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More than 800 people were in attendance at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Per-forming Arts at the Universi-ty of Mississippi to take part in the third national tour of the Broadway musical “The Color Purple” on Sunday.

“This is definitely one of the better-attended shows,” said Jonathan Whitmire, front-of-the-house manager of the Ford Center. “And it’s just a large show in general with the number of trucks, the set and the costumes. So it’s one of the bigger shows of the season for sure.”

The musical adaptation of “The Color Purple” has been nominated for 11 Tony Awards and was based on both the Pulitzer Prize-win-ning novel by Alice Walker and the film directed by Ste-ven Spielberg, which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards.

On its third national tour, the group now has the oppor-tunity to lower costs and play smaller venues such as Ox-ford, according to Michael Heitzler, merchandise man-ager of “The Color Purple.”

“That’s part of the glory in making it small enough to go places like Oxford because

typically these audiences would never see a show this size or caliber,” Heitzler said. “So it’s been a blessing and quite a journey. We’ve played everywhere from the biggest markets in the country to the smallest towns in the country that you’ve never even heard of.”

Heitzler said the quality of the performance has not been affected by downsizing.

“I think that this particu-lar production company has done a stellar job of main-taining the artistic integrity,” he said. “Therefore, the per-formers, in my personal opin-ion, are just as astounding as they were on Broadway or in the first national tour.”

Nathan Ford, a sophomore musical theater major, said he was exposed to a story that he otherwise may not have been.

“I actually hadn’t read the book, seen the movie or any-thing like that, so it was fun for me to see a musical (of which) I was learning the sto-ry as it went along,” he said.

After performing a lead role in the Ole Miss produc-tion of “R.E.N.T.” this past fall, Ford said he was able to sit in the audience with a dif-ferent perspective.

“It’s amazing to see their ability to project the kind

of energy it takes to fill up a room like the Ford Center,” he said. “And to know that I was up there attempting to do that — I just wonder what the audience saw, because I

know I wasn’t that good.” For information about fu-

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Sigma Nu violates university hazing policies BY HOUSTON [email protected]

Aside from working the skybox at a football game or ushering at the freshman convocation, the University of Mississippi Columns Soci-

ety has a lot on its plate.The Columns Society is an

organization composed of 12 men and 12 women who work as hosts and hostesses for the faculty, student body, alumni and prestige of the univer-sity. Ole Miss sanctioned this

elite organization four years ago for the 2008 presidential debate that was held on the campus.

In order to be a member of this society, a student must display certain qualities or characteristics that promote

the university’s image and uphold its noble creed.

“A resume doesn’t matter,” said Marianna Breland, pub-lic policy senior and presi-dent of the Columns Society. “We look at the heart when it comes to selecting our new members. Columns needs people who actually care about an individual’s first impression of the university — people who are passionate about Ole Miss.”

Like a few other organiza-tions, getting into the Col-umns Society is an extremely selective process.

“Members of the Columns Society possess the talents of leadership, communication skills, humility and service,” said Ellison Brown, biochem-istry senior and current Col-umns Society member. “The society is a powerful way to get involved on and off cam-pus and could possibly open doors for networking.”

Becoming a member of the Columns Society seems

Columns Society is more than ‘just a uniform’

BY KELLS [email protected]

PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSITY BRAND SERVICES

Public policy leadership senior Marianna Breland being inducted into the Columns Society.

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The Sigma Nu fraternity at the University of Mississippi is guilty of violating the uni-versity’s and fraternity’s haz-ing policies, as confirmed by the dean of students and the Sigma Nu national chapter.

The violations occurred this past winter break, soon after the fraternity’s previous pro-bation period ended.

Associate Dean of Students Melinda Pullen Carlson de-clined to comment on what the sanctions consisted of un-til the appeals process is com-plete.

Sigma Nu has until today to appeal the undisclosed sanc-tions that the university has placed on it.

Executive director of Sigma Nu Brad Beacham confirmed that due to inappropriate pledge activities in late Janu-ary, the chapter was investi-gated by both the university and the General Fraternity, also known as nationals. Over the past three weeks, they have worked together to compile as much information as they can on the situation.

The chapter’s local alumni and General Fraternity pre-sented their own plan of ac-tion to the university’s judicial council, which was ratified. Two more undisclosed sanc-tions were added to their pun-ishment.

Both the state and the uni-versity have strict hazing rules.

The university hazing poli-cy states that any students or organizations found guilty of hazing can face criminal pros-ecution and/or civil liability, and the state defines hazing as intentionally or recklessly en-gaging in any conduct which creates a substantial risk of physical injury to another person. Breaking state hazing laws carries up to $2,000 in fines and up to six months in jail.

The dean of students is still awaiting a Sigma Nu appeal and will reveal further infor-mation upon its decision.

The fraternity is just off probation from a previous al-cohol-related hazing violation that occurred in Spring 2012.

Big attendance at Ford Center for “The Color Purple”BY CHARLES HALE [email protected]

Photos from the production the third U.S. tour of “The Color Purple.” “The Color Purple” was performed at the Gertrude C. Ford Center on Sunday to a crowd of more than 800.

PHOTOS COURTESY SCOTT SUCHMAN (THE COLOR PURPLE U.S. TOUR)

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As members of the Ole Miss family, we have a special mindset. We have certain standards for who we welcome into our family.

A stroll through the Grove on a Saturday in the fall will prove that: beautiful women in colorful sun-dresses, gentlemen in sports coats and old men in sweater vests. Oth-er than those types of people, there isn’t much room for outsiders.

This concept saddens and fright-ens me, but it is how we have done it in Oxford for as long as anyone can remember.

I think it’s time for a change. To me, this change is so necessary to the good of our university — even more so than Colonel Reb, “From Dixie With Love” or Dixie flags.

The university as a whole needs to start appealing to more than just the prototypical prepster from

out of state.As much as it pains me to com-

pare Ole Miss to Mississippi State in any fashion, I have to do it in this context.

The “School Beneath Us” takes pride in calling itself “The People’s University.”

They welcome every single Mis-sissippian with open arms, regard-less of how they dress, what fra-ternity they were in or what their last name is. At this given point in time, if I were to give Ole Miss a suitable nickname, it would be “The University of Southern Sub-urbia.”

How many students do you know from Houston, Dallas, Nashville or Atlanta?

Not that those people are bad, but we need to shift our focus in-ward to the state of Mississippi be-

fore we continue to go outward to other states. We have lost all focus on the state of Mississippi, which bothers me greatly, considering that our name is the University of Mississippi.

Not only do our admissions de-partment and administration need to wake up and realize this, so does our family.

We have started to take the prop-er steps. Chancellor Dan Jones un-derstands what I am talking about. I think the admissions department is starting to understand what I’m talking about, too.

Mississippi State’s trashy bill-boards along every major highway in Mississippi show them what I’m talking about every single day.

What we need to do as a family is open up and show the same hospi-tality to outsiders that we show to

the insiders. Don’t ignore people in the Grove who are a little dif-ferent from us. And for goodness’ sake, be proud of your state and embrace the people in it.

We are the flagship university in the state of Mississippi. We just need a little more work on the “Mississippi” part.

I envision a Grove where people of all socioeconomic classes, eth-nic backgrounds and ages are in one big tent.

Also inside the tent is a respect-able ratio of Mississippians to out-of-staters. On top of the tent is the word “Flagship.” We know what we need to do — let’s make it hap-pen.

Adam Ganucheau is a sophomore jour-nalism major from Hazlehurst. Follow him on Twitter @GanucheauAdam.

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There’s a good reason a lot of romantic comedies some-how involve Valentine’s Day. Whether people describe their situation as single, engaged, in a relationship or “it’s compli-cated,” the way most people treat the holiday is a little en-tertaining.

Don’t get me wrong, V-Day is great, and for a lot of rea-sons. First of all, Valentine’s Day doesn’t discriminate based upon your religion — everybody is welcome to cel-ebrate. Then there’s the fact that basically nothing exciting happens in the entire month of February; New Year’s Eve

is long gone, the temperature still hasn’t warmed up, the NFL season ends and the NBA doesn’t even get interesting un-til the playoffs.

Valentine’s Day isn’t bad for the economy, either. How else are you going to coax hordes of guys into movie theaters to watch “The Vow,” anyway?

There couldn’t be a worse time for this holiday to occur, however. As a rule of thumb, most relationships tend to start when the weather gets warm. By summertime they will have become official, and by the time the weather gets chilly again, people either stay to-gether or break up after see-ing the other person’s family at Thanksgiving. You have two polarized groups by February — the disenfranchised single people and the ones in serious relationships.

Valentine’s Day does a pretty good job at dividing people

just as much as it does bringing them together. But by making the day something more than what it is — just another day — neither side makes the situ-ation any better. If it’s not big enough to be the kind of holi-day where you get out of work or an exam, it automatically doesn’t deserve any hype.

Plenty of single people out there make a concerted effort to talk about Singles Aware-ness Day and try to use the phrase, “It’s just another mar-keting holiday,” as much as possible. Save the attitude. If people get distraught for sim-ply being single on the wrong day of the year, they actually might be better off staying so until they’ve resolved their de-pendency issues.

Going overboard for Valen-tine’s Day is just as ludicrous, however. Waiting for a special day of the year to give it your all in a relationship isn’t the

right approach. If you’re with somebody, you should definite-ly get as much out of the day as possible, but that’s not an ex-cuse to let it get to your head.

An overwhelming amount of girls essentially make Val-entine’s Day into a giant con-test with each other. Likewise, plenty of guys lack the imagi-nation to understand that ev-ery other guy is doing the same exact thing by making a big deal out of Valentine’s Day. So much for trying to stand out from the crowd, buddy.

When single people criticize it for being a Hallmark holiday, they can be a little hypocritical. Being in a relationship and lis-tening to what “Cosmopolitan” and the people who make the commercials for Zale’s tell you is equally ridiculous. That’s just the price we pay when society tries to make love into a holi-day; however, we forget why we’re even celebrating it and

turn it into some ritual.Think about it. We invent

Santa Claus for Christmas. For Easter we have a giant rabbit. On Thanksgiving we pretend that the colonists got along well with the Native Americans, and then we binge instead of being grateful. Putting Valen-tine’s Day on a pedestal and expecting it to be magical isn’t helpful for a relationship or for creating one.

The best thing to do is just be realistic about the day and save all the effort for the genu-ine experiences in life and rela-tionships. You’ll appreciate it a lot more that way. Plus, either your single friends won’t give you a hard a time about it, or you’ll be happy until you even-tually find somebody as level-headed as yourself.

Alec Jones is a junior accountancy major from Catonsville, Md. “Like” him at facebook.com/thealecjones.

Valentine’s Day in retrospect

BY ALEC [email protected]

Since Twitter’s creation in 2006, the website has been a hub of unrestricted news. Now, six years later, Twitter has an-nounced a new censorship poli-cy that could once again change freedom of expression on the Internet.

Simply put, Twitter’s new censorship policy will allow the removal of tweets on a country-by-country basis.

When a government orders that a post be taken down, the post will be replaced by a state-ment saying, “This tweet from @username has been withheld in: Country.” However, the post will remain visible to users in all other countries where no such order was issued.

Twitter is also partnering with

the website chillingeffects.org to announce when a post has been censored. The openness regard-ing censored material is crucial to positively shaping censorship on the Internet.

With the introduction of the new policy, Twitter has indirect-ly urged other websites to follow suit with transparent censorship policies. Transparent censor-ship, in terms of Twitter’s policy, means the company in question promises to be honest about removing posts while ensuring minimal censorship. Secretive censorship will occur rarely, if at all, on Twitter, due to the openness of censored posts. Ad-ditionally, the fact that posts will not be taken down universally will allow a maximal number of users to see a post. Hopefully, other web services like Twitter will alter their censorship poli-

cies to create an environment of free speech.

Many critics claim this new policy will entail heavy moni-toring of tweets; however, the company will only review con-tent if there are requests to take it down.

The lack of monitoring, in addition to censorship notifica-tions, will increase information availability on the web.

Twitter will adjust its censor-ship policy to accommodate strict laws and, in doing so, rev-olutionize censorship.

Both users and governments are accommodated in regard to the removal of posts through this transparent policy.

Twitter is once again pioneer-ing a new trend of unrestricted free speech across the globe with the introduction of its transpar-ent censorship policy.

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The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy recently announced that a University of Mississippi faculty member is among 18 recipients of the New Investigator Award.

Rahul Khanna, assistant pro-fessor of pharmacy administra-tion and assistant professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceu-tical Sciences, will use the award to study the relationship between the health and well-being of care-givers of autistic children and the emotional and physical stress they experience.

“I feel really fortunate and ex-cited to be selected for this award, especially since they are so com-petitive,” Khanna said. “This is a national award, and there is a lot of prestige associated with it.”

Khanna applied for the same award last year but fell short of the selective process.

“Thanks to the support and encouragement I received from our department chair, Dr. Don-na West-Strum, and other col-leagues, I applied for this award with a new research proposal,” he said.

Khanna has already started working on the project associated with the award. This is a one-year award that goes until the end of this year and also includes the submission of a mid-year prog-ress report.

“Since there are several steps in-volved in this project, I have set up weekly deadlines for myself to ac-complish them,” he said. “I want to make sure that I submit a qual-

ity report, which is in line with the expectations for this award.”

Finding the time for research and teaching is no problem for Khanna, who said the two com-plement each other.

“The beauty of working in aca-demia is that each day is different and brings different sets of oppor-tunities for work and learning,” he said.

Some of his days are devoted completely toward working on his teaching lectures, while other days

he concentrates on his research. When Khanna isn’t planning lectures or working on research, he keeps an open-door policy for students.

“I believe teaching to be a continuous process, which goes beyond the confines of a class-room,” he said.

Not only is Khanna devoted to making sure his students learn, but he is also generally involved in more than one research project at a given time. Khanna said he tries to structure his days accordingly so that he can give appropriate time to each project at hand.

To stay organized, Khanna said he prefers to set up weekly meet-ings with his research team in or-der to make continuous progress and address issues in a timely manner.

Besides teaching and research, Khanna is involved in service ac-tivities, which generally involve being part of departmental and

school committees, reviewing manuscripts and reviewing con-ference presentation abstracts.

Amid his hectic schedule, Khanna said he manages to find down time to enjoy himself.

“When not working, I try to catch up on television shows, watch a game or maybe go out for dinner with my friends,” he said. “I also like playing basketball and tennis, which helps me keep an active routine.”

Khanna’s full schedule is reflec-tive of his devotion to teaching and research.

“We are very proud of Dr. Khanna,” said Donna West-Strum, chair of pharmacy ad-ministration. “He is a talented young investigator with lots of potential, as indicated by the competitive nature of the AACP award program. We look forward to collaborating with him as he continues to develop his scientific career.”

UM pharmacy faculty member wins AACP New Investigator Award

BY LEAH [email protected] tough, but staying in seems

even more challenging. Be-cause the organization is so professional, members are expected to follow a strict dress code and are expected to be very punctual.

Besides the fact that the Columns Society is relatively new and many do not know much about it, students wonder if the society has certain secrets. Moreover, some rumors even say the society chooses its members by favoritism.

“We’re not a secret soci-ety or anything like that, but we are very close,” Breland said. “The Columns Society shares a close bond because we all made a pledge of commitment, service, integ-rity and to give our humble hearts to this organization. We are also very diverse — black, white, pharmacy ma-jors, public policy majors, extremely involved and not that involved.”

Lauren Wright, a junior public policy major and Columns Society member, said she believes that if the Columns Society has secre-cy, it’s only because of the organization’s protocol.

“Columns stresses profes-sionalism,” she said. “When it comes to admission into the organization, we’re not going to let anyone know that they are a member be-fore they are supposed to.”

In order to be a member, a student must have at least a 2.75 GPA, be in good ju-dicial standing with the uni-versity, successfully complete the application and undergo two intense interviewing processes.

Schools such as the Uni-versity of Georgia and the University of Alabama have organizations similar to the Columns Society, and Ole Miss hopes to network with them in the future.

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Pharmacy professor Rahul Khanna talks with graduate research assistant Krutika Jariwala. Khanna won the AACP New Investigator Award, which provides start-up funds for new pharmacy school faculty.

“It is a home game against a top-25 team in Vandy. It is a must-win for us.”

Williams said he believes the team is more aware of the com-puter numbers and how they re-late to reaching the NCAA Tour-nament.

“I think every game from this point on is a must-win, but it is what it is,” he said. “In past years, we probably wouldn’t have looked

at the numbers. This year we are looking at it trying to soak every-thing in to help us get informed to know what we’ve got to do.”

Williams is confident that this year’s team is NCAA Tourna-ment worthy.

“I know we are a tournament team,” he said. “We just have to play to our potential, stop being so inconsistent and keep going at it every day the same, and I think we will make it if we continue do-ing that.”

Ole Miss hosts Vanderbilt at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Tad Smith Coliseum.

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Rifle sets its sights on first NCAA Championships since ‘06

Kentucky becomes the epicen-ter of the Ole Miss athletics uni-verse this weekend. The men’s basketball team is set to play No. 1 Kentucky Saturday afternoon at Rupp Arena in downtown Lexington with hopes of im-proving their NCAA Tourna-ment chances, and the Ole Miss women’s rifle team will compete in the NCAA Qualifiers back on Kentucky’s campus.

“I feel pretty good going in,” head coach Valerie Boothe said. “The team has been training re-ally well. All they have to do is just keep doing what they have been doing and nothing extra, and I think they’ll have a good weekend.”

The team is coming off a big win against the University of Memphis on Feb. 1 and looks to carry that momentum into Lex-ington Saturday.

“That was a big confidence booster,” sophomore Alvia Yea-ger said. “In that match, every-one came together after all the hard work we have been do-ing.”

The NCAA Qualifiers count as only 50 percent of the over-

all score used to determine if teams will make the NCAA Championships. The score from the qualifying match will be av-eraged with the average of the Rebels’ three highest marks of the season. The eight teams in the nation with the highest over-all scores will then advance to the NCAA Championships March 9-10 in Columbus, Ohio.

Ole Miss is currently ranked eighth in the nation with an overall average of 4,651.67.

While the championship se-lections are not until next week, Boothe said she believes all the

coaches will have a pretty good idea of where their respective teams will stand after the quali-fiers Saturday.

Ole Miss has not made the NCAA Championships since 2006 and Boothe, who has been the only coach in the rifle team’s 16-year history, said she is not letting that pressure get to her or the team.

“We treat every year different and every year that is the goal,” Boothe said. “This team is not held to probably the same stan-dards as the 2006 team, but I think they are just as good ath-

letes. They are just doing the best they can to get there.”

The NCAA Qualifiers are an all day event and will be held at Barker Hall on the University of Kentucky campus.

BY JAKE [email protected]

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sports briefFreeze Completes First Full-time staFF at ole miss

Ole Miss head football coach Hugh Freeze has completed his first full-time staff with the Reb-els with the addition of Corey Batoon as assistant athletics di-rector for player development and Tyler Siskey as coordinator of recruiting development.

Batoon arrives in Oxford af-ter three seasons as an assistant coach at Arkansas State, where he coached cornerbacks, safe-ties and special teams during his tenure and worked with Freeze in 2010 and 2011.

Another former ASU staff member with Freeze, Siskey spent the past four seasons as the Red Wolves’ wide receivers coach.

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Bubble Watch: Rebels face must-win against Vanderbilt Thursday

In the hopes of winning a big victory at home, the Ole Miss men’s basketball team will hit the court Thursday night against the Vanderbilt Commodores.

The Rebels enter Thursday’s game with a 15-9 overall record and 5-5 in Southeastern Confer-ence play with six regular-season games and the SEC Tourna-ment left to play this season. As of Wednesday, Ole Miss ranks 50th in the Ratings Percentage

Index (RPI) and 48th in strength of schedule (SOS). The Rebels also have two top-50 RPI wins against Miami (35) and Missis-sippi State (44). With that resume, Ole Miss is currently the epitome of a NCAA Tournament bubble team.

For the past several weeks, bracketologists and other college basketball writers and analysts have been busy updating their brackets for the NCAA Tourna-ment ahead of Selection Sunday on March 11, when the field of 68 will be revealed.

Andy Glockner from “Sports Illustrated” has the Rebels “in the mix” for a tournament bid.

“Splitting weeks is not going to do it most weeks with this profile, but the Rebels may take a split this week when they host Vander-bilt and then travel to Kentucky,” Glockner wrote in Tuesday’s Bubble Watch.

Chris Dobbertean from SB Nation had Ole Miss as the fifth team out of the tournament in his Monday bracket. Jerry Palm from CBS Sports released his lat-est bracket Tuesday, and Ole Miss was one of his first four teams out of the tournament as the second listed team.

From ESPN, Joe Lunardi did not include Ole Miss on any of his tournament listings in his Mon-day bracket, and Eamonn Bren-nan did not mention the Rebels in his Bubble Watch Tuesday.

Lunardi said in an interview this past week that Ole Miss needs to get to 10 or 11 confer-ence wins to feel confident abut the NCAA Tournament. He also said the Rebels will likely remain on the edge of the bubble unless the Rebels string wins together, which means defending their home court against teams like Vanderbilt.

“I think the minimum is prob-ably 10 (conference wins) to feel confident, and then, depending on the draw, you certainly don’t want to lose to a lesser team in the conference tournament,” Lu-nardi said in an interview this past week. “If they get to 10 (wins), they might not need to win an ‘up’ game, they might just need to avoid losing a ‘down’ game. They

would have a hard time getting to 10 (wins) without beating two or three pretty good teams. They got to get a couple more scalps.”

Junior guard Nick Williams said the team knows the situation it is in and is ready to face it.

“We have had our backs against the wall since (the) season started,” he said. “We can’t run from it. We have just got to embrace the grind and that is what we have been do-ing — just embracing what we have got to do, and either we are going to do it or not.”

While the Rebels say they go into every game as a must-win, Ole Miss head coach Andy Ken-nedy said his players realize the season is winding down and un-

derstand the significance of each remaining game.

“We realize our opportunities are becoming more limited,” he said. “The players understand the significance of the game based on the fact that we only have six games left with three of them on the road, where statistics have shown it’s harder to win, so you better win at home.”

The players agree that Thurs-day’s game against Vanderbilt is a must-win.

“I go into every game say-ing it is a must-win, but there is no doubt about this one,” senior forward Terrance Henry said.

Ole Miss celebrates after this past Saturday’s 61-54 win against Auburn. The Rebels are 15-9 overall and 5-5 in SEC play, and rank 50th and 48th, respectively, in the Rating Percentage Index and strength of schedule.

AUSTIN MCAFEE | The Daily Mississippian

BY DAVID [email protected]

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