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With music by Tchaikovsky, “SwanLake” is based on a German fairytale and follows the heroic youngPrince Siegfried as he labors tofree the delicately beautiful swanmaiden, Odette, from an evilsorcerer’s spell.

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The event is hosted by the Oxford Convention and Visitors Bureau and will be stretched throughout two days and feature a headlining musical guest.

Musical guests will appear Friday night, with an admission fee. The price has yet to be determined.

The main event will take place Saturday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., with no admission fee, and will fea-ture many art vendors, food ven-dors and the children’s Square Fair.

“We are planning on having a bigger music headline that’s still in the works, but we haven’t con-

firmed anything yet,” said Mary Allyn Roulhac, tourism manager at the Oxford Convention and Visi-tors Bureau.

The musical line-up has not yet been determined but will feature music from a broad range of genres including bluegrass, jazz, gospel, blues, country, folk, zydeco and re-gional rock-and-roll groups.

The art vendors for the event have already been selected, and can be found on the website.

Roulhac said the vendors each bring a following from their cities and states. The food vendors have yet to be posted, and will be limited by food category.

Saturday is known to bring fami-lies with its free admission.

For the kids, the Square Fair, sponsored by the Mississippi Arts

Double Decker preparations underwayBY MALLORY SIMERVILLEThe Daily Mississippian

See DOUBLE DECKER, PAGE 4

Concerns about building a new hospital were discussed at yesterday’s Board of Aldermen meeting.

Several Aldermen expressed concern over the current loca-tion the hospital is consider-ing outside of city limits along Highway 6.

John Morgan, Alderman At Large, and Janice Antonow. Al-derman of Ward 3, said they are concerned with the proposed lo-cation and would like the hospi-tal to consider other locations.

“I’m going to have to take a little bit different of a spin on it because in a 50 to 75-year plan, but I can see how things, partial-ly, that there are better locations but I don’t want to substitute my judgement in this situation for theirs,” Mayor Pat Patterson said.

In Friday’s Oxford Eagle, a group of Oxford residents placed an insert in the paper drawing concern to the pro-posed location for the aldermen and Lafayette County Board of Supervisors to consider.

“We are respectfully request-ing that you not commit our community to a memorandum of understanding or any agree-ment that transfers ownership and/or control of our hospital and Certificate of Need assets without first verifying that the hospital will be located in a place that serves our community with proximity to our schools and el-derly,” the letter said.

The group also requested that the hospital provide alternate

access points by multiple roads, proximity to multiple fire sta-tions and police station and that is not beyond Oxford’s city lim-its.

“I think we all agree that we can’t tell them where to go, there are some considerations and it will change the dynamics of Ox-ford,” Ernest “E.O.” Oliver, Al-derman of Ward two, said. “We have to consider things that will be down the road whether it be 10, 20 or 30 years.”

Pope Mallette, the city attor-ney, said he has sent the revised draft of the memorandum to the hospital with the understanding that they resolve the audits so the sufficient changes that need to be made can be.

He said he expects the county will look at the issue and either approve it or not during their next meeting next week.

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Aldermen express concern about the proposed hospital locationBY LANCE INGRAMCity News Editor

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Mascot photo leaked

A photo taken in the office of Michael Thompson, senior associate athletics direc-tor for communications and marketing, shows the mascot costume for the Rebel Black Bear. The photo circulated on the Internet Monday night, and it is currently unknown who took the photo. A call to Thompson was not returned by press time. See theDMonline for updates as they become available.

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This quotation has been drilled into our brains since we could talk. However, I have only recently come to realize the convenient truth of this maxim.

Each semester, we walk into a new classroom in anticipa-tion of finding out the true persona of our new professors. Take my story, for example.

At the start of this semester, I found myself intimidated by one of my professors in par-ticular. He immediately intro-duced himself with a mono-tone but intriguing voice.

He was obviously a tradi-tional, strict teacher that put a heavy emphasis on critical thinking and class discussion. I thought to myself, “Oh no, this is going to be a very long semester.” As the semester has progressed, I have started to realize that this teacher is not just strict, but he is good — really, really good.

Never have I had a profes-sor that is so prepared for class

and that genuinely knows the information which he is trying to present. This past weekend, I was speaking to a mentor who is about 60 years old and lives in California. He recom-mended a book to me that was written by a professor at Ole Miss.

I looked the book up on-line, and I was floored. My professor, the same man who I had prematurely judged and determined that I would not like, had written the book — a book in which the subject is very interesting and significant to me.

At the beginning of the se-mester, if I had done a simple Google search of my professor’s name, I would have discovered this incredible occurrence and possibly have done better in the course up to this point. In-stead, I judged him and have not been interested.

At Ole Miss and most other universities in the country, students have put a metaphor-

ical barrier between us and our professors. It’s time we break down those barriers to further increase our learning.

After all, that is what we are at college for, right?

Research your professors before you go to their class. I did last week, and was very surprised at what I found. Of my five professors, I have a world-renowned journalist, a local and national journalism guru, a teacher who graduated from UNC in 3 years, a pub-lished historian and a musical virtuoso.

Ole Miss is full of prestigious professors that have done re-markable things. Should it not be our duty to learn a little more about who they are or what they have done?

I can attest to the fact that in many cases we will be exposed to this new path of learning. Since I learned that my profes-sor wrote this amazing book, I have been inspired to be more attentive to everything he has

to say in class, which has al-lowed me to learn more and make better grades.

We are on one of the most personalized campuses in the United States. It is almost unnatural to not get to know our professors just because of the state we live in. If nothing else, tell your professors you enjoy their class as you leave the classroom for the day. They deserve at least that.

Can you imagine what our campus would be like if we knew our professors enough to hold a conversation with them outside of the classroom setting? It would be the most comfortable place to attend college in the world.

It’s time, Ole Miss. It’s time to realize that our professors are people, not robotic figures that are out to make us fail their classes. Get to know your professors, and you will greatly benefit in the classroom and life in general — I guarantee it.

Over the weekend, Rob Bell – author, public speaker, and pas-tor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, MI – and his publisher announced that his new book, Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, would be released March 29.

Publisher Harper Collins re-leased the following Saturday to help publicize the book:

“In Love Wins, Bell addresses one of the most controversial is-sues of faith – the afterlife – ar-guing that a loving God would never sentence human souls to eternal suffering. With searing insight, Bell puts hell on trial, and his message is decidedly op-timistic.”

Though we all know to never judge a book by its cover, Bell’s latest publication has been met with suspicion from some well known theologians (including John Piper) and vitriol from a more outspoken crowd, which includes Christian blogger Jus-tin Taylor.

Despite not having yet read the book, Taylor charged Bell with being a “universalist” and went on to say, “It is unspeak-ably sad when those called to be ministers of the Word distort the gospel and deceive the people of God with false doctrine.”

Taylor later clarified (after re-emphasizing the fact that he is yet to read the book) his thoughts saying, “If Bell is teaching that hell is empty and that you can reject Jesus and still be saved, he is opposing the gospel and the biblical teaching of Jesus Christ. You may think that’s judgmental to say that; I think it’s being faithful.”

Perhaps it’s easier to out some-one as “opposing the Gospel and the biblical teaching of Je-sus Christ” when you’re playing the “being faithful” card, but the fact that Taylor is belittling Bell’s theology without having read the entire book remains. Convictions are a greater foe of truth than lies – even if Bell’s theology is spot on it will still be written off by most exclusivists,

and flippancy towards the be-liefs and ideals of another is the ultimate sign of disrespect.

In fact, I argue that one of the reasons the church finds the younger generation shying away from the religion is be-cause when they approach in earnest with difficult questions surrounding their faith they are often met by authoritative fig-ures who serve to tell them the dangers of having thought up such thoughts. Rob Bell is free to write books until his hands fall off; if he has poetic justice in store for him, let poetic justice take care of it.

But here’s where I play Devil’s Advocate:

The Bible isn’t exactly black and white on most subjects – Hell included. Sure, Dante Alighieri gave everyone a decent template to think about in the 14th Century, but that vivid de-piction of torment and suffering is missing in the Hebrew Bible and there are many ways to in-terpret the New Testament’s teachings on eternal punish-

ment. What’s more, for centuries

some have made the case that when Paul said Christ died for all, he meant it, whether the “all” knew or even cared – giv-ing credence to the “all-merci-ful” angle.

But the fact is that for one to label his or her self a “universal-ist,” an “exclusivist,” or almost any other form of “-ist” there is, you have to put a big emphasis on some parts of the scripture and ignore (or attempt to ex-plain away) textual challenges to your theology.

To put it lightly, there are parts of the Bible that are ambiguous and unclear – and it’s not always easy to harmonize the same themes all the way from Gen-esis to Revelation. Taking on such a text requires patience and the willingness to keep yourself from dismissing those who dis-agree with you – those people often have a lot to teach you.

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Dear Eliza, Hello Eliza, my name is Dan

and I’ve been dating this girl for about two months long-dis-tance; she goes to University of Georgia and I’m here.

We went to high school to-gether and over the years stayed in touch. We usually text a few times during the day to see what’s going on and then we’ll talk on the phone some nights out of the week.

Lately thought the distance has been getting to me. My friends talked to me about this before and warned me that it might ruin our relationship, but I don’t want it to. I really like her and want it to work, I’m even going to see her over spring break to visit her and some of our mutual friends.

What else can we do to make this work?

-Dan

Dear Dan, Long distance relationships

aren’t for everyone, but the ones who make it work usually end up with a stronger relation-ship in the long run.

One of the most significant inventions to assist long dis-tance relationships is Skype.

Being able to not only hear the person’s voice but also see their face, despite how many miles are between you, really helps.

I have a friend who kept his relationship romantic by writ-ing letters to each other. You know, on paper instead of via the Internet.

A surprise in the middle of someone’s day reminds them that you’re thinking about them even when you don’t have time to correspond.

In order to keep going strong, no matter what you do, you

have to remember while this might be hard on you, it’s just as hard on her as well.

One of you might have an off day, and that can be frustrat-ing, but it happens, even with couples who aren’t in long dis-tance relationships. Try to set aside a certain amount of time each week where both of you are free to sit down and have a virtual conversation.

When you have some down time, send her a random link or video that reminds you of her.

Remember not to overload her though; you’re both busy.

The biggest thing is to just be patient and flexible with each other and know that it’s not always going to be easy. Good luck!

xoxo, Eliza ------Dear Eliza,

My sorority just had a date party, and I invited this guy that I’ve been crushing on for like a year.

Things were off to a great start, but I had a little too much to drink and made a complete fool out of myself. My friends all said that I said some pretty rude things to him and I was comparing him to past dates that I have had.

I was trying to make him see that he was the best date that I’ve had so far, but I guess it came out the wrong way.

He’s really mad at me and I want to fix things. Should I write an apology note? Help! What should I do?

-Fudged up

Dear Fudged up, I think you need to apologize,

and if he accepts your apology, then good, but don’t expect

anything else. Give him time and space

to know that you are genuine when you say sorry and leave it at that. If he begins to talk to you again, remember that you are no longer in the rela-tionship zone, so you have to treat him almost as if he is an acquaintance and take it a step at a time and starting over as much as you can.

If he does not accept your apology, don’t beat yourself up about it. You have to just ac-cept that and let it go and say I messed up and I admitted it, I apologized for what I did, and that is all you can do.

You can’t control anything more, but you know that you did your part and tried to see what could have happened.

Hope this helps!

xoxo, Eliza

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The Migraine Research Founda-tion awarded a $50,000 grant to University of Mississippi professor and psychologist Todd Smither-man, who proposed a study to bet-ter treat people who suffer from chronic migraines.

Smitherman said that insomnia, along with depression and anxi-ety, are some of the psychological problems for people who have mi-graines. Reducing insomnia may in turn reduce the migraines, Smither-man said.

“Seventy-five percent or more of people who have chronic migraines have insomnia of some form or an-other,” Smitherman said. “It’s not hard to understand why it would be hard to sleep if you have pain that frequently.”

Smitherman said there is a dis-tinction between episodic migraines and chronic migraines. People with episodic migraines experience the pain fewer than 15 days a month, while people with chronic migraines have the pain 15 days a month or more.

“With chronic migraines, we’re talking about people that have mi-graines every other day or more,” Smitherman said. “Think about how disabling they can be even if you have them infrequently. They’re incredibly debilitating for people who have them that often.”

Migraines are much worse than people give them credit, Smither-

man said.“It’s hard for people who don’t

have them to fathom just how bad they are,” Smitherman continued. “A lot of people who don’t know a lot about migraines think they’re just headaches and you just take a couple Advil and you’re fine, but that’s usually not the way it works.“

Smitherman said the study will involve teaching people to regu-late their sleep habits and generally modify their lifestyles to combat the symptoms of insomnia, and see if that helps with the migraines. The study will last for one year, and each participant will be involved for about three months, during which time their sleeping and waking cy-cles will be monitored.

“One of the cool things about this study is that in addition to monitor-ing the headaches, we’re also going to purchase some actigraphs, which are essentially wrist-worn devices that measure sleep and wake cycles based on the person’s movement,” Smitherman said. “It works very similarly to a pedometer. You just slap one of these wristwatches on somebody for two weeks and they bring it back in and you’ve got all their sleep/wake data instantly.”

Smitherman began studying the relationship between migraines and other health problems during his three years as an intern and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jack-son and found that very little re-search had been done in that field.

“I was doing a rotation with a

psychologist who did migraine re-search, and even though I had never in my life experienced a migraine, I realized quite quickly that there was not a lot of research being done on psychological issues that occurred in these people,” Smitherman said. “This was at a point in time where people were just beginning to talk about something other than depres-sion that occurred in people who had migraines, and so I ended up doing that for three years there and have been doing it ever since I came to the University three years ago.”

Smitherman said the grant has been a work in progress for over a year and that the initial idea and legwork were funded by the College of Liberal Arts, who awarded him a small summer grant that would pay him salary money in the sum-mer so he could work on develop-ing the much larger grant from the Migraine Research Foundation.

According to the MRF web-site, they are the only organization whose sole purpose is to raise funds for further understanding migraines and developing improved treatment options for those who suffer from migraines. The foundation gave out seven grants to researchers from around the world, and Smitherman said he was surprised to be one of the choices.

“I wasn’t certain about how well it would fare simply because I was a psychologist competing with neurologists to study a neurologi-cal condition, and there were grant proposals received from nine differ-

ent countries,” Smitherman said. “So when I heard that, I didn’t think my odds were great, just based on how competitive grant funding is in general. But sure enough, the re-view board liked the idea.”

His ultimate goal for this study is to develop a list of validated treatment instructions that can be shared with physicians who can in turn share these with their patients, Smitherman said.

He hopes that the results of this study can be used to inform phy-

sicians working with migraine patients to address their insomnia symptoms as a method to help with migraines, Smitherman said. He also hopes this research will lead to more studies in the future.

“It’s a cool study. I’m really ex-cited that people are so interested in it,” Smitherman says. “We’re trying to do a lot with $50,000. We’re trying to make the most of that amount of money then use the results to inform some much larger studies down the road.”

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Psychology professor Todd Smitherman discusses migraine data with lab assistant Joshua Hamer.

Commission, will feature an array of activities, including face paint-ing, musicians, clowns, story telling and a train.

It will be held behind the Oxford University Club and Thompson building.

One of the main events is the pet costume contest in the afternoon.

“The event really brings out fam-ilies because they can enjoy every-

thing from shopping for art, food and the children’s area,” Roulhac said.

“I think [free admission] definite-ly attracts a lot more visitors than probably if we had an admissions festival.”

Roulhac said, Double Decker is a great tourism attraction for Oxford, and most hotels are already booked. She said they are expecting between

50,000 to 55,000 people to attend. The past two years have seen a

large number of guests, but Roul-hac said she expects an even larger crowd with the addition of the Fri-day night musical performance.

Double Decker has developed into an Oxford tradition.

The name comes from the arrival of the city’s very own Double Deck-er bus from England in 1994.

“Since we have the double decker buses, it becomes a staple in Ox-ford,” Roulhac said. “I think people have made it their tradition in the spring. I know a lot of people plan their trips to come to Oxford that particular weekend.”

The Convention and Visitors Bu-reau will also partner with the Ox-ford Bike Association and Chamber of Commerce as they host a Spring

Run and Road Ride. “A lot of people come down for

these specific events and then end up staying for the festival,” Roulhac said. For more information on Double Decker visit www.oxfordcvb.com/doubledecker.

To register for the run visit www.doubledeckerspringrun.com, and to register for the road ride visit www.doubledeckerride.com.

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Like Faulkner, Shirley Perry thought Oxford would be a great place to settle down and write.

Unlike Faulkner, Perry came from Boston to write memoirs about her life in the CIA, entitled “After Many Days: My Life as a Spy and Other Grand Adventures.”

“I decided to proceed with writ-ing the book because I thought I had a unique story to tell — my experiences as a young woman, fresh out of college, working as a CIA agent abroad during the Cold War, the most frigid days of the Cold War and in Vienna, the easternmost outpost of Allied intel-ligence,” Perry said. “This was truly the most exciting assignment one could get.”

Perry will sign and read from her book at 10 a.m. on March 3 at the

University of Mississippi bookstore in the Student Union.

Perry said this opportunity should appeal to students because her story is about making it in the world.

“It is about opportunity,” Perry said. “The avenues that open up to young people once they have stepped outside the cloistered hall of academe and the rewards of risk taking.”

The book is framed during the height of the Cold War, Perry said.

“In my presentation, I contrast the metamorphosis of the dueling intelligence services — the CIA and the KGB — and talk about the occupation of Austria,” Perry said. “I preview my CIA experi-ences — the training at the farm, my first surveillance assignment: a harrowing night spent under arrest by the Soviets in a military installa-tion, and more.”

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In 2008, she meandered into the Student Media Center do-ing her best to stay out of peo-ple’s way. In 2011, after a trip to Troy, Ala., she strolled into the media center carrying a plaque that read 2010 College Journalist of the Year.

Alex McDaniel, now a gradu-ate student, received her plaque at the Southeastern Journalism Conference in Troy back in February.

McDaniel, who came to Ole Miss from Arkansas, but was born in Texas, applied for the award after being nominated by Patricia Thompson, director of student media and assistant professor of journalism.

“She came to me and just said the journalism school would like to nominate you for your work,” McDaniel said. “I took a shot at it.”

Of that work, McDaniel, who is the first Ole Miss stu-dent to win the award, said it was her passion for the job that kept her going through the year as the Daily Mississippian edi-tor in chief.

“If you are going to be editor, you better love that job,” Mc-Daniel said. “You better be pre-pared to lose sleep and meals for that paper during that year.”

Thompson said each college can enter only one student in the College of the Year contest and McDaniel was nominated for her leadership, service and skills. Her work included rede-signing the newspaper, thed-monline.com, and she was also an anchor for News Watch.

“The Student Media nomi-nated Alex because of her ex-traordinary leadership of The Daily Mississippian last year, her extraordinary service to the SMC and to the School of Journalism and New Media, and her remarkable skills as a writer, designer and multimedia journalist,” Thompson said.

McDaniel submitted an es-say, letters of recommendation and three articles: her profile series “In The Face of Adver-sity” about Chancellor Dan Jones’ first year as leader of Ole Miss, and “All Eyes on Ackbar,” about the mascot campaign.

“It was a result of work the DM did last year in covering news at a time when the cam-pus was completely polarized, at the center of the worst con-troversy we’ve seen in years,” McDaniel said.

McDaniel was also awarded Best Feature Writer in the Best of the South competition, and she said she was shocked by it.

“That was more shocking, because when I got into jour-nalism all I wanted to do was be a feature writer,” McDaniel said.

“I love reading it. I love writ-ing it. I just wanted to be a fea-ture writer, and I never won a feature award. So I thought, here we go again let me enter something. I had come to the conclusion I was not cut out for feature writing.”

Journalism wasn’t McDaniel’s first choice, she said.

“I was a music major for three years,” McDaniel said. “When I switched to journalism, I fig-ured it would be a practical way to pay the bills until I wrote the next great American novel. But I fell in love with it when I wrote my first story.”

When McDaniel first entered the Student Media Center, she said she was shy.

“I went in there, trying to stay out of people’s way, and asked for a story,” McDaniel said. “The editor gave me one, and said my deadline was at 4 p.m.

“It was a story about the flu spreading in the Oxford school district and what they were go-ing to do to combat it. I was expecting a small article buried somewhere inside, but it was prominently on the cover. The first thing I did was call my

mom. I was hooked.” Robin Street, lecturer in jour-

nalism/public relations, said McDaniel deserves everything she has worked for.

“Alex is an outstanding and very special young woman who deserves every award there is,” Street said. “I’m thrilled that her talents were finally recog-nized.”

Mr. Magazine Samir Husni has known McDaniel for three years and said she stands out as a journalist is so many ways.

“She is not only curious, but also loves and cherishes this job of searching for trouble,” Husni said. “She has a nose for the news, ears for the whispers, eyes to spot the visuals and a very big heart to add a dash of emotion for her story tell-ing state of the art journalism skills. She is a hard worker and the word no does not exist in her vocabulary.”

McDaniel is currently in her second semester as a graduate journalism student, manages content for the Meek School of Journalism and New Media website and is also the Editor of the Ole Miss Yearbook.

McDaniel said she isn’t sure about what is to come in the future but would love be hap-py working in the journalism field.

“I don’t know what I want to do,” McDaniel said. “I’ve de-veloped the love for so many things. It’s not great to have a lot of things you love and are capable of doing. I would be happy working anywhere in journalism when I start off.”

Husni said he was looking forward to watching McDaniel shine in the future.

“She will be going places. She is not only going to have a suc-cessful career as a journalist, but a very rewarding one indeed,” Husni said. “Her love of jour-nalism is her hobby. When you are practicing your hobby, you are no longer working, you are having fun.”

BY KAITIE HARRISONThe Daily Mississippian

Journalism more than a major for Alex McDaniel

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ation are for the City of Oxford to pay $60 million and build a $250 million facility, he said.

“If Baptist hospital fails to build the new site, and what they’re still negotiating over, is how much of the full $60 mil-lion they will keep and put back into the hospital’s lease,” Mal-lette said.

Mallette said he encouraged

the aldermen to hold a special meeting in the coming weeks to further discuss the issue.

The aldermen also discussed a proposed draft of local private legislation to establish a City Reserve and Trust Fund. They will continue to investigate the issue and look further into at their March 15 meeting.

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Who: All interested faculty and current studentsWhen: Monday, Feb. 28th-Thursday, March 3rd: 9AM-4PM Friday, March 4th: 9AM-1PMWhere: Student Union 405A (3rd floor) Monday-Thursday Student Union 410 (Catalpa Room-3rd Floor) Friday

The Offi ce of Enrollment Services is inviting all students, faculty and staff to sit down and write a few old-fashioned letters. The department is hosting a letter-writing campaign February 28th-March 4th to encourage high school seniors to attend Ole Miss in the fall.

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Come and write words of encouragement and wisdom to the students we hope will be the incoming class of 2011. Refreshments, stationery, and writing utensils will be available.

A recent earthquake in Ark., has some people talking about the possibility of experiencing one in the northeast Miss., re-gion.

Two earthquakes hit Ark., during February, the latest on Feb. 27, was a magnitude 4.7 and the highest magnitude earthquake to strike Arkansas since 1969, according to the Central United States Earth-quake Consortium.

“It was pretty nerve rack-ing,” Ethan Booker, University of Arkansas sophomore, said. “Everyone thought it was just a really loud clap of thunder even though it lasted for al-most 12 seconds.”

The earthquake was felt in seven states and in downtown

Memphis, and was centered in Greenbrier, Ark.

If a strong enough earth-quake were to hit Oxford many of the Square’s older buildings would suffer damage. The city would also see an overpopula-tion of refugees from affected areas.

David Shaw, Director of Lafayette County Emergency Management, said Oxford would mirror Baton Rouge during hurricane Katrina should that happen.

“Having a plan, and know-ing what to do in a natural di-saster can make all the differ-ence,” Shaw said.

“You can’t always just count on 911 to rescue you, because you have to make a plan for yourself and know how to han-dle the disaster.”

Despite the snowstorm of winter and the tornado watch-

es that come with spring, some Ole Miss students are more becoming mindful of earth-quakes.

“If there was an earthquake in Oxford, I wouldn’t really worry about all my belongings, I would just run,” Ross Cabell Ole Miss sophomore said. Al-though if there was ever any ripples felt in Oxford from a earthquake on the New Ma-drid Seismic Zone or any other fault zones, many students have admitted they wouldn’t know what to do.

“I wish people would put more emphasis on earth-quakes,” Shea Suddarth, Ole Miss sophomore, said.

“I feel like so many people are concerned with tornados when it storms and people on the coast with hurricanes, but earthquakes get put on the back burner. I wouldn’t even

know how to protect myself if a earthquake happened because it’s never talked about.”

Although an earthquake in the north Miss. region isn’t completely unlikely.

The prediction relates to the New Madrid Fault Zone, an seismic area that runs through Arkansas and Missouri’s Boot-heel region and even into the lower parts of Illinois.

This fault line, which runs from the north college town of Cape Girardeau, Mo., to Memphis, has been a hot-spot of seismic activity since 1812, the year the largest recorded earthquake occurred in the states.

The nineteenth century earthquake, which was said to have been 8.5 on the Rich-ter scale, destroyed buildings within a 90-mile radius of the New Madrid Fault Zone and

even formed a well-known lake in southeast Missouri, Reelfoot Lake.

The United States Geologi-cal Society (USGS) reports that it is estimated that the probability of a medium seized earthquake which has a mag-nitude 6.0 or larger has about 25-40 percent within the next 50 years.

A large size quake, which has a 7.5-8.0 magnitude has a 7-10 percent chance, according to data the USGS.

“We were all told growing up how much this earthquake would change our lives,” said Karen Neal, a 40-year resident of southeast MO. “Experts on television said it would make the Mississippi River run backwards like it did in 1812. If that was the case, this little Bootheel of Missouri would cease to exist.”

BY KARA CAMPBELLThe Daily Mississippian

Ark. Earthquake Sends Concerns to Oxford

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20-year-old singer/songwriter Daniel Blumberg, former front-man of indie flare-out Cajun Dance Party, assembled Yuck in 2008 with an ex-bandmate, guitarist Max Bloom.

Japanese bassist Mariko Doi and Yuck’s lone American del-egate, drummer Johnny Rigoff, fill the remaining rhythmic void.

A considerable amount of buzz created by the steady leak of self-produced singles pre-ceded Yuck’s live debut in early 2010, a performance that con-firmed the validity of the band’s up-and-coming status.

Fat Possum soon took notice and signed them in the fall. The label released Yuck’s first single, “Georgia,” that November.

Yuck’s self-titled album dropped earlier this month, showcasing the foursome’s knack for symphonic grit, strik-ing hooks and intricate song construction.

The album’s opener, “Get Away,” establishes the fuzz-laden jazz-master tonality that runs rampant throughout the record. Blumberg and com-pany beautifully navigate their refined “wall of sound” as the singer/songwriter’s longing slips through its pores.

Strobing guitars kick off “The Wall,” a track that brings to the forefront some of Blumberg’s more arresting vocal work char-acterized by a yowling noncha-lance similar to that of Pave-ment’s own Stephen Malkmus.

“Suicide Policeman” is one of the record’s more rhythmically relaxed efforts.

A strumming acoustic guitar shadows Bloom and Blumberg as the pair harmonize their way through the song’s calming re-assurance.

Blumberg’s teenage sister and part-time member Ilana adds ethereal backup vocals to “Suicide Policeman,” while the track billows in dimension at each graceful turn. Horns,

xylophones and lazy electrics whisk it toward a delicate dis-solve.

“Rubber,” a seven minute drift into droning obscurity, is the least structured and most annoyingly shoe-gazey tune on the album, representing one of the record’s few weak spots.

Yuck closes on a strong note with bonus track “Cousin Co-rona.”

The most impressive guitar work on the album comes to light during its various chordal peaks and valleys. “Cousin Co-rona” and the record itself cul-minates in a cloud of feedback and stomped effects peddles, just how it began.

Unlike Blumberg’s once-hyped Cajun Dance Party, Yuck seems to possess the creative makeup and sonic clout of an enduring group.

The question posed by many, however, centers on Yuck’s at-tachment to 90s post-modern-ism, a decidedly one-dimen-sional source of inspiration.

Their debut and reputation prove them a capable act, but can Yuck transcend their own influences?

Let’s hope so.After the European leg of the

band’s current tour, Yuck will be stateside at SXSW before heading to the west coast in April.

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For centuries, artwork has been inspired by poetry and the written word.

Now, that history is on display at the Powerhouse.

The “Word and Art Gallery Se-ries,” the kick-off gallery for the 2011 Yoknapatawha Arts Coun-cil’s series of collections, will be displayed at the Powerhouse until March 25.

It features a wide variety of art-ists from Andi Bedsworth, a pro-fessor in the theater department at the University, to Lori Leigh Blay-lock, the president of the Oxford Artist’s Guild.

The variety of styles among the artists displayed enhances the power of the collection.

While in everyday life words are used to simply convey messages from one person to another, the words chosen by these artists emit raw emotion.

Some artists drew their inspira-tion for the gallery from famous poets such as Robert Frost; others drew inspiration from poems of close friends. Others wrote their own.

Blaylock has written her own poetry and expressed those words in pieces of artwork for the gal-lery.

“I like to paint the intangible,” she said. “I want to leave (the view-er) with long-lasting thoughts.”

She hopes to encourage people to reach out to their neighbors and inspire people to be sensitive to others’ needs.

“I want my art to be emotional

and to hopefully melt some of the ice that we have allowed to build,” Blaylock said. “If viewing my pieces can influence someone to be kinder, more sensitive to themselves, others and the envi-ronment, then I have been a suc-cess.”

Bedsworth, a self-taught artist, took a somewhat lighter approach to the subject. Using the poetry of some of her close friends, Bed-sworth decided to create a col-lection of artwork that is much different than her background in theatre costume design.

“I had the urge to work with pa-per and wood,” Bedsworth said.

Her collection in the gallery is diverse. It includes a dark mixed-media piece that depicts a girl, a raven pinata, Dubble Bubble wrappers and a set of three framed

pieces of notebook paper with her “confessions of crazy things,” which are randomly spray-painted over Fleur dis Lis and chandeliers. Even though her work is different than anything she has ever done, Bedsworth admits that people can tell it is her work.

“I’m just stretching my legs,” she said.

The artwork is highly varied due to the vision of the artist, the in-spiration that the artist drew from and the skill level of the artist.

Everyone in the community is given the opportunity to submit his artwork, regardless of formal training or prior gallery time.

The YAC and the Oxford Art-ist’s Guild work very closely to choose the right pieces of artwork and artists for each of their galler-ies throughout the year.

According to Wayne Andrews, YAC director, the artwork that is chosen for the gallery by a panel of YAC and Oxford Artist’s Guild members must be interesting and exhibit the theme of the collec-tion in a fascinating way.

“We want the artists to experi-ment, temper their typical art-work,” Andrews said.

Artists from all over the Oxford community and surrounding ar-eas are encouraged to try some-thing that they may have never dabbled in before. Andrews hopes that these types of community art shows will help established artists with a regional reputation, as well as developing new artists.

The gallery is a free event and is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through Fri-day until March 25.

An Expression of Life: The ‘Words and Art Gallery Series’ comes to the PowerhouseBY KATHERINE WESTFALLThe Daily Mississippian

Senior journalism major Adam Brown is a typical college stu-dent.

He has homework, a part-time job and enjoys hanging out with his friends.

But Brown struggles more than most students.

Not long after he was born, Brown was diagnosed with ce-rebral palsy, a condition that, in his case, limits the mobility of his left leg and left arm.

Cerebral palsy occurs as a result of brain damage shortly before or

after birth. Most people that suf-fer from CP are diagnosed within the first three years of life.

“The worst part of it is when you are first diagnosed,” Brown said. “It gets better over time.”

Because it is caused by brain damage, CP does not worsen over time. Brown’s symptoms are con-sistently severe. He uses a walker to get from class to class. For lon-ger distances, he has a motorized wheelchair that attaches to a hy-draulic lift on his truck.

It only takes a few minutes talking with him to realize that Brown is as self-sufficient as any-one else. However, the actions

of others (or lack thereof ) some-times infringe upon his ability to move around campus.

“You have days when it may be raining and people will park in disabled parking spots who aren’t supposed to be there,” Brown said.

When his wheelchair or his hydraulic lift are not cooperat-ing, Brown must rely on the as-sistance of others — an act some-times taken for granted by fellow students.

Brown remembers one instance quite well. His lift had stalled on the truck, and Brown had to manually remove the wheelchair

in the Bishop Hall parking lot.“Two guys walked by me and

just stared,” Brown said. “I asked for help and they just kept walk-ing.”

Aside from a couple of rude students, Brown said he enjoys his time at Ole Miss. For him, it is home.

As a student at Oxford High School, he served as the statis-tician for many of the school’s sports programs. Baseball, bas-ketball and football provided Brown with an outlet he had never before experienced.

“You kind of wanted to be on the field with them, but I played

a significant role in the team,” Brown said. “Being a part of the team kind of made high school easier because I could put myself into sports.”

His love of sports remains steadfast.

Brown works at FNC Park during the week, where he scores youth and adult athletic events.

Eventually, he said he hopes his dreams of one day working for the Southeastern Conference or ESPN will become a reality.

For now, Brown is content with attending class like a typical college student, no matter how difficult getting around may be.

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The Ole Miss basketball team is on the road tonight, looking for the season sweep of the Au-burn Tigers.

Tonight’s game is nothing more than a poorly concealed land mine. If the Rebels are fo-cused and avoid it, they’ll have an opportunity for a notewor-thy win Saturday afternoon. If they aren’t, and don’t, they’ll wrap up Southeastern Confer-ence road play in embarrassing fashion.

Unfortunately for Ole Miss, it’s tough to get excited for a game that appears to be a lose-lose situation, so the Rebels have to look at the bigger picture.

If the Ole Miss 18-11 (6-8 SEC) can take this one, it will have its second sweep of an SEC West opponent thus far this season and have an op-portunity for a third Saturday when the Arkansas Razorbacks visit Oxford.

Additionally, a win tonight would enable the Rebels to lock up a .500 SEC record and the fourth 20-win season of coach Andy Kennedy’s tenure Satur-day afternoon. While a .500 conference record doesn’t sound too impressive, especially con-sidering the current state of the SEC West, it would be quite an accomplishment considering Ole Miss was four games under .500 (1-5) with only ten confer-ence games remaining. A 7-3 finish to SEC play, with wins over Kentucky and Alabama, wouldn’t be too shabby.

Equally important, is that a win over the lowly Tigers 9-19 (2-12 SEC) saves the Rebels

the embarrassment of losing to one of the worst teams in major conference college basketball, which would be an especially tough pill to swallow in March.

Additionally, while it appears doubtful that the Rebels will get an SEC Tournament bye (though they’re still in conten-tion for one), a third place fin-ish in the West would at least guarantee a winnable first round game in Atlanta. A rematch with the South Carolina Gamecocks would be the best opening day draw Ole Miss could possibly hope for, considering it would have to play a team from the far superior SEC East.

To optimize their tournament draw in Atlanta, the first thing the Rebels have to do is to beat a team they took out behind the wood shed last month. While a 31-point victory on the road in conference play may be a bit much to expect, a comfortable margin of victory is not. There’s no reason the Rebels shouldn’t win tonight’s game by at least 15 points.

In fact, this evening’s game is only about one thing — focus. If the Rebels are focused, there isn’t much, short of the apoca-lypse, that can stop them from winning — Auburn sure can’t. But if they aren’t, the Tigers might be able to do some real damage to Ole Miss’s NIT pros-pects, and potentially force the Rebels into an opening round date with a formidable oppo-nent from the East next week, against whom Ole Miss has struggled thus far this season.

Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. inside the Auburn Arena. The game is scheduled to be televised on the SEC Network.

Ole Miss hoops face‘trap game’ at AuburnBY ANDREW DICKSONThe Daily Mississippian

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on point during his win Tuesday participating in his first outdoor singles match of the season.

“It was great to see Marcel pick up right where he left off last spring,” Chadwick said. “He’s one of the better players in the entire nation.”

Now after having complet-ed their final non-confernce match the Rebels will begin preparation for SEC compe-tition which begins Friday when they continue their current four match home-stand hosting a pair of two top-25 opponents: Kentucky and Vanderbilt.

“We’ve got to have two re-ally good practices and be prepared to be at our best for Friday,” Chadwick said.

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FORMER OM BASKETBALLPLAYER ARRESATED

Justin Reed, who played bas-ketball for Ole Miss during the Rod Barnes era, was arrested on Monday after police found five pounds of marijuana and $25,794 worth of cash in his car during a routine traffic stop. Reed and a passenger in the car have been charged with pos-session of marijuana and the intent to sale, and were released after posting $10,000 bonds on Tuesday, according to The Clarion-Ledger.

RANDOLPH TAKES FIFTH AT JOHN HAYT COLLEGIATE

Ole Miss senior golfer Jonathan Randolph took fifth place on Monday at the John Hayt Collegiate in Ponte Vedra, Fla., while junior team-mate Joe David finished 10th at the event. The Rebels tied for sixth place in the tourna-ment.

GLEADALL LEADS AT ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWLCLASSIC

Junior Natalie Gleadall shot a final round of 74 to lead the Ole Miss women’s golf team at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Classic in New Orleans, La. Ole Miss fin-ished 15th overall at the event.

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The Ole Miss softball team dropped game one of a double-header with Alcorn State on Tuesday, 3-1 in extra innings, but bounced back for an 11-0 mercy-rule win over the Braves in game two.

After a series win at Houston, the Ole Miss baseball team (8-1) re-turned home and picked up a dra-matic 5-4 walk-off win over Austin Peay (4-1) in the first game of a two-game series on Tuesday.

In the bottom of the tenth inning, senior Jordan King drew a walk to lead off the inning and advanced to third after a balk and a sacrifice bunt from senior catcher Miles Hamblin. The next batter, junior Zach Kirk-

sey, drove in the winning run on a sacrifice fly to center field.

“Once again we don’t play our best game, but we find a way to win, so you have to be happy with that,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said.

Austin Peay took a 1-0 first in-ning lead, but the Rebels tied the game in the bottom of the second on a Kirksey triple down the right-field line that scored Hamblin from first. Austin Peay then took a 3-1 lead and chased Ole Miss senior left-hander Matt Tracy from the

game in the fourth. Tracy went 3.2 innings and gave up three runs on seven hits, while striking out three.

Austin Peay extended the lead to 4-1 in the sixth after a passed fourth ball in the dirt allowed the runner on third to score.

After striking out freshman first baseman Will Allen and junior out-fielder Zach Kirksey in the bottom of the seventh, Austin Peay senior left-hander Jack Snodgrass made way for the bullpen. The Governors’ Saturday starter, having not pitched last weekend due to a pair of rain-outs, struck out seven and allowed only one run on four hits through 6.2 innings.

Junior shortstop Blake Newalu extended his team-leading hit streak to four and then sophomore out-fielder Tanner Mathis reached base on a walk to help rally the Rebs. Newalu and Mathis later scored on a two-base error by Austin Peay left fielder Cody Hudson off the bat of sophomore second baseman Alex Yarbrough to cut the lead to 4-3.

Freshman third baseman Pres-ton Overbey singled to lead off the eighth. After a fielder’s choice and foul out, freshman Austin Anderson drove in senior Jordan King with a two-out RBI single to tie the game at 4-4.

“We talk about the young kids and them growing up in a hurry,” Bianco said. “A lot has been said about (Preston) Overbey, but there’s a kid that’s never really played third and we’ve thrown him at third. He’s gotten some big hits and swung the bat well.”

Sophomore Brett Huber (1-0) got the win in relief, striking out four through 2.1 scoreless innings.

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Following the Ole Miss ten-nis team’s win over Tulane on Saturday, Rebels coach Billy Chadwick was already talking about his team’s next oppo-nent: the Memphis Tigers.

“When Memphis plays Ole Miss it makes their year if they can beat Ole Miss,” Chadwick said Saturday.

“That’s in every single sport. We know that, so we’ll be ready for them.”

Ole Miss didn’t give the Ti-gers any reason to celebrate Tuesday afternoon with im-pressive play across the lineup for a 4-0 defeat of the Tigers in Rebels’ second outdoor match of the season.

“This was a mid-week match, right before a gigan-tic SEC weekend and a great effort from the guys,” Chad-wick said.

The Ole Miss coach said the Tigers caught the Rebels’ at-tention early on this season when they upset a nationally ranked powerhouse from the Big-12, Oklahoma State.

“The guys knew they had to be at their best and we played

well today,” Chadwick said.The Rebels took care of

business right away by sweep-ing the doubles point.

With Kalle Norberg, the 2009 SEC Tournament MVP, not participating Tuesday, a majority of the team was forced to move a spot in the singles lineup.

Even without Norberg, Ole Miss was too much to handle in singles competition.

Junior Marcel Theimann won 6-0, 6-2 at No. 1 sin-gles, sophomore Jonas Lutjen picked up a solid 6-4, 6-0 win at No. 3 and freshman Jonas Backstrom clinched the match with his 6-1, 6-2 win over Memphis’ John Taylor playing No. 5.

“It’s always great to clinch a match,” Backstrom said. “This was the second match I’ve clinched and obviously its a great feeling. The whole team did well today.”

In singles play Saturday against Tulane Chadwick de-cided to rest his All-American, Thiemann.

However the Lehrte, Ger-many native appeared to be

BY JOHN HOLTThe Daily Mississippian

Rebel Netters down Memphis 4-0

See MEMPHIS, PAGE 11

Diamond Rebs Rally Past Austin Peay

ADDISON DENT | The Daily Mississippian

Starter Matt Tracy was one of four pitchers Ole Miss used last night to defeat a feisty Austin Peay bunch 5-4 in 10 innings. Tracy gave up seven hits and three earned runs in three-plus innings of work.

BY AUSTIN MILLERThe Daily Mississippian