May 10, 2008 A minor earthquake caught many northeast Mississippi residents by surprise Saturday afternoon. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed that a 3.1 magnitude earthquake struck the area at 12:52 p.m. The earthquake was epicentered near Sherman, Miss.
Monday's Finals Frenzy edition of the Daily Mississippian is the final issue for the spring 2008 semester. The DM will return on May 27 and will be publshed daily during the first and second summer sessions. Please stay tuned to TheDMOnline.com as well as our news and sports blogs for updates.
I received my first major gig at The Daily Mississippian during my sophomore year as city news editor. Gathered around the conference table in Bishop 201, I sat with my face upturned, listening to then Student Media Director Ralph Braseth give our new staff the rallying speech for a successful year.
Saying goodbye. It's one of those things in sports that's never easy, and has almost become cliché. Michael Jordan tried three times and never could get it right. Brett Favre is still trying. Roger Clemens? Nobody cares about his goodbye anymore. So now that it's time for me to say goodbye, I'm not exactly sure how.
We are at the end of the road, my friends. It has been a really long, painful semester for me (I took all the remaining prerequisites that I did not want to take ... all in the same semester), so it's not going to be bittersweet in the least when I peace out next week.
