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Teaching by example

Rebel Global Connections is a new group on campus that helps build connections between local students and international students.

The goal of this group is for both international and U.S. students to come together for a field trip for elementary school students from the Del-ta. Rebel Connections will plan a day for the students to visit campus and learn about cultures around the world.

“Rebel Global Connections aims to alleviate the problem of cultural isolation for ele-mentary school children from high-needs districts by intro-ducing them to a variety of cultures and languages from around the world through age-appropriate program-ming,” AmeriCorps VISTA member Erin Mauffray said.

Mauffray, who works for the organization on campus, is in charge of getting the

group set up and going with the advisement of several fac-ulty members.

Throughout the semester, the group will plan a variety of activities, including social and service opportunities.

“We are planning activi-ties to encourage the students to interact with each other and the community around them,” international studies senior Kathy Trabue said.

Two activities planned for March include a potluck luncheon and a program for third through fifth graders from Crenshaw Elementary School who are visiting for a baseball game.

“Rebel Global Connections also combats the cultural iso-lation seen on college cam-puses by charging university students from a variety of backgrounds with the task of organizing and implementing the activities,” Mauffray said.

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rebel global Connections reaches out to underprivileged elementary students by joining national and international students together to teach a diverse world-view.

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Students share interesting facts about their home countries during a meeting of the Rebel Global Connections group on Monday.

Pre-K bill awaits House approval

The state of Mississippi could receive $8 million in funding for pre-K programs from the State Department of Education with a bill that was passed Thursday in the Senate, but the bill has yet to be passed by the House.

The bill was drafted by State

Sen. Brice Wiggins, R-Pasca-goula, and Senate Education Committee Chairman Gray Tollison, R-Oxford. If approved by the House, pre-K programs in the state will be voluntary and state-funded as soon as next year.

“We know that when kids come to kindergarten (without pre-K) with tremendous gaps in

their learning and foundational skills, they’re already behind their peers,” said Angela Ruth-erford, director of the Willie Price Lab School at The Uni-versity of Mississippi and associ-ate professor in the department of teacher education.

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a bill was passed in the senate thursday, which would provide $8 million for voluntary preschool programs throughout Mississippi if passed in the house.

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The Associated Student Body held a debate Tuesday night for the candidates in the spring elections, which will be held next Tuesday.

Brittani Acuff, junior

broadcast journalism major and ASB director of commu-nity service, organized the debate and said she believed Tuesday’s event was a suc-cess.

“Tonight went spectacular-ly well,” she said. “There was standing room only, and that

really showed how much stu-dents care about their elected officials. After being in ASB for two years, it’s good to see that other students care as much as the ASB does.”

The two candidates run-

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Sip, don’t gulpBY PHIL [email protected]

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“Oh man! What a killer time! We’re so drunk!”

This is the mindset that many of us have when we go out on the Square or go to our “date parties,” “for-mals,” or your regular run-of-the-mill parties. “Just cut loose!” or “What’s there to

lose, folks?”Everyone’s insecure, duh!

You think you’re special?I don’t have a problem

with anyone’s drinking hab-its, particularly since I have to consider my own. None-theless, there’s a mindset that we have to get blasted! I’m here to tell you that there is no need. It’s OK. People will still like you if

you keep yourself at a level. It’s about knowing your-

self. Do you know yourself? Do you? If you do, then you know that three beers are better than six. Or maybe for you, it’s six rather than eight over whatever time period you’re partying. I don’t know, I don’t know you.

At a certain point, when

you know that you’ve had a few too many, just cool off. What’s there to lose? Just because you didn’t shotgun your eighth beer doesn’t mean that we don’t all think you’re cool. You can keep it at a comfortable place.

It took me a while to fig-ure it out. I loved not re-

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Look out for motorcycles

My brother got cut off while going to work yesterday by a car that was in the left lane and apparently needed to turn right. Normally, my brother would just slam on his brakes and lay on his horn. But my brother rides a motorcycle, so this was not a normal situ-ation.

This time, when he was cut off by a guy who wasn’t pay-ing attention to what he was doing while operating a one-and-a-half ton vehicle going 45 mph, he slammed on his brakes, had to jump off of his bike and slid nearly 15 feet on his back before he stopped. The driver of the car never even realized what he did.

Because he was wearing proper gear, my brother came away with non-life threatening injuries, but he still skinned his ankle to the bone and got a nasty gash in his forearm. Thanks to his bike’s sliders, which are pegs designed to help save the bike in situations like these, his bike was largely unharmed. But if things had gone a little bit differently, he could be in the hospital right now.

You have got to pay atten-

tion to what’s going on around you while you’re driving.

I’m not running a “no tex-ting while driving” campaign here. I’m not asking you do to this for your own safety. I’m asking you to use your mir-rors and be aware because my brother or his friend Ryan, or my dad or my grandfather or I might be near you, and you might accidentally kill one of us.

We all ride motorcycles and we all ride defensively. We’re not the irritating squids who ride around without helmets or jackets and pull wheelies on the highway. We’re just trying to get to a destination and stay alive, which is actu-ally very hard to do when the majority of people surround-ing us don’t look around to see us.

I have noticed that a lot of drivers don’t pay attention to anything other than the car in front of them because they were never taught to when they were learning how to drive. And if you weren’t, that’s not your fault. But I would love it if you’d change that.

Please, while you’re driv-ing, just look around you. Check your mirrors and see who is behind you and who

is beside you. When you’re changing lanes, actually turn your head for a second to check your blind spot. We try not to stay in blind spots, but we could be there.

If you see something mov-ing at night that only has one headlight, assume it’s a mo-torcycle and try to keep your distance. Maybe it’s another car with a burnt-out head-light, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.

I see a lot of stories about a lot of accidents. My brother is but one example. One of my classmates in high school, Ben Dossett, rode a motorcy-cle. He was a senior, and two days before graduation, he was killed by a woman driv-ing an SUV making an un-protected left turn on green. She ran right into him, and he died in the middle of that in-tersection.

It doesn’t take much effort. Just remember that motorcy-cles exist and keep an eye out for them when you’re driving, please, because one day, do-ing that might save someone’s life.

Alexandra Williamson is an accountancy senior from Frisco, Texas. Follow her on Twitter @alyxwi.

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membering my night and going on crazy adventures, but now I’m trying to make some memories because I feel them slipping through my fingers. Those are what’s valuable, proving yourself isn’t. What is left to prove? The people you surround yourself with are either accepting of you now or are just compensating for their own inadequacies. Be careful because it will scar you.

It’s knowing what’s safe for you, so that you can get through the night and be OK to get home. We have a problem where we challenge each other and ourselves to get blitzed, but you don’t have to. You can just hang out.

According to the Cen-ter for Disease Control we are the most dangerous age group for binge drinking. We are also most at risk for the most drunk drivers. Mississippi is considered one of the worst for binge drinking, as binge drink-ing for us is approximately eight drinks per binge ses-sion.

I’ve hit that, and it’s OK There’s no judgment here, but I feel like you should know that it’s not the norm. I’ve had to come to terms

with that. It’s not OK for me to go out and keep or-dering drinks until the bar-keep tells me, “Hey Phil, I can’t allow you to order anymore because we’re closing. Also, you’re bill is $40.”

I like fancy drinks, don’t make fun of me. Martinis are for men — men with beards and carpenter pants, and I have both, but I di-gress.

We should begin to be-lieve that it’s OK to drink two beers and then go play a game of Scrabble, not do a case race and then lose our ability to form words. That’s how normal people do it. It’s our belief that the norms of Oxford, Missis-sippi are different than any-where else that allows us to drink in excess.

I accept you as you are. You don’t need to impress me, you don’t need to im-press your friends. It’s OK because you’re awesome! So just believe that and then grab your beers and party. Don’t feel as though you have something to prove.

Phil McCausland is an Eng-lish senior from Carlisle, Pa. Follow him @PhillMcCaus-land.

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groups of students will work together as a group, and they will benefit from the task through language exchanges, networking and service. Na-tional and international col-lege students and Mississippi’s elementary school children will gain an awareness of each other and the many opportu-nities the world has to offer through Rebel Global Con-nections.”

Rebel Global Connections is open to all Ole Miss students, especially those interested in international affairs, service and language exchange. Stu-dents from 11 different coun-tries and 16 different states attended the interest meeting on Jan. 29.

“Regarding our mission, I feel that this is a great way to bring knowledge of the world to others by reaching out to elementary students from the Delta who don’t normally have the opportunity to see what the world has to offer,” said Conner Clark, a fresh-man international studies and Chinese major and member of Rebel Global Connections. “This could be a potentially life-changing event for these kids, and I am excited to be a part of it.”

Albert Nylander, the direc-tor of the McLean Institute for Partnerships and Community

Engagement, spoke during the Feb. 11 meeting about the institute providing, support-ing and funding Rebel Global Connections.

“Our mission is to rally the university to make a dif-ference in our communities by fighting poverty through education,” Nylander said. “McLean Institute will be there to support Rebel Global Connections as they reach out to the Mississippi Delta area to connect, learn and make a difference in people’s lives that need them.“

Tracy Koslowski, the instruc-tor and coordinator for service learning in the intensive Eng-lish program, has reached out to elementary schools for four years by introducing them to international students.

“I have been going to visit schools for four years,” she said.

“We had passport days where international students present their countries to kids at the school. I feel that this is a wonderful opportunity for my students as well as the elementary students to learn about different countries and cultures.

“This allows the children to learn about different cultures through an actual person from that culture or country instead of just reading about it in a textbook. It also allows my students to interact and prac-tice communication skills they need to succeed in an Ameri-can university.”

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litical science John Bruce said early investment in a child’s education will result in a better-equipped student and eventually a better workforce.

“I think preschool makes a world of difference,” Bruce said. “There’s a lot of evidence out there that the earlier you start working with kids, wheth-er you’re a parent or a teacher, there are real rewards in terms of the education process.”

The new bill calls for the de-partment to oversee the fund-ing program, which would be offered on a three-to-five year phased-in basis.

The first phase would in-volve the distribution of $8 million among five to eight early learning collaborative councils, serving 3,500 chil-

dren. The bill said funding would first be offered to un-derperforming school districts.

During the second phase, funding would increase to no less than $15 million and serve up to 7,000 children. The third phase would offer no less than $32 million in funding and serve approximately 15,000 children. Any further phases would depend on the success of previous ones.

If approved, early collabor-ative childhood councils can apply for funding for the 2013-14 school year.

“I feel like the school system would grow stronger (with preschool funding) because it builds a solid foundation with children at a young age,” public policy junior Gregory Alston said.

“If the children start going to school earlier, there’s no telling what the future would hold for the state.”

Mckenzie Darrell Frierson, a resident of Lafayette Coun-ty, has gone missing. He was last seen in Oxford. Frierson has been missing since Jan. 31, according to the Lafay-ette County Sheriff ’s Depart-ment.

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ning for ASB president this year are junior public policy leadership major Gregory Alston and junior public pol-icy leadership, international studies and Spanish major Maddie Fumi.

Alston is running on a plat-form including the formation of a University Creed Week, addressing the issue of park-ing difficulties on campus, making it possible for stu-dents to pay their first tickets through community service, making Flex and Express funds usable at all sporting events and a five-day dead week before finals.

“The three-day dead week before exams is not enough,” Alston said. “Adding a five-day dead week before exams is definitely my most impor-tant policy.”

Alston stressed that stu-dents should receive no ma-jor assignments that week including quizzes, tests and papers.

Alston has most recently served as the ASB director of athletics, a member of the Sensitivity and Respect Com-mittee and was voted senator of the year in 2012.

Junior public policy leader-ship major Megan Turcotte, a campaigner for Alston, said of him, “Gregory displayed confidence. He knows his policies back and forward, and he’s just the man for the job.”

Fumi is running on a plat-form including the building of a multicultural center for Ole Miss, making Flex and Express available for sport-ing events, an online parking ticket appeal system, 30-min-ute parking in front of all Greek housing and the inclu-sion of the “C-” grade in the Freshman Forgiveness Pol-icy. Fumi said she believes her speech reached out to the diverse student body.

“I think we need to pro-mote unity,” Fumi said. “We need to show the nation how united our campus is.”

Fumi is the director of di-versity affairs, a member of the International Programs

Committee and a member of the Students with Disabilities Committee.

Sophomore public poli-cy leadership major Carly Eason, a member of Mad-die Fumi’s campaign team, summed up her candidate.

“Maddie has always been about diversity,” Easton said. “She is a diverse person, with a diverse group of friends.”

When the two candidates were asked which of their policies they believed to be most important, Alston said it was his proposed five-day dead week, while Fumi said it was her parking policies, especially the option for online ticket appeals. Both candidates mentioned their close working relationships with the administration when asked what they have done to ensure their stated goals are feasible.

Alston said he has worked closely with the athletics department since last year, when he proposed the idea for Flex and Express stadium availability in the ASB Sen-ate.

Fumi said she had recently

spoken directly to the chan-cellor and vice-chancellor, both of whom expressed approval for her ideas. The candidates for judicial chair are junior public policy ma-jors Harrison Crabtree and Vinod Kannuthurai. Both stressed the importance of fair hearings and every stu-dent’s right to a safe school environment.

The candidates for trea-surer are junior business ad-ministration and marketing major Quadray Kohlhiem and junior accounting major Carson Rutledge. Both can-didates mentioned their ex-tensive experience, relevant majors and appreciation for the pillars of financial stew-ardship.

The candidates for secre-tary are junior political sci-ence and African American studies major Aniah B. Lust and junior accounting major Allie Winters. Lust is running on a platform centered on the wider availability of meeting minutes, summaries and vid-eos. Winters expressed her desire to leave a legacy at Ole Miss, as inspired by her

mother, an Ole Miss alumna. The candidates for attor-

ney general are junior public policy leadership major Rob Pillow and junior Spanish major Olivia Watkins. Both expressed a desire for clean, fair elections. Pillow empha-sized the importance of wid-er and more diverse student involvement in elections, specifically as candidates. Watkins touted her leader-ship experience inside and outside of ASB and aims to give a voice to every student, in accordance with the ASB motto.

The sole candidate for the vice presidency is ju-nior international market-ing communications major Morgan Gregory, who pre-sented a campaign based on “S.W.A.G,” which stands for “Serving With Achievable Goals.” She said her chief concern was pragmatism with respect to what can be accomplished within a year for maximum efficiency. She said she focuses on what can make every student’s day-to-day life easier and more con-venient.

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‘The state of our union is strong’WASHINGTON – In his

first State of the Union ad-dress since winning re-election, Obama conceded economic revival is an “unfinished task,” but he claimed clear progress and said he was seeking to build on it as he embarks on four more years in office.

“We have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and we can say with renewed confidence

that the state of our union is strong,” Obama said.

In specific proposals for his second term, an assertive Obama called for increased federal spending to fix the na-tion’s roads and bridges, the first increase in the minimum wage in six years and expan-sion of early education to every American 4-year-old.

Seeking to appeal for support

from Republicans, he prom-ised that none of his proposals would increase the deficit “by a single dime.”

In the Republican response to Obama’s address, rising GOP star Marco Rubio of Florida came right back at the president, saying his solution “to virtually every problem we face is for Washington to tax more, borrow more and spend

more.”Obama also announced

new steps to reduce the U.S. military footprint abroad, with 34,000 American troops with-drawing from Afghanistan within a year. And he had a sharp rebuke for North Korea, which launched a nuclear test just hours before his remarks, saying, “Provocations of the sort we saw last night will only

isolate them further.”Standing in Obama’s way is

a Congress that remains near-ly as divided as it was during the final years of his first term, when Washington lurched from one crisis to another.

“Americans don’t expect government to solve every problem,” he said. “They do expect us to forge reasonable compromise where we can.”

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This Valentine’s Day, most people will measure love in flowers, chocolate and gifts.

For pharmacy senior Tate Davis, though, love is mea-sured by how much care she shows toward children every summer with Camp Ozark.

Camp Ozark is a Christian organization that gives 4,200 children the opportunity to strengthen their walk with Christ while enjoying 120 ac-tivities and sports. The staff hopes to influence college students to come closer to God by offering paid summer positions.

Davis has worked with the camp for three years, and she

describes playing kickball or dancing on tables during meal time with her camp-ers. She said she also realizes her actions have much more meaning.

“Camp is a great way for kids and college kids to hang out and get to know about each other,” Davis said. “We have fun and talk about Christ and really get to see how Christ works through our actions.”

Camp Ozark has been re-cruiting at The University of Mississippi for five years. Re-cruiter Katie McCasland said she enjoys recruiting at Ole Miss because she gets stu-dents who return every sum-mer and embody the camp’s philosophy.

“We love on kids like Christ would love them so when they leave camp, they know that,” McCasland said. “They will want to come and enjoy any type of sport and enjoy the outdoors, and they all know it’s because Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice for us.”

She said she believes col-lege students make good mentors for displaying how Christians should live and hopes the children will mir-ror their actions.

McCasland said the organi-zation is looking for students

who are willing to be respon-sible and also have a love for kids.

“They have to love kids a lot and love Jesus a lot,” she said. “They love their cam-pus, they love people, they love living a life that is hon-oring God, and at the same time, they’re having a good time.”

Currently, there are 41 Ole Miss students in the organiza-tion and there is no cap for the number of students Mc-Casland can employ.

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Berry wants to join because the camp is a place where he can enjoy both of his loves: sports and ministering to kids.

“I believe that God is the realest thing out there,” Berry said. “If He is, than why not be a follower of Him. Live like He does? It’s definitely a positive way of living, and it’s the best thing that you can do.”

Camp Ozark will have an information session today at 7 p.m. in Student Union 403 for interested students.

Valentine’s Day every day at Camp OzarkCamp Ozark is a Christian organization that strives to teach the love of Christ through sports and other activities. they are currently offering paid summer positions for students who like to work with kids and talk about Christ.

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I have a question for you. If romantic films didn’t exist, what would relationships be like to-day?

Romantic films can give you a grandeur sense of love, and ro-mantic comedies perpetuate the ideas that are completely unre-latable to real-life relationships, or real people for that matter.

Romantic comedies create the idea that everything is ser-endipitous, maybe there are a few bumps and bruises along the way, but we, as an audience, never ask the question, “Will they get together in the end?” We only wonder, “How are they going to get together and when is it going to happen?”

If only finding someone to love was as simple as it seems in these films. Romantic comedies create this illusion that when you meet “the one” you will know it the moment it happens, love can change any fault in a

man, or even the idea that no matter what happens, you will find each other again.

It seems some female screen-writers have decided that when they create male characters they are going to create their ideal man, the perfect man. So the men who fill our screens are all these gorgeous men with great jobs and big hearts. No won-der 43 percent of all marriages are projected to end in divorce. Women have unrealistic expec-tations for the way men should act; in the same way that men have expectations for girls to have unrealistic body propor-tions.

Writing hundreds and hun-dreds of fanciful love stories is bound to affect society; it’s just like Photoshopping the picture of an already beautiful girl and making it appear as though she has no physical flaws whatso-ever. Both have good intentions of trying to give us something more aesthetically pleasing to reflect on, but in the end, all it

does is hinder us by creating unrealistic expectations for a po-tential partner.

In the film “You’ve Got Mail,” Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks meet in an online chat room, quickly become friends and chat frequently. As the story pro-gresses, it turns out Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan happen to live in the same part of the city and have even met without knowing who the other really is. It is dif-ficult to believe that the couple would meet in real life and hate each other, but they would have instant chemistry over the Inter-net.

I personally prefer the original version of this story: the 1940’s film “The Shop Around the Corner” starring James Stewart. It is a more realistic portrayal of how two people meet and their relationship evolves as the get to know each other.

“Notting Hill” and “Pretty Woman” are examples of films that send out the message “love knows no socioeconomic

bounds.”In “Notting Hill,” Julia Rob-

erts portrays a famous actress and is interested in average (British) Joe, Hugh Grant. In what universe would that actu-ally happen?

In “Pretty Woman,” wealthy businessman Richard Gere de-cides to make-over a prostitute, Julia Roberts, and in the pro-cess unexpectedly falls in love. I don’t even need to go into detail about how this movie is unreal-istic.

“The Holiday” starring Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz de-picts the life of two women who switch houses for the Christmas holiday hoping to get over their exes, only to arrive and meet their new love interests a couple of days into their trip.

I personally know many girls who have said they feel depressed after romantic com-edies because they know they will never find love as portrayed in films.

After people watch these

films, they have certain expec-tations, and when their partner does not meet those expecta-tions, the couple will fight or break-up.

The Heriot-Watt University Laboratory of Family and Per-sonal Relationships completed a study of 40 Hollywood ro-mantic comedies released be-tween 1995-2005. They found that people who watched more romantic comedies were more likely to have misconceptions about relationships. Couples who expressed their problems in counseling reflected the mis-conceptions about love and re-lationships depicted in romantic comedies.

Relationships are full of prob-lems and personalities and are much more complex than por-trayed in films. Don’t get me wrong, romantic films are a great way to escape into a land of laughter and love, but people should keep in mind that not every relationship is choreo-graphed by Hollywood.

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He is that scrappy little guy who drives opposing teams crazy. He is a reliable guy in the outfield, starting all 63 games last season for Ole Miss. He is a leader in the clubhouse.

He is senior Tanner Mathis.Mathis, a Lake Charles, La.,

native, is entering the final season of his collegiate career. However, the decision to re-turn for his senior year wasn’t an easy one after being selected in the 27th round of the MLB Draft by the Houston Astros.

“It was a tough one,” Mathis said. “It’s obviously every kid’s dream. You want to grow up and play pro baseball, and with Houston being two hours from the house, if I were to ever make it, it would be a great fit to be right there in Houston. But I think the degree is so im-portant nowadays.”

Head coach Mike Bianco and the Ole Miss baseball team will now reap the benefits of having Mathis one more season. This past season as a junior, Mathis hit .359 with 23 RBI to go along with a team-high 50 runs scored from the leadoff spot.

Not only was Mathis able to hit for average, but he also drew 39 walks and finished with a .460 on-base percent-age, which ranked third in the Southeastern Conference.

Mathis said he believes that a season-opening series against an upper-echelon team in TCU is just what some of the young-er guys on the team need to get settled into collegiate play.

“(TCU) is an SEC team,” Mathis said. “They just play in the Big 12. I think starting off playing them really helps the younger guys realize that we have to buckle down and play our best baseball every week-end.”

With the season opener on Friday, Bianco will once again look to Mathis to be the cata-lyst at the top of the lineup, although after MLB draft day, he wasn’t too certain Mathis would be back.

“We return Tanner Mathis, one that we probably didn’t expect to come back for his senior year,” Bianco said. “At the end (of last season), he was arguably the best hitter on the team.”

Although Mathis may re-ceive a lot of attention at the top of the lineup, he said this

year’s team will be improved at the plate as a whole.

“I think the biggest thing is one through nine there is no easy out,” he said. “Even 10, 11, and 12, from what I’ve seen in the spring is everybody grinds for their at bats. Everybody does exactly what coach God-win wants us to do. It just boils down to us getting on base and guys in the middle knocking us in.”

For continuing coverage of Ole Miss baseball, follow @SigNew-ton_2 and @thedm_sports on Twitter.

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After opening its season in Honolulu at the Oceanic Time Warner Cable Paradise Classic, the Ole Miss softball team is returning to Oxford for its home opener Wednes-day at 5 p.m. CT against No. 10 LSU.

The Rebels (2-4) and Tigers (4-1) will be getting together in a rare non-conference game, and will be participat-ing in the Geaux Play pro-gram established by former LSU All-American Brittany Mack.

The Rebels are asking all fans to donate new or gen-tly used sports equipment to the program. Fans who do donate equipment for the Geaux Play program will re-ceive two free general admis-sion tickets to the Ole Miss baseball home opener on Feb. 15 at 4 p.m. CT.

“We’re looking forward to coming home and playing in front of our fans for the first time this season,” Ole Miss softball head coach Windy Thees said. “LSU is a great team and I’m happy that we are going to be able to con-tinue the Ole Miss and LSU rivalry. We’re also very excit-ed to be participating in the Geaux Play program and to be a part of this great charity.”

Wednesday’s game will be the first Dollar Wednesday

of the season, as hotdogs and popcorn will each by $1. The first 100 fans at the Ole Miss Softball Complex will receive “I Love Ole Miss” t-shirts.

Ole Miss is coming off a 2-4 opening weekend in which it registered a pair of wins over Saint Mary’s and fell to No. 23 Hawaii, UAB and No. 16 Washington. Sophomore third baseman Allison Brown was named to the All-Tour-nament team after batting .294 with five hits, four runs, three doubles and a home run. Freshman right fielder Bri Payne led Ole Miss with a .444 batting average, and junior centerfielder RT Can-tillo knocked in a team-high five RBI.

No. 10 LSU went 4-1 in its home-opening tourna-ment, the Tiger Classic. LSU topped No. 21 UNC in its opening game, and then de-feated Purdue, Tulsa and Hampton. LSU closed out the tournament with a loss to UNC on Sunday.

LSU senior pitcher Rach-ele Fico, a 2013 USA Softball Player of the Year “Watch List” selection, was named SEC Pitcher of the Week for her performances at the Tiger Classic. Fico tossed a pair of shutouts, and had a 14-strike-out effort against Tulsa during a 1-0 victory in 10 innings.

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Ole Miss was picked to finish fourth in the SEC West by the 14 coaches in the preseason poll, the con-ference announced Tues-day.

The Rebels were picked behind Arkansas, who was predicted to win the confer-ence, LSU and Mississippi State. Ole Miss received 54 votes, just five behind Mis-

sissippi State.In the West, Arkansas got

12 of the 14 first-place votes with LSU and Mississippi State each receiving one.

Vanderbilt was picked to win the East. The Razor-backs received nine first-place votes overall with Vanderbilt receiving three and Kentucky and LSU get-ting one vote each.

Chris Kiffin was named Scout.com’s National Re-cruiter of the Year, but he’s not the only Ole Miss foot-ball coach who has been recognized recently for his recruiting efforts.

After hauling in a con-sensus top-10 rated sign-ing class last week, rated as high as No. 2 by 247Sports.com, the Ole Miss staff

has received an enormous amount of national atten-tion and praise.

On Tuesday, Rivals.com announced its list of the top 25 recruiters in the na-tion, which included co-defensive coordinator and cornerbacks coach Wesley McGriff.

247Sports.com listed Kiffin, McGriff and tight

ends coach Maurice Harris among its top 50 recruiters from 2013.

McGriff, who was the lead recruiter for Robert Nkem-diche (nation’s top over-all prospect) and Laquon Treadwell (nation’s top wide receiver), among others, also received consideration for 247Sport.com’s national recruiter of the year.

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Buckner, who ranks second on the team with 7.6 rebounds per game, grabbed just four boards and was ejected in the second half after hitting Missouri for-ward Laurence Bowers in the face.

Buckner was not suspended for tonight’s contest because the referees did not deem it a

fight, and therefore, there is no automatic suspension.

Kennedy said he is relying on his experienced forwards to pick up their play to right the ship.

“I just need them to do it as seniors,” Kennedy said. “They know what to do. They’ve just got to put it into play.”

Senior guard Elston Turner leads the Aggies with 15.6 points per game. He has scored in double figures in all but two of the Aggies’ games this year,

including a career-high 40 points in Texas A&M’s upset win at Kentucky.

Turner is the son of one of the greatest Rebels of all time, Elston Turner Sr., who is the fifth all-time leading scorer in Ole Miss basketball history with 1,805 career points.

Junior guard Fabyon Harris combines with Turner for one of the top scoring backcourts in the SEC. Harris is second on team with 11.5 points per game, including 16.1 points per

game over the last six games. He is 13-of-28 from three point range in those six games.

This matchup will feature a contrast of styles, as Ole Miss leads the SEC with 73 offen-sive possessions per game, while Texas A&M is last in the conference at 61.8 possessions per game.

The Aggie defense allows just 59.5 points per game, which ranks third best in the conference, but also allows .96 points per possession, which is

seventh in the SEC. Ole Miss gives up 67.5 points per game, which ranks 10th in the SEC, but only .92 points per posses-sion, which is third-best in the conference.

Tipoff from Reed Arena in College Station, Texas, is set for 6 p.m., and will be televised on CSS.

For continuing coverage of Ole Miss men’s basketball, follow @Tyler_RSR and @thedm_sports on Twitter.

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ole miss looks to rigHt sHip at a&mafter losing three of their past four games, Ole Miss men’s basketball looks to get back in the win column on the road at texas a&M. tipoff is set for 6 p.m. and will be televised by Css.

Ole Miss (18-5, 7-3 SEC) will look to bounce back from their biggest loss of the season, a 19-point defeat at the hands of 20th-ranked Missouri, as they travel to College Station, Texas, Wednesday to take on Texas A&M (14-9, 4-6 SEC).

After starting conference play 6-0, the Rebels have dropped three of their last four games.

“I have not pushed the pan-ic button,” head coach Andy Kennedy said. “We have got to get back to the way we have shown capable of in order for us to be successful. That’s re-bound, that’s defend, that’s get the shots to the right people in the right spots.”

It is the first and only time in conference play that the Reb-els will play back-to-back road games. Ole Miss has dropped their last two road games at Florida and Missouri; however, Texas A&M is just 1-3 at home in SEC play.

Senior guard Nick Williams returned from injury against Missouri after he tore his plan-tar fasciitis, a tendon in the foot, against Kentucky. Williams av-erages 9.3 points per game and scored nine against Missouri.

“It’s unbelievable how much pain I’ve gone through,” Wil-liams said regarding his injury. “It just feels like you’re being stabbed every time you take a step.”

Senior forward Murphy Hol-loway is coming off one of his worst performances of the season. The all-time leading rebounder in Ole Miss his-tory pulled down one rebound against Missouri, which tied a career low. He also scored sev-en points, which was only the third time he hadn’t scored in double figures this season.

“I hope the guy that stole 31’s jersey gives it back, so we can get Murph(y) back in it,” Ken-nedy said.

Senior forward Reginald

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