THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Monday, February 1, 2016
Volume 104, No. 75
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Yoknapalooza: the food truck fair University kicks off Black History Month SUAD PATTON-BEY
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SEE MORE PHOTOS PAGE 5 Galaxy Hotel Band members traveled from Dallas to play in inaugural Yoknapalooza food truck fair.
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The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council introduced a new occasion to Oxford’s arts commu-
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nity Sunday evening. The first semiannual Yoknapalooza food truck fair featured three operational trucks, two stages of live music and local artisans selling their wares.
This first installment of Yoknapalooza was imagined less than two months ago. Food trucks have become a rapidly
Creator. The company is run by two current Ole Miss students. The owners, founders and twin brothers Michael and Stephen Greer got their start at their own 16th birthday party. The Clinton natives turned the building where they practiced pole vaulting, nicknamed The Vault, into a personal party venue, hiring a DJ and planned the event themselves. “It was a huge success. All of our friends came. We probably had two or three hundred people show up,” Stephen Greer said. “After that hap-
pened we thought, ‘This is something we can do.’” After researching equipment and digging for loose change in all places imaginable, the brothers were finally able to acquire all the gear they felt was necessary to reproduce their 16th birthday party. “We literally pulled pennies out of sock drawers and off the floors of our cars and trucks and put it all into a pile and said, ‘Alright, this is how much money we have to make an investment in some lights.
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Student duo’s entertainment business looks to expand in SEC AUSTIN HILLE
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Nightlife in Oxford has always been a loud ordeal. From parties on campus to bars on the Square, noise radiates from places all around town, and chances are, Vault Entertainment is there. Vault is a premier entertainment company in Oxford, providing the University and other surrounding areas with anything from fraternity parties to big-scale concerts with internationally recognized artists such as Ace Hood, Rae Sremmurd and Tyler, The
The University of Mississippi’s annual Black History Month celebration begins with a kick-off event at 4 p.m., today at Fulton Chapel. The event features Grisham Writer-in-Residence Kiese Laymon as the keynote speaker and includes remarks from Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter and a presentation of the “Lift Every Voice” awards by Donald Cole, assistant provost and assistant to the chancellor for multicultural affairs. “The Black History Month Committee has worked diligently to put together an excellent series of programs for this year,” Cole said. Both students and faculty put together the lineup for the rest of the month across multiple campus departments, according to Shawnboda Mead, director of the Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement. “We essentially put a callout to the campus saying and inviting people to submit programs for the campus live calendar,” Meade said. “So, we have a really nice comprehensive offering of programs this month, even more than we had last year.” George Worlasi Kwasi Dor, professor of music and McDonnell-Barksdale Chair of Ethnomusicology, said when he first came to Ole Miss in 2001, he realized the music department was not playing a large role in the celebration of Black History Month, so he began black history concerts. Dor is also the founding director of Ole
Miss African Drum and Dance Ensemble. “Annually, I coordinate, I will identify the groups or individuals within the University,” Dor said. “And if I have sufficient funds I will bring performances from outside to come and join us, so it has been a huge event on campus.” Dor said he felt, culturally, black history has been perceived as only African-American history instead of the history of all black peoples. “This is a philosophical question. Of course Black History Month belongs to African-Americans, of course we should know their history, the racism behind it,” Dor said. “But given my position as an African, as a black and an Africanus, I initiated these Black History Month concerts.” The theme for Dor’s concert each year is “Love shapes diversity.” The month’s activities include film screenings, the Black Student Union’s Third Annual Black History Month Gala, a Sankofa African-American Museum on Wheels and a Sister2Sister leadership retreat, which will address issues that impact African-American women. “It just reminds everyone that we have to be inclusive,” Telisha Dionne Bailey, professor of history and African-American studies said. “As a historian, often, history is written from certain perspectives. I think what happens with Black History Month is for us to appreciate a culture, a group, but to also say, ‘We are bringing in everyone.’ We are celebrating people, but that it is inclusive of everyone.”
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The executive board of Men of Excellence Jermery Coleman, Justavian Tilman, Ralpheal Patton and Kweisi Fountain attend a meeting Sunday. MOX is a community service organization SEE BUSINESS PAGE 3 whose purpose is to help improve the minority male image on campus.