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After defeating Boise State, the Rebels polish their game before facing Vanderbilt
Community commemorates ATO house fire victims ANNA MCCOLLUM
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ug. 27 marked the 10-year anniversary of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house fire that claimed the lives of three University of Mississippi students. Wednesday the university and ATO alumni held a ceremony at 5 p.m. in ParisYates Chapel to honor those lost in the tragedy: William Townsend, Howard Stone and Jordan Williams. By 4:30 p.m., stacks of last Wednesday’s special edition of The Daily Mississippian sat atop a table just outside the chapel doors. Attendees picked up copies on their way into the building, looking over the front page and the photograph of Vida Townsend holding a picture of her son William. Max Miller, who had been ATO president of the house corporation 10 years ago, waited in the chapel lobby with former President of the Local ATO Board of Trustees Buddy Chain. “Sororities and fraternities are not usually tested like this chapter was,” Miller said. “The brotherhood was really evident among these young men, and I think this event will highlight that.”
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SEE SERVICE PAGE 3 The family of William Townsend sings ‘Amazing Grace’ during a memorial service for the 10-year anniversary of a fire at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house.
Changes to Vaught-Hemingway begin with south end zone DREW JANSEN
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The Ole Miss Athletics Foundation released plans in early August for the renovation of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium’s south end zone. The renovations include the addition of a field level club section and 30 suites. The field level club will consist of 770 bench-back seats in the first 13-15 rows of the current south end zone seating and a field level clubhouse below those seats. The benchback seating for the section
will be taken from the current student section. The renovations will not reduce the capacity of the student section for any part of the 2015 football season, according to Stephen Ponder, senior executive associate athletics director for external relations. The athletics department is considering a number of ways to compensate for the lost student seats. “We’re setting meetings now with student groups on campus; ASB, Cardinal, alumni and some others to talk about options for student
seating,” Ponder said. “Obviously, with the club going in, the section has to get wider or we have to find some other way to compensate.” Athletics director Ross Bjork commented on the department’s longterm plan for students at VaughtHemingway. “The goals for student seating be-
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It’s not that I’m just a selfabsorbed, AP-tested millennial conditioned to conflate the value of my intellectual life with how well I do in school, but, hell, I kind of am. That didn’t stop the honors college from kicking me out, though. I am no longer a Barksdale Scholar; I will not serve as student director; #MSUThesisTopics (a trending topic I helped push with my friends via OleMissProblems) might help an especially creative State student, but writing an undergraduate thesis isn’t a reality meant for me anymore. It still hurts. Late at night, in those 30 seconds before sleep, when I let past humiliation wash over me like water from a faucet over a paper towel, it’s the most spectacular failure of my life — and all this squirming guilt peppered with flashes of self-loathing because my GPA fell some tenths away from the 3.5 required to remain in good standing over there at the SMBHC. The Sally McDonnell-BarksT H E D A I LY
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dale Honors College isn’t at fault. It has to maintain some standards, after all, some academic exclusivity that guarantees that at least some of those who study within it are dedicated not only to expanding intellectually, but also maintaining the nuts and bolts of scholarship, the numbers I thought I would have achieved to save my GPA over the summer, simply because I am me. I, like many students within the honors college, was taught I would always win, by virtue of no reason other than before college, we always had. Our high school résumés, at their core, were mostly the same: leaders of clubs that don’t matter anymore, 1 percenters of test scores we forgot we lost sleep for, valedictorians of classes of people we only see when they crop up on Facebook or pass us inside Walmart at home. Our asses, dusted with the lips of past educators, sit squarely upon praise for the precociousness we don’t yet recognize has evolved into pretentiousness until we fall off of it and smack onto our faces, convinced that we’ll bleed for it forever and never recover, since
the thought of failing seemed inconceivable in the first place. And it isn’t to discount the achievements, over and otherwise, of students privileged enough to reap the awards of kicking butt scholastically, but I couldn’t help but wonder why I cared so much. I told myself the last $8000 I’ll never see of my suspended scholarship stung the most, convinced myself the loss of free printing was my biggest inconvenience. Whatever lies I told, honest self-reflection revealed to me that my academic success was suction-cupped onto my identity, like some sort of scholarly Squidward whose presence would ultimately turn malignant. I lost, I realize now, what I perceived as the only proof of my intelligence and value as a student, and at my core, I felt delegitimized. God forbid, I told myself, self-righteous and sour, I pour my energy into hustling for this place for three years of my life, only to have to restructure my entire attitude toward my collegiate existence when its presence is snatched away from me. Clarity didn’t happen until I forced myself to realize I was more than someone who used
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to be worthy of a scholarship — more than the role I played in that spot — and that was true while those roles were mine, anyway. Grades, to echo feminist icons the Powerpuff Girls, are not the most important determining factor to consider when judging the value of a person’s life, and my severance from the honors college doesn’t represent salt sown into the soil of my growth as a person. I am a whole individual, and an intelligent one, and neither I nor anyone else need any title or honor for intellectual validation. I am thankful for my time at the honors college, which was an extraordinarily happy one, but I climb daily toward fast-approaching closure. I wish I could still represent the incredible institution and enjoy the community there, but I’m comforted by the knowledge that I lost, humbled by the fact that I fell on my face and was completely denied something that I wanted. And I’m confident that I’ll be better for it. Sierra Mannie is a senior classics and English major from Ridgeland.
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continued from page 1 ginning with the 2016 season are to increase student seating capacity, provide more student-related amenities and create more convenient stadium access,” Bjork said. Rachel Dennis, junior music education major and repeat student season ticket holder, discussed the possible drawbacks of reorganizing the student section. “My concern would be that the atmosphere won’t be as fun or loud if you get the student section more spread out,” Dennis said. “But, then again, we get to go to every home game for $115. That’s crazy cheap, so we don’t really have much to complain about,” Dennis said. Ticket holders in the field level club will have access to the clubhouse with TVs, premium concession options and private lockers for personal belongings. Securing a seat in this section requires a $2,000 donation to the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation and subsequent $1,000 annual donations. These spaces are being filled on a first come, first served basis. Athletics hopes to glean necessary funding from the sales of the premium seats. Customers had reserved all of the 30 suites by December 2013. Athletics plans to put the contract out for bids in time to begin construction on the south end zone following the 2014 football season and finish the renovations before the start of the 2015 season. Following the 2015 season, the university plans to begin construction on the stadium’s north end zone. Athletics aims to finish the north end zone renovations by the start of the 2016 football season.
Ponder commented that each end zone renovation presents unique challenges. “It’s definitely a lot more construction on the other end, but we’re not having to work around anything on the north end, whereas this project involves more reshuffling,” Ponder said. According to Bjork, after both end zone renovations, the stadium’s capacity will increase its current 60,580 person capacity to more than 64,000. Ponder also explained that unlike the south end zone project, the north end zone renovations will not immediately add premium seating options, but will leave room for such additions in the future.
SERVICE continued from page 1 Chain agreed with Miller. “I think this class is closer than most,” he said. “Their ties were really strengthened through this tragedy.” UM ambassadors greeted and ushered guests into Paris-Yates Chapel, giving speakers and family members of the honorees the first pews. Seated at the front among them were Chancellor Dan Jones, Oxford Mayor Pat Patterson and Oxford Alderman Ulysses Howell. Also attending were friends of the honorees and members of the police and fire departments who had been first responders to the fire. Ruth Miller, ATO house mother at the time of the incident, was also present. Former Chancellor Robert Khayat recalled the fire as one of the saddest events he encountered at Ole Miss. He also claimed to have learned something from it. “The unique relationships
we form in college stay with us through life and death,” he said. Validating Khayat’s observations, fraternity brothers and friends of Townsend, Stone and Williams arrived, having walked together from the ATO house just down the street. The members of the Delta Psi chapter filed into pews reserved for them on the right side of the chapel. More than 300 people filled Paris-Yates Chapel. When the organ’s final note echoed through the sanctuary, the chapel bells rang at 5 and the ceremony commenced. Speakers were all ATO affiliates, excluding the Rev. Chris Robinson. Eddie Rester, who was initiated into the fraternity 25 years ago and is now Oxford University United Methodist Church’s new senior pastor, welcomed the crowd before Dewey Knight took the stage for opening remarks. Knight is the Associate Director of the Center for Student Success and First Year Experience at Ole Miss. “The good and the not so
good are part of our existence,” Knight said. “But we cannot not remember.” After readings from the books of Psalms and John and remarks by Miller thanking all those that served the ATO community, Vida Townsend approached the podium. Townsend, who has served as a member of the ATO board of trustees, spoke about love in the presence of tragedy. “We’ve learned so much,” Townsend said. “Brotherhood is greater than tragedy, actions are greater than words, and love is greater than fear.” Candles were lit for each of the three students killed in the fire and the congregation sang “Amazing Grace” to conclude the ceremony. Now, over 10 years and many ceremonies later, Miller is still grateful. “The support from the university, community and nation was incredible,” he said. Khayat acknowledges a connectedness when it comes to tragedy. “Universities are trans-generational,” he said.
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Thacker Mountain Radio returns this evening SAMANTHA ABERNATHY slaberna@go.olemiss.edu
Thacker Mountain Radio is back and is starting its lineup in a new venue with a big bang. Tonight, Thacker Mountain Radio will be moving its “living theater” to the Nutt Auditorium. This show, like all the rest, is sure to be a can’t miss with performances by classical pianist Bruce Levingston, the local band Silas Reed N’ Da Books and a reading by Karen Abbott. Known for its ability to draw a crowd and provide a good time, Thacker Mountain Radio has a great way of combining hometown familiarity with nationally ranked talent. The show offers weekly author readings and local music from the Square and Oxford. “The TMR (Thacker Mountain Radio) crowd is not the crowd
that some think of when they find out about the show,” said Kathryn McGaw, producer of Thacker Mountain Radio. “The regular TMR crowd has a more ‘party or pre-partybefore-the-Square’ attitude. We have a ton of student, local and out-oftown interaction.” Although usually set at Off Square Books, Thacker Mountain Radio will kick off this semester at the Nutt Auditorium on campus. Thacker Mountain is collaborating with the The University of Mississippi Museum, which helped the popular radio station book and prepare the unusual venue. COURTESY: THACKER MOUNTAIN “We partnered with the Karen Abbott will be on a feature author on Thacker university’s museum with Mountain Radio the hopes of attracting
both great local talent and a bigger student crowd along with our own Thacker Mountain crowd,” McGaw said. “They helped us find some of the great talent that we have performing Thursday.” Bruce Levingston is not only one of these great talents but also one of the prominent figures in contemporary music today. According to the Thacker Mountain Radio website, Levingston’s repertoire spans from the baroque works of Bach and Scarlatti and the classical and romantic masterpieces of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms to the most avant-garde works of today. The New York Times calls him “one of today’s most adventurous musicians.” “I love the show myself, and it would be awesome if some of the students might get to hear some pieces they’ve never heard before,” Levingston said. “I always
think that’s what’s so great about listening to radio programs. You always hear and learn about some cool piece of music you never even knew existed.” Levingston is the university’s artist-in-residence for both the Sally McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College and the Department of Music and looks forward to working with talented university students. However, Levingston will not be the only musical act performing at this event. The local soul and funk band Silas Reed N’ Da Books will also be showing the Thacker Mountain Radio audience a good time. The lively band led by Oxford local Silas Reed is a jam collective fed by a deep roster of talented musical personalities and combines electro, gospel, soul,
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R&B.” One of the more fascinating terms associated with the movement is PBR&B, a derivative of the Pabst Blue Ribbon brand of American lagers that markets and caters to a young, hip audience. Not unlike Twigs, many artists have stood up against allowing fans to try to fit their art into any particular mold, while more seasoned artists have switched their sounds to match the wave. Usher took a stab at it with his single “Climax,” and Willow Smith has traded in whipping her hair for a more relaxed soundscape on her new single, “8.” It doesn’t seem as if this particular trend in music plans to die anytime soon with new releases from Drake protégé PARTYNEXTDOOR, Kilo Kish, How to Dress Well and Spooky Black bringing a new twist on an age-old art form to a swarm of new listeners.
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lection used separate movements of piano, strings and hard-hitting drums that moved the record along an ambient landscape. It’s an extremely melodic ballad that remains open and airy without becoming tedious or boring. When questioned last year by Ebro Darden and Peter Rosenberg of Hot 97, an urban music radio station in New York City, whether or not the song directly inspired the output of Drake, Frank Ocean and The Weeknd immediately thereafter, TheDream humbly responded, “It’s probably a question that you’d have to ask them.” Whether or not The-Dream is willing to assume responsibility for the explosion of the sound, it is very real, and fans of the music are looking for a way to define it. Some call it hipster R&B or alternative R&B, a term that British songstress FKA Twigs shot down days ago in an interview with NME.com, stating plainly, “F*** alternative
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rock and jazz into one textured live experience. This group was formed in the summer of 2007 and has been playing ever since Reed graduated from Oxford High School. “I once saw them play in The Lyric and it was great,” said Amber Goode, senior political science major. “Their music just makes you want to move and listen.” In addition to great live music of all sorts, the Thacker Mountain Radio audience will also get a special reading from Karen Abbott, the nationally recognized author of the novel “Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy.” “I’ve never been to Oxford, and it’s an honor and a thrill to finally have my chance,” Abbott said. “Oxford has such an illustrious literary history, and I’m looking forward to experiencing that.” Nationally known for her novels “Sin in the Second City” and “American Rose” among others,
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Abbott is sure to be welcomed to the Oxford literary scene and added to the list of talent that has appeared on Thacker Mountain. “I’m grateful for any opportunity to get young people interested in history — it’s not nearly as boring as what is on your typical required reading list,” Abbott said. “My lady spies lied, cheated, fought, drank, stole, avenged, wheedled, flirted and murdered their way through the Civil War, and their stories deserve a new audience. “I’m really looking forward to it. I’ve heard it’s a great time, although I’ll probably be a little nervous at first. If anyone wants to say hello beforehand, I’ll probably be huddling over a barstool at The Library.” Thacker Mountain Radio will be live at 6 p.m. in the Nutt Auditorium with free admission. The show’s audience will also be treated to an after-show reception at The University of Mississippi Museum where they will not only be able to mingle but also get a peak at the museum’s new Bloomingdale’s Fashion Exhibit.
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Sophomore Derrick Jones splitting reps between cornerback and wide receiver CODY THOMASON
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whole lot of reps over on defense it just worked out that we got him, and now we’ll get him in there whenever we can,” Werner said. “Obviously it’ll be tough on him because he’s got to learn the whole scheme, all the signals and everything, but he knew a little bit from before, and he’ll be ready to go. I could see him getting 10-15 snaps.” Freeze emphasized that even though Jones would see some snaps at wide receiver he would still play on the other side of the ball too. “He worked with the defense too yesterday,” Freeze said. “He’ll still work in some nickel and dime and some red zone corner stuff, which is not too hard for him to learn, and we’ll steadily start trying to add something to his plate.” Fellow wide receiver FILE PHOTO BY CADY HERRING Laquon Treadwell ofSophomore Derrick Jones runs onto the field fered his assessment before the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in Atlanta of Jones seeing time at Thursday wide receiver. “Derrick can catch he’s a really good athlete.” the ball, I’ve seen it from day Werner also added that the one,” Treadwell said. “He does competition at cornerback has it naturally so he should be limited his playing time. good.” “When he wasn’t getting a
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Treadwell felt Jones had played well at cornerback, but that wide receiver offered a new opportunity for him. “He was good there too so I think that’s a good fit for him, but I think he’ll be able to play more and help the team more at the receiver spot since we have so much depth at the corner spot,” Treadwell said. Earlier in the week Freeze stressed that Jones seeing less time at cornerback wasn’t due to his own play digressing. “There are certain things he has to continue to improve on, but it’s nothing he’s done wrong. There’s just great competition there,” Freeze said. “I expect him to play a lot of football for us before his time is over.”
really kicked a bunch of field goals so these guys are good on defense and we know that from years past so its going to be a battle,” Werner said. Nkemdiche responded to the question in a similar fashion. “They play us good every year. They’re an SEC team, SEC competition, so we can’t take them lightly,” Nkemdiche said. “They got a new coordinator, a couple of new quarterbacks, so you can’t look at that and judge them. You’ve just got to go in there and say we’re going to play our game either way.”
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Rebels working out the kinks to prepare for Vanderbilt MAGGIE MITCHELL
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Bo Wallace passes the ball during practice Wednesday.
PHOTO BY: CADY HERRING
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With last week’s victory over Boise State, the Rebels are hoping to continue a winning streak into Saturday’s matchup against Vanderbilt. Head coach Hugh Freeze addressed the media following Wednesday’s afternoon practice to give a status update. “Seems like forever since we’ve played, we’ve had some good practices this week,” Freeze said. “I think our kids are focused and looking forward to a challengeable Saturday in Nashville. Had another good day today, I like the demeanor of our kids right now.” It is no secret that the offensive line struggled a bit last game to fall in sync but co-offensive coordinator Dan Werner assured the media the team has been hard at work to eliminate the kinks. “Well the big thing obviously were the penalties and the turnovers so if we clear that up it probably would have been a pretty good total game so those are the big things that we’ve been work-
ing on,” Werner said. Sophomore defensive lineman Robert Nkemdiche seemed confident that the team will play a much cleaner game this weekend compared to last. “I think I played good, defense played good, could have played better,” Nkemdiche said. “We had a couple of missed assignments, missed tackles but we gotta clean up this weekend, looking to have a better game against Vanderbilt.” The Rebels are set to play the Vanderbilt Commodores at 3 p.m. Saturday. Vanderbilt lost their season opener against Temple last Thursday 37-7. When asked about what to expect from the opponent, Werner emphasized that even with the loss, the Vanderbilt team should not be taken for granted. “They only gave up around 350 yards or even less than that on offense so you look at the score, and you think it was a blow out, but there were a lot of turnovers and Temple had a short field and
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