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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 7-6-2010 July 6, 2010 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "July 6, 2010" (2010). Daily Mississippian. 302. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/302 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 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 maintaining 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.