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2015 RebelTHON to ASB candidates disappointed with annual debate’s cancellation benefit Blair E. Batson KATIE FERGUSON
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After two years of fundraising for Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, the RebelTHON 2015 benefit will switch hospitals and donate its funds to Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital in Jackson. “We felt that since we had done such a great job at Le Bonheur, we wanted to spread that charitable giving to other hospitals,” said Derek Francis, senior marketing major and entertainment director. “We thought it was a
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As candidates and their supporters hand out stickers and flyers and exchange platform ideas, some candidates see the debate cancellation due to weather as a disadvantage to their campaigns. Due to inclement weather and a campus-wide closure, the Associated Student Body debate, originally scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 25. Emma Jennings, who is running for attorney general, said she understood no one can control the weather and that canceling the debate was probably safest, but was disappointed the debate was cancelled and not rescheduled. “I don’t think it’s fair for me or any other candidate to be able to run an ASB campaign without having to defend our own platforms and ideas,” Jennings said. “I think it’s important for us to know our platforms backwards and forwards, and the debate cancelation prevented us from showing how strongly we feel
about our ideas.” Jennings’ opponent Loden Walker said university officials and Attorney General Kelly Savage made the right decision with canceling the debate due to inclement weather, but wished he was able to speak to the student body. “I’m disappointed I didn’t have the opportunity to speak to the students in an actual debate,” Walker said. “Thankfully we have found other means, such as social media to reach out to all students.” Savage said it is important for students to engage with each other in debate as it gives students a chance to hear why the candidates are running for that position. “I was disappointed,” Savage said. “I think it’s a great opportunity for students to hear more about the candidates than just their sticker color or them being funny in a video.” There are many people involved in scheduling the debate, including reserving a spot in the Overby Center,
contacting the physical plant for a podium and other utilities and coordinating with the candidates and the public, according to Savage. “When I reached out to the Dean of Students office to see what we could do, they said it was an absolute impossibility to hold the debate that night,” Savage said. “We weren’t really given another option.” With the cancellation of classes Thursday, there was not time to reschedule for Friday because campus offices were closed. After speaking to some candidates, many of them were using Monday to walk greek houses and meet with other organizations. This made rescheduling Monday another conflict for the candidates, according to Savage. Savage said the voting day itself could not be rescheduled because voting can only take place on a Tuesday or Thursday, and this Thursday is too close to spring break. Also, the newly elected members of
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great way to further include more hospitals like Blair E. Batson who have really great programs for children.” RebelTHON is a project of Dance Marathon, a movement that dedicates its projects to funding Children’s Miracle Network hospitals around the country. According to Rob Barber, senior public policy leadership major and social media director, the network wants campus to support a hospital that they are really connected with.
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Franco comes to Faulkner country LIZZIE MCINTOSH
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Highly acclaimed actor James Franco was among this year’s Oxford Film Festival attendees. The Oscar-nominated actor made the trip to Faulkner country for the Mississippi premiere of his film adaptation of “The Sound and the Fury, which he both directed and starred in.
Franco decided the morning of the festival to come to Oxford, but his interest in the town is not short-lived. His deep admiration of Faulkner piqued his curiosity about Oxford because of its counterpart in the fictional towns of Faulkner’s works. “James is a big fan of Faulkner so he has wanted
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COURTESY: JAMES FRANCO
“Just chillin with my man, Bill Faulkner before the hometown screening of “Sound and the Fury!’ Hotty Toddy!!”
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There comes this special day every year when total strangers on the OUT bus approach you, lick their thumb and reach for your forehead as they tell you, “Hey come here, you’ve got something on your face.” Ash Wednesday marked the start of the Lenten season worldwide that leads up to Easter Sunday. For many, this day is the first reminder of what they will be “giving up” for the next 40 days. Little pow-wows are taking place all around as friends ask each other for ideas on what to give up while giving positive feedback to the ideas someone else has already listed. THE DAILY
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The practice comes from one of Lent’s oldest pillars — fasting. It also comes from mothers across the globe who take this opportunity to stop buying Oreos and replace your afternoon snack with carrots. But as we grow older and try to reassure ourselves that we are in fact adults, why not try a different approach to underscoring our adulthood? In a world where everyone finds it increasingly hard to say no (yes, Fear Of Missing Out is real and crippling), I think it’s time we explore something I’ve been incorporating both successfully and unsuccessfully into my Lenten season for a few years now: trying to do something — or some things — better.
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Any person can say they won’t drink Diet Cokes or eat a chicken biscuit for breakfast. However, Lent has always been a time of self-challenge and renewal. By training ourselves to make better habits, we come out of the season stronger than before. The approach can be as radical or low-key as you wish. A good place I always start is some personal habit; some ideas are making your bed every morning or just brushing your teeth before bed. But don’t forget to push the envelope during this time. Every day the world changes — stay plugged in by devoting a little time each day to reading your favorite newspaper for the latest headlines. Or try
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to pick up a new book and read a chapter or two every day. You will surprise yourself with how easy it is to unwind at night with a few pages of literature. While you may seem to think it takes a special kind of person to walk confidently around campus with a bit of dirt on their face, it doesn’t take much effort to be more aware of your current habits. There’s an old saying that it takes 21 days to make or break a habit, but by my count, 40 is much longer to allow for even the master procrastinator to join. Elton Nguyen is a senior pharmacy student from Madison.
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continued from page 1 to attend for some time,” said Melanie Addington, developmental director for the festival. “His schedule opened up last minute so he had the opportunity. He asked to come. He called us.” Franco attended the movie at the Malco Oxford Commons Theater with co-star Tim Blake Nelson and participated in a thirty minute Q&A following the film. The audience was allowed the opportunity to ask questions of Franco, Nelson, Mississippi cast members and casting director Matthew Morgan. According to Molly Ferguson, the executive director of the festival, fans were very involved with the Q&A session. “The audience asked Franco questions about his motivation behind adapting the novel, and some of the specific choices he made in doing so,” Ferguson said. Franco’s attendance spurred a sellout crowd for the film. Michelle Emanuel, operations director of the festival, said Franco was glad people read the book the movie was based on. “Franco remarked at the Q&A that it was unusual for him to screen the film in front of so many people who had actually read the book,” Emanuel. The film previously premiered at the Venice Film Festival in October. Similarly to the Venice festival, the Oxford screening stirred mixed reviews. Ferguson stated that at the Oxford festival, “The opinions ranged from glowing endorsement and appreciation to frustration and disdain.” “The Sound and the Fury” follows the story of the fallen Compson family of which Franco plays son Benjy. The film was shown as a special screening at the festival, making it ineligible for an award. Faulkner films are known as being a cinematic challenge because of his stream-of-consciousness writing style, but Franco did not shy away from the task. “Granting that a film adaptation of a literary work is a translation into a different medium, I’d say Franco’s film did what he said he was trying to do and was true to the spirit of Faulkner’s novel,” said Jack Barbera, UM English professor and festival jury member. “Faulkner was a master of language and there are things a great writer can do in language that is almost impossible to do in film, but there also are ways that images and sounds can communicate more powerfully than words.”
During Franco’s stay he visited both Rowan Oak and Faulkner’s grave. While at the grave, he posted a photograph on Instagram with a caption including, “Hotty Toddy!” Franco is not the first big name to have attended the Oxford Film Festival. In 2009, Morgan Freeman made the trip to Oxford for his film “Prom Night in Mississippi.” The Oxford Film Festival completed its 12th year Sunday. The festival started in 2003 in an effort to showcase the work of young filmmakers and to bring new films to Mississippi. Five categories of films are screened at the festival: animated short, documentary feature and short, experimental short, Mississippi narrative and documentary and narrative feature and short.
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“With Blair E. Batson being a part of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, it’s definitely something that Ole Miss is more directly attached to, even if Le Bonheur is geographically closer,” Barber said. “I feel like the campus and the state is more bonded with Blair E. Batson since that’s the only children’s hospital in Mississippi. It makes sense for a Mississippi school to be supporting a Mississippi hospital.” Barber also said he has enjoyed watching RebelTHON grow, especially since he helped found the organization two years ago. “Every year, we’ve raised more money and had a higher attendance rate than the year before,” Barber said. “I
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think that really speaks for the event itself, how people get really excited about it and really emotionally invested. I would expect this year to continue with the trends we’ve seen, and we’ll have more people than ever before and raise even more money.” The fundraising goal for 2015 is around $50,000. RebelTHON raised $31,459.21 last year. Francis said they are trying to spread awareness of the event to all students around campus. “We are hoping to expect a few hundred people out there,” Francis explained. “(We) want to tap in to that group of students on campus who are unaware of charity events like this that are happening around the Oxford community.” RebelTHON is April 11 at the Jackson Avenue Center.
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saw some movie,” Addington said. “The festival brings in anyone from freshmen at Ole Miss to the 85-year-old who just moved here from wherever. It’s really fun to see a wide range of people get involved and work together.” This year will involve topics
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a lot more students than there are cameras,” Addington said. “We wanted to provide another resource to borrow equipment.” Addington said she sees the changing cinema landscape in Oxford. “I think a lot of it comes down to hiring Alan Arrivée and transforming the film minor, but I do think that it’s the film festival and OxFilm and local people getting more involved with film,” Addington said. “I’ve heard so many people say they went to the Oxford Film Festival and said, ‘I want to try that, too.’” The Oxford Film Festival began in 2003 with a mission to “bring cool films and the cool people who make them to our city,” according to Addington. Since that time, it has grown to draw three to four thousand attendants, including 30 to 40 filmmakers and 60 or more films each year. Workshops with actors, directors or screenwriters are now included in each year’s festival. “It’s not just about watching movies and going, ‘Okay, cool I
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Dason Pettit recently wrapped his first film, “Extrication.” Pettit, an art history major and cinema minor at the university, grew up in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and remembers when there weren’t such avenues for independent filmmakers here. “Always, growing up, I wanted to make a movie. Times were so different then and resources were so limited,” Pettit said. “It’s changed a lot. In the past 20 years, Oxford itself has moved forward in a progressive way.” The cinema minor that gave Pettit the tools and skill set to create his film was only implemented at the university four years ago, but it reflects the change that he said is happening in Mississippi. “Now, you’ve got a program here at school,” Pettit said. “This cinema minor helps students to engage and be able to do they wouldn’t be able to otherwise.” Alan Arrivée, who came to the university in 2010, became the head of the interdisciplinary
minor and has since pushed its success. “It was a minor waiting to happen,” Arrivée said. “I was handed something almost fully formed. We’ve just run with it.” That first year, there were only 11 students who signed up for the minor. This year, that number has grown to 75. “According to the dean’s office, it’s the fastest growing stand-alone minor in UM history,” Arrivée said. For those outside of the university, Melanie Addington, one of the four directors of the Oxford Film Festival, saw a need for opportunity for filmmakers. “There was a real lack of providing year-round programing and education for non-students because they don’t have the film minor to help them,” Addington said. In response to this, Addington founded OxFilm, an organization that rents equipment for all areas of filmmaking. “Part of it was to give more resources to students because there are only a limited number of cameras on campus and
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continued from page 4 ranging from comedies on Kinder Eggs to more serious representations of the integration of Yazoo County schools at the festival. James Murphy, a post baccalaureate undergrad working on a cinema minor, has attended the Oxford Film Festival the past five years while at the university. “The Oxford Film Festival, I think, has done a lot – not just
for the Oxford community but for the state of Mississippi,” Murphy said. “There’s a big push to really see some filmmaking here.” For Murphy, this is an important evolution. “Mississippi, traditionally, has a really bad reputation in other parts of the country,” Murphy said. “I’d like to see that reputation change. I’d like to see people seeing our stories told by us through our eyes and seeing who we really are as a state and as a culture. I think filmmaking is a great avenue for
that.” Alan Arrivée, who served as a judge in the past for the Oxford Film Festival, said there must be a definite niche for Oxonian filmmaking if it is to succeed. “In order for Oxford to make a name for itself as a filmmaking town, I feel like there’s got to be some perception that filmmaking is different in Oxford than in other places,” Arrivée said. “We need something. A specific filmmaking identity has got to be formed.” Arrivée suggested Austin, Texas, as a role model for Ox-
ford cinema culture. “The development of that film culture had to do with a specific brand of rebellion-like, young filmmakers that were specifically attaching themselves to the culture of Austin,” Arrivée said. “There’s this idea attached to the Austin filmmakers that they’re their own type of filmmaker – that they will present something that you can’t just get from the bland Hollywood producing machine.” Instead of a push for this uniquely Oxford cinema, Arrivée said that “the legitimacy
of Hollywood is being sought out – not the legitimacy of the rejection of Hollywood.” Addington, of OxFilm and the festival, also said there was still much progress to be made for independent filmmaking in Oxford. “Something to point out is, yeah, we’ve made progress, but we’ve still got a long way to go to have more films made here and keep more students engaged,” Addington said. “The arts have always been important. Film is just the last one to grow up in the ranks of Oxford.”
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The college football season is around seven months away, but Ole Miss is already set to enter a pivotal part of their preseason with spring practices starting today. This training will give early enrollees in the 2015 signing class a chance to learn the offensive and defensive schemes and help decide who the starters will be for the upcoming season. The biggest position battle going into spring practices is for who will replace Bo Wallace as the starting quarterback for the Rebels. Ole Miss returns redshirt sophomore passers DeVante Kincade and Ryan Buchanan, redshirt freshman Kendrick Doss and has also added top junior college quarterback Chad Kelly. Also entering the fray is Louisiana quarterback Jason Pellerin, but he won’t enroll until August and could likely end up redshirting.
graduating, the battle to fill those spots will be one of the most important parts of spring training. Senior Christian Russell will likely slide into the middle linebacker spot vacated by Deterrian Shackleford, with junior Temario Strong and sophomore DeMarquis Gates vying for time behind him. At outside linebacker, senior Denzel Nkemdiche is recovering from a leg injury but will likely be the starter when he returns. Junior College linebacker Terry Caldwell will also be fighting for time there. Defensive tackle could also be an exciting spot to watch. Junior college tackle D.J. Jones is expected to make a big impact in his first year with Ole Miss, but his only chance at a starting spot would have to come at the expense of senior Isaac Gross, who’s played very well when healthy throughout his career. One of the best battles of spring training could come at the wide receiver position. While junior Laquon Treadwell will claim the number one receiver spot once he returns, the rest is up for grabs. Senior Cody Core had a breakout season last FILE PHOTO: CADY HERRING year and will be a major candidate to take the Wide receiver Laquon Treadwell throws the ball during practice in Oxford, Oct. 6, 2014. outside receiver spot opposite Treadwell. Also fighting for this spot will be the outside will likely move inside and 16 position starters from last Washington transfer Damore’ea to the slot, where junior Quincy season, including nine starters on Stringfellow, who has great size Adeboyejo and sophomore Mar- the offensive side of the ball and seven on the defensive side. at 6-foot-3, 229 pounds. Which- kell Pack could also see time. The Rebels return 58 lettermen ever player doesn’t take over on
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Rebels hit the road to face Alabama this weekend in Coleman Coliseum where they haven’t won since 2010. ESPN “Bracketologist” Joe Lunardi currently ranks the Rebels as a nine seed in the NCAA Tournament, which is down two spots from last week when Lunardi ranked Ole Miss as a seven seed. Ole Miss desperately needs this win and must take better care of the ball after turning the basketball over 28 times in the last two games.
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Here we go. The last week of the regular season is among us, and many Ole Miss fans are biting their fingernails. With back-to-back losses to Georgia and LSU, the Rebels (19-10, 10-6 SEC) now find themselves sixth in the SEC with a lot of work and help is needed to gain a top four seed in the SEC Tournament. The Rebels need to win against Alabama and Vanderbilt and losses from other teams. Kentucky should be able to handle Georgia while Texas A&M could have a hard time against Florida, and it will take a miracle for LSU to defeat Arkansas in Bud Walton Arena, where the Razorbacks have lost just once all season. This puts Ole Miss in a good position this week to win out and move into the top four. In order to gain a double-bye in the SEC Tournament, they will have to defeat a hungry Alabama (17-12, 7-9 SEC) team in Tuscaloosa tonight. Alabama head coach Anthony Grant’s seat has never been hotter, and you know his players will fight as hard as they can to save his job. Alabama could potentially finish .500 in conference play with wins over Ole Miss and Texas A&M this week, which could put them right back on the bubble come SEC Tournament time. Ole Miss must be up for the huge challenge, as it won’t be easy to win
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Rebels produce best finish in 31 years at SEC Indoors DYLAN RUBINO
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It’s been a long time since the Ole Miss men’s track and field team finished with such a high placing, but the team placed 4th at the 2015 SEC Indoor Championships at Lexington, Kentucky, over the weekend. It was the best finish for the Rebels since 1984, capping off a great finish for the team at the E.J. Nutter Field House. “I’m extremely proud of our young men and women for the way they competed this weekend,” head coach Brian O’Neal said. “We challenged them to go in there and compete with great pride, representing Ole Miss with class and I thought we did that from the beginning and all the way to bell out.” Representing The University of Mississippi in the strongest manner possible is something O’Neal preaches to his team every day and looks for his athletes to carry out in every meet they attend. The 4th place finish for the Rebels was largely due to the first place finishes for sophomore Jalen Miller and senior Daniel Bulmer. Miller, a native of Tunica, Mississippi, won his race in the
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Sophomore Jalen Miller celebrates with the landshark during a meet. 60 meters and earned Ole Miss’ first SEC title in school history in the event, almost beating his own personal record by finishing with a time of 6.56. “I think the sky’s the limit for Jalen. I think it’s always under-
standing and remembering what brought you to this point and making sure you keep your priorities straight,” O’Neal said. “I think right now he’s very focused on representing Ole Miss and representing his home state of
Mississippi at the highest level.” Miller had high expectations for himself in his second SEC indoors competition, where he finished third last year, in what Miller said left a bad taste in his mouth.
“I just wanted to come out and compete hard and listen to what my coaches tell me to do,” Miller said. “Day in and day out, I wanted to run my race and I knew I could finish it out.” Following up the victory by Miller, Bulmer and sophomore Craig Engels finished an impressive first and second in the men’s mile. Bulmer, a native of Australia, is the first SEC mile champion in school history. “It’s obviously really special,” Bulmer said of the performance from his team over the weekend. “We are trying to build a really good program here and we’re certainly taking steps in that direction. I’m really excited to be a part of that.” The women finished 13th overall, but a strong performance from freshman Brooke Feldmeier in her second place finish in the 800 meter gives the women’s team positivity for the future. Coming in as a freshman and performing right away can put a lot of pressure on someone, but not Feldmeier. “I think it’s more exciting than anything,” Feldmeier said. “It’s a lot of fun coming in as a freshman and I’m really enjoying it so far.”