The happiest day of my life, the day I fi rst experienced free-dom, was the day my mother took the train-ing wheels off my bi-cycle and I took off down the sidewalk under my own power and control. Forty-fi ve years later, my bikes are still my most important pos-sessions. They are my main form of transport to USM as well as vehicles for exercise, meditation and thrills (when I go the moun-tains). I love my bikes.

The problem is that I have to share the road with expensive, massive, gas guzzling, polluting cars and trucks driven by people

who are either oblivious to my presence or lack understanding of how to share the road. Yet, in the last thirty years, I have ridden my bike on crowded college cam-puses, through the streets of large cities and small towns and through the neighborhoods of Hat-

tiesburg without being hit by a car or hitting a pedestrian. Since more and more people are riding bicycles on campus and around town, I would like to share my best advice with you.

First, wear a helmet. If you ever see me on a bike without a helmet, then you know I am suicidal. Riding a bike can be

For some students, riding a bike to class is an obvious solu-tion to the parking predicament.

“Riding to class is the way to go,” said Daniel Shemper, a business major from Hatties-burg. “I get from place to place (on campus) in a fraction of the time it takes to walk, and I don’t have to worry about wasting time looking for a spot or getting a ticket.”

Lucy Bowens, interim direc-tor of parking management, said the cost of a bike permit is $10 annually, compared to the $50 yearly fee for a parking spot.

Bikers also help facilitate a more green attitude around the USM campus.

“I save money, get a work-out

and I feel like I am doing my part in cleaning up the environment,” said senior Michael Gray-Lewis, who pedals to every class. “The only real downside is cold or rainy mornings, and that more people aren’t joining in.”

Campus statistics show that there are approximately 7,600 parking spaces available on or near campus in offi cial parking lots while there are about 9,000 students commuting to class weekdays. There are also about 2,000 employees who park on or near campus.

USM recently introduced Eco Eagle, a new program that pro-vided bicycles for students to use on campus for free. The idea was to encourage more drivers to park and ride a bike instead, which would alleviate some of the campus parking problem.

Eco Eagle bikes were placed

on campus for use from building to building, with a sign attached explaining that they were not to be taken off campus.

Within a week, many of the 17 EcoEagle bikes were missing or damaged, which has forced or-ganizers to go back to the draw-ing board and seek new ways to make the program work.

James Moore, owner of Moore’s Bicycle Shop on Hardy Street, sold the university the Eco Eagle bikes. Moore said de-spite the fact the program wasn’t an immediate success, it has still benefi tted the entire community.

“With the amount of exposure this program has gotten with the media, we have defi nitely raised awareness about the benefi ts of biking,” said Moore. “People who ordinarily wouldn’t ride a bike might have realized how much quicker it is to get around

on a bike and how handy it would be to have one waiting on them outside.

“Whether they used the cam-pus bikes or not, the idea may persuade folks to go purchase one at Wal-Mart for $100 or from a bike shop for $300; either way USM is benefi ting in that it is one less driver trying to park,” he said.

One concern many have when biking to class is contending with traffi c. But for most stu-dents, living a bit dangerously is worth it.

“I live across (U.S.) 49 from campus and even though some-times I have to wait on traffi c to clear, I can easily make it any-where on campus in a matter of minutes,” said Shemper. “No matter how you look at it, rid-ing a bike to school is less of a hassle than driving.”

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Jimmy Driskell, a senior geol-ogy major at USM, knows that if he wants to park on campus and get to class on time, he has to start early.

“When it comes to parking for me, I usually have to leave an hour before my classes starts,” said Driskell, who is from Ala-bama. “It’s a really struggle for me to park sometimes.”

Lucy Bowens, interim direc-tor of parking management, said there are 7,648 parking spaces on the USM campus, including reserved spaces. She added that parking management sells more parking permits than there are spaces because “everybody’s not here at the same time.”

Campus offi cials said about 9,000 students commute to cam-pus on weekdays. That creates gridlock for a lot of students who try to get class quickly.

Joe Paul, vice president of stu-dent affairs, said there are long-range plans in the works to ease parking on the USM campus. “We going to have a new multi-level

parking structure with 1,000 ex-tra spaces,” in the next two years, said Paul. “We are thinking of putting more parking spaces next to the new Trent Lott Center.”

Sid Gonsoulin, associate vice president of student affairs and for-mer chair of USM’s Master Plan Program, said the one remaining hurdle to breaking ground on a parking garage is the ongoing ef-fort to secure a “partnership” with a private developer.

“One of the goals (of the master plan) is to have a parking garage open prior to completion of the new residence hall being built north of Fourth Street,” Gonsou-lin said. “In order to build, we need the partnership of a private developer” which members of the administration are actively seek-ing.

Also under consideration are a campus shuttle service and a re-confi gured Eco Eagle bike loan

program.The Eco Eagle bike program,

which began earlier this month, hit an immediate snag when many of the 17 bikes went miss-ing. Larry Lee, chief sustainabil-ity offi cer, told The Student Printz last week, he’s disappointed that the program’s debut was so un-successful but added ways to continue the program are being explored.

In the meantime, what is a commuting student to do to get to class on time?

Until some longer range proj-ects are complete, Paul said the answer is simple.

“Wake up earlier, know where you are going to park, and don’t pray to God that you’ll get that ‘lucky open one’ space when your running late,” he said.

Bre Bradley agrees with Paul’s suggestion.

“I get here 30 minutes early to get a parking spot,” said Bradley, an English major who commutes to campus daily. Bradley said usually she can fi nd a spot even if she’s running a bit late, but she makes a point to get to campus early because “I want a good spot.”

Quincy St. Pierre, a history ma-jor, said early birds can have their pick of parking on campus.

“If you get here at 7 a.m., there’s no problem,” he said. “But who wants to get here two hours before class?”

Driskell had a scooter last se-mester that he used to commute around campus.

“Parking my scooter was very easy for me, because I could park it right next to my classroom,” he said. Until a replacement part for his scooter arrives from Hong Kong, Driskell said he will have to continue the hunt for a more traditional parking place.

John Cobb, an economics ma-jor, said he doesn’t look at park-ing as a problem.

“There’s always a parking spot,” said Cobb. “People just don’t want to have to walk a mile or so to get to class.”

Bowens said the Fourth Street commuter lot near Hillcrest Hall is always a good spot to fi nd an open parking space.

“It’s never fi lled to our capac-ity,” Bowens said, adding that there are at least 450 spaces in the lot.

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A recent study shows that texting while driving is con-siderably more dangerous than driving under the influence of alcohol or marijuana.

Transport Research Labora-tory conducted the experiment using a simulator on drivers between the ages of 17 and 24. The affect on steering control worsened by 91 percent for those texting, as compared to 35 percent when using marijuana.

The results of texting and driving outside of a simulator speak for them-selves. Los Angeles re-cently banned the use of cell phones for anyone operating a train after a wreck that killed 25 people and wounded 130. The conductor was found to have been texting when he drove his commuter train into a freight train.

Mississippi’s neighbor, Lou-isiana, banned all cell phone use while operating a motor vehicle in July.

“As much as people will hate me for saying it, I think it’s a good idea to ban it,” said Car-rie Prior, a sophomore nursing major. “I think it will result in fewer accidents altogether.”

“When I even look down at my texts, I swerve,” Proir said. “The other day I almost ran clear into the back of somebody looking at my text messages.”

Zachary Lamplugh, a junior, disagrees with the ban entirely, saying that too much govern-m e n t r e g u l a -t i o n i n -

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Ameri-c a n rights. S a r a h

O d o m , a mass

communi-cations ma-jor, said the

issue is one of per- sonal respon-sibility. She said a ban against texting while driving would not be useful because “people are still going to do it.”

“I know a girl who got in a bad wreck maybe three weeks ago because she was texting,” Odom said. “She flipped the car, totaled it and was in the hospital for a little while. Is she still going to text and drive? Yeah.”

Prior concedes that while banning cell phones from vehicle use is a good idea, it won’t help anything until people are required to change their habits.

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Biking to class eliminates worry for commuting studentsThomas Lambert

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Molly Peresich, a sophomore dance education from Ocean Springs, locks her bike on the rack outside of the Thad Cochran Center.

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DirtyBirds09-15-08•Softball Comples - Suspicious Person - Two trespass warnings were issued to non-students.•Printing Center - Hit and Run - Incident report on file.•Black & Gold Av - Trespassing - Three verbal trespass warnings were issued.•Walker Science - Medical Assist - AAA ambulance responded but patient de-clined transport.•Cook Library - Petit Larceny - A stu-dent reported the theft of a wallet.

09-16-08•Hattiesburg Hall - Service Non-Crimi-nal - Forwarded to Residence Life.•Panhellenic - Service Non-Criminal - A vehicle became stuck on a concrete block causing damage to the tire.

09-17-08•Scott Hall - Medical Assist - A student was transported to the USM Clinic.•Cook Library - Petit Larceny - A stu-dent reported the theft of a Diamond Back mountain bike, burnt orange in color, 22” size.•31st Ave - Hit and Run - A student re-ported being struck by a vehicle while in the crosswalk.•Montague blvd - Disturbing the Peace - One post arrest release was issued for

Noise Violation.

09-18-08•McCarty Hall - Harassing Phone Calls - Incident report on file.•Panhellenic - Destroying Public Proper-ty - Forwarded to Parking Management.

09-19-08•Panhellenic - Medical Assist - A student was transported by UPD to FGH ER.•Honors House - A staff member report-ed the theft of a reserved parking sign.•Thad Cochran Center -Citizen Com-plaint - Forwarded to Aramark.•Bolton Lot - Vandalism - A student re-ported a broken window on her parked vehicle.

09-20-08•Fraternity Dr - Alcohol Violations - Seven campus citations were issued for Minor in Possession of Alcohol; three campus citations for USM Alcohol Pol-icy Violations; eight state citations for Minor in Possession of Alcohol; two state citations for Public Drunk; two ver-bal trespass warnings issued.•Polymer Science - Public Drunk - Jus-tin C Sowder, W/M, 23 yoa, Hattiesburg address, was arrested and charged with Public Drunk.•East Stadium - Public Drunk - Charles

Martin, W/M, 19 yoa, Bailey MS ad-dress, was arrested and charged with Public Drunk and Disorderly Conduct-FTC.•4th St - Hit and Run - MS Uniform Crash report filed.•East Stadium - Medical Assist - A game spectator was transported to FGH by AAA ambulance.

09-21-08•Fraternity Dr. - Warrant - Caitlin Sheree Hennig, W/F, 19 yoa, Biloxi address, was arrested on a Fugitive warrant from Biloxi Police Department.•4th St Lot - Medical Assist - A game spectator was transported to FGH by AAA ambulance.•Golden Eagle Av - Welfare Concern - A visitor was taken to UPD office and picked-up by his parent.•Cent.for Intl Ed. - Suspicious Person - One state citation was issued for Ob-structing Traffic.•Lakeview Golf Course - Suspicious Per-son - Two state citations were issued for Indecent Exposure and one for littering.•Hardy St - DUI 3rd - Joel Paul Peresich, W/M, 22 yoa, Saucier address, was ar-rested and charged with Felony DUI.•Pinehaven Apt - Domestic Disturbance - Incident report on file.

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USpeak gives voice to college students

Uspeak, an organization sponsored by the Mississippi Student Body Presidents Coun-cil and composed of represen-tatives from Mississippi’s eight public colleges and universi-ties, has assembled a list of the five issues considered most important to college students. Uspeak will present this list to state lawmakers in anticipation of the Presidential debate being held Friday in Oxford.

A committee made up of Stu-dent Government representa-tives from across the state and chaired by USM Student Body President Melissa Cirino met at Jackson State University on September 6, and developed a list of issues uniquely impor-tant to Mississippi college stu-dents.

“They were asked to develop the issues that they felt were the most pertinent concerns for college students today,” said Bentley Anderson, Legisla-tive Liaison for the USM Stu-dent Government Association. “They debated, discussed, and agreed on five issues.”

The organization is non-par-tisan, and has received input and assistance from a variety of student political organizations, including the College Republi-cans and College Democrats.

The idea for the survey stemmed from the Mississippi Youth Ballot Campaign, which began in Oxford but “never took off,” according to Ander-son.

He described Ole Miss and USM as the “flagship schools” leading the campaign, and said that Southern Miss currently had the highest student body percentage responding to the

ranking survey.USM sophomore entertain-

ment industry major Austin White, from Hattiesburg, said that the Uspeak campaign was “overall a pretty good idea.” He was glad to see green is-sues, as well as the rising cost of college tuition, included in the list of concerns to be pre-sented, saying “anything that will help students financially – that’s always going to be a good thing.”

Students from each college and university are being asked to rank the five issues selected by the delegation order of per-sonal importance. The Uspeak campaign will then give a statement to the Ole Miss stu-dent body in Oxford before the debate begins Friday, and state lawmakers will be asked to ad-dress the five issues.

Robin Robinson, a freshman fashion merchandising major from East Chicago, Indiana, hopes to see similar campaigns in the future, and thinks that the Uspeak campaign was “making people more aware.”

The symbolic objective is the debate,” Bentley said. “We want to be viewed as some-thing more than the insignifi-cant youth,” he added, and then quoted the group’s motto: “We are not apathetic. We are not in-significant. We are Mississippi collegians. We will be heard.”

Bob WorthPrintz Writer

Dems open office on Hardy

Workers began moving furni-ture into the new Forrest County Democratic Party headquarters, located at 906 Hardy Street, Thurs-day afternoon in anticipation of its official opening Monday.

In selecting a site for the first Forrest County Democratic Party Headquarters, Richards Jones, Chairman of the Forrest County Democratic Committee, said “We felt it was necessary to have a cen-tral location.”

The office will support all Dem-ocrats running for office in Missis-sippi, including those competing in local races, as well as Senate candidate Ronnie Musgrove, but the Presidential race is the current focus. Workers from the Obama-Biden campaign visited the site Saturday to provide training and information.

“We feel very positive about the campaign; we feel very positive about the election,” Jones said, referring to the Presidential race. “We feel like it’s our time.”

Obama trailed McCain nation-ally by as much as 4 percentage points in the days following the Republican National Conven-tion, but now leads by the same margin, according to Pollster.com, a political tracking website.

Pollster.com identifies Missis-sippi as a “strong” Republican state, and reports McCain as leading Obama by 14 percentage points.

The new Hattiesburg Demo-cratic Headquarters will host a viewing party for the first presi-dential debate, which will take place Friday in Oxford. A work session will be held in conjunc-tion with the debate, which will be shown on a large-screen televi-sion.

Roy Logan, a senior admin-istration of justice major from Petal and a member of the USM chapter of the College Democrats, stressed the significance of having the headquarters in Hattiesburg. “This will make the community feel like they are part of the cam-paign,” he said, adding that before the headquarters was opened, “Obama supporters didn’t have

anywhere to go.”Jones agreed, and said that ex-

tensive voter registration drives would be conducted from the headquarters in the run up to the Presidential election. “We’re go-ing to canvas the whole county,” Jones said.

The Mississippi Republican Party has an established office in the Arbor behind Newk’s Ex-press Café, where they will host a debate viewing party as well, ac-cording to Fred Drews, a member of the party. The party will also have a voter registration drive at Gander Mountain today from 5:30 to 6:30.

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Michael Warren Band, a rock/soul artist from Birmingham, plays for students during Friday Night at the Fountain. Erica Sherrill Owens/Printz

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‘‘We feel very posi-tive about the campaign; we feel very positive about the elec-tion. We feel like it’s our time.

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Rocking out at Friday Night at the Fountain

While the University of South-ern Mississippi’s Center of Higher Learning, located at the John C. Stennis Space Center, is known for its educational and workforce development offer-ings, two applied technology programs, Geospatial Applica-tions and Visualization, also call CHL their home.

Over the last year, the Geo-spatial Applications Lab has up-dated a computer-based system to assist in the decision-making process for counterdrug technol-ogies that aid the Mississippi Na-tional Guard and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.

The heart of the system is a map showing the areas in the state most likely for outdoor growth of marijuana. The Geo

Lab produced this map by cou-pling two cutting-edge technolo-gies, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and an Artificial Neural Network (ANN).

Jim Matthews, director of the CHL Geospatial Applications Laboratory, said, “This technol-ogy highlights areas with the highest potential for marijuana cultivation and has proven very useful in the strategic planning to eliminate marijuana.”

The ANN is supplied with a large number of GIS themes such as demographics, roads, topography and land cover as well as data about marijuana growth. By testing the themes to see which ones have the po-tential to separate growth sites from the random locations, the ANN produces a map that shows the similarity of every point in the state to the characteristics of where marijuana has been grown

in the past. The Office of National Drug

Control Policy, an organization of the federal government, has shown interest in the process as a way to estimate domestic marijuana production. By iden-tifying areas where marijuana is most likely and least likely to be grown, ONDCP can conduct statistical surveys to estimate its production.

“Producing counterdrug infor-mation is just one of the ways this technology can be utilized. It also has promising wide-spread applications to the analysis of many types of spatial data,” said Joe Swaykos, director of the Center of Higher Learning.

For additional information about geospatial technologies, course offerings, visualization capabilities or other activities, contact the Center of Higher Learning at 228.688.7663.

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Center aids cops with technology

In the haze of political debate and knee-jerk rhet-oric that we currently find ourselves in, I think it’s time to take a step away from the

situation and think about where we‘re going as a nation.

I was raised from a puppy in a small, hole-in-the-road town be-tween Hattiesburg and New Or-leans called Poplarville.

For those of you unfamiliar with small-town politics, everyone in Poplarville knows everyone else in Poplarville. For the most part, all the residents share the same space while essentially ignoring each other. We stand in line together; we recognize neighbors in traffic; we silently occupy adjacent restaurant booths.

Yes, of course we talk amongst ourselves, but so very little is said. I can‘t say that I‘m innocent of this myself, or that I expect every conversation to be of utmost im-portance--just observing a social phenomenon I don‘t understand the reasoning behind. It’s not just small towns, either.

I spent the weeks following hur-ricane Katrina in Poplarville, and watched firsthand this habit of our community quickly melt away, along with many other habits of

equally questionable motivation.We stood in the street and talked

about things worth talking about--most of which could have been said years ago. We cooked for each other. We helped each other sur-vive.

Did it take something like the hurricane to bring us together? Did we act that way because we were somehow touched by the disaster, or because we didn’t have TV to distract us?

We are losing something as Americans in the cultural whirlpool we live in. Perhaps our cell phones, YouTube and the like are distract-ing us from the responsibility we should have to our neighbors.

The presidential candidates we choose reflect our values as Ameri-cans, at least to some degree. After researching Barack Obama and John McCain’s strategies on for-eign policy, I think the aspect of society I am criticizing shows up well. Catch the presidential debate this week, maybe you’ll see what I mean.

Obama wants to fix things in Su-dan and Zimbabwe amongst other places. McCain wants to prolong the War in Iraq and continue to wrestle with nations like Syria and Iran.

While stopping acts of genocide halfway around the world is a com-mendable cause(Obama‘s idea), I believe we should spend more time working on our politics at home. I

cannot expect a political figure to fix our social problems in one fell swoop, but am I wrong for expect-ing them to care more than it seems they do?

In the era of the American isola-tionist politician, I believe we did a far better job of living together as a nation. I was obviously not alive during that time, but judging by the history we revere so much, I think today we may be losing an essen-tial part of American culture.

The politicians aren’t to blame, I don’t think, their behavior is a symptom of our culture’s ailment. Maybe the politicians are to blame, I don’t claim to know these types of things.

I think our communal obsession with globalization, mass media, and cable internet connections has made us forget about something I believe is more important--our own American community.

Is it worth more to know the news from 1000 miles away, or to know the people who live 1000 feet away?

Our forefathers left us with old pieces of parchment and big bells, but what does any of that mean

without the people to go along with it? We are straying from our origi-nal American ideals.

With these lengthy parables and endless ramblings, I’m trying to say that our fast, hustle-or-die culture has caused us to forget how much we as humans really need each oth-er. This is exemplified even in the superficial--could you build that nifty iPhone by yourself?

After Katrina, I saw that we as a nation still had our human sensibili-ties about us. We definitely haven’t lost this battle yet. I just hope it doesn’t take a real pandemic di-saster (nuclear winter, perhaps) to remind us of our respect for those who share our homes and lusts for freedom.

I challenge all of you; go talk to your neighbor. Love them, revel in their companionship. Know that you may need their help one day, as they might yours. You may disagree with them about many things, just remember to feel lucky you don’t live next to Osama Bin Laden.

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Pardon me for laughing, but this is one of the funniest things I’ve heard in a long time.

I just read an article about a dress code law that was being en-forced in Riviera Beach, Florida. Apparently, a bill was proposed in March that made it illegal to wear saggy pants if the wearer’s underwear was visible. The bill was made into law after 5,000 city residents voted to pass it.

Last week, a 17-year old Riviera Beach resident spent the night in jail after police spotted him with his underwear poking out over his saggy jeans. He would have only been fined or sentenced to com-munity service, but because of a prior history of marijuana use, the teen was sent to jail.

A Florida court repealed the law, saying that it was unconstitutional. According to the public defender, Florida didn’t want “fashion

police.” However, similar laws are waiting to be passed in other states, including Louisiana.

I think this is just hilarious. I’ve hated saggy pants my entire life, but I never thought it would cause this much controversy.

Pants are meant to be worn around your waist, not your bum or your knees. That’s why pants have a waist size, such as 32. Be-fore long, though, you’ll probably go to buy a pair of jeans and it will have 3 measurements– waist, bum, and ankle. But should it be illegal to wear your pants that way? I don’t know about that. If you make that illegal then you have to make every other unconventional style of dress illegal also.

I wish saggy pants could be illegal. I really do. But I just don’t think it would be fair. If, however, it was against the law to sag your pants, that’s cool with me. But in the mean time, pull up your pants.Haskel Burns is a staff writer for The Student Printz. Comments can be sent to printz@usm.edu

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Bikingcontinued from page one

liberating and pleasurable, or just functional, but it is always a risky undertaking. There was once a professor at USM who rode his bike everywhere, but he did not wear a helmet. One day he was finishing up a ride and almost home when he took a fall on his bike. His head hit the pavement and he died instantly. While this kind of accident is rare, I tell it to illustrate the fragility of our brains. It doesn’t take much to kill us. And if your head hits the pavement because you have been hit by a car, chances are the force will be ten times that that killed the professor. Our brains are too valuable to leave unexposed in such a dan-gerous situation. While a hel-met may not always save you, it will certainly reduce the risk of brain injury and death.

Now, I can already hear the complaints. It’s too hot to wear a helmet. It will give me helmet hair. I can’t afford one. Well, just get over it. A hel-met may save your life. End of story.

Second, do not ride listen-ing to music (or talking on the phone or texting). The big bad cars out there aren’t paying at-tention to you, so you need to be completely aware of them. That means listening as well as seeing. You must rely on your hearing to know what is approaching behind you. This is especially important on the road but as important on the Longleaf Trace. Not long ago another USM profes-sor and a postal carrier friend of mine were injured when a cyclist on the Trace who had on headphones did not hear a large group of fast moving rid-ers approaching, even though they had announced them-selves. As they were about to

pass him, he swerved over and caused a huge crash and my friends were hurt. You have seen what the crashes on the Tour de France are like. It was like that.

Next, when in town, ride your bike just as if you were a car. That is, ride on the street with the traffic (sidewalks are for the pedestrians, not you), signal your intentions to turn, slow down or stop, and obey the traffic signs, signals and laws. That means stop signs and stop lights. I may not al-ways come to a complete stop at stop signs (though I can bal-ance my bike at a stop sign for a pretty long time if I have to), but I do approach them care-fully and slowly. And when you do encounter cars at stop signs, do not pass through the intersection even if it is your turn unless you have made eye contact with the driver. My closest calls have always been with drivers pulling out in front of me or going when it

was my turn because they did not see me. Ask any motorcy-clist about this. They will tell you that is the biggest problem they encounter.

My last piece of advice is to ride confidently and predict-ably. Take your share of the road on the side and hold your ground. You should not let cars that pass you too closely force you off the road. Yet, neither should you swerve back and forth uncontrollably making it difficult for the cars to pass you. I am asking each of you who is venturing out on a bike to do these things, not just for your safety, but for mine. If we are to have the respect of automobiles, then we need to respect them.

So, get out and discover the joys of riding – the wind on your skin, the health benefits, the environmental benefits, never having to worry about a parking space near your class-room – but do it safely, confi-dently and respectfully.

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Cell phones sucking your manhood dry

Dr. Angwar Ashak, director of the Cleveland Center for Repro-ductive Studies, found in previ-ous studies that “men who used their cell phones for more than four hours a day had signifi cantly lower sperm quality” than those who used a cell phone less.

But this isn’t even the point. The phones were most likely held to their ears. Now the Cen-ter for Reproductive Studies fears for the sex lives of men who use headsets.

Why a headset? Because cell phones emit radiation. Because it’s bad enough to hold it to your ear for hours and let that radiation go into your skull. But when you wear a headset, where do you put your phone? …in your pocket. What is close to your pocket? In a nutshell, you’re bombarding your boys with radiation!

The Center for Reproductive Studies took 32 test and control sperm samples and subjected them to a cell phone and its ra-

diation for one mere hour. Their results were disturbing, even sickening.“…an increase in oxi-dative stress such as a signifi cant increase in free radicals…” Free radicals? Last time I heard the phrase, “free radicals,” I was sit-ting next to my dear old grandpa as he died of cancer.

To quote Dr. Ashak, “…that equals a decrease in sperm’s qual-ity, including motility and viabil-ity… our study has not provided proof that you should stop put-ting cell phones in your pocket. There are many things that need to be proven before we get to that stage.”

I hope, gentlemen, that this makes you as uneasy as it makes me. We’re all in our primes here at Southern Miss. We are, as per-haps the Marquis de Sade would have said, “the veritable fountains of youth.” I’m not too worried about leaving a cell phone idling in my pocket, waiting for a text. It is only when they’re on talk that they’re sucking your Mojo faster than Austin Powers lost his.

Think of the poor 361 men who reported to the Center for

Reproductive Studies that they had “lower sperm quality” –with phones at the ear. Now think of your phone. Think of it on talk in your pocket. Keep in mind that most of us use our cell phones for much longer than the one hour used in the tests.

The plea I am about to make speaks also to the lovely wom-en on campus: they expect as much of you as you expect of yourself. Could you imagine (or have you?) the embarrassment of grinding the gristmill of love for four hours, fi nally reaching the glorious fi nish, and realizing there was no volume? What a ter-rible thought!

So please, I beg, throw away your headsets, or at least put the phone in your shirt pocket while you talk on it. Then you might get free radicals in your lungs in-stead. Would you rather get lung cancer or be an embarrassment in bed? …I just made my decision.

Will NunneryPrintz Writer

Will Nunnery is a staff writer for The Student Printz. Comments can be sent to printz@usm.edu

Help Southern Miss go green by recycling this when youʼre done!

Japan showcase opens today

“Lakeview Terrace” is the kind of movie bound to make audiences very uncomfortable. Why? Well, not since 2005 - the year of “Crash”- has a film so blatantly examined the suburban culture war of race. Many would argue there isn’t a culture war and, even if there were, it doesn’t involve ethnicity. Those are the people who aren’t going to like this movie.

Director Neil LaBute has a history of putting his char-acters, and thus his audience, in uncomfortable situations meant solely to make them think. Samuel L. Jackson stars as a bitterly-racist LAPD offi-cer with nearly 30 years on the job and just as many question-able incidents on his record. He is a widower raising two teenagers in an upper-middle class cul-de-sac outside Los Angeles.

Jackson’s character, Able Turner, seems to be a subtle caricature of a 1950s Deep South sociopath. But as the film progresses, he may be just plain crazy. One day, a young married couple, played by Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington, move in next door. Able is greatly unhappy about an interracial couple liv-

ing next door, for reasons the film dispels slowly. Tension and hostility grow between these two households, allow-ing the characters to discover truths about themselves they were not ready to consider.

There are twists and turns throughout the film that are genuinely fascinating. The film could be billed as a thriller, for sure, but it is certainly much more than that. LaBute has made a film that works more as a social case study than an agenda-driven formality.

Are we, as a nation, still so conservatively-minded that the sight of an interracial cou-ple brings discomfort? Some would agree and some would disagree; this is exactly what Neil LaBute wants. If nothing else, conversations would start and people would be forced to examine their own personal views about race. Vehicles of debate are just a few of the glorious tools of the cinema; the audience just has to want to drive.

Cory TaylorPrintz Writer

Lakeview Terrace staring Samual L. Jackson and Patrick Wilson opened Sept. 19, 2008Courtesy of Sony Pictures

Lakeview TerraceRated PG 13 1 hr. 51 min

Showtimes: (12:20), (2:55), (5:35), 8:05, 10:30

Movie Review

The University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art will present the exhibition, “A Private Collection of Japanese Prints,” Sept. 23-Nov. 1 that highlights a selection of wood block prints from the collec-tion of Joseph W. Bailey of Hattiesburg.

An opening reception will be held from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday at the museum.

Bailey began his collec-tion 25 years ago and it has the charm, the originality and the personal character of the private collector, according to museum director Jan Siesling.

“Collecting art helped me to relax from a stressful job in the very technical branch of telecommunications and the business of big telephone companies,” Bailey said, add-ing that collecting art is not an easy task, especially in the be-ginning.

“It was during trips to an antique mall in Pensacola with my wife (Southern Miss Presi-dent Dr. Martha Saunders) that I would admire a pair of Japanese woodblock prints,”

Bailey said. “After hearing a number of comments that I made about them, she finally said, ‘Why don’t you just buy them?’ I did and paid far more than they were worth.”

Bailey traveled extensively throughout America and Eu-rope and in many other coun-tries. He found dealers that specialized in the woodblock prints in Paris, London and Amsterdam. “With the emer-

gence of the Internet, Japanese and European dealers started to sell prints via online auc-tions. It has changed the whole field,” he said.

Siesling likes to call the ex-

hibit “a rare bird’s eye view of 175 years of Japanese wood block art.” For the exhibit, he and his museum staff have mounted the show in such a way that the visitor can “dis-cover the print just as Joe Bai-ley did in the art markets and malls.”

“I look forward to our visi-tors being as surprised as I was when I first saw the print col-lection,” Siesling said. “One can get a sense of the art hunter who made his way through an-tique stores in the Old World.”

Even the novice will be im-pressed with the fine works of famous Japanese authors such as Hiroshige, Kunisada and Kuniyoshi. The prints range from mid-19th century to con-temporary print makers.

One special collection of prints came from Paul Jacou-let, a French-born Japanese artist. “He is a unique figure, even extravagant in his daily life, but is a great artist and print maker, and his prints are rarities. Joe Bailey is the proud owner of a dozen of them,” Siesling said.

The exhibit begins showing at the Museum of Art today.

Special to the Printz

Cory Taylor is a staff writer for The Student Printz. Comments can be sent to printz@usm.edu

Utagawa Hiroshige, The Sugatami Bridge, from the series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, c. 1856

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WUSM’s Programming Schedule:If you’re a local musician, WUSM wants your music.

USM’s public radio station is looking for music by local artists to play throughout the broadcast day. “We have always put local acts in program rotation, but we want more,” said station assistant manager Elliot Crawford. “We are very focused on the Pine Belt area, and we are advocates for local artists in every genre trying

to get their names out there.”Music for all of WUSM’s pro-

grams will be accepted. Inter-ested artists can send MP3 files to Crawford at wusm@usm.edu. CDs are to be sent to WUSM, 118 College Drive #10045.

The Classical Source - 3 a.m. to noonAmerican Roots - 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.Hub City Roots - 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.The Sounds of Jazz - 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.That College Music Show - 11 p.m. to 3 a.m.

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The opening reception will be held from 4-6 p.m. Thursday at the Museum of Art

JaPaneSe PRintS

Southern Miss Head Softball Coach Howard Dobson released the 2009 schedule Thursday that features nine teams, (Arkansas, Mississippi State, Louisiana Tech, LSU, Louisiana-Lafayette, East Carolina, UCF, Houston and Tulsa), that reached the postseason play last season. Home games against Baylor and LSU, four tournaments including two at home also highlight the slate.

“We defi nitely will have a challenging non-conference schedule,” said Dobson. “We open up at home with a our own tournament with two teams that played in the NCAA, then, we play at Mississippi State, before playing in the UNLV Tournament that has at least nine postseason teams. Several of those teams will be ranked in the Top 25. We will have some strong competition in non-conference before we open our conference play.”

The Lady Eagles open the season with their own Southern Miss Invitational (Feb. 6-8) that include Arkansas, Samford, Western Kentucky and Central Arkansas, before traveling to Mississippi State for a single game (Feb. 11).

Southern Miss then plays in the second of four tournaments when they travel to the UNLV Tournament which features nine teams that also played in postseason a year ago.

Southern Miss then will play Jackson State in a twin bill (Feb. 18), before hosting its second tournament (Feb. 20-22) as Louisiana Tech, Nicholls State, Alabama State and South Alabama come to the Southern Miss Softball Complex.

The Lady Eagles will also play non-conference opponents LSU (Feb. 25), travel to the Kennesaw State Tournament (Feb. 27-28), McNeese State (Mar. 3) and Louisiana-Lafayette (Mar. 4).

The Lady Eagles open C-USA play on the road against UAB (Mar. 7-8) with a three-game series.

“Our Conference USA teams are getting better and better each year and this season is no different,” Dobson said. “This non-conference schedule will get those freshmen prepared for conference play.”

Southern Miss hosts Baylor (Mar. 10) and Nicholls State (Mar. 11) before opening its home C-USA ledger with a three-game series against East Carolina (Mar. 14-15). Other conference home series include Memphis (Mar. 28-29), UTEP (April (18-19) and Houston (April 25-26).

Southern Miss also then travels to Marshall (Mar. 21-22), UCF (April 4-5) and Tulsa (May 2-3), which other road tilts include single games at Ole Miss (April 14) and South Alabama (April 16).

The Conference USA Championship is scheduled for May 7-9 in El Paso, Texas.

The Lady Eagles return nine letterwinners, including fi ve position player starters and two starting pitchers from last year’s squad that fi nished 25-30.

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Southern Miss swept North Texas and McNeese State Friday and Saturday to claim second place in the inaugural Southern Miss La Quinta Inn Invitational Tournament.

The Eagles faced tournament champion Central Florida on Thursday night, but due to Conference-USA rules the match counted towards the Lady Eagles’ conference record and the two teams did not face each other in the tournament.

The Lady Eagles bounced back from Thursday’s loss with an impressive 3-0 victory over North Texas on Friday to open the first tournament hosted by the Golden Eagles under head coach Ricci Luyties.

Southern Miss started off well in the first set by jumping out to a 7 point lead and never looking back. The Lady Eagles showed an extremely balanced attack in the first set, as four players registered kills in the 25-17 victory. Ashley Petrinec and Stevi Cherry led the team with 8 kills and Cherry led with 15 digs in the match.

The Lady Eagles jumped out to another big lead in the second set, leading by 9 until late. Later in the set USM blew a 10 point lead but managed to hang on to win by 2 with a 25-23 final. The team fought off another late rally in the third set by North Texas and took the match 25-22.

“We played good,” Senior Ashley Petrinec said when asked about how she felt of her team’s performance. “It felt good to redeem ourselves after

yesterday with a quality win. It was hard fought and I think we played very well. We could’ve talked more which would have made it easier, but that all comes with experience.”

Petrinec said she believed the match did a great deal for the Lady Eagles’ confidence.

“We broke our losing streak and gained some confidence. We gave it our best and we came out on top.”

Southern Miss concluded tournament play on Saturday with a 3-0 victory over McNeese State.

The Eagles claimed the first game 25-21, the second game 25-22, and dominated the final game 25-18.

Petrinec and Angela Hlavaty both registered 10 kills, and Maia Ivanova finished with a match-high 18 digs.

The Lady Eagles moved to 10-4 on the season with the wins, and will return to action on Sept. 26 when the team travels to Tulsa for a C-USA match.

Volleyball sweeps teams as host

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Kelsea Seymour, a freshman setter from Long Beach, Calif., sets the ball for Lauren Sears, a freshman middle back from Ashburn, Va., in Friday night’s game against North Texas. Southern Miss won the match 3-0.

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Matches against Arkansas, Mississippi State and LSU highlight non-conference games

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‘‘We de� nitely will have a challenging non-conference schedule. We open up at home with a our own tournament with two teams that played in the NCAA, then, we play at Mississippi State, before playing in the UNLV Tournament that has at least nine postseason teams.

-Howard Dobson, head coach

2008-09 Softball Roster:

Brandi AlonzoLauren CastellviSamantha DavisBritney Dinelt Hannah Griffi n Courtney HillMegan Hill Alexis Hurley Logan JamesBrittney JonesLeslie LeJuneCasey Jo MatthewsKristin PilgrimCourtney Ramos Ashley RazeyStephanie Shifl et Chanell ThurmanLana Vaughn

Head coach: Howard Dobson

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‘‘We broke our losing streak and gained some confidence. We gave it our best and we came out on top.

Ashley Petrinec, senior

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Southern Miss head coach Larry Fedora didn’t beat around the bush Saturday after his Golden Eagles’ 34-27 loss to Marshall.

“Give Marshall credit,” Fedora opened. “They were the better football team today. Their coaches did a great job of preparing them to play at our place, and they beat us. We were out-played and out-coached in every phase.”

It may sound harsh, but Fedora’s criticism was fairly accurate.

After jumping out to a 7-0 lead in the fi rst quarter with a 68-yard home run ball to freshman sensation DeAndre Brown, the Eagles were out-gained, out-blocked and out-focused by a young Marshall team.

After falling into a 34-20 hole, the Eagles made a fi erce attempt at a comeback.

Damion Fletcher punched in a touchdown from two yards out to cut the Marshall lead to seven with just over a minute and a half remaining, but the fi nal Eagle drive stalled at the Marshall 35-yard line.

“There was never a point int he game where I felt like we couldn’t get it done,” Southern Miss quarterback Austin Davis said. “The whole time I was just thinkg to myself, ‘If we just calm down and do what we do, we can win this thing.’”

Marshall true freshman quarterback Mark Cann completed 16 of 25 pass attempts for 228 yards and two touchdowns. Nine of those completions went to Darius Passmore, who fi nished with 139 yards. Four other Cann passes went to all-conference tight end Cody Slate, who gave the Eagle linebackers all they could handle with his size and speed.

The Southern Miss defense, which prides itself on its run-stuffi ng ability, was gashed for 201 yards, with the bulk of the

carries coming in the second half when the Eagles were trying to come back.

The Eagles’ fast-paced offense had trouble getting anything going in the fi rst half after that initial touchdown, but for the most part was hitting on all cylinders when the fi nal gun sounded.

Davis showed a steady hand, completing 27 of 49 pass attempts for a career-high 308 yards, with two touchdowns and one interception.

The Eagles’ offensive ground game, which came in averaging over 200 yards a contest, gained just 123 yards, 45 of which were gained by a scrambling Davis.

“Anytime the defense takes away something, it’s real hard to be a one dimensional offense,” Davis said. “We got it going a little bit better in the second half, but we have to put together two halves.”

The worst thing about the loss, which was Southern Miss’ fi rst ever to Marshall, is that the Eagles don’t get a chance to get back on the fi eld for two weeks, leaving the bitter taste of a home loss in their mouth during the off week.

“I think any loss sits bad,” Southern Miss linebacker Gerald McRath said. “This hurts a little extra because you have a week longer to think abou it, but you have to come in to watch fi rlm, have a short-term memory, take criticism, and take coaching.”

The Eagles will have a full two weeks to prepare their next opponent, the UTEP Miners, who will come to town Oct. 4.

“We’re going to continue to get better,” Fedora said. “We’re not anywhere close to where we need to be, on offense, defense or special teams. There is still a learning curve, and we need to keep working.”

Lack of focus, penalties fi nish Eagles Don’t sound the alarm yet

S o u t h e r n Miss may have lost a home-opener to a team they were favored to beat, but this is no reason to pull the fi re alarm.

Marshall is a very talented

team. Not a good team, but a talented team – kind of like our beloved Golden Eagles.

The difference in a good team and a talented team is that a good team is going to give a B-plus or better performance every week, while a talented team has the potential to do the same, but on occasion goes out and lays an egg or shows fl ashes of problems that keep them from getting over the “good team” hump.

The Eagles fall into the latter category.

Southern Miss’ 11 penalties for 129 yards, as coach Larry Fedora said after the game, came at the worst times and hurt bad. One of the worst examples was a fourth-and-one in the third quarter where tight end Jonathan Massey was called for a false start, leading to a missed fi eld goal instead of a fi rst down at the Marshall 20-yard line.

If the Eagles go on to score a touchdown on that drive, the game is tied going into the fourth quarter. Marshall took advantage of these mistakes and in turn won the ballgame.

Massey wasn’t the only Eagle called for a mental mistake-penalty, but that is just one example of how the Eagles shot themselves in the foot Saturday.

Looking at the schedule ahead, the Eagles are going to have to pull out some tough wins on the road if they want to go bowling. My guess is that Fedora will get this stuff straightened out, he’s not the kind of guy that puts up with anything less than his team’s best effort.

A TIP OF THE HATSeveral phases of the team

deserve a tip of the hat this week, and that starts with Davis. The freshman is the fi rst quarterback in Southern Miss history to start his career with four 200-plus-yard passing games.

Davis could be a four-year type player if he can hold off true freshman Bret Jefcoat, who will likely get a red-shirt this season unless something happens to Davis and backup Martavius Young.

Another tip of the hat to the entire team, who never seem to give up. No matter what the score or how much time is left, this team has showed that it will not quit on their coach or their school and will play hard until the fi nal gun.

They didn’t quit on the road against Auburn, and they didn’t quit when they were trailing Marshall by 14 in the fourth quarter. Kudos to Fedora for instilling that sense of pride in the players.

ON A LIGHTER NOTELet me be the fi rst to say

that I like the idea of wearing alternative jerseys. It’s a good marketing technique, and a welcome change of scenery on game day. But those jerseys at Saturday’s game were U-G-L-Y.

The design is great, but since when did Southern Miss change it’s colors to black and yellow? Not just yellow, but neon yellow, ugly yellow.

Take a page from the baseball team, they wear yellow home jerseys (which also should be gold) that look good with white pants with black trim.

I’m all about the gold jerseys, just make them gold or call them yellow.Tyler Cleveland is sports editor for The Student Printz. Comments can be sent to printz@usm.edu

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Sebe Dale IV/PrintzTop: Freshman defensive lineman, Cordarro Law, attemps to stop Darius Passmore, a senior wide receiver for Marshall Saturday. The Golden Eagles fell to the Herd 34-27.Left: Quarterback Austin Davis searches for a receiver during Saturdayʼs game against Marshall. Davis threw a total of 308 yards and scored on a 12 yard run late in the third quarter.

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Sports CalendarTODAY• All Day – Men’s Golf in Adams Cup -- Newport, R.I.

FRIDAY• 3 p.m. – Women’s Cross Country at Southern Miss

XC Invitational -- Hattiesburg• 7 p.m. – Women’s Volleyball at Tulsa -- Tulsa, Okla.• 7 p.m. – Women’s Soccer at Memphis -- Memphis, Tenn.

SUNDAY• 1 p.m. – Women’s Volleyball at SMU -- Dallas, Texas• 2 p.m. – Women’s Soccer at UAB -- Birmingham, Ala.

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