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November 02, 2010 University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 11-2-2010 November 02, 2010 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "November 02, 2010" (2010). Daily Mississippian. 608. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/608 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Journalism and New Media, School of at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Daily Mississippian by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 T UESDAY , NOVEMBER 2, 2010 | VOL . 99, NO . 50 THE DAILY homecoming week MISSISSIPPIAN TODAY T HE ST UDEN T NEW S PAPER OF THE UNIVER S I T Y OF MI ss I ss IPPI | SERVING OLE MI ss AND OXFORD S INCE 1911 | WWW . T HED M ONLINE . CO M 92.1 REBEL RADIO LIVE REMOTE UM’s own Rebel Radio will host a live remote in front of the Student Going to new heights for charity Union from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. PIZZA WALK doned children while the Mis- tance from they live. The Staff Council will host a Pizza sissippi Department of Human “One of the students asked Walk from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. in Services investigates their home me if I would teach them, so I the Student Union Plaza. situation or arranges a foster got to teach for about 30 min- home. Carr asked for people to utes– and they were some very, SPB HOMECOMING make pledges to Angel Ranch very intelligent kids,” she said. UNPLUGGED to be donated if she made the She taught the history of the summit. slave trade to the Americas to The Student Programming Board She said she believes she has the children, who had never sponsors Homecoming Un- about 20 pledges and hopes to heard about it before. plugged, featuring campus musical raise $10,000 for her cause. Carr was so struck by the talent in the Student Union Plaza To train for her six-day climb Maasai children’s eagerness to from 12:15 p.m - 1 p.m. up the 19,340 foot peak, Carr learn and the poor conditions SPORTS TRIVIA NIGHT walked from Abbeville to Ox- of their school materials that ford with a 40 pound back- she and Stewart decided to There will be a competition of pack. raise money for blackboards sports trivia in the Southern Breeze “Because I didn’t have the and other supplies for the on the fourth floor of the Student altitude or the mountains to school. Union at 6:30 p.m. The event is climb, I was trying to make Carr also learned about LTO, sponsored by Campus Recreation and Intramural Sports. sure I was well-trained for just an organization in Nairobi endurance,” Carr said. which helps children who have Her walk took about six hours, lost parents to AIDS, and is and she initially completed it looking for ways to help them once or twice in a week, but sell Kenyan handicrafts in the Contributed inside increased the number of times US to fund a dormitory for BY RACHEL JOHNSON that,” Carr said. per week and added a hill near these children. OPINION The Daily Mississippian When Carr decided to make Sisk Avenue to her training re- After visiting the Maasai, Carr A SUNDAY HALLOWEEN the climb about a year ago, she gime as time went on. and her group left for Tanzania For Janice Carr of Abbeville, enlisted the company of friend The adventure began Septem- on a bus, which she said was climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro has Jean Stewart of Washington, ber 13, when Carr departed for a experience in itself. On the been a 20-year dream. It is a D.C., and also decided to use Nairobi, Kenya. Before travel- next day they began the four- dream that she has turned into the opportunity to raise mon- ing to Tanzania to climb, she day climb up the Machame an opportunity to fulfill the ey and awareness for a good first took a three-day safari route. dreams of others. cause. in Kenya, where she and her Carr said the nearly verti- Carr decided she wanted to “I was looking for an orga- group visited a Maasai camp cal hike on the second day up climb the tallest peak in Africa nization that dealt with kids. and school. rocky terrain was the hardest while she was living in Califor- I substitute teach sometimes, Carr said the school was estab- point. nia. and had seen some of the lished in 2006 and has about At midnight on the third day, “I worked with a lady in GTE kids from Angel Ranch come 570 students with some class- the group began the final climb Governments Systems in Cali- through. I just thought it was es holding about 70 students up to the summit, called Stella fornia, and she did it. She came a good charity.” in each, there are 12 teachers Point. They reached the sum- NEWS Angel Ranch is a facility in back and was talking about it, which can’t always make it to mit at 7:15 a.m., and all but CHRISTMAS STORE and I thought, that sounds like Lafayette County which hous- the school because of the dis- fun– maybe someday I’ll do es abused, neglected, or aban- See CHARITY, PAGE 5 OPENS ITS DOORS ARE YOU READY... FOR HOMECOMING? BY HILLARY GOODFELLOW “I’m not really excited about the game,” The Daily Mississippian sophomore Ryan Ezelle said. “It’s just the same as our other games. We should With cooler weather and crunchy win and that’s always fun, but it makes leaves comes the annual tradition of no difference that it’s homecoming.” homecoming week, which culminates Homecoming week is not just about with the football game Saturday. the football game. McKennis said she For some students, homecoming week enjoys this week so much because of all is one of the most anticipated weeks on the activities that surround it. SPORTS campus. “Homecoming means school spirit,” “I love homecoming week,” sopho- she said. “It means lots of fun stuff to IN NEED OF DEFENSE more Miracle McKennis said. “This is do around campus. When else can you my second-favorite week at Ole Miss – ride a mechanical bull in front of the it’s a close second to Grand Ole Christ- Union?” mas.” McKennis said she enjoys the wide Unfortunately, not all students share variety of events the Student Program- McKennis’ enthusiasm for the week. ming Board sponsors for the week. Junior political science major Simone Some of the events this year include a Roberts said she did not realize this sports trivia night tonight in the South- week is homecoming week. ern Breeze and a rock-climbing wall “What’s the point of homecoming?” in the Union Plaza on Thursday. The she said. “This isn’t high school.” annual Parade and Pep Rally will take Many students have come to think of place Friday evening at 5:30. the homecoming football game as no Other students said homecoming week ED WRIGHT | The Daily Mississippian different than any other game played means a time to celebrate being part of Sophomore education major Porscha Tunstall rides a me- during the season. The lack of an SEC the Ole Miss community. chanical bull set up outside the Union on Monday after noon. opponent leaves many students with a The Student Programming Board has arranged many events lack of anticipation for the game. See HOMECOMING, PAGE 5 this week in celebration of homecoming. 2 OPINION OPINION | 11.2.10 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 2 CAROLINE LEE editor-in-chief BY ROBERT LANCE INGRAM NICHOLS city news editor Cartoonist EMILY ROLAND campus news editor VICTORIA BOATMAN enterprise editor MIA CAMURATI opinion editor EMILY CEGIELSKI lifestyles editor PAUL KATOOL sports editor KATIE RIDGEWAY design editor ADDISON DENT photography editor ALIX ZACHOW copy chief PATRICK HOUSE business manager KEATON BREWER GEORGE WILBUR BORDELON DUSTIN MAUFFRAY ALEX PENCE account executives ROBBIE CARLISLE KELSEY DOCKERY LIBBI HUFF SARA LOWREY creative assistants S. GALE DENLEY STUDENT MEDIA CENTER: PATRICIA THOMPSON director and faculty adviser ARVINDER SINGH KANG manager of media Mississippi’s HBCUs are being left behind technology DYLAN PARKER Mississippi’s three public the Ayers college desegrega- tlement, the state has paid lion privately funded endow- creative/technical historically black colleges tion lawsuit. the three schools $20 million ment was created as a sort of supervisor and universities have faced The three institutions, Al- annually, but the annual pay- emergency fund, but since the DARREL JORDAN gigantic financial and social corn State University, Missis- ments will drop to $13.4 mil- endowment was set up only chief engineer wounds since the time they sippi Valley State University lion by July 2012, due to the about $1 million has been were founded. In the coming and Jackson State University state’s budget crisis and the raised. MELANIE WADKINS BY JON MOSBY years, these problems will only were able to build new build- national economic downturn. At this point, there is no way advertising manager Columnist get worse. ings and integrate new aca- The state does not have the these institutions can make up STEPHEN GOFORTH In 2002, Mississippi agreed demic programs, such as new money to make up the differ- for the funds they have lost. broadcast manager to spend $503 million on new master’s degree and PhD pro- ence in these payments.
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