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Anyone who has struggled to find parking, waited in a long line to eat or listened to pro-fessors complain about classes

being too large likely saw this coming.

The University of Mississippi has record enrollment yet again this year.

While Alcorn State Univer-sity led the state in growth at

19.3 percent, Ole Miss — at 6.5 percent — outpaced Mississippi State University (4 percent) and the University of Southern Mis-sissippi (4.6 percent).

The Ole Miss student body includes 15,329 undergradu-

ates, 2,080 graduate students, 531 law students and 258 stu-dents in the doctor of pharma-cy program.

Chancellor Dan Jones attri-butes the growth of 1,111 stu-dents on the main campus to a continued focus on boosting the educational experience.

“We want to make sure the academic experiences at the university are upheld for ev-eryone,” Jones said. “While it creates challenges for our infra-structure, we feel like this is a positive story for our academic success.”

Of those challenges, the pres-sure on classroom space and professors is one of the top things Jones said he’d be watch-ing.

“We are examining classes that can be enlarged, but we are committed to making sure classes that need to be small stay small,” he said. “For the faculty, I am grateful for the positive at-titudes everyone is expressing.

“This pressure on our space and faculty is immense.”

Jones said the university is also working toward improv-

ing dining options and several are opening this fall, including a full-size Starbucks in the J.D. Williams Library and a mobile Subway unit near the Grove stage.

“We have expanded dining at the Johnson Commons and are committed to expanding the Student Union,” he said. “We’ve also increased the num-ber of satellite dining options around campus.”

Parking and transportation is also a concern, and Jones said the university is committed to expanding the public transpor-tation system and creating a more bicycle-friendly campus.

Jones said the university will add 850 more beds in the fall. Many will be in Miller Hall, which is currently under con-struction.

He said the ultimate impact of this growth is well worth the challenges.

“The best news about the en-rollment growth is that it will result in more graduates for our state and region,” Jones said.

Record enrollment at UM for second straight year

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Students sit in the Student Union to eat lunch and talk during a break between class. Student enrollment at The University of Mississippi has increased by 6.5 percent.

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Head coach Houston Nutt said you can’t “give gifts” to a team like Brigham Young University.

“We did that,” Nutt said. “I hate to lose one like that.”

After leading 13-0 early in the fourth quarter, Ole Miss gave away a few plays that ended in a 14-13 heartbreaking loss to BYU.

“We played extremely hard to-night,” Nutt said. “I thought our guys laid it on the line, but there is a fine line between winning and losing.”

Early on, both teams struggled to get anything going on offense, and costly injuries at the running back position didn’t help the Reb-els’ cause.

The first injusry came on soph-

omore Jeff Scott’s first carry of the season. The speedster went down with an injured ankle, but was able to return to the game lat-er. Then senior Brandon Bolden went down with an ankle injury in the second quarter and did not return to the game.

Later in the game, Bolden’s backup, senior Enrique Davis, went down with a knee injury in the fourth quarter that ended his day as well. With all the injuries, the Rebels managed only 64 yards on the ground for the game.

Finally, with the first half of the game nearing an end, an electric 44-yard punt return from Scott and the change to junior Zack Stoudt at quarterback sparked the Rebels.

“He gave us momentum,” Nutt said. “I felt like they were crowd-ing the line of scrimmage, and he was able to get some throws.

“Even in the passing game, I felt

the running was going to come through. I thought that gave us the best chance to win.”

Stoudt, who totaled 140 yards on 13 of 25 passing, led the Reb-

els down the field on his first drive, but the offense stalled in the red zone and led to junior Bryson Rose’s 20-yard field goal right be-fore the half.

In the third quarter, BYU soph-omore quarterback Jack Heaps began to find a rhythm, but

Rebels cough up victory in fourth quarter against ByUBy daVid COLLieRdlcollie@olemissedu


Sophomore running back Jeff Scott returns a ByU punt 44 yards to set up the Rebels’ first score of the game, a Bryson Rose 20-yard field goal before the half. Scott finished with 88 all-purpose yards in the 14-13 loss to ByU.

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Letters to the EditorDear editor,In the Aug. 30 column “Point-

less Perry,” Alec Jones makes many unsubstantiated claims and irrelevant remarks in his subpar attempt to discredit Gov. Perry’s suitability for office. Jones believes that the “most important” thing you can say about Perry is that he is not “presidential.”

Obviously, Jones has attempted to use strong words in order to catch the reader’s attention with-out considering the statement at hand.

If Jones paused to consider his word choice, he would under-stand that to be presidential is to be influential and commanding of respect.

Three weeks ago, Perry stirred up the GOP race by announcing his candidacy. Now, Perry holds the top poll positions in the GOP field and has a commanding lead over most of the other candi-dates.

I seriously doubt any individ-

ual could argue that Perry is not “presidential.”

Jones then moves from the “most important” to the “more important,” which, in his view, is “Perry’s implicit socialism in say-ing he can just ‘create’ jobs.”

Perry has a proven record of success in creating jobs and stim-ulating growth, all of which were achieved through the implemen-tation of policies that lowered taxes, relaxed business regulations and reformed civil litigation.

Therefore, the claim that Perry is advocating a socialist form of government by saying he can “create jobs” is misguided and entirely unrelated to the idea of socialism. Furthermore, his suc-cessful policies debunk Jones’ irrelevant claim that we would be “relying strictly on hope and faith.”

Jones and other critics can yell until they’re hoarse that Perry’s success in Texas is due to the oil industry.

Nevertheless, I’d rather stand behind a candidate with a history of success than support a radical gynecologist bent on abolishing the Department of Education.

Richard WilkinsSenior Public policy leadership

To the editor: After reading Andy Paul’s col-

umn from Sept. 2, I came to the conclusion that your paper needs an alternative voice to appeal to conservative viewpoints.

It is humorous how the posi-tions of your writers assume that all subscribe to their way of thinking. They are often the first to point out that our “uncivility” toward others, particularly for-eign others, is at the root of our nation’s problems.

But along comes Paul, being quite uncivil in his depiction of Michele Bachmann’s comments about recent natural disasters. Do all of you liberals actually believe

that everyone who populates this country believe as you believe?

Do you think that your audi-ence is entirely non-Christian?

Christian doctrine calls for ac-ceptance of the fact that God sent his Son, Jesus, to die on a cross for the sins of all humanity. Yes, Andy Paul, Jesus was sent to purge your sins also. FAITH is what makes religion work.

God showed many times in His Word how He deals with unfaith-fulness.

He also showed many times how He rewards loyal and faith-ful service.

The point is that you are tram-pling on the belief systems of mil-lions of Americans.

I would bet you that Michele Bachmann prays for your kind every day.

It is in the nature of a Christian to pray for those less fortunate.

Mark S. MaharreyBBA 1983Oxford

To the editor: After reading Jay Nogami’s col-

umn about Rick Perry being the “wrong choice” for a presidential nominee, I felt compelled to re-spond.

“I hope that the majority of Americans realize that praying for rain will not actually cause rain” is a direct quote from his piece.

Nogami further identifies himself as an atheist. A second quote says “I COMPLETELY RESPECT RELIGION, BUT THERE MUST BE LIMITS.” You’re kidding, right?

What I think we have here is a person who says the right thing in regard to tolerance, but in reality has no concept as to the practice of tolerance.

This piece is nothing more than intolerance on parade. Come on, Nogami, if you “respect religion” as you say, then you would surely

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It’s been six years since Hur-ricane Katrina swept through New Orleans.

Some things will never be the same in the Big Easy, but maybe that’s alright.

Hurricane Katrina provided a fresh start the public schools of New Orleans needed. As the levees crumbled, hundreds of schools were destroyed.

This disaster allowed a public school system to be reborn and radically changed for the bet-ter.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said, “I think the best thing to happen to the edu-cation system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina. That education system was a disas-ter.”

According to The Economist, before August 2005 over two-thirds of the students in the New Orleans public school system at-tended schools that were failing, and only about half of the high school students could pass the exams required to graduate.

Rebuilding the public educa-tion system in New Orleans has become an experiment in edu-cation reform. Charter schools are being tested and producing positive results.

In 2003, the state established the Recovery School District. RSD was designed to take over

academically failing schools. After the storm, RSD began to transform the Orleans Par-ish district that was declared to be in “academic crisis” by the state legislature.

RSD was given control of more than 100 schools.

The ones that RSD did not continue to oversee were closed permanently or became state-authorized charter schools. Charter schools were estab-lished, like ones sponsored by the Knowledge Is Power Pro-gram, a national network of charter schools.

Part of the success of charter schools in New Orleans is that they are free to experiment and encouraged to establish them-selves.

The Christian Science Moni-tor reported that at the end of

the last school year, 70 percent of the city’s 40,000 students now attend one of the 61 (there are 88 total public schools) char-ter schools in New Orleans.

Today, New Orleans pub-lic schools are reducing the achievement gap and improv-ing their test scores and stu-dent performance in math and reading faster than those in any other district in the state, espe-cially among black students, low-income students and spe-cial education students.

Mississippi should take some advice from its neighbor and support the openings of charter schools.

Right now, Mississippi has one. According to Gov. Haley Barbour, expansion of charter schools may not happen any time soon.

Barbour supports efforts back-ing the Mississippi legislation to create more charter schools, but previously such legislation has been blocked by black leg-islators because of the fear that charters schools might create de facto segregation.

Most students in charter schools throughout America are black or Latino, and due to demographic clustering, many public schools in Mississippi are more racially homogeneous.

The New Orleans situation is not unique.

The success of charter schools in the Big Easy will not only help its students future but the future of charter schools in America.

Meghan Litten is a senior public policy leadership and elementary edu-cation double-major from Petal.

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In the wake of devastation along the East Coast, some good has come, according to Glenn Beck, everyone’s favor-ite paranoid, schizophrenic talking head.

Apparently, this is a wake-up call for us to realize that we are not in control of our lives. Who is?

God, apparently. I really thought the answer

was corporate overlords, but it’s actually God.

Yes, apparently the supreme being and creator of all things has such a hatred for the East Coast that the best way to tell its residents that He exists and isn’t a doddering old man in some retirement home, is to give them an earthquake and a hurricane in the same week.

I’m not really sure what He’s trying to tell them, either. I mean, He’s all-powerful, so certainly His message should be a little less ambiguous than that.

Apparently there’s another element to God’s communi-cation, in a reversal of tradi-tional roles: God needs a pup-pet to tell everyone what He’s saying.

Or perhaps the roles are be-ing played straight by Glenn Beck, the master puppeteer.

I’m wondering how this isn’t considered offensive by just about everyone. The fam-ilies of those who died in this

horrible hurricane should be offended by the ease at which Beck throws around Divine Will.

Even if He’s right that God can’t speak or write and has to communicate His will through imprecise, destructive natural disasters, it’s really insensitive to say they should be thankful for Irene. If that were the end of it, it would demonstrate one instance of Glenn Beck’s recurring ineptitude.

So with Glenn Beck tak-ing care of saying incredibly dumb things in public places, certainly the world could go about its business, at least knowing that without a cable news show, his influence is waning.

Anyone else paying atten-tion would know that it might be a bad idea to use a natu-ral disaster to score political points until Michelle Bach-mann opened her mouth and said something very insensi-tive, too.

Interestingly, Michele Bach-mann, too, seems to think God has to communicate with His creation by killing more than 40 people.

What is God saying with earthquakes and hurricanes?

That the U.S. government needs to reign in spending, of course.

Wait, Glenn Beck tells us God wasn’t saying anything about that. Who does Mi-chele Bachmann think she is? Clearly, she’s only using God to validate her opinion. Or,

wait, is it Glenn Beck that’s validating his beliefs with re-ligion?

Why not both? I know if I were God, I’d

have my lawyers issuing sub-poenas yesterday, providing one or two made it my way. Is anyone really gullible enough to believe Bachmann and Beck? Apparently, or else they likely wouldn’t be in the posi-tions they are now.

Perhaps it says something sad about our nation’s politi-cal discourse when someone appealing to a radical fringe element has national influ-ence.

Of course, we’re not mas-ters of the universe, able to stop everything and guide our lives on the path we choose, but the alternative is not that God is sending us on a detour to our ultimate destination.

Additionally, we certainly need to reduce our debt. But God didn’t kill good people just to make that point for us.

Laying claim to the di-vine knowledge of God’s will scares me for a variety of rea-sons, but primarily because others will listen.

People who claim to know what God wants should be considered manipulative monsters or mentally ill, not the purveyors of the truth.

Alan-Michael White is a senior English major and linguistics mi-nor from Dumas.

Follow him on Twitter @nint-fjr.

Truth TellingBy aLaN-MiCHeaL [email protected]

agree that “religion” is about faith.

I further submit that you don’t have the slightest idea about prayer and what it can accom-plish, but you have claimed shaky science as FACT when there is no consensus among climatolo-gists globally.

Why does it bother you that

others have a different belief system and choose to put it into practice?

What you and your ilk have done is talk down to millions of Americans to show that your set of beliefs is superior.

What you and your ilk will ex-perience is millions of Americans who WILL NOT be told how to think or what to believe.

Mark S. MaharreyBBA 1983Oxford

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“More graduates from the fine academic programs at the Uni-versity of Mississippi will mean a stronger, healthier state and a more robust economy in the fu-ture.”

Minority enrollment has risen as well, as 23.7 percent of stu-dents identify themselves as minorities. African-American enrollment is now up to 3,361 students, or 16.1 percent of the student body.

Enrollment has increased in Mississippi universities since 1994; however, this year’s is the largest increase in state history.

Provost Morris Stocks said momentum has been building since the 2008 presidential de-

bate, when people from around the world caught a glimpse of the campus.

“Since then, several national publications, including Forbes and Newsweek, have heaped praise on our programs, campus and students,” Stocks said in a press release. “It is important to recognize that all our successes are a result of the tremendous job our faculty and staff have done to provide the best op-portunities possible for our stu-dents. It’s wonderful to see those efforts bear fruit.”

“This record increase is a very positive sign for economic devel-opment,” said Hank M. Bounds, commissioner of the state Insti-tutions of Higher Learning in a press release. “A better educated citizenry stabilizes the economy and creates better opportunities to bring good jobs to our state.”

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As the University of Mississippi student population grows, cam-pus dining options are expanding to include a mobile Subway.

“Subway Mobile,” located in the Grove, opened this semester and has been serving students lunch and dinner from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Joshua Halliday, Ole Miss Din-ing marketing programs manager, said Ole Miss Dining has been working closely with the univer-sity over the past year to provide students with more dining loca-tions to service the growing cam-pus population.

“Our intentions are that the mobile Subway will help meet the growing demand for food services on campus,” Halliday said. “A

mobile unit allows us to remain agile while the campus patterns evolve over time.”

Emma Holman, marketing communications junior, said the Subway Mobile is very conve-niently located and offers another option for students looking for a quick fix.

“The lines at the one (Subway) above the Student Union are out-rageously long every single day, and going there for lunch, it is im-possible to even find somewhere to sit,” she said. “So outside is re-ally nice, and I can go there and get my food in between classes and not have to wait around.”

Halliday said he thinks the Sub-way Mobile is having a positive effect on helping diffuse the long lines in the Union and can change locations based upon events, weather, etc.

“The mobile Subway has been effective in distributing traffic from the Student Union since it opened,” he said. “The great thing about this new Subway is it will allow us to move with the changing patterns and be utilized for special events on campus.”

However, not everyone is as positive about the new mobile Subway.

Sasha Owens, a junior broad-cast journalism major, said she is concerned about the vegetables spoiling in the heat.

“My main thing is, how do you keep the food cold, because my favorite sub is the chicken teriyaki and I want the chicken hot but I don’t want my vegetables to be all hot and stinky because that’s how they get when they sit out, so that’s one of my concerns about it,” she said.

Holman said she too was con-cerned with the produce staying fresh.

“At first I was kind of hesitant because I thought it wouldn’t be as fresh because it’s outside and seemed kind of weird to me, but actually, surprisingly, it’s pretty good,” she said.

Halliday said Ole Miss Dining has received a variety of com-ments about Subway Mobile and its uniqueness.

Plans for future dining additions or upgrades are dependent upon the customers and their requests.

“We are committed to meeting the needs and preferences of our customers,” Halliday said. “We conduct surveys each semester along with focus groups, and we also conduct larger-scale research initiatives such as MarketView and Market Match.”

Mobile Subway servicing students in the GroveBy KaiTie [email protected]

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Subway employee Harold draper prepares a sandwich in the Subway mobile cart, which was recently introduced to add a new option for students eating on campus.

Lee spawns tornadoJACKSON, Miss. (AP) —

Authorities say the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee caused a possible tornado that dam-aged trees in central Mississippi’s Smith County.

Marc McAllister, a meteorolo-gist with the National Weather Service, said there were no im-mediate reports of injuries or structural damage from the sus-pected twister, which hit about 3:21 a.m. Monday.

Authorities say at least three possible tornados hit south Mis-sissippi on Sunday, damaging a few homes.

Man drowns in floodJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A

man drowned when he was swept away by floodwaters spawned by the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee in Mississippi, authorities said Monday.

The death of John Howard Anderson Jr., 57, was the first

reported so far as a direct result of the steady rains dumped by Lee. A body boarder in Texas drowned after being pulled out to sea by heavy waves churned up by Lee, and the Coast Guard was searching for a boy swept away by rough surf off the Ala-bama coast.

Tishomingo County coroner Mack Wilemon said Anderson, of Corinth, drowned about 11 p.m. Sunday. Tishomingo Coun-ty is in the northeastern corner of the state.

Anderson was staying on a house boat in the marina of Coleman Park. A creek that nat-urally flows over the entrance of the park was swollen with flood-waters when Anderson and two others tried to cross the water in a car. They had gotn out of the car and were in the process of being rescued when Anderson was swept away.

His body was found in the woods about 300 yards away.

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To celebrate the artistry of the Gulf Coast, the University of Mississippi Museum is host-ing an exhibition featuring John Alexander and Walter Ander-son, whose works include paint-ings, block prints and sketches.

Their work will be displayed at the museum until Dec. 3.

“Each of them has a unique vision, yet they were inspired by the same place,” Sarah Story, curator of education at the mu-seum, said.

Stylistically expressive, Alex-ander and Anderson are con-temporary visionaries whose artistic presences at Ole Miss provide students, faculty, staff and public the opportunity to admire two collections that are largely influenced by the Gulf Coast and its environment and stories.

Both of the artists have a strong sense of identity embed-ded within their artwork, and their aesthetic is clearly articu-lated throughout the exhibit.

In short, one who attends the exhibition will leave with an un-derstanding of what each artist was trying to characterize.

Alexander and Anderson were motivated by the vigor and memory of the naturalistic

South, celebrating storytelling through their creations.

Born in 1945 in Beaumont, Texas, Alexander has created a gamut of works that are in-dicative of his love for nature and, more specifically, the Gulf Coast. His style is bold, aggres-sive, passionate, real and, above all, his own.

Celebrated throughout the exhibition are his bird paintings — Alexander strictly abides to the anatomical sciences in his depictions. However, they are not merely systematic illustra-tions; within each, there is a story — there is life.

The animals of Alexander’s paintings radiate a clandestine energy, as if only Alexander himself can truly understand them.

By manipulating charcoal, Al-exander is able to create drama and depth; it can be undeniably stated that Alexander epitomiz-es drama in his art, evidenced by “Birds in Heat,” the largest painting in the collection.

Thick paint in energetic, al-most violent lines is utilized in the aforementioned painting in order to generate an irrefutable vigor that makes the painting seem almost alive.

“More strangeness, more drama” is a scribble from one of Alexander’s sketches, which

provides firsthand insight into his artistic vision, including his desire to present his memories of the Gulf Coast in a dynam-ic, eerie, almost spiritual light.

Without a doubt one would have to carefully survey Alex-ander’s works with a keen eye to even begin to fully understand the powerful message behind the ever-present mysticism.

While Alexander’s art proj-ects a forceful, disconcerting aura, Anderson’s works take on a different sort of dynamism — vibrant, colorful and whimsical — yet always telling a story, like Alexander’s work.

One of the most famous Southern artists of the modern world, Anderson, comparable in fame to George Ohr and Georgia O’Keefe, was com-pelled by the depth and life of the Gulf Coast region.

The animals, plants and nat-uralistic liveliness of the coast are more than mere elements in his artwork; they define its very existence.

Showcased at the museum’s exhibition are his watercolors and block prints, especially those of birds, with pelicans as a recurrent subject.

Born in 1903 in New Orleans, Anderson eventually made his home in Ocean Springs, where his art began to flourish, and

the rest is history.This history, to the university

and the public’s benefit, is ready to be seen, interpreted and un-derstood, and all one has to do is visit the museum.

There is truly something for everyone at this exhibition.

The presence of the Gulf Coast is a constant throughout “One World, Two Artists.”

It is a celebration of the South’s culture and environ-ment, but above all, it is a show-case of the dynamic artistic tal-ent the South boasts.

The talent of two Gulf Coast artists on display at University MuseumBy MaTTHeW [email protected]

The nation tuned in Saturday afternoon to watch two football teams battle in the national spot-light, but the real clash was that of the different cultures.

In the most recent Princeton Review rankings, the Univer-sity of Mississippi was ranked in the top 10 in both party schools and hard liquor sales. Brigham Young University was ranked No. 1 in schools that party the least and have the least amount of liquor sales.

Cougar fans had varying expectations for the Ole Miss-BYU season opening, including being jeered at or assaulted by Ole Miss fans.

Sam and Emily Stevenson made the trip to North Missis-sippi from Logan, Utah.

They stayed in Tupelo, not be-cause there were no hotel rooms available in Oxford, but because of their fear of being stoned by Rebel fans.

“I expected to get hit by a bag of rocks when we got out of the car,” Emily, 61, said. “I actually tried to convince (Sam) to not take us to this game.”

Sam, 63, who grew up in Chattanooga, Tenn., said he knows how kind people in the South really are.

“I wish we could come down here and play more teams in the Southeast,” he said. “I would go to every single game.”

Lisa Moreno, 41, of Green River, said she “halfway expect-ed” everyone to be “blackout drunk” before the game.

“I didn’t know what to ex-pect,” the Green River, Utah native said. “But I know that I am having a great time!”

Those who made the trip over from the Beehive State were

pleasantly surprised with the at-mosphere in Oxford. Jonathan Harris, 34, said he expected to get booed and have alochol thrown on him and his family.

“I was surprised by how hos-pitable the fans here are,” he said.

Allen Waters, 30, recently graduated from BYU with a degree in recreation manage-ment and youth leadership. He said his opinion of Mississippi changed after this weekend.

“I’ll admit I thought everyone in Mississippi was a little back-wards,” Waters said. “It sur-prised me how everyone is down here. I’ll definitely come back.”

Harris said he and his family enjoyed how beautiful the cam-pus is and how friendly the na-tives are.

“After we parked, we asked someone for directions and they just gave us a ride to the Grove,” he said.

Emily Stevenson said her

opinion of Mississippi has “defi-nitely grown.”

“If we ever play a game in Ox-ford again I would like to come earlier so that we can better ex-perience the town,” she said.

Moreno hopes the Cougars and Rebels continue to play each other.

“I would like for BYU and Ole Miss to establish a rivalry so that we can keep coming back, and also show the Rebels what we have in Utah,” she said.

Roaming around the Grove: ByU fans surprised by the RebelsBy JaCOB [email protected]

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LeFT: ByU fans pose for a picture in front of the Walk of Champions in The Grove before the game Saturday. RiGHT: ByU fans talk about the history of Ole Miss and the tailgating atmo-sphere around campus as they walk through the Circle filled with tents of Ole Miss fans.

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Junior college transfer Zack Stoudt didn’t start Ole Miss’ sea-son opener against BYU, but the junior came on late in the second quarter and gave the Ole Miss offense a much-needed shot in the arm.

After his performance Satur-day, Ole Miss head coach Hous-ton Nutt named Stoudt the start-er for Saturday’s game against Southern Illinois.

“We’re going to start Zack Stoudt,” Nutt said. “We’ll keep practicing the other two a little bit, but most of the reps are going to go to Zack Stoudt this week. We’ll let him start the game.”

Stoudt was 13 of 25 passing for 140 yards against BYU and showed impressive composure for someone making his first di-vision one appearance.

“I was told I might get in, so I just stayed loose on the sideline for the first quarter and a half,” Stoudt said. “I went in and didn’t do anything special, just did what they told me to do.

“The guys around me made me look pretty good.”

The toughest part was not knowing when he was going to

get into the game, Stoudt said.“It wasn’t like Zack, you’re go-

ing in the second series,” Stoudt said. “It was Zack, you’re going to play tonight. but I don’t know when.

“So you’re sitting there, they could put you in on this play in the middle of the series, so you don’t really know.”

Ultimately, however, Stoudt knew he would get a shot to play.

“I knew that since this is a big quarterback battle that has been going on for a long time, that I

needed to make the best of my opportunity” Stoudt said. “I didn’t really have time to be ner-vous.”

Stoudt has taken a long, wind-ing route to play in the South-eastern Conference for the Reb-els this season, and he said it was a “dream come true.”

“My heart was pumping when I went out there for that first snap,” Stoudt said. “From Louis-ville to a community college out in the middle of nowhere, to the SEC playing BYU, it was defi-nitely a reality check.”

Looking back at Saturday’s 14-13 loss, Stoudt said that they beat themselves.

“We beat ourselves, we lost that game,” Stoudt said of the loss. “I think that was the worst part.”

While it is the worst part,

Stoudt said it was also the best part of the loss.

“We didn’t get beat,” he said. “We make a catch, we make a block, we hold on to a ball. 10 or 15 other little mistakes.

“It completely changes the outcome of the game.”

Many of Stoudt’s teammates said that he came in and imme-diately made himself known as a leader, even though he had never been in that situation before Sat-urday’s game.

“I think you have to, though,” Stoudt said of being a leader. “You can’t really be shy — I know those guys would have completely given up on me if I ran in on the first play and called the play tentatively.

“I’m playing for those guys, so I’m just trying to be what they want me to be.”

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The biggest stories from Sat-urday were the injuries to senior running backs Brandon Bolden and Enrique Davis.

Nutt said Bolden had a small fracture in his ankle and would be in a walking boot for a couple of weeks, but he had no timetable for his return. Nutt was more op-

timistic on the status of Davis. He said he would not practice

this week but he may be available for the game Saturday.

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sophomore safety Charles Sawyer completely changed the momen-tum of the game in favor of the Rebels.

Sawyer, who tallied seven tack-les on the day, intercepted Heaps’ pass near his own end zone and re-turned it 96 yards for a touchdown to lift the Rebels to a 10-0 lead.

“I saw the quarterback and the ball,” Sawyer said. “I knew a good play was going to happen because we disguised (the coverage) so well.”

Stoudt and the offense drove down the field, but once again, the Rebels stalled in the red zone. Rose came on and extended the lead to 13-0 early in the fourth quarter.

Then, things got interesting.Heaps, who finished the game

24-for-38 for 225 yards, was a perfect 5-for-5 on an 8-play scor-ing drive, capped by a 19-yard touchdown pass to freshman wide receiver Ross Apo.

On the Rebels’ next possession, a Matt Hall holding penalty and a Patrick Junen illegal block in the back penalty led to a 3rd-and-27 play at the team’s own 21-yard line. On the play, sophomore line-backer Kyle Van Noy forced a Stoudt fumble and recovered for the go-ahead touchdown.

“A guy came through,” Stoudt said. “I didn’t see him. He hit me, and I lost it. I was pretty close (to getting the ball out). I had it sepa-rated in my hand, so I was ready to throw it. I just didn’t get it off.”

Ole Miss managed two first downs on their next drive, but three straight incompletions, fol-lowed by a fourth down for no gain gave the ball back to Heaps and BYU.

A costly Mike Marry 15-yard horse collar penalty gave BYU a first down.

The Ole Miss defense then forced a turnover on downs, but with only 39 seconds on the clock, the Rebels ran out of time and failed to convert on fourth down for the second time in the quarter.

Next Saturday at 5 p.m., the Rebels look for their first win of the season against Southern Illinois at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

ReBeLS, continued from page 1Stoudt comes on in relief, named starter for SiU

By BeNNeTT [email protected]


Junior quarterback Zack Stoudt drops back to pass late in the second quarter against ByU.

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