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MEET THE CANDIDATES: Nunnelee and Childers

BY BLAKE JOHNSON

ford Eagle, Emily Le Coz of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Caroline Lee of the Daily Mississippian, JB Clark of the DeSoto Times and Sandra Knispel of Mississippi Public The Ole Miss campus will be home to the only debate in the race between Rep. Travis Childers and state senator Alan Nun- Broadcasting. nelee for the First Congressional District seat in Mississippi. The The event is free and open to the public. Because a large crowd is expected and seats in the Overby Center Auditorium are event will take place in the Overby Center at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

The event is sponsored by the Lott Leadership Institute and the limited, plans have been made to simulcast the program for any overflow to another hall in the same building, according to a Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. press release. The election will take place November 2.

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Republican candidate: Alan Nunnelee of Tupelo

Current Position: State Senator representing Lee and Pontotoc Counties.

Bio: Nunnelee is a graduate of Mississippi State University. He is the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, as well as Vice President of Allied Funeral Associates when he is not in legislation. In 1994, Nunnelee was elected to the Mississippi State Senate.

Political Stances: Nunnelee is a republican who values himself as a true conservative. He is endorsed by the NRA, and has served as Chair of the senate’s appropriations committee since 2008. He does not believe in a government-run health care system and believes that families and businesses should keep more of what they earn.

Goals: Nunnelee hopes to have the government spending problems addressed. He does not just want to cut spending, but also create a new way to operate the government. He wants to bring conservative values to Washington, D.C., values that set a higher standard for officials, and that protect unborn children and the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman.

Nunnelee also wants a strong and prepared military force as well as support for veterans and their families.

Current Position: U.S. Representative for Mississippi’s First Congressional District.

Bio: Childers is a University of Mississippi graduate with a degree in business administration. After graduating, Childers was a licensed realtor. He served 16 years as Prentiss County Chancery Clerk and was elected President of Mississippi Chancery Clerks Association in 2001-2002.

Political Stances: Childers is a Blue-Dog Democrat. While he is a supporter of gun rights, backed by the NRA, as well as a Pro-Life advocate, he still votes with his party a majority of the time.

Goals: Childers’ biggest goal for congress is job creation and economic development. He wants to make sure that everyone that wants to work has a job. Childers also believes that education is important for the future of jobs, and will work toward supporting teaching jobs and ensuring children receive a good education.

Other goals include working towards keeping the retirement age from increasing, and fighting the increase in taxes and wasteful government spending.

Panty thief denied bond

BY KIRBY BARKLEY The Daily Mississippian

The man known as the “panty thief,” who allegedly broke into multiple Lafayette County homes and stole women’s undergarments, has been denied bond.

Oxford Police Chief Mike Martin could not give details as to why he was denied bond.

Joseph Paul Lillo was arrested early Sunday morning, Oct. 3, at his home in Marshall County and charged with 11 counts of burglary in Lafayette County.

Lillo, who has also been referred to as the “panty pirate” and the “panty bandit,” is currently being held at the Lafayette County Detention Center.

Lillo, 32, lives in the Law Hills community and is employed as a mill worker.

According to Martin, Lillo’s alleged 14 break-ins and thefts date back to May of this year and include 12 counts within the city of Oxford and two others throughout Lafayette County.

“Behavior such as this is not normal, and it can lead to something more severe than breaking into a home,” Martin said.

Martin said he has never dealt with a case of this sort in his 27 years in the Oxford Police Department.

Democratic candidate: Travis Childers of Booneville

“It is a very serious offense that could have gotten worse at any given time,” Martin said.

Authorities received a tip regarding Lillo’s whereabouts around 6:24 p.m. Saturday, October 2, from a witness who observed a suspicious person near the location of the most recent reported burglary on Eagle Nest Lane in Oxford.

The witness wrote down the tag number of the suspect and gave it to the Oxford Police Department. OPD and the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department ran the tag number and discovered the vehicle was registered in Marshall County, just north of Lafayette.

Detective Jimmy Williams, who was the OPD investigator on the case, and the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department investigators contacted the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department and obtained a warrant, Martin said.

Investigators from Oxford Police Department, Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department and the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department served the warrant to the resident around 1 a.m. Sunday, took the suspect into custody and brought him to the Lafayette County Detention Center where he was held without bail.

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Though most college graduates worry about finding jobs upon finishing school, graduates of the Patterson School of Accountancy at the University of Mississippi do not have employment concerns.

Senior accountancy major Whitney Coltharp is confident she will get a job after graduation. “The

accounting professors I’ve met don’t just teach students how to do financial statements and budgets.

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Letter to the Editor “Is Three Feet Be Enough?” was the headline on Monday’s lead (front-page) DM article about the new state law requiring motorists to give bikers three feet of space when passing.

That’s right—you read it correctly: “Is Three Feet Be Enough?” What a profound question.

Embarrassing grammatical faux pas and proofreading neglect aside, I commend the DM for raising concern about bicycle safety on campus.

In case the title wasn’t compelling enough, the stock photo of a helmetless cyclist pedaling in flip-flops on the wrong side of the road was a nice com-

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As an avid BMX, cross-country and rickshaw cyclist myself, I’d like to follow up the DM story by appealing to my fellow cyclists on campus: In order to share the road with motorists, you also bear responsibilities of safety and adherence to traffic laws.

Because your bike is a vehicle, riding it comes with certain obligations.

Foremost among them are stopping at stop signs and red lights, riding in the correct lane, and signaling when you turn.

(I can count on one hand the number of times I have seen cyclists on campus

stop at stop signs.)

Of course, a proper helmet wouldn’t hurt either, especially if you’re hoping to live long enough to land a job as copy editor of the DM. The DM article effectively explained what motorists are supposed to do in order to share the road safely with cyclists.

Perhaps cyclists, motorists, and journalists alike can also thank the DM for simultaneously illustrating what NOT to do.

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Leggings are not pants As the temperature drops and the wind picks up, the fashion choices on camBY EMILY pus are about to CEGLIESKI change. In fact, Columnist some of the more observant may have already noticed that the Nike shorts that are so common during the warmer months have been discarded for leggings.

No, not pants or anything actually resembling a well-fitted pair of jeans.

These are the black leggings meant to be worn underneath a too-short dress or to make a mini skirt edgier.

Only now, they are worn with an oversized T-shirt and sweatshirt.

Honestly, I’ve heard many people condemn this look, and I for one think that it is probably one of the most ridiculous fads out there. That does not change the fact that I wear leggings, too.

I feel like there must be a distinction though between those who wear leggings correctly and those who do not.

When I wear leggings, I make sure that my oversized T-shirt and sweatshirt completely cover my butt. No one wants to see my polyester-covered back side, and I do not want to see anyone else’s.

If your shirt is too short to ac-

complish that mission, then I suggest you throw on a pair of jeans or khakis.

Leggings are not pants and should no be treated as such. I never claim to be wearing pants while just in leggings. It may sound sketchy, but it is true.

I know that many people do not understand the concept behind the legging trend, and if looks were what mattered, every girl on campus would be burning in fashion hell.

But leggings are super comfortable.

They are not tight like jeans in the morning, and they do not stretch out throughout the day. You do not

QUIT HATING ON HOMOSEXUALITY, Y’ALL Over the past few weeks, there have been some stories featured in national media that have made me sick to

BY BRANDON my stomach. One IRVINE is the vendetta of Columnist Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell against the Student Body President of the University of Michigan, Chris Armstrong. The second is the cause of a Rutgers University student’s suicide.

A third involves South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint.

There is a common thread connecting these stories: they concern gays in America.

With yesterday being National Coming Out Day, I thought appropriate to comment on the sad, sorry state of LGBT rights in this country.

Those of you who know me well, or know of me, probably know that I consider myself a friend of the LGBT community. I respect them as humans with different sexual preferences to mine.

Which is more than can be said for some people.

People like Shirvell. Shirvell launched, in April, a website called “Chris Armstrong Watch,” chronicling his beef with Armstrong, who had just been elected student body president at Michigan, and who hap-

pens to be openly gay.

“Chris Armstrong Watch” is dedicated to exposing Armstrong as a “Radical Homosexual Activist” advancing the “Radical Homosexual Agenda” which includes “recruiting” incoming freshmen to “join the homosexual lifestyle,” seducing “previously conservative” students with the aim of converting them to proponents of Armstrong’s agenda, and having wild gay sex in his dorm room.

What is Armstrong’s agenda, you ask?

Gender-neutral housing at Michigan for transgender students who haven’t had sexual reassignment surgery.

Shirvell is currently on leave from the Michigan AG’s office, and spokespeople for the office say he will be subject to disciplinary proceedings when he returns, whenever that is.

The case of the Rutgers’ student’s suicide is, if possible, even worse than Shirvell’s foaming at the mouth.

Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers, committed suicide September 22, jumping from the bridge between New York and New Jersey after his roommate, Dharun Ravi, used his laptop to record a video of Clementi having sex with another man.

His roommate and another student have been charged with invasion of privacy, and prosecutors have hinted that additional charges may be brought against them if it is determined that the primary motivation behind their actions was Clementi’s sexual orientation.

Then, there’s Jim DeMint, Republican senator for South Carolina.

He can say all he wants that he was merely commenting on his desire for school boards to have “control of hiring decisions,” but that’s not a good excuse for saying “gays and unwed mothers should not be allowed to teach.”

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have to worry about matching. You do not have pick out anything to wear in the mornings.

Convenience is key.

Do not get me wrong in thinking that I approve of this trend. I most definitely do not, but I am not complaining either.

I was more than ecstatic the first day I walked outside and realized it was finally “legging weather.” Boots come next, followed by my incredibly warm black scarf.

Weather has always dictated what people have worn, but never have I felt such joy at the clothes autumn had to offer. I know I am not the only person who was not just excited that it was cold, but also the fact that leggings have become appropriate attire.

Just do it right. Forget that you might be considered sloppy and

overly relaxed in a gigantic sweatshirt.

Remember that by doing so you are keeping the entire student population from seeing parts of your body in a light that we don’t want to see them in.

Pretty soon, everyone is going to be extremely bundled up. Large coats along with sweatshirts and boots and scarves on top of the leggings. Once this many articles of clothing come into the picture, behinds usually end up completely covered.

Until then, please keep in mind that as often as we wear them, leggings are not actually the same as corduroys.

If I see you walking to class, don’t be surprised if I warn you that your T-shirt is riding up. I hope you would do the same for me.

that you’re going to insist that someone who wants to teach children be married to someone of the opposite gender?

Want to make that a requirement for a college degree in education? Bet that’d go over about as well as replacing the Army’s grenades with water balloons.

It’s not exactly a secret that “gay” is our generation’s “retarded” - a generalpurpose slur, bandied about with zero consideration for the effect it might have.

But this sort of behavior is pathetic.

People like to complain about how

politically correct America has become, but re-naming the minority groups does nothing to protect them from the people like Shirvell and Ravi, who are quick to discriminate against people they perceive as a sub-class.

The truth is, American law continues to consider the LGBT community as second-class citizens, denying them the most basic of rights and privileges afforded to all others.

This is 2010, not the 1950s, or the Soviet Union.

We’re better than this, I thought.

Apparently, people just love to prove me wrong on these issues.

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Local expert studies cyberbullying laws

BY KATE NICOLE COOPER The Daily Mississippian

With today’s advancements in technology, cyberbullying, the act of bullying or harassment through the use of digital technology, which includes abuse via e-mail, social networking websites and cell phones, is becoming more and more common and accordingly more problematic among young people.

Social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, are hotbeds for cyberbullies to target their victims by sending them messages, posting snide and obscene comments on the victims’ walls, and even tagging their

victims in a less-than-polite status or tweet.

Ryan Niemeyer, a graduate of Ole Miss who now works as a Leadership and Couseling Director at the University’s Grenada campus, centered much of his dissertation around cyberbullying, researching many components of the bullying and harassment laws that the United States has, which, until recently, did not always address cyberbullying directly.

“As a former teacher in the K-12 area, I dealt firsthand with bullying,” Niemeyer said. ”Not so much cyberbullying, (as social networking had not yet reached its peak), but bullying via text messaging

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on cell phones and student-onstudent harassment.” However, Niemeyer said that cyberbullying has taken the principle of bullying to the next level.

“It has definitely amplified the aspect of bullying,” he said.

“With the anonymity of the Internet, it’s so much easier to be a cyberbully than to confront someone face-to-face,” he said.

He said the increase in technology, as well as the increased access kids have to means of cyberbullying, have aided in the higher rate of bullying and harassment among young people.

“A lot of it has to do with the access of technology. You don’t have to have to be the big kid looking for milk money on the playground anymore. Anyone who has access to a social networking site can be a cyberbully. Kids are constantly plugged in through a cell phone or computer. I think maybe they consider safer than confronting someone face to face.”

In his study for dissertation at the University of Mississippi, Niemeyer analyzed state antibullying laws throughout the United States. He determined which states had anti-bullying laws and examined the different characteristics that made strong laws against bullying.

At the time of his study in 2008, there were about 36 states with anti-bullying and harassment laws. Now, there are 45.

Just this past July, Mississippi passed a law requiring all schools to have an anti-bullying policy in effect by December 31.

“Most school districts in Mississippi probably had some form of a bullying policy before,” Niemeyer said, “but given the increases in bullying that we’re seeing, especially the violence of it, this addition to the law will help prevent bullying in schools, as well as cyberbullying.”

This law even created some anti-bullying programs in schools in Mississippi.

Niemeyer also examined the laws to see if there was a component in them that directly addressed cyberbullying. In 2008, only 14 of the 36 states with anti-bullying laws addressed electronic bullying, intimidation, and harassment directly.

“Now, I believe that out of the 45, 30 address cyberbullying directly,” Niemeyer said.

While Niemeyer said he does not know much about the actual laws that apply while using online networks, he said that dealing with the issue as

a school administrator was sometimes extremely difficult.

“Cyberbullying (on the Internet) is done totally off campus, but it involved your students, so it’s something that has an impact at the school,” he said.

“But it’s problematic for a school official to try to address something that never touched school property, so in some respects their hands are tied.”

However, with Mississippi’s new law, all bullying acts are subject to punishment. The law meets most of the requirements that the other states with anti-bullying laws have, according to Niemeyer.

Whilst teasing is sometimes seen as a rite of passage among young people, the effects of it can be traumatic to kids, even deadly, as we’ve recently seen with the increased suicide rate, where many were the direct result of electronic bullying of some sort.

According to the experts, educating students on the harmful effects of cyberbullying can help reduce and ultimately put a stop to these occurrences.

“The bad thing about cyberbullying is that you really can’t get away from it,” Niemyer said. “Everyone can see it.

And we need to make sure that schools and students are taking it seriously.”

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YOKNAPATAWPHA ARTS COUNCIL TO HOLD WINE TASTING FUNDRAISER

BY RACHEL JOHNSON The Daily Mississippian

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Fall is in the air, and many Oxford residents want nothing more than to enjoy the changing leaves and crisp air with a glass of their favorite red wine.

The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council (YAC )is offering an opportunity to do just that, hosting its first fundraiser of the fall Tuesday, with a wine tasting they called Three Blind Wines.

“We hope everyone will come out. It’s a very fun event. It’s a very simple event,” Wayne Andrews, director of the YAC, said. “We’re trying to do something very different from the usual wine tasting.

We wanted to do something really fun and playful.”

Each pair of tasters is asked to bring three bottles of the same red wine. Two will be tasted by all attendees, who will vote silent-auction style for their favorite wine.

The pair whose wine receives the most votes will win the third bottle of wine brought by every tasting pair.

Andrews said red wine was chosen because it does not have to be chilled, which makes it easier to leave out during tasting, and because it is more of a fall wine.

Another reason red wine was

selected is there are a plethora of varieties people could choose to bring.

“People will bring probably their favorite wine, so I think we’ll see a lot of different things people like to drink,” Andrews said. “I think we’re going to see everything from a merlot to a syrah to a zinfandel.”

Tasting pairs won’t go home empty-handed if they don’t win the tasting wines though – there will be a number of door prizes given away.

Attendees who order their wine from one of the sponsoring liquor stores in town will receive a door prize ticket, and extras can be purchased at the event for $5. Prizes include gift certificates to the Ravine, Kiamie’s, Star, PJ’s, donated bottles of wine and many more.

Due to the slow economy, the YAC is switching to more intimate, once-a-quarter fundraising events, which they hope will not only raise more money than a large, yearly event, but attract more people, according to Andrews. ”We hope to attract a different audience with these different events, get them more engaged in the arts council and talk to the things we do all year long, instead of one yearly event. We do 315

days of arts programming, so we really want to see people more often to let them know what’s going on,” Andrew said.

Three Blind Wines is also reaching out to the Ole Miss Greek community. YAC intern Catherine Cartwright said in an e-mail the event will be a competition for participation between the sororities and fraternities.

Every organization who has five or more teams participate in the tasting will receive $500 off their next rental at the Powerhouse, and the organization with the most participation will win half off their next rental, in addition to the title of YAC Greek Organization of the Year.

Due to Mississippi brown bag laws, tasting pairs must fill out an order form at participating liquor stores, Star, PJ’s or Kiame’s, and event organizers will pick up every pair’s wines. Cost of the event is $25, or $20 for YAC members, in addition to the cost of the wine.

Tickets may be purchased at the Powerhouse, and only those 21 years and older may attend.

Three Blind Wines will be at the Powerhouse from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and additional information can be found on the YAC website, oxfordarts.com, or by calling the Powerhouse at 662-236-6429.

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ACCOUNTANCY, continued from page 1

graduates in well-paying jobs after graduation. Many students even have employment offers as early as 18 months before graduation. Other accountancy schools, like those at Brigham Young University and University of Alaska at Fairbanks, also have a high success rate in placing graduates in well-paying jobs soon after graduation.

“The downturn in the economy has affected jobs, but the demand for accountants remains strong,” James W. Davis, professor of accountancy, said.

Perhaps this is why the school has seen an increase in enrollment. In 2008, the school had 747 students, including undergraduates and graduate students. In 2009, enrollment reached an all-time high with 639 undergraduate students and 124 graduate students, totaling 763. Of the 124 graduate students, 109 are completing master’s degrees – 85 in accounting, 24 in taxation. Fifteen students are completing doctorate degrees.

During spring semester of their senior year, accountancy students participate in an in-

ternship program. On average, 75 students participate in internships each year.

“The Patterson School of Accountancy offers a successful internship program that helps place students in permanent positions once they graduate,” Hillary Goulding, assistant to the dean, said.

Junior accountancy major Chase Cooper plans to participate in the internship program her senior year.

“I think it’s a very good program,” she said. “I’ve heard nothing but positive things about it.”

In the spring of 2010, the school had a record number of students participate in internships. Fifty-six students participated.

They went to 33 different firms, to companies in 20 cities and eight states. Spring 2010 was the school’s seventh year to have a formal internship program.

Not only do accountancy majors participate in an internship program, they are recruited by some of the world’s largest and most recognizable firms. Four of these firms are known as the Big 4: PricewaterhouseCooper, Deloitte and Touche, KPMG and Ernst & Young.

BKD, the tenth-largest CPA firm in the

U.S., has offices in Oxford and Jackson.

Each spring the firm recruits students from Ole Miss for internships and full-time positions.

“Recruiting at Ole Miss is essential to our success in the Mississippi marketplace,” recruiter Michael Carraway said. “The faculty’s focus on preparing students for practical application of their education goes a long way toward giving us new hires who are ready to succeed in a very demanding profession.”

Ole Miss graduates also work for Fortune 500 companies, lead international accounting firms, own small businesses and head government and not-for-profit agencies.

“The Patterson School of Accountancy is well-recognized by the accounting firms,” Dr. James W. David, professor of accountancy, said. “Locally, regionally and nationally, they understand our graduates are ready to enter the job market and be productive.”

Accountancy graduates also score high on the Credited Public Accountant (CPA) exam. Year-in, year-out, graduates earn Gold, Silver and Bronze medals on the exam.

The Patterson School of Accountancy has been nationally ranked for five consecutive years. In 2010, the undergraduate program

was ranked 19th nationally, while the graduate program was ranked 18th. This is an increase from 2006, when the undergraduate program was ranked 22nd in the nation.

In the SEC, Ole Miss is ranked No. 3 behind the University of Georgia and University of Florida. In addition, Ole Miss is ranked No. 1 in the SEC and No. 3 nationally in doctoral-degree output over the 1988-2009 time period.

Recently, Ole Miss was one of 39 universities selected to participate in the AICPA’s new Doctoral Scholar’s Program. This program encourages accounting professionals to pursue doctorates to help alleviate the shortage of accounting professors nationally.

The Patterson School of Accountancy was the first in Mississippi to earn national accreditation. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business recognizes 173 schools as having accreditation in accounting.

The National Library of Accountancy Profession, the largest in the world, is housed at Ole Miss and the Patterson School of Accountancy. Since 1951, Ole Miss has had a chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, the national accounting fraternity.

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From the Classroom to the Stage: Nancy Balach and Amanda Johnston

BY MICAH WINTER The Daily Mississippian

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Nancy Balach rehearses alongside her piano accompanist Amanda Johnston getting ready for the faculty recital tonight at Nutt Auditorium.

The stage in Nutt Auditorium held a single grand piano and two very established artists as the University’s own Nancy Maria Balach and Amanda Johnston came together last night in a collaborative recital in the music department’s Faculty Series.

Balach, 38, a member of the voice faculty here on campus, balances the roles of performer, voice coach, soccer mom and wife. She takes pride in juggling multiple roles, both on stage and off.

Balach, a soubrette and lyric soprano, took group voice lessons as a child, studying with up to ten different students at a time.

In these sessions, Balach said she learned by picking apart the voices of her peers, taking

the good and leaving the bad.

Sessions like these led Balach to perform in her first opera in eighth grade.

Balach’s parents consistently told her she could do anything she set her mind to and she took their words to heart. She acquired an undergraduate degree in vocal performance from Carnegie Mellon University and a masters from the Manhattan School of Music.

For what was supposed to be a single semester, Balach followed her husband to Oxford. Hailing from Pittsburgh, Balach had little desire to live in a small town.

Soon after moving, Balach said she fell in love with the city, taking her own job on campus as part of the voice faculty.

Balach said teaching others has taught her about her own

voice. Though she does not get to perform on a stage every day, she was quick to point out teachers perform every day in the classroom.

The recital she performed last night was proposed by a close friend and colleague.

Johnston, a collaborative pianist, is the lead opera coach on campus, as well as an accompanist for vocal performance students.

Her position at Ole Miss is one totally unique to the state.

“We are lucky to have someone like Ms. Johnston,” Balach said.

Johnston is so knowledgeable about her subject that she will be publishing a diction textbook in December, an English and German comparative.

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Her idea came from her love for her home country, Canada. Johnston said she has a desire to expose a repertoire of music unheard of in most of America.

The recital, “A Celebration of Canadian Song,” displayed four different languages – English, German, Spanish and French – languages that are all spoken in Canada.

Featured songs included the American premier of “Involuntary Love Songs,” as well as a piece by John Weinzweig, a humorous song which Balach performed while on her cell phone.

Although the pair has been working on the recital for months, it is not their only focus.

Balach said her real focus is her family. She has had to work in rehearsal time around what her three children are doing.

“My kids have really given me a perspective of what’s important,” Balach said.

Johnston, who coaches twenty different music majors, will have to teach a full class schedule on the day of the recital. Though recitals are important, they are not as important as the other aspects of life, Johnston said.

Balach feels the same rush when her students do well as she does from performing herself.

“I now live vicariously through my students,” Balach said.

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In England, the importance of soccer, or more accurately – football, can not be overstated. Everyone has their team and they will support it unwaveringly, even when times get tough and the trophy cabinet is looking a bit naked.

Through football, we express our hometown loyalties by wearing a Birmingham FC shirt with pride. Within minutes of meeting someone for the first time, the question of what team you support will be asked. Young boys all across the country grow up wanting to be David Beckham or Wayne Rooney.

Football unites the country together under our (rather awful) English football team. For a few weeks, every four years, World Cup fever sweeps England. The country gathers together in local pubs to sing the National Anthem and pray that our team doesn’t lose to the Germans.

Games are very much a family affair too. My relatives have always been ardent Manchester United fans. My grandparents went with their parents, my parents with theirs, and me with mine. Love of the game and team are encour-

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aged from a young age. My six-month-old cousin already has a full Manchester United football kit.

I went to my first game when I was 10. It was the only time I was allowed to curse in front of my parents. The atmosphere was just indescribable. You find yourself yelling “Come on you reds,” along with the rest of the crowd and before you know it, you know all the words to “Take me home, United Road.”

A love of your own team is always attached to a hatred of another. Rivalries are taken very seriously. The women in my family are allowed to marry anyone they like – so long as they are not a Liverpool supporter.

Being a football fan is expensive though. A season ticket for Manchester United costs anywhere between $818 and $1,486. On top of this, season ticket holders are expected to purchase a ticket for all home cup games. Each year, the number of cup games varies and there can be any number between three and 14, with a See SOCCER, PAGE 12

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THE GOOD AND THE BAD FOR UM BASKETBALL

BY ALEX LAKE The Daily Mississippian

Southeastern Conference football fans pride themselves on the intensity and length they will go to support their respective teams.

Ole Miss exchange student Natalie Vincent gives insight into the world of English soccer which might challenge the intensity of SEC football.

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With the Ole Miss basketball season a month away, basketball beat writer Alex Lake gets a head start in breaking down the Rebels’ fortunes in 2010.

Why this year could go right: Seniors: Chris Warren is set up to have another great year for the Rebels. Warren, barring injury, should be the Rebels’ greatest threat on the floor coming off of two preseason All-SEC selections.

Warren will be one of only two seniors on the squad; both will be heavily counted on if Ole Miss expects to earn an NCAA tournament bid.

Zach Graham was almost the Rebels’ savior during the postseason last year.

Graham had a season-high 19 points in a NIT second-round victory over Memphis. Every time the Rebels could not find points from natural scorers such as Warren or Terrico White last year, Graham seemed to step up and carry the team on his back. That type of leadership is exactly what this team will need to make it to the next step.

Schedule: Andy Kennedy quietly set up a schedule that should pay dividends from a selection committee at the end of the year. The Rebels host Murray State on November 17. The Racers defeated Vanderbilt in the first round of the NCAA tournament last year before losing to Butler by only two points.

Other solid out-of-conference matchups include home games against Dayton, last year’s National Invitational Tournament champion, and Penn State.

The Southeastern Conference schedule also sets up well for the Rebels.

The top two teams out of the SEC East, Tennessee and Kentucky, will be coming to Oxford in back-to-back games on Jan. 29 and Feb. 1.

Why could this year go wrong?

Front court: The loss of Forward Murphy Holloway was not easy for this team. Holloway averaged 7.9 rebounds. He was also an energy player that at times lifted the team when they needed it the most.

While the maturation of Sophomore Reginald Buckner is expected, Terrance Henry’s continued growth will be just as important as he hopefully transitions to his natural position in power forward.

Too much youth: While youth can be a good thing with the new influx of talent, it can also be an Achilles’ heel for teams once they hit the always-challenging SEC schedule. Early tests such as the matchup with Dayton and ACC member Miami late in November should be a measuring stick for how this team will respond on the road.

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price tag of around $60 per game.

The fervor that England feels towards its football can only be compared to that of a sort of religious fundamentalism. We even have our terrorists in the shape of football hooligans. Football hooligans are a strange phenomenon that basically involves a group of young men starting fights over football games. Most of the time they fight with hooligan opponents from the other team, but sometimes they even start headbutting their fellow supporters purely out of frustration and due to too many Budweisers.

Football is a part of England.

It’s a part of its culture and of its people. Sure, we like other sports, like cricket and rugby, but there is something about those 90 minutes of football that is so unlike anything else. Being a football fan is hard, though. Many times we’re depressed or angry about a bad game or a poor referee decision, but no matter how bleak things look, we always come back for more.

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Former Ole Miss cheerleader inspiration for potential mascot Hotty Toddy

BY PAUL KATOOL Sports Editor

At the NBA’s Washington Wizards home games, G-Man, one of the official mascots of the Wizards, can be seen speeding towards a miniature trampoline, soaring in the air while spinning 360 degrees and finally slamming a basketball into the net.

G-Man’s performance can be traced back to Ty Cobb, a former Ole Miss cheerleader in the 1970s, who came up with the idea for “acrodunking,” a combination between basketball and acrobatics.

“When we were doing (acrodunking) for the very first time, I think people were surprised because they weren’t expecting somebody to flip and dunk a ball,” Cobb said. “When we would go to the SEC arenas, the fans would boo us for just being there but in the end they would give us a standing ovation.”

Today, many professional

sports franchises employ mascots who specialize in the spectacle, but acrodunking could potentially make a return to Oxford through one of the three final concepts for the new Ole Miss mascot.

Hotty Toddy, a character in a gray body suit with built-in muscles and a full face mask, is described by the Ole Miss mascot selection committee as being based off of former Ole Miss cheerleaders led by Cobb.

Cobb – not to be confused with the famous baseball player – tried out for the Ole Miss cheerleading squad as a freshman with the motivation stemming from the possibility of meeting pretty girls – particularly cheerleaders.

“At one of the first parties at the frat, I did a standing back flip and someone said you should try out to be a cheerleader because they need guys to lift the girls,” Cobb said.

“I decided to go and there

were 50 or 60 girls there, so they definitely needed some guys.”

Upon being placed on the squad, Cobb, head cheerleader Sam Martin and Ole Miss mascot Jeff “Hub” Hubbard – the original Johnny Reb – began traveling to away basketball games and initially tried daring maneuvers on mini-trampolines.

Many of the tricks were performed for the first time in front of a crowd, and the majority of the maneuvers were extremely dangerous.

Acrodunking was officially born when a friend suggested that Cobb add dunking a basketball to the routine. This was debuted at the University of Alabama, where fans were amazed by Cobb’s performance.

As Cobb’s brainchild became more popular, he parlayed acrodunking into a business, eventually gaining sponsorship and becoming part of the Bud Light Daredevils acrobatic team which performed in 23 countries and over 400 cities.

Cobb, who now works with the Salvation Army, said he was surprised when he saw his

name mentioned on the online mascot ballot, which included videos of acrodunking, when describing the Hotty Toddy option.

But he is wholeheartedly in support of Hotty Toddy – especially with the possibility of acrodunking being part of the mascot’s bag of tricks.

“I think (having Hotty Toddy as the mascot) would be a smart thing to do,” Cobb said.

“It has nothing to do with me or my background, it makes for a good mascot to get the crowd in to the games. That’s why you see acrodunking all over the NBA. It gets the crowd up.”

And Cobb has another reason to support Hotty Toddy, who he voted for in the online poll.

Cobb’s son, Chase, a high school senior, has been following in his father’s footsteps by honing his skills on the minitrampoline since he began walking.

Cobb said it would be exciting to see his son suit up as Hotty Toddy if the mascot option were selected.

“Whoever the Hotty Toddy mascot would be, it will add a lot of excitement to the games,” Cobb said.