the daily mississippian - july 19, 2011

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M ISSISSIPPIAN THE DAILY HE DA THE DAILY E T UESDAY , J ULY 19, 2011 | V OL . 100, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | THEDMONLINE . COM N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | THEDMONLINE N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | THEDMONL ULY 19, 2011 | V OL . 100, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | THEDMONLIN U ESDAY , J ULY 19, 2011 | V OL . 100, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O X DAY , J ULY 19, 2011 | V OL . 100, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | THEDMONLINE . CO LY 19, 2011 | V OL . 100, N O . 160 | T HE S TUD F T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | THEDMONLINE . C OL . 100, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | THEDMONLINE . CO L DAY , J ULY 19, 2011 | V OL . 100, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD 9, 2011 | V OL . 100, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | THED 00, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 191 0, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O 0 0 O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | THE 6 SDAY , J ULY 19, 2011 | V OL . 100, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | THEDMONLINE . CO V OL . 100, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | | J ULY T UESDAY OL . 100, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 | THEDMONLINE . COM 2011 19, 2011 | V OL . 100, N O . 160 | T HE S TUDENT N EWSPAPER OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | S ERVING O LE MISS AND O XFORD SINCE 1911 100, T , weather 07/19/2011 mostly sunny high: 94 low: 73 07/20/2011 30% rain high: 95 low: 74 RANDOLPH ENJOYS NICE RETURN HOME IN VIKING CLASSIC MICHAEL OHER RETURNS TO ALMA MATER p. 8 p. 8 p. 5 Imagine the Magic School Bus. Now add a chicken coop, a gar- den and some blueberry bushes. While this bus doesn’t fly or travel through time, it does operate en- tirely on used vegetable oil and so- lar power. That’s exactly what six recent graduates from the Mississippi School of Math and Science creat- ed with the Gaining Ground Sus- tainability Institute of Mississippi. Daniel Doyle, a volunteer for Gaining Ground, wanted to start a chapter of the organization in Oxford and create a project that would combine all the ideas of sustainability in an educational yet fun way. He came up with the idea of a “farm on wheels” “This was kind of my idea to get all agriculture, organic farming, rain-water harvesting, soil building and composting as well as renew- able energy into one mobile unit that can go to schools throughout the state and teach all of those things to students that may not be able to access examples of those models elsewhere,” Doyle said. As Gaining Ground began plan- ning for the project, Doyle found an unexpected partner for his proj- ect during a conversation with a former student. “A former student of mine want- ed to talk about his future plans,” Doyle said. “I asked him what he was doing this summer and he told me that he and five of his friends from MSMS had purchased a school bus that they were going to convert to biodiesel and take around the country.” That was two days after Doyle had presented the project to Gain- ing Ground and he knew this was a perfect fit. He traveled to the student’s graduation the next day to meet the group and proposed combining their idea with his mo- bile farm. The students became the proj- ect team, known as the Green 6, and moved to Oxford a week after graduation to start on the project. In three weeks, they converted the engine to biodiesel and installed a solar panel, incubator, worm tea bin and compost tumbler, essen- tially turning into a self-sustaining, rolling greenhouse. Before taking the bus cross country, the team did a test run through Mississippi. They stopped in Jackson, Mosspoint, Hatties- burg, Starkville, as well as several locations in Oxford. “They did a presentation at the Mississippi Mobile Farm travels to promote alternative energy, sustainability BY NATALIA BURGOS The Daily Mississippian See MOBILE FARM, PAGE 4 The University Police De- partment has announced that there will be continued work on the roads this summer, and this week they will begin paint- ing lines back on the roads. The project, which is being coordinated by the physical plant office, is being started up to put center lines, perpendic- ular lines, parking places and crosswalks back on roads that were repaved over the sum- mer. The roads are Grove Loop, Student Union Drive, Cross Street and in the Union park- ing lot. The roads were repaved in order to improve driving con- ditions for the upcoming aca- demic year. Linda Christian, manager of parking services at the Univer- sity Police Department, said they are unsure of which roads will be repainted on which days. Christian said they hope to be done with the project by the end of the week. Nick Zorbino, a junior com- puter science major, said he is glad that the project is getting done now instead of during the fall. “(The construction) has been a minor inconvenience this summer,” he said. “But it is better to deal with it now then in the fall when all of the students are here.” Having uniform parking lines by the Union is what Zorbino is looking forward to the most. He said that without the lines, people are just making up their own parking spaces. “I saw a motorcycle park sideways, taking up what would have been three spac- es in a normal parking lot,” Zorbino said. “It is just a big mess out there right now.” Christian said the time line for the completion of the proj- ect may be delayed if there are problems with the weather, though three of the next four days have only a 10 percent chance of rain. Wednesday has a 30 percent chance of precipitation, posing the biggest threat for delaying the project. Parking, traffic lines to return to campus streets BY JACOB BATTE News Editor PHOTO BY PETRE THOMAS| The Daily Mississippian Since several roads on campus have been repaved, the next step is to paint the lines on the roads. The roads that will be repainted this week are Grove Loop, Student Union Drive and Cross Street, along with the Student Union parking lot. PHOTO COURTESY ZIPCAR.COM Zipcar, Zimride come to Ole Miss This fall, Ole Miss students will have two new ways to go green and save money on trans- portation. Zipcar and Zimride are two unique organizations coming to the Ole Miss and Oxford communities that will allow students to get where they need to go at a fraction of the regular transportation costs. Zipcar is the largest member- ship-based car-sharing com- pany in the world that pro- vides vehicles for users when they need them. Currently, the company, which operates on a pay-per-use system, is present at over 230 universities. Zipcar, which is expected to make its debut in Oxford and University sometime in mid- August, allows people to bor- row a car whenever they need one at any hour of the day, seven days a week. For $35 a year, Ole Miss students, faculty and staff can become members of the Zipcar community that has rental car rates as low as $8 an hour. Zip- car is also available to members of the community for $50 a year. Members will be given a Zip- card that enables them to re- serve a car online or by phone. Members walk to the car and hold their Zipcard to the wind- shield, which unlocks the car and enables them to drive for their reserved time. At the end of the member’s reservation, they return the car to the Zip- car parking spot. Ole Miss students, faculty and staff will also receive $35 in free driving to use within their first month of member- ship. All Ole Miss members must be at least 18 years old, 21 for Oxonians, and have val- id driver’s license. Zimride combines social net- working and a route-matching system making it easy for Ole Miss students to find other stu- dents to share or catch a ride with and split the costs of trans- portation. Zimride reports that students can save thousands BY MEGHAN LITTEN The Daily Mississippian See ZIPCAR, PAGE 4

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T U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . C O MT U E S D A Y , J U L Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 1 | V O L . 1 0 0 , N O . 1 6 0 | T H E S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I | S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D O X F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1 | T H E D M O N L I N E . 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Imagine the Magic School Bus. Now add a chicken coop, a gar-den and some blueberry bushes. While this bus doesn’t fl y or travel through time, it does operate en-tirely on used vegetable oil and so-lar power.

That’s exactly what six recent graduates from the Mississippi School of Math and Science creat-ed with the Gaining Ground Sus-tainability Institute of Mississippi.

Daniel Doyle, a volunteer for Gaining Ground, wanted to start a chapter of the organization in Oxford and create a project that would combine all the ideas of sustainability in an educational yet fun way. He came up with the idea of a “farm on wheels”

“This was kind of my idea to get all agriculture, organic farming, rain-water harvesting, soil building and composting as well as renew-able energy into one mobile unit that can go to schools throughout the state and teach all of those things to students that may not be able to access examples of those models elsewhere,” Doyle said.

As Gaining Ground began plan-ning for the project, Doyle found an unexpected partner for his proj-ect during a conversation with a

former student.“A former student of mine want-

ed to talk about his future plans,” Doyle said. “I asked him what he was doing this summer and he told me that he and fi ve of his friends from MSMS had purchased a school bus that they were going to convert to biodiesel and take around the country.”

That was two days after Doyle had presented the project to Gain-ing Ground and he knew this was a perfect fi t. He traveled to the student’s graduation the next day to meet the group and proposed combining their idea with his mo-bile farm.

The students became the proj-ect team, known as the Green 6, and moved to Oxford a week after graduation to start on the project. In three weeks, they converted the engine to biodiesel and installed a solar panel, incubator, worm tea bin and compost tumbler, essen-tially turning into a self-sustaining, rolling greenhouse.

Before taking the bus cross country, the team did a test run through Mississippi. They stopped in Jackson, Mosspoint, Hatties-burg, Starkville, as well as several locations in Oxford.

“They did a presentation at the

Mississippi Mobile Farm travels to promote alternative energy, sustainabilityBY NATALIA BURGOSThe Daily Mississippian

See MOBILE FARM, PAGE 4

The University Police De-partment has announced that there will be continued work on the roads this summer, and this week they will begin paint-ing lines back on the roads.

The project, which is being coordinated by the physical plant office, is being started up to put center lines, perpendic-ular lines, parking places and crosswalks back on roads that were repaved over the sum-mer.

The roads are Grove Loop, Student Union Drive, Cross Street and in the Union park-ing lot.

The roads were repaved in order to improve driving con-

ditions for the upcoming aca-demic year.

Linda Christian, manager of parking services at the Univer-sity Police Department, said they are unsure of which roads will be repainted on which days.

Christian said they hope to be done with the project by the end of the week.

Nick Zorbino, a junior com-puter science major, said he is glad that the project is getting done now instead of during the fall.

“(The construction) has been a minor inconvenience this summer,” he said. “But it is better to deal with it now then in the fall when all of the students are here.”

Having uniform parking

lines by the Union is what Zorbino is looking forward to the most.

He said that without the lines, people are just making up their own parking spaces.

“I saw a motorcycle park sideways, taking up what would have been three spac-es in a normal parking lot,” Zorbino said. “It is just a big mess out there right now.”

Christian said the time line for the completion of the proj-ect may be delayed if there are problems with the weather, though three of the next four days have only a 10 percent chance of rain.

Wednesday has a 30 percent chance of precipitation, posing the biggest threat for delaying the project.

Parking, traffi c lines to return to campus streetsBY JACOB BATTENews Editor

PHOTO BY PETRE THOMAS| The Daily Mississippian

Since several roads on campus have been repaved, the next step is to paint the lines on the roads. The roads that will be repainted this week are Grove Loop, Student Union Drive and Cross Street, along with the Student Union parking lot.

PHOTO COURTESY ZIPCAR.COM

Zipcar, Zimride come to Ole Miss

This fall, Ole Miss students will have two new ways to go green and save money on trans-portation.

Zipcar and Zimride are two unique organizations coming to the Ole Miss and Oxford communities that will allow students to get where they need to go at a fraction of the regular transportation costs.

Zipcar is the largest member-ship-based car-sharing com-pany in the world that pro-vides vehicles for users when they need them. Currently, the company, which operates on a pay-per-use system, is present at over 230 universities.

Zipcar, which is expected to make its debut in Oxford and University sometime in mid-August, allows people to bor-row a car whenever they need one at any hour of the day, seven days a week.

For $35 a year, Ole Miss students, faculty and staff can become members of the Zipcar community that has rental car rates as low as $8 an hour. Zip-car is also available to members of the community for $50 a year.

Members will be given a Zip-card that enables them to re-serve a car online or by phone. Members walk to the car and hold their Zipcard to the wind-shield, which unlocks the car and enables them to drive for

their reserved time. At the end of the member’s reservation, they return the car to the Zip-car parking spot.

Ole Miss students, faculty and staff will also receive $35 in free driving to use within their fi rst month of member-ship. All Ole Miss members must be at least 18 years old, 21 for Oxonians, and have val-id driver’s license.

Zimride combines social net-working and a route-matching system making it easy for Ole Miss students to fi nd other stu-dents to share or catch a ride with and split the costs of trans-portation. Zimride reports that students can save thousands

BY MEGHAN LITTENThe Daily Mississippian

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Something as innocent as pay-ing your cellphone bill, utilizing your auto warranty or even sub-scribing to a magazine is putting food on the table for some people who are in the business of track-ing our every move through these seemingly harmless transactions.

According to an article in the Washington Post, information gathered by companies known collectively as the “fourth bu-reau” is being tracked and sold to lenders without consumers’ knowledge at times. It seems that the information is used to de-termine if someone is worthy of credit or not.

Unfortunately, this data is not always accurate and can have long-term repercussions if one of the fourth bureau companies doesn’t do its homework and gets a small part of the gathered info wrong, such as in the case of one Arkansas resident.

The Post story details a woman who applied for a job with her local Red Cross a few years ago. She was denied employment due to a criminal record that showed her with a charge of intent to sell and manufacture methamphet-amines. The information was to-tally incorrect. She said the info was about another woman with the same name and birth date, but has haunted her ever since.

She told the Post that this was only one of 10 companies that had sold inaccurate personal and fi nancial information about her, wrecking her credit history and basically the integrity of her whole life.

The article also stated that fed-eral regulations do not always require companies to disclose when and with whom they share your fi nancial information, and no way to opt out when they do. Other than the “Big Three:” Ex-

perian, Equifax and TransUnion, these fi rms that are out of the mainstream and target lower income consumers who do not qualify for traditional loans or choose not to use them are sell-ing the data.

No one even attempts to track the accuracy of these fourth bu-reau reports. So I’m gonna go out on a limb here and just say ... does anyone remember a little thing called the Privacy Act of 1974?

It’s just a little piece of paper that states the prohibition of the disclosure of a record about an in-dividual from a system of records without said individual’s written consent. Now there are some ex-ceptions, things like routine uses by the United States government (Census Bureau, Bureau of La-bor and Statistics, law enforce-ment purposes or congressional investigations, etc.), but nowhere

on the list could I fi nd “to fatten the wallets of people who don’t know me, could care less if they did and really don’t give a fl ying fi g about how they wreck my life with their half-baked reports” as one of those exceptions. And I re-ally scoured the list. Nope, they weren’t on it.

Apparently the Privacy Act can be gotten around through some mumbo jumbo resembling logic, something about companies that are not considered lenders do not have to notify consumers at all. According to the article, one gov-ernment regulator termed this “logic” as “word barf.”

Very appropriate terminology, indeed.

Angela Rogalski is a senior print journalism major who lives in Abbeville, Miss. Follow her on Twitter @abbeangel.

The fourth bureau: clandestine tracking of our fi nancial lives

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Facebook and I have fallen into a “married with children”-type relationship. We’ve been at it for so long and invested so much time in each other that, despite any real fl aws, we’re pretty much content.

Privacy concerns aside, Face-book performs all the necessary functions I could ever want, and even some useful ones that I didn’t know I would use until they were presented to me. It’s a cloud of its own, where all my pictures and even my thoughts are saved. All my friends are on Facebook, as is most of my ex-tended family — for better or worse.

Still, in Internet years, Face-book continues to grow longer in the tooth with each passing year, and I suppose it was inevi-table that at some point a legiti-mate challenger would appear in the guise of colorful letters and a slick, minimalist inter-face. Just as Xanga and Live-Journal gave way to MySpace, and MySpace eventually gave way to Facebook, it’s time for social media to reach its logical conclusion: Google+.

At fi rst glance, it’s easy to brush off Google+ as nothing but a Facebook clone with an impressive brand name. After all, there is a “friends” list of sorts, though those people are listed as “in your circles.” The stream looks very familiar, and you can share thoughts and vid-eos and pictures and anything else your heart desires. So why switch?

A friend put it into perspec-tive best: “In like the space of a day, Google+ has made me feel like one of those ape people at the beginning of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ If Google+ is fi re and civilization, everything I have been using feels like hitting rocks with other rocks.”

That’s a pretty powerful thought considering the ubiq-uity of Facebook.

There are a few key features that separate Google+ from Fa-cebook and even Twitter, for that matter. Chief among them is the concept of “circles.”

Essentially, it works the same way your social circles work in real life: when you befriend someone, you place them in a circle or a type of category. So if you have inside jokes with your college friends that your high school friends won’t get, simply specify that your post be seen only by your “College Friends” circle.

Alternatively, if you’re the type of person who likes to get drunk and swear a lot on Face-book, Google+ can make sure

your parents never see it.Another key feature specifi c to

the mobile app (an app that is Android-only at the moment) is the Huddle. The Huddle is ba-sically a text message chat room: choose a circle, send a message and everyone in the circle gets the message. When one person replies, everyone gets that mes-sage as well, negating the need to relay one person’s text to fi ve other people.

Google+ is, for all intents and purposes, the perfect combina-tion of Facebook and Twitter. It takes the Twitter route when it comes to making connections, i.e. you can add a person to a circle without that person do-ing the same. Thus, you can create a circle for news outlets and comedians, and much like a Twitter list, you can fi lter your stream to show only posts from a specifi c circle.

But whereas Twitter only al-lows for 140 characters, Google+ lets your share as much as you’d like and even edit a post after it’s already been posted.

Beyond all the cute new fea-tures, beyond the Sparks and Hangouts, beyond the appeal of the new and exciting, there is one crucial piece of informa-tion, one critical little tidbit that should send social media sites running and users fl ock-ing to Google+: Google already makes money.

Yes, I know Facebook techni-cally does too, but hear me out.

In the beginning, Facebook didn’t make money. There was no business plan, and outside of advertising dollars, there was no revenue. Even today, Facebook has a theoretical value (though they’re fi ling for an IPO in the near future).

And in the beginning, Fa-cebook had a clean interface devoid of clutter from applica-tions. To help bring in money, Facebook created things like the Marketplace and allowed for all those little games that live off micro transactions — all things that took away from the Facebook experience should you choose not to participate in Farmville.

With Google+, there is no incentive to be anything other than just another Google ap-plication. When you sign up for Google+, there’s even a but-ton you can click to opt-out of having your information shared with non-Google web-sites (which should be an opt-in feature, but we can’t all be per-fect).

The scary part is Google+ hasn’t actually gone live yet. There are only a handful of us signed-up, though check Fa-cebook for friends soliciting invitations. Join me, because

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In today’s era of computers, laptops, netbooks and tablets, few can deny that much of our world is now electronic.

Communication, so long confi ned to the sluggish limi-tations of paper, ink and the postal service, can now occur nearly instantaneously through email, the Internet, cell phones and text messages.

Fading too is the phenom-enon of handwritten note-tak-ing in university classrooms, as students swap bulky notebooks and binders for the ease of a single, multi-faceted (and oc-casionally distracting) laptop. Once I realized that I can type much faster than I can write, I made the switch to an Asus EeePC netbook for note tak-ing and began avoiding paper altogether.

After two semesters of tak-ing notes nearly exclusively on my computer, I did something that I found surprising: I be-gan to keep a journal.

No, I’m not referring to an online blogging hub like Live-Journal or Blogspot, where your every thought can be read and commented on by friends and family. I am talking about the old-fashioned, paper-fi lled journal that you used to hide as a kid.

For years I told myself that I would start one, but the task of not only beginning — but maintaining — a daily journal daunted me.

I realized at the end of this year that my life was moving faster than it ever had before, and it is not likely to slow down anytime soon. People are walking in and out, and memories are made and for-gotten. Oftentimes noth-ing marks their passage and no record is left to help me remember the details that I might want to keep in mind. I decided that it was now or never, and that I would regret it if I never tried.

I shopped around and bought a classic leather-bound journal the week before spring fi nals. I chose one small

enough to carry in my purse when I travel, but big enough that I can write in it with ease. Although I have only been keeping a journal for a little over two months, I have al-ready drawn a few conclusions about my experience.

First off, keeping a journal is hard; not only because it takes me a long time to write an en-try by hand, but because I am constantly remembering things that I want to write down. Be-fore I know it, an entry that I had initially expected to take up a single page has stretched to nearly 10. Even then, I feel as though I could write even more.

But on other days, the last thing I want to do is write. I have gone an entire week with-out even opening my journal, and when I stare at the blank page, at last I realize just how much has happened over the course of seven days.

Keeping a journal has given me a renewed appreciation for how rich in detail life really is, and how much of it I take for granted.

I would argue that keeping a private, handwritten journal is a completely different experi-ence than maintaining a blog on the Internet.

There is something about

being able to write down your personal thoughts somewhere that only you will see that is very therapeutic. In many ways, it is as if you are confi d-ing in yourself, writing to the person you will come to be with the passing of days, years and decades. If something is bothering me, journaling not only helps relieve the stress but it helps put things into perspective.

Most of the time, the issue that seemed so crucial at that instant became just another entry, one thought or feeling of thousands recorded within the pages of the journal.

As cliché as it might sound, the lesson here is a simple one: Life is fl eeting. If you are not careful, you will miss the de-tails of your own that make it so rich.

I want to be able to look back at that fi rst entry 10 years from now and refl ect on how far my life has taken me.

Without creating this per-sonal record for myself, the de-tails would be long forgotten.

Lexi Thoman is junior international studies and Spanish double-major from St. Louis, Mo. E-mail her at [email protected].

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As a rookie, after five games at right tackle, he made the move back to left tackle and helped the Ravens tie a franchise re-cord for points (391) and set a record for most offensive touch-downs (47). The Ravens earned a wild-card playoff berth and Oher helped pave the way for a postseason-franchise-record 234 yards and four touchdowns on the ground in a 33-14 win over the New England Patriots.

Last year, the Ravens followed a 2,200-yard rushing season with a 1,831-yard rushing sea-son, led by running back Ray Rice, who finished with 1,220 yards on the ground. Oher also helped protect quarterback Joe Flacco, who set career highs with 3,622 passing yards and 25 touchdowns. The Ravens earned another wild-card play-off berth and set another post-season-franchise-record with 390 total yards in a 30-7 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

This offseason, whenever the lockout is lifted, the Ravens face unrestricted free agency for vet-eran wide receivers T.J. Housh-mandzadeh and Donte’ Stall-worth and veteran cornerbacks Chris Carr and Fabian Wash-ington. In the NFL Draft this past April, the team addressed both needs with two wide re-ceivers and two cornerbacks, in addition to another offensive tackle, in its first five picks.

Oher is confident about the

upcoming NFL season if and when the preseason and regular season kick off.

“I think we’ll be alright,” he said. “We have a solid team and a bunch of great guys. And I think we’ll be fine.”

More than four months into the NFL lockout that began March 12, owners and play-ers made significant progress on the framework of a collec-tive bargaining agreement that will end the work stoppage and bring preseason and regular sea-son football games to fruition this fall.

The two sides reached an agreement on the rookie wage system and salary cap on Thurs-day and free agency rules for the 2011 season on Friday. Talks re-sumed on Monday and could continue through Thursday, but there remains unresolved is-sues, including the players’ an-titrust lawsuit brought against the NFL.

Despite the lockout, NFL players have continued to pre-pare for the upcoming 2011 season, including Oher.

“I’m just working out and staying prepared for camp,” he said. “I think it’s going to come around the same time. It’s just being a pro and getting ready for football. We have people that let us know what’s going on every day. Whenever any-thing happens, somebody lets us know and we stay updated.”

OHER, continued from page 8

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Former Ole Miss offensive tackle Michael Oher and Ole Miss head coach Houston Nutt celebrate a 47-34 win over No. 8 Texas Tech in the 2009 Cotton Bowl. At Ole Miss, Oher was a consensus first-team All-American and unanimous first-team All-SEC selection his senior season, before getting drafted by the Baltimore Ravens with the 23rd overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft.

Boys and Girls Club here in Ox-ford and the kids absolutely loved it,” Doyle said. “That was kind of a dry run to make sure the fuel system of the bus is working fine but also so they knew how to go about presenting these things to a group of children.”

The team will be traveling for a month, visiting boys and girls clubs, youth groups and summer camps in Santa Fe, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago and Las Vegas.

A seventh student is traveling with the team, photographing and documenting their experi-ence on the project’s website at www.msmobilefarm.com.

“They’re going to be blogging all along the way so anyone that wants to can follow their trip and see how they’re doing,” Doyle said. “I’m sure there are going to be some problems they come across and some troubleshooting.”

The goals of the road trip are to teach about renewable energy and sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels, raise awareness, as well as to raise $12,000 to begin Phase II of the project.

Phase II entails installing a greenhouse roof on the bus, a rainwater catchment system that will be used to irrigate the garden that will be planted inside of the bus and the building of a chicken coop.

Through their online Kickstart-er campaign, the project has raised $2,000 and has received three

$1,000 pledges. They hope that through the course of the cross country trip, the bus will generate enough media attention to raise the remaining $6,000 they need to finish the project.

Once Phase II of the bus is complete, it will remain in a cen-tral location, either in Oxford or Starkville, and will be used as a teaching tool for the state of Mis-sissippi. Schools and organizations will be able to request the bus.

“The goal is to have schools not have to pay,” Doyle said. “It will be a free service for the bus to come and do a day of teaching and education.”

It may not be the Magic School Bus but it is helping to educate students about sustainable and renewable energy in an entertain-ing way.

MOBILE FARM, continued from page 1

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Daniel Eisler and David Liang give students from Willie Price University Nursery School a tour of the Farm on Wheels bus at Ole Miss before the bus goes on a cross-country tour. The bus runs entirely on used vegetable oil and solar power.

of dollars a year when they share their ride. This organi-zation allows members of the Ole Miss community to save money on transportation and reduce their carbon footprint at the same time.

Anne McCauley, project coordinator for the Office of Campus Sustainability, said she is excited that the unives-ity is able to offer these two programs to the students and staff.

“With Zipcar and Zimride, in addition to the OUT bus and the Rebel Pedals bike-share program, students now

have easy and affordable access to all modes of transportation without the burden and ex-pense of owning a car,” Mc-Cauley said.

Zimride’s website for the Ole Miss community will launch within the next month. To learn more about Zipcars at Ole Miss, visit www.zipcar.com/olemiss.

ZIPCAR, continued from page 1

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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Once the Americans get over the disappointment of coming up just short at the Women’s World Cup, they’ll find plenty of reasons for op-timism.

The U.S. team pulled to-gether amid a series of chal-lenges that, just a few years ago, would have broken it apart. And while the illustri-ous careers of captain Chris-tie Rampone, Shannon Boxx and maybe Abby Wambach are nearing their end, Lauren Cheney, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe proved in Germany they are more than able successors.

There’s also another major title to be won at next sum-mer’s London Olympics, and qualifying starts in just a few months.

“It’s just unfortunate, just a bummer,” Carli Lloyd said after the Americans were stunned by Japan in a riveting final Sunday night, losing 3-1 in penalty kicks after twice blowing leads in a 2-2 tie. “But there’s another World Cup in four years.”

For some. The majority of the team will remain intact through London, but Ram-pone (36) and Boxx (34) are likely to call it quits after that. Wambach said it’s too early to say what she’ll do, but she is 31, and her body is showing the wear and tear from the fearless playing style that has earned her third place on the all-time World Cup scoring list with 13 goals.

Wambach passed Michelle Akers (12) for top U.S. honors with her header in the 104th minute Sunday, her fourth

goal of the tournament.“I’m not thinking about that

right now,” Wambach said when asked about her future. “I just want to spend some time with my teammates. This has been an emotional roller coaster ... and the Olympics are right around the corner. We’ll move on.”

Part of what has always made the U.S. so strong is the smooth transition from one generation to another, and the U.S. might have its most promise since the days of Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, Brandi Chastain.

Solo, winner of the Golden Glove as the tournament’s top goalkeeper, is in the prime of her career at 29. Morgan and Cheney, both just 22, each finished the tournament with two goals. Cheney also had three assists while Morgan had one. Rapinoe displayed the ac-curacy and touch on the flanks so critical in coach Pia Sund-hage’s desire for a possession-based offense, and has the energy and spunk to shoulder the burden of being the face of the team behind Wambach.

No team found a way to con-tain speedy Heather O’Reilly, who makes a nice complement to Rapinoe on the opposite side of the field. Lloyd seemed to gain confidence in direct-ing the offense as the tourna-ment wore on, having one of her best games against Japan.

That’s not to say there aren’t issues.

The Americans achieved cult status with their grit and resilience in Germany, com-ing back to beat Brazil in the quarterfinals in a thrill-ing match, and then grinding

down France. But as enter-taining as they may be, the Americans have been making things harder on themselves than they need to be for al-most a year now.

They were upset by Mexico in regional qualifying, forced to beat Italy in a playoff to get the very last spot in Germany. They dropped their first game of the season, to Sweden, then lost to England for the first time in 22 years - so long ago Morgan hadn’t even been born yet. After winning their first two games in Germany hand-ily, they lost to Sweden, the first U.S. loss ever in World Cup group play.

“In the past, we’d always won everything,” Rampone said. “Those losses made our team what it is today. We need each other and you feel that, from the locker room to the time we step on the field.”

But the Americans need more than a can-do attitude to keep pace in a game that is improving and evolving.

Sundhage wants the U.S. to play a possession-oriented style similar to the one Japan and France worked to near perfection in Germany, say-ing the traditional American gameplan of grinding oppo-nents down on defense and sending long balls up to the forwards is too predictable. The offense should develop through the midfield, not start up front. By working from flank to center and back out with series of multiple passes, the Americans can probe the defense for weaknesses and create more opportunities - including chances for players who wouldn’t normally score.

The style also helps on de-fense. Opponents can’t score when the Americans are keep-ing the ball for large chunks of the game.

“I think of it as a nice hybrid of the way the U.S. national team used to play and the way that the game is evolving into much like the men’s game, a possession, Barcelona-esque style,” Wambach said. “It hasn’t been without troubles. It’s sometimes gotten the best of us because we have some players, like myself, who are old school and like to get the ball in a more physical, direct style. And when things aren’t going well, I like to go back to what I know.”

When it works, though, it is a sight to behold. The Ameri-cans looked like a cat toying with a mouse for much of the first half of the final, reeling defenders in only to make the ball disappear with a deft flick or smooth pass to a teammate. Japan’s confusion and frus-tration gave the Americans wide-open spaces in front of the goal, and they easily could have been up 4-0 at halftime.

But they weren’t, done in by an inability to finish that’s plagued them all year long. If the Americans had converted only a handful of the chances they squandered in the tour-nament, that Brazil thriller wouldn’t have been nearly as dramatic and they, not the Japanese, would have been celebrating late into the night Sunday.

“I don’t blame anybody,” Wambach said. “We had so many chances.”

And they will again, starting in London.

Despite WCup loss, plenty of optimism for US womenASSOCIATED PRESS

MADISON, Miss. – Ex-Ole Miss golfer Jonathan Randolph was thrilled to receive another sponsor’s exemption into the Viking Classic this week, and he made good on that exemp-tion, making his first pro-tour-nament cut.

The former All-American and All-SEC honoree carded back-to-back 72s in the third round and fourth rounds to finish tied for 64th.

After several delays on Fri-

day due to inclement weather, Randolph finally teed off his second round Saturday morn-ing in front of a nice following of hometown fans. He birdied three of his first four holes on the back nine on his way to a second straight 69 to clear the cut by two shots.

Moments after he finished his second round, the media caught up with Randolph, who said, “It feels great. It’s always nice to play in front of fans

supporting you. It’s neat when you do something good, and they cheer for you.”

Up next for the Brandon na-tive is the Porter Cup followed by the Western Amateur and then U.S. Amateur qualifying.

A few states away, rising se-nior Joe David finished tied for 35th in the 105th Southern Amateur outside Tampa, Fla. After a disappointing opening 76, David rebounded to shoot 72-71-70.

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available to call up in the second half of the season to make a run at the top two teams in the divi-sion.

After winning the American League pennant last season, the Texas Rangers have followed up with another solid season, as they battle with the Los Angeles Angels of Anahiem for the lead in the AL West. The Rangers have plenty of offense and mon-ey in its coffers to go out and improve their pitching before the trade deadline.

In the National League, most eyes are locked on the battle be-tween the Philadelphia Phillies and the Atlanta Braves in the East. Both teams have battled injuries and poor offensive per-formances in the fi rst half, but have the best and third-best re-cords in baseball, respectively. The Phillies are led by their dominant trio of pitchers in Roy Halladay, Cole Hamels and Cliff Lee, who have been as good as advertised in 2011.

Atlanta doesn’t have the big names in its rotation like the Phillies do, but its rotation has been just as good this season. Jair Jurrjens is enjoying a break-out season with 12 wins so far, while Tommy Hanson is turning into a top-of-the-rotation pitch-er. These two teams will likely battle through the fi nal series in September with the loser of the division most likely landing the wild card spot, as was the case last season.

In the Central, the division-leading Brewers feature a nice trio of pitchers of their own in Zack Greinke, Shaun Mar-cum and Yovani Gallardo. With Prince Fielder, Ryan Braun and Rickie Weeks powering the of-fense, they will battle the Cardi-nals, Pirates and Reds until the end. St. Louis has dealt with in-juries all over, and yet is still tied for the division lead.

With plenty of playoff races and records being chased by the likes of the Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista, Major League Baseball has plenty to keep you entertained in the second half of the season.

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After four years at Ole Miss and two years with the Balti-more Ravens, Michael Oher headlined Ole Miss’ 11th annu-al Ladies’ Football Forum last Saturday at the Indoor Practice Facility.

The subject of the national best-selling book and major motion picture, “The Blind Side,” this past year, Oher, co-authored his own book, “I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to The Blind Side and Beyond.” After meeting with members of the media, Oher took part in a spirited question-and-answer session with the ladies. Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, his adopted parents, were also in attendance with Leigh Anne serving as guest speaker for the event.

“Ole Miss is like family, so whenever I can be a part of it and help out and see the fans, it’s always fun,” Oher said.

A five-star recruit out of Briarcrest Christian School in

Memphis, Oher played in all 11 games, including 10 starts at right guard, and earned first-team Freshman All-SEC honors before making the move to left tackle as a sophomore. At left tackle, he helped pave the way for running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis and back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing seasons.

After disappointing 3-8, 4-8 and 3-9 seasons under former head coach Ed Orgeron, Oher helped lead a 9-4 turnaround in his senior season under then first-year coach Houston Nutt, highlighted by a 31-30 upset of eventual national champion Florida in “The Swamp” and capped by a 47-34 win over No. 8 Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl.

He was a consensus first-team All-American, unanimous first-team All-SEC selection and helped Ole Miss rank second in the Southeastern Conference in rushing (186.5 yards per game), led by running backs Dexter McCluster, Cordera Eason and Brandon Bolden.

Three years removed from his playing career at Ole Miss, Oher continues to maintain close re-lationships with the Ole Miss family, from the coaches to the players to the fans. He has been around the program a lot this summer and said the players are working hard and making a lot of progress in the offseason.

“These guys are always like family and always treat me well,” Oher said. “It’s a great staff and great players and, like I said, they’re working hard, so I’m looking forward to seeing them this season.”

After a stellar four-year career at Ole Miss, Oher was the first Rebel selected in the 2009 NFL Draft, going to the Baltimore Ravens with the 23rd pick in the first round, while college teammate Peria Jerry followed with the 24th pick to the At-lanta Falcons.

He has started all 36 games of his pro career with the Ravens, including four playoff games.

Oher returns to Ole MissBY AUSTIN MILLERSports Editor

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Former Ole Miss and current Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher takes part in a question-and-answer session at Ole Miss’ 11th annual Ladies’ Football Forum last Saturday. Among the topics were his playing career at Ole Miss, the NFL lockout, and his outlook on the upcoming football seasons for both his alma mater and professional football team.

With the all-star break over and home field advantage going to the National League (more precisely Atlanta in this writer’s hopeful opinion) for the World Series, the second half of the major league baseball season is upon us. With a little more than two months of games still to be played and a high number of teams still in contention, the

race for October should be in-credibly fun to watch.

The first half of the major league baseball had storylines galore, but perhaps none better than what the Pittsburgh Pi-rates are doing in the National League Central. As it stands, the Pirates are 49-44 and half a game back of the National League Central-leading Mil-waukee Brewers. That may not seem to be an outstanding re-cord, but you have to take into

account that the Pirates haven’t made the playoffs or even fin-ished with a winning record since the 1992 season.

Combine that with the fact that the Pirates lost 105 games last season, and there is some-thing special happening in Pittsburgh. It will be tough for the Pirates to make the play-offs, but with a blossoming star in outfielder Andrew McCutch-en, who made his first All-Star Game appearance last week,

along with a loaded farm sys-tem, the future is bright even if the Pirates don’t reach the post-season in 2011.

A similar story is happening in the American League Cen-tral with the Cleveland Indians. After finishing last season with 93 losses, Cleveland is tied for first place with the Detroit Ti-gers at 49-44. The Indians have battled through injuries to Gra-dy Sizemore and Travis Hafner, but have also gotten breakout

years from players like pitcher Josh Tomlin.

In addition to those two teams fighting for a playoff spot, there are multiple division races that will be fun to follow to September.

The American League East looks to be another Yankees-Red Sox battle, but the Tampa Bay Rays are only seven games back and have young talent

MLB first half: Looking back, looking aheadBY BENNETT HIPPThe Daily Mississippian

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