The Student Printz April 3, 2017

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Vinzant resigns from VP post JULIUS KIZZEE

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Douglas Vinzant, The University of Southern Mississippi’s Vice President of Finance and Administration, announced his resignation via mass email to the university community on March 31.

Vinzant will serve as Special Assistant to the President until June 30.

“Dr. Vinzant has been a key member of the University’s executive staff since his arrival in the summer of 2013,” said

USM President Rodney Bennett in a university statement. “He has made a significant impact in many areas, to include budget development, physical plant operations, human resources, information technology and support for enrollment initiatives among others.”

Vinzant has been at the University of Southern Mississippi since June of 2013, assisting in all of the university’s efforts when it comes to doling out finances and assisting the Hattiesburg and Gulf Park campuses. Specifically this year, Vinzant was a lead in

helping Southern Miss finding solutions for parking problems at the university.

Through his leadership, he helped to find new parking avenues on campus specifically on north and west side of campus.

Vinzant came to The University of Southern Mississippi after serving time in similar positions at St. Cloud State University (Minnesota), the University of Wyoming, the University of Illinois and at Arizona State University. Vinzant received his bachelor’s degree at Mississippi College and then went on to get

his doctorate and master’s at the University of Southern California.

“His work ethic and his dedication to excellence have moved our university forward, and I thank him for his service,” Bennett said. “It is my hope that we will be able to identify our next Vice President for Finance and Administration by July 1, and I intend to begin the search process as quickly as possible.”

The search for the next Vice President of Finance and Administration will undergo by July 1, after the Southern Miss school calendar year will end.

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Crowds amass downtown for Hubfest 2017 AFNAN BEAUTI copy editor The City of Hattiesburg hosted its 32nd annual Hubfest downtown Saturday.

Hubfest is the city’s biggest outdoor festivals. More than 30,000 people attended the open and free event this year.

Hubfest 2017 was hosted by the Area Development Partnership and took place from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. spanning across the historic downtown Hattiesburg.

“It’s great to have it again in Downtown Hattiesburg, and

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showcase what our great city has to offer,” said Communications and Events Director at the ADP Lindsay Pace.

The event featured street food, arts and craft, live music, kids play areas, hundreds of local vendors and other activities. More than 250 vendors of different businesses and organizations from around the area offered their services and products to the crowd, while nearly 50 food vendors sold an array of festival grub.

The event featured four stages of live music with performers including Josh Thompson, The Strays and Midnight Revel.

“Although I had a lot of school work to do this weekend, I wasn’t going to miss Hubfest,” said senior accounting major Mouram Moh. The Extra Table also hosted “Over the Edge,” which gives participants the opportunity to rappel down the Carter Building downtown. The activity raised funds to help Extra Table provide nutritious food to soup kitchens and pantries around the state.

Executive Director of the Historic Hattiesburg Downtown Association Andrea Saffle said Hubfest was successful.

“Hubfest is a fantastic event for Downtown Hattiesburg, and it always brings out a great crowd of people,” Saffle said. “It gives us the opportunity to allow people who

Cam Bonelli | Printz don’t particularly come downtown to experience downtown and see some of the cool stuff that we’ve got to offer.”

Saturday’s weather allowed for a large crowd to enjoy the local traditions offered by Hubfest,

which also has a positive economic impact on local businesses.

Playpen Kids & Maternity on Front Street owner Rosie Ricks Knop said the festival gives his buisness exposure.

“Hubfest is an amazing

opportunity to showcase what is offered downtown to people who may only ever come down here on that day,” Knop said. “The economic impact the sales from that day can have potentially makes the month.”

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INTRODUCTION MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2017

MEET THE STAFF SPRING 2017 Daisy Stutts

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NEWS MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2017

McCain library hosts Parchman Exhibit LORA LAVIGNE printz reporter The University of Southern Mississippi’s Library Collections hosted “Justice in the Mississippi State Penitentiary: Past Reflections, Present Challenges and Future Directions,” a Criminal Justice Forum moderated by Associate Professor Alan Thompson.

Thompson said prisons in Mississippi and all other states face ever increasing levels of public criticism, shrinking financial resources upon which to operate, political oversight and judicial scrutiny today.

The forum addressed current conditions in the state’s prisons and efforts to reduce crime and recidivism.

“While other states correctional systems have faced greater levels of judicial scrutiny and intervention due to their share size,” Thompson said. “Parchman is not exempt from reform measures that often result in radical operational and cultural changes.”

The forum featured a panel that included Willie Simmons, Mississippi State Senator; Leonard Vincent, Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC); Dilworth Ricks, MDOC Victim Services Director and R. Kim Rushing, author of “Parchman.”

The panel described through their

perspectives the history of Parchman and its projected future.

“Parchman was a different world,” Vincent said. “When they were ready to integrate the camps they didn’t know how to do it. They said to best way to integrate the camps were to put the meanest whites and blacks together. It was the strangest thing ever.”

Parchman is classified as a prison farm that began with four stockades.

It was constructed largely by state prisoners on 28 square miles in unincorporated Sunflower County, in the Mississippi Delta region.

Senator Willie Simmons described Parchamn’s past and its evolution through court cases that assisted in the transformation into the Mississippi Department of Corrections. He said that although changes are made, there is still more work to be done.

“We have the tendency to lock more people up while spending less money,” Simmons said. “It’s not a good system.”

The penitentiary is still based through agricultural work for inmates. While being based on a farm, prisoners are expected to farm, pick and gather food.

“Parchman isn’t going to last very long with it still being based as a plantation,” said Vincent. “You can’t just take a kid off the streets of Jackson, Miss. from slinging dope or whatever else, bring him

in and expect him to pick some butterbeans.”

The panelist spoke about the possible funding for the correction system to provide more programs and to help progress its structure. It also covered the evolution of people being locked up and the increase of the LGBT community in the system and society.

Dillworth Ricks said the development of new programs, such as “Restore to Justice,” a victimoffender dialogue practice, is making a difference. She said that in the past, everything was so offender-driven and it is time to switch gears.

“This allows the offender and victim to sit down and have a conversation,” she said. “We have to make sure victims rights are balanced with offender rights.

Making sure everyone has a voice at the table and making sure offenders are held accountable.”

The forum ended with questions and answers from the public that focused on recidivism and the future of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

On the Friday morning following the forum, students and other volunteers gathered in the Cook Library art gallery for a reading and book-signing by R. Kim Rushing.

There were also readings of inmate letters and excerpts from “Louis Bourgeois, Unit 30: New Writing from Parchman Farm,” a recent

Coleman, Jenkins, Brown discuss Printz coverage of Clyde Kennard ANNIE JOHNSON

printz reporter

On March 30, students and professors from The University of Southern Mississippi gathered at the historic Eureka School building in Downtown Hattiesburg to attend the Clyde Kennard Lecture Series sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council.

Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny Dupree and civil rights activist Peggy Jean Conner attended the lecture.

The lecture, titled “The Student Printz and the Archival Recovery of a Segregated Past” featured assistant professor Loren Coleman, associate professor Cheryl Jenkins and Riva Brown, the first AfricanAmerican executive editor of the Student Printz.

The lecture aimed to analyze the media coverage of Clyde Kennard, an AfricanAmerican man who attempted to enroll at the all-white Mississippi Southern College (now USM), through Student Printz articles published during the Civil Rights Movement.

Coleman and Jenkins opened the lecture by discussing past Printz articles.

“How many people still get a hard copy newspaper?” Coleman said. “Newspapers still shape this world. Newspapers are cultural artifacts. If you wanted to know what happened in Hattiesburg in 1955, you would go to the Hattiesburg American.”

Coleman said newspapers contribute

to pertinent issues, organize protest and start conversations. Coleman read a quote from a Printz article on Kennard’s first enrollment attempt: “‘Despite rumors, to the contrary [Dr. McCain] had no knowledge of other formal applications by Negroes.’”

Coleman said McCain’s quote seems to reassure the student body that they do not have to worry about any other black students trying to get in the school.

“The university was starting to pay more attention,” Coleman said. “‘Could this really happen? If this is going to happen, what should our student posture be?’”

Coleman said the Printz reflected the students’ collective voice at the time.

Jenkins said the Printz gave little coverage to Kennard and did not cover the topic of race often.

This led to the creation of Brown’s alternative publication, Unheard Word.

Brown created the publication to cover race stories that were often times underreported or ignored.

“Unheard Word is an example of activism on student campus,” Jenkins said.

“It was instrumental in providing a black voice on campus.”

Brown then began the discussion of her publication.

“It’s very surreal hearing [Coleman and Jenkins] talk about something I created when I was 19,” she said. “I remember going on a trip to Kentucky for school [while attending USM] and seeing an

office just for black students. I was amazed.

On the way back to Hattiesburg, I woke up and started writing all these ideas down, and that led to the Unheard Word.”

Brown said she had no former experience in creating a publication and learned from a mentor at the Hattiesburg Education Literacy Project where she tutored other students.

“The reception wasn’t always so positive, even with black students,” she said. “I just wanted to educate students. I never considered myself an activist. I considered myself a catalyst. A catalyst for change.”

Brown said she paid the printing costs herself and that money was tight. However, she never charged for her publications.

“I felt like education and this type of knowledge should be free,” she said.

Brown said she felt as if her publication was truly making a difference and that, now, Kennard’s story is well-known.

Brown even got the chance to interview former USM President Aubrey Lucas for an article titled “Lucas Talks on Black Issues” “People were shocked that I called the president’s office and asked to talk to him about these things,” she said.

“Riva set the standard for so many journalists,” said School of Mass Communication and Journalism Director David Davies. “I knew this was someone who was going to make a difference.”

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Coutesy Photo| collection of prison writing from Vox’s Prison Writes Initiative (PWI) as well as a synopsis of victims’ letters presented by Dilworth Ricks.

Wrapping everything up, volunteers packaged the books that were donated to Big House

Books and mail to inmates in the Mississippi penitentiary system.

This official bicentennial project is made possible by a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council, through support from the Mississippi Development Authority.

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FEATURE MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2017

Event ‘ACCESS’es students’ empathy AUTUMN BROWN printz reporter On March 29, members of Advocacy for Civility, Change, Equality, Safety and Social Justice (ACCESS) hosted “A Moment in the Life,” in which students experienced accomplishing tasks with differing abilities, on Shoemaker Square.

ACCESS is an organization that provides the USM community with information and experiences about people who may experience life differently than others. The organization plans a program every month.

“I think [A Moment in the Life participants] got the intended message,” said Nicole Thomas, ACCESS co-coordinator of events. “I love anything ACCESS has, because, as a business major, I’m stuck in Scianna Hall. It’s nice to interact in the middle of campus.”

This month, the organization focused on people with differing abilities.

Participants picked differing abilities out of a bag and attempted to complete tasks. For example, if a person drew the word sight, they would be blindfolded and asked to pour a cup of water.

The students had the option of accomplishing other tasks while keeping differing ability they picked at the beginning of the exercise.

“Tackling the subject of differing abilities is complex, because you want to create the understanding that people with differing abilities are not helpless – alongside the understanding that day-to-day life is fundamentally different for so many of our peers,”said ACCESS President Jack Hoda. “I think that students who participated really got a new perspective on life outside of theirs, and I also think that those incremental understandings are major steps toward positive change.”

“It really got the students and I thinking about how different your life can be with different abilities” said Vice President of ACCESS Sandria Lambert. “Many of the participants and I were touched and appreciated

the experience.”

ACCESS is now an official organization of USM. For now, only resident assistants can be members, but students are encouraged to attend programs and events.

“It was a long process, but it was well worth it to have a greater platform to help educate our campus about essential social justice topics,” Hoda said.

Thomas said now that ACCESS is an official organization, members can educate more Southern Miss students on acceptance and understanding.

“I have had the opportunity to watch this group grow tremendously over the last few semesters,” said Secretary of ACCESS Alli Stockstill. “What started as a group of Resident Assistants eager for change has been transformed into an official organization of The University of Southern Mississippi, and we couldn’t be happier.”

To get updated and connected, ACCESS can be found on Instagram and Twitter under the account @ accessusmttt and on their Facebook page titled ACCESS.

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First LGBTQ+ inclusive cafe to open in Downtown Hattiesburg KAITLYN WATKINS news editor New Hattiesburg restaurant Black Sheep’s Café and Speakeasy aims to create an all-inclusive environment for members of all communities

and walks of life. Owners Sara and Parker “LB” Bell developed the idea for the restaurant after Gov. Phil Bryant passed a law in 2016 that allows business owners to refuse service to anyone based on his or her religious beliefs. Black Sheep’s

website states, “At its core, the law targets the LGBTQ+ community.”

The mission of Black Sheep’s is to create a safe space where everyone can join together to share a meal and celebrate their diversity.

The Bells are also founders

and the main benefactors of The Spectrum Center. They started The Spectrum Center in 2014 to be a resource and an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community in and around Hattiesburg.

According to The Spectrum Center’s website, the center is dedicated to advocate as well as provide resources in collaboration with these and other organizations to help provide for the physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

Gary May, a Southern Miss alum and Biloxi native, relocated from Chicago to become the general manager of Black Sheep’s Café and Speakeasy. Before moving to Chicago, May was a manager at the Purple Parrot and Crescent City Grill in Hattiesburg and was on staff at Trilby’s in Ocean Springs.

“I am excited to be back in Hattiesburg to help create a destination for the LGBTQ community and their allies in the Pine Belt,” May said.

The staff of Black Sheep’s said that they are working hard to bring equality and acceptance to Mississippi.

Black Sheep’s Café focuses on serving “Modern American

cuisine” that is made from scratch.

The restaurant strives to create a seasonal menu that uses locally sourced and responsibly grown produce.

The Black Sheep’s website advertises that the restaurant will host live performances including but not limited to, burlesque shows, vocal and comedic drag and dinner theater.

Every Sunday afternoon, Black Sheep’s plans to hold a Sunday tea dance with dance music, beer busts and drink specials.

“Feel free to dance away our differences and celebrate diversity on the dance floor,” Black Sheep’s website said. “Remember, in the Speakeasy, if you don’t tell, we won’t tell.”

“I think it’s important for the community to have a safe space,” said Hattiesburg resident Nathan Maxwell. “I think that in the social media age where we live life behind a screen, it’s important to have a place to gather and meet new people who are likeminded and who can identify and relate to us.

During Hubfest in Downtown Hattiesburg on April 1, Black Sheep’s held its First Annual Crawfish Boil.

In addition, the restaurant donated the money from every sixth beer to Extra Table to help feed those who are hungry in the Hattiesburg community.

The official opening date of Black Sheep’s Café has not been announced yet but the restaurant offers a mailing list for people who are eager for its opening to stay up to date with announcements.

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FEATURE MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2017

Gallery: 2017 Spring Repertory Dance Company Concert SHRADDHA BHATTA printz photographer On March 31 in the Mannoni Performing Arts building at The University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg Campus the Department of Dance hosted its annual Spring Repertory Dance Company Concert.

According to the university’s website, “The Southern Miss Repertory Dance Company was established to provide performing opportunities for dance majors and to promote excellence in dance performance for our students.”

“As company members, students gain insight into the protocal and standards of professional dance as they prepare for careers,” the website said. “Dancers are accepted into the company by audition.”

For more information about performances, USM’s Department of Dance or the repertory dance company, visit www.usm.edu/ dance/repertory-dance-company.

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ENTERTAINMENT MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2017

Live at Five begins Friday JAMES MASSENGALE printz reporter Pack up your blanket or grab a lawn chair because downtown concert series Live at Five will return to Town Square Park this Friday, April 7.

Local blues legend Tommie “T-Bone” Pruitt will kick off Live at Five this year. The event is a free, outdoor live music series in Downtown Hattiesburg and takes place on Friday evenings in the spring and fall from 5 - 9 pm. The concerts are sponsored by local businesses and organizations.

Sarah Newton started Live at Five in Spring of 2008. Newton said the idea formed when she was president of the Downtown Association.

“My parents were involved with a program held in Baton Rouge and suggested I start a concert series in Hattiesburg,” Newton said. “In a way, I helped start Live at Five as a way to pay tribute to my father.”

Newton said when she and her parents began the series in 2008, they named it Live After Five.

“That first month, it rained the first three Fridays, and we had to change venues for a couple of concerts and cancel one altogether,” Newton said. “The first real concert in Town Square Park that season was the last week of April.”

Newton said planning the concert series usually begins about two months before the first concert, but that this year it will be a little different as there are more shows – in May and this summer – and there will not be as

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much time between the seasons.

Mike Dodds has been attending Live at Five since it started. Dodds said Live at Five is great for the community.

“It is a great way to bring people together to have a good time,” Dodds said. “The music is always enjoyable. People will come from all parts of Hattiesburg and the surrounding areas to come have a good time in downtown. It’s a great way to start off the weekend.”

Abigail Allen, the program coordinator of smART space, has a booth at Live at Five where children can come be creative with sidewalk chalk, art projects and hula hoops. Allen said she loves everything about the event.

“It’s a place where people come together and the music almost doesn’t even matter,” Allen said.

“I have seen this event from all angles. I’ve played music at this event, I’ve worked it with smART space and I’ve gotten to just enjoy it as an audience member – I enjoy it all. It’s one of the main reasons I think Hattiesburg is so magical.”

Newton said Live at Five has grown over the past five years.

“I love knowing that people enjoy it,” Newton said. “Even my kids ask me ‘When does it start?’

They call Town Square Park ‘Live at Five’ Park.’”

This season of Live at Five will include performances by Lightnin Malcolm April 28, Blackwater Brass May 12, Stoop Kids May 19 and other acts to be announced.

For more information on Live at Five check out their Facebook Page Live at Five H’Burg or at www.hattiesburglivemusic.com/ live-at-five.

Unplug to plug in with | ashley hobson For the past couple of weeks, I have had the unique opportunity to participate in conversations with some of the most genuine people I have ever met.

I started this week with three different interviews.

Well, college happened and all three interviews fell through. So instead of interviewing one of our amazing students, I decided to interview all USM students at once.

Everyday starts the same, in a mad dash from my bed to my car. No time for breakfast, I’ll take a coffee to go. I wasted too much time lying in bed, scrolling through Facebook, checking Instagram or answering Snapchats.

Even though I just checked them before falling asleep, there should still be new things to look at. I’m in the car now, driving just a little too fast to get to a class I signed up to take just a little too early.

How do I pass the time? I skip through songs on Spotify.

It’s 8:57 a.m. as I pull into the gravel parking lot. I pass by four other students walking to class.

One has headphones in, one has no backpack, one wears heels and one has pink hair. They all look at their phones as they walk by, and I speak to none of them.

When I walk into class at 9:02

a.m., I take my seat just as the teacher begins to lecture. I whisper a “hello” to the girls that sit next to me. We exchanged confused looks and a few question as the lecture goes on. By the time it’s over, we’ve talked about how confusing the material is and how much sleep we didn’t get the night before.

The lecture ends and we go our separate ways.

As I sit in my second class, I greet the guy beside me. He’s engrossed in his phone. He has earphones in, but they aren’t connected to anything. I wonder if he even hears me. I catch him looking at me sideways and decide it’s best if I just leave him alone.

The end of my second class sends me to Starbucks, where I will pass the time until my next class. I wait in line behind a girl wearing her sorority shirt and converse. I wonder how she gets her hair to grow so long. I wonder why the line is taking so long. The barista is talking about how he lost his mom this weekend. Now I feel bad for being impatient. I give him a small smile as I hand him my credit card, and he hands me my coffee.

I spend the next two hours in Starbucks trying to find someone who wouldn’t mind giving an interview last minute. I didn’t

find any takers, but I found lots of students who are just like me. One was talking to his mom on the phone. The other was stxudying for an exam they had the next day. A few were writing papers while some were simply killing time. Several students were on their phones. Most didn’t expect to be talked to.

I didn’t get an interview, but I did get deeper understanding of the student body as a whole.

We’re too plugged in to the people we’ve already met and not plugged in enough to those around us. We value our iPhone connection more than we value connecting to those around us.

Now, this is not a “the world is ending,” “this generation sucks” rant because I am just as guilty of walking to class with my head in my phone as the next person.

The point is – don’t be so suspicious of people approaching you in person instead of on Facebook first. Meeting people can be weird, it can be awkward.

Guys, the looks some of you gave me was enough to send me to the darkest corner in Starbucks.

But the amazing part is is that I learned so much just by putting my phone down and listening.

The entire thing wasn’t a bust, because I did have some great conversations. You’ll just have to stay tuned to hear about those.

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SPORTS MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2017

Golden Eagles dominate in homestand invitational ANDREW ABADIE sports reporter The Golden Eagles put on a dominant performance as various aspects of the team took first-place wins in their home meet.

“Overall, we had a great meet,” said Head Coach Jon Stuart. “We had so many good performances that top our best ever in school history. We had a lot of great performances and a lot of breakthroughs today.”

The teams that attended were LoyolaNew Orleans, Meridian, Mississippi Valley State, Nicholls State, SouthernNew Orleans, West Florida, Coahoma and conference rival Louisiana Tech.

The short distance team battled some wind throughout the day, but that did not stop them from finishing in the top three in almost every sprinting event.

Junior Cra’Vorkian Carson won the men’s 100m and 200m dashes running 10.51 and 21.05. In the women’s 100m dash, sophomore Kadaria Thompson and freshman Keiyana Gaskin ran a

12.09 to finish second and third place, respectively.

In the 400m dash, the men’s and women’s teams struggled with junior Alexander Richemond running 48.03 to finish sixth and freshman Aireanna Taylor running 57.95 to finish ninth.

The women’s distance team had again another strong performance and put on the most dominant performance of the meet. In the women’s 800m run, the Golden Eagles swept the event, with freshman Natalya Dekleva-Hall ran 2:13 to finish first, freshman Savannah McMillion ran second with a 2:15, and Devin McGee ran a 2:18 to finish third.

The Golden Eagles also swept the 1500m run with senior Dana Dillistone, freshman Regen McGee and freshman Theresa Harto finishing in the first three positions with a 4:25, 4:36 and a 4:43, respectively. Notably, Dillistone broke her own school of 4:27, which was broken in her last meet, with her 4:25.

Freshman Patton Little won the 1500m run by running a 3:57, the only runner breaking the four-minute mark.

Senior Modesty Lorick won both the 100 and 400m hurdles in 13.77 and 59.53 in subsequent events. In the women’s high jump, Jamari Drake finished second with a 1.65m jump. In the women’s long jump senior Jazmyne Gilliam finished fourth with a 5.46m jump.

In the men’s high jump, Parker finished second and freshman Austin Railsback finished third jumping a 2.07m and 1.97m. Sophomore Devonta Brassel doubled in the men’s triple jump (14.85m) and the long jump (6.69m) where he finished first and third.

In field, the men and women both had equal success.

In the men’s shotput, junior Donald Daley threw 15.36m to finish first and freshman Robert Watson threw 14.20m to finish third. Daley and Watson also competed in the discus where they threw 51.37m and 48.70m to finish fourth and fifth, respectively. Daley and Watson tripled in the hammer throw where they threw 57.54m and 52.90m to finish first and second, respectively.

In the women’s shotput, junior Brashe Wood threw 15.81m to finish first, sophomore Danisha Jones threw 14.17m to finish second and junior Alexis Chiles threw 14.01 to finish third. Wood and Jones both competed in discus, where Jones finished first with a throw of 49.31m and Wood finished second with a 49.07m throw. In the hammer throw, freshman Nadia Maffo won with a 60.05m throw and Jones finished third

with 53.53m throw.

“We have to follow a process where we don’t get too high or too low and have some consistent performances week by week,” Stuart said. “We just try to gradually improve and peak at the right time for the conference, regional and national meet.”

The Golden Eagles will return to action on April 8 at the Alabama Invitational.

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USM drops C-USA weekend series against Marshall, 2-1 KYLE WILLIAMS sports reporter Southern Miss (18 - 18, 4 - 8 C-USA) hosted Marshall (27 5, 11 - 1 C-USA) this weekend, halting Marshall’s 17-game winning streak but losing the series 2 - 1.

“Conference USA is a tough conference — anybody can beat anybody on any day,” said Head Coach Wendy Hogue. “There have been a ton of close games.”

Saturday’s doubleheader would result in both sides taking home shutout victories.

Marshall would take game one, 5 - 0 and Southern Miss would claim game two, 8 - 0.

In game one, Southern Miss’ lack of early offense would be detrimental. The Golden Eagles would record their first hit of the game in the bottom of the fifth inning. By the time Southern Miss recorded a hit, Marshall recorded four hits and held a 2 - 0 lead. The Golden Eagles never found their rhythm as they recorded only three hits for the entire game compared to Marshall’s nine.

Pitching would play big in game one as well. Marshall’s ace, Jordan Dixon, would record eight strikeouts on the night compared to Southern Miss’ Kim Crowson and Jade Lewis who only recorded two. Find the box would be big for Dixon as she recorded three consecutive three and out innings.

Game two would be a complete turnaround for the Golden Eagles offense.

“We had to take one from Marshall this weekend,” Hogue said. “You’ve got to at least take one on Saturday to give yourself an opportunity on Sunday.”

The fifth inning would be the most productive inning for USM in the weekend series. Southern Miss held a 1 - 0 lead from the first inning and would push their lead to eight quickly. Eleven different Golden Eagles would have an atbat, collectively tallying seven runs on four hits. The explosive inning would cause the game to be cut short due to the NCAA’s run rule, winning 8 - 0.

“It was very critical for us to take one game this weekend.”

Hogue said. “If you are going to drop one you better lose to someone in front of you and not behind you.”

Sunday’s contest would keep the series routine alive of one team having an offensive explosion in one inning or catching that one break to steal the victory.

In the top of the fifth inning, Marshall’s Madi Marshall kicked off the Thundering Herd offense with a single to left field.

Marshall’s single would become contagious as the next three atbats would result in Marshall recording three runs off of two RBI-singles and a sac fly RBI, 3 0. This one inning would be the only scoring that would occur in this contest, capturing the series 2 - 1 for Marshall.

Southern Miss looks to push above .500 this Tuesday against Mississippi Valley Stateat home.

First pitch is set for 6 p.m.

Julius Kizzee | Printz Coach Wendy Hogue talks with Samantha Reynolds after her at-bat against Marshall on April 2 at the Southern Miss Complex

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march 1 – 7 Men and Women (2.8 – 4.0 GPA*)

march 8 – 21 Men and Women (2.0 – 4.0 GPA*)

march 22 – May 12

All students currently in housing *cumulative total GPA

Prior to SelfREAssignment reAssignment

. . . .

Review building information for the 2017-18 academic year online at www.usm.edu/housing and communicate with your preferred roommate regarding the process for roommate pull-in; Review the Housing Contract Lease Agreement (online); Test your SOAR login and password on our website to be sure you can access the RMS portal for self-reassignment; and Remember to use Internet Explorer 10.0 or above and turn off pop-up blockers. (MAC users will need to use Firefox.

Safari is not compatible with the application portal.)

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND RESIDENCE LIFE live. learn. connect. succeed.

601.266.4783 | reslife@usm.edu

AA/EOE/ADAI

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