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Mock Trial Residents rally against budget cuts Team makes semi-national competition

BY JACOB BATTE The Daily Mississippian

It’s been two years since the University of Mississippi Mock Trial Team has made it to semi-nationals, but after a strong showing at regionals, the team of undergraduates is going back this year.

Daniel Edney, senior political science major, is ready to compete with some of the nation’s best teams.

“I’m really excited. We haven’t gone to nationals in a few years, and to be honest, I wasn’t really expecting it,” said Edney, who is an attorney on the team. “We were going into regionals just trying to do our best, and it went really well.”

T fall season competition is hosted by individual universities and is invitation only. Accordingly, it is referred to as the invitational season.

Co-captain John Woods, a political science and philosophy senior, said he liked how the team competed during the invitational season.

In the spring every team is assigned to a regional tournament.

In regionals, the top eight teams proceed to the Opening Round Championship series, and the top seven or eight teams out of that proceed to the national tournament. There are around 600 teams that compete every year.

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Repeating the chant, “Don’t cut teachers, don’t cut cops, collect the taxes from the top,” a group protests government spending cuts rally in front of the Courthouse on the Square. The meeting was co-organized by Chisten Hemmins, Kate Meacham, and Albert Spereath are members are moveon.org.

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Thursday afternoon a rally was held to request that representative Alan Nunnelee oppose the idea of cutting over $100 billion dollars from the federal budget. The rally was held in downtown Oxford by the Confederate memorial statue.

The tax cuts would cut programs like Head Start, WIC (Women, Infants, and Children), the Pell Grant, job training and employment funds, clean and safe water funds, and repairs for public housing.

It would also cut school improvement funds, law enforcement assistance and approximately 5,800 jobs lost in Mississippi alone.

These cuts would affect National Public Radio, which includes Mississippi Public Broadcasting, and the Public Broadcasting Service.

Aside from the aforementioned public programs, the budget cuts would also put approximately 65,000 teachers out of work, erase roughly 700,000 jobs, and leave more than 10,000 veterans without

homes.

Milly West, who teaches several writing courses at Ole Miss, attended the rally.

“This is a grassroots group here that is frustrated with the concept that big business should have so much power, that some of our businesses are more subsidized than need be to make a decent profit,” West said.

West said there were many questions that the rally participants wanted answering: They asked when the debt gets to the point it has to be cut and why the cuts have to come to the things that the group views as benefiting the most people.

“Why are we cutting taxes for the rich instead of asking them to pay their fair share?” West said. “Why are we giving corporations so many tax loopholes when they are already up to their eyeballs in profit?”

The rally was set up by our MoveOn.org, a political action committee that is powered by over 5 million progressive American.

The group held signs that read “Save NPR” and “I love PBS” and

chanted “Don’t cut teachers, don’t cut cops, collect the taxes from the top.”

“We’re here today to urge Representative Nunnelee to defend the American Dream from the massive attacks by Republicans.” Cristen Hemming, from MoveOn.org, said in a press release. “Congress is poised to strike a horrible deal on the federal budget, gutting health care, environmental protections, and housing assistance, and costing Mississippi of jobs. Instead of punishing working Americans, we need to stop these attacks and invest in America by making corporations and millionaires pay their fair share.”

West, an Oxford native, said she is tired of being overlooked by the government.

“There are people here in Mississippi that don’t have the benefit of a really quality education or the benefit of a really quality health care, and now with these tax cuts a lot of educational grants will be cut,” she said. “I’m here because I love this country, I love this state, and I’m tired of being on the bottom.”

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Walk the Circle tonight to help combat cancer SPORTS

BY JOSH PRESLEY The Daily Mississippian

Relay for Life will be held tonight at the Lyceum Circle on the Ole Miss Campus. The event is for the benefit of the American Cancer Society and runs from 6:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m.

Relay Coordinator Jamie Osman said the goal for this year is to raise $50,000, and that the University of Mississippi is competing with Mis-

sissippi State in the Relay for Life Bowl to see which school can raise the most money. Osman expects a good turnout for the event.

“We have 36 registered teams and over 300 participants, but anyone is welcome to come out and join the events,” Osman said.

Osman said there will be a special recognition to celebrate the lives of cancer survivors during the opening ceremony. This will be followed by a “High Heels for Hope” race.

“This is a one lap race around The Circle in your favorite pair of high heels for $5,” Osman said. “Males and females are welcome.”

Dixie Crawfish will also serve plates of crawfish from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Other food items being sold by teams include hot dogs, pizza and sweets such as cookies and chocolate covered strawberries, Osman said.

“At 9:00 PM is the Luminaria

Ceremony,” Osman said. “This is a candlelit service where we honor those we know who have battled cancer.”

Throughout the night there will be other activities that include a frozen T-shirt contest, a minute to win it tournament and a hot dog eating contest.

Visit www.relayforlife.org/OleMiss to learn more about the event or to donate online. Donations will also be taken the night of the event.

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Senatorial Shenanigans

BY BRANDON IRVINE Columnist

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There is liberalism in this world, and there is liberalfascism. One believes in social equality and equality before the law of all people. The other believes that absolute equality should be instituted and forced onto people. One is rational and sane. The other, less so. I am one.

Dan Blazo, ASB Senator from the Graduate School, is the other.

Blazo, who two years ago spent two months in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to force the University to sell its stock holdings in companies that support Israel because he believed (or believes) that holding stock in those companies means the University supports the military actions undertaken by the Israeli Defense Force against Palestinian terrorists, is making another attempt at forcing a change on the University.

This time, he’s attacking religion.

The ASB Senate, at the beginning of each meeting, asks a Sen-

ator to perform an invocation — a prayer to God to ask His blessings on the deliberations of the Senators and alleviation of the sufferers of the most recent natural disaster somewhere else in the world.

Blazo’s Resolution 11-6, introduced at Tuesday’s meeting and titled “A Bill to Celebrate the Religious Diversity at Ole Miss by Replacing the Invocation at Senate Meetings With a Moment of Silence” aims to do what it says in the title: abolish the spoken prayer and replace it with “a moment of silence of approximately 30 seconds” to “provide senators the option to pray without restricting the subject of their prayers to a particular religious view.”

Blazo feels the current system “has the improper effect of coercing those present to participate in an act of religious worship.”

With what little respect Blazo is due, this is complete B.S. Individual members are not

required to observe the invocation, or to pray to the same deity as the Senator leading the prayer. Indeed, some Senators frequently remain seated during the invocation and do not participate. There is nothing forcing individual Senators to rise and pray to God and Jesus if they are not of the Christian faith. This is the case in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, both of which observe an invocation daily and both of which contain non-Christian members.

Blazo cites a decision of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Turner v. City Council of Fredericksburg, Va., in support of his effort. The decision, as with any court decision not of the Fifth Circuit (which actually contains Mississippi, unlike the Fourth), is not legally binding on Ole Miss unless and until it is upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Finally, Blazo argues that “no senator should be coerced to par-

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ticipate in a prayer to a god or deity whom he or she does not worship, regardless of the religious views of any majority.”

Aside from the fact that the “coercion” argument has been debunked and dispensed with above, the notion that the religious views of “any majority” should not hold sway in a majoritarian body such as a legislature is completely ridiculous.

This is America, Dan. We operate on the will of the majority to conduct business and craft laws. We don’t cater to the whims of a minority, unless they have a lot of money.

If a majority of people in the Senate want to pray to Jesus, they’re going to pray to Jesus, and there’s nothing you can do about that.

Nobody wants forced equality shoved down their throats. These are just shenanigans from a radical rabble-rouser. They do nobody any good, and they should be stopped.

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Average Joe or Average Journalist?

BY ADAM GANUCHEAU Columnist

Being at a university, we meet many different people with different majors and areas of study. Many of us cannot even choose a specific major because we simply do not know what we want to do in the future.

If you are one of the many struggling to choose a major or you are thinking about switching majors, maybe you should consider something that you are already doing — being a journalist.

March has been a month

that journalists dream about, in terms of having something to write or report about. The Egypt protests escalated and ended, Libya protests continue to go on, Japan was hit with one of the most devastating natural disasters to ever occur, Charlie Sheen lost his mind and the NFL issued a lockout for next season. These subjects have gotten much attention this month, giving journalists much to write about.

I, as a journalism major, generally try to pay attention to any breaking news and keep current with whatever is going on in the world. Media outlets like Daily Beast, CNN, Fox News and The New York Times are good sources of staying informed.

If you aren’t a journalism major, you might not care

about having things to report and write about or even staying informed. Do you have a Twitter or Facebook?

Then guess what: You are a journalist.

Social networking was created to keep your “friends” updated on your life or things that interest you. If you have seen the movie “The Social Network,” then you are familiar with the core premise on which Facebook was founded— to connect with friends in a whole new way.

Scroll to the top of your Facebook page. The very first phrase is “news feed”— emphasis on the word news.

The newsfeed is very accurately named— it keeps you posted on what your friends are doing and thinking. Just by creating a status, people play

the role of a journalist, though some are obviously not cut out to be on CNN. Even more of a journalism tool than Facebook is Twitter. In a short, 140-character tweet, you share what is on your mind. At any given time, millions upon millions of people have access to your tweet.

In Egypt earlier this month, when phones and televisions were shut down by the government, people used Twitter to communicate plans to march and descend upon town squares.

Many analysts believe that Twitter is the sole reason the Egyptian citizens were suc-

cessful in the overthrow of the government that was in place.

Go check your Facebook news feed or your Twitter update. Pay attention to what kind of information you are taking in. My guess is that much of the information you are reading on your social networking sites is similar to information you could read on any big news site.

Everyone with a social networking account is a journalist whether they know it or not.

You are helping to make our society today so unbelievably interactive and innovative.

Keep up the good work, journalists.

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Does anyone in our generation watch a television show in its natural time slot? With services like Hulu and DVR’s in tons of households, the classic idea of “primetime” television has quickly fallen to the wayside.

DVR’s have been around for more than a decade and the basic idea of “timeshifting” (where you watch a show at a different time than when it was broadcast) has been around since Betamax was released. In fact, it raised such a fuss that a court case over an individual’s ability to record a television show went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1984 (the infamous Betamax case).

For the past 27 years, we have been quite content to setting our VCRs or Tivos to record our favorite shows to watch at a more convenient time.

It gets even more complicated when you factor in more recent services such as Hulu, Netflix and iTunes and their ability to “placeshift.” Nowadays, you do not have to be sitting in front of your home television to watch a show or

movie; you can watch almost anything on your laptop, desktop or smartphone.

This brings me back to my original question: Why do we have such a focus on “primetime” time slots? The easy answer is that the television and movie industries are slow to change any aspect of their business model.

And truthfully, the majority of Americans who watch a television show still do so in front of a TV and in its original timeslot. The change is more rampant is the younger demographics, who are able to better navigate the rapid changes in technology (for the most part).

Personally, I cannot remember the last time I sat down in front of a TV at 8 p.m. on a particular night to watch a television show as it was broadcast.

I watch the majority, if not all, of my TV on my computer using Hulu and other online streaming services. Truthfully, I am not sure if I would pay for a large cable or satellite package when I can easily view the shows I want at my leisure.

The shows on the Internet contain commercial breaks, so the content owners are still generating revenue. The issue we face going forward now is one of ratings.

You will often hear television executives talking about the

“key” demographic of those 18-34 years old. As that age group increases the amount of placeshifting and timeshifting, it makes determining the rating of each show. The rating in term determines how much money a network can charge advertisers.

Simply put, the more popular the show, the more money the network generates. There have already been a number of cancelations on every major broadcast network (eg NBC, CBS, ABC, etc.) and there are more to come in the next few weeks.

A lot of these networks are targeting the “key” demographic but are failing to keep ratings up to justify keeping the show on the air. It is not that people are not watching the show; it is perhaps that they are not watching it in the traditional way.

A number of good shows (shows that I personally enjoyed) have already been canceled. Networks lose a lot of money when a show doesn’t take off after the first season. If the networks want to keep producing and broadcasting quality content than people want to watch, they need to start changing the ways in which they listen to their viewers.

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Diversity Rocks essay and photography contest applications due soon

BY FRANCES ALLISON The Daily Mississippian

Diversity Rocks, a week-long event celebrating diversity, will be held at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media from April 25 to 29. This event honors persons regardless of race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation or disability.

There are essay and photography competitions open to all University of Mississippi students.

The deadline for both the es-

say and the photography competition is April 1. The winner of each contest will win an iPad. The essay topic is: What does diversity mean to you? Judges are looking for thoughts, impressions, and experiences with tolerance and diversity.

Applicants may include ideas for change, personal experiences or stories that have had an influence on them.

The contestant needs to write a maximum of 1,000 words.

Essays should be turned in at

Farley Hall, room 115, which is the journalism school’s main office. For more information, email Macey Baird at msbaird@ olemiss.edu.

The photography contest topic is: How do you picture diversity? The winning photo — the one that best captures diversity at Ole Miss — will be featured on the back of the Diversity Rocks official Tshirt and displayed in Farley Hall. Participants can only enter one photo.

Photographs should also be

turned in to Farley Hall room 115. Any questions should be directed to Lindsay Jordan at lajordan@olemiss.edu.

Robin Street, the journalism professor in charge of the Diversity Rocks event, said she thinks that diversity deserves everyone’s respect.

“Diversity is important because we should celebrate and honor our differences, not fight because of them,” Street said.

“We need to understand and appreciate our differences.”

Street said she believes that

people should not judge others just because they are different.

“For example, I’m short,” Street said. “Should I dislike tall people because they are not like me? Of course not!

Instead, I should try to understand what life is like for tall people and celebrate that there are people of all heights in the world.”

If anyone has further questions about the contests or has interest in the event itself, visit its website at www.diversityrocksonline.org.

Oxford’s Habitat for Humanity Chapter Reaches Out

BY JENNIFER GARDNER Special to the DM

A non-profit business that offers customers new and gently used household goods at discounted prices may not seem like a ideal business endeavor, that is, until people experience the benefits that come with it.

This one-of-a-kind business exists, and is known as a Habitat for Humanity ReStore.

Starting in June, the people of the Oxford community will have a chance to serve a Memphis Habitat for Humanity chapter as it launches the reopening of their ReStore. The store has been closed for two years, and as the reopening date approaches, people in and around Oxford can help the Memphis chapter by gathering household goods to donate to the cause.

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Any profit received by ReStore in selling donated goods will go directly to the daily operating funds needed for the organization. In gaining these excess funds, more donations will be allocated towards the actual home-building and volunteer recruitment process.

“We hope to assist the Memphis area ReStore in the future by passing on surplus donations and/or items we will not use,” said Macel Juergens, member of the board of directors for the Oxford-Lafayette Habitat for

Humanity chapter.

The board members of the Oxford-Lafayette chapter said they are hopeful that a ReStore can eventually be launched for this area in the future as well.

“Oxford might be able to support a ReStore if we had space, but we need a grant,” said Caitlin Clarke, board member of the Oxford-Lafayette Habitat chapter. “It could be open maybe three or four days a week.”

Clarke said the the Oxford branch could only be open a few days a week because utilities and rent are too expensive.

The Oxford-Lafayette chapter will benefit from working with the Memphis ReStore for a number of reasons. This partnership will help distribute some of the extra building supplies and donations that will

not fit in the allotted storage spaces in the Oxford area.

The Habitat chapters all understand the importance of working together to ensure that Habitat for Humanity remains a successful and self-sustaining organization as a whole.

“The ReStore will not only provide a green, budget-friendly shopping experience for Memphians, but it will also support Habitat’s work here in Memphis by helping us fund our daily operations and building projects,” Spencer said.

For any information on the ReStore opening, donating, or volunteering, visit www.memphishabitat.com. For those interested in recycling any building materials, please call 662-816-5897 or visit www. olemiss.edu/orgs/habitat/.

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ruary. The team competed against teams from all over the southeast including Rhodes College, the University of Tennessee, th University of Alabama and Mississippi Valley State University. Placing seventh at regionals earned the team a bid to the ORCs. “We’ve beaten some really good teams in regional’s,” Edney said.

“We’ve beaten teams like Mississippi Valley. They have a good program, and we split with the University of Tennessee. They were an impressive team, and wins like that really mean a lot in gauging where you are as a team.”

Mock trial is a competition where students form teams of attorneys and witnesses and study a case given by the American Mock Trial Association. They form a case around the facts through various witnesses that the case provides.

The witnesses have affidavits, and the attorneys pick out the strengths and build their case around those.

The crossing-examining attorneys from the opposing team pick out the weaknesses of the opposing witness.

The team includes three freshmen: Jodie Chavez, Vinod Kannuthurai and Shruti Jaishankar.

Kannuthurai plays a doctor for the team.

“Vinod (Kannuthurai) is so convincing I’d probably let him treat me if I didn’t know better,” Woods said.

Edney, who is a 5th-year student, is competing in mock trail for the first time.

“He possibly has the coolest, most suave demeanor of any mock trial attorney I’ve seen,” Woods said.

“The guy has some serious talent.”

Goode plays a witness for the team.

“Amber Goode won a witness award at our (Middle Tennessee State University) invitational, our only witness so far this year to do that,” Woods said. “I was very excit-

ed but not at all shocked by that.”

Woods said only three of the 10 members of the team have competed in college-level mock trail before.

“We competed against and beat teams composed largely of three or four year veterans with much more experience than us,” Woods said.

“That should speak a lot to the raw talent we have.”

The team now heads off to the semi-nationals, which begin today, March 25, at Rhodes College.

Coach Jermaine Jackson said he knows the team is inexperienced, but he also said he likes their chances in Memphis.

“Only about a third of the teams that originally compete get a chance to go to nationals,” Jackson said. “I wouldn’t say we didn’t expect to advance to nationals, but we were shocked that we made it.”

Jackson said the lack of national experience could work in the team’s favor.

“No one on this team has ever been to nationals before,” Jackson said. “They don’t know what to expect, and I think that’s a good thing because they go in nervous, which will help them in the long run.”

Edney believes that this team knows what it needs to do to get ready for nationals.

“We’ve got great leadership, (cocaptain) John Woods, and (coaches) Jermaine Jackson and Andrew Kauffman,” Edney said. “They really keep us on track and let us know where we need to improve.

“We’re working on polishing up our team, we’ve identified our weaknesses that our team had in regionals. I have high expectations for the tournament.”

Edney said doing well in regionals has his hopes up.

“It’s really encouraging,” Edney said. “This is my first year as a mock trial participant, and to be successful and go to nationals is just an incredible experience.”

The rules teams follow are the same as those in real trials. Teams are graded not only on their knowledge of the case, but on their presentation in court.

“We did a respectable job at our first tournament in the beginning of the year at MTSU, but we really did a great job at regionals.” said Woods, who was named an outstanding attorney at the Jackson Regional. “I think the key to our success is that we’ve struck the right balance between real, hard work and fun, so we never get broken down by stress.”

Woods said he liked the team’s chances at nationals.

“As long as we keep that balance right, our positive, light-hearted demeanor is really our best asset and will serve us well at semi-nationals,” Woods said. “Will we place high enough out of semi-nationals to the national tournament? I don’t know, but I know we have a good shot if we play our cards right.”

Location-Based Smart Phone Apps May Invade Privacy

BY CAROLINE JOHANSSON Special to the DM

Location-based applications like Facebook Places, Foursquare and others seem like fun to many smartphone users. They are used to let friends know where they are, to look up local businesses or to play games that earn them virtual points, badges or store discounts.

However, the sharing of one’s location has opened up a debate about privacy. The Wall Street Journal did an investigation of the issue and published an article in December 2010 about their findings.

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The newspaper found that even when users are not using a location-sharing application, other apps on their phones are revealing their whereabouts.

Out of 101 smartphone applications, 47 of them “transmitted the phone’s location in some way.”

Kanokwan Klinhom, linguistics major at the University of Mississippi, uses location-based applications, or apps, with her phone, but only occasionally.

“I use it whenever I’m at some cool place that I’ve never been at before,” she said. “That’s how I record it as a memory on my (Facebook) page.”

Ross Haenfler, associate professor of sociology at Ole Miss, said he believes that many people take the new technologies for granted.

“In a sense we have become cyborgs, so into integrating smartphones, laptops, etc. into our daily existence that they might as well be part of us,” Haenfler said.

In fact, a study done by Carnegie Mellon University, titled “Location-Sharing Technologies: Privacy Risks and Controls,” looked into different location-sharing applications and released a survey on what people thought about the technologies.

The study found that only 66

percent of the applications had privacy policies at all, and applications that did have policies gathered and saved data such as one’s IP address and locations for an indefinite period of time. “(It can deal with) intrusive effects; for example, government agencies knowing one’s patterns of daily life,” Haenfler said.

But Haenfler also said that location-based applications can be a good thing — allowing parents to monitor their children or law enforcement to find an accident more quickly.

Klinhom said that despite the possible privacy invasion she’s not

worried about it.

“When using this app, you want to show other people where you are intentionally anyway,” she said.

Haenfler said we may be redefining what we consider public and private.

“Perhaps cultural notions of privacy are changing as everyone has access to 15 proverbial minutes of pseudo-fame,” he said. “Partly this may be due to how such exhibitionism is mediated by technology — posting something online may seem less of a breach of social norms than telling virtual strangers something in person.”

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Oxford knitting store becomes community center for knitters

BY KATE NICOLE COOPER The Daily Mississippian

What began as a hobby for Patsy Engelhard less than two years ago has turned into a passion and a thriving business over the course of seven months.

Engelhard, owner of Knit1, a yarn shop located behind the Square, said that about a year and a half ago an interest in the hobby developed into a passion over the course of just 24 hours.

“Four months after I lost my job, my sister said ‘Why don’t you try this?’ and handed me a pair of knitting needles,” she said. “And I just fell in love with it.”

Engelhard moved to Oxford from Chicago and said she noticed there was not a yarn shop for others

who shared her new passion.

“I started asking everybody I knew who loved to knit if I should open a yarn shop,” she said.

“I thought they’d say it was the dumbest idea, but instead they said ‘absolutely.’”

In forming the business, Engelhard met other passionate knitters around Oxford, such as one of her employees, Merideth Wulff.

Wulff said having a yarn shop in town has been extremely convenient.

“Before we had a yarn shop, you’d go online and buy your yarn,” she said. “When you do that, there’s no help.”

Engelhard and Wulff both said that having help is one of the best parts of having a yarn shop.

“Here, we have a lot of beginning

knitters,” Wulff said. “Sometimes they get stuck and need someone to guide them in a project.”

Wulff said that another enjoyable task at her job is helping knitters begin new projects and select yarn for their projects.

Engelhard said thus far, the business is doing pretty well.

“We’ve got a great community of people here,” she said. “There’s always people sitting around the table or sitting on the couch knitting in the store together. It’s as much a community center as it is a yarn shop.”

Knit1 is not only a yarn shop, but a classroom for everyone from beginners to advanced knitters.

All variations of classes are available for Knit1 customers of all ages.

Engelhard said she’s had 8-yearolds in the shop before who enjoy a knitting style called “yarn bombing.” Their art decorates a corner of the store.

The beginning classes teach participants the basics and they leave after three classes knowing how to do washcloths, towels, and granny squares.

“People are sharing their art and their love for this art form; it’s so exciting,” Engelhard said. “Beginners come in with their first projects then come back to show them off when they’re done. Everyone applauds and then they’re on to the next thing.”

Engelhard said she admits that one of the more enjoyable aspects of opening the yarn shop has been

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the community of knitters and artists who work together to create projects.

“They support and teach other,” she says. “They’re all wisdom to each other.”

Engelhard also said that her shop carries many different types of yarn, ranging from 100 percent naturals to acrylics to blended. She even carries a brand from England.

She said that it’s good for knitters to be able to come into the shop and touch and feel the different yarns as opposed to buying blindly online.

Engelhard said she has witnessed many customers come in, ask for the materials to get started, and leave with a new hobby.

“Some people are self-taught; they can watch online and learn how to do it,” she said. “Others enjoy sitting in the class and learning together, but I’m amazed at how many people come back after their first class and are ready to advance.”

Knit1 is located at 107 North 13th St., and can be reached at 662238-2829.

Journalism, History and the Pursuit of Truth

BY MADISON FEATHERSON The Daily Mississippian

The global oil industry of today is similar to the cotton industry before the civil war, an Overby Center lecturer said Thursday.

Gene Dattel and Otis Sanford visited the University of Mississippi campus to host a lecture on race in America, titled “Journalism, History and the Pursuit of Truth.”

Dattel is a native of Mississippi and graduated from Yale University. He then went on to earn a law degree from Vanderbilt University. Dattel is the author of “Cotton and Race in the Making of America,” which covers the controversial topic of slavery in America, both leading up to and after the Civil War. Sanford graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in journalism, and has since had a successful career in the field. He is currently a professor in Memphis, where he

has since been called “the editorial voice of Memphis.”

The lecture opened with a comparison to current events, more specifically Libya, to draw the audience in.

This speech was provided to give a deeper meaning to the issues that built the Civil War, and how they still affect America today.

“When you say slavery, you say cotton,” Dattel said.

Slavery predominantly spread where you could grow cotton, which for the U.S. during this time period, was the South. Cotton was the leading export of the U.S., so it is obvious that is was a valuable commodity, Dattel said. However, the spread of cotton farming in the country led to the spread of slave labor, usually in horrible conditions, Dattel said. He said the road to ending slavery in America was a rocky one at best.

“History is not just a narrative, it is a puzzle,” said Dattel of the roots of slavery.

Dattel’s main point was to make the listener realize that in some aspects, we do still live in a racially segregated society.

Sanford started by informing the audience that he grew up on a cotton farm, so essentially, cotton paid for his education and helped him get to where he is today, he said.

As he went on in his university studies, he became disturbed by what he called the fairy-tale version of history, he said.

He did not understand why people were saying that the Civil War was not about race, but rather, that it was about states’ rights.

Sanford said that Dattel’s book crystallized his views on how slavery led up to the Civil War. The three main events that have shaped racism in America, as stated by Dattel and Sanford, are the civil rights movement, mechanization and deindustrialization. Deindustrialization is what we will have to live with in today’s world, Dattel said.

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Spring Fasion 101: Out with the new and in with the old

BY MARY B. SELLERS The Daily Mississippian

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Through a combination of research, eavesdropping and a special thing I like to attribute to intuition, I have done my best to gather, sift through and assemble the best fashions for ladies this spring.

It is out with the new and in with the old.

Put away the mod prints and structured blouses and save them for the next generation of eager, crowd-pleasing yuppies.

That’s right, I’m talking lace, long, billowy bell-bottoms and my personal favorite: crochet.

It’s a mixture of Victorian meets flower child: a collaboration of delicate knits, soft color and a muted sensibility that could mollify any stiff-backed Victorian lady with the slightest soft spot for easy charm.

Lace is fabulous when used sparingly and with taste.

It is the easiest add-on to any basic shirt or dress.

To avoid looking like Easter Sunday baby portraits, think

less is more when it comes to outfit planning.

One article of clothing is enough to get the point across that said outfit is stunningly a la mode.

I am particularly fond of lace dresses, and Target apparently is, too.

Over the past few months, I have been spying and eyeing a couple of dainty dresses for pretty reasonable prices.

Also, Forever 21, my all-time favorite fashion savior, always seems to carry a couple of wonderful lacy shirts, dresses and the occasional skirt or two.

Like Target, prices are well in the average college girl’s price range.

Bell-bottoms, to me, seem to be much more of an acquired taste than lace. However, on the right person, I am sure they’d look fantastic (Hey, if our moms could pull them off, why can’t their daughters?).

If you choose to try for retro, a snug-fitting shirt would be my number one recommendation.

Remember, balance is always

key when outfit-planning.

People with hourglass figures would look really great in the above outfit for two reasons: It accentuates the waist and curves nicely to the natural shape of the figure.

But hey, we can’t all have perfect dimensions, so try the look out anyway.

You might even awaken the inner hippie within and take to the roads VW camper-style.

Mom and Dad would certainly be proud, and maybe they can even provide a few ideas of their own to really authenticate the look.

May I introduce, my dear readers, crochet.

This may be reminiscent of grandmothers and baby hats, but I assure that it is much more when applied to today’s fashion.

If lace isn’t enough to suit your fancy, crochet certainly will do the trick.

It has that homespun feel without the dowdiness that usually accompanies such items.

An off-white halter-top, a

knee-length knit skirt, the possibilities are endless and varying in many degrees.

Of course, as with anything, one can overdo it.

Crochet is the right amount of wholesome and homey to be deemed appropriate for almost any occasion. It also projects that earthy vibe — for those who are into that sort of thing.

Pair the crochet with a leather messenger bag and some tanned boots, and I’d call it pretty much perfect in my book.

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So relax, loosen up those shirts and opt for the daintier of fabrics.

Loose pants welcome a nice change to the skinny jeans, and a flowing top with neutral tones will lull onlookers back to a simpler time of lazy summer days.

After all, we are only young once, so let’s not be confined all spring and summer in stiff fabrics and harsh colors.

Front Porch Dance at the Powerhouse tonight

BY MORGAN BRADLEY The Daily Mississippian

Got plans for tonight?

Cancel them. There is something going on that can provide an evening’s entertainment as well as help a good cause.

The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council is putting on a mustsee production, and its proceeds will benefit the Powerhouse.

Tonight, a Jackson-based ensemble called Front Porch Dance will perform at the Powerhouse.

The group focuses on American dance form, ranging from classical to modern styles, and includes a diverse cast. They engage the audience through their dance in a very laid back, “front porch” conversation-like method.

It is just one of several performances in a month-long effort by the YAC to raise money to renovate the Powerhouse’s performance space, as well as to promote the art of dance.

“The dance programming at the Powerhouse is not the traditional dance programs,” Wayne Andrews, the director

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of the YAC, said. “Front Porch Dance will feature a live band with the dancers.”

There are plenty of other really interesting programs coming up, as well.

Next week is a program entitled “Miss-i-sippin.”

“It is a joint fundraiser with Chef (Chev) Craven from the Hospitality Management School and the Arts Council,” Andrews said. “Twenty beers paired with culinary creations from quail to barbecue and a chocolate beer float by Lazy Magnolia.”

For those of you on the presummer diets, however, there are some options for you, too.

A group called the Hinge Dance Company will be performing “Bittersweet,” a cocktail lounge show, this April.

Hinge started as a group of Ole Miss students who participate under the direction of Jennifer Mizenko from the University dance department, which later became the resident performing company for the Powerhouse.

Another show coming next month is “Leda Swan,” led

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She has been putting together shows for the Powerhouse in the past year, which usually include live music, poetry and dance.

“Leda Swan” will have an old-school jazz club feel.

These shows and the others

the YAC plans to host will not only go to help fund the renovations needed, but they will hopefully spread dance awareness and interest.

“We have a strong base of support for dance in Oxford with the University offering a very strong program and the Oxford Ballet supporting both a ballet company and classes,”

Andrews said. “The building interest and attendance would result in support for the facilities and equipment that would enable the dancers to produce new and challenging works.”

Front Porch Dance is the first of these events, and it being held tonight at 7:30 p.m.; $5 for students and $10 for everyone else.

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The Weekly Top Zen: The Man with the Black Hat

BY ANDY PAUL The Daily Mississippian

As I type this, a man dressed entirely in black and sporting a large, black derby hat is shouting at me from the front of the Student Union about the evils of abortion.

A gaggle of children walk among the gathered crowd and pass out fliers featuring pictures of aborted fetuses. Many of the children are disabled, and the majority of them seem like they could use a shower and a hot meal.

The man in all black continues to preach loudly about the horrors of abortion. It is hard not to listen.

He has a really cool hat.

I hate to admit it, but I have been standing for over an hour just outside the crowd of angry, perplexed students, watching them argue with the angry, perplexing demonstrators.

When one is confronted with such loud and offensive sights as a 12-year-old holding a poster that is larger than him of a dead fetus, it is hard not to take notice. It’s sort of like the mor-

al-equivalent of a moth drawn to a very bright, very abrasive flame.

Of course, the best course of action is just to ignore such desperate displays and go on our own merry, blasphemous ways.

Giving the time of day to demonstrators such as the ones on campus Tuesday only adds to their sense of entitlement and purpose.

It is easy to be upsetting and shocking to a room full of people, but it is much harder to do so when the room is empty.

Unfortunately, this will not realistically happen anytime soon. As much as I would like to say that the abortion protestors outside the Union will soon preach to only the rare passerby and occasional tumbleweed, I know that their tactics stir up too many basic human emotions to be ignored by most.

That, and tumbleweeds aren’t indigenous to the state of Mississippi.

So here I am, against my better instincts, listening to the hat aficionado go on about divine command theory.

He doesn’t call it “divine command theory,” of course — the black wool hat is probably adding to heat exhaustion and stunting his vocabulary — but that is what it is. I know because I am a pompous religious studies major, and learning complex terms for ideas such as “God says so” comes with the territory.

Four young teens are sitting on the steps next to me, engrossed in the rhetoric.

Still possessing the maturity of a 14-year-old myself, I know that this is not what the normal child would do on a beautiful afternoon. He would most likely be out in a park, playing capture the flag, or doctor (a pious doctor who refrains from performing abortions, of course).

“Are you guys with this group?” I ask the one nearest to me. They all look up in unison, and I try not to read into it in a creepy, “Children of the Corn” sort of way.

“Yep, we’ve been traveling across Mississippi all week,” one replies, “Are you pro-life?”

“I’m sorry, but I’m a heathen

liberal,” I sigh and tell them.

“That’s not a problem,” the oldest one chimes in. She says she is 18, but looks considerably younger. I remind myself that I am in Oxford, and not stuck in some cornfield with demonic children carrying scythes.

“You can be liberal and prolife,” she adds. “The definition of ‘liberal’ just means free. So technically, I’m liberal.”

I figure pursuing this train of logic with the oldest child is probably not the best path to follow. Still, I continue to talk to them about where they all come from, where they go to school and what they think of the campus.

One or two of them say they have been raised in these sorts of situations and have protested abortion as long as they can remember.

None of them have protested for fewer than four years.

They tell me that the group is like a big family and that they come from many different Christian backgrounds. They are incredibly nice and seem like really good kids, although

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they occasionally try and steer the conversation back to the topic of abortion.

I sidestep the majority of their hints about taking a pamphlet or two for my friends.

Eventually, the conversation dies down and three of the four young protestors move up closer to the preacher.

I notice another boy about 14 years old in the middle of the Union waving around one of the giant dead fetus posters.

He is wearing a “Call of Duty: Black Ops” T-shirt.

I just beat the video game a couple months ago. The final level involves punching alternating buttons in order to strangle the main villain to death.

“They’re always leaving me behind,” the young protestor says nearby.

He shakes his head and smiles at me and then gets up to rejoin his friends who have moved closer to the crowd.

Sometimes you have to follow the ones you have grown to love, even if they are travelling to places you didn’t think you would ever want to visit.

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Rebel Netters back in Top 25 for match vs. South Carolina

BY JOHN HOLT The Daily Mississippian

The Ole Miss men’s tennis team appears to have regained its form. Coming off an impressive upset 4-3 road win at No. 13 Florida last Sunday, the Rebels (9-4, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) returned to the top-25 rankings, where they sit at No. 23.

“We’ve had some bad losses that I don’t think we should have had with the team that we have,” senior Kalle Norberg said. “To prove to ourselves that we can beat a good team like Florida is always good for the confidence level.”

The team hopes to continue to carry the positive momentum to Saturday when they host SEC East opponent South Carolina (6-10, 1-4 SEC) in a match set for 1 p.m. at the

Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center.

“The guys know that we’re now in a position where if we can come up with a couple more big wins, then we’ll move up in the national rankings and have the chance to host (NCAA regional),” Rebels coach Billy Chadwick said. “That’s what we’re looking for and then of course you’ve got the SEC West championship that’s still out their on the line.”

Saturday’s match looks to be essential for the Rebels as they face their most challenging competition next weekend when No. 11 Georgia comes to town followed by a showdown with No. 2 Tennessee.

Notes: Ole Miss junior Marcel Thiemann received SEC Player of the Week honors after finishing 4-0 in singles and doubles last

week in the Rebels pair of wins against Stetson and Florida.

Lady Netters face No. 1 Florida For most of the Ole Miss women’s tennis team today will be the most important match they’ve participated during their college careers.

The current No. 1 team in the country and 2010 NCAA runner-up, Florida Gators (151, 4-0 SEC) visit Oxford to face the 2010 SEC West Champion Rebels (8-5, 1-3 SEC) for a 1 p.m. match at the Palmer/Salloum Center.

“To have the number one team come here whoever it is, we have to be excited about that,” Ole Miss assistant coach Jason Ontog said. “It’s just such a golden opportunity.”

Last year the Rebels finished the SEC regular season just be-

low the Gators in the overall conference standings. Florida also ended Ole Miss’ 2010 season in the NCAA Sweet 16.

Though the Rebels dropped that match 4-1, the score doesn’t reflect the closeness of the match.

“I want them to know that the last time we played (Florida) they were scared of us,” Ontog said. “It came down to the wire with us.”

Despite the Gators owning the nations top ranking, the Rebels feel like they have a solid team as well. “(Florida is) definitely a very talented team,” said senior Connor Vogel, the SEC Player of the Week. “They’re ranked No. 1 for a reason but I feel like we have just as much talent. It’s really whether we can believe in ourselves and try to outwork them.”

Meanwhile Ontog said he perceives the Rebels are nervous about facing Florida — but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

“If you’re not a little bit nervous when the number one team comes then there’s something wrong,” he said.

The Rebels should be a confident group this afternoon.

After dropping back-to-back home conference matches to LSU and No. 14 Arkansas on Mar. 11 and 13 the team was able to regroup in Las Vegas last week during spring break. The Rebels picked up two quality victories while in ‘Sin City’, defeating No. 38 UNLV 4-3 and No. 32 Arizona 5-2.

“This is a huge opportunity for us,” Vogel said. “We have nothing to lose playing the number one team in the country.”

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29 K 2 BB .190 B/AVG

UT 30 Steven Gruver, Junior LHP 3-1 34.2 IP 2.08 ERA

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Saturday Starters UM 7 David Goforth, Junior RHP 0-3 31.1 IP 2.87 ERA FILE PHOTO BY ADDISON DENT | The Daily Mississippian

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After closing out a 14game home stand with a 3-0 win over Samford on Tuesday night, the Ole Miss baseball team (16-6, 1-2 Southeastern Conference) hits the road for a seasonlong eight-game road trip, starting with a three-game weekend series at Tennessee (17-4, 1-2 SEC).

Game time for Friday’s se-

ries opener is set for 5 p.m., while Saturday’s game starts at 2 p.m. and Sunday’s game at 1 p.m.

Both Saturday’s and Sunday’s games have been picked up for television by SportSouth.

Tennessee, picked sixth in the Eastern Division in the SEC preseason poll, rode a nine-game winning streak before dropping two out of three at Kentucky last weekend to start conference play.

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Behind the bats of senior second baseman Khayyan Norfork and senior third baseman Matt Duffy, Tennessee ranks first in the SEC in batting average (.337), on-base percentage (.429) and stolen bases (53).

Norfork leads the Vols in batting average (.500), hits (40), stolen bases (17), onbase percentage (.608) and slugging percentage (.750).

Duffy is second on the team with a .403 batting average and leads the team with four home runs, 22 runs and 26 runs batted in.

He also recorded the

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second cycle in school history in an 18-4 victory over New Orleans on March 9.

A weekend starter for Tennessee last year, junior left-hander Steven Gruver has been the Vols’ Friday night starter this season and will likely take the mound against Ole Miss junior lefthander Matt Crouse in the series opener.

Tennessee has mixed and matched Saturday and Sunday starters throughout the season, but senior left-hander Rob Catapano and junior right-hander Levi Dean are expected to get the nod this weekend.

UT 17 Rob Catapano, Senior LHP 2-0 11.0 IP 3.27 ERA

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