Thursday, June 5, 2014
The Daily
Mississippian
Vol. 102, No. 138
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Incoming freshmen taught to ‘Respect the M’ BY LOGAN KIRKLAND ltkirkla@go.olemiss.edu
The William Winter Institute of Racial Reconciliation and Mulitcultural Affairs continue to work with orientation to provide an effective session on diversity called “Respect the M.” The “Respect the M” session was introduced last year to educate incoming students on religion, race and gender relations in response to the election incident in 2012. Jennifer Stollman, academic director at the Winter Institute, said the “Respect the M” orientation session was born out of the idea to figure out how to make The University of Mississippi a more inclusive campus. “It’s sort of a welcome to the university,” Stollman said. “Here’s the lay of the land, here’s the benefits of coming to The University of Mississippi with respect to diversity.” Stollman said this session is a way to introduce students and parents to the kind of learning environment their students would be joining in order to introduce the expectations of a college campus. Stollman also said a lot of people come to school without these expectations, but many people come to the university with anxieties or harboring problematic thinking that can hinder their learning success. “If you come in with a closed mind about people who are of a different gender, sexuality, race,
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Lindsay Wright prepares the presentation for the ‘Respect the M’ session held on Monday.
ethnicity or religion you are actually cutting off a part of your learning experience,” she said. Stollman said the university is a global society, and as such has certain values and standards that have to be upheld. During the session participants talk about what the creed is and what it is not.
“The University of Mississippi is not a place to harbor sexism, homophobia, classism, prejudice or racism.” Stollman said. “We expect our students to model our mission and model the values that we hold.” This year a social media component has been introduced to the session.
Stollman said she wants to make sure that people are using social media wisely, not in a way that promotes the philosophy of inequity. “People, through either anonymity or not, were using social media to spread some really problematic views about race, class, gender and sexuality,” Stollman
said. “We don’t uphold that.” Stollman said when students going to college for the first time get to experience freedom to its fullest, but one needs to be aware of what that freedom means. “With that freedom comes a certain amount of responsibility,” Stollman said. “That responsibilSee RESPECT, PAGE 5
Cochran, McDaniel to compete in runoff BY LACEY RUSSELL dmeditor@gmail.com
After months of persistent and controversial campaigning, six-term Mississippi Republican incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran and challenger Chris McDaniel are headed to a June 24 runoff election. While the Republican primary election results were expected to be close, many people were surprised that McDaniel received more votes than Cochran, especially after last month’s scandal indirectly involving McDaniel
Opinion:
and photos of Cochran’s wife. of the state’s 1,832 preMarvin King, associate cincts showed McDaniel with professor of political science 155,040 votes, or 49.5 perat The University of Missis- cent. Cochran had 153,654, sippi, stated he believed Co- or 49 percent. The third GOP chran would come out of the candidate, Thomas Carey, had primary election victorious. 4,789 votes, or 1.5 percent, a “Now that it’s going to a small amount of support but runoff, I have to admit, my enough to prevent either of the perspective is that Chris Mc- two better-funded rivals from Daniel will probably win be- reaching the needed majority. cause his voters have more The vote count was slowed enthusiasm,” King said. by the presence of a few thou“That matters in elections. sand mailed-in ballots as well The voters that are most mo- as provisional ballots cast by tivated to turn out tend to voters who lacked identificaturn out in higher numbers.” tion. They have five days to Results from 100 percent See ELECTIONS, PAGE 5
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