Three Students Killed in Car Wreck Thursday Bryan Doyle and Richard Oʼbarr, 20, Attended with Their Family and Friends,” Said on Dec
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1 C M Y K Who’s afraid of Kong? -Page 15 TUESDAY JANUARY 17, 2006 Vol. 97, No. 39 Three students killed in car wreck Thursday Bryan Doyle and Richard OʼBarr, 20, attended with their family and friends,” said On Dec. 10, three more Ole Miss ville. Campus News Editor Mississippi Gulf Coast Community Vice Chancellor for University Re- students died after a crash at the in- On Dec. 5, Nicholas Linton, a Three Ole Miss students died in College, while Joshua Bozeman, 21, lations Gloria Kellum. “Our faculty, tersection of Highway 6 and Inter- business administration major from a wreck outside of Wig- had transferred from staff and students state 55 in Batesville. Southaven, died in an ac- gins on Thursday morn- MGCCC to Missis- offer their deepest Sophomore Leslie cidental shooting. ing, the third incident sippi State Univer- sympathy to these Pitcock of Batesville Jeffrey Alford, asso- leading to the loss of uni- sity. Gulf Coast fami- and freshmen Graham ciate vice chancellor of versity students over the Chris Rutland, a lies.” Carson of Marks and university relations, said holidays. junior business ma- An 18-wheel Camille Willis of Bates- a memorial service would Candice Newman, jor from Biloxi, was logging truck ville were killed in a likely be planned by the 20, of Biloxi, a junior injured in the wreck. struck the vehicle, one-car collision as the Dean of Students office liberal arts major, and He was taken which was carrying three were returning for the students lost over sisters Carley Jordan, 20, to Forrest General eight students, at from the South Panola the holidays, though itʼs a sophomore biomedical Hospital in Hatties- Mississippi 26 and High School football too early to determine an sciences major, and edu- burg and remains Old Highway 26, game early Saturday approximate date. cation major Brittany in stable condi- five miles west morning. Meanwhile, a Jordan, 18, of Ocean Carley Jordan tion. Candice Newman of Wiggins. Pitcock was a 2004 Brittany Jordan campuswide memo- Springs died in the “The Ole All six stu- graduate of Senatobia rial service is scheduled wreck, which also took the lives of Miss family is saddened by the loss dents who died in Thursday morn- Junior-Senior High School. Thursday to honor former student three students from other universi- of Candice Newman, Brittany and ingʼs wreck were graduates of Mer- Marks native Carson, 18, was a Demetria L. Bracey, who died Nov. ties. Carley Jordan, and the other young cy Cross High School. 2005 graduate of Delta Academy. 13. William “Jarrod” Thompson, 20, people involved in this tragic acci- This accident is just one of sev- Willis, 19, was a 2005 graduate of The service will be held at 6 p.m. dent. Our thoughts and prayers are eral that occurred over the holidays. South Panola High School in Bates- at the Paris-Yates Chapel. Chancellorʼs tenure leaves lasting impact University to face challenges when Khayat chooses to retire from his post as chancellor Bryan Doyle Miss campus might be just of higher education. other alumnus to replace Khayat. Robert Khayat is proof of this Campus News Editor as intimidating when the “Chancellor Khayat has “One of the great advantages of needed quality, he said. “This is a In a career that spanned nearly universityʼs top adminis- been really successful,” Khayat is that he was here as an un- unique school, it has its own char- four decades, Paul “Bear” Bryant trator chooses to retire. Meredith said almost dergraduate, a law professor and an acter. We could get a very articulate was above the game of Division I One thing is for cer- as an understatement. administrator,” Sansing said. administrator from Montana, Wash- football. Ending his career holding tain: It wonʼt be easy fill- Although Khayatʼs Involved in the university and ington or New Hampshire, but what the NCAA record for wins, Bryant ing the shoes of Robert contract ends in 2007, state for so long, there are few influ- good would it do?” he asks. led the University of Alabama to Khayat, Ole Miss football he often acts like a man ential people in the state Khayat does Meredith agrees somewhat. The four national championships. Little great, law school profes- whoʼs planning to stay a not know, Sansing said. “Itʼs going university certainly needs someone is remembered of Bryantʼs replace- sor and chancellor since while longer. But if he to be really tough to find someone who understands the history of Ole ment, Ray Perkins, who led the 1995. That fact may be decides to turn his life with that combination.” Miss, and the importance of that in- Crimson Tide to three bowl victories best-known by the man back to family and Going out of state for a succes- stitution to the success of the state, in his four-year stay. whose job it may be Robert Khayat other interests, Ole sor who must “learn Mississippi” but he adds, “Youʼve got good peo- The similar shadow stretching to find a replacement Miss historian David doesnʼt serve the university well, he ple everywhere who would fit those from the Lyceum across the Ole – Thomas Meredith, commissioner Sansing recommends they find an- insists. See UNIVERSITY page 4 Life after Khayat Previous chancellors have provided foundation for success In light of Mississippi State University’s president retir- Andy Kanengiser ball star didnʼt do it alone. And history professor David Sansing, The Daily Journal there were people who came be- whoʼs penned a book about the ing, The Daily Mississippian and The Northeast Mis- OXFORD — There was life fore him in leadership roles in Oxford school that opened in sissippi Daily Journal have partnered to take a look at at the University of Missis- the Lyceum who advanced the 1848. sippi before Chancellor Robert Ole Miss cause. Chancellors Gerald Turner, the impact Chancellor Robert Khayat has made at Ole Khayatʼs achievement-filled de- Not the once-all-white Deep who served in the post 11 years Miss and what will happen when he decides to retire. cade of leadership. South university where social immediately before Khayatʼs Yes, Khayat raised tons of traditions run deep or the racial- time, and Porter Fortune before Today Wednesday Thursday money – a record $530 million ly embroiled campus of the early him, helped shape the Ole Miss 1960s, the Ole Miss of today was of 2006, Sansing said. •Replacing Khayat to close out the universityʼs big- •Why should Khayat •What would he do in gest campaign. He enhanced built upon a solid foundation in A Texan who left his admin- •Previous chancellors leave? the next five years? academics by garnering a pres- the years and decades before istrative post at the University who stayed around Khayat took the post in 1995. of Oklahoma, Turner became •Other campus •Khayatʼs milestones tigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter. •How image has As chancellor, Khayat “is one Ole Miss chancellor at the age experiences •Khayat by the And he sparked impressive na- played a role of the greats, but there are sever- of 37. Some considered him too •What others have said numbers tional recognition for Ole Miss. •Patsy Brumfield But the former Rebels foot- al others,ʼʼ said retired Ole Miss young for the job. When he de- See CHANCELLORS page 4 analysis Improvements to the image of the university under the helm of Khayat Even a campus legend doesnʼt always get it Sheena Barnett students to rank their schools While itʼs very difficult is generally believed that DM Editor Party School in online surveys that cover ev- to find anyone who will Athletics Director Pete What you think about Ole One weakness in Ole Missʼ erything from alcohol and drug say anything even remotely Boone decided the Colo- Miss matters to Chancellor image is the party-school repu- consumption to the popularity critical of Robert Khayatʼs nel had to go. It wasnʼt Robert Khayat. tation. This yearʼs Princeton of fraternities and sororities on 10-plus years as Ole Miss modern, it was an anach- When he became chancel- Review, a national publica- campus. chancellor, most univer- ronism, it wasnʼt robust. lor at his alma mater in 1995, tion for the college-bound, At the beginning of his sity friends will cite these That was the rationale. one of Khayatʼs goals was to characterizes Ole Miss as the chancellorship, Khayat said as perhaps his three biggest A firestorm of criticism change the worldʼs perception countryʼs No. 1 school for stu- he “wanted to put distance be- “goofs”: burst forth from students, of the institution – to make dents who almost never study tween us and the party school *Colonel Reb – This alumni and friends. While it one of Americaʼs “premier and the No. 7 party school. image.” He points to his weap- sidelines-strutting mas- the furor has become qui- public universities,” he said. The school has received par- ons against that stain: stronger cot was Ole Missʼ pub- Patsy R. Brumfield eter, it still lingers, so But not everyone is on board ty-school ranking many times campus and academic pro- lic symbol for decades. The Daily Journal much so that a private from the Review, which asks About three years ago, it with this image. See IMPROVEMENTS page 4 See LEGEND page 5 4 5 PAGE 4 TUESDAY • JANUARY 17, 2006 TUESDAY • JANUARY 17, 2006 PAGE 5 University: New chancellor might find difficulty facing raised expectations Local burn bans unlikely in wake of state wildfires From Page 1 able to work that way. sonʼ status.” Andy Mullins, Khayatʼs executive Alumnus and Dean of Students Because of Khayatʼs deep con- Tough decisions go with the assistant for the past 10 years, said Sparky Reardon, who has worked on John Gunn which have burned 8,983 acres been officially approached by any ment uses a checklist in issuing Fires should be at least 150 categories.” nections to the university and the territory, as seen in the tenures of a new chancellor might find diffi- campus some 20 years, advises the Staff Reporter statewide since Jan.