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With obesity rates in the U.S. rising at an alarming rate, and Mississippi earning the rank of the most obese state for the sixth year in a row, the school district has !"#$%"&#% '(%!")'&*%+,"&*$(% -,"-%.$&$/-% -,$%,$"0-,%12 %the student body and combat the increase of childhood obesity. Nurse Margaret Hayden explains that the main causes of obesity are taking in too many calories and not burning enough calories, or simply put, “eating more than you are using.” Over the past few years, the school has put into place certain changes to better the health of the student body, such as requiring a vegetable selection at school lunches, providing breakfast for students and providing reduced and low fat items in school lunches. “What we’ve done is increased the serving size of fruits and vegetables,” Childhood Nutrition Director Richmond Smith said. “What you’ll see if you go through the lunch line is that you have to choose three of (the /3$%#'(,$(%"&#%('#$(45%6$%"7$%"&%122$7%3$7(8(%($73$%,'*,%

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Sophomore Brian Sanchez’s

vivid colorful art is a contrast to

his quiet and humble personal-

ity.

Sanchez is an artist who

prefers using acrylics and paint,

though he can work with just

about any other artistic medium

on the planet, according to art

teacher Rebecca McKittrick.

She says she discovered his tal-

ent in her first year teaching him

Art II.

“He can do anything,”

McKittrick said. “He is really

talented, and I want to try and

show it.”

Although Sanchez has the

ability to “do anything” he is

sticking to just paint for now.

He says he paints mostly land-

scapes and some portraits.

Sanchez is a fan of Hispanic

artists due to his own Mexican

roots.

Sanchez says that the Span-

ish artist Frida Kahlo, who

painted everything from self-

portraits to abstract landscape

scenes, largely influences his art.

Sanchez learned about Kahlo in

school when he was younger.

He says she interested him due

to her use of imagery in her

paintings. The use of imagery

like Kahlo’s can be found in San-

chez’s paintings.

Sanchez also admires the

works of Diego Rivera, a famous

Mexican painter. Sanchez aspires

to be like Rivera due to the mo-

tivation to paint for the Mexican

people behind his paintings.

Sanchez said that when he

paints he “paints what he feels.”

“He paints for the Mexi-

cans,” Sanchez said. “I am happy

when I paint.”

Sanchez, like Rivera also

says he “paints for the people.”

Sanchez enjoys the aesthet-

ic qualities of art, and they can

affect his mood. His art began

when he was younger and was

an avid sketcher, “drawing all the

time.”

“The colors relax me,” San-

chez said. “I do realism and use

vivid colors.”

McKittrick says, like Kah-

lo, Sanchez does art with vivid

colors and images.

McKittrick says she hopes

to “show off ” Sanchez’s work,

putting his pieces in various

shows and art galleries. Sanchez

supports her effort to get his

pieces out into the world.

“I would like to show my art,”

Sanchez said. “I just paint and I

would like to use it for some-

thing.”

Specifically, McKittrick

would like to try and put his

art in courthouses, such as the

courthouse on the Square and

other public places in the form

of a rotating art show.

“We are going to try and

have them shown at the court-

house,” Sanchez said.

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Two students are seeking change. Freshman Kayla Owens and sophomore Joseph Whitaker are taking steps to nullify Article 14, Section 265 of the Constitution of the State of Mississippi. The provision states “No person who denies the !"#$%!&'!()* (+(,-./!0!(1!#&2($3+44(3)45(+&6()*7'!(#&(this state,” meaning that atheists are prohibited from $!/8#&2( #&( .-94#'( )*7'!:( ;<!&$( $+#5( %3+%( $3!( 3+.-pened to stumble upon the information while online. “I was looking at political memes,” Owens said. “I saw one that said there were seven states that didn’t +44)<(+%3!#$%$(%)(3)45()*7'!=($)(>(4))?!5(#%(-.:@ According to Article 6, paragraph 3 of the United States constitution, “No religious test shall ever be re-A-#/!5(+$(+(A-+4#7'+%#)&(%)(+&6()*7'!()/(.-94#'(%/-$%(under the United States.” Mississippi’s contradictory provision is currently one of six others – Arkansas, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and

Tennessee. Owens, who is an atheist herself, said she feels the provision is wrong. “I felt it was very discriminatory and unconstitu-tional,” Owens said. Owens then told Whitaker, who is not an atheist. Whitaker shares Owens’s view about the pro-vision and suggested creating a survey to see what others thought about the issue. Whitaker said so far teachers and other students have shown support, and that the results of their sur-vey have been in favor of the cause. “So far 58.5 percent of the 183 people surveyed +2/!!5(<#%3(%3!(&-44#7'+%#)&=@(B3#%+?!/($+#5: He said that the opinions of those who did not sup-.)/%(%3!(&-44#7'+%#)&()* (%3!(./)8#$#)&(8+/#!5(C($)0!(expressed apathy or doubt that any change could be made, while others disagreed due to religious views, stating that they believed faith was an important fac-tor in making moral choices. Owens and Whitaker have distributed their surveys

around Oxford High School and at the Ole Miss Soci-ology Department. Whitaker said the push for change is in its beginning stages. “Right now we’re just sending surveys to see where people stand on the issue,” Whitaker said. “We’re get-ting surveys to make (the cause) more viable, then (we could) present them and start a petition.” The Mississippi constitution can be amended in %<)(<+6$:((D3!(7/$%(#$(%3/)-23(+(4!2#$4+%#8!46(/!*!//!5(constitutional amendment, which must be voted in by two thirds of each house in the Mississippi State Legislature. The second way the constitution can be amended is by an initiated constitutional amend-ment, the method Owens and Whitaker are following, which is a rigorous process with many guidelines and restrictions as to what kind of amendments may be proposed. While it is a work in progress, Owens and Whitaker are working toward their goal. “The goal is to get those sections removed from the constitution,” Owens said.

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Walk for Diabetes

On December 1, the Ole Miss chapter of Engineers without Bor-ders hosted “Trot for Togo,” a 5K walk/run to raise funds to build a school in a village without elec-tricity or running water in Togo, a small country in West Africa. Spon-sors were encouraged to donate in amounts ranging from $250 to $1000; those donating more $500 or more had their logos displayed at the Univ. of Miss. Student Union, where the race began. The orga-nization plans to travel to Togo in summer of 2013 to build the village school, whose residents will cover 10 percent of building costs. For more information, contact Maddie Costelli at mmcostel@go.olemiss.edu or 228-861-0006.

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Poetry Out Loud

In October, Oxford held its own Walk to Cure Diabetes hosted by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). Around 200 participants showed up to the event. The participants walked around the town to show support for people with type 1 diabetes. In addition, the participants made donations to fund the search for a cure. Three million Americans suf-fer from type 1 diabetes, a disease that is not triggered by diet, unlike many types of diabetes. Rather, it is an autoimmune disease that af-fects people of all ages. JDRF is the leading global organization fo-cused on type 1 diabetes research, and organizes fundraisers all over the world. Many participants in the Oxford fundraiser joined teams in the walk to provide encouragement to each other and to instill some friendly competition for the event.

To help improve her students speaking skills, English teacher Kristen Kallaher is involving her students in Poetry out Loud. Poetry Out Loud is a nation-al poetry recitation competition, which had 365,000 participants last year. The National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation and U.S state art agencies, launched Poetry Out Loud in the spring of 2006. Starting with school competi-tions, then moving on to state com-.!%#%#)&$=(+&5(%3!&(7&+446(&+%#)&+4$=(Poetry Out Loud use a pyramid structure for their contest. The winners of state level competitions receive $200 and an all-expenses-paid trip (with an adult) to compete in the national competition. The state winner’s school also receives a $500 dollar check for the purchase of poetry books. Runner-ups and their schools also receive awards. At the National level Poetry Out Loud gives out $50,000 in stipends to schools, and a $20,000 award for the Poetry Out Loud champion. “Even though students don’t like #%(+%(%3!($%+/%=(0)$%()* (%3!0(7&5(#%(to be very rewarding and enriching, because when you memorize some-thing it helps you get to the point where you can focus on the feel of the poem,” Kallaher said.

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Safety drills: Some students satisfied with effectiveness

The theatre department is known around the world for its acting prowess, and it has tucked five more awards un-der its belt in the Mississippi Theatre As-sociation “One Act” competition held at Starkville on November 30, as well as be-ing selected to continue to the state com-petition in January with “The Outsiders.”

“The Outsiders,” a show about a high school boy named Ponyboy whose best friend Johnny dies due to a clash in rival city groups, was adapted by director John Davenport to fit into a 45-minute time period.

Along with adapting for time re-straints, junior Sydney Hansen, who was the stage manager, said Davenport made many changes for artistic reasons. For instance, Davenport created the show on a “blank canvas,” giving all the actors the same costume—a plain blue shirt labeled “The Outsiders.”

Senior Cade Brewer, who played Ran-dy, said Davenport changed many aspects of the show, adding to the difficulty level.

This is Brewer’s second time being in cast on a show rather than being backstage, working in crew.

“It’s a whole different experience,”

Brewer said of acting on stage. “It takes a lot more skill on stage,” Brewer said.

Brewer said that acting in the compe-tition group is different from acting in a regular season show.

“There’s more stress put on the peo-ple,” Brewer said. “We only had fourteen days to prepare for it. With Our Town, it was more simplistic, even though “The Outsiders” was very simplistic.”

Junior Conner Davis, who played Po-nyboy and received an all star cast award, agrees.

“Rehearsals are more fast-paced. We really have zero time to stop and laugh about something,” said. “(Davenport) bought some water bottles for us because he didn’t want us to stop to go to the water fountain.”

Hansen said that the fast-paced envi-ronment added to the success of the shows, but that the key element that helped the group do so well was the motivation of the cast.

“At rehearsals, they gave it their all,” Hansen said. “They were continually working to get better.”

Hansen also said that Davenport’s di-rection also pushed the group to succeed.

“Mr. Davenport, he’s just a genius,” Hansen said. “We walk into his office and see his awards, and we know.”

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away from the windows and doors.” Jennings also says that most of his drill knowledge

comes from middle school. “I cannot remember the last time that we had an

actual tornado drill (at OHS),” Jennings said. “The last time we had something dealing with a tornado was an actual tornado during the Mississippi state writing test.”

The school did have a tornado drill Tuesday, De-cember 11. Students moved to the halls but did not have to get into the actual “position.”

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Harper Thomas documents and sends to the state, are state-mandated. Reports on the drills go to Sonny Brownlee, who is over the schools and grounds for the district.

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Jennings attributes the “lax” drills to the large school the administration must deal with.

“They aren’t capable of managing 1,000 or so kids running around in a panic,” Jennings said. “Their drills are just not worth it, to be honest. If (the ad-ministration) actually cared, they would make us do more than one drill a semester, seeing as we have had a Columbine threat this year.”

Jennings says ultimately students need to be pre-pared in case something bad happens, even though he believes the drills “aren’t worth it” right now.

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bers remain. Junior Marija Antic, an ex-change student from Serbia, says she is looking forward to the athletic experience the club offers. “The only sport I really like is dancing,” she said, laughing, mentioning that she partici-pated in competitive hip-hop in Serbia until high school became too time-consuming. Smith says she would like to see a mixture of hip hop, bal-let, country and other varieties of dance so that every partici-pant will feel comfortable. The club, Hickey says, is “giving them something to be involved in” and helping them to feel im-portant. The sponsors plan to bring in a choreographer as well as someone to arrange music, and to even have the girls dance at a basketball game. Although they can’t compete until they become a team, the club could attend a competition to see what others are doing, and look forward to similar achievements in the fu-ture. “I just want to see good things happening from it and I want (the club) to go far,” Smith said, adding that she wants to be able to look back and say that she helped to start the whole thing. Hickey says the girls are “excited” and looking forward to the experience. Interested students are welcome to join the dance club until Friday, Novem-ber 14.

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“Both (diet and exercise) are, in my opinion, equally important,” Hayden said. “No one is going to eat perfectly all of the time so, in my opinion, if you practice regular exercise and you have one bad eating day, it’s not going to af-fect you as much as if you don’t exercise regularly.”

Girls’ Fitness teacher Rose Hickey says she feels the healthy reforms are beneficial.

“The cafeteria is doing a great job. Everything is whole grain now; every-thing is either low fat or fat free,” Hickey said.

Hickey’s class includes target activi-ties that are designated for female stu-dents.

“We do aerobics, pilates and strength training,” Hickey said. “We in-clude all of the nutrition segments. No

other school in the state does that.” Senior Allison Canale, one of Hick-

ey’s students, believes in the importance of eating healthily and having regular ex-ercise.

“I think it’s important to have a healthy diet, especially for someone at my age,” Canale said, “because that’s what’s going to set up your own lifestyle and how you raise your children to eat.”

Harvey says the future of combating obesity is not in a definitive plan but al-ways an area of focus.

“We all need to strive to be as healthy as we can, and certain lifestyles make that easier than others,” Harvey said. “I think it’s important to eat a bal-anced diet and include all of the basic food groups that we’ve all been taught since kindergarten. It’s important to be healthy, and it’s important to take care of our bodies.”

Scientists are including students in their real-world agricul-tural research efforts through a specialized science research program. Dr. Craig Wilson, director of the United States Depart-ment of Agriculture/Hispanic-Serving Institutions National Program (USDA/HSINP) and Senior Research Associate at Texas A&M University, runs the Future Scientists Program around the country. “The aim of the program is to open science teachers’ eyes to the work of the USDA/Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and (to have) them share that with their students,” Wil-son said. “(Select) teachers visit the US National Sedimenta-tion Lab in Oxford, meet with research scientists and view their work. At the end of the year, they return to the lab with some of their students and can use the lab as an educational resource.” About 100 USDA/ARS research laboratories exist na-tionwide, each with a different research focus, he says, and teachers at each location learn about the local research. “But the common theme is to have the students raise the corn earworm insect (Helicoverpa zea) through its life cycle and conduct research projects,” Wilson said. ”The worm/moth is an agricultural pest that results in $1 billion losses annually to farmers through crop losses and control efforts.” During his Oxford school district visit at the beginning of December, Wilson presented to classrooms at various grade levels. “I have them conduct experiments, collect data and see

if they can explain their results,” he said. “I let students know that the essence of science is really very simple but has been lost.” Wilson says students need to observe situations first us-ing all of their senses (the usual five plus the sixth, common sense), and then they have to ask questions. “I try to stress that (students) should not be spectators but (should) participate and ask questions,” he said.

By shaping students’ ideas about sci-ence, Wilson attempts to bring the excite-ment of science outside of the constraints of a textbook. “I try to let them see that science takes place all around them,” he said. “It is a way of looking at our world that both explains and makes life more interesting.” For Oxford program coordinator Matt Moore, the Future Scientists program al-lows students to explore beyond the bound-aries of traditional standardized testing. “Inquiry-based research, on the oth-er hand, demands that you think,” Moore said. “You have to use your observational skills to design an experiment, and you are forced to pull together all your knowledge in many different areas to come up with rea-sons why something did or didn’t work.”

Wilson will visit OHS during the last week of January. Science teacher Renee Dayan ‘s Environmental science and zoology classes will host him, as he teaches them about the corn worm. “It is full scientific experimental design,” Dayan said.

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In the midst of teenagers’ arguments about Romney v. Obama, one student at Oxford High School was writing an argu-ment about another aspect of the election—the validity of the electoral college. Junior HenryDavid Cohen has been on the debate team for three years, and when speech and debate coach Barbara Lowe told him about an opportunity to write a speech and enter it in the Promote the Vote Mississippi competition, he began working on a speech. In his speech, Cohen made points suggesting that the Electoral College should stay in place for voting purposes. In reality, Cohen said he could “go both ways” about the electoral college, but he chose to use the pro side of this topic

because he had written a debate speech about it last year.

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McKittrick says she also wants to enter him in the Scho-lastic Art contest, which she says is a “good way to get schol-arship money,” since Sanchez plans on pursuing an art major in college. “There has been much interest in his art that has been on display in the library,” she said. “I think that he could go commercial as an artist.” This goes hand in hand with his desire to major in art in college. Sanchez has spoken of interest in showing his paintings. Diego had a similar interest due to his involvement in the muralist movement. The muralist movement painted for the people to see. “I want my artwork where everyone can see it,” Sanchez said. Right now, Sanchez paints only for school, friends and family, mostly painting portraits and people. He is even help-ing the yearbook by doing watercolor images for some of their designs and pages, according to McKittrick. Sanchez practices more now than ever before in his ar-tistic career. “I try to invest more and more in my practice,” Sanchez said. Before putting brush to canvas, Sanchez draws his art #+!#&!"%&(6+,6$&=)!"&6&'%+()3&1-$!>&&?%&')(@$&2'&")$&5-2$"%$&and paints using his own individual choice of colors. Sanchez says his art is “emotional and creative.” Many of the subjects of Sanchez’s art are colorful, re-A%(!)+;&")$&)+!%-%$!&)+&!"%&2$%&#0 &(#3#-&)+&")$&=#-@>&&:%-!6)+&animals with their colorful bodies and plumage and pique his interest. “I like to paint peacocks,” Sanchez said. “They have nice, big, colorful feathers.” Sanchez also has interest in aspects of nature other than animals of the avian world.& *B&63$#&'6)+!&A#=%-$<4&"%&$6)/>&*C"%.&"6,%&6&+)(%&2$%&#0 &color.” Family and friends also make their way into his art. “I have painted Ramiro, Crystal, and my cousins,” he said. All of Sanchez’s work and his ability to use proportion and perspective in his art make him a “real natural talent” ac-cording to McKittrick and this can lead to his success in the (#99%-()63&1%3/> Sanchez says that his interest in art extends beyond a college and major, as he wishes to go commercial with his work, just as like McKittrick predicts he will. “He could do really great things in the artistic world,” McKittrick said.

The Oxford band recently received an achievement called the “Band Sweepstakes.” The achievement is given to any band that has received superior ratings in marching, concert and sight-reading.

Senior band member Ke-aton Burcham is the drum line captain and has been playing in the band since 6th grade.

“The Oxford band is known nationally,” senior Keaton Bur-cham said. “We are a two-time Grammy signature program and have been to numerous National Adjudicator Contests. The most important thing myself and most of the students strive for is all superior ratings that date back to the early 90’s even earlier when Mr. Mixon started the tra-dition here at Oxford.”

Mixon is one of the three band instructors. Mixon started teaching at Oxford in 1990 and worked until 2007. He returned to Oxford in 2012 because he thought it was “a good opportu-

nity to make a great band better.” During marching season, Mixon is in charge of the band, Marsha Morgan oversees the color guard while Jared Brownlee works with the drum line.

Plaques recognizing the Oxford band’s awards and achievements on the walls of the band hall date back all the way to 1951.

“The band sweepstakes is not a contest,” OHS band direc-tor John Mixon explained. “It’s an opportunity for you to re-ceive superior ratings from each judge in each area.”

“The band sweepstakes $!6-!%/& 1,%& #-& $)D& .%6-$& 6;#<4&Mixon said. “Prior to 1994 we really didn’t get superior ratings quite that often. 30 percent of the bands in Mississippi will re-ceive superior,” Mixon said. “It’s the highest level of achievement you can receive, the rating of su-perior, for the tone, balance and technique.”

According to Mixon, supe-rior ratings are earned in three ways at a competition.

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perior ratings are motivation, practice, time and dedication,” Mixon explained. “The expecta-tion of the community and dis-trict sets the standards of high achievement. The students have high expectations; they do better than just getting by.”

Burcham has targeted the reason for the award.

“I believe the key to mak-ing all superior ratings is work ethic,” Burcham said.

“Band is different from ev-erything else because if one per-son is missing, it messes every-one else up. So, everyone has to be here mentally and physically. The intensity and performing level has to be high if a group wants superior ratings.”

In addition to the students’ efforts, Burcham credits the leadership for their work.

“Mr. Mixon strives to make Oxford one of the nation’s best,” Burcham said. “All of the work is put out by the students because everyone knows the types of students Oxford deliv-ers, very good players and every-one just works really hard.”

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Lightning may or may not strike twice in the same place, but Girl’s Fit-ness teacher Rose Hickey has been named Physical Education Teacher of the Year for a second time by the an-nual Mississippi Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and

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ence in Clinton, Miss. “I got it last in 2009,” she said.

“Not many people get it twice. I was shocked.”

Qualifications for the award em-phasized innovative teaching meth-ods and commitment, consistent with Hickey’s Girl’s Fitness course. At OHS, P.E. is a daily course that is required to graduate.

Hickey has been teaching for five years at OHS. Pre-viously, she worked for over 20 years as

a personal trainer for a wide spectrum of people: small chil-dren, high school and college girls, as well as the elderly. She has also worked on plyometrics

with the Oxford tennis team, using fast, explosive

movements to develop mus-cle agility and strength. Just

prior to being hired at Oxford, Hickey volunteered to instruct

girls in weight training and aerobics in P.E. teacher Shane Stone’s class.

Now, in her Girl’s Fitness class, Hickey teaches pilates, aerobics, and proper strength training and tech-nique. She also emphasizes healthy diet habits, but says that the high cost of healthy foods is an obstacle.

“It’s a catch. I hear students all the time saying, ‘We can’t afford to eat (healthy),’” she said. “They can get a pound of grapes for $6, or go to McDonalds and get a bunch of cheeseburgers.”

Hickey says that the key to healthy eating on a budget is planning ahead.

“It’s so often that families say, ‘Oh, we forgot to buy this or that. Let’s go to Wendy’s,’” she said.

Though she estimates that about one in five students in her class are “paranoid about their weight,” Hickey’s main objective is not weight loss

“When we’re out on the track, I hear girls say all the time, ‘Mrs. Hickey, I’m too big for this,’” but I try not to single them out,” she said. “If someone wants to lose weight, I can help them personally.”

Instead, she emphasizes complet-ing the workout at hand, whether it be walking, power walking, or jogging.

“Work on strong heart, upper body strength, and strong lungs,” she said. “If they’re doing all this, they go-ing to lose weight.”

For varsity athletes like sopho-more and volleyball player Grace Sum-merlin, Girl’s Fitness serves as excel-lent conditioning, especially for the off-season.

“I’d be pretty lazy (in the off-sea-son) if I didn’t take this,” Summerlin said. “She’s always like ‘Let’s do it, let’s do it,’ and if you say ‘I can’t do it,’ she just makes you do more.”

Hickey’s encouragement to get students engaged and moving in her Girl’s Fitness class often shows results after just a few weeks.

“Right now, I’m watching a girl who couldn’t do two push-ups in August,” she said. “Now she can do two sets of 15 and even run four laps (around the track).”

As a long-term benefit, Hickey says, these girls will not be intimidated from working out in college.

Hickey commends Mississippi’s efforts in promoting physical educa-tion, despite the state being the poorest per capita in the nation.

“Our state has one of the leading P.E. curriculums in the nation. Now think if we had the money like other states,” she said.

Principal Mike Martin cites a nation-wide trend of putting emphasis on stopping obesity for some increased financial resources, but maintains that neither money nor location has deter-mined the success of Oxford’s P.E. pro-gram.

“If (Hickey) were at Inverness or Gulfport or anywhere else, she would bring the same thing to them,” Martin said. “She goes above and beyond the call of a regular teacher and her enthu-siasm makes the difference, no mistake about it.”

As part of her award as P.E. Teacher of the Year, Hickey received a $1,000 grant, which she will use to buy new weights and badminton equip-ment. Hickey will also be starting her National Board Certification process this spring.

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Senior Austin Carter was one of the members of the ensemble who sang a version of “The Twelve Days of Christ-mas” made popular by an acapella group called, Straight No Chasers.

“We have everything from your regular Christmas carols to “Jingle Bell Rock,”” Carter said.

The voice of radio station 93.7 FM, Rick Mize narrated the concert, which included First Baptist Church of Ox-ford’s adult choir, children’s choir, and youth choir with orchestral members from throughout the mid-South. Some members of the Old Miss Drumline (and one veteran drummer from Mississippi State) were on hand for an arrangement of “Little Drummer Boy” by FBC’s own Paul Morgan. The church’s music Pastor Tom Barrett directed the concert.

Barrett hopes the concert spread the true meaning of Christmas.

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is Christ and that music can bridge any gap and can forge any kind of relation-ship,” Barrett said. “Music is a universal language that brings people together, and that’s what we’re trying to do.”

Senior John David Hankins also sang in the concert.

“I was in the youth choir,” Hankins said, “which is the middle-school/high-school-aged people, and we sang one song by ourselves, and we sang the big song at the end. It had every single choir from preschooler to full-adult choir.”

Hankins believes that the concert was a learning experience for the choir.

“It shows that when you have every-one working together, we sounded really good,” Hankins said.

Hankins, however, says that the con-cert served a larger purpose: “spreading the word of Christ.”

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ter person,” Barrett said. “Just being able to help people by bringing food or tutoring will make you a better person.” Armstrong says his favor-ite part about volunteering at More Than a Meal is playing with the kids. “It just makes me so hap-py,” Armstrong said.

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I spent the rest of the class period with two highlight-ers in hand, working my way down the list of novels and plays, assigning a green mark to works I’d already read, and a yellow mark to those works that in-terested me.

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pple TVs are not really TVs. That’s what I found out when I began to research the latest piece

of technology headed for our school. The Apple TV is actually an accessory that has the ability to wirelessly connect to a real TV, or in our school’s case, an overhead projector. From there, what shows up the actual TV is what is displayed on someone’s iPhone, iPad or laptop. The money came from a grant by the School Board in October of 2012 for $150,000. The regular retail price for the Apple TV is $100.

I can understand why the School Board feels that this addition to the classroom may offer an educational purpose. But is it really necessary right now for Oxford classrooms? Is the use of this accessory in dire need? I feel that the connection wires currently being used are not that big of a problem. The current connection between laptops, PCs and projectors seem to work fine from what I can tell. Since we are having no real problems with the setup we have, could the money be spent on something different, like iPads for each student? Or maybe for software? Or even for more MacBook Air computer carts in the library?

Though the Apple TV is ostensibly wireless, with all of the connectivity through Wi-Fi, some wires are still needed. Hopefully, this grant included all the cables needed to connect the TV to the computer. Another cost? Teacher training. Teachers will need to understand how to use this

new accessory in their classrooms for greater educational advances. And what happens when the Apple TVs stop working one day? Problems with connectivity could cause teachers to have trouble with their

projectors. Without the projectors, students wouldn’t be able to take notes from a PowerPoint that their teacher may have made. When teachers rely on technology to teach class and the technology is not working, students will miss instructional

time. After all, know it is not unusual for technology to shut down. Because of its uncertain reliability, the Apple TVs shouldn’t be the only method used to teach in the classroom.

If the district would like to supply the

school with a new source of technology, then they should give us something we will actually use. The promise of iPads that will replace textbooks and lockers next year is more appropriate for our school. We appreciate that the tech department is trying to further advance our learning through the use of applied technology in the classroom, but the Apple TVs will not live up to their expectations. If the School Board

wants to spend this $150,000, they will need to use it for something that will be more useful for students in the classroom, and wait to put any extra new gadgets in the new school building.

resident Obama’s recently ex-ecutive order for assault weapons regulations has riled up some pro-gun advocates who are convinced that U.S. government will assert

tyranny over its citizens by taking away their assault weapons. But fellow Americans, sleep tight, because this doomsday scenario is based on two mis-conceptions: that assault weapons can actually protect a user if an organized military crack-down happens, and that the U.S. government is even remotely willing to assert tyranny.

First, let’s look at the stark, obvious truth. In an age when the military government has tanks, bunker busters, and wiretapping in its %22/9!%:$0$;4"-$0**04/%$)!3'$!*$#2!"#$%2$+2$-24$absolutely no good against the government. All a military commander would care about is to eliminate the threat - in this case, you: a single artillery barrage, and you and your as-sault weapons are history. While debating Piers Morgan on CNN, Jesse Ventura bragged that &'$&0+$ <=$ )!3'*$ !"$ &!*$ &2>'?$@4%$ 4"/'**$A)?$Ventura could rally up an entire band of mer-1'"0)!'*:$<B$26 $%&2*'$<=$)!3'*$0)'$4*'/'**?$70/9$about impossible ideals.

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ment assault, I’d rather build barbed-wire fenc-es, lay landmines, and dig trenches and moats all over my property.

Now, let’s look at government tyranny. Before we ask “What if ?” we need to ponder, “Why bother?” Why would the U.S. govern-

ment have any incentive to achieve tyrannical rule? Machiavelli emphasized that the fundamental wish of any government is to acquire and maintain legitimate au-thority over its subjects, and in the U.S., the government has a pretty darn good deal. Their rule is mandated by the people’s voice through elections, and whenever one party feels like inciting revo-lution, it doesn’t have to take up arms and destroy half the country. Public man-

dates, bloodless coups - what party in their right mind would risk all of this for despotic power in a stable nation like ours? Hitler’s democratically elected takeover of Germany is the stereotypically cited counterexample, but post-WWI Weimar Germany was anything but a stable nation - hammered by both Versailles sanctions and the Great Depression, its people were more interested in getting enough to eat than in some abstract idea of “freedom.”

And who, if anyone, would be leading a “movement toward tyranny” within the U.S. government? Nobody. Nobody dares to, be-104*'$0//$#28')">'"%$26(1!0/*$0)'$'!%&')$'/'1%'+$

by us or appointed by those whom we elected. Government is people - people just like us, who care no more than to do their jobs and live out their lives. If government turns on us, it turns on itself, and such a policy proposal would be shot down instantly.

History has repeated shown that a tyran-nical police state can form only if the people have a tangible enemy to unite against: the C0*1!*%*$8!/!('+$%&'$D2>>4"!*%*:$%&'$D2>>4-"!*%*$8!/!('+$%&'$!>;')!0/!*%*:$0"+$%&'$!>;')!0/-!*%*$ 8!/!('+$ %&'$,0),0)!0"$&2)+'*?$ E''!"#$&2F$much some of our hard-line pro-gun citizens vilify the U.S. government, if tyranny were to emerge in America, it could only emerge from the most panphobic of the gun-toters them-selves. By maintaining that government is a tyrannical force instead of a custodial system representing the citizens, and that the only way to maintain their “freedom” is through violence, the most extreme of assault weap-ons advocates are not only admitting that the American system of democratic government is a failure, they are admitting that they are fail-ures in being responsible citizens.

When George Washington sent militias into Pennsylvania to crush the Whiskey Re-bellion, he condemned the rioting farmers for using violence to achieve their goals when civil methods of addressing grievances were already available. The same holds true today: we have the responsibility to preserve our free-dom through civil means – elections, lawsuits, referenda – not just through a grassroots arms ,4!/+4;?$G2"H%$(#&%$ #28')">'"%I$ J2!"$ !%:$ 0"+$make it better. Vigilantism is tyranny in itself.

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“Tis the season to be jolly” has turned into “tis the season to spend money.” More and more every year the amount of money that shoppers spend between Black Friday and Cyber Monday seem-ingly increases exponentially. Every year Christmas seems to creep further and further ahead in time, encroaching upon Thanksgiving and even Halloween.

When stores and businesses start decorating for a holiday or time of year, they trick us into spending like it’s already that time of year. Now, with Christmas trees and decorations popping up as early as November 1, we have begun shop-ping and spending earlier.

Christmas now overshadows Thanksgiving. As Christmas looms closer, it is evident that we have lost all true appreciation for all but the “getting” facet of the holiday season.

Take Black Friday for example. Black Friday is a day spent buying so that people get more. If this continues as a trend we will continue to move away from giving. Now we have Cyber Monday. What’s next, Tax-Free Tuesday, Two-for-One Wednesday?

I fail to postulate the good that comes out of this obsession with material goods during the holiday season.

All Black Friday does is leave people tram-pled and wallets emptied. What a terrible thing to embody with our holiday season! When we

want children to see happiness and giving, we instead show them !"#$%&!"'&(#)*+"#,&&-)$&intention may be good, but leading by example is stronger than leading

by principle. Whatever has happened to the sea-son of giving needs to be undone.

This is not the season of getting. What makes this time of year so special is the time that we get to spend with family and friends. Instead of hav-

ing the holidays being a time of shopping, let them be a time of cher-ishing others and cel-ebrating what we have. It is just like a continu-ation of Thanksgiving. Once fueled by

happiness, the holiday season is now fueled by money. Money in the place of family and happiness fuels greed, greed fuels competi-tion, competition breeds arguments, and there goes your nice sentiment out the window. When giving, let’s not let our decision be driven

by the price tag and play into the corporate agenda that we are all eating up. The agenda of trickery and entice-ment cannot be sup-ported.

Fight back and take control of the holidays again. One step at a time, let’s see to it that Christmas comes later and later in the year again. Then step back and soak in the spirit of giving, not of getting.

We’re trying to grow a forest in the journal-ism room — a forest of paper Christmas trees, that is. Yes, we too have been swept into the race for best dressed Christmas tree, and it’s made us so happy. So we’re about to brag, not on the Jour-nalism Christmas tree, but on all the Christmas trees in the school.

We hear so often about how we in Mississippi lag behind in anything from education to econo-my to health. We’re the fattest, least educated , and poorest state. But we often forget that we’re the most generous, and when we remember, and it’s like an afterthought.

Don’t let it be.Look at our paper Christmas trees, hung with

ornaments as part of a fundraising effort for vic-tims and survivors of Hurricane Sandy. Look at Key Club and Anchor Club, who together made more than 30 boxes of gifts for children in need.

Look at National Honor Society, whose .$./$%0&12$'#$'&*3&452(22&*)$&6)%+0*.!0&7+0)2+0*0&of disadvantaged youths in the Oxford communi-ty. Look at all the kids who do community service at our school.

Let’s keep up the great work.Our generosity isn’t an afterthought. This

is who we are as teachers and students of Ox-ford High School. We unite for each other, and we unite for a cause. We are loving, caring and *)35#)*4528&(%0*8&43%$.30*8&!"'&!/39$&!22&$20$,

As a staff, we want to thank art teacher, cat-lover, and godmother of the 600 hallway Rebecca McKittrick for starting these fundraising efforts.

She is on a roll. So far, her “Naked Christmas Tree” fundraiser has raised almost $1,000. At 25 cents per ornament, that’s almost 4,000 paper or-naments hanging on trees around the school.

We also want to thank all the students. When 7$& %$13%*& "$70& +"& *)$& "$701!1$%8& 7$& ("'& 35%-

selves writing again and again about the issues we’re facing, sorry states of affairs, and frankly, sometimes all the talk about raising grades and re-ducing obesity gets overwhelming.

Thank you for sweeping us up into the giving spirit. Thank you for show us what really matters.

Did we mention that we’re also the happiest state? Looking around at the spirit of the students, we’re not surprised in the least.

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Winter weather brings closeness

I was “busy” aimlessly browsing the Internet one night when I hap-pened upon this quote, from author F. Scott Fitzger-ald’s novel, “The Great Gatsby”: “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

I instantly connected with these words.

I always anticipate the change in weather from summer to fall, but even more so the change from fall to winter.

By then, I’m ready for the tem-perature to plummet. I’m ready for those days when the wind turns my nose red, and I absolutely cannot go 35*0+'$&7+*)35*&(%0*&'3""+"#&!&:3!*,

I know that must sound a bit crazy, judging from the weird looks I get. Why would I ever look forward to winter? Everything is dark, dreary, cold and miserable then, right?

I can’t say I agree with the nega-

tive connotation surrounding the winter season.

Life starts all over when it gets cold outside. That’s generally one of the prime reasons people dislike the 0$!03"8& /5*& +"0*$!'& 34 & ("'+"#& *)$&7$!*)$%&5"12$!0!"*8&;&)!11$"&*3&("'&it invigorating.

The frigid air is my wake up call, telling me to get up and go. “Go out and run, or paint, or write, or be with friends – do something,” it says. It re-minds me of how much there is for me to do and see – the work I must do, and the goals I must accomplish.

Life starts all over again with the highly anticipated winter break, when the weight of school and work is temporarily lifted, and I’m granted a short spell of time that I can use as I please.

It’s the perfect outlet for all the creative energies brought on by the dropping temperature – the perfect time to discover, to learn and to cre-ate.

Life starts all over when family comes together and old friends re-turn. With winter weather also comes the holiday season, which, while ei-ther being the cheeriest of times or the most annoying, brings about

the reunion of family and friends – something I look forward to through-out the year. Our small family is scat-tered across a few states, leaving us few opportunities to see one another.

It is for this reason that the holi-days are about more than presents and ABC Christmas specials.

Life starts all over again with the hope of snow. Perhaps it’s because I’ve lived my whole life here, where a real snow doesn’t happen very often, that even the mention of it can get me excited.

But once the possibility is there, I’m already looking forward to long days in the snow, balling it up in my (0*0& !"'& )5%2+"#& +*& !*& .<& /%3*)$%8&("'+"#&03.$*)+"#&*3&0$%9$&!0&!&.!=$-shift sled, and (if we’re lucky,) piling it up to create a snowman, spending all the time I can there in a state of simple, child-like happiness.

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Bring on the cold. I’m ready for life to begin again.

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College application season is here. Coun-selor Dr. Mike McLarty says that applying to

several colleges can be important, unless stu-dents know for sure “exactly” where they want

to go. “It is all individual (and) depends on what you want to do,” McLarty said about a student’s choices for college applications. Some students, such as senior Yujing Zhang, are a little unsure, and so are applying to more than one college. Though McLarty says a “large major-ity” of students apply to only one college, mycol-

lege.org, a website that provides information for students applying to college, says it is a good idea to apply to more than one college so that they can have a back-up plan on the off !"#$!%& '"#'& '"%(& )*$+'& ,%'& -$'*& '"%-.& /.0'&choice. Zhang is applying to UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, University of Texas, Harvard, and Ole Miss. She had to complete several applications and essays for admissions, spending over $300 in application fees. “Duke, UNC and Harvard re-quired the Common App,” Zhang said.

“Ole Miss was very simple except for the Honors College (application), and UT Aus-

tin has its own application essays.”

McLarty says the Common Application, more commonly known as the Common App, is a good way to take down application stress if students are applying to more than one college that use the Common App. “Most of the (students) are doing the Com-mon App,” McLarty said. “You just do one applica-tion and it goes to all of the (colleges you pick).” Zhang is one of the students using the Com-mon App. According to their website, the Common 122& -0& 3#& $*'45*.42.*/'& *.,#$-6#'-*$& '"#'& 0%.7%0&students and member institutions by providing an admission application that students may submit to any of our 488 members.” Some popular schools that take the Common App are UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, Harvard, Vander-bilt University, New College of Florida, Sewanee, Millsaps College and University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Go to commonapp.org/CommonApp/Members for more members. Zhang says that though the process is long, the payoff can be positive. “It’s kind of stressful adding (applications) on top of all of the classes that I am already taking,” Zhang said, “but it’s worth going to whatever col-lege that I want to go to.” Zhang says that she has a piece of advice to 0'8)%$'0&9"*&9-::&0**$&/$)&!*::%,%&#22:-!#'-*$0&#$)&visits on their long list of things to do.& 3;%/$-'%:(&0'#.'&.%0%#.!"-$,&<%5*.%&0%$-*.&(%#.&because you won’t have enough time,” Zhang said.

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where the athletes go from here

The cross-country team competed in the 5A state championship meet

in Clinton Mississippi, on November 10.

The runners for the boys team were freshman Sage Mullins, sopho-

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events in the state meet. Kevin swam in .0"%122%3&,4%56..",738%122%3&,4%9,""-.3#"8%200 yard freestyle relay, and 400 yard freestyle relay. “Swimming is like any other com-petitive sport,” Kevin said. “I think we had a very success-ful season, we always could do better though. I will prepare for next year by eating more and working more out of the water. I will swim more over the summer as well. That way we can come back next year make more records,” Kevin said. Oxford girls also came in third. Starkville placed second and Tupelo !#&'"4%+,-./ Senior Marta Burwell, girls team captain, says she was pleased with her individual swimming performance. Burwell placed third in both the 200 and 500 yard freestyle. “Being able to contribute to the team so you can score points and being able to improve your personal time ac-cumulated into one ball of pressure. I think I swam to my true potential and

performed to my expectations,” Burwell said. Freshman Elizabeth Field swam in four events at the meet. Field swam in the 50 yard freestyle, 100 yard freestyle, 200 yard medley and 400 yard relay. “Its hard to make the team when you’re a freshman swimming against a lot of older kids,” Field said. The Oxford girls team, made up of only seven girls, was at a slight disad-vantage competing against much bigger teams like Tupelo who had much swim-mers, according to Burwell. “It would have been nice to have had more people. We did extremely well considering the amount of people we swim with on the team,” Burwell said. Of the seven girls who competed at the state meet, three will graduate leav-ing only four girls left to swim. “It will be really hard without them, they’ve really helped the team grow,” Field said. The three graduating seniors are Dora Chen, Tiffany Torma, Sarah Wil-son and Marta Burtwell.

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at a record of 4-5 with a win against the rival Lafayette Commodores. The team now has football players back able to play since the football season ended, some-thing that the team was missing. Head coach Drew Tyler said that he is glad to have these key players back, but it won’t just be as easy as putting them on the court.% :;.% 4"+)(."#3% <&="-% 6-% !03-('&##3%stronger,” Tyler said. “We’re a more ag-gressive team with them and I think that .0"3% &,"% +)&##3% *"..()*% ().$% 5&-=".5&##%shape.” Among these players is senior Nick Brown. “I mean it was really just trying to get back into the groove of things and help the team out the best I can,” Brown said. Tyler said that this year is going to be a battle for the rest of the season to close out the year. “We need to play defense and re-

bound,” Tyler said. “We don’t score too well, therefore we have to play really good defense. I’ve known that about this team, they just need to play like they did in the fourth quarter of this game (Lafay-ette).” The team is loaded with young guns with eight sophomores, four juniors and $)#3%+>"%-")($,-%$)%.0"%,$-.",/ “We graduated 49 points a game,” Tyler said. “Glen Anderson and Cortez Jones have stepped up. They have a lot of energy and know how to play.” Que’Tarus Certion is a junior on the team and has received increased playing time this year. “Now that I’m a junior I have to be more of a leader to the younger kids,” Certion said. “I don’t have as much as the seniors, but I can still guide them.” Certion says that the team and coaches have a certain expectation for the remainder of the year. “The rest of the season I’m excited for our team to be on the right track now,” Certion said. “If there is one goal left, I think it would be to beat Calloway.” The Chargers will look to build a winning streak next in the Mississippi/Alabama Challenge in which the team will face teams from Oxford, Alabama and Lafayette, Alabama.

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mier talent and experience. “You can’t replace last year,” head coach of the Lady Chargers, Shane Linzy said. “They were highly experienced. In the group this year, I’ve got two great leaders in Alexus and Amber, and they have taken charge of that younger group of sophomores and freshmen.” So far the team has posted a record of 9-2 with the Mississippi/Alabama Challenge up next. The latest win came over the rival Lafayette Commodores at a score of 62-38. “Anytime we can go out and beat La-fayette is a good thing,” Linzy said. “We felt like we had a great chance to come out tonight and Lafayette came out with that ‘can’t lose attitude’ so we fought back &)4%?","%&5#"%.$%+)(-0%.0"<%$99/@Senior leadership is a key that Linzy says will be a big factor for the rest of this year. “Because of our youth, we expect our seniors to be leaders on and off the 7$$,8@%A()B3% -&(4/% :%C#"D6-% &)4%C<5",%

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Some people spend their after-noons playing videogames. Oth-ers do homework or watch TV. Senior Leland Graeber, how-ever, goes to her job at Miss Behavin’, where she is the man-ager. Graeber has been working at Miss Behavin’ since August 2011. “I am a manager so I basically do everything,”

Graeber said. “I make the checks, I do the hours, I buy, sometimes I open, I close, I pay bills, I run the emails and I have access to all of the social networking sites.” Graeber got the job because Abby Saxon, a fre-quent Miss Behavin’ shop-per, asked her mom if Grae-

ber would be interested in working there. Graeber was hired the

next day after being asked to come in.

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school, she says she worked 32 hours.

“It was stressful, but I didn’t have homework,” Graeber said. “So it was do-able.” There is no real dress code for Miss Behavin’ employees, according to Grae-ber, except wearing Miss Behavin’ clothes and having their hair and makeup done. According to Graeber, workers buy their own clothes for their “uniform” with their 35 percent employee discount. 7$/#8#$! -/0-! &4+#$! 9&8! 8#)#34-! 8#-(:#!the discount include a higher wage than most people her age, holiday bonuses, and even a birthday dinner and front row tickets to the Justin Bieber concert. Graeber says that having a job in high school is a good thing, “if your school load isn’t too much” and “you are the type of person that can handle it.” She says that she copes by studying in the mornings and avoiding procrasti-nation. Even with the added pressures, Graeber says her job is worth the stress it can sometimes cause. “When you get out of school you’re going to have to get a job and you don’t want to be blindsided by it,” Graeber said. “I can run a business as an 18 year old in high school.” Graeber says she believes that her job will help prevent “culture shock” when she gets to college. “It teaches discipline and it teaches 2#!4&!,-#!20!2&)#0!/):!#13;(#)4<0!-/.#!and spend it,” Graber said.

Growing up, many children dream of becoming a policeman &$! /!3$#3*+4#$!&$! #.#)! /)! /-4$&-naut; however, most of these dreams don’t come true, and as the children grow up they choose a more realistic job. One excep-tion is Dylan Bennet.

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Employers look for specific traits when hiring high school students. Corinne Jackson, who co-owns Lulu’s Shoes and Accessories on the Square, regularly hires high school students to work in her shop. She says she doesn’t dis-tinguish between high school and college employees, although she is careful about who she hires. But all the employers must have one thing in common. “They are serious about being on the sales floor,” she said, adding that senior Eden Sandlin, her only current high school employee, is one of the “stron-gest” sellers. Another factor all employers must have is com-mitment. To prove their commitment, each prospec-

tive employee goes through two full interviews.“If you show me a great personality the first time, we want to see it again,” Jackson said. Lulu’s is a fun place to work, Jackson says, and also looks great on a resume. She “stays on people” about customer service though, making such a job is a good business opportunity. “(It’s important to) present a good face and make people feel welcome,” she said. A lot of the girls Jackson hires plan to go into careers in marketing, fashion, or retail, and Jackson says the experience can also provide an outlet from a relatively restricting high school environment. In fact, she says her younger workers are “hardwired to be defensive.” At the regular team building employee dinners and meetings, the high school girls are at first “scared”

and think they’re in trouble, even though the meet-ings are simply an opportunity for the staff as a whole to gather, enjoy each other’s company and exchange ideas. “They all get along really well,” she said. “They enjoy a lot of the same things.” Jackson says a good eye for matching items is im-portant for success at Lulu’s. Her workers indepen-dently put up window decorations and redo displays, work during special events, prepare new inventory, and re-merchandise items. “If something is not selling, they move it to a different location,” Jackson said, meaning that the rearrangements place less popular items in a more prominent location. Although Jackson’s employees contact her di-rectly about a position, others make use of the Ox-

ford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce. Vice President Pam Swain says she posts job openings from Chamber members on the city website when they be-come available. At Toyo Japanese Sushi Bar, however, most of the employers are recommended by customers or other workers. Manager Kheng Chan says he only hires se-niors, and they need to not only be dependable, but have some kind of work experience. “(His/her) personality has to be outgoing, and (she/he) needs to be excited about the food we have,” Chan said. In addition, he says they must be consistently available to work every week, and not involved in too many extracurricular activities. “Other than that, all we can do is try them out,” he said.

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Handling school and a job can be very stressful, but students believe that combination is necessary to get into college. College admission councilors say otherwise. Preparation for college begins before a student ad-vances to their senior year of high school. The college admissions process depends on the type of school or pro-gram they choose. Students think that job experience will work in their favor during the admissions process, but with many schools this may not be the case. University of Mississippi’s 2012 Elsie M. Hood Out-standing Teacher of the Year award recipient and chemi-cal engineering professor, John O’Haver, Ph.D., better known to students as “Dr. O,” has years of insight into the admissions process as a former high school teacher. “For many schools, job experience is not a factor in whether or not (students) are admitted,” says O’Haver. “The main factors in admittance are academic, G.P.A., SAT and/or ACT scores and did you take the ‘college prep track of courses.” But there are times when a student’s activities’ do count. O’Haver goes on to explain that activities, such as a job, are factors with some scholarships and admissions to honor’s colleges. Besides SAT and ACT test scores, private and Ivy League colleges have extra admissions requirements. For-

mer Admissions Dean of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., and author of “Winning the College Ad-mission Game,” Peter Van Buskirk provides tips for get-ting into the school of your choice. In his book, he says that schools are impressed when

they see a student has gone beyond high school classes such as math and takes more advanced courses at the local ju-nior college. Van Buskirk also stresses resume building beginning early in a student’s +(*+! -;+&&<! ;/$##$5! E:2(--(&)-! &13-cers look favorably at a student that has joined a group and has moved up from 2#28#$! 4&! &13;#$5! ?,4! -4,:#)4-! %+&!join activities or form a club in their se-nior year are looked upon as “phony.” Once a student has been admitted there are more components of college education to consider. “In Mississippi the hardest problem isn’t getting into college, it is being suc-

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Knight’s proposed plan is to form a club or program that will “allow students to go over and help younger kids throughout the dis-trict, not just Del-7(/9 Chad says students and teachers throughout %&-' *1.%$16%' 0"#7*' 4-)-+%/''Younger students and their teachers would have extra re-sources provided by upper lev-el students and OHS student volunteers would have a col-lege resume builder and pro-vide a needed service within the community. Working with high school (,-' 8"7#)%--$.' 1.' 4-)-+61(7' !"$'the kids, Knight says. “The younger kids, they look up to us, and it’s a big deal !"$' %&-?;9'@)1,&%' .(1*/' '2A' !--7'like some of them just need that extra motivation that they might )"%',-%'(%'&"?-/9 OHS students who want to become involved can head over to Della Davidson Elementary. 2=(7:' %"' (' %-(6&-$;9'@)1,&%' .(1*/''“They will be more than happy to &-7>'3"#/9

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days as a register on weekends, Dayan says her regular job after school is not only to clean up, but also to transfer leftover pas-tries into bags and bring them to Big Star, where the store sells them at discounted prices.

Dayan says she also en-joys the friendly atmosphere she shares with her coworkers, although they are all older than she. She adds that the paintings her boss puts up as a display give the bakery a distinct feel.

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<&16:C+7CD' -?>7"3.' ?()3' &1,&.6&""7--$./'D66"$*1),'%"'%&-'">-$(%"$'"! '<&16:C+7CD'in Oxford, Lance Reed, 40 out of his 60 team members are within the high school and col-lege age range.

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An average high school student’s life usually in-cludes going to movies, hanging out with friends and attending football games, but the cost of these activi-ties can add up if the student has no form of income. To solve the low-fund problem, some students resort to taking on a job.

When students apply for a job, gaining experi-ence doesn’t take precedence over thinking about all of the football games and movies they can now at-tend. While the job might be something like printing t-shirts, experience and life skills are still learned from the job; however, students still don’t realize these hid-*-)'4-)-+%.'()*' 1).%-(*'0"$:'!"$' %&-'"481"#.'4-)--+%R'?")-3/'

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The majority of jobs that employ high school students pay low wages. According the United States Department of Labor, Mississippi has no statewide minimum wage, so the federal minimum wage of $7.25 serves a general guideline for salary. After an hour of hard work, high school students only receive a little over $7, enough to buy a Big Mac at McDon-alds. When you factor in the costs of gasoline, tick-ets and food, $7.25 is little better than $0. However, minimum wage may be too little for some.

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In the four years that we travel through Oxford High School, we change and grow, and fashion changes and grows with us. Here, we have compiled a list of clothing items that have changed in the four years that the class of 2013 has been in high school. Some of the items in the 2009 categories have

faded out of style, though many of them have merely become staples in our closet, items that de!ne our generation. Take a trip down memory lane and look in the 2012 category for any last minute Christmas wish list ideas.

"e general trend in both men’s and women’s clothes re#ects a shi$ toward more tailored and sophisticated pieces. Silhouettes and shapes have taken over as the primary emphasis in fashion, and pieces from the 70s and 80s are making comebacks. Aztec prints are in for both

genders, and so are vests.

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Long cable knit scarves to chunky snoods

Long ribbed tanks to slouchy cropped tops

Slouchy furry boots to tall equestrian boots

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!"#$%#$&''(')$*+$quarter zip pullovers

Slouchy canvas to structured leather bags

Weathered boot cut and soffe shorts to colored cords and leggings

Wallabees to kickback converse

Woven bracelets to oversized watches

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Zip up hoodie to patterned pullover &''('$,-.$/')*)

Fitted, cali­vibe polos and button downs to classic buttondowns

Rubber bracelets to baseball caps and visors

0',*1'2$&"#3&+#)$*+$hiking sandals

Boat shoes to loafers

Cargo shorts and baggy jeans to slim tailored shorts and jeans

Printed T­shirt to pocket T­shirt

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