ incident

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UM honors LGBTQ month, hosts Pride Week next week The University of Mississippi honored LGBTQ month with a reception Thursday evening at Bryant Hall and will host Pride Week next week as part of the month’s celebration.

Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones, Athletics Director Ross Bjork, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Leslie Banahan, Assistant Provost Donald Cole and other campus leaders spoke at the reception.

Multiple “Laramie Project” cast members and theater department chair Rene Pulliam were in attendance as well. Each speaker referenced Tuesday night’s incident. The common theme from multiple speakers was that the incident was “a learning experience” for the

university.

Next week, the university will host its previously scheduled Pride Week, which was created under the previous ASB administration’s wing.

According to Val Ross, assistant dean of students for multicultural affairs, Ole Miss students will have multiple opportunities to acknowledge and celebrate LGBTQ groups on campus next week.

Tables will be set up outside the Student Union all week where students can pick up ribbons and talk to members of the UM Pride Network, one of the largest undergraduate LGBTQ groups on campus.

For photos of Thursday night’s event, see page six.

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Chancellor Dan Jones speaks with theater department chair Rene Pulliam during a reception for LGBTQ month Thursday.

By Adam Ganucheau dmeditor@gmail.com

Multiple entities of The University of Mississippi worked to respond to “The Laramie Project” incident that occurred Tuesday night in the Meek Auditorium. After the publication of yesterday’s front-page article in The Daily Mississippian, attention was brought to what one theater faculty member called “borderline hate speech” and homophobic slurs made by a mostly student audience at the theater department’s production.

Thursday morning, the university’s Bias Incident Response Team, a committee of about five faculty members, met to gather facts about Tuesday night.

“As chairs of the committee, we have been in communication with the theater department and the athletics department,” Val Ross and Merrill Magruder, co-chairs of the committee, wrote in an email sent to The DM yesterday.

“Currently BIRT is still in the factfinding stage. We are working diligently to speak with all individuals involved or associated with the event.”

Ross said the BIRT is working to develop a detailed report of the theater incident to send to Vice Chancellor of Student Af-

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fairs Brandi Hephner LaBanc, but a timetable for the committee’s completion is not set.

The DM learned after initial investigation of the incident that an estimated 20 football players were in attendance at the play as well.

The play’s director Rory Ledbetter said that “(the football players) were definitely the ones who seemed to initiate others in the audience to say things, too.”

While no official statement was released by the university’s Department of Athletics Wednesday or Thursday, head football coach Hugh Freeze tweeted Thursday morning: “We certainly do not condone any actions that offend or hurt people in any way. We are working with all departments involved to find the facts.”

The university released an open letter signed by Chancellor Dan Jones and Athletics Director Ross Bjork Thursday condemning the offensive behavior of the students in attendance at the Meek Auditorium Tuesday. The entire letter can be found on the front page of The DM. The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, which has been active after previous controversial incidents on campus, also made plans to help prevent another incident like Tuesday’s from happening on campus.

“(Thursday) we offered services with respect to the strategy of restoration justice, which is when we sit down with all stakeholders involved in a situation and develop a plan to prevent it from happening again,” said Jennifer Stollman, Winter Institute academic director.

Stollman said she sent a lesson plan to the athletics department and professors of EDHE 105, a freshman-level class that introduces freshmen to important aspects of college life at Ole Miss.

“While we are currently under no authority and haven’t been mandated by the university at this time, I’m hopeful that (the lesson plan) could be useful to the professors that might not necessarily know how to begin conversations with students about topics like this,” she said. “This is certainly a learning moment for the university.”

Tuesday night’s incident occurred just two weeks after the inaugural UM Creed Week, which celebrates the University Creed.

Next week is the university’s previously scheduled Pride Week, which will include recognition of National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11. Additionally, October is LGBTQ month, and the Office of the Dean of Students hosted a reception at Bryant Hall Thursday evening honoring the month.

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Staff editorial: We will not be represented by these prejudiced few On Tuesday evening the Ole Miss theater department held a production of “The Laramie Project,” a play about Matthew Shephard, an openly gay male, who was murdered in Laramie County, Wyo. But unlike its previous performances, this one was troubling as university students heckled and disrupted the event, using hateful words like “fag” during the performance and insulting performers for their body types and their characters’ sexual orientations.

We, the editorial staff of The Daily Mississippian, condemn these actions and ask the student body to not allow this event to pass by unnoticed and use it as a means to start an open discussion. These students were hateful and disrespectful to a group of committed individuals who worked hard and were putting on a play that was meant to combat such offensive behavior.

They were also disrespectful and insensitive to the larger LGBTQ community who attend our university. These are not only members of our university but also human beings, and we must accept and offer them the same type of respect we expect for

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This editorial was not written because we want to increase tension, but to subvert the tension of our state and our history. We cannot forget the negative reputation our state and university have earned since their inception. Furthermore, we want to combat harassment and discrimination, so we can avoid these types of conflicts on our campus in future and focus on what is important – our community and our education. We do not believe this event is a measuring stick of our student body because students at this university value its creed. But we do hope it will create further discussion about how we might strengthen tolerance and sensitivity on this campus.

We, The Daily Mississippian, encourage students to attend Pride Week events, which will run Monday through Friday of next week, endorse the work that the William Winter Institute has done in reaction to this behavior and appreciate the letter sent by Chancellor Dan Jones and Director of Athletics Ross Bjork. Attending Pride Week events and looking into the work that the William Winter Institute

does and has done will help answer questions and defuse stereotypes about LGBTQ people and strengthen our community. The letter sent by Jones and Bjork speaks to the expectations that we, as Ole Miss Rebels, should uphold. We also recommend professors take the time to discuss this in their classes, as this discussion will help bring about tolerance and understanding.

Our community is an inclusive one, and we believe students will come together to reject such intolerant actions in future. The majority of students at The University of Mississippi are accepting of all people, only a small minority is intolerant, but sadly this small minority is often loudest. We will not be represented by these prejudiced few because we are a campus of supportive and compassionate students.

And we will not allow this event to change that.

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ourselves. Using such language and being openly prejudiced is unacceptable.

We, as students, cannot forget that when we attend this university, we become ambassadors of Ole Miss. We are representatives and our actions depict the university’s atmosphere. Now, for the second time in one year, we are in the national spotlight for the actions of a few irresponsible students who make our university look as though it is accepting of this kind of behavior. We all know it is not. But until we come together and show our rejection of these actions, Ole Miss will continue to be depicted in a negative light.

It is discouraging to note that some members of the heckling, disrespectful audience were football players and other student athletes. Many members of the Ole Miss community, especially children who are growing up as Ole Miss fans, consider these athletes to be role models. We hope that in the future these athletes realize they represent much more than themselves. They are the face of our university and we hope they will show the university, the state and the nation their

By Tim Abram

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I was in the crowd the night some of the freshman football players heckled Garrison Gibbons, among other cast members. The moment Gibbons opened his mouth, the jeering began. Homophobic slurs filled with vitriol became the dialogue of the production.

But why? Why did some of our freshman football players feel the need to ridicule a fellow classmate? A better question is why does anyone feel the need to ridicule someone

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because of their sexuality?

I wondered if the football players thought they could just do whatever they wanted to do without repercussions. I wondered if they felt invincible and above the law. In my opinion, lack of maturity, stupidity, insensitivity and a feeling of quasi-invincibility led the football players to cause such harm to a fellow classmate.

I was distraught as I wrote this piece. These are the same individuals who, through their efforts on the field, have brought me much happiness during my senior year of college, and yet they have become the source of so much pain for their fellow Ole Miss Rebels theater members. Being able to run a 40-yard dash in 4.3 seconds does not excuse you

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from showing some respect for others. Being able to blow past two defenders and elevate to catch a football does not excuse you from displaying an immense level of ignorance.

And, simply put, the helmet that you wear on gameday does not provide immunity from stupidity.

However, we must not hold the football players to a higher standard regarding respectfulness than we do ourselves.

Every single one of us has to continually make improvements in our individual actions to ameliorate these types of incidents from happening.

To fairly address the situation at hand, it is important to note that some of the freshman football players in attendance did not participate in

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the utter buffoonery. One of them sat on the second row with me, one sat in the row in front of me, and the other sat in the row behind me. Most of the heckling was done by the players who sat near the back of the audience.

It is unfair to distribute negative criticism to the entire freshman class of football players, the entire Ole Miss football team and more importantly the entire Ole Miss student population. We just celebrated the inaugural Creed Week (which was not picked up by Yahoo! or other major sites), which focuses on tenets of the Ole Miss Creed. Nevertheless, I bet I can name a few students who did not come to See HELMETS, PAGE 3

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I am not sure when people will realize that our country and the world at large have come to expect instances like this to come from our students.

Is it fair that we are judged by our troubled past? No. But since we are, we have to always go above and beyond to display tolerance, acceptance, inclusivity and respect for all of our campus members.

I recall watching several pregame speeches given by Coach Hugh Freeze – many are powerful, inspiring speeches. He often talks about the football players playing out of love for

one another and not for themselves. He also talks about how players should measure their individual success by how much they did to make the man next to them successful. Though the play was not in VaughtHemingway, the principles that Coach Freeze preaches should apply not only to the football players, but also to all students.

While the temporary amnesia shown by the football players in regard to the principles Coach Freeze instilled in them is quite embarrassing and hurtful, this moment can be a learning one. The heckling and harm has been done — you cannot change that. But what you can change are the attitudes you display toward individuals who are different from

you. You can grow up and not be childish during theatrical performances.

Sadly, some of the Ole Miss freshman players lost the day on Oct. 1. To be honest, we all lose every day we allow and sometime silently approve of injustices. Going forward, the focus should be not on who said something, but rather on what was said and why. This is greater responsibility we all have to answer to.

In closing, we been blessed to see another day in which we can win. And by winning, I mean showing respect and dignity for everyone.

Tim Abram is a senior public policy leadership major from Horn Lake.

Letter to the editor of private heckling leading to events similar to those outlined in The Laramie Project.

It’s no secret to queer students here that it can get incredibly scary to walk around this university and surrounding areas knowing that some if not a majority of these strangers walking past you harbor a hatred that could escalate to fatal levels.

Two weeks ago the university celebrated its first Creed Week. During that week and after, I have been highly disappointed at the level of active work and programming to address actions that blatantly disrespect a creed the university works so hard to publicize.

I as president of UM Pride Network, the undergraduate LGBTQ organization, cannot help but feel a sense of shame and disappointment at not foreseeing these actions. It’s time to push aside how much

faith we have in the student body here and hold each other accountable to the things we do to perpetuate a poisonous culture that upholds heterosexuality as the norm.

I refuse to let Tuesday night’s events descend into the Island of Misfit-Events-of-Hate.

No more signing books in perceived solidarity, no more commemorations, no more committees; simply, no more inaction. There needs to be dialogue, discussion and tough conversation, and it needs to happen now.

Next, I look at the university, which includes myself, and ask: What do we do to make anyone on this campus believe it is safe to ostracize LGBTQ individuals? What can we do as a community to analyze our institutions, events, programming, housing policies, and organizations (both greek and campus organizations) to develop ways to be more sen-

sitive and inclusive.

Let’s step back and look at how far a jump there is from heckling someone on a stage to heckling someone in a dark alley. Without a public audience in that alley where would that heckling go? Without anyone there to make them apologize or curb their behavior would physical violence ensue or would their verbal abuse suffice for the night?

Through all the anger, shame, disappointment, frustration, and whatever other emotions people of feeling right now, this event provides us the perfect time to DO SOMETHING. October is National LGBTQ History Month. Countless people have worked hard to bring the University of Mississippi programming and events to establish a foundation for education as well as activism around making this campus comfortably habitable to

queer students, faculty, and staff.

UM Pride Network meets October 10th & 24th. After that we meet every 1st and 3rd Thursday in each month.

I invite any and everyone to come to a meeting or an event scheduled for this month.

Let’s figure out together what we will do to actively shape this culture we work so very hard to uphold.

Nathaniel Weathersby UM Pride Network: President nweather@go.olemiss.edu umpridenetwork@gmail.com

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Dear University of Mississippi Administration, Athletics Department, Students, Faculty, and Staff, Tuesday night, October 1, 2013 a deplorable act of hate was conducted during an Ole Miss Department of Theatre Arts production of The Laramie Project. Later, I read in the Daily Mississippian that the athletes guilty of being a majority of the disturbance were made to apologize to the cast after the show. An apology was and may still be in order; sincerity of those apologies can be easily debated. I deeply believe this event provides us the perfect foundation to establish educational dialogue around the subject of LGBTQ persons on this campus. Because those athletes were not the only ones participating and how long must we wait before these isolated moments of public heckling become isolated moments

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Alex Lenier participates in a ROTC training exercise Thursday.

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As conflict continues overseas, nearly 500 students are enrolled in University of Mississippi ROTC programs, training to become leaders equipped to handle whatever their country asks of them.

Lt. Col. Nathan Minami, West Point graduate and leader of the Army ROTC program at Ole Miss, said a strong sense of patriotism keeps the cadets coming.

“Especially since 9/11, for the last 12 or 13 years the young men and women that are choosing to serve their country have been extremely motivated,” Minami said.

Sam Sloane, a senior from Chicago and head of the public affairs department for Ole Miss Army ROTC, exhibits that motivation and patriotism.

“I’ve known ever since I was a child that I wanted to be in the Army, it was just a matter

of how I was going to do it,” Sloane said. “I always knew I wanted to be in the military, it was just a question of how I was going to serve.”

Sloane is unsure about whether or not he will go overseas, but he is training to be prepared for anything.

“I don’t know the future, I’m a little ways off from that, but you got to do what your country asks,” Sloane said. “I knew what I was signing up for when I signed up. If I go, I go.”

Lt. Col. Minami believes that no matter what happens to these cadets, the leadership training they are receiving will help them with any aspect of their lives.

“Regardless of what your goals might be, some folks want to become business leaders someday, some folks might go into science, technology, engineering, some folks might want to be an ambassador,” Minami said. “It doesn’t matter, the military and ROTC specifically will

extremely help develop your leadership skills.”

Caleb Varacalli, a graduate student and member of the Army ROTC, believes that without the leadership training he has received from the military he would not be as successful.

“Without the military teaching me leadership and discipline, I don’t believe that I’d be in graduate school right now,” Varacalli said. “What I learned from the military ended up being life lessons and helped me get through stressful situations in everyday life.”

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Tourists watched the shooting unfold on Constitution Avenue outside the Capitol as lawmakers inside debated how to end a government shutdown. Police quickly locked down the entire complex temporarily, and both houses of Congress went into recess.

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Police described it as an isolated event and saw no indications of terrorism.

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SHOOTING, continued from page 4 the Capitol. The driver slows down as police approach, and then speeds away.

“The car was trying to get away. But it was going over the median and over the curb,” said Matthew Coursen, who was on his way to a legislative office building when the Infiniti sped by him. “The car got boxed in and that’s when I saw an officer of some kind draw his weapon and fire shots into the car.”

Coursen watched the shooting from his cab window.

“I thought to myself, ‘The car is getting blocked in. The car is going to surrender,’” he said. “Now the cop has his weapon out. The car kept trying to get away. Then he fired shots.”

Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer said a child was taken from the car to a hospital but said he knew of no harm to the youngster.

Tourist Edmund Ofori-Attah said the child appeared to be about 2 to 3 years old.

A police officer was injured in the traffic accident but Gainer said the injuries were

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The shooting comes two weeks after a mentally disturbed employee terrorized the Navy Yard with a shotgun, leaving 13 people dead including the gunman.

Before the disruption, lawmakers had been trying to find common ground to end a government shutdown.

The House had just finished approving legislation aimed at partly lifting the government shutdown by paying National Guard and Reserve members.

U.S. Capitol Police on the plaza around the Capitol said they were working without pay as the result of the shutdown.

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Phi Mu girls fill the door of their sorority house as they cheer to the visiting potential new members.

By Walter Lyle wmlyle@go.olemiss.edu

In case you haven’t noticed, Greek recruitment at The University of Mississippi is a serious thing. Friendships are created and tested, sleep and time are rare and precious commodities, and the stress is endless for freshmen.

Of course, fraternities and sororities do things differently.

In line with the Greek system’s overall refresh, the Ole Miss Interfraternity Council has made two significant changes to the recruitment process this year.

According to Council President Gabe Labonia, recruitment is split into two different weekends as opposed to the Wednesday-Sunday schedule seen in years past to reduce the effects of recruitment on grades and more evenly spread the time invested.

Round one was held last weekend, and rounds two and

three will be held this weekend, Oct. 5-6, with bid day on Sunday.

The second major change is an academic requirement: If potential new member of a fraternity has fewer than 12 completed college hours, his cumulative high school GPA must be 2.5 or greater.

Labonia said he believes these changes have improved the overall experience.

“There are over a thousand men signed up for formal recruitment this year, and things are going great thus far,” Labonia said.

Sororities do not have a GPA requirement for recruitment, nor is their recruitment split into two weekends. According to the Panhellenic Society website, young women experience recruitment in one full week of activities, starting on Oct. 1 and ending on Oct. 6.

Those six days contain three rounds: Philanthropy, Skit and Preference. Bid day is Oct. 6.

The moods of freshmen participating in both fraternity and sorority recruitment generally fall between nervous and excited.

Freshman biochemistry major Blake Sowers appreciates the laid-back atmosphere of fraternity recruitment.

“We all just get to hang out and act pretty casual through the whole thing,” Sowers said.

“Recruitment is going well, but it’s definitely a long process. As tiring as it is, it’s still a lot of fun at the end of the day.”

Freshman international studies major Elizabeth Romary has enjoyed visiting the sorority houses and meeting active members.

“I can tell that the sororities are just as excited for recruitment as we are,” Romary said.

“Everyone is so friendly and welcoming.”

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Feature Photos: LGBTQ month reception The Office of the Dean of Students hosted a reception to kick off LGBTQ month Thursday afternoon. Photos by Phillip Waller

Chancellor Dan Jones speaks at the reception Thursday evening.

Assistant Provost Don Cole speaks at the event Thursday.

Director of Athletics Ross Bjork speaks to students at the reception Thursday.

Theater department chair Rene Pulliam, left, and Garrison Gibbons look on at the event.

Nathaniel Weathersby, president of the UM Pride Network, speaks at the event Thursday.

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The One Night Stand at the Ole Miss Motel returns

By Ellen Whitaker ewhitake@go.olemiss.edu

This Saturday, Amelia Presents and the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council will sponsor the eighth annual One Night Stand Art Show at the Ole Miss Motel.

The One Night Stand selects 10 artists to show their work at Oxford’s iconic motel.

Each artist will have their own room and will get to be their own curator for their motel room gallery. This year the artists include: Evan Baroffe, Adrienne Brown, Dorothy Collier, Kate Freeman, Megan Hurdle, Lo-Fi, Hilary Maslon, Kate Roebuck, Laura Roebuck and Lamar Sorrento.

“I have had artists come from Los Angeles and Brooklyn before, but this year they are all from the South,” said Erin Austen Abbott, owner of Amelia Presents.

Erin Austen Abbott started the art show eight years ago while she was living in Los Angeles. She started the show in order to give her friends who were artists a place to easily show their work. After a successful show at the Beverly Hills Motel, she then moved back home to Mississippi and began working with The Ole Miss Motel.

“Erin has done an amazing job with this show,” said Kate Roebuck. “She attracts people who are doing really great things and provides artists at all levels a place to show their work. Whether this is their first show or they have been in many galleries before, they have a great opportunity to get their work out there.”

Until this year, Abbott accepted only submissions from artists to participate in the show. However, Abbott chose to send individual invitations to artists this year.

“It did not really have the curated flowing feeling that I

envisioned for the show,” Abbott said. “So, I decided to make it invitation only. Artists are welcome to show me their work to be considered, but I narrow it down on my own to 10 people.”

The style of show is different from that of most gallery showings. The artists get to choose what they want to use in their motel room gallery and what their main theme, if there is one, will be.

“The main difference in the One Night Stand and other shows is the spontaneity,” Roebuck said. “With other shows there is so much time to calculate what you will have and how it will look. But, with this show, it is like renegade rock ‘n’ roll style. You come in with a loud bang and hopefully you go out with one.”

Junior art major Victoria Barrera believes the show makes for a compelling experience.

“I went to the show last fall, and it was so much fun seeing how each artist transformed their room into basically their own gallery,” Barrera said.

“It was neat seeing all these different artists with different concepts come together in this one show and make it one of my favorite things to go to.”

With each artist’s room, Abbott tries to create a flowing feeling causing the viewer to keep moving to each space to see what else unfolds.

This year the show features mostly paintings. From surrealism to folk art, each artist will have the chance to show and sell his or her work to the Oxford community.

The art show has attracted attention from artists around the country.

“When you have something really cool, people will find it,” said Wayne Andrews, director of the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. “And Erin has that.”

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The 8th annual One Night Stand will be hosted Saturday.

One artist whose attention the show grabbed is Lamar Sorrento. Sorrento is worldrenowned for his folk art, and the One Night Stand is the only show he does all year. Sorrento has been in the show for a few years and has become a staple.

“He is as eclectic as the

show itself,” Abbott said.

While showing their art, the artists also have a chance to sell it. The art generally goes pretty quickly for most artists. Some artists sell more than others, but in the eight years of the art show Abbott has never had an artist not sell anything.

“I think that if an artist provides a lot of their lower price-point work, it sells really well,” Roebuck said.

Abbott hopes to expand to host a second annual show in cities such as Nashville, Portland or Brooklyn, N.Y., in the next five years.

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Four Downs: Auburn vs. Ole Miss In this week’s edition of Four Downs, The Daily Mississippian football beat writers Matt Sigler and Cody Thomason and sports editor David Collier answer four questions regarding the week’s matchup.

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Jeff Scott runs the ball during Saturday’s game against Alabama.

Bo Wallace is able to find his receivers for multiple scores.

David Collier (@DavidLCollier): Ole Miss will score points in this one, and lots of them, but the Rebels have to find a way to run the ball.

More defenses are going to move their defensive ends out wider to see if Ole Miss can beat them up the middle.

They have to find an answer because they will undoubtedly see it.

1. How do you think the Ole Miss offense responds after last week’s shutout?

Matt Sigler (@SigNewton_2): I think the offense comes out with a solid game plan and executes it well this weekend at Auburn. I think Alabama was a wake-up call and showed them that you can’t put things on cruise control, especially in the SEC. Cody Thomason (@ TheCodyThomason): I think Ole Miss returns to its early season form and flourishes against Auburn. I think senior running back Jeff Scott bounces back and has a good game, and junior quarterback

2. The defense played well for the most part against Alabama. Can they continue that success against Auburn’s spread?

Sigler: I definitely think they can. Ole Miss’ defense was the highlight of the game against Alabama, and I think will continue to be an aboveaverage defense. I also think that the Rebels have a bit of an advantage after practicing against their own offense, which also presents a spread look.

Thomason: Ole Miss can have a much better defensive effort against Auburn than against Alabama. The key is to shut down Tiger running back Tre Mason and force the pass. If Ole Miss can get pressure on Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall and rattle the inexperienced signal caller, they could force multiple turnovers.

Collier: They can, but it’ll be tough this week. On one hand, you can say Ole Miss knows what to expect because Auburn’s offense looks a lot like its own. However, Gus Malzahn has plenty of tricks up his sleeve, and the Rebel defense seems to have more trouble against teams that spread things out.

3. Hugh Freeze and Gus Malzahn have a lot of similarities in their offensive philosophies.

Who has the advantage this week, and why?

Sigler: I’ll give the advantage to Freeze, but only because I think he has more playmakers on that side of the ball. Junior Bo Wallace is also light-years ahead of Auburn’s Nick Marshall at the quarterback position, which is obviously a crucial spot.

Thomason: I give Ole Miss the advantage this week due to their experience. While Ole Miss has already had a year to implement their system and a year with Wallace at the helm, Auburn is still experiencing growing pains with their new coach and first-year starter Marshall at quarterback.

Collier: It’s Auburn because of the bye week. Freeze is coming off a frustrating outing last weekend at Alabama, while Malzahn has had two weeks to add wrinkles and work with his new quarterback, Nick Marshall. Both will likely put points on the board, but, going in, the Tigers have a slight edge.

4. What’s the key for Ole Miss to come away with its third win at Jordan-Hare Stadium?

Sigler: The offense is going to have to put points on the board, first and foremost.

As always, limiting turnovers is key, and finally when running an up-tempo offense, you can’t have too many three and outs, which causes your defense to be on the field for extended periods of time.

Thomason: Ole Miss has to

re-establish a run game. The Rebels only rushed for 46 yards last week against Alabama and were largely onedimensional for the entire game. Ole Miss needs a big game from Scott or sophomore running back I’Tavius Mathers to bring balance back to the offense.

Collier: Play loose. Last weekend, Ole Miss, particularly the offense, seemed to play tight like they had something to lose when they didn’t.

This week, they do have something to lose, but they can’t play like it. In my opinion, the only thing that will keep the Rebels off the scoreboard is them playing not to lose instead of just playing.

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Volleyball starts road trip in search of SEC win

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Melanie Crow hits the ball during a match.

By Mac Martin mmart4@yahoo.com

One week after opening up Southeastern Conference play, the Ole Miss Lady Rebel volleyball team now looks to redeem its 0-2 conference record on the road in Lexington, Ky. The Rebels face off with the No. 19 Kentucky Wildcats today at 6 p.m.

The team will then journey to

Athens, Ga., to battle the Georgia Bulldogs on Sunday at 12:30 p.m.

The Lady Rebels are coming off two tough losses in their SEC opener at home last week, losing 3-0 to both Arkansas and No. 3 Florida.

The schedule doesn’t get any easier now for the Lady Rebels as they must travel to Lexington where the Lady Wildcats boast a 10-3 record, including 2-0 in the

SEC. The Wildcats return home after defeating Alabama and Auburn last weekend. The player for Ole Miss to watch will be the Wildcats’ senior standout Whitney Billings, who tallied 14 kills, eight digs and six blocks against the Crimson Tide, earning her SEC Player of the Week honors.

After Friday’s game against Kentucky, Ole Miss will spend a day traveling before facing the

Lady Bulldogs (11-3, 1-1 SEC).

Georgia opened SEC play last weekend, defeating LSU 3-2 on Friday before dropping a 3-0 decision to the Aggies on Sunday.

The two games concluded a fivematch road trip for the Bulldogs.

“The SEC is tough,” Ole Miss head coach Joe Getzin said. “It is a very good conference volleyball-wise, and now, we have to go on the road and do it.”

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Lady Rebel soccer looks to continue success

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Addie Forbus drives the ball downfield during a game last week.

By Nick Eley

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The No. 25-ranked Ole Miss women’s soccer team (92-1, 2-1) will travel to Knoxville tonight to take on the Lady Volunteers of Tennessee (6-3-2, 1-1-1).

The match will feature an Ole Miss team fresh off what head coach Matt Mott called “the best win we’ve ever had in the history of Ole Miss soccer in the SEC,” a 7-0 beat down of the Auburn Tigers.

Following tonight’s match, the Rebels will travel to Athens, Ga., to face the Georgia Bulldogs (9-2, 2-1). The Bulldogs will host the Rebels following their Friday match against Alabama.

Ole Miss’ back line, whose praises Mott has been singing all season, will face an-

other talented forward in Tennessee’s Hannah Wilkinson. Wilkinson, a junior from New Zealand, has notched 13 goals in 26 career games for the Volunteers. Mott said on Monday she is “one of the top forwards in the league.”

Friday’s match also has some family ties for the Rebels, as freshman defender/ midfielder Melissa Capocaccia’s two older sisters, Caroline and Suzanne, play for Tennessee. Defense appears to be the family business, as Caroline and Suzanne also play on Tennessee’s back line.

Mott said Melissa is “definitely excited” and that she has been looking forward to facing her siblings.

Georgia’s record suggests a slightly bigger challenge for the Rebels on Sunday.

The Bulldogs are looking to

bounce back after a 1-0 loss with which Kentucky ended a program-record nine-game winning streak on Sunday.

Although a smaller package, Georgia presents a similar challenge with a talented forward in Marion Crowder.

The freshman is a Madison

native and has recorded eight goals on the season.

Mott stressed that the team needs to be ready for two tough games on the road this weekend. Today’s match is scheduled for a 6 p.m. kickoff, while Sunday’s match is scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.

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Ole Miss, Auburn battle in SEC up-tempo slugfest

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Hugh Freeze and players prepare to take the field before Saturday’s game against Alabama.

By Matt Sigler mcsigler@go.olemiss.edu

The No. 24 Ole Miss Rebels will look to avenge their 25-0 loss this past weekend to No. 1 Alabama when they once again hit the road to take on Auburn.

The Tigers (3-1, 1-1 SEC) are coming off a bye week and have the advantage in the series against Ole Miss, leading 27-10, with an overwhelmingly good mark in the friendly confines of JordanHare Stadium at 13-2.

“They remind me a lot of us last year,” Ole Miss head football coach Hugh Freeze said of the Tigers. “They’re a very, very hungry team that plays with great emotion, energy and passion. It doesn’t surprise me at all with Gus (Malzahn’s) leadership. I know that they’re off to a great start.

“They have been very, very good at home, which we’ve got to go there. It’s another road trip in a hostile environment on a Saturday night. It’s a big game for both schools, sitting at 3-1. He will have them ready.”

The matchup will be an intriguing one with both offenses running a very similar spread, read-option look.

However, Ole Miss defensive coordinator Dave Wommack feels it will give the Rebels an advantage on that side of the ball after being exposed to it in practice all the time.

“We do a lot of fast-tempo stuff,” Wommack said. “It will certainly help us. There are all different kinds of tempos though, and they can catch you sleeping, so you have to pay attention the whole time.”

The Rebels will attempt to shut down an up-tempo Au-

burn offense led by junior quarterback Nick Marshall, who has thrown for 809 yards this season with four touchdowns as well as four interceptions.

“I watched the first game and thought, man, this guy can’t throw a lick,” Wommack said. “But then they played Arkansas State, and you could see improvement, and then they played Mississippi State and you saw a lot of improvement. I think he is doing a really good job for the amount of time he’s been in that scheme, and again they run a lot of offense.”

Auburn will also try to get the rushing attack going with junior running back Tre Mason, who leads the team in carries (65), yards (338) and touchdowns (4). Last season against Ole Miss, Mason ran for 82 yards on 18 carries and

also scored two touchdowns.

“I think he is strong,” Wommack said of Mason. “He’s not really tall and is kind of hard to find sometimes, but he plays with a passion, he is a tough guy. I think their whole trio of backs is absolutely one of their strengths.”

Ole Miss will look to improve upon its offensive performance last week against Alabama, and it all starts with the play of junior quarterback Bo Wallace. Last season, Wallace had a huge game against Auburn, going 17-for-22 through the air for 226 yards and a touchdown. He also added 39 rushing yards with two touchdowns, and had a touchdown reception from 25 yards out.

So far this season, Wallace has had success in areas which he struggled last season, mainly turnovers. He

hasn’t been intercepted yet and has thrown for 807 yards and four touchdowns through four games. He has also contributed in the running game with 125 yards and three touchdowns.

Senior running back Jeff Scott will also be looking to get back on track after going for a season-low 28 yards on just eight carries against Alabama last weekend. Scott is the Rebels’ leading rusher with 358 yards through four games and has two rushing touchdowns.

Defensively, Auburn will rotate plenty of players and Ole Miss offensive coordinator Dan Werner has noticed some improvement in the Tiger defense as the season has progressed.

“They play a lot of people,” Werner said. “So they obviously have a lot of depth. So that is a big plus for them, too.

If we are going fast and they only play a few, we feel like we can wear them down, but they do play a lot of guys.”

Defensively, Auburn will be led by Robenson Therezie and Cassanova McKinzy, who are first and second on the team in tackles with 25 and 21, respectively.

The Rebels and Tigers will kick off at 6 p.m., and the game will be televised on ESPNU. For continuing coverage of Ole Miss football, follow @SigNewton_2 and @thedm_sports on Twitter.

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