Just like the Energizer bunny keeps going and going, Ole Miss seems to just
keep growing and growing. The University of Mississippi seems to have its
biggest freshmen class ever, every single year. Besides Ole Miss' years or
traditions, the Grove, and SEC atmosphere, what is it that seems to keep
bringing upcoming high school students to this campus?
Cass Dodgen, director of pre-college programs, says he believes the summer
programs Ole Miss offers to students contributes to a large portion of interested
freshmen. "Admission says if they can just get a student to our campus, they can
usually get almost half of those students to come to Ole Miss, so if our summer
programs can get students here for a month, it establishes a connection they
cannot turn down," said Dodgen. Dodgen said these programss are a form of
advertising the campus to high school students looking for a college home.
Dodgen said liberal arts is their biggest summer program, and seems to bring in
the most students recently.
Nadine Ramsey, coordinator of continuing education programs, says she does
not believe Ole Miss would continue to grow the way it has been without these
programs. "Ole Miss hosts many academic competitions through these
programs, and we send out lots of information because of these
competitions,"said Ramsey. Ramsey says the students learn how diverse the
campus is once they come to these programs. Ramsey says she is not trying to
credit all of Ole Miss' growth due to summer programs, but she believes that
these programs are a very big part of the university's success.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Southern Lanscape in Photos
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.
One World, Two Artists
One World, Two Artists features two magnificent
artists who are from different time periods and
from different parts of America, but both seemed
to be inspired by there southern culture they were
the outdoors so this obviously heavily influenced
the artwork of each artists.
Walter Anderson was born on September 29, 1903 in New Orleans. Anderson's mother was
also an artists. Anderson went to multiple schools, but finished his education at Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, where he received the Packard Award for winning an animal drawing
contests against the entire student body. Later he received a scholarship to study abroad in
France. Anderson's style was greatly influenced by the cave paintings he saw in France. He loved
to paint absolutely anything in nature that he could. He passed away on November 30, 1965, but
his artwork still lives today.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or i can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift i have - life itself.
Walter Anderson
Will Dewey, a senior art history major from the University of Mississipi, said, "As an artist,
it is unique to see two well established artists from different parts of America have similar
characteristics throughout their paintings/drawings." Dewey also said, "As a Mississippi artist
I am proud to be represented by such artists as Walter Anderson, and I am proud the art
community of Mississippi supports him as well."
John Alexander was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1945. After completing an MFA in 1970,
at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Alexander moved to Houston. There he established a
studio and became a member of the faculty at the University of Houston. Eventually he made
his way to New York, where then his artwork was shown all around the world.
Both artists display a love for where they grew up and nature in their artwork. Each one's
expresses their feelings in similar but different ways.
The University Museum is having a Walter Anderson Family Activity Day on October 8,
2011 from 10 A.M. until noon. There will be a tour and refreshments for the adults, and the
children will learn how to draw realistic birds.
Meek Hall Gallery 130
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
Edited Freshman 15 Story
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
One World, Two Artists
Southern artists team
up for exhibit
The bright orange koi fish swim below the surface of the
canvas, hiding beneath dark green lily pads as you stare out into their “pond”.
The fish seem to stare at you as you walk
slowly through the paintings and drawings that fill the halls of the University
Museum.
The koi painting is one of many displayed in the exhibit
One World, Two Artists featuring the artwork of two southern artists, John
Alexander and the late Walter Anderson.
University
Museum contains plenty of painting and drawings from both artists ranging from
the smallest insects to large bayous and alligators.
Anderson
and Alexander were both born and raised in the south surrounded by beautiful
scenery, rich with wildlife.
Freshmen
Katie Sexton, an integrated marketing communications major said, “Alexander
does a really great job showing his perspective of the bayou. I think him and
Anderson go really well together because they both show a different perspective
of the same idea.”
The
painting of the fish was created by John Alexander, according to
Alexander’s official website; he was born in 1945 in Beaumont, Texas. Alexander
spent the first part of his life in southeast Texas until he entered graduate
school at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1969.
Alexander later established his own studio in Houston and
joined the faculty of the University of Houston 1970. He finally ended up in
New York and his art is displayed in many prestigious museums across the nation
including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Anderson was born in New Orleans in 1903 his mother was
determined to make each of her sons artistic and Anderson was just that.
According to Anderson's website, he was a painter, a potter, and a
writer. Anderson worked in his family’s business Shearwater Pottery for most of
his life, nature and wildlife along with Horn Island became his refuge from the
world and the source of his inspiration.
The University Museum is holding Walter Anderson Family
Activity Day in his honor on October 8, 2011 from 10 A.M. until noon, where
children can learn how to draw realistic birds inspired by Anderson’s work. There
will also be a tour and refreshments for adults.
For
more information about the exhibit and Walter Anderson Family Activity Day
visit the University Museum’s website, the exhibit will last to December 3,
2011.
Exhibit brings photographs closer to home
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.
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