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After about four years of prolonged planning and pa-perwork, construction is finally underway for the new Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mis-sissippi in Oxford.

Ashley Compton, public re-lations coordinator of Baptist Memorial Hospital, said the new building will serve as a replacement hospital and will remain as a regional referral center.

“The current hospital is land locked, and in an effort to pro-vide health care to a growing community such as Oxford and Lafayette county, Baptist needed to have the flexibility to grow as the health care industry

changes,” Compton said.Architects officially began

moving the foundation dirt for the building at the end of Au-gust, according to Jondi Rober-son, director of marketing and provider relations at Baptist Memorial Hospital.

“They should finish (moving dirt) by sometime next spring,” Roberson said.

According to Roberson, the dirt has to settle for about 18 months before they actually can begin construction on the new hospital.

However while the dirt set-tles, the hospital’s architects will have their hands full with another vital task while com-pleting the construction of the

Construction underway on new hospital in OxfordBy Kelsey [email protected]

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Construction equipment parked on the site of the new hospital.

The 2013-14 University of Mis-sissippi Associated Student Body Senate was elected Tuesday. Ac-cording to ASB Attorney General Rob Pillow, 908 Ole Miss students voted in the election in which 44 senators were elected.

“I’m excited to get to know all the new senators and continue to work with the returners,” ASB Vice President and President of the ASB Senate Morgan Gregory said. “It will be great to see the new sena-tors learn from the great group of returning senators that we have.”

Each ASB Senate term lasts for one year, which requires previous senators to run for re-election if they do not graduate or leave Ole Miss. ASB senators represent either a college or a building on campus, or they are appointed by the elected Senate members.

There are 60 seats within the ASB Senate. After Tuesday’s election, 16 senate seats remained open because not every college or building on campus had candidates run for the position. These buildings include Campus Walk, Guess Hall, Hef-ley Hall, Kincannon Hall, Miller Hall, Minor Hall, Village Hall, the School of Applied Sciences, School of Education and the Law School.

Gregory said that the 44 newly-elected senators will reach out to those colleges and buildings to try to find a representative to fill each of those seats. The newly-elected sena-tors will fill the remaining 14 seats on Oct. 8.

“If we can’t find anyone in those respective schools or buildings to take an open seat, the senate will vote on and appoint at-large sena-tors to fill the seats. The at-large senators can be anyone from any school or building.”

According to Gregory, the newly-elected senators will attend a train-ing retreat Sunday where they will learn the rules of the senate and the ASB Codes and Constitution. The senators-elect will then take a test Tuesday to demonstrate appropri-ate knowledge of what they were taught at the retreat. Once the sen-ators-elect pass the test, they will be sworn in at the ASB Senate meet-ing Tuesday night.

After that, the senators will be as-signed to committees.

“They will meet Tuesday for the first time as a senate, where we will hold informal committee meet-ings,” Gregory said. “We are put-ting them right to work, and hope-fully we will have some good ideas floated around and good discus-sions started.”

New ASB Senate elected, open seats remainBy AdAm GAnucheAu

[email protected] 2013-2014 Associated Student Body Senate

College of Liberal ArtsCameron Crain

Emerson GeorgeThor Goodfellow

Molly EdmondsonMadeline CampbellMary Kate Berger

Rod BridgesSam GearnWill BooneJack Ely

Justin KilgoreJake McClellan

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Will YosteCaroline France

School of BusinessChris MarshallCody WelchCraig Henry

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My generation has been dubbed “Generation Y.”

Many scholars and social commenters have discussed at length what it means to be Generation Y. What makes us tick? What separates us from our peers? How has society changed from previous gen-erations and how do those changes impact the genera-tion at hand?

With the oldest members of Generation Y in their later twenties, much of our poten-tial and what will eventually define us still lies in the hori-zon.

There are some trends how-

ever, that are already notice-able in regards to our genera-tion.

The Internet reached its full potential early in our lifetime. Very few can remember what life was like when you could not google something (or for the older Gen. Y-ers, when you couldn’t “Ask Jeeves”). We have grown up with hav-ing the entire world at our fingertips with just a few key-strokes.

The Internet, whether for better or worse, is a key ele-ment in trying to define what sets Generation Y apart. You can (and many scholars have) write several pages on the ef-fects the Internet has on us.

For the sake of brevity, let’s just focus on one. The In-ternet is a place of self-help and self-acceptance for Gen-eration Y. There are count-less blogs and posts on sites such as buzzfeed.com and

thoughtcatalog.com that cor-ral advice and insights for our generation. “478 things that you must do before 30.” “28 things that every 28-year-old should know.” “85 reasons you are an extrovert.” “98 things I wish I could tell my-self at 20.”

Some of these are eloquent-ly written prose pieces while others are a series of gifs (two or three second animated clips set to replay indefinitely) that you scroll through.

While there is certainly nothing wrong with reading or scrolling through these ar-ticles, moderation, like in all things, is key. The Internet is a vast place where anyone can post something. You can al-ways find something that tells you that you are wrong and you need to make changes. There are just as many sites that say what you are doing is perfectly fine and you should

never change.As a commercial running

currently that I love to quote says, “You can’t put anything on the Internet that isn’t true.” We all know this to be false, however, that does not stop us from sometimes put-ting too much stock into what we read on the internet.

Sometimes the best advice regarding the internet is to step away from it. Unplug. Be in the moment, whatever that moment is. Hours spent in front of a screen finding the perfect article to define you are hours wasted not liv-ing your life. Odds are you al-ready know how you want to live your life, and you do not need an Internet article for confirmation. So get out there and live it.

Anna Rush is a law student from Hattiesburg. She graduated from Mississippi State University in 2011.

Generation Y

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As I sped by seven tow trucks early last gameday morning, I felt as giddy as a caffeinated first-grader wearing a zebra mask at the zoo. Chicken biscuit in hand, I was ready for a field trip.I had dumped the spiral notebooks from my backpack onto the floor, replacing them with a hammock, sunscreen, red swimsuit, Ole Miss water bottle, Chacos, toilet paper, a floppy-brimmed hat and the se-cret ingredients for a PB&J.

Dr. Cliff Ochs was taking our class on the Mississippi River to canoe down the Father of Waters. With Clarksdale-based Quapaw Canoe Company as our guides, we were to paddle 25 miles down the river past Helena, Ark., in a French voya-geur-style cypress canoe. Time to escape to nature.

Caring for the environment while living from air condi-tioner to air conditioner seems often to be either a vague duty or a complete hassle. Forgetting nature during the daily grind is easy. We need a reminder of nature’s beauty. We need canoe trips. For one, Instagram sun-sets cannot compare to the col-or palette on the river at dusk. Also, we need reminders of the great outdoor’s vitality to re-main personally invested in the environment.

Nature can inspire in a mo-ment. If you were to ask me why the river needs sustainable care, I’d quip, “For the peli-cans.” From upstream, I could hear the rushing wings as the hunting birds swirled across the river. Like flying border collies, they corralled a great school of carp and proceeded to feast on the Asian delicacies. When we passed the flock in our ca-

noe, the stuffed birds proudly watched us float on by. Like Walter Anderson, the reclusive Mississippi Gulf Coast water-colorist, I was amazed by the pelicans. They dispatched the invasive species of carp, the kudzu of the Mississippi River, with a fierce style worthy of the NBA’s new best mascot. From a biology perspective, I was thrilled, for healthy predators prove a healthy ecosystem.

The academic conclusion was really just a peripheral con-cern. The pelicans were beauti-ful. Am I making an excessive to-do about some avian crea-tures? Perhaps. Yet now I have a personal memory of the river. It is not about caring for the en-vironment, whatever that cliche means. It is about protecting pelicans, both in honor of my memory and for the other pad-dlers to come.

Beyond the responsibility re-minder, we need to “get out there” for our own benefit. Journeying by paddle power is a lesson on time and stress. Be-fore we had so much as dipped a paddle in the water, we had a catastrophe. The Tahoe’s tires were spinning on the sand. In Oxford, the delay would have been maddeningly exasperat-ing. Yet we were on river time. The gas pedals on a canoe are between your shoulder blades.

Rather than wearing our-selves out to hurry, we em-braced a take-life-as-it-comes philosophy. The college pace conditions us to believe in the idea of lost time, but river time teaches that time is not lost but lived. When your watch is the

sun, the tick-tock anxiety leaves.On the river, preparation

anxiety does not control. You cannot beat yourself up like we do in Oxford for, say, not study-ing enough. On the river you make do with what experience and supplies you have, no guilt allowed. On a portage, you re-alize the value of the pack light maxim within six steps. The Boy Scout motto “be prepared” does not mean to be over-pre-pared and over-burdened. In-stead, be prepared to go with-out. Though in my room I thought I needed three pairs of shoes, my bare feet were the far better choice for the Mississippi mud.

After the river trip, I am con-vinced that I need to clean out some clutter from the school frenzy by regaining some mar-gin. Be radical; go phoneless for an afternoon this week. Take breaks. After jumping into the river for a cool-off, my refreshed spirit could paddle that much faster. To my surprise, we cov-ered the 25 miles quickly. With my classmates rowing as a team and the river’s five mph current, our canoe traveled much faster than the average car on Jackson Avenue during the lunch hour.

Often college-stress lies to us, suggesting that we are on our own. Never forget that your friends and family can row the river with you. The destination is closer than you think and prettier than a picture. I hope you see some pelicans on the way.

Neal McMillin is a senior southern studies major from Madison.

Life on the Ole Mississippi

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Letter to the EditorWe would like to address a con-

cern over the University’s absent participation in the 50th anniver-sary of the milestone Civil Right event, “The March in Washing-ton.” Dr. King’s speech during the march epitomized the struggles and hopes of all oppressed people in our nation. It is a significant and crucial cornerstone in American history, yet the University of Mis-sissippi neglected to recognize the event at all. Institutions from all over Mississippi and all over this nation commemorated the event by ringing bells or displaying ban-ners to honor the occasion. We are considered the flagship university in Mississippi, so the looming ques-tion is: “Why did the University of Mississippi disregard such an important date in our nation’s his-tory?” We earnestly ask that this concern would be conveyed to the

students, faculty, and all other as-sociates related to the University of Mississippi.

Our organization proudly sup-ports the educational mission of the University, therefore we ask questions. Our questions and ac-tions represent our core values of equality and justice. The Afrikan Activist Student Alliance advocates for transforming the current Uni-versity of Mississippi position on such issues as racism, sexism, gen-der/sexual orientation discrimi-nation, and any other concern in relation to our core values. We introduce people to a new lens through which they can start view-ing subject matter in a new light. Our goal is the advancement to-ward a more accepting and pro-gressive campus.

Sincerely,Afrikan Activist Student Alliance

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The University of Alabama is ordering changes in its sorority sys-tem amid charges of discrimination in the Greek-letter organizations, which the administration acknowl-edged Tuesday are segregated by race.

President Judy Bonner mandated that sororities belonging to a campus association composed of white so-rorities begin a recruitment process in which new members can be add-

ed at any time. She also expanded the maximum size of the groups to 360 people, to increase the chances of prospective members.

Bonner, in a video statement re-leased by the university, said people are watching Alabama just as they did when it admitted its first black students five decades ago.

“This time it is because our Greek system remains segregated and chapter members admit that during

the recruitment process that ended a few weeks ago decisions were made based on race,” she said.

Bonner said “systemic and pro-found changes” were required for graduates to compete globally.

“While we will not tell any group who they must pledge, the Univer-sity of Alabama will not tolerate dis-crimination of any kind,” said Bon-ner, who became the school’s first female president less than a year ago.

Bonner enacted the new policy Monday, just days after the student newspaper, The Crimson White, detailed allegations that alumnae of some all-white sororities had blocked chapters from adding two black stu-dents as new members in August, when the university announced 1,896 new sorority members.

The Faculty Senate scheduled a meeting for Tuesday afternoon to consider a statement asking admin-istrators to take further steps against campus racism.

Donna Meester, vice president of the senate, said the group planned to address sorority recruitment and involvement in a recent city election in which some sorority members allegedly received free alcohol in exchange for voting for certain can-didates.

University of Alabama trustee John England Jr, a state court judge in Tuscaloosa and a former mem-ber of the Alabama supreme court, last week confirmed his step-grand-daughter was one of two young black women who tried to join an all-white sorority but were rejected for membership.

Governor Robert Bentley and trustee Paul Bryant Jr, son of the leg-endary Alabama football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, are among those who have publicly criticized segre-gated Greek organizations at the university since the first report.

The charges of racism are mar-ring a year in which the university is trying to show racial progress in the 50 years since then-Governor George C Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” blocking inte-gration at Alabama and with the school’s football team ranked first nationally.

Allegations of racism at Alabama provided a backdrop over the week-end at ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the 1963 bombing that killed four black girls at a church in Birmingham. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson suggested picketing all-white sororities at the university, and Representative Terri Sewell, whose district includes Tuscaloosa, said the situation at Alabama shows discrim-ination isn’t dead.

“When we still have fraternities and sororities in our state that block because of race, we still have work to do,” said Sewell.

The university enrolled a record 34,852 students this semester, and about 13 percent of its students last year were black. Its Greek organiza-tions have been segregated by race since the first black students enrolled and established social organizations, with one oversight organization composed of white sororities and another composed of minority so-rorities.

Only a few blacks ever have at-tempted to join historically white Greek groups at Alabama, where there are also historically black fra-ternities and sororities.

University spokeswoman Cathy Andreen said Bonner’s order on recruitment applies to 18 white so-rorities in the Alabama Panhellenic Association, the campus arm of the National Panhellenic Conference. Eight black sororities and fraternities at Alabama are affiliated with the as-sociation.

The Interfraternity Council in-cludes 27 historically white fraterni-ties and an umbrella organization is composed of leaders of all three groups.

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About 400 students and faculty members of the Univ. of Alabama march across the campus to oppose racial segregation among its Greek-letter social organizations in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. School Presi-dent judy Bonner issued a video statement acknowledging the system is segregated by race. She is requiring that sororities belonging to a campus association composed of white sororities begin using a new recruitment process aimed at diversifying the groups.

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On Saturday, The Uni-versity of Mississippi’s club wakeboarding team placed second regionally in the Loui-siana Collegiate Wake Tour and USA Regional Qualifier, which took place in Shreve-port, La.

Twelve of the 34 members involved in the club on cam-pus participated in the com-petition this past weekend.

Of those who competed, several placed in their events. In the intermediate level, Ole Miss student Austin Pil-low placed first and presi-dent Houston Buckley placed third. In the advanced com-petition, student Blake Arm-strong placed second.

Overall, the club’s second president, Ben Burch, won the men’s D division, and Kristen Gilbert placed second in the women’s division.

The team’s second place fin-

ish qualifies them to compete in USA Wakeboards’ Colle-giate Nationals in May. The team also placed third in the friendly portion of the com-petition, the Louisiana Tour.

“The team showed huge progress in skill level to come back with a podium place in the nationals this year,” said Burch, a senior accounting major from Monroe, La.

Senior journalism major Houston Buckley felt that the team’s practices leading up to the competition made him confident, and the fact that the team placed “blew him out of the water.” He said that the pride students have in Ole Miss make “them want us to succeed just as much as we do.”

“Girls at the wakeboarding competition are very much welcome,” said Gilbert, Ole Miss cheerleader and special education major.

She hopes the team’s per-formance this past weekend

will help sustain the club’s continuity as well as improve its abilities to practice.

“The team as a whole is

like a family — we are a wel-coming, close team who loves supporting each other to suc-ceed,” she said.

This is the resounding mes-sage the team leaves in the wake of their performance at regionals.

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morial Hospital is being built between Old Taylor Road and South Lamar, but there is no road that will lead to the actual site,” said Robyn Tannehill, al-derman for Ward 2.

Both Tannehill and Rober-son believed that building new roads to the hospital would be beneficial not only for people going to and from the hospital, but also for everyday commut-ers in the area as well.

Because Old Taylor Road and South Lamar are already highly frequented roads, new pathways would help divert some of the traffic the hospital might create.

Construction on the hospital’s building will begin once the dirt is finally settled sometime next fall, according to Roberson.

“As of now, the hospital is set to be officially completed in the winter of 2017 or 2018,” Compton said.

This projected date is a bit later than expected.

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Frustrated with a limited parking situation at the Uni-versity of Mississippi School of Law that has left many of his classmates late for class, first year law student Nicho-las Betts voiced his opinion on Facebook.

“Ok seriously law school, there are more cars than parking spaces… That means there’s not enough. Fix it!”

Unsurprisingly, Betts was not the only law student who had complaints about parking at the law school.

“The law school is like mu-sical chairs with cars!!” said one comment.

“Blame the undergrad com-muter students who use the lot. That’s what I do,” anoth-er said.

Betts’ response was par-ticularly popular among the law students involved in the online conversation: “It’s ole miss’s fault for not making this law school lot exclusive to law students.”

As other areas of the Ole Miss campus are experienc-ing parking problems and headaches stemming from overcrowding and unpopular new regulations, the School of Law is no different.

Currently, all of the park-ing around the School of Law is designated as commuter parking, meaning anyone, re-gardless of their classification as undergraduate or law stu-dent, is allowed to park there.

That was not the original plan, however.

“A lot of our faculty remem-ber that one of the promises that was made when we moved into this building was that the parking lot would belong to

the law school,” Richard Ger-shon, dean of the School of Law, said. “That was sold to alums who donated money to the building, that was part of the law school building cam-paign, that there would be a law school parking lot. I feel like a lot of people are now saying wait a minute, that has not occurred.”

According to Eddie Upton, the registrar for the School of Law, there are currently 450 students enrolled in the law school’s LLM and JD pro-grams, a number much higher than the 300 parking spots the dean estimates the law school has.

The School of Law is on the “Park and Ride” route, a recent program where stu-dents could park at the lot off Jackson Avenue and ride a shuttle to the law school. As of September 9, 2013, howev-er, there was no information on the School of Law or the Department of Parking and Transportation’s websites.

For law school students, though, relying on shuttles does not fix the problem, es-pecially since many of them must leave and return to cam-pus quickly.

“Our students are unique in that they are in a profes-sional school environment, where a lot of them work at law firms or courts during

the day,” Dean Gershon said. “Not having sufficient park-ing makes that difficult, be-cause the shuttle system really doesn’t accommodate people who have to go to work or ex-ternships for a few hours dur-ing the day as part of their academic training.”

Parking at the law school has a strange history. The law school had ample parking on the hill leading to the Ford Center when it was located at Lamar Hall — until that lot was taken over by the Resi-dential Colleges.

A parking lot exclusively for the law school was one of the main bullet points used when campaigning for the new building, but it was a promise that could not be kept: The law school opened with com-muter parking.

Students were able to buy law school commuter tags, but there was no correspond-ing law school commuter lot.

This riled students even more, as it only halfway ad-dressed the problem. Some students, like recent graduate James Keen, made sure their voice was heard.

“It didn’t make sense, and a lot of us complained,” Keen said. “The dean helped get a petition signed, but they sim-ply removed the law commut-er tag and the problem went unsolved.”

Another problem the dean highlighted was that under-graduates were using law school parking to visit the fraternity houses, which are right by the law school.

“Our students will be tick-eted if they park in the fra-ternity lot, but they are not ticketed for parking in our lot,” Dean Gershon said. “I think the impression from our students’ perspective is they’re trying to get into the law school building and that’s being superseded by some-one who wants to hang out at a fraternity. It’s just not the right priority.”

Not all students see the problem that the law students are speaking out against — particularly the undergradu-ates that are receiving most

of the blame.“I park at the law school,

and there are empty spots ev-ery time I go,” undergraduate Amanda Simpson said. “It’s frustrating to not find parking in commuter lots, yet see emp-ty spots in restricted lots. We don’t need to be closing off even more commuter parking when there is not enough to begin with.”

In the end, it’s all a matter of how you look at it.

“The university has to make decisions that are in the best interest of the whole univer-sity,” Dean Gershon said. “While I may have my per-spective, I certainly under-stand those decisions and why they are made.”

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Ole Miss has seen a sharp increase in the number of students with disabilities this year, according to the Office of Student Disability Services (SDS). The number of stu-dents with disabilities regis-tered in the SDS has already reached more than 600, a 12 percent increase from the same time last year.

An estimated 650 students were already verified and are now officially enrolled in reg-ular classes, a jump from last year’s 580, according to SDS Director Stacey Reycraft.

“We’re expecting at the end of semester, we may have close to 700 students,” Rey-craft said.

She added that the popula-tion has been slowly growing over the years, but compari-sons between the fall of 2012 and the fall of 2013 show an enormous bump.

Reycraft said that the rise may be due to the 2008 amendments to the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, a law prohibiting dis-crimination against people with disabilities.

“They broadened the defi-nition of disability, and they sort of made it less difficult to be approved for accommoda-tions,” Reycraft said. “I think we’re seeing some students who previously wouldn’t have requested accommodations because they didn’t believe they were qualified for it.”

Accommodations are pro-

vided through disclosure and request by students with dis-abilities who have passed the eligibility requirements. These accommodations range from extended time for test-taking and assistants for note-taking to assistive computer technology, such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking, a program that inputs spoken words into word processing software.

A number of freshmen have been applying for verification with SDS, with 158 already approved for accommoda-tions last week. With the in-crease in the number of stu-dents with disabilities, SDS faces the challenge of provid-ing accommodations for the applicants.

“We’re required by law to have a lot of one-on-one con-tact with students,” Reycraft said. “Definitely some human resources would be beneficial. Some resources regarding the organization like the online information management sys-tem – that would be a fabu-lous resource. That would really cut down on a lot of paperwork.”

SDS currently has five full-time staff members and a number of work-study stu-dents. For the first time, grad-uate assistants are also work-ing in the office, with three currently on board. A number of volunteers are also around to help with note-taking and assisting the students.

Last July, SDS was trans-ferred from the Division of Academic Affairs to the Di-vision of Student Affairs.

Brandi Hephner LaBanc, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the move makes the re-sponsibilities easier to handle, having partnered with the of-fice and Reycraft several times before.

“I feel like we’ll really in-crease the number of advo-cates in our campus because we’re more knowledgeable about it, because we’re work-ing with them all the time,” LaBanc said. “The more awareness there is about is-sues where students have spe-cific needs, the more likely we can elevate the conversation and that should be a good thing.”

Leslie Banahan, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, said their division is aware of the strain on all the units due to the university’s growth over the last five years, and they are “working to de-velop a plan to add much-needed resources,” such as space and staff.

Students with disabilities at Ole Miss include those with learning disorders, attention-al disorders, physical disabili-ties, psychological and neuro-logical illnesses, and blindness and deafness.

“Students who have ADHD and have learning disabilities, they make our largest popula-tion,” Reycraft said. “But our fastest-growing population is students who are blind or have low vision, and students who are deaf or hard of hear-ing.”

In addition, a large number of freshmen have chronic ill-

nesses, such as lupus or sick-le cell anemia, according to Reycraft.

Southern studies sopho-more Bradley Braswell, diag-nosed with cerebral palsy, said he has always felt at home at Ole Miss.

“They leave no stone un-turned when it comes to help-ing the students in any way they can,” he said. “They want to give you the best tools to be successful in any en-deavor.”

Ole Miss alumnus Adam Brown was diagnosed with ce-rebral palsy, a chronic illness that causes physical disability, when he was three months old. According to Brown, be-fore coming to Ole Miss, he attended other universities in the early 2000s because the school was not as accessible as it is now. Brown entered Ole Miss in 2008 as a journalism student with a minor in classi-cal studies and graduated last year.

“I saw all the changes; there are now more places for peo-ple with disability in the cam-pus,” said Brown, now sports editor of news website Hotty-Toddy.com. “I was glad to see that the campus has worked on stuff, and it’s really gone above and beyond in some cases.”

While attending Ole Miss, Brown founded the organiza-tion Advocates for Students with Disabilities, which was active from 2009-2011. SDS provided him with needed accommodations in the class-room.

Brown and Reycraft now work together as vice chair-person and chairperson, re-spectively, in the Mayor’s Commission on Disability Is-sues in Oxford. This commit-

tee looks into the ADA com-pliance of establishments and programs in the city.

Oxford, in general, has come a long way regarding accessibility for persons with disability, according to ADA city consultant Judy Pettit. Serving in the commission since 1997 and working with the city for three years, Pet-tit is in charge of the Title II Transition Plan. This plan ensures that all city-owned buildings, as well as goods and services offered, are accessible and compliant with the ADA standard.

Her recent work involved new student housing, such as The Retreat and Hub at Ox-ford, ensuring that they also have the proper accommoda-tions for disabled students.

“We still have work to do; there’s still things to be done,” Pettit said.

She mentioned curb ramps and signage specifically.

Brown said the commission is currently working on a plan that involves certification for businesses, which would state that they are accessible to the handicapped.

Brown said he never saw his disability as a challenge. Rather, he saw it as an op-portunity to help others and make people, with or without disabilities, aware of the con-ditions of the handicapped.

“My best advice is just go about your day-to-day routine and always make sure that you talk to your professors, your resident assistants and to SDS because they are there to help you,” he said. “They will make sure that you will get everything you need and make sure your education is top-notch and that you enjoy your stay (at) Ole Miss.”

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1. Dan Mullen needs to stay in Starkville foreverNot too long ago, Dan Mullen was a demigod in the eyes of Mississippi State football fans and Oktibbeha County-based farm animals.Mullen was beating Ole Miss, he was winning a few SEC games and most impor-tantly, he was taking the Bull-dogs to decent enough bowl games. Now though, accord-ing to first-hand conversa-tions and the yahoos that post on Mississippi State message boards, they want Dan the Man to get the hell out of town.I don’t blame them, really. De-spite some early success, Mul-len only has five wins against the SEC West with three of those being against Ole Miss. This year, the Bulldogs are staring a losing record in the face if they can’t improve on offense, and recruiting efforts by Mullen and his staff have been substandard. This kind of thing shouldn’t be happen-ing in year five of a program.If the Bulldogs are kept out of the postseason, Mullen will, at the very least, be on the hot-test of hot seats. But if you’re an Ole Miss fan, you’ve got to hope that Dan Mullen, over-lord of a declining Mississippi State football program, sticks around for a while. 2. Ole Miss offense could get even better over bye

weekWhile the Mississippi State football program is going down the proverbial drain, things couldn’t be better in Oxford, as the No. 21 Rebels are a surprising 3-0 going into the bye week.Actually, I think things could get better for Ole Miss, spe-cifically on the offensive side of the ball.The Rebels are currently tied for the fourth best total of-fense in the league with an impressive 490 total yards per game. The thing is, that’s been without Vince Sanders — out with a broken collar-bone he suffered during fall camp — who caught 39 passes for 504 yards and four touch-downs last season. Sanders is expected to be back against ‘Bama, which will allow Ja-Mes Logan to slide back in-side to the slot where he’s more comfortable. When that happens, the Ole Miss passing attack will be fully operational — a scary thought for oppos-ing defensive coordinators.Besides Sanders, Ole Miss should emerge from the bye week with a relatively healthy I’Tavius Mathers. Mathers has looked good when he’s carried the ball thus far (eight carries, 70 yards, one TD), but he’s nonetheless been slowed down by an ankle inju-ry. A healthy Mathers means yet another added dimension to the Ole Miss offense — his

inside running skills are some-thing that shifty backs Jeff Scott and Jaylen Walton both lack.

3. Evans emerging as dark horse Heisman can-didate at Texas A&MWant my early dark Heisman representative from the SEC?Look no further than Texas A&M, where wide receiver Mike Evans has already put up ridiculous stats (20 recep-tions, 518 yards, three touch-downs) through the first three weeks of the season. That to-tal includes 279 yards against a Nick Saban-coached ‘Bama defense.I recall another Aggie jump-starting his Heisman cam-paign against the Crimson Tide last season. Could it be déjà vu in 2013? 4. The SEC slate is terri-ble so drink cold beerSeriously, the best SEC game this week features LSU and an overmatched Auburn team. That’s not cutting it.Because of this, my sugges-tion to loyal 5-Yard Bomb readers is to pick up more than a few cold beers — yes,cold beer is finally a thing in Oxford! — and drink them all because the SEC slate this weekend is getting me down. 5. Paul’s Week 4 SEC PicksAfter a perfect week 3 of SEC picks, I’m now 31-2 on the season. Someone buy me a cold beer please … or 50.Oh yeah, here are my picks for week 4 in the SEC: Alabama vs. Colorado State: Col-orado State coach Jim McEl-wain, who coached the Ala-bama offense from 2008-11, trades his buddy Nick Sa-ban a box of Little Debbie

Oatmeal Cream pies to take it easy on the Rams. Taking it easy means Rammer Jammer 42-14 over CSU.Arkansas vs. Rutgers: Rutgers is located in New Jersey, which is kind of like the Arkansas of the North — and that’s not a compliment. The Garden State won’t be kind to the Ra-zorbacks as they pick up their first loss of the year, 31-24, to the Scarlett Knights.Auburn vs. LSU: Grand Theft Auto V or Auburn game preparation? That’s been Les Miles’ quandary all week long. Nonetheless, the Tigers of Baton Rouge earn a 45-27 victory over the Tigers of Au-burn.Florida vs. Tennessee: The Ga-tors’ offense needs the football equivalent of Viagra, whatev-er that may be. Still, Florida chomps down on their SEC East rival 28-17.Georgia vs. North Texas: You know that scene in American History X — the one that’s really hard to watch? That’s what the Bulldogs are going to do to the Mean Green. The Fighting Mark Richts 56, North Texas 13.Mississippi State vs. Troy: When the Bulldogs lose, Dan Mul-len binge eats Funyuns — a Starkville delicacy. No empty calories for “Dan the Man” this week as Clanga-Clan-ga defeats the Trojans 38-28.Missouri vs. Indiana: Missouri’s audition for membership in the Big Ten goes swimming-ly as the Tigers earn a 34-21 win over the Hoosiers.Texas A&M vs. SMU: The Ag-gies rebound from their tough loss to ‘Bama with a resound-ing 54-24 victory over the Mustangs. Afterwards, John-ny Manziel lectures the SMU athletic department on how to cheat and get away with it.Vanderbilt vs. UMASS: What-

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Since day one Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze and his staff have preached to their team, “play for 60 minutes,” but to do so requires a team that is both physically and mentally pre-pared.

That’s where head strength and conditioning coach Paul Jackson comes in. Jackson is en-tering his second year with the program and believes this team is taking a step in the right di-rection as far as strength and conditioning goes, especially af-ter the physical play the Rebels turned in their first three games of the season.

“I think (in) all three games we’ve been the more physical team,” Jackson said. “I don’t think there has been really much doubt about that. I’m happy with it. I think there is even more in us, especially up front. I would like to see both lines as they continue to get more confi-dence, just start mauling people in there.

“That’s my vision of a good football team, so we just want to see them continue to grow.”

Jackson said he was especially pleased with the team’s perfor-mance in this past weekend’s 44-23 win over Texas. After the Longhorns came to Oxford last season and pushed the Rebels around, it was Ole Miss’ turn this season on the road in route to the win.

“It makes me feel great,” Jackson said. “It shows what a team attitude can do,” Jackson said. “You have one team who is feeling confident and grow-ing and believes in themselves and each other, and you have another team who doesn’t, and that can make that big of a dif-ference.”

One of the many challenges Jackson faces is making sure the team is not only doing what they are supposed to in the weight room and on the field but also

at home.Jackson said it is extremely

hard to get guys to buy into dieting but hopes that the new eating facility set to be installed in the Manning Center will help that.

“It is really hard,” Jackson said of dieting. “So I’m happy we have a nutritionist on board. Once we get the facility here, it will be a lot easier because they don’t fully understand the impact that it has, and even if they do understand and you give them a plan, they aren’t going to execute it. They are going to walk out the door and not have access to those things. They don’t know how to shop or cook, so when we have the facility up and running it will be a huge help for us.”

One group Jackson is excited to be able to work with is the freshman class, filled with what Jackson believes is NFL poten-tial.

“They are a very impressive group,” he said. “It’s amazing to see them competing, at this level, at this age, as raw as they are and as little training as most of them have had. I think we’ve got a bunch of NFL guys in that class, like legit. I think we’ve got some high draft picks in that class if they continue to be coachable and continue to work the way they did. Their ceiling is really high, and I can’t wait to watch them.”

With the Rebels on a bye this week, Jackson plans to let the team get their legs underneath them a bit before the big road test at No. 1 Alabama next weekend.

“The rest of the week we’ll pull back a little bit,” Jackson said. “Practices are a little bit shorter, and I won’t lift them again this week, so they will have an opportunity to get their legs back.”

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Hugh Freeze said he was pleased with his team after Wednesday’s practice. Howev-er, in the same breath he noted the challenge they face in the coming weeks of preparing for Alabama, who he calls the “gold standard of our confer-ence.”

“We had a lot of good en-ergy, lot of good competition. We went all good on good,” Freeze said following Wednes-day’s work.

“We scripted some things (the defense) wanted to see from (the offense) and they scripted some things we want-ed to see from them. It was a good day. I thought we got some good work in.”

The staff began watching film of Alabama, who the Rebels will face a week from Saturday in Tuscaloosa, and they saw what they expected to see from the back-to-back national champions.

“They’re good, real good like they always are,” Freeze said. “You just don’t find many weaknesses.”

Alabama is coming off a win

against reigning Heisman win-ner and current Heisman can-didate Johnny Manziel of Tex-as A&M. The Crimson Tide escaped with a 49-42 victory.

“In their previous game you don’t feel good about some of the yards the team they played got because it was guys just making great plays,” Freeze said. “You can’t depend on that.”

Freeze wasn’t done praising the champs, however.

“They have a lot of depth, they’re big and strong, fast,” Freeze said. “I think their of-fense is maybe a little bet-ter than it’s been, or a little more explosive. Special teams are excellent. We’ve got a tall task.”

Freeze also spoke about a trio of freshmen and their progress on Wednesday.

Freeze on Robert Nkem-diche: “I think he’s getting better every week. Still makes some mistakes. No question he’s getting better. I thought the second half of the Texas game was his best half of foot-ball. Excited about his prog-ress.”

Freeze on Tony Conner:

“Just love him, pleased. Really good player, can do a lot of things for you. Enables us not to have to go to a 4-3 person-nel as much. He loves to com-pete and love his demeanor. Real pleased with him. His ceiling is huge.”

Freeze also said he is hopeful Conner can act as a third line-backer more often out of the husky position.

Freeze on Laremy Tunsil: “He’s come along really good. A special player, a special tal-ent.”

Freeze noted he has been pleased with the freshmen so far, but that after this tough upcoming stretch he would know more about their adjust-ment period.

As far as hobbled players go, Freeze said he hopes to have Patrick Junen back when they play the Crimson Tide because of the versatility he brings to the offensive line. He also noted that I’tavius Mathers tweaked his recover-ing ankle on Tuesday and he is not where they want him to be, but Freeze said he would be “alright.”

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