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Smithville was struck by an EF-5 tornado during last week’s destructive weather. The Red Cross, United Way, Salvatoin Army, Interfaith Compassion Ministry and other individual donors have helped raise money and supplies to take care of residents in the devastated town.

BY MALLORY SIMERVILLE The Daily Mississippian

A family from Smithville steps onto what was once their home.

It is now a concrete block of foundation.

“It’s carnage. It’s total destruction there,” Nathan Casburn, a

junior journalism major, said.

“Overall, it was just complete destruction.”

Smithville was one of several towns in the South that experienced an EF-5 tornado. The small town is still in dire need of supplies and volunteers.

“When driving into the town,

you turn a corner and see a sign that says, ‘Smithville one mile,’ and it looks just like Oxford does right now; completely untouched, not a single tree limb down,” Casburn said. “Then you round that last corner onto Highway 25, and it’s just complete hell on earth.”

Casburn and a group of friends collected supplies and drove to Smithville Tuesday afternoon.

The group stopped at the Red Cross, collected the clothing that they could no longer hand out or bring to Tuscaloosa and

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Oxford city workers drain a flooded parking lot during the storms on April 27. The recent string of bad weather has left some Ole Miss students confused as to what to do when severe storms are in the area.

The bad weather that struck Oxford last week has left many in the Ole Miss community confused about how to handle their class schedule, should bad weather arise.

A letter issued by the Crisis Action Team, which includes dean of students Sparky Reardon, University Police Department chief Calvin Sellars and associate provost Noel Wilkin, states, “In the case of a Tornado Warning (which means that a tornado has been sighted or detected by radar, and sirens are activated), all university activities are automatically suspended.”

However, it seems that not all students knew about this Univer-

sity policy, including Patrick Harris, sophomore biology major.

“I felt obligated to still go to class because I was not notified otherwise,” he said. “I feel like it’s the responsibility of the University to make sure that students are aware and informed about the University’s emergency policies.”

Other students seemed to share the same feelings about whether or not they should have gone to classes on April 27.

“With the sky being green and sirens going off, I wasn’t about to go to my class,” Ben Hewitt, a sophomore classics major, said. “I figured my professor would do the same, so I wasn’t worried about skipping class.”

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Nuclear energy is safe

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Nuclear energy has been a hot topic since the catastrophe at a nuclear power plant in Japan.

Contrary to popular belief, nuclear plansts are safe, and they are our future.

First, using the Fukushima disaster as a baseline, nuclear power plants are safe. It is important to remember that the plant suffered damage as a result of a 8.9 magnitude earthquake. That is equivalent to 19,000 times the force of an atomic bomb. It is very easy to think that with such a great force being exerted upon the nuclear plant, that there must be serious radiation problems. This is actually entirely untrue.

In the two weeks after the damage to the plant, there were approximately 100 microservients of radiation recorded at the Fukushima town hall. To put this

in perspective, an airplane flight from Los Angeles to New York exposes you to approximately 40 microservients of radiation.

Since March 20, there has been a decrease in radiation levels throughout all of Japan. Even during the worst stages of the incident, very little damage was done.

Various media outlets have compared the disaster at Fukushima to the one in Chernobyl.

Both resulted in a leak of radiation into the wider environment.

They were given a similar rating on a scale that measures nuclear plant disasters. However, the radiation emitted in the Chernobyl incident was 14 times that of the Fukushima incident, with the majority of the radiation in the Chernobyl incident leaking directly into the air.

Due to the low levels of con-

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tamination, there will be few long-term environmental effects. Additionally, the youngest of the Fukushima reactor towers was 40 years old, which shows that even with older technology, nuclear power is safe. However, safety alone isn’t enough.

In the United States, nuclear power is cost competitive with fossil fuels in almost every instance. This is using only monetary figures and does not consider any of the social, health or environmental costs associated with the use of fossil fuels for production of electricity. We all know that coal-powered electrical plants emit vast amounts of pollution into the atmosphere.

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Despite all of this, nuclear power has remained on average cheaper than coal power since 2000.

The only thing standing between the United States and our nuclear future is the stigma of nuclear energy. But keep in mind that in all of the history of nuclear plants in the United States, the worst accident – the Three Mile Island accident – led to very little radioactive contamination to the environment. In fact, the Three Mile Island accident rates below the Fukushima accident by two alert levels.

We as a nation need to overcome this stigma. We need to embrace nuclear power as a viable alternative to coal power.

We need to do this today.

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Bin Laden’s death no Face Forward: the narrative longer a game changer

BY GRAHAM SMITH Special to The DM

I felt a surge of patriotism wash over me Sunday night when I received the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed at the hands of U.S. operatives.

After all, the kill or capture of bin Laden is what American soldiers have dreamt about for the past 10 years. It was a surreal feeling to think that the figurehead of the terrorist movement, public enemy No. 1, was finally taken down.

After the initial excitement, I began to consider the long-term implications of Sunday’s events.

What does his death really mean to the global “War on Terror?”

I quickly realized that what was once considered a major game-changer for this engagement no longer held quite the same implications.

In the wake of 9/11, when America began to harden the target on bin Laden, he held a prominent position as the leader of the jihadist organization al-Qaeda, which he founded.

At the time, eliminating him would have made for an excellent tactical move. It could have potentially disrupted the communication and administration of his organization.

As the demand for bin Laden’s head began to rise, so did the measures he took to protect himself. Despite thousands of missile attacks in Afghanistan that were successful in disrupting al-Qaeda, these attacks were unable to produce his corpse.

He slipped into hiding and cut off all communication with the outside world, save an occasional videotaped propaganda rant.

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time in his career where he was unable to pull the strings of his terrorist organization. He entered a forced retirement, and his inability to orchestrate atrocities is what led me to think he was no longer a valid tactical target.

Therefore, his demise takes on a much different role than it would have 10 years ago.

The victory won Sunday was a symbolic one, not a tactical one.

We are not any closer to defeating terrorism today than we were before bin Laden’s death.

I make these claims not to discourage, but rather to remind.

I want to remind you that this one man was a figurehead for terrorism, but the ideologies and support behind him are still out there lurking, plotting yet another attack to invoke fear and pain in the lives of innocent people. His death also encourages retaliatory attacks by men desperate to avenge the death of their former leader. This is why the terror alert has been raised – in anticipation of revenge.

While we have accomplished a goal in the global engagement of terrorism, we must remain vigilant against the threat that is still just as real today as it was before Sunday.

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BY CORTEZ MOSS Columnist

As I looked through the recent publication of The Ole Miss: Face Forward, I seemed to only find disappointing images of alcohol – images I felt many had worked so long and hard to dismantle.

Then I thought I would take the book one page at a time, from beginning to end, neglecting to understand the title and theme of the book.

I then arrived at pages four and five to discover the purpose and intent of these images and stories, which I first found to be disappointing and displaying a reality that many of us seek to suppress or eliminate in hope that these experiences will not follow us into our futures.

After reading the narrative listed on pages four and five of The Ole Miss, it not only left me curious, it created a new thought process – one that was willing to seize the opportunity to understand a

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culture that often goes without explanation.

The narrative journeyed us through some of the most turbulent times in our history that often perpetuated the idea that we’re doing what’s right, and it sought to deconstruct a set of experiences or lifestyles that many find uncompromising.

What I found to be most impressive about this piece is the explanation at the end, when it suggested, “This narrative, sustained by a University polarized for decades over what to do with its own murky reputation, could have lived forever had we let it.”

Far too long, this university sustained an unconventional idea of how a group of people should be treated and what it means to be Southern.

It perpetuated the idea of how one should be treated when they differ from another, whatever those differences may be.

It suppressed an inherent notion that everybody is somebody.

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It neglected to understand that at some point in our history we must FACE FORWARD. Although this is our past, it cannot be our future.

I think this year’s edition of The Ole Miss introduces an opportunity for us as students to engage in a dialogue about what images we are portraying, figure out if those images define who we really are and discover if we are subjecting ourselves to the past.

This year’s edition of The Ole Miss is also a call to action.

It is a call to move beyond the social constraints of what we used to be and seek to define who we are today.

It calls upon us to question our practices and understand our story.

Though our past might have been weary, our future is bright, and we can surpass what is expected of us and defy what is perceived of us to create a future that is unwavering in its commitment to be all that it can be.

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It has been approximately three months since a small group of University of Chicago students created UChicago Hookups, a place for students to meet up and have sex.

Since then the site, which started as a coding project and learning experience, has changed its name to EduHookups and has expanded all across the country. The site has added 30 more universities and plans to add more every week.

Debora Wenger, assistant professor of journalism, said she is not surprised by a site like eduHookups coming to Ole Miss.

“I think that one of the things that all of the new technology is allowing us to do is become much more narrowly targeted and focused in terms of who gets what information,” she said. “At the same time, it is opening it up so that nothing is private.”

Wenger said it is an example of how modern technology can reach people.

“To me it is just another way in which technology is allowing people to do things that would have been incredibly difficult or challenging in terms of communicating with each other, even just 10 years ago,” she said.

One big criticism of the website is that it is unsafe, as users can be anonymous, hidden behind a user name. Anyone could be messaging you.

Renae Wiegand, a sophomore marketing major, said the idea of the site is creepy and that it could lead to girls getting raped.

“Girls could believe it’s just one guy and get attacked by several guys,” she said.

Wenger said that every time a technological advancement occurs, there is always some kind of concern about who is going to use the new technology for evil.

“It reminds me of some of the arguments made against the location-based networking sites, like Foursquare,” Wenger said. “There is a website that basically takes Foursquare information and says, ‘Come rob me, I’m not at home.’ We talk about privacy, we talk about safety, and the fact of the matter is, I’ve yet to have anybody tell me that there has actually been an occurrene of robbery that has been directly linked to someone’s Foursquare post.”

Wenger said there is a valid reason for us to be concerned, but that it really boils down to how much caution we take.

“I think often times we do the, ‘Could it happen here?’ scare tactic approach to anything new that we don’t understand,” she said.

Wenger also said that people need to have the same kind of caution, whether they are dating someone, meeting someone for a drink or meeting someone on the Internet.

“Anytime you are meeting someone for the first time you should be cautious,” she said.

“I think that applies as much for online as it does for reality.”

EduHookups answers the challenges of safety by requiring that all members be college students. They also provide a page on their website that is dedicated to promoting safety.

It warns members to not give out any personal information

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and when setting up a meet, to make sure that it is done in private messages. The page also promotes safe sex and provides links to several schools’ student health centers.

Though this website has only been up for a couple of months, it has quickly garnered attention. The creators have added six new schools, including Ole Miss, in the past eight days.

The website has grown from promoting casual sex to three different categories: casuals, serious relationships and platonic relationships.

The posts range from “Would you like to meet for a drink?” to more upfront. One user listed that he was into bondage and hoped that someone could “handcuff and spank him.”

Omar Okwandu, a junior pharmacy major, said the website is weird and inappropriate.

“When guys first come to college, I know we are all about getting with women,” he said.

“But this website is bad for the school’s reputation. It’s just not appropriate for college.”

Okwandu said hooking up is easy enough.

“We don’t need this website,” Okwandu said. “Just go to the Square or go to a frat party.

That way you can actually see the people you are talking to.”

While many people consider the website to be nothing more than a novelty, the creators have been quick to release that more than 5,000 personal messages have been sent.

Wenger said it is the useres who will determine whether or not this site survives in the long run.

“What will be interesting is to see what it morphs into,” she said. “To me a natural progression for this site might be to become the match.com of college students, where you know the people who are there are going to be in your age range.”

Wenger said that if people

take EduHookups’ services seriously then it can become a legitimate social media site and remain on college campuses for a long time.

“If we find ways that really make it valuable to our lives, then it will stick around,” she said. “If it is nothing more than a joke, something to sign up for and then never use again, then I think it will be gone in a few months.”

Since its start in Chicago, the site has since branched out and seems to have attracted some of our nations’ youngest scholars. Some universities that have joined are Ivy leaguers, including Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.

The University of Mississippi is a recent addition to EduHookups, which makes Ole Miss the first Southeastern university to join the group.

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Barbour pledges support to find YAC offers entertainment to the Oxford community a GOP presidential candidate

BY KATE ANTHONY Special to The DM

BY JOSEPH SCOTT The Daily Mississippian

On April 25, Gov. Haley Barbour announced that he will not be running as a candidate for president in 2012.

The statement was, to some, unexpected. Barbour spent months pre-campaigning and visiting several other states.

He also received a large deal of support from the Republican Party, which is now still in search of a leader and candidate in the upcoming election.

With such a strong motion set for Barbour to run for the presidency, many Mississippians and university students were not expecting such an abrupt decision, but they understood why.

“I liked Barbour, but even though he probably would have gotten the Republican ticket, he probably wouldn’t have won nationally,” Will Reynolds, a public policy leadership student, said.

“I would have definitely voted for him, though.”

Barbour said in a statement to the press that a presidential candidate’s supporters “expect and deserve no less than absolute fire in the belly from their candidate. I cannot offer that with certainty, and total certainty is required.”

The Mississippi governor, having been a chair for both the Republican National Committee and the Republican Governors Association, was seen as a qualified leading candidate by most Republicans.

However, his poll numbers

began telling a different story.

While Barbour has been winning polls in states, including South Carolina and Mississippi, he has been scoring in the single digits, percentage wise, in the national polls.

“Barbour has always been one to do the calculations before entering a race,” political science professor Robert Brown said.

Some conservative analysts are alluding to this as the reason for his self removal from the race.

Others are attributing it to Barbour’s past, which is hard to overcome nationally.

“He probably did the calculations and realized that he might not win,” Brown said.

“He had a reasonable chance, especially here at the more compact part of the primaries. He has always had a lot of influence in the Republican inner circles.

However, he probably couldn’t have taken the presidency.”

Barbour was expected to receive some flack for his lobbying career, even though his experience offered him some pull to Washington insiders. In 1991, Barbour founded the lobbying firm known as the BGR Group.

In 2001, Fortune named it the most powerful lobbying firm in the nation due to its hiring by several foreign countries, as well as big oil and cigarette companies.

Barbour is also known for competition in his races, and looking at the polls and facing the challenge of Obama, whom he called “the greatest politician in our history,” in a Meet the

Press interview, he may see the presidential race of 2012 as one he cannot win.

Barbour’s statement last Monday, however, addressed the decision not to run as a personal one stating that, “A candidate for president today is embracing a 10-year commitment to an all-consuming effort, to the virtual exclusion of all else.”

Barbour’s colleagues offered their support of his decision.

Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant released a statement saying, “While I know America would benefit from the leadership of Gov. Haley Barbour as president, I certainly understand and appreciate the personal decision Gov. Barbour has made today. I’ll continue to work closely with him throughout the rest of his term leading Mississippi as our governor.”

His family has also been showing him support.

“It’s a very overwhelming task, and he’s going out and doing some things just to see if he gets that fire in his belly. If he’s not passionate about it, there’s no reason for him to run,” Marsha Barbour said in March.

Barbour is not intending to keep his hand out of the presidential race completely.

He will continue as governor, as well as continue to work with the Republican Governors Association to elect a new Republican president in 2012, stating, “the stakes for the nation require that effort to be successful.”

Barbour’s stepping down also leaves his endorsements and funds to strengthen other GOP nomination hopefuls.

The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council and Laff Co., will team up together once again to sponsor their last show of the spring season today at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center.

The show, appropriately named Dirty South for the dirty joke competition that will ensue, will first feature Laff Co., a locallybased comedy troupe known for incorporating improvisational sketches and stand-up comedians.

Laff Co. attempts to offer an artistic and comical alternative to the local bar scene for entertainment in Oxford.

Intertwined with Laff Co.’s performance will be the Dirty Joke Contest. The audience is invited to participate this year whereas in previous competitions it was limited to stand-up comedians only.

“The reason we changed the contest was because the goal is to get people, through participation, to realize what different kinds of arts we have to offer here at the arts council,” Wayne Andrews, director of the council, said.

Dirty South is one of hundreds of events sponsored by the council each year as a way to engage the public in Oxford’s artistic community.

Jake Lowe, project coordinator of the Powerhouse center, said that art is more than just entertainment.

“It is a consumable good and when the community gets involved with the arts, the community grows economically,” he said.

Andrews said participants can either call the council to sign up or for the competition, which offers a $100 cash prize, or they can

sign up once they arrive. Of the competitors that sign up, 10 will be randomly picked from a hat and the dirty joke that receives the most audience laughs will win the cash prize. Admission is a $5 donation to the arts council (taken at door), and the show will start at 9 p.m.

The council works to transform creative works into programs that create jobs, attract tourists and enrich the community. The council is the official arts agency for Oxford and Lafayette County, that is run by one full-time staff member, Andrews, and a 12-member board of directors as well as volunteers.

The council’s next event, Taylorpalooza, will be Saturday, May 7 in Taylor. The event is an annual picnic for council members. With a $20 membership fee purchased at the Council headquarters located inside of the Powerhouse, members can get their money’s worth throughout the year with numerous events and programs.

This year Taylorpalooza will feature three local bands, including The Minor Adjustments, McGhee & Me and Jimmy Phillips & The Ruminators. Polk Meats will sponsor the picnic and local chefs will be serve up their specialties to those in attendance. The event lasts from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and will take place outside of the Plein Air neighborhood in Taylor.

“You can bring your cooler, but I’d never tell you what to put in it,” Andrews said.

For more information on Dirty South or Taylorpalooza, call the Arts council at 662-236-6429, email Andrews at yacoperations@ gmail.com or swing by the Powerhouse Community Arts Center located behind Newks on University Avenue.

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Red Cross reached out at Double Decker

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The Oxford Square played host to the 16th Annual Double Decker Arts Festival this past weekend. During the festival, the Mississippi Red Cross raised $5,600 for disaster relief to provide assistance to those recovering from last week’s state-wide storms.

BY KATE NICOLE COOPER The Daily Mississippian

Last weekend’s 16th Annual Double Decker Arts Festival pulled in a large crowd despite the devastating storms and tornadoes that hit much of North Mississippi just a few days earlier.

More than $5,600 was raised for Mississippi’s Red Cross Disaster Relief to help provide assistance to those still recovering from the recent storms across the state, as well as helping those affected by the ongoing flooding.

“This is fantastic news and greatly helps support our mission to continue helping Mississippi residents who can’t seem to catch a break from the weather,” Sandra Hodge, Mississippi Red Cross CEO, said.

Red Cross disaster outreach teams have been working nonstop in devastated communities, providing people with shelter, meals, emotional support and supplies to help with clean-up efforts. The funds raised at Double Decker will aid these disaster teams and their ability to help families and communities recover.

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featured art, music and vendors all within distance of the Square.

“It was nice to just walk around and shop while listening to the bands play,” West Point native Leslie Justice said. “I bought some great things from the booths on the Square.”

The many unique vendors that line the Square are one of the trademarks at Double Decker.

“I shopped around and ate at one of the vendors,” Cheslin Clemmons, secondary English junior, said. “It was really neat.

We enjoyed walking around to

all the booths.”

Clemmons also participated in the 5K run Saturday morning, placing third in her division of females ages 19-24 and 12th out of about 200 women overall.

The music aspect of the Double Decker Festival is another major component of the event. The bands are local to the area and followed by many students.

“It reminded me why I chose to go to a school like Ole Miss,” said Dylan Knight, a junior business and English double major.

Knight also said that a friend

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“I enjoyed walking around the small jewelry and art vendors, accompanied by the smell of barbecue and corn dogs,” Clemmons said.

“Personally speaking, the festival was right up my alley. If I could make changes, I would have had the concerts last longer.”

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“They are doing a spectacular job of keeping everything organized and giving it to people who really need it,” Casburn said.

Casburn also said that the area still needs a lot of attention.

They need jugs of water, paper plates and other basic household items.

Mindy Phillips, an Ole Miss pre-pharmacy student and Smithville native, has also taken the initiative to seek aid for Smithville.

“It’s just devastating to see everything you grew up with gone,” she said. “I just want to help out as much as I can.”

Phillips has worked through the pharmacy school to take monetary donations and supplies to Smithville. A table has been set up in the Union every day this week from noon to 4 p.m.

“I am trying to get as much as possible for Smithville,” Phillips said. “It started out as just wanting to help that town.”

Oxford resident and 10th grade teacher Jill Knox pulled together a large initiative to aid

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The University sent out a letter Monday, May 2 regarding the policies regarding inclement weather and what to do about classes. This letter, in conjunction with the University’s emergency website, carefully lays out what to do about class in times of severe weather.

According to the letter sent out by the Crisis Action Team on

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Smithville from the Senatobia area.

Last Friday morning, Knox came up with the idea of having her 10th graders collect donations. By noon, she had created flyers; a large portion of the Senatobia community became involved.

“I thought that my class, my 150 10th graders, could pick up some donations and help out a family,” she said. “It grew from an English class to eight schools, three churches and a subdivision.”

Now Knox has more supplies then she ever imagined.

“My whole classroom is filled,” she said.

“I’ve been driving home, trying to figure out how I am going to get everything over there, which is a great thing.”

The group will collect supplies until Friday. On Saturday, Knox and her husband will drop off the supplies at a church just outside Smithville.

“We are taking up just about anything it takes to live,” she said. “You name it, and we are collecting it.”

After visiting the small town, if they feel there is still a need, Knox said she and her husband will continue the drive into next week.

Knox hopes this will teach her students and the community to appreciate what they have and

help those in need.

“It was important to me to make sure they were taken care of,” she said. “It was important to me to do it close to home. I understand that there are greater needs in other areas, but this is right at our back door. It was important to me to teach my students to be grateful for the things they have.”

Casburn said that standing buildings in Smithville have power but the town will be without water for quite some time.

“Tornadoes are really weird in the fact that they can hit one building and completely tear it to its foundation and leave one building untouched,” he said.

The aftermath of the April 27 tornadoes continues to leave impressions on many Mississippians, including Oxford and Lafayette County.

Lafayette County experienced one confirmed EF-3 tornado, as well as straight-line winds during the storms Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, leaving several areas damaged.

Currently, the Oxford area has over 50 Red Cross volunteers from across the country working to rebuild and care for residents.

“In terms of the community, they are very resilient,” said Carmela Burke, a public affairs officer for the Red Cross. “It’s neighborhood helping neigh-

borhood.”

The Red Cross is currently working to provide shelter, food and support for residents of Lafayette County. The central operations center, which handles outreach teams and donations, is located at the Northwest Mississippi Chapter office on Skyline Drive in Oxford.

In order to reach and care for all residents, an aid station has been established with other community agencies at Pine Flat United Methodist Church.

Donations, whether monetary or supplies, are being collected and redistributed there.

“It’s very nice for us to be able to help them while they are starting their clean up process and their rebuilding process,” Burke said.

There are several outreach teams established that respond to people in need that have contacted the Red Cross.

United Way, the Salvation Army and Interfaith Compassion Ministry have also played a major part in helping the Lafayette community, and Kroger is currently collecting canned goods and supplies for the county.

The Oxford Fire Department has been collecting donations all week as well, and they will continue its aid by hosting a benefit concert for victims tonight from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., featuring

Shane Brown and Kelley Norris and the One Mile South Band.

There will be food and several bands performing, and all the funds are going directly to Lafayette County victims.

The concert will take place in front of the Oxford City Hall and Neilson’s Department Store.

Students are also beginning to reach beyond Mississippi to aid those in need.

The Kappa Alpha Order fraternity will be sending 30 to 40 members to clean up debris and damage left by the tornado that hit Tuscaloosa, Ala., this weekend with Pine Flatt Church and their pastor, Gene Bramlett.

“The damage seems to be pretty severe, and they need a good amount of help,” said Chris Brickell, a junior marketing communications major, in an email.

Beta Theta Pi will also be leaving for Tuscaloosa on Saturday. Throughout this week, they will be collecting donations of water, diapers and money to bring with them. The goods can be brought directly to the Beta chapter house at any time, day or night, between now and Friday evening.

The Red Cross is accepting donations through their website www.redcross.org. If specified, the money will stay in a designated area.

Monday, “Classes in session when the Tornado Warning is issued can resume immediately after the warning has expired at the discretion of the instructor.

Classes that have not yet begun will resume 30 minutes after the Tornado Warning has expired, provided at least half of the class period remains.”

Students felt like this letter should have been more of a preemptive action rather than being sent out in hindsight, after the confusion about classes was real-

ized.

“I appreciate that a letter was sent out to all the students concerning the policy, but it was after the bad weather actually hit,” Harris said. “I didn’t know about the policy beforehand, and I wish that I had.”

The University and the Crisis Action Team seem to be taking these feelings to heart. In the letter issued Monday, the Crisis Action Team assured students that steps were being taken to make sure students are better informed in times

of emergency.

“The current Emergency Website is being enhanced to include an area that will contain the latest information with instructions regarding activities, classes and conditions during and after an emergency. While this will not take the place of sirens when a Tornado Warning is issued, this area of the UM Emergency Website will be updated frequently as conditions and situations change,” team officials said in a statement.

University officials assure stu-

dents that Ole Miss is a safe campus in times of emergency. The National Weather Service designated the University of Mississippi a storm-ready community because of the systems and procedures it has in place, including the RebAlert text messages and emergency sirens.

The University has an official website dedicated to giving the Ole Miss community valuable information on what to do in times of emergency or inclement weather.

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In a studio on the third floor of Meek Hall, Liz Rathbone is feverishly stroking a blank canvas that will soon be the culmination of her art education.

It’s after 10 p.m. Rathbone admits that she works better at night. The young woman is wearing ultra-flared jeans, perhaps circa 1970, covered in every color of paint under the rainbow, paired with a similarly flared white t-shirt.

Her brush strokes appear to be completely out of control, yet completely thought out – every color placed exactly where she wants it and every shadow highlighting the features of her four giant self-portraits.

Rathbone’s recent success as an artist has led her to host three art shows before the final thesis presentation she is preparing for. She has displayed her work both in Memphis and

Oxford.

“Liz has come such a long way as an artist,” said Sherie Reith-Fleck, Ole Miss Art Deptartment chair. “Although it has taken a ‘village’ to get to this point, she has finally made it and what she has given us is absolutely beautiful.”

Each canvas is roughly 5 feet by 5 feet, at the smallest. On some are paintings of Rathbone in somewhat awkward positions that reflect feelings of loneliness and solitude. On others, Rathbone’s face appears larger than life.

There is a common theme throughout her creations. A brightly-colored bold stripe about 12 inches in width pierces through different parts of Rathbone’s body stretching from side to side.

Rathbone, a Baton Rouge native, said that before Ole Miss, she never had a formal art class.

“I never felt like I had a natural ability to create art,” Rath-

bone said. “Everything I’ve made has been learned. In my first art classes, I noticed that I was taking a different approach to art than my peers.”

Rathbone’s early work was mostly portraits of notable figures in history. One of her paintings hangs in Meek Hall.

It is a portrait of an AfricanAmerican man, possibly a soul singer, that is in the middle of his hallelujah in the hues of purple and black.

“For a bachelor of fine arts, the student must present their work in front of a juried panel made up of the fine arts faculty and staff and defend their work to be given the go ahead for their thesis dissertation,” Reith-Fleck said.

Rathbone had quite a bit of trouble with this first step.

“My thesis was denied twice,” she said. “The professors told me that the ‘chaotic’ brush strokes that I make are just as important as the person I am painting. The brush strokes tell

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Rathbone took the criticism and found a new direction for her final dissertation. She needed her pieces to say something about herself, something more personal. The result is what she calls the “external forces that control my internal chaos.”

“When I was thinking of what I could paint for my thesis, self-portraits were the first thing to come to mind,” she said. “I needed to figure out how to make them all about me, not just paintings of myself. I got the idea of painting the stripes through myself at places on my body that I used to tick.”

Rathbone admits that the ticks are gone, but that doing this series has helped give her a feeling of release.

“It’s been a long journey for Liz,” said Cory Lewis, adjunct assistant art professor. “Once she figured out what she wanted to say, it was like being shot

out of a cannon. I think that energy shows up in the paintings.”

Through hardship Rathbone has found inspiration with the likes of other up and coming artists. Her alternative gracefulness has led her to a style of work that is different than others, but commands attention from all.

“The paintings give me goose bumps,” Lewis said. “I am so excited for Liz and her future.”

After college, Liz plans to continue to pursue art and make a name for herself in a world that is cutthroat and challenging.

“I feel that this series is really about me, and I am thankful that I was pushed and urged to explore myself deeper and express that to the viewer,” she said.

Rathbone’s thesis exhibition will be in Meek Hall at Gallery 130 from May 4-6. The reception is Thursday at 7 p.m.

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continued from page 12 A two-out rally in the second pushed the Red Wolves out to a 5-3 lead before two more runs in the third inning gave the home team a 7-3 lead on the Rebels.

That was erased in the fourth as Ole Miss strung together three straight singles before Miles Hamblin came up with a grand slam to tie the game at seven.

The Rebels moved back into the lead in the fifth inning as Matt Snyder hit his second home run of the game, a threerun shot to right field that scored Blake Newalu and Jordan Poole. Newalu was hit by a pitch before Poole walked to put two men on before the Snyder hit that gave Ole Miss the 10-7 lead.

Hively held the Red Wolves off the board in the fourth

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and fifth before Arkansas State would push single runs across in the sixth and seventh to cut the lead to 10-9 in favor of the Rebels.

The Rebels got a run back in the eighth, loading the bases for Snyder. A fielding error at third on a ground ball allowed a run to score and put Ole Miss back in front by two runs at 11-9.

Ole Miss held the Red Wolves off the board from there as Huber worked a scoreless eighth inning and Wahl picked up his fourth save of the season with a scoreless ninth inning to give the Rebels the win.

Ole Miss returns to action on Friday with the first game of a three-game series against No. 2 South Carolina. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. at Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field.

The Rebels also have four former players on Double-A rosters, five on Class A Advanced, and eight on Single-A squads.

Who’s Hot: Jordan Henry is playing for the Double-A Akron Aeros, which is in the Cleveland Indians organization. Henry has a .338 average with six runs batted in and nine stolen bases.

Cody Overbeck is the first baseman for the Reading Phillies, who is the Double-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Overbeck is hitting .319 with eight home runs and 22 runs batted in so far this season.

Nathan Baker is pitching for the Bradenton Marauders, the Class-A Advanced affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Baker is 2-0 with a 5.00 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 27 innings pitched.

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Former Ole Miss Rebel Drew Pomeranz, the 2010 SEC Pitcher of the Year and AllAmerican, now plays for the Kinston Indians.

Drew Pomeranz, who was drafted fifth overall by the Cleveland Indians in last year’s Major League Baseball draft, is pitching for the Kinston Indians. Pomeranz is off to a good start in his professional career, with a 1.54 ERA with 34 strikeouts in 23 and one-third innings pitched.

Key Note: Right-handed pitcher Scott Bittle was drafted in the fourth round of the 2009 Major League Baseball

draft by the St. Louis Cardinals.

However, since he signed with the Cards, Bittle has struggled through a nagging injury.

He underwent shoulder surgery in spring 2010. A surgery of this magnitude takes over a year to fully recover.

Expect Bittle to begin throwing again this summer and hopefully return to form in order to be the force everyone expected him to be.

Tide players who volunteered to help with the relief effort. Jones, who spent his spring break assisting earthquake victims in Haiti, put the damage in perspective for NBC Channel 13 News in Birmingham last week.

“When I went (to Haiti), I really never thought I would see anything like that again,” Jones said. “I was wrong because what I saw (in Tuscaloosa) was about the same kind of damage and devastation.”

The support for Tuscaloosa by Auburn fans and others reminds me of Ole Miss legend Chucky Mullins, who received overwhelming support from the Ole Miss community and college football fans throughout the nation. In fact, the Chucky Mullins Trust Fund was established simply to manage all the funds that came in support of Mullins.

If you want to be a true Rebel and help out the victims of the disasters of last week, visit the Toomers for Tuscaloosa Facebook page and check out its wall; there are plenty of opportunities to send supplies or sign up to join the relief effort. You can also visit MississippiRelief.com to make donations to the Mississippi Disaster Recovery Fund or simply more inclined to help people in need in your more immediate area.

The Red Cross and Salvation Army are two other organizations that are currently responding to the relief efforts throughout the Southeast.

In this day and age when division is so commonplace in almost every facet of life, it’s important that we remember the limitations of our humanity and do what we can.

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There is one long-time cliche that holds: Sports bring us together.

Sports create communities among towns, rivalries among friends and a unique connection between any two strangers, who can carry on a conversation about the games going on at the same time.

So it was no surprise to me that last week, after a deadly string of tornadoes ripped through the Southeast, one of the first groups able to organize a relief effort was the sports community.

A concrete example can be found in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where the city’s death toll from last week’s EF-5 tornado has reportedly reached 42, with more than 900 people injured. “(Rebuilding) is going to be

a very long process,” Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox said last week. “There will be areas of the city that will be hurting for a very long time.”

Toomers for Tuscaloosa is “(a group) of Auburn fans (formed) to help those hit by the tornado in Tuscaloosa as well as other areas around the state,” according to its Facebook group page.

The “Toomer” in the group’s name refers to Toomer’s Corner – the location where Auburn football fans traditionally celebrate Tiger victories by rolling large trees outside Toomer’s Drugs.

Toomers for Tuscaloosa organized groups of Auburn fans and others to go to Tuscaloosa to help clean up the wreckage caused last weekend.

The group also sent people to other hard-hit areas. However, they aren’t the only ones lending a hand.

Nicole Bohannon, student government chief of staff for the University of Alabama, told the Associated Press last week that at least six schools – Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Carolina and Penn State – have reached out to volunteer and help the university since the tornadoes touched down.

Bohannon also said the groups representing the universities are “mostly collecting supplies on their home campuses and arranging to deliver them to Tuscaloosa.”

Alabama coaches and players are doing their part as well.

“Being a part of the University of Alabama team is helping people when they need it,” Alabama football coach Nick Saban said in statement last Thursday. “It’s not about just being there on Saturday.”

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Rebels power past Arkansas State

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Last night, Miles Hamblin hit a grand slam, his fourth home run of the season, to tie the game at 7-7 in an 11-9 win at Arkansas State.

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JONESBORO, Ark. – The Rebels got nine runs on three swings of the bat as Ole Miss (25-20) got three home runs – including a grand slam from Miles Hamblin – to rally to an 11-9 win over Arkansas State (22-25) on Wednesday night at Tomlinson Field.

Hamblin’s grand slam in the in the fourth inning tied the game before Matt Snyder hit a threerun home run in the fifth inning to give the Rebels the lead for good. It was Snyder’s second home run of the night as he hit a two-run shot in the first inning.

Snyder finished the game with a 3-for-4 performance, six RBI and three runs scored as one of four Rebels to notch multiplehits on the night.

R.J. Hively (1-2) picked up his

first win of the year as he worked a season-long 3.0 innings and struck out a season-high five batters while holding the Red Wolves in check to allow the Rebels a chance to rally. Hively allowed one run on five hits in his time on the mound.

John Koch (2-1) took the loss for Arkansas State as he allowed three runs on three hits with a walk and two strikeouts in 1.0 inning of work.

“It’s a tough game and it will challenge you,” said Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco. “Just when you think things are about to turn, things can change. We got knocked down a couple of times tonight, but the guys kept getting right back up. I’m proud of the way they hung in there.

“R.J. Hively really gave us a

chance to catch our breath. He pitched great. He put some zeros up on the board and gave us a chance to win tonight.”

Ole Miss got on the board early, pushing three runs home in the first inning on a Matt Smith single that scored Tanner Mathis from second and a two-run home run from Snyder. After the top of the first, the Rebels held a 3-0 lead for starter Matt Tracy.

The Red Wolves responded in the bottom half of the inning, tying the game on five straight singles and an error before a wild pitch gave the home team a 4-3 lead. Following a walk, to put two men on with one out, the Rebels turned to freshman Mike Mayers out of the bullpen.

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Ole Miss baseball in the pros During Mike Bianco’s tenure as head coach of the Ole Miss baseball team, he has provided a steady stream of professional ball players. Currently, there are four former Rebels on major league rosters and another 20 players in the minor leagues. Through one month of the 2011 baseball season, The Daily Mississippian reporter David Collier gives an update on how our former Rebels are doing so far this season.

BY DAIVD COLLIER The Daily Mississippian

Big Leaguers: Chris Coghlan – Florida Marlins – Center Field Coghlan, the 2009 National League Rookie of the Year, is off to another good start this season. He solidified his role as the leadoff hitter for the Marlins, batting .271 with four home runs and 17 runs batted in for the season. Coghlan’s defense in center field has been spectacular this season. He has made several remarkable catches that have been featured on SportsCenter’s Top Ten Plays and Baseball Tonight’s Web Gems.

Matt Maloney – Cincinnati Reds – Pitcher

Maloney has not started the 2011 campaign as well as he hoped. He has pitched in five games, including one start this season. Maloney is 0-1 with an 8.49 ERA and 10 strikeouts in 11 and two-thirds innings pitched. His best outing this season came in a 6-1 loss to the Pirates, when Maloney pitched four innings and gave up no runs on four hits.

Seth Smith – Colorado Rockies – Right Field Smith, who is in his fourth season in the majors, has become a steady player in the outfield for the Rockies. He is off to a good start this season, hitting .299 with two home runs and 12 runs batted in. Smith’s best game this season came in a 7-6 win over the Mets, where he went 3-for-4 with a double and a triple.

Matt Tolbert – Minnesota Twins – Shortstop Tolbert is in his third year with the Twins this season. Thus far, he is hitting at the clip of .167 with two runs batted in. Although his numbers haven’t been very good, Tolbert has been a steady backup for the Twins, whose roster has become depleted due to injuries. On Tuesday, Tolbert played in all nine innings of Francisco Liriano’s no-hitter against the White Sox, and he was responsible for each of the final three put outs of the game.

Minor Leaguers: Three former Rebs are one step away from the big leagues as they begin this season with Triple-A affiliates.

Zack Cozart is playing shortstop for the Louisville Bats, which is a Cincinnati Reds affiliate. Cozart has a .222 batting average with one home run and seven runs batted in.

Lance Lynn is with the Memphis Redbirds, a St. Louis Cardinals affiliate. Lynn has a 1-3 record with a 4.40 ERA and 23 strikeouts in 30 and two-thirds innings pitched.

Alex Presley is an outfielder for the Pittsburg Pirates’ Triple-A team, the Indianapolis Indians. So far this season, Presley is hitting .354 with four home runs and 15 RBIs. Also, Presley has six stolen bases for the season.

See BASEBALL, PAGE 11