The Daily Mississippian - September 14, 2016

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Football prepares for their first SEC match-up of the regular season.

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Cole Putman reacts to being named Mr. Ole Miss on the steps of the Lyceum at the University of Mississippi on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016.

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Hundreds of students lined the outside of the Lyceum’s steps awaiting the results of this year’s Associated Student Body elections Tuesday night.

With 57 percent of the vote, Cole Putman was announced as Mr. Ole Miss.

Putman said he wanted to thank

God and those who supported his campaign.

“This is better and more unbelievable than I could’ve ever asked,” Putman said. “I never knew when I came to school here that this would happen. We ran this campaign different from any other campaign before. I want you to know that different is good, and tonight proved that different works.”

There will be a runoff election between candidates Acacia Santos and Bess Nichols for the position of Miss Ole Miss, as well as MK Phillips and Caroline Burke for Homecoming Queen.

The results will be announced at 6 p.m. Thursday on the steps of the Lyceum.

Other Tuesday night winners included Caroline McLeod for freshman maid, Laura Taylor for

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sophomore maid, Bradyn Eaves for junior maid and Chandler Tucker for senior maid.

Blake McClure, Dylan Lewis, Terrius Harris, Chase Moore and Matt Gladden won the title of male campus favorites, while female campus favorites included Caroline Burke, Carly Volz, Kate Anderson, Allison Boyd and Gracie McClure.

As students entered into Ballroom B at The Inn at Ole Miss, University of North Carolina’s Chief Diversity Officer Taffye Benson Clayton made her way around the room shaking hands and meeting her potential new student body.

Clayton kicked off a week of open forum discussions between the UM community and candidates for the new vice chancellor for diversity and community engagement position.

“I couldn’t be more pleased to be here,” she said as she opened up her presentation.

Over the course of the hourlong session, Clayton took the audience through her plan of action if she were chosen for the position. Coming from the University of North Carolina, she said she has experience in handling sensitive diversity issues at a Southern university.

“There’s certainly more I need to learn about Ole Miss,

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PART ONE OF A TWO-PART SERIES

WHERE THEY PLAYED For musicians in Oxford and beyond, The Cats Purring Dude Ranch was a haven.

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Cradled in the trees of an undeveloped part of Oxford down North Lamar, a wooden structure stares over a meadowy, overgrown lawn. The maze of rooms inside were once host to DIY shows, parties and late nights, and for a number of Oxford artists, it was home, too.

And now the Dude Ranch is empty.

It was here that connections were made between older Ox-

ford musicians and those stepping into the scene for the first time. It was here that generations of music lovers, weirdos and artists in Oxford could express themselves.

The ranch’s dusty walls and counters, once littered with stickers of music promotions, the dark wooden beams where excited youth swung, and even the pool, filled with detritus and leaves of seasons past, now await an uncertain fate.

Whatever meanings the Dude Ranch held for those who lived there or frequented the place now repose in the

empty rooms and stale air.

Genesis It began five years ago.

Two Stick still existed on the Square. Red Star Bar still held shows in the front room of The Lyric Theater. Rent was cheap.

The End of All Music was a Mexican grocery, and Blogspot was still a thing.

Dent May created the Cats Purring Collective – described on its website as a “North Mississippi Infotainment Cult” – with other musicians and curators such as Thomas Cooper of Gray Things and Mi-

chael Bible, editor of literary zine “Kitty Snacks.” He began booking shows around Oxford at venues like Proud Larry’s, the Lyric and Red Star Bar. They called Taylor home and there gave birth to what would become Oxford’s Do-It-Yourself music scene.

“The phrase ‘cats purring’ was bouncing around for a long time as a sort of inside joke that makes no sense,” May wrote in an email this summer.

“Michael Bible, Steven (Bevilaqua) from Flight and I started naming the places we lived, starting with the double-wide

trailer in Jim Dees’ backyard out in Taylor we called the Cats Purring Dream Trailer.

At the time there were all these signs around Taylor pointing to the Southern Living Idea Home at Plein Air, which was supposed to be some sort of tourist attraction, so we put up Cats Purring Dream Trailer signs with arrows pointing to our trailer.”

Then they moved to the Cats Purring Country Club. Still in Taylor, May and his roommates began hosting live mu-

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OPINION

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Inside the classroom, group work has gone too far

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Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Think carefully, because you may have the wrong definitions of these words.

Most people understand these concepts in terms of reductionist binaries, i.e, social versus antisocial, loud versus soft, leader versus follower, good versus bad. The problem is that this view is frankly wrong, and, what’s worse, it is one of the primary facets of education.

The introvert-extrovert spectrum is about stimulation. The

question isn’t about being shy or social; the question is, when do you feel most complete and capable? Introverts prefer less stimulation because they function best at this level, and I would argue that undervaluing the power of introverts is costing everyone.

On the first day, professors pass out syllabi that break down how a class is graded. Every course in which I am enrolled has class participation as at least 10 percent of the final grade, and some go as high as 20 percent. The preference for extroverted tendencies doesn’t stop there. I recently completed the interview process for the Student Activities Association, and every challenge presented in the final interview was group work.

What does this extroverted preference mean? I suppose most harmfully, it means we lose the thoughtful, insightful nature of the introvert. We lose the knowledge that solitude is not a bad thing; all of the world’s major religions have heroes that travel into the wilderness and bring wisdom

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back to the community. Jesus, Moses, Mohammed and Buddha all fall into this category.

In a quest to be inclusive, to make sure minorities count, we have inadvertently sidelined the smallest minority on the planet: the individual.

As it turns out, groups degrade individuality. Though that may seem fairly intuitive, please understand the extent to which we change in a group. We instinctively mirror the body language, beliefs and actions of a group. We suppress thoughts of “I” in favor of “We” in order to fit in and make the group run more smoothly.

This behavior is only dangerous if you are literally always in a group.

When we go from apartments full of roommates to classes bursting with discussion to parties filled with people to social media sites drowning in users, we start to develop problems.

Speaking from personal experience, I can say that a massive push toward class participation and group work often shuts out the

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genuinely creative ideas. Extroverts, quite unwittingly, can get so excited or passionate about a topic or idea that they effectively dominate or drown out everyone else.

I have also seen group discussions stumble over a minor detail that is ultimately unimportant.

We’ve all watched group mentality take over, sides develop and a productive conversation decompose into an absurd debate of the insignificant.

In case you have not guessed as much, I am an introvert. Some of my happiest moments in life have been reading quietly outside, and there is nothing wrong with that. I genuinely believe that demanding constant group work does more harm than good. I believe that it stymies the creativity and individualism that the world desperately needs.

Theodor Guisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, created most of his books in a small, secluded office space where he worked alone, and he was afraid to interact with the children who loved his writings

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because he didn’t want to disappoint them by not having the jolly, larger-than-life character of his books. And I defy you to show me works more seemingly extroverted than those of Dr. Seuss.

My call to action is nothing more than please stop the obsessive push for group work. Yes, allow collaboration. Yes, allow students to create effective teams.

Yes, let discussion take place. But please do not undervalue or dismiss the power of working alone.

It just might be the biggest mistake you make.

Ethan Davis is a junior philosophy and English double major from Laurel.

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continued from page 1 but there’s a lot in terms of our past that is a shared history in the South. And we need to engage it fully,” Clayton said.

She said that community outreach work was the “bread and butter” of what her department did there. While at UNC, she brought six diversity and inclusion professionals on board.

Clayton compared diversity efforts on campus to technology’s introduction into the academic world. She said universities should treat the integration of diversity programs the same way they handled technology.

“We understood as administrators in higher ed that technology was going to change the way we worked,” she said.

“Diversity is just as transformative. We need to approach it knowing that it will be integral, knowing that we will need an infrastructure for it to work.”

Clayton talked about the obstacles that arise when trying to bring change to an old, Southern university. She said

any kind of change will trigger a response from the community, especially the alumni.

“That’s not always easy, but with some creativity and some relationship building, it is possible,” Clayton said. “I have not shied away from new ways to engage folks when we can have important agreements in principle and shared goals.”

Sophomore public policy leadership major Jarrius Adams said he was excited for the open forum and did his own research on the candidates before he came to Tuesday’s session.

“I read the email announcing this and I was like ‘Oh my gosh, yes,’”Adams said.

Clayton shares Adams’ enthusiasm about student involvement in the new position. She said it is important to a university for administrators to listen to and understand their students, especially at Ole Miss.

“It’s a world-class institution,” she said. “I sensed that this was a place that really desired to make more of a change, and I’d love to do that here.”

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Candidate Taffye Benson Clayton answers questions during Tuesday’s vice chancellor open interview session. Clayton currently serves as associate vice chancellor for diversity and multicultural affairs and chief diversity officer at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

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continued from page 1 sic in their garage, named the Teen Wing.

Members kept the collective’s Blogspot — still extant at catspurring.com — meticulously curated and updated, with detailed descriptions for booked artists, links to music, custom gifs, and almost constant exposure for new music released by the Cats Purring “family.”

As 2010 neared its end, five friends were set to move to the outskirts of Oxford, into a former Boys & Girls Club that had once been the home of touring band Zoogma.

Peyton Houchins had been a key member of the Cats Purring Collective, a beloved friend and a musician who played with several bands in Oxford.

He was also the fifth room-

was a close friend of a number of those involved with Cats Purring from high school in Jackson, “lit a fire under all of us.” His death left the future tenants at 49 CR 178 heartbroken, but closer and more inspired than ever to put their ideas into action.

“It was my house, I have memories there. That place kind of united me and four of my really close friends immediately after the death of my really close friend,” said Len Clark, a friend from JackPHOTO COURTESY: COLE FURLOW son and Ole Miss who lived Musician Dent May at the Cat’s Purring Dude in Nashville, Tennessee, and Ranch. moved back to Oxford immate at that ranch-style house mediately following Houchon a county road. A few days in’s death to live at the Dude before the new year, Houchins Ranch.

Clark would play drums or suddenly died. tour with almost every mu“He’s the reason the Dude Ranch exists,” said Cole Fur- sician living in the house, inlow, a former resident at the cluding the Dent May Band.

“When Dent lost a drumranch and musician under the mer, he actually was like (to moniker Dead Gaze.

Furlow said Houchins, who Clark), ‘You’re going to be my drummer now,” Furlow said. “(Clark) was like ‘OK,’ and then we went on a month-long tour after that.”

Dent May began booking shows at the ranch from the first months they lived there — officially holding the first show in February featuring Oxford bands in a “Cats Purring Jamboree” — and continued for the next few years.

Throughout 2011, May hosted Dirty Beaches, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Bleached, King Tuff, Alex Bleeker and the Freaks, Colleen Green and more. Some of the shows were held only a few days apart.

May announced his album, “Fun,” recorded at the ranch, would be released in September 2011. John Barrett of Bass Drum of Death moved into the ranch that summer. He would film his music video for “Get Found” there.

“No one rocked the Dude Ranch harder than Bass Drum,” Furlow said. “In some ways, John’s shows embodied all that was the ranch. We

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A promo sticker for a Dead Gaze and Gray Things split cassette tape released in 2010. always say Dent May is the ranch, but everyone played their part.”

The ranch was a haven for artists. Dark wooden beams sprawled under the ceilings of the 4,237-square-foot structure. One half of the house, the cabin-like large room used for performances, practices and play, is made almost entirely of wood planks that line the floor and walls. The ranchstyle construct, which, from the outside, looks like a cross between a large, wooden shack and barn with a fantastic front porch, lies on a verdant and somewhat unruly 1.4 acres.

“There’s the couches, there’s air conditioning, there’s water, there’s bathrooms — not one bathroom, but bathrooms — there was carpet, there was beautiful music, there was herb, there was booze, there was everything you could ever want all around you, and for a touring band, stuff like that is golden,” Furlow said. “And not to mention, the best part about the Dude Ranch, the most beautiful thing about the Dude Ranch that people never ever thought about, was that it had this beautiful land around it. If you were a touring band in a van with, like, four other dudes for a long period of time, just taking a walk around the Dude Ranch to clear your head was such a beautiful thing for people. It truly made people remember the place in a way that most venues don’t

ever have the chance to be remembered.”

Artists at Home While maintaining a DIY venue and home, the guys at the Dude Ranch were producing content, music, touring and repping Cats Purring the whole time.

“I met a lot of artists on tour who said they’d never played in Mississippi. So we’d help them book something and

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John Barrett of Bass Drum of Death playing a show at the Dude Ranch. “He filmed a music video there one night and someone had brought in a motorcycle,” said Furlow. “Like a small m otorbike. And they were cutting donuts in the big room while BDOD was blasting away.”

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THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 | PAGE 5 then make sure they had an amazing time,” May said. “We threw a lot of Cats Purring parties at Proud Larry’s and The Lyric, but I specifically scouted out the Dude Ranch as a venue for shows.”

Word spread as more acts made their way to the ranch and May’s booking picked up in pace. People were able to keep up with upcoming shows on catspurring.com and social media. The ranch and the musicians who lived there were also beginning to harbor attention outside of the South on music blogs and websites.

On March 3, 2012, the Dude Ranch was administered a test.

Grimes, just after the release of critically acclaimed “Visions,” and Born Gold would play a show so excitable the floor below nearly collapsed into the garage as the toilets overflowed.

“There’s a different side to everything,” Clark said, describing how he and about six other guys stood beneath the floor during the performance, trying to steady the support beam in the garage.

At times like these, the question arose: had they gone too far?

The floors didn’t fall through. The roommates remained at the ranch, making music, and May was still booking shows.

Easter Sunday in 2012, indie-rock band Real Estate performed at the ranch, a highlight for May, whose band had toured with the group.

“Those guys are some of my best friends,” May said.

Only three days later, DIIV (pronounced “dive”) visited the Dude Ranch for their show.

The next Cats Purring Dude Ranch event wouldn’t be until March 2013. But the impressive line-up proved the ranch was still up for whatever mayhem the music, music-lovers and party people brought.

Ducktails (the solo project of Real Estate’s Matt Mondanile), Chris Cohen, Empress Of, Moon King, Idiot Glee and Caveman would be the rain to a seemingly perennial Dude Ranch that spring.

The ranch in 2011 looked similar to how it might have at a show in June. Kitschy, framed photos and paintings lined the walls. In the corner, a mannequin might have been lounging indifferently, a silent witness to everything that happened in the home.

She, like the luxurious golden curtains that hung behind the performance area, was donated by Taylor photographer Jane Rule Burdine.

In the backyard, a pool, whose dingy, blue tile-print lining barely gripped its sides, created sludge that eventually spawned two small trees.

“The house was cool. It was a weird house too,” Clark said.

“When we moved in, there had been a homeless guy sleeping in my closet... There were certain doors that I’m sure still don’t lock. I think I’m still one of the people that has a key to the house.”

Much like Fat Possum records, Dent May brought musicians to Oxford that may have never stepped foot in Mississippi before. It was his ear for good music, his ability to be ahead of the curve

“I’m just surprised 5 1/2 years lasted, you know? The Smiths only had five years, The Beatles only had four, the Dude Ranch had five years. That’s like a lifetime for some things.”

-Cole Furlow “I think Peyton was a pretty magical guy, and I think, everyone wanting to remember his spirit is kind of what made that place what it was to all of us. Once we all moved out, it wasn’t the same to any of us.”

-Len Clark “(The Dirty Beaches show) put out a vibe that night that had never been put out in that room before, and it just changed everything from then on because we realized we could start doing weirder stuff there... There’s nothing that can’t be done here, and we tried to do that as much as possible.”

-Cole Furlow “I’d like to think the ranch stood out as something that’s not typical of what most people think of Mississippi. The main goal was to have fun, but I also wanted to dispel people’s preconceived notions about Mississippi.”

-Dent May

TOP: The Cats Purring Dude Ranch pictured September 2015. (PHOTO BY: ALICE MCKELVEY) MIDDLE: Prince Rama playing a show at the Dude Ranch. (PHOTO COURTESY: COLE FURLOW) BOTTOM: Cole Furlow and his wife, Kaleigh Furlow, who met at the ranch. (PHOTO COURTESY: COLE FURLOW) and his understanding of the industry that built the idea behind the ranch — one that would remain until its end as a venue. “(May) organized the Dude Ranch to be this beautiful well-oiled machine for touring bands,” Furlow said.

Bands from across the states, the world, even, became part of the Cats Purring circle. The

networks May and the other musicians had built put Mississippi on the map for shows.

As May began turning his focus to his own work and booking shows at other local venues like Proud Larry’s and Lamar Lounge, Deg Ronilo took on the task of booking shows at the ranch, where he would eventually move, sustain it, and then see its abrupt end.

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ther team. I’m going to go out here to practice and make sure everybody’s focusing on the little things this week.”

Conner was impressed with the vertical passing game Alabama had flashed in the first two games.

“As I’ve been watching them, they’ve got a lot of speed guys.

Their offense is a lot like our offense,” Conner said. “We know what they can do. Take nothing from Alabama, we’ve just got to go out and play right.”

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Rebels looking for redemption after weekend setback MAGGIE CROUCH

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It was a tough weekend for the Ole Miss soccer team, as they lost both of their games and failed to register a goal in either matchup. The losses drop the Rebels to a 5-4 record on the season.

On Friday, Ole Miss took on their first SEC opponent of the season, the Mizzou Tigers, and ultimately lost 5-0. The Tigers are now 5-2-1 on the season.

“We kind of got smashed in the mouth against Missouri,” Head Coach Matthew Mott said. “They came out flying at us, and we didn’t respond well to drop that match.”

Two days later, Ole Miss took on South Alabama and again faced defeat. Despite losing, Mott was proud of the team’s play against the Jaguars.

“I think we had a good bounce-back last night and played the best game of the season last night against South Alabama, which is, in the soccer world a good team,” Mott said. “They (South Alabama) had beaten No. 1 Florida State earlier in the week and came in with a lot of confidence. We went down 1-0, but we battled back. We played well at times, but couldn’t find the equalizer to maybe get that into overtime. But we played a good match and performed well.”

Ole Miss will play another conference game against LSU Friday in Baton Rouge.

The Tigers have a 4-4 record and are coming off a 0-3 loss

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Soccer players hold hands before the start of their game against South Alabama last weekend. against No. 11 Texas A&M. Mott said this will be a tough game for the team, just like it has been in the past.

“It is always a good, tight match when we go down there,” Mott said. “It is a tough place to play. They have a talented couple of attacking players and one of the better coaches certainly in

the league and in the country (Brian Lee).”

The following Sunday, the Rebels will take on the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma.

Tulsa has a record of 3-4-1.

“Tulsa is also a very tough team,” Mott said about the Rebels’ last non-conference game of the season.

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The Rebels will kick off against the Crimson Tide this weekend, and two of Alabama’s biggest offensive weapons, Calvin Ridley and Ardarius Stewart, stand ready to test the Rebels’ defensive coverage. After Ken Webster suffered a season-ending knee injury in the opening minutes of the Florida State game, defensive back Carlos Davis knew the team needed a leader on defense.

“It kind of did throw us for a loop, but a lot of guys just knew we had to step up,” Davis said.

Davis said he’s confident that Ridley, who was thrown to 53 percent of the time last week against Western Kentucky, and Stewart, who has three touchdowns in two games, won’t be any surprise to the Ole Miss defense.

“They’re deep threat guys.

They’re explosive. I mean I just think we’ll be alright… Our cornerbacks, we just have to adjust, and just get back to playing how we play. We can play with anybody. We’ve got the best receivers and we guard them everyday. So once we get comfortable and just do our assignments and work on technique, we’ll be fine,” Davis said.

Davis also announced that he would be back on punt returns this weekend.

On the other end of the field, Co-Offensive Coordinator Dan Werner is aware of how strong Alabama is on the defensive line.

“These guys do not like to let you run the football against them and not many people have done it,” Werner said.

The Ole Miss coaches know they have a system that works well against Alabama’s line and they don’t see any need to change things going into Saturday.

“We got to do the same thing we’ve done for the last few years, and ours are all run pass options, and if they’re going to give us the run, we’re going to hand it off and if not, we’re going to throw it,” Werner said.

When the Rebels do run the ball this weekend, it’ll likely be in the hand of Akeem Judd. The powerful running back out of Durham, North Carolina, knows going against the Ole Miss defensive line during practice has prepared him for that challenge.

“We have a big front. It really does help you go against Alabama line, because you’re not going to see too many guys like the Alabama line,” Judd said.

Judd said he feels Alabama’s defense can be vulnerable to the versatile Rebel attack.

“The way we run our scheme, I think it’s going to open up a bit,” Judd said. “I think we’re going to do some great things on the ground as well as in the air.”

Through a veil of caution, the Rebs seem optimistic about their chances.

“It’s going to be tough, but we’ll try as hard as we can to concoct a few ways and we’ll see what happens,” Werner said.

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Ole Miss cornerback Carlos Davis flexes after making a tackle against Florida State earlier this season. Davis said he’s confident that Calvin Ridley won’t be any surprise to the Ole Miss defense.

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