ESPN columnist and television personality Jemele Hill visited Ole Miss to present for their Newsmaker Lecture Series. Hill encouraged students to continue their goal to become journalists. Hill interacted with students in the audience, "Using that flip-cam is practicing being a journalist." Hill spoke about her experiences before and during ESPN.
Hill also told her experience as a woman in the field of sports journalism.
ESPN”s television personality and sports columnist Jemele Hill spoke on the Oxford campus on October 18th as part of the Newsmaker Lecture Series presented by The University of Mississippi's Association of Black Journalists.
Hill’s lecture focused mainly on the idea that journalism is a field that is never ending.
“Methods of delivery change,” she said, “But journalism as a whole does not.” People will always want to know new information, and it will always be a journalist job to deliver that information.
Hill is a lighthearted speaker who also provided several stories, often comical, from her experience in the field of journalism.
Hill was the first of several notable speakers of the week participating in the Newsmaker Lecture Series in the Meek School of Journalism.
Yellow Brick Media Concepts President Kathy Times speaks about the importance of networking and building skills while in college at the
Times stresses that now is when you should be meeting people and preparing for your career. She also suggests creating a five-year plan and learning a second language.
Times’ speech was a part of the Newsmaker Lecture Series presented by The University of Mississippi’s Association of Black Journalists.
To learn more about Kathy Times you can visit her website at kathytimes.com.
Kathy Times speaks to Ole Miss Students during the Newsmaker Lecture Series on October 20th. The series was sponsored by the University of Mississippi's Association of Black Journalists.The Newsmaker Lecture Series continues. President of Yellow Brick Media Concepts, Kathy Times, was the second speaker in the lecture series. She talked with Ole Miss students about being the best reporter you can be, successfully planning your journalism career, and ethics and credibility. Times says the first step is to be adventurous for journalism and hungry for answers. But to her, ethics and credibility are the building blocks for success. In her own words she says, "Unless you have a trust fund, all you have is your credibility. Don't blow it." And with a resume as packed as hers, Times is certainly a credible model of accomplishment.
Jemele Hill, columnist and television personality for ESPN, was at the University of Mississippi’s Association of Black Journalists conference on October 18, 2011 to talk to students about journalism now and share her experiences with them.
Hill prides herself in being able to work harder than others.
“The methods change, but the core the principles never change,” Hill says. Telling people what they do not know by twitter, flip cams, blogs, ect. is important in today’s media.
Hill also stressed how important it was to get experience now in order to be successful in the future.
For more information on Hill’s speech and many others, please contact Deidra Jackson, adviser, at 662-915-1547 or djackson@olemiss.edu
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President of Yellow Brick Media Concepts and Immediate Past President of the National Association of Black Journalists, Kathy Times, spoke to students at the University of Mississippi today about their careers and how news reporting is changing.
Times told students about ten lessons that will better their careers, encourages students to be good writers, always follow the rules, and have a mentor in their field. She tells students that their creditability is all they have and a person’s ethics and character must never change.
Times’ speech was the second part of the Newsmaker Lecture Series presented by The University of Mississippi’s Association of Black Journalists.
Kathy Times, president of Yellow Brick Media Concepts, spoke with students at the University of Mississippi today about the every-so-changing journalism field.
Times, an award winning journalist, educated students on how to be successful in the work world.
She informed students of ten lessons that will better their careers, highlighted by the fact that you should chose a field you are passionate about.
Times shared her experiences as a news reporter. Her stories included controversial events, such as racial profiling.
Times’ speech was a part of the Newsmaker Lecture Series presented by The University of Mississippi’s Association of Black Journalists.
It’s Sept. 3, the first home football game of the season for the
According to an Ole Miss marching band teaching assistant of the Ole Miss marching band, this was the first time the band was moved to the student section of the football stadium. The students had complained that the band could not be heard from its prior position in the stadium, which is why the band was moved.
Although this simple move should not have been a big problem, it became quite a mess. Jim Stites, a teaching assistant, said it was the band’s first time in a new place, everything did not go as smooth as everyone wanted.
The drum major of the Pride of the South, Chris Presley, said the band director hired the University Police Department to act as the band’s security, but the UPD never came as they were supposed to.
“The drum major and the TAs [teaching assistants] had to act as the band’s security and keep other people from coming into the band’s section of the stands,” Presley said.
Presley said for the next game, the band directors will call and confirm with the UPD to ensure the band’s security shows up for the next game.
A fourth year member of the Ole Miss marching band, Kelli Harrison, said she did not understand the students’ rude behavior toward the band. Band members’ possessions were stolen when the band left the stands to perform its half-time show she added.
“If the security had shown up like they were supposed to, none of this would have happened,” she said.
“I’m so ashamed of Ole Miss students,”
Clean up on fourth floor. This is a task that many custodians know too well. Students return from their party ventures at the No. 3 party school in the nation, Ole Miss, along with drunken minds.
It’s their first time being away from home with no curfew and constant nagging from parents can get ignored with no physical consequences. Attending class becomes completely optional. Welcome to college.
Although parents are not present, students still have to abide by rules. Residential assistants are paid to live in the dorms and regulate student residents. Although the residential assistants do not control their curfew they do control their noise level.
Residential and community assistants for example experience drunken residents. According to the University policy, residential assistants are to report residents who are caught intoxicated or with alcohol. Martin Hall RA (residential assistant) Shan Williams said,
“When they’re caught, it never ends well. As an RA, we try to give them a second chance.”
Williams says she has experienced the most trouble from girls attempting to sneak guys up after 2 a.m. during the week. The residents are allowed visitation until 12 a.m. weekly. On the weekends, it is extended until 2.am.
“If this problem continues, the residents will be punished with no visitors,” Williams said.
Kwanza Boone, a community assistant says,
“The guys are rowdier that girls when intoxicated, Boone said I try not to judge them after the first time, but after the second time, consider yourself judged.”
RA’s kind attitude and maturity lands them the job, but it’s strictly business once the students arrive.
Community assistants witness many of the same things Resident assistants do. However, their job may be easier. They’re job is to sign visitors in. Community assistants are usually doing homework or watching movies on the laptop in the wee hours of the morning at the desk.
According to the RAs, being a residential assistant is time consuming, but they do have a life outside of being “responsible” for other students.
Artists and Mississippi natives John Alexander and Walter Anderson offer diversity to the University of Mississippi’s museum.
The opening reception took place September 22.
The paintings will be on display through Dec. 3rd. Many of the paintings had been on display at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art.
Tracy Stricklin, the museum desk assistant said, “We had very high attendance. We are excited to have the paintings here. It’s a nice opportunity.”
The paintings are hung on a lime green wall. The narrow hallway seems to enclose viewers into the details of the painting.
The artists’ family donated many of the paintings; however, paintings from personal collections also are displayed.
The art pieces vary from wild, colorful pictures of frogs, owls, and birds to cabbage rows, marsh, shrubs, and trees. There also is a painting of embryos near the end.
The paintings date back to 1934 with the most recent one from 1960.
There are three larger pictures in a corner, which are slightly hidden but unable to be missed.
A quote by Walter Anderson on the left wall reads, “The first poetry is written against the wind by sailors and farmers who sing with the wind in their teeth. The second poetry is written by scholars and students and wine drinkers who have learned to know a good thing. The third poetry is sometimes never written, but when it is, it’s by those who have brought nature and art together into one thing.”
The bibliographies of the artists near the pictures allow viewers to gain extensive knowledge about their backgrounds and lives.
The suggested admission was only 5 dollars although it was no charge to current members.
http://museum.olemiss.edu/2011/08/one-world-two-artists/
Jessica Lynch
When humans live in a place over time, we leave our mark. Marks that represent lifestyles, connections between society and land, and values.
Photo of Atlanta, GA
In Southern Crossings: Where Geography and Photography Meet, artist David Zurick captures the marks he sees humans have left on earth throughout the south.
In this exhibit, there are pictures taken throughout several southern states including Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina. Photographs range from pictures of buildings and landscapes, to gravesites and chemical plants.
One of Zurick’s photographs was taken in Pearl River County, Mississippi, in 2000. The photograph is of an old broken down farmhouse set beneath big oak trees and surrounding fields. In the explanation of this photo, Zurick explains that it is the home of an elderly woman who chose to live there because, “that is the way she was born and the way she would die.” Zurick believes old farmhouses such as hers are footnotes of the historical south. Many are disappearing, and the landscape will not be the same when they are gone.
A second photograph was taken in downtown Cordele, Georgia. Cordele is a city located on the Old Dixie highway, whose downtown area used to consist of thriving shops and restaurants serving travelers and farmers passing through town. Now, this once busy downtown is dead, and looks to remain that way. The only part of Cordele that remains afloat is the part located on Interstate 75, that consist of a strip of motels and fast food restaurants.
Another photograph in the exhibit represents the opposite of Cordele, taken in Atlanta, Georgia in 2001. The photo is of the Atlanta skyline featuring skyscrapers and buildings as far as the eye can see. What is interesting about this photo is that there is no form of life in the picture. You can see no people or vehicles on the road, a site that a person who lives in Atlanta their entire life may never see. Zurick took this picture early one Sunday morning, and says it was an “arresting sight.”
Senior Brandon Braner, a visitor at the museum, says the picture of Atlanta is his favorite of the exhibit. “I was born and raised in Atlanta,” Braner said, “and I have never seen the city look that way. The emptiness makes the city look like it has been emptied, and for once peaceful.”
The Southern Crossings: Where Geography and Photography Meet exhibit is currently being displayed in Barnard Hall across from the Student Union.
Jessica Lynch
October 4, 2011
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With recruitment just around the corner, it is time for greek life to focus on one of its major platforms- charity. Every year, the Panhellenic Council, a group of seven women in charge of girls recruitment, organize the charity event “C.A.R.E. Walk.” C.A.R.E. Walk is a one-mile walk around campus to raise money for breast cancer.
Thousands UM students usually participate in C.A.R.E. Walk each year. It is typically a mandatory event of active sorority members, and encouraged of the freshman intending to participate in the Panhellenic recruitment process. Participants may walk in support of a breast cancer victim by wearing a pink shirt or a nametag with the victims name displayed.
Mary Lauren Brunsen, vice president of community service for the Panhellenic Council, said they really want to focus on the charity part of C.A.R.E. Walk this year.
“In the past, C.A.R.E. Walk has been known for being more of a recruitment event than a charity one, “ Brunsen said, “we really want girls to focus on the cause, and be there to support the victims, and celebrate with the survivors.”
One main change happening this year to shift the focus toward the cause is that active sorority members will wear the same t-shirt. In the past, sorority members have worn their own letters, in a universal shirt picked by their chapter. However, with all the shirts being the same this year, freshman will not be able to identify what sorority each active is in, but instead uniting them as one.
“I am really excited to participate in C.A.R.E. Walk this year.” Freshman Valerie Ellis said. “Finding a cure for breast cancer is a cause I think all women should support, because it could happen to any of us.”
“I think it will a great opportunity for me to meet actives in every sorority, as well as other freshman. I am just ready to get the recruitment process started already, said freshman Valerie Ellis.”
C.A.R.E. Walk is one of the highest grossing philanthropies on campus. “I think last year we raised about $26,000,” Brunson said. “With the largest number of girls going through recruitment in Ole Miss history we hope to raise more than ever.”
Cost to participate in the C.A.R.E Walk is $15. This cost includes a t-shirt and dinner and drinks after the walk.
Sources:
Mary Lauren Brunson: VP Community Service , marylaurenmlb@gmail.com, 662-809-3916
Valerie Ellis: Freshman participant, 817-915-8172, vellis@olemiss.edu
William Faulkner once declared himself “sole owner and proprietor” of Yoknapatawpha County. He wrote novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and a play during his career. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his childhood.
The “Faulkner’s Geographies: A Photographic Journey” exhibit was set up in the University of Mississippi Museum for the 38th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. The exhibit, which is exclusive to the to the university, presents photographs from the permanent collection of Archives and Special Collections from the university library.
The 36 black and white photographs displayed are from Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cofield Collection, Martin Dain, and Phil Mullen. The images present an opportunity to respond to Faulkner’s generous words with compelling images that help fill in the gaps of wonder and speculation about his intimate world.
In the photographs, Faulkner is seen at work and at leisure, at his home, Rowan Oak, as he was in Japan, with his pipe in hand and Panama hat rolled up and tucked in his shirt pocket. There are images of the people and events that inspired his writing.
Many photographs are not titled as much as there described. Many of the images are described as “miscellaneous,” a mode Faulkner frequently wrote in.
The exhibit opened July 12 and will be closing October 10, 2011.
The definition of art is "the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others."
Gallery 130, the
Robin Helton, a minor of art, said, “I usually end up here between classes to see what’s new, and it’s amazingly interesting what people come up with.”
The art exhibition that is currently displayed in Gallery 130, which is located in Meek Hall, is titled “Not Exactly There,” and will be on display until Oct. 6.
This exhibit consists only of abstract art. Upon entering the room, you can see numerous canvases featuring a mix of colors and shapes. Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Helton described her favorite of the pieces as such.
“I think the use of color and shapes is really interesting,” Helton said. “It makes you feel like you’re looking through a glass window.”
The creator of the exhibit, Michael Wille, is a professor of art at
Wille’s paintings have been featured in several art exhibitions around the nation, such as Hoffman LaChance Contemporary,
There will be a lecture on Wille’s artwork on Thursday Oct. 6 at
A picture is worth 1,000 words.
Currently, there are 23 black and white photographs on display at the Gammill Gallery located in the first floor foyer of Barnard Observatory where artist David Zurick visually defines southern cultural landscapes.
Emily Philpot, Ole Miss student, gazes at photos in the exhibit in her downtime before her class begins
The exhibit is titled “Southern Crossings: Where Geography and Photography Meet” and it includes the exact photographs from Zurick’s book of photographs also titled “Southern Crossings: Where Geography and Photography Meet.”
Zurick is an academically trained geographer and self-taught photographer who seamlessly portrays southern cultural landscapes in his desire to examine landscapes and share his thoughts about them.
“Landscapes thus hold for me great meaning- repositories of lifestyles, connections between society and land, and mirrors onto worldviews and their associated values,” Zurick said in his personal statement.
The exhibit includes photographs taken during Zurick’s 10-year journey (beginning in 1996) through the American South.
One photograph is of an old-fashioned, rotting truck with broken windows decaying in a wooden area in Stone County, Miss.
Alongside the photos is a photo description containing unique historical facts and stories involving the area the picture was taken from.
The exhibit intrigued sophomore Ole Miss student, Catherine Supple.
“The pictures are an interesting blend of modernism and traditional southern lifestyle. It is fascinating to see the southern culture and landscape depicted in this way,” Supple said.
At noon on Wednesday, October 5, George Thompson, former director of the center for American places at Columbia College in Chicago, Ill., will hold a discussion in Barnard Observatory of “Southern Crossings: Where Geography and Photography Meet.”
This and additional information can be found on today’s UM Today announcement.
Additional background information regarding Zurick’s book can be found at the Eastern Kentucky University website.
Not Exactly There.
This expression, also the name of the exhibit, is used to easily describe my thoughts as I entered the room where the exhibit was held. This exhibit was held in Meek Hall gallery 130.
Gallery 130 is the University of Mississippi’s Department of Art’s gallery. The gallery features an exhibit each year that the undergraduate and graduate students put on for everyone. This exhibit, “Not Exactly There”, is showing from September 5 – October 6, 2011. Meek Hall Gallery 130 is open to the public Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm.
As I entered the exhibit, there were multiple rectangular canvases that were all lined on the walls in the room. Each canvas was painted a different color. The colors ranged from bright blues, grey, dark green, white, and bright yellow. On top of the colored canvases were what seemed to be different colors of tissue paper cut and glued on to contrast the different colors. Some of the canvases had paint instead of tissue paper on them. The paint was in squares and rectangles on top of one another. The paint squares on the canvas ranged from big thick squares to little skinny squares layered over each other.
The theme of the art exhibit seemed to be squares and rectangles portrayed in an abstract way. This theme really stood out because these canvases were placed on a white wall with nothing else in the room. Because the canvases were so colorful and placed on a blank white wall the contrast between the colors on the canvases and the canvases against the white wall was more effective.
“I have not been to the exhibit in Meek Hall, but I do plan on going. I am not big on art exhibits, but I have heard from others how interesting the artwork is. I plan on going sometime this week,” Margaret Anderson
For more information on the exhibit and upcoming exhibits visit this website.
By: Haley Morgan
Some students argue their exercise habits are purely financial because they can’t afford to buy bigger clothes. Others say they work out to impress a cute boy or girl at the gym. A smaller percentage of teens claim to work out solely for the pleasure found in endorphins. But, according to current students, the vast majority of students exercise to prevent gaining the dreaded “Freshman 15”.
The “Freshman 15” is weight gain associated with freshman year of college. While it may not be 15 pounds exactly, weight gain during the college years is extremely common.
Dr. Kathy Knight, associate professor in the department of nutrition and hospitality management at The University of Mississippi, focuses especially on weight management and nutrition. She stresses the importance of small portions sizes and eating lower calorie snacks.
“You may not gain any pounds right away, but if I gain a fourth of a pound every week that’s nine to 10 pounds at the end of the school year. The little things add up,” Knight said.
Knight believes diet and exercise go hand in hand, and students should try to exercise for at least 30 minutes a day, five days a week.
However, while weight gain during college typically has a negative connotation, Knight emphasizes the idea that weight gain may not be a bad thing.
“We are always told that when we look at the scale, more is always bad and this is not always true,” she said.
Knight says it is common for male students to grow one or two inches their freshman year, and with a height increase comes an equally proportioned weight increase. Weight gain may be in the form of muscle gained from walking to classes, in which the number on the scale is increasing but body image is diminishing.
Knight has written an excerpt in The Ole Miss Handbook: A Guide For Freshman titled “Five Tips for Avoiding the ‘Freshman Fifteen” in which she also mentions that water consumption is vital for a healthy lifestyle. She recommends 48 ounces a day because sometimes when we think we are hungry, we are really thirsty.
Many water bottles and hydrated students can be found at the Turner Center, the local fitness center on the Ole Miss campus. Students of all classification can be seen working out between classes.
According to Porsche Blackmon, campus recreation staff member, more than 1,600 students use the Turner Center daily, as recorded by a handheld, clicking tally counter.
Blackmon is well versed in the understanding of the “Freshman 15.” Her recommendation is to stay active.
“Actually enroll in a fitness class like jogging or weight lifting just so you get that work out a couple times a week,” Blackmon said.
The Turner Center has several fitness classes, intramural sports, a swimming pool, and a gym available to all students to help reduce the fear of the “Freshman 15.”
Dr. Kathy Knight, Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management, kknight@olemiss.edu, 662-915-5172
Porsche Blackmon, Campus Recreation Staff and student, unable to obtain personal information
Southern geography is a beautiful thing.
That is exactly what the “Southern Crossings: Where Geography and Photography Meet” exhibit brings to life.
The exhibit is located in Barnard Observatory, which is an old-southern building located on the Ole Miss campus in Oxford, Miss.
The exhibit demonstrates black and white photography of southern locations. Photos range from old southern landmarks to current day swimming pools. The photos provide a powerful meaning to what southern geography is all about.
“The black and white photos really provide a strong meaning. You just get a prestigious feeling when you see the exhibit. The photos are a bit random, but that makes it great,” said Clay Failor a former southern studies major at Ole Miss.
The photographer of the exhibit is David Zuric. Zurick, a Kentucky native, is a highly touted photographer. He is an academically trained geographer who has earned many honors such as the “Mt. Everest Award” for his photography of the Himalayas. Zurick stated that the idea of the exhibit was to bring photographs closer to home.
There are also many artifacts in the exhibit. These marvelous artifacts are tied to the south in some way, shape, or form. Beautifully designed telescopes and cameras designed in the 19th century fill the exhibit.
The exhibit has been in Barnard Observatory since the start of the fall semester. It will remain there until after Thanksgiving.
