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ON THE GULF OF MEX-ICO — Engineers have grown so confi dent in the leaky cap trapping oil inside BP’s crip-pled well that they will leave it closed and unwatched if a trop-ical storm that formed Thurs-day forces them to fl ee, the government’s spill chief said.

Barring another setback — and the three-month operation has been fi lled with them — crude should never again gush from the infamous well.

Tropical Storm Bonnie, which blossomed over the Ba-hamas and was to enter the Gulf of Mexico by the weekend, could delay by another 12 days the push to plug the broken well for good using mud and cement, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen and BP offi -cials conceded. Even if it’s not

a direct hit, the rough weather will push back efforts to kill the well by at least a week.

“While this is not a hurri-cane, it’s a storm that will have probably some signifi cant im-pacts, we’re taking appropriate cautions,” Allen said in Mo-bile, Ala.

But a week of steady mea-surements through cameras and other devices convinced Allen they don’t need to open vents to relieve pressure on the cap, which engineers had worried might contribute to leaks un-derground and an even bigger blowout. The cap was attached a week ago, and only minor leaks have been detected.

Allen said he would decide Thursday evening whether to

The University of Mississippi is currently undergoing several construction projects, including the new law school, Insight Park and the Center for Manufactur-ing Excellence.

The new law school build-ing, located off Coliseum Drive, was originally set to open this August for both administration and students.

Macey Edmondson, univer-sity development steward for the school of law, said the new building should be open by the fi rst of the year.

“I feel certain we will be in there by January,” Edmondson said. “The reason there were de-lays was because of the weather. Last fall saw quite a few days lost because of it.”

While 69 work days were re-portedly lost due to inclement weather, the roof and exterior is mostly completed. Most of the work left to be completed is located on the building’s in-terior, a law school press release reported.

According to the release, the building will be three stories and 130,000 square feet when completed.

Work on the fi rst building of Insight Park, located at Hathorn Road and Intramural Drive, of-fi cially began construction June 9 with a ground-breaking cer-

emony.“The construction on In-

sight Park’s fi rst building is on-schedule and progressing as ex-pected,” Syd Spain, director of Insight Park, said. “The slab for the east wing was poured at 2:30 this morning (Thursday), and some steel erection will begin by the middle of next week.”

The next steps on the project include the creation of the slab for the west wing of the build-ing and more excavation for the road on the north side of the building, Spain said.

Insight Park will offer research and business offi ce area for com-

panies according to its website. The park administrators hope

to attract both “established fi rms and startup companies” to the park. The opening of the park is expected to bring about 2,000 more jobs to the area according to Insight Park research.

Many other construction proj-ects are underway on campus. The construction on the Center for Manufacturing Excellence is currently underway between the Old Chemistry Building and Anderson and Carrier Halls.

The University, the sstate of Mississippi and Toyota Motor Corporation are funding the

CME project. The CME web-site states that the project is scheduled to be fi nished in De-cember.

The project will contain class-rooms and laboratories where students can study to obtain a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with an emphasis in manufacturing.

Graduate studies and experi-ments will also be held there.

On the renovation end, the Department of Facilities Plan-ning lists Old Chemistry Interi-or and Faser Hall as two of their 14 “Jobs Under Renovation” on their website.

Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) USA has recently been awarded a $2.6 million grant by the National Corporation for Community Service.

Based in Ottawa Canada, DOT is an international or-ganization with programs in Canada, Egypt, China, Kenya, Rwanda and other areas around the globe.

This particular grant, as well as funding acquired from other foundations, will be used to place 200 TeachUp! technology interns in schools and commu-nities in the Delta area.

The TeachUp! program is an outreach of DOT USA and was launched in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2006 to

increase the quality of education in the area after the devastation.

“Through TeachUp!, DOT is working to transform the tra-ditional approach to learning by introducing a new teaching model that improves the quality of education, prepares students with 21st century skills, and cre-ates a foundation for economic opportunities,” according to the DOT website.

Over the past four years, the program has reached some 250 Mississippi and Louisiana public schools and emphasized increas-ing technological profi ciency among students and faculty.

Last year, TeachUp! had around 180 technology interns working in the Delta.

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BP’S OIL WELL TO STAY SHUT DESPITE TROPICAL STORM

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Road Rage 101COLUMN

BY EMILY ROLANDColumnist

BY JOSH CLARKCartoonist

What is the quickest way to get you in a bad mood? For me, it is bad drivers.

I must have the most awesome luck in the world, because it seems as though the worst and/or slowest drivers always seem to fi nd a way to be in front of me. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of the speedsters who just wants everyone who is going the speed limit to go faster, but going 30 in a 40 or 50 in a 70 is annoying and unnecessary.

A common complaint among road-ragers seems to be elderly drivers. Most people just have this preconceived notion that all older people are bad drivers or excessively slow; however, I must disagree. They have been driving a lot longer than I have, so who am I to get angry? Maybe they experienced a bad wreck at some point in their lives.

There are some exceptions though. For example, I was at the grocery store not too long ago with a few friends, and the man in front of us at the checkout line was shaking so badly that the cashier had to enter in his pin number. As we were walking to the car, we watched this man climb into the driver’s seat of his vehicle and drive away. That is just fl at out dangerous.

One thing that is really frustrating are those people (usually new drivers or younger people) who think they are the coolest thing since sliced bread. These are the people who endanger lives by going extremely fast and

ride your butt whether you are going the speed limit or even if you are going over. They have one speed (fast), and they have one trait (obnoxious). It is especially vexing when they glare at you as they speed past as if you were the one breaking the law.

It gets dangerous when the person be-ing tailgated has the urge to suddenly hit the brakes in order to prove a point or just simply annoy the person behind. Person-ally, I fi nd joy in getting beside someone in the lane next to me who is going slow so that the driver in the bothersome car who is much closer to me than I would prefer gets a small taste of his or her own medicine; it just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy in-side.

I know, I know, retaliation is never the answer, but I am also very aware of the fact that I am not the only person guilty of the act.

Something I fi nd comical are the “Honk if you love Jesus” bumper stickers. Just a warning: if you honk, the driver usually gets pretty mad.

While we are on the subject of what not to do on the road, I may as well give the guys a little tip: trying to pick up a girl while going 80 miles an hour down the highway is NOT the way to go. First of all, she is in another car. Not exactly the best way to start a conversation. Secondly, when you make

sure to stay beside or behind her for over an hour, it gets pretty creepy. And fi nally, when she and/or her friend(s) get completely fed up with you and shoot you a look reeking of disgust and you speed off, you look like a complete and utter moron.

Now this next part, you need to pay close attention to: It’s called a turn signal, people - really not a diffi cult concept. And as far as parking goes, the rule is ONE parking spot per person, not two or three. This includes you boys with the huge trucks. If you have to take up more than one spot, park in the back. Common courtesy applies to parking, too.

On a more positive note, truckers can serve as great entertainment when on ex-tremely long road trips, especially if you fi nd a nice one that plays a song for you when he honks. May not want to try this when going through Arkansas, though. In my experi-ence, they don’t appreciate it very much.

Now, as there is no cure for road rage, at least not that I have found, and as there are obviously many contributing factors to the condition, how do we make driving a less disheartening incidence? The only answer I have for you is get over it or get patient. And if you are the person causing the road-ragers to go crazy, try being a little more consider-ate, after all, you’re not the only person on the road.

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THE GHOSTS OF DISASTERS PAST

In 1969, an environmen-tal catastrophe was brewing in the waterways of northeastern Ohio.

The Cuyahoga River, which meanders its way through a lush valley, passes through Cleveland and eventually empties into Lake Erie, was dying.

After years of unfettered dumping of industrial waste and untreated human refuse, the once pristine waterway had changed drastically.

With algal blooms, caused by the copious amounts of dumped fertilizer, leeching the river’s oxygen, the diverse populations of fi sh had begun to shrink. The residents of Cleveland were dis-mayed as they watched as the blue and northern pike, white-fi sh and sturgeon, once abun-dant in the Cuyahoga’s waters, all but disappeared.

“The lower Cuyahoga has no visible life,” the Federal Water Pollution Control Administra-tion noted that year. “Not even low forms such as leeches and sludge worms that usually thrive in waste (were present).”

Due to Detroit’s booming

auto industry, nearby Toledo’s steel mills and the paper plants around Erie, Pennsylvania, the river was also subjected to daily dumping of oils, harmful chemicals and even globules of animal fats from local slaugh-terhouses.

The river became so polluted that sardonic Cleveland resi-dents would joke that, “anyone who falls into the Cuyahoga does not drown. He decays.”

Then on June 22, 1969, the seemingly unimaginable hap-pened: the Cuyahoga caught fi re.

In the inferno, caused by the ignition of a thick sheen of oil on the surface of the river, two railroad crossings spanning the river were almost destroyed as the nation looked on in horror.

Finally, America had seen enough.

Partially due to this nearly in-conceivable consequence of pol-lution (water catching fi re) and partially due to other environ-mental catastrophes that same year, the federal government was galvanized into action.

Within a decade, the coun-try would witness its fi rst Earth Day, the creation of the Envi-ronmental Protection Agency, the Clean Water Act and an

across-the-board crackdown and condemnation of lax indus-trial waste practices.

Today, the Cuyahoga is not out of the woods, so to speak, but it is nearly unrecognizable from its former, contaminated self.

The bald eagles have returned and so have the fi sh. The wa-ters are no longer bubbling with chemicals or swelled with industrial fl otsam and jetsam. Even Lake Erie, which many environmentalists considered a lamentable lost cause, has made an astonishing ecological come-back.

“It is signifi cant that people can now point to the much cleaner (Cuyahoga River) as evidence of how much prog-ress has been made,” University of Cincinnati history professor David Stradling, who has done considerable work on the envi-ronmental history of the region, told me in an e-mail.

But today, the Cuyahoga River is low on our national priority list. In fact, it has been completely subsumed by the re-cent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – for good reason.

With the relative success of the most recent cap to the rup-tured oil well (which at this

moment is leaking, albeit in a minor manner), we can begin to look forward to recovery and beyond. In fact, during this re-spite from a crisis situation, the real work must begin.

Not only must we embark on a robust clean-up and revitaliza-tion effort in the Gulf, but we must harness our national out-rage.

Once again, for the fi rst time since the 1960s, pollution has become, as Paul Krugman put it, “photogenic” on a grand scale. Much like the shock of watching a river catch fi re, most Americans who have seen the 24/7 footage of oil gushing into the Gulf and the shorebirds suf-focating from the sticky, toxic sludge are aghast.

So now, we collectively must transform the visceral pain and anguish that comes along with these images into the necessary drive to get the ball rolling on environmental reform.

One of the most redeeming aspects of the 1969 crises was that, as a country, we tran-scended our parochial visions of the world and, as a nation, committed ourselves to not only cleaning up the Cuyahoga River, but keeping the air above Los Angeles clear of smog and

banning the use of DDT on our crops. We acknowledged that while our own local communi-ties were fl ushed with pollut-ants and toxins, so were those of our friends and family across the country.

And, knowing that fact, we were no longer content with in-action.

We can also learn from that era that our planet is a resilient one. That it can return from seemingly apocalyptic circum-stances and once again resemble something close to its original state when humanity takes the proper steps to protect it. We can learn that when our ac-tions affect the environment in a visual manner, then we can use that moment of political capital to roll back the clock on such issues by making sweeping changes via regulation.

Today, it’s time to use our re-discovered environmental con-sciousness and call on our na-tional government, specifi cally President Obama, to press for-ward on not only reforming the practices of the oil industry, but addressing our growing carbon dioxide emissions, developing cleaner fuel sources and setting a precedent for a green ethic that the world can follow.

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Why is it that people think it is acceptable to talk while a professor is giving a lecture?

In my 8 a.m. class, people all around me are talking, laughing, or coming to class late while our teacher is trying to give a lecture.

Do people not understand that they are being bla-tantly rude?

Our teachers work hard to present us with informa-tion that will be valuable to us for exams or just in life.

When did you learn that it was okay to talk while someone else was talking? Never.

Our parents always taught me to always be respectful to my elders and to my teachers.

There are a group of high school students in my class who are always chatting about nonsense stuff while my teacher is giving a lecture. Where I went to high school, this kind of behavior would have never been tolerated.

Just to let all you high school kids know, when you are in college, teachers will call you out on everything,

so just get prepared to be embarrassed if you continue to act the way you are now.

One of the other pet peeves I have that I think is so rude is when students walk into class 15 minutes late. The rest of the class was able to get to class on time, why can’t you?

You are not only distracting the class, but you inter-rupt the teacher’s lecture, which is important to us all because what we learn in class in on our exams.

I understand that situations come up where you might be late for class, but when it is an everyday occurrence, you might want to try getting up earlier or leaving a few minutes ahead of time so you can get to class on time.

I have been in classes where the teacher knew some-one’s name not because they contributed to the class discussion but because they were always late to the class.

Just yesterday in my class we had a student, right after we had a 10 minute break, get up and leave the class not fi ve minutes after my teacher started his lecture again.

My teacher rightfully called out the student, who

then slammed the door and never returned to class.Why do people think that they can be rude to profes-

sors?They are here trying to teach us, and some people

think that they can be disrespectful just because they feel like it.

I’m sorry, but I don’t see the logic in being rude to people who are helping you learn.

Next time you feel like you have to right to be disre-spectful to a teacher, try to see the situation from their perspective.

Our teachers do their best to come to class prepared to teach a lesson that in interesting and insightful.

So why is it that so many people come to class think-ing they have nothing to learn from the class?

I feel this is where a lot of the disrespect comes from.

When you think you know it all, or you don’t feel like you are learning anything, how about you just drop the course instead of being a distraction to the rest of the class?

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This coming school year they hope to raise the number to 200 or more.

Ginny Sims, DOT USA communica-tions manager, said the interns will be “engaging the students and empowering them for work in the 21st century.”

As well as working inside the schools, they will serve the districts in which they live by volunteering in libraries and other community centers.

TeachUp! is looking for “tech-savvy young professionals,” according to the press release.

Sims noted that while the majority of interns were college or graduate students,

they were not necessarily pursuing educa-tion or technology majors.

“We are elated to be able to serve 200 Delta schools and are seeking tech-savvy individuals to serve as TeachUp! Interns in our program for the coming year. Each intern will receive a $950 monthly sti-pend and a $5350 education award upon successful completion of a year of ser-vice,” Nuria Arias, DOT USA program director, said in the press release.

More information and application in-structions can be found by visiting the website, at http://www.dotrust.org/job-board.

order the withdrawal of the rig that’s drilling the relief tunnel engineers will use to permanently throttle the free-fl ow-ing crude near the bottom of the well.

Crews will need up to 12 hours to dis-connect the rig from the relief column, and forecasters say the storm could hit the spill site by Saturday morning.

The storm system caused fl ooding in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti before reaching tropical storm strength later Thursday, and Allen said crews expected sustained wind above 39 mph at the spill site by early Saturday.

Seas already were choppy in the Gulf, with waves up to fi ve feet rocking boats as crews prepared to leave, and more of the smaller boats involved in the coast-al cleanup were called into port, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft said.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said he expects local leaders in coastal parishes to call for evacuation of low-lying areas as early as Friday morning.

At the spill site, the water no longer looks thick with gooey tar. But the oil is still there beneath the surface, stain-ing the hull of cutters motoring around in it.

One large vessel — the Helix Q4000 — is burning off oil collected from the water, and bright orange fl ames fl ared at the side of the ship.

Scientists say even a severe storm shouldn’t affect the well cap, nearly a mile beneath the ocean surface 40 miles from the Louisiana coast. “Assuming all lines are disconnected from the surface, there should be no effect on the well head by a passing surface storm,” said Paul Bom-mer, professor of petroleum engineering at University of Texas at Austin.

Charles Harwell, one of the BP work-ers monitoring the cap, was also confi -dent.

“That cap was specially made, it’s on tight, we’ve been looking at the progress and it’s all good,” he said after his ship returned to Port Fourchon, La.

Before the cap was attached and closed a week ago, the broken well spewed 94 million to 184 million gallons into the Gulf after the BP-leased Deepwater Ho-rizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.

Work on plugging the well came to a standstill Wednesday, just days before au-thorities had hoped to complete the relief shaft. Allen said Thursday he has told BP to go ahead preparing for a second mea-sure called a static kill that would pump mud and cement into the well from the top, a move he said would increase the relief well’s chances for success. BP will have to get fi nal approval from Allen be-fore starting the procedure.

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A special meeting between Mayor George C. Patterson and the Board of Aldermen was held yesterday to dis-cuss tax assessments and hear budget presentations by the Oxford Conven-tion Center and Visitors Bureau.

The meeting began with Martha Thornton, Lafayette County tax col-lector and assessor, explaining the tax assessments. She said that the assess-ments are every four years.

When asked about how these ap-praisals affect the poor, she said, “You aren’t appraising people, you’re ap-praising property.”

These appraisals will determine the value of each resident’s home, and

each person pays a property tax based on their home’s value.

The board also listened to a propos-al made by the Oxford Convention and Visitors Bureau about the 2011 budget. They proposed an increase in money for the community grants, and Mayor Patterson immediately sup-ported the increase.

The Oxford Convention and Visi-tors Bureau also asked the board for an increase in the budget for more tourist sites.

One of these sites was the Lamar House Museum. The Bureau pro-posed a $28,000 increase in funds for the museum to help maintain and open the house for tours a few days a week.

Special Board of Aldermen meeting held yesterdayBY MARGARET BURGEThe Daily Mississippian

PARISHES MOVE TO BLOCK MOVE-MENT OF OIL PROTECTION

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SLIDELL, La. (AP) — Simmering distrust on the oil-coated Louisiana coast boiled over Thursday as local of-ficials in coastal parishes mounted an effort to stop the Coast Guard from moving protective boom and other equipment out of the way of an ad-vancing tropical storm.

St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis issued an executive order pro-hibiting the movement of any protec-tive equipment without parish con-sent, said Suzanne Parsons, Davis’s spokeswoman.

She said Davis spoke with Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft, the on-scene incident commander for the oil spill, on Thursday. “We have no confidence in what is going to hap-pen,” she said. “We are going to have oil in the lake.”

Parsons said Davis’ order carries the power of arrest and prosecution.

Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said the Coast Guard told him it would move trailers full of pro-tective boom waiting for deployment out of coastal areas to Baton Rouge for storage until the weather cleared. Nungesser said he was able to persuade the Coast Guard to store the boom in Plaquemines at parish expense.

In neighboring St. Bernard Parish, officials were frantically trying to keep boom staged in the fishing village of Hopedale from being moved.

Nungesser said the parishes were

afraid that if the boom was removed it would not be sent back.

“The Coast Guard has not stood up and made BP do anything unless we rant and rave,” said Nungesser, a fre-quent critic of the response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The first mainland impact from the oil came in Plaquemines on April 29, nine days after the BP-leased rig Deepwater Horizon exploded about 40 miles southeast of the Mississippi River.

Nungesser called the boom move-ment “a failed attempt by the Coast Guard to help BP smuggle assets out of here unnoticed.”

Coast Guard officials did not imme-diately return telephone calls for com-ment.

Also Thursday, Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency and said he expected local officials to issue orders to evacuate low-lying coastal communities outside protective levee systems. But he stopped short of issu-ing a state-mandated evacuation. Dur-ing hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008 Jindal ordered an evacuation for much of the coast.

Tropical Storm Bonnie, which blos-somed over the Bahamas and was to enter the Gulf of Mexico by the week-end, could be near the south Louisiana coast on Sunday, raising fears that wind and higher tides could wash oil from the BP spill deeper into marshes.

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It was about four weeks ago that Lyd-ia Siniard, director of the Hinge Dance Company, had an itch. This itch wasn’t one to scratch, but one to have her dance company hold a summer dance show.

She held auditions on June 20, and allowed anyone who was feeling in-spired to audition, and on June 27, the cast held their fi rst rehearsal.

Since then group has worked tireless-ly, rehearsing for hours every day over the past three weeks to create their lat-est production, “Bruised.”

“Bruised” is completely run and per-formed by students and will feature modern dance, ballet, hip hop and some lyrical dance performances.

“We offer something different with not being a professional dance com-pany,” said Siniard. “We have a variety of talent, but everybody offers a great performance, and I think that’s what sets us apart is that everyone really puts their heart into it when they dance and step on stage.”

Siniard said she believes that the per-formance offers a public appreciation and awareness for dance, which she feels is sometimes looked over as an art and athletic form.

“It is very athletic, and it is very hard on our body; we use every muscle. It’s not just running— it’s everything com-bined,” Siniard said. “The public will hopefully have a better awareness of dance in general.”

During previous shows the Hinge Dance Company performed in their dance studio in Turner, bringing in chairs and piling people in to view their shows. But the “Bruised” performances will be in the Meek Auditorium, and is the fi rst time the group has performed on an actual stage.

“This one is real exciting because we’re moving on to bigger and better things, and I think the energy and va-riety of the show is a lot more intense and very strong that previous shows,” Siniard said.

The name “Bruised,” was decided on

after the group had several rehearsals, members of the group and the director looked for themes throughout the cho-reography.

“A lot of the dance pieces in this performance deal with a lot of heavy emotions and relationships where you are sometimes left bruised or tender or vulnerable,” Siniard said. “We chose ‘Bruised’ as our title because it could mean so many different things, you can bruise your knee, you can bruise a fruit, your heart can be bruised; it just applied to the emotions in most of the dances.”

“Bruised” is the company’s fourth performance as a dance company, and, unlike their previous shows, much of the casts will not be comprised of “reg-ulars” who helped start Hinge.

Hinge isn’t required as a part of a ma-jor but instead fueled by the dancers’ love of the art.

“It’s not about a professor telling you what do or when to be somewhere or saying you have to do this because your

grade depends on it,” Siniard said. “Ev-erybody that is there is committed be-cause they want to because they are pas-sionate about dance. We’re not about being the best; we’re about having the passion and motivation to move.”

Siniard said she hopes that through “Bruised” the group will continue to grow and offer more people the oppor-tunity to dance.

“I really want to see Hinge stay a strong part on the campus and real-ly grow in the campus so that it’s an outlet for people who love to dance, who used to dance or who never got to dance when they were in high school or having a chance to move and have that opportunity to feel what dance can give and reward the soul and body itself,” Siniard said.

“Bruised” performances will be held Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Tickets are $7 and available at the Ole Miss Central Ticket Offi ce in the student union or online at olemiss.edu/depts./tickets/.

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MONCTON, Canada – Ole Miss rising sophomore Mike Granger used a quick burst out of the blocks to race to a fourth-place fi n-ish in the fi nals of the 100 meters at the 2010 IAAF World Junior Championships on Wednesday night. After fi nishing atop his heat in round one on Tuesday and in the semifi nals earlier on Wednesday, Granger was one of two Ameri-cans to qualify for the eight-man fi nals. The Rebel speedster jumped out to an early lead from his lane four before claiming fourth place in a tight fi nish with a time of 10.32, just shy of his 10.29 per-sonal best. Jamaica’s Dexter Lee won the gold medal with a time of 10.21, fol-lowed by American Charles Silmon (TCU) at 10.23 and France’s Jimmy Vicaut at 10.28. “I knew I lacked top-end speed,” Granger told reporters after the race. “I tried to have a good start and hold it, but I just couldn’t quite hold it. I’m not happy with the time, but the U.S. won a medal, so it’s good.” Granger is expected to compete in the 4x100-meter relay on Friday and Saturday of the champion-ships.

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REBELS TAKE STAGE IN HOOVER, ALA. FRIDAYAfter two days of the Southeast-ern Conference’s annual Media Days, the Ole Miss Rebels will be represented on Friday by coach Houston Nutt, defensive line-men Kentrell Lockett and Jerrell Powe and offensive tackle Bradley Sowell.

Fans can watch the press confer-ences live on www.secsports.com or ESPNU.

The Rebels will take the podium from 11:10 a.m. until 12:30. Au-burn, Tennessee and LSU precede Ole Miss on the fi nal day of press converences

Some of you may think that you’ve had a tough go of things since you arrived on campus, but I’m willing to bet that few students have experienced as many ups and downs as rising senior Alliesha Easley.

Easley came to Ole Miss in 2006 after lettering four years at Briarcrest High School in Memphis, Tenn. She made an instant impact, starting all 35 contests and averaging 11 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists her freshman year.

That year saw Ole Miss topple four top-10 teams and advance to the Elite Eight, but it also saw a great deal of attrition. Coach Carol Ross and three seniors – Ashley Awkward, Jada Mincy and Armintie Price – departed from the program at the end of the season.

The following year, new head coach Renee Ladner preached an intense and defensive mind-ed system that resembled Ross’ strategy (which pundits were re-ferring to as “organized chaos” by the end of the 2006-2007 season), and Easley was planned to improve on her stellar fresh-man campaign and help lead a young team.

But, it is when we are out making plans that life so often intervenes.

“It was a great freshman year and I thought everything was going to go uphill from there, but then it just seemed like everything went downhill in-stead,” Easley said.

Often, when we make a wrong decision in life, we are faced with a set of consequenc-es. However, as in Easley’s case,

we are sometimes dealt an un-fortunate set of circumstances regardless of what decisions we make.

After gearing up for her sophomore season, Easley suf-fered her fi rst ACL tear in the fi rst game of the season against Nebraska. She recovered from that injury and returned to the lineup for 2008-2009, break-ing into the starting lineup for most of the season.

Last year, however, Easley fell victim to another knee injury in the preseason, causing her to miss the entire 2009-2010 sea-son. What can you say? Hap-penstance happens.

No one would have raised an eyebrow had Easley decided to just sit this one out after two injuries of this magnitude, but she remains undeterred.

“I love this game and I’ve been playing it for so long and it’s gotten me so far. I’m also driven by my faith in God and the fact that he’s given me a tal-ent. I almost feel like I would be knocking him if I wasn’t ac-tively using the talents that he gave me,” Easley said.

She said she also feels like her injuries offer a silver lining.

“I’ve had (a teammate) tear her ACL and MCL recently and my experiences have al-lowed me to help her through it because I’ve been through it as well.”

The broadcast journalism major was also allowed to be the color analyst alongside Rebel broadcaster Gary Darby for the women’s basketball team last season, which could be con-sidered a great opportunity for any Rebel student interested in journalism.

But Easley, who credits

strength and conditioning coach Shane McKenzie and athletic trainer Heather Shirley (among others) for her rehabili-tation, now says she is ready to return to the kinetic pace that defi nes Ladner’s style of basket-ball.

“My goal for next season is to play with a reckless aban-donment. It’s not going to be about scoring points or living up to the hype but rather play-ing hard at all times and being a senior leader for the team. Our goal is to win – bottom line – and it’s time for us to make an-other run to the NCAA’s.”

Having a few extra fans in attendance for that run would nice, too.

“I’ll just say that we play ex-tremely hard, and I feel that we should embrace all sports – from softball to volleyball to soccer to football to tennis – whatever. We’re a family here at Ole Miss and I don’t think that we should be defi ned by one sport – we should be defi ned by all of them.”

A lot of athletes have repre-sented Ole Miss to the best of their abilities, but few athletes have put in as much personal sacrifi ce as Easley has just for the opportunity to continue to

represent this university. For that, she deserves our support and recognition – perhaps more so even than some of the play-ers who have caught our atten-tion in recent memory.

A grand total of four jersey numbers have been retired in the history of Ole Miss athlet-ics, including Archie Manning’s #18 (football) and Jake Gibbs’ #41 (baseball) for their out-standing achievements on and off the fi eld.

The other two numbers – Chucky Mullins’ #38 (foot-ball) and Anthony Boone’s #41 (men’s basketball) – were re-tired for reasons that go beyond fi lling stat sheets. Those two players etched their legacies in Ole Miss lore with two traits – toughness and resolve.

With a senior season left to be played, Alliesha Easley has yet another chance to further prove her toughness and resolve to the Ole Miss fan base. With a whole season left, there’s still a chance for you to get to see Easley and her #32 jersey when the women hit the court this year.

One day, you may fi nd it keeping Boone’s #41 jersey company in the Tad Pad’s raf-ters.

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