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On junior business major Kate Marshall’s busiest night at Snackbar, the kitchen served 497 tables. Read about what it’s like balancing a high-pressure culinary job with tests and homework.
Ole Miss came up just short of a statement win and upset over Tennessee in The Pavilion, giving up the lead in the final seconds of the second half.
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KD HOUSE FLOODS The Kappa Delta sorority house sustained rain damage, causing the roof of the building to cave in and 30 women to seek housing elsewhere.
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After the heavy rainfall in Oxford last week, nearly half of Kappa Delta house residents have been forced to move out because of flooding.
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Nearly half of the 64 Kappa Delta house residents cannot live in their sorority house for the rest of the semester, as the ceilings caved in when the house flooded after five days of heavy rain fell in Oxford last week. Kappa Delta residents shared pictures of the damage to the house on social media. In the pictures, trash cans were scattered around the house to collect water leaking through the roof. There was also significant damage to the flooring. The wood floor was warped, and the ceilings in some rooms were also beginning to cave in. In an email released to Kappa Delta members on Sunday, the housing corps president Margaret Anne Alias said the flooding was because of clogged drains on the building’s roof. “Three of the drains on
the roof were, unbeknownst to anyone, almost stopped up due to sand from the shingles,” Alias said. As of now, the only residents who are affected are those living in the left side of the house, she said. Junior biology major and Kappa Delta member Anna Holt Shaw said the sorority has offered displaced residents rooms in The Inn at Ole Miss, but this is only a temporary solution. “Moving out was very stressful, considering I was not expecting to have to do so at all,” Holt said. “I was packing hectically, so nothing is in order, and it is hard to sort through all my things.” Servpro, a company dealing with the water damage, will be testing the air quality in the Kappa Delta house in the coming days to determine whether it is safe for those on the right side of the house to remain living there. “What is important for
you to know is that there is no danger in staying in that portion of the house right now,” Alias said in her email to the chapter. “The question is whether the moisture level can be maintained at a safe level, and Servpro will determine this soon. If they determine that the rest of the girls should move out as well, we will offer the same assistance in finding alternate housing.” Alias said the chapter is trying to deal with the situation as soon as possible. “The fact this happened on a weekend has not helped the situation,” Alias said. “It did not hinder our ability to immediately address the problem and begin cleanup, but it has hindered our ability to quickly find alternate housing for these girls.” A building restoration company started the cleanup process Saturday around 3 p.m., and the process will take around two weeks, Alias said.
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money payments to women on Trump’s behalf and lied about them to the public and the first lady at the president’s behest. He agreed to say Trump was “not knowledgeable” about the transactions, even though the president directly reimbursed him, and said he was left with the unmistakable impression Trump wanted him to lie to Congress about a Moscow real estate project, even if the president never directly told him so. In one revelation, Cohen said prosecutors in New York were investigating conversations Trump or his advisers had with him after his office and hotel room was raided by the FBI last April. Cohen said he could not discuss that conversation, the last contact he said he has had with the president or anyone acting on his behalf, because it remains under investigation. The appearance marked the latest step in Cohen’s evolution from legal fixer for the president — he once boasted he’d “take a bullet” for Trump — to a foe who has implicated him in federal campaign finance violations. The hearing proceeded along parallel tracks, with Democrats focusing on allegations against Trump while Republicans sought to undermine Cohen’s credibility and the proceeding itself. As Republicans blasted him as a convicted liar, a mostly unrattled Cohen sought to blunt the attacks by repeatedly acknowledging his own failings. He called himself a “fool,” warned lawmakers of the perils of blind loyalty to a leader undeserving of it and pronounced himself ashamed of what he’d done to protect Trump. Cohen will soon report to prison for a three-year sentence. At the same time, he is seen as a vital witness for federal prosecutors because of his decade-long professional relationship with the president and his proximity to the president during key episodes under investigation.
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They came, they saw and, like it or not, they conquered. Last week, Oxford was brought to its knees by demonstrations that invoke the question that every single Ole Miss student is destined to ask themselves while attending the university: What am I doing here? We saw demonstrations from neo-Confederate groups, which didn’t meet their attendance expectations but still dominated state and national conversations. Nearly every major news outlet picked up stories regarding eight Ole Miss basketball players kneeling in protest. Oxford lacked access to clean water, heeded tornado warnings, witnessed
a car crash on the Square and saw courageous law enforcement installed on almost every corner to make sure we didn’t collapse under a week that will undoubtedly be remembered for decades. We’ve crossed the Rubicon in the conversation that will either serve as the culmination and conclusion of everything the university’s been doing to paint it as politically correct yet digestible or, inversely, the entrance into an era where divisions will be cemented. The removal of the statue memorializing Confederate dead is now on the table, any effort to encourage the flying of the state flag is on its deathbed and anybody who can’t help but muster a tear of pride when Dixie is performed is keeping a stone face. This is all thanks to a group of neo-Confederates with repugnant beliefs who marched to save their symbols. Liberal activists’ message regarding the memorial’s removal is rapidly approaching its pinnacle, placing conservative activists on defense in what is looking like the fourth quarter of a losing game.
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Activists are going to come for the statue next. Then, they’re going to remove more building names and install more overreaching diversity programs. These are nothing more than trials in what’s going to amount to the restructuring of every single institution at this school, depending on who is hired as chancellor: the dismantling of fraternities and sororities, the abolition of Grove culture, the dissipation of the moniker “Ole Miss” and, finally, who gets to receive special privilege at the university. I’m all for having inclusive and constructive discussions regarding steps the university could take to work better for everyone. However, an attempt to suggest that fringe groups demanding the statue’s removal are representative of those who do not support monument removal, or to suggest that policies that are decided on the basis of outrage rather than calm discussion, is a blatant attempt at subverting democracy. Complacency granted by the comfort of being in the silent majority has all but pulled the trigger in the death of the conservative
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movement on this campus, and if we don’t organize and fight against liberal policies, we might as well get used to begging to just be left alone. We will have nothing which is not granted to us by those who staged a coup on the common understanding of this university. Conservatives must organize for future generations of people who wish to know this place. If we are to fail, we can say with pride that we did not watch this place fall victim as someone terrified to act, but as someone who stood and defended his or her beliefs with all he or she had. Yell with pride that you are an Ole Miss Rebel. Chant proudly that question “Are you ready?” and advocate, in classrooms and conversations, on behalf of Ole Miss. May we be as Howard Beale was in the 1976 film “The Network” and say definitively, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.” It may very well may be our last chance to do so. Will Hall is a senior journalism major from Atlanta.
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THE WORK ISSUE This week, we’re going to work. I profiled Carlton Howard, a student and facility manager at the Turner Center who made a Black History Month mural that’s now displayed in the Turner lobby. On page 5, you can read about Kate Marshall, who toes the line between responsibilities in the classroom and in a high-pressure Oxford kitchen. Liam Nieman Arts & Culture Editor
The big picture, made of small sheets The story behind a student’s mural in the Turner Center
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ate on a Friday afternoon, when most of the office staff at the Turner Center was getting ready to head home, Carlton Howard sat in the first-aid room on the bottom floor of Turner, coloring 8-by-10 sheets of paper. Howard, a senior education major and facility manager for Campus Recreation, finished coloring later that night and then pasted the small sheets onto construction paper. Put together, the sheets transformed into a mural in honor of Black History Month. It hangs prominently in the Turner Center lobby. The mural features 16 key people in black history, from formerly enslaved people like Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth to civil rights movement leaders like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks to contemporary figures like Barack Obama and Serena Williams. Howard said that, for him, King is the most inspiring person in the mural.
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In honor of Black History Month, Carlton Howard created a mural featuring 16 important figures in black history.
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continued from page 3 “I love (King’s) philosophy and what he did for us, which were non-violent protests,” Howard said. “I really aspire to be him and to lead in his way.” Although the mural now hangs on campus, Howard originally got the idea while working as an assistant teacher in the South Panola School District in his hometown, Batesville. There, Howard worked in middle school classrooms and helped coach girls’ basketball. Last year, Howard let his class choose a project for Black History Month. His students chose to create a mural, so Howard printed off the sheets, supervised his students and helped them put together the completed mural. So when the Turner Center was looking for a way to celebrate Black History Month, Howard suggested a mural. “I said (to my managers), ‘Well, it’s something that I did last year with my kids.’ Then I showed it to them and walked them through what was going to take place,” Howard said. “Once we got it approved by my
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Carlton Howard’s hand-drawn mural features 16 influential figures in black history, including people such as Barack Obama and Rosa Parks. director, I just went for it.” While assistant teaching, Howard still had to balance being a part-time student and
Campus Recreation employee. On a typical day, he would work in Batesville until 3:45 p.m. and then come back to Oxford to take night classes or complete online assignments and to work at the Turner Center on weekday nights or the weekends. “It was a lot of restless nights because working all day with children, which is a great experience, is also draining,” Howard said. Though the two years that Howard kept up this schedule
were busy, he said they were worth it and taught him how to manage his time. During the same period, Howard worked his way up from refereeing intramural games to his current position. As a facility manager, Howard is “the man in charge,” responding to any concerns that employees or patrons have about the Turner Center. But, for Howard, working for Campus Recreation is like being part of a “team” or “family.”
Because of this, Howard said the Turner Center is an ideal location for the Black History Month mural. “(Campus Recreation) was really for this and supportive about it because this is a safe haven and a great environment to just be who you are,” Howard said. “We back each other up, and we support each other for embracing who you are and being proud of who you are.” One of Howard’s managers, Mark Garneau, assistant director of facility operations for Campus Recreation, saw Howard coloring that Friday. When Garneau walked in the following Monday, he wasn’t expecting to see a whole mural. “It threw me for a loop when I walked in on Monday morning,” Garneau said. “I was like, ‘Oh, wow, that’s what he was working on?’ ... It was just something that inspired him.” But Garneau said that the mural was just one example of a larger trend. “You always see (Howard) doing something small, and it ends up being a huge, cool thing,” Garneau said. Howard said he hopes the Black History Month mural he made inspires people now and in the future. “I hope that, after I graduate, this becomes a tradition — and not just for Black History Month but for any race, gender, sexual orientation (or) religion,” Howard said. “(I hope) this inspires people to be true to you and be proud of who you are.”
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On the line: How a student balances work at school, in the kitchen BELLA ST. AMANT
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Although some people think college students’ culinary expertise stops at microwaving ramen noodles or calling in a pizza delivery, that couldn’t be further from the truth for Kate Marshall. The junior business management major from Carrollton, Georgia, has worked in the kitchens of several acclaimed Oxford restaurants during the past two years. Now a line cook at Snackbar, she balances working up to 40 hours a week while taking tests and doing homework. And she did the same at her other jobs at most of John Currence’s restaurants — City Grocery, The Main Event and two now-shuttered restaurants, Lamar Lounge and Fat Eddie’s. To Marshall, working as a line cook while still taking classes is “like going to culinary school without paying.” Marshall’s love for cooking goes back to her childhood. She grew up in a tightknit Georgia family that has always gravitated toward the kitchen. Years before the farm-totable movement, Marshall PHOTO: KATHERINE BUTLER said she and her family grew Kate Marshall balances academics with her job as a line cook so she can pursue her tomatoes, sweet corn, okra, dream of having a culinary career. squash and green beans in her grandparents’ garden. Tensions are high. Everyone is stressed These ingredients made their way from the backyard to the and running around like a chicken dinner table. with their head cut off. But with all the “I do this because I hope to open up my own restauadrenaline, it ends up being pretty fun.” rant one day,” Marshall said. “All my family loves that I do this. As a family, we’ve always Kate Marshall wanted to have a restaurant Student and line cook in the family.” Lounge became Fat Eddie’s “At this point, I felt ready Marshall also worked at and started serving Italto go to the kitchen. I didn’t a barbecue joint and with ian-American dishes. want to serve people anycatering companies in her The new restaurant’s more,” Marshall said. “So, hometown. opening coincided with the when they transitioned into Though she now works in death of Marshall’s brother, Fat Eddie’s, I went to the the kitchen, Marshall started which caused her to seriously kitchen, and I’ve never looked as a server at Lamar Lounge, consider working primarily back. It’s been life-changing.” a whole-hog barbecue with food, not face-to-face Snackbar, headed by restaurant. In 2016, Lamar with customers. repeat James Beard award
finalist Vishwesh Bhatt, has become one of Oxford’s most high-profile restaurants, garnering national attention for its combination of Southern and French cuisines with an Indian twist. On weekends during football season, the kitchen turns out up to 500 plates of food. Marshall said Snackbar’s record is 510 tickets in a night, while her personal record is 497 tickets. “Tensions are high. Everyone is stressed and running around like a chicken with their head cut off. But with all the adrenaline, it ends up being pretty fun,” Marshall said. Along with the stress, Marshall said she has also adjusted to being one of the few female line cooks in the places she’s worked. She’s cooked alongside three other women in the City Grocery Restaurant Group but is currently the only woman on the
line at Snackbar. “It’s weird. It’s different, but nobody acts like I wouldn’t be able to do something,” she said. “Sometimes I do feel like I have to prove that I can do the same things as everybody else in the kitchen. ... I guess growing up with a brother has helped me to hang out and be one of the guys.” When asked about her future, Marshall said she will continue to pursue a career that involves food. She’s not eager to leave her community at Snackbar, but she is excited about the possibilities to learn all the different aspects of working in a kitchen in another location — anywhere from Louisiana to California to France. “I want to make good food with good ingredients. I want to make good family meals — Southern comfort food that makes people feel like you’re at home,” Marshall said.
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Ole Miss travels to Tuscaloosa for final road game JAKE DAVIS
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As basketball season begins to wind down, the Ole Miss women’s team travels to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to take on Alabama in their penultimate game of the regular season. The Rebels currently sit at 9-19 on the season, 3-11 in SEC play. While this may appear to be a lackluster record, a three-win record in a very difficult conference is somewhat impressive for head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin’s first season at Ole Miss, and it provides a foundation upon which she can build a respectable program. This team will lose some key seniors at the season’s end but has enough young talent to continue to generate excitement for next year. Alabama enters tonight’s game with a 12-15 record, 4-10 in conference. Coming off an overtime loss to Georgia on Sunday, the Crimson Tide will fight hard for a victory in this matchup between SEC bottom-dwellers.
Both programs will be fighting for bragging rights, and their proximity in the standings should provide for a hard-fought match. Alabama’s win against Vanderbilt last week was its first since late January, and the team will be seeking another win to pad its record before its final game of the season at Missouri on Sunday. Ole Miss has lost eight of its past nine, including three games in a row entering tonight’s matchup with the Crimson Tide. This losing streak comes on the heels of back-to-back wins at then-No. 16 Kentucky and at home against Florida in mid-January. While this performance was expected by some, many fans have been disappointed in the lack of success this season, pointing to first-year Ole Miss head coach Kermit Davis’s success with men’s basketball this season as an example of immediate results. While it is easy to jump to conclusions based on a coach’s first season with a team, building a strong college program usually takes years to accomplish, and Davis’s
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FOOTBALL
Nine former Rebels participate in NFL Combine JOSHUA CLAYTON
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While football season officially ended on Feb. 3 when the New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams for another Super Bowl title, anyone who follows the NFL can tell you the league never sleeps. At the end of the season, teams immediately look to add players, coaches and staff that will improve the franchise’s chance of winning the next year. Most of these additions will come from the annual NFL Draft on April 25-27 in Nashville, Tennessee. Before that, more than 300 players will try to catch the eyes of scouts and media in the NFL Scouting Combine, which is held Feb. 26-March 4 in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. In the next week, players will be interviewed, measured and tested in on-field drills as NFL teams contemplate who to select. Nine former Ole Miss players were invited to attend the scouting combine, the fourth-most from any college program in the nation. A.J. Brown, Dawson Knox, Greg Little, DaMarkus Lodge, Javon Patterson, Jordan Ta’amu, Ken Webster, D.K. Metcalf and Zedrick Woods will showcase their talent in front of all 32
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franchises looking for their perfect fit. There’s no doubt that the strongest position group coming out of Oxford is the wide receivers. The combination of D.K. Metcalf, A.J. Brown and DaMarkus Lodge terrorized defensive backfields during their time on the “Nasty Wide Outs” at Ole Miss. The highest-rated wideout of the three is Metcalf, who was recently moved up to No. 14 on Mel Kiper Jr.’s Big Board of prospects this week. “He has all the physical traits you want, terrific athleticism, elite long speed and the ability to catch outside his frame at a high level,” said
Jon Ledyard, senior Draft analyst for The Draft Network. “Although Metcalf’s routes and hands need work, his releases are polished, and he reportedly has elite work ethic to accompany his love for the game. Little bit of a risky prospect, but he’s the type of player you bet on.” There is some reluctance from teams, considering he suffered a scary neck injury during the 2018 season, but recent photos posted on his Twitter suggest he’s in the best shape of his life. Teams will be closely watching his medical check. Brown and Lodge are
certainly no slouches. Brown finished seventh in the FBS in receiving yards with 1,320 off of 85 catches in 12 games in 2018. He’ll be a target for teams looking for a player who can play in the slot and is not afraid to go up the middle and catch contested throws. Lodge had 877 yards and 4 touchdowns in 2018 and boasts elite speed and ball skills. The man who delivered the ball to the talented receivers will also be in Indianapolis. Jordan Ta’amu is a sleeper in this year’s quarterback class, but he impressed in the East-West Shrine game earlier in the offseason. The quarter-
back racked up 5,600 yards, 30 touchdowns and only 12 interceptions in 19 games at Ole Miss. Greg Little will also be in attendance. He’s sure to impress scouts with his massive frame and exceptional athleticism, two things any NFL team could use. His fellow lineman Javon Patterson struggled at the Senior Bowl but still has a chance to be called during the second day of the Draft. One of the most interesting players to watch is tight end Dawson Knox. Knox is the player with the most to gain from the Scouting Combine. Knox saw a decrease in his already minimal targets last year, but he flashed special physical skills when he was used. The Ole Miss defensive backfield will have two representatives at the Combine in Ken Webster and Zedrick Woods. Webster suffered a serious knee injury back in the 2016 season-opener against Florida State. Woods had 79 tackles for the Rebels in 2018. The defensive backs had two interceptions each last season. Little and Patterson will take the field first on Friday to perform drills, while Metcalf, Brown, Lodge, Ta’amu and Knox will work out on Saturday. Webster and Woods will finish the Combine on Monday. The entire Combine will be broadcast on NFL Network.
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In Ole Miss men’s basketball’s first game since Devontae Shuler led seven other players in kneeling during the national anthem, the Rebels fell to the No. 7 Tennessee Volunteers in heartbreaking fashion with a final score of 73-71. The attention given to the team following the demonstration on Saturday could easily have become a distraction for the players. It seemingly wasn’t a problem in the locker room, as the Rebels competed with one of the top teams in America until the very end. “I don’t think there were any distractions,” Ole Miss head coach Kermit Davis said. “I think these guys handled it well. Obviously by the way we played, it wasn’t a distraction at all.” The game couldn’t have started any worse for Ole Miss. The team allowed Tennessee to get out to an 8-0 lead to start the game — not a recipe for success against the No. 7 ranked team in the country. However, the Rebels quickly fought back, making it a game again within minutes. The two teams exchanged blows throughout the first half, but Tennessee led for the majority of the time until a Terence Davis three-pointer gave Ole Miss its first lead of the game with four minutes left in the half.
Terence Davis finished the night with 16 points on 6-for-15 from the field, adding three rebounds and three assists as well. “From day one, we talked about this not being a rebuilding team,” Terence Davis said. “This is an NCAA Tournament team. We look at ourselves as an NCAA (Tournament) team, and tonight I feel like we played like one.” Ole Miss took a five-point lead into the half and succeeded in limiting the efforts of Tennessee’s star players, Grant Williams and Admiral Schofield. The duo, who averaged 19 and 17 points, respectively, coming into the game, combined for a mere 10 points after 20 minutes of action. “I thought we ended the half very well,” Kermit Davis said. The second half, however, and specifically the final minute of the game, sealed the Rebels’ fate. Coming out of the break, a Blake Hinson jumper gave Ole Miss a seven-point lead, but Tennessee responded with a 14-0 run, draining the life out of The Pavilion for a time. “The starts of second halves have been an issue for us,” Kermit Davis said. “We talk about it a bunch.” At that point, the Rebels’ deficit could have gotten out of hand quickly, but Ole Miss hired Kermit Davis for a reason: to win games of this magnitude. His team continued to scratch and claw its way to a
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Terence Davis and KJ Buffen attempt to rebound at the game against Tennessee yesterday. The Rebels lost 71-73. three-point lead with 33 seconds to go, hitting clutch shot after clutch shot. But it would quickly go downhill from there, as Ole Miss failed to score another point after a pair of Hinson free throws. After Breein Tyree missed the first of a one-and-one, Grant Williams, an SEC Player of the Year candidate, bullied his way down low, making a layup with three seconds and giving Ole Miss a shot at a win. Unfortunately for the Rebels, they wouldn’t have the chance
to take a game-winning shot, as Tennessee’s Admiral Schofield drew a charge when Shuler pulled up for the game winner, giving Tennessee possession and ending the game. “Obviously, (Schofield) made a great play,” Kermit Davis said. “We’ll look at the tape and see what happened.” In a game with questionable officiating on both sides, Ole Miss fans showed their displeasure with the referees by throwing items onto the court following the game.
“I shouldn’t have thrown my jacket like I did,” Kermit Davis said. “I think that probably enticed the crowd a little bit, so I apologize for that.” Ole Miss falls to 19-9 (9-6) on the year after the loss. The Rebels will have to regroup quickly. They travel to Arkansas to take on the Razorbacks on Saturday. “Everybody’s heartbroken in that locker room,” Kermit Davis said. “We’ve got to come back tomorrow, put it away and get ready for Arkansas on Saturday.”
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