Art student makes bold statements

Published by: The Daily Mississippian
Issue date: February 29, 2008
Section: News

Media Credit: Kyle Kruse; Vitus Shell, a third year art graduate students, sits with some of his monotype artwork. Shell also teaches printmaking in relief and has been honored in Memphis exhibits.

The combination of out-of-date advertisements and African-American stereotypes are usually too taboo to be emblazoned in American culture today, but Ole Miss student Vitus Shell isn’t afraid to make a bold statement.

Shell, who is in the process of earning a master of fine arts degree from the University of Mississippi art department, has devoted his studio graduate work to African-American ethnocentric culture by using and recreating images of sharecroppers of the Reconstruction Era, portraits of contemporary inner-city thug life and works along other themes.

From UM to the U.N.

Published by: The Daily Mississippian
Issue date: February 22, 2008
Section: News

Media Credit: Kyle Cruse; John Czarnetzky, an Ole Miss law professor, is also an American legal counsel to the U.N. for the Vatican.

When University of Mississippi law professor John Czarnetszy isn’t lecturing to aspiring lawyers during the school year, he’s flying to the United Nations headquarters in New York City to legally advise the Vatican.

With the full support of the dean of law and the university, Czarnetszy got the opportunity to legally advise the Vatican, also called the Holy See, by chance.

Bicycling made easier with city project

Published by: The Daily Mississippian
Issue date: January 23, 2008
Section: News

Oxford is pedaling its way to finding healthier, more environmentally friendly ways for going places.

Thanks to the efforts of the Pathways Commission, bicycling around Oxford is becoming easier for cyclists while helping to reduce harmful automobile emissions.

The Pathways Commission has already been approved for Phase I of their project, which consisted of creating more than 6.25 miles of paths for both cyclists and pedestrians, Kate Kellum said.

Student ballet dancer shifts gears from tutus to textbooks

Published by: The Daily Mississippian
Issue date: November 26, 2007
Section: News

Media Credit: Courtesy of Christina Bonnington; Christina Bonnington practices with a contemporary ballet pose.

Leaping around in tutus and tiaras, then diving into textbooks and physics seems like an unusual transition. But one student at Ole Miss has taken the challenge.

Christina Bonnington, a 21-year-old electrical engineering major from Houston enrolled as a sophomore at Ole Miss after dancing as a trainee for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Graduate program and Ballet Memphis.

“My parents basically gave me an ultimatum: I could keep dancing and support myself completely or go to college,” Bonnington said. “I always wanted to go to college.”

Isom Center promotes domestic violence awareness for October

Published by: The Daily Mississippian
Issue date: October 10, 2007
Section: News

October is Domestic Violence Month, intended to raise awareness about this major concern, especially for adolescents in the United States, Mary Carruth, the Sara Isom Center director, said.

Four million women in the U.S. experience a serious assault by a partner in a 12-month period, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Of those women, 324,000 are abused each year during pregnancy, the hotline said.