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On Tuesday morning, in-dustry leaders from Carter Realty, Campus Advantage and local community plan-ners officially broke ground on Highland Square student housing just on Molly Barr Road.

The project, which began construction last month, is expected to add over 600 bed spaces, in addition to the 155 students already living in the area. When all the con-struction is complete, nearly 100 buildings will have been added to the community.

“When we originally conceived this project, we wanted to do something that would not only raise the bar for student living here in Ox-ford, but would actually set a new height for student living across the country,” Andy Feinour, senior vice presi-dent of Carter, said.

Feinour said that the com-munity will have multiple living opportunities, ranging from flats and town homes to cottages that will be set up around different courtyards. The living options will have

from two to six bedrooms. Judd Bobilin, president of

Chance Partners, shared Fei-nour’s enthusiasm.

“This will be the premier student housing project in the country, there’s no doubt in my mind,” Bobilin said. “It

will be one that I think peo-ple will come to and try to recreate (in) other markets.”

In addition to the housing construction, there will be a car wash/dog wash, basket-ball and volleyball courts, a dog park, a fitness trail,

a stage and three separate swimming pools throughout the community.

Highland Square will also have a town center with spac-es for businesses to set up shop.

Right now there is no cer-

tainty regarding which busi-nesses will be in the town center, but project leaders are discussing with brokers and looking at the market.

“What we’re talking about doing with the town center is (having) a clubhouse, a cof-fee shop, some retail,” Da-vid Nelson, vice president of Carter, said. “Then we have the fitness center and the business center with flats above. It will feel very much like an extension of the Ox-ford Square.”

Many students who live off campus live on Old Taylor Road or Anderson Road, and Nelson said the congestion on those roads was one of the reasons they chose to build on Molly Barr instead.

Oxford University Tran-sit buses will be able to en-ter through one of the new entrances that lead into the town center to pick up and drop off students.

Highland Square is cur-rently taking applications for anyone interested in signing a lease.

For more information, visit the Highland Square page on Facebook or call 662-550-2020.

new housing community breaks grounda new, innovative student community on Molly Barr road is expected to be completed by July 2013, adding over 600 beds and almost 100 buildings to the area.

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Officials break ground on the new student community, Highland Square.

Roads and parking lots at Ole Miss have become in-creasingly congested, as en-rollment at the university continues to grow but space does not.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports more than six million automobile acci-dents every year in the U.S. The NHTSA also estimates that an additional 10 million

Accidents on campus a cause for concern

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the increased congestion on campus has led to more than just long lines in the student union at lunch. there has also been a rise in automobile accidents.

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Bill Nye is in the news this week following the release of an online video in which he criti-cizes the teaching of creation-ism, calling on parents to “ques-tion their beliefs” before passing the philosophy on to children.

Nye is known as “the Sci-ence Guy” in middle school classrooms everywhere, and his foray into the evolution debate comes as a surprise to some considering his innocuous de-meanor, though this is not the first time he has discussed the issue. The video of his opinion has garnered over 4.6 million views, as well as a response from Answers in Genesis, a group supporting creationist teachings in public schools.

In an article entitled “Time is Nye for a Rebuttal” – yes, they really called it that – the group contends that both evolu-tion and creationism should be taught, a position which seems to align with the majority of conservative rhetoric and policy initiatives concerning the issue.

Particularly in the Southeast, legislators regularly introduce bills to challenge evolution and/

or add relevance to intelligent design. In Mississippi, such bills were introduced in 2009 and 2010, with Rep. Gary Chism’s 2010 proposal requiring equal instruction time for both evolu-tion and intelligent design. The bill died in committee, as have others of its type in the state.

The debate between these positions remains heated large-ly because the nation is nearly evenly split in opinion over the issue, though in the Southeast a larger percentage of the popula-tion supports intelligent design.

The Pew Research Center reports that while 60 percent of the East and West support evolution, the rest of the nation is less certain, with 45 percent of Midwesterners and 38 per-cent of Southerners ascribing to the theory. The percentage of residents in an area advocating evolution aligns roughly with patterns of religiosity through-out the nation.

How do these mainstream opinions manifest themselves in science classrooms? Nearly 70 percent of textbooks sold in the U.S. come from four pub-lishers. States in the Southeast with large populations, such as Texas and Florida, account for

large portions of sales for these corporations, and as such, firms are given incentives to produce content for science classrooms that aligns with public opinion in those states, regardless of demand for additional infor-mation on evolution in other regions.

Teachers also face community pressure to depict evolution and intelligent design in alignment with regional norms, and an instructor’s personal belief sys-tem may affect instruction. It is difficult to determine the extent to which either position takes prominence in a classroom.

A recent survey of more than 1,000 college students, compiled by Michigan State law professor Kristi Bowman, found that 3 out of 10 high school students receive creationism instruction in public school, with 2 out of 10 learning something about intelligent design. More than 90 percent encounter evolution, al-though, somewhat alarmingly, nearly 75 percent remember almost nothing about it.

In summary, it seems that many teachers continue to in-struct students in creationism and intelligent design regard-less of what state guidelines and

curricula dictate, and those who do include evolution in a class-room setting often give it a cur-sory overview.

Given these statistics, it seems Nye’s fear of a new generation lacking in scientific understand-ing has credence, though one has to wonder if there has ever been a generation well versed in scientific principles as a whole. As long as public opinion con-tinues to regard evolution with skepticism, enforcing a curricu-lum promoting the theory will remain a challenge at every level. Nye wants to promote scientific understanding without offending the religious right. If the responses to his video are any indication, that may be an impossible goal, and this should not be the case.

Creationism directly contra-dicts well-accepted science, and for this reason it has no place in a science classroom. This fact remains, regardless of any po-tential connection between the science of human origin and religion.

Meghan Holmes is a second-year graduate Southern studies student from Arab, Alabama. You can fol-low her @styrofoamcup.

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versity of Mississippi are in-creasingly contributing to those statistics.

As of Sept. 24, 99 motor vehicle incidents – including accidents, hit-and-runs and property damage – had oc-curred on campus during the

month of September, accord-ing to the Automated Re-cords Management System (ARMS) web portal main-tained by the University Po-lice Department.

Records for 2011 indicate that 112 incident reports were filed in September, compared to the 76 reports logged in September 2010.

The cause of this upward trend is the growing number of students driving on cam-pus, according to University Police Chief and Director of Campus Security Calvin Sell-ers.

“We are overflowing and have way more cars on cam-pus, and way more people,” Sellers said. “It is overcrowd-ed, and there are going to be more accidents.”

Many students have found that their cars are being dam-aged while parked because of overcrowded university lots and the negligence of drivers.

“I walked out to my car one day, and I had scratches down the passenger side,” criminal justice freshman Haley Markel said. “I called

UPD to see if anyone had re-ported it, and no one did.”

Regulations published by UPD state that, “All acci-dents involving moving or parked vehicles that occur on university property shall be reported immediately to the University Police Depart-ment.”

Although UPD is aware of the growing number of hit-and-runs on campus, the de-partment is at a loss in regard to what can be done to cor-rect the problem.

“If we don’t know about something, we can’t do any-thing about it,” Sellers said.

Isacc Astill, director of Parking and Transportation Services at Ole Miss, said he believes accidents on campus are largely caused by “people not paying full attention,” and Sellers agreed.

“With as much traffic as we have, you need to stay off the telephone and drive,” Sellers said. “We are so congested that people really need to pay attention.”

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This will be Balach’s first appearance on television, and it came as a spur-of-the-moment opportunity.

When she and her fam-ily were in Pittsburgh this past June, they attended a “Wheelmobile” event at Meadows Racetrack and Casino, she said. More than 4,000 people came to try to take part in a simulated

round, according to Balach.“It appeared that they were

looking for outgoing, articu-late and interesting people,” she said.

“So I stepped up to the plate singing opera, doing Zumba and talking energeti-cally about my family, my work at Ole Miss and my life in Oxford.”

Two weeks after her visit to the Wheelmobile, Balach learned that she had been se-lected for a callback.

Balach said the process took place in a small ball-room and “was not a big par-ty, it was all business.”

Two weeks later, Balach began preparing to appear on “Wheel of Fortune.”

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mance expert, Balach said she benefited from appear-ing on “Wheel of Fortune.”

“You never know when your training or your back-ground is going to come in handy,” Balach said.

Donald Gates, chair of the department of music at Ole Miss, said Balach’s friends and colleagues in the depart-ment are looking forward to her TV appearance.

“As a performing musician, she brings great personality to the stage, and I know she will be an engaging contes-tant on the show,” he said.

A public viewing party will be held on 6:30 p.m. Friday in Nutt Auditorium. All are encouraged to attend.

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Mandy McCalla is having a career season offensively. She has scored a Southeastern Conference-leading 10 goals through 11 games this season. Her goal total for this year has already doubled her total from the 2011 season, when she only netted five goals. McCalla leads the SEC not only in goals, but also in points (23), points per game (2.09) and game-winning goals (4). There are nine more conference games left for her to improve on all these statisti-cal marks.

With all her accomplish-ments this season, McCalla has used it not to pat herself on the back, but to recognize the people around her on the field.

“I’ve been center forward full time this year, which has definitely helped being up top,” McCalla said. “I think the chemistry and the speed we got wide and chemistry up top has really helped contribute to that. They’re the ones setting it up. I’m just the one putting it in.”

With such a young squad, in-cluding 11 freshmen, the play-ers look up to her as a leader. She uses that to keep her focus to make sure the freshmen are where they are supposed to be. McCalla also knows the girls do not need much help either.

“I’d definitely say that is one of the goals this season,” Mc-Calla said. “Like I’ve been say-ing all season, they’ve kind of done it themselves. They came in ready, and they know their jobs and they know what they are supposed to do so that al-ways helps.”

With her excellent perfor-mance this season, McCalla, along with junior forward Ra-faelle Souza and senior mid-fielder Alix Hildal, has become a field general for the Rebels, which is something she said she expected heading into the season.

“We were going to be such a young team, we knew we had to step up as the upperclass-men,” McCalla said.

For continuing coverage of Ole Miss soccer, follow @thedm_sports and @WildRebel27 on Twitter.

Mandy McCalla leads young team by examplethe Ole Miss soccer team is off to one of the best starts in school history with a 9-2 record on the year and 2-2 in southeastern conference play. a cast of freshmen has been a huge help for Ole Miss, but a breakout year from junior forward/midfielder Mandy Mccalla has sparked the rebel offense.

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said. “I thought it was a good start in our preparation for both sides and the special teams.

“The kids that have been in this league for a year or two understand it quite clearly. Some of these young ones have no idea what to expect, but they’ll find out on Sat-urday night that it’s a little different level of excitement, energy and intensity.”

Ole Miss practiced under the noise of crowds blaring from the speakers on the sidelines to prepare for the noise and atmosphere of Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday.

It will be the Rebels’ first game in a hostile environ-ment this season, but junior

offensive tackle Emmanuel McCray isn’t worried about it.

“Coach gives us the worst possible scenario out here in practice,” McCray said. “We have our own little system on the offensive line, and I think we’ll be fine.”

Ole Miss is 30-plus point underdogs on Saturday, but freshman running back Jay-len Walton isn’t ready to count the Rebels out yet.

“Anything is possible,” Walton said. “All we have to do is worry about us, keep working hard every day and keep doing what our coach-es tell us to do. Coach will come up with a good game plan for us to compete and try to win.”

For continuing coverage of Ole Miss football, follow @thedm_sports and @DavidLCollier on Twitter.

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Hugh Freeze also approved, as Elston’s emergence at safety allowed the Rebels to move junior Charles Sawyer back to corner in their retooled second-ary.

“Trae did well,” Freeze said. “He still made some mistakes if they gave him something that was a little different than what we had practiced. He played sound.”

Elston grew up as an Auburn fan, but he said that changed once the recruiting process be-gan. Both in-state schools were possibilities for the Under Ar-mour All-American up until national signing day.

“Alabama and Auburn were very strong in the recruiting process,” he said. “I pretty much had them in my top list,

but I felt like I should go out of state.”

A strong connection to Freeze was a major factor in the Reb-els’ ability to sign Elston. The coaching change put Ole Miss behind the eight ball in his re-cruitment, but the new coach-ing staff in Oxford was able to overcome that.

“The head coach is a good man, and I think he’s going to lead this university to a good

place,” Elston said. “I just felt like this university is a great family, and that’s why I chose this school.”

Looking ahead to Saturday, Elston and the Rebels have the tough task of trying to stop an offense that is averaging over six yards per play and has per-sonnel who are very similar physically to the Texas offense that gave Ole Miss fits.

While Elston knows it’ll be a tough task, he feels like the no-frills offensive mentality of the Crimson Tide could help the Rebels.

“I think it’s going to help us a lot, we’ve just got to keep on doing our little assignments and keys,” he said. “If we do that, I think we have a good chance against them.”

For continuing coverage of Ole Miss football, follow @thedm_sports and @bennetthipp on Twit-ter.

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Freshman safety Trae Elson

The Ole Miss football team returned to practice Tuesday afternoon, as it pre-pares for Saturday’s South-eastern Conference opener against No. 1 Alabama.

Junior Barry Brunetti took first-team snaps at quarter-back, while sophomore Bo Wallace was sidelined with a right sprained shoulder that he suffered this past Satur-day against Tulane.

“Bo could’ve done some stuff today, but we just weren’t going to,” Freeze said. “He wanted to, but we just told him no.”

Freeze said on Monday that he expects Wallace to be ready to go by Saturday, but if not, Brunetti would get the nod. Brunetti was 5-of-7 passing for 45 yards against

Tulane, but Freeze said he still has a way to go.

“We just need more con-sistency, particularly in the passing game,” Freeze said.

“Hopefully, we’ll get him there. We’ll go watch film with him tomorrow in meet-ings, make sure we answer all of his questions and make sure he understands all of his progressions.”

Freeze said he expects Wallace to get some reps in Wednesday’s practice, but it all depends on how his

shoulder feels. Other injury notesSenior defensive tackle

Uriah Grant returned to practice on Tuesday and will be good to go on Saturday. Freshman defensive tackle Woodrow Hamilton remains sidelined with injury, but Freeze expects him to play against the Crimson Tide.

As for junior wide receiver Korvic Neat, the Rebels’ sec-ond-leading receiver with 14 catches for 151 yards, it doesn’t look good.

“Korvic, I’m not optimistic about,” Freeze said. “I just think we would irritate that and make it be long term. I think we just need to get it well.”

Rebels prepare for hostile environment

Freeze was pleased with the effort his team gave on Tuesday as they get their first taste of life in the SEC.

“We let the defensive go live a period there, and they really looked good,” Freeze

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waLLace sits, brunetti takes First-team snaPs Elston returns home to the big stagefreshman safety trae elston missed out on his first opportu-nity to play against a top-25 team when he was suspended by the sec for a flagrant hit against utep. he’ll get his first taste of that type of game this weekend against top-ranked alabama.

Ole Miss turned up crowd noise at tuesday’s football practice as the rebels get ready for their first sec game of the season at no. 1 alabama on saturday. sophomore Bo Wallace didn’t practice but is still expected to be ready to go on saturday.

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Fresh off his first career start this past Saturday against Tu-lane, Ole Miss freshman safety Trae Elston is headed for a homecoming of sorts.

The Oxford, Ala., native said the good-natured ribbing has already begun via text messages from friends back home in prep-aration for Saturday’s Alabama game in Tuscaloosa.

“I’ve pretty much gotten a few text messages,” Elston said. “A lot of my friends go to Alabama, and they talk a few trash words and all that. Not too much.”

Excitement over a football game like this is something that Elston is used to, having grown up in a football-crazed state like Alabama.

“I think it’s pretty crazy,” he said. “My high school was pretty crazy about sports and football — especially football. I think Ala-bama is very different from Mis-sissippi, but we’ll have to see.”

Last week Elston started at safety and led the team in tack-les with six. He also tacked on a sack, a tackle for loss and a pass breakup.

“I think it went pretty good for our team, and I think we did good on defense,” Elston said. “We’ve just got to keep going at it.”

It was a performance of which Ole Miss head coach