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University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 9-1-2010 September 1, 2010 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "September 1, 2010" (2010). Daily Mississippian. 312. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/312 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 W EDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 | VOL . 99, NO . 8 THE DAILY this week MISSISSIPPIAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM T HE ST UDEN T NEW S PAPER OF THE UNIVER S I T Y OF MI ss I ss IPPI | SERVING OLE MI ss AND OXFORD S INCE 1911 | WWW . T HED M ONLINE . CO M MITCHELL WRIGHT: THE RECONSTRUCTION Contemplating notions of reminis- cence and mortality while engaging the cultural influences of southern letters and music, artist Mitchell NCAA DENIES MASOLI Wright offers a window into the ghosts of the southern past and their impact on contemporary life and artistic creation. 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. REBEL CHALLENGE COURSE FREE FRIDAYS: REBEL CHALLENGE COURSE Check out the Rebel Challenge Course every Friday from 2-4pm for FREE FRIDAYS. The RCC is open to students, faculty and staff and consists of high elements. We are located on campus near the in- tramural fields off Hathorn Road. 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Rebel Challenge Course inside FILE PHOTO| The Daily Mississippian Ole Miss football hopeful Jeremiah Masoli greets fans at Meet The Rebels Day on August 21. Masoli, who transferred from Oregon to Ole OPINION Miss this summer, has been denied by the NCAA to play for the Rebels this season. No play for Masoli page 2 BY PAUL KATOOL Masoli and when he decided to transfer. in their hearts to do the right thing.” Sports Editor Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt pleaded with Masoli arrived at Ole Miss hoping to com- the NCAA subcommittee to reverse its ruling pete immediately at quarterback because of Jeremiah Masoli, the former Oregon quarter- at Tuesday afternoon’s press conference. a rule that allows student-athletes that have back who transferred to the University of Mis- “All he’s done is exactly what he’s supposed graduated from one school to be immediately sissippi this summer, has been denied by the to do,” Nutt said. “He graduated. We found a eligible at another university without sitting NCAA to play for the Rebels this season. graduate program for him that Oregon didn’t out a year. The rule requires the school to have Pete Boone, Ole Miss athletics director, said have. He’s done everything we’ve asked him to a graduate program not offered at the student the Rebels have appealed the decision. The do. He was not dismissed from the University; athlete’s previous university. department will not have information before he was dismissed from the team.” Boone said the NCAA didn’t provide Ole Friday and may have to wait a week for the Masoli said that he was shocked and disap- Miss with any case precedent for the two rea- decision of the NCAA subcommittee on ap- pointed by the NCAA’s decision and that he sons given. peals. had followed the NCAA rule book to be eli- “It is our opinion that their decision was N E W S Boone said the NCAA gave two reasons for gible at Ole Miss. subjective, and not in the best interest and denying Masoli. Leap Frog kicks off fall “I graduated early (from Oregon). That wasn’t opportunity of the student-athlete, Jeremiah semester, page 5 The first is in regard to his eligibility for the easy,” Masoli said. “I found a graduate program Masoli,” Boone said. 2010 season at his previous institution (Or- at Ole Miss that I’m very interested in. I’m just Nutt said he’s dismissed players from his egon). very hopeful still that the NCAA will do the teams in the past, hoping they end up on an- The second reason given deals with the time- right thing in my case. That’s why the NCAA other team and learn from their mistakes. frame discrepancy between Oregon and Maso- has the appeals process in place, so they can get “There’s no question in my mind– Jeremiah’s li regarding when Oregon said they dismissed things right. I hope that the NCAA can find it at the right place,” Nutt said.. Student football season tickets yet to sell out BY LEE HARRIS being loaded on students’ IDs instead of issu- The Daily Mississippian ing the hard tickets,” said Russell. “The tickets are bought online and are downloaded to the With less than a week until the kickoff of the student’s ID.” Ole Miss 2010 football season, student season This online system is similar to those of Au- L I F E S T Y L E S tickets have yet to sell out. Nearly 1,000 of the burn University, the University of Alabama and “The Rising Son,” page 7 7,500 season tickets originally available remain the University of Georgia, among many others. unsold. However, some students are displeased with According to OleMissSports.com, the school the new ticketing system the University has in sold a record 51,000 student and non-student place. Senior Drew Power said he liked the flex- season ticket packages last year. Despite the ibility of paper tickets. team not being ranked as highly this season, “I prefer the paper tickets,” Power said. “Elec- Sans Russell, senior associate athletics director tronic tickets limit your ability to sell your ticket for ticketing and priority seating, said he still or give it to a friend.” expects the season tickets to sell out. “The only difference this year is that tickets are See TICKETS, PAGE 6 ADDISON DENT | The Daily Mississippian 2 OPINION OPINION | 9.1.10 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 2 CAROLINE LEE editor-in-chief BY JOSH CLARK Cartoonist LANCE INGRAM city news editor AMANDA WARD campus news editor MIA CAMURATI opinion editor EMILY ROLAND lifestyles editor PAUL KATOOL sports editor KATIE RIDGEWAY visual editor ALIX ZACHOW copy chief ADDISON DENT photography editor The mission of The Daily Mississippian is to consistently produce a bold, bright and accurate daily news source by fulfilling our obligation to the truth and maintaining our loyalty to the public we serve. MICHAEL BUISE business manager JORDAN ARMENDINGER GEORGE BORDELON TAYLOR DAVISON LETTER TO THE EDITOR PATRICK HOUSE AUBRY KILLION ALEX PENCE A TALE OF ONE COUNTRY, NOT TWO CITIES account executives ROBBIE CARLISLE KELSEY DOCKERY I will forever be perplexed by the ar- ties, or even the difference in the kind and oddly spelled names in their work LIBBI HUFF gument made by many Mississippians of disasters that plagued us, be it man- places, colleges and high schools. SARA LOWREY and surrounding Gulf Coast residents made or natural. But they did so openly. It did not creative assistants who seem to demand more attention Are we all so vain that we cannot look matter to those people if we were from when addressing Hurricane Katrina’s at this as an American issue? Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, or Ala- effects. Katrina hit our country, not individ- bama. S. GALE DENLEY As a former Gulf Coast resident, it ual states. They just wanted to help the very best STUDENT MEDIA makes no sense that I often hear com- People in Ohio died from this storm that they could. CENTER: plaints about the attention that New system. Every time that I head south to visit PATRICIA Orleans regularly receives over the rest And at this time, 5 years ago, there was my family, I witness new progress. THOMPSON of the Coast. a blatant disregard for our American To bother arguing who got the bad director and faculty Yes, there were horrible tragedies along livelihood on the national level, and we rap in Katrina would be suppressing adviser the entire Coast. are all affected by it, even today. that progress and entirely missing the In fact, many forget that 14 died in Family and friends took many of us in point. ARVINDER SINGH KANG Florida before Katrina came our way. all over the country, and those who had manager of media But let us not get caught up in the dif- never visited our coast, suddenly met David McDowell technology ference in damage, the horrific casual- a bunch of people with funny accents Ole Miss ‘11 DYLAN PARKER creative/technical supervisor DARREL JORDAN CORRECTION: In the Tuesday issue of the Daily Mississippian, a photo on page 4 identified a build- chief engineer ing as Old Venice Pizza Company. While the building was photographed, it was not the building that MELANIE WADKINS sustained damages. It should have read that a cab driver reported flames coming from Old Venice, advertising manager but that the building was misidentified. Old Venice Pizza Company did not sustain any damage. 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