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Oxford Film Festival to double participants UM Safe Ride partners with city DAWN BODDIE

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For more than a decade, the Oxford Film Festival has supported and celebrated the art of independent cinema. The 13th Annual Oxford Film Festival will begin Wednesday night at the Powerhouse with events at multiple venues in town, finishing Sunday evening. Within the next five days, filmmakers and film lovers from all over the country will be traveling to Oxford to participate in the festival’s many screenings, panels and social events involving a large selection of independent films. Oxford Film Festival executive director Melanie Addington has been working with more than 300 volunteers, 150 visiting industry and filmmaker special guests and has coordinated thousands of attendees in a condensed five days all while making sure everyone has fun. Addington said that despite this being the festival’s 13th

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year, this year will be like none other. “We have doubled the number of films,” Addington said. “Tripled the number of panels, added virtual reality films, added more special screenings including anniversary screenings, added more venues, added more events and the list continues.” Addington said the expansion of the festival and the large diversity of what it has to offer this year can appeal to all different types of people. “This is a diverse group of projects that will virtually place audience members in foreign lands, scary situations and fascinating worlds in a way that is

visceral, dynamic and exciting,” Addington said. The Oxford Film Festival continues to grow. This year’s selections —both in subject matter, representation from the world, and the sheer number of films chosen —reflect that. The festival screens short and feature-length films in both showcase and competition settings. Sophomore integrated marketing communications major An Le will be serving as a hospitality volunteer coordinator for this year’s festival. “I worked last year with the festival,” Le said. “But I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like working with almost double the amount of film makers this

year.” Tickets for the festival are available online or upon arrival for specific events, weekend passes and one-day passes. The first event of the week is the Southern Foodways Alliance Kick-Off Food Film Fest, where attendees will watch films and eat the food being shown onscreen. The awards ceremony will be Sunday, concluding the festival. Among many category awards, all films are eligible for the Ron Tibbett Audience Award. Ron Tibbett was the founding director of the Magnolia Film Festival in Starkville, the first independent film festival in Mississippi.

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Oxford’s restaurant and bar scene boasts 47 full-service restaurants, according to census data. Of those establishments, more than 30 are licensed to serve liquor and beer in accordance with the Mississippi Department of Revenue alcohol and beverage rules and regulations and Oxford’s Code of Ordinances. “It’s an ABC Law to sell food at our bars,” said Jim Bulian, owner of Old Venice and The Burgundy Room.

Of the 30 bars and restaurants in the Oxford area, over 50 percent of nightlife hotspots are on the Square, according to Visit Oxford. Under the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control’s regulations, all bars are required to serve food. Bars must have at least five different food menu options, all of which have to be prepared and not simply heated or “ready-to-eat.” All bars and restaurants that carry and sell beer, wine or liquor are required to have appropriate licensing for the selling of alcohol. ABC has approximately 22 dif-

ferent types of liquor licenses. The Growler, located off of the Square, originally only sold beer, said Krisi Allen, the bar’s general manager. Beer licenses are separate from wine and liquor licenses, but The Growler opted to get both in case they ever decided to expand their drink selection. “That was probably the most difficult part, having to do all the extra hoops, that we didn’t necessarily need for our business,” Allen said. “I’m glad that we had to go through the hoops in the beginning, because it makes it easy now to expand our menu.”

The city of Oxford and Students for a Safe Ride came together recently to create a safe and convenient late-night transportation option. Since January 21, Safe Route buses have been helping students safely get home and keeping traffic safer on the Square. Previously, the Safe Ride and Oxford-University Transit bus systems operated separately across the UM campus and Oxford. Recent parking issues on the Square and campus prompted an overhaul of local public transportation. Both the city and university recognized this need for change and created a new program. Student organization Students for a Safe Ride and Oxford’s O.U.T. partnered together, founding Safe Route, a bus service running at night between the Square and campus. The Safe Route bus stop includes four stops on Campus; Crosby, Minor Hall, Paris-Yates Chapel and Sorority Row, taking riders to and from the Federal Building on East Jackson Avenue. The service runs Thursdays and Fridays throughout the Fall and Spring semesters from 10 p.m.-2 a.m.,

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The city of Oxford adds an extra 2 percent tax increase on any food and beverage sale from bars and restaurants. The money collected from this tax increase goes toward tourism and marketing, the Oxford Conference Center, flowering and décor for the Oxford Square and more, Visit Oxford assistant director Kinney Farris said. The money generated from this 2 percent tax has increased the tourism budget by 11 percent in the past two fiscal years. Throughout 2014-2015, the city made $2,589,358 from the food and li-

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Friday morning I read the terrible news that Ty Laporte was killed in a car crash. I was almost brought to tears, and I didn’t understand why. I never knew Ty and she nev-

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er knew me. I put my phone down in my lap and thought about how many classmates have died during my time here as a student. The number of funerals, memorials and vigils I have attended is heartbreaking. I’ve watched friends’ hearts shatter. I’ve watched parents sob uncontrollably. I’ve seen brothers and sisters say goodbye to a sibling one last time. Experiencing the impact one person has on his or her community is devastating. Tears, smiles and laughter are always the ways in which we remember those we have lost. When we lose someone we know, it’s not fair. It doesn’t seem right to have your friends ripped away from you,

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especially unexpectedly, but don’t let them die. Let them live in your memories. Let them live in your laughter. Let them live in your smile. Let who they were affect who you are. Take everything they taught you and teach everyone who was not lucky enough to be warmed by their love. But when it’s someone you, personally, haven’t lost, how do you address the grief you see in those around you? Sometimes the pain we see in others hurts us. So many people in our Ole Miss family are in mourning. I can’t imagine the pain many of you are experiencing or have experienced. I can’t imagine losing a part of yourself. And we want to mourn together. We are all

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a part of the Ole Miss family and when one of us dies, we all feel the repercussions, the loss. My words here will never articulate the beauty of the lives we have lost. But I hope they make you understand that you do not mourn alone because losing a friend that you’ve never had can and will change your life. Ty, I wish we were friends. I wish I had known you because I know those on whom you made a lasting impression. We miss you, we love you and I look forward to meeting you one day. Logan Kirkland is a senior journalism major from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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continued from page 1 quor tax, an increase of $531,551 from the previous year’s tax collection. When it comes to alcohol, Mississippi is dry by default, meaning local jurisdictions have to authorize the legal sale of alcohol in their counties in accordance with state liquor control laws. Localities must “opt in” to allow alcohol sales. According to the National Alcoholic Beverage Control Association, Lafayette is technically a dry county, but Oxford elected out of the state’s dry law that has been in place since 1967. Between 1966

and 1970, the majority of Mississippi’s counties “opted in” to allow alcohol sales, but 36 of Mississippi’s 82 counties remain dry. An Oxford ordinance forbids retailers to sell alcohol after midnight and before 7 a.m. Monday through Saturday and on Sundays, except between the hours or 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. Statewide laws ban the sale of alcoholic beverages past midnight, yet the city of Oxford extended last call to 1 a.m. on Thursdays and Fridays. “I know [Oxford] just did the Sunday alcohol sales a few years ago,” Farris said. “Of course tourism would support another day of that because that would mean people would be more likely to stay in town another day after a football or baseball weekend.”

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continued from page 1 as well as Saturdays from 9 p.m.-1 a.m. As with other O.U.T. routes, fares are free with an Ole Miss ID. The merger combines the student initiative behind Safe Ride with the logistics and management capabilities of O.U.T. “We’re so excited that the city has decided to start the Safe Route,” said Nina Brown, co-president of Students for a Safe Ride at the University. The Safe Ride committee is looking forward to focusing energy on fundraising and awareness events now, as O.U.T and the city will handle the logistics of this operation, Brown said. “Hopefully with more donations we will eventually be able to increase the number of buses running and extend the route to housing off campus.” This partnership shows the benefits that both the city of Oxford and the University can receive from working together. Brown said while the city hopes the new route will reduce weekend traffic to the Square, Students for a Safe Ride can now bring more events to campus and begin

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A passenger gets off the Blue line on the Square Monday evening. work on other projects while O.U.T manages the day-today operations of Safe Route. “Having O.U.T. take over the logistics of the Safe Route allows us to focus on fundraising and encouraging students

to make smart decisions,” Brown said. “Both the city and the University have been extremely helpful and encouraging throughout this whole process.”

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AMC’s The Walking Dead: MCKENNA WIERMAN

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If you h a v e n ’ t watched AMC’s “The Walking Dead” mid-season premiere yet, do not read further. You have been warned. When “The Walking Dead” midseason premiere came on at 8 p.m. as I lazily ate my reheated dinner on the sofa, I hardly looked up. I had just finished watching the midseason finale, which aired the hour before, and I was trying to remember the details of the beginning of

season six. From what I recalled, things had been more or less kind of boring. Glenn’s death-scare was about the most memorable thing that came to mind; other than that, there was some goat cheese, Morgan wasn’t killing anyone, Carol was mad, there was Wolf and the Wall fell down. Maybe it was because my brain had been given enough time to process through all the drama of the sixth season, but it all felt like pretty standard stuff. Once I saw Daryl on screen, though, “The Walking Dead” had my attention— mainly because I have a crush on Daryl, just like the rest of America. Fewer than eight minutes into the program, I was totally absorbed in TWD universe. But it wasn’t the mindless way you get drawn into a TV show; it was an active intensity, an interest I hadn’t felt watching the show since the moment Nicholas shot himself and dragged Glenn down into a pit of hungry Walkers. By the end of the episode, I found myself in that familiar position: hands clasped over my mouth, legs tucked up under me, body directly centered in front of the Television screen. What I had just seen was easily the best

episode of season six. We start off right where the midseason finale left us hanging, with Daryl, Abraham and Sasha being intercepted by a group of burly men on motorcycles— introducing “Negan’s Gang.” The buzz around TWD communities is that Negan is one man to be reckoned with, rumored to make the Governor of Seasons three through five look like weak sauce. The head goon of Negan’s gang is making way too many witty one-liners, demanding Daryl and company surrender their weapons, as all of their property now belongs to the mysterious Negan. The tension starts growing when joke-cracking bicycle man directs a man to strong arm Daryl and takes him to the back of the tanker, tells Abraham and Sasha they are not allowed to ask any questions, and then of course beautiful Abraham opens his mouth anyway to ask “Who is Negan?” (Can you blame him though?) There’s a moment there where you think the biker man is going to kill Abraham and Sasha, a dramatic pause where he reconsiders, and then BOOM guns are out again and he is ready to

blow the trigger. Then suddenly he, and the rest of his gang, explode. Daryl returns from behind the truck, brandishing a rocket launcher they just so happened to have, which he has just used to save the day. (Go Daryl!) The explosion does a great job of setting the tone for the rest of the episode, which more or less feels like a nonstop series of surprise explosions of some form or another. Sure, episode nine had its share of classic tricks and treats. We get to see Rick, Carl, Judith, Michonne, Jessie, Ron, Sam and Father Gabriel all using the ole cover-yourself-with-zombie-guts-and-don’t-make-anyhuman-noise trick to navigate through the herd, which has completely overrun Alexandria. Everyone gets to hate on Morgan for letting the Wolf live, especially when it looks like he’s kinda sorta got Denise hostage. But good ole Denise (whom I have grown to love, by the way) is getting stronger every time we see her, and for the first time, really challenges the Wolf to really take a look at what he has become.

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Explosive, eye-catching midseason premiere We get to almost see the Wolf’s character evolve, or rather, reevolve, into a human being with feelings again when he and Denise make a break for it and try to get over the wall and get swarmed with walkers, and the Wolf takes a bite for Denise. It looks like the Wolf is changed after all, but we aren’t really sure if he’s trying to save Denise because he’s a good person or because he knows she’s a doctor and the only person who can help him. But it doesn’t matter anyway, because Carol shoots him, almost as if she’s passive-aggressively getting back at Morgan for his whole “I don’t kill” thing. We also get our fill of “HOLY HOT CRAP” moments when (SPOILER ALERT) Sam starts losing his cool whilst walking through a group of zombies and ends up getting torn apart and eaten. Then, snowballing off that, a shocked and devastated Jessie starts screaming and crying and ends up zombie food too. Then, we get the climax of the “Ron Hates Rick” storyline where Ron looks around at his dead

family and points his gun at Rick, ready to kill. But before he can, trusty Michonne takes Ron out, but not before he can fire off one shot. It misses Rick, thankfully, but then we have perhaps the most poo-your-pants moment of the show, when Carl gently calls out, “Dad.” Carl has been shot. This is not a drill. His eye is gone, man, like, gone. Luckily, the now ready to rock n’ roll Denise sees Rick sprinting towards the infirmary, and rather than throwing up in her mouth and swallowing it, she gets prepped and ready to save Carl’s life. Then, we are treated to a nice refreshing Rick Kill Frenzy, which inspires the rest of the ready and able townspeople to rally for “Alexandria’s Last Stand.” We get a nice little montage of all our favorite apocalypse survivors hacking and whacking with their respective weapons. Perhaps Alexandria isn’t so boring after all. And let’s not forget we are

treated to yet another Glennnear-death experience, which he is miraculously snatched from and returns to his beloved Maggie. (Leave Glenn alone!) By the end of the episode, Daryl has led the herd away by setting the lake on fire, any remaining walkers have been hacked to death by Alexandrians, and Rick is giving a sleeping Carl a little speech about how cool everyone is when they work together, and how he was wrong about people being ‘soft’ and how they are going to rebuild the walls and stuff. Overall, episode nine wasn’t bad. If anything, it probably generated enough hype to lure back at least some of the lost viewers the series suffered in 2015. It definitely moved the storyline out of the “how will Alexandria get rid of the herd/stop being so boring” rut and away from the heartwarming but uninspiring “can we live in this cute little neighborhood with a scary world outside?” phase. “The Walking Dead” kind of slowed down, and while no one

wanted to admit they’d lost faith, it was hard to stay interested in the ‘soft’ side of Alexandria. But episode nine promised us a lot for the rest of the season. We’re starting to see the shadows of the a new love-to-hate villain, Rick’s love interest is gone, Maggie and Glenn are back together and there are walls to be rebuilt. There’s more blood, zombie guts, death and explosions to come. I’ve got a feeling the second half of season six will, after all this time, deliver.

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chart and rank among the top 30 in the nation this year. Junior Craig Engels ran 4:01.80 in his first mile of the year. Other top-three finishers from Ole Miss on Saturday were Lanae Newsome in the women’s triple jump (2nd place, 12.03m/39-5.75), Lindsey Murray in the women’s pole vault (3rd place, 4.05m/13-3.5) and Branden Greene in the men’s high jump (3rd place, 2.10m/6-10.75). Ole Miss will have two weeks to prepare for the 2016 SEC Indoor Championships, to be held Feb. 26-27 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. “We have next weekend off before conference,” PriceSmith said. “Everybody came out and competed really hard this weekend. We only get to take 27 people for conference, so it was good to see who will be ready and who won’t. We want to make sure everybody is sharp and ready over the next couple of weeks.”

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women at the Rio Olympics. “Raven had a phenomenal throw. She was very focused, and she hit a good one. She’s been trying to do it all season and it finally happened. We’re excited about that and excited about the rest of the meet. There were quite a few PRs again and the school records. It was a good trip.” Ole Miss also excelled in the women’s 60 meter dash at the Iowa State Classic, as all four Rebels made the final and Ole Miss placed 1-2-3 at the top. Khadijah Suleman claimed the event title in 7.45, followed by Shannon Ray in 7.50 and Nicole Henderson in 7.51. Breanna Tate ran 7.60 for seventh place. It was a fast men’s mile on Saturday as a pair of Rebels flirted with sub-4 times. Junior Ryan Manahan, a transfer from Georgetown, ran his first mile as a Rebel and finished third with a time of 4:00.38 to move into third place on the all-time Rebel

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“Breaking this record means that I’m on the right path to making the 2016 Olympic team,” Saunders said after her big day. “Throw far. Win big.” She acknowledged that it’s not a goal she met solely by herself. “I would like to thank my coaches and teammates for cheering me on day in and day out and everyone back home sending their prayers and support from afar,” Saunders said. “It all helps contribute to the success I’m having. I love my strong foundation.” The two-time NCAA shot put champion as a freshman last year at Southern Illinois, Saunders is the frontrunner to win SEC titles and NCAA titles this year and already has a strong case for Bowerman Award consideration for the top female athlete in collegiate track & field. “It was a really good weekend,” said Price-Smith, the Rebels’ first-year head coach who will also direct the U.S.

ships. The Charleston, South Carolina native improved her standing as the world leader in 2016 and established new school, conference, meet and facility records. She passed her head coach Connie PriceSmith and others on the way to the No. 5 spot on the alltime U.S. indoor list and is No. 7 all-time in American history when combining indoor and outdoor marks. By producing throws of 19.02 and 19.23 meters on Saturday, Saunders became the first woman in NCAA history to break 19 meters twice in the same competition. Incredibly, she now boasts the best 14 shot puts of the 2016 NCAA indoor season and five of the top six in the world this year.

AMES, Iowa – It was a weekend to remember for the Ole Miss track & field program. One day after the Rebels set four school records in the men’s and women’s distance races, sophomore Raven Saunders stole the show at Iowa State’s Lied Recreation Center. Saunders has been no less than sensational all season, but Saturday’s performance topped them all. Her massive shot put of 19.23m/63-1.25 on her fifth attempt broke the women’s NCAA indoor record and is the farthest throw by a female collegian ever, indoor or outdoor. She surpassed the former record of 19.22m/630.75 that was set by Oklahoma’s Tia Brooks at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Champion-

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NCAA investigations lead to possible sanctions BRIAN RIPPEE

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There has been a black cloud lingering over the Ole Miss football program the past few months due to an ongoing NCAA investigation.  According to athletic director Ross Bjork, that cloud has dissipated and the investigation is over. The NCAA sent Ole Miss a letter of allegations, informing them of 28 allegations in the athletic department-- ranging from class one infractions, the most serious, to class three infractions, the least serious. Of these 31 rules violations, 13 involved the football program. Nine of these violations involved the current football coaching staff. Five of the violations pinned on the current coaching staff involve former offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil. Tunsil was suspended for seven games during the 2015 season. Four of the violations involve incidents during Houston Nutt’s tenure as head coach. David Saunders, a former assistant of Nutt’s, resigned from an assistant coaching postion at Louisiana-Lafayette in November of 2014 as a result of allegations he helped forge ACT scores of

certain prospects. Saunders is heavily linked with these potential violations, which occurred at Ole Miss during the Nutt regime. Saunders was a coach at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette after his days at Ole Miss. That university was recently docked 11 scholarships over three years, and vacated their 2011 football season. The remaining four violations are secondary violations that involve Hugh Freeze and the current coaching staff. According to media reports, they include illegal transportation, a video that was made in violation of the NCAA rules, and illegal contact with a coach and a recruit at a school. Ole Miss reported these secondary violations. Secondary violations are not worrisome and hardly ever result in harsh penalties from the NCAA. Thursday and Friday provided Ole Miss fans with worry, however, as former assistant Chris Vaughn was fired at Texas and Brandond Wenzel, the former on-campus recruiting coordinator, resigned his position. Kyle Campbell, the associate A.D. for media and public relations at Ole Miss, told Parrish Alford, the North East Mississippi Daily Journal Ole Miss beat writer, that Wenzel’s res-

Head coach Hugh Freeze answers questions at the National Signing Day press conference. ignation was not related to the NCAA investigation. While these developments are concerning, it is not anything that will drastically alter the football program. It’s never a good thing to have the NCAA poking around your program, because they might find something they weren’t looking for,

but for the most part it appears as if the violations concerning the current coaching staff are relatively minor. I would anticipate this ordeal being over by sometime this summer and that the football program will lose something in the range of 8-10 scholarships over a three year period, unless of course, there

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are new developments in the case. For now, at least, the investigation appears the be over and now it is time to wait to see how exactly the NCAA sanctions Ole Miss. Ole Miss has 90 days to respond the notice of allegations.

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Lady Rebels fall in overtime to 12th-ranked Texas A&M COLLIN BRISTER

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The Ole Miss Lady Rebels dropped their sixth straight contest to 12th ranked Texas A&M 62-48 Monday night. Ole Miss had problems scoring in the paint, as Texas A&M blocked eight shots, including five from Khaalia Hillsman. The problem was combatted with their inability to make three-point shots, as they went 2-20 from three-point land. “Our goal when we come in is always to make a team shoot less than 20 percent from the three, which we did,” Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair said. Ole Miss’ bright spots on the evening were their ability to rebound the basketball and the amount of turnovers they forced. The Lady Aggies didn’t make a three-point basket on the night going 0-6 from downtown, but were able to have their way inside the arc as they shot over 40 percent from the field. The Aggies also posted a stellar percentage from the free

throw line going 20-24 for 83.3 percent. The Lady Rebels are now 1015 on the season with six remaining games in the regular season plus the SEC tournament. Ole Miss will get back into action this Sunday as they travel to Knoxville to take on perennial women’s hoops power Tennessee. “When I get on the plane on Wednesday afternoon to go to Knoxville, I’m taking people that have that want-to with them. I’m going to find out who has that want-to in practice the next two days,” Insell said. “If you don’t have that want-to, and I don’t feel like you have it, you can’t get on that plane and go with us.” The Lady Rebels next home action will be this Sunday as they take on arch-rival Mississippi State. Ole Miss lost 7851 earlier this season as they took on the Lady Bulldogs in Starkville. Ole Miss is currently on a four game losing streak to the lady Bulldogs. “We got embarrassed down there in Starkville,” Insell said. “If you’ve ever believed anything I’ve said, we’re going to

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play next Sunday at a high, high level.” The Rebels have one of, if not the, youngest teams in the country. Insell believes the Rebels are going to find their way and will be a national story line next year. “From this year to next year,

knowing what our roster looks like, I’m excited about that, and that’s what keeps me going,” Insell said. “I think we’ve got one of the top three or four rosters in this league come next year. The Pavilion continues to get rave reviews, even from the

Rebels opponents as Blair was complimentary of the building. “You’ve got the newest and the best arena right now in the conference and you should be very proud of it,” Blair said. “And you’ve got steak and shake.”

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