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ALCOHOL TASK FORCE PRESENTS SUNDAY SALES PROPOSAL TO BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Join Maurice Eftink, Christy Wyandt and Susan Mossing for a series of talks that will take place the last Tuesday of each month and that are aimed at helping professional development. Pizza provided. Friday, Oct. 22 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free
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BY LANCE INGRAM The Daily Mississippian
The Alcohol Task Force presented its recommendations for Sunday sales at Tuesday’s Board of Aldermen meeting. Jack Dunbar, a task force member, presented the recommendations. 1.) By law, every business must prove certification when obtaining an alcohol license and prove it is abiding by the laws and are subject to audit. Businesses failing to cooperate are subject to inspection and having future licenses revoked. 2.) The City of Oxford seeks permission by the state to sell alcohol on Sundays. 3.) Businesses are only permitted to sell between 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays because those hours are recognized as hours of serving food. 4.) Convenience and grocery stores are allowed to sell alcohol at room temperature between the hours of noon and 6. p.m. The committee investigated other SEC schools and surrounding towns to compare Sunday sales to other days. Dunbar said they did not see similarities to the Thursday, Friday and Saturday crowds. The proposal will be discussed and voted on by the Board of Aldermen in greater depth at an undeclared future date.
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YAC awarded grant for Powerhouse renovations BY POINESHA BARNES The Daily Mississippian
The Mississippi Arts Commission awarded a grant to the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council for the amount of $94,400 to further renovations at the Powerhouse. The Arts Council is the official arts agency for the city of Oxford and Lafayette County. “A lot of students use the facility for events. I think the renovations will enhance their experience,” Wayne Andrews, the executive director of the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, said. The Powerhouse, on University Avenue, had already undergone the first phase of renovations that consisted of emptying out the building and opening it up as a community arts center, said Andrews. Funding for the second phase of renovations will be used to enhance the technical elements of the Powerhouse, such as backstage machinery. “We are working on the parts of the show that no one sees that actually makes the show the show,” Andrews said. They plan to replace lighting, stage elements, and upgrade the now temporary seating arrangements. Andrews was adamant about what sets the Powerhouse apart from other art venues. The Powerhouse is a community arts center, in contrast with a performing arts center. “We had to start somewhere, the Powerhouse provides people
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UNIVERSITY THEATRE: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE The Drowsy Chaperone celebrates the musicals of Cole Porter and the Gershwins and takes the audience back to the heyday of the Jazz Age. Directed by Rene Pulliam. Thursday, Oct. 21 until Saturday, Oct. 23. 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24 2 p.m. $7.50-$10.50 FILE PHOTO | CAIN MADDEN | The Daily Mississippian
with support in their artistic infancy, so that they can grow,” Andrews said. “We are a community arts center dedicated to providing tools to expand the range of art.” He said that the council is determined to find new grants to further the renovations and support the programs that will pass through the Powerhouse. “We are very proactive about finding grants to support artistic programs,” Andrews said. They have applied to receive grants from the Walmart Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and are in the process of applying for the National Endowment for the Arts grant.
Extensive funding awarded to the Powerhouse could help strengthen the community and allow members to explore a different aspect of culture. The city of Oxford has helped the Arts Council raise money to add a sculpture garden to the array of artistic elements that will be stationed at the Powerhouse. Places like the Ford Center bring in artists such as the Bush Women Troop, a nationally recognized dance troop, to perform. Places like the Powerhouse are what help cultivate talented people such as the Bush Women Troop, by providing them with a healthy artistic foundation, Andrews said.
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PANTY THEFT A SERIOUS MATTER This story is part two of a two-part series examining the panty thief convictions and actions. While some have joked about the Oxford panty thief, it is a matter that affects more than just the underwear drawer. BY CAIN MADDEN The Daily Mississippian
As bystanders, many Ole Miss students see more humor in the Oxford “panty thief” than fear. From the sidelines, Ole Miss pre-pharmacy sophomore Kelsie Cameron feels the same way. “It reminds me of summer camp, when guys would steal panties,” Cameron said. But, Cameron said she imagined if the convicted panty thief, Joseph Paul Lillo, broke into her home, she would feel different. “But this guy is not like the boys at summer camp, he is pretty creeptastic,” she said. “It would creep me out — I’d have to start keeping a baseball bat under my bed.” While the idea of someone
stealing her panties was more amusing than not, the fact that someone followed her home and broke into her house would alarm her, she said. “It would take me a little while to realize someone took my panties, like, who does that?” Cameron said. “But it would freak me out to know someone was in my home. I’d put 911 on speed dial.” Oxford Police Chief Mike Martin said this type of behavior could have escalated into something more than breaking into homes and stealing panties. “This type of behavior generally leads to more serious and heinous crimes once a person gets started doing it,” Martin said. “If we had ended up with a coed being attacked, it certainly would have not been a laughing matter.”
Martin said he felt that if the said. “We don’t know what he police were not able to catch the was doing with them, and that is guy, an attack could have hap- creepy.” pened soon. Also, the thief would know “We never considered it a joke more about you than you would at any point,” Martin said. “We the thief, Malone said. knew early on that it was not just “They know who you are,” Maa college prank — once we knew lone said. “And you don’t know that, we knew we had to find this them — it could be someone you guy as quickly as we could.” see every day.” Victims of the panty thief took Martin would not release what it seriously, Martin said. Lillo allegedly did with the gar“Like you would expect, they ments or how he picked his vicdid not think it was very funny,” tims, but he said the panty thief Martin said. “They very much reportedly used the path of least thought of it as a personal inva- resistance to gain entrance into his sion.” alleged victims homes. Marketing communications se“He looked for locks that were nior Kelsey Malone said she would easy to tamper with,” Martin said. take it as a personal invasion. “Or, he would look for windows “Undergarments are very per- or doors that were not locked.” sonal, and he is taking them for If someone followed biological his own sick needs,” Malone See PANTY THIEF, PAGE 4
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