University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 12-5-2013 December 5, 2013 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "December 5, 2013" (2013). Daily Mississippian. 868. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/868 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]. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2013 VOL. 102, NO. 68 THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 ‘PART OF THE TEAM’ THOMAS GRANING | The Daily Mississippian Football players at Oxford High School will participate in the biggest game of their lives Saturday. What they have done for one family off the field is perhaps the most special part of their undefeated season. BY ADAM GANUCHEAU ans Memorial Stadium in Jackson defeated Chargers this season has night, three of whom also attended [email protected] for the 5A state title. possibly been the most important Oxford High School. Their vehicle The usual football maxims to their success. crashed in Panola County. Bial was he Oxford High throughout the season have con- On Aug. 24, 17-year-old Oxford pronounced dead at the scene of School football tributed to the Chargers’ success High School senior Sarah Bial was the accident. team is playing Sat- this season, according to Oxford still “the new girl.” Just a couple When news of the accident urday for its first head coach Johnny Hill: hard work weeks prior, Bial and her family quickly reached Oxford, the com- state championship on and off the field, careful study moved to Oxford from Hattiesburg, munity responded. title in school his- of game tape and the ability to and some girls wanted to welcome Students wept uncontrollably at tory.T The Chargers (14-0) face Pica- overcome adversity during games. her to town. yune High School (11-2) at Veter- But one unique factor for the un- Bial was with four other girls that See TEAM, PAGE 6 Dirty Little Secret: STDs prevalent ASB to present Reading in college students, at Ole Miss Days to Faculty Senate BY MARY DANIEL SIMPSON tion’s most current study, those Center Director Dr. Travis BY ALLISON SLUSHER would prohibit professors [email protected] categorized as “young people,” Yates said there is “no exact [email protected] from giving assignments the ages 15 to 24, had four times record available” concerning week before finals. A recent study on sexually- the reported chlamydia rate the number of students who Associated Student Body The “Reading Days” reso- transmitted diseases shows that and gonorrhea rate of the to- have sought treatment for an President Gregory Alston lution was written as part of college-aged students have the tal population of the United STD in the past year. and ASB cabinet member Alston’s platform and would highest percentage of diseases. States. At Ole Miss and in Ox- “No, that rate should be pri- Jessica Brouckaert will pres- require no assignment count- According to the Centers for ford, those statistics hold true. ent a resolution to the Facul- Disease Control and Preven- The Ole Miss Student Health See STUDENTS, PAGE 7 ty Senate next Tuesday that See ASB, PAGE 7 OPINION: LIFESTYLES: LADY REBELS WIN FIFTH STRAIGHT MORE INSIDE AGAINST LOUISIANA TECH A HAPPIER CHRISTMAS Opinion .............................2 HOLIDAY MIKE’S DECLASSIFIED News .............................5 FINALS SURVIVAL GUIDE Lifestyles .............................9 WOMEN stILL UNDERVALUED Sports ...........................10 IN WORKPLACE THEDMONLINE.COM See Page 2 See Page 9 See Page 10 @thedm_news SQUARE TOAST TONIGHT • 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. HEC · NHM · FCS forSCHOLARSHIPS starting at The Lyric Theatre One Hundred Years of Family, Friends, and Food Benefitting Ole Miss NHM 1913-14 ~ 2013-14 100The University of Mississippi FOOD + WINE TASTING Tickets ($50) available at the door (21+) 35995 OPINION PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 5 DECEMBER 2013 | OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: ADAM GANUCHEAU editor-in-chief [email protected] PHIL MCCAUSLAND managing editor [email protected] GRANT BEEBE senior editor CATY CAMBRON campus news editor [email protected] PETE PORTER city news editor [email protected] HAWLEY MARTIN asst. news editor [email protected] TIM ABRAM opinion editor [email protected] EMILY CRAWFORD lifestyles editor [email protected] CLARA TURNAGE asst. lifestyles editor [email protected] DAVID COLLIER sports editor [email protected] CASEY HOLLIDAY KENDYL NOON online editors [email protected] BRACEY HARRIS COLUMN NATALIE WOOD multimedia editors [email protected] A happier Christmas holiday THOMAS GRANING photography editor sickened at the scene that un- the sake of having something Going on a now three year [email protected] folded before me. Of the piles to open. Instead, we went in to- tradition he’s cashed in coupons of shopping bags in each car, gether and adopted a local fam- to take me on a day long ride KATIE WILLIAMSON how many were filled with items ily through a charity. The say- on his motorcycle, dove hunts, asst. photography editor that the drivers truly needed? ing “it is better to give than it is being his “apprentice” for odd [email protected] How many dollars were being to receive” could not ring truer jobs around the house and a TISHA COLEMAN BY ANNA RUSH spent simply to keep up with than anonymously giving to a variety of other things that we IGNACIO MURILLO [email protected] the Joneses? How many parents family who would otherwise not may have never done together. NATALIE MOORE were diving further into debt to have a Christmas at all. While the handmade, cheesy design editors This past Friday I had a lazy give their kid an updated Wii to During my first year of law coupons cost almost nothing to SARAH PARRISH day filled with leftovers, a lei- replace their existing one that is school and without a job for make, the value of the gift that copy chief surely run and a long car drive working just fine? the first time in years, my bank we both received through them [email protected] with good music back to Ox- Over the past few years, I’ve account was deep in the red. I cannot be put into words. ford. It wasn’t until I had to take greatly downsized my Christ- felt it would be wrong to use the I encourage you to take a long MATT ZELENIK an exit around Jackson for a pit mas. By slowly chipping away money dad had loaned me, just hard look at your Christmas list. sales manager stop that I realized my peaceful at the “corporate” aspect of to buy him a Christmas present What is it that you really need [email protected] Friday was actually Black Fri- Christmas, I find myself having that he probably didn’t need this holiday season? If you are day. The exit ramp and every a happier holiday season. anyway. Out of desperation, like me and put happiness on JAMIE KENDRICK lane of traffic emanating from It started in undergraduate I gave him three “coupons” to your list, it might take a little EVAN MILLER traffic lights off my exit were when my boyfriend at the time hang out with me. Each coupon more creativity than hitting TAMEKA WILSON congested with bumper to bum- and I decided we were not going guaranteed one full day of qual- Black Friday sales because hap- account executives per SUVs filled to the brim with to exchange gifts. We had dated ity time together, no phones, piness certainly isn’t found on FARRELL LAWO the occupants’ spoils of Black for years, and each year resulted no work, just him and me. Yes, any store shelf. KRISTEN SALTZMAN Friday sales. in a bigger gift than the year be- you should do that anyway, but creative staff Perhaps it was the juxtaposi- fore. We honestly couldn’t think between our busy schedules we Anna Rush is a law student from tion of my tranquil morning to of anything we needed and just never made the time. The Hattiesburg. She graduated from Mis- S. GALE DENLEY the frenzied, honking mass of didn’t want to spend an exorbi- coupons were binding that we sissippi State University in 2011. STUDENT MEDIA CENTER cars, but I couldn’t help feeling tant amount of money just for would make that time. 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