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On Feb. 1, local band SMAASH will perform on BET’s music countdown show 106 & Park as a spotlight artist.

The band, composed of six Southern Miss students and alumni, will be performing their original single titled “The Cool.” SMAASH received the

opportunity to appear on the popular television show after auditioning for a talent search program called Blaze the Stage in November.

Senior business administra-tion major Aubrey Stanton plays keyboard and serves as manager for SMAASH. Stan-ton and the other members of SMAASH call their genre of music “rock hop.”

“Our signature style is a mix-

ture of rock, hip-hop, R&B and jazz,” Stanton said. “We are in-troducing the world to a new genre. Hopefully we can start a revolution.”

SMAASH � rst debuted in August 2008 when they started performing with the African American Student Organization (AASO) gospel choir. SMAASH formally introduced themselves as band in December 2008.

“After 106 & Park, hopefully

we can catch the eyes and ears of someone who can take us to the next level,” Stanton said.

SMAASH has played at Ea-glepalooza twice and has per-formed multiple times at Friday Night at the Fountain. They have also opened for Gucci Mane, Jason Mraz, Miguel Jon-tel and the Ying Yang Twins.

“We have played at every school in the SEC this past se-mester except for Florida, LSU

and Arkansas,” Stanton said. “Our musical inspirations range from Kanye West and N.E.R.D to Dave Matthews Band and Coheed and Cambria to Lil Wayne and Michael Jackson.”

Several Southern Miss stu-dents, along with students from other universities, think SMAASH deserves the oppor-tunity to perform live on televi-sion before millions of viewers.

Local band to SMAASH 106 & ParkLOCAL

Justin MitchellNews Editor

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SMAASH performs duing Eaglepalooza on Nov. 11, 2011. The band is composed of Southern Miss students and alumni and has performed in front of several audiences. SMAASH will perform as a spotlight artist on BET’s 106 & Park on Feb. 1.

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The Southern Miss Activi-ties Council will be hosting two events this week. The first event is Silent Union, modeled after MTV’s “Silent Library.” The event will consist of teams competing to complete various tasks while remaining silent and finishing within set time constraints.

SMAC president Alesha Knox provided one example of a task.

“Someone might have to drink a crazy concoction,” Knox said. “The teammates have to make sure they don’t make the person drinking laugh or choke.”

For every task silently com-pleted, teams will receive 25 bonus bucks. Silent Union will be held in the Student Union today from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. Public relations chairperson Natalie Oalmann said she ex-pects around 15 to 20 people to participate in this event.

“The more the merrier,” Oal-

mann said. “This is a game that requires little to no laughter. Hav-ing to do some of the stunts in this game in front of the student body will definitely add pressure.”

Tomorrow, SMAC will be hosting Late Night Wings and Floats at the Fresh Food Com-pany. Sponsored by Eagles After Hours, this event will take place from 10 p.m. until m i d n i g h t . A buffet of wings, an ice cream bar and a salad bar will be a v a i l a b l e for partici-pants. Knox says that the SMAC team mem-bers worked very hard in order to make this a successful event.

“We just want to let the students know how happy we are that they are back on campus,” Knox said. Oalmann says that in order to make any SMAC event successful,

they have to get the word out.“Eagle Dining has a wonderful

reputation when it comes to after hour events,” Oalmann said.

Last semester’s Late Night Breakfast had over 1,300 par-ticipants. This year, Oalmann hopes to have that many, if not more, participants.

Oalmann said SMAC is an orga-nization that means noth-ing without the students.

“We are so excited that students are back on cam-pus because this event is like the kick-off party for

the great semester we are going to have,” Oalmann said.

SMAC will host additional events as the semester continues. For more information on an up-coming event, visit the SMAC At-tack Facebook page.

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smac starts spring with student eventsArielle Edwards

Printz Writer

smaash, from 1

Aubrey Stanton- manager/keyboardChris Carter- lead vocalistSerod Butler- drumsBen Langston- electric guitarWillie Taylor- rhythm guitarRaymond Bradford- bassShawn Pulliam- co-manager

SMAASH members:

We just want to let the students know how happy we are that they are back on campus.

Alesha Knox

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SMAASH keyboardist Aubrey Stanton performs at Eaglepalooza on Nov. 11, 2011. SMAASH will appear on BET’s 106 & Park on Feb. 1 at 5 p.m.

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Starr Montgomery, junior human resources management major, said she first discovered SMAASH with her older sister. Since then, she’s been hooked.

“I first saw them perform at a show at the Alumni House and then at Friday Night at the Fountain,” Montgomery said. “I love live music, and they brought a feel different than any other live music I’ve heard.”

Rachael Edwards, a senior

music major, said that she heard SMAASH for the first time at the old Mugshots. “I loved the blend they played. They’re a very versatile group,” she said.

Alana Reese attends Au-burn University and majors in psychology. She attended SMAASH’s first concert at Au-burn last January.

“I loved SMAASH’s first show. They came back a month later, and I made sure I was on time and had a good seat. It was like nothing I’ve ever heard before. It wasn’t repetitive. The music was unique and alternative,” Reese said. “Their music is like noth-ing you hear on the radio.”

Reese also said SMAASH de-serves this opportunity.

“They’ve been doing this for almost four years. They will get a lot of feedback.”

Montgomery said. “This op-portunity will put SMAASH out there on a national level,” she said.

SMAASH will perform on Feb. 1 at 5 p.m. on 106th and Park on BET. Anyone who is interested in sponsoring SMAASH can contact the group at [email protected] or @smaashtheband on Twitter.

Student Printz, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 OpinionCURRENT

Barbie: Bald and beautiful?

For a child, Barbie o� en rep-resents beauty, perfection and a dream. For this reason, Mattel Inc. holds a huge platform in the molding of personality and self-con� dence of young children. A group on Facebook recognized the impact Barbie makes in the lives of children and took action by start-ing an online petition to the com-pany and asked them to create a bald Barbie for sick children.

� e Facebook page, titled “Beau-tiful and Bald Barbie! Let’s see if we can get it made,” aims to persuade Mattel Inc. that a bald Barbie will make children who su� er with can-cer, alopecia or trichotillomania feel con� dent, even when their hair is gone – and it doesn’t stop there. � e group also requests that a portion of the proceeds bene� t childhood cancer research and treatment.

Children grow up in a world

where they have to own a certain toy, wear a particular clothing brand or act a certain way to have friends and be accept-ed. No child should grow up feeling like she is not as pretty as other kids because she su� ers from a disease that’s taken her hair from her. A disease is simply something she can’t help, and we as people should take it upon ourselves to let her know that she is still beautiful, with or without hair.

According to the Face-book page, the petition currently has over 22,000 signatures. Users and fans of the petition post photos of themselves bald and proud, and others o� er encourag-ing words and well-wishes to the website’s cause. A few users have taken it a step further and sug-gested the idea of creating a bald G.I. Joe or Ken doll for young boys.

However, much to my surprise, I came across a Facebook user who felt differently on the topic.

This user raised the thought that when his previ-ous wife died of ovar-ian cancer, he didn’t

demand a bald Bar-bie, nor did he de-mand a Barbie with

no breasts when his current wife suffered breast cancer. Instead, he explained to his six-year-old daughter that bad things hap-pen to good people. While bad things do happen to good peo-ple, children react differently to diffi-cult situations and

maybe, just maybe, a doll that favors them

will reach their emo-tions easier than the typical “everything will be okay” and “it’s okay to be different” method.

Unfortunately, yet somehow not surpris-

ingly, Mattel reportedly wrote a response letter to women who petitioned, and said the company did

not accept ideas from outside sources. Well,

maybe if the company cared about

its consumers as people other than dollars, making a Barbie for the es-teem and wellness of sick children wouldn’t be such a huge problem.

If molding children’s self-con� -dence isn’t reason enough, try the usage of Barbie to teach tolerance to those children who are happy and healthy and make jokes at the expense of those who are not.

Many Facebook users and my-self agree, if children’s parents purchased bald Barbie dolls for their child and explained the dolls hairless head, maybe more children wouldn’t see it as being so strange that a little girl lacks the hair that we o� en take ad-vantage or wish was di� erent in color or volume.

If Barbie’s looks represent beau-ty, her body represents perfection, her di� erent professions and hob-bies represent dreams, and little girls all over the globe want her in their possession, maybe it’s time Mattel stands up for children who are just like others in every way except their hair.

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

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NATIONAL

SOPA and PIPA and censors, oh my!

Our constitutional right to freedom of speech has been di-rectly tested over the past few months through the controver-sial legislation SOPA and POPA. At its core, SOPA promotes a respectable objective: to put a stop to illegal web practices such as downloading and stream-ing illegally obtained music and video. To actually enforce this ideal, however, would be nearly impossible without impairing virtually all websites even re-motely a� liated with the perpe-trators. For example, if one were to search “Hey Arnold episodes,” Google would be legally banned from issuing links to websites such as YouTube or Megavideo that host the television program without the copyright holder’s permission. Not only would this a� ect the user, but it could potentially a� ect Google’s intri-cately designed algorithm that allows it to obtain relevant and timely search results.

However, we already know ev-erything about SOPA, right? Op-ponents of the legislation fought � re with � re; they fought censor-ship of the internet by using the

internet. During the past week, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have been bombarded with posts by college students in regards to the contro-versial Senate legislation SOPA and its House counterpart PIPA. According to Twitter, on Wednes-day alone, there were 3.9 million tweets about the legislation. Even more impressively, over seven mil-lion users signed Google’s petition to stop SOPA and PIPA. � e crazy thing is that these e� orts to stop the legislation actually worked. � e Senate and the House tabled the two bills, which is a nicer way of pronouncing them dead.

So, congrats to our generation for speaking out and making our governmental system work in our favor. � rough awareness and momentum, we kept our Internet rights despite the odds. Howev-er, should we really be so ecstatic about our accomplishment?

If this act of legislation taught us anything signi� cant, it isn’t necessarily that our Internet should not be censored. It is that our generation does have a voice that can directly impact the path of our country and our future. In a matter of days, we caused the demise of a bill that had every intention of being passed not even a week ago. Where have we been in the past three years?

What was our generation doing during the debt ceiling crisis, during the healthcare debate, during the extension and reduc-tion of our Middle Eastern mili-tary e� orts? � e legislation that truly a� ects our future happi-ness and prosperity was thrown to the wayside, but a change to our Internet freedom ignited a spark that turned into a roaring � re. � at speaks wonders about our priorities, but it also demon-

strates the power of our uni� ed voice.

If you, twenty something year old Internet crawler, gained any sort of gratification from seeing our legislative system work for you, continue to involve your-self in the issues surfacing in Washington. The main victims of legislation that is passed to-day are not the middle-aged representatives who are voting on the matters. It is our genera-

tion, and we will be subject to the consequences of our present decisions unless we continue to pressure our government to do what is right for our future hap-piness. Continue to voice your opinion, and our 50-year-old selves will thank you.

Ashton PittmanWeb Editor

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Student encourages generational outreach

In the � rst battle of World War Web, We the People won a decisive victory last week in the defeat of two acts that could have drastically altered the Internet as we know it. � rough the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), media moguls and Holly-wood execs sought to diminish the free and open Internet in their quest to eliminate online piracy.

But when the story caught � re across social media, many of us weren’t quite fond of the idea that we could spend up to � ve years in prison for uploading a Michael Jackson song — a year longer than the doctor who killed him.

Nor were we fond of the idea that the federal government could e� ectively shut YouTube down completely if a single copyrighted work slipped through the cracks (as they do daily).

So we rebelled on Facebook, Twitter and blogs. We � ooded Con-

gress’s email boxes. A bill that was hurtling towards quick and easy passage came to a halt.

Soon, President Obama signaled his opposition to the bills. White-house.gov released a statement that it would “not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or un-dermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.” Even sponsors of the bill began to withdraw support.

Rupert Murdoch, CEO of the world’s second largest media conglomerate, News Corp., was none too happy: “Seems blogo-sphere has succeeded in terroriz-ing many senators and congress-men who previously committed,” he fumed in a tweet. “Politicians all the same.”

He had reason to be angry.According to Maplight.org,

SOPA supporters contributed to representatives in Congress more than six times the amount of money opponents did. In total, Hollywood spent $103.9 million in a bid to buy votes. � at included $120,000 to Mississippi Rep. Steven

Palazzo and $772,000 to Missis-sippi representatives altogether.

Proponents of a free and open Internet could only mus-ter $16.5 million.

Hollywood should’ve won hand-ily. SOPA was such a done deal that many in Congress didn’t see the need need to debate it. Irony-deaf Iowa Rep. Steve King tweeted, “We are debating the Stop Online Piracy Act and [Rep.] Sheila Jackson has so bored me that I’m killing time by sur� ng the Internet.”

If our representatives wouldn’t pay attention, we decided we would.

� is time, our tweets, statuses, shares and blogs spoke loud-er than the corporate co� ers. Where we couldn’t raise money, we did raise hell.

� e bruised gods of media em-pire felt scandalized. It was as if gravity had stopped working and proved Sir Issac Newton a liar.

But without a Newton to blame for the sudden failure of crony the-ory, certain of these moguls turned their anger on President Obama. How dare he respond to the will of

the commoners when they, the me-dia titans, had spent so much mon-ey courting him!

“Don’t expect Hollywood to show up and say, ‘Who do I write the check to’ anymore,” Nikki Finke of deadline.com reported one such mogul as saying.

“I’m personally not going to sup-port [Obama] anymore and not give a dime anymore,” another said.

� ey’re dismayed, not just be-cause we stopped SOPA, but be-cause we discovered something they’d hoped we’d never � nd out: � at We the People, by the power of the very tools some sought to take from us, could send an unmistak-able rebuke to the system by which their greed thrives.

Not only can we win World War Web, but we can win the war against that system which says big money is more important than big ideas.

Ginny KramerMath Major

� is was an article of opinion by Ashton Pittman, a writer for the Student Printz. Email questions or comments to [email protected].

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It was easier to track down a syllabus from 7 years ago from a JUNIOR college than it has been to get my credits applied to my re-cord here at the local, pres-ent day, University level...makes no sense!

Can someone tell me where they're taking the hobbits?!

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Happiest place on Earth?

Disney World is famously known to be that special place where all children’s dreams come true.

Is this also the case for col-lege students?

Each year, the Disney Col-lege Program offers opportuni-ties such as paid internships and valuable, on-the-job experience to students across college cam-puses nationwide. Many indi-viduals may wonder if working in the “happiest place on Earth” will actually be beneficial to their studies or just end them up in a labor trap.

Junior tourism management major, Katherine Miller, said she feels the program o� ers tools that can bene� t any career.

“Anyone can learn something from it that is necessary to be successful,” Miller said. “For me, these included communication, having a pleasant demeanor and guest service and recovery.”

Miller worked 30 hours a week at amusement park attractions and received two days o� each week. She said although the living accommodations were not glam-orous, living amongst people her age from all over the country and the world made it worth it.

The length of the program var-ies from three to seven months

with the option of extending one’s program at the end. The amount of hours worked and salary depends on the job, and a certain amount of money is de-ducted from one’s paycheck each week for housing.

Junior advertising major Ashley Taber participated in the Spring Advantage program for seven months and worked 45-65 hours per week at various park attractions. She took on-line classes through Southern Miss during her stay.

“Going into the program, I knew it was not going to be fun all the time, but I was very ex-cited to venture out and meet new people,” Taber said. “Of course there were certain aspects of the program that I feel won’t help me in my career goals. However, a� er participating in the program, I have now completely changed my career path and was able to obtain tons of information that will be bene� cial to me in the future.”

College program alumni are given the opportunity to apply for a professional internship with the company.

Senior tourism management major Janet � ompson has par-ticipated in two college programs and landed a professional intern-ship in event planning a� er her second program experience.

“I have gained more than I can put into words from Disney,” � ompson said. “Lifelong friend-

ships, unforgettable experiences, a wealth of knowledge, not only about the company but also my-self, and a network of priceless contacts are only the beginning of what Disney provided for me.”

Although the program has re-ceived some criticism in the past for Disney using the college stu-dents as a cheap source of labor, according to an article on MS-NBC.com, it has maintained a mostly positive reputation. Most students who participate seem to agree that one gets out of it what he or she puts into it.

“Whenever you think of work-ing for Disney you may think of being a princess or dancing in a parade,” Taber said. “However, the chances of that are very slim and you often get placed in a job that you may not feel is very beneficial to you.”

Taber said when she first learned of her job title, she wasn’t excited but ended up lov-ing her job and interacting with all of the guests. She said the program is not for everyone and includes a lot of hard work and long hours, but she still feels the experience was worth it.

“It is hard to go, but harder to leave,” Miller said. “If you’re in-terested in expanding your ho-rizons, don’t hold back, and let it change you. Just remember to come back home and serve your university using everything you have learned.”

Leighanne LockhartPrintz Writer

REVIEW

USM alum publishes book

In � e Healing, an old woman tells a hurting young girl her story of growing up as a slave child on a Mis-sissippi plantation. When Granada was only a baby, mistress Amanda Satter� eld, stricken with grief over the loss of her own daughter, took her from her mother and brought her to live inside the mansion.

� ere Granada lives a life quite removed from that of other slave-born children. � e mentally dis-turbed mistress takes the bizarre notion to dress her in her dead daughter’s beautiful clothes. � is gives Granada a false sense of priv-ilege and grandeur.

However, when an inexplicable plague hits the plantation, Granada is sent to live with Polly Shine, a slave said to have the gi� of healing. She senses in Granada a gi� that the young girl cannot yet see herself.

� us begins � e Healing, a work

not only about the healing of the body, but of the spirit, the mind, the heart, the soul and the past.

Written by Mississippi na-tive Jonathan Odell, this story eclipses in depth and resonance other works that attempted to ex-plore the themes of race and wom-anhood. While it is sure to draw comparisons to Kathryn Stock-ett’s The Help, The Healing is far more nuanced in its approach.

Before writing � e Healing, Odell spent time travel-ing, researching and interviewing people in order to gain greater in-sight into the people and the time he sought to write about. It shows.

Readers will o� en forget that this book was not written by a woman with � rsthand knowledge of life on

a slave plantation in the years lead-ing up to the Civil War. In fact, Odell is a white man. � e Healing proves his unique ability to draw from the experience of others and from that breathe into life a character that

seems all at once tangible, believable and historical.

While reading my advance copy of � e Healing, I did not feel as if I was reading an unpub-lished work for the purpose of review; I felt like I was read-ing a literary clas-sic that was surely already sitting on the shelf of every

serious student of Southern � ction. Someday, I predict it will be.

� e Healing goes on sale Feb. 21. Odell will be visiting Southern Miss, his alma mater, on March 6 for a campus-wide honors sympo-sium and reception.

Ashton PittmanPrintz Writer

Sports Tuesday, January 24, 2012, Student Printz

MISSISSIPPI’S ONLYBCS-RANKEDFOOTBALL TEAM

BASKETBALL

Eagles soar to the top with win over Marshall

� e atmosphere was electric in the Green House as the South-ern Miss Golden Eagles played host to the Marshall � undering Herd on Saturday. � e Golden Eagles entered the game boasting a 16-3 record overall and 3-1 in C-USA play, while Marshall’s re-cord stood at 13-5 overall and an impressive 4-0 in C-USA. � ere were major post season implica-tions for both teams as the battle for conference supremacy. Both teams have hopes and expecta-tions of making it to the NCAA Tournament this season. Also, with a match-up with Memphis looming just over the horizon on Feb. 1 in the Green House, a win over Marshall created some big momentum for the Eagles as they looked to avenge their 60-58 last second loss in Memphis.

� e Eagles started to pull away toward the end of the � rst half, putting distance between them and their counterparts from Hun-tington, W.Va. � e crowd erupted a� er Maurice Bolden swatted away a dunk attempt by Marshall.

� e score was 42-30 at the half. LaShay Page led the Eagles with 15 � rst half points and going 5-8 from the � eld in the � rst half.

� e Eagles got o� to a slow start in the second half but quickly heat-ed up a� er letting Marshall creep back in the game, shortening the Eagle lead down to 47-40. Mar-shall tried to make a push to get something started, but Neil Watson knocked down a dagger from three, putting USM ahead 56-45. With eight minutes le� in the game, To-rye Pelham smashed a devastating block, rejecting the Marshall lay-up attempt into the stands.

Down the stretch, Marshall fought back into the game, but Watson threw a three pointer from the wing with less than 20 seconds on the clock. � e Eagles sealed the victory with defensive rebounds on back-to-back Mar-shall possessions by Jonathan Mills. � is was the � rst C-USA loss for Marshall on the season and put two teams in a three way logjam atop the conference with UCF. USM managed to pull o� the win a� er struggling in the second half, but the � nal score had the Eagles on top 67-63. � e Eagles are a perfect 10-0 at home this year. Southern Miss shot 21-

51 (41.2%) while Marshall shot only 23-59 (39.0%).

Golden Eagle Head Coach Larry Eustachy was very positive a� er the game and happy with the team’s performance.

“It’s huge,” Eustachy said. “It’s the biggest win we’ve had since I’ve been here. East Carolina will become an even bigger game. It’s a huge win. If we don’t win this game, this league is misleading. With the new plus-minus system, if we’d lost it would’ve put us as even and them at plus three, and it would’ve been insurmountable to get where we are trying to get. � is was a must win in the given situation.”

Watson racked up 10 of his 18

points in the second half and went � ve of nine from deep. Watson provided the knockout blow with a three pointer with only seconds le� . Watson has struggled as of late in situations late in the game taking the big shot, but he didn’t look nervous against Marshall.

“Normally I kind of shy away from it,” Watson said. “But I’m not shy to a big shot, if I can help the team, I’m going to help the team.”

� is marks the second straight loss for the Herd a� er winning four in a row before � ursday night’s loss against the West Vir-ginia Mountaineers. Darnell Dodson led the Eagles in points with 18 on the night, while De-Andre Kane led Marshall with

21. � e Eagles return to action this Wednesday at East Carolina and won’t return home until Feb. 1 against the Memphis Tigers. Before returning home, the Ea-gles will spend next week on the road with stops at East Carolina and UCF before returning to the Green House. Hopefully the team will be able to carry the momen-tum from beating Marshall with them until they get home.

“It was a very big win,” Wat-son said. “Coming into the game, Marshall was the number one team, and we came in and we’ve been very underrated all season so we had something to prove and we were playing with a monkey on our back this game.”

Josh SeabrookPrintz Writer

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Andre Kane led Marshall with

Southern Miss Sports: Upcoming Games

1/25/126:00 p.m. Men’s Basketball at East CarolinaGreenville, N.C.

1/26/127:00 p.m. Men’s Tennis at Ole MissOxford, Miss.

Men’s Basketball:1/21 vs. Marshall W, 67-63

Men’s Tennis:1/22 vs. Alcorn W, 7-0

Women’s Basketball:1/19 vs. Memphis L, 85-44 1/22 at Rice L, 72-43

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