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Charter schools may be Scanning for attendance coming to Mississippi The University of Mississippi instituted a new scanning system to take attendance in large class- rooms. As of the start of the new semester, 15 classes began using the scanners, and more than A bill is sitting before the Mississippi senate for charter schools in 4,000 scans were reported on the first day of classes. the Mississippi public education system.
BY KAYLA CARPENTER BY KATHERINE CARR ready passed a similar bill. [email protected] [email protected] Among those who voted in fa- vor of the bill include Oxford’s The Class Attendance The Mississippi House of Brad Mayo and Sardis’ Nolan Guidelines Policy discusses Representatives passed House Mettetal. the importance of attendance Bill 369, also known as the Mis- The bill was passed soon after relative to learning, but the sissippi Charter Schools Act of Gov. Phil Bryant spoke about process is slowed down be- 2013, on Jan. 24. This bill both Mississippi’s educational needs cause of the difficulty of tak- defines and makes space avail- for a considerable portion of his ing attendance in large lecture able within the pre-existing State of the State 2013 address. classes. public school system for charter “The path to Mississippi’s “We have been looking schools. economic success must pass for a way to make taking at- The House Education Com- through the schoolhouse door,” tendance more efficient for a mittee passed the bill with a Bryant said. long time,” said Kathy Gates, vote of 16 to 14. The House Bryant called for further fund- chief information officer for also passed the bill with a vote ing of pre-existing educational Ole Miss. “We considered THOMAS GRANING | The Daily Mississippian of 64 to 55. The bill now sits The Center for Mathematics and Science Education recently received a $1.2 mil- before the Senate, which al- See CHARTER, PAGE 4 See ATTENDANCE, PAGE 4 lion grant to help train teachers.
Comeback falls short No. 16 Ole Miss’ nine-game win streak was snapped by Kentucky Tuesday night, as the Wildcats handed the Rebels a 87-74 loss. Ole Miss will look to rebound on the road Saturday against No. 4 Florida.
BY TYLER BISCHOFF Kentucky’s freshman for- [email protected] ward Nerlens Noel scored just two points but had the Too little, too late for Ole biggest impact on the game. Miss. Noel blocked 12 shots, in- After being down by as cluding six in the final six many as 17 with just over 10 minutes, while he had four minutes to go in the first half, fouls. No. 16 Ole Miss (17-3, 6-1 “He was the difference in SEC) used a 16-0 run to get the game. (He’s) an incredi- back in the game and cut the ble defensive presence,” head lead to one, but Kentucky (14- coach Andy Kennedy said. 6, 5-2 SEC) used a 14-2 run of “We finally got it to where their own to end the game, as we wanted it, with our two they handed the Rebels their seniors (Buckner and Hollo- first loss in SEC play, 87-74, way) at the block, and Ner- Tuesday night. lens would not allow the ball The Rebels, who played to go in the basket.” in front of a record fourth Sophomore forward Kyle consecutive sellout crowd Wiltjer led the Wildcats on of 9,232, took a one-point the offensive end, posting a lead into halftime despite career-high 26 points. Fresh- foul trouble from senior for- man guard Archie Goodwin, wards Reginald Buckner and the Wildcats leading scorer, Murphy Holloway, but Ken- added 24 points. tucky jumped on Ole Miss in Sophomore guard LaDar- the second half building the ius White and junior guard lead Ole Miss could not over- L TO R: Sophomore guard Jarvis Summers and sophomore guard LaDarius White ALEX EDWARDS | The Daily Mississippian come. See HOOPS, PAGE 10 OPINION PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 30 january 2013 | OPINION
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COLUMN higher percentage in taxes GOP, than the middle class. We continued from page 2 believe that women should Mississippi, right-to-work and Nissan receive equal pay for equal shouldn’t go bankrupt be- work and that an immigrant BY MEGHAN HOLMES ment opportunity. Carter argues that stagnant wag- cause of an illness, and an in- seeking a better life on our [email protected] Mississippi’s right-to-work es, decreasing health benefits surance company shouldn’t shores should be welcomed legislation reinforces its position and an increase in temporary deny coverage because of a instead of turned away. The beginning of 2013 marks as a low-wage state. In short, workers (who receive less pay pre-existing condition. Republicans don’t. a renewed commitment on the this law makes compulsory and fewer benefits) threaten his The Republicans’ message Not only do Republicans part of United Auto Workers union enrollment illegal. and other workers’ job security is losing — it has failed time have a public relations prob- (UAW) to organize Nissan’s From the perspective of UAW and that management largely and time again. As New York lem, they have a platform manufacturing plant in Canton. and other unions, the legislation ignores complaints addressing Times columnist Paul Krug- problem. The Republican The efforts began last summer undermines the very purpose of these grievances. He supports a man observed, their propos- Party thinks they are a pop- and continue to receive mixed a union: collective bargaining union vote and argues that Nis- als for a makeover all involve ulist party, advocating for reactions from employees. in which the entire workforce san should allow UAW officials changing the sales pitch rath- individual liberty and small Mississippi is a right-to-work participates. Mississippi legisla- to meet with workers en masse er than the product. government. But in reality, state, and lawmakers appear tors argue that right-to-work en- to explain their position. We’re all sick of hearing the GOP is just a party with hesitant to endorse any union courages job growth and lowers If Nissan truly believes, as this cultish mantra that “guns disdain and bitterness to- efforts at the plant, despite in- unemployment, which is some- they argue, that no good will don’t kill people, people kill ward non-white, non-male, creasing complaints from hires what true and exemplified by come from unionization, why people.” Actually, guns have ordinary Americans. While and some taxpayers discon- the Canton plant. does the company argue against killed over 1,300 individuals the American people have certed at allegations of worker Regardless, lawmakers and a fair hearing for the UAW? since the tragedy in New- changed, the GOP hasn’t. mistreatment, despite the reality executives advocating this posi- The right-to-work legislation ton. Americans believe in If Republicans continue to that state-provided tax incen- tion must also acknowledge the supported by these compa- common sense gun control be enveloped by delusion, it tives facilitated Nissan’s arrival. problems arising at the Canton nies purports to allow work- — our cities are undoubtedly may ultimately lead to the Mississippians spent over plant, which may be attribut- ers a choice and denying them safer with fewer guns on our party’s demise, and they $378 million in tax revenue to able to a lack of collective bar- the opportunity to consider streets. will only have themselves to court and eventually sign a deal gaining. unionization limits this choice. A majority of Americans blame. with Nissan. This figure trans- Some workers hired early Whether or not employees at believe in marriage equal- lates into around $80,000 per in the plant’s history have no Nissan choose to unionize is ity and a woman’s right Sean Higgins is a political sci- employee. Additionally, the complaints in terms of benefits their decision, and the informa- to choose. We the people ence and sociology double-major city of Canton waived the com- or salary, earning over $20 an tion they receive regarding that believe that the wealthi- from Brookings, S.D. Follow pany’s local taxes for 30 years. hour (although few have oppor- choice should come from more est Americans should pay a him on Twitter @seanmhiggins. Despite these incentives, Nis- tunities for promotion or salary than one perspective. Nissan san executives warn that at- increase) and prefer to stay out- has an obvious incentive to re- tempts to unionize the plant side the union debate. Workers duce labor costs that tradition- may change Canton into an on both sides primarily fear the ally increase following worker “uncompetitive” business en- plant closing or relocating as unionization and this fact inevi- vironment and cause the com- a result of unionization. MPB tably influences their anti-union pany to move elsewhere. reported Monday morning stance. An uncomfortable tension that executives showed work- Workers and citizens of Mis- exists between the need to re- ers PowerPoint presentations sissippi deserve transparency cruit jobs to Mississippi and depicting plant closings in De- from the company, particularly the knowledge that recruiting troit as a direct result of union considering the capital given by TWO DAYS ONLY! non-union manufacturing op- strength. 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their experiences and positive ATTENDANCE, feedback, the Provost’s office continued from page 1 made the decision to roll this out to a larger population.” having students check in with Fifteen classes began using cell phones, but some instruc- the scanners this semester, tors do not want cell phone and more than 4,000 scans usage to be part of the solu- were reported on the first day tion due to their potential to as students and professors be- distract.” came familiar with the system. University IT employees Na- “This has been a very suc- than Robbins and Ron Savell cessful program, but freshmen found the Symbol MK500, a are mostly enrolled in lower- kiosk scanner similar to price level classes, and these tend checkers in retail stores, which to be the largest,” said Gates. is essentially a small computer “Taking attendance the ‘old’ with a barcode reader and a way can create an administra- network connection. tive burden for instructors and According to the univer- can take away from critical sity’s Tech News Blog, taking face-to-face class time.” attendance via scanner is a Some students have been four-step process. supportive of the new system. GRAPHIC BY WILL STROUTH | The Daily Mississippian First, the students scan their “I think the scanner is a student IDs by placing them good thing so that students that only 17 percent of charter in failing districts and English face-up under the scanner so will come to class more and CHARTER, schools nationwide showed ac- Language Learners, according that the ID barcode is read- have better grades in the long continued from page 1 ademic growth that was higher to the Parents’ Campaign. able. The attendance scan- run,” biology senior Brandy than the students in traditional The House bill prohibits ner then reads the student ID Williams said. public schools, while 37 per- profit management of the information and sends it to However, journalism senior programs and asked the state cent showed slower growth schools and limits charters SAP using the SAP Netweaver Bentley Burns offered a differ- congress to pass more educa- and 46 percent showed similar from operating in high-per- Gateway system. SAP then ent opinion. tion bills. He pointed out that growth. forming districts without the processes the records to up- “What’s to stop a student more than 40 states already The Parents’ Campaign, a majority vote of the school date class attendance based from just scanning their ID have charter schools in their non-profit grassroots network, board. The bill also explicitly on the location, time, class then leaving class and not at- public school systems, empha- said they believe that charter states its purpose is to help “es- and student in near-real time. tending?” he said. “I also do sizing that these schools will schools in Mississippi could pecially those (students) with After SAP records the data, not think it’s right to have to give parents in failing school avoid problems of slower a likelihood of academic fail- the results are made available keep my ID on me just to take districts more options. growth as long as these char- ure.” to the instructor using the new attendance as I personally The Center for Research on ter schools are not competing However, differences be- “Manage Attendance” option don’t use it for anything else.” Education Outcomes (CRE- with already high-performing tween the two versions of the within myOleMiss. The new scanner also less- DO) at Stanford University schools, are not cyber-based bill will have to be settled be- “Last fall, we worked with ens the burden of keeping at- released a report in 2009 of “a and do not focus on profits. fore the bill can be signed into Dr. John Bruce on this meth- tendance for professors. longitudinal student-level anal- Charter schools would open law. od,” Gates said. “It was pilot- “I really like the new sys- ysis of charter school impacts” where there are opportunities “When a good charter bill ed in one of his classes, as well tem,” said Robin B. Street, across 15 states and the District to work with high-poverty stu- reaches my desk, I intend to in Music 103 classes taught by Meek School of Journalism of Columbia. The report states dents, low-performing students sign it,” Bryant said. Mr. Charlie Miles. Based on and New Media lecturer. “In a large class, taking roll can be
26030 time consuming. This way is much easier. However, I don’t know how it will affect atten- dance.”
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ASSOCIATED PRESS $4B BP oil spill criminal settlement
NEW ORLEANS -- BP Wildlife Foundation and $350 the Gulf and soiled the shore- have personally apologized to ers who died in the blast PLC closed the book on the million to the National Acad- lines of several states. The family members long before submitted written statements Justice Department’s criminal emy of Sciences. The two company could have with- Tuesday’s hearing. that were critical of BP’s probe of its role in the Deep- groups will administer the drawn from the agreement if “I think BP should have deal. Vance, however, said water Horizon disaster and money to fund Gulf restora- Vance had rejected it. done that out of basic human- she couldn’t get involved in Gulf oil spill Tuesday, when tion and oil spill prevention BP America vice president ity,” she said. plea negotiations and only a federal judge agreed to let projects. Luke Keller apologized to the BP also has separately could impose a sentence that the London-based oil giant The $4 billion in total penal- relatives of the workers who agreed to a settlement with adheres to the agreed-upon plead guilty to manslaughter ties are 160 times greater than died and for the spill’s envi- lawyers for Gulf Coast resi- terms if she accepted it. charges for the deaths of 11 the $25 million fine that Exx- ronmental damage to the Gulf dents and businesses who Also killed were Aaron rig workers and pay a record on paid for the 1989 Valdez Coast. claim the spill cost them mon- Dale “Bubba” Burkeen, 37, of $4 billion in penalties. spill in Alaska, Vance noted. “BP knows there is nothing ey. BP estimates the deal with Philadelphia, Miss.; Donald What the plea deal ap- Before she ruled, the judge we can say to diminish their private attorneys will cost the Clark, 49, of Newellton, La.; proved by U.S. District Judge heard an apology from a BP loss,” he said. “The lives lost company roughly $7.8 billion. Stephen Ray Curtis, 40, of Sarah Vance doesn’t resolve, executive and emotional testi- and those forever changed In a court filing before the Georgetown, La.; Karl Klep- though, is the federal govern- mony from relatives of the 11 will stay with us. We are truly hearing, attorneys for BP and pinger Jr., 38, of Natchez, ment’s civil claims against BP. workers who died when BP’s sorry.” the Justice Department ar- Miss.; Keith Blair Manuel, The company could pay bil- blown-out Macondo well trig- Most of the families of rig gued that the plea agreement 56, of Gonzales, La.; Dewey lions more for environmental gered an explosion on the rig workers who were killed or imposes “severe corporate A. Revette, 48, of State Line, damage from its 2010 spill. and started the spill. injured in the explosion al- punishment” and will deter Miss.; Shane M. Roshto, 22, Vance noted that the com- “I’ve heard and I truly un- ready have settled their claims BP and other deep-water drill- of Liberty, Miss.; and Adam pany already has racked up derstand your feelings and the against BP, through a process ing companies from allowing Weise, 24, Yorktown, Texas. more than $24 billion in spill- losses you suffered,” Vance separate from this plea deal. another disaster to occur. In other criminal cases, four related expenses and has es- told the family members. Courtney Kemp-Robertson, The Justice Department has current or former BP employ- timated it will pay a total of Keith Jones, whose 28-year- whose 27-year-old husband, reached a separate settlement ees have been indicted. BP rig $42 billion to fully resolve its old son, Gordon, died in the Roy Wyatt Kemp, of Jones- with rig owner Transocean supervisors Robert Kaluza and liability for the disaster in the rig explosion, said $4 billion ville, La., died on the rig, said Ltd. that resolves the gov- Donald Vidrine are charged Gulf of Mexico. isn’t adequate punishment. workers had referred to it as ernment’s civil and criminal with manslaughter, accused The judge said the $4 billion “It is petty cash to BP,” he the “well from hell” before the claims over the Swiss-based of repeatedly disregarding criminal settlement is “just told Vance. “Their stock went explosion. company’s role in the disaster. abnormal high-pressure read- punishment” for BP, even up after this plea deal was an- Transocean agreed to plead ings that should have been though the company could nounced.” “By cutting corners, they guilty to a misdemeanor glaring indications of trouble have paid far more without Billy Anderson, whose gambled with the lives of 126 charge of violating the Clean just before the blowout. going broke. In accepting the 35-year-old son, Jason, of crew members to save a few Water Act and pay $1.4 bil- David Rainey, BP’s former deal, Vance also cited the risk Midfield, Texas, died in the dollars,” she told the judge be- lion in civil and criminal pen- vice president of exploration that a trial could result in a blast, recalled the trauma of fore turning to address Keller. alties. U.S. District Judge Jane for the Gulf of Mexico, was much lower fine for BP, one watching the disaster play out “They gambled and you lost.” Triche Milazzo has scheduled charged with withholding potentially capped by law at on television. A series of government in- a Feb. 14 hearing to decide information from Congress $8.2 million. “These men suffered a hor- vestigations have blamed the whether to accept that crimi- about the amount of oil that The criminal settlement rendous death,” he said. “They April 20, 2010, blowout on nal settlement. A different was gushing from the well. calls for BP to pay nearly $1.3 were basically cremated alive time-saving, cost-cutting deci- judge will decide whether to Former BP engineer Kurt billion in fines. The largest and not at their choice.” sions by BP and its partners accept Transocean’s civil set- Mix was charged with delet- previous corporate criminal BP agreed in November to on the drilling project. tlement. ing text messages about the penalty assessed by the Justice plead guilty to charges involv- Vance told victims’ relatives Many relatives of rig work- company’s spill response. Department was a $1.2 billion ing the workers’ deaths and who were in court that she fine against drug maker Pfizer for lying to Congress about read their “truly gut-wrench- in 2009. the size of the spill from its ing” written statements and The plea deal also includes broken well, which spewed factored their words into her payments of nearly $2.4 bil- more than 200 million gallons decision. She also said she be- lion to the National Fish and of oil. Much of it ended up in lieves BP executives should
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Local Ole Miss legends are being honored next month with a book drive and scholarships.
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BY ANN-MARIE HEROD “Books can be left in the 19. Community service hours [email protected] lobby at Kroger or at Yerby will also be logged for all vol- Center, or at the storage com- unteers. The American Associa- pany Your Extra Closet just Torbert said the money tion of University Women off Highway 7 South by the raised by the book sale is (AAUW) will be holding its fire station,” said Christina used to fund scholarships for annual Jan Hawks Memorial Torbert, head of continuing female students from Missis- Book Sale on Monday and resources. sippi who are studying to be Tuesday, Feb. 18-19, 2013 The AAUW has had a long teachers. from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the partnership with Your Extra According to Tolbert, the Student Union. Closet because of the services scholarship is named after Jan Hawks was a founding the company offers. Sarah Robinson, who has member and director of the “Not only do we accept been a member of AAUW Sarah Isom Center for Wom- books for them, but we also for more than 50 years. After en’s Studies. Hawks served as help with inventory of the serving as a guidance coun- assistant professor of history books,” said Andrew Rich- selor in Greenville, Robinson and was the first director of ardson of Your Extra Closet. moved to Oxford where she the Isom Center, as well as Torbert said volunteers are still lives today. the last dean of women at The needed from the Friday be- The AAUW is looking for University of Mississippi. fore the sale starts until the all types of books, ranging Book donations for the sale event’s close, adding that from fiction to non-fiction: are being accepted until Feb. a lot of volunteers will be novels, dramas and scholarly 15. needed to clean up on Feb. works as well as textbooks.
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