University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 5-5-2011 May 5, 2011 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "May 5, 2011" (2011). Daily Mississippian. 752. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/752 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]. T HURSDAY , MAY 5, 2011 | VOL . 100, NO . 133 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 Tornado recovery efforts continue this week PARIS YATES CHAPEL CHORAL CONCERT The Ole Miss Choral Department will present its final concert of the 2010-2011 school year tonight. The University Chorus, which in- cludes Men’s Glee, Women’s Glee, Concert Singers and Women’s Ensemble, is offering a selection of choral classics by composers such as Christiansen, Mendelsshon and Mozart. The Concert Singers will perform Palestrina’s masterwork, “Missa Papae Marcelli,” a rarely performed cornerstone of the Italian Renais- sance. 7:30 p.m. Free inside OPINION OSAMA ON TWITTER COURTESY NATHAN CASBURN Smithville was struck by an EF-5 tornado during last week’s destructive weather. The Red Cross, United Way, Salvatoin Army, Interfaith Compassion Ministry and other individual donors have helped raise money and supplies to take care of residents in the devastated town. BY MALLORY SIMERVILLE junior journalism major, said. you turn a corner and see a sign Casburn and a group of friends The Daily Mississippian “Overall, it was just complete that says, ‘Smithville one mile,’ collected supplies and drove to destruction.” and it looks just like Oxford Smithville Tuesday afternoon. A family from Smithville steps Smithville was one of several does right now; completely un- The group stopped at the Red NEWS onto what was once their home. towns in the South that expe- touched, not a single tree limb Cross, collected the clothing It is now a concrete block of rienced an EF-5 tornado. The down,” Casburn said. “Then that they could no longer hand EDUHOOKUPS COMES foundation. small town is still in dire need of you round that last corner onto out or bring to Tuscaloosa and TO OLE MISS “It’s carnage. It’s total destruc- supplies and volunteers. Highway 25, and it’s just com- tion there,” Nathan Casburn, a “When driving into the town, plete hell on earth.” See SMITHVILLE, PAGE 7 University responds to weather communication problems BY PEYTON THIGPEN sity policy, including Patrick Har- The Daily Mississippian ris, sophomore biology major. “I felt obligated to still go to class The bad weather that struck because I was not notified other- SPORTS Oxford last week has left many wise,” he said. “I feel like it’s the REBS RALLY TO WIN 11-9 in the Ole Miss community con- responsibility of the University to fused about how to handle their make sure that students are aware AT ARKANSAS STATE class schedule, should bad weather and informed about the Univer- arise. sity’s emergency policies.” A letter issued by the Crisis Ac- Other students seemed to share tion Team, which includes dean of the same feelings about whether students Sparky Reardon, Univer- or not they should have gone to sity Police Department chief Cal- classes on April 27. vin Sellars and associate provost “With the sky being green and Noel Wilkin, states, “In the case of sirens going off, I wasn’t about to a Tornado Warning (which means go to my class,” Ben Hewitt, a that a tornado has been sighted or sophomore classics major, said. “I detected by radar, and sirens are figured my professor would do the ALEX EDWARDS | The Daily Mississippian activated), all university activities same, so I wasn’t worried about Oxford city workers drain a flooded parking lot during the storms on April 27. The are automatically suspended.” skipping class.” recent string of bad weather has left some Ole Miss students confused as to what to However, it seems that not all do when severe storms are in the area. students knew about this Univer- See CRISIS, PAGE 7 OPINION OPINION | 5.5.11 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 2 CAROLINE LEE editor-in-chief EMILY ROLAND managing editor BY JOSH CLARK LANCE INGRAM Cartoonist city news editor CAIN MADDEN campus news editor AMELIA CAMURATI opinion editor EMILY CEGIELSKI lifestyles editor PAUL KATOOL sports editor ALEX EDWARDS photography editor KATIE RIDGEWAY design editor WILL GROSSENBACHER copy chief PATRICK HOUSE business manager GEORGE BORDELON KEATON BREWER ALEX PENCE ANGELYN VAUGHAN account executives ROBBIE CARLISLE KELSEY DOCKERY LIBBI HUFF Nuclear energy is safe SARA LOWREY creative assistants BY JAY Nuclear energy has been a hot in perspective, an airplane flight tamination, there will be few however, are required to pay for NOGAMI topic since the catastrophe at a from Los Angeles to New York long-term environmental ef- all of their own waste disposal to S. GALE DENLEY Columnist nuclear power plant in Japan. exposes you to approximately 40 fects. Additionally, the youngest prevent contamination. STUDENT MEDIA Contrary to popular belief, microservients of radiation. of the Fukushima reactor towers Despite all of this, nuclear CENTER: nuclear plansts are safe, and they Since March 20, there has was 40 years old, which shows power has remained on average PATRICIA are our future. been a decrease in radiation lev- that even with older technology, cheaper than coal power since THOMPSON First, using the Fukushima di- els throughout all of Japan. Even nuclear power is safe. However, 2000. director and faculty saster as a baseline, nuclear pow- during the worst stages of the safety alone isn’t enough. The only thing standing be- adviser er plants are safe. It is important incident, very little damage was In the United States, nuclear tween the United States and to remember that the plant suf- done. power is cost competitive with our nuclear future is the stigma ARVINDER SINGH KANG fered damage as a result of a 8.9 Various media outlets have fossil fuels in almost every in- of nuclear energy. But keep in manager of media magnitude earthquake. That is compared the disaster at Fuku- stance. This is using only mon- mind that in all of the history technology equivalent to 19,000 times the shima to the one in Chernobyl. etary figures and does not con- of nuclear plants in the United force of an atomic bomb. It is Both resulted in a leak of radia- sider any of the social, health or States, the worst accident – the DYLAN PARKER very easy to think that with such tion into the wider environment. environmental costs associated Three Mile Island accident – led creative/technical a great force being exerted upon They were given a similar rating with the use of fossil fuels for to very little radioactive contam- supervisor the nuclear plant, that there on a scale that measures nuclear production of electricity. We all ination to the environment. In DARREL JORDAN must be serious radiation prob- plant disasters. However, the know that coal-powered electri- fact, the Three Mile Island acci- chief engineer lems. This is actually entirely radiation emitted in the Cher- cal plants emit vast amounts of dent rates below the Fukushima untrue. nobyl incident was 14 times that pollution into the atmosphere. accident by two alert levels. MELANIE WADKINS In the two weeks after the of the Fukushima incident, with Yet, coal companies are not re- We as a nation need to over- advertising manager damage to the plant, there were the majority of the radiation in quired to pay to help clean the come this stigma. We need to STEPHEN GOFORTH approximately 100 microservi- the Chernobyl incident leaking air of the carbon dioxide they embrace nuclear power as a vi- broadcast manager ents of radiation recorded at the directly into the air. emit. able alternative to coal power. Fukushima town hall. To put this Due to the low levels of con- Nuclear power companies, We need to do this today. THE DAILY The Daily Mississippian is published daily Monday The Daily Mississippian welcomes all comments. through Friday during the academic year. 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OPINION | 5.5.11 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 3 Bin Laden’s death no Face Forward: the narrative longer a game changer culture that often goes with- It neglected to understand out explanation.