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A photo in the University of Mississippi’s 1970 yearbook shows a member of the Delta Psi fraternity dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, holding two flaming torches. “The leader of the ‘SECRET PSIs’ prepares to open their chapter meeting,” the photo caption on the Delta Psi yearbook page reads. A photo in the 1979 Mississippi State University yearbook shows two shirtless members of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity with their faces, torsos and arms darkened. In the 1969 Ole Miss yearbook, two photos show members of two sororities — Chi Omega and Kappa Kappa Gamma — performing skits in blackface. One caption makes a reference to “Gone With the Wind,” and apparently, the longstanding tradition of white sororities prohibiting black women from joining. “Miss Scarlet (sic), can I be a Kappa Kappa Gamma?” the caption reads. Mississippi Today reviewed publicly available
yearbooks of several colleges and universities dating back to 1960. The analysis reveals decades of racism and other forms of insensitivity members of white Greek organizations proudly displayed at Mississippi colleges and universities, which are now preserved in digitized form. Photos of Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page featuring images of a man in blackface and another in full Klan regalia touched off a political storm in that state. The scandal eventually sent a wave of reporters and political opposition researchers across the country digging through college yearbooks of their own officials. Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood and Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves — the leading candidates for their parties’ gubernatorial nominations — also came under fire Friday for their associations with fraternities that published objectionable photos on college yearbook pages.
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Carl Tart’s devotion to inclusivity and planning are what led him to be named executive director of the Student Activities Association this year. “This position holds a very special place with me because I am the first African-American to hold it in a very long time,” Tart, a junior exercise science major, said. “I want to make sure that not only African-American students but all students are represented.” The Ole Miss Student Activities Association is an organization made up of student
leaders whose primary goal is to promote campus involvement through special events. Tart, who was previously the co-director of entertainment for SAA, said there has not been an African-American executive director of the organization since 2005. “I just wanted to help enhance the student experience,” Tart said. Tart’s goal for the year is to increase campus participation in SAA events by making sure all students feel accepted. He hopes to introduce new student attractions and plans to create a Google Calendar that will inform students of all upcoming SAA events.
Tart and other directors will travel to Columbus, Ohio soon to attend the National Association for Campus Activities conference. The conference serves to showcase special events and talents that SAA has the opportunity to bring to Ole Miss. Last year’s conference brought David Hall’s “Cards Against Hypnosis” show to campus during the Month of Welcome. Reynolds Spencer, a junior accounting major, will serve as the associate director, and he previously served as the co-director of entertainment alongside Tart. The two will preside over SAA’s four committees:
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The Student Activities Association brings bungee jumping to Business Row during Welcome Week last semester.
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On the modern left, identity politics has proven to be nothing more than finding the most oppressed group possible and then encouraging virtue signaling from guiltridden privileged groups. Protests, usually against right-leaning speakers, have engulfed college campuses and been plastered on the news. These events seem to happen daily, and the protest movement appears to be infecting Ole Miss as well. Radical leftist protestors like the ones at University of California at Berkeley, Middlebury, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and now Ole Miss, seek only
to destroy (or unname in the unfair case of Ed Meek). SASI, or “Students Against Social Injustice,” has been protesting the Confederate statue on campus since November. The fact that SASI is participating as part of the radical left by “rebelling” against a statue built in 1906, rather than addressing a real issue facing the state, shows how luxurious their lives are. On average, students in the Delta test 16 percent lower than the statewide average, but you rarely hear the SASI students speaking for them or trying to build or improve anything. Instead of rallying behind a worthy cause, the “socially conscious” protestors march on a statue. Sociologists Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning first analyzed this phenomenon in their 2014 paper “Microaggressions and Moral Cultures.” Cooper and Manning show how “victimhood cultures” create people who create ever-more subtle ways to be outraged in an effort to show how educated they
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are, hilariously calling them “cry-bullies.” They stand for little substance, and create problems out of thin air to gain status. As Cooper and Manning found, when individuals don’t have enough adversity to overcome, as many don’t in modern Western civilization, they seek victimhood. They look to be the champions of virtue and goodness, but reality comes purely from a place of guilt. The individuals in Cooper and Manning’s case were found to be comfortable middle-class students rather than the oppressed or marginalized people you’d expect. Most liberals feel guilt for their own privilege and seek to assuage it by becoming champions for the oppressed, despite their own lack of oppression. Because they have it so good, they have so much more responsibility than before. People today are terrified of accepting that burden and are terrified of the work required to show that they’re worthy of what they were born into. The exact same occurs
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on the right, with people shouting obscenities for the sake of being labeled a provocateur as some kind of badge. The self-described “alt-right” and Trumpsupporting movements were born out of the reaction to the left’s welcoming of identity politics. Most self-described “alt-right” members are internet dwellers and gain status through provocation and trolling online. They believe they act in selfdefense, but they only add to the polarization. Whether left or right, they serve ideologies for their side without any self-awareness or unique thoughts. SASI is putting all its effort into pointless work instead of any measured positive change. Who does removing the statue even help? It just makes a few of the most malicious leftists feel smug until they find a new PR stunt to pursue in their victimhood seeking. Josh Baker is a junior economics and mathematics major from Houston.
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Black History Month 2019 is proving to be quite interesting. February has been filled with racially charged controversies. Vintage symbols of racism like blackface and lynchings — matters we assumed were long-buried — are now revisiting us in the 21st century, from both sides of the political aisle. First, there was the attack on actor Jussie Smollett last month. The “Empire” star was walking to his Chicago apartment when two men
attacked him while shouting racist and homophobic slurs. One of the perpetrators placed a noose around Smollett’s neck and poured an unknown liquid on his head. Many celebrities and activists took to social media, sending their love and support. Headlines by CNN and other media outlets labelling this incident as a “possible hate crime” were extremely problematic. Possible isn’t actual. As a journalist, I understand the importance of not jumping to conclusions; however, if someone puts a noose around a black person’s neck, that should be more than enough evidence. Does an actual lynching have to happen for people to wake up and say affirmatively that this is a crime done out of prejudice and hatred — in other words, an actual hate crime? And let’s be crystal clear, Smollett wasn’t attacked for being only gay or only black but because he is both.
Thankfully, he escaped with only bruises and minor injuries. Then, the headlines changed and we all thought that maybe that was as bizarre as it could get. But apparently, bad things really do come in threes. In a synopsis of last week, both the Governor of Virginia and his attorney general admitted to wearing blackface in college. Let’s look at the overall significance of all of this and its possible consequences for the 2020 presidential elections. Ralph Northam’s handling of this scandal has been unacceptable, and he has refused to step down in spite of calls for his resignation. On Feb. 6, Virginia state Attorney General Mark Herring also confessed to having worn “dark makeup” back in his college days. Personally, what has made these revelations particularly upsetting and hurtful is that both Northam and Herring
are aligned with the party that I support. African-Americans overwhelmingly voted for Northam. For him to refuse to step down is a slap in the face to the black people who helped get him into office. In the words of New York Times columnist Charles Blow, “Democrats owe Black people a debt.” A scandal like this supports the arguments of many on the right, especially black conservatives like Candace Owens, that the Democratic Party cares about black votes and nothing more, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the site behind the revelation of the Northam scandal has GOP operatives. Big League Politics, the farright, pro-Trump website that posted a photo of Northam, is led by ideologically driven news publishers. They are using modern technology to commit the oldest trick in the book: divide and conquer.
They know that they can’t get the majority of African-Americans to vote Republican, but they can make sure that they don’t give their votes to the Democrats. Between now and November 2020, we will probably be seeing a lot more scandals like the one in Virginia, in addition to the surfacing of sexual assault allegations against Democratic lawmakers. The right’s plan is to cast the Democrats as an equally racist and sexist bunch, resulting in many black voters either voting as independents or not voting at all. This isn’t to say that the members of the Democratic Party are angels; on the contrary, there are many things that need to change. But in politics, as in life, we have to pick our poison: the lesser evil. Suad Patton-Bey is a senior journalism and Arabic minor from Oxford.
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bers, KAs — founded after the end of the Civil War, reveres the Confederacy. The fraternity to which Hood belonged in the early 1980s, also published a photo in the Ole Miss yearbook showing several men with their faces painted in dark and light-colored paint wearing necklaces and holding sticks. Another man to right side of the photo is wearing what appears to be a white sheet with holes cut out for the eyes and mouth. A spokeswoman for Hood
said he was member of the fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, at the time the photo appeared in the yearbook but that Hood is not among the men in the photos. James Thomas, a sociology professor at University of Mississippi, said the use of blackface is intimately tethered to rituals that reinforce the narrative of the Lost Cause. “All of these instances coexisted with Dixie Week, Confederate balls, Robert E. Lee beard growing contests — all of these other reenactments of ‘Lost
Cause’ tropes. Greek life was really instrumental in introducing those things. They were highly organized, tightly knit networks of wealthy whites,” Thomas said. “What better way to narrate their ideas of place and status than to use their social networks to put forward their ideas of African Americans’ lack of place on campus and in society?” In the 1970 Ole Miss yearbook, the yearbook page for Sigma Nu — a fraternity in which U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker was a freshman that year — shows a student whose face, arms and hands are covered in a dark paint and who is wearing what appears to be a sombrero. “Si, if only my name was Carlos,” the photo caption reads. A photo in the Mississippi State’s 1984 yearbook shows a Phi Tau fraternity member with a darkened face wearing a coat and tie. A photo in Mississippi State’s 1986 yearbook shows a Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity member posing with a darkened face and arm. Photos in the University of Southern Mississippi’s 198687 yearbook shows the entire Kappa Alpha fraternity. Every member is posing for their composite headshot in a Confederate soldier uniform with a Rebel battle flag draped in the background. More recently, blackface incidents at white Greek organizations in Mississippi have made national headlines. A photo of a 2001 Halloween party showed a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at Ole Miss pointing a gun at the head of another who was dressed in blackface, kneel-
student body together and encouraging unity through new events such as Battle of the DJs. This competition is tentatively scheduled for April and will involve DJs mixing music realtime at the Grove Stage for a cash prize. Tart hopes to get more creative with student representation and expand SAA’s reach beyond the Ole Miss campus. Former executive director Brady Ruffin formed a partnership with Visit Oxford last year to increase student voice in the annual Double Decker Arts Festival. “Involvement last year was met with some criticism and some perception, but I thought that it went well,” Spencer said. Tart and Spencer will continue
the partnership, as Tart believes it connects students with the Oxford community. SAA donated $15,000 to Double Decker 2019 in order to be considered a “stage sponsor.” SAA and Visit Oxford collaborated in selecting musicians for this year’s festival, and will jointly announce the lineup at a press conference on February 28. Tart and Spencer hope to expand the organization’s diversity by creating an inclusive environment and helping students understand SAA’s goal of enhancing the student experience. “If SAA could be described in one word, it would be ‘fun,’” Tart said. “You’ll catch all of us (at events) with a smile, making sure everyone feels welcome.”
SAA Executive Director Carl Tart.
continued from page 1 American Bridge 21st Century, a Democratic Super PAC that performs political opposition research, posted on its website yearbook pages of the Millsaps College chapter of Kappa Alpha Order in the early 1990s, when current Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves was a member of the fraternity. The photos include one of three members with their faces painted, one wearing dark-colored face paint and the stars-and-bars pattern of the Confederate battle flag. Another photo on the fraternity page features a group of men dressed as Confederate soldiers and planters, one of whom is waving a Confederate banner. It is unclear whether Reeves is in any of those photos, but he can be seen clearly in another photo posing with an unidentified man as well as in a composite of fraternity chapter members. When reporters asked Reeves’s office about the photos, his spokeswoman, Laura Hipp, responded with a statement: “As a quick Google search will show, Lt. Gov. Reeves was a member of Kappa Alpha Order. Like every other college student, he did attend costume formals and other parties, and across America, Kappa Alpha’s costume formal is traditionally called Old South in honor of the Civil War veteran who founded the fraternity in the 1800s.” The formal is the most visible ritual in which the fraternity known as KA — its mem-
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continued from page 1 entertainment, pageants, special events and homecoming. Spencer said he wants to enlarge the roles of all committee members and make them more active participants. “I really want them to be a part of the decision-making,” Spencer said. By increasing member involvement, Spencer hopes to help Tart create more diverse events and unify the Ole Miss campus. “SAA is an organization that tries to make Ole Miss feel more like home,” Spencer said. He believes in bringing the
PHOTO: OLE MISS YEARBOOK
Two members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, one in blackface, making a reference to “Gone With the Wind” in a skit in the 1969 Ole Miss yearbook.
PHOTO: MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY YEARBOOK
Two members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity in blackface in the 1979 Mississippi State University yearbook.
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ing and picking cotton. The university suspended the ATO chapter for a year. In 2009, a Mississippi College student wore blackface to a Michael Jackson-themed tribe party. In response, college officials condemned the act but pointed out that some of the blackface makeup was applied by an African-American student. In 2011, the Phi Mu sorority at the University of Southern Mississippi placed six members on probation for dressing for a party in blackface depicting the Huxtable family from the sitcom “The Cosby Show.” “White Greek letter organizations are based on excluding some people and allowing the already privileged to use that privilege and network with each other for political opportunities and economic opportunities,” said Matthew Hughey, a sociology professor at University of Connecticut. Hughey, who was previously a sociology professor at Mississippi State University, said blackface and other racist behavior among white Greek organizations perpetuate “white dominance on campus and in greater society.” “As long as we have a group of citizens, African-Americans, that is subjected to a huge wealth gap, that still receives unbalanced, inferior services and is subjected to more surveillance and discrimination, you’re going to see (that) depictions of those people are caricatures or objects of ridicule,” Hughey said. “We shouldn’t be surprised when white Greek letter organizations, designed to be exclusionary and powerful, do exclusionary and powerful things.”
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Ole Miss alumnus named Gates Cambridge scholar MADDY QUON
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Josh Law is the third Ole Miss graduate to receive the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The Gates Cambridge Scholarship is a program established by a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the University of Cambridge. Scholarships are awarded to students outside the United Kingdom to pursue a postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge. Law, currently a teacher at a charter school in Denver, said he got the email notifying him of the award in between classes and went to the bathroom to check the email. “I had to sit down I was so nervous,” Law said. “I just had to go back in (to class) and pretend life was normal again.” At Cambridge, Law plans on pursuing a Master of Philosophy in Public Health. He ultimately plans to earn an MD or a Ph.D before returning to his home state of Alabama to practice. “I just have so many questions about what it’s like to be healthy for me as an individual, for my family and friends, but also what would an actual functioning society look like,” Law said. “I’m just so excited to get to study that.” Law jokingly said that, since he
has been named a Gates Cambridge Scholar, people have been talking to him as if he understands much more than he does. “I understand very little about the functionings of this planet,” Law said. “I applied because I didn’t know very much, and I thought that maybe (Cambridge) would be a place that would help me get a few more answers.” Law, who holds a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from Ole Miss, believes religion plays an important role in health care. “If you ask an American why it’s important that we fight for global health equality, many of them are going to say that it’s this mission from God, that it’s important for them to fight for the dignity of all persons on the planet,” Law said. “That’s a really powerful statement, and I think it helps in understanding human motives.” Law is a graduate of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. He said Tim Dolan, the director of the Office of National Scholarship Advisement at the University of Mississippi, first told him about the scholarship and worked with him throughout his senior year at Ole Miss. “Tim Dolan is a man anyone in the honors college should go and see,” Law said. “He’s been working with me and has continued to support by reading applications,
providing mock interviews.” Dolan said he always knew Law was a qualified candidate but was still pleasantly surprised when he heard Law won. “I’m very excited for (Law) and for my office and for the university,” Dolan said. “It’s a distinct honor. It’s a very prestigious scholarship.” SMBHC Dean Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez considers Law’s scholarship a great victory and hopes it helps him effect real change. “We are unbelievably excited to have a student recognized on an international level for his academic commitment to the questions that are driving us as a people to understand what we shall do in this world,” Sullivan-Gonzalez said. Law said he was an uninterested learner in high school, but Ole Miss made him want to do more than just make passing grades. “(Ole Miss) showed me that smart people could be nice and also care,” Law said. “They told me that I could disagree with people and that I could still think the world of them.” Dolan said that he thinks that the scholarship reflects the quality of education Law received at Ole Miss. “It’s really an honor. It’s a competitive scholarship, and so, our students rank against some
of the most prestigious colleges in the country,” Dolan said. “I think it speaks well to the faculty that we have here and the admissions recruiting to bring in high quality students who come here to get a great education.” Law said that the education he
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received from Ole Miss prepared him for this scholarship. “There’s not even a doubt that I could’ve even applied or even known what the scholarship was had it not been for Ole Miss and the honors college,” Law said.
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OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL Starting on Feb. 6 and going through the weekend, the Oxford Film Festival brought filmmakers, fans and curious community members together to watch and discuss movies. These photographs were all taken at a red carpet event before the awards ceremony on Saturday night. Check out thedmonline.com to read other content about the film festival, including a feature on an Ole Miss filmmaker’s documentary about a hardcore punk band and a roundup of students whose works were featured in the festival.
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Indie band reimagines cult classic Bobbie Gentry album LIAM NIEMAN
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Country music traffics in a common set of images, but as far as the genre goes, Bobbie Gentry’s music is some of the most particular. Gentry’s songs are precise, down-to-the-dirt renderings of the Mississippi land on which she grew up. “Ode to Billie Joe,” for instance, has single-handedly defined Gentry’s legacy because it’s so specific. It isn’t just about any bridge, but the Tallahatchie Bridge. Not just any summer day, but the “third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day.” Not just any neighbor but Billie Joe MacAllister. The same goes for Gentry’s less popular, more ambitious second album, which was recently reimagined by indie rock group Mercury Rev for their album “Bobbie Gentry’s ‘The Delta Sweete’ Revisited.”
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on Mercury Rev’s version of the album Featuring the smooth vocals of Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, “Big Boss Man” meanders masterfully like the sleepy Delta day that Gentry is so famous for singing about. “Tobacco Road,” sung by Susanne Sundfør, launches with a driving, locomotive drum and energizes this song about rising from rural poverty. “Parchman Farm” is another blues number. Using a flute, Mercury Rev connects the song to the blues tradition, even if the flute isn’t immediately recognizable as a blues instrument.
These solid blues songs make up the middle of the album, after Norah Jones’ soul-soaked version of “Okolona River Bottom Band” that sounds like the perfect start to a movie. The middle is also punctuated by a few mediocre tracks, including “Mornin’ Glory,” “Sermon” and “Penduli Pendulum.” Luckily, “‘The Delta Sweete’ Revisited” picks back up at “Refractions” before gliding through “Courtyard,” sung by Beth Orton, and into the album’s end. Although the final song, Lucinda Williams’s version of “Ode to Billie Joe,” is the only song not on the original “The Delta
Sweete,” it still seems necessary. Williams’s fractured drawl is far from Gentry’s syrupy vocals, but Williams, who rose to fame with an album called “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,” was a fitting choice to cover this song of country tragedy. Sitting at just over 10 minutes longer than the original (including the tribute to “Ode to Billie Joe”), the new Mercury Rev album stretches out Gentry’s 1968 classic. This reimagining keeps the same power as Gentry’s vocals while losing some of the particularities that made Gentry’s such an inspiring musical model.
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TRACK AND FIELD
Suliman runs fastest time in NCAA, breaks school record JUSTIN DIAL
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Ole Miss Track and Field wrapped up its season on Saturday, and a couple of Rebels rewrote the school record books in the process. Six men competed in the mile at the David Hemery Valentine Invite in Boston. The rest of the team was in Nashville for the Music City Challenge. Sophomores Waleed Suliman and Maddie King each broke Ole Miss records for fastest miles run in Ole Miss men’s and women’s track history. Suliman’s time of 3:56.78 is the fastest mile run in the NCAA this season, narrowly beating Sean Tobin’s school record of 3:58.28, which was set in February 2018. “The track at Boston University is known for fast miles,” Ole Miss assistant track & field coach Ryan Vanhoy said after the meet. “We came here aiming for a few sub-four-minute miles and NCAA qualifying marks.” Suliman, a native of Richmond, Virgina, nearly broke the sub-4:00 mark at the Indiana Relays in January when he won the men’s mile with a time of 4:01.00. He was named an All-SEC runner following the cross-country team’s success in the fall and was a second-team All-American after his freshman season. Derek Gutierrez also had
a big day in Boston. Gutierrez became the third Rebel in school history to record a sub-4:00 mile with a time of 3:58.55, joining Suliman and Tobin. Three of the other four Rebels running in Boston, Mario Garcia Romo (4:03.30), Everett Smulders (4:04.65) and Cade Bethmann (4:05.08), all set new personal bests in the mile at the meet. “I thought our guys did a great job of competing in their heats and took a nice step forward as we progress toward championship season,” Vanhoy said. King, running in Nashville, broke the Ole Miss women’s mile record with a time of 4:46.45, finishing eighth. The previous record holder, redshirt-senior Shelby Brown, also competed over the weekend and ran a 4:51.26 for a 13th place finish. Chelsea Drum finished just behind King and Brown, posting a new personal record of 4:57.54 and finishing 23rd. In the 800m, John Rivera, Jr.’s 1:49:41 was good for second at the meet and seventh in school history. He was joined by Griffin Riley (1:51.76) and Shamar Tucker (1:55.09) in the top 20, with Riley and Tucker coming in fifth and 19th, respectively. The 400m dash was much of the same for Ole Miss. The Rebels had four runners in the event. Three of them placed in the top 15, and all four recorded new personal
records. James Westbrook (47.39) placed seventh, 13th in school history, followed by Alvin Westbrook (48.33) who finished 12th. Orianna Shaw represented the women, finishing eighth with a time of 55.80. “We had an overall good weekend, both in Vanderbilt and Boston,” said Ole Miss head track & field coach Connie Price-Smith. “Now it is time to get ready for the SEC Indoor Championships.” With the season now over, Ole Miss will prepare for the SEC Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Feb. 22-23. Following the conference championships, the NCAA Championships will be held March 8-9 in Birmingham, Alabama.
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SOFTBALL
Rebels finish 3-1 in Friends of Jaclyn Tournament JARED REDDING
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After a weekend of dominant performances in the circle, the Ole Miss softball team is off to a good start. The Ole Miss softball team began the 2019 season with the Friends of Jaclyn Tournament in Orlando, Florida, this past weekend. The Rebels finished the tournament 3-1 despite the absence of their head coach. Mike Smith was suspended this past Wednesday for “not meeting the university’s expectations for operating the program,” according to a statement released by the university. Associate head coach Ruben Felix was tabbed to lead the team in Smith’s absence, which will end this week with Smith’s return. Nevertheless, the team didn’t miss a beat. The Rebels started the tournament Thursday, defeating the host team, the University of Central Florida, 3-0 behind a three-for-three hitting day from Kaylee Horton at the plate and a complete game shutout from Brittany Finney in the circle. Finney also got the scoring started for the Rebels with a single to left field that allowed Horton to score in the first inning. “I went up to the plate with a good plan and executed well. It really took the weight off my shoulders. It felt really good,” Finney told reporters after the game. “I just tried not to think of all the runners on base or anything that was going on behind me. I was just trying to think about the next batter and executing the next pitch.” The Rebels faced the Ohio State Buckeyes the following day. Despite a fast Ole Miss start, a grand slam from Ohio State’s Emily Clark in the third inning gave the Buckeyes an edge. They defeated the Rebels 4-2 despite Ava Tillmann giving up just three hits. The Rebels had a chance late with
a tying run on base, but they couldn’t finish the job. “I love how we came out swinging and put runs up from the get-go. We came back at the end and got a little bit of a comeback. I like the fight and how Ava (Tillman) threw in the circle and gave us a chance to win in the end,” Felix said. “It says a lot about the team — how we came back from adversity.” His team rebounded in a big way against the No. 21 ranked team in the country, Minnesota, with a 9 a.m. first-pitch time. In the fourth inning, the Rebels capitalized on an error and scored twice to take a tworun lead. That proved to be the difference, as Ole Miss pulled off the upset with a 3-1 win. Molly Jacobsen allowed four hits but shut things down late in the game. Just under an hour later, the Rebels had to turn around and take on George Mason. The Patriots proved to be no problem, as Ole Miss defeated them 8-0 in five innings due to the run rule. Abbey Latham got her team’s first home run of the season in the first inning, and the rest of her team didn’t look back. Taylor Watford sealed the game with a walk-off on her first collegiate hit. “It definitely was a great day for the program, beating a top-25 team in the first game and our pitcher getting a complete game. We came back against a really good pitcher. It was a big win for us,” Felix said. “In the PHOTO COURTESY: PETE THOMAS | OLE MISS ATHLETICS second game, we got a lot of Brittany Finney pitches against Alcorn State during their double-header matchup last season. offense and got our hitters going. Hitting is contagious, and it rubbed off. It was a great day,” The Rebels were unable to get revenge for Friday’s defeat against Ohio State due to rainy weather on Sunday. Ole Miss will be back in action this Thursday when they travel to take on Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles.
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MEN’S TENNIS
Ole Miss remains perfect at home, sweeps Alcorn State JOSHUA CLAYTON
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Ole Miss Men’s Tennis extended its hot streak with two 4-0 dual match wins over a winless Alcorn State squad this weekend. Coming off of a nail-biting 4-3 win over No. 20 Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the Rebels delivered dominant performances in their final tune-up matches before conference play. In the first match, the duo of Cotter Wilson and reigning SEC Player of the Week Fabian Fallert made quick work of the opposition, winning 6-0 in the first doubles match. Tim Sandkaulen and Karlo Kranic soon followed with a 6-2 decision to win their doubles competition and give the Rebels a 1-0 lead. Singles competition in the first match went just as well as doubles for the Rebels, with three quick wins finishing around the same time. Freshman Simon Junk was the first to finish, with his 6-2, 6-0 victory pushing the Rebels’ lead to 2-0. Wilson and Sebastian Rios finished shortly after to secure the win in the first match of the day. The second match started with singles completion. The Rebels won four of the six matches to complete the sweep. Kranic and Wilson didn’t lose a single game in their matches, and Rios won his match
handily. Sandkaulen then clinched the final point of the weekend with a 6-0, 6-4 win. The two wins over the weekend give the Rebels a 5-3 record overall and a perfect 4-0 record in Oxford. With a true road win over a ranked Oklahoma State and this weekend’s dominating performances, Ole Miss has real momentum heading into the meat of the season. Wilson and Fallert have fueled Ole Miss’s streak. After the weekend, Wilson extended his record at home to 4-0. Fallert, a senior from Lichtenstein, was named SEC Player of the Week after his clutch win to secure a victory over Oklahoma State. It’s the first time Fallert has been honored with the award. Wilson and Fallert are 3-0 as a duo and helped win the doubles point with a 6-3 victory. Fallert, with the match tied 3-3, delivered under pressure and fought through a first-set tiebreak to win the match-deciding point for the Rebels, 7-6 (13-11), 6-2. The next challenge for the Rebels will come the weekend of Feb. 22 when they will travel to Montgomery, Alabama for the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic. Among the teams competing are Alabama, Arizona, Auburn, Fresno State, Princeton, Rice and Texas Tech. The Rebels have yet to win a match at a neutral site this season, so the recently gained momentum will be much needed when the team heads to
Fabian Fallert completes a singles match against Alcorn State on Saturday, Feb. 10. Montgomery. After the trip to Montgomery, the Rebels will face their first
conference competition when Kentucky visits Oxford March 1. The Rebels have 14 matches
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Tyree ties career high, Ole Miss downs Georgia 80-64 JACK GENTRY
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Ole Miss Men’s Basketball out-rebounded the SEC’s best rebounding team on the way to a big win over Georgia on Saturday. The Rebels moved to 16-7 (6-4) after defeating a sloppy Bulldogs team 80-64 on the road. With the win, the Rebels finish the week 2-0 after four losses out of their five games preceding Georgia. The win in Athens marks the first time the Rebels have won in Stegeman Coliseum since January 2012. Winning on the road isn’t easy, but the Rebels handled their business versus a Georgia squad that has now lost four games in a row. The fact that the Rebels had control on the road in an SEC clash speaks volumes about the team’s maturity. After trailing by as many as eight points early in the first half, the Rebels found some separation courtesy of a couple big runs. The Rebels’ big three, Breein Tyree, Terence Davis and Devontae Shuler, propelled Ole Miss to a 10-0 spurt en route to their first lead of the game at a score of 22-20. Later in the half, freshman Blake Hinson knocked down back-to-back threes, starting an 11-0 run to take a 41-28 lead just before halftime. Ole Miss would take a 45-33 lead into the break, holding Georgia to just one bucket in the final seven minutes of the half. The Rebels didn’t let up in the second half. Through a combination of key stops and a collective effort at attacking the glass, Ole Miss cruised to a 16-point victory. Ole Miss won the rebounding battle
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urday. Stevens came down with nine boards, a team high for the Rebels. “Bruce Stevens changes our team from a rebounding standpoint,” head coach Kermit Davis said after the game. “Bruce had nine rebounds today and really made some big athletic plays for us.” Tyree matched his career high with 31 points on 11 of 22 from the floor, including conversion on 3 of 8 from downtown. Tyree eclipsed the 1,000-point career mark in the
win and extended his streak to five games with 20 or more points. He is now the first Rebel since Stefan Moody to score 20 points in five straight games. “I was getting to the rim a lot today,” Tyree said. “I shot 22 shots, but I don’t think I was taking too many jump shots. I just had a great night scoring, and I thank God for it.” Hinson dropped 13 points on four of seven shots. Most of his damage was done from beyond the arc, and he made three of five shots from the three. Ter-
ence Davis chipped in 12 points and five rebounds, and Shuler finished with eight points along with seven rebounds. Next up for the Rebels is a road trip to Auburn on Wednesday, when the Rebels will have an opportunity to add another marquee win to their resume. The Bruce Pearl-led Tigers have bounced in and out of the top 25 all season and currently stand at 16-7 (5-5) making the matchup all the more significant when it comes to making ground in the log-jammed SEC.
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