University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian Journalism and New Media, School of 3-1-2011 March 1, 2011 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "March 1, 2011" (2011). Daily Mississippian. 735. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/735 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 UESDAY , MARCH 1, 2011 | VOL . 100, NO . 93 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 Three law students win big in New York this week SWAYZE FIELD BY CAIN MADDEN plete. It is a tremendous amount BASEBALL Campus News Editor of work, and I am thrilled to see that kind of hard work reward- Support your Rebs as they take on Three University of Mississippi ed.” Austin Peay students traveled to New York Case said the three students this weekend and out-debated 73 have bright futures in law. 6:30 p.m. schools in the 23rd Annual Na- “One of things it will demon- $3 with student ID. tional Environmental Law Moot strate is that they are not afraid Court Competition. of extremely hard work,” Case FORD CENTER Competing at Pace Law School said. “My expectation is that they SWAN LAKE were two third-year law students, will do quite well in job markets, Christina Ashoo and Neal Wise, independent of this, but this will The Russian National Ballet is and one second-year law student, look good.” bringing its acclaimed production Dreda Culpepper. A moot court is essentially a of “Swan Lake” to the University “This is the most prestigious practice court. For this competi- of Mississippi’s Gertrude C. Ford environmental law moot court tion, the students assume the case Center for the Performing Arts. competition in the country, and has already been tried in a lower at 23-years-old, one of the oldest,” court and that they are presenting 8 p.m. March 4 said David W. Case, associate law their cases to reject or accept the $20 Mezzanine/ Balcony (Gen. professor and debate coach. trial court’s decision to the U.S. Adm.) Orchestra/Parterre tickets “I have a tremendous amount Federal Court of Appeals. are sold out. of respect for our students because Each team wrote a court of ap- COURTESY OF DAVID CASE of the law schools that competed. peals brief in November and ar- Christina Ashoo, Dreda Culpepper, Professor David Case, and Neal Wise after You have to be extraordinarily gued in three preliminary rounds the championship round in New York City. The group won first place at the 23rd prepared just to get to the elimi- at the competition in February. annual National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition. inside nation rounds,” Case said. The brief was 40 percent of the NEWS “To win it all, you have to re- preliminary score and the three terfinal round, the team received Ole Miss to the championship ally perform.” preliminary arguments made up the award for best brief appellant, round. NEW PARK GETS TAILS The competition began in No- the final 60 percent of the score. one of three awards for the high- Ole Miss faced Baylor Uni- WAGGING vember, and Case said the stu- Twenty-seven schools made it est scoring briefs annually given versity and three-time defend- dents and coaches became some- to the quarterfinals. at the competition. ing champion Lewis & Clark thing of a miniature law firm. Culpepper was named Best Ashoo and Culpepper argued Law School in the championship “You work for two months Oralist in the team’s first and for Ole Miss in the quarterfinal round. straight to get the brief written, third preliminary rounds, and round, defeating teams from the In addition to the title, the Ole and once the brief is filed, you Wise was named Best Oralist in University of Houston and Rut- Miss School of Law also won work for two months research- the team’s second preliminary gers University. In the semifinal an original watercolor entitled ing oral arguments,” Case said. round. round, Culpepper and Wise de- “Dawn: Storm King,” which will “Practices are long because of the After the announcement that feated UCLA and the University soon be on display at the Robert amount of work you have to com- Ole Miss advanced to the quar- of California Berkeley, advancing C. Khayat Law Center. Playwright wows crowd at Ford Center Monday night Panty thief faces indictment BY KEVIN WILLIAMS home in Marshall County on The Daily Mississippian Oct. 3, 2010, and was charged with 11 counts of burglary. A report released by the As- Reports said that Lillo is ac- sociated Press yesterday stated cused of breaking and enter- SPORTS that Joseph Paul Lillo, the al- ing into numerous residences leged panty thief, was indicted and stealing female undergar- PERRY LEADS FOR OLE by the Lafayette County grand ments, thus his popular title, MISS jury earlier this month. the Panty Thief. He is subject to several crim- Oxford police chief Mike inal charges related to a string Martin would not release what ALEX EDWARDS | The Daily Mississippian of thefts and burglaries in the Lillo allegedly did with the Oxford area. garments or how he picked his Ntozake Shange speaks at the Gertrude Ford Center for Black History Month last Oxford police detective Jim- victims, but he said the panty night. Ntozake recited meaningful poems and took part in a Q&A session. my Williams said Lillo could thief reportedly used the path face up to 13 counts of resi- of least resistance to gain en- BY CHARLES HALE ROBINSON was the special guest speaker of last dential burglary. trance into the homes of his The Daily Mississippian night’s Black History Month key- The Oxford district attor- alleged victims. note. Following the event, Shange ney’s office declined to con- Denied bond, Lillo has been Even though the Ford Center was signed copies of her books in the firm or deny reports pertaining awaiting a hearing by the grand packed last night as the University foyer of the Ford Center. to the indictment proceedings, jury at the Lafayette County closed out Black History Month, The event kicked off at 6 p.m. citing confidentiality protocols Detention Center. only one person could truly be with welcoming speakers Provost and safety concerns. According to local law en- heard. Morris Stocks, Ulysses “Coach” Assistant district attorney forcement officials, Oxford The black woman spoke slowly Howell and Associated Student Honey Ussery, who is pros- public defender Joshua Turner and softly as the audience sat below Body president Virginia Burke. ecuting the case, said that fur- has been appointed to defend like grandchildren at story time. Au- Donald Cole, assistant provost ther information concerning Lillo in the event of a criminal thor and playwright of many works and assistant to the chancellor Lillo’s indictment will be made trial. If convicted, Lillo could including “For Colored Girls Who concerning minority affairs, then available to the public within face up to 25 years in prison. Have Considered Suicide When the the next two weeks. A trial date has not yet been Rainbow Is Enuf,” Ntozake Shange See KEYNOTE, PAGE 3 Lillo, 32, was arrested at his set. OPINION OPINION | 3.1.11 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 2 CAROLINE LEE Discovery takes off, so does the space industry editor-in-chief EMILY ROLAND Last week, the space shuttle Dis- orbit. market will begin to emerge over people will spend the high prices managing editor covery took off from the Kennedy It is amazing that something cre- the next decade. Countless num- for space travel, and the second is Space Center for its 39th and final ated and built in the early 1980s bers of companies have already be- what would happen if a Challenger LANCE INGRAM city news editor time. successfully carried a key research gun developing and building our or Columbia disaster were to hap- As many of you have heard over component to the International next-generation space travel tech- pen. CAIN MADDEN the past year, the space shuttle pro- Space Station just last week. nology. The fact is that space travel is campus news editor BY MATTHEW gram is being discontinued. The When I think of the general I think that in the long run this dangerous. These companies will HENRY three remaining shuttles, Discovery, technological advances that have has potential to be very beneficial have a huge hurdle to cross in terms VICTORIA BOATMAN Columnist Atlantis and Endeavor, are slated to occurred in the past 30 years, I because it allows for other revenue of convincing the public of the safe- enterprise editor be retired within the coming year. cannot help but wonder what the streams to fund these projects. It ty of these new technologies. After these shuttles are finished space shuttle would have been like is very difficult for any president, Some argue there is very little AMELIA CAMURATI with their respective missions, they if it were built today. without the threat of something money to be made in space (you opinion editor will take up residences in museums, After all, we made it to the moon such as the USSR, to defend the could always sell moon rocks, I including the Smithsonian.