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Making Ole a statement Miss sweeps No. 10 ECU
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crowd of 9,000 stood on its feet and watched Dallas Woolfolk work swiftly on the mound, locating a mid-90s a fastball on both sides of the plate. The sophomore right-hander had inherited a bases loaded mess with no one out in the eighth
inning, relieving Greer Holston in a game that Ole Miss led 8-6. “The crowd started cheering, and it pumped me up. I was ready for it,” Woolfolk said. It was a chance for East Carolina to regain control of a game it once led 6-2 just two innings prior. Three Pirate runners occupied the bases only to watch
Woolfolk pump fastball after fastball into the mitt of catcher Nick Fortes, mixing in a sharp slider to keep the top of the ECU lineup off balance. He struck out three consecutive hitters to get Ole Miss out of a pinch, and his six-out save clinched an 8-6 win for the Rebels as well as a sweep of
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inally issued Jan. 27. “Change Mississippi is a grassroots focused effort to make Mississippi the great place we know it can be,” Grover said. Signs reading “#Let’sTalkAbout” hung from the tents, clueing visitors into the issues being discussed at each booth. Participants talked over Muslim history, Islamic extremism, life in the U.S. and a discussion titled “What’s Going on in the Middle East.” There was also a tent labeled “Learn to Write Arabic,” in which Ole Miss students learning Arabic would write a visitor’s name. Mahmoud ElSohly, pharmacy professor and president
of the Oxford Muslim Society, spoke at Sunday’s event. ElSohly said he has lived as a Muslim in Oxford for more than 40 years. “We really want you to talk to us, learn things from us, what we are, who we are and what we stand for,” ElSohly said. “We want you to get that information from us, not the media.” ElSohly recited a verse from the Quran, emphasizing God’s creation of different tribes and communities in order to get together and learn about each other. “Islam doesn’t teach us to
10th-ranked East Carolina. “I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a more dominant performance. I don’t know if there can be,” head coach Mike Bianco said. “With the situation, and the talented team that he is facing and to strike out five out of six right there in the middle of their lineup, it was
just terrific.” East Carolina jumped on Ole Miss starter Brady Feigl out of the gate, plating two runs in the opening inning on a two-RBI base hit from Travis Watkins. Feigl made it five innings and was responsible for five runs
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Non-profit organization Change Mississippi hosted an event aimed at breaking down borders between different faiths this Sunday at the Square. For the inaugural “Meet Your Neighbors,” members of the Oxford Muslim Society and Ole Miss Muslim Student Association set up tents in Oxford City Hall’s parking lot and answered questions about their faith. Change Mississippi President Ryan Grover said the event was a response to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations, orig-
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Robert Allen, known as “Brother Robert,” shares stories with Ole Miss students Quinn Chandler, Sarah Charlton and Tyler White during the Meet Your Neighbors event Sunday.
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Time to take a critical look at some religious teachings
DANIEL PAYNE
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Last week, in the Circle, a few men with large signs proclaimed hellfire on the majority of students on campus. This misuse of the Bible inspired one student from the crowd to lead several of his peers to the other side of the Circle for a “prayer of unity.” Before praying, he acknowledged some of the things the other men were yelling about, including “homosexuality,” were indeed “sins.” Though the manner in which the beliefs were expressed was
completely different, the same beliefs were at the center of their ideas; these ideas find root in certain assumptions about a certain ancient text. Even today, some evangelicals in the South interpret the Bible as if it were written to modern people. This literal interpretation raises difficult questions and difficult consequences. That is not to say the issues I take here are representative of all evangelicals, but these problems seem to be linked to a certain belief, making it important to talk about in more specific terms. One of these consequences, as spoken in both gatherings in the Circle, is the mistreatment of those in the LGBTQ community. As humans learn more about gender, sexuality and the gray areas within those categories, it is undeniable that society at large has marginalized many because of the way they were born. Fortunately, our nation
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has been making strides to rectify these injustices, such as marriage equality and protection under Title IX. Unfortunately, the literalist interpretation opposes this progress. Subscribers of this theology want gay rights to be repealed and replaced by a more theocratic set of laws. Though the literalists have not been successful in their attempts to fully revert to previous laws, many LGBTQ people still face abuse within churches, especially as teenagers. This abuse has contributed to alarming rates of depression and suicide among gay people within these groups. It is time for literalists to rethink the Bible to end these damages. There are a few keys in moving past the old ideas about the Bible, which are at the heart of the wrongs being committed by churches today. The first and most important step that must be taken is the ability to think of the Bible inde-
pendently. Within the tradition of biblical literalism, many are taught to not question the Bible from childhood. There is no way to correctly evaluate the errors in the logic or outcomes of a philosophy without the ability to criticize it. For our religious landscape to move forward, it must accept independent thought. This may include members disagreeing with the authors of some books and trading in antiquated commands for the good of others. People must understand what the Bible is: an ancient collection of books about God from many different people. Some of these stories are barbaric, raw and contradictory to one another. Other stories inspire people to make the world a better place. When we understand that the stories in the Bible are examples of how God moves societies and individuals toward justice and compassion, instead of literal rules to be followed by mod-
ern people, we are compelled to seek out justice for those oppressed in our own era. This set of ideals was at the heart of the message of Jesus in the Gospels: set aside the rules and divisions of the past in order to love your neighbor as yourself. We are all compelled to follow his example. Daniel Payne is a freshman integrated marketing communications major from Collierville, Tennessee.
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hate each other, doesn’t teach us how to kill others,” ElSohly said. “It teaches us to be peaceful and to be lovable of each other.” “It all starts with education,” Hughes said. “It’s about adults and standing firm when we see something that is wrong.” One tent in the City Hall parking lot Sunday explored “Life as a Muslim Woman.” The speakers said hijabs make Muslim women more recognizable than Muslim men, and these women often receive more attention. Oxford Muslim Society member Mona Haron attended medical school in Egypt before she joined her husband to Oxford 10 years ago. Haron said she worked toward her Ph.D. and is now a drug researcher at Ole Miss. She said nobody is forcing her to wear a hijab. She said in some Islamic communities women face oppression, but such mistreatment has nothing to do with religion and more to do with culture. Junior integrated marketing communications major d Fatimah Al-Sherri said she was born and raised a Muslim e in Oxford. She said culture n plays a big part in how women
are treated in other countries. “They lack real Islamic knowledge and let culture play a bigger part,” Al-Sherri said. “These people might not want to give women the complete rights that they have under Islam”. Haron said Oxford is a great place to live and the media exaggerates the negative treatment toward Muslims. “I’ve never really experienced any kind of racism. I’ve kind of lived isolated, I guess,” Al-Sherri said. “I’ve heard Muslims talking about being yelled at, but I never could really relate to that. Oxford is a diamond in the rough.” Al-Sherri said she was scared when President Trump took office because she realized islamophobia was still an issue. “Just because we have a good experience in Oxford doesn’t mean it’s not hard for others,” Al-Sherri said. Arabic instructor Asmaa Taha came to Oxford from Cairo last year and delivered the final speech of Sunday’s event. “Just like any other religion, Islam is about peace, about love, being nice and open-minded and tolerant to others,” Taha said. Grover encouraged guests to visit the Oxford Masjid for prayer service Fridays at 12:40 p.m. or any other evening at 7:30.
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Journalist of the Year category. She was awarded a plaque and $500. Daily Mississippian Managing Editor Lana Ferguson won first place for magazine writing, and DM Lifestyles Editor Zoe McDonald won first place for feature writing. Second-place awards included: Hayden Benge, page design; Billy Rainey, radio reporting; Lauren Veline, journalism research paper. Third-place awards included: Lauren Layton, TV feature reporting; Daniella Oropeza, TV hard news reporting; Clara Turnage, special event reporter; Lana Ferguson, news writing; Marisa Morrissette, graphic design; Jake Thrasher, editorial artist. Other individual winners included: Julia Grant, fourth place, op-ed writing; Ellen Spies, fourth place, advertising; Brian Scott Rippee, eighth place sports writing. The Daily Mississippian, the only daily newspaper in the contest, won fifth place as best newspaper, and theDMonline.com won third place for best website. NewsWatch Ole Miss, a daily live newscast, won fifth place as best TV station. Conference speakers included Meek School faculty and journalists- including
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Cast and crew members of “I Was A Space Refugee” pose with their movie poster on the Filmmakers, Oxford Film Festival staff and volunters, cast members, VIPs and media attend the Oxford Film Oxford Film Festival red carpet Thursday. Festival award brunch at the Powerhouse Saturday morning. The winning films were awarded “The Spirit of the Hoka” award and other prizes.
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Photography, poetry, performance at Ford Center tonight OLIVIA MORGAN
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When you begin to hear voices, it’s often best to see a psychiatrist, but when award-winning poet Ann Fisher-Wirth heard voices while looking at photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay, she knew they were calling her to capture these stories in verse. Actors from the University of Mississippi will bring to life these voices in a free performance followed by a reception Monday night at the Ford Center. Fisher-Wirth, a Mississippi resident for more than 28 years, is a longtime friend of Clay, who studied with William Eggleston in Memphis, Tennessee, and whose artwork appeared on the cover of Fisher-Wirth’s 2012 book of poetry, “Dream Cabinet.” Clay began sending photographs of places and things she came across in Mississippi via email to Fisher-Wirth around three years ago. She said that when she initially sent the photos, she had no preconceptions of what direction the poet would go in with the images. “I was kind of a ‘silent partner,’” Clay said. “It turns out that the images had definite voices, and there was a story each one told.” “A few of them really spoke to me a lot,” Fisher-Wirth said. The voices came to her through her subconscious, and the poetry soon started to develop. “It’s not just a one-to-one correspondence,” she said. “The photographs are not mainly photographs of people, but these characters— some based on actual people that I know or experiences that I’ve had—just started speaking their stories through me,” she said. Fisher-Wirth wrote the poems by combining multiple points of experience into characters and voices that depict the scene in Clay’s photographs. “We all know a lot more than we think we know, just from hearing people talk,” she said. “It’s there in your memory, and if something
be portraying the characters in the poems, while the photographs that inspired the poem are shown behind the stage.” Pulliam helped to select the 23 poems to be performed and blocked together with the collection of images to be displayed for the show. “I had to select the poems that had the best voices, ones that would make it easier for an actor to grab on to a character,” she said. While fewer than half of Fisher-Wirth’s poems will be featured in Monday night’s dramatic reading, the full collection will be published as a book in January 2018 FILE PHOTO by Wings press, the publishPoems and photographs were on display for the “Mississippi” exhibit at the Cen- er of Fisher-Wirth’s last two ter for the Study of Southern Culture last spring. texts. Before the free perforThe exhibit is currently triggers it, it can come out.” mance and catered recepShe said she believes the housed in the Ford Center tion at 7:30 p.m., Clay and key to good ekphrastic poet- Lobby and will remain there Fisher-Wirth will give a ry, or poetry based on a visu- for a few more months, acal art form, is to not merely cording to Ford Center didescribe a piece of art, but to rector Julia Aubrey. She hopes the event will build connections through appeal to people of all backit. “There has to be some grounds with interests in kind of oblique angle, some photography, music, poetry type of equally imaginative and theater. The free perforinvestment on the part of mance is funded in part by a grant through the Kite Founboth art forms,”she said. Fisher-Wirth said as the dation that Aubrey wrote for voices came to her, some this and other collaborative of them were scary to write projects. “We’re looking to blend because of themes like race theater and the other arts and violence. “There’s one that’s in the with academia,” she said. She also hopes this will be voice of a very hateful person, and that wasn’t so much the first of many such proso scary to write as it was ductions for the center. “We’re trying to move forscary to admit that I wrote it, that I could have that ward as a producer, instead of just a presenter,” Aubrey voice in me,” she said. Once she started to give said. She has worked with Unireadings of these poems, she realized that the collection versity of Mississippi thewould be a good fit for a mu- ater professor Rene Pulliam seum exhibition, as well as to bring these poems to the Ford Center stage. an art book. According to Pulliam, “I found Daniel Uncapher in Water Valley, who made planning for the event bethese beautiful letter press gan back in October, and the actors, including Pulliam broadsides,” she said. After combining the herself, are all students and broadsides with the matted university community memphotographs, the exhibi- bers who have been working tion was showcased on the on their roles for almost a University of Mississippi month. “These poems have very campus in Barnard Hall in the Center for the Study of specific voices, and we’re Southern Culture and was trying to bring those voices also recently shown at the to life, rather than just trying Crossroads Cultural Arts to simply read the poem,” Pulliam said. The actors will Center in Clarksdale.
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short talk about their creative processes. Clay, who says she has always been fascinated by the combination of literature and art, finds the relationship between photography and poetry is symbiotic and works better than she would have imagined. “She (Fisher-Wirth) is an intense poet who uses words. I am an intense photographer who uses visuals to communicate, but this worked together, mainly due to Ann’s dedication to the project,” she said. Fisher-Wirth says she looks forward to Monday night and thinks that the audience will enjoy the photographs, actors and poems. “I think that the different voices in these poems will spawn different kinds of dialogues among the community,” she said.
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Takeaways from Saturday's loss to the Razorbacks SAM HARRES
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On Saturday, the Ole Miss Rebels (16-11) fell to the Arkansas Razorbacks (20-7) by a score of 98-80 in Fayetteville. Led by Deandre Burnett’s 27 points and an additional 24 points from rising star Terence Davis, a late comeback seemed to be in the works, but Arkansas, led by junior Daryl Macon’s 30-point performance, quickly stomped out the flame. Looking back, here are four takeaways from the game: Where was Saiz? Sebastian Saiz, a 6-foot9-inch power forward averaging a double-double per game, has been a rock for Ole Miss all season. With that said, it’s becoming clear that head coach Andy Kennedy may be a little too reliant on the Spaniard. Saiz had an off night on Saturday,
posting just eight points and five rebounds, and the Rebels suffered. Without a dominant post presence, Arkansas’ big men, led by senior Moses Kingsley, were free to own the lane. Big-time players perform when it counts, and with NCAA Tournament hopes quickly fading, Saiz’s poor performance should be at the top of Kennedy’s mind. Defensive mistakes The Razorbacks posted an impressive 98 points on the Rebel defense. It’s hard, almost impossible, to win a college basketball game after conceding that many baskets. Kennedy has mentioned on multiple occasions a commitment to improving his squad’s defensive ability. Yet time and time again, the Rebels have allowed games to slip away on the defensive end. Make no mistake, Ole Miss has the offensive talent to make waves next month, but a
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continued from page 1 on nine hits. He weathered a shaky start, but the Pirates got to him in the middle innings. Ole Miss answered with two of its own in the bottom half of the second inning when Cole Zabowski followed a Thomas Dillard single with a two-run shot over the fence off East Carolina starter Trey Benton, who was chased from the game in the same inning. It forced East Carolina to go deep into its bullpen, throwing six different guys after Benton. “We pitched well out of the bullpen, and that wasn’t unexpected. We knew with Stokes, Woolfolk, Green and Pagnozzi being the returns, those were the guys in the pen last year. But also with Rolison, Holston, Ethridge was warming up at the end. We felt comfortable about the bullpen.” Bianco tapped into that deep bullpen when the Pirates ran Feigl out of the game in what was part of a four-run sixth inning. It looked like East Carolina had gained control and would salvage a game of this series. But Ole Miss quickly answered with a blend of young and old. Will Golsan plated Colby Bortles, Zabowski quickly followed with a two-RBI single following a Thomas Dillard walk. Ryan Olenek finished the job when he shot a double into the right-center gap that plated the
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Sophomore catcher Nick Fortes prepares to throw the ball to second base after a pitch. tying and go ahead runs with two outs in the bottom half of the sixth inning. East Carolina gifted Ole Miss with an insurance run in the seventh, prior to its bases-loaded threat in the top half of the eighth. It was the most crucial moment in the game, and Woolfolk rose to the occasion. He completely dominated the heart of the East Carolina order and picked up his first save of
the season. Weekend takeaways: The sixth inning was really a microcosm of the entire weekend in the sense that every time East Carolina threw a punch, Ole Miss immediately answered with one of its own. The Pirates had just issued a four-run blow, and it looked like they had finally taken control. But the resiliency in this young team showed again.
A talented freshman class played with poise and was productive, as well. Kessinger had three hits on Sunday. Thomas Dillard was 4-8 with a pair of doubles and an RBI on the weekend. Zabowski had 4 RBIs on Sunday. Cooper Johnson picked off two men behind the plate and threw another one out stealing. “He’s a difference maker,” Bianco said. “If you remember a few years back, we had a guy named Stuart Turner, very similar. Great receiver, great blocker and a guy that they don’t make any attempts to steal on. He changes the game defensively. There are a lot of good catchers, but there aren’t a lot of guys that change the game defensively like that.” The freshmen were at the epicenter of the sixth inning comeback on Sunday, with hits from Olenek and Golsan blended in. “I’m proud of the way we handled a lot of things. We made some mistakes, and certainly there are things to correct, but for the most part against a very good East Carolina team, I thought we handled the pressure well,” Bianco said. There was a lot of uncertainty going into the weekend. How would the freshmen play? They were tested with a top-10 team out of the gate and answered the call in a big way. “I think that is what the weekend was about. You didn’t know what you were going to get. You hoped that you’d get what
you got in practice. You hoped a Grae Kessinger, and a Cooper Johnson, and a Thomas Dillard and others that play like they played the last sixth months on campus,” Bianco said. “But you don’t always get that. Especially with the pressure, 33,000 people over the weekend which is unbelievable. Even though they are your fan, I think it adds to the pressure and I thought they handled it well.” The bullpen was the biggest asset to a team that narrowly missed out on a national seed last season. It appears early on that it may be even deeper this season. Woolfolk was dominant. Will Stokes picked up two saves, and Andy Pagnozzi got Ole Miss out of a bases-loaded jam on Saturday with a big ground ball, and he bridged the gap to Woolfolk and Stokes in the late innings. The entire bullpen tossed 10.2 innings of relief, and allowed just two earned runs on six hits. Ole Miss made one of the loudest statements in college baseball this weekend with a sweep of an East Carolina team that returned seven starters and two weekend arms from a 2016 team that nearly made it to Omaha. “They’re all good when you win them,” Bianco said. “But I am proud. So much was said about this young team and not many older guys. I thought everyone played well.”
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And to its 77 members who achieved a GPA of 3.5 or higher during the Fall 2016 Semester! 4.0 GPA Kyle Armitage Jack Blumenthal Patrick Boddie Logan Christian Carter Clayton DA Elliot Farris Fisher Tom Fowlkes Baxter Geddie Adam Goodman Johny Hallow Ty Higginbotham Nelson Lee Winn Medlock Austin Paulding Hunter Roth JP Sloan
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