The Daily Mississippian – September 30, 2013

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Monday, September 30, 2013

The Daily

Mississippian

Vol. 102, No. 25

The Student Newspaper of The University Of Mississippi | Serving Ole Miss and Oxford since 1911

Undefeated. The Ole Miss Rebels lost its first game of the season to the Alabama Crimson Tide Saturday night in Tuscaloosa. For a complete game recap and notebook, see page 8.

AUSTIN McAFEE | The Daily Mississippian

Quarterback Bo Wallace fumbles the ball after being tackled by Alabama linebacker Denzel Devall during the second half of Saturday’s game in Tuscaloosa. Ole Miss lost 25-0, and was handed its first loss of the season.

Iranian filmakers portray UM Cell phone dead Greek system in negative light zones plague campus By AMINA AL SHERIF aalsher@go.olemiss.edu

In August, Foreign Policy profiled a 2010 Iranian documentary produced by Press TV Documentaries for online distribution called “Behind Campus Walls” in order to begin conversations about underlying problems in Greek organizations across American campuses. Said to greatly resemble Iranian propaganda, the documentary presents a decidedly negative view of the United States. After filming an episode in which a student in San Francisco purchased a fake ID in order to buy alcohol, Press TV began

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to follow campus police at The University of Mississippi, said to be hired to fight “stains on college life.” The TV crew then scans the houses on Fraternity Row, stating that it is “every student’s dream to be admitted into one of these majestic houses,” where “behind the fraternity walls, there are no rules.” The report highlights the access to alcohol and parties within the fraternity and sorority system, and Foreign Policy states that the documentary presents the Greek system “like Freemasonry with Natty Light and Lacoste Pastels, complete with its own initiation rules and secret handshakes.”

The TV crew then rides around campus with a group of Ole Miss students on a rush night, in which one of the students who is simply identified as Clay states that Greek-affiliated students are “homophobic super Republicans.” However, perception does not always represent reality, according to Ruben Ruiz, president of the university’s Alpha Gamma chapter of Chi Psi Fraternity. “As a fraternity, we understand the intrinsic value of our members,” Ruiz said. “We actively take a stance against hazing and unnecessary endangerment of See GREEK, PAGE 4

Feature photos: Ole Miss-Alabama

By KATELYN MILLER kamile3@go.olemiss.edu

Cellular and wireless services have long been issues on campus, and while problems remain, steps have been taken to improve service. Particular spots of poor quality or even no service at all on campus have been noted by students. “Every time I leave campus to go back to my apartment, my service gets noticeably better,” said Moira Anthony, senior broadcast journalism major. “You would think it would be the other way around, right?” However, two known causes of so-called “dead zones” are hilly

See CELL, PAGE 4

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terrain and dense foliage, two things Oxford and The University of Mississippi have aplenty. Dead zones are not uncommon for most cell carriers, but they often seem out of place on a university campus, where students and staff are constantly talking, texting and emailing one another using wireless 3G and 4G data, provided by their phone companies at no small cost. “Internet access is terrible in Lewis, which is really unfortunate for science majors who have to take a lot of physics classes,” said Olivia Cooper, junior chemical engineering major.

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