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Volume 105, No. 98

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Letter to the editor: Feedback on recent columns

March horoscopes: March madness or moon sickness?

Ole Miss football is back in action

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Senate requests more counselors for students

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The Associated Student Body passed a handful of bills and resolutions Tuesday night aimed at improving students’ mental health and officer efficiency. Senator Elizabeth Romary presented and spoke in affirmation of Resolution 17-05.

The proposed resolution would request that the school add an additional counselor to the school’s counseling center. This counselor would focus on mental health and other issues related to substance abuse. Romary said this year, Ole Miss has lost three students to substance abuse and a stronger counseling center would give similarly struggling students the help they need.

“This is the best counseling center in oxford, and I ask you to vote in affirmation for this because it really will help the student body,” Romary said. Resolution 17-05 passed after Romary’s personal testimony about a friend lost to substance abuse. Mr. and Miss Ole Miss stopped by Lamar Hall to address the Senate about another facet of mental health on cam-

pus. Cole Putman and Acacia Santos spoke in affirmation of a bill written by senator Terrius Harris that would support mental health during school elections. Harris said Bill 17-06 allows an opportunity for candidates who are going through ASB or public elections to have specialized counseling sessions. Putman and Santos shared stories about the psychological effects

being thrust into the public eye can have on a college student. “There’s a culture perpetuated at Ole Miss that everything is all good and we’re great, but that is not the case,” Putman said. “These people (are) put on a pedestal in the public eye. It’s just an opportunity to change that opinion about the school.” Santos said she supports the

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Oxford celebrates Mardi Gras with annual parade

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St. Peter’s Episcopal Church hosted its annual Mardi Gras parade yesterday in celebration of Fat Tuesday. Members of the community dressed up in their beads, masks and other costume attire, painting the town purple, green and gold as they followed a path around the Square.

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Members of the Black Student Union Tuesday night asked candidates running for ASB senate and officer positions one question: How will you represent African American and other minority members of the student body? “I appreciate everyone who came tonight,” BSU President

Terrius Harris said. “Its really important that you take the campus population that we represent into consideration when you’re running your campaign.” Harris moderated the event until stepping down for presidential candidate Emily Hoffman’s speech and open question session. BSU Vice President Chad Knight took to the lectern in lieu of Harris, who currently serves as Hoff-

man’s campaign manager. Twenty BSU members heard the candidates speak. The BSU circulated a flier for Tuesday’s general meeting via their social media accounts and asked members to share it in the hopes that all candidates would be aware of the meeting. Sixteen candidates responded and were included, but two candidates emailed the BSU back past their deadline and weren’t

allowed speak at the meeting. Seven candidates for Senate seats spoke to BSU members at the meeting, along with a group of candidates running for executive officer positions. William Nowell and Bryant Carlton sought endorsements in their judicial chair campaigns, and Jenny Jesuit spoke on behalf of her campaign for treasurer. Attorney general candidates Dillon Pitts and Levi Bev-

is addressed the BSU as well. Elam Miller, Matt Gladden and Alison Hanby were the only vice presidential candidates to speak Tuesday, and Emily Hoffman was the only candidate for president to speak. Presidential candidate Austin Spindler attended the meeting but did not speak due to time limitations. No candidates for

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OPINION

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Dear editor,

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Dear editor,

As a student-activist, I feel that I must take issue with the opinion article (“The battlefield in the voting booth, not the streets” Feb. 27). Throughout the article, I felt a sense of optimism but more of a feeling of ignorance in regarding the time and place for protesting. While I do agree that protesting is only part of the solution, saying that it is only proper regarding civil liberties is not. History has shown that protesting physical, social media, boycotting or whatever you consider protesting is effective. The argument that dropping the signs and campaigning is bizarre – as if we live in some utopia in which it will always work. The writer failed to explain the realities of voter suppression and institutional racism that exists in our democracy. The idea that contacting your representatives on any level and getting them to change their mind is like driving up to Memphis to get a lottery ticket and winning. The ills of voter suppression in which includes voter I.D. laws, gerrymandering of political districts as well as the many other pitfalls used in the past and today to quiet the voices of such issues. Have we forgotten the plight of institutional racism in matters such as the Flint water crisis or the shooting of Mike Brown among the countless other things? I feel protesting is proper to the point that it is at level with other forms to furthering such cause but to think that protesting should be discouraged to the only extreme crisis with all the pitfalls such protestors continue to face is ignorant, to say the least. So, my question is that protesting an administration that touts racism, bigotry, misogyny, and deprivation of the press among the countless other things not worth protesting for?

In the February 14th edition of this paper, opinion columnist Julia Grant took on the noble task of bridging the partisan divide in American politics. As a political independent, I greatly appreciated her intent. However, she used a rather creative example to illustrate her point: the issue of “school choice” which, in her telling, is a noble policy beloved by Republicans yet hypocritically rejected by partisan Democrats. If only this were the case. In reality, top Senate Democrats like Cory Booker have extensively pushed for “school choice” (a marketing term used to describe the privatization of the public education system in favor of for-profit charter schools and a private voucher system). Grant cites high-minded ideals about school choice “level[ing] the playing field for underprivileged children.” In fact, UCLA’s Civil Rights Project has found that charter schools are even more likely to be racially segregated than our already highly segregated public schools. School voucher programs would be especially risky in Mississippi, where it would enable public funding be used to send children to the numerous “segregation academies” throughout our state. Despite the millions pumped into pro-charter school advocacy by the likes of Bill Gates and the Koch brothers, these schools have been consistently surrounded by scandal and responsible for driving down teacher’s wages and instruction quality through non-union hiring practices. An education system run for-profit is not the bipartisan solution America needs. Instead, we need a massive nationwide investment in public education that embraces teachers and their unions, disavows Bush and Obama’s testing-centered education policy, and de-links education funding from local property taxes. In short: the real bipartisan solution should be to fix our education system, not sell it off wholesale to for-profit corporations.

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‘Sarah Talks’ feature female restaurant leaders KAILEN LOCKE KIRSTEN MCGILL

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Restaurant owner Joester Brassell first got her start as a head chef of fraternity and sorority houses on the Ole Miss campus, but she soon started to feel like she was destined for something more. She has been cooking since the age of 6 and knew she always had the skills to cook– all she had to do was realize she also had the gift of cooking. “When I grew up and got married, I thought the husband made all the decisions,” Brassell said. “I didn’t know that I could make decisions on my own. I just thought the husband did because that’s how my mom and dad worked.” It is because of mindsets like this that Brassell plans to speak as part of a panel hosted by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies Wednesday. The panel, “Women Creating Community Through Food: Intersectionality and Entrepreneurship,” will also feature two other women in the food industry and will be the first of three talks to take place over the month of March. Kevin Cozart, operations coordinator and adjunct instructor of gender studies, will be the moderator for Wednesday’s discussion, which will feature Brassell of Mama Jo’s Country Cookin’, as well as

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continued from page 1 secretary attended the general meeting. Each candidate was allotted one minute to introduce themselves and their platform, and then required to answer a series of questions from both the BSU executive board and BSU members in the audience. The BSU asked candidates a series of questions exploring why each candidate is running for their position, how each candidate plans to connect with black students and how comfortable they are dealing with issues of diversity or foreign communities on campus. After hearing the speeches and question responses from all 16 candidates who spoke Tuesday, the BSU met in private to select whom they will endorse. Their endorsements will be announced on Friday. Harris said he and other BSU members noticed that it was many of the candidates’ first visits to a BSU event. He said students who come to the BSU only one time cannot really represent the student body. “Each individual is here and can see the deception or the true intentions of some,” Harris said. “Each person here has the ability to have their own indi-

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Joester Brassell cooks a variety of soul and country homestyle food at her restaurant. Carla Rego of Lusa Bakery and Cafe and Dixie Grimes of Dixie Belle Cafe. “We went with women that we knew from here and ones who ran businesses that, I don’t want to say get overlooked, but aren’t talked about or thought about in the same way as those as the businesses in the Square are,” Cozart said. Cozart said this series of talks will be a way of honoring the work of women around the community. “There’s a prestige factor with the title ‘chef,’ and when it’s not applied to women, it automatically undercuts what they do,” Cozart said. Brassell originally went to school to become a beautician, but after 16 years of owning her own restaurant, it’s clear she

followed the right path. As the owner of Mama Jo’s Country Cookin’, Brassell creates all her own recipes, helping feed the hearts of Oxford residents. “There is no way to compare this restaurant to the restaurants uptown,” Brassell said. “They do not have the love or the kindness that we have. They are just there to make money, and I like the money part, too, but my biggest part is to get your soul.” According to a press release, Jaime Harker, director at the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, said these talks would be ideal at this time because of Women’s History Month. “We wanted to establish a lecture series that highlights UM scholars, local members

vidual opinions.” Freshman BSU member Logane Brazile said Tuesday’s meeting gave her a better idea of what happens in student government. “We get to see how we can better the campus as African Americans,” Brazile said. “It can give a better idea of what they are trying to change on the Senate.”

Kamron Daniels, another freshman member of the BSU, agreed. He said he does not know much about what the ASB does and feels other black students might agree. Davis noted that there is less than a handful of African Americans on ASB Senate. “I think we’re underrepresented, but I think they’re doing a good job,” Davis said.

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of the community, Mississippi entrepreneurs, artists and social justice advocates who are doing groundbreaking work in gender and sexuality,” Harker said in the press release. The other Sarah Talks will take place next Wednesday, discussing the Women’s March on Washington, and the Wednesday after spring break, covering a study on student attitudes toward gender and sexuality and how they change over time. “We really just want to encourage people to come out on Wednesday,” Cozart said. “It’s kind of our first time to do this. We just want to take a new approach; it’s going to be very informal and a good conversation, a good talk.”

bill because too often people feel alone on campus. She said she remembered being cursed at on the street and harassed via her cell phone. “You don’t often tell people what’s actually going on with you,” Santos said. “That you have people coming at you and putting you down.” The mental health bill passed unanimously. Those in support said if the school’s most public figures were open to using the schools counseling center for help, the rest of the student body would fall in suit. Bill 17-07 also passed with unanimous consent, and now requires the ASB president and vice president to report to campus two weeks before the school year officially starts. Emily HoffThis article was submitted man, the bill’s author, said this to The Daily Mississippian would establish a uniform sysfrom an advanced reporting tem for returning to school. class.

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Taurus, the Bull: April 20- May 20 You’ve been shining lately, Taurus. School or work is going particularly well, you seem to be building up your social life and bit and your skin is looking especially young and fresh on your face. You look hot. You do. And someone is incredibly jealous of you. I must warn you Taurus: you will be offered cursed ice cream this month. Don’t eat it, or you’ll be cursed. You won’t be able to tell the ice cream is cursed until it’s already touched your lips, and it’s too late. (It will be curse flavored, so you’ll definitely be able to tell.) To stay on the safe side, I would just go ahead and avoid ice cream all together this month, or at least stick with the dairy-free stuff. (You know what dairy does to you.)

Gemini, the Twins: May 21- June 20 Lately you’ve been feeling pretty good about yourself, Gemini. A recent change in your life has got you energized, and you’re feeling like you could do just about anything. Saturn is MCKENNA WIERMAN perfectly aligned with Mercury this month thedmfeatures@gmail.com ILLUSTRATION BY: JAKE THRASHER around your cosmic energies, which will have some pretty interesting results on you. What I’m saying is you’re going to be one heck of a Aries, the Ram: March 21- April 19 dancer this month, Gem. One heck of a dancer indeed. You’ll be such an amazing dancer that You’ve done a lot of growing in the past year, Aries, and the the gods will open the heavens to challenge you stars have taken note. You’ve taken major steps to reign in that to a game of “Just Dance Wii” and lose. You’ll be temper of yours, and you’ve opened yourself up to receiving that good. We’re all jealous. more love. Venus, your lover, has decided to reward you in the weirdest way possible. This month, you will come to terms with Cancer, the Crab: June 21- July 22 some very personal feelings, and you’ll find the courage to really say how you feel. This will open the door to amazing career This month is going to go pretty well for you, and relationship opportunities. Also, someone special is going Cancer. An old flame may pop up sometimes to touch your heart this month. Like they will literally touch around the middle of the month, which will introyour heart. Like the organ in your chest. They’re going to touch duce some stimulating but mostly risk-free drama it. I hope they put you under for that because holy moly that into your life, as long as you’re careful. You’re also sounds painful. Good luck with that, Aries. going to cry in a movie theater sometime in the next few weeks, but whoever you are with at the time will think it’s cute and may even be extra affectionate towards you for the rest of the day. The star, I warned you about him long ago, but now the time has come. You must beware of the strange appearance of a one-eyed snaggletoothed old man this month, Cancer. His name is Stan. Watch out for Stan.

Leo, the Lion: July 23- August 22

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This month your brain power is off the charts, Leo. That’s because wise Uranus has positioned itself just above you, and is pouring it’s cosmic energy all over you, giving you a major brain boost. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself making smart and mature choices this month, retaining information easier and picking up new skills with ease. In fact, your brains are so absorbent right now that if you were to sit in a helicopter, you would automatically know how to fly and operate it. But you would have to be physically in the helicopter to unlock this power. And the power expires at midnight on March 31.

Virgo, the Virgin: August 23September 22 Eyeballs will grow out of your hands this month, Virgo, which is very exciting. I can’t tell you why exactly this is going to happen, or what it will feel like or how big the eyeballs will be — but I can tell you it’s going to happen. On a lighter note, Pluto is jealous you’ll be growing so many new eyeballs and it’s not even considered a planet anymore. So, to get revenge, Pluto will triple the force of its cosmic aura to impair your memory all month. You’ll forget where you put your keys, forget your phone at home and forget the name of that one actor from Beetlejuice who played the guy in the plaid shirt. Also you probably won’t remember St. Patrick’s Day.

Libra, the Scale: September 23October 22 Things have been pretty blah lately, Libra. Last month, which was supposed to be unexceptional, turned out to just be pretty not-that-great. But the stars have seen how you handled things with beauty and grace and have conveyed to me they wish to reward you. You will find something shiny in one of your shoes. All the buttons will stay on your clothes this month. And best of all, a handsome stranger will invite you out to dinner. They only hitch here is that they will have tentacles in their underarms. But besides that they will be perfectly charming and attractive, and you’ll get some free din-din. You’ll just have to get past your own inner bias and open yourself up to a new standard of beauty. Are you up to the challenge? Scorpio, the Scorpion: October 23-

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You will be visited by a magical fairy leprechaun this month! All you have to do is close your eyes and wish real hard. Then hide in the darkest shadow you can find, taking short, quiet breaths, being as still as you possibly can. Be patient; for patience is key. When the time is right, he will come, quiet and quick as a mouse. When you see the leprechaun for the first time, do not be shocked. Try and keep your heart rate as low as possible, as he can sense such things. You won’t be able to catch him by any conventional means, such as nets or box traps; leprechauns are far too clever for the tools of mere men. If you wish to catch him, you must first catch his attention by quietly whispering a very provocative riddle, one he won’t be able to ignore. Once you have engaged him in a battle of wits, and he is pleased with you as an adversary, then and only then, he shall grant you a wish. I suggest you study up on your riddles.

Sagittarius, the Archer: November 22- December 21

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Been feeling a bit down in the dumps lately, Sag? It’s been a kind of creative month for you, which as you know, can be kind of emotionally draining. It’s almost like the more ideas you have and put out into the world, the more energy is sucked away from you. Take time to rest this March, get some sun and some sleep, and take time for you. The Sun, the brightest star in our solar system, has decided to be extra nice to you this month, so appreciate every sunny day you get. The stars are also indicating to me they will bestow a cosmic gift upon you for the month of March, and as a result you will gain the ability to talk to smell light. How wonderful! 33721

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Casey Golden makes return to Oxford ZOE MCDONALD

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Capricorn, the Goat: December 22January 19 The full moon is really digging your vibes right now. Jupiter and Uranus are aligned just so that their cosmic energies are being pulled toward you like a magnet, making you feel extra powerful and confident. Now is the time to really shine at work, and you are definitely looking more attractive lately, too. In fact, you are so stuffed with cosmic power, during the next full moon, your mortal body will not be able to contain it. Just before midnight, you will erupt into a loveliness of glittery, golden ladybugs, which will then join together again at the stroke of midnight, returning you to your mortal form. You’re also going to read a really funny cocktail napkin between the 14th and the 20th.

Aquarius, the Water bearer: January 20February 18 I have great news for you this month, Aquarius. Neptune misses you, and feels like you guys haven’t hung out in a long time. So around March 11-18th, someone very special to you is going to take you to an aquarium! Or at least a restaurant with a fish tank. Or a doctor’s or dentist’s office with a fish tank. Or you’ll walk into the pet store and see the betafish. The point is, you’re going to get to see some fish in a fish tank, which, let’s face it, is kind of great. On the night of March 15 you will also be told you are loved. And since the moon is just loving your young vibes right now, during the next full moon you will gain the ability to fly on a broomstick.

For the members of Casey Golden, the first leg of their tour has gone well. They caught Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans after a show over the weekend, and now they’ve made it to Graham Hamaker’s porch in Oxford, where it’s sunny and warm, and the smell of the cooking tacos wafts into the early spring air. Golden and his three-man band — Connor Gallaher on guitar and pedal steel, drummer Adan Martinez-Kee and flutist and bassist Grant Beyschau — are touring Texas and the southeast, and Golden’s first self-titled is set to drop next Friday by way of local record label Muscle Beach Records. For the label, it’s an important first: a physical, full-length, vinyl release. Golden and Kieran Danielson of Muscle Beach have been friends, bandmates and musical confidantes since they were teens. “Kieran and I are best buddies forever so, we just always kind of send each other our music— what we’re doing — so I sent him stuff, and he ended up being like, ‘Hey, I just started a new record label, and we want to put out a vinyl. Can we make your dreams come true?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, uh, thank you Kieran. You can do that for me.’” For four months, Golden began building the album, thinking about arrangements (it features flute, violin and steel pedal), and planning vocal harmonies at Midtown Island Studio in Tucson with Matt Rendon of The Resonars. For Golden and Rendon, the process “was a creative endeavor too, not just a production,” Golden said. In between, there were the email threads. Golden and the Muscle Beach boys stayed in contact extensively, from creating album cover to getting the vinyl pressed. “We had a whole misadven-

ture of just trying to figure out the album cover,” Golden said. “We had a really long email thread, brainstorming. There’s a picture of bird, which I thought worked really well, but it ended up being exactly the same cover as Wilco’s ‘Sky Blue Sky.’” After trying to craft a cover himself, Golden outsourced the job to Tuscon artist Gabriella Molina, who created Golden’s cover collage based on what she heard in the self-titled. When “Casey Golden” finally got put together, the feel was timeless for Hamaker and Danielson. They both agreed on its potential to reach a wider audience. “It is an interesting take on folk music. It’s a little more somber,” Hamaker said. “Well, I guess a lot of folk music is somber, but it definitely has some interesting elements in there. Fresh. Like fresh-squeezed orange juice.” Indeed, it’s intricacies and layered sounds make for a record that can envelop a listener. It skates a line between an indie-rock record and something else entirely — sometimes bleeding into the realm of Americana (with the help of the steel pedal) or adopting an island-style tempo. Golden began to describe some images the album evokes for him — jungles, wind, oceans with choppy waves — before pausing. “I think sometimes images in the songs exist only within itself,” Golden said. “Maybe not anywhere else in real life. I think that’s probably why I wrote (the album) description. Because that doesn’t really exist. It doesn’t make that much sense. But it kind of happens in a song, maybe?” After working on the album for around two years, Golden’s ready to take on a new project. He said he’s interested in including more strings, cello and violin. For now, he’ll be touring with music from his melancholy self-titled, one that, with more and more listens, is bound to grow on listeners like gentle but

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Adan Martinez-Kee, Casey Golden, Connor Gallaher and Grant Beyschau hang out on Hamaker’s porch Monday. wild jungle plants. Catch Golden with Kyle Kimbrell and Bonus at Proud Larry’s tonight. Before the show, head to the End of All Music for

Golden’s in-store record release show and celebration of the End of All Music’s fifth year in business starting at 5 p.m.

Pisces, the Fish: February 19- March 20 I’m afraid the stars have delivered some rather unsavory news for you this month, Pisces. While I can tell you beyond the shadow of a doubt that you will have a lovely birthday, full of love and support and happiness, surrounded by friends and family, there is a strange darkness ahead. Because of Mercury and its sinister cosmic force on your house this month, every single pair of flip-flops, or as some people call them, thong sandals, you wear this month will break. Maybe not immediately after you put them on. Maybe not even this year. But mark my words. They will break. And at a time most inconvenient for you. Sorry.

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Rebel health improves as spring practice begins D.K. Metcalf, a rising sophomore, will be a thedmsports@gmail.com weapon for the Ole Miss offense that they were With all of the recent alleunable to utilize last gations consuming the Ole year. His sophomore Miss football program, it’s season cut short after easy for fans to be pessimistic the second game due to about the 2017 season. Fola broken foot, Metcalf lowing the first losing season was forced to watch his in the Hugh Freeze era, the team struggle from the Rebels hope to return to the sidelines. Freeze feels program that they’ve built confident that Metcalf over the past three years. Dewill be ready for action spite the self-imposed ban, this preseason. Freeze will not allow his team “Metcalf is good to to be defined by bowl eligibilgo,” Freeze said. “He’s ity. 100 percent, and he’s “Playing those 12 games eager to get out there will show everyone whether this spring.” or not we’re a good football Scoring a touchdown team,” Freeze said. “Not just in both games he played one bowl game.” in last year, Metcalf will PHOTO BY: ARIEL COBBERT With recent changes in perbe one of Shea Patter- Eric Swinney breaks a tackle during a practice last season. Swiney is one of the players returning to spring practice after suffering sonnel and a healthy roster, the son’s go-to targets next an injury during the 2016 season. Rebels are ready to dive into the season. 2017 season, which began with who missed most of the 2016 hopes to rely on Swinney to ter a young secondary withEric Swinney, another cruspring practice on Tuesday. season is looking to make an be a consistent standout on out much of a veteran prescial part of the Rebel offense impact on offense. Following offense. ence was thrown into the fire a knee injury in the first game Ken Webster, following a a year ago. CROSSWORD PUZZLE BROUGHT TO YOU BY DOMINO’S of the season, Swinney has gruesome knee injury against Along with the return of spent the last six months re- Florida State last year, hopes several key players, the Ole habbing his knee. With knee to return strong for his senior Miss offense will be under injuries being as serious as season. The veteran defen- new leadership with recent ORDER ONLINE LATE NIGHTS PREFERRED they are, Freeze is exercising sive back has been a linchpin hire Phil Longo. Freeze said WWW.DOMINOS.COM caution with him. in the Rebels’ secondary for he hopes that with Longo’s Part-Time/Full-Time “Swinney is close to 100 the past two seasons, mak- on-field coaching presence, SIGNING BONUS $ OPEN LATE (after 90 days of good performance) percent, but he’s not there ing his absence last season the offense will improve on yet,” Freeze said. “He’s not a crushing blow for the de- the issues that plagued them 662.236.3030 apply in person at the store 1603 W. Jackson Ave ready for contact but he will fense. With the severity of his last year. be on the field for practice injury, Freeze is hesitant to “Phil prefers to coach from this week.” throw Webster immediately the field,” Freeze said. “With With the Rebels recent into practice, similar to Swin- him on the field, I’ll be able struggle at the running back ney. to help the transition from position, Freeze said he “He’s doing great,” Freeze offense to defense, make us a said. “But there’s no chance little less predictable.” I would let him play in the Freeze has taken a specifspring – even if I was told he ic interest in special teams, could.” with hopes of improving that After an injury as brutal weakness of last season. as Webster’s, it’s obvious Despite recent allegations why Freeze is using discre- against the program, there tion with his return. With a are still plenty of things for healthy Webster leading the fans to be optimistic about secondary, the Rebels will this coming season. likely be much improved af-

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Coach Hugh Freeze confident amidst NCAA allegations SAM HARRES

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Hugh Freeze, in his first press conference of the 2017 spring football season, calmly and, at times, ambiguously responded to a barrage of questions on Tuesday regarding his involvement in the Ole Miss recruiting scandal. “I’m grateful that the investigative part of the NCAA case is over and we can now move forward. I look forward to getting our response completed and submitted to the NCAA and getting in front of the Committee on Infractions,” Freeze said. “We’ll get our day to stand before the Committee on Infractions and be accountable for the things we agree with and hopefully share our perspective to change some of those.” Freeze, head coach of the Rebels since 2012, did not appear to be overly concerned with the 21 allegations, 15 of which were level one offenses, put forth by the NCAA or the effect they’ll have on his program. Rather, he spoke of the experience as an opportunity for him and his players to grow. “I get a remarkable opportunity to lead in a difficult time. This is a preparation for life. Life doesn’t always give you what you want. It’s all about perspective to me,” Freeze said. If the NCAA chooses to stack punishments on top of already self-imposed sanctions, including a bowl ban and recruiting restrictions, Rebel football could be crippled for years. Thus, it should come as no surprise that many are inquiring about Freeze’s future as coach of the program. After all, allegations include a lack of institutional control and failure to monitor, perhaps the most damaging

allegations of the 21, and place much of the blame on the head man himself. Freeze, however, feels comfortable at the helm of what some believe is a sinking ship. “I’m not really concerned. I’ve got administrators who’ve watched me and how I do things closely for five years. They’ve supported me and been unwavering in that,” Freeze said. The entire recruiting scandal, allegations and ensuing madness in Oxford have repeatedly called Freeze’s character into question. “That’s the toughest part of this whole deal, really, is your integrity being questioned. Public opinion forms some people’s opinions. Your wife and kids have to read all that. Some’s true. Some’s not,” Freeze said. “Growing up in Tate County, you dream of a job like this. This certainly is not part of the dream. I never thought I’d go through something like this. It’s taught me that God is not near as concerned about my comfort as he is my character.” The players, according to Freeze, have taken the situation in stride, which he said is remarkable because they seem like the real victims. Many turned down offers to play at other top tier universities, and their entire careers could be at stake. Still, Freeze says they remain optimistic. “I was blown away with how they handled it,” Freeze said. “They said they’re going to make the most out of the 12 opportunities that we have. I haven’t seen any of our kids be negative toward anybody. They’ve all been positive about uniting.” Over the weekend, Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy referred to his team’s 48-20 Sugar Bowl loss to Ole Miss in 2015 as

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Memphis hands Ole Miss its first loss of season BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE thedmsports@gmail.com

An illness and a defensive lapse in the sixth inning were an unorthodox formula to produce Ole Miss’ first blemish of the season, but that’s exactly how it shook out as the Rebels were defeated 9-6 by Memphis on Tuesday at Swayze Field. Ole Miss was forced to scratch scheduled starter Will Ethridge due to the flu, which also caused freshman left fielder Thomas Dillard to miss his second game in a row. Fellow freshman shortstop Grae Kessinger was feeling under the weather as well, though he wasn’t diagnosed with the flu. “Especially just living in the dorm you just walk in and feel kind of sick,” Kessinger said. “Hopefully we can stay healthy, and fly and not pass it around to the whole team.” Freshman right-hander Greer Holston took the ball in Ehtridge’s absence and struggled against the Tiger lineup who saw his fastball

well, touching him up for five runs on as many hits in four innings of work. “They played well and they swung it well. They got after Greer a little bit,” head coach Mike Bianco said. Ole Miss scored the game’s first run before Memphis put up a three-spot in the top half of the second inning. But just as the Rebels have done for much of the season, they responded immediately. Kessinger may not have been feeling his best, but that didn’t stop him from hitting his first career home run, a three-run bomb in the second inning that matched the trio of runs Memphis had put up in the top half with one swing of the bat. He was 1-3 on the night. “I got down in the count early, really quick 0-2 and then I just got in my twostrike approach to do anything to get the guy in,” Kessinger said. “Then he left me a changeup up (in the zone) and I put a good swing on it.” Memphis regained the lead at 5-4 with a run in the

Ole Miss baseball players react to a play during their 9-6 loss against Memphis. third and fourth innings in a game that hinted at becoming a slugfest. “It looked like it was going to be one of those with a ton of runs scored today and the wind was blowing out to left.

PHOTO BY: TAYLAR TEEL

Sophomore RHP Andy Pagnozzi throws a pitch during Ole Miss’ 9-6 loss over Memphis. The loss was Ole Miss’ first on the season and now look forward to the Shriners Hostpials for Children Classic in Houston, Texas this weekend.

It was hard to keep the ball in the ballpark,” Bianco said. “But it ended up turning into the team that just didn’t play well defensively loses the game.” The arrival of the sixth inning brought trouble for the Rebels. Ole Miss committed four errors on the night, three of which came in the sixth inning alone which allowed the Tigers to add three more insurance runs off of Greer Holston’s successor Andy Pagnozzi, none of which were earned. The 8-4 Memphis lead was more than enough to sustain it as the Rebels fell to 7-1 on the year. “We had to lose some time,” junior second baseman Tate Blackman said. “I am glad we got it out of the way so we can flush it and learn to bounce back.” Blackman was 3-4 on the night and has found a rhythm in the last three games after a sluggish start at the plate. “Just sticking to what I do best which is my approach and not getting ahead of myself,” Blackman said. “The first couple of games

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I thought I was trying to do too much. But the freshmen kept us in it. Me and Colby (Bortles) haven’t swung it the best but we are starting to do it. They’ve kept us in games and I am very proud of what they’ve done and how they’ve handled the situation with everything they have done. We are going to bounce back from this loss and keep moving on.” Next up for Ole Miss is a trip to Houston where they will play in the Shriners Hospitals For Children Classic. The team will play against Baylor, No. 10 Texas Tech and the number one team in the country in TCU. It will be another test for this young bunch, one they feel ready for. “It’s going to be awesome playing in that atmosphere against those teams and showing what we can do on the road,” Blackman said. “Our freshmen believe that we are good, and our older guys think that we are good. That’s all it is. It is all about believing.”

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