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discussing the smoking ban Remembering the riots: The Associated Student Body sponsored a town hall meeting Wednesday night to discuss the smoking ban on campus.
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On Wednesday, a panel of people who witnessed the 1962 riots discussed the conflict at Barnard Observatory. The event was organized by the Opening the Closed Society program as part of the 50 years of integration celebration. BY MOLLY YATES mayates@go.olemiss.edu
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Quadray Kohleim, a senator whose name is on the bill, discussed the campus-wide smoking ban at a panel Wednesday night.
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The Associated Student Body hosted a town hall meeting to discuss the campus-wide smoking ban Wednesday night. At the beginning, information was given to the audience in regard to the reasoning be-
hind the smoking ban, after which the floor was opened for questions, comments and concerns. The reason behind the new smoking ban was the overall health of the students at the university. A survey was given by students on campus last year to
determine how they would feel about a smoke-free campus. “Out of 14,000 plus students on campus, only 650 responded to the survey,” said Jessica Brouckaet, a public policy sophomore and director of health promotion on See SMOKING, PAGE 5
A panel of individuals who were on The University of Mississippi campus during the integration riots gathered on Wednesday afternoon for an open group discussion about the violent events that took place on Sept. 30, 1962. The panel, moderated by associate journalism professor Dr. Kathleen Wickham, was comprised of a retired university administrator, a former faculty member, students who attended the university during the fall of 1962 and a man who was a high school junior in Oxford during the riots. Panel member Ken Wooten began the discussion. Wooten, a retired registrar and admissions dean for the university, was inside the Lyceum to assist the marshals and federal officials who were on site to
manage the growing riot. Against the initial wishes of the marshals, Wooten chose to go to the Circle and asked the students to return to their dormitories. He was struck by the scene before him. “The tear gas had already been fired,” Wooten said. “Everyone was bloody and crying from the fumes.” Wooten was then grabbed by the crowd and used as a human shield to push its way past the barricade of marshals guarding the Lyceum. Wooten recalled the state of the Lyceum once he returned that night. “You couldn’t walk down either hall of the Lyceum without having to step over a wounded man with a broken arm or a head injury from a thrown brick or a gunshot wound,” he said. At daylight, when walkSee PANEL, PAGE 5
Mississippi has highest poverty rate in America Recently released data shows that the state of Mississippi has poverty rates far above the national average. BY KAYLEIGH SKINNER kaskinne@go.olemiss.edu
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Mississippi is struggling with high rates of poverty, according to recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2011 census shows that more than 128,000 families in Mississippi live below the poverty line. The federal poverty level for a family of four is around $23,000 in income, and 22.6 percent of Mississippians were members of families whose incomes were below this figure. Additionally, the median household income in Mississippi of $36,919 fell far below the national median household income of $50,502.
Director of the Mississippi Economic Policy Center Ed Sivak said high rates of poverty force residents to struggle. “Families are doing more with less now because of the Great Recession,” Sivak said. Sivak added that economic security exists in quality education and health care, but this has been difficult for families to obtain due to tuition hikes. “Increasingly some of the fundamental blocks of economic security are becoming out of reach.” The census data also shows that more than 500,000 Mississippians did not have See POVERTY, PAGE 4
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A half century ago, James Meredith drew the world’s attention to The University of Mississippi when he became the first black man to walk onto campus as a member of the student body. After battling the administration, state legislature and even Governor Ross Barnett himself, Meredith was finally allowed to transfer from Jackson State College – after the intervention of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, T H E D A I LY
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the U.S. Marshals and thousands of members of the Mississippi National Guard. But on the last day of September in 1962, for the first time since the 1860s, our little town of Oxford found itself at war. Surrounded by 24 U.S. Marshals, Meredith safely made his way to his dormitory in Baxter Hall when a riot broke out on the Lyceum steps. In an instant, the university was engulfed in tear gas and dotted with flames as the outnumbered U.S. Marshals struggled to maintain control of the growing mob. Unaware of chaos, President John F. Kennedy went on national television at that very hour, intending to an-
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nounce the integration of Ole Miss and beg for a peaceful transition. “The eyes of the nation and all the world are upon you and upon all of us,” he said. “And the honor of you, and your state, are in the balance.” Needless to say, few men and women retained their honor that night. Cars were burned, windows were shattered and hundreds of people were injured as rioters swept across campus. The violence would leave two men dead – both killed execution-style by the crowd – before National Guard troops were able to reach the overwhelmed U.S. Marshals and regain order. The next morning, as Oxford reeled from the events
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of the day before, Meredith made his way up the Lyceum steps and registered for classes. But as monumental as this moment was, Meredith was anything but joyful. “This,” he said, “is not a happy occasion.” The day was Oct. 1, 1962 – 97 years after slavery ended, eight years after Brown v. Board of Education declared the segregation of public schools unconstitutional and 16 months after Meredith sent in his application – and The University of Mississippi had finally integrated. The first time that I ever heard about Ole Miss, it was staring up at me from the See INTEGRATION, PAGE 3
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INTEGRATION, continued from page 2 pages of a children’s picture book on racism, integration and the Civil Rights Movement. Growing up in the suburbs of St. Louis, Mo., and Philadelphia, Pa., the Civil Rights Movement received far less attention from my grade school history classes than it was justly due. It was insinuated at my schools – however incorrectly – that the racial tensions that had come to such a violent climax in the Deep South in the 1960s were virtually nonexistent in other parts of the country. It was as if some of my teachers were implying that racism itself was a purely southern phenomenon, quarantined safely below the Mason-Dixon Line. But with racism still alive and well in our midwestern city, my mother took matters into her own hands. She picked up where our school district left off, teaching us the details, triumphs and tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement. Most importantly, she taught us that racism was
not only ignorant, but also fundamentally wrong. Until I found the Croft Institute for International Studies in a Google search my junior year of high school, all I knew about Ole Miss had to do with three things: football, James Meredith and the riots in September of 1962. My first time in the state of Mississippi was for my college visit. I was apprehensive and had absolutely no idea what to expect, but I fell in love with the university that I found. Ole Miss has undergone a miraculous transformation. The university is a thriving, vibrant center of learning and acceptance compared to the source of hatred and discrimination it was 50 years ago. Black enrollment has swelled from just one brave man to over 14 percent of the student body – a respectable rate when compared to other universities across the country – and organizations like the Black Student Union that would have been unfathomable in 1962 are not only popular, but integral parts of Ole Miss campus life today. In 2000, Ole Miss made
headlines when students elected Nic Lott as the first black president of the Associated Student Body. This past spring, we elected Kimbrely Dandridge as the first black woman to hold the office, and we elected Courtney Pearson as the first black homecoming queen just a few weeks ago. Having said that, we still have a long way to go. There are many unspoken divides along racial lines at Ole Miss. A simple walk through the student union during lunch makes that point clear enough: White students tend to sit with other white students, and black students tend to sit with other black students. Many fraternities and sororities – often believed to be a student’s key to climbing the social ladder – remain segregated. And as much as I hate to admit it, in my three years at Ole Miss, I have heard racial slurs from people of every color. Ole Miss is a beautiful university with a dark past. In order to continue making progress in the next 50 years, we must address the problems that we have today and continue to look to-
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health care last year. The state has a low amount of people who receive health insurance through their employer, as well. Yunhee Chang, an Ole Miss professor and expert in demographic economics, said the state has several risk factors which make Mississippians more likely to live below the poverty level. In 2010, there were 55 births per 1000 teen women – far higher than the national average of 34.3, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. One reason for this, according to Chang, is that Mississippi-
ans typically receive a lower amount of welfare. Other factors for this high rate include age, education level and family structure, but Chang said the most prominent factor was the high teen fertility rate. “Welfare benefits – that is a cause and consequence, but it’s something we can do to lift families out of poverty,” Chang said. “What we can do to help is try to lower the risk factors like educating the teens about pregnancy and fertility and how that can hurt economically.” Sivak suggested the state avoid a “cuts-only” approach to the issue and focus on raising revenue to make education more affordable.
Freshmen receive Croft scholarships Eight freshman international studies majors have been given the prestigious Croft Scholar title, which comes with an $8,000 per year scholarship for four years.
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Mackenzie Breeland and Bradley Floore, studying at the Croft building, are two of the eight students awarded a scholarship through the Joseph C. Bancroft Charitable and Educational Fund, which awards $8,000 per year for four years.
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This year, the Croft Institute for International Studies at The University of Mississippi awarded scholarships to eight freshmen: six from Mississippi, one from Louisiana and one from Texas. The scholarships are funded through the Joseph C. Bancroft Charitable and Educational Fund and gives $8,000 per year for four years. “I knew that I wanted to be in Croft because they have such intensive and specialized programs,” said scholarship recipient Mackenzie Breeland. After applying for the scholarship, students are required to write an essay describing why Croft is the right program for them and propose a way to deal with a worldwide topic. After assessing more than 200 applicants based on resumes, transcripts, GPA and ACT scores, a six-member panel selects 18 to 20 top candidates for on-campus interviews. The panel consists of Croft
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ing across the Circle, Wooten remembered seeing “enough brick, vomit, blood, glass and anything else you can imagine” strewn across the grounds. Lyman Aldrich, who was an undergraduate student at the time, was the second panelist to tell his story. “My gosh, what happened? We’ve been taken over,” was his first thought upon re-entering the campus after returning from Ole Miss’ football game in Jackson. Aldrich thought the tensions erupted due to emotions being stirred up by local and national media. He later saw that stirring in action when a cameraman from a national news organization asked him and his friends to flip a car that had been burned because the camera crew “needed an action shot.” Gerald Wilson, the next to speak, was a university employee in 1962 and was provost from 1969-99. He spent time during the violence in a park where rioters parked their vehicles. He remembered speaking with one man who said, “I would have been here a lot earlier if I could have been. I fought in Korea and I’ll fight for my country again.” The next day at a class in Bondurant Hall, Wilson noticed a problem with residual tear gas coming in through the open windows. Bob Herring, who was a junior at University High School in 1962, spent most of the night roaming campus and watching the events unfold. Herring remembered being at his home on Faculty Row, watching Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s speech on television and hearing the tear gas canisters popping and dispensing on campus. Herring said walking onto campus was like seeing a scene from outer space. “The marshals were wearing gas masks, running around like crazy and chasing people,” he said. Closing comments of the discussion were made by audience member Effie Burt, a black woman who lived in Oxford during the time of the riots. Burt, who graduated with the very first Lafayette County integrated high school class, said that in the months after the riots, her family went to another town to purchase groceries and avoided public situations as a way to protect themselves. The event, which was held in Barnard Observatory, lasted an hour and a half and was a part of the ongoing Opening the Closed Society program being organized by the school’s Civil Rights Committee. A portion of the time was devoted to question-and-answer style discussion between the audience and the panel members.
campus. “Within the 650 survey participants, 76 percent of them wanted Ole Miss to be a smoke-free campus.” Brouckaet, one of the authors for the smoking ban policy, repeatedly informed the audience that there was an effort made to inform others about the survey, so he or she could vote. “The survey was sent through the Ole Miss website and The DM,” she said. The ASB Senate is encouraging others to give their feedback on the new ban. Camp Best, student advocate for Student Affairs, explained how the university will control the negative feedback. “The senate provides forms that people can fill out to ex-
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press his or her feelings regarding any issue,” Best said. Among the members of the audience were many people not in favor of the new smoking ban. Connor Hagan, a history senior, is unsure which side he is on. “I enjoy walking on campus
without worrying about catching smoke; however, I do think that the university took away a right that the students and faculty members have,” he said. “Now that everyone knows of the new ban, there should be another survey.” As far as what is next in regard to the new smoke-free
campus, Daniel Roberts, public policy junior, said the plans are to inform students and make sure everyone is aware of what is going on. “The next step is going to be enforcement,” he said. As of Jan. 1, 2013, citations will be given out to violators of the campus-wide smoking ban.
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SEC Football Power Poll: Week 4 By David Collier | thedmsports@gmail.com In this week’s installment, The Daily Mississippian’s sports editor David Collier will rank the 14 Southeastern Conference teams. Opponents, game times and television networks are also included for each team. For the full Power Poll, check out thedmonline.com.
1. Alabama (4-0, 1-0 SEC, 1st last week) This week: Ole Miss (3-1), 8:15 p.m., ESPN
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Freeze: Wallace to ‘try to go’ Saturday Sophomore quarterback Bo Wallace returned to practice on Wednesday afternoon, and head coach Hugh Freeze said he will try to go on Saturday against No. 1 Alabama. BY BENNETT HIPP jbhipp@go.olemiss.edu
When Ole Miss faces No. 1 Alabama on the road Saturday to open Southeastern Conference play, they’re backs are against the wall. The Rebels continue to rebuild under firstyear head coach Hugh Freeze, while the Crimson Tide look stronger than last year’s national championship team. It’s undoubtedly a tough task, but they received some good news on Wednesday when sophomore quarterback Bo Wallace returned to practice. Wallace missed Tuesday’s practice after sustaining a sprained shoulder on his throwing arm in this past Saturday’s 39-0 win over Tulane. “He did everything today,” Freeze said. “It didn’t appear that his arm strength was full, but he says he was pain free and he threw it around and did fine. He’ll try to go (Saturday), no doubt. No question after today.” Defense prepares for “physical” Alabama offense Whem asked to talk about the Alabama offense after practice on Wednesday, both head coach Hugh Freeze and co-defensive coordinator Dave Wommack used the word “physical”
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to describe the unit. “They’re very physical and they believe in playing physical football,” Freeze said. “It’s a difficult matchup for anybody that plays them. Their offense is very very good at what they do.” One of the key cogs that has allowed the Crimson Tide offense to work so well is the offensive line. This year’s line is filled with
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LEFT: Sophomore quarterback Bo Wallace returned to practice Wednesday. RIGHT: Junior wide receiver Korvic Neat
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future National Football League talents such as senior guard Chance Warmack, senior center Barrett Jones and junior tackle D.J. Fluker. Wommack said that this Alabama offensive line will be one of the best lines he’s ever coached against, comparing them to the offensive lines of the 1980 Alabama Sugar Bowl team and the 2001 Georgia Bulldogs. “They just work together so well,” Wommack said. “They’re very physical. They’re trained
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physical, but they have great steps for big men; just unbelievable agility with their feet.” Alabama is one of only nine teams in the country that hasn’t thrown an interception so far this season, and the Crimson Tide come in averaging 6.75 yards per play offensively. Junior quarterback A.J. McCarron has been allowed to do more in the passing game this season, throwing 10 touchdown passes and averaging more than 10 yards per pass attempt. McCarron and the Alabama
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offense will give the retooled Ole Miss secondary and the rest of the defense a chance to try and atone for the 66 points and 676 yard allowed against Texas. “I know they’re excited,” Freeze said. “They want to prove, particularly defensively, that we’re hopefully improving. The last time we were on a big stage and national TV, we didn’t play our best. We’ve got to improve to get what we want to get.” Other News & Notes: Freeze said after practice that junior slot receiver Korvic Neat “will not make the trip” to Alabama due to an injured groin. Freeze was hopeful about the status of senior defensive tackle Uriah Grant and freshman defensive tackle Woodrow Hamilton. “Uriah went through practice today, and hopefully he’ll be fine,” Freeze said. “Woody, I’m not sure.” Freeze also noted that junior wide receiver Philander Moore would return punts on Saturday, but junior running back Jeff Scott “is prepared to do it also.” For continuing coverage of Ole Miss football, follow @thedm_ sports and @bennetthipp on Twitter.
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