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It’s not hard to see construction has been taking place on the Uni-versity of Mississippi’s campus.

One such building under con-struction is the former dormitory Miller Hall, which is in the pro-cess of becoming two new dormi-tory buildings.

Miller Hall, a 122-bedroom dormitory built in 1960, was used to house student-athletes.

“It was old; it was tired,” said Ian Banner, director of facilities planning. “It was architecturally not significant, and it was on a site that, as you can see, could yield 850 beds rather than 120.”

Banner said it made sense to put the site to more efficient use

than what Miller was capable of.“The Miller Hall building was

nearing the end of its useful life,” he said. “The complete renova-tion of Miller Hall just didn’t seem as efficient in a sensible way of spending the money.”

The project is currently on schedule and moving toward its August 2012 completion date.

The new housing arrange-ments have an expected total cost of $39,314,500 and will provide 856 beds between the three new dorms.

Each four-story dormitory will have two-bedroom dorms.

The new halls will contain amenities, including kitchens and study rooms. The five-story west building will be home to the hous-ing department’s administrative offices, classrooms and even a pizza restaurant.

The university’s decision to in-

clude the dorms in the campus’ master plan was likely spurred by the increased need for housing to accommodate incoming students. The dormitory buildings will each provide 428 places to sleep

and contain a study room on each level, a compromise made to pro-vide the maximum amount of re-sources and space for residents.

Banner said the new complex’s architecture should reflect the

buildings directly opposite of the Johnson Commons. Aesthetic fea-tures, like its windows, will resem-ble the Faulkner and Longstreet

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Miller Hall, which began renovations in July, will open Aug. 2012. Miller Hall is improving from 122 to 856 beds.

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Friends remind everyone ‘they won’t be forgotten’

Students gathered this past Sunday night to honor the three Kappa Alpha members who died in a car accident.

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For the second time within a span of a month, the University of Mississippi is mourning.

Following the death of gradu-ate student Kevser Ermin, three more young lives were taken from the community.

Sam Clayton Kelly, Mason Wilbanks and Walker Kelly died in a single-car accident just north of Jackson, heading back to a university they knew existed for years, but had just gotten to know more intimately within the past three months as freshmen.

Dean of Students Sparky Reardon helped arrange for buses to pick up students who attended high school with the young men, shared a residence hall with them or were part of the Sally McDonald Barksdale Honors College with Sam Kelly.

Tuesday night, the Associated Student Body passed resolution 11-26, honoring the three stu-dents. The resolution, brought forth by Sen. Haley Kesterson, says Ole Miss is a family, and each student lost was a valuable

contribution to the community.The three young men were

inseparable, according to their friends. They attended Madison Central High School together and Ole Miss, and they were all new members of the Kappa Al-pha Order fraternity.

Neal McMillin, a sophomore Southern studies major, was one grade ahead of them in high school.

“I went to Madison Central with the guys,” McMillin said. “I’ve known Mason all through-out high school. I dated a girl a year younger, and we were in the same friend group.”

McMillin, a member of KA, said the three men came up for a spring party before they en-rolled.

“I realized they were some of my Madison Central guys, and I started really watching out after them and getting to know them better,” he said. “They came up to Ole Miss, and I started doing the regular rush thing –– asking them over to the house, talking to them about Biology 160.”

Trey Carroll, a junior English major, is close to the family of

Sam Kelly.“I grew up with Sam,” he said.

“A big part of my childhood memories are from going over to his house.”

Carroll said he dated Sam Kelly’s sister in junior high.

“I was literally over (at Sam’s house) all of the time,” he said. “I got to know Sam really well; I got to know his family even bet-ter, which makes this even hard-er because I know how awesome they are and how much they loved him.”

Carroll said he lost touch with Sam after high school, but when he came up to Ole Miss, he was the same guy Carroll remem-bered.

As for Mason and Walker, Carroll said he did not get to know them until they pledged KA. Carroll served as one of their pledge trainers.

“Getting to know Mason and Walker was kind of hard, espe-cially in only four weeks with 85 guys around them,” he said.

“I didn’t get a chance to know (them) near as much as I would

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October was a dark month at the University of Mississippi.

Death seemed to have been ever present on our doorstep. Just as we were beginning to heal after the death of Kevser Ermin, we lost three more stu-dents.

The weight of a young death is heavy; it shocks everyone. Parents are shaken because it could have been their child; the

experience of losing a child is a nightmare. For college students, the loss of a fellow classmate is a sobering event.

We don’t think about death much, especially while we’re planning the rest of our lives.

Death has a way of making everything feel futile. What’s the point in getting a degree, getting a job and being careful if our lives can be taken so sud-denly?

But I think there is something good that can come from that feeling of futility.

Instead of focusing on our futures, we can learn to focus on our present. Enjoy every moment because every mo-ment is precious. Learn to ap-

preciate little things in life in-stead of waiting for something “big” and exciting to happen. Enjoy the little day-to-day ex-citements, whether it’s getting lunch with a friend or having a class cancelled.

In many ways, trying to con-trol our future is futile. It’s full of uncertainty, but we have full control over our present. Em-brace that control.

If you knew Sam, Walker or Mason, or if you knew Kevser, then grieve, cry and let that emotion wash over you; just don’t let it control you. We’ve all heard of, or maybe even know, people who have been heavily affected by the death of someone close to them that

the sadness overtook them. But nothing beneficial ever comes from that, so if you do feel overwhelmed, by all means, go to the counseling center, talk to your friends, your religious leader, a random stranger, any-one.

Just get it out; don’t sit alone with your thoughts. At the end of the day, death is some-thing that unites us all, so why shouldn’t we talk about it?

In E.E. Cummings’ poem, “Since feeling is first,” he writes, “the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids’ flutter which says we are for each other; then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life’s not a paragraph And death i think is

no parenthesis.” I can’t capture their lives or

ours or the experience of death in words — at least, not well enough to do any of them jus-tice. Life is to be experienced; no writing can describe it fully because living is a beautiful thing best learned by experi-ence, even at times when it feels miserable and hopeless.

We are lucky or blessed or whatever adjective you want to use to experience life at all. So keep living even when it’s hard.

Megan Massey is a junior re-ligious studies major from Mount Olive. Follow her on Twitter @me-gan_massey.

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Sometimes, good things come in pairs. Shoes, cookies and good movie sequels are things that we would consider normal when they come in pairs. What about college professors teach-ing the same course?

Before the start of this se-mester, I enrolled in a course that was dual-taught by two very qualified professors. I had been warned about these dual-taught courses, but I decided that the concept of having two professors teach the same course was very logical.

I thought that having two professors would give me dou-ble the insight that I would nor-mally get about a certain topic, thus expanding my knowledge. I thought that this would be a great learning experience for me. I could not have been more wrong.

Instead, I got the opposite effect. I have definitely got-ten two perspectives on all the lecture material, but that is surprisingly very distracting. One professor will elaborate on a certain subject, getting my train of thought rolling in one direction. Just as the train gets going at a steady pace, the other professor butts in with a completely different thought, causing my train of thought to derail.

Instead of giving me double the insight on certain subjects, this dual-taught course seems to be giving me negative in-sight because I cannot seem to stay on track on a particu-lar concept. In addition to the learning aspect of collabora-tive teaching, the grading sys-tem has presented a problem

as well. Normally, a student learns from one teacher and that one teacher grades exami-nations. In dual-taught cours-es, both teachers, who have conflicting perspectives and thoughts about the course ma-terial, grade each test. Essen-tially, there is no room for er-ror when taking a test because either professor might think a certain part of your argument is incorrect or irrelevant.

I decided to do a little re-search to make sure I wasn’t the only one struggling. A quick survey of many of my class-mates showed that they, too, were struggling with the same concepts I was struggling with. With more Internet research, I discovered there are groups on university campuses across the country that are trying to do away with collaborative teach-ing due to the same complaints I have.

Collaborative teaching is not

only wasting our time and en-ergy, it is wasting our money.

College costs are higher than they have ever been before, so why should we not get the quality education we are striv-ing to achieve? These courses offered at Ole Miss should be done away with completely. They are detrimental to the education we are paying so much for.

As you are registering for classes next semester and for future semesters at Ole Miss, let this column be a fair warn-ing to you. Let my mistake be to your advantage.

I agree with the fact that good things come in pairs, but two professors teaching the same course does not fall into that category.

Adam Ganucheau is a sophomore journalism major from Hazlehurst. Follow him on Twitter @Ga-nucheauAdam.

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This past week Ole Miss voted in support of the Green Fund, giving up a piece of our commu-nity so an elite minority can have its way. The buyer’s remorse is al-ready kicking in.

The vision of this Green Fund is to make Ole Miss a sustainable campus. It aims to make us more environmentally friendly and save money in the process. These are noble claims, but they couldn’t be further from the truth.

All across the globe, people take up arms over “going green,” an idea that has merit but is really just a tool for reshaping the world in a collectivist and anti-free-market image. The fund is connected to individuals and organizations who seek to do just that.

Whether you’re a nation, com-pany, student body or individual, you’re irrelevant under the doc-trine of sustainability; anything done in the name of the envi-ronment is more important than your freedom. It taints society by expecting outcomes of energy ef-ficiency with unrealistic means of achieving it and penalizes those who disagree.

Ole Miss students are now sub-ject to annual fees in their tuition. It’s only about as much as lunch at Chik-Fil-A, but the necessity of it is ludicrous. Although 2,000 people voted on the measure, only about 10 percent of the campus actually voted in favor of it, forcing the other 90 percent to help carry the burden.

Those behind the fund knew the mantra of “going green” wasn’t terribly important to us, so they touted that it would help save money. If energy-efficient light bulbs and better-insulated build-ings would improve the university’s financial position, we’d already do

it and without compulsory fees.The fact that the fund cannot

survive without mandated fees is most revealing, but the advocates of the fund would disagree. Archi-tects of the green movement be-lieve they are an enlightened few who know what’s best for us, while we do not. They feel justified us-ing force to get their way, whether through mandated fees or the EPA because the majority is ignorant of what is right.

Gandhi said “science without humanity” is one of the Seven Deadly Sins that will destroy us. Martin Luther King Jr. said in his Nobel Peace Prize speech that when our vast knowledge of sci-ence is met with a spiritual poverty, “dark storm clouds begin to form in the world.”

When an elitist minority impos-es rules on our community in the ambiguous name of environmen-talism, it is immoral.

King also brought up Marxism while discussing this immorality, and it should come as no surprise that the Green Fund’s champions have Communist ties.

The fund aims to bring speakers on sustainability to our campus. A major group behind the fund is Campus for Clean Energy, an organization whose Vanderbilt chapter recently had Van Jones, Obama’s former “Green Jobs Czar,” address their school.

Van Jones is a self-proclaimed communist. He has said Cauca-sian people are to blame for putting poisonous chemicals in black com-munities. He has said he wants to impose socialism on America un-der the guise of “eco-capitalism” and has claimed America should have a revolution modeled after third-world communist dictator-ships.

Our environment is an issue, but the champions of sustainability would like you to believe that so-cialism is the solution. The Green Fund is a tragedy, but the worst is yet to come.

Alec Jones is a junior accountancy ma-jor from Catonsville, Md. “Like” him at facebook.com/thealecjones.

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Not sleeping in college could af-fect your health after graduation.

Working late, partying later, studying in between and sleeping in small increments seems to be a common pattern for several stu-dents, especially those who want a social life. However, studies show that a lack of sleep could affect the mind and body both short- and long-term.

“I’m doing my senior practi-cum in education, and I’m a full time student,” said Julia Porter, a secondary english senior from Columbia. “It’s so hard to bal-ance everything and still have a social life, so I just don’t sleep.”

Porter said because she doesn’t sleep, she doesn’t feel like she gives her best effort to her class work. She, like many of her peers, know-ingly suffer academically due to an overload of responsibilities.

Director of Student Health Services at The University of Mississippi Barbara Collier has a solution: simply manage day time hours more efficiently. Collier said that those students with jobs out-side of school are probably more susceptible to not have this option, however.

Collier said that two consecu-

tive nights with less than six hours of sleep is considered to be acute sleep depravation. Additionally, she said that people who sleep less than four hours a night have a higher mortality rate. Students need 6 to 8 hours of sleep per night.

According to the 2011 Sleep Poll conducted by WebMD, 51 percent of young adults, ages 19 to 29, “said they never or rarely get a good night’s sleep.” College stu-dents in turn overload their bodies with coffee, energy drinks and caf-feine. Some even turn to medica-tion or natural supplements both to sleep and stay awake.

“Occasionally, we’ll have some-one come into (The Student Health Center) who has to go to the emergency room because their pulse rate is so high because they have taken someone else’s medicine, or stimulants, or they drank a lot of Red Bull,” Collier said.

With or without stimulants, young adults who get less than six hours of continuous sleep a night are susceptible to a laundry list of affects, including memory prob-lems and an increased perception of pain, according to WebMD. Collier added that depression, weight control issues and a weak-ened immune system are also ef-

fects that she sees more often in the Student Health Center on the Ole Miss campus.

“People come in feeling tired, and they think there is something wrong with them, that some ill-ness is making them tired,” Col-lier said. “More often than not, it is because they are sleep deprived – they get an insufficient quantity of sleep every night, and all those hours build up, so they are chroni-cally tired.”

Collier said sleep medication and natural supplements, such as melatonin, are prescribed some-times. However, she said that they

are never meant for long-term use.

Not all students turn to stimu-lants for sleep or energy. Porter said she does not take medication lightly, and others follow suit. Stu-dents find ways to make up for lost sleep time in their own ways.

“A lot of times, I go home and take three-hour naps in order to catch up on sleep,” DJ Naylor, a biology junior, said. “I go home and lay around and do nothing because by that point, I’m just dead.”

Catching up on sleep cannot solve the problems sleep depriva-

tion can cause. Collier said six to eight hours of continuous sleep is the healthy amount of time stu-dents and young adults need to sleep a night.

Collier said a quick 15 to 20 minute nap can provide enough energy to get a student through the day, but continuous sleep is what the body needs to be healthy. Even students who exercise and work out on a regular basis can-not be completely healthy without getting enough sleep.

“Sleep deprivation can be fixed by changing one’s lifestyle and schedule,” Collier said.

Sleep depravation in college may result in long-lasting effectsBY EMILY ROLANDdmmanaging@gmail.com

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Sleep deprivation quickly takes hold of freshman Kaylee Morgan after a long night of cramming for biology.

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ings will surround a triangle-shaped courtyard to provide inter-action between the three dorms. The architectural interaction will not be meant to stop at its own space; it will be constructed to provide pedestrian entry to Guess Hall, which may also be included in the university’s future student housing plans.

“In the future, we will be looking at Guess Hall to see if we can con-tinue to move up the hill with new housing,” Banner said. “That’s a real possibility.”

There are not concrete plans for Guess or Kincannon Hall, leav-ing their fates still undecided; both dorms remain in active use. The campus master plan will likely see these facilities either renovated or torn down to make way for more student housing in those designat-ed areas.

The Miller Hall project will be entirely finished at the end of July, just in time for the 2012-13 aca-demic year.

For more information and a link to a time-lapse video of the con-struction project from start to its current state, visit www.housing.olemiss.edu.

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“Should the term person be defined to include every human being from the moment of fer-tilization, cloning or the func-tional equivalent thereof ?”

This is the proposed ques-tion that will be featured on the general election ballot in Mis-sissippi on Nov. 8. This ques-tion, known as the Mississippi Life Begins at the Moment of Fertilization Amendment, or Initiative 26, aims to add lan-guage to the Mississippi Con-stitution that says life begins at “the moment of fertilization.”

A forum to educate individu-als on Initiative 26 was held Tuesday night at 5 p.m. at The Robert C. Khayat Law Center.

Tuesday night’s forum pre-sented a panel of four indi-viduals, including Elizabeth Feder Hosey, a law student and organizer of the forum, Cris-ten Hemmins, an Oxford resi-

dent and mother of three, Dr. Wayne Slocum, a registered OBGYN in Tupelo, and Mi-chele Alexandre, a University of Mississippi professor.

The panel of four sat before a packed room in the law school lecture hall. Although many individuals in attendance wore stickers or carried flyers adver-tising the way they would vote on Nov. 8, some individuals chose to sit quietly and listen to what was said.

All four panel members ad-dressed the audience, adding that all four of them would be voting “no” on the amend-ment. While most panelists argued that the language of the amendment was not clear enough, Hemmins shared why Initiative 26 is something that hits her close to home.

Almost 20 years ago, Hem-mis was the victim of rape. She bravely spoke of the account to the audience and finished by arguing that no woman

who goes through what she went through should be legally bound to carry a child for nine months that could emotionally and physically destroy her.

“This is getting all up in my uterus, and I don’t like that,” Hemmis said.

Tuesday night’s forum was intentionally held to educated individuals on Initiative 26, but it quickly turned into a debate. Questions were posed, and while the panel of four tried their best to answer them, sev-eral individuals seemed to ridi-cule their responses or chose to disagree with what was said entirely.

“I feel like some people prob-ably were informed on issues that they were unaware of be-fore they got here,” said Laney McNeer, a university alumna and mother of one. “But I think that most people who came here today had already made up their mind what they were going to vote on this ini-

tiative.”Throughout the forum, there

were multiple uproars of the crowd, tears, and in the back, a lady knitting. Several children sat in the lecture room wear-ing stickers and t-shirts that matched those of their parents. As a subject that hits close to home for many, Initiative 26 gave a filled lecture room plen-ty to debate.

While individuals in support of Initiative 26 demanded an-swers as to why the panel was only made up of those who ap-posed the amendment, Hosey responded that the forum was not a means to declare wheth-er or not the panel was for or against the amendment but was held to educate individu-als who wanted more informa-tion.

The forum was cut off after two hours for time purposes, but the panel agreed that the Initiative 26 debate would con-tinue until election day.

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like to. There are some things that I got to know, some things that I noticed right off the bat from them; things I didn’t nec-essarily pick up with other guys in the pledge class. I just noticed that these kids came from good families. They were like the three amigos –– they were always to-gether. What one did, the other two did.”

Carroll said he got to know the young men even better through their interactions over the past four weeks.

“The way I got to know them was just through pledge meet-ings, through doing community service, taking them to a girl’s volleyball game and watching

them go nuts; taking them to the girl’s soccer game or being at the house at 7 a.m. for study hall,” Carroll said.

McMillin said Wilbanks was a quiet individual, but he wanted to make sure everyone had a good time, among other things.

“He was all about making people laugh, all about joking around,” McMillin said. “But (he) was real competitive in church league basketball or ran-dom slip-n-slide contests. Any-thing like that, he would go all out to win, and just prove him-self.”

Carroll said Wilbanks was the most quiet of the three, but that might not have been a bad thing to hear from the pledge trainer.

“Because I didn’t have any one-on-one conversations, any run-ins with him or any specific memories of something that he did, (that) means he wasn’t doing anything wrong,” he said. “He

was never late for any roll calls, he did well on his pledge tests, he never made any of his pledge brothers mad or do anything like that. He just got it done.”

Carroll said that as pledge trainer, he could tell who was going to give him trouble and who pledged KA for something more.

“Some guys it was just to get hammered all of the time, and for some guys it meant more,” he said. “For Mason, I could tell that being in KA meant more to him.”

McMillin said Wilbanks was never someone to just be part of the group, referencing a story told to him where Wilbanks got dressed up as a princess to cheer up one of his friends.

“That’s who he was,” Mc-Millin said. “He wouldn’t not do something because the group thought it wasn’t cool. He would catch an idea, and he would do it because he wasn’t afraid.”

McMillin said Sam Kelly was like McMillin in many ways, but that his intellect was a surprising characteristic.

“Sam was one of the honors college guys, which would kind of surprise you because when you meet him you would just find this guy smiling ear to ear, chuckling his classic laugh and just messing around, nothing too serious,” McMillin said. “Yet he would surprise you, and you would find out he was really an honors student, really smart, working on being a doctor.

“He just wanted to be known as one of the guys, one of your best friends, someone you hang out with, and he was a lot more than that.”

Carroll thought back to his younger days, picking out a memory of Sam Kelly.

“I was in the seventh grade, and he was in the fifth,” he said. “I kind of started getting bigger, and he was still the same (size). I remember I used to come up there and play spotlight all the time and Sam was always the first one to get caught because he was really slow. We used to give him such a hard time.”

McMillin said Walker Kelly was the quietest of the three.

“You would just see him kind of standing off by the two guys, just hanging around,” he said. “But as soon as you started talk-ing to him, he would become really animated and really inter-ested in you. He was definitely the leader of the group.”

Carroll said that before he even met Walker Kelly, he al-ready liked him due to his like-ness with another of Carroll’s friends. Carroll recalled a mem-ory of him asking to go home one previous weekend.

“I had told them ‘I want you all here for the rest of the week-ends, we only have six weekends left together, so I want you all here so we can be together,’” Carroll said. “The first time that I talked to him he came up to me, and I could kind of tell he was nervous, and he was asking if he

could go home over the week-end. He had just had a haircut and shaved, and he looked like he was 10, and he was real soft spoken and asked if he could go home because he wanted to go to homecoming with his girl-friend.”

Carroll said after he allowed Walker Kelly to go home, he knew that he was beside himself with joy.

“But he wasn’t going to show it because that was how he was,” Carroll said.

McMillin said Walker Kelly was known a little bit for his hair.

“(He) went through pledge-ship and had this really long curly hair, and he had it pulled back and it looked real mascu-line,” McMillin said. “When he cut it for pledge-ship, it was really funny because all of the sudden it was sticking up everywhere and he didn’t know what to do with it. He lost a little mojo, but he got it back real fast.”

McMillin said he became afraid after he initially heard the news about the accident.

“I was driving, and all of the sudden I realized that something could happen to me, that very next minute,” he said. “Then the shock came in about two min-utes later. It got real as I started driving down Jackson Avenue.”

McMillin felt even more ef-fects of shock once he returned to the KA house.

“I started seeing their faces everywhere,” he said. “Started seeing where they would stand, where they would shoot pool. Walked in to one of my friend’s rooms where they would just come up and hang out. I didn’t know what to do at that point.”

McMillin said the memorial service at the fraternity house was a blessing.

“So many people came,” he said. “What really moved me was the girls that had known them in high school, and their tears.”

McMillin said the fact that the news went public so fast made it just a little bit harder.

“People cared in a large way and that was great and we are grateful for that, but at the same time, it’s hard to publicly and privately mourn. A few people can take it, but it’s been hard,” he said. “We’ve heard their fami-lies are doing alright, and we’re pleased by what’s happening there. It’s good to remind your-self that’s who we really should be worried about is their fami-lies.”

Carroll said this the first time he has had anything like this happen to him.

“I got the phone call right after church, when the three of them were supposed to be at church,” he said. “I was going to ask them why they weren’t there. I was sitting down to eat with some pledges at Firehouse subs when I got the call. Right after I found out my appetite was gone.”

Both Carroll and McMillin said the next move for the friends, family and fraternity is to make it through the visitation and funeral.

After that, they will honor the memories of their friends.

“These three kids were kids that had a good heart,” Carroll said. “These were three kids that by no means deserve to be where they are right now.”

“They were just gentleman,” McMillin said. “All three of them. They will be missed.”

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“The Rum Diary” can be somewhat difficult to wrap your head around.

I was never 100 percent sure if it had some larger purpose that was within grasp that I was fail-ing to reach, or if it really was meant to be the broad and silly comedy the trailers made it out to be.

I’m inclined to think both, but the movie only toed the water ei-ther way, never fully jumping in.

Hunter S. Thompson, hero to alcoholics everywhere, wrote the novel “The Rum Diary” in 1961, but no one saw it until 1998 when Johnny Depp discov-ered the manuscript in Thomp-son’s office and suggested it be published.

After 13 years of development hell, we now have the movie ver-sion.

I haven’t read the book, but if it’s anything like the movie, I would imagine it starts off slow, builds to something bordering on brilliant and then just abruptly stops without resolving anything.

Johnny Depp stars as roving 1960s journalist Paul Kemp who grows tired of living (drinking) in New York and decides to start living (drinking) in Puerto Rico, where he finds work at the strug-gling San Juan Star.

The Star is a propaganda ma-chine, and Kemp is encouraged to only write nice, happy things

about the violent happenings in Puerto Rico, so as to not hurt the thriving tourist industry. He falls in with a corrupt and wealthy American businessman Sand-erson (Aaron Eckhart), discov-ers his journalistic integrity and drinks a whole lot.

Only that last part really amounts to anything.

“The Rum Diary” isn’t a cohe-sive narrative so much as a series

of wacky drunken shenanigans. Luckily, those shenanigans are

highly entertaining, the dialogue is clever and the jokes hit home more often than not.

As a comedy, “The Rum Di-ary” works very well.

Sometimes it’s just fun to watch grown men get intoxicat-ed and participate in a laundry list of exceedingly harebrained schemes to make money or get girls.

“The Rum Diary” pulls this off in spades.

The movie also hints at some-thing deeper with Kemp’s disgust at the corruption in Puerto Rico and his desire to win the love of Sanderson’s fiancé, played by the lovely Amber Heard. Kemp even steps through his drunken haze to make a go at exposing Sanderson’s illegal real estate plot.

The problem is that nothing actually comes of any of this.

The anticlimactic ending is such a giant letdown that it nearly ruined the entire movie for me.

The second half of the movie was really getting down to some-thing great, and then it was just over, with an unwelcome text explaining to us what became of the main characters.

That would be like “Jaws” ending right as they set out to kill the shark, with a text coming up that says, “And then they killed the shark.”

I flat out loved this movie up until the conclusion and was very dejected as I left the theater.

It’s sort of strange to see Depp play a drunken buffoon without his pirate costume on, and his speech cadence is somewhat sim-ilar to Jack Sparrow, though I’ve read that his speech patterns in

this movie were meant to sound like Thompson himself.

Depp is great here, though, and I feel he is often underrated as a comedic performer.

The rest of the cast is good to great.

Eckhart is a serviceable villain (and even in movies where he plays the good guy he’s just too handsome to trust) and Heard is sultry as the object of Kemp’s desire, as she has the rare qual-ity of looking like a supermodel while appearing down to earth.

The heart of the supporting cast would be Michael Rispoli and Giovanni Ribisi as Kemp’s colleagues and cohorts.

Ribisi is hilariously insane as the journalist with even worse

alcohol problems than Kemp, and Rispoli, whose voice sounds almost exactly like Bender’s from “Futurama,” really anchors the film.

The visuals of lush 1960s Puerto Rico could be considered another star of the movie. The production design makes you feel like you’re there.

So, “The Rum Diary” could be been one of the year’s best, but instead it will just come and go and fade from memory in a few months.

It’s certainly not a bad film. In places it’s a very good one,

and though it hasn’t done very well at the box office so far, I’d say it will find its audience some-where down the road.

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PHILADELPHIA –– The Big East is ready to start adding mem-bers after spending the last month and a half losing them.

A person familiar with the de-cision told The Associated Press the Big East will invite Boise State, Navy and Air Force for football only and SMU, Houston and Central Florida for all sports in upcoming days. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the conference was not ready to announce its plan.

Commissioner John Marinatto declined to elaborate on the Big East’s next moves after meet-ing with the league’s presidents at a Philadelphia hotel Tuesday. He said he expected the targeted schools to accept, but details still must be worked out with each.

“As we’ve learned over the last two months, don’t believe any-thing anybody tells you. Noth-ing’s done until it is over. So I’m obviously being very cautious and that’s why I’m reluctant to say names of schools,” he said.

Marinatto did acknowledge the league intends to expand west.

Boise State and Air Force, both

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The Big East has been working on a plan to add those six schools and reconfigure as a 12-team football conference since not long after Syracuse and Pittsburgh an-nounced Sept. 18 they would be leaving for the Atlantic Coast Conference.

“We got reaffirmation from our members that that was the way we wanted to go,” Marinatto said. “It was probably a very small part of our meeting today, where they just reaffirmed everything we had been talking about and authorized me to move forward with formal discussions to get this all wrapped up as soon as possible.”

Exactly when was unclear.“We have not received an in-

vitation from the Big East. How-ever, we understand the things are moving in that direction,” UCF spokesman Grant Heston said.

Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said Tuesday he had not yet heard from any Big East officials.

A couple weeks after the Big East found out about Pitt and Syracuse, TCU announced it was backing out of a commitment to join the league next year and in-stead accepted an invite to the Big 12.

Then last week West Virginia accepted an invitation to the Big 12, stripping the Big East of its most successful football member in recent years. So even with the six potential new members, the Big East still needs another school to get to 12 for the long term.

“We didn’t get into the discus-sion of specifically replacing West Virginia,” Marinatto said.

Temple and Memphis are be-ing considered, the person with knowledge of the Big East’s deci-sion said.

Temple AD Bill Bradshaw de-clined comment.

“We’re having discussions with Big East officials and continue to consider all of our options,” Boi-se State spokesman Frank Zang said.

Marinatto said again that the Big East intends to enforce the

league’s 27-month notification period and will hold Pitt, Syracuse and West Virginia in the confer-ence until July 2014.

The ACC has said it will not challenge the Big East’s rules, but the Big 12 needs 10 teams to fulfill its television contracts in 2012 and has said it expects West Virginia to replace Missouri and join the league next year. Missouri is ex-pected to leave for the Southeast-ern Conference soon.

West Virginia filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Big East’s waiting period and asking the court to speed the school’s di-vorce from the league.

“I quite frankly was stunned when I heard the news that they were filing a lawsuit,” Marinatto said. “I couldn’t understand under what grounds.”

Even with new members ready to commit, the Big East might not have enough football teams next season without Syracuse, Pitts-burgh and West Virginia.

According to Conference USA bylaws, UCF, SMU and Houston would not be able to compete in the Big East until 2013, CUSA spokeswoman Courtney Archer said. Those teams would also have to pay a $500,000 exit fee and relinquish about $6.13 million in television revenue.

Mountain West bylaws won’t stand in the way of Boise State

or Air Force leaving immediately, but they would have to relinquish this year’s revenue, plus pay either $5 million or double the revenue, whichever is greater.

If Boise State makes it to the Bowl Championship Series this season, it could cost as much as $21 million for the Broncos to jump to the Big East in 2012. But getting access to an automatic BCS bid, something neither the MWC nor CUSA has, is what Boise State and most schools are chasing these days.

The MWC and CUSA have announced a football merger they hope will land it BCS automatic bid.

The Big East has that, at least through the 2013 season, and hopes its latest incarnation can keep it - and be attractive enough to television networks to land a billion-dollar deal similar to what the other automatic-qualifying BCS leagues have signed in recent years.

“(Former Commissioner) Mike Tranghese reinvented the confer-ence in 1990 by creating a foot-ball element in order to service its members at the time,” Marinatto said. “We reinvented it again in 2003 and created the biggest and most diverse conference in the country. And now because of all these circumstances, we’re rein-venting it a fourth time.”

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A record here, a record there. This is nothing new for senior Logan Waites, who consistently finds herself atop the leaderboard at every meet she competes in, whether it’s indoor, outdoor or cross country.

At the Southeastern Confer-ence Cross Country Champion-ships Monday, Waites led Ole Miss to a fifth-place finish, the best in school history. Individu-ally, Waites finished 11th in the 6K, with a personal-best time of 20:56:23.

“I actually had a terrible start to the race,” she said. “Within the first two seconds, my foot was completely spiked by one of the girls I was competing against, so I was really behind. It took me two miles to catch up to the lead pack.”

However, Waites was able to overcome the slow start and push her way to an 11th place finish.

“I was really happy finishing 11th,” she said. “Now we are just looking forward to Regionals, and we are going to train pretty hard for that.”

Waites and the Rebels will com-pete at the NCAA South Region-al in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Nov. 12. In her past two regional meets, she finished 66th as a sophomore and 30th as a junior. From regionals, it’s the NCAA Championships on Nov. 21 in Terre Haute, Ind.

In this past season’s outdoor events, Waites turned in a record-breaking performance when she broke her own school record in the 5,000 meters, which was later eclipsed by teammate Katie Breathitt. In last season’s indoor meets, she broke two more of her own school records in the 5,000 and 3,000 meters.

Despite all the records and awards Waites has received, how-ever, she finds her proudest ac-

complishment to be something else, something no other female track athlete had done at Ole Miss.

“I actually didn’t know I was the first female to finish with All-SEC honors in cross country,” she said. “Just being the first at anything is a complete honor. Any time you set a record or anything, it is al-ways an honor — especially at an SEC school. It is always going to be really special, but I definitely think being the first at something is extra special, so that is really neat.”

Waites has excelled at the sport ever since she can remember. In high school, the Hattiesburg na-tive won the state championship six times in the 3,200 meters and five times in the 1,600 meters. She, however, is surprised by all of her success.

“Honestly, I have no idea,” Waites said, when being asked what she thinks made her so suc-cessful. “I am not near as dedi-cated as some of the girls out there. It is completely the Lord just blessing me for no apparent reason. I do love track and cross country; I truly do love it.”

Waites’ love for the sport has propelled her to become one of the best in Ole Miss history, but this year she has found another form of motivation that has really pushed her to where she is today: her teammates.

“It is easy to want to get up in the mornings and do your work-outs hard when you have such an amazing team,” she said. “It is easy to do your 110 percent best when you know that everyone else behind you is giving their 110 percent, too.”

BY MATT SIGLERmcsigler@olemiss.edu

Soccer season in review: looking back on 2011

The Ole Miss soccer team’s season ended this past Friday on a bittersweet note. The team won its last three games, but missed out on a Southeastern Conference Tournament berth by one point.

The Rebels’ season could not have started any better, winning the first three games by a com-bined score of 11-0, and they were on pace for their best start in over five years.

Ole Miss took its undefeated record to the Auburn Tourna-ment for a pair of games against Wright State and nationally ranked Duke. The Rebels tied

Wright State and lost a close 1-0 game to Duke. The Rebels went on to finish their non-conference slate 4-3-1 and entered SEC play with a record of 4-3-1.

Early conference play was not kind to the Rebels, as the team lost its first three games to Ar-kansas, LSU and Auburn. Each match was closely contested and saw Ole Miss only lose by a sin-gle goal each match.

“I felt like we were really un-lucky throughout the season be-cause we had the talent,” senior defender Meredith Snow said.

The Rebels’ luck seemed to be turning when they defeated Alabama 3-0, but it quickly turned for the worse. Ole Miss led Tennessee 3-0, but lost their

top player, sophomore Rafaelle Souza, to an ankle injury and also the game, 4-3.

Losing Souza for three games proved costly, as Ole Miss went on to lose three matches to Georgia, Florida and South Carolina.

Even with only one win in conference play, the Rebels still had a shot at making it to the SEC Tournament. All the team had to do was win its last three games and get some help from other teams.

Head coach Matt Mott called it a “three game tournament” for his team. The girls seemed to respond to having their backs against the wall as they went on to defeat Vanderbilt and Ken-

tucky in the first two games. The final win came against in-state rival Mississippi State to re-capture the Magnolia Cup and avenge this past season’s defeat to the Bulldogs. However, Ala-bama edged Auburn 3-2 in the season finale to earn the eighth and final spot in the SEC Tour-nament this week.

Having six seniors on the team was helpful in providing stability and keeping the team together during the tough stretches of their season. All six starters, led by senior midfielder/forward Dylan Jordan, started games for the Rebels.

“For the season we had great senior leadership,” Mott said. “They pretty much said we are

going to win these last three games and battled.”

Jordan finished her Ole Miss career with a solid senior season. She was second on the team in points (18) and goals (eight). She, along with fellow senior defender Meredith Snow and junior forward Alix Hildal, was named to the Second Team All-SEC.

“You always say (the season) goes by in a blink, but it truly did,” Jordan said. “It just seems like the other day we were com-ing here for preseason, school hadn’t started and we were still practicing at FNC Park.”

The team, as a whole, im-proved from this past season, scoring 11 more goals.

The Ole Miss soccer team finished its season last Friday. Over the next two days, soccer beat reporter Jake Thompson looks back at the 2011 season and looks ahead to next season and the future of the program.

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“I felt like myself again.”That’s what senior defensive

end Kentrell Lockett said on Monday about his performance against Auburn, which head coach Houston Nutt called “his best game of the year.”

In Saturday’s 41-23 loss to the Tigers, Lockett recorded six tackles and one tackle for a loss, and he recovered a fumble. He also showed an explosion and burst that both the coaches and he hadn’t seen yet this year, as he missed most of this past season with a torn ACL.

“I just felt good, you know?” Lockett said. “I was really chal-lenging myself because I’ve been battling what I can do on the knee, what I can’t do on the knee. After I saw what I could do, I was like, man, let’s just play ball now. I just got into a groove.”

Going into the game, the coach-ing staff told Lockett he was going to play a lot, and he made sure to

prove them right in doing so.“It was kind of a battle with my-

self,” he said. “Me and the coach had been talking all week, and he was like, ‘We’re going to play you, we’re going to play you,’

“So, him just saying that, well, I get my opportunity now. I really got to show out. If I get one play, I’m going to do something good, so I can get the second play. If I get a second play, I’m going to do something good so I can possibly stay in there the whole game.”

Even though Lockett felt back to normal on the field in the first seven games of the season, the coaching staff didn’t feel the same way about his play, and his play-ing time suffered because of that.

“I felt like I was a go; I felt like I was good,” he said. “Whenever they asked me to get on the field, I felt like I was good. Nobody on the field is pretty much 100 per-cent when it comes to playing, but I guess the coaches saw differently and saw that I wasn’t the player I was before I got hurt.

“So, I have to show them and

prove to them that I actually could, be it in practice or in the game. I’m happy they did put me on the field.”

As Ole Miss turns its attention to the Kentucky Wildcats, who are also winless in Southeastern Conference play, Lockett said the Rebels must prepare for this Sat-

urday’s game like they would for Alabama or Auburn.

“It’s going to be a battle,” he said.

“We’re going to have to battle just as if we were playing Ala-bama a couple of weeks ago, just as if we were playing Auburn this past Saturday. Every Saturday’s a big game, no matter who it is, no matter what their record is.”

With the slow start on the field in his senior season, it would be perfectly reasonable for Lockett to be wondering where his NFL

Draft stock sits, but he said that hasn’t been the case.

“I haven’t even thought of it at all; I’m not even worried about it,” he said. “Just finishing out the season strong and whatever hap-pens after that, happens. If I get a shot, I’m going to run with a shot because, you know, a ballplayer can play.

“That’s what I can control, just training and possibly going to the combine or, if not, just pro day and whatever happens after that, just happens.”

BY BENNETT HIPPjbhipp@olemiss.edu

AUSTIN MCAFEE | The Daily Mississippian

Senior defensive end Kentrell Lockett celebrates with junior defensive end Gerald Rivers and sophomore linebacker Mike Marry after a big defensive play against Auburn Saturday.