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The Mississippi Prepaid Affordable College Tuition (MPACT) Plan is currently undergoing an actuarial au-dit. Enrollment for 2012 has been deferred temporarily, according to the program’s website.
The board of the MPACT program has suspended new enrollments until the audit is complete.
“They have frozen it for Mississippi because there is some concern on invest-ments and the rate of return,” said Laura Diven-Brown, di-rector of financial aid at The University of Mississippi. “It’s under financial review to make sure it’s stable.”
What does this mean for MPACT buyers?
“They are still honoring plans for people like me that have one,” Diven-Brown said. “Those of us who in-vested early are hoping that our investments are still go-ing to be protected, (given) the fact that the state of Mis-sissippi is behind us.”
According to John W. Burchfield, senior vice pres-ident of Covenant Bank in Batesville, the concept of a prepaid plan is to buy into it early to guarantee that one’s tuition is going to be paid for, since tuition rates rise every year.
“Do your research for grants and scholarship op-portunities, more than any-thing,” he said. “It’s an in-direct way of saving money because it cuts one of your biggest expenses.”
Parents or students should make their plans known to the bursar’s office, which processes and bills MPACT.
“The main thing is that they have to let us know that they’ve gotten one,” said Linda James, administrative coordinator in the Office of the Bursar. “I pull up their information and verify that they have MPACT. When they get their classes, I bill after (the) drop date, then I submit the bill for the mon-ey to MPACT and they pay their tuition.”
Out-of-state students must meet certain conditions to be treated as a resident to
get in-state tuition. A non-resident scholarship is of-fered for those students who qualify after certain condi-tions are met.
“If a parent or a grand-parent were the purchaser of the plan, and they were Mississippi residents or the student was at that time, the bursar’s office works with us and let(s) us know, and if that is the case, we get the documentation.”
Now that prepaid tuition plans are exempt by federal rules from counting toward a student’s financial aid, it’s an advantage to the student, according to Diven-Brown. Prepaid tuition plans used to be counted in the financial aid package, which would offset other aid for which one might qualify, such as student loans.
“The value of the asset would have to be reported on the FAFSA as an asset if the owner is the student or the FAFSA-reporting par-ent, but not as an asset as a savings or checking account, which is how it’s handled
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the overpopulation of deer has caused oxford officials to advise homeowners to allow certified bow hunters to rid deer from their property.
Politics’ place on campus
Deer overpopulation a problem
BY LALANGIE HOSKINS [email protected] (submission)
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The Ole Miss College Republicans and the newly reformed Ole Miss College Democrats offer every stu-dent on campus the chance to become active early in the political process.
Sophomore political sci-ence major and College Democrats President Sean Higgins is one of many stu-dents taking advantage of the political organizations on campus. Higgins said that he used to be a Re-publican, and even wrote articles for The Daily Mis-
sissippian last year in sup-port of Mitt Romney, but over the summer he had a change of perspective and is now helping bring the Col-lege Democrats back to Ole Miss.
“The Republican Party has been moving so far to the right, and ever since I came to college, I started moving to the left and found my place in the Democratic Party,” Higgins said.
Sophomore public policy major Emilie Street said stu-dents should join the Col-lege Democrats to have a
BY QUENTIN WINSTINE [email protected]
COURTESY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COURTESY OLE MISS REPUBLICANS
The Ole Miss College Democrats will be handing out literature Tuesday at the union and Ole Miss College Republicans will be campaigning at poll sites Tuesday.
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The large population of deer have caused several car accidents, roamed through yards, trampling and eating crops, which has prompted Oxford locals to take mat-ters into their own hands.
“Homeowners and land-owners put their name on a list, and the selected hunt-ers contact each homeown-er or landowner to request
permission to hunt on their property,” said Lann Wilf, Mississippi’s North Region biologist. “That’s really the only viable method in Ox-ford or any city scenario that you can (use to) control a deer herd.”
Wilf said all of Lafayette County and part of North Mississippi is “woefully overpopulated with deer,” and giving hunters the per-
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Mood disorder weather
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The Mississippi “fall” weather brought a warm spell on Friday. We changed our attire to fit our needs, as the temperature spiked up to the 80s. We enjoyed that throwback to the warmer days, a little reminder by the weather like a conversation that didn’t end at goodbye, but kept on going instead. But being that this is Mis-sissippi, we can’t have con-sistency, and on Saturday night, a storm front came.
It ripped that warm con-versation apart and spewed a cold word with a down-pour as a seriousness of intent. Overnight between Saturday and Sunday, we changed to our jackets and long sleeves. The weather
here seems to enjoy cy-cling moods quite often. So much, in fact, that I believe we need to have a clinical diagnosis and prescription medicines administered.
Really, the weather act-ing like this only hurts itself and our relationship with it. It has the unreliable quality that makes us question mo-tive at times.
She, the weather, was all that was good and pleasant on Friday night. She dressed like we should make a mar-ble statue out of her, and we had great conversations with her at the bar. When she’s warm and welcom-ing, it makes the conversa-tion we have with her feel like the most important one of our lives. I’m sure that if it wasn’t for last call, we would have talked with the weather until the sunrise
darted over the eastern ho-rizon.
We went through Satur-day expecting the recep-tion of the day before. We enjoyed the daylight hours, still reeling in the warm conversation from the night before. We even went back out to the bars in search of part two, but, we only got to observe her throwing a fit. She’s conflicted and in turmoil; the storm clouds rolled in fast from the west. We got driven inside by the downpour and the cold tone of her words.
By Sunday, the weather’s forgotten all about our Fri-day night joy. We met in the open air of the coffee shop, and our conversation was snipped and cold. She hadn’t the slightest warmth in her tone, and every time we spoke to her, she turned
her head as if to ignore us. The weather affects all as-
pects of life. When we meet that conversation in the morning outside the Union or in the Circle, the tone and the intensity of the weather follow us the entire day. It can be anxiety-inducing, blisteringly hot, prosaically chilly or a crisp cold and a bright sun mixing together. It affects our wardrobes, the foods we eat, the houses we live in and even our under-standing of the seasons. The weather is a fickle thing at times, and there is no way to decipher her strategies.
She plays the role of both moderator and victor; ad-mittance of partial subjec-tion to her authority is prob-ably the best path.
Dan Purdy is an English se-nior from Oxford.
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Benghazi is a tragedy, not a scandal
It is your vote. It is your choice.BY ANNA [email protected]
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College and your 20s are when you figure out who you are. You live and learn and form your own opinions, standards and beliefs. This self-awareness should be most prominent come Election Day.
Elections are when your voice is heard and your opin-ion matters. When you go to the polls, make sure it is your vote. Not the vote of your par-ents, your peers, the media or any other influence.
It’s easy to vote for a candi-date or stick to a political party because that’s who your par-ents are voting for without giv-ing it much thought. It’s easy to vote for whomever seems to be the popular pick among your friends and peers.
You, for the most part, trust the opinions of your family and friends. However, you have a voice of your own, unique to you and you alone.
Now is the best time to find that voice.
Research candidates and look into the issues. What do you, really, think the right an-swer is?
The classes you’ve taken, things you’ve experienced and people you’ve met have all shaped you into the person you are today. That person might not have the same opin-ion as your parents or friends.
I know my opinions have certainly changed throughout the years. Certain experiences in my life have shaped me into the person I am. My experi-
ences are different from those of the person sitting next to me in class, different from the ex-periences of my closest friends. Therefore my opinions might be slightly different, or even completely different.
On the contrary, you might find that you have the exact same opinions as your parents or friends. They are a big part of your life. Your parents raised you, and your friends are your friends usually because you have a lot in common. It would make sense that some of you would agree upon some things.
Do not decide to do the op-
posite of the people around you just to stand out or to make a statement.
Ultimately, when you go to vote, know where you stand on the candidates and issues,
and vote for what you think is best.
Anna Rush is a second-year law student from Hattiesburg. Follow her on Twitter @annakrush.
When the American Consul-ate in Benghazi was attacked on Sept. 11, the story seemed pretty clear. Demonstrations in the capital, coinciding with the release of a poorly made video mocking the prophet Muham-mad, had led to an outburst of violence that killed four Ameri-cans, including Libyan ambas-sador Chris Stevens.
However, soon after the at-tack, conflicting details began emerging about the events of that night. It was no longer a clear-cut story. Was the attack pre-planned? Did the shoddily made video have anything to do with the protests? Who was responsible for the apparent se-curity failures that made the at-tack possible?
While details are still emerg-ing and may never be fully known, what we do know is that the situation in Benghazi was tragic, embarrassing and most likely preventable. What we also know is that more than a few government agencies could have had a role in the preven-tion of the attack, and it is im-perative to find out where those failures were. However, those failures indicate a tragedy, not a scandal.
This is not the first time an administrative failure to heed warnings and prepare for at-tack has resulted in tragedy. The same could be said for Sept. 11, 2001. That failure to heed warn-ings resulted in the death of 3,000 Americans on American soil. It took over a full year after the attacks for the 9/11 Commis-sion to be formed and to release
its report. Arguably, this was a necessary waiting period to see the complete picture of the at-tack and ensure that any perti-nent sensitive information was no longer sensitive or classified.
It’s been almost two months since the attack, and the outcry for transparency and investiga-tions has resulted in maelstrom. The biggest issue here is the de-mand for transparency in exact-ly what happened the night of Sept. 11 in Benghazi. In the war on terror, this country has over-whelmingly been untroubled by lack of transparency in dealing with terrorism. We’ve allowed torture of suspected terrorists, and we’ve watched detained suspected terrorists denied their rights and the raid that resulted in the death of Osama bin Lad-en, without asking for transpar-ency. When it comes to national
security, there has been an un-written policy of “keep us safe and don’t worry about telling us the gory details of how that’s ac-complished.”
That is, until the Benghazi attack. In the weeks follow-ing, there were calls for an im-mediate investigation with the chairman of the House Over-sight Committee, Darrell Issa (R-CA), releasing hundreds of documents with sensitive information that didn’t have personal information redacted. These documents revealed the personal information of numer-ous Libyans on the ground who were working for the U.S., not only exposing them to personal danger but also likely perma-nently severing their ties to the U.S.
Benghazi was a tragedy — an avoidable tragedy, but a tragedy
nevertheless. The sheer scope of all of those involved is daunting, and getting a clear picture of ex-actly what happened is a huge undertaking. There absolutely should be an investigation to find out exactly where the fail-ures were that led to the attack, but to call it a scandal or a cover-up is a disservice to those who lost their lives. The demand for immediate transparency has likely damaged sensitive intel-ligence operations in Libya and put other lives at risk.
After losing four Americans in Libya, the impulse to turn this into a scandal needs to be curbed to avoid causing another tragedy.
Brittany Sharkey is a third-year law student from Oceanside, Calif. Follow her on Twitter @brittan-ysharkey.
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differently than when it used to be included in the package,” she said.
Student loans are need-based, normally capped ac-cording to financial need or cost of attendance in com-bination with other aid. Since the MPACT plan is not counted in financial aid totals, loans, scholarships, grants and work study are
not affected.“We do count the non-
resident scholarship,” Div-en-Brown said. “That’s the piece that my office han-dles at this point if it ap-plies. Not everyone quali-fies.”
Only tuition and manda-tory fees are covered by MPACT, and it allows par-ents to make monthly or annual payments. The stu-dent or purchaser must be a Mississippi resident at the time of purchase.
mission to harvest deer on homeowners’ land is “ab-solutely the right method to enforce.”
Wilf said relocation is only exacerbating a problem on a landscape level outside the city.
Oxford resident R.W. Moffett, 62, who has been hunting since he was nine years old, agrees with state officials’ plan to reduce the population.
“I’ve known people to get hurt from automobile ac-cidents from hitting deer in the city of Oxford,” Mof-fett said. “If the deer are not thinned out, they will die of disease, old age or some other process.”
Hunters’ Hollow, a local gun shop located at 2602 West Oxford Loop, contains a variety of standard weap-onry used to hunt game ani-mals and, of course, deer. Hunters’ Hollow salesman David Cambron said that any type of archery equip-ment or primitive weapons, such as compound bows and recurve bows, can be used to harvest the deer.
Wilf said that certified bow hunters have to prove
proficiency and pass a writ-ten and physical exam.
“From what I understand, you have to be selected to get a permit through the city and meet certain quali-fications,” Cambron said. “I understand there is an overpopulation of deer, and I understand their idea be-hind giving these permits to homeowners, but it makes you wonder of the effective-ness.”
Students who hunt have taken notice of Oxford’s plan to allow certified bow hunters to partake in the harvesting of deer.
“I don’t think we have an-other choice,” senior history and English major Cody Lo-gan said. “With the way the university and the city (are) expanding, it’s better to cut down their population, rather than the deer getting overpopulated, sick and dy-ing out.”
Logan said that while people may be at fault for expanding on the deer, it’s a lot more humane to put them down in a matter of seconds than a matter of months.
Zach Harrington, a senior on the pre-med track, said it could be a hazard to open residential property for hunters to harvest deer.
“If you’re hunting within
legal limits and not poach-ing, then I believe it’s legal,” Harrington said. “The deer are eating people’s crops and eating people’s flowers; it’s a whole different story if someone is going out there with a gun, sitting on their back porch, poaching deer.”
With concerns about pub-lic safety, Wilf said a per-son would have to be “ma-liciously trying” to injure someone.
“We do have some ac-cidents with firearms, but most of our accidents are not firearm- or weapon-re-lated,” Wilf said. “Ninety to 95 percent of our accidents are related to tree stand in-cidents.
“I would say a person has a better chance of getting hurt playing golf or shoot-ing pool than bow hunting.”
As Oxford officials con-tinue to allow certified hunt-ers to harvest deer on the property of homeowners, Cambron said it’s a “tricky situation” for people who endorse hunting.
“For the non-hunting public, it could present an opportunity for the public to see the positive side of hunting,” he said. “But if you have animals that are wounded and not ethically taken, it could shed some negative light on hunting.”
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way to support their political candidates and views.
“I was a Democrat com-ing into college,” sophomore public policy major Emilie Street said.
“Growing up as a Demo-crat in Mississippi, I think it’s important for students who are affiliated with the Democratic Party to have that outlet on campus.”
Sophomore public policy major Jessica Brouckaert said her decision to be in the College Republicans re-sulted from an interest she developed prior to college.
“I was raised in a conser-vative home, and in high school I was involved in the Jackson County Republican Women and a political club as well, so I was familiar with it and decided to join Col-lege Republicans and help out,” Brouckaert said.
With the election tak-ing place on Tuesday, both groups are planning to be ac-tive in campaigning for their respective candidates.
“On Tuesday, we’re going to be in front of the Union handing out literature and encouraging people to vote, and we’re trying to get vol-
unteers to go door-to-door for Brad Morris for Con-gress,” Higgins said of the College Democrats.
Also, at 4 p.m. today, the Rebels for Romney will have a rally at the courthouse on the Square, according to po-litical science sophomore and College Republican Vice Chairman Emerson George.
But Tuesday will hold even more activity for College Re-publicans.
“As for Tuesday, we’re go-ing to have volunteers hold-ing signs at the polling places in town, and that night the Lafayette County Republi-can Party has rented out the Library on the Square for a watch party,” Brouckaert said.
The number of students in each organization is not certain, but as of Nov. 4, Ole Miss College Democrats had a total of 149 “likes” on Facebook with 95 followers on Twitter, while Ole Miss College Republicans had a total of 132 “likes” and 189 followers.
To “like” either organiza-tion on Facebook, search for Ole Miss College Repub-licans or Ole Miss College Democrats. To follow them on Twitter, search for @Ole-MissGOP and @UMColleg-eDems.
The 2012 presidential election is drawing closer and one of the key issues is healthcare reform.
Political science major Rico Frazier said the two plans aren’t all that different.
“The actual Obamacare plan uses the Romneycare plan that (Romney) used in Massachusetts as a blue-print,” Frazier said.
Frazier said now that Re-publican presidential nomi-nee Mitt Romney is running against President Obama, he can’t agree with his oppo-nent’s healthcare plan, even though it’s basically the same thing he did for Mas-sachusetts.
“Technically, if you look at it, they’re the same thing,” he said. “The only difference is the way they tax; whereas Obama would rather tax the upper class more, Romney-care would rather tax the middle class more in order to cover the deficit.”
Frazier said he thinks it’s a good idea to have the health insurance mandate because people need insurance, but he still does not know for whom he is voting.
Political science graduate student Evan Goudy agreed with Frazier that the plans are similar, but he doesn’t think that Obamacare is the right answer for the United States.
Goudy said that the big-gest difference is that Rom-neycare applied to one spe-cific state, while Obamacare is using one principle for the entire country.
“It’s the whole ‘square peg, round hole’ thing,” Goudy said. “Like Mississippi, for instance, you’re not going to have the same health needs in Montana, and Obamacare doesn’t really factor that in.”
Goudy said that if he had to choose, he would go with Romneycare, but only if it were done on a state-by-state
basis so that every state gets what they need. But Goudy doesn’t like the idea of the U.S. health care system be-coming like the Canadian system.
“Yeah, everybody’s paid for, but when you need spe-cialized treatment, you don’t stay in Canada, you come to the U.S.,” he said. “I’m wor-ried about losing that repu-tation as being the leader of health care in the world.”
Goudy admits that there are some benefits of Obam-acare, one being that stu-dents can stay on their par-ents’ insurance until the age of 26. But he doesn’t like the idea of being penalized for not getting health insurance.
“A lot of people argue with car insurance; you get a penalty for not having car insurance, but there is no-body that forces you to buy a car,” he said. “That is one of the big, key arguments against Obamacare in the first place; it was a mandate on something you shouldn’t be able to mandate.”
Dr. Carolyn Cegielski, a gastroenterologist, said there is almost nothing good that can come from Obamacare.
Cegielski said that if Obamacare isn’t stopped, then there will be millions of people added to Medic-aid because they can’t afford health insurance. She said that Medicaid doesn’t pay
as much as other insurances and makes it hard for doc-tors to earn a living.
“If my practice depended on Medicaid, I wouldn’t have a practice,” Cegiel-ski said. “It doesn’t pay you what you need for your overhead, so most people with Medicaid will have a hard time finding a doctor who will accept it.”
Cegielski said that under Obamacare the quality of treatment will suffer, and, eventually, doctors will be-come government employ-ees.
“You’re going to get people who don’t really care,” she said. “You’re not going to get the really bright, smarter people going into medicine because I could make more money going into business or being an accountant.”
One of the biggest prob-lems Cegielski has with Obamacare is what she says is the lack of tort reform to prevent frivolous lawsuits guised under the accusation of malpractice. She recom-mends tort reform across the country and letting in-surance companies compete with each other to help doc-tors and patients alike.
“If you let insurance com-panies compete across state lines, you would have plenty of insurance companies try-ing for patients,” she said. “It really is that simple.”
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Since its introduction in 2000, the Toyota Prius has dominated the hybrid car market, with 183,340 of them sold this year alone. It’s even the best-selling car in California (where in some areas, gas prices per gallon are over $5), which makes up 11 percent of the total U.S. car market.
This is not to say others haven’t tried to knock it down, notably the Honda Insight, but they all fail to compete.
Ford decided it would throw its hat in the ring and give it the old college try. But instead of compet-ing with the regular Prius, it went after its larger cousin, the Prius V (five).
Like the Prius V, the C-Max is a wagon that seats five people and has a hybrid powertrain. There are two main versions: the conven-tional C-max Hybrid and a plug-in variant, the C-Max Energi.
Both versions are powered by a 141-horsepower, 2.0-li-ter Atkinson-cycle four-cyl-
inder engine combined with a 118-horsepower electric motor for a total output of 188 horsepower.
They also have the same continuously variable trans-mission (CVT) that works effortlessly, without the an-noying engine drone typi-cally associated with CVTs.
The difference lies in the battery size. The C-max Hy-brid has a 1.4 kWh Lithium-ion battery, while the Energi has a much larger 7.6 kWh lithium-ion battery, allowing for an EV-only mode.
People buy hybrids for one main reason: fuel econ-omy. Our test car was the conventional hybrid model, which achieves an EPA-rated 47 miles per gallon on the highway and 47 mpg in the city and has a range (dis-tance between fill-ups) of up to 570 miles, comparing fa-vorably to the Prius V’s 40 mpg on the highway and 44 mpg in the city.
And, yes, it does have that display in the dash with leaves that either fall or grow depending on how efficient your driving is. Just be sure you don’t hit an actual tree while watching it.
Performance and handling are not two things hybrids typically do well, but the C-Max is an exception. Zero to 60 miles per hour comes in at eight seconds flat, which may not seem too quick, but that’s over two seconds fast-er than the Prius V. So, you have no excuse to be like the typical Prius driver and go slow in the left lane. (But you are driving a hybrid, so you can keep the smug look.)
The MacPherson struts and independent rear sus-pension provide agile yet smooth handling, despite the C-Max’s hefty curb weight of 3,600 pounds. Combine this with the excellent feed-back from the electronically assisted power steering, and the C-Max can be fun to drive, for a hybrid.
The regenerative braking wasn’t too shabby either, with a nice, linear feel. A lit-tle display to the left of the speedometer shows when the brakes are charging up the battery, and it even gives you a brake score. Not to toot my own horn, but I scored a 97 percent.
There are two trims avail-
able for the C-Max: the SE and more luxurious SEL. In-side our standard SE model were cloth seats that weren’t of the highest quality but proved to be comfortable.
The backseats, however, were very bench-like with hard backs and a near 90-de-gree seating angle. There was enough room on the two outside seats for 6-foot-ers, but stick a fifth guy in the middle seat, and he may not talk to you for a while.
The materials inside the C-Max consisted mostly of hard plastics and weren’t on par with Ford’s other offer-ings. A little texture can go a long way.
A tiny LCD screen on top of the dash displays all of the radio and HVAC set-tings and is controlled by a multitude of buttons in a layout that made it nearly impossible to operate while driving. The $455 MyFord Touch option includes an 8-inch touch screen that re-places the tiny screen and confusing buttons and is worth every penny.
The SEL model comes standard with heated leather seats, push-button start and
MyFord Touch, and it comes at a $3,000 premium to the SE’s $25,200 base price. The difference in quality between the two models’ in-teriors is like night and day. Unless you have a thing against leather seats, go with the SEL.
Outside, the C-Max looks like a cross between a Ford Focus and a Ford Escape. It has a Focus-like front end and a side profile similar to the Escape, with a rear end all its own. The styling was tastefully done and doesn’t stand out as being very at-tractive or Pontiac-Aztec ugly.
The C-Max raises the bar for all hybrids, as it not only offers excellent fuel econo-my and value, but it’s also the first one that won’t lose to a minivan in a drag race. Plus it is eco-friendly and made right here in the good ole U.S.A., meaning you’re not only saving the envi-ronment but also helping out the American economy, which you can’t say about the Prius.
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The Ole Miss men’s golf team competed in five tournaments this fall and walked away with victories at two of those events — the Sam Hall Intercollegiate in Hattiesburg and the Que-rencia Cabo Collegiate in Los Cabo, Mexico — due in large part to the play of sophomore Blake Morris.
As a freshman, Morris played in nine tournaments. He had one top-10 finish and two top-20 finishes. He finished second on the team with a 72.96 stroke average.
So far this season, Morris has four top-5 finishes through five tournaments played.
“It’s pretty special,” the Wa-terbury, Conn., native said. “Very close to getting individual wins. It’s just a matter of being patient and continuing to do the right thing. I’ll get there.”
Despite his accomplishments on an individual level, Morris quickly shifted the focus to the success of the team.
“So far, I’m very pleased with
the team,” he said. “I think we’re ranked top 40 in the na-tion right now as a team. I’m very happy with the progress that everyone is making. I think we have exceeded expecta-tions. I’m very proud of how we’re playing.”
Morris has many goals for himself and the team. He wants the Rebels to reach the NCAA finals this year, after missing the regionals last year. He feels the Rebels are on track to reach that goal. As far as his accomplish-ments, he is not shy about his intentions.
“I’d like to be the SEC Player of the Year,” he said. “I’m on a good track to do that so far. I just need a couple things to go here and there. Individually, I think I’m really molding into an All-American.”
Morris knows his style, and he knows how he has to beat his opponents. He takes pride in doing a little bit of everything to take down his opponents. He compares his “grind it out” style to Alabama on the football field.
“I beat you with sameness,”
he said. “I’m not going to beat anyone with flashiness. I just do things very well, and I don’t make mistakes. Mentally, I think I am very strong.”
After a strong freshman sea-son, Morris knows that he still
has a way to go in his game, and he is ready to progress as his ca-reer goes on.
“I have to continually mold my game into a game that will compete at the highest level in professional golf,” he said. “I
still have a lot of work to do in the next three to four years.”
The Rebel golf team will re-turn to action in the John Hayt Invitational in Ponte Vedra, Fla., on Feb. 24 to begin its spring season.
Morris, Rebel golf off to a fast start this fallsophomore blake morris has taken big strides since his freshman season and lead the ole miss golf team to a successful fall season. the rebels return to action feb. 24 for the start of their spring season.
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The Ole Miss men’s basket-ball team tips off the season to-night at 7 p.m. in an exhibition game against Montevallo in Tad Smith Coliseum. Ole Miss head coach Andy Kennedy enters his seventh season at Ole Miss and is excited about the players re-turning this season.
“(I’m) excited about this group,” Kennedy said at men’s basketball media day. “Any time you return four of your five start-ers and seven of your top nine, it’s not a bad place to start. It’s the most experienced team I’ve ever coached in my tenure here.”
The four returning starters from last year’s team are soph-omore guard Jarvis Summers and three seniors, guard Nick Williams and forwards Regi-nald Buckner and Murphy Hol-loway. Three key players from the bench also return: junior forward Demarco Cox, sopho-more forward Aaron Jones and sophomore guard LaDarius White.
There will be some new faces on the floor for the Rebels as
well.“We felt like we addressed
some of the definite needs we had off last year’s team by bring-
ing in six newcomers,” Kenne-dy said.
The newcomers are led by Ju-nior College Player of the Year Marshall Henderson. Hender-son, a 6-foot-2 guard, averaged 19.6 points per game while leading South Plains College to an undefeated season and a na-tional championship. The Reb-els also added 6-foot-9 forward Anthony Perez. Perez was the only player not to participate in summer practice since he was playing for the Venezuelan na-tional team.
Ole Miss also added junior college transfer Jason Carter and freshman Terry Brutus to help the frontcourt, and freshmen Martavious Newby and Derrick Millinghaus join the backcourt.
“The six guys have integrated themselves into what we’re try-ing to get accomplished about as smoothly as possible,” Kennedy said.
Ole Miss welcomes a confer-ence champion to Oxford to-night. The Montevallo Falcons won the Peach Belt Conference last season and also finished as the runner-up in the NCAA Division II Tournament with a 29-8 record.
The Falcons, from Monteval-lo, Ala., already played an exhi-bition game and lost to Purdue, 70-61. Montevallo returns three starters but lost its two leading scorers from last year.
Ole Miss will begin the regu-lar season at home on Friday against Mississippi Valley State at 8 p.m.
For continuing coverage of Ole Miss men’s basketball, follow @thedm_sports and @Tyler_RSR on Twitter.
Hoops tipoff with exhibition gamethe basketball team will take the floor at tad smith coliseum for the first time this season, in an ex-hibition game against montevallo to prepare for the regular season, which begins nov. 9 versus mississippi valley state.
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Sophomore guard Jarvis Summers
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Miss freshman middle blocker Nakeyta Clair had a team-high 11 kills and four block assists, but it wasn’t enough, as the Rebels (10-12, 4-9 Southeast-ern Conference) dropped a tough 3-1 (20-25, 25-19, 22-25, 16-25) match at Kentucky on Friday evening.
Clair, in addition to leading the Rebels in kills and blocks, also recorded her first two service aces of the season. Se-nior setter Amanda Philpot was one dig shy of a double-double, finishing with 38 as-sists, nine digs and five kills. Freshman middle blocker Ty Laporte and junior outside hit-ter Kara Morgan joined Clair with double-digit kills, finish-ing with 10 each.
“The team did a good job of competing tonight,” Ole Miss head coach Joe Getzin said. “We had some chances in the third game that we didn’t take advantage of. In the fourth set, our system broke down a little bit. We’ve got to find more ways to be more consistent with that.”
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Kara Morgan and Amanda Philpot each recorded double-doubles, but the Ole Miss vol-leyball team fell 3-1 (21-25, 25-21, 22-25, 24-26) on the road to LSU on Sunday afternoon.
The Rebels (10-13, 4-10 Southeastern Conference) got 14 kills and 15 digs out of junior outside hitter Kara Morgan, and a season-high 52 assists and 12 digs from senior setter Amanda Philpot, but couldn’t overcome the dynamic LSU attacking duo of Madie Jones and Desiree Elliott.
“I thought we played fairly well,” Ole Miss head volley-ball coach Joe Getzin said. “We’re continuing to improve and I thought we built on Fri-day night. We just didn’t make a couple plays at the end to take it to a fifth set.”
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Redshirt freshman Denzel Nkemdiche forces a fumble, the first of four turnovers in a span of five play during the second quarter of Saturday’s game against Georgia.
Sophomore defensive back Cody Prewitt (25) chases Georgia’s senior wide re-ceiver Marlon Brown (15) in the second quarter of Saturday’s game.
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up a 28-10 lead on the Rebels. Junior Dehendret Collins,
who moved from huskie to cor-nerback with injuries to sopho-more Senquez Golson and se-nior Wesley Pendleton, was beat by Georgia sophomore wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell for a 42-yard touchdown pass.
Then, after an Ole Miss three-and-out, Georgia put the game away on a 6-play, 77-yard scor-ing drive, capped by 5-yard touchdown run up the middle by junior fullback Alexander Ogletree.
At one point in the first half, Ole Miss had outgained Geor-gia 100-16, but in the second half, the Rebels were limited to two first downs and just 55 yards of total offense.
“In the first half, we had a bunch of chances to move the football and didn’t take advan-tage of it,” co-offensive coordi-nator Dan Werner said. “When you play a team like that, that is obviously very, very talented, you better take advantage of the chances when you get it. And we didn’t, so that’s what hap-pens.”
Late in the third quarter, Ole Miss was backed up to its own
3-yard line, and sophomore running back Jeff Scott was tack-led in the end zone for a safety to give Georgia a 30-10 lead.
The Bulldogs added another score early in the fourth quarter on a 23-yard touchdown pass from Murray to junior wide receiver Rantavious Wooten to bring the final score to 37-10 in favor of Georgia.
Ole Miss has now lost 10 straight to Georgia in the se-ries and remains one win shy of bowl eligibility with games remaining against Vanderbilt (home), LSU (away) and Mis-sissippi State (home).
The Commodores have won four of their last five, including a 40-0 drubbing against Ken-tucky in Lexington this past Sat-urday, but Freeze downplayed an emotional edge for Vander-bilt entering Saturday’s game.
“It has to do with how we respond,” Freeze said. “We get to play at home in front of our fans, and we expect our fans to show up. We got a lot to play for next Saturday. This is a great test for the leadership of our football team to see how we respond to it.”
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underthrew senior tight end Jamal Mosley, and Georgia junior linebacker Alec Ogle-tree intercepted the pass at the Georgia 49.
“Every game that we have lost, we have not taken care of the ball,” Freeze said. “We survived that, I believe, by get-ting a turnover ourselves, then we give it right back to them.”
Walking woundedSophomore cornerback
Senquez Golson (concussion) and senior cornerback Wesley Pendleton (ankle) missed the game, which forced junior De-hendret Collins to move from huskie to corner opposite ju-nior Charles Sawyer. Junior linebacker Mike Marry, junior offensive tackle Emmanuel McCray and junior running back Jeff Scott left the game with injuries, but all three re-turned. Wallace, who suffered a shoulder injury against Tu-lane, left the game late in the fourth quarter, but he said his shoulder is good and he could have gone back in.
“I think he was fine, and he could have gone back,” head coach Hugh Freeze said. “We have a lot of kids hurting —
bumps and bruises — and we’ll see how they are (Sunday).”
Moncrief missing in ac-tion
Sophomore Donte Mon-crief, who entered the game as the Rebels’ leading receiver with 39 catches for 540 yards, snapped a 14-game streak of catching at least one pass — the second game in his career in which he did not catch one. Eight different Rebels caught at least one pass, led by senior running back Randall Mackey with four catches for 23 yards.
“They were playing cover 2,” Freeze said of Georgia’s defense. “There were a couple of times we thought we could hit (Moncrief) on some in-cuts. When they are playing that, and they can take their linebackers and play the run or drop into coverage, it’s very difficult.”
Running game ground-ed
The Ole Miss ground game had averaged 194.4 yards per game, which ranked sixth in the SEC, but was held to just 46 yards on 29 carries. Junior running back Jeff Scott led the way with 21 yards on 13 car-ries, while Mackey accounted for the Rebels’ only run of more than 10 yards, an 11-yard gain.
“That was the first time we
actually got manhandled a little bit,” co-offensive coordi-nator Dan Werner said. “We tried everything we knew. We just couldn’t get any move-ment on the ground. And if you don’t do that, they can play back, and we can’t throw the ball down the field either, so we got ourselves into a bind.”
Getting after MurrayThe Ole Miss defense re-
corded five sacks in the first half, led by sophomore defen-sive end C.J. Johnson with 1.5 sacks. Sophomore defensive tackle Bryon Bennett, fresh-man defensive tackle Issac Gross and senior defensive tackle Uriah Grant each re-corded a sack, while sopho-more safety Cody Prewitt, the Rebels’ leading tackler with 11, also recorded half a sack. However, in the second half, Ole Miss generated zero sacks.
“I don’t think anything changed,” defensive coordi-nator Dave Wommack said. “I was a little disappointed in how we came out in the sec-ond half after we challenged them. I think part of that was our guys looking back to how the first half ended.”
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ole miss led 10-0, and then georgia answered the bell with 37 unanswered points in a 37-10 win this past saturday in athens. the rebels remain one win shy of bowl eligibility and host vanderbilt saturday at 6 p.m. (espnu).
ole miss and georgia com-bined for four turnovers in five plays as part of a second quarter in which the bulldogs erased a 10-0 deficit to win 37-10. after outgaining geor-gia 100-16 at one point in the first quarter, the ole miss was limited to just 55 yards in the second half.
ATHENS, Ga. — Ole Miss jumped out to a 10-0 lead early in the second quarter and had hopes of an upset against No. 6 Georgia, but the Bulldogs re-sponded with 37 unanswered points as the Rebels fell 37-10 this past Saturday “Between the Hedges.”
“It was obviously a pretty
good beating that Georgia put on us today,” head coach Hugh Freeze said. “Offensively, we just couldn’t make any plays to give our defense much hope.
“It was the first time in the course of this season where I felt like we were zapped of our passion and energy there in the second half.”
Georgia junior quarterback Aaron Murray was 21-of-28 for 384 yards and touchdown
passes of 66, 40, 42 and 23 yards, while the freshman run-ning back duo of Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall combined for 145 yards on 29 carries.
Ole Miss (5-4, 2-3 Southeast-ern Conference) managed just 46 yards on 29 carries on the ground, and sophomore wide receiver Donte Moncrief was held without a catch, as the Bulldogs (8-1, 6-1 SEC) out-gained the Rebels 533-234.
“I’d have to watch the film, but we certainly weren’t in sync,” Freeze said. “We have to look at our staff, our game plan, our quarterback and our blocking, but it certainly feels like we took a step back offen-sively.”
On the Rebels’ opening drive of the game, sophomore quarterback Bo Wallace threw a 51-yard pass to senior tight end Ferbia Allen to set up a 34-yard field goal by senior kicker Bryson Rose.
Ole Miss added to its lead with a six-play, 70-yard drive in just 1:45, capped by a 13-yard
touchdown pass from Wallace to senior tight end Jamal Mos-ley. For the game, Wallace was 16-of-25 passing for 187 yards with a touchdown and an inter-ception.
Ole Miss had all the mo-mentum, and then Georgia di-aled up a play-action pass that faked out the entire Ole Miss defense, as Murray threw a 66-yard looping pass to senior wide receiver Marlon Brown.
“The first (touchdown) was just bad eyes,” Freeze said. “They were looking in the backfield instead of looking at your man.
“We have some freshmen back there who just got out of position. We missed some guys today. We’re very young back there, and they exposed that today.”
Just before the half, after four combined turnovers in the span of five plays, Ole Miss pushed Georgia back to the Ole Miss 40 and forced a 3rd-and-25 after sacks by freshman defensive tackle Issac Gross and senior defensive tackle Uriah Grant. The Rebels fin-ished with five sacks — all in the first half.
Ole Miss played three deep in coverage, and Murray found senior wide receiver Tavarres King, who split junior cor-nerback Charles Sawyer and freshman safety Trae Elston for a 40-yard touchdown down the right sideline to take a 14-10 lead into halftime.
“I think you got to go through some experiences sometimes,” defensive coordinator Dave Wommack said. “I hate to say that, but you got to understand why.
“A real simple thing like that, to stay back in thirds and that situation — I guarantee you (Elston) won’t forget it again. It hurts us, and I think it got the momentum going for them.”
Georgia carried that momen-tum into the locker room, and it was more of the same for the Bulldogs, starting the second half with two touchdowns on their first two drives to open
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ATHENS, Ga. — With Ole Miss up 10-7 in the second quarter, Georgia had the ball and the momentum after a 66-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Aaron Mur-ray to senior wide receiver Marlon Brown. Then, Ole Miss and Georgia combined for four turnovers in the span of five plays, and while no points were scored off the turnovers, the Rebels missed out on a prime scoring opportunity after the first of the four turnovers.
At the Georgia 38, redshirt freshman linebacker Denzel Nkemdiche jarred the ball loose from Georgia freshman running back Keith Marshall, and sophomore safety Cody Prewitt recovered it for Ole Miss at the Georgia 31.
“That was exciting,” Nkem-diche said of his forced fumble. “I felt like I had to get our de-fense going and get that little spark we needed. We needed to get the ball, we needed turn-overs and we needed a mo-mentum shift. I took that upon myself to make plays.”
On the very next play, soph-omore quarterback Bo Wallace hit sophomore wide receiver Vince Sanders for a 12-yard completion, but Georgia senior safety Bacarri Rambo knocked the ball out, and sophomore cornerback Damian Swann returned it 53 yards to the Ole Miss 30.
“In this league, it’s turn-overs,” Wallace said. “That’s what it is. If we put the ball in right there, then we have a lot of momentum, and we’re look-ing really good. But you can’t really put it on that one play.”
Ole Miss got the ball right back when Nkemdiche forced his second fumble of the game, his team-leading fourth of the season, which junior defensive end Cameron Whigham re-covered at the Ole Miss 12.
However, the Rebels re-turned the favor as Wallace
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