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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 2-24-2011 February 24, 2011 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "February 24, 2011" (2011). Daily Mississippian. 616. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/616 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 HURSDAY , FEBRUARY 24, 2011 | VOL . 100, NO . 90 1911 THE DAILY 2011 MISSISSIPPIAN C ELEBRATING OUR HUNDREDT H YEAR | TH E STUDENT NEW S PAPER O F TH E UNIVER S IT Y O F MI ss I ss IPPI | SERVING OLE MI ss AND OXF O RD S IN C E 1911 | WWW . T H ED mo NLINE . com Undergrads snatch law school parking this week TAD SMITH COLISEUM get their own decals, so why not law WOMEN’S BASKETBALL students? Support your lad Rebs as they “We have our own decal, so I’m take on Tennessee. not trying to take away anyone else’s parking,” Farris said. “If you want 7 p.m. to park here, take your LSAT, enroll Free with student ID. and buy a sticker.” Farris said now that the law stu- FORD CENTER dents are not at Lamar, there should be parking at the Ford Center. SWAN LAKE “We couldn’t park (at Lamar) or The Russian National Ballet is at the Residential College,” Farris bringing its acclaimed production said. of “Swan Lake” to the University “We had to park at the Ford of Mississippi’s Gertrude C. Ford Center and walk up the hill. With- Center for the Performing Arts for out us there, undergrads should be one show March 4. able to find parking.” Ben Cooper, assistant law profes- 8 p.m. March 4 sor, said parking had been good for $20 Mezzanine/ Balcony (Gen. faculty. Adm.) Orchestra/Parterre tickets FORREST SMITH | The Daily Mississippian “We had a horrible situation at are sold out. A non-law commuter parks in front of the new law school. Students of the new law school are having problems finding park- Lamar, and it has been improved,” ing spaces due to non-law commuters parking in their lot. Cooper said. “So far, parking has BY CAIN MADDEN “It was fine before the undergrads overall commuter parking, I figure, been adequate.” inside Campus News Editor came back to school,” Barber said. we were inconvenienced at Lamar,” Cooper said, however, that he had “Now it is starting to become an is- Farris said. heard of students having problems. OPINION Chris Barber, a first year law stu- sue because undergrads are parking “Now that we have our own “They need to make the back lot dent, said parking at the new law in the lot.” building with a dedicated parking the law lot,” Cooper said. “It would OLE MISS BASEBEARS school is a bunch of “malarkey.” While fellow first year law student lot and had to buy our own decals, be nice if the law school had its own Barber figured when he had to King Farris admitted that parking I feel like it should be for law com- parking.” buy a $60 law school commuter was a difficult issue on campus, he muters.” Despite over a week of attempts, parking decal, that law students figured it was time for law students Farris said other students with Linda Christian, manager of uni- would have the new lot to them- to have their due. specific decals, such as students in versity parking services, could not selves. “While I apprciate the need for a fraternity or Residential College, be reached for comment. Shepard Smith to teach an intersession class Oxford and the Oxford area,” Deb Wenger, is significant. He once worked assistant professor at the Meek in the Student Media Center UM to host School of Journalism and New and took virtually the same NEWS Media, said. classes our students are now “(Students will be) poten- taking. I am hoping that, long 8th Blues Q&A WITH RONNIE tially doing stories out of New after I am gone, many who are AGNEW York with Oxford or Missis- in this class will be back to Symposium sippi connections.” teach students 20 and 30 years Wenger and Smith have re- from now.” mained in contact since the Smith, who is considered BY LANCE INGRAM inception of the class, and she one of the most trusted news City News Editor said Smith is really looking anchors in the United States, forward to the opportunity to was once an Ole Miss stu- At the Center for the Study of teach at Ole Miss. dent, though he left for a job Southern Culture, the blues is a “He doesn’t want to just at WJHG-TV in Panama City reason to celebrate. The eighth stand there and lecture,” Beach, Fla., just two credits annual Blues Symposium will Wenger said. shy of graduation. take place today and tomorrow. “He hopes to go out with He later received an honor- The Blues Symposium is a the crews and help them do ary degree from the University. gathering of scholars, writers, ADDISON DENT | The Daily Mississippian some reporting and really help The Fox Report with Shepard photographers, musicians and the students understand how Smith is the top rated news- music industry figures to dis- BY JACOB BATTE journalism works in the ‘real cast in cable news according to cuss and present research about LIFESTYLES The Daily Mississippian world’ that we talk so much U.S. Cable News. the blues in Mississippi. UPCOMING SYMPOSIUM about.” Students interested in taking Mark Camarigg, co-event This May, Fox News anchor Smith came up with the idea the class must have taken jour- planner and publication man- and University of Mississippi to teach a class while talking nalism 375 or 376 and have ager at Living Blues Magazine, alumnus Shepard Smith will with Will Norton, Jr., Dean of maintained a minimum 3.0 said the conference is more of be teaching an intersession the Meek School of Journalism GPA. Students must also fill an academic presentation and a class for journalism majors. and New Media. out an application, located in forum for researchers, but there The class is called Journalism Norton said Smith wanted the front of Farley Hall. will also be live blues music. 580: Multimedia Storytelling. remain connected to the Uni- Applicants will have to send “Because it’s the blues, it can Smith also intends to take versity, and he is looking for- their transcript along with have a broader appeal than peo- the students to New York, so ward to having Smith back at what they consider their best ple just interested in the mu- they can get some behind-the- Ole Miss. piece of work and an essay sic,” he said. “We also bring in scenes experience at the Fox “We intend to bring gradu- explaining how they see this musicians to play, and you don’t News studio. The class will ates of journalism at Ole Miss course fitting into their overall have to be into academia to en- mainly consist of reporting as- back to campus as often as academic plan. joy that.” signments. possible,” Norton said. According to Wenger, they Past themes have been “Wom- “The students will be trying “To bring back someone are aiming for 15 students for to do local stories related to with Shepard’s national profile the class. See SYMPOSIUM, PAGE 4 2 OPINION OPINION | 2.22.112.24.11 || THETHE DAILYDAILY MISSISSIPPIANMISSISSIPPIAN || PAGEPAGE 22 CAROLINE LEE editor-in-chief EMILY ROLAND managing editor BY JOSH CLARK LANCE INGRAM Cartoonist city news editor CAIN MADDEN campus news editor VICTORIA BOATMAN enterprise editor AMELIA CAMURATI opinion editor EMILY CEGIELSKI lifestyles editor PAUL KATOOL sports editor ADDISON DENT photography editor KATIE RIDGEWAY design editor WILL GROSSENBACHER copy chief PATRICK HOUSE business manager GEORGE BORDELON KEATON BREWER DUSTIN MAUFFRAY ALEX PENCE Out with the old and in with the electric account executives We have a finite amount of such as India and China con- mass-produced as its gas-guz- more affordable and battery ROBBIE CARLISLE KELSEY DOCKERY oil on this planet. tinue to increase their demand zling counterparts, the Chev- technology increases, people LIBBI HUFF While many people may ar- for oil, the global price for oil rolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf are going to need places to re- SARA LOWREY gue about how long we have will also increase (simple sup- as well as the Tesla Roadster charge away from the house. creative assistants until we run out, the fact still ply and demand). have started to hit the roads. There needs to be incen- remains that one day, we will Regardless of political lean- The main problem with tives for existing gas stations run out. ings, I hope we can all agree these cars, however, is that to build one or two “charging BY MATTHEW Actually, by the time oil that being less dependent on they are new and therefore stations” into their existing S. GALE DENLEY HENRY STUDENT MEDIA supplies are “low,” prices will oil, a finite resource, is ben- relatively expensive. system. CENTER: Columnist be so high that using petro- eficial. At least for the next two A switch from gas to electric PATRICIA leum for anything will be cost But changing our ways is no years these cars are going to cars does not mean that we THOMPSON prohibitive.