THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Volume 104, No. 130
T H E S T U D E N T N E W S PA P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I S E R V I N G O L E M I S S A N D OX F O R D S I N C E 1 9 1 1
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Students smash perceptions around dieting Ole Miss
raises disability month awareness KELSEY SIMS
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The Office of Student Disability Services is raising awareness on campus in commemoration of Disability History and Awareness Month. Jennifer Stollman, academic director of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, gave a lecture Wednesday to students and faculty on, “How To Recognize, Interrupt and Respond To Microaggressions.” Microaggression refers to any action that is “verbal, behavioral, environmental or sensory” and that conveys inferiority, according to Stollman. “I don’t think that people PHOTOS BY: TAYLOR COOK intentionally want to commit Paige McKinney and Kelsey Allen Lee break scales during the Southern Smash event in front of the Union Wednesday. Southern Smash is a program which raises microaggressions to people awareness about eating disorders, especially on college campuses. Students symbolically broke scales and other imagery surrounding weight loss culture while with different abilities, but participating in educational activities about bulimia and anorexia. they don’t know what they are, so we have to tell them,” Stollman said. Stollman created an open forum that allowed students and Mary Kate Domino, a senior busistaff to ask, respond and tell BLAKE ALSUP ness major, said. “When I was stories related to their expembalsup@go.olemiss.edu a senior in high school, he met riences with microaggression. with me and he was able to quote By examining how people what I had put on my resume. should treat those who have Max Robert Miller Jr., known He had a genuine interest in getdifferent abilities, Stallman to students and coworkers as ting to know people. He was very said she tried to explain how “Captain Max,” was the cooperagood with advice and mentoring to focus on the person rather tive education program manager in general. He would ask you the than the their disability. at the University of Mississippi’s right questions to get you to figure Stollman suggested using Haley Barbour Center for Manuout for yourself what you needed.” ‘people-first language,’ as a facturing Excellence. One of Miller’s biggest accomway for people to combat their Miller died at 67 on April 22 in plishments was forming menhesitance toward describing a Calhoun County in a head-on coltorships with students. He was a person that have disabilities. lision with another vehicle. The forum included using A memorial service will be held positive influence on many and a man that was always looking for phrases that refer to specifat 10 a.m. April 28 at the College ways to serve others. ic individuals as “people with Hill Presbyterian Church. In hon“A lot of his job was helping disabilities or different abilior of Capt. Max’s service to his students to find potential job ties” as opposed to “disabled country, the flag of the United opportunities and identify compeople,” or using “person with States Coast Guard will be flown panies that they could work with a cognitive diagnosis’” as opat Waller Funeral Home. and taking them out there,” Scott posed to a person with “brain Miller’s impact on students damage.” went beyond their time at Ole Kilpatrick, cooperative education program director for the CME, “I think it’s important for Miss, students said.
‘Captain Max’ Miller: More than a mentor
“He was my advisor and he’s the reason I decided to go here,”
SEE CAPTIAN MAX PAGE 3 Max Miller was an adviser to many students on campus.
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