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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Volume 104, No. 76

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University celebrates history, funds future at kickoff event ALEXIS NEELY

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The voices of the University’s gospel choir filled Fulton Chapel yesterday as students, faculty and staff celebrated the start of Black History Month.

“I think it’s important for all schools, but also especially for this University, having the history that it did in the civil rights era,” Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter said. “People look to the University of Mississippi to see how things develop and frankly, this University has been one of the leaders nationally in addressing issues and being progressive about the way that we embrace diversity.”

The evening’s celebration was in full swing upon the announcement of an anonymous donation of $25,000 to the gospel choir, presented by Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Brandi Hephner LaBanc, supplemented minutes later by an additional $2,000.

Choir members were in awe of the gift.

“I was amazed,” Terrence Johnson, sophomore journalism major and gospel choir member said. “Honestly, I thought it would be something small like $100, but when the speaker said the total was $27,000, I felt this sense of undeniable joy. The work we are doing, someone noticed, someone cared, someone was

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Black History Month at Ole Miss kicked off its celebration by presenting a check of $25,000 to the UM Gospel Choir Monday night at Fulton Chapel.

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Ignite Ole Miss creates campaign for former student ALICE MCKELVEY

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Pamela Hamilton and a sorority sister pose for a photo.

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A campaign fund has been set up to honor the passing of a former student and editor-in-chief of The Daily Mississippian.

Pamela Hamilton, 2002 graduate, passed in August after a long battle with lupus.

Today would be her 36th birthday.

In honor of her long-time commitment to social justice and her dedication to the University, Ignite Ole Miss, the University’s crowdfunding platform, opened the Pamela E. Hamilton Memo-

rial Fund campaign today.

The campaign is open until March 9.

According to Angela Avery, manager of the Ignite Ole Miss platform and annual giving coordinator, the campaign aims to raise $35,000 in a little over a month for the Pamela E. Hamilton Memorial Fund.

“This fund will ensure the continuity of Pam’s impact and legacy at Ole Miss by supporting an annual lecture series on social justice and media as well as an annual academic award to a student in the Meek School of Journalism and New Media whose work personifies the

use of journalism in social justice,” Avery said.

Hamilton’s name was wellknown around campus throughout her time as a student.

Along with being a student in the Sally McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College, Hamilton was involved in many extracurriculars. She was a member of the Chancellor’s Leadership Class, Mortar Board and a sister of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

During her time at Ole Miss, she was also involved in other national programs such as the National Association of Black Jour-

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February and the “black”-less activist COLUMN

KAYPOUNYERS MAYE kmaye@go.olemiss.edu

Last year, I wrote an article discussing Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain.”

Hughes’ essay discusses a young poet’s rejection of his “black identity” in an effort to declassify his talent. The poet’s disdain for identity has been echoed in contemporary society. From Raven-Symoné to Stacey Dash, the black community has been plagued and abandoned by stars who disagree with race labels. This behavior caused uproar in the black community. Though this distress is warranted by their ignorance, there is another issue that deserves attention – the “Things Haven’t Changed” rhetoric of social activism.

Not only is this ideology disrespectful, it’s contradictory to Black History celebrations.

During my childhood, my THE DAILY

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father, born in the 1930s, told tales of his youth in Jim Crow Alabama. He would recount memories of harsh segregation and racial pressures.

Hearing these stories would make me pseudo-nostalgic and appreciative for my circumstances. To me, my father was Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Ralph D. Abernathy wrapped in one. I don’t believe there is any way I could ever repay my father and his contemporaries for the things they have done and the things they primed my generation to do. It’s easy to see why the “Things Haven’t Changed” rhetoric of social activism disturbs me so greatly.

First and foremost, this language is extremely disrespectful to my father and his social journey. To some, especially me, the wording reads as an implicit insult to the social warriors of the 20th century. To say “things hav-

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en’t changed” is to say that the struggles and triumphs of those before us are irrelevant to modern endeavors. As if modern activism is superior to the fortitude of those before us.

With that, we must think critically about how we frame the contemporary black resistance in the face of adversity.

It’s important to recognize that we are standing on the backs of people like my father.

No matter how small or large the fight of our predecessors, it’s our duty to believe in change.

By using the disrespectful and subversive “Things Haven’t Changed” language, we lose the shoulders of those before us. We are subconsciously distancing our struggle from theirs. There should to be continued unity between current resistance and previous struggle. We must continue to instill integration between the generations. Without this ex-

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plicit appreciation, we expose the fight for equality to damaging language.

In last year’s article, I wrote, “As we reflect on the meaning of Black History Month, it’s important we understand that this time of celebration is to educate those in our culture who don’t understand. Let us be reminded of the beauty in our culture and be able to achieve in the names of those who have set the precedent.”

It’s my hope that this article further emphasizes the sense of appreciation. Let’s find more ways to spread our message to those who don’t understand. If this disrespectful dialogue continues, it’s my fear that our activism will lose its “blackness” and its history.

Be aware, be active, but be reminded that things have changed thanks to those before us.

Kaypounyers Maye is a sophomore education major from Gulfport.

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Black History Month kicked off with the UM Gospel Choir Monday night at Fulton Chapel.

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continued from page 1 touched. That’s what we’re here for, and that’s our primary goal - to touch and heal hearts.”

But choir members were not the only group to receive recognition.

Donald Cole, assistant provost and assistant to the chancellor for minority affairs presented the “Lift Every Voice” awards, dedicated to those contributing to progress in areas of diversity, multiculturalism and inclusion on campus.

Recipients included Athletics Director Ross Bjork and professor of music George W.K. Dor, as well as members of the Associated Student Body and the University’s chapter of the

NAACP. This was the first time a group of students received the award.

The keynote speaker of the evening, Grisham Writer-in-Residence Kiese Laymon of Jackson shared an emotional chapter of his upcoming novel, “Heavy,” detailing his struggles with different forms of violence as a child and the bond he shared with his grandmother.

Laymon said state-sanctioned, interpersonal, sexual and racial violence can be combatted through more properly ordained education systems, the organization of people and honest conversations.

“Sometimes these conversations are so heavy we want to distance ourselves from what we’re really thinking and talking about, but we have to call it what it is, which is vi-

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olence,” Laymon said. “Let’s talk about our investments in that violence and what we can do going forward to be less violent, but we’re not going to get there if we keep talking about lofty ideas like diversity.”

Junior biology major Jamarkus Watson said he admired the power of the keynote speaker’s address and looks forward to the rest of the University’s celebration of black history.

“This was a wonderful start for such an epic month,” Watson said. “The Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement has a lot of things planned for this month, and I’m just excited about it. I just really feel like we’re trying to bring light into what it is to be a black Mississippian or to be African-American.”

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nalists and Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

Hamilton was inducted into the Ole Miss Hall of Fame in 2002, one of the highest honors awarded to graduating seniors.

Hamilton’s college roommate and sorority sister Keyana Washington is one of the Pam’s Impact project owners.

“She was just an amazing person,” Washington said. “Very smart and very talented. Very quiet, but very powerful at the same time. Which is a rare combination to find both of those things in one person.”

Washington said she wanted Hamilton’s impact within the community to continue despite her passing.

“Her loss, I just felt it so deeply and I feel like our community, our Ole Miss community, had experienced a loss as well,” Washington said. “I wanted to make sure that there was a way for us to recognize all that she did and all that she contributed to the community as well as to remember her spirit and the fact that she lived to make a difference in the world around her.

She would have wanted that to continue.”

Tori Olker, senior journalism major and Ignite Ole Miss intern, created the #PamsImpact memorial video. She said she didn’t know Hamilton, but wished she had had the opportunity.

“After working on the campaign and communicating with those who knew her, it is apparent that she touched everyone with her infectious energy and enthusiasm for life,” Olker said.

“She will be missed by many, so this memorial fund is the perfect way to continue her legacy.”

Hamilton’s journalism career continued well after graduation.

She went on to work for publications like The New York Times, CNN and the Associated Press.

At her induction in the Ole Miss Hall of Fame in 2002, Hamilton said, “For me it means I’ve made a contribution to Ole Miss, and that feels good because you don’t want to leave a place without making at least a tiny difference.”

Her contributions didn’t go unnoticed, and today she is being honored for her work for progress.

Contributors to the campaign can donate in levels unique to Hamilton’s life— the first level is a donation of $36, signifying Hamilton’s age.

For more information and to donate, visit ignite.olemiss.edu/ pamsimpact.

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The Revenant: The most decorated film of 2015 MARY MOSES HITT mhitt@go.olemiss.edu

RATING: A-

“The Revenant” walked away from the Golden Globes with wins for Best Picture and Best Director, while favorites “Spotlight” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” left empty-handed. Now the film’s 12 Academy Award nominations– the most of any movie this year– have stretched the buzz of this film even further from its competitors.

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s most recent movie is earning even more praise and accolades than his Best Picture-winning film “Birdman” received just last year. The award circuit is not usually apt to anoint the same filmmakers in back-to-back years, and since George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” is an equally, if not more, impressive action film, the whole situation is a little surprising.

This film has been a long time

coming. Rights to Michael Punke’s novel of the same name were acquired in 2001 before it was even published, and prior to Inarritu’s taking over the project in 2011, a completely different set of filmmakers and actors were attached to the film, including Christian Bale.

The film’s title comes from Punke’s novel The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge. One can find a deeper meaning, however, within its etymology in the French verb “revenir” (meaning “to return”), as the driving force behind the plot is protagonist Hugh Glass’ (Leonardo DiCaprio) hunger for revenge.

Glass is a 1820s frontiersman familiar with the wilderness and Native Americansn – two things with which many of his comrades are not. His men leave him for dead after a bear attacks him brutally, not once, but three times – a spectacle which alone probably earned the movie its Visual Effects Oscar nomination. Responsible for Glass’ desertion and un-

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doing is two-faced criminal John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), and the rest of the film follows the great lengths to which Glass’ blinding desire for justice motivates him to hunt down Fitzgerald.

Glass’ character is plunged into an intense emotional and physical journey and a neck injury from the bear attack leaves him only able to communicate via grunts and physical expressions.

The nonverbal connection DiCaprio is able to make with audiences during his primarily solo scenes is not the only thing impressive about his performance.

After a lengthy and diverse acting career, DiCaprio has called his portrayal of Hugh Glass the hardest role he’s ever played, and for good reason. He learned how to speak Native American languages Pawnee and Arikara, build a fire, shoot a musket and devour a raw slab of bison liver, despite being a vegetarian. DiCaprio’s performance has earned him a Golden Globe, SAG, Critic’s Choice Award and his sixth Oscar nomination

(fifth for acting), and all the signs seem to point to DiCaprio’s finally acquiring a well-deserved golden statuette of his own.

Although DiCaprio and Hardy’s performances are outstanding, the film crew is what made “The Revenant” the most nominated film of the year, specifically the work of Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (“Birdman,” “Gravity”). With “Birdman” it was the continuous filming technique, and with “The Revenant” it was the use of natural lighting only. Inarritu and Lubezki wanted to make the 1820s wilderness look as realistic as possible, meaning the cinematographer had only a few hours a day to capture and create the visual work of art that audiences get to experience in this film.

Lubezki’s visual aesthetics are frequently interrupted by hardships, both natural and manmade, encountered in the 1820s Rockies by Glass and his men.

The only difference is that, where most films turn the camera away

from things like murder or bear attacks, “The Revenant” zooms in, leaving nothing to the imagination, and vividly depicts gruesome scenes that are hard to look away from.

Complaints about the unfeasibility of the way Glass endured the elements with his injuries may be eased by the fact that the story was, in fact, fictionalized.

The filmmakers took many liberties with Glass’ story, including his motivation for revenge on Fitzgerald. In the film, Hugh Glass married and fathered a child with a Native American, which provides an interesting lens through which to view the American frontier settler vs. Indians culture that the real Hugh Glass story did not include. However, the opportunity seems to be lost, as the plot’s exploration of it was short-lived.

Inarritu’s dedication to conflict and mayhem makes for the exciting and exhausting journey that is “The Revenant,” all the way until the climactic, though unimaginative, final showdown.

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‘Grease Live!’ is not the nostalgic dream you wanted MCKENNA WIERMAN

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The most important thing to remember (and the hardest thing, it turned out) while watching Fox’s production of “Grease Live!” was that it was not the original movie. It wasn’t a remake of the 1978 film produced

by Paramount Pictures, featuring unforgettable performances by Olivia Newton-John as Sandy, John Travolta as Danny, Stockard Channing as Rizzo and Jeff Conaway as Kenickie. This was Fox’s reimagined, live-televised version of a cult classic.

But “Grease Live!” also wasn’t your traditional Broadway musical. This production featured 20-something sets, a cast packed with musical talent and a live studio audience. The choreography was amazing, the sets outstanding (for a live stage production) and the costumes dazzling. Yet, even with the voices of Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, Vanessa Hudgens, Keke Palmer, Carly Rae Jepsen and Boyz II Men–to name a few – “Grease Live” was missing the one element that would have taken it over the top: acting.

It was very clear from the start that Fox’s production of “Grease” was not going to focus on the message the original 1971 musical by Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs, which dealt with struggles and pressures faced by 1950s working class American teenagers, also known as “Greasers.” From the second Jessie J began the musical’s title track, “Grease is the Word,” I realized Fox’s production was about the music and the dancing, and that’s it.

To say the acting reminded me of an eighth grade musical seems harsh, considering “Grease” tackles some pretty mature issues such as sex, teen pregnancy and class/social conflict, but when the two main characters of a show have as much chemistry as a wet rock and a piece of yarn, it’s hard

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This image released by Fox, Sam Clark and Vanessa Hudgens appear during a performance of “Grease: Live.” to be kind. There was nothing cent and intelligent Sandy who substantial between Danny and had her heart stuck on the man Sandy, or most of the other char- she believed Danny could be? acters for that matter, that made Where was my quick-witted, high school feel like life or death strong willed Rizzo, or the hopeall over again. I didn’t care when lessly over-ambitious Frenchy?

Danny joined the track team for The a**hole with a good heart, Sandy or when Rizzo skipped a Kenickie?

Again, I’m trying not to comperiod. The dialogue and blocking of each scene felt more like a pare this production to the film, necessary segue from one musi- but at the same time, in this cal number to the next and less “Grease,” I had a hard time belike an actual progression of the lieving any of the characters or storyline. There was no punch, connecting with any of them for no emotion between characters, more than a few bars per musinothing that resembled that de- cal number. These characters licious teenage rebellion you ex- felt watered-down, almost like pect when you think of “Grease.” they couldn’t decide between This was just an endless series developing new characterization of lines and cues sandwiched and parroting their counterparts between stunning choreography from 1978.

Nonetheless, “Grease Live!” and costume changes.

Where was the sexed up Dan- was not a disaster. Hudgens, ny Zuko, the ultimate bad-boy who lost her father right before heartthrob who made every girl performing, started off a bit in a pleated skirt want to roll shaky as Rizzo, bouncing back up up the waistline and expose and forth between a tough-girl just a bit more leg? Or the not deep voice and her sing-songy so goody-two-shoes but inno- Gabriella circa “High School

Musical,” but she pulled through to steal the show by curtain call with “There are Worse Things I Could Do.” Jepsen’s Frenchy got her own song, “All I Need is an Angel,” featuring undoubtedly pretty vocals but sounding like a song suited for a Disney Princess, not a Pink Lady.

The best performance was “Those Magic Changes,” which consisted of not only celestial vocals by Jordan Fisher’s Doody, but the best characterization carried through a musical number in the entire show. I could actually sense real emotion in Fisher and believed him as Doody. “Greased Lightning” had perhaps the most jaw-dropping choreography I’ve ever seen in a musical, but I’m no expert.

Other numbers, like “Hopelessly Devoted to You” and “Sandy” were, again, pretty, but it was almost painful to watch the actors move around the set. But I suppose if you were really just banking on vocal talent to carry the show from scene to scene,

then I guess Hough and Tveit did all right.

Overall, this wasn’t really a traditional musical or a madefor-TV movie. “Grease Live!” was a theatrical production of musical numbers strung together through weak acting and strong choreography. Fox didn’t do the story any justice, but at the end of the night I was still humming “You’re the One That I Want” and wondering if they had to sew Hough into that killer all-black final costume at the end of the show. (They didn’t.) I still laughed at all the corny jokes and jumped all over my couch singing, “Look at me, I’m Sandra Dee!” feeling just the tiniest nostalgia for my high school days.

(Which, I can honestly say, did not even come close to resembling the drama at Rydell High.)

This wasn’t the original; Fox reimagined “Grease” altogether.

And while it didn’t live up to my expectations, it was still entertaining enough to sing along.

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Alabama, Mississippi State and Tennessee. The Rebels are also a long shot to land Rashan Gary, but he’s likely to sign with Michigan.

Lastly, the Rebels hosted Kobe Jones from Starkville this past weekend. The three-star defensive tackle is from Starkville, and will have to make a decision between the home-town bulldogs, Ole Miss or Alabama.

Ole Miss is in on Starkville wide receiver A.J. Brown, who was for a long time considered a Mississippi State lean. Ole Miss hosted Brown this weekend, and all the momentum seems to be on Ole Miss’ side. It is impossible, however, to discount the home-town Bulldogs and Alabama in Brown’s recruitment. The Rebels are also in the game for Louisiana wide receiver Mykel Jones; however, Jones skipped his official visit to Ole Miss this past weekend, so the Rebels look less likely to garner Jones’s signature than they did before the previous weekend.

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PAGE 8 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 2 FEBRUARY 2016 | SPORTS

National Signing Day: The South’s strangest holiday

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Left: Hugh Freeze speaks at a press conference earlier this year. Right: Denzel Nkemdiche (left) and Robert Nkemdiche during the 2013 National Signing Day.

BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE

Bsrippee@go.olemiss.edu

It’s February and the holiday season is in full swing. We are on the eve of the biggest holiday of the month. A day filled with love, hatred, happiness and sadness all packed into an eventful 24 hours. No, it’s not Valentine’s Day; it’s National Signing Day.

Social media and television have turned the first Wednesday of February into an all-day affair filled with controversy and lynchpin decisions that send college football fans into a state of euphoria — or, sometimes, a panicked and angry frenzy.

It has become a national holiday recognized by most in the college football world. A day in

which workplaces are compromised by an 18-year-old kid announcing where he will attend college on national television, or in some cases, people skipping work all together. You know, kind of like a real holiday, except it’s not.

A day that is the culmination of a recruiting season that sees fans, some of whom are adults, contacting these prospects via social media, and telling them why they should choose school A over school B. In most situations, an adult telling a kid which uniform colors he would look best in would be viewed, at the very least, as frowned upon, and just plain creepy; however, during recruiting season, it’s all just part of it.

Man, this holiday is beginning to

sound a little weird.

It’s a day that will leave reporters weary and relieved that it has passed, just as it will leave the keyed-up fans in their Twitter mentions celebrating, analyzing, venting and, most of all, counting down to kickoff next August.

National signing day has a bit of a Christmas morning feel to it for a lot of college football fanatics, except that the presents come in the form of stars and blue chip prospects. Instead of gathering around the Christmas tree, fans will gather around their TV to see what the day has in store.

Hundreds of kids will instantly become the next household name because they signed with your school. More will become the biggest bust since the last

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time a kid signed with your rival school instead of yours.

There will be flips and de-commitments. There will be indecisiveness and conflicting reports.

There will be angry parents and confused coaches. It’s all part of the fun and drama that makes this day so unique.

Some schools will fall in the recruiting rankings, and others will rise. There will be winners and losers despite no game being played, because the battle off of the field is sometimes as fierce as the one on the field. Recruiting is the lifeblood of college football programs and signing day gets the blood pressure up among many across the country.

So as the madness unfolds tomorrow, Happy National signing day to all, and to all a good night.

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