C M Y K Laughs-a-plenty at the multiplex-Page 16 MONDAY AUGUST 22, 2005 Vol. 97, No. 1 Oxfordʼs Monument coming soon Activities art center abound underway this week Jamie Arrexi Allison Buckley Staff Reporter Staff Reporter Construction has finally begun This week, Ole Miss is home on the Powerhouse Community to the annual Welcome Week, Arts and Cultural Center, the new a week-long series of events to 160-seat theater that will be lo- welcome students to campus. cated at the corner of University Bradley Baker, campus pro- Avenue and South 14th St. in Ox- gramming coordinator, said Wel- ford. come Week provides many op- During the first phase of con- portunities and entertainment for struction, all renovations will students. cost an estimated $800,000. The “For those who enjoy mu- money will be used to not only sic, Welcome Week will provide renovate, but expand the current plenty of opportunities to hear building to include a theater, ex- live music from Oxford-area mu- hibit space, studio space, some sicians and nationally recognized classrooms, a meeting space and acts,” said Baker. offices for the Yoknapatawpha Baker said the activities Arts Council, according to the throughout the week aim to get Yoknapatawpha Arts Council students involved with the cam- Web page. The YAC is the orga- pus and community while provid- nization responsible for the cre- ing students with entertainment. “From hands-on activities such ation of the center. Courtesy of the University of Mississippi as the mechanical bull, to the ob- A ground-breaking ceremony Architectural rendering of the Civil Rights monument, which will be under construction within months. to celebrate the start of construc- stacle course and Velcro wall, tion was held on Aug. 18. Elaine students will have an opportunity cording to the Civil Rights Com- “The memorial will be an im- to have a little fun the first week Abadie, director of the YAC Kim Breaux memoration Initiative Web site, portant place for reflection and and Rep. Roger Wicker, R-Tu- Senior Staff Reporter of school,” Baker said. the group began as a “multira- for recommitment to the ideals All day Monday through Fri- pelo, were among those in atten- After six years of fundraising, cial, student-led coalition, and of the Civil Rights movement,” dance, according to an article in planning and support bolstering, day vendors will be selling post- soon included university faculty, she said. “We wanted to reflect ers, jewelry and designer purses the Northeast Mississippi Daily after another year of gathering administration and staff repre- the movement weʼre trying to Journal. ideas from an international pool in the Union. sentatives, as well as Oxford honor.” Monday, from 10 a.m. to 2 The estimated date of comple- of artists and architects and af- community members.” This Between 1995 and 2001, the tion for the Powerhouse is around ter months more of financial p.m., the entertainment will in- group felt that a fitting memorial $100,000 budget was raised clude a rock-climbing wall at the Feb. 1, 2006. and precautionary setbacks, the was long overdue. by dedicated parties seeking to “The Powerhouse, upon com- universityʼs civil rights monu- Union plaza and free caricatures The monument will be a “me- preserve the ideals of the Civil in the Union lobby. pletion, will be open to the pub- ment is one step closer to con- morial to the struggle for equal Rights movement. lic,” said John Currence, chair- struction. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., a voter access to education in Mississip- “Itʼs been a real grassroots ef- registration drive, sponsored by man of the Powerhouse Center In 1995, a group of Ole Miss pi,” said Susan Glisson, director fort to build support and a public, project. students embarked on the jour- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and of the William Winter Institute democratic and inclusive process Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, will Currence said one hope for the ney toward placing the monu- for Racial Reconciliation and for the monumentʼs design,” Powerhouse is to provide a home ment between the Lyceum and take place in the Union lobby. project director for the CRCI Glisson said. But it takes time to Rebel Radio will broadcast for various artistic groups. the J.D. Williams Library. Ac- Memorial. “It will provide a home to See MONUMENT page 6 a number of local groups from See ACTIVITIES page 4 around the area. We would like to give a home to a number of local theater groups. Not only theater, Strumming Away but also music groups, dance Jury selection begins today groups and various musical per- formances will find a home here, Nelson disappeared from her apartment too,” he said. Bryan Doyle Campus News Editor at The Cove on Anderson Road in Oxford Along with an array of artistic in the early morning hours of Thursday, performances and fund-raisers, Jury selection for the trial of Demetrius May 27. cocktail parties and receptions Smith, 26, who is charged with the mur- She was heard that night by one neigh- will also be hosted in the new der of former Ole Miss student Carnesha bor who reported hearing a center. Nelson is set to begin today female banging on her door. The Powerhouse project is es- in Panola County. By the time police arrived timated to cost $850,000. It is Nelson was murdered on and neighbors came outside, being primarily funded by two May 27, 2004. there was no sign of Nelson. grants through the Mississippi Smith is charged with cap- Two days later, on Satur- Arts Commission that have a ital murder, and has pleaded day, May 29, which would combined total of $400,000. The innocent. have been Nelsonʼs 20th city of Oxford is matching funds Nelson, an honor student birthday, her body was found with $200,000. Grants from the from Moss Point, had just in the Upper Lake area of federal government and private finished her sophomore year Sardis Lake by two fisher- donations will makeup the re- as a forensic science major at men. mainder of the costs, the Daily Ole Miss. The pending trial has seen Journal article said. She had moved from Cros- delays. The Powerhouse building was by Hall to her apartment at Smith was arrested by Ox- formerly an electric power plant The Cove a few weeks before ford Police Department used by the city of Oxford. The she disappeared. officers June 1, 2005 on building was closed in the 1950s Smith worked for the Demetrius Smith charges of sexual assault when the city decided to buy University Housing De- and kidnapping in connec- power from the Tennessee Valley partment as a desk receptionist in several tion with the disappearance of Nelson. Catherine Robinson The Daily Mississippian Authority and will now be trans- residence halls, including Crosby Hall, An indictment was handed down against Ken Kiney of the band Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ performs formed into the townʼs newest where Nelson lived during her freshman Smith by a Panola County Grand Jury on Sunday at the Grove stage as a part of the Great home for the arts. and sophomore years. Nov. 16, 2004. Southern Rock Revival II. PAGE 4 MONDAY • AUGUST 22, 2005 Advertisement paid for by University Communications. Also online at www.olemiss.edu/iom Free Free packing Faculty and Staff News material since 1911. Activities: Vintage T-shirt sale on Tuesday From Page 1 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Student Union. Between 11 a.m. Tuesday, game show mania and 1 p.m., students can attend live from the Union Plaza on and the money machine will be the campus and student organi- Monday. at the Union plaza. zation fair in the Grove. Tuesday, from 10 a.m. to 2 All day Tuesday a vintage T- Baker said the organization August 22, 2005 p.m., free caricatures will be of- shirt sale will take place in the fair gives students the opportu- fered in the Union lobby. From nity to learn about different or- ganizations on campus and find groups that they might be inter- Coming Up ested in joining. Symposium to Highlight Music of the South Jennifer Taylor, director of Events are free unless otherwise indicated campus programming, said more s part of the university’s new Music of is $85. To register or for more information, Bill C. Malone, professor emeritus of his- • Through Aug. 27 organizations are participating in the South initiative, which aims to visit www.outreach.olemiss.edu or call Barbara tory at Tulane University, is the event’s keynote Welcome Week 2005. Variety of the fair this year than before. bring the best and brightest scholars Thompson at 915-5811. speaker. Author of the groundbreaking book “Close to 80 groups will be activities to welcome new and A and entertainers to campus, the inaugural Music The symposium is to enable participants to “Country Music, U.S.A.” among other works, represented, and weʼre excited returning students to campus. See of the South Symposium is set for Sept. 2-3. experience “the whole range of Southern Malone is the country’s principal historian of to have so many organizations www.olemiss.edu/calendar or call “We hope to draw a broad audience who music, including country, bluegrass, blues, country music. participating,” Taylor said. 915-1044 for schedule, details. On Wednesday, the Velcro appreciate music’s role in Southern culture,” gospel, jazz, rock ’n’ roll and art music,” Wilson The registration fee includes admission to wall will be in the Union plaza Art Exhibit: “Journey of the said Charles Reagan Wilson, director of the said.