The Daily Mississippian – September 27, 2013

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McBeth, Pyron win personality election run-offs

By Pete Porter tjporter@go.olemiss.edu

The Associated Student Body announced the results of the 201314 run-off election for Mr. Ole Miss and Homecoming Queen last night on the steps of the Lyceum. Public policy leadership senior Rob Pyron won the title of Mr. Ole Miss and public policy leadership senior Megan McBeth was elected Homecoming Queen.

According to the election results announced by ASB Attorney General Rob Pillow, Pyron received 2,020 votes, or 51.1 percent, while senior print journalism major Houston Brock received 1,933 votes, or 48.89 percent.

McBeth received 2,306 votes, or 58.61 percent, compared to senior public policy leadership major Madison Coburn’s 1,628 votes, or 41.38 percent.

“It’s really exciting,” Pyron said.

“It’s something that I’ve looked forward to since freshman year, I’m honored to represent the students of Ole Miss, and I’m ready to get working with KayKay to find a community service project that gives back to the Oxford community and to this university.”

Pyron said winning the title is extra special being a native Mississippian.

“It’s something about being here in the state of Mississippi and getting to represent the public institution and also in a way represent the the state,” he said. “It’s an honor and I will do my best to fulfill this position.”

McBeth gave credit to those standing behind her throughout the campaign.

“I am at a loss of words right now. I could not have done this without my Ole Miss family,” McBeth said. “My sisters, my friends, my family I just want to thank everyone so much for their support and encouragement. I am just so ecstatic to represent Ole Miss right now as our Homecoming Queen.”

Brock gave his reaction to the close finish to the election.

“Really close, but it’s what I expected,” Brock said. “Rob Pyron, I’ve known him since my junior year of high school, played football with him — I have a lot of respect for that guy and he deserves it.”

Caty Cambron and Hawley Martin contributed to this article.

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Senior Megan McBeth celebrates with supporters and friends after being elected Homecoming Queen Thursday evening.

Good Food for Oxford Schools in need of funds

By Caitlin Keith cakeith@go.olemiss.edu

Sunny Young, director of Good Food for Oxford Schools, is trying to raise $60,000 to keep the program going for the 201314 school year.

Good Food for Oxford Schools, a program that seeks to inform students in the Oxford School District on nutrition while also bringing locally farmed fruits and vegetables to cafeteria trays, is the first of its kind in Mississippi.

The initiative began in January through the USDA Farm to School grant. The grant essentially happens in two stages: planning and implementation. So far, the program has survived on money given through the planning stage of the grant, but that money will run out by the end of November.

Because government funding cycles were off this year, there’s a delay on when Young will be able

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to apply for the implementation grant, which would take effect next school year.

This means Young will have to raise the money needed in order to keep the program alive for the remaining school year.

“We need $60,000 by December 1 to keep it going,” Young said.

The school district has agreed to donate, but because there are other projects in the works, Young was told by Oxford School District Superintendent Brian Harvey that the amount will not exceed $10,000.

“We’ve been able to accomplish so much in so little time with very little marketing,” Young said.

“I don’t want to see our progress end simply because we weren’t able to raise the money in time.”

Since January, Good Food for Oxford Schools has established relationships with eight local farmers to bring fresh produce to the school district. It has add-

ed two greenhouses to Oxford Middle School and established a food club at Oxford High School, where two club leaders were selected to attend a food summit in Los Angeles over the summer, through funds raised by the program.

Through a partnership with Eating Good … and Moving Like We Should, a grant project

by The University of Mississippi Nutrition and Hospitality Management department, Good Food for Oxford Schools has been able to create a garden at Oxford Elementary.

Young has plans to create two more gardens at Bramlett Elementary and Della Davidson by this fall.

“The menus have changed also,” Young said. “Completely.

There’s healthy options now. And no chicken nuggets.”

Elly Purdon, a fourth-grader at Della Davidson Elementary, said she likes the menu changes made

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by Young and her team.

“My favorite is the strawberry yogurt!” Purdon said. “GFOS is pretty cool.”

In addition to a healthier menu, Young created the Harvest of the Month project, through which students in the district see a different local fruit or vegetable on their cafeteria trays each month.

September’s featured fruit is watermelon, which means 70 watermelons are given from a local farm for all students in the district.

“It takes a lot of local produce to feed all the students in the district,” Young said. “We’re working to get more farms involved so we can make local foods part of the everyday menu, as opposed to just a special treat.”

But November is fast approaching, and Young is hoping that Oxford residents will rise to the challenge to help Good Food for Oxford Schools raise the money it needs to continue.

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Oxford chef John Currence is one fan of the program who has agreed to do what he can to help keep the program around next year.

“The reason I got involved is because, sort of across the board, our food is killing us,” Currence said. “And if we don’t change the way we eat, particularly the way that we’re feeding our children, this epidemic of obesity will topple the health care system.”

Currence, who recently bought Lamar Lounge, has decided to turn the restaurant into a nonprofit, with proceeds going toward a different local children’s charity each year. Good Food for Oxford Schools will be the first to receive funds from the restaurant.

“We have an opportunity to make a change,” Currence said.

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Respecting humanity

By: Jay Nogami

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On Sept. 17, 2001, President George W. Bush gave a speech at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. In this speech so soon after a tragedy, he said, “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace, they represent evil and war.”

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something many Americans forget. Islam is not the problem. Just because someone looks like someone who is bad, or shares a religion with someone who is bad, does not mean that they are a bad person. We must respect people as people.

Someone is not lesser because they call their God by the name of Allah. This is a country that does not believe in discrimination, yet we still see mainstream arguments that people who look like Arabs or Muslims should be singled out.

Recently, I was watching a documentary where at one point a man went to the home of a family of Iraqi immigrants.

This is a family of American

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citizens. They fled Iraq due to terrible circumstances. Yet even today people will come up to them in the streets and call them terrorists. People will tell them to go back to their own country. Yet to them, their “own country” is the United States.

When they return to Iraq, they are seen as Americans, not as Iraqis. They have started life anew in a new country. In their new home. And the father of this family would explain to people that they were in fact American citizens. That they had American passports. Only then would some people start to treat him as a human being.

For some, it takes a piece of

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paper to treat someone as a human. This man being an American citizen did not make him a better person; it does not make him any different from who he was. Yet that was what it took to gain a stranger’s approval to even exist. This is only one example of what happens to the millions of Muslims who are also Americans.

We must all remember that a religion does not make a person. Regardless of faith, gender, race, creed or sexuality, a human being is a human being.

It is wrong to characterize an entire community due to the actions of individuals in that See HUMANITY, PAGE 3

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The heartless party By: Sean Higgins smhiggin@go.olemiss.edu

Republicans are driving their party off a cliff. House Republicans recently voted to slash funding for food stamps, and this week tea party extremists are attempting to hold the government hostage to a shutdown unless Obamacare is defunded.

Why are Republicans so adamantly opposed to any funding for social programs?

The only explanation is that they simply don’t care. Congressional Republicans have done nothing to prove otherwise.

From Congressman Paul Ryan’s draconian budget to Senator Ted Cruz’s fake Obamacare “filibuster,” the Republican Party prioritizes the top 1 percent over the rest of us every single chance it gets.

Last Thursday, the House of Representatives voted to cut $40 billion from food stamps over the next 10 years. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the GOP cuts will bump approximately four million people off food stamps next year, with an ad-

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ditional 2.8 million losing them each year on average over the next decade. Additionally, an estimated 210,000 children will lose access to free school lunch programs and 55,000 jobs will be lost in the first year of cuts alone. Make no mistake; Americans will starve if the House GOP gets its way.

Republicans love to have this image of — to invoke Reagan — a “welfare queen” buying filet mignon with her EBT card, but the problem becomes the GOP’s incredibly false sense of reality. Unbeknownst to many in the Grand Old Party, the food stamp program provides on average $133 per month.

Last year, the average food stamp benefits were $4.45 per day. Is putting food on the tables of hungry Americans wasteful spending?

In addition to the war on the hungry, congressional Republicans are playing politics with health care. Tea party extremists have threatened to shut down the government unless Democrats agree to cut Obamacare funding from the continuing resolution.

If you were watching Fox News, you probably didn’t hear that when uninsured Americans begin enrolling in Obamacare’s new health care exchanges on Oct. 1, the overwhelming majority — 95 percent — will face health care premiums that are on average 16 percent lower than the government had previously projected. In some states like New York, premiums have fallen nearly 50 percent.

But Republicans like Ted Cruz are fighting to keep the status quo where the uninsured can only get care at times of emergency care. Republicans are fighting for a world where insurance companies can discriminate against a patient for pre-existing conditions and raise prices on consumers to give a bonus to the CEO. Thanks to Obamacare, insurance companies cannot discriminate or deny coverage to the 129 million Americans living with pre-existing conditions. Nearly 60 percent of Americans are against defunding Obamacare — so why doesn’t the GOP listen to the public?

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community. I hope that all of us can understand why that is wrong. Christians do not want to be judged as not caring for children because of the actions of Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints in Texas who regularly abused minors. In the same way, Muslims do not want to be judged by the actions of extremists.

My hope in writing this is the same hope that George W. Bush had in giving his speech 12 years ago: treat each other with respect. We might have different religions, we might look different, we might speak differently, but that doesn’t matter. We are humans. We owe it to ourselves to treat others as humans.

I leave you with more words from President George W. Bush.

“Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don’t represent the best of America.

They represent the worst of humankind. And they should be ashamed of that kind of behavSean Higgins is a junior political ior.” science major from Brookings, S.D. Jay Nogami is a senior public policy leadership major from Denver, Colo.

Republicans self-destruct. But they’re damaging our country and the lives of millions of Americans on their way down.

How can a party consciously cut food stamps when millions of Americans will go hungry without that safety net? How can a party fight against health care coverage when thousands of Americans die each year due to the lack of health insurance?

Republicans love to thump their Bibles at gay people fighting for the right to marry while at the same time they turn their backs on the poor. Proverbs 14:31 reads, “He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.” Republican policies toward the needy will negatively impact millions of Americans.

This mean-spirited class warfare must stop — voters will not forget the heartless, cold policies supported by congressional Republicans.

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Escaping the sidewalk mob mentality

By Phil McCausland pjmccaus@go.olemiss.edu

Was anyone else disappointed that these personality elections weren’t decided Tuesday? With this runoff business we had to endure another two days of: “Hey! Have you voted today?

Well you should totes vote for _____!”

And then the election results were announced, and there was a sudden outpour of emotion that was stunning. Girls bawling with joy or disappointment, guys peering around aimlessly or high-fiving with orange-slice smiles.

There’s something strange about this culture. This culture where I am told to vote for people not based on their merits or what they represent but because a whole bunch of folks have surrounded me on the sidewalk and are shouting at me to support one gentleman or lady over another.

The Ole Miss Homecoming Queen, Mr. Ole Miss and Miss Ole Miss should represent more to the Ole Miss community than just a pure popularity contest. I feel as though we ought to elect people who don’t just have the highest GPA in their fraternity or sorority, but instead we should consider people who contribute to Ole Miss and Oxford the most.

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has some criteria. What is the criteria to be Mr./Miss Ole Miss or the Ole Miss Homecoming Queen? Very little. The criteria to run for Mr./Miss Ole Miss is a 3.0 GPA, 60 semester hours and 10 hours of community service in the year before the election. The homecoming queen only has to have a 2.0 GPA. Shouldn’t we ask for more

from the people that carry the title of our university? Shouldn’t we ask what their contributions have been? Ten hours of community service within a year isn’t exactly impressive. The honors college requires its students to do 10 hours per semester.

All I ask is that before we vote for somebody, we ask who they are. Are you just clicking a

name because someone told you to? Or are you picking someone because they’re the best choice.

It’s something to consider within personality elections and in the future, as well.

Phil McCausland is an English senior from Carlisle, Pa. Follow him on Twitter @phillmccausland.

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start yanking soda machines out of schools, so we have to take our victories where we can get them.”

According to Currence, the real challenge in Mississippi is getting people involved and changing the way they think.

“I think the important thing is that we target educating kids,” Currence said. “If we can get a system like GFOS in place and document results here, it’s easier making advances in other cities.

And ultimately the whole state.”

The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at Ole Miss has pledged to donate $1,000 to Good Food for Oxford Schools and has challenged other departments on campus to do the same.

Susan Glisson, executive director of the institute, cited a recent study by the USDA that named Mississippi as one of the worst 11 states in the country regarding food security.

“That means our most precious resources, our children, and far too many adults are not getting the nutritional food they need to lead healthy lives,” Glisson said.

This is not the first time Mississippi has been spotlighted for poor nutrition. It remains on the list of the most obese states in the nation, and CDC statistics show that many of these are children.

“The amazing work being done by Sunny Young and the Oxford school system is exactly the kind of local approach that can end those dire statistics,” Glisson said. “We all need to do our part to support this great work.”

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Four Downs: Alabama vs. Ole Miss In this week’s edition of Four Downs, The Daily Mississippian football beat writers John Luke McCord and Matt Sigler and sports editor David Collier answer four questions regarding the week’s matchup.

1. How much of an impact will Vince Sanders’ return have on the offense this week?

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John Luke McCord (@JLgrindin): Vince Sanders’ return is huge for the Rebels. It is almost the equivalent of adding another player of the value that Laquon Treadwell has been this season. I say that because the Rebels now have another playmaker in the slot, as Ja-Mes Logan will return

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David Collier (@DavidLCollier): This week, it may not matter, but down the road, I think it’s huge. The Rebels already have put up points in bunches this season, but the run game has been a big reason for it. The passing game has been good, but they haven’t had to win a game by themselves just yet. Adding Sanders will make that task easier when it comes.

2. Do you think the bye week hurt or helped Ole Miss with the No. 1 team waiting afterwards?

Sigler: Definitely helped. This was a team that needed to get healthy and they were able to do so during the bye. Also, any time you’ve got the No. 1 team in the country on the schedule, who wouldn’t mind an extra week of game planning?

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McCord: I think Wallace said what any quarterback of a 3-0 team with a high-powered offense would say. Arguably, the Rebels do have the best receiver corps in the SEC. I think Wallace was being a leader and showing his teammates love. I don’t think he was trying to downplay any other team.

Collier: Absolutely not. I was there, and nothing he said was out of line at all. I don’t buy that a team like Alabama, who has won back-to-back national titles, needs “bulletin board material” to get motivated. I think the “No. 1” in front of their name and the fivestar athletes sitting on the sidelines are motivation enough for the starters.

what must happen for the Rebels to be in it in the fourth quarter?

Sigler: I think Ole Miss is ready to stand toe to toe with Alabama.

For them to win this game, I think they will have to jump out early like they did against Texas, but this time play with the lead better.

McCord: The Rebels are ready for this challenge. Even had the game been close in the fourth quarter last season, I believe they would have found a way to lose the game. This year, I think they are very capable of winning if this game is close late. For them to win, A.J. McCarron must have a very un-McCarron-like day, and they must win the turnover battle.

Collier: I think they’re ready to compete, but not win one of these slugfests just yet. Ole Miss is improved, but the Crimson Tide have so many ways they can beat you, it’s tough to come out on top, especially on the road. For it to happen, the Rebels need to force turnovers, capitalize on every turnover and take care of the ball.

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Rebels look to take down top dog Alabama

By Matt Sigler mcsigler@go.olemiss.edu

No. 21 Ole Miss hasn’t had the greatest track record against No. 1 Alabama throughout the years, but Saturday the Rebels (3-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) are looking to take down the Crimson Tide (3-0) in Tuscaloosa.

The meeting is the 61st of the series with Alabama leading the series 46-9-2. Despite this, head coach Hugh Freeze is excited to bring his team into Bryant-Denny Stadium and take a shot at Alabama.

“It doesn’t get any more difficult than to go over to Alabama and play on a Saturday night,” Freeze said. “For several years now, Alabama has been the standard to which you measure yourself in this conference. That hasn’t changed.

It’s another opportunity for us to measure ourselves and see where we are.

“I’m OK with the results as long as our best effort is put forth. I expect our kids to do that. They’re excited about the opportunity.”

The Rebels are coming off a bye week, while the Crimson Tide took down Colorado State 31-6 last week. The bye could prove to be a critical asset for Ole Miss, after having some players knocked

out by injury earlier in the season.

A few big names will be looking to return this weekend including sophomore linebacker Denzel Nkemdiche and junior wide receiver Vince Sanders. Nkemdiche is getting over a meniscus injury, and Sanders is returning to action after breaking his collarbone.

“Vince will play,” Freeze said.

“We’ll incorporate him in just like we would anybody. He’ll be ready to go.”

Freeze didn’t seem as confident in the return of Nkemdiche.

“I will not play him if I don’t feel like he’s ready,” Freeze said. “It’s a long season. We’re going to need all of the capable bodies to make it through. If he’s ready to go, certainly we’ll play him.”

Offensively, the Rebels will be led by junior quarterback Bo Wallace. Through three games Wallace has yet to throw an interception and has accounted for 648 yards in the air with four touchdowns. Senior running back Jeff Scott continues to carry the load in the backfield with 330 rushing yards and two touchdowns. In the receiving game, freshman tight end Evan Engram leads the way with 11 catches for 175 yards and two touchdowns, and junior Donte Moncrief trails Engram by just two yards.

The Ole Miss defense lines up against Southeast Missouri Sept. 7.

Although the Rebels have played well offensively, they will be facing a stingy Alabama defense, which is arguably the best in the conference.

“They’re going to have new wrinkles every game,” Freeze said. “They’re going to switch in between their 3-4 stuff and 4-2-5 stuff. They’ll give you every look that you can imagine. They’re very physical up front.

“That’s the thing that stands out after the game against (Texas) A&M. You don’t put on the film and just see a consistent drive with a great play or a phenomenal oneon-one play. Those make you un-

comfortable because you don’t like to depend on something like that to have a consistent drive. They’re just so good. They fit the proper gaps. They don’t blow coverages.

They just do it the right way.”

If the Rebels were to pull out a win this weekend, Freeze believes it will say something about the program he and his staff are trying to build in their second year in Oxford.

“It would mean that we’re definitely ahead of schedule in our program, to go there and win,” Freeze said.

“What should motivate us, and I think will, is an opportunity to

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go stand in front of the measuring stick right now and prove that you deserve to be there. That’s what we’ll focus on. If it does go our way, it would certainly be a huge boost to our program and move us a few steps forward quicker than anybody thought, including myself.”

The Rebels and Crimson Tide will kick off in Tuscaloosa at 5:30 p.m. and the game will be available on ESPN. For continuing coverage of Ole Miss football, follow @SigNewton_2 and @ thedm_sports on Twitter.

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