THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Thursday, September 4, 2014
T H E ST U D E N T N E W S PA P E R O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I S S I S S I P P I
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SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911
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Volume 103, No. 8
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After defeating Boise State, the Rebels polish their game before facing Vanderbilt
Community commemorates ATO house fire victims ANNA MCCOLLUM
aemccoll@go.olemiss.edu
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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.”
PHOTO BY: THOMAS GRANING
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
ajjansen@go.olemiss.edu
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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