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Almost three years after her chance run-in with producer Pharrell Williams, indie singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers released her first album “Heard It in a Past Life.” How far will it take her?
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OPD opts for vouchers, not tickets
Instead of ticketing violators with broken tail lights or headlights, Oxford Police Department now provides vouchers that cover up to $25 in repairs. JORDAN HOLMAN
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he Oxford Police Department has teamed up with various auto shops – including Southland Body & Paint Shop, Neal Hodge Automotive Innovations, Oxford Auto Care and Deal’s Auto Repair – to offer vouchers in lieu of tickets for equipment violations through its new “We Care Program.” Instead of ticketing violators with broken tail lights or headlights, OPD now issues vouchers covering up to $25 in repairs to offenders. “We have never really tried to punish someone who has a broken tail light or headlight,” OPD Chief Joey East said. “In the past, if people got their problem fixed in a day or two, we’d do our best to drop the court charges, which is why we liked this idea when Ronnie Harwell approached us.” Harwell of Southland Body approached OPD with the idea and did much of the heavylifting, including talking to and convincing the city attorney and city CEO to get it off the ground. “I saw a program where other small towns had a similar program and thought that it
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would be a good project for Oxford,” Harwell said. “So, I contacted some of the other shops I know and OPD, and we set about starting the program.” Harwell said he reached out to the shops because he had previously worked with them before. “We had to limit it a bit because some headlights can come in around $300 to $400, and we can’t afford to put many of those in for free,” Harwell said. Although some lights can be expensive, shop owners said the bulbs typically cost around eight to 10 dollars plus labor, so the vouchers usually cover the cost of getting the bulbs replaced. Since the inception of the program, OPD has distributed between 30 and 40 of the 500 vouchers, according to East. However, when stock runs out, OPD plans on asking businesses for more vouchers rather than ending the program altogether. “We’ve had other businesses contacting us that want to be involved as well, so we plan to renew it and don’t see it going away,” Chief East said. The current businesses involved seem to have fluctuating amounts of
customers redeeming vouchers. Businesses located centrally in Oxford, such as Southland Body, have reported several customers coming in with vouchers. Meanwhile, more out-of-the-way shops, like Neal Hodge Automotive, have not yet had any customers come in with a voucher. “We’re a bit off the beaten path, in the southern county area, so we knew we wouldn’t get as many vouchers,” Neal Hodge said. “We’re still willing to work with anybody that comes in.” When citizens and students in Oxford with broken tail lights or headlights are pulled over by an officer, they will be made aware of their equipment violations and asked for their driver’s licenses and insurance. Upon proving they have both of those documents and no other outstanding violations, the officer will provide them with a voucher to be used at any of the previously listed locations. Violators will still receive a warning, according to East, and they will be logged in OPD’s database. “We were already trying to help people when we gave them tickets for headlights,” East said. “This is just a continuation of that.”
“We were already trying to help people when we gave them tickets for headlights. This is just a continuation of that.” Joey East OPD Chief
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The Oxford Police Department, Mayor Robyn Tannehill and the Board of Aldermen are all supporting proposed legislation that would extend bar hours to 2 a.m, while the sale of alcohol would still end at 1 a.m. State law currently does not differentiate between the sale and consumption
of alcohol. The city is advocating for the law to be changed so that customers could order alcohol until 1 a.m. and remain in the bars drinking until 2 a.m. “Something we’ve always tried to push was extending bar hours because this would just allow folks more time to leave downtown safely,” OPD Captain Hildon Sessums said. “We want to get the state legislature to allow us to let someone order a drink 15 minutes
before the sale of alcohol ends but then have a safe amount of time to finish it.” The Board of Aldermen recently adopted a resolution asking the state to consider legislation to differentiate between the sale and consumption of alcohol. Should the state pass said legislation, the City of Oxford will subsequently extend the hours for alcohol
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Last week, the DM published an article about Kennedy Frain and some of the failures of the university’s Student Health Center and Student Counseling Center. It is unacceptable that our university allows high prices and a limited insurance network to become a barrier between students with financial needs and the medical care they need. Medical care services have more than doubled in price since 1998. Unfortunately, the experience of Kennedy Frain is becoming more and more common in our country. In 1948, still haunted by the horrors of World War II, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states, in Article 25, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family… .” The United States voted in favor of this declaration, but judging by the policies of the past 70 years, most might assume we voted against it. Many other nations believed that health care was indeed a universal human
right and established robust universal health care systems funded by the public. But like our aversion to the metric system and soccer, yet much more serious, our leaders believe that health care is a consumer good that should be available only to those who can afford it. While it is 70 years too late, it is high time for “Medicare for All” in the United States because it is not only the morally right thing to do but also the economically and politically right decision to make. Conservatives love to say that “facts don’t care about your feelings” so let’s look at the facts. From 2015 data, Bloomberg News rates our health care system tied with Azerbaijan as the 54th most efficient. That is a comparison of how much money we spend and our actual health outcomes. The average nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a collection of 36 developed nations, spends $3,991 per capita on health care, amounting to 8.8 percent of its GDP, and has a life expectancy of 80.4 years. The U.S. on the other hand spends $9,536 per capita on health care, amounting to 16.8 percent of our GDP, and has a life expectancy 78.7. We are spending 2 1/2 times as much as our peers and are getting worse health outcomes in spite of the extra money. That does not look like fiscal responsibility or economic efficiency. A vast majority of our peers have universal health care for all of their citizens through socialized, single-payer and mixed systems, and the results
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speak for themselves. The Mercatus Center, a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch family, did a study on the cost of “Medicare for All” and found that it would insure 30 million more Americans and save our country $2 trillion over the next 10 years. They found that “Medicare for All” would cost $32.6 trillion over the next 10 years; however, our current health care system would cost $34.7 trillion. In addition to those savings, Americans would never have to pay a copay, have an hour-long phone call with their insurance company or check to see which physicians accept their insurance. Private companies would not have to provide health care for their employees anymore, either resulting in higher wages or increased employment rates. Although the “Medicare for All” plan includes higher tax rates, a vast majority of Americans would spend the same or less on health care while those at the top, who can afford it, would see their health care costs go up. We would all receive equal medical, dental and mental health care no matter the size of our bank account. And this is not just some radical socialist agenda supported by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Consistent polling shows that 70 percent of Americans, including 52 percent of Republicans, support the idea of a single-payer health care system. This is a winning issue for everyone except for the shareholders and lobbyists of the health insurance industry.
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What is radical, however, is Gov. Bryant suing the federal government over the Affordable Care Act and continuing to refuse federal dollars to expand Medicaid to insure 220,000 more Mississippians, though Bryant has reportedly been considering Medicaid expansion in Mississippi in recent months, according to Politico. Medicaid expansion under the ACA is supported by 72 percent of Mississippians. In conclusion, health care is not a privilege for those who can afford it but an intrinsic human right. Universal health care systems are more economically efficient and effective than our current system, and a vast majority of Americans support “Medicare for All.” There are millions of people like Kennedy Frain in our nation, and we must fight for a health care system that values them. Jacob Gambrell is a senior international studies major from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
CORRECTIONS A front page article about financial aid in Thursday’s Daily Mississippian misidentified the article’s author, Lennis Barlow. A front page article about proposed Title IX updates in Friday’s Daily Mississippian misspelled the name of and incorrectly titled the College of Liberal Arts Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Kirsten Dellinger.
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continued from page 1 consumption, and the bars plan to extend their hours. Over 4,000 people on weekends are regularly forced out of downtown bars and into the surrounding twoblock area on the Square when the sale of alcohol ends and bars close, according to the mayor. “This creates a chaotic atmosphere between 12:40 a.m and 1 a.m. in a very densely populated downtown district, as patrons are pushed out of every establishment at the same time,” Tannehill said. “From looking at it right now, it looks like a great idea that could work out,” said Lee Harris, the owner of Funky’s Pizza and Daiquiri Bar. “At the same time, I have to think about the effect that closing later would have on my staff and the long hours they would be working. They already have to stay an hour or so after closing.” While Harris doesn’t think this legislation will necessarily make nights on the Square safer for bar patrons, he said that extending bar hours could definitely increase efficiency when closing time comes. “If this passes, you don’t
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Mayor Robyn Tannehill leads the Board of Aldermen in a public discussion concerning the downtown district ordinance on June 15, 2018. have this mass push at one time,” Sessums said. “There will be people ready to leave the bars at 1 a.m. and before, but then others will stay until 2 a.m., creating more of a trickle effect than a mass exodus.” Tannehill and Sessums agree that extending bar hours would make crowds more manageable for OPD while also allowing bar patrons to secure safe transportation more easily. OPD and the city have previously tried to make the Square safer at night with the
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This creates a chaotic atmosphere between 12:40 a.m and 1 a.m. in a very densely populated downtown district, as patrons are pushed out of every establishment at the same time.”
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passage of the “Alcohol and Safety” ordinance. Read here for information about the Alcohol and Safety Ordinance, which was intended to make the Square safer at night. “Taxi companies and Uber drivers are available at 1 a.m.,
and the first folks out secure a safe ride home,” Tannehill said. “However, since everyone exits at the same time, by the time the taxis and Ubers return, the crowd is gone. Allowing crowds an extra hour to trickle out would allow taxis and Ubers
the ability to circle back and get more patrons home safely.” University students are, unsurprisingly, in favor of extending bar hours as well. “A lot of people talk about how unfair it is that other college towns have much later bar hours, and here, students just don’t understand why our bars close so early,” sophomore business administration student Caroline Sanders said. “I think you would be hard pressed to find an Ole Miss student against bars staying open later, even if they stop selling alcohol for that last hour.” In other towns home to SEC schools like Auburn, Alabama, LSU and Georgia, most bars close at 2 a.m., which is the closing time the city of Oxford is currently pushing for. Thirty-one businesses on the Square currently have on-premise alcohol permits. Combined with the growing student population in Oxford and the number of university functions that are held downtown, Tannehill said the challenges faced by the city are unique and in need of being addressed soon. “It’s in the hands of the state legislature now,” Sessums said. “I would say the earliest we could see this come into effect is July 1.”
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Will ‘Heard It in a Past Life’ give Maggie Rogers a future? ELIZA NOE
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Maggie Rogers is yet another 21st century pop star looking to bring authenticity to the genre, and she succeeds with the release of her debut album. In “Heard It in a Past Life,” released on Jan. 18, the freshfaced singer-songwriter appeased her fanbase with 45 minutes of her newest works. Though most artists have a gradual rise to success, Rogers rocketed to stardom in 2016. After a video of the Maryland native performing for Pharrell Williams went viral three years ago, the internet sank its claws into the then-21-year-old and hasn’t loosened its grip. “Heard It in a Past Life” is a cohesive testament to Rogers’s aesthetic — one that mirrors Stevie Nicks’s eclectic and folky sound. It’s a stark contrast to others on the top 100, like sugarcoated Ariana Grande or grungy Billie Eilish, but Rogers doesn’t fade into the background. The standout track of the album is “Light On,” a sort of love letter to her day-one fans. She sings, “If you keep reaching out/ I’ll keep coming back/ And if you’re gone for good/ Then I’m okay with that.” The vocal-driven track isn’t over-produced, and the
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heavy percussion gives the song potential to be a stellar beginning for a live show. Currently, Rogers’s headlining U.S. tour is sold out. “It’s an uncomfortable thing to tell a group of people who supported you through everything that it wasn’t always perfect, that I wasn’t always happy,” Rogers wrote to fans in a note posted to Instagram. “Change is messy. Messy is human.” The end of “Heard It in a Past Life” is particularly strong. In “Retrograde,” Rogers reconciles with her past and allows herself
to become vulnerable: “Oh, here I am, settling, crying out/ Finding all the things I can’t do without/ Oh, now I’m giving in/ Oh, now I’m in retrograde.” In another Instagram note, Rogers wrote, “This is a song about a breakdown. It is the most amazing feeling to play this one live — to yell with every part of me and feel the air from the back of my throat, letting go.” Overall, “Heard It in a Past Life” is the right stepping stone for Rogers. Exposing her own humanity through her debut album is proof that the rookie
artist is sticking to her guns. If Rogers can escape the Pharrell narrative — one that reduces her to a doe-eyed girl who got her golden ticket moment — she
has the potential to completely dominate indie-pop and challenge the foothold that veterans like Florence Welch and Lana Del Rey have on the genre.
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Ole Miss routed by No. 7 Mississippi State, drops to 8-13 JUSTIN DIAL
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Coming into Sunday’s matchup with No. 7 Mississippi State, Ole Miss Women’s Basketball had won two of its last three games, including a 6-point victory over then-No.16 Kentucky in Lexington on Jan. 13. The Rebels were looking to bounce back after a loss at Vanderbilt on Thursday, but that redemption did not come against their in-state rival. Mississippi State began to control the game just minutes after tipoff and would thoroughly dominate Ole Miss en route to an 80-49 win in the women’s basketball Egg Bowl. Early on, it seemed as if Ole Miss would be able to compete with the Bulldogs. The Rebels got on the board first with a La’Karis Salter layup to go up 2-0. Salter would hit another 3-pointer to give Ole Miss a 5-2 lead, followed
by a Shandricka Sessom three to go up 8-6. “Definitely was excited to be a part of a rivalry,” head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin told reporters after the game. “This was my first experience here. It was an incredible environment.” Ole Miss hit first, but unfortunately for McPheeMcCuin and her squad, Mississippi State hit harder. Sessom’s 3-pointer in the first quarter would be her only points of the night, as she went 1-for-6 from the field. After Sessom’s three, the wheels started to fall off for the Rebels. Mississippi State would go on a quick 9-point run, which was followed up with runs of 5 and 14 points that gave the Bulldogs a 21-point lead heading into the half. Facing a 21-point deficit against the No. 7-ranked team in the country with a half to play isn’t a position any coach wants to be
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that led to 7 second-chance points, compared to only 3 in the first. These numbers may seem underwhelming and insignificant in terms of improvement, but when facing the No. 7 team in the country with a group of players that McPhee-McCuin assembled in the few months before the season began, even marginal improvement is welcome. “I thought that my team played their hearts out, and there was a lot that I feel we can build on,” McPhee-McCuin said. “For us and where we are trying to go, I thought this was a step forward.” Ole Miss returns to Oxford with a challenging two-game homestand on the horizon. Auburn comes to town on Wednesday, followed by a matchup with No. 24 Texas A&M on Sunday.
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Rebels’ poor showing leads to home loss against Cyclones GRIFFIN NEAL
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There are games where one team “has it” and the other simply doesn’t; Ole Miss was in the latter category in their game against Iowa State on Saturday. The Iowa State Cyclones made 70 percent of their shots, got 28 points from their bench and held the Rebels to 33 percent from the field en route to an 87-73 victory in the first game of the SEC/Big 12 challenge. The Cyclones scored the first points of the game, finishing out a wire-to-wire victory over an Ole Miss team that has now lost three of their last four contests — all by double digits. “We got beat by an outstanding team,” head coach Kermit Davis said. “Iowa State is probably the best put-together offensive team in the country.” From the tip, both teams played with the lethargy expected from an early tipoff. Iowa State woke up first, jumping out to an 11-4 lead while Ole Miss missed its first 8 field goal attempts. The Cyclones controlled the tempo for most of the first half — every Ole Miss run was met with a Cyclone response. With three minutes left to play in the first half, Iowa State led 37-29. After a Breein Tyree lay-in and a Terence Davis transition 3-pointer cut the lead to 3, The Pavilion returned to its pregame form. The building and the play on the court were electric. Both teams traded transition PHOTO: CHRISTIAN JOHNSON 3-pointers and dunks, and Iowa State guard Talen Horton-Tucker blocks a shot by Ole Miss guard/forward Blake Hinson on Saturday, Jan. 26. Iowa State won when the dust had settled, Ole the game 87-73. Miss trailed by only 5 points at cut the Iowa State lead to 1 “We feel like we have some of getting into the teeth of the 1-3-1 intermission. early in the period. Iowa State the best guards in the country,” but flashing a sweet jumper as At half, the Cyclone’s backcourt responded with a 10-2 run of Horton-Tucker said. “In the well. of Marial Shayok and Talen its own, beginning a nearly second half, we came out locked Coach Davis admitted in Horton-Tucker had combined for 10-minute stretch in which the in. As a team, we thought the 1-3postgame that he was skeptical 25 points on 60 percent shooting. 1 was getting us easy, open looks.” Cyclones didn’t miss a shot. of employing the 1-3-1 against Shayok was the Big 12’s leading Over that stretch, they made 12 The Rebels opened the second this Iowa State team that can fill scorer coming into the game, but straight field goals, ballooning half with the same energy they it up from all three levels, and the Horton-Tucker stole the show. He the lead to 16 and putting to closed the first half with and gamble didn’t pay off. got any and every shot he wanted,
bed any thoughts of an Ole Miss comeback. Kermit Davis thought his team defended poorly and didn’t move the ball like they should have. The Rebels had only 10 assists on 25 made field goals and gave up 46 points in the paint. “We (have to) move the ball a lot better; that’s why we were winning so many games,” junior guard Tyree said. “A bunch of our field goals were coming off of assists. I only had one assist tonight. I (have to) do better than that. We have to be better playmakers.” Tyree finished with 22 points on 9-22 shooting, with one assist and three turnovers. His backcourt mate Terence Davis notched 16 points, six rebounds and four assists but shot 29 percent on 14 attempts. Normally, a 38-point combined outing from the pair would portend success, but when it takes 36 shots to get that 38, the success is varied. Saturday’s loss marks the first time that Kermit Davis has faced true adversity during his tenure in Oxford. His team suffered three double-digit losses in eleven days and is guaranteed to fall back out of the AP Top 25. A midseason malaise isn’t uncharted territory for the Ole Miss basketball program. In fact, it’s been commonplace in recent years. In the past, the Rebels have succumbed to their losses and let their seasons be overtaken by them. Davis believes this time will be different. “We (have to) have a short memory, have good practices and get our team back together,” Kermit Davis said. “We’ll bounce back.”
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Women’s tennis falls to 0-2 after home opening tournament JOSH CLAYTON
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Ole Miss Women’s Tennis kicked off the 2019 spring semester by hosting dual matches against Purdue on Saturday and Michigan on Sunday. The weekend tournament between Ole Miss, Purdue, No. 9 Michigan and No. 24 Syracuse was the first official competition for the Rebels since a historic 2018 season in which Arianne Hartono became the first player in program history to win the NCAA Singles Championship and SEC Player of the Year honors. The Rebels traveled to Honolulu on Jan. 18 for the Weinman Foundation Invitational to face Hawaii and Washington. “These were extremely
valuable matches we had this weekend,” head coach Mark Beyers said after the West Coast trip. “There is no substitute for keeping score and having to deal with the ups and downs of playing a match.” The ITA Kickoff Weekend at the William F. Galtney Indoor Tennis Center proved to be a rollercoaster of an outing for the No. 12-ranked Ole Miss team. The Rebels dropped the opener against Purdue 4-3 on Saturday. Although the Rebels secured the doubles point with rally wins from Tereza Janatova and Anna Vrbenska as well as Alexa Bortles and Allie Sanford, the Rebels lost four of the six singles matches that followed. Sophomore Sabina Machalova fell to No. 19 Silvia Ambrosio in first singles, which was one of five tightly contested singles matches that were brought to tiebreakers.
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Anna Vrbenska strikes the ball during the first singles match of the day on Sunday. Ole Miss lost to Michigan 4-0. Janatova and Bortles were the only Rebels to come out on top in the singles round. The tough loss on Saturday put the Rebels in position to face No. 9 Michigan. The Wolverines claimed the doubles point first and continued that success through the singles round. The Rebels were unable to topple Michigan’s four nationally ranked players. No. 3-ranked Kate Fahey and the Wolverines won three of the six singles matches in two sets to secure the 4-0 decision.
Fahey beat No. 68 Machalova in the first singles match 6-3, 6-3. Vrbenska and Sanford also lost in two sets, leaving Tea Jandric, Bortles and Janatova unfinished despite strong performances in the first two sets. The Rebels stay in Oxford for the whole month of February before starting conference play in Gainesville, Fla., on March 1. Ole Miss was picked to finish No. 5 in the SEC Coaches’ Preseason Poll. Ole Miss returns seven lettermen from the 2018 squad
that went 22-7 and made waves in the postseason. The veteran lineup includes All-American junior Alexa Bortles as well as three All-SEC selections in Jandric, Machalova and Vrbenska. The Rebels’ next matchup is on Sunday against Tulane in the Galtney Indoor Tennis Center at noon.
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