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Tuesday, September 15, 2015
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Volume 104, No. 16
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Students hold vigil for Delta State victim Shooter dead after long chase ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A college instructor suspected in the fatal shootings of a woman he lived with on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast and a professor at Delta State University 300 miles away died Monday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after trying to flee police, authorities said. Shannon Lamb had earlier told authorities that he was “not going to jail.” Police in Greenville, Mississippi, were following Lamb as he was driving when the suspect pulled over and jumped out of his car, Lynn Buford, chief of the Delta State University police, told The Associated Press. One of the victims was killed at the university earlier Monday. When police gave chase, they heard one gunshot and then found - Brandi Hephner Lebanc Lamb, Buford said. They took him to a hospital in Greenville where he was pronounced dead of what PHOTO BY: MARLEE CRAWFORD appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Buford said. Lamb’s death brought to an end Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Brandi Hephner LaBanc speaks during a candlelight vigil held in honor of a Delta State University faculty member who was a chaotic day that saw terrified killed in a shooting yesterday. Ethan Schmidt, an American history professor, was shot in his office on the Cleveland campus. Schmidt was the lone victim of the students and teachers hunkered campus shooter. “Tonight, it is not about ‘We are one Ole Miss,’ Hephner Labanc said. “It is about ‘We are one Mississippi.”
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Cleveland shooting affects Ole Miss, DSU Voting system changes ALICE MCKELVEY& CLARA TURNAGE
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The second active shooter threat on a Mississippi college campus since the start of term left students both at the University of Mississippi and on other campuses rattled Monday. After professor Ethan Schmidt was killed in his office Monday morning at Delta State University, the Cleveland campus was locked down for hours, leaving many students in academic buildings waiting to be released or escorted off campus. Jake Lambert, a junior nursing major at Delta State University from Monticello, thought it was a drill at first. Lambert drove past police cars on his way to a lab in the Robert E. Smith School of Nursing, just one building away from Jobe Hall, where the shooting happened. “The dean walked in and said ‘There is an active shooter, it’s not a drill,’” Lambert said. Lambert said he immediately called his twin brother Blake, who also attends Delta State
University, to make sure he and friends on campus were safe. He tried to keep in touch with people outside of his building to understand what was happening. “One of my friends, she (was) actually in the building that the shooter was in,” Lambert said from the locked nursing building
for such a situation. “I wish there was something set up,” Lambert said. “I know the library has a metal detector, I wish every building did.” On Ole Miss’s campus, students like Radhi Daya, a freshman biology major, scrambled to text and call friends who at-
shooter here as well. “The first thing I thought when I heard about it was, ‘This is another shooting on a Mississippi campus,’” Anthony Grishby, a freshman pharmacy major, said. “I honestly think it could happen here.” Natalie Poole, a fourth year pharmacy student, said she was scared for all of the communities that have been affected by shootings. “It really scares you because you feel like you can’t feel safe anymore,” Poole said. Caleb Castillo, a junior English major, said he felt that knowing what steps must be taken in such a situation is the best way to protect oneself. “There’s always a possibility it could happen here and I feel like we have to be prepared all the time,” Castillo said. “We have to be aware of what to do and where to go when that happens.”
“The first thing I thought when I heard about it was, ‘This is another shooting on a Mississippi campus. I honestly think it could happen here.” - Anthony Grishby
Monday morning. “She (was) freaking out. I’m just praying for the people out there.” Lambert and his classmates were locked in the nursing school for two hours before they were escorted to another area after noon. The students were not released until after 2 p.m. “It’s so shocking. I hate that it happened,” Lambert said. “You never think it would happen at the same school you are.” Lambert said he wished there was a preemptive system set up
tend Delta State. “I immediately texted one of my friends from high school because he goes there and he was like ‘Yeah the shooter is in my building, like I’m freaking out, everybody’s freaking out we don’t know what to do,’” Daya said. “I just told him to stay safe.” Many Ole Miss students said they now feel more worried about the possibility of an active
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ASB Campus Favorite and Senate elections will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m today. Campus Favorite election results will be announced at 6:15 p.m. on the steps of the Lyceum and Senate election results will be posted outside of the ASB office soon after. ASB Attorney General Loden Walker said instead of using the myOleMiss portal for voting, students will now have to use OrgSync. “Given the change in the senate apportionment earlier this semester, to accommodate the reapportionment, the dean of students and I weighed our options and felt OrgSync would better our needs for facilitating campus elections,” Walker said. Students will be able to use their same username and password for their myOleMiss account in OrgSync.
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