The Daily Mississippian – February 18, 2014

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UPD investigating discovery of noose and flag on Meredith statue

BY ADAM GANUCHEAU dmeditor@gmail.com

The University Police Department is investigating a vandalism incident that occurred early Sunday morning in which a rope noose and “a pre-2003 Georgia state flag” were hung from the James Meredith statue on campus.

Officers responded to the call Sunday at 7:09 a.m. Upon arrival, they discovered the rope and the flag on the statue. Before it was changed in 2003, the Georgia state flag showed the Confederate “bars and stars” on its face.

“We are investigating the incident and will continue to work to catch those responsible,” UPD Police Chief Calvin Sellers said.

Mark McMillan, owner of an insulation company contracted out by the university to work on the library’s cooling tower, saw the two individuals who police believe are responsible for the incident, and he was the first person to see the vandalism.

“I came up on a couple younger-looking boys by the loading dock that were yelling ‘white power’ and ‘f--- n-----s’ on my way back over towards the statue,” he said. “When I rounded the corner of (the George Street House), I noticed the rope and the flag, and it definitely showed the Confederate flag.”

McMillan said the rope was tied around the statue’s neck like a noose, and the flag was draped over the shoulders and back of the statue like a scarf.

The statue of James Meredith is part of a civil rights monument in the center of campus. The monument was dedicated Oct. 1, 2006, celebrating Meredith becoming the first black student at the university in 1962 and the progress the university has made in terms of race relations since then.

“To my knowledge, this is the first incident like this to happen to the statue,” Sellers said.

Sellers confirmed that two male subjects were in the area and said the investigation is ongoing. The department is checking video surveillance footage around the area and had not named suspects at the time of publication.

The Daily Mississippian received the story tip early Monday morning and began to question police and university officials.

The university responded publicly about the incident Monday evening.

“These individuals chose our university’s most visible symbol of unity and educational accessibility to express their disagreement with our values,” Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones said. “Their ideas have no place here, and our response will be an even greater commitment to promoting the

BY ADAM GANUCHEAU dmeditor@gmail.com

THOMAS GRANING| The Daily Mississippian

The James Meredith statue is seen Monday. The statue was vandalized Sunday.

values that are engraved on the statue – Courage, Knowledge, Opportunity, and Perseverance.”

In addition to the ongoing UPD investigation, the Ole Miss Alumni Association has offered a $25,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of the two individuals involved in the incident.

“This is particularly painful because the James Meredith statue has become a gathering place for students to discuss many things, including the tenets of our creed, which calls for dignity and respect for all people,” said Don Cole, assistant to the chancellor for multicultural affairs.

Nkemdiche, Bryant involved in off-field incidents

BY HAWLEY MARTIN thedmnews@gmail.com

Ole Miss linebackers Denzel Nkemdiche and Serderius Bryant were arrested last weekend.

Denzel was charged with disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and failure to comply with a police officer near midnight Saturday, according to a report

by The Clarion-Ledger. These charges are misdemeanors.

The Oxford Police Department made these arrests at The Retreat. Nkemdiche celebrated his 21st birthday Saturday.

Serderius Bryant, 22, was cited for public intoxication and disturbing the peace, according to

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multiple reports.

“We are aware of the incidents and gathering facts,” head coach Hugh Freeze said in a statement. “Denzel (Nkemdiche) and

Serderius (Bryant) are suspended until we know more.”

These incidents mark the third and fourth of the offseason for the Rebel football team. Cor-

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nerback Bobby Hill was charged with sexual battery last month, and defensive end Channing Ward pleaded guilty to a DUI charge last week.

Nkemdiche, who has completed his redshirt sophomore season, was a freshman All-American and earned All-SEC honors after the 2012 season. Nkemdiche recorded 35 tackles in 2013. His drop in performance can be attributed to an injury and the emergence of Bryant. Nkemdiche has recorded 117 career tackles.

Bryant recorded the most tackles for the Rebels in 2013 with 78.

Twelve and a half were for a loss.

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Meredith statue incident ‘lifechanging’ for witness Mark McMillan left his small hometown, situated just across the border in Tennessee, early Sunday morning headed toward Oxford. He says what he saw later that morning changed his life.

McMillan, owner of Coastal Insulation, is contracted out by The University of Mississippi and working on the J.D. Williams Library’s cooling tower.

Wanting to get ahead on some work for the week, he pulled his black Ford Ranger pickup into the Circle just before 6:45 Sunday morning. When he passed the Croft building, he noticed two young men walking down the sidewalk. One, in particular, was wearing camouflage pants.

“It was pretty early, and something just caught my eye about them,” he recalled. “I shrugged it off and kept driving.”

He parked his truck on the road just south of the James Meredith statue around 6:45 a.m. The cooling tower he is working on is directly south of the library, next to the George Street House. When he exited his truck, he walked west down the sidewalk toward the library loading dock, where a PortaJohn is located for the contractors working at the tower.

About 10 minutes later, still near the library loading dock, he saw the two young men for the second time walking west toward Martindale and Bishop.

“They were eyeing me all funny when they saw me, and I immediately knew they were the two I saw when I was driving in,” McMillan said. “(They) were yelling ‘white power’ and ‘f--- n-----s’ on my way back over towards the statue.”

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COLUMN

A glass half-full in the Holy Land

BY: ORION WILCOX opwilcox@go.olemiss.edu

Thinking about the causes of the Middle East’s seemingly perpetual state of conflict usually brings to mind a familiar array of buzzwords including sectarianism, religious fundamentalism, and petro-dollar dictatorship. In the past few years a new catch phrase has begun to take over the discussion: water scarcity.

There is no doubt that the region faces an H20 crisis, the causes of which are multifaceted. Political tension, antiquated infrastructure and a rapidly growing population have all played a role in sucking the parched region even T H E D A I LY

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dryer. To make things worse, pollution and a changing climate has diminished already insufficient reserves.

At least one columnist believes that in the face of this crisis, the Arab states salvation may lie in their most abhorred enemy, Israel. In an op-ed for the New York Times, Seth Siegel argues that Israel can lead the way to a sustainable solution to the impending water crisis and perhaps achieve the chimera of Middle East peace in the process. According to Siegel, Israel “shares the same problems of climate and desertification as its neighbors, but it has mastered the management of water resources, such that it can endure periodic droughts while supporting a growing population. Its water management can not only be a model but can even reduce regional tensions.”

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While there is no doubt that Israel is an innovative country when it comes to water issues, Siegel’s argument ignores a number of facts. Israel, currently occupying the West Bank and Gaza, has adopted a set of policies that deprive Palestinians of water rights and directly exacerbate the water crises of neighboring countries such as Jordan and Egypt. The National Water Carrier, an Israeli project completed in 1964, diverts seventy-five percent of the Jordan River for Israeli use, while Israeli policies ban Palestinians from using the river which forms the entire Eastern border of the West Bank.

According to the World Health Organization, the minimum daily standard for water consumption per person is one hundred liters. Palestinians currently consume around eighty liters per day,

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while Israelis use over twohundred and fifty liters and Israeli settlers consume nearly six-hundred liters per person daily. In addition to innovation and genuinely smart water usage practices, another reason why Israel has been able to succeed in “turning the desert green” is that it is egregiously stealing water from its neighbors.

Solving the Middle East water crisis will require political will, technological innovation and changes in lifestyle by all the parties involved. Surely the Arab states can learn from Israel in many of these areas.

That being said it is difficult to listen to someone extol the importance of the proper use of your water resources while they steal it by the gallon right out of your faucet.

Orion Wilcox is a senior economics major from Bay St. Louis.

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Oxford School District prepares to celebrate new high school

BY JULIE LABERGE jklaberg@go.olemiss.edu

Oxford High School officials will host a community open house today from 5-7 p.m.

The event is taking place to give thanks to the Oxford community for its help and commitment to making the new high school campus possible.

The evening will begin in the cafeteria with a dedication ceremony, and then guests will take guided tours of the new school. “(The open house) will give the community an opportunity to tour one of the greatest high schools in the state. Not only does data prove that we are among the elite, but the craftiness of our school will prove what we have known for quite some time,” said Jonathan Anderson, Oxford High School assistant principal. “Community members should feel proud because they truly are owners of the school. They have invested a lot into the school and we have the pleasure of impacting their most prized possession, their kids, for a great deal of the day.”

The new campus includes larger classrooms and hallways, two-story classroom wings, a new salad bar in the cafeteria, an outdoor amphitheater, a new gymnasium and a courtyard. The new classrooms also all have 70-inch TVs, and there are 60-inch monitors in the hallways.

“The district is very excited about the opportunity to showcase our new high school to our community,” said Oxford School District Superintendent Brian Harvey.

According to Harvey, Nov. 30 marked the scheduled completion date, but due to minor setbacks, the high school officially opened on Jan. 7 to more than 1,000 students. The school is functional and operating, but the gymnasium has yet to be completed. The gym was scheduled to be finished by the time of the open house, but putting together the bleachers has taken longer than expected, which has delayed the painting and sealing of the gym floor.

The campus is located at 101 Charger Loop. Oxford Middle School has plans to relocate to the

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The new Oxford High School is seen Sunday.

previous high school building, located at 222 Bramlett Boulevard.

The rapid rise in student enrollment over the past decade sparked the plan to begin the building process. To help fund the project, voters in the Oxford School District voted on a bond issuance in 2011.

The campus cost roughly $30 million and took about five years to plan, raise funds and construct.

Eley Guild Hardy designed the new high school, which encompasses 220,000 square feet.

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WITNESS, continued from page 1 of the George Street House, he froze. There was a rope tied like a noose around the James Meredith statue’s neck and a former Georgia state flag draped around the statue’s shoulders and back like a scarf.

“Seeing that sent chills down my back,” he said. “I’m a 64-year-old white man that grew up in rural, backwoods Mississippi. I’ve always been a little prejudiced at times, but this changed my life. I’ll never be the same person I was, and something came over me. It’s hard to talk about my feelings, but I feel like a completely different person. This was some messed-up shit.”

McMillan said he believed the young men must have practiced the vandalism before.

“It was a tight noose around the neck of the statue, like the ones you see in all the old movies,” he said. “The flag was hanging on the statue in a ‘V’ pattern, like they had practiced folding it or something. I wanted to run over and take it all off, but I was honestly scared to death.”

Not wanting to tamper with evidence or be implicated in the incident, he got his cell phone out and started to call the police department. As he was looking

for the number to call, a black Ole Miss Landscape Services employee approached him. After explaining the situation, McMillan and the man called the police.

“I can’t speak for how (the landscaping employee) felt, but I wanted to make sure he was alright and let him know that not everyone could possibly think like that,” McMillan said. “I was just sick to my stomach.”

According to the UPD crime log, officers responded to the scene at 7:09 a.m., about 24 minutes after McMillan arrived.

UPD Police Chief Calvin Sellers could only share limited information from the incident report, but he did confirm there was “some rope and a pre-2003 Georgia state flag on the statue.”

Sellers said Monday there were no suspects, but the department will be looking at surveillance tape footage for a better look at the two young men.

“I obviously didn’t see those two young men do it, but there’s no doubt in my mind that they did it,” McMillan said. “I wish I could have done more. If I would have seen what they did before I lost sight of them, I may have tried to hold one of them down. I hope and pray that they find whoever did this. I know I could identify them if I saw them again.”

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ASB extends officer terms, goes to student vote

BY ALLISON SLUSHER thedmnews@gmail.com

The Associated Student Body senators passed a constitutional amendment last Tuesday to extend ASB office terms by one month. Students will vote either in favor or negation of the amendment on their MyOleMiss accounts before casting their vote in today’s elections.

The constitution previously stated that elections were to be held the third week in February.

The constitution also stated that the inauguration would be held in March, at least one month after the election. The amendment is slated to change the constitution to hold elections the fourth week of March and inaugurate the newly elected officers no later than one month after the election.

ASB Vice President Morgan Gregory said she wrote the amendment to make the most effective use of the officers’ and senators’ time.

“Coming into office, my biggest priority was to bring efficiency to the legislative branch,” Gregory said. “The way the spring and fall election cycles were overlapping made for more

time spent in transition than spent in office working for the students. It became most obvious that it was time for a change when some of our most important and publicized decisions were made in the midst of this long transition period, scrambling to reach quorum and trying to fill open seats.”

Gregory said she worked with the Governmental Operations Committee as well as the Constitutional Committee to write the amendment. She said she and the other ASB officers have been meeting since November to determine how to make the terms in office most successful.

“We’ve been meeting since November and have hashed out every single option,” Gregory said. “This is by far the best for every branch. The senators were all in support and spoke very highly of how they saw this to be of benefit to the future productivity of the branch.”

Since the piece of legislation is a constitutional amendment, it had to pass through senate two times. The amendment first came to the senate floor Feb. 4. It passed unanimously both times it came before the senators.

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ASB Vice President Morgan Gregory counts votes during a ASB Senate meeting earlier this year.

Senator and Governmental Operations Committee member Amy Hall said that passing the amendment will give the senators more time to work on legislation.

“With the amendment, the senate will have an extra month of valuable time to pass bills and

resolutions that it would not otherwise have,” Hall said. “The amendment passed in the ASB Senate unanimously, and we hope that the students will pass it as well in the election Tuesday.”

Senator Rod Bridges said he thinks postponing the elections will benefit the senate by helping

it run more smoothly.

“We lose a sense of fluidity and consistency to everything ASB Senate has been working on throughout the term,” Bridges said. “With her bill there will be no more disjunction, and we can continue to serve Ole Miss effectively.”

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MFA program presents Broken English at Proud Larry’s

BY SARA E. BAKER AND CLARA TURNAGE thedmfeatures@gmail.com

The University of Mississippi boasts one of the top Master of Fine Arts in English programs in the nation, among other honors and awards.

Continuing Oxford’s tradition of great writers, the Ole Miss MFA program has been working to develop the creativity of talented graduate students. Once a month, first- and third-year MFA students showcase their work at Proud Larry’s in an event called Broken English, organized by the second-year students.

“It’s really good for the program,” said Elizabeth Tran, a second-year MFA fiction student who co-hosts the event with second-year MFA poetry student Andrew Freiman. “It provides us a chance to have an event every month. Because our program is so small I think it’s good to have a program we can kind of revolve around. You can hear someone’s work when they first get here and how it sounds at the end of their time here at Ole Miss.”

At 9 tonight, MFA students Joe Zendarski and Jimmy Ca-

joleas will read from their work.

Zendarski will read a selection of his poetry, and Cajoleas has been designated for the creative fiction oration.

“I’ve been working on poetry the last couple of years, so that’s what I’ll be reading tomorrow night,” Zendarski said. When prompted to elaborate he simply responded, “Just come and find out!”

At the time of Cajoleas’ interview, he was not sure what he was going to read.

“I actually haven’t figured out what I’m going to read yet; I’ll probably pick something at the last minute,” he said. “It’s probably better to plan it, but reading in front of people is terrifying and I usually just go with whatever I’m feeling at the moment.”

Though Cajoleas may not enjoy reading out loud, Tran said she likes hearing his work.

“Jimmy has a very particular style,” Tran said. “It’s fun to hear his stuff out loud. I think that everyone in the program really loves that.”

Since the fiction and poetry students do not have classes together, Tran has not heard Zendarski’s poetry. But she praised Broken English as a way for the students

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to share their work with students who have not heard it.

“Broken English is also another opportunity to hear the work of your classmates if you haven’t heard it before and get exposed to some of their new stuff,” she said.

“It’s a good way to get to know the other students.”

Tran emphasized that while other MFA programs are “cut-

throat and competitive,” Ole Miss’ program unites students.

Tuesday night will give these two writers the opportunity to share their work, and possibly to get over some of the initial stage fright.

“Reading in front of people is such a terrifying thing to do,” Cajoleas said. “The more you do it the better you’ll get at it, so you just get used to being afraid.”

The Broken English readings are open to the public and illustrate the collective spirit of this small town.

“It really builds a sense of community that is pretty fantastic,” Zendarski said. “Writing art can be a solitary act. I’ve come to appreciate that immediate interaction with people.”

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COLUMN

Opportunity knocks as Rebels take on Wildcats

BY TYLER BISCHOFF tfbischo@go.olemiss.edu

Ole Miss’ hopes for a second straight NCAA tournament appearance are looking slim. At 16-9 and lacking a defining win, the Rebels are fading from the bubble talk.

Ole Miss dropped two road games last week, neither of which was a bad individual loss – Ole Miss was was a three-point underdog in both games. But looking at the big picture, Ole Miss couldn’t afford to drop both games to teams hovering around the 100 mark in RPI. Andy Kennedy’s team doesn’t have a marquee win, which would be fine if Ole Miss hadn’t piled up all of these close losses. But with the biggest win coming against fellow bubble team Missouri, Ole Miss doesn’t have anything to counter the losses.

But this week provides an entrance. With the top two Southeastern Conference teams and the only tournament locks in the conference coming to Oxford this week, Ole Miss could bust down the barrier in front of them.

The best part of this opportunity is that both games are in the Tad Smith Coliseum, where Ole Miss has been far superior

than the road Rebels. At home in SEC play, Ole Miss is scoring 80.2 points per game, while on the road that number dips more than 13 points to 66.9.

Ole Miss’ best three games — a loss to Oregon and wins over LSU and Missouri — came in Oxford. A good omen for the upcoming week.

But, the bad part is the opponents coming to town are the class of the conference. Florida is being called the best team in the nation, after it went to Kentucky and took down the Wildcats. For Kentucky, that was its only loss by more than five points, and the Wildcats have won three straight road games.

Also, the matchup on the boards will be a major struggle for Ole Miss. Kentucky leads the SEC in rebounding percentage, while Florida sits in third; Ole Miss is second to last. In the last meeting with Kentucky, the Wildcats had more offensive rebounds than Ole Miss did defensive rebounds.

Big man Aaron Jones has struggled and was replaced in the starting lineup by freshman Dwight Coleby in the last game against Georgia. Kennedy has been searching for a combination in the post. He has tried out Jones

and Coleby, as well as Sebastian Saiz, Demarco Cox and Anthony Perez. But nothing has fixed the problem.

Another major issue for Ole Miss is the struggles of Jarvis Summers. The second leading scorer for the Rebels has averaged just 11.8 points on 36.2 percent shooting. Defenses have been making life more difficult for Summers by switching on screens, which cuts off his driving lanes. Summers needs to heat up for Ole Miss to have any chance this week.

The other theme of last week was the racking up of close losses. Ole Miss lost both games on the final possession. The Rebels have lost six games by five points or less. But the close games have gone both ways; Ole Miss has seven wins by five points or less.

Maybe all the close games mean that Ole Miss will be at least close in closing minutes against Florida and Kentucky. If that’s the case, Ole Miss has to make the plays, or get a defensive stop on the last possession, to have any hope for an at-large bid in the NCAA tournament.

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Jarvis Summers shoots during a gamer earlier this season.

Rebels face USM in doubleheader

BY TYLER CARTER tcarter@go.olemiss.edu

The Ole Miss softball team travels to Hattiesburg to take on the Golden Eagles of Southern Miss in a doubleheader today. The Rebels are going into Tuesday’s matchup against the Golden Eagles with a 4-6 record overall after playing in a tough tourna-

ment last weekend in the College of Charleston Classic.

Junior Allison Brown set the record for doubles last season in the SEC, and she is expected to drive in runs for the Rebels this season. Senior RT Cantillo was also another key player head coach Windy Thees expects to drive in runs and provide leadership for the team this year. As of

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As for the Golden Eagles, they are coming into Tuesday’s doubleheader with a 1-7 overall record. The two teams split last year’s contests, as

the Golden Eagles took one matchup, 7-4, and the Rebels took the latter contest in a shutout, 3-0.

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Ole Miss hosts Kentucky looking for signature win four games. He’s averaging 11.8 points on 32.6 percent shooting. He also only made 2 of 12 3-pointers in that span; he was shooting above 50 percent from behind the arc prior to his slump.

But one issue plaguing Summers is foul trouble. He has finished the last three games with four fouls, and over the last four games, he has committed as many fouls, 15, as he has made field goals.

Head coach Andy Kennedy has said many times this season that he needs Summers to play like an All-SEC player. If Summers continues to struggle, Ole Miss’ offense will suffer.

The Rebels are 1-3 in the last four games and have been out-rebounded in all three of those losses, while they won the rebounding battle in their lone win.

The first game of that stretch was against Kentucky, and

the Wildcats out-rebounded Ole Miss 41-26. Kentucky rebounded more than half of its own misses, grabbing 15 of 27 available offensive rebounds.

The Rebels dropped two road games last week and have fallen back to fourth in the SEC standings. They are one game out of third, but there is a fourway tie for fifth that sits one game behind Ole Miss.

This week, when Ole Miss plays the top two teams in the SEC, could see a shift in the standings. But most likely the logjam will remain for teams three through eight in the conference.

Ole Miss and Kentucky tip off at 6 p.m. from Tad Smith Coliseum and can be seen on ESPN. For continuing coverage of Ole Miss men’s basketball, follow @ Tyler_RSR and @thedm_sports on Twitter.

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Marshall Henderson shoots over a Missouri defender.

BY TYLER BISCHOFF tfbischo@go.olemiss.edu

Ole Miss will look to snap a two-game losing streak and grab a quality win for its NCAA tournament resume as the Rebels host No. 18 Kentucky tonight.

The Wildcats (19-6, 9-3 Southeastern Conference) are coming off a loss to Florida on Saturday. It was the first loss at home for Kentucky this season. The Wildcats are 4-2 on the road in SEC play, as they

dropped games to Arkansas and LSU. Given Kentucky’s prowess this season – it is a top-20 RPI team – this game presents an opportunity for the Rebels (169, 7-5 SEC) to get a signature win. Ole Miss’ biggest win is over fellow bubble team Missouri, which has an RPI of 38, according to WarrenNolan. com.

Kentucky and Ole Miss have battled once this season already, as the Rebels fell in Lexington by 16 points; Ole Miss trailed

by just 1 point at halftime.

In that game, Willie CauleyStein came off the bench to score 18 points, grab 11 rebounds and swat six shots. Four other Wildcats reached double figures, and Kentucky shot 36 free throws to Ole Miss’ 10.

Marshall Henderson had 16 points, but he shot just 6 of 18 from the field. Jarvis Summers also struggled scoring 11 points on 4-of-13 shooting.

Not only did Summers struggle against Kentucky, but he has been in a slump the last

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