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M ONDAY , JULY 6, 2010 | VOL . 98, NO . 70 THE DAILY

this week OLEMISSSPORTS.COM MISSISSIPPIAN STUDENT ALL-SEASON T HE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 | WWW . THEDMONLINE . COM TICKET SALES CONTINUE Ole Miss all-sport sea- son tickets are available for purchase at olemisssports. July 4 celebration to suffer in the future com until July 31st. BY AMANDA WARD The tickets cost $125 News Editor and will be downloaded to the student’s ID card. The This year’s Fourth of was a street dance held on all-sport passes grant en- July celebration was able the square July 3, and chil- trance to football, men and to maintain the presence it dren’s activities and music women’s basketball, base- held in the past despite the were held in the Grove July ball, soccer, softball and University having to pull 4. The weekend-long cel- volleyball games. roughly $3500 worth of ebration was concluded by Individual sports’ season funds for future Fourth of a fi reworks show at O-U tickets will cost $84 for July celebrations. Stadium/Swayze Field. football, $48 for basketball Kate Rosson of the Ox- Planning and fund rais- and $68 for baseball. ford Chamber of Com- ing for next year’s celebra- merce said this is the fi rst tion will rely more on help MASCOT.OLEMISS.EDU year the celebration has suf- from the community. Or- fered budget cuts through ganizers of the event are try- LAST DAY TO VOTE university funding. How- ing to reach a fund raising ever, Ole Miss still offered goal of $5,000 before next Today is the last day to support through various years celebration. They are vote in Poll 1 for the Mas- programs such as protec- also looking for committee cot Selection process. If you tion by UPD and the use volunteers for next year. haven’t voted, visit mascot. of school property to host Rosson said the commit- olemiss.edu events as a part of the In- tee is hoping to have new dependence Day celebra- activities next year to get tions. the children more involved. The events for the week- One of the ideas they are inside end included a 5k Stars looking into is a pinewood and Stripes run benefi tting derby where children will OPINION the Oxford-Lafayette Hu- build their own pinewood WILL WE EVER MAKE UP mane Society followed by cars to compete in the OUR MINDS? the annual parade. There event. FILE PHOTO | The Daily Mississippian

ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS LUTZ TO PURSUE FINE ARTS DEGREE OFFICIALS SAY BP SPILL NOW TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — lia. That’s not to mention the HITTING ALL GULF STATES We’re speaking metaphorically Duncan Baird painting, the Jere TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) — the University of Miami and here, but Tina Lutz is walking Allen painting or the Haitian Tar balls from the Gulf oil spill co-director of the Center for up a cliff and she’s about to sculpture created from a steel found on a Texas beach were Southeastern Tropical Ad- jump off. drum. confi rmed Monday as the fi rst vanced Remote Sensing. “I’ll either fl y,” she said, “or “When my son was 7 years evidence that gushing crude About fi ve gallons of tar balls someone will catch me.” old, one of his friends came from the Deepwater Horizon were found Saturday on the LIFESTYLES Lutz has tendered her resigna- in the house,” she said. “He well has reached all the Gulf Bolivar Peninsula, northeast of REVIEW: ECLIPSE tion as executive director of the stopped dead in his tracks. He states. Galveston, said Capt. Marcus GumTree Museum of Art and looked around the room and A Coast Guard offi cial said Woodring, the Coast Guard the GumTree Festival. said, ‘Wow, look at all that it was possible that the oil commander for the Houston/ “I’m not gone yet, not gone stuff.’ He’d never been in an hitched a ride on a ship and Galveston sector. Two gallons yet. End of July,” she said. artist’s house before.” was not carried naturally by were found Sunday on the In August, the 51-year-old Come August, Lutz and her currents to the barrier islands peninsula and Galveston Is- will go back to school to pur- stuff will be found in a farm- of the eastern Texas coast, but land, though tests have not yet sue a master’s degree of fi ne arts house in Hurricane Landing, there was no way to know for confi rmed its origin. from the University of Missis- just north of Oxford. sure. Woodring said the consis- sippi. She has some more work to do The amount discovered is tency of the tar balls indicates After 16 years in charge of the until then. She’s currently plan- tiny in comparison to what it’s possible they could have museum, which was known as ning an exhibit of paintings by has coated beaches so far in the been spread to Texas water by the Tupelo Artist Guild Gallery Holly Springs artist Kate Free- hardest-hit parts of the Gulf ships that have worked out in when she accepted the job, Lutz man Clark for the museum. coast in Louisiana, Missis- the spill. But there’s no way plans to step away from her ad- “It’s going to be bittersweet sippi, Alabama and the Florida to confi rm the way they got ministrative role to focus more when I walk out for the last Panhandle. It still provoked there. on her artistic side. time,” she said. the quick dispatch of cleaning The largest tar balls found SPORTS “This is a huge opportunity, Lutz said she treasures her de- crews and a vow that BP will Saturday were the size of ping- and I couldn’t pass it up,” she cision 16 years ago to drive up pay for the trouble. pong balls, while the ones FOOTBALL FORECAST: said. “It was a chance to get from Laurel to show her work at “Any Texas shores impacted found Sunday were the size of WIDE RECEIVERS AND back into my studio.” the GumTree Festival. George by the Deepwater spill will be nickels and dimes. TIGHT ENDS That seemingly simple goal Booth, who was chairman of cleaned up quickly and BP will Galveston Mayor Joe Jawor- won’t be easy to accomplish. the gallery’s board of directors be picking up the tab,” Texas ski said he believed the tar balls She’s lived in her house for at the time, introduced himself Land Commissoner Jerry Pat- were a fl uke, rather than a sign about 13 years, which means to her. terson said in a news release. of what’s to come. 13 years of “eclectic accumula- “I put my hand out. ‘I’m Tina The oil’s arrival in Texas was “This is good news,” he said. tion.” “Fish” Lutz. Is your museum predicted Friday by an analy- “The water looks good. We’re She’ll have to pack up her hu- hiring?’” she said. “He said, sis from the National Oceanic cautiously optimistic this is an man skeleton and hundreds of ‘Yes, we are.’” and Atmospheric Administra- anomaly.” books, as well as paint-fi lled After putting together a re- tion, which gave a 40 percent The distance between the tubs and tool boxes, three fi sh- sume and returning for an in- chance of crude reaching the western reach of the tar balls in ing buoys, an industrial strength terview, she was in. area. Texas and the most eastern re- easel, a drawing table that’s usu- “I moved up here the third “It was just a matter of time ports of oil in Florida is about ally fi lled to overfl owing and week in June in 1994, all be- that some of the oil would fi nd 550 miles. Oil was fi rst spot- a seemingly infi nite supply of its way to Texas,” said Hans fi sh-related art and parapherna- See LUTZ, PAGE 4 Graber, a marine physicist at See GULF, PAGE 4 2

OPINION

OPINION | 7.6.2010 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 2

BY MATTHEW KING CAROLINE LEE Cartoonist editor-in-chief

DONICA PHIFER online editor

AMANDA WARD news editor

MIA CAMURATI opinion editor

LANCE INGRAM lifestyles editor

ERIC BESSON sports editor OSCAR POPE visual editor

RACHEL CLARK copy chief

The mission of The Daily Mississip- pian is to consistently produce a bold, bright and accurate daily news source by fulfi lling our obligation to the truth and our loyalty to the public we serve.

MICHAEL BUISE business manager

ALLIE GAGGINI PATRICK HOUSE REBECCA ROLWING account executives

LAURA CAVETT ROBBIE CARLISE KORY DRAHOS creative assistants COLUMN

Working hard or hardly working? S. GALE DENLEY STUDENT MEDIA CENTER:

BY I’ve always been called an overachiever. I should focus my energy on and which good job. PATRICIA EMILY CEGIELSKI In high school, I usually destroyed the I could relax in. I jumped hard-core into I’ll also admit I’m a fi rst-class procrasti- THOMPSON Columnist curve on tests, to my fellow student’s dis- French but sat back in political science. Of nator, a night owl and a proofreading hater. director and faculty may, and no one ever understood why I course, I still did all of my work and stud- We all have our faults when it comes to adviser turned in the extra credit when I already ied hard, but I didn’t freak out about a B work. ARVINDER SINGH had an A. on a test. I didn’t even pick these horrible habits up KANG What people don’t understand is that I’m I realized that I am the odd person out. I in college. I’ve stayed up till 3 a.m. since manager of media not exactly an overachiever, but I have a realized this by looking around the Grove. I was about 14. I wrote and memorized a technology neurotic case of perfectionism. A whole mass of students is always loung- ten-minute oratory the night before it was This is far from a good thing; it has led to ing about, reading, throwing footballs, play- due. I don’t remember the last time I reread DYLAN PARKER more sleepless nights than I can count. ing Frisbee or just hanging with friends. an article before I sent it in (Sorry, Mia!). creative/technical I think it was during high school gradua- I still don’t understand how everyone has Then again, I’m also the girl who will supervisor tion when I realized that all of my worrying all of this time on their hands, but I’m de- point out your grammatical errors in a DARREL JORDAN and extra work had amounted to nothing termined to give it a try next semester. heartbeat. Like I said, it’s all about bal- chief engineer more than the same diploma as the rest of College is about having fun and experi- ance. my classmates. encing new things all while learning. If we In the end, I think that’s what college is MELANIE WADKINS I vowed to take a chill pill. I needed to don’t have a balance of work and play we’re all about. It’s the ultimate trapeze act. advertising manager learn how to relax. probably going to drive ourselves crazy. Whether it’s school work or a real-life STEPHEN GOFORTH I managed my fi rst year at Ole Miss a Now, I can’t approve of just letting go, job, we all are learning how to stay on track broadcast manager little better, but I couldn’t ditch all of my acting wild and forgetting about work. I’m without getting sunburn from being in the DARCY DAVIS anal-retentive qualities. In fact, I learned to just psychologically wired to get my work Grove all day or without your hands falling administrative embrace them. done before I play. That’s how my parents off from typing up all of those extra credit assistant I began to pick and choose which classes raised me and I must say they did a darn papers.

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OPINION | 7.6.2010 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 3

CAROLINE LEE LETTER TO THE EDITOR editor-in-chief The results of a study from California graduate nearly 30% more students?” and wages. Our head football coach with a C average. Yes it is great that Ole DONICA PHIFER were recently released. The subject of Vanderbilt is not much smaller than alone makes more than $2 million, Miss graduates students close to the na- online editor this study: NCAA graduation rates over Ole Miss, their website says 12,514 to- where many professors here make less tional average, but how do you think AMANDA WARD 6 years, meaning how many freshmen tal enrollment while all Ole Miss cam- than $60,000 according to the DM last it makes those 36% feel? There is ab- news editor in 2004 completed a BA/BS by 2010 puses (Oxford, Tupelo, UMMC, etc) is year. So I ask again, why does Ole Miss solutely no reason Ole Miss could not graduation. This study was brought to 18,344. Maybe it is because Ole Miss have only a 64% graduation rate, near- attain at least a 90% graduation rate by MIA CAMURATI light in response to the conference shift allows nearly everyone in. The Ole ly the same as Florida and LSU, while increasing the entrance requirements opinion editor currently taking place in which some Miss website lists the entrance require- tuition has increased to, including the even slightly to, say, a 25 ACT score or LANCE INGRAM schools claimed to want to be in a more ments of “2.5 high school GPA and 16 mandatory flex dollar purchase start- 20 and 3.0 high school GPA and hiring lifestyles editor academically respected conference. In on the ACT” while Vanderbilt’s middle ing in 2010, nearly $3000 a semester? I more professors to reduce class sizes to the SEC, Ole Miss came in second, 50% are 28-32. Am I saying that Ole understand that Ole Miss is “commit- increase the quality of education. Yes I ERIC BESSON topped only by Vanderbilt. This sounds Miss is too easy to get into? Well, yes. ted to becoming one of America’s great like sports, but college for the 99% of sports editor good right? Well, no, because while As far as quality of teaching goes, I am public universities”, but what if after 6 students not in athletics is about aca- OSCAR POPE Ole Miss was second in the SEC with sure teacher dedication is the same at years all you had to show for it was a demics, and a little piece of paper that visual editor a 64% graduation rate, Vanderbilt has both institutions. It was reported in $50,000 student loan bill? In this stu- says you have passed Go, collect a Job. RACHEL CLARK one of the highest rates in the nation the DM that Ole Miss Athletics has a dent’s opinion, Ole Miss needs to look copy chief with 91%. The first question on your $43.7 million budget for 2010-2011 at why 36% of students fail to graduate Matthew Maples mind should be “why does Vanderbilt where $15.8 million is going to salaries and the countless others who graduate Senior - Biology/Psychology Major

COLUMN MASCOT MAYHEM BY EMILY GASSON The Daily Mississippian

Over the last few months, Ole Miss has formed the see if any of the options really exemplify Ole Miss. cause some believe it has racist connotations do you Mascot Committee to tackle the job of creating a new Our university has been ridiculed by the media and really think our administration would ever allow us to MICHAEL BUISE on-field mascot for our university. other schools for being the only team without a mas- have a mascot that has the same name as the Jimmy business manager The committee just revealed their 11 candidates for cot present on the field, but if these are all the choices Buffet beer?

ALLIE GAGGINI the new mascot this past week and to no surprise they we have, I say we opt out of having a mascot on the No mascot will ever be able to replace our beloved PATRICK HOUSE were all awful. field. Colonel Rebel and I think it is stupid for the adminis- REBECCA ROLWING account executives I do not understand what the committee was think- No mascot is better than having one of the 11 sug- tration to expect Ole Miss fans to love anything else. ing. gestions by the Mascot Committee. I know Colonel Rebel is no longer an option, but Hotty and Toddy, a blues musician, or Rebel Mojo? None of the choices really have any ties to Ole I think the committee should create a choice that re- LAURA CAVETT ROBBIE CARLISE I’m sorry...what? Miss. sembles the Colonel. KORY DRAHOS Don’t we all remember the crazy Hotty Toddy man Our university is known for our traditions and I feel I feel like this is one way the administration will re- creative assistants and how ridiculous that was? that if we have to choose a mascot it needs to have ceive any support from the Ole Miss community. I feel that the committee has not really given enough some type of connection to who we were, who we are We need to find a way to make our voices and con- thought into what should represent our university. and who we want to be. cerns heard and the only way to do that is by voting The Mascot Committee really needs to look at the I know a lot of people are supporting the Land Shark at mascot.olemiss.edu and deciding what we want to S. GALE DENLEY STUDENT MEDIA ridiculous characters they gave us to choose from and mascot but if we are having to change our mascot be- represent our university. CENTER:

PATRICIA THOMPSON director and faculty adviser

ARVINDER SINGH KANG manager of media technology get your morning fix DYLAN PARKER creative/technical supervisor

DARREL JORDAN chief engineer

MELANIE WADKINS advertising manager

STEPHEN GOFORTH broadcast manager

DARCY DAVIS administrative assistant

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LUTZ, GULF, ASSOCIATED PRESS continued from page 1 continued from page 1 Census worker taken to cause of the GumTree ing up. It seems like I’ve ted on land near the away Hurricane Alex Festival. My children always been able to.” mouth of the Missis- idled the skimming court for trespassing and I moved up here. You’ll still fi nd fi sh sippi River on April fl eet off Alabama, HONOLULU (AP) — In these especially Native Hawaiians, to be They had just turned 4 prints in her work, and 29. Florida and Missis- divisive times, Census worker Rus- counted so the state gets its fair and 6,” she said. “One you can see a sampling The spill is reach- sippi with choppy sell Haas has come to expect some share of federal dollars. year later, they named of her pieces at thecaro- ing deeper into Lou- seas and stiff winds. resistance when he goes door to In the Big Island’s Puna district me festival director. ngallery.com. isiana. Strings of oil Now they’re stymied door to count the residents of the — a craggy rural area where resi- I never in my wildest When Lutz gets to Ole were seen Monday in by a succession of rugged communities near Hawaii’s dents value privacy, independence dreams imagined that Miss, she’ll be study- the Rigolets, one of smaller storms that Kilauea volcano. He didn’t expect and the simple life — Haas said he would happen.” ing printmaking and two waterways that could last well into to get arrested. anticipated some resistance, espe- During her tenure, mixed-media, two styles connect the Gulf this week. An attempt to get one resident, cially from the area’s Vietnam War the gallery became a she already incorporates with Lake Pontchar- Offi cials have plans a county police offi cer, to fi ll out veterans and marijuana growers. museum, and its bud- in her work, along with train, the large lake for the worst-case Census forms landed Haas in the Instead, most of them took the get went from $48,000 painting, drawing and north of New Or- scenario: a hurricane back of a patrol car with a trespass- census forms without a fi ght, “even a year to $215,000. The collage. Now, she has leans. barreling up the Gulf ing charge. the angry ones,” he said. museum established a the chance to focus on “So far it’s scat- toward the spill site. The case is now in federal court, When he went out on March permanent collection, her passions. tered stuff showing But the less-dramatic the latest example of disputes this 20, he said, he found trouble when and Lutz has handled an “My art goes right to up, mostly tar balls,” weather conditions year between Census workers and a resident refused to accept Census untold number of price- the edge without any said Louisiana Offi ce have been met with residents who don’t want to deal forms and told Haas to leave his less works of art. breathing space,” she of Fisheries Assis- a more makeshift re- with them. It has created a rare in- fenced property. Census workers “I’ve also been here said. “I feel like that’s tant Secretary Randy sponse. stance in which federal prosecutors are told in their manuals that they long enough that I what my life has been, Pausina. “It will pull Skimming opera- have stepped in to serve as criminal should do their best to gain access watched the little fel- too.” out with the tide, tions across the Gulf defense attorneys. to areas surrounded by gates. lows grow up through The museum’s board and then show back have scooped up “I was trained to encourage ev- “When this guy showed me his the youth exhibits at the of directors has adver- up.” about 23.5 million erybody to be in the Census,” said badge, I went, ‘Dude, you have museum, then the high tised for a replacement. Pausina said he gallons of oil-fouled Haas, 57, a former New Jersey po- to be in the Census, what are you school exhibits, then Resumes have been sub- expected the oil to water so far, but of- lice offi cer. talking about?’” Haas said. they competed for the mitted and they’re un- clear the passes and fi cials say it’s impos- The case hearkens back to an ar- The resident continued to re- GumTree scholarship,” der review, but no deci- move directly into sible to know how gument that is as old as the nation fuse to take the Census, and Haas she said. “It’s been sion has been made. the lake, taking a much crude could itself: the tension between federal said he waited outside a chain-link amazing to see the talent “We’ve worked so backdoor route to have been skimmed powers granted under the Consti- fence while the resident called his grow over the years.” hard to get where we New Orleans. in good weather be- tution, such as census taking, and a co-workers at the Hawaii County The careful reader are today,” Lutz said. “I The news of the cause of the fl uctuat- state’s right to govern itself. Police Department. might have noticed two do care about what hap- spill’s reach comes ing number of vessels Whether it’s state attorneys’ gen- When police arrived, instead of things: pens. I hope the next at a time that most and other variables. eral opposing a new health care law asking the resident to accept the — Lutz’s “seemingly person can take the mu- of the offshore skim- The British com- or Arizona’s immigration law, chal- forms as required by federal law, infi nite supply of fi sh- seum to the next level ming operations in pany has now seen its lenges to federal authority abound. the offi cers crumpled the papers related art and para- and move things for- the Gulf have been costs from the spill And for the past year, many Cen- into Haas’ chest and handcuffed phernalia.” ward.” halted by choppy reach $3.12 billion, sus workers have seen it face to him, Haas said. The department — And her introduc- Her immediate plans seas and high winds. a fi gure that doesn’t face, when they pull open gates or hasn’t released the name of the of- tion to Booth: “I’m Tina include packing up her A tropical system include a $20 billion ring a doorbell. fi cer who told Haas to leave his ‘Fish’ Lutz.” belongings and moving that had been lin- fund for damages the Nationwide, they have met more property. She’s made prints of them about an hour to gering off Louisiana company created last hostility than they did in the last Haas said he told offi cers that it fi sh for about 25 years, the west. Beyond that, fl ared up Monday month. count a decade ago. The agency was his duty to leave the Census since she lived and she has a three-year afternoon, bring- The storms have tallied 436 incidents involving as- forms with the resident, and that worked in the Florida MFA program to com- ing heavy rain and not affected drill- saults or threats against its 635,000 he would leave as soon as he did it. Keys. plete. winds. ing work on a relief enumerators through June 29, The offi cers were enforcing state “When I was in the After that, maybe Forecasters at the well that BP says is more than double the 181 inci- law and had not been trained on Keys, ‘Tina Fish’ just she’ll fi nd another met- National Hurricane the best chance for dents in 2000. the federal Census law, Hawaii worked,” she said. “It aphorical cliff to jump Center said there fi nally plugging the The increase came amid the re- County Police Maj. Sam Thomas was good for marketing. off. was a 60 percent of leak. The company surgence of anti-government senti- said. Besides, I’m a Pisces. I “I don’t know. We’ll the storm becoming expects drilling to ment in the past year. When the case goes to U.S. don’t remember learn- just see,” Lutz said. “I’m a tropical cyclone. be fi nished by mid- The Census intends to fi nish its District Court on July 22, Hawaii ing how to swim grow- not sweating that yet.” Last week, the far- August. count by the end of August, said County Deputy Prosecutor Ro- Celeste Jimenez of the Los Angeles land Talon will argue that Haas Regional Census Center. overstepped his authority by open- “It is important for residents to ing the resident’s unlocked fence, participate,” she said. “It affects entering his property and refusing how over $400 billion of federal to leave until he had been asked funding are allocated each year to several times. states for infrastructure . Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry Hawaii had one of the nation’s Butrick claims Haas is protected lowest response rates in the 2000 by the U.S. Constitution for ac- count, and offi cials focused on get- tions taken in his capacity as a ting a more accurate tally in 2010. federal employee. Butrick fi led a They’ve tried to encourage people, motion asking the judge to dismiss the case. “Haas was instructed that when dealing with a reluctant respon- dent he was to strive to gain the respondent’s cooperation and try to be persuasive,” Butrick wrote in the motion. Census offi cials weren’t aware of any other case where federal lawyers are defending an arrested employee. Whatever the outcome, Haas hopes his ordeal sends a message. “I’m looking to get the word out that the Census is a good thing to the public, so that next time, in 2020, everyone will just partici- pate,” Haas said. 5

LIFESTYLES

LIFESTYLES | 7.6.2010 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 5

REVIEW THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE BY MIA CAMURATI Opinion Editor In case you have been living remain in a permanent grimace. day and drinking the blood of hu- under a rock recently, the third Whether she’s dealing with the mans. These Cullen vampires look installment of The Twilight Saga intense love of her overbearing like they got in a fight with the 70s was released last Wednesday. The vampire boyfriend, the infamous and don’t scare a soul. result: $173.5 million and a gaggle Edward Cullen (Robert Pattin- Hah. Get it? Soul...vampires... of overly-emotional preteens. son), or fighting off the romantic nevermind. If you go into this movie re- advances from her always-shirtless The majority of the movie, membering that these books are werewolf friend, Jacob Black (Tay- thankfully, has no dialogue what- written for children and that the lor Lautner), she looks absolutely soever. plot is strung together on fantasy miserable. The battle, I must admit, is pret- and false hope, you will probably Taylor Lautner cannot act. He ty epic. Vampires versus vampires come out of it with most of your just can’t. Attractive as he might and werewolves is always going to brain cells still intact. be, he is only there for Summit to thrill the masses. The effects could However, if you are in the mood make millions off his cheese-grater have been better, but considering to see even the slightest bit of intel- abs. He spends his entire life in the the content they’re dealing with, ligence or talent during your movie mountains in a pair of cutoff shorts who could believe this is real in the viewing time, run away from this and...well, that’s about it. Hopeful- first place? movie as fast as you can. ly he will lose those looks very soon The scenery, which they show This piece of the series focuses and vanish into the background. almost as much as the characters, on a character you haven’t seen Mr. Pattinson even dropped the is gorgeous. Many scenes in the much of, Jasper Hale, one of the ball on this one. He looks pained movie (thankfully) consist of fly- “vegetarian” vampires. Played by (but always glittery) in every scene ing over the trees and mountains Jackson Rathbone, he is easily he sneaks into at 90 mph. While just for filler. my favorite character of the series. he might be the most well known I understand why people are so However, he has now become a of the cast thanks to his brief stint obsessed with this vampire culture; former Confederate soldier with in Harry Potter, he does not play I did read the first three books of a thick Southern drawl. My ques- this character well. this series. tion is: where has this accent been If this Edward man were to ever Overall, the movie is what it is. in the past two movies? approach me with that death-glare Of the series, this is the best of the Kristen Stewart plays the narra- and tell me he was in love with three. It’s not Oscar-worthy, but it tor and romantic lead of the film, me but also wanted to drink me, I is tolerable to an extent. If you see Bella Swan. On the rare occasion would run away and hide, not give this in theaters, be prepared for the when Stewart changes the mono- my life for him. screaming girls every time Pattin- tone of her voice and adds just the What is with the glittery skin, son or Black take the screen, espe- slightest bit of emotion and inflec- anyway? Vampires are known cially when there is a loud, abrasive tion, the corners of her mouth still mostly for sleeping during the backtrack to go with him.

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THE SERIES FOOTBALL ‘10 FORECAST WIDE RECEIVERS & TIGHT ENDS BY PAUL KATOOL The Daily Mississippian The past two seasons have seen And it’s impossible to dismiss turner in receptions from last year against UAB. propensity for trouble. Patterson, the Ole Miss Rebels send two of Dexter McCluster’s value to the (20). Breaux, who was rated a four- who had a pedestrian 12 recep- their all-time greats at wide receiv- passing game the last four years, For the 2010 version of the Reb- star recruit by Scout.com out of tions for 180 yards and a score last er to the NFL: the speedy Mike but to classify him as a pure receiv- els, the discussion at receiver starts high school, has only caught 25 year, missed spring practice when Wallace to the Pittsburgh Steelers er is akin to calling Lil’ Wayne just with two seniors, Markeith Sum- balls in his three years at Ole Miss he was suspended for the second in 2009 and Shay Hodge - the oft- another emcee. mers and Lionel Breaux, who both and has made most of his impact time in his young Ole Miss career. reliable safety valve of Jevan Snead Consequently, the wide receiver had stellar high school careers but on special teams. The veteran has If Patterson can stay out of trouble and the Rebels’ fi rst 1,000-yard cupboard is rather bare for the have yet to show up Saturday-to- speed to burn via a background and get focused, he provides a big receiver – to the Washington Red- Rebels with a running back – ju- Saturday in the fall. in track and has coaches hoping target (6 feet 2 inches and 215 skins in 2010. nior Brandon Bolden – the top re- Summers, who is 6 feet 5 inches he shows up more in the passing pounds) that can best be used in and 205 pounds, is a hearty, physi- game as a senior. the end zone to overpower smaller cal receiver who has been deployed Sophomore Jesse Grandy – pri- cornerbacks. heavily by Ole Miss coach Hous- marily used as a kick returner in Nutt was complimentary of the ton Nutt as a run blocker, where 2009 – followed in the footsteps physical redshirt freshman Ja-Mes he helped spring McCluster on of McCluster when he became an- Logan in the spring, and 6-foot-7 some of his long runs last year. other miniscule playmaker to make inch, 205-pound sophomore Mel- But can he catch? Statistically a signifi cant impact as a true fresh- vin Harris has an obvious advan- speaking, Summers quadrupled man. Grandy is listed at a rail-thin tage with his height but still needs his receiving yards from his soph- 5 feet 10 inches and 165 pounds, to add more weight on his frame. omore season (fi ve receptions, which brings up issues of durabil- The new guys are Floridian 94 yards and no scores through ity, but the Rebels will nevertheless Quadarias Mireles, whose You- the air) to his junior campaign depend on Grandy to be the play- Tube highlight video shows a (17 catches, 394 yards and four maker on offense at receiver. The shifty speedster that is reminiscent touchdowns), but there were seven Arkansas native is lightning fast of a larger McCluster, and Patter- games in 2009 where Summers and Grandy showed he is more son’s former teammate at Noxubee had one reception or less. than just a special teams ace after County High School, Vincent The Rebels will depend on he led all receivers with three re- Sanders – the top receiver in the Summers, who had a penchant for ceptions for 125 yards and a score state of Mississipppi last year. drops along with the rest of Ole in the Grove Bowl. Ferbia Allen has the starting Miss’ receiving corps in the spring, And then there’s sophomore tight end job locked down, but the to be Ole Miss’ primary down-fi eld Pat Patterson, who was ranked intrigue will lie in how much Nutt threat after he showed glimpses of by Scout.com and Rivals.com as utilizes the position after tight ends this last season. Summers had a 45- one of the top fi ve receivers in the accounted for only eight receptions yard touchdown reception against country out of high school. Sounds last season. Reggie Hicks and Zac- South Carolina and a 65-yard score good, but the caveat is Patterson’s cheus Mason back up Allen.