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Oxford residents could save money on their property insur-ance premiums thanks to an up-grade in the city’s fire-protection class rating.

The city’s rating has been up-graded from a Class 5 to a Class 4 by the Mississippi State Rating Bureau.

“This is going to provide sub-stantial savings to everyone,” Mayor Pat Patterson said. “Fire insurance rates for commercial structures will decrease signifi-cantly. Rate changes for residen-tial structures should also be no-ticeable.”

According to the rating bureau, fire insurance rates for commer-cial and residential structures could decrease anywhere from five percent to eight percent, de-pending on the size and type of structure insured. Any discounts for existing fire insurance poli-cies in Oxford could be pro-rat-ed from Feb. 16.

The city and the University started a joint fire committee two years ago to consider ways to make the community safer by improving the fire protection rating without increasing spend-ing.

“After having been a Class 5 for years, we began working on becoming a Class 4 two years ago,” Oxford fire chief Mike Hill said. “The goal was to do

so without spending any money in the process. A lot of time and hard work went into getting that better grade from the rating bu-reau.”

Hill said their aim is always to take specific actions to improve fire protection within the city of Oxford and the University.

The rating bureau considered the staffing levels at the Oxford Fire Department, adequate wa-ter pressure at fire hydrants and the use of backup generators at city water wells.

The city and the University are not resting at the current rat-ing and are already taking steps to gain a Class 3 rating.

“For example, we are working to connect the water systems so that we can make both the Uni-versity and the city safer if we ever have an excessive demand such as a significant structure fire,” Lee Tyner, university at-torney and former committee member, said.

Oxford is one of only seven cities in the state and the only one in north Mississippi to have a Class 4 rating.

Jackson and Southaven are the only cities with a Class 3 rating in the state. Biloxi, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Meridian, Yazoo City and Greenwood all have a Class 4 rating.

The rating scale is 1-10 with 1 being the highest level of fire protection available and 10 be-ing no fire protection at all.

Oxford Fire-Protection Rating UpgradedBY LUKE TAYLORThe Daily Mississippian

In response to an increasing demand for niche journalism, several universities have decid-ed to introduce business jour-nalism as a new major.

Most journalism schools of-fer students a general liberal arts degree, and it is not often that journalism students spe-cialize in any one subject.

Because of this, many busi-ness professionals reject gener-al news publications for more specialized sources like the Wall Street Journal, including Ken Cyree, dean of the Uni-versity of Mississippi School of Business.

Cyree said he collects his news from a variety of sources to get a breadth of coverage, but avoids sources that are not business publications for his

business news. “I rarely get news from gen-

eral news publications,” Cyree said. “I could be unusual in that regard, but I bet I am not.”

Business journalism is de-signed to provide a solution to this issue, and the University of North Carolina plans to of-fer a niche business journalism degree, open to 15 students in the fall.

The program allows for an opportunity to specialize in covering business news. The goal is to provide students with the skills to write a good story about business and the knowl-edge to back it up — all in one major.

Will Norton, dean of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media, said the Uni-versity currently does not offer business journalism as a major. Norton said he does not agree

with the idea of having niche journalism majors. Instead, he believes that good journalists will seek additional degrees in specific areas to give them their own specialization.

“If you’re going to be a good business journalist, first you’re going to be a good journalist,” Norton said. “Then you’re go-ing to get at least a minor in business and probably more than that.”

Norton said he wanted to stress that the most important thing a good journalist needs is basic journalism skills.

“The ones that really thrive are the ones who know how to write,” Norton said. “A lot of people know business re-ally well, but if you can’t write about it, what good is it to you?”

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Meek School of Journalism and New Media dean Will Norton works in his office. Norton said he does not agree with the idea of having niche journalism majors like business journalism.

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Life can make it hard to obey a lesson we have all heard for generations. People who act on a golden heart will get gold back. In less-flamboyant terms, good people get good in return.

Sometimes it seems the world was not raised the same way. People become notorious through cheating this big test we call life.

In our darkest days, soci-ety has taught the reciprocal of what has been etched in us since birth. Your value as a person is determined by how much money you can earn no matter what the circumstanc-es are. Become a billionaire and you all of a sudden have the universe at your disposal. Playing by the rules and doing good things will only reward you with scraps.

When life cages us with so many problems we can’t even breathe, doing good is easier said than done.

We become deranged and want to cheat life.

Some do it for selfish reasons, like a 2012 Camaro or the lat-est iPad. Some individuals do it because they feel obligated. If your child was starving and you were unemployed, going around the law just to make profit doesn’t sound like a bad profession after all.

During certain moments in our lives, the logic of hard work, determination and good of heart seem skewed. Most of us have worked hard and done our best to do good our whole lives to get to where we are now.

We construct a plan to make our dreams a reality and again, worked hard to get there. After graduation, we enter the real world with this full-fledged daydream in our head. It’s at this stage we are completely smacked by this fact: Just be-cause you graduated on May 14 does not mean you will re-ceive the job of your dreams May 15.

Every speck of opportu-nity you search for, however,

seemed to scurry toward the person who receives $200 or more in allowance and acted like a spoiled brat in order to get what they wanted.

I know that some of you are faced with situations like this on Ole Miss campus. Some-times the people who judge their every move off a filthy heart seem to have everything we need. We want to throw up our hands and give up.

Some of you are beginning to believe that no one cares and allowing your heart to get hard and the line between what is right and what is wrong is eroding away. This is when we develop the demeanor that life is not fair and it’s something we have to get over.

This is when we begin to point injustice at the wrong subject.

We are not the only ones go-ing through hard times. We have to find support in each other to get through them. There is nothing wrong with burying our pride and crying

on a friend’s shoulder. You will find out that there

are people who do care. They will support you and guide the way in this blurry world.

It is the world that’s unfair, not life.

Life does not allow hard work to go in vain. With it, trial does not always result in error.

The people who cheat life will always be worn out be-cause of their search for happi-ness with consistency. They are the cowards who cannot fight through the hard times of life.

The brave individuals are the ones who do good things despite how hard it is, how many back-stabs occurred or how many times plans have failed, because they know that people who do good do get good in return. They will re-ceive something that is more valuable then whatever can be imagined: a happiness that will be kept forever.

The best part is, it cannot be torn away.

On Saturday night, the trending topics on Twitter had a slight change from the usual Middle-East protests and Jus-tin Bieber news.

It appeared that author and pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church Rob Bell was taking heat from the Christian com-munity after a blog post on thegospelcoalition.org called him out for being a Universal-ist.

The reason this is such a big deal is because Universalist theology goes against what the Bible says about salvation.

In the post written by Jus-tin Taylor, a video of Rob Bell promoting his new book, “Love Wins: Heaven, Hell, And The Fate Of Every Person Who Ever Lived,” was featured along with the publisher’s de-scription of the book.

In the post, Taylor came to a conclusion that Bell may now be a Universalist. This caused a flame war to begin on the Internet.

Many leaders in the Chris-tian community began to speak out via Twitter, and for most of the night, it seemed like a lot of people had given up on Bell.

Author and pastor at Beth-lehem Baptist Church John Piper has held the top tweet throughout the ordeal, simply saying, “Farewell Rob,” along with a link to the blog post by Taylor.

Tweets like this one and many others merely fueled more and more debate on the topic, and Rob Bell became a worldwide trending topic for the night.

Eventually though, most people settled down and be-gan to look at the matter dif-ferently.

Everyone started to look at things from their own perspec-tive, rather than merely agree-ing with those with the most followers.

Everyone began to realize that Bell never really admit-

ted to anything in his promo video. All he did was ask ques-tions.

Now most people have taken a step back and have been gath-ering their thoughts on the is-sue. More and more hash-tags like #prayforRob have started appearing. Most people are deciding to not give their view on the matter until the book is released.

As the night went on and the weekend came to an end, more lighthearted tweets about the situation began to surface.

Although a search today would still show John Piper and other religious authors/bloggers holding the top tweet spots, many people can still find tweets like this one from @XIANITY, an Onion-like fake news source for religious culture:

“ACADEMY AWARDS: @RealRobBell snubbed by Os-car once again in the “Most Creative Adaption of a Non-Fiction Book” category.”

At this point, many people are not sure what to think of the situation. Many will con-tinue to judge the book by its description and promo video. And almost everyone who is not a Christian or interested in religion will carry on in life unaware that any of this ever happened.

But what would have hap-pened if we didn’t have blogs, Facebook or Twitter? Would Rob Bell still have been called out publicly like this? Or would he have just received a letter or phone call from a concerned friend?

This is one of the problems with total interconnectivity; it allows us to make snap judg-ments and respond too quick-ly.

I am upset with how the situation unfolded, but I hope that the next time something like this happens people will hold off before using Twitter as a weapon to ruin a reputa-tion.

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Unless you’ve been living in Egypt or in Ole Miss housing, you’ve had access to the Internet and have almost certainly heard of the Charlie Sheen and CBS fiasco that’s been going on these past few days.

Upon the cancellation of his popular CBS program “Two and a Half Men,” Sheen has threat-ened to sue CBS for $300 mil-lion because he claims his con-tract was wrongfully terminated.

In addition to creating a Twit-ter account (for which he racked up over a million followers in less than a day), he’s given quite a few interviews since CBS cancelled the program’s season.

In these interviews, the actor has recently had many notable quotes, and most of my friends have subsequently mocked them. Of course, with such memorable gems like, “The only thing I’m ad-dicted to right now is winning,” and “I have a disease? Bull****. I cured it with my brain,” it’s really easy to poke fun at the actor.

ABC conducted drug tests on Charlie Sheen; despite test-ing negative for every drug in the previous 72 hours, he still claimed, “I am on a drug. It’s called ‘Charlie Sheen.’ It’s not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body. Too much?”

He says that people who con-demn his actions “lay down with their ugly wives and their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then they look at me and say ‘I CAN’T PROCESS IT.’ Well, no, you never will, just

stop trying. Sit back and enjoy the show.”

I do not have nor do I want to have an ugly wife or ugly children, so I shall present an argument in support of Charlie Sheen.

Despite America’s sluggish economy, a few industries have enjoyed economic success these past few years. Thanks to Charlie Sheen’s recent erratic behavior, news syndicates have benefited immensely these past few weeks.

His interview on ABC’s 20/20 was the network’s biggest 10 p.m. hour-long rating in the Tuesday night slot over the past two years, as 9.3 million viewers (and mil-lions more online after the in-terview was aired) watched the actor with “Adonis DNA” and “tiger blood” drink a red bever-age, smoke cigarettes, use big words and speak his mind.

Charlie Sheen has also actu-ally benefited both the psyche and wallets of the average Ameri-

can. Millions of Americans open magazines, newspapers and tab-loids and covet the multi-million dollar mansions and expensive sports cars that celebrities have.

This envy leads to many peo-ple spending more money than is in their bank account on houses, cars, vacations, clothes and ac-cessories, which in turn causes them to neglect spending enough money on basic necessities like food and utility bills. For exam-ple, many people want to splurge on a pool, but do not think of the high maintenance or water bills that a pool necessitates.

Enter Charlie Sheen. Sure, he has luxurious items and lives in an awesome Beverly Hills man-sion, but what do most people associate with Charlie Sheen? Women, drugs and alcohol.

Thus, in some people’s minds, one can live like a celebrity by taking women out to eat, go-ing to clubs, and then return-ing home. This keeps budgets in

(relative) check while also giving future granddad’s stories to tell younger generations.

Charlie Sheen obviously does not want to be remembered as the guy who loosened up Fer-ris Bueller’s sister in the classic ‘80s movie. He wants to be re-membered as the miscreant who has slept with more than 5,000 women and partied too much.

This explains why he is giving himself so much publicity re-cently — he wants his fan base to grow and then clamor for “Two and a Half Men” to return to CBS. In the program, his charac-ter is based on Sheen’s own per-sonality. He was paid $1.8 mil-lion an episode to essentially act out his own life.

There are rumors that CBS wants to revive the hit show, but fill Sheen’s role with John Stamos instead. When the character is loosely based on Charlie Sheen’s real life exploits, is there anyone better than Sheen?

Dear editor,After reading Mr. Irvine’s col-

umn “The End of Labor” in Monday’s edition of The DM, it seems probable to me that Mr. Irvine doesn’t hold a job in the public sector and is primarily concerned with how unions af-fect “normal Americans’” enter-tainment.

Thus, I would like to assist Mr. Irvine in finding more than just a single reason why unions are use-ful in the 21st century.

I ask Mr. Irvine to consider whether or not he values week-ends, eight-hour workdays, and five-day workweeks. If he does, he can thank labor unions for these standards.

He can also thank unions for securing provisions for wages,

hours, working conditions, ben-efits, etc.

Mr. Irvine states that collective bargaining is “detrimental only to the employees because it forces them into accepting a wage scale and set of hours that are deter-mined by others…”

Obviously Mr. Irvine doesn’t understand the definition of col-lective bargaining he cited, which says it is a “process of voluntary negotiations...aimed at reaching agreements.”

Organized labor unions are one of American worker’s greatest as-sets. On average union employees make twenty-seven percent more than nonunion workers and 92 percent have job-related health coverage.

In short, thanks to labor

unions, we have rules that pro-tect workers by establishing job security, minimum wages, safety rules, health benefits, retirement plans and child labor laws.

Taking away the worker’s right to organize means that every worker must fend for himself against corporate America. Does this seem like a fair fight to you?

In conclusion, I ask Mr. Irvine to reconsider his opinion of labor unions and the standards they have secured to protect millions of workers in the public and pri-vate sectors. I’m afraid we have many long workdays/weeks, without rights, to look forward to if unions are busted.

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Brittney Williams said she was happy to see the change and thought the bear was representative of Ole Miss. “I think the way he is dressed helps him, like the hat. He looks very down home, like he has on Grove attire. It has on our colors, and that looks like our jersey. I think it looks wonderful.”

Brittney WilliamsMajor: AccountingClass: Junior

Dylan Knight had a lot of questions about the image of the mascot upon seeing it, such as, why the hat? “I don’t understand. I feel like they are trying to make him look like Colonel Reb,” Knight said. He also said he felt there are not enough bears in the state to justify it as a mascot.

Dylan KnightMajor: English and BusinessClass: Junior

Kennedy Horton said he thought the new mascot looked how the University intended it to look. “The costume looks like a bear, but as far as being a mascot for Ole Miss,

I don’t think it is representative.”

Kennedy HortonMajor: BusinessClass: Graduate student

Bowers was not fond of the bear to begin with, but she said as an artist, she can appreciate it. “It looks OK,” Bowers said. “It looks like a mascot, just not the Ole Miss mascot. Everyone I talked to did not vote for the bear, so I thought it was kind

of rigged.”

Miranda BowersMajor: BusinessClass: Sophomore

Dwight Barnes thought it was acceptable, but he was hoping a different mascot would win. “I think we should have gone with the lion,” Barnes said. “I think it was called Rebellion, and that fit. Plus, a lion symbolizes a kingdom, and a bear is just a bear.”

Dwight BarnesMajor: Business and MangamentClass: Freshman

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Two state-run schools look ahead to prepare for Mississippi’s future.

Jackson State University and the University of Mississippi are joining together to develop the first Early Childhood Learning Institute of Mississippi through JSU’s Mississippi Learning Insti-tute.

Susan Rucker, director of the Institute for Education and Work-force Development at Ole Miss, said she was looking forward to the partnership with JSU.

“We’re really thrilled that Dr. (Nikisha) Ware and her organiza-tion are bringing this forward,” Rucker said. “We understand that we’ve really got to address early childhood education, and working with the leaders in that area of Mississippi.”

Ware, executive director for the Mississippi Learning Institute at Jackson State University, said she was eager to start the five-day program.

“We’re bringing early child-hood professionals from across the spectrum to connect pre-school to K-12,” Ware said. “This five-day training provides delib-erate coordinated efforts between early childhood and K-12 stake-holders both of whom recognize major responsibility in closing the achievement gap that exists. MLI believes this is the missing link to current early childhood initiatives that attempt to address preparation deficiencies.”

The program runs from April 5-7 and two days in June at Jack-son State University.

MLI is the state’s only public school and university collabora-tive partnership that aims to im-prove instruction to students Kin-dergarden through 12th grade, according to officials at Jackson Public Schools. The learning in-stitute recently received a grant of $1,685,344 from the U.S. De-

partment of Health and Human Resources, which allowed MLI to broaden its program and add the Early Childhood Executive Learning Development Institute, which will focus on bringing ed-ucation to children younger than five.

The institute will help early childhood care professionals be-come better leaders for younger children, Ware said. Ware said she hopes these leaders will turn around and help broaden chil-dren’s minds before the age of five.

ECLI will also help parents prepare their children, pre-natal to five years old, for school and their futures by addressing cer-tain methods of preparing their children for school. This is where JSU and UM connect the path of early childhood education to K-12.

According to governorbarbour.com, Governor Haley Barbour believes this program is an es-sential tool to build a successful workforce to prepare the young-est of children for their futures.

Rucker and Ware believe the program will help principals and early childhood professionals help their staff become better teachers and leaders, which will in turn help the students and preschool children of Mississippi improve.

If the program can provide better help for school and early childhood professionals, those professionals will be able to more efficiently help students. Ware’s hope is to eventually get other universities to join in the effort of improving our early education system throughout the whole state.

“We’re bringing North Missis-sippi and Central Mississippi to-gether,” Ware said. “If it can be done with the University of Mis-sissippi and Jackson State Univer-sity, it can be done in any other part of the state.”

The program costs $1500 and space is limited. Any interested persons should contact the Mis-sissippi Learning institute at 601-979-0208 or mlims2001@gmail.com. The deadline for registra-tion is March 18.

Ole Miss and JSU team up for early childhood developmentBY HEATHER APPLEWHITEThe Daily Mississippian

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People from all around the world visit Oxford every year for its history, education, shops, and most importantly, food.

Home to unique restau-rants Ajax, Two Stick, Big Bad Breakfast and many more, Ox-ford has become a hot-spot for gourmands.

When Liz Barrett, editor-in-chief of PMQ Pizza Magazine, launched a website in Novem-ber 2009 dedicated to Ox-ford’s food scene, she said she had no idea of the popularity it would soon attain.

Since its inception, Eatin-gOxford.com has grown to 300 reviews and received over 100,000 visitors. The site has also been ranked for the past year as the No. 1 blog in Mis-sissippi on Urbanspoon, the popular restaurant informa-tion and recommendation ser-vice.

The website offers a com-plete, detailed list of all of the town’s restaurants and, when available, a link to their menus. It also keeps readers regularly updated with infor-mation on what’s going on in Oxford.

Barrett said she wanted to provide a resource she thought Oxford has needed for a long time. She said her only goal is to get the word out about

everything food related in the town.

“The site really has two pur-poses: to inform and to pro-mote,” she said. “You’ll notice that there are no restaurant ads on the website, and that’s because EatingOxford.com is strictly an informational site here to inform residents and promote Oxford restaurants, at no cost to either.”

Barrett said that she would love to see more Oxonians sharing their opinions about the restaurants and also hear from more restaurateurs re-garding what is on the horizon for their businesses. She thinks both of these could only make her website better.

The site was recently ranked as a favorite local website in a survey conducted by The Lo-cal Voice.

Barrett said she hopes to win a Best of Oxford website in the current poll being held by The Oxford Eagle.

Barrett co-authored a bi-weekly restaurant review col-umn for The Local Voice a few years ago.

She serves on the Board of Directors for the International Foodservice Editorial Coun-cil (IFEC), an association for writers, editors and public re-lations professionals working in and around the foodservice industry.

For more information, visit EatingOxford.com.

Oxford Restaurant Blog Grows in PopularityBY ELAN LLOYDThe Daily Mississippian

Deb Wenger, assistant pro-fessor of journalism and direc-tor of undergraduate studies, said she believes that special-ization is important, but that it’s just not the focus for the journalism school.

“Our focus in on new ways to capitalize on technology to create new forms of journal-ism business — not how to cover business,” Wenger said.

For students interested in one major that offers a mix of journalism and business courses, Ole Miss does offer marketing communications and will soon offer integrated marketing communications.

Both degrees combine a mix of journalism courses to hone students’ writing skills and business core classes to give students a better understand-

ing of the business world. Marketing communication students also study advertis-ing, consumer behavior and additional marketing courses.

“Graduates will be able to understand business while possessing the writing, broad-casting or public relations skills necessary to compete ef-fectively in the marketplace,” Cyree said.

The University of Mis-sissippi Wesley Foundation will host Steve Blakemore, a professor of philosophy and apologetics at Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson.

Blakemore’s lecture is called “To Believe or Not Believe: That’s the Only Real Ques-tion.”

“The reasons that people have for not believing in Je-sus or not being Christians are things that I take very se-riously,” Blakemore said in a press release. “But I want to help them evaluate whether or not those reasons are actually good enough to keep them from faith in Christ.”

Eddie Willis, director of

the Wesley Foundation at Ole Miss, said he believes there is a huge student population that struggles with faith issues and there is a tension between belief and disbelief in Christi-anity on the Ole Miss campus as well as in the community.

“I feel there are a lot of a questions on campus of the validity of whether there is a God or not, and I could just feel the tension,” Willis said. “I wanted to help answer some of those questions some so I’m bringing in a lecturer to help answer them.”

Blakemore said in the press release that he has found that often people who deny the ex-istence of God want to “have their cake and eat it too.”

Blakemore also said he finds it remarkable how much of a

historic case one can make for the Christian claims about Je-sus.

“Similar to other sacred scriptures, the Hebrew Bible and New Testament are filled with difficult questions about life, faith and God,” Ryan Weimer, Ole Miss religion professor, said.

“Whether one is religious or atheist, hedonist or celibate, confused or simply needing extra credit in a class, then what better time to investi-gate the big picture than from a variety of guest speakers during college?”

The Wesley Foundation meets in the Paris-Yates Cha-pel on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m., with a meal immediately following at the Wesley Build-ing on Jackson Avenue.

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Jacob Hickman sings “Tainted Love” in the Ole Miss Idol competition on Wednesday night. The final round will be held next Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Student Union food court.

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In an 80s-themed perfor-mance, six of the 12 semifinal-ists of Ole Miss Idol sang their way to the final round, which will take place Wednesday, March 9.

The six finalists are Tif-fany Boyte, Britney Helmick, LaTonya Herron, Jacob Hick-man, Lovetta Oguhebe and Lawrence Walker.

The winner of Ole Miss Idol will be awarded $500 and the potential to perform at various campus events throughout the year.

The crowd grew in size and enthusiasm with each perfor-mance, which in turn sparked the enthusiasm of the contes-tants.

“It’s a beautiful experience when I sing, because I come from my heart and soul,” final-ist Lawrence Walker said.

For the semifinals, Walker sang “Never Too Much” by Lu-ther Vandross.

“Seeing all this talent is defi-nitely an honor,” said finalist Jacob Hickman.

Of being chosen as a finalist, Hickman said he felt “sheer ex-citement and enthusiasm.”

Hickman performed “Taint-ed Love” by Soft Cell.

“There was a lot of good en-ergy,” said Mallory Baker, an Ole Miss graduate and former contestant of the Ole Miss Idol.

“I like how they showcase students from all different backgrounds.”

Each contestant was judged based on 5 categories: Vocal ability (15 points), stage pres-ence (10 points), crowd re-sponse (5 points), knowledge of material (5 points) and ap-pearance (5 points).

“There are definitely some talented kids here,” said Ryan Upshaw, one of the five Ole Miss Idol judges.

The judges rated a quality performance with a variety of approaches.

“Vocal ability is obviously the most important,” said judge David Steele, also known as “Dr. David” of Rebel Radio.

Upshaw, on the other hand, put an emphasis on the contes-tant’s choice of song.

“If the right song fits the right person, they can put on a really great performance,” Up-shaw said.

This is the seventh-annual Ole Miss Idol, and it is pro-duced by the Student Program-ming Board.

Wil Yerger, a co-producer, said that conducting the Ole Miss Idol is an ongoing pro-cess.

It starts with applications, then auditions, then elimina-tions each week after perfor-mances.

“We started with almost 40 contestants,” said Bradley Bak-er, part of campus program-ming.

Next week, each contestant will perform two songs of his or her choice.

The final round of Ole Miss Idol will take place at 7 p.m. in the Student Union food court.

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Dex Edwards’ passion for scenic design and directing has taken him to theaters near and far.

Edwards, who has been an associate professor in the Uni-versity of Mississippi’s theater department for the past 15 years, has designed sets locally, nationally and globally.

“There are directors that I design for around the country that will call me and say ‘I’m doing a show in Toronto,’ and I’ll say ‘I don’t care where the show is, I’ll work with you anywhere,’” Edwards said.

For the show “Comedy of Errors,” which took place in Chicago, Edwards was sent to London with the entire design team to borrow costumes from the Royal Shakespeare Com-pany Theater and to do their concept design meetings.

“I’ve done a show in Ber-lin and a few other shows in northern Europe as well,” Ed-wards said. “I love Toronto. I’ve done eight or nine shows in Toronto, and it’s one of my favorite cities,” Edwards said.

Not only has Edwards trav-eled around the globe design-ing for some of the biggest names in theater, he has also designed for events such as

the 1996 Olympic Centennial Park and “Don’t Stop the Car-nival,” Jimmy Buffet’s musical adaptation of a novel by Pulit-zer Prize-winning author Her-man Wouk.

“To sit in a room with Her-man Wouk and Jimmy Buffett was really fun, and we had a huge budget too,” Edwards said.

Although Edwards has been to many odd and interesting places, he says the most un-usual place to work in is in the U.S.

“The most bizarre place I’ve worked in is Branson, Mo. It is the strangest place in the world,” Edwards said. “Bran-son was a really unique place. It was an odd, odd experience.”

Edwards said that traveling is one of the things he loves most about his job as a scenic designer.

“Getting to travel and see different places is a part of my job that is extremely reward-ing,” Edwards said. “Most of the time I’m sitting in a dark theater looking at a pretend thing with people shining col-ored lights at it, and I think to myself, ‘This is a weird job. I can’t believe they pay me to do this.’”

One of the things that Ed-wards finds most satisfying after designing a set is being able to sit back and critique his own work.

“You get a chance to look at it objectively and say, ‘Yes,

that worked,’ or ‘That nearly worked,’” Edwards said.

While Edwards’ passion for design is evident, directing is also a huge part of his life.

“As a director, he pushes his actors to their fullest poten-tial,” Damare said. “He forces you as an actor to give him ex-actly what he wants.”

On top of being an accom-plished scenic designer and di-rector, Edwards is also known to be a teacher who is very personal with his students and spends as much time as he can to teach them everything he knows.

“When Dex teaches, he takes all the information and sets it side by side with real life expe-riences that he has had,” Sam

Damare, a junior musical the-ater major said.

“After my first year of teach-ing at Ole Miss I went, ‘I really like this teaching business,’” Edwards said. “It really is very fun.”

Edwards is well respected by his colleagues, as well as other designers in the theater indus-try.

“His attention to detail is re-ally what sets him apart from other designers,” Michael Barnett, assistant professor of lighting design, said.

Edwards has taught many theater design classes as well as directing classes at Ole Miss, and Damare said he is consid-ered one of the most creative and professional teachers.

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All of this will change in March when B.T.C. Old-Fash-ioned Grocery and Yokna Bot-toms Farm begins accepting orders and delivering to the citi-zens of Oxford.

B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Gro-cery is a rustic store located in Water Valley.

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“It may cost extra, but we will get it for you,” Van Beuren said.

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The partnership is a year old, and they hope it will continue for many more years to come. Both are supported by those who want to find better alter-natives to convenient but un-healthy produce found at chain groceries.

Yokna Bottoms Farm’s mis-sion is the same as B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery – promotion of organic food and local busi-ness.

“The tomatoes that you buy at a Kroger or Walmart are shipped from countries as far as Chile,” Daniel Doyle, the co-manager of the farm, said. “They may look fresh, but they’re nearly plastic

with the chemicals implanted in them. Here, we grow all of our tomatoes naturally with care.”

The farm is a CSA (Commu-nity Supported Agriculture), meaning that all local farmers share their profits, their meth-ods and their losses with the community.

Yokna Bottoms Farm grows all varieties of fruits and vegetables, depending on the season. It is currently offering a food-share which is seven percent of its crops.

Beginning May 1, a custom-er can deposit $400 to receive weekly $15-$20 worth of gro-ceries for six months, which is considered a full share.

If the customer chooses to pick the full-share crops up at the farm, the deposit goes down to $300.

“It may come off as expensive at first, but whenever I hear, ‘I can’t afford this,’ I want to say, ‘Let’s look at your budget,’ be-cause the chances are that the money that could’ve been spent on healthier, chemical-free veg-etables are usually being spent on phones or television cable,” Doyle said.

“I think that choosing to eat well-grown, clean, fresh food is better in the long run.”

English major Jason Cimon has been a vegetarian for 14 years and a vegan for nine.

“It’s usually hard for me to buy

organic groceries for one,” Ci-mon said. “I get so much food, and it always goes bad before I can cook the rest of it.”

He said he supports the con-cept of locally-grown, small-farm crops.

“It’s very important to sup-port family farms and to eat locally because the local farms grow food the way it’s intended to be,” Cimon said.

B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Gro-cery is currently looking for 15 people in Oxford to sign up for the local delivery service.

They have two kinds of pack-ages (All Local Package or BTC Epicure Package) in which cus-tomers pay $35 to $40 a week for groceries for two.

It also features “Custom Bag O’Groceries,” in which the cost of groceries depends on the type and quantity of items a customer chooses. The packages are a flat rate with sales tax.

The deliveries can be picked up at the Powerhouse parking lot on Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. from March to May.

Customers can also request for the groceries to be delivered to their doorstep in Oxford; the service is an additional $5 charge.

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It’s been a tough year for the Ole Miss women’s basketball team (10-18, 3-13 SEC), who lost seven straight games to end the regular season.

With most of the team com-prised of freshmen, it is under-standable that Ole Miss expe-rienced some growing pains. In addition to youth, the team lost one of its biggest contribu-tors, senior guard Kayla Mel-

son, who suffered an injury in the Florida game, which was the last contest the Lady Rebels won.

Melson’s injury was a major blow to the Lady Rebels and added more pressure to the young team.

Even though Ole Miss fin-ished with a less-than-stellar record, the freshmen were able to get acclimated to the college game and gained valuable ex-perience on the court — some-thing the Lady Rebels can build on for next year.

In a lineup that usually con-sisted of three freshmen, one junior and one senior, the new-est Lady Rebels showed much promise for the future.

Perhaps the most impressive out of the freshman class was 5-foot-4 point guard Valencia McFarland. The youngster av-eraged 37 minutes per game and played in all but one game for the Lady Rebels. Valencia averaged 13.2 points per game and also led the team in assists (121) and steals (42). In SEC play, she averaged 38.5 minutes

per game and shot 79.6 percent from the free throw line.

On Tuesday, McFarland was named to the Southeastern Conference’s All-Freshman team for her play.

The team captain was a con-tributor both on and off the court for the Lady Rebels, av-eraging 37.9 minutes per game and 15.6 points per game be-fore her injury.

She shot 46 percent from the floor and reached her 1,000th career point in red and blue this past season.

McFarland and Melson were both leaders for the Rebels this year but, despite her injury, it was Melson who was the team’s most valuable player. Even on the sidelines, Melson made an impact as she boosted the Lady Rebels’ morale.

While the regular season is over, Ole Miss has a chance to extend its season in the first round of the SEC Tournament.

The 12th-seeded Lady Rebels play fifth-seeded South Caro-lina tonight at 6:30 p.m. in Nashville.

Lady Rebs experience growing pains in 2010-11BY KAITLYN DUBOSEThe Daily Mississippian

AUBURN, Ala. - Ole Miss led by as many as 20 points in the game but could not with-stand a big second-half rally from Auburn in a 76-73 loss Wednesday night.

Freshman Dundrecous Nelson scored a career-high 30 points on seven 3-pointers and missed a desperation three-quarters court shot at the buzzer that nicked the side of the rim.

Chris Denson hit four straight free throws in the final 35 sec-onds to help Auburn cap the comeback.

The Tigers (10-19, 3-12 Southeastern Conference) ral-lied from a 20-point first-half deficit and survived a wild fi-nal sequence when the teams swapped turnovers in a 2-sec-ond span.

Ole Miss (18-12, 6-9) had a couple of chances for the go-ahead basket in the final sec-onds.

The Rebels’ full-court press forced a turnover with 16 sec-onds left after Chris Warren’s 3-pointer cut Auburn’s lead to 74-73. They gave it right back when Warren lost the ball out of bounds.

Ole Miss then forced a bad pass by Earnest Ross that Nel-son picked off. He passed inside to Nick Williams, who couldn’t control the ball.

Nelson is the third Rebel to score 30 points in a game this season. Zach Graham had 30 in the first meeting with Auburn, and Warren had 33 at South Carolina.

Nelson also tied the school record for 3-pointers in a game by a freshman, shared by Trevor Gaskins and Warren.

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The Ole Miss baseball team (9-1) exploded for six runs on five hits in the bottom of the first inning and never looked book, sweeping the two-game midweek series against Austin Peay (4-2) with an 11-3 win on Wednesday night.

“We had a lot hits – 12 hits – and 11 runs,” junior desig-nated hitter Matt Snyder said. “That means we got guys on and scored them in, so that was big for us. It’s good to get one of these games under our belts too.”

Freshman right-hander Mike Mayers (1-0) allowed three runs on four hits in a career-high five innings for the win in his first collegiate start.

Austin Peay jumped out a 2-0 first-inning lead on three-straight hits to start the game, but Mayers settled in and gave up only one run and one hit the rest of the way.

Snyder just missed a home run in the bottom of the first, but his double off the wall drove in senior first baseman

Matt Smith to tie the game at 2-2.

After back-to-back walks to freshman third baseman Preston Overbey and senior outfielder Matt Tracy, junior catcher Taylor Hightower de-livered a bases-clearing two-out double down the left-field line to give Ole Miss a 5-2 first-inning lead.

Hightower scored on a sin-gle to shallow center by junior shortstop Blake Newalu, who extended his team-leading hit streak to five games tonight, to cap a six-run first for Ole Miss.

The Diamond Rebels added two runs in the second on Tra-cy’s bouncing two-out, 2-RBI single to right. Austin Peay cut the lead to 8-3 in the fifth when a leadoff walk came around to score on a pair of wild pitches and a RBI groundout to soph-omore second baseman Alex Yarbrough. In the bottom of the inning, Snyder hit his first home run of the season – a 3-run shot to right-center – to extend the lead to 11-3.

“I think we were very aggres-sive tonight and got a lot of

good swings,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said. “We’ve been swinging the bat pretty well throughout the 10 games. Sure there are going to be lulls, but that’s always going to happen.

“The thing that we’ve really been missing is the big, timely hit – the one that busts open the inning. The one like High-tower had tonight and Snyder’s big home run – the proverbial crooked number.”

After Mayers, sophomore right-hander Blair Wright, ju-nior left-hander Jon Andy Scott and freshman right-hander Brooks Oursler – all making their Ole Miss debut – com-bined for four shutout innings to end the game. Wright and Oursler allowed no hits, while Scott stranded the bases load-ed in the bottom of the eighth with back-to-back strikeouts.

“It was probably our best night of the year, all-around,” Bianco said. “It’s amazing how things turn out. We start a freshman. He handles some adversity in the first inning and three guys that have never pitched before in college finish up and do a terrific job. “

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