the daily mississippian - july 15, 2011
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A special Harry Potter-themed newspaper to commemorate the end of the series.TRANSCRIPT
Early Friday morning, 1,096 avid Harry Potter fans made their way to Oxford’s Malco Theater for the midnight premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: part 2,” the eighth and fi nal movie of the Harry Potter series. Tickets to the premiere sold out earlier in the week.
Diana Katanzhi, a manager at the Malco, said all 9 p.m. movies Thursday night were cancelled to prepare for the midnight premiere. Doors opened at 10 p.m. to allow fans to line up to ensure they claimed the best seats.
In the 13 years since the fi rst novel, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” was released, J.K. Rowling’s
wizarding world has turned from a fi ctional story
to a full-blown
phenomenon. As of April, the seven-book series had sold more than 450 million copies worldwide and had been translated into 67
languages beyond the English original.
Before the premiere, fans shared
how they were introduced to Rowling’s Harry
Potter and what they
l o v e
m o s t
about the magical world.Daniel O’Sullivan, associate
professor of French and senior fellow of the Residential College, fi rst began reading the Harry Potter novels with his wife. “Someone had given my wife the fourth Harry Potter novel and we realized we didn’t know what was going on, so we went back and bought the fi rst book. We took turns reading the book out loud to each other as we drove cross-country from Boston to Bloomington, Ind. We fi nished it before we got to Bloomington.”
While many would consider the concept of a fi ctional world about spells and magic to be a children’s concept, people of all ages are obsessed with the series.
“I think Rowling is such a great story teller,” O’Sullivan said. “I can get wrapped up in the story very easily. In a lot of ways, it is brain candy.”
O’Sullivan refers to himself and his family as “Potterheads,” and they plan to see the movie together Friday afternoon.
“The story works on so many different levels,” he said. “It is something that adults can talk about and kids can talk about. And something that adults can talk to kids about.”
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feel like we grew up together.”
BY MEGHAN LITTENThe Daily Mississippian
See PREMIERE, PAGE 4
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sch
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stud
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est T
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hatc
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high
sch
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.
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Linda Christian, Manager of University Parking Services, an-nounced Thursday that there will be a new “park and ride” lot added this fall to provide more parking options for commuting students, faculty and staff.
The Old Walmart parking de-cal will be available to students, faculty, and staff who wish to park on the north end of campus in the Oxford Mall parking lot and ride an OUT bus to campus.
There are 400 available park-ing spaces in the new lot. This lot builds upon the South Lot, which has around 950 parking spaces.
Last year, over 300 students purchased South Lot decals that allows students, faculty and staff to park on the south end of cam-pus off Old Taylor road and take an OUT bus to campus.
With the purchase one of the two “park and ride” decals, stu-dents will be able to park at either location.
Students with the South Lot or Old Walmart decals are not al-lowed to park in any other area on campus between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Fri-day, but students who purchase a commuter decal may park in commuter parking or one of the “park and ride” lots with no pen-alty.
In addition to the new park-ing lot, this year students, faculty, and staff will also see an increase in the price of decals for the fi rst time since 2007.
Commuter and Residence Hall decals will increase from $60 to $75, and an additional or re-placement decal will be raised from $10 to $15.
Both “park and ride” decals will increase from $10 to $20.
BY MEGHAN LITTENThe Daily Mississippian
PETRE THOMAS | The Daily Mississippian
“Death Eater” Ravon Smith and Sam Lyons as “Mad-Eye Moody” battle in the Malco parking lot before the premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,
part 2.”
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A new chain of “schools” called Wands & Things are scheduled to open in select cities across the country (New York and Los Angeles first, of course) on July 16 to com-memorate the last Harry Pot-ter film, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” which premieres the day be-fore.
The curriculum promises to train the average individual to become a wizard in 10 days or your money back.
The magical scholar who has dared to promote this guaran-tee is named, oddly enough, Perry Hotter.
Hotter claims the Potter movies, which he has watched 111 times each, has culmi-nated into changing him from a mere mortal to a real, no-holds-barred wizard.
Which, of course, he feels compelled to share with the world.
According to the school’s
website, for only $2,500 and 10 days of your life, you can enroll in the course, move into the school (which, from the pictures, is a black tent with glittery moons glued onto the sides pitched outside of each city) and begin your training immediately.
You’re presented with your wand and “things,” a black cape and a really pointy cap after your check clears.
Or your card is approved, if you want the paraphernalia really quickly.
Either way, Hotter promises the experience will be very wizardly.
It seems he has personally trained a team of men and women who can instruct you as you trek your way into the magical realms, learning tricks of the trade along the way.
You even get to battle Hot-ter’s version of Lord Volde-mort as your final exam, so to speak.
You go up against the dark forces to prove your prowess and the success of the course.
If all of this seems a little far-fetched to you, you’re defi-nitely not alone.
Authorities are investigating Hotter and his band of sorcer-ous accomplices for any and all scam tendencies.
No, really? Surely not. But despite skepticism and
sarcasm (my own included), the schools are filling up fast with plans to extend them na-tionwide.
Hotter feels it is his duty to carry on where Potter, being fictitious and all, cannot.
While I try to be a very open-minded person, somehow I can’t get my brain around all this wizard stuff. Especially from a man named Perry Hot-ter who wants $2,500 from me.
However, I realize that ev-erything costs more these days, even becoming a full-
fledged wizard. Just like gas, you don’t get
magical powers for free. But...is the guy serious?
Then, my child-like imagi-nation that adulthood has smothered over the years push-es its way out from underneath the pillow, and I wonder...but what if it IS true?
What if I could be like Harry Potter? What if I could fight the dark forces with my best friends and fly on broom-sticks?
What if I could be the best darned wizard in the entire world and have tons of fun all while I’m doing it? Now, that would be well worth the $2,500.
We’re going to miss you, Harry.
Angela Rogalski is a senior print journalism major who lives in Abbeville, Miss. Follow her on Twitter @abbeangel.
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For many people in differ-ent countries, the United States will always be seen in a positive light.
Because of this, illegal im-migration will defi nitely be a touchy policy discussed in not only the 2012 election, but for many elections to come, na-tional and local alike.
The tug of war has always been to add more barbwire to our borders or to let them roam free. Mississippi decided to en-force a law that allows police to jail and eventually deport any-one who cannot prove they are a U.S. citizen.
The many who agree with stricter immigration laws sup-port the cause by stating prob-lems like the job market and drug traffi cking. They are cor-rect in those statements; how-ever, there is a twist in each one.
Yes, the drug war is a prob-lem, but there are plenty of ful-ly-fl edged Americans handling that industry. Yes, illegal aliens are taking jobs Americans either do not want because of person-al pride or cannot receive due to lack of funds in a company.
What these supporters fail to do is try to see immigrants’ lives from their eyes and fi gure out why illegals work so hard. Today, many would probably say that they have been in that situation because the recession takes a toll on us all.
Yet, to live in a crumbling shack with little money and to take care of the family sur-
rounded by danger is some-thing few Americans have lived through. If many of us did, then there would not be any jobs for illegal immigrants to take.
The reason why they work so hard for so little is because they know what it feels like to liter-ally have nothing.
That is the story of many people who jump the border. For them, immigration laws take away the right to see their children grow up in peace or to see their family happy, thus they believe that it should not exist.
They are not right because those policies can be used to help them once we realize that we have been calling the wrong side the enemy.
Something should be done to stop the employers who are preventing immigrants to ful-fi ll the true American dream. They are cheating to keep their money and to keep their com-panies afl oat by paying illegals way below minimum wage and under the table.
That is slavery, which should not exist with what this country stands for. Along with that, we should help these people who want to become citizens.
Citizens might not agree with that because it would be more money from us, but yet again, we lack perspective.
On the fi rst day of a foreign language class, when a person speaks nothing but an unfamil-iar language, the expressions on our faces state, “What in the world is this person speaking?”
Yet we complain when some-one is struggling to learn the hardest language in the world: English. Funny thing is when they do fi nally learn English, they did something that most cannot do: learn English as a
second language. Also, the citizenship test is
harder than we realize it is. I took it in one of my classes
three times before I actually passed and English is my native tongue.
The reason why these people move here is not a bad reason at all. Ever since our forefathers claimed the U.S., this land has always been a place for people to declare their freedom.
It happened to the Pilgrims when they escaped the choke-holds of oppression just because of their religion, to the African Americans after they claimed their right to live equally among other races in the Civil Rights Movement and to the women who can now dream of becom-ing whomever they want to be thanks to womens rights.
Whoever was a minority in one country due to sex, reli-gion, race and ethnicity came to America and attained a bet-ter future for generations.
Every one of us comes from someone who went on the jour-ney.
Everyone else should have that same opportunity.
Jonece Dunigan is a sophomore journalism major from Can-ton, Miss. Follow her on Twitter @JoneceD.
BY JONECE DUNIGANColumnist
The enemy is on our side of the border
This summer, I’ve been interning at Interfaith Compassion Ministry (ICM) here in Oxford.
ICM is a non-profi t organization that helps low-income people pay their bills and fi nds shelter for the homeless. Most of the time when I tell people what ICM does, I get asked if poverty and homelessness are actually issues in Oxford.
Oxford seems like such a wealthy, pristine city; most people don’t re-alize that when you get away from the Square and the university, there are a lot of people who are hurt-ing, who lack food, who have no home.
Last year alone, ICM helped 5,951 people, 371 of which were homeless. I’m approaching the last week of my internship and throughout the summer, I’ve seen situations that students at Ole Miss should know and care about.
Sometimes it’s easy to get frus-trated with people who come into ICM. Most are good, hardworking people, but some don’t try to better themselves.
It’s frustrating. But despite my frustrations, there’s one group of people I can never be upset with - the kids.
There are so many children living in these low-income situations, and they’re all heartbreaking. Most of the time, one of the parents is com-pletely out of the picture and these kids are forced to grow up too soon to take care of younger siblings.
A few have even had to translate for a foreign parent. Every time I see one of these kids, I’m reminded of how fortunate I am to have parents who care. Most of us can’t imagine growing up in homes like these, so we never think about them being real.
Former criminals are sad as well. They’re a less obvious group to be concerned for, but many become homeless when they are released from prison because their families don’t want them around. It’s nearly impossible for them to fi nd work or shelter. Even public housing won’t always accept them. Yes, they’ve obviously made mistakes but that doesn’t mean that they should be overlooked or forgotten.
I think the circumstances that have bothered me most this sum-mer have been people who are laid off, especially Ole Miss employees. From what I hear from volunteers at ICM, it’s like that every summer. A lot of the food services employees on campus get laid off until the fall semester begins. They do receive unemployment, but typically, that’s only half of what they normally make.
Because they aren’t able to work in the summer, some don’t have enough money to buy food, pay their electric bill or pay their rent.
Please don’t take this the wrong
way; I’m not trying to judge or talk badly about Ole Miss or the ad-ministration. I don’t know enough about how the system works to do either, but I do think that if anyone should be thinking of ways to help these people, it’s the Ole Miss stu-dent body.
These are the people who make our food every day, whether you get your food in the Union, the JC or your fraternity or sorority house.
My point in all of this is to show that there are people struggling ev-ery day to eat or to keep their home, and they aren’t halfway across the world in a developing country; they’re on our campus, in our com-munity.
We try so hard to keep issues like poverty at a distance.
We’ll donate money every now and then, but very few actually get involved in these people’s lives. After this summer, I think that’s a huge mistake.
Yes, giving money is wonderful and needed. But sometimes, people just want to talk, to know someone cares. It’s important that we put faces with these problems because until we realize that these are real individuals being affected, we won’t be moved to do anything about it. There are so many places in Oxford to volunteer.
From the Leap Frog after school program during the school year to places like Family Crisis Services that are open all year, fi nd one that strikes a chord with you and check them out. Poverty isn’t as far away as we like to think.
Megan Massey is a junior religious studies major from Mount Olive, Miss. Follow her on Twitter @megan_massey.
Helping ‘the least among us’BY MEGAN MASSEYColumnist
T H E C O N T E N T O N T H E S E PA G E S I S FA K E . I F Y O U B E L E I V E I T TO B E R E A L , G O B A C K TO T H E M U G G L E W O R L D .La
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id sh
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e re
ad th
e no
vels.
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bec
ame
a fa
n w
hen
the
fi rst
m
ovie
cam
e ou
t. I s
aw it
with
one
of
my
frien
ds a
nd g
ot h
ooke
d. I
did
n’t
start
rea
ding
the
boo
ks u
ntil
all
of
them
had
com
e ou
t.”I
tol
d m
y m
om a
ll I
wan
ted
for
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istm
as w
as th
e spe
cial
editi
on b
ox
set o
f the
seve
n H
arry
Pot
ter b
ooks
. I
have
read
them
all
at le
ast f
our t
imes
ea
ch.”
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is be
lieve
s it
draw
s so
man
y pe
ople
in b
ecau
se it
’s “m
ore a
bout
the
rela
tions
hips
than
the
mag
ical
side
of
the
story
.”“I
lo
ve
the
deve
lopm
ent
of
the
char
acte
rs
by
J.K.
Row
ling,
” D
avis
said
. “W
ith t
he e
xcep
tion
of
Vold
emor
t, th
ere
is no
pur
ely
good
or
evil
char
acte
r. A
ll he
r cha
ract
ers a
re
fl aw
ed. T
here
is n
o “G
od”
char
acte
r. I l
ove
the
story
of S
nape
.”
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le
mill
ions
fi l
led
thea
ters
na
tionw
ife, n
ot e
very
one
was
abl
e to
m
ake
it to
the
mid
nigh
t pre
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kira
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juni
or
bio-
chem
istry
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nish
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ble
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from
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reek
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disa
ppoi
nted
th
at
she
coul
d no
t at
tend
th
e m
idni
ght p
rem
iere
. “I
hav
e an
org
anic
test
Frid
ay, a
nd
I don
’t w
ant t
o fa
il th
e cla
ss,”
she s
aid.
“B
ut I
am
also
a s
umm
er c
olle
ge
coun
selo
r so
I will
be
taki
ng so
me
of
my
stude
nts
to s
ee th
e m
ovie
Frid
ay
afte
rnoo
n.”
Kau
r sti
ll pl
ans
to d
ress
up
even
th
ough
sh
e di
d no
t at
tend
th
e pr
emie
re.
“I a
lway
s dre
ss u
p ev
en if
I am
not
at
tend
ing
a m
idni
ght
show
ing,
” sh
e sa
id.
“My
frien
ds a
nd I
hav
e he
ld
Har
ry P
otte
r pa
rtie
s. I
have
a w
and
and
ever
ythi
ng.”
For
man
y fa
ns,
the
last
mov
ie i
s bi
tters
wee
t.“A
ll go
od t
hing
s m
ust
com
e to
an
end
. It i
s par
t of t
he c
ycle
of l
ife,”
sa
id A
.J. C
eles
ki, a
juni
or m
arke
ting
com
mun
icat
ions
and
Span
ish d
oubl
e m
ajor
from
Her
nado
. “I f
eel l
ike
it is
endi
ng a
t th
e pe
rfect
tim
e be
caus
e I
feel
like
we
grew
up
toge
ther
. We
are
all t
akin
g di
ffere
nt p
aths
in li
fe n
ow.”
The U
niversity of Mississippi’s
newest
edition, the
School of
Witchcraft
and W
izardry, has
added new
opportunities
for students w
ho are looking to major
in something less conventional.
The offered m
ajors, which range
from herbology to potions, have
caught the
attention of
many
across the country. T
he num
ber of
applicants for
the already
record-breaking incom
ing freshm
en class
has doubled, and students from
all over the w
orld are applying for transfer for the new
school.O
ne new
specialty
that has
quickly becom
e popular
with
many O
le Miss students is the
charms program
. B
estselling author and new O
le M
iss dean J.K. R
owling said a charm
“does
not fundam
entally alter
the properties of the subject of the spell, but adds, or changes, properties.”
A charm
is one of the four known
types of spells and is the most com
mon.
It focuses on what an object does instead
of what it is.
“Turning a teacup into a rat would be
a spell, whereas m
aking a teacup dance w
ould be a charm,” R
owling said.
The charm
s program at O
le Miss is a
standard four-year program that focuses
on the
ability to
master
and create
complex charm
s. The charm
s taught to freshm
en are generally harmless and less
complex, such as causing an object to
levitate or hover. A
s students spend more tim
e in the program
, they will begin attem
pting charm
s with a higher diffi culty level
that can have more of an im
pact. By graduation, students w
ill have mastered a
variety of charms and w
ill have hopefully
even created some of their ow
n.R
eilly Ham
ilton, senior marketing
major and charm
s minor, said her
favorite charm so far is the “color
change” charm.
“I can change the color of anything I w
ant and when I get tired of that
color, I can change it to another,” she said. “It really cam
e in handy when I
lived in the dorms. I w
ould change the color of m
y wall m
ultiple times
and when the R
.A. cam
e around to check the room
s, I just changed it back.”
Charm
s such as the “Hotty Toddy”
charm, w
hich is used to make any
gameday G
rove outfi t come together
perfectly, or the “From D
ixie With
Love” charm
that
can keep
the student section fi lled until the end of the fourth quarter are unique to the O
le Miss school and are not taught at
other schools.Jason D
arby, a senior political science and crim
inal justice double major, likes
to use the charms he learned in class to
pick up the ladies.“I’ve
always
been popular
with
wom
en, but now I just have a few
more
tricks up my sleeve,” he said.
When asked exactly w
hat those tricks w
ere, Darby declined to com
ment. “I
can’t be giving away all m
y secrets.”
BY AVE MAYEU
XThe D
aily Prophet
With the University of Mis-sissippi instituting the new School of Witchcraft and Wiz-ardry, the search is underway to fi nd qualifi ed professors for the multiple new classes being of-fered in the fall.
Since the university is cut-ting costs at every opportunity, school offi cials have decided to keep the search internal for the time being and fi ll the positions with current faculty and staff where possible.
Thus far, university offi cials have managed to fi ll various posts in the new school, includ-ing myself as professor of magi-cal handsomeness. The latest addition to the school is Coach Houston Nutt as Potions Mas-ter.
As the head football coach, Nutt will face many challenges balancing his coaching duties with his new classroom duties.
“I tell y’all, I’ve been wizard-
in’ for a long time, boys,” Nutt said in an interview via fl oo network. “It’s in my blood. And as much as I love coaching foot-ball, going out there and givin’ it 110 percent, I love fi ddlin’ with potions just as much.”
Though where Nutt actu-ally learned the art of potions remains a subject of dispute, university offi cials remain con-fi dent in their choice.
“We know Nutt will attack the offi ce of Potions Master with the same aggressive great-ness he has when coaching football,” the offi ce of the Pro-vost said in a statement released Thursday. “He’s been setting up his classroom in the dungeon of Shoemaker over the past two weeks, and he hasn’t blown up the building yet, so that’s a great sign.”
Nutt said he is excited about starting classes in the fall and has been working after football practice to prepare his curricu-lum.
“Man, I can’t wait to get in
there with all them youngins and impart my wizarding and potions knowledge,” he said. “I’m not sure how I feel about shaving my head and riding around in a little motorized wheelchair, but I’ll do it for my students.”
“Um, sir,” Tyrone Nix inter-rupted. “I think that’s Professor X. From X-Men.”
Nutt stared blankly. “The bald guy with the wheel-
chair is from X-Men,” Nix said. “He’s not a wizard, he’s a mu-tant.”
“Whatever, Tyrone-y,” Nutt said. “Your swagger ain’t got us nowhere playin’ football, so now we gotta use horcruxes.”
The fl oo network discon-nected at this point, but Coach Nutt contacted me later to make further comments.
“I was just jokin’ with Tyrone-asuarus, we won’t really be usin’
no horcruxes,” he said. “I mean, if you were to go lookin’ for my horcruxes that don’t exist, just stay away from Faulkner’s grave, the James Meredith statue, that box in Dan Jones’ offi ce labeled ‘TRADI$HUNZ,’ and that box of McNuggets sittin’ on my desk,” Nutt said with a smile.
“And Dan Mullen’s heart is defi nitely not a horcrux, so don’t go tryin’ to destroy that, wink winkiddy wink.”
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Faculty has been fl own in from around the globe to make up the new School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at Ole Miss.
Stud
ents
will
be
plea
sant
ly s
ur-
prise
d th
is fa
ll w
hen
they
not
ice
that
a fe
w m
ore c
ourse
s hav
e bee
n ad
ded
to th
e O
le M
iss c
urric
u-lu
m.
Facu
lty h
as b
een
fl ow
n in
from
aro
und
the
glob
e to
m
ake
up th
e ne
w S
choo
l of
Witc
hcra
ft an
d W
izard
ry a
t th
e Ole
Miss
. W
ith t
he D
ark
Mar
k ap
pear
ing
mor
e fre
quen
tly
arou
nd th
e U
nite
d St
ates
(m
ore
sight
ings
w
ere
confi
rmed
ar
ound
Ju
ly
4),
Ole
Miss
is
the
fi rst
sc
hool
in th
e nat
ion
to se
t up
a se
para
te d
epar
tmen
t str
ictly
gea
red
tow
ard
the
train
ing
and
educ
atio
n of
w
itche
s an
d w
izard
s th
at
live i
n th
e U.S
.M
any
of t
he c
ourse
s of
-fe
red
can
fulfi
ll th
e ge
nera
l ed
ucat
ion
requ
irem
ents
for
Mug
gle
stude
nts
in t
he a
reas
of
scien
ce a
nd E
nglis
h. S
tude
nts
will
be
able
to le
arn
com
mon
spell
s suc
h as
“A
loha
mor
a,” a
spell
that
ope
ns lo
cked
do
ors,
to th
e cre
atio
n of
pot
ions
like
the
“Bea
utify
ing
Potio
n,” w
hich
caus
es in
di-
vidu
als to
look
mor
e attr
activ
e tha
n th
ey
actu
ally
are.
In a
dditi
on t
o co
urse
s su
ch a
s in
-tro
duct
ory
potio
ns,
spell
s an
d de
fens
e ag
ainst
the
Dar
k A
rts, O
le M
iss is
also
in
the
proc
ess o
f set
ting
up a
Qui
dditc
h te
am.
The
uni
versi
ty is
brin
ging
in Q
uid-
ditc
h co
ordi
nato
r Oliv
er W
ood,
gra
du-
ate
of H
ogw
arts
Scho
ol o
f W
itchc
raft
and
Wiza
rdry
in th
e U
nite
d K
ingd
om
and
form
er
capt
ain
of
the
scho
ol’s
Gry
ffi nd
or q
uidd
itch
team
. “I
thin
k th
at a
ddin
g Q
uidd
itch
as a
n SE
C-sa
nctio
ned
spor
t her
e at
Ole
Miss
w
ill b
e ve
ry b
enefi
cial
,” W
ood
said
. “It
w
ould
occ
ur d
urin
g th
e sa
me
time
as
the
foot
ball
seas
on, w
hich
mig
ht c
ause
co
nfl ic
t, bu
t if C
oach
Nut
t doe
sn’t
have
a
very
suc
cessf
ul s
tart
to t
he s
easo
n,
we
mig
ht b
e ab
le to
set
up
a go
od fa
n ba
se.”
W
hile
the O
xfor
d an
d O
le M
iss co
m-
mun
ities
hav
e bee
n ex
trem
ely su
ppor
tive
and
excit
ed u
pon
hear
ing a
bout
this
new
depa
rtmen
t, pr
ofes
sor
Cha
rity
Burb
age,
who
will
teac
h M
uggl
e St
udies
, has
a t
heor
y as
to
why
C
hanc
ellor
Dan
Jone
s is n
ot to
o ex
cited
abo
ut t
he d
evelo
pmen
t of
the
Scho
ol o
f Witc
hcra
ft an
d W
izard
ry.
“It h
as b
een
said
that
the c
han-
cello
r w
as v
ery
close
with
the
M
alfoy
s du
ring
his
own
educ
a-tio
nal c
aree
r and
rece
ntly
recr
uit-
ed th
e help
of L
ucio
us M
alfoy
to
help
brin
g do
wn
Col
onel
Reb
,”
Burb
age s
aid.
The
Malf
oys
are
prom
inen
t D
eath
Eat
ers,
and
Burb
age
be-
lieve
s th
at J
ones
’ affi
liatio
n w
ith
the
Malf
oys
may
hav
e ca
used
hi
m to
turn
ove
r to
the d
ark
side.
M
alfoy
and
Jone
s w
ere
unav
ail-
able
for c
omm
ent a
t the
tim
e of
pu
blica
tion.
Des
pite
the
possi
bilit
y of
hav
-in
g a
Dea
th E
ater
in c
harg
e of
O
le M
iss,
novi
ce w
itche
s an
d w
izard
s fro
m a
roun
d th
e na
tion
are
fl ock
ing
to t
he u
nive
rsity
to
supp
ort
the
new
de
partm
ent,
whi
ch m
ight
exp
lain
the
ridicu
-lo
us s
ize o
f th
e re
cord
-bre
akin
g in
com
ing
fresh
men
clas
s.
Stud
ents
enro
lled
in
the
pres
tigio
us a
nd se
lectiv
e de
-pa
rtmen
t w
ill b
e ab
le to
pu
rcha
se te
xtbo
oks a
t the
O
le M
iss b
ooks
tore
, but
w
ands
mus
t be
pur
-ch
ased
at
Oliv
ande
r’s
Wan
d Sh
op i
n D
i-ag
on A
lley,
whi
ch is
cu
rrent
ly b
eing
ren-
ovat
ed d
ue to
stru
c-tu
ral d
amag
e cau
sed
by “
He
Who
Mus
t N
ot b
e Nam
ed.”
Q
uidd
itch
try-
outs
will
be
held
at
the
end
of A
ugus
t at
the
Ole
Miss
Int
ra-
mur
al Fi
elds.
Broo
m-
stick
s are
requ
ired
and
will
not
be p
rovi
ded.
Fo
r m
ore
info
rma-
tion
rega
rdin
g ac
cep-
tanc
e in
to t
he S
choo
l of
W
itchc
raft
and
Wiza
rdry
, cu
rrent
and
futu
re st
uden
ts
will
be
notifi
ed
via
Ow
l in
th
e upc
omin
g w
eeks
.
BY E
LLIE
SC
HM
ERLE
R Th
e D
aily
Pro
phet
The Oxford Police Department continues the search for an unidentified magic user who closely resembles Taylor McGraw, Associated Student Body president and advanced wizard. The wizard was seen casting transfiguration spells on unsuspecting non-magical citizens, also known as muggles, changing them into a variety of animals from frogs and turtles to cats and dogs.
The most recent attack by
the serial sorcerer happened last night on the Square next to the Wet Wizard, a bar popular with local wizards and witches.
The latest victim, Curtis Otartale, was changed into a lime green frog Wednesday night around 11 p.m. after leaving the bar.
Ronnie Featherbottom, the only known eye-witness to the crime, was confused about the strange attack on Otartale.
“We were standing there, and out of nowhere, a shadowy figure appeared and chanted, ‘Formicus croakicus!’”
Featherbottom said. “There was a puff of smoke and Curtis was gone, but in his place sat a frog.”
McGraw was spotted fleeing the Square that night on his Nimbus 2001 with wand in hand but has not been seen since.
The transfiguration spell is reversible with a special potion made from the eye of a newt and the beard of a goat. While the transfiguration professor at the University of Mississippi was able to change Otartale back to his human form within 24 hours, the personality traits
of the frog are still in effect.“I just want to be normal
again. My newfound appetite for insects is most unsettling,” Otartale said.
Oxford citizens magic and non-magic alike are taking all the necessary precautions against the rogue wizard. Posters of the current suspect have been posted around the city.
“Wizards like that give the whole magic community a bad name,” said transfiguration major Jon Rabbittseye.
Helga Picklenose, assistant professor of potions at the university, said that a new batch of the potion “mountain un-dew” will be ready within the week.
Oxford police urge the public to be on guard and, if possible, to obtain a magic-blocking amulet to protect from the dangerous spellcaster.
If you have any information that can help the police find the sorcerer, please contact the Oxford Police Department.
BY BRADLEY BOLEWAREThe Daily Prophet
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defensive end Kentrell Lockett, of Hahnville, La., was selected to the coaches’ second unit along with junior punter Tyler Campbell of Little Rock, Ark.
Alabama had a league-high seven representatives on the first team, while Arkansas had a league-high 14 total selec-tions. Georgia had six players on the first team, which was second, while South Carolina
had four players and Arkan-sas had three. Kentucky was the only other school to have multiple members on the first team with two.
Nine of the 12 SEC schools had a member on the first team All-SEC squad. Each SEC school had at least one stu-dent-athlete on either the first, second or third team.
Alabama followed Arkan-sas in total selections with 13, while Georgia was third with nine selections among all three teams.
Every team had at least two selections on the combined three units.
There are six first-team pre-season selections that were on last year’s first team coaches All-SEC postseason team. Those include WR Alshon Jeffery (South Carolina), RB Marcus Lattimore (South Car-olina), LB Danny Trevathan (Kentucky), DB Mark Bar-ron (Alabama), DB Stephon Gilmore (South Carolina) and PK Blair Walsh (Georgia).
The All-SEC first-team squad has 14 seniors and 12 underclassmen, including 10 juniors and two sophomores.
The second team has 16 se-niors, seven juniors and five sophomores.
The third team has nine se-niors, 11 juniors and eight sophomores.
This marks the eighth straight year of the SEC Coaches Pre-season All-SEC Team.
The team is announced each year in advance of the SEC Football Media Days.
This year, the event will be held next Wednesday through Friday at the Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, Ala.
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1. Auburn: The Tigers lose a lot from their 2010 National Cham-pionship team, but return a great deal of talent at the running back position. Sophomore Michael Dyer rushed for over 1,000 yards as a freshman and will be paired with the electric Onterio McCa-lebb. McCalebb is one of the fast-est players in the country and ran for almost 900 yards a year ago last year as a sophomore
2. Alabama: Even with the sea-son-ending injury to talented fresh-man Dee Hart, Alabama ranks near the top in terms of running back units. Junior Trent Richardson now has the reins of the Crimson Tide running attack after the departure of 2009 Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram. Richardson rushed for 700 yards and six touchdowns last season and is ready to become the feature back in Tuscaloosa this season. His backup, sophomore Eddie Lacy, rushed for 400 yards on 56 carries last season.
3. Arkansas: Arkansas has envi-able depth at the running back po-sition with three solid backs in the rotation.
Starter Knile Davis rushed for just over 1,300 yards in 2010 as a sophomore and should come close to repeating that if he stays healthy this season. Junior Dennis Johnson is back from an internal injury and hopes to get back to his 2009 form. Junior Ronnie Wingo Jr. showed
fl ashes of his talent last season and hopes to keep that talent on display full-time in 2011.
4. South Carolina: In conten-tion for best running back in the conference, sophomore Marcus Lattimore has added weight and muscle in the offseason in hopes of being able to stay healthy in 2011. Lattimore carried the ball an astounding 249 times as a true freshman, racking up almost 1,200 yards rushing and 17 touchdowns. Behind Lattimore on the depth chart is junior Kenny Miles, who garnered 40 carries in the offense last season.
5. Mississippi State: The Bull-dogs return a nice stable of run-ning backs. It starts with senior Vick Ballard, who narrowly missed out on 1,000 yards rushing last sea-son and ended the year with 981. In addition to Ballard, sophomore LaDarius Perkins returns after ac-cumulating over 500 yards of rush-ing as a freshman. Despite 221 yards rushing last season, junior Robert Elliot has yet to live up to the hype that surrounded him as a recruit.
6. Florida: It remains to be seen how Weis uses the abundance of small, speedy backs in his new pro-style offense. Seniors Chris Rainey and Jeff Demps combined for over 900 yards rushing last season and are the top two backs returning. Sophomore Mack Brown is an-other back to keep an eye on this season in Gainesville.
7. Ole Miss: Brandon Bolden returns for his senior season af-
ter leading Ole Miss in rushing a year ago with 976 yards and could eclipse the 1,000 yard mark this season. Sophomore speedster Jeff Scott hopes to fi nd consistency, while senior Enrique Davis hopes to contribute as another back in the rotation this season.
8. LSU: The Tigers must replace Stevan Ridley and turn to talented sophomore Spencer Ware to do so. Ware rushed for over 100 yards in last year’s Cotton Bowl and seems ready to be the starter this season. Sophomores Alfred Blue and Mi-chael Ford will be in the mix as well.
9. Tennessee: Senior Tauren Poole returns after rushing for 1,034 yards and 11 touchdowns
a season ago. The Volunteers have weapons in the passing game now, so Poole should have more holes to run through. Behind Poole is sophomore Rajion Neal and high-ly-touted recruit Marlin Lane.
10. Georgia: The Bulldogs al-most fell lower than this spot with their mess at the running back po-sition. Washaun
Ealey decided to transfer out, while Caleb King was recently ruled ineligible due to grades. That leaves redshirt freshman Ken Mal-come and junior Carlton Thomas. The wild card is incoming fresh-man Isaiah Crowell, one of the top high school backs last year, who be thrown into the fi re early.
11. Vanderbilt: The Commo-
dores have a new coach in James Franklin, but the previous staff left behind some
offensive talent in juniors War-ren Norman and Zac Stacy. Both battled injuries in 2010, but have a large amount of talent. It will be interesting to see if they can stay healthy and how Franklin uses both of them in the new offense.
12. Kentucky: Gone are the Wildcats top two rushers from 2010 in Derrick Locke and Ran-dall Cobb. The duo combined for over 1,300 rushing yards and 15 touchdowns last season. After rushing for 254 yards as a fresh-man, sophomore Raymond Sand-ers put himself in position to start at running back in 2011.
SEC football rankings: running backs
BY BENNETT HIPPThe Daily Mississippian
Each Friday, The Daily Mississippian’s Bennett Hipp will rank the 12 SEC teams by position as part of an eight-week series. Next week: quarterbacks
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Senior running back stiff arms a Louisiana defender in a 43-21 victory last season. He rushed for a career-high 116 yards on a career-high 19 carries and fi nished with 337 yards and three touchdowns for the season.
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