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In a state ranked low when it comes to education, the Ox-ford School District ranking continues to rise.

The Mississippi Department of Education has released the official 2011 accountability ratings for schools and school districts in Mississippi, showing positive results.

Oxford School District is now labeled as High Perform-ing, one of the highest rank-ing school districts in the state, and has met growth in all of its schools this year.

On the scale of Failing, Low

Performing, At Risk of Fail-ing, Academic Watch, Success-ful, High Performing and Star, more than half the schools in Mississippi have been labeled Successful or above.

Sixty-five schools are labeled Star, the highest ranking, 181 schools are labeled High Per-forming, and there is a decrease in the number of schools with the lowest ranking, Failing.

Oxford High School has been designated as a Star School with a Quality of Distribution (QDI) score of 216 and one of the highest graduation rates in the state. The middle and elementary schools are close behind in the QDI score, with scores close to 200.

In order to receive a Star

ranking for the district overall, a school or district must have three things: a QDI score of at least 200 district wide, a high percentage graduation rate and have high growth.

William Hamilton, assistant superintendent for Oxford School District and Test Coor-dinator for the past eight years, is confident that Oxford School District as a whole can earn a Star title if the QDI is raised.

“We’re in good shape right now, but we need to get our QDI district score up,” he said. “As the middle schools and el-ementary schools continue to raise their scores, we can get it there.”

The QDI is based on the number of students taking a

test in each category and is as-sembled into points based on the students’ scores.

Every school in Oxford has increased its QDI score this year, but only Oxford High School received the Star rank-ing.

“We were happy to see that our QDI increased, but we must continue working dili-gently to continue to see in-creases in QDI,” said Jeffrey Clay, Oxford Middle School principal. “To improve, we do not have to work harder, we have to work smarter.”

Clay said the middle school is “working smarter” by pro-viding students with a rigor-ous curriculum and expanding learning opportunities, pro-

tecting the integrity of their instructional time by maximiz-ing each minute, having inter-ventions, identifying students’ who need extra assistance and working to provide them with the necessary assistance.

Hamilton said he believes interventions are the most ef-fective way for learning. The Mississippi Department of Ed-ucation requires interventions to help deficit areas in schools by a three tier system.

“We have to provide success-ful interventions for these stu-dents so they can have success in the classes,” Hamilton said.

In addition to the interven-tions provided, the school

It’s been an interesting week in Oxford following Saturday’s loss in Nashville, Tenn.

Fan reactions have been mixed, some ready to cheer on the Reb-els at the game, some ready to stay in the Grove and others are looking to forget what happened all together.

Head coach Houston Nutt and his team look to put that game behind them as they get ready for the Georgia Bulldogs to come to town.

“This is my football team,” Nutt said. “I take full responsibility for last Saturday’s performance. I re-ally believe we have coaches and players who care. They want to please our fans.

“Chancellor (Dan) Jones is not the football coach. (Athletics Di-rector) Pete Boone is not the foot-ball coach. It’s my responsibility to get them going.”

This week’s practices were cen-tered around responding to ad-versity and getting it done against the Bulldogs.

“That is why I love this game –– it’s the toughest game there is in the world,” Nutt said. “It’s a

man’s game. You’re going to get knocked down. It’s about how you respond. It’s about getting back up. I believe this game is the best teacher there is. The bottom line is that we’ve got some guys out here competing that want to get it done.”

The focus this week is solely on Georgia (1-2, 0-1 SEC). The Bulldogs started the season with tough losses to No. 4 Boise State and No. 12 South Carolina, be-fore bouncing back with a con-vincing 59-0 shutout of FCS op-ponent Coastal Carolina.

Like the Rebels, Georgia head coach Mark Richt and his team are desperate for a win. Nutt said this year’s Bulldogs are “a typical Georgia team.”

“They are a good football team that is very athletic,” Nutt said. “They have a good quarterback in Aaron Murray and a good running game. They have good receivers.

“Their defense has been fly-ing around. They are a lot like us because they didn’t make plays when they could have. They lost two games that were very close.”

Murray, who is considered among the best quarterbacks in the country, has thrown for 672

yards with nine touchdown passes and two interceptions this season. Ole Miss defensive coordinator Tyrone Nix said Murray will be the best quarterback his defense has faced this season.

Another player to watch on the offensive side of the ball is fresh-man running back Isaiah Crow-ell, who has already racked up 264 yards on the ground, as well as a couple of touchdowns.

In the passing game, another

freshman, wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell leads the Bulldogs with 14 catches for 159 yards and two touchdowns. Murray’s other top targets are junior wide receiver Tavarres King (nine catches for 108 yards and three touch-downs) and junior tight end Or-son Charles (eight catches for 151 yards and two touchdowns).

For the Ole Miss offense, there have been issues — big issues. The offense has looked stagnant

and offensive coordinator David Lee spent this past week trying to get some of those kinks worked out.

It will be critical for the Ole Miss offensive line, which has made a lot of mistakes early on this season, to get on track Satur-day, or they could be in for a long day against sophomore Jarvis Jones, who lines up at both line-

Rebels look to get back on track against GeorgiaBY DAVID COLLIERdlcollie@olemiss.edu

Oxford School District ranks ‘High Performing’ based on state test scores BY CAITLIN CLANCYcgclancy3@gmail.com

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ALEX EDWARDS | The Daily Mississippian

See REBELS, PAGE 5

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Sophomore running back Jeff Scott eludes a defender in Saturday’s game against Vanderbilt. Scott leads the team with 178 yards on 36 carries, and senior running backs Brandon Bolden and Enrique Davis will dress and are expected to play Saturday against Georgia.

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I turned the TV off three times during the Vanderbilt game. If not for the strategic placement of couch pillows, I might have broken a fist. It was the worst game I’d ever seen Ole Miss play, and I was mad.

But what upset me more than the drumming we took on the field was the way some of the Ole Miss “faithful” reacted. In

newspapers across the region Monday, a growing coalition of Rebel fans under the misnomer “Forward Rebels” launched an ad attack on Athletics Director Pete Boone.

Part of the ad stated: “We be-lieve that our coaches are not the problem. Or our athletes. Or our fans. The Ole Miss Admin-istration is the problem.”

In other words, it’s all Boone’s fault and no one else’s. They’d have you think Boone was the one jumping offsides and miss-ing tackles Saturday.

At a press conference earlier this week, head coach Houston Nutt accepted all of the blame

for the poor play, as he should. He’s the one in charge. That’s why we pay him the big bucks.

Coach Nutt has said time and again that he loves football be-cause it teaches players about life.

“You’re going to get knocked down,” Nutt said in a press con-ference Tuesday. “(But) it’s about how you respond.”

That’s the right attitude. Get back up, Rebels.

These “Forward Rebels” folks have the wrong attitude. Instead of supporting the team, they are pumping money into an ill-fated effort to oust the man on top. In the process, they’re only fueling

negativity and a lack of confi-dence in our program.

They clearly don’t have the university’s best interest at heart.

If they did, they’d put their thousands in smear ad money toward the $150 million athletics campaign that’s well underway.

Look, we’re all frustrated with our recent lack of athletic suc-cess, but I implore you to not to follow these mutineers. We can weather this storm, but we all need to stick together and keep supporting our program in healthy ways.

I’ve been a Rebel fan long enough to know that this isn’t

the time to throw in the towel. In 2003 we lost early sea-

son games to Texas Tech and Memphis before winning seven straight SEC games and the Cotton Bowl.

We have nine games left in the season. That’s 540 minutes of football.

Will you be cheering for our players or pouting about the administration when we turn it around?

Taylor McGraw is president of the Associated Student Body. He is a senior public policy leadership major from Oxford. Follow him on Twitter @taylor_mcgraw.

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Fellow Rebels,

It goes without saying that this past week has been one filled with disappointment. This letter is not intended to remind us of what has been talked about since the first turnover last Saturday.

Instead, we want to remind you, members of the Ole Miss family, that our role as fans is just as valuable as the roles of the team and coaching staff. The time to come together as Reb-els is now. Our team needs us. Coach Nutt and his staff need us.

The entire game-day atmo-sphere is dependent upon us.

We cannot continue to discour-age our own team and staff, ex-pecting them to put more points on the board or more wins on our record. We cannot continue to leave the game early out of frustration and then expect the team to play harder.

We cannot continue to openly dishearten our Rebels and ex-pect them to come back after a loss with renewed energy and vigor.

As Ole Miss Rebels, we must stand behind our team – win or lose.

Kick-off is at 11:21 a.m. to-morrow. Get there at 10:41 a.m. Wear Red. Lock the Vaught.

Yell in support the entire game. And stay until the end. Our team needs us more than ever.

Be loud. Be proud. Be a Reb-el.

Hotty Toddy,Margaret Ann MorganOle Miss Cardinal Club

To the Editor:

About a week ago, there was an article that quoted me saying, “I have no empathy for fresh-men.” I feel that I must clarify this statement.

I don’t have empathy for fresh-men: freshmen who park on the curb, obstruct traffic or park in fire lanes!

These offenses have nothing to do with how well you are in-formed on parking rules and reg-ulations on campus; these offens-es are state-wide regulations that all licensed drivers are supposed to know. Never is it applicable to park on a curb, park obstructing traffic or park in a fire lane.

As for parking on campus, I share and understand all of the ills that the students on campus have with parking.

As the chairman of the Traf-fic Appeals Board, I see these issues first-hand. If you feel that you do not deserve an issued ticket, I solicit you to either write an appeal or appear in-person on Wednesdays at 3:00 p.m. in Union room 403. I stated in the article that the newly selected board was hard, and I will stand by that statement. However, we dismiss a multitude of tickets

every week. I suggest that you come in person.

If you write an appeal, you are limited on what you can say and you are leaving your ticket in the hands of one person on the board. But, if you come in per-son, you can thoroughly explain your situation and will have a board of diverse students vote on your appeal.

This board is here for you, we are all students who share your grievances with the campus parking. If you have any ques-tions, don’t hesitate to send me an e-mail at traffic@olemiss.edu. Drive safe, enjoy this wonderful college life and if you believe your charge is wrong, come in to appeal!

Cortez AdamsPublic policy leadership majorChairman, Traffic Appeals Court

To the Editor:

My name is Hunter Crane and I am an alumnus of the Univer-sity of Mississippi, current sea-son ticket holder and the biggest Ole Miss optimist you will ever meet.

I have had about all of the negativity toward our team and coaching staff that I can take. We have played 3 football games this fall and everyone is consider-ing this season to be a lost cause. Why do we do that?

I know the typical answer is because we have been Ole Miss fans our entire lives and this is how it always is. I believe the Forward Together campaign is trying to push us in the direction we as fans want to go, but we will never get there with the attitude we display about our football team.

Did Alabama fans abandon their team in 2007 when they went 6-6? No they didn’t, they showed up every game with 90,000 plus attendance.

If Ole Miss wants to get to the level of football of teams like Al-

abama and LSU, then we need to start showing up and sup-porting the Ole Miss Rebels like those fans do.

Everyone talks about how we need to get back to the team of 2008 and 2009. I remember at the beginning of the 2008 sea-son we were 2-2 with loses to Vanderbilt and Wake Forest and our two wins were against push-over teams like Memphis and Samford.

Everyone was considering that to be a lost season as well. Then what happened? We beat Flori-da, the excitement grew, and the very next week we lost to South Carolina and then to Alabama. And once again everyone was doubtful and thought we just wasted the win against Florida.

But what happened? We reeled off 6 straight wins against the likes of Arkansas, Auburn, LSU, MSU and Texas Tech.

What’s to say that this team cannot do the same?

Was the loss to Vanderbilt em-barrassing? Absolutely –– to us the fans, the administration, the coaches and most importantly the players. But WE HAVE to back our team if we expect to be GREAT.

We cannot throw them under the bus and go sit in the Grove when the season has just begun. This team needs a spark; it needs a win to rebound off of. I believe we can get it.

I believe it is out there and that this team is capable of being a very good football team.

We need to remember a player who we as Ole Miss fans hold very dear. Chucky Mullins. “You can never give up,” is what he told an ESPN interviewer.

“You’ve got to tell yourself you can never quit. You’ve got to keep going.” And if Chucky Mullins wasn’t quitting after he was injured and if he was still pursuing his dreams, then how can we ever quit?

If Chucky Mullins didn’t cave in to self-pity, how could we?

If, after all he had gone

through, his courage remained resolute, how could ours ever waver? He believed there were no losses, only temporary set-backs. There was always hope through the thickest gloom. He never said never.

“Don’t ever quit.” Chucky Mullins didn’t.

So let’s support our team. Let’s believe that we can accomplish great things here at Ole Miss.

I believe the following passage says it best: “There is a valid dis-tinction between The Univer-sity and Ole Miss even though the separate threads are closely interwoven. The University is buildings, trees and people. Ole Miss is mood, emotion and per-sonality. One is physical, and the other is spiritual. One is tangible and the other intangible. The

University is respected, but Ole Miss is loved. The University gives a diploma and regretfully terminates tenure, but one never graduates from Ole Miss.”

Let’s be the true fans of Ole Miss that we always are at the be-ginning of the season. Let’s hold it together all the way through, no matter what.

We should come out in full support on Saturday against Georgia and let our boys know we are going to be here for them, cheering and chanting Hotty Toddy. That’s what we should do if we are TRUE fans and TRUE OLE MISS REBELS.

Hunter CraneOle Miss AlumnusCurrent Football Season Ticket Holder

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The city of Oxford voted to pass a bond this past October that would make a much-needed ex-pansion to Oxford High School a reality.

“We have got to have the physi-cal space for 1,200 students to go,” Oxford School District in-terim superintendent Brian Har-vey said.

With an elementary school holding almost double the enroll-ment of the high school, accord-ing to the Oxford School District Enrollment Summary compiled on Aug. 24, the Oxford School Board is finally making room for the unavoidable growth.

“All of this is geared toward that high enrollment,” Oxford High

School Principal Michael Martin said. “Early in, the school system realized that with the large influx of students coming, something had to happen.”

Eley Guild Hardy, founded in Jackson in 1953, is the architec-tural company in charge of the new Oxford High School facil-ity. Having previously designed the Robert C. Khayat Law Cen-ter, the Gertrude Castellow Ford Center and the Residential Col-leges on the University of Missis-sippi campus to name a few, EGH is no stranger to Oxford.

Harvey said the principle ar-chitect on the project is Michael Jones; however, he said no docu-ments have been signed by con-tractors, as the board is still in the bidding process and will not make a decision for a few months.

The $30 million bond awarded to the Oxford School District this past October is being applied to more than just the new high school, which means all of it can-not go toward the new school alone. Harvey said some of the career and technical programs, the performing arts center and the auxiliary gym may not be built right away, depending on available funds.

Some of the money has already been spent on preparing the ground for the new high school, hiring the architect and conduct-ing various academic studies, Martin said. The final cost will not be known until the final structural details are decided upon, which will not be until a contractor has been hired.

“The bids will be taken by vari-

ous construction companies who want the jobs, and then once those bids are made, then you will truly know what the final cost of the buildings will be,” Martin said. “And that depends on things like the cost of brick, the cost of diesel fuel, the cost of labor, where the construction company is located and who we choose.”

The original estimate for the new high school was approxi-mately $27.7 million, Harvey said; however, that was before the performing arts center was added to the plans.

Harvey said the Oxford School District is being careful to stay within its budget for the new facil-ity. The actual building has been divided into various parts; some are necessities and others are amenities, all of which may not be built immediately. The school board will decide what parts of the school are built first and what is held off for later, Martin add-ed.

“It’s like building your house,” Martin said. “You’d love to have the swimming pool and the three-car garage and the lawn land-scape, but sometimes all you can do is get the frame up.”

The current Oxford High School facility is over 50 years old, and Harvey said the new building, estimated to be around 240,000 square feet, will provide students with more places and ways to learn.

“It will be a new learning facil-ity with new learning spaces,” he said. “There are some outdoor learning spaces that are planned and some integration between in-door and outdoor spaces. I think that adds to students being able to achieve (more).”

Harvey said the Oxford School Board hopes to begin construc-tion on the new school in Decem-ber of this year or in January of next year, with a projected open-ing date of August of 2013.

Martin said the current facility will still be used after the new high school opens, despite its size and outdated technology. Specifically, the outside areas of the old high school will continue to be used for athletics; it is still undecided whether any auditorium space at the old school will be used, Mar-tin said.

The actual building will be “more or less gutted,” he added, to be updated with new technol-ogy, lighting and “a long laundry list” of other things. Martin said the facility will then reopen for seventh and eighth grade.

The final details of the new fa-cility should be ironed out within a couple of months and a few more board meetings, Martin said, as the Oxford School Board is mak-ing the decisions about which bid to take and which contractor to hire.

“They are working around the clock on it,” he said.

While the primary goal of the new high school is to accommo-date the rising enrollment num-bers, Harvey said the Oxford School Board is also aiming to build an energy-efficient facility.

“I am a firm believer that we have to take care of what has been given to us,” Harvey said. “We are looking at building a LEED school and we hope we are going to be able to achieve that.”

According to the U.S. Green Building Council website, LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, “is an internationally-recognized green building certification system.”

The goal is to promote sustain-able development and building practices through a rating system, which recognizes projects that “implement strategies for better environmental and health perfor-mance.”

In addition to taking a few steps toward Oxford’s green initiative, the new facility will be an influen-tial addition to a developing area.

The new Oxford High School will be located on Sisk Avenue, a decision made after a long search was conducted, followed by delib-eration among the board. Martin said the location was chosen based on different criteria, including city limit lines and proximity to the other schools.

“The main thing I am looking forward to personally for Oxford High School is room,” Martin said. “We have a wonderful staff, a wonderful student body and a wonderful community, but you just can’t keep forcing them into a really tight arena and expecting great results. It just doesn’t work like that.”

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JACKSON (AP) — The fami-lies of two transplant patients who received organs from an unidenti-fied donor with a rare, undetected parasite have filed lawsuits against Mississippi Organ Recovery Agen-cy and the University of Mississip-pi Medical Center.

Ellecia Small of Canton died Feb. 3, 2010, after being removed from life support. Another patient who received an organ was only identified by UMMC as an Ala-bama man. The Clarion-Ledger reports that a lawsuit identities him as Kinyata Johnson.

Johnson’s attorney says he was released from UMMC in May 2010 but requires constant care.

The parasite infecting the donor was later identified as a free-living soil amoeba.

The amoeba causes encephali-tis, or inflammation of the brain.

JACKSON (AP) — Mississippi’s commissioner of higher educa-tion says he expects a loss of fed-eral funding to hurt the state’s eight public universities.

Hank Bounds spoke Monday to legislators who are starting to plan state spending for the fiscal year

that begins July 1.Federal earmarks have been

stopped and stimulus dollars are phasing out. Bounds said he’s also concerned about the future of re-search dollars and Pell grants.

Since the late 1990s, Mississippi universities have received an in-creasing percentage of their fund-ing from tuition and a decreasing percentage from the taxpayer dol-lars — a pattern that officials say is taking place in many other states as well.

Information provided by the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning shows that in the state fis-cal year that ended June 30, 1998, Mississippi universities received 54 percent of their funding from the state budget and 33 percent from tuition. For the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, they’re receiv-ing 37 percent of their funding from the state budget and 57 per-cent from tuition.

Bounds said that while the out-of-pocket expense for students has increased several times over the past decade, university tuition increases in Mississippi have been less dramatic than they’ve been in other southern states.

Mississippi universities are re-ceiving about $1,000 per student less in state support now than they did a decade ago, Bounds said.

“We are focused on being re-

sourceful and efficient,” he said.While universities have found

ways to save some operating ex-penses, Bounds said one way they’ve absorbed the change in state funding is by having fewer faculty members in relation to the number of students — the oppo-site of what they’ve wanted to do to promote academic achievement.

The university system is request-ing more money for the coming year, including an additional $50 million for general campus needs, which is a proposed increase of 14.6 percent.

The system is also seeking an ad-ditional $22.9 million for the Uni-versity of Mississippi Medical Cen-ter, which is a proposed increase of 10.5 percent.

The state’s university system currently has its highest enrollment ever, with seven of the eight schools setting records.

The university selected Ken-tucky native David D. Allen as the new dean of the School of Phar-macy, following a national search.

Allen, 49, is replacing Barbara G. Wells, who retires Dec. 31, and Allen will begin on Jan. 1.

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hopes to place interactive white boards in the classrooms to increase engagement in the learning process and help stu-dents who have difficulties in learning.

Teachers and parents also play a huge role in the success of these students and contrib-ute greatly to the recent score increases, Clay said.

Oxford School District firmly believes in hiring teachers who are highly qualified, and profes-

sional development is provided to teachers in the Oxford to ensure the continual improve-ment of education.

Parent groups, like the Par-ents’ Campaign, headed by Nancy Loom, and PTO/PTA groups, also help schools by hosting events and raising mon-ey. For example, the Parents’ Campaign is hosting a series of community conversations about ways to set Mississippi on a path toward academic and economic success.

The strategy of Oxford schools consists of continued hard work on the part of the teachers, principals and central

administrators, with hopes that this strategy will result in good test scores.

Bela J. Chain, Oxford School Board president, is happy with good test scores, but reminds us that there are other factors in evaluating schools.

“The Mississippi Account-ability System is too heavily de-pendent on state tests scores in my opinion,” she said. “There needs to be additional means whereby we evaluate our schools.

“I feel that the school should be primarily evaluated on its products, the success of its graduates.”

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backer and defensive end for the Bulldogs.

So far this season, he has 20 tackles, including 2.5 tackles for loss and four quarterback hur-ries.

“He is one of the best defen-sive ends we’ll face all year,” Nutt said. “This guy is physical; he’s tough. He loves contact; he looks for it. We’ll have to know where he is at all times.”

On the offensive line, freshman Aaron Morris will make his first career start at left guard in place of sophomore Patrick Junen.

Another thing the Rebel of-fense has been working on this week is limiting turnovers.

“Less mistakes – that’s the bot-tom line,” he said. “Let’s don’t stop ourselves. We’ve been stop-ping ourselves a lot. We can’t have that.”

The Rebels have had some guys out with injuries all season long, but this week that list has dwindled quite drastically.

Senior running backs Brandon

Bolden and Enrique Davis aren’t quite 100 percent, but both will dress and are expected to be ready to play Saturday. Sopho-more running back Jeff Scott has also been banged up follow-ing the Vanderbilt game, but he should be ready to go Saturday.

Junior quarterback Randall Mackey suffered a thigh bruise against Vanderbilt, but will be available on Saturday if the Reb-els decide to put him into the game.

Sophomore linebacker Mike Marry, who has worn a walking boot off and on this week to pro-tect the strained arch of his foot, is also expected to go in and will be counted on Saturday.

Junior wide receiver Melvin Harris, who missed the first three games due to a back injury, prac-ticed all week and should get into the mix against Georgia, too.

Sophomore safety Brishen Matthews is the only remaining player out for the Rebels, as he continues to nurse a back injury.

Kickoff is set for 11:21 a.m. in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium and will air on the SEC Net-work.

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Despite its self-explanatory name, there’s more going on at Ole Miss Outdoors than meets the eye.

This semester brings several changes to the program, in addi-tion to returning activities.

Shannon Richardson, campus recreation director of OMOD, said one of the most frequently asked questions is, “How do I join OMOD?”

Richardson said OMOD is not necessarily a club that students join, but instead a program that offers different trips, gear rentals and weekly sport-specific clubs.

The clubs are open to all Uni-versity of Mississippi students and faculty/staff, regardless of experience level.

OMOD gear rental has an extensive inventory, including tents, sleeping bags, bouldering crash pads and kayaks.

The program acquired new gear this semester: Big Agnes 2-, 4- and 6-person tents, Jackson Coosa fishing gear and Hero whitewater kayaks.

Richardson said the old kay-aks, “which still have a lot of useful life,” will be auctioned off through the procurement page on the university website.

OMOD graduate assistant Casey Armstrong encourages those interested in the old boats to email the OMOD Gmail ac-count to be put on the list for auction.

Another facet of OMOD is the Rebel Challenge Course, which is open every Friday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

To participate, students and other members of the Ole Miss community need only to bring closed-toe shoes and their ID card to the course.

OMOD also offers clinics for those looking to hone their outdoors skills, including rock

climbing, belaying, rappelling and kayak rolling.

“It is never too late to join one of our clubs,” Armstrong said.

Richardson said all the infor-mation students need can be found in the OMOD office, or the “cave” as it is affectionately referred to by the staff. The office serves as the hub for all OMOD does.

The office is downstairs in the Turner Center with the racquet-ball courts and swimming pool, and it is staffed by knowledgeable students with more than enough certifications and experience to help the curious find what they need.

Armstrong encourages people of all skill levels to participate in clubs and trips.

“If you have never been on an outdoor trip you should come with us and try it out,” Arm-strong said. “You can learn so much and then be ready to set off on your our adventure.”

OMOD enjoying another year of successBY RACHEL CLARKryclark@olemiss.edu

Three University of Missis-sippi students recently traveled to Africa to provide meals for underprivileged children and are planning another trip in 2012.

Katherine Russell, Leigh Kai-ser and Trevor Williams came together through a “Feed the Hunger” sponsored Pack-a-thon in Oxford last year.

The Pack-a-thon brought local students, churches, busi-nesses and residents together to package over 146,000 meals for children in Africa. The Pack-a-thon held in Oxford was the first to be organized on a college campus and raised more money and packed more meals than any other Pack-a-thon in 2010.

During the Pack-a-thon, packages of dried rice and veg-etables, beans, soy and dried meat were boxed together and later shipped to storage facilities in Kenya, where the meals were prepared and given to children.

Having the opportunity to package the meals convinced Russell, Kaiser and Williams to do more, so this summer all three traveled to Kenya to deliv-er meals to the children them-selves.

From July 22 to Aug. 1, the three traveled through Nairobi and Karungu, visiting half a dozen schools where they pre-pared meals for the children and spent time with them.

Williams said that during the trip, both Nairobi and Karungu were devastated by a year-long drought and famine, and that

often the meals provided were the only meals the children re-ceived all day.

Russell said the experience was a humbling one.

“The kids would prepare songs for us and one was crying when we brought the food down the hill because they knew that was their food,” she said. “Over there, if you have a utensil to eat with, you were considered wealthy.”

Russell and Kaiser became involved with the program through Kappa Kappa Gam-ma, who sponsored projects that have sent girls to Africa for the last five years. They have also worked to send other items to the children, in addition to meals.

“We brought teddy bears and books to Kenya, and we distrib-

uted the teddy bears and books to schools,” Russell said. “We took the teddy bears to a village, and for most of them that was the first teddy bear they’d ever had. Then we gave the books to one of the school and the princi-pal said that since last year their English scores have gone up.”

“This experience opened up a whole new world for me,” Kai-ser said. “They are in desper-ate need of our help and it has inspired me to do everything in my power to do so.”

Williams, who joined the proj-ect after receiving an Ole Miss Today announcement from Russell and Kaiser about the mission trip, said the experience gave him a different outlook on life.

“Every morning and night I always pray a special prayer for

the friends I met in Africa,” he said. “It was an amazing experi-ence just being able to hear their stories. I tried to avoid as much as possible having a guilty con-scious because of how ungrate-ful I am for small things, but things such as piece of candy mean so much to them.

“I know being one person I can only do so much but I made a vow to the friends that I met in Africa that I would do every-thing I could to keep hope alive for them.”

Another Pack-a-thon is sched-uled for Feb. 24-25, and students as well as businesses and church-es are asked to participate. Anyone interested in forming a team for next year’s Pack-a-thon should contact Katherine Russell at umpak2011@gmail.com.

UM students inspired by trip to Africa, plan more outreachBY SARAH HARDENSeharden135@gmail.com

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Changing your own oil is a dirty, time-consuming job. But, it also gives you a sense of accomplishment and can some-times be fun. Not to mention, that just about anybody is capable of doing it, and it saves you a good amount of mon-ey. So put on that T-shirt with the huge nacho stain, and be prepared to smell like a mechanic. But don’t worry; I will guide you through the whole process.

• Wrench to fit your oil plug• Oil. Synthetic or con-ventional. Refer to your owner’s manual or oil cap to see how much and what the recommended weight is. (i.e. 10w-30, 5w-40, etc.) • New oil filter• Something to lift and hold the car up. (i.e. ramps or a jack and jack stands.)• Drain Pan. Cheap Alter-native: A big enough bowl

Optional materials:• Gloves. Cheap Alterna-tive: Dish washing gloves• Funnel. Free Alternative: Cut the top half off an old two-liter bottle and use it.• Oil filter wrench• Kitty Litter to clean up any oil that was spilled.• A twelve-pack. The cheap-er the better.

Be sure you have not driven your car for at least an hour or your oil will be HOT.

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The high-tech sensors in some modern vehicles can tell you when you need an oil change. But, for good measure physically check your oil anyway. Pop the hood and pull out the dipstick (it usually has a white or yellow handle) and look at the oil on it. If the oil is any shade of black or dark brown, it is time to change your oil.

step 2: lift the car up

Unless you drive a tall enough truck, you’re going to have to raise the car up to work underneath it. Either drive the car up ramps (as pictured) or jack the car up. IM-PORTANT: If you use a jack be sure to secure the car with jack stands, you don’t want a two ton vehicle falling on top of you.

step 3: Drain the Oil

Once you get underneath the car (be sure to have your wrench and drain pan) you’re going to want to locate the drain plug. To find it, look at the very bottom of the engine (the oil pan) and it should be the big bolt all by itself. Use your wrench to break the oil plug

loose. Then start turning it to the left with your hand while keeping pressure on the bolt (if you don’t keep pressure you’ll get oil all over you). Once you have unscrewed the drain plug swiftly move it and your hand out of the way. The oil will now start to pour out of the oil pan so make sure you have your drain pan in the right spot so you don’t spill any more oil than nec-essary. Be sure not to drop the oil plug into the drain pan, it’s not very fun fishing through thick oil for it. Continue to let the oil drain until step six.

step 4: remove the old oil filter

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The wrench will fit around the filter and the tighter you pull to the left, the tighter the grip the wrench has. When you completely unscrew the filter try taking it off with the open part facing up because they hold a good amount of oil in them and you don’t want oil all over the place. Once you get it off, place it in the drain pan to let it drain completely.

step 5: install the new filter

Take the new filter out of the box and fill it with some new oil.

Let the filter absorb some of the oil and put a little more in. Then dip your finger in some of the new oil and apply it to the rubber seal around the new filter. This insures a good seal and prevents the seal from dry rotting.

Then, screw the filter back onto the engine by turning it to the right with your hand.

step 6: replace the oil plug

The oil should be fully drained by this point and you’re now ready to replace the oil plug. First tighten it with your hand then finish it up with the wrench. Be sure not to over tighten it because you run the risk of stripping it.

step 7: Pour in the new oil

Now that all the old oil has been drained and you have replaced the oil plug it is time to pour in the new oil. The oil cap should be near the top of the engine and will have the little oil symbol on it. Unscrew the cap and put about three quarts of oil in (a funnel really helps here). Then check the oil level on the dipstick and keep adding oil as needed. Be careful not to overfill. Now just screw the oil cap back on and you’re basically finished.

step 8: recycle old oil

As per EPA regulations you just can’t pour old oil into a storm drain, and unless you want to have the oil laying around in your back-yard for years the best thing to do is to recycle it.

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“We’re going to be on the road and facing two teams with two new head coaches in Georgia and Auburn,” Ole Miss head coach Joe Getzin said. “I expect both teams to be scrappy and to have

two hard-fought matches.”Last season, the Rebels (5-5,

1-1 SEC) had great success, win-ning both matches against Geor-gia and Auburn.

“We swept both of these teams last year, but I like how our team is playing right now going into our conference road trip,” Getzin said.

The Rebels’ first SEC weekend was a tough one after playing five-set matches against both LSU and Arkansas. In Friday’s loss to LSU, junior Allegra Wells led the way

with 12 kills and senior Morgan Springer added a team-leading 16 digs. Ole Miss bounced back against Arkansas behind senior Regina Thomas, who put down a game-high 15 kills. Thomas, who suffered a torn ACL last season, seems to be getting back to where she left off before her injury last season.

“I think every day we see a little bit more of the old Regina come back,” Getzin said. “I don’t think she is quite back to where she was, and I know that really frus-trates her.”

Another bright spot for the Rebels going into this weekend is their blocking game. Ole Miss finished with 16 and 10 total blocks against LSU and Arkan-sas, respectively.

The road trip will begin with Georgia (4-8, 0-2 SEC) Friday night in Athens at 6 p.m. The Bulldogs are coming off a pair of dropped matches against SEC opponents in Tennessee and Kentucky.

The Rebels will continue play on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. against Auburn (6-6, 0-2 SEC). Like Georgia, Auburn also lost to both Tennessee and Kentucky this past weekend.

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The Ole Miss soccer team (4-3-1) will begin Southeastern Conference play on the road this weekend.

On Friday night, the team trav-els to Fayetteville to face the Ra-zorbacks of Arkansas (2-5). Then the Rebels head south to Baton Rouge for a Sunday showdown against the Tigers of LSU (5-3-1).

“This is certainly the time of year we are looking forward to starting conference play,” head coach Matt Mott said.

“We are on a really tough road

trip at Arkansas and LSU right off the bat with two Western Di-vision teams that are really good and dangerous.”

Leading the offensive attack for the Rebels is sophomore Rafaelle Souza. Among SEC players, she is first in points (18) and tied for first in goals (7). In the goal, fresh-man Kelly McCormick made her first career start against UAB, and senior Alley Ronaldi is the school’s career leader in goals against average (0.89).

Last weekend, the road contin-ued to be unkind to the Rebels, who lost to UAB in Birmingham Saturday. At home, Ole Miss is a perfect 3-0, while away from Ox-

ford, the Rebels are 2-3-1. The Rebels look to turn things around with a struggling opponent in Ar-kansas.

Last season, the teams played to a 4-4 double-overtime thriller in Oxford. All-time, Ole Miss leads the series against Arkansas, 12-3-1.

Despite the Razorbacks’ record this season, Mott knows it will be a tough test for his team.

“Arkansas has some really dan-gerous front runners that have scored some goals, and we’ve got to be prepared for that,” he said.

With one day of rest and travel, the team knows it will have a diffi-cult task when they face the LSU

Tigers.“Sunday at Baton Rouge is al-

ways difficult,” Mott said. “It’ll probably be hot, so we’ve got to be focused and mentally ready for that challenge because LSU is a very good team.”

LSU is on a roll after wins over McNeese State and Oklahoma this past weekend.

“LSU is a very well-coached

team and organized; they’ve giv-en up very few goals,” Mott said.

The Tigers lead the Rebels in the overall series, 7-6-4, and the teams played to a scoreless, dou-ble-overtime tie last year in Ox-ford.

Game time for Friday’s Arkan-sas match is set for 7 p.m., and Sunday’s LSU match is set for 1 p.m.

Soccer starts conference play at Arkansas, LSUBY JAKE THOMPSONjcthomps@olemiss.edu

Volleyball visits Georgia andAuburn on first SEC road trip

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It’s easy to let a terrible loss like Vanderbilt linger, but the Rebels can not afford for that to happen

if they want to turn around their season. After the loss to Vander-bilt last season, the Rebels were 1-2 and struggled to a 4-8 record. However, in head coach Hous-ton Nutt’s first year, Ole Miss was 2-2 after a loss to Vanderbilt, but surged to finish 9-4, and winning

the Cotton Bowl.Looking to Saturday, Georgia

will be the best team Ole Miss has played so far this season, which doesn’t bode well. The Rebels need to take what they learned from last week’s loss and move on. Another sluggish start in what is an incredibly important game for both Nutt and this team can’t happen.

Figure out the offenseAfter three games, Ole Miss

ranks 115th in the country in total offense per game at 253.3 yards per game. This week, offensive coordinator David Lee said the Rebels took out almost 30 percent of the playbook and are running only three protection schemes in order to make sure they know what they are doing on that side of the ball.

Ole Miss better hope that works because the Georgia offense is av-eraging 40.7 points per game on offense. In order to give the Ole Miss defense a chance, the offense needs to move the football and put some points on the board.

Take advantage of a be-leaguered Bulldog offensive line

Georgia starting right guard Chris Burnette tweaked his knee during practice this week. Starting center Ben Jones, who also missed some practice during the week, may slide over to right guard Saturday. Left guard Kenarious Gates missed the past two games with an ankle injury, but should re-turn to his starting role Saturday. Top reserve Kolton Houston, also a guard, is currently ineligible, so Georgia is scrambling to find bod-ies to fill the guard positions.

For Ole Miss, through three games, senior defensive end Wayne Dorsey has two of the team’s four sacks. This Saturday is a great chance for the Rebels to

turn up the pressure on Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray and force the Bulldogs into some mis-takes.

Make plays on defense and special teams

One of the Rebels’ two touch-downs against FBS opponents came on sophomore safety Charles Sawyer’s 96-yard inter-ception return that was nearly enough to win the season opener against BYU. Last Saturday, Ole Miss forced two fumbles and in-tercepted one pass, but Vanderbilt forced five interceptions, includ-ing one returned for a touchdown

in the win. Georgia, meanwhile, had similar struggles in its loss to South Carolina two weeks ago. The Gamecocks scored on a fake punt, an interception return and a fumble recovery in the 45-42 win.

Ole Miss sophomore running back Jeff Scott and Georgia se-nior cornerback Brandon Boykin are both explosive return guys. In the field position battle, Ole Miss junior punter Tyler Campbell (47 yards per punt) and Georgia senior punter Drew Butler (45.7 yards per punt) are statistically the two best in the SEC.

Hipp’s Tips: Georgia BulldogsBY BENNET HIPPjbhipp@olemiss.edu

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Senior defensive end Wayne Dorsey sacks and forces a fumble in the first quarter of Satur-day’s loss to Vanderbilt. Dorsey leads the team with two sacks and three tackles for loss this season.