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Correll Hoyle sits at the feet of the James Meredith statue for an hour each day. He has done so since the statue was defaced Feb. 16, 2014, one year ago today. LACEY RUSSELL
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“Fear. Somewhat misunderstanding and a little bit of anger,” Correl Hoyle said as he sat crisscrossed at the bronze feet of the statue of James Meredith on campus at The University of Mississippi. “Sadness, essentially, is what I felt.” He was describing the range of emotions he experienced on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014 – the day the monument, a physical symbol of unity and courage, was found draped with a rope noose and flag displaying the Confederate stars and bars. “I feel like if I went to outskirts of the Delta or deep into the brush of Mississippi or Alabama or Arkansas, I would see things that symbolize ‘n-words not welcome’ but not in a place of higher education,” he said. “I feel that wouldn’t be accepted here. It isn’t accepted here.” The following day, Hoyle made a promise – rain, sleet, snow or hail he would sit for an hour a day beneath the man who paved the way for racial equality at The University Mississippi. He would protect the accomplishments he made. He would shield the ground he broke. As of today, he will have kept that promise for an entire year. Like the statue, he has remained resolute. Hoyle, a sixth-year senior psychology
major from Walnut, Mississippi, began his academic career at Northeast Mississippi Community College. He transferred to Ole Miss in the fall of 2012. At five-foot-five, 110 pounds, he has a modest stature; however, the impact he’s made on students, faculty and staff at the university is anything but that. He has become a living landmark. “You got something special for Valentine’s Day, Correl?” a passerby asked as he walked past Hoyle and the statue Friday. “Yep, corny as always,” he said as he showed him the poster he was holding. In theme with holiday of love, Hoyle had written in untidy red ink, “Love those who care about you, those who don’t, and love U!” “You like how I threw the ‘U’ in there? I ran out of room for ‘yourself,’” Hoyle said with a laugh. “That’s so avant garde. I don’t know what to do,” the passerby replied. “It is avant garde,” Hoyle smugly retorted. “It’s so me.” But the conversations with onlookers aren’t always lighthearted and friendly. The first day he began sitting in front of the statue, the day following the desecration of the statue, Hoyle said many people believed he was “an anarchist.”
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Correl Hoyle sits at the base of the James Meredith statue Friday.
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UM students travel to New Orleans for Mardi Gras it, and you see pictures, but being lnfergus@go.olemiss.edu there is a whole other experience,” Each year, many students Smith said. “You pack their bags and head get a weird sense south to New Orleans for of accomplishment Mardi Gras weekend. Purple, when the float ridgold and green paint the city ers toss you the while crowds flow through beads.” Bourbon Street and along paSome students rade routes. have made Mardi Ole Miss freshman Ashley Gras an annual traRamirez, a Louisiana native, dition like junior lives about an hour outside of Sam Russell. This New Orleans. was Russell’s third “I went to a lot of parades Mardi Gras trip. when I was younger but hadn’t “Mardi Gras is gone these past few years,” one of the best parRamirez said. “I was excited ties in the country, to go back to New Orleans as a PHOTO BY: LOGAN KIRKLAND and the fact that it college student. It’s all about Ole Miss students participate in Mardi Gras festivities on Bourbon Street Saturday. is relatively close to experiencing the Louisiana for a weekend trip, but Mar- ent version of our road Rebs.” Oxford means that everyone pride.” di Gras only happens once a This year was the first time The road trip to New Or- year, so it’s completely worth visiting New Orleans for has to go at least once,” Rusleans is a six-hour drive and it,” Ramirez said. “I get excit- Mardi Gras for students like sell said. Parades drive through the just over 350 miles from Ox- ed seeing all of the other cars sophomore Corbin Smith. streets with the float riders ford. driving into NOLA with Ole “Mardi Gras exceeded my throwing souvenirs like cups, “It can be a pretty long drive Miss stickers; it’s like a differ- expectations. You hear about
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toys and the trademark plastic bead necklaces. “New Orleans is like nowhere else with the food, the sights, the sounds and the smells,” Russell said. “Receiving mild concussions from shiny plastic beads flying at your face from the top of floats are totally worth the experiences that are Mardi Gras.” Along with Ole Miss students, people from all over the world and country travel to New Orleans to take part in the celebrations, even celebrities. Luke Bryan was named the Grand Marshall for this year’s Endymion parade. He rode in the parade, singing and tossing out beads, then performed that night in the Superdome. “Seeing Luke Bryan solidified my trip to NOLA,” Smith said. “New Orleans is one of my new favorite places.”
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What do we talk about when we talk about Azealia Banks? The “Broke With Expensive Tastes” rapper is certainly talked about more for her volcanic Twitter persona than for her actual work. Music magazines gleefully track her feuds with other female rappers; her vendetta against Iggy Azalea (whom she rechristened “Igloo Australia”) has eclipsed the memory of prior scuffles with Angel Haze and someone called Kreayshawn. Most notoriously, Banks referred to blogger Perez Hilton as a “messy faggot” two years ago and has since continued using that slur online amid a wash of protest. This outrage over Banks’ alleged homophobia that has THE DAILY
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lately constituted the rapper’s main spotlight says a lot about our selective hearing when it comes to social issues. In an interview for SiriusXM, Banks explained that she learned the word “faggot” from her mother as a term for a man, gay or straight, who hates women. While this may be what the word means to Banks personally, it still carries an undeniable legacy of violence towards gay men. As such, it is not hers to wield in a public forum. I’m not saying anything new here. I think just about everyone except Azealia Banks agrees that Azealia Banks shouldn’t be saying and typing “faggot” all the time. I’m more interested in why we have decided to seize on this one facet of her identity. In the same interview,
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Banks criticized listeners (specifically white women) who chastise her for her use of the word “faggot” but do not apply the same outrage to her use of the n-word and “cunt.” “America cannot pick and choose when it wants to be offended,” she said, and she’s right. Where was our outrage, where was the deluge of think pieces, when Banks called out Iggy Azalea over the latter’s lyrics, characterizing herself as a “runaway slave/Master?” It’s all too easy to label Banks (who identifies as bisexual) a homophobe as that identity would totalize her and dismiss her comments on topics such as music-industry whitewashing and gay male misogyny. Her continuing use of the word “faggot” and
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her justification for it are ludicrous, but they do not discredit her entirely. Beyond straining for buzzwords to set off our collective alarms, we’re not really paying Banks any attention. We’re not engaging with the rampant cultural appropriation in the music industry when we frame the Azealia vs. Azalea feud as a petty cat fight. We’re not making ourselves look any more tolerant when we pigeonhole a complex individual as a Homophobe, capital H. We can’t pounce on Banks when she’s wrong as a means of suppressing her when she’s right. It’s just not that simple. Charles McCrory is a junior English major from Florence.
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A report was taken in reference to a stolen vehicle nearly a year ago on May 28, 2014. After an extensive investigation, detectives located the vehicle and found that the automobile also contained objects from a recent house burglary. Detectives were able to identify the suspect, Dexter Brandon Toney (19) of Oxford. Warrants were issued for Toney, and he was located in Miami, Florida, on Oct. 27, 2014. Toney refused arrest, and a Governor’s Warrant was requested to force his return. Paperwork was signed on Jan. 30, 2015, and Toney was ready to be picked up and brought back to Mississippi. On Feb. 5, 2015, Toney was transported to the Lafayette County Detention Center. A day later, on Feb. 6, 2015, Toney was taken before Judge Mickey Avent for prosecution. Toney was charged with burglary and grand larceny, and his bond was set at $25,000.
On Feb. 11, 2015, investigators of the Oxford Police Department charged Victoria Ivy (28) of Oxford with aggravated domestic violence. Officers responded to Vaughn Circle on Feb. 10, 2015, for an ambulance assist. Upon arrival, officers found a man bleeding from the chest; Ivy had stabbed the man twice with a knife. He suffered one wound in the shoulder and one in the chest. Ivy was charged with aggravated domestic violence, and her bond was set at $2,500.
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continued from page 1 Instead of kind curiosity, he was met with caution. He said even now, his actions are viewed with skepticism. “There was a character who actually stopped me one day and said ‘Hey, you’re the guy from the statue. What’s the point?’ Hoyle said. “He said that I could be doing anything else with my life. I could be studying. I am a student after all. I could be working at a job. This could be putting money in my pocket, this hour. “I kind of retorted, ‘I choose what to do with my time the same way you do with yours.’” Two months into his silent sitting, Hoyle said he “almost called it quits.” Negative comments and the monotonous repetition of gawking stares wore him down. He began to feel like he was wasting his time. “Everyone kind of gave me the hint that, you know, that was weeks ago,” he said. “It doesn’t matter anymore. It’s going to happen again whether you sit out here or not. It doesn’t truly matter.” In the depths of the pessimism and self-doubt, Hoyle found encouragement. Shanda Taylor, a graduate student, met Hoyle through a mutual friend after he began sitting at the statue. Since, she has spent many
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LIFESTYLES | 16 FEBRUARY 2015 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 5
Movie review: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ COLTON HERRINGTON cjherri1@go.olemiss.edu
Rating: F
For a film focusing on a young woman’s developing sadomasochistic relationship with a millionaire, director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Fifty Shades of Grey” is utterly devoid of passion – extracting nothing worthwhile from E.L. James’ bestseller. With wooden performances from the two leads and a screenplay featuring laughably awkward dialogue, “Fifty Shades” is never sexy and ultimately an unsatisfying bore. As relative newcomers to the silver screen, stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan could have had their breakout moments with “Fifty Shades,” but both actors are disappointments and ultimately fail to carry the film. Johnson as Anastasia Steele and Dornan as Christian Grey are visibly uncomfortable throughout, with every interaction feeling forced and awkward. Johnson as the wide-eyed, waify and oblivious Anastasia Steele seriously lacks presence. She’s disconnected from the role, never emerging as the layered female lead crucial to the plot.
Essentially, she’s boring ymous novel for the to the point that the aubig screen, had a real dience never gets emoopportunity to liven tionally invested in her up the characters. She struggle to accept Grey’s failed miserably. lifestyle. At times, her diaDornan’s Christian logue reads like the Grey is probably the worst of Tinder. Grey worst offender from and Steele never say “Fifty Shades.” For a anything remotely man whose life revolves sexy or even realistic. around BDSM, DorIn fact, none of the nan’s lethargic portraycharacters are writal manages to turn an ten as real people, just inherently interesting robotically delivered character into a carlines dripping with toonish soap opera vilclichés. Everyone in lain. “Fifty Shades” is a From his first scene, caricature and speaks it is obvious that Dorlike one, and under nan is trying his hardSam Taylor-Johnest to be sexy, imposing son’s direction (or and intense. The accent lack thereof), the film he affects and the lowand everyone in it beer register he speaks comes comically bad. throughout invokes an Nothing about this image of a teenage boy film works, and this trying to sound tough is probably due to COURTESY: MOVIEPOSTERDB.COM to woo the hottest girl at the flawed premise “Fifty Shades of Grey” made over $81 million in its first three days. school. The end result is in general. The mesIt is the second highest February debut behind “Passion of the an unnatural, mechansage behind this film Christ “ (2004). ical performance that is dangerous and ofcan’t even be saved by fensive – it essentially al is something that’s been de- glamorizes an unhealthy relaDornan’s attractiveness. But the real issue with “Fifty scribed as “mommy porn,” the tionship. awful writing should come as Shades” is the screenplay. Sexual preferences aside, Given that the source materi- no surprise. Kelly Marcel, the Christian Grey’s character is an woman who adapted the epon-
abusive stalker. He tries to own Steele completely, even selling her car and getting her a new one without her permission. He isolates her from her friends and family and demands he be the center of her life. Steele’s acceptance of this behavior reflects an alarming message: a man can treat a woman any way he likes as long as he is rich and attractive. By glorifying Grey’s total control over Steele’s life, E.L. James, Kelly Marcel and Sam Taylor-Johnson are doing a disservice to women everywhere. They are endorsing abusive, harmful relationships in which women are trapped and have no way out. Honestly, the only decent thing about “Fifty Shades” is the soundtrack. Featuring a variety of sexy-sounding songs from artists like Beyoncé, Sia, Annie Lennox and The Weekend, the soundtrack is legitimately one of the best in years and definitely worth a listen. So, when it comes to “Fifty Shades of Grey,” listen to the music, but only see the movie if you’re willing to waste two hours of your life. One high school boy in the theatre summed up the movie perfectly when he said, “I’ve seen porn with better dialogue and acting.”
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The Diamond Rebs opened up the 2015 season with a 9-4 win over William & Mary on Friday. Junior pitcher Christian Trent got the win in his first career Friday night start. Trent gave up one run on six hits in five innings of work. He looked shaky at times and put himself in a couple of bad spots, but he managed to escape some jams and was able to keep the Tribe off of the scoreboard on several occasions. “Trent wasn’t his best today but certainly in Trent form,” head coach Mike Bianco said. “He made pitches when he had to and looked terrific.” The Rebels scored nine runs on just seven hits in the contest. Senior center fielder J.B. Wood-
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two of the series with William & Mary by a score of 8-1. Senior pitcher Sam Smith took the hill for the Rebels and struggled in his first start of the season. He went three innings and gave up four runs on four hits with three walks. The trouble began in the fourth inning for Smith when he gave up a three-run homer to right. “He just didn’t have anything,” Bianco said. “He really struggled in the strike zone, which is so uncharacteristic of him.” Smith was replaced by junior left-hander Matt Denny. Denny threw just 19 pitches, struggling to find the strike zone. Throwing only four strikes, Denny walked three batters, including walking a run in. The Tribe opened the game up from there, scoring six runs in the inning and cruising to an 8-1 victory. Sophomore right hander Nick Brown took the ball for the Tribe in game two. Brown went six and one/third innings, allowing one run on just five hits. Brown struck out six Rebel batters and walked just three. The Rebel bats were quiet in game two with only one run after five hits. Sophomore designated PHOTO BY: THOMAS GRANING hitter Henri Lartigue and junior Errol Robinson fields the ball during a game aganst William & Mary in Oxford Saturright fielder Cameron Dishon day. led the way for the Rebels with two hits each. The top of the or- & Mary. Bramlett struck out six batters der for the Rebels struggled, goSophomore right-hander and appeared to be in control of ing a combined 0-13. Brady Bramlett returned to the all of his pitches. Jacob Waguespack came on mound for the rebels after missThe offense exploded for 16 in relief, allowing just one hit in ing the entire 2014 season with a runs on 18 hits. Highlighted by a five innings of work. third inning in which the Rebels torn labrum. “I’m just trying to do what“I was just happy to be able put up a seven-spot, the offense ever, so we can get the win,” to get back out on the field after came to life. Ten different playWaguespack said. “Obviously not playing last year and having ers got a hit in game three with pitching good whenever we lose a good outing, especially when sophomore third-baseman Colis a sucky feeling, but whatever your offense scores as many by Bortles leading the way. I can do to help the team win.” Bortles went 3 for 5 with 5 runs as they did,” Bramlett said. Bramlet went six innings, giv- RBIs including the first home GAME 3: OLE MISS 16, WILLIAM ing up two runs on four hits. run of the season with a three & MARY 2 He ran into trouble in the fifth run bomb in the seventh. The Rebels improve to 2-1 on The Rebels were looking to inning giving up two runs, but rebound after a sloppy perfor- after a mound visit from Bian- the year with the win. They remance in game two and did just co, Bramlett settled back in and turn to action 4 p.m. Tuesday at that with a 16-2 rout of William gave two more good innings. home against Arkansas State.
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continued from page 8 ing the rebounding margin, one would think that would be a win over Arkansas. Ole Miss missed an uncharacteristic seven free-throws for a team that leads the nation in free-throw shooting, and they only shot 38 percent from the field, including five for 20 from three. Despite shooting poorly, Ole Miss had a chance in the end to win it. “We stayed in the game with 21 huge offensive rebounds, which is a great effort from us,” Kennedy said. “We put ourselves in a position that, despite those numbers that I just read off to you, had a chance to win if we could of come up with one last stop. Arkansas made the play they needed to make.” Rhett, junior guard Stefan Moody and junior guard Martavius Newby were big reasons Ole Miss stayed in the game. Rhett had 16 points and nine rebounds. Moody had 16 points and six rebounds, and Newby grabbed 11 rebounds of his own. “After we set a ball screen and rolled, I was open every time, and I just had to make plays today and was able to make shots today,” Rhett said on his performance. After going up 58-57, the Rebels kept their lead for the last ten minutes of the second half until the Razorbacks won it in the end. Four Razorbacks finished the game in double figures. Summers continued his struggles this season. After going scoreless against Florida, he scored seven points but only on 2-of-7 shooting against Arkansas. He did contribute with six assists. “He has been hesitant,“ Kennedy said. “We’ve tried to do some things to get him to his strength, and we’ll continue to do that. Rhett and the Rebels look to start a new winning streak on the road at Mississippi State at 8 p.m. Thursday and are back in action at home Saturday against Tennessee at 6:30 p.m.
Women’s tennis goes 2-0 for the weekend CHRISTOPH LUDWIG
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OLE MISS 6, TULANE 1 The 24th-ranked Ole Miss women’s tennis team defeated Tulane 6-1 Friday afternoon at the Gillom Sports Center. It was the first loss of the season for Tulane, 7-1, while the Rebels improved to 7-1. “We jumped out to some quick leads and never really gave them a chance to get into the match,” Ole Miss head coach Mark Beyers said. “It was good tennis. We never really gave them any hope.” At No. 2 doubles, senior Julia Jones and freshman Natalie Suk swept Tulane freshmen Vanessa Nommensen and senior Nicky Stracar 6-0. At No. 3 doubles, freshman Arianne Hartono and junior Mai El Kamash defeated juniors Ipek Birol and Jacqui Katz of Tulane 6-1, giving the Rebels the opening point. At No. 1 singles, Jones came into the match 7th in the country in the latest ITA rankings. She won handily, as she didn’t drop a set in a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Stracar. “I was really happy with how I played,” Jones said. “I think my serve was definitely on today, which really helped me.” At No. 2 singles, Hartono beat Birol 6-0, 6-1. At No. 3 singles, El Kamash defeated Nommensen 6-3, 6-3, clinching the win for the Rebels. Suk defeated Green Wave freshman Naz Karagoz 6-0, 6-2 at No. 4 singles. Ssenior Erin Stephens lost the first set 4-6, then rallied to win the second set 6-1 and the tiebreaker 10-1 at the fifth singles match. Finally, at No. 6 singles, Verboven fell to Tulane junior Meredith Maltby. She dropped the first set 3-6, then came back to win the second
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Arianne Hartono hits the ball in Sunday’s match against William & Mary. set 6-0, but lost the tiebreaker 12-10.
OLE MISS 5, WILLIAM & MARY 2 Ole Miss completed the weekend sweep with a 5-2 victory Sunday afternoon over the William & Mary Tribe. The Rebels improved to 8-1 with the win, while the Tribe fell to 5-2. “This was a battle,” Ole Miss head coach Mark Beyers said. “At 5-2, it looks like it was routine, but it wasn’t. This was a dog-fight.” At No. 2 doubles, senior Julia Jones and freshman Natalie Suk defeated Tribe sophomore Melanie Roy and junior Julia Casselbury 6-1. At no. 3 doubles, freshman Arianne Hartono and junior Mai El Kamash also won 6-1 over Tribe freshmen Olivia Thaler and Maria Groener, clinching the opening point for the Rebels.
Seventh ranked Jones was upset by William & Mary junior Leeza Nemchinov 4-6, 6-7. Against Tribe senior Jeltje
Loomans, Hartono lost the first set 6-7 and fell behind in the second set 2-5. Hartono then stormed back to win the set 7-5 and sweep the third set 6-0, winning 11 straight games in the process. “I got a chance to turn it around, and that’s what happened,” Hartono said. “I really stayed focused on staying in the rally. I played every point as if it was the last point.” El Kamash won easily over Roy 6-2, 6-0 at No. 3 singles. At No. 4 singles, Suk fell to Thaler 4-6, 6-4, 1-6. At No. 5 singles, senior Erin Stephens held a 4-0 lead in the first set, and staved off a rally from Groener to win the set 7-5. She then won the second set 6-3 to secure the win for the Rebels. Finally, at No. 6 singles, sophomore Zalina Khairudinova won in straight sets over Tribe freshman Cecily Wuenscher 6-4, 6-1. The Rebels are back in action against Lipscomb Friday at noon.
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Rebels fall to Arkansas 71-70 in heartbreaker Saturday JIMMY ANDERSON
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Sophomore guard Manuel Watkins made a layup with 6.4 seconds left, as the Razorbacks (20-5, 9-3 SEC) defeated the Rebels (17-8, 8-4 SEC) by a score of 71-70. The Rebels had a chance to win the game in the final seconds, but senior point guard Jarvis Summers missed a floater that hit off the back rim. The loss ended the six-game winning streak by Ole Miss, and Arkansas has now won seven of their last eight. Head coach Andy Kennedy said they did a good job of walling up senior guard Rashad Madden on the game-winning shot for the Razorbacks, but he thought someone was caught ball-watching and left Madden open for the last-second floater. With second place in the SEC on the line and in front of a sold out Tad Smith Coliseum, the high stakes created a great contest but not the right result for the Rebels. Kennedy described the game
as, “two teams fighting for their lives.” Arkansas and Ole Miss, two of the top scoring teams in the conference, began the game close with one another before Arkansas got out to a 18-11 lead within the first eight minutes. Ole Miss kept battling back. After struggling to get stops of their own for most of the second half, the Rebels tightened Arkansas’s lead to 34-31 with 3:31 left to play in the first half. Ole Miss went into halftime trailing by a score of 40-36. After intermission, the game started out with a bang. Senior forward M.J. Rhett made consecutive baskets, then both teams traded three-pointers in the opening three minutes. Arkansas led the entire game until Ole Miss made a run to take their first lead of the game at 5857 with 8:22 left to play. The Rebels dominated Arkansas the whole game on the boards, winning the edge 45-21 while grabbing 21 offensive rebounds. With the Rebels dominat-
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Forward M.J. Rhett scores in Saturday’s game against Arkansas.
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