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December 8, 2011 Volume 96 Issue 29

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LIGHTING THE WAYHAWAI’I BOWL WEATHER

According to numerous me-dia reports, fourth-year Southern Miss head football coach Larry Fedora has accepted the same po-sition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As of Wednesday night, no o� cial word

was con� rmed from either school regarding Fedora’s position.

“To be honest with you, it’s still

a rumor until I’m told directly it’s going to happen,” Southern Miss o� ensive coordinator Blake Ander-son told the Hattiesburg American. “We’ll continue to work and do our jobs... Everybody on our sta� is hard at work, recruiting, doing home vis-its and getting ready for the bowl game. � at’s all you can do.”

As early as today, North Caro-lina media outlets have reportedly planned to release information for

a news conference introducing Fe-dora as the new head coach. North Carolina’s former head coach, Butch Davis, was � red in July because of an NCAA investigation into the pro-gram’s relationship with agents.

During an interview with WUSM Wednesday, USM senior quarter-back Austin Davis said the team was in the dark about Fedora’s status.

“We’ll have to wait and see,” Davis said. “Nothing’s o� cial, it seems like

it’s o� cial, but not o� cial... I think the biggest thing is not to forget what we just accomplished.”

USM athletic director Richard Gi-annini told the Hattiesburg Ameri-can that he is con� dent in � nding a strong replacement should Fedora go to North Carolina.

“We’ve got a quality program,” Giannini said. “If Fedora le� the

Reports: Fedora to leave USM for UNCFOOTBALL

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Lighting the Way, an annual event for Southern Miss, took place Sunday evening. The event offi cially kicks off the holiday season at USM. For more Lighting the Way photos, see page 8.

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*Contrary to popular belief, the Bible doesn’t actually mention a specifi c date for Jesus’ birth.*Five months into the fi rst World War, troops along the Western front took a Christmas Eve break from fi ghting to sing carols to one another across the battlefi eld.*The author best known for creating the Headless Horseman also created the iconic image of Santa fl y-ing in a sleigh.*Like the Energizer Bunny, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rein-deer got his start as an advertising gimmick.*According to Celtic and Teutonic legend, mistletoe is magical; it can heal wounds, increase fertility, bring good luck and ward off evil spirits. The tradition of kissing under the mistletoe didn’t begin until the Victorian era.

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� e University of Southern Mississippi’s Student Govern-ment Association is planning to renovate the � ad Cochran Center’s theatre, with help from private funding. Seth Barron, SGA senator-at-large, said that,

originally, the theatre wasn’t be-ing utilized and couldn’t be � n-ished due to lack of funding from Southern Miss.

“When talking to College of Health dean, Ryan Kelly, it gave me the idea of a public-private partnership,” Barron said.

A chosen organization would � n-ish everything necessary to turn the building into a functioning theatre.

“The company would get a cut of the money from any events that take place there,” Barron said.

The theatre would be used housing events for student or-ganizations and colleges at the university. Barron has contact-ed the Grand Theatre’s corpo-rate office in New Orleans and asked if they would be interest-

ed in doing the public-private partnership.

“It is just a vision I see,” Bar-ron said. “I hate to see that great space not being utilized due to lack of funding.”

SGA is currently seeking fac-ulty members who want to help with the project.

SGA Vice-President Jeffery McClendon said that once fin-

ished, the theatre would be a great source of entertainment for students.

“Students would have a fun place on campus that would provide them with entertain-ment,” McClendon said. “We look forward to learning about what this building could do for the Southern Miss campus.”

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ON CAMPUS

Onlookers, medical responders and police tend to a pedestrian who was struck by a car crossing the street in front of Southern Hall Tuesday afternoon. The victim, who was responsive, was taken to Forrest General Hospital where she was treated and released. The University Police Department declined comment on the incident.

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FEDORA, from 1program, it’s still going to be a championship quality program. We’ll win just like past coaches have won here.”

Sine the beginning of the week, Fedora and Giannini have been in New York at the annual National Football Foundation’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony. It was there that Fedora reportedly in-terviewed with North Carolina of-� cials. Fedora was mentioned as a

top candidate at other schools such as Texas A & M, Arizona State and Kansas. Around 10 p.m. Tuesday night, the Hattiesburg American reported that UNC o� ered their head coaching job to Fedora, and that he had verbally accepted.

“Congratulations to Coach Fe-dora,” senior linebacker Korey Williams said via Facebook. “He is a great coach and deserves the opportunity to move up in the

coaching world. No one out-side this team really knows how much he has meant to the play-ers. Not only as a coach but also a great mentor and role model. I’m thankful that he was my coach.”

It is unclear if Fedora will stick around to coach the Shera-ton Hawai’i Bowl in Honolulu on Dec. 24. The Golden Eagles will compete for the team’s first 12-win season in school history

at the bowl against the Nevada Wolf Pack (7-5).

Southern Miss has options to replace Fedora. � ese can-didates include o� ensive coach Gus Malzahn from Auburn, run-ning backs coach Frank Wilson from LSU, UL-Lafayette head coach Mark Hudspeth, defen-sive coordinator Kirby Smart of Alabama, o� ensive coordinator Todd Monken of Oklahoma State,

defensive coordinator Ellis John-son of South Carolina, Louisiana Tech Head Coach Sonny Dykes, receivers coach Darrell Wyatt of Texas, a former USM assistant or promoting o� ensive coordinator Blake Anderson or defensive co-ordinator Dan Disch.

In a four-year stint, 49-year-old Fedora accumulated a 33-19 record and led the team to four-straight bowl appearances.

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Survival of the fittest: finals weekMany college students are

guilty of cramming before fi-nals. Some may learn their lesson after failing Dr. Mon-sterface’s History 101 exam freshman year after a night at Sidestreet (remember that dump?). Others, not so much.

First and foremost, deal with it. Everyone is in the same boat, and most people are here to get an education. Don’t forget why you decided to attend college in the first place.

So, you’ve screwed up ma-jorly, and student judgment day is looming over your head like a black cloud. How do you deal with that reckoning?

Number one: Don’t be “That Student,” that zombified kid cracked out on Adderall des-perately pestering everyone in the library for notes and an-swers to previous tests. Please, just don’t go there. Spare your-self the embarrassment of ap-pearing heinous. Take notes

next time, or maturely address colleagues who have taken the course with questions will get you a lot further than disrupt-ing people’s study time with those unnecessary outbursts.

Secondly, don’t stress out. When looking at the bigger pic-ture, profs are actually trying to teach their students a thing or two, believe it or not. If that wasn’t the case, they’d all be teaching everyone how to take the actual exam. Finals aren’t the end all be all when defining one’s education.

Next, calm down with the highlighting. Ever notice the chick who frantically highlights each and every word in every sentence with a different color for each verb, adjective, adverb and noun? Stick to a single, neu-tral colored pen on a crisp piece of lined paper. Outline any notes you may have, and lightly under-line key words. This helps people focus on the material instead of staring at what’s gone from notes to something from the Lisa Frank section of Fred’s in 1994.

Everything doesn’t have to be perfect. By perfect, that means systematically constructing the perfect study haven with a cup of Mocha Choka Fatfat in your right hand and a lucky study pen in the left. Everything will be okay. Sadly, there is no way to compensate for what you didn’t learn in class by making a magic study nest.

#Hoponthemagicschoolbus if you’re looking for a miracle.

Finally, breathe. Finals aren’t a matter of life or death; they’re tests of what you’ve grasped throughout the semester. It’s easy. Study and take breaks in between. Don’t go over notes and watch Breaking Bad simultane-ously. That would flat out ruin the Breaking Bad sesh. Just watch the show and study afterwards.

Everyone is going through the same thing at the same time. Let’s remember we’re all lucky to re-ceive an education, so there real-ly isn’t much to complain about. These finals are part of what this grand life experience called col-lege is all about. Good luck!

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News in brief:11 Golden Eagles make all

C-USA teams

The Golden Eagle football team was able to get 11 players on the all Conference USA teams voted on by the league’s coaches. Offensive lineman Lamar Holmes, defensive lineman Cordarro Law, defensive back Marquese Wheaton and re-

turner Tracy Lampley garnered first team honors. Quarterback Austin Davis, offensive linemen Joe Duhon and Jason Weaver, and kicker Danny Hrapmann were se-lected to the second team.

Freshman team honors were given to runningback Jamal Woodyard, de-fensive lineman Rakeem Nunez and defensive back Trey Becton-Martin.

Recievers Ryan Balentine, Kel-vin Bolden and Lampley were honorary mentions for offense while linebackers Jamie Collins and Ronnie Thornton with defen-sive back Kendrick Presley were honorary mentions on the defen-sive side. Creighton Nelms, long snapper, was given a honorary mention for special teams.

Fans reminded to not give money to websites for parents

A website, tothetopfamilypride.com, was started to get senior football players’ parents to the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl. The website has been shut down in violation of NCAA rules that would make players ineligible for the game. Ja-son Gray, the compliance and student

service director for USM, said,” NCAA rules prohibit the providing of travel expenses to the parents of student-athletes and by providing such You are putting the eligibility of those student-athletes at risk. In this case one of the senior football players would be de-clared ineligible for the bowl game and not even be allowed to travel to the game if this fund provided any travel expenses to a parent or relative.”

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You’ve heard enough from me over the past two-and-a-half years if you’ve been following the Printz, as I know you all have.

Instead of boring you with what I think I’ve learned over my past four years, I’m going bore you by thanking the people who have helped get me to the point that I am now: a college graduate.

First on my list, of course, is ba-con, but this list isn’t in any par-ticular order. Also, thanks to any haters of all � avors.

Mom, Dad, Van and Chris and the rest of my family - without the unwavering support, emotional, monetary and otherwise, that you have o� ered me over the past four years, I probably would have gone completely crazy by now.

Ebone, you are my best friend, no matter what. I love you.

Arty, ride or die, you’re my dog. Flocka, you too.

Mike - thanks for being that

dose of realness.Hannah, Hannah,

Koty, Ryan and Paul - you are the best friends that anyone could ever ask for. All of my other friends, you guys are okay too. I’m kidding, but seriously, thank you for putting up with my o� -� aky nature. I like to think of myself as a recluse.

� e Student Printz sta� past and present has given me a group of friends when I would have probably been even more of an unsociable loser without you guys. I proudly wear the (sort of racist) banner of token for y’all.

Jesse Bass - started me at this stu� . � anks a lot. Marika, Samantha, Meryl, Eli, Bryant, Topher Bostick, Mary Margaret Halford (the pretti-est editor to-date), Hannah Jones, Ashton Pittman, Lisa Gurley, Taylor (boy and girl versions) Fesenmeier and Henry, Tyler Clevand, Travis

� ornell, Stormy Speaks (if that is your real name) - it’s been wonder-ful getting to know all of you. I hope I got all of the editors I’ve worked under in there.

� anks for putting up with my lack of attention to deadlines. Speaking of, Jen, Eryka and Arielle, sorry for all the trouble!

Dr. Schuman, Dr. Standland, Ms. Linda Kelly, all of the grad-

uate assistants and section leaders in the Pride and anyone else who had to deal with my crap when I was a member of that or-ganization, thank you for not kicking me out and also not fail-ing me because of my chronic tardiness.

Dr. Campell, Mandy Nace, Sue Martinez, Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Xue, Dr. Da-vies, Maggie Williams, Dr. LeDu� , Chuck Cook, Gina Gayle, Dr. Coleman, Rodney and all of the Mass Commu-nications department’s

excellent faculty and sta� have guid-ed and taught me very well.

Dr. Saunders, Dr. Holloway, Dr. Paul, Madame Rowland, Dr. Gil-lespie, Dr. Lares, Dr. Hillard, Andrew Milward (and all of Fiction Writing III) and the professors in other classes I’ve taken whose names escape me at the moment have all touched me and made me a little better by passing on

their knowledge to me.� e Hattiesburg American

sta� , with whom I had the most fun summer of my college career working - I hope that I can get the chance to come back and work with you all (hint, hint.)

I guess I’ll bore you with a little of what I’ve learned too, though.

Hattiesburg is known as the Hub City for a reason. You’re no more than an hour-and-a-half from some of the best cities in the Southeast. Go north, you’re in Jackson. Travel east and you’ve found my hometown of Mobile. To the west is New Orleans (what up, Bourbon?) and to the south there’s Biloxi. You’ll meet some of the best kinds of people here.

USM is a great college. I’ve found my second home here. In addition, I’ve found a passion for bacon.

I also have a passion for quotes, so I leave you with one spoken by Nel-son Mandela. It adorns the door of � e Student Printz o� ce, and I re-� ect on it every time I walk in there.

“Education is the most power-ful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Jonathan AndrewsPrintz Writer

Printz writer Jonathan Andrews refl ects on his college career and time on the staff. We’ll miss him and wish him the best of luck after graduation.

The Printz staff bids farewll to fellow staffer Jonathan Andrews Wednesday night during production.

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“ Jonathan, We’re go-ing to miss you and your de-licious bacon cookies at The Student Printz! Good luck with graduation!

To my hot English teacher, your amazingly great looks made sitting through class bearable and then you got a haircut! Man, what were you thinking?!

Dear Century Park Gates,I’m sick and tired of getting stuck in the pouring rain because you don’t feel like opening after I swipe my ID. #bustingthrough-nexttime

Dearest Hillcrest,I sleep in and eat breakfast at 10:30am-you closed at 10am. I get off of practice, shower, and want a meal at 7pm-you closed at 6:30. By Saturday morning breakfast I’ve learned my lesson, and I arrive at 8am-you close every weekend...are you sure you’re ever open?

To the cute guy that sits in the Union and reads the Wall Street Journal in the mornings, do you notice me? Because I DEFI-NITELY notice you!!!

Dear KD that I got to ‘know’ in Annapolis... You didn’t say you had a boyfriend. And I want my cover (hat) back.

I’m so proud to be a woman of the National Pan-Hellenic Coun-cil! Shout out to NPHC Divine 9! OoWeeSoSweetYip!

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I don’t understand why USM is being blamed for losing C-USA money for WINNING the game. Why aren’t they blam-ing Houston for LOSING the game AND the money? They had the bids. Have you people heard of a thing called PRIDE!! Obviously USM has, because they [football team] played their butts off and won the game with PRIDE! SMTTT!!!

� e end is nigh, brothers and sisters. I don’t mean to alarm you, but as we speak the University is traipsed by men with guns — and badges. And war is surely imminent. It will be a hard fought war, one be-tween those with guns and those who pack. Come spring, the packers will make the � rst act of aggression, and soon enough the university will fall into anarchy.

As you know, next semester the university will start enforcing a new smoking policy. Come Janu-

ary, as smokers congregate in the new smoking zones, they will grow restless. At � rst, this will be a strictly physical sensation due to their low lung capacity and lack of chairs, but soon they will � nd a leader,

“I want chairs,” she will say.“We want chairs,” they will chant.“We want chairs,” they will sit. Be-

hind the LAB. Under a tree. Away from the zones.

And the fuzz will come to where they sit and rain down � nes like tur-ret � re. � ey will issue loads of tick-ets to real-sounding pseudonyms, and the smokers will take this sit-ting down. And they won’t stand for it. Having committed to the role of subversive douchebag, they will hu-mor many plans.

“O� cer,” they will say, “the zone boundary is line of sight.”

“Officer,” they will exclaim, “it does say ‘designated smoking

zone’ and it is in my dorm room. Ipso facto.”

As the semester progresses and other smokers get tired of look-ing for the apparently nonexistent zones by Walker, Scott and Cook, the packer ranks will swell, and their fearless leader will green light her most successful plans to date.

Uniform hoodies, oversized glass-es and impromptu musical numbers will make the capture and prosecu-tion of packers almost impossible. And at a much later date, they will fondly remember the week when all the ‘designated zone’ signs disap-peared and freedom was brie� y re-gained its status as cool.

As the rebellion becomes stron-ger, the police will respond appro-priately. First, they will shi� their rhetoric to garner public support. Calling cigarettes WMDs and dub-bing smokers ‘lung terrorists,’ they

will say, “Actions must be taken.” In a brie� ng, Bob Hopkins will explain, “� ere are known knowns, known unknowns…and something I can’t recall…but these buttheads de� nite-ly have to be put out.”

Tired of always being dissed by the Alpha Beta smokers, the nerds will answer the call. Acting as bad-skinned enforcers, the number of � nes will soar for a while until one of the nerds shacks up with a � ne number from the Pi Delta Pi house.

� en Hostages. Negotiations. Montage. Apocalypse. Zombies.

Of course, I could be wrong, but just in case I’m not, maybe we could get some chairs?

For those who are unaware, President Obama spoke from the heartland Tuesday.

“Some billionaires have a tax rate as low as 1%,” he said. “� at’s the height of unfairness.”

My head turned as I heard these words. In his address to the nation, Obama set a founda-tion upon which his re-election campaign is expected to be built.

But this article is not about Mr. Obama.

In his speech, the president used moralistic language im-bibed from the growing Occu-py Movement across the nation, employing such phrases as “in-come inequality,” “fairness” and even “the 1%.”

I would like to state that this article is not in support of the

Occupy Movement, or any other movement, other than the pro-gressive movement of we the people. This article is about our rights as Americans to free speech, due process and privacy.

Obama’s platform sets its stage amidst unprecedented mistrust of the American gov-ernment by its people. Only in the last few weeks have news stories covered the impending legislation Congress is attempt-ing to pass that will directly re-sult in the loss of some of our most basic rights.

In addition, Congress has proposed another bill intru-sive on Americans’ liberties. The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, is described by the Elec-tronic Frontier Foundation as the “blacklist bill” because “it would ‘allow the U.S. govern-ment and private corporations to create a blacklist of censored websites, and cut many more off from their ad networks and payment providers,’” says a source at businessinsider.com.

This piece of legislation is particularly dangerous to the right to free speech. Internet censorship is something you read about existing in China and North Korea, not here. This is some seriously scary busi-ness, folks.

With all this frightening leg-islation, new evidence has sur-faced that reveals mobile carri-ers have been keeping tabs on their customers. Carrier IQ is the company who has patented the software, and it is allegedly installed in Androids, BlackBer-rys and perhaps even iPhones via the phones’ manufacturers.

“Carrier IQ’s software is in-stalled in your phone at the deepest level. You don’t know it’s there,” says gizmodo.com “You are never warned this is happening. You can’t opt-in and you certainly can’t opt-out.”

There’s not much you can do to avoid this interception of your privacy.

� is was an article of opinion by Joshua Starr, a writer for � e Stu-dent Printz. Email questions or comments to [email protected].

The end is nigh in 2012

Is our privacy being hijacked?

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The No. 22 Southern Miss Golden Eagles will face off against the Nevada Wolf Pack in the 2011 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl on Dec. 24 at 7 p.m. on ESPN. This will be the third match be-tween the C-USA champs and a Western Athletic Conference school. Southern Miss won both the 1997 game (35-19) and the 1998 game (55-28).

1. Old meets new in quar-terback battle

Southern Miss quarterback Austin Davis could punctuate his record break-ing career with his second bowl game victory to go along with the 2008 New Orleans Bowl win over Troy. Davis, who holds virtually every record for a Golden Eagle signal caller, will play in his final game after leading USM to a school record with 11 wins this season. His counterpart from Ne-vada, freshman Cody Fajardo, has been impressive in nine starts and is a dual threat in the Wolf Pack of-fense. Fajardo, WAC’s freshman of the year, has thrown for 1,647 yards and six touchdowns and run for an-other 680 yards and 11 scores.

2. Nevada defenseThe Southern Miss offense will go

up against a solid Nevada defense. The Wolf Pack is the second best total defense, giving up a respectable 372 yards a game and 25 points a game. Defensive lineman Brett Roy led the WAC with 10 sacks and 18.5 tackles for loss. Defensive back Isa-iah Frey is second in the conference with five interceptions.

3. Pistol offense versus 4-2-5 defense

The Nevada offense has revo-lutionized college football. In 2004, coach Chris Ault unveiled

the pistol offense derived from the shotgun in which the running back lines up three yards behind the quarterback. The pistol has al-lowed Nevada and other schools to be balanced in both the pass and run. This season, the Wolf Pack is ranked fifth in total offense gaining 523 yards a game.

Southern Miss’s first-year de-fensive coordinator Dan Disch has returned the USM defense back to their vaunted “Nasty Bunch” days by implementing his attacking 4-2-5 defensive style. The defense took down the No. 1 offense in the coun-try in their win over Houston. The Golden Eagles are No. 20

against run (112 yards a game) and No. 31 to-tal defense (345 yards a game).

4 . L a m p l e y could hit 2,000 yards total

Running back/wide receiver/returner Tracy Lampley has had a great season and shown that he can perform on the na-

tional scene. Lampley currently has 474 rushing yards, 549 re-ceiving yards, 350 punt return yards and 405 kick return yards. Overall, he has 1,778 yards with seven touchdowns, and com-bined with a big day, he could

break the 2,000 all-purpose yard mark.

5. Distractions A whirlwind of distractions will

surround the Golden Eagle pro-gram as the search for a new coach begins after head coach Larry Fe-

dora signed with North Carolina. After what many have thought was a bad decision to play in Hawaii over bowls closer by, it is important for USM to make a great showing on national television.

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Eagles aim to keep winning during the holidays

On Sunday the Southern Miss Golden Eagles defeated the New Mexico State University Aggies 74-66, the second eight-point victory over NMSU for USM in only nine days. This was a crucial bounce-back game for the Golden Eagles, as it was their first time in action since losing 81-90 in double overtime to Murray State in the championship game of the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout.

This game was also an impor-tant momentum-building victory for the Golden Eagles, as the holi-day season is quickly approaching.

“We’re just going to keep playing the way we play,” South-ern Miss head basketball coach Larry Eustachy said when asked how his team would build mo-mentum from the win. “We made a lot of mistakes and we were still able to win, so we’ll watch the film and move on.”

Excluding the Golden Eagles’ home game against Louisiana Tech on Saturday, the next elev-

en games will take place while the University of Southern Mis-sissippi is officially closed for the winter holidays. In Decem-ber they will face strong non-conference opponents such as Ole Miss, Arizona State and South Florida, as well as Bel-haven, Alcorn State and Mc-Neese State. On Jan. 4 they open up conference play against East Carolina and will also play Tu-lane, Memphis and UAB before the holidays come to a close.

In the latest ESPN/USA To-day national polls, Memphis

was ranked No. 20 in the nation, so this will be an excellent test for the Golden Eagles at this point in the season. When asked where he wanted his team to be following the holidays, Eustachy implied that record was not the most important thing.

“I’m hoping we’re healthy,” Eustachy said. “We’ve lost sev-eral players to injuries, so I’m hoping we have enough depth to compete. But if we do, we’ll only be better for these games because they’re really good op-ponents coming up.”

If the Golden Eagles can stay healthy and produce some wins against quality opponents over the holidays, then maybe they can set their sights on a po-tential NCAA Tournament bid come March. But the season is still very young, and that is forward-thinking. The Golden Eagles have had a good start to the season, however, and they should continue to grow and improve into a real contender throughout December and into conference play in January.

Josh SeabrookPrintz Writer

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Lighting the Way Thursday, December 8, 2011, Student Printz

Christmas trees adorn the front of campus during the holiday season.Justin Sellers/Printz

Right: Students of Dance South perform.

Far Right: Graduate student Cameron Weatherford performs with The Spirit of Southern.

Below: Myles Henderson’s parents receive a check from USM to support the Smyles for Myles scholarship fund.

Photos by Mary Alice Truitt/Printz

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