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A sit-down with the president ASB President Barron Mayfield was inaugurated last Friday after winning 53% of the vote in a runoff election on April 4. News Editor Griffin Neal sat down with Mayfield to discuss his vision for campus, student representation on IHL and his favorite meal in Oxford.
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GN: What’s your main goal for this school year? BM: Policy wise, there are two big things I want to accomplish. One, look at raising the student activities fee. That is a $10 fee that students pay and that goes to fund every single organization we have on campus. They are able to request money for that for their organization, and then we budget the money out and give it to those organizations. So raising it $10 would double it, which would — right then and there — double the amount of money we’re able to spend on our student organizations and give out to them. (That) means that they would be able to go out and accomplish their mission better, whatever that is, for different organizations. But you’d be able to see more speakers come in, bigger names, (and) organizations would be able to do more programming, put on events. Service organizations would be able to complete more
service projects for the community but also serve the students better. There’s a lot that can be done with that. That being said, if we get back in the fall and students are super interested in it, then we’ll kind of back off. The other thing would be a total rewrite of the ASB code. It is completely out of whack right now, to put it lightly. There are a lot of contradictions in it. It doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t flow well together. So those two things would be my top priority. GN: Is raising the student activities fee something that has to go through IHL? BM: Yeah, it would have to go through IHL. But I think it was this past fall that Delta State raised a student activities fee of $25. So now theirs is over twice what ours is, and several other schools have done it over the last few years. So if we can say that students are behind raising the fee, we can take it to them and I’m pretty confident that they’d be willing to up it.
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PHOTO: KATHERINE BUTLER
Recently inaugurated Associated Student Body President Barron Mayfield wants to rewrite the ASB code and raise the student activities fee during his term as ASB president.
Statue relocation still pending approval HADLEY HITSON
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The Confederate cemetery is south of the Tad Smith Coliseum on campus and is the potential relocation site for the Confederate statue that is currently in the University Circle.
The university is currently working with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) to receive a permit for the relocation of the Confederate monument on campus, which must happen before the proposed move can be submitted to the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning for final approval. Almost two months have passed since the student body demanded the relocation of the
Confederate monument from the head of the Circle to the Confederate cemetery behind the Tad Smith Coliseum through a unanimously passed Associated Student Body Senate resolution. Yet, the statue remains unmoved. Because the statue is located in the Circle, which are both Mississippi landmarks, the next step is for MDAH to issue the university a permit before the issue can be brought to IHL.
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