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Monday, February 8, 2016
Volume 104, No. 80
T H E S T U D E N T N E W S PA P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D OX F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1
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States between 2000 and 2013, according to an FBI study released in 2014. Increasing annual averages throughout the study indicate active shooter incidents are becoming more frequent, yet many students at Ole Miss have no idea what to do in such a situation. President of UPMe and junior Katie White and her colleagues
bridges gap to public ISABELLA CARUSO
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noticed this problem one day, and they created UPMe as a way to combat it. UPMe is a program designed to inform Ole Miss students of the dangers they may face on campus and how to respond to them. By teaming with the University Police Department, they hope to improve safety on campus while promoting a better relationship between officers and students. “The idea of UPMe came about during one of our work meetings,” White said. “Our boss at the department of student housing, Jennifer McClure, began asking
us what we would do in an active shooter situation, and we all didn’t know what we would’ve done.” When the students pitched the idea, UPD was more than happy to help make the program a reality. With the help of Jeff Kellum, the Crime Prevention Coordinator at UPD, they began to set a plan to achieve their goal. According to Kellum, the offices of the dean of students, health promotions, violence prevention and Title IX got together and agreed that the best way to help
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The Oxford Police Department strives to keep the community informed and involved through an unconventional platform: Twitter. Major Jeff McCutchen and Lieutenant Hildon Sessums have been co-running the OPD Twitter account for the past three years. After the summer of 2014, the account having only 47 followers, McCutchen said they decided they wanted to become more active. McCutchen said the Ferguson, Missouri incident made the department want to become more involved in the community. McCutchen said the lack of communication between the Ferguson police and their community was a part of the problem, and that is what drove OPD towards social media. “We started talking amongst ourselves and wondering how we can get a better line of communication with our community,” McCutchen said. The account now averages eight to 10 tweets per day and has reached more than 14,800 followers from all over the country in just the past two years, including many verified accounts, such as
the Southern food chain Whataburger. “We try to get out as much as we can,” McCutchen said, “If there is funny stuff going on, or unique things, we try to put those out as well.” McCutchen explained that OPD does not post pictures of peoples’ faces or tag them in the tweet to avoid anything tracing back to them. “We try to give you basically the things that you can hear on a scanner, but we try to be a little more private,” McCutchen said. The OPD Twitter account has not only gained followers, but also follower interaction. McCutchen said the account receives several noise complaints and crime tips through direct messages. “It’s growing, and it’s helping us keep everybody informed and carry on the conversation that needs to happen,” McCutchen said. McCutchen saidt the goal of the account is for people to see the human side of law enforcement. “I like for us, as a department, to be seen in a good light, and I want people to love their police department,” McCutchen said. Sessums said he believes the OPD Twitter account is the best form of communication for col-
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Pulitzer-nominated Mississippian to lecture on education TOUSLEY LEAKE
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The University’s McLean Institute for Public Service and Community Engagement will host a guest lecture from a Mississippian whose story embodies the group’s mission of fighting poverty through education in the state. Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Clifton Taulbert will be speaking at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Robert C. Khayat Law School in Weems Auditorium. The McLean Institute for Public Service and Community Engagement and the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneur-
ship are sponsoring Taulbert’s lecture on his latest book, “The Invitation.” Born in the Mississippi Delta, Taulbert had few opportunities and encountered many barriers, including racial segregation, on the way to success. Today, he is now president and CEO of two companies— the Freemount Corporation, a consulting company focused on human capital development, and Roots Java Coffee, an African American-owned national coffee brand that imports coffee from Africa. “The Invitation” tells the story of Taulbert’s journey and the barriers he crossed to become
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the successful man he is today. This book confronts the difficult memories of slavery and segregation from his past and how they relate to his present situation and who he is becoming. According to Taulbert, his book and lecture will encourage the audience to “never underestimate the power of [their] presence in the lives of others.” Junior journalism major Leah Gibson, an innovation scholar at the McLean Institute, said students can learn a lot from listening to Taulbert speak. Cohorts of 10 scholars each year are selected to work with the institute’s
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Waterboarding: Donald Trumps new policy COLUMN
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“I would bring back waterboarding, and I’d bring a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.” Saturday night at the latest Republic primary debate, Donald Trump announced his whole-hearted support for waterboarding and more. Despite the fact that it is considered torture by the United Nations, an uncountable number of legal experts, military judges, veterans and intelligence officers, Trump thinks that waterboarding is necessary— even beyond necessary. He sounded pretty excited about bringing the old torture band back together. As a humanist, I believe that humans have and deserve some inalienable rights. Even evil humans, even humans THE DAILY
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who kill people and even humans who want to do great harm to the masses have some rights. This includes the right to life and the right to not receive cruel and unusual treatment or punishment. Of course, waterboarding isn’t a punishment. It’s a way to extract confessions and interrogate. For those not in the know, waterboarding is a form of torture where water is poured over a cloth that is covering a victim’s face causing the sensation of drowning. It is painful, and can cause a myriad of physical effects— some of which are irreversible. This is before we delve into the fact that waterboarding isn’t consistently effective. Waterboarding has proven itself successful at getting confessions. Unfortunately, these confessions have an
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equal chance of being true or same people who rally against false. After hours, days, weeks and protest equality and aboror months of torture, a person tion don’t care about actual will say basically anything to human lives that are being get it to stop. Waterboarding abused and mistreated in the is an effective way to get peo- name of security. ple to say something, but not Even if waterboarding were effective 100 percent of the always the truth. The Senate Select Com- time, I could not morally supmittee on Intelligence wrote port it. A candidate who sup6,700 pages of information af- ports barbaric practices is the ter reading through hundreds kind of candidate who leads of reports and could not prove us into war, who has no rethat any information provided spect for the lives of our citiby waterboarding prevented zens, let alone respect for the any attacks or saved any lives. lives of anyone else. Again, you get something out Trump isn’t pro-life or just. of waterboarding, but it’s usu- He’s another war-mongerally lies or a power trip from er who talks big game about the man holding the water. doing the inhumane like it’s Trump wants to bring this justice instead of tragedy. His back—and more. This is a brand of disgusting isn’t new, candidate that is doing really it just sells well. well among evangelicals, the Holly is a religious studies same people who often claim major from Flowood. that the United States is in a state of moral decay. The
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continued from page 1 lege students. “To be able to relate to people through Facebook and Twitter, which a lot of the college people are using, makes them feel like they’re connected to the department,” Sessums said. “And when people feel like they’re connected there’s a greater increase in trust, and that’s what we wanted to create.” Sessums said the OPD Facebook page is used to communicate about more formal happenings, events and press releases, where as the Twitter account is used more informally. “Through Twitter, we can in-
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continued from page 1 student communities learn was to encourage student leader involvement. According to White, this semester, the group will focus on active shooter seminars, but plans on tackling other projects as the club expands. “Initially, I will concentrate on incorporating UPMe Peer Educators into our Active Shooter Response programs,” Kellum said. “By the fall 2016 semester, I hope to have them established as an integral part of our alcohol and other drugs programming as well.”
stantly reach to over 14,000 people— and with just a few re-tweets, we’ve probably quadrupled it,” Sessums said. In October, the account received a lot of attention regarding a ‘Twitter war’ with the Gainesville police department before Ole Miss played Florida. Sessums said the previous tweeting to rival schools was an unplanned occurrence. “It was just spur-of-the-moment and we kind of ran with it,” Sessums said, “People have been asking if we’re going to tweet to LSU or Mississippi State and it just doesn’t feel right.” Sessums said the purpose of the account is to inform, answer questions and provide feedback to the community. “A lot goes on in Oxford that the
community doesn’t realize and I just wanted to be able to put that out there,” Sessums said. McCutchen said, in the future, managing the account is likely to become a full-time position so that OPD Twitter followers can see tweets and videos much more frequently. Sophomore integrated marketing communications major Alexis York has been following the OPD Twitter account for the past eight months. “I really appreciate the tweets that OPD puts out. It’s comforting to know that they care enough to alert the community through an additional form of communication that reaches thousands of people instantaneously,” York said, “It makes me feel safe and informed.”
During their first meeting on Feb. 3, they discussed what they hope to achieve as a group within the next year and how they plan on attaining that goal. “So far, plans are still coming together. But this semester, our main focus will absolutely be active shooter awareness and safety training through peer educators,” White said. Ole Miss students must go through an application process to get involved with the club. Participating officers passed out applications during their meeting. If
people who missed the first meeting would still like to get involved, they can contact the officers at olemissupme@gmail.com. “Through an organized effort to strengthen our relationship with the UPD and to educate students on what to do in cases of emergency, as well as what they can do to prevent unfortunate events from occurring, we hope to create a community that is more safe, collaborative and prepared,” said Billy Rainey, vice president of UPMe and senior integrated marketing communications major.
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continued from page 1 Catalyzing Entrepreneurship and Economic Development initiative to build real-world relationships with Mississippi communities and their businesses. “Clifton Taulbert has been a great motivation for the Innovation Scholars of the McLean Institute,” Gibson said. “His writing brings so much insight about life lessons and allows you to re-
late to him as a kid from Mississippi or just someone who wants to make the best out where they are in life.” J.R. Love is the project manager for the Catalyzing Entrepreneurship and Economic Development program at the McLean Institute. “We are pleased and honored to have Mr. Taulbert speak,” Love said. “We invite everyone in the UM community to join us in welcoming this inspirational and thought-provoking speaker.”
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7 p.m. - Cards Against Humanity night - The Growler 8:30 p.m. - Trivia Night - The Blind Pig 9:30 p.m. - DJ Night - Roosters
7:30 p.m. - Trivia night - Frank & Marlee’s 7 p.m.- Local writers, players and poets night - Shelter 9:30 p.m. - Open Mic Night Rooster’s
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5 p.m. - Chris Offutt signs “My Father the Pornographer” - Off Square Books 9 p.m. - Wild Child - Proud Larry’s 9:30 p.m. - Karaoke - Rooster’s 9:30 p.m. - Movie Night, “Moulin Rouge” - Lamar Lounge
6 p.m. - Rashod Ollison with “Soul Serenade” - Off Square Books 6 p.m. - Thacker Mountain Radio Show - Off Square Books 7:30 p.m. - Theatre Oxford presents “Lend me a Tenor” - The Powerhouse 8 p.m. - Karaoke - El Milagro’s 9 p.m. - Group Text - Ajax Diner 10 p.m. - Ben Ricketts, Scapes, Dylan Van Zile - Proud Larry’s
7:30 p.m. - Theatre Oxford presents “Lend me a Tenor” - The Powerhouse 9 p.m. - Wood & Wire - Proud Larry’s 9 p.m. - Moonlight Mechanics - Ajax Diner
2 p.m. - Frances McEwen Library show and sale - Oxford Lafayette Public Libarary 5 p.m. - “In the Name of Love” Valentine’s celebration - Square Books 7:30 p.m. - Theatre Oxford presents “Lend me a Tenor” - The Powerhouse 8 p.m. - “A Cause for the Paws” with The Mustache Band - The Lyric 9 p.m. - Robert Ellis with The Great Dying - Proud Larry’s
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Album review: Kevin Gates “Islah” ALEXIS NEELY
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If you’re used to the grit and grime of Louisiana rapper Kevin Gates, be prepared to meet a more mellow Gates on his debut retail album. Whether it’s because of his recent marriage to Shadreka Haynes or simply because the album is titled after his eldest daughter, Gates’ performance in his album “Islah” — an Arabic word that means “to improve, to better or to put something in a better position” - undoubtedly displays musical progression from his previous mixtape releases. In the album’s opening track, “Not the Only One,” Gates addresses being in love and the failure of past relationships that won’t allow him to reach that level with anyone again. His lines, “Lay me for a bricklayer slangin’ weight / Fell in love, made a new mistake” indicate the danger of falling in love for someone living a life like his and his repeated brash delivery of, “Say you love me, yeah / I know that I’m not the only one,” and, “I can’t be the one you love,” seem to reiterate his animosity towards the emotion.
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But then, there’s “Time for That”, with lines like “Do you think I’ll ever need your love more than you need me? / Show me your true colors girl, I just want to see / Cause I done had too many come around and change on me,” that show a side of Gates that is
ready for love with someone else who is ready for it, too. “Pride,” a heart-to-heart confession to his wife, speaks of love with both hope and fear in the lines “As if it ain’t okay to cry, try to be the tough guy / Think about you all the time, start to feel it
backfire / No one love you like I, hope our love don’t expire.” With a reputation like Gates’, controversy is sure to follow, as he even addresses the woman he kicked at a show for allegedly grabbing him inappropriately in “The Truth.”
“You should have respect for yourself / You a queen and you wasn’t respecting yourself / Ever been disrespected, you know how it felt / You don’t have to like me go love someone else,” express remorse of his actions, but remain unrelenting in his intolerance of disrespect. And fans of past mixtapes will not be disappointed, because songs such as “Thought I Heard (Bread Winners’ Anthem)” and “La Familia” still deliver the hard, explicit themes and lyrics of Gates that they know with the heavy pounding beats that they love. Lovers of his extremely catchy and almost pop-like hooks get their fix as well, as Gates’ choruses throughout are worthy of getting stuck in your head, especially on hit singles like “2 Phones” and “Really Really”, both of which make appearances on The Billboard Hot 100 chart. With his first commercial album, Kevin Gates shows growth as an artist that will both welcome new listeners and give the old, loyal followers just a taste of something new. Tickets are on sale now for Gates’ tour, which will make its way to The Lyric in Oxford at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 4.
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SEC Basketball Power Poll BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE RANKS THE 14 BASKETBALL TEAMS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE
Ben Simmons and company have finally figured it out. I still have no clue how it took them this long, but the Tigers are now 8-2 in conference play and are on top of the SEC standings. It’s February and they are playing their best basketball of the season. Make no mistake about it: No one wants to play LSU right now.
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John Calipari’s bunch have stumbled a little over the last couple of weeks, dropping games to the likes of Tennessee and Auburn with an overtime loss to Kansas in between. It’s hardly time to panic, though, since Jamal Murray and Tyler Ulis are still a potent back court and Alex Poythress is still a force down low. You can bet Calipari will have this bunch ready come March.
No one seemed to believe South Carolina was for real, including me. No one told them that, though— and they just notched by far their biggest win of the year at Texas A&M. The jury is still out on the Gamecocks for me, but no one tell Frank Martin I said that. He scares the hell out of me.
FLORIDA
First-year head coach Michael White has already exceeded expectations in year one, and his Gators are definitely relevant. Saturday was a small hiccup in an 80-61 loss at Kentucky, but KeVaughn Allen can shoot the cover off of the basketball, and this team will have a good chance at an at-large berth in the tournament.
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The Rebels are finally back to .500 in conference play at 5-5 and are beginning to get healthy again. Sebastian Saiz could return this week and Stefan Moody seems to be past his hamstring injury. Ole Miss still has a long way to go to get back into the NCAA tournament conversation, but opportunities lie ahead with road games at Florida and Texas A&M.
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The Aggies have lost two in a row, but this team is still the most complete in the SEC at the end of the day. Alex Caruso and Jalenn Jones are a strong back court duo, and the Aggies will get it figured out. They should do it quickly, though, because road games at Alabama and LSU loom ahead before Ole Miss and Kentucky come to town. This team is in the toughest stretch of its schedule.
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Mark Fox’s team continues to be up-and-down. They’re 6-4 in SEC play and 13-8 overall. Like Ole Miss, Georgia is in a bit of a hole, but this team was thought to be an NCAA tournament team when the season began. There is enough talent on the roster for them to make that happen, but it won’t be easy.
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The Razorbacks have a young team and have shown glimpses of good basketball, but consistency is still the issue. This team will do enough to earn an NIT berth and look to use that experience to build towards next season.
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Same story here. First-year head coach Rick Barnes is making the most out of a pretty bare cupboard. This program got a big win against Kentucky this past week, and, like Alabama, better days are ahead.
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Mississippi State is playing better and Malik Newman seems to be getting acclimated to the college level and blossoming a little into the player he has the potential to be. However, depth and finding consistent offense continue to be a problem for this bunch.
VANDERBILT
I have absolutely no idea what to make of this team. The Commodores were thought to be an NCAA tournament lock in November, but have drastically underachieved since. After an 0-3 SEC start, Vandy won five of six and looked to be figuring it out. But then they dropped a road game at Ole Miss; now, you really never know what you’re going to get from this team on a nightly basis.
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Alabama will give you everything they have on a nightly basis, but there just isn’t enough depth and experience there to translate into wins right now. Avery Johnson’s leading this team hints at a brighter future for the Crimson Tide basketball program.
AUBURN
Bruce Pearl sells the product better than anyone in college basketball, but injuries have decimated the Tigers. To put this in perspective, Pearl was forced to start 6-foot-7-inch forward Cinmeon Bowers at point guard at Georgia on Saturday. I will let you take a guess as to how that turned out.
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MISSOURI
Marty Huggins once said, “Bring your brooms, because it’s a mess.” There aren’t enough brooms in Columbia to clean up this mess. Missouri is awful.
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Rebels ‘made hard plays’ to knock off Vanderbilt 85-78 jbander2@go.olemiss.edu
Ole Miss’ best player, Stefan Moody, went 5-25 from the field, and the Rebels knocked off Vanderbilt 85-78 on Saturday. “I thought tonight we settled in and made some hard plays,” head coach Andy Kennedy said. “To me I thought that the biggest plays of the game were off missed shots and (Marcanvis Hymon) fighting, Anthony Perez fighting on the offensive glass, fouls, and we go make free throws. Just keeping balls alive with effort.” Vanderbilt sophomore forward Luke Kornet torched the Rebels in the first half with 13 points on 4-of-8 shooting and Wade Baldwin IV got his way with 8 points and five assists, but, with the game at 37-26 with 2:16 left, Ole Miss went on a 11-2 run to close out the half at 39-37. As the second half went on, however, Vanderbilt started to become ice cold from the field FILE PHOTO: CAMERON BROOKS and Ole Miss forced them into Marcanvis Hymon spins around a defender to push towards the basket in Ole Miss’ turnovers. The Rebels started to take control of the game in win over Auburn on Jan. 27.
the second half. “The turnovers were key for us,” Kennedy said. “We were trying to keep them out of rhythm. Vanderbilt is a terrific rhythm offensive team. They turned it over 19 times, which tells me that it was effective somewhat, the changing of the defenses.” A big moment came when Damian Jones of Vanderbilt fouled out with 8:05 left in the game, taking the Commodores’ biggest offensive threat off the floor. As a result, Ole Miss went to work. They pushed together runs of 11-2 and 10-2 to close away down the stretch— and all of it came with Jones on the bench for Vanderbilt. Junior Rasheed Brooks provided an offense spark down the stretch with a clutch three and timely baskets as he finished with 15 points, including nine rebounds and 3-of-5 from behind the arc. Tomasz Gielo had 16 points and Anthony Perez nine points, including a big and-1 to close out the game. Hymon, undermatched against Vanderbilt’s big men, produced 13 points and eight rebounds. Kennedy said he
liked seeing his energy and being a live active body down in the post. “When we recruited him, we knew he was going to be an undersized post, but he’s long and athletic,” Kenney said. “He’s quick off his feet and right now the game’s going awfully fast for him. He’s making mistakes, but he’s making mistakes full speed.” Moody acknowledged that it was good to see some of the younger players continue to produce and start to put it together. “Some of the other guys are forced to step up,” Moody said. “The fact that it’s a long season, sometimes it takes time for younger guys to figure it out and our group is figuring it out.” “This was huge for our guys, ” Kennedy said. “It shows us what we’re capable of.” Vanderbilt finished the game shooting 45 percent from the field including 32 percent from three (9-of-28). The win got Ole Miss back to .500 in SEC play. The Rebels will travel to Gainesville, Florida on Tuesday to take on the Gators.
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