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INFOGRAPHIC BY CAIN MADDEN | The Daily Mississippian

KA to host blood drive in memory of pledges killed in crash

As number of nursing school applications increase, students face lack of classroom space and qualified professors

Applications for spring orga-nizational funding available

More than three months ago, Kappa Alpha Order lost three pledges in a car accident. Now, the fraternity is encouraging ev-eryone to give blood Tuesday in memory of Sam Clayton Kelly, Mason Wilbanks and Walker Kelly.

“Giving blood saves three lives, and with that being the same number of boys we lost, let’s put names and faces to the people they are saving,” sopho-more KA member Matt Mc-Donald said.

Every semester, Mississippi Blood Services looks for a fra-ternity or sorority to host a blood drive and raise aware-ness of how one person donat-ing can make a big difference. When a person donates blood, he or she is saving three to six lives.

“This blood drive is a memo-rial to save lives in honor of the three boys,” Jennifer Hudson of Mississippi Blood Services said.

Hudson had the idea of put-ting on a blood drive with KA as a way to get the entire cam-pus involved in doing some-thing in remembrance of Sam, Mason and Walker. Their fami-lies will receive a plaque with

BY MARIDANE [email protected]

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Every year approximately 50,000 qualified nursing ap-plicants are turned down from American schools.

The University of Mississip-pi received 340 qualified ap-plications this fall, yet was only able to accept 140. The main causes of this widespread issue are both fiscal and physical; there isn’t enough room for the large amounts of applicants

nor enough money to hire ad-ditional qualified professors to teach the courses. Another problem is that more gradu-ates go on to practice nursing rather than teach it.

In addition to these prob-lems, Pat Waltman, associate dean for academic affairs and accreditation, told the Clari-on-Ledger that enrollment is increasing in nursing schools in Mississippi, but the students are not remaining on as nurses in the state.

Directors with the Univer-sity of Mississippi Medical Center said that a lack of ad-ditional funding for the nurs-ing program is cause for a lack of teachers.

“In Mississippi, we have about twice as many graduates from associate degree nursing as from baccalaureate or high-er degree programs, and only about 15 percent continue with their education to earn the bachelor’s degree,” Waltman said. “Only about 5 percent of

those go on to earn a master’s or doctorate degree.”

Miele Stuckey, a senior nurs-ing student, said she went into nursing to help people, though it doesn’t necessarily have to be as an actual nurse.

“Down the road, I could see myself getting a master’s de-gree, maybe even a PhD and teaching,” she said. “It would be much more convenient to teach rather than work 12-

BY KELLY [email protected]

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Kappa Alpha Order is sponsoring a blood drive in memory of the three students who lost their lives last semester. The blood drive is set for Feb. 7 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Johnson Commons Ballroom.

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Campus organizations, new and old, can apply for funding from the Associated Student Body beginning today.

Spring allocations are a chance for organizations that did not receive funding in the fall to apply or reapply for money.

This year the ASB set aside $50,000 for allocations, up from approximately $32,000 from the 2010-2011 academic year.

“I was glad we were able to increase our allocations this year, it was by far the high-est level ever,” ASB president Taylor McGraw said.

Each fall, the ABS allocates a majority of its money, and this year that amount was $48,000, leaving $2,000 for the spring, according to ASB comptroller Garner Reesby.

The amount an organiza-tion is funded is determined during a five-minute inter-view.

The exact amount depends on how many people are in the organization, how the funding will affect the organi-zation and how much the or-ganization itself will affect the campus.

“The top-funded organiza-tions were the Black Student Union and Campus Crusades for Christ,” ASB treasurer John James said. “These orga-nizations serve the most mem-bers, and their members gain the most per dollar for the amount funded.”

Reesby said when it comes to spring funding the number one priority is organizations who did not receive any fund-ing in the fall. How organiza-tions spend the money, what the money is spent on and even if all of the money is spent are some of the factors, Reesby said.

“Some don’t spend all of their money in the fall and then ask for more in the spring,” he said. “It just undermines their organization as a whole.”

Reesby said the leftover money provides a “safety net” for new organizations.

“If there is a new organiza-tion available in the spring, we like to have some there,” he said. “It’s not much but it’s a little capitol.”

It is also there to keep orga-nizations active in the spring.

“We just want to keep orga-nizations involved throughout the spring,” Reesby said. “Just because we give money in the fall doesn’t mean they should slow up; we want to keep things moving.”

James said ASB likes to help new organizaitons get on their feet.

“Being entrusted with the university’s money, that it all goes to organizations that will benefit its members, the uni-versity and the Oxford com-munity as a whole, it is a great responsibility to ensure,” he said.

The funding only goes to recognized campus organiza-tions.

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As I come closer to the end of my journey at Ole Miss and move into the professional world, I have be-come exceedingly thoughtful about my communication with friends, family and colleagues, or the lack thereof.

I have recently become puzzled by the fact that I only get to know some people on the surface. I often find myself questioning whether or not I have a desire to get to know people better, or is it that we live in a society where social networks inhibit our ability to get to know people beyond what meets the eye?

From my personal account, I have a sincere interest in getting to know people, but it seems as though net-works like Twitter and Facebook in-hibit my ability to do so. I say this simply because following someone on Twitter and adding someone as a friend on Facebook leads us to be-

lieve that we are in fact friends. Such thinking has quickly become part of our culture. Is it because we can see everything our “friends” post or tweet about?

In my view, the harsh reality of such thinking is that we are not ac-tually friends. Even further, this view prohibits people from getting to know someone beyond the surface by discovering the essence of their character. Not only that, such think-ing can also jade one’s perception of another. Words can convey a differ-ent message and can sometimes give disservices to one’s character, espe-cially in settings like Facebook and Twitter.

Recently, I decided to build a list of “friends” and what I knew about them; the list was somewhat short when it comes to friends and re-ally short when it comes to content about each friend, and I’m certain

vice versa if they so choose to do the same.

After that, I wanted to under-stand why I knew so little about my “friends.” While this is a complex question, there are numerous hy-potheses to derive from this single question. My first being that maybe we are not really friends or we are probably nine-to-five friends where we only hangout when it’s conve-nient and ideal for one another. I then decided that would be unfair to all my real friends.

Then, I thought about it; not only was it me who was difficult to open up to, but also my thinking further perpetuated an idea that because I’ve searched their Facebook page and seemingly monitored all their tweets, I think I know everything about them.

Let me be clear: I am in no way diametrically opposed to the idea of

social networks. In fact, social net-works can provide unique opportu-nities to connect with people.

Despite those positive characteris-tics, I have increasingly become wary of how relationships are shaped in a society dominated by the need to constantly get information, not from personal accounts, but via other me-diums that are widely accessible.

Much of my thinking spurs from an idea once imbedded in me: the very importance of writing friendly notes or postcards to friends, or even having a cup of coffee with a friend. Now we can quickly “post” a mes-sage on their wall or message them pertinent questions.

Will we ever see the reversal of such trends?

Cortez Moss is a public policy leadership senior from Calhoun City. Follow him on Twitter at @MossMoss12.

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Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, on-ions, on a sesame seed bun; no one ever told me about the “pink slime.”

When I read a recent article in the Washington Post about an ingredient McDonald’s, Burger King and Taco Bell (among many others) used in the hamburger meat they bought, I was, first and foremost, outraged that I was just finding out about the process used to “stretch” hamburger meat fur-ther in some processing plants, and second, appalled with myself for my total lack of interest over the years as to what goes into the food my family and I eat.

Just how many fast-food slime burgers we have consumed over the years boggles my mind. My daughter’s Happy Meals alone have probably contributed to more than half of McDonald’s profits through the years. I’m “stretching,” of course, with that statement, but if they can do it, why not me?

Boneless lean beef trimmings, better known as pink slime, is what’s left of the meat after all the choice cuts of beef are taken. It is wrung through a centrifuge to re-move the fat from the scraps, and then treated with ammonium hy-droxide to retard spoilage and kill any bacteria like E. coli. It is then turned into a mash-like substance that is frozen into blocks or chips.

These trimmings are banned for human consumption in the United Kingdom, where they are instead used for dog or chicken food, according to the article. But

in the United States this process has the USDA’s stamp of ap-proval. And it’s not just fast-food restaurants that use this disgusting form of meat. According to Beef Products Inc., based in South Da-kota and the former supplier of pink slime to McDonald’s and others, if you’re eating a ham-burger anywhere, odds are very high that it contains their product. From grocery chains to the fed-eral school lunch program, your burger is probably sliming on top of your bun, as we speak.

The public was recently en-lightened somewhat about the process from celebrity chef Jamie Oliver on his “Food Revolution” program. Oliver referred to pink slime on the episode derisively. Since then McDonald’s has an-nounced they would no longer use the stuff in their burgers, de-nying it had anything to do with the airing of the show, but instead chocking it up to global distribu-tion problems. Burger King and Taco Bell have also discontinued using the ammonia-treated beef.

So is it any wonder Americans are having so many digestive and health problems? How safe, really, is pink slime? Just because we all didn’t keel over immediately after eating the ammonia-meat doesn’t mean it’s not wreaking long-term havoc on our bodies. There has to be a reason those good folks across the pond banned the junk; maybe President Obama should ring up the Queen and get her opinion on the safety of pink slime. It outrag-es me that the government doesn’t have to put some sort of label on our foods to let us know when we’re about to ingest something called pink slime. I also wonder how many folks who work inside the plant for Beef Products Inc., eat the garbage?

Angela Rogalski is a print journalism senior who lives in Abbeville. Follow her on Twitter @abbeangel.

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College is the time to travel abroadUWIRE

BY CANDICE WHEELERMinnesota Daily, U. Minnesota

College is the time to be curious. We need to take ad-vantage of our time and em-bark on an adventure before we lose that chance. Travel-ing and studying abroad — completely immersing your-self in another culture — can impact your life significantly. And if we plan to make a dif-ference in the world as young adults, we need that interna-tional experience now more than ever.

Any period of time over-seas is worthwhile, and the more time the better because the only way one can really learn about another culture is to live in it.

Last semester, I studied abroad in Italy, and I can honestly say that I did not

have enough time there. Es-pecially when learning a lan-guage, four months is barely enough time to mentally unpack. Time flew by as it always does, but I learned more about myself over the course of those four months than I had ever before.

College is a time to em-brace personal change and growth. Making the choice to travel independently can jump start this growing pro-cess.

The ability to deal with change helps the traveler’s transition when leaving a place he or she has become deeply accustomed to. It was very difficult for me to leave Italy — my time there felt unfinished. But because I have become accustomed to change, I am able to un-derstand the fact that I am

still young and one day I can go back. My trip was just the beginning.

I wouldn’t have been able to adjust as well as I did if it weren’t for the people I met. I made life-long friendships with people from all over the world. There is only experi-ence to be gained by a ven-ture overseas; there’s really nothing to lose.

My time abroad did noth-ing but make me a more de-termined person. I feel re-juvenated to have lived in a different culture, and I think it’s kind of beautiful that I and other students have the freedom to travel and live out these dreams so early in life. Most of us don’t know exactly where we’ll end up, but for now we might as well just enjoy the ride while we’re on it.

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Studying. That’s what every college student does, or at least thinks about doing.

Some say they need complete silence. Others study to music. It varies for everyone.

“I study in a secluded area,” Ole Miss freshman business ad-ministration major Raven South-ward said. “Noises distract me.”

Others can’t pick up a book without music or some kind of noise in the background.

“Turn on some music,” senior Chinese major Quovondo Brown said. “I really don’t need too much quiet, so I try to get into a place where there’s people.”

Some students study in be-tween classes.

“Some times if I have a break in my day like between classes, I’ll find a place,” freshman pharma-ceutical sciences major Meredith Oliver said.

Others wait and hit the books late into the night.

“I’m not the kind of person who studies right when I get back from class,” freshman homeland security and criminal justice ma-jor Jake Ludlum said. “I’ll wait really late at night and study way past the hour when I should be sleeping.”

While over just over 50 percent of students study in conventional settings the library or in their room, according to the Follett Higher Education Group study, there are many more who find more unconventional ways to memorize their assigned mate-rial.

Two Ole Miss students claimed they studied best in a closet where there are no distractions.

“I leave my phone on one side of my house and go put myself in the closet,” junior English ma-jor Ryan Young said.

Another student said he need-ed all of the lights out to study. Freshman accounting major Christopher Andreoli studies best with only his lamp on.

The strange habits could sim-ply be superstitions or they could have more scientific roots.

Some studying habits may have some grounding in a psychologi-cal theory, according to psychol-ogy professor Kenneth Sufka.

Sufka recently published a book, “The A Game: Nine Steps to Better Grades,” which is geared toward teaching students how to learn.

He referenced a theory called state dependent learning.

“The notion behind that is you study material under certain kinds of conditions or states, say

like a classroom or perhaps with certain music playing,” Sufka said. “The notion is that when you’re in the testing environment, if you’re in the same state, you show a little bit better recall.”

For example, if a student stud-ied for a test in Nutt Auditorium, then, according to some scien-tific studies, that student would perform better on a test admin-istered in Nutt Auditorium than on a test administered in Hume Hall.

However, Sufka discouraged students from taking this to an extreme.

“Studying while you’re in-toxicated, therefore I have to go take my test while intoxicated, that’s just silly,” he said. “Be-cause studying while intoxicated doesn’t promote good learning in the first place.”

Sufka said state-dependent learning may account for some studying habits students have. Other habits have less scientific background.

“For some people there may be a bit of superstition or some-thing that just makes them more comfortable or more at home or more alert,” he said.

Students could have mistaken correlation to be causation.

If a student listened to certain music while studying for a biol-ogy test and performed well on that test, the student may infer that the music caused them to study better.

As a result, they may listen to the same music while studying for future tests, despite the fact that the high score on the biology exam most likely had nothing to do with the music.

“In a way it does get them into a comfort zone and helps build confidence,” Sufka said.

Report says students study in uncoventional waysBY MEGAN [email protected]

INFOGRAPHIC BY CAIN MADDEN | The Daily MississippianFigures on where students study from a study by the Follett Higher Education Group.

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Spring 2012

When the season changes, people usually adjust to new temperatures but, at least in the Residential College South, the adjustment was a bit unexpect-ed.

As students came back in from the winter break, those at the RC faced not only an unusual heat outside, but inside the building

as well.“On the first day we got here,

we could not sleep,” undecided sophomore Austin Wheeler said. “It was way too hot.”

While students are able to control the temperature in their rooms within a few degrees, for many, that wasn’t enough.

“At one point the temperature was close to 80 degrees,” said bi-ology sophomore Cipriano Api-celli, who also serves as the RC

dining committee chair.For others, it wasn’t that much

of a problem.“Sometimes it is uncomfort-

able, but if it is too cold we can always use blankets and if it is too hot, we can put them away,” Elsie Okoye, geological engi-neering junior, said.

Complaints began stacking up, despite the varying opinion among residents.

“We had tons of complaints about it,” said residential assis-tant Katie Williamson, senior in art, anthropology and journal-ism. “People had to open win-dows and use fans. I told them to email the maintenance group.”

The culprit behind the dis-comfort was an automation, which was invalidated by the un-characteristic warm weather.

“Based on an assumed need, the system lowers the me-dian temperature in summer and raises it in winter,” Daniel O’Sullivan, RC senior fellow and French professor, said. “This winter it didn’t need to heat the

building, but it did it automati-cally. Now we are readjusting the median temperature to make it comfortable for everyone.”

Residents can adjust the indi-vidual room thermostats within two degrees above and below a given median temperature.

“Thermostats vary only so much for conserving energy and environmental reasons,” O’Sullivan said.

Gradually, the core tempera-ture of the building is going down, and residents are feeling better.

“Every few days the tempera-ture lowered a bit more,” said RC South vice president Madi-son Stewart, who is a sophomore international studies major.

“I think by Wednesday we will be able to set a normal tem-perature in the rooms. Now we can get it down to 70, but not more.”

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their names on it telling how many lives were saved in honor of them.

“We thought this would be a great way to give blood, and at the same time honoring and remembering the guys we lost,” junior KA member AJ Barrios said.

KA’s philanthropy this se-mester will focus on the boys they lost, and some of the money they raise will go to-ward a scholarship in memory of them.

The three would have been initiated into the fraternity on Jan. 28.

Because KA and the Missis-sippi Blood Services want this blood drive to be as successful

as possible, Hudson wanted to clarify some of the common misconceptions people have about giving blood.

The most important thing Hudson said to do before giv-ing blood is to eat a healthy meal.

Being on medication does not invalidate a person from donat-ing blood. Similarly, if someone has been out of the country, it does not mean he or she abso-lutely cannot give blood.

Tattoos and piercings are another common misconcep-tion, Hudson said.

People can donate blood seven days after getting a tat-too from a licensed facility, or six months following getting a piercing.

The blood drive is Tuesday, Feb. 7 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Johnson Commons Ball-room.

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hour shifts when I have a fam-ily. I can be a nurse; I can be a nurse practitioner. There are a lot of options.”

To be accepted into the nursing program at Ole Miss, applicants need to have a good GPA, good ACT scores and complete an essay.

Stuckey said once you’re allowed into the program, it takes a lot out of you.

“It’s miserable,” she said. “It’s 100 percent commitment. It’s hard because it’s still con-sidered undergrad but you’re in a professional school; you’re not a regular student.”

Stuckey said even though only a small amount are let into the program, several do not finish.

“We started with 100 in Jackson and 20 here,” she said. “We’ve lost four and Jackson is down to 75 or 80. People just don’t pass, it’s really hard.”

Waltman said many nurses, especially those within the state, don’t have the time or the financial stability to earn a college degree.

In order to teach under-graduate level nursing courses, a master’s degree in nursing is required. In order to teach graduate’s level nursing cours-es, a PhD is required.

The expenses of acquiring these degrees often make stu-dents turn away, and most of those who go through with it go on to actual nursing jobs. The glitch is in the system is that nursing jobs themselves offer better salaries than teach-ing jobs. Hence the lack of in interest for the qualified nurses

to teach.Alexis Ward, pre-pharmacy

major, suggested that maybe a program incorporating a se-mester teaching and a semes-ter offering an internship op-portunity at a hospital allow these students to broaden their views on what they might want to do later on.

If more students were ex-posed to teaching, there could be an increase in interest in be-coming an instructor.

An increase in the amount of professors could drastically increase the acceptance rate of qualified applicants to nurs-ing schools; henceforth, this alteration would decrease the shortage of nurses throughout the country.

However, the lack of room and lack of money to hire these professors would remain problem.

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A student adjusts the thermostat within a preset range. Due to inconsistent weather, students have been complaining about heat in the RC.

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These organizations must have a faculty, staff or admin-istrative adviser, a constitu-tion that is recognized by the ASB student’s office and be a registered organization on OrgSync.

Organizations looking to apply must first be registered through OrgSync. Once reg-istered, they can click on the ASB page to find the forms on the left banner. All they need to do is simply fill out the forms.

Applications will be avail-able from 8 a.m. today through midnight Friday, ac-cording to James.

McGraw said funding cam-pus organizations is one of the most important roles of the student body government.

“We are the only funding source for a lot of our cmapus organizaiton, which makes us vital to their success,” he said.

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In an effort to improve the over-all quality of the program, Rebel Pedals is in the process of switch-ing from day-by-day use to a lon-ger rental goal.

Shannon Richardson, assistant director of campus recreation, said the original day-use Bike Share program was designed to change the bike culture on cam-pus.

“The original program allowed students to rent a bike daily and

experience how easy and conve-nient it is to use a bicycle as trans-portation on and near campus,” she said. “However, program sta-tistics showed that the same peo-ple were renting bikes each day instead of trying it out for a few days and then buying their own.”

This was happening because of the inconvenience of having to come back to the office and check the bikes in and out, instead of having a smart card system, Rich-ardson said.

“The original goal of the pro-gram was not being met,” she said.

Though the goal was not be-ing met, the administrators found there was a “great need” for an accessible bike sharing program on the campus.

Starting this spring the admin-istrators of the program decided to change the program to a se-mester-long rental program that is designed to provide bicycles to students in the interim until they can start using a smart-card sys-

tem, which would then allow the program to met its original goal of quick use bike-share.

Once a bike is rented by a stu-dent it becomes his or her respon-sibility and a lost or stolen bike could cost the student $300, ac-cording to Rebel Pedals.

This announcement comes right alongside the announce-ment of the changes for the Bike Give Back program, which takes abandoned bikes picked up by the University Police Department, fixes them and gives them to stu-dents who don’t have a consistent mode of transportation.

The program will also hold two bike care seminars to help mem-bers and other bike riders to learn the proper mechanics of fixing a bike. They will also hold com-munity bike rides, lead by faculty members and other students, in order to promote bike safety and rules of the road.

For more information visit bike.olemiss.edu or email [email protected].

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Ole Miss women’s basketball team fell at Florida Sunday af-ternoon, 84-55.

With the loss, Ole Miss fell to 12-12 (2-9 SEC) while Florida improved to 15-8 (5-5 SEC).

Valencia McFarland led Ole Miss with 11 points, six boards and four assists. Tia Faleru fin-ished with 10 points and seven rebounds and Danielle Mc-Cray added eight points and five rebounds. Monique Jack-son recorded a career-best seven points.

Through the first 15:59 of the game, Ole Miss and Florida were tied at 9-9 with the Rebels hitting four of its first nine shots.

From that point, Ole Miss shot just 2-19 from the floor as the Gators used an 18-2 run to push ahead 31-15 with 6:37 remain-ing in the first half.

The Rebels cut the lead to sev-en, 31-24, on a fast-break layup from McFarland with 2:15 to play but the Gators used a 10-2 run to close the half.

Florida led Ole Miss 41-26 at the half. Whitney Hameth led the Rebels with six points at the half while McCray, McFarland, Faleru. As a team, Ole Miss shot 29.7 percent (11-37) from the floor while Florida shot 47.2 per-cent (17-36).

Faleru scored six straight points to open the second half to cut Florida’s lead to nine with 18:47 left in the game. The Gators re-sponded and pushed their lead back to double digits, leading 61-44, with 10:22 remaining.

Florida pushed its lead to 73-52 with 4:03 to play and went on to post the 84-55 win.

Ole Miss will play at home Thursday night hosting Ala-bama at 7 p.m.

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ing its first indoor match of the season, the No. 18 nationally-ranked Ole Miss women’s tennis team suffered its first loss of the season, dropping a tough 4-3 de-cision to No. 42 Texas Tech on Saturday night at the Lubbock Country Club.

The Rebels led 3-1 in the match, but Texas Tech would win the final three points at four, five and six singles to secure the upset. The match came down to No. 6 singles, where Lady Raid-er Nikki Sanders defeated Rebel freshman Julia Jones 6-1, 6-1.

“It was a very disappointing performance by us in the middle and bottom of the lineup,” head coach Mark Beyers said. “Texas Tech deserved to win at those positions; they played better than we did. It shows again how much parity there is in college tennis.”

Ole Miss built the lead first by taking the doubles point with a pair of 8-6 wins at the top two spots.

The No. 4 ranked senior duo of Kristi Boxx and Abby Guth-rie improved to 5-0 at No. 1 with their win over Texas Tech’s Sa-mantha Adams and Kenna Kil-go. Senior Gabby Rangel and freshman Erin Stephens moved to 4-1 at No. 2 with their win over the Lady Raider duo of Sanders and Caroline Starck.

Boxx, ranked No. 12 in the nation, wasted little time putting the Rebels up 2-0 as she downed Adams 6-2, 6-0 at No. 1 singles to improve to 14-4 overall and 4-1 at the top spot.

The Lady Raiders got their first point when Starck defeated Stephens 6-1, 6-3 at No. 3 sin-gles. Ole Miss’ Caroline Rohde-Moe increased the lead to 3-1 holding off TT’s Elizabeth Ul-lathorne 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 at No. 2 singles. Rohde-Moe remains undefeated at No. 2 with a 5-0 record.

Shortly after that, Texas Tech pulled to within 3-2 as Guthrie dropped her match to Rashmi Teltumbde 6-2, 6-0 at No. 4. The Lady Raiders tied it up when Kenna Kilgo beat the SEC Player of the Week, Vivian Vlaar, 6-2, 6-0 at No. 5 singles, setting up the final outcome at six.

The Rebels head to Charlot-tesville, Va., next week for the ITA National Indoor. They will face the No. 1 seed Duke in the first round Friday at 8 a.m. CT.

The Ole Miss soccer team signed nine student-athletes to a National Letter of Intent to study and play soccer at Ole Miss starting in the summer of 2012, third-year head coach Matt Mott announced Friday. In addition to the nine signees, the Rebels also received a signed written offer of admis-sions for Emily Wilber.

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Neither team got a field goal in the second overtime until the 2:19 mark. Then, Releford got a steal and passed to Steele to start a fast break. Steele found Mitchell, who slammed it into the bas-ket for a 63-62 lead.

The Rebels missed a shot, and Hankerson couldn’t hit a 3-pointer for the Crimson Tide. Mitchell was fouled chasing down a long rebound, making both free throws for a 65-62 lead with 1:18 remain-ing.

Henry scored on a quick drive, and Alabama worked 34 seconds off the shot clock before Steele salvaged the possession.

In the first overtime, Henry blocked a Nick Jacobs shot to give the Rebels the ball with 16 seconds left.

Ole Miss had to inbound the ball when Releford knocked it away with 4.2 seconds left. Henry fired it in to Summers who lost control of the ball streaking toward the basket.

Green’s desperation jumper at the buzzer missed.

Mitchell punched the ball loose from Henry, and Levi Randolph raced for an un-contested layup with 1:48 left to give Alabama a 54-51 lead. Henry tied it with a basket and free throw at the other end with 57 seconds to play.

Alabama got to run the clock down after a foul, but Randolph missed a baseline jumper at the buzzer to send it to overtime.

“It just feels good to win a Super Bowl. Doesn’t matter where you are,” Manning said, clutching the silver Vince Lom-bardi Trophy. “It’s been a wild season. We had a great, tough bunch of guys who never quit, and had faith in each other. I’m proud of these guys stick-ing together.”

As usual, he was as good as it gets down the stretch, in the crucible of the fourth quarter.

Manning led six game-win-ning drives to bring New York back from fourth-quarter defi-cits in the regular season. So it came as no surprise he was cool as could be Sunday, when he was 10 of 14 for 118 yards.

“We’ve had a bunch of them this year,” Manning said.

The greatest comeback of all, though, probably was the way Manning - with plenty of help, of course - steered the Giants back after they lost five of six games in one stretch to fall to 7-7. From there, they won their last two regular-season games against the Jets and Cowboys to sneak into the playoffs as the NFC East champions, then continued their surge with four

postseason wins in a row, none at home.

“We fought all year,” Man-ning said. “Never got discour-aged.”

He finished the postseason with nine TDs and only one interception,

Back in August, before the season got going, Manning was asked in an interview wheth-er he considered himself an “elite” quarterback a la Brady. Manning said simply that he belonged “in that class.” But it all became quite a big deal in New York - shocking, right? - and he was criticized.

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In high school, junior Ricky Robertson did track and field to stay in shape. It wasn’t un-til colleges everywhere started looking at him that he decided to pursue it full time.

“Track wasn’t my main sport,” Robertson said. “I used track to stay in shape for basketball and football. It was my junior year (of high school) that I had done really well in track and field, and people were telling me I should look more into giving it a try.”

The Hernando native was the top-ranked high jumper in the nation coming out of high school.

In the three years since, he has had a decorated career at Ole Miss. He is a four-time first team All-American and SEC champion and a three-time NCAA runner-up in the high jump. Robertson also holds schools records in the high jump, both indoor and outdoor.

Now the stage is getting big-ger for Robertson. He placed fourth in the high jump at the 2011 USA Championships, just missing the cut for Team USA to compete in the World Championships. This season, he looks to redeem himself at the 2012 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., with the quali-fying and final scheduled for June 23 and June 25, respec-tively.

“I want to make it there to have a new experience,” Rob-ertson said. “It would be a new environment — the pro level. I have been competing collegiately, and if I were to make it to the next level that would be a big step for me.”

At such a high level of com-petition, all eyes will be on Robertson to see if he can make the cut this time. How-ever, Robertson takes a differ-ent outlook on being the cen-ter of attention.

“Somewhat I feel pressure, but in the end I feel relieved,” he said. “It’s nothing new to me. I just go out there and re-member what I’m there for — to have fun. You know it’s not always about competing, but it is also about having fun.”

Through three meets this in-door season, Robertson ranks second in the nation in the high jump and also ranks 24th in the triple jump and 28th in the long jump. He won the triple jump at the Alabama

Invitational and then won the high jump at the Auburn Invitational, which qualified him for the NCAA Indoor Championships in March and earned him the title of SEC Men’s Field Athlete of the Week.

In his last meet, the Rod McCravy Memorial meet in Lexington, Ky., he finished second in the long jump be-hind teammate senior Caleb Lee and finished third in the triple jump behind teammates sophomore Kentrell Sand-ers and junior Morris Kersh. Looking ahead to the rest of the indoor season and the start of the outdoor season in mid-March, Robertson is confident in the team, which

moved up four spots to No. 17 in the nation in the latest USTFCCCA poll.

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so we should have a good sea-son.”

The Ole Miss men’s track and field team returns to ac-tion this weekend at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., the last indoor meet be-fore the SEC Championships, which start Feb. 24 in Lexing-ton.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Eli Manning is elite, for sure. A king of comebacks, too. And far, far more than Peyton’s little brother now.

Spot-on from beginning to end Sunday night, Eli Manning won his second NFL cham-pionship - and second Super Bowl MVP award - for leading the New York Giants to a 21-17 victory over the New Eng-land Patriots.

Manning went 30 for 40 for 296 yards, with one touchdown pass and zero interceptions. He opened the game by becoming the first quarterback to com-plete his first nine attempts in a Super Bowl. And he finished his work by directing the nine-play, 88-yard TD drive that put New York ahead with 57 sec-onds left.

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final drive - an audacious and risky decision by Patriots coach Bill Belichick. But New Eng-land couldn’t get the ball back in the end zone, with Tom Brady’s final pass falling just beyond the grasp of tight end Rob Gronkowski.

Manning also was the MVP in 2008, when his scoring pass to Plaxico Burress in the final minute allowed New York to upset Brady and New Eng-land, ruining the Patriots’ bid for a perfect season.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Nick Williams scored 19 points and made some clutch shots in the final minutes, but Ole Miss fell to Alabama in double overtime, 69-67.

Andrew Steele hit a jump shot and 1 of 2 free throws in the final 31 seconds of the second overtime, lifting Ala-bama to the victory.

Steele picked up a loose ball just before the shot clock ran out and drilled a long jumper for the Crimson Tide (15-7, 4-4 Southeastern Con-ference), which has won two straight after a four-game los-ing streak.

Jelan Kendrick then missed a shot for the Rebels (14-8, 4-4), and they sent Steele to the line. His first foul shot bounced off the rim and back in to make it a two-possession game.

Trevor Releford also made 1 of 2 from the line after that, and Jarvis Summers hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer for Ole Miss for the final mar-gin.

JaMychal Green led Ala-bama with 16 points and 12 rebounds before picking up his fifth foul only 24 seconds into the second overtime.

Mitchell scored 14 points after coming off the bench for the first time this season. He had made just 15 of 50 shots over the previous five games, and coach Anthony Grant went with a starting lineup that included three freshmen.

Williams, a Mobile, Ala. native, led Ole Miss with 19 points, two shy of his career high. Terrance Henry added 14, while Reginald Buck-ner collected 11 points, eight rebounds and three blocked shots before fouling out in the first overtime.

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Junior guard Nick Williams drives to the basket and shoots a running jumper in a 66-62 win against South Carolina on Feb. 28. Williams scored 19 points, including a three-pointer with 45 seconds left in the first overtime to send Saturday’s game against Alabama into double-overtime.

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