The Daily Mississippian June 27, 2013

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University of Mississippi students react to Supreme Court ruling BY NICK ANDREWS @nickandrews

Cheers of “DOMA is dead” could be heard in front of the Supreme Court Wednesday in Washington, D.C., when the court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was ruled unconstitutional by a vote of 5-4. President Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law in 1996. According to the Associated Press, gay rights activists argued the law improperly denied same-sex spouses the same federal benefits as their herterosexual counterparts. According to Ole Miss Law School graduate Jesse Kelley, Bill Clinton has since said that his intention was never to create two separate kinds of marriage. “I think ( Justice) Ginsberg said that DOMA was trying to make gay marriage like the skim milk marriage and I

think that’s a pretty good way to explain it,” Kelley said. “By ruling DOMA unconstitutional, every right and benefit that heterosexual couples receive in marriage — in a state that recognizes same sex marriage — same sex couples will now receive those same rights.” Adam Blackwell, a senior public policy major at Ole Miss, was in D.C. when the Supreme Court’s ruling came down. “The mood was really exciting and hopeful,” Blackwell said. “To be honest, the ruling was pretty predictable.” Blackwell said to him it seems like younger generations are more accepting of marital rights. “The only thing that’s firm today is DOMA,” Kelley said. “It’s unconstitutional.” “People who were around CHARLES DHARAPAK | The Associated Press

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American University students Sharon Burk and Molly Wagner embrace outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Eighth annual blues music celebration returns to Waterford BY SUMMER WIGLEY sswigley@go.olemiss.edu

POSTER COURTESEY OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI HILL COUNTRY PICNIC | The Daily Mississippian

The North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic will be returning to Waterford this weekend for its eighth annual music festival, catering to North Mississippi blues and its originators. North Mississippi blues was discovered during the mid-‘90s through the recordings of R.L Burnside, Otha Turner and Junior Kimbrough. The festival is unique due to its strict North Mississippi Hill blues lineup and traditional qualities. “It is a picnic sort of like when people used to gather for the weekend, have fun, play music and visit with each other,” said the festival’s event coordinator, who asked to not be named. The picnic carries on the legacy of the North Mississippi blues founders. Through various performances and interpretation, the festival will feature a lineup of artists who have direct relations to the founders. “We have a killer lineup,”

the event coordinator said. “Saturday will actually be Blue Mountain’s last show.” Blue Mountain, which was formed in 1991 by Cary Hudson (guitar and vocals) and Laurie Stirratt (bass and harmony vocals), twin sister of Wilco bass-player John Stirratt, is a country-rock band founded in Oxford in 1991. The band reunited in the summer of 2007 after having been broken up since 2001, thereafter performing at the famed South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, as well as headlining the Double Decker Festival in 2008. The duo announced earlier this year the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic will be their final show and the band will break up after. George McConnell, a wellknown Oxford local and Vicksburg native, will also be performing at the picnic. A former band member of Widespread Panic and present owner of the 512 bed-and-breakfast in Oxford, McConnell will be performing Saturday afternoon

with his band George McConnell and The Nonchalants. For the performers, the festival is an annual homecoming away from tours and busy schedules. “All of these artists are from around this area and while they travel all over the world, they hardly ever get to be together,” the event coordinator said. “It is more like a family reunion for the artists. They don’t just perform their set. They stay for the whole weekend and bring their families.” The picnic will be held in Waterford in Marshall County at Betty Davis’ Ponderosa. Directions are available on the festival’s website. The festival will span June 28 and 29, featuring live music both days starting at 4:00 p.m. on Friday and 10:00 a.m. Saturday. The festival will run until midnight each day. Those interested in attending can either pay $25 Friday and Saturday, or they can pay $25 for a camping pass which can be for one or three nights.


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