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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The University of Mississippi will name a recently constructed dormitory for donors Roland and Sheryl Burns.

The College Board Thursday approved the naming of what’s currently called The University Housing South Building, which opened last fall.

Burns Hall will honor the cou-ple’s lifetime pledges and dona-tions to Ole Miss of more than $5.3 million.

Board documents show the couple recently pledged a $2 million gift to be split evenly be-tween athletics and academics. They earlier endowed an ac-counting professorship with $1.5 million and gave $1 million for a football team meeting room.

Burns, president and chief financial officer of oil and gas firm Comstock Resources of Frisco, Texas, graduated from Ole Miss in 1982 with bachelor and master’s degrees in account-ing.

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Located on the outskirts of The University of Mississippi campus along Whirlpool Drive are what users might lovingly call underappreciated trails.

Offering beautiful natural space for biking, running and walking, the Whirlpool Trails are maintained by the cooperative efforts of members of the Ox-ford Cycling Club and the uni-versity’s Landscape Services.

A nonprofit organization dedi-cated to promoting cycling activ-ities in and around Oxford, the Oxford Cycling Club promotes healthy community space and members through the upkeep of the Whirlpool Trails.

Brad Cannon, the mountain bike coordinator for the Ox-ford Cycling Club, said that the

volunteers from the organiza-tion worked on the trails from Thanksgiving to March.

Known as the SWECO crew, the volunteers named for the small bulldozer used to maintain the trails put in hours equivalent to 12 days of work in a few short months, according to Cannon.

“We had a total of over 300 hours of manpower between Thanksgiving and the beginning of March,” he said.

The SWECO crew has five dedicated volunteers who show up every weekend to work on the trails, Cannon said. But, on a good weekend, they can expect six to 10 volunteers.

Over the winter, the SWECO crew rerouted worn-down and eroded trails, working with a corps of engineers to redesign these trails as easier to navigate, Cannon said.

Although the reconstruction is beneficial, some students are not fond of it.

“I don’t like how they are de-veloping and reconstructing the trails,” sophomore business ma-jor Liza Wirt said. “Sometimes they are working on the trails and it hinders me from riding.”

Cannon said the biggest up-keep challenge is damage from storms. When a storm happens, the crew will go in and trim the hanging branches and pick up the fallen limbs.

“We make sure the ‘face slap-pers’ are trimmed and that the trail is safe to ride and run on,” Cannon said.

University of Mississippi Landscape Services works with the Oxford Cycling Club to keep the road leading to the Whirl-pool Trails clear.

“We do not maintain the

trails,” said Denise Hill, superin-tendent of Landscape Services. “The extent of what we do at the trails is Bush Hogging the right of ways and maintaining the main road that leads to the trails.”

Hill said the city helps Bush

Hog where it is too steep for their equipment and that the physical plant assists in managing ero-sion.

Although the trails have been around for almost 20 years, few

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A sign, shown above, is posted at the Whirlpool Trails giving a map for users to reference.

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Construction to expand the sidewalk in the Grove between Farley Hall and the Walk of Champions is continuing this week. Crews marked off a wide area around the construction, diverting students to walk on the grass and mud.

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“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we all are mortal.” — John F. Ken-nedy

The high prevalence of asthma in Mississippi is an in-dicator that Kennedy’s “most basic common link” between all people is in disarray. In-creasing rates of asthma are a sign that the most important environmental concern — air quality — is polluted.

A chronic lung disease, asth-ma gives its victims symptoms such as coughing, shortness of breath and anxiety. In the past,

the disease received little at-tention, primarily because few people had asthma. Now, nine people in the U.S. die each day from asthma. Asthma is the most common chronic disor-der in childhood. Nearly one in eight U.S. children has the disease. Smaller in size, chil-dren are more prone to suffer-ing from environmental toxins. The exact cause of asthma is unknown, but based on symp-toms and the children effect, environmental air pollution is the most likely source.

Since the average Ameri-can spends 90 percent of his or her time indoors, most asthma advice emphasizes reducing household triggers such as tobacco smoke, dust mites, mold, pets and even cockroaches. Though highly practical, the focus on house-hold triggers deflects the focus from the macro-pollution con-tributors to asthma. Children spend far more time outdoors.

Asthma is much more preva-lent in children. Could there be a connection?

Mississippi is being proactive about the asthma problem. In 2010, Gov. Haley Barbour and Rep. Steve Holland de-cided to do something about Mississippi’s asthma problem. They sponsored a bill that di-rects schools to be proactive about asthma. Barbour stated, “The Mississippi State Asthma Plan is an urgent, coordinated call to action, challenging us to work toward a common cause.” The act focuses on public awareness and indoor air quality.

Problematically, the bill al-most wholly ignores the big-ger picture — outdoor air pollution. Perhaps the omis-sion stems from the fact that only nine of the 82 counties in Mississippi have air qual-ity monitors, according to the American Lung Association. Omitting outdoor air pollution

also lets big energy, big agri-culture, big car off the hook. Without considering these polluters, asthma becomes an individual’s problem. Air pol-lution is everyone’s problem. Asthma is the symptom.

Asthma is an environmental justice issue. Our most vulner-able people suffer the most — children. Asthma doesn’t impact Mississippi’s children equally. Gender matters. Boys are more likely to suffer than girls. Race matters. The Envi-ronmental Protection Agency states that, nationally, blacks are 380 percent more likely to visit the emergency room be-cause of asthma.

Though the Mississippi State Department of Health’s racial disparities chart only examines black and white, the comparison is striking. Where-as 5.8 percent of white male children have asthma, 14.1

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percent of black male children suffer through asthma. Based on Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention data, an astonishing 20 percent of His-panic children in Mississippi have asthma. Even education matters; having a high school diploma nearly halves the rate of asthma.

Perhaps most significantly, income matters. Individuals living in households with an annual income greater than $50,000 only have a 4.2 per-cent rate of asthma. In those houses with less than $25,000 in income, 10.7 percent have the lung disease.

Asthma complicates our state’s efforts to be healthy. Obesity is linked to asthma, especially since exercising takes greater care. A survey from the Mississippi State De-

partment of Health reveals that only 29 percent of Missis-sippi adults with asthma have a normal body weight. Asthma is also expensive. According to the Mississippi State De-partment of Health, the total asthma cost to Mississippi was nearly $770 million in 2007. Of course, dollars hardly re-flect the human toll.

Mississippi is the fourth most rural state. We face less car emission and urban pol-lution not because our areas are cleaner, but because fewer people live in those areas. Still, our asthma rates are high. More than 151,000 adults and 66,000 children in Mississippi have asthma, based on a 2008 report.

Agriculture has an effect. Pesticide exposure may help explain Mississippi’s very high asthma rate. Our state uses tons of pesticides on crops.

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Washington University states that “epidemiologic stud-ies suggest that children with asthma may breathe easier if they are exposed to fewer pes-ticides.” Studies conducted in Lebanon and California con-firm that individuals exposed to herbicides and pesticides during early childhood are very likely to be more prone to asthma. Organophosphates for agriculture, glyphosate (Roundup) on lawns, and py-rethroid insecticides for mos-quitoes are just a few of the pesticides that can seriously aggravate lungs.

In a dramatic fashion, the energy sector is increasing pol-lution in Mississippi’s air by a rapid amount. In the year of Barbour’s asthma plan, Missis-sippi moved into the Toxic 20 because of pollution from en-ergy production. Mississippi’s air quality rose to 17th in the National Resources Defense

Council’s most polluted list. A Mississippi Public Broadcast-ing report analyzed the find-ings.

The council’s director, John Walke, was amazed by our de-cline in air quality. From 2009 to 2010, Mississippi’s toxic emissions from power plants nearly doubled. The 100 per-cent increase, according to Walke, “is frankly astonishing, and not matched by any other state ... clearly something (is) going on.”

The chief of the air division at the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is skeptical. Maya Rao said the report was just a “snapshot” and not indicative of the “trends.” How the head of-ficial of our air views a state-wide doubling in admissions as unimpressive is something to ponder.

Health officials have noticed. The state has a location-specif-

ic air quality crisis. Gail Mar-shall, director of UMMC’s Di-vision of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, said even healthy individuals are at risk for lung disease from increased expo-sure to pollution in urban, in-dustrial and heavily sprayed agriculture areas.

Doctors and patients know that the quality of our air in the outdoor environment mat-ters. Instead of focusing on just the air within our homes, we should all work together to clean up our state skies.

Neal McMillin is a senior South-ern studies major from Madison.

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Kiese Laymon speaks at Off Square Books to begin the Oxford Conference for the Book Wednesday night.

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The first Reading Session for Oxford Conference for the Book featured author Kiese Laymon and took place Wednesday at Off Square Books.

Kicking off at 4:30 p.m., the reading was a casual gathering with complementary drinks and cream cheese and pepper jelly

dips. The gathered crowd con-sisted of a range of students, Ole Miss faculty, Oxford locals, authors and literary enthusiasts alike.

General Manager of Off Square Books, Lyn Roberts, gave a warm introduction to Laymon, welcoming the associ-ate professor of English at Vas-sar College back to Oxford after his last visit in August of 2013

and praising him in particular for his popular work, “Long Di-vision.”

Laymon, who comes from

Jackson, strolled to the podium with a warm, welcoming smile, and after only a few words, had his audience laughing and smil-

ing right back. Laymon read a work titled “The Worst of White Folk,” which explored his experiences growing up as a black boy in Central Mississippi, from his book of essays, “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Oth-ers in America.”

A more somber, reflective mood fell over the room as the audience listened to Laymon describe how the past issues of racism, injustice and inequal-ity are still present in America today, in that those individuals who are the backbone of the nation are “the worst white folk” when they neglect their respon-sibility.

After his first reading, Lay-mon remarked, “I pump myself up to read this but it’s still kind of scary.”

His second reading dealt with issues Laymon believes are pres-ent particularly in the African-American community. The es-say, called “Echo” was a letter written in response to a collabo-ration of Laymon and fellow Af-rican-American friends, which discussed social issues in the way loving relationships are treated

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“This is our biggest road-block,” Cannon said of the pos-sibility of future development.

In this past, the Oxford Cy-cling Club has tried to get peti-tions signed to get the univer-sity to help promote Whirlpool Trails. Nothing has become of this action.

“I think that a lot of people don’t know about the Whirlpool Trails because they are kind of hidden on campus,” junior engi-neering major Lydia Makepeace said. “If you’ve never been there before, you can’t really tell that they are there.”

The Oxford Cycling Club has established a website and a Face-book page where new and cur-rent members can find informa-tion about rides in Oxford and along the Whirlpool Trails.

Hosting two big rides per year, the Tuff Guy Ride in March and the Clear Creek Challenge in September, the Oxford Cycling Club continues to try to promote cycling awareness in and around Oxford.

“Over the years, our program and use of Whirlpool Trails has really bloomed,” Cannon said. “I’m excited to see it continue to grow.”

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The first half of the 2014 baseball season is complete, and it looks nearly identical to its 2013 counterpart.

After an auspicious begin-ning, Rebel baseball fans seem to all ask the same questions. Will this year’s team fall flat af-ter a roaring start and end in disappointing mediocrity? Or will it persevere through the raging storm of the confer-ence schedule, finish atop the SEC and enter the postseason poised to claim success and host a regional event?

The Rebels have already overcome an amount of con-cern that circled at the begin-ning of the season.

They had no preseason All-Americans.

They had a questionable pitching staff.Junior Chris El-lis, who had a 1-2 record with two starts, 13 appearances and a 5.57 ERA in 2013, would replace All-American Bobby Wahl, who left Ole Miss after the Oakland Athletics drafted him in the fifth round of the 2013 MLB draft.They had not

defined a closer.Will Allen had not been be-

hind the dish since his sopho-more season in 2012.

Ole Miss got the 8th-ranked recruiting class in 2013, but would those freshmen, espe-cially Errol Robinson at short stop, produce?

The Rebels’ performance through their first 26 games has certainly baptized any for-mer doubters into believers.

On Feb. 10 at media day, head coach Mike Bianco said that he was not concerned about the lack of preseason All-Americans and that he felt confident in the capabilities of his team heading into the sea-son. He said the depth of his team would prove to be a ma-jor strength because the team would be protected against in-juries, players would be more focused due to the intra-squad competition and perhaps most importantly, players would have a heightened sense of confidence because they knew they could count on their teammates in dire straits.

Whether the depth should receive credit or not, Ole Miss has recorded dominating per-

formances. Offensively, they rank second in the SEC in bat-ting average, first in hits, third in slugging percentage and sec-ond in home runs. Defensively, Ole Miss ranks fourth in ERA and in the top third in most other categories. The Rebels rank second in the SEC West behind Auburn.

The Rebels’ individual num-bers rank at the top of the SEC as well. Auston Bousfield ranks first in the SEC in hits and fourth in average. Will Allen is tied for the league lead in RBI and is tied for fourth in home runs. Sikes Orvis is second in home runs.

The pitching staff, which caused the most question marks at the beginning of the season, has shone with flying colors. Chris Ellis carries a 0.67 ERA, third in the SEC, and is perfect with a 4-0 record. The staff has yet to define a closer, but Josh Laxer has three saves and Aaron Greenwood and Wyatt Short each have one.

But will the success contin-ue?

During media day, Bian-co set toughness as a main strategy for remaining at the

top through the season. He wanted to start with physical toughness, and he said men-tal toughness would follow. Ben Fleming, the new baseball strength coach, helped get the players in better physical con-dition than Bianco said he has seen in previous years. The strategy has appeared to work, as Ole Miss is now 8-1 in one-run games and has posted nine come-from-behind wins.

But in SEC play when it counts, Ole Miss has yet to prove itself.

With the cutthroat competi-tion of the SEC, many games will be decided in the latter in-nings and on Sundays and will ultimately define success of the whole season, and Bianco acknowledged that victory in these games will require men-tal toughness.

In the SEC opener in Colum-bia, S.C., Ole Miss dropped the series by losing both games of a double header Saturday

after winning Monday. The first game of the double head-er was decided in extra innings after a ninth inning USC rally. Bianco has said wins in games like these are crucial for suc-cess in the SEC.

In the second conference series, Ole Miss changed its fortune by coming behind on Sunday to clinch the victory and the sweep of Missouri. Bi-anco spoke of his pride in his team and his optimism in mov-ing forward after getting this crucial win.

The Rebels have already proved they have the talent to win. They must now harness their mental toughness to sur-pass their SEC competition and emerge at the top of the conference in May.

They have the opportunity to show the Rebel Faithful this weekend that they have the mental skill as well as the phys-ical skill when they take on the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa.

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BOOK, continued from page 5in the black community, and the respect black women have earned, but are not fully given. A truly moving essay, Laymon’s words were honest and relat-able, causing many members of the audience to react emotion-ally.

In the discussion that fol-lowed, several local women re-marked on their racial experi-ences growing up in the South. One woman who witnessed the

sit-ins and boycotts taking place during the Civil Rights move-ment in Jackson remarked, “That was the first time I ever saw black people’s lives.”

Laymon’s work primarily fo-cuses on social and political in-justices and issues in America.

“It really made me think,” said Taylor Cook, freshman in-tegrated marketing communi-cations major. “He was a really honest writer.”

The open discussion with the audience also allowed Lay-mon to answer many questions

about his writing style, his goal as a writer to display characters as human and complex rather than superhuman and flawless and the struggles he faces as a writer and English professor.

When asked about what mes-sage he most hopes to get across when writing, Laymon respond-ed, “I want people to see the importance of black women in their community and to recog-nize and call attention to the people the nation hasn’t taken responsibility for. Love is so im-portant; love is not the solution

to all the problems but it is a so-lution to building stronger fami-lies and communities.”

After leaving the audience with so much to reflect on fol-lowing his reading and discus-sion, Laymon commented on whether or not he believed he would ever return to Mississippi.

“I think I know where I need to be learning and to be teach-ing, and I think it’s here,” he said. “It’s about time for me to come home. I’m ready to come back and work. I’m ready.”

Laymon is currently working

on two new projects for the up-coming year.

“One is a weight-loss mem-oir,” he said. “It will be, like, your traditional weight-loss book, but also dealing with stuff I like to write about which is trauma, gender, race and that stuff.”

The other is a new book of fiction, set in a Northeast liberal arts college in the year 2016.

“I’m really excited about it; it’s going to be good,” Laymon said.

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Conner settled in, looks to take next step in year two

When Ole Miss reeled in a unanimous top-10 recruiting class in 2013, it looked for-ward to an immediate impact from its players, but it espe-cially looked to the four five-star prospects in the class. Af-ter all, that’s who all the buzz was about.

But the guy who arguably made the biggest contribu-tion in his freshman season received perhaps the least attention. That guy is Tony Conner.

“It was a great year, I’d have to say,” Conner said. “Com-ing out in my freshman season and playing like this, it was a pretty good year.”

Conner, a South Panola product, made an impact from the very start, literally. He re-corded the first interception of his Ole Miss career in the Rebels’ first defensive posses-sion of their season-opening win against Vanderbilt.

“It was tremendous,” Con-ner said of the interception. “It was a great sight because the player had it, and I just

snatched the ball out of his hands. It was great.”

Conner, who started in 12 of 13 games, ended the year with 66 tackles, which was third on the team. He also tallied five tackles for loss, a sack, six pass breakups and four quar-terback hurries. And he did it all at one of the toughest posi-tions on the Rebel defense.

Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze knew what he had in mind for Conner from the moment he began to recruit him. Conner played safety in high school, and Freeze want-ed him as his huskie.

The huskie position is a hy-brid safety/linebacker in the Rebels’ 4-2-5 defense that does a little bit of everything. The player needs incredible athleticism to defend the pass by running with slot receivers, tight ends and running backs, and he must also make the big hit to defend the run. It takes a special athlete, and Con-ner’s 6-foot, 217-pound frame fits it perfectly.

“It’s just a spot you have to be physical at,” Conner said. “At times, you’ll be in the box playing with the big guys, and

at times, you’ll be back in cov-erage.”

With year one behind him, Conner focuses on what he can do to improve this spring.

His biggest goal is to im-

prove his pass coverage, and with the numbers he put up during his freshman season, there’s little doubt that Con-ner will be flying all over the field for Ole Miss again in

year two.

For continuing coverage of Ole Miss football, follow @DavidL-Collier and @thedm_sports on Twitter.

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