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On-Campus vs. Off-Campus
By: Addison Dent
Students face a tough decision after they finish their compulsory freshman year in the dorms: To stay on-campus or move off-campus?
While most people choose off-campus living, some students like sophomore Natalia Vera choose to stay.
“I do like living on campus. It’s close to all my classes and I work on campus so it’s really convenient for when I need to go to work. I can just walk across the grove and I’m at work.”
She says that there are negative aspects as well though.
“Sometimes I wish I lived off-campus because I like to be by myself and have my own space. Sometimes it feels cramped in here.”
Others like junior Ben Bates made the switch to off-campus living and haven’t looked back.
“When you are on campus you study, when you’re done studying I come home and relax. So there is a separation of your educational place and where you can relax and just chill with friends.”
Bates says that other than the occasional transportation issue, there is not much to miss about on-campus living.
“There is more of a social environment [in the dorms], there is more people around you, but when you are off campus you are with the people you want to hang out with anyway, you are with your best friends so it’s not a problem.”
For many students the choice comes down to a pros and cons list. Students like the proximity to their classes and social environment of the dorms, but don’t like the lack of freedoms and visitation rules.
Off-campus students like their spacey apartments and freedoms but at times hate the commute. In the end, students must pick what is most important to them and decide what they are willing to live with and live without.
Can You ‘Stump the Schwab’
In late October, Phi Mu held their first annual sports trivia night at Powerhouse, hosted by ESPN’S Howie Schwab, benefitting Children’s Miracle Network.
Every fall and spring semester, Phi Mu holds a philanthropy event. This year’s philanthropy chair, Alex Clay, wanted a new, more fun way that involved the whole community.
Clay originally had the idea of a small sports trivia tied into their usual poker tournament. However after she mentioned the idea to a friend, it turned into a much bigger production.
I spoke to my big sister in the sorority who had an internship this summer with ESPN,” Clay said. “She said she would contact Howie for some trivia questions and when he heard the idea he offered to come down and do the whole event for us.”
The event was open to teams of four players and tickets were also available at the door just to watch. There were also tickets available to enter a $1000 cash prize reverse raffle.
Clay said for the first year of the event she was pleased with the turnout. There were many male students who teamed up for the event and the winning team went on to play ‘Stump the Schwab,’ based on Schwab’s show on ESPN.
“All my guy friends were excited about it and figured it would be a lot of fun and it was really cool to have Howie Schwabb in Oxford,” said Jonathan Dean, senior geological engineering major.
“We would like to continue doing this every year and reach a higher goal every year for these children,” Clay said. “Howie mentioned it to us while he was here and he would like to continue to come down and do it every year and make it bigger and better.”
Fire Trends on Campus
By Rachel Johnson
An earsplitting siren cuts through a quiet dorm hall. Lights flash, perturbed residents leave their rooms, and the Oxford Fire Department arrives on the scene.
Almost all University of Mississippi students have experience the confusion and annoyance of a false fire alarm in their dorm or an academic building. But many students remain confused as to what happens when these alarms accidentally go off and what affect false alarms have on the Oxford Fire Department.
The Oxford Fire Department says 42% percent of the calls they answered in 2009 were buildings on the Ole Miss campus. By the numbers, the fire department responded to 368 alarms (approximately 1000 total in the city), 31 which were actual fires or smoke, 337 were false alarms or alarms tripped by conditions such as steam, temper
ature change, etc which do not emanate from an actual fire.
“The smoke detectors and heat detectors are very sensitive. Something as simple as a spider crawling across the photo eye sometimes can cause an alarm to go off and you really can’t say that’s a false alarm or a malfunctioning alarm because the alarm is working, it’s just not supposed to detect something like that,” Deputy Chief David Duchaine explained.
When of the stations respond to a call from the university, they automatically send out a three company response. Duchaine explained this means nine of the 16 firefighters on duty leave the station on two engines, which pump water, and one truck, which has a 100 foot ladder. If the alarm is not for an actual fire, the station’s resources are spread thin and could affect their ability to quickly respond to an actual fire.
When the Oxford Fire Department responds to alarms at the dorms, Duchaine said it is most likely a prank someone has pulled which has set off an alarm, whereas alarms in the academic buildings are usually set off by maintenance work or air units.
False alarms intentionally pulled or set off seem to be caused by freshman, Duchaine observed, which is logical since the majority of students living in on-campus housing are freshmen. “The dorms are the ones we have most of the pranks, and generally speaking it will be the freshman, though not always,” he said.
Kincannon Hall Director Chris Lewandowski said, “I don’t know if you want to call it luck or vigilant but we have not been having many prank alarms. We have had one real alarm this semester when someone was cooking something.”
Stockard Hall Director Josh Gaisser said that prank alarms have not happened as often in his hall as last year. He said this fall there have only been five or six pulled, compared to over twenty last year. Gaisser attributed this change to a pledge not to pull fire alarms which all residents had to sign, and harsher punishments for all residents when an alarm is pulled.
“The way we sanction them is if we don’t catch the person who pulled it, the entire hall looses visitation privileges. It sounds extreme, but if you take privileges away from the entire hold, it angers people enough to hold their friends accountable,” said Gaisser.
Gaisser believes this new system has had a tremendous affect on decreasing prank alarms, and has built a strong community of residents holding each other accountable.
Though students may protest, leaving the building when an alarm, prank or not, goes off is a crucial part of setting everyone’s mindsets in case of a real fire. In the residence halls, RAs knock on doors as they exit the building to make sure everyone has left.
Duchaine said, “Believe it or not, we have people who hide from us, who hide under beds, that hide in closets, who just don’t want to leave because they know it’s a false alarm. Those are the same people that we would be looking for in a real fire.”
Even though prank alarms and alarms without a fire present are the majority of calls which bring the Oxford Fire Department to campus, 31 of the 368 fire alarms on campus in 2009 were for actual fires.
According to Duchaine, often times these calls will be for grass or mulch that has caught fire from a cigarette butt but also smoke or fires from stoves commonly trigger alarms.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Multimedia #2- Meredith Fuller
Meredith Fuller
Multi Media #2
Fall 2010
Pancakes For Charity
The Ole Miss Tri Deltas held a breakfast to benefit the residents of Oxford and Lafayette county. The ladies of Tri Delta served pancakes for those who cannot afford medical care. The event was held on Tuesday November 9 from six until midnight. This is the 19th annual "breakfast at Tri Delta". The proceeds from the event will go to the Oxford Medical Ministries.
Oxford Medical Ministries is a volunteer-based operation out of Oxford . It was founded in 2007 and since then it has grown to help thousands of Northern Mississippi residents.
"This is just such a huge contribution to the organization and the money that is given truly makes a difference in the lives of thousands." Katherine MacNeil, a senior Tri Delta and an Oxford Medical Ministries volunteer explains.
The clinic focuses, primarily, on treating chronic disease and performing preventative treatments on patients between the ages of 18 and 62. The services are provided to those who cannot afford care, or who do not have insurance.
"All the monetary proceeds that we make tonight will go straight to helping families get medical help." Brittany Grissett, the Tri Delta philanthropy chairwoman said of the event she helped produce.
Last year the ladies of Tri Delta presented the Oxford Medical Ministries with their first check from Tri Delta for $16, 000. This year the Ole Miss sorority is hoping to donate over $20,000. For more information about Oxford Medical Ministries or to donate to this great organization, please visit http://www.oxfordmmc.org.
Clinton for Childers
Former President Bill Clinton visited The Grove, located on the University of Mississippi’s main campus, on Thursday, October 14. He was accompanied by the Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, Congressman Travis Childers, and the Mayor of Oxford, George “Pat” Patterson. All were there to speak on the importance of voting and to endorse Congressman Childers in his race for re-election.
The rally was set to begin at 11:45 a.m. however, the former president was delayed and did not arrive on stage until 12:50 p.m. Many members of the crowd became impatient and irritated, but it seemed as if none left and more continued to arrive as the day progressed. “I think it’s pretty lame that there’s 3,000 people out here and he’s hanging out with people at The Lyceum and not showing up,” Corlee Madden, an attendee at the rally, said.
However, when Clinton arrived his speech captivated the crowd and encouraged many reluctant voters to go out to the polls for this election, and vote for Travis Childers. “Folks, you’ve got a great congressman,” Clinton said.
Clinton made a point to talk about the rising costs of student loans and how it was affecting the college graduation ratio throughout his speech. “We dropped from first to ninth in adults with a four year degree in the world, but we were still the first in the percentage of adults going to college,” Clinton said. He worked this into his campaign for Childers by stating he voted for the bill that helped to reform and improve the student loan program.
The former president suggested absentee ballots for those who did not want to drive to their counties to vote and explained how to obtain one. “We don’t want to think, we just make up our mind and we get mad and we say this is what I’m going to do, do not bother me with the facts. I’m telling you, on this campus, it is time to think about this election,” Clinton said.
As the rally came to a close, Clinton quoted William Faulkner, who has a unique and personal tie to Oxford. “Our tragedy today is a general and universal fear... I believe that man will not only endure, he will prevail,” Clinton said.
He then further wished everyone well and left us with a statement of hope. “All of you have dreams, and I want you to be able to live your dreams. I want you to have the same opportunities I did. I believe this countries best days are ahead,” Clinton said.
Republican Candidate Alan Nunnelee defeated the Democratic incumbent Travis Childers in District 1.
Republican Candidate Alan Nunnelee defeated the Democratic incumbent Travis Childers in District 1.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Running Game and Defense Power Ole Miss to 43-21 Victory
Led by a powerful running game and an inspired second-half performance from the much-maligned defense, Ole Miss snapped a three-game losing streak with a 43-21 victory over Louisiana on Saturday night.
“I got on them a little bit at half time and asked them to really step and finish,” Coach Houston Nutt said. “Wins are hard to come by, they are precious. It feels good to win.”
After suffering a minor concussion on his six-yard touchdown run, starting quarterback Jeremiah Masoli made way for back-up quarterback Nathan Stanley. In his first action since the Tulane game, Stanley completed 6 of 14 passes for 108 yards, but leaned on running backs Brandon Bolden and Enrique Davis to do most of the work.
“On offense, I think that our backs ran really hard for the most part and I think Nathan Stanley did a good job handling the ball and the clock,” Nutt said. “I was proud of Nathan. He did great for not having played all year.”
For the first time since 1999, Ole Miss had two runners rush for 100 yards in the same game. Bolden accounted for a career-high three touchdowns and 216 total yards, while Davis rushed for a career-high 116 yards against Louisiana.
“It’s good to see Enrique Davis back,” Nutt said. “He is just now getting back to speed. He ran hard and fast tonight. Brandon Bolden is very valuable because he does so many things for us. I am very proud of both of them. They really took the load for us and relieved pressure off of Nathan.”
Despite nearly 300 yards on the ground, the Ole Miss offense converted only four of their 10 red zone chances into touchdowns. Five opportunities ended in field goals by Bryson Rose, whose 19 points were the second most for a kicker in school history. And the last opportunity turned into a 93-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown right before halftime.
“We’re disappointed in the red-zone stuff—getting stopped down there a couple of times,” co-offensive coordinator Mike Markuson said. “Of course, you can’t have a turnover down there. We have to look at that hard.”
After Louisiana opened with a touchdown on the game’s opening drive, Ole Miss forced three straight turnovers, with interceptions by cornerbacks Charles Sawyer and Jeremy McGee and a fumble recovery by defensive tackle Lawon Scott, which the Rebels would turn into 17 points.
“The biggest thing, in the first half, we created some turnovers and gave us some momentum and better field position,” defensive coordinator Tyrone Nix said. “We still have to be more consistent. We know we can play better. We’re going to have to play better in order to win some SEC games.”
After a shaky first half, the Ole Miss defense settled in and, for the first time this season, shut out its opponent in the second half and held Louisiana to just 49 total yards. Filling in for an injured Jonathan Cornell, linebacker Mike Marry led the Rebels with 11 tackles, three tackles for loss and a sack in his first career start.
“You have to finish,” cornerback Charles Sawyer said. “You can’t do what we did against Jacksonville State. You can’t let go of the rope, so we had to finish. We came back and fought together as a unit.”
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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