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SPECIAL OLYMPICS Area 4 Special Olympics in Track and Field, bocce, tennis, croquet, and horseshoes are going to be held on Wednesday at Manning Way Track and Field in Oxford, MS.
BY KEVIN WILLIAMS The Daily Mississippian
University of Mississippi cheerleader Johnny Beasley is scheduled to appear before the Lafayette County Municipal Court on April 20, to face a misdemeanor charge, court officials said. The charge of simple assault was filed against Beasley by former Ole Miss baseball player Taylor Hashman. This step in the investigation comes after Beasley turned himself over to Oxford police on Friday, April 8, after a warrant was issued for his arrest on Thursday. Oxford Police Chief Mike Martin said Beasley was released from custody after he posted $500 bond. Beasley will be represented in the hearing by his attorney, Stephen Farese, Sr., president of the law firm Farese, Farese & Farese in Ashland. He is an alumnus of the Ole Miss Law School. Farese said it is still unclear whether or not former Ole Miss student Taylor Hashman will be present at the hearing. Associate Dean of Students Linda Carlson said that the University usually waits to take disciplinary action on incidents involving criminal charges until a decision is reached regarding the case in a court of law.
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The Competition will have 400600 athletes and 300-400 volunteers assisting this event. Everyone is invited to attend. Coordinator for this event is Terri Shinall (513-7846). Volunteers for the event should contact Ms. Kevs Ermine (915-1527). Today from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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A fire truck is parked outside of Oxford Fire Department Station 2. The $350,000 purchase will help aid in the protection of the approximate 19,000 Oxford residents and 14,000 Ole Miss students.
BY ELAN LLOYD The Daily Mississippian
Oxford city officials have approved the purchase of a new fire truck for the Oxford Fire Department. The $350,000 purchase was made possible by the Capital Improvements Revolving Loan Program. Mike Hill, Oxford fire chief, said he and his team are thrilled about getting a new fire engine.
“We will be replacing a 25-year-old ladder truck that’s in the end of its service life,” he said. The Oxford Fire Department has 60 full-time firemen and 15 reserves and serves the nearly 19,000 residents of Oxford, as well as the 14,000 Ole Miss students. Hill said he feels this will better serve the community and that they strive to stay up-todate with new technology and ways to offer fire service in the
most safe and efficient manner. The loan program is a Mississippi-based program that provides loans to cities and counties in order to improve the community as a whole. These loans can be used toward land improvements, drainage systems, water supply systems and roads among other things. The CAP Loan process will likely be finished by the end of this week, and the fire truck will arrive in Oxford sometime in May.
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Applied Sciences narrows search for new dean to four candidates BY PEYTON THIGPEN The Daily Mississippian
The University of Mississippi’s School of Applied Sciences is in the process of selecting a new dean. The school’s current dean, Linda Chitwood, is returning to a full-time teaching position at Ole Miss after a 10year stint as dean, according to Marie Barnard, assistant dean of the School of Applied Sciences. “She was an associate dean at the school when it was formed in 2001 and became the dean the following fall and has been
the dean ever since,” Marie Barnard said. “Ten years is just a long time to be a dean.” The new dean will be selected by a committee that is composed of nine faculty members, one undergraduate student and one graduate student. The committee’s chair is Barbara Wells, dean of the School of Pharmacy. Wells declined to comment on the grounds that the committee is dealing with personnel information that is sensitive and protected by privacy laws. Nonetheless, “the applicant pool is both deep and diverse, and the applicants are of very
high quality,” Wells said. Barnard said there are currently four candidates being looked at for the position. All of them have already come to visit campus. The four candidates are Jack Wall, who just retired from Loyola University in Chicago, David Barlow who is currently at Fayetteville State University, Loretta Prater, currently at Southeast Missouri State University and Damon Andrew, currently a dean at Troy University. “Each (candidate) goes through a long interview where they meet with each one of our departments,” Barnard said.
“They get around quite a bit. They have something like 30 meetings each.” A series of luncheons for the visiting candidates and students from the School of Applied Sciences were organized to give the students a voice in selecting the new dean. “It was really great,” Barnard said of the luncheons. “We got to see the candidates interact with students to understand how they would relate to them and also how they would deal with difficult questions from students.” Some of the issues the canSee DEAN, PAGE 6
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