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History was made at the University of Southern Missis-sippi September 29 when one of its own faculty members was named Honorary Consul to France and presented three WWII veterans with the Legion of Honor, the highest decora-tion in France.

Sponsored by L’Association Francaise de USM, the cer-emony held in the Thad Co-chran ballrooms on Thursday recognized Keltoum Rowland, a French instructor at USM, as Missisppi’s first Honorary Con-sul to France. Her first duty as Consul was to host an event in which three WWII Veterans re-ceived the Legion of Honor.

“France wants to show its gratitude to these men who risked everything to liberate my country,” Rowland said.

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Instructor awarded national honorON CAMPUS

Michelle HolowachPrintz Writer

See FRENCH, 3French professor Keltoum Rowland, Honorary Consul to France, presented three WWII veterans with the Legion of Honor Thursday. The Legion of Honor is the highest honor in France.

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� e University of Southern Mississippi’s newest residence halls have recently received a Leadership in Energy and Envi-ronmental Design Gold certi� -cation, a top honor for environ-mentally friendly buildings.

The Century Park residential complex opened in the fall of 2010. It was designed with the intention to be a state-of-the-art residence hall with systems in-stalled that respect the environ-ment and provide a healthy liv-

ing and learning environment for students.

LEED is the nation’s preemi-nent program for the design, c o n s t r u c t i o n and operation of high perfor-mance green b u i l d i n g s . These buildings use less energy by reducing g r e e n h o u s e gas emissions, which in turn

reduces costs for families, taxpayers and businesses.

� e $37.7 million development is a gated community located on West 4th Street. It con-sists of four four-story buildings and a Learn-ing Center with class-rooms, study space and a kitchen.

“It is definitely one of the safest and most secure places to live on campus,” resident assistant Rebecca Seale said. “Any way

that Southern Miss can be rec-ognized for its top-notch fea-tures is always an accomplish-ment. Why wouldn’t someone want to come to college here when they see a residence com-munity like Century Park?”

Century Park houses fresh-men, Honors College students and scholarship recipients. Each room houses two resi-dents and includes two bunk-able beds, two dressers, two desks with chairs, two closets, a sink and vanity area and a pri-vate bathroom. The room also

Century Park receives LEED Gold certifi cationON CAMPUS

Leighanne LockhartPrintz Writer

See CENTURY PARK, 3Century Park, the newest edition to the residence halls, have offi cially received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certifi cation.

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10 a.m.Transylvania BowlUnion Lobby

11 a.m.2nd Annual Rocking for Ronald Penny Drop TCC Lobby

11 a.m.Rugby Club RecruitmentTCC Lobby

11 a.m.Breast Cancer Awareness FundraiserUnion Lobby

9 a.m.Men of Excellence “T.R.U.S.T. Your Brother”Union Rooms B, C H, Hall of Honors

9 a.m.Miss USM Pageant InterviewsHUB Black Conference Room

11 a.m.Miss USM Pageant Judges LuncheonHUB Gold Conference Room

1 p.m.Alpha Delta Pi Rocking for RonaldPride Field

7 p.m.Miss USM PageantBennett Auditorium


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5 p.m.Safety First “Survival 101”Union Plaza and R.C.’s Lounge

6 p.m. Competition Karoake Power House

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5 THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW*The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.*The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.*Karaoke means “empty orchestra” in Japanese.*A skunk’s smell can be detected by a human a mile away.*Children grow faster in the springtime.*Flying from London to New York by Concorde, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

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News Student Printz, Page 3Tuesday, October 4, 2011

For many Southern Miss students, securing an intern-ship and obtaining careers after graduation can be a drawn out process with mediocre results. However, some students and faculty said that linking small business owners and students together can provide a gateway to a successful career after col-lege graduation.

Chelsea Wahl, a biochemistry major, helped create the Golden Eagle Student Consulting Club

to facilitate this. Wahl said the club will help connect small business owners to students who hope to start their own business in the future.

“The Golden Eagle Student Consulting Club will also help students with planning, creat-ing business plans and inter-preting financial analysis. The club is also a great way for student-business interaction as well as a way for students to obtain potential internships,” Wahl said.

Wahl also said that students from any major can join the club to learn more about entre-preneurship.

“Joining this club will be a really great networking oppor-tunity for students to find jobs after graduate,” Wahl said.

Bianca Jagers, President of the consulting club, said she was excited to meet new stu-dents interesting in business, consulting and networking.

“I’m looking forward to en-gage in many new ventures with this group and engage with stu-dents,” Jagers said.

SherRhonda Gibbs, a USM professor in the department of Management & International Business, is the advisor of the Golden Eagle Student Consult-ing Club.

“I am thrilled that students are spearheading efforts to ig-nite the entrepreneurial spirit at Southern Miss. This group is the first of its kind on campus and is sure to make an immedi-ate impact on aspiring student entrepreneurs across campus,” Gibbs said.

Gibbs also said she encourag-es students who are interested in business or entrepreneurship to consider joining the club.

“Students will interact with and provide valuable services to entrepreneurs and are position-ing themselves for great career and entrepreneurial opportuni-ties in the future,” Gibbs said.

The club’s motto is “Trans-forming Knowledge Into Expe-rience.” Wahl said students will be able to gain important busi-ness-related experience from club meetings.

“We will hold workshops during every meeting to make sure everyone is on the same page,” Wahl said.

Students interested in joining the Golden Eagle Student Con-sulting Club can attend meet-ings the first and third Wednes-days of each month in Joseph Greene Hall 104. The first meet-ing is Wednesday.

Consulting club provides connectionsON CAMPUS

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Army, Rowland said she per-sonally knows the sacrifices of those soldiers who have risked their lives.

“I think it is very important to honor those men who give up everything to go and fight for us,” Rowland said.

The event opened with the singing of the American and French national anthems, fol-lowed by an address from USM Provost Bob Lyman. Deputy Consul of France Caroline Pas-quier was also in attendance and officially recognized Row-land as Consul.

Rowland said she is deeply honored to be awarded this title.

“My first objective is to make sure that all French residing here in Mississippi know that they have a point of contact,” she said. “The second point is to develop some kind of coop-eration in the arts, in the sci-ence, and in the culture, and to bring a tad bit of France here to Mississippi.”

There are approximately 100 French citizens living in Mis-sissippi who will now be able to contact Rowland if they need help with passports and iden-tity cards or face any kind of emergency.

An Alumna of USM herself, Rowland has been teaching French at Southern Miss since 2004. She has served as President of the American Association of Teachers of French for Missis-sippi, is a member of the French Alliance and is the advisor of the French Society of USM.

Vice President of the French Society of USM Joseph Nguy-en said he thinks Rowland is a very good fit to be Mississippi’s Honorary Consul to France. “She’s very passionate about both sides of the culture,” he said. “Very passionate about the American side, very passion-ate about the French side, she’s very hands-on with things, and I think she’s very active. I don’t think there’s a better person for it really.”

“I was thrilled to hear the news of Keltoum’s success,” Ste-ven Moser, Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, said. “It’s just one more manifestation of the quality of our faculty and staff and how much they reach out to the community.” Moser also said that anytime the uni-versity can collaborate in such a global way it extends its reach and speaks highly of its col-leagues in the college who move

outside of their discipline.After Rowland was recog-

nized as Mississippi’s Honorary Consul to France, History pro-fessor Andrew Wiest spoke on the importance of “remember-ing the cost of war” and “hon-oring the heroes of America’s greatest generation.”

His expose was followed by a presentation from LTC Joseph E. Worley, Jr., the professor of Military Science. Deputy Direc-tor of Mississippi Veteran Af-fairs Randy Reeves also spoke before the three veterans were bestowed with their monumen-tal award.

France and America were then united in granting these three members of America’s greatest generation the Legion of Honor. Veterans Jack O’Hearn, James W. Williams, and the widow of Lou-is K. Brown were presented with medals, displaying France’s grati-tude for the liberation of their country during World War II.

To witnessing the presenta-tion of this esteemed French honor is to experience history in the making. “The WWII veterans are walking history books, they’ve lived through it, they know and seen it,” Nguyen said. “So for Southern Miss stu-

dents to come in contact with them, to maybe even ask ques-tions, is a rare opportunity.”

President of the French Asso-ciation of USM Ashleigh Lad-ner said this ceremony shows USM is involved and interested in Foreign Affairs. “Legion of

Honors is really prestigious and it’s not everyday that you see people get awarded that,” Lad-ner said, “So I think it’s an awe-some opportunity for foreign affairs and military affairs to be incorporated in the University.”

includes a bookcase and mi-cro fridge.

Sophomore kinesiology major Lisa Edwards is liv-ing in Century Park for the second year in a row. When considering moving off cam-pus last year, in the end she decided she was content stay-ing on campus in the new residential complex.

“CP is a wonderful com-munity for students and are

“Go Green” in every aspect of living,” Edwards said. “From our lights, water and wash-ing machines, everything that makes up CP was well thought through in order to be environmentally friendly.”

Senior public relations major Cher Cannon was a resident assistant in Century Park last year. She thinks the complex’s receiving of the GOLD standard is fitting for

Southern Miss’s priorities of attaining healthy minds, bod-ies, and campuses.

“I think it’s great that we are taking big steps and striv-ing for a better campus,” Can-non said. “Sustainability is one of our campus’s strongest aspects so it would only make sense that we would move forward in our efforts to have healthy, green living environ-ments for the students.”

Feature Tuesday, October 4, 2011Page 4, Student PrintzON CAMPUS

Q&A: Luc leads on-campus livingAlicia Luc has been the Resi-

dence Life Coordinator for the Village and College of Business Honors House for three years now. Her job entails managing the day-to-day activities of the Village, supervising a staff of resident assistants, and manag-ing all other housing related is-sues. Starting off as a hall direc-tor in Wilber Hall, Luc has never failed to put a smile on some-one’s face and has continued to bring positivity and kindness to the Southern Miss campus.

Q: As Residence Life Coor-dinator, what exactly are you in charge of managing?

A: I manage day-to-day op-erations of the Village (which

includes sorority houses, upper-class scholarship women, the nursing living learning commu-nity and athletes) and the College of Business Honors House. I su-pervise a sta� of 12 RAs, two peer mentors and one assistant hall director. I manage any housing related issues, supervise RA pro-gramming and serve as a resource to the students. I also advise the Rho Eta Alpha chapter of the Na-tional Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH), which is an organiza-tion that honors the top one per-cent of leaders living on campus.

Q: What do you love most about your job?

A: I think my favorite thing about working here at Southern Miss is the people that I meet through my job. I get to know so many wonderful women by

working with the sororities and a lot of great students from the other buildings. I also love work-ing with my student sta� mem-bers. � ey are among the best and brightest undergraduate leaders I have ever met and they never cease to amaze me. Students are truly the reason that anyone goes into student a� airs as a profes-sion, and they o� en give you an education you’ll never forget.

Q: Why did you choose to work here at Southern Miss?

A: I � nished my Master’s de-gree here in the Summer 2009 semester. During my graduate education, I was the Hall Director in Wilber Hall, and I really loved the culture of Southern Miss. It’s a mid-sized school with a small school feel and a lot of Southern hospitality. � ere are also some

really great people in the Division of Student A� airs here, and they have been very positive mentors for me as I began my career. And, of course, the students make my job totally worth it each and every day. � ey never fail to make me laugh or put a smile on my face. I honestly didn’t picture seeing my-self in Mississippi a� er graduate school, but I absolutely love my position here.

Q: What do you have to do in order to train the RAs?

A: Our RAs go through an ex-tensive two-week departmental training at the beginning of the fall semester. � ey spend a lot of time learning about the position, how to address situations that might come up, plan programs and get our buildings ready for opening. We also do a lot of on-

going training throughout the year as well. We also meet once a week as a sta� and we o� en do mini training sessions during those meetings. Being a RA is an excellent leadership opportunity – our RAs learn a lot of transfer-rable skills that they are able to apply to future positions. I think one of the most important les-sons that they learn by being a RA is learning how to work on team and work with others who might be di� erent than them selves. It really is a fun job, and being a RA at my undergradu-ate institution helped me become who I am today and � nd a career path that I truly love.

Luc has served Southern Miss with love and enthusiasm, and her leadership skills will continue to push this campus to the top.

Arielle EdwardsPrintz Writer

News in brief:Midtown Project:

Hattiesburg

Students are encour-aged to attend the Mid-town Project: Hatties-burg student forum in the Hub Activity Cen-ter from 4 until 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Sid Gonsoulin, mem-ber of the leadership

committee, will be there to note ideas and advice from students as to what kind of busi-nesses they would like to see in Hattiesburg.

Midtown Project: Hattiesburg hopes to bring new businesses, restaurants, living and nightlife to the Hub City. Some ideas being

discussed include art venues, music venues, late night restaurants, and lo� apartments.

Students should bring their voices and ideas for new business strengths to the Hub Activity Center on Wednesday.

Student Governtment Association

The Student Gov-ernment Association has released applica-tions for student orga-nizational funding.

Any organization registered with the

Office of Student Ac-tivities is eligible to apply for the funds, which have been set aside by SGA. Appli-cations must be com-pleted and submitted to the SGA office by Oct. 12 at 5 p.m.

Applicants must be available for a hear-ing/interview time,

which will be held Oct. 17 through Oct. 21. Failure to show for an interview will result in a voided ap-plication.

For more informa-tion, contact Corey Stapp, Senate Presi-dent Pro Tempore, at [email protected].

Alpha Delta Pi and Ronald

McDonald House

The ladies of Alpha Delta Pi are hosting a trivia night tonight from 7 until 9 p.m. in Union Room B to de-

termine the King and Queen of rock.

Questions asked during trivia will in-clude questions about the USM’s ADPi chap-ter, music and Ron-ald McDonald House Charities, ADPi’s phi-

lanthropy.Students are encour-

aged to come out and support the Alpha Del-ta Pi ladies and � ght to become the King and Queen of Rock.

Arts & Entertainment Student Printz, Page 5Tuesday, October 4, 2011Review

50/50: Just what the doctor orderedInspired by a true story, Sum-

mit Entertainment’s latest pro-duction 50/50 examines the life of a young man diagnosed with cancer and his journey of finding love, friendship and means of sur-vival in the most unlikely places. As the film progresses, Adam’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) vitality and health fade, and he comes to terms with his life and illness as well as the illness’s effects on his life. During the various stages of treatment, Adam learns to appre-ciate what he has, especially the things he once took for granted before his diagnosis.

Director Jonathan Levine’s (The Wackness) most recent film acts as a new age “dramody” loosely based off the real-life experiences of screenwriter Will Reiser, who battled a potentially fatal form of cancer in his 20s.

Gordon-Levitt, known for his roles in 500 Days of Summer and Inception, stars as Adam Lerner, a 27-year-old radio program writer who is diagnosed with spinal can-cer. From beginning to end, Gor-don-Levitt delivers an astound-ing, passionate performance that,

in turn, generates legitimate em-pathy with audience members. The evolution of his character is both evident and believable with-out seeming contrived from the strain of meticulous direction.

Personally, Gordon-Levitt is one of my favorite young actors in Hollywood, not only because of his acting capabilities but also his choice of films. As for 50/50, I laughed, I cried…I lusted. (Brief fan-girl moment.)

Kyle, played by infamous foul-mouthed funny-man Seth Rogen, aids Adam during his battle with cancer through a bounty of inap-propriate humor, complicating his life in antagonizing but humor-ous ways. Rogen plays his typical stock character of a chubby, comi-cal stoner friend. However, Rogen functions as the primary source of comedic relief for the film. Com-pared to his other films where he plays a supporting role, Rogen’s depiction of Kyle seems compli-mentary rather than brash.

50/50 also co-stars Bryce Dallas Howard, known for her role in The Help as well as being director Ron Howard’s most famous offspring. Howard plays Rachael, Adam’s “supportive” girlfriend.

Anna Kendrick, who nabbed

a spot on Hollywood’s A-list af-ter co-starring alongside George Clooney in the 2009 Academy Award nominated drama Up in the Air (Yes, I refuse to formally accredit Twilight.), takes on the role of Katherine, a medical stu-dent who acts as Adam’s therapist.

The supporting cast adds a supplementary, dimensional pres-ence in the film. Each individual, whether it’s Adam’s therapist (Kendrick), girlfriend (Howard) or mother, (Anjelica Huston) plays a key role in Adam’s life as well as his battle with cancer. As the relationships between Adam and the people in his life grow and fade, the audience can distinguish a deeper, developed understand-ing of Adam’s character, making 50/50 a relatable film as well as a story of human growth and un-derstanding.

50/50 has received mostly posi-tive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 93% of 120 critics have given positive reviews. The film, thus far, main-tains an overall rating of 7.8 out of 10. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average on a 100 point scale from mainstream critics, gives the film an overall score of 72 based off 40 reviews.

Overall, 50/50 weaves both com-edy and drama in unassuming ways. In layman’s terms, the film is a heartwarming tale of love and friendship while simultaneously being a raunchy “pothead comedy.”

At first glance, a comedy about cancer doesn’t seem like the most efficient way to ap-proach such a sensitive subject. 50/50 doesn’t venture too far to either end of the drama versus comedy spectrum and finds a sweet spot through sustain-

ing a steady stream of touch-ing sincerity in balance with heartwarming hilarity. More-over, 50/50 does an excellent job harmonizing the two genres alongside the overall story and incorporating characters within that story without any sense of force. The film reminds audi-ences that love and friendship are life’s greatest healers.

50/50 is sincere filmmaking at its finest.

Hannah JonesManaging Editor

on campus

usm professor shines on Broadway

USM’s very own voice opera musical theatre professor Mary-ann Kyle starred in the new Broadway musical Sondheim in the City.

This creative material of pop and opera, created by the woman herself, is a reflection of Kyle’s life.

Kyle recently packed up her belongings in the ‘Burg and headed north to the Big Apple, where she will perform her Sondheim repertory.

Kyle is a prime example of the importance of networking and building connections.

Kyle was discovered by the pro-ducer of Marni Nixon’s act Mostly Marni Nixon, the singing voice for Audrey Hepburn as Eliza in My Fair Lady and for Natalie Wood

as Maria in West Side Story.“The producer obtained one

of my recordings and decided she wanted to get to know me,” Kyle said.

“One thing led to another, and she expressed interest in putting together a show,” Kyle said.

Sondheim in the City is a cabaret-style production that showcases the multi-faceted Maryann Kyle, but she hasn’t forgotten her roots.

“I’m always happy when I return from New York because I get the tremendous oppor-tunity to come back to work with such a talented bunch of students,” Kyle said.

“I miss my students very much.”

This is the first time in the history of the university that a project that originated at Southern Miss has appeared on Broadway.

The 65-minute, one-night only performance took place at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, the same theatre where Joan Rivers hosts her show Joan Rivers: Live in Times Square.

According to USM’s School of

Music, Kyle likes to bring an ele-ment of theatre, dance and art into her musical projects. When she decided to develop the concept fur-ther, she knew just whom to call.

“Mike Lopinto has been a friend for many years and has

served the university brilliantly in the areas of marketing and event production,” Kyle said. “We went back to his kitchen table where it all started and began reworking the script and staging into the form it is now.”

Lopinto is currently the PR/Marketing and Auditorium Co-ordinator for the School of Music.

According to usm.edu/music,

Lopinto says Kyle taught him voice while she was completing her degree at Southern Miss.

“After years of bringing the world’s finest to Mississippi with the Symphony, it thrills me to be able to have this produc-

tion by Southern Miss al-ums take on the Big Apple,” Lopinto said.

Although Kyle and Lopin-to are two crucial elements in making this production a success, the show would not be complete without USM student Brett Barnes, a senior music education major who is accredited for his choreography across the United States.

“I lived and studied in New York City in 2007 at the American Musical and

Dramatic Academy,” Barnes said. “It’s thrilling to return with a production that show-cases Southern Miss talent on and off the stage.”

Kyle’s Broadway musical de-picts a journey of defining mo-ments in her life and the sacri-fices she has made.

Rachel BeechPrintz Writer

From left, Anna Kendrick, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star in “50/50.”

Courtesy Summit Entertainment/MCT

After years of bringing the world’s finest to Mis-sissippi with the sympho-ny, it thrills me to be able to have this production by Southern Miss alums take

on the Big Apple.

Mike Lopinto

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”Southern Miss music professor Maryann Kyle starred in the Broadway musical Sondheim in the City Saturday.

Courtesy Photo

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“ Eaglepalooza lets have a repeat of how awe-some Girl Talk was, Wiz Khal-ifa is defi nitely like a million times the wrong direction of what we need to go in. MSU is bringing the Avett Bros, that’s good and all but let us have a good old fashion dance party!!

I miss the 90s. Can we have a 90s theme day during homecoming week?

To the worlds leading au-thority on “the real world”, B = -31.5. If you seriously can’t do that then Mississippi State is taking applications, you’re their ideal candidate.

I think the teachers should park where the commut-ers park and vice versa because we are here only a few minutes or a few hours a day and teachers are here all day. 135 dollars to park is already insane. You’d think we’d get close parking for that price!

To the Concerned Woman: Please explain to me how taking a pill that causes you to go into early labor without a doctor, and seeing your dead baby land in the toi-let is physically or emotion-ally healthy for a woman? Thanks, Pro-Woman

They should allow us to vote one who students want to bring to Eaglepal-ooza, I say put Coldplay on the ballot, but if that’s a stretch skrillex.

That awkward moment when you realize what that catchy song from your childhood is actually talking about, a.k.a. “Too Close” by Next.

Man is not free unless gov-ernment is limited. ~ Ron-ald Reagan Vote NO on 26.

To the people who sit outside the room talking before their W 6:30 class in TEC, quit acting like a bunch of middle schoolers and let the grown-ups study.

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“ Here is a radi-cal idea: instead of going through the complicated pro-cess of curing a hangover, why don’t you just moderate your drinking and avoid a hangover in the fi rst place? Then you can do stuff like...idk, go to class and go run-ning.

6b + 196 - 7 = 0 solves to b = -31 and 1/2. You appar-ently can’t add, subtract, or divide. If you want to com-plain about math, get out of MAT099 fi rst.

That straight guy is just jeal-ous that my girlfriend is hot-ter than his. -proud lesbian student

Can The Pride PLEASE stop playing “My Girl” at the games. It is super cheesy, doesn’t get anyone pumped up for the game, and has no connection to football whatsoever!

Big thanks to whoever made all of us over in Hillcrest look bad with that Shout-Out the other day. Heaven forbid you take it up with the person you had a problem with or talk to your r.a. about it. Good lookin’ out, champ!

It’s great and commend-able to root for your (our) team, but have a little class. Don’t “boo” the op-posing team just for being there to play. When the refs make bad calls (and they will, and do), then sound off, but again, have some class. Chanting BullS**t is not what I would consider classy. Think before you open your fi lthy, podunk mouths!

Bad mojo all aroundTurnitin.com discourages originality

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Whether you’re earning a degree in polymer science, physical therapy, coaching or theatre, chances are you will have to write a paper or two or twenty in your undergraduate career at Southern Miss. While some enjoy writing papers, oth-ers would rather clean bath-room toilets with toothbrushes than chalk together ideas for a three page paper about a read-ing from a World Civ book.

For the sake of passing, stu-dents suck it up and put their best thoughts forward into a typed essay and turn it in be-fore the deadline. As if this isn’t enough, many professors re-quire students to submit their essays to turnitin.com, an online database that checks documents for “originality.” My question is this: why do professors think an online database can decide if my paper is original?

First of all, turnitin.com com-pares a student’s paper to other papers linked within the web-site and other internet sources. How is it a student’s fault if they happen to use the same word or lingo as another student? How can turnitin.com respectfully say that a student from Southern Miss copied a phrase from a stu-dent’s paper from UCLA? It just doesn’t add up, friends. #Messy.

Next, it’s quite easy to im-properly cite a source when typing a paper. If a student types one letter or page num-ber incorrectly when citing

MLA or APA format, turnitin.com can report that a paper is plagiarized. Plagiarism and cit-ing incorrectly are not the same thing. Students should not re-ceive a failing grade because they accidentally typed the wrong word or number.

For example, let’s say a student decides to write a paper about monkeys for his zoology class.

� e student � nds an article on-line from the National Geographic website about monkey population over the past century. However, monkeys.com also has an article about monkey population over the past century. If the student cites the National Geographic website in his paper, then he should be � ne. Well, turnitin.com only has a paper on � le from a student who used the same words in his article but quoted monkeys.com.

Turnitin.com says that the stu-dent’s paper is plagiarizing. � is monkey business is simply not fair.

Imagine if this student was writing a research paper about monkeys. I guess the joke would just be on the student. That’s some funky bananas, my friends.

When writing a research paper, all students have to do is look up information, type the informa-tion to make it cohesive to their personal writing style and cite the article. A research paper is merely studying a topic in-depth. If all of the information from a research paper comes from cited topics, then how in the hell can it be 100% original? Oh, wait. It can’t.

If professors really want to catch a student who cheats, they should not look on a database website that checks for “origi-nality.” It’s completely biased to the database. If a professor sus-pects plagiarism, all one has to do is type a phrase into Google. If a website shows up with exact

wording, then information has been copied. I find it offensive that a professor would entrust a student’s grade in a class to a computer-generated data-base that spits out information. Judging creativity and original-ity based on a website database is unjust.

Wikipedia is an awful website to use when writing a paper, but it gives students an idea of what to look for when writing about a topic. Turnitin.com does nothing but punish students for something they may or may not have done.

Let’s face it, guys. Students are much more intelligent than turnitin.com gives them credit for. We learned how to source information and put things into our own words when we wrote our senior research pa-pers in high school. Plagiarism is a nasty and fatal offense. Stu-dents have looked beyond that by paying others to write their papers for them. Get with the program, professors. Turnitin.com is a dated, over-used tool that punishes students for be-ing original.

� is was an article of opinion by Justin Mitchell, a writer for � e Student Printz. Email questions or comments to [email protected].

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Sports Student Printz, Page 7Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Lady Miners pull past Lady EaglesSOCCER

The Southern Miss Lady Ea-gles soccer team took the pitch against the UTEP Lady Miners in the annual “Pink Out” game on Sunday. The Lady Miners took the match 3-1.

The opening salvo was fired by UTEP as Katie Dorman snuck the ball past USM goalie Hannah Vanderboegh to make the score 1-0 UTEP. The goal was unassisted off a steal from a defender from the penalty mark on the USM half of the field.

With only 11 minutes un-til the half, USM got a throw in from Macie Wallace, which landed at the feet of Brooke Hendrix. Hendrix found an open Mischa Tice, who went for a goal that bounced over the keeper’s head to tie the game before halftime.

In the second half, it was all UTEP as the Lady Miners dominated the ball and time of possession. The first goal of the second half came from UTEP’s, Azia Nicholson with 38 min-utes to go, making the score 2-1 UTEP. With 31 minutes left, the Lady Miners scored another

goal. Lauren Katada scored to push the score to 3-1.

The Lady Eagles fell to 3-7-3 overall and 0-2-1 in confer-ence while the Lady Miners improved to 9-3-1 overall and 3-1-0. Lady Eagles head coach Scott Ebke was pleased with the team’s effort but felt they could do better.

“We’re not playing as well as we want to play,” Ebke said. We’re definitely dangerous when we keep the ball. I’m defi-nitely pleased with the prog-ress. We’re playing a lot of play-ers in different positions which continues to add to our attack-

ing mentality.“We expect to be in our con-

ference tournament, which is the top eight teams,” Ebke said. “We just go to get the results on the weekend and make that happen.”

Sophomore forward Mischa Tice scored the only goal for the Lady Eagles.

“It took a lot of effort from every person that contributed,” Tice said. “First it was Jordan’s [Wagner] throw, Brooke’s flick on, then the other team’s men-tal breakdown and it just took all of that to get it into the back of the goal.”

Freshman Macie Wallace notched an assist in the game and played hard off the bench in the game for the Lady Eagles.

“We’re definitely becoming a little better with every game,” Wallace added. “We work hard every week to try to come out and be better. We’re coming out and we’re giving everybody a battle. We just got to make sure that some things we’re not doing get done.”

This week the Lady Eagles will embark on another tough road trip to play conference foes East Carolina on Friday and Marshall on Sunday.

Josh SeabrookPrintz Writer

The Lady Eagles totaled 32 kills during the match against UAB Sunday. Senior Lauren Sears from Ashburn, Va. contributed 10 kills to that effort.


� e Southern Miss Lady Eagle volleyball team won their home conference opener against Memphis on Friday 3-0 but lost their match on Sun-day to UAB 3-1. In Friday’s game, three Eagles totaled double-digit kills against the Tigers, with junior Halie Ecker leading the way with 12. Se-niors Ashley Mell and Lauren Sears � nished second on the squad with 10 each on .714 and .526 hitting, re-spectively. Senior set-ter Kelsea Seymour led the team with 39 assists and was able to notch her 1000th ca-reer dig. Senior libero Lisa Knecht tallied 16 digs while Elizabeth

Rinaudo collected 13. Sunday’s game fea-

tured another great e� ort by the Lady Ea-gles as senior Amelia Hendrickson tallied her � � h double-dou-ble with 12 kills and 12 digs for the Gold-en Eagles (7-9, 1-3). Seymour dished out 36 assists to go with 14 digs in posting her eight double-double of the season. Knecht collected a match high 27 digs while Eliza-beth Rinaudo added 16 digs.� e volleyball team

will hit the road to play two matches against Tulsa this weekend and will be back at Reed Green Coliseum on October 14 to play East Carolina.

Sports in brief:Volleyball splits weekend games

Sports Tuesday, October 4, 2011Page 8, Student Printz

Golden Eagles blackout OwlsFOOtball

The Southern Miss Golden Eagles (1-1 C-USA) earned their first conference win of the sea-son on Saturday with a 48-24 home victory over the Rice Uni-versity Owls (1-3, 0-1 C-USA). After three consecutive wins, the Golden Eagles now have an overall record of 4-1 and this win marks their first victory in three contests against the Owls.

Junior bandit Jamie Collins was a catalyst for the Southern Miss defense once again as he slammed Rice running back Sam McGuffie to the turf for a loss of eight yards on the first play from scrimmage. “On the first play of the game Ja-mie [Collins] picked a guy up and slammed him on his head, so a big play like that is going to set the tone all night,” redshirt senior linebacker Ronnie Thornton said of his teammate’s tackle.

Each of the Owls’ first three possessions stalled after three plays while the Golden Eagle of-fense marched the ball up and down the field at will. Late in the first quarter Southern Miss seized a 13-0 lead off a 47-yard sprint by Kendrick Hardy to the end zone as well as a perfectly executed 46-yard flea flicker touchdown pass from Austin Davis to a wide open Ryan Bal-entine.

Southern Miss watched its lead evaporate in five seconds of actual game time as Rice quar-terback Taylor McHargue con-nected with wide receiver Vance McDonald for a two-yard touch-down pass, making it 7-0. On the ensuing kickoff, Rice linebacker Michael Kutzler put the Owls up 14-13 when he returned a fumble 17 yards for a touchdown to end the first quarter.

Southern Miss head football coach Larry Fedora thought his players responded how he ex-pected when they faced this kind of adversity throughout the game.

“We just kept playing. We [didn’t] panic,” said Fedora. “We

didn’t tackle well at that point. We were trying to knock guys off their feet instead of just wrapping up, and they were picking up seven or eight yards a pop. Once we settled down, and relaxed, and played football like we can, we were fine.”

Following a Davis interception late in the second quarter, Rice had a second and goal to go from the Golden Eagle four yard line when Southern Miss respond-ed with a big play of their own. Cornerback Marquese Wheaton scooped up a McHargue fumble at the Golden Eagle 25 yard line and returned it 75 yards for a momentum-shifting touchdown.

Early in the third quarter, the mo-mentum swung back in favor of the Owls, as a fourth and one Hardy run on the Rice four yard line turned into a costly fumble and a 96-yard Xavier Webb return for a touchdown, mak-ing the score 24-20 Rice.

Down the stretch, the Golden

Eagles capitalized on big plays against an exhausted Owl de-fense en route to scoring 28 unanswered points to end the game. This stretch included rushes of one and two yards for scores by Davis and wide receiv-er Tracy Lampley, respectively, as well as two Davis touchdown passes to wide receivers Kevin Bolden and Balentine for 45 and 23 yards, respectively.

Bolden finished the game with nine receptions for 132 yards and a touchdown while Balen-tine hauled in seven grabs for 114 yards and two scores

The Golden Eagles finished the game with a school record 654 yards of total offense, 370 of which came on the ground at an average of 7.3 yards a carry. Coming into the game, Rice was allowing 233.3 rushing yards per contest, and for Southern Miss it hardly mattered who was gash-

ing through the Owl defense. Hardy totaled 172 yards and a

touchdown on 23 carries before leaving for the remainder of the game with an injury in the third quarter. Running backs Jamal Woodyard and Jeremy Hester also left this game with injuries, so Lam-pley carried the load in the fourth quarter as he accumulated 70 yards on only nine carries. Even fifth-string running back Bruce Johnson had a 25-yard run to his credit.

“For our offense, when we needed it, we drove the ball down the field,” Davis said of the game. “A huge credit goes to our offensive line. We were able to run the ball and really control the tempo in the second half. It was a huge game for [the offen-sive line] and I am really proud of those guys.”

The Southern Miss prolific ground attack helped stabilize an offense that kept Rice in the

game by turning the ball over four times. The Golden Eagle defense also helped the cause by forcing two turnovers of their own as well as limiting Rice to just 33 net yards rushing.

“I just think it says a lot about our team,” Fedora said of his team overcoming adversity. “De-fensively, I thought we played really well. Obviously, you don’t want to turn the ball over like we did. So we have to do much bet-ter in those areas. But it’s a win. We’ve got a lot to work on and we’ve got to get ready for Navy.”

The Golden Eagles will travel to Annapolis, Md. Saturday to take on the non-conference Midship-men at 2:30 p.m.

Southern Miss Sports: Upcoming Games

10/8/112:30 p.m. Football at NavyAnnapolis, Md.

10/9/1112 p.m. Soccer at MarshallHuntington, W. Va.

10/9/111 p.m. Volleyball at TulsaTulsa, Okla.

Southern Miss Box Score

10/7/116 p.m. Soccer at East Carolina Greenville, N.C.

10/8/111 p.m. Volleyball at TulsaTulsa, Okla.

10/8/112 p.m. Softball hosts Chipola CollegeHattiesburg, Miss.

Football vs RICE C-USA games this weekend

SMU 40, (20) TCU 33 (OT)Marshall 17, Louisville 13Tulsa 41, North Texas 24North Carolina 35, East Carolina 20Middle Tennessee 38, Memphis 31Troy 24, UAB 23Army 45, Tulane 6Houston 49, UTEP 42

Football:10/1 vs. Rice W, 48-24

Soccer:9/30 vs. Colorado College L, 3-010/2 vs. UTEP L, 3-1

Volleyball:9/30 vs. Memphis W, 3-010/2 vs. UAB L, 3-1

Jeff HaegarPrintz Writer

Southern Miss wide receiver Ryan Balentine catches a 46-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter of the Golden Eagles’ 48-24 victory over the Rice Owls.


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