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Mascot stirs passions – again

3 cases of sexual battery reported to UPD LANA FERGUSON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Three incidents of sexual battery have been reported to the University Police Department over the past two weeks.

The most recent incident happened late Friday night in the area of West and Poole Drives and is still under investigation.

“This is an ongoing investigation,” said University Police Chief Tim Potts. “We are still trying to identify the suspect, but we feel like we have a good start. If this doesn’t go as planned, we will release physical descriptions to the public.”

According to the Clery Act Report, the incident occurred at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house on campus. In that same report, a warrant was issued for assisting information, which Kappa Sigma gave in the form of house surveillance footage Friday night.

According to Mississippi law, a person is guilty of sexual battery if he or she engages in sexual penetration with another person without that person’s consent, with a “mentally defective,” mentally incapacitated or physically helpless

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n less than a week, students will have the chance to weigh in on the latest installment of the Ole Miss mascot saga. For those Rebels who have been around through the highs and lows of the mascot debate, it all seems very familiar.

“I think that folks make much too big of a deal when it comes to mascots,” former Dean of Students Sparky Reardon said. “I’ve never seen a mascot win a game, and that’s where fan interest should be.

Mascots are for kids.”

Reardon served as an adviser to the student committee that decided on the Black Bear as the school’s new mascot in 2010. Former Miss Ole Miss and 2013 graduate Margaret Ann Morgan served as that committee’s co-chair.

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“As someone who’s been through that process before, it’s not easy. It doesn’t happen overnight, and it takes a lot of people to get to the end result,” Morgan said. “You’re not going to make everybody happy, and you know that.”

Associated Student Body President Dion Kevin III announced Monday that ASB will sponsor a campus-wide student vote next Tuesday to determine if there is student support for changing the school’s mascot from the Black Bear to the Landshark.

The vote, set for the same day as the homecoming personality elections, will not bring about anything immediate but rather give the ASB Senate and executive branch a perspective on how students feel about the potential change.

Kevin said the vote is to gauge students’ opinion on

whether or not they would want the Landshark to be the official on-field mascot.

“It’s not a vote to change anything,” Kevin said.

The university released a statement to The Daily Mississippian saying the referendum is student-led but the university is always interested in its students’ perspectives.

“This referendum is a student-led initiative being conducted through an Associated Student Body (ASB) process,” the statement said. “While we will not speculate on the outcome of their process, we value the important role that students play as an active voice in the life of our campus community. We are always interested in the viewpoints of our students.”

Mascot talk resurfaces ASB Secretary Dylan Wood said the potential mascot change was discussed at an

Aug. 31 ASB executive meeting.

“We were told it would be put to a yes or no referendum,” Wood said.

Kevin said rumors about another mascot change have been a campus constant for four or five years.

“I certainly didn’t start the conversation,” Kevin said.

“The mascot conversation is something that sort of happens every year with ASB presidents and the athletics director.”

Next week’s vote will only concern the Landshark and the Black Bear. Reed Ashton Kevin, ASB director of communications, said the question will be asked along the lines of “Would you like to see the Landshark as the official mascot of the Ole Miss Rebels?” with a “yes” or “no” option.

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Former UM instructor charged with sexual battery LANA FERGUSON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

A former Oxford High School physics teacher, James “Jim” Reidy Jr., was arrested and charged with sexual battery by a person having authority over the victim. He taught astronomy labs in the University of

Mississippi’s Department of Physics and Astronomy until the beginning of this semester.

Reidy and his attorney, Tony Farese, appeared at the Lafayette County Circuit Court on Monday afternoon for a scheduled probable cause hearing.

Reidy, through his attor-

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ney, waived his right to the hearing, The Oxford Eagle reported.

A warrant was issued for Reidy’s arrest after Circuit Court Judge Andrew Howorth read over the criminal affidavit by the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department. Bond is set at $25,000.

Reidy reported to the Lafayette County Detention Center after the hearing.

According to The Oxford Eagle, Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department Chief Investigator Alan Wilburn said the sheriff’s department received a call last Monday from the Oxford Police Department with

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information from the Department of Human Services hotline that a teacher at Oxford High School was having sex with a student.

However, the sexual acts were allegedly occurring outside of Oxford city limits in Lafayette County.

Wilburn said the survivor

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University: It’s a place to explore ideas. Old, new, good, Cary Allen bad, theoretical and realistic Cameron Collins ideas – they fill books, conSam Dethrow versations, art and PowerEthan Gray Point slides all over campus.

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nists or conservatives.

Ideas’ ability to impact our identity makes college a crucially decisive time in our lives. We have the ability to read the “Communist Manifesto” alongside “The Social Contract” and compare and contrast the teachings of Jesus and Buddha.

The marketplace of ideas is expansive and diverse on this campus; we are able to see the world through countless lenses, deciding which ones to include in our daily lives. This is all very exciting, but there is a threat to this great period of development and growth: identity foreclosure.

Identity foreclosure is settling on an identity before exploring more options, and it’s a common problem for college students. It could be a religious person who is certain he or she has the exclusive connection to truth or a student who refuses to see the values in a different political system.

It’s when we make up our

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minds before we even look at the other side. It makes us unteachable in many ways.

While it’s still possible to “learn” enough to make an A on a test, identity foreclosure makes it nearly impossible to grow as a person through new ideas we encounter on a daily basis.

The problem with this is that we lose out on the belief system that resonates with us most personally. By defaulting to the systems we grew up with or learned of first, we can stunt our own growth.

When I was in high school, I found myself in a similar situation. I spent years defending fundamentalist Christian ideas, though they weren’t the ideas that best represented me. It wasn’t until I seriously considered other belief systems that I realized other ideas represented me much better.

I’m glad I realized what was happening while I was still young, though I still think of all the time and energy I put

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into a set of ideas that were contrary to my own. I should have been listening to other ideas far sooner.

How can you know that Jesus’ teachings are best for you until you have read those of Buddha? How can you be a true Democrat until you have listened closely and openly to the ideas of a Republican?

Perhaps deep down you aren’t actually a Christian or Buddhist, conservative or liberal. Maybe you just haven’t heard the right perspective yet.

As we continue classes for the rest of the semester, I hope we will use them as an opportunity to get the most out of our education. By being open to new perspectives, we may be able to find the identities that best suit us, and we can grow into who we really are.

Daniel Payne is an integrated marketing communications major from Collierville, Tennessee.

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person, a child between the ages of 14 and 16 if the person charged is more than three years older than the survivor, a child under the age of 14 if the person charged is at least two years older than the survivor or a child under the age of 18 if the person charged is in a position of trust or authority over the survivor.

Kappa Sigma Chapter President Noah Richardson gave a statement on the investigation on behalf of the fraternity.

Richardson said a man posed as a band member and

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“Not all of (the victims) want to continue the investigation, and we understand that that’s their decision.”

The other two instances of sexual battery occurred also on campus. Potts said the separate incidents don’t appear to be linked. One occurred at the Chi Psi Lodge on Sept. 8, and the other took place last Thursday at an unspecified place on campus.

Chi Psi Chapter President Philip Katsadouros sent a statement to The Daily Mississippian last Tuesday in response to the earlier incident.

“Chi Psi’s policies, as well as our philanthropic focus, seek to raise awareness of and eliminate sexual assault in

for the students.

“It’s infuriating,” Potts said.

“I don’t want to put out any more crime prevention tips. If I continue to have to put these out, it means we continue to have these crime reports. It’s draining.”

Potts advises students to download and use the free mobile app LiveSafe to be safer on campus.

“The ‘walk with me’ button on this app lets your friends see where you are going, depending on where your phone is,” Potts said. “If you see something going on, and you don’t want to be that person to call the police, then you can send an anonymous LiveSafe tip.”

If this number and these cases seem surprising, when you take into consideration the actual number that probably has happened, it should be even more appalling and scary.’

-Jake Thrasher, RASA president

trespassed onto Kappa Sigma private property.

“Fortunately, we have surveillance footage of the suspect, and we have provided it to UPD. Our chapter has been in constant contact with both UPD and Ole Miss, and it is an ongoing investigation. We would like to thank the Ole Miss team for their swift response.”

This report comes during a recent spike in sexual offenses on campus. Potts confirmed this was the third incident within the last two weeks.

“This is the third sexual battery case in the span of just over seven days,” Potts said.

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all forms,” Katsadouros said.

“We have a zero-tolerance stance. Chi Psi fully cooperated with the investigation into the alleged incident Friday evening, which resulted in the RebAlert that night. It was reported to have occurred during a party in the public area of the Lodge. Other areas of the building were closed to guests. No members matched the description of the suspect.

Chi Psi will continue to work with university officials, and any further developments will be managed accordingly.”

Potts said he was discouraged by the frequency of these events and expressed concern

Potts said he will continue to take a hardline stance on sexual crimes.

“Any information you have is good information,” Potts said. “If you think it’s important, it’s probably important.”

Jake Thrasher, president of Rebels Against Sexual Assault, said it’s important to know approximately 80 percent of sexual assaults go unreported.

“One thing that’s real im-

portant to keep in mind is that while three sexual assaults in less than two weeks seems like a lot, more than likely, a lot more have happened,” Thrasher said. “If this number and these cases seem surprising, when you take into consideration the actual number that probably has happened, it should be even more appalling and scary.”

He said a majority of these incidents happened at parties, which presents opportunities for bystanders to step in and prevent bad situations from happening.

“The good thing about a party is there are a lot of people there, so there’s a lot of opportunity for people to be active bystanders,” Thrasher said. “With being an active bystander, there’s basically three D’s of the active bystander: It’s direct, distract and delegate.”

Thrasher said RASA teaches these three methods.

The direct method is going up to the people involved and checking in with them, asking if they’re OK or need help. The distract method is approaching the people in the situation and pulling either one of the parties away by shifting attention to something else. Thrasher said that if those methods seem intimidating, active bystanders can use the delegate method and go to someone else who may be more familiar with the environment or people and can help intervene.

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continued from page 1 is 17 now, but the relationship began when she was 16.

“She is cooperating with us and the district attorney’s office,” Wilburn said.

Before being terminated from the Oxford School District, Reidy worked as an AP chemistry and physics teacher for more than 20 years. He won multiple awards, including being inducted into the STAR Teacher Hall of Fame in Mississippi in 2015.

The case will go before the Lafayette County Grand Jury in February.

Reidy also has an undergraduate degree from the University of Mississippi.

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Driver identified in Confederate statue crash LANA FERGUSON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The driver of the truck that plowed into the Confederate soldier statue and its contextual plaque in the Circle on Saturday has been charged with driving under the influence, expired tag, no proof of liability insurance and no driver’s license.

“At this time, nothing indicates that this event was an intentional act,” the University Police Department said in a statement.

Coty Pierce Lewis is not a former or current student or employee of the university, according to university officials. He and the passenger in the truck were trans-

ported to Baptist Memorial Hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries Saturday.

On Tuesday, a Baptist Memorial Hospital employee said no one with the last name Lewis was currently a patient in the hospital.

The university released a statement in response to the accident Monday. The statement said the base of the statue and the brass plaque in front of the statue sustained damage. Damaged pieces are being stored by the Facilities Management Department while the investigation is taking place.

“A thorough review by a structural engineer will be needed to determine the full

extent of the damage and the structural integrity of the statue. In the meantime, the area remains cordoned off to ensure public safety. The University Police Department continues to investigate the accident,” the statement said.

Photos of the crash scene and, later, of the barricaded statue’s damage were posted all over social media. The plaque to the right of the statue in the photos was frequently confused for the 2016 contextualization plaque being moved after the crash.

The pictured plaque beside the statue was actually erected in 2008 deeming the CirPHOTO BY: LANA FERGUSON cle a national historic landmark by the U.S. Department The Confederate statue’s decorative base is damaged after a truck crashed into of the Interior. it Saturday night.

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Florida is in recovery mode following the estimated $100 billion worth of damages from Hurricane Irma last week.

The areas most heavily impacted in the U.S. by Irma are the Florida Keys, Miami, St. Augustine, Marco Island, Jacksonville and Naples. Charleston, South Carolina, also experienced massive tidal surges that affected many flatland areas.

Many organizations immediately established relief funds to help the victims of Irma. These organizations include UNICEF USA, Catholic Relief Services, World Vision, Red Cross and many more.

Large corporations pledged money and resources to help the victims. Apple donated $5 million to the relief efforts for victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, according to CNBC. Uber is donating $400,000 worth of rides, food and relief to victims and first responders. Lyft is also donating $100,000 to help victims travel to and from hospitals and shelters.

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Two men walk their bicycle along a flooded street on the waterfront of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as Hurricane Irma passes through on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. that as of Monday, 391,000 people are still without power, but thanks to 30,000 restoration workers, it has been restored to 94 percent of people who had outages – the greatest power restoration ever for a state.

Scott brought in 1,200 National Guard members to aid the state during the recovery process. Forty-five shelters are open throughout Florida, as are 12 special needs shelters.

Groups in Oxford organized their own relief efforts with supply drives, collections and donation boxes.

Chi Alpha, a student ministry group on campus, aided in relief efforts by putting together con-

venience packs, flood kits and buckets.

“We are working with a state organization called Mississippi Assemblies of God Disaster Response to make kits that contain a hand towel, toothbrushes and tooth paste, Band-Aids, soap, comb and nail clippers,” Chi Alpha staff member Rae Moore said.

Items in the flood buckets include laundry detergent, cleaning supplies, soap, air freshener, insect repellent, scrub brushes, cleaning wipes, sponges, clothespins, masks and gloves.

“The students in our ministry are working with their individual small groups to get the items

together, and we will be sending them down in two weeks,” Moore said. “The disaster response team told us they will be needing items like this for months, so we will try to do this a couple more times this school year.”

Laura Geiss, a sophomore special education major from Viera, Florida, said her family is currently experiencing post-Irma effects.

“Most homes are still without cable and power,” Geiss said.

“Trucks have been brought in from other states. Florida Power and Light has done a great job of helping people get power. Water was back fast, but now there is contamination, so the water has to be boiled. Some roads are washed out, but the city is still working on a plan to repair them, and most of the debris has been cleared.”

Geiss said most of her family and friends did not evacuate, despite state advisories to do so, because they have lived in Florida their whole lives and did not want to leave.

“My town was told to evacuate a few days before the storm because we were right in its path,” Geiss said. “But, of course, most

of my family and friends did not evacuate. Many have lived in Florida their whole lives and wanted to stay. Thankfully, Irma’s path moved more west, so my town was not hit as hard as expected, but there still was a lot of damage.”

Senior general studies major Alexa Salerno said her hometown, Tampa, was not impacted

by Irma as much as other areas were, but it is still experiencing power outage restorations and recovery.

“Tampa didn’t get hit as bad as other places, but it’s still flooded, and there is still no power in most places,” Salerno said.

Geiss said her family and many others in Florida are grateful for the quick response of relief efforts made by the state, first responders and thousands of organizations.

“There has been so much help coming in following Hurricane Irma, and I know people are grateful for the urgency and mass relief effort to help not just my area but the entire state,” Geiss said. “It’s comforting to see how much people care and are going out of their way to make a difference.”

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STUDENTS REACT TO MASCOT VOTE “The mascot changing to a Landshark has no major effect on my personal viewing of any sports team. A mascot is a basic representation of what we view the team as. We are really more behind the team than the mascot. The mascot is not necessarily us.”

-Alex James, an accounting major from Nesbit

These were the three mascots voted on by students, alumni, faculty/staff and season ticket holders in a 2010 poll.

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continued from page 1 “’Yes’ would mean the student is in support of the change, and ‘no’ would mean that a student simply doesn’t support the Landshark as the official mascot,” she said.

As rumblings of the upcoming mascot vote crept through campus in the opening month of the semester, some students raised questions about which mascot choices would be considered.

Junior international studies major Wess Helton created a petition in early September saying, “We demand … Colonel Reb to be included in the vote alongside the Landshark and Black Bear.”

In the week or so it’s been around, the petition garnered more than 1,000 student signatures before ASB announced the Landshark vote Monday, Helton said.

“Two weeks ago, I got word that Dion Kevin had brought it up. He wanted student vote between the Landshark and Black Bear,” Helton said in a Sept. 10 interview with The Daily Mississippian. “I thought this would be a good opportunity to show the university how much people love Colonel Reb.” Helton said that after Kevin announced the mascot vote Monday, he’s decided to raise the petition’s goal to collect at least 1,500 more signatures and has been receiving Facebook messages from alumni in support of the petition.

“The fact that they still today concocted this resolution behind closed doors shows that they’re willing to take students’ money, alumni money, but they’re not willing to listen to our opinion,” Helton said.

Kevin said he is familiar with the debate about bringing different mascots to the table and the subject has already been approached multiple times.

“I think it’s pretty clear that Ole Miss is not ready to ever bring back Colonel Rebel, which is really out of the student body’s hands,” he said.

Kevin said he and the ASB Senate would consider a petition with a large number of signatures, even though there is no formal policy mandating that ASB acknowledge student petitions prior to ASB Senate action.

As far as outside input goes, Kevin said this phase of the decision-making process is focused on the student body. He

said that later on, the alumni association and other relevant shareholders in the university will be able to lend their opinions, but for the time being, ASB is managing a student vote.

“My responsibility is to speak on behalf of the students,” Kevin said regarding alumni input.

Kevin said he thinks Athletics is ready to start making changes, pending a positive student vote.

Ole Miss Athletics provided a statement to The Daily Mississippian after ASB announced the upcoming student vote: “This effort is an ASB-led initiative, and the athletics department will be involved at the appropriate time. The leadership of our two organizations have built a strong relationship, and we will work hand-in-hand through this and any matters that are relevant to our game day experience.”

ASB Sen. Hunter Story said he would personally support whatever the outcome of the student election is as long as it allows for students to fully voice their opinions.

Story said the driving force for the campus vote only came from ASB executives, administration and Athletics.

“The mascot options came from the people involved in creating the vote,” Story said. “ASB senators were not asked for input options, and to my knowledge, neither were students.”

What Tuesday’s vote will mean If the student body shows support for the Landshark, either the ASB Senate or ASB executive branch will decide whether to issue a resolution to the university administration in recognition of the student vote.

Kevin said timing will decide whether the resolution comes from his office or the ASB Senate.

“If there’s not time, since we want to hopefully make this announcement around the homecoming date, then we would just issue an executive statement saying the ASB supports the decision from the students, for yes or no, and we present it to the university so they would kind of take over from there,” Kevin said.

ASB erected a painted sign campaigning for the Landshark alongside the signs promoting candidates for the personality elections. Kevin said ASB supports the Landshark because it has been a part of Ole Miss school spirit for nearly a decade now and is something everyone on campus can get behind.

ASB Sen. Brady Kies said the campaign sign surprised him on Monday morning.

“We had no knowledge of this. (Dion) sent us an email (Monday) morning, and I saw the sign on Business Row,” he said.

Kies said a mascot change is a big deal on campus and he wished ASB senators had been

“I am totally for it. I think it’s awesome, and I hope we are the Landsharks. It’s unique. It’s way more us than the Black Bear. It is way more Ole Miss.”

-Katherine Aberie, a classics and Southern studies major from Essex, New York

“I like it. I think the school has passion for the Landshark, and I know there are black bears in Mississippi, but no one really knows that, especially if you’re not from here, and the Landshark D. As long as the Ole Miss defense is doing good, then everybody catches on. “ -Franklin Garstin, an accounting major from Franklin, Tennessee

“I don’t care if we change it or not. It doesn’t really make a big difference if it’s a Landshark, Rebel or Black Bear. We’re still Ole Miss.”

-Breanna Jackson, a biology major from Greenville

“I’m not very knowledgeable on it, but I just think it would be fun to have a Landshark as the mascot. Mascots are fun.”

-Emily Brauen, a costume design major from Kiln included in the planning process. He said hearing about the potential vote two weeks ago did not sit well with him and a group of other senators.

Kevin said both the chancellor and Athletics seem ready to make a change, so it made sense to move forward with a plan this year.

“This year, when it was brought up, I think it was a good time, and we were able to reach some mutual decisions on what could happen with changing the

mascot to the Landshark,” Kevin said.

However, if students decide to vote against adopting the Landshark mascot, the administration will respect that decision, Kevin said.

“If it’s a ‘no’ vote, then they’re going to see that the students don’t want the Landshark as the mascot, and so we’ll probably be stuck with the Black Bear,” Kevin said.

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Cost Starting at $999, the iPhone X will be the most expensive iPhone ever. That’s a lot of money, but it’s probably a better buy than the textbooks you’ll get for around the same price.

The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus start at $699 and $799, respectively.

Should you buy it?

These phones are expensive, but if it’s time for an upgrade, now is a good time. The processors got the standard improvement across the lineup, meaning the phones will be more “future-proof” than previous models.

If you have the money, the iPhone X will probably be one of the best smartphones you can buy right now.

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Everyone is talking about the new iPhones – especially the iPhone X, the largest leap forward in the iPhone’s design since its invention.

You can read every last technical specification for the new phones elsewhere, but the most important question is: Should you buy one?

The answer, of course, is complicated and will change from person to person. But this short comparison of features should help with that decision.

The displays The iPhone X has a few small upgrades and one huge upgrade.

That huge upgrade is the display.

This is the best display you’ve ever seen on an iPhone, perhaps on any phone. OLED screens display darker blacks and higher contrast ratios, and they save battery life in the process. This is a serious improvement from past iPhones’ LCD screens. The

less noise, but it’s hard to determine how much improvement these small changes will offer.

When it comes to the camera software, there are small changes to improve low-light focus and noise reduction. Again, it will be difficult to tell the level of improvement photos will actually see from these changes.

Wireless charging In all the new iPhones, wireless charging will now be standard. Some users may find this more appealing, but it comes at a cost: an all-glass phone. The back of the phone, as well as the front, will be made of glass, making the phone even more prone to cracking than before. Apple assured the masses that it would be the strongest glass ever in an iPhone, but a case is probably worth your money. Wireless charging still works through many cases and skins, but you might want to try it before you buy.

No more home button The iPhone X will not have a home button. Instead, the front-facing camera will recog-

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screen also picks up more pixels per inch, and the display itself is larger than ever. This means more detail for everything you do on your phone.

When it comes to the design aspects of the display and the entire phone, they are by far the best we have seen on an iPhone, and they compete with those on the best Android phones, as well.

The bezels are practically nonexistent, which makes whatever you’re doing on the phone flow right into the environment.

The iPhone 8 provides nearly the same displays we saw on the iPhone 7.

The cameras The cameras on both the iPhone 8/8 Plus and iPhone X saw only a few upgrades, though this is probably because of the vast improvements that came last year.

The iPhone 8 Plus and X have added image stabilization to the telephoto lenses, and the sensors got slight upgrades in all the new iPhones. Photos will be better, with deeper color saturation and

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Ravaged by injuries, Rebels hope to rebound BEN MILLER

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Injury is a part of football.

It can destroy a season for an entire team, end the career of a player or thrust backups into the limelight. Preparedness for injury is an essential aspect of most any successful season.

After a 27-16 weekend loss to Cal in which Ole Miss lost both star receiver A.J. Brown and starting center Sean Rawlings to injuries, reality struck early for the Rebels this season – a bleak start for a team mired in controversy.

But according to offensive line coach Jack Bicknell Jr., the Rebels are well-prepared for these circumstances.

“It’s a handy week to have a bye week, to be honest with you. We can really look at some different combinations, look at who’s going to be playing center,” Bicknell said. “Backup center is probably one of the most important positions on the team to make sure you have someone that’s ready to go if a guy goes down.”

Having a quality backup center – one who is familiar with the snap counts and can provide consistent coverage

for the quarterback – is paramount. Bicknell and his staff consider themselves lucky to have time to nail down a backup before taking on No. 1 Alabama next Saturday.

There are several players on the roster who are taking their shots at earning Rawlings’ old job.

“We’ve been playing with six guys. Daronte (Bouldin) would be a guy that is ready to go,” Bicknell said. “We have some interchangeable parts there. We’re just trying to get the best five guys in there, and if you deserve to play, we are trying to get you in there. It builds depth, and it encourages the guys to practice harder.”

Position changes are rarely simple or one-dimensional, but they are welcomed by Jordan Sims, a junior guard on the line, as a challenge and compulsory sacrifice for the greater good of the team.

“I’m listening to calls from coach for almost every position because you never know what’s going to happen,” Sims said. “It’s all up to the coaches. Whatever they think is best, I’m good with it. I’m willing to take up that role and play center and do whatever I can to help us be better as a unit.”

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Football head coach Matt Luke speaks on Saturday’s loss against California at a press conference held Monday.

The coaching staff is creating a positive environment where competition is friendly, healthy and productive.

For those who must watch this competition from the trainer’s room, injury has an entirely different mentality. For Ken Webster, the cornerback who suffered a gruesome leg injury against

Florida State last season, injury created a new level of competitiveness and drive.

“I value everything now,” Webster said. “At practice, every day, you have to take full advantage … Anything can be taken from you at any moment.”

Webster went on to say the most difficult aspect of injury

was simply being away from his teammates. He spoke of an inescapable feeling of letting down his team. And yet, after returning in excellent form against a red-hot Cal offense, it’s clear Webster made the most of an unfortunate situation and is now collecting the dividends from his investment.

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