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Volume 106, No. 109

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Mayor calls for venue security after weekend shooting BLAKE ALSUP

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The shooting at The Lyric Oxford on Friday night will likely lead to changes for Oxford music venues. Mayor Robyn Tannehill said Tuesday evening after a Board of Aldermen meeting that she met with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office Tuesday morning to discuss how to

better provide the “quality of life and safety that people are used to in Oxford.” “You will see us in the coming weeks have some meetings where we will discuss changes to our policies and ordinances regarding entertainment venues,” Tannehill said. “None of those are decided yet, but we’ve already begun discussions about how we will change those things to ensure the safety of folks that are there.”

Tannehill was eating dinner on the Square when the shooting occurred, and said she immediately made her way over to the scene. She was there to see OPD’s response firsthand. “I don’t think that they could’ve handled it any better,” Tannehill said. “I don’t remember being that proud of any department head over the past year that I’ve been doing this job. Chief Joey East and our Oxford Police Department had the scene under control in

a matter of minutes.” Tannehill continued, praising the demeanor of officers present as well as their ability to quickly reach a peaceful resolution and their tenacity in investigating the event further. At 9:58 p.m. Friday during Double Decker Festival, a person fired a shot into the air after a fight broke out during the “Shoot Your Shot” Jersey Party hosted by Epic Entertainment at the Lyric Oxford.

Officers had already been posted outside of the Lyric for Double Decker weekend and were able to quickly respond to the incident. “Folks just started running out, so our guys started running in, and they said a guy started shooting in there,” OPD Capt. Hildon Sessums said. “All of our officers converged on the place and locked the Lyric down.” Sessums said the suspect

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Students discuss their role in Mississippi brain drain BRITTANY BROWN

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Savannah Smith will receive her degrees in journalism and public policy leadership on May 12, and by this time next year, she will be completing her first year of graduate school at New York University. Smith is one of thousands of Mississippians who will leave the state in a phenomenon known as “brain drain.” According to MerriamWebster, brain drain is defined as “the departure of educated or professional people from one country, economic sector or field for another, usually for better pay or living conditions.” Smith said she first encountered the brain drain phenomenon during a 2017 depth reporting trip to Sri Lanka with the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. After becoming enthralled by the issue, Smith decided to return to Ole Miss and complete her honors thesis on brain drain in Mississippi. “I already knew I wanted to do my thesis on higher education and the transformative power of it, but in Sri Lanka we had a lot of conversations about brain drain with people at universities,” Smith said. “I thought about that and wanted to pursue that more. We came back to Mississippi, and I talked to different professors and learned (about) how much of a problem it is here.” After successfully completing her honors thesis, titled “Brain Drain in Mississippi: Why Some of the State’s Best and Brightest are Leaving,”

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Ole Miss and Millsaps students discuss their plans for leaving or staying in Mississippi during the “Brain Drain” event at the Overby Center on Tuesday. Smith realized the culmination of her research during an open discussion at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics on Tuesday night. Smith partnered with Ole Miss alumnus and Rethink Mississippi coordinator for the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation Jake McGraw to present the numbers and some of the people most impacted by brain drain. McGraw, Smith and six student panelists from Ole Miss and

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Millsaps College in Jackson, all seniors, discussed their reasons for leaving or staying in Mississippi after graduation. According to McGraw and Smith, between 2010 and 2017, Mississippi lost a population of nearly 40,000, which is larger than the population of Meridian, the sixth-largest city in the state. Between 2010 and 2016, Mississippi has lost more millennials than has any other state in the country – a statewide net loss of nearly

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four percent. Most of the people who are leaving the state are those with bachelor’s and master’s degrees. “Brain drain has deep financial costs, social costs, political costs, personal and human costs,” McGraw said. Many Mississippians relocate to Texas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina and South Carolina, according to McGraw. He said Mississippi sees a net positive immigration of people from

‘Upstairs Inferno,’ which explores a 1973 massacre, screens tonight at the Powerhouse

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Louisiana and Tennessee. Brady Ruffin, one of the panelists and a senior integrated marketing communications major, will be moving to Arkansas to pursue a master’s degree at the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock. “I really want to make the best impact I can, and I want to be well-equipped. For what I want to do, (University of Arkansas-

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Working as copy chief of The Daily Mississippian the past two years easily takes the cake for being the most influential and significant experience of my time at Ole Miss. Many people come to college knowing exactly what they want to study and what they want to do with their lives, but I didn’t have a clue when I decided to attend Ole Miss. I had fallen in love with Oxford, the Southern charm,

the football culture and the campus – that was all that mattered to 18-year-old me. I didn’t mind that I was five hours from home and didn’t know anybody. At the end of my freshman year, I felt like I needed to hurry up and declare my major. I knew I liked to write, so I chose journalism. I signed up to take Journalism 101 during May intersession so that I’d have an excuse to stay in Oxford after the spring semester ended. In that class, I learned about the different types of jobs that journalists do. Copy editing stuck out to me. I’d always been good with grammar and English – friends in high school always asked me to proofread their papers. I knew I wanted to pursue something that would allow me to use my red pen and my skills for something worthwhile and was related to my major, and I was eager to try it out. I started working as a copy

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editor at The Daily Mississippian the winter of my sophomore year. I absolutely loved it. When editorial staff applications came out a few months later, I applied to be copy chief and was chosen for the position. I had no idea how much work and responsibility I’d signed up for, but I wouldn’t change a thing about my experience. It taught me more than any class ever could have. I can’t imagine how different my college experience would’ve been if I hadn’t worked at The DM, and I don’t know if I ever would’ve developed such a strong love of journalism if I hadn’t been directly involved with it on a daily basis while studying it. As for the coworkers who quickly became my closest friends, I can’t begin to express how grateful and honored I am to have worked with such talented people. We put together some amazing newspapers. Look-

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ing back at the Red Zone, MLK50 and mental health special editions – as well as the routine daily papers – we have a lot to be proud of. I had no idea how much this job would make me grow – not only as a journalist but also as a person. For that, I give credit to The Daily Mississippian and the people who’ve worked there during the past few years. I can only hope that whatever I do next teaches me as much and is as rewarding as working at The DM was, but that’s setting a pretty high bar. In his 2005 commencement address at Stanford, Steve Jobs said, “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” That’s exactly what working at The Daily Mississippian was for me, and I’m so grateful for it.

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BRAIN DRAIN

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Little Rock) is the best option for me,” Ruffin said. “I really love and respect Mississippi, and I want to come back, but the opportunities offered to me elsewhere are more substantial and impactful.” Other panelists expressed similar sentiments. Terrence Johnson and Alexis Neely, both senior journalism majors, will be moving to Boston for graduate school and Washington for work, respectively. “Mississippi is not a media mecca. I want to have a very substantial life and career in media, and I don’t think Mississippi can provide it to the caliber I want, but the state needs to show everyone that it’s a place where they can see themselves be supported, involved, cared for and loved,” Johnson said. “Mississippi doesn’t do a good job of showing its residents that.” Another panelist, Noah Barbieri, is a senior studying economics, math and philosophy at Millsaps College. He will also be contributing to brain drain as a recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship. Barbieri will attend the University of Oxford in England to pursue a master’s degree in economics. He said he is leaving Mississippi out of necessity for ,education, but he also said the

was standing on the first floor of the Lyric underneath one of the balconies when he fired the shot. No one was hit by the bullet, and it lodged into the concrete under the balcony. According to Sessums, the only injury during the event was sustained by a man who fell onto broken bottles that had been dropped by fleeing partygoers. Following the shooting, OPD continued to provide its usual security. “We work Double Decker like a football weekend, and we cover all the way from 4 a.m. on Saturday till the last person leaves the square Sunday morning,” Sessums said. Two suspects have been identified in surveillance photos released by OPD in the days following the shooting. One was wearing a white No. 23 Cleveland Cavaliers jersey, and the other was wearing a North Carolina Tar Heels jersey. OPD also released photos of the vehicle the two men were in, which they identified as an “older model Chevrolet Tahoe.” On Tuesday afternoon Sessums said, “We don’t have anything further to put out at this time,” though he hopes

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Savannah Smith leads the “Brain Drain” program at the Overby Center on Tuesday. The discussion focused on how millennial student talent is leaving Mississippi for opportunities elsewhere. state should do more keep educated people within its borders. “I think people from our generation are looking to move to a place where people are moving forward. We need to make this an exciting place where exciting things are happening,” Barbieri said. “We need to give people an opportunity to be a part of something.” Only two of the six panelists plan to remain in Mississippi after graduation, both of whom will do so as a part of the Mississippi Teacher Corps. Alexis Smith, an Ole Miss senior studying international studies and Spanish, and Kendall Hardy, a Millsaps senior studying political science, will both be teach-

ing at public high schools across Mississippi. Alexis Smith said she feels a personal duty to give back to the state’s education system, however, she said she would, at some point, pursue further studies outside of the state. “I do intend to leave the state for a while, simply because there are no Ph.D. programs for what I want to do,” Alexis Smith said. “I think the state should provide more for the expansion of professional and academic opportunities throughout state, create a state where all people feel they can belong and improve infrastructure so businesses can come here.”

people will come forward with more information. “The place was packed, so we know folks were taking pictures,” Sessums said. Anyone with photos from the party or information about the shooting is encouraged to contact OPD at 662-232-2400 or CrimeStoppers at 662-2348477. Although exact numbers haven’t been confirmed yet, Tannehill and Visit Oxford director Mary Allyn Hedges believe this year’s Double Decker Festival was likely the biggest yet. “I’ve been to 23 (of the festivals), and I don’t think there is any question that this was the largest crowd that we’ve had,” Tannehill said. “We have a combination of the best entertainment we’ve ever had, the best art vendors we’ve ever had (and) a partnership with the Student Activities Association, which I think was tremendous.” Tannehill said gun violence issues are prevalent every time someone turns on the news, but in Oxford they are not, and city government is determined to keep it that way. “People who don’t do it right end up changing the rules for everybody,” Tannehill. “That’s the case in everything, and that’s what you’ll see happen here... It’s unfortunate, but it’s going to happen soon.”

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The week of Commencement, pick up your cap and gowns during the following hours: • Tuesday, May 8 from 9:00 am-4:00 pm at the Tad Smith Coliseum Concourse • Wednesday, May 9 from 9:00 am-4:00 pm at the Tad Smith Coliseum Concourse • Thursday, May 10 from 9:00 am-6:00 pm at the Tad Smith Coliseum Concourse • Friday, May 11 from 9:00 am-4:00 pm at the Tad Smith Coliseum Concourse • Saturday, May 12 from 7:30 am-9:00 am at the Jackson Avenue Center (JAC) Commencement.olemiss.edu

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Documentary depicts historic LGBT massacre ‘

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The Oxford Film Festival and the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies will host a free screening of the 2015 documentary “Upstairs Inferno” and a post-screening discussion at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Powerhouse as part of Oxford’s Pride Week celebration. “Upstairs Inferno” recounts the arson of a New Orleans gay bar called the Up Stairs Lounge. The arson occurred on June 24, 1973, and for 40 years it was the largest massacre the American gay community had ever experienced. For many Americans, however, the story of the Up Stairs Lounge massacre remained unknown for decades. “I had never heard of it, and I was shocked. This was the largest gay massacre in U.S. history, and I thought I knew my gay history,” the film’s director Robert Camina said. “I asked around to all my friends and colleagues (to see) if they had heard of it, and no, they hadn’t. So I decided that I would take on the project of

telling the Up Stairs Lounge story.” Camina is not alone in his hopes that the screening will spread visibility about the LBGTQ community’s history. The Oxford Film Festival is excited to contribute to LGBTQ visibility, as well. “I think a film such as this specifically takes a look at historical events that have impacted the LGBTQ community and how we can learn from it, moving forward,” Oxford Film Festival executive director Melanie Addington said. “I think most people are aware of what happened in Orlando at Pulse but may not know the history of this event and could learn something from it.” “Upstairs Inferno” is not Camina’s first venture into documenting attacks against the gay community. His first film, “Raid of the Rainbow Lounge,” explored a 2009 raid of a gay bar in Fort Worth, Texas, that resulted in the injury of many patrons. Despite the short time since the Rainbow Lounge raid, Camina recognizes the massive strides that the U.S. has made since the attack on the Up Stairs Lounge.

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“In 1973 people could not openly grieve the loss of their friends in the fire because if they somehow revealed at work that they were grieving, it would raise the questions: ‘How do you know someone at a gay bar? Are you gay?’” Camina said. “At that time, there was so much to lose, so you had to suppress that grief, but in 2009 there were protests in the streets.” For Camina and the Oxford Film Festival, involving themselves in local cultural events such as Oxford’s

Pride celebrations is a crucial way to contribute to the growing trend of acceptance in the U.S. “We are so happy to partner with UM Pride Network and Sarah Isom Center every year on the Pride weekend and, with our new grant from the Academy of Arts and Sciences (Oscars), to expand our LGBTQ films at our festival in February,” Addington said. Camina hopes that events like Oxford Pride Weekend and the screening of “Upstairs Inferno” inspire

a sense of togetherness to heal the trauma that the LGBTQ community has faced throughout its long and troubled past. “I hope that compassion is the theme that people emerge with, because in the end, despite our religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation, we are more alike than we are different,” Camina said. “I think that if we recognize that we are all more alike than we are different, we will all be in a much better place.”

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‘Handmaid’s Tale’ explores patriarchy in season two The second season of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a Hulu series based on the eponymous 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, started streaming last week. Its plot provides a haunting look into a dystopian American society called “Gilead” that is ruled by a totalitarian, radical-Christian patriarchy. After a large terrorist attack on the U.S. government, the environment is left polluted and birth rates are declining due to rising infertility. A small group of wealthy men establishes martial law, gradually gains power and creates a new theonomy in which they collect all the fertile women and enslave them as “handmaids.” In order to ensure that children are born, the ruling patriarchs, who refer to themselves as “commanders,” systematically rape the handmaids in front of their wives during a monthly “ceremony.” In the television show, rape is justified in the ceremony through the Old Testament reading of Genesis 30:1, in which Rachel could not have children, so she offered her maid Bilhah to her husband, Jacob.

If a handmaid gives birth, she immediately gives the newborn to her commander’s wife and then moves on to another household – she is not treated as a human being but, rather, as an incubator. The handmaid’s only value is determined by her ability to reproduce, and if she does not embrace her God-given gift of fertility, she is deemed “unwoman” and sent to the colonies, which are outlying areas akin to labor camps. This exemplifies the notion that to be a woman, one must dedicate her life to reproduction. The most riveting parts of the second season are the flashbacks that help the audience understand how Gilead came to exist. One scene depicts the protagonist, June, at work before the overthrow of the government. She receives a phone call from a nurse at her daughter’s elementary school who tells her that her daughter, Hannah, has a high temperature and has been sent to the hospital. “A child is required to be fever free for 48 hours before she can return to school,” the school nurse says. “When we couldn’t reach you, we called an ambulance. The state has policies; we couldn’t take any chances.”

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Hannah ends up having a harmless virus, but during this interaction, the hospital nurse questions June’s ability as a mother instead of sharing joy about the child’s well-being. “Hannah is so sweet. You’re really blessed,” the nurse tells June, subtly hinting that June should be grateful to have a child. “The school was having a hard time reaching you today,” the nurse continues. When June says she went back to full-time work 10 months after her daughter was born, the nurse looks at her disapprovingly, suggesting that, as a mother, June’s happiness should depend entirely upon nurturing her child and not at all upon her career. “What kind of arrangements do you have to take care of your child if she needs to stay home from school?” the nurse asks

June, who replies that she or her husband would stay home from work with their daughter. The nurse, however, accuses June of medicating Hannah with Tylenol to bypass the school’s fever policy and avoid missing work that day. “I understand we have busy lives, but children are so precious. We have to make certain that they are in a safe home environment with fit parents,” the nurse says. This statement clearly conveys the Gilead belief that children are the most valuable resource in society and that a mother who has a career is not a “fit parent.” Instead, Gilead only considers a commander and his wife, which constitute a wealthy, powerful, heterosexual couple of the highest social class, to be fit parents. In addition, the common

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belief that genetic relation determines one’s parenthood is completely discarded. In Gilead, even though the infertile wife is not genetically related to the handmaid’s baby, she acts as the child’s mother, which indicates that a competent mother is not one who is genetically related to her child but, rather, is one who has money, power, time and the desire to fully commit to being a stay-at-home mom. Though a work of speculative fiction, “The Handmaid’s Tale” has eerie similarities to our current society that elicit questions about that society. Today, we are all in support of child protective services. We want to ensure that innocent children are not neglected by their parents. The question remains: how do we determine what is “neglect?” Nowadays, in the eyes of the law, an unstable, drug-addicted single parent is not deemed fit to take care of his or her children. However, as birth rates decrease and the value placed on babies increases, could the definition of “unfit” one day extend to include parents with full-time jobs? This second season of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” begs the viewer to consider this question as well as others about the future of society.

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“Tales as Old as Time: The Origins of Selected Fairy Tales and their Legacies in Popular Culture”

“A Comparative Study of American and French Fashion Conspicuous Consumption Habits on Instagram”

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“Vision Without Borders: Life, Lessons, and Leadership in Engineers Without Borders”

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“In the Shape of a Woman”

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Patterson ruled eligible for 2018 Michigan season

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Quarterback Shea Patterson passes downfield during the 2017 game versus Auburn. Patterson went 34-for-51, passing for 346 yards and two TDs during the game. Auburn won 44-23.

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The NCAA’s ruling that Shea Patterson will be eligible for the Wolverine’s 2018 season comes after weeks of uncertainty over whether or not the NCAA would waive the one year penalty that is usually associated with a transfer. Ole Miss filed an appeal to reverse Patterson’s 2018 eligibility earlier this semester and the NCAA released its decision Friday. The NCAA Division I Council and Council Standing Committees met April 16-18 before releasing a comprehensive report outlining four criteria which must be met in order to allow a one-time transfer without the waiting period. In summation, the athlete must be in good academic standing, must be on track to fulfill a degree, the transfer must not be opposed by the

during his seven games at Ole Miss. Although no transfers are locked into their starting roles, Michigan should certainly improve from its mediocre 8-5 2017 season after Jim Harbaugh’s poaching run that attracted the likes of seven Ole Miss Rebels. After promising big things when he took the job, Harbaugh must deliver to meet high expectations, or he, too, will go down in a long list of coaches that have failed to return Michigan to its end-ofyear spotlight. His contract expires at the end of the 2021 season, so he’s got time to right the ship. However, another mediocre season might see him landing in the hot seat. Shea Patterson’s time in Oxford has come to an end, but he will be watched closely by Rebel fans for the next few years as the football world waits to see if the Harbaugh-Patterson duo will restore Michigan to its former glory or crumble altogether. Rebel fans who still have a bad taste in their mouths from Harbaugh’s poaching will certainly be hoping for the latter.

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The 11th annual Chickfil-A Peach Bowl Challenge concluded Tuesday afternoon with the third straight victory from the Ole Miss team. Ole Miss Football head coach Matt Luke and College Football Hall of Famer Wesley Walls teamed up to bring Ole Miss the trophy for the third year in a row. The golfing tournament features eleven teams comprised of a university’s coach and a celebrity alumnus of that university. Finishing the tournament at a staggering eleven under par, Luke and Walls beat out the likes of huge names in the sports world such as Nick Saban, Mark Ingram, Dabo Swinney, Larry Fedora and Roy Williams. “I never felt like we had it under control, but we were making some putts. There was maybe the long par 3 where we ran in a birdie, and that was probably the turning point right there,” said Luke. “With the Chickfil-A Peach Bowl being the most charitable bowl game, it is truly an honor to be out here.” The first place trophy comes with a prize check of $110,000, which will be split between the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and an endowed scholar-

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Matt Luke and Wesley Walls pose with Peach Bowl Challenge trophy after winning the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge at Reynolds Lake Oconee resort golf course on Sunday. ship at the University of Mississippi. The victory by Luke and the former Ole Miss tight end marks the first-ever three-peat in the history of the event. The whole $650,000 purse is donated to endowed scholarships and charitable organiza-

tions chosen by the coaches who receive prize money. Walls, a four-time All-Pro tight end and one-time Super Bowl Champion during his 14 years in the NFL, had high praise for Luke’s play during the tournament. “I think we ham-andegged it perfectly. When

I was in trouble, Matt would hit a great shot. To be honest with you, when you’re rolling the putter well in a tournament format like this, you have a chance to win. He was dead on – bullseye with that putter,” Walls said. In a tournament that pits coaches against their rivals in a completely new format, Luke has continued Ole Miss’ tradition of victory at the annual tournament held at the Reynolds Lake Oconee resort golf course

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