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Jamie Kline

AOPIE Sale Benefitting Arthritis

Ole Miss Homecoming

New Building Offers New Opportunites

Homecoming Week at Ole Miss

Smoke-free campus

Hair today, gone tomorrow.

“I mustache you a question, but I’ll shave it for later.” Corny? Very – but also very appropriate considering the month. “No Shave November” is well under way, and students around the University of Mississippi have mixed feelings about participating.

“No Shave November”, also known as “Movember” (“mo” for moustache and “November”), is an annual month-long event beginning on October 31 with a clean shave. As the month progresses, the beards of males around campus will also progress.

While college students typically participate for amusement, the event was actually started for reasons much more serious. A group of men in Melbourne, Australia during 2003 recognized the hard work of women to battle and raise awareness for breast cancer and thus decided to create a global men’s health movement. Growing a moustache for the entire month of November to raise awareness and funds for cancers that affect men – typically prostate cancer – was their goal. It succeeded.

In 2010, more than $7.5 million was earned by over 64 thousand men and women participants, according to Movember.com. Via the moustache, “No Shave November” is fulfilling its vision to make an everlasting impact on the face of men’s health by simply sparking conversation about the cause.

William Craig, a freshmen classical history major, has ulterior motives for partaking in the month’s festivities.

“I really like being able to do something on my own. In high school, it was required that we have short hair all the time, and this is one of my first chances out of high school to be able to participate. I’m also playing the ‘Soldier’ in the Ole Miss production of ‘A Soldier’s Tale’, and I wanted to look older anyway,” said Craig.

Virginia Kinard, a sophomore at Ole miss, expresses her feelings of the month as a woman.

“No. No. No! It’s clever, I guess, but I hate when my boyfriend doesn’t shave. I’ve threatened to retaliate by not shaving my legs, but he just won’t budge. I guess I’ll have to resort to ‘No Sex November’ for awhile then,” joked Kinard, with a smile.

Unofficial rules for participating are located here.

ISO Date Auction Successful

The International Student Organization has found a unique way to get International and American students to get to know each other better. On November 4th, 2011, ISO held their 2nd annual Date Auction.

The event included a silent auction, which included many items from all over the world, a bake sale, and the date auction. Before each person was bided on, they performed some kind of talent. The talents ranged from doing native or freestyle dances to singing, some in their native language.

The Date Auction was hosted by International students Roman Kanbarov from Russia and Elsie Okoye from Nigeria. Kanbarov and Okoye provided the crowd with jokes and other anecdotes throughout the auction to keep spirits high.

"I learned some new things, met some new and interesting people, and really enjoyed the entertainment," Destiny Sprout, sophomore English Education major, says. "What made it even better is that they were raising the money for a great cause," Sprout adds.

According to ISO treasurer and Vice-president Vihara Dharmaratne, ISO raised over $1000 from the bake sale and auctions. Dharmaratne says that 10% of the money raised will be donated to the International Justice Mission with the rest being used to pay for the ISO International Night next semester.

To join the International Student Organization, you can request through their OrgSync or Facebook pages. To learn more about the International Justice Mission you can visit their website here.

Southern Studies Brown Bag

Vote for Change -Steff Thomas

Vote for Change -Steff Thomas

Flu: The Worst Season

Ole Miss Parade Of Beauties

Pi Phi Chili Cookoff

Toasting And Tasting For Scholarship

Jamie Kline

Delta Gamma Anchor Splash

Anna Varner

Library Installs Mac Computers

NewsWatch: Behind the Scenes

NewsWatch: Behind the Scenes

The University of Mississippi puts on a live, student run broadcast that airs Monday through Friday at 5:30 on Channel 99. The half hour show, News Watch, is the only local newscast for Ole Miss, Oxford, and Lafayette County. The broadcast is repeated each evening at 10 o'clock PM on Channel 99 as well.

Anna Ellingburg, a junior at Ole Miss and veteran to NewsWatch, refused to let her freshmen status stop her from joinging the NewsWatch team.

“Well, I actually came into Newswatch for my first time my freshmen year to try out, and it seemed like there were only juniors and seniors in here, and as a freshmen, I was pretty nervous. Once I got in, I realized there’s a big mixture of classmen here,” said Ellingburg.

NewsWatch provides students with hands-on experience, as well as compensation, for the anchors, sports anchors, producers, reporters, camera operators, directors, and more.

“I really think that getting involved in the SMC is really important because there are things in journalism that you can’t learn from a text book or even from a professor just talking to you. The SMC really provides that for you,” said Ellingburg.

Lindsey Neyman, producer for NewsWatch, values the experience she gains at work everyday.

“As the producer, it can get a little stressful at times. It’s a tedious job, but I love it. I would never get the experience I need for this kind of field without getting out and doing it. This isn’t preparing for the real world; it is the real world,” said Neyman.

Auditions for NewsWatch are held at the beginning of each semester in Bishop Hall in the Student Media Center. To preview past broadcasts from NewsWatch, visit http://www.youtube.com/user/NewsWatchOleMiss

Summer in Argentina? print only

Summer in Argentina?

Wouldn’t it be nice to spend the summer abroad on the beach while getting some school credits out of the way? This sounds very appealing to most people, and the study abroad office can make this possible for any student interest.

The Study Abroad Office is planning a very exciting summer for University students. Programs range from travel with UM faculty to weeks spent with students from all over the world. Students can travel to study in a large city or a more secluded small area.

The Study Abroad Office is offering 33 different locations for students to study. Each location consists of 1 or more schools for the student to apply to. The locations vary all over the world from Latin American to China. The program offers almost anywhere a student would want to go or at least somewhere very close to the students desired location. "It was really hard for me to decide where I wanted to go, but I knew anywhere I chose was not going to be a bad decision," says Betsy Lynch, senior student at Ole Miss.

Studying abroad through Ole Miss is an opportunity many people will never get to have especially with the program’s financial status. Students can study in another country for the price of their normal University tuition. It is almost impossible to go to another country for the price of tuition. The financial part makes studying abroad an opportunity most cannot turn down. "Once students realize what an amazing opportunity they can have and for the price, it is almost impossible to say no," say Blair McElroy, study abroad advisor.

Students can go for just a month or the whole entire summer. Some trips are led by faculty and others are completely independent led. Depending on where the student decides to go, he can usually decide which way he wants to spend his trip.

The deadline for summer abroad is April 6. All students should hurry into the abroad office and book a opportunity that will change their summer forever.

Summer in Argentina?

Summer in Argentina?

Wouldn’t it be nice to spend the summer abroad on the beach while getting some school credits out of the way? This sounds very appealing to most people, and the study abroad office can make this possible for any student interest.

The Study Abroad Office is planning a very exciting summer for University students. Programs range from travel with UM faculty to weeks spent with students from all over the world. Students can travel to study in a large city or a more secluded small area.

The Study Abroad Office is offering 33 different locations for students to study. Each location consists of 1 or more schools for the student to apply to. The locations vary all over the world from Latin American to China. The program offers almost anywhere a student would want to go or at least somewhere very close to the students desired location. "It was really hard for me to decide where I wanted to go, but I knew anywhere I chose was not going to be a bad decision," says Betsy Lynch, senior student at Ole Miss.

Studying abroad through Ole Miss is an opportunity many people will never get to have especially with the program’s financial status. Students can study in another country for the price of their normal University tuition. It is almost impossible to go to another country for the price of tuition. The financial part makes studying abroad an opportunity most cannot turn down. "Once students realize what an amazing opportunity they can have and for the price, it is almost impossible to say no," say Blair McElroy, study abroad advisor.

Students can go for just a month or the whole entire summer. Some trips are led by faculty and others are completely independent led. Depending on where the student decides to go, he can usually decide which way he wants to spend his trip.

The deadline for summer abroad is April 6. All students should hurry into the abroad office and book a opportunity that will change their summer forever. http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/study_abroad/index.html

NewsWatch: Behind the Scenes

Long Lines, an Even Longer Wait for an End

If you have stopped by the Student Union around noon for lunch, you've seen it: the incredibly long lines for all the places at the food court and the even longer one at the Subway upstairs. For many students, this causes them to choose either being late to class or going hungry.

For some freshman, incoming students, and some upperclassmen who choose to stay at the University of Mississippi for graduate school, this may not be the case in a couple of years. The reason is because Ole Miss has begun putting plans together for a $50 million project that will expand and renovate the Student Union.

The University has taken it's time getting a plan together to expand the Union because there were more presssing projects to take of first, according to Director of Facilities Planning Ian Banner.

"I hope they increase the lounge area and give more food options," Freshman Alicia Gregory said when asked what she hoped an expanded Student Union will entail.

Although it is early in the planning process, Banner says he hopes to make the expansion to the "backside" of the Union to help give it four "front sides" that face every direction.

Banner says he believe the Union is the "heart of the campus and student life" and hopes that with the expansion we can bring it back to its rightful prominence. For more information about the Student Union expansion, check out this video.

Memory Gardens - Featherston

2011 Homecoming Elections-Katelyn Collier

University To Expand Student Union

Journalism or Bust

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Homecoming Elections- Pipes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnjIXWczcjo

Journalism 271 Fall 2011

Welcome to Journalism 271 Fall 2011! You will post your multimedia and television videos on blogger. Any questions, please ask.  thanks Dr. Williams