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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 6-4-2010 June 4, 2010 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "June 4, 2010" (2010). Daily Mississippian. 293. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/293 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 C M Y K TUESDAY , JUNE 4, 2010 | VOL . 98, NO . 70 THE DAILY this week MISSISSIPPIAN YERBY CENTER 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 COMMUNIVERSITY The overall purpose of this LAFAYETTE COUNTY workshop is to instruct educators to use techniques and activities that will enhance reading aloud SCHOOL DISTRICT and strengthen student compre- hension. ENDURES BUDGET CUTS Friday, June 4, 2010 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Cost: $25 BY BRITTANY STACK aides-- one retired, and another The Daily Mississippian that didn’t come back, that we’re With education budget cuts on not replacing.” the rise across the country, the Other positions that will not be THE GROVE Lafayette County School District filled include the assistant super- SUMMER SUNSET SERIES: has been forced to cut back in in intendent, a bus mechanic and a THE MISSISSIPPIANS a number of areas to save money. part-time counseling position. The Mississippians Jazz Combo One way the district is saving Each of the four district schools performs as part of the Summer money is to begin cutting down cut about $200,000, which in- Sunset Series. In case of rain, the on its number of employees, ac- clined Foster to ask each of the performance will take place in cording to Michael Foster, super- principals at the four schools to Fulton Chapel. intendent of the school district. review what was necessary for ed- Sunday, June 06, 2010 The district is cutting these jobs ucation and to make cuts in what 7 p.m. Cost: Free by not filling positions vacated by was not. the approximately 22 retirees this Expenses were also cut from year as well as not re-hiring un- the central office, bus shop and needed assistant teachers. transportation, and the num- “Those are not all teachers,” ber of copiers per school will Foster said. “You have some as- be reduced. Foster said that re- inside sistant teachers; a couple ISS ducing the number of copiers LIFESTYLES personnel, which are not certified PHOTO COURTESY STOCK EXCHANGE teachers. Also, a couple of library See LAFAYETTE, PAGE 4 GETTING LOST IN OXFORD EVENTS PUBLIC SCHOOLS TUPELO ELVIS FESTIVAL SET FORCED TO ‘MAKE FOR WEEKEND DO’ WITH FUNDS BY LANCE INGRAM News Editor OPINION In many Mississippi public schools, it has be- GLEE MORE THAN JUST come hard for its faculty to make ends meet. SONG AND DANCE These faculty members are being forced to con- tinue work at the current level, however. The Chairman of the Senate Education Com- mittee, Senator Videt Carmichael, said that Mississippi’s public schools will be forced to continue making do with their current levels of state funding unless the state receives a boost in federal funds. Although funding will be tough, Carmichael said he believes that the public school district leaders have properly planned for a tight 2010- PHOTO COURTESY STOCK EXCHANGE 2011 school year budget, and that students will not suffer any academic losses during the BY LANCE INGRAM legacy, there will be live music upcoming academic year according to a Better News Editor all weekend with on Blue Suede Mississippi Report press release. Stage, which will feature free Tupelo is set to host a weekend “The next school year will be difficult, to say entertainment including tribute festival dedicated to the King, SPORTS the least, but students should have the same pro- artists. but there won’t be any royalty at grams as in the past,” Carmichael said in the An outdoor stage will host REBELS LOOKING FOR this party. press release. “The quality of education shouldn’t headliners such as Robert Earl The 12th-annual Tupelo Elvis REVENGE suffer at all.” Keen, Cowboy Mouth and Paul Festival will be underway, and The current economic recession, the worst Thorn. The stage will also show- Debbie Brangenberg, director of since the Great Depression, has left many states case other national, regional and Downtown Tupelo Mainstreet including Mississippi suffering from decreasing local musicians. Association and the Elvis Pres- revenue that have forced budget cuts and em- The Lyric in Tupelo will fea- ley Festival, calls it a hometown ployee layoffs. This recession accordingly caused ture all-Elvis, all the time, with tribute to their favorite son. a struggle for state lawmakers to write the bud- multiple artists including Sonny The festival is set to kick off get for the fiscal year, which beings July 1. Burgess and the Pacers with DJ Friday with the action starting Despite the economic crisis, Carmichael said Fontana, who was a drummer in at 9 a.m. at the Lyric in Tupelo. he believes teachers understand the tough finan- Elvis’ band. Festivities will begin during cial issues, according to the press release. “I think it’s a good, diverse mix the first round of the Ultimate “The teachers that I have talked with seem to of music, and that it is some- Elvis Tribute Artist Competi- have a great attitude,” Carmichael said in the thing for all ages,” Brangenberg tion, which has 43 tribute artists press release. “They realize every part of our said. “The talent at Fairpark is competing. lives is affected by this economic crisis we are in In the spirit of the Presley See PRESLEY, PAGE 4 nationwide.” 2 4 C M Y K OPINION NEWS NEWS | 6.4.10 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 4 OPINION | 6.4.10 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 2 COLUMN CAROLINE LEE editor-in-chief PRESLEY, LAFAYETTE, FOX’S ‘GLEE’ GOES BEYOND JUST SONG continued from page 1 continued from page 1 DONICA PHIFER online editor AND DANCE ROUTINE LANCE INGRAM news editor more for the mainstream, and of Elvis’ birthplace. might be an inconvenience but has the One example of this occurring in the the content at the Lyric and “We thought it appropriate potential of saving a lot of money. district is the retirement of a teacher Upon seeing the previews for the Fox Those reruns of Fame sure get ME up his status). MIA CAMURATI opinion editor on Broadway is all-Elvis all the to close the festival with a gos- With state funding undergoing cuts whose purpose was to help struggling television series Glee in the spring of all jittery with excitement and wishing Mercedes (Amber Riley) is the du- time, so you can get a little bit pel concert, because the only regularly, having extra personnel is not students get their reading, mathemat- 2009, I thought to myself that this se- 1982 had never left! al-stereotype overweight chick with AMANDA WARD of it all.” Grammys Elvis ever won were a good economic move for Lafayette ics and other core academic skills up ries had potential for greatness… if, of Right. I’ll just let the cat out of the pronounced self-esteem issues and lifestyles editor There will be a 5K run called for his gospel music,” Brangen- County schools, since the majority of to grade level if they had fallen behind. course, certain steps were taken. bag: Glee is not primarily about the the ‘sistah’ who calls herself “African- Running with the King that berg said. the funds the school receives are from The teacher’s position has been elimi- To be great, the show would have to song and dance. American,” even with no direct link to ERIC BESSON the state, Foster said. nated, since there is another teacher BY JONATHAN sports editor will start at 7:30 a.m. Saturday In previous years, the event be properly groomed and also be devoid The show brims with brilliant, witty Africa. at Veterans Park. has drawn on average 7,500 The district has lost about $3 mil- who teaches the same class. EVANS of the hackneyed scripts and plots that satire of both popular culture and, more She will snap on you in a “hot min- OSCAR POPE Columnist visual editor The park will also host the people and planners say they lion in the past two years, with 75 to The Oxford School District has not seem to ubiquitously haunt the teenage ostensibly to my eye, the stereotypes of ute” if your views contradict her own. 2010 Fling with the King disc hope to draw more people in 80 percent of the yearly budget going made major cutbacks like the Lafay- drama. the high school social ladder and the Brittany (Heather Morris) wields her RACHEL CLARK into salaries, ette School District has undergone this copy chief golf tournament. every year. After watching the pilot, it became members therein. dual-stereotype as the quintessential The disc golf event begins at This year, the festival has There are some positions in Lafay- year. all too clear that creators Ian Brennan, The cast of characters personify those dumb-blonde cheerleader, whose pro- 7:30 a.m. Saturday, with reg- confirmation of people mak- ette County for which hours will be cut This is partly due to the town school Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy were images perfectly, and you and I both found witticisms and amazing logical The mission of The istration from noon to 7 p.m.