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BEAT OF THEIR OWN DRUM: OMADDE TO PERFORM TONIGHT
The Rebels are currently 31-11 on the season and hold a No. 14 RPI. They’ll face a struggling Mississippi State team for an in-state weekend matchup. The Bulldogs have only won three SEC games.
From water gods to womanhood, the Ole Miss African Drum and Dance Ensemble’s performance “You Are an Eagle, Stretch Your Hands and Soar Up High!” will touch on a wide range of Ghanaian culture tonight in Nutt Auditorium.
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Beekeepers Club populates its first hives Disability rights activist speaks on campus MASON SCIONEAUX
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Jonathan Mooney didn’t learn how to read until he was 12 years old. He has dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder and contemplated dropping out of school as a sixth grader. At 18, just six years after he learned to read, he was a freshman at Brown PHOTO: KATHERINE BUTLER University. Five years later, The Ole Miss Beekeepers Club populated its first hives last week just two miles outside Oxford city limits. he published his first book. Mooney, now an award-winning author home of Red Belly Bee Farm. We were out on the farm: Katherine Butler’s camera. LIAM NIEMAN and disability rights The farm, run by Bob Russell, a piece of property two miles Caroline Bailey, the president THEDMFEATURES@GMAIL.COM activist, spoke Wednesday donated two of the bee nucs, of the Ole Miss Beekeepers Club past Oxford city limits. It was afternoon as part of small bee colonies that were that populated these beehives — donated to the university with To my surprise, I couldn’t Disability Awareness the stipulation that the land stay used to populate the hives. their first — over the past week, hear the bees buzzing until I got Month. He spoke candidly Russell also helped teach undeveloped. Besides the club’s said the bees were buzzing a within about five feet of their about his own struggles as the club how to actually do hives, there was a small pond bit differently because of the homes: four hives populated a person with disabilities the work of beekeeping. In and two fields — one planted cooler weather. A storm was on with roughly 6,000 to 8,000 and encouraged the exchange for his advice and with cotton, one with beans. its way. bees per hive. And there wasn’t nucs, the students helped out at audience to celebrate Last Thursday, Bailey drove “If you hear them today, it’s much other noise, just the differences, rather than to Myrtle, a tiny town about 25 a bit of a louder buzz,” she said. gentle chirping of birds and minutes from Oxford and the “Normally it’s just a hum.” SEE BEES PAGE 5 degrade them. the snap of photography editor “Folks with cognitive and physical differences are often the most demeaned and marginalized in our society. They struggle as much as any minority group in our world,” the University of Mississippi won GRIFFIN NEAL Mooney said. “But we can 20 first place awards ranging THEDMNEWS@GMAIL.COM build a more inclusive and from best overall newspaper to just culture for those folks breaking news photography. For the fifth year in a row, The that are told they have They competed against students Daily Mississippian was named deficiencies. People with at universities in Arkansas, the best daily student newspaper differences have value to Mississippi, Louisiana and at both the Associated Press give to the world — not Tennessee. The competitions and Society of Professional despite their differences are judged by professional Journalists award ceremonies. but because of them.” journalists. NewsWatch Ole Miss also won Corey Blount, assistant Slade Rand, editor-in-chief first place at both the AP and director of Student of The Daily Mississippian, said SPJ ceremonies for newscast Disability Services, said it’s always nice to see the DM and best television newscast, hosting an advocate like “holding its own” in contests respectively. Rebel Radio was Mooney can spur change with weekly and monthly honored for general excellence at on campus and help get PHOTO: KATHERINE BUTLER publications, but to take home radio stations, winning first place Student journalists from The University of Mississippi won a total of 20 first place at the AP ceremony. awards at the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists award SEE DISABILITY PAGE 3 SEE AWARDS PAGE 7 ceremonies. In total, student journalists at
Student Media excels at AP, SPJ awards